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Is the Mueller Probe Biased Against Trump? FBI Director Says Agents Are Allowed Political Opinions
By Max Kutner On 12/7/17 at 1:47 PM EST
FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before the House Judiciary Committee, facing questions about the reputation of the bureau and the completed Hillary Clinton emails investigation, on December 7. MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty
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House Republicans grilled FBI Director Christopher Wray on Thursday amid renewed allegations of political bias within the bureau and the Department of Justice. During a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Wray faced questions about the completed investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email server and the special counsel probe into Russia's election meddling and possible collusion.
"At the very least, the FBI's reputation as an impartial nonpolitical agency has been called into question recently," Representative Bob Goodlatte, the Republican chairman of the committee, said in the hearing. He cited President Donald Trump's December 3 remark that the FBI's reputation is "in tatters" and spoke of potential bias in the probe by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Responding to those comments and similar ones, Wray defended his workforce. "The FBI that I see is tens of thousands of agents and analysts and staff working their tails off to keep Americans safe from the next terrorist attack, gang violence, child predators, spies from Russia, China, North Korea and Iran," he said. "The FBI that I see is tens of thousands of brave men and women who are working as hard as they can to keep people that they will never know safe from harm."
Related: Republicans Demand Answers About FBI's Clinton Probe
The hearing was to be about general oversight of the FBI. But Republicans on the committee claimed the FBI and Justice Department had a pro-Clinton bias that has continued into the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and possible coordination with the Trump campaign.
Clinton attributed her 2016 election loss to former FBI Director James Comey's handling of the emails case. But Republicans claimed the bureau treated her too favorably, pointing to recent revelations, including that Comey began drafting his July 2016 statement announcing the outcome of the investigation months in advance. They also spoke about how Mueller's office removed an investigator amid allegations that he had exchanged text messages that could be considered critical of Trump. That investigator, Peter Strzok, led the Clinton case.
On Tuesday, BuzzFeed reported that Andrew Weissmann, a prosecutor on Mueller's team, emailed Sally Yates the day Trump fired her as acting attorney general for refusing to defend one of his executive orders, writing, "I am so proud." Weissmann remains on Mueller's team. Trump and his allies have also accused FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe of misconduct, pointing out that when his wife ran for state senate, she received campaign contributions from entities associated with Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, a Clinton ally.
The Justice Department inspector general is reviewing Comey and McCabe's conduct and expects to release its report in March or April. On Thursday, asked about Comey and the Clinton case, Wray repeatedly mentioned that ongoing review. "The handling of the investigation, and in particular whether or not decisions made in that investigation were the product of any improper considerations, is precisely what the outside independent inspector general is investigating," he said. "And when we get his findings, I will look and see what appropriate action we can take at the FBI in response to that."
Asked about Strzok, the agent Mueller removed over possible text messages, Wray said an FBI agent was allowed to have a political opinion and share that opinion with a romantic partner, as Strzok is believed to have done. The FBI director clarified that Strzok was reassigned, not disciplined.
Later, he said that in certain instances the bureau might remove an agent from an investigation if that person showed a bias.
In addition to the Justice Department inspector general, the Senate Judiciary Committee, the House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee also are investigating Comey's conduct. House Republicans have called for a special counsel to investigate Comey and Clinton. In November, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd wrote that the attorney general had "directed senior federal prosecutors to evaluate" the possibility of appointing one.
The increased criticism of the FBI in the past week coincided with the advancement of Mueller's special counsel probe. On December 1, Mueller's office announced its latest charge: against former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents about his contacts with the Russian ambassador. On December 2, Trump tweeted: "So General Flynn lies to the FBI and his life is destroyed, while Crooked Hillary Clinton, on that now famous FBI holiday 'interrogation' with no swearing in and no recording, lies many times...and nothing happens to her? Rigged system, or just a double standard?" He added: "Many people in our Country are asking what the 'Justice' Department is going to do about the fact that totally Crooked Hillary, AFTER receiving a subpoena from the United States Congress, deleted and 'acid washed' 33,000 Emails? No justice!"
A day later, Trump tweeted: "After years of Comey, with the phony and dishonest Clinton investigation (and more), running the FBI, its reputation is in Tatters - worst in History! But fear not, we will bring it back to greatness." The president also retweeted a post about Strzok, and one that said, "Wray needs to clean house."
Following those tweets, Wray wrote in an email to bureau employees that he was "inspired by example after example of professionalism and dedication to justice demonstrated around the bureau. It is truly an honor to represent you." He told them, "Keep calm and tackle hard."
The scrutiny has continued. On Wednesday, a half-dozen Republicans from the House of Representatives held a press conference calling for answers about Comey and Clinton. On Tuesday and Wednesday, Senator Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote to Wray and the Justice Department inspector general asking for information about Strzok. Grassley has also written this month to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, claiming that FBI Deputy Director McCabe appeared to have violated the Hatch Act, which forbids certain government employees from participating in some political activities.
Asked on Thursday about how bureau employees felt about the president's comments and scrutiny, Wray responded: "The agents, analysts and staff of the FBI are big boys and girls. We understand that we will take criticism from all corners, and we're accustomed to that." He added, "My experience has been that our reputation is quite good."
People close to Wray said critics were unlikely to rattle him. "There's a calm and a composure about him beginning with the moment that he hears the issue," J. Michael Luttig, general counsel at Boeing, for whom Wray clerked when Luttig was a United States Court of Appeals judge, told Newsweek earlier this year. "He's just unflappable."
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Let's picture this frequent scenario: your prospective client takes the Yellow Pages to look for a store or company in her area that provides the products and services that you sell. You and your competitor are listed in the Yellow Pages. Your competitor has a website and you don't. So you advertise your phone number and your address. Your competitor, besides, advertises his website.
What do you think your prospective client is going to do? Well, if she has Internet access at hand, she is going to visit your competitor's website to see what he does, how, and at what price. More and more Internet users go online to conveniently research businesses' products and services for their local area.
Once there, your prospective client sees the pictures of the works and services your competitor provides, reads the testimonials of the satisfied clients, and sees the prices he charges for his services and products. Now, if your prospective client is convinced that your competitor will provide her with the products and services she needs, chances are she will never call you. You would have lost a chance for a sell.
Your prospective clients and customers expect you to have a website as they expect you to have a business card and a fax machine. So, if you have a business, you should have a website too.
The main purpose of having a website doesn't necessarily need to be that of selling your products through the Internet. The main purpose is rather to present your business to your prospective clients in a professional way so you can inspire trust.
So, having a website just because your competitor already has one is not justification enough. You must have a professionally created website if you want to be taken seriously. Because if not having a website can harm your business, having one that makes your business look unprofessional can do even more harm. You would lose the chance to make that first good impression.
And once you have a presence on the web, you must take advantage of it by telling your prospective clients what you sell, the way you do business, and why they should buy from you. That is the bottom line of having a website for your business.


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Nearly 3 Million U.S. Citizens and Legal Immigrants Initially Excluded under the CARES Act Are Covered under the December 2020 COVID-19 Stimulus
Margaret W. Nea for Bread for the World
The pandemic-recovery stimulus package that passed Congress in December rectified what many had viewed as a significant oversight in the earlier CARES Act: Its exclusion of U.S. citizens and legal immigrants in mixed-status families. MPI researchers estimate nearly 3 million U.S. citizens and legal immigrants excluded from the earlier legislation can receive the later relief, as well as qualify retroactively for the CARES Act payment, as this commentary explores.
Anticipated "Chilling Effects" of the Public-Charge Rule Are Real: Census Data Reflect Steep Decline in Benefits Use by Immigrant Families
Researchers, service providers, and others have long predicted that sweeping revisions by the Trump administration to the definition of who constitutes a public charge would deter large numbers of immigrant-led households from using federal means-tested public benefits for which they are eligible. Recently released Census Bureau data show they were right: During the administration's first three years, program participation declined twice as fast among noncitizens as citizens.
Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States: Stable Numbers, Changing Origins
After decades of growth, the number of unauthorized immigrants in the United States has remained largely stable since the 2008–09 recession. The group's demographics are changing, though, with a shrinking number of Mexicans and rising Asian and Central American arrivals. This fact sheet presents a profile of these 11 million individuals, including top origin countries; U.S. destinations; and age, education, job, income, home ownership, English proficiency, and other characteristics.
The Role of Immigrant Health-Care Professionals in the United States during the Pandemic
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With the U.S. health-care system buckling under the resurgent COVID-19 outbreak, policymakers could undertake efforts to enable skilled, underemployed international health-care professionals to practice. This would both make the health system more resilient and flexible, as well as introduce critical language and cultural skills important during the contact-tracing and vaccine rollout phases of the pandemic response, as this commentary explores.
An Early Readout on the Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Crisis: Immigrant Women Have the Highest Unemployment
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Working-age immigrant women in the United States entered the COVID-19-induced recession with unemployment rates similar to those of other groups. Yet they have been among the most affected by pandemic-related job losses. This fact sheet seeks to explain why they have been hit so hard by the coronavirus-induced recession.
Rethinking U.S. Immigration Policy Initiative
The Rethinking U.S. Immigration Policy Initiative is generating a big-picture, evidence-driven vision of the role immigration can and should play in America's future. In a range of reports and other analyses, the Rethinking Initiative is examining the state of the U.S. asylum system, border enforcement, the legal immigration system, immigration detention, and the immigration courts, and is advancing pragmatic policy solutions to fix the long dysfunctional immigration system.
The "Trump Effect" on Legal Immigration Levels: More Perception than Reality?
Despite a widespread perception that the Trump administration has drastically slashed legal immigration to the United States, a review of the data shows that temporary and permanent admissions during the period mostly followed previous trends—at least until the COVID-19 pandemic hit. This article examines trends in temporary, permanent, and humanitarian admissions during the administration, and the related policies that could take a more significant bite ahead if left unchanged.
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Side-by-Side Comparison of 2009 House CIR ASAP Bill with 2006, 2007 Senate Legislation
Tied to the Business Cycle: How Immigrants Fare in Good and Bad Economic Times
By Pia M. Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny
Immigrant Detention: Can ICE Meet Its Legal Imperatives and Case Management Responsibilities?
By Donald M. Kerwin and Serena Yi-Ying Lin
The Next Generation of E-Verify: Getting Employer Verification Right
E-Verify: An Assessment of its Strengths and Weaknesses
The Next Generation of E-Verify: Getting Employment Verification Right
By Doris Meissner and Marc R. Rosenblum
Aligning Temporary Immigration Visas with U.S. Labor Market Needs: The Case for a New System of Provisional Visas
By Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Doris Meissner, Marc R. Rosenblum and Madeleine Sumption
The Economics and Policy of Illegal Immigration in the United States
An examination of illegal immigration's overall impact on the U.S. economy, which this report finds is negligible despite clear benefits for employers and unauthorized immigrants and slightly depressed wages for low-skilled native workers.
This report analyzes employment and unemployment patterns from 1994 to 2008, offers possible explanations for why labor market outcomes for immigrants have been more cyclical, and proposes possible public policy solutions for mitigating immigrants' vulnerability to the business cycle.
A panel discussion exploring whether ICE is capable of meeting legal standards and manage its detention system with ICE's Dora Schriro, Detention Watch Network's Andrea Black, and MPI expert Donald Kerwin.
This report explores whether U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is capable of fully complying with the law and managing its sprawling detention system, and provides a roadmap for meeting the data needs essential for making humane, cost-effective, and legally sound decisions related to those in custody.
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A webinar that examines the E-Verify system, with report co-author Marc R. Rosenblum, MPI Senior Policy Analyst.
This discussion focuses on E-Verify, the federal government's electronic employment verification system, and the release of an MPI report that assesses the program's strengths and weaknesses.
In order to rectify the shortcomings of a rigid and outdated U.S. visa system set in place by the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), this report recommends creating a new visa stream called provisional visas which would sync visa policies with the way in which labor markets work in practice, and bridge temporary and permanent employment-based admissions to the United States in a predictable and transparent way.
This report provides an in-depth examination of the limitations of the existing E-Verify system. Alongside recommendations for strengthening E-Verify and mitigating its unintended consequences, the report offers proposals for three next-generation verification pilot concepts that would tap new technologies and practices to overcome the core weaknesses of the system.
The U.S. Immigration Policy Program analyzes U.S. policies and their impacts, as well as the complex demographic, economic, political, foreign policy, and other forces that shape immigration to the United States. The program also offers influential thought leadership and policy recommendations regarding ways to improve the U.S. immigration system.
Data and Analysis Related to Trump Administration Actions on Immigrant and Refugee Policy
These MPI research and data resources offer context related to policy changes achieved and proposed by the Trump administration as well as the populations they will affect.
The U.S. Policy Beat in MPI's Online Journal
Each month, MPI authors review major legislative, judicial, and executive action on U.S. immigration at the local, state, and federal levels. Stay up to date with the latest developments.
Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States
This feature presents the latest, most sought-after data on immigrants in the United States—by origin, residence, legal status, deportations, languages spoken, and more—in one easy-to-use resource.
State Immigration Data Profiles
Want the latest facts and data on immigrants in the United States? Search U.S. Census data on U.S. immigrants and the native born nationally and by state based on demographic, language and education, workforce, and income indicators.
U.S. Immigrant Population Spotlights
Want to learn more about immigrants to the United States from Mexico, India, Canada, or many other countries? Spotlights from MPI's online journal, the Migration Information Source, use the latest data to provide information on size, geographic distribution, and socioeconomic characteristics of particular immigrant groups, including English proficiency, educational and professional attainment, income and poverty, health coverage, and remittances.
U.S., State, & County Profiles of Unauthorized Immigrants
Want the latest MPI estimates and characteristics of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S.? Use this data tool to get population estimates and more—including countries of origin, recency of arrival, educational enrollment and attainment, incomes, English proficiency, and health-care coverage—at the national level, by state, and for top counties.
U.S. Immigration Data from MPI Data Hub
Immigrants in the U.S. Workforce
Independent Task Force on Immigration and America's Future
In 2006, the Task Force articulated a vision that promotes U.S. global competitiveness in the context of post-9/11 security imperatives, while tackling many of the technical details that have made immigration such an intractable public policy topic.
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Fans at Bills game could be first step for reopening Broadway, concerts, other venues
FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019 file photo, Buffalo Bills' Cole Beasley celebrates his touchdown with fans during the first half of an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles in Orchard Park, N.Y.AP Photo/John Munson, File
By Geoff Herbert | gherbert@syracuse.com
Allowing fans to return to the Buffalo Bills' stadium for an NFL playoff game is good news for football fans — and beyond.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that 6,700 people can attend the Bills' first home game in the postseason, which is fewer than 10% of the stadium's capacity. Attendance will be limited to season ticket holders who earlier this year opted in to playoff availability, tailgating will not be allowed, and fans will have to have proof of a negative Covid-19 test within 72 hours of game time, plus socially distance and wear masks the entire game.
It will mark the first time New York state has allowed a crowd at a sporting event since the coronavirus pandemic began in March.
"This is a pilot to find ways we can smartly and safely reopen businesses," Cuomo said at his daily Covid-19 briefing Wednesday. "We believe we are the first state in the nation to run this kind of pilot. We believe it can be very instructive to us going forward."
NBC reports it would be the first step towards reopening other businesses, including Broadway, concert venues and other sports arenas, before "herd immunity" is achieved via Covid vaccines.
"If you can do it in Buffalo, 7,000 people, but it's outdoors and it's controlled, if it works there, can you do Madison Square Garden? Could you do a theater on Broadway? Could you do a certain capacity in a restaurant? So restaurants could start to reopen safely. That is the road that we are looking at," Cuomo said.
"It can't be that we start 2021 with the expectation that the economy will open when the vaccine hits critical mass. We can't take six months, nine months, 12 months of a closed-down economy."
Some other NFL stadiums have permitted reduced attendance, and several NBA arenas are currently allowing a smaller number of fans. But teams like the Bills, Brooklyn Nets and New York Knicks have played to empty venues.
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Cuomo said Bills fans will be ejected if they refuse to follow coronavirus guidelines, such as wearing masks. Sections will be closed off with people seated in their own groups; the state department of health will also conduct contact tracing afterwards.
If viral spread related to the game is statistically insignificant, it could open the door for theaters, concerts, and other sports events.
But NBC reports the state's Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker is still concerned about the "ancillary events, the parties are where this virus can spread, the events at the airport, that's how disease spreads. How do we control that?"
Zucker said the Bills Mafia, as Buffalo's fanbase is called, will be reminded to avoid large parties before and after the game to limit Covid risks.
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What does the bridge as metaphor offer us in thinking through this question? Our second 360 began with a conversation on what bridges and building them might mean to our speakers gathered on the stage. From discussions on collective responsibility to human and non-human nations who inhabit the land, the conversation turned to the structural problems that require bridges to be built in the first place. Allyship was brought to the fore, with an emphasis on decentering allies and creating space for those most affected to speak and lead on pressing issues. Audience interventions, as always, were crucial in providing correctives to the course of conversation. Did we, as one participant suggested, need to move beyond bridges — structures connecting two fixed points — to a different vocabulary that could capture the many dimensions of power?


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Soc Sci Med. 2012 Apr;74(8):1204-12. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.11.034. Epub 2012 Jan 28.
Do neighborhoods affect individual mortality? A systematic review and meta-analysis of multilevel studies.
Meijer M1, Röhl J, Bloomfield K, Grittner U.
Unit for Health Promotion Research, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. matm@niph.dk
There has been increasing interest in investigating whether inhabitants in socially or physically deprived neighborhoods have higher mortality when individual socioeconomic status is adjusted for. Results so far appear ambiguous and the objective of this study was to conduct a systematic literature review of previous studies and to quantify the association between area-level socioeconomic status (ALSES) and all-cause mortality in a meta-analysis. Current guidelines for systematic reviews and meta-analyses were followed. Articles were retrieved from Medline, Embase, Social Sciences Citation Index and PsycInfo and individually evaluated by two researchers. Only peer-reviewed multilevel studies from high-income countries, which analyzed the influence of at least one area-level indicator and which controlled for individual SES, were included. The ALSES estimates in each study were first combined into a single estimate using weighted linear regression. In the meta-analysis we calculated combined estimates with random effects to account for heterogeneity between studies. Out of the 40 studies found eligible for the systematic review 18 studies were included in the meta-analysis. The systematic review suggests that there is an association between social cohesion and mortality but found no evidence for a clear association for area-level income inequality or for social capital. Studies including more than one area level suggest that characteristics on different area levels contribute to individual mortality. In the meta-analysis we found significantly higher mortality among inhabitants living in areas with low ALSES. Associations were stronger for men and younger age groups and in studies analyzing geographical units with fewer inhabitants.
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Rewiring the Playbook Former BC offensive lineman Harris Williams was frustrated with the inefficiency of learning his plays. So he and a few friends put their computer skills to work.
arris Williams, BC '14, CGSOM '16, was in his dorm room preparing for Boston College's next football game. The 6-foot-3 offensive lineman sat at his desk, flipping through two separate decks of cards. In one stack, the blank spaces on the cards were filled with hand-drawn symbols and arrows representing his offensive plays—the blocking schemes, where the receivers and running backs were headed, and so on. In the other stack, Williams had the plays that BC's defense would run against its offense in practice. He went through each set countless times, analyzing each card to memorize his positions and movements. This tedious process, coupled with watching hours of game film, was Williams' routine for learning not only his plays, but his opponents' as well. After playing under five different offensive coordinators during his time at BC—not to mention two head coaches in Frank Spaziani and Steve Addazio—Williams hatched an idea for a better alternative.
As a computer science major, his football woes inspired him to develop a virtual way for players to learn playbooks. Williams began coding his idea during his senior year at BC, and after getting his MBA, realized he could monetize this creation. CompuCog, short for Computational Cognition, was born.
Through CompuCog, which Williams and Ribhi El-Zaru, MCAS '18, founded with Eric Wilson, a senior and football player at St. Anselm College, and Josh Kershaw, a football coach and former classmate, the innovators hope to revolutionize how athletes train, and eventually to expand to the world beyond the field.
Kershaw, who was two years older than Williams at the Proctor Academy in Andover, N.H., was the reason Williams began playing the sport in the first place. Williams had never played football prior to high school, but when Kershaw saw his large figure walking around campus, he convinced him to go out for the team.
"I was going to do kayaking, but he was the guy who got me into playing football" Williams said.
And it was a good thing he did. Williams received multiple awards and honors during his high school career, and was captain of the team during his senior season. He was originally committed to play at Stanford, but ended up accepting a scholarship offer to play at BC after an injury forced him to change his plans.
El-Zaru, also a computer science major, entered the picture last year, after a professor who knew about Williams' project brought the two together—he had been familiar with Williams from his experience as a videographer for BC football.
*The company's primary project is called Mental Rep. This digital football training program, which is an evolved version of Williams' original idea, allows football coaches to input playbooks—both their own and their opponents'—into a cloud accessible to each member of the team. The software then uses artificial intelligence to generate an animated graphic of all 22 positions. The icons, representing players, move and make decisions realistically as plays are carried out in real time.
Players can analyze their assignments and directly interact with the program by controlling their position's icon using the mouse. Mental Rep includes detailed textual descriptions for each position's role within a play, and provides feedback for players when they fail to execute a play correctly. There is even a mobile app that allows players to view and work through plays on their phones. It's a little like Madden, but more useful.
"The idea is to be able to play an entire game while you're walking in between classes," Williams said.
Because of Williams and his co-founders' expertise in playing football, their decision to make software for the sport was an obvious one. In fact, it is this first-hand experience that sets CompuCog apart from its competitors.
Similarly, the CompuCog team's experience playing college football has given knowledge of the expectations and practices of top coaches, meaning their software is tailored to be useful to coaches at high school, college, and professional levels.
This past May, Williams developed the back end, or the essential algorithms, of Mental Rep. After El-Zaru became a part of the team, the two worked last summer to develop the front end, or input ability and user interface, of the program, which transformed it into a workable and marketable product.
After this development, CompuCog began the beta-testing phase for the software with a small group of high school teams in early April. While there are no paying users of Mental Rep thus far, Williams anticipates that they will begin selling the product in the near future.
long their journey to marketability, the CompuCog team has taken advantage of resources within the BC community to help grow its company. Last summer, the founders participated in the Soaring Startup Circle accelerator program, which gives BC students the opportunity to work with experienced alumni to develop and improve their startups.
After reaching the final round of last year's Shea Center Venture Competition with an unfinished product, the CompuCog team hopes to blow the judges away with this year with its refined and improved software.
"We're here to take it," El-Zaru said.
But having this sort of confidence isn't always easy. The startup world is fast-paced and always changing, and El-Zaru described the degree of uncertainty that he has experienced during his time with CompuCog.
"One of the things that every startup founder said is that what you think is going to happen in two months, probably won't. Everything is going to be different and dynamic, and you have to be on your feet and ready to adapt," El-Zaru said.
In dealing with these challenges, Williams has drawn upon the lessons of perseverance that he learned while playing football at BC.
While football, with its play-by-play nature, was the ideal first sport to tackle with CompuCog, the company doesn't plan on stopping there. The adaptable core of Mental Rep gives the software a range of potential applications. Its founders believe that it can help athletes in other sports, such as soccer, basketball, and lacrosse, improve their training methods as well.
But the world of sport isn't CompuCog's final destination either, as the team has even larger plans for the expansion of its software. In what Williams described as the startup's "utopic vision," its founders have their sights set on revolutionizing the fields of armed service and general job training, and perhaps even early childhood education.
"If you think about how a 12-year-old learns long division and mathematics, and how there is a set of assignments that they have to perform, we can apply our algorithm to that, to teach them how learn mathematics," Williams said.
In teaching children to read, for example, Williams described that just as a child must sound out individual syllables to correctly read a word, a football player has to move a certain way to execute a play correctly. Mental Rep is capable of analyzing these requirements and providing guidance and feedback for students and athletes alike, suggesting that it could serve as a valuable tool for educators in the future.
So whether it turns up in your local elementary school, or helps the football team of your alma mater bring home a championship, Mental Rep may soon become a household name. And Williams and the team at CompuCog will continue working to make sure you don't forget it.
Correction: This article initially stated that CompuCog began the beta-testing phase for high school teams on Jan. 1, 2017. In fact, they began the phase in April 2017.


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Deciding to see a psychologist is a positive step forward for your wellbeing and mental health, but it may take you a while to make that initial contact. That's because there are so many popular myths about what a psychologist is like, how their sessions will work, and what you will get out of seeing a psychologist.
We've decided to bust some of the biggest myths about seeing a psychologist, and what it means to sign up for talking therapy.
One of the biggest myths of seeing a psychologist and having psychotherapy centres around Sigmund Freud. Because Freud is often portrayed as conducting sessions from a chair, with his client laying on a chaise longue or couch facing away, this set-up has become the go-to representation of therapy in cartoons, comedy sketches and more; it's a well-established TV trope. You can even visit the real-life couch, pictured above, in London.
Over the years at Christine Tizzard Psychology, we have had chairs and sofas in the room, but there is no suggestion you should lie back on a sofa and expect Freudian psychotherapy as you stare at the ceiling or close your eyes. Freud believed patients would be more open when led down and not making eye contact with their therapist, and his interest in hypnotism led him to use a hypnotist's couch. Freudian psychoanalysis involves the patient doing most of the talking; this leads to prolonged silences if necessary, where patients fill the gaps and probe deeper into their own thoughts.
However, we believe in establishing face-to-face contact and building a trust-based relationship with clients, where dialogue is key. Some therapists around the world do still use a couch, but it's much more common to sit down facing each other.
Television shows tend to use therapy scenes for characters who have experienced severe trauma, such as the death of someone close, or witnessing a crime or accident. Inpatient group therapy scenes tend to rely on the initial reluctance of a lead character to open up to the group, followed by their gradual disclosure of addiction or childhood trauma. This can lead to the false perception that you must have deep-seated trauma to justify attending therapy.
Alternatively, characters with marital issues are seen struggling through couples' therapy in comedy shows, where their dysfunctional relationship or the behaviour of a bad therapist is the punchline. In reality, couples' therapy is a constructive and smart step forward for people who want to improve their relationship.
You are much less likely to see a character talk about their anxiety, OCD or bipolar in a TV show if this condition doesn't add to the on-screen drama. You won't see everyday discussions about managing OCD triggers in the supermarket, or coping with anxiety during your commute, yet these outwardly simple scenarios can cause intense distress. Therapy helps you develop coping strategies and new techniques to face all kinds of challenging situations.
Acknowledging you need family therapy is an important first step, but it takes guts – that's because many mums or dads are worried they will be labelled 'bad parents', so they don't come forward. In truth, a psychologist isn't there to play the blame game.
Becoming a parent doesn't require qualifications or a certain skillset, and nobody gives you a manual, though plenty of parenting gurus may have tried to make you pay for their wisdom. Whatever your background, income or personal situation, family issues can arise that need to be resolved with everyone's input.
Family therapy is about finding the stumbling blocks in your relationships with each other, which you can't always spot in your own family. Sessions don't always involve the entire family, and the whole therapy programme is tailored to your individual needs. What's important is that everyone has a voice and is willing to make or accept changes to improve family life.
The relationship between a psychologist and their client is important, but it cannot be forced. Not all psychologists have the same way of working – they follow different types of psychological theory, for example, or may structure their sessions around tasks and games rather than a session-long rolling discussion.
Though psychotherapy is about the client, not the therapist, you will inevitably pick up on aspects of your psychologist's personality: their dress sense, their turn of phrase, how chatty or matter-of-fact they are. There is no one-size-fits-all therapist, so you are perfectly entitled to move on if you don't strike up a rapport.
It is crucial that you feel comfortable enough to share during your therapy, and the wrong therapist may leave you reluctant to open up. At Christine Tizzard Psychology, our therapists have a range of specialisms, so you can be assured there is a therapist for you with years of experience treating similar issues.
Image credit: Robert Huffstutter, via Flickr (flickr.com/photos/huffstutterrobertl).


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MONTPELIER, Vt. --At Riverwalk Records, the all-vinyl record store just down the street from the state Capitol, the black "US Out of Vt.!" T-shirts are among the hottest sellers.
But to some people in Vermont, the idea is bigger than a $20 novelty. They want Vermont to secede from the United States -- peacefully, of course.
They've published a "Green Mountain Manifesto" subtitled "Why and How Tiny Vermont Might Help Save America From Itself by Seceding from the Union." They hope to put the question before citizens at Town Meeting Day next March, eventually persuading the state Legislature to declare independence, returning Vermont to the status it held from 1777 to 1791.
Whether it's likely is another question.
But the idea has found plenty of sympathetic ears in Vermont, a left-leaning state that said yes to civil unions, no to slavery (before any other) and last year elected a socialist to the U.S. Senate.
About 300 people turned out for a 2005 secession convention in the Statehouse, and plans for a second one are in the works. A poll this year by the University of Vermont's Center for Rural Studies found that 13 percent of those surveyed support secession, up from 8 percent a year before.
"The argument for secession is that the U.S. has become an empire that is essentially ungovernable -- it's too big, it's too corrupt and it no longer serves the needs of its citizens," said Rob Williams, editor of Vermont Commons, a quarterly newspaper dedicated to secession.
"Congress and the executive branch are being run by the multinationals. We have electoral fraud, rampant corporate corruption, a culture of militarism and war. If you care about democracy and self-governance and any kind of representative system, the only constitutional way to preserve what's left of the Republic is to peaceably take apart the empire."
Such movements have a long history. Key West, Fla., staged a mock secession from America in the 1980s. The Town of Killington, Vt., tried to break away and join New Hampshire in 2004, and Hawaii, Alaska, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Texas all have some form of secession organizations today.
The Vermont movement, which is being pushed by several different groups, has been bubbling up for years but has gained new traction in the wake of disenchantment over the Iraq war, rising oil prices and the formation of the pro-secession groups.
--Thomas Naylor, 70, a retired Duke University economics professor and author who wrote the manifesto and founded Second Vermont Republic, a group pressing for secession, in 2003.
--author Kirkpatrick Sale, 69, founder of the Middlebury Institute, a Cold Spring, N.Y., think tank that hosted a North American Separatist Convention that drew representatives from 16 organizations last fall in Burlington. The group is co-sponsoring another one Oct. 3-4 in Chattanooga, Tenn.
--author Frank Bryan, 65, a professor at the University of Vermont who has championed the cause for years.
Naylor's 112-page manifesto contains precious little explanation of how Vermont would do without federal aid and programs when it comes to security, education and social programs. Some in the movement foresee a Vermont with its own currency and passports, for example, and some form of representative government formed once the secession has taken place.
The cachet of secession would make the new republic a magnet, Bryan said recently during a strategy session with organizers in Naylor's home.
"People would obviously relish coming to the Republic of Vermont, the Switzerland of North America," he said. "Christ, you couldn't keep them away."
But there are plenty of skeptics.
"It doesn't make economic sense, it doesn't make political sense, it doesn't make historical sense. Other than that, it's a good idea," said Paul Gillies, a lawyer and Vermont historian.
While neither the Vermont Constitution nor the U.S. Constitution forbids secession per se, few think it's viable.
"I always thought the Civil War settled that," said Russell Wheeler, a constitutional law expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
"If Vermont had a powerful enough army and said, `We're leaving the union,' and the national government said, `No, you're not,' and they fought a war over it and Vermont won, then you could say Vermont proved the point. But that's not going to happen," he said.
For now, the would-be secessionists are hoping to draw enough support to get the question on Town Meeting Day agendas.
"We're normal human beings," said Williams, 39, a history professor at Champlain College. "But we're serious about this. We want people in Vermont to think about the options going forward. Do you want to stay in an empire that's in deep trouble?"


Richard J.S. Gutman, diner scholar.
Richard Gutman's dinerized kitchen, Boston, MA.
Around World War II, diners began to be built in more than one section to accommodate more patrons and larger kitchens. This 1946 photograph shows the Tastee Diner being installed in Silver Spring, MD.
I got an email from Al Hofer on June 13th and he reports that the Silver Diner of Waterbury, CT is now closed. Here is what he said….
Hi Larry, While traveling through Waterbury, CT yesterday we were going to stop at the Silver Diner for dinner and found it looking like this.
This is the former Lafayette Diner that was in Easton, PA. (I have it as The New Lafayette Diner in my log – LAC). The parking lot was so torn up and scattered with junk and clutter, that I couldn't even figure out where the driveway was. It looks like the property has been taken over by a gravel processing plant. Surprisingly, the interior still looks to be in real good shape.
I thought it would be used for storing a bunch of crap. By the way, we passed Blackies Hot Dogs just up the street from the diner and it was still open.
Here are 2 of my photos of the same diner when I found it back on March 22, 1982. As I noted above, it was called The New Lafayette Diner and was just off Rte. 22 in Easton, PA. This is an early 1950's Mountain View Diner but it had a Manno Diner "tag". It looks like the only exterior modification that was done by Manno was the newer flared out roofline. This was removed by Steve Harwin (Diversified Diners) after he bought it in the early to mid 1990's. He in turn sold the diner in 1994 and it became the Silver Diner in Waterbury.
Following up on last weeks post, I decided to show the next group of Worcester Lunch Cars. As I said at the end of the last post, Worcester Lunch Car No. 820 the former Stadium Diner of Everett, Mass. (aka the Miss Everett) was destroyed in the early 1970's. But WLC No's. 821 thru 828 are still in existence although not all are close to original condition or serving food.
Miss Adams Diner at its only operating location, 53 Park St., Adams, Mass.
The Miss Adams Diner was delivered to Joseph Wilusz on December 7th, 1949 and it is still being used as a restaurant. When I first found it in the early 1980's, it was known as the Peir 53 Restaurant. It had already gained its stone facade (instead of the porcelain steel panels) at that point. The interior was fairly original though. It has since operated under various names and had its interior trashed to a degree in the intervening years but recently went back to the original name since the property was sold. We are hopeful that new operator Philomene Rivard will return some of the lustre to this late model Worcester out in the western part of the Bay State.
728 Washington Street in Attleboro, Mass.
Originally known as Carmen's Diner, it was delivered to its first operating location on Mechanic Street in Leominster, Mass. on November 1st, 1949. Sometime later it made it down to its current location in Attleboro, where it was known as the Mayflower Diner. When I first spotted this in the early 1980's it was being used as a Ceramics Studio. Later it was a clothing store known as Bogie & Bacall's. It is now a computer store and the interior is completely gone. You can also see from the above photo that the barrel roof is hidden.
Regular readers of this blog know that the Miss Mendon Diner in Mendon, Mass. was reopened this past January after being in storage for a number of years. Originally called the Miss Newport Diner, it was delivered to Noble Croft on May 16th, 1950 at its first operating location on East Main St. in Newport, VT. It operated there until it was moved in 2003 to Salisbury, Mass. where it was being stored. Kevin Meehan, owner of Imperial Cars bought the diner in 2008 and started the process of bringing this beauty back to life.
Currently operating as Pat's Diner, it is seen in this shot prior to the porcelain steel panels being removed by the current owner.
Ann's Diner is now Pat's Diner. Delivered on April 14th, 1950 to James F. Evans, it replaced an earlier monitor-roof Worcester Car that had been here for 2 years on U.S. Rte. 1 (11 Bridge Rd.) in Salisbury, Mass. It has a unique interior set-up, there is the typical counter and stools with 4 booths on the right-hand end of the diner with a partition just to the left of the front entrance. There is a large pocket sliding door in this partition to access a dining room that houses 6 booths. After Pat Archambault purchased the diner a few years ago, she removed the exterior porcelain steel panels and replaced them with t-111 wooden panels. other than that the diner is probably 90% original inside and out.
The Bluebonnet Diner is the first of 3 diners that were built with this interesting configuration. It was built with 5 windows flanked by a door at each end of the front facade. The other 2 that were designed like this were the Miss Beverly Diner (No. 828) and Arthur's Diner (No. 830). Eventually the owners of the Bluebonnet Diner wanted more room and decided to add onto the diner. They did this rather ingeneously by removing the left end wall and swinging it out to be level with the front facade. Then they made the addition behind this new front section. You can get a feel for what was done by looking closely at the details behind the windows in the wooden entryway as seen in the above photo. The diner not only has the added dining room but also a large function facility behind.
The diner was delivered here on June 21st, 1950 to Leonard Boren.
Jigger's Diner during a small stretch in the 1980's was completely gutted and used for storage by a neighboring paint store. It looked like this could be the end for this in-town diner until Carol Shriner got her hands on this and actually brought it back to life. Only someone with a trained eye could possibly see what is original and what is not. Carol has since moved on to other ventures but the diner is still going strong. Ordering the johnny cakes here is certainly a treat.
Peterboro, the diner was delivered on September 20th, 1950.
When I first visited this diner in the early 1980's, it was still being run by Edward Fontaine, a brother of the original owner, Milton Fontaine. The diner was a perfectly preserved stand-alone lunch car. It was built with a partitioned-off kitchen on the right-hand end of the building as well as having the grill behind the counter. Within a couple of years the diner was sold to new owners who immediately made changes. They removed the partition and auxiliary kitchen, added new booths in this section and a large addition off the back of the diner. The large addition had room for a new kitchen, restrooms as well as more seating. They removed the grill and adjacent work station and cut a door to the new kitchen. Since then they upgraded to newer generic booths and have more recently changed the windows. I was intitially appalled at the changes, but as the years have gone by, I have mellowed my feelings and now think this place has a great small-town diner ambience.
386 Cabot St., Rte. 1A in Beverly, Mass. It has since been changed to a Subway Sandwich Shop. This diner was delivered on December 14th, 1950.
I recall when the Miss Beverly Diner was still the Miss Beverly Diner. This was back in the early to mid 1970's. I never went in there although I'm sure I had plenty of opportunities at that time, as my sister lived right around the corner then. By the time I was photographing diners in 1980 the place had become Buffalo Bill's Roast Beef. As seen in the above photo, the exterior was bricked-up under the windows and a mansard roof was built covering the original roof. Other than that the exterior changes could have been reversed. The interior was better as they still had the counter but just like Beachmont Roast Beef (from the last post) the counter was raised to be a take-out type sevring counter. The stools were also removed and I believe the booths were changed also. It stayed this way until a few years ago when it had been closed for a short time. Then unfortunately, Subway Sandwich Shops bought the building and completely gutted the interior! If this had not happened, the place could have easily been brought back as a working diner.
This ends this series of consecutively numbered Worcester Lunch Cars as No's 829 and 830 no longer exist. No's. 831 thru 835 are extant, No. 836 is probably gone. No's 837 thru 839 are still around while No. 840 is not. It is like this thru the 840's where some are still with us and some are not. The last Worcester Lunch Car out of the factory was No. 850, currently the Route 104 Diner in New Hampton, NH.
Over the years I have photographed 812 diners. As I write this I see that number is ironic. It is ironic mainly because I wanted to show a series of Worcester Lunch Car built diners, No's. 811 thru 819. All the diners in this group (except for one) represent the only example of diners known by any manufacturer to still exist enmasse as consecutive numbered output. These diners were delivered to their respective operating locations between June 1948 and March 1949. The exception to this is No. 817 which was only 20 years old in 1968 when it was sent to a scrap yard. All the others still exist and are currently operating as food establishments.
at its only operating location, 629 Winthrop Ave. Revere, Mass.
The Shamrock Diner was delivered on June 15th, 1948 and is the first Worcester with the new flat overhangs over the end walls. These overhangs acted as a sort of canopy providing some cover for the side entrances. This diner is probably the most disguised of this group, having been made more into a roast beef sandwich and fried food place around 30 years ago. The counter stools have been removed although the counter is still there. It now has a raised section to utilize it as more of a serving counter. The ceiling has been dropped and the original booths are gone. Below is how it looked not long after it became the current establishment.
Beachmont Roast Beef when you could still see the "diner".
operating location, 300 Southbridge St. Worcester, Mass.
The Miss Worcester is fairly original inside and out. The interior has generic booths (not original) and the outside porcelain panels have been repainted but other than that it is much the same as it was when it was moved across the street from the factory on June 14th, 1948.
2 River St., Danvers, Mass.
The Cape Ann Grill was delivered to 214 Main St. in Gloucester, Mass. on June 8th, 1948. It replaced the slightly smaller WLC No. 800 which had been delivered the year before (March 28th, 1947). Apparently business was so good with the first diner that owners Henry Schluter and Augustus Mulrenin decided to upgrade immediately to a larger diner. According to reports they did not do as well with this larger one. Eventually it was bought by Roland Michel who operated it from 1952 to 1959. He sold the diner in 1959 and it was moved to its current location where it has continued to operate under a few different owners.
The Blue Belle Diner has spent all of its operating life in Worcester. It was delivered to its first location on 86 Chandler St., July of 1948. It reportedly moved to 47 Prescott St. in 1972 and operated there until 1998. It then made a series of moves to storage locations in Shrewsbury, Milford, Worcester and Princeton. Each time it landed, it was hoped to be put back into service but things never seemed to work out until May of 2009. That is when Bruce Trotto bought the diner and moved it to his "Dinky's Restaurant" on Rte. 70, just over the Worcester town line in Shrewsbury. Look for a summer, 2010 opening for this diner.
102 Main St., Gardner, Mass.
32 W Main St, Spencer, Mass.
Akins Diner (or Aikens) was delivered to its location on the Cranberry Highway in Wareham, Mass. on August 26th, 1948. It remained in Wareham until either the late 1950's or the early 1960's when it was moved to Worcester to become the 2nd Charlie's Diner. It operated at 244 Plantation St. until forced to move in April of 2003. It has since reopened at a new location in Spencer, Mass. It will soon have a bar & grill attached to the right side of the entryway/kitchen.
383 Mystic Avenue in Medford, Mass.
The Star Lite Diner was delivered to 383 Mystic Ave. in Medford, Mass. on November 9th, 1948. I used to patronize this place with my Dad and brothers in the mid-1960's. They closed for their usual 2 week vacation in the summer of 1968 and never reopened. It was reportedly moved to a scrap yard in Chelsea shortly after the closing and to my knowledge did not survive. The Portside in Danvers is the closest diner (style-wise and set-up-wise) to the Star Lite.
Wilson's Diner has always operated at this location, 507 Main St. (U.S. Rte. 20) in Waltham, Mass. It is probably 97% original on the inside and 100% original on the outside. It was delivered on March 24th, 1949.
And now that I think about it, WLC No. 820, the Stadium Diner is gone but WLC No's. 821 thru 828 are all still around as well, (Miss Adams, 821), (Carmen's Diner, 822), (Miss Newport, 823), (Ann's, 824), (the Bluebonnet Diner, 825), (Jigger's, 826), (Peterboro, 827) and (the Miss Beverly Diner, 828). Carmen's is completely gutted and operating as The Computer Exchange store on U.S. Rte. 1 in Attleboro, Mass. the Miss Newport is now the Miss Mendon in Mendon, Mass. and Ann's is now Pat's Diner and the Miss Beverly is heavily altered as a Subway now.
Memorial Day weekend, 2010 was fantastic, weather-wise and we managed to get a few roadside visits in during the 3-day weekend. Denise and I went into southern New Hampshire early Saturday to take care of a Memorial Day obligation in Hudson. We then went west on Rte. 101A to have breakfast at the Red Arrow Diner in Milford. (It was a great breakfast by the way!). We also visited Kane's Donuts back home in Saugus in the early afternoon. The remodeling of their store is coming along nicely and should be finished in a month.
Sunday was breakfast at the Capitol Diner in Lynn, Mass. They are getting ready to re-paint the exterior and owner Bob Fennell tells me they are going to try custom Vinyl lettering to replace the painted letters this time around.
Late Sunday morning we took a longer trip down Rte. 1A from Dedham to Attleboro (Mass.) and then got on I-295 to head over to the A & W Drive-In in Smithfield, RI. I have been in touch with them in recent months as we are friends on Facebook. I was sent a birthday gift certificate via email and thought this was a perfect opportunity to re-visit the place.
I had actually been by there in October of 1995 and shot some photos of it. I had uploaded these photos to them recently and they have them on their FB photos page. The stand has been revamped since I took those shots (see my new shots below).
They offer car-hop service as well as walk-up ordering. There is a small covered patio to sit in or of course you can sit in your vehicle. The food was great and I took note of the reasonable prices and fairly good size menu. I got a #7 combo – 2 Hot Dogs, French Fries and a Root Beer and Denise got the Chicken Strips and French Fries.
They have Cruise Nights for Classic cars (Tuesday Nights) and also every first Wednesday (beginning June 2nd) they will have Bike Night. I can certainly recommend that if you are ever in the area, stop in and check them out.
Monday we were at Kane's Donuts again and by 10:00am we were at Hago Harrington's Miniature Golf in Stoneham, Mass. for a round of Mini Golf. It is always a pleasant and fun time although I did pretty lousy as far as my score.
Hago Harrington's Miniature Golf, Rte. 28 Stoneham, Mass.


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1999 TO95 (asteroide 33798) é um asteroide da cintura principal. Possui uma excentricidade de 0.05116090 e uma inclinação de 11.20669º.

Este asteroide foi descoberto no dia 2 de outubro de 1999 por LINEAR em Socorro.

Ver também

 Lista de asteroides
 Asteroide da cintura principal

Ligações externas

Asteroides da cintura principal
Objetos astronômicos descobertos em 1999

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EDINBURGH 2019: AJ Holmes Q&A
by Natalie O'Donoghue
AJ HOLMES has spent the last few years travelling the world as Elder Cunningham in The Book of Mormon and now, ahead of bringing his heartfelt and hilarious coming of age show, YEAH, BUT NOT RIGHT NOW, to the Edinburgh Fringe, he chatted to us at BroadwayWorld.
Tell us a bit about Yeah, But Not Right Now.
Yeah, But Not Right Now stems from a desire to do something (anything) that is completely my own. As an actor, I've been on tour with big-budget commercial musical theatre shows for the last eight years. I grew up loving musicals, and I still do, but doing the same show eight times a week for years on end really changes the game. Somehow, I'm lucky enough to have done really great shows, by authors I admire, which helped for a long time. But, at a certain point, it doesn't matter if you're doing Hamilton or Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type (real) - after 1,000 shows, you're ready for something new.
This show is an hour of standup, storytelling, and original songs played on a few different instruments. As it's the first time I've done something like this, the show is still pretty fluid, and I'll be open to improvising in the moment and seeing how the thing develops over the month. In a nutshell, it's about how excellent I am at distracting myself from my own feelings. I think we all do that to a degree, and it delays our growth. So, I'm putting my extended adolescence on display for a paying audience, in the hopes that maybe I'll finally grow up. As to whether I actually will grow up, your guess is as good as mine. Probably better.
Where might we have seen you before?
You may have seen me in The Book of Mormon in some major Western city over the course of the last five and a half years. I played Elder Cunningham, the socially awkward, schlubby nerd with a heart of gold. At some point or another, I played the role in all six productions of the show, performing in London, Melbourne, Sydney, two U.S. National tours and on Broadway. You might also know me from viral theatre group Team StarKid and our series of Very Potter Musicals. I've composed a few musicals with them and show up as an actor in a couple as well.
Do you think you know what to expect from the festival?
Other than revealing my deeply-rooted ignorance of foreign affairs (as you'd expect from a true American) I honestly have no idea what to expect. I've never been to a festival like this before and Edinburgh is truly the deep end of the pool. Thank goodness I have some experienced friends who've offered to show me the way. As far as my show, I'm trying my best to release all of my expectations and dive headlong into this new journey. As for the rest of the fest, I'm expecting to see some incredible shows, have a blast, and get inspired.
What sets your show apart from other stand up in Edinburgh?
Well, for starters, I truly don't know what I'm doing. I've been performing my whole life, but always with someone else's script. Some wise character on a TV show told me that it's better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than halfway up one you don't. So, disregarding that, this show is my attempt to jump halfway up a different ladder. It's risky and I'll probably fall, which should be fun to watch. The other thing that sets me apart is I play music on several different instruments. You'll hear some piano, some guitar, and depending what the airline lets me travel with, a Djembe, a handpan, and a Frame Drum.
What's next for you after the festival?
This could be the start of a whole new world for me. Maybe I'll love the Fringe so much that I'll bring the show back to New York and look for another festival ASAP. My whole life could start to revolve around these things. I've seen it happen to dear friends of mine, and I feel like I have the type of personality that teeters dangerously close to full-blown festival addiction. Or, maybe I'll fail and sheepishly walk back into the audition room to sing for "Barnaby" in Arknasaw Repertory Theatre's regional production of Hello Dolly. I sure hope not, but they do offer health care, so it's anybody's guess.
AJ Holmes performs 'Yeah, But Not Right Now' at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, from 1st - 26th August (not 12th).Tickets and more information:
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/aj-holmes-yeah-but-not-right-now
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A Bachelor's degree is a degree awarded by universities and colleges. In order to earn a bachelor's degree, you must complete the necessary courses that may last three to seven years depending on your institution of enrollment.
Global management helps prepare people to work all around the world while still maintaining cultural sensitivity and respect. Individuals who study global management learn about leadership and management practices as well as societal customs in order to work effectively on an international scale.
Our undergraduate programs, each with different program requirements, are based on and are fully compatible with the established European and American educational systems. The European guidelines for higher education are outlined in the Bologna agreements. Some programs require or allow students to choose a major and/or minor, a primary and secondary specialization during undergraduate studies. Once a minimum number of credits has been earned, a request for graduation can be submitted. Not all programs are offered at all campuses. Refer to the program schedule for further details.
The degree in Management aims to be the best degree in management in Portugal and aims to prepare students for a global world. A management course aligned with the latest world trends in the area and that gives the opportunity to explore the different areas that make up the management know-how and develop skills such as leadership and team management.
This programme is offered in English.With a bachelor of engineering degree in Global Management and Manufacturing, you can start a new company anywhere from Alaska to New Zealand. You will be in charge of the organisation, recruit staff and manage the manufacturing process. Learn more about the study programme.


Sustainability is a label applied to everything today, from products and materials, to industries and organizations. We hear about it all the time, but what does the term 'sustainability' really mean? Many experts, including the United Nations (UN Environment Program) and the U.S. Federal Government (FedCenter.gov environmental stewardship and compliance for Federal facility managers) agree it is taking care of human needs today without compromising the ability of future generations to do the same.
Economic - Dealing with the systems by which goods and services are produced, sold and purchased, productive employment, and the benefits it brings to people and society. It's about the way we manage money, materials and other resources on a local, national and global scale.
Environmental - Including energy and water efficiency, material selection and resource conservation, emissions, indoor environments, land use, and other related methods of managing the environment in which we live.
Social - Relating to human society, the interaction of individuals and groups, and the welfare of human beings as members of that society. It's about forming cooperative, beneficial and interdependent relationships in organized communities.
What does all this have to do with materials? For the vinyl industry, all three of these sustainability aspects are embodied in the materials and products its members work with every day; products developed to keep people healthy, safe and comfortable. These include non-corroding PVC pipes that make delivery of safe, clean drinking water possible in distribution systems expected to last more than 100 years, to cladding and window components that enable affordable, economical and energy-efficient housing on a scale unmatched anywhere else in the world.
This material is fundamental to connecting complex digital networks that make the world's information economy possible, all because of its inherent electrical insulation and fire-resistance properties. It also facilitates healthcare through products that control infection and makes possible the safe storage of blood, impacting the health of millions of people around the world every day.
Vinyl's ingredients are derived from two abundant natural resources. What differentiates vinyl from other plastics is that fact that it contains 57% chlorine, derived from common salt, and 43% ethylene from natural gas. Most other plastics are derived almost entirely from petroleum. Vinyl is also one of the most efficient plastics because the resin manufacturing process converts over 94% of raw ingredients into useable products, a high number when compared to other resins.
At the heart of vinyl's role in sustainability is the industry's commitment to use natural resources wisely and efficiently, while protecting the health and safety of thousands of workers and the communities in which they reside. The industry continually emphasizes plant safety, resulting in a worker illness and injury rate that is 1/3 that of the overall chemistry industry, and 1/6 that of overall manufacturing. (Source: VI third-party validated surveys, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data).
The U.S. vinyl industry has a long history of improving its manufacturing technology, resulting in significant reductions in emissions and worker injury and illness rates. Examples include an 82% reduction in dioxin emissions since 2000 (source: EPA TRI air & water data) and a 75% reduction in vinyl chloride emissions since 1987, while vinyl production increased 87% over the same time period (source: EPA TRI and ACC Resin Report Data).
To add context to these numbers, the U.S. vinyl industry emits about 6 to 7 grams of dioxin per year, equivalent in weight to about 100 grains of salt. (Source: EPA TRI data). This is a tiny fraction of the dioxin that annually comes from diesel truck exhaust and emissions from backyard trash burning.
Durability is an asset in sustainability terms and depending on the design application, vinyl products can last for many years to many decades. PVC pipe does not rust or corrode and has a smooth interior, so it takes less pumping energy to move water through a distribution system. Fewer leaks and lower breakage rates result in cost and energy savings. It also doesn't support bio-film, which can contribute to water-borne illnesses impacting community health.
Of the 15 billion pounds of vinyl resin produced in 2013 in North American, 70% was used in durable products. But while being durable, vinyl is also a thermoplastic and is therefore inherently recyclable and 'molecule efficient.' Nearly 1 billion pounds of vinyl material is recycled annually, including post-industrial and post-consumer recycling. (Source: 2014 VI /Tarnell Recycling Survey).
The use of vinyl flooring, fabrics and wall covering in schools, healthcare facilities and in public transportation (buses, airplanes and trains) reduces maintenance and replacement costs and helps control the spread of bacteria, keeping people healthy and providing beautiful, functional indoor spaces for productive employees and satisfied customers.
Vinyl building system components like windows, doors and reflective membrane roofing are designed to manage heat transfer, making them efficient in the context of building energy performance. Many vinyl products meet the criteria for U.S. EPA ENERGY STAR and can help buildings meet the objectives of USGBC's LEED and GBI's Green Globes whole-building 'green' rating systems.
We are learning more about what sustainability means in a complex and technology-dependent world economy. All human activity impacts our planet, so it is important that the choices we make with regard to those impacts be good ones; negative impacts should be minimized and positive impacts should be maximized. This balancing of impacts and choices should, overall, lead to the best and most sustainable outcomes.
The vinyl industry recognizes that buildings have a significant impact on sustainability, especially when it comes to energy, water, carbon footprint and material usage. So it is important that choices made for the products and materials used in them are positive ones. In fact, there are no 'good' or 'bad' materials. There are only more-sustainable or less-sustainable ways of using the materials available to solve the design problems at hand.
In summary, the vinyl industry and the products made from this important material contribute in many ways to achieving the goals of sustainability. When looked at through the lens of environmental, economic and social impacts, vinyl enables human needs to be met today with full respect to the needs of future generations as well.


We'll show you how to make a savoury, tomato-based barbecue sauce with incredible depth of flavour.
Every home-cook and BBQ fanatic should have a signature BBQ sauce. A tangy, rich, gooey sauce that you'll want to put on everything from burgers to chicken wings. Our tomato-based version is the perfect starter BBQ sauce. Over time you can fiddle with the ingredients, adjusting them to suit your tastes and making it your own. You'll never buy store-bought again.
In a large Dutch oven or pot, crush up your tomatoes and then add all the remaining ingredients (except the oil). Bring to a boil over high heat and once it's bubbling nicely reduce to medium-high. Let simmer for about 30 minutes, stirring often to prevent any sticking. Whiz the mixture in a food processor until smooth, being careful not to spatter yourself with the hot mixture. Transfer back to your pot and stir in the oil and once more to boiling. This sauce keeps in the fridge for up to 2 weeks or in the freezer for 3 months.
Use this sauce to baste wings, breasts, thighs…. well anything really! Once you've mastered the basic sauce, experiment with your own ingredients and try making a few of our other fantastic sauces below.


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Q: How to remove subclass of UILabel in itself A subclass of UILabel called NewLabel, in NewLabel.m
+ (NewLabel*)addLabelIntoView:(UIView*)view
{
  NewLabel *label = [[NewLabel alloc] init];
  CGSize size = CGSizeMake(120.0f, 40.0f);
  CGPoint point = CGPointMake(view.bounds.size.width / 2, view.bounds.size.height / 2);
  label.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, size.width, size.height);
  label.center = point;
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  [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:1.0f target:self selector:@selector(removeLabelFromView) userInfo:nil repeats:NO];
  return label;
}

- (void)removeLabelFromView {
 [self removeFromSuperview];
}

and in a UIViewController.m, I add this for showing the NewLabel, and close itself
[NewLabel addLabelIntoView:self.view]

but it always crash, here is crash info
+[NewLabel removeLabelFromView]: unrecognized selector sent to class 0x103d40738

Any ideas?

A: In a class method is self the class. Instead of +[NewLabel removeLabelFromView] you probably want to do -[NewLabel removeLabelFromView]. Change
[NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:1.0f target:self selector:@selector(removeLabelFromView) userInfo:nil repeats:NO];

to
[NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:1.0f target:label selector:@selector(removeLabelFromView) userInfo:nil repeats:NO];

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Microsoft plans to drop the price of its entry-level console to $199, lower than Nintendo's Wii and the first next-gen machine to break $200.
One of the the biggest selling points of Nintendo's Wii video game console since its launch nearly two years ago has been that it was the lowest-priced of the trio of next-generation machines, which also includes Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3.
To date, the Wii costs $249, while the lowest-priced Xbox, the so-called "Arcade," retails currently for $279. An 80GB PS3 sells for $400.
But Microsoft said Wednesday that it will drop the price of the Arcade on Friday to $199, breaking through what some have said is the all-important psychological price level of $200. At that price, industry observers say, the market opens up to mass levels of consumers.
Microsoft will also drop the price of its 60GB Xbox to $299 and its "Xbox Elite," which has a 120GB hard drive, to $399.
"The fact that the Xbox 360 is now cheaper than the Wii is definitely a big shift in the market," said Aaron Greenberg, director of product management for Xbox 360.
The news has been rumored for some time and was first reported as fact Wednesday by BusinessWeek.
For Microsoft, this is a crucial step along its path toward winning the next-gen console wars. At E3 in July, the company said in no uncertain terms that it will win the battle, at least with Sony. It hedged its bets on out-selling the Wii, which has been dominant over the last several months, according to industry analyst NPD Group.
In fact, BusinessWeek reported that Don Mattrick, senior vice president of Microsoft's interactive entertainment business unit (and the person who had been on-stage at E3 and committed to winning the generation), said that he doubted the Xbox could catch up to the Wii at this point.
"I'm not at a point where I can say we're going to beat Nintendo," Mattrick told BusinessWeek. "We will sell more consoles this generation than Sony."
Of course, some have said that the appeal of the Xbox, despite being the first to hit 10 million units sold in North America, is still limited and that over the next few years, the PS3 will eventually catch up to and surpass the Xbox.
Until now, Nintendo has shown little interest in lowering the price of the Wii, and thus its profit margin. And while Sony has effectively lowered the price of the PS3 by offering only an 80GB version for the same price as what was previously a less-powerful version, it has little room to maneuver on price given that it is still subsidizing the PS3 at its current level.
By comparison, because the Xbox has been out a full year longer than both the Wii and the PS3, it has already achieved efficiencies of scale that have allowed it to slowly lower the Xbox's price.
To date, the 60GB Xbox has done about 60 percent of total Xbox 360 sales, said Greenberg, with the Arcade and Elite models each accounting for about 20 percent.
But with the Arcade's price dropping below $200, Greenberg said he thinks that model is "now picking up steam."
"Over 75 percent of all console sales historically were sold below $200," Greenberg said. "We know that there's tens of millions of PS2 owners who bought their systems when (the PS2) hit $199."
In other words, Microsoft is hoping that at $199, the Arcade can become the next PS2 and sell well over 100 million units.


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