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Live CoverageThe Editors January 28, 2017
Today's News: Jan. 28, 2017
Google recalls staffers after Trump's travel ban, Chicago's Police Superintendent reveals he needs a kidney transplant, and Italy's former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, will stand trial on charges he bribed witnesses to stay silent in a sex case.
President Donald Trump Carlos Barria / Reuters
—President Donald Trump's ban on travel to the U.S. from seven majority Muslim countries prompted Google to recall employees in the affected countries.
—Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson revealed after a public dizzy spell that he needs a kidney transplant.
—Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister of Italy, will stand trial on charges he bribed witnesses to stay silent in a case that accused him of paying young women for sex.
—We're tracking the news stories of the day below. All updates are in Eastern Standard Time (GMT -5).
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J. Weston Phippen Jan. 28, 2017, 9:39 p.m.
Trump Gives Stephen Bannon Access to the National Security Council
President Trump signed a memorandum late Saturday afternoon that reorganizes the National Security Council (NSC), including Steve Bannon, the former chair of Breitbart Media and his chief strategist and senior counselor, as well as Reince Priebus, his chief of staff, on its principals committee. The decision is unusual because such positions are not normally given to political operatives. Bannon has been among the most controversial of Trump's advisors, because of his association with the racist and anti-Semitic "Alt-Right."
The order also said the Director of National Intelligence and the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff would no longer be automatic principals on the committee. Trump said the reorganization is meant to streamline the NSC. He said it would bring "a lot of efficiency and, I think, a lot of additional safety," The Washington Post reported.
"People have talked about doing this for a long time. Like, many years." The memorandum read that "security threats facing the United States in the 21st century transcend international boundaries. Accordingly, the United States Government's decision-making structures and processes to address these challenges must remain equally adaptive and transformative."
Adam Serwer Jan. 28, 2017, 9:30 p.m.
Civil-Rights Groups Win a Nationwide Stay Halting Trump's Executive Order Targeting Muslims
Stephen Yang / Reuters
Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union and other civil rights groups won a significant victory in federal court Saturday night, as a federal judge issued a nationwide injunction against an executive order issued by President Trump that barred the entry to foreign nationals from several majority-Muslim countries, a ban that also applied to refugees and green card holders. According to the executive director of the ACLU, Anthony Romero, the stay is national, meaning that until the matter is resolved, those who arrived at U.S. airports with valid visas will be allowed to remain in the country.
The suit was filed on behalf of Hameed Khalid Darweesh and Haider Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi, both Iraqi citizens. The complaint states that Darweesh served the U.S. as an interpreter in Iraq, and Alshawi was granted status as a refugee because of his "family's association with the United States military." Alshawi's family was already in the United States when he was barred from entering.
Americans gathered in airports in major metropolitan hubs all over the country Saturday night as news of Muslims being blocked from entering the country spread. As a candidate, Trump repeatedly suggested that he would ban Muslims from entering the United States as president.
"Clearly the judge understood the possibility for irreparable harm to hundreds of immigrants and lawful visitors to this country," Romero said in a statement sent to reporters. "Our courts today worked as they should as bulwarks against government abuse or unconstitutional policies and orders. On week one, Donald Trump suffered his first loss in court."
Trump's Travel Ban Brings a Tweet Protest from Both Democrats and Some Republicans
Trump's travel ban on people coming to the U.S. from seven majority-Muslim countries settled in Saturday as airport security detained travelers, including a former interpreter for the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division in Baghdad and Mosul who'd just landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. That set off a massive protest, where a crowd of about 2,000 people protested outside one of the airport's international terminals. And that led to protest at airports across the country. U.S. Senators and House Representatives also protested in their own fashion, many of them taking to Twitter to denounce Trump's order.
Arizona Republican Senator Jeff Flake shared a link to a statement saying that "President Trump and his administration are right to be concerned about national security, but it's unacceptable when even legal permanent residents are being detained or turned away at airports and ports of entry. Enhancing long term national security requires that we have a clear-eyed view of radical Islamic terrorism without ascribing radical Islamic terrorist views to all Muslims."
We will not allow a Muslim ban in the United States of America. Here's what I said at Logan Airport tonight. #NoBanNoWall pic.twitter.com/XqeS9Iy14e
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) January 29, 2017
Statement on Border Security and Muslim Nations: https://t.co/aA4OEaKDkb pic.twitter.com/lh7mrEyrZV
— Senator Ben Sasse (@SenSasse) January 28, 2017
Rep. John Lewis after an immigration official declined to say how many are being detained: "Why don't we just sit down and stay a while." pic.twitter.com/uKx5hSZObJ
— Jeremy Redmon (@JeremyLRedmon) January 29, 2017
Emma Green Jan. 28, 2017, 9:14 p.m.
Widespread Protests Against Trump's Executive Order on Refugees
Large crowds of protesters filled the international airports in a half dozen major U.S. cities on Saturday in response to President Trump's executive order, which temporarily suspends the country's refugee program and bans entry to individuals from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, and Yemen.
Dozens of immigration lawyers went to airports to assist refugees and visa holders, many of whom have been detained and questioned by authorities. The New York Taxi Workers Alliance also released statements decrying the ban and calling on its workers to strike in solidarity of the protesters, noting their membership is "largely Muslim" and "almost universally immigrant."
Meanwhile, in Brooklyn, large crowds of demonstrators attended the hearing where a suit against the order, filed by the the American Civil Liberties Union, the International Refugees Assistance Project, and the National Immigration Law Center, was being heard.
Here's the scene at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, where protesters estimated to be in the thousands gathered:
Craig Ruttle / AP
Here's O'Hare airport in Chicago:
Kamil Krzaczynski / Reuters
A family was reunited at Boston's Logan Airport after being separated by authorities. The man in the picture, Hamed Bay, was returning from a visit to his sick father in Iran, according to Reuters:
The New York Times reports that that people have also been detained at airports in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Houston, Detroit, and Washington, D.C. At San Francisco International Airport, one police officer apparently estimated that 1,500 people showed up.
Trump Signs 3 More Executive Orders
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
Trump signed three more executive orders Saturday, the text of which was not made immediately available. However, an administration official did say that one of the orders outlined a reorganization plan for the National Security Council, the department that guides executive staff on foreign policy and security issues, and that is headed by retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn. Another order placed a five-year lobbying ban on administration officials. The last order gave military leaders 30 days to deliver Trump a report on how to defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria. "I think it's going to be very successful," Trump said to reporters, according to The Hill. "Okay, that's big stuff. Have a good weekend."
Trump and Putin Talk for the First Time as World Leaders
U.S. President Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, the first time since Trump's inauguration. The two leaders spoke about cooperating to defeat ISIS in Syria, and vowed to restore economic ties. In a statement, the Kremlin said, "The current international issues were thoroughly discussed, including the fight against terrorism, the situation in the Middle East, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the sphere of strategic stability and non-proliferation, the situation around the Iranian nuclear program and the Korean Peninsula. Also touched upon were the main aspects of the crisis in Ukraine. It was agreed to establish a partnership on all these and other areas." There was no mention of whether the U.S. would ease sanctions placed against Russia for invading Crimea in 2014, something that would help the country's economy, as well as Putin, especially ahead of the presidential election next year. The nature of Trump and Putin's relationship has been questioned for a long time. U.S. intelligence agencies have said Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee's emails with the intention of swaying the vote toward Trump, who has repeatedly praised Putin, and for a long time denied Russia had anything to do with the hacks. Trump has said he'd like to make Russia close ally, and this has raised concern among both Democrats and Republicans who believe Putin cannot be trusted.
Chicago Police Superintendent Reveals He Needs A Kidney Transplant
Jim Young / Reuters
Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson revealed that he needs a kidney transplant after he nearly fainted during a Friday press conference. Johnson said he has endured a kidney condition for three decades, and that he is currently on a transplant waiting list. Johns looked dizzy Friday and had to sit down while Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel spoke at a podium, where he announced a new initiative to reduce shootings and homicides in the city. Johnson was rushed to the hospital, but a doctor said test results showed nothing unusual. Johnson blamed his faintness on taking blood pressure medicine on an empty stomach. Johnson was appointed in March after the previous superintendent caught public ire after police dashcam footage was released showing a white officer shoot and kill an unarmed black teenager. Emanuel said he knew of Johnson's condition prior to being appointed, and that he has "absolute confidence" that Johnson can head the police department with his condition.
J. Weston Phippen Jan. 28, 2017, 12:49 p.m.
Trump's Travel Ban Includes Green Card Holders
Bob Riha Jr / Reuters
Trump's travel ban on seven majority-Muslim countries includes restrictions against people with U.S. green cards, who will then be vetted on a case-by-case basis, administration officials told Reuters Saturday. Green cards serve as proof of someone's legal permanent resident status, and are one of the the first steps to becoming a citizen. Trump's ban, an executive order signed Friday, barrs for at least 90 days people traveling to the U.S. from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. Asked if the order amounted to a ban on Muslims from entering the U.S., Reuters reported that a Trump administration official said question was "ludicrous." The Trump administration said the temporary ban was meant to give them time to redo the vetting process to screen out people who might be "radical Islamic terrorists." The order also gave Christian refugees priority in the resettlement process.
J. Weston Phippen Jan. 28, 2017, 11:27 a.m.
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Faces Bribery Charges From Past Sex Trial
Remo Casilli / Reuters
An Italian court ordered former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to stand trial on charges he bribed witness to stay silent during an investigation into whether he paid young women to have sex with him. The new charges originate from a 2014 trial that saw Berlusconi acquitted, but accused him of paying prostitutes to sleep with him at his "Bunga Bunga" sex parties. Among these women were Karima El Mahroug, at the time a 17-year-old woman, known by her stage name Ruby the Heartstealer, who is also accused of lying on trial. Italian prosecutors say Berlusconi paid witnesses about $11 million to keep quiet, with El Mahroug receiving about $7 million of that. Berlusconi denies all the accusations. His career has been marred with constant corruption trials, including tax fraud, and accusations of the extravagant sex parties he hosted at his home. Despite this he remains the leader of the center-right Forza Italia political party.
Google Recalls All Staff After Trump's Travel Ban
Beck Diefenbach / Reuters
In a message to staff Google asked that all overseas employees return to the U.S. after President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday that banned travel from seven majority Muslim countries. According to the order, for the next 90 days people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, are barred from entering the U.S. In Google's internal memo, obtained by Bloomberg News, CEO Sundar Pichai wrote, "We're upset about the impact of this order and any proposals that could impose restrictions on Googlers and their families, or that could create barriers to bringing great talent to the US." The message then said at least 187 employees may be affected by Trump's order, and that one staffer "was rushing back from a trip to New Zealand to make it into the US before the order was signed." The order does not ban travel from New Zealand, but the worry is any person from the seven listed countries—green card or not—might be subject to the ban. Trump's order was meant to temporarily stop travel from those countries until his administration can figure out a way to better screen people who might be "radical Islamic terrorists." The order has already curtailed travel, and there are reports of several Iraqi passengers who were stopped from boarding a Cairo flight bound for New York.
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The GOP Is Just Obnoxious
It's why they keep losing elections.
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Let's say you're a politician in a close race and your opponent suffers a stroke. What do you do?
If you are Mehmet Oz running as a Republican for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, what you do is mock your opponent's affliction. In August, the Oz campaign released a list of "concessions" it would offer to the Democrat John Fetterman in a candidates' debate, including:
"We will allow John to have all of his notes in front of him along with an earpiece so he can have the answers given to him by his staff, in real time." And: "We will pay for any additional medical personnel he might need to have on standby."
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Psychedelics Open Your Brain. You Might Not Like What Falls In.
Richard A. Friedman
Reshaping your mind isn't always a great idea.
If you've ever been to London, you know that navigating its wobbly grid, riddled with curves and dead-end streets, requires impressive spatial memory. Driving around London is so demanding, in fact, that in 2006 researchers found that it was linked with changes in the brains of the city's cab drivers: Compared with Londoners who drove fixed routes, cabbies had a larger volume of gray matter in the hippocampus, a brain region crucial to forming spatial memory. The longer the cab driver's tenure, the greater the effect.
The study is a particularly evocative demonstration of neuroplasticity: the human brain's innate ability to change in response to environmental input (in this case, the spatially demanding task of driving a cab all over London). That hard-won neuroplasticity required years of mental and physical practice. Wouldn't it be nice to get the same effects without so much work?
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Not Every Atrocity Is About White Supremacy
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Why I am skeptical of the reflex to attribute violence to structural racism
On Friday, Memphis police released body- and street-cam video of five officers beating Tyre Nichols, an unarmed civilian who later died of his injuries. Unlike many recent notorious examples of police brutality, in this instance the victim and perpetrators were all Black, leading to confusion and distress. The basketball star LeBron James tweeted, "WE ARE OUR OWN WORSE ENEMY!" This kind of self-directed criticism is familiar to anyone who has had their hair trimmed in a Black barbershop. What is novel today is the amount of anger and the specific form of critique that James's tweet, for one prominent example, engendered. One of the more polite and reprintable responses: "i'd say white supremacy was our worse enemy but okay lebron."
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1.5 Degrees Was Never the End of the World
Emma Marris
The most famous climate goal is woefully misunderstood.
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How hot is too hot for planet Earth? For years, there's been a consensus in the climate movement: no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. The figure comes from the Paris Agreement, a climate treaty ratified in 2016, and world leaders such as President Joe Biden bring it up all the time: "If we're going to win this fight, every major emitter nation needs [to] align with the 1.5 degrees," he said in November. Youth activists at the Sunrise Movement call 1.5 degrees a "critical threshold." Even the corporate world is stuck on 1.5 degrees. Companies including Apple, Google, and Saudi Aramco—the world's largest oil company—claim to be transitioning their operations in alignment with the 1.5 goal.
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My Printer Is Extorting Me
Charlie Warzel
Subscriptions such as HP's Instant Ink challenge what it means to own our devices.
The first rule of at-home printers is that you do not need a printer until you do, and then you need it desperately. The second rule is that when you plug the printer in, either it will work frictionlessly for a decade, or it will immediately and frequently fail in novel, even impressive ways, ultimately causing the purchase to haunt you like a malevolent spirit. So rich is the history of printer dysfunction that its foibles became a cliché in the early days of personal computing.
After years of holding out, my family finally succumbed to a pandemic inkjet purchase. (Like many, we were doing a lot of online shopping in 2020, which meant a lot of return labels.) I girded my loins for the agony of paper jams, phantom spooler errors, and the dreaded utterance "Driver not found." What I did not expect, however, was for my printer to shake me down like a loan shark.
A 97-Year-Old Philosopher Ponders Life and Death: 'What Is the Point?'
Emily Buder
Herbert Fingarette once argued that there was no reason to fear death. At 97, his own mortality began to haunt him.
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Knock at the Cabin and the Terror of Raising Children
M. Night Shyamalan understands how to make a ludicrous horror concept work: Add in a healthy dose of tenderness.
M. Night Shyamalan's filmmaking career has taken many wild and woolly turns over 30-plus years, but recently, he seems to have struck on a powerful, understated plot formula: What if you went on a vacation with your children and something terrible happened? In his 2021 hit, Old, a family gets stuck on a secret beach that ages them rapidly. His new follow-up, Knock at the Cabin, proposes another Twilight Zone–esque conundrum to a family trying to enjoy a weekend away. Simply put, the world is ending, and the only way to stop it is by killing someone they love.
That ultimatum is delivered to them by four intimidating strangers carrying medieval-looking weapons, led by the hulking Leonard (played by Dave Bautista). The family at risk is a gay couple, Eric (Jonathan Groff) and Andrew (Ben Aldridge), and their adopted daughter, Wen (Kristen Cui), and they immediately assume that the threat is just a cruel hoax rooted in prejudice, which the home invaders deny. Shyamalan has become deeply preoccupied with how family units can be tested by enormous, even supernatural stress. Knock at the Cabin is maybe his bluntest exploration yet, as Eric and Andrew slowly realize they are in the vise of an impossible choice.
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We've Lost the Plot
Megan Garber
Our constant need for entertainment has blurred the line between fiction and reality—on television, in American politics, and in our everyday lives.
"Do a Dance"
The trend started, as so many do, on TikTok. Amazon customers, watching packages arrive through Ring doorbell devices, asked the people making the deliveries to dance for the camera. The workers—drivers for "Earth's most customer-centric company" and therefore highly vulnerable to customer ratings—complied. The Ring owners posted the videos. "I said bust a dance move for the camera and he did it!" read one caption, as an anonymous laborer shimmied, listlessly. Another customer wrote her request in chalk on the path leading up to her door. DO A DANCE, the ground ordered, accompanied by a happy face and the word SMILE. The driver did as instructed. His command performance received more than 1.3 million likes.
America's Fever of Workaholism Is Finally Breaking
Derek Thompson
For the first time in 50 years, the rich are buying more free time.
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One of the weirdest economic stories of the past half century is what happened to rich Americans—and especially rich American men—at work.
In general, poor people work more than wealthy people. This story is consistent across countries (for example, people in Cambodia work much more than people in Switzerland) and across time (for example, Germans in the 1950s worked almost twice as much as they do today).
But starting in the 1980s in the United States, this saga reversed itself. The highest-earning Americans worked longer and longer hours, in defiance of expectations or common sense. The members of this group, who could have bought anything they wanted with their wealth, bought more work. Specifically, from 1980 to 2005, the richest 10 percent of married men increased their work hours by more than any other group of married men: about five hours a week, or 250 hours a year.
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The Supreme Court Considers the Algorithm
Kaitlyn Tiffany
A very weird Section 230 case is headed to the country's highest court.
When the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals considered a lawsuit against Google in 2020, Judge Ronald M. Gould stated his view of the tech giant's most significant asset bluntly: "So-called 'neutral' algorithms," he wrote, can be "transformed into deadly missiles of destruction by ISIS."
According to Gould, it was time to challenge the boundaries of a little snippet of the 1996 Communications Decency Act known as Section 230, which protects online platforms from liability for the things their users post. The plaintiffs in this case, the family of a young woman who was killed during a 2015 Islamic State attack in Paris, alleged that Google had violated the Anti-terrorism Act by allowing YouTube's recommendation system to promote terrorist content. The algorithms that amplified ISIS videos were a danger in and of themselves, they argued.
America's Most Widely Misread Literary Work
Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken," originally published in The Atlantic in 1915, is animated in a new video.
The Balloonfest That Went Horribly Wrong
In 1986, 1.5 million balloons were released over Cleveland, resulting in an unforeseen tragedy.
The World's Tallest Waterslide Was a Terrible, Tragic Idea
A fatal accident at a waterslide park was the result of gross negligence, lax state regulations, and a whole lot of hubris.
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Will the Pittsburgh Steelers be forced to surrender half their Super Bowl titles to less fortunate teams?
Claim: The Pittsburgh Steelers will be forced to surrender half their Super Bowl titles to less fortunate teams.
Pittsburgh, PA. The Super Bowl XLIII Champion Pittsburgh Steelers, the only team to win six titles, will soon be loosing half of those trophies. After a meeting between NFL Commissioner Rodger Gadel and President Barack Hussain Obama, Obama decided to redistribute half of their Steeler Super Bowl victories and trophies to less fortunate teams in the league.
Obama's plan calls for the Steelers, who are a successful NFL team, to give half of their Super Bowl trophies to teams that are not successful or have not been as successful as the Steelers. "The Detroit Loins are just as much a part of the same fiber of the NFL as the Steelers and they should, no rather will, be entitled to a Super Bowl Trophy as well." Obama explains in his plan that he has imposed on Godel and the NFL.
The Pittsburgh Steelers, who by virtue of hard work, excellent team play, stellar draft choices, responsible investing of free agents, careful hiring of coaches and excellent community service and commitment to their fans, has prospered greatly during the past 30 years and have won six Super Bowl Trophies. But President Barack Hussain Obama's plan calls for the Pittsburgh Steelers to carry the larger burden of the NFL's less successful teams.
Championship Dream for every team, for every city and for every fan." "My plan will not affect 31 of the 32 teams in the league." Obama assures.
The Super Bowl XLIII trophy will be redistributed to the 0-16 Detroit Lions. Through no fault of their own incompetence, the Lions could not manage a victory all season and this trophy will help ease the pain of their lack of performance and give them hope once again. The redistribution of Super Bowl XL trophy will go directly to the Steeler's division rival the Cincinnati Bengals. The Bengals who also have fallen on hard times have never won a Super Bowl. This victory will bring a smile to hundreds of Bengal fans all over the world as they can now celebrate. Finally, one of the Steeler's two Super Bowl victories over the Dallas Cowboys will go back to the Cowboys since the league needs to provide hope in the face of difficulty and provide hope in the face of uncertainty.
The article's a hoax, a leg-pull, a lively bit of humor meant to take a few jabs at what some fear might be the secret master plan of the Obama administration: a redistribution of financial assets effected by stripping them from taxpayers who have amassed them through years of extreme effort, only to give them to folks who'd rather not have to work for their livings. As with many effective satire pieces, it makes its point by expressing its premise in ludicrous fashion, in this case substituting Super Bowls for money, the world champion Pittsburgh Steelers for the well-to-do, and the lowly Lions, Bengals, and Cowboys for the ne'er-do-wells.


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Michael J. Bishop
Head of Chemistry*
Mike Bishop is the Head of Chemistry at BridGene Biosciences. He has 26 years experience as a medicinal chemist with GSK, GlaxoWellcome and Burroughs Wellcome in Research Triangle Park, NC, and San Diego. From 2001 to 2014 he directed a department of medicinal chemists and DMPK scientists with a focus on metabolic diseases, identifying ~10 clinical development candidates. From 2014 to 2019, Mike served as a Director in GSK's Discovery Partnerships with Academia (DPAc) unit, with responsibilities for thorough vetting of research opportunities across multiple therapeutic areas, building collaborative workplans and leading joint research programs with academic investigators. Mike's passion is to work with expert teams and motivated entrepreneurs and use his drug discovery expertise to drive therapeutic ideas to medicines to improve human health.
Mike earned a B.A. in chemistry from Rice University in Houston, TX, worked in the petrochemical industry with Amoco Chemical in Texas City, TX for two years, and then returned to Rice, earning a Ph.D. in organic chemistry under the guidance of Dr. Marco Ciufolini.
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Interview: Laura Elvery by Lauren Pratt
Posted On November 4, 2020 January 17, 2021 By Underground Team
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Underground Junior Editor Lauren Pratt speaks with Laura Elvery about women in science, inspiration, and her new short story collection Ordinary Matter.
Congratulations Laura Elvery on your recent publication of Ordinary Matter! How has it felt having a second short story collection out in the world?
Thank you! Trick of the Light came out in early 2018 and it's been a busy two years since then. In a loose way, I started writing Ordinary Matter before my first book was published, so both collections have informed each other in many ways.
Ordinary Matter is inspired by the 20 times women have been awarded the Nobel prize since 1901. How did the inspiration of the Nobel prizes come to you? And what do the twenty Nobel prizes awarded to women mean to you as a woman?
I did science at school, although not to any stellar degree. My high school was built in the 1960s and I studied Biology in a typical state high school lab – Stanley-knifed benches, black curtains across all the windows, and up the back were rows of small animal bodies in jars. All these things have stayed with me, even when I didn't realise it. Years ago, I was taken by the story of the so-called "radium girls". Became totally obsessed with it, in fact. That obsession became the title story in Trick of the Light, and that story led me to research Marie Curie, which led to the Nobel Prize, where I was struck by two things: around 600 men have won in the sciences but fewer than two dozen women have won. The second thing that really sparked Ordinary Matter was finding the name Elizabeth Blackburn – she's the only scientist in my collection who was born in Australia.
One of the short stories in the collection that stood out for me was 'Corn Queen.' How did Barbara McClintock's 1983 Nobel prize for her discovery of mobile genetic elements inspire you to write 'Corn Queen'?
All the stories in Ordinary Matter are inspired by these women who won in physics, chemistry and medicine, but they're not biographical 'eureka!' stories. Sometimes the women make cameos, and other times I was far more interested in the work they did and how that appears in the worlds I know and can imagine. Barbara McClintock gets one of these more distant stories – Barbara spent decades studying corn, and was a bit maligned for her before-her-time ideas about genetics. And so she gets a story about a town obsessed with corn.
A lot of the stories deal with the relationship between a parent and their child—often a mother and their daughter. Do you gravitate towards writing about this particular relationship?
Most certainly! I have two small children, including a daughter. I also have a wonderful mother. I grew up with a brilliant sister and grandmothers in my life. For all my daughter's life I've been working away on these two short story collections. I feel very natural writing from these points of view.
Do you see reflections of your own upbringing and life in these stories? Or are they completely separate from your own reality?
It's safe to say that elements of my own upbringing, past and present, exist in all my stories. If it isn't me on a page, sometimes it's a version of myself that I wish existed. Or a version of myself that I don't like. I also have a good memory and lots of details can emerge while I'm writing where I think, I can change that a bit (or a lot) and put it in my fiction.
There are quite a few short stories in your collection that are based in Queensland and you are from Brisbane, Queensland, yourself—how has living in Brisbane influenced the stories you've written?
The most obvious example I can recall from Ordinary Matter is the story 'Growth', which was inspired by the Nobel Laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini. It was the final story I wrote before the book was published. Outside my window and on my walk to work, at the exact time I was writing 'Growth', were all these enormous purple jacarandas. So those trees are in the story, locating it at a very specific place and time in Brisbane, and for the reader.
You are the winner of the Margaret River short story competition in 2017. How did this impact you as a writer to then go on to publish two short stories collections? Trick of the Light in 2018 and Ordinary Matter in 2020.
That story was 'Joiner Bay' and I was lucky to have Ellen van Neerven choose and edit my work for that prize. 'Joiner Bay' is also in Trick of the Light and it's a clear example of the way I often write. It's a story that has several small details that I've collected over the years. Each on its own is not a story, but combined, they seem to work, and a plot emerges from those details.
Do you think people are becoming more interested in reading short story collections rather than longer novels?
Last week at a book event I signed several copies for very nice strangers who all told me, "I don't really read short stories" (I get that a lot). I think it's wonderful when people read outside their regular practice. Personally, I adore short story collections and I also adore novels.
As a reader, do you find yourself consuming short stories like the ones you have written or do you have a completely different reading preference to your writing style?
That's a great question. I think my reading list of short story collections from the past few years would cover several continents, and writers at different stages of their careers. But, on the whole, I suspect that list would not surprise readers who've read my books.
Lastly, for our readers, what books do you highly recommend and why?
So many! I'll make it a bit easy (for me) by listing the last three books I read and loved: Pewby Catherine Lacey, Kokomo by Victoria Hannan, and This is the story of a happy marriage by Ann Patchett. And just to cheat and round out a list of five, I'd say two of my very favourite books I've read this year are Hamnetby Maggie O'Farrell and The White Girl by Tony Birch.
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Traveling through Jamaica's rural areas is something I look forward with as much anticipation and excitement as a child waiting for a birthday or Christmas. It's always a treat because I never know what I'll see.
Several months ago, I was driving with three of my neighbors from Clarendon on the south central coast back to Montego Bay on the north west coast. Our trip took us through parts of Trelawny, St. Ann and Manchester – all well-known for different types of produce.
This particular Friday afternoon was bathed in the warm, golden glow of the setting sun as, at almost every turn, we saw farmers bringing their produce on donkeys and in small carts from the fields to the side of the road. Pickup trucks would take it the rest of the way to market.
There were mounds of yellow yams, mostly. But there were also otaheiti apples, Scotch Bonnet peppers, scallion, and thyme.
Usually, price dictated whether we'd stop but when we saw this man with his son, something about him made us decide to buy. As soon as we found a good spot to park, all four of us jumped out of the car and ran across the road to choose a piece of yellow yam.
They were weighing and sorting the freshly dug yam, the soil stubbornly clinging to each piece. They looked so delicious, it was difficult to know which to choose. So we let him decide.
Yam adds potassium, protein, vitamins and folic acid to the diet and because it is packed with soluble fiber, it is suitable even for young children. Yams are also great for people with diabetes as it slows down the release of sugar into the cells.
Yams are denser in texture than the potato and can be eaten boiled (and mashed with butter, my favorite) or roasted. One of the things I look forward to on road trips is buying roasted yellow yam and saltfish from roadside vendors.
Most Jamaicans love yellow yam and have it at breakfast, lunch and dinner. It is even the title of a popular folk song, When wi roas di yellow yam. Take a listen here.
When Olympic champion, Usain Bolt, won gold in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, his father was reported as saying his speed was due to his diet, specifically the yellow yam. Not surprising as Bolt is from yam country, Trelawny.
Welcome to another #FoodieTuesday linkup!
Would you eat something called blue drawers?
Don't answer just yet. Read on then let me know later.
Jamaicans have a knack for christening people and things with more descriptive names. Some members of my family did it. If someone reminded them of something else or if the person had a prominent feature, they'd call that person, behind their backs, of course, by that name.
That's what happened with Blue Drawers. But no one seems to know how this little pudding ended up with this colorful moniker since it's not blue – though during the cooking/steaming process the banana leaf turns the water a slightly blue color – and it's not drawers either.
Blue Drawers, also called Tie-a-Leaf or Dukunnu came to Jamaica from West Africa. Dukunnu, in the Akan language, means boiled maize bread.
Blue drawers is typically made from cornmeal, but it can also be made using green bananas, cassava, sweet potato or yam, which is grated and mixed with sugar and spices. It is then cut in squares, wrapped in banana (or plantain) leaf. tied in small packages with a string (or banana bark, hence the name tie-a-leaf) and boiled or steamed. It can be eaten at anytime.
I hadn't thought of, or seen, Blue Drawers in several years and was surprised to see it this past weekend at my family reunion. It wasn't on the official menu but there it was, stacked three or four deep in an aluminum container, next to the usual breakfast items. I didn't try the blue drawers right away. When I returned later, the container was empty.
Cut the center vein of the banana leaf. Soften or 'quail' the leaf by holding it over an open flame or boiling water until the green leaf turns dark. Set aside.
Put water in a large pot to boil.
Blend dry ingredients and grated coconut thoroughly. Mix wet ingredients, then add to dry ingredients. Stir briskly.
Place enough of the mixture into the center of banana leaf to make a 4-6" square. As if you're wrapping a gift, fold each side of the leaf to the center; making sure it overlaps to keep the parcel waterproof. Use twine to wrap the bundle lengthwise and crosswise. Repeat until the batter is used up.
Place each package gently in simmering water that should be just enough to cover all the parcels. Cook for about 40 minutes, or until filling feels firm to the touch.
Plate and serve blue drawers.
So would you eat blue drawers?
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Looking up at a breadfruit tree laden with fruit, I heard an older gentleman remark to no one in particular, that it'd be a rough year. Breadfruit, he continued, as if revealing some truism that was lost to this younger generation, is always plentiful during hard times.
His words echoed in my head each time I noticed tree after tree that was covered in the slightly oval fruit that grows to the size of a large grapefruit. And as the value of the Jamaican currency fell to unprecedented levels against the US dollar this month, I began to wonder whether this abundance of breadfruit might really be a harbinger of hard times.
Maybe now, I thought, that prices on basic food items begin to creep upwards and salaries that have stayed flat buy less and less at the supermarket, its time to turn to this nutritious, and often overlooked food.
The breadfruit was brought to Jamaica in 1793 by Captain William Bligh of the unfortunate HMS Bounty, precisely because it was considered an inexpensive and nutritious way to feed the large number of slaves who worked the island's then numerous sugar plantations.
Bligh, an experienced navigator, who had lived near Lucea, Hanover from 1784-7, had sailed ships of sugar and rum from the island to England while he was in his uncle-in-law's employ.
His ill-fated expedition to the South Pacific to bring back breadfruit and other plants ended in the now infamous mutiny in which Bligh not only lost his ship, he also lost the specimens he had collected.
He and 18 of his trusted crew were given a small boat which Bligh piloted 3,618 miles to Timor aided only by a quadrant and pocket watch, and his memory of charts he had seen. On his return to England, he was promoted to captain and in 1791, returned to Tahiti on the Providence for more fruit.
It was from this shipment that Bligh delivered specimens to the island of St. Vincent and Jamaica's Bath Botanical Gardens in St. Thomas, and Bluefields in Westmoreland.
Today, hundreds of varieties of breadfruit can be found in nearly 90 countries from the Pacific Islands, to Southeast Asia to the Caribbean and Central America. Left untouched, a tree can grow to about 85 feet, and yield between 150-200 fruits each year. One hundred grams of fruit has 27 grams of carbohydrates, 70 grams of water, as well as vitamins, potassium, calcium, magnesium, and other minerals.
While the easily grown trees, with its distinctive large, cut leaves, flourished in Jamaica, it took more than 40 years for the breadfruit — the taste is sometimes described as a cross between a potato and a plantain — to become popular to the local palate. Now, every household has at least one tree in its backyard and breadfruit or breshay is a staple of our diet, eaten at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and even as a snack.
It is baked, fried, boiled, jerked, roasted and juiced. We also make chips, porridge, dumplings, salads, fritters, cakes, muffins and puddings from this almost year-round fruit all the while being mostly oblivious to the story behind their introduction to the island.
Given a choice, I take breadfruit over rice every time. A few slices of the young breadfruit give soups 'body.' The 'fit' breadfruit, when boiled is soft enough to be mashed like potato and eaten with butter. The ripe or slightly ripe better yet a yellow heart breadfruit is mandatory for roasting.
For the unlucky few who don't have a tree in their backyards, breadfruit can usually be found in local markets. Roasting breadfruit is typically higher in price. Depending on location, they are between $0.50 and $1.00, and between $0.30 and $0.70 for boiling.
One of my favorite breadfruit recipes is baked breadfruit stuffed with ackee and saltfish.
Prepare ackee and saltfish, as shown below, and set aside.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Remove the stem from a medium breadfruit, rub with butter or brush with olive oil, and wrap in aluminum foil. Bake breadfruit for 35-45 minutes or until tender. Test whether a knife or skewer inserted into the breadfruit comes out clean.
Remove the breadfruit's core (heart), stuff with salt fish and ackee. Rub more butter or olive oil on the outside and return to the oven. Bake for about 15 minutes. Let cool then cut breadfruit in half. Garnish and serve.
Soak saltfish overnight or boil to remove the salt. Drain. If boiled, let it cool before removing and discarding the skin and bones. Flake the fish. Heat the oil in a large frying pan. Saute onions until transparent then add chopped tomato, pepper and thyme. Add saltfish and mix with onions, tomato, pepper. Fold in ackees and stir gently so the ackees stay whole. Simmer for about 5 minutes. Remove from heat, garnish with sweet pepper or use as stuffing for baked breadfruit.
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Jamaicans have a passion for mango and during mango season, everyone gets to indulge, sometimes eating enough of the fruit to replace a meal.
Mangoes are so loved here, there's even a folk song, called appropriately, Mango Time, that celebrates the delicious fruit, and up to a few years ago, there was a mango festival in the parish of Westmoreland.
Mango season starts around April or May and ends about July, though there is at least one variety, the Tommy Atkins, which comes in around September or October.
If you're a mango lover and are planning to visit Jamaica in the next few months, you'll be in mango heaven. Trees are laden with mangoes; they'll be on sale at almost every roadside stall, and included in the breakfast buffet at your hotel. In the height of the season, the aroma of the ripened fruit will hang in the air.
Mangoes are native to South Asia, where they have been grown for more than 6,000 years. They were introduced to Jamaica in the 1700s after several varieties were discovered on a French ship that was destined for Hispaniola. The ship was captured at sea by Lord Rodney and the mangoes brought to the island.
Food is an integral part of our lives. And on Thanksgiving, we give thanks with one of the biggest feasts of the year.
Thanksgiving isn't an official holiday in Jamaica though some Jamaicans who've returned home have brought the tradition with them. What we have that's similar is harvest. At the harvest, members bring produce to their church to receive a blessing from the priest.
These bananas are called honey, because they're naturally sweet, sweeter than regular bananas. They are also smaller than average bananas, probably a half or two-thirds in size, and are quite popular in Jamaica. Honey bananas sell fast despite the fact that they're usually more expensive than regular bananas.
These bananas are called green to differentiate them from the yellow ones, which most people are familiar with. Green bananas are boiled and often eaten with steamed fish, ackee and salt fish or other meats. It's also used to make porridge, dumplings or put in mannish water soup, a soup that is made from the head and intestines and other parts of the goat. It is believed to be an aphrodisiac.
We picked these avocados at the home of one of my cousins. Since they weren't quite rips, we wrapped them in newspaper to speed up the process.
The breadfruit was brought to Jamaica by Captain William Bligh between 1780 and 1786. Roasted, it is is the perfect accompaniment to ackee and salt fish, our national dish. It can also be eaten boiled, fried, used in soups, and made into chips. For roasting, I prefer them a little ripe or turned. They are a little sweeter and softer. In soups, I prefer them what we call, young, meaning not ripe. Breadfruit can also be referred to as full, ready.
The main ingredient in ackee and salt fish, our national dish, ackee was brought to Jamaica from West Africa. It's ackee season now and the trees are laden with fruit. Ackees contain a poisonous gas and must be opened before they are picked.
Jamaican cooks and chefs have been experimenting with how they prepare ackee. Moving away from the traditional marriage with salt fish, ackees can be curried, or used in bruschetta and cheesecake.
A bountiful harvest of fruits, vegetables and produce. Happy Thanksgiving!
The Taste of Jamaica, a display of local foods and culinary contests, was held over the weekend at the Convention Center near Montego Bay. Here are some photos of the event.
I'm still trying to sort out my internet connection, which is spotty at best. As a result, I haven't been able to spend much time online. Please bear with me, I promise to get to your comments and catch up on all the posts that I've missed.
I've created several lists to help Tony plan his trip to New York City this fall but I hadn't come up with recommendations for places to eat until today.
Since Tony plans to return to the same Times Square area hotel he stayed at before, I'll focus on the restaurants in the 9th Avenue corridor, arguably one of the best areas to dine in the city.
What I love about this area is that the ethnic diversity of New York City is reflected there. There's Italian, South African, Indian, Thai, Mexican, Caribbean, American, Middle Eastern, African – you get the drift.
Another thing I also love is that you can have a delicious meal for under $20 per person. And if you only want to have a drink, you have a choice of bars and pubs there as well. So, if you're in the Times Square/Port Authority area, the only reason for you to be hungry is if you've run out of money.
El Papasito*: Dominican – I was introduced to this restaurant by a Dominican colleague and have been going there for over 10 years now. The food is tasty, fresh and filling. Love their chicharron de pollo (fried chicken), mofongo (mashed plantains), tripe soup and lemonade – 346 W 53rd Street, btw 8th & 9th Avenues, 212-265-2225.
Churrascaria Plataforma: Because I don't buy or eat much beef, I'm always surprised to see beef so proudly displayed, as you'll notice at this Brazilian all-you-can-eat steakhouse. Thankfully, beef isn't the only thing on the menu. It's a little pricier than the restaurants I've listed above but it's worth experiencing. 316 W 49th Street, btw 8th & 9th Avenues.


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Q: mySQL table updates, but not fast enough for a select statement on the same page to access the updates - any ideas? I am trying to write some code that updates a mysql table, and then selects out of that same table in the same page.  However, I find that when I do the update query, then the select query, it does not recognize the changes.  If, however, I refresh the page, then it recognized the changes.
I first have an insert statement something like this
$query = 'INSERT INTO matches (uid, win) VALUES ($uid, $win)';

mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error() . ' in ' . $query);

Then, just after this, I have a select statement like
$query = "SELECT * FROM matches where uid = $uid";

$resultmain = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error() . ' in ' . $query);

Of course I simplified the queries but, that is the general idea - and what happens is: the select statement will not recognize the update that was run immediately before it.  However, if I reload the page, and the select statement runs again after some time, it does recognize the change.
I googled for this and was very surprised to not come across anything yet.  Is there any good way to force to wait until the mysql update query finished before selecting?  If not, I might just have to use javascript to automatically reload the page, but this sounds like a messy solution.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, this has been driving me crazy...
--Anthony

A: That should not happen. Maybe it's a problem in your code, which you did not post?
Things that come to mine, which could be the problem:
The 2 queries are run on different connections to the MySQL database. And auto-commit is not enabled.
Thus, first query would send the update but not commit, the second query will query on old data, and only after the page finishes (/later on) the commit occurs.
I'm not quite sure if non-auto-commited changes will be commited or rolled back when a PHP script ends, but it should be a rollback. Thus a later commit would be needed in your code as well for this possible scenario to apply.

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Time to hit the reset button not the panic button
Posted on January 7, 2020 by The Cardinals Beak
It's been a rough few weeks for Louisville Basketball. Another tough loss to arch-rival Kentucky put a stink over things like I hadn't seen in a while. Things had been pretty positive and the team as a whole appeared to be on an expected trajectory.
In that expected trajectory if you didn't expect some set back you were wrong. I think many of us myself included forget that the nucleus of this team is a group that has been through hell and back.
NCAA sanctions, FBI scandal, and multiple coaching changes have been the norm for our 5th year senior Ryan Mcmahon. And our junior class lost the guy that recruited them a few weeks before the start of their freshman seasons.
This is not taking into account what these guys have faced off the court with injury and personal battles. Sports folks like to talk about stats and the X and O's of it all but there is a human element.
I love this group of guys and will never forget their loyalty to our program during some pretty tough times. We'd been hurting if we had lost them all to transfer. They are and will remain the foundation of the rebuild.
We are just a year and a half through that rebuild folks. Still, a lot going on here and a lot of moving pieces. Coach Mack has this program heading in the right direction and doing it the right way. The last thing this program needed was some quick fix artist and the bullshit that follows that. Would have just meant more trouble.
This team has to hit the reset button but it's not a time for the panic button. I think they have a very fragile psyche. It's easy for this group to bottom out and they do lack a killer instinct at times. Don't know if they'll overcome that. Coach Mack said this week it was on them to decide not to fall back into some of those old patterns. I agree.
They've lost two tough ones in a row but this Louisville team is still doing some things right. Louisville is a top 50 field goal percentage team, top 30 in scoring defense, top 100 in scoring offense, top 40 defensive rebounding, top 100 offensive rebounding and regardless of that shit show at Rupp still around 120th in free throw shooting.
Good game tonight to get back on track. The Cardinals have won 7 of the last 9 matchups against the Hurricanes. The two teams faced off at the beginning of the season and Louisville took home the 13 point road win.
Miami was just routed by Duke and they got some areas that this Louisville team should expose. Miami ranks 273rd in scoring defense, ranks 299th in field goal defense and ranks 314th in defensive rebounding. The Cardinals should get good looks at the basket tonight and plenty of second-chance opportunities.
I have seen it on this page this week and Coach Mack even mentioned it in his pre-game press conference this week. Jordan and the rest of the team need to get synched back up. Think we see that tonight. Good games all around.
I'm ready to hit the reset button. Time to get back on the winning side of things.
Go Cards!
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Cards need this one today. We all need it.
Posted on December 28, 2019 by The Cardinals Beak
It's Gameday folks… Sorry I haven't had much to say about one of the biggest and to some the biggest game of the season. We had a beloved family pet pass away unexpectedly the day after Christmas so haven't really had much time to think about it. 😩
But good vibes are flowing today and The Beak and son are heading to Rupp Arena to be there for our guys. We will be cheering our hearts out for this team. We really need this and we are at the point in the Rivalry that this Louisville team needs it.
I covered the game the last time we played at Rupp Arena and it was a pretty horrible day. These Louisville players have to remember that ass whipping. I sure do. I am hoping for some vengeance for that experience today. Like I said I need it and this team needs it.
I could analyze this game to death and probably would have. I hope to have a lot to say afterward. But when Louisville wins in Rupp it usually comes down to the rebounding battle and free throws. Cards rank 70th nationally in rebounding. Cats rank 238th nationally in rebounding. Free Throw attempts is a crapshoot at Rupp. Both teams are solid at the line Cards ranked top 50 nationally and Cats ranked 14th.
Kentucky lost that last game, due to the number of times they sent Ohio State to the line. The Wildcats were outscored from the charity stripe, 21 to 8. If Louisville can get some of that action today it bodes well.
I think the biggest factor and have said it all season will be Jordan Nwora. He will be the best player on the floor. If he gets it into that next gear he will dominate. He owes Kentucky. Can't leave his Louisville legacy taking all L's to them. He knows what's up. And that really bodes well.
The Cardinals have the better defense, allowing just 58 points per game. Gonna keep it low scoring today. Kentucky has dominated this series, winning 8 of the last 10 matchups.
It's time to knuckle up. Can't lose today…
68-65 Cards.
Coach Mack & staff get a head start for 2021
Posted on November 11, 2019 by The Cardinals Beak
Coach Mack and staff got a win on the court today and have got another win tonight getting an early 2021 commit from 4-star Oak Park (Ill.) Fenwick prospect Bryce Hopkins.
Hopkins is a versatile shooter who can play either shooting guard or small forward, the 6-5 prospect can take players off the dribble creating his own and slash to the basket. He is also a player with some versatility and can post up by the basket.
Hopkins currently falls around the Top 150 players in his class but look for him to keep climbing up the rankings. Hopkins quickly raised his stock over the summer with stand out performances in EYBL. He received scholarship offers from Minnesota, Indiana, Iowa State, Wisconsin, Texas and Missouri in June 2019 alone. He also held offers from Kansas, Ohio State, Iowa, Illinois and Cal.
After a slow recruiting cycle things have certainly picked up on the recruiting front for Louisville Basketball. They got a good start for 2021 with this kid.
Good Times for Louisville Hoops Recruiting
Posted on October 31, 2019 by The Cardinals Beak
The 2020 recruiting class started off slow for Coach Mack and Louisville. But in the last few weeks business has picked up and tonight the highest-ranked player in Kentucky gave a verbal commit to the Cardinals. JJ Traynor is listed as a four-star recruit and the No. 79 overall player in the class of 2020 by 247Sports.com.
Just 10 days ago 4* D'Andre "Dre" Davis, a 6-foot-5, 170-pound shooting forward from Indianapolis verbally committed to the Louisville 2020 Class. Much like Davis JJ Traynor is a player that came out of nowhere during the summer and impressed coaches. I even read one article where recruiting guru Evan Daniels raved about Traynor. He referred to the Kentucky native as "the biggest sleeper in the country."
JJ has made a name for himself with his impressive size, length, athleticism, quickness and scoring ability for a primary ball handler. Sure sounds familiar. Traynor's father, Jason Osbourne, a former Kentucky Mr. Basketball and a legendary Cardinal in his own right used to wow the Freedom Hall crowd with his athleticism. Jason is one of my favorite all-time Louisville players and I'm certain that the apple didn't fall too far from the tree.
Traynor averaged 11.2 points and 8.6 rebounds last season for a Bardstown team that went 15-16. Traynor is coached by another Louisville legend Bardstown head coach James "Boo" Brewer. I got a chance to interview Boo a few years ago. Coach Mack really kept it in the family with this recruit. A few weeks ago folks were thinking this 2020 class would be a wash but things are certainly looking up and I'm here for it all.
Traynor also held scholarship offers from Cincinnati, DePaul, Evansville, Missouri, Northern Kentucky, Western Kentucky, and Xavier.
Coach Mack & staff land another "We" guy
(Photo: Michelle Pemberton/IndyStar)
College basketball recruiting has been a hot discussion on social media. Some Louisville fans getting themselves all worked up because the NCAA cloud still hanging over the program is seemingly having an effect on the staffs recruiting efforts. I don't see it that way.
Sure it's not ideal to have an NCAA cloud hanging over your program but I think it serves as a way of only getting the guys who want to really be a part of your program. Guys that are buying into the "we" part of the recruiting pitch instead of the "what can you do for me" approach.
Coach Mack and his staff have been really good at finding the "we" guys. Today they found another one. 4* D'Andre "Dre" Davis, a 6-foot-5, 170-pound shooting forward from Indianapolis has verbally committed to the Louisville 2020 Class. Davis was originally committed to Tim Miles and Nebraska but decided to open back up his recruitment last week.
Ranked as the 96th player in the ESPN 100 the Davis decomittment garnered a lot of attention. Several Power 5 programs including Louisville jumped in the mix pretty quick. Coach Mack beat out Purdue and several others for the long athletic 3 man's services. Davis is known as a player who can drive to the lane and create his own as well as shoot the step-back three. I think he is a guy that will fit well into Coach Mack's system.
A guy who started out inside the top 200 Davis is a blue-collar player that has worked his way into the conversation with a great AAU season. Give me these Top 100 guys all day long. They are kids that it takes to win a championship and usually make up the backbone of a college program. I hope those Top 10 guys have all the success in the world but I just think they have too much of that "ME" mentality to give a program the long term commitment it sometimes takes to win a championship. We see this play out every year at our arch-rival Kentucky. Not much of a backbone there.
I want to get guys at Louisville who want to be here. I want the guys who want to sink themselves in the traditions and lore that surround the Cardinal Nation. I want to get to know these guys and watch them develop and grow. I want the "we" guys and I think Coach Mack and his staff got a commitment from another one of those today.
Recruiting is fine… And Louisville Basketball will be fine. Go Cards!
The Beak Red & White Scrimmage recap
The Louisville Basketball team took the Yum Center court for the first time on Saturday at the annual Red & White scrimmage. Team 106 is stacked. A preseason top 5 by most publications this team has the talent, depth, and attitude to make a National Title run. It was great to be back in the Yum Center and I'm excited that another basketball season is upon us.
I just watched the Louisville Football team win their first game over a ranked opponent since 2016. The football team has a new physicality about them this year and that has helped them turn things around pretty quick on the football field. Watching the basketball team at the scrimmage I noticed a significant difference in their physicality.
It was so physical on the Yum Center court on Saturday that you could hear it. Guys body checking, putting an arm in someone's chest and guys looking to create contact on every play offense and defense. It really is crazy the difference a year has made under Coach Mack's system and it too will start paying off. I don't see this team getting pushed around by anyone.
I ask the players and Coach Mack about my observation during the scrimmage. Coach Mack said that it was good to hear someone talk about the improved physicality. Says that it's hard for them to see the difference in the physicality of the team because they are with these guys every day. Ryan McMahon said that practices had gotten so physical that Coach Mack brought in referees to call fouls. This has paid off. Two of the most physical guys during the scrimmage were Dwayne Sutton and Steven Enoch. Between them, they drew 12 fouls but only had 3 personal combined. They are being very physical but not out of control.
The physical nature of this Louisville Basketball team is the biggest thing that stood out to me during the scrimmage but there were other observations.
Jordan Nwora should win Player of the Year. He made the decision to spurn the NBA and come back to Louisville for his junior season. He made the right one. He is surrounded on this team by offensive weapons. This should allow him to focus on his own game and develop his role on this team without having to be the primary source of points. Last year I felt like some games he was forced to take on too big of a role and that slowed his progression.
There will be nights when Jordan has to put the team on his back but it won't be every night. I saw more quickness in his game on Saturday. And his vertical game has continued to get better. He had the scrimmages only blocked shot today. Jordan's game has gotten much more active and is less reactive. I call him swag and his game is legit.
Speaking of legit game. Steven Enoch has gone full beast mode. He had an All American stat Line in Saturday's scrimmage. He earned his 21 points. Aidan Igiehon did not give him any easy ones. Those guys battled in the paint all scrimmage. The Louisville frontcourt is loaded and the competition between these guys is going to make them all better. It already has.
Can't say enough about Dwayne Sutton. He is such a workhorse. 20 minutes of grind. He is a guy that thrives in a physical game and really knows how to extend the play through contact. He drew a team-high 7 fouls during the scrimmage. Was 9-11 at the free-throw line. He'll be another guy who will benefit from having a team full of offensive weapons. Sutton is the ultimate role player.
It has been awesome watching Darius Perry figure things out. His newfound self-awareness has carried over into his game on the floor. He is much more poised than he was a year ago and his improved court awareness makes him a more effective player. He had 5 assist to 1 turnover in the scrimmage. A year ago it would have been the opposite.
I've looked forward to seeing the Super 6 on the Yum Center court. I think their class is going to be pivotal in the success of the Louisville program during the next 10 years. If Coach Mack and his staff can go on a run like I think they can it will all have started with this 2019 class. Four of the six were in the ESPN 100. Out of the six, I think Williamson, Johnson, and Igiehon will see the most minutes this season. None of them had a stand out performance at the scrimmage.
Fresh Kimble and Ryan Mack also with a quiet scrimmage but you can bet they'll both stand out as the season progresses.
All in all, there was nothing really surprising about the Red and White scrimmage. This team is going to come into this season with some lofty expectations. They looked the part on Saturday and have the parts to live up to the hype. It will be fun watching it all come together.
Louisville Basketball has its Swag back…
Posted on June 5, 2019 by The Cardinals Beak
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Touting a consensus top 10 recruiting class and a solid group of returning veterans Coach Mack met with the local media on Tuesday afternoon to provide a summer update. Along with Coach Mack two potential ACC all teamers Jordan Nwora and Steven Enoch. None of these guys shied away from from the National Title talk and seem to be embracing the high expectations that already surround this team.
"I think you come to a place like Louisville to embrace those kinds of expectations…We're not going to run from those expectations. Those guys that came here came to win a national championship." – Chris Mack
Louisville basketball coach Chris Mack discusses Nwora and Enoch opting out of the NBA draft to stay at U of L and expectations for next season.
Both Nwora and Enoch echoed these sentiments as they addressed the media. I love it! This is the Louisville Basketball program I grew up watching. A consensus preseason top 5 team heading into the summer even the talking heads have jumped back on the Louisville bandwagon. Jeff Goodman is one of the few of them I pay attention to and he has Louisville ranked #3 in his latest preseason poll. Saying in a tweet "And yes, I also have Louisville in front of UK."
"Louisville in front of Kentucky"… That didn't take long. But talk is cheap and this team's first task will be to take back some of the respect lost in the rivalry.
Adding freshmen like McDonald's All American Samuell Williamson and the freakishly athletic basketball sensation known as the 'Irish Hulk' Aidan Igiehon along with a grad transfer named "Fresh" who comes in averaging 15.6 points in NCAA competition to a roster returning 56.7 points, and 28.1 rebounds you can't blame Louisville for having their Swag back. Right?
It's about time Louisville basketball and its fans get in a little chest thumping. The practice gym on Floyd Street will be bursting at the seams with basketball talent this winter. I've heard the players say Coach Mike Peques often refers to a quote found in Proverbs 27:17 "iron sharpens iron". "As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another." There is mutual benefit in the rubbing of two iron blades together; the edges become sharper.
You can talk with any coach in America and they'll tell you that its the competition in practice that makes a team better. I don't think you'll find another gym in the country with a more competitive environment than the Planet Fitness Kueber Center will have.
The theme here is Swag. And there hasn't been a player in the last 10 years with more of it than Jordan Nwora. Since the first day, he walked into a Louisville gym just a young guy that knows how to carry himself. And won't accept anything less than what he intends. My favorite player I affectionately call him Swag. This dude is the biggest offseason acquisition in college hoops and its not close. Already being mentioned as a potential First Team All American by some. With his size and ability, he is one of the best players in the country. On a team like this, he will be able to just fill his role. I think that will help him become the player he wants to be. That is a good thing for the Cardinals and Jordan.
Jordan Nwora discusses passing on the NBA draft to return to Louisville
In talking about the obvious I'm not ignoring the impact Ryan McMahon (best spot up shooter in the country), Dwayne Sutton (best sixth man in the country), Malik Williams (one of the best shot blockers in the country) and Darius Perry (one of the most energetic guys) will have this season.
Folks this team is loaded and for good reason, the swagger is back. Stick your chest out and look forward to the winter ahead. I expect that the hype will only grow as we get closer. Louisville isn't just a player in the game this season they just might be the game. Louisville Basketball has its Swag back and I love it. Go Cards!
Survive and Advance
Posted on February 17, 2019 by The Cardinals Beak
Credit a very good Clemson defensive scheme today it was like I was watching a basketball game being played in quicksand. Our Cardinals earned every basket. They split games this week but I think have learned a lot about themselves during this stretch.
I've said it many times on this Page that the college basketball season is a marathon and not a sprint. Just as a person has to find something deep within themselves in a marathon a basketball team must dig deep during a college season to overcome the challenges they face throughout. Those challenges prepare them for the postseason run.
This Louisville team has been challenged about as much as anyone and they've won 18 games. I think if they win two or three more they should be a lock at no worse than a 5 seed. Coach Mack is going to have to address his teams inability to finish games. They'll have ample opportunity to figure it out with the games they have left.
Nothing pretty about anyone today but did like CC's effectiveness throughout. He really showed moxie in the second half scoring 16 points and hitting 5-7 shots to bring Louisville back from a late 7 point deficit. And Jordan stepped up late. That late dunk and game-winning blocked shot saved us all a lot of heartaches.
The Tournament is just as much about surviving as anything. Our Cardinals are learning how to survive. They survived today.
L's Up!
Cards look to build off big ACC win
Posted on January 16, 2019 by The Cardinals Beak
Our Cardinals came out as a team possessed on Saturday afternoon in Chapel Hill. Might have been the best "effort" game of the season. You could tell a big difference in that effort from the Cardinals road loss to Pitt. Especially on the defensive side of the basketball. I wrote last week that this team had hit a wall. That wall still very much exist from a competitive standpoint. It takes a lot to come out every game and give that performance they had on Saturday.
Don't know if the Cardinals will match that intensity tonight but it is a good chance to build on the momentum of the last game. I'd like to think that this team is starting to heat up with the meat of the ACC schedule arriving. They have won 8 of the last 11 with only one blemish on the home court. They have shot 47 percent from the field while outscoring teams by an average of 15.5 points at home this season.
That doesn't bode well for a Boston College team who has lost their last four games. They have lost two of their last three road games. The Eagles are shooting just 40.8 percent from the field during this losing stretch while being outscored by an average of nearly eight points. But as we have already seen this season its any given night in the ACC and BC does have three double-digit scorers and they do hit the boards averaging 34.8 a game. You score points and rebound you can win games.
I'd like to see the Cardinals come out tonight and take care of their business. It would be great not to see any kind of let down performance wise after the big road win at UNC. Now it's about building on big wins and not taking steps backward. This team can't afford to do that in a competitive conference like the ACC. They have to win the ones they are supposed to. And they should roll tonight.
Enjoy the game! Go Cards!
Conference Play: The season within the season…
The College Basketball season is not a sprint but more like a marathon. Our Cardinals are about to hit the second leg of the marathon on Sunday afternoon in the Yum Center. I always looked at Conference play as the season within the season.
As a Coach and a fan, you hope that the non-conference prepared them for the grind ahead. Everything gets more physical, mentally challenging and premeditated in conference play. The team's who play hard, smart and with great execution will prevail over the next couple of months. This Louisville team was challenged on all three levels during the non-conference schedule.
When I think of toughness I think banging inside and rebounding. The Cardinals toughness has been tested early on. Playing against some of the best rebounding teams in the country and holding their own. Michigan State, Tennesse, Marquette, Lipscomb, and Indiana all rank in the Top 50 nationally in defensive rebounding. While UK is among the Top 50 in offensive rebounding. Mich St, UK, and Marquette are all ranked Top 20 in Rebound margin.
In the last game, our Cardinals did bang the boards with a team ranked second in the country in rebounding margin at the time (UofL 33 rebs, UK 34 rebs) and won the offensive rebound battle (UofL 13 rebs, UK 10 rebs). UK came into that game third in offensive rebounding percentage. Hitting the glass is important in basketball but it's crucial in conference play.
When I think about their mental toughness being tested I think about the game against Seton Hall on the road. That game was tied at 5 different segments and had six different lead changes. Louisville dominated the boards that day 42 – 28 and hit 11 of 12 free throws to win a close one. Cards were mentally tough that day but then lost some of that mojo when they played flat against Robert Morris and really lost the mental battle with Kentucky. They are a monkey on our back at this point.
When I think about this teams execution I think about the game against Indiana when they failed to execute down the stretch and think about the game against Michigan State where they controlled throughout and hit free throws down the stretch in that one. They executed well in the game against Kent State and did against UK to a certain point but was out-toughed on the offensive end of the floor.
This team is showing some promise heading into conference play and have had about everything thrown at them so far. The Cardinals are ranked nationally #87 in Scoring offense, #6 in Free-throws made, and #16 Free throw percentage. If this team makes a run it will be done as a result of great offensive execution and getting to the free throw line. The defense has been hit or miss with this group early on. Hoping this extra week helped them make up some ground there.
As far as individually Jordan with 17.8 points and 8.4 rebounds per game and CC with 9.6 points a game have been the most consistent players. While Sutton with 9.1 points and 5.9 rebounds per game and Steven Enoch with 8.8 points per game have had a few stand out performances. Really would like to see another guy get into the mix during conference play. VJ, Darius, Malik, and Ryan have to raise their level of play night in and night out.
I always enjoy the conference part of the schedule. We had some great Rivalries roll over into the ACC from the Big East days with Notre Dame and Syracuse and have formed a new one with Virginia. The ACC conference looks to be tougher than ever and I think this Louisville team can be right in the mix.
It all starts on Sunday with Miami. They are a team that will play solid defense on every level without fouling. A tough team in the paint. Our frontcourt will be tested in the conference opener. This Louisville team has exceeded most expectations and I think Coach Mack still has a few tricks up his sleeve. Looking forward to covering this game and looking forward to seeing what this Louisville team has for the ACC. Go Cards.
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Today I'm excited to introduce you to the next story theme: Review.
Because taking time at the end of the year to look back is one of the best ways to move forward with perspective and knowledge. Because taking stock of who you are and where you've come from is a great way to understand your own story. Because making lists about the past year is simply fun.
This is such a great theme for looking back over this past year and identifying your own personal story threads from January through December.
Oh my gosh Ali, this is such a versatile set! How great to use not only as a year in review, but also to look back at your roots and recording memories from people about their loved ones! Thanks again!
I am so excited for this kit! Love it!!
I love what you did with this kit and really enjoyed watching your process.
This kit is fabulous Ali! A great way to close the year. I can't wait to work with it!
I wasn't sure about this theme when I heard the name Review. Just watched the kit video and saw your layouts and I'm so excited for it. So many great story sparks! Thanks as always.


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here is a page from my notebook where I was playing with sitelen sitelen. I'm probably going to recreate the left hand side bigger and with ink soon. If you have a way I could make that more clear let me know.
Thank you for doing this work. It's made me unaccountably happy.
"Here I introduce the first word glyphs", would have saved some hair pulling.
Again, thank you for this effort.


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Route 98 opening delayed in Crawford County
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The road now is scheduled to reopen at the 'Big I' intersection on Friday.
MEADVILLE — Route 98 now is scheduled to reopen Friday at its intersection with Route 6/322 and Route 19 in Vernon Township.
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation had planned to open the intersection Thursday evening. The opening was postponed due to rain in the forecast.
The intersection is expected to open after lines are painted on the pavement Friday, according to PennDOT.
The intersection temporarily will be configured as a single-lane roundabout. A dual-lane roundabout ultimately will move traffic through the intersection.


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Our state is shrinking. Time to deal with rising sea levels | Opinion
Updated: Jan. 16, 2019, 3:44 p.m. | Published: Aug. 22, 2017, 6:01 p.m.
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By Joseph J. Maraziti Jr.
As a result of Superstorm Sandy, awareness of the vulnerability of New Jersey's waterfront communities to occasional major storms and coastal flooding is widely understood.
But the threat that Sandy posed pales in significance to the coming devastation of sea level rise. Sandy produced a storm surge - the ocean came in and soon left. Sea level rise poses a much more ominous result - the ocean slowly creeps in at increasing levels, but never leaves. Flooding on sunny days during high tide is already a common experience in Miami and other southern cities in the USA.
New Jersey is not exempt. In short, the map of New Jersey is shrinking.
Predicted sea level rise in Seaside Heights in a 2013 analysis.
As the climate warms, sea levels do not rise uniformly. Unfortunately, scientists have found a "hot spot" of accelerated sea level rise along the mid - Atlantic seaboard - i.e. New Jersey - and predict increasing vulnerability of coastal areas to flooding.
The phenomenon that increases the danger to New Jersey results from the interaction of multiple factors:
1. Climate change causes global ocean bulges created by the imbalance of melting rates of distant ice sheets and the slowing of the Gulf Stream.
2. The sinking of the land mass caused by the combination of the adjustment of the earth to the end of the last ice age, and local groundwater withdrawal and dredging. The risk is real and present. There is no need to engage in the political debate as to what is causing the sea to rise and the land to sink - it is measurable and is happening - we must immediately face this challenge.
New Jersey's tidal rivers, bays and its prized Atlantic coast and Delaware Bay are particularly vulnerable to forces well beyond the near term control of the human race.
It is predicted that in only 35 years the one in 10-year flood level in Atlantic City would exceed any known prior flood level, including Superstorm Sandy. It is essential to understand that the threat is not just to the beachfront homes of the fortunate few.
As the sea rises, the impact on areas far up river is severe as well. Take Secaucus for example: it is projected that the viability of this transportation, energy and warehousing hub is jeopardized.
A moment's thought about the consequence of salt water intrusion on underground drinking water supplies, the inundation of sewer treatment plants that line our rivers and bays, the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue because rateables have gone the way of the submerged city of Atlantis -- to name a few implications -- leads to the inescapable conclusion that we must seize the opportunity to identify state level actions and responses that are not limited to the isolated efforts of municipal governments.
We cannot sacrifice the future of our children on the altar of home rule.
When faced in the past to threats to valued features of New Jersey, such as the Pinelands and the Highlands, New Jersey responded with the creation of new statutory tools to deal with regional challenges that transcended the boarders of individual municipalities.
The Pinelands and Highlands Commissions are charged with responding to human threats to the state's precious natural resources.
Effectively dealing with sea level rise presents an overwhelmingly more daunting challenge - Mother Nature. How can individual municipalities, that have jurisdictional boundaries, respond to this imminent threat and develop and implement measures to protect and fortify the trillions of dollars of hard assets that are in harms way, to say nothing of the lives and health of the people of New Jersey?
Without a regionally focused comprehensive and coordinated response, haphazard outcomes that spare some communities, but leave others vulnerable cannot be avoided. Mother Nature does not respect municipal boundaries or man-made laws.
There is now an urgent need to implement a bold and robust coordinated strategy to deal with the uninvited guest who is now at our doorstep!
Joseph J. Maraziti Jr. practices environmental, resiliency and redevelopment law in Short Hills. He served as chairman of the State Planning Commission 1998- 2002.
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