According to a recent study published in Science magazine, the Maryland-based biotechnology firm Sanaria might have succeeded where many others have failed. Their phase I clinical trials for a malaria vaccine produced 100 percent protective results in six study participants. In the trial, participants who received the vaccine were divided into tiers who received different amounts of the drug via once a month intravenous drips. None of the subjects who received five doses of the vaccine contracted malaria, but 30 percent of the subjects who received four doses did, which suggests the new drug to be dose-dependent. Although the results are recent and only represent the early stages of clinical trials, Sanaria executives told newspapers they hope the vaccine will reach the commercial market in only three to five years—a quick turnaround for a new drug.
Sanaria's new vaccine seems to many a fantastical response to the tedious and lurking question of whether we can stop mosquito-borne malaria. In 2010, malaria—a disease caused by five species of the parasite genus Plasmodium—infected over 200 million people through mosquito bites and killed 655,000, most of them children and pregnant women. While malaria is endemic in countries all over the world, over 90 percent of malarial deaths occur in Africa.
In recent years, countries afflicted by malaria have attempted an integrated prevention and control campaign. Public health practitioners try to keep mosquitoes away from people with insecticide treated bed nets, targeted insecticide use, and eliminating mosquito breeding grounds. When someone falls ill, treatment is relatively inexpensive, but recent upticks in anti-malarial drug resistance force doctors and nurses to follow up with patients for weeks or experiment with combination therapies. The new vaccine's boast of total protection and lack of resistance (though this could easily change in time) make it seem like a magic bullet.
All of the current efforts have had a cumulative effect. Since 2000, the rate of malarial death has fallen by more than 25 percent. However, a sense of urgency still exists. Most likely, a large number of malaria cases go unreported because the non-specific symptoms (fever, aches, malaise) are endured in areas where paying for healthcare, even a few dollars, is an impossibility and access to clinics and practitioners is difficult. Remember, this is a disease that disproportionately affects developing countries in Africa. In underserved areas, getting people bed nets and environmental controls to prevent disease can be both difficult and expensive. In 2010, the international community poured 1.71 billion dollars into malaria control, only to spend 1.81 billion in 2012.
If the frustrations of past methodologies cast a shadow on progress, the new vaccine promises something shiny and hopeful.
The first layer of the new vaccine's luster is the simple fact that it appears to work; as in, every time. Sanaria is by no means the first company to take a swing at a malaria vaccine, and where name brands like GlaxoSmithKline produced 47 percent or 56 percent protection, the new vaccine claims to stop malaria 100 percent of the time.
The second layer of luster is the improbable and downright cool method Sanaria uses to produce their vaccine. Mosquitoes are fed P. falciparum worms (the most common specie of the parasite) in the worm's early stage of development—called the sporozoite. The mosquitoes are then exposed to radiation to weaken the parasite while keeping the mosquito alive. Next, scientists conduct microsurgery by hand to remove the weakened parasites from the salivary gland of the mosquito. These surgically removed worms are then sterilized and frozen to be the active ingredient in the vaccine.
Where someone might find tarnish in these coats of sheen and promise is in the numbers. From a study standpoint, there are very few of them. It is difficult to say that forty people in a study in Bethesda, Maryland can be representative of the entire Sub-Saharan population. In addition, such few study subjects raise questions as to whether the results, although statistically significant in the study population, might have been sheer luck. To be clear, this is a common concern for any new vaccine, as the FDA estimates the normal size of a phase I trial to be "between 20 and 80" volunteers.
In addition to small numbers, there are also large numbers to worry about; specifically, cost. If Sanaria's vaccine makes it to commercial production, there is an unfortunate paradox that malaria may rob the countries that need it most of their ability to pay for the vaccine. Countries with high malaria rates, such as those in Sub-Saharan Africa, grow slower economically than those with low incidence of malaria. While there are undoubtedly myriad reasons for this phenomenon, the absenteeism and loss of human capital to frequent illness and death are all contributing factors. So, how much will it cost to perform surgery on enough mosquito salivary glands to immunize one country? How about a continent?
Stephen Hoffman, the CEO of Sanaria, suggested on a Reddit forum that while the cost will indeed by high for travelers and the military, for poor countries with endemic malaria, "the vaccine will be provided at low cost." This would be a great step, but it is necessary to remember the logistics involved after buying the vaccine. The six subjects who experienced total immunity to malaria received a treatment of five separate IV drips, which would require personnel trained to deliver IVs, needles, equipment, and cold chain management for enough bags of the drug to give most everyone in a rural, developing country a dose on each of five separate clinic visits. That is no easy task, especially considering the difficulty public health campaigns have already experienced in getting much simpler malaria controls to these areas.
Where Sanaria is now, suspended between criticism and hope, is neither out of the ordinary nor the product of any misinformation. Their initial trial showed promise, but the results are not yet definitive: a normal state of limbo for the three-phase process. However, the promise that there can be a 100 percent protective malaria vaccine is a step by itself. It buffers our hope that one day we will have a definitive prevention mechanism against the tiny parasite.


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How Pottery Barn Wins with Style
Plenty of companies compete on price and features. How do you keep demanding customers coming back for more? Pottery Barn's secret for growth in a brutally competitive business: Our brand is a state of mind," says one top executive. "And customers can make it their own."
By Linda Tischler long Read
Shortly after Hadley MacLean got married in the fall of 2001, she and her husband, Doug, agreed that their old bed had to go. It was a mattress and box spring on a cheap metal frame, a relic of Doug's Harvard days. But Hadley never anticipated how tough it would be to find a "grown-up" bed, one that would be able to accommodate her lawyer husband's lanky six-foot-six-inch frame. "We couldn't find anything we liked, even though we were willing to spend the money," says Hadley, a 31-year-old marketing director at a Cambridge, Massachusetts – based educational-travel company.
The couple finally ended up at Pottery Barn on Boston's upscale Newbury Street, where Doug fell in love with a mahogany sleigh bed that Hadley had spotted in the store's catalog. Not only would the bed go well with the antique dresser that Doug had inherited from his family, but its low footboard would also allow his feet to flop happily over the edge. The couple was so pleased with how great it looked in their Dutch Colonial home that they hurried back to the store for a set of end tables. And then they bought a quilt. And a duvet cover. And a mirror for the living room. And some stools for the dining room.
"We got kind of addicted," Hadley confesses. "We like really classic pieces that can stand the test of time, and Pottery Barn's stuff is great quality for the money."
In the face of geopolitical chaos, economic meltdown, and technology overload, there's something comforting about the timeless challenge of newlyweds shopping for a bed. It speaks to hope and faith in the future — to the satisfaction that we draw from being able to exercise control in at least one small corner of our harried and pressure-filled lives. Creating a place that's cozy yet stylish — a sanctuary from a troubled world — is not just a matter of finding the right furniture at the right price. It's also a matter of emotion: There's a need to identify with the products that we bring into our homes.
All of that bodes well for Pottery Barn. The company's smart yet accessible product mix, seductive merchandising, and first-rate customer service have made it the front-runner in a fragmented industry — not just because of the products that it sells, but also because of the connections that it makes with customers. "It has built a furniture brand into a lifestyle brand in a way that nobody else has done," says Carole Nicksin, a senior editor at the home-furnishings trade weekly HFN.
Pottery Barn has built a successful business along the way too. Revenues at Williams-Sonoma Inc., Pottery Barn's parent company, were $2.36 billion in 2002 (an increase of 15.3% over 2001), and they were driven primarily by sales at Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, and Williams-Sonoma. Pottery Barn's sales were up 11.8%, while those of Pottery Barn Kids increased 51% on net revenue of $293 million.
With consumer confidence at a nine-year low, furniture-industry executives say that consumers have lately been balking at big-ticket items. But while customers may be reluctant to pull the trigger for a $1,400 red-leather club chair, no matter how delicious, they're still willing to spring for a $34 flowered pillow or pay $42 for a great set of wineglasses.
That's why, 3,000 miles away from the MacLeans' home in Somerville, Massachusetts, Laura Alber is obsessed with a towel. A tall, slim blond with pale-blue eyes and no makeup, Alber could be the poster child for a Pottery Barn ad. The 34-year-old Marin County mother of two says that she enjoys entertaining, describes herself as living "holistically," and has just bought the company's Westport sectional sofa, with its kid-resistant twill slipcovers. She also happens to be Pottery Barn's president.
"Feel how great this is," she says, pulling a large white bath towel from a stack at Pottery Barn's store in the tony Village at Corte Madera mall, just over the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. "It's thick, it's got a beautiful dobby [the woven band a few inches from the towel's edge], it's highly absorbent, and it's $24. I can say with great confidence that you can't top this."
To some merchants, a towel is just a towel. But to Pottery Barn, this $24 towel is a fluffy 800-gram icon of everything that the store aspires to be. "We wanted to produce the best towel on the market," Alber says. "For us, this represents a combination of design, quality, and price — in that order. If this were $60, you'd still like it. But your perception of it would change because it would be superexpensive. But at $24, you go, 'This is incredible!' "
The towel, introduced this past spring, joins a family of products that Pottery Barn designers think of as "great basics." It includes perfect sets of white dishes, classic wineglasses, and, soon, luxurious 430-thread-count sheets.
While sexy seasonal offerings such as espadrille-striped pitchers and pineapple-shaped candleholders keep customers stopping by to see what's new, Pottery Barn executives know that the bread and butter of their business is based on a select group of merchandise. And they aim to keep adding best-of-breed products to that collection of essentials, especially as they grow their bridal-registry business, one of the company's key initiatives for 2003.
"We are focused on making sure that the core level of our business is superstrong," says Alber. "This is what customers think of us for and why they come back."
Deep in the heart of San Francisco's warehouse district — an area that became known as Multimedia Gulch during the heady days of dotcom fever — the design team charged with keeping Pottery Barn stuffed with innovative products occupies 28,000 square feet of space in a four-story terra-cotta-colored former mayonnaise factory.
It's no accident that the cheerfully cluttered workshop is three miles across town from the suits and bean counters at Williams-Sonoma's corporate headquarters. Indeed, having separate digs for the designers was part of the deal that Celia Tejada struck when she agreed to join the company.
Tejada, Pottery Barn's senior vice president for design and product development, began developing the company's design studio in 1996. Since then, the company has grown to 160 stores in 37 states and Canada and spawned two offshoots, Pottery Barn Kids and the recently announced catalog PBteen. A small, vivacious Spaniard who grew up in a village of 53 people in the foothills of the Pyrenees, Tejada is the alchemist behind Pottery Barn's design philosophy. Prior to her arrival, Pottery Barn was a merchant-driven company: Buyers would acquire merchandise from outside vendors and assemble it into a collection. Tejada, a former high-end furniture and fashion designer, was appalled at the strategy. "I said to them, 'How can you be a big company if you don't own your own destiny?' "
Lured out of a "smell the roses" break that she had given herself after the birth of her second son, Tejada agreed to come on board, under two conditions: first, that she could establish a separate design division, structured around a vertically integrated team that would own every part of the process — from conceiving the look of the products to designing them to sourcing and overseeing manufacturing. And second, that she, like any self-respecting European, could take the month of August off, to go home to Spain.
Tejada currently runs a staff of 33 designers who create concepts for Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, and PBteen. More than 95% of the brand's merchandise is now exclusive. And while the corporate number crunchers and strategists are not allowed to work in the studio, they're still a key part of product development, meeting there each Wednesday to talk about upcoming lines and to preview merchandising plans that are being worked out in the ministore space on the third floor.
To pass muster with Tejada and her team, a potential new product at Pottery Barn needs to meet the requirements of a strict five-point test. First, it has to look good, but not be too cutting edge. "The goal is to be always ahead — directional — in a way that you can understand," Tejada says.
Second, the product has to feel good. "If it's a textile piece that feels rough to your skin," says Tejada, "it would not make the cut." Third, it must be of high quality. Fourth, it has to be durable. The question "Can the kids jump on it?" is a veritable mantra among Pottery Barn staffers, many of whom have children of their own to road-test the merchandise.
Finally, it must pass the ultimate hurdle: "I ask my designers, 'Will you take it home or give it as a present to your best friend?' " Tejada says. "If they hesitate, I say, 'Throw it in the garbage. Don't even bother.' Emotionally, it has to feel right."
Before launching a new product or line, Tejada and her team must work as much as a year in advance to allow time for sourcing, manufacturing, and shipping. That means that when the summer 2003 line — a Latin theme, complete with paella plates and brightly colored umbrellas, hammocks, and lanterns — appears in the stores, the design team is figuring out what consumers are likely to want in June 2004. It's a process that relies more on gut instinct than on rational science.
At Pottery Barn, there are no panels of focus groups and no teams of market researchers. To create a powerful lifestyle brand, Tejada says, you must first have a life. And the consequences of dodging one's responsibility to eat, drink, and be merry can be severe. "I tell my team, 'You will not get promoted or rewarded for working 20 hours a day,' " she says, her voice as firm as a headmistress addressing an unruly class.
If you want to create a brand that's inspirational, you can't lead a life that's dreary. "Are you ever envious of someone who's a workaholic, who doesn't take care of themselves? Who cares how much money that person has?" Tejada says, her voice rising. "Who cares?"
So staffers are encouraged to go to restaurants and notice how the tables are set. To scavenge flea markets for interesting artifacts. To cruise real-estate open houses and model homes, looking for new architectural and design trends. To entertain friends and note what products they wish that they had: a bigger platter, a nicer serving utensil, a better bowl for salsa — anything that may be a good addition to the line.
Great finds are accumulated in the studio's Inspiration Room, where a cheerful hodgepodge of items are grouped by the brand's color palette. Pieces of pottery, fabric swatches, and flea-market discoveries sit next to storyboards that are pinned with photographs, magazine clippings, paint chips, and computer-generated mock-ups of fabric designs.
They are all fodder for brainstorming sessions, where the group decides what the next season will look like. By Thanksgiving, Pottery Barn plans to debut a set of wineglasses that will have the look and feel of high-priced Riedel crystal but that will be sold at a fraction of the price. The inspiration: Tejada's current obsession with wine. She and her husband have planted Spanish varietals at their Napa Valley ranch and managed to produce their first few barrels of Tempranillo Grenache. (Alber plants Syrah grapes.) As Tejada's vineyard grows, expect to see more wine accessories sprouting up in Pottery Barn stores.
Living the Business
Individual products or lines of merchandise aren't the only things inspired by the personal lives of Pottery Barn staffers. It's no coincidence that the first Pottery Barn Kids catalog debuted simultaneously with the birth of Alber's first child. Alber, who joined the company in 1995 as a buyer, was a divisional vice president when she got pregnant with her daughter, Samantha. Frustrated at trying to put together a good-looking nursery, she and her team instead put together a business plan for an expansion of the brand into children's furniture and accessories. Two years later, the first retail shop opened at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, California. In June of 2001, the Pottery Barn Kids Web site was launched — just one year after the birth of Alber's second child, Jackson.
There are now 64 Pottery Barn Kids stores, with 16 more scheduled to open this year. Says Alber: "It's been the most amazing experience I've ever had in my life, other than the birth of my children."
Although Samantha is only four and a half, Alber is already thinking ahead to the day when her daughter is likely to trade her tea set in for an MP3 player and spend her allowance on lipstick instead of Barbie dolls.
In April, the first PBteen catalog hit mailboxes nationwide, with a range of merchandise designed to appeal to kids ages 10 to 19. The catalog featured furry beanbag chairs, animal-print sheets, and desks that look like lockers.
PBteen is Pottery Barn's attempt to tap into a huge market opportunity: Teens spend $125 billion of their own money annually and influence another $245 billion in household spending. And no other home retailer focuses exclusively on the teen market.
The concept, which has been a year in the making, seems like a natural extension for Pottery Barn, but it was one that required significant sleuthing to divine just the right product mix. Patrick Wynhoff, senior vice president of Pottery Barn Kids and PBteen, and his team have spent months trying to get inside the heads (and wallets) of their teenage customers. "Our designers are going to concerts, hanging out at schools, and watching MTV," he says. To get a feel for the spring 2004 line, young female staffers scouted the shopping malls in Orange County while the guys scoped out skateboard parks in Los Angeles. Wynhoff has been sneaking teen magazines home from the Safeway. "I get weird looks — like they're ready to call 911," he says, laughing.
A contest asking kids to mail in snapshots of their rooms generated photographs that gave PBteen staffers a view into the real-life spaces of teenagers. Staffers have been poring over them like CIA analysts. "The rooms are remarkably similar," Wynhoff says. "The kids are all little pack rats, with every stuffed animal they've gotten since they were born. That's a huge opportunity for us. We hope to get parents to buy stuff that will impose some order."
Knowing how fickle a teen audience can be, the product team has adopted a strategy that's both hip and sensible — the merchandise equivalent of selling a great pair of jeans with some really funky earrings. The core products will consist of basic bedroom furniture that a teenager needs: a bed, a desk, and a dresser. There might be one fashion-forward offering — a skateboard headboard, for instance — but the majority will have timeless designs, some of which are structured like shadow boxes to accommodate a teenager's favorite pictures and mementos. Finally, about 15% to 20% of the line will be trendy — for example, bedding and accessories in wacky prints or hot colors.
Still, the strategy isn't risk free. Wynhoff freely admits that Target, which advertises quite aggressively to the teen market, is a formidable competitor. "We're not going to be able to compete on price, but we can compete on design and in showing our customer how the product works as a total-lifestyle look. Target is not doing that in their stores," he says.
Wynhoff may have a valid point. If there is one thing that Pottery Barn does better than its competitors, it is to give customers an accessible and inspirational vision of what a really great lifestyle might look like, without the intimidating perfectionism of Martha Stewart Living or the unattainable excess of Architectural Digest. That may be the reason why, when Condé Nast recently asked readers to name their favorite home-decorating magazine, an overwhelming number cited the Pottery Barn catalog. That's why you can't go into Pottery Barn Kids without fantasizing about going home and making babies — if only for the furniture.
It's why Hadley MacLean admits to having "dragged a few people" into the Pottery Barn store on Newbury Street. It's also why crusty research analysts often segue from a discussion of the company's financials into a digression on the great customer service that they received when they ordered a new couch.
The brand's allure is no mystery to Tejada. She likens it to the spirit of her adopted country. "What I love about America," she says, "is that it has its windows totally open. It has influences from everywhere, and it embraces everything. Our brand is also eclectic, an open window. It's a state of mind. And customers can make it their own."
Linda Tischler writes about the intersection of design and business for Fast Company.

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Nick O'Flaherty and Kelly Abbott had their happy ending in sight when a friend's call for help almost ended with them losing it to the blade of a knife. Now, in the aftermath of near disaster, both men are trying to heal and move on.
Moving on together, though, is harder than either of them realized it would be. Kelly struggles with simply being a lover instead of the doc while Nick is mired in his recovery. The distance between them inches along in stilted silence.
Desperately seeking solace, Nick finally gathers the courage to sort through the possessions his dear friend and fellow Sidewinder teammate, Elias Sanchez, left him when he died. Instead of comforting memories, Nick and Kelly find a stack of letters and strict instructions from Eli that prompt them to send out a call for assistance. With Eli's letters in hand, Sidewinder sets out on one last mission together, seeking peace and absolution from beyond the grave - and from each other.
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This is it, the final hu-ra for the Sidewinder team. Nick is still on the mend from being stabbed and damn near killed while he, Kelly and the rest of the Sidewinder team did everything in their power to bring down the Vega cartel before they could kill Nick's best friend Ty, and Ty's husband Zane. By now Zane has pretty much become an honorary member of the team, having bled for them all more than once. The knife wound, subsequent surgery and long road to recovery aren't the only things hanging over Nick and Kelly. They've both lost their way, each of them were a compass for the other to light their way. Now all the secrets and lies have driven a wedge between them and Kelly is not sure he will find his way back to the love he feels for Nick. It's a letter from the only member of their psychotic team of misfits to meet an untimely demise that brings the whole of Sidewinder back together and quite possibly remind Nick and Kelly why they depend on, care for and love one another more than life itself.
Written fabulously by Abigail Roux, characters brought to life by Brock Thompson, the final book in the Sidewinder and Cut & Run series' does not disappoint. I was a little worried about this group of men I have come to know and love having to go through another rough and tumble ordeal, but thankfully, Roux lowered the body count and anxiety level of this book dramatically from the others in these two series. Part & Parcel brings the one character in the books we never really got to know to the forefront, Elias Sanchez. Through a series of letters and instructions, Sanchez takes his team on a trip down memory lane, making them all remember why they love each other like brothers, why they would put their lives in each other's hands, and in doing so he also reminds Nick and Kelly that their love for each other is what matters, not the jobs or the missions or the bullshit, just love.
I will say that I didn't care very much for Thompson's narration, but that is solely because I've listened to all the Cut & Run books and gotten used to a particular voice for each character. That being said, Thompson did do a great job with the story including changes in inflection and tones to suit not only the character he was voicing at any given time, but to suit the situation at that time as well. I know it's an investment, but if you haven't listened to these books, I recommend that you do. It is literally an epic saga, but it is so much fun to take the ride with all these guys. Murder, Mayhem and Destruction is tampered by Love, Honor, Trust and Loyalty with these guys. Definitely a must read and/or listen series in my humble opinion. I'm really quite said to have to say goodbye.
Kelly didn't sleep much lately, and when he did, his dreams were full of terror and pain. He woke up every time thinking he'd lost Nick, confused and unsure of what was real and what merely was his deepest fear haunting him. He woke up exhausted, and scared to drift back off for fear that the man sleeping in the hospital bed next to him wouldn't be there when he woke next.
The last time he'd slept had been for about three hours that morning. He'd curled up on the uncomfortable recliner, too spent to fight sleep any longer, and left the other guys to keep vigil at Nick's bedside. Zane Garrett had been there when Kelly awoke, sitting in a wheelchair, peacefully reading a book at Nick's side and occasionally talking to Nick about what he was reading. Kelly had sat and watched them for a few minutes, sadness engulfing him despite assurances from the doctors that Nick would wake at any time.
He hoped Nick could hear them. He hoped Nick knew that they were all there with him, each of them trying to make up for the fact that they'd left Nick behind, alone in the street with his life bleeding out of him.
Kelly sat by the bed now, paying little attention to the sounds of the machines monitoring Nick's status. Owen Johns was curled on the tiny bench under the window that passed as a couch, snoring softly. They were all exhausted and still recovering from their own injuries, but no one would leave, so they were taking shifts. The others had all gone for lunch at Kelly's insistence. He appreciated them being there, and he knew they needed to be there as much for their sake as for his or Nick's. They all loved Nick. They all thought they'd lost him when they'd left him behind. They all deserved to be there when Nick woke. But Kelly needed a little time alone. Time to be alone with himself, with his thoughts and fears and hopes. Time to be alone with Nick, who had yet to wake four full days after nearly bleeding out in the street.
Owen being asleep on the other side of the room didn't bother Kelly. At least he didn't have to pay him any attention, and could instead focus on Nick. His friend. His lover. His would-be fiancé who'd never truly proposed.
Kelly smiled sadly. He held Nick's hand in both of his and traced the tip of his finger over scars and bruises. Nick's hands had paid for all the damage he'd done to the people trying to hurt them. Kelly's chest swelled with pride and pain. He flipped Nick's hand over, following the life line on Nick's palm. Nick had a knife scar on the back of his hand, and it trailed from his wrist up toward the webbing between his thumb and forefinger, connecting almost perfectly with his life line. Together, they almost encircled his entire hand.
Kelly had always joked about Nick's scars meaning he'd live forever. Now he wasn't sure it was all that funny.
He could hear Nick's laugh in his mind, though. See the way his eyes crinkled when he grinned. It was so real and so close it seemed like he could reach out and touch. But he might never see or hear Nick's laughter again, and Kelly wasn't handling it very well.
He sighed heavily as his finger trailed along the scar, his vision blurring with tears and exhaustion. Nick's fingers twitched, giving the illusion that he was brushing Kelly's hand affectionately.
Kelly quirked his lips, trying not to be upset by it.
Nick would wake up. He wasn't dying. He would come back to them, full of laughter and joy, just like he always did.
"Hey, Doc."
Kelly's head shot up at that simple, hoarse whisper, his eyes wide, his heart suddenly racing.
Nick was staring at him.
Kelly pushed to his feet, sending his chair screeching back. Owen leapt up at the noise, crouching, prepared for battle. "What?" he cried.
Kelly leaned over Nick, reaching for his face. When his fingers touched Nick's skin, Nick's eyes fluttered closed.
"No, no, Nicko, stay awake," Kelly begged. He felt Owen moving but couldn't tear his attention away from Nick's face to see what he was doing.
Nick opened his eyes again. They were clear and green, but had faded like when Nick didn't feel well. "Are you okay?" Nick asked him.
Kelly held his breath for a moment, trying to think through the elation to find a response. He finally huffed a laugh and nodded, pressing his forehead to Nick's cheek. "Welcome back."
"Where's Eli?" Nick asked, his eyes closed, his voice tortured from days without speaking.
Kelly's heart stuttered, and he glanced up to meet Owen's eyes. Owen's mouth moved, but no sound came out. He finally swallowed hard and nodded. "I'll go get Six."
Kelly returned his attention to Nick, running his fingers through Nick's hair. "Eli's gone, bud," he whispered.
Nick's forehead furrowed and he squeezed his eyes tight. Then he took in a deep breath and opened them again. "That's right."
The relief that flooded through Kelly was bittersweet. Where had Nick been for the last few days, lost in his memories?
"What day is it?" Nick asked, his voice so rough it was almost painful to listen to. "Did I miss Opening Day?"
Kelly laughed, knowing he was dangerously close to hysterical now that the weight of worry had been lifted. He hugged Nick closer, smooshing his face against Nick's. Nick's hand settled carefully on Kelly's back.
"No, you didn't miss it," Kelly finally managed. "Still lots of time."
"Well, that's a relief," Nick whispered as his fingers curled into Kelly's shirt.
His breathing was more labored against Kelly's cheek, and his grip on Kelly's back began to tighten, his nails digging in. The beeping of his monitors, which had faded into background noise for Kelly about two days ago, began to encroach on his awareness, beeping going faster, a warning Kelly knew all too well.
Kelly pushed away from Nick just before the machines went into a full-blown panic and Nick twisted on the bed, writhing and gasping. Kelly shoved his chair aside, sending it toppling sideways, as he ran for the door to call for help.
He should have known a gentle reunion wasn't Nick's style.
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Abigail Roux was born and raised in North Carolina. A past volleyball star who specializes in sarcasm and painful historical accuracy, she currently spends her time coaching high school volleyball and investigating the mysteries of single motherhood. Any spare time is spent living and dying with every Atlanta Braves and Carolina Panthers game of the year.
Abigail has a daughter, Little Roux, who is the light of her life, a boxer, four rescued cats who play an ongoing live-action variation of Call of Duty throughout the house, a certifiable extended family down the road, and a cast of thousands in her head.
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Rigsmarskens Hospital in Auning is thought to date back to the Middle Ages. It was originally a church barn for storing tithe grain. Lord High Constable Jørgen Skeel converted the barn into a hospital in the early 17th century. The old hospital is one of the first examples of shelters for the poor. The shelters were built after the Reformation and were linked to estates or manor houses. With interest from his savings, Jørgen Skeel guaranteed the running of the establishment for seven poor people and one matron. The Hospital functioned as a home for honest poor folk" for almost 300 years until about 1914. It was listed in 1964 and subsequently restored with help from the National Museum of Denmark. "
Legend has it that in the mid-1800s, once a month the Count of Gammel Estrup collected the paupers from the hospital. He would drive up in his fine carriage and whisk them off to the castle. There they would enjoy a hot meal to help them through the rest of the month. They were also given one rix-dollar each to use as they liked. When the last resident left the hospital in 1914, responsibility for poverty-stricken old people was passed to society as a whole following the Poverty Act passed in 1891. The law on support in old age provided for a kind of pension" with some conditions after passing the age of 60. Homes for elderly people with limited means were not built until 1936. These were municipal old people's flats. "


I'm Peter Lynch and I've been an author, travel writer and hotel reviewer for the past 12 years. I've written internet travel guides to Albania, England, Luxembourg, Macedonia, and the cities of Darwin, Dubrovnik, Oxford and Reykjavik.
I've written print features about cities and countries around the globe for the Reading Eagle (Pennsylvania) the West Australian and a host of UK magazines.
I have particular expertise in Wildlife Conservation Volunteering, have a degree in biology and have been on several volunteer projects and produced the definitive guidebook in 2009, updated in 2012.
I am also a great fan of rail travel having travelled extensively throughout Europe and contributed to Great Train Journeys of the World (Time Out, 2009).
But my greatest rail journey has to be an Around The World trip from London to Sydney and I have at last finished the book (Overland from London to Sydney) about the journey.
Flying to Australia is boring, especially if you think of all the fascinating countries that are being bypassed - out of sight below the clouds. Like millions of others I've flown to Australia, and been bored stiff, but this time I'm going overland by train.
I was able to connect up with a whole series of trains, which took me virtually all the way from London to Sydney. It's not an artificial TV adventure trip with a dozen behind-the-scenes fixers, nor am I doing mad antics, crackpot pastimes or piggy backing on some fund raising scam. This is an everyman story that anyone could do and is the most brilliant way to travel. I could potentially have made the trip in 3 weeks but instead spent 3 months stopping off wherever I felt like it.
Starting from London my route crossed Europe into Russia, east across Siberia, south through Mongolia and into China. From Beijing I trained it to Hanoi and then took the Reunification Express to Saigon, with a few stops on the way. I followed the Mekong north through Cambodia, onwards to Bangkok in Thailand and down the Malay Peninsula to Singapore. My only flight was the relatively short hop from Singapore to Darwin and then it was trains all the way to Sydney and Perth.
The second edition of Wildlife & Conservation Volunteering - the complete guide was published in March 2012. It's been completely revised and expanded, including updated evaluations, new organizations, more volunteer stories, more field adventures and new photographs. There is also a new chapter on great wildlife migration events – how, when and where to see them, with more great photographs.
It's a must read for anyone thinking of working with wildlife, planning to volunteer on a gap year or anyone who simply wants to holiday with a purpose.
Conservation volunteering is so much more than a wildlife trip or safari, not just for the positive feel-good factor of doing something useful but because of the hands-on involvement and insights they provide into the life of wild creatures & the countries they inhabit.
After the book my other big project in 2011 was an overland trip by rail from London to Australia (see Rail Travel page). No Z list celebrities were involved; I didn't ride a unicycle, hop along the Great Wall of China or engage in any other mindless attention seeking activities.
I simply took a train across Europe to St Petersburg, across Russia, down through Mongolia into China then south into Vietnam and the reunification express down to Saigon. This is the only gap in the world's rail network so I had to take buses north through Cambodia and across in Bangkok where I was able to pick up the rail network again and travel down through Thailand & Malaysia to Singapore. A flight across the Timor Sea enabled me to pick up Australia's rail network & travel down to Adelaide, across to Sydney & finally back to Perth.
Time Out Great Train Journeys is a selection of forty of the world's best train journeys, from nostalgic steam trains to state of the art high-speed locomotives. Beautifully illustrated and written with passion, it will appeal to dyed-in-the-wool railway enthusiasts, but also reaches out to a new generation of train travellers, both actual and armchair.
Divided into inspiring sections such as Crossing Continents, State of the Art, Cultural Experiences, Nostalgia and Scenic Spectaculars, this book will appeal to people for whom rail journeys reflect the contemporary mood of travel which cherishes the individual, the ethical and the characterful - time well spent above time quickly spent. Trains no longer belong only to trainspotters, and Time Out Great Train Journeys is the first train book to have a contemporary, quirkily fashionable feel to it.
Written by professional travel writers, who love travelling by train, its not a commercial sales pitch or simply a great coffee table book – it's a dam good read.


In busy lives, there's power in stillness.
Training builds strength, but training plus rest breeds resilience, says Equinox Health Advisory Board member Craig Liebenson, a Los Angeles-based chiropractor and director of L.A. Sports and Spine. It's especially important to reset both body and mind when life is at its most hectic, whether you're celebrating holidays, swamped with work, traveling, or prepping for a big race.
That's why you need resting postures. In a paper published in the Journal of Bodywork & Movement Therapies, Liebenson outlines four specific poses that ground you, literally, during times of chaos: Japanese sit, toe sit, drinking posture, and full squat.
Humans have been relaxing in these positions for millions of years, says Anna Hartman, CSCS, the paper's co-author based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Your body responds to danger by tucking in the tailbone, reaching the head forward, and protecting the torso and all the invaluable organs inside. These floor-based poses, on the other hand, tell the nerves in the pelvis and brain that there's no imminent threat, that you can fully relax.
Though they're seated, they don't cause tightening in the joints and muscles like sitting on a couch or at a desk will, Hartman adds. They actually test your body's mobility, a benefit that will pay off in the gym.
Gina DiNapoli, a New York City-based group fitness instructor at Equinox Gramercy and creator of the Jabs class series at PROJECT by Equinox, notes there's more than one pro to taking it easy, especially when life feels out of control. "If you allow yourself to reset, your body will actually crave intense exercise again when you're back to your regular day-to-day life," DiNapoli says.
Each posture moves your body through its full range of motion and activates the parasympathetic nervous system. The number-one priority: comfort. "You should literally feel like you're doing nothing," Hartman says. Use as many pillows, towels, bolsters, and yoga blocks as necessary to make each pose pain-free.Photography by Coty Tarr. Styling by Jamie Frankel. Art direction by Kathryn Marx.
Kneel on the floor or on a yoga mat with knees and feet together, toes curled under feet, spine straight, and palms resting on thighs. Sit down so the glutes rest on the ankles. Hold for as long as is comfortable, as briefly as 3 to 4 seconds. Perform as often as 2 to 3 times throughout the day.
Modifications: Place a pillow or rolled up towel between your ankles and glutes or rest your knees on a bolster or yoga block.
Kneel on the floor or on a yoga mat with knees and feet together, toes curled under feet, spine straight, and palms resting on thighs. Sit down so the glutes rest on the ankles and slowly lean forward to bring forehead to the floor, placing hands on the floor for extra stability if needed. Hold for 20 seconds to 2 minutes once per day.
Modifications: Place a pillow or rolled up towel between your glutes and heels, rest your knees on a bolster, or lower your head onto a yoga block.
Kneel on the floor or on a yoga mat with knees and feet together, toes pointing behind you, spine straight, and palms resting on thighs. Sit down so the glutes rest on the ankles. Hold for 20 seconds to 2 minutes once per day.
Modifications: Place a pillow or rolled-up towel between your ankles and glutes or between your ankles and the floor.
Stand with feet wider than shoulder-width and lower into a deep squat, dropping glutes as low as possible without lifting the heels from the floor. (Turn toes outward slightly if needed.) Maintain a straight spine and rest your triceps on the insides of your thighs for balance. Hold for 4 to 5 slow exhalations. Return to standing by lowering hands to the ground, shifting weight forward, and lifting into a forward fold before raising your chest. Repeat 4 times. Perform once per day.
Modifications: Place a pillow or rolled up towel underneath your heels or lower your glutes onto a yoga block.


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Q: PHP anonymous functions chaining $app = 'App here';

$fn1 = function($var) use($app){
    $fn2($var);
};

$fn2 = function($var) use($app){
    echo $var;
};

$fn1('variable');

In the above example, I am trying to chain/forward multiple anonymous functions. However, at the below line I receive an error "Notice: Undefined variable: fn2"
$fn2($var)

How do I achieve the chaining of anonymous functions.

A: The problem is that you are not passing the $fn2 as a parameter in the use statement of the closure.
Try the following code:
    $app = 'App here';

    $fn2 = function($var) use($app){
       echo $var;
    };

    $fn1 =  function($var) use($app, $fn2){
       $fn2($var);
    };

    $fn1('variable');

Here you have your example working in an online php tester.

A: The problem is, that your variable $fn2 is out of scope in your first anonymous function. So just put the assignment of $fn2 before $fn1 and then pass the variable as you already did in the use(), e.g. $fn1 = function($var) use($app, $fn2){

A: Just to clarify a few things first, chaining is something traditionally attributed to the Object Oriented Paradigm (as in method chaining), whereby one method returns an instance in order to chain multiple method calls together on the return value of each successive method.
In a functional paradigm what you're doing is more commonly referred to as a higher order function - or a function whose argument takes another function or returns a function.
The problem with your existing code is that functions in PHP do not implicitly import variables from the global scope (see variable scoping in PHP) or any other block scope. The only caveat being that they do gain access to $this or the object instance when they are defined within object context (i.e. inside of a class method that is not static). At least as of PHP 5.4.
So instead you must explicitly import variables from the global or local scope outside of the closure by using the use statement, which you have used to import the variable $app in your example. Though, importing variables touching the outer scope may not always be an elegant solution within a functional paradigm, assuming that is what you're going for.
So in the essence of a higher order function you can more succinctly express your code in the following manner...
$app = 'App here';

$fn1 = function($fn2, $var) use($app){
    $fn2($var);
};

$fn2 = function($var) use($app){
    echo $var;
};

$fn1($fn2, 'variable');

Which would give you the output variable.

A: You need to define $fn2 before you use the variable
EDIT: and to pass the variable in the use()
$app = 'App here';

$fn2 = function($var) use($app){
    echo $var;
};

$fn1 = function($var) use($app, $fn2){
    $fn2($var);
};

$fn1('variable');

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Jul 3 Ocean's 8: It Was Great
Noor Nooruddin
I spent too long thinking up that title.
You know how the trailer made you feel? That's literally the exact feeling you have in the movie. An extended cut of badassery.
Where we going? Take me with you.
It's not a movie in the sense of a main character arc or a deep-rooted human conflict that comes to a climax mid-film. There's no complex world-altering plot. No, no; it's literally just a feature-length fun ride heist movie. And why the fuck not? They're giving you exactly what you want. This IS what you want.
Great cast and solid comedy. I definitely blessed the theater with some obnoxious HAHA's. A little surprised I've never been kicked out of the cinema before. And James Corden? Unnecessary. Like... why? Was it his day off? Was he creeping around the set and annoying everyone to the point where they figured they should just let him be in the movie and get it over with? So that was a little bit of mediocrity, but in the big picture (heh) of things, it's a negligible complaint. (Yet she complained still.)
Go away, bro.
Have you ever wanted to both become and make out with eight different people at the same time? Because that's what this movie is.
The pace is fast-moving, the plot is straight-forward but fun, and the soundtrack complements the badassy tone that the movie sets up before the movie even started. The tone that was set up in the trailer, in fact. Yes, badassy tone is its academic name. Characters were notably diverse in role and personalities, and whose dynamic IS the movie. You're just watching two hours of awesome people hanging out.
I would also like to stare confusedly at this computer screen.
If you've already seen the movie and you can definitively say that you have one favorite character, you're lying to yourself. You're lying to me, you're lying to your family, and you're lying to your country. Get out.
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Jul 28 Subscription Box Review: ComicBoxer (July 2018)
May 3 The Restaurant Owner Who Argued at Me (or Why We Should Have Gone to Señor Paco's)
Nov 2 Thor: Ragnarok Is the Break You Need from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Feb 19 Winchester Is a Showcase of Wasted Horror Movie Potential
Feb 13 Alita: Battle Angel Is Good If You Watch It on Mute


A gift is a gesture of love and appreciation that can make an enormous difference to a person that can rekindle memory for years on, so is the gift wrapping.
Gift wrapping isn't just about covering the gift in decorative paper . It's about going one step further like the icing on the cake. It adds another dimension and is the final flourish that completes a good gift and so to enhance this noble art in the little Mangalites, K. R. Mangalam World School organized an Inter-house gift wrapping competition on 6 Feb , 2015 .
All the four houses Ruby , Topaz , Sapphire and Emerald were given the same theme- 'The Winter Season'. Each house formed a team of 15 students by selecting five students each from Pre-school, Pre-primary and class I .
Students from all the four houses participated enthusiastically and unveiled their talent by depicting different festivals which are celebrated in this season like Christmas , Lohri , Pongal and Republic Day. They even mentioned the significance of each festival . Thus created such beautiful scenes and proved their creativity in true sense. As is always the case, to choose a winner gets difficult for the judges. However one was chosen. So Emerald House with their beautiful depiction of winter festivals through Gift wrapping technique was awarded the First position. Sapphire house got the Second place.
The position ultimately did not matter as the whole school was treated to a beautiful display of children's talents , creativity and artistry.


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P. S. Cottier P. S. Cottier i(A111308 works by) (birth name: Penelope Susan Cottier) (a.k.a. Penelope Cottier)
Born: Established: 1962 Oxford, Oxfordshire,
Arrived in Australia: 1962
Works By (A111308)
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Works About Their Works (A111308)
'P.S. Cottier (Penelope Susan Cottier) arrived in Australia on a boat from England as a baby in 1962 or early '63. She took out citizenship in 1985, which could be described as tardy. She grew up in Melbourne and attended Manningham Primary School, Templestowe High School (both now lost to the developers) and the University of Melbourne (intact last time she checked). She had a number of publications in the eighties and nineties, but then stopped seeking publication until late 2007, although she never stopped writing completely. (Tardiness is a theme here...) Since then her poetry and short stories have been published in Australia as well as the USA and the UK where she has received a number of awards. She wrote a PhD on animals in Dickens at the A.N.U. (awarded 2004) and has worked as a university tutor, a lawyer, a union organiser and a tea-lady. Her first collection of poetry, The Glass Violin, was launched in February 2009 by Geoff Page. She has a husband, a daughter and a menagerie of pets, and lives in tropical Canberra' (Biography supplied by the author).
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Shortlisted in Winter Surprise Competition, July 2008 for 'Corrections'
Specially commended in the Friendly Street Roman Poetry Competition 2008 for 'Uploaded'
Awarded second prize in the World Peace Bell competition for 'Balancing'
Awarded first place in the Cooma Feast of Poetry competition for 'Mountain Pygmy-possum'
2015 winner New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing — Poetry for Criminals who are no longer criminals
2008 Highly commended. Fellowship of Australian Writers Queensland — Lovers of Good Writing Poetry Competition For 'Fred Williams, as painted by John Brack'
2008 First Prize FAW Adam Lindsay Gordon Commemorative Award For 'Swimming at Flemington'
Criminals Who Are No Longer Criminals i "They hang about, outside any town's court,", 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing 2016 2016; (p. 203-205)
2015 winner New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing — Poetry
y Paths Into Inner Canberra Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2015 9005141 2015 single work essay Abstract
'Cyclists love Canberra's network of cycle paths. PS Cottier explains why.' (Publication summary)
2016 shortlisted ACT Writing and Publishing Awards — Non-fiction
y The Cancellation of Clouds Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2011 Z1816050 2011 selected work poetry Abstract 'It's a fine line between reality and fantasy. These poems open up a world of atheistic angels, grammar obsessed fairies, depressive canned laughter, invisible cats and floating sheep. P.S. Cottier also touches on more traditional poetic concerns, such as death and music, in her lively and inventive language.' (Publisher's website)
2013 second prize SWW Book Awards — Poetry
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MADRID: With Antoine Griezmann's reported transfer to Barcelona inching closer, Argentine superstar Lionel Messi described the French striker as a "great player", Spanish sports daily Mundo Deportivo reported on Thursday.
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"Good players always have an understanding and he's at an exceptional moment in his career," said Messi.
The Barcelona man told Mundo Deportivo he hoped Real Madrid's pursuit of Paris Saint Germain striker Neymar would come to nothing.


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Q: Move the overlay element back and forth I have two elements (main and bottom) and the bottom is overlaid on another with transparency.

This is middle part

This is bottom part

When the element middle is focused, I want the element bottom to go back with transparency and when the bottom is focused, then the element middle to go back and bottom to be forward. is there any way?

A: *

*You need to add tabindex="0" to the divs in order to make them focusable

*Set z-index: 1; in <selector>:hover rule

Like this:

.middle {
  color: white;
  background: blue;
  position: absolute;
  width: 250px;
  height: 300px;
  left: 50px;
}
.middle:focus {
  outline: 1px solid pink;
  z-index: 1;
}

.bottom {
  background: red;
  color: black;
  position: absolute;
  top: 50px;
  width: 150px;
  height: 200px;
}
.bottom:focus {
  outline: 1px solid lightblue;
  z-index: 1;
}

This is middle part

This is bottom part

Note that tabindex="0" makes the divs not only respond to mouse click, but also to tab navigation with the keyboard, when tabindex="0" is used. They will only respond to mouse, but not to keyboard focus when you use tabindex="-1"
Now follows a second example which is the same as above with the slight difference of the divs having tabindex="-1" instead of tabindex="0". Note that you cannot keyboard focus them (but you can unfocus them with the keyboard)

.middle {
  color: white;
  background: blue;
  position: absolute;
  width: 250px;
  height: 300px;
  left: 50px;
}
.middle:focus {
  outline: 1px solid pink;
  z-index: 1;
}

.bottom {
  background: red;
  color: black;
  position: absolute;
  top: 50px;
  width: 150px;
  height: 200px;
}
.bottom:focus {
  outline: 1px solid lightblue;
  z-index: 1;
}

This is middle part

This is bottom part


Have you ever brewed a recipe from this blog?
The September 2010 issue of Brew Your Own magazine contains the first print article I've had published! There isn't much in the article that I haven't said somewhere on Mad Fermentationist, but I collected bits of information that had been peppered across many posts into a single guide to making fruit flavored sour beers. My goal was to present the options available along with my experiences, rather than trying to give a single "best" practice. The article also includes the recipes and step-by-step instructions for brewing my Sour Cherry Flanders Red, Cabernet Berliner Weisse, and Peach Honey Wheat Sour.
I'd like to give a special thanks to Alex, Nathan, Dan, and my father for giving the article both content and editorial reviews. They all helped to get what I wrote whipped into a "magazine quality piece" (i.e removed the spelling and grammatical errors that sometimes plague my writing). Chris Colby and the rest of the staff at BYO did a great job cleaning up the formatting, and adding metric equivalents for all my measurements. I'm only complaint is that the extract versions of the recipes they included called for steeping grains that need to be mashed (although in a sour it isn't that big of an issue). Submitting to a magazine was a different experience than writing a blog where I can always add, amend, correct, and expand what I have written (even years after posting).
Nathan and I are working on an article on Kvass (which I have touched on before) for a future issue of BYO (I baked the rye bread Friday and we brewed Sunday), but it probably won't be published until early 2011. If anyone has any suggestions for other in depth topics you'd like to see an article (or post) on let me know.
If you'd like to subscribe to BYO you can sign up using this link, and a portion of the subscription fee will go to fund this blog (the price is the same as a regular subscription).
I'm going to try Paw Paw beer when my harvest comes in. I'd like to try elderberry beer. It would be good for those winter colds.
I just got some elderberries from the local coop to play with, along with some other weird spice/herbs/fruits I want to play with. Good luck with the paw paws, interested to hear how that turns out.
Once again, congrats brother fish.
and Chris - sounds like you beat me to the paw paw beer, had that on the brain for a while now.
I actually just read this article last night and was thinking that the Honey Peach Wheat recipe seemed VERY similar to yours. Now I understand why!
Welcome to the BYO-published club, Mike. =) I just got this issue in the mail today (what? I live in Alaska!), and I'm looking forward to reading your article when I get a few minutes to myself later today.
Congratulations that's great news. I look forward to reading it.


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Picture of an egg cracks the old Instagram record
Courtesy of world_record_egg
This egg broke Kylie Jenner's record for the most liked picture on Instagram.
Max Gaffin, Eastside Staff
A picture of an egg is now the most liked on Instagram. How you might ask? The egg's reason for being shared was to overthrow the then-current record-holder, Kylie Jenner, and become the top. The egg now has over 50 million likes, beating Jenner's previous record of 18.3 million.
The egg, posted January 4, has gained a large number of likes and even followers, with celebrities raising attention to the cause.
In the posts' caption the egg wrote, "Let's set a world record together and get the most liked post on Instagram. Beating the current world record held by Kylie Jenner (18 million)! We got this!"
Household names such as Ellen DeGeneres and Mike Tyson posted their own versions of the egg after they egg reached its objective. The egg is still gaining likes as it posted a second post of the same picture but with a crack on it. The creator the @world_record_egg claims to be an individual from London. The master mind reached out to ABC news on an Email.
"While doing dry January, I was sitting at home reading an article online about the top 20 Instagram posts of 2018," they wrote, "I thought it would be an interesting experiment to try and beat the record with something as basic as possible."
As the egg reached its goal, Sunday, January 13, Jenner reacted by posting a video of her cracking an egg. "Take that little egg," she wrote.
The egg now sells apparel and has their own snapchat filter and the account is now verified.
Max Gaffin, Eastside Features Editor
Max Gaffin is one of Eastside's Features Editors for the 2020-2021 school year. He is currently a junior and one of the Vice Presidents for the Cherry...
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HomeAcademicsSchool of Humanities & Social SciencesLanguages & LiteratureEnglish & WritingRichard Schur, Ph.D. English & Writing
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Richard Schur, Ph.D.
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Dr. Schur began teaching at Drury in the fall of 2001. He received his Ph.D. in America Studies (2000) from the University of Kansas for his dissertation, Rites of Rhetoric: Toni Morrison, Luis Valdez, and Critical Race Theory. Schur earned a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from the University of Wisconsin Law School (1994) and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Illinois (1991).
Dr. Schur has taken on a number of administrative roles at Drury, including the Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Center (2003-2010), Founding Director of the Law & Society Program (2011-2015), and the Director of the Honors Program (2015-Present). He has won grants to participate in the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU) Shared Futures Project, a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, and a Fulbright German Studies Seminar. He won the 2006 Faculty Award for Liberal Learning and the 2008 Joel Weixlmann Award from the African American Review.
Over his time at Drury, Dr. Schur has taught classes in English, Writing, Political Science, Philosophy and the Honors Program during his time at Drury. He regularly teaches American Literature I: 1620-1865, American Literature II: 1865-1980, African American Literature, Literature Matters, Creative Writing Nonfiction I, Literature and Ethics, Expository Writing, First-Year Honors Seminar, the Honors Colloquium, and Introduction to Law & Society. Dr. Schur loves to teach in Drury's core curriculum and has taught the topic of American Popular Music in the Drury Seminar (Core 101) and the topic of Human Trafficking in Global Foundations (Core 201).
Dr. Schur's scholarship focuses on racial narratives in American culture, from popular music and literature to law and ethics. He is the author of Parodies of Ownership: Hip Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law (2009) and co-editor (with Lovalerie King) of the collection of essays, African American Culture and Legal Discourse. His recent articles and essays include the following:
"A Right to be Hostile: Black Cultural Traffic in the Classroom." Teaching Tainted Lit: Popular American Fiction in Today's Classroom. Ed. Janet Casey. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2015. 105-122.
"Copyright Outlaws and Hip Hop Moguls: Intellectual Property Law and the Development of Hip Hop Music." The Organic Globalizer: Hip Hop, Political Development, and the Movement Culture. Eds. Christopher Malone and George Martinez Jr. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. 79-98.
"The Crisis of Authenticity in Contemporary African American Literature." Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon. Eds. Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. 235-254.
"The Mind-Body Split in American Desert: Synthesizing Everett's Critique of Race, Religion, and Science." Perspectives on Percival Everett. Eds. Keith Mitchell and Robin Vander. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2013. 75-93.
"Sampling is Theft? Creativity and Citation after Hip Hop." Critical Conversations about Plagiarism. Eds. Michael Donnelly, Rebecca Ingalls, Tracy Ann Morse, Joanna Castner Post, and Anne Meade Stockdell-Giesler. Anderson, South Carolina: Parlor Press, 2013. 67-77.
"Memories of Walter Majors: Searching for African American History in Springfield." Springfield's Urban History. Ed. Stephen McIntyre. Springfield: Moon River Press, 2012. 113-137.
Schur also enjoys blogging on Drury's Humanities Blog and has written essays for The Chronicle of Higher Education and editorials published in the Springfield News Leader. He enjoys spending time with his family and running the trails and hills of the Ozarks.
B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991
J.D., University of Wisconsin, 1994
Ph.D., University of Kansas, 2000
Drury University faculty member since 2001
Professor since 2013
Email. drury@drury.edu


Backup batteries and generators are hardly a hot topic -- until they fail.
That's when companies take a keen interest in data center power backup. They question why backup power didn't kick on when it should have, and measure how much revenue was lost per minute of downtime. And if they are wise, they invest in ways to prevent downtime from happening again.
At least, that's what backup battery monitoring service providers hope they'll do. It's one way that customers end up at Canara Inc., a battery, an uninterruptable power supply (UPS) and monitoring services provider based in San Rafael, Calif., that formerly was called IntelliBatt.
They are doing this for data center operators who hate batteries.
"Some [of our customers] have had to pay damages for outages or have multi-tenant data centers that have [service-level agreements] they need to live up to," said Tom Barton, Canara's CEO and former CEO of Rackable Systems Inc. Barton joined the company last year and hopes to turn it into another Rackable story (minus the part where he resigns due to a disagreement with the board).
One of Canara's customers, Cologix Inc., a colocation provider based in Denver, owns 12 data centers in various locations and supports over 550 customers. It uses Canara's battery monitoring software and services for all its critical batteries, said Matthew Spencer, Cologix CTO.
Cologix has grown by acquisition, and many of the facilities it bought didn't monitor batteries at all -- a risk not worth taking since even brand-new backup battery units may not work, Spencer said.
That could have been a problem at its Montreal facility had it not performed battery maintenance just weeks before Hurricane Sandy in October. It found that one of its new batteries was a dud and switched it out, Spencer said.
During Hurricane Sandy, none of the many data centers supported by Canara lost internal power, according to the company. Some of its many large enterprise customers include Boeing, Digital Realty Trust, Charles Schwab, Equinix, FedEx, Fidelity Investments, Savvis and Wal-Mart.
"It's all about making sure that this stuff works when it needs to -- making sure ahead of time that the batteries can support a load that they may be tasked with," Canara's Barton said.
Extending the useful life of backup batteries, which last only a few years and can cost about $250 each, may be more valuable than preventing outages, especially for massive data centers with thousands of them, according to Sam Jaffe, senior research analyst at Navigant Research based in Boulder, Colo.
"It's a dark art to figure out how to extend the life from three to five years, and that is worth the investment in monitoring," Jaffe said.
Cologix uses Canara's predictive analysis and monitoring service to extend the life expectancy of its backup batteries, with good results.
"We got religious around predictive analysis," Spencer said.
The idea of monitoring battery health to lengthen battery life appeals to data center managers such as Chris McLean, PE Director of Design for the Markley Group, a Boston-based hosting provider that performs backup power monitoring manually. But software that monitors battery health is more interesting to McLean than failure protection because preventing premature replacement can save money and ultimately help the environment by reducing cumulative battery waste, he said.
An investment in backup battery monitoring services from Canara starts at $16 per battery, per year, for small installations. The price per battery decreases as the size of the deployment increases.
"It isn't a frill expense -- it is economical," Jaffe said. "They are doing this for data center operators who hate batteries. They want to take that task off their hands, and are happy to pay someone to do it for them."
The battery monitoring software measures temperature, AC ripple current, voltage and other data points that are analyzed by Canara's battery experts. The data is used to report trends and to help customers maximize battery life.
There are a number of other power supply vendors that offer monitoring software. For example, in April, Schneider Electric delivered an updated data center infrastructure management suite, StruxureWare for Data Centers v2.0, which includes a feature that data center managers can use for power monitoring, analysis and power quality.
That product keeps monitoring in the hands of IT, while Canara's monitoring service takes battery monitoring completely off of IT's task list.
"[Canara] sends us reports to look at, but they have battery specialists who know everything there is to know about how batteries behave," Spencer said. "Those experts look at the trends and can tell us how long the batteries will last."
Canara's latest service, Branch Circuit Monitoring, goes deeper into the data center and monitors the individual circuits located in a PDU or circuit panel. This allows for load-based cost allocation and improved capacity planning.
"It allows us to monitor our customers' utilization of the circuit at the panel level," said Cologix's Spencer, who tested the Branch Circuit Monitoring technology. "If we want to keep a customer amp[erage] at a certain level, this allows us to monitor that … and lets us know if the customer needs an additional circuit."
The company also offers cloud-based reporting, monitoring and management now to allow data center operators to view site-specific, regional and executive reports. The reports include data collected on UPS, batteries, power distribution, temperatures and more.


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DTM / Obituary
ITR chairman Dr. Thomas Betzler passes away
The head of DTM was a driving force for DTM.
DTM grieves for Dr Thomas Betzler. The Deputy Chairman of DTM rights holder and promoter ITR e.V. passed away last week following a serious illness. Just a few days before his death, Dr Thomas Betzler, who was born in Ulm and held a doctorate degree in jurisprudence, turned 65. The burial already took place in Wiesbaden – and at the specific request of his family, it solely was attended by the immediate family. Dr Thomas Betzler was married and the father of two daughters. His family may be sure of the sympathy and solicitousness of the entire DTM fraternity.
With Dr Thomas Betzler, DTM lost a driving force and a true racer. In the 1960s, a schoolmate took him to a racetrack for the first time and since this day, he was fascinated by motor racing. In 1968, Dr Thomas Betzler entered the cockpit of a Renault R8 Gordini for the first time. During his college years, he contested races on the weekends and even cared for the sponsors himself.
In 1970 he finished runner-up in the German 'Rundstrecken Meisterschaft' at the wheel of a Renault Alpine A 110 and thanks to this success, Renault signed him as works driver for the 1971 season. A deal offering him the chance of racing – inter alia – in Formula 3. In the following years, he raced for Alfa Romeo and Mercedes-Benz before joining the BMW camp in 1973. For Alpina BMW he contested a lot of rounds of the 'Deutsche Rennsport-Meisterschaft', one of the predecessors of DTM. Dr Thomas Betzler contested his last races – in 1977 – for Zakspeed, with a Ford Escort BDA and as team-mate of Hans Heyer.
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Afterwards, he focused on his occupational career, without losing sight of his passion for motor racing. The classic-car enthusiast born in Ulm completed his studies and obtained his doctorate. In 1978, he acquired his law license and founded his own lawyer's office in Wiesbaden in 1984. Since 1985, he also worked as solicitor. The focus of his activities as lawyer were the areas of the traffic and sports law where he acted for – inter alia – car manufacturers, organisations responsible for race series, promotion companies and TV stations as well as competitive sportswomen and sportsmen, their managers and agencies.
"The news of Thomas Betzler's death did not only affect me in my position as Chairman of ITR but also on a personal basis. We spent a major part of our journeys through life together – both at and aloof from the racetracks. I have lost a friend and the DTM fraternity a valuable member whose heart belonged to motor racing throughout his life," said Hans Werner Aufrecht, the Chairman of ITR. e.V.
For ITR e.V., Dr Thomas Betzler attended to the legal and financial aspects of DTM. Every single contract concerning the series was edited by him. Since its foundation back in 1986, Dr Thomas Betzler has been a member of the ITR e.V. board and since 2003, he was its Deputy Chairman. DTM will miss him dearly.
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How Johnny Cash May Have Been The First American To Learn Of Stalin's Death After He Intercepted Code In 1953
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Johnny Cash is of course known for his contributions to the music world, and rightfully so, but I wanted to share a story from Cash's time in the military and how he learned of some important news.
In 1950, at the age of 18, he joined the Air Force and worked his way up to serve as a Morse code operator. His job, decoding communications between Soviet officials and passing along any vital information.
Well, on March 3 1953, one of those important messages made its way through to Johnny Cash. The message that beeped in was the news that Russian Premiere Joseph Stalin, who was ill for years, had passed away.
According to BBC, Cash recalled the accomplishment in his 1997 book, Cash: The Autobiography:
"I was the ace. I was who they called when the hardest jobs came up. I copied the first news of Stalin's death.
I located the signal when the first Soviet jet bomber made its first flight from Moscow to Smolensk; we all knew what to listen for, but I was the one who heard it…"
Cash passed that info up the chain, and that's how the rest of the Western world found out about the passing of the leader of the Soviet Union. Due to the highly classified info he was taking in, he wasn't allowed to talk about his job in the military, even with his closest friends and family.
However, Steve Turner's biography The Man Called Cash from 2001, revealed that there might've been a bit of exaggeration from Johnny.
That comment brought a "wry smile to the faces of those who worked with him. 'That's nonsense,' says one. 'He didn't understand Russian, and if it came in code we wouldn't have been able to decipher it anyway.'"
So whether or not he was actually the first, and whether or not he actually transcribed the code all by himself, Johnny was involved in someway.
Most likely Johnny copied down the code and somebody else transcribed it, but either way, it's still a pretty incredible story.
Johnny Cash was honorably discharged in 1954 and would then go on to sign with Sun Records in 1955… the rest is history at that point.
But, it all begs the question…. is there anyone more badass than Johnny Cash?
From his life as a musician to being the one to break the news on Stalin, the man led one incredible life.
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Q: Which reliability index (if any) is appropriate? Subjects were asked to endorse whether or not they have experienced various negative events (yes/no). I want to use a measure that is a sum of how many events they have experienced. Since this measure is just a count (albeit a count of different items), what's the appropriate type of reliability measure to use? Is a reliability analysis even applicable in this instance?

A: It depends on what your question is.
If you want to know if these sum scores are consistent over time (within each participant), you would need participants to fill out the questions multiple times; you could then use various measures of intra-rater reliability such as a weighted kappa or intraclass correlation coefficient.
If you want to know if these sum scores differ between groups of participants or are influenced by covariates, this is more appropriately a job for general linear models such as ANOVA or regression.
Finally, if you want to know if the items you are summing together are really tapping the same underlying construct, this is more appropriately a job for latent variable modeling such as factor analysis or SEM.


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THE NIKE AIR MAX 95 IS DRESSED IN LUSH GREEN VELVET
Sergio Lozano's Nike Air Max 95 made its debut 27 years ago. Over the course of that time, the silhouette has donned a plethora of looks, the most recent of which featured lush green velvet.
This version features a nice contrast of soft and rugged textures
The newly-surfaced pair, like previous tonal iterations of the silhouette, features non-leather panels across every corner of the upper. A single suede overlay runs the length of the profiles, but it is sandwiched between a slew of velvet components that take up most of the space on the latest Air Max offering. Underfoot, the sole units deviate in a clean off-white arrangement, allowing the top-half to take center stage; outsoles also feature the titular green tone.
This elegant and timeless shoe is a treat for the eyes, the touch, and for any admirer of exquisite Nike footwear. The Nike Air Max 95's plush green velvet upper feels silky to the touch yet is composed entirely of synthetic materials, making it extremely durable.


It's that time of year when the canvas covers start to come off, and like great waking beasts, the grills open their metal jaws and wait for delicacies to be placed within. Welcome to barbecue season, Seattle! Here are a few tips for making your grilling adventures the healthiest and tastiest they can be.
If you use a metal bristle brush to clean your grill, you may be putting yourself and your guests in danger, as the tiny bristles can break off and find their way into your food. If ingested, the metal bristles may cause serious harm to your intestine. Also, the metal can chip and scratch any nonstick surfaces on your grill. Look for a nylon bristle brush, a grill-cleaning block (made from recycled glass, it functions like a pumice stone) or a wooden grill scraper.
To make sure your summer cookouts are safe for everyone, stick with the standard advice to "keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold." That means that perishable foods should not be left in the "temperature danger zone" of 41-140 degrees for more than an hour. "Room temperature" is right in the middle of that range, and foods at summer cookouts lend themselves all too well to being left out for hours at a time.
Be mindful of time and temperature by keeping uncooked foods (such as meat, fish and tofu) and prepared foods (such as potato salad, deviled eggs and rice and beans) either in a fridge or very cold cooler. Then, to kill potentially dangerous bacteria, cook those foods to an internal temperature of at least 165°F. After cooking, foods need to be kept hot or immediately cooled down.
Additionally, try not to cook food at temperatures that are too high. Research shows that grilling meats at high heat can cause carcinogens to form, such as heterocyclic amines (HCAs), which have been linked to pancreatic cancer.
For healthier grilling, cook meats for shorter periods of time at lower heats (HCAs begin to form at 325°F), use leaner meats such as chicken and fish and cut or scrape off any charred sections of meat.
Wrapping meats in aluminum foil can reduce exposure to smoke, which is one of the main causes of carcinogen formation in grilled meats. Also, marinating meats beforehand in olive oil and spices, such as thyme, sage, garlic and rosemary, can reduce the formation of carcinogens.
Who says grilling is just for meat? Grilling fruits and vegetables brings out their natural sugars and makes for healthier, lighter fare. Use a vegetable grilling basket or a flat nonstick grill tray for best results. Try the recipe below for a grilled delight.
Mix a dash of vanilla into the honey; add just enough water to thin it slightly. Brush the honey mixture on the halloumi slices.
Pile the grilled peach slices (approximately 6 or half a peach) over two slices of grilled halloumi. Enjoy!