Carmelo Anthony, clearly frustrated Monday after another Knicks loss, admitted afterward that his patience is being tested.
Maybe that's the 12 losses in 14 games talking. Or, the way he sounded, it's the four coaches, three GMs, one team president and a revolving door of a roster in his five mostly forgettable years since arriving from the Nuggets.
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"You can't control that," Anthony said of all the change (via ESPN.com). "When you look at it, how many different coaches? Four different coaches. [A lot of] different players. I mean, that's a lot to go through."
Worse, there hasn't been any tangible benefit to all the change as the Knicks (24-34) sit 6 1/2 games out of the eighth spot in the Eastern Conference and appear headed for their third straight season of missing the playoffs.
"It's been tough. It's challenging," Anthony said. "It's challenging to kind of stay strong and positive through all this."
Anthony is in only the second season of a five-year deal worth $124 million that he signed as a free agent in 2014. The contract has a no-trade clause, but now Anthony, 31, faces what appear to be at this point dueling desires: to stay and play in New York vs. winning a championship.
"Regardless of the record, just losing, accepting that - it is hard to accept that," Anthony said, adding, "We just got to want to do it. We want to get out there and want to play. We want to compete. I don't think it's anything to do with kind of X's and O's."


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Buying Legal-Marijuana Stocks: Just Say No?
Shares are risky, and there are some scams
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By Jane Hodges
June 7, 2015 11:03 pm ET
Marijuana legalization in multiple states has ushered in a variety of companies and funds that are selling shares.
But should you invest?
Marijuana-related securities have arrived in the form of over-the-counter or penny stocks and special funds for accredited or high-net-worth investors. Some investors have been playing this market for several years already.
But while marijuana has been legalized for medical and recreational use in a short list of states, at the federal level marijuana is still illegal.
'Unusual period'
"We're in an unusual period," says Bruce Barcott, author of "Weed the People," a book about marijuana's legalization. The federal government is standing by while states legalize marijuana, he says, "but the feds retain the right to come in and arrest any business that touches the leaf. That hasn't happened yet, but it is possible."
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Today, the most famed Englishman in New York announced the 57th & 9th tour, spanning across North America and into Europe. His first rock album in more than ten years, 57th & 9th was debuted at a set of sold out shows at NYC's Irving Plaza earlier in November. It was also confirmed that Sting would be performing the re-opening of the Bataclan in Paris. There's clearly a lot we need to catch up on with the former Police frontman, so we're bringing you this interview with Sting about his new music and so much more. Grab a cuppa, and happy reading!


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Meditation is Now a Billion Dollar Industry
As meditation profits surge, CEOs and Fortune 500 companies have invested in the practice to improve productivity among workers. But is this a good thing?
By Andrea Rice
As Big Business tycoons and CEOs around the world embrace meditation to improve their leadership skills and achieve professional goals, the practice has now become a—cha-ching!—billion dollar industry. Much like the ancient practice of yoga is highly sought after in the West, mainstream meditation has shed its robes and patchouli—and is no longer typecast as a new age practice for hippies or monks who've renounced the world. What was popularized by the Beatles in the 1960s and 70s to achieve a high without psychedelic drugs is now being used as a tool to achieve optimal wellbeing without prescription drugs or addictive opioids.
Meditation has seeped into our schools, our homes, the workplace and beyond—as more people strive for less stress, improved health, and better balance in their lives, as studies only continue to show its seemingly infinite host of benefits. According to research conducted by IBIS World, by the end of 2015 global revenue from meditation surpassed at least $1 billion. What's more is this does not include profits grossed by the 1000+ mindfulness and meditation apps available—with Headspace alone toppling $30 million in earnings and over 6 million user downloads.
Forbes has more:
This year 22% of employers will offer mindfulness training—typically priced between $500 and $10,000 for large-group sessions—a percentage that could double in 2017, according to a forthcoming survey by Fidelity Investments and the National Business Group on Health. The non-profit Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, a mindfulness training program incubated at Google, grew revenue more than 50% last year by offering two-day workshops (up to $35,000 for 50 people) to dozens of other Fortune 500 companies, including Ford and American Express.
This is all wonderful news… but a skeptic cannot help but wonder if the explosion of mindfulness is helping busy worker bees boost their happiness levels and alleviate stress and anxiety—or rather, molding them into highly efficient, corporate robots?
Johann Berlin, CEO of the TLEX Institute (Transformational Leadership for Excellence), brings mindfulness training programs to corporate offices. In a recent interview with the Harvard Business Review, he said that, "Most of our new clients are not sold by mindfulness as a novelty. They want to see how these approaches are truly beneficial to existing priorities like retention, talent advancement, innovation." He said that one Fortune 25 client in particular, uses mindfulness to achieve a relaxed state of mind in order to approach leadership with more agility.
But some worry that the rise of mainstream mindfulness—often dubbed as "McMindfulness"—ignores the fundamental intent behind a meditation practice: What is described by Buddhist teachings as a "pure awareness" state of being. It is often argued that the meditation is being used as more of a productivity tool, rather than as a practice to develop empathy and peace of mind. Think of it this way: If we were to examine Buddhist tradition and philosophy, meditation would teach us that we are enough; we have enough; we are content. But mainstream meditation as a practice can help to streamline our productivity so we can achieve more with total efficiency, clarity—but also of course, with a lot less stress.
The difference between, "Look at me, I am meditating," and simply meditating—allowing yourself to just be, ought to be considered. So the question arises as to whether or not this is a good or bad thing.
Charlie Knoles, a renowned meditation teacher and director of The Veda Center, said that every organization offering meditation requires money—whether that's mindfulness training programs at major corporations, at state prisons, to underserved and at-risk youth in schools, or to veterans with chronic pain.
The demand within the meditation marketplace is vast and diverse—and it is evident that every facet of the industry arguably needs funding. Just like the economic boom that surged with yoga's popularity, meditation is being packaged, marketed, and sold at a competitive price point. We can choose to either frown upon the commercialization of a practice that serves millions of people for the better—or embrace it as positive, global change.
"If it ever becomes tempting to sell out my values because someone is waving a big paycheck at me then I have an elegant solution: Meditate," Knoles said. He pointed out that as more mindfulness programs get funded, more meditation teachers will actually be able to make a decent living for themselves. "Every day I practice a technique that makes me feel fulfilled inside, whether I'm rich or poor," he said. "Money, like everything in the outer world, is always changing… I'll keep practicing and teaching meditation whether I'm a billionaire or a pauper and I'll love it just the same."
Andrea Rice is the Practice and Community Editor for Wanderlust Media. She is also a freelance writer, editor and yoga teacher. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Yoga Journal, SONIMA, mindbodygreen, and other online publications. You can find her regular classes at shambhala yoga & dance center in Brooklyn, and connect with her on Instagram and Twitter.
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Helen Elizabeth Moore is an American mathematician. Originally a differential geometer, she moved from academia to industry and from pure to applied mathematics, and in particular the applications of control theory to combination therapy in the health industry. She is affiliated with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.

Education and career
Moore grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina, where her interest in mathematics came from her grandfather, an architect. In her last two years of high school, she attended a state magnet school, the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. Next, she attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, initially studying physics but shifting to mathematics, and starting an ongoing mathematics competition club at the university.
She completed her Ph.D. at Stony Brook University with a doctorate in differential geometry and minimal surface theory, Minimal Submanifolds with Various Curvature Bounds, supervised by Michael T. Anderson. She was frequently the only woman in her undergraduate classes, and the only woman of ten in her graduate program when she entered to leave with a Ph.D.

After completing her doctorate, Moore taught at Bowdoin College and, on a sabbatical from Bowdoin, at Stanford University. While at Stanford, she became interested in disease modeling. She became Associate Director of the American Institute of Mathematics, while continuing to work as a mentor to women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at Stanford. From there she moved to industry, working for Bristol-Myers Squibb and later AstraZeneca.
Moore was elected to the council of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2016.

Recognition
In 2018, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics listed Moore as a Fellow, "for impactful industrial application of mathematical modeling in oncology, immunology, and virology. For mentoring, teaching, and leadership."

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A medical student at Addenbrookes hospital unleashed an incredible tirade slamming "coward" Boris Johnson for refusing to answer questions from members of staff and the general public, and denounced the government's "indefensible" record on the NHS following the Prime Minister's botched "PR stunt" visit to the Cambridgeshire hospital this afternoon.
Julia Simons, a 23 year-old medical student who works at the Cambridgeshire hospital, said she tried asking Johnson two questions but was "pushed away" and told she was not allowed to speak to him.
In an astonishing interview following Johnson's visit, the medical student was initially asked what she questions she asked the Prime Miniser, to which she replied:
"What did I say to him? I said: 'As a future doctor, what guarantees can you give me that the system that I work in will have drug accessibility?'"
"And then I also said: 'And as a doctor who will be working in the future, how will you prevent the climate crisis that is currently being allowed to continue under your government?'"
She was then asked whether Boris Johnson answered her questions, and responded by saying:
"[shakes her head] I was pushed away. So basically, I just came out of clinic and I was told that Boris Johnson was coming, and I was like 'oh my goodness' – as a normal person you never get that opportunity to say something to someone like that! I really wanted to ask him like, 'what's next?', and I was told I wasn't allowed to ask him any questions – so I think it's a really good sign it's just a PR stunt."
"People who work in this hospital know the reality of cuts. I'm a medical student – I don't know the reality of cuts in the way these people do. They were all really angry to hear that he was coming here for a PR stunt because we know what cuts have done to our NHS. We know the NHS is being privatised – even if it's not explained in explicit terms. I mean, Jeremy Hunt literally wrote a book about how to privatise the NHS. And, he [Boris Johnson] was scared to be asked questions by members of the general public because he knows that what he's done is indefensible when you look at the reality of waiting times, when you look at the reality of people not getting that treatment when they need it – not because of poor medical care, but because of cuts that prevent it from happening."
The medical student was then asked what the mood amongst the staff was like regarding Boris Johnson's visit:
"So we weren't told that he was coming – and I think that's a really big sign, because as a Prime Minister you should be proud of how you're leading your country. We were told that we weren't allowed to know he was here. I literally only happened to be in that place at that time, so most of the staff in this hospital had no idea that he came – it was very much a 'through the backdoor' kind of affair. We weren't allowed any contact, so I think it's kind of hard to know the mood because noone was able to process that emotion."
The medical student finished her tirade by labelling Boris Johnson a "coward" and slamming the government for their record on the NHS.
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For schools with their own set of values mosaics can depict them with an image – to allow communication to all ages and learning styles, and to visitors to the site (also see benefits of mosaics).
Each mural is 62cm x 122cm high, with the value written down one side and image alongside. They can be placed all together, in small groups or individually around the school. Examples can be seen in the gallery and example costs found on project ideas & prices.
At the start of the project the children will submit sketches for each of your values (I have a list of ideas for each value to give the children a head start, usually based on previous projects) and then we choose the winning design for each. I find the ideas and creativity amazing – my favourite example being a penguin about to jump off an iceberg to depict courage. For more information see how a project runs.
Please see testimonials, list of schools I have worked with, and do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or to talk through your ideas.
For Christian values for schools (www.christianvalues4schools.org.uk) there's a list of 15 values. The images for these can either have a Bible story, an everyday image or both.


NOVO coffee, Denver Colorado Packaging project for cultured coffee, harvest around the world.
Create a set of packaging designs that communicates the mood, spirit and personality of a product.
The design had to be a metaphor of the product, be stackable, work by itself, and together as the set. Also, no photos could be used, but typography, abstract graphics , and patterns were encouraged.
I aimed to make the product feel as though each were individualized, based on the country that the coffee was harvested. Thus, I selected three saturated, energetic tones to be printed with each package. The country of origin is highlighted in the same color. Also, the word "coffee" is translated into the native language on the canvas pattern found on the front.