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goalhofer · 5 hours

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2024 Colorado Rockies Roster

Pitchers

#18 Ryan Feltner (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio)

#20 Peter Lambert (San Dimas, California)

#21 Kyle Freeland (Denver, Colorado)

#26 Austin Gomber (Winter Garden, Florida)

#32 Dakota Hudson (Dunlap, Tennessee)

#38 Victor Vodnik (Rialto, California)

#40 Tyler Kinley (Davie, Florida)

#43 Anthony Molina (San Joaquín, Venezuela)**

#46 Nicolaus Mears (Rocklin, California)

#47 Cal Quantrill (Port Hope, Ontario)

#48 Germán Márquez (Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela)

#52 Daniel Bard (Charlotte, North Carolina)

#58 Lucas Gilbreath (Broomfield, Colorado)

#59 Jake Bird (Los Angeles County, California)

#61 Justin Lawrence (Jacksonville, Florida)

#68 Jalen Beeks (Prairie Grove, Arkansas)*

Catchers

#25 Jacob Stallings (Brentwood, Tennessee)*

#35 Elías Díaz (Maracaibo, Venezuela)

Infielders

#4 Michael Toglia (Gig Harbor, Washington)

#7 Brendan Rodgers (Lake Mary, Florida)

#13 Alan Trejo (Downey, California)

#14 Ezequiel Tovar (Maracay, Venezuela)

#24 Ryan McMahon (Santa Ana, California)

#44 Elehuris Montero (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)

Outfielders

#9 Brenton Doyle (Warrenton, Virginia)

#11 Andrew Cave (Hampton, Virginia)*

#19 Charlie Blackmon (Suwanee, Georgia)

#22 Nolan Jones (Langhorne Borough, Pennsylvania)

#23 Kris Bryant (Las Vegas, Nevada)

Coaches

Manager Harry Black (Longview, Washington)

Bench coach Mike Redmond (Spokane, Washington)

Hitting coach Hensley Meulens (Willemstad, Curaçao)

Assistant hitting coach Angel González (San Juan, Puerto Rico)

Assistant hitting coach P.J. Pilittere (La Puente, California)

Pitching coach Darryl Scott (Yuba City, California)

Bullpen coach Jonathan Cornelius (Thomasville, Alabama)

Bullpen catcher Kyle Cunningham (West Palm Beach, Florida)

Bullpen catcher Luis Muñoz (Phoenix, Arizona)

1B coach Ron Gideon (Hallsville, Texas)

3B coach Warren Schaeffer (Vandergrift, Pennsylvania)

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joshjacksons · 3 years

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Joshua Jackson interview with “Irish Independent”

It was during a childhood visit to his granny’s house in Dublin’s Ballyfermot that Joshua Jackson smoked his first cigarette.

“My memories of those visits to Ballyfermot are quite sweet really,” the Dawson’s Creek actor recalls. “I was always running around with the neighbourhood kids, getting into trouble. Not bad trouble, just little-kid trouble. Although, technically it’s where I smoked my first cigarette, so that in itself isn’t the sweetest memory.”

Jackson’s handsome face surges with deep laughter lines and quiet dimples at the mention of mum Fiona’s home turf. “She might prefer I’d say she was from Chapelizod”, he jokes, before proudly pinning his mum’s allegiance to “Ballyer”.

Was the young Canadian treated like a shiny, exotic object by the local kids? “I was a bit, but I became less exotic the older I got. Culturally, I was so far away from an Irish kid but in a little pack of children, everyone finds their level. It also helped that I had my own cousins, my own blood, around with us. I had that family connection so I never felt too exoticised.”

An entry on his IMDb profile suggests his late grandparents Rosemary and Patrick were opera singers in Dublin, indicating that performance runs in the genes. The actor seems unaware. “Mum tells me they used to sing to each other a lot. My grandparents lived in council housing with a little kitchen out the back, garden right outside, and they would sing to each other through the window as he was out pottering about while she was cooking.

“But he was known more as a snooker shark around Ballyfermot. And my grandmother, she was known as a sainted mother of seven.”

Having welcomed his first child, Janie, with his wife, the actor Jodie Turner-Smith, last year, it’s obvious family is paramount for 43-year-old Jackson, as he Zoom-calls from a rich hotel suite with dark wallpaper and plump cushions in the background. It stems from an evident bond with his mum, whose presence lovingly peppers our conversation. Just 16 when she left Dublin, Fiona Jackson travelled through Paris, Amsterdam and Geneva before embracing the vibrancy of London’s Swinging Sixties and ultimately making for Vancouver in her early twenties.

In an entry on her blog, she speaks of falling for “the spectacular beauty of snow-capped mountains and the Pacific Ocean” and ultimately scoring an entry-level position at a Canadian talent agency. It led to a career as a successful casting agent, working on film classics including Carnal Knowledge with Jack Nicholson and McCabe & Mrs Miller with Warren Beatty and Julie Christie.

She met and married Joshua’s father, John Carter, and the young family moved to Los Angeles. Sister Aisleagh was born shortly before John walked out on the family, leaving a profound effect.

“My father, unfortunately, was not a good father or husband and exited the scene,” the actor disclosed last year, before adding it’s something he “will never get over”.

Young infants in tow, Fiona returned to Vancouver and, having found early success in casting, helped contribute to the foundation of the burgeoning “Hollywood North” industry on the Canadian west coast.

Accompanying his mum on set, young Joshua’s interests were piqued. “She introduced me to this world and saw from a young age that I enjoyed performing in a way that kids do. She allowed me the opportunity to step into her work world, but it was also very clear that it was work.”

He appeared as an extra on MacGyver and as a child actor’s double in The Fly II, and Fiona could see her son’s talent and genuine desire to impress. So she allowed him to audition. However, permission came with strict caveats.

“I don’t think my mum would have ever put me anywhere near the entertainment industry if I didn’t have something to offer to it. And not just for myself; she’s a prideful woman and didn’t want to be embarrassed by her kid.”

Casting 1991 melodrama Crooked Hearts with ER’s Noah Wyle, Fiona gave Joshua a chance to shine. Impressing the filmmakers, the then-12-year-old secured the part, setting him not only on a path to stardom but away from the troubles of his teen years.

“My mother gave me the guard rails I needed at that time and also recognised, being a working single mum and with me a young boy, transitioning into a teenager, I needed structure in my life. I needed something that I was passionate about and had a respect for, because I was kind of a typical teenage disaster.

“I look back on those times in my life and the two parallel tracks I was running on. On the one hand, getting into all sorts of trouble and, on the other hand, my professional life, where I showed up and learned my lines and did my job in order to be respected by the adults I was around. If I hadn’t had that professional side of my life, the other side would have taken over, and Mum saw that. Who knows where I would have ended up?”

So Jackson was a full-on teen delinquent? “Yeah, I was, to a certain extent. It was relatively innocent — nobody died — but I was a teenage boy who didn’t have a father in the home, didn’t have a man to be scared of, frankly, and as a teenage boy, I think that helps. My mum had to work and she wasn’t always in the house so I learned to get into more and more trouble. I got into just enough trouble to have a good time and learn some lessons but if I hadn’t had my work life, I might have tipped over into the kind of trouble that you don’t come back from.”

Three decades in and Jackson remains one of the hardest-working, most recognisable actors in the game. Hitting pay dirt at 18 as Dawson’s Creek’s Pacey Witter — the wisecracking, teacher-bedding antithesis to James Van Der Beek’s beleaguered titular drip — the actor was a revelation: the soul and bite of a seasoned character performer in the guise of relatable poster-boy idol.

Teens swooned, so did the industry, and alongside Van Der Beek, Michelle Williams and Katie Holmes, Jackson had Hollywood at his feet.

A string of popcorn offerings followed — Cruel Intentions, Gossip, Shutter, Cursed — some quality, others derivative, with the small screen ultimately best utilising his skills. A five-season run on sci-fi series Fringe was followed by an outstanding turn on Showtime’s The Affair. Last year, he maintained a brooding presence opposite Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington in Little Fires Everywhere. And this year, he takes on arguably his darkest work yet in Dr Death.

The new miniseries is based on the non-fiction podcast of the same name, and Jackson portrays Christopher Duntsch, a former spinal surgeon who maimed 33 patients owing to gross malpractice while operating in hospitals in Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. Two of these patients lost their lives. Convicted in 2017, Duntsch is currently in prison and serving life imprisonment. He still maintains his innocence, with his defence arguing that he was merely a bad surgeon, not a criminal.

Exuding a simmering malevolence, the actor showcases Duntsch’s disturbing complexities and terrifying behaviour as a narcissist and sociopath with a keen insight. Did Jackson meet with Duntsch? “I wanted to, but that was going to be really difficult because he’s appealing his case and his lawyers would’ve advised against it. And as I got deeper into the materials and podcast, and got a better understanding of the man, I don’t think it would’ve helped because he still really believes he’s the victim of his own patients, and the lawyers and the legal system. I’m not sure asking a liar for the truth gets you any closer to the truth.”

When it came to the victims, Jackson wanted to maintain a respectful distance. “I didn’t need to drag them through those awful memories again and I’m always a little dubious about asking people to delve into the worst moments of their life just to satisfy my curiosity. The questions had already been asked thanks to the podcast.”

Dr Death came at the right time in the actor’s life. New baby daughter Janie offered a crucial respite from the intense, and often dark, six-month foray into Duntsch’s malignant psyche.

“Inhabiting Mr Duntsch was an ugly space to live in for six months. If I’d been coming home to an empty house every night, it would have been a pretty bleak existence. It was so much better to come back to a loving home. My one-year-old doesn’t give a damn what I was doing that day. She just wants to be loved and hugged and cuddled, and it was the perfect antidote when some days were particularly heavy.”

Recently Jackson confessed that the Dawson’s Creek cast won’t be returning for a retrospective reunion like the Friends stars did earlier this year. “If you put our mid-forties selves together on a couch now, with our creaking backs, it might shock people.”

Quizzed on an actual reboot of the drama, Joshua reckons he’s simply too old to replicate the iconic rapid exchanges of dialogue between the garrulous young characters. “We were like The West Wing for teenagers,” he laughs, referencing Aaron Sorkin’s hit political TV series, also infamous for speedy script delivery. “My 43-year-old brain couldn’t do a show at that pace. Back then, we were doing seven, 10 pages a day and, to deliver dialogue at that speed, you have to have a certain mental capacity for that, and I don’t have it anymore. That’s the real reason why we’re not doing a reunion — I’ve become too dumb to keep up with that script.”

He remains in touch with his DC co-stars, including Holmes, his one-time girlfriend of two years. There’s even a text chain. “It goes through spurts every once in a while. I’ll have a bunch of messages on it and then it’ll go dormant. We’re like college friends — there are moments we’re all in contact and then long, fallow periods as we get on with our lives.”

While maintaining a busy slate, Jackson’s overwhelming purpose continues to circle the women in his life. Turner-Smith is currently shooting a new movie with Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig, so he’s assuming full-time dad duties. It’s an equitable arrangement given the flexible needs of their individual commitments, and one he appears content with.

#joshua jackson #dr death #dawson's creek #fringe #the affair #jodie turner smith

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therussianmajor · 4 years

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Summer Reading

Reading List

** = only need to review or skim/read selections of chapters/sections

# = I only have the ebook, not a physical copy

Summer 2020:

**Phonology (Spencer) [review/skim, esp. suprasegmental phen.]

**Vowels and Consonants (Disner/Ladefoged) [review/skim]

Sapiens (Harari)

Landmarks in Linguistic Thought: Volume I (Harris/Taylor)

The Dawn of Slavic (Schoenberg)

Phonological Theory: The Essential Readings (Goldsmith)

#A Theory of Phonological Features (Duanmu)

Autosegmental and Metrical Phonology (Goldsmith)

#Prosodic Features and Prosodic Structure: The Phonology of Suprasegmentals (Fox)

Optimality Theory (Kager)

#Experimental Approaches to Phonology (Solé/Beddor/Ohala)

**The Grammar of Words: An Introduction to Morphology (Booij) [review/skim]

**Syntactic Theory (Poole)

#Constituent Structure (Carnie)

#The Morphosyntax of Gender (Kramer)

#Parameters of Slavic Morphosyntax (Franks)

#Linguistic Minimalism: Origins, Concepts, Methods, and Aims (Boeckx)

Historical Linguistics: An Introduction (Campbell)

#The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Mallory/Adams)

Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction (Beekes)

#From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (Ringe)

#The Development of Old English (Ringe/Taylor)

Western Linguistics: An Historical Introduction (Seuren)

#Introducing Psycholinguistics (Warren)

Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek (Morwood)

#New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (Sihler)

A Sanskrit Grammar for Beginners (Müller)

Before I condensed the list to the above, my list was a bit more..... shall we say, optimistic about my time management skills this summer lmao. The original list is below.

Previous List:

**Phonology (Spencer) [review/skim, esp. suprasegmental phen.]

**Vowels and Consonants (Disner/Ladefoged) [review/skim]

Sapiens (Harari)

Landmarks in Linguistic Thought: Volume I (Harris/Taylor)

The Dawn of Slavic (Schoenberg)

Phonological Theory: The Essential Readings (Goldsmith)

A Theory of Phonological Features (Duanmu)

The Development of Distinctive Features (Mielke)

Autosegmental and Metrical Phonology (Goldsmith)

Prosodic Features and Prosodic Structure: The Phonology of Suprasegmentals (Fox)

Optimality Theory (Kager)

Experimental Approaches to Phonology (Solé/Beddor/Ohala)

**The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology (just selected sections)

**The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology (just selected sections)

**The Grammar of Words: An Introduction to Morphology (Booij) [review/skim]

**Syntax: A Generative Introduction (Carnie) [Review/skim, especially later chapters]

**Syntactic Theory (Poole)

Constituent Structure (Carnie)

Syntactic Categories: Their Identification and Description in Linguistic Theories (Rauh)

Adjectives and Adverbs: Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse (McNally/Kennedy)

The Syntax of Russian (Bailyn)

**Introduction to Government and Binding Theory (Haegeman)

**Principles and Parameters: An Introduction to Syntactic Theory (Culicover)

The Morphosyntax of Gender (Kramer)

Serial Verb Constructions (Aikhenvald/Dixon)

Parameters of Slavic Morphosyntax (Franks)

Null Subjects in Generative Grammar (Cognola/Casalicchio)

Linguistic Minimalism: Origins, Concepts, Methods, and Aims (Boeckx)

Bare Syntax (Boeckx)

Exploring Nanosyntax (Baunaz/De Clercq/Haegeman/Lander)

Historical Linguistics: An Introduction (Campbell)

**An Introduction to Historical Linguistics (Crowley/Bowern) [skim]

**Historical Linguistics: Towards a 21st-Century Reintegration (Ringe/Eska)

The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Mallory/Adams)

**Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction (Fortson)

Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction (Beekes)

**Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction (Clackson)

A History of the English Language (Baugh/Cable)

From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (Ringe)

The Development of Old English (Ringe/Taylor)

A Guide to Old English (Mitchell/Robinson)

From Old English to Standard English (Freeborn)

**The Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume I (Blake)

**The Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume II (Hogg)

Sound Change and the History of English (Smith)

Diachronic Syntax (Roberts)

Micro-Change and Macro-Change in Diachronic Syntax (Mathieu/Truswell)

Tense: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics (Comrie)

Aspect: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics (Comrie)

Mood and Modality: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics (Palmer)

**Modality (Portner)

Number: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics (Corbett)

Case: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics (Blake)

**The Oxford Handbook of Case (Malchukov/Spencer)

Western Linguistics: An Historical Introduction (Seuren)

Case and Aspect in Slavic (Richardson)

**Semantics (Saeed) [skim/review]

Formal Semantics: An Introduction (Cann)

Language Origins: Perspectives on Evolution (Tallerman)

Introducing Psycholinguistics (Warren)

A Grammar of the Latin Language (Zumpt)

The Oxford Latin Syntax: Volume I (Finester)

New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (Sihler)

Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek (Morwood)

A Sanskrit Grammar for Beginners (Müller)

Sanskrit Manual (Bucknell)

A Sanskrit Grammar for Students (MacDonell)

Syllable and Segment in Latin (Sen)

The Development of Latin Clause Structure (Danckaert)

The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Valume I (Maiden/Smith/Ledgeway)

Romance Phonetics and Phonology (Gibson/Gil)

The Romance Verb (Maiden)

Computational Approaches to Morphology and Syntax (Roark/Sproat)

Data Visualization and Exploration with R (Pimpler)

Python for Linguists (Hammond)

#langblr #studyblr #lingblr #linguistics #academia #bookblr

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airadam · 3 years

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Episode 142 : ...If You Hear Me

"We all need...some fresh air."

- Tobe

This month has been pretty exhausting, but I did have some good ideas for this episode, and once I hit stride with the recording I decided to try and keep the pace up and get it released on a weekend day! The selection has turned out to be heavy on artists who are no longer with us, but left us some great music to remember them by. Get yourself comfortable and press "play"...

Twitter : @airadam13

Twitch : @airadam13

Playlist/Notes

Evidence ft. Raekwon and Ras Kass : The Red Carpet

How is this track ten years old already? Time has flown since the 2011 release of "Cats & Dogs", the second solo Evidence album after four LPs as part of Dilated Peoples. While Evidence is an excellent producer in his own right, the reins here are taken by his future partner in The Step Brothers, The Alchemist. He further shows his confidence by bringing in California's Ras Kass and Raekwon from the Wu to guest, both legendary MCs, and holds his own next to both. A great collection of talent to kick off the show!

[DJ Premier] Gang Starr : What's Real? (Instrumental)

I just had to go back to "One Of The Best Yet" for another Preemo beat! Definitely get the instrumental release if you can, especially as you get the previously-unreleased "Glowing Mic" as a bonus cut.

The Notorious B.I.G ft. DMC : My Downfall

As I say on the voiceover, it feels weird playing a good chunk of Biggie's catalogue given how he ultimately died. This track from "Life After Death" is a perfect example, and feels like a mix of the creative writing he was famed for and maybe a realisation of exactly how much negativity swirled around him even after he had made the transition from the streets to the music industry. The legendary DMC of RUN DMC guests, only on the hook - but he does it well.

Agallah : Slaughter

Just a few bars, just a taste, as I needed something to bridge a track with no instrumental outro and the other with no open bars on the intro! Big respect to Agallah though, who has been putting in work since the mid-90s and will probably have yet another new project out by the time I finish typing this sentence. Find this beat on "Propain Campain Presents Agalllah - The Instrumental Vol. 1".

Sean Price and Small Professor (ft. Rock and DJ Revolution) : Refrigerator P

Heavy business! Ruck (Sean Price) and Rock, formerly the duo Heltah Skeltah, reunite on this killer from the "86 Witness" LP. Small Professor makes the beat dramatic, and DJ Revolution seasons the mix with his trademark super-sharp cuts.

Fred The Godson : Presidents

The Bronx-born-and-bred MC Fred The Godson sadly passed away last April at just 35 - one of the relatively early US casualties of COVID-19. During his lifetime, his catalogue consisted of some highly-rated mixtapes, but only after his death do we finally hear his debut album, "Ascension". This track of course is built (by Hesami) around the same sample as Jay-Z's "Dead Presidents" as Fred expounds on the drug game.

Broke 'n' English : Tryin' (Calibre Mix)

"Tryin'" was one of the standouts on the 2007 debut LP "Subject 2 Status" from this respected Manchester crew. Both Strategy and DRS have a long-standing history in the drum & bass scene, and so it made sense that the remix of this track would be handled by someone like Calibre. Sharp, crisp drum action and a smooth bassline drive this one along, with DRS' vocals being woven in as a refrain. You can hear in this one track how DRS then went on to make several excellent D&B albums - his vocal versatility allows him to shine on any production.

Marco Polo : Cindy

The "MP On The MP" (see what he did there?) beat tape is inspired by a Youtube series he was doing, and features a host of new and unreleased beats. Marco Polo is one keeping this style of production alive, which I'm thankful for. I still think of him as a "new" producer, but he's a veteran with over fifteen years in the industry!

Le$ : Out To Cali

Le$ is a great MC to go to if you want lyrics about just living life and having fun - almost like a Curren$y, but without the extreme high-end references. Right here, he's going to Cali, buying some weed, riding around, and enjoying the view - sometimes it doesn't need to be more lofty than that. Mr.Rogers goes to a familiar sample as a basis for the beat, and if you want more, the whole "Summer Madness" will give you these vibes - and exercise your speakers in the process.

O.C. : What I Need (Keelay Remix)

The "Smoke & Mirrors" LP is a bit of a forgotten one for many, but I really enjoyed it, and when acapellas became available, it was expertly remixed by the Sole Vibe crew out of San Francisco. The classic soul sample (which you may recognise from tracks like "Deeper" by Bo$$) is the foundation, with a heavy kick and skipping hi-hats providing the rhythm. O.C. never lost a step from his first LP, and he's never afraid to put his feelings out there on wax.

Sadat X : Stages & Lights

This is one of those tracks I was stunned to realised I hadn't already played on the podcast, so here it is at last! This Showbiz-produced cut from the 1996 "Wild Cowboys" LP, Sadat's solo debut, was also a B-side on the "Hang 'Em High" single - but definitely stole the show. If you ever find the original sample, you'll be amazed at how Show plucked that one small piece for this beat!

Phife Dawg : Thought U Wuz Nice

Killer B-side action from Phife Dawg, on the flip of the Superrappin "Bend Ova" 12", with J Dilla on the bouncy production. Still can't quite believe that both of these icons are no longer with us.

Saib : Beyond Clouds

The Chillhop label seems to put out endless amounts of beats from producers specialising in sounds inspired by greats like J Dilla and Nujabes, but with their own spin. This one comes from the "Chillhop Essentials Fall 2020" compilation, one of any number that are perfect for soundtracking study, work, or just a lazy day!

213 : Run On Up

That beat by Tha Chill and the delivery of "Shut the f********ck up and ruuuu-uuu-uuuun" by the late great Nate Dogg is enough to make this an absolute classic in my ears, but the full picture is even better. Way before "Doggystyle", "The Chronic", or even "Deep Cover", 213 was the group formed in Long Beach by Nate Dogg, Warren G, and Snoop, before any of them had got their big breaks. Years later, after all of them had become stars in their own rights, it was heart-warming to see them reform for the "The Hard Way" LP, from which this is taken.

Sporty Thievz : Angel

The Sporty Thievz deserve to be remembered for more than "No Pigeons", as much as we enjoyed the whole thing at the time. The "Street Cinema" album may not have quite lived up to the name, but there were some solid cuts on there, and this was one. Produced by King Kirk of the group alongside Ski, this track has all the foreboding, and while the singing on the hook may not be Marvin Gaye level, it absolutely works here.

Jean Grae : My Crew

One of the great underrated MCs - not because her skills are in question, but simply because not enough people know her! She's in fine early 2000s form on this cut from the "Bootleg of the Bootleg EP", produced by China Black. Straight boom-bap, and she cuts through with clarity and dexterity. Jean Grae raps, sings, produces, acts...one of the true talent of the culture.

Bronx Slang : Just Say No

New single from Jerry Beeks and Ollie Miggs, who have really been on a hot streak the last couple of years. It's nice to hear some protest music in an era that really calls for it, and if this is a marker of how good the upcoming second album is going to be, then you need to reserve a space in your crates right now! Jadell on production brings an appropriate heaviness to the track, no lightness on the beat!

[Ron Browz] Big L : The Heist (Instrumental)

All these years and I'd never looked to see who produced this beat from Big L's posthumously-released LP "The Big Picture" - come to find out it's one of Ron Browz' first credits. He's much better known for "Ether" by Nas, which came in 2001. The vocal version of this track is what the name suggests, a robbery tale, and you can hear the sound effects that punctuate the narrative still here in the instrumental.

Tobe Nwigwe : Fresh Air

Tobe Nwigwe and his collective (including his wife Fat and his producer Nell) have been quietly on the rise for a while, but in very recent times their profile has elevated noticeably. "The Pandemic Project" is a short six-track album from last year, and another quality addition to the catalogue. This man is an amazing MC, and Nell's often-unconventional beats are the perfect canvas. Don't sleep!

Please remember to support the artists you like! The purpose of putting the podcast out and providing the full tracklist is to try and give some light, so do use the songs on each episode as a starting point to search out more material. If you have Spotify in your country it's a great way to explore, but otherwise there's always Youtube and the like. Seeing your favourite artists live is the best way to put money in their pockets, and buy the vinyl/CDs/downloads of the stuff you like the most!

Check out this episode!

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tabloidtoc · 3 years

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Closer, May 3

You can buy a brand new copy of this issue without the mailing label for your very own at my eBay store: https://www.ebay.com/str/bradentonbooks

Cover: The Bee Gees: Fame, Family and Tragedy, plus Andy Gibb

Page 1: Contents

Page 2: The Big Picture -- Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in color eating at a table

Page 4: Sally Struthers recalls a terrifying trip to Africa -- as an ambassador for Save the Children, Sally often traveled to far-off places to visit kids in need, but when she found herself face-to-face with a roving band of guerrilla warfare guys on a trip to Uganda, she says she couldn't work for the charity anymore

Page 5: Paula Abdul returns as a guest judge on American Idol -- fans of American Idol enjoyed a mini-reunion when Paula sat in for Luke Bryan and host Ryan Seacrest virtually reunited Paula with another of Idol's original judges, Randy Jackson, who Paula was so excited to see -- it's been five years since Paula appeared on the competition series, and she's thrilled to be back and returning to American Idol has given Paula a dose of nostalgia and she forgot how much fun it was and although she jokingly referred to former judge Simon Cowell as the STD, then quickly clarified with super, talented, debonair, Paula had a blast working with him back in the day -- she's also impressed with the show's current judges and Paula admires Katy Perry's determination and she's known Lionel Richie for years -- it wouldn't be a surprise if Paula sets her sights on becoming a familiar fixture

* Maria Shriver feels blessed to be a grandma -- she's got four kids of her own, and now Maria is finally experiencing the joys of being a first-time grandmother and although her eldest daughter Katherine Schwarzenegger gave birth to a baby girl named Lyla last August, Maria wasn't able to hold the child until recently -- Maria said they had this beautiful, healthy baby during COVID, so that was stressful, and they were very protective of not being able to be around the baby, referring to Katherine and her husband Chris Pratt, and that's loosening up a little bit because Maria has had her vaccine, and so they're now allowing her to be closer to hold her

Page 6: Picture Perfect -- Viola Davis in a yellow dress for the African American Film Critics Association's award

Page 7: Hugh Jackman went for a dip and double dipped in SPF 100, Marla Gibbs and Annie Potts working on Young Sheldon, Nicole Kidman on the set of Being the Ricardos where she plays Lucille Ball

Page 8: Serena Williams and her daughter Alexis in matching bathing suits, Jessica Simpson and her daughter Birdie Mae do taco tongues, John Stamos in a selfie with son Billy

Page 10: Kerry Washington showed off her pawsitively adorable yoga attire with her dog Josie, Kimberly Williams-Paisley riding a dinosaur drawn on a wall, Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager marked their two-year anniversary as Today co-hosts

Page 12: Connie Stevens enjoys a margarita out at a restaurant

Page 13: Sofia Vergara gave Heidi Klum a treat backstage at America's Got Talent

Page 22: Queen Elizabeth: Life Without Her Prince -- the queen is taking refuge in the embrace of her family as she faces the loss of her rock, Prince Philip

Page 26: Growing Up With Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell -- the longtime couple raised their children with love, compassion and lots of laughter

Page 28: Allison Janney -- I'm happy on my own -- at 61, the actress has never felt better, or more secure, about her wonderful life

Page 33: Horoscopes -- Taurus Michelle Pfeiffer turned 63 on April 29

Page 34: Entertainment -- Warren Littlefield on The Handmaid's Tale, Justin Theroux on The Mosquito Coast, In the Spotlight -- Katey Sagal

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Beefing is everywhere on the internet. Bernie and Warren beef with each other and with Trump, different schools of economists beef with each other over trade policy, climate hawks beef with climate doves. Here you see Slavoj Žižek and Jordan Peterson taking their beef offline. There you see Ben Shapiro attempt to bait Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez into a live beef for the hundredth time. And over on that side, we find Jesse Singal beefing with trans activists.

The Internet of Beefs

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The movie was directed by Gregory La Cava, produced by Walter Wanger[2] and written by Carey Wilson based upon the novel Rinehard by Thomas Frederic Tweed, who did not receive screen credit (the film's opening credits say "based on the anonymous novel, Gabriel Over the White House") and received the financial backing and creative input of William Randolph Hearst.

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When the film opens, U.S. President Judson C. 'Judd' Hammond (Huston) (possibly a reference to Judson Harmon) [speculation?] is variously described as "a Hoover-like partisan hack"[4] or "basically a do-nothing crook, based on, to some extent, Warren G. Harding." Then he causes a near-fatal automobile accident and goes into a coma. Through what Portland State University instructor[5] Dennis Grunes calls "possible divine intervention,"[6] (characterized by a breeze blowing through a closed window) Hammond awakens as a decisive man of action.

President Hammond makes "a political U-turn,"[3] purging his entire cabinet of "big-business lackeys." When Congress impeaches him, he responds by declaring martial law, dissolving the legislative branch, assuming the “temporary” power to make laws as he "transforms himself into an all-powerful dictator."[7] He orders the formation of a new “Army of Construction” answerable only to him and nationalizes the manufacture and sale of alcohol.[4]

The reborn Hammond's policies include "suspension of civil rights and the imposition of martial law by presidential fiat."[8] He "tramples on civil liberties,"[9] "revokes the Constitution, becomes a reigning dictator," and employs "brown-shirted storm troopers", called "Federal Police",[10] led by the President's top aide, Hartley 'Beek' Beekman (Tone).

When he meets with resistance from the organized crime syndicate of ruthless Al Capone analog Nick Diamond, the President "suspends the law to arrest and execute 'enemies of the people' as he sees fit to define them," with Beekman handing "down death sentences in his military star chamber" in a "show trial [that] resembles those designed to please a Stalin, a Hitler or a Chairman Mao,"[8] after which the accused are immediately lined up against a wall behind the courthouse and "executed[4]by firing squad."[11]

By threatening world annihilation with America’s newest and most deadly secret weapon, Hammond then blackmails the world into disarmament, ushering in global peace.[12] At the very moment the other nations of the world finish acceding to his "covenant" of world disarmament, Hammond, his supposed divine mission completed, suffers a fatal stroke which also seems to be divinely attributable (again a breeze through a closed window), and the story ends.

Despite revoking the Constitution and all the other actions he has taken, Hammond is not portrayed as the villain of the piece, but rather as the one who "solves all of the nation's problems",[10] "bringing peace to the country and the world,"[13] and is universally acclaimed “one of the greatest presidents who ever lived.”[11]

The Library of Congress comments:

“The good news: he reduces unemployment, lifts the country out of the Depression, battles gangsters and Congress, and brings about world peace. The bad news: he's Mussolini.

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Although an internal MGM synopsis had labeled the script "wildly reactionary and radical to the nth degree,"[15] studio boss Louis B. Mayer "learned only when he attended the Glendale, California preview that Hammond gradually turns America into a dictatorship" writes film historian Barbara Hall.[16] "Mayer was furious, telling his lieutenant, 'Put that picture back in its can, take it back to the studio, and lock it up!'"[17]Released only a few weeks after Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration, the film was labeled by The New Republic as "a half-hearted plea for Fascism".[18] Its purpose, agreed The Nation, was "to convert innocent American movie audiences to a policy of fascist dictatorship in this country."[19]Newsweek's Jonathan Alter concurred in 2007 that the movie was meant to "prepare the public for a dictatorship."[11] "An aroma of fascism clung to the heavily edited release print", according to Leff.[17]

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[ Image: A drawing of Warren Beek's "older" form, collapsed upon the ground. His head is rounder, with a long upper beak, with tiny red teeth jutting out of them, growing smaller to nonexistence as they get closer to the face. His eyes are no longer sunken, now narrowed and red with yellow lining the pupil. His hair is still greasy and black and stuck to his head and long neck. His upper body is covered in brown fur, with two wings coming off the sides, covered in dirty grey feathers. His lower body is like a large, naked rabbits', growing more and more purple the further own his body you go, like blood has pooled under the skin. His tail is coated in skin tags to simulate the fur of a tail. He is crying, saying, "What would that even change?" in a red speech bubble. Behind him, there is a square checkerboard of teeth, with one brown tooth atop them all. The background is a soft beige. ]

#warren beek #body horror #my happy home #31 day horror house #teeth

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khamphanews · 4 years

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Vì sao người nhiễm Covid-19 tử vong vì rối loạn đông máu?

Nhiều bệnh nhân bị rối loạn đông máu

Đông máu ở người mắc Covid-19 biểu hiện khá đa dạng, từ tổn thương da lành tính ở bàn chân, đến tắc nghẽn mạch máu, đôi khi là đột quỵ, nguy hiểm đến tính mạng. Cục máu đông có thể xuất hiện vài ngày hoặc vài tháng sau khi các triệu chứng hô hấp của bệnh nhân đã chấm dứt.

Ngày 21/4, người đứng đầu Ủy ban về bảo vệ sức khỏe của Hạ viện Nga – ông Dmitry Morozov cho biết, một trong những biến chứng nguy hiểm của bệnh nhân Covid-19 là hiện tượng phát triển hội chứng DIC (đông máu nội mạch lan tỏa, rối loạn đông máu tiêu thụ, hội chứng huyết khối tắc mạch).

Một số bệnh viện trên thế giới cho người mắc Covid-19 sử dụng thuốc làm loãng máu.

Theo ông Morozov, đây là một trong những biến chứng phức tạp của Covid-19, vì vậy điều quan trọng là phải cấp tốc thay đổi các hướng dẫn lâm sàng trong việc điều trị bệnh.

Ông James Levy – Trưởng khoa Chăm sóc tích cực tại Trường Y Warren Albert, Đại học Brown, thành phố Providence (Mỹ) nhận định, đây là vấn đề y tế quan trọng nhất liên quan đến đại dịch trong khoảng thời gian qua.

Trong đại dịch cúm Tây Ban Nha năm 1918, các bác sĩ cũng ghi nhận cục máu đông có thể gây tử vong trong cơ thể bệnh nhân. Virus gây bệnh HIV, Ebola đều khiến các tế bào máu dễ vón cục. Tuy nhiên, biểu hiện ở người mắc Covid-19 được cho là rõ rệt hơn.

Giáo sư Levy cho rằng, một số đặc tính của virus SARS-CoV-2 đã khiến chứng đông máu phát triển đến mức nghiêm trọng. Trong khi đó, theo Margaret Pisani – PGS y khoa tại Đại học Y Yale, rối loạn đông máu có thể là nguyên nhân khiến người bệnh có sức khỏe bình thường đột ngột chuyển nặng khi mắc Covid-19.

Ông Edwin Van Beek – Chủ nhiệm khoa X-quang lâm sàng tại Viện Nghiên cứu Y khoa, Đại học Edinburgh (Anh), cho biết nghiên cứu tại Pháp và Hà Lan cho thấy, 30% bệnh nhân Covid-19 nặng bị tắc phổi do cục máu đông từ hệ tĩnh mạch chi dưới. Nếu không được điều trị, biến chứng có thể gây ra ngừng tim.

Ông Van Beek cho biết, những bệnh nhân hồi phục khỏi Covid-19 thường bị khó thở, đặc biệt là khi vận động mạnh. Điều này có thể bị nhầm tưởng với tái phát bệnh, nhưng thực chất chỉ là hệ quả của chứng đông máu.

Nguy hiểm chết người

Theo Harlan Krumholz – một chuyên gia tim mạch tại Trung tâm Bệnh viện Yale-New Haven (Mỹ), không ai biết liệu biến chứng này có phải là kết quả của một cuộc tấn công trực tiếp vào các mạch máu, hoặc phản ứng viêm quá mức đối với virus do hệ thống miễn dịch của bệnh nhân hay không.

“Lý thuyết là, một khi tham gia vào cuộc chiến chống lại kẻ tấn công, cơ thể bắt đầu tàn phá các yếu tố đông máu, có thể dẫn đến đông hoặc chảy máu”, ông Krumholz cho hay.

Một nghiên cứu được công bố trên JAMA mới đây cho thấy, nhiều bệnh nhân Covid-19 tại bang New York có các vấn đề đông máu. Trước đó, một nghiên cứu của Hà Lan được công bố trên tạp chí Thrombosis Research đã cung cấp thêm bằng chứng cho thấy vấn đề này. Theo đó, có 38% trong số 184 bệnh nhân Covid-19 tại một đơn vị chăm sóc đặc biệt bị đông máu bất thường.

Theo thống kê tại Trung Quốc, có tới hơn 70% trong số 183 bệnh nhân tử vong do Covid-19 tại nước này có hiện tượng đông máu. Behnood Bikdeli – sinh viên năm thứ 4 tại Trung tâm Y tế Irving thuộc Đại học Columbia và là người đã tham gia vào bài báo về hiện tượng máu đông trên Tạp chí của Đại học Tim mạch Hoa Kỳ, nhận định: “Mặc dù hội chứng suy hô hấp cấp tính vẫn là nguyên nhân hàng đầu gây tử vong ở bệnh nhân Covid-19, nhưng rối loạn đông máu có thể là một trong ba nguyên nhân chính gây ra sự suy giảm và suy thoái ở bệnh nhân Covid-19”.

Những bằng chứng này đã khiến nhiều bệnh viện trên thế giới thay đổi cách nghĩ về dịch bệnh cũng như cách đối phó với Covid-19.

Khi đại dịch lần đầu khởi phát, Trung tâm Kiểm soát và Phòng ngừa dịch bệnh Mỹ cho rằng, những người mắc hen suyễn có thể dễ bị nhiễm bệnh nhất. Tuy nhiên, thực tế chứng minh điều ngược lại khi bệnh nhân hen suyễn không nằm trong số đó. Thay vào đó, những người có vấn đề về tim mạch được cho là có nguy cơ cao nhiễm virus SARS-CoV-2.

Một số trung tâm y tế trên thế giới bắt đầu cho tất cả bệnh nhân Covid-19 sử dụng liều lượng nhỏ thuốc làm loãng máu như một biện pháp phòng ngừa. Trong khi đó, những bệnh nhân Covid-19 nặng được dùng loại thuốc này với liều lượng cao. Tuy nhiên, một số chuyên gia nhận định, phương pháp này có thể làm đảo lộn sự cân bằng và khiến bệnh nhân tử vong do bị chảy máu.

Cập nhật: 19/06/2020 Theo GD&TĐ

source https://khampha.news/vi-sao-nguoi-nhiem-covid-19-tu-vong-vi-roi-loan-dong-mau/

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COVID-19 causes blood clots harming organs from brain to toes

This undated electron microscope picture made accessible by the U.S. Nationwide Institutes of Well being in February 2020 reveals the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, yellow, rising from the floor of cells, pink, cultured within the lab. Also called 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The pattern was remoted from a affected person within the U.S. On Thursday, March 5, 2020, Tennessee’s Division of Well being Commissioner Lisa Piercey confirmed the state’s first case of the brand new coronavirus. (NIAID-RML through AP) Picture Credit score: AP

One other menace from the lung virus that causes COVID-19 has emerged which will trigger swift, typically deadly harm: blood clots.

Docs around the globe are noting a raft of clotting-related problems – from benign pores and skin lesions on the toes typically known as “Covid toe” to life-threatening strokes and blood-vessel blockages. Ominously, if harmful clots go untreated, they might manifest days to months after respiratory signs have resolved.

The clotting phenomenon is “probably the most important thing that’s emerged over the last perhaps month or two,” mentioned Mitchell Levy, chief of pulmonary essential care and sleep medication on the Warren Albert Faculty of Drugs at Brown College in Windfall, Rhode Island.

It is common for infections to elevate the chance of clotting. The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, brought on by a novel pressure of influenza that killed some 50 million folks worldwide, was additionally linked to downstream harm from clots that would finish lives dramatically.

Viruses together with HIV, dengue and Ebola are all identified to make blood cells susceptible to clumping. The professional-clotting impact could also be much more pronounced in sufferers with the coronavirus.

“There’s one thing about this virus that is exaggerated that to the nth diploma. We’re seeing clotting in a method on this sickness that we now have not seen previously.

– Mitchell Levy, chief of pulmonary essential care and sleep medication on the Warren Albert Faculty of Drugs at Brown College

“There’s something about this virus that’s exaggerated that to the nth degree,” mentioned Levy, who can also be medical director of the medical intensive care unit at Rhode Island Hospital. “We’re seeing clotting in a way in this illness that we have not seen in the past.”

The issue is seen in clots – docs name them thrombi – that type in sufferers’ arterial catheters and filters used to assist failing kidneys. Extra pernicious are the clots that impede blood movement within the lungs, inflicting problem respiratory.

Speedy deterioration

These are most likely what’s inflicting sufferers who in any other case seem effectively to abruptly “fall off the ledge” and develop extreme blood-oxygen deficiency, mentioned Margaret Pisani, an affiliate professor of medication on the Yale College Faculty of Drugs in New Haven, Connecticut.

Clotting problems in COVID-19 sufferers have been famous by researchers in China in February, however their gravity has since turn out to be clearer. Whereas docs had thought the overwhelming majority of lung harm was due to viral pneumonia, they’re now wanting extra intently at clotting.

30%

of severely in poor health COVID-19 sufferers suffered a so-called pulmonary embolism – a probably lethal blockage in one of many arteries of the lungs.

“When you look at autopsies now, we are seeing things that we didn’t expect,” mentioned Anthony Fauci, the director of the Nationwide Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses who’s on the forefront of the US pandemic response. Clumps of platelets inside blood vessels, or microthrombi, are most likely why Covid sufferers can “rapidly and dramatically deteriorate,” he mentioned in an interview with CNN final week.

Separate research from France and the Netherlands discovered that as many as 30 per cent of severely in poor health COVID-19 sufferers suffered a so-called pulmonary embolism – a probably lethal blockage in one of many arteries of the lungs. These typically happen when bits of blood clots from veins deep within the legs journey to the lungs. By comparability, the prevalence of pulmonary embolism was 1.three per cent in critically in poor health sufferers with out COVID-19, one examine discovered.

Cardiac arrest

If untreated, massive arterial lung clots can put overwhelming pressure on the guts, inflicting cardiac arrest. Even tiny clots within the capillaries of lung tissue might interrupt blood movement, undermining makes an attempt to assist oxygenate sufferers with ventilators, mentioned Edwin van Beek, chair of medical radiology on the College of Edinburgh’s Queen’s Medical Analysis Institute.

Within the early 1990s, Van Beek helped develop the D-dimer blood check that is used around the globe to monitor clot formation in sufferers, together with these with COVID-19, and to dose them with heparin and different anticoagulant drugs.

Untreated pulmonary embolism is deadly in a single in three circumstances, and can recur in one other third, he mentioned. In three per cent to 7 per cent of sufferers, it should trigger pulmonary hypertension, one other harmful complication that may trigger fatigue and shortness of breath.

Scarred lungs and clotting-related issues could also be a lingering legacy of the pandemic, Van Beek mentioned. COVID-19 survivors who’ve subsequent problem respiratory, particularly on exertion, would possibly mistakenly imagine it is a recurrence of coronavirus an infection, when it might really be a “reactivation of the whole clotting problem.”

“I expect to see more of this as we come out of the pandemic,” he mentioned. Sufferers and docs alike will not be conscious of the dangers or the potential want for therapy.

Coagulation might happen due to harm to cells lining blood vessels that outcomes from each the viral an infection and the immune system’s inflammation-causing response, mentioned Jean Connors, a Harvard Medical Faculty hematologist.

“The outcome isn’t affected if you’re treated appropriately,” she mentioned. However “it’s possible that people are dying from undiagnosed pulmonary emboli.”

Organ harm

Clots might type in different elements of the physique, probably damaging important organs together with the guts, kidneys, liver, bowel, and different tissues.

5 circumstances of stroke have been handled in Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Well being System over a two-week interval by way of early April, docs reported within the New England Journal of Drugs final week. The sufferers, who all had the coronavirus and have been youthful than 50, have been handled for large-vessel blockages.

It is a uncommon complication amplified by the “sheer numbers of infected patients,” Connors mentioned. New York Metropolis has reported about 170,000 COVID-19 circumstances, together with roughly 43,000 hospitalisations.

Some docs are beginning to see COVID as much less of a typical respiratory illness, and extra of 1 that entails harmful clotting. That is fairly horrifying while you consider it, as a result of we did not know what we’re up towards till we have been in a later stage.

– Frank Rasulo, head of neuro essential care at Spedali Civili College Hospital in Brescia

Puzzling, enlightening

Such findings are “puzzling” on one hand, “but on the other hand are enlightening” as a result of they will inform higher methods to deal with sufferers, mentioned Fauci, the NIAID chief.

In Italy, the primary European nation gripped by the pandemic, it was after COVID-19 sufferers died from acute pulmonary emboli and different clotting-related occasions that docs moved to inflammation-blocking therapies, equivalent to tocilizumab, offered by Roche Holding AG as Actemra, mentioned Frank Rasulo, a head of neuro essential care at Spedali Civili College Hospital in Brescia.

Some docs are beginning to see COVID as much less of a typical respiratory illness, and extra of 1 that entails harmful clotting, mentioned Rasulo, who can also be an affiliate professor of anesthesia and intensive care. “That’s quite frightening when you think of it, because we didn’t know what we’re up against until we were in a later stage.”

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