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What We Know About the Future of Grey’s Anatomy & Station 19 – E! NEWS

Don't expect Grey's Anatomy to come back for season 17 with the same four episodes that were planned before production shut down.

Showrunner Krista Vernoff, who also helms Station 19, has not yet met with the writers or made plans for season 17, whenever it happens, but she could tell us one thing: some things will have to change.

Part of the Grey's finale would have dealt with the bombing at Pac-North that we saw play out on Station 19's finale tonight, and we would have seen even more references to Grey's had things gone as planned.

"We had to go into some of the episodes of Station 19 and pull some scenes and some dialogue, but not too much," Vernoff says. "It's more going to affect Grey's in the fall, like we had built to a finale that we didn't get to shoot. We didn't get to shoot he last four episodes, so for sure what we were planning to do is changing, and we want to keep some of it and some of it's going to change. We're not going to do a bombing on Station 19's finale and then do it on Grey's [next season]."

Those four episodes will likely not see the light of day as written.

"No, we can't do that. We can't just pick up with the plan that we had for the finale as the premiere. I don't think that's gonna work," she says. "I think that we have some material in the can that we want to air in some way, and I think that we will take what was going to be episode 1622 and we will keep some of the storylines, but we have to find a way to turn it into a premiere, and premieres and finales are different from, you know, random episodes. So we've got our work cut out for us."

That's the truth in more ways than one.

First of all, no one knows yet when production will be able to begin again, and ABC hasn't even announced if Station 19 would return along with Grey's or at midseason again, which would affect the stories being told on both shows.

Second, Grey's and Station 19 are both shows following the types of professions that are currently essential and on the frontlines of the pandemic.

"Let me tell you, it was already a giant puzzle, and now it's just like...this is what I'm saying. My answer to every question is, I don't know," she says. "We're gonna figure it out. We're gonna fasten our seatbelts and eat our nutritious breakfast. Figure it out somehow. But it's not an easy starting point."

Vernoff warned us at the beginning of our chat that she would not have many answers for us, as she likes to spend her usual hiatus collapsed on her sofa.

"I shut [my brain] off between seasons. I binge watch TV, I read books, I do not think about the show, which is why I've just done an hour of interviews where my answer to almost every question is I don't know."

That means she also hasn't allowed herself to think about how the shows will handle the pandemic.

"I refuse to think about work when I'm not at work," she says. "I mean, yeah, have I had that conversation with my husband over breakfast like, wow, what are we gonna do? Yes, butbetween the two shows, I've got like 20 brilliant minds to put to this. I'm not going to torture myself by myself in my living room. I would rather play my guitar. So I really don't know."

May we all aspire to live like Krista Vernoff, and hope that production can safely resume sometime soon.

Grey's Anatomy and Station 19 air on ABC.

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Human Behavior

Archaeologists Uncover a Lost World and Extinct Ecosystem – SciTechDaily

Looking out at the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain from the cave entrance at the Pinnacle Point, South Africa, research siteleft, 200,000 years ago during glacial phases and lower sea levels, and right, today where the ocean is within yards of the cave entrances at high tides. Credit: Erich Fisher

Archaeological sites on the far southern shores of South Africa hold the worlds richest records for the behavioral and cultural origins of our species. At this location, scientists have discovered the earliest evidence for symbolic behavior, complex pyrotechnology, projectile weapons, and the first use of foods from the sea.

The Arizona State University Institute of Human Origins (IHO) field study site of Pinnacle Point sits at the center of this record, both geographically and scientifically, having contributed much of the evidence for these milestones on the evolutionary road to being a modern human.

The scientists working on these sites, led by IHO Associate Director Curtis Marean, have always faced a dilemma in understanding the context of these evolutionary milestones much of the landscape used by these ancient people is now submerged undersea and thus poorly known to us. Marean is a Foundation Professor with the ASU School of Human Evolution and Social Change and Honorary Professor with Nelson Mandela University in South Africa.

The archaeological records come from caves and rockshelters that now look out on to the sea, and in fact, walking to many of the sites today involves dodging high tides and waves. However, through most of the last 200,000 years, lowered sea levels during glacial phases, when the ice sucks up the water, exposed a vast plain. The coast was sometimes as much as 90 km distant! Our archaeological data shows that this was the prime foraging habitat for these early modern humans, and until recently, we knew nothing about.

That has now changed with the publication of 22 articles in a special issue of Quaternary Science Reviews titled The Palaeo-Agulhas Plain: A lost world and extinct ecosystem.

About ten years ago, Marean began building a transdisciplinary international team to tackle the problem of building an ecology of this ancient landscape. ASU, Nelson Mandela University, the University of Cape Town, and the University of California, Riverside anchored the research team. Funded primarily by a $1 million National Science Foundation grant to Marean, with significant funding and resources from the Hyde Family Foundations, the John Templeton Foundation, ASU, IHO, and XSEDE, they developed an entirely new way to reconstruct paleoecologies or ancient ecosystems.

This began with using the high-resolution South African regional climate model running on U.S. and South African supercomputers to simulate glacial climate conditions. The researchers used this climate output to drive a new vegetation model developed by project scientists to recreate the vegetation on this paleoscape. They then used a wide variety of studies such as marine geophysics, deep-water diving for sample collection, isotopic studies of stalagmites and many other transdisciplinary avenues of research to validate and adjust this model output. They also created a human agent-based model through modern studies of human foraging of plants, animals, and seafoods, simulating how ancient people lived on this now extinct paleoscape.

Pulling the threads of all this research into one special issue illustrates all of this science, said Curtis Marean. It represents a unique example of a truly transdisciplinary paleoscience effort, and a new model for going forward with our search to recreate the nature of past ecosystems. Importantly, our results help us understand why the archaeological records from these South African sites consistently reveal early and complex levels of human behavior and culture. The Palaeo-Agulhas Plain, when exposed, was a Serengeti of the South positioned next to some of the richest coastlines in the world. This unique confluence of food from the land and sea cultivated the complex cultures revealed by the archaeology and provided safe harbor for humans during the glacial cycles that revealed that plain and made much of the rest of the world unwelcoming to human life.

Reference: The Palaeo-Agulhas Plain: A lost world and extinct ecosystem by Naomi Cleghorn, Alastair J. Potts and Hayley C. Cawthra, 28 April 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews.DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106308

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Op-Ed: Return to work? Reducing coronavirus transmission in offices – Digital Journal

Last time topic was conspiracy theories indicating that the novel coronavirus was artificially created. Strong arguments were made against these unsubstantiated ideas. Coronaviruses have been with such for millennia. The previous article also discussed whether there is more than one strain of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. New evidence suggests this is not the case. Although all viruses mutate, this is not, as yet, leading to more virulent forms.The topic for this article is the built environment and transmission risks, plus measures that people can take in their homes and offices. This is an important area, given the number of governments easing lockdowns and encouraging people to return to work. Moreover, given that people spend most of their time inside buildings, understanding the transmission dynamics of coronavirus inside is important.When considering disease transmission inside buildings, scientists need to look at factors like human behavior, spatial dynamics, and building operational factors. Considering how each of these potentially promotes and mitigate the spread and transmission of the virus helps to alert the general public to the different risks.To begin such a risk assessment, it is established that the virus spreads are due to three key measures: close interactions between individuals, fomites (which are objects likely to carry infectious diseases), and through viral exchange and transfer through the air. Based on this, a higher occupant density together with increased indoor activity increases the social interaction and hence connectivity through direct contact between individuals.As people move through buildings, there is direct and indirect contact with the surfaces around them. Viral particles can be directly deposited and resuspended due to natural airflow patterns, mechanical airflow patterns (if you have air conditioning), or other sources of turbulence in the indoor environment including walking. These resuspended viral particles can resettle back onto surfaces. This needs to be considered in the context that infected, individuals with COVID-19 shed viral particles before, during, and after developing symptoms.What can be done when working indoors?With a typical building, the simplest way to deliver outside air directly across the building envelope is to open a window. Window ventilation but increases outside air fraction and increases total air change rate as well within a room. However, measures should also be in place where close proximity would promote potential viral transfer from one residence or office to another.Light can form part of a further mitigation strategy. Daylight has been shown in many studies to shape indoor microbial communities in household dust to be less of the human infectious type compared with dust found in dark spaces. UV light can also help to inactivate the virus.The next consideration is humidity. Based on data related to SARS and MERS, we the viability of SARS-CoV-2 in aerosol is likely longer at lower relative humidity levels above 50 percent. So, if humidity levels can be increased, this could be helpful.Plus we have the standard measures: proper handwashing is a vital for controlling the spread of SARS-CoV-2. People need to avoid contact and spatial proximity with infected persons and wash hands frequently for at least 20seconds with soap and hot water.Regular disinfecting of surfaces is also important. Scientific evidence shows 62 to 71 percent ethanol is effective at eliminating the virus from all types of common surfaces.Items should be removed from sink areas to ensure aerosolized water droplets do not carry viral particles onto commonly used items. In addition, counter-tops around sinks should be cleaned using a 10 percent bleach solution or an alcohol-based cleaner on a regular basis.There is also physical distancing. As we cannot tell who is infected and who is not, the best way to avoid spread in some situations is by avoiding large gatherings of individuals. This is also referred to as social distancing. On a wider scale, travel bans and other mobility restrictions have proved effective.Face masks are not very effective for asymptomatic individuals. It is important to preserve masks for individuals who have been infected with COVID-19 and for health care workers and family that will be in consistent contact with individuals infected with the virus. Wearing a mask can give a false sense of security when moving throughout potentially contaminated areas, and the incorrect handling and use of masks can increase transmission they need to be seen as infectious waste items.Further information is outlined in this video:The best thing is to continue to work remotely. If this cannot be done, then some of the measures discussed can help to lower the viral transmission risk.

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Human Behavior

Psychology of Overreacting and the Social Influence – The Great Courses Daily News

By Mark Leary, Ph.D., Duke University When people overreact, they are often rejected by their peers. (Image: GoodStudio/Shutterstock)

Overreacting is a common behavior in human and even animal societies, and like everything else, also a product of evolution. So, there is an underlying psychology of overreacting that can explain why it happens. In simple words, we overreact to protect ourselves from threats and dangers. Many mammals learned, through evolution, to overreact and not tolerate even the smallest potential threats, in order to protect themselves from real danger.

Our bodies evolved to detect and fight social threats, as well as physical ones because being a member of society became vital for surviving. Hence, we feel regret, our hearts break, and our feelings hurt to keep us from repeating a socially dangerous act. When we overreact, we break all the social rules that evolution has set for us over the years.

This is a transcript from the video series Understanding the Mysteries of Human Behavior. Watch it now, on The Great Courses Plus.

Evolutionary psychologists suggest that this reaction may be built into human nature, i.e., overreacting is also a product of evolution. Perhaps, animals that immediately killed the intruder instead of waiting to see if it is a real threat had a higher chance of survival. What about humans?

People overreact to anything that mightlead to, for example, being exploited. The psychology of overreacting explainsshouting at a person who blocks your way in the traffic. This reaction is to takea stand and show that you are not the type of person that can be takenadvantage of. If you build a social image as the person who does not care aboutbeing treated unfairly, you introduce yourself as a target for exploitation andsimilar acts. So we overreact to nip the problem in the bud. When we overreact,we do not care if we successfully prevent the problem or we create new problems.

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When people overreact, they goblind to everything but the single cause of overreaction. Imagine someone thatwants to join the traffic of another street. The car that he wants to overtakedoes not let him pass and makes him wait some seconds longer. The driver of thefirst car that was rejected entry gets mad, starts shouting, and chases theother car intending to stop it and attack the car with a baseball bat.

Now imagine that he does that: hemade a fool out of himself, disappointed his wife sitting next to him, hurtsomeone else emotionally and financially, got into some legal problems, and isnow most probably embarrassed. Not blending into the traffic was not even areal problem, but now he has caused some serious problems, even legally. Thepoint is, he might not be a tense person in general, and these behaviors mighteven shock him after he gains back his senses.

People can think of only one thingat a time, and usually, they jump quickly from one thought to another. But whenpeople focus on only one thingthe traffic, in our examplethey literally losethe ability to switch between thoughts and think about other things. When thishappens, all norms, values, and social rules that generally help people controltheir behavior cannot influence them anymore. Hence, we overreact even if ittakes many things away from us.

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Assuming this is a natural way to behave, we can still seethat some people do it more often. Is it because of their personality? This isthe easiest reason to assume, but it can only be one reason, not the only one.Of course, some people tend to overreact more than others under the sameconditions. But alone, it does not determine the tendency of overreacting.

Another reason for overreacting more is the environment. Ifthere is nothing to protect one from being mistreated, they have to defendtheir rights alone. The next factor is how society views overreacting.

In the absence of effective laws, people tend to overreact more. Under such conditions, people try hard to defend their reputations and react strongly to insults and other signs of disrespect. This is referred to as a culture of honor. In the psychology of overreacting, these circumstances force people to overreact more than those in a society with stronger laws. In addition, it is important how overreacting is viewed.

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In the old American society, people who overreacted were viewed as weak ones who have no control. When society frowns upon an act, the members try to avoid it in order to remain socially acceptable. But modern American society sees people who overreact as those who can stand up for their own rights and defend their territory. Consequently, overreaction has increased in the modern U.S. In the words of one writer, America has become angrified.

Maybe more than any underlying factor, the social acceptance and the view toward overreacting can control it.

As far as the psychology of overreacting is concerned, overreaction is a natural behavior to stop potential threats before they even emerge.

Every small thing can be a sign of a potentially big problem. The psychology of overreacting explains that people try to protect themselves against any potential threat; thus, they overreact to trivial events.

Culture of honor forms in the lack of a strong observing system and law, when people have to fight for their own protection. It can be explained by the psychology of overreacting and how you need to create the image of a person who cannot be taken advantage of.

If a minimal incident causes a reaction much too big for it, the person is overreacting. In the psychology of overreacting, the reason is protecting oneself against potential upcoming threats and dangers.

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CDC offers brief checklists to guide businesses, schools, and others on reopening – Boston.com

WASHINGTON With hundreds of millions of people still seeking advice on resuming their lives safely, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a scant six pages of recommendations Thursday to guide schools, businesses, day-care facilities and others into the next phase of the coronavirus pandemic.

The six checklists which also address restaurants, mass transit and camps come days, and in some cases weeks, after many states have begun to lift restrictions on their own. The advice is less detailed than draft recommendations the agency sent to the White House for review last month.

The nation is still awaiting that detailed technical guidance, which the White House has held up and not shared publicly. The delay has left the responsibility for decision-making about reopening to states and localities. It has also left many health experts clamoring for greater transparency.

We need to unleash the voices of the scientists in our public health system in the United States so they can be heard, and their guidances need to be listened to, said Rick Bright, a former top U.S. vaccine official who testified before a House panel Thursday, decrying the piecemeal approach the Trump administration has taken to the pandemic. And we need to be able to convey that information to the American public so they have the truth about the real risk and dire consequences of this virus.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said a day earlier on the Senate floor that the CDC advice must be released.

The country needs the guidance of the nations best medical and scientific experts. These literally are matters of life and death, Schumer said. And thats exactly why the CDC prepared this guidance. America needs and must have the candid guidance of our best scientists unfiltered, unedited and uncensored by President Trump or his political minions.

The White House at first shelved the CDC guidelines. When asked about them, the White House said they were overly specific and in the process of being revised.

A CDC spokesman said additional recommendations may still come from the agency. The six decision trees were ready for release, so the administration decided to put them out while other guidelines make their way through the review process.

The documents released Thursday are aimed at helping facilities decide if theyre ready to open and inform how they do so, he said.

This was an effort on our part to make some decision trees we thought might be helpful to those moving forward with opening their establishment, the spokesperson said.

But with many states already moving on, it is unclear what impact any additional recommendations might have. And the mixed messages from President Donald Trump and other officials in his administration have left state and local officials struggling with decisions on whether and how to relax public-health restrictions.

Trump has been pushing for states to reopen, and on Thursday he traveled to Pennsylvania to urge its leadership to loosen its coronavirus restrictions, especially in areas he said have barely been affected by the pandemic, part of the presidents escalating personal appeal to state leaders to let American life get back to normal.

His visit to the swing state during which he attacked its Democratic governor, whom Trump views as moving too slowly to reopen came on the same day that he cheered a win in Wisconsin, where a court ruling against stay-at-home orders issued by another Democratic governor led to chaos and scenes of bars packed with people. Trumps us-against-them language underscored the rift with federal scientists who continue to warn against lifting coronavirus restrictions too swiftly amid fears of the potential for a new wave of infections and fatalities.

We have to get your governor of Pennsylvania to open up a little bit, Trump said of Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat. You have areas of Pennsylvania that are barely affected, and they want to keep it closed.

Trump also called testing overrated as a tool to track and control the virus, even though the White House has moved to a protocol of testing all visitors and requiring most employees to wear masks.

Trumps approach put him at odds with Bright and Anthony Fauci, the nations top infectious-disease expert. Fauci testified Tuesday about the need for accurate, widespread testing and further limits on daily life and commerce.

Trump and other Republicans have increasingly criticized Fauci, confusing the federal message at a time when, Bright said, the crisis demands a single point of leadership.

And we dont have a single point of leadership right now for this response, and we dont have a master plan for this response, Bright said. So those two things are absolutely critical.

Bright said prospects were dim for a vaccine anytime soon, echoing Faucis belief that there will be no fail-safe protection available before schools must make decisions about opening in the fall.

Bright told lawmakers that the United States faces the darkest winter in modern history if it does not develop a more coordinated national response to the novel coronavirus before an expected resurgence later this year.

Our window of opportunity is closing, Bright said before the House Energy Committees subcommittee on health. If we fail to develop a national coordinated response, based in science, I fear the pandemic will get far worse and be prolonged, causing unprecedented illness and fatalities.

Trump in recent weeks has urged governors to move more quickly in reopening their states, despite safety benchmarks issued by his administration that many have yet to meet.

The people want to get on with their lives. The place is bustling! Trump tweeted approvingly after the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down an extension of restrictions by Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat. The ruling late Wednesday produced a confusing patchwork across the state, with some localities maintaining limits on businesses and activities.

Were the Wild West, rued Evers during an interview on MSNBC.

The 4-to-3 decision by the high court in Wisconsin limits Evers ability to make statewide rules during emergencies such as a global pandemic, instead requiring him to work with the state legislature on how the state should handle the outbreak.

By Thursday, many of the reopened Wisconsin bars were dark once again, shuttered as more than a dozen cities and counties that have been hit hard by the coronavirus moved to enact local stay-at-home ordinances.

Well, that was fun while it lasted, a patron wrote on the Facebook page of Limanskis Pub in West Allis, which briefly opened Wednesday night before Milwaukee County ordered bars and restaurants to remain closed indefinitely to in-person dining and drinking.

Bars in much of greater Milwaukee were closed, including two communities to the south Racine and Kenosha, cities where covid-19 cases have surged in recent days. But to the north of Milwaukee, some cities and counties chose to allow bars and restaurants to reopen, though many establishments remained shuttered.

In Grafton, about 20 miles north of Milwaukee in Ozaukee County, the Milwaukee Ale House opened its doors for lunch service at 11 a.m. sharp after weeks of serving takeout and delivery business that was not nearly enough to pay the bills, according to owner Mike Stoner.

I take it seriously, Stoner said Thursday afternoon, as he sat at the upstairs bar of his restaurant, which remained mostly empty except for several masked servers and bartenders who stood waiting for customers. I dont know why things have to be so political, so angry. . . . I am just trying to keep my business alive.

Trump has been aggressively calling for states to reopen even as health officials have sent a more cautious message, urging a data-driven and scientific approach.

In mid-April, the White House unveiled a three-phase plan for a gradual reopening of communities. The blueprint called for states to move forward after they met an initial test of 14 days of declining coronavirus cases and continue to progress as they passed additional safety checkpoints.

But many states, their economies in free fall, ignored the requirements for the first phase and moved ahead. The plan did not include specifics that many state and local officials, business leaders and millions of people sought to help them safely resume a version of their previous lives.

The documents released Thursday were reviewed extensively by White House Office of Management and Budget officials who were concerned the initial draft was too burdensome on churches and restaurants, among others.

The CDC removed from an earlier draft a recommendation that no facility open in an area where spread of the virus requires significant mitigation. But it left a warning against reopening against local or state orders. That puts the responsibility squarely on state and local governments to impose those rules.

Usually its the state and local health department that follow CDCs lead and not the other way around, said Matthew Seeger, who has researched crisis communication for the past 35 years at Wayne State University. Its the latest way the current leadership is putting the onus on states and trying to make this a decentralized structure. Thats not how CDC usually works.

Thursdays guidance helps workplaces decide whether to reopen, how to promote hygiene measures such as mask-wearing and hand-washing before they do and how to monitor employees for symptoms of infection, among other advice.

It recommends that restaurants and bars encourage social distancing and enhance spacing at establishments, in part by spacing of tables/stools, limiting party sizes and occupancy, avoiding self-serve stations, restricting employee shared spaces, [and] rotating or staggering shifts, if feasible.

It advises mass transit systems to limit routes to and from high transmission areas before resuming full service.

No decision tree for faith communities was released. Telling houses of worship how to operate stirred controversy when the CDCs original draft instructions were leaked last month.

Public health experts said the way the Trump administration has rolled out guidelines makes it less likely people will heed them.

In many ways, this advice is the only medicine we have, Seeger said. We dont have a vaccine yet. We dont have treatment. All we have is human behavior and that behavior is based on the information people get and whether they will listen to that information.

The Washington Posts Holly Bailey in Milwaukee, Moriah Balingit in Lansing, Mich., and Yasmeen Abutaleb and Anne Gearan in Washington contributed to this report.

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Winning and Whereabouts of Two Michaels — Waltrip and Jordan – NGSC Sports LLC

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NASCAR, college football, and Michael Jordan may seem like strange blog fellows. But stay with me, portly curmudgeons.

All three became famous in the southern regions of the United States. NASCAR, college football, and Jordan conjure up whiffs of outdoor chicken barbecue tailgates, head-banging booze, and nasty cigars.

In the South winning and losing streaks abound. Nothing smacks of Americana more than who prevails and who gets humbled.

Recall as you no doubt wont that from 1989 to 1998 Prairie View A&M University in Texas lost 80 straight football games, the longest winless streak in college football history.

But that turned out to be a brief downturn compared with the remarkable NASCAR losing streak of retired NASCAR driver Michael Waltrip.

The infamously slow race car driver won exactly none of his first 462 races from 1985 to 2001. You would think after the 0-462 start he might have quit to sell life insurance. Not this Mike, who nobody wanted to be Like. In his 33-year career, he won only four out of 784 races.

To put this load of losing in perspective, his NASCAR- driving brother Darrell snatched first place 84 times in 809 races. Picture Thanksgiving dinners at the Waltrips house: Hey Mike, Ive won 80 more races than you, says Darrell. Pass the mash potatoes.

Richard Petty won 200 races the most all-time. Thats one hundred ninety-six more than Be Unlike Mike.

Yet this black sheep driver remains a big figure in the sport, curiously. Hes been a NASCAR broadcaster and has written articles about the sport.

The question is why? Usually, the guys who get broadcasting gigs are big winners.

Hiring Michael Waltrip in the broadcast booth is like ESPN making Prairie View A&Ms coach, during the 80-game losing streak, the expert color analyst for college football games.

I am not against Michael Waltrip. I actually respect the fact that he kept racing even after not winning 462 consecutive times. Persistence impresses me especially through prolonged losing streaks.

But why so many losses? What was he doing in the car that other guys did better and faster? Was his hand-eye coordination too slow? Was he too risk-averse? Did he not have the guts to accelerate at crucial times in the race in dangerous situations?

Did he just not have a natural talent or work ethic? Should he have sold life insurance? Seems he would have won more often selling these policies even in a business rife with rejections. Did he read Death of Salesman too many times?

If the reason he kept losing was he didnt adjust his pre- and during-race preparations, thats his mistake. No sense doing the same thing wrong over and over.

Whatever the case, as we enter this weekends Darlington Raceway event, the first NASCAR race since the pandemic hit, we should be pondering the life and times of Unlike Mike.

Despite winning only once every 200 races he started a .005 winning percentage he kept driving the car around the oval albeit slowly compared with industry averages.

Most guys wouldnt last 33 years in a profession that resulted in so much hardship. Give him credit. He kept doing what he loved.

Even though he hardly ever won.

Is that winning? How do we define it? Should we look favorably or disparagingly on Waltrip?

The recent ESPN documentary about Be Like Mike Michael Jordan, called The Last Dance, zeroes in on this cosmic question about winning consists of and what price should be paid.

The winner of six NBA championships and arguably the greatest basketball player ever explained how he thought about winning and why he was tough on his teammates:

My mentality was to go out and win at any cost. If you dont want to live that regimented mentality, then you dont need to be alongside me, because Im going to ridicule you until you get on the same level as me. And if you dont get on the same level, then its going to be hell for you.

Winning has a price, Jordan added. And leadership has a price. So I pulled people along when they didnt want to be pulled. I challenged people when they didnt want to be challenged. And I earned that right because [other] teammates came after me. They didnt endure all the things that I endured. Once you joined the team, you lived at a certain standard that I played the game. And I wasnt going to take anything less.

Former teammate Jud Buechler said of Jordan: People were afraid of him. We were his teammates, and we were afraid of him. And there was just fear. The fear factor of MJ was so, so thick.

Jordans words drive to the heart of the matter about what life should or should not be about, how we should we act, how we should treat people, and what price should be paid to win.

No question, Jordan won a ton more than Michael Waltrip. But his teammates feared him. To get what he wanted not necessarily what they wanted he berated and humiliated them. For his own selfish reasons in the name of winning, he mistreated other people.

He punched one of his teammates. He threatened other teammates that if they passed the ball to a certain teammate Jordan didnt want them to, he would never pass them the ball again.

Is that the right way to act? Does the fact that Jordan won, and his badgered teammates benefited financially and emotionally because he willed them to win, make what he did the right way to go about winning?

I dont think so. There is no excuse for being mean to people just for the sake of winning. Jordan scared his teammates into playing harder and better. Scaring people is not appropriate human behavior because it makes them feel bad. No one I know enjoys feeling afraid. Ive seen many coaches use fear on players to get them to play better. It often works. But it isnt right.

No human being has the right to mistreat another for the sake of winning. Think of the longer-term psychological effects on the people being scared. Maybe later in life, they will not be able to shake nightmares and develop paranoia.

They could wake up with images of that person who scared them. Those are serious and horrible experiences that no championship trophy can cure.

I dont know if Waltrip treated his pit crew well. I do know that he should have. Its the right way to get along. He didnt win much at all. Jordan did.

While Im impressed with Jordans drive, Im turned off by his treatment of teammates. A team is about everyone. MJ made it mostly all about his needs not theirs.

The fact that Waltrip kept pursuing his dream after losing so many times is as compelling a sports story as Jordan winning as much as he did.

Loss after loss, he kept getting in the car and racing.

In a similar way, Prairie View A&Ms football team kept putting on their helmets and cleats and playing football games even though they kept losing every Saturday for eight straight years.

In my mind, Waltrip and Prairie View are winners every bit as much as Jordan is maybe more so.

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Neuroscience Antibodies & Assays Market Research Report 2020 By Size, Share, Trends, Analysis and Forecast to 2026 – Cole of Duty

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Neuroscience Antibodies & Assays Market Competitive Analysis:

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Table of Content

1 Introduction of Neuroscience Antibodies & Assays Market

1.1 Overview of the Market1.2 Scope of Report1.3 Assumptions

2 Executive Summary

3 Research Methodology

3.1 Data Mining3.2 Validation3.3 Primary Interviews3.4 List of Data Sources

4 Neuroscience Antibodies & Assays Market Outlook

4.1 Overview4.2 Market Dynamics4.2.1 Drivers4.2.2 Restraints4.2.3 Opportunities4.3 Porters Five Force Model4.4 Value Chain Analysis

5 Neuroscience Antibodies & Assays Market, By Deployment Model

5.1 Overview

6 Neuroscience Antibodies & Assays Market, By Solution

6.1 Overview

7 Neuroscience Antibodies & Assays Market, By Vertical

7.1 Overview

8 Neuroscience Antibodies & Assays Market, By Geography

8.1 Overview8.2 North America8.2.1 U.S.8.2.2 Canada8.2.3 Mexico8.3 Europe8.3.1 Germany8.3.2 U.K.8.3.3 France8.3.4 Rest of Europe8.4 Asia Pacific8.4.1 China8.4.2 Japan8.4.3 India8.4.4 Rest of Asia Pacific8.5 Rest of the World8.5.1 Latin America8.5.2 Middle East

9 Neuroscience Antibodies & Assays Market Competitive Landscape

9.1 Overview9.2 Company Market Ranking9.3 Key Development Strategies

10 Company Profiles

10.1.1 Overview10.1.2 Financial Performance10.1.3 Product Outlook10.1.4 Key Developments

11 Appendix

11.1 Related Research

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Archbishop Wood brothers are three of a kind – The Intelligencer

Triplets Stevie, Alex and Robert Meyer share a unique brotherly bond but are ready for different college journeys.

They were born over a seven-minute span, and since have spent almost their entire lives together.

Whether its playing sports, squabbling over different things at home, the first day of school or studying for exams, the Meyer brothers have been there for one another.

You really dont know any different, said Robert Meyer, the youngest of three triplets and Archbishop Wood seniors. I would just say that you just know you have two friends for life. You have your friends at school, but I have two right here at my house. There was always someone to play sports with, or help out with math ... or fight with.

Its like being born into a friend group, Alex Meyer said. It has truly been great. You always have two people you can rely on.

In the backdrop of the COVID-19 outbreak that has shut down schools in Pennsylvania and across the country, Robert, Alex, and Stevie Meyer will soon graduate from Archbishop Wood together.

That graduation wont quite be the same this year because of the virus is bittersweet for their mother, Diane Meyer, but it by no means takes away from the pride that beams when she speaks about her boys.

Every day of the week, all of the tough times you go through, you have a vision of that dream, Diane said about the lack of a traditional graduation ceremony. My dream was to see all three of them walk down that aisle (at graduation), and thats not going to happen.

But thats OK. Theyve achieved so much. Im really proud of these guys.

Between the three, the Meyer brothers were accepted at 35 colleges and combined received over $5.5 million in academic scholarship offers.

Me and my brothers, we worked hard for all of the years that weve been in school, said, Alex, who will attend Lehigh Univeristy and major in bio-chemistry, with his eye on a future in pharmaceutical research. There were times that wed stay in and not go out with our friends, and work on our school work. Its nice to see that all the hard work recognized and pay off in the end.

Stevie is off to Rochester Institute of Technology where he will study game design development, artificial intelligence and cognitive neuroscience. He also hopes to continue on in gymnastics, a sport hes competed in since fourth grade.

Im interested in making games for people with difficulties going outside, because of bullying or disabilities, things like that. Stevie said. I want to make games that will help them. Thats where the neuroscience comes in.

Robert is headed to Gettysburg College, where hell study political science, economics and international affairs with a track to pre-law. He also has a roster spot on the football team. He was the placekicker for Woods Class 5A state championship team last fall.

That all found places where theyll be happy and fit was important to Diane too. That all were so wanted by so many schools was another source of tremendous pride.

All of them, they worked so hard, she said. Being a single mom, and I was a single mother by choice, all of them were acutely aware that was going to be financially difficult to put three kids in college at the same time.

I said to them, dont look at the money when youre making your choice, but they were aware of it. They went out of their way to look for that. Robert, the future lawyer, they should give him a law degree right now, the way he negotiated with all of the colleges.

And its not just the scholarships, but the grants over and above that. It makes me feel good to know that others see what I see in them. Theyre academically gifted, but they work hard at it and have challenged themselves.

Im proud of them, but Im even more proud of the young men that they are and the character they each have.

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Grand Island, Hastings students named to Omaha World-Herald academic teams – Grand Island Independent

The Omaha World-Herald has named its All West-Central Academic teams of graduating high school seniors.

Named to the first team were Grace Johnson of Grand Island, Christine Jonglertham of Hastings, Landon Power of Hastings and Carter Wenburg of Hastings.

Johnson, the daughter of Barb and Jeff Engberg, scored 35 on the ACT. Her accomplishments include National Honor Society president; student ambassador for the Academy of Medical Sciences; AP Scholar with distinction; NCPA Academic All-State Award in volleyball; and finalist in Tribute to the Rescuers Essay Contest. She plans to attend Northwestern, majoring in neuroscience.

Jonglertham is the daughter of Pornchai Jonglertham and Mary Ann Valino. She ranked first in her class out of 265 students, scored 35 on the ACT and 1420 on the SAT. Her accomplishments include: Nebraska Girls State; debate club president; student council; National Honor Society; second in senior group website in Nebraska National History Day; first at TEAMS competition; state Quiz Bowl; superior distinction from National Speech and Debate Association. She plans to attend the University of Chicago, majoring in biology.

Power is the son of Chad and Allison Power. He ranked first in his class out of 265 students, scored 36 on the ACT and is a National Merit Scholar. His accomplishments include: National Honor Society president; principal cellist in full orchestra; Fellowship of Christian Athletes leader; Oustanding Clinic Junior Volunteer Award at Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital; sixth in singles in Class B state tennis; Presidential Scholars semifinalist; and TEAMS competitions. He plans to attend Washington-St. Louis, majoring in biology and cognitive neuroscience.

Wenburg is the son of Justin and Kili Wenburg. He ranked 23rd in his class out of 265 students, scored 36 on the ACT and 1440 on the SAT and is a National Merit Scholar. His accomplishments include: Cornhusker Boys State; National Honor Society; debate team president; Quiz Bowl captain; national NSDA competitor in congress debate; National History Day qualifier for national competition; All-State Choir; and Future Problem Solvers. He plans to attend the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, majoring in agribusiness.

Named to the second team were Jacob Kosmicki of Grand Island, Carson Moritz of Hastings St. Cecilia and Emma Potter of Boone Central.

Kosmicki is the son of Douglas and Kimberly Kosmicki. He scored 36 on the ACT and is a National Merit Scholar.

Moritz is the son of Mike and Penny Moritz. He ranked first in his class out of 33 students, scored 35 on the ACT and is a National Merit Scholar.

Potter is the daughter of Katharine Wilson. She ranked second in her class out of 49 students and scored 33 on the ACT.

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