She has not been able to watch the horrifying video

The celeb publicist shares difficult journey to have a baby.

The experience has made her appreciate her mother even more.

Plus, her BFF Tisha Campbell-Martin's epic annulment rant.

The singer and her son light up the cover of Parents.

Mom Kim Kardashian spills the tea.

She's going to need a serious crash course.

It's been a rough year for the retired model.

Alexander Deltoro has been charged in a Florida court, with the 28-year-old accused of fatally shooting his own mother. According to a report in the Sun Sentinel, “A Margate mom stepped in between her son and husband, trying to break up their fight. Now she’s dead and her son is in jail, accused of shooting her […] (Click to read the full article)

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bermuda [BBBS] marked Mentoring Month with a special awards ceremony at City Hall with Kyle James and Sergeant Bernadette Lawrence named the Big Brother and Big Sister of the Year. The event was organized by the BBBS charitable organisation and hosted by the Corporation of Hamilton. The Town Crier opened the event […] (Click to read the full article)

Trey Mallory and partner John Chin [Jamaica] have advanced to the ITF World Tour event in El Salvador after defeating Christopher Hech [Canada] and Ty Switzer [USA] 1-6, 6-1, 10-3. They will face #3 seeds Spencer Brachman and Maxwell McKennon [USA] in the finals today. Related Stories Tennis: Trey Mallory Reaches Quarterfinals Phillips Wins Tournament […] (Click to read the full article)

Camille Chin-Gurret and Nicky Gurret are currently representing Bermuda while competing in the 13th World Flower Show in Jaipur, India. A spokesperson said, “Ms. Gurret brought her daughter’s entry with her as Ms. Chin-Gurret cannot attend due to her studies at Exeter University. This is Ms. Chin Gurret’s third time entering the World Flower Show […] (Click to read the full article)

Nicky Gurret and Camille Chin-Gurret’s floral art has been featured in the Summer edition of the magazine ‘The Floral Arranger,’ one of the world’s leading magazines for flower arrangers. This is the third time Ms. Gurret has had her floral art featured in the magazine, with this feature highlighting the exhibit the pair did for […] (Click to read the full article)

Hamilton Princess & Beach Club will be offering its traditional Mother’s Day Brunch in to-go format this weekend for those wanting to celebrate their mothers in the usual Bermudian way. “The Hamilton Princess brunch offering will feed four people with a wide spread of more than 15 menu items that will evoke brunch classics and […] (Click to read the full article)

An acclaimed drama starring London-based Bermudian actor Jason Eddy has added another award to its growing list of accolades. Director Meena Ayittey’s Home was recently named a Golden Award Winner in the Best Short Film category by the 2019 European Screen Awards. “Another award win for Home,” the British director announced on her social feeds […] (Click to read the full article)

The Bermuda Turtle Project, based at the Bermuda Aquarium Museum and Zoo, recently finished its 49th year of study of the sea turtles in Bermuda waters. “The goals of the project are to better understand the biology of sea turtles of Bermuda and to share that understanding with other professionals and the public to ensure […] (Click to read the full article)

[Updated] Police officers responded to a reported armed robbery at Blue Hole Hill Park this afternoon [June 16] which saw a woman and her children robbed by a “man brandishing a bladed article”. A police spokesperson said, “Around 5:30pm today [June 16th] police officers responded to a reported armed robbery at Blue Hole Hill Park […] (Click to read the full article)

There are four people in custody that police believe were “involved in the shootings,” Police Commissioner Stephen Corbishley said, adding that “there are other arrests planned.” The Commissioner’s comments follow after the spate of gun violence on Monday, which saw the police respond to four separate firearms incidents in 24 hours. According to the police, the […] (Click to read the full article)

After losing one son to gun violence and having another son injured in a shooting, a Bermudian mother has appealed for help, calling on people to pull together and unite. In an emotional appeal yesterday, Nicole Fox said, “This has been the second time my home has been hit with bullets. Many of you could say […] (Click to read the full article)

Crime Stoppers Bermuda released a video as part of their appeal for witnesses or information regarding the murder of Taylor Grier, and Taylor’s mother has urged everyone to “help the police to find the killers of our young men” as “there should be no more mothers having to bear this pain.” In July of this […] (Click to read the full article)

The “pain is indescribable,” Keishaye Steede said in her victim impact statement which read out in court after her son’s killers were convicted in Nottingham Crown Court in England. Lyrico Steede was only 17-years-old when he was murdered by a group of teenagers in England last year. The five teenagers were sentenced yesterday, with the […] (Click to read the full article)

The mother of Lyrico Steede has spoken out on the one year anniversary of his attack, thanking god for helping to sustain her over the past year and saying how blessed she was to have shared 17 years with her son. Keishaye Steede also said her “heart goes out to the families enduring the same, if not […] (Click to read the full article)

Bermudian Keishaye Steede, whose 17-year-old son Lyrico was stabbed to death in the English city of Nottingham in 2017, is lending her voice to a national campaign aimed at reducing knife violence in the UK. The video was released as part of Operation Sceptre, the week-long coordinated initiative designed to help get knives and blades […] (Click to read the full article)

The Alcohol and Other Drugs Committee's Centennial Paper to review what it has accomplished since its inception in the early 1970s, how it has evolved along with the field, and what challenges and opportunities it confronts going forward. To learn more about the history of impaired driving and the Standing Technical Committee on Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Transportation (ANB50), check out the Committee's Centennial Paper. As part of TRB's Centennial Celebration, the Technical Activities Council invited al...

Several groups of reptiles persisted in Jurassic Africa even as volcanism ruined their habitat

Dear Shim Shim, I hate this month, it's so miserable and even more so cos you passed on Halloween eve. I remember it all so vividly, your loss and Zeusy's

One of the key points we've been making concerning Attorney General William Barr and his DOJ's eager support for the terrible EARN-IT Act, is that much of it really seems to be to cover up the DOJ's own failings in fighting child porn and child exploitation. The premise behind the EARN IT Act is that there's a lot of child exploitation/child abuse material found on social media... and that social media companies should do more to block that content. Of course, if you step back and think about it, you'd quickly realize that this is a form of sweeping the problem under the rug. Rather than actually tracking down and arresting those exploiting and abusing children, it's demanding private companies just hide the evidence of those horrific acts.

And why might the DOJ and others be so supportive of sweeping evidence under the rug and hiding it? Perhaps because the DOJ and Congress have literally failed to live up to their mandates under existing laws to actually fight child exploitation. Barr's DOJ has been required under law to produce reports showing data about internet crimes against children, and come up with goals to fight those crimes. It has produced only two out of the six reports that were mandated over a decade ago. At the same time, Congress has only allocated a very small budget to state and local law enforcement for fighting internet child abuse. While the laws Congress passed say that Congress should give $60 million to local law enforcement, it has actually allocated only about half of that. Oh, and Homeland Security took nearly half of its "cybercrimes" budget and diverted it to immigration enforcement, rather than fighting internet crimes such as child exploitation.

So... maybe we should recognize that the problem isn't social media platforms, but the fact that Congress and law enforcement -- from local and state up to the DOJ -- have literally failed to do their job.

At least some elected officials have decided to call the DOJ's bluff on why we need the EARN IT Act. Led by Senator Ron Wyden (of course), Senators Kirsten Gillbrand, Bob Casey, Sherrod Brown and Rep. Anna Eshoo have introduced a new bill to actually fight child sex abuse online. Called the Invest in Child Safety Act, it would basically make law enforcement do its job regarding this stuff.

The Invest in Child Safety Act would direct $5 billion in mandatory funding to investigate and target the pedophiles and abusers who create and share child sexual abuse material online. And it would create a new White House office to coordinate efforts across federal agencies, after DOJ refused to comply with a 2008 law requiring coordination and reporting of those efforts. It also directs substantial new funding for community-based efforts to prevent children from becoming victims in the first place.

Basically, the bill would do a bunch of things to make sure that law enforcement is actually dealing with the very real problem of child exploitation, rather than demanding that internet companies (1) sweep evidence under the rug, and (2) break encryption:

• Quadruple the number of prosecutors and agents in DOJ’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section from 30 FTEs to 120 FTEs;
• Add 100 new agents and investigators for the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Innocent Images National Initiative, Crimes Against Children Unit, Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Teams, and Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Forces;
• Fund 65 new NCMEC analysts, engineers, and mental health counselors, as well as a major upgrade to NCMEC’s technology platform to enable the organization to more effectively evaluate and process CSAM reports from tech companies;
• Double funding for the state Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Forces;
• Double funding for the National Criminal Justice Training Center, to administer crucial Internet Crimes Against Children and Missing and Exploited Children training programs;
• Increase funding for evidence-based programs, local governments and non-federal entities to detect, prevent and support victims of child sexual abuse, including school-based mental health services and prevention programs like the Children’s Advocacy Centers and the HHS’ Street Outreach Program;
• Require tech companies to increase the time that they hold evidence of CSAM, in a secure database, to enable law enforcement agencies to prosecute older cases;
• Establish an Office to Enforce and Protect Against Child Sexual Exploitation, within the Executive Office of the President, to direct and streamline the federal government’s efforts to prevent, investigate and prosecute the scourge of child exploitation;
• Require the Office to develop an enforcement and protection strategy, in coordination with HHS and GAO; and
• Require the Office to submit annual monitoring reports, subject to mandatory Congressional testimony to ensure timely execution.

While I always have concerns about law enforcement mission creep and misguided targeting of law enforcement efforts, hopefully everyone can agree that child exploitation does remain a very real problem, and one that law enforcement should be investigating and going after those who are actually exploiting and abusing children. This bill would make that possible, rather than the alternative approach of just blaming the internet companies for law enforcement's failure to take any of this seriously.

Senator Richard Burr's potential insider trading issues, for which he's being investigated, may have gotten quite a bit worse this week. A new report notes that on the same day Burr sold off a "significant percentage" of his stock holdings (while also telling the public not to worry about COVID-19), it turns out his brother-in-law just coincidentally decided to dump a bunch of stock too. Amazing!

Sen. Richard Burr was not the only member of his family to sell off a significant portion of his stock holdings in February, ahead of the market crash spurred by coronavirus fears. On the same day Burr sold, his brother-in-law also dumped tens of thousands of dollars worth of shares. The market fell by more than 30% in the subsequent month.

Burr’s brother-in-law, Gerald Fauth, who has a post on the National Mediation Board, sold between $97,000 and $280,000 worth of shares in six companies — including several that have been hit particularly hard in the market swoon and economic downturn.

Could this actually be a coincidence? Sure. Maybe. But the timing (the very same day...) does seem notable. As the ProPublica report notes, Fauth "is not a frequent stock trader." Burr insists that his sales were based on public information, though it's difficult to see how he could simply ignore the classified briefings he got concerning the rising pandemic issues, and base decisions entirely on public information. Indeed, this is why government officials should be required to hand off any equities like this to a blind trust where they have no visibility into how it's traded.

Even if this is all legal (which is not certain either way yet...), it again reinforces the belief that the powerful live by different rules and are able to game the system for personal advantage, even as they're supposed to be serving the public interest.

Thank God it's Thursday because I am already burnt out from the first three days of this week. It has been an inordinately stressful week for multiple reasons, one of which I will talk about today.It's not the lab. Lab work is like heaven for me. I love escaping to the bench, avoiding human contact, and focusing on how to get something puzzling to work.It's not the next looming product launch, ; (read more)

Source: Suzy - Discipline: BioTech

I began a series of posts that explained how products are born, that is, how they go from a concept or idea to a product on the shelf waiting to be bought. So far we've discussed what R&D does and what marketing does to make sure that a product has the greatest possibility for success. Well there is another person on this team who plays a critical role in the product development ; (read more)

Source: Suzy - Discipline: BioTech

What expression does — did — your mom use all the time? What skill did you learn from her?  What does (or did) she encourage you to do? These are great questions for any mom and child, whether the kid is 5 or 50. And if you click here, you can print out a very […]

These “cards” are really an excuse for kids to interview their moms and shower them with the ultimate gifts: attention to mom’s quirky uniqueness, gratitude, and offers of help! Here you go — click here! (Mother’s Day is SUNDAY!)

Date: May 3, 2020

Location: Hungary, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Spain

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Date: May 10, 2020

All that glitters is not gold, but sometimes it comes in handy.

Whether they're near or far, make Mom a little piece of art from your heart in today’s interactive, digital card-maker Doodle.

Learn more about the inspiration that led to the creation of this Doodle on our official Google Blog.

Happy Mother’s Day!

 

 

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Cut out some time to send a mom some love today! Search for ”GoogleDoodles” in Gboard, GIF Keyboard by Tenor, or the GIF search in your favorite social apps.

 

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Below, the Doodlers behind today’s Doodle share their own MOM-umental creations:
 

Anthony Irwin, UX Designer

 

Collin Irwin, Engineer

 

Grace Chen, Marketing

 

Perla Campos, Marketing

 

Tom Tabanao, Engineer

 

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More behind-the-scenes of the making of today’s Doodle:
 

It begins! Special thanks to the Takara and McGupta Families for materials.

 

Early Bead Tests

 

Angle Reference for the Doodle G

 

Turtle In-Progress

 

Glitter Star Animation Frames

 

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❤️ MOTHER’S DAY 2020 TEAM ❤️

Lead Artist | Alyssa Winans

Engineering | Brian Murray, Collin Irwin, Tom Tabanao, Jacob Howcroft, Nicole Patten, Yumi Kim

Producer | Gregory Capuano, Colin Duffy

UX Design | Anthony Irwin, Diana Tran

Sound Design | Jacob Howcroft

Marketing | Perla Campos, Grace Chen

Business Affairs Lead & Partnerships | Madeline Belliveau

Doodle Team Lead | Jessica Yu, Brian Kaas

 

Location: Global

Tags: Interactive, National Holiday, greeting card, turtles, macaroni, buttons, sequins, hearts, dragonflies, giraffes, seashells, stars, glitter

Whether mutations in cancer driver genes directly affect cancer immune phenotype and T cell immunity remains a standing question. ARID1A is a core member of the polymorphic BRG/BRM-associated factor chromatin remodeling complex. ARID1A mutations occur in human cancers and drive cancer development. Here, we studied the molecular, cellular, and clinical impact of ARID1A aberrations on cancer immunity. We demonstrated that ARID1A aberrations resulted in limited chromatin accessibility to IFN-responsive genes, impaired IFN gene expression, anemic T cell tumor infiltration, poor tumor immunity, and shortened host survival in many human cancer histologies and in murine cancer models. Impaired IFN signaling was associated with poor immunotherapy response. Mechanistically, ARID1A interacted with EZH2 via its carboxyl terminal and antagonized EZH2-mediated IFN responsiveness. Thus, the interaction between ARID1A and EZH2 defines cancer IFN responsiveness and immune evasion. Our work indicates that cancer epigenetic driver mutations can shape cancer immune phenotype and immunotherapy.

An in-depth understanding of immune escape mechanisms in cancer is likely to lead to innovative advances in immunotherapeutic strategies. However, much remains unknown regarding these mechanisms and how they impact immunotherapy resistance. Using several preclinical tumor models as well as clinical specimens, we identified a mechanism whereby CD8+ T cell activation in response to programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) blockade induced a programmed death ligand 1/NOD-, LRR-, and pyrin domain–containing protein 3 (PD-L1/NLRP3) inflammasome signaling cascade that ultimately led to the recruitment of granulocytic myeloid-derived suppressor cells (PMN-MDSCs) into tumor tissues, thereby dampening the resulting antitumor immune response. The genetic and pharmacologic inhibition of NLRP3 suppressed PMN-MDSC tumor infiltration and significantly augmented the efficacy of anti–PD-1 antibody immunotherapy. This pathway therefore represents a tumor-intrinsic mechanism of adaptive resistance to anti–PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy and is a promising target for future translational research.

Are you a taxpreparer who is unsatisfied with the quality of Intuit's ProSeries tax software program? I am not a happy user of ProSeries tax software. Choose your tax software carefully. I will be searching for an alternative tax software vendor for the year 2014. Continue reading →

Questions surrounding Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation continue to grow. On Sunday, Democratic National Committee interim chairperson Donna Brazile defended Clinton’s meetings as secretary of state with Clinton Foundation donors, saying, "When Republicans meet with their donors, with their supporters, their activists, they call it a meeting. When Democrats do that, they call it a conflict." Donna Brazile’s comments come in response to an Associated Press investigation revealing that while Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state, more than half of the private citizens she met with during the reporting period had donated to the Clinton Foundation. The AP investigation comes after a three-year battle to gain access to State Department calendars. The analysis shows that at least 85 of 154 people Hillary Clinton had scheduled phone or in-person meetings with were foundation donors. We speak to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept. His most recent piece is headlined "Why Did the Saudi Regime and Other Gulf Tyrannies Donate Millions to the Clinton Foundation?" Continue reading →

The sweetheart deal that Governor Malloy and his fellow Democrats in the General Assembly cut with state employee unions, the so-called SEBAC agreement, is protected by contract for a full decade —leaving meaningful reforms waaay down the road. The contract is the mother of all can-kicks. Continue reading →

1-800-Flowers.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLWS) Gifts When you Need, an online gift concierge for the leading provider of floral and gourmet gifts, may help shoppers uncover the perfect gift for Moms this year. Data from thousands of customers using GWYN powered by IBM Watson (NYSE: IBM) gives insight on hot gifts picks for Mother’s Day.

Discovering buried treasure is every fourth-grader's dream afternoon.

One-shot,*not what you might think* Now that Harry and Ginny are dating, Ron needs to get his brotherly duties out of way, but who is he going to talk to if not Harry? Read to find out... R&R!

I want to write this, but I don't want anyone to feel compelled to read it, so here, have some cut tags!

( Work stress )

( MtY stress )

( MtE stress )

( Mom stress )

I'm thinking of getting therapy just to have someone to talk to about all the stress. The good thing (honest, I see it as a good thing) is that most of the stress is basically external to me -- my days are generally easy and pleasant, and everyone who's not me may be melting down, but all my stress is in the way of a contact low, as it were. Other than being in a sandwich-generation holding pattern (when will the next phase of my life begin? no one knows), things are pretty good. I'm making more money than I ever have, I love my work, I get lots of downtime to read and hang out with James and mom, and my health is better than it's been in years. So yeah, if the universe could just leave my loved ones in peace, that'd be great.

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Hello Everyone! I just want to quickly let you all know about a couple of improvements we've made to the Starfighter site. Starting last week, every comic page of Starfighter has had a link below it to its own comment section. We're using the Disqus comment system, which I imagine many of you are already familiar with. It's been working well so far and we hope you all like it! Even though it's only been up for short while, your response has been wonderful. Hamlet and I have both really enjoyed getting to hear all of your thoughts on the comic so far!

One other small change - you'll notice a new latest page link in the upper right hand corner of every page on the Starfigheter website. I wanted to make it easier for all of you Starfighter veterans to reach the new page each week. Hopefully you'll all find this more convenient!

Thank you all so much again for your enthusiasm in the new comments! Oh! And also, Hamlet's just finished the latest page. I'd say now would be a good time to give that new link a try! -Thisbe

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