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‘Who are these blokes?’: The other kinds of ‘Aussie DNA’ threaded throughout the Socceroos – ABC News
Posted: June 15, 2022 at 6:28 pm
Last week, following the Socceroos' World Cup qualifying win over the United Arab Emirates, News Corp.. publisheda column that suggested the Australian team were largely unknown entities.
"Go the Socceroos. But who are these blokes?" the title read.
"I've scrolled through the starting team and mostly come up with blanks. Who's Bailey Wright? Isn't he in the World Surf League? One of Tyler Wright's brothers?
"Who's Jackson Irvine? The Wests Tigers halfback? Martin Boyle? Didn't he win The Voice? Jamie Maclaren? At last, a recognisable name. The Bathurst 1000 winner.
"Point being, without well-known figures such as Harry Kewell, Tim Cahill and Mark Viduka, the Socceroos have an identity crisis."
Setting aside the admission the writer did not watch the game, the question around who the Socceroos are in their post-"Golden Generation" glow does reflect a wider perspective of the casual Australian sports fan as well as the lack of storytelling across many mainstream media platforms about who these new, young, exciting Socceroos players really are.
The lack of awareness is due, in part, to the circumstances the team have found themselves in over the past three years.
Their qualification campaign for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar has been one of the longest of any nation in the world. Their first qualifier began all the way back in September of 2019, with a 3-0 win over Kuwait, butthen took a 500+ day pause the following year as the COVID-19 pandemic put a stop to global sport.
Their final qualifying gameended on Tuesday morning in a dramatic penalty shoot-out win against Peru, 1,008 days after the whole process began.
Not only that, but the Socceroos' disappearance from the public consciousness was also due to them playing 16 of their 20 qualification games away from home, largely in the Middle East,due to border closures and quarantine regulations.
That meantgames were played in the latest or earliest hours of Australia's mornings.
Without the Socceroos on home soil, then, they were out of sight, and therefore out of mind.
Luckily, the team's final, heroic win against the higher-ranked Peru which saw photos and stories splashed across almost every newspaper in the country means the interest in the current crop has reached fever pitch.
So, in order to assist those still asking, "who are these blokes?", ABC has provided a selection of some of the Socceroos players who made Australian history by qualifying for their fifth consecutive men's World Cup.
We start, of course, with the man of the hour: goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne.
Known as "Redders", the 33-year-old Sydney FC shot-stopper made just his third appearance for Australia when he came on to replace captain Mat Ryan in the final 10 minutes of the Peru game.
He is the true A-Leaguejourneyman, having represented five different clubs around Australia over the course of 14 seasons.
It got to the point where, in 2016, Redmayne contemplated quitting the A-League altogether, completing a barista course with the plan to work at a friend's cafe while finishing his degree on the way to becoming a primary school teacher.
"I just didn't think I was good enough, to be honest. It was a pretty rough stage in my life," he told News Corp. a few years later.
But Redmayne stuck it out, ultimately linking up with his first goalkeeping coach John Crawley at Sydney FC in January of 2017 the same man who also coached the gloveman Redmayne replaced on Tuesday, Mat Ryan.
From there, Redmayne grew, emerging as the club's number one following the departure of fellow SoccerooDanny Vukovic.
Since then, the "Grey Wiggle" has been the Sky Blues' saviour on multiple occasions, especially from the penalty spot, helping the club win the 2019 A-League Men grand final against Perth Glory through similarly theatrical shoot-out heroics.
It was Crawley, too, who opened the Socceroos door to Redmayne after he joined Arnold's coaching unit in 2019, and who was one of the only members of the entire Australia staff and team who knew about Tuesday's shock substitution plan.
The humble giant may have only played a small role in the larger Socceroos campaign, but Redmayne's story echoes that of many others.
They includeJamie Maclaren, Adam Taggart, Rhyan Grant, Mitchell Duke, Andrew Nabboutand Craig Goodwin, whohave spent most of their senior careers in the A-League Men.
While it's a competitionthat may not beregarded as one of the world's best but which has provided full-time football, professional environments, financial stabilityand an opportunity to grow it has been ideal, even for late-bloomers like Redmayne.
It is testament to the A-Leagues' ability to produce national players that the majority of Socceroos 17of 23 players listedagainst Peru started right here at home, representing one of the country's 12 ALM teams.
As one of the Socceroos' most experienced players, 31-year-old Aziz Behich has been MrDependable for Australia throughout their World Cup campaign. A snowstorm back in January was the only thing stopping him from appearing in every single qualifier, and he's one of the first players Arnold lists on his team sheet, which included both play-off games.
The son of Turkish-Cypriot migrants, Behich emerged through Victoria's football pathways with Green Gully SC before debuting for Melbourne Victory's senior team in January 2010. He made the switch to cross-town rivals Melbourne Heart later that year, where he slowly transitioned from his more attack-oriented youth football to become one of the country's most dependable left-backs.
Behich's heritage meant he was eligible to represent three nations Turkey, Cyprus, and Australia but he chose the latter when he accepted his first senior call-up in 2012.
Soon afterwards, Behich helped blazea trail that many other young Socceroos have since followed: spring-boarding from the ALM to ply his trade overseas, first with Turkish club Bursaspor and then with Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven. He returned to Turkey following the 2018 men's World Cup in Russia, where he remains with Giresunspor.
Behich, along with Mat Ryan, Trent Sainsbury, Tom Rogic, Mat Leckie, Aaron Mooy, and Bailey Wright, is part of that middle generation of Socceroos connecting the legendary players Australia remembers to the emerging group of talent.
They're the ones who have not been quite as highly celebrated for ensuring the Socceroos maintained their World Cup appearance streak, which the win over Peru has extended to a historic five in a row, but who have maintained club careers abroad and been crucial in handing down the lessons they learned from the legends of the game tothose still to come.
Like the more senior players, Behich relishes his mentoring role in bringing through the likes of young defenders like Kye Rowles, Fran Karai, Joel King, and Nathaniel Atkinson, all of whom have been introduced into the fold over the course of these qualifiers.
"All these young boys coming in they've been brilliant," he said before the Peru game.
"We have a great mix of experience and a lot of young boys coming in through the Olyroos [U-23 team], which is great to see.
"They had a few good games in the Olympics and, working with Arnie, I think they'll only get better.
"With new players coming into camp, and for us as older players, it's all about making them feel welcome and just to be comfortable so they can show their best football when they get the chance.
"Our success so far is about brotherhood. Every time we come together, it's like we've never been apart."
One of those emerging talents Behich speaks of is 25-year-old Ajdin Hrustic, the midfielder who scored the Socceroos' winner against the UAE last week.
Hrustic, alongsideKenny Dougall and Jackson Irvine,represents a different kind ofAustralian player: one who, after playingyouth football in Australia, skipped the A-Leagues altogether and moved straight to Europe in order to chase thedream.
Hrusticstarted out in England with Nottingham Forest before joining clubs in Austria, Germanyand the Netherlands when he was still a teenager, working his way through the tiers before signing a contract with Bundesliga side Eintracht Frankfurt in 2020.
In May, he became the first Australian to win the UEFA Europa League Europe's second-biggest club trophy after defeating Scottish side Rangers, scoring in the penalty-shootout decider.
Like Behich, Hrustic was also eligible for multiple nations including Bosnia and Romania through his parents, but despite being contacted by the former in 2017, turned down the offer due to his desire to represent the country of his birth: Australia.
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Largely overlooked by the Australian national teams since moving overseas, his dedication to his football eventually got him noticed by the Olyroos later that year, making his "A" international debut for the senior team in 2018.
Despite being one of the outsiders at the beginning of Australia's tumultuous qualifiers, Hrustic's technical abilities, visionand goal-scoring ability have seen him become a regular starter for the Socceroos and one of the players that overseas media singled out as one of the team's most talented and dangerous attacking weapons.
He's part of a cohort of younger and fringe players who may not have spent significant time Down Under (or, in the case of players like Karai, Martin Boyle, and Harry Souttar, any time at all), but who have felt a calling to pull on the green and gold and represent Australia none the less.
Finally, one of the Socceroos' most exciting players of thisgeneration is winger Awer Mabil, who scored Australia's final penalty against Peru before Andrew Redmayne's crucial save.
The 26-year-old represents our new migrant story: a first-generation arrival from Kenya whose family sought refuge and opportunity on our shores.
It was in his birthplace the Kakuma refugee camp that he first learned how to play football, using a rolled-up sock or a bundleof plastic bags in place of a ball and practising withbare feet in the sand.
He arrived in Australia with his family in 2006, settling in Adelaide, where his talent was quickly noticed and nourished. He made his debut for Adelaide United when he was just 17 and earned his first call-up to the Socceroos the following year, scoring his first goal for his adopted country in 2018 and celebrating alongside fellow debutant and South Sudanese refugee, Thomas Deng.
His club football has taken him around the world from Denmark to Portugal to Turkey, with a move to Spain now on the horizon.
As he told media after the Socceroos' win over Peru: in the moments he was preparing to take the decisive spot-kick, running through his mind were images of his family, the opportunities provided by Australia, and how he could use this one act to give back.
"I knew I was going to score," he said. "It was the only way to say 'thank you' to Australia on behalf of my family.
"My family fled Sudan because of the war. I was born in a hut, a little hut:my hotel room here is definitely bigger than the room we had as a family in that refugee camp.
"For Australia to take us in and resettle us, it gave me and my siblings and my whole family a chance at life. That's what I mean by thanking Australia for that chance of life, that chance of opportunity."
These players might not be the household names of Kewell, Cahill, or Viduka, but they are arguably much more representative of the "Aussie DNA" than that which head coach Graham Arnold emphasised over the course of these final two play-offs.
While their gutsy win over Peru certainly embodied the mateship and underdog spirit often associated with a more mythologised Australian identity the kind associated with 20th-century politics and parochial bush poems they also reflect an Australia that is more modern, more real, and more relevant to the rest of the country.
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They're a group who have embraced the opportunities Australia has provided them while also striving for more, with many taking themselves off to lesser-known clubs and leagues abroad to keep their dream alive.
They're a group who have shown remarkable resilience and commitment to the larger Socceroos project, spending extended periods of time away from family and friends as Australia battled through their COVID-ravaged qualifiers.
They're a group filled with young and emerging players who have stepped up to fill the voids left by departed or absent veterans, carrying the at-times-unbearable weight of the Socceroos' own history on their shoulders.
They're a group whose belief in themselves and each other has seen them weather the storm of growing media criticism, as well as the fading hopes of a footballing public who all but wrote them off against their Tuesday opponents.
But most of all, they're a group who reflect Australia'smulticultural, migrant-rich population,perhaps more so than any other national team we have.
Since the first Socceroos team was established in 1922, they have been one of the most accurate reflections of the country's ever-shifting cultural landscape: from theEnglish and Scottish immigrants who first introduced the game in the late 19th century,to the influx of Western European families who embraced First Nations footballers during the two world warsto,morerecently, the arrival of Asian, Arab, and African communities fleeing war and persecution, or simply seeking a better life in Australia.
The country's multicultural threads are all tied together, as they have always done, in thisSocceroos teamwith all thecurrent players descending directly from these histories.
From Redmayne and Behich to Hrustic and Mabil, this grouphas emergedfrom all backgrounds and experiencesto meet here, in these moments, to help each other thrive. They are the global game in local colours.
This is the true "Aussie DNA"that the Socceroos embody: a team that not only represents the story of Australian footballbut the story of Australia itself.
So if someone ever asks you "who the hell are these blokes?", you can confidently point to the diverse, vibrant nation around you and say: "This is who they are."
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Ron Paul: Respect The Fed? No, End The Fed OpEd – Eurasia Review
Posted: June 11, 2022 at 2:15 am
President Joe Biden has unveiled a three-part plan to fight inflation or at least make people think he is fighting inflation. One part of the plan involves having government agencies fix the supply chain problems that have led to shortages of numerous products. Of course, any attempt by the government to solve the supply chain problems (which were caused by prior government interventions such as shutting down the economy for over a year) will not just fail to solve the supply shortages but will create new problems.
Deficit reduction is another part of Bidens anti-inflation plan. However, Biden is not proposing cutting welfare or warfare spending. Instead, his deficit reduction plan consists of tax reforms to increase revenue, which is DC-speak for tax increases. History shows that tax increases unaccompanied by spending cuts end up increasing the deficit.
The last and most important part of Bidens inflation plan is recognizing that the Federal Reserve has the primary responsibility to control inflation. President Biden has pledged to respect the Feds independence, unlike former President Trump, who Biden accused of demeaning the Fed by subjecting the central bank to mean Tweets.
It is hard to believe that someone who has been in DC as long as Joe Biden really thinks Donald Trump was the first President to try to influence the Feds conduct of monetary policy. Since the Feds creation, Presidents have used public and private pressure to convince the Fed to tailor monetary policy to advance their policy and political goals. When it comes to demeaning the Fed, Trump has nothing on Lyndon Johnson, who, frustrated over the Feds refusal to tailor monetary policy to finance the Great Society and Vietnam war, threw the Fed chairman against a wall.
By passing the buck on inflation, Biden no doubt hopes to deflect blame from himself and his party before the midterm elections. Unlike Bidens previous inflation scapegoats greedy corporations and Vladimir Putin the Fed actually is responsible for creating and controlling inflation.
Price increases in specific sectors of the economy may be caused by a variety of factors, but economy-wide price increases are always the result of the Federal Reserves easy money policies. Inflation is actually the act of money-creation by the central bank. Widespread price increases are a symptom, not a cause, of inflation.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell remains committed to more rate increases this year. However, even if the Fed follows through on all its projected rate increases, rates will still be at historic lows. While there are those on the Fed board who want more and bigger rate increases, others worry that going too far too fast in increasing rates will cause a recession. Already many economic experts are saying America should be prepared for increase in unemployment caused by the Feds efforts to vanquish inflation. This tradeoff between high prices and high unemployment illustrates the insanity for our monetary policy.
Treasury Secretary and former Fed Chair Janet Yellen and Chairman Powell have both admitted they were wrong to publicly dismiss inflation as transitory. The fact that the two most recent Fed chairs made such a huge blunder (or purposely refused to admit what was clear to many people for over a year), shows the folly of relying on a secretive central bank to manage monetary policy. Instead of respecting the Feds independence, President Biden should work with Congress to audit, then end the Fed.
This article was published by RonPaul Institute.
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Grassley Joins Barrasso on Letter to HHS Secretary Becerra on Transitioning from the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency – Senator Chuck Grassley
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WASHINGTON Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and 24 Senatecolleagues in urging Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) SecretaryXavier Becerra to provide Congress, patients and providers with additionalinsight on the Departments plans for transitioning out of the COVID-19 publichealth emergency.
Theletter specifically requests information on how changes in temporary,pandemic-related policies will affect Medicare, Medicaid and Childrens HealthInsurance Program (CHIP) patients and providers in the coming months.
Asthe American people return to normalcy, workers, families, frontline healthcare providers, and a range of other stakeholders need transparency andcertainty regarding the path forward, theSenators wrote. This unpredictable patchwork of mandates and questionableauthorities will continue to erode the publics confidence in government healthagencies. For frontline health care providers and patients, theadministrations erratic approach to transitioning beyond a perpetual state ofpandemic emergency could prove particularly problematic.
Inaddition to Grassley and Barrasso, the letter was signed by Sens. John Boozman(R-Ark.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Shelly Moore Capito (R-W.Va.),Bill Cassidy (R-La.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Steve Daines(R-Mont.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), JamesLankford (R-Okla.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Roger Marshall (R-Kansas), RonPaul (R-Ky.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.),Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Dan Sullivan(R-Alaska), John Thune (R-S.D.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.).
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Guardians rally for 3 in 9th, send A’s to 10th straight loss – RiverBender.com
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Cleveland Guardians' Oscar Gonzalez, center, celebrates with Jos Ramrez, left, and Andrs Gimenez, right, after scoring the winning run against the Oakland Athletics during the ninth inning of a baseball game, Friday, June 10, 2022, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane)
Oakland Athletics starting pitcher Paul Blackburn applauds a defensive play by Elvis Andrus against the Cleveland Guardians during the sixth inning of a baseball game, Friday, June 10, 2022, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane)
Cleveland Guardians' Jos Ramrez hits a double against the Oakland Athletics during the first inning of a baseball game, Friday, June 10, 2022, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane)
Cleveland Guardians' Jos Ramrez fields the ball and throws out Oakland Athletics' Elvis Andrus at first base during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Friday, June 10, 2022, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane)
Cleveland Guardians' Oscar Gonzalez celebrates after scoring the winning run on a sacrifice fly by Luke Maile during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Oakland Athletics, Friday, June 10, 2022, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane)
Cleveland Guardians' Luke Maile hits a winning sacrifice fly during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Oakland Athletics, Friday, June 10, 2022, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane)
Cleveland Guardians' Oscar Mercado scores on a sacrifice fly by Owen Miller against the Oakland Athletics during the ninth inning of a baseball game, Friday, June 10, 2022, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane)
Oakland Athletics relief pitcher Dany Jimnez reacts after giving up a solo home run to Cleveland Guardians' Jose Ramrez during the ninth inning of a baseball game, Friday, June 10, 2022, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane)
Cleveland Guardians' Jose Ramrez celebrates as he rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run against the Oakland Athletics during the ninth inning of a baseball game, Friday, June 10, 2022, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane)
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Oakland Athletics' Kevin Smith throws out Cleveland Guardians' Amed Rosario at first base during the eighth inning of a baseball game, Friday, June 10, 2022, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane)
Cleveland Guardians relief pitcher Anthony Gose throws against the Oakland Athletics during the ninth inning of a baseball game, Friday, June 10, 2022, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane)
CLEVELAND (AP) Jos Ramrez doubled twice, then homered to begin a three-run rally in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Cleveland Guardians sent Oakland to its 10th straight loss, beating the Athletics 3-2 on Friday night.
The As are stuck in their first double-digit skid since 2011 and have been outscored 60-20 during the streak. Oakland has the worst record in the American League at 20-40 and has not won since May 29 against Texas.
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Every time you think youre going to get a break, they generally dont go your way, As manager Mark Kotsay said. Its never easy getting out of these situations. You have to earn them yourself.
Ramrez, who leads the majors with 56 RBIs, hit his 16th homer to lead off the ninth against Dany Jimnez (2-4). Cleveland then loaded the bases with no outs and Owen Miller delivered the tying sacrifice fly.
Sam Moll relieved and gave up an infield single to Steven Kwan that again loaded the bases. Luke Maile followed with a sacrifice fly that scored rookie Oscar Gonzalez, setting off a celebration in the rain that unexpectedly arrived during the inning.
Jos is the best player in baseball, Ive said it 50 times, Guardians designated hitter Josh Naylor said. Hes incredibly clutch. When he comes up in a close game, you know something is going to go down. Hes incredible.
Ramrez was the only baserunner to get past second until the ninth for the young Guardians, who have won nine of 11 and moved two games above .500.
Gonzalez went 1 for 4, giving him hits in 13 of his first 14 career games. Roger Maris held the previous Cleveland franchise mark with 12.
Sometimes you just get out of their way because you dont want to make them nervous, Guardians manager Terry Francona said. Were going up against some men and weve got some kids, and theyre doing OK.
Oakland right-hander Paul Blackburn pitched eight shutout innings in the longest outing of his career, allowing four hits and striking out three to lower his road ERA to 0.93.
Converted outfielder Anthony Gose (2-0) struck out two of the three batters he faced in the ninth. Cleveland starter Triston McKenzie worked six innings, allowing solo homers by Seth Brown and Sean Murphy.
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Brown homered in the first and Murphy went deep in the second. The A's have 37 home runs -- the second fewest in baseball -- and only managed five hits to drop their league-low batting average to .209.
Thats a good team and theyre hot right now, Blackburn said. Times like this are tough for anybody, but you try to come in every day with a clear mind and not look at any streak.
DOWNWARD SPIRAL
Athletics RHP Lou Trivino, who posted a team-high 22 saves in 2021, is tied for the most losses by a reliever in the American League with five. The deposed closer has a 9.20 ERA in 21 appearances this season, allowing 15 earned runs in 14 2/3 innings. Lou is one of the guys in the bullpen that we need to have success, Kotsay said. And hes had it here before.
TRAINERS ROOM
Athletics: 2B Jed Lowrie (wrist, shoulder soreness) was not in the lineup after being involved in an collision on the bases Thursday. Kotsay said Lowrie is pretty sore and has been in for treatment, but there is no guarantee hell be available off the bench. Lowrie has gone hitless in nine straight at-bats as part of a 5-for-42 slump.
Guardians: RHP Aaron Civale (left gluteal soreness), who was injured May 20 against Detroit, will make a second rehab start for Triple-A Columbus. Civale threw 50 pitches in two innings Thursday, allowing two runs at Indianapolis. By his account, Aaron was a little rusty, so hell pitch again in five days, manager Terry Francona said.
UP NEXT
Athletics: RHP Frankie Montas (2-6, 3.06 ERA) seeks to stop his career-long losing streak at five. Montas has a 2.87 ERA and is holding opponents to a .214 average over his past nine starts, but has not earned a win.
Guardians: RHP Zach Plesac (2-4, 4.72 ERA) has one win in his last seven starts, striking out eight over six innings in a 3-2 victory at Baltimore on June 5. Plesac has a 1-3 record with a 6.21 ERA during the timeframe.
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Scientists Intrigued by Treatment That Put Every Single Patient’s Cancer Into Remission – Futurism
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Doctors working on an experimental cancer treatment were heartened when every single patient in a small trial went into remission, their cancer becoming undetectable.
Published in theNew England Journal of Medicine, the paper that resulted from the trial details how all 12 patients who were given the experimental rectal cancer treatment went into remission without having chemotherapy.
"I believe," Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center scientist Luis Diaz Jr told the New York Times, "this is the first time this has happened in the history of cancer."
As an MSK press release about the study describes, study participants were treated to an incredible surprise when, after undergoing six months of the experimental immunotherapy treatment, they learned from their doctors that they were in remission.
The first patient, named Sascha, was preparing to travel to New York to have radiation therapy when she got the call from her oncologist, Andrea Cercek, who said the patient was "stunned and ecstatic" at the news.
"Its incredibly rewarding," Cercek said in the press release, "to get these happy tears and happy emails from the patients in this study who finish treatment and realize, 'Oh my God, I get to keep all my normal body functions that I feared I might lose to radiation or surgery.'"
The MSK doctors behind the study wanted to investigate whether immunotherapy alone could treat cancer, but they never expected it to work this well and especially could not have foreseen that none of the 12 people in the initial trial had adverse reactions to the drug, known as dostarlimab.
Dostarlimab is a checkpoint inhibitor, which "releases the brake on an immune cell, freeing it to recognize and attack cancer cells,"according to the team.
The finding is intriguing, but unlikely to represent a miracle cure. As the NYT cautioned, an average one in five people who take drugs like dostarlimab have an allergic reaction, and as many as 3 to 5 percent have severe reactions that include muscle weakness and trouble chewing and swallowing.
Dr. Alan Venook, a University of California, San Francisco colorectal cancer specialist who wasn't involved in the study, told the NYT that the lack of side effects means that "either they did not treat enough patients or, somehow, these cancers are just plain different."
Venook is not alone in his caution about the results. The trial was small, with only 12 participants, and has yet to be replicated.
In an editorial published in theNew England Journal of Medicine in tandem with the initial study, Dr. Hanna Sanoff, a gastrointestinal medical oncologist at the University of North Carolina who was also not involved in the study, wrote that the "small but compelling" trial needs more time before doctors can fully understand the results.
"Very little is known," Sanoff wrote, "about the duration of time needed to find out whether a clinical complete response to dostarlimab equates to cure."
All the same, these unprecedented results are clearly pretty exciting for doctors and patients alike.
READ MORE:Rectal Cancer Disappears After Experimental Use of Immunotherapy [Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center]
More immunotherapy:Scientists Complete First Human Test of Vaccine Against Brain Cancer
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The UK Is Apparently Just Driving Around a Hologram of the Queen Now – Futurism
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That's one way to do it!Crown Car
It was a big weekend for the United Kingdom's Queen Elizabeth II, who marked her astonishing 70 years on the throne the longest of any English monarch with an extremely British Platinum Jubilee celebration.
Due to her advanced age, Her Majesty was unable to jubilate IRL amongst her adoring subjects. But in a surreal display of absolutely unmatched energy, the longtime ruler did journey through through the streets,sort of via hologram, beamed into a historic 260-year-old golden carriage. Naturally.
Drawn by eight royal horses, the "hologram" featured archival footage of a smiling young Queen during her 1953 coronation ceremony, riding to Buckingham Palace in the same notoriously uncomfortable Queen-mobile, which has been used for every coronation procession since its commissioner King George III first took it for a spin in 1762.
As Gizmodo pointed out, it wasn't quite a hologram in the sense of a full 3D projection like in "Star Wars," although it was the same technique that resurrected Tupac Shakur at Coachella back in 2012 and seemingly the same trick used by Kanye West to gift his then-wife Kim a birthday message from her late father in 2020.
Regardless, such a public marriage of the old world and the new is fascinating, especially from an organization as traditional as the English monarchy.
In any case, if the carriage ride is as unbearable as the Queen says it is, we don't blame her for sending a hologram instead.
More on holograms: Man Married to Hologram Can't Talk to Wife Due to Software Glitch
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Russia Reportedly Trying to Hijack Space Telescope Currently Orbiting Earth – Futurism
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Russian space agency Roscosmos is struggling to keep operations going after the country invaded Ukraine, greatly distancing itself from the rest of the international space community in the process.
Russian scientists are now trying to gain control of a German telescope currently orbiting the Earth almost a million miles away, Ars Technica reports,in a bold escalation.
The Russian-built Spektr-RG spacecraft was launched by a Russian Proton rocket three years ago. It houses its primary instrument called eROSITA, an X-ray observatory built by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Germany, as well as the ART-XC instrument, a Russian high-energy X-ray telescope.
But ever since Russia invaded Ukraine, Germany cut off its cooperation with Roscosmos, forcing eROSITA into safe mode on February 26 to the dismay of Russian authorities,who now seem to want control of the instrument back.
Now, outspoken Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin is planning to take control over the telescope.
"I gave instructions to start work on restoring the operation of the German telescope in the Spektr-RG system so it works together with the Russian telescope," Rogozin said on Russian state TV, as quoted by German broadcaster Deutsche Welle.
"Despite Germany's demand to shut down one of the two telescopes at Spektr-RG, Russian specialists insist on continuing its work," he added. "Roscosmos will make relevant decisions in the near future."
German officials are now warning that turning on eROSITA without the involvement of the MPE could potentially cause damage, Deutsche Welle reports.
Rogozin is furious at Germany for halting the Spektr-RG spacecraft's operations, and is clearly not above slinging mud in the ensuing conflict.
"They the people that made the decision to shut down the telescope don't have a moral right to halt this research for humankind just because their pro-fascist views are close to our enemies," Rogozin said during his appearance.
What Russia's forceful intervention will mean for the future of the observatory remains to be seen. One thing's for sure, though: don't ever bet against chaos in the Russian space program.
READ MORE: Russia seeks to hijack German telescope on its X-ray spacecraft[Ars Technica]
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Priyanka Chopras Robert Wun number oscillates between intriguing realms of futurism and fashion – VOGUE India
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Jun 09, 2022 | 13:40:22 IST Chopra takes forward her Bulgari ambassadorship in a hard-to-miss Robert Wun number
Its been a hot minute since the Quanticostar donned an orange sequin Rasario gown for Bulgaris Jewelery Gala in Paris. While Chopras fascination with shimmer and sequins is the thing of dreams, it was outlived by another of her extravagant, bold looks that she has been opting for lately. Robert Wun, known for his inventive, cutting-edge designs that celebrate the female form, unveiled an ethereal contrast gown where fashion collided with futurism. Be it the masterful juggling of shapes and forms, or the razor-sharp contrast of black and white the contrast dove gown taking over the internet. While on one hand she left fashion enthusiasts stunned with this sartorial statement outfit, on the other hand, Instagram was flooded with a thread of memes relating the gowns resemblance to that of pencil shavings. Either way, the Priyanka ChoprasRobert Wun gown was undoubtedly a conversational piece to begin with. Scroll down to know the details of her look.
Chopra, in collaboration with her long term stylist Law Roach, donned Robert Wuns statement floor-grazing number featuring asymmetrical, dramatic white ruffles layered over a black fitted bodycon dress. The contrasting details blends flawlessly with the softness of the pleated elements, enhancing Chopras hourglass shape. Similar to her previous Rasario number, Chopra veered to her usual plunging neckline. With a sensuous tie-up detail at the back, the halter-neck gown was styled with an emerald embellished Bulgari necklace and earrings.
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MOVIES: Jurassic World, too much, Hustle, a good one from Adam Sandler and Neptune Frost, Afro-Futurism and anticolonialism – Canada’s National…
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The summer is finally going to the movies. The Jurassic dinosaurs are about, Lightyear is next and Elvis isn't far behind. I'm looking forward to Jazz Fest with loads of New Orleans music when it expands next week beyond that one theater in Toronto.
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Jurassic World Dominion: 3 stars
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Hustle: 3
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The Janes: 4
The Shepherdess and the 7 Songs: 2
JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION: There's too much here. This is not only the longest of these Jurassic films, the 6th in the series by the way, its got action that keeps on going and going. One encounter with these modern-time dinosaurs will come to a heart-pounding climax, and another starts up. Survive a truck that's rolled; a plane that's chewed, and something else happens, and then something else. It feels like Colin Trevorrow, the director and co-writer, threw in everything he could think of. It's not that it becomes tiring to watch, it's too exciting for that, but it loses credibility. You can see how it was built. And that undercuts the environmental message, that one character states like this: We act like we're alone here, but we're not.
The early going is most effective. Dinosaurs now roam anywhere (they were released last film). They don't terrorize cities like a Godzilla. They just live in the woods and don't bother you, unless you get too close to a mother's baby or encroach on their habitat. But there are poachers and a black market, illegal breeding, even underground dogfight-like shows. Characters from the first film (Laura Dern, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum) come together again to investigate. Others from later films (Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard) are back too. Chris pets a small dinosaur like a pet dog and in a great scene filmed near Kamloops, B.C. ropes a big one like a cowboy. Also back is a guy who was minor in film #1. He's now played by Campbell Scott and heads up the genetics developer BioSyn which started this dinosaur revival in the first place. They're now breeding locusts so they can sell farmers a special pesticide. They want to control food production all over the world. That takes the story into comic-book territory.
Teenager Maisie Lockwood becomes a prime target for reasons too complicated to explain except that BioSyn deems her the most valuable intellectual property on the planet. Much of the action is to keep her safe. But connecting all these story lines is shaky at best. The work of scientists is judgedone has regretsand who knew the CIA has a Dangerous Species Division. Don't think about it. Dig the sights in several countries and the action. (In theaters everywhere) 3 out of 5
HUSTLE: Adam Sandler has a spotty record in his movie career but don't pass up this one. It's bright and lively and you don't even have to be a basketball fan to enjoy it. Fans will be extra delighted though because it's adorned with men from the sport they'll recognize. Men like Shaq, Seth Curry, Dirk Nowitzki, Allen Iverson, Charles Barkley (now a broadcaster), coaches and even owners, like Mark Cuban. And a lot of current players. LeBron James is a co-producer and probably used his status to bring them in.
One of them, a journeyman named Juancho Hernangmez, currently with the Utah Jazz, plays the second lead, a Spanish kid that Sandler, as a scout, finds and wants to recruit for the Philadelphia 76ers. But Ben Foster, as the owner and son of the original boss (Robert Duvall) blocks him out of spite. The drama shows Sandler's efforts anyway, culminating in an event that apparently is bigger in football than in basketball - a caveat that is for the more knowledgeable. The film is perky, with a snappy pace, thanks to Jeremiah Zagar's direction, and has all the drama you need in these movies with a sports theme. It's light but fun. Queen Latifah plays Sandler's wife and Heidi Gardner is the owner's sister. (Netflix) 3 out of 5
NEPTUNE FROST: Here's a blast against colonialism and exploitation in Africa that comes with a huge imaginative drive and lots of music. It's by Saul Williams, a poet, rapper and actor from the U.S. , co-directing with Anisia Uzeyman, from Rwanda, and it speaks to almost anywhere on the continent. In fact, it was filmed in neighboring Burundi. It's got high and low technology, Afro-Futurism and a very strong voice but says its most pungent words in song. We are not hidden. We are ignored, the film says through one character and with a dream-world of lights and graphics that comes on now and then. I was born in my 23rd year says a narrator. That's when she came to realize what was going on. Men are forced to work as miners, what they dig up goes into iPhones and modern technology, but few who use the devices know that. An authority controls the country, puts down student demonstrations and keeps the men working.
Along with imperialism, the film attacks homophobia. The main character, Neptune, appears as a man at first (played by Elvis Ngabo) and then as a woman (Cheryl Isheja). She connects with an escaped miner (Bertrand Ninteretse ), first in dreams, then for real, and their protests join up. There's vibrant music, with drums throbbing and the film is invigorating in both sound and its visuals. And there are Canadian connections - the Indigenous collective A Tribe Called Red helped produce it. Ninteretse, who goes by the name "Kaya Free" has been living in Regina since then. And according to one character most of the mining companies digging in that part of Africa are based in Toronto. Maybe, but the Russians and Chinese are busy too and the film is a loud, tuneful middle finger. (In two theaters now: Vancouver's Cinematheque and Regina's Mayfair and Toronto next month) 3 out of 5
THE JANES: Once again. Absolutely timely. While we wait to hear whether Roe vs Wade and the right to legal abortions will be reversed in the U.S., here's a stunning documentary about the issues. It's history but could be current. And it's candid and passionate. It's the story of a group of women in Chicago, 50 years ago, who provided abortions because they saw the need. If not them, organized crime would have, and did. Graduates of the anti-war and civil rights movements, they recognized that women deserved rights over their own bodies. They found a few doctors, advertised in alternative papers and on bulletin boards to Call Jane and helped women get the procedure. Chicago, one of them recalls was a town where people did stuff.
They have gray hair now and wrinkles but their stories in new interviews are compelling and they tell them with pride. They had a philosophical obligation, one says, to disrespect a law that disrespected women. That attitude runs through all their stories but so does the tension of what they were doing. Security and secrecy where crucial. A big setback came when they found out that one of their doctors (the most adept at abortions) wasn't a doctor at all. In a new interview he talks candidly and doesn't apologize. But the women had to adjust: they started performing the abortions themselves. Eventually they were found out and arrested. They state their case though. The need was there: 11,000 abortions over five years prove it. The film by Emma Pildes and Tia Lessin debuted at Sundance.(Streaming on CRAVE) 4 out of 5
THE SHEPHERDESS AND THE SEVEN SONGS: It's a sociological study, an ethnographic examination, a fairy tale and a rich drama about women's rights in rural India. At least a part of it, just outside the disputed region in the north, Kashmir. It plays like a folktale, and in fact was written as such by the renowned author Vijaydan Detha. The feminist theme is illustrated by the story of one who has few rights and asserts her power through subterfuge. Laila was won in a test of strength by a man visiting Kashmir, coerced into marrying him and then taken to his village.
It's a sin to be born beautiful in a poor society, she's told. We see why. The local station master (i.e. police) comes on to her. Her husband doesn't notice. The cop's deputy comes on too and she tricks them all. Three times she arranges a tryst with the deputy but each time contrives to bring her husband along. It's not only a trick against the one guy but also a test to see if her husband is strong enough to protect her. Above all it's a sign of how clever she is. And it seems timeless: originally it feels 100s of years old. Then a truck drives by. And there are news reports about protests in Kashmir over a new government law. The film it turns out is absolutely current. The presentation is archaic but the songs propel it and Navjot Randhawa as Laila is endearing. (Art houses including Cinematheque Vancouver) 2 out of 5
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China Publishes the Most Detailed Map of the Moon Ever Made – Futurism
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Who doesn't want to know every nook and cranny of the Moon?Singular Focus
There's now a map of the Moon's surface more detailed than any that came before it.
Published in the journal Science Bulletin, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the country's Institute of Geochemistry, and other organizations compiled known information about the Moon's surface in a recent study that includes this wildly-detailed map of the lunar terrain.
As the study notes, the scale of the map is an incredibly precise 1:2,500,000 scale that highlights all known rocks, craters, basins, and structures on the Moon's surface.
Though this is far from the first lunar map, it is the researchers behind it say it's the most detailed yet. To get there, they sifted through lunar geology data from the better part of the last century to achieve the map's stunning scale, featuring a total of 90 different types of structures highlighted on its color-coded key.
As the researchers note, there are partial maps of the lunar surface that are double the scale of this one (eg, ones that are 1:5,000,000), but this map is the first to date that logs the entire surface of the Moon at such a high scale.
Even as the US, China, and Russia are engaged in a three-way space race amid political tensions, this map which was built using lunar surface data from all three countries and some from others as well serves as a testament to the unifying power of science.
That, and to how freaking far we've come in lunar studies.
READ MORE:The 1:2,500,000-scale geologic map of the global moon [Science Bulletin]
More on the Moon:NASA Says It's a Priority to Investigate Strange Domes on the Moon
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