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Volume 2 Issue 7 www.UCastStudios.com What’s Wrong With McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines? By Turner Stephens McDonald’s Ice Cream instead?” The pin has 495 is out of stock at so many replies, revealing that most locations and is such a customers denied their ice consistent problem that many cream do not go to another customers are exasperated. McDonald’s but decide to go For at least 6 years, there has to a different fast-food place been a constant stream of or a grocery store. complaints on social media The vanilla soft serve ice cream from McDonald’s customers is an ingredient in ten menu on this issue. Dozens of items such as McDonald’s YouTube videos stream out to Shakes, McFlurry® desserts, viewers on experiences from and sundaes so when the ice disappointed ice cream lovers cream machine is down, all on how, again and again, they these items are unavailable. could not buy an ice cream That’s it. Customers must item at McDonald’s. order a meal without these A video from Mashed cited dessert items or throw their $11 billion in sales, according which sets it apart to bring Harris’s video apparently hit the fact that the number hands up in frustration and to IDFA’s Dairy Delivers. Also, in repeat customers. Yet the a nerve, since it received an one customer complaint go eat somewhere else. 87% of Americans keep ice problem of a “broken ice cream astounding 7,233,228 views in 2016 on Twitter was This is difficult to understand. cream in their freezer. Take- machine” is not common at in just 39 days. that McDonald’s ice cream Why would McDonald’s allow home ice cream for the freezer other fast-food restaurants. Harris videoed himself going machines were broken. “The this problem to continue for is 200% more popular than Johnny Harris posted the to several McDonald’s and Real Reason McDonald’s Ice years? Ice cream is a growing impulse ice cream, such as soft YouTube video, “The REAL being told by employees that Cream Machines Always Seem food category worldwide. serve ice cream at fast-food Reason McDonald’s Ice Cream the ice cream machine was to Be Broken” received over Retail ice cream unit sales restaurants. Machines Are Always Broken” broken. Over the course of 1.8 million views. Mashed grew 4.3% for the 12-month There is a tremendous amount on April 23rd this year. There the video, he revealed Taylor placed a pin at the top of the period ending May 2020, of ice cream competition are many YouTube videos that Company manufactures the comments section, “When according to dairyfoods.com. out there. For this reason, complain that McDonald’s ice cream machines for all the McDonald’s ice cream Each American consumer eats McDonald’s has low-price locations are often or “always” U.S. McDonald’s restaurants. machine is broken, where do an average of 23 gallons of ice ice cream items on its menu, unable to serve ice cream. Yet, you like to get your ice cream cream each year, which is over Continued on page 5 Entrepreneurs Are Motivated By Profit, Not Risk By Frank Shostak Of The Mises Institute effect on asset prices, since it systematic manner. is already embedded in asset This means that methods that prices. attempt to extract information Should, however, the central from historical data, such bank raise interest rates by 1 as fundamental analysis or percent, rather than the 0.5 technical analysis, are of percent expected by market little help, for whatever an participants, then the prices analyst uncovers in the data of financial assets will react to is already known to the market this additional increase. and hence will not assist in According to the MPT, “making money.” the individual investor The proponents of the cannot outsmart the market MPT argue that if past data by trading based on the contains no information for According to modern portfolio instantaneous. this expected increase prior available information, since the prediction of future prices, theory (MPT), financial asset For instance, if the central to the central bank raising the available information is then it follows that there is no prices fully reflect all available bank raises interest rates by interest rates. Note that once already contained in asset point in paying attention to and relevant information, 0.5 percent, and if market the central bank lifts the prices. Changes in asset prices fundamental analysis. and any adjustment to new interest rate by 0.5 percent, participants anticipated this occur because of news, which Does the MPT Framework information is virtually this increase will have no cannot be predicted in any action, asset prices will reflect Continued on page 2 Business AI To Power The Next Wave Of Updates To Google Maps By Market Crumbs Google gave a preview earlier Live View is now available eco-friendly route when it has low emissions zones such as reflected on the strides that this week of a handful of new on Android and iOS in select about the same ETA as the Germany, the Netherlands, have been made in the way features coming to Google malls in Chicago, Long Island, fastest route. France, Spain, and the UK people find their way around Maps this year thanks to Los Angeles, Newark, San will even get a feature over the last 20 years. improvements in artificial Francisco, San Jose, and this summer that alerts “Sixteen years ago, many of us intelligence. The most notable Seattle. Live View is set to them if their vehicle is held a printout of directions updates include Live View for roll out in select airports, allowed in a particular in one hand and the steering navigating indoors and the malls, and transit stations area as a result of the wheel in the other to get ability to select the most eco- in Tokyo and Zurich in zones. around— without information friendly route to get to your the coming months with Other features that about the traffic along your destination. additional cities to follow. roll out globally in the route or details about when Live View uses AR and a With the help of the U.S. coming months include your favorite restaurant was technology called global Department of Energy’s machine learning open,” Glasgow wrote. “Since localization to let Google National Renewable capabilities that suggest then, we’ve been pushing the Maps users explore indoor Energy Lab, Google routes that are popular boundaries of what a map places that are notoriously Maps is also rolling out in your city, information can do, propelled by the latest hard to navigate such as the ability to choose the about weather and air machine learning.” airports, transit stations, and route to your destination quality, and curbside Google hopes it can hold its malls. The feature allows users with the lowest carbon g r o c e r y p i c k u p grip on the maps space as it to hold their phone in front of footprint. Taking into Eco-friendly routes will information such as pickup plans to introduce more than them to find things such as consideration factors such launch later this year for users and delivery windows, fees, 100 AI-powered improvements the nearest elevator, baggage as road incline and traffic in the U.S. with the feature and order minimums. to Google Maps this year. claim, check-in counter, congestion, Google Maps expanding globally to follow. Google’s VP of Product, restroom, and ATM. will soon default to the most Users in countries that have Google Maps Dane Glasgow

Entrepreneurs Are Motivated By Profit, Not Risk, continued from page 1 Make Sense? anticipated lowering of interest relative prices of assets. To consumers’ responses and only unsystematic risk is Is it valid to argue that past rates by the central bank, suggest, then, that somehow counter responses to a given eliminated. Systematic risk information is completely while being regarded as old the market will quickly cause. This, of course, must cannot be removed through embedded in prices and news, which is therefore not incorporate all the future mean that market participants diversification. It is held therefore of no consequence? It supposed to have real effects, effects of various present not only must know that return on any stock or is questionable whether market will in fact set in motion the occurrences without telling us consumers’ preferences but portfolio is positively related participants can discount the boom-bust cycle. how it is done is questionable. also how these preferences are to the systematic risk, i.e., the duration and the strength of Obviously, these changes in Even if we were to accept that going to change. Consumer higher the systematic risk, the various phenomena. the real incomes of individuals modern technology enables all preferences, however, cannot higher the return. be revealed before consumers For instance, a market- will lead to changes in the market participants to have The systematic risk of stocks equal access to have acted. captures the reaction of news, there is still MPT Implies Diversification individual stocks to general the issue of news Reduces Investment Risk market movements. Some interpretation. It The basic idea of MPT is that stocks tend to be more has to be realized compiling a portfolio of volatile sensitive to market movements that markets stocks, i.e., risky stocks, will while other stocks display less are comprised lead to a reduction in overall sensitivity. U Cast News is a once a month physical newspaper, of individual risk. The guiding principle for The relative sensitivity to and an extension of U Cast Studios. investors who combining stocks in this way market movements is estimated U Cast News prints 10,000 copies a month, and is distributed to require time to is that each stock represents by means of statistical methods Calabasas, Agoura Hills, Westlake Village, Thousand Oaks, Newbury understand the activities that are affected by and is known as beta. (Beta Park, Simi Valley, Moorpark, and Chatsworth. implications of given factors differently. Once is the numerical description various causes and U Cast Studios is a collaborative YouTube channel/podcast network. combined, these differences of systematic risk). If a stock their implications will cancel each other out, has a beta of 2, it means that Publisher/Editor-in-chief – U Cast Studios/U Cast News for the prices of thereby reducing the total risk. on average it swings twice as Editor – Alec Moore financial assets. The theory indicates that much as the market. If the Layout & Production – Sybil Martinez Even if a market goes up 10 percent, the Accounting, Billing/Invoicing – Joshua Thompson/ risk can be broken into particular cause two parts. The first part is stock tends to rise 20 percent. Thompson Tax Group was anticipated If however, the stock has a beta Writers – Jane Miller, Alec Moore, Antarra Belcher, Chris Carnicelli, associated with the tendency by the market, of returns on a stock to move of 0.5, then it tends to be more Dustin Brewer, Isabella Giotis, John Tolson, Turner Stephens, Greg that does not stable than the market. Goodsell, Roberta Nadler, Mariah Jeffrey in the same direction as the mean it was general market. The other Are Profits Reward for Risk- Email – [email protected] understood Message – 805.551.5691 part of the risk results from Taking? and therefore factors peculiar to a particular Special Thanks – Andrew D. Bernstein, Vern Vegso, discounted. If company. Mike Yates, Kevin Banks, Isabella Giotis this were so, it Scan here The first part of the risk is Although every effort is made to insure accuracy in this publication, the would mean to read the publisher, its officers, agents or employees do not assume responsibility those market labeled systematic risk, the rest of this for statements or claims made by the manufacturers, authors or other participants could second part, unsystematic. article contributors, including without limitation: claims for liable, violation According to MPT, of right to privacy, copyright infringement or plagiarism. immediately assess future through diversification

2 — August 2021 / U CAST NEWS Business Steve Hackett Announces Release Of Surrender Of Silence Out HAVE A PRESS September 10th Legendary guitarist Steve classical-acoustic travelogue A s w i t h RELEASE? Hackett releases his new Under A Mediterranean Un d e r A studio rock album Surrender of Sky, which was released in Mediterranean We run press releases for businesses Silence on September 10th, via January and hit Number 2 Sky, Surrender for the low cost of $100 Inside Out Music. The album in the UK Classical Album of Silence was (certain restrictions apply) features 11 new songs as Steve Chart, Surrender of Silence also recorded Hackett has been working is a further exploration of d u r i n g For more information, contact hard through Lockdown and Hackett’s love of world music, L o c k d o w n 805.551.5691 or [email protected] has completed two studio discovering different sounds, and, again, Hackett has called upon “Lockdown cobwebs are blown The Devil’s Cathedral pools some of his musical friends away in one fell-swoop here!” the talents of Hackett’s entire from across the world to says Steve Hackett. “With touring band and features contribute. Hackett’s regular the monster rhythm section King’s atmospheric Gothic touring band of Roger King of Jonas, Craig, Nick, and organ and a powerhouse (keyboards, programming, and Phil along with Rob’s soaring rhythm display from Blundell orchestral arrangements), Rob sax and bass clarinet, Nad, and Reingold. Hackett’s Townsend (sax, clarinet), Jonas Amanda, and myself on vocals, vocals have never been better Reingold (bass), Nad Sylvan Roger’s darkly powerful organ, and his duet with Amanda (vocals), and Craig Blundell and my guitar, we plunge full- Lehmann adds emotion to (drums) are supplemented pelt into that wild release of Scorched Earth a lament for by Phil Ehart and Nick energy.” the environmental horrors D’Virgilio (drums), the vocal facing our planet. Throughout talents of Amanda Lehmann, Our journey takes us from the classical orchestrations Hackett’s guitars add a rich Durga and Lorelei McBroom, tapestry of color with soaring Christine Townsend (violin, of Russia (Natalia) to the Copyright © 2021 Chipster PR & Consulting, Inc., plains of Africa (Wingbeats) solos and intricate weaving viola), Malik Mansurov (tar) melodies. All Rghts Reserved. and Sodirkhon Ubaidulloev to mysterious Eastern shores albums for release within the moods, and textures to deliver (dutar). (Shanghai To Samarkand), Steve Hackett “Surrender of same year! a rock album of extraordinary all via the ocean’s depths Silence” track listing: This new album is full-on (Relaxation Music for Sharks Hot on the heels of his variety, power, and beauty. electric… (featuring feeding frenzy)). Continued on page 4

Moorpark College Theatre Arts Offers Free Performances Of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” First in-person performances musicals about the unlikeliest Moorpark College performing moorparkcollege.edu/ on stage since fall 2019. of heroes: a quirky yet in this production. With pac. The Moorpark College charming cast of outsiders for the Exotic Animal Training For additional Theatre Arts Department is whom a spelling bee is the one Management/America’s information regarding thrilled to offer FREE tickets place where they can stand out Teaching Zoo open and live, “The 25th Annual to its summer production of and fit in at the same time. in-person theatre returning, Putnam County “The 25th Annual Putnam The original production it’s wonderful to see so many Spelling Bee” or County Spelling Bee,” July was conceived by Rebecca people from the community the Moorpark 22 through August 8 with Feldman with music and coming back to enjoy the College Theatre Arts 2019 Champion of Higher Thursday through Saturday lyrics by William Finn, a Moorpark College campus.” program, please contact John Education for the Associate performances at 8 p.m. and book by Rachel Sheinkin “The 25th Annual Putnam Loprieno at (805) 378-1469 Degree for Transfer Pathway. Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. and additional material by Jay County Spelling Bee” will or at [email protected]. It is also a designated This Tony Award-winning Reisswith will be presented run July 22, 23, 24, 29, 30, Moorpark College is located Hispanic-Serving Institution. musical is being offered as a in the Studio Theatre of the 31, and August 5, 6, 7 at 8 at 7075 Campus Road in The college’s signature career/ Moving Forward Together Moorpark College Performing p.m. and July 25 and August Moorpark, 93021. technical programs include nursing, radiologic technology, event as Moorpark College Arts Center. 1, 8 at 2 p.m. in the studio About Moorpark College biotechnology, and journalism. welcomes students, faculty, “Our Theatre Arts students theatre at Moorpark College. Moorpark College is one of The college’s America’s staff, and community back are excited to be performing While some of the language three colleges in the Ventura Teaching Zoo is the only to campus. before a live audience again,” may not be appropriate for County Community College associate degree exotic “The 25th Annual Putnam said John Loprieno, director young children, this upbeat District and annually serves animal training program in County Spelling Bee” is a and theatre arts faculty musical romp promises fun for more than 14,000 students. the country. To learn more, hilarious tale of overachievers’ member. “We couldn’t think the entire family. Tickets are Founded in 1967, Moorpark visit MoorparkCollege.edu or angst chronicling the of a better way to welcome FREE to anyone interested, College is fully accredited follow @MoorparkCollege on experience of six adolescent everyone back to campus than but seating is limited so you must make a reservation and has the highest six-year social media. outsiders vying for the spelling by offering free performances. completion rate within the championship of a lifetime. Best of all, we have familiar through the Moorpark Contact: John Loprieno College Performing Arts California Community The show’s Tony Award- faces from years past, as well College System. The Campaign 805-378-1469 winning creative team has as many newcomers to the Center Box Office at (805) 378-1485 or online at www. for College Opportunity [email protected] created the unlikeliest of hit theatre arts program and named Moorpark College a

U CAST NEWS / August 2021 — 3 Business The World’s Top 10 Gold Producers In 2020 By Peter Schiff Of Schiff Gold Who produces the world’s onset of the 2008 financial the Russian government is the the first time in several years the first time the country has gold? crisis. The recent slowdown biggest buyer of Russian gold. and has declined since 2019. produced more than 100 tons Gold production fell again in mine production is more The country has increased Nevada produces about 80% of gold. Muruntau ranks as the in 2020. According to the concerning. In fact, many output every year since 2010. of US gold. world’s largest open-pit gold World Gold Council, gold people speculate we may be In 2019, Russia moved ahead 5. Canada – 170.6 tons mine by area. Some geologists at or near “peak gold.” This is of Australia to become the think it may sit on the largest production came in at 3,478 Canada has held the fifth spot tons last year. That compares the point where remaining gold deposit in the the amount of in the rankings world. with mine output of 3,597 for four tons in 2019. gold mined out 9. Mexico – 101.6 tons of the earth straight years. The decline was primarily will begin to Production was Mexican gold mine output driven by disruptions in shrink every flat in 2020, fell for the fifth straight year, mine production due to the year. Some dropping by but the country held on to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it p r o m i n e n t about 12 tons. number nine spot. marked the second straight pl ayer s i n 6. Ghana – 10. Indonesia – 100.9 tons yearly drop in mine output and the mining 138.7 tons This small South Pacific nation continued a trend of flatlining industry think gold mine production. Ghana moved mines about 3% of the world’s we’re close to ahead of South gold supply. It is home to the Looking at general the trend, that point. Africa in 2019 world’s second-largest gold we see signs of plateauing So, which to become mine. mine output over the last five c o u n t r i e s Africa’s leading years. According to the WGC, Notably absent from the list produced the gold producer. of top gold producers – South production was up 77.72 tons most gold in 2020? number two gold producer It is the only African country between 2015 and 2016, 33.92 in the world. Africa. The country once led 1. China – 368.3 tons in the top-10. the world in gold output. A tons between 2016 and 2017, 3. Australia – 327.8 tons and 28 tons between 2017 and China has ranked as the 7. Brazil – 107.0 tons 2018 study projected South 2018. Gold production then world’s top gold producer for Australia has boosted gold Brazil moved up from the Africa could run out of gold dropped 56 tons between 2018 many years, but production mine output for eight straight number 10 spot in 2019. It within four decades. Analysts and 2019. has dropped over the last four. years. The minerals industry, saw increased mine output for say that at current production More strict environmental including gold, makes up the third straight year. levels, the country has only 39 Gold production has generally about half of Australia’s total years of accessible gold reserves regulations have put a drag 8. Uzbekistan – 101.6 tons increased every year since exports. remaining. the 1970s. There was a drop on mine output. 4. United States – 190.2 tons Uzbekistan is a newcomer to Peru also fell off the top-1o list. in production in 2008, but 2. Russia – 331.1 tons the list. Uzbek mine output that was something of an Last year, gold production In 2018, Peru ranked sixth in Russia produces much of the increased dramatically in 2020 the world. anomaly, as it occurred at the gold consumed in Europe, but dropped below 200 tons for from 94.6 tons in 2019. It was

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4 — August 2021 / U CAST NEWS Business Investors Are On The Lookout For A Crash. But Prices Keep Going Up By Doug French Of The Mises Institute An insider confided to a friend of twenty-five times earnings. “From both a monetary and In 2010, an opportunistic beat, the company then sold that all he is doing right now is A Las Vegas real estate broker fiscal perspective, authorities Carl Ichan bought it for $150 the Aria and Vdara real estate transaction work for real estate and developer who is also have made sure that distress million (essentially the trade to Blackstone for $3.9 billion holders who are selling now liens on the property), “sold and will lease the properties before the market crashes. His the furniture, and flipped it back for $215 million a year in clients, members of Sin City’s to New York developer Steven rent to start, or a 5.5 percent Illuminati, once bitten by the Witkoff for $600 million cap rate. ‘08 crash, believe they’ll beat seven years later,” Konrad Once upon a time, the casino the crowd to the sales window Putzier reported earlier this was king of the Strip’s income before the local retail and year. department. Not so much office market collapses. Witkoff couldn’t obtain anymore. Hotel casinos might Tiny capitalization rates a construction loan to as well be shopping malls with translating into unsustainable finish and defaulted on some slots and table games values are being dangled in loans from JPMorgan attached. During the boom front of these folks and they Chase and Deutsche years, the casino accounted Image Courtesy Of Mises are willing to absorb the tax Bank AG, as well as more than for only 30 to 40 percent of consequences to cash out and $200 million in subordinated revenues. And while the floor be ready to repurchase their doing business in red-hot would be extremely limited debt held by South Korean space, with the odds stacked properties back at a discount Reno said recently, “Amazon in all walks of life,” Cedrik investors. in the houses,’ favor has crept in a couple of years. buildings will start selling for Lachance, Green Street upward in recent years, it’s still three CAPs soon.” Advisors’ head of global Koch appeared, bought the Easy peasy. JPMorgan note for $350 not half a property’s revenue. Back in the days of quasi- real estate investment trusts With the country just (REIT) research told the WSJ. million, and waved goodbye Ludwig von Mises explained, laissez-faire, a pandemic to the South Koreans and “Interventionism means that emerging from lockdown, would have created plenty of Zell does think retail where’s the crash already? The Witkoff. Koch has brought the government not only opportunities for the Zells properties are a “falling knife.” back Mr. Soffer to restart fails to protect the smooth original grave dancer, Sam of the world, but, as Grant Zell said, “There obviously is Zell, has left the cemetery and the project. Putzier wrote in functioning of the market explains, “Hotels, malls, and going to be an opportunity March that the project was economy, but that it interferes is “following the pack and other properties have suffered in retail. I just don’t think it’s spending big on something far from a sure bet. with the various market enormous declines in revenue. here yet.” He added that hotels phenomena; it interferes with safer,” Peter Grant wrote in But few owners have been also look expensive: “I can’t However, the opening the Wall Street Journal. of Resorts World on the prices, with wage rates, interest forced to sell at steep discounts relate… pricing to the way I rates, and profits.”C One of Zell’s companies paid thanks to government see opportunity.” former Stardust site on the $3.4 billion for Monmouth stimulus programs and the Strip’s north end recently Mr. Zell’s goal was always to Billionaire Charles Koch can has the town abuzz. The reinvest that cash. “What it Real Estate Investment Corp. Federal Reserve’s easy money relate. His Koch Real Estate Not all distressed, Monmouth policy which kept a lid on Fontainebleau is nearby. tells you about the Covid era Investments took over the is that they just couldn’t find “owns 120 industrial properties foreclosure.” unfinished multibillion-dollar Further south on the Strip, in 31 states,” Grant reported. where gaming has taken true distress,” Mr. Lachance Tenants bellied up to the hotel and casino Fontainebleau said. No distress means a “The sector is one of the most Paycheck Protection Program development on the Las Vegas a backseat to real estate profitable because of high dealing, MGM announced manipulated market that (PPP) bar and while having Strip after the previous owner economic actors cannot assess demand for fulfillment centers trouble operating due to labor defaulted on the mortgage. it was buying its 50 percent from e-commerce companies partner Dubai World out of properly. shortages, with staff staying Florida developer Jeffrey Soffer such as Amazon.com Inc.” home on the taxpayer’s dime, the sprawling CityCenter Las Vegas was once a city bankrupted the sixty-three- project for more than $2.1 driven by odds. No more. Now Bloomberg reported a year ago they are paying rent. As for story, four thousand–room that Amazon-leased buildings Amazon and other fulfillment billion, providing MGM full the government has loaded the project in the 2008 crash before ownership of the Aria and dice. could sell for a capitalization tenants, covid was a colossus. the doors were ever opened. rate of 4 percent, the equivalent Vdara resorts. Not missing a

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U CAST NEWS / August 2021 — 5 Lifestyle The War Over Genetic Privacy Is Just Beginning By John Whitehead Of The Rutherford Institute “When you upload your DNA, an oil tycoon. Or the sibling the use of genetic genealogy, these genealogy databases. have forbidden police from you’re potentially becoming of a serial killer. which allows police to match “In the interest of public safety, using government databases a genetic informant on the Without even realizing it, up an unknown suspect’s don’t you want to make it easy to track family members rest of your family.”— Law by submitting your DNA to crime scene DNA with that for people to be caught? Police of suspects, the genealogy professor Elizabeth Joh an ancestry database, you’re of any family members in a websites provided a loophole “Guilt by association” has giving the police access genealogy database. that proved irresistible taken on new connotations to the genetic makeup, Police were able to to law enforcement. in the technological age. relationships, and health identify DeAngelo Hoping to close that using the DNA of a All of those fascinating, profiles of every relative—past, loophole, a few states present, and future—in your distant cousin found have started introducing genealogical searches that in a public DNA allow you to trace your family family, whether or not they legislation to restrict ever agreed to be part of such database. Once police when and how police tree by way of a DNA sample narrowed the suspect can now be used against you a database. use these genealogical list to DeAngelo, they databases, with and those you love. After all, a DNA print reveals tracked him—snatched everything about “who we are, Maryland requiring As of 2019, more than 26 up a tissue he had tossed that they can only be million people had added their where we come from, and who in a trash can—and we will be.” used for serious violent DNA to ancestry databases. used his DNA on the tissue really want to do their job. crimes such as murder and It’s estimated those databases It’s what police like to refer to connect him to a rash of They’re not after you. They rape, only after they exhaust could top 100 million profiles to as a “modern fingerprint.” rapes and murders from the just want to make you safe,” other investigatory methods, within the year, thanks to Whereas fingerprint 1970s and ‘80s. insists Colleen Fitzpatrick, and only under the supervision the aggressive marketing of technology created a watershed Although DeAngelo was the a co-founder of the DNA of a judge. companies such as Ancestry moment for police in their first public arrest made using Doe Project, which identifies and 23andMe. Yet the debate over genetic ability to “crack” a case, DNA forensic genealogy, police unknown bodies and helps privacy—and when one’s DNA It’s a tempting proposition: technology is now being hailed have identified more than find suspects in old crimes. becomes a public commodity provide some mega- by law enforcement agencies 150 suspects since then. Except it’s not just psychopaths outside the protection of corporation with a spit sample as the magic bullet in crime- Most recently, police relied on and serial rapists who get the Fourth Amendment’s or a cheek swab, and in return, solving. genetic genealogy to nab the caught up in the investigative prohibition on warrantless you get to learn everything Indeed, police have begun killer of a 15-year-old girl who dragnet. searches and seizures—is only about who you are, where you was stabbed to death nearly 50 using ancestry databases to Anyone who comes up as the beginning. came from, and who is part of solve cold cases that have years ago. your extended family. a possible DNA match— remained unsolved for Who wouldn’t want to get including distant family The possibilities are endless. decades. psychopaths and serial rapists Scan here members—suddenly becomes to read the You could be the fourth For instance, in 2018, former off the streets and safely part of a circle of suspects that behind bars, right? At least, rest of this cousin once removed of Queen police officer Joseph DeAngelo must be tracked, investigated, article Elizabeth II of England. Or was flagged as the notorious that’s the argument being used and ruled out. the illegitimate grandchild of “Golden State Killer” through by law enforcement to support their unrestricted access to Although a number of states

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6 — August 2021 / U CAST NEWS Lifestyle You May Be Paying A Higher Tax Rate Than A Billionaire By Paul Kiel, Jeff Ernsthausen And Jesse Eisinger Of ProPublica How is that possible? a way that makes them almost a total of nearly $6,900 in Generally, the wealthy of all invisible: Not only are they this instance — as a tax that stripes keep their tax rates subtracted automatically each is effectively borne by workers low in multiple ways. Some pay period, but the burden is since it’s part of the cost of are simple: They avoid forms split. Half is taken directly paying their wages. 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8 — August 2021 / U CAST NEWS Lifestyle Top 5 Restaurants You HAVE To Visit In Ventura County By Mariah Jeffrey These five restaurants are 2. Neptune’s Net flavorful, and premium cut. amazing food at a dazzling affordable, and they have 42505 Pacific Coast Gen is perfect for birthdays oceanfront location! The AMAZING food! If you Highway Malibu, California and celebrations with friends Jalapeno Poppers are hands haven’t heard of them, I am 90265 and family. When ordering, down the best appetizer I about to tell you. it’s hard to know what to get have ever had at any Pizza This gem is located in Malibu since the menu is HUGE, Joint. You can get 6 of these Follow me on Instagram right across the beach, with a for more reviews of local and maybe you have never cheesy, bacon jalapeno babies panoramic ocean view. The tried this type of food. That’s for only $5.25. Everything restaurants in Southern vibe here is great – with most California @ocfoood. why I’m here! I have been to else is great as well, such as of the seating being outdoors, this restaurant 10+ times so their salad bar, specialty pizza, and the two times I went, I’ve Rice By Mama it obviously must be good. and wide selection of beer. 1. Cho Cho San Restaurant gotten to see motorcyclists promenade that is open to the When you go, order beef However, I would be crazy not doing wheelies right before my public to walk through. 400 Thousand Oaks Blvd, and pork bulgogi, Hawaiian to highlight this dish since it is eyes! It was definitely a sight Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 pork belly, japchae (noodles), like no other in all of Ventura to see. This shrimp basket 4. Gen Korean BBQ House veggies, rice, shrimp, and County! These babies are a was $14.50, the gyoza to get you started. You must-try! 2721 Seaglass Way #3260, service was quick, can never go wrong with these Oxnard, CA 93036 and it filled me up! items, however, don’t just stick Highly recommend to those! Order everything Neptune’s Net you crave just make sure you to anyone that is finish your plate! The Oxnard looking to eat a location is the best location I fresh, seafood lunch have tried t hus far! with a great view Cho Cho San Restaurant and entertainment. 5. Toppers Pizza Place This is the best sushi in Toppers Pizza 3. Rice by Mama 2701 Peninsula Rd, Oxnard, Thousand Oaks and maybe the CA 93035 best in all of Ventura County. 419 E Main St. Ventura, CA Gen Korean BBQ House This Toppers Pizza Location I visited this restaurant during 93001 All You Can Eat Korean BBQ happy hour which goes on Is in the heart of the Channel WOW. This place is good. for $24.99. The meat here is Islands Harbor, which serves every day from 2:30 PM to I was walking around so tender, 5 PM. I ordered the Dragon downtown Ventura when Fly Roll for $10 and Spicy I stumbled upon this Thai Tuna Crispy Rice for $5.50. restaurant. I ordered Chicken This meal was so good and Pad Thai ($12.95) and rice. surprisingly filling! What The portions are HUGE! No makes Cho Cho San unique question, I will definitely be is their special ponzu sauce coming back the next time and HUGE menu! I seriously I’m downtown. Downtown recommend you give this spot Ventura has 30 + restaurants, a try. unique boutiques, thrift shops, and they provide a great opportunity to support local businesses. They even transformed Main Street into a very spacious Neptune’s Net

U CAST NEWS / August 2021 — 9 Lifestyle Why Does Simi Valley Have A Mayor And A City Manager? By Alex Gandel When it comes to local alternate slates of two, every The mayor and city council government, most people don’t two years. The City’s Mayor members in Simi Valley are pay attention to it – when it is elected at-large every two not considered fully employed comes to the type of local years. The Mayor presides over in their positions, meaning government they have, they Council meetings and has one that they are encouraged to pay even lesser thought to it. vote. Council Members also have another source of income Simi Valley’s type of serve as Board Members of the to live off of. government is considered Ventura County Waterworks Compare and contrast this a Council-Manager form District No. 8 and the Simi with the type of government of government. What this Valley Library Board of the City of Los Angeles has. Trustees. essentially means is that the According to the City of Los Mayor and the City Council The City Council appoints Angeles’ website: (in Simi Valley’s case there both the City Manager and members representing fifteen drive policy, but they don’t “The City of Los Angeles is a are 4 City Council members) the City Attorney. The City districts are elected by the do much in way of day-to- Mayor-Council-Commission appoint a City Manager to Manager heads the executive people for four-year terms, day functionally running the form of government, as defined essentially run the day-to-day branch of the government, for a maximum of three terms. city. In Los Angeles, the mayor in the City Charter, originally business of the City of Simi implements City Council clocks in every morning and adopted by the voters of the Members of Boards & Valley. directives and policies, and functionally runs the city. City of Los Angeles, effective Commissions are generally manages the administration There are numerous different According to the City of Simi July 1, 1925, and reaffirmed appointed by the Mayor, and operational functions departments and heads of Valley’s website: by a new Charter effective July subject to the approval of the through the various those departments in Los “The City operates under the 1, 2000. City Council.” department heads. The City Angeles because the city is Council-Manager form of Manager is responsible for the A Mayor, City Controller, The difference between Simi’s so large, but the Mayor of government. The City’s four appointment of department and City Attorney are elected and Los Angeles’ form of Los Angeles’ only job is to be Council Members are elected heads, and also serves as the by City residents every four city governments is that the mayor and to be the head of at-large to four-year terms in City Clerk and City Treasurer.” years. 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10 — August 2021 / U CAST NEWS Lifestyle Superbug Fears Grow In The UK As Pig Farms Escalate Use Of Antibiotics By Andrew Wasley And Susannah Savage Of The Bureau Of Investigative Journalism The use of certain antibiotics received less attention from of the blood and deemed critical to human health Downing Street in recent years. abdomen. They are has surged on British pig farms Jim O’Neill, who chaired the deemed “critically supplying major supermarkets, UK government’s review into important” to human prompting fresh concerns about superbugs, said the Covid-19 health by the World the rise of antibiotic-resistant pandemic has underlined the Health Organization superbugs. need to put the issue of drug- (WHO). Despite Previously unpublished industry resistant bacteria back on this, they are used on data seen by the Bureau of the global political agenda. pig farms to combat Investigative Journalism, Vet He said: “There needs to be scour, an intestinal Record, and the Guardian shows much stronger international disease in young the use of a class of antibiotics agreement, and discipline piglets, and other prescribed for various infections following those agreements, that illnesses. in humans more than doubled we will dramatically reduce the This description on UK pig farms between 2015 use of antibiotics in animals – covers drugs that and 2019, with experts warning especially those that are critical are the sole option Copyright © 2021 The Bureau Of Investigative Journalism, of a potential further rise for human health.” Tesco and or one of a handful All rights reserved. because of impending changes Waitrose acknowledged they of choices to treat said: “Reductions in antibiotic on the use of zinc oxide, also to the sector. allow the use of the drugs by infections caused by bacteria use can be achieved if pigs commonly used to control The Bureau’s investigation has pork suppliers but insisted they transmitted from non-human are kept less intensively and scour. established the drugs are in use are used responsibly. sources (such as food poisoning) husbandry is improved.” or bacteria carrying “resistance Grace Webster, a vet from on pig farms supplying pork to Antibiotics are widely used in He added that farms should the Pig Health and Welfare Tesco and Waitrose. livestock production to treat genes” from non-human sources such as farm animals. not be permitted to take piglets Council, which brings together The increase in usage of this and prevent disease, particularly away from the sow at an early the industry and government, class of drugs, known as on factory farms where pigs Data compiled by the Agriculture age – a “stressful” practice said the sector had made aminoglycosides, came even and poultry are often reared and Horticulture Development associated with large increases progress by reducing overall as livestock farmers in the in overcrowded conditions in Board, an industry body, and in antibiotic use. usage, but added: “We do have UK cut back on the overall which bacteria can flourish. released under Freedom of great concern about losing zinc These farms can act as Information laws, shows the According to industry experts, use of antibiotics following the recent jump in the use of oxide because there’s a chance stark warnings that the drug incubators for potentially use of aminoglycosides jumped it will increase our antibiotics fatal drug-resistant diseases in from 2.6mg per kilogram of aminoglycosides is likely due resistance crisis could lead to to the phasing out of other use.” the deaths of millions of people humans. body weight in 2015 to 5.9mg in 2019. antibiotics such as colistin – a around the world by 2050. 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U CAST NEWS / August 2021 — 11 Sports Something’s Fishy. Why Is Mike Trout So Loyal To The Angels? By Alec Moore in the playoffs, tarnishing his In his rookie year, Trout led being terrible for years simply otherwise spectacular legacy. the league in stolen bases because they are paying him Mike Trout didn’t hit well in with 49. Over the years since, a lot of money. Maybe Trout his one playoff series. Perhaps his steals have dramatically anticipates that one day he too Trout is afraid he’d choke in declined down to 11 in 2019 will be terrible, but he assumes the postseason like Kershaw and then just one in the the Angels will likewise let so he decided it’s better not COVID-shortened 2020. him play out his deal with to get there. Perhaps he’s concerned that them, no matter how little he Trout is from New Jersey. One even if he wanted to leave does to help the team. might think he’d want to go LA, his legs no longer work The Angels changed their play close to home with the well enough to get himself to name from the Anaheim Image Courtesy Of Flickr And Ian D’Andrea Phillies, Yankees, or Mets. another city. Angels to the Los Angeles Mike Trout has been on the that’s a lot of money. But could Then again, everyone knows The same year Trout was Angels of Anaheim seven Angels for nearly a decade Trout have made a lot more New Jersey is pretty terrible so Rookie of the Year, the Angels years before Trout arrived. and has been the best player than that as a free agent? Also maybe Trout just wants to stay also added the great Albert And in 2016 they shortened in baseball since his first full yes. Instead, he committed to as far from there as possible. Pujols as a free agent. They it to simply the Los Angeles season in 2012. His greatness presumably playing the rest of So SoCal it is. signed Pujols to a 10-year deal Angels. So perhaps Trout got is as consistent as the Angels’… his career for a team that has Not to get too conspiratorial, when he was already 31. Like his LA teams confused and has um, not greatness. During his been consistently mediocre for but this is America in 2021 so Trout now, Pujols had been thought all along that he’s on spectacular career, his team has years. This begets the question: unfortunately we have to get the game’s best player for a the Los Angeles Dodgers, that made the postseason exactly WHY? Well, I have a few too conspiratorial. What if the decade. But his decline had perennial contender. I think once, in 2014. Yet Trout theories. Angels have some kind of dirt already begun and he spent this one is the most likely the first few years of his time scenario. So congrats, Mike has never once complained The city of Los Angeles’ other on Trout that they threatened publicly, never requested a to go public with if he left with the Angels as a relative Trout, on finally bringing the longtime baseball superstar, disappointment and the last city of Los Angeles a World trade, and when the Angels the Dodgers’ Clayton them? Is it possible that the offered him a contract great Mike Trout is secretly an few as a below-average player/ Series championship last year!* Kershaw, has a long track old man. And yet the Angels extension, he signed a 12-year record of underperforming actual trout masquerading as *Don’t tell him the sad truth. deal for $426,500,000. Yes, a human ballplayer? still play Pujols despite his Is The NBA Better With Parity? By Dustin Brewer It’s a debate that seems to 76ers have stayed committed It’s unfortunate but in the be as old as some sports to the (sometimes) ill-fitting NBA, an injury to a key themselves: is it better to pair of Joel Embiid and Ben player is essentially the end have parity or dynasties? In Simmons, hoping that the of a team’s title aspirations. the NBA, dynasties are much Process could take them to This year alone the Lakers more common as the Lakers, the promised land. saw a potential re-peat Spurs, Warriors, and (maybe Part of what makes the NFL disappear because of injuries you can say they’re a dynasty) so massively popular is the to Davis and LeBron James. the Miami Heat have claimed fact that while there are very Championship windows in the followed by teams needing 16 sport, fans will inevitably fall multiple titles over the last 20 bad teams when the season NBA are tight and an injury wins in the playoffs to win the for those sentimental teams, seasons. But is parity better starts, almost all of their 32 can derail everything. title. Now, doing that four or but history seems to favor the for a league where players are teams could conceivably have All this goes to say that five times in a decade is a feat dynasty. constantly pushing to try to be a shot at making the playoffs dynasties and league parity are of greatness that needs to be As more players join forces part of the next big dynasty? or winning the Super Bowl. both enjoyable for different celebrated. Michael Jordan and form super teams, The Brooklyn Nets made With 53-man rosters, there’s reasons. The thrill of believing is the GOAT for a variety of the outlier champion will future-mortgaging moves to a little more room for error almost any team has a shot reasons but leading the Bulls probably become rarer but team up James Harden, Kevin or for a team to be able to at the title is a lot better to six titles in eight seasons more memorable than ever. Durant, and Kyrie Irving and withstand injuries than on than the inevitable Thanos- certainly is a large part of his Fans will always love to see if that group splits up without an NBA team where teams like approach of a perennial legacy. unlikely success stories, but it’s multiple championships, it’ll usually use 10-man rotations favorite but there is still a flip Feel-good success stories will the dynasties that make those be hard to see it as a success. with a few players at the end side argument to be made. always have a place in any underdogs so unforgettable. Similarly, the Philadelphia of the bench. An NBA season is 82 games

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12 — August 2021 / U CAST NEWS Sports This Month In Sports History: August By Andrew Bernstein (The Official Photographer For The NBA) And Veronica An slew of iconic lines brings to Tyson would go on to lose was shooting under 70 on Packers. The 4-year contract memory a thousand different both of the titles to Evander regulation golf courses. Tiger was worth $134m rising to occasions. Perhaps what’s even Holyfield. Regardless, Tyson is Woods would go on to turn a possible $180m with a more impressive, is his loyalty a boxing legend with a record pro at age 20, win his first record $103m in guarantees. and dedication to his craft. of 50 wins and six losses. major at age 21, and became The record extension came Having consecutively called the youngest golfer to achieve deservedly so, as Rodgers 3,338 Laker games through the career grand slam at age has been the Packers star the span of four decades and 24. At age 43, Woods won quarterback since being nine championships, we open the Masters Tournament for drafted by the team in 2005. the refrigerator of history to the fifth time in his illustrious During his time there, Rodgers remember a man who has career. has collected many personal Image credit Reddit closed it so many times before, accolades along with team August 5th with the Jello jiggling and the achievements. Rodgers’ led butter getting hard. the Green Bay Packers to the On this day in 2002, the 2010 Super Bowl, where they sports world lost an icon, and won against the Pittsburgh the Los Angeles Lakers bid Steelers. The 304 passing farewell to a cherished family August 27th yards and three touchdowns member. The legendary Los On this day in 1995, Tiger were enough for him to be Angeles Lakers play-by-play Woods’ won the 95th U.S. named the Super Bowl MVP announcer Chick Hearn was Golf Amateur Championship. in 2010. In 2011, Rodgers won a pioneer in the early days of This was actually Woods’ the NFL MVP and in 2012 the television era. Known for second year claiming the title, was voted by his fellow players his rapid-fire broadcasting as he had won it in the previous as the best player in the league style, Hearn’s play-by-play year. The golfing legend would on the NFL Top 100 Players was simulcasted on radio go on to win the title in 1996, of 2012. The 9x Pro Bowler and television. Regardless of becoming the first and only August 29th continues to keep the Green the platform, Hearn had the player to win three consecutive On this day in 2018, star Bay Packers a contending team ability to captivate everyone. August 19th Amateur titles. Most golf quarterback Aaron Rodgers in the NFL. His talent to evoke imagery, On this day in 1995, Mike fans view Tiger as one of the signed an NFL record contract to play with words, brought Tyson returned to the ring. most successful athletes of extension with the Green Bay the game to those at home. After a four-year hiatus, Tyson all time, but What used to be known as showed he was still a force to his promising “Chickisms,” are now simply be reckoned with by defeating career started basketball lingo we’ve become Peter McNeeley in 89 seconds at a much accustomed to hearing every in the fight billed “He’s back.” younger age. day. Without Hearn, James Tyson was back and he Tiger Woods Harden wouldn’t get to the would continue to dominate. was a golf Writer Junkie “charity stripe,” terribly bad Following the McNeeley fight, prodigy. At the shots would never be degraded Tyson went on to win his next age of three, to such a simple yet descriptive three bouts. On March 16th, Tiger shot a term of “didn’t draw iron,” 1996, Tyson regained the score of 48 and nobody would have the WBC Heavyweight Title by over nine holes satisfaction of hearing their knocking out Frank Bruno in at the Navy favorite player “picking the the third round. On September Golf Course pocket” of an opponent 7th, 1996, Tyson regained the in Cypress, during a close game or ending WBA Heavyweight Title by California. up in the popcorn machine. knocking out Bruce Seldon By the age of 805.587.7966 They say a picture is worth a in the first round. However, 12, Woods thousand words, but Hearn’s

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U CAST NEWS / August 2021 — 13 Sports Sports Betting Constitutional Amendment Qualifies For 2022 Ballot In California By Evan Symon Of The California Globe A group of 18 tribes spent automatically go to state attempt, SCA 6, failed to $11 million to get 1.4 million mental health programs, reach a Senate vote despite signatures for the proposed public safety, education, and being initially passed in several amendment on the ballot. regulatory expenditures. All Senate Committees. A proposed constitutional sports betting at tribal casinos Native American tribes have amendment that would allow would see an additional cut to been the primary supporters sport betting at tribal casinos pay for regulatory costs and of the proposed constitutional and horse-racing track, as well other programs, with the exact amendment, noting that amount to be negotiated on as craps and roulette at tribal California is a large market both of whom had passed gaming control on California. casinos – garnered enough between the California tribes for sports betting that is being sports betting laws in the “This initiative does nothing signatures to get on the 2022 and the Governor should the served by neighboring states last 3 years, reported $134 to advance sports wagering, ballot. new proposition pass. and that legalization can bring million and $132 million in and instead expands the tribal Additional casino games in millions of tax revenue. The office of the Secretary taxes and fees being collected casinos’ tax-free monopoly on would also be legalized for of State confirmed that 1.4 “This is an important step respectively. gaming and rewards those tribal casinos should the new million signatures, all collected toward giving Californians In California, the total could operators for prioritizing their amendment pass, including by Native American tribes the opportunity to participate reach tens of millions according own wealth over public health roulette and craps. who wrote the amendment, in sports wagering while also to an analysis by the state and safety,” said Kyle Kirkland, had been verified. Tribal casinos have been establishing safeguards and Legislative Analyst’s Office president of the California According to the proposed attempting to expand into protections against underage (LAO). Gaming Association, on sports betting since 2008, gambling,” explained tribal amendment, sports betting “The magnitude of the Thursday. with a more concerted effort chairman of the Pechanga would only be allowed to increase in state revenues is Both sides have raised and launched in 2018 following Band of Luiseno Indians Mark be made in person at tribal uncertain, but could reach spent substantial funds over the U.S. Supreme Court’s Macarro on Thursday. casinos and California- tens of millions of dollars the amendment so far, with passage of Murphy v. licensed racetracks. All betting Nationwide, the expansion of annually,” noted the LAO. much more expected to be would be limited to those 21 National Collegiate Athletic sports betting has brought in However, the California thrown into the effort both for and up and to professional, Association, a landmark case an estimated $54 billion in Gaming Association, as well and against the amendment non-California collegiate, that ended the federal ban on bets, resulting in $3.2 billion as numerous card clubs who in the lead-up to the 2022 or amateur sporting events. sports betting. Ever since the of revenue for casinos and were not included in the election. Any college game in which a Murphy decision, 26 states other betting locations such amendment, have vowed California team plays would have passed legalized sports as racetracks. $534 million to fight hard against the not be open to betting, as well betting initiatives. Californian in taxes and revenue sharing Scan here upcoming proposition. They as to all high school events. lawmakers have repeatedly has also been generated for to read the argue that the tribal casinos authored legalization only state and local governments. rest of this A 10% tax on all gross sports are just using the amendment for the efforts to fizzle out. Pennsylvania and New Jersey, article betting revenues would Last years’ most prominent to further grow their tax-free The 2010-2014 San Francisco Giants Are the Worst Dynasty In Baseball History By Alec Moore Much has been written popular show “Dynasty” that appearances) and 1947-1956 about the greatest dynasties aired on ABC in the 1980s but Brooklyn Dodgers (just one in baseball history. The 1996- are probably better than the win, in 1955, but five other 2000 Yankees. The 1949-1953 “Dynasty” reboot currently World Series appearances in Yankees. The 1936-1939 airing on the CW. a decade). Not to mention Yankees. Okay, so most of I’m defining “dynasty” here as the 1927-1928 Yankees, the them were Yankees teams. But a team that won at least three 1961-1962 Yankees, and the there were also the 1972-1974 titles with no more than one 1977-1978 Yankees, all of Oakland A’s and the 1910- season not winning it between which lost the World Series 1913 Philadelphia A’s. In less each championship. The 2010- the year before winning back- transient teams, there were the 2014 Giants are one of eight to-back titles (the Yankees also 1915-1918 Boston Red Sox and such teams, alongside the lost the Series in 1963 and the 1942-1946 Cardinals. And others mentioned. That said, 1964, making five straight greats Joe Dimaggio, Yogi players. If anything, there’s a then there are the 2010-2014 these Giants are also pretty appearances). Unlike all Berra, Mickey Mantle, Stan good chance that their sole San Francisco Giants. They clearly worse than many other these far superior teams, those Musial, Reggie Jackson, Eddie representative in the Hall will won three titles in five years, dynastic-ish teams, like the 2010-2014 Giants teams never Collins, Derek Jeter, Mariano be their manager, Bruce Bochy. a huge accomplishment. But 1970s “Big Red Machine” made any additional World Rivera, Johnny Bench, Greg And he would deserve it. After they never even won 95 games Cincinnati Reds (titles in Series appearances. They just Maddux, Jackie Robinson, all, he somehow won three in the regular season, were 1975 and 1976, but also managed to win the Series Sandy Koufax, and a young World Series championships downright bad in between two World Series appearances in whenever they got there (a ace pitcher for the 1915, 1916, with a team with no Hall of of their championship seasons 1970 and 1972), 1963-1965 pretty important thing, no and 1918 championship Red Fame players! with a record of 76-86 in 2013, Dodgers (two titles in three doubt, but not as indicative Sox teams named Babe Ruth. and had an unimpressive 88 years, plus a World Series of sustained success as always But the 2010-2014 Giants wins as a Wild Card playoff appearance in 1966) and even being in contention). have an excellent shot to be Scan here team in their 2014 title the 1991-2005 Braves (just one These earlier dynasties and the first dynastic team in to read the run. As far as dynasties go, World Series win, in 1995, but almost-dynasties each featured MLB history to have a grand rest of this these Giants are not even 14 straight division titles and multiple Hall of Famers, total of zero Hall of Famer article as impressive as the hugely four additional World Series including elite all-time

14 — August 2021 / U CAST NEWS I Read It On the Internet What Are Telomeres And Can They Predict Lifespan? By Jane Miller If you had the option, would Our cells divide and replicate new life). Telomeres also get indeed have shorter telomere some, the efficacy of these you want to know how long to keep us alive, and each shorter from unhealthy habits lengths than optimal are tests is dubious for various you might live? Or would time they do, the DNA is such as smoking, eating too pretty obvious and applicable reasons. For one thing, ignorance be bliss? Some of also duplicated. There is one much red meat, or simply to everyone. These changes telomere length can change us may have pondered this slight change each time they getting too little sleep. can include things like exercise significantly over the course of question philosophically, but it replicate, and that happens Several companies, such as and eating more fruits and even just a few months. Also, has never been an option. 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As idea behind The bigger and perhaps more rough idea of your lifespan. our cells age, the telomere these tests is that interesting question is, why While chronological age is lengths of those cells shorten. once you know don’t we always do the things how long a person has been By measuring the length of your biological that are good for us? That is alive, biological age is how telomeres, you can see how age, you can another exploration in and of old one’s cells are and how quickly you are aging and potentially itself. Even if they might not aged one’s body appears from if they correspond to your slow down always be accurate, these tests an objective, scientific point chronological age. your aging by may be helpful because they of view. Finding out the Cells divide faster when stress making lifestyle give us an extra push in the biological age of a person is is inflicted on our bodies. c h a n g e s . right direction. Sometimes we done by measuring the length Since telomeres are on the Most of these need hard evidence to propel of their telomeres, part of the end of the chromosome, telomere testing us into action, as is the case chromosomes in cells. Average they are especially sensitive companies offer when a person is diagnosed telomere length has been to damage. This damage can suggestions for with diabetes and realizes they shown to correlate directly come from stress like diseases, slowing down your personal most of us know. Yes, we all have to change their habits. to lifespan in humans and injuries, and even pregnancy aging process. realize smoking will kill us Even if there are doubts about animals, and many companies (a fascinating discovery that and that exercise can add using telomere testing to However, the lifestyle changes years to our lives. These tests can now help you determine makes sense because the body recommended if you do determine lifespan, they may your biological age. works doubly hard to create would be more helpful if they still be worth trying simply were more specific in their because the results could recommendations. motivate us to make impactful Liminal Spaces Open The Mind And Soul While knowing your biological lifestyle changes. To New Possibilities age sounds intriguing for By Greg Goodsell Empty art galleries, vacant In addition, waiting rooms, redecorating your living space Weird & Wacky News corridors, and abandoned empty parking lots, hotel by rearranging the artwork on By Chris Carnicelli strip malls are all examples of lobbies, and rest stops, make the walls. You can also move From around the corner, away from “liminal spaces.” If this term you feel weird if you spend too your favorite chair to the other down the street, and up home, the is new to you, it seems at first much time in them because side of the room. While your your alley – here are some kid veered glance to put a positive spin these spaces exist for the mind has grown accustomed on what is more commonly things that come before or to the furniture in a particular stories that are hitting the into oncoming traffic and referred to as existential angst after them. place, its rearrangement can headlines... and they’re all slamming into a semi-truck. TRUE!! Both girls were wearing and urban decay. Something as mundane and make your mind open to new An Internet search on “liminal commonplace as a rest stop possibilities. 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