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From Rave to Prep, Google’s 2021 Top Style Trends Prove Image is Everything

Google has just released its Year in Search data which tracks terms with the highest growth year over year. After 2020’s top trending search of “Indie Style,” Google’s 2021 data delves deeper into the world of niche trends, no doubt spurred on by the ongoing popularity of TikTok. Among the top 10 types of outfits Google tracked this year are “rave outfits,” “preppy outfits,” “cottagecore outfits,” “90s outfits,” and “festival outfits,” suggesting that people searching for fashion advice are looking to take part in indie aesthetics or trends.

But if a renewed interest in raving or prep signals that subcultures are back, the way these words are used online, especially on platforms like TikTok and Instagram, point in another direction. Rather than actually raving in Bushwick or actually brunching at the country club, many young Millennial and Gen Z fashion lovers see these subcultures less as ideological movements than as aesthetic ones. Wanting to dress like a raver has little to do with being a raver—and that’s a mentality that will be hard for older Millennials, Gen Xers, and Boomers to understand. Back in the day, dressing like a group you were not a part of was a cardinal sin against coolness, and the punishment was hard: You were either a “poser” or a “sell-out.” 

In 2016, stylist and fashion lightning rod Lotta Volkova predicted this shift in an interview with Business of Fashion. “Obviously, there are no subcultures to be discovered anymore, at least not in the Western world. It’s more about the remix of information,” she said. “Kids today—the new generation—they think in different ways. They don’t even have the knowledge of what a subculture is. It is not relevant to them.”

Google’s trending data furthers her point. Whereas in the past, garments and aesthetics signified something about their wearer—only true punks wore tartan trousers and safety pins while true preps shopped at Ralph Lauren—today, shoppers can dip in and out of fashion movements without acknowledging the broader implications and historical connotations of their looks. 

TikTok’s endless feed of fashion videos plays both sides: Some use the platform as their runway, testing out new aesthetics by the hour, while others use it as an educational platform to delve into new Gen Z trends like “Subversive Basics”—coined by forecaster Agustina Panzoni on her TikTok feed @thealgorhythm as a catch-all for post-Helmut Lang sexy essentials—and “Avant Basic”—a look defined by fashion editor Emma Hope Allwood on Twitter to include cute swirly patterns, Holiday checkerboard jeans, and that omnipresent Ettore Stottsass pink mirror. 

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Amazon Web Services outage impacts thousands of users, online services: What to know

Amazon is using robots to relieve supply chain strains ahead of the holiday season. FOX Business’ Jeff Flock with more. 

Amazon Web Services experienced a widespread outage on Tuesday, impacting thousands of users on different websites and streaming platforms.

AWS provides cloud computing services to many governments, universities and companies. The outage impacted Amazon’s ability to give regular updates while it addressed the problem. 

FILE PHOTO: The logo for Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seen at the SIBOS banking and financial conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada October 19, 2017. REUTERS/Chris Helgren/File Photo (Reuters)

“We are seeing the impact to multiple AWS APIs in the US-EAST-1 Region,” a notice on Amazon Web Services’ status webpage reads. “This issue is also affecting some of our monitoring and incident response tooling, which is delaying our ability to provide updates.” 

The notice later said the root cause had been identified and Amazon was “actively working towards recovery.” 

“We have identified [the] root cause of the issue causing service API and console issues in the US-EAST-1 Region and are starting to see some signs of recovery. We do not have an ETA for full recovery at this time.”

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The outage began midmorning on the U.S. East Coast, Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at the network intelligence firm Kentik Inc, told The Associated Press. 

“AWS is the biggest cloud provider and us-east-1 is their biggest data center, so any disruption there has big impacts to many popular websites and other internet services,” Madory said. 

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Amazon is seen at the company logistics centre in Boves, France, October 6, 2021 REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol/File Photo (Reuters)

Madory said he did not believe the outage was anything nefarious. He said a recent cluster of outages at providers that host major websites reflects how the networking industry has evolved.

Downdetector.com, which tracks outages of various websites and service providers, showed nearly 30,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Amazon. People trying to use Instacart, Venmo, Kindle, Roku, and Disney+ have reported issues, according to the website. 

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Customers trying to book or change trips with Delta Air Lines were having trouble connecting to the airline. 

“Delta is working quickly to restore functionality to our AWS-supported phone lines,” said spokesperson Morgan Durrant. The airline apologized and encouraged customers to use its website or mobile app instead.

Dallas-based Southwest Airlines said it switched to West Coast servers after some airport-based systems were affected by the outage. Southwest spokesman Brian Parrish said there were no major disruptions to flights.

FILE PHOTO: Logos of Amazon and Amazon Prime are pictured on vehicles outside the Amazon Fulfilment Centre in Altrincham, near Manchester, Britain, November 26, 2021. REUTERS/Carl Recine/File Photo (Reuters)

Amazon’s Ring security cameras, mobile banking app Chime, and robot vacuum cleaner iRobot were also affected by the outage. 

Ring tweeted earlier that it was aware of service interruption impacting the company. 

“We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience and understanding,” the company said. 

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The extent to which the federal government was impacted remains unclear. Fox Business has reached out to Amazon for more information and will update this story accordingly. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Battery degradation may not drain EV residual values

Cox Automotive has been scoring battery health as part of an initiative for its Manheim auction subsidiary. While it’s early in the testing program, initial results also suggest battery capacity reductions might not be as big of an issue for residuals as previously thought.

“The EV values are aging well,” Jim Heffner, Cox associate vice president of mobility product, said in an interview.

The mere act of having tested batteries seems to help. Cox so far has found vehicles with a battery health score get five times more bids and sell for 1 to 4.5 percent more at auction.

Cox’s initial results show “mileage is not a clear indication of health,” Heffner said.

Factors such as rapid charging and discharging can be more significant, he said.

Heffner said that if he had to assign a grade to the auto industry for the health of its used-vehicle batteries, it would be “well above average.” And newer generations of EVs seem to be preserving their capacity more than older vehicles, he said.

Drotman acknowledged with smaller “compliance vehicles” such as the electric Ford Focus, the automaker “got on the wrong side” of residuals. But Ford and others are producing quality EVs today, he said.

Battery range does matter to residuals. But the discussion during an Auto Finance Summit residual panel suggested the battery’s original range could be the true factor to watch, rather than diminished range from an aged battery.

Vehicles that originally delivered less than 200 miles of range on a charge will see a negative effect on their value, Lanzavecchia said during the panel. Those with 200 miles or more of charge will see more favorable residuals.

At about 350 to 400 miles of range, the EV begins to see diminishing returns in resale value, though “there still is some positivity there,” she said.

Right now, customers are returning early-generation EVs with ranges below 100 miles, Lanzavecchia said. But J.D. Power expects longer-range vehicles to produce residuals closer to those of their gasoline-powered peers, though “still at a little bit of a deficit.”

Panelist Eric Ibara, Kelley Blue Book director of residual value consulting, agreed longer-range EVs are more likely to preserve value, and so his company expected residuals to improve in the future EV markets.

Ibara also highlighted Manheim’s method of assessing used-vehicle battery health. He said his company expected this would significantly alleviate customer concerns about the battery life, though batteries found to be in less than ideal condition would not hold their value as well.

According to Cox Automotive, consumers expect to drive a minimum of 217 miles on a battery charge, up from 184 miles two years ago. But the average range in the U.S. electric fleet had risen from 195 miles in 2019 to 257 miles this year.

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News to Go – Two Special Elections Today on the Treasure Coast

News to Go – Two Special Elections Today on the Treasure Coast



I’ MMARK KELLY WITH YOUR NEWS TO GO. SO WE’RE GETTING A FIRST LOOK AT THE DISTURBING TEXT MESSAGES. OF FATHER SAYS AZUL’S POINT POLICE. OFFICER SENT TOIS H 15 YEAR OLD SON. JUAN GARCIA WAS JUST ARRESTED TWO WEEKS AGO CHARGED WITH FOUR COUNTS OF SOLICITATION OF A MINOR. THIS FEDERAL COMPLAINT SAYS THAT GA RCIA OFTEN ASKED THE TEEN FOR NUDE PICTURES VIDEOS AND ASKED TO MEETIM H FOR SEX RECORDS SHOW THE BOYS FATHER FOUND THOSE MESSAGES TURNHE T PHONE OVERO T POLICE AND NOW ACCORDING TO THE COMPLAINT GARACI CONFESSED TO EVERYTHING AND HAS BEEN SUSPENDED WITHOUT PAY FROM THE SEWALL’S POINT POLICE DEPARTMENT. ALL RIGHT, TWO SPECIAL ELECTIONS HAPPENING IN ST. LUCIE COUNTY TODAY PEOPLE IN FORT PIERC WEILL BE HEADING TO THE POLLS TO PICK A NEW CITY COMMISSIONER FOR DISTRICT 1. THAT’S IT BECAME AVAILABLE BECAUSE OF THE DEATH OF RUFUS BUSH ALEXANDER IN JULY. AND IMPORT ST. LUCIE VOTERS WILL FILL THE DISTRICT TEEHR CITY COUILNC SEAT THERE SHANNON MARTIN HELD THAT SEAT BEFORE SHE WAS ELECTED MAYOR IN SEPTEMBER NOW POLLS OPEN SEVEN THIS MORNING AND THEY’LL CLOSE SEVEN THIS EVENING. ALSO TODAY A FUNERAL WILL BE HELD FOR FORMERS U CONGRESSWOMAN. CARRY MEEK. SHE DIED LAST WEEK AT 95 LAST NIGHT FAMILY FRIENDS MANY OTHERS GATHERING AT MIAMI-DADE COLLEGE FOR AWAKE MEEK WAS THE GRANDCHILD OF A SLAVE AND A SHARECROPPER’S DAUGHTER WHO BECAME ONE OF THE FIRST BCKLA AMERICANS IN OUR STATE ELECTED TO CONGRESS SINCE RECONSTRUCTION. BROOKE ALRIGHT, THANK YOU MARK AND WELL TODAY’S GONNA BE A BEAUTIFUL DAY. HERE’S YOUR WEATHER TO GO TEMPERATURES ON THE RISE LOW 80S THIS AFTERNOON PLENTY OF SUNSHINE GO ARODUN THE EVENING LOOKING GREAT SEVENTIES STAYING DRY DRY ALL THROUGHOUT YOUR TUES

News to Go – Two Special Elections Today on the Treasure Coast

Mark Kelly and Brooke Silverang bring you today’s headlines.

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Antibody levels might help speed up approval

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New research suggests that antibody levels generated by vaccines could be an accurate way of measuring effectiveness. Image credit: Michaela Handrek-Rehle/Bloomberg via Getty Images.
  • Health authorities only approve the use of COVID-19 vaccines that have gone through rigorous clinical trials.
  • Scientists assess whether a vaccine is effective by checking whether participants in a trial develop the infection after having the vaccine.
  • In the present study, researchers find that a person’s antibody response could serve a correlate of effectiveness, instead of whether people develop the infection.
  • Using this proposed measure could speed up the regulatory approval of future vaccines.

In a new study, scientists have found that antibody levels can help indicate the effectiveness of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.

The research, published in the journal Science, may be the first step toward speeding up the regulatory approval process for future vaccines.

In theory, scientists could use antibody levels to identify vaccine effectiveness, rather than clinical trials to investigate how many vaccinated people develop severe COVID-19.

The speed with which scientists have developed vaccines for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is unprecedented.

Previously, vaccine development typically took 10–15 years. By contrast, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine received emergency regulatory approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on December 11, 2020, less than a year after scientists first identified the virus.

However, researchers are still eager to reduce the time it takes to develop future vaccines.

Scientists may do this by identifying biomarkers that can stand in for the results of clinical trials. If these biomarkers can accurately predict how effective the vaccine is, it may obviate the need to see how many people develop the infection in a clinical trial.

Speaking to Medical News Today, Prof. Florian Kern, chair in immunology at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School, in the United Kingdom, said, “If it were possible to define a laboratory endpoint — in this case an immunological marker — that can tell us if someone is protected or not, it would be easier to measure the protective effect of a vaccine quickly and compare this effect to that of other vaccines.” Prof. Kern was not involved in the new study.

In the study, the researchers wanted to see whether antibodies produced in response to the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine could accurately predict whether the vaccine was effective.

They did this by analyzing data from the phase 3 trials of the vaccine. The researchers were looking at the level of binding and neutralizing antibodies produced and at certain properties of these antibodies.

The team focused on these biomarkers assessed at the point of the second vaccination and 4 weeks afterward.

The researchers found a clear link between higher levels of antibodies and greater protection against symptomatic COVID-19 .

Participants with antibody levels in the top 10{cfdf3f5372635aeb15fd3e2aecc7cb5d7150695e02bd72e0a44f1581164ad809} had a 10 times lower risk of symptomatic COVID-19 compared with participants who had undetectable or negative antibody values. This was the case no matter which antibody biomarker the researchers focused on.

MNT spoke with Dr. Peter Gilbert, a professor in the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, in Seattle, and the corresponding author of the study.

Summarizing the findings, Dr. Gilbert explained, “Four separate tests used to measure antibody levels in the blood showed that the higher a vaccine recipient’s antibody response, the less likely [they were] to experience symptomatic COVID-19.”

“The same measurements also indicated that higher antibody responses correlated with higher estimated vaccine efficacy against symptomatic COVID-19.”

“The findings are based on data from the phase 3 COVE trial, which enrolled more than 30,000 adult volunteers and established 94.1{cfdf3f5372635aeb15fd3e2aecc7cb5d7150695e02bd72e0a44f1581164ad809} estimated vaccine efficacy against COVID-19 for the mRNA-1273 vaccine,” Dr. Gilbert added.

He also noted that the findings may help accelerate the approval process for future vaccines.

“Correlates of protection are surrogate markers of efficacy that can be used to reliably predict whether a vaccine will be protective, which can accelerate regulatory authorization and approval of vaccine candidates.”

“Rather than conducting large-scale clinical trials to establish vaccine efficacy, which can require tens of thousands of volunteers and can take months to years to complete, data collected from blood samples from smaller cohorts of vaccinated individuals can be evaluated using a particular test that would indicate whether a vaccine is likely to have clinical benefit in that population.”

– Dr. Peter Gilbert, corresponding author of the new study

The study authors caution that their investigation had a short follow-up period and included a relatively small number of COVID-19 cases. Also, the group did not consider the effects of booster vaccines or different variants of the virus, as these had not emerged when the trial was conducted. The trial had sampled a large and ethnically diverse number of participants for its immunogenicity measurements.

“While it may seem like an obvious finding that that more antibodies equates to higher levels of protection against COVID-19, this detailed analysis advances evidence toward establishing a correlate of protection that could be used to accelerate regulatory processes for variant-specific formulations of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, as well as authorization of prototype mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in children,” said Dr. Gilbert.

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JACKSONVILLE – Let’s get to it …

Whoever is deciding to bench J-Rob needs to be fired. I don’t care if it’s the running backs coach, offensive coordinator, head coach … get your best player on the field. No more excuses.

This is the Jaguars’ Big Issue of the Week in the wake of a 37-7 loss to the Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif. Sunday – and unsurprisingly so. Jaguars running back James Robinson on Sunday lost a fumble for a second consecutive game, a play that led to an opponent’s touchdown for a second consecutive game. And for a second consecutive game, Robinson was out of the game for an extended period after the fumble. The disconnect here between fans/observers and coaches is the reason for Robinson’s absence. Many observers and fans are convinced Robinson is at worst being “benched” for the fumbles or at best being misused by the coaching staff. Head Coach Urban Meyer on Sunday reiterated what he said last Sunday – that the reason reserve running back Carlos Hyde has played extensively for Robinson in recent weeks has been the lingering heel/knee issues that have hampered Robinson since a Week 8 loss to Seattle. Robinson, as Meyer noted, has missed or been limited in practice for a month and a half. He was questionable entering this past weekend. He also clearly isn’t 100 percent healthy. Has there been an element of “punishment” after the fumbles in recent weeks? I get why observers and fans believe that to be the case, I guess. But it just doesn’t add up. Why would the coaches intentionally not play the best player? They wouldn’t. As I said in O-Zone Late Night last night, maybe I’m being naïve. But this just doesn’t feel like a benching. If there was no Robinson injury and this was happening, I’d feel differently.

Who’s the third running back in case Hyde fumbles?

Dare Ogunbowale was the Jaguars’ third running back behind running backs James Robinson and Carlos Hyde Sunday.

_George from Blue Ridge, GA      _

Time for serious evaluation of team and coaching. Jaguars Owner Shad Khan made a huge mistake picking Urban Meyer as head coach. Please let’s get more professional like the Steelers!

I do not expect the Jaguars to part ways with Meyer during the 2021 regular season or during the ensuing offseason.

I expected four-to-five wins this year and definitely thought this would be a painful season of growth. Even though the win total versus last year has been doubled, the product on the field last year certainly looked more competitive. I’d say so far this year the trend line has gone down. Right or wrong?

The offense has trended down a bit this season compared to last season. The struggles of the receivers and the passing game have hamstrung the offense, and those struggles have gotten more pronounced as injuries have further hurt the area. Robinson being hampered with heel/knee issues has caused the running game to struggle in the last six weeks. The defense has been better than last season for the most part. It has been much better some weeks and just a little better other weeks. So, overall, the trend is about even. That’s not a positive.

Even though we are a bad team right now, shouldn’t the refs protect our quarterback like they do others? Roy barely hits Stafford with his hand and gets a call. Trevor takes a helmet under the chin and … nothing. Do the Jags contact the league about this? Thanks

Yes, the Jaguars will contact the league – and yes, the league is supposed to protect all quarterbacks the same. It appeared the call you referenced on rookie quarterback Trevor Lawrence was missed. Jaguars defensive tackle Roy Robertson-Harris, for his part, was called for roughing Rams quarterback Matt Stafford twice Sunday. One was when he “barely” hit Stafford’s helmet with his hand. It’s true that it was a harmless incident, but the penalty was within the rule. Robertson-Harris was called for roughing early in the game on what appeared a clean hit with his facemask in Stafford’s chest. I don’t know how Robertson-Harris should have played that play differently.

Have the Jaguars firmly established themselves as a get-right game for opposing teams?

BrokeDown from Fernandina Beach, FL

When will the pain end? I was just reminding myself, and my brother, about the “salad days” of Jags receivers …

I expect the Jaguars to focus on wide receiver in the 2022 NFL Draft and the 2022 free-agency period in a big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big way. You have to go back to the 1990s when Keenan McCardell and Jimmy Smith were the wide receivers to find the salad days, but yeah … those two remain the best the franchise ever has had at the position. It’s not close. It’s not close to close.

Do you think Wright will go down as the worst kickoff kicker ever?

Jaguars kicker Matthew Wright does not have a strong leg for kickoffs. He will not be remembered as the worst kickoff kicker ever.

Brian from Gainesville, FL

Big O, I know you get questions like this from time to time, but given the youth coupled with the dearth of starting level playmakers on this Jaguars team, do you think this is the rare NFL team that could lose to a great college team. By great I’m talking Trevor’s national championship team, or 2019 LSU, 2008 Florida, or last year’s Alabama that had three Heisman candidates on the same offense.

Jason from Green Cove Springs, FL

I watched the Eagles play at 1pm and then my Jags at 4pm. In hindsight the Jags should have kept Minshew. Our current offense could use that kind of accuracy and excitement. I didn’t realize how much I missed Minshew Mania. Do you think it was a mistake trading him away?

The one thing that this team did decently last year was run the ball. The new regime looked at that and flushed it down the toilet. Why? Why with a rookie QB do we not focus on the run?

The new regime focused on running well. The Jaguars were running well and getting marginally better offensively before the bye – largely based on Robinson playing very well. Robinson sustained a heel injury October 31. The offense was averaging 19.33 points in six games before the bye. They’re averaging 10 points in six games since. It’s not a coincidence.

Staring at my framed photo of Mike Mularkey screaming at tight end Marcedes Lewis for spiking a football after a touchdown right now and softly crying.

For old time’s sake, I laughed at this.

Sascha from Cologne, Germany

Hey John, you can see the impact of defensive tackle DaVon Hamilton for the rushing defense, it seems he really is a core piece for the Jags.

Hamilton was a healthy scratch Sunday.

This is the very last team in the NFL that should be trying to run a hurry up/up tempo offense. What happens if you can’t get first downs is you go 3 and out so fast the defense spends inordinate amounts of time on the field. And the opposing defense stays rested and fresh. It’s a real bad recipe if you can’t throw the ball effectively. It’s almost like doubling down on your weakness.

There are a few “cons” when listing pros and cons of up-tempo offenses in the NFL. What you outlined is pretty much the main “con.” I didn’t sense this issue defined Sunday’s game, but it’s something to watch.

Terry from Caseyville, Illinois

Please get a NEW offensive coordinator. They don’t know how to let rookie quarterback Trevor Lawrence develop. Time to clean house before opportunity is wasted. Thanks again.

It’s always coaching in the NFL.

You are going to get Minshew is better than Lawrence emails today. What do you think those people fail to understand about how special Trevor will be? How do you think Minshew would fair under the Jags current situation?

It sounds as if former Jaguars quarterback Gardner Minshew II fared well in a start for the Philadelphia Eagles Sunday. I can’t control people thinking he’s as good or better than Lawrence and I haven’t the foggiest idea what “people” fail to understand about Lawrence or how Minshew would fare in the Jaguars’ situation. What I know is I watched Minshew for about two seasons. He’s a good NFL backup quarterback. I think he can play that role in the NFL for a long time.           

Why does our quarterback start winning some games before he does all these ads? He needs a haircut also.

Wow. Frankie Fashion has checked in. Awesome for us.