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Pet dogs release the same “love hormone” that humans feel when they’re head over heels, a new study claims. Dogs release oxytocin — the chemical found in humans who are in love or bonding with friends — following social interactions, researchers found. For the experiment, scientists at an animal refuge in Arkansas took blood samples from a mixed-breed terrier and a goat, who often played together. They first tested the animals’ oxytocin levels separately, and then put them in a pen to interact for 15 minutes. The results were hair-raising — the dog’s oxytocin levels spiked 48 percent, on par with a human who is excited about a new friendship, researchers said. The goat was even more smitten. “More striking was the goat’s reaction to the dog: It had a 210 percent increase in oxytocin . . . We essentially found that the goat might have been in love with the dog,” wrote head researcher Paul Zak. “The only time I have seen such a surge in oxytocin in humans is when someone sees their loved one, is romantically attracted to someone, or is shown an enormous kindness,” Zak added. Domesticated pets release the hormone when interacting with other animals and humans, the study concluded.

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wxPython API Documentation — wxPython Phoenix 4.2.0 documentation Navigation Home | Gallery | API Docs » wxPython API Documentation index modules | next | Search wxPython API Documentation¶ Welcome! This is the API reference documentation for the 4.2.0 release of wxPython Phoenix, built on 07 August 2022. If you are porting your code from Classic wxPython, be sure to read the Migration Guide to get a better feel for how some things have changed. You can download a local copy of this documentation using a new utility script included with wxPython called wxdocs. It will open the local copy of the documentation in your default browser, downloading it first if needed. There is also a similar tool called wxdemo that will download (if needed) and launch the wxPython demo for you. Note If you wish to help in the documentation effort, the main docstrings guidelines are outlined in the Docstring Guidelines document. Sections wx Overview Documents A collection of overview and how-to documents about various wx topics. wx functions The index of top-level functions available in the wx package. Modules wx The classes which appear in the main wx namespace wx.adv Less commonly used or more advanced classes wx.grid Widget and supporting classes for displaying and editing tabular data wx.dataview Classes for viewing tabular or hierarchical data wx.richtext A generic, ground-up implementation of a text control capable of showing multiple text styles and images. wx.ribbon A set of classes for writing a ribbon-based UI, typically a combination of tabs and toolbar, similar to the UI in MS Office and Windows 10. wx.html Widget and supporting classes for a generic html renderer wx.html2 Widget and supporting classes for a native html renderer, with CSS and javascript support wx.aui Docking/floating window panes, draggable notebook tabs, etc. wx.svg Classes to parse and render Scalable Vector Graphics files. wx.lib Our pure-Python library of widgets wx.glcanvas Classes for embedding OpenGL views in a window wx.stc Classes for Styled Text Control, a.k.a Scintilla wx.msw A few classes available only on Windows wx.media MediaCtrl and related classes wx.propgrid PropertyGrid and related classes for editing a grid of name/value pairs. wx.xrc Classes for loading widgets and layout from XML wx.xml Some simple XML classes for use with XRC wx.py The py package, containing PyCrust and related modules wx.tools Some useful tools and utilities for wxPython. functions Top-level functions in the wx package. © Copyright 2012-2022, The wxPython Team. Created using Sphinx 2.2.0.

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Stuart Black Watch Short Documentaries About Great London Photographers Getting behind the stories of photographers and how they take their pictures, FullBleed is a recently-launched YouTube channel that probes the work of several interesting London snappers. This week sees the addition of Jenny Lewis, the new film One Day Young featured here as an exclusive. Lewis began taking pictures of mothers from Hackney with their babies only hours after they were born. She has since taken this idea to Malawi for WaterAid and here in the FullBleed film, she poignantly describes the contrasting conditions versus the similarities of the proud faces of the mothers from both Africa and London. Other films in the FullBleed portfolio include one about Bob Mazzer, who has spent 40 years recording life on the London Underground. His tireless body of work features some extraordinary images from the 70s and 80s which capture the late night theatre of the tube system perfectly. Mazzer calls it: “the big underground party that was happening 24 hours a day.” Also worth checking out is Dougie Wallace and his Harrodsburg project. This Glaswegian came to London and was struck by the mega-wealth around Kensington and Knightsbridge and how it has physically corrupted the people who live there. “It’s about the 1% and also about the crazy wealth gap, the luxury goods and fast supercars next door to foodbanks. I’m not sneering, I’m just shining a light and taking pictures of what I see.” FullBleed aims to document photographic culture and explain the artistry behind photography through a regular series of original short films. It’s revealing to hear James Fry, Oasis’s photographer laureate, talking about how one of his album covers was named worst of the year but how cool he thought that was. There’s also Paddy Summerfield on his moving and revealing series Mother & Father, which shows his parents at the end of their lives. Future films will include one about the Lost In Music photography project and exhibition which launched recently at the Print Space in Shoreditch. You can also see the featured artists picking their favourite photos in the Apocalypse Pictures section, which basically amounts to a series of mini-masterclasses. See more London Shorts here.

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Learn from Tom Walz | PivotPlanet How it works Find an Advisor For employers Login or Sign up Be an Advisor Back to search results Tom Walz Iowa City, Iowa, United States Extend The Dream Foundation Request a Meeting $120/hour Available for: Phone Videoconference I’ve spent my life as a teacher and organizer for people who are less well off than most. Every person has something to contribute and I take great joy in helping people with disabilities become self-sufficient. Every moment generally is a feel good moment. I work a 60-70 hour week giving my old age a real purpose. In 2000, I retired from a career in social work and founded the Extend the Dream Foundation in Iowa City, Iowa. Extend the Dream Foundation is run entirely by volunteers, many of whom come from the University of Iowa’s social work and small business administration programs. Others are people with disabilities. In addition to my work helping others, I am also a creative writer and poet. It’s important to nurture yourself and your own creative pursuits so you can continue to serve others. As a PivotPlanet advisor, I can teach you many things about running a non-profit organization including: • Micro-enterprise development and training • How to run a program that teaches handicapped and low-income people to augment their incomes • How to lead by working along side others who believe in the same mission • How to keep your financial overhead low, so the project can succeed • How to teach people to use social media and the internet for their own purposes • How to understand the needs and hopes of people with disabilities and how to best work with them MORE I was inspired to start Extend the Dream by the story of Bill Sackter, a man who spent 44 years in an institution and who came out to be an international hero for people with disabilities. He ended up as one of the most well loved and respected members of the community in Iowa City where he spent the last eight years of his life. Inspired by Bill, we assist people with disabilities to start their own micro enterprises and expand their employment opportunities. We also educate the public about “disability.” Five of the businesses that EDF has helped launch over the past five years are now operating independently or close to it, and have been embraced by the general community. I’ve had a life of service, including a career as a professor and dean of social work, gerontology and family practice. I’ve founded a number of non-profit organizations over my lifetime that serve the most vulnerable in our community. I worked with the Peace Corps in Honduras and founded a welfare advocacy group in Minneapolis the 1960s. I started the National Family Training Center at the University of Iowa along with programs educating about child abuse, gerontology and people with disabilities. My philosophy is social work is not a profession, but a way of life. The most notable social workers, Gandhi and Mother Theresa, did not have certificates indicating they were social workers. I am a Gandhi scholar and teacher and I believe Gandhian ideas are critical in the discussion about how to solve contemporary problems. Because I know each person has creativity within them, I founded the National Creative Writing Seminar for Social Workers at the University of Iowa. I am a 2006 Encore Career's / Civic Venture's Purpose Prize winner. Tom Walz at Uptown Bill's Request a Meeting $120/hour Available for: Phone Videoconference Skill(s) Nonprofit Management Similar Sharon Rohrbach Nonprofit Management Don Stedman Nonprofit Management New Voices Foundation Ed Moscovitch Nonprofit Management Bay State Reading Institute Interests: non-profit, purpose prize, civic ventures, nonprofit, non profit, non profit director, non-profit director, nonprofit director, encore career, Bill Sackter, peace corps, iowa city, iowa, nonprofit mentor, nonprofit advisor, nonprofit expert, jobs in nonprofit, careers in nonprofit, nonprofit job, nonprofit career, disabilities, help people with disabilities Advisors Search Advisors Become an Advisor About us How it works About Help Help & FAQ Legal Contact us For employers Revere Software Powered by Revere Software, Inc. © 2022

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Today, Porsche remains the uncontested champion of more endurance races than any other manufacturer, having amassed the most outright wins at Le Mans, Daytona and Sebring. Yet in the early 1960s, Porsche remained an unconventional, small-displacement manufacturer only capable of winning class victories. At the onset of the prototype era, however, Porsche’s strategy on motorsports development was beginning to pay great dividends. Their immediate focus was to build a Porsche Le Mans winner for 1967. That year’s event guaranteed competition between Ford and Ferrari, with the ever-increasing displacement of the GT40 and P-car alike. To contend, Porsche needed more than a reliable powerplant. Ferdinand Piëch determined that the key to success was efficiency. Given Porsche’s activities in Formula One and fantastic success in the hillclimb championships with the 904 and 906 derivatives, Piëch and his experimental department had much experience to draw from. Chassis refinement of the 910 coincided with further work on Porsche’s flat 8-cylinder engine, which showed promise but was not yet capable of prolonged use. The development of the new 907 was well under way, yet the success of its design would come from its form. While the 910 chassis offered exceptional handling, Le Mans’ Mulsanne Straight challenged Porsche to achieve new speeds. Drawing from streamlined designs, Porsche’s wind-tunnel testing produced a form reminiscent of the 550 coupe, a precursor to legendary Porsches to follow. With a low, short nose; dipped fender line; small, aerodynamic greenhouse in fighter-jet fashion; and a long, smooth tail, the 907 was unlike anything Porsche had ever designed.

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Interesting ‚buildering‘ project from Jef Verstraeten in Vienna from a couple of days ago. After finishing the action we found our selves surrounded by a horde of police men and women rushing to the scenery in 5 cars. Some loyal fellow had called them for whatsoever reason. After a short explanation of this as a photographic project and since we were leaving the scenery anyway they were quite sociable though. Buildering or ‚urban climbing‘ is in fact a total gray area. It is not exactly clear how to deal with it and technically it is not forbidden to climb in an urban environment as long as there is not monument protection or private property involved. However, in normal cases it won’t take that long that some fellow citizen gives a call to the police to report some civil disobedience if you try to give the next pedestrian bridge a shot. On the other hand, in Vienna there are already a couple of tolerated spots were it is already a part of the business that you can find people climbing there: e. g. the famous Flexwand or the Handelskai. So think carefully if you want to deal with the consequences before you take any action. Big thanks to Ticket to the Moon for the hammock supply and Project Episode for opening the spot. Spot: Kaisermuehlen | Vienna | Austria

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End of the beginning, or beginning of the end? The results of the long-awaited stress test of European banks are out, a comprehensive assessment that will, once and for fall, force the continent’s lenders to come clean about the strength of their balance sheets. At least, that’s what regulators would like the world to believe. Embarrassed by three previous tests that proved far too tame, European banking regulators, for the better part of a year, have been poring over balance sheets, loan portfolios, and business plans in unprecedented detail. This time, banks that are judged too optimistic in valuing their assets or too complacent in building buffers to shield themselves from future turmoil will not escape the regulators’ wrath. In the end, the European Central Bank flunked 25 of the 130 banks it tested. (A concurrent test of 123 banks by the European Banking Authority, conducted in concert with the ECB but also including a few banks outside of the euro zone, came up with very similar results.) But since the ECB’s test took the end of 2013 as a starting point, 12 of these banks already have raised enough capital to give them a passing grade. Under “adverse” economic conditions, these are the 13 remaining banks that the ECB says still need to raise some €9.5 billion ($12 billion) within the next nine months: None of these names came as a particular surprise—many already are undergoing deep restructuring with help from their home governments. The aggregate results also are in line with market chatter in the weeks leading up to today’s announcement. The ECB has always argued that the high-profile test is merely a means to an end. That can be seen most clearly in the headline results—25 banks in 10 countries failed the initial test, but only half of these, most notably in Greece and Italy, weren’t able to reverse their failing grades by building up their buffers in recent months. The euro zone’s largest banks have added more than €200 billion to their capital buffers since plans for the test were first announced last year. The fear of failure that drove those improvements is more important than singling out a few bad apples for scorn today, officials argue. Ultimately, the goal is to draw a line under the euro zone’s long-running financial crisis, to promote the confidence necessary to convince banks to reverse the chronic decline in lending that has contributed to the region’s economic malaise. The banks that only scraped through today’s tests can’t rest easy, so further improvements should be expected. After all, the ECB says that during its assessment it found a whopping €136 billion in nonperforming loans that weren’t classified as such lurking on bank balance sheets. This new transparency, somewhat perversely, is the best news to come out of today’s tests, according to James Sym, a fund manager at Schroders in London. Now that the ECB will take over supervision of the euro zone’s largest banks from national authorities, it can apply common, harmonized definitions of asset quality across countries. “We’ll be in a position to compare apples with apples across European banks, which is exciting,” Sym tells Quartz. Speaking of excitement, it could get choppy when the markets open tomorrow. Spanish banks, which performed a bit better than expected in the tests, and Italian banks, which came out worse, will be under particular scrutiny. Sym, who manages a £300 million ($483 million) European equity fund, is planning an early start tomorrow, and has his eyes on medium-sized banks in Italy and Spain. On these stocks, “I’m prepared to risk perhaps 1% of the fund,” he says. “I want to give myself a 50% chance of doubling my money, and a 50% chance of losing 30%.” Looking ahead, more fundamentally the stress test could represent a “cathartic moment” for European banks, the fund manager says. “Suddenly, we can trust them.” If that’s true, it would be a good thing for the rest of corporate Europe, which relies heavily on banks to finance their growth. “If this creates a bit of positive inflection, then that’s pretty interesting for investors,” Sym says. “We’ve already fallen off the cliff in Europe, and you can’t fall off the beach.”

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Cortijo For Sale in Villanueva del Rosario - Malaga Coast and Country Skip to navigation Skip to content Menu Home Properties All Malaga Properties Search All of Spain Search Alicante Search Almeria Search Granada Search Murcia Finance Tools Currency Transfer Mortgages Pricing Login My Account Home Properties All Malaga Properties Search All of Spain Search Alicante Search Almeria Search Granada Search Murcia Finance Tools Currency Transfer Mortgages Pricing Login My Account Home Properties All Malaga Properties Search All of Spain Search Alicante Search Almeria Search Granada Search Murcia Finance Tools Currency Transfer Mortgages Pricing Login My Account Register for Property Alerts Cortijo For Sale in Villanueva del Rosario 1,800,000€ Property Details Ref: 428-00900P Type: Villa Availability: For Sale Bedrooms: 11 Bathrooms: 10 Tenure: Freehold Pool: Yes Make Enquiry Make Enquiry Please complete the form below and a member of staff will be in touch shortly. Thank you. Your enquiry has been sent successfully. An error occurred whilst trying to send your enquiry. Please try again. Please ensure all required fields have been completed Full Name * Email Address * Number * Message * Property Summary Villanueva del Rosario is a hidden treasure, the little white village houses reflect the typical style of the Andalusian architect. With its surroundi Property Features Amenities near Automatic irrigation system Balcony Barbeque Bars Central Heating Close to schools Close to shops Close to town Country view Covered Terrace Dining room Excellent condition Fireplace Fitted Wardrobes Garden view Individual A/C units Internet - Wifi Jacuzzi Laundry room Living room Mountain view Office room Optional furniture Panoramic view Private terrace Storage room Utility Room Wine Cellar Full Details Villanueva del Rosario is a hidden treasure, the little white village houses reflect the typical style of the Andalusian architect. With its surrounding mountains and beautiful countryside, being just 39klms to Malaga, people have found this village so enchanting that they have brought a house or second home in the village or surrounding area. As you enter the property with its double electric gates, the drive leads you up to the property and leaves you breathless. With its large old wooden doors that open into this lovely courtyard you see the house and its beautiful romantic spanish style architecture. The ambient of this cortijo is so calm and peaceful surrounded by fantastic views and its secret gardens that embrace the property. Not only is the cortijo so carefully designed with love and detail but also the gardens are designed from different parts of the world as well as the interior of the property. As you enter the cortijo, you have a lovely hall way and a Moroccan style courtyard. Down the hall way to the left you have a ensuite bedroom, large spacious kitchen, a beautiful dining room with a high ceiling, with access outisde to dine in the fresh air. Then you have the sitting room with a high ceiling, with comfortable sofas and a fire place where you can relax in the winter evenings or in summer you can step out onto the terrace that faces out to the garden and mountains on the horizon. Leading off this a hallway to another 3 spacious comfortable ensuite bedrooms with built in wardrobes, aircon units and large windows or doors, letting in plenty of light. Upstiars you have another large room with fireplace and ensuite bathroom, with double doors leading out onto a small terrace where you can sit out and enjoy the amazing views. Further down stairs you have two bedrooms, a bathroom, a conference room, laundry room and a bodega. This could be used for the owners and rent out the rest of the property. There are another three ensuite bedrooms decorated beautifully just to the left side of the house with a covered area to sit out on and have your morning coffee. The furnishings and antiques are not included in the price. In front of the cortijo to the left side is the lovely designed saltwater pool with a rock fountain and a jacuzzi that fits 12 people. A large terrace surrounds the pool with a bar with table and chairs in shade where you can help yourself to drinks and enjoy many summer and winter days here. There is also a large terrace area for games and a real life size chess board. A peaceful area with sunbeds and cushions to enjoy the heat of the sun for those sun lovers. The gardens are full of colour and different coloured shades of green surround the property but these gardens are special, as you walk through the garden they have been inspired from places such as Africa and your typical Englsih garden with a bridge over a small stream with a pond. Then you have this special walled Alhambra garden as a tribute to the heritage site of the Alhambra palace in Granada. Here they have built their own central waterway with hand painted tiles, flowers and sunbeds to enjoy the peace and sounds of nature. This area is fantastic garden for a romantic setting such as a wedding or meal, with the lighting at night makes it a perfect area. This cortijo, there are no words nor photos to describe the true beauty. If you like rustic and being in the country, it will take your breath away, every corner is magical, with its decor, antiques and modern comfort, everything is done with quality materials and beauitful gardens that surround the house, with its spectacular views and easy access to the motorway and coast, your dream here has become a reality. Make Enquiry Make Enquiry Please complete the form below and a member of staff will be in touch shortly. Thank you. Your enquiry has been sent successfully. 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Open water is open water, right? Well, yes and no. Sure, water itself is only water, whether fresh, salt water or brackish, and if you can swim, then theoretically you may think that’s all you need to know. Unfortunately, too many beginner and intermediate open water swimmers don’t think about the various conditions and hazards associated with different types of open water locations. I remain interested in the huge swathes of knowledge and experience about open water that few people communicate and that so many of us find ourselves learning from scratch. Even the best online swim coaches spend almost all their time talking about stroke and technique. All other aspects of open water swimming are often neglected. Being responsible for your own open water swimming safety means you should be able to understand at a glance the main characteristics of a particular location as you build up your experience. “Just swimming” applies more to the pool than it does to the world of open water, where variation, change and the unexpected are the very features that we embrace about open water and that make it continuously challenging and interesting. If you climbed one mountain today and then next week decided to climb another in a different location you wouldn’t automatically think that all mountains are the same and give no thought to the ascent. At the least a similar degree of wariness is required for the ocean. While we may be familiar with one type of open water swimming, not all have the same hazards and we need to be careful not to be complacent or extrapolate incorrectly from one type of location to a different type. So let’s look at the different locations and their main challenges in this two-part series. Open water swimmers whose background is lakes or rivers can easily underestimate the huge range of possibilities present in and presented by the ocean and even elite pool swimmers will flounder on their first day in the big blue if conditions aren’t ideal. OCEAN / SEA Features Unpredictability. “Never turn your back on the ocean” is an old adage that clearly conveys the unpredictable nature of the sea. Please see this previous post on the unpredictable nature of waves on the coast. Every open swimmer regardless of experience should treat each swim in the ocean with respect and fore-thought. Always expect the unexpected and swim within your own bounds, because if you try to swim within the bounds of the ocean, it will always surprise and inevitably defeat you. Salty. Average global salinity is around 4% but this varies quite significantly by location. A local 5% salinity actually means the salinity you notice is 20% greater than the average of 4%. Pacific Ocean open water swimmers used to 3% will notice that Atlantic around Ireland is noticeably saltier, while Irish Atlantic open water swimmers will notice that the English Channel at 5% is noticeably saltier again. Buoyant. Salt increase water density, which makes you float higher, which makes you less tired and able to swim faster and further. It can also make you over-estimate your capabilities. The previous differences in salinity are the factor that determines buoyancy. Tidal. Tides vary hugely by location from zero tide (which points are called amphidromes and occur around the world) to 15 metres (Bay of Fundy, Newfoundland). Southern California and the Mediterranean are less than a metre, whereas Ireland is about 4 metres height and the English Channel is over 6 metres. Wildlife. Fish, jellyfish, plants. Some bite, some sting, most are harmless and all should be left alone and some will look at you malevolently. Greater depth. While there are some very deep lakes even those pale in comparison the ocean’s depths. Depth doesn’t affect a swimmer’s ability but adjusting to the void beneath you can be psychologically difficult for some. Wind and Waves. I’ve categorized these two together as waves are caused by winds (excluding tsunamis). The further the distance that wind can blow over a surface the greater the waves that will result. So you can strong wind blowing over off the coast with no waves. The stronger a wind the greater the resulting waves. You can have wind without waves (locally, if for example the wind is blowing offshore and you are near to the shore) and waves without wind (powerful groundswell travelling from along way away) but waves are a visible tangible manifestation of wind energy somewhere. Changing temperature. Ocean temperature patterns change slowly because the volume is too large to do otherwise. Effects of this can be that the sea will colder on warm days in early summer than expected and warmer on cold days in early winter. The ocean is also prone to patches of varying temperature and even a variation of quarter of a degree will be noticeable to regular swimmer. There’s a significant amount of articles here about cold water swimming, which carries great risk than warm water swimming. Hazards Weather. Experienced open water swimmers place present wind conditions above all other facets of weather. Fog, lightning storms, hailstones. I believe that an experienced and capable open water swimmer must be attuned to these facets. Sudden weather changes . Any regular ocean-goer can tell you of almost unbelievably sudden and local weather changes. A squall is such a highly localised storm where winds can suddenly increase violently or shear. Squalls will not be captured in weather forecasts. Changing visibility. Squalls, fog (sometimes considered the most dangerous ocean condition for open water swimmers), mist and haze and even low sunlight on the horizon or glare off the water can all reduce visibility, and confuse direction and navigation. Navigation. Finding your way is one of the most difficult open water facets to master, comprised as it is of two separate facets (navigation and swimming straight). Anyone who have never seen a coastline from one hundred metres may find it difficult to believe even coves and bay and features that are overwhelmingly obvious on land can disappear within such a short distance. Unexpected waves. I’ve written about this previously in There’s No Such Thing as A Freak Wave. The oft-reported coastal drownings ascribed to freak waves are really describing normal ocean behaviour dictated by simple physics. If five, seven or nine waves are all roughly the same size, it does not mean that a subsequent wave which is twice the size is a freak, merely unexpected and difficult to predict. Also the idea that the Seventh or Ninth Wave is always larger is also a myth. Tidal currents. A tidal current is not a rip current or an undertow. It’s a usually larger-scale current associated with the movement of the entire mass of water due to tide changes. However, like other currents, tidal current can also have stronger localized effects and will be generally be stronger where tides are of greater magnitude. Other currents . Apart from the aforementioned Tidal Currents, there are other types of hazardous currents in the sea including: Rip Currents . These localized currents are escape channels for breaking waves, and can be extremely strong, running directly or obliquely away from the shore. Longshore Currents . These run parallel to the shore and can be longer than rip currents. They can also combine with rip currents. Channel currents . The general term for water flow compressed into a stronger flow in a narrower space. River Outflows . Rivers entering the sea can be quite strong depending on the river volume, width and fall height. . Apart from the aforementioned Tidal Currents, there are other types of hazardous currents in the sea including: Wildlife. It’s all good because it’s all meant to be there. And as an open water swimmer, so are you. Your responsibility as an open water swimmer is to protect the natural environment of the sea. If you can’t do that, then it’s not the place for you. Some jellyfish sting, some don’t and some are lethal. Some fish bite, and some don’t. Ocean wildlife in general is less dangerous to you than your motorcar drive to the sea. Depth. If you have only ever swum in shallow coastal water, the mere knowledge that you in water 100 metres or even kilometres deep can be psychologically difficult Hazardous Exits. Underestimating the difficulty of safely exiting the water in windy conditions is a far more genuine concern for most than worry about sharks. Someone swimming in a location with greater tides than those with which they are familiar should consider how changing tide heights will affect their exit. This is something you must plan before you consider entering the water. Half of tide’s entire height range changes in only two hours, meaning water level can change by a metre in many locations in only one hour. Though a safe location the Guillamene steps at mid tide demonstrate some of the height variation possible. At low spring tide the surface is at the bottom step of the ladder beneath the steps. At as high spring tide, all the steps even higher are covered. Reduced visibility below water. Winds or estuaries or marine craft can raise sand and destroy your ability to see your hand directly in front of your face. This can lead to impacts with rocks. It’s not itself dangerous, but another feature. Lacking visibility is not itself a bad thing. Anyone who ever swims in Dover’s Harbour’s notoriously impenetrable water can instead focus on the susurrus of the shifting shingle. Visibility from the shore. There’s an old story of my first ever non-wetsuit swim. I started in March before I starting swimming year round and didn’t realise I was starting at the coldest time of year, before I’d built up the experience I later developed. It was in a sheltered cove but I had been terrified about the cold and conditions were choppy. I’d planned a short swim but I was apparently invisible almost immediately and my partner thought I’d been swept away. Alternatively I am constantly worried that someone seeing me heading out to see will panic and call the Coast Guard, as has happened previously. Pollution. Often very hard to know about. Local knowledge is useful, watching for livid green explosions of kelp or algal blooms on rocks under stream outlets, old pipe outlets and at its worst faecal masses, garbage mounds or masses of dead fish are all indicators. Sometimes there are none. Marine diesel spills, slicks from boat exhausts, water run-off from urban areas after storms and agricultural pollution are other examples. The only protection you might have is the dilution effect of the large volume of water, (and whatever you can do personally to address problems and causes). Marine craft. I have always thought that any swimmer who spends a lot of energy worrying about sharks, has likely never been trapped under a boat or had a near miss with a propeller. Jetskis. Because I hold these things in such contempt and loathing I refuse to honour them with classification with the rest of the marine craft on the ocean. Be afraid and wear a bright swim cap. Theft. Yes, theft is universal. But popular recreation spots near the coast are particular targets. Using a Keypod or a Tow Float are alternatives to risking theft. Shore anglers. This is a hazard at my usual location and caused the loss of one of the waterproof cameras I previously bought after someone decided to fish in the No Fishing designated swimming zone, and pulled a new camera from my Speedoes to the bottom of Tramore Bay, where it likely still resides. Rocks. I like rocks. I like playing around rocks in the water. I like when the triathlete in the race who thinks he can swim between me and rocks realises I won’t give way, and suddenly understands that my skin will grown back, but his rubber won’t. I use rocks as race allies and I am really comfortable swimming though reefs in rough water. But I also have a significant number of scars because rocks are sharp and hard, and often invisible and cold water makes bleeding invisible and numbs even large lacerations. Don’t, whatever you do, dive into unknown ocean as people die from cranial impacts on unseen rocks. Seaweed. Some people are afraid of seaweed. I don’t get it, but then I have my own phobias that you probably won’t understand. Seaweed or kelp like dabberlocks at its thickest can make a stretch of water impassable. I have over the years come to think as open water swimmers need to be more reflective about the many aspects of their obsession/hobby/lifestyle/whateverthis is. The world is replete with people who study every aspect of the sea. We ourselves should be experts in our field because by its nature, the sea is so much than any of us. Increasing knowledge is one of the most accessible ways of both protecting ourselves and allowing us to enjoy the sea more. 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Fans are invited to pick their favorite Arrow Season 4 guest star with 3 or more episodes. Now that we’re on the summer break, it’s time again for this year’s GreenArrowTV Awards – honoring the best and not-so-best of the recent Arrow season. If Twitter or the GATV comments section are to be believed Season 4 was controversial, to say the least. Some people loved it. Some people didn’t. Here’s your chance, though, to recognize the things you did (or didn’t) like. Some housekeeping notes about the Awards can be found HERE, to prevent any confusion. The current category now is Best Guest Star With Three Or More Episodes. This means that if you’re looking for Matt Ryan, Brandon Routh, Megalyn EK, or anyone like that, you’ll have to wait for the “Less Than Three” category. If there’s a name you feel we missed of an actor who appeared in three or more episodes, there is a write-in section. Technically, The Flash’s Grant Gustin appeared in three episodes, but one of them was archive footage, so we’re saving him for the next category. If you’re really in a voting mood, the KryptonSite Awards for Supergirl have begun this year too! You can also still vote in past GATV Awards categories if you haven’t already. See last year’s results here – Pre-order Arrow: The Complete Fourth Season on Blu-ray!

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Donald Trump called for robust mental health services for veterans in a Monday speech, even as he suggested that victims of post-traumatic stress disorder and combat-related suicide aren’t as “strong” as their comrades. “People come back from war and combat and they see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over,” Trump said in an address to the Retired American Warriors in Herndon, Virginia. “And you’re strong and you can handle it, but a lot of people can’t handle it.” He went on to call for stronger mental health initiatives for veterans, promising a “very, very robust level of performance having to do with mental health.” Trump’s comments come amid an effort to destigmatize mental health issues in the military. “There’s nothing weak about asking for help,” President Barack Obama said during a CNN presidential town hall last week. “There’s no weakness in asking for help.” —@POTUS on destigmatizing mental health issues #ObamaTownHall https://t.co/MCah68Aqfl — The White House (@WhiteHouse) September 29, 2016 Paul Rieckhoff, the founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, took to Twitter on Monday to respond to Trump’s comments. This is what right looks like on PTSD/vet suicide from a commander-in-chief–or from anyone who wants the job next year. @anamariecox @IAVA https://t.co/IRLTcShX0e — Paul (PJ) Rieckhoff (@PaulRieckhoff) October 3, 2016 Yeah, this part is not helpful. “Being strong” and/or “being able to handle it” is the wrong message on PTSD/suicide and perpetuates stigma. https://t.co/Ev3rUuueeA — Paul (PJ) Rieckhoff (@PaulRieckhoff) October 3, 2016 Every national leader has a responsibility to use accurate and appropriate language when talking about mental health and suicide especially. — Paul (PJ) Rieckhoff (@PaulRieckhoff) October 3, 2016 Terms like “killing yourself” or “mental problems”, or any any suggestion that suicide only impacts the weak, perpetuates stigma… — Paul (PJ) Rieckhoff (@PaulRieckhoff) October 3, 2016 …it can also promote contagion and may discourage people from getting help for mental health injuries. Getting help is a sign of strength. — Paul (PJ) Rieckhoff (@PaulRieckhoff) October 3, 2016 Watch below:

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Subject: [ruby-dev:46348] [ANN] ruby 2.0.0-preview1 released From: Yusuke Endoh <mame@ g e p Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 09:17:39 +0900 Japanese later; 日本語はあとで Hello all -- We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.0.0-preview1. Please check out the new features in Ruby 2.0 before final release! * http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.0/ruby-2.0.0-preview1.tar.bz2 SIZE: 10309440 bytes MD5: 47a0f662f0e258aa1c5e429c310861b3 SHA256: 79e5605003bf6766fbd123ce00a0027df716ba6d28494c35185909f7e61a5bdf * http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.0/ruby-2.0.0-preview1.tar.gz SIZE: 12937316 bytes MD5: c7d73f3ddb6d25e7733626ddbad04158 SHA256: 94b585560c05cb40fadd03e675bd3beb8271c2e976b45644cc765bf854cfd80c * http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.0/ruby-2.0.0-preview1.zip SIZE: 14470260 bytes MD5: 4adb51aa69b56b81c81a8c5f892689cf SHA256: c327f3d91ed7033790244d5b263d7b346f3d8efe808079f5a598507fad90ee6e ## The new features in 2.0.0 - Refinements - Keyword arguments - Enumerator#lazy - Module#prepend - Converting convention to Hash: #to_h - %i: a literal for symbol array - regexp engine is changed to Onigmo - DTrace support ... and more improvements. See NEWS for details. Unfortunately, no introductory document is available yet. (If you volunteer to write and provide, we may cite or refer to it in the next release announcement.) ## The targets All Ruby users, especially, the following people are strongly encouraged to provide feedback on anything you notice. - All developers who want to make your products "2.0 ready". - Those who proposed 2.0 features. - Ruby committers. ## Notes Some 2.0 features are not implemented yet. In particular, we are planning to update Rubygems, Rdoc and Rake. DTrace support is NOT included in preview1; will be in preview2. #6670: str.chars.last should be possible #3346: __DIR__ revisited #3731: Easier Embedding API for Ruby #1586: Including a module already present in ancestors should not be ignored #2294: [PATCH] ruby_bind_stack() to embed Ruby in coroutine #1952: cannot stop with Ctrl+C #2255: unicode parameters cannot be passed to ruby If you know other features that are accepted but not implemented, let us know. The stdlib Syck was completely replaced with Psych, which requires libyaml if you want to use YAML. We have taken considerable care in source-level compatibility with 1.9. We believe all "normal" programs will work without modification. So, please give it a try, and report if your program does not work. ## The (rough) schedule - in early December: 2.0.0-preview2 - around Christmas time: code freeze - at/after New Year: 2.0.0-rc1 - in early February: 2.0.0-rc2 - 24 February: 2.0.0-p0 ## special thanks I appreciate all who helped me (a lazy release manager). In particular, ko1 coordinated a lot, naruse covered almost all release jobs in place of me, and unak and Aaron Patterson reviewed the draft of this announcement. Thank you all! 2.0.0-preview1 をリリースします。 Ruby の次世代安定版 2.0.0 に含まれる機能を一足先に確かめてください。 * http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.0/ruby-2.0.0-preview1.tar.bz2 SIZE: 10309440 bytes MD5: 47a0f662f0e258aa1c5e429c310861b3 SHA256: 79e5605003bf6766fbd123ce00a0027df716ba6d28494c35185909f7e61a5bdf * http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.0/ruby-2.0.0-preview1.tar.gz SIZE: 12937316 bytes MD5: c7d73f3ddb6d25e7733626ddbad04158 SHA256: 94b585560c05cb40fadd03e675bd3beb8271c2e976b45644cc765bf854cfd80c * http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.0/ruby-2.0.0-preview1.zip SIZE: 14470260 bytes MD5: 4adb51aa69b56b81c81a8c5f892689cf SHA256: c327f3d91ed7033790244d5b263d7b346f3d8efe808079f5a598507fad90ee6e ☆ 2.0.0 の新機能 - Refinements - キーワード引数 - Enumerator#lazy - Module#prepend - Hash への変換メソッド #to_h - %i: シンボルの配列のリテラル - 正規表現エンジンを Onigmo に変更 - DTrace サポート その他改善多数。詳しくは NEWS をご覧あれ。 残念ながら、各機能の紹介記事は用意できていません。 ブログ等で紹介記事を書いていただけると、今後のリリースアナウンスで 引用や参照をさせていただくかも。 ☆対象者 Ruby をお使いの方すべてですが、特に以下に該当する方は気づいた点を 是非フィードバックしてください。 - 自分のプロダクトを早期に 2.0 対応させたい開発者 - 2.0.0 に機能提案して採択された人 - Ruby のコミッタ ☆注意点 実装予定の新機能がいくつか未実装です。 特に、rubygems, rdoc, rake は最新版にアップデートされる予定です。 DTrace サポートは preview1 に含まれていません。preview2 に含まれる 予定です。 #6670: str.chars.last should be possible #3346: __DIR__ revisted #3731: Easier Embedding API for Ruby #1586: Including a module already present in ancestors should not be ignored #2294: [PATCH] ruby_bind_stack() to embed Ruby in coroutine #1952: cannot stop with Ctrl+C #2255: unicode parameters cannot be passed to ruby これ以外に「実装予定なのに未実装の機能」があれば、教えてください。 syck が取り除かれています。psych に完全に置き換えられました。 その結果、yaml を扱いたい場合は libyaml が必須になっています。 1.9 とのソースレベル互換性はかなり意識されており、「ふつう」の プログラムであれば特に修正なく動くと思います。ぜひお試しください。 もし動かない場合はご報告ください。 ☆ (大まかな) 今後の予定 - 12 月上旬: 2.0.0-preview2 - クリスマスごろ: code freeze - 正月過ぎたくらい: 2.0.0-rc1 - 2 月上旬: 2.0.0-rc2 - 2/24: 2.0.0-p0 ☆謝辞 怠惰なリリースマネージャを助けてくれた皆さんに感謝します。 特に、いろいろ調整してくれた笹田さん、実作業のほとんどをやって くれた成瀬さん、このアナウンス文面をレビューしてくれた usa さんと Aaron Patterson 、みなさん感謝です！ -- Yusuke Endoh <mame / tsg.ne.jp>

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Print Article COEUR d’ALENE — While it’s unlikely an Electoral College insurrection will block Donald Trump from taking office as president, the president-elect’s detractors are giving it their best shot. Idaho’s four Trump electors, including Jennifer Locke of Kootenai County, are being besieged with phone calls, email and social media messages from people from Idaho and beyond asking them to stray from the party line when the Electoral College votes on Dec. 19. Idaho Secretary of State Lawrence Denney’s office issued a statement Monday calling for respect and civility for presidential electors. “Many of these phone calls are crossing into what could reasonably be considered harassment. The callers are trying to persuade the electors to become what is known as a ‘faithless elector,’” the statement said. Locke said she’s steering clear of engaging with the people contacting her. “With the violence and the protests going on, you just don’t know how people’s emotions are right now,” Locke said. Although Donald Trump may not win the popular vote, he won enough states for an Electoral College victory. Appointed by their party, presidential electors pledge to vote for their party’s nominee, but there is nothing barring an elector in Idaho from becoming a “faithless” one. The U.S. Constitution does not prohibit it and Idaho is one of 21 states with no state law forcing an elector to comply. Locke thinks that may have something to do with the intensity of the effort to get Gem State Trump electors to flip, although she has no intention of doing so. “We just want this to be peaceful. We’re just doing what we were chosen to do. It was a fair election and we need to move on,” Locke said. “I’m not going rogue with my vote. I’m still voting for Trump.” Locke said she started receiving the messages last week on the Facebook page she set up for herself as Republican precinct committeewoman in Precinct 13, which wraps around the northern and western sections of Hayden Lake. She shut down that Facebook page and removed photos and increased the privacy settings on her personal profile page after someone posted, “Oh, you have a beautiful daughter. You shouldn’t vote for Trump.” Eventually the Trump opposers started sending her emails and now they have her home phone number. The email messages contain similar content, she said. Those contacting Locke and the state’s other presidential electors — Layne Bangerter, of Boise; Melinda Smyser, of Parma; and Caleb Lakey, of Kuna — are likely lifting passages from an online petition started six days ago on change.org. The petition, named “Electoral College: Make Hillary Clinton President on December 19,” had 4.4 million signatures by Tuesday afternoon. According to the secretary of state’s office, although there have been 157 “faithless electors” in history, no elector has ever changed the outcome of an election by going rogue.

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“Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.” ~ Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack (1738) I had a screenprinting and embroidery business for 27 years that I started when I was 17. It grew into a 30,000 sq. ft., 100 employee enterprise. For a period of time, I would stop on the way to the office and get a giant diet soda. I eventually realized I didn’t really want the soda—I just did not want to go to work. My job had devolved into putting out fires, listening to five different department heads complain about the same problem and then making a decision that would mollify none of them. Flooding my system with chemical sugar substitutes and caffeine became an addiction that diffused the discomfort I felt for what I projected would await me. The soda served to distract my systems (physical, mental and emotional) by giving them something else to focus on. The sugar and caffeine affected me physically. I emotionally beat myself up for drinking that kind of crap and mentally punished myself for being weak and addicted. The energy potential that I created with my projections infused my system to the point where I was uncomfortably energized. I labeled it stress and anxiety. I didn’t like it, it was uncomfortable. I wanted it to change. I wanted to return to something less full. So, I deflated myself back to my comfort zone by tormenting my liver with chemicals. It worked. It was unhealthy, but it worked. Caffeine consumed, comfort zone resumed. My mental flagellation and emotional self-abasement also helped to burn off some of the excess potential. I created “you suck” stories about myself so that I could return to my comfort zone. I was stopping to get a soda to counter and balance the energy I had created by fictionalizing what would await me. Some days, nothing was. I would show up, no one would notice and I would cruise to my office in peace and serenity. I would Om to my shanty. I was fictionalizing a future to justify my addiction to fake sugar and stimulants. I was creating stress and anxiety to energize me beyond what was comfortable so that I could justify a drive-thru fix. Upon that realization, my addiction changed. I started to question the stories I was creating. Where they actual and factual or just justifications? Then, I began to try to quiet the mental masturbation and tolerate my discomfort. It didn’t take too long before diet sodas were a thing of my past. My liver is still smiling. Love elephant and want to go steady? Apprentice Editor: Dana Gornall / Editor: Renee Picard Photo Credit: Carissa Rogers / Flickr

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Strap in Virginia Mudders, because we’re rolling into town for an explosively good time. That’s right, for the first time ever Tough Mudder Classic Virginia is heading to the expansive and scenic setting of Silver Lake Park, just 1 hour outside Washington D.C. So dust off those trail shoes and get ready to get buck-wild with your crew in 2019. 8-10 Miles, 25 Obstacles Tough Mudder Classic is an epic return to our badass roots in the form of 8-10 miles packed with more obstacles than ever before (25 to be exact). In 2019, we’ve taken innovation to the extreme with 10 new or updated obstacles on every single course for maximum limit-testing, goal-crushing EPIC. You’ll test your limits physically and mentally and cross the finish line stronger than you started, with your fellow Mudders by your side every step of the way. There’s no better place to prove to yourself that you’ve got what it takes to demolish any goal you set in 2019 than Tough Mudder Classic. Because that ice-cold free finisher beer tastes even better when you’ve earned it. Please note: Course distance, route and number or type of obstacles are subject to change and may differ from those advertised.

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Beck! As we can reveal that his thirteenth album 'Colors' is due out on October the 13th. We've heard a few tracks from the album over the past months, "Wow" and "Dear Life" in fact, the first single from it was "Dreams" which came out two years ago! The latest single is called 'Up All Night' and obsessive fans of Beck might remember the original version of this tune featured on the soundtrack of football game FIFA 17…There's a rather brilliantr new video which accompanies the track - all about a girl who transforms herself into a superhero using an asthma inhaler, then battles her way to a teenage hosueparty to save her friend who's passed out on a pool table. And yesterday 6 Music's Helen Weatherhead got Beck on the phone to find out more about this record.

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I hope you have some time on your hands! The IDM genre had a tremendous amount of quality music through the mid 90s and early 2000s. Any list will end up omitting hundreds of great tracks. Below are are some of my absolute favorites. I tried to highlight the best tracks from the best artists as well as some of their hidden gems and lesser known artists.By request, a top 25 (one entry per artist):"Vordhosbn" by Aphex Twin "Granular Bastard" by Apparat "Cichli" by Autechre "Roygbiv" by Boards of Canada "Viimo" by Brothomstates "Theme Song To Cex" by Cex "Wolf" by Chris Clark "Perlandine Friday" by Christ. "Commuter Love" by CiM "Vatstep DSP" by Hrvatski "Imodium" by The Gasman "Dreamland Geist Orchestra" by Joseph Nothing "Utopia" by Jackson & His Computer Band "Ready 4 Love (Fattigmannsremix)" by Kim Hiorthoy "Starcell UK" by Lackluster "Jewlea" by Machine Drum "The Way The World Will End" by Marumari "Rompatrouille" by Mouse On Mars "Meinheld" by Mu-ziq "This World Is Sound" by Napoli is not Nepal "New Family" by Plaid "Point To B" by Prefuse 73 "Razzamatazz" by Req "Balk Acid" by Speedy J "Massif (Stay Strong)" by Squarepusher By artist:Acustic:Flow Welcome Hop Aphex TwinAFX:Vordhosbn Jynweythek Ylow IZ-US Flim Windowlicker On Fingerbib Girl/Boy Song Logan Rock Witch Cow Cud Is A Twin Acrid Avrid Jam Shred Alberto Balsalm Donkey Rhubarb Pancake Lizard Xtal Laughable Butane Bob Arched Maid Via RDJ Analogue Bubblebath Polynomial-C Apparat:Granular Bastard Wooden Tel Aviv Steady Uprising Riding Steinholz Silizium Aspirin Arcadia ArovaneLillies Tokyo Ghost Stories Windy Wish Trees Pink Lillies Cry Osaka Cry Instant Gods Out Of The Box Theme Tides Seaside Epilogue Autechre:Lowride Cichli Pen Expers Flutter V-PROC Autriche Milk DX Clipper Acroyear2 Goz Quarter Laughing Quarter Draun Quarter Krib C/Pach Eutow Rotar Leterel Second Scout Doctrine Maetl Blamstrain:Process Boards of Canada:Everything You Do Is A Balloon Roygbiv Dawn Chorus Sunshine Recorder 1969 Julie And Candy Whitewater From One Source All Things Depend Kid For Today Iced Cooly Open The Light Sandsings (a remix or Mira Calix) Sixtyniner Bogdan Raczynski:Untitled (I Will Eat Your Children Too B1) Boy Robot:Likely Silly And Waterful Brothomstates:Viimo Mdrmx Adozenaday Qtio Brothomstates Vs. 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Advisor, Natl Color in Boca Raton, Florida | Canon Careers Canon Careers Please Enable Cookies to Continue Please enable cookies in your browser to experience all the personalized features of this site, including the ability to apply for a job. Welcome page Returning Candidate? Log back in! Advisor, Natl Color Location US-FL-Boca Raton Company Canon Solutions America, Inc. Requisition ID 28122 Category System Support Position Type Full-Time Overview Provides expert level knowledge and design solutions for color management at an enterprise level with the ability to understand and articulate the impact of color management on varying technologies, data streams, and competitive products. Will be a HYBRID work situation. Boca Raton Office Color Mangement experience required Responsibilities - Responsible for assisting the Regional Color Advisors with the design, integration, and delivery of complex software and inkjet solutions into customer environments using common industry approaches to color management with a mindset focused on multi-vendor integrations and advances color workflow in both Graphic Arts and TDM environments. Provides partner product support to all internal and external customers throughout the assigned region. Designs and communicates complex technical solutions in an easily understood manner to internal and external customers. - Assists the Regional Color Advisors as they develop complex and innovative approaches to onboard new color applications to maximize utilization of inkjet technology. Assists regional sales in generating new business, advising as the color expert in new sales opportunities with new exisiting customers. Helps drive page volume to Canon equipment from competitive devices. Designs application workflows that automate data preparation, preflighting, postal processing and finishing by utilizing finishing device interfaces, JDF/JMF and available software API's. - Responsible for detailed communications defining product requirements, missing capabilities, market expectations and issues to the Product Development teams as a part of RSHQ responsibility for the Americas. - Responsible for the highest level of support of Canon Canada, Mexico, and Latin America for software product training and problem resolution. - Delivers work product of the highest quality levels while acting as a role model, mentor, and coach to all members of the National Support Team. - Responsible for providing post-sales 24/7 support and implementation services and for 24/7 after-hours support. Qualifications Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience required, plus 7 years of related experience. - Experience in printing pre-sales/post- sales support in office and production environments. Off-set Press required - May require up to 70% travel locally, regionally, or nationally (valid drivers' license and acceptable driving record necessary), requiring overnight stays. Certain minimum auto insurance coverages are required. Certified G7 Expert, Certified Color Management Professional Master. Actively assist customers with application on-boarding activities to increase print volumes. Company Overview About our Company - Canon Solutions America, Inc. empowers companies of all sizes to succeed by supplying market leading enterprise, production, and large format printing solutions, supported by exceptional professional service offerings. 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World Mapping Resource | Center for Research in Wind About People Staff and faculty Students Alumni Research Wind Power Research groups/projects Publications V2G Research groups/projects Industrial partnerships Publications Press coverage Facilities Education Courses and Programs Wind Academy Graduate Certificate Engagement Public Outreach Resources and Tools Policy News and events Contact us Select Page Mapping the global wind power resource Because electricity is lost as it is carried long distances, we begin an evaluation of the world wind by looking at where people use electricty. As a first-order approximation of where power is currently needed, we examine the earth at night. The image below reveals that the electric-using population is concentrated in a few world areas and is mostly along the coasts. This is more clear in the full-sized image–click below and scroll to your favorite world area(s). (Data courtesy Marc Imhoff of NASA GSFC and Christopher Elvidge of NOAA NGDC. Image by Craig Mayhew and Robert Simmon, NASA GSFC.) Click to download the full-size image. The map below is a world, year-round average wind speed map. It is derived from 10 years of GEOS-1 sattelite data. Satellite data are the only wind data with global extent, but are less accurate because the data are indirect. Roughly 7 m/s and faster are economically worth exploiting today even in higher-cost offshore locations; those are the orange, pink, and shades of red and brown in the figure. In many areas, especially on land, the 6 m/s areas are already economically viable, those are the yellows. We see that the largest wind resources are above the oceans and mid-continental plains of each of the major continents. The coastal oceans are of special interest because they have strong winds and, as seen by the earth at night, they are close to most of the world’s population and electric use. Full documentation on how these wind speeds are calculated can be found in NASA Surface meteorology and Solar Energy: Methodology, dated 12/16/04 (no author given but the PDF information says is written by “Chandler”). The map below is a year-round average. To see monthly fluctuations, click on this animation of monthly values. Finally, we ask, how much of the vast ocean wind resource is likely to be tapped? Current offshore wind towers available today are rated to 20m water depth (some manufacturers say 30m). Designs now underdevelopment would extend this to the entire continental shelf areas (up to 150-200m depth). The designs we consider more likely to be practical and (eventually) economic involve teathers to the bottom and electrical cables connecting to shore, so we do not consider viable areas off the continental shelves. The map below locates the world’s continental shelves, the darker reddish areas. Continental shelves are quite large off eastern North America, Western Europe, East Asia, and southeastern South America. Click to download the full-size image. Conclusion Within just the past few years, we have belatedly realized that most of the world’s wind resources are over the ocean and vast quantities are along the world’s continental shelves, close to the largest electricity-using populations. The web page above provides our global view, but without calculations. Taking one area, we do a first-cut analysis of the near-term resource, considering wind speed, depth, and current technology, for the U.S. Eastern continental shelf. Globally, the resource is very large. In an in-press article, Archer and Jacobson use worldwide weather stations (more accurate than the above GEOS-1 data, but not covering the oceans) and estimate the worldwide land and near-shore wind resource. Their calculation of total wind resource is 72 TW. This is seven times the world’s electricity demand and five times the world energy demand (all commercial fuels and carriers). Although the direct solar resource is larger, in the higher speed wind areas the wind resource is at or near economic viability today. Center for Research in Wind (CReW) Facilitating the transition to power generation using carbon-free geophysical flows Our Mission To conduct scientific research, educate the next generation of students, and actively engage industry, policy makers and the public, and facilitate use of power sources such as surface wind, geostrophic winds, and ocean currents. Featured Wind Power V2G Technology Offshore Wind Skills Academy Education News and events Contact 221 Academy Street Newark, DE 19716 • USA crew-info@udel.edu Facebook Twitter RSS Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by WordPress

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PESHAWAR: At least ten people were killed and more than 60 injured Thursday evening when a bomb exploded at a religious centre in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Eyewitnesses said the bomb exploded at Tablighi Markaz on Pajaggi Road run by the Tableeghi Jamaat, just before Maghrib prayers. Around a thousand people were gathered at the seminary for a Shab-i-Juma (Thursday) congregation when the bomb ripped through the centre, according to reports. Provincial Health Minister Shaukat Yousufzai confirmed the number of casualties. “Eight people have died and 67 wounded,” he said. Shafqat Malik, a senior official of the bomb disposal squad, said the bomb was planted inside a canister of ghee (cooking oil). “Around five kilograms of explosive material was used in the blast, which was detonated through a timed device,” he said. An intelligence official, however, said the bomb had been brought in a sleeping-bag, and was “meant to be planted somewhere else but exploded.” Two more bombs diffused at blast site Meanwhile, two more bombs in suspicious bags in Peshawar’s Tablighi Centre were defused by the bomb disposal squad by applying water charge. The suspected explosives were placed on the second floor of the mosque where an earlier explosion had left eight people dead and 67 others injured. AIG Shafqat Malik told that the bombs weighed at least five kilograms each and were placed in vegetable oil tins fitted with time devices. Bomb defused in Nowshera Meanwhile, bomb disposal experts defused a bomb planted outside a Tablighi Markaz mosque in Nowshera, around the same time the bomb exploded in the Peshawar. According to officials of the bomb disposal squad, a bomb weighing five kilograms was planted outside the main gate of the mosque. Police spokesman Turk Ali Shah said bomb was similarly planted in a canister of ghee. The bomb was defused just before Maghrib prayers, around same time the Peshawar bomb exploded. A Shab-i-Juma congregation was also scheduled to take place at the Nowshera religious centre. This is not the first time that a religious centre of the Tableeghi Jamaat has been targeted. In January 2012, at least 22 people were killed in a blast at a Tableeghi centre in the once militants’ infested district of Swat. TTP distances itself from the attack The Pakistani Taliban, whose new leader Mullah Fazlullah called for an end to attacks on civilians at the end of last year, sought to distance itself from the attack. Fazlullah has vowed to attack only government and security officials. “The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) strongly deny such inhuman activities,” Shahidullah Shahid, a Taliban spokesman, told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location– Reuters

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The Russian elite made a proposal to issue special bank bonds, which will have a yield above deposits in foreign currency, but still retain anonymity of the acquirer.⁠ The wealthy Russians, who may get into the report for US senators with subsequent inclusion in the US sanctions list, are looking for a way to return capital to Russia with minimal losses. Reuters writes, referring to three informed sources, that an idea of issuing special bonds, which can be used to return funds from abroad with profit, was expressed. Securities issued in foreign currency will have a yield above bank rates. And unlike with bank accounts, owners can remain anonymous. "We know that many people want to return their foreign funds," said the Executive Director of a large Russian state-owned company on condition of anonymity. Now wealthy people that can potentially fall under personal sanctions are transferring small amounts in foreign currency to deposits in Russian banks. "However, interest rates on deposits in foreign currency are low, and investments in tools of the foreign exchange market they could yield a fair return," said a senior official of a Russian state bank. At the same time, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation refused to comment on this issue. August 4, 2017 saw US President Donald Trump signing a law on sanctions against Russia, proposed by US congressmen, which pertains to collection of data on key Russian political figures and oligarchs. The US Treasury Department, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of State, must, not later than 180 days after the enactment of the law (by January 31, 2018), provide an open Report on the oligarchs and parastatal organizations of the Russian Federation to relevant congressional committees. It should feature information on key political figures of Russia and oligarchs; establish the scale of their fortune and sources of income; list their relatives, including spouses, children, parents, their assets, including investments, business interests, property that generates income; specify foreign companies affiliated with these persons. In the future, the report will only be supplemented with new information and names. Based on this list, up to 50.000 citizens of Russia may come under new sanctions. Russian special services have already recorded an unprecedented activity by US financial intelligence related to the request of data on Russians in European countries and a number of other states. The spokesman for Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, stated that through sanctions the USA wants to turn business against Putin, and they purposefully do it on the cusp of presidential elections.

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Minimal lubrication processing helps increase cutting speed ~ Shalashala Laser Cutting Machine Blog Home About SHALASHALA Digital Cutting Machine Advance WATER JET Our Main Web Shalashala Laser Cutting Machine Blog Get prices in seconds and laser-cut parts as early as next-day. Twitter Facebook GooglePlus Pinterest Linkedin Instagram Flickr Youtube Vimeo Github Tumblr Dribbble Skype Contact RSS Minimal lubrication processing helps increase cutting speed November 22, 2021 | No comments The cutting tool cuts the metal by breaking the metal layer.The fracture of the metal layer means that the external force destroys the metal structure and at the same time releases the internal energy of the metal in the form of heat.During cutting, on the one hand, the chips transfer the heat of the crack to the surface of the cutting tool. On the other hand, the chips are pressed into contact with the cutting tool by bending stress and move relatively quickly to generate frictional heat. The combined reasons make the cutting tool and the metal surface The temperature rises rapidly.During the cutting process, the high-heat solid metal will be rapidly cooled by the quenching effect of the cutting fluid to produce a quenching effect, which destroys the crystal phase structure. At the same time, the molecular dislocation in the crystal phase increases, making the metal hard and fragile at the same time .When the cutting tool finishes cutting and leaves the workpiece, the hot tip will contact the coolant to produce a “quenching reaction” that makes the cutting tool hard and fragile, especially the coated cutting tool, which affects the life of the cutting tool.Since the intensity of the quenching effect is proportional to the temperature difference, increasing the cutting speed will make the cutting tool higher temperature, and the strong quenching reaction produced by the greater temperature difference will further reduce the life of the cutting tool.This is why the higher the cutting speed, the shorter the life of the cutting tool. During micro-lubrication processing, the lubricant is sprayed onto the machined surface in the form of mist particles, which will not produce quenching or quenching effect. Moreover, when the cutting speed is increased, the cutting fracture point of the workpiece will appear in advance, and the heat source of the fracture point will be far away from the knife. tip.Since the heat is all concentrated on the workpiece and chips, The heat source of the cutting tool is only a small part of the heat conduction and friction at the contact point of the chip. Increasing the cutting speed will cause the chip to bend and leave the workpiece and cutting tool at a faster speed, effectively reducing the time for the chip to conduct heat.The high temperature remaining on the workpiece can soften the surface of the workpiece and make the cutting tool easier to cut.Therefore, in general, micro-lubrication processing is suitable for increasing the cutting speed. Link to this article：Minimal lubrication processing helps increase cutting speed Reprint Statement: If there are no special instructions, all articles on this site are original. Please indicate the source for reprinting.：Cnc Machining，Thank Tweet Like It Google + Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook ← Newer Post Older Post → Home 0 comments: Post a Comment About Shalashala Shalashala China CNC laser engraving machine is kind of CNC engraving machine and China laser cutting machines. They are mainly for metal and non-metal material by higher precision processing way suitable for vector laser cutting, raster engraving, sign making, displays, sheet fabrication, textile fabrication and cutting, nameplates, outdoor advertising and more. China laser engraving machine could process following material: CO2 Non-metal China Laser Engraving Machine & China Laser Cutting Machine Engraving Material Cutting Material Metal & Non-metal Laser Machine Popular Posts Laser cutting chess, enjoy the fun of "backwing abandoning pawns" between the chessboards 알루미늄 합금 다이캐스팅의 단점을 해결하는 것이 편리합니다! AUO B141XG08 V2 Summary of key points for installing tires What is brass, red copper and red copper, and what is the difference? Enhance the brand image of Great Wall Lubricants and show the strong technical strength of the Great Wall brand Infineon BSM200GA12DN2 Precision CNC Machining Services in China AUO G173HW01 V0 COOPERATIVE PARTNER ☆ Cnc Machine ☆ 5 Axis Machining ☆ Cnc Machining Org ☆ PTJ Machining Shop ☆ Cnc Manufacturing ☆ EDM Machining ☆ 3D Printing Services ☆ Swiss Machining ☆ Zhao Tube Blog Contact Us ADD：No. 10, Lianhua Road, Xianxi Street, Chang'an Town, Dongguan City E-mail： feiyuelasercutter@gmail.com TEL : 137-5127-8238 Copyright © Shalashala Laser Cutting Machine Blog | Powered by Cnc Machining china Design by cnc manufacturing blog | News Theme by PTJ Shop

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A Short Example No one wants to read. So let's have a look at a short example before we start. First, you'll see a boring Regular Expression as you may know them. Can you already guess what we're trying to validate? Regular Syntax: /^(?:[0-9]|[a-z]|[\._%\+-])+(?:@)(?:[0-9]|[a-z]|[\.-])+(?:\.)[a-z]{2,}$/i No? Well... Let's try the Simple Regex Language then. In the box below, you can see the exact same expression, but with a much cleaner syntax. Yes, it's quite long compared to the one on the top, but let's be honest.. It's not always about the size, right? SRL Syntax: begin with any of (digit, letter, one of "._%+-") once or more, literally "@", any of (digit, letter, one of ".-") once or more, literally ".", letter at least 2 times, must end, case insensitive Test Input Run Query! SRL Query is matching! SRL Query is not matching. The SRL Query contains an error: Whoops... you may have found a bug. Generated Regular Expression: Looks like we're trying to validate an email address. In reality, you might not want to use a Regular Expression for that, since emails are pretty painful to validate and there are plenty of tools out there that do a way better job on that, but for our example, it fits just fine. Especially for the one below. Oh, and did we mention you can edit and explore all the SRL Queries shown on this page? Just click on the desired query and be surprised. All SRL Queries directly translate into basic Regular Expressions. That way you're able to create your SRL Queries on this page and use the resulting Regular Expression in any language afterwards. But more on that later... Let's Match Something Okay, okay, you're validating strings in a fancy way. That's nice and all, but what about filtering? I want to get some matches! Not a problem. In this example, we'll take the SRL from above and add a few capture groups. This way we're able to filter the local part and the domain of an email address from a text. SRL Syntax: capture (any of (digit, letter, one of "._%+-") once or more) as "local", literally "@", capture ( any of (digit, letter, one of ".-") once or more, literally ".", letter at least 2 times ) as "domain", case insensitive Test Input Run Query! SRL Query is matching! SRL Query is not matching. The SRL Query contains an error: Whoops... you may have found a bug. Generated Regular Expression: Go ahead! Press "Run Query!" and see what happens. You'll see two matches, each containing two match groups: local and domain . We defined those names in the SRL above, after the CAPTURE group in the AS directive. Using SRL: Website, PHP 7, JavaScript, Python or Ruby? There are a few ways of using SRL. You can either build your desired SRL Query on this website and afterwards use the generated Regular Expression in your language and code of choice, or, if you're already using PHP 7, JavaScript, Python or Ruby, you can require SRL in your project and then use all of its features right out of the box. Also, there's a command line tool that allows converting SRL queries into regular expressions. For more information on that, please visit the the getting started section and choose your preferred method. There you'll find some nice features like the SRL Query Builder which will allow you to easily generate dynamic Regular Expressions and much more. And of course if you like, feel free to help us implementing this project in other programming languages. Just have a look at the Contribution section.

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Course Intro The CompTIA A+ 901 certification prep course is a self-study resource to help students prepare for the CompTIA A+ certification exam. The A+ exam covers both 220-901 and 220-902 objectives. Topics covered in the 901 prep include maintenance and configuration o Course Description The CompTIA A plus 901 certification prep course is a self-study resource to help students prepare for the CompTIA A+ certification exam. The A plus exam covers both 220-901 and 220-902 objectives. Topics covered in the 901 prep include maintenance and configuration of PCs and devices, basics of networking, troubleshooting software and hardware issues, and customer support. Learning objectives: Provide a review of the four knowledge area domains in the CompTIA A plus 220-901 exam objectives. Supplemental self-study preparation resource for the CompTIA A+ certification exam. Understand the basics of device installation, troubleshooting, and customer support. Proficiency Level – Basic Workforce Domain – Operate and Maintain Specialty Areas – Customer Service and Technical Support , Network Services , System Administration The current information technology industry is booming – there is no better time to start your new IT career. Our free CompTIA A+ online course will help you put your best foot forward in the IT industry. And if you are already an IT professional, this course will validate your knowledge and enhance your livelihood. In our CompTIA A+ online training course, you will learn the basics of computer technology and repair, networking, installation of PCs, laptops, and other hardware, and configuration of PCs, laptops, and mobile operating systems for Android and Apple iOS devices. The CompTIA A+ course is the best beginner class of all the courses we offer, and it’s designed for anyone looking to begin an IT or Cyber Security career. Not only will it provide you with much needed fundamentals of computer repair, maintenance, and technology, it will also provide you with enough knowledge that you are able to make informed decisions about your IT career path. You will learn the difference between careers in systems administration, network administration, cyber security, and many other specialized IT fields. That will make your next career step easy and enjoyable for you. This A+ certification training will prepare you to take the certification exams in which you will earn the highly reliable and trustworthy credentials that are recognized all over the world. What are the Benefits of Completing CompTIA A+ Online Training? Completing Cybrary’s CompTIA A+ online course will not only prepare you for getting your foot in the door of nearly any IT position, it also has many other benefits – especially when you go on to receive your A+ certification. Some of those benefits include: Comprehensive and Vendor-Neutral Knowledge – IT professionals who are A+ certified will have a mastery in the technologies that are found in many IT environments. The knowledge extends from traditional machines to mobile devices and the operating systems that are commonly used for both. Trusted by Hiring Employers – Perhaps the most beneficial aspect associated with CompTIA A+ certification is its hiring power. Employers of all types need IT professionals within their companies, and they trust A+ certified professionals to maintain the operations of their computer systems. Global Recognition – A+ certification is recognized internationally and is compliant with standards that are approved by the U.S. Department of Defense. Validation of Fundamental Skills – A+ certified professionals are well-versed in the troubleshooting, security, and networking skills that prepare them for many IT professions. For Which Careers Does CompTIA A+ Certification Prepare Someone? CompTIA A+ certification ensures that you are ready to work in a number of IT services positions for many companies and organizations. It’s a reliable way that potential employers can assess the knowledge and skill levels of prospective employees. In fact, organizations like Lenovo, Dell, Canon, Hewlett Packard, Intel, and the United States Department of Defense all look to CompTIA A+ certified candidates for their IT needs. They understand that this certification means that they are looking at a candidate who is competent to succeed in a host of IT roles for their business. Receiving CompTIA A+ certification will prepare you for general IT entry-level positions, such as technical support specialist, field service technician, IT support technician, IT support administrator, and many others. Some positions may require that you obtain further training or certifications, especially those that involve proprietary or vendor-specific hardware, software, and applications. Becoming certified will allow you to work in your desired industry while you gain the experience and knowledge that you need to decide on the next step on your career path, whether it be specialized or in project management roles. Additionally, employees who have earned their CompTIA A+ certification are frequently paid higher salaries – up to 15 percent more than non-certified employees in the U.S. What Does the CompTIA A+ Certification Process Entail? Once you have completed your CompTIA A+ certification preparation with our free online course, you are ready to proceed to your exams. For a small fee ($205 per exam) you will take two separate exams for your CompTIA A+ certification, given by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA). The first exam, CompTIA A+ 220-901, includes questions regarding PC and mobile device hardware and peripherals, CompTIA network maintenance and installation, troubleshooting hardware, and connectivity. The second exam, CompTIA A+ 220-902, includes the installation and configuration of operating systems like Microsoft Windows, Android, iOS, Apple OS X, and Linux. The test also covers CompTIA security and the basics of cloud computing and operation. Each exam consists of about 90 multiple choice, drag and drop, and performance-based questions which you have 90 minutes to complete. On the 220-901 exam you are required to answer 675 questions correctly while the 220-902 requires 700 correct answers. You can take the certification exam at any Pearson VUE testing center around the world, and once completed, your certification will be good for three years. What other CompTIA classes does Cybrary offer? 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"Firstly, he is a smart guy; he lost two times everything he had and raised himself up," Yakunin said. "He is addressing some internal failings of the American people." "The establishment are trying to curb the Trump phenomenon by supporting Mrs (presumptive Democratic candidate Hillary) Clinton. That is, to my mind, too simple." Yakunin also suggested that, historically, it has been Republican presidents who improved relations between the U.S. and Russia. "It was always Republicans when, in the old days, some of kind of bridges were constructed," he added. "If Mr Trump is coming into power, that will be more facilitative to faster establishing new kinds of relations." Yakunin also discussed how relations between the Russia and the West had deteriorated in recent years, especially since the Ukrainian crisis which led to the annexation of Crimea in 2014. He called for both sides to stop sending out propaganda, to collaborate and to restore bridges of communication. He also criticised recent comments made by European Commission president Jean Claude Juncker, which said Russia had illegally annexed Crimea and Sevastopol, as being unhelpful. "There isn't any glimpse of a positive addition, any positive direction of how we can overcome [differences]," he said. "That is not correct communication at all." —Follow CNBC International on Twitter and Facebook.

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Waverley Local Plan latest consultation pushes housing requirements up to 590 a year… Saturday, September 24, 2022 Latest: New A-Rated timberframe home on edge of Farnham, Surrey Haddonstone case study on BWP Architects’ Georgian style home Full Remodelling and Extension Works, Conservation Area, Hampshire New ICF Home submitted for Planning in Lincolnshire Two New 1,350sqft Detached Cottages for Developer Client in Surrey BWP Architects – Architects in Farnham, Surrey and Harrogate, North Yorkshire Home Services Site Appraisal & Feasibility Building Plots Outline Designs Planning Applications Construction Developers Sustainability Master Planning Party Wall Notices Projects Residential New Build Contemporary New Homes Traditional Design Timberframe Homes Remodelling Developers Master Planning Feasibility Gallery About Leigh Brooks MVO RIBA James Palmer RIBA Jane Brooks BA Arch BWP Architects Design Awards Testimonials PI Insurance GDPR Information Links Careers Blog Contact News Planning Surrey Waverley Local Plan latest consultation pushes housing requirements up to 590 a year… September 11, 2017 BWP Architects 1528 Views Farnham, Planning, Waverley Waverley Borough Council’s current consultation on modifications to the upcoming Local Plan has pushed housing requirements up to 590 a year from the previously reported 519… to account for a shortfall of 83 houses a year from neighbouring Woking Borough Council! For Farnham, this means a an increase in the housing supply for the period 2013-2032 from 2,330 to 2,780… Public comments on the consultation documents are requested through www.waverley.gov.uk ← Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion – architectural highlight of our summer trip to Spain Photographs now uploaded of timberframe new home in Farnham → Contact Details Farnham, Surrey: e: studio1@bwparchitects.com t: 01252 821114 Harrogate, Yorkshire: e: studio3@bwparchitects.com t: 01423 871101 Practice Brochure Click here to download a copy of the latest Practice Brochure Recent Posts New A-Rated timberframe home on edge of Farnham, Surrey Haddonstone case study on BWP Architects’ Georgian style home Full Remodelling and Extension Works, Conservation Area, Hampshire New ICF Home submitted for Planning in Lincolnshire Two New 1,350sqft Detached Cottages for Developer Client in Surrey Pages: Home Services Projects Gallery About Blog Contact Articles Contact: Farnham, Surrey: t: 01252 821114 Director: Leigh Brooks MVO, RIBA e: lab@bwparchitects.com Designer: Jane Brooks, BA Architecture e: jeb@bwparchitects.com Harrogate, North Yorkshire: t: 01423 871101 Director: James Palmer, RIBA e: jmp@bwparchitects.com Latest Project News: Developers Projects Residential New Build Timberframe Homes Traditional Design New A-Rated timberframe home on edge of Farnham, Surrey August 5, 2022 BWP Architects Comments Off on New A-Rated timberframe home on edge of Farnham, Surrey BWP Architects News Uncategorized Haddonstone case study on BWP Architects’ Georgian style home June 24, 2022 BWP Architects Comments Off on Haddonstone case study on BWP Architects’ Georgian style home Copyright © BWP Architects Ltd 2011-2022. All rights reserved.

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Dipa Karmakar has created history by becoming the first Indian female gymnast to qualify for the Olympics. The 22-year-old put up a strong performance in the final qualifier, scoring 52.698 points to secure a place in the Rio Olympics 2016. Behind Karmakar's achievement, is a story of guts, hard work, and determination. Karmakar is one of the few female gymnasts to regularly land the Produnova, one of the most dangerous vaults in the gymnastic world. She has also logged the highest score on a Produnova in the world. While artistic gymnastics looks beautiful and graceful, the Produnova demonstrates how it requires considerable strength and courage. The risky manoeuvre involves running towards the spring, a jump by blocking the hand, swinging the legs into two somersaults during flight, and finally, a difficult landing that can break the neck and cause spinal injuries if it is unbalanced. Bronze medal winner Dipa Karmakar of India performs during the women's individual vault final in the artistic gymnastics competition during the Commonwealth Games 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland. Image: AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth In 2014, Karmakar had become the first Indian woman gymnast to win a Commonwealth Games gymnastics medal, when she got a bronze at the vault event in Glasgow in 2014. She was also the first Indian woman gymnast to compete in the finals of the World Championships in Nov. 2015. Karmakar is also the first Indian gymnast from the north-eastern state of Tripura, one of the few regions in India where the sport has an avid following. The daughter of a weightlifting coach, she began practising gymnastics at the age of six, and had to train extra hard because she had flat feet as a kid. Bronze medallist Dipa Karmakar of India poses during the medal ceremony for the Women's Vault Final during day eight of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games on July 31, 2014. Image: Julian Finney/Getty Images In cricket-mad India, gymnastics still has a low profile, but Karmakar is slowly changing that. The last Indian gymnast —- male or female — to compete in the Olympics was in 1964. She has spoken about feeling hurt when people compared gymnastics to "circus tricks". After her Commonwealth Games win, cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar famously lauded her achievement in a speech. With her Olympics qualification, Karmakar has shown that she is a trailblazer in more ways than one.

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With two profitable quarters under its belt, the “new” General Motors is preparing to seek new investors, the first step toward cutting its ties to the U.S. government. The $3.8 billion it earned before interest and taxes in the first half of 2010 sounds OK, but you can't trust the numbers. Why? Because GM said so. The most glaring of many disclosures contained in the 734-page IPO document is this warning on page 25: "We have determined that our disclosure controls and procedures and our internal control over financial reporting are currently not effective. The lack of effective internal controls could materially adversely affect our financial condition and ability to carry out our business plan." The company goes on to say: "Until we have been able to test the operating effectiveness of remediated internal controls and ensure the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures, any material weaknesses may materially adversely affect our ability to report accurately our financial condition and results of operations in the future in a timely and reliable manner. In addition, although we continually review and evaluate internal control systems to allow management to report on the sufficiency of our internal controls, we cannot assure you that we will not discover additional weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting." Say what? That's a bunch of legalese, but basically, GM is saying it can't guarantee its reported results are accurate. And its auditor, Deloitte & Touche, agrees. But GM wants you to invest in the company anyway. In recent years, GM—a company traditionally run by bean counters— had a habit of restating its quarterly results long after the quarter had closed. In January 2009, GM settled a case filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission over the way it accounted for pensions and other issues. The company identified problems with its bookkeeping and put in a number of remedies that year. GM said it had reason to believe the fixes were sufficient, but then it filed for bankruptcy in mid-2009, and that created a whole new set of financial problems. When it emerged 40 days later, the company once again had to restate earnings under what's known as "fresh start accounting." All of which is to say GM's finance department was very, very busy over the past year and a half. As a result, it really hasn't been able to fully test the new policies and procedures to see if they are effective. Now, of course, GM goes on to say "we believe that there are no material inaccuracies or omissions of material fact and, to the best of our knowledge" the figures for 2009, both before and after bankruptcy, and for the first half of 2010 are accurate. But should we trust them? Executives at other companies are scratching their heads, too, especially since GM has a new chief executive, Daniel Akerson, who won't even take over until September 1. He's a telecommunications executive who, like chief financial officer Christopher Liddell, has no experience with the auto industry. What's the rush in going public? It might be politically expedient for the Obama administration, but America needs GM to be successful, and it only gets one chance to go public. If there are lingering doubts about the company's chances for success, GM stock won't fetch a good price, and taxpayers won't be fully repaid. Why not give Akerson and Liddell a chance to get up to speed on the auto business, and to make sure GM's finances are in order?

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True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto tried to warn you. Without spoiling the plot for you, he said weeks ago via Twitter hints and vague allusions, that it was unwise to focus on the identity of The Yellow King. That cracking the esoteric mythological code of True Detective wasn’t the point. So for those of you who refused to listen, for those who (understandably) got swept up in trying to chase down theories and outsmart the showrunners, last night’s straightforward finale might have been a frustrating anti-climax. Barring the Carcosa reveal, we didn’t learn anything new about the case in the finale. Errol, The Lawnmower Man, makes for an unsettling but, ultimately, unimpressive monster. Either Reggie Ledoux or the horror you, the viewer, dreamt up in your head would have been far creepier. I’m sure, ever since the True Detective audience went full Rust Cohle with their conspiracy theories and obsessive analysis, Nic Pizzolatto has been dreading this finale. (He jokingly said he was planning to leave the country if the reaction was poor.) But it’s not his fault that, like Rust and Marty, the audience has been chasing the wrong demon. The terror and the darkness isn’t external, it’s internal. When you view it that way, the finale delivers an entirely satisfying conclusion. Taking Off The Mask: During the final confrontation at the center of Carcosa, Errol tells Rust to “take off your mask.” On the one hand, this is fairly standard Carcosian gobbledygook, but, on the other hand, it leads to the most satisfying part of this episode. We finally get to see the cracks in Rust Cohle’s carefully constructed facade. We’ve seen him vulnerable before (needing to get drunk before meeting Marty’s family or angrily throwing Maggie out), but we’ve never really seen all the way inside Cohle. But after Carcosa, he’s an entirely different man. (via) Rust finally comes to terms with the pain of losing his child. He’s been chasing down bad guys, self-medicating, and doing just about everything he could to avoid connection to other human beings since we met him. But connection was always what he desperately wanted. Maggie saw that and exploited it. Finally, here, after the inner darkness is defeated, Rust can drop the mask and confront the void. (via) Saving Themselves: One of the oft-repeated, “time is a flat circle” concepts of this show is that everything that has happened will happen again. Given that, the audience would expect to see an echo of the children who were trapped at the Ledoux compound in this episode. another pair of children trapped and in need of rescue, echoing the children that were found at the Ledoux compound. To misquote Rust, those children were always in that room, and will be there again. Do man children count? Because in this episode it’s Rust and Marty who are trapped in the dark, wounded and dying. You could argue that, this time, Gilbough and Papania get to play the hero, but, really, Rust and Marty save themselves. Or, at least, each other. The Imperfections: For all the interesting things this episode had to say about connections and inner demons and wasted lives, it wasn’t exactly a perfect finale. Even if you set aside the theories and the mythology to focus on the men at the center of this story, there were stretches of the episode that felt like they didn’t belong. It’s perfectly okay that Errol isn’t quite the stuff of nightmares. In fact, as I said before, I prefer it that way. But I’m not sure the context of his crazy ol’ murder incest house added any texture to the story. Similarly, though I appreciated the fact that the long walk into Carcosa mirrored Marty and Rust creeping onto the Ledoux compound, that sequence felt drawn out and unnecessary. In the Ledoux episode, tensions were high because we didn’t know what the detectives would find. In this episode, the tension is already gone; we know who’s behind everything, so the time would have been better spent getting to the fallout a little faster. Or, possibly, we could have spent a little more time on the Hart family’s bedside reunion. I’m delighted Audrey and Maggie weren’t tied up in the killings, but I think that leg of the story could have used more development and a better resolution. The Love Story: In the end Pizzolatto has written a very effective and engrossing story. No matter what you think of the finale, you can’t argue that spending time with both Harrelson and McConaughey in these roles was anything less than fascinating. If the show didn’t give you the monsters and interconnected conspiracies you hoped for then maybe you, like Rust, should turn your gaze inwards. What kind of storytelling are you looking for? Isn’t the exploration of two broken men who dash their own lives to pieces, and crawl their way back from isolation, a story worth telling? And wasn’t it told well? Isn’t it satisfying to see the call and response of actions that echo across the decades of this series? A gesture of hate becomes a gesture of love and, for a story about darkness, that’s a pretty light ending. (via)

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I'm starting to really look forward to this movie, whereas a few days ago I couldn't have cared less about it. If seeing it and enjoying it will piss off some feminists, count me in. -------------------- What do we thing of feminists??? From COTRI must have masochistic tendencies, because every now and then something compels me to check out what kind of madness is being spewed over at Everyday Feminism dot com, which is one of the most mock-worthy websites in existence.When I visited that site today, I wasn't disappointed. I went looking for wack, and HOLY MOTHER OF CRAP did I ever get it.Because you guys, the crazy feminists over there are genuinely concerned about the new Star Wars movie coming out this Christmas, because of stuff like - and I'm not making this up - the lack of QUEER REPRESENTATION IN THE FILM. (they probably mean, lack of lesbians, since feminists are mostly that, not that there's anything wrong with that , LOL.)You can read the crazy for yourself, or simply avoid giving traffic to that bastion of stupidity and read this summary. Because Imma bout to summarize the crazy for y'all.Here are the reasons that the feminists are worried about the new Star Wars movie.1. It "heavily excludes women and people of color." Now, while they readily admit the presence of women and people of color in the original films (Billy Dee Williams, Samuel L Jackson, Carrie Fisher, Natalie Portman) - that isn't good enough, because some of them die and stuff. And how dare women and black people die in movies. THE OUTRAGE.Worse, Princess Leia and Padme look really good in the prior films, what with Leia in her metal bikini and doughnut hair and Padme in her beautiful and ornate costumes. And we can't have women looking beautiful in films, you guys. THAT IS SO TOTES SEXIST. AND, even though Leia is in charge of the rebel forces, she also saves her man, which is like so completely a show of weakness on her part. Or something.2. Women don't get to use the force enough. I can't even believe I'm having to write that, but this is the kind of stuff feminists are concerned with, y'all. They're concerned that Leia ONLY got to use some "mild telepathy" at the end of Empire Strikes Back. It is unacceptable to feminists that the women in Star Wars don't get to play with light sabres more.3. Women are like, totally objectified. Objectification, the feminists say, "“has been linked to problems with mental health, eating disorders, body shame, self-worth and life satisfaction, cognitive functioning, motor functioning, sexual dysfunction, access to leadership, and political-efficacy.” And Carrie Fisher told NPR once that her metal bikini didn't even conform to her skin very well, so Boba Fett could see her bits when he was behind her OH NOES!I'm sure Carrie Fisher was beaten into submission on that set, forced against her will to don that bikini OR ELSE. Same reason she's happily appearing in the new Star Wars. She probably just doesn't understand her role in the patriarchy or something.The feminists are very upset that more people remember bikini-clad, doughnut-haired Leia than they do rebel commander Leia.Never mind that I remember handsome hot hunky Han Solo more than I remember whatever it is that Han Solo did in the movie. Apparently that doesn't matter, because feminist concerns never apply to men.But it gets worse, you guys.4. All films in the Star Wars series lack "queer" characters. (Pffft! lol.)HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!I can't even.The feminists insist that since there are romantic plots in the Star Wars films, like between Anakin and Padme and Leia and Han Solo, well then by golly it should be a requirement that "queer" relationships get a spotlight in the movies too; especially, they say, in a movie featuring an imagined universe. Because transgender and queer folks "deserve representation in these imaginative space adventures."FOR REAL.5. RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACISM! The Nemoidians look Asian-ish! Watto looks Jewish-ish! Jar Jar Binks looks Caribbean-ish! Oh noooooooooooes! The Stormtroopers are dark-skinned and tons of them get killed - and we can only cope with that much Stormtropper killing because of our racism. If they were white, there'd apparently be mass protests in the streets or something because we just would.not.be.able.to.deal.(Bunch of racists... In space, in a galaxy far far away, they don't have enough of those 3 boobs women, and spider people?)6. CLASSISM! The Jedi are all about protecting the rich and wealthy.Like I said, I'm not making this up. This is the level of insanity that I've come to expect from that crazy feminist website.Meanwhile,

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Dodger Stadium during off-hours (Photo by sfxeric via the LAist Featured Photos pool) Fans of L.A.'s Big Blue, your team's Chavez Ravine digs are destined for a new look. The Los Angeles Dodgers have selected Ashton Design to do a renovation of the historic baseball stadium. The Baltimore-based firm made the announcement themselves on their site blog, revealing two members of "team Ashton," Jonathan Han and Ronnie Younts, have already been doing some preliminary walk-throughs of the venue. The Dodgers hired Janet Marie Smith specifically to oversee the project; she came on board in August, and has worked with Ashton Design previously on renovation projects in Camden Yards (Baltimore), Fenway Park (Boston), and Turner Field (Atlanta). Ashton Design has some experience on the West Coast, since they've previously done work for Pasadena's famous Rose Bowl. Still, it's a whole new ball game, says Ashton Design: Dodgers Stadium, a mid-century modern stadium, offers a new set of challenges and a unique history that our designers are very excited to tackle! The renovation will be a multi-year project and fans can expect a more engaging and enjoyable experience in the future. So are drastic changes expected for the stadium? Nah. In August, Dodgers President Stan Kasten said of Smith's vision: "She kind of likes that retro '50s feel that this ballpark has, that really no other ballpark has. And no other ballpark has the palm trees and the San Gabriel Mountains. These are the things she would like to build on." But there will be improvements: Kids' areas, more bars and restaurants, relaxation areas, history displays, interactive areas — the kinds of things you find in modern ballparks," added Kasten. Work is likely to get underway in the winter.

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Marshallese president applauds arrest in adoptions case Close KSLNewsRadio.com Home Contests Podcasts Traffic Weather Heart of Utah KSL Movie Show KSL Greenhouse News Local and Regional News National News Health News Entertainment News Jeff Caplan's Minute of News Be Ready Utah KSL Sports Station Information KSL NewsRadio app On-air schedule Text Alerts Listen on a smart speaker KSL Newsletters Meet our team Contact Us Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube TikTok Tour Information KSL in the Community Utah Gives Back Your Life Your Health Teacher Tribute Wall Speaking on Business Healthy Mind Matters Quarters for Christmas 103.5 The Arrow FM100.3 Discover KSL.com Live Sports Podcasts Weather Traffic TV Menu AP Marshallese president applauds arrest in adoptions case Oct 17, 2019, 2:55 PM FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2019, file photo, Marshall Islands' President Hilda Heine addresses a summit at the United Nations General Assembly. The president of the Republic of the Marshall Islands is applauding U.S. authorities for arresting an Arizona elected official accused of running an illegal adoption scheme involving pregnant Marshallese women. President Heine issued a statement Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, saying people like Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen have been inducing Marshallese women for too long. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File) (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File) Share BY JONATHAN J. COOPER, ASSOCIATED PRESS News Director PHOENIX (AP) — The president of the Republic of the Marshall Islands on Thursday applauded U.S. authorities for arresting an Arizona elected official accused of running an illegal adoption scheme involving pregnant Marshallese women. President Hilda Heine spoke out a week after Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen was arrested on charges in three states that include human smuggling, sale of a child and fraud. “Marshallese women have been induced by people like Petersen and his ilk for too long,” Heine said in a statement released by the Marshallese government. Prosecutors say Petersen and his associates recruited Marshallese women who were paid up to $10,000 to come to the United States, where they were crammed into houses to wait to give birth and provide their babies for adoption. Petersen’s lawyer has denied wrongdoing on the part of his client. Investigators from the U.S. Department of Justice and the Utah attorney general’s office visited the Marshall Islands this week as part of the investigation, and authorities on the islands helped with the inquiry. Heine said she believes other illegal adoption rings are operating. Petersen faces federal charges in Arkansas and state charges in Arizona and Utah. 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One of the common arguments that is used to justify the incredible failure and loss rates for network marketing MLM scams is the argument that a network marketing MLM scam is like a gym membership. Here is an example of how this argument is presented: Network marketing companies work similar to a gym membership. Both have an initial enrollment fee, and monthly fee’s to obtain membership. (Only with gym memberships you also have a contract and you can’t quit anytime without penalty). With both you can’t just have the membership with the expectation of achieving results. You have to work for them. In the gym you have to consistently physically work hard to get results over the next few months. Some people pay extra for “more training” and such. With network marketing companies it is the same thing only you are exercising your brain with personal development training that will help you with your business as well as personal life. Network marketing isn’t for everyone (nor is the gym) and that is OK. In my opinion, the analogy of a network marketing scam and a gym membership is deceptive. Here is why I have that opinion. Network Marketing Scam A network marketing scam requires you to recruit other people to reach the results they offered you when you joined. If every person does the work and recruits two people in a network marketing scam, the world eventually runs out of people to recruit and a huge amount of people are doomed to fail. A network marketing scam takes your results and gives them to people above you. Your results are limited by your rank in the compensation plan. Failure in a network marketing scam is built into the design of the compensation plan. Gym Membership A gym does not require you to recruit people to reach the results they offered you when you joined. If every person in the world joins a gym does the work and works out consistently, the world would become fit. All results in a gym are yours to keep. Your results are not limited by your rank in the gym. Failure in a gym is purely based on your own efforts. If the owners of a gym were selling memberships with the same deceptive results claims that network marketing scams use, they would be a scam too. What network marketing is like is a business opportunity. With business opportunities it is required for you to disclose the following information: Has the company or any of its key personnel been the subject of a civil or criminal action, including any FTC Rule, involving misrepresentation, fraud, securities law violation, or unfair or deceptive practices, including any FTC Rule, within the past 10 years? Does the company offer a cancellation or refund policy? Has the company or its salesperson discussed how much money purchasers of this business opportunity can earn or have earned? In other words, have they stated or implied that purchasers can earn a specific level of sales, income, or profit? If the answer is yes, the company must attach an Earnings Claims Statement. Earnings Claims Statement Contents: The name of the person making the claim and the date; The specifics of the claim; The start and end date those earnings were achieved; The number and percentage of your buyers who got at least that result; Any information about the buyers who got those results that might vary from prospective buyers – for example, where they’re located; and A statement that prospective buyers can get written proof for your earnings claims if they ask for it. The company must provide you with contact information for at least 10 people who have purchased a business opportunity from them. If fewer than 10 are listed, this is the total list of all purchasers. – Source FTC The Direct Selling Association and the owners of network marketing companies have successfully fought to have themselves exempted from the FTC’s Business Opportunity Rule. A rule that requires them to disclose key information that anyone would need before they join a business opportunity. This allows network marketing scams that are product-based pyramid schemes to hide important information from people that are looking to join a legitimate business opportunity.

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Day 10 (1/Sep/2018): Tatsfield to Kemsing (17km) – Jonagrams Home About Walking Journals 2017 Camino Mozarabe 2018 Cherhill To Canterbury Contact Jonagrams Thoughts and images from Jonathan Browne Categories : all 2017 Camino Mozarabe (Almeria to Finisterre) 2019 VDLP Camino Sanabres 2018 Cherhill to Canterbury 2019 Canterbury to Bruay-la-Buissière Uncategorized 2020 Taiwanese East Coast Camino ‹ › Day 10 (1/Sep/2018): Tatsfield to Kemsing (17km) By Jonathan September 1, 2018 Today was a mixed bag – sunshine and pleasant tracks for the first two thirds, followed by an somewhat hairy walk on a narrow, but fast, road. Last night at The Bakery in Tatsfield, I consulted the map and the available accommodations. For this, I have to shuttle between three or four apps and sites – the pilgrims way website, maps.me, the Hipmunk app, and the Airbnb app or hotel booking site. I decided to set myself a short target, in the hope that I might wash and dry my clothes at an Airbnb in Kemsing, I set off after a perfect breakfast. The village of Tatsfield retains the shopfronts of a bygone era, but things have moved with the times. The bakery, once a bakery, is now a restaurant. The Post Office is currently closed but will be reborn as some kind of shop – I hope it will be viable. I headed first to St. Mary’s church, which has a pilgrim’s corner with a stamp and a greeting to pilgrims. From here, I followed the North Downs Way past another golf course, then onto the hills overlooking the south. At some point in the morning, I crossed from Surrey into Kent. This little triangle of Kent between three motorways (M25, M26, and M20) is pretty enough to delight the groups of girl guides from south london, who were excitedly tramping over the same hills as me. But the noise of the traffic on the roads is always in the background, and it gets a little tiring. After a ploughman’s lunch and a chat with two elderly ladies at the Tally Ho pub, I walked past Chevening, the grace and favour home that prime ministers have usually loaned to their foreign secretaries. It looked unoccupied. Soon after I passed Chevening, I had to cross an office park and skirt a quarry to join a road with a bridge over the M25. Once more, I was on the “right” side of the belt road. But the walk from this point was not enjoyable. The fast road that descends toward Otford is called Pilgrims Way West, but it makes no concessions for the pilgrims after whom it was named. It’s narrow and curving, with steep, overgrown verges that offered little opportunity to put distance between myself and the passing traffic. The grimaces of the cyclists that I saw, confirmed to me that I wasn’t being over sensitive. This was quite a nasty road to walk. On the way into Otford, I skipped the opportunity to explore the Otford Solar System – a scale model of the objects in our solar system at their positions on 1/Jan/2000. I was confused about the positions of the planet markers that I could see along my way into Otford. It didn’t make sense to me that Uranus, Mars, and Jupiter should appear to be adjacent. But, with this plan of the whole model, I understand that I intersected with the model as a comet, describing a line through the outer edge of the solar system. (I was burning through the sky. Three hundred degrees. That’s why they called me Mr. Fahrenheit…). Otford is a pretty village with historic buildings, a village green, and a church that looks unusual to me. I suppose it’s the 17th Century point on the top of the 12th Century tower that makes it seem foreign to my untrained eye. Kemsing, as far as I can tell, is Otford’s less classy neighbour. It’s not at all poor, but it’s a planned development of 1970s and later semi-detached houses. Matt’s Airbnb is one of them – with a purple bricks “sold” sign at the entrance. I guess he is in the process of moving out – which makes it one of the strangest Airbnb experiences that I’ve had. I’m the sole occupant of a four bedroom house with some rooms cleared of furniture. First thing I had to do on arrival was work out how to turn on the water heater and washing machine. Everything functions just fine, but it’s all a bit more work than I’m used to. Now that I have a couple of sets of clean clothes, perhaps I’ll camp tomorrow. We’ll see how courageous I feel. Share this: Twitter Facebook Like this: Like Loading... Categories: 2018 Cherhill to Canterbury Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (required) (Address never made public) Name (required) Website You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. 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HappyNest Adds Illinois Partner to Bring Pickup and Delivery to Swansea <img height="1" width="1" src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=907147476099227&amp;ev=PageView &amp;noscript=1"> <img height="1" width="1" src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=907147476099227&amp;ev=PageView &amp;noscript=1"> SIGN UP Services How it Works Commercial Laundry Airbnb Laundry Pricing Pricing Refer Friends Locations Alabama Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Missouri Nebraska Nevada New Jersey New York North Carolina Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania South Carolina Texas Tennessee Utah Virginia Washington D.C. 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EAST GREENWICH, R.I. and SWANSEA, Ill. — Feb. 16, 2022 — HappyNest, the tech-enabled laundry pickup and delivery service, has added a new laundromat partner, Lakeland Square Laundry II, to bring the next-day, affordable, and eco-friendly pickup and delivery laundry services to residents and businesses in various regions of Saint Clair and Madison Counties in Illinois. The Swansea-based facility has been in operation since 1987 and today offers the latest in laundry technology and equipment with an outstanding staff with over 100 years of combined service. With this announcement, HappyNest is also available in Belleville and Granite City, among other areas. “We believe through our experience and HappyNest’s software and customer service that we can take our pickup and delivery laundry business to the next level,” said Aaron Gass, owner of Lakeland Square Laundry II and new HappyNest partner. “This is a long term partnership and one that I think will benefit both companies greatly.” Lakeland Square Laundry II has offered pickup and delivery for 30 years, before the service was ever popular. The 3,500 square foot facility houses 26 high efficiency washers and 30 high efficiency dryers. They pride themselves in handling customers’ clothes and personal items, from putting them in the washer, all the way to packaging the items and delivering them to your door. “We are delighted to have a laundromat partner with decades of experience in pickup and delivery laundry join the HappyNest family,” said John MacKrell, CEO and founder of HappyNest. “With our support, combined with their experience, we expect Lakeland Square Laundry II to enjoy much success while helping area residents and businesses offload the chore of laundry.” With this announcement, in addition to Swansea, Belleville and Granite City, HappyNest next-day pickup and delivery laundry services are also available in the following areas: Alton, Bethalto, Edwardsville, Glen Carbon, Marine, Maryville, Moro, Fairview Heights, Scott Air Force Base, Caseyville, Collinsville, Freeburg, Highland, Lebanon, Mascoutah, Millstadt, O’Fallon, Saint Jacob, Smithton, and Troy. Last year, HappyNest launched in Waukegan, Illinois, also serving Wauconda, Lake Forest, North Chicago, Fox Lake, Gurnee, Libertyville, Mundelein, and other areas. HappyNest has also been serving DuPage and Cook counties in the Greater Chicago area, including Aurora and West Chicago. HappyNest partners enjoy area exclusivity and comprehensive support from the company, including marketing for signups and retention, software for route management, financial assistance, and a full customer service team. For more information on working with HappyNest, visit: https://www.happynest.com/partner/. HappyNest customers, including residents and businesses that require light laundering, love the company’s consumer-friendly mobile app that allows easily auto-scheduling of pickup and delivery each week or whenever needed. Customers put dirty clothes, towels, sheets, and/or comforters in a HappyNest-provided laundry bag and drop it outside their door for pickup. HappyNest returns it all the next day – clean and folded. The new HappyNest Swansea, Illinois location is now accepting customer sign ups. For availability, pricing, or to sign up for HappyNest next-day pickup and delivery laundry services, go to: https://app.happynest.com/sb/signup/. About HappyNest HappyNest is a convenient, cost-effective, eco-friendly, and fast pickup and delivery laundry service sweeping the U.S. The company’s mobile app links consumers to reputable area laundromats for on-demand, customizable, next-day service. With the decline in the laundry services market due to the economic slowdown, HappyNest is giving new life to laundromats and their highly efficient washers and dryers that use 40% less energy than household appliances that would otherwise sit idle. HappyNest is a no-brainer for individuals who would rather spend time otherwise and busy employees working in laundry-heavy businesses. 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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iran fired missiles on Sunday into eastern Syria, aiming at the bases of militant groups it holds responsible for attacks in Tehran which left 18 dead last week, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported. A still image taken from a footage shot on June 18, 2017 and broadcasted on Iranian Television IRINN, purports to show missiles being fired from Iran into eastern Syria. IRINN/ via Reuters TV ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT OF THIS VIDEO. NO ACCESS IRAN. NO ACCESS BBC PERSIAN, NO ACCESS MANOTO, NO ACCESS VOA PERSIAN DIGITAL, NO ACCESS VOA PERSIAN. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES IRAN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN IRAN. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY Iranian Revolutionary Guards launched the mid-range ground-to-ground missiles from western Iran into the Deir al Zour region of eastern Syria, killing a “large number” of terrorists and destroying their equipment and weapons, it said. The missiles targeted the “headquarters and gathering centers of Takfiri terrorists supporting and building car bombs”, it said. Reuters could not independently verify the report. Military leaders and officials in Iran, a predominantly Shi’ite country, often refer to Sunni Muslim radicals as Takfiris. The Revolutionary Guards are fighting in Syria against militant groups who oppose President Bashar al-Assad. The attack last week, which included shootings and at least one suicide bombing, was on Iran’s parliament and the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic. “The spilling of any pure blood will not go unanswered,” the Revolutionary Guards said in the statement quoted by Tasnim. Islamic State issued a statement claiming responsibility for the Tehran attack. Senior Iranian officials, however, have pointed a finger at Saudi Arabia, Iran’s Sunni regional rival.

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What a New School Year Means for Independent School Philanthropy About Our Team Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Message From Our CEO Nonprofit Services Executive Search Services CEO Searches C-Suite Searches Fundraising Searches Multi-Search Services Fundraising Services Campaign Services Fundraising Counsel Interim Management Clients Academic Medicine Arts, Culture & Museums Education Advocacy Environment & Animal Welfare Faith Based Health & Science Higher Education Human Services & Social Justice Independent Schools International Social Enterprise Our Impact Client Stories Recently Completed Searches Become a Candidate Current Executive Searches Blog Nonprofit Resources and Guides Client News Candidate Advice DEI Executive Search Philanthropy Reader Favorites Thought Leadership Join Us Contact Us About Our Team Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Message From Our CEO Nonprofit Services Executive Search Services CEO Searches C-Suite Searches Fundraising Searches Multi-Search Services Fundraising Services Campaign Services Fundraising Counsel Interim Management Clients Academic Medicine Arts, Culture & Museums Education Advocacy Environment & Animal Welfare Faith Based Health & Science Higher Education Human Services & Social Justice Independent Schools International Social Enterprise Our Impact Client Stories Recently Completed Searches Become a Candidate Current Executive Searches Blog Nonprofit Resources and Guides Client News Candidate Advice DEI Executive Search Philanthropy Reader Favorites Thought Leadership Join Us Contact Us For Independent Schools, a New School Year Means a New Test for Fundraising by Victoria Jones Posted September 24, 2020 For our latest Coffee Talk—a virtual series where we gather small groups of close friends of the firm in the same sector—we sat down with leaders of fundraising at Beaver Country Day School, Blair Academy, Lawrence Academy, Noble and Greenough School, St. Mark’s School, and Taft School. Most of these participants have been gathering for Coffee Talk over the six months since COVID changed the fundraising game for these schools – and all schools. Read on to see what is working and what is not, how they are pivoting their programs to adapt to the way school has opened, and what they forecast for the year ahead. Happy school communities create happy fundraising outcomes – of course! But not all is happy in ways far beyond the control of fundraisers. Not all school openings have been the same: some went off with barely a hiccup while others are in the throes of restoring equilibrium for faculty, parents and kids. These realities are dictating timetables, who can be approached when, and how ambitious fundraisers can be. And they are vastly expanding the need for fundraisers to be ears, troubleshooters, and politicians! No surprise, all our participants agreed that the happiness factor of parents (the largest portion of annual funds for most) was the single greatest indicator of how their falls would go. Figuring how to walk the right line with parents is trickier than it has ever been. Anxieties around retention of students and extra expenses related to safety and distancing are putting upward pressure on annual funds. The good news: they all felt reasonably confident they could hold to their annual fund goals, and all project growth …maybe not the same growth they have seen in recent years, but forward momentum nonetheless. Those in campaigns have had some good success at the same time they wrestle with the fact they are, for the most part, campus-bound for the foreseeable future. Those working to get campaigns defined and launched say that prospects are interested and conversations are good, but that timelines are not in their control and in turn, pressuring the timing milestones that chief fundraisers have set for their programs. One participant shared that their school was adding a Safe at School Fund within their annual fund plans to create awareness that responding to desires for “more in-person school” came with significant added costs. The less parents can physically visit school, the greater their appetite for engagement. The novelty of COVID is over and the desire of parents to be involved right now is higher than ever. There are no sideline opportunities on the athletic field, fewer opportunities to interact with the Heads of School whose plates are full getting school days launched, and still plenty of mystery to how all aspects of their child’s education is going to work. Here are some of the ideas that our guests are implementing. Put a lot of energy into new parents. They know the least and the opportunity cost of them not feeling well embraced could be high. One participant shared that they have scheduled bi-weekly round tables over the course of the next couple months, putting together small sets of new parents with kids in the same grade as their child. If you get the time you need from the Head of School, great. If you cannot, do it anyway and find other school partners to be the host. Find new ways to communicate the value of the education you provide. Help new parents understand that despite new safety measures, policies, and remote learning, etc., the value of the education your school provides is as high as ever. One participant shared their plans to host 4-6 sessions in which parents will be able to attend classes virtually. The sessions will conclude with a talk from their Board Chair about the finances of the school and the value of parent philanthropy. Get creative! Travel virtually! Because they cannot be on campus, finding ways to keep international families engaged is especially critical. One participant shared that their team had launched a virtual travel program. Each week, he and the Head of School will “visit” a different international city to host Zoom meetings with families in the area. Head outside while you still can. Many participants reported that their parents are increasingly comfortable with—and asking for—opportunities to gather or be together face-to-face – six feet apart of course. Go on walks. Sit on their patio. Have lunch outside. Hang out near the drop-off line and have a chat. Use the tent that your school is using for a classroom. The days that you can comfortably do this are getting shorter! One participant shared that when they offered trustees a variety of ways to meet with their Head of School, every single one chose the socially distant outdoor option! Several noted, however, that you need to be just as respectful and energized for those parents and staff who do not feel comfortable live. Find the balance and don’t go overboard. We’d all been theorizing and now the evidence is in: Zoom solicitations work. The evidence is speaking for itself – at least for the Annual Fund. Fundraisers have found that virtual meetings are quicker to schedule, more efficient, and in many cases, make it easier to get both parents on the call. Their advice: have someone other than you—the Head, a Board member, etc.—invite the “visit,” keep it short and tight, and get over our fear that it won’t work. A number of participants shared that, thanks to the ease of scheduling Zoom calls, they’ve been able to hold, and sometimes even be more ambitious with, the performance metrics they had set for their team. Read our blog post on Zoom solicitations for additional advice and strategies. It’s also a fine line to keep your Head of School appropriately informed about parent feedback while not unnecessarily piling on to their plate. Fundraisers are overly privy to the opinions and concerns of parents – and those are overly abundant this September. Knowing what to share with your Head of School and how best to share it is a balancing act. One great idea shared was to keep a log of weekly calls, sort through it, and set a regular meeting to share with the Head. That way, you can get the point across, handle individual situations that need immediate attention, be efficient, and avoid the daily emails that the Head cannot possibly maneuver with the same attention they may have had in prior years. You will also know when and how you can be the problem solver. The bottom line: resist the “tell all” approach we could have in the past and learn to share the “need to know.” And above all else, keep in mind what they need to be successful as Head of School. All of us here at Development Guild recognize the critical role our friends and clients are playing in supporting the most vulnerable among us during this crisis. As we face these uncertain times together, it is our top priority to support you. Visit our COVID-19 Resources page for useful information and insights. RECENT POSTS Fundraising Professionals Share Their Year-End Giving Strategies and Advice posted September 22, 2022 Council of Chief State School Officers’ CEO on Increasing Equity for Schoolchildren Nationwide posted September 21, 2022 So, You Want to Join a Nonprofit Board posted September 16, 2022 Why Your Organization Should Consider Posting a Salary Range in Job Descriptions posted September 12, 2022 Giving USA 2021 Report: Key Insights posted August 29, 2022 Featured Placement: Krista Coletti at the American Red Cross posted August 19, 2022 RECENT @DevGuildDDI TWEETS Stay informed by following us on social media: Visit the blog How Independent Schools are Responding to COVID-19 April 23, 2020 Heads of fundraising discuss annual funds, authentic asks, and effective communication strategies. Coronavirus Resource | Our Team | Philanthropy | Thought Leadership → Navigating an Unprecedented School Year With Bessie Speers Victoria Jones | September 22, 2020 Tower Hill’s Head of School shares how they prepared for faculty and students to return to campus, and what they’re doing to create an engaging, inclusive, and safe community for all. At the Helm | Philanthropy | Thought Leadership → What Noble and Greenough School’s Landmark $138M Campaign Teaches Us About the Future of Independent School Philanthropy Victoria Jones | November 8, 2019 Nobles is setting a new stage for independent school campaigns – learn how (and what it means for your fundraising team!). Client News | Our Team | Philanthropy | Reader Favorites → Stay up-to-date on the latest nonprofit news × × GO BOSTON, MA • NEW YORK, NY 1.800.537.9011 info@developmentguild.com Copyright © 2022 Development Guild DDI, Inc. Privacy Policy Photo © Lawrence Academy Share Tweet Email Print

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In a series of television and radio ads released in Alaska Wednesday, active and retired members of the state's law enforcement community are backing the recreational marijuana legalization measure that voters will decide on in less than three weeks. “In all my years on the streets, it’s hard to recall a single time where marijuana use itself was the cause of a violent incident," Jess Gondek, an officer in Valdez, Alaska, says in one of the ads. “As a police officer, I do believe Ballot Measure 2 will allow law enforcement to focus on more serious issues in Alaska.” In a second television ad, Bill Parker, a former deputy commissioner for the Alaska Department of Corrections, says that "the war on marijuana is wasteful, and it hasn't worked." Parker adds that law enforcement officials' time and resources are limited, and using them on the enforcement of marijuana prohibition is like “using a hammer to go after a mosquito.” Both videos include text saying that according to the state's Department of Public Safety, there have been more than 8,000 arrests for marijuana possession in Alaska since 2004. A third ad, airing on radio, features Alaska's former Chief Prosecutor Laurie Constantino, who says that the state's marijuana prohibition laws "aren't working" and "have caused more problems than they've solved." The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, a nonprofit backed by marijuana reform groups Marijuana Policy Project and Drug Policy Alliance, paid for the campaign. Of course, not all law enforcement officers are in agreement on the issue. Ten of Alaska's police chiefs from both rural and urban areas met in Anchorage this week to voice their opposition to legalization. “We already have the highest arrest rates [for substance abuse] of any Alaska community,” Nome Police Chief John Papasodora said at the meeting, according to Alaska Dispatch News. “I can see that increasing [with the passage of Measure 2].” Under Measure 2, adults 21 and older would be able to possess up to 1 ounce of marijuana and grow up to six plants (with no more than three being mature) for personal use. The measure also legalizes the manufacture, sale and possession of marijuana paraphernalia, like devices used for smoking or storing the plant. Oregon, Washington, D.C., and Florida are also voting on some form of marijuana legalization in November, but the fate of Alaska's measure seems the most uncertain. Two polls released on the same day last month showed nearly opposite reactions from voters about legalizing the substance, with one finding 53 percent opposed while the other recorded 57 percent in favor. Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell (R) opposes the measure and has said he isn't "excited about the prospect" of legal marijuana. But, he has also said he will respect the will of the voters and implement the initiative if it passes. This is the third attempt to legalize recreational marijuana in Alaska, with voters rejecting measures in 2000 and 2004. Alaska voters legalized medical marijuana in 1998. While 23 states have legalized marijuana for medical use, both Colorado and Washington became the first two states to legalize recreational marijuana in 2012. Two new government forecasts project that Colorado and Washington could generate more than $800 million in revenue before 2020 from marijuana legalization.

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New Japan Pro Wrestling will be crowning the first IWGP United States Champion when the company comes to Long Beach, California in July. The announcement was made in the ring prior to tonight's co-branded ROH/NJPW War of the Worlds pay-per-view at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. There will be a round robin tournament held over the two nights in Long Beach to determine the first champion. Jay Lethal was confirmed as the first entrant in the tournament. Hangman Page confronted Lethal and will likely be in as well. The shows in California will take place on July 1st and 2nd. Aside from initial announcements about which NJPW wrestlers will be appearing, this is the biggest news that has been revealed about them so far. The cards should take shape after NJPW's Dominion PPV on June 11th. Both shows will air live on NJPW World. Jim Ross also posted that AXS TV is set to announce their broadcast plans for the events on May 18th. Ross wrote that fans will like what they hear. Approximately 2,150 to 2,200 tickets per show were initially put on sale, with them selling out within hours. Limited additional seats were also added earlier this month and sold out almost instantly.

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New Jersey Attorney General Jeff Chiesa on Wednesday announced a ban on any of the hundreds of drugs designed to mimic the effects of marijuana, making the possession, sale and manufacture of such drugs now punishable by three to five years in prison and a fine of up to $25,000. Under state law, officials are allowed to reclassify certain chemicals to restrict their availability. The ban, which was issued Tuesday by the state Division of Consumer Affairs, covers all possible variants of the drug. The drugs will now be considered controlled dangerous substances - like cocaine or heroin. In April, the state adopted a temporary federal ban on five variants of synthetic marijuana, but Chiesa said that's not good enough. "When one product is banned, the manufacturers and dealers find it all too easy to evade the law by creating new toxic products that have similar effects on the brain, but are not specifically identified as illegal," Chiesa said. "Today, we are ending this dangerous game played by drug dealers. We are making it unambiguously clear that if a synthetic chemical is being sold because it mimics the effects of marijuana, the dealer is committing a crime." There is pending state legislation to ban three variants of the drug, and federal legislation is also pending. The Drug Enforcement Administration has used its emergency authority to temporarily ban several chemicals used to produce synthetic marijuana and synthetic stimulants, including bath salts, which New Jersey has also banned. According to a 2011 study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, synthetic marijuana is the third most-commonly abused drug by high school seniors behind real marijuana and prescription drugs. Like bath salts, packets of the fake marijuana have been salt at gas stations often under t street names like "K2," ''Spice," and "Space Cadet." Last year, the New Jersey Poison Education Center received 146 calls reporting exposure to synthetic marijuana.

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• Draft order: Your club's provisional picks • Who your club is targeting this off-season • Click here for the NAB AFL Trade Hub • AFL.com.au's best 22 of potential trade targets COLLINGWOOD has signed former college basketballer Darrean Wyatt as a category B rookie for next season. The 22-year-old, who hails from Melbourne, stands at 204cm and has spent the past three years with American college basketball side Coastal Georgia. Wyatt said he was ready for the challenges ahead and would focus on developing his skills as a key forward with the option of performing stints in the ruck. "I'm 204cm but I can really move like someone a lot shorter … I can get down … so that's my strength," Wyatt told the club's website on Monday. "Collingwood is a huge business and (has) the best facilities in the League … and it's definitely everything it's cracked up to be. "(There's) a long way to go yet, but it's definitely a start and I can't wait to get more into it and work harder." Wyatt will primarily concentrate on a role in attack given the Magpies already boast three ruckmen in Brodie Grundy, Jarrod Witts and American import Mason Cox. Wyatt said he had sought advice from the 211cm Cox, who was recruited as a category B rookie last year and has since shown encouraging signs at VFL level playing forward and in the ruck. "Seeing Mason and how happy everyone is with how he's worked and seeing we're (from) similar backgrounds, I've talked a lot to him and he's given me some good advice," Wyatt said. "Hopefully I follow in his footsteps, so we can both bring a lot to the club."

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ALGIERS (Reuters) - Europe will import its first solar-generated electricity from North Africa within the next five years, European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said in an interview on Sunday. A caravan of camels loaded with sacks of raw salt travels across the desert near Tichit, Mauritania December 5, 2006. REUTERS/David Rouge The European Union is backing projects to turn the plentiful sunlight in the Sahara desert into electricity for power-hungry Europe, a scheme it hopes will help meet its target of deriving 20 percent of its energy from renewable sources in 2020. “I think some models starting in the next 5 years will bring some hundreds of megawatts to the European market,” Oettinger told Reuters after a meeting with energy ministers from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. He said those initial volumes would come from small pilot projects, but the amount of electricity would go up into the thousands of megawatts as projects including the 400 billion euro ($495 billion) Desertec solar scheme come on stream. “Desertec as a whole is a vision for the next 20 to 40 years with investment of hundreds of billions of euros,” said Oettinger. “To integrate a bigger percentage of renewables, solar and wind, needs time.” The EU is backing the construction of new electricity cables, known as inter-connectors, under the Mediterranean Sea to carry this renewable energy from North Africa to Europe. Some environmental groups have warned these cables could be used instead to import non-renewable electricity from coal- and gas-fired power stations in north Africa. “This is a good question but not a question to destroy our project,” Oettinger said. “This question must be answered by a good answer and so we need ways to ensure that our import of electricity is from renewables.” He said he believed it was technologically possible to monitor electricity imports to the EU and establish if they come from renewable sources or fossil fuels. “This question must be solved in the next years,” he said. SOLAR SUBISIDIES The Desertec consortium includes major firms such as Siemens, RWE and Deutsche Bank. They are expected to seek public money for the project. Oettinger said the EU’s assistance was likely to include help coordinating stakeholders, updating regulations to allow the imported electricity to move across European borders, and financing feasibility studies. On the prospect of EU subsidies, or the European Commission permitting state aid to firms involved in the project, he said that would become clear once the consortium has presented a detailed business plan. Oettinger said all three energy ministers at the meeting in the Algerian capital sent a signal they were willing to build the infrastructure and common market rules needed to allow a trade in renewable electricity with Europe. He countered concerns expressed in the past by some officials in Algeria that the project could involve Europeans exploiting north Africa’s natural resources. “Renewables are a two-way partnership because electricity produced here is for the home market of north African countries,” he said. “Maybe a bigger percentage of the electricity will be exported to Europe but at the same time we have to export the technology, tools, machines, experts, and so it’s a real partnership, not only a partnership by selling and by buying.”

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There's a certain type of pedant who gets mad if you use the word "decimated" inaccurately, the accurate usage being that it refers to the culling of a tenth of something, hence the prefix deci- which, as we all know, is a Latin-born numeric reference blah blah blah pedants am i right When I use the term "decimate" in reference to what's happened to the Democratic Party in the era of Barack Obama, I admit that I am using the word in a way that would annoy those same pedants. After all, the number of Democrats in Congress and in state leadership positions has dropped far more than 10 percent since 2008. Chris Cillizza wrote about the sorry state of the Democratic bench after Tuesday, pointing out that a bad situation got much worse with the Donald Trump-driven failure of the party at the polls. Think of a political party like an Army. To have effective generals, you need to bring leaders up through the ranks. If everyone keeps getting killed off on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of any given November, you're not going to be able to win many battles. The Democrats gained two Senate seats -- in a year that it was long assumed they would regain control of the chamber. Since 2008, this is what the Democratic decimation has looked like. (Data sources are below.) Two patterns to note. The first is that the Democrats surged into power in 2006 and 2008, winning seats in elections that would normally have leaned to the Republicans. So some of the losses since 2008 are a function of reversion to norm, light-red areas going red once again. The second is that federal and state races largely correlate. A good year for the GOP nationally tends to make a good year at all levels. It can be hard to see the extent to which the Democratic collapse has occurred. Here is the percentage change in each case since 2008. That whistling sound you hear is the party Thelma-and-Louiseing. Two days after its candidate for the presidency suffered a stunning loss, the tension within the party became uncontainable. The Huffington Post reports that at a party meeting on Thursday, a staffer named Zach yelled at Donna Brazile, who took over as chair following the resignation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz this summer. "Why should we trust you as chair to lead us through this?" he said, according to HuffPo's Jennifer Bendery. He went on to accuse Brazile of having "backed a flawed candidate," Hillary Clinton, and having "plotted through this to support your own gain and yourself." "You are part of the problem," Zach reportedly said. We tend to focus on the loss of the presidency as the example of Democratic failure. That's blinkered. Since 2008, by our estimates, the party has shed 870 legislators and leaders at the state and federal levels -- and that estimate may be on the low side. As Donald Trump might put it, that's decimation times 50. No wonder Zach got mad. Sources: State legislators, House, Senate, governors and party control.

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Doesn't this kind of talk contradict the story line that the sequester was all President Obama's idea (and therefore his fault?) “We asked him to commit to us that when the cuts actually came on March 1, that he would stand firm and not give in, and he’s holding to that,” said Representative Steve Scalise, Republican of Louisiana and chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee. “I think Friday will be an important day that shows we’re finally willing to stand and fight for conservative principles and force Washington to start living within its means. And that will be a big victory.” Representative Mick Mulvaney, a South Carolina Republican who was elected on the 2010 Tea Party wave and has had his differences with the speaker, was similarly complimentary toward Mr. Boehner. “He’s doing exactly what he said he was going to do, and I think it’s working to our favor and to his,” Mr. Mulvaney said. “I get the feeling that our party is probably more unified right now than it has been at any time in the last several months.” … If so many Republicans will go on record expressing approval of the sequester going into effect - even as the president emphatically urges negotiations to avert it - won't the party have to take responsibility for the sequester's effects? If popular, the GOP will get credit. But if not ...

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Photo In 1966, Bob Noorda, a Dutch-born designer, spent three weeks navigating New York’s subway system, pretending to be a commuter and trying to follow the signs from one train to another. What Noorda found was chaos: the walls bristled with arrows and impossible-to-follow instructions. The New York Transit Authority was hoping that Noorda and his firm, Unimark International, could fix the problem. It was an era when graphic designers hoped to reinvent the world, and Marshall McLuhan declared, “We become what we behold.” The team at Unimark wore lab coats, and at one point they drafted a manifesto declaring their allegiance to sans-serif type. When Noorda and his partner Massimo Vignelli took on the subway signs, they didn’t just update them — they invented what they thought of as a new grammar for New York City. They used minimal text, arrows only when necessary and color-coded discs to indicate different train lines. The discs were Noorda’s masterstroke. Subway riders could navigate from dot to dot, in much the same way that hikers traverse a forest by following trail blazes. The signs also had to project an aura of officialdom. As a rider, “you want to know that all the signs are coming from a single voice,” according to Paul Shaw, a design historian and typographer. Noorda and Vignelli decided that New York’s “voice of authority” could be playful. Their signs popped with Crayola-like color and showcased a typeface called Standard that projected a Bauhaus cool. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Noorda, who died in 2010, once mapped out every decision commuters made as they navigated through Times Square station. “Bob Noorda had a very systematic mind,” Vignelli once wrote. “It was a pleasure to see how logic will prevail over emotional issues.” Newsletter Sign Up Continue reading the main story Please verify you're not a robot by clicking the box. Invalid email address. Please re-enter. You must select a newsletter to subscribe to. Sign Up You will receive emails containing news content , updates and promotions from The New York Times. You may opt-out at any time. You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products and services. Thank you for subscribing. An error has occurred. Please try again later. View all New York Times newsletters. MAP QUEST Massimo Vignelli designed the New York subway diagram that made its debut in 1972. Did you think about carrying over the design from the subway signs into the subway map? It was not a map. It was a diagram. It was not about what happens aboveground. The purpose of the diagram was to show where the subway lines go. This was long before the computer. Therefore it was done with a lot of mistakes. We had primitive information. Whatever we did back in 1972 was done by hand. That original map from the ’70s is beautiful. People have turned it into mugs and T-shirts. A lot of people love it, and a lot of people hate it, too, by the way.

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Roma set €30m Paredes price-tag By Football Italia staff Roma would be prepared to release Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea target Leandro Paredes for €30m, according to Sky Sport Italia. The 22-year-old midfielder was a sensation at Empoli last season and in his early months at the Stadio Olimpico. However, since the change of system by Coach Luciano Spalletti, there isn’t as much room for the Argentine. He has one goal in 22 competitive games this term, but is a very useful figure with his passing and vision, not to mention ability to dribble out of difficult situations. According to Sky Sport Italia transfer pundit Gianluca Di Marzio, Roma would be prepared to sell Paredes for €30m. That can be reduced to €25m plus €5m in various add-ons and bonuses. He had already been a big target for Liverpool, much admired by Jurgen Klopp, while Antonio Conte at Chelsea and Arsenal have also shown interest in the former Boca Juniors man.

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BERLIN, GERMANY - JULY 27: Activists demonstrate against the electonic surveillance tactics of the NSA on July 27, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. The NSA scandal has been especially contentious in Germany after media reports claimed the NSA had conducted wide scale gathering of electonic data, including e-mails, of German citizens. Activists are demonstrating against the NSA in cities across Germany today. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) A prominent legal news site, well known for explaining the ins and outs of technology-related law, is shutting down over its founder's fear that government agents can read her email. In an emotional blog post published after midnight, Pamela Jones, the creator of Groklaw, wrote that she is unable to run her website and expect its community to contribute if the U.S. government's spies are looking over her shoulder and reading her correspondence. "They tell us that if you send or receive an email from outside the US, it will be read," she wrote. "If it's encrypted, they keep it for five years, presumably in the hopes of tech advancing to be able to decrypt it against your will and without your knowledge. Groklaw has readers all over the world. I'm not a political person, by choice, and I must say, researching the latest developments convinced me of one thing -- I am right to avoid it." Groklaw is just the latest site to shutter over concerns that government surveillance will interfere with its business. Lavabit and Silent Circle, two encrypted email services, closed two weeks ago, afraid that they could no longer protect people's private messages from the wide-reaching National Security Agency's online surveillance programs revealed by Edward Snowden in May. Jones cited the closure of Lavabit, thought to have been Snowden's preferred email, as a motivation behind her decision. Over its 10 year existence, Groklaw established itself as a go-to source of legal analysis for complex, high-tech litigation, including the European Union's antitrust case against Microsoft and the recent patent battles between Apple and Samsung. Relying on contributions from readers to pick apart legal nuances, the site has won accolades from the American Bar Association, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Google. Jones promised to shut down the site once before, in 2011, as a legal battle over Linux software that Groklaw had been following closely wound down. She decided to revive the site under a new editor a short time later while still contributing articles. The late-night essay, in which Jones compared email surveillance to an unnerving home burglary of her old New York apartment, was uncharacteristically revealing for an intensely private person who usually chooses to go by the genderless nickname "PJ." When asked about her life by a Wikipedia editor in the mid-2000s, Jones said "I originally wanted to stay anonymous, in a sense, by just saying PJ. Eventually media attention and other factors made it impossible to remain just PJ but I would have if I could have." Today, that strong sense of privacy is driving the editor, who's spent a better part of a decade building her website, to limit her presence on the Internet as much as humanly possible.

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Chapter Text “Uther had a lot of love interests who died?” I asked. “I mean, he had love interests … in addition to his wife?” “Which version of history do you want?” asked Amaryllis. “I want the truth,” I replied. “I don’t know the truth,” said Amaryllis. “Juniper, you have to understand that this was all five hundred years ago, and he was a very private man. Even if he wasn’t, the fact that he was such a central figure in the founding of the First Empire, not to mention the dynastic head of what would become the Lost King’s Court, not to mention that he founded two of the athenaeums -- he was really, really important, and his role in history very quickly became a matter of politics. The historicity is complicated.” “What are my options, as far as versions go?” I asked. What I really wanted was a clear, concise explanation of why Fenn was upset so I could go comfort her and explain that everything was going to be alright. “There are two extremes, one where Uther is a saint, the other where his terminal flaw was a love of women,” said Amaryllis. “There’s a temptation to say that the truth lies somewhere in between, but I think that’s something weak-minded people say when faced with two options they can’t distinguish between. For the most part, the history books sweep it all under the rug as unimportant.” “Fine, give me the version where he’s a saint,” I said. Arthur hadn’t been a perfect person, I wasn’t so blinded by his passing as to believe that, but Amaryllis seemed to be implying that some people saw Uther as one of those politicians constantly embroiled in sex scandals, and that really seemed out of character for him. “His marriage to Zona was a political one,” Amaryllis began. “There was one before that,” said Solace. Amaryllis frowned at her. “No,” she said, but it was almost a question. “There was,” shrugged Solace. “Or at least, that was what I always heard. If you’ve heard differently, then perhaps I’m wrong. In my life I’ve spoken to a number of people who knew him, but perhaps we should trust the histories that you’ve read.” “I’ve met three of the gods in the flesh,” said Amaryllis. She didn’t try to keep the defensiveness from her voice. “I’ve known plenty of people who met him.” “And they don’t mention Morana?” asked Solace. “Oh,” said Amaryllis. She furrowed her brow slightly. “She wasn’t ... “ She turned to me. “Morana was a spy for the Dark King, one that Uther turned to his side. The Dark King killed her not long before he met with Uther in single combat for the final time. But Uther and Morana never --” she looked at Solace, “I hadn’t heard the theory that they were intimate.” Solace shrugged. “And then after that, Zona was a political marriage,” I said, prompting her to continue. I wanted to leave the house and go find Fenn, but Fenn must have known at least part of this story, and if she was upset about it and what it might mean for our own future, then I didn’t want to force her to tell me this story. “Zona Delzora was the Queen of the Zorish Isles,” said Amaryllis. “They had been part of Anglecynn for hundreds of years, but declared independence when the Dark King swept in, and made a series of treaties with him as he tried to quell the rebellions. The Zorish Isles presented barriers to trade for Anglecynn -- this was before bulk teleportation -- but they had also been destabilized by the Dark King’s passing. Joining two countries in personal union is never a simple thing, but it was the most elegant solution to their problems for a number of reasons.” “And then they fell in love,” I said, because obviously that was how that story went. “They were both private people,” said Amaryllis. “There are too many stories about them that are pure fabrication.” “He resisted her,” said Grak. “She wanted to seal their marriage with a pregnancy. He refused because he did not love her. It took time for them to love each other. That story was told to me when I was promised for pair-bonding. I don’t know whether it is true.” I felt a chill at that. It wasn’t just Amaryllis who had that burden placed on her, it was Grak too, and where she would undoubtedly have gone through with a political marriage, Grak had left his clan behind rather than accept one. “Well, the way I was told it, he was distraught over Morana,” said Solace, “Zona loved him from almost the moment that she first heard of he was going against the Dark King. It was politically convenient, but she was also infatuated with him, and he resisted her because he hadn’t gotten over Morana.” “There are too many stories,” said Amaryllis with a frown. “We can just leave it at there being too many stories. It’s important, insofar as it informs who he was and what we can take from the narrative theory, but we do not know. Putting forward more possibilities is not helpful.” “What do you think it was?” I asked. She had compared herself to Zona; I wanted to know what she thought that comparison meant. “I have no idea,” said Amaryllis, folding her arms across her chest. “Most probable?” I asked. She watched me for a moment. “Fine,” she said. “If, if, he was from the same culture as you, I would say that the most likely explanation is that he had some discomfort with the idea of an arranged marriage without any element of love. That might explain why he was derelict in his duty.” “By not inseminating her right away,” said Grak with a nod. “Yes,” said Amaryllis. “One of the things that the stories have in common is that it took some time for them to consummate the marriage, so that part, at least, seems like it would be true. If Zona was typical of her status and culture, she would have been ready and willing to receive him.” “But they were in love, eventually?” I asked. “And she survived into old age?” “She died at fifty, a few years after Uther disappeared,” said Amaryllis. “If she hadn’t, Anglecynn probably wouldn’t have gotten so close to civil war. But for most of her life, she was sickly.” She pursed her lips. “You want to go after Fenn, is that why you’re jumping ahead?” I nodded. “Not that I don’t find this interesting, but I want you to get to the point. Why does she think that she might die?” “Whatever happened between Uther and Zona, she gave him two sons and a daughter, all in fairly quick succession,” said Amaryllis. “This was during the period when the First Empire had been founded but not all of the eventual member polities had joined. A year after Dahlia was born, the ice wizards invaded, and Zona was kidnapped. Uther brought her back, but they didn’t have terribly much time together before the Apocalypse Demon arrived and began controlling her mind from afar. It was the Wandering Blight that cost her half her body, everything below her rib cage. She was kept alive in torment by powerful healing magics for a full month before Uther managed to manipulate himself into a forge frenzy -- no, I don’t know how, he only did it once -- and crafted her six mechanical legs that numbed her to the pain and allowed her mobility. Still, from that point on she was thin and frail, despite his best efforts.” “Shit,” I said. I could see how that would map to a narrative. Each major conflict he faced imperiled his wife in some way, just to add some interpersonal drama to the proceedings. And from what Amaryllis was saying, if the narrative theory was true, and his life was shaped the way it was for an overarching reason, then this was the best case scenario for Fenn. “In the story of Uther as saint,” Amaryllis continued, “This is the part where his wife begins bringing nubile young women in to give him sexual satisfaction. He refuses, because he loves her, and … it’s presented as a farce, usually, with all sorts of naked women stepping out from behind the curtains to ambush him at inappropriate times.” I could tell that she didn’t find that funny, but I heard a faint chuckle from Solace. I knew that Fenn would probably find it funny too, if not for the possibility that it would end up paralleling our own lives. “And eventually he relented,” I said. “He had an assistant,” said Amaryllis. “She was strong and capable, one of the first computers, gifted with an organizing efficiency that many powerful men would kill to have by their side. She traveled with Uther when he left to seek out adventures. Three months in, she was skinned alive by a dragon. Any romance between them is purely speculative, but it was the start of a trend.” “Morana was the start of the trend,” said Solace, shaking her head. “But there is a trend?” I asked. “A trend of more than three, if we’re counting what happened to his wife?” “Twenty,” said Amaryllis. “That’s approximate. He was a private person, it’s not always clear what his relationship to those women was, but it was clear enough that people talked.” “And horrible things happened to all of them?” I asked. “Twenty women, that’s about one a year from age thirty-five to fifty-five, he had to have seen the pattern. Other people had to have seen the pattern, I -- I don’t understand why anyone past the tenth would have gotten within a hundred feet of him.” “Communications then weren’t what they are now,” said Amaryllis. “There was no international radio network, no teleportation network, none of the mechanisms that we use to make the Empire of Common Cause a cohesive political entity. The First Empire fell apart for a reason. It probably would have even if Uther hadn’t been irreplaceable. And as for the women, there were many theories as to what, exactly, was going on. It was common enough to say that there was no need for a deeper explanation; Uther traveled the world, seeking out its most dangerous possible places, and the fact that people died around him was a natural consequence of that.” “He would have seen it,” I said. I started pacing, just to have somewhere to put my energy. “If our theory is that he started wandering the world in order to be away from his wife and children, then obviously he had to have seen it.” “I do think that’s a natural consequence of this narrative theory and how he would have interpreted his own life,” Amaryllis agreed. “Then how could he?” I snapped. “He’d have known after the, the fifth one surely, but he just -- kept going in the knowledge that they would die?” “Do you need to take a break?” asked Amaryllis. I stopped and took a breath. “I don’t know,” I said. “I was hoping to figure out something to tell Fenn. Either a hole to poke in this theory, or a reassuring alternate explanation, or … something.” “Does it need to be true?” asked Amaryllis. And that actually gave me pause, because I guess on some level I was a stupid asshole that just wanted the problem to go away. There was probably a world where I said that no, it didn’t need to be true, so long as it was convincing. “Yes,” I said. “It needs to be true. Or, if not true, because we don’t know the truth, then something that might mean that my life here isn’t fucked.” “She’s not your life,” said Amaryllis. I turned away from her at that and started to walk out of the house, then turned back and took a deep breath, unclenching my fists and trying to relax my muscles. I tapped into blood magic to slow my heart rate, though I wasn’t sure that would actually do anything to get me in a better frame of mind. “I know that,” I said. “I know that this is bigger and more important than what’s going on between Fenn and me. I’m sorry for not approaching this rationally.” Loyalty increased: Amaryllis lvl 13! Loyalty increased: Grak lvl 6! “No, I’m sorry,” said Amaryllis. “I shouldn’t have --” “It’s okay,” I said. “I’d still like to hear the other explanations for what happened to these women. You said that some people didn’t see the need for a deeper explanation, but for the people who did, what did they come up with?” “It’s a mixed bag,” said Amaryllis. “Some of it I’ve only read this morning and still need some time to process. If you take Uther as a more complicated person -- I’m not saying anything about your friend, only about how people view a very opaque historical figure -- then he and Zona had a loveless marriage, and his philandering predates her injuries, with all the stories about their love being akin to propaganda, or possibly literal propaganda. And if that’s the case, then perhaps the unifying force behind those deaths is Zona herself. I don’t personally believe it, but I need to do more research. I need to do a lot more research. It’s possible that the meme has no basis in reality.” “Meme?” I asked. “A meme is a concept or idea that spreads from person to person,” said Grak. “No, I know what a meme is,” I said. “I just didn’t know that was a thing that you had on Aerb. Was the term … was the ‘meme’ meme introduced by Uther?” Amaryllis nodded. “He believed that ideas were important and devoted a fair amount of his energy to spreading beneficial ones far and wide.” “Hum,” said Solace. “Perhaps it would be better to say that he spread the ideas that he thought were beneficial far and wide.” Amaryllis seemed like she was about to say something, but perhaps the subtext of what Solace had said became clear to her, because she stayed quiet. The subtext wasn’t clear to me, but at a guess, I’d have said that you didn’t get a Second Empire without a First Empire, and some of the beneficial memes that I would have tried to spread were things like global (hexal) connectedness, cooperation against greater threats, systemization of information and knowledge, economic interlocking, and the ordering of society. If Arthur had kicked this world into the Enlightenment, or at least laid the groundwork for it, then I could see how a druid would feel the stirrings of rebellion against that. “What do you need from me, to get answers?” I asked. “Are there resources that I can devote to helping you, brainpower I can add, something to help speed up you trying to, first, figure out whether there’s actually anything to this narrative theory, and second, the bounds of it, and third, what I’m supposed to do about it?” “Grak and I have been working on it this morning,” said Amaryllis. “None of it was ready. You can go tell Fenn that. I might have made her worry for nothing. And even if Uther was onto something in how he spoke of narratives, even if you’re a mirror to him, then that doesn’t mean that the rules are the same. She might have more in common with the Knights than with the lovers. So far as I know, for Uther they never coincided, but we can’t be sure who was or wasn’t linked to him like we are to you. Grak and I will work on it more.” That left nothing for me to do. “You want to cut me out of the loop?” I asked. “It’s too personal for you,” said Grak. “You can’t look at it with clear eyes.” “That’s probably true,” I said. Not just because of Fenn, but Arthur too. “The risk you run is that you present a case for me and I instantly shoot a hole in it, because I’m the only one capable of seeing that hole. And beyond that … I wouldn’t expect this place to have stories in the same sense that plays and books do, because the trappings, at least so far, are all from tabletop games, and stories work differently there. It’s less clean. I’ll help and try to stay rational about it.” “This was supposed to be time off,” said Solace in a mild tone. “It’s good for the body, mind, and soul to be carefree, when there’s any allowance for it.” “I’m not sure there is,” said Amaryllis. “If the narrative theory is true, or at least has a grain of truth, then we have a limit on how long we can sit in one place. Figuring out that limit would be important.” “Ah, well,” said Solace, “I’m sure we think very differently about understanding.” “I’m going to go find Fenn,” I said to Amaryllis. “Let me know when you have something.” There weren’t that many places to go within the bottle; from the tree house in the center, it was a half mile to every edge, though the house was slightly off-center. The first thing I looked for was the giant deer, which wasn’t too hard to spot, and as I moved closer to it, I saw Fenn, in her yellow sundress and black glove, holding her bow and looking up, with the doe sleeping quietly beside her. “Hey,” I waved to her as I got closer. “Hey,” she said, eyes toward the sky. “Wanna see something neat?” “Sure,” I replied. Fenn raised the bow above her head, materialized an arrow in her gloved hand, then fired it straight up. “Okay,” she said, tossing the bow to the ground and drawing out an apple from Sable. “Watch and be amazed.” She licked her lips as she looked up in the air and held the apple out in front of her. “Fenn, is this safe?” I asked, panic rising slightly. She gave the apple a small toss and withdrew her hand just as the arrow came silently dropping down. It pierced through the apple in mid-air and then drove into the ground with the apple caught on the fletching. “Ta da!” she said. “That was actually really impressive,” I said, moving closer to her. It was actually so impressive that I didn’t think it was within the realm of possibility for a human. “I wouldn’t have been able to do that a month ago,” said Fenn, looking at the pierced apple. “I’ve gotten better without much in the way of practice. And my luck has gotten a lot stronger than it was too, which should be impossible without at least a hundred years under my belt.” She turned to me. “So those are the upsides.” “Not including my amazing company?” I asked. “Well, that too,” said Fenn. She held up her hand. “I’ve got a nifty glove, and there was that armor I had for a bit before I was literally cut into two pieces and spilled the majority of my blood on the forest floor.” She gave me a nonchalant shrug. “Oh, plus I’ve gotten to kill a lot of assholes lately.” “You take pleasure from that?” I asked. “I figure if you’re going to do it, then you might as well enjoy it,” said Fenn. “I’ve spent most of my adult life killing the undead, it makes it easy to just think of people as bodies, not actual living, breathing creatures with their own hopes and dreams. And even then, it’s been a lot of assholes. Asshole hopes, asshole dreams.” “I get their names,” I said, pointing to my eyes. “Most of the time, anyway. I don’t really know how the game decides between what’s a named and non-named character, but --” “Can you not call it a game?” asked Fenn. She took off her glove and tossed it to the ground. “Sorry,” I said. “The … interface?” “No, something better than that,” said Fenn. “How about washater, does that work for you?” “More elfish?” I asked. “It means something like game or system,” said Fenn. “A set of artificial rules. How have you not learned Elfish yet?” Wah-sha-tehr, a set of rules, five words of Elfish down, thousands to go, plus a whole new set of rules. Yay. “I tried learning Groglir with Grak. It didn’t really take in the way I hoped it would,” I said, “The, um, washater didn’t seem to want to grant me the ability to speak it after an hour or two, which means that either I didn’t get enough basic knowledge and practice in, or maybe … I don’t know, maybe it’s just not something that it’s ever going to help me with. D&D always fudged the concept of language. Most games do.” “We should play some D&D,” said Fenn. “We’re taking some time off to recuperate, why not do a thing that you like doing? You said that it was best with one dungeon master and four people, better to do it now before we get another companion. And besides, Amaryllis has her head up her butt about narratives, but she’s going off of plays and stories. For all that you talk -- incessantly talk -- about games, we’ve never played one.” “I … huh,” I said. “That actually makes a lot of sense. I knew I kept you around for a reason.” “Oh, only a reason?” asked Fenn with a smile. “Maybe if I dug deep I could list a few more,” I said. I shifted my weight and tried to formulate what I wanted to say next. “Did you want to talk about the downsides of being with me?” “Not really,” said Fenn. “Our lovely locus helped me to calm down, and … you’re working on the problem, if there is one?” “Yes,” I said. “Do you have a quest?” she asked. “I … no, I don’t,” I said. I wasn’t even sure how that would work. Obviously if there was such a thing as a narrative, presumably being controlled by the Dungeon Master, then having a quest to defeat the force of that narrative would be a severe mixing of layers. Did that make four layers in total now? There was the reality of Aerb, the game layer that sat aside from it, and then the super-reality where all this was being simulated, or if it wasn’t actually a simulation, then the true reality that it was sitting on. I wasn’t sure that narrative had its own layer in all this; maybe it was better to think of it as an agent with multi-layer access, like the Dungeon Master. Or maybe narrative was just a manifestation of the Dungeon Master. “Well, even if there’s no quest, I would prefer for this to be at the top of the queue,” said Fenn. “Of course it is,” I said. “Fenn, if anything happened to you --” “I said I didn’t want to talk about it,” replied Fenn with a frown. “I don’t want to let it fester,” I said. Fenn sighed. “If I spent time focusing on every shitty thing in my life, I wouldn’t have time to get anything done,” she said. “Maybe this is a problem, maybe it’s not, maybe you can do something about it, maybe you can’t. Maybe I’m doomed to die, or at least be horribly maimed. More than I already have been, anyway.” She glanced at her scars, and at the thin, faded red line that still marked where she’d been cut in half. “I trust you and the others to figure things out and tell me whatever is best for me. Well, I only mostly trust Amaryllis, as much as I might like her. But you’ll be there to supervise.” “I did think the timing was suspect,” I said. “You show a remarkable lack of tact last night, and then in the morning she has a new theory that means we can’t be together?” asked Fenn. “Sorry, I showed a lack of tact?” I asked with a laugh. “Well, it was really very rude of you,” said Fenn, smiling slightly. “But honestly, I don’t think that Mary often does things for herself, she said that she would slit my throat if she had to --” Fenn saw my expression, “Oh, no, it was a unicorn blood thing, she preceded that by saying that she liked me quite a lot, and after she said she was willing to kill me, she said that she hoped that she never had to, so I really thought it was sweet, in its own way.” “I might have to talk with her about that,” I said. “Please don’t,” said Fenn. “Is it any different from what you thought of her already?” “I guess not,” I said. Amaryllis was stronger than me, in a scary sort of way; I wasn’t sure that I would ever be able to kill her, even if I thought that was the smart thing to do. The thought of it made me a little sick. In my mind’s eye, I stayed my hand. Fenn stepped closer to me and gave me a slow kiss. “I think I’m done talking for a while. Can we forget everything, just for a bit?” I took her hand into mine. She was close enough for me to smell her, a pleasant, earthy scent. “You think this is wise, given things being how they are?” Fenn shrugged, then kissed me again. “I think that I’d like to not think about that.” She reached up and touched my neck with her slender fingers. “And if we’ve made a mistake, then I’m fine with making that same mistake a second or third time.”

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Alan Saunders: Let's say you go to a university campus. There you see the brand, spanking new science building, paid for with public money and a bit of private investment, all plate glass, concrete and steel. A little way down the road there's a rather shabby, brick building from the '40s. That's where the philosophers live. But hey, the philosophers are talking about science, and sometimes not just talking about it but actually seeming to lay down the law about it. They appear to be telling scientists how to go about their jobs. But is what they're doing really relevant to what the scientists up the road are doing? That's what we're talking about today on The Philosopher's Zone. My name's Alan Saunders and I'm joined this week by James Franklin, Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New South Wales. Now some scientists, Newton for example, and Einstein, have certainly made some philosophical remarks, but what is the difference between science and philosophy? James Franklin. James Franklin: Scientists can of course do philosophy of science as well, but it is certainly a different discipline, somehow more general than what is done in science. So we have I think all a good understanding of what science is, roughly speaking. It goes out into the wet and makes observations and makes theories to explain those observations. Here are a couple of the tasks that philosophy of science does that's over and above that. First of all, it asks about the general nature of evidence: what about the believability of those theories, the relations between the observational evidence and the theories? Is that something objective and how well-established are theories and how well-established can theories be in general, but also how well established are actual theories like controversial ones, and global warming and evolution and so on. It's the business of somebody that can have an overview of science and the nature of evidence to evaluate those kind of things. Another kind of thing that philosophy of science does, is ask how literally we should take the language of science? So scientists talk about entities like atoms, numbers, forces, space, and so on. Well are those things really there? Or are they just ways of speaking about it, ways of deducing one thing of another? So the real is questioned. So they're just a couple of the examples. Alan Saunders: Well the question of the language of science is an interesting one because scientists I presume take it for granted that when they're talking about things like forces or space or numbers, this is bread and butter for them, and if you actually ask them whether these things really exist, they're a bit impatient, aren't they, and thinking, 'Why are you asking stupid questions?' James Franklin: Sometimes they are, sometimes they're not. The physicists that I've spoken to often say there are no such things as forces for example, that Newton's second law (force equals mass by acceleration) are thought by many physicists to be actually the definition of force, that force is just a theoretical entity not to be taken seriously, and all there is to measure is acceleration. I think this is false, here's a quick philosophical argument on why you should be realist about forces: put the tips of your index fingers together and press lightly. Now press twice as hard. It certainly feels like there's a difference, and that's well explained if you think that there really are such things as forces like little pushers in there that you're feeling. So there's no difference in acceleration of course, because the fingers are not moving, so yes, I think that suggests there are forces. But of course there are some philosophical counter-arguments you might make to suggest that maybe you're just feeling a difference in shape or something. But that's the kind of thing they do in philosophy of science that is not really a scientific question; there's nothing to measure, there's no measuring instrument that's going to tell you the answer to that question. Alan Saunders: Another question I suppose is the difference between the natural sciences and, say, the formal sciences like mathematics, as you say. If you're going to do the natural sciences you're going to have to go out and get wet. James Franklin: Yes, that's right, it's certainly a question. Alan Saunders: Whereas you as a mathematician, you can just sit in a warm office, and you don't do anything. James Franklin: Warm office, playing with my computer screen and that's it! I might run some computer experiments. Yes, I don't have to have vast grants for research assistants trawling the ocean or something. So hopefully philosophy of science should explain what the difference is between natural sciences and the formal sciences like mathematics, operations research, computer modeling and so on, that makes that possible. And that's a very difficult question, but that's certainly a question that needs to be tackled. Alan Saunders: Is that one which philosophy of science has actually answered, do you think? James Franklin: No, maybe it's more for philosophy of mathematics, because I think we understand the natural science aspect, we understand why you have to get out to observe what the acceleration due to gravity, or what actually causes anthrax or something, but we don't understand so well the mathematics, why you don't have to observe exactly in mathematics, or maybe you do. I mean do new-born babies need to observe something to count? You do seem to need to manipulate objects to have a basic understanding of counting. But still, it's not like having evidence, you don't exactly have evidence that two and two plus four. If you're really manipulated things and understand why these two apples and these two apples are four apples, you don't need to wonder if it's the same with people or pears or something. There's something different about mathematics that it has a pure understanding that is not available in the physical sciences. We've been working on philosophy of mathematics for 2,500 years and success is hourly expected. The difficult thing is exactly to explain the feeling of necessity in the mathematics. There appears to be a necessity about the real world, not just about things you've made up. You could easily explain it away by saying 'We've made up all those concepts about number', but that's not convincing, either. Alan Saunders: But is this a philosophical issue, or is it an issue about human psychology and the growth of human psychology? James Franklin: There is a potential for explaining it away, so to speak, as something about human psychology, but even there, it's hard to see where you're going to find the explanation because the human psychology looks the same in the case of simple physics and simple arithmetic that the infant just plays around in the world, and gets an understanding of how bodies move and how apples add up, but it's only in the one case that they get the feeling of necessity, and there just doesn't seem any resources in the development of psychology to explain that difference. Alan Saunders: We're trying to address here the question of the relevance of the philosophy of science to actual science, and it's not clear to me that the relevance of the philosophy of science decides is anything other than annoying scientists, which is a good thing. James Franklin: It can be, yes. Scientists need to be annoyed. Alan Saunders: - annoyed. Alan Saunders: But one of the questions I suppose is that science deals with evidence, but what constitutes evidence? James Franklin: That's right. It's philosophy that has to tell you about that, and in my view, it tells you that there is a very objective logical concept of evidence. That's the same in science and scientific theorisng with respect to observational evidence. That's the same as in proof beyond reasonable doubt in law. And it's something that the human brain is actually very good at, intuitive evaluation of quite large bodies of evidence. Philosophy of science should tell people that. Whether it's really helpful to real scientists is a little hard to say. It certainly helps them defend themselves against their post-modernist enemies who say that there's no such objective relation and that the scientists are just over-sensitive to such things as political consequences and what will get them the next grant. It's a defensive science but it's something you really need to develop at an intuitive level I think, which you might do by scientific study or equally, historical study because evidence in history works the same way. Alan Saunders: You take the view that there is a relationship between evidence and theory that is a purely logical relationship. Tell us about that. James Franklin: Well this is called the objective Bayesian view of evidence, and the classic theorist in this, Keynes, the economist in his Treatise on Probability. He did that in his younger days before he went on to something easier, like economics. It's difficult, but he says that it's the same kind of relation across the board. So to take a reasonably simple example, if you have a basic scientific theory such as that all swans are white, when you go out in the wet and observe the colour of some swans, and if there's a black one, well that's so much the worse for the theory, and back to the drawing board, but if they are all white, that, according to this view of evidence, makes the theory that all swans are white more probable, that's more logically probable, more rationally believable, than it was before. And you might hope to give some number to that, but even if you can't you can say 'That's how science works. It makes predictions, checks if they are confirmed, and if so, well they're more believable than they were before.' And you can say more things like 'If the consequence predicted is very surprising without that theory, then it confirms the theory quite a lot more', and if you have a variety of evidence, that's also a good. Alan Saunders: Well I have two things to say about that. The first thing is possibly a psychological reaction, but if I have a theory that all swans are white, and I go to Western Australia and there's a black swan, my reaction is not going to be back to the drawing board, my reaction is going to be, 'You call that a swan? Or course it's not a swan, it's black.' James Franklin: It's a swimming raven. Right OK. But that wasn't anybody's real reaction because the birds in question shared nearly all their other properties including the kind of feathers and their shape and so on with the white swans of Europe. And everybody said, 'Look, they're so like swans except for the colour, we'll call them swans. There's no way to reclassify those inconvenient observations as something else.' In a more complex case you might in fact try that. And of course you might pull your horns in and say, 'Well at least all European swans are white, we weren't as wrong as some of these skeptical theorists maintain.' Alan Saunders: My other answer is going to be that if we're in an infinite universe and this is drawn from one of my intellectual heroes and absolutely not one of yours, I know, the philosopher Karl Popper, if we're in an infinite universe then no number of white swans are going to confirm the theory that all swans are white, because there could always be a black swan just around the corner. James Franklin: Well there could be, it's just that it's logically not likely because if there was one around the corner, most likely it would have turned up recently. It's true that we're talking about extent of the universe and extent of the earth, and the distance of the observed swans from the unobserved ones. There are some very tricky matters about spatial reasoning and extrapolation which is a poorly-understood form of reasoning, but extrapolation means extending the range of your predictions if all your observations of what you're trying to predict are in a small region, what about outside that region? So that is certainly weaker than if you have the observations distributed across the board. But I wouldn't agree, even if there are an infinite number of swans, inductive arguments of that kind from all observed swans are white, don't have zero probability as Popper thought. We know that swanness and whiteness and those real universals that are out there and studied by science, can have law-like connections between them. Alan Saunders: What does that mean, law-like connections? James Franklin: Well it means that our perceptions and concepts, can so to speak in good cases anyway, carve nature at the joints, as some of the philosophers say, and that whiteness is something real out there, shared by white things, and it's the cause of our perceiving them as white. The same is true of a natural classification such as being a swan, or being a bird and so on, there's right and wrong ways to classify that it's part of the business of science to discover, and once you have these classifications of respectively animals and colours, there can be a connection between them. It's the aim of science to discover exactly those connections, such as Newton's between the mass of different bodies and the gravitational connection between them. Once you've classified things correctly, you find, and even the baby finds, that there's connections between them that (are) just always there. They're not logically necessary or anything, you can't work them out, unlike mathematics, you can't work them out just by thinking, but once you find constant conjunction between these two things, such as that all swans are white, you infer that there's something out there that's a connection between those. We might attribute it, at this stage as the properties of DNA of swans or something, but that's only moving back one step further. Somewhere there's the way causality works in the world, there's a causal connection between quite small numbers of properties. Alan Saunders: On ABC Radio National you're with The Philosopher's Zone. I'm Alan Saunders and I'm talking to James Franklin from the University of New South Wales about the relevance, or the irrelevance, of the philosophy of science to science. Now one of the things we're talking about here is what it is for a truth to be universal. Now that leads us to a very old philosophical distinction between realism and nominalism. James Franklin: To be realist about some concept is to say that there is such a thing, and it's not just made up by us, whereas to be nomalist, is to say it's just a way of speaking of ours, from the Latin 'nomen' word, just an empty sign. So for example, in the case of forces I was arguing for realism about forces. When you felt them by pressing the fingers together, you would naturally conclude from that that there is such a thing as forces. On the other hand you'd never be tempted to do that with something like the average Londoner. Scientists tell you that the average Londoner has 2.3 children, you're not tempted to think that that's anything except a way of speaking, that there's some individual entity called the average Londoner, that has 2.5 children. So it would be natural to take a realist view of forces, but a nominalist view of the average Londoner. There's this question about all the entities talked about in science. A classic case is numbers, so that's a very difficult one. Are there such things out there as numbers or are they just a way of speaking about the divisibility of things into parts or something? Alan Saunders: But why do I need to take a realist view of swans? I think that swans are white, all the swans I've seen are white, this is enough to be getting on with, why... James Franklin: To be getting on with for what purpose? Alan Saunders: Well for swan identification. James Franklin: OK, but what does swan identification mean? You would think that it means that swans due to their inheritance or something, tend to have very many properties in common and that they're hence a scientific type that would allow you to predict things, like whether they're good to eat or so forth. Having classified swans you would normally think that unless there's some reason to think the opposite, that they all taste much the same, even though you haven't got much very direct relevant evidence to that. And normally you would think that if all the observed ones are the same colour, colour would normally go with being in a certain species as well. Though colour is not quite as biologically connected to specieshood because of course with plants. there's a good reason why you don't use colour to classify plants because plants tend to share a lot of things but often be different colours even though they're the same species. But that's things for science to discover, and what science is discovering in those cases is whether there are or aren't real connections between being a member of the swan species and other things such as colour. Alan Saunders: Let's look at how science is sometimes not very good at admitting when it doesn't know the answer to a question. And let's look at the question why is the sun hot? Tell us about that. James Franklin: The sun is hot as we now know, because there are fusion reactions in the sun that create an enormous amount of energy, according to Einstein's equation e=mc2. So it occurred to me to go and look at an encylopaedia of 100 years ago, a good one, that had had the latest scientific theories and see what they say, because Einstein only discovered that in around 1905, and he discovered it in time to appear in the Encyclopaedia Britannica of 1911, the celebrated 11th edition. Right, I said to myself, what's in the 10th edition about why is the sun hot? Alan Saunders: We should say that the 11th edition of the Britannica is the one that everybody holds up as being the really substantial and authoritative edition. James Franklin: Yes it was a quantum leap, as we now say beyond the earlier ones. A marvellous piece of work. Although the early ones were certainly good. So there isn't strictly a 10th edition but there is some supplementary volumes of 1902 added to a 9th edition of 1887. Both of those have an article on the sun. The one in 1887 completely avoids the question of why the sun is hot. It says the sun is so big and it's structure is such-and-such, and there's actually not much at that time to know about the structure of the sun. Quite hard to observe. A 1902 Supplementary Volume article does mention at least the question of the sun being hot, but you certainly needn't expect it to say the true answer, which is, 'I'm sorry, science hasn't got the faintest idea why the sun is hot', which was the true answer at that time. It says, well it calculates how much heat the sun is losing, and it says that if it wasn't replenished, it would be decaying in its temperature 4% a year, (which plainly it isn't). So then it mentions somewhat embarrassedly, the only possible explanation they might have had at that time on how it was producing this heat, which is contraction. It calculates how much contraction there should be to produce that amount of heat per year, and it's well, quite a lot, but it certainly doesn't go so far as to say whether this is reasonable or unreasonable. So you don't find science admitting when it hasn't got a clue. And I wonder if there are some more modern cases where science is a little bit more upfront, shall we say, about its marketing, and is justified by the evidence. Alan Saunders: The question that we're really addressing here is whether philosophy of science is relevant to real science. Is it actually relevant? I mean does it make any difference to what actual scientists do? James Franklin: Well the more applied parts of it like understanding evidence, they do, but perhaps scientists can pick that up intuitively. Some of the more classic philosophy of science studied in 'philosophy of science' courses such as Popper and Kuhn, the 20th century philosophers of science, I think is not relevant to real science, but that's partly because they got things so wrong. But where philosophy of science I think is very directly relevant to science is deciding the question what scientific questions are interesting. You can see this if you read the writings of some of the early quantum physicists, like Bohr and Heisenberg. They grew up in a philosophy-saturated German environment. It gave them some sense of first of all conceptual difficulties of the subject, which turned out to be extreme once they got into them, but also it gave them some sense of the big picture of what would be a really big breakthrough in science. Whereas I think the typical scientific education of today is not so good on that. You study some science and become more and more specialised and philosophy of science could perhaps expand your mind and make you think along a few different lines that might actually get you the Nobel Prize. Australians have not got enough Nobel Prizes and I wonder if part of the reason is that - Alan Saunders: We haven't got enough? We have a huge number of Nobel Prizes given the size of the population. James Franklin: Yes, all right, all right. We're not doing too badly for the size of the population, but I still think we need to expand people's minds a little bit on what would be an interesting breakthrough and how they might think differently and do something a little more interdisciplinary to work out how to think differently. Alan Saunders: You mention two philosophers of science of whom you disapprove, Karl Popper and Thomas S. Kuhn. Karl Popper wrote a book called The Logic of Scientific Method in the '30s and Kuhn wrote a book called The Structure of Scientific Revolution which I think came out at the end of the '50s. They were both men trained in science. Popper knew a great deal of maths, he knew a great deal of physics, and Coomb was a physicist, he was trained in physics. Where did they go wrong? James Franklin: Physics is not really ideal training to do general-purpose philosophy of science. You'd be much better off with ornithology or oceanography, operations research or something like that. Alan Saunders: Something beginning with O. James Franklin: With O, yes. Just so that you had a feeling for, so to speak, lower level of science where science is much more progressive. Whereas the higher level and more theoretical levels of physics are subject to more revolutionary change. Well what do you expect, because they're at about very deep levels of reality. But you should think more about all swans are white, and the basic classificatory parts of science, and things like regional oceanography, the different kinds of currents for example in the world. A build-up of observations gives us a good feel for what science is about. Whereas coming from where they did, Popper and Kuhn were both deductivists, meaning that they didn't believe in any of the probalistic logic relation between evidence and hypothesis that I was talking earlier. They believed that, as you were saying about in your example about the swans, that no amount of confirmation of a theory by observational evidence such as observing white swans, could possibly make a theory more probable. Well that's failing to get to square one in the philosophy of science, because it's that relation that makes science what it is and makes science the kind of thing that tells us how to think and tells us how to think truly, and that for example, underpins especially something like drug trials, where you have to have observational evidence that under blind trials such a proportion of the patients are being cured of the disease, therefore that gives us good reason to think that you, the next patient will be cured. Alan Saunders: So you think somebody like an oceanographer who has to address basic questions like where the land ends and the sea begins, you know, which I presume is a 101 for an oceanographer, would have a better grasp of the philosophy of science? James Franklin: Absolutely. Yes. They would do difficult observations of currents. Currents are very difficult because fluid is very difficult to predict, but it's not difficult in a way that is going to produce scientific revolutions or something like that. It's difficult just because fluids are, of their nature, very, well they're fluid, and they have eddies and so on that make things difficult to predict, and that's one of the reasons why climate science is a difficult science, and it's that kind of basic relation between evidence and perhaps computer modelling and the theory that is a perfect training in the relation between theory and evidence. Alan Saunders: James Franklin from the University of New South Wales. His new book, What Science Knows and How it Knows It, hasn't appeared yet, but it'll be along in just a few months. I'm Alan Saunders, and I'll be along again in just a few days, together with my producer, Kyla Slaven and sound engineer, Charlie McKune. Hope you can join us.

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Trump is using “Master Persuader” tactics on Kim. | by Al Black | Medium Get unlimited access Open in app Home Notifications Lists Stories Write Al Black Follow Mar 7, 2018 · 1 min read Trump is using “Master Persuader” tactics on Kim. He already has the Chinese saying “If North Korea attacks America or its Allies, China will stay neutral.” That pulled the rug out from under Kim, who always thought the Chinese would protect him no matter what. Now, maybe he will negotiate. Trump has achieved what everyone said was impossible: a concession from China. The world just got a little safer. -- -- More from Al Black Follow I work in IT, Community volunteer interested in Politics, support Capitalism as the best economic system for lifting people out of poverty, Skeptical scientist. Love podcasts or audiobooks? Learn on the go with our new app. Try Knowable AboutHelpTermsPrivacy Get the Medium app Get started Al Black 136 Followers I work in IT, Community volunteer interested in Politics, support Capitalism as the best economic system for lifting people out of poverty, Skeptical scientist. Follow Help Status Writers Blog Careers Privacy Terms About Knowable

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In a major test of California’s crusade against climate change, California businesses spent another $935 million last week on greenhouse gas pollution permits, state officials said Tuesday. It was one of the most successful carbon permit auctions the state has held to date. The latest results in California’s fight against climate change will affect prices on a range of goods from gasoline to cement. The California Air Resources Board announced Tuesday that businesses snapped up every carbon-emission permit that the agency put up for sale at last week’s auction. It was the first complete sellout of carbon permits since November 2015, said agency spokesman Dave Clegern. The results represented a sign of confidence in the state’s cap-and-trade program. Demand for carbon permits had faltered over the past year amid uncertainty whether the Legislature would extend the program past its 2020 expiration date. Tuesday’s results were the first since the Legislature, in a landmark victory for Gov. Jerry Brown, agreed to keep cap-and-trade going through 2030. Sign Up and Save Get six months of free digital access to The Sacramento Bee “Auction demand was the strongest in years,” said Chris Busch of Energy Innovation, an energy policy analysis firm in San Francisco. Cap-and-trade is a market-based approach for curbing carbon emissions. Hundreds of food processors, manufacturers and other industrial firms are required to obtain emissions permits to spew carbon into the air. Most permits are handed out for free, but companies that need extras have to buy them, either from other polluters with surplus permits or from the state’s auctions. The state auctions are run every three months, and companies have spent around $6 billion on permits since the program began in 2012. The lion’s share of the permits sold last week at a median price of $14.75 per ton of carbon. A smaller auction for permits that can’t be used until 2020 sold at $14.55. While total revenue in the auction was $935 million, only about $640 million will go to the state’s greenhouse gas fund, which is used to finance high-speed rail and other “green” projects. The rest of the proceeds will go to California’s electric utilities, which are treated differently than other businesses. The volume of permits in circulation – the “cap” – drops slightly each year, reducing the total amount of emissions. The minimum price for permits goes up, which is designed to prod companies into finding ways to reduce their carbon footprint. Cap-and-trade isn’t just for heavy industry. Because fuel wholesalers are among those that have to get permits, the cost of cap-and-trade has raised the price of gasoline an estimated 11 cents a gallon at the pump. The per-gallon price impact on gas could double starting in 2020, when the cap is scheduled to decline more quickly. Utilities are given all of their permits for free, in an effort to buffer households from some of the financial impact of cap-and-trade. At the same time, the utilities are required to auction off the permits they’ve been handed, and then jump into the auction to purchase whatever permits they need to cover their carbon pollution.

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Justice League The Villain’s Journey Review By Deffinition Justice League Origin scored a perfect 10/10 in my review of the New 52 stage setter for the team. To me it had it all. Drama, Action, Comedy and a kick ass storyline perfectly paced and illustrated. It was the complete all rounder that I couldn’t fault. So naturally I’m very excited to see Geoff Johns and Jim Lee return with the follow up story: The Villains Journey. I never delved too deeply into the League’s New 52 run but having been blown away by my retread of Origin I’m eager to dive back in. So with the intro out the way. Let’s dive in to Justice League The Villain’s Journey! Never Ever Doubt Steve Trevor The book opens with the League taking down a swarm of mutated parasites controlled telepathically by a giant grey monster. You know, the usual Saturday night. In all honesty I felt that this opening felt very ‘by the numbers’ but this doubt was quickly swayed by the introduction of Steve Trevor. The government official is tasked with finding out intel on the League whilst at the same time balancing a relationship with Wonder Woman and facing public scrutiny. It’s very refreshing to see the general public criticising the government after seeing how well the League operate in comparison. Whilst the CIA, FBI and so on work in the dark, The heroes of the League are bright, bombastic and very public. Perhaps Johns is commenting on the shady way that the government conducts itself and operates in modern times and if so this book becomes more and more relevant by the day. Recently things have been brought to the light by people like Edward Snowden who has informed the public that the Government aren’t necessarily the good guys. Johns wants the heroes to be the people who work in the light and the fact that he paints the governing bodies out as paranoid, fearful men isn’t lost on me. We should be looking for beacons of hope and questioning authority when it seems wrong. However, Steve Trevor isn’t responsible for all the things that go on. He is a man, trapped in a world full of Gods amongst men and it’s interesting to see how he deals with acting as an Ally to the Leaguers and pleasing the ones he works for. Keen On Green The Government realise that they need to have a plant within the team to monitor them. In what’s a hilarious issue we see Green Arrow try to join the group and fail, time after time. Each time gets more and more comedic and it adds a bit of levity to the book. Overall this doesn’t integrate too well with the story (Arrow would end up joining the JLA instead) and this thread feels like a missed opportunity. It allows us to see that the Justice League is a very tight nit team but it felt slightly like filler. It seems like marketing within DC to launch the new sub series and it was the first real ding I gave the book. In grave danger In a call back to Justice League Origin, David Graves, the author of the book ‘Gods Among Men‘ is gravely (excuse the pun) ill. Mad at the way the League has ignored his pleas after he praised and worshipped them he sets out on a quest for revenge. Ominously he has operated in the background, extracting everything that both friend and enemy of the league know about the group. This puts Steve Trevor in the firing line. It also makes the League question their own loyalties. Whilst their enemies know so much they realise they actually know very little about one another. It’s a really in depth look at the operations of a team of masked heroes and is something that I never really thought of myself. Why would Green Lantern, for instance, trust Superman. They know nothing of each other on a personal level and personality wise seem like polar opposites. It’s little things like this that make Geoff John‘s work elevated above the norm and definitely is a selling point of the book. Unfortunately Graves isn’t as compelling an antagonist as the team itself. Transformed into a monster and encased in the souls of his dead family he never really lives up to the potential that he initially had. He was betrayed in some ways by the League and now seeks revenge but in doing so has lost his humanity…and also the most interesting thing about him. Wonder Woman VS The Justice League In a thrilling highlight we see Wonder Woman battling against all the members of the Justice League. Worried about Steve Trevor she lashes out when the group try and calm her down. The event is broadcast live by Graves in order to supply the general populous with doubt towards the group and it acts well both narratively and action wise. It’s a really interesting fight that due to Jim Lee‘s artwork feels like the books standout moment. It shows that whilst they are united there are still chinks in the armour and elevates the villains plot so that it has more severity. Eventually it causes Green Lantern to quit the team. He realises that the League are now in poor favour with the people of Earth and takes the blame, claiming to cause the fight in order to save face for others. Up till now in the run I’d never really connected with Green Lantern too heavily, his jokes, whilst humorous, didn’t really endear him overall to me. However this move is brilliant on his behalf and really allows you to rally behind the intergalactic policemen. The Climax Facing off against Graves in the valley of souls we get an introspective battle that shows the inner conflict in each hero. It’s full of ‘Dead Parents turning up and saying they’re proud and that the hero should give up’ but it’s carried off a lot better than a ‘Martha’ moment. You know what I’m talking about. One of the more intriguing of these is Cyborg seeing Victor Stone (himself) amongst the dead. The spirit taunting him that he’s just a machine who believes he is human. It’s a thought provoking moment that made me realise that perhaps Cyborg is just that and I love the ambiguous feeling that is left around the development. It’s an awesome battle that ends on Wonder Woman breaking up with Steve completely. Realising that knowing him will forever put him in danger it seems like the heroic thing to do. She then goes into the arms of Superman and the story ends on a kiss. I really liked this turn within the books, it makes perfect sense that the two gods would begin a relationship. They are the only two beings on the planet perfectly suited to deal with the situations that the League will put them in. Of course they would find common ground and it invests you in the stories to come without feeling soppy or cliched. It’s a brilliant end to the book that feels like a natural conclusion in the second volume of the Justice League New 52 run. Verdict Justice League The Villain’s Journey starts off rather average but slowly builds momentum to a brilliant climax. Similar to origin it gives every character a defining moment and feels like a progressive build towards what is to come down the line. It certainly doesn’t match Justice League: Origin but what’s here is thoroughly enjoyable and feels like an adequate sequel. That’s why it gets a… 8.5/10

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Brandon Marshall has started his Bears career with a record-setting pace on the field, and Mike Ditka believes his stature off it could be just as big in Chicago. "He came into (Ditka's restaurant) at the beginning of the season, and I talked to him a little bit," Ditka said Wednesday on "The Waddle & Silvy Show" on ESPN 1000. "I told him, I said 'Brandon, you can own this town. This town is ripe for someone like you.' "I think being a successful Bears player in this town, it worked for me. It will work for him." Marshall said Tuesday that he appreciated the support he received from the legendary coach and Hall of Fame tight end during their first meeting and plans to continue to "pick his brain." "He just told me it's a great opportunity here for me," Marshall said Tuesday on "Waddle & Silvy" of his meeting with Ditka. "There's a lot of things I can do on and off the field, especially with the foundation we're trying to establish in the community, and just take advantage of it. Coach Ditka has been support for me. I think in the next week or so we're going to sit down with him and his wife and have dinner. "I'm going to pick his brain every chance. Coach Ditka, he's a pro's pro. He's one of those guys that you really need to pay attention to when you're around him." Marshall, acquired in a March trade from the Miami Dolphins, has lived up to the high expectations of a Bears fan base that has never had a true No. 1 receiver. With 35 receptions and 496 yards receiving in five games, Marshall is on pace for season totals of 112 catches and 1,581 yards, both franchise records. His 12 catches against the Jaguars marked the most since Marty Booker's 12-grab game on Oct. 7, 2002, against the Green Bay Packers. "He's a unique athlete with a great opportunity," Ditka said. "This is a pretty good town to play football in, especially if you're playing on a football team that's good and can win. This is a Bears town, guys, no matter how you want to cut it. They're going to show up, and they're going to pull for the Bears and root for the Bears, and that's how it should be. "This kid's got a great opportunity here. I like what's going on right now, I really do."

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The slowdown in economic growth (5.7%, year-on-year, in the first quarter of fiscal 2017-18), the near-total absence of bank credit growth to industry—small or medium or big—and the lacklustre growth in industrial production, to name a few, have brought many experts out of the woods. There is near-total unanimity on the need for a fiscal stimulus in India. Discussions of solutions must take into account costs and alternatives considered and discarded. Otherwise, solutions could end up becoming the case of committing a second wrong to right the first wrong. Let us examine the mistakes that the government committed and then reflect on whether fiscal stimulus would rectify them. First, it had not prepared for being in power at all, in terms of using it as an instrument for economic advancement. It inherited the budget projections of the previous government without question. The mid-term economic appraisal of 2014-15 pointed out that the true fiscal deficit inherited could have been of the order of 1.1 to 1.8 percentage points more than the official number of 4.5%. The National Democratic Alliance government thus engaged in a massive fiscal consolidation even as the economy was limping back to normalcy. Had it done its homework and put out a white paper on the economic mess it had inherited in various areas, it would have prepared the ground for a gradual fiscal consolidation. Thus, it could have used the windfall from the oil price crash to recapitalize banks rather than working overtime to legitimize the previous government’s fiscal projections. That brings us to the second mistake. It did not take the emerging banking sector woes seriously enough. Today, the problem has grown bigger and is even yet to peak. Short of drastic reforms to the banking ownership and governance models, the problem of non-performing assets (NPAs) is likely to persist and remain a big drag on growth. Nor is it any more a question of recapitalizing the banks alone. Governance is a serious issue. After all, without collusion by bank staff, not all banned notes would have made it into bank accounts. Drastic reforms are made infeasible, partly because of resistance from ideologues aligned with the Bharatiya Janata Party and because of the government’s unwillingness to commit political capital to see them through. Above all, the reluctance to confront the problem stems from the facile assumption that economic growth would wash away the sins that lenders and borrowers committed. That brings us to the third mistake. It was to believe in the economic growth numbers that the central statistical office (CSO) put out. The CSO put out growth numbers based on its new methodology and new base year that bore no resemblance to reality. That was readily apparent because the growth numbers even for the “disastrous" United Progressive Alliance years of 2011-14 were revised higher to appear almost respectable. So, the government felt rather proud that it was able to achieve fiscal consolidation and yet achieve good economic growth. Its mistake lies in not being sceptical enough of CSO calculations and asking them to be thorough and transparent and fix the economic growth calculations methodology especially since many competent economists inside the system had expressed reservations on the numbers. The role of bad economic statistics in India’s current economic plight is a story that has to be told. That would put data collection, methodology, accurate and timely reporting an urgent priority for future governments. The fourth mistake is its implicit and explicit anti-big bias. India’s economic structure in farms and factories is fragmented, inefficient and primitive. The numbers are shocking and beyond belief. India cannot “make it" with such extremely nano and micro-sized farms and factories. The solution is not to favour the current big firms but to favour potential enterprises becoming big or to encourage firms to start big. There are an estimated 63.4 million non-agricultural unincorporated enterprises (excluding construction) contributing gross value added (GVA) of Rs11.5 trillion only. In contrast, only 189,468 registered (with the Annual Survey of Industries) factories generate Rs11.6 trillion of GVA. More startlingly, just 4.1% of them have 500 or more workers and they contribute 60% of the GVA of the registered factories. But, the anti-big bias is evident in the fact that the government had stopped (or, been stopped) in its tracks to reform the corporate tax system. Mudra loans without screening and without strings attached will not result in enhanced scale and efficiency but would be a big opportunity cost in a resource-constrained economy. The fifth big mistake is in continuing with and even strengthening tax terrorism. Economic policymaking has been reduced to one of and only of (tax) morality. That is a slippery slope because it is impossible for politicians to set a personal example and demand reciprocity given how elections are funded. Revenue neutrality is easily achieved in spreadsheets but it happens in reality only when economic activity happens. Note ban has been seen almost only as an exercise in broadening the tax base and not as a transformative exercise from its pigmy sized farms and factories. The sixth and final mistake could be the wellspring of the other five. Leaders have to surround themselves with advisers who can speak truth to the power. Now, we can decide how many of these mistakes could be possibly reversed by a fiscal stimulus. V. Anantha Nageswaran is senior adjunct fellow (geoeconomics studies) at Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations, Mumbai. These are his personal views. Read Anantha’s Mint columns at www.livemint.com/baretalk Comments are welcome at baretalk@livemint.com

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- State Rep. Bettie Cook-Scott has used so many addresses over the years it's tough to tell where she really lives. But since Problem Solver M.L. Elrick started investigating, the Detroit Democrat has settled into a co-op apartment - which created a new problem: her landlord wants her out. Bettie Cook-Scott's eviction case was back in court, but the Detroit lawmaker was not there - don't worry, she's alive and well. She was, presumably, in the house - but not: -The house in Lexington (the town in Sanilac County where she claimed to live last year when she ran for office in Detroit) -The house in Detroit, where she also claimed to live (which is just outside the district where she ran for office) -Nor the house in Detroit, which she used to claim as her residence (until it burned down a couple years ago). Instead, this house: the Michigan House of Representatives, where the Democrat represents the good people of Detroit and Grosse Pointe who live in the Second District. In fact, the right honorable Cook-Scott no longer claims to live in a house, she says she lives in a co-op unit in the Second District, but her landlord wants her out, claiming that she owes a tidy sum. "Not including legal fees, about $25, 000," said Don Dilloway. The case was headed to trial, the landlord wanting Cook out and Cook claiming the co-op was out to railroad her. The judge urged the sides to settle, which they did. "I think it's a reasonable resolution, we came reasonably close to what we believe she owed," said Mark Wasvary, the landlord's attorney. "And the property needs some money, because we hadn't received any payment from her in years." RELATED: Lawmaker lawbreaker: Detroit representative lies about housing situation Newly elected State Rep Bettie Cook Scott faces eviction hearing Cook-Scott has 14 days to fork over $20,000, but her landlord still isn't happy. "It would have been nice to get her out of there, because I know she's going to be a pain in the neck," said Dilloway. Elrick: "You now have a state lawmaker who is a tenant in good standing. That's got to feel pretty good, right?" "Not really, she's a handful to deal with," Dilloway said. Elrick: "You've got her check, but she doesn't have your vote." "No, no way," Dilloway said. Twenty-thousand is a lot to pay to stay in such modest digs but perhaps it's worth it for the representative to put questions about her residency to rest. "Currently we believe her son is back living there," Dilloway said. Elrick: "So where do you think she's staying?" "I haven't got any idea," Dilloway said. Elrick: "You haven't seen her there recently?" "The only thing I’ve seen there is the car that her son usually drives," Dilloway said. "So I'm going to surmise that maybe she's not living there." So after this case has spent months working its way through court, it's finally over - or is it?

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(Copyright Reuters) We remind our Honourable PM of the mountain of evidence that has been before him since 2014 that raises many and serious questions about the conduct of Ms Marlene McDonald while holding public office. Evidence he continues to seemingly ignore… Dr Rowley promised a return to morality and decency in public office; to restore confidence in same. This is the first real challenge of his promise to do just that. We refer to the issue allegedly involving Minister McDonald, the Calabar Foundation and Mr Michael Carew, who is supposedly her common law husband. If he is serious, the PM would ask Ms McDonald for Mr Carew to provide the public with proof—other than the cheques paid to it by Government and incorporation papers—of the existence of the Calabar Foundation and any work it has done with the tax payers monies it received. He could, as a start, simply ask them: Photo: Housing Minister Marlene McDonald. (Copyright Andy Hypolite/Trinidad Guardian) 1. To direct him, the media and the public to the building occupied by the Calabar Foundation in 2010 that was in dire need of repairs and for which funding was provided further to request via letter to Community Development, Culture and Gender Affairs Minister Marlene McDonald dated April 27, 2010. 2. For the details of events have they sponsored; where and for whom? 3. A list of persons currently working or worked at the Calabar Foundation? Dr Rowley, as the Leader of the Cabinet, Government and Country, has both a responsibility and the power to do at least that. We do not expect our Prime Minister to conduct a criminal investigation. We’ve asked the Police to do that. We expect that they will follow the money. Photo: Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams (left) shakes hands with US Embassy Security Policy and Assistance Coordinator, Juanita Aguirre, at the handing over ceremony of 18 forensic photography kits to the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service by the US. (Courtesy US Embassy) Our Prime Minister and Government must not be allowed to side step this matter as they seem intent on doing. Marlene McDonald heads a mega ministry—one on which Trinidad and Tobago’s economic recovery apparently hinges. The allegations of unresolved issues surrounding her conduct in public office are too many and too serious for us to continue with business as usual. There is way too much at stake. A copy of the mountain of evidence referred to is attached HERE: Calabar-foundation-docs. More from Wired868 Rowley sacks Marlene; Randall Mitchell gets Housing portfolio as PM acts Stop the fatwa on Marlene: a totally non-partisan PNM til-ah-dead supporter speaks Dr Rowley’s baptism of fire; why PM may follow tainted footsteps of successors Sack the sugar momma! Live Wire points Keithos to the elephant in the room Fixin T&T: Investigate Marlene for fraud and misbehaviour in public office A familiar depression: Daly bemoans PNM’s poor communication and belligerence Calabar Foundation Fixin T&T Integrity in Public Life Keith Rowley Marlene McDonald Michael Carew Ministry of Housing PNM 2016-03-06 Fixin TT Share Whatsapp Share tweet Tags Calabar Foundation Fixin T&T Integrity in Public Life Keith Rowley Marlene McDonald Michael Carew Ministry of Housing PNM About Fixin TT Fixin T&T's mission is the realization of good governance to achieve healthy, holistic, and fulfilling lifestyles for all citizens through the study, promotion, and furtherance of strong democratic institutions; sound infrastructure; integrity in public and corporate affairs; and a culture of respect by all for the laws and regulations of the country to create a safe, secure, efficient and productive Trinidad & Tobago. Previous Oliver returns as San Juan Jabloteh edge Civic on Barataria Recreation Ground Next NLR sets deadline for TTCB meeting; Narine may consider legal options Check Also HDC promises more rental units for working poor, from Beetham to Chaguanas, Bon Air and Laventille Trinidad and Tobago’s Housing Development Corporation (HDC) has vowed to expand its supply of homes … Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Comment * Name * Email * Website Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Δ This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. 48 comments Adrian Clarke Thursday 10 March 2016 at 5:50 am No mention of Calabar Foundation Reply Nerisha Mohammed Thursday 10 March 2016 at 2:45 am http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20160309/news/marlene-wants-info-on-8216integrity8217-probe Reply Lester Logie Wednesday 9 March 2016 at 4:11 pm I saw the address in the Express today as 10 Ariapita Road, St. Ann’s. I challenge any one of you to see if you can find it? Reply Lester Logie Wednesday 9 March 2016 at 8:09 pm This issue takes me back to the elections of 1995. The Cotton Tree Foundation was formed under similar circumstances to this. The difference is that they are operating. In whose interest is another matter. We were promised a community centre at Ariapita Road in St. Ann’s as it is government property and was renovated with public funds. We got a private foundation controlled by our former MP. A lot of questionable transactions takes place just after a change in government. No one seems to be held accountable as these issues never see the light of day or are swept below the carpet hoping that the public interest would wane. It did with the Cotton Tree Foundation, will it be similar with Calabar? Reply Brent Fermin Sunday 13 March 2016 at 3:42 pm I do not know of what allegations you speak of regarding the Cotton Tree Foundation but I can say without hesitation I have received excellent legal advice and representation from the foundation FREE of charge, excluding affidavit fees… Said representation led to positive and successful outcomes, both times, for me….up to as recent as early 2015. I have also recommended the foundation to two of my friends and they were represented by the foundation in both their matters to successful conclusions. As I said above, I don’t know of the particulars of what you speak, but i can say, unequivocally, the foundation is still operational, it is still free (as far as my knowledge goes) and I received excellent legal advice and representation in the high court. Reply Lester Logie Sunday 13 March 2016 at 6:06 pm I am a resident of Ariapita Road. Members of the community worked on restoration of Spanish Acres (government property as far as I was aware in 1995) which The Cotton Tree Foundation currently occupies. Some of them worked 14 days a forth night and were paid for 10 days. The restoration was government funded via labour and materials. This was prior to the general election of 1995. We were told that we were getting a community centre which was promised and to date has not been delivered. After the election a lease(an assumption as I hope that they don’t own it outright after the election) was secured by our former MP for the property and a foundation established there. That is why in my opinion it is similar to the Calabar Foundation issue. These questionable transactions always seem to take place after an election. Several residents refuse to access services from the foundation as they remember how they were duped out of a community centre. We got a foundation that is occupying underutilized prime public space(with the exception of the preschool to date) with the community worst off for the loss. My view is that as citizens need to pay extra attention to public property and funds around election time. We get caught up in the hysteria whilst our public patrimony is carted off by private interest. Reply Lawrence Johnson Wednesday 9 March 2016 at 1:50 am I don’t believe people want this to go without investigation based on when the information came to light. Allyuh sad yes. Reply Lou-Ann Sankar Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 7:36 pm People can question the timing of the information and even question his motive for releasing the information but that doesn’t change the fact that there are questions that need to be answered. The Minister has to prove that this foundation is real, and the tax payers money they got was used for the purpose it was given. Simple. Reply Lorraine Haywood Seale Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 4:40 pm When did that information came to him.strange Reply Jerome O'Connell Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 3:49 pm It is very important that this issue not be swept under the carpet for one reason. Dr. Rowley and the PNM tells us that the last government was the most corrupt ever, corruption and allegations of corruption was a main issue on the campaign trail. So for Dr. Rowley to ignore this would be a slap to the face of every citizen who voted for the PNM. I grew up hearing that two wrongs does not make a right. Corruption is corruption no matter who does it or when it occurred. I hold no brief for Fixin TnT but in this instance I am supporting their call as should every right thinking citizen not blinded by party colors. Reply Sharon Williams Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 2:47 pm what did he do he running scared no more contracts for him Reply Lasana Liburd Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 1:33 pm Here is a release from Kirk Waithe at a time when the People’s Partnership was leasing 14 cars from his TCL company: http://wired868.com/2013/04/29/fixin-tt-demands-fresh-tt-general-elections/ So I don’t understand the claims of personal vendetta. Reply Lorraine Haywood Seale Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 11:43 am He only knows about it now because his contracts was down by one in HD. Under the former regime he didn’t have no problem then . things to make you say Hmmmm Reply Wired868 Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 12:52 pm Actually, Fixin TT regularly blasted the last administration even when he was making “substantial” money from his contract there. Reply Lorraine Haywood Seale Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 4:44 pm I still maintain, when did this information came to him.why now??? Reply Bernard Quesnel Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 2:54 am In April and May 2010, Funds requested, approved and paid to a company that was not registered till August 2010. The name reservation was not applied for till July 14th 2010. Doesn’t get more suspicious than that. Funds needed urgently, cheques written in May but cheques not cashed till September. Guess they wanted to make sure they had the funds before wasting money registering a business. Reply Adrian Clarke Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 2:27 am The issue is whether a minister was involved in approving payments to a fake foundation run by her common law husband . I don’t know what Kirk Waith contracts have to do with that . Obviously the Big Mac is throwing out these documents to deflect . Reply Adrian Clarke Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 2:24 am Well he did nothing illegal or unethical . He is running a business . This is not a fake foundation like Calabar stealing thousands of taxpayers dollars Reply Nerisha Mohammed Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 2:20 am http://www.tv6tnt.com/home/rotator/Waithes-Millions-From-Renting-Vehicles–2509-371336311.html?m=y&smobile=y Reply Mitra Persad Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 1:43 am Give dem about five more wedding,dey go handle up everyting,doh worry….jes doh hold yuh breath….. Reply Adrian Clarke Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 1:06 am It is just an attempt to shoot the messenger with a non issue Reply Adrian Clarke Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 1:06 am So what did he do that was illegal or immoral Reply Lasana Liburd Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 12:43 am As I’ve heard it Greer, TCM leased eight cars to the Ministry of Housing during the last administration. After a tender that was decreased to just two under the last administration. And, after the gov’t changed, it eventually moved to one. Reply Greer Cave Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 12:44 am As I said it may not mean anything but it rattles the cage a bit Reply Nerisha Mohammed Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 2:39 am But Lasana, while it does raise a small question, from the timeline and contracts awarded-I doubt he going after the Minister for moving from 2 to 1 vehicle. This really seems like a non-issue-or politics by distraction as we fondly practice. Seems every time this matter heating up, we have a Mayor or PM (if you catch that) talking nonsense to deflect. I think the nation needs answers-and should not stop at her. TThe country is fed up of governing by PR and do as I say not as I do. And ppl are fed up of these issues distracting from the serious issues of crime and the economy-but sometimes it may be useful to have them to fall back on if the government seems powerless to provide reassurance and guidance to a frustrated, cynical and impatient nation. Reply Greer Cave Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 2:43 am We need answers but Mr. Waite needs to keep himself above board to avoid any questions of impropriety. Reply Lasana Liburd Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 12:32 am Hmmm. Well, I hope that Mark finds out whether it is indeed a “substantial amount” or just a normal price for the vehicles in question. Last year, I found out for the first time that I have vehicle servicing with Kirk Waithe too. TCM assistance comes with Maritime Insurance deal so I’ve had them for years. And they are excellent too. So, I hope Bassant has his ducks lined up in a row and it is a story that has teeth and not just innuendo and conspiracy theories. Reply Greer Cave Monday 7 March 2016 at 11:14 pm Now saw in tv6 news that Kirk Waite apparently was leasing vehicles to HDC at a substantial amount. It alleged that the Minister cut down on the number of contracts so tv6 Mark Bassant was quering whether this was the reason for his concern. To which he responded it wasn’t. That could all be true but it does throw a spanner in the wheel Reply Dawn Cameron Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 12:54 am According to his response to this issue on i95.5 yesterday , he said the contract was not renewed since 2014 under the last gov’t. Invited people to do a freedom of information query. My concern was he said he didn’t know how much business his company was currently doing with the HDC, found this odd. Would one not want to know or at least confirm info. Reply Greer Cave Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 1:17 am That is strange, cause that’s something he should know especially in light of his stance in the Minister Reply Nerisha Mohammed Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 2:28 am Which raises the question: does Fixin TnT have the moral authority to ask for the resignation of the said Minister? Or, in spite of that, a valid concern is being raised? Do we kill the messenger or listen to the message? Although if the contract was terminated or whatever since in 2014, it might be easier to digest. Reply Lester Logie Wednesday 9 March 2016 at 3:55 pm We should separate all the issues as he had also challenged the last regime. If he has questions to answer then let it be so and don’t try to side track members of public who are demanding answers. I would also maintain that the public servants should also be held to account as neither Kirk can award himself a contract nor the Minister issue those cheques to Calabar Foundation. They should not be the only ones called on to account. It might also be the very reason why they may not have a case to answer in court. They are not the ones to action the contract or payment. Our public officers who took an oath to serve in exchange for salaries and should appear to be independent no matter their political affiliation should also answer fir several of these allegations in the public domain. If they are not then the madness will continue. We complain about bureaucracy in the public service but the Calabar Foundation received those cheques in quick time if the documents published in the Express today are correct. The payment was much faster than a Public Servant receives gratuity or the public get certain approvals, services or documents from state agencies. No one is speaking up on the time lines these things occurred. After May 24th General Election. UNC was in power therefore Public Servants must also account for these cheque disbursements. It also leads to another question of how many more incidents like these exist? What is put in place by Public Servants for the protection of state assets when governments change after election? Who accounts for our money and property during this transition period? To me it shows a lack of controls system to prevent leakages. Reply Nerisha Mohammed Wednesday 9 March 2016 at 4:56 pm Lester Logie..my thoughts exactly! Was looking at the Public Accounts Committee discuss the Auditor General 2014 report and I am concerned, as that body just flags items but there is no prescribed follow up action-so Ministry, Minister of Finance or PAC may take follow up action, but if it is not mandatory/compulsory, we see how many ppl are being help culpable-none! Whether through neglect/derelection of duty/malfeasance/misfeance in public office/breach of financial regulations-our nation’s money spilling down the drain with no value for it and nobody to answer. Reply Lester Logie Wednesday 9 March 2016 at 5:14 pm I agree. We may need to abolish these independent institutions as they cannot hold anyone accountable. This issue raises serious questions on our system of governance. Ms Mc Donald was not in government when these cheques were issued. How can a MP wield so much authority out of government? Were these documents put through after the election was lost and back dated? Reply Chloe Paul Monday 7 March 2016 at 10:21 pm Lots of work to be done in T&T and CARICOM. Do not waste time with idle people. Sorry you don’t have a hearing aid. We are dealing with a Global Village. Reply David Addison Monday 7 March 2016 at 8:36 pm Why don’t you ask her? Reply David Addison Monday 7 March 2016 at 8:35 pm Then what? Reply Kern King Monday 7 March 2016 at 7:37 pm How when he know about it Reply Sunil Bachan Monday 7 March 2016 at 6:48 pm well done fixing t&t Reply Antoinette Sankar Monday 7 March 2016 at 3:07 pm Our systems fail us, if money can be disbursed so easily without accountability…the Calabar foundation is surely not the only beneficiary of such largesse… Reply Lasana Liburd Monday 7 March 2016 at 3:09 pm Exactly Reply Adrian Clarke Monday 7 March 2016 at 10:27 pm The iceberg principle Reply Nerisha Mohammed Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 2:24 am The point is, the Permanent Secretaries are the accounting officers for the ministries. They have responsibility of how the nation’s funds are spent-despite which minister instruct. That is why we have separation of powers. Why do these things continue to happen? And ministers rightly hide behind the argument that they are not responsible for the disbursement of funds! Reply Adrian Clarke Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 2:28 am She signed the documents Reply Adrian Clarke Tuesday 8 March 2016 at 2:28 am She approve the payments Reply Debbie Espinal Monday 7 March 2016 at 11:48 am Time to walk the talk Dr Rowley. Let it not just be campaign promises. We are watching and waiting for you to display your leadership. Reply Earl Best Sunday 6 March 2016 at 10:07 pm “Dr Rowley promised a return to morality and decency in public office.” Since when are campaign promises taken seriously in this country? Look at the basis on which the candidates were apparently selected and tell me if you really believed that the PNM would keep its promises. Please! 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This rendering shows the Lockheed Martin future supersonic advanced concept featuring two engines under the wings and one on top of the fuselage (not visible in this image). The dream of a supersonic passenger airplane lives on. NASA is currently researching new designs for supersonic aircraft, and the space agency is now focusing on reducing the strength of the sonic booms, the bane of supersonic flight. For a long time, scientists have known that sonic booms — the sound created by a shock wave from an aircraft that moves faster than the speed of sound — are affected by many factors, including the shape of the aircraft and where the plane's components are located. Because of this, engineers are able to change the signature of a boom by design to minimize its loudness during flight, NASA officials said in a statement. This rendering shows The Boeing Company's future supersonic advanced concept featuring two engines above the fuselage. (Image: © NASA/Boeing) The Federal Aviation Administration doesn't have a specific level of "loudness" that is acceptable for a sonic boom created by a supersonic plane. In 1973, the FAA prohibited domestic civil supersonic flights overland, and this ban prevented Concorde — a supersonic airliner that stopped flying in 2003 — from making supersonic flights over land. The prohibition has helped reduce impacts on the environment and made the skies quieter, NASA officials said. But space agency officials have still been researching ways to quiet the boom and help make supersonic flights with passengers over land a reality. [NASA's Vision of Future Air Travel (Images)] "Engine installation is a critical part of achieving an overall low boom design," Peter Coen, manager of NASA's High Speed Project, said in a statement. "If we mount the engines in a conventional manner, we need to carefully tailor the shape of the wing to diffuse the shock waves. If we mount the engines above the wing, the shock wave can be directed upward and not affect the ground signature. However, such installations may have performance penalties." Inside Glenn's 8- by 6-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel, technician Dan Pitts inspects Boeing's 1.79% scale model, which shows the two installed flow-through nacelles. (Image: © NASA/Quentin Schwinn) All of the new designs for a supersonic airplane — one each by Boeing and Lockheed Martin — have some basic features in common: either swept-back or delta wings, a pointy nose, and an extremely aerodynamic fuselage. Inside NASA Ames' 9- by 7-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel, researcher Don Durston inspects the mounting hardware for the 16-inch scale model of the Boeing concept. (Image: © NASA/Dominic Hart ) What sets each design apart are the other parts of the aircraft and how the components are arranged. Boeing's design has two engines mounted beneath a delta wing, with a third engine on top of the aircraft. The Lockheed Martin design has swept-back wings, with two engines on top of each wing (an unusual configuration). NASA is testing the designs by placing small-scale models of the proposed aircraft in wind tunnels. They are also testing models of the engines by themselves, studying how air flows through and around them. "Capturing this flow rate is important because it directly impacts a supersonic aircraft's thrust performance in flight, as well as cruise efficiency," Coen said. The research is being overseen by NASA's High Speed Project, a part of the agency's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate. Follow Raphael Rosen @raphaelrosen22. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.

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Improve Your Style With The Se Great Fashion Tips – Post Conflict Microfinance Skip to content Post Conflict Microfinance Financing Journal About Us Investment Business Financial Contact Us Home Investment Improve Your Style With The Se Great Fashion Tips Improve Your Style With The Se Great Fashion Tips Linda Kinyon August 20, 2022 Investment It isn’t easy to have a fashionable wardrobe. There are various items to consider like colors, sizes, colors, availability, size, etc. The article below offers some excellent advice to make choosing formal outfits for all kinds of doing so. Sheer clothing is often thought of as sexy, but don’t forget modesty. Wearing see-through items that are sheer in private areas can make you appear trashy than classy. Lighter colored jeans are better for casual look. One thing you are going to want to do is always looking out for new styles. They are likely going to showcase the source for new trends. If you tend to have frizzy hair, avoid rubbing hair with towels after washing it. This will break hair and make it more likely to frizz. You should hold it inside a towel and push down to get the water out. When you are happy with how much water you’ve gotten out, you should unwrap it and begin brushing it with a comb. Do not seek perfection in terms of fashion.Also, if you try too hard, you may look like you are investing too much time and effort into the process. Some of the runways that have flaws with their look. Clean out your closet out. A closet will be hard to find a good outfit in. If you have items in your closet that are ill-fitting or haven’t been worn in the past year, get rid of them.Having a few staple pieces in your wardrobe is much more useful than having outdated clothing hanging on to old clothes. Choosing proper clothing can be hard since you need to take a lot of details into consideration. The advice above will give you the confidence you need to make your formal wardrobe something to be proud of. The tips and advice given will help you when you need it. You can also visit our other websites and post your article. Westbury Golf, Marietta Land Scape Service, Breath Alytics, Papi Churro ATX, Wilson Woodcarvers, Woodbona, Kansas Planning, Mindful and Minimal, Arts Roofs, Neilogan Construction, Poolers Kennel, Westchester Green Business Challenge, CAGC Union Free, Marti Cash For Homes, Theseo Blog, Peter Forala, Post Conflict Micro Finance, Seo-Services-Expert, Stop Trafficking Lake Ozarks, Tammara Soma, The Sunflower Quilt Shoppe, Tri Cities Wa Concrete, Icon Awards, Capital Area Reentry, Michael Grant , Hair Solutions by Sharone Commerce, NYCMW Be Alliance, Skyline Roof Restoration, Robins Hawaii Web Design, Exeter Electric Bike Hire, Nelson Custom Rods, Never Blue Escape, Cabbage Town Releaf, Carbs By Numbers, Home Ware Studio, Jane Keightley, Manchester Tuc, Smoky Mountain Painting , Waikapu Pickles Linda Kinyon Linda Kinyon Post navigation Prev Next Investment Types of Business Financing Linda Kinyon December 28, 2021 Search Recent News Benefits and Disadvantages of a Cash Out Refinance September 9, 2022 Improve Your Style With The Se Great Fashion Tips August 20, 2022 Types of Business Financing December 28, 2021 Categories Financial Investment September 2022 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 « Aug All Rights Reserved 2022. Cream Magazine by Themebeez Privacy Policy Terms & Conditions

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America’s thin-skinned president is not happy with all the negative coverage of his administration, especially from the hosts of late-night TV, who have recently eschewed their usual comedic monologues for searing and serious talks about health care and gun control. Some, like the Late Show’s Stephen Colbert, have always worn their progressive politics on their sleeve. But lately, other network mainstays have also been taking a harder line on the president, with Jimmy Kimmel delivering a scorching denunciation of Senate Republican’s bill to repeal Obamacare, saying it “screwed” people with pre-existing conditions. When a gunman massacred dozens of people in Las Vegas last weekend, he said Republicans “should be praying for God to forgive them for letting the gun lobby run this country.” Trump, who has recently launched his own culture war on the entertainment industry, exploded on Twitter early Saturday morning, criticizing late-night hosts as “one-sided” and “unfunny” and calling for Republicans to get “Equal Time” on TV. The president’s complaint is a bit ironic. Trump appeared to be talking about the FCC’s equal time rule, which requires broadcast television and radio stations not to prioritize one candidate over another in giving candidates air time on programs, though it does not have anything to do with a late night host’s monologue, and only applies to legally qualified candidates for public office. He may also have been referring to the so-called Fairness Doctrine, a FCC policy that required broadcasters to report on issues related to the public interest and to present both sides fairly and equally. President Ronald Reagan scrapped the rule in 1987, arguably clearing the way for Fox News and right-wing talk radio. As is often the case, Trump appears to have been watching a Fox News report, hosted by Dean Cain, about left-leaning late night hosts, before taking to Twitter to vent. In response, Late Night host Seth Meyers tweeted that he’d love to have Trump appear on his show, provided he can find their offices.

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George Washington will be booted from the church he helped to found in Alexandria, Virginia. To understand what’s happening, we have to go back more than 100 years. In 1870, the clergy and communicants of Christ Church, an Episcopal congregation in Alexandria, commissioned two memorial tablets as tributes to the church’s two most famous parishioners, George Washington and Robert E. Lee. They were installed on either side of the altar, where they have been ever since. Washington was one of the founders of the parish back in 1773. He served as a vestryman (members of the congregation who help the clergy administer the parish), and he bought a pew, so if business took him to Alexandria over a weekend, he’d have reserved seating in the church. As for Lee, since he was three years old, he was a regular parishioner of Christ Church and was confirmed there. The link between the Lee family and Christ Church remained strong even after Robert died — in 1918, his daughter, Mary Custis Lee, left Christ Church a bequest of $10,000, which was used as seed money for the church’s endowment. Washington Times reporter Stephen Dinan could not get an answer from church leaders whether the parish plans to return the bequest to the Lee family. Now, Christ Church has taken as its motto, “All are welcome — no exceptions.” Which is an admirable sentiment, and I mean that sincerely. And in that spirit the current congregation has decided to take down the Washington and Lee memorials. Given the current climate, you can guess why the tablets have become a problem — Washington and Lee were both slaveowners. So much has been written about Lee over the last few months that I can’t bring myself to rehash the arguments. But Washington’s case is interesting. In his will he declared that all his slaves should be freed after Martha’s death. (He assumed she would outlive him, and she did.) As for Martha, she didn’t put off that bequest, but freed the slaves shortly after George died. As for the memorials, parishioners received a letter from church leaders that said, “The plaques in our sanctuary make some in our presence feel unsafe or unwelcome. Some visitors and guests who worship with us choose not to return because they receive an unintended message from the prominent presence of the plaques.” “Unsafe” seems a bit extreme. Would the individuals who feel unsafe seeing Washington’s name also feel endangered when handling a quarter or a dollar bill? In an email to the Washington Times, Rector Noelle York-Simmons said that the members of the vestry voted unanimously to take down the Washington and Lee memorials. They’ll be gone by next summer, when they will be installed somewhere less intimidating. Since Christ Church is in the mood for revamping, they might want to take another look at their motto. Here’s a suggestion: revise it to read, “All are welcome — no exceptions. Except Washington and Lee.” Thomas J. Craughwell is the author of Thomas Jefferson’s Crème Brûlée and Stealing Lincoln’s Body.

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Evolving a More Nurturing Capitalism: A New Powell Memo - This View Of Life Hit enter to search or ESC to close About What We Do Who We Are Writer’s Guidelines Endorsements Our Supporters Opportunities Contact Events Calendar Examined Lives TVOL Cafe Webinars Publications Special Reports Books Podcast Newsletter Join Us Economy Evolving a More Nurturing Capitalism: A New Powell Memo By Anthony BiglanMay 20, 2015 9 Comments Is it possible that evolutionary theory can explain how the U.S. came to have the highest levels of child poverty and economic inequality of any developed nation? I think it can. It also can help us evolve a more nurturing form of capitalism, one in which people are more caring and productive, and they place greater value on the wellbeing of every member of society. We certainly have room for improvement. The U.S. has one the highest rates of child poverty among economically developed countries and it is harming our children. Families living in poverty have more conflict, which leads to childhood aggression and all of the social and academic failures that result from being aggressive.1 When you are raised in poverty, it produces life-long changes in your physiology, which increases your chances of diabetes and death from heart attacks and strokes. Even if you escaped from poverty as an adult, you would have a 20 to 40% higher risk of developing heart disease.2 Most Americans think that we have an egalitarian society in which a young person on the bottom rung of the economic ladder can readily move up. But it is a myth. A young American is much less likely to get out of poverty than a young person in Germany, Sweden, Canada, Finland, Norway, or Denmark. Inequality matters. Countries with higher levels of inequality have lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, more homicides, more teenage births, less trust, more obesity, more mental illness and drug abuse, and less social mobility.3 Even if you are one of the wealthier people in society, you have a lower life expectancy than wealthy people in societies that are more egalitarian. If you are under forty, you may not realize how much the U.S. has changed since the 1960s. Poverty among the elderly has declined from 30% to 8.9% thanks to Medicare. But in most other respects, the wellbeing of a sizable proportion of our population has diminished. Child poverty has risen from about 15% in 1975 to 22% in 2014. So has inequality. Hacker and Pierson4 enumerated the ways in which changes in U.S. laws and regulations led to this situation. Policymakers failed to (a) increase the minimum wage and index it to inflation; (b) update or enforce laws regulating unions; (c) expand the Earned Income Tax Credit or government efforts to encourage its use; and (d) prevent the erosion of company-provided pension plans. And under the thrall of free-market ideology, government has failed to regulate the financial industry. It has allowed the development of usurious lending practices, such as payday loans, which have led many poor people to fall into inescapable indebtedness. They failed to regulate new financial instruments, which fueled the housing bubble. Once bankers could bundle mortgages and sell them to investors, the incentive to be sure the borrower could repay the mortgage was undermined. The result was more than a million Americans losing their homes when the recession hit. Last but far from least, the business advocacy movement has been able to change public policy regarding campaign contributions. One facet of the movement was the creation of the Federalist Society, an organization of lawyers dedicated to conservative and libertarian principles that was formed in 1980 by law students at Yale, Harvard, and the University of Chicago. Among its members are four Supreme Court justices: Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alioto, Clarence Thomas, and John Roberts. All of these justices voted in favor of decisions that expanded the ability of wealthy people and corporations to give money in support of their candidates. So why did public policymaking take us where we didn’t want to go? It is a matter of cultural evolution—perhaps the most important example in our history. I summarized the recent evolution of corporate capitalism in The Nurture Effect. However, when I wrote that summary, I had not appreciated that the process is a stellar example of multi-level cultural selection, guided by a compelling theory. By 1970, respect for business was at an all-time low. From February through May of that year, arson and bombings of businesses and public property, such as the fire-bombing of the Isla Vista branch of the Bank of America, were an almost daily occurrence.5 This prompted Lewis Powell, who was soon to be appointed to the Supreme Court, to write a memo to Eugene Sydnor at the US Chamber of Commerce. Powell argued that business had fallen into disrepute because the business community had failed to advocate for its interests. His key insight was that businesses needed a much higher degree of cooperation to improve its status and influence: …independent and uncoordinated activity by individual corporations, as important as this is, will not be sufficient. Strength lies in organization, in careful long-range planning and implementation, in consistency of action over an indefinite period of years, in the scale of financing available only through joint effort, and in the political power available only through united action and national organizations.6 Powell’s memo is widely credited4, 7 with leading to an extraordinary transformation in public opinion about free-market economics, government regulation, and the efficacy of government. The transformation resulted from the creation of a loose network of business people and advocacy organizations that organized around the ideology of unfettered free market economics. The theory was masterfully articulated by Milton and Rose Friedman in their book and TV series Free to Choose. Based on Adam Smith’s metaphor of the invisible hand, the Friedmans argued that market systems produce greater economic development than “command economies.” As a result, Americans came to believe that the individual pursuit of profit is not just good for an individual: it benefits all of society. The movement cultivated a cadre of spokespeople for business through scholarships to major universities and subsidies for the writing and publication of materials favorable to business. They funded the development of organizations that carry on this advocacy, such as the Business Roundtable, the Heritage Foundation, the American Legislative Exchange Council, and the Cato Institute. Over the ensuing 45 years, public support for business-friendly policies has grown enormously. In 1965, Democrats controlled the White House and had two-thirds majorities in both houses of Congress. Also, Democrats were decidedly more liberal on economic issues than they are now. Of course, an evolutionary analysis must point to the consequences that have shaped and maintained the free market ideology and the policymaking it stimulated. Free market advocacy has been selected and maintained by the economic benefits it wrought for those who created the super-coalition of free market advocates. Taxes on the wealthiest people were reduced significantly, dropping from 70% to 28% between 1982 and 1986 and returning to 40% in 2014. As a result, the top 1% of earners increased their share of all income from 8% in 1979 to over 17% in 2007. Other benefits included reduction in the estate tax, changes in the alternative minimum tax, and reduction in the number of IRS audits of high earners. Another benefit was the failure of government to bring tax policy in line with new forms of economic activity. For example, under existing law, hedge fund managers have been able to treat their income as capital gains and pay a 15% rate. The top 25 hedge fund managers averaged $972 million in income in 2013. I submit that the very successful advocacy for unregulated free markets and minimal government is an example of group-level selection in which a higher level of cooperation enabled the free-market movement to dominate public discussion and policymaking. Before the Powell memo, business people were suffering because they were not cultivating public support for their interests. The higher level of cooperation they achieved allowed them to make the case for their interests and reap very significant financial rewards. The irony is that, contrary to the notion that each person’s pursuit of his or her individual interests will benefit the group, the effective cooperation among business people has enabled their success. But this success has harmed society as a whole. It undermined the communitarian values that came about thanks to Americans’ uniting to fight the Second World War.8 The analysis has direct implications for what we can do to evolve a more nurturing society. In recent months, I have been speaking to a wide variety of scientific and human service organizations as well as foundations. In many cases, these groups did not even know about the existence of the other groups. Yet every one of them shared the same basic analysis of what people need to thrive. They didn’t necessarily put it in terms of nurturing environments, but all agree that it is vital to wellbeing that we decrease stress and threat in human environments, that poverty and inequality are major contributors to these conditions, and that we need to promote reinforcement and support for prosocial behavior, including the cultivation of caring relationships. The convergence among all these groups stems from the convergence of the empirical evidence. Just as free-market theory and evidence provided the intellectual framework that guided free-market advocacy, we have the empirically supported theory that is needed to make the case for evolving a society in which the dominant value is ensuring that every person has the basic conditions necessary to lead a productive life in caring relationships with others.9 So let this be my Powell memo. If you don’t like where the evolution of capitalism has taken us in the past forty years, join with others who share your understanding of what humans need to thrive and build a super-coalition of individuals and organizations working to influence public understanding, public policy, and direct action. Fund scholarships to create a new generation of behavioral scientists, healthcare and social service providers, and policymakers who make the creation of a nurturing society their highest priority. Create and support organizations that are working for greater nurturance in our families, schools, workplaces, neighborhoods, and communities—and in public discussion. Demand that political organizations and candidates support the policies needed to move society in this direction. In my next essay, I will elaborate on how such a higher level of coordinated advocacy for a more nurturing form of capitalism can be created and how it could function to increase societal support for the funding of effective interventions and for policies that will constrain the excesses of capitalism. Literature Cited Biglan, A., 2015. The nurture effect: How the science of human behavior can improve our lives and our world. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger. Galobardes, B., J.W. Lynch, and G.D. Smith, 2008. Is the association between childhood socioeconomic circumstances and cause-specific mortality established? Update of a systematic review. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 62: 387-390. Wilkinson, R., and K. Pickett, 2009. The spirit level: Why greater equality makes societies stronger. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. Hacker, J.S., and P. Pierson, 2010. Winner-take-all politics: Public policy, political organization, and the precipitous rise of top incomes in the United States. Politics & Society, 38: 152-204. Hewitt, C., 2005. Political violence and terrorism in modern America: A chronology. Greenwood Publishing Group. Alterman, E., 2003. What liberal media? New York: Basic Books. Ambrose, S.E., 1994. D-Day: June 6, 1944–The Climactic Battle of WWII. New York: Simon and Schuster. Wilson, D.S., S. Hayes, A. Biglan, and D. D. Embry, 2014. Evolving the future: toward a science of intentional change. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37: 395-416. Published On: May 20, 2015 View Comments Anthony Biglan Dr. Biglan is an award-winning leader of worldwide efforts to evolve more nurturing societies. His book, The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World, earned him the Scientific Translation Award from the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Analysis for increasing public understanding of the power of behavioral science. In Rebooting Capitalism, he takes the next step by describing how behavioral science can help reform our political and economic system so that it works for everyone. JOIN PROSOCIAL COMMONS Find Out More Get Updates Previous PostEvolution And The Coming Interspiritual Age: A Conversation With Kurt Johnson Next PostWhat Business Cycles Can Teach Us About Evolution You May Also Like BusinessEconomy The Third Way of Entrepreneurship in the Internet Age: A Conversation with Tim O’Reilly Tim O’Reilly, David Sloan Wilson September 15, 2022 BusinessEconomy Urban Planning and the Third Way: A Conversation with Daniel T. O’Brien Daniel T. O’Brien, David Sloan Wilson September 8, 2022 BusinessEconomyPolitics The Role of the Market in the Third Way of Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Peter Boettke Peter Boettke, David Sloan Wilson August 11, 2022 9 Comments Graham Lovell says: May 20, 2015 at 8:09 pm Powell arguments were well targeted, and thus were effective. However, I am far from convinced that the coalition that you are advocating will achieve the results for which you are hoping. Joining together on an ineffective solution will not transform it into an effective solution. If we are going to have a real solution it will come through diminishing the perceived value of competitive behavior, not through better management of that behavior. The first step should be to return to managed trade as the ideal, rather than continuing to worship at the altar of free trade. It will require a reversal of the current devotion to the idea that no amount of competition is too much. It will require the acceptance of the idea that the highest good is not the lowest price of everything. Reply Tony Biglan says: September 16, 2015 at 12:14 pm I agree that we need to overturn the dominant theory and its emphasis on competition. See my book, The Nurture Effect, which is an effort to diminish the perceived value of competitive behavior. Reply Diego says: May 22, 2015 at 11:54 pm I like the idea of a more nurturing society, and agree that we need to do more cooperative work with all the possible instances of civil movements and controlling agencies in pursuing this idea. However, there are some problems in the text that, in fact, play against the proposition itself. The notion that the american role in WWII was definitive is itself a problem, is a reproduction of hollywoodyan stereotypes that ignore a lot of facts about the final battles against the nazi’s; the notion that we’ll achieve a more nurturing capitalism is also a contradiction in terms, despite the fact that we could bring into existence a state capitalism (like the majority of the names you bring in comparision with USA) usually named welfare state. But i’m enjoying your book and having a good time knowing better the behavioral technologies that we could use to – and here we agree on the matter – select intentionally better cultural practices. Reply Carmi Turchick says: May 23, 2015 at 12:50 am I agree that the objective should be to make Capitalism less virulent in the national superorganism. I am unconvinced by the general concept of cultural evolution, I do not find the process of change has either similar enough replication or selection to be deemed evolution or usefully compared to biological evolution. But you seem to be searching for ideas that I may have available here in my paper on the potential benefits of competition: http://theroadtopeace.blogspot.com Reply Tony Biglan says: September 16, 2015 at 12:16 pm thanks. I will read your piece. Reply Wanderer says: June 10, 2015 at 6:02 pm Generally speaking, I may agree with this memo. Of course, the general smell to Sixties’ Liberalism and Democrat cheerleading is obvious, much unwarranted and highly harmful and divisive, but I may agree with the, let’s say, “spirit of it all”. The organizational tips, for example, are historically obvious, but there are so many people that fails to get them right… Specially in the Right. Because you’ll see sir. In the true Right, the traditional Right, the “paleocons” in american parlance (which is the more similar thing you have to a true Right in the US) you’d find scores of allies, weren’t it for the gung-ho liberal tone in your text. Let’s take for example Mr. Lovell’s comment, which I personally support. Pat Buchanan (please, bring some salts for our readers from Berkeley) has spent thirty years advocating for the same. The american political terminology is highly misleading. US’s current (modern) “conservatives” are just nineteenth century liberals. In the XIXth century, capitalism was a form of Leftism, with its famous illusion of eternal Progress. Classical Liberalism belongs to the Left. Libertarians are leftists in origin. The funny part comes now: they prevailed by organizing better than their enemies and, specially, by seizing the apparatus of the rising nation-state and using its collective power to crush, military and culturally, all opposition. Which is really funny for advocates of the “sovereign individual” and minarchy-leaning people who keep talking about how much they distrust the government they control. I make mine Mr. Lovell’s phrases: “If we are going to have a real solution it will come through diminishing the perceived value of competitive behavior, not through better management of that behavior. The first step should be to return to managed trade as the ideal, rather than continuing to worship at the altar of free trade. It will require a reversal of the current devotion to the idea that no amount of competition is too much. It will require the acceptance of the idea that the highest good is not the lowest price of everything.” And this is a idea that, as demonstrated by Gustavo Bueno (a former european marxist, BTW) has been historically shared by communitarians in the Right and the Left. Moreover, you can find some “Main Street”-like business people advocating for it right now: http://www.freetradedoesntwork.com/ So, just for a change, let’s try to get things right from the start (not pun intended) and let’s try, just for a change, to build something that is really non-partisan. Please. Reply Leif Knutsen says: September 5, 2015 at 7:30 pm It does not take a climate scientist or even a particularly bright bulb on the street to see that Capitalism, unrestrained by the requirements of Planetary life support systems, is guaranteed mutually assured destruction. When dollars are sacrosanct to Planetary life support systems, what other outcome can be expected? Socially enabled capitalism is clearly a failed paradigm. Help end tax funded pollution of the commons for starters. Your tax dollars are funding a Planetary ecocide future for the children of ALL species. 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A full 67% of American women are size 14 or larger, yet they only represent 18% of all apparel purchases. It’s not because plus-size women aren’t interested in buying clothes, but rather because there’s a shortage of good options. The majority of plus-size women— 81% according to one survey—say they would spend more money on clothing if they had more choices of clothes that fit them. It’s slim pickings out there. Take it from Alexandra Waldman, who cofounded the plus-size clothing brand Universal Standard nearly two years ago out of sheer desperation. “I’m a size 20,” she explains. “Shopping is really tough: You’re constantly in the position of choosing the best of the worst. You wear what is available, creating a hodgepodge look, without the ability to express your own style.” How to rock the Archer Top | @francetajohnson | get yours via link in bio A post shared by Universal Standard (@universalstandard) on Jun 13, 2017 at 8:56am PDT Universal Standard–which Waldman cofounded with former investment banker Polina Veksler–creates sleek, minimalistic clothing for women sizes 10 to 28. The looks are inspired by sophisticated urban brands like Theory, Helmut Lang, and Rag & Bone, and are made from high-quality materials like Peruvian jerseys and alpacas, French satin and terry, and denims and cashmeres. “I’ve spent my life buying plus-size clothes that, if you walk a little too fast, you could light yourself on fire because they are made of such poor-quality synthetic materials,” says Waldman. Her own experiences as a consumer allow her to preempt the needs of the plus-size shopper. For instance, many women who find themselves at a size 16 or 24 one day don’t believe they will stay at this weight for very long. They’re worried about investing in expensive clothing because they might be planning to lose the weight. Or conversely, since they don’t know why they gained the weight in the first place, they’re afraid they might keep getting heavier. To address this concern, the brand has launched a program called Universal Fit Liberty, which allows women to exchange pieces from the brand’s core collection for a different size at no additional cost at any point during the first year of purchase. Universal Standard goes on to donate clothes that are returned to local charities. “Women were disassociating from themselves because they didn’t want to accept what they were seeing in the mirror,” Waldman says. “So they bought cheap clothes that they felt would be temporary, or they bought clothes that were too small. We wanted to find a solution that would put an end to this vicious cycle.” The startup just received a $1.5 million seed investment led by Red Sea Ventures, an early-stage VC firm that has helped launch successful fashion brands like Outdoor Voices, Allbirds, and Tracksmith. Scott Birnbaum, the founder of Red Sea Ventures, is betting that Universal Standard will be able to offer women a high-end approach to plus-size clothing that simply doesn’t exist on the market right now. “The prevailing belief in the fashion industry is that plus-size women will only spend money on discount clothing,” he says. “The implication here is that plus-size women either don’t have money or they don’t want to spend their money on clothing. I just don’t think this is true.”

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UKIP has continued its assault on Bolton Council by taking two more seats to prove that they are a force to be reckoned with in the borough. The party landed a decisive majority in Little Lever and Darcy Lever and also won in Kearsley – ousting Labour candidates in both wards. UKIP’s success in Little Lever means that in just two years they have monopolised the ward with all three seats – after having no councillors in the borough prior to 2014. They now have five councillors and have leapfrogged the Liberal Democrats to become Bolton's third party. Cllr Rees Gibbon saw off David Evans to join Cllr Sean Hornby and Cllr Paul Richardson as ward councillors in Little Lever and Darcy Lever. In Kearsley, Cllr Mark Cunningham defeated Carol Burrows to take his place as a UKIP representative on Bolton Council. The party also came close to gaining a shock third seat of the night in Breightmet, where Labour clung on by 100 votes, following a recount. The results caused UKIP leader, Cllr Sean Hornby to state: “This is just the beginning for UKIP in Bolton. “We always predicted that we would take these two seats, the people have lost trust in Labour and we have listened to them. “In Little Lever and Darcy Lever, Labour tried to give people something in the new library – but the people saw through it and it backfired. “Our work starts now and we now look at building on this, Kearsley is the next ward we will take – we will be a good, strong opposition and will hold this Labour council to account. “I am sure there will be a few more surprises in two years time.” Labour will be disappointed with the two results in the Bolton South area and were also defeated by the Conservatives in Westhoughton North and Chew Moor – where Anne Graham lost her seat to Christine Wild in what is traditionally a swing result. But the party will be very pleased to have registered a surprise win in Hulton, where first-time candidate Darren Whitehead beat off close competition from the Tories to replace late Conservative Cllr Alan Walsh and offer some cheer on a difficult night for the controlling group. Elsewhere, Liberal Democrat leader Roger Hayes comfortably hung on to his Smithills seat with an increased majority – despite suggestions from some quarters that he may have struggled. Council leader Cliff Morris, who was also comfortably re-elected in his Halliwell seat remained bullish despite the losses, stating that the overall power his party still has on the council shows that "the people of Bolton have chosen Labour again." The final make-up of Bolton Council after this year’s elections sees Labour down two with 37 councillors, the Tories remain on 15, UKIP are up by two councillors to 5 and the Liberal Democrats remain on 3.

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Operation Clover 0800 Number (with video) Operation Clover 0800 Number (with video) Wednesday, 13 November 2013 - 4:37pm National News Detective Inspector Karyn Malthus, head of Operation Clover, has today announced the establishment of a freephone 0800 number for anyone wanting to contact the enquiry team. Operation Clover is the Police name for the investigation into the action of the group calling themselves the "Roastbusters". The number is 0800 OP CLOVER (0800 672 568) and can be dialled from any New Zealand phone, including cellphones. A video with a personal message from Det Insp Malthus about the 0800 number has also been released by Police onto Youtube and the NZ Police website. The video will also be distributed on various Police Facebook pages and Police encourage anyone wanting to share the link to the video to do so (available via YouTube below) Anyone who would like to speak to the enquiry team is encouraged to ring the freephone number. "I can assure anyone who contacts us that they will be treated with compassion and respect. On behalf of the NZ Police, I want to reiterate our absolute commitment to anyone who has been a victim of this group, or anyone else who has been the victim of a sexual assault" says Det Insp Karyn Malthus, Operation Clover. "My enquiry team are all staff who are trained in child protection and adult sexual assault, we're aware school and university exams are on at the moment and we'd encourage anyone to call us at a time that suits them. Please call us and we can help support you through the process" says DI Malthus. A team of 10 core Police staff are working on Operation Clover, with additional support available from within Waitematä, and the Counties Manukau and Auckland City Police districts. The multi-agency investigation also involves CYFS, ACC, the Ministry of Education, and various counselling services. ENDS © Scoop Media

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The News Lens international edition is sponsored by Tutor A B C Legendary Taiwanese traditional puppeteer Li Tian-lu’s apprentice, Jean-Luc Penso, who is also currently director of the Theatre du Petit Miroir in France, has been promoting the culture of Taiwanese traditional puppets in France for a long time. This time, Penso is holding an exhibition called “The Origin of Puppetry” at the Puppetry Art Center of Taipei, presenting many puppets and historical relics from France in hopes of helping the Taiwanese learn how the traditional art has been spread overseas. Liberty Times reports, Penso says that his getting to know Li was quite dramatic. When 20-year-old Penso arrived in Taiwan in 1970, he met Li for the first time in an antique shop near Lungshan Temple. Penso did not recognize Li at the time, and was very rude and arrogant enough to ask Li if he knew how to play the traditional puppets. “I didn’t imagine he would start to put on a puppet show right then and there, and I was deeply attracted to his movements and voice.” It was only then did Penso realize that it was Li, who he had admired for a long time, standing in front of him. RTI reports, Penso decided to come to Taiwan to learn how to play puppets from Li because he watched a documentary on Taiwanese glove puppetry when he was still a student. Penso recalls that Li did not charge any tuition, but only ask him to obey his instructions and to not give up. Awakening News reports, Penso says, “Mr. Li encouraged me to be creative, and create my own stories. So after I finished learning the art, I combined stories and cultural creations from around the world through raditional Taiwanese puppetry techniques. Now I have been to more than 80 countries.” Penso founded the Theatre du Petit Miroir in 1975, and had his theatre’s first debut in 1986, performing “The Odyssey,” a creation inspired by the Ancient Greek mythology. The works exhibited in “The Origin of Puppetry” have all been transported by air from France. They are Penso’s collection of historical relics, including Chinese puppets, shadow puppets, original western puppets and old photos with Li. Former Representative of Taiwan in France, Michel Ching-long Lu, also attended the press conference in the exhibition’s opening ceremony on January 6, paying tribute to his friend, Penso. Lu often plays traditional puppets in French when he attends diplomatic events, and his performances are always well received. Lu says that his many years of experience in France has made him realize that the traditional puppetry is a good way for Taiwan to engage in cultural diplomacy, and it should be preserved and promoted. ►Related News: Former Taiwan Representative to France Impresses the French with Taiwanese Glove Puppetry “The Origin of Puppetry” will be exhibited at the Puppetry Art Center of Taipei from January 5 to March 27. The center is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm. Translated by Wen-yee Lee Edited by Olivia Yang Sources:

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Having secured theatrical distribution for the UK and the US at the Cannes Film Festival, the first trailer has arrived online for Louis Theroux’s upcoming feature length documentary My Scientology Movie; check it out below… Following a long fascination with the religion and with much experience in dealing with eccentric, unpalatable and unexpected human behavior, the beguilingly unassuming LOuis Theroux won’t take no for an answer when his request to enter the Church’s headquarters is turned down. Inspired by the Church’s use of filming techniques, and aided by ex-members of the organisation, Theroux uses actors to replay some incidents people claim they experienced as members in an attempt to better understand the way it operates. In a bizarre twist, it becomes clear that the Church is also making a film about Louis Theroux. Suffused with a good dose of humour and moments worthy of a Hollywood script, MY SCIENTOLOGY MOVIE is stranger than fiction.

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IPCMC - give amnesty for police misconduct EN BM ZH TA MENU News Latest World Videos Kini Lens Views Opinions Letters Yoursay CartoonKini Kini Morning Brief Featured Featured Kini News Lab Special Reports MalaysiansKini KiniGuide More Reach Us Most Read Most Commented Read more like this # Read more from this author K Temoc From Our Readers IPCMC - give amnesty for police misconduct K Temoc Published: Mar 20, 2007 9:34 AM ⋅ Updated: Jan 29, 2008 10:21 AM I refer to the malaysiakini report Reveal revised IPCMC bill, Pak Lah told . Though 24 NGOs have urged Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to put his money where his mouth is, I bet the PM will continue to drag his heels on the matter. The embarrassing fact of his deputy internal security minister having the brazen, shameless, nerve to aver that the Attorney-General's Chambers was finalising a report containing some imaginary feedback from the NGOs must surely be an indication of the length to which the PM and the Internal Security Ministry have been willing to go to in order to put off public queries about the IPCMC. I suspect that the real source of the delaying tactic would be the Royal Malaysian Police. Consider this scary statistic - according to the Human Rights Commission (Suhakam), there have been 80 custodial deaths between 2000 and 2004 while only eight inquests were carried out. Has anyone heard of any police personnel being punished since then, except for the bloke who revealed the scandal of the Squatgate abuse? P Uthayakumar of the Police Watch and Human Rights Committee said: "Monitoring the police force 'from within' has not worked all these years and neither has the Public Complaints Bureau, Disciplinary Unit in the police headquarters, Police Services Commission and Suhakam helped." The reality is the police have accumulated so much filth on their records that they have already passed the point of no return. They would now resist at any cost the establishment of an IPCMC. We may take it they would not allow anyone to peep into their conduct for the last 15 years or so, let alone investigate it. One of the police excuses has been the claim that the IPCMC would not provide them with the necessary due process where a member of their force under investigation would not be able to appeal. However, when DAP's Lim Guan Eng informed the inspector-general of police (IGP) that he would revise the IPCMC bill to make this process available, according to Lim, the latter made a studious effort to evade the issue. The police have been so terrified of the IPCMC to an extent that the previous IGP, Mohd Bakri Omar, had the unmitigated nerve to exceed public service ethical boundaries in a private briefing for Umno members of parliament where he 'persuaded' those 'Yang Berhormats' into rebelling against the PM on the IPCMC bill. But we all know that when Bakri retired he did so with full honours and thanks from an effusively grateful PM. Undoubtedly the police resistance has succeeded with a weak PM who is beholden to them. I believe there may be only one way to cut through the police manipulative barricades against the establishment of the much-needed IPCMC, unpleasant and unpalatable to many of us as this would be. We have to agree, and inform the police, that the revised IPCMC bill will not only contain a due process for appeals but a clause where the IPCMC will not investigate any alleged police conduct prior to the gazetting of the bill. In other words, there will be a general amnesty for all police misconduct prior to the establishment of the IPCMC - yes, even those 80 deaths in custody. That may assure the police that the IPCMC will not be an apparatus to seek vengeance for past misdeeds, and may help persuade them to come to the party for a modern police system. Unless we trade that off, the IPCMC will never see the light of day, no, not with a PM who lacks the backbone to do the necessary. Yes, some damn rats will slip through but we will at least have the IPCMC for the future, and most importantly, for our children. It is not a perfect world, but half a loaf would be better than none. ADS malaysiakini General Line +603-7770 0000 About About Malaysiakini Staff Job Vacancies Internships Advertise Subscribe Donate Digital Network KiniTV VOIZ Asia FG Media Undi.info Kini Academy News Metrics Terms of use Term of service Privacy Policy Subscription / Tech Support +603-7770 0017 [email protected] Editorial Contact the newsdesk [email protected] Location No. 9, Jalan 51/205A, Off Jalan Tandang, 46050 Petaling Jaya, Selangor RSS Feeds News Columns From Our Readers

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The Tawana Brawley case that captivated New York in the late eighties is a shocking reminder of the toxic mix racial exploitation and personal ambition can produce. The New York Times and Retroreport.org have just released a new 15-minute documentary on the despicable hoax, which should be required viewing for the NBC News executives who are heavily invested in rehabilitating a key culprit of this loathsome episode: the Rev. Al Sharpton. Brawley was 15 years old in 1987, when she was found in her hometown of Wappingers Falls, New York, with “Bitch,” “KKK,” and “N***r” written on her stomach, her jeans burnt in the crotch, feces in her hair, and her tennis shoes sliced open. She said that she had been abducted and raped by a group of white men. A trio of increasingly prominent, and radical, New York City black activists represented her and her family: attorneys Alton Maddox and C. Vernon Mason and the Rev. Al Sharpton. Brawley told them said that a cop had been one of her attackers, and Sharpton named that officer as Harry Crist Jr., a police officer from a nearby town who had committed suicide shortly after Brawley was found. Sharpton also named a local prosecutor, Steven Pagones, as one of the attackers. He offered no proof. Gov. Mario Cuomo dispatched a veteran prosecutor, Jack Ryan, to handle the case. Brawley and her advisers refused to cooperate in any way with Ryan and his team. “That was the decision of the lawyers,” Sharpton says defensively in the Times interview. When asked why Brawley’s team would not meet with New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams, Sharpton said it would be “like asking someone who watched someone killed in the gas chamber to sit down with Mr. Hitler.” Sharpton later accused Ryan of kicking a blind man in a scuffle with demonstrators. Ryan was nowhere near the scene. After a six-month investigation a grand jury found that the entire episode had been a hoax, with Brawley having defaced herself to avoid the wrath of her stepfather after staying out late to visit a boyfriend. Subsequently, both of her attorneys had their law licenses revoked (Mason for unrelated reasons) and Sharpton was found guilty of defamation in a lawsuit brought by prosecutor Steven Pagones, who quickly had been able to establish he had been nowhere near the scene of the alleged crime. The Times documentary shows a wild-eyed Sharpton responding indignantly to a reporter’s question of what proof he had of the policeman’s guilt: “I have Tawana Brawley’s words,” he sneers. Instead of apologizing, Sharpton still asserts, a quarter century later, that he deserves credit for standing by the teen, asserting darkly in the Times documentary, “something happened.” The Brawley case inflamed racial tensions in America and left victims like the falsely accused Pagones in its wake. But it helped launch Sharpton’s career. Instead of an isolated incident of bad judgment and hysteria, Sharpton’s behavior in the Brawley case is part of a life-long pattern. Sharpton was a key player inflaming the 1991 Crown Heights riots following the death of a young African-American who was hit by an ambulance driven by a Hasidic driver. Sharpton called Jews “diamond merchants” with “the blood of innocent babies” on their hands. A mob subsequently attacked and murdered an innocent Hasidic Jewish student visiting from Australia. (Twenty-five years later, he wrote a mealy-mouthed not-quite apology for his rhetoric.) A few years later, an African-American Pentecostal church asked a Jewish tenant of a church-owned property, Freddie Fashion’s Mart, to evict one of his subtenants, an African-American-run record store. Sharpton led protests crying, “We will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business.” One of the protesters attacked Freddie Fashion Mart, shot several customers, and started a fire that killed seven employees. There are a lot of angry, twisted individuals in America and Sharpton is hardly alone in having spent decades vomiting hate, leaving innocent victims in his wake. What distinguishes Sharpton is the willingness of powerful people and organizations to look past the hate when they believe it may benefit them. The Democratic Party and its candidates for president in 2004 were perfectly content to have Sharpton appear in presidential debates. Not one candidate called Sharpton out for his outrageous history of hate. And today one of the great American news organizations, NBC News, is spending millions of dollars to rehabilitate and promote Al Sharpton. Americans have been pretty good at sniffing out and discarding haters, but here is Al Sharpton on NBC and MSNBC being promoted as a credible source of information. Sharpton has gone from manipulating the news with vile accusations to delivering the news for NBC. When the Boston-bombing story broke, there was Al Sharpton delivering breaking news for MSNBC. “You would think that if he sold you such a terrible bill of goods for such a giant story that dominated the news for such a long time,” says former Village Voice journalist Wayne Barrett in the Times documentary, speaking to his journalist brethren, “that you would not show up at his next news conference with a camera.” NBC has gone far beyond showing up. They have made the ethical and news judgment that Al Sharpton should be a credible news source for Americans. They have the right to make that decision, but what about the reason? Here’s a simple test that doesn’t involve market research or complicated board meetings. If you are an NBC exec and have kids, sit down with them and watch the Times documentary on Tawana Brawley. And when your kids ask why your colleague Al Sharpton is working for NBC, you can explain to them why everything you’ve tried to teach them about honesty, fair play, and decency is wrong and Al Sharpton is right. Good luck.

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NEW ORLEANS - The reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year is a big Twins fan and an even bigger Joe Mauer fan. "Born and raised in St. Paul," Baltimore Ravens outside linebacker Terrell Suggs said. "I was a St. Paul Johnson Governor for the first quarter of my freshman year. Then I moved to Phoenix." Suggs, whose Ravens play the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday, still calls Mauer a close friend. They spent some time together as recently as last fall at the Ravens practice facility. "Joe was a year younger than me, but he played up a year in sports when we were kids," Suggs said. "Joe was the quarterback and I was his center in Pee Wees and Midgets. I played linebacker, too, but for some reason I also played center. Ask Joe how good I was. I could really block, man." So how was Joe as a QB? As good as everyone in the Upper Midwest says he was? "Joe was phenomenal," Suggs said. "For that kid to be as good as he was, and be a year younger than the rest of us? Man, we thought he was cheating. We thought he had to be a year older." Suggs and Mauer, the 2009 American League MVP, played together for three years. "The Jimmy Lee Rec Center, right off I-35 there in St. Paul," Suggs said. "We lost one game in three years. We lost the championship game the first year and never lost again. Went up to Midgets and were the Road Runners. We were something." Suggs never played with or against Mauer in baseball. But he did play against him in youth basketball. "Man, Joe was something in basketball, too," Suggs said. "He averaged like 30-some points. And this was as a 10 or 12-year-old. And playing against inner-city kids. Inner-city kids have a lot of talent, and he was torching them. He torched our guards. I was a big man, and he torched me, too." Suggs said he watches the Twins on TV "all the time." "It's fascinating to see both of us and where we are today and where we were," Suggs said. "Just two kids growing up playing together in St. Paul. Pretty amazing."

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PvP - gdp3 PvP From gdp3 Jump to: navigation, search Gameplay where players as individuals are in active conflict with each other. One of the most common ways of creating challenges for players is to make them play against other players. Somewhat surprising, this has been so common in games that no term has been needed for this, instead concepts such as team-based or cooperation games have been introduced. It was first with the advent of massively multiplayer online games that a need to distinguish between combat against the other players and against the "environment" was needed, and the terms PvP ("player versus player") and PvE ("player versus environment") was coined. Note: PvP began being used as a concept to describe optional gameplay in massively multiplayer online games. While this means that PvP has assumptions of being optional and being combat-related, this pattern describes the concept based only around the core definition. Contents 1 Examples 2 Using the pattern 3 Consequences 4 Relations 4.1 Can Instantiate 4.1.1 with Performance Uncertainty 4.1.2 with Teams 4.1.3 with Balancing Effects, Drafting, Evolving Rule Sets, Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment, Handicap Systems, Killcams, Orthogonal Differentiation, Self-Facilitated Games, Symmetry, or Team Development 4.1.4 with Sanctioned Cheating 4.2 Can Modulate 4.3 Can Be Instantiated By 4.4 Can Be Modulated By 4.5 Possible Closure Effects 4.6 Potentially Conflicting With 5 History 6 References 7 Acknowledgements Examples The concept of PvP gameplay originated in Massively Multiplayer Online Games such as Kingdoms, Ultima Online, and World of Warcraft. How much these focus on PvP naturally varies, see Eve Online and Genocide for examples of games that heavily focus upon PvP. Other games where it is easy to perceive players as fighting each other include those where they control avatars or characters locked in some violent conflict. Examples of such games include First-Person Shooters such as the Doom and Team Fortress series, Real-Time Strategy Games such as the Defense of the Ancients series and Travian. Multiplayer version of Diablo II also has PvP, as can the games Assassin and Paranoia. Wikipedia[1] and GiantBomb[2] have pages dedicated to the concept of PvP. Using the pattern The concept of PvP began being used to differentiate different types of Combat in Massively Multiplayer Online Games. For obvious reasons, PvP is an option for Multiplayer Games rather than Single-Player Games. It requires players to be in some type of confrontation or Conflicts against each other where Combat is the typically case. However, one could argue games with Races or where players have the option of Betrayal could be a form of PvP. In its use in Massively Multiplayer Online Games, PvP has connotations of providing Optional Goals and causing Player Killing. In some games, the gameplay structure avoids promoting PvP until later phases, e.g Extermination. However, from the description of this pattern these effects depend on the underlying patterns that determine the actual gameplay activities that create the pattern. Tiebreakers may be required to determine winners of Overcome goals unless Tied Results are to be possible. If gameplay can continue without some players, this may make the players Always Vulnerable. The use of PvP in any game opens up for considering using Player Balance to equalize the playing field if the players are expected to have different levels of Gameplay Mastery. Patterns that can work for Player Balance in games with PvP include Balancing Effects, Drafting, Evolving Rule Sets, Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment, Handicap Systems, Killcams,Orthogonal Differentiation, Sanctioned Cheating, Self-Facilitated Games, Symmetry, and Team Development (although only small errors in design may make Orthogonal Differentiation and Team Development work against it instead). Games with PvP gameplay that have Sanctioned Cheating often require players to engage in Bluffing and Roleplaying to succeed with the Stealth goals of not letting other players notice what they are doing. This can cause Tension both for those trying to hide something and to those (perhaps wrongfully) believing this is taking place. PvP and PvE can co-exist in games although most games have gameplay tilted more toward one or the other. In fact, for their everyday usage it has been argued that PvP requires PvE as a contrast[3]. Even so, games designed primarily for one or the other can in most cases be modulated by the other. Defense of the Ancients and The Republic of Rome are examples of games with mainly PvP gameplay but with some PvE aspects. On a basic level, PvP works against Cooperation, but these patterns can be combined rather easily through, for example with Teams to create TvT gameplay. Cooperation can also occur spontaneously in PvP gameplay if opportunities to Beat the Leader exist. In games with Unmediated Social Interaction, Backseat Gamers typically do not work well with PvP gameplay. This since the extra help can seem to disrupt Player Balance and that the Backseat Gamer may have information that the playing opponent may not have. Consequences While the specific actions that create PvP gameplay can have Tension, the pattern itself can also be assumed to create Tension since it pits players against each other. Since meeting better players allows new challenges, games with PvP can typically provide Further Player Improvement Potential as long as some for of skills are needed - i.e. gameplay depends on Performance Uncertainty of all involved players - and players can easily find opponents with better skill levels. Relations Can Instantiate Tension with Performance Uncertainty Further Player Improvement Potential with Teams TvT with Balancing Effects, Drafting, Evolving Rule Sets, Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment, Handicap Systems, Killcams, Orthogonal Differentiation, Self-Facilitated Games, Symmetry, or Team Development Player Balance with Sanctioned Cheating Bluffing, Player Balance, Roleplaying, Stealth, Tension Can Modulate Massively Multiplayer Online Games, Multiplayer Games, PvE Can Be Instantiated By Betrayal, Combat, Conflicts, Extermination Can Be Modulated By Always Vulnerable, Balancing Effects, Beat the Leader, Drafting, Evolving Rule Sets, Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment, Handicap Systems, Killcams, Orthogonal Differentiation, Player Balance, PvE, Sanctioned Cheating, Self-Facilitated Games, Symmetry, Team Development, Teams, Tiebreakers Possible Closure Effects - Potentially Conflicting With Cooperation, Single-Player Games Backseat Gamers in games with Unmediated Social Interaction History New pattern created in this wiki. References ↑ Wikipedia entry for PvP. ↑ Page on the GiantBomb web site for PvP. ↑ Bartle, R. (2003). Designing Virtual Worlds. New Riders. pp. 407. ISBN 0-1310-1816-7. Acknowledgements Karl Bergström Retrieved from "http://virt10.itu.chalmers.se/index.php?title=PvP&oldid=22867" Categories: Patterns Dynamic Patterns Needs revision Needs references Patterns created on the Wiki Navigation menu Personal tools Log in Namespaces Page Discussion Variants Views Read View source View history More Search Navigation Main page Recent changes Random page Help Tools What links here Related changes Special pages Printable version Permanent link Page information This page was last modified on 3 August 2015, at 18:51. Privacy policy About gdp3 Disclaimers

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A Florida teacher has been placed on suspension after an investigation found she took the hand of a Jehovah's Witness student and tried to force him to say the Pledge of Allegiance on Sept. 11, Hernando Today reports. Anne Daigle-McDonald, a teacher at Explorer K8 in Spring Hill, has been placed on unpaid suspension for five days and will be required to complete diversity training. During the incident, the student tried to explain that as a Jehovah's Witness, he's not permitted to worship objects, and that he would stand during the pledge but not place his hand over his heart. This prompted McDonald to walk to the front of the class and say "If you don't want to say the pledge, you still have to put your hand on your heart and if you don't want to do that, you should move out of the country," Hernando Today reports. McDonald's defense was that she thought the religion only applied to the exclusion of holidays and that she thinks every U.S. citizen should show respect to the American flag.

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Anti-Trump protesters march in Seattle, Wash., November 21, 2016. (Reuters photo: David Ryder) Democratic election deniers still reject the outcome of the November 8 vote. ‘Horrifying.” That’s how Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton described GOP standard-bearer Donald J. Trump’s statement in the final, October 19 presidential debate. Fox News Channel’s Chris Wallace asked Trump whether — even facing defeat — he would “absolutely accept the result of this election.” Trump answered, “I will look at it at the time.” He added: “We’ll find out on November 8th. . . . I’ll keep you in suspense.” Maybe Trump wanted room to address a potential Bush v. Gore–style virtual tie, perhaps involving today’s equivalent of hanging chads. Advertisement Advertisement “That is not the way our democracy works,” Clinton snapped moments later. “We’ve been around for 240 years, we’ve had free and fair elections, we’ve accepted the outcomes when we may not have liked them, and that is what must be expected of anyone standing on a debate stage in a general election.” “On Wednesday night, Donald Trump did something no other presidential nominee has ever done. He refused to say he would respect the results of this election,” Clinton told voters in Cleveland two days hence. “Now, make no mistake, by doing that he is threatening our democracy.” She continued: “We know in our country, the difference between leadership and dictatorship.” Clinton’s bodyguards in the liberal media echoed her sentiments. Advertisement Advertisement CNN’s Jeremy Diamond called Trump’s remarks “a caveat that threatens to cast unprecedented doubt on the legitimacy of the electoral process.” Diamond added, “Trump kept alive a worrying conspiracy theory that his underdog candidacy could be defeated by below-board behavior.” “The candidate’s reckless closing message that nothing is on the level — not Democrats, not the press, not the polls, not Republican leaders, not even the integrity of the voting process — has left many of his supporters prepared to declare the election results illegitimate,” the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank lectured. In an article headlined “Donald Trump’s astonishing, damaging refusal to accept the fundamental premise of American elections,” the Washington Post’s Phillip Bump scolded, “He’s willing to cast a shadow over the process that undergirds the most prosperous, stable nation in world history.” Of course, within three weeks, the shoo-in Democrat lost to the hopeless Republican. While Trump won only 46 percent of the popular vote to 48 percent for Clinton, the New York real-estate magnate took the tally that mattered, with an upset, 74-vote margin in the Electoral College, 306 votes to 232. (Losing the Electoral College but winning the presidential popular vote is an interesting but inconsequential consolation prize — much like a baseball team with fewer runs than its opponents, but more base hits.) Trump’s 57 percent to 43 percent Electoral College triumph remains one of the most stunning finishes in American history. As members of the Electoral College cast their ballots in state capitals across America today, it is instructive to recall how holistically Hillary Clinton, her supporters, and other Trumpophobes have abandoned “the way our democracy works,” as Clinton put it. Nearly six weeks after the polls closed, leftists refuse to accept Trump’s victory. They too often resemble Venezuelan street mobs. Their despicable actions are altogether un-American. As members of the Electoral College cast their ballots across America today, it is instructive to recall how holistically Clinton and her supporters have abandoned ‘the way our democracy works.’ Consider just a few of the countless ways — large and small — that hordes of Hillary’s fans and Donald’s foes bull-headedly have rejected the outcome of November 8’s free, fair, and decisive presidential election. ‐Not just for a few days, but for weeks, Clinton’s supporters marched through the streets and sometimes prevented regular citizens from going about their business. Many of these protesters bore signs that read “Not my president” and “We don’t accept the president-elect.” Advertisement ‐Liberals demonstrated that “Love Trumps hate” by blocking freeways in Los Angeles, smashing store windows and police-car windshields in Portland, Ore., setting trashcans ablaze in Oakland, and otherwise proving that, in reality, “Left hates Trump.” Advertisement ‐A Muslim woman named Yasmin Sewied claimed that three drunks confronted her on a Manhattan subway train on December 1, called her a “terrorist,” told her, “Go back to your country,” tried to grab her headscarf, and shouted, “Trump! Trump!” Sewied now faces criminal charges. She lied to the police about this “incident,” which she totally invented. Sewied had been out drinking with friends and concocted an imaginary hate crime to gain sympathy with her devoutly Islamic parents. They already were upset that she dated a Catholic. So, as the New York Post reported, Sewied tarred Trump fans with lies. ‐In a genuine subway assault, Corey Cataldo, a 24-year-old white man wearing a Make America Great Again hat, was attacked on a Number 5 train in the Bronx on November 12. According to police, a 6-foot tall, 190-pound black man saw the hat and asked Cataldo, “Are you a Trump supporter?” After Cataldo said yes, the attacker replied, “Great. Another white Trump supporter.” He then tried to strangle Cataldo with his bare hands before fleeing the subway train at 149th Street. Advertisement ‐In yet another outburst of political violence, David Wilcox, a white driver in Chicago, emerged from his Pontiac Bonneville after a black sedan scraped it on the day after the election. Advertisement “I got out of the car,” Wilcox later told the Chicago Tribune, “One of the guys – an African-American at the bus stop — said, ‘Yeah, that’s one of those white-boy Trump supporters.’ And I said, ‘What’s that got to do with this accident? I just want to exchange insurance.’ And then, next thing I know, the guy said, ‘Don’t worry about it. We’re going to beat his ass.’” Wilcox soon was brutalized in broad daylight by black thugs and repeatedly beaten, shoved to the ground, kicked on the asphalt, and punched in his head. One witness to this mayhem, which is on video, gleefully yelled, “You voted Trump! You voted Trump! Daaaaaaaamn!” Others reportedly shouted: “Don’t vote Trump,” and “You gonna pay for that shit!” A black man stole Wilcox’s car and dragged him along its side, as Wilcox hung on for his life through an open window. He finally let go and rolled five to seven times along Roosevelt Road before stopping in an oncoming-traffic lane. He was treated for his injuries at Mount Sinai Hospital and released. Wilcox, in fact, voted for Trump, although the racist onlookers to the attack only assumed as much because of his complexion. Advertisement “What’s happening to America?” a badly bruised Wilcox asked the Chicago Tribune the next day. “You’re supposed to be able to vote in peace. It’s supposed to be part of our democracy, and what happened is I vote for somebody, and I get beaten, robbed, and my car stolen, and I have no way of getting my wife to and from work safe anymore.” Chicago police on November 18 arrested Julian Christian, 26; Dejuan Collins, 20; Rajane Lewis, 21; and an unidentified 17-year-old female. Each faces one felony count of vehicular hijacking. Police say these four pounded Wilcox. ‐Monisha Rajesh, a train columnist with The Telegraph of London, said this via Twitter on Election Night: “It’s about time for a presidential assassination.” Advertisement ‐After Green-party nominee Jill Stein launched recount efforts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, Hillary Clinton’s campaign stepped in to support her efforts, thoroughly contradicting every consonant that Clinton had uttered about the sanctity of losers’ accepting election results. While judges eventually halted the re-tabulations in Michigan and Pennsylvania, Wisconsin’s was completed. Rather than help Stein or Clinton, the Badger State recount revealed 131 additional votes for Trump. ‐The Left has sunk post-electoral intransigence to a spectacular and unprecedented new low: tampering with the Electoral College itself. Calling themselves Americans Take Action, actors including Martin Sheen and Noah Wyle appeared in a TV ad supported by a $500,000 media buy. They urged GOP Electoral College members to dump Trump, the will of their states’ voters be damned. ‐Even worse, pro-Trump electors have faced heretofore unseen intimidation by Clinton’s supporters, some of whom placed those electors’ personal details online. The lucky ones have coped only with hostile e-mails, letters, and phone calls — often in the thousands. ‐It is total harassment,” said Robert Graham, an Arizona elector and state GOP chairman. As the Arizona Republic reported on November 18, Graham added: “It started about a week ago. Now? ‘Bam!’ It’s hardcore.” An elector told the Arizona Republic that he has received hundreds of phone calls in ‘an outright political maneuver.’ Arizona’s Sharon Geise said that she has received some 50,000 e-mails since the election, pushing her to ditch Trump. “They just keep coming and coming,” she told the New York Post. “They’re overpowering my iPad.” ‐Others have endured far uglier bullying. Bruce Ash, an elector and one of Arizona’s three Republican National Committee members, told the Republic that he has received hundreds of phone calls in “an outright political maneuver.” Ash said, “They demonize me, they call me a homophobic, an isolationist, a bigot, a misogynist, and an anti-Semite, which is interesting because I’m Jewish.” Texas elector Rex Teter received a letter that read, “May your tombstone and life be a laughing fallacy if you let this evil in the gate.” Advertisement “I have been inundated with death threats, death wishes, generally angry messages trying to get me to change my vote to Hillary Clinton or another person,” Michigan GOP elector Michael Banerian told CNN. “I’ve had people talk about putting a bullet in the back of my mouth. I’ve had death wishes or people just saying, ‘I hope you die.’ Or, ‘Do society a favor, throw yourself in front of a bus.’ . . . These people not only called for the burning of myself, but my family.’” “In Pennsylvania,” according to today’s edition of the Telegraph, “the situation has become so serious that some 20 electors have reportedly been assigned plainclothes state police troopers for protection.” One of them, Ash Khare, is an Indian immigrant and longtime Republican. He confirms being guarded by state law enforcement and said that he has received “nasty” phone calls as late as 1:00 a.m. “I’m a big boy,” Khare told the Philadelphia Inquirer. “But this is stupid. Nobody is standing up and telling these people, ‘Enough. Knock it off.’” Now imagine if Hillary Clinton had won this election and Trump’s supporters behaved like leftists. Democrats, how would you like that? Of course, this is an absurd hypothetical. Republicans and conservatives grumble and grind their molars when their standard-bearers lose. What they don’t do is destroy personal property, blockade highways, commit arson, and terrorize members of the Electoral College. The Right was saddened to see Obama beat Mitt Romney and John McCain. Nonetheless, Obama’s allies freely backed him in the Electoral College without suffering through TV ads and even highly felonious death threats demanding that they vote him down. Meanwhile, when will the FBI and the Justice Department’s Voting Rights and Civil Rights divisions start probing and prosecuting these death threats? If Attorney General Loretta Lynch refuses to lift a finger, incoming attorney general Jeff Sessions must make this a high priority and a teaching moment for these anti-American criminals. As low as the Left has fallen, their rejectionism is far from finished. Radical cineaste Michael Moore wants enraged Democrats and other election deniers to flood Washington next January 20 and “disrupt the Inauguration.” This suggests that the last six weeks of leftist fury were just the beginning. American liberals never will accept that Donald J. Trump won the November 8 election — fair and square. All they are saying is they won’t give Trump a chance.

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