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UW to study link between recession-related stress and health in older Americans
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Gillian MarshallSteve Zorc / Mandel School/CWRU
The Great Recession devastated millions of Americans financially — but what impacts did that economic stress have on their physical and mental well-being? Gillian Marshall, an assistant professor of social work at the University of Washington Tacoma, wants to answer that question.
Marshall was awarded a five-year, $654,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the link between financial hardship and health. She is the first faculty member at UW Tacoma to receive an NIH Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award. Marshall recently sat down for an interview with UW Today to answer a few questions about her project.
Why did you want to undertake this project?
My research has primarily been around looking at different types of stressors that impact older adults. With the 2008 recession, I began to wonder what financial stressors older people are experiencing and how are those impacting their health? Most people that were writing about this were in the economics field. They weren't really focused on any physical or mental health issues, so I thought this would be a nice way to close that gap in the research. We know there's an association between stress and mental health, like depression and anxiety. But we really don't know much about the financial piece.
What questions are you hoping to answer through this work?
The main question is, what is the association between stressful life events, like a job loss, any sort of life event — a recession, for example — and overall stress related to finances? How does that impact our mental and physical health? A review of the literature suggests that it doesn't really show up instantly. It takes time. So this longitudinal dataset allows me to look at this relationship over time. Once we have identified the mechanisms involved, then the next phase will be, at what point and how do we intervene?
What data will you be looking at? I'm using the Health and Retirement Study. It's a national representative dataset that collects information about people's income, health insurance and costs, physical health and other indicators. The study has been collecting data on persons age 50 years and over since 1992. They collect biannually, every two years, so I will have about seven waves of data to look at, which is very exciting.
The recession ended years ago. Is there reason to think that the negative health impacts it led to are ongoing for some folks?
Well, there are two ways to think about this. Some have found that recessions are good for your health, meaning that when we look at groups of people, mortality rates decline when there is a recession. An alternative viewpoint is that common events that occur during recessions, such as job loss, unemployment and financial hardship lead to poor health outcomes.
I think the recession isn't over. There are still a lot of residual impacts, and the effects of the recession, we're still seeing some of those things. Using the data, I can look at some of these associations over time and look at how people are faring after the recession. I suspect that I'm going to see there are still some challenges. We're dealing with a population that people assume is financially secure, when in reality, even if you were well-off, this recession was unique in that it was sudden and it impacted even a lot of wealthy people that had money tied up in the stock market.
It affected people regardless of socioeconomic status, which is what makes this situation so unique. And it's not like older people can just go out and get a job and recoup some of the money they lost. It is rare that employers are willing to hire people in their 70s; let's be honest. Among professionals, we see that they stayed in the job market longer. I have a colleague who is almost 80 and he was planning on retiring, and he said he couldn't. When he read my grant proposal, he said, "You're talking about me. I have to stay in the job market."
Your project has a particular focus on the impact of the recession on older Americans. Why are you interested in this population?
I'm a gerontologist, so my population of interest has always been older people. Although I position myself primarily as a gerontologist who also looks at health disparities, this study also allows me to examine middle-age adults before they enter late life. I'm sure this is also happening among younger populations in their 20s and 30s, but I'm most interested in what's happening with this population, particularly because they're not able to recoup money as quickly as a younger group could.
Your project will look at how financial strain impacts mental and physical health differently by race and gender. Do you anticipate that you'll see differences along race and gender lines?
I think I might. Based upon my preliminary data, financial strain strongly predicts poor mental health and physical health conditions for at-risk groups, such as older Americans, African American women and Latina women. Older African Americans and women, for example, are particularly vulnerable to developing poor health outcomes and may be more likely than whites and men to suffer poor consequences as a result of changes in economic conditions, such as a recession. But because this recession was so sudden and it impacted people regardless of socioeconomic status, we just don't know.
You'll also be looking at the role social networks play in mental and physical health. Can you tell me a little about that?
What I mean by social networks is how much social support you have. Literature says older African Americans tend to have a lot more social support through church, family, et cetera. But there's a phenomenon known as negative social support — if you're continuing to ask for assistance and money, maybe it's straining this relationship, and therefore you have a negative social support system. So the person is still part of your social support network, but there's tension now. I will be looking to see if that social support is really going to alleviate some of that stress, or instead compound the stress.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn., [August 6, 2020] /PRNewswire/ -- Cognate BioServices, Inc., the premier contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) specializing in cell and cell-mediated gene therapy products, announced today the launch of its new corporate brand identity, redesigned logo, and website across its portfolio of services and companies. These changes come at a time when the company is evolving its service offerings and expanding its global reach and capacity.
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FAT Filesystem Support
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:link_to_translation:`zh_CN:[中文]`

ESP-IDF uses the `FatFs <http://elm-chan.org/fsw/ff/00index_e.html>`_ library to work with FAT filesystems. FatFs resides in the ``fatfs`` component. Although the library can be used directly, many of its features can be accessed via VFS using the C standard library and POSIX API functions.

Additionally, FatFs has been modified to support the runtime pluggable disk I/O layer. This allows mapping of FatFs drives to physical disks at runtime.

Using FatFs with VFS
--------------------

The header file :component_file:`fatfs/vfs/esp_vfs_fat.h` defines the functions for connecting FatFs and VFS.

The function :cpp:func:`esp_vfs_fat_register` allocates a ``FATFS`` structure and registers a given path prefix in VFS. Subsequent operations on files starting with this prefix are forwarded to FatFs APIs.

The function :cpp:func:`esp_vfs_fat_unregister_path` deletes the registration with VFS, and frees the ``FATFS`` structure.

Most applications use the following workflow when working with ``esp_vfs_fat_`` functions:

1. Call :cpp:func:`esp_vfs_fat_register` to specify:
    - Path prefix where to mount the filesystem (e.g., ``"/sdcard"``, ``"/spiflash"``)
    - FatFs drive number
    - A variable which will receive the pointer to the ``FATFS`` structure

2. Call :cpp:func:`ff_diskio_register` to register the disk I/O driver for the drive number used in Step 1.

3. Call the FatFs function ``f_mount``, and optionally ``f_fdisk``, ``f_mkfs``, to mount the filesystem using the same drive number which was passed to :cpp:func:`esp_vfs_fat_register`. For more information, see `FatFs documentation <http://www.elm-chan.org/fsw/ff/doc/mount.html>`_.

4. Call the C standard library and POSIX API functions to perform such actions on files as open, read, write, erase, copy, etc. Use paths starting with the path prefix passed to :cpp:func:`esp_vfs_register` (for example, ``"/sdcard/hello.txt"``). The filesystem uses `8.3 filenames <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.3_filename>`_ format (SFN) by default. If you need to use long filenames (LFN), enable the :ref:`CONFIG_FATFS_LONG_FILENAMES` option. More details on the FatFs filenames are available `here <http://elm-chan.org/fsw/ff/doc/filename.html>`_.

5. Optionally, by enabling the option :ref:`CONFIG_FATFS_USE_FASTSEEK`, you can use the POSIX lseek function to perform it faster. The fast seek will not work for files in write mode, so to take advantage of fast seek, you should open (or close and then reopen) the file in read-only mode.

6. Optionally, call the FatFs library functions directly. In this case, use paths without a VFS prefix (for example, ``"/hello.txt"``).

7. Close all open files.

8. Call the FatFs function ``f_mount`` for the same drive number with NULL ``FATFS*`` argument to unmount the filesystem.

9. Call the FatFs function :cpp:func:`ff_diskio_register` with NULL ``ff_diskio_impl_t*`` argument and the same drive number to unregister the disk I/O driver.

10. Call :cpp:func:`esp_vfs_fat_unregister_path` with the path where the file system is mounted to remove FatFs from VFS, and free the ``FATFS`` structure allocated in Step 1.

The convenience functions ``esp_vfs_fat_sdmmc_mount``, ``esp_vfs_fat_sdspi_mount``, and ``esp_vfs_fat_sdcard_unmount`` wrap the steps described above and also handle SD card initialization. These functions are described in the next section.

.. doxygenfunction:: esp_vfs_fat_register
.. doxygenfunction:: esp_vfs_fat_unregister_path

Using FatFs with VFS and SD Cards
---------------------------------

The header file :component_file:`fatfs/vfs/esp_vfs_fat.h` defines convenience functions :cpp:func:`esp_vfs_fat_sdmmc_mount`, :cpp:func:`esp_vfs_fat_sdspi_mount`, and :cpp:func:`esp_vfs_fat_sdcard_unmount`. These functions perform Steps 1–3 and 7–9 respectively and handle SD card initialization, but provide only limited error handling. Developers are encouraged to check its source code and incorporate more advanced features into production applications.

The convenience function :cpp:func:`esp_vfs_fat_sdmmc_unmount` unmounts the filesystem and releases the resources acquired by :cpp:func:`esp_vfs_fat_sdmmc_mount`.

.. doxygenfunction:: esp_vfs_fat_sdmmc_mount
.. doxygenfunction:: esp_vfs_fat_sdmmc_unmount
.. doxygenfunction:: esp_vfs_fat_sdspi_mount
.. doxygenstruct:: esp_vfs_fat_mount_config_t
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.. doxygenfunction:: esp_vfs_fat_sdcard_unmount

Using FatFs with VFS in Read-Only Mode
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The header file :component_file:`fatfs/vfs/esp_vfs_fat.h` also defines the convenience functions :cpp:func:`esp_vfs_fat_spiflash_mount_ro` and :cpp:func:`esp_vfs_fat_spiflash_unmount_ro`. These functions perform Steps 1-3 and 7-9 respectively for read-only FAT partitions. These are particularly helpful for data partitions written only once during factory provisioning which will not be changed by production application throughout the lifetime of the hardware.

.. doxygenfunction:: esp_vfs_fat_spiflash_mount_ro
.. doxygenfunction:: esp_vfs_fat_spiflash_unmount_ro

FatFS Disk IO Layer
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FatFs has been extended with API functions that register the disk I/O driver at runtime.

These APIs provide implementation of disk I/O functions for SD/MMC cards and can be registered for the given FatFs drive number using the function :cpp:func:`ff_diskio_register_sdmmc`.

.. doxygenfunction:: ff_diskio_register
.. doxygenstruct:: ff_diskio_impl_t
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.. doxygenfunction:: ff_diskio_register_sdmmc
.. doxygenfunction:: ff_diskio_register_wl_partition
.. doxygenfunction:: ff_diskio_register_raw_partition

FatFs Partition Generator
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We provide a partition generator for FatFs (:component_file:`wl_fatfsgen.py<fatfs/wl_fatfsgen.py>`) which is integrated into the build system and could be easily used in the user project.

The tool is used to create filesystem images on a host and populate it with content of the specified host folder.

The script is based on the partition generator (:component_file:`fatfsgen.py<fatfs/fatfsgen.py>`). Apart from generating partition, it can also initialize wear levelling.

The latest version supports both short and long file names, FAT12 and FAT16. The long file names are limited to 255 characters and can contain multiple periods (``.``) characters within the filename and additional characters ``+``, ``,``, ``;``, ``=``, ``[`` and ``]``.

Build System Integration with FatFs Partition Generator
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It is possible to invoke FatFs generator directly from the CMake build system by calling ``fatfs_create_spiflash_image``::

    fatfs_create_spiflash_image(<partition> <base_dir> [FLASH_IN_PROJECT])

If you prefer generating partition without wear levelling support, you can use ``fatfs_create_rawflash_image``::

    fatfs_create_rawflash_image(<partition> <base_dir> [FLASH_IN_PROJECT])

``fatfs_create_spiflash_image`` respectively ``fatfs_create_rawflash_image`` must be called from project's CMakeLists.txt.

If you decide for any reason to use ``fatfs_create_rawflash_image`` (without wear levelling support), beware that it supports mounting only in read-only mode in the device.

The arguments of the function are as follows:

1. partition - the name of the partition as defined in the partition table (e.g. :example_file:`storage/fatfsgen/partitions_example.csv`).

2. base_dir - the directory that will be encoded to FatFs partition and optionally flashed into the device. Beware that you have to specify the suitable size of the partition in the partition table.

3. flag ``FLASH_IN_PROJECT`` - optionally, users can have the image automatically flashed together with the app binaries, partition tables, etc. on ``idf.py flash -p <PORT>`` by specifying ``FLASH_IN_PROJECT``.

4. flag ``PRESERVE_TIME`` - optionally, users can force preserving the timestamps from the source folder to the target image. Without preserving the time, every timestamp will be set to the FATFS default initial time (1st January 1980).

For example::

    fatfs_create_spiflash_image(my_fatfs_partition my_folder FLASH_IN_PROJECT)

If FLASH_IN_PROJECT is not specified, the image will still be generated, but you will have to flash it manually using ``esptool.py`` or a custom build system target.

For an example, see :example:`storage/fatfsgen`.

FatFs Partition Analyzer
------------------------

(:component_file:`fatfsparse.py<fatfs/fatfsparse.py>`) is a partition analyzing tool for FatFs.

It is a reverse tool of (:component_file:`fatfsgen.py<fatfs/fatfsgen.py>`), i.e. it can generate the folder structure on the host based on the FatFs image.

Usage::

    ./fatfsparse.py [-h] [--wl-layer {detect,enabled,disabled}] fatfs_image.img

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The top tech leader has done many contributions to serve the mankind; it also has a charitable arm called Google.org, which is a crisis response team to help the disaster struck people. The new tablet will mark another milestone for the company in terms of innovations that help make lives of people better.
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Roberts Court Continues the Citizens United Trend with McCutcheon v. FEC
I've been beat down by my new gig lately but this one brought me out of retirement. Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse after Citizens United -- a case where the Supreme Court turned a willfully blind eye to the dangers of corporate dollars in our presidential elections -- the John Roberts Court doubles down on putting even more money into politics with its holding in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission. We will provide the usual breakdown of this case after the jump:
First, A Bit of Context:
We've all heard of the Watergate scandal, right? This was the scandal in the 1970's that forced President Richard Nixon to become the only President in U.S. history to resign the presidency. In fact, the Watergate scandal was so huge that every political scandal that has come after it uses the suffix "Gate" to pay homage to the original "Watergate" (eg. "Bridge-gate", "IRS-gate", "Lawyer-gate", "Benghazi-gate", etc.). In other words, it was sort of a big deal. So you've probably at least heard of Watergate, but do you know what actually caused Watergate? If you said the 5 guys who were caught running around with flashlights as they broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters, then you were close. But what caused those guys to be there in the first place was actually campaign finance corruption. That's right. Prior to the 1970's, there were no limits on how much money people could donate to political candidates. Without any limits, politicians had access to unlimited amounts of cash which, when left to their own devices, resulted in things like Watergate.
As a direct response to the Watergate scandal, the United States created the Federal Election Commission ("FEC") on October 15, 1974 to make sure that we crack down on the types of campaign finance corruption that led to the biggest scandal our country has ever seen. In order to make sure that we don't repeat the mistakes of the past, the FEC came up with a few rules:
Of course, whenever you have rules you will invariably have certain people who will want to get rid of those rules. Enter Shaun McCutcheon.
What This Case Is About:
Shaun McCutcheon is a wealthy businessman from Alabama who strongly supports the Republican Party. In fact, during each election he regularly reaches the maximum campaign contribution limits set by the FEC. In any given election cycle (a 2 year period of time), an individual can, at most, give a total of $48,600 to as many as 18 federal election candidates ($2,600 for each candidate or a total of $5,200 for each candidate if you're donating $2,600 to that candidate for the primary election and $2,600 to that same candidate for the general election). In addition to that $48,600 limit for federal candidates, an individual may contribute up to $74,600 to state and local candidates and/or PACs for a combined total donation limit of $123,200 for any 1 election cycle. This is what is known as an "aggregate limit." I know that it's probably difficult to imagine giving over $100,000 in political donations, but believe it or not there are people like that out there. Mr. McCutcheon is one of them. He met that aggregate limit and said that he would have given even more money if it weren't for that pesky FEC. So he sued them claiming that the FEC's aggregate limit is a violation of his First Amendment right to Free Speech. The following Supreme Court ruling resulted:
How Did The Court Rule?
The Supreme Court split down ideological lines 5-4 in favor of Mr. McCutcheon and against the FEC. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion of the Court, which was joined by Justice Scalia, Justice Kennedy and Justice Alito. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote his own concurring opinion which agreed with the majority opinion but went even further to the right than the majority opinion. Justice Breyer wrote the dissenting opinion which was joined by Justice Ginsburg, Justice Sotomayor and Justice Kagan.
The Majority Opinion:
Chief Justice John Roberts opened by saying that:
There is no right more basic in our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders. Citizens can exercise that right in a variety of ways: They can run for office themselves, vote, urge others to vote for a particular candidate, volunteer to work on a campaign, and contribute to a candidate's campaign. This case is about the last of those options. The right to participate in democracy through political contributions is protected by the First Amendment, but that right is not absolute. Our cases have held that Congress may regulate campaign contributions to protect against corruption or the appearance of corruption. See, e.g., Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U. S. 1, 26–27 (1976) (per curiam). At the same time, we have made clear that Congress may not regulate contributions simply to reduce the amount of money in politics, or to restrict the political participation of some in order to enhance the relative influence of others.
Buckley v. Valeo was an important Supreme Court case that was decided right after the FEC was formed. The case challenged certain FEC rules on campaign finance law. In a nutshell, the Supreme Court upheld the FEC's general ability to regulate campaign contributions from private individuals, but struck down one part of the FEC regulations which would have limited the amount of money that the candidates themselves can spend from their own personal bank accounts. We'll revisit this in Justice Thomas' concurring opinion.
Turning back to Roberts, the crux of Roberts' argument is the following:
Significant First Amendment interests are implicated here. Contributing money to a candidate is an exercise of an individual's right to participate in the electoral process through both political expression and political association. A restriction on how many candidates and committees an individual may support is hardly a "modest restraint" on those rights. The Government may no more restrict how many candidates or causes a donor may support than it may tell a newspaper how many candidates it may endorse....Spending large sums of money in connection with elections, but not in connection with an effort to control the exercise of an officeholder's official duties, does not give rise to quid pro quo corruption. Nor does the possibility that an individual who spends large sums may garner "influence over or access to" elected officials or political parties.
He concludes:
The Government has a strong interest, no less critical to our democratic system, in combatting corruption and its appearance. We have, however, held that this interest must be limited to a specific kind of corruption—quid pro quo corruption—in order to ensure that the Government's efforts do not have the effect of restricting the First Amendment right of citizens to choose who shall govern them. For the reasons set forth, we conclude that the aggregate limits on contributions do not further the only governmental interest this Court accepted as legitimate in Buckley. They instead intrude without justification on a citizen's ability to exercise "the most fundamental First Amendment activities."
Justice Thomas' Concurring Opinion:
Without fail, whenever the conservative justices of the Supreme Court reach a consensus about what the official conservative position is for any given issue, Clarence Thomas takes it upon himself to out-conservative them and go even further to the right. He agrees with Roberts that Mr. McCutcheon should win and that the FEC rules on aggregate limits should be wiped off the books, but he also would go even further and find that the Buckley case that we spoke about up above -- which upheld the notion that the FEC should still be able to regulate campaign contributions -- should be overturned as well. In his own separate 5-page concurring opinion, he writes:
[W]hat remains of Buckley is a rule without a rationale. Contributions and expenditures are simply "two sides of the same First Amendment coin," and our efforts to distinguish the two have produced mere "wordgames" rather than any cognizable principle of constitutional law. For that reason, I would overrule Buckley and subject the aggregate limits...to strict scrutiny, which they would surely fail. This case represents yet another missed opportunity to right the course of our campaign finance jurisprudence by restoring a standard that is faithful to the First Amendment. Until we undertake that reexamination, we remain in a "halfway house" of our own design.
In other words, if the FEC cannot regulate how much money a candidate can spend out of their own pockets, then it should not be able to regulate any aspect of how individuals contribute to political candidates. The Buckley case rejected this logic. It ruled that even though candidates are free to spend their own loot, the money that is given to them by the public should still be regulated by the FEC. And to be clear, the Buckley case not only upheld individual contribution limits for each candidate, but it also upheld other FEC regulations such as requiring the public to disclose which candidates they contribute to. If it were up to Thomas, however, he would do away with all of that.
The Dissenting Opinion:
Justice Stephen Breyer opened by saying that:
Today a majority of the Court overrules [Buckley's] holding [in support of aggregate limits]. It is wrong to do so. Its conclusion rests upon its own, not a record-based, view of the facts. Its legal analysis is faulty: It misconstrues the nature of the competing constitutional interests at stake. It understates the importance of protecting the political integrity of our governmental institutions. It creates a loophole that will allow a single individual to contribute millions of dollars to a political party or to a candidate's campaign. Taken together with Citizens United v. Federal Election Comm'n, 558 U. S. 310 (2010), today's decision eviscerates our Nation's campaign finance laws, leaving a remnant incapable of dealing with the grave problems of democratic legitimacy that those laws were intended to resolve.
The crux of his argument is that:
The [Majority Opinion's] first claim—that large aggregate contributions do not "give rise" to "corruption"—is plausible only because the plurality defines "corruption" too narrowly. The [Majority Opinion] describes the constitutionally permissible objective of campaign finance regulation as follows: "Congress may target only a specific type of corruption—'quid pro quo' corruption." It then defines quid pro quo corruption to mean no more than "a direct exchange of an official act for money"—an act akin to bribery...This critically important definition of "corruption" is inconsistent with the Court's prior case law...In reality, as the history of campaign finance reform shows and as our earlier cases on the subject have recognized, the anticorruption interest that drives Congress to regulate campaign contributions is a far broader, more important interest than the [Majority Opinion] acknowledges...The [Majority Opinion] is wrong. Here, as in Buckley, in the absence of limits on aggregate political contributions, donors can and likely will find ways to channel millions of dollars to parties and to individual candidates, producing precisely the kind of "corruption" or "appearance of corruption" that previously led the Court to hold aggregate limits constitutional.
In other words, the conservative Majority is being too literal in what "political corruption" means. They want to see a check with a memo line that says "here's a thousand bucks for your campaign, now go pass a law banning gay marriage in our state" and a follow up e-mail from the politician saying "thanks for your $1,000 contribution, I will now go and pass a law banning gay marriage as you requested on the memo line of your check dated April 4, 2014." Breyer argues that reality doesn't work that way.
What Does This Ruling Mean?:
In short, it means we're going to be seeing even more money enter our politics than we saw in the wake of the Citizens United ruling.
To be clear, the Supreme Court's ruling in McCutcheon v. FEC leaves the $2,600 limit per candidate in place ($5,200 total per candidate if donating to that candidate during the primary and the general elections). It does, however, remove the aggregate limit that would stop an individual from contributing to more than $123,200 worth of candidates in any given cycle. So whereas before Mr. McCutcheon could only donate to about 18 political candidates and a handful of PACs prior to this ruling, now he can literally donate money to an endless amount of political candidates and PACs. Moreover, joint fundraising committees allow an individual to write a single check which is then "split up" (wink wink) between several candidates. Prior to this ruling, the most that an individual could contribute to such a committee was $123,200. Now that cap is gone. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that joint fundraising committees will now become very popular in the upcoming elections.
My take is simple - I think there is already too much money in our politics as it is. According to the FEC, over $7 billion (not million, Billion with a "B") dollars was spent during our 2012 election alone. That's a lot of money just to put people into office. And to argue that giving large sums of money will not give rise to corruption in politics unless there is a literal "quid pro quo" agreement is to be willfully ignorant of the political realities in our country. Money talks and you-know-what walks. If you're the type of person who can write a million dollar check to a candidate, then you don't have to do anything as trivial as a make a "quid pro quo" agreement. That candidate will already know precisely who you are and, more importantly, what they can (continue to) do for you. Moreover, focusing on quid pro quo ignores how we got Watergate in the first place. It was access to large sums of money that allowed Nixon's reelection committee to do just about whatever they wanted - which, in that case, included hiring 5 guys to break into the DNC's offices. Who knows what access to large sums of money will mean for today's political committees. Thanks to the Roberts Court, it looks like we're all about to find out.
Lastly, I want to briefly address this notion that spending money in politics = Free Speech. This was the same notion that the Roberts Court used to reach their conclusion in Citizens United. I reject this notion because if you're saying that spending money is Free Speech, then what you're implicitly saying is that the wealthy have more of a right to "Free Speech" than the poor. I don't think that's the kind of freedom of expression that the Founding Fathers had in mind when they wrote the 1st Amendment.
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NFBC: Projecting pitchers
By December 9th, 2011 12:00am
Fantasy owners can certainly tell you that 2011 was the Year of the Pitcher. Just when the Steroid Era and trained us to take power-hitters early in their drafts, along comes the "new" Dead Ball Era, and now everyone is talking about pitching, pitching, pitching.
Did we really have to clean up the game that much? What was so wrong with 73-home run seasons?
Okay, just kidding there. Baseball is back to its roots where good pitching can beat good hitting every day. Now fantasy owners have to adjust and change their draft plans slightly. Now an ace who can dominate four categories has to be looked at more closely. You can't just take hitters with your first eight picks and hope to find starting pitching value in the mid to later rounds. That won't win titles in the Year of the Pitcher.
If you don't believe me, look at these facts from STATS, Inc:
MLB teams averaged 4.28 runs per game in 2011, the lowest since 1992's 4.12 and down from a Steroids Era peak of 5.14 in 2000.
The home run average was down to 0.94 each team per game, also the lowest in 19 years and a sharp drop from 1.17 in 2000.
The major league batting average of .255 was the lowest since 1989.
The 3.94 ERA was a level last seen in 1992.
Justin Verlander (RHP, DET) also just won the AL MVP Award, the first pitcher to win that award since Dennis Eckersley in 1992 and the first starting pitcher to do that in the AL since Roger Clemens in 1986. Verlander won the AL's pitching Triple Crown, going 24-5 with a 2.40 ERA and 250 strikeouts, the most wins in the major leagues since Oakland's Bob Welch went 27-6 in 1990.
Many fantasy teams were led to league titles by Verlander and NL Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw (LHP, LA), so you'd have to expect these aces to be picked earlier this year than last year, right? Nope. Old habits are hard to break and starting pitchers still won't go too high. Last year eight starting pitchers went in the Top 45 picks in the National Fantasy Baseball Championship (NFBC) and right now seven pitchers are going in the Top 45. Let's look at the top starters and see what bargains might be found after them:
First 2 Rounds: Last year Roy Halladay (RHP, PHI), Tim Lincecum (RHP, SF) and Felix Hernandez (RHP, SEA) were consensus Top 30 overall picks. This year it's looking like Kershaw, Halladay, Verlander, Lincecum and Cliff Lee (LHP, PHI) could all go in the Top 30. Here's the range in which each are being drafted in early NFBC pay leagues: Kershaw (15-21), Halladay (17-21), Verlander (22-29), Lincecum (26-29) and Lee (28-32). While nothing is a given when it comes to starting pitchers, these five sure seem like solid fantasy aces.
Rounds 3 and 4: In 2011 there were 13-14 starting pitchers going in the first four rounds, and this year the same number of SPs are again going in the Top 60. Last year the third and fourth rounds produced duds like Josh Johnson (RHP, MIA) and Ubaldo Jimenez (RHP, CLE), but they also produced studs like Verlander, Kershaw and Jered Weaver (RHP, LAA). This year you can find the following aces in these rounds: CC Sabathia (picks 34-42), Hernandez (39-43), Weaver (49-50), Dan Haren (50-56), David Price (45-51), Ian Kennedy (54-58), Cole Hamels (50-55) and Zack Greinke (54-59). These pitchers are slightly below the Top 5, but you can certainly build a solid staff around any of them.
Looking For Bargains: Players coming off injuries are ripe as bargains, but it still depends on when you're able to draft them. Stephen Strasburg (RHP, WAS) is currently going around picks 60-64 due to five strong late season appearances. In 24 innings he struck out 24 and posted a 1.50 ERA and a 0.71 WHIP. As the 14th SP going off the board, he could still be a bargain. Adam Wainwright (RHP, STL) missed all of last season after undergoing elbow surgery, but should return healthy for spring training and is going between 85th and 90th overall, outside the Top 20. Josh Johnson is also going around 100 overall after having an ADP of 59 last year. He should be fully recovered from abdominal and shoulder woes last year and th Marlins appear to be a much better team. Expect a bounceback from Jon Lester (LHP, BOS), whose ADP right now is around 65 after being at 37 in the NFBC last season. He will perform to expected levels this year.
Where are the sleepers? Sleepers are tough to find these days, so let's look for values instead. Depending upon the competition in your league, Matt Moore (LHP, TAM) could be lesser-known. The consensus Minor League Pitcher of the Year in 2011, Moore is going in the Top 110 in NFBC drafts after striking out 210 in 153 innings and excelling for the Rays in the playoffs. Michael Pineda (RHP, SEA) may have faded down the stretch, but he has star ability. Right now, he's being drafted around 110-115. Going right around the same spot is Brandon Beachy (RHP, ATL), who struck out 169 batters in 141.2 IP, while holding hitters to a .236 average. Also take a chance on a bounceback season by Ubaldo Jimenez, who is still just 27 and coulee be a bargain at 137-147.
Yu Darvish is going to be a hot commodity. Last year he went 18-6 with a 1.44 ERA and 276 strikeouts in Japan, an average of 10 strikeouts per nine innings. He is 6'5" 200 lbs and boasts a mid-90s fastball. He could be a great fantasy find at the right spot.
It remains to be seen whether The Year of the Pitcher II will come to theaters near year in 2012. Be prepared for it, but don't overvalue starting pitchers too much. At the end of the day, the aces still hold the same fantasy value as before in the eyes of fantasy owners. They're just doing their jobs with much better numbers.
(Greg Ambrosius is the founder of the National Fantasy Baseball Championship and a member of the Fantasy Sports Writers Association Hall of Fame and the FSTA's Hall of Fame. For more information on the NFBC, contact him at gambrosius@stats.com or go to nfbc.stats.com).


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Business Council of Australia on the Topic of Education
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There has been a dearth of exposure in the media, but the Business Council of Australia is proposing a revamp of the education system that would be nothing short of a revolution. The BCA wants Australia to develop a culture of lifelong learning and to abandon the dichotomy between Higher Education and Vocational Education and Training, placing the two on an equal footing, and a new role for business in the education sector.
It says it is essential to alter the view that Vocational Education and Training is a second-class citizen to Higher Education. It states the VET sector receives less funding now than a decade ago, government funding for the HE sector remains unresolved, and the sectors operate as silos.
"The perverse incentives will remain, and students will continue to be treated unfairly. Students will be encouraged into HE over VET, regardless of the suitability of the sector for the learner.
"The VET sector will increasingly become residualised to trades training, and this will happen at a time when Australian industries desperately need tertiary education that is responsive to their needs. Allowing the sectors to act as silos will come at an increased cost to taxpayers, and lead to uninformed decisions by learners and a lack of response to industry."
Australia needs a national consensus on the purpose and priorities of universal formal education
The BCA says, while Australia has a national consensus that formal education is a priority, it does not have a national consensus on the purpose or priorities of universal formal education. It wants acceptance that education must be as much about training for work as about imparting broad general knowledge and creating informed citizens.
It seeks a single tertiary education system which provides a shared governance model and a single, sector-neutral funding model. The BCA says Germany's dual training scheme "demonstrates the value of a high-quality and respected VET system".
"In Year 10, German students choose a vocational, academic or mixed pathway. Students who choose the vocational pathway split their time between participation in classroom learning at a vocational school and on-the-job training at a company. The training is subject to a regulated agreement between the student, employer and vocational school.
"There are 330 officially recognised training occupations and training content is continually updated through cooperation between government, industry and trade unions. Vocational training is a highly respected career path in Germany, reflected by the fact that 50% of all students choose it."
Australia's HE and VET sectors "should focus on achieving outcomes relevant to who they are educating"
To do so, the BCA says, VET and HE sectors will need to:
Embrace need-based funding,
Recognise multiple forms of intelligence,
Embrace multiple styles of engagement and learning,
Empower and support teachers, and
Take a new approach to help young people prepare for the future.
"Young people are expected to have multiple careers and … employers, and will be expected to upskill and reskill countless times. A traditional model of career counselling is not consistent with this new world. We propose that governments establish a single platform for market information to enable people to make informed decisions about tertiary education.
"The key to the proposal is that when people are considering tertiary education they start with two questions:
What am I good at?
What I do like/am passionate about/am inspired by?
"People then narrow down the kind of tertiary education they would like to do. This process should be brought into the schooling system, and from a very early age."
The BCA also believes a universal tertiary system needs to be funded by government and the individual.
"We must have a realistic conversation about the trade-offs between access to tertiary education and how it is funded, and how we ensure the system is fair and sustainable for all Australians.
"Governments should fund tertiary education through two mechanisms – a subsidy and access to an income-contingent loan. A costing exercise should be undertaken to establish a base from which to determine the efficient cost of tertiary education, and the ratios of private and public contribution.
The quality of education is supposed to be improved by raising the quality of teaching
"It will also be important to define what we mean by teacher quality. The creation of an index for teaching quality could enable schools to have the data they need to improve their performance."
It says the proposed system will require early learning and primary schools to:
Provide a strong foundation for all learners that is not limited to literacy, numeracy, and digital capacity,
Provide for community-wide values,
Support play, fun, and development of creativity,
Set learners on a path for higher learning.
Outcomes the BCA proposes for schooling are:
A foundation that delivers to graduates the minimum levels of literacy, numeracy and technology-knowhow to effectively communicate, interact and work,
The ability to think, participate and contribute,
Depth of knowledge in core areas of English, the humanities, maths, sciences, and technology
A foundation for future learning.
It wants young people leaving the education system to:
Be prepared for the world of work, not just for a single job or employer,
Be equipped with behaviours, such as adaptability, resilience and the knowledge that no one wins all the time, self-awareness, collaboration and a customer focus.
BCA wants the education system to become more learner-focused
BCA wants the learning process to be oriented towards an individual and their unique skills, recognise multiple forms of intelligence, and support a range of pathways including further study.
"It is unrealistic to think that a system oriented to one type of learning or intelligence could achieve positive outcomes for all learners. The reality is there is not a single and homogenous form of intelligence or style of learning. "
The BCA acknowledges an entitlement scheme is a more difficult funding model for government management of budget exposure than an allocative model and says that a priority for the federal government will be to make demand-driven funding in HE fiscally sustainable. It plans discussions with government and educators to bring about the transformation it seeks.
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May 9 – 17
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To purchase tickets in person, the New Victory box office is located at 209 West 42nd Street (between 7th / 8th Avenues). Box office hours are Sunday & Monday from 11am-5pm and Tuesday through Saturday from 12pm-7pm.
About The New Victory Theater
The New Victory opens new worlds to young people and families through extraordinary performances, education and engagement programs. Bringing kids to the arts and the arts to kids since 1995, this nonprofit theater has become a standard-bearer of quality performing arts for young audiences in the United States. Reflecting and serving the multicultural city it calls home, The New Victory is committed to arts access for all communities of New York to experience and engage with the exemplary international shows on its stages. A global leader in arts education, youth development and audience engagement, The New Victory Theater has been honored by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities with the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, by Americans for the Arts with a national Arts Education Award, and by the Drama Desk for "providing enchanting, sophisticated children's theater that appeals to the child in all of us, and for nurturing a love of theater in young people."
About The New 42nd Street
The New 42nd Street, which recently announced Russell Granet as the nonprofit's next President & CEO, catalyzes the power of performing arts to spark new perspectives, incubate new works and create new opportunities for us all. Through our signature projects–The New Victory Theater, New 42nd Street Studios and The Duke on 42nd Street–New 42nd Street makes extraordinary performing arts a vital part of everyone's life—from the earliest years onward. The organization also stewards seven historic theater properties on 42ndStreet, between 7thand 8thAvenues, ensuring the legacy and vitality of America's most iconic theater district. Together with our supporters, we are opening access to performing arts that move us—as individuals, communities and a society.
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The Federal Government is determined to combat marine pollution caused by oil spillage across the country.
The Minister of Environment, Laurentia Mallam, has said while receiving a letter of approval for Nigeria to host the Regional Coordinating Centre to Combat Marine Pollution in West, Central and South Africa.
The letter, according to a statement from the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), was handed over to the minister by the United Nations Environment Programme Regional Coordinator on Abidjan Convention, Mr. Abou Bamba, in Abuja.
Mallam said the hosting of the centre was an advantage to Nigeria, adding that it would build more capacity and technical competence to tackle marine pollution in Nigeria and beyond.
She assured UNEP coordinator that the government would provide an office for the centre to begin operation in six months.
Bamba, who is also the Executive Secretary of the Abidjan Convention, said the hosting of the headquarters was another step in tackling marine pollution.
According to him, this will also speed up the clean-up of Ogoniland.
He said the Abidjan Convention would provide adequate logistics to make the centre succeed.
Bamba said the UNEP and the Federal Government would meet to discuss the memorandum of understanding that would be signed by the government and the Abidjan Convention for the establishment of the centre.
Bamba said: "The Abidjan Convention will provide adequate office space, staff, materials and equipment, and the convention would cover the initial and recurring operational costs needed for the centre.
"In the meantime, I will be pleased to visit the installations, which will host the centre and report to the UNEP on the major findings and observations. We estimate that in six months, the centre should be operational and start its first assessment activities.
He said with the new status, Nigeria would be in charge of the coordination of combating trans-boundary marine pollution from Mauritania to South Africa.
The Director-General, NOSDRA, Peter Idabor, said the hosting of the centre would enhance the country's capability to tackle marine pollution.


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This is a list of National Football League (NFL) players who have led the regular season in sacks each year. Sacks became an official statistic in 1982. Michael Strahan of the New York Giants and T. J. Watt of the Pittsburgh Steelers hold the record with 22.5, which Strahan had during the 2001 season, and Watt during the 2021 season. In 2013, the NFL created the Deacon Jones Award to recognize the season leader in sacks. There have only been two players who have led the league in sacks with 2 different teams, Jared Allen (2007 with the Chiefs and 2011 with the Vikings) and Kevin Greene (1994 with the Steelers and 1996 with the Panthers). The Chiefs and the Vikings have had the most players lead the NFL in sacks with 4. Eight players have led the NFL in sacks twice, and nobody has led the league three times.

NFL sack leaders

Note that the sack totals from 1960 to 1981 are considered unofficial by the NFL.

Table updated through the  NFL season.

Most sack titles

AFL sack leaders

See also
 List of National Football League career sacks leaders
 List of National Football League annual interceptions leaders
 List of National Football League annual forced fumbles leaders

References

Pro-Football-Reference.com

Sacks leaders
National Football League trophies and awards
National Football League lists


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Send Flowers for Charles 'Chuck'
Charles 'Chuck' C. Walker
May 19, 1942 ~ December 19, 2021 (age 79)
Charles "Chuck" Cecil Walker, 79, of Broadlands passed away on Sunday, December 19, 2021 at his home surrounded by his loving wife and family.
Chuck was born on May 19, 1942 in Tuscola to Forrest and Francis (Tharp) Walker. He married Bobby Davis on August 4, 1961.
He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Bobby Walker; three sons, Brad (Renee), Brian (Darla), Brett (Kate); grandchildren, Dustin (Brittany) Buchholz, Devin, Megan (Alex) Craciun, Dylan (Anish), Erin, Brandon, Zoyie, and Jackson; great-grandchildren, Parker and Kenzy Harris, Hydra and Maverick Craciun; siblings, Gary (Jean) of Broadlands, and Betsy Knapp of Marine City, MI; and nephews and nieces, Erik (Chris), Ellen, Forrest (Amberly), Chad (Jamie), and Shawn (Kara).
He was preceded in death by his parents, Forrest and Francis Walker; brother-in-law, Jim Knapp; and a niece, Elizabeth Knapp.
Chuck was a trucker for 40 years, and once retired he went back to work to help a friend farm. He had a strong work ethic, and was always happy to lend a helping hand. When he wasn't working, he enjoyed competing in local tractor pulls, and also helped to start the Night Hawk Bowling League at the Old Orchard Lanes in Savoy. Chuck was a loving husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather and will be greatly missed by all his family and friends.
A funeral service will be held at 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 22, 2021 at the Joines Funeral Home (Newman) with Pastor Dave Trover officiating. Burial will follow in the Fairfield Cemetery (Newman). A visitation will be held two hours prior to the funeral service (10-12 pm) at the funeral home.
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Characters, Disney characters, Star vs. the Forces of Evil characters,
Magic Users
Reformed characters
Neutral characters
Anime Villain (like Frieza)
Prince Ludo of Castle Avarius[1]
Ludo of Mewni[1]
Evil (formerly), short-tempered, arrogant (formerly), persistent
Green feathers, dark green beak, yellow eyes, skull helmet, and a green robe
Prince (formerly)
King of Mewni (briefly)
Bad, later good
To steal Star's wand and rule the universe (failed)
To steal Star's Spell book (success)
Mewni
Lord Brudo (father)
Lady Avarius (mother)
Chudo (older brother)
Crudo (brother)
Dennis (younger brother)
Dudo (brother)
Fudo (brother)
Kudo (brother)
Menudo (brother)
Mudo (brother)
Tudo (brother)
Udo (brother)
Yudo (brother)
Zudo (brother)
Unnamed younger sister
36 other siblings
Brittney Wong (briefly)
Buff Frog (formerly), Monster Army (formerly), Toffee (formerly), Eagle, Spider, Rat Army
Star Butterfly (formerly), Marco Diaz (formerly), Toffee, Moon Butterfly (formerly)
Ruling the Universe, ice cream, soda, oysters, Star's wand (formerly), potato chips, his new wand (formerly), Star's Spellbook
Star Butterfly,(Formerly) losing, his minions incompetence, being double-crossed, being tickled, Star's wand (currently), Toffee
Dark Wand (formerly)
Reunites with his siblings peacefully
"Get the wand!"
Ludo is a secondary antagonist of the Disney XD series Star vs. the Forces of Evil. He is a villainous Avarian with many henchmen at his disposal, and is the arch-enemy of Star Butterfly.
Ludo was the main antagonist for most of season one, where he sought to claim Star's magic wand as his own to rule the universe, and briefly allied with Toffee to do so. By season two, he gains his own wand, but gets possessed by Toffee. At the beginning of season 3, he briefly conquers the Kingdom of Mewni. As of Star vs. the Forces of Evil: The Battle for Mewni, Toffee has been expelled from Ludo, while Ludo is currently on a soul-searching journey as part of his request to Star.
Ludo was once part of a family of bird-like creatures led by Lord Brudo and Lady Avarius in Mewni. He was considered the runt of fifty offspring and did not grow properly like the rest of his siblings; due to his abnormality, his family treated him severely in hopes of toughening him up for most of his childhood. When he was younger, Ludo became frightened of beards from a traumatic experience involving a beard during a birthday party.
One day, when the family went on a vacation without him, Ludo seized the opportunity to lock them outside and took over Castle Avarius, forcing his family to vacate to the Forest of Certain Death. Ludo then built an army of monsters over time and began organizing plans to steal the wand of Mewni's royal family.
Ludo is defined by his maliciousness and selfishness, bent on obtaining the magic wand to rule the entire universe out of pride without any qualms against who gets hurt in the way, even his allies. He has no empathy towards his own minions, punishing them for failure and is intolerant of tardiness, and will put his own safety and needs above them. Despite his ruthless nature, Ludo is weak and cowardly, having his minions do the fighting for him and quickly retreating after his army is defeated. However, he possesses tenacity, refusing to give up on obtaining the magic wand even after countless defeats.
Although Ludo is evil, he is shown to have a childish and naive side, presumably due to his upbringing which fueled his ambition for power. According to himself, Ludo's family was distant and lacked parental guidance growing up, resulting in Ludo becoming self-serving but also left him childlike and feeling bereft. As a result, when left without a proper guide, plan or in a conundrum, Ludo can quickly affix to someone else given they provide him with results and have the patience and respect to deal with him; this was evident when Ludo became attached to Glossaryck due to the strong patience Glossaryck put up with Ludo. However, Ludo can also be easily manipulated by more evil entities into doing their work under the guise of them supporting Ludo.
After he was stranded in the wilderness, Ludo developed greater determination, strength and cunning in his competition against the wildlife for food, to the point of gaining authority over the more aggressive animals. He soon loses his former cowardice, as he gains more minions over time with the power of his new wand and confronted Star with greater success compared to his previous encounters.
Ludo is a short, dull green bird-like monster with yellow eyes, a dark beak with teeth in it, and a large round head with warts on it. Unlike the rest of his family, Ludo lacks wings, or at least feathers, on his arms. When he was first introduced, he wore a green cloak with a dark fur collar and skulls, a creature's skull on his head, and flip-flops on his feet. During the events of "Ludo in the Wild", Ludo's appearance changed drastically: he no longer wears his skull cap and now has a long gray beard braided into three tails while wearing a corn chip bag over his body.
The Disney Wiki has a collection of images and media related to Ludo.
Ludo is the fourth Disney character voiced by Alan Tudyk. The first three are King Candy from Wreck-It Ralph, the Duke of Weselton from Frozen, and Alistair Krei from Big Hero 6.
Tudyk also provides the voice of River Butterfly in the series.
Ludo resembles a Kappa, an aquatic yokai from Japanese mythology which is often said to resemble a turtle with a beaked mouth full of sharp teeth and a water bowl on its head. In the episode "Quest Buy", a water bowl-like patch can be seen briefly on his head.
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Keeping the pot the same heat, add pancetta to the pan and sauté for 2 minutes. Add the onion, carrots, and celery. Continue to sauté until caramelized. Make a hole in the middle of the vegetables and pancetta with your cooking spoon and add the tomato paste, stirring until it bubbles. Add the wine and simmer for another 2-3 minutes.
Add chicken stock and milk to the pot (this seems weird and it will curdle, but stay with me here…it is traditional and it will change as the sauce cooks). Add the meat back in and bring the sauce to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 2 hours (adding orange peel if you are using one). Check sauce periodically, and if it is getting too thick, add more water or stock if necessary.
After 2 hours, pull out the meat and gently separate it into smaller chunks taking out the bones, fat, etc. Return the meat back into the sauce and cook for another half hour or more while you cook the pasta. Adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper as needed. Drizzle with Blood Orange Olive Oil.
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