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Army Captures Almost Entire Al-Qaboun Farms in Eastern Damascus
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian government forces stormed terrorists' positons in al-Qaboun region in Eastern Ghouta and managed to impose control over 90 percent of the farms.
The army men struck the defense lines of Al-Nusra Front (recently renamed to Fatah al-Sham Front) in al-Qaboun and Barzeh regions and could drive terrorists out of over 90 percent of al-Qaboun farms, killing tens of militants.
Informed sources in Eastern Damascus said that the army's missile and artillery units targeted Al-Nusra's positions in al-Qaboun simultaneous with the ground forces' advances, destroying terrorists' command posts.
The sources added that terrorist groups in Harasta, al-Qaboun and Tishrin regions in Eastern Damascus breached ceasefire and inflicted heavy damage on public and private properties in the nearby regions, including al-Abasseen, killing also several civilians.
On Friday, the army resumed its offensive in the Eastern parts of Damascus after terrorists refused to surrender in Barzeh, al-Qaboun and Harasta.
Following a two-day-long ceasefire, a Syrian government delegation met to finalize terms of the peace agreement with the rebel forces; however, Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at leaders refused to withdraw from the Eastern parts of Damascus despite the calls for peace from the residents.
Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at launched an assault on one of the Syrian army checkpoints near al-Qaboun after the government delegation asked to meet with the terrorist group's commanders.
The attack by Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at was responded by the Syrian army's 42nd Brigade of the 4th Mechanized Division and 106th Brigade of the Republican Guard in al-Qaboun, Barzeh and Harasta.
The Syrian army started firing advanced ground-to-ground missiles against the positions of Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at on Thursday night, followed by two hours of nonstop shelling.
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Puri Dajuma had the pleasure to host the TÜV Nord Asia Pacific Regional Manager's gathering of a world leader of inspection and certification services company. Our Baruna hall is the perfect location to carry out a management conference. Completely isolated from the rest of the resort on the last floor of our main building, it offers a 360 degree breathtaking view to the tropical garden and the ocean. This wall-less room is completely protected from the rain and can accommodate up to 28 persons. All the necessary tools and equipment to make fruitful brainstormed decisions in a relaxing and inspiring environment are available : WiFi, beamer, screen, white board and flip chart. Puri Dajuma can also contribute promoting corporate identities through logo printed welcome banners and flags. On the day following the work session, the delegates had a sightseeing tour in West Bali and went snorkeling in Bali's best coral reef. They then had a farewell dinner with traditional Balinese music and dance. All were delighted and many commented there was no better way to develop team building. Please contact us so that we can tailor for you and for your team a unique and memorable corporate seminar.


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Q: File.Separator in Properties I am using java.util.Properties. However, it cannot read File.separator inside the config file.
As an example, I add this line to the config file. source.dir = D:/workspace/Temp1\Temp2 (Note that File.separator is used to separate Temp1 and Temp2)
The below line is used to load propertis:
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The result is: source.dir = D:/workspace/Temp1Temp2 (File.Separator is removed).
Any one knows, how can I fix that?

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Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, this park boasts a vast network of walking paths and stairs that will lead to you a variety of wooded areas and landscapes. Magnificent lookouts offer breathtaking views of the city and region. Les amis de la montagne (Friends of the mountain) offer numerous education, conservation and recreational activities.
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Girls Guiding Government
Data Brief: Toward Gender Parity in Police Forces
The Women in Public Service Project is pursuing the goal of 50×50: 50% representation of women in policy and political leadership by 2050. This ambitious vision is only achievable through data-driven solutions and partnerships to understand the reality of women's leadership in government and to advocate for meaningful change.
Percent of Women in Police Forces Globally
Source: UN Office of Drugs and Crime
Public service extends beyond the elected roles of representatives and appointed roles of administrators to all essential services provided by the government, including the provision of security and justice. Arguably one of the most vital functions of the state, providing security means more than military forces and border control. Police forces are responsible for enforcing the laws that govern society and play a large role in security at the local level. They are often the first face of the law for citizens, one the most tangible arms of the government in day-to-day life, and a role almost entirely held by men.
Case Study: Police Force Participation and Public Service Representation
Looking at omen's representation in police forces provides another dimension in our understanding of women in public service around the world. Statistics from the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime show a large disparity between the number of men and women police members globally, with the average representation of women in the police at a mere 15.4%.
Leading the way with a third of their police forces comprised of women members are the Baltic states: Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. In fact, the representation of women in the police forces is higher than the representation of women in their respective legislatures.
Access to this role should not be limited to men given the grave importance police play in the provision of security and justice. In fact at the turn of the millennium, the United Nations publicly affirmed the vital role women must play in peace and security with Security Council Resolution 1325. The resolution explicitly calls for an expanded role for women in civilian police forces, citing the disproportionate amount of women and children who are impacted by armed conflict and violence.
Women police members are essential in tackling issues such as domestic and sexual violence, human trafficking, and other persistent issues that largely affect women and children. In addition to the role women police officers play in addressing specific crimes, a 2002 study by the National Center for Women and Policing found that women are substantially less likely to use excessive force than their male counterparts, one of the most serious problems facing many law enforcement systems today.
Gender parity is just as important in police forces as it is in parliaments and other aspects of political leadership. Legislators create the laws that the police are charged to enforce and protect, and women police members are just as key to the fair and equitable application of the law as they are to creating those laws. Women deserve equal representation in the provision of security and justice that we all seek.
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School of Architecture Lecture Series: Douglas C. Allen Lecture in Landscape - Christophe Girot
Location: Reinsch-Pierce Auditorium, CoA 123
Nitra Wisdom
Summary Sentence: The Elegance of Topology: a Return to Site Design
Full Summary: The Elegance of Topology: a Return to Site Design
Christophe Girot
The annual Douglas C. Allen lecture was established by Georgia Tech alumni, faculty and friends in appreciation for Allen's long-time dedication to the College of Architecture as a teacher, colleague and leader. Christophe Girot, Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at the Department of Architecture of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, will give the 2014 Douglas C. Allen lecture entitled "The Elegance of Topology: a Return to Site Design."
Topology is a term in landscape architecture which equates with the term tectonics in architecture. Broadly defined, it is about an intelligent and structured response to terrain. Topology encompasses the entire range of scales from the specific to the local and from the local to the regional, both in scope and in meaning. It is precisely the underlying logic of any physical design, to want to restitute a certain sense of continuity on the ground we tread upon. Topology delivers clear and simple solutions to very complex problems, by making the obvious physical choices pertaining to a site knowingly. One could say that it heralds a return to an elegant vision of the world, where landscape architecture can rise to the expectations of future city dwellers and their lot. This presentation will endeavor to show a set of concrete landscape projects and examples at a large scale where topology contributes actively to the recovery the spirit of place.
Christophe Girot is Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at the Department of Architecture of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. His research address new topological methods in landscape design, new media in landscape analysis and perception, and the recent history and theory of landscape design. Emphasis is placed on the fields of action in contemporary large-scale urban landscape with a particular attention given to sustainable design. Girot practices landscape architecture in Zurich and has built projects in Berlin and Paris. His work has been published and exhibited in several countries including "Groundswell," the first exhibition on Landscape Architecture at the MoMA in New York.
College of Design, School of Architecture
Undergraduate students, Faculty/Staff, Public, Graduate students
Created By: Shaunitra Wisdom
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Was Loaded Gun Found in Toy Aisle at Target a Plant by Anti-Gunner?
WMBFNews.com, Myrtle Beach/Florence SC, Weather
I don't want to jump to too many conclusions on this one, but there are several things about the loaded gun that was found at a South Carolina Target that just don't add up. And rememember that this incident happened just days after anti-gun groups began petitioning for Target to ban guns from its stores.
Until we get more details on this incident let's look at what we already know.
According to wmbfnews.com,
The gun was in plain view on top of a superhero Playskool toy box when the worker found it; he thought it was a toy. He realized it was real after seeing it was loaded with live ammo.
The fact that it was found in an aisle geared toward children makes some shoppers feel this was no accident.
"I don't think someone would accidentally drop off a gun. I think he purposely left it there for a child to pick up and think, 'Oh it's a toy gun,' and accidentally point it at somebody and it goes off," says Kennedy McClain.
I don't pretend to know the mind of the twisted person that did this, but it should be pretty obvious that the gun was left there on purpose, with the intention of a child picking it up.
Any sensible gun owner would not just happen to leave his/her gun on top of a toy box so either the person was very anti-gun and wanted to gin up the anti-gun base over this or this was a very disturbed person who just wanted to see someone get hurt.
Target has already faced heavy pressure from anti-gun groups like Moms Demand Action, but so far the group has been unable to see the company budge on their stance of simply abiding by local laws. Could this have been someone's way of getting the retail chain to stand up and take notice? If so it's a pretty twisted way of doing it.
If an anti-gun person wanted to buy a gun and leave it somewhere it would make sense that he would buy the cheapest gun possible. No offense to our friends who own High-Points, but this is as cheap as it gets in the gun industry.
One of the Target employees saw a man just before the gun was found who was acting conspicuously, further leading to the idea that the gun was not left there on accident.
You have to ask yourself who has the most to gain from this heinous, willful act as well. If a child had actually found the gun and picked it up and fired a shot every anti-gun group in the universe would be calling for more gun laws, more gun bans, and more gun-free zones. These are all things anti-gunners are pushing for.
Until we get more details we simply don't know how the gun got there and why it was left there. But there is enough evidence to know at the very least that this person should be charged to the fullest extent of the law.
Whether it was a plant or not anti-gunners should all be thanking the NRA for the advice given on their gun safety courses for children which teach them to "STOP, Don't touch, Leave the Area, and Tell an Adult".
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g. enriquezenriquez says
have the store management/police look at the video camera footage to get more information about who planted that weapon. not to mention, look at how many times several well known OTC products were tampered with.


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This is a fairly simple racing engine where 4 Computer controlled cars race around a track.
It uses a lot of detectors around the edge to keep the cars on the track and there are a few other detectors to slightly alter their racing lines at random so the cars don't race completely perfectly every time.
Also it's fairly easy to customize the speeds and such using the cars Alterable values.
it does work relatively well. the only real downside i see to it are any sort of random factors to manipulate the cars movement, and the amount of objects you've got cluttering the frame. other than that it seems nice and solid.
yeah i'll put up an alternative.
Sorry but I don't think it's a good AI since the cars don't try to not hurt others and don't try to follow the better way.
But it's a nice try.
Why is this in the GOTW poll? only complete games should appear in there not that I dont like competition but this is an engine!
lol so is something else. Did the admins decide to include engines? i can't remember what the ruling was.
I think it's wrong in all honesty.
Thank you for telling what the game is made using.
I hate it when people don't tell what they used.
But, i wish you woulda made this in TGF or KnP.
Seems like overkill not to have.
You probably could of just made each car have left and right detectors instead of having heaps of active which tell it which way to turn.
maybe, but then again making the road side solid, which i would have to for detectors would make the players car not be able to take shortcuts and such.


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US News Iran: funeral of the murdered scientist, reflection on the response to be carried out
07:05 30 november 2020
07:05 30 november 2020 Source: lepoint.fr
Iran could buy missiles and tanks from Russia and China
© Mohsen Shandiz / Getty Images Iran could buy missiles and tanks from Russia and China The UN has put an end to the sanctions which prohibited Iran from importing heavy weapons from abroad. The Islamic Republic is reportedly interested in purchasing Russian T-90 tanks and Chinese J-10 fighter jets. The United Nations embargo that banned the sale of arms and heavy military equipment to Iran expired last October.
Officials in Iran are plotting its response after scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed. Trey Yingst reports. Israel has not commented on the attack, but Iran 's clerical and military rulers claim the Jewish state is responsible, pointing to a string of killings of other Iranian nuclear scientists over the
A handout picture provided by Iran 's Defense Ministry on November 29, 2020 shows servants of the Imam Reza holy shrine carrying the coffin of Iran 's assassinated nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh during his funeral procession in the northeastern city of Mashhad.
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Ripost immediately by further abusing a dying Iranian nuclear deal, or wait? There was heated political debate in Tehran over how to respond to the assassination attributed to Israel of a prominent Iranian nuclear physicist, whose funeral is being held Monday.
In Parliament, the deputies unanimously signed an appeal to avenge the scientist. But taking the opposite of the cautious approach developed the day before by President Hassan Rouhani, they argue in favor of a law by which Iran would stop allowing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect its nuclear facilities.
In Iran, an airliner misses its landing ... and ends its run on the highway
© Supplied by Gentside In Iran, an airliner misses its landing ... and ends its race on the highway It's a landing that passengers will not soon forget. On Monday, January 27, 2020 in the morning, an airliner of the company Caspian Airlines which was to connect Tehran to Bandar-e Mahshahr, in the southwest of the Iran , finished its course on the highway after an exit of track. No injuries were reported among the 135 passengers and crew on board, said CNN .
Iran will give a "calculated and decisive" response to the killing of its top nuclear scientist , said a top adviser to Iran 's supreme leader, while a "The attack should be carried out in such a way that in addition to destroying the facilities, it should also cause heavy human casualties," wrote Saadollah
Iran 's top scientist was assassinated with a remote-controlled machine gun from 150 meters away, semi-official news agency Fars said, contradicting previous detailed reports of a Just then, the car carrying Fakhrizadeh and his wife was hit by bullets. He got out of the vehicle, thinking the sound
Quoted by the Isna agency, Mohsen Rezaï, the former commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic, and today secretary of the Discernment Council, a key post in the political system, has gone so far as to judge that "there is no reason for (Iran) not to reconsider" its accession to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
In Iran, however, it is the Supreme National Security Council which has the upper hand over decisions relating to the nuclear issue.
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed on Friday in a vehicle bomb attack followed by a shooting against his car, according to the Iranian Ministry of Defense, which presented the victim as the head of its research and innovation department, responsible in particular for " anti-atomic defense ".
In Sudan, Ethiopian refugees try to rebuild life in their camp
© ASHRAF SHAZLY An Ethiopian refugee sells tea, in a transit camp in Sudan, November 26, 2020 Samarwat Tkhali, 10, has been walking around for a week the streets of "Village 8" in Sudan, where thousands of Ethiopians have taken refuge fleeing the war in Tigray. To survive, she sells the chocolate cakes bought by her father. In this miserable village, where some 15,000 Ethiopian refugees are crowded near the border, she approaches the people by asking them timidly: "Do you want to taste one?".
Iran accused its arch-enemy, Israel, of carrying out the attack. Expecting retaliation, Israel put its global embassies on high alert on Saturday, Hebrew-language media reported. Iran 's immediate priority, he said, was the "definitive punishment of the perpetrators and those who ordered it".
Iran is suspicious that UN agencies may have given away information which aided the murder of Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi According to him, this included interviews with Iranian nuclear scientists carried out by the International Atomic Energy Agency and the sanction list of the
Israel presented him as the head of a secret military nuclear program that Tehran has always denied.
His remains were honored on Saturday evening and Sunday in two of the main Shiite holy places of Iran (in Mashhad, in the North-East, and Qom, in the Center), before a new tribute at the mausoleum of Imam-Khomeini , in Tehran. The funeral was announced for Monday at an unspecified location.
According to Tehran, Israel is behind the death of Fakhrizadeh. Accusing the Jewish state of wanting to sow "chaos", Mr. Rouhani promised a response "in due course".
"Trap"
But he also warned that Iran would not fall into the "trap" set according to him by Israel.
Since the announcement of Joe Biden's victory in the American presidential election, Mr. Rouhani has multiplied the signs of openness showing his will to save what can be saved from the international nuclear agreement concluded in Vienna in 2015
Iranian scientist killed: Turkey denounces an act of "terrorism"
© AFP The scientist was killed in his car on Friday in Tehran, the Iranian capital. Two days after the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iranian nuclear scientist, Ankara condemned the facts and spoke of "an act of terrorism". Turkey condemned on Sunday the assassination of one of the main scientists of Iran's nuclear program , seeing it as an act of "terrorism" which "disturbs the peace in the region" . "The death of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh as a result of an attack pained us.
A top advisor to Iran 's Supreme Leader has warned that those responsible for killing one of the country's top nuclear scientists would face a "calculated and decisive" response . Tehran blames Israel for the attack.
Terrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist today. His statement came after Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahavadi was attacked during an armed standoff between his bodyguards and unidentified assailants in the city of Absard, just east of the Iranian capital Tehran.
This pact offers Tehran relief from international sanctions in exchange for guarantees, verified by the IAEA, intended to attest to the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear program.
In 2018, US President Donald Trump, who had made Iran his pet peeve, unilaterally pulled his country out of the deal, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly fought against.
Sanctions imposed or reimposed by Washington plunged the Iranian economy into a deep recession and prompted Iran to suspend the application of most of its commitments, but not the access granted to IAEA inspectors.
Mr. Biden said he wanted to bring the United States back into the Vienna agreement.
But he will have little time between taking office (January 20) and the Iranian presidential election (June 18), for which the conservatives are favorites after their landslide victory in the legislative elections in February at the expense of the alliance of moderates and reformers supporting M. Rohani.
"Clear message"
For the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the elimination of Fakhrizadeh "is a clear message" to Joe Biden and shows Israel's opposition "to a return to the nuclear deal".
Tehran pays a last tribute to the assassinated "doctor martyr"
© Provided by Le Point With a protocol worthy of the greatest "martyrs" of the Islamic Republic, Tehran paid a last tribute on Monday to an important scientist killed in an attack attributed to Israel and promised to continue his work. The funeral of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has started at the Ministry of Defense in Tehran.
"We are concerned" by a risk of escalation in the region, said Great Britain, one of the countries party to the agreement, while Turkey, a neighbor of Iran, denounced the assassination of the atomist scientist as an act of "terrorism" which "disturbs the peace in the region".
The United Arab Emirates on Sunday condemned a "heinous" assassination, but called for "the utmost restraint" to "prevent the region from sinking into a new phase of instability and threat to peace".
The Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, pleaded for "a strong reaction" likely to ensure "deterrence" and "revenge".
A communiqué signed by all the deputies judges that "the best response" to the acts of "terrorism and sabotage" of Israel, the United States and their allies, is to "revive the glorious nuclear industry of Iran "by ceasing to apply the IAEA additional protocol.
Under the terms of the Vienna Agreement, Tehran agreed to comply with the requirements of this document providing for unrestricted access for IAEA inspectors to its nuclear installations, even before its ratification by Parliament.
But Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesperson for the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, told the official Irna news agency on Saturday that the issue of inspectors' access should be "decided at the highest levels".
In a violent editorial, the ultraconservative newspaper Kayhan called on Sunday to attack the Israeli port of Haifa in order to "totally destroy its infrastructure" and to kill many people if it is "proven" that Israel is behind the death by Fakhrizadeh.
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This is interesting!


Today got special day simi god.
Heard temples are crowded today.
I take it as you are asking for the benefit of doubt.
Er lang is not the most powerful. And , they deities do not compare their powers with each other.
Love luck , Yue lao.
Can pray to Lord Brahma for love?
random is not random and losing/getting injured after the challenge/sneak attach is also a learning.
apart from exercising their energies doing their appointed job/tasks; deities do try out with other deities (eg. strength aura). in this pure sense of a deity it is to understand/know who is better (eg. admiration) and in improving from the current baseline.
闻仲. 闻太师 also got three eyes and was much more powerful than 杨戬 but he was not cool.
for girl boy relationship best don't seek spiritual help. what if one day the spell doesn't works anymore then will the girl leave u?
which shop are these from?
Any gods that i can pray to for fertility?
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It normally takes decades to centuries for a deceased soul to undergo penance and spiritual cultivation on the other side before he or she is permitted to reincarnate.
You clearly haven't been exposed to enough reincarnation stories, lol. People get reincarnated as people of different races all the time. Also, less and less white people are Christians these days, and lots of them believe in reincarnation.


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Q: How to execute (some) CGI commands as root I want to put a simple CGI script in my APACHE server.
I'd like to write it possibly in C (but also in PERL, if I want).
The problem is that it must contain some lines that can be executed only by root (iptables for example), while webuser is the user running the server.
How can I make those lines executable by the root?

A: One solution might be  to write a wrapper script for the relevant commands, heavily secure this script and allow a passwordless sudo for this.
Edit: A wrapper script is just some short shell script where you offload the critical commands. You can secure this (e.g. make it aceessible only be the Apache user).
For sudo, there are many questions already on Serverfault and elsewhere, also there is a man page for it: man sudo and man sudoers.
If you have difficulties with this after reading the available docs, you could still ask a question specific to your problem.

A: You could use setuid on the script.  An executable with setuid executes as the owner for any normal user.  (/bin/ping for example.)
Be very, very careful with this.  Make sure the script cannot be overwritten with malicious code, etc.
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I was born in Salem and raised in Nahant (the smallest town in Massachusetts), both north of Boston. My roots in that area run deep, with my father's family arriving in the 1840s and my mother's family, in the 1890s. Much of my writing is set in this unique and magical corner of the world.
Although the idea of writing appealed to me from an early age, at one time or another I imagined ending up a meteorologist, a diplomat, a linguist or—after reading Microbe Hunters and Arrowsmith—a doctor. My love of reading and writing won out in college, where I majored in English. I volunteered at a nearby hospital and soon learned what a privilege it is to take care of others. So I applied to medical school.
I received my draft notice during my internship and served in Vietnam as a battalion surgeon and triage officer in a surgical hospital—experiences that color much of my writing. Home again, I partnered with another doctor I had met in training and we opened an office in Boston. A year after starting our practice, my partner, Dr. Betty Wood, and I got married.
I found caring for patients and bringing up a family the most satisfying work imaginable, but only had the time and energy to write patient histories and a handful of technical papers.
All that changed when Betty and I retired. I started reading like an undergraduate all over again and at long last sat down and began transcribing stuff that had been sitting in the back of my head for a lifetime. The practice of medicine and the practice of writing both involve stories, as doctor-writers such as Chekhov and Conan Doyle have shown us.
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19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Gay Flood
I was appalled when I read the special report by Bjarne Rostaing and Robert Sullivan on blood doping by some members of the 1984 U.S. Olympic cycling team (Triumphs Tainted With Blood, Jan. 21). But I was even more appalled by the attitudes of team technical director Ed Burke and team manager Mike Fraysse concerning the matter.
Burke says, "You know where we were in the dark ages. You know where we are now," as if blood doping were some miracle innovation, and we should all rejoice in its discovery. Blood doping is dangerous and unethical. If I were a cyclist, I would reject it instantly. To me, winning is nothing if I can't do it on natural ability.
Fraysse says "We've been looking into this stuff for years and years and years. We weren't gonna fall behind the Russians or East Germans any more." So instead we'll just stoop to their level of immoral and artificial ways of winning, eh, Mike?
TIM FOSKEY
Chapel Hill, N.C.
I am 13, and my dream is to be a part of the 1992 Olympic cycling team. I look up to our 1984 team and, most of all, to coach Edward (Eddie B.) Borysewicz. Even so, I think blood boosting is wrong. There probably is a greater chance of getting sick from blood packing than there is of getting extra energy from it. Athletes are not machines.
Annandale, Va.
Thank you for the informative article on our Olympians who resorted to blood boosting in the '84 Games. Competitive sports would be much better off if all athletes refrained from such activities. Then the athlete who best conditioned himself through hard, honest training would be victorious. Besides, how can any athlete find gratification in winning an event or setting a record when he or she relies on an artificial means of improving performance?
THOMAS V. WILLIAMS
Charleston, S.C.
Maybe a few words should be added to the Olympic credo: "No additives, no preservatives, no artificial anything."
BERNARD P. MCGOVERN
Jackson, N.J.
As cyclists, we thank you for your coverage of Olympic cycling. We hope you will continue to show the American people this sport. On the other hand, we hope that you, as sports-minded people, will take a second look at the blood-boosting issue.
Many artificial means of enhancing performance are accepted by cyclists, including aerodynamic helmets and wheels, vitamin injections and some carbo loading. Where does it stop? Will all athletes be asked to quit the intense training programs that they presently follow simply because one athlete may gain an advantage over another?
MIKE F. HUNTINGTON
SCOTT A. STRECKER
Hutchinson, Kans.
Once again the U.S athlete is hanged—not by the world, but by his own people. I am not making a judgment as to whether blood boosting is right or wrong. That is a decision to be made by a duly appointed committee of medical and technical people. My blood pressure rises (without boosting), however, when people like Dr. Irving Dardik, director of the USOC investigative committee, throw verbal brickbats at Americans but do nothing about the worldwide problem.
If the IOC decides that blood boosting is illegal, let it declare it so. I'd love to know how the IOC would enforce such a rule.
JOHN H. SHUE
York, Pa.
I'm not advocating blood boosting, but what's all the excitement about? I've worked in hematology labs for the better part of 12 years, and it's a well-known fact among hematologists that you can get a blood-boosting effect by training at high altitudes, such as those found in the Rockies near Colorado Springs (about 6,000 feet), site of a U.S. Olympic training center. Higher altitude means lower oxygen tension. This causes hypoxia, which in turn causes the body to produce more red cells to compensate. At 6,000 feet, you could expect the red-cell count to rise over a period of weeks about as much as if the athlete were given a unit of red cells.
What would the guardians of "natural" sports like to do? Require everyone competing to train at the same altitude? Maybe the USOC should be accused of blood boosting for establishing a training center at 6,000 feet.
LYNNE RICHTER
STEROIDS AND BUTE
After reading Bill Brubaker's special report A Pipeline Full Of Drugs (Jan. 21) and passing it on to local sports buffs, I was disturbed by their self-righteous reaction concerning the coaches and pharmacist accused of illegally distributing drugs [anabolic steroids and phenylbutazone] to athletes at Clemson and Vanderbilt. Their attitude was, "Once we get rid of the few bad eggs then everything will straighten out." Not so.
As an exercise physiologist who has been working in sports for years, I can assure you that most people can't even imagine the pressure that is placed on top-ranking athletes and their coaches or trainers. Fans scream for more wins, for record-breaking performances; athletic directors lean on coaches; coaches push athletes; athletes push each other. There are jobs, scholarships and professional contracts at stake, and the coach or trainer is often caught in the middle. The people on top say, "Win or else," and the athletes say, "We can't win unless...."
It's tragic that Augustinius Jaspers died, and it's also tragic that four people who were trying to help athletes may have their careers ruined. Before we start assessing blame, it might be prudent to reevaluate our expectations of the athletes and coaches we depend on for our viewing pleasure.
ROBERT H. GORDON, M.ED.
Brookline, Mass.
As a flight attendant for Delta, I've worked on many college football charters. This year I was assigned to a flight carrying Vanderbilt from Nashville to Baton Rouge. It was a routine experience—with one exception. Vanderbilt strength coach E.J. (Doc) Kreis chose to sit with the team rather than in first class with the rest of the coaching retinue. Before boarding, he instructed the crew to serve only juices and milk—instead of the sugary carbonated beverages favored by most teams. He distributed printed inspirational material for his players to ponder during the flight. It was obvious to me that this was a man who genuinely cared about the mental and physical well-being of his players.
At the risk of oversimplification, I suggest that Kreis's alleged involvement in the distribution of the drugs is a product of the public's demand for Herculean bulk and strength in young men whose time must be divided among the classroom, the playing field and the weight room. It is unbelievable that such a conscientious person would be a figure in a drug-distribution scheme at the expense of the young men he so obviously nurtures.
CHRISTIE MCKEAGUE
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It was interesting to see how much print was devoted to predicting the winner of Super Bowl XIX when it was obvious that the 49ers would be the victors. For the past five years only one of the teams in the Super Bowl has had players who attended Brigham Young, and each year that team has won:
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Turnbull, #climate and the National Press Club #auspol
January 29, 2017 marchudson	1 Comment
On February 1st Malcolm Turnbull will make a major speech on the Coalition's climate and energy policy at the National Press Club.In his last public utterance on the topic, at the Sydney fish market in December last year, he spilt coffee , perhaps trying to douse the flames caused by Josh Frydenberg's declaration that carbon pricing would be considered in this year's policy review. Turnbull ruled that out, so who knows what he will say on Wednesday. One well-informed and immensely experienced observer reports that
"Turnbull will announce new vehicle emissions standards and a new energy efficiency scheme. He and his office are looking at "technological solutions" – bright new ideas in solar thermal, or battery or carbon storage technology that might fill the policy void. But all those technologies need government policies to provide investors with incentives and certainty, and without actually confronting the climate doubters no one can imagine what that policy might be."
(Another similarly-credentialled observer says he is the weakest Prime Minister since Billy McMahon )Who knows, perhaps Turnbull will dust off the 'Greenhouse Challenge' voluntary programme for industry that Prime Minister Paul Keating started and John Howard extended. We will know soon enough.
Meanwhile, the National Press Club has a long and interesting (if you're a pathetic geek like me) history with climate change, and it tells us something about Australian journalistic responses to climate change.
Clubbing together
The Press Club began life as a press luncheon club, the result of some journalists having an (uncharacteristic for the profession) drinks in a Canberra watering hole. It seeks "to provide a genuine national forum for discussion of the issues of the day by the personalities who help shape them." (A cynic might say that it is a way for journalists to have stories handed to them literally on a plate, with some nice plonk alongside.) The first speaker, on 17 May 1963, was Chief Justice and External Affairs Minister Sir Garfield Barwick. Soon after Barwick helped establish the Australian Conservation Foundation. The Press Club initially only held a few events a year, but it has grown steadily and there are now about 70 a year. Early environmental speakers included conservationist Harry Butler (October 3 1979) and in mid 1984 the German Greens Petra Kelly who you can hear here
The Club, naturally, reflects the concerns of the day, and politicians of the day fly kites and announce policies. The climate issue seems to have reached the Club in October 1988,when the Liberal Senator Chris Puplick, the Opposition's Environment spokesperson launched the Opposition's environmental policy and spoke on past Coalition. It seems bizarre now, but Puplick then went on to develop a policy on climate change that was more ambitious than Labor's and took it to the 1990 Federal election.
Puplick and his Labor opponent Graham Richardson debated at the Press Club on March 7, 1990, just before the Federal election, and it was from the club that Bob Hawke made his final (and successful) appeal to green-minded voters, calling on disaffected voters not to vote green but, if they did so, to direct their second preferences to Labour. He warned. "When you wake up on 25 March there won't be a Democrat government or a green independent government."
In June 1989, the inaugural Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory, Rosemary Follett, had appeared at the club and said that she was
"particularly concerned with environmental issues of national and international significance. The people of the ACT can be assured that the government intends to act locally in addressing issues such as the Greenhouse Effect and Protection of the Ozone Layer."
Richardson had appeared shortly afterwards,after two cancellations for lack of journalist interest.. He talked tough (it's how the man rolls) on the Federal government perhaps using its constitutional powers to override state decisions on environmental matters. He also confirmed a report by Michelle Grattan about a Cabinet meeting at which Treasurer Paul Keating had vetoed his proposal for a 20 per cent reduction in Australia's greenhouse gas emissions by 2005 (the so-called 'Toronto Target' ). He told the assembled hacks
"… When I put this target to our Cabinet, I came under close questioning by the economic ministers. I couldn't sustain my argument with sufficient science.
"I haven't yet learnt how to lose gracefully so I was angry. I delved into the department's records so that I could write to my Cabinet colleagues and demand a reconsideration. The cupboard, however was bare, and the letter was never written."
[Dunn, R. 1989. Cabinet reduces greenhouse target. Australian Financial Review, 26 July.]
Sir Ninian Stephen, by then Australia's first Environment Ambassador, spoke wittily in late 1990 on the topic of "the environment: a passing storm or an issue for all seasons" (you can listen here – He argued that it didn't matter what he said, only if he blundered in the Q and A.
The following year the Canadian entrepreneur behind the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, Maurice Strong, spoke. In November 1992, after Rio, Jeremy Leggett, a former geologist who had become Greenpeace International's Atmosphere and Energy Campaign leader spoke (his book The Carbon War is a terrific read, btw).
Worth remembering
Amid all the advocates of action (Ian Lowe, Peter Garrett, David Suzuki, Bob Brown, Gro Harlam Brundtland, Nick Stern), perhaps the one we should most remember is President Kinza Cloduma of Nauru. In late 1997, when the Australian government's diplomatic push for special treatment at the impending Kyoto Protocol meeting had silenced the South Pacific Forum's attempt at a strong pro-action statement, Cloduma told the journalists
"I am not impressed when Mr. Howard openly scorns the critical nature of the situation in order to bow to the will of the fossil fuel industry."
There have been peaks and troughs of concern since then, with scientists speaking in September 2000 "Greenhouse Science Forum: How Real is Climate Change? What does Science Tell Us?", Ian Lowe spoke in 2005 on " Is Nuclear Power Part of Australia's Global Warming Solution?" (his answer was 'nope').
In the white-heat of the 2008-9 carbon pricing battles, Ross Garnaut seems to have had a camp-bed at the NPC, so often was he using it to launch various drafts of his climate reviews. The Greens' Christine Milne argued on 17 June 2009 that "The Climate nightmare is upon us." Bob Brown and Ziggy Switowski debated nuclear versus renewables in April of the following year [thanks to the reader who alerted me to this!]
Less emphatically, Penny Wong, Kevin Rudd, Greg Combet and Julia Gillard all used the NPC to launch various climate policy papers. In mid 2011, Gillard, under ferocious attack over her carbon proposal launched "The Government's plan for a clean energy future". She was asked by Mark Riley about journalist famously suggesting that journalists 'don't write crap – it can't be that hard.'
Since then the club has seen – among others –
June 2013 350.org founder Bill McKibben on "Global warming: do the math",
19 February 2013 Senator Christine Milne Leader of the Greens "Australian Democracy at the Crossroads: the mining industry and the quarry past versus the people and the innovative future",
5 June 2013 Greg Combet on , The Clean Energy Future plan one year on: How carbon pricing is working
14 March 2014 Bernie Fraser Reflections on Australian Climate Change Policy'
10 December 2014 Stephen Chu 'Managing Energy, Economic Growth and Environment Risks'
In May 2015, Christine Milne argued that Prime Minister Tony Abbott was 'barking mad' on climate change.
The run up to the 2016 election a debate between Greg Hunt, then Environment Minister and Mark Butler, the Labor Shadow.
Two way traffic
It hasn't been one-way traffic. An early example of a sceptical perspective came in mid 1992 when Prof Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology spoke. (He had been brought out by the CSIRO atmospheric science division, which was then headed by G.B Tucker. Tucker had been aware of the issue in the mid-70s, and written an early monograph – The CO2-climate connection : a global problem from an Australian perspective– in 1981, but in retirement wrote pieces for the Institute for Public Affairs with titles like 'The Greenhouse Panic'. But I digress)
Three years later the Club heard from Dr Patrick Moore who was billed as a " Canadian Environmentalist and one of the founders of Greenpeace".The first term can be debated. The second cannot.
Climate change exploded as a public policy issue in Australia in late 2006. It's ironic to remember now, but when John Howard's hand-picked emissions taskforce suggested that a low tax on carbon emissions — less than $5 per tonne – might give Australia a start in preparing for an eventual global emissions trading system , the Minerals Council of Australia chief executive Mitchell Hooke argued at the press club that while Australia should not embark on unilateral action, there was scope for "unilateral leadership". He said
"I don't want a blunt economic instrument of a carbon tax [but] I would see that kind of low order price as being part of a cap and trade framework."
Hooke hardened his line, of course, as time went on. At the peak of the 2011 carbon pricing battles, in June, the Australian Coal Association's Ralph Hillman spoke on "The mining industry's position on the carbon tax."
The same month, Lord Monckton and the Australia Institute's Richard Denniss squared off in a debate. Two weeks later former President Vaclav Klaus President of the Czech Republic spoke on "Climate Change: A new ideology"
Bjorn Lomborg followed up his October 2003 visit with another ten years later in December 2013. Now that he won't be having his 'consensus centre' , the trend suggests it might be another 6 years before he appears again.
Journalism and climate change
The Press Club's willingness to host those who deny basic scientific facts is indicative of a broader difficulty that journalism has had with this issue. Academic studies of the journalism profession's dilemma over climate change. One influential paper argues that "balance is bias", given the overwhelming scientific argument (and dare we say 'consensus') on anthropogenic climate change. The authors argue that
"the prestige press's adherence to balance actually leads to biased coverage of both anthropogenic contributions to global warming and resultant action."
John Oliver put it more visually with this stunt on 'Last Week Tonight'
Australia's experience has been extensively studied – see here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. For starters.
All this is part of a battle for hearts and minds – what counts as 'common sense' and shapes or sustains the institutions – "stable, valued, recurring patterns of behavior" – underpinning society.
Recently scientists have been admitting that studying climate change exacts an emotional toll. Journalists are following suit.
Malcolm Turnbull first addressed the club on March 18 1992, wearing his Australian Republican Movement hat. He might need better head-wear this time round. When Kevin Rudd launched the White Paper of his ill-fated and unloved Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme three protesters were dragged out The numbers of protesters there to greet him on February 1st will probably fall closer to that than the 1500 who turned up to say g'day to Pauline Hanson in 1997
But on the day, and indeed all through the year, Turnbull will – like other endangered Australian fauna – be feeling the heat.
AustraliaBob BrownChristine MilneJulia GillardMalcolm TurnbullNational Press ClubNinian StephenPetra Kelly
academia, Australia, coal mining, our doomedness
Balance schmalance- when the powerful do it is in the 'national interest'
December 27, 2016 marchudson	Leave a comment
So, I am writing an article; a proper academic article. Got me a journal in mind and everything. It's on incumbent strategies versus challenge(r)s, and uses multiple streams approach and defensive institutional work. Gonna have the sucker done (first draft) by the close of play on the 27th December if it kills me.
Reading some fascinating stuff, but also writing as I go along – it's the only way, after all.
Anyway, I stumbled on a very useful article from the defunct Business Review Weekly.
Hooper, N. and Way, N. 1995. Canberra's Green Berets. BRW, 20 February, p.36.
They (approvingly) quote the late Peter Walsh (climate denialist and "failed" (his words) Finance Minister complaining that
"The Environment Department should no longer be regarded as a component of the Commonwealth bureaucracy, but as a fully taxpayer-funded extension of the partially taxpayer-funded Australian Conservation Foundation propaganda machine."
All because some of the bureaucrats thought that cutting down and digging up everything in sight and in site was short-termist.
Never mind that the Treasury, Energy Department, Resources, DPIE etc had been busy scuppering anything environmental for, well, decades.
What happened next? The Greenhouse Mafia ran the show for another 12 years. Then the fight broke out into the open, and the opponents of action won. And now we are totally stuffed. Oh well, so it goes.
academia, activism, Australia, coal mining, history of climate change, Journalism, our doomedness, Social Movement Learning, Social Movements
Podcast on #Australia #climate policy #auspol
December 1, 2016 marchudson	Leave a comment
The very cool people at Beyond Zero Emissions, on 3CR (community radio in Melbourne) interviewed in November. Here's a link to their page about it. (it's cut and paste below)
BZE radio talks to Marc Hudson:
Marc is studying the strategic responses of the Australian coal industry to the challenge of climate change. He is in the final year of a PhD at the Sustainable Consumption Institute: Manchester University. Marc is a regular contributor to The Conversation.
BZE Technology Radio Show: 11 Nov 2016: Podcast:
A historical perspective of contradictory statements from politicians and bureaucrats.
Marc talked about:
Coal usage in Australia from soon after White settlement, and the rapidly expanding export of coal to Japan from the late 1950s onwards, which was important for Japan as it rebuilt after World War Two. Japan was the single most important market until the late 1990s, and is still very important.
China becoming a market for Australian coal from 2008 – but these exports have been decreasing as China produces most of its own coal, and is recognising coal as a health risk, and a political one, due to air quality in Chinese cities.
The chopping and changing of Australian climate policy, with dizzying peaks and troughs, alongside the basic bipartisan support for increasing coal exports
Prime Minister Julia Gillard and our short lived carbon pricing,
Malcolm Turnbull's overt support for renewables until he became prime minister,
The election of climate denier Malcolm Roberts of One Nation to the Senate
The appointment of climate denier Craig Kelly as Chair of the Federal Environment Energy Committee.
The Australian recent ratification of the Paris agreements
The current Morocco conference
The election of Trump in the US
Australian climate change activism.
Out of step: marching for climate justice versus taking action
(The Conversation: Marc Hudson: 27 Nov 2015)
The sound of silence: why has the environment vanished from election politics?
(The Conversation: Marc Hudson: 23 June 2016)
Beyond Zero Emissions interviewers: Kay Wennagel, Michael Staindl, Natalie Bucknell
Broadcast from Radio 3CR in Melbourne, Australia
Based on a write up by Bev McIntyre
activism, coal mining, events worth blogging, Innovation
Solar Citizens launch at Adelaide Festival of Ideas #AdlFoI
October 22, 2016 marchudson	3 Comments
[Fourth of a series of blog posts about sessions at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas on Saturday 22nd October]
Next up was the launch of Solar Citizens. It covered the 'solar rooftop revolution' (1.5million Australian houses with solar panels, from a basically standing start 8 years ago), the start of solar citizens and its plans for a 'fair and orderly transition.'
This was done via an engaging talk that took in President Carter's 1979 installation of solar panels on the roof of the Whitehouse, Reagan's 1986 removal, and Obama's 2014 re-installation (by which time the price had dropped by a factor of 40). In the last few years the rooftop solar 'revolution' has at a conservative estimate, 19000 jobs, reduced energy bills and 24 million tonnes of carbon saved. An interesting comparison was made with the millennium drought, which also brought a sense of personal connection/responsibility for consumption patterns.
Solar Citizens' origins were linked to the 'direct attacks' on renewables emanating from the big 'gentailers' (Origin, AGL and Energy Australia) and the owners of the transmission lines (the ticket clippers).
In May 2015 they'd proposed a solar surchage of $100 per year on people with panels in South Australia, simply to raise revenue. Thus do incumbents defend themselves…. The regulator (AER) said 'nope', it went to court and the courts said 'nope', while local groups rallied, petitioned and generally raised cain (effectively).
Solar Citizens are also trying to get 'big solar' on the agenda. They've combined with Get Up! To produce a 'Homegrown Power Plan' .
Here's their video-
It seeks to remove roadblocks , 'reboot the system' [e.g. end the situation where people only get a derisory amount for energy they sell back from to power companies, that then flog it on at 'normal' prices to other customers) and repower the country" (concentrated solar thermal etc).
These sorts of normative entrepreneurship efforts are crucial to any transition, be it energy, food or whatever. They often get written out of the official histories (we can't have citizens making a difference, after all, they might get wrong ideas about democracy and their own power!], but boy do they matter…
There's a Solar Citizens event on October 31 in Adelaide. Sadly there was no time for questions – I'd have asked about their relationship (competition?) with BZE…
Solar Citizens
Australia, coal mining, history of climate change, our doomedness
But which BIT of big business gets its way in which circumstances, eh?
October 21, 2016 marchudson	Leave a comment
The State is merely the committee for managing the affairs of the bourgeoisie, innit? The evil moustache-twirling CEOs get together and tell their political meat-puppet underlings what to do. Simples.
Well, sometimes, but every so often maybe it is more complicated. I'm collecting examples of these every-so-often moments for my PhD thesis. I have quite a nice collection, especially from the years 1996-2007, when little Johnnie Howard was a staunch and effective opponent of climate action.
Here's a new example, from a Marian Wilkinson 2007 article..
But [Hugh] Morgan's real success was not in the propaganda war but in the boardroom. In 2000 the Business Council of Australia was struggling to come to grips with the challenge of climate change. [Paul] Anderson, then chief executive of BHP and a key member of the council, called a meeting of the leading business players to discuss their response.
"I held a party and nobody came," he says. "They sent some low-level people that almost read from things that had been given to them by their lawyers. Things like, 'Our company does not acknowledge that carbon dioxide is an issue and, if it is, we're not the cause of it and we wouldn't admit to it anyway.'"
While Anderson was no fan of the Kyoto agreement, he was convinced climate change was real and BHP should get out in front on the issue. He believed the solution was a carbon tax that would put a cost on greenhouse gas pollution to force down emissions.
Wilkinson, M. 2007. Delayed reaction. Sydney Morning Herald, 24 March. Reprinted in Jones, T. (ed). 2008.The Best Australian Political Writing 2008. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. Pp.155-163.
coal mining, history of climate change
The upside of coal
September 25, 2016 marchudson	3 Comments
See below for a truly extraordinary coal advert from 1975, where, looking for fresh workers, the UK National Coal Board basically says "this job is a fanny magnet."
Meanwhile, I just finished Evelyn Waugh's Put Out More Flags, which some say is his best. Published in 1942, it is about the phoney war – it starts in September 1939 and finishes, mostly, with the British expedition to Norway in April 1940. It's bleak, funny, scathing etc. Waugh definitely on top form. This bit caught my eye, and may turn up either in my thesis or something else about the 'value' of fossil fuels.'
The Cafe Royal, perhaps because of its distant associations with Oscar and Aubrey, was one of the places where Ambrose preened himself, spread his feathers and felt free to take wing. He had left his persecution mania downstairs with his hat and umbrella. He defied the universe.
'The decline of England, my dear Geoffrey,' he said, 'dates from the day we abandoned coal fuel. No, I'm not talking about distressed areas, but about distressed souls, my dear. We used to live in a fog, the splendid, luminous, tawny fogs of our early childhood. The golden aura of the Golden Age. Think of it, Geoffrey, there are children now coming to manhood who never saw a London fog. We designed a city which was meant to be seen in a fog. We had a foggy habit of life and a rich, obscure, choking literature. The great catch in the throat of English lyric poetry is just fog, my dear, on the vocal chords. And out of the fog we could rule the world; we were a Voice, like the Voice of Sinai from a cloud. Then, my dear Geoffrey,' said Ambrose, wagging an accusing finger and fixing Mr Bentley with a black accusing eye, as though the poor publisher were personally responsible for the whole thing, 'then, some busybody invents electricity or oil fuel or whatever it is they use nowadays. The fog lifts, the world sees us as we are, and worse still we see ourselves as we are. It was a carnival ball, my dear, which when the guests unmasked at midnight, was found to be composed entirely of imposters. Such a rumpus, my dear.'
Evelyn Waugh, Put Out More Flags (Spring, Ch 4)
Now, that extraordinary advert. Brace yourselves.
Basil SealEvelyn WaughPut out more flags
academia, coal mining, history of climate change, Uncategorized
My "Three Minute Thesis" effort on #climate
June 9, 2016 marchudson	2 Comments
Here's my performance in the University of Manchester final of "Three Minute Thesis." (Thank you very much to the organisers – and the training we received was fab).
I did okay but on reflection, I tried to do too much – a history of climate science and policy, an explanation of issue lifecycle models, AND the Australian Coal industry's responses. I had one second left; without the pauses, I'd have been able to get in the concluding "climate change is about to wipe the stupid grin off everyone's face" line better. Still would not have won – the winner did a brilliant job, and thoroughly deserved her win.
NB In three minutes you have to make some blunt claims. I'd be uncomfortable saying the Australian Coal Industry as a whole funded climate denialists in an academic paper, for example, though individuals and some actors within it certainly have. Three minutes is not long…


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Following Raster's advice is a good plan, with a few extra suggestions thrown in.
The Candida Clear is part of your problem, so are the multiple vitamins. The Candida Clear contains both rice flour and gum arabic. Gum arabic is a mixture of long and short-chain sugars plus glycoproteins. Gycoproteins are proteins which have sugars attached to them. I wouldn't waste another dime on this product, and I would throw away whatever is on hand.
I would stop it right away.
You could add avocados, rutabagas, turnips, kefir and homemade yogurt to your diet to make up for the foods you're removing. All of these are antifungals in one way or another. The kefir/yogurt will also add beneficial bacteria to your system which is what you are lacking.
The fact that the 'curry takeaway' took weeks for you to get over is a sure sign that the infestation is still in it's pathogenic, aggressive state.
I don't know which type of takeaway you had, but I've never seen a recipe for the curry sauce that didn't contain flour. Your Candida had a feast that day.


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French luxury goods group Kering set up its own eyewear business to better control distribution and pocket rich profit margins, turning a 350 million euro Gucci licence with Safilo into a four-year production deal with the company.
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