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Space telescope launched Christmas morning on daring quest to behold 1st stars
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(AP) — The world's largest and most powerful space telescope rocketed away Saturday on a high-stakes quest to behold light from the first stars and galaxies and scour the universe for hints of life.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope soared from French Guiana on South America's northeastern coast, riding a European Ariane rocket into the Christmas morning sky.
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The $10 billion observatory hurtled toward its destination 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) away, or more than four times beyond the moon. It will take a month to get there and another five months before its infrared eyes are ready to start scanning the cosmos.
In this photo provided by NASA, Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope onboard, is seen at the launch pad, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021, at Europe's Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. The James Webb Space Telescope has infrared vision, allowing it to peer deeper into the universe, all the way to the first stars and galaxies. Liftoff is set for Saturday morning, Dec. 24, on a French rocket from South America. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
First, the telescope's enormous mirror and sunshield need to unfurl; they were folded origami-style to fit into the rocket's nose cone.
"It's going to give us a better understanding of our universe and our place in it: who we are, what we are, the search that's eternal," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said earlier this week.
But he cautioned: "When you want a big reward, you have to usually take a big risk."
This combination of images from an animation made availalbe by NASA in December 2021 shows the unfolding of the components of the James Webb Space Telescope. Webb is so big that it had to be folded origami-style to fit into the nose cone of the Ariane rocket. (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab via AP)
This March 5, 2020 photo made availalble by NASA shows the main mirror assembly of the James Webb Space Telescope during testing at a Northrop Grumman facility in Redondo Beach, Calif. Webb will attempt to look back in time 13.7 billion years, a mere 100 million years after the universe-forming Big Bang as the original stars were forming. (Chris Gunn/NASA via AP)
Intended as a successor to the aging Hubble Space Telescope, the long-delayed James Webb is named after NASA's administrator during the 1960s. NASA partnered with the European and Canadian space agencies to build and launch the new 7-ton telescope, with thousands of people from 29 countries working on it since the 1990s.
With the launch falling on Christmas and a global surge in COVID-19 cases, there were fewer spectators at the French Guiana launch site than expected. Nelson bowed out along with a congressional delegation and many contractors who worked on the telescope.
In this image released by NASA, Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope onboard, stands in the final assembly building ahead of the planned roll to the launch pad, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021, at Europe's Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana.. Set to soar after years of delay, the James Webb Space Telescope will seek out the faint, twinkling light from the first stars and galaxies, providing a glimpse into cosmic creation. (Chris Gunn/NASA via AP)
Around the world, astronomers had eagerly waited to see Webb finally taking flight after years of setbacks.
Last-minute technical snags bumped the launch nearly a week, then gusty wind pushed it to Christmas.
Inside Launch Control, there was a smattering of Santa hats. Cheers and applause erupted in the center following Webb's flawless launch, with jubilant scientists embracing one another and repeated exclamations of "Go Webb!
"We launch for humanity this morning," said Arianespace CEO Stephane Israel. "After Webb, we will never see the skies in quite the same way."
The telescope's showpiece: a gold-plated mirror more than 21 feet (6.5 meters) across.
Protecting the observatory is a wispy, five-layered sunshield, vital for keeping the light-gathering mirror and heat-sensing infrared detectors at subzero temperatures. At 70 feet by 46 feet (21 meters by 14 meters), it's the size of a tennis court.
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If all goes well, the sunshield will be opened three days after liftoff, taking at least five days to unfold and lock into place. Next, the mirror segments should open up like the leaves of a drop-leaf table, 12 days or so into the flight.
In all, hundreds of release mechanisms need to work — perfectly — in order for the telescope to succeed.
"Like nothing we've done before," said NASA program director Greg Robinson.
Retired astronaut-astronomer Steven Hawley is more stressed over Webb than he was for Hubble, which he released into orbit from space shuttle Discovery in 1990. That's because Webb will be too far away for rescuing, as was necessary when Hubble turned out to have blurry vision from a defective mirror.
NASA is shooting for 10 years of operational life from Webb. Engineers deliberately left the fuel tank accessible for a top-off by visiting spacecraft, if and when such technology becomes available.
When he released Hubble, "I never would have believed that it would still be going strong almost 32 years later," Hawley, now professor emeritus at the University of Kansas, said in an email. "I hope that in 32 years we'll be able to say that JWST did as well."


Analysis of biomagnification of persistent organic pollutants in the aquatic food web of the Mekong Delta, South Vietnam using stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes.
The present study elucidated the biomagnification profiles of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) through a tropical aquatic food web of Vietnam based on trophic characterization using stable nitrogen analysis. Various biological samples collected from the main stream of the Mekong Delta were provided for the analysis for both POPs, and stable nitrogen and carbon isotope ratios. Of the POPs analyzed, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and its metabolites (DDTs) were the predominant contaminants with concentrations ranging from 0.058 to 12 ng/g wet weight, followed by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at 0.017-8.9 ng/g, chlordane compounds (CHLs) at 0.0043-0.76 ng/g, tris-4-chlorophenyl methane (TCPMe) at N.D.-0.26 ng/g, hexachlorocyclohexane isomers (HCHs) at N.D.-0.20 ng/g and hexachlorobenzene (HCB) at 0.0021-0.096 ng/g. Significant positive increases of concentrations in DDTs, CHLs, and TCPMe against the stable nitrogen ratio (delta(15)N) were detected, while, concentrations of HCHs and HCB showed no significant increase. The slopes of the regression equations between the log-transformed concentrations of these POPs and delta(15)N were used as indices of biomagnification. The slopes of the POPs for which positive biomagnification was detected ranged from 0.149 to 0.177 on a wet weight basis. The slopes of DDTs and CHLs were less than those reported for a marine food web of the Arctic Ocean, indicating that less biomagnification had occurred in the tropical food web. Of the isomers of CHLs, unlike the studies of the Arctic Ocean, oxychlordane did not undergo significant biomagnification through the food web of the Mekong Delta. This difference is considered to be due to a lack of marine mammals, which might metabolize cis- and trans-chlordane to oxychlordane, in the Mekong Delta ecosystem. The biomagnification profile of TCPMe is reported for the first time in the present study.
Department of Life Environment Conservation, Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University, Tarumi 3-5-7, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8566, Japan.
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Risks rise of U.S.-Turkey clash in Syria – Bloomberg
Feb 05 2018 01:14 Gmt+3
Last Updated On: Feb 05 2018 01:18 Gmt+3
Talks between Turkish and U.S. politicians and generals do not seem to have resolved the fundamental argument that risks bringing NATO's two biggest armies into direct conflict in northern Syria, Bloomberg said.
Turkey launched an offensive against Kurdish fighters in the northwestern Syrian enclave of Afrin two weeks ago. No U.S. troops are present in Afrin, but U.S. special forces are alongside the same Kurdish force around the town of Manbij and other areas to the east.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said the operation would soon extend further east from Afrin to Manbij, regardless of the U.S. presence.
"We'll press against terrorists without taking into consideration who's next to them," Bloomberg quoted Erdoğan as saying.
Turkey considers the Syrian Kurdish militia as part of a separatist Kurdish group it has been fighting inside Turkey for more than 30 years.
The United States, however, relied on Kurdish fighters to largely defeat Islamic State, and may now extend that support as a bulwark against a resurgent Syrian government and its backers, Iran and Russia.
Turkey feels betrayed by the United States over its alliance with the Syrian Kurds, Nihat Ali Özcan, an analyst at the Ankara-based Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey, told Bloomberg.
That is why "the risk of a friendly fire between Turkish and U.S. troops can't be dismissed unless one of the sides back down," Özcan was quoted as saying.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-04/risk-of-conflict-in-northern-syria-between-u-s-turkey-rising
SDF says it withdraws only from part of stretch along Turkey-Syria border
Has Turkey's military operation in Syria achieved its first targets?
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Epworth Knowledge Bank: Co-occurrence of posttraumatic stress symptoms, pain, and disability 12 months after traumatic injury.
Title: Co-occurrence of posttraumatic stress symptoms, pain, and disability 12 months after traumatic injury.
Abstract: Introduction: Chronic pain is common after traumatic injury and frequently co-occurs with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and PTSD symptoms (PTSS). Objectives: This study sought to understand the association between probable PTSD, PTSS, and pain. Methods: Four hundred thirty-three participants were recruited from the Victorian Orthopaedic Trauma Outcomes Registry and Victorian State Trauma Registry and completed outcome measures. Participants were predominantly male (n = 324, 74.8%) and aged 17-75 years at the time of their injury (M = 44.83 years, SD = 14.16). Participants completed the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist, Brief Pain Inventory, Pain Catastrophizing Scale, Pain Self-Efficacy Questionnaire, Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia, EQ-5D-3L and Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire 12 months after hospitalization for traumatic injury. Data were linked with injury and hospital admission data from the trauma registries. Results: Those who reported having current problems with pain were 3 times more likely to have probable PTSD than those without pain. Canonical correlation showed that pain outcomes (pain severity, interference, catastrophizing, kinesiophobia, self-efficacy, and disability) were associated with all PTSSs, but especially symptoms of cognition and affect, hyperarousal, and avoidance. Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, on the contrary, were predominantly associated with high catastrophizing and low self-efficacy. When controlling for demographics, pain and injury severity, depression, and self-efficacy explained the greatest proportion of the total relationship between PTSS and pain-related disability. Conclusion: Persons with both PTSS and chronic pain after injury may need tailored interventions to overcome fear-related beliefs and to increase their perception that they can engage in everyday activities, despite their pain.
Affiliated Organisations: School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Caulfield Pain Management and Research Centre, Caulfield Hospital, Caulfield, VIC, Australia.
Institute for Safety, Compensation and Recovery Research, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Department of Community Emergency Health and Paramedic Practice, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.


I'm excited to have the opportunity to jump into a firm that so closely matches my professional interests.
Joanne (Jo) Nazareth recently graduated from Dartmouth College where she pursued a double major in Economics and Environmental Studies. During her undergraduate career, she engaged in forest biogeochemistry research and served as the sustainability chair of her sorority. She has previously interned with CBRE's telecommunications department and The Rock Creek Group's Environmental, Social and Governance team which sparked her passion for "green" finance.
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Situated just off Gaborone's main road and not too far away from the airport, North Manor Inn Lodge is the ideal choice for corporate and leisure travellers. It offers great bed and breakfast accommodation to guests visiting this part of Botswana.
This comfortably furnished inn has three well-appointed guest rooms, of which all have a variety of bed configurations and en-suite bathrooms. Each air-conditioned room has a TV with DStv access, tea and coffee facilities, a work desk and Wi-Fi Internet access.
Guests can start their day off with a delicious breakfast in the sunny dining area. Guests can then relax beside the swimming pool while enjoying the tranquillity of the area. The friendly staff and efficient service will ensure that guests have a pleasant stay.
The rooms and facilities are up to standard, but it all ends there. That is all i can say about North Manor.No Wi-Fi, even though they said it was available. The staff is not very helpful, and the rooms are not cleaned unless on request, let alone changing the linen. All in all, the lodge seems like there is no management, or ownership for that matter.The pool is ok, but needs to cleaned everyday, as lots of insects fall due to heat.
North Manor Inn Lodge is 2.2km from the centre of Gaborone North , the nearest airport 6.7km (Sir Seretse Khama International Airport).


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Cosmopol is a shopping mall in Coacalco de Berriozábal, State of Mexico, in the metropolitan area of Mexico City, along . The mall was opened in September 2015. It is anchored by Liverpool and Sears, and it has over 210 stores and services and 2,900 parking lots.

History and construction

For the construction of the shopping center, a  site was used. The space is located at  #1, in the municipality of Coacalco de Berriozábal, in the State of Mexico, north of Mexico City. The main facade measures  and the mall has a depth of  below street level. It has three levels and two basement levels for parking, plus an external parking lot behind the center. Its total area is . Inside the shopping center, there are two sculptures, one by Sebastián and the other by Tere Metta.

The area is serviced by the State of Mexico's Mexibús, a bus rapid transit system, at Coacalco Berriozábal station. There is a residential center named Cosmopol Lifestyle behind the shopping center.

Incidents
During the afternoon of 20 July 2017, a group of people went on a shooting spree at an iShopMixup storeand they stole multiple electronic devices. On the night of 11 September 2017, a group of people robbed the jewelry store Bizarro. On 2 February 2022, two people robbed the Sanborns store and stole cell phones.

Gallery

References

External links

2015 establishments in Mexico
Coacalco de Berriozábal
Shopping malls established in 2015
Shopping malls in Greater Mexico City

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Q: Not able to capture with capture groups Within each text file, being worked with, there are two pages of listings. They are referenced identically using the same reference numbers (001,002, ... etc) The aim is to separate these two listings and store separately in an array. I have simplified the problem for testing.
# short listings (an unhelpful text file listing structure. But ain't that life? )
# "001 First in listing one 002 Second in listing one 003 Third in listing one 001 First in listing two 002 Second in listing two 003 Third in listing two

# read shortListings from file
$listings = Get-Content -Path C:\test\test6\shortListings.txt
[string[]]$result = $null

# regular expression where I am trying to separate listing 'ones' & listing 'twos' into string array $result

# $result[0] = "001 First in listing one 002 Second in listing one 003 Third in listing one"
# $result[1] = "001 First in listing two 002 Second in listing two 003 Third in listing two"

$regex = '(?s)(001.*?)((?=001.*?))'

$result = $listings | Select-String -Pattern $regex -AllMatches | ForEach-Object { $_.Matches.Value}

# Okay. That's listing one. But how do I get listing two?
$result[0]

This is close regex101 example Listings 'two' string can be accessed via $2. But $1 just gives both listings. I'm thinking these are referred as regex backreferences I have used them in Powershell to make replacements. Directly referencing the capture groups. For example:
-CReplace "([A-Z])\'.\s*([A-Z][a-z])",'$1 $2'

But not when accessing Powershell Object Match Values. If anyone can suggest what's missing here it would be appreciated.
Additional Information
This demonstration is a simplified version. In reality this code is part of a Powershell function among many other functions called by a separate script. Also the 'listings', in reality, are NUM NAME address occupations. There are no 'one' or 'two' to differentiate between them.
The issue is: that I feel I'm close to the solution. The following image shows that I can access the second listing using the $ in regex101. My code shows I can access the first listing via Matches[0]

A: Here is one way this could be done, using a combination of -split and Group-Object:
$result = (Get-Content shortListings.txt -Raw) -split '\s*(?=\d{3})' -ne '' |
    Group-Object { [regex]::Match($_, '\w+$').Value } -AsHashTable -AsString

However using this method, the Values of the Hashtable would be an array of strings instead of a single string. You can however -join them later:
PS ..\pwsh> $result

Name                 Value
----                 -----
one                  {001 First in listing one, 002 Second...
two                  {001 First in listing two, 002 Second...

PS ..\pwsh> $result['one']

001 First in listing one
002 Second in listing one
003 Third in listing one

PS ..\pwsh> $result['one'] -join ' '

001 First in listing one 002 Second in listing one 003 Third in listing one

A: # read shortListings from file
$listings = Get-Content -Path C:\test\test6\shortListings.txt

# regex produces 3 groups 0=complete listing 1=listings in one 2=listings in two
$regex = '(?s)(001.*?)(?=001.*?)(001.*?$)'

# access group matches using array $line
[string[]]$line = $null
$line = $listings | Select-String -AllMatches -Pattern $regex | ForEach-Object {$_.Matches.groups}

for ($i = 0; $i -lt $line.Count; $i++) {
    if ($i -eq 0) {
        # do nothing for complete listings
    }
    else {
        Write-Host "group:"$i $line[$i]
    }

}

Output:
group: 1 001 First in listing one 002 Second in listing one 003 Third in listing one
group: 2 001 First in listing two 002 Second in listing two 003 Third in listing two

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Автофрадат () — мужское имя иранского происхождения. Известные носители:
 Автофрадат (IV век до н. э.) — персидский сатрап Лидии и Ионии.
 Афтофрадат (IV век до н. э.) — персидский, затем македонский сатрап тапуров, а также мардов.


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Q: Haskell-ish way to define values for enums I'm looking for a Haskell-ish way to define values for enums. Here is what I currently have:
data Binop
   = Plus
   | Minus
   | Times
   | Divide
   -- deriving ( Show ) <--- removed this

instance Show Binop where
    show Plus   = "+"
    show Minus  = "-"
    show Times  = "*"
    show Divide = "/"

It would be nice to have the constant values ("+", "-" etc.) in the Binop data type.

A: What you wrote seems fine, modulo the usual complaint about a strong convention: the Show instance should produce valid Haskell code that reproduces the value. I might consider returning a Char instead of a String unless you're sure that String is better, so something like:
name :: Binop -> Char
name = \case
    Plus -> '+'
    Minus -> '-'
    Times -> '*'
    Divide -> '/'

If there's a lot of them, you could consider making a lookup table for compactness, though I'm not at all confident that this will be more efficient.
name :: Binop -> Char
name = (listArray (minBound, maxBound) "+-*/" !)

I guess you'd need to define an Ix instance as well, but you can reuse the Ix Int and Enum Binop instances to make that pretty short; or use the same basic idea but backed by a Map instead of an Array.

A: (+), (-) etc are not "values" that you want since they are functions, and you can't compare equality between functions like you would do with "normal values". Of course, you can create a function that translates the Binop to the corresponding binary operator function, and this could come handy when you implement evaluation-related functions.
However, Haskell Enums do come with intrinsic indices:
fromEnum :: Enum a => a -> Int

In this way, you can have fromEnum Plus = 0, fromEnum Minus = 1, and so on. All you need to do is deriving Enum immediately after defining the data Binop.


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Engineering and Technology Trends to Watch in 2020
MyAgilePLM
Jan 16 th, 2020
What's in store for engineering and technology in 2020? Look no further!
We're laying out some quick, key trends you'll want to monitor this year whether you're still studying, relatively new to your field or a seasoned technology and engineering veteran.
Reflecting on the past year, and the past decade as a whole, E&T editor Tim Fryer said the sphere of technology and engineering today depicts a long-term vision that has come to fruition.
[It] has changed out of all recognition. Industry 4.0 has made 2010's factory of the future the factory of the present for 2020. The digital thread that runs through design, manufacture, supply chains, maintenance and full product life cycle has evolved incredibly quickly and is having an effect on every job function, every product and every business.
The Internet of Things, Augmented Reality, electric vehicles, drones, self-heating concrete, robotics and advanced uses for GPS are just some of the major developments which will dominate in 2020.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is altering the world of technology and software engineering as we know it. In fact, smart technology now intercepts so much of the world at work and home.
Interesting Engineering claims IoT is predicted to increase company revenues by as much as $344 billion and offer cost savings of $177 billion in 2020 alone. The total installed base of (IoT) connected devices is projected to amount to 75 billion worldwide by 2025 — a fivefold increase in ten years.
According to BBVA Openmind:
"IoT and smart devices are already increasing the performance metrics of major US-based factories. They are in the hands of employees, covering routine management issues and boosting their productivity by 40-60%."
If you want to enter or progress in the field of IoT, then make sure that you gather as much knowledge as you can relating to:
Electric Vehicles (EVs)
There are some big names coming to the electric vehicle (EV) market. Among these is Tesla's new major competitor BYTON, which is set to start mass production of their EV later this year after introducing its concept in 2018.
The next 10 years should also see a massive increase in the number of EVs on the roads in general, which means a lot of movement and scope for growth in the automotive engineering world.
Indeed, by 2030 it has been suggested that there will be around 125 million EVs out there and in the UK alone. The government is pushing to ban all petrol and diesel cards by 2040, with at least half replaced by 2030.
Sources say it's also worth monitoring the progress of "better batteries, the continued roll out of charging tech, autonomous driving, solar-powered EVs, electric planes and better software" when it comes to this sphere.
Drone capabilities are expanding every year, providing education, career and investment opportunities. In 2020, we'll see rapid development when it comes to drone accuracy and performance, whilst the industry as a whole is expected to rise from $2 billion to $10 billion in the next decade.
As their presence increases across a variety of industries, young engineers will "need to know the latest UAV technology, safety procedures and privacy policies", says technical marketing manager at RS Components, Simon Duggleby.
Self Heating Concrete
Many technology and engineering industry experts believe we'll start seeing self-heating concrete being increasingly used on roads, as well as in buildings and homes.
Benefits of this technology include:
Faster construction times
Improved quality.
Since concrete is the most widely produced and consumed material in the construction industry, many believe that by 2030 we'll be using about 5 billion metric tons per year.
Fanuc 430 robot. Model by Ken Schulze, rendered by Indrek Narusk.
Robotics are increasingly being used in the technology and engineering sector (among countless others), with the market expected to grow by 175% over the next decade.
Robotics Process Automation (RPA) is another engineering trend to watch. While automation is a well established concept (since its implementation can improve efficiency, overall quality and net profit), RPA is taking the sector to new heights.
Aaron Bultman, director of product at Nintex explains:
The RPA market will continue its rapid growth in 2020 as more enterprises come to understand both the power of process automation overall and the number of legacy processes for which RPA is an effective answer.
What's in Store for 2020
Engineering is a wide-ranging field with many sub sectors. Moreover, technology is so deeply intertwined in the engineering industry (and vice versa) that each area greatly informs the other to a greater degree than ever before in today's modern world.
There have been many changes to these areas in recent years and the future holds even more scope for change and transformation. As we head into a new decade, where its predecessor set the groundwork for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it will be both exciting and intriguing to see what unfolds.


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The Father Of What?
It seems as though every genre – from music to science – has a 'father' and sometimes a 'mother'. The father of country music is Meridian's Jimmie Rodgers. The father of the blues is Florence's W.C. Handy.
The father of modern day gynecology, J. Marion Sims, is remembered in statue on the capitol grounds in Montgomery. He isn't actually from Alabama and was only here for a few years. He came here and opened a private hospital for women in the mid-1800s.
The plaque at the statue's base reads:
Montgomery 1848-1849.
Operations he devised cured a then-considered hopeless malady
gaining him fame as a benefactor of women.
Founded Women's Hospital, City of New York – 1855.
Decorated by Emperor France, Kings of Belgium, Spain, Portugal, and Italy.
There's another statue of him at Central Park in NYC. When he moved to New York following his time in Alabama, he founded the Women's Hospital, then helped found the NY Cancer Hospital which today is Sloane-Kettering. Today on that site is the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
What makes it curious is that there's a fair amount of debate about him. He did a lot of study on the 'hopeless malady' that the plaque referred to on three Alabama slave women, one of which he operated on around thirty times. This condition was more common when women went unassisted in labor and childbirth that would sometimes go on for days.
While it's uncommon in industrialized nations simply because of the level of care and attention mothers receive, women still suffer from this in other parts of the world (between two and three million women, according to Rep. Rosa DeLauro's bill that's in the House right now).
What made me think about this statue was that there was an Op-Ed in the Sunday NYT a couple of weeks ago written by Nicholas Kristof about this condition and a hospital to treat it just opened in Danja, Niger. Around 1000 or so women will be treated here yearly. Most of the comments in response to Kristof's piece were intelligent and give more information about how to help.
I saw a documentary about it on PBS' Nova back in September (it's good):
http://www-tc.pbs.org/s3/pbs.videoportal-prod.cdn/media/swf/PBSPlayer.swf
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Music for the End of Winter
John Halle: Etude 2000
Howard Frazin (born 1962): Music for the End of Winter
Frank Felice: three pieces from banff
Michael Schelle (born 1950): Hammerstein
Daniel Koontz (born 1969): Improvements for Piano
Kate Boyd, piano
Ravello RR7806
This is a pleasing, punchy, original (though somewhat short, at under 50 minutes) recital of contemporary piano music played by Kate Boyd from the small Ravello label at the Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall, Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana. It's a warm and intimate acoustic and Boyd's piano is closely miked to add immediacy and presence to a style of playing that's inviting without cloying. An advocate of new (piano) music, Boyd also works with small groups and with music from the 18th to 21st centuries.
Her playing is accomplished, persuasive, forthright but expressive; as though she's playing for your ears only. Some listeners might find over the course of multiple exposures to the music that Boyd brings insufficient dynamic variety to her playing. Yet she brings to her interpretations true insights as to how the composers (all apparently living) would want their music to sound. Some of the tempi and textures are demanding. Boyd negotiates these passages with grace. She also tackles the quotation-like movements, particularly in Schelle's Hammerstein… Liszt, Rachmaninov, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Bach and so on, with subtlety and a sophistication that quite makes them work. This particular piece, this genre indeed – homage not pastiche – infuses the CD with its unpretentious joy at fitting short form to concentrated content and taking the wry and the personal musing as seriously as they deserve. Boyd is able to respect and celebrate this tone through her technique and sensitive resonance with the composers' intentions throughout.
John Halle's work is interesting: he's as much a theoretician and humorist as a composer, his work breaks little new ground but – at under four minutes here – Etude 2000 serves as a suitable and happy call to attention. The work from which the CD takes its title is next: the five short movements of Howard Frazin's Music for the End of Winter are unashamedly fragmentary and somewhat impressionistic… "the remnants of an anxious and uncertain inspiration." They are far from tentative and portray the sparseness of the season they allude to well. Again, Boyd's approach is sensitive yet without sentiment.
Frank Felice's three pieces from banff (initial lower case "b" intended) are equally unrelated and hail from the world of the study too. The dozen Improvements for Piano by Daniel Koontz are perhaps the most satisfying, certainly the most impressive, set on this CD. Based on very pianistic improvisations, they challenge the player's technique. Boyd's response is more than adequate. These two are studies, perhaps, in succeeding with them as a player. Therein lies the player's "improvement". There is much that is superficially plain, only marginally difficult to navigate; yet which, upon closer inspection and repeated hearing, truly stretches our expectations of the concert piece and the pianism of the performer.
A nice, self-contained, unpretentious CD, then, which showcases good contemporary (though hardly avant-garde) piano composition. The acoustic is all but flawless; the booklet nicely-produced, though a little short on detail at under six pages in total. This is a self-contained, penetrating and very enjoyable CD which can be safely recommended to lovers of the contemporary piano – especially for the work of modern composers whose work doesn't get the exposure that Kate Boyd conclusively demonstrates it should.
Copyright © 2011, Mark Sealey.


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George Ogden Abell (Los Angeles, 1927. március 1. – Encino, Kalifornia, 1983. október 7.) amerikai csillagász a UCLA-n. Neve az Abell-galaxishalmazok kifejezés révén közismert.

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Legismertebb munkája a galaxishalmazokkal kapcsolatos, melyhez a Palomar Sky Survey adatait használta fel.

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 Róla nevezték el a 3449 Abell kisbolygót.
 Ugyancsak róla nevezték el az angliai George Abell Csillagvizsgálót.

További információk
 QJRAS 30 (1989) 283
 University of California: In Memoriam, 1985

Irodalom
Abell, George, "Exploration of the Universe", Holt, Rinehart and Winston (Copyright 1964)
 Abell, G.O., Morrison, D., and Wolff, S.C., Exploration of the Universe, Saunders College Pub; 6th/Rev edition (February, 1993)
 Abell, G.O., Wolff, S.C., and Morrison, D., Realm of the Universe, Saunders College Publishing; 5th ed., 1994 edition (January, 1994)

 Abell, G.O., A catalog of rich clusters of galaxies, American Astronomical Society (1989) ASIN B000726Y06

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Tomorrow Zimbabwe marks its second independence day without Robert Mugabe at the helm. The end of his reign, and the ascendance of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, raised hope that the country was set for a brighter future. Nothing of the sort has happened, and as Tapiwa Chagonda argues, unless some serious interventions are made the situation will only worsen. Separately, he looks at the challenges facing the largest opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change-Alliance.
Could things indeed get worse? Sadly, the answer is yes. David B. Moore writes that Mnangagwa's faction of the ruling Zanu-PF can't police themselves, let alone the country. For his part, Brian Raftopoulos says Mnangagwa's regime has yet to show that it's any different from Mugabe's.
On the economic front, Robert Rotberg explains what the Mnangagwa administration must do before it can begin to rebuild the economy. Elsewhere, he sets out what the key policy focus areas should be. On a separate issue, Candice C. Mtwazi examines Zimbabwe's punitive law around the transmission of HIV. She also explains why gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people might be offered better protection following the passing of a new law.
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What needs to be done to stop Zimbabwe's violent meltdown
Tapiwa Chagonda, University of Johannesburg
To stem the tide of the current crisis before it totally overwhelms President Mnangagwa and the ruling Zanu-PF, he needs to immediately cease the brutal onslaught on civilians.
Responses to Zimbabwe highlight gulf between the region and the west
Brian Raftopoulos, University of the Free State
The debate on sanctions on Zimbabwe has been lost in the southern African region and on the continent.
Zimbabwe's MDC faces a leadership contest. But can it be peaceful?
Nelson Chamisa has the opportunity to foster peace, tolerance and democracy within Zimbabwe's main opposition party.
Fantasy that Mnangagwa would fix Zimbabwe now fully exposed
David B. Moore, University of Johannesburg
The Zimbabwean government's brutal response to protests has dashed hopes for democracy under President Mnangagwa.
Zimbabwe's economy is collapsing: why Mnangagwa doesn't have the answers
Robert Rotberg, Harvard Kennedy School
Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is struggling to overcome the national economic destruction wreaked on Zimbabwe over two decades under Robert Mugabe.
Bold steps Mnangagwa should be taking instead of fiddling with the petrol price
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's decision to double the price of petrol shows very poor judgement and bad leadership.
Zimbabwe's LGBT community: why civil rights and health issues go hand in hand
Candice Chikura-Mtwazi, University of Kent
Zimbabwe's new president, Emmerson Mnagagwga has offered a glimmer of hope to LGBT people in the country.
Outdated, punitive laws are encouraging HIV stigma in Zimbabwe
Gains made in the fight against HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe could be reversed unless a legal provision is revised.
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L'Epis est un mélange de piments, d'ail et d'herbes aromatiques utilisé comme base de goût pour de nombreux aliments de la cuisine haïtienne. Certains l'appellent une sauce pesto. Il est également connu sous les noms d'epise et de zepis.

Histoire
L'epis a des origines Taïnos et africaines. Il présente également des similitudes avec le sofregit qui est utilisé dans la cuisine hispanique. Cette utilisation d'une base aromatique est courante dans la cuisine antillaise.
Ingrédients

Les épis contiennent souvent du persil, des oignons verts, de l'ail, du jus d'agrumes et des scotch bonnets. Il existe de nombreuses recettes d'epis, car traditionnellement, les femmes haïtiennes cuisinaient et avaient leur recette personnelle d'épis.

Préparation
Traditionnellement, les epis sont préparés à l'aide d'un grand mortier et d'un pilon en bois (appelé munsh pilon). Aujourd'hui, ils sont souvent préparés à l'aide d'un mixeur. Les ingrédients sont mélangés jusqu'à ce que la consistance soit aussi lisse que souhaitée.

Utilisation
Il peut être utilisé comme marinade pour la viande. Il peut également mariner le poisson. Il est également ajouté pour parfumer un certain nombre de plats haïtiens, notamment le riz et les haricots, les soupes et les ragoûts. C'est un moyen pratique d'utiliser les saveurs des herbes et des épices fraîches dans la cuisine quotidienne. De nombreux Haïtiens ont des epis à portée de main pour les utiliser dans divers plats.

Conservation
Les epis peuvent se conserver jusqu'à trois mois au réfrigérateur, mais ce temps varie en fonction des ingrédients utilisés. L'acidité aide à empêcher les ingrédients de périr. Les epis se conservent indéfiniment au congélateur et ne transmettent pas leur odeur aux autres articles congelés. Les epis peuvent être répartis dans un bac à glaçons et congelés, de sorte que les cubes congelés puissent être utilisés par la suite en cuisine.

Notes et références

Cuisine haïtienne


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"Virginia's Struggle With Guns": Taking A Stand On Gun Control To Dismay Of Gun-Rights Activists And Conservatives
Virginia is going through some soul searching on gun control although it is not necessarily related to the wave of mass shootings plaguing the country.
Richmond Police Chief Alfred Durham is considering trying to revive "Project Exile," which tapped considerable federal law enforcement resources back in 1997 to combat the city's then-extraordinary murder rate. Richmond recently has seen a big spike in inner-city shootings.
In a separate initiative, Attorney Gen. Mark Herring (D) is ending reciprocal concealed-carry privileges with 25 states.
Herring's move, which would start in February, is the less-impactful of the two ideas. It is largely symbolic and is designed to show that Virginia is taking a stand on gun control to the dismay of gun-rights activists and conservative legislators.
Durham's idea has a lot of merit. This past weekend, Richmond saw five shootings and three deaths. They were garden-variety incidents that involved petty arguments and the like. In one, two young men allegedly started shooting it out and a 12-year-old girl was hit and killed.
At a press conference Monday, Durham suggested a return to "Project Exile," which successfully stemmed Richmond's 1997 murder rate that, per capita, became among the highest in the country. That year, the city saw 140 murders, 122 of them gun-related. So, city and state leaders asked federal authorities to step in and help prosecute those who use firearms in crimes.
According to the terms of Project Exile, anyone charged with using a gun in a crime would go into the tougher federal court system instead of being tried locally. He would face immediate federal prosecution and, if convicted, go to prison for five years in addition to any other incarceration time.
Another part of the project involved mass media. To get the message out and try to get pistol-packing hotheads and would-be armed robbers to think twice, authorities rented billboard space and took out other ad spots.
The result? Three hundred and seventy two people were indicted for federal gun violations, 440 illegal guns were seized, 247 people were convicted and 196 convicts served about 4.5 years in prison. After one year, Richmond homicides declined 33 percent and armed robberies went down 30 percent. The next year, were down 21 percent.
Over the next several years, the homicide rate dropped even more, but that also had to do with the changing demographics of shooters. Those most likely to be involved in gunfights or assaults either were killed or got older.
Project Exile had its critics. Some gun rights people called it Project Gestapo. But it did not do anything to limit access to gun ownership. It just took tough steps if someone used guns illegally.
Herring's move likewise is drawing plenty of criticism. Some claim it will hurt Old Dominion tourism if out-of-staters can no longer pack heat on vacation. The argument is hard to follow. Hikers can't carry firearms anyway in some federal parks. A gun fan also would look rather ridiculous frolicking in the surf at Virginia Beach while wearing a shoulder holster under a T-shirt.
By: Peter Galuszka, Opinions Page, The Washington Post, December 23, 2015
December 27, 2015 Posted by raemd95 | Alfred Durham, Gun Control, Gun Deaths, Mark Herring | Concealed Carry Permits, Federal Courts, Federal Gun Violations, Gun Owners, Gun Violence, Mass Media, Project Exile, Richmond Virginia | Leave a comment
"The GOP's Dead End On Immigration": GOP Candidate Don't Know The Issues, Just Relying On High-Altitude Slogans
The debate over immigration has become a huge problem for the GOP.
Donald Trump started things off earlier this year when he promised mass deportations for those who had entered the country illegally, after building a wall on the southern border and "making Mexico pay for it." Trump later softened his position, promising to allow "the good ones" to re-enter the U.S. immediately, presumably ahead of those already waiting in line for legal entry. His actual policy proposal makes no mention of mass deportation at all; the only reference to deportation in Trump's position paper is to "illegal aliens in gangs" such as MS-13. But like many of Trump's statements, the policy matters much less than venting the frustration felt by voters.
Long ago, the 9/11 Commission declared the southern border (and the northern border as well) a national security risk in our new age of radical Islamist terrorism. The report also warned about serious flaws in the management of visas, an issue raised once again by the failure to vet one of the perpetrators of the San Bernardino terrorist attack, who entered the U.S. on a K-1 "fiancé" visa in July 2014. That track record of failure has Americans understandably angry about our impasse on immigration policy, and Trump's simplistic and broad pronouncements both reflect and empower those voters.
But if Trump offers simplistic slogans, then the rest of the Republican presidential field gets too cute by half on immigration policy. For the last couple of weeks, the debate apart from Trump has focused on the semantics of "legalization" and whether it amounts to amnesty.
All Republican candidates in this cycle agree that the first steps on immigration policy are to build a wall and overhaul the visa program, both long overdue after the 9/11 Commission warnings in 2005. Without that sequencing, the U.S. risks exacerbating its illegal immigration problem in the short and long term, as we saw after the 1986 compromise that left border and visa security practically unchanged. When those first goals are accomplished, the question of how to deal with the undocumented immigrants remaining in the U.S. — perhaps 11 million or more — becomes acute. This debate over their final status erupted in a clash of claims between Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio at last week's debate.
Cruz and Rubio have emerged from the pack to become serious challengers to Trump, and both are jockeying to be his prime alternative. In many ways, the two senators are similar in policy, but Cruz opposed Rubio's "Gang of Eight" effort in 2013 to create a bipartisan solution to immigration reform. Cruz latched onto the process by which longstanding immigrants here illegally would gain legal status in the U.S., and declared that he "did not intend" to allow legalization. Rubio then accused Cruz of changing his position, highlighting an amendment Cruz had offered to the Gang of Eight bill that would have blocked citizenship but not legal-resident status. Ever since, the two have jousted over the parsing of the language in the bill and public statements each has made.
This spat, like Trump's statements, acts more as a signal of muscularity on immigration than a serious policy debate. Cruz wants to gain credit for being more serious than Trump but more assertive and trustworthy than Rubio, while Rubio wants to undermine trust in Cruz to jump over him to challenge Trump. A serious policy debate, though, would ask whether legalization alone would work, let alone refusing it.
Let's start with Cruz's position. Denying a path to legal status would eliminate the incentives that would drive illegal immigrants to self-identify, which would allow the U.S. to run background checks and reduce the scope of national-security efforts to find potential troublemakers. In fact, that position gains nothing, and looks more like Mitt Romney's "self-deportation" position that got roundly rejected in 2012. It would leave millions in a black-market status, perpetuating an underclass that would increase the issues immigration reform would seek to reduce, especially crime and security. In that sense, Trump's statements are more internally coherent than Cruz's — and perhaps as pragmatic.
What about legalization without naturalization? That does create incentives to come out of the shadows, and proposals to deny broad classes of the population an option for naturalization do have some precedent. However, this also cuts across conservative demands for assimilation over obsessive multiculturalism, which is important both culturally and politically. Legalization without an eventual path to citizenship would provide a powerful disincentive to assimilation. In the long run, it would also be almost impossible to sustain politically, especially as that population becomes much more mainstream.
Also missing from this discussion is the foreign-policy aspects for immigration, especially over the long term. Thanks to the sharp increase in focus on ISIS in the GOP primaries, we have had some debate on how best to incentivize Middle East regimes to deal with the problem. However, we have had no discussion at all on how prospective presidents would do the same with Mexico and Central American nations to reduce the flow of economic refugees into the U.S. How do we put pressure on these nations to reform their economies, their governments, and their use of capital to create environments where their people have reasons to stay put? The only mention at all in this direction has come from Trump and his insistence that he'll get Mexico to pay for our border wall.
The lack of substantive discussion on immigration highlights the fact that there are no easy answers, no simplistic solutions. People of integrity and principle on all sides have legitimate reasons for their positions, be it an adherence to the rule of law or the need to welcome the poor and downtrodden. Voters are not angry because those positions have not been amply represented; they're angry because few are looking for pragmatic and systemic solutions rather than talking points and slogans, and that Washington has had more than a decade and is still no closer to a solution.
The next Republican nominee had better start working on the former and dispensing with the latter. Signaling might make sense in a primary where little real difference exists between the candidates. In a general election, voters will want solutions and a sense that a candidate knows the issues rather than relies on high-altitude slogans. And that applies to more issues than just immigration.
By: Edward Morrissey, The Week, December 22, 2015
December 27, 2015 Posted by raemd95 | Donald Trump, GOP Presidential Candidates, Immigration Reform | Amnesty, Border Wall, Conservatives, Marco Rubio, Mass Deportations, National Security, Path to Citizenship, Ted Cruz, Terrorism | 1 Comment
"Getting Beyond The Racism That Divides Us": It's Not Like We Used To Be A Racism-Free Country
Issac Bailey has written that President Obama is the person who should reach out to angry white Trump supporters.
There is only one person who can unite the country again, and he works in the White House. Yes, President Barack Obama—ironically, the man who is the personification of the fear Trump is exploiting—is the one in the best position to quell the anger being stirred up.
This is not something the president can do from the Oval Office, or from a stage. What he needs to do is use the power of the office in a different way, one that matches the ruthless effectiveness of a demagogue with a private jet. Obama needs to go on a listening tour of white America—to connect, in person, with Americans he has either been unable or unwilling to reach during his seven years in office.
As I read this article, I tried to get beyond my initial reaction that Bailey was simply making another Green Lanternism argument. That's because, as I've written before, I've watched Barack Obama closely for over seven years now and I think he would at least stop and listen to this advice.
While it has mostly gone unheeded, the President has reached out to angry white Americans on several occasions (much to the chagrin of a lot of Black academics and political leaders). For example, if we go back to his famous speech on racism in 2008 during the whole Jeremiah Wright controversy, he spent quite a bit of time affirming the reasons why a lot of white people are angry.
Most working- and middle-class white Americans don't feel that they have been particularly privileged by their race. Their experience is the immigrant experience – as far as they're concerned, no one's handed them anything, they've built it from scratch. They've worked hard all their lives, many times only to see their jobs shipped overseas or their pension dumped after a lifetime of labor. They are anxious about their futures, and feel their dreams slipping away; in an era of stagnant wages and global competition, opportunity comes to be seen as a zero sum game, in which your dreams come at my expense.
But ultimately, to judge the value of Bailey's suggestion, there needs to be some indication that it would actually work to "unite the country once again." The first error Bailey makes is to assume that we were ever united in the first place. It's not like we used to be a racism-free country until all of the sudden Barack Obama came along. Bailey knows that. And he accurately described what's going on in his very first paragraph.
…we are fast becoming a nation in which minorities make up a majority of the population. As a result, tens of millions of white Americans, accustomed for so long to having all the benefits of being the majority, are scared out of their minds—and it is this fear that Trump is exploiting so effectively.
Bailey's point is that this fear needs to be aired…at the President.
Let them see their president. Let them speak directly to their president. Let them shout, cuss, fuss and unload if that's what they need to do. Because no matter how you slice it, the country they've long known is dying, and a new one is taking shape. Obama's presence in the White House, while heartening to many, is the tip of the spear to those fretful about what's to come.
The question is: does that help? This kind of thing stems from a myth that has developed in our culture that airing negative feelings makes them magically go away. It's not true. And it is especially not true in large groups where people feed off of each other.
What actually helps people get over these kinds of feelings is to identify the real source of their anger/fear – something that Trump's style of fear-mongering is designed to misdirect – and then empower themselves to do something about it.
So the question becomes, how do people actually get beyond their racism? If there was an easy answer to that one, we would have solved this problem a long time ago.
Obviously President Obama is struggling with that question. In interviews with Marc Maron, Marilynne Robinson and Steve Inskeep, he kept returning to a similar theme. Instead of a focus on airing our grievances, the President talks about calling out our better natures. He continually stresses the idea that we are better people than our politics suggests. In other words, the way to deal with darkness is not to simply dwell on it – but to shine more light.
By: Nancy LeTourneau, Political Animal Blog, The Washington Monthly, December 25, 2015
December 27, 2015 Posted by raemd95 | Donald Trump, Racism, White Americans | Fearmongering, Issas Baily, Jobs, Minorities, Trump Supporters, Wages, White Privilege | 1 Comment
"Things To Celebrate, Like Dreams Of Flying Cars": Progress In Technology Has Made Saving The World Much More Plausible
In Star Wars, Han Solo's Millennium Falcon did the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs; in real life, all the Falcon 9 has done so far is land at Cape Canaveral without falling over or exploding. Yet I, like many nerds, was thrilled by that achievement, in part because it reinforced my growing optimism about the direction technology seems to be taking — a direction that may end up saving the world.
O.K., if you have no idea what I'm talking about, the Falcon 9 is Elon Musk's reusable rocket, which is supposed to boost a payload into space, then return to where it can be launched again. If the concept works, it could drastically reduce the cost of putting stuff into orbit. And that successful landing was a milestone. We're still a very long way from space colonies and zero-gravity hotels, let alone galactic empires. But space technology is moving forward after decades of stagnation.
And to my amateur eye, this seems to be part of a broader trend, which is making me more hopeful for the future than I've been in a while.
You see, I got my Ph.D. in 1977, the year of the first Star Wars movie, which means that I have basically spent my whole professional life in an era of technological disappointment.
Until the 1970s, almost everyone believed that advancing technology would do in the future what it had done in the past: produce rapid, unmistakable improvement in just about every aspect of life. But it didn't. And while social factors — above all, soaring inequality — have played an important role in that disappointment, it's also true that in most respects technology has fallen short of expectations.
The most obvious example is travel, where cars and planes are no faster than they were when I was a student, and actual travel times have gone up thanks to congestion and security lines. More generally, there has just been less progress in our command over the physical world — our ability to produce and deliver things — than almost anyone expected.
Now, there has been striking progress in our ability to process and transmit information. But while I like cat and concert videos as much as anyone, we're still talking about a limited slice of life: We are still living in a material world, and pushing information around can do only so much. The famous gibe by the investor Peter Thiel ("We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.") is unfair, but contains a large kernel of truth.
Over the past five or six years, however — or at least this is how it seems to me — technology has been getting physical again; once again, we're making progress in the world of things, not just information. And that's important.
Progress in rocketry is fun to watch, but the really big news is on energy, a field of truly immense disappointment until recently. For decades, unconventional energy technologies kept falling short of expectations, and it seemed as if nothing could end our dependence on oil and coal — bad news in the short run because of the prominence it gave to the Middle East; worse news in the long run because of global warming.
But now we're witnessing a revolution on multiple fronts. The biggest effects so far have come from fracking, which has ended fears about peak oil and could, if properly regulated, be some help on climate change: Fracked gas is still fossil fuel, but burning it generates a lot less greenhouse emissions than burning coal. The bigger revolution looking forward, however, is in renewable energy, where costs of wind and especially solar have dropped incredibly fast.
Why does this matter? Everyone who isn't ignorant or a Republican realizes that climate change is by far the biggest threat humanity faces. But how much will we have to sacrifice to meet that threat?
Well, you still hear claims, mostly from the right but also from a few people on the left, that we can't take effective action on climate without bringing an end to economic growth. Marco Rubio, for example, insists that trying to control emissions would "destroy our economy." This was never reasonable, but those of us asserting that protecting the environment was consistent with growth used to be somewhat vague about the details, simply asserting that given the right incentives the private sector would find a way.
But now we can see the shape of a sustainable, low-emission future quite clearly — basically an electrified economy with, yes, nuclear power playing some role, but sun and wind front and center. Of course, it doesn't have to happen. But if it doesn't, the problem will be politics, not technology.
True, I'm still waiting for flying cars, not to mention hyperdrive. But we have made enough progress in the technology of things that saving the world has suddenly become much more plausible. And that's reason to celebrate.
By: Paul Krugman, Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times, December 25, 2015
December 27, 2015 Posted by raemd95 | Climate Change, Energy, Technology | Elon Musk, Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Global Warming, Marco Rubio, Middle East, Peter Thiel, Renewable Energy, Star Wars, Travel | 1 Comment
"Are All Terrorists Muslims? It's Not Even Close": Guess. Nope. Guess Again. And Again…
"Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims." How many times have you heard that one? Sure, we heard Fox News's Brian Kilmeade say it, but to me, that was simply part of the Fox News plan to make their viewers dumber, as we saw again this past weekend when its terrorism "expert" Steve Emerson was caught fabricating the story that Birmingham, England, is closed to non-Muslims. But more alarmingly, even some reasonable people have uttered this statement.
And that comment is often followed up by the question: Why don't we see Christian, Buddhist, or Jewish terrorists?
Obviously, there are people who sincerely view themselves as Muslims who have committed horrible acts in the name of Islam. We Muslims can make the case that their actions are not based on any part of the faith but on their own political agenda. But they are Muslims, no denying that.
However, and this will probably shock many, so you might want to take a breath: Overwhelmingly, those who have committed terrorist attacks in the United States and Europe aren't Muslims. Let's give that a moment to sink in.
Now, it's not your fault if you aren't aware of that fact. You can blame the media. (Yes, Sarah Palin and I actually agree on one thing: The mainstream media sucks.)
So here are some statistics for those interested. Let's start with Europe. Want to guess what percent of the terrorist attacks there were committed by Muslims over the past five years? Wrong. That is, unless you said less than 2 percent.
As Europol, the European Union's law-enforcement agency, noted in its report released last year, the vast majority of terror attacks in Europe were perpetrated by separatist groups. For example, in 2013, there were 152 terror attacks in Europe. Only two of them were "religiously motivated," while 84 were predicated upon ethno-nationalist or separatist beliefs.
We are talking about groups like France's FLNC, which advocates an independent nation for the island of Corsica. In December 2013, FLNC terrorists carried out simultaneous rocket attacks against police stations in two French cities. And in Greece in late 2013, the left-wing Militant Popular Revolutionary Forces shot and killed two members of the right-wing political party Golden Dawn. While over in Italy, the anarchist group FAI engaged in numerous terror attacks including sending a bomb to a journalist. And the list goes on and on.
Have you heard of these incidents? Probably not. But if Muslims had committed them do you think our media would've covered it? No need to answer, that's a rhetorical question.
Even after one of the worst terror attacks ever in Europe in 2011, when Anders Breivik slaughtered 77 people in Norway to further his anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, and pro-"Christian Europe" agenda as he stated in his manifesto, how much press did we see in the United States? Yes, it was covered, but not the way we see when a Muslim terrorist is involved. Plus we didn't see terrorism experts fill the cable news sphere asking how we can stop future Christian terrorists. In fact, even the suggestion that Breivik was a "Christian terrorist" was met with outrage by many, including Fox News's Bill O'Reilly.
Have you heard about the Buddhist terrorists? Well, extremist Buddhists have killed many Muslim civilians in Burma, and just a few months ago in Sri Lanka, some went on a violent rampage burning down Muslim homes and businesses and slaughtering four Muslims.
Or what about the (dare I mention them) Jewish terrorists? Per the 2013 State Department's report on terrorism, there were 399 acts of terror committed by Israeli settlers in what are known as "price tag" attacks. These Jewish terrorists attacked Palestinian civilians causing physical injuries to 93 of them and also vandalized scores of mosques and Christian churches.
Back in the United States, the percentage of terror attacks committed by Muslims is almost as miniscule as in Europe. An FBI study looking at terrorism committed on U.S. soil between 1980 and 2005 found that 94 percent of the terror attacks were committed by non-Muslims. In actuality, 42 percent of terror attacks were carried out by Latino-related groups, followed by 24 percent perpetrated by extreme left-wing actors.
And as a 2014 study by University of North Carolina found, since the 9/11 attacks, Muslim-linked terrorism has claimed the lives of 37 Americans. In that same time period, more than 190,000 Americans were murdered (PDF).
In fact in 2013, it was actually more likely Americans would be killed by a toddler than a terrorist. In that year, three Americans were killed in the Boston Marathon bombing. How many people did toddlers kill in 2013? Five, all by accidentally shooting a gun.
But our media simply do not cover the non-Muslim terror attacks with same gusto. Why? It's a business decision. Stories about scary "others" play better. It's a story that can simply be framed as good versus evil with Americans being the good guy and the brown Muslim as the bad.
Honestly, when is the last time we heard the media refer to those who attack abortion clinics as "Christian terrorists," even though these attacks occur at one of every five reproductive health-care facilities? That doesn't sell as well. After all we are a so-called Christian nation, so that would require us to look at the enemy within our country, and that makes many uncomfortable. Or worse, it makes them change the channel.
That's the same reason we don't see many stories about how to reduce the 30 Americans killed each day by gun violence or the three women per day killed by domestic violence. But the media will have on expert after expert discussing how can we stop these scary brown Muslims from killing any more Americans despite the fact you actually have a better chance of being killed by a refrigerator falling on you.
Look, this article is not going to change the media's business model. But what I hope it does is cause some to realize that not all terrorists are Muslims. In fact, they are actually a very small percent of those that are. Now, I'm not saying to ignore the dangers posed by Islamic radicals. I'm just saying look out for those refrigerators.
By: Dean Obeidallah, The Daily Beast, December 25, 2015
December 27, 2015 Posted by raemd95 | Mainstream Media, Muslims, Terrorism | Christian Terrorists, Europe, FAI, FLNC, Fox News, Gun Violence, Islam, Israel, Norway, Separatist Groups | 1 Comment


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namespace App\Handlers\Admin\Servers\Edit;

use App\DataTransferObjects\Admin\Servers\Edit\Edit;
use App\Entity\Category;
use App\Exceptions\Category\CategoryNotFoundException;
use App\Exceptions\Distributor\DistributorNotFoundException;
use App\Exceptions\Server\ServerNotFoundException;
use App\Repository\Category\CategoryRepository;
use App\Repository\Server\ServerRepository;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Config\Repository;

class EditHandler
{
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    private $serverRepository;

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     * @var CategoryRepository
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    private $categoryRepository;

    /**
     * @var Repository
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        $this->config = $config;
    }

    public function handle(Edit $dto): void
    {
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        }

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Q: Noetherian quotient module Let $M$ be a left Noetherian $R$-module, and let $J$ be an ideal of $R$. Then why is $J^i M/J^{i+1}M$ a Noetherian module? I can't seem to figure this out.
edit: I do not require $R$ to be a commutative ring. It is an arbitrary ring.

A: $J^iM$ is a submodule of $M$ and your quotient is a quotient of that.
Since noetherianity is inherited by submodules and quotients, your result follows at once.


SAHUARITA, Arizona - The Walden Grove High School PAC Dance Team performed an epic "Harry Potter"-themed dance at their school's homecoming assembly in September.
This isn't the first time the Arizona dance group has garnered national attention.
PAC Dance Team made it to the quarterfinals on season 13 of "America's Got Talent" before being eliminated.


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Florida man faces life sentence in bizarre failed kidnapping plot
By Denise Lavoie, The Associated Press
HARRISONBURG, Virginia — A Florida man faces a life sentence after pleading guilty in a failed plot to kidnap five children from Virginia and kill their parents.
Federal prosecutors in Virginia said Frank Jesse Amnott, 31, pleaded guilty Wednesday to three charges in the 2018 plot. One of the charges — conspiracy to kill witnesses — carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison.
In court documents, prosecutors described a bizarre plot involving Amnott and three other people to kidnap five children under the age of 8. U.S. Attorney Thomas Cullen said the facts of the case "read like the script of a bad horror movie."
Prosecutors said the plan was thwarted and no one was hurt. David Archey, special agent in charge of the FBI's Richmond division, said in a news release that if not for the quick thinking of a parent and a quick response from a sheriff's deputy, "this incident could have evolved into something much worse."
In court documents, prosecutors said Amnott and his wife, Jennifer Amnott, hatched the plot with another couple — Valerie Perfect Hayes and her boyfriend, Gary Blake Reburn, of Maryland. The four allegedly agreed to travel to Dayton, Virginia, to kidnap five children from two separate homes.
Prosecutors said Hayes knew the Amnotts could not have their own children and promised that if they helped her kidnap the five children, they could "keep one of the other children as their own."
Prosecutors said Hayes told the Amnotts that three of her own children had been kidnapped and were being held by two Mennonite families in Dayton. They said none of the defendants was related to any of the children.
According to prosecutors, Hayes, Reburn and Frank Amnott tried to carry out the plan on July 29, 2018. They said Hayes approached the door of the first house, disguised in clothing to appear as a Mennonite. When one parent opened the door, they allegedly forced their way inside and held the parent at gunpoint.
The other parent ran outside and called 911. A deputy with the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office responded and thwarted the plot. Prosecutors said the deputy found Frank Amnott in the basement holding one of the parents at gunpoint.
Prosecutors said Hayes, Reburn and Jennifer Amnott fled to the United Kingdom in August 2018. They have all been apprehended are are awaiting extradition to the U.S.
Frank Amnott's sentencing is scheduled for May 26.
His attorney, Andrew Graves, said Amnott is "anxious to explain himself" when he is sentenced.
"We think when everything comes out, it will portray him in a whole different light," Graves said.


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Ajax honors firefighter who donated 70 per cent of her liver to near stranger
Ajax | Durham | Community | Fire | Latest News |
Published December 2, 2021 at 4:26 pm
Ajax Town council and Ajax Fire Services honored a Firefighter, Nadine Young, who donated 70 per cent of her liver to a man with a rare cancer she met only days before the operation.
Young has served as an Ajax firefighter for several years. Just before Christmas in 2019, her colleague's son, Jarrett Singer, was diagnosed with a rare liver cancer.
Singer, then 19, and a University of Guelph Student, had just been diagnosed with Fibrolamellar Hepatocellular Carcinoma (FHCC), that sees only 200 diagnoses in a given year.
Given the rarity of FHCC, there is no standard chemotherapy regimen, meaning Jarrett Singer's options were limited, requiring a new liver. However, no one in his family was a match.
This led Jarret's father Mark Singer to ask his colleagues for help, and sure enough Young fit the bill.
After some rigorous testing, the transplant was performed in early May, not six months after Singer's diagnosis.
Now the Town and Fire services have dedicated a tree to what they call Young's "heroic act and your service to our community." A special dedication ceremony December 2 unveiled the tree and plaque honoring Young at the Ajax Fire station.
The service was attended by Young, her family and colleagues in Ajax Fire, alongside Mayor Shaun Collier and town councillors.


Sir John Betjeman was Poet Laureate from 1972 till his death in 1984. When his Collected Poems (John Murray) came out in 1958 they made publishing history and have since sold over two and a quarter million copies. Apart from his poetry he wrote and edited The Shell County Guides for over thirty years, wrote the Collins Guide to English Parish Churches and also wrote a further forty topographical and architectural books. Betjeman's architectural interests were far ranging – from the early stone dwellings on St Kilda to the brick galleries of Jim Stirling. Among the buildings he fought to save from destruction were St Pancras and Liverpool Street stations. He encouraged people to look at unregarded buildings, to notice their 'indeterminate beauty'. Betjeman made over 500 television programmes of which 26 were films for Shell in the 'Discovering Britain' series. Betjeman's celebration of 'place' has inspired the theme of the John Betjeman Poetry Competition. We do not know what will capture each young person's imagination. It may not be the churches, cliff tops, suburban streets and tea shops of Betjeman's poetry. It may be the urban view from their window, the walk to school through the park, the local river, the library, their friend's bedroom or simply the space inside the back of the bus. We cannot prescribe what children see but we can encourage them to look.
John Betjeman Best Poetry Forever!
Established by the family of the former Poet Laureate, the John Betjeman Poetry Competition seeks to foster a love of poetry in young people. It is our aim to support literacy and creativity, encouraging children aged 10-13 to explore the world they see around them through rhythm and language. This year's competition is now open. The closing date for entries is 31st July.
Each child is invited to send in (by post or online) one poem on the theme of 'place'. You can choose anywhere that is important to you – from your bedroom to somewhere you visited on holiday, from your favourite park to your favourite building. The subject of your poem could be a city or a garden or a beach or a street. We are asking you to capture in words what that place means to you.
The winner, runner-up, and second runner-up will each win four standard class tickets from St Pancras International to Paris, Brussels or Lille donated by Eurostar. The top six entrants will win prizes of £50 book tokens donated by Foyles Bookshop. The winning school and the school that inspires the greatest number of children to enter the competition will each win a poet visit.
The presentation of the prizes will be followed by afternoon tea in the Betjeman Arms.


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'Forest for the Trees' tapped as Spruill's third public art installation
by Cathy Cobbs October 19, 2022 October 19, 2022
From left: Spruill Gallery Director Jennifer Price, Spruill CEO Alan Mothner and AMPLIFY winner Alice Stone Collins.
More than 100 people attending the Spirits for Spruill event Oct. 15 witnessed the unveiling of the third annual winning AMPLIFY public art installation, "The Forest for the Trees" by Alice Stone Collins, self-described as "contrasting energies of calm and chaos."
Collins' artwork, which was chosen from several dozen submissions, will be displayed on the Spruill Center for the Arts' smoke house wall at 4681 Ashford Dunwoody Road for the next year. Previous winners included works entitled "Together We Bloom" and "Find Your Wings."
Spruill CEO Alan Mothner called the event a great success.
"It was a perfect fall day to unveil Alice's engaging and provocative work, which utilizes the power of art to call to question, in this particular instance, the fragile environment in which we live," Mothner said. "We are looking forward to the work being in place for the coming year and hearing the conversations spawned as a result."
Collins, a Johns Creek resident, who is an educator and a mentor for a group called "Artist Mothers," said the selection of her artwork was "a great honor."
"The making of this mural has been such a great experience," she said. "I was inspired by forest fires in my former home in Boulder, and now in Georgia, and how they have become so commonplace that we start to gloss over it. I want people in Atlanta to stop and take note when they see the mural."
Attendees enjoyed a signature beverage from Chamblee-based Distillery of Modern Art called the Dunwoody '22, food from Good Foods Kitchen, and entertainment from the Tyler Neal Band.
In its education center on Chamblee Dunwoody Road, the center provides more than 800 visual arts classes annually to about 5,000 students of all ages and skill levels, including ceramics, decorative arts, drawing, glass, jewelry, mixed media, painting, photography, and sculpture. Located in an historic 1867 home on Ashford Dunwoody Road, the center's gallery mounts four to six exhibitions each year in a variety of mediums, including a holiday arts market.
Farmhouse Realty, based out of Dunwoody, was the presenting sponsor of the annual event. Other sponsors included Georgia Power, JWB Realty Services, Piedmont Bank and Regency Centers. Reporter Newspapers was the media sponsor for the event for the first year.
Tagged: AMPLIFY, mural, Spruill Center for the Arts
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The final battle with Cell has an unforeseen consequence, sending Gohan into the Shinobi World. While trying to find a way back home, he makes new bonds along with causing such an impact on the ninja world that no one could have ever anticipated.


Bragging isn't really our thing. However, when you have a gold medal just dangling in front of you in your office, you can't help but want to share it with your peeps! How many people can claim they are the fastest window cleaner in the country? I get it, you are thinking, WHO would want to claim they are the fastest window cleaner in the country? Well, our owner. In fact, I'm almost positive he wears it under his polo when he goes out to bid, but that hasn't been confirmed (check back).
I totally see it. Owner greets prospective client: "Hi, I am Curt, I'd like to clean your windows!" Prospective client: "Hi Curt, what sets you apart from your competition?" ((PULLS OUT GOLD MEDAL FROM SHIRT)) I guess he sorta has the right to brag. This claim means not only he is the most efficient at what he does, he wins frickin' gold medals for it. Not too shabby, Curt. Not. Too. Shabby.
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