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Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in 1919 to travel to South Africa and marry the fiance she has not seen for five years. Isolated and estranged in a harsh landscape, she finds solace in her diary and the friendship of her housemaid's daughter, Ada. Cathleen recognises in her someone she can love and respond to in a way that she cannot with her own husband and daughter.


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She's 'expressing herself': Madonna, 56, goes back to her punk rock days in black bustier dress at Keep A Child Alive gala
Madonna has carved her own niche as a style chameleon, and on Thursday she resorted to a look that started it all. The 56-year-old Material Girl was draped in a dress that screamed 1980s as she hit up Keep A Child Alive's 9th annual Black Ball in New York City on Thursday. Madonna's frock featured…
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Madonna's 'Angel' Gets A Punk Makeover, Courtesy Of Brooklyn's The Dead Betties (VIDEO)
The Brooklyn-based punk rockers who recently tackled Britney Spears' "Lucky" now have their sights set on the Material Girl. The Dead Betties cover Madonna's underrated '80s hit, "Angel," in their latest video. The clip features women embodying five of the Queen of Pop's most iconic personas, including the street urchin of "Desperately Seeking Susan" and…
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The Real Story Behind Madonna's Iconic 'Like a Virgin' Performance at the 1984 VMAs
Ahead of MTV's first Music Video Awards, broadcast Sept. 14, 1984, the network was having difficulty booking top talent. Co-hosts Dan Aykroyd and Bette Midler were in their 30s, old for the MTV crowd, and ZZ Top had refused to play — until the network pulled the band's videos and manager Bill Ham relented. MTV…
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..'One unwelcome reminder of JFK's torrid affair with Marilyn — the affair that most troubled Jackie — arrived on her doorstep in the form of another blond bombshell by the name of Madonna. Already a pop icon, Madonna was best known at the time for her "Material Girl" video, an homage to Monroe's "Diamonds Are…
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Schematic design drawings are the first stage of planning for a construction project. During the design phase, the client's objectives for the project, are documented in writing and then illustrated with drawings to show how the objectives will be accomplished. Depending on the complexity of the objectives and the limitations of the site multiple designs may be produced, whether the project is an addition or a custom home. Each design will address the project objectives and allow the client to clarify project priorities and flush out unspoken desires.
Creating the plans and sometimes elevations allows the client to see how the project objectives will be implemented. It can take three design plans to arrive at an agreed-on solution, on projects of substantive scope. The final design marries together the desired parts of the first two designs. With less project objectives there is less design involved.
Consider the following side-by-side comparison of designs for a major renovation and expansion of an existing home. The client's original design is on the left and the final design is on the right. The final design, prepared by TBB, is the result of the schematic design process. In this case the client only requested structural drawings, wanting no design services. During the first meeting, however, TBB pointed out design opportunities that appealed to the client and schematic design services were retained.
The client's original design had dark interior corridors, a lack of flow between different rooms, loss of a bedroom due the chimney location, and unusable space left over by the turret, as well as the house having an overall cavernous environment.
The accepted plan created a sunlit central stair well allowing short circulation to all rooms and the house's multiple levels. It also demonstrated how to use conventional structural support and provides a means for central heating and cooling to all floors. The conventional structure also allowed the exterior of the house to be styled so that it had the "country feel" that was desired by the client.


When you close down your cottage for the winter, you will need to empty the water system to avoid burst pipes and other damage that freezing water can cause. Over the years, despite my precautions, I have had to replace taps, fittings and water heater elements owing to my forgetting about some part of the process. I now use polypropylene half-inch pipe for all the plumbing, together with plastic fittings, as I find these are more forgiving if any remaining water in the system freezes.
I usually empty the hot water heater first, having turned it off (the element can burn out otherwise). For this, I installed a tap on the line into the heater (blue in the picture) so that I am able to turn off the flow. Between this tap and the heater itself, I have a T fitting that takes a short length of pipe to another tap (red) that I use to drain the heater. At the end of the very short length of pipe out of the tap, there is a fitting to screw on a garden hose. After attaching the garden hose, and running the hose out of the house, I open the tap to the hose and let it run for a few seconds so that there will be enough water in the hose to cause a siphoning effect. I then close the blue tap on the line to the heater, and open the hot water taps in the kitchen and bathroom to allow air into the system. The water in the heater will siphon off back through its input line, and out through the T fitting to the hose. This can be left for half an hour or so while it drains.
The next step is to drain the pressurized cold water tank. The water pump needs to be turned off at this stage. A garden hose is attached to the tap at the bottom of the tank (which in our case is under the cottage), and the tap is opened. The remaining pressure in the tank will force all its contents out. When the pressure falls to the point where the water is only gently flowing out of the hose, I open all the cold water taps in the kitchen and bathroom. The siphoning effect of the water in the hose will draw the water out of the rest of the system. This method will only work if the bottom end of the hose is some feet below the water tank. In our case, the land slopes down away from the house, and the drop is sufficient for this method to work. This will not be appropriate for every cottage. Some people use compressed air to clear the water lines.
As I mentioned earlier, we use polypropylene pipe and fittings for our plumbing, and plastic being what it is, the pipes sag in places, retaining some water after the system has been emptied. Even when this water freezes, it does not damage the plumbing. Copper pipes are a different matter, however. The pipes have to be installed in such a way that water can flow down to the system's drain tap, leaving no places in which it can settle and freeze later. The effect of freezing on copper pipes is well known - they split easily.
The U-bend traps under all the sinks, the showers and in the toilet also need to be dealt with. In some cases, I empty the trap as far as possible using a small hand pump and plastic tubing, then add plumber's antifreeze. In another case, I am able to empty the trap completely as the plug in the bottom of it can be unscrewed to let out the water. In this particular case, however, I put back the U-bend plug, leave the regular plug in the sink outlet and block the sink overflow using electrical tape to prevent smelly fumes coming up from the septic system and filling the cottage in our absence.
If you plan to use the cottage during the winter, you will need to be able to use the toilet. You either have to find some way of turning on the water system so that the toilet can be flushed or bring in loads of water to pour down it. Our original solution was to use a Flush-o-matic water-saving toilet year-round. It was connected to the cottage plumbing system, and in the warmer months it could be flushed easily. In the winter, when the water system was shut down, it could be flushed manually with just a litre of water brought in from the well. This eliminated the need to turn on the water system. However, it developed a problem and I found that it was no longer possible to get parts for it. Instead, I installed a low-usage dual-flush toilet that uses a minimum of three litres of water. This is not ideal, as in winter you need to cart in substantial amounts of wateeer to flush it. Another type of RV toilet might be the eventual solution.
After the rest of the system has been drained, you can remove all the metal plugs from your jet pump or piston pump to let out the water. Put them all in a plastic bag, label them, and store them in a kitchen drawer where you are sure to find them in the spring.
Make sure there is a separate switch for turning the water heater on and off. If you rely only on a breaker on the service panel, it is possible to forget it on winter visits when you turn the breakers on, and you can burn out the heater element in the empty heater tank. This was learned through bitter experience.
Cash Acme SharkBite brass fittings are new on the market, and can save a lot of time when doing your own plumbing with either copper or plastic pipe. They allow you to join pipes instantly using push-fit connections, doing away with soldering. The fittings can also be removed with a special plastic tool and then re-used elsewhere. Although they are a little expensive, their ease of use and re-usability is unparalleled. Here is a picture of a straight connection and the orange tool used to disconnect it.
On activating the water system in the spring, replace any drain plugs in the pump (but not the priming plugs), and fill the pump and down pipe with water through the priming openings, and then replace the plugs. Make sure that all taps in your system are closed before turning on the pump, particularly the tap used to drain the water heater, as it will flood the area around the heater if you forget it.
Be sure to empty the water out of any ceramic/carbon filters, as freezing may crack the ceramic exterior or contribute to breakdown of the carbon material. Other filters should also be emptied, as well as the U/V chamber in a U/V water purifier.


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American Express moves on without LIV Golf's Phil Mickelson
The American Express is back in the desert for the 64th year in a row this week.
But it's time to talk about the elephant in the room. It's time to talk about the impact LIV golf is – or isn't – having on the desert's PGA Tour event.
The defending champion of the American Express, Hudson Swafford, will not be in the field this week because he left the PGA Tour for LIV Golf last year. Also missing for the same reason will be three other past champions: Patrick Reed, Pat Perez and, most notably, Phil Mickelson.
Mickelson, a two-time winner of the La Quinta tournament, also served as the official host of the American Express for the last three years, though he didn't do anything that publicly looked like hosting the tournament in 2022. He might have left the tournament as host on his own after last year anyway, but the PGA Tour showed Mickelson and the Mickelson Foundation the door after comments he made became public about the Saudi Arabians behind the LIV tour and Mickelson's reason for dealing with "scary" people in order to reshape the PGA Tour.
And there are a few other LIV players not in the field, like Abraham Ancer and Kevin Na. So what does that all mean for the 2023 American Express?
Well, not that much, really.
The folks who run the American Express can only play the hand they are dealt, and that means no Mickelson or Swafford or a few other players. But in poker terms, he American Express still has a live hand.
Yes, the tournament is without at least one marquee player in Mickelson, who has been very popular in the desert with fans, though not always with tournament officials. Even at 52 years old and well beyond his prime, Mickelson would sell some tickets to the event.
And Swafford won't be a figure early in the week, talking about his two wins in the desert, the weather and the golf courses.
But beyond an early week press conference from Swafford and the week-long story that Mickelson might provide, the American Express will be conducted just as it always has. Talented golfers, interesting golf courses and maybe some sketchy weather early in the week will be the storylines.
That's not to say that the LIV golfers aren't fine players. They are, and some are exceptional players who would be big additions to any tournament in the world. Not all of them have played in the desert in the past, though, and the tournament can easily move forward with the golfers who aren't suspended and have committed to the…
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Impact 360 Fellows is a nine-month Christian gap year experience that offers a unique combination of worldview studies with experiential learning, international travel, and leadership training.
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Welcome From Our Founders
Because all truth is God's truth we reject the idea that reality is to be carved up into the artificial categories of sacred and secular. As Christ-followers we are called to live every aspect of our lives under God's authority and for God's glory. Classical thinkers referred to this as Coram Deo (literally "before the face of God"). How we think and how we live go together.
The Fellows Experience
The Fellows experience consists of a holistic learning experience that incorporates both classroom learning and real-life application. During class lectures, Fellows engage with leading Christian scholars and thought leaders on a variety of worldview issues.
Outside the classroom, Fellows will apply what they learn by living in intentional community, serving at various local non-profits, and by supporting missionaries in Brazil during a month-long international experience in January.
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Why Impact 360 Fellows?
1. Learn to own your faith 2. International Immersion Experience 3. Leadership Training 4. Service 5. Community
Learn to own your faith
Academics at Impact 360 Fellows isn't about head knowledge, it's about learning to truly own your faith. Christian faith isn't meant be blind faith, it's intended to be active trust in what you have reasonable evidence to believe to be true. Dive deep into faith, theology, ethics and much more. Have exciting and challenging discussions as you unpack what it means to follow Jesus.
Impact 360 Fellows partners with accredited Union University (Jackson, Tennessee) to offer 18 hours of transferable college credit to each student that attends.
International Immersion Experience
We believe that it is important and powerful for students to have the opportunity to be immersed in a different culture. Traditionally, students spend the month-long international experience serving and learning in Brazil. While abroad, service opportunities include working at youth camps and orphanages, ju-jitsu ministry, volunteering at local churches and schools and staying in host homes. experience a new culture with an international experience. This is also an opportunity for students to implement their worldview training in a culture that believes differently than a biblical worldview.
Servant Leadership is at the heart of Impact 360 Institute and involved in every aspect of the Fellows Experience. Students receive leadership training at Chick-fil-A Corporate from some of the best businessmen and women and are SERVE leadership certified which is an opportunity normally reserved for Chick-fil-A Operators only. Each student also leads a group of their peers at least once throughout the program in their community groups.
Becoming a servant leader is not an easy task, it requires deep vision and commitment to "your why". Learn how to live a life of service, and learn why it's the best way to live. Each Impact 360 Fellow learns how to be a servant leader, but more than just learning, you get a chance to live it out every single day. Learn More
Jesus commanded us to go and make disciples, at Impact 360 Fellows we take this command seriously. Discipleship at Impact 360 Institute happens in the context of godly community. Learn how to make disciples while you are being discipled by our staff throughout the nine months.
Fellows Course Work
Fellows will become oriented to the vision and values of Chick-fil-A and the ministries of WinShape and Lifeshape during a day-long tour of significant historical landmarks in the life of the organization.
Calling and Vocation
Discover and explore our identity in Christ in an effort to better understand personal gifting and calling
Fellows will understand the importance of their design as Christ followers, & will demonstrate the essential elements of that design— the recovery of knowledge, the renovation of the soul, & reliance on God's supernatural power.
Students will gain an understanding of the structure, writing styles, culture, and content of the Bible. This module is designed to equip students with necessary skills to study the Bible.
Biblical Life View
TED-style sessions where we repackage timeless biblical truths in a way that students understand and relate to. Covering topics such as worldview, discipleship, leadership, and service.
Heart of Leadership
Fellows will begin to understand biblical leadership principles that are crucial for any healthy leader. They will develop a picture of leadership, why leaders are different, and that leaders create the future.
Biblical Apologetics
Fellows will learn how to defend the authority and inspiration of the Bible. We will discuss how the Bible came about and why other documents are not included. We will think through difficult passages and wrestle with a foundational aspect of Christianity – The Bible.
Faith, Economics, and Poverty
Fellows will understand the complexities of impoverished cultures as related to the cycle of poverty & will be able to understand sustainable solutions to breaking the cycle. Fellows will discuss issues of global poverty through interaction with community leaders from developing countries, simulated poverty experiences, and classroom instruction on appropriate technologies. Emphasis will be placed on challenging them to think through sustainable approaches to breaking cycles of both economic and spiritual poverty.
God in the Dark
We introduce Fellows to a biblical understanding of doubt and how to think about their faith in such a way that leads to confidence in their even when they doubt.
Biblical Womanhood and Manhood
Fellows will grow in their understanding of what it means to live a biblical life in today's culture.
Sacred Rhythms
Fellows will spend the academic week in the wilderness, experiencing the wonder and adventure of creation firsthand. In addition to backpacking, camping and rappelling, Fellows will also explore some primary spiritual disciplines through both instruction and practice. Fellows should come away with an understanding of the disciplines and a strategy for implementing them in their personal lives.
Students will begin preparing for the International Immersion with a course on Intercultural Studies focused on learning about God's heart for the nations.
Worldview I
Fellows will understand the importance of their design as Christ- followers, & will demonstrate the essential elements of that design— the recovery of knowledge, the renovation of the soul, & reliance on God's supernatural power.
Worldview II- Creation, Fall, Redemption, Restoration
Fellows will have basic theological & philosophical categories to begin thinking critically from a biblical worldview perspective regarding creation, fall, and redemption.
Worldview III- Knowledge of Reality and Reality of Knowledge
Fellows will be able to articulate the priority of ontology over epistemology and the implications of that logical order for a robust biblical worldview
Worldview IV- Dynamic Worldview Survey
Fellows will grow in their understanding and ability to evaluate worldviews that represent an increasingly pluralistic society. Some worldviews Fellows will be exposed to are Christian theism, deism, naturalism, nihilism, existentialism, Eastern pantheistic monism, and New Age philosophies.
Spiritual Formation II – TrueFaced
Fellows will discover what it means to live in authentic Christian community by discussing biblical truth regarding individual identity, common obstacles to authenticity and key concepts such as grace and forgiveness. Fellows should come away from this week with a deeper understanding of community and a renewed desire both to live in and to offer an environment of grace.
Leadership | Kingdom Influence
Fellows will be introduced to the importance of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling in order to be an effective leader.
The Morality of God
The New Atheists characterize the God of the Old Testament as undesirable and unworthy of worship. Are they right? Is God good and worthy to be praised? We will seek to better understand some difficult OT passages and then learn how to address difficult questions that may cause confusion.
Evidence for God's Existence
Familiarity with and ability to articulate classical and contemporary philosophical & scientific arguments for God's existence. Fellows will be able to apply these arguments winsomely in a conversational setting
Ethical Systems & Reasoning
Survey major ethical systems and thinkers, including deontology, utilitarianism, situation ethics, virtue ethics and natural law.
Introduction to principles of critical thinking & logic and their importance for effecting God-glorifying cultural change.
Problem of Evil & Suffering
Define and demonstrate how the problem of evil is the most powerful argument against Christianity. Survey most popular versions, analyze assumptions and encourage Fellows to think critically in formulating responses.
Introduce Fellows to critically think through ethical issues with a Christian worldview. Some ethical issues we will address are abortion, reproductive technologies, genetics and cloning, and euthanasia.
Introduce Fellows to naturalism and its implications for truth-bearing scientific projects, arguing for theistic science over against naturalist paradigms. Survey competing models of faith/science integration, with emphasis on an "interactionist" model. Intelligent design theory will be emphasized over against Darwinist/naturalist theory.
Most students own a Bible, but few understand how it came to be put together, how we know it is accurate, or how we know that the "right" books are in there. And then there are the issues of forged texts and alleged contradictions. When they encounter challenges on the Discovery Channel, in the classroom or on Youtube, they are often blindsided by the sophisticated challenges regarding a topic that is rarely addressed.
Introduce Fellows to critically think through ethical issues with a Christian worldview. Some ethical issues we will address are a Biblical view of sexual relationships, singleness, marriage, transgender, and homosexuality.
Christianity and Culture
How has Christianity influenced culture over the last 2000 years and how are Christians today influenced by the surrounding culture? Students will become aware of the rich history of Christians being salt and light in their culture. We will discuss ways we are currently being influenced by culture and how to whimsically draw culture to a flourishing life.
World Religions: Islam
Introduce Fellows to Muslim culture and beliefs. Discuss differences of belief systems, the importance of understanding Islam in the 21st century, and how to have significant spiritual conversations with people of the Muslim faith.
Introduce Fellows to culturally creative ways of engaging the world. They will utilize acquired tools from the year and think through influential tactics to engage culture in an active and winsome way.
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Jonathan Morrow
Director of Cultural Engagement and Student Discipleship
Jonathan has been equipping students and parents in biblical worldview, apologetics and culture for over 16 years, and is passionate about seeing a new generation build a lasting faith. He holds a Master of Divinity, Master in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, and a Doctorate in Worldview and Culture from Talbot School of Theology. He is the director of cultural engagement and student discipleship at Impact 360 Institute and an adjunct professor of apologetics at Biola University. He is the author of several books, including Welcome to College, Questioning the Bible, and Is God Just a Human Invention? and also contributed to the Apologetics Study Bible for Students. Jonathan and his wife have been married for 18 years and live with their three children near Atlanta. Connect with him at jonathanmorrow.org
Ed Bort
Fellows Senior Associate Director & Faculty Chair
Associate Director, Student Learning & Living
David has spent the past ten years working among college students in the areas of leadership and discipleship. He has a B.S. in Youth Ministry, Family & Culture from Columbia International University, as well as a Minor in Outdoor Recreation and Leadership. David first joined the Impact 360 staff in 2009 as a Student Learning Coordinator. He went on to spend several years living in Brazil, coordinating teams for Impact 360, and serving as Manager for Brazil Ministries with the Lifeshape Foundation. He began his current role as Associate Director of Student Learning and Living in July, 2018. David lives with his wife, Melva, and their newborn son, Josiah, in Hamilton, GA.
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Charmaine Porter
Learning Community Coordinator
Chad Rosell
Lindsey Aldridge
Service Learning and International Coordinator
Mitch Mask
Discipleship Coordinator
Sarah Kilgore
Educational Resource Specialist
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B.A. Mercer University M.Div. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary D.Min. Besson Divinity, Samford University
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Nikki Gentry Dutton
Enrollment Coordinator
Hi! My name is Nikki Dutton. I have the privilege of serving Impact 360 Institute as an enrollment coordinator. I graduated from Liberty University in 2014 with a Bachelor's degree in Communication with a minor in Psychology. I am currently pursuing a Masters in Evangelism and Leadership from Wheaton College as a member of the Propel Women Cohort. My favorite things in life are my husband, Scott Dutton, our puppy, Scout, and making new friends. I also love to travel and speak at a variety of conferences, chapels and events (nikkiduttonspeaks.com).
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Enrollment Specialist
Adam Story
A very popular speaker and author of numerous books including Apologetics for a New Generation and Understanding Intelligent Design. Sean taught Bible and Christian worldview to high school students for over 10 years before joining the faculty at Biola University.
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Dr. Gene C. Fant, Jr.
PRESIDENT OF NORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY
Dr. Gene Fant and his wife, Lisa, are the proud parents of twins - Ethan and Emily. He currently serves as President of North Greenville University in Tigerville, South Carolina. Previously, Dr. Fant was provost and chief academic officer of Palm Beach Atlantic University, and former executive vice president and dean of faculty at Union University. Dr. Fant holds a certificate in educational management from Harvard University Graduate School of Education. He is a writer who recently published a book entitled "The Liberal Arts: A Student's Guide," and occasionally contributes blog posts to the Chronicle of Higher Education and First Things. Dr. Fant is an integral member of the Board of Directors at Impact 360 Institute and says he feels blessed to be a part of what God is doing with the next generation.
Brett Kunkle
Brett Kunkle is the founder and president of MAVEN, a movement to equip the next generation know truth, pursue goodness and create beauty. He has more than 25 years of experience working with junior high, high school, and college students. He was a youth pastor in Southern California and in the Denver area for 11 years and was the Student Impact Director for Stand to Reason for 14 years. Brett has developed a groundbreaking approach to mission trips, creating a one-of-a-kind experience that immerses participants in real-life engagement in apologetics, theology, worldview and evangelism in Berkeley, California, and Salt Lake City, Utah. In addition, Brett is a Teaching Fellow at the Impact 360 Institute. Brett is an author, contributing to numerous articles and books. He wrote the Ambassadors Guide to Mormonism, was an associate editor for the Apologetics Study Bible for Students and co-authored A Practical Guide to Culture: Helping the Next Generation Navigate Today's World. He received his Master's degree in philosophy of religion and ethics from Talbot School of Theology. Brett lives with his wife and kids in Southern California.
Paul Copan
Victor Claar
Alan Shlemon
As a national speaker for Stand to Reason, Alan trains Christians to make a thoughtful defense of their faith in the public square (M.A. Biola University).
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Q: Regex negate character without matching it Here's the data I need to fix:
{skin}\nstarts: head;\ndown to: trunk, extremities\n\nspares: palms, soles

I would like to put a ; in front of the \n to turn it into the following:
{skin};\nstarts: head;\ndown to: trunk, extremities;\nspares: palms, soles

I came up with the following regex expression: /[^;](\\n)+/, but unfortunately it also matches the preceeding character (which is NOT what I want).
Any thoughts on how to proceed??

A: I almost agree with @anubhava: (?<!;)(\\n)+
I believe the OP wanted to exclude the ; character from the match but not the newlines.

A: Use
;*(\\n)+

Replace with: ;$1.
See regex proof.
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                           repetition of the captured pattern will be
                           stored in \1)

A: You want to replace any number of \n that aren't proceeded by a ; or another \n with ';\n`:
Search: (?<!;)(?<!\\n)\\n+
Replace: ;\\n

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Hairston Hoopla
Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics
in Lakes, Bottles and Models
Research Approaches, Projects and Sites
We are interested in ways that organisms respond ecologically and evolutionarily to variable environments. Variation in time and space may result from changes in the external environment, or from the interactions among individuals and species within the community. Evolutionary, population and community responses to environmental change (whether natural or caused by humans), are in large part a function of the diversity of genotypes and species present and their differing levels of success. Together with my close Cornell colleague, theoretician Steve Ellner, and many great postdocs and students, we have found that rapid evolution on the same time scale as ecological dynamics can dramatically alter ecological patterns and processes while they are occurring – a process known as "eco-evolutionary dynamics." We've shown effects on predator-prey cycles, seasonal plankton dynamics, and the long-term persistence of genetic variation. My group has also shown that zooplankton make dormant eggs that can survive in lake sediments for decades or centuries and then hatch, affecting population evolutionary potential. These dormant egg banks are also a resource for studying past evolutionary events since viable eggs can be hatched from different times in the past. With colleagues at the former Max-Planck-Institute for Limnology (now MPI-Evolutionary Biology) we've used the egg bank in Lake Constance to show how Daphnia evolved resistance to toxic cyanobacteria as these primary producers increased in abundance during eutrophication. We are currently studying how climate change (both warming and increased storm frequency) is affecting seasonal thermal stratification and mixing patterns in lakes and how that influences plankton dynamics, especially the formation of harmful cyanobacterial blooms, which can feedback as natural selection on Daphnia dietary resistance.
ABOUT OUR STUDENTS
Graduate students in my lab work on ecological and evolutionary processes in aquatic organisms (usually in fresh water), but the topics range broadly. We all learn from each other when the breadth of research topics explored by students is wide. In some cases students are co-advised by colleagues. In the past decade or so, my PhD students have investigated (1) the positive and negative roles of colonial cyanobacteria on pelagic community and ecosystem processes in oligotrophic lakes (Cayelan Carey), (2) the effect of plankton and predator dispersal on plankton metacommunity (trophic cascade) dynamics in a system of island rock pools (Josie Simonis), (3) the relative importance of autochthonous and allochthonous primary and heterotrophic production on stream communities (Sarah Collins; co-advised by Alex Flecker), (4) the indirect effects of fish adaptive morphologies in response to predation intensity on nutrient cycling (Chris Dalton; co-advised by Alex Flecker), (5) the role of native fishes in sediment processing and transport in desert streams (Mike Booth; co-advised by Alex Flecker), (6) the relative importance of external forcing versus interspecific interactions in determining plankton population dynamics in embayments along L. Ontario (Becky Doyle Morin), (7) the spatial and temporal population structure of bioluminescent marine ostracods (Gretchen Gerrish; co-advised by Jim Morin), (8) the microevolutionary response of Daphnia to rapid environmental change in a polluted lake (Jennifer Fox), (9) the factors affecting food chain length in lakes of differing size and productivity (David Post; co-advised by Mike Pace), and (10) the developmental and genetic mechanisms underlying a trophic polymorphism (jaw morphology) in pupfish (Cami Holtmeier).
Undergraduate students work in my lab either on my research projects (or those of my grad students and postdocs), or carry out their own independent studies. Independent investigations have involved (1) genes involved in DNA repair after UV damage in high mountain lake Daphnia (Paige Kulling) (2) predatory-prey dynamics in lab microcosms and theory by tuning the strength of rotifer predation on algae using salinity (Alex Looi, Kathryn Blackley, Dave Rosenberg), (3) strength of evolutionary rescue as a function of extent of inbreeding depression in rotifers (Kathryn Blackley), (4) rates of plankton dispersal among rock pools during rain-induced overflow events (Kara Pellowe), (5) tracing clonal lineages of algae using microsatellite-DNA to follow evolutionary response of algae to consumption by rotifers (Justin Meyer), (6) the patterns of Daphnia abundance in Austrian Alpine lakes with very long histories of fish introduction (Linda Perry Demma), (7) the identification of past invasions by exotic species in using molecular analysis of dormant eggs from lake sediments (Torrie Hanley), (8) molecular genetic analysis of genetic variation in copepod species with and without prolonged diapause, and genetic changes in algal prey during predator-prey cycles (Matt Holland). When appropriate, undergraduate students participate as co-authors on publications (e.g., Hewson, NG, Li, Aguirre, Looi et al. 2013; Meyer et al. 2006; Bohonak, Holland et al. 2006; Hairston...Perry et al. 2005; Duffy, Perry et al. 2000; Hairston, Perry et al. 1999 - all names except mine, Hewson's, and Bohonak's were undergrads in my lab when the published work was carried out).
CURRENT AND PAST RESEARCH
Eco-evolutionary dynamics and internally-driven temporal variation – Along with Stephen Ellner, Laura Jones (Cornell University), and a series of great postdocs (Gregor Fussmann, now on the faculty at McGill University; Takehito Yoshida, now on the faculty at Tokyo University; Lutz Becks, now a group leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Biology; Teppo Hiltunen, now a postdoc at the University of Helsinki; Brooks Miner, now on the faculty at Ithaca College, and Masato Yamamichi, now on the faculty at Tokyo University), as well as a cadre of dedicated undergraduate students use highly controlled culture conditions to create predator-prey oscillations between algae and rotifers. We have been able to predict the dynamics in our culture system with mechanistic mathematical models (Fussmann et al. 2000) and then to use these models to predict unexpected behaviors. One very interesting result has been the observation that when the prey (algae) can evolve in response to temporally varying selection imposed by predation (rotifer grazing) and competition for limiting nutrients (nitrogen), the pattern of the predator-prey oscillations is radically altered (Yoshida et al. 2003). Under some conditions, "cryptic oscillations" of prey genotypes occur while total prey density remains essentially constant (Yoshida et al. 2007). Thus rapid contemporary evolution can dramatically alter what has traditionally been viewed as a purely ecological process (Becks et al. 2010). We have recently used this system to study the functional genomics of oscillating evolution of prey defense (cell clumping by Chlamydomonas) in response to predator-prey cycling (Becks et al. 2012).
Microevolutionary processes – Predator-prey cycling is one of many temporally and spatially varying selection pressures. In evolutionary biology, I am interested in ways that organisms deal with variable environments and the way that rapid adaptive evolutionary response to environmental change (whether natural or anthropogenic) influences ecological dynamics. My colleagues and I (especially Monica Geber who dreamed up the approach, and Steve Ellner who has been instrumental in developing and applying it to our data) have devised methods for assessing the relative rates of evolutionary and ecological change (Hairston et al. 2005; Ellner et al. 2011). We estimate the magnitudes of the effect of both an evolving character and a changing environment on the rates of change of ecological processes.
Dispersal between habitat patches can be of central importance for evolution in a spatially varying environment. Similarly, dispersal through time can be critical for evolution in an environment where selection fluctuates temporally (Ellner and Hairston, 1994; Hairston et al. 1996). This temporal dispersal is created in the crustacean zooplankton that I study through long-lived dormant eggs (see figure above). These eggs routinely survive for decades in lake sediments (Hairston 1996), and in extreme instances, for centuries (Hairston et al. 1995). In the case of the copepod Onychodiaptomus sanguineus living in small lakes in Rhode Island, an important fitness character is the seasonal timing of the production of dormant eggs. In summer, the animals would normally be subjected to intense predation by fish, but the copepods avoid this by producing dormant eggs that rest on the lake bottom where the fish do not find them. The optimal time in spring to begin dormant-egg production varies from year to year depending upon fish density and activity. There is genetic variation for the timing of dormancy (Hairston and Dillon 1990), and the populations respond to changes between years in selection pressure (Hairston and De Stasio 1988; Hairston and Dillon 1990). Theory suggests that this fluctuating selection, combined with the overlap in generations created by the dormant "egg bank," creates conditions for the maintenance of genetic variation for the seasonal timing of dormancy. It is this genetic variation that permits response to changes in natural selection. Interestingly, the variation maintained is not continuous. Rather, two distinct phenotypes coexist (Hairston et al. 1996; Ellner et al. 1998). One deals with year-to-year variations in fish predation by switching to dormancy early in the season (thus avoiding even the earliest onset of predation). Copepods with an early switch also have a high probability of hatching from the egg bank. The other phenotype suffers low fitness in most years, but in years of late onset of predation can have very high fitness. These late-switching copepods have a relatively low probability of hatching from dormancy in the sediments. The exact diapause timing by the copepod population in any given year is the result of past natural selection combined with the influence of proportions of two phenotypes hatching from the lake sediments (Ellner et al. 1999). Based on the method in Hairston et al. (2005), the rate of adaptive evolution in this system is on the order of 20% of the rate of ecological change.
In a separate study of the Daphnia galeata in Lake Constance (Europe), colleagues at the Max-Planck-Institute for Limnology (now the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Biology), Plön, Germany, and from my lab at Cornell, used individuals hatched from diapausing eggs extracted from the lake sediments of different time periods to show how the population evolved resistance to dietary cyanobacteria during the course of lake eutrophication (Hairston et al. 1999, 2001). Using reaction norms, we have gone on to show that the degree of phenotypic plasticity evolved in this population as cyanobacteria became more prevalent in the plankton during the period 1960 - 1980. The Daphnia genotypes taken from sediments deposited during the 1960s show a significantly larger average change in performance (specific juvenile growth rate) than do genotypes obtained from sediments dated from the late 1970s (Hairston and De Meester 2008).
Most recently, we have shown that Daphnia mendotae in Oneida Lake, site of the Cornell Biological Field Station evolve resistance to cyanobacteria over the course of a single season (about 15 Daphnia generations), and that this sets up an eco-evolutionary dynamic in which grazer evolution can influence seasonal plankton dynamics (L. Schaffner, E. Bonner et al. as yet unpublished).
Causes of cyanobacterial blooms in an unpolluted lake – Current lab research is on the causes of blooms of cyanobacteria in a beautiful small Finger Lake – Honeoye Lake. Every summer there are dense occurrences of cyanobacterial scums even though the lake watershed is nearly completely forested and all houses along the shore have been connected to a sewer system that carries waste away from the lake. Our working hypothesis is that nutrients buried in the sediments of the lake are a legacy from past pollution. These nutrients are released into the hypolimnion in summer, but the shallow depth of the lake makes mixing of the nutrients into the surface waters, where they stimulate phytoplankton growth, fairly common. Our data suggest (and detailed modeling is underway to test the idea) that even without complete turnover of the water column, internal waves and upwelling events along the thermocline are sufficient to enrich the surface waters. Wouldn't it be interesting if physical mixing processes in lakes ultimately drives the evolution of Daphnia via the stimulation of cyanobacterial blooms?
Community dynamics – At the community level, long-term dormancy may provide a mechanism for maintaining species diversity in a changing environment. At Onondaga Lake, New York State, industrial development created a lake environment that changed dramatically over the past century. I and others in my lab have studied the ability of the zooplankton community to respond to these changes through reintroduction from the egg bank, and the possible effects of pollution in the sediments on reducing the viability of dormant eggs (and hence reducing community response). One interesting result is the replacement of native species of Daphnia by exotic species during the period of peak pollution (by salt waste, heavy metal inputs, and nutrient pollution). The exotic species (D. exilis and D. curvirostris) are themselves native to saline environments in the southwestern U.S. and Europe (Hairston et al. 1999, Duffy et al. 2000).
A group of people from my lab have used molecular markers to explore the genetic changes in populations over time through the analysis of dormant eggs. One application has been studies rates of microevolutionary change. We used allozymes on animals hatched from the sediments to show that Onondaga Lake was invaded by D. exilis through the hatching of a single egg (genotype). Analysis of the 12S region of mtDNA extracted directly from diapausing eggs was used to identify the invasion of Onondaga Lake during the 1950s by D. curvirostris when the eggs could not be hatched (Duffy et al. 2000). Another use of molecular techniques is in understanding the frequency of reestablishment of populations from the egg bank, in comparison to reestablishment via dispersal from outside the lake. Together with colleagues at the Max-Planck-Institute, Andy Bohonak and Matt Holland from my lab used the COI region of mtDNA in copepods to evaluate the role of prolonged diapause in the nature of genetic variation in two species of diaptomid copepods (Bohonak et al. 2006). Recently Ian Hewson in collaboration with my lab identified viruses of Daphnia: we found that host death rates correlate, seasonally with viral prevalence and abundance.
Visual ability and diet choice by fish – Another interest of mine has been the way that zooplanktivorous fish locate their prey and how they make dietary decisions. William Walton (now at UC Riverside), Stephen Easter (U Michigan), and I studied how the ability of bluegill sunfish (Lepomis machrochirus) to detect prey visually increases during ontogeny and the effect that this has on diet choice (Hairston et al. 1982, Walton et al. 1992). As fish grow, sensory cells are added to the retina causing visual resolution to increase. At the same time, the eye grows larger and the retina recedes from the lens, with the result that visual resolution declines. The net effect is a non-linear increase in visual resolution as fish grow. Behavioral studies show that the feeding reaction (orientation and capture) of fish to their zooplankton prey follow this non-linear pattern closely. The ability of fish to find their prey increases with age (and size), and this in concert with changing ability to handle prey after they are captured results is a diet choice that closely matches predictions of optimal foraging theory.
Interactions between community composition and nutrient cycling – With David Hambright (now at U. Oklahoma), Robert Howarth and William Schaffner (Cornell EEB), we have studied the role that zooplankton community structure has on the ecosystem-level processes of nutrient cycling. Using the Cornell Experimental Ponds Facility, we manipulated zooplankton community structure by having fish present (produces a copepod-dominated community) or absent (produces a Daphnia-dominated community). We also manipulated nutrient additions with all ponds having high phosphorous inputs, but some having low nitrogen additions and others having high nitrogen additions. Based on research by others, we would have expected high rates of nitrogen fixation in ponds with low N:P ratios. However, we found this result only in the presence of fish (where grazing by zooplankton is relatively low). When fish are absent, the Daphnia graze down the cyanobacteria to low levels and N-fixation is greatly reduced (Hambright et al. 2007a,b). Although cyanobacteria are generally considered poor food for Daphnia, these grazers appear early in the year and prevent any cyanobacterial bloom from starting (Schaffner et al. 1994).
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Watch Shakira join Black Eyed Peas in vibrant 'Girl Like Me' video
The 'Translation' song pays tribute to Latin women
By Will Lavin
Shakira in the video for 'Girl Like Me'. CREDIT: YouTube/Black Eyed Peas
Black Eyed Peas have shared a video for their new track 'Girl Like Me' featuring Shakira – watch it below.
READ MORE: Shakira on the movie of her ill-fated El Dorado tour: "I knew someday I'd lose my youth or my beauty, but I never thought I would lose my voice…"
Taken from 'Translation', the recent album from the Will.i.am-fronted group, the song pays tribute to Latin Women.
"La-La-Latinas/ I want a girl like Shakira/ Esa latina está rica/ I want a familia chica que sepa vivir y que viva la vida/ I need a bien bonita/ Elegante señorita/ Girl, I want you and I need ya," Will.i.am raps in the opening lines.
Elsewhere, Taboo shouts out the highlights of Shakira's career – "Your hips don't lie, they rock me" – and Apl.de.pl references both Tejano icon Selena and Brazilian pop star Anitta.
In the music video, the Peas perform in front of various set pieces, while Shakira dances in an 80s-inspired outfit and and shows off her skateboarding skills.
Watch the video for 'Girl Like Me' below:
Earlier this year, Shakira took part in the 'Global Goal: Unite for Our Future' benefit concert alongside the likes of Coldplay, Miley Cyrus, Christine and the Queens and Justin Bieber.
Set up by Global Citizen and the European Commission, it was put on to raise money for marginalised communities disproportionately affected by the coronavirus crisis.
Meanwhile, Will.i.am has spoken out about Donald Trump, saying the president's claim that he's done more for the Black community than any president since Abraham Lincoln is "an insult".
Speaking in a new interview, the Black Eyed Peas frontman, who debuted a new pro-Joe Biden video with Jennifer Hudson, was asked whether he felt Trump was drawing the support of young African American and Latino men.
"Most of the people that I see hopping the bandwagon, it is tax based," he told The Washington Post Live. "It's about money. It's not about decency. It's not about preparation for tomorrow."


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Having a long holiday is a precious time either for you or your family since you can bring them goes to somewhere. However, choosing the best place for holiday for some people can make them confuse and stress over. It is because there are a lot of interested place to go. As alternative, you can go to the TROPEA Italy. Although you are newbie or have travelled a lot, you better browse some information about this place firstly before go to over there. After having enough information and you are challenged to go there, it is your show time to rock the day in Italy.
As what have been people know, Italy is one of interested place that should be visited for those who love travelling very much. One of impressive place in Italy is namely as TROPEA Italy. In this place, you can ask your families to relax on several luxury hotels and also enjoy the natural landscape. To ease you're travelling, there are several TROPEA Italy hotels that offer the booking via online. Since there are a lot of hotels in TROPEA, you better compare them firstly before booking. Pick the one that match your need and also will make you comfortable along stay in Italy.
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Besides enjoying natural landscape, you can also go to the TROPEA Italy history sites. Truthfully, there is historical center in TROPEA Italy that is popularly known as most beautiful and interesting history center in Calabria. However, this has been damaged slightly by disastrous eighteenth and seventeenth century earthquakes.


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Combining innovative optical hardware and imaging algorithms, the Nokia 7 Plus comes with enhanced Dual-Sight that promises excellent performance in both low-light ultra-bright conditions. Also, its vivid 6-inch 18:9 Full HD+ display makes it perfect for watching all the Netflix shows you've been meaning to binge.
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Q: Knockoutjs super basics I am trying to accomplish the following task:

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*List item

*Get a twitter handle

*Ask user how many tweets to display

*Fetch tweets

*Display only the tweets the user has specified

I have a super basic problem. I have hard coded html and I can fetch tweets with knockouk, I'd like to eliminate my hardcoded element and only use knockoutjs. I can fetch x number of tweets from user Y using subscribe and I use the observable array to push tweets into.
Code that works fantastic. Here is how I do it:
TwitterGet = function() {
  var recent_tweets = ko.observableArray();
  var twitter_image = ko.observable();

  var component = this;
  var url = 'https://twitter.com/search.json?callback=?';

  this.attributes.twitter_user_handle.subscribe(function(value) {

    var url = 'https://twitter.com/search.json?callback=?';
    var twitter_parameters = {
      include_entities: true,
      include_rts: true,
      q: 'from:' + value,
      count: '3'
    }

  $.getJSON(url,twitter_parameters,
  function(json) {
    twitter_image(json.results[0].profile_image_url);
      result = json.results;
      recent_tweets.push(result);
  });
 });
};

My problem is uber simple. The tweets live here:

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*recent_tweets.slice(-1)[0][0].text (first tweet)

*recent_tweets.slice(-1)[0][1].text (second tweet)

Right now I am statically plugging each tweet into html. This breaks if the user only has 3 tweets and I have hard coded 5 tweets into the html. How can I user knockout to insert html with the tweet?
Example of STATIC HTML that I would like to eliminate, AND replace with dynamic HTML inserted by Knockout JS.

<a href="#" target="_blank" data-bind-component_<%=component.id-%>="inline_edit: attributes.twitter_user_handle">
<span data-bind-component_<%=component.id-%>="inline_edit: recent_tweets.slice(-1)[0][1].text">

share
retweet
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<a href="#" target="_blank" data-bind-component_<%=component.id-%>="inline_edit: attributes.twitter_user_handle">
<span data-bind-component_<%=component.id-%>="inline_edit: recent_tweets.slice(-1)[0][2].text">

A: The general idea would be to use the foreach binding of Knockout with an observbaleArray.  Rather than pushing the result into the observableArray, you would want to set it entirely to a new array.
So, instead of:
recent_tweets.push(result);

You would do:
recent_tweets(result);

Here is a sample based on your code that exposes some of the observables for binding: http://jsfiddle.net/rniemeyer/8kK6m/


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Big city mayors asks feds for permanent public transit funding ahead of budget
By Jolson Lim. Published on Feb 6, 2020 5:03pm
LRT construction continues along 83 Street in Edmonton, Alberta, on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. (Codie McLachlan/Star Edmonton)
Mayors of Canada's largest cities are pitching the federal government on support for public transit and boosting affordable housing ahead of a budget the Liberals say will be environmentally focused.
Mayors were in Ottawa this week to push the Liberals to move on an election promise to permanently fund public transit expansion projects and to accelerate the transition towards zero-emission transit vehicles.
They also want new funding to top up an oversubscribed federal program providing money for projects on disaster mitigation and climate change adaptation, such as flood-proofing coastlines.
As well, cities are calling for Ottawa to launch a program to maintain affordable rental housing stock and to build more homes for Indigenous peoples and those living with mental illness and substance use.
Finance Minister Bill Morneau, who met with the group of mayors on Thursday afternoon, has said the environment will be a key focus in the upcoming budget.
Edmonton mayor Don Iveson, chair of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities' (FCM) big city mayors caucus, told reporters on Thursday that the group crafted their budget asks with that lens in mind.
"We prioritize the asks that align with the climate imperative," he said. "Many of our communities have declared climate emergencies."
The Liberals committed during the 2019 election campaign for permanent federal funding for public transit projects, injecting $3 billion more per year in stable and predictable funding directly for cities once the current infrastructure spending plan winds down in 2027.
The party also promised to require, starting in 2023, that federal dollars meant for public transit go towards zero-emission buses and rail systems, working with municipalities to address any exceptional circumstances.
Iveson said he hopes the government can build on that promise, and is hoping for $2.7 billion spread out over several years for the zero-emission transit fleets. He said initial money should be spent on garages and recharging infrastructure to build vehicle capacity before a larger chunk is dished out for fleets in later years.
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson said permanent transit funding would help cities better plan for projects that take years to build.
"It would bring reliability back to the equation," he said. "In the past, governments have announced money and then threw it into the economy and then we're out of money, and then we put all these applications forward on a one-by-one basis."
"A lot of these major projects take years and years to get a shovel in the ground."
Iveson said cities are "still having trouble" getting provinces to provide funding for supportive housing and mass transit, despite the economic and social benefits it can provide.
"We've got to find a way to draw provinces constructively into co-investment and realize co-benefit in a number of these areas and that would also help square the fiscal circle," he said.
"But certainly the cost of not making these investments, particularly around climate, is just simply unacceptable to future generations."
READ MORE: Municipalities ask new Parliament to act fast on boosting direct infrastructure funding
Iveson also said changes to Gas Tax Fund are still on its radar, despite it not being among the main budget asks from the big city mayors.
Beefing up contributions through the fund, which provides direct federal funding to municipalities, was among the core requests of the FCM when it presented the Liberal government a "first-100 days" roadmap in November.
He said conversations continue about increasing the federal-municipal funding stream, but he's hopeful all three levels of government can work together on infrastructure funding that would make such direct funding less necessary.
The mayors also met on Thursday morning with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who said he wants to continue working with cities.
"We've seen some challenges arise with the coordination with the provinces and we're going to keep working it together," he said.


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Senate Republicans capitulate on Walz's emergency powers; Democrat Tomassoni elected president of the Senate
By: Ricardo Lopez - November 12, 2020 5:56 pm
State Sen. Paul Gazelka, R-East Gull Lake, addressed reporters on Oct. 19, 2020, urging Gov. Tim Walz to reduce COVID-19 regulations. Photo by Ricardo Lopez/Minnesota Reformer.
Update: State Sen. David Senjem, R-Rochester told Fox9 reporter Theo Keith that he has tested positive for COVID-19 and may have exposed other Republican senators — while asymptomatic — at a caucus meeting last week.
In an abrupt reversal, state Senate Republicans on Thursday opted to let Democratic-Farmer-Labor Gov. Tim Walz keep his emergency powers to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, foregoing a vote to signal their disapproval.
Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka, R-East Gull Lake, told MPR News early Thursday that a Senate vote to rescind Walz's emergency powers declaration was not necessary, although he continued to insist Walz has overstepped his authority.
"I think we've made it pretty clear that we don't think that you need emergency powers to deal with the virus," said. He added, however, that Senate Republicans have not downplayed the virus. "We've always said the virus is serious."
Just weeks ago, however, Gazelka and House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt, R-Crown, gave a news conference in which they said the state should lift most restrictions, including on schools and businesses.
Earlier, Gazelka sent an Aug. 28 letter to Walz asking for criteria for when a peacetime emergency declaration would be rescinded. He wrote: "There is no longer an emergency," pointing out that hospitals had sufficient supplies, and no Minnesotans had been denied medical care.
Gazelka's sunny assessments have been swamped by a brutal wave COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths.
Walz's peacetime emergency powers give him wide latitude to deploy resources and ban certain activities that are believed to spread the virus, like late nights at bars, for instance.
While he has frequently called it a "serious" problem, Gazelka and his Republican colleagues have also tried to undercut Walz's pandemic response. In addition to multiple votes to overturn Walz's emergency powers, Gazelka and Senate Republicans have rejected the need for a statewide mask mandate and criticized other efforts like the Walz administration's decision to purchase a $5.5 million temporary morgue.
Senate and House Republicans have argued Walz should collaborate with them more as he issues executive orders governing the state's pandemic response. This week, Walz issued new restrictions aimed at stemming the continued spread of the virus, ordering bars and restaurants to close at 10 p.m. for in-person service. He also issued guidelines calling for social gatherings to be limited to 10 people from no more than three households.
Even as he declined to schedule a vote to again try to strip Walz of his emergency powers, Gazelka was still attacking Walz Thursday: "The Senate can move quickly again to address a covid crisis but continued emergency powers leave the decision-making to one man only."
Thursday's Senate floor session was brief, but lawmakers did take a vote to install a new Senate president: state Sen. David Tomassoni, DFL-Chisholm. He replaces state Sen. Jeremy Miller, R-Winona.
On a 63-4 vote, Tomassoni became the first Senate president of the opposing party to serve in the role, a move motivated by Republicans' desire to guard their one-seat majority.
The preemptive move is based on speculation that Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar might be named to a cabinet post in President-elect Joe Biden's administration, necessitating Walz's appointment of a replacement to finish Klobuchar's term.
Among the names floated to possibly replace Klobuchar is Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, triggering a vacancy in that office and the automatic succession of the Minnesota Senate president to that role, under Minnesota law.
Under that scenario, Tomassoni would become lieutenant governor and vacate his Senate seat, triggering a special election.
Republicans are more confident they could win a race in Tomassoni's Iron Range district, which has trended more Republican in recent years, compared with Miller's swing district in southeastern Minnesota.
Senate Minority Leader Susan Kent, DFL-Woodbury, said Thursday that the move was based on a number of hypothetical factors but said it could potentially help bring clarity to the state's automatic succession law.
"What this points to is how disruptive it is to have this automatic succession to fill a vacancy at the lieutenant governor level… and we need to address that," she said.
The question came up in 2017 after a skirmish erupted when former Gov. Mark Dayton appointed then-Lt. Gov. Tina Smith to fill out the rest of Sen. Al Franken's term when he resigned.
Michelle Fischbach, now Congresswoman-elect of Minnesota's 7th District, was Senate president at the time. She refused to vacate her Senate seat, saying she could serve both roles because the lieutenant governor doesn't have official duties.
A 2018 lawsuit was filed and dismissed, leaving the matter unresolved. Fishbach did eventually resign from the Senate and formally took on the lieutenant governor role in May 2018.
by Ricardo Lopez, Minnesota Reformer
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Ricardo Lopez was a senior political reporter for the Reformer.


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We ordered the cold soba which I believe is the traditional way to eat it. I had the soba with yam and one tempura prawn, believing that yam soba meant a soba flavoured with yam - this was not quite correct! In Japan, yam, or Tororo (Japanese: とろろ), is a sticky food made from grating a yam - the result is quite slimy and an acquired taste, I would suggest getting it without or on the side if you have not tried it before. Soba is made from buckwheat flour, it has a simple flavour with a pleasant texture - you season it yourself by dipping it in soy sauce, spring onions and wasabi. The first time I was in Japan I was not the biggest fan of soba but now I really crave dipping the cold noodles in the soy sauce mixture alongside crispy tempura, if you're not into cold noodles, she also serves them hot and has some tempura mushroom vegetarian options.
Ollie, the soba lady and I.


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Report on ACSPA/ACS Activities
ABS Moves Forward with New Direction for Continuous Certification
Chapter Speed Networking
Dr. Jacobs Receives Bigelow Medal
Sneak Peek at the B/G Annual Business Meeting
As the content editors of The Cutting Edge, we very much wanted to produce an issue immediately preceding Clinical Congress 2017 to review newsletter topics covered over the past year and highlight upcoming Clinical Congress topics and events.
First and foremost, we want to present this newsletter as one of many vehicles that enable the American College of Surgeons (ACS) to communicate with the Governors and, through us, the Fellows we represent. Vehicles such as the ACS Communities, the Bulletin, ACS NewsScope, and others sometimes cover similar topics, but with a slightly different emphasis.
Among these vehicles, by far the most nimble is the ACS Communities, a project overseen by Tyler Hughes, MD, FACS. Topics covered there have found their way into the other publications, including this newsletter, and—perhaps more than ever—fuel the program content of the Clinical Congress.
Through its recent publication of the "Red Book," Optimal Resources in Surgical Quality and Safety, the College has asserted its multidisciplinary leadership role; this publication summarizes and expands upon other ACS initiatives, including the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP®), the Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP®), and oversight of cancer and trauma programs.
Over the past year, the ACS has been engaged in several controversial issues—third rail issues to be more specific. We have had the Board of Regents and ACS Committee on Trauma jointly engaging the topic of firearm safety and The Hartford Consensus group taking on the "Stop the Bleed" campaign. In this issue, Jo Buyske, MD, FACS, just months after taking over the directorship of the American Board of Surgery (ABS) from Frank Lewis, MD, FACS, describes planned flexibility in the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) process under consideration by the ABS directors. Hot topic conversations continue on models of surgical training, the role and content of acute care surgery programs, and whether we can turn out a general surgical diplomate equally capable of specialty fellowship or performance as a rural surgeon.
National meetings and peer-reviewed publications are increasingly populated by studies mining the rich potential of large databases. Discussions concerning the relationship of quality to volume are juxtaposed with discussions examining the relationship of quality to access. And our surgical advocacy efforts, most visible during the annual gathering of ACS Fellows' representatives in Washington, DC, are increasingly inclusive and focused.
We as a newsletter group have attempted to summarize the College's energy. It's a great time to be a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a Fellow could point to any one of a dozen initiatives to respond to the perennial question of "What has the College done for me lately?" We hope that our content has been useful to you and that we have done our part to describe established and new initiatives.
Continue the conversation. Come to Clinical Congress 2017 in San Diego, CA.
Emily Kalata
Manager, Board of Governors
ekalata@facs.org
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Clyde Drew is a Mi'kmaq artist living in St. Alban's, Newfoundland and Labrador. The beauty and powerful imagery of his work comes from the songs and stories of his people which he learned from childhood in his home town of Conne River. He began carving in his mid 30s first using wood, chain saw and chisel. Later he switched to moose and caribou antlers and whalebone. What started as a hobby turned into a lifelong passion and livelihood.
Clyde creates a three dimensional world of spirits and natural forms that have captivated both Canadian and international collectors. The intricate detail in his sculptures is absolutely amazing.
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YouTube's comment section isn't exactly renowned as a bastion for intelligent discourse. Quite the opposite — YouTube is home to some of the most racist, sexist, offensive, and downright stupidest things ever written. The one thing the section had going for it in the past was a lack of spam comments. You know the kind: Promises to "make $6,000 an hour working from home!" coupled with a malicious link. Since Google took charge of YouTube, it prevented spammers from leaving messages below videos by prohibiting links in the comments section.
But now, YouTube's floodgates have been opened to spammers. Earlier this month, Google overhauled the YouTube comment system to connect it to Google+, which allows users to post links. Perhaps Google thought that spammers wouldn't bother creating G+ accounts. But that was a flawed line of thinking, because spammers are probably the only people who don't find setting up a Google+ account to access another Google service annoying.
YouTube and Google are making attempts to fix the situation. The YouTube comments team, who probably get very despondent about the human condition on a regular basis, wrote a blog post on the YouTube Creators Blog detailing their efforts. "We've worked hard to combat the increase in spammy comments," they wrote. To prevent more spam, they're trying to boost recognition of bad links and impersonation attempts, as well as their ability to recognize ASCII art (that's when people post annoying images made from typed characters). YouTube is also changing how long comments are displayed, though it's not clear how that will impact spammers specifically.
A group of users angry about the comment overhaul are making the situation worse, by posting and re-posting spam that protests the change.
The attempts to crackdown on the influx of spammers have been working, and spam has decreased from earlier this month, when the new system was introduced. We'll see if the company can fix the comment system enough to ameliorate the 215,000 people who signed a Change.org petition asking the company to revert its YouTube system.