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Advancing Public Climate Engineering Disclosure
Deborah Gordon, Smriti Kumble, David Livingston
Summary: The idea that climate engineering provides a get-out-of-jail-free card is fraught with risk. More transparency is needed to help ensure it successfully addresses climate change
The world does not appear to be on track to achieve the absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions needed to avoid the brunt of a dangerous rise in global temperature. Despite a 2.6 percent reduction in global carbon intensity and early signs of a plateau in the absolute growth of global carbon emissions, 2017 was the second-hottest year worldwide on record—after 2016. The global decarbonization rate is projected to be half of what is needed to limit global temperature rise to the two-degree-Celsius target. The United Nations and industry experts are warning that these dangerous gaps need to be filled.
Two main pillars are currently in place to support efforts to address climate change. The first includes concerted commitments by nearly all nations under the Paris Agreement to mitigate their GHG emissions. The second involves national and subnational efforts to build greater resilience to adapt to the impacts of climate change.
Yet, these have not been enough. And gaps in progress are hastening the incorporation of a third pillar into the climate policy architecture: climate engineering, also known as geoengineering. New transparency mechanisms, such as a public clearinghouse, are needed to ensure that societies are fully informed about these new climate techniques, research findings, and their deployment. The central goal of a clearinghouse would be to gather all-encompassing and up-to-date climate engineering data and make it publicly available as the field unfolds.
Gordon was director of Carnegie's Energy and Climate Program, where her research focuses on oil and climate change issues in North America and globally.
Such transparency will be integral to managing the addition of a new pillar of climate policy that is simultaneously responsive to broader concerns over its use, such as issues of equity, governance, and geopolitics.
A New Line of Climate Defense
Climate engineering employs a diverse set of techniques that deliberately alter the climate system on a planetary scale, reversing or interrupting global warming. Private investment, public curiosity, and policymaker involvement in the field are all growing as scientists explore different approaches to climate engineering research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D).
A public process has been slowly taking shape, but it is lagging behind RDD&D efforts. About a decade ago, the U.S. Congress held hearings on the implications of large-scale climate intervention, the Congressional Research Service began assessing geoengineering policy, and then the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conducted a major climate engineering study. Simultaneous international efforts have also been under way to probe geoengineering, starting with the UK's Royal Society. More recently, in November 2017, the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology held a hearing on climate engineering technologies, sparking interest in its development.
Smriti Kumble
The resulting discussion has produced several ways to characterize climate engineering technologies. The most straightforward option is to sort them into two broad categories: carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation management (SRM).
Carbon Dioxide Removal
CDR entails removing the buildup of carbon dioxide and storing it in plants, soils, rocks, and building materials and elsewhere, such as under the ground or in oceans. The techniques that rely on plants and soils are assumed to be cheaper and closer to deployment than the others, yet may not be permanent solutions. Storage technologies that sequester carbon elsewhere may be more permanent, but they could be costlier and require continued research and development.
The applications and scale of effective CDR solutions over coming decades are unclear. While the National Academies described CDR as an important part of a portfolio of options to stabilize and reduce atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change highlighted the importance of CDR in keeping global temperature rise below two degrees Celsius, there are biophysical limits to the technology's application. Major uncertainties exist about the economic viability and scalability of CDR. There is controversy over certain CDR techniques' effects on food security, biodiversity, emissions, and storage safety. Some analysts posit that impacts could be local, regional, or even global, especially if CDR is applied on the requisite planetary scale. Others argue that CDR is relatively benign.
David Livingston is the deputy director for climate and advanced energy at the Atlantic Council's Global Energy Center. He is a former associate fellow in Carnegie's Energy and Climate Program.
Solar Radiation Management
SRM seeks to offset GHG-induced warming by either increasing the amount of sunlight reflected from earth into space or preventing radiation from reaching the earth's surface in the first place.
This approach is accompanied by a different set of risks, both climatological and geopolitical. If SRM is not accompanied by effective mitigation efforts to simultaneously cut emissions, it can cause precipitous warming if it is eventually rolled back. The need for perpetual SRM applications, known as lock in, infers that once SRM is deployed, it may be difficult to safely stop. Even if SRM succeeds on a planetary scale, it may lead to local and regional conflicts over real or perceived harms or benefits.
Developing a Global Public Registry
Gathering accurate, complete information on the evolving array of techniques under consideration, development, or application would be critical to safely manage climate engineering. That information would also be vital to communicating these approaches in a real, credible, and detailed manner to policymakers and civil society. Deliberation, not disinformation, should prevail.
While data-collection protocols are in place for climate mitigation and adaptation, knowledge-building efforts in support of the governance and implementation of climate engineering RDD&D activities are limited. A number of ad hoc institutions and uncoordinated initiatives have begun to monitor assorted elements of climate engineering activities, but these efforts are limited in terms of their scope, transparency, and/or objectivity.
Once the focus of a handful of scientists, climate engineering RDD&D activities appear to be expanding. More resources are being allocated (publicly and privately), the breadth of approaches being explored is expanding, the number of individuals and institutions conducting research across the globe is increasing, and real-world experimentation is under way.
Despite its global reach, climate engineering RDD&D appears to be dominated at present by U.S. scientists in academia and national laboratories. For example, at a recent distinguished conference on radiation management, presentations were made by twenty U.S. university and government researchers. The remaining thirteen slots on the agenda were spread among EU researchers, NGOs, a Chinese academic, and a journalist.
But it is difficult to know the extent of climate engineering research at present. It may be the case that the U.S. academic community has a higher underlying level of transparency or salience than that in other regions, leading to potential misperceptions. While some researchers believe they have a strong sense of what others are doing, such intimate knowledge likely only applies to a small subset of the broader climate community.
A public repository of climate engineering activities could offer this information to the world, being routinely updated to capture and convey the expanding field of climate engineering RDD&D in a neutral, objective manner. In addition to being informed about what actions are under way worldwide, a registry would facilitate ongoing assessments of the various techniques applied, findings presented, funds expended, permits acquired, collaborations formed, national versus international oversight established, and other relevant facts that would help increase understanding of this emerging field.
The design choices for framing an RDD&D registry are manifold—and consequential. There are more questions than answers:
How is climate engineering defined, and what should be included?
Would traditional subcategories (CDR and SRM) be used or would new parameters need to be created?
How granular is the information, and would the collected information be made available to the broader public on a complete, or partial, basis?
Should all activities be subject to the same disclosure expectations or requirements?
Would the explicit permission of researchers and actors be needed for inclusion?
How would data be authenticated?
Under the aegis of what institution(s) would such a database be created, maintained, and housed?
Who has the rights to add, amend, and access it?
Is a single database most appropriate, or would multiple ones, each catering to the particulars of a given technology set, prove most effective?
Would the data be interoperable with future national-level databases?
Three distinct approaches to reporting, while not exhaustive of the design choices facing such a registry, illustrate some of the key choices and trade-offs involved. These include full voluntary reporting, incentivized voluntary reporting, and mandatory reporting.
Completely Voluntary Reporting
A completely voluntary reporting approach follows the "if you build it, they will come" philosophy. It convinces climate engineering actors that disclosure and reporting of activities is either in their own self-interest or a requirement due to norms and/or peer pressure. Such a registry could also be populated with research summaries prepared by researchers themselves.
One advantage is that a voluntary approach can have a broad scope in terms of technologies, approaches, and geography. By inviting all involved in climate engineering RDD&D to participate, a successful registry would not be skewed toward a limited number of activities. Voluntary contributions would have to be vetted against real-world activities to identify those actors who are refraining from participation.
The Nanotechnology Clearinghouse serves as a possible model. The Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network, a consortium of universities, is currently compiling information for this database on nanotech and nanoscience. The network collects and organizes published research, news, and multimedia resources in the central clearinghouse, drawing from government- and nonprofit-run voluntary clearinghouses, such as Purdue University's NanoHUB.
Incentivized Voluntary Reporting
An incentivized voluntary reporting approach would build on the completely voluntary system, recognizing that not all actors view disclosure as in their best interest. For example, certain technologies that lower overall GHG concentrations also generate new feedstocks of carbon that can be used in new industrial processes. Direct air capture is but one example of these negative-emissions technologies, whose potential profitability means that private actors may pursue these techniques. Many of these companies may not wish to disclose their structure, activities, and progress for competitive reasons. Additional incentives could take many forms, from custom regulatory relief or guidance, eligibility for certain subsidies or tax benefits, or access to national labs or government RDD&D facilities. While special incentive mechanisms may be useful, the government may find it difficult to gather such competitive information, limiting the scope of data collected.
One example of this kind of setup is the Department of Energy's now-defunct Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, which tracked voluntary emissions from utilities, industry, small businesses, and institutions between 1994 and 2009. It incentivized large industrial emitters to submit detailed emissions data to a public registry by providing credits for registered emissions reductions. It also had special provisions to encourage disclosure by small businesses.
Mandatory reporting requires buy-in from affected parties to be most effective. Otherwise, parties may try to game the disclosure systems put in place. Historically, such systems that cover global activities end up under the auspices of multilateral institutions, such as the UN, that are equipped to enforce disclosure mandates. Establishing disclosure mandates would take time given parties' varied political and technical interests. At least initially, a mandatory system could be developed by national governments to collect those data that are of greatest domestic interest. However, this also means that there would likely be a balkanization of mandatory, voluntary, and nonexistent disclosure regimes across national borders, leading to significant blind spots and regulatory arbitrage opportunities. Key factors to consider regarding this approach are how to treat different climate engineering actors and which enforcement mechanism(s) would be most appropriate, and how to promote coordination between national or regional disclosure regimes.
The Biosafety Clearinghouse is an example of this approach. Established in 2003 by the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the clearinghouse governs the cross-border impacts of importing and releasing genetically modified organisms that are alive. Mandatory reporting is required from 171 countries that are party to the protocol. Scientific, technical, environmental, and legal information must be submitted to the clearinghouse within a designated time frame. The database includes standard definitions and categories used by researchers around the globe. A similar "controlled vocabulary" would be useful for a climate engineering clearinghouse because the boundaries around different technologies vary.
Quest for Public Information
Yet accumulating information for the clearinghouse is more easily said than done. There is no single source of information. Instead, volumes of currently available data reside in multiple places, each with their own opportunities, obstacles, and insufficiencies. The hunt for data is complicated by today's architecture of information sources (see figure 1). Mining information is currently hit-and-miss. Improvements to this system are possible through the establishment of a more comprehensive climate engineering database structure with proper incentives, mandates, and/or open-source methodologies to enhance the capture of relevant information.
The Cost of Data
Scholarly climate engineering research typically resides in a wide array of academic journals aimed at both science and social science audiences. Accepted articles tend to be high quality; they must be successfully reviewed by academic peers to be published. These articles are mostly behind paywalls, making it costly to access all the information to stay up-to-date in this field.
In addition, there are fee-for-service providers, such as Web of Science and Scopus, that collect metadata and construct search engines for global research articles using keywords, cross-referencing, and other analytic tools. This facilitates research capture but adds an additional cost.
While there are free search engines such as Google Scholar, do-it-yourself data gathering requires time, effort, and expertise. Maintaining an up-to-date database would require essentially nonstop searches, and there would still be no way of knowing if all research relevant to climate engineering was successfully captured.
Even if free data grabs are successful, they only provide bare-bones information, such as a title and an abstract; the rest of the research remains out of reach. Given the increasing influx of climate engineering articles posted year after year and their valuable research citations, funding would be needed to access, analyze, and summarize this information in a database.
Private Intellectual Property
Also hidden are details of private sector climate engineering activities on at least some technologies. Venture capital databases capture some private, for-profit activities that could be considered intellectual property held by private stakeholders who may or may not want to disclose details. Even government databases that track government research and national laboratory activities exist in a gray zone; they can be difficult to access unless policymakers require public reporting. And public-private partnerships can also be partially hidden from view depending on whether they choose to disclose information or not.
Dispersed Free Data
Journal articles that would otherwise reside behind paywalls can be freely shared with the public if the author purchases open access upon publication. Some authors do, but many cannot afford to.
Beyond this, there are numerous, limited opportunities for public monitoring of climate engineering activities. A search for climate engineering patents can help identify experiments under way. Newsletters from the Kiel Earth Institute, the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment, and others spotlight a limited scope of current activities and research. And further information can be mined through books (including their bibliographies and endnotes), Twitter feeds, institutions' websites, outreach to individual researchers and companies, and miscellaneous public disclosures and citations provided in reports.
Why Public Reporting Matters
Financial, timing, intellectual property, security, and language barriers could jeopardize discussions and consensus building on the myriad of questions regarding climate engineering. As such, public reporting on climate engineering activities can encourage good governance. Direct air capture (DAC), a climate engineering procedure, underscores why public reporting matters.
DAC refers to a diverse and growing set of experimental climate engineering technologies aimed at removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere to materially reduce their concentrations. At present, a handful of private companies are focusing on removing carbon dioxide. All known undertakings are spin-offs of university research that have successfully raised capital from a variety of venture investors, though this certainly may not remain the case in the future.
The expanding financial interest in these techniques is likely to be further accelerated by the recent passage in the United States of the "45Q" credit, which offers a tax credit of $35 to $50 per ton of captured carbon dioxide, including from direct air capture technologies. Against this backdrop, a wider array of actors may become involved in DAC—from start-ups incubated in tech accelerator programs to larger, established firms with significant financial resources and a nascent interest. And the techniques could evolve if DAC research expands to short-lived climate pollutants, such as methane.
Disclosure mechanisms should be rethought because private climate engineering efforts such as DAC have large growth potential. Such rethinking could include whether a one-size-fits-all approach is appropriate for the loosely defined field of climate engineering, or whether different disclosure or reporting mechanisms (and incentives) could be adapted to best fit the characteristics of varied subfields and technologies. In the case of DAC efforts with broad private sector participation, there should be thoughtful consideration of how to gather this data while avoiding both the disclosure of proprietary, material information and the imposition of undue burdens on small, thinly stretched start-ups.
One possible way governments could augment the information available to policy actors is by offering initial seed funding for DAC and other pre-commercial climate engineering efforts. This mechanism would complement the flow of private capital until technologies have been reported, assessed, permitted, and tracked. An example of this approach is CarbFix2, the world's first negative emissions plant that recently began operation at a geothermal facility in Iceland, which utilizes technology from Climeworks, a Switzerland-based company. Climeworks is the first private company to successfully capture carbon from air at an industrial scale and inject it underground. The project received initial public funding from the European Commission's Horizon 2020 research initiative, which opened the door for data collection.
In the United States, this niche could also be filled by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) at the U.S. Department of Energy, an innovative, early stage energy technology incubator. There's a better chance that the whole development process would be transparent if ARPA-E gets involved in climate engineering, focusing on those technologies that interest the private sector but may be too early stage or upstream to offer sufficiently fast commercialization.
In addition to public grant programs, mechanisms such as reverse auctions could promote public information dissemination. In these auctions, all bidders are required to submit certain data with their bids. Reverse auctions could also be used in conjunction with pre-commercial public procurement programs. Ultimately, the key is to invite disclosure of all climate engineering RDD&D by any actor, to avoid any blind spots as this field evolves.
Who's Responsible?
While overregulation is indeed a serious risk in many areas, subnational, national, and multilateral policymaking perspectives would be necessary to ensure that climate engineering brings more stability to the climate and society—not less. In the end, ensuring an informed, fact-based public dialogue is also in the interest of investors and researchers, as it reduces the risk of backlash if their efforts are misunderstood or misconstrued. The potential economic, political, and environmental consequences from the variety of techniques aimed at intervening in the earth's dynamic climate cycle call for informed oversight.
Numerous nongovernmental and academic organizations, such as the Forum on Climate Engineering Assessment, the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, and others, are analyzing climate engineering technologies and developing governance architectures. While researchers in these institutions would surely benefit from a global database, it would be a heavy lift for them—or any other academic or nongovernmental organization—to assume responsibility for assembling, maintaining, and broadcasting a public database.
The United Nations could be a candidate for assembling public disclosure. If the United Nation' Framework Convention on Climate Change were to assume a new charge at a future Conference of Parties now that the 2015 Paris Agreement has been ratified by most nations, the details for a data collection regime could be hammered out. But the question remains whether the UN is up to the task of creating, gathering, and updating this database from dispersed information sources outside the organization.
The capacity for the UN to take this on is complicated by the fact that no existing UN institution or multilateral agreement has direct responsibility for climate engineering activities. There is no extant treaty that covers all—or, in a real sense, any—of these activities. For example, the London Convention and Protocol, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the European Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, and the Outer Space Treaty do not directly apply nor do they help create a public climate engineering clearinghouse. The only treaty that tangentially relates is the 1976 convention prohibiting the hostile use of environmental modification techniques, ENMOD. But ENMOD encourages peaceful environmental modifications without defining whether this entails climate engineering; it also has no mechanisms to gather data on climate engineering activities.
The lack of comprehensive international governance and data collection mechanisms is mirrored at the national level, where environmental laws relate indirectly but offer no path forward. The chances of a single state successfully regulating this field (or climate engineering research itself) are low given today's dispersed research efforts, multilateral politics, and economic forces. No single national government can successfully manage an international registry. Such responsibility would raise more than just diplomatic issues—certainly, no one government has regulatory authority over other nations' organizations, companies, and governments.
Still, to get bottom-up efforts under way, data collection and oversight could be replicated in different countries through governmental bodies such as the now-defunct U.S. Office of Technology Assessment. Created in 1972, this institution was governed by a bipartisan board of twelve members of Congress and provided policymakers with information and metrics on emerging technologies and scientific trends. Climate engineering, along with numerous other technology efforts (such as synthetic biology and artificial intelligence), would be in the Office of Technology Assessment's clear purview if it were operating today.
Next Steps to Inform Climate Engineering Governance
Policymakers who have heretofore denied climate change are now speaking in favor of geoengineering as a tool to curb the impacts of the earth's continued warming. The shift appears to be in concert with these policymakers' core beliefs that mitigation is costly, government mandates are unworkable, and technology is the key to address climate change.
The change in U.S. climate policy rhetoric signals efforts to confront global warming with greater bipartisanship. However, the notion that climate engineering provides a proverbial get-out-of-jail-free card is fraught with major risks. These risks are accentuated by the lack of transparency about complex technologies that are in various stages of development amid a backdrop of an already changing climate.
A public registry is a critical step in building out a fully comprehensive system of global climate engineering monitoring and governance. Without such information, it will be difficult to identify real risks, dispel imagined ones, and generally inform policymakers, industry, and civil society as to the current state of research and experimentation.
Smriti Kumble is a 2017–2018 junior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
David Livingston is the deputy director for climate and advanced energy at the Atlantic Council's Global Energy Center.
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Outrage Grows Over Kidnap/Murder Of 5-Year Old Schoolgirl Hanifa, NCWS Demands Justice
By The Atlantic Post on January 25, 2022
The National Council of Women Societies (NCWS) has called for justice for Hanifa Abubakar, a five-year-old pupil, murdered by the proprietor of Noble Primary School, Kano, as outrage continue to pour in from all quarters.
The National President of NCWS, Mrs Laraba Shoda, made the called in a statement on Monday in Abuja.
Shoda described the incident as tragic and demanded that the accused be brought to book for terminating the life of an innocent child placed in his care for academic development.
According to her, it is unfortunate that Nigerians are, once again, made to experience the painful loss of another child in an environment where they ought to receive protection.
"The kidnap and eventual murder of Hanifa by her teacher after collecting ransom of six million naira from her parent, is one of the most inhuman acts of wickedness.
"The killing of this innocent Nigerian child by the proprietor of her school is a gross betrayal of trust which the little girl and her parent reposed in the institution," she said.
The National President of NCWS expressed worries on the increasing cases of killings for ritual purposes that have assumed a frightening dimension in Nigeria.
She said that the case of Aisha Umar, an IDP, who was lured and raped by a humanitarian provider which led to her committing suicide in Borno, was also a sorry case.
"As mothers and women, we are in pains that this is no longer the Nigeria we grew up to know.
"A Nigeria where the care for the younger generation was the responsibility of all adults and the community as a whole.
"The death of Hanifa is one too many, as children are the most vulnerable in the society and depended on adults' protections for their development.
"A situation where care givers, that should protect and care for children, become predators is certainly unsustainable and need urgent actions," she said.
Shoda on behalf of the council appealed to the Federal Government to put more effort to address the increasing insecurity in schools and in the country at large.
She also called on the government to embark on a nation-wide assessment of schools to ensure that they remained conducive and safe for learning.
"We must secure justice for Hanifa and others.
"We need to lay an indicator that no family will be made to question the decision of enrolling their ward in a school that is not safe," she said.
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Our director at SGA, Allan Vincent, shared with me an illustration regarding the state of the church today. A farmer in St. Jacobs, ON once told him that not all potatoes labeled Yukon Gold are actually Yukon Gold. You see, with all the genetic changes being made to food, there are a number of things that are labeled one thing, but in reality are something different. A bag of Yukon Gold potatoes that you pick up at the grocery store may in fact not be Yukon Gold! Scary stuff indeed.
Now what does this have to do with the church? In reality, much of what is called "church" nowadays is really in fact not church. What we see today with our consumer, marketing, program driven approach to church is really, a genetically altered form of the church. It was designed to "sell" the church even though it was no longer the church. We see a watered down form of the church. Most believers today are really looking at churches with a consumeristic attitude (does this church meet my needs, does it have what my kids need, will I get what I want out of it). The attitude of "you get what you put in" is foreign to most church goers today. And the churches have changed their genetic make-up in order to appeal to these church goers today.
There are some very key points here which can show what the focus of the church was. Essentially, the focus of the church was 1) preaching and teaching the Word, 2) prayer, 3) fellowship of the saints, and 4) partaking in ordinances of the church.
Clearly, one important aspect of their time was devoted to the Apostle's teachings. They yearned to hear the Word of God preached and taught and applied to their lives. They knew that a Word saturated ministry is a life changing ministry. Only through the power of the Word which revealed the Word, that is Christ, could they hope to attain the promise of life eternal. The Word changed hearts and brought people to Christ, and it changed lives as people were becoming more like Christ.
The second item was prayer. They devoted themselves to prayer. Prayer is that divine work where we communicate with the Sovereign God of the universe. We have the privilege of being agents of His divine will through prayer. God accomplishes His will through our prayers. We are the ordained means to the end. Plus, we grow in our relationship and fellowship with the Triune God through prayer. It is our lifeline to our life giver! Without prayer, we will wither and die!
A third thing the church was committed to was fellowship. While we might not embrace the communal living they did, we can appreciate the close relationships these beleivers had with each other. We live in a segregated world where we know of nor care about our neighbours let alone our church family. These people though faithfully met together and cared and loved for each other in such a way that they met each other's needs. Imagine what churches would look like today with this kind of level of fellowship!
Finally, they devoted themselves to the ordinances of the Lord. There is debate here, but I believe at least a part of what is being referred to here is the Lord's Supper. The church regularly "broke bread" together as they celebrated the finished work of Christ that united them together and looked forward to the glorious return of Christ when they would celebrate the meal with Him! They also of course took part in the other ordinace of baptism which served as the initiatory placement of the person into the community of faith. Therefore, when the church came together, they added those to their number through baptism, and they fellowshipped around the Lord's Table.
This is the DNA of a New Testament Church. This is how the churched looked then, this is how it should look now. How far have we gotten off the beaten path through our programs and our marketing and everything else. The church was simple. United around the preaching and teaching of the Word, prayer, fellowship, and the ordinances. If more of our churches today focused on these aspects and less on "meeting needs" we would live in a world of greater conformity to Christ in our churches. We would be a close knit family united around Christ.
What a privilege it is to be a part of the body of Christ. May we pray for our churches to better reflect the New Testament picture of the church. Let's remove the genetic engineering that has happened to the church and get back to the simplicity of it all!
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"Standard Escape Routes" at STANDARD (OSLO)
Artists: Jonathan Binet, Walker Evans, Aaron Garber-Maikovska, Guyton\Walker, Alex Hubbard , Ann Cathrin November Høibo, Adriana Lara, Klara Lidén, Anders Nordby, Sigmar Polke, Chadwick Rantanen, Nick Relph, Hannah Ryggen, Torbjørn Rødland, Oscar Tuazon, Franz West
Venue: STANDARD (OSLO)
Exhibition Title: Standard Escape Routes
Date: April 5 – May 11, 2013
Full gallery of, video, images, press release and link available after the jump.
Aaron Garber-Maikovska
GuytonWalker, Untitled, 2009. 3 drywall lifts, 3 inkjet prints on drywall. Overall dimensions variable. Each lift: 365 x 250 x 152 cm. Private Collection of Eivind Aadland, Oslo, Norway. Courtesy of STANDARD (OSLO).
Franz West, Untitled, 2009. Rolls Royce Silver Shadow 1 (1970) and six interchangeable sculptures for the emblem. Private collection of Erling Kagge, Oslo, Norway. Courtesy of Galerie Barbel Grässlin.
Ann Cathrin November Høibo, The Kiss, 2012. Toilet paper holder, sweat clothes. Three units, each 97 x 75 x 17 cm / 38 1/4 x 29 1/2 x 6 2/3 in. Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO).
Aaron Garber-Maikovska, Ochoa, 2012. Ink and acrylic on archival gator board mounted on aluminum. 241.3 x 119.38 x 5.08 cm / 95 x 47 x 2 in. Courtesy of the artist, Greene Exhibitions, Los Angeles and STANDARD (OSLO).
Aaron Garber-Maikovska Ben, 2012. Ink and acrylic on archival gator board mounted on aluminum. 241.3 x 119.38 x 5.08 cm / 94.88 x 46.85 x 1.97 in. Courtesy of the artist, Greene Exhibitions, Los Angeles and STANDARD (OSLO).
Aaron Garber-Maikovska Lacy Mother, Harold and Joey, 2012. Ink and acrylic on archival gator board mounted on aluminum. 241.3 x 119.38 x 5.08 cm / 95 x 47 x 2 in. Courtesy of the artist, Greene Exhibitions, Los Angeles and STANDARD (OSLO).
Aaron Garber-Maikovska, Kitchen, 2011. Looped video with sound Duration: 6.22 Min. Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO).
Alex Hubbard, Eat Your Friends, 2012. Digital video (HD cam, color and sound) /loop. Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO).
Adriana Lara, 4 3D Paintings, 2009. Inkjet on canvas, wooden stretcher. 4 panels, each: 27.5 x 34.5 x 2.5 cm. Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO).
Anders Nordby, [Untitled pipe sculpture #2], 2013. Aluminum pipe with acid tape. 43 x 22 x 420 cm Ø 2.5cm / 16.93 x 8.66 x 165.35 in.
Chadwick Rantanen, Telescopic Pole [Three Hole EZ Glide/Never Give Up / 02], 2012. Powdercoated aluminum, plastic, walkerballs. Telescopic dimensions: 410 to 734 cm, Ø 3.8 cm / 161 to 288 in, Ø 1.5 in. Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO).
Chadwick Rantanen, Telescopic Pole [PCTB / Flourescent Yellow / 01], 2012. Powdercoated aluminum with matte finish, plastic, walkerballs. Telescopic dimensions: 279 to 766 cm, Ø 3.8 cm / 110 to 302 in, Ø 1.5 in. Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO).
Chadwick Rantanen, Telescopic Pole [BallGlides / Flourescent Yellow / 01], 2012. Powdercoated aluminum, plastic, walkerballs. Telescopic dimensions: 280.5 to 758 cm, Ø 3.8 cm / 110.5 to 298.5 in, Ø 1.5 in. Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO).
Chadwick Rantanen, Telescopic Pole [WalkerGlides / Flourescent Yellow / 01], 2012. Powdercoated aluminum, plastic, walkerballs. Telescopic dimensions: 270 to 754 cm, Ø 3.8 cm / 106 to 297 in, Ø 1.5 in. Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO).
Chadwick Rantanen, Telescopic Pole [Drive Medical / 01], 2012. Powdercoated aluminum with matte finish, plastic, walkerballs. Telescopic dimensions: 246 to 744 cm, Ø 3.8 cm / 97 to 293 in, Ø 1.5 in. Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO).
Hannah Ryggen, Sisifos, 1966. Hand-dyed and woven wool yarn. Private Collection, Oslo. Courtesy of STANDARD (OSLO).
Klara Lidén, Self Portrait with the Keys to the City, 2005. C-print. 63 x 44.5 x 2.5 cm. Private collection of Erling Kagge, Oslo, Norway. Courtesy of TBC.
Nick Relph, Perfumed Screw, 2013. Silk, bamboo. 71.12 x 45.72 x 2.54 cm / 28 x 18 x 1 in. Courtesy of the artist, Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York and STANDARD (OSLO).
Oscar Tuazon, Untitled, 2013. Motor oil, machine grease, graphite, charcoal, and rust on canvas / wooden stretcher. 230 x 155 x 5.5 cm / 90 1/2 x 61 x 2 1/4 in. Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO).
Oscar Tuazon, Manual Track, 2013. Steel, pressure treated wood. 220 x 180 x 140 cm / 86 2/3 x 70 3/4 x 55 in. Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO).
Oscar Tuazon, White Thing, 2013. Steel, pressure treated wood. 160 x 60 x 60 cm / 63 x 23 2/3 x 23 2/3 in. Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO).
Sigmar Polke, Unerwünschte Geschenke, 2002. Seriograph on cardboard /framed. 71.5 x 51.5 x 4.2 cm. Courtesy of the artist. © Estate of Sigmar Polke / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany.
Torbjørn Rødland, Trichotillomania, 2010 – 2011. C-print: Kodak paper on aluminium /Framed. 46.5 x 58.5 x 4 cm. Courtesy of the artist and STANDARD (OSLO).
Walker Evans, The corner of the kitchen in the home of Floyd Burroughs, cotton sharecropper Hale County, Alabama. 1936. Silver gelatin print /framed. Courtesy of STANDARD (OSLO).
Images courtesy of Images courtesy of STANDARD (OSLO). Photos by Vegard Kleven.
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(a) Damage so remote as not to be actionable
(b) Damage which although remote is actionable.
(c) Actionable damage, but not following as an immediate result of an act.
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We can strengthen two of the weakest links in the U.S. health care chain for people with HIV/AIDS—linking people to care and retaining them in care—but doing so requires a collective approach.
February 21, 2013 • By Benjamin Ryan
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Monica Thompson was 23 years old in 1989 when she found out she was HIV positive and six years into an addiction to alcohol and crack cocaine that would escalate across the next decade of her life.
During those troubled times, caring for herself—not to mention her children, who were either put in "the system" or sent to live with her grandfather—took a backseat to her desire for instant gratification.
Her doctor put her on AZT (Retrovir) and ddI (Videx), the only available anti-HIV drugs at the time. But she says, "I would become my own doctor and decide, 'I don't want to take my medication.' I was in denial about being positive, because my addiction was full force. I didn't keep certain [medical] appointments, especially if I was out getting high."
Now, at 47, the Washington, DC, resident has made a dramatic turnaround. She's been seeing the same physician for almost 10 years and has been on a stable antiretroviral cocktail for seven, boasting a robust CD4 count and a long-standing undetectable viral load. Completely sober since 2007, she's also gotten her bipolar disorder under better control, thanks to a good relationship with a psychiatrist. She has since brought all three of her children back into her life.
She is also engaged to a man, Donald Head, 46, whose own departure from proper HIV care mirrors her history. The shock of becoming infected with HIV after he got out of prison in 2009 contributed to his decline back into an addiction to cocaine and alcohol, which kept him from adhering to his medications or seeing the doctor. Ultimately he was able to get clean and get back into proper HIV care.
Outside of their love for each other, a major common thread this couple shares is the debt of gratitude they owe to a pair of DC–area social service agencies devoted to ensuring people like them don't fall through the cracks and fall out of the health care system when life's hardships get in the way.
Thompson became a client of Women's Collective, which helps low-income women and children with HIV in DC.
"The case manager will follow-up with me to make sure I go to the doctor," she says. "If I have an issue where I've been sick or whatever, they call to check on me and make sure if there's anything that I need. They assist me if I need transportation."
Thompson's case manager also helped her switch from a psychiatrist who made her uncomfortable to one who was more likely to keep her coming back, ensuring her the mental stability she needs to stay off drugs.
Thompson met Head working at the Community Education Group (CEG), which supports the African-American HIV community in DC. He was fortunate enough to land a job there after getting out of jail—CEG has a skills-training program for those re-entering society that can lead to employment—and he was lucky to have a supportive boss who, instead of firing him after he failed a drug test, guided him into a Narcotics Anonymous program that has helped keep him sober, as well as to an HIV support group.
"I think my success is only as strong as my support system," said Head, "and CEG is my backbone. If I wouldn't have had the job, I probably would've went straight back to the street: doing my usual, selling drugs, the same thing I got locked up for."
A central goal of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy is to ensure that all Americans with HIV are engaged in proper care. Pharmaceutical companies have spent vast sums of money over the decades to make the simplest, most tolerable antiretroviral drugs, with the ultimate goal of improving adherence and thus the likelihood of achieving an undetectable viral load. With recent research showing that fully suppressing the virus can significantly reduce infectiousness, and that early treatment may lead to improved health outcomes, the drive to get people with HIV on treatment as early as possible is on a steady, upward tilt.
Yet only an estimated 16 to 36 percent of Americans with HIV have a suppressed viral load. This figure is the last calculation in a series of statistical wake-up calls that have shaken the HIV community since Edward Gardner, MD, an infectious disease specialist at Denver Public Health, published his paper in 2010 outlining a new catchphrase: the "treatment cascade."
According to Gardner's most recent numbers, of the estimated 1.2 million people living with HIV in the United States, only about 80 percent know they have the virus, between 60 and 68 percent are linked into HIV care, and between 30 and 41 percent are retained in HIV care—figures that cascade down to those dismal statistics showing that only 16 to 36 percent have an undetectable viral load.
It's important to note that the upper range of Gardner's estimates are higher than current figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, Gardner's estimates consider potential statistical errors that are driven in part by failing to account for people who have switched health care providers but have not fallen out of care.
"When you look at CDC's treatment cascade, probably more is known about the left side and the right side of that cascade than the middle," says David R. Holtgrave, PhD, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who studies linkage and retention interventions. In other words, we know far too little about those crucial middle bars where people like Thompson and Head are so likely to get lost.
Take Lisa Mendez, a 44-year-old Los Angeles resident who tested positive at a clinic in 2008 that never gave her a referral to an HIV specialist. She had spent six months suffering from severe flu-like symptoms that left her unable to hold down her job as a labor compliance officer. She was rendered homeless and put her son in foster care. Soon after her diagnosis, she attempted suicide. Only after three and half years passed did she finally find an HIV specialist.
"If I was diagnosing people," Mendez says, "I would shuttle them somewhere where they would get the social support and the medical knowledge to get information so that they know what they're dealing with. You need the social support in order to care enough to take care of yourself and your HIV."
It just so happens that the shuttles Mendez imagines do exist. When outreach workers at DC's Community Education Group get a positive result in one of their mobile testing units, they send a "linkage team" in unmarked vehicles to offer a ride to the doctor right then and there. Such tactics are working—and getting noticed. Last year, during the XIX International AIDS Conference, held in DC, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius singled out CEG for achieving a 95 percent linkage rate.
Ingrid Floyd, executive director of New York–based Iris House, which provides comprehensive support services to women and families affected by HIV, says the system of care "really works when the client feels accountable to the case manager. We treat our clients as family. There is a genuine care and concern about seeing improvements in health for everybody." Iris House has a 98 percent linkage into care rate.
These agencies serve as an adjunct to area clinics or hospitals that have neither the wherewithal to conduct outreach into specific hard-hit communities, nor the funding to provide non-medical services like case management.
DC's increasingly symbiotic system of engaging people with HIV into care appeared broken in 2007 when Shannon L. Hader, MD, MPH, became director of the HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STD and TB Division of the District of Columbia Department of Health. The district had a 3 percent HIV prevalence rate, and over 6 percent of black males had HIV. With just 48 percent of the HIV population in care and 24 percent on medications, only 12 percent were virally suppressed.
"We were still having a high rate of AIDS-related mortality, which is ridiculous in the era we're in," says Hader, who is now vice president and director of the Center for Health Systems and Solutions at the Futures Group, a global health consulting firm.
Beginning in 2009, Hader borrowed a highly successful model from DC–based Whitman-Walker Clinic (now known as Whitman-Walker Health) called the "Red Carpet Program." HIV testing sites were encouraged to direct newly identified people with HIV to care providers who agreed to schedule a doctor's appointment within 48 hours. She also worked to improve connections between outreach groups and health clinics to ensure more effective cooperation and communication between all the city's players in the HIV care system.
Each summer Hader sponsored a "recapture blitz" in which health care providers went all out trying to reel in lost patients. While the average patient required numerous contacts before returning to care, they typically came back because they felt a social obligation to the person on the other end of the phone.
"In many cases, they had dropped out of care because someone had been rude to them the last time they came in," Hader says. "The longer people had been out of care, the less likely they were to remember why they stopped going and they were actually easier to get through the door."
Thanks to such efforts, the proportion of people with HIV entering care within three months of diagnosis in DC increased by 31 percent between 2006 and 2010. In 2010, 90 percent of new cases entered into care within a year and 76 percent within three months.
As the nation gears up for major elements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to go into effect in 2014, AIDS advocates are gunning for the new system to improve linkage and retention rates. Most critically, the ACA will provide coverage to much of the estimated 25 percent of people with HIV who lack insurance, either through the new health exchanges or through expanded Medicaid rolls. (At press time, nine states were not participating and six more were leaning toward opting out of Medicaid expansion.)
Massachusetts expanded Medicaid coverage for people with HIV in 2001 and passed universal health care in 2006. As such, it provides a glimpse at the possible future for people with HIV nationwide once insurance coverage is expanded. About 98 percent of Massachusetts's HIV-positive residents are in medical care, 90 percent are on antiretrovirals and 70 percent are virally suppressed.
A key to the commonwealth's success is the fact that it has creatively redirected Ryan White CARE Act federal dollars to more effectively fund the type of supportive services that help keep people with HIV engaged in care, but which aren't covered by Medicaid or private insurance. This includes the case managers and care coordinators who help patients connect all the complicated dots of their treatment, as well as who help meet their psychosocial needs.
"We want to preserve the best of Ryan White," says Nancy Mahon, executive director of the MAC AIDS Fund and chair of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, of the efforts to protect the program as it comes up for reauthorization this year. "At the same time, [we want to] understand how the ACA interacts with those wraparound services."
Those fighting for sustained Ryan White funding have data on their side. A recent sample of eight health sites funded by Ryan White Part C dollars found that 91 percent of patients were retained in care and 73 percent were virally suppressed.
"Happily, we have a [health] secretary who is very progressive in terms of HIV," Mahon says of Kathleen Sebelius.
On December 1, 2012, which is World AIDS Day, Sebelius announced the federal government will include HIV/AIDS among the conditions that qualify for enhanced Medicaid reimbursement for what is known as a Health Home model— a system of integrated care many HIV clinics nationwide are already using to great success. In response, the HIV Health Access Working Group, a national task force of AIDS service organizations, sent an open letter urging the federal government to ensure the Health Home models will leverage Ryan White funding to maximize their effectiveness.
According to the treatment cascade researcher Edward Gardner, we could use a good deal more guidance on how to approach the linkage and retention problem. "There are a lot of people working on this, and it's become a big deal, which is wonderful, because it's important. But we don't have much evidence base."
Gardner points to the only controlled clinical trial of an intervention designed to improve linkage, known as ARTAS and published in the mid-2000s, as a first start that has inspired many service providers around the country. But he laments that it's showing its age as the field awaits more rigorous research.
Michael Mugavero, MD, an associate professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, was one of the lead authors of a list of guidelines in 2012 that outlined how to improve linkage, retention and adherence—the result of a literature review.
"I think the service has outpaced the science," Mugavero says, adding that medical providers, community based organizations and public health officials have grasped the linkage and retention problem for decades and have had to come up with practical solutions based on their own experience.
"We can't wait," he says of the need to institute changes to improve linkage and retention. "We need to act now. Even though we don't have great evidence, we have some of the building blocks."
Advocates tend to agree that many barriers to care are universal—including the lack of basic needs such as transportation, housing and food, as well as problems like substance use and stigma.
Often, other life challenges do take priority over their HIV, says A. Toni Young, founder and CEO of Community Education Group in DC. "For many of the people we work with, HIV is not necessarily primary, secondary, tertiary or ancillary," she says.
However, experts differ on how much an intervention program needs to be tailored. "When I think about what's an effective program to help link someone into care or to help retain them in care," says Jeffrey Crowley, former director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy and a lead author of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, "I don't know that those things are all that different. It is true that maybe a woman with children might have needs that a childless male doesn't. But as far as the best things that are going to help them get into care or stay in care, they tend to be the same."
Johns Hopkins' David Holtgrave takes another view. "We have to think about, from client to client and region to region, that things may differ quite a lot," he says, "and we have to come up with interventions focused on what that individual client or that individual geographic area are facing."
Holtgrave has partnered with AIDS United on two separate studies that are looking at interventions tailored to a variety of sub-populations in different areas of the country. For example, his research group is seeking to better engage homeless people with HIV in San Francisco, and is also investigating how to use telemedicine in Montgomery, Alabama, where the density of HIV specialists is low and transportation is an issue.
Part of Holtgrave's research has been an effort to create a cost analysis for engaging an individual with HIV into care. "People should not be turned off by price tags of $500 to $3,000 a client," he says, referring to the general range he's seen of the price to serve one person with HIV for six months with these interventions. "You really have to look at what's the return on the investment."
Holtgrave measures this return against the estimate that each new infection costs society about $400,000. Depending on the location, each program may only have to prevent about one new infection every six months to prove cost-effective.
Meanwhile, the MAC AIDS Fund is investing in new research. It gave the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration a $250,000 grant to roll out a pilot program in Southern states that uses texting to help keep people with HIV in care. The Fund is also putting together a meeting with Holtgrave that will draw in experts from around the globe to seek their guidance on best practices. They also granted $4 million to AIDS United to improve retention among people with HIV who are living in poverty or who are traditionally underserved by medical care.
Another effort that's gaining steam around the country is the use of local surveillance data to help providers determine which of their patients have been lost to care. Following CDC national surveillance reporting guidelines, DC gathers data whenever an HIV-positive resident gets a CD4 or viral load lab test. Careful to ensure that privacy isn't breached, the district's health department helps narrow local Ryan White clinics' search for lost patients by informing the clinics if individual patients appear to be in care elsewhere. Similar uses of surveillance systems to alert providers that patients may have fallen out of care are also under way in Seattle and at the Louisiana Office of Public Health.
In November, Project Inform in San Francisco convened a think tank to discuss such measures with public health groups and community advocates from around the country. "Overall," says Michael Mugavero, who attended the meeting, "there was a consensus that, if done properly, with attention to privacy and confidentiality, the idea of using expanded data sources and monitoring was a reasonable approach."
Four years after learning her diagnosis, Lisa Mendez is starting antiretrovirals and has reunited with her son, thanks in no small part to the assistance she received from AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA). The AIDS service organization has helped her with food, transportation and housing needs.
"If I wouldn't have gotten linked in with [APLA] and gotten the social support and the groups and the information to help me live better with it and explain to my son about HIV, I honestly don't know what I would've done," she says. Calling herself "blessed," she says, "life is good."
Meanwhile, Monica Thompson and Donald Head are making their way to the altar, but are in no rush. Thompson, for one, is happy enough that she's made such a break from her years as an addict. "I love who I am today," she says. "Ten years ago, I didn't love Monica."
As for DC's Sharon Hader, despite her successes, she reflects on the challenges ahead. "In this day and age in our national response we can still do better" to help people like Mendez, Thompson and Head.
"Finding out where there are gaps in health outcomes and how we look at our data and tweak our services to continue to improve is key," Hader says. "The Affordable Care Act is a great next reform in health care finance, and it should increase a lot of flexibility and reduce some barriers. But finance reform in itself will not mediate some of these gaps that our programs try to address—people's willingness and competence in engaging in the health care system, building the relationship between providers and clients, looking critically at where the missed opportunities are and focusing extra attention to bridge those opportunities."
In other words, health care reform won't solve our problems unless we find better ways to link people with HIV to care—and to keep them in care.
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eBook Dengeki Daisy , Vol. 16 [AUDIO MP3] by Kyousuke Motomi Available!
This is the final volume of the Dengeki Daisy series and so this will also be my review of the entire series.
I loved and adored this series! I was totally sucker punched by Teru and Daisy's relationship and how Kurosaki intersected with them. Her brother who is deceased also plays a huge part in the story that makes you sob in heartbreak... The art goes a long way in supporting the story. The mangaka has things gorgeous dreamy way of drawing that has so much emotion! Even though this are static drawings you feel sucked into their emotions and pain.
There is a lovely balance between humor with Kurosaki and the janitor duties and "Go bald, Kurosaki!" Then we have the lovely supportive DAISY who says the right things and sustains Teru when she needs it most... understand the root of DAISY and where he comes from is a counter to all the funny sarcasm. It gives the story this natural feel than shouldn't be thought of lightly.
Why should you read this series?!
"Online" Romance Meet and Fall in Love.
The relationship between Teru and DAISY is so beautiful and when you learn where it stems from it makes you totally melt!!
Sister and Older Brother Relationship.
I love sibling relationships and Teru and her brother's flashbacks make me ache to have an older brother too! This older brother supplies love and comfort even from the grave and it warms your heart.
Themes of Love, Loss and Grief.
I can't even imagine how devastating it is to lose an older brother who protects you so, physically and mentally. Bonding over loss strengthens and remembers.
All the friendships, both old and young!
The secondary and minor characters are so winning! I loved her brother's old friends. His lover who acts as an older sister to Teru. And then there are Teru's friends from school. Kurosaki's old boss who owns a cafe now.
Spies, Secret Agents, Hackers and Government Conspiracies.
Through the beginning of the series this simmers in the background and slips out to test Teru and Kurosaki, until it comes to a head in the end and risks everything!!
The story does shift near the end of the series (about volume 12 or so) from centering on Teru, DAISY and Kurosaki to being about the mysterious past that haunts them. It is way more than Teru ever knew her brother was going through! We get hackers, spies, action and kidnappings and secret agents... It's an exciting mix that balances the loss and grief that started our story.
Yes, the story dragged at this point.
The mangaka could have simply made Akira the stereotypical villain... but that isn't her way... she believes in hope and trust just as our protagonists do!! Thus we get a story that ends the way it began... with HOPE!
Dengeki Daisy is a series that has it all... romance, action, friendship and a history that makes you want to root for what matters most. You'll fly through this series and love every minute of it!
BOTTOM LINE: Best Action Shoujo I've read so far!


I am just SO EXCITED to see how the Shadow & Bone trilogy will end! Like… Omg!? I'm loving the Grisha books so much and I can't believe how quickly I flew through all the books. I'm almost finished with Crooked Kingdom so when I've finished both of them, I'll only have The Language of Thorns left to read! How crazy is that, really?
The White Rose has been on my shelf for a while now and it's about time I pick it up! My mom got the Dutch edition a while back because I recommended she read The Jewel (which she still hasn't) but then she got The White Rose so we could both read it and it's that like mom goals?! Anyway, I don't remember that much from The Jewel so I'll probably skim through that one before I start this, but I'm excited!
Originally, I wrote here about taking a little break from audiobooks. Since January, I've been listening to audiobooks constantly because of Audible. I really love audiobooks, but I'd been struggling through Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo and I felt like maybe I was getting into a slump. Then I got an offer from Storytel to get one month for €0,99 and obviously I couldn't pass it up! I started listening to the final bit of Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows (I switched from reading to listening) and I actually really enjoy it! Since I'll probably only have Storytel for a month (unless I decide to continue my membership), I feel like I have to pick up some of their audiobooks. I actually did a Waiting on Wednesday on The Queen's Rising and I'm so excited to pick it up!
I loved To All The Boys I've Loved Before when I listened to it last year and when I found the Dutch edition of PS. I Still Love You on sale a while ago, I couldn't resist buying it! I feel like it's one of those fluffy contemporaries you just kind of go through in a day, so that's what I plan on doing during one of my days off this month. Also, have you heard the news that Netflix has picked up the To All The Boys movie!? I'm not sure when it's coming out, but I've already added it to my list on Netflix!
The cover of Darkdawn popped up on my Twitter feed a few days and holy moly, I'm obsessed?! Nevernight has been on my TBR for a while and there's a few. times I almost started listening to the audiobook, but then I didn't. I've also held a paperback copy in my hand in my favourite bookshop and then I put it back down, simply because I can't decide whether or not it's "for me." The audiobook does sound really, really interesting, though! I've finally decided to pick it up!
I'm so excited about this book that I've actually preordered it! It's coming out on April 10th but I won't be getting it until around the 26th. I'm hoping it'll actually be on time (or a bit earlier) so I can still read it this month instead of the next, but I guess I'll have to wait and see! Also, I'm part of the blog tour and it's so exciting! If you're interested in this book, I suggest you keep an eye out for my post!
Before I'm able to get into all of these, I'll have to finish my current reads (Crooked Kingdom and HP & the Deathly Hallows) first, but I have a few days off and I'm planning on reading most of the time!
I've had Nevernight on my shelves since it came out. I even pre ordered it and then never read it. I'm so bad haha.
There are some amazing books on your TBR. I am very curious about Nevernight and Ace of Shades!
Oh oh Ace of Shades is on my TBR too!! I'm considering starting it next actually eeep it looks so so good!! And I LOVE audiobooks.😂They just make me love reading even more. Sooo excited about the To All the Boys movie <3 and I also just read PS I Still Love You last month. 😍 Honestly Jenny Han is the BEST and her writing is so good and characters so adorable. I hope you enjoy it!


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There is a whole style of writing to use in order to persuade or convince your reader to listen and act upon what they are hearing. Your writing should be logical, yes. But it should also, however, appeal to your visitor's emotions!
Yes, you read that right! Words DO have emotions and you can decide on the precise ones to use in order to draw your reader in.
It is always a great idea, of course, to give your reader facts that will help them to understand about a certain product or service you are offering. Supplying INTELLECTUAL information is a must! However, you also want to add emotion to make it more interesting and personal!
YOUR EMOTIONAL & INTELLECTUAL DIALOG.
There are certain words you can use in the EMOTIONAL sense and in the INTELLECTUAL dialog. Both these tactics combined will drive conversions to your site. The more you get the reader to trust you, the more your site will grow and rank!
Every individual has an EMOTIONAL connection to words. When they hear about facts, they may learn essential and valuable things. But, when they hear certain other words, it will always trigger EMOTION.
There is a whole art of word choice that adheres to how people will react. Word choice is vital when relating to your audience, and also, when ranking keywords! Choosing EMOTIONAL words are what people tend to type in searches.
Even using slang words from time to time, such as yeah instead of yes, will present a personal appeal, as well!
The EMOTIONAL words are more how people speak on a daily basis. The INTELLECTUAL words have a more educated appeal.
It is smart to use a blend of both and will lighten a conversation immensely, with a greater tone of friendship!
Talk with your reader heart to heart. Yes, teach them, too.---But in a way they can comprehend that will be a much more personal and trustworthy way.
Please LIKE and SHARE this post to spread the EDUCATION! Thank you!
That's beautiful, Taniela!---and so true!
Fantastic post and I totally agree. I know with my site I am hoping to educate dog owners as well as tell the story of my dogs past and present.
Thank you for such an intersting topic.
You're quite welcome, Mary! Happy to connect with you, too!
And thank you for the follow, My aim is to read all of your posts, I am positive I shall learn from you.
Great advice. Didn't realize how much difference there was between words!!! I always thought you had to use emojis which I refused to do in business.
Ha ha, Elaine! Informal description is key to relating on a personal level these days!
Duly noted! Thank you for the advise!
Noted and thanks for the important advice.
Wonderful, Patrick! You're so welcome! :)!
Erin I could use your advise.Ihave typed my content for the bootcamp training and twice i tried to publish it and twice there was a warning that my content was dublicated .
It 's a content that I suspect is somewhat the same as hundreds of others. How should I procced.
Thanks Erin I'll give it another shot.
I have also wonder about this. There are so many testimonials about WA, as well there should be, it would be most difficult to be unique.
Read my response to Dimos, Sandra. :)!
Thanks, Tom! Yes, I think it is, too!
Great info here Erin - I will certainly use this as for future reference.
Wonderful Theresa! Happy to connect with you here!
I also add this to my notebook as a future reminder. I think because English is my third language I tend to speak in a more formal fashion.
Nice, Sandra! What are your first and second languages?
I was born here, but my godfather ( an Episcopalian Bishop) took me to Switzerland at age 2. I grew up bilingual speaking French and German. All my summers were spent on the beaches in Spain. Yes, I do love beaches.
Wow, think of all the people you can communicate with speaking 3 different languages! You are in the right place, my dear! Wonderful story!
Hi Sandy: Are you referring to general emails (email subscribers) or replying to blog posts here or on my website?
I have my email subscribers on auto-responder with a campaign of 6 pre-written emails.
In the community, I just go through each person on the list who replied by clicking on the bell.
I get notifications in SiteComments and reply back in a timely fashion, which are spaced out.
This was great training for me.
Thank you Erin. Being able to paint a vivid picture into the readers mind through a balanced blend of the two inforces and/or helps instill a new perspective within them . Solely cold hard facts and telling readers to do something directly will make the reader feel controlled. But the blend you speak of will break down the readers walls or inhibitions and have a greater chance in opening their mind and allowing them to be reached heart to heart! Absolutely beautiful!
My pleasure, Maverick! Happy to help!
Excellent article! / Awesome article!
Does this make a difference, Erin?
I am always on the lookout to learn more about writing skills. This is very helpful indeed.
Thanks, Sharon! It really DOES make a difference in relating with your audience. It's my pleasure to provide it to you! Happy to connect!
You're quite welcome, Joe! Glad to be connected!
What helps my conversational style of writing is to use voice typing when I write a draft and then add information to support my thoughts in editing.
Telling a story in my writing also helps to be persuasive, especially if it is a story about how I helped someone with a solution to a problem.
Great insight into your style of writing, Louisa! Very interesting and thanks for sharing your views!
Hi Davies and thanks for dropping in! Glad I could give your some insight! :)!
Great post! This highlights the concept of writing to your reader as if you were speaking to them one on one at a bar. Love the word examples. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much, Scott! Ha ha--love your concept! Glad I could help!
I believe this is a great idea. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks, Yanuaria! Glad you think so! You're quite welcome and happy you stopped by!
Never thought of this, but you have a great point.
Thanks, Don! I'm always studying writing techniques and sharing what's worked for me!
So glad I could help, Tina! You're so welcome!
Thanks for this Erin. I must admit there are words in your list I rarely if ever use. Being brought up in England we have a slightly different slant on the use of the English language.
Thanks, Erin. Quite useful info here.
Glad it will help, David! Thanks!
Thanks, Steven! Just putting it out there! :)!
Thanks for information. Indeed these words meanings are interesting!
I'm glad you think so, Patrick! Happy you swung in!
I totally agree. Learned this in a Dale Carnegie course years ago. It absolutely works. Good post.
Wow! Thanks for sharing that, Steve! Love hearing that feedback on it!
Good advice ~ Thank you!
Thanks, Norbert! Happy you stopped by to read!
Thanks, Age! I wanted to post something regarding writing that has tremendously helped me to grow as a writer!


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Privacy Concerns About Black Boxes in Cars are Overblown
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is very concerned about drivers' privacy. The group is strongly opposed to any type of "black box" device in cars according to this story in the LA Times. From the story:
Nate Cardozo, staff attorney for Electronic Frontier Foundation, said that the black boxes track such information as accelerator pedal position, brake pedal position, engine rpms, vehicle speed and acceleration, whether seat belts are connected, whether air bags deployed, and a lot more.
The foundation's concerns include the fact that there is currently no cap on the amount of data collected and there are no limits on the kind of data that will be gathered, Cardozo said.
"The car manufacturers can use that data at will, including location, which has significant privacy implications," Cardozo said, which led to the scenario of a speed jaunt finding its way into the hands of an auto insurance company.
This argument is largely nonsense. Why should drivers be entitled to privacy? Are people who drive special, or do they just engage in enough questionable behavior that they need protection? After all, air travelers and rail passengers have to have al of their movements recorded and logged. Even transit users who use monthly (or season, if you are in Europe) passes have their activity recorded. What does the EFF say about transit? From their website (in full):
Who Controls Data About Public Transportation?
How should city transit authorities treat independent software developers who make use of public schedule data? What approach results in the best experience for their passengers and customers?
Two models appear to be emerging to answer this question. One, typified by New York City'sMTA and Washington, DC's WMATA, sees schedule and related data as valuable intellectual property, to be zealously protected, licensed and monetized. So far, the results of this approach appear to have been bad press, irate passengers, wasted money and stymied innovation.
The other model, typified by San Francisco's SFMTA and Portland's TriMet, holds that encouraging independent developers to make free use of schedule information can both save the city money and foster innovative applications. As SFMTA San Francisco BART's Timothy Moore told Streetsblog: "We've put BART in front of customers in so many places that we wouldn't be able to do on our own. We basically can't envision every beneficial use for this public data and frankly transit agencies in general don't have the vision. We don't have the time, we don't have the resources."
In 2009, we've seen interesting developments in each of these four cities:
In New York City, developer Chris Schoenfeld created StationStops, an iPhone app that provided schedule information for Metro North, NYC's largest commuter rail system. The app ran smoothly until earlier this summer, when NYMTA contacted Schoenfeld to claim ownership of the schedule data and demand $5,000 in advance "royalties" on Schoenfeld's revenue.
Schoenfeld wisely recognized this as nonsense: Copyright law simply does not apply to publicly-available factual information. But when he declined to pay the licensing fees, NYMTA sent a takedown notice to Apple, demanding that StationStops be banned from the iPhone. Apple, of course, complied.
NYMTA's extortionate actions censored a helpful and perfectly legal use of their data. The results have been bad for their reputation and bad for their passengers. Connecticut's Stamford Advocate put it well: the MTA "should just leave (Schoenfeld) alone and let him make an honest buck by providing a useful service."
In Washington, DC, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) seems to be working hard to learn exactly the wrong lessons from NYC's example. After an online petition drive by DC transit activists, WMATA reluctantly opened their data to developers earlier this year. But they also allocated $500,000 (yes, that's five hundred thousand dollars,) for a study which they say "will give us a firm idea as to the commercial value of intellectual property like scheduling information."
We'll save them the trouble: While it's possible they may be able to wrench some value from their trademarks (even though this tactic, too, has backfired embarassingly for NYMTA,) there is no economic value in their schedule information. Any attempt to restrict others' use of this data is baseless and counterproductive. They've already opened their schedule data — if they're smart, they'll keep it that way.
Here in San Francisco, the SF Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has made great strides towards a first-rate open transit data system, and is setting an example that other transit authorities should aspire to. Schedule data has long been available from the SFMTA in the excellent Google Transit Feed Specification format. And websites like SFMTA Labs and theBART Developer Center encourage and help developers to make use of the data.
However, this silver cloud does have a dark lining: While SFMTA itself has refrained from sending baseless takedown notices, a corporation called NextBus Information Services (NBIS)hasn't been so wise. In 2008, developer Steven Peterson created an iPhone application calledRoutesy, which provides passengers with real-time updates of bus and train locations and arrival times. Then, last month, NBIS contacted Peterson, claimed ownership of the real-time arrival data, and demanded that Routesy be discontinued. When Peterson refused, NBIS asked Apple to ban Routesy from the iTunes App Store. Apple, of course, complied.
NBIS, like the NYC MTA, appears guilty of copyfraud. They've been unable to produce any proof that they do, in fact, own the data in question. SFMTA, to their credit, quickly clarified the situation, telling SFAppeal.com that "Muni owns the data in question and that the public is, of course, entitled to access it." Thanks in part to that statement, Peterson's lawyer was finally able to persuade Apple to restore Routesy to the iTunes App Store. (Though similar skirmishes with NBIS appear to be occuring in other cities.)
Finally, in Portland, Oregon, TriMet was one of the earliest transit authorities in the US to adopt an open data program and encourage independent developers. The result is a healthy and competitive application market that speaks for itself: Over 25 different mobile applicationsfrom different developers make creative use of the data. And, the open data program enabled Portland Airport to display real-time train arrival information at their baggage claims — with no additional work required on TriMet's part. TriMet's Bibiana McHugh explains: "Before, we would have needed to work with a technical team for the airport to make this happen, but with developer.trimet.org, we just make the information available once and our work is done."
If other government data-sets are any indication, the transit apps we've seen so far are just the beginning of what's possible. Just take a look at the impressive winners of Sunlight Foundation's Apps For America contest.
For reasons both legal and practical, transit authorities should follow the lead of SFMTA, TriMet and the Obama Administration's Data.gov, and allow independent developers to freely use their data. The results so far have been a better deal for passengers and taxpayers alike.
So public transit users will benefit from making data public, but drivers will be harmed. Sure, schedule data is different from vehicle data, but the data available from transit agencies is partly schedule data but also aggregated rider data, some of which can be traced to individual riders. EFF is right that transit riders deserve better service through innovative use of data. So do drivers! Marginal cost insurance is a good thing, not a bad thing. In addition, black boxes in cars can help assign blame in crashes more accurately so we can stop with the nonsense that a driver killing a pedestrian or cyclist was not the result of criminal driving. More data about usage can--no guarantee here as details matter--improve transport for everybody, including: marginal cost pricing, enhanced safety, lower cost travel for those who impose the least stress on transport systems, better routing and scheduling, stronger commitment to the user pays principle, punitive charges to lunkheads who shouldn't be driving, etc. Lastly, there is scant evidence that people (Americans, anyway) give a hoot about privacy in nearly all cases. How many actually use cash to pay for their EZPass? Put in the black boxes, I say, and make the data public while hiding the user ID. We will all be better off. And it will give researchers like me a lot to do.
Posted by Unknown at Friday, February 15, 2013
Labels: black boxes, charlatans, paranoia, privacy, the government really is out to get you, transit
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sport, local-sport, Zac Lomax, Hayden Lomax, Lomax brothers, St George Illawarra, Dragons, re-sign
St George Illawarra will look to build their future around Zac Lomax after the exciting young star signed a long-term contract extension with the club, with the Dragons hoping he will remain a one-club player throughout his career. Lomax has re-signed with the Dragons for another five years, keeping him at the club until at least the end of the 2025 season. A Temora Dragons junior, Lomax has been contracted to the club since he was 13-years-old. A graduate of St George Illawarra's junior pathway, Lomax made his NRL debut in round 10, 2018. Dragons coach Paul McGregor will give the 20-year-old the first crack at fullback next season ahead of the seemingly out of favour Matt Dufty, with Lomax keen to make the No.1 jersey his own. "Being able to go back to Temora at Christmas knowing that my future is settled and that I'm definitely going to be a Dragon for a while yet is very exciting. My family and I are very happy with the decision that's been made," Lomax said. "With 2020, I've attacked every session possible and soaked up as much information as I can when it comes to playing fullback. I realise I still have a lot to learn but it's a challenge I'm really looking forward to." Lomax, a two-time Junior Kangaroos representative and former Australian Schoolboy and NSWRL under-18s player of the year, has already played 17 first grade games in the red V. Dragons director of rugby league pathways and list management Ian Millward hailed Lomax's re-signing as a significant retention for the Dragons' on-field fortunes and succession planning. "There was a lot of speculation over Zac with numerous clubs in for him and we respected the process he and his management went through," Millward said. "One thing that hit home over the past couple of weeks was that he wanted to be a Dragon and wanted to stay at the Dragons. "To have him recommit long term is a no-brainer. Our aim now, and Zac's, is to have him wear the red V for the rest of his career. He wants to be a one-club player. "Zac is already the benchmark at training. With his attitude and attention-to-detail we see him as a future leader of our club. The cherry on top is he's an outstanding goal kicker so we are pleased to shore that up too." Lomax's younger brother, Hayden, has also signed a one-year development player contract extension with the club. The Dragons have also re-signed utility back Tristan Sailor for the 2020 NRL season.
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St George Illawarra Dragons re-sign Zac Lomax to long-term contract
Zac Lomax has extended his stay with the Dragons. Picture: Anna Warr
St George Illawarra will look to build their future around Zac Lomax after the exciting young star signed a long-term contract extension with the club, with the Dragons hoping he will remain a one-club player throughout his career.
Lomax has re-signed with the Dragons for another five years, keeping him at the club until at least the end of the 2025 season.
A Temora Dragons junior, Lomax has been contracted to the club since he was 13-years-old. A graduate of St George Illawarra's junior pathway, Lomax made his NRL debut in round 10, 2018.
Dragons coach Paul McGregor will give the 20-year-old the first crack at fullback next season ahead of the seemingly out of favour Matt Dufty, with Lomax keen to make the No.1 jersey his own.
"Being able to go back to Temora at Christmas knowing that my future is settled and that I'm definitely going to be a Dragon for a while yet is very exciting. My family and I are very happy with the decision that's been made," Lomax said.
"With 2020, I've attacked every session possible and soaked up as much information as I can when it comes to playing fullback. I realise I still have a lot to learn but it's a challenge I'm really looking forward to."
Lomax, a two-time Junior Kangaroos representative and former Australian Schoolboy and NSWRL under-18s player of the year, has already played 17 first grade games in the red V.
Dragons director of rugby league pathways and list management Ian Millward hailed Lomax's re-signing as a significant retention for the Dragons' on-field fortunes and succession planning.
"There was a lot of speculation over Zac with numerous clubs in for him and we respected the process he and his management went through," Millward said.
"One thing that hit home over the past couple of weeks was that he wanted to be a Dragon and wanted to stay at the Dragons.
"To have him recommit long term is a no-brainer. Our aim now, and Zac's, is to have him wear the red V for the rest of his career. He wants to be a one-club player.
"Zac is already the benchmark at training. With his attitude and attention-to-detail we see him as a future leader of our club. The cherry on top is he's an outstanding goal kicker so we are pleased to shore that up too."
Lomax's younger brother, Hayden, has also signed a one-year development player contract extension with the club.
The Dragons have also re-signed utility back Tristan Sailor for the 2020 NRL season.
Discuss "Dragons want Lomax to be one club player after long-term contract extension"


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Q: Astrojs react get input-text value I'm trying to make a search box in Astrojs react with <input id="searchinput" type="text"/> to my .include().map() filter in posts.astro file.
I already tried to using document.document.getElementById('searchinput').value(document undefind) or write all these thing in .jsx file but I can't create variableawait Astro.glob('./posts/*.mdx') after I import astro.
code:
const posts = await Astro.glob('./posts/*.mdx')(posts variable)
<input type="text" id="searchinput" />(input)

posts.filter((post) =>post.frontmatter.title.toUpperCase().includes('') ||post.frontmatter.title.toLowerCase().includes('')).map((post) => ()

(use input variable in includes())

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Q: Specifying sequence of colors in ListPlot I am trying to figure out how to use Mathematica's color schemes with discrete data. For example, I have a list of time series in the form
s={{{1946,1},{1947,2},{1948,3}},{{1946,-2},{1947,-1.8}}}

and so on; there are about 30 series of varying length. If I plot/join/overlay these series using ListPlot, is there a way to instruct Mathematica to select colors for each plot by taking evenly spaced colors from a ColorFunction returned by ColorData (e.g., "Rainbow")?
How would I combine this with a directive to make each plot Thick?
ListPlot[s,Joined->True,PlotStyle->{Thick,???}]

A: Imagine this is your data - a ragged list of 30 lists of varied length:
data = Table[.5 k + RandomReal[1, RandomInteger[{8, 14}]], {k, 30}];

Is it what you need?
ListPlot[data, Joined -> True,
         PlotStyle -> Thread@{Thick, ColorData["Rainbow"] /@ Range[0, 1, 1/29]}]


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After last night's amazing episode of Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., I'm not sure what the team has up their sleeve for next week's mid-season finale. According to Luke Mitchell, who plays the Inhuman Lincoln in the series, it's something major. While speaking with Comic Book Resources, Mitchell also revealed that while we've been in the dark in regards to the character's past, it seems that we will be learning more about it when the serties returns from break.
Lincoln is fairly knowledgable when it comes to the history of Inhumans but does he know about the ancient Inhuman that HYDRA is after? Mitchell is currently unsure about that one at the moment but is definitely curious where the writers are going with it.
When asked about the upcoming mid-season finale, Mitchell stated that the episode is "completely a game-changer. It's going to send shockwaves through everyone, through the characters and the audience. People are going to need the break to discuss and deal with what happens in the winter finale before we come back." This isn't the first time a cast memeber has stated something alone the lines. Recently Brett Dalton said that there was a Winter Soldier level twist in the episode. Excited? Let us know your thoughts on on Mitchell's comments and last night's episode in the section below.


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270 Club Atlético Platense 1511
271 Motagua 1509
272 Panathinaikos 1509
273 KRC Genk 1509
274 Pumas UNAM 1509
178 Bochum 1511
179 İstanbul Başakşehir 1511
182 Real Valladolid 1509
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3 AEK 1570
4 Panathinaikos 1509
5 Aris Thessaloniki FC 1484
6 Olympiakos Volos 1457
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4 Aris Thessaloniki FC 27 2 16 8 3 5 17 15
5 Panathinaikos 26 13 16 8 2 6 27 14
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