Disclaimer : Author is not expert in Cryptocurrency nor any affiliations.
Update: Luno has been no longer an option to use as December 2017.
From my humble view, I will say it is not for everybody to own a CryptoKitties. It cant really bought by value less than RM50. A friendly reminder, please use fund that you can afford to lose in this extremely addictive game.
I must hereby warned you that CryptoKitties is not in any form an investment that yield return of investment. It is more like a virtual game that use one of the Cryptocoins, Ethereum. Anyone can play the game but certainly not everyone could afford it.
There was a case Luno does not allow anyone buy Ethereum. The best method would be purchase bitcoin in Luno. Use MetaMask to convert bitcoin into Ethereum using Shapeshift.
Next step is getting MetaMask in your Chrome browser. A registration is required to activate MetaMask. Since CryptoKitties requires Ethereum, MetaMask is your wallet to unlock CryptoKitties seamlessly. Without MetaMask, you are not allowed to visit CryptoKitties for any transaction.
MetaMask has the ability to receive Ethereum from other source notably, Luno. Transfer Ethereum on Luno to MetaMask with the public address. The transaction took less than 3 minutes.
Author have failed numerous time buying kitties on default gas price at "40"
It is time to buy some Cryptokitties. There are tricks purchasing Cryptokitties and it incurs high transaction fee as above. There are lots of complaints on failed to purchase first CryptoKitties. The reason behind the failure is highly influenced by the "Gas Price".
Default Gas price should be "40". Author key in "75" higher gas price then the default and gas limit should be between 160,000 to 300,000. The chance for you to complete the transaction is almost certain and took less than 5 minutes. However, it took 5USD equivalent to RM20 for just a simple one-off cat transaction.
Following the default gas price would result in transaction in loop. This is a bad sign and require manually cancelling the transaction. Higher gas price in other words, beat other kitties buyers and proceed for your transaction.
I get two cats without breaking a sweat. Trick is ensure Gas price 60gwei above and making sure default gas limit is not over million. If you click a cat to purchase and the default gas limit is over "million" please refrain from purchasing the kitties because indicating there were many buyers queue the kitties.
5. Breed to be parent !
One of the most prominent feature in Crypokitties is new kitties is born from a feature "breeding".
With breeding leads to a new cryptokitties in your collection. It can be sold, gift or breed with other user. All of it are requires a small fee to complete it.
Okay from this point you probably think it is a form of investment, but the supply is endless as CryptoKitties creates new kitties every 15 minutes for selling. The buying demand can be as much as the supply and who are going to actually notice the cryptokitties you are selling in the market place if it not so special crytokitties ??
At least Cryptokitties maker knows the importance of kitties trading between users as a result beating Pokemon Go's non-existent "gift" feature. But, what can you possibly expect from a free and versatile mobile game.


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Q: In Google Sheets, how do I delete a row based on the lack of presence of a certain value in a cell? For example. I have a Google Sheet that's hundreds of rows long. There's a column that is sorted by the question "what are your 3 favorite fruits?" at the end of it. I want to be able to delete all rows that don't have "apple" in the appropriate column, so that I see everyone who listed apple as one of their three favorites. I would like to be able to see their other information (email address, age, etc.) in the rest of the row. The end goal is that I have a Google Sheet with someone who listed "apple and banana" or just "apple". How do I do this?

A: Delete Row if Column 1 is not 3
function deleteRow() {
  const ss = Spreadsheet.getActive();
  const sh = ss.getSheetByName("Sheet0");
  const vs = sh.getRange(2,1,sh.getLastRow() - 1,sh.getLastColumn()).getValues();
  let d = 0;
  vs.forEach((r,i) => {
    if(r[0] != 3) {
      sh.deleteRow(i + 2 - d++);
    }
  })
}

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University of Bath researchers feed grass directly to cells to create meat without the pig.
Researchers at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom are growing meat cells on blades of grass. The process builds upon what clean-meat (also known as "cultured" or "lab-grown" meat) companies have already established but uses grass as structural support (known in the industry as "scaffolding") to allow cells to proliferate into edible meat. "The idea was to essentially, rather than feeding a cow grass and then us eating the meat—why don't we, in quotation marks, 'feed our cells grass,'" postgraduate chemical engineering student Scott Allan told the BBC. "We use it as a scaffold for them to grow on—and we then have an edible scaffold that can be incorporated into the final product." The team has successfully grown pig cells using its grass scaffolding, which opens the door to growing bacon in a lab-setting. "And the pig's still alive and happy and you get lots of bacon at the end," postgraduate student Nick Shorten said.


The customer relationship marketing (CRM) firm, Merkle (www.merkleinc.com), which is the nation's largest privately-held agency, announces the introduction of Merkle Connect, a social CRM agency. Merkle has been at the forefront of social media marketing over the last several years. This has led the company to take a bold step toward advancing its strategic initiative to integrate social media to help meet its clients' CRM objectives.
Merkle Connect operates with the goals of bringing clarity to the often-noisy social landscape; developing social measurement insights to inform decision making; and creating dialog which facilitates engagement between consumers and the brands with which they interact. The agency focuses upon delivering value across a framework of core elements that drive performance in social CRM: connect, activate, evaluate and integrate. The process begins with gaining an understanding of consumer connections to optimize social audience growth. Then, by segmenting their social audience, Merkle Connect helps marketers develop a dialog to activate and sustain consumer engagement. Continuous measurement at the fan level helps drive a more informed and agile social relationship. From this, social behavior is connected with consumer insights to develop an integrated, consumer-focused social strategy.
Merkle's recent point-of-view paper, Merkle Connect – a Social CRM Agency, discusses how the convergence of long-standing customer-centricity principles and ever-evolving digital technology is changing the way we look at CRM.


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\section{Mean-field kinetic equations}

\normalsize
\baselineskip=18pt

\indent
In this apprendix we will review briefly the results obtained of I.
The method used there was developed earlier in the context the
nonrelativistic nuclear many-body dynamics by Nemes and de Toledo Piza
\cite{TP82}.
More recently, our group has applied this technique to $\phi^{4}$
field theory \cite{LTP92} as well as to the Chiral Gross-Neveu model
\cite{NTP96}.
Our approximation focus on the time evolution of a selected set of
observables, which in the case of scalar plasma system are
theexpectation values of linear, $\phi(x)$, and bilinear field
operators such as $\phi(x)\phi(x)$ , $\bar\psi(x)\psi(x)$ ,
$\psi(x)\psi(x)$ and etc.
Because of further convenience, we work instead with expressions which
are bilinear in the creation and annihilation parts of the fields.

\indent
In the Heisenberg picture, $\phi(x)$ are scalar spin-$0$ fields

\begin{equation}
\label{2}
\phi({\bf x},t)=\sum_{\bf p} \frac{1}{(2Vp_{0})^{1/2}}
\left[b_{\bf p}(t)e^{i{\bf p}.{\bf x}}+b_{\bf p}^{\dag}(t)
e^{-i{\bf p}.{\bf x}}\right]\;\;,
\end{equation}

\noindent
where $b_{\bf p}^{\dag}(t)$ and $b_{\bf p}(t)$ are boson creation
and annihilation operators. For the spin-$1/2$ fields we have

\begin{eqnarray}
\label{3}
\psi({\bf x},t)&=&\sum_{{\bf
k},s}\left(\frac{M}{k_{0}}\right)^{1/2}\frac{1}{\sqrt V}
\left[u_{1}({\bf k},s)a_{{\bf k},s}^{(1)}(t)e^{i {\bf k}.{\bf x}}
+u_{2}({\bf k},s){a_{{\bf k},s}^{(2)}}^{\dag}(t)
e^{-i {\bf k}.{\bf x}}\right]\;\;,
\nonumber\\\label{4.1} \\
\bar\psi({\bf x},t)&=&\sum_{{\bf
k},s}\left(\frac{M}{k_{0}}\right)^{1/2}\frac{1}{\sqrt V}\left[\bar
u_{1}({\bf k},s){a_{{\bf k},s}^{(1)}}^{\dag}(t)e^{-i {\bf k}.{\bf x}}+
\bar u_{2}({\bf k},s)a_{{\bf k},s}^{(2)}(t)
e^{i {\bf k}.{\bf x}}\right]\;\;,
\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}

\noindent
where ${a_{{\bf k},s}^{(1)}}^{\dag}(t)$ and
$a_{{\bf k},s}^{(1)}(t)$ [${a_{{\bf k},s}^{(2)}}^{\dag}(t)$ and
$a_{{\bf k},s}^{(2)}(t)$] are fermion creation and
annihilation operators associated with positive [negative]-energy
solutions $u_{1}({\bf k},s)$ [$u_{2}({\bf k},s)$] of Dirac's
equation.

\indent
In order to deal with condensate and pairing dynamics of the scalar
field we define the Bogoliubov transformation as follows \cite{RS80}:

\begin{equation}
\label{4}
\left[
\begin{array}{c}
d_{\bf p}(t)\\
        \\
d_{-\bf p}^{\dag}(t)
\end{array}
\right]=\left[
\begin{array}{cc}
\cosh \kappa_{\rm p}+i\frac{\eta_{\rm p}}{2}  &
-\sinh \kappa_{\rm p}+i\frac{\eta_{\rm p}}{2}\\ \\
-\sinh \kappa_{\rm p}-i\frac{\eta_{\rm p}}{2} &
\cosh \kappa_{\rm p}-i\frac{\eta_{\rm p}}{2}
\end{array}
\right]
\left[
\begin{array}{c}
\beta_{\bf p}(t)  \\
      \\
\beta_{-\bf p}^{\dag}(t)
\end{array}
\right]\;\;.
\end{equation}
\vskip 0.5cm
\noindent
where $d_{\bf p}$ is the shift boson operator defined by

\begin{equation}
d_{\bf p}(t)\equiv b_{\bf p}(t)- B(t)\delta_{{\bf
p},0}\;\;\;\;{\mbox{with}}\;\;\;\;
B_{\bf p}(t) \equiv\langle b_{\bf p}(t) \rangle = Tr_{\mbox{\tiny
BF}}\;\left[b_{\bf p}(t){\cal F}\right]\;
\end{equation}
\vskip 0.4cm
\noindent
In the case of fermions we restrict ourselves for simplicity to Nambu
transformation, which can be parametrized in a form that incorporates
the unitarity constraints as

\begin{equation}
\label{5}
\left[\!
\begin{array}{c}
      a_{{\bf k},s}^{(1)}    \\
                   \\
      a_{{\bf k},s}^{(2)}    \\
                   \\
{a_{-{\bf k},s}^{(1)}}^{\dag}\\
                   \\
{a_{-{\bf k},s}^{(2)}}^{\dag}
\end{array}
\!\right]\!=\!\left[\!
\begin{array}{cccc}
\cos\varphi_{\bf{k}} &      0       &      0       &
          -e^{-i\gamma_{\bf{k}}}\sin\varphi_{\bf{k}} \\
          &              &              &              \\
  0       & \cos\varphi_{\bf{k}} & e^{-i\gamma_{\bf{k}}}
\sin\varphi_{\bf{k}} &     0        \\
          &              &              &              \\
  0       & -e^{i\gamma_{\bf{k}}}\sin\varphi_{\bf{k}}
          &\cos\varphi_{\bf{k}} &     0        \\
          &              &              &              \\
e^{i\gamma_{\bf{k}}}\sin\varphi_{\bf{k}} &      0       &      0
          & \cos\varphi_{\bf{k}}
\end{array}
\!\right]\left[
\!\begin{array}{c}
    \alpha_{{\bf k},s}^{(1)}    \\
                         \\
    \alpha_{{\bf k},s}^{(2)}    \\
                         \\
{\alpha_{-{\bf k},s}^{(1)}}^{\dag}\\
                         \\
{\alpha_{-{\bf k},s}^{(2)}}^{\dag}
\end{array}
\!\right]
\end{equation}
\vskip 0.5cm
\noindent

\indent
The next step is to obtain the mean-field time evolution for the mean
values of the gaussian observables in the context of the initial-value
problem.  In other words, we want the gaussian mean-field equations of
motion for the parameters $\varphi_{\bf k}(t)$ , $\gamma_{\bf
k}(t)$, $\eta_{\rm p}(t)$, $\kappa_{\rm p}(t)$, for the quasi-particle
occupation numbers $\nu_{{\rm k},\lambda}(t)$, $\nu_{\rm p}(t)$ and
for $\langle\phi\rangle$ and $\langle\Pi\rangle$. In Ref.\cite{TNa98}
we obtained for the bosonic variables

\begin{eqnarray}
\label{8}
\dot \nu_{\rm p} &=& Tr_{\mbox{\tiny BF}}[\beta_{\bf p}^{\dag}\beta_{\bf p},H] {\cal F}\\ \nonumber\\
\label{9}
-i\dot\kappa_{\rm p}
-e^{-\kappa_{\rm p}}\left(\dot\eta_{\rm p}+\dot\kappa_{\rm p}\eta_{\rm
    p}\right)
&=& \frac{Tr[\beta_{\bf p}^{\dag}\beta_{-\bf p}^{\dag},H] {\cal F}}
{1+2\nu_{\rm p}} \\\nonumber\\
\label{10}
i \langle\dot\phi(t)\rangle&=&Tr_{\mbox{\tiny BF}}[\phi(t),H]{\cal F}\;\;
\end{eqnarray}

\noindent
In the case of fermionic variables, we obtained

\begin{eqnarray}
\label{11}
\dot\nu_{{\bf k},\lambda}
&=&Tr_{\mbox{\tiny BF}}
\left([{\alpha_{{\bf k},s}^{(\lambda)}}^{\dag}\alpha_{{\bf k},s}^{(\lambda)},
H]{\cal F}\right) \\
\nonumber\\
\label{12}
\left[i\dot\varphi_{\bf k}+\dot\gamma_{\bf k}\sin\varphi_{\bf k}
\cos\varphi_{\bf k}\right]e^{-i\gamma_{\bf k}}
&=&
\frac
{Tr_{\mbox{\tiny BF}}\left([\alpha_{-{\bf k},s}^{(1)}\alpha_{{\bf k},s}^{(2)},
H]{\cal F}\right)}{1-\nu_{{\rm k},s}^{(1)}-\nu_{{\rm k},s}^{(2)}}
\;\;.
\end{eqnarray}
\vskip 0.5cm

\indent
Our implementation of the gaussian mean-field approximation consists in
approximating ${\cal F}$ by a truncated many-body density operator
${\cal F}_{0}(t)={\cal F}^{\mbox{\tiny B}}_{0}
{\cal F}^{\mbox{\tiny F}}_{0}$.
The factorized form of the ${\cal F}_{0}(t)$ embodies what we refer
to as the double mean field approximation.
The subsystem densities ${\cal F}^{\mbox{\tiny B}}_{0}$
and ${\cal F}^{\mbox{\tiny F}}_{0}$ are in fact unit trace gaussian
densities, written in the form of an exponential of a  bilinear,
Hermitian expression in the creation and annihilation parts of the
bosonic and of the fermionic fields, respectively. They can be,
however, rewritten in diagonal form, (\ref{32a}) and (\ref{32b}),
when one uses
Bogolyubov quasiboson and quasifermion operators. With these
assumptions the equations (\ref{8})-(\ref{12}) of are closed now and
they will determinate the time rateof change of gaussian variables.
The results are shown in (\ref{41})-(\ref{44}).

\vskip 1.0cm
\centerline{\Large\bf ACKNOWLEDGMENTS}
\vskip 0.7cm

The authors E.R.T.N. and C-Y. L. are supported by Conselho Nacional de
Desenvolvimento Cient{\'{\i}}fico e Tecnol\'ogico (CNPq), Brazil.

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This is a list of seasons completed by the Ohio State Buckeyes men's ice hockey team.  The list documents the season-by-season records of the Buckeyes from 1963 to present, including conference and national post season records.

Season-by-season results

* Winning percentage is used when conference schedules are unbalanced.† Jerry Welsh resigned in February after being told his contract would not be renewed.

Footnotes

References

Lists of college men's ice hockey seasons in the United States
Ohio sports-related lists

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Reese Erlich
As US sanctions keep Western businesses out of Iran, China seizes the opportunity
Iran and China are hoping to grow their bilateral trade to more than $600 billion over the next 10 years, but there's a long way to go. Today, the two countries have combined trade of less than $15 billion, excluding oil.
Iranians quietly question their government's role in Syria and beyond
There's just as much concern with the Iran nuclear deal in Tehran
Why Iranian youth are endorsing the nuclear agreement
Congress is warming to the nuclear agreement — but what about Iran's politicians?
Right-wing American bloggers have a problem with facts about Iran's Jews
Commentary: Most Iranian Jews support the nuclear agreement and disagree with Netanyahu's aggressive stance, but right-wingers don't want to hear it.
In Iran, 'death to America' doesn't mean what you think it means
'When you walk around town, and people see you're an American, everyone wants to take care of you.'
The struggle for power in Yemen continues, and Qatar is playing a key role
Because of its strategic location, Yemen attracts extra interest from its neighbors.
Iran's Jewish community gets behind nuclear deal with the US
Iran has the second-largest Jewish population in the Middle East, after Israel. But their political differences from Israel are deep.
Mitigating Sunni-Shia conflict in 'the world's most charming police state'
Oman is living proof that the conflicts in the Middle East have more to do with economics and geopolitics than religion.
Why Iran's Kurds don't want US sanctions to end
The head of the the largest Kurdish party operating underground in Iran says the framework deal between the US and Iran over its nuclear program is not good enough.
Inside Al Jazeera: Is the pan-Arab channel a propaganda outfit or an essential voice?
Critics say Al Jazeera has compromised its coverage to meet the foreign policy needs of Qatar, its host country and financial backer.
The oil price slump that is good for America is hurting Oman
Some in the Sultanate are worried about what the future holds. 'We're sitting on a time bomb,' one economic analyst says.
What Qatar's migrant workers have to say about building the 2022 World Cup
Human rights groups say the Gulf country is exploiting foreign workers, failing to make good on promised labor reforms. Here's what the workers say.
Retired US officials move into oil business in Kurdistan's 'Wild West'
Ex-military and diplomatic leaders are pitching Kurdistan as a more lucrative investment than Iraq. The Iraqi government is not happy about it.

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A table set entirely with plain patterns lacks impact. But a table laid totally with ornate designs distracts the eye, and full appreciation of the table setting is lost. To reach a balance between simple and ornate patterns, keep the ratio two-to-one. Accent two showy patterns with one plain design, or contrast two simple designs with an elaborate motif. This does not suggest that one start over. Instead, use what you have, but accent plain tableware with ornate linens and a showy centerpiece, or contrast ornate tableware with simple linens and a plain centerpiece.
When the tableware is a mix of plain and ornate patterns, accent the simple design with two elaborate motifs.
Reverse the principal and accent two simple patterns with one ornate design.


Revival is a nod to Kevin Gillespie's formative years in the South, when gathering together for family suppers played a significant role in his life. The restaurant's menu is a reinterpretation of what one would find at Kevin's grandmother's house: a classic, Southern spread that features farm-fresh ingredients and also showcases refined culinary techniques.
When guests dine at Revival, they will feel the importance of sitting down and sharing a meal with loved ones – the same traditions that Kevin's own family held dear.


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Weekend reading: The Fulton Fish Market
Jonathan Rees. The Fulton Fish Market: A History. Columbia University Press, 2022.
I really wanted to read this book and was appy to do a blurb for it.
Rees's history of Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market is an elegy for a place that reached peak vibrancy in the 1920s, only to decline steadily as a result of overfishing, developers, the Mafia, unions, politics, refrigeration, real estate prices, and, eventually, more developers. Rees's thoughtful analysis of these themes has much to tell us about the clash between the natural and built worlds in American cities over the last couple of centuries.
Rees is a history professor at Colorado State-Pueblo, a food historian. I've long wanted to understand the changes I've witnessed at Manhattan's South Street Seaport and the reasons for moving the fish market to Hunt's Point in the Bronx, a mile from the nearest subway station.
I remember my first visit—at 4:00 am on a cold winter's day—to the fish market in the mid-1990s. It was lit up like a stadium, crowded with people, tables covered with fish, and hand-trucks for moving them. I thought it looked like a move set on which the director has just shouted, "Action." We had to move quickly to avoid being hit.
My guide was the chef-owner of a Chelsea fish restaurant who pulled thousands of dollars in cash out of his pockett o pay for the fish he was selecting carefully for the next few days. His purchases went to a van that would take them to his restaurant within the next hour or so.
We went for coffee at a nearby café and were out of there by 6:00 a.m.
I picked four excerpts from Rees' book that help explain the history of this place:
(1) Two developments very close to the Fulton Fish Market spurred the transformation of the entire neighborhood into something new by the end of the twentieth century and beyond: the founding of the South Street Seaport Museum in 1967 and the development of the neighborhood by the Rouse Corporation, a Baltimore firm best known for its successful revitalization of the Faneuil Hall area in Boston… More development increased rents. Businesses which made more money than dealing in wholesale fish then bought up properties that the dealers had moved into earlier in the century, thereby changing the character of the neighborhood. The city and the state never deemed the actual fish market worthy of protection. As a result, every new project that made the neighborhood more desirable made it harder for the fish market to stay a fish market.
(2) From a longterm perspective, the geographical advantage of the Fulton Fish Market disappeared when fish stopped arriving there by water….When they arrived in New York by train or truck it no longer mattered where in New York City the fish market happened to be. In fact, with the arrival of modern refrigeration and freezing, you could have moved the largest fish market in America to Connecticut, or South Carolina for that matter….
(3) The original Fulton Fish Market was obviously a market in the sense that it was a place to buy and sell fish, but the longterm historical significance of the place derives more from the other sense of the word "market," namely the abstract idea that there is a set of dedicated buyers for the good that gets sold there. The wholesalers who ran the Fulton Fish Market expanded the scope of the abstract market in order to keep their physical market going…Nobody really cared about the public good as long as they were all still making money…the actions of the wholesalers who operated there spurred the general indifference of the wholesale fish industry to the problem of overfishing, despite the obvious cost of this behavior to the overall amount of fish in the sea.
(4) In ancient Greece, the marketplace was the center of daily life. The body politic congregated there to interact, make collective decisions and conduct commerce. Fulton Market bore some resemblance to this situation during its early history, but its operations became less public as it evolved into a wholesale market….Today, without a subway stop anywhere near it, average New Yorkers would have difficulty getting to any of the city's wholesale markets in the South Bronx. Moreover, because of improvements in refrigeration and transportation, wholesale markets aren't even necessary for restaurants or groceries to operate in the city anymore… These days, it is very easy to forget that Manhattan is an island.
For 30% off, go to www.ucpress.edu/9780520384156. Use code 21W2240 at checkout.
Tags: Books, Fish, Food-marketing
Weekend reading: Raw Deal
Chloe Sorvino. Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat. Atria Books, 2022.
This is the first analysis I've seen of the meat industry from a business perspective. Corvino is a business reporter from Forbes and did an amazing research job to do this book, including visiting CAFOs, slaughterhouses (she doesn't say how she talked her way into it), chicken houses, and alternative meat places. She also talked to a vast number of experts on all sides of the meat issue. Full disclosure: she interviewed me and quoted me in the book in a couple of places.
I was happy to do a blurb for it.
Raw Deal is Chloe Sorvino's deeply reported, first-hand account of how business imperatives drive the meat industry to mistreat workers, pollute the environment, fix prices, bribe, and manipulate the political process, all in the name of shareholder profits. She argues convincingly for holding this industry accountable and requiring it and other corporations to engage in social as well as fiduciary responsibility. Raw Deal is a must read for anyone who cares about where our food comes from.
On meat substitutes
I have yet to meet anyone in this industry who says they do not care about climate change. In fact, many say they are personally driven by their product's sustainability and environmental potential. But it's still all to a certain point. There's a reason Impossible Foods is preparing for a potentially $10 billion public listing, and that neither Impossible nor Beyond Meat is registered as public benefit corporations a move that would legally inhibit the companies from putting profit over their environmental mission. Half of Impossible's investors come from venture capital firms and the roster even includes a hedge fund, Viking Global Investors. Backers are no doubt ready for an exit, and they want to get Impossible the best deal. A sustainability halo helps the cause (pp. 169-170).
On support for small local meat producers
Local infrastructure for livestock producers to cook and package products is a key missing link in making local food systems profitable and viable. Creating lasting impacts wouldn't cost much. "We have the information and we have the evidence. FaWhat we don't have are the facilities and shared space where multiple people can leverage that at their business's scale," Mickie told me. "It's just crazy to me to be in a space where we're trying to meet so many intersecting issues of inequity, and have to prove it one hundred percent, and then in another realm, people are playing with stem cells and getting two hundred million dollars. We literally feed people and want to do it better )p. 257).
Chloe Sorvino has also published:
An adapted essay in the Los Angeles Times on universal food access
An excerpt in Fast Company about whether good meat exists
Tags: Books, Food-industry, Meat
Weekend reading: Commercial Determinants of Health
From Oxford University Press:
I was happy to be asked to contribute to this book:
My thanks to Eric Crosbie, who did the heavy lifting on the chapter and also co-authored two other chapters (on trade and investment and on teaching commercial determinants of health.
This book brings together multiple authors and perspectives on how corporations selling unhealthful commodities—tobacco, alcohol, and junk food, for example—act to protect sales and marketing, regardless of effects on individual and collective health.
Chapters cover the policies and politics, the ways commercial interessts have taken over culture, how companies influence science, research, and marketing, examples of such influence, analyses of the legal issues, and recommendations for countering corporate actions.
The chapters are so informative and so well referenced that it's hard to select specific examples. But here's one from George Annas' chapter on "Corporations as Irresponsible Artificial People."
The public health goal is to make the social responsibility of corporations a reality rather than just a feel-good marketing slogan. This will require transforming the corporation from an instrument designed and run to make money while indifferent to polluting the planet and destroying the health of humans to an entity whose money-making must be consistent with preserving the health of the planet and its inhabitants. Central to this objecti8ve is to replace the currfent post-2008 system in which profits are kept by the owners of capital, and losses are socialized by being paid for by governments, most notably for corporations that are "too big to fail." Any sustainable system requires that both gains and losses are shared by corporations and governments. Sharing gains and lossers will require a restructuring of corporate tax, including a minimum tax for all corporations, but domestic and multinational.
Amen. Everyone needs to understand that food corporations are not social service or public health agencies. They are businesses stuck with responding to the shareholder value movement, which forces them to make profits their first and only priority.
This system needs to change. This book provides the evidence.
Note: I discussed many of these same issues in Unsavorty Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat.
Tags: Books, Food-industry
Weekend reading: Harold McGee's Nose Dive has a great index!
I've been doing this blog for years, but have very little idea of whether anyone looks at it or whether it is at all useful. But every now and then, I hear that it just might be. Here is an example with a happy ending.
Harold McGee just sent me a copy of the new paperback edition of his book, Nose Dive, with a note saying "Thanks for the index."
The book, as I explained in my first post about it in 2020, is a marvelous encyclopedia of everything known about the sense of smell and the smells of everything from from foods, of course, but also everything else that smells from soil to armpits to flowers. I thought the book was amazing—right up there with his classic On Foods and Cooking. Alas, I had one serious complaint about it.
But uh oh. How I wish it had a better index.
For a book like this, the index needs to be meticulously complete—list every bold face term every time it appears—so readers can find what we are looking for. This one is surprisingly unhelpful.
I found this out because I forgot to write down the page number for the fatty acid excerpt shown above. I searched the index for most of the key words that appear in the clip: fatty acids, short and branched; butyric; methylbutyric; hexanoic; cheesy; intersteller space. No luck. I had to check through all of the fatty acid listings and finally found it under "fatty acids, and molecules in asteroids, 19." Oh. Asteroids. Silly me.
I also forgot to note the page for the CAFO quote. CAFO is not indexed at all, even though it appears in bold on the previous page, and neither does its definition, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation.
McGee refers frequently to "Hero Carbon," the atom basic to odiferous molecules. I couldn't remember where he first used "Hero" and tried to look it up. Not a chance.
This book deserves better, alas.
Penguin Press: this needs a fix, big time.
I talked to McGee about the index problem. Penguin had given him a limit on index entries.
He wrote me recently that when Penguin asked him to file any corrections for the paperback edition,
I sent them your review and told them I'd be willing to redo the index myself, stem to stern. After several weeks they agreed. It was exhausting. But the paperback came out last week, so now there's a decent index available. Maybe I can put it online for hardover owners. So: thanks again for taking the trouble to make the case!
Happy ending indeed.
Have anything like this you want complained about? I'll be glad to help. Sometimes complaints get results.
And thanks Harold, for this truly remarkable book—and for making me think doing this blog is worthwhile.
Weekend reading: Foodtopia
Margo Anne Kelley. Foodtopia: Communities in Pursuit of Peace, Love & Homegrown Food. Godine, 2022.
I was asked to do a blurb for this book and readily agreed.
Foodtopia gives us a generous overview of Americans' historic and contemporary involvement in utopian communities through the lens of their dietary beliefs and practices. From Thoreau's Walden to Penniman's Soul Fire Farm, the search for agrarian values and food justice should inspire us to support—and join—these movements.
If you don't know the history of back-to-the-land movements, this is a great place to begin.
Some quick excerpts:
Thoreau could dwell safely and comfortably on the outskirts of town not because his mom fed him or washed his clothes but because he was white, male, single, able-bodied, a local son, a keen observer, a practiced outdoorsman, a skilled forager and gardener, a capable craftsman, and friend of the landowner. Without any one of those attributes, he'd have had a tougher go of it….He could move back to town whenever he wanted.
In turning away from mainstream food, many back-to-the-landers became vegetarian. Some wanted to eat lower on the food chain for environmental, financial, ethical, or political reasons; others simply liked thumbing their nose at the meat-eating bourgeoisie.
…each generation of back-to-the-land utopians has been personally connected to members of an earlier one, has learned from, admired, and often loved them….by enacting their beliefs, b dreaming into being a more capacious world, the changed the existing one for all of us.
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Weekend reading: Food sovereignty in Ghana
Joeva Sean Rock. We Are Not Starving: The Struggle for Food Sovereignty in Ghana. Michigan State University Press, 2022. 188 pages
I enjoyed getting to know Joeva Rock when she had a fellowship in my NYU department, and was honored to be asked to blurb her book:
We Are Not Starving is an utterly compelling account of how the failure of international donors to understand and respect the recipients of development aid contributes to the failure of their projects. Through the industry's attempts to introduce GMO crops in Ghana, anthropologist Joeva Rock draws lessons essential for anyone who wants international development to work. If you want to understand the real, on-the-ground politics of GMOs, start here.
A couple of excerpts from the manuscript:
Ghanaian officials recognized the limitations posed by IPRs [Intellectual Property Rights] as an important way to collect financial benefits from GMO. Thus, rather than describe GMOs as a humanitarian technology, as donors sought to do, Ghanaian officials and scientists went out of their way to stress that, when coupled with IPRs, GM seeds were "the secret" to obtaining profit, revenue that was sorely needed in the post-structural adjustment era of gutted state infrastructure.
Ghanaians continually critiqued global discourses and development industry standards wherein philanthropists and professionals in the Global North set boundaries for conversations about hunger, collapse Africa into a homogenized, starving entity, and the prescribe solutions based on these racialized myths. These critiques are reflective of recipient fatigue and are often held in tension with discourse emanating from the same donors that sponsor the work of GMO advocates, who rely on images and texts that depict Africa as languishing and starving.
Tags: Africa, Books, GM(Genetically Modified)
Weekend reading: Farmed salmon
Douglas Frantz & Catherine Collins. Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of America's Favorite Fish. Henry Holt, 2022. (355 pages)
I was asked to do a blurb for this one. Here's what I said:
Salmon Wars is a deep dive into the damage caused by current fish-farming methods to ocean environments, wild fish and their habitats, and to the farmed fish themselves. It is also a dismal account of the failure of governments to stop such practices. Salmon farming needs reform. Until it does, read this book, and you will never eat farmed salmon again.
As for what to do about the hazards of salmon farming—lice, pollution, reduction of wild salmon, escape from pens, requirement for feeder fish and the depletion of those stocks, the authors have three suggestions:
(1) Know the risks and rewards of eating farmed salmon and insist on more transparency.
(2) Take responsibility for insisting on better ways of raising farmed salmon.
And (3)
The third step is for governments to stop putting a thumb on the scale when weighing economic interests versus the public wellbeing. Governments should take responsibility for protecting the environment and public health. They should adopt strict curbs on the use of chemicals by salmon farmers. They should require notification of all relevant authorities of every escape or suspected escape, and those reports should be made public. Food labels should be thorough, accurate, and reflect how the salmon was raised…There must be similar global efforts to protect the public health and the welfare of salmon.
This is a hard-hitting book and, as you might expect, it's gotten some pushback.
Saving Seafood, a group that "conducts media and public relations outreach on behalf of the seafood industry," says "New 'Salmon Wars' Book Is Full of Fictions. Here Are the Facts." Here are a couple of examples:
FICTION: Farmed salmon are crammed into cages.
FACT: Salmon occupy less than 4 percent of a typical marine cage. Farmers intentionally keep stocking densities low so fish have room to swim, grow, and mimic natural schooling patterns.
Farmers take great care to ensure the well-being of their salmon. Fish are vaccinated against several diseases, and pristine marine cage conditions are ensured with proper siting, regular fallowing (leaving sites unused), underwater cameras, and diver inspections.
FICTION: Farmed salmon are doused with pesticides and antibiotics.
FACT: Antibiotic use on salmon farms is far lower than that of any other agricultural animal producing industry in the world. In the rare instances when treatment is necessary, it is prescribed and overseen by licensed veterinarians under the oversight of government regulators.
In 2012 I visited a salmon farm above the Arctic Circle in Norway's and wrote a post about it.
That one looked pretty good. Now? Others? Who knows?
My recommendation: Visit one if you can. Short of that, read this book. Than decide what you think are the facts.
Tags: Books, Fish
Weekend reading: food and political parties
R.C. Harris. Party Food: A Partisan History of Food & Farming in America. Common Ground, 2021 (147 pages plus an index).
The author, a politics professor at Washington & Lee University, sent me a copy of her book, which I have now read.
I love the cover.
This is a book about the differing views of Farm Bill provisions among Democrats and Republicans.
Harris points out, correctly, that recent books about food policy in the United States, mine among them, say practically nothing about the role of the two political parties in deciding food issues. Here, she corrects this omission.
She does so using a sports analogy–red and blue teams with one goal: to win. A brief excerpt:
Setting the Stage: Farmers on Welfare in a Capitalist Society
The main problem in our story is that farm policy is really about giving farmers federal dollars to stay in business—and this idea tends to divide the red team from the blue team. The history of modern farm policy in the United States is essentially the history of social welfare policy—a policy designed to prop up the incomes of farm families…As a nation of independent, hardworking, self-sufficient citizens and immigrants, America has always been more likely to embrace capitalism and less likely to expect government support than nations with a history of kinds, vassals, and peasants. This means America is much more centrist and market-oriented in its economic policy, making welfare the exception rather than the rule. (p.53)
I get what she's saying and her points are worth considering, but I wish she had used a word other than "farmers." The ones who get corporate welfare in America are not your small subsistence farmers or even those of medium size.
A more precise term here would be Big Agriculture.
The Farm Bill is welfare for the rich. That's why the red team is for it.
But her contention that the food movement needs to pay more attention to party politics demands attention.
Voting really matters to our players on the field. In fact, we learned that partisan farm policy is really field policy—what will keep the team on the field. And, interestingly enough, this has a lot to dow with what is in the fields and on the tables (and on the menus, and in the regrigerator, and for sale at the store or local farmers market) where the players are elected. In other words, political teams want to be re-elected so they can keep making political plays. (p. 131)
As I keep saying, if you want the food movement to have power, run for office.
Maybe it's time for a third team?
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The Pub 43: The Shame Episode
Oct 27 2021 • 27 mins
In this episode, we talk about NaNoWriMo, 2021. Dean meets the woman of his dreams in a bookstore and lives happily ever after. Molly writes; she writes endlessly. Sarah grows frustrated, takes her humungous corkboard and leaves the show. And Yurick wins NaNoWriMo! Cast Hosted by Dean Karpowicz, with Molly Krasel, Yurick Makinen, and Sarah Willis. Content 1:00: What is NaNoWriMo? "It's National NOVEL writing month, not November writing month. It just takes place in November." --Sarah 3:36: What are the prizes? "Your prize is you get to spend money." --Yurick 4:40: On Scrivener "I've got the attention span of a goldfish. It's not for me, man." --Sarah 11:29: On Writing Groups "They have a dangerous tendency to talk about writing, without actually doing any writing." --Yurick 13:20: NaNoWriCovid "You know, we were all stuck in our houses. Might as well write a novel!" --Molly 16:30: Spotify Writing Playlists Dean: "I listen to Kitaro" Sarah: "You listen to what, now?" Dean: "He's a Japanese man who looks like a samurai who can also play music." 21:36: Some Tips "Go in with a plan. And if not, get a cheer squad." --Molly


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Kenya's political background
Since 1992, Kenya has had a multi-party system in place and has steadily developed into a regional power. The country is home to a diverse patchwork of ethnic groups, and resultantly many parties and personalities forge allegiances along ethnic lines rather than policy positions or political ideology. For a number of years, elites have sown divisions between these groups for personal gain. This came to a head in 2008, when after a number of years of relative stability and economic growth, unexpected and severe intercommunal violence broke out in the aftermath of elections. Over 1,100 people were killed and more than 500,000 were displaced.
A new constitution was written and promulgated through a national referendum in 2010 in an attempt to end fierce electoral battles. It entailed a completely new governance system by establishing 47 new county governments under a system of devolved government and creating a bicameral parliament by adding a Senate. It also contained a clause that impels the state to act on female representation – however, this is yet to be fully implemented years later, and women are still heavily underrepresented in Kenyan institutions.
Despite a peaceful electoral cycle in 2013, later elections in 2017 were marred by opposition claims of vote-rigging, creating another flare-up in political violence. The opposition successfully annulled the election result through Kenya's Constitutional Court, with the Court declaring fresh elections within 60 days. However, President Kenyatta's main electoral rival, Raila Odinga, withdrew from the re-run in protest at a lack of time for reforms, and Kenyatta eventually ran unopposed.
In early 2018, Kenyatta and Odinga found reconciliation in their famous handshake, which saw the two political heavyweights refer to each other as 'brothers'. Since then and ahead of the 2022 elections, the political party landscape is in flux again, with more than 30 parties formed in the 12 months thereafter. At the same time, the presidential Jubilee party is showing widening cracks as two separate camps are forming around the President and his Deputy. Moreover, past intercommunal violence keeps casting a shadow over the country's political future. Therefore, the need for genuine political dialogue that allows addressing the underlying issues is as acute as ever.
NIMD's approach in Kenya
NIMD has been active in Kenya since 2003, when we were instrumental in setting up the Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD-Kenya) as dialogue platform for all parliamentary parties. Since then, the NIMD programme has supported CMD-Kenya in hosting interparty dialogue, implementing activities geared at supporting political parties, and strengthening parties' connections with broader society. Another important programmatic focus is the strengthening of the role of women and underrepresented groups in political life.
Since 2019, NIMD also started a partnership with Mzalendo, a Kenyan parliamentary support organization. Our collaboration focusses on increasing parliamentary transparency and openness by bringing citizens closer to their elected representatives, and bolstering the position of women and young people within parliament.
Political Governance Reform
NIMD's long-standing partner CMD-K has collaborated with the Office of the Registrar for Political Parties to strengthen the party landscape by facilitating the development of parties' strategic plans. These strategic plans go on to support parties as they enhance their democratic structures and take action on underrepresentation of women and young people.
A core aspect of CMD-K's work today is geared towards the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI). BBI is a joint initiative of President Kenyatta and his former opponent Raila Odinga, who agreed on a set of objectives covering areas such as the administration of elections, anti-corruption measures, and devolution. For example, CMD-Kenya (with additional support from Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom) convened a two-day consultative workshop between women in political parties in Spring 2019. The sessions brought together representatives of party women caucuses and government departments to develop a common position on gender and inclusion. CMD-Kenya is also supporting the parties with the development of policy positions on key themes as the BBI unfolds.
The programme in Kenya has a history of supporting the political rights of women, specifically by training women candidates and their agents in the run up to elections. Between 2014 and 2018, the Respect for Women's Political Rights programme was implemented, with the aim of changing perceptions and negative gender stereotyping around the issue of women political leadership. One of the key approaches was to find supportive men or 'male champions' who can convince their fellow party members of the importance of removing gender barriers in Kenyan politics.
The CMD-Kenya dialogue platform also supports action on gender equality by bringing together leaders from parties across Kenyan society. In 2010, CMD-K contributed to the successful lobby for the gender equality clauses in Kenya's new constitution. These stipulate that not more than two-thirds of the members of elective or appointive bodies can be of the same gender. The new Constitution was a major victory for Kenyan women, however, fulfilling the promises of the constitution has proven difficult.
Find out more on our work with women in politics in the below video from CMD-Kenya.
Parliamentary support
Since 2019, NIMD supports work aimed at the Kenyan parliament in partnership with Kenyan parliamentary organization Mzalendo. The programme with Mzalendo aims for parliament to consistently use its electronic voting system. This measure serves transparency by providing a clear record of how elected representatives vote on legislation and motions debated in the chambers.
NIMD also supports Mzalendo's efforts to bring key MPs closer to the electorate through social media. In this campaign, committee chairs and other high-ranking MPs are offered Mzalendo's online platforms to explain to online audiences their positions in specific debates, as well as showcase their daily work and some of the challenges they face. The medium is particularly effective, as it allows people a chance to react ahead of a vote or parliamentary debate via the online discussion.
A third component of NIMD's parliamentary support work with Mzalendo is the documentation and analysis of women and young MP's contributions and attendance in parliament. This information will be used to inform the debate on women political participation and campaign strategies. .
This programme is part of the 'Lobby and Advocacy' programme of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. More on the Strategic Partnership with the Ministry here.
The cost of politics in Kenya: Implications for political participation and development
Political party financing and equal participation of women: Kenya, Tunisia, and Colombia
CMD-Kenya: Women in Politics – 2015
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Aspects of Our Work
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Positive developments for Kenya's two-thirds gender rule
Building political party capacity around poll-watching: An update on our project in Zambia
Ensuring citizen oversight in Kenya during the COVID-19 pandemic
People Dialogue Festival 2020: bringing politicians and citizens together
Forging a path for women in Kenya
Claiming the space: Youth inclusion and participation in Kenya's Parliament
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Peter Peterson Spent Nearly Half A Billion In Washington Targeting Social Security, Medicare
Ryan Grim
Former Washington Bureau Chief, HuffPost
Paul Blumenthal
05/15/2012 02:31pm EDT
WASHINGTON -- Peter Peterson, a Wall Street billionaire who has been calling for cuts to Social Security and other government programs for years, is hosting a "fiscal summit" Tuesday that brings together Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, former President Bill Clinton, Rep. Paul Ryan, House Speaker John Boehner, Tom Brokaw and Politico's John Harris, among a host of other elites who will gather at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium.
The bipartisan luminaries will be carrying on a discussion to a large extent framed by Peterson, who has spent lavishly to shape a national conversation focusing on the deficit rather than on jobs and economic growth.
That amount of influence -- building the very foundation on which political discussion rests -- doesn't come cheap. And Peterson hasn't skimped.
According to a review of tax documents from 2007 through 2011, Peterson has personally contributed at least $458 million to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation to cast Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and government spending as in a state of crisis, in desperate need of dramatic cuts. Peterson's millions have done next to nothing to change public opinion: In survey after survey, Americans reject the idea of cutting Social Security and Medicare. A recent national tour organized by AmericaSpeaks and largely funded by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation was met by audiences who rebuffed his proposals.
But Peterson has been able to drive a major shift in elite consensus about government spending, with talk of "grand bargains" that would slash entitlements, cut corporate tax rates and end personal tax breaks, such as the mortgage deduction, that benefit the middle class.
To put Peterson's spending in context, all corporations and unions combined spent less than $4 billion on lobbying in 2011. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was heading over to the summit on Tuesday afternoon to protest. During his entire federal career, beginning in 1989, Sanders has raised $16,566,611, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, roughly 3 percent of what Peterson has spent in just a few years.
In response to HuffPost's questions, the Peterson Foundation said, "Pete has always been clear that he believes the implementation of any long-term fiscal plan should be delayed until the economy has recovered. The Peterson Foundation works with a number of organizations across the political spectrum to bring people together and discuss solutions to the fiscal challenges facing our nation -- all options should be on the table."
Peterson, who served as commerce secretary under President Richard Nixon, founded the Blackstone Group, one of the world's largest private equity firms, which owes its great profitability largely to a once-obscure tax break that allows investment managers to pay lower taxes than regular, working people. Before that, during the 70s and early 80s, he ran Lehman Brothers, the firm that blew up at the start of the financial crisis in 2008. He chaired the Federal Reserve Bank of New York during the George W. Bush administration. At the summit Tuesday, Peterson told the audience that he sat on the committee that picked Geithner to serve as president of that bank.
More recently, Peterson has been pushing his fiscal arguments by spreading that half-billion dollars widely across the Washington spectrum, putting both Democrats and Republicans on his payroll. He even launched his own newspaper, The Fiscal Times, which complements the many Peterson-funded nonprofits, such as the Concord Coalition and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
The public face of his organizations is David Walker, the former comptroller general of the United States. Officially, Walker is an adviser to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, for which he takes no salary. But Walker has been on the payroll at Peterson Management LLC, an investment firm that handles the Peterson family wealth, according to the 2007 book "The Foundation: A Great American Secret: How Private Wealth is Changing the World," by Duke law professor Joel Fleishman. Paying him through the investment fund allows Peterson to obscure his salary and frees Walker from the restrictions on lobbying by nonprofit foundations.
Walker and Peterson tell a simple and familiar story: America is broke and spending is out of control.
The imprimatur of a former comptroller general has allowed such an argument to be taken not only seriously, but nearly for granted in Washington. Of course, the United States is not actually broke. It's the richest country on the planet. And while government spending has indeed increased, as one would expect during a recession, a major driver of the deficit has been a collapse in government revenue, along with two unpaid-for wars.
The quickest way to close that revenue gap would be a return to the previous tax rates on the wealthy, including on investment managers who pay a discounted rate by referring to their income as interest or dividends. Such a policy change would cost Peterson millions, a prospect he has argued against in the past. "This is a fairness argument," he said in 2008, according to The New York Times. "There are so many other partnerships, why pick on this high-growth sector?"
Peterson is in this debate for the long haul: He's even working on children. Earlier this month, Columbia University's Teachers College released a new curriculum about the federal budget and fiscal policy that will be distributed free to every high school in the country. "Understanding Fiscal Responsibility" was introduced at a ceremony featuring Peter Orszag, a former Obama administration official who left to join Citigroup. The Peterson Foundation has already given $1.6 million of a promised $2.4 million for the curriculum.
The first two lessons are titled "Social Security and the National Debt" and "Medicare and the National Debt." The curriculum wants teens to ask, "How high a value do we place on guaranteeing quality health care to the elderly?"
Another effort to persuade America's youth about the shakiness of the entitlement programs is a joint venture between the Peterson Foundation and mtvU, the campus-based network created by MTV Networks, called Indebted. Peterson has already shelled out nearly $2 million to fund this effort to convince college students that Social Security won't be there for them, so therefore it should be slashed now -- a self-fulfilling policy prescription if ever there was one.
The educational website for Indebted, which borrows its look of revolutionary activism from contemporary stencil-based art made famous by graffiti artists Banksy and Shepard Fairey, explains that the inevitable and unavoidable debt burden to be shouldered by college kids through student loans, credits cards and a poor job market make it all the more important to cut entitlements now.
Over the years, Peterson's foundation has housed a revolving cast of deficit-hawk intellectuals. For example, Eugene Steurle, the Urban Institute's top Social Security expert, was paid $106,667 by the foundation in 2009 in between his stints at the institute. After returning to the Urban Institute in 2010, Steurle spoke out in favor of policies promoted by Peterson as Congress debated that "grand bargain" that would cut benefits. Steurle argued for raising the Social Security retirement age. When he moderated a Senate panel on Social Security, he was joined by Maya MacGuineas, another deficit hawk who serves as president of the Peterson-funded Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The Urban Institute is known as a liberal think tank, meaning that its recommendation to slash benefits has greater influence than a similar proposal from a libertarian or conservative outfit with a known hostility to the program.
Politicians in Washington regularly say that major reform to entitlements -- and by reform, they mean cuts -- can only be accomplished with bipartisan consensus. "We have to hold hands and jump," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Monday. To that end, and unlike the Koch brothers, Peterson spreads his money across the ideological spectrum. He has given millions to the liberal Center for American Progress, Economic Policy Institute and New America Foundation; the conservative Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute; the centrist Brookings Institution and Bipartisan Policy Center, and on and on.
Moreover, Peterson's connections to the White House, evidenced by Geithner's attendance at the current 2012 summit, aren't hurt by his foundation's multimillion-dollar contract with SKDKnickerbocker, which includes former top administration official Anita Dunn.
Republicans, too, have joined in Peterson's crusade, including Boehner; Ryan, the architect of a federal budget plan that ends Medicare; and Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), much discussed as a potential GOP vice presidential candidate. All three were in attendance at Tuesday's conference.
Media luminaries such as George Stephanopoulos, Brokaw and Politico's Harris were also scheduled to speak.
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..I recall Uncle Ben's sense of humor, the twinkle in his eyes and also that even into his seventies he was strong enough to pin two high school nephews at one time (Dwight Williams & I) when we challenged him to "wrassle" Avon Adams often told of how he "got even" with Uncle Ben for a prank he played on him while Avon was a kid, pulling on the tail of a horse Avon was riding and causing the horse to run away. Many years later Avon offered to take him for a motor boat ride on the Mississippi River. As he often did, Uncle Ben was smoking a cigar. Avon opened it up and Uncle Ben was holding onto the sides of the boat for dear life. He just about swallowed the cigar but every time he reached for it with one hand so he could exhale smoke, Avon would swerve the boat so he had to use both hands to hold on. Finally he spat the cigar into the river. When they got ashore Uncle Ben did not see the humor in that prank -- he said he would never come back to Missouri if they treated him like that. But of course he did and I recall his rye smile when reminded of that incident which broke into a broader grin when reminded of his own prank which triggered prank #2. That Patterson sense of humor was handed down and is often now characterized as the Adams sense of humor -- particularly noted in my dad, my Aunt Nila, myself, my brother and most of our kids. However looking at Patterson/Patterson cousins without the Adams heritage as an excuse, a bit of that same mischievious delight in needling someone indicates where the "genes" came from. For example when we were visiting Uncle Weaver and Aunt Frona cousin Naomi whispered to Dad, "Uncle Virgil, there a lot of ducks on the pond. Come and look". Indeed there were and Dad headed in to get his shotgun. At which Naomi yelled out.."Hey mom, Uncle Virgil is gonna shoot your ducks" -- they were pet Mallard's.


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Taylor Devine
Taylor H. Devine, Founder and Managing Partner. Taylor Devine is a Registered Representative of and securities are conducted through StillPoint Capital Member FINRA/SiPC, Tampa, FL. Taylor Devine Series 7, 79, 82, 99, 63
Email: tdevine@thecdigroup.net
Taylor founded Corporate Development International, LLC, dba The CDI Group in 2001, after completing the sale of his last company where he served as Chairman and CEO. Taylor founded The CDI Group because he recognized certain groups of people were being under served:
The business owner who generates Revenue of $2 mil – $100 mil.
Those individuals who want to own a business generating Revenue of $2 mil – $100 mil.
Business owners who want to grow their business both organically and through strategic and target acquisitions.
Business owners who want to understand the Fair Market Value of their business, machinery / equipment, and/or their property (land, buildings).
Those people who want to known the "Fair Market Value" of a business, machinery / equipment, and/or their property (land, buildings)they are considering acquiring.
The professionals (bankers, attorneys, CPA's, financial planners) who serve business / company owners, and those who wanted to be.
These insights come from a long and distinguished career, starting in 1963, spanning both domestic and international business. Taylor has the experience that comes from growing multi-million $ revenue private and public companies while a business owner, Chairman, CEO, President and/or COO. His experience includes having lead a very successful IPO as that company's President and CEO.
Taylor started his career in 1963 with Saga Corporation in contract management services and chain restaurant management. Over an 18 year period with Saga, Taylor progressed from unit management to the executive level, serving as that company's first Director of Strategic Planning, later as a Marketing VP, and then as a Division VP and General Manager. Taylor helped build two divisions on a national basis. Saga reached the $1 Billion revenue in 1983 and was sold to Marriott in 1985. During his last two years with Saga, while working full-time, he also earned his MBA from the University of Chicago.
Leaving Saga in 1981, Taylor joined Arthur D. Little, Inc, world headquarters in Acorn Park, MA (Boston suburb) as a Senior Consultant, Strategic Management Unit. Specialized practice area: The Strategic Management of Technology on a national basis. The skills and knowledge gained in that practice in the early 1980's help CDI's technology Clients today. In late 1982, a then young couple by the name of Debbi and Randy Fields wanted experienced leadership in building and expanding a very small but very special company that had just 35 stores at that time. Debbi, Randy and Taylor all moved to Park City UT to build a national and later international chain: Fields Financial Corp, dba: Mrs. Fields Cookies (MFC). Over the next 41 months, with Taylor as the EVP and COO, they built MFC from 35 units to 255 units across the United States. All company owned at that time.
Having invested the prior 22 years building and consulting for others, in 1986 it was time start his own enterprise. Combining technology and management, Taylor recruited the Salt Lake City IBM Branch Manager and they formed one of the first voice mail and IBM 36/38 data input/output service bureaus in the United States.
In late 1987, another company builder / entrepreneur by the name of Wayne Huizenga and friends purchased controlling interest in a then 19 store chain. Wayne knew how to recruit people who knew how to build and operate national chains where there was a finite time window of opportunity to win the war. In October 1987 Taylor joined Blockbuster Entertainment Corporation, parent of Blockbuster Video, with responsibility for approximately 1/3 the United States. Taylor and his team proceeded to open 176 stores in 12 months, or approximately 1 new store every 48 hours. This included company owner stores, franchisee owned stores, joint-ventures and acquisitions. Near the end of the first 12 months, Taylor was promoted to a corporate officer and given responsibility for 5 of the 7 operating regions in the United States. Within the next six months, Taylor was again promoted to Vice-President, International Operations. Taylor moved to London, England as the International Corporate Officer with marketing, operational, financial and real estate and construction responsibility for Europe, Asia, and South America. Over the next several years, using London as his base, Taylor opened company, franchised, joint-ventured, and/or acquired operations in 9 countries outside North America, with due diligence going on in another 12 countries, and on the largest competitor in Europe, having 850 stores.
Taylor returned to the US in 1992, investing in and taking Board seats with several entrepreneurial companies headed for national and international expansion. It was during this period that Taylor moved to Portland, OR, as President and CEO of a young, pre-IPO company by the name of Coffee People, Inc. Taylor again built a management team and architected a national expansion. After closing a Private Placement Memorandum and leading a successful IPO, Taylor expanded the company organically and thru a strategic acquisition. In late 1998 a large international based company wanted a public stock vehicleas an entry into the United States. Taylor managed that sale transaction.
In 1999, Taylor returned to east coast to become Chairman and CEO of ICTS Inc. Innovative Community Technology Services, headquartered in Alexandria, VA, and in partnerships with Colleges and Universities, trained people so they could earn computer, IT and security certifications from organizations like ComTIA, Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco. With campuses in Baltimore, Md, Alexandria, VA, Hampton Roads, VA and Atlanta, GA, in the next two years, Taylor and his management team increased Revenue from approximately $12 Mil to approximately $16 Mil. In mid-2001, a company intent on doing a technology certification training roll-up made a highly desirable offer for ICTS. Again, Taylor managed that transaction.
Having enhanced the value, purchased and sold several companies in the United States and Internationally, and desirous to stay in the Northern Virginia area, in late 2001, Taylor established Corporate Development International, LLC, dba The CDI Group. The CDI Group is a financial and consulting services company, organized to serve the needs of business owners, those who want to be business owners and corporate leaders who want to increase the value of their company, and/or outsource the M&A function. Taylor understands business owners, those who want to be and corporate executives, becausehe has been and is one.
MBA, Executive Program, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
BA, Honors Program Business Leadership, Economics and Psychology, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI.
Marketing Research Program, Columbia University, Graduate School of Business, NYC, NY.
Civic Activities:
International Special Olympics:
International Special Olympics Games, Management Team Leader, 1985 Winter Games
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Utah. (1985-1987)
Board of Directors/Professional Staff Conflict Resolution and Team Building. (1986-1987)
Dallas Board of Directors, Dallas, Texas (1987-1988)
Ex -competitive Mountain Marathoner and Ride & Tie runner/equestrian. Still jogger, tennis, fly fishing, sailing and equestrian.
Currently member of:
ACG – National Capital Chapter
Business Alliance of George Mason University
Currently University of Chicago Alumni Mid-Atlantic Entrepreneur's Group.
Currently, Adjunct Faculty, Assistant Professor, Northern Virginia Community College, Business Dept. specializing in International Business.
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Despite a high rate of bird collisions with glass, products to reduce bird deaths are typically an afterthought in building design. Architects often inadvertently specify bird-friendly products, such as fritted glass, screens or window patterns, which make glass less transparent and reflective. Higher-priced, bird-friendly products that preserve the clear-glass aesthetic are less common.
Arnold Glas, based in Remshalden, Germany, launched Ornilux in the U.S. in 2010, after beginning production in 2006. The glass has been used in zoo enclosures as well as U.S. Fish Wildlife Service facilities.
"We also get a lot of universities looking to do the next cool, environmentally friendly thing," says Welch. The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, used Ornilux for an atrium.
Deciding whether to use bird-friendly glass is not a price discussion, says Welch. "It'll have to be a decision to have bird-friendly windows," she says.
Bird-friendly window films can cost only $2 to $3 per sq ft. An opaque film, named Collid- Escape, has lots of small holes, which let in about 50% of the light, says Jeff Rank, CollidEscape's specialty programs manager. "It creates a screen effect [in which] you don't really notice it on the inside, but it removes glare on the external surface of the glass so that birds no longer fly into it," he adds.
CollidEscape initially offered only opaque and patterned window films, which the maker claims will stop almost all bird impacts. In 2011, the company began selling a clear version of its perforated film.
CollidEscape also has tested transparent films visible in the ultraviolet spectrum, but costs are still too high. "There are some advances in nanotechnology that may offer solutions, but the price is prohibitive right now," says Rank. He expects that to change based on recent reductions in manufacturing costs.


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The Amazonian Scientific Research Institute SINCHI () is a non-profit research institute of the Government of Colombia charged with carrying out scientific investigations on matters relating to the Amazon Rainforest, the Amazon River and the Amazon Region of Colombia for its better understanding and protection. The word SINCHI, is a word in Quechua that means "strong" or "fierce".

SINCHI INSTITUTE FUNCTIONS

Obtain, store, analyze, study, process, supply and disseminate basic information on the biological, social and ecological reality of the Amazon region for the management and use of renewable natural resources and the environment of the region.

2.  Contribute to stabilize colonization processes by studying and evaluating the impact of their intervention on the ecosystems and the development of technological alternatives for their utilization within the criteria of sustainability.

3.  Monitor the state of the natural resources of the Amazon, especially in terms of extinction, pollution and degradation.

4.  Collaboration with the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development in accordance with its guidelines and policies and the Intersectoral Council for Amazon region Research, in the promotion, creation and coordination of a network of Amazonian research centers. Within this network, in addition to the Intitutute of the Environment and Sustainable Development, all the public or private institutions of other sectors that carry out research in Amazon related topics.

5.  Coordinate the Environmental Information System within the limits of the priorities, guidelines and policies defined by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development.

6. To provide the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, IDEAM and the Corporations the information they deems necessary.

7.  Support to the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development in the coordination of the management of information on the relations between the economic and social sectors and of the processes and resources of the Amazon.

8.  To serve, in coordination with IDEAM, as a support agency for the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development for the creation of National Environmental Accounts in relation to Amazon region resources and ecosystems.

9.  Collaborate with the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development and the Corporations and territories of the region in the definition of variables to be included in the environmental impact studies of projects, works or activities that affect Amazon region ecosystems.

10.  Collaborate with the studies on global environmental change and in particular those that allow us to analyze the participation of the intervention processes carried out in the Colombian Amazon to this global environmental change and in all the activities set forth by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development in the development of international environmental policy.

11.  To collaborate with the Ministry of Agriculture and with the National Council of Science and Technology in the promotion, elaboration and execution of research projects and transfer of agricultural technology under the criterion of sustainability.

12.  Support the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development to fulfill the commitments and the development of the activities derived from Colombia´s participation in international organizations, in matters within its competence.

13.  Promote the development and dissemination of knowledge, values and technologies on the management of natural resources of the ethnic groups of the Amazon region. In this type of research, the use of participatory and action research schemes that favor the participation of communities should be encouraged.

14.  To research the biological and ecological reality of the Amazon, to propose alternative models of sustainable development based on the use of its natural resources. These activities will be carried out in coordination with Research Corporations of the agricultural sector in search of technologies and production systems and alternative uses that allow advancement in the development of a sustainable agriculture.

15.  Develop coordination activities with the other scientific institutes linked to the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development and to support it and IDEAM in the management of information.

16.  Produce an annual report on the state of ecosystems and the environment in the Amazon region.

17.  Provide technical bases for the environmental ordering of the Amazon region territory.

18.  Collaborate with the National Council of Environmental Sciences and Habitat, with the Amazon Science Mission with the CORPES of the Amazon in the development of their activities.

19.  To advance and promote the inventory of Amazon region fauna and flora, to establish the collections, data banks and research necessary for the development of national biodiversity policies, in collaboration with the Alexander Von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute.

20.  Any others that the law and the statutes grant it for the fulfillment of its social object.

References

Amazon basin
Amazon rainforest
Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (Colombia)
Environmental research institutes
Research institutes in Colombia
Environmental organizations established in 1993
1993 establishments in Colombia


Today's feature: Fireweed Makes Catapults!
The second graders are all about launching things through the air. Paper airplanes, baseballs, footballs, soccer balls, beanbags, various clothing items, whatever- if it can be thrown they love to see it fly. We decided to channel this passion into a STEM-based engineering project: building simple catapults out of materials found in the basement. The kids were given popsicle sticks, rubber bands, small scrap metal, egg cartons, pipe cleaners, and only one foot of masking tape. We used cotton balls for the projectiles (so that no one got hurt and nothing got broken). Fireweed students experimented with a variety of different styles and designs to launch their projectiles as high and as far as they could. We're looking forward to doing this project again soon!
Test different materials to determine which materials have the properties that are best suited for an intended purpose.
Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.
Develop, test, and improve upon a design to meet an intended objective.


Welcome to the 2018 Vietnam War 50th Anniversary Campaign.
The campaign will run from 1 January through 1 July, 2018.
Looking forward to some great builds in remembrance of the hottest conflict of the Cold War!
The box cover shows A-4E, but I'm building A-4F either from "Ghostriders" (USS Hancock 1971) or "Fighting Redcocks" (USS Bon Homme Richard 1970).
The Eduard kit has Hasegawa plastic with Eduard decals, resin seat, paint masks and PE.
a new year and a new great campaign. My entry is the F-4J Phantom from Academy.
Well, I've got too many choices. Phantoms, Thuds, Spads, Sluffs, Buffs, Won-O-Wonders, Bird dogs, Skymaster, Bronco, Mohawk, Hun, Vigilante, Destroyer, Invader, Intruder, Scooters, Cobra, Aardvark, Chinook, Sky Knight. Did I forget one? Probably.
So if I can only pick one, I'm going with the UH-1C Huey. What air craft could be a more iconic representation of our Viet Nam experience?
No,that's not some special camera effect, I managed to end up with two of the same kit, just one set of decals. With an extra helping of luck, I'd love to finish both for this campaign. One in Army markings, and one as the Navy version. The only common decals are the blade tips and the turbine line. I can paint the tips and maybe make a red decal for the turbine line.
I have two kits to choose from, or just build both. One USAF or USN.
Looks like we're off to a good start!
As for me, a new year, a new campaign, same old question: How crazy am I?
I always love this little swallow. But can I apply the decal of South Vietnam AF?
Sure, RVNAF certainly qualifies! If it doesn't get you in any trouble at home, that is.
Looking like a good start, everyone!
Goes together quickly once you have everything painted, but the nose gear door actuator has to be added before you glue the whole assembly to the underside of the nose, and it sticks out the bottom. We'll see how long I can keep that whole.
Well my build will be this kit which has sat in my stash for more years then I wish to admit.
HobbyBoss 1/72nd A-7D Corsair II.
This will be a speed build for me as I have several other projects to deal with sitting under the desk .
Not sure what as I have a few things to choose from.
I'll be building an EB-66 Destroyer for the campaign.
Looking for something else last night I found the Airwaves convention kit for the Italeri RB-66. Completely forgotten I had bought it. Now to get the kit and find markings for BAT-21.
I'll be putting together an F-4 for this one - not sure what kind as of yet The kit is C/D, but I've got a soft spot for grey Navy/Marines Phantoms.
I have the Cessna A-37B Dragonfly by Encore that would fit for this campaign although I'm not really sure why it's in the stash? As my focus is predominately WW2 or anything RNZAF related and we didn't fly the A-37B. Probably it was at a price to good to pass up as that's how most of the jets arrived in my stash. It's also chock full of resin goodies with the old Monogram plastic.
Did the F-84F Thunderstreak play a role in Vietnam? Or had it been replaced by the F-105 Thunderchief by then?
I have been playing around with this all week on and off, and I have finally got it too this stage.
Gloss coat is on and decaling will be done from tomorrow.
Got the pre-painting done this past weekend (man, there's a lot of it in this kit!) I've previously done the SMT so I know it's a great kit, just a lot of prep work before building can begin.
Michael, I'll have to follow your Phantom build in the other campaign. That kit is high on my wishlist. Looking forward to seeing your Mig too.
I've ordered an RB-66 from my lhs and I'm just starting to research the marking scheme of BAT-21. Should only be a change of serial numbers. In the meantime I may start to build a Matchbox F-5 I've been wondering what to do with for years. It will be fast build looking at it.
Plan on doing this fellow for this campaign.
nice progress on A-7. I'm about to join with the same one kit. How did you manage to get rid of this nasty seam line top of canopy?
I've probabhly already asked this question once ... or twice, but as you are building exactly the same kit it's nice to hear a "report from front line"
For the canopy, I masked off either side of the seam, and sanded it with some very fine sandpaper, then polished the scratches out with toothpaste (as I didn't have any type of polishing compound).
Untill the B-66 arrives in store, I'm going to crack on with the Matchbox F-5A. Just going to be a straight OOB build. I'll be taking decals and the belly tank from the PM effort. Picked that kit up a while ago from a cheap toy shop for 99p. Certainly cheaper than buying a set of AM decals and I have a paint guinea pig to play around with after.
Looks like there are a lot of good projects planned. I was thinking of jumping in with the Zoukei Mura 1/32 Skyraider with all the trimmings but considering I've never finished a campaign I've started it would be a suicide mission.
Instead I'll go with the old Revell 1/48 Huey Hog. This project has been on the back burner for quite a while. Extras include Eduard PE (actually for the UH-1D), Cobra Company UH-1C Resin, MicroScale decals and some figures and accessories from Verlinden, CMK and Black Dog.
I enlist with a Ki-43 Oscar III and a AH-1G.
Soon after the close of the Second World War, French forces in Indochina found themselves with out air support. Pending the arrival of aircraft transferred from France, and ex-British Spitfires, attempts were made to press into a service a number of war-weary Japanese aircraft. Although there were numerous Japanese airstrips located throughout Indochina, only a handful of serviceable front-line modern aircraft were located. For the most part, these aircraft performed second-line duties with the French, as transports and liason aircraft. The notable exceptions were the Nakajima Ki-43 Oscars, which formed the backbone of two fighter squadrons until their replacment with Spitfires.
It appears many of the aircraft were in relatively poor condition, and in the unfamiliar hands of French pilots the attrition rate was high, with at least two aircraft being lost during their only flights! Though most aircraft lasted only until 1946, it is likely that a few soldiered on in French hands until 1949.


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Best of Phil Spector
Curated by Amazon's Music Experts
His Wall of Sound changed music forever and earned him five decades of hits, including these.
Be My Baby: The Very Best of The Ronettes
Da Doo Ron Ron (When He Walked Me Home)
Da Doo Ron Ron: The Very Best of The Crystals
He's a Rebel
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' (Single Version)
The Definitive Collection
My Sweet Lord (Remastered 2014)
All Things Must Pass (Remastered 2014)
Pretty Little Angel Eyes
Curtis Lee
Sixties Playlist
(Today I Met) The Boy I'm Gonna Marry
The Sound Of Love: The Very Best Of Darlene Love
Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) (Remastered 2010)
John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Unchained Melody
Wait Til' My Bobby Gets Home
River Deep - Mountain High (Remastered Version 1991)
Ike And Tina Turner
Stand By Me (Remastered 2010)
Why Do Lovers Break Each Others Hearts?
Bob B. Soxx and The Blue Jeans
To Know Him Is to Love Him
The Teddy Bears
To Know Him Is to Love Him / Don't You Worry My Little Pet
Corrine Corrina
Ray Peterson
Pop, Años 60
The Very Best of Ben E. King
What Is Life (2001 Remastered Version)
Away We Go Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Imagine (Remastered 2010)
He's Sure the Boy I Love
Not Too Young To Get Married
Wall of Sound: The Very Best of Phil Spector 1961-1966
Rock 'n' Roll High School (2002 Remaster)
End of the Century (Expanded 2005 Remaster)
I Love How You Love Me
The Paris Sisters
A Doo Wop Valentine - Original Romantic Harmonies
Puddin' N' Tain
The Alley Cats
A Christmas Gift For You Volume 2 - The Hits From Phil Spector
There's No Other Like My Baby
Every Breath I Take
Gene Pitney
Phil Spector (90 Legendary Recordings)
Second Hand Love
The Very Best Of Connie Francis - Connie's 21 Biggest Hits
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
A Fine, Fine Boy
The Long And Winding Road (Remastered 2009)
Let It Be (Remastered)
Silence Is Easy
Starsailor
The Festivals Album [Explicit]
I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine
Power To The People (Remastered 2010)
I Could Have Loved You So Well
Spector Sound, Vol. 2
Sonny Charles And The Checkmates Ltd
Love Is All We Have To Give
Just Once In My Life (Single Version)
Jealous Guy (Remastered 2010)
Ebb Tide (Single Version)
Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? (2002 Remaster)


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package gui;

import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

public class Main extends Application {

	// TODO: Check and occasionally improve the security logic
	// TODO: If possible, improve the security logic speed
	// TODO: Add support for Datagram Sockets
	// TODO: Add support for P2P clients
	// TODO: Check and occasionally improve the event system
	// TODO: Implement a way for custom compression, hashing, crypting
	// TODO: Comment all the (public/protected) methods and variables
	// TODO: Instead of IP Address as an identificator of client, use UUID
	// TODO: Make Reliable Protocol implementation
	// 			- Sender receives response about the sent data
	//			- Aka: Was the data received, or not?
	// TODO: Fix bug with sending files from server to a client

	static boolean CLIENT;
	static boolean SERVER;

	WindowServer server;
	WindowClient client;

	@Override
	public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws Exception {
		if(SERVER) server = new WindowServer();
		if(CLIENT) client = new WindowClient();
	}

	@Override
	public void stop() throws Exception {
		if(client != null) client.stop();
		if(server != null) server.stop();
	}

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		CLIENT = !(args.length > 0 && !args[0].equalsIgnoreCase("client"));
		SERVER = !(args.length > 0 && !args[0].equalsIgnoreCase("server"));
		launch(args);
	}
}

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Okay. We are not adding the lyrics yet. Our special guest, Edje, will make a seperate tab for it.
Changing "listen to it here!" to "Video".
Adding "or just listen to it here!" next to the video below "Video".
Also, we're adding parentheses around the Japanese characters!
But for the episode templates, do not include them!
WELL I SHOULD'VE READ THIS EARLIER.
Should I take off the Japanese letter part?


Yosemite Summit is located inside the Yosemite National Park, during the prime month of May. This is the BEST time of year to visit Yosemite. The waterfalls are in the full force from the snow melt and are spectacular, the valley is greening up, the wildflowers are in bloom, school is not out yet, so the crowds have not started to build yet, the mosquitoes are not out yet, and the roads aren't packed, and most years Glacier Point Road and the high country trails are open. While most lodging is either well over an hour drive outside the park, or in sub-standard housing right in the crowded valley, Yosemite Summit is located in luxury lodges in Yosemite West, an exclusive residential nestled in the heart of Yosemite National Park. This location provides access to all the key areas of the park to begin our day hikes and is only 10 miles from Yosemite Valley.
We are staying in a lodge from Scenic Wonders, specifically Alpine Aerie.
HOTEL LODGING BEFORE & AFTER: You need to arrive on Saturday, May 18th, preferably before dinner if possible. Saturday is spent together shopping for supplies for the week, the earlier you arrive the more of the fun you'll get to be a part of. You should plan to depart on Friday, May 25th from Sacramental International Airport.
Hotel accommodations are arranged ahead of time and included in your cost so that we will all be in the same hotel and to get a group discount rate. DO NOT BOOK A ROOM, it will be booked for you.