One way or another your jeans came from the Indus Valley in Pakistan and northeast India. The Indus is a huge valley and river system that drains part of the Himalayan Mountains and is the birthplace of cotton. River and groundwater are used to irrigate rows of cotton plants.
The jeans you're wearing contain about 800 grams (28 ounces) of cotton, and it took a whopping 15,000 liters (3,960 gallons) of water to grow that much cotton in this dry part of the world. Most of the water evaporated or was used by the cotton plants, and some ended up as wastewater or gray water. That raw cotton was shipped to an urban center or to another country such as Bangladesh, the biggest exporter of textiles. In the factory the raw cotton is washed, dyed and then washed again.
If you think about it, putting on our clothing is like wearing some of the water, soil and sun of faraway places such as the Indus Valley in Pakistan, and the labor of the hard-working hands in the cotton mills of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Shop at Thrift Stores -save 2,900 liters (766 gallons) by just buying a previously-loved T-shirt!
Shop Organic – cotton grown without the use of insecticides and chemical fertilizers, and thus it has a smaller water footprint because it produces little water pollution.
We don't realize our societies run on water not oil. There is no electricity or gasoline without water. Nothing can be manufactured without water. The critically-acclaimed book Your Water Footprint (YWF), uses info graphics to reveal the enormous quantities of water that are used to make the clothes we wear, the electronic devices we use and the food we eat.
On average our daily water footprint amounts to 8,000 litres (2100 gal). This is the net amount, water that can't be reused.
Understand labels – "Best Before," "Use By" and "Best By" dates have nothing to do with health or food safety. Manufacturers simply decide how long their products will remain at peak quality.
Go easy on impulse and bulk food purchases. It's easier to curb waste by buying more often instead of purchasing massive cartloads that are hard to keep track of.
When eating out, share meals—the average portion has already been supersized.
Food waste is making climate change worse as well.
Outdoor water use for gardens, washing cars and watering lawns can account for at least half, and often far more, of our daily direct consumption of water. We could easily reduce our indoor and outdoor water use by 70%.
For lawns let the grass grow taller to about 8–10 centimeters (3–4 inches) and add organic matter to improve water retention.
On average our water footprint amounts to 8,000 litres (2100 gal) of water each day. This is the net amount, water that can't be reused.
Water-wise choices is all about smart substitutions and changes in habits.
Between 30 and 40% of all food is wasted. That means the enormous amounts of water needed to grow and process this food is also wasted.
Check for toilet leaks by adding food coloring to the tank. If the toilet is leaking, color will appear in the bowl within 30 minutes. (Flush as soon as test is done, since the food coloring may stain.) Check for worn-out, corroded or bent parts. Most replacement parts are inexpensive, readily available and easily installed.
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More than 100 million people in India do not have access to safe water. Severe water scarcity in India is exacerbated by the cotton industry. Concerns are high, but are businesses, consumers and government doing enough?
You might not realise it, but India exports enormous amounts of water when it exports raw materials such as cotton and products such as automobiles. The water consumed to grow India's cotton exports in 2013 would be enough to supply 85% of the country's 1.24 billion people with 100 litres of water every day for a year. Meanwhile, more than 100 million people in India do not have access to safe water.
Cotton is by no means India's largest export commodity – petroleum products followed by gems and jewellery follow closely behind. All of these exports require water to produce, and the quantities needed are staggering. Not only does it take water to grow anything, it also takes water to make anything: cars, furniture, books, electronics, buildings, jewellery, toys and even electricity. This water that goes largely unseen is called virtual water.
What's easy to forget is that virtual water is as real as the water you drink. Producing 1kg of cotton in India consumes 22,500 litres of water, on average, according to research done by the Water Footprint Network. In other words, this 22,500 litres of water cannot be used for anything else because it has either evaporated or is too contaminated for reuse.
By exporting more than 7.5m bales of cotton in 2013, India also exported about 38bn cubic metres of virtual water. Those 38bn cubic metres consumed in production of all that cotton weren't used for anything else. Yet, this amount of water would more than meet the daily needs of 85% of India's vast population for a year.
Cotton doesn't usually consume this much water. The global average water footprint for 1kg of cotton is 10,000 litres. Even with irrigation, US cotton uses just 8,000 litres per kg. The far higher water footprint for India's cotton is due to inefficient water use and high rates of water pollution — about 50% of all pesticides used (pdf) in the country are in cotton production.
Most of India's cotton is grown in drier regions and the government subsidises the costs of farmers' electric pumps, placing no limits on the volumes of groundwater extracted at little or no cost. This has created a widespread pattern of unsustainable water use and strained electrical grids.
Recent reports show that India's water consumption is far too high. In 54% of the country 40 to 80% of annually available surface water is used. To be sustainable, consumption should be no more than 20% in humid zones and 5% in dry areas, to maintain the ecological function of rivers and wetlands, experts say (pdf).
India's extensive groundwater resources are also rapidly being depleted, with 58% of wells in the drier north-west India experiencing declining water levels. By 2030 demand will outstrip supply by 50%, according to the World Resources Institute.
"India's water problems are well-known in the country and pollution is everywhere. Disagreement lies in the solutions," says Arjen Hoekstra, professor in water management at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
The new Indian government's solution to the spectre of growing severe water scarcity is the $168bn (£113bn) National River Linking Project, which will link 30 rivers with 15,000km of canals. This will transfer 137bn cubic metres of water annually from wetter regions to drier ones. However, the country exports far more water than that, in the form of virtual water, in cotton, sugar, cereals, motor vehicles and its many other exports.
All of these exports could be produced using far less water, says Hoekstra, who pioneered the water footprint concept. "It's not just improving water efficiency that could dramatically reduce India's water consumption, it's growing and producing things in the right place," he said.
Most of India's water-rich crops such as cereals and cotton are grown in the dry states of Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, which have very high evaporation rates, unlike wet states such as Bihar, Jharkhand and Orissa. This perverse situation greatly exacerbates India's water problems and is largely the result of government policies, Hoekstra's 2009 study (pdf) states.
"There's a lot of concern about water scarcity, but little interest in changing consumption patterns," Hoekstra said.
That said, there is growing interest in the Better Cotton Initiative, an industry-led effort using standards to reduce cotton's water footprint. Organic cotton production also has a lower net water use because it uses no chemicals. Encouragingly, India currently produces two-thirds of the world's organic cotton. However, this is just 2% of the country's cotton acreage.
Rather than matching production of goods to the sustainable use of existing water resources, India, like governments around the world, hopes to use engineering to increase the amount of water, said Hoekstra. Instead, India could grow cotton in less arid regions with more efficient irrigation and fewer pesticides to greatly reduce the crop's impact on water resources.
Stephen Leahy is an international award winning journalist and author of Your Water Footprint, winner of the best science book for 2014.
First published at The Guardian Friday 20 March 2015 14.12 GMT.
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I used 140 litres of water to make my cup of coffee this morning. You did, too. It takes 140 litres of water to grow and process the coffee beans to make one regular cup of joe. That's a lot considering the average bathtub holds 60 to 80 litres.
Add today's breakfast binge to my two cups of coffee (280 litres) and we get nearly 1,000 litres: small orange juice (200 litres); two slices of toast (112 litres); two eggs (400 litres). It's not even 8 am and I've consumed enough water to swim in.
Even after 20 years of covering environmental issues, I'm still amazed it took 7,600 litres to make my jeans and another 3,000 litres for my T-shirt. That's how much water was needed to grow and process the cotton.
We're surrounded by the hidden costs of water. Thousands of litres are consumed in making everything we eat and buy. I choose the term "consume" because this water can no longer be used for anything else.
Cars, furniture, books, dishes, TVs, highways, buildings, jewellery, toys and even electricity and gasoline would not exist without water. We can't see this "virtual" water, but it's as real as the liquid we drink. Oil steals all the media headlines, but water is far more valuable and important.
In January, the dark-suited VVIPs at the World Economic Forum emerged from their secluded retreat in Davos, Switzerland, to declare water scarcity the biggest risk facing humanity in the next 10 years. Two in five people already suffer regularly due to a lack of water, and that number's rising to three in five by 2025. Peak water is here. This has huge implications for food production, among other things.
Climate change is one of the driving factors, but the biggest is our growing water consumption to make all our stuff.
The water footprint of a 500 ml bottled of water is 5.5 litres: 0.5 for the drinking water and another 5 contaminated in the process of making the plastic bottle from oil.
The 5 litres are as real as the 500 ml, but hardly anyone in business or government accounts for it. The waste of water is another reason to stop using bottled water, plastic bags and other single-use plastics.
Arjen Hoekstra at the University of Twente in the Netherlands originated the concept of water footprints.
The amount consumed to make something can vary enormously depending on where the raw materials come from and how they're processed. Rice grown in the dry desert air of California, for example, needs a lot more water than rice grown in humid Thailand.
One of the biggest surprises is how much less water goes directly to drinking, cooking and showering than to agriculture and manufacturing.
Now, 300 litres is not a trivial amount. Imagine hauling 300 kilos of water in buckets every day.
However, the virtual water that's in the things we eat, wear and employ in North America each day averages 7,600 litres, resulting in a daily water footprint of almost 8,000 litres per person. That's more than twice the global average. Think of running shoes side by side: the global shoe is a size 8; the North American a size 18; in China or India a size 6.
Water scarcity is an increasing reality in Canada.
This year, Vancouver and other parts of the "wet coast" in British Columbia are under water restrictions. In Alberta, farmers are unable to grow crops to feed their cattle.
In the U.S., California's four-year drought appears to be part of a larger climate-change-driven mega-drought affecting the entire Southwest. Around 90 per cent of California's water footprint is consumed by agriculture and industry.
Sure, lawns are dumb in a state that is mostly desert, but so is growing 5 billion pounds of rice or being the U.S.'s largest dairy producer.
The good news is that we can do nearly everything using less water.
While low-flow shower heads and toilets are great, the water footprint concept can lead to even bigger reductions. It's all about smart substitutions and changes rather than sacrifice and self-denial, but we can't make the right choices unless we begin to see and understand our invisible reliance on water.
• Downsize your plate size to cut food waste. Forty per cent of all food in North America is wasted, including the incredible amounts of water used to produce it.
• Ignore best-before dates. They have nothing to do with food safety.
• Serve chicken instead of beef to reduce water use. Add in Meatless Mondays and your yearly water savings would nearly fill an Olympic-sized pool.


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Aïcha Bellagha est la troisième femme tunisienne à obtenir le baccalauréat, en 1937.

Engagée dans la vie associative, elle est une membre fondatrice d'organisations pour l'éducation et la famille, les droits de l'homme et les femmes africaines.

En juillet 1962, elle participe à la délégation tunisienne lors de la Conférence des femmes africaines à Dar es Salam au Tanganyika (actuelle Tanzanie).

Bellagha est surtout connue pour avoir été la présidente fondatrice de l'Union nationale de la femme tunisienne, poste qu'elle occupe de 1956 à 1958 et qu'elle marque par son militantisme et ses multiples efforts en faveur de la promotion du statut des femmes.

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Le club culturel Aïcha-Ballagha à El Manar (Tunis) est nommé ainsi en son honneur.

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Volume VI – The New Guinea Offensives (1st Edition)
SKU: RB07909 Category: Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Series 1 - Army
Title: Volume VI – The New Guinea Offensives
Author: Dexter, David
Comments: This volume relates how the Australian Army, supported by Allied naval and air forces, and with the help of some American regiments, drove the Japanese out of most of the mainland of Australian New Guinea in 1943 and early 1944. It also describes the concurrent operations of the American Army and amphibious forces in the Pacific.
When the history opens in April 1943 the only infantry in contact with the Japanese in the Pacific area is the incomplete 3rd Australian Division (mainly the 17th Brigade). There appears to be a jungle stalemate in the tangle of mountains overlooking the Japanese base at Salamaua. But the Allies are preparing and in September 1943 the offensive opens in which the Australian Army drives the Japanese from Lae and Salamaua, and later from the Huon Peninsula and the Ramu Valley. Finally the defeated and starving XVIII Japanese Army is in full retreat across the Sepik River towards Wewak. In the New Guinea operations described in this volume about 35,000 Japanese perished; the Australians who were killed in action or died of illness numbered fewer than 1,300.
Throughout the campaigns four Australian divisions were employed. By mid–1944 Australia's military strength was, for the time being, almost spent, having borne the main burden of the fighting on land in the South–West Pacific from the outset. Early in 1944 the Sixth American Army had begum to take over the main tasks and by September, in successive amphibious strides, had reached as far as Morotai.
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Lately, I have enjoyed fast and furious conversations with IBN members bout non-governmental organizations's efforts to spread unwarranted fear about ingredients used in cosmetics. One of those organizations is the Environmental Working Group (EWG), which continues to publish "reports," which are really thinly veiled scare tactics to support an agenda that seems to include promoting itself as the new FDA.
One of their latest publications places certain products containing active sunscreen ingredients and claiming certain Sun Protection Factors (SPF) on a "Hall Of Shame" list. Also included in the Hall of Shame is the FDA, which regulates cosmetics, and The Skin Cancer Foundation.
Scare tactics of any kind are usually irresponsible and always unhelpful. Let's consider the details here.
EWG is slamming the targeted product and the company that makes it for placing language on its labels that reminds consumers to keep sunscreen out of the reach of children. I want to keep all kinds of things away from my children, but that doesn't mean those things are undesirable or inferior in and of themselves. And what is wrong with letting parents know that, if a sunscreen product is mistakenly ingested, they shouldn't just panic or sit around whining — they should call for help?!! Of course you should get help if your child eats sunscreen! Duh!
I also noticed that you cannot comment on EWG's Hall Of Fame page. You can Tweet and share it on FaceBook, but you cannot share your opinion, ask questions, or disagree with EWG on their turf. Publishing information designed to affect consumer health and important public policy issues in a forum that does not welcome public discussion and comment is arbitrary and capricious. Again, just my opinion.
Another disturbing consideration is the hypocrisy. Many pages at EWG's website remind site visitors of how expensive it is to create reports that unnecessarily scare them. Because it's so expensive to whip you and your friends into an unnecessary tizzy, they invite you not only to donate to the cause, but also to head on over to their Amazon affiliate page to purchase all of the products (including the above-mentioned Aveeno Baby Continuous Protection SPF 55, available at Amazon), they say are worthy of their Hall Of Shame. Of course there's a disclaimer that they don't endorse any of the products they earn commissions on, but still, shop 'til you drop, I guess literally, for all those dangerous sunscreens and other cosmetics that can harm you and your family.
If some of the products sold by Amazon are inferior or not to be trusted, then it seems disingenuous to encourage the people you claim to be trying to protect to buy them. This sends a potentially conflicting message to consumers that the products are inferior, but if we get paid when you buy them, it's not so bad after all.
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Tags: High energy neutrinos, In a recent multimessenger partnership IceCube researchers have joined efforts with Pan-STARRS1 astronomers to follow up high-energy neutrino alerts, Pann-STARS 1 Telescope U Hawaii situated at Haleakala Observatories near the summit of Haleakala in Hawaii USA altitude 3052 m (10013 ft) ( 2 ), U Wisconsin IceCube and IceCube Gen-2 ( 34 )
From U Wisconsin IceCube Collaboration: "Pan-STARRS1 far vision at the service of neutrino sources"
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From From U Wisconsin IceCube Collaboration
Sílvia Bravo
Pan-STARSS1, a 1.8-meter-diameter optical telescope on the island of Maui is the world's leading near-Earth object discovery telescope. However, its large digital camera, with almost 1.4 billion pixels, can also detect galactic and extragalactic transient phenomena and has a great potential for the discovery of supernovas, some of which could be sources of high-energy neutrinos.
Pann-STARS 1 Telescope, U Hawaii, situated at Haleakala Observatories near the summit of Haleakala in Hawaii, USA, altitude 3,052 m (10,013 ft)
In a recent publication submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics, the IceCube Collaboration and Pan-STARRS1 scientists have searched for counterpart transient optical emission associated with IceCube high-energy neutrino alerts. When following five alerts sent during 2016-17, researchers found one supernova worth studying, SN PS16cgx. However, a more detailed analysis showed that it is most likely a Type Ia supernova, i.e., the result of a white dwarf explosion, which is not expected to produce neutrinos.
Pan-STARRS1 riz-band false-colour 1′ × 1′subsection of the field of PS16cgx. North is up, east is left.
Neutrino emission is expected in large amounts from supernovas, but in many cases these neutrinos have typical energies in the MeV range and are not associated with high-energy cosmic rays.
Very high energy neutrinos, which point to cosmic-ray sources, can be produced in some types of supernovas and usually only during a very short time. Astronomers have detected more than ten thousand extragalactic supernovas, and a few more in the Milky Way––if we take into account early observations by the naked eye or with the first telescopes––but to date none of them has proven to be a source of astrophysical TeV-and-above neutrinos.
In a recent multimessenger partnership, IceCube researchers have joined efforts with Pan-STARRS1 astronomers to follow up high-energy neutrino alerts, looking for counterpart electromagnetic emission. For small flares of neutrinos, such as the case of individual IceCube alerts, the associated electromagnetic emission can be the only way to single out a potential neutrino source. This was the case, for example, in the identification of the first likely source of high-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays following a 290-TeV neutrino detected in IceCube in September 2017.
Moreover, only a detailed understanding of mulimessenger and multiwavelength emission can reveal the processes that power the most extreme environments in the universe.
In fact, IceCube's high-energy realtime alerts program was launched in 2016 to boost these types of follow-ups, trying to catch transient phenomena that would otherwise be only serendipitously observed by several telescopes at the same time.
Pan-STARRS1 followed five of the IceCube alerts sent during the first two years of operation of the realtime program. The first alert was sent on April 27, 2016, and turned out to be the only one with a prospective counterpart emission from Pan-STARRS1 observations.
Transient PS16cgx showed a rising light curve over two days, which is a typical signature of a young supernova, possibly undergoing a potential explosion epoch where very high energy neutrinos could be produced.
Initial spectral observations were not able to clarify whether this was a Type Ia supernova, which is not expected to emit high-energy neutrinos, or a Type Ic supernova, a stripped core-collapse supernova that could be a cosmic-ray generator and, thus, an emitter of high-energy neutrinos.
After further inspection, looking for more detailed features of the electromagnetic emission spectrum, researchers concluded that the observations are in reasonable agreement with emission expected from a Type Ia supernova and that, at the same time, there is no specific argument to support a classification as a Type Ic supernova. Therefore, scientists think that the IceCube neutrino and PS16cgx are not related.
Looking at the rate of high-energy alerts with good pointing resolution in IceCube––currently, fewer than ten per year––researchers estimate that one could expect a true association of a supernova and a high-energy neutrino once every two years, assuming that all IceCube alerts can be followed up. These results also support expanding the redshift range, i.e., the distance of the transient sources, of these joint searches, which would increase the number of transient phenomena observed and, thus, the discovery potential of neutrino and cosmic-ray sources.
IceCube employs more than 5000 detectors lowered on 86 strings into almost 100 holes in the Antarctic ice NSF B. Gudbjartsson, IceCube Collaboration
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IceCube is a particle detector at the South Pole that records the interactions of a nearly massless sub-atomic particle called the neutrino. IceCube searches for neutrinos from the most violent astrophysical sources: events like exploding stars, gamma ray bursts, and cataclysmic phenomena involving black holes and neutron stars. The IceCube telescope is a powerful tool to search for dark matter, and could reveal the new physical processes associated with the enigmatic origin of the highest energy particles in nature. In addition, exploring the background of neutrinos produced in the atmosphere, IceCube studies the neutrinos themselves; their energies far exceed those produced by accelerator beams. IceCube is the world's largest neutrino detector, encompassing a cubic kilometer of ice.
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From Astronomy Magazine: "A cosmic particle spewed from a distant galaxy strikes Earth"
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The rare detection of a high-energy neutrino hints at how these strange particles are created.
IceCube Gen-2 DeepCore PINGU annotated
Four billion years ago, an immense galaxy with a black hole at its heart spewed forth a jet of particles at nearly the speed of light. One of those particles, a neutrino that is just a fraction of the size of a regular atom, traversed across the universe on a collision course for Earth, finally striking the ice sheet of Antarctica last September. Coincidentally, a neutrino detector planted by scientists within the ice recorded the neutrino's charged interaction with the ice, which resulted in a blue flash of light lasting just a moment. The results are published today in the journal Science.
This detection marks the second time in history that scientists have pinpointed the origins of a neutrino from outside of our solar system. And it's the first time they've confirmed that neutrinos are created in the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies — a somewhat unexpected source.
Neutrinos are highly energetic particles that rarely ever interact with matter, passing through it as though it weren't even there. Determining the type of cosmological events that create these particles is critical for understanding the nature of the universe. But the only confirmed source of neutrinos, other than our Sun, is a supernova that was recorded in 1987.
The most recent Hubble image of SN 1987A, taken in January 2017, captures the glow of hydrogen gas around the supernova remnant.
NASA, ESA, and R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation) and P. Challis (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Physicists have a number of theories about what sort of astronomical events may create neutrinos, with some suggesting that blazars could be a source. Blazars are massive galaxies with black holes at their center, trying to suck in too much matter at once, causing jets of particles to be ejected outward at incredible speeds. Acting like the giant counterparts to terrestrial particle accelerators, blazar jets are believed to produce cosmic rays that can in turn create neutrinos.
"This [detection] in particular is a chance of nature," says Darren Grant, a lead scientist of the team that first discovered the high-energy neutrino, as part of the neutrino detection project IceCube. "There's a blazar there that just happened to turn on at the right time and we happened to capture it. It's one of those eureka moments. You hope to experience those a few times in your career and this was one of them, where everything aligned."
A cosmic messenger
On September 22, 2017, the neutrino reached the Antarctica ice sheet, passing by an ice crystal at just the right angle to cause a subatomic particle (called a muon) to be created from the interaction. The resulting blue flash was recorded by one of IceCube's 5,160 detectors, embedded within the ice. Grant was in the office when the detection occurred. This neutrino was about 300 million times more energetic than those that are emitted by the Sun.
Grant and his colleague briefly admired the excellent image depicting the trajectory of the muon, which provides basic information necessary to begin tracing back the neutrino's origin. However, they weren't overly excited quite yet. His team observes about 10 to 20 high-energy neutrinos each year, but the right combination of events — in space, time and energy, for example — is required to precisely pinpoint the source of the neutrino. Such an alignment had eluded scientists so far. As Grant's team began their analysis, though, they began to narrow in on a region: an exceptionally bright blazar called TXS 0506+056.
IceCube employs more than 5,000 detectors lowered on 86 strings into almost 100 holes in the Antarctic ice.
NSF / B. Gudbjartsson, IceCube Collaboration
Upon the detection, an automatic alert was sent to other astronomy teams around the world, which monitor various incoming cosmic signals, such as radio and gamma rays. A few days later a team of scientists using the MAGIC telescope in the Canary Islands responded with some exciting news: the arrival of the neutrino had coincided with a burst of gamma rays – which are extremely energetic photons – also coming from the direction of TXS 0506+056.
MAGIC Cherenkov gamma ray telescope on the Canary island of La Palma, Spain, Altitude 2,200 m (7,200 ft)
Other teams analyzing the region following the initial detection observed changes in X-ray emissions and radio signals too. Collectively, the data is a huge step forward for physicists in understanding blazars, and high-energy cosmological events in general.
John Learned of University of Hawaii, Manoa, who was not involved in the study, says that the data linking the blazar as the source is "overwhelmingly convincing" and he emphasizes the importance of this finding. "This is the realization of many long-standing scientific dreams. Neutrinos at high energies can tell us about the guts of these extremely luminous objects … The implications of the finding are that we are now finally … [able] to see inside the most dense and luminous objects, and to further our grasp of the 'deus ex machina' which drives them and powers these awesome phenomena."
For example, this detection also provides the first evidence that a blazar can produce the high-energy protons needed to generate neutrinos such as the one IceCube saw.
Blazars are active supermassive black holes sucking in immense amounts of material, which form swirling accretion disks and generate high-powered particle jets that churn out particles that astronomers have believed eventually result in neutrinos. DESY, Science Communication Lab
Sources of high-energy protons also remain largely a mystery, so the identification of one such source is another big step forward for astronomers. "It's really quite convincing that we've unlocked one piece of that puzzle," says Grant.
Gems from the past
And it gets even better. "We looked back at [archival] data [that had been collected since 2010], in the direction of this particular blazar source, and what we discovered was really quite remarkable," Grant says. A barrage of high-energy neutrinos and gamma rays from TXS 0506+056 reached Earth in late 2014 and early 2015. At the time, IceCube's real-time alert system was not fully functioning, so other scientific teams were not aware of the detection. But now these previous neutrinos are on scientists' radar, providing a more long-term glimpse into the life of a blazar.
"That was really icing on the cake, because what [the archived data indicated] was that the source had been active in neutrinos in the past, and then again, with this very high-energy neutrino in September — those are the pieces that really start to come together, to make a picture of what's happening there," explains Grant.
The alert IceCube sent once the neutrino's interaction with the ice was detected resulted in follow-up observations from about 20 Earth- and space-based observatories. This immense effort resulted in the clear identification of a distant blazar as the source of the neutrino — as well as gamma rays, X-rays, radio emission, and optical light.
Nicolle R. Fuller/NSF/IceCube
The data also reveal that radio emissions from TXS 0506+056 gradually increased in the 18 months leading up to the September neutrino detection. Greg Sivakoff, an associate professor at the University of Alberta who helped analyze the data, says one possibility is that the black hole began to consume surrounding matter much faster during this time, causing the jet of particles being emitted to speed up. He says, "If the jet gets too fast too quickly, it might run into some of its own material, creating what astronomers call a shock. Shocks have long been used in astronomy to explain how particles are accelerated to high energies. We are not sure that this is the answer yet, but this may be part of the story."
Scientists are continuing to monitor TXS 0506+056, hoping to learn more about this colossal event. One team conducted a detailed analysis to determine how far away the blazar is from us, astounded to discover that it is a whopping four billion light years away. While TXS 0506+056 was always considered a bright object in the sky, this luminosity at such a distance makes it one of the brightest objects in the universe. No doubt future studies of this powerful blazar will yield valuable insights into the most energetic events to occur in our universe.
Learned says, "We are just opening a new door and I would love to be able to say what we shall find beyond. But I guarantee that initiating this new means of observing the universe will bring surprises and new insights. In an extreme analogy it is like asking Galileo what his new astronomical telescope will reveal."
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From IceCube: "Neutrinos and gamma rays, a partnership to explore the extreme universe"
IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory
Solving the mystery of the origin of cosmic rays will not happen with a "one-experiment show." High-energy neutrinos might be produced by galactic supernova remnants or by active galactic nuclei as well as other potential sources that are being sought. And, if our models are right, gamma rays at lower energies could also help identify neutrino sources and, thus, cosmic-ray sources. It's sort of a "catch one, get them all" opportunity.
IceCube's collaborative efforts with gamma-ray, X-ray, and optical telescopes started long ago. Now, the IceCube, MAGIC and VERITAS collaborations present updates to their follow-up programs that will allow the gamma-ray community to collect data from specific sources during periods when IceCube detects a higher number of neutrinos.
MAGIC Cherenkov gamma ray telescope on the Canary island of La Palma, Spain
"CfA/VERITAS, AZ, USA
Details of the very high energy gamma-ray follow-up program have been submitted to the Journal of Instrumentation.
Image: Juan Antonio Aguilar and Jamie Yang. IceCube/WIPAC
From efforts begun by its predecessor AMANDA, IceCube initiated a gamma-ray follow-up program with MAGIC for sources of electromagnetic radiation emissions with large time variations. If we can identify periods of increased neutrino emission, then we can look for gamma-ray emission later on from the same direction.
For short transient sources, such as gamma-ray bursts and core-collapse supernovas, X-ray and optical wavelength telescopes might also detect the associated electromagnetic radiation. In this case, follow-up observations are much more time sensitive, with electromagnetic radiation expected only a few hours after neutrino emission from a GRB or a few weeks after a core-collapse supernova.
Updates to this transient follow-up system will use a multistep high-energy neutrino selection to send alerts to gamma-ray telescopes, such as MAGIC and VERITAS, if clusters of neutrinos are observed from a predefined list of potential sources. The combined observation of an increased neutrino and gamma-ray flux could point us to the first source of astrophysical neutrinos. Also, the information provided by both cosmic messengers will improve our understanding of the physical processes that power those sources.
The initial selection used simple cuts on a number of variables to discriminate between neutrinos and the atmospheric muon background. IceCube, MAGIC, and VERITAS are currently testing a new event selection that uses learning machines and other sophisticated discrimination algorithms to take into account the geometry and time evolution of the hit pattern in IceCube events. Preliminary studies show that this advanced event selection has a sensitivity comparable to offline point-source samples, with a 30-40% sensitivity increase in the Northern Hemisphere with respect to the old selection. The new technique does not rely only on catalogues of sources and allows observing neutrino flares in the Southern Hemisphere. Thus, those alerts will also be forwarded to the H.E.S.S. collaboration, expanding the gamma-ray follow-up program to the entire sky.
HESS Cherenko Array, located on the Cranz family farm, Göllschau, in Namibia, near the Gamsberg
During the last few years, IceCube has sent several alerts to VERITAS and MAGIC that have not yet resulted in any significant correlation between neutrino and gamma-ray emission. For some of those, however, the source was not in the reach of the gamma-ray telescopes, either because it was out of the field of view or due to poor weather conditions. Follow-up studies have allowed setting new limits on high-energy gamma-ray emission.
With the increased sensitivity in the Northern Hemisphere and new alerts to telescopes in the Southern Hemisphere, the discovery potential of these joint searches for neutrino and gamma-ray sources is greatly enhanced. Stay tuned for new results!


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This last two months have been really busy for me as I have been working towards several projects at the same time. We are being blessed by the LST group (Lets start Talking.) who has been helping us with classes in English as a way to evangelize people who speak some English. More than 40 people total are participating in this program.
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At COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, the Stiftung announces partnership with the Mayors Migration Council to support the Global Cities Fund for Inclusive Climate Action.
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Stuttgart/Glasgow, November 9 2021 - Five out of ten of the countries most affected by climate change lie in Africa. African cities face a particular challenge: population numbers are rising rapidly as ever more people in rural regions leave their homes and move to cities. There, people living in informal – often illegal – settlements are disproportionately affected by the impact of climate change.
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The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air #3)
By: Holly Black
For Leigh Bardugo,
who never lets me get away with anything
The Royal Astrologer, Baphen, squinted at the star chart and tried not to flinch when it seemed sure the youngest prince of Elfhame was about to be dropped on his royal head.
A week after Prince Cardan's birth and he was finally being presented to the High King. The previous five heirs had been seen immediately, still squalling in ruddy newness, but Lady Asha had barred the High King from visiting before she felt herself suitably restored from childbed.
The baby was thin and wizened, silent, staring at Eldred with black eyes. He lashed his little whiplike tail with such force that his swaddle threatened to come apart. Lady Asha seemed unsure how to cradle him. Indeed, she held him as though she hoped someone might take the burden from her very soon.
"Tell us of his future," the High King prompted. Only a few Folk were gathered to witness the presentation of the new prince—the mortal Val Moren, who was both Court Poet and Seneschal, and two members of the Living Council: Randalin, the Minister of Keys, and Baphen. In the empty hall, the High King's words echoed.
Baphen hesitated, but he could do nothing save answer. Eldred had been favored with five children before Prince Cardan, shocking fecundity among the Folk, with their thin blood and few births. The stars had spoken of each little prince's and princess's fated accomplishments in poetry and song, in politics, in virtue, and even in vice. But this time what he'd seen in the stars had been entirely different. "Prince Cardan will be your last born child," the Royal Astrologer said. "He will be the destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne."
Lady Asha sucked in a sharp breath. For the first time, she drew the child protectively closer. He squirmed in her arms. "I wonder who has influenced your interpretation of the signs. Perhaps Princess Elowyn had a hand in it. Or Prince Dain."
Maybe it would be better if she dropped him, Baphen thought unkindly.
High King Eldred ran a hand over his chin. "Can nothing be done to stop this?"
It was a mixed blessing to have the stars supply Baphen with so many riddles and so few answers. He often wished he saw things more clearly, but not this time. He bowed his head so he had an excuse not to meet the High King's gaze. "Only out of his spilled blood can a great ruler rise, but not before what I have told you comes to pass."
Eldred turned to Lady Asha and her child, the harbinger of ill luck. The baby was as silent as a stone, not crying or cooing, tail still lashing.
"Take the boy away," the High King said. "Rear him as you see fit."
Lady Asha did not flinch. "I will rear him as befits his station. He is a prince, after all, and your son."
There was a brittleness in her tone, and Baphen was uncomfortably reminded that some prophecies are fulfilled by the very actions meant to prevent them.
For a moment, everyone stood silent. Then Eldred nodded to Val Moren, who left the dais and returned holding a slim wooden box with a pattern of roots traced over the lid.
"A gift," said the High King, "in recognition of your contribution to the Greenbriar line."
Val Moren opened the box, revealing an exquisite necklace of heavy emeralds. Eldred lifted them and placed them over Lady Asha's head. He touched her cheek with the back of one hand.
"Your generosity is great, my lord," she said, somewhat mollified. The baby clutched a stone in his little fist, staring up at his father with fathomless eyes.
"Go now and rest," said Eldred, his voice softer. This time, she yielded.
Lady Asha departed with her head high, her grip on the child tighter. Baphen felt a shiver of some premonition that had nothing to do with stars.
High King Eldred did not visit Lady Asha again, nor did he call her to him. Perhaps he ought to have put his dissatisfaction aside and cultivated his son. But looking upon Prince Cardan was like looking into an uncertain future, and so he avoided it.
Lady Asha, as the mother of a prince, found herself much in demand with the Court, if not the High King. Given to whimsy and frivolity, she wished to return to the merry life of a courtier. She couldn't attend balls with an infant in tow, so she found a cat whose kittens were stillborn to act as his wet nurse.
That arrangement lasted until Prince Cardan was able to crawl. By then, the cat was heavy with a new litter and he'd begun to pull at her tail. She fled to the stables, abandoning him, too.
And so he grew up in the palace, cherished by no one and checked by no one. Who would dare stop a prince from stealing food from the grand tables and eating beneath them, devouring what he'd taken in savage bites? His sisters and brothers only laughed, playing with him as they would with a puppy.
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Q: Qual a regex para validar somente pontos, números e vírgulas? Qual a regex para validar somente pontos, números e vírgulas?

A: Seria esta:
^[\d,.?!]+$

*

*O ^ checa desde o inicio

*O $ checa a partir do final

*O \d checa números

*Tudo que estiver dentro de [...] será considerado, independente da posição, então pode remover o ? e ! se desejar, como eu não sabia quais pontos desejava adicionei ambos

JavaScript
Claro que isso apenas irá testar a string e no caso o seu validar dá a entender que é isto o que deseja, se deseja usar com JavaScript pode fazer algo assim:

function validar() {
    var meucampo1 = document.getElementById("meu-campo-1");
    var valido = /^[\d,.?!]+$/.test(meucampo1.value);

    alert(valido ? "Validou" : "Não validou");
}
Digite algo no campo e aperte em validar:
<input type="text" id="meu-campo-1">
<button onclick="validar()">Validar</button>

HTML5 validação
Se for usar o pattern="..." pode aplicar assim:

<form action="" name="form1">
    Digite algo no campo e aperte em validar:
    <input value="" pattern="[\d,.?!]*" title="Please enter allowed characters only.">
    <button>Validar</button>
</form>

A: Seria isso:
(?:\.|,|[0-9])*

Explicação:

*

*\. - Ponto.

*, - Vírgula.

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Similar price, one's newer who's the king?
$100 rebate from Mackie on Blackbird through September 15. Guitar Center often has $100 off $499 or more. In other words, Blackbird can be had around $300. So the winner on price is actually Blackbird by a landslide.
I'm a bit offended that the rebate is only for the US.
Although I do not like often to state that one product is better than another, I do not believe that this is a fair comparison. The pre amps and especially the conversion on the MR816 are comparable with several high end interfaces, whereas I do not think the blackbird has that level of quality. It's a good interface for sure, but the MR816 is something else. The MR816 sounds better to me than the RME FF800 and would give several of the Metric Halo interfaces a very good battle, whereas I would equate the qualities of the blackbird along side the Focusrite Saffire/Scarlett interfaces.
I agree with you, but it's a price war and they have slammed it into direct competition with the Steinberg, they are only undercutting it by £75.00 - £100.00... I don't believe for the price difference you would skimp on the quality and go for the underdog... Unless your crazy.
So if somebody has something up there sleeve about the mackie, it seems that the blackbird is going to be beaten hands down by the only slightly more expensive MR816.
I'd say the MR816x is way under-priced anyways so compared to the Mackie unit, its still well worth the money. The cheaper Blackbird is realistically priced.
I upgraded to the MR816 some months back and it sounded like a £1000 upgrade with in my set up.
Very happy with preamps and converter quality of my MR816x. Top quality and should cost a lot more.
Hi Whitecat, as far as I know they are using the same chips and pre's but the blackbird has more ins and outs..
I had a blackbird and it sounded very good imo,but i had latency issues using vst instruments,so i got rid of it in a trade.Great preamps and conversion though, if they got their driver problem under control i would get another one in a heartbeat.
I'm not sure I'd agree with that. I run a Yamaha n12 alongside a Focusrite Liquid Saffire 56. The n12 is, basically, the unit that was stripped down and cannibalised to make the MR series. Both units are nice enough and perfectly usable, but neither are what I would think of as high-end (by any stretch) and, if I had to give the advantage to one or the other, I'd say it lay with the Focusrite, not the Yamaha/Steinberg. I've found the Focusrite's driver performance to be marginally better too.
As for the Mackie, I haven't heard the Blackjack et al, but I've heard some of the Onyx mixers and they do seem pretty nice. At least as good as the n12 or the LS56, maybe even a touch better. That's the mixers though - I don't know how much of that pedigree has passed on into the rackmounted/desktop interfaces and I don't know what they're like for their drivers.
Each to his own and this is so subjective but I have the MR816 and the Focusrite saffire pro 24 and believe me there is no comparison in the quality of recording I can get, the MR816 wins hands down. Now whether that's converter quality or preamp quality I don't know and quite honestly I don't care. It's a wonderful unit. I also have Lavry converters here, which are fantastic but I only have 2 channels of A/D. I've no problem using the MR816 when I have to record any more channels.
Well, assuming that the MR manages to hit the same level as the n12 (or close to it - which it certainly should, given that it has the same pres, uses the same AD and has only really had its DA specs cut down slightly) then I'm not surprised you get good recordings out of it. As I said, I find both the n12 and the LS56 to be totally usable. The difference between the two is very slight indeed. I only said that if I absolutely had to give the advantage to one side or the other, it would lie with the LS56 in my case. In fact, when I got the LS, I originally intended to sell the n12 off, but I ended up keeping it because I still like it so much - both for its sound and for the pleasure of working with a proper desk layout rather than a bunch of rackmounted knobs.
As for the Saffire 24, maybe it just doesn't stand up quite as well as its big brother. I figured all the Saffire line should be pretty much identical but for channel counts and such, but maybe there are some other differences. Who knows - as you said, this stuff is pretty subjective and we're talking about units that all play in the same ballpark price/performance wise (even if the Saffire 24 may well be the weak, runty kid on the block in this case).
Don't own the Saffire, but I do own the Lavry AD11 and the MR816X. I posted a scientific comparison of the two and around 30 people could not tell the difference in the A/D, including me. So yes, it does compete very well with high end gear.
The preamps are quite good up to around 80% of their range, but are unusable with low output ribbons, IMO. When running other preamps into the MR816's preamp inputs with the pad engaged and the level set to minimum, the MR816's preamps do not impart any sonic fingerprint on the sound, so you can safely use high end preamps with the MR816 and get the full benefit.
There have been issues with some firewire cards with this unit. I ended up having to use the Windows 7 firewire driver for my card, and it works fine.


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HD 30442 (HR 1527) is a solitary star in the northern circumpolar constellation Camelopardalis. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent magnitude of 5.47 and is estimated to be 403 light years away from the Solar System. The object has a heliocentric radial velocity of , indicating that it is drifting closer.

HD 30442 has a stellar classification of M3 IIIab, indicating that it is a red giant. It is an asymptotic giant branch star currently generating energy using hydrogen and helium shells around a inert carbon core. It has 109% the mass of the Sun and has an enlarged radius of  due to its evolved state. It radiates at almost 1,100 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of , giving a red hue. HD 30442 is estimated to have a solar metallicity, with an abundance of iron equivalent to that of the Sun.

HD 30442 has a companion  away along a position angle of . It shares a common proper motion with HD 30442, suggesting physical relation, but its parallax indicates otherwise.

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Perry debuted her line of whimsical shoes in 2017 in a partnership with Global Brands Group. The shoes are available on the brand's website, Katy Perry Collections, and through retailers around the world including Dillard's and Walmart in the United States.
Both styles include the same protruding eyes, nose and full red lips. They were "envisioned as a nod to modern art and surrealism," according to the joint statement.
"I was saddened when it was brought to my attention that it was being compared to painful images reminiscent of blackface. Our intention was never to inflict any pain," the joint statement said.


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Hundreds Turn Out for West Des Moines Duck Derby
by: WHO 13 Digital Staff
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- Hundreds of people were on hand for the eighth annual "YESS Duck Derby" on Saturday.
At the event, just under 34,000 rubber ducks swam in the pond at the Jordan Creek Town Center.
A single duck required a $5 donation to Youth Emergency Services & Shelter (YESS), for six ducks it was $25, for 12 ducks it was $50, and for 25 ducks it was $100.
After accumulating the donations, the ducks were then dumped into the pond with thousands of others, and were pushed along with fire hoses. The first duck to reach the other side won.
The top prize was $10,000, 2nd place won $5,000 and a landscaping makeover from Ted Lare.
The funds raised at the Duck Derby directly benefit YESS, which is Iowa's largest emergency youth shelter and crisis nursery. YESS provides safety and care to over 1,200 kids each year.
"They turn it into a good event for the kids so it's a real highlight for us because this is all about supporting children," said CEO of YESS Stephen Quirk. "So why not have it a special day for a lot of kid activities.
The event also included balloon sculptures, face painting, and food samples from Jordan Creek-area restaurants.
Clive Police Identify Teens Killed in Early Monday Crash


Get NCERT Solutions for Class 12 Maths - Chapter 3 (Matrices). Here, students will get the detailed explanations of exercise 3.4 from question number 1 to question number 9. These questions can be asked in CBSE Class 12 Maths board exam & other competitive exams.
NCERT Solutions for CBSE Class 12 Maths, Chapter 3: Matrices are available here. In this article, you will get detailed explanations of exercise 3.4 (from question number 1 to question number 9). Most of the questions given here are based on concepts related to Elementary Operation (Transformation) of a Matrix, Invertible Matrices, Inverse of a matrix by elementary operations etc. These questions are also important for Class 12 Maths board exam 2018 and other entrance exams like WBJEE, JEE Mains, UPSEE etc.


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Kennedy, David M., Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas A. Bailey. The American Pageant: A History of the Republic. 12th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001.
...battle in World War II (Kennedy, Cohen, and Bailey 101-102).


MASKerade: PC1 - Happy Birthday!
I found a new challenge blog - Pinspired Challenges. You know how I love Pinterest! There is no CAS requirement, but you can bet that I'll be staying true to my CAS style!
I focused on the fun, bright colours, the different sized dots and the big number. My daughter's friend turned 10 yesterday, so we'll deliver this to her at church on Sunday.
I used MFT's Vanity Plate Alphabet for the numbers, The Stamps of Life sentiment and various solid dots picked up over the years. I used various colours of ink, then coloured the dots with a Versamark pen and embossed with iridescent embossing powder for sparkle!
ETA (January 21): Look, I'm a PinPal! This card was chosen as one of the Top 3! Woohoo!
Oh so cute...love the polka dots and the soft glitter!
Love your CAS interpretation of the inspiration pic, Ardyth! I'm off to investigate this challenge.
Exellent card for the first challenge Ardyth!
wow your card is amazing.. I love your take on the challenge.. great color and fun design...thanks for joining us at Pinspired Challenge..
Awesome clean and simple card! Thank you for entering the Pinspired Challenge!
Wow, this is just absolutely fantastic!I love the added touch of glitter and the circles are just perfectly placed!
Thank you for playing along with us at Pinspired Challenges!!!
Thanks for entering the Pinspired Challenge! Really like your use of the bright dots for this!
How cute is this. LOVE your take on the challenge. The color, the dots, the shine!!! It's fantastic! I am loving it!!!
I have a favor. We re-uploaded the linky thing so it would show a thumbnail of your card. I hate to ask, but could you please resubmit it to the challenge site? When I changed the coding, it deleted your entry! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!
Love the sparkly circles! Makes for a really fun B-Day card!
Wow is this a perfect challenge for you! Didn't I say you should host a challenge like this at one time (or maybe I was just thinking it)? Love your happy circles bouncing along your card!
Be still my heart!! I totally love your CAS style. This card is completely fantastic and a great interpretation of the pin. Thanks for kicking off Pinspired!!
I think that challenge was started with you in mind! Love all that sparkle!


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Far Above Rubies by Netta Syrett (Audiobook)
Read by David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 56 mins)
Netta Syrett was born Janet Syrett on 17th March 1865 in Ramsgate, Kent, one of 13 children.
She was initially educated at home by her mother before those responsibilities passed to a German Governess and then, aged 11, Netta went to the North London Collegiate School. From there she attended Hughes Hall, Cambridge and completed a three-year course for a full teaching certificate in only one year.
She taught for two years at a Swansea school before moving to teach at the London Polytechnic School for Girls.
Her friend and colleague, Mabel Beardsley, introduced her to her brother, Aubrey, the famed illustrator and the then art editor for the illustrated quarterly 'The Yellow Book', and its literary editor, the American Henry Harland, who then published 3 of her short stories. Her writing is also notable for its use of women characters who were less dependent on others and the society around them and were able to forge new independent paths.
Her debut novel, 'Nobody's Fault' (1896) was the beginning of a long and prolific output. For the next several years her writing and teaching careers ran alongside each other.
A highly critical review of her controversial, for those times, play 'The Finding of Nancy' suggesting it was an autobiography led to calls from overly moral parents for her to resign her teaching position. Netta now concentrated solely on her writing, only retiring in 1939.
Netta Syrett died after a long illness in London on 15th December 1943.
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Closed primaries burden young voters (editorial)
YDR editorial board
Athletes and non-athletes can probably agree: Sidelines aren't fun.
But independent, unaffiliated voters in Pennsylvania during primary season are locked to the bleachers as Democrats and Republicans brawl on the field.
Over the last 20 years, party affiliation in the U.S. has waned. In 2014, 39 percent of surveyed Americans declined to affiliate with either party, according to Pew Research Center data. That's a three-point jump in unaffiliated voters since 1992.
In Pennsylvania, about half of the 2 million registered voters between the ages 18 and 34 are Democratic, while 587,000 are Republican. That leaves 423,000 who are unaffiliated or members of smaller parties.
Small potatoes? Though a quarter of total young registered voters doesn't seem like much, that's one in four young people who won't get to vote for the presidential primary candidates or the Democratic candidates vying to challenge Sen. Pat Toomey for a U.S. Senate seat.
Losing this chunk of voters could potentially sway a state's results, as seen in Barack Obama's Pennsylvania primary loss to Hillary Clinton in 2008, but that's not the only risk. Unaffiliated voters lose out in local and municipal elections, where candidates can cross-file and potentially win spots on both parties' ballots for the general election. That essentially leaves unaffiliated voters with no say in the election.
Beyond the local elections, closed primaries hit unaffiliated voters in an unexpected place: their wallets. Independent voters can't vote in the primary, but they still have to help pay for the primaries with their tax dollars.
That's not fair.
Secretary of State Pedro Cortés said in a YDR editorial board meeting recently that political bystanders have the opportunity to choose a major party. In other words: Independents, stop whining and pick a side. Others say open primaries are fodder for party members who want to "sabotage" a certain candidate and vote for the opposing party.
Any registered voter can show up at the primary polls to vote on ballot questions.
Cortés discussed how his agency has tried to address Pennsylvania's primaries from proposing a rotating structure to setting an earlier date for presidential primaries. But when it came to the issue of closed primaries, Cortés essentially said it is what it is.
As populations — and their party affiliations — continue to dramatically change, our political systems need to evolve.
Last year, Pennsylvania became the 23rd state to allow online registration. Cortés said that, as of March 8, online registration surpassed paper registration, with 142,000 applications. As of March 23, according to Department of State data, there are 8.2 million registered voters in Pennsylvania. That's a stellar development.
It's practically impossible to ignore this year's controversial presidential race. Money and power aside, what's beautiful about the U.S. election system is that everyone, in theory, can be a player. But independents are cut short at the gate.
It's about time Pennsylvania starts to open the playing field. Until then, these independent bench warmers can grab a seat, put away their cleats and watch the game go on without them.
Deadline is Monday
To participate in the April 26 primary, Pennsylvania voters must be registered by Monday. Voters can register to vote by:
Filling out a paper form that can be found at the local voting and elections office, is in the basement of the York County Administrative Center at 28 E. Market St. Alternatively, prospective registrants can find the form online at YorkCountyPA.gov/Voting-Elections/Register-To-Vote.html.
Online at register.votesPA.com.
Many people register to vote through the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation during the process of getting a new license.
If you're not sure if you're registered to vote, a database of registered voters is located at PAvoterservices.state.pa.us. You can also call 1-877-VOTESPA.


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