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Association between real-world experiential diversity and positive affect relates to hippocampal–striatal functional connectivity
Aaron S. Heller ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-0680-32481,
Tracey C. Shi ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-1442-021X2,3,
C. E. Chiemeka Ezie1,4,
Travis R. Reneau1,
Lara M. Baez1,
Conor J. Gibbons1 &
Catherine A. Hartley ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-0177-72953,5
Nature Neuroscience volume 23, pages 800–804 (2020)Cite this article
Experiential diversity promotes well-being in animal models. Here, using geolocation tracking, experience sampling and neuroimaging, we found that daily variability in physical location was associated with increased positive affect in humans. This effect was stronger for individuals who exhibited greater functional coupling of the hippocampus and striatum. These results link diversity in real-world daily experiences to fluctuations in positive affect and identify a hippocampal–striatal circuit associated with this bidirectional relationship.
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Fig. 1: Geolocation tracking in New York and Miami.
Fig. 2: Physical location transformed into sociodemographic feature space.
Fig. 3: Entropy–affect association is linked to hippocampal–ventral striatal connectivity.
The raw geolocation datasets generated and/or analyzed during this study are not publicly available due to the inherently identifiable nature of geolocation data, but they are available from the corresponding authors on reasonable request. The processed data necessary to reproduce the central findings in the manuscript are available at http://github.com/manateelab/NatNeuro/.
Custom R scripts were used to analyze and plot all data. The main analysis code was used to calculate the mean and standard deviation for RE. Code is available online at http://github.com/manateelab/NatNeuro/.
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C.A.H. was supported in part by a Klingenstein–Simons Fellowship Award, an NSF Career Award (1654393), a Jacobs Foundation Early Career Fellowship and the NYU Vulnerable Brain Project. A.S.H. was supported by a John Templeton Award and NIH grants 3R01CA206456-03S1 and 1R01AG051346-01. We thank N. Bryce and L. Hunter for assistance with data collection.
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
Aaron S. Heller, C. E. Chiemeka Ezie, Travis R. Reneau, Lara M. Baez & Conor J. Gibbons
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Tracey C. Shi
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA
Tracey C. Shi & Catherine A. Hartley
School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY, USA
C. E. Chiemeka Ezie
New York University Center for Neural Science and Langone Health Neuroscience Institute, New York, NY, USA
Catherine A. Hartley
Aaron S. Heller
Travis R. Reneau
Lara M. Baez
Conor J. Gibbons
A.S.H. and C.A.H. conceived and designed the study. T.C.S. and C.E.C.E. collected the data. A.S.H., T.C.S., T.R.R., L.M.B., C.J.G. and C.A.H. analyzed the data. A.S.H. and C.A.H. interpreted the data and wrote the manuscript with input from the other authors.
Correspondence to Aaron S. Heller or Catherine A. Hartley.
Peer review information Nature Neuroscience thanks Ulman Lindenberger, Andreas M. Brandmaier, Tali Sharot and the other, anonymous, reviewer(s) for their contribution to the peer review of this work.
Extended data
Extended Data Fig. 1 Positive and negative affect by day of week.
This figure depicts the parameter estimates of the effect of day of week (DOW) on positive and negative affect from linear mixed-effects models that included RE, time of day EMA was collected, distance travelled, mean temperature and precipitation (from the modal location of that day for that participant), and cohort as predictors (n = 122 independent human participants). Of the variables in models, only day of the week was also significantly associated with PA, with PA lower early to mid-week relative to the weekend (F(3834) = 2.8, p = 0.011). Both temperature (B = 0.062, t(3835) = 2.585, p = 0.01) and day of the week (F(3835) = 3.0, p = 0.006) were significantly associated with negative affect, which was greater on higher temperature days and in the early to mid-week relative to the weekend. Error bars represent standard error of parameter estimate.
Supplementary Appendix 1, Supplementary Tables 1–5, Supplementary Figs. 1–7 and Supplementary Notes 1–3.
Heller, A.S., Shi, T.C., Ezie, C.E.C. et al. Association between real-world experiential diversity and positive affect relates to hippocampal–striatal functional connectivity. Nat Neurosci 23, 800–804 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-020-0636-4
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Q: Python how to loop through this excel data and push it into another workbook? I am currently trying to write a script that will loop through the 'members' column (see image workbook A) and copy the rows into another work book. For example 'A2 L0 - A2 L4' the corresponding rows will need to be pushed from workbook 'A' to 'B'. However the complication comes in that there are some 'members' such as 'C'5' L0 - C'5' L3'. I have no idea how I can write a script to take these values. Any suggestions how to automate this there are another 200 rows of data similar to this most are 'L0-L5'. Also I would like to reuse this said script in the future, members will always be a letter followed by a number, L0 represents lower ground L1 is first floor etc. Any help will be greatly appreciated all data was exported from a structural analysis file so it comes in the format of workbook A.image showing data

A: I think this will do what your question asks:
import openpyxl as opxl
from openpyxl.utils.cell import coordinate_from_string, column_index_from_string
book_a = opxl.load_workbook('WORKBOOK A.xlsx', read_only=True)
book_b = opxl.load_workbook('WORKBOOK B.xlsx')
source, dest = book_a.worksheets[0], book_b.worksheets[0]

a_top_left = coordinate_from_string('P2') # returns ('P', 2)
a_left_col, a_top_row = column_index_from_string(a_top_left[0]), a_top_left[1]
a_cols = 6

b_top_left = coordinate_from_string('B42') # returns ('B', 42)
b_left_col, b_top_row = column_index_from_string(b_top_left[0]), b_top_left[1]

a_row = a_top_row
while True:
    # Clear destination area
    b_row = b_top_row
    while dest.cell(b_row, b_left_col).value != None:
        for b_col in range(b_left_col, b_left_col + a_cols):
            dest.cell(b_row, b_col).value = None
        b_row += 1

    # Copy next batch from source area to destination area
    b_row = b_top_row
    a_value = source.cell(a_row, a_left_col).value
    prev_prefix, a_prefix = None, None
    while a_value != None and a_prefix == prev_prefix:
        for a_col, b_col in zip(range(a_left_col, a_left_col + a_cols), range(b_left_col, b_left_col + a_cols)):
            dest.cell(b_row, b_col).value = source.cell(a_row, a_col).value
        if prev_prefix == None:
            prev_prefix = str(a_value).split()[0]
        a_row, b_row = a_row + 1, b_row + 1
        a_value = source.cell(a_row, a_left_col).value
        if a_value != None:
            a_prefix = str(a_value).split()[0]
    print(f"A batch of members rows with prefix {prev_prefix} has been copied to the destination")
    book_b.save(f"WORKBOOK B prefix {prev_prefix}.xlsx")
    if a_value == None:
        break

I'm not sure what processing you want to do after loading in a batch of member rows with a given prefix (the 6 rows with prefix 'A2', or the 5 rows with prefix 'B3', etc.). The example code above saves a new copy of WORKBOOK B for each batch, but you can change this as needed.

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Yet, the activists wield words and phrases such as, "we must reduce our chemical impact" like a cudgel to browbeat anyone who doesn't subscribe to their views regarding IPM or Green pest control. They suggest that we are a bunch of evil fascists attempting to pollute the world and kill our children for mere profit.
1. Exactly what chemical impact are they talking about?
2. What are the statistics?
3. Where is the reduction in life expectancy?
4. Where is the massive increase in diseases?
They aren't in countries that are the heaviest users of pesticides. In fact, it is now reported that the life expectancy is increasing in these countries. However, the opposite is true in countries that use pesticides the least. They answer by making unfounded claims in the press, where they sound like songbirds; however, when you challenge these people face to face they sound more like croaking toads.
It can be clearly shown that while they spew out unproven claims about pesticides and those who use them, the green movement has wreaked havoc on people's lives all over the world. Children dying by the millions and tens millions suffering from a host of maladies and conditions created by the things that they promote, which could have been easily prevented except for the influence activists have on the decision makers of the world. These are facts and they are part of the public record for those who are willing to look for them. They cannot be disputed! They can be spun, they can be denied, they can be twisted and the can be ignored….but they cannot be disputed!
1. Why are promoters of these misanthropic concepts given columns that regularly appear in our industries trade journals? All of a sudden these people become teachers and journalists to the structural pest control industry and de facto spokesmen for the industry.
2. Why is it that those who have different views are not given the same opportunity to refute these activists' views?
3. Why do I never see a regular column devoted to defending us as we are! I have said it before and I will say this again. They are not the pest control industry! Consultants and researchers are hired help and it is their job to salute and say; yes sir. We need to start telling them and not the reverse. If they don't like it we need to fire them!
For years the green activists have promoted causes and programs that have resulted in devastation to the poorest and most desperate people of the world. And all the while these activist induced devastations have been going on these people have maintained a steady drumbeat of misinformation, condemning us with their unscientific claims about pesticides and public health. And the media inside and outside of our industry has either been silent or has been party to this campaign of Jabberwocky. What has the application industries done to defend itself from these false charges? Little or nothing! Worse yet, the pesticide manufacturing, distribution and application industries are becoming part and parcel of that package.
How do these ideas take hold in an industry? It is caused by decent, everyday, go to work men who willingly but unknowingly take these concepts seriously. And why are they so 'willing' and 'unknowing'? Actually it is understandable. It is because there is no one from our industries that is rebutting these claims, or responding to the arbitrary demands from the activists and regulators in our own forums. And apparently, it appears that no one else is permitted to publically rebut them. As a result they have no other touch stone to go by except the propaganda of the greenies and the EPA.
Another point that I think should be obvious to the most casual observer is that we can't get "ahead of this green issue". How can we get ahead of something that isn't ours? It is their program and they will adjust it to offset anything we do. If we even appear to be "getting ahead" they will adjust it in such a manner that we will fall behind again. We will never get ahead of this "green" phenomenon; period! You can't get ahead of an irrational concept that is initiated by those who wish you ill. If it isn't your program you can't control it; you can only defeat it!
Green is even less definable than IPM. "We didn't get ahead of IPM and look where it got us"; I was recently told. We waste energy trying to get ahead of things we cannot get ahead of and cannot control. Furthermore, we shouldn't be trying to get ahead; we should be working to eliminate them. The reason we have "green" as an issue now is not because we didn't get ahead of IPM; it's because we didn't defeat IPM. This was the next obvious step after IPM. Their goal is to eliminate pesticides, and each time we adopt an attitude of appeasement, they will go to the next level and each level will be more extreme than the last. Make no mistake about it; we didn't stand up to IPM then, and if we don't defeat "green" now the next step will be elimination. The European Union has already taken steps to do just that. See EU Ministers Clinch Deal on New Pesticides Law in this week's Green Notes Newsletter.
"Through the Looking Glass" was a book by Lewis Carroll with Alice (As in Alice in Wonderland) as the main character. In the book Alice finally awakens from her irrational and nightmarish dream and promptly blames one of her cats for the whole thing.
Who will we blame when we awaken from this irrational and nightmarish attempt to please the green activists inside and outside of our industry? More importantly; who will take responsibility for the disasters that awaits us when the developed world eliminates pesticides and loses the benefits they impart? I will not! I will not have to!
* Paraphrased statement by Stanley G,. Payne in the book Dictionnaire historique des fascisms et du nazisme as cited and quoted in the book Liberal Fascism.
Is Green Another Word For Pagan?
Anne Gardiner presents a good summary of some of the pagan mythology behind modern environmental thought. Alston Chase similarly traces something of the mythological roots of this movement in his book In A Dark Wood.
Gardiner also expresses the great battle for human minds and freedom that this environmental movement is shaping up to be. It is becoming the defining issue of our time- the environmentalist assault on human freedom. Some have suggested that it could become a totalitarianism that would outdo totalitarianisms of the past because it wants to legislate human behavior in constraining detail that other movements did not engage. And it demands a reversal of the human enterprise (and humanity itself) on a scale that few other movements envisioned.
But I am not sure that Gardiner's alternative is up to the task of countering the core mythology of environmentalism. The Christian story is also one of human sacrifice and this does little to effectively challenge the similar pagan call for human sacrifice. Competing against one form of mythology with a similar story does not really resolve anything fundamental. Also, the Christian belief system assumes a fallen humanity which is little improvement on the devaluation of humanity offered by environmental paganism.
At the root of all this mythology is the valuation or perspective on humanity that people hold. This is a critical issue - how do we view and value humanity? What is our place in the overall scheme of things?
I would argue that with consciousness we hold a unique place in nature and a privileged responsibility to humanize nature and life. With consciousness we have awareness of what truly humane reality is about and we are responsible to bring this awareness to our engagement with the rest of life. Easterbrook (A Moment on the Earth) suggests that nature has waited a long time for us and our endowments of mind and intelligence. We can now help nature out of the dead ends that it has gotten into by its blind, random, and dumb processes (e.g. predation, disease, natural disasters).
A related issue here is how we view nature. Nature is not some pristine or pure reality aside from humanity. It has rightly been called a "wicked old witch" or Dark Nature (Lyall Watson). It is violent, disease ridden, and in need of rescue. While enlightened consciousness leads us to respect the rest of life, we should not apologize for our status and responsibility toward life and the Earth; to humanize nature. In fulfilling our responsibility, we ought to feel no guilt over our engagement of nature and our use of its abundant resources.
So nature has no inherent right to supremacy over humanity. Ideologies/mythologies that place something else above free human persons have always led to the neglect and abuse of real people. Such is the history of religious and ideological movements. Whenever people place something above human persons and their rights and freedom, then they fall prey to totalitarianism. This is equally true of this pagan nature worship. One would think it would be clear to most people that a dumb, blind, and randomly driven environment cannot take precedence over conscious persons.
I would suggest that an effective answer to this environmental mythology lies in the proper valuation of humanity or human persons. Each of us will do this in our own way according to our personal worldviews. Let me just note that helpful alternatives have been offered here by people like Joseph Campbell. Few have expressed the wonder of being human as well he has in his books Myths To Live By, The Power of Myth, and An Open Life. Catholic theologian Thomas Sheehan also offers an interesting valuation of humanity in his essay From Divinity to Infinity. He suggests that humanity is the new "marker" (or stand in) for divinity. Divinity, he says, has disappeared into humanity to explore the infinity of human potential in improving life. Campbell similarly offers the perspective that each of us embodies the great Consciousness or Mind of the universe. From such insight it becomes obvious that we are not just another animal subject to nature and its ecosystems (and after all, the story of humanity is one of freedom from natural constraints and limitations). We are so much more than just the 2 percent difference with apes. Others might prefer more secular perspectives on the wonder of being human such as that offered by Julian Simon in Ultimate Resource.
On the primitiveness or paganism of this contemporary environmental mythology I was reminded of a personal experience with a tribal man in Mindanao (Davao Del Norte province, Southern Philippines). He was fishing in a rainforest river. As he stood shivering on the bank holding his fishing spear I noticed that he had placed a piece of bamboo upright in the bank of the river with an egg held in the split top. I knew the mythology behind such sacrifice but I asked him anyway why he had done that. He replied, "So the river spirit will not be angry when I take fish from the river".
Pagan, barbaric, and ignorant? Yes, it's all that. But it is even more unsettling when such primitive thought is promoted by PhDs in our universities. Bill Rees, the father of the ecological footprint concept, had us read The Re-Enchantment of the World and lectured us on Deep Ecology in grad school (Planning) at the University of British Columbia. He had PhD candidates lecture us on nature as Goddess. And he also stated that he would not only halt the human enterprise for taking from nature, but would actually reverse it. Earth can only sustain about one to two billion people, according to him.
You can't discuss science with such people. Once in the grip of a mythology as powerful as this pagan nature worship, you can only let their hysteria run its course. But when that hysteria begins to push its totalitarian solutions on the rest of us, then it is the responsibility of all of us to stand up and refuse to let such insanity undermine human freedom and progress.
Expanded remarks by Paul Driessen, given in a debate at the International Affairs Symposium held at Lewis and Clark College in Oregon in April, 2008. Does the exporting of our environmental policies to the developing world positively impact human security?
Well, as Institute for Sustainable Development program manager Oli Brown recently pointed out, there are many cases where it undoubtedly does. Some policies. Under certain circumstances. Depending on how you define human security.
Unfortunately, however, there are also numerous cases where such "exports" are anything but helpful. It is those policies that trouble me – for they wreak havoc on human security. In fact, they perpetrate and perpetuate poverty, misery, disease, malnutrition and premature death far too often. Those policies need to be re-examined and discontinued.
I've been a strong environmentalist and conservationist my entire life – but also a harsh critic of radical environmentalism, which often fails to pay sufficient attention to people, especially in poor nations. That seeming divergence reflects my background and extensive environmental and international experience.
I'm an Eagle Scout, with degrees in geology and ecology, and environment and resource law. I helped organize the very first Earth Day on my college campus, way back in 1970. A former Sierra Club member, I also hike, camp, cross-country ski and canoe. I've had government and private industry jobs, and now work for CFACT, the Congress of Racial Equality and other NGOs around the world. I write regularly about climate change, energy, environmental ethics and corporate social responsibility.
I grew up ten miles from the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectric power. My home was also two blocks from a huge paper mill, and I saw and smelled its pollution firsthand. I joined the nascent environmental movement primarily to clean up our air and water. And we did it.
I've seen environmental devastation. But I've also seen the devastation of rampant poverty in African, Latin American and Asian communities. I've seen companies do horrendous things to habitats – and others do incredibly good things for people, communities and the environment. I've seen environmental groups accomplish tremendous good – and others pursue agendas that I can only describe as anti-science, anti-technology, and anti-people. We export those kinds of policies to poor countries at their peril, and to our shame.
If policies reduce or prevent threats to vital elements of human security, we should export them. If other policies would prolong or worsen already horrid situations in developing nations, then exporting them would be counterproductive … or even unconscionable.
So we need to differentiate clearly between real risks and speculative risks … between immediate risks and those that are so far in the future that predictions are worthless. We need to focus on risks that present a clear and present danger to human life and security – threats that are substantiated, recurrent and costly, especially in terms of lives lost. We need to avoid focusing so much time, money, emotion and regulation on risks that are hypothetical … and based on false assumptions, political agendas, alarmist headlines, hysteria, Hollywood special effects or computer models.
Like Bjorn, I put global warming well down on my list of worries and priorities – and policies to prevent global warming near the bottom of what we should export to poor nations. Like literally hundreds of climate scientists, I believe the risk of catastrophic climate change is hugely exaggerated, and unsupported by scientific evidence.
So … what policies should we export?
Property rights and free enterprise – which Peruvian economist Hernando De Soto says will unleash the creative forces of millions of hard-working people … and turn trillions of dollars of "dead capital" into vibrant economies that generate prosperity, health, opportunity and security.
Drug standards and testing – to ensure that medicines are safe and effective … and we protect people from counterfeit malaria and AIDS drugs that prolong disease or even kill.
Honesty, transparency and accountability standards – for corporations, nonprofit groups, politicians and government agencies alike. In other words, truth in assertions, transparency in funding and spending, and accountability for policies and actions that result in poverty, disease and death.
Reasonable mining and drilling standards, and the best practices of responsible leaders in their industries – to help poor countries get the energy and minerals they need, while ensuring worker safety, minimizing pollution, and restoring any lands that have to be disturbed to extract the resources.
Reasonable air and water quality standards for factories and power generation facilities – to reduce pollution, while also ensuring that poor countries can generate the electricity, jobs and prosperity they need to improve people's lives and security, and afford even better pollution controls in the future, as they become more prosperous and can pay for upgrades and better technologies. We need to apply the same environmental standards to state-operated mines, smelters, electrical power generators and factories, as we apply to privately owned and operated facilities.
Which environmental policies impair human security – and should not be exported?
#1. U.N.-style sustainable development. The UN originally said we must sustain and expand the resource base, so that people can build more prosperous, just and secure futures. Today, though, the concept is mostly used to block development, on the ground that some future generation might need the resources we want today.
Many sustainability policies delay or prevent all but small-scale development projects, and thus impair human security – even though future technologies, and thus future resource needs, cannot be predicted … any more than people living in 1950 could have envisioned today's televisions, cell phones, jetliners and computers scans … or what resources would be needed, when, and in what quantities, to manufacture them. SD proponents rarely ask: How long must a deposit, facility or project last to be "sustainable" – 10, 50, 100 or 500 years? Which costs and tradeoffs should be emphasized, and which ones ignored?
Bad policy #2. The precautionary principle. It too is used mainly to delay or prevent development, and only rarely to protect people against real, immediate, life-or-death risks. It focuses too much attention on the alleged, and often overblown or even imaginary, risks of using a chemical or technology. It often minimizes consideration of significant risks that the chemical or technology would prevent.
Bad policy #3. Policies that promote or mandate alternative or renewable energy – especially when they are also used to delay or block fossil fuel, hydroelectric and nuclear energy development.
Wind power is expensive, land and resource intensive, and unreliable. It can add extra power to an electrical grid. But it's totally inadequate as a primary energy source for any country, rich or poor. Just generating enough electricity to power New York City would mean covering the entire state of Connecticut with towering wind turbines, Rockefeller University professor Jesse Ausubel has calculated. And the city would still need expensive natural gas-fired generators (and thus drilling for gas), to provide electricity every time the wind stops blowing fast enough to operate the turbines.
Producing 7 billion gallons of ethanol in 2007 required corn grown on an area the size of Indiana – plus vast amounts of water, insecticides, fertilizers and petroleum. It has helped send corn and wheat prices soaring, and forced the World Food Program to ration aid, and millions more to go to bed hungry.
Ethanol puts food for hungry mouths into cars that should be fueled by oil that Congress and state legislatures have made off limits. It's causing food shortages, deforestation and even riots over food.
Telling poor countries they must rely on wind, solar or ethanol condemns them to poverty and insecurity … and tramples on their energy and economic human rights. Such policies are unsustainable – morally, economically and ecologically … even when they're promoted or imposed out of concern about catastrophic climate change.
Climate change has been real since time began. Twentieth century warming and cooling trends were not abnormal, air and ocean temperatures have been stable for nearly a decade … and there is no credible evidence that future warming will be driven primarily by humans – or be catastrophic.
Some computer models make such projections, via worst-case scenarios. But they are based on our still poor understanding of complex climate systems. They assume carbon dioxide is the primary cause of climate change. They fail to consider solar energy fluctuations, cosmic ray influences on cloud cover, the cooling effects of precipitation, or negative (cooling) feedbacks from high cirrus clouds.
They are notoriously unreliable, and unable to forecast events and climate shifts even one year in the future, much less 50 or 100. In fact, projections and scenarios generated by models are consistently at odds with actual observed changes and trends. Models simply are not evidence – and certainly should not be relied on as a basis for policies that would seriously disrupt our economy and human security.
The fact is, slashing CO2 emissions by 60 to 90 percent, in a quest to stabilize our planet's unstable climate, would be a costly disaster. It would exact huge penalties on economic growth, jobs and human security – especially in poor countries. Cutting US carbon dioxide emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels would send us back in time to CO2 emission levels that America has not seen since 1905.
Some analysts claim the cost of preventing future climate disaster scenarios would be far lower than the costs they would impose on society. However, the scenarios are merely speculative, whereas the cost of "preventing" them would have to be paid today by families whose living standards and security would be impaired. In the case of the Stern Report, the authors emphasized only the lowest estimate for preventing the alleged disaster, though even that was $440 billion, and his other estimates were many times higher.
Imagine an institution like a college campus, hospital or even a city, without dependable, affordable energy. For lights, transportation, computers, heating and hospitals … water purification and sewage treatment … refrigerators to keep food and medicine from spoiling. For mines and factories that create products that improve, enrich and safeguard our lives. Without this energy, life, living standards and security as we know it would cease.
Now try to imagine life in Africa – where 95 percent of the people rarely or never have electricity. In many parts of Asia and Latin America, the deprivation is nearly as bad. Instead of switching on a light or appliance, millions of mothers and daughters spend hours every day collecting firewood and manure for cooking and heating fires. When the sun goes down, their lives shut down.
Instead of turning a faucet handle, they spend countless more hours carrying water from distant rivers and lakes … that are often contaminated by parasites and bacteria.
Instead of enjoying a modern kitchen, mothers and babies spend hours bent over primitive hearths, breathing polluted smoke from their fires.
The impacts on human health are hideous, intolerable and unnecessary.
Four million infants, children and mothers die every year from lung infections – caused by breathing the smoke, soot, bacteria and pollutants that are a constant fixture in their homes and villages.
Two million more perish every year from intestinal diseases, caused by unsafe water and spoiled food – due to a lack of electricity, refrigeration and water treatment.
And still, many environmentalists and politicians are saying climate change is the greatest threat facing poor countries – and using hysteria over climate change to forestall the construction of fossil fuel power plants. The Rainforest Action Network even attacks banks that want to finance fossil fuel and hydroelectric projects.
Bad policy #4. The war on biotechnology. Around the world, millions of people face starvation. 800 million are chronically undernourished. Over 200 million children suffer from Vitamin A Deficiency. Up to 500,000 of them go blind from VAD every year. Millions die.
Biotechnology could be an important tool in the battle to end malnutrition, control plant diseases and improve agriculture in poor countries. It's not a magic bullet – there is no such thing – and it's not appropriate for everyone. But it could play a huge role, especially in combination with hybrid seeds, chemical fertilizers and modern farming practices.
Whether to use biotechnology should be a decision for Third World countries and farmers to make – without lies, scare stories and pressure from outside agitators like Greenpeace and Sierra Club … and without threats of trade sanctions by countries that already have plenty to eat.
Biotechnology can fortify rice and other plants with vitamins, to reduce malnutrition, prevent blindness and save lives. Genetic engineering can also produce plants that grow better in saline and nutrient-poor soils … fight off insects and viruses … replace crops devastated by disease and drought (papaya ringspot virus, cassava mosaic virus, eg) … reduce soil erosion, by allowing farmers to use herbicide-resistant plants and no-till farming methods … dramatically reduce the need for (and exposure to) pesticides … and eliminate dangerous fungal contamination like fumonisin that causes birth defects and death.
That's security – food, health and economic security. Why would we export policies that impair it?
Bad policy #5. Paranoia about pesticides and DDT. Many Africans and disease specialists consider these policies to be worse than unethical. They view them as a crime against humanity.
"I've suffered high fevers for days, vomited until I thought I had no stomach left. It's left me dehydrated, thirsty and weak. Sometimes I couldn't even tell day from night," Ugandan business woman and malaria eradication activist Fifi Kobusingye told me.
Somehow, miraculously, she recovered. But Christine was one of 500 million people a year who get malaria. That's more people than live in the entire United States, Canada and Mexico combined. The disease kills up to 2 million people a year – four times the population of Portland. Three-fourths are in sub-Saharan Africa. Ninety percent are children and pregnant women.
Malaria leaves many victims with permanent brain damage – or makes them so frail that they die of AIDS, typhus, dysentery or lung disease. It makes all its victims so weak that they can't work, go to school, care for their families or cultivate their fields – for weeks on end. It's a primary reason many Sub-Saharan countries are destitute, and many Africans have to survive on two dollars a day.
But in the face of this needless tragedy, Pesticide Action Network and other Green pressure groups promote policies that prevent the use of insecticides and DDT to combat this killer disease. They say families should rely on insecticide-treated bed nets and new ACT drugs.
Africa clearly needs nets and drugs. But it also needs the weapons these activists don't want malaria victims to use. Africa needs the entire arsenal: larvacides to kill baby mosquitoes and insecticides to kill adults, DDT to keep the flying killers out of homes, nets to keep them away from sleeping people – plus education and sanitation … and drugs, doctors and hospitals to treat people who get malaria, despite all these efforts. Only comprehensive programs like this can defeat malaria.
Why DDT? Because DDT is the strongest and longest lasting repellant in existence. Spraying just a little on the walls of traditional mud huts repels mosquitoes for six months or more. It kills any that land on the walls, and it irritates those it doesn't kill or repel, so they leave the house without biting.
No other chemical in existence can do this. It's like putting a bed net over an entire house, 24-7-365.
Thankfully, the U.S. Agency for International Development and World Health Organization finally changed their anti-insecticide and anti-DDT policies. But tens of millions died before they did so – and many environmentalists are still spreading scare stories to prevent or discourage their use. In my view, that is lethal, unconscionable eco-imperialism. It continues to sicken and kill millions every year.
It's easy to worry about speculative risks from using DDT and other insecticides – fifty years after we used them to eradicate malaria in this country. But we need to put ourselves in the shoes of people who still worry every day about the real risk that a mosquito will send them or their baby to an early grave.
We should export policies that improve human security and save lives – based not on the ideals, perceptions and concerns that come from living in countries that now are rich … but on the realities and priorities of poor families that still face hardships and risks that many of us can barely imagine.
These are the real stakeholders – the ones who have to live with the consequences of their decisions.
They want to develop … stop depending on trickles of foreign aid … become healthy and prosperous … and be able to protect and educate their children, protect their environment, and enjoy the freedoms and opportunities we often take for granted.
The best thing we can do is impart to them the wisdom, experience and policies we depended on to achieve our aspirations – by eliminating the poverty, misery, disease, pollution and childhood death that were once the hallmarks of life in the United States … back in the good old days.


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OnePlus 7 sale in India is scheduled for June 4: Get all the details here
Your wait for the OnePlus 7's sale is now over.
By Avani Bagga
OnePlus 7 was launched by the Chinese smartphone maker this month along with its flagship OnePlus 7 Pro and interestingly, it was priced even lesser than the smartphone it succeeds. Till now, the sale date of OnePlus 7 was not announced. But today, the company has sent a statement to the press that says that the OnePlus 7 sale in India will begin on June 4.
OnePlus 7 will be going on sale on OnePlus' official website, Amazon India and OnePlus exclusive offline stores. As we mentioned earlier, the sale will begin on June 4 at 12:00 pm (noon). In addition to this, the pre-bookings for the smartphone at partner retail outlets will begin on June 7 and the actual offline sale will start on June 14.
We should mention that both the Mirror Grey and Red colour variants of the OnePlus 7 smartphone are going on sale on June 4. While the former is available in 6GB RAM/128GB storage and 8GB RAM/256GB storage options, the latter can be picked up in 8GB RAM/256GB storage variant. The base model of the OnePlus 7 smartphone costs Rs 32,999, and the high-end model is priced at Rs 37,999.
OnePlus 7 specifications and features
OnePlus 7 comes with a 6.41-inch Full HD+ display that has a waterdrop-shaped notch to house the selfie camera. The smartphone is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 SoC and comes with up to 8GB RAM. It runs Android 9 Pie with OxygenOS baked on top and houses a 3,700mAh battery. The device comes with up to 256GB of UFS 3.0 storage.
For imaging duties, the OnePlus 7 features a dual-rear camera setup that consists of a 48MP primary camera and a 5MP depth sensor. On the front, there is a 16MP camera that can be used for selfies and video calls.
For connectivity, OnePlus 7 includes Wi-Fi, GPS, USB Type-C, 3G, and 4G.
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NEW YORK (WFAN) — The framework of a deal that would send guard Joe Johnson from the Atlanta Hawks to the Brooklyn Nets has been agreed to, two people familiar with the details told CBS Sports on Monday.
Johnson, who is still owed $89.3 million over the next three years, will be reportedly dealt for Anthony Morrow and Jordan Farmar, who will be bought out at Atlanta's expense.
Also reportedly included in the deal are Jordan Williams, Johan Petro, DeShawn Stevenson — via a sign-and-trade — and the Houston Rockets' 2013 lottery-protected, first-round pick according to NetsDaily.
The Nets won't give up their own first-round pick in the trade.
The will not be contingent on the Nets re-signing Deron Williams, according to the New York Daily News, but likely spoils any chance of acquiring big man Dwight Howard from the Magic.
The deal will not be finalized until July 11.
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On April 11, we heard official youth transition stats from Ministry of Children and Family Development representatives. They told us that 87% of eligible, post-19 youth from government care are not accessing MCFD Agreements with Young Adults (AYA) services. AYAs are the primary way MCFD supports the 1000 youth who age out of care every year. It tells us that the program intervention the government has relied on for years is not working.
Premier Horgan told us that the government is working on an action plan: let's ensure it's comprehensive.
Decision makers are listening and it's time for us to act. On Thursday, April 12, Premier John Horgan responded on behalf of six ministries to our policy asks made on October 24. He made a commitment to "expand and improve supports to youth transitioning from care through the development of an action plan to be created by the Cross-Ministry working group."
It's government-speak, but represents a milestone for the youth-in-care community. We successfully nudged the creation of a cross-ministry task force dedicated to achieving better outcomes.
We know that better outcomes come from comprehensive, evidence-based policy, and that youth must be included in planning. Youth from care are experts in understanding policy impacts. This expertise is essential to creating a successful action plan.
Please sign our call for a comprehensive action plan
"Premier Horgan, it's essential that bold changes are made for youth from care after 19. In your mandate letter to Minister of Children and Family Development Katrine Conroy, you said that you expect substantive progress in funding increases to Agreements with Young Adults "in order to offer supports to all youth aging out of care who need it, not just a few." Your Cross-Ministry action plan must ensure:
Guaranteed, consistent, and adequate financial support until age 25 through the Agreements with Young Adults program, eliminating all eligibility criteria.
Government and youth from care advocates come together before the fall legislature to hear youth input and explore universal AYA policy development."
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BC's marginalized youth deserve proper care, support, dignity and respect.
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I worked with families in the foster care system for a short time. So much trauma happens before kids get into foster care. And the actual foster care system creates even more trauma because it is so incredibly old fashioned and filled with people terrified of being blamed for the next fiasco. And rightly so. It's not easy to be a person working within that system. While there are many foster parents and biological parents that love their children with all the kindness in the world (and it makes me so happy to have been able to see that love on many occasions…) the constant moving around and not knowing information about where they will lay their heads and with who – it's damaging.
I support any effort that tries to do something different than removing children from their communities and homes. Foster care does not have to look like it currently does, at all times. There are initiatives in Australia where the kids don't leave their homes, the parents do. Regardless, being in foster care (and the events that come before foster care) cause damage and that needs thoughtful repair.
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I was devastated to learn in 2016 that a student I taught in grade one died shortly after aging out of care at 19. She was a bright, funny girl with all the potential in the world. I was vey proud of her accomplishments in grade one. If she had been provided with the supports she needed, maybe she would still be alive today. Here is her story: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/patricia-lee-indigo-evoy-death-mcfd-youth-case-1.3491326
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I'm a former youth in care who is ineligible for the AYA because I was under a "temporary transfer of custody to someone other than a parent" for 5 years. The AYA should be more accepting of youth from other care agreements who were in the care of a sibling or family friend may not have any money saved up for them to go to school. In my opinion, these youths are at an equal risk compared with the youths that 'age out of care'.
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Yorkville Man Wins Opportunity To Carry Olympic Torch
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The official Olympic Torch is photographed as Tinchy Stryder and Dionne Bromfield announce they will be releasing the official Olympic torch relay song 'Spinning for 2012 at The Olympic Park on June 30, 2011 in London, England. (Credit: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)
YORKVILLE, Ill. (CBS) — A Yorkville man has won the honor of carrying the Olympic torch in advance of this year's Summer Games.
As WBBM Newsradio's Regine Schlesinger reports, Tom Kozlowicz is the assistant manager of the Holiday Inn Express in Oswego. The British-based parent company of his hotel ran a contest for torch bearers leading up to the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, and after being nominated by a co-worker, he won. Kozlowicz says he is humbled by the honor.
LISTEN: WBBM Newsradio's Regine Schlesinger reports
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"(The) Olympics has always been a huge thing in my life – watching it," Kozlowicz said. "I had one of my cousins almost make it to the Olympics."
Kozlowicz , 63, says the experience will not quite be like training for the Olympics but, he's getting ready for his role.
"It's the equivalent of three football fields, which might not seem like a long distance," he said. "But I actually ran it and it really is."
Kozlowicz, who is the only Illinoisan to run in the torch relay, was chosen for his community service. He is involved in Big Brothers in Aurora and has volunteered on an Indian reservation in Utah.
His co-workers say he also goes above and beyond at work – even coming to work early in the winter to clear snow off the cars of hotel guests.
The torch will be lit in Greece on May 18 and is due to arrive in London on July 27. Kozlowicz will be one of the early runners in the English countryside.


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Unapproved personal knowledge is a meme-buster. If you are not sure why I say that think of the images of the South Carolina flooding and then attach the descriptions of "freak weather-related" vs "caused by climate change." One affects us emotionally and makes us want to do something. Known, unassigned stores of fact can destroy a given narrative. Let's use two examples from just this past week. Has anyone seen a picture of the Oregon shooter's mother? If we simply got our news from the evening networks, we would not know the mass murderer was mixed-race, just like our first Black President. Facts in the way of the narrative.
Part of the research into the sequel to my first book Credentialed to Destroy means that I have had to become an expert on Big Data. Let's just say I have a lot of unapproved, demonstrably true facts at my command. So when this video https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/haunted-by-data came to my attention as a touted solution, I immediately knew it was a tactical keynote. The speaker misstated the nature of the problem to get a solution authorized that would actually make the problem of personalized data even worse. Words to the Wise: with behavioral data, it is the ongoing flow that is crucial to insights that allow neurological rearranging. Remember we have Learning Progressions to stipulated outcomes or Competencies. Once there and locked into place at a psychophysiological level to prompt and guide future behavior, the Oligarchs do not need to keep monitoring.
Like Stiglitz, this is a group of people interested in redesigning and planning a 'fragmented system'–this time in the name of those who want a credential that will guarantee them a good job. Once again factual knowledge impedes the panacea being spun, but it is a chance to see Anthony Carnevale [see tag] as more than just the author of those Workplace Manuals for the Bush 41 Labor Department that still guide the admitted to vision now of K-12 education as workforce training. We get to see how much former governors just love to go to work for trade groups pushing a politically planned economy or education reforms. Even former Prime Ministers like Gordon Brown find post-office full employment via the Rise of the planning Oligarchs.
Last week the GEFF connected advisor Tom VanderArk linked to the final version of the Bipartisan Convergence Center's vision for us. http://education-reimagined.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/A-Transformational-Vision-for-Education-in-the-US-2015.09.pdf It is just full of both false narratives justifying the need for transformation, as well as true declarations of intentions to change the children so that they are adaptable to the kind of changed social and economic systems Stiglitz and the Lumina Foundation (that called for the Credentials Convening linked to above) had in mind. In that planned, collectivist economy and society that still intends to use nonprofits and private companies to fulfill "the needs" of the people, unauthorized knowledge is in the way.
That report explains how the "learner-centered paradigm for learning functions like a pair of lenses that offers a new way to look at, think about, talk about, and act on education." I bolded that part of the phrase because the 'pair of lenses' analogy is what the last post said was a means of framing an individual's orientation at an unconscious level. Unapproved, personal facts get in the way of our simply putting on the prescribed 'pair of lenses'. That report confesses the intention to use K-12 education to prescribe the specific core knowledge, skills, and personal dispositions ALL students are to internalize. Did any dictator in history ever aspire to more intrusion, unless we count keeping everyone but a designated elite (the oligarchs) completely illiterate?
Complete illiteracy is easy to notice. Prescribed ignorance, tied to useful false beliefs and regularly manipulated emotions, and then all coupled to doled out allowed core knowledge and practiced, approved behaviors, is what we are really looking at here. Unapproved knowledge impedes the Rise of the Oligarchs in our Vision 2030 UN-led world and it must not be allowed. http://www.iclei.org/details/article/advancing-sdgs-at-the-local-and-subnational-level-input-to-un-negotiations-on-post2015-development.html is a confession that the UN, mayors, city councils, and school administrators all know that most of the 2030 vision will be carried out globally at a local level. They have even coined the term 'localization' for this deliberate disguise for planned global control via local administrators and politicians.
Sounds like what the Credentialing Summit is calling for as Seamless Pathways in a no longer 'fragmented' employment system. It would also fit with the communitarian, promote the Good of Others in daily behaviors, requirement that we found in the definition of Career Ready Practices. Let's stay in the present for one more quote: "Additionally, this network promotes collaboration and communication amongst entities working to support learners' health, nutrition, safety, and wellbeing." Since those needs can only be met if the learners' entire family also has their 'needs' met (see http://www.communityschools.org/assets/1/AssetManager/Better-Learning-through-Community-School-Partnerships.pdf ) , we are back to an obligation to meet such needs for all families with children. Just like Marx laid out, as well as the UN in that 2030 Vision all of our elected leaders signed on to about a week ago.
I guess the last three are what is hiding in the present as those to-be-stipulated Dispositions. It will not be the individual student or any of the rest of us picking them out and, once again individual, unapproved stores of knowledge impede the plans. That is why UNESCO in 1968 called for "not a well-stocked but a well-organized mind." Organized around the designated core knowledge, approved themes and concepts, and supplied principles and values–"it presupposes a certain limited sum of basic knowledge, deeply rooted and constantly available." Basic knowledge that creates a "capacity for action." That would be action though along approved pathways of course.
Because broader problems should only be understood through the lenses of approved core knowledge. This ignorance and manipulated narratives of course greases the path for the Rise of the Oligarchs.
Genuine, Unapproved Knowledge–the ultimate 21st Century Rebellion of the would-be serfs.


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John Jardine Croft
Name John Jardine Croft [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
Born 11 Aug 1839 Wrawby, Lincolnshire, England [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10]
Census 1841 Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
1841 England
1851 England Census
Occupation 1851 Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
Railway Labourer
Census 1871 Southwell Place, Kirkley, Mutford, Suffolk, England [11]
1871 England (Page 1)
1871 ngland (Page 2)
Occupation 2 Apr 1871 Southwell Place, Kirkley, Mutford, Suffolk, England [11]
Engine Driver 16-2 board Eye---tor?
Census 1881 1 Southwell Road, Kirkley, Mutford, Suffolk, England [12]
Occupation 1881 Kirkley, Suffolk, England [12]
Census 1891 2 Ferryman Buildings, Southwell Road, Kirkley, Suffolk, England [13]
Occupation 1891 2 Ferryman Buildings, Southwell Road, Kirkley, Suffolk, England [13]
Steam Ship Engine Driver
Occupation 1901 1 Southwell Road, Kirkley, Mutford, Suffolk, England [14]
Engine Driver (Marine)
Census 2 Apr 1911 Tooks Common, Tooks Common Ln, Ilketshall St Andrew, Beccles, Suffolk, England [15]
Occupation 2 Apr 1911 Tooks Common, Tooks Common Ln, Ilketshall St Andrew, Beccles, Suffolk, England [15]
Private Means
Died 24 Dec 1928 Beccles, Suffolk, England [9]
1. Elizabeth Croft, b. 1829, Lincolnshire, England
2. Mary Croft, b. 1831, Lincolnshire, England
3. William Jardine Croft, b. Abt 1835, Lincolnshire, England
4. Martha Croft, b. Abt 1842, Lincolnshire, England
5. Susannah Croft, b. Apr 1846, Louth, Lincolnshire, England
6. Albert Croft, b. Abt 1847, Lincolnshire, England
7. Ann Croft, b. Abt 1850, Lincolnshire, England
Person ID I976 Main Tree
Parent Thomas Croft, b. Abt 1807, Plymouth, Devon, England
Parent Mary Jordan, b. 1805, Radford, Nottinghamshire, England
Married 18 Nov 1827 St Peter-at-Gowts, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England [16]
Spouse / Partner Keziah Eaves, b. 10 Aug 1836, Reydon, Suffolk, England , d. 23 Nov 1902, Suffolk, England (Age 66 years)
Married 10 Jan 1860 Mutford, Suffolk, England [17]
+ 1. Thomas Croft, b. 1860, Kirkley, Suffolk, England , d. Dec 1921, Mutford, Suffolk, England (Age 61 years)
2. Ellis Croft, b. 1861
3. Alice Croft, b. Jan 1862, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England
+ 4. John Croft, b. Oct 1863, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England
+ 5. Mary Elizabeth Croft, b. Abt 1866, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England , d. 1923, Middlesex, England (Age ~ 57 years)
+ 6. Beatrice Croft, b. 29 Mar 1871, Kirkley, Suffolk, England , d. 27 Jan 1960, Mount Pleasant Hospital, Southall, Middlesex, England (Age 88 years)
7. William Croft, b. Abt 1876, Kirkley, Suffolk, England
8. Phyllis Croft, b. 05 Jan 1876, Kirkley, Suffolk, England
9. Cillia Croft, b. Abt 1878, Kirkley, Suffolk, England [natural]
Born - 11 Aug 1839 - Wrawby, Lincolnshire, England
Census - 1841 - Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
Occupation - Railway Labourer - 1851 - Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
Married - 10 Jan 1860 - Mutford, Suffolk, England
Census - 1871 - Southwell Place, Kirkley, Mutford, Suffolk, England
Occupation - Engine Driver 16-2 board Eye---tor? - 2 Apr 1871 - Southwell Place, Kirkley, Mutford, Suffolk, England
Census - 1881 - 1 Southwell Road, Kirkley, Mutford, Suffolk, England
Occupation - Labourer - 1881 - Kirkley, Suffolk, England
Census - 1891 - 2 Ferryman Buildings, Southwell Road, Kirkley, Suffolk, England
Occupation - Steam Ship Engine Driver - 1891 - 2 Ferryman Buildings, Southwell Road, Kirkley, Suffolk, England
Occupation - Engine Driver (Marine) - 1901 - 1 Southwell Road, Kirkley, Mutford, Suffolk, England
Census - 2 Apr 1911 - Tooks Common, Tooks Common Ln, Ilketshall St Andrew, Beccles, Suffolk, England
Occupation - Private Means - 2 Apr 1911 - Tooks Common, Tooks Common Ln, Ilketshall St Andrew, Beccles, Suffolk, England
Died - 24 Dec 1928 - Beccles, Suffolk, England
[S58] England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975.
[S31] 1881 England Census, Class: RG11; Piece: 1901; Folio: 83; Page: 29; GSU roll: 1341458.
Birth date: abt 1839),
(Birth place: Lincoln, Lincoln, England),
(Residence date: 1881),
(Residence place: Kirkley, Suffolk, England
[S32] 1901 England Census, Class: RG13; Piece: 1802; Folio: 66; Page: 32.
(Birth place: Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England),
[S30] 1871 England Census, Class: RG10; Piece: 1778; Folio: 131; Page: 47; GSU roll: 830826.
(Birth place: St Swithaus, Lincolnshire, England),
[S27] 1861 England Census, Class: RG9; Piece: 1187; Folio: 217; Page: 6; GSU roll: 542771.
(Residence place: Lowestoft, Suffolk, England
[S69] Norfolk, England, C of E Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915, Northamptonshire Record Office; Northampton, England.
[S21] England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915, FreeBMD.
[S12] 1841 England Census, Class: HO107; Piece 651; Book: 8; Civil Parish: St Mark; County: Lincolnshire; Enumeration District: 4; Folio: 4; Page: 3; Line: 25; GSU roll: 438771.
(Birth place: Lincolnshire, England),
(Residence place: St Mark, Lincolnshire, England
[S24] England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005.
Death date: Oct-Nov-Dec 1928),
(Death place:
[S33] 1891 England Census, Class: RG12; Piece: 1491; Folio 82; Page 28; GSU roll: 6096601.
[S30] 1871 England Census, RG10 1778 131 47 (Reliability: 3).
[S31] 1881 England Census, RG11 1901 83 29 (Reliability: 3).
[S33] 1891 England Census, RG12 1491 Page 28 (Reliability: 3).
[S45] 1911 England Census, RG14PN11019 RG78PN595 RD217 SD2 ED13 SN28 (Reliability: 3).
[S63] England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973.
[S13] England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837-1915, FreeBMD.
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Jan Ira Goldsmith (born January 26, 1951) is a Republican politician from San Diego, California, United States who served as the San Diego City Attorney from 2008 to 2016.

Education
He received his undergraduate degree from American University in Washington, DC and his J.D. degree from the University of San Diego School of Law.

Career
Upon graduating from law school he worked in private practice specializing in business litigation. He was also a council member and mayor for the city of Poway, California.

California State Legislature
Goldsmith was elected to three terms in the California state legislature, representing California's 75th State Assembly district from 1992 until 1998. The district covers Poway and other northern suburbs of San Diego County.

According to Goldsmith, his greatest legislative accomplishment had to do with juvenile justice. He chaired the Assembly subcommittee that put together a package of legislation that eventually became initiatives that the public got to vote on. He also felt foster care was another of his accomplishments. He was named legislator of the year for the Children's Lobby. He carried the legislation that eliminated the bias against trans-racial adoption.

Goldsmith was the author of two bills, in 1994 and 1997, that attempted to legalize ferrets as pets in California. However, the California Department of Fish and Game opposed any introduction of ferrets into the state, and the bills failed.

Superior Court judge
Upon being term limited from the Assembly in 1998, Goldsmith made an unsuccessful bid for California State Treasurer, losing the primary to former Assembly Speaker Curt Pringle, who lost that election and went on to serve as mayor of Anaheim. Following his loss, Goldsmith became a San Diego County Superior Court judge, serving for 9½ years before stepping down to run for San Diego City Attorney.

San Diego City Attorney

Goldsmith ran for San Diego City attorney in 2008. In the June primary he received the most votes (32.2%) among five candidates, but not a majority. In the November runoff he defeated incumbent City Attorney Mike Aguirre, 59.4% to 40.4%. In 2012 he was re-elected without opposition.

In 2010 Goldsmith's office threatened the owners of a local restaurant with fines and jail for charging a fixed service charge instead of tipping; the issue was whether they were violating state disclosure laws. The city attorney later dropped the issue and did not pursue the case.

In 2013, Goldsmith was criticized by Mayor Bob Filner for prosecuting Jeff Olson for chalking anti-bank slogans on city sidewalks outside Bank of America branches, calling it "a stupid case" and a waste of city money. The prosecution was ultimately unsuccessful. With the defendant refusing a plea bargain, facing up to 13 years in jail and US$13,000.00 in fines, Judge Howard Shore admonished Olson's attorney, Tom Tosdal, from mentioning the First Amendment and political speech references during the trial. Additionally, Judge Shore issued a gag order, preventing communications with the media concerning the trial.

Goldsmith and Filner were in conflict almost from the day Filner took office, over several issues including medical marijuana, tourism funding, cuts to the City Attorney budget, road paving bonds, and the presence of Goldsmith's aide at a confidential city meetings. Goldsmith was a key figure in the August 2013 mediated negotiations that led to Filner's agreeing to resign.

Goldsmith left the City Attorney's office in 2016 as a result of term limits.

Post-political career
In March 2017 Goldsmith returned to private practice, joining the San Diego law firm Procopio as an of-counsel attorney on its litigation team.

Electoral history

Poway City Council

California State Assembly
1992

1994

1996

California State Treasurer

San Diego City Attorney

References

External links
Join California Jan Goldsmith

1951 births
Living people
Republican Party members of the California State Assembly
University of San Diego School of Law alumni
Mayors of places in California
People from Poway, California
American University alumni
San Diego City Attorneys
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American lawyers

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So I've finally gone to a neurologist about my shakes. If you know me then you have probably noticed my shakes. I've had them all my life.
I'm 6 years old. My mother gives me an honor that I dread. "Here take this cup of coffee up to your dad." It is an honor for me to do this. I dread it because if I spill some of the coffee on the stairs then I fail. I will be just too clumsy. Most of the time I fail, no matter how hard I try to keep that cup steady.
I'm 15. We are having supper. I love a cold glass of milk. But, particularly if I have been active which I usually have, it is very hard for me to hold my cup steady as I raise it to drink. My father and brother laugh at it. Sometimes if I switch hands to the left I can do better. I always check to see which hand is more steady before doing anything obvious.
Still 15, playing JV basketball. You don't want to have me defending you. I'll strip you of that ball. But you don't mind if I shoot; as the game goes on my shot will get less and less reliable. I'd rather defend anyway.
I'm 23. In order to graduate from the Boston Conservatory I have to pass a piano comp. I can play, but not well. And when I'm nervous, my fingers just won't go where they should. I play miserably but they pass me anyway as I'm a great student in everything else. Thank good this doesn't affect my voice.
I'm 54. There is a family gathering. Dad, not my biological father, has really bad shakes. My sister, Brenda remarks on how peculiar it is that we both have such problems with shakes but aren't related by blood.
I'm 57. I've taken to eating with a spoon when possible; food is more likely to stay in a spoon than it is on a fork. When I drink, I lift the glass with both hands and cradle it against my upper teeth to make it easier. I can live with this. These are just things that I have to do.
I'm 58. My shakes have gotten bad enough that they are interfering with my guitar playing, my right hand, which has always been one of my strengths. Now I am beginning to have to think about it. And mandolin playing, particularly when I'm nervous or excited is unreliable at best. This is too much. Can I arrest this?
So back to the start. I finally go to a neurologist. He says that I have something called essential tremors. They are anything but essential. What are they. Well you have these tremors all the time. And they worsen with physical exertion (hence the loss of basketball acuity). It affects my right hand which floats above the strings more than my left hand which presses down, braces on the strings. Turns out it is a close cousin of Parkinson's. It will get worse, but should plateau. It is hereditary, so I've informed my daughters to be on the lookout. It is what it is, to coin a phrase. But I'm not upset with it. I have a name for it, know what to expect, may be able to combat it with some drugs, though the first was a dismal failure, humorous in ways to be detailed later.
For now, I don't care. I live a gifted life, one that couldn't have been dreamed of in past centuries, one that can't be dreamed of by the majority in this world. I am a fortunate man. I am blessed.


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by Music-News.com on September 3, 2012
Backstreet Boys have reunited as a five-piece for the first time since 2006 by performing at 'Good Morning America's Summer Concert Series in New York's Central Park on Friday (31.08.12).
The pop group – who are made up of Nick Carter, Brian Littrell, Howie Dorough, A.J. McLean and Kevin Richardson – took to the stage for US TV show 'Good Morning America's Summer Concert Series in New York's Central Park.
The boy band performed 90s classics 'Everybody (Backstreet's Back)' and 'I Want it That Way' and Kevin – who rejoined the group three months ago after quitting in 2006 – admitted he was delighted to be back performing with his fellow boy band members.
He told the crowd: "I'm a person that follows my heart and gut, and my heart said this is the time."
Following their performance of opening song 'Incomplete', 'Good Morning America's news anchor Josh Elliot dedicated the track to absent co-host Robin Roberts after news today that his 88-year-old mother has passed away.
Nick also faced tragedy earlier this year when he lost his sister Leslie, 25, from an apparent overdose, while A.J. checked into rehab in July 2011 for "personal reasons".
Backstreet Boys – who have sold 130 million albums worldwide – are currently working on a new album to be released next spring, which will coincide with the group's 20th anniversary.
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Throughout 2009, hotel groups struggled to fill rooms without cutting rates, and with pricing predicted to be a major concern for the hospitality sector in 2010, how is the industry planning to cope? Starwood's Oliver Bonke and Rezidor's Olivier Jacquin and Richard Biggs provide Andrea Ashfield with the answers.
Rezidor has continued to focus on sellable pricing and increasing revenue.
A 2009 study by Cornell's Center for Hospitality Research named pricing as one of the hotel industry's top revenue management concerns. Released in August, the report by Sheryl Kimes found that respondents felt under considerable pressure to reduce rates in order to maintain market share. Determining the best price at which to sell was also highlighted as a potential problem area. Published in January this year, a market briefing by PricewaterhouseCoopers agreed that hotels had lost their pricing power as a result of decreased corporate spending and reluctance among travellers to pay the high room rates of recent years. The report, which compared the fortunes of the US and UK markets, predicted a room rate drop of more than 8% in both countries this year. Experts agree that recovery for the industry will be slow, and pricing looks set to remain one of its greatest challenges in 2010.
For Olivier Jacquin, senior vice-president of sales, marketing and distribution at Rezidor, pricing is not so much a challenge, but an opportunity, and it is the starting point for everything else within the business. "If you don't get this correct then everything else tumbles," he explains.
Rezidor's prices are determined by a number of factors, including the business mix of the hotel, with no two properties exactly the same.
Not surprisingly, however, the tough market conditions have had a huge impact on the way hotel groups approach pricing, including Starwood. "It is apparent that rates have dropped, dramatically in many instances, and it will be our task as a leading hotel management company to monitor and manage the demand equation to ensure that we nurture the resurgence while making strides to bolster financial returns for our owners and investors," says Bonke. "We have been extremely careful to avoid wholesale discounting and have focused instead on initiating a series of promotions to leverage leisure demand, offering better rates linked to specific length of stay requirement and advance purchase." Rezidor has also used some offers to stimulate its position in the market, but its core focus remains on sellable pricing and growing revenue. "We are subject to what happens in local markets, and we have worked on avoiding being the first one to blink," says Biggs. In addition, while corporate spending has been in decline, the company has compensated by building upon its leisure business.


8/28/2000-The FDA has amended its regulations on petitions for the use of food ingredients and sources of radiation. This regulatory change will permit a joint review by both FDA and the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), USDA, of petitions for approval to use a food ingredient or source of radiation in or on meat or poultry products. This rule became effective August 25, 2000, except for the amendments to Secs. 71.1 and 171.1 (21 CFR 71.1 and 171.1). See the GPO website for more information.