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'Super' bus shelter unveiled in Manchester
Posted: 26 September 2016 | Katie Sadler, Digital Content Producer, Intelligent Transport | No comments yet
A high-tech state-of-the-art bus shelter is being piloted in Manchester city centre to improve the passenger journey experience and enhance perceptions of public transport.
(L-R) Councillor Andrew Fender - Chair of the Transport for Greater Manchester Committee; Peter Saville; Marc Aurel – AUREL Design Urbain
A high-tech, state-of-the-art bus shelter is currently being piloted in Manchester city centre to improve the passenger experience and enhance perceptions of public transport.
(L-R) Councillor Andrew Fender – Chair of the Transport for Greater Manchester Committee; Peter Saville; Marc Aurel – AUREL Design Urbain
A new bus shelter, like no other in the UK, has been installed by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) to encourage use of public transport and create a more attractive public space on Piccadilly in Central Manchester.
State-of-the-art bus shelter provides free charging points for mobile devices and WiFi
Funded entirely by government grant and developed by TfGM, along with JCDecaux and RATP, the 'super' bus shelter allows passengers to charge their phones and access free Wi-Fi whilst waiting for their bus to arrive. The shelter also provides news, travel and city information via digital touchscreens.
(L-R) Peter Saville; Councillor Andrew Fender – Chair of the Transport for Greater Manchester Committee; Howard Hartley – Head of Bus, TfGM; Jon Lamonte – Chief Executive Officer, TfGM; Marc Aurel – AUREL Design Urbain
Furthermore, the high specification shelter creates a more attractive public space by using different materials and lighting as well as a wider roof, for greater protection from the elements, which has been planted to absorb pollution and provide an attractive green view for people looking down on the shelter from nearby buildings and from double-decker buses.
The £300,000 pilot scheme aims to reduce carbon emissions, congestion and pollution and help increase active travel in the city.
Bus shelter features
Free Wi-Fi. This will help to promote purchasing tickets via smart phones.
USB points for customers to charge their phones (users must supply their own leads).
Wireless charging for mobile devices. The shelter features induction pads that enable phones and other mobile devices to be charged simply by placing them on the pads (for devices that have this capability).
Interactive digital touchscreens providing information on travel, tourist attractions and leisure venues, news, weather forecasts and interesting facts about Manchester.
A larger roof covering a bigger surface area.
Easier access and circulation within the shelter.
A planted roof, which helps to absorb pollution and provides an attractive green view to people looking down on the shelter
Comprehensive real time bus and tram information will be provided before the end of the year. Customers are already able to access real time train information to check onward connections.
"Research indicates that improved public transport environments – with technology built in – encourage more people to use them"
Commenting on the installation of the shelter, which entered operation on the 11 September, Councillor Andrew Fender, Chair of the Transport for Greater Manchester Committee, said: "This is a really exciting and unique scheme for Manchester as this pilot shelter is the first of its kind in the UK.
"One of our key aims is to provide an improved public transport network that encourages more people to choose sustainable and more environmentally friendly ways to travel – especially in the city centre.
"Research indicates that improved public transport environments – with technology built in – encourage more people to use them and that's what we're testing out here.
"We'll be asking people who use this bus stop for their views over the coming weeks and more new services and facilities could be trialled here."
"They can become an integral part of tomorrow's connected cities"
Helena Kavanagh Managing Director – Street Furniture at JCDecaux UK, said: "As transforming cities has always been within JCDecaux's ethos, it's been a privilege to work with Transport for Greater Manchester on this project.
"Bus shelters can do so much more than simply protect waiting passengers from the elements, and with the technological means now at our disposal they can become an integral part of tomorrow's connected cities, harnessing technology to make shared environments safer, smarter and more environmentally friendly."
The shelter is a £300,000 pilot scheme which has been entirely funded by the Department for Transport from a ring-fenced capital grant with the aim of reducing carbon emissions, congestion and pollution and increase active travel.
RATP Group, Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM)
By Katie Sadler, Digital Content Producer, Intelligent Transport


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If buying a new home in a pretty Lincolnshire town with a long history and a small port takes your fancy, Boston might be the place for you.
Located on the scenic east coast of England, Boston is a popular place for families and couples to make a home where they can enjoy that unique mix of urban and rural living that you only get in a small town. They can also enjoy big-city shopping and social life because both Peterborough and Lincoln (themselves both places where there is a lot of new house building) are less than an hour away.
New housing being built in and around Boston includes a wide range of homes to suit a variety of budgets and lifestyles.
The average house value in Boston is a remarkably low £180,000. Terraced properties sell for an average of £119,000 and semi-detached properties for less than £138,000.
A traditional market is held in Boston every Wednesday and Saturday in one of England's largest market places, with an additional market and outside auction held on Wednesdays on Bargate Green.
The historic market place – a large part of which is traffic-free – is surrounded by a variety of nationally known high street names and locally-owned shops, including many independent specialist stores, cafes and boutiques. The town also hosts the Pescod Square Shopping Centre and Boston Shopping Park.
If you are eating out, Boston has many restaurants, cafes, pubs, bars and take-aways to suit all tastes, including specialists in Italian, Mexican, Thai, Polish, Chinese, Indian and American cuisine. Fine dining is also available in many of the historic villages that surround the town.
There is a wide range of sporting opportunities with clubs for football, rugby, cricket, swimming, sailing and more – and golf courses at Boston West and Kirton Holme as well as the town's own Boston Golf Club.
The Geoff Moulder Leisure Complex has a large leisure pool, training pool, gyms, studios, sauna, steam room, spa pool and relaxation areas.
Boston has a theatre and arts centre called Blackfriars which was formerly the refectory of the Benedictine friary, built in the 13th century.
With the town's rich history, you can also enjoy the Boston Guildhall, Maud Foster Windmill, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Visitor Centre, St Botolph's Church, the Bubblecar Museum and Fydell House.
For those who want to get closer to the water, the river's cruises are popular and nature lovers can take a trip to Frampton Marsh Nature Reserve.
The parish church of Saint Botolph is known locally as Boston Stump and is renowned for its size and its dominant appearance in the surrounding countryside.
Finding Boston should be no problem if you have a compass – it is due north of Greenwich on the Prime Meridian!
The town's station is used by 200,000 passengers each year. It offers services to Nottingham (via Sleaford) to the west, the seaside resort of Skegness to the north-west and to London, the north of England and Scotland via Grantham on the East Coast main line.
The A17 and A52 both link into Boston with access to surrounding towns, cities and coastal routes.
Boston offers a good variety of education with both public and independent primary and secondary schools. St George's Preparatory School was established in 2011 and is housed in a stunning Grade II listed building.
Boston Grammar School is an all-male selective school and Boston High School on Spilsby Road is an all-girls selective school. You also have the choice of Haven High Academy and Boston College which provides mostly A level courses.
Boston is named after St Botolph who, according to local legend, came to the area in the 7th century and built a monastery and church next to an existing settlement. The settlement was renamed Botolph's tun (town).
Boston grew into a little town in the late 11th century or early 12th century but 100 years or so later it was one of the most important ports in England.
It has a place in more modern history as one of the places from which the 'pilgrim fathers' set sail to find a new home in America. The city of Boston, Massachusetts, is named after the English town.


In the Philippines, the rainy season usually starts in the month of June and runs through about November. During this period, thunderstorms and typhoons which generally affect a wide area (sometimes half of the archipelago) are common. In fact, only this June three typhoons (namely Dodong, Egay and Falcon) have already visited the country along with heavy rains.
The Lumix camera features a 'starry night' scene mode — a setting which allows you to capture long exposures, with 15, 30, and 60 second shutter speed options. I selected the 60 sec exposure and point to regions of some of my favorite constellations.
Note that the Lumix didn't have ISO control when in starry night mode. If I set the camera to manual mode (where I do have access to the ISO settings), I don't have access to the exposure time. The longest exposure time I have in manual mode is 1/8 seconds. But after I looked at the pictures in manual mode (ISO 1600, 1/8 seconds exposure), I notice that there are a lot of noise. I think they're trying to hide the fact that the Lumix is very noisy in high ISO mode so they made it not selectable when you're using long exposures.
Anyway, below are some of the photos I took from our residential area in San Jose del Monte, Bulacan. I used Photoshop to add the constellation lines.
Zooming into the photo above will reveal vertical streaks (not the star trails). These unnecessary streaks have occurred because I forgot to use the self timer on the camera for this shot. By clicking on the shutter button, even a slight vibration from the finger would create blur on the picture, even when you are using a tripod.
By the way, I am living from a suburban site. The limiting magnitude for such a location is frequently close to 4 . This means that the apparent magnitude of the faintest star that could be visible to the unaided eye is about magnitude 4.
The original images were a bit darker but I increased the brightness and contrast in the post processing to find out the dimmest star recorded. I found that every star that was visible with the naked eye was in the image, which is good! The results of each shot have actually far exceeded my expectations. I never thought that a little humble compact camera could go a long way.
I have also tried using this camera in shooting landscape and scenery pictures and it also produced good results. Click here to see my previous post about it. At about 30-45 minutes after the sunset, the sky is not completely dark yet, but the colour appears to be more intense with traces of natural light still available. It would also be nice to take sky photos during this time.


Authors: Eisenakh I.A., Korotkevich O.S., Mozes V.G., Vlasova V.V.
The aim: to determine the complication's rate, based on a seven-year experience, after the stress urinary incontinence correction in women with different methods of setting suburethral polypropylene meshes. Material and Methods. The analysis of seven years of experience of surgical correction with different methods of setting suburethral meshes in 1260 women with stress urinary incontinence; obturator fixation the mesh inside-outside and outside-inside: supra-pubic fixation the mesh; non-trocar fixation the mesh type mini-sling was carried out. Results. The greatest frequency of complications were identified in the first two years of implementation the setting of suburethral meshes, after that the complication's rate decreased progressively and it was in the range 7-8% the last three years. The frequency of early operative complications at a different setting of suburethral meshes had no statistically significant differences, but there were more the statistically significant intraoperative and mesh-associated complications at suprapubic fixation. Conclusion. The study confirms that the installation of suburethral meshes by the method of suprapubic fixation of mesh is associated with a higher incidence of complications and should be performed only in the target group of patients who are not suitable for surgical correction in safer ways.
All articles of the authors: Eizenakh I.A. , Korotkevich O.S. , Mozes V.G., Vlasova V.V.
Authors: Zhestikova M.G., Kan Ya.A., Sholomov I.I.
All articles of the authors: Zhestikova M.G., Sholomov I.I.


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Q: Why doesn't direct path for delete/destroy exist in rails? When you define a link_to in rails to delete an object/item you must specify method delete in that link_to, as compared to edit (edit_event_path(@event)) or show (event_path). Why is this the case?

A: In typical link_to links the browser will send HTTP GET requests. When you're destroying a resource the browser should send a HTTP DELETE request. Rails has some javascript that will run on those links and intercept the click to send a HTTP DELETE request for those marked with method: :delete. Also the path for a single resource to be destroyed and shown will be the same.
event_path will return "/event/1" or similar. When sending a HTTP GET request its expected that the show action of your controller will be called. When sending a HTTP DELETE request to the same path its expected that the destroy action will be called.

A: HTTP Verbs
Simply, Rails makes use of the HTTP Verbs which governs the web
Essentially, to keep routing structures simple, Rails allows you to generate a series of the "same" URL paths, each defined with different http verbs:

This means if you want to destroy an object, you can use the delete verb
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OOP
A more specific definition for this lies with the object-orientated structure of Ruby (& Rails). The routing system is based around this structure (hence why they're called resources) - meaning if you treat the routing system as based around objects, you can begin to see a pattern emerge
If you're going to call a route for an object, IE to destroy that object, your route should be for the "object", not the "destroy" mechanism
In this sense, if you want to destroy an object, it makes much more sense to use the following:
<%= link_to "Destroy", object_path(object), method: :delete %>

This gives you the flexibility to create actions around objects, which can then be routed to the particular controller#actions as required

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The western world has labelled Saudi Prince Mohammad Bin Salman (MBS) as a murderous thug due to the Khashoggi's Saga and his unending involvement in the war of Yemen. But they ignored another elephant in the room- Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi who has been on a necktie spree as he ordered the execution of 9 men over their alleged involvement in the assassination of Egypt's top prosecutor. Additionally, he smoothly facilitated the executions of 6 other men in the same month by also subjecting them to forced judicial confessions and torture. Egypt has become an ideal hub of human rights abuse since Sisi came to the throne in a military coup in 2013 overthrowing the first democratically elected president Mohammad Morsi of Muslim Brotherhood. As political dissent doesn't see the dawn, Egypt holds outlawed Muslim Brotherhood members and as many as 60,000 political prisoners, according to the Human rights Watch. Under Sisi, arbitrary arrests, forced disappearances, torture have become a norm and this crackdown has been 'unparalleled' in Egypt's recent history, according to Amnesty International.
But this astounding human rights record intimidated him at the end of a major summit meeting with the European Union and Arab League when the leaders intended to scold Sisi over his record. 'You are not going to teach us about humanity'. He stressed on the 'fact' that Europe and the Arab World have a different sense of humanity, values and ethics and they should respect their differing values. A sense of awkwardness and distraction from the topic was followed by his response. At the first-ever summit held in Egypt's Sharm Al-Sheikh, the issue of illegal migration into Europe and terrorism topped the agenda. But the summit didn't yield any fruitful agreements, but tainted Europe's image for airing the international legitimacy of Sisi's tyrannical regime.
The EU has been desperate to shut its gate for the refugees after the refugees swamped Europe in 2015. In 2015, 1.2 million asylum seekers were registered in Europe with the majority recorded from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. The world caught the attention of the plight of refugees with the death of three-year-old Alan Kurdi while he was trying to entre Europe through the risky route of the Mediterranean Sea. In many ways, Europe was grappling with the refugee crisis that had caused tremors in the region since 2015. But now the European migration policy is in utter disarray.
With the rise of the far-right ideology in Italy, the anti-migrant sentiment is at the fever pitch and has pushed the issue on Europe's agenda. The gateway countries of Italy, Spain and Greece also tightened its border to curb the refugee inflow as the Dublin regulation system pushes all the burden of processing asylum requests on these countries making them overwhelmed. The regulation states that the country where the migrant first enters the EU bears responsibility for their asylum claim. This disproportionate unfair burden pushed Germany and Sweden to reintroduce the refugee quota resettlement system to ease the burden on frontline countries, but such quotas will only be reframed in case of a booming number of refugees. This proposal was utterly rejected by Italy which insists on a more automatic system.
The other clash of perspective comes from Hungary's Viktor Orban and Austria's Sebastian Kurz, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia who vehemently slashed the idea of relocation of refugees and embedded the seeds of anti-immigration and xenophobia into the minds of people. The Dublin system stipulates that country in which a migrant arrives must register there and cannot seek refugee elsewhere for six months. Under the Bulgarian proposal backed by Germany, this period extends to 10 years further pressuring the gateway countries of Spain, Italy, and Greece to take in more refugees. Naturally, the varying stances of the member's countries on the Dublin system and political tide in their respective countries have put the migration policy of EU in limbo. Before the elections of the European Union in May, it is highly unlike that a radical reform of Europe's asylum system can be contemplated.
While the internal discord among the member countries prevailed, many EU countries strenuously tried to 'outsource' the migration problem. The motive behind the efforts was that if we can't absorb refugees, double the efforts to stem their flow. After the massive influx of Syrian refugees, the EU struck an accord with Turkey. Turkey has agreed to take all the illegal migrants reaching Greece in Europe in exchange for 6 billion Euros 'aid, and other extra economic concessions.
Apart from entertaining Turkey, Europe has been also cuddling with Egypt. Though the political models of both the blocs are polar opposites, Europe chooses to trap itself in a marriage of convenience. This was reflected by the Dutch Minister's statement 'Sometimes you have to dance with whoever is on the dance floor". Europe is entertaining Sisi and engaging in constructive dialogue with Arab league as the political stalemate over the migration crisis continues to crack the once strong walls of EU coalition. Further EU's security concerns force it to wear blinkers amid the noise of Egypt's abysmal human rights abuses.
Europe's woes of migration crisis have been exported to African countries and Egypt was at the forefront of healing these woes. Egypt's new anti-human trafficking law which imposes a term of life imprisonment and a fine of 56, 300 US dollars has played a major role in combating illegal migration. Egypt's efforts came in the limelight as there has been no illegal crossing from Egypt's maritime border since 2016. The highlight of the new cooperation with Egypt was at Salzburg Summit where the far right Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz proved Egypt as an 'efficient' partner in curbing migration as Sisi has been efficient in keeping tight control over Egypt's coastline. The summit held in Egypt didn't produce any fruitful results but stated the EU's demand for 'stranding' the civilians in war-torn Libya with the help of the Egyptian coastguard. This will ensure that the illegal migrants don't enter Europe through Italy. As the EU has already started spending billions of dollars on the Libyan coastguards to stem this flow, concerns have been raised by the human rights group about their recklessness while rescuing migrant's lives in the Mediterranean waters and the inhumane conditions suffered by migrants in detention centres. The European leaders have also hailed Egypt as an island of 'stability' in the region embroiled in war and also appreciated its counter-terrorism operation against Islamic State (ISIS) in the Sinai Peninsula. In return for the cooperation on this issue, Egypt will be spoiled by overtures of high profile summit of European leaders boasting the rule of human right's abuser and by filling the coffers of Egypt's various sectors.
The talks at the first EU- Arab League summit in Egypt were preceded with the large arms sale to the Egyptian navy to strengthen its ability to patrol the borders. France has cracked a deal of supplying four Gowind 2500 Corvette and patrol vessels ideal for intercepting the boats of helpless migrants. This bilateral cooperation also extends to holding military exercises in the Mediterranean Sea for sharing its naval expertise. From 2014 to 2017, France was Cairo's main weapons supplier (2.4 billion) while Germany was fourth with 389 million. Further, the EU has also begun talks with Egypt and eight other states about proposed data sharing to bolster efforts for counter-terrorism policing. But this exchange of information between the EU and Egypt's security agencies can be used as a weapon against the critics of the state and the human rights defenders. The data sharing can also facilitate the process of extracting false confessions from the critics and speeding up the trail of death sentences making EU complicit in the crimes against humanity.
The EU had also proposed the idea of establishing disembarkation platforms in the North African countries to distinguish between economic migrants and the migrants eligible for seeking refuge in Europe and to avert their perilous journey through the Mediterranean Sea. This plan was killed by Egypt and other African countries as they would be sacked with more burden in dealing with refugees. But such a plan can be on the horizon if Egypt is bribed with a heavy price tag more than that of the 6 billion of aid provided to Turkey to take back migrants travelling to Europe. The only playing card Egypt has is the threat of leaving the spigot of refugee flow open. But the question arises does Europe need to be fully dependent on autocratic regimes to fight the migration crisis?
Europe has been blinded with the notion that it is still facing the migration 'crisis' even after the European Commission declared the migration crisis as "over". An estimated 150000 illegal crossings were registered by Frontex last year, the lowest since 2013. The number of departure from Libya to Italy has been dropped by 87 % since last year. In 2018, 11647 people had crossed the Mediterranean Sea, an 89% reduction since 2015. The far right Italian interior minister and Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban have been fuming up the anti-immigrant steam and coaxing other members of EU to shut the gates and throw the keys away for desperate refugees. Naturally, depicting immigration as an existential threat acts as a staple food for their political bread and butter.
European Union should come out of the folds of farce and see that the dwindling number of refugees won't threaten their 'stability'. The thorn pricking their stability is the filthy madness of the extreme white supremacists that pump hate against immigrants and propagate Islam phobia. One such radicalised neo-fascist was Brandon Tarrant who went on a killing spree. He attacked two mosques of Christen Church of New Zealand killing 50 people by using guns inscribed with white supremacist references. This hate propaganda coupled with the increased terrorist attacks carried out by ISIS in the capital cities of Europe rang alarm bells for EU which now prioritises securing its borders at any cost; even at the cost of the human rights.
Sisi's brutal regime has capitalized on this instability phobia of Europe and immunized its stained legitimacy. He also made use of his refugee play in a speech wherein the Munich security conference where he affirmed that Europe should 'appreciate' Egypt's help of hosting 5 million refugees. Egypt is battling the debt trap and now it has knocked the doors of International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a monetary bailout of 12 Billion that has led to the launch of harsh austerity measures causing a public outcry. While Egypt so unabashedly uses its refugee card game, Europe should not forget that it has an economic upper hand over Egypt and should implement the strategy of carrot and stick. It should dangle its economic offerings as a carrot for Egypt in return for more democratic reform of Egypt.
The migration crisis has forced Europe to undress its veneer of moral righteousness as it tries to overshadow its complicity in human rights crimes by giving its foreign migration policy a face of 'realpolitik'. It is also feeding the juvenile leaders on a carnivorous authoritarian diet with the nourishing political and economic ingredients. EU played an important role in international politics due to its soft power and credibility. By rubbing shoulders with authoritarian regimes, the European Union's credibility goes for the toss as it comes under fire from human rights group for turning a blind eye to the evil deeds of the despotic regime. With the spreading flew of far-right anti-immigration stance, Europe's support for power-hungry maniacs like Sisi, it will have a hard time proving its raison d'etre.
Egypt: Unprecedented crackdown on NGO's. (March 23, 2016). Amnesty International.


There may be many grocery stores in the city, but Prince Albert's newest store thinks it has the right ingredients to stand out from the pack.
Save-On-Foods held its Prince Albert grand opening celebration Thursday night, adding its name to the selection of grocery stores in this city, a list that includes Safeway, Superstore, Harold's Family Foods, Co-Op and more. The store is located in the Cornerstone shopping district, across Sixth Avenue from Superstore.
Despite the crowded market, Save-On-Foods president Darrell Jones thinks this store has what the others don't.
Those fresh offerings, Jones says, are what make this store stand out. It's the second Saskatchewan store opened this month. A Saskatoon store opened just two weeks ago.
Jones said the company took a look at Prince Albert and determined there was room in the marketplace for another grocery store. He pointed out the city used to have a Sobeys and Safeway, and that it has a good population to support more grocery options.
Store manager Warren McGlone came to the store from Winnipeg. He's been in Prince Albert for three months, and so far, he's enjoying himself.
"I couldn't be more excited. I got out here three months ago, and I've been thinking about this day ever since," he said.
"It's finally here. I'm excited to show the people of Prince Albert this kind of store. I think they're going to be amazed.
While McGlone agrees with Jones about the unique selection of the store, he also mentioned its staff and their commitment to customer service as a reason he thinks the store will succeed.
""Always the customer first. That's our slogan, and going the extra mile," he said.
For Jones, opening the store isn't just a chance to expand Save-On-Foods' market reach, it's also a chance to get engaged in a new community.
"We're here to sell groceries, but we're also here to become part of our community. We're all about helping," he said.


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Every few weeks an egg timer goes off on some editor's desk and some local news outlet runs another story about how it's hard to park your car in New York City. Here's the latest one from the Times:
For weeks last fall, a flood of new cars had been filling up parking spaces in Noreen O'Donnell's Boerum Hill neighborhood in Brooklyn, and finding a spot had become a 15-, 30- or even 45-minute ordeal.
Then one October night, Ms. O'Donnell lost it: First, she discovered that another driver had dented her car, leaving no note and $3,000 in damage. After running an errand, she returned to find the parking space she had used near her home taken. For an hour, she circled the neighborhood searching for a spot, until around midnight she gave up and parked illegally outside a school.
"It's like the Hunger Games for parking," she said. "It's not harder now — it's relentless."
As someone who owns a car in New York City (not only have I finished paying the bank back, but I recently CHANGED THE SERPENTINE ALL BY MYSELF, which made me feel dangerously virile even though it was about as difficult as changing a bicycle inner tube) and stores it for free in the public right of way (that's Smugness-ese for "parks it in the street"), I have nothing but contempt for the sorts of drivers who damage other people's cars.
At the same time, the phrase "$3,000 in damage" is utterly meaningless. If the damage was merely superficial–which I assume was the case since she was still able to run an errand and then circle the neighborhood until midnight–then the "cost" of the damage is merely whatever she's willing to pay for it, which could be anything from $3,000 to $0. Yes, you're an asshole if you fuck up someone's car and drive away, but you're delusional if you think your car can live outside day after day and night after night in the most populous city in the United States without at least sustaining some superficial damage. (Over the years I've returned to my various cars to find everything from missing emblems to smashed windows to the entire front bumper and grill having been torn off somehow. Well, my wife returned to find that last one, but the point still stands. Insurance paid for the big stuff, I either paid to fix the little stuff or I didn't bother, and the world continued to turn.)
You're similarly delusional if you think it's going to be easy to park. No matter where in the world you live, you know three things about New York City: there are skyscrapers, everyone looks and talks like Woody Allen, including the women, and it's hard to park a fucking car here–and that was true long before the current car boom:
In Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, the number of vehicles registered between August and October jumped 37 percent compared with the same period the previous year, according to data from the state Department of Motor Vehicles. (On Staten Island, where public transit is scarce and many residents already own cars, registrations also increased, but by only 6 percent.)
The spike was starkest in Manhattan, where registrations rose by 76 percent, and in Brooklyn, where they increased by 45 percent.
Which is why this nutcase has been threatening people with a tire iron in order to park his soccer mom car since at least 2017:
And yet still people allude to some bygone, genteel era during which the parkage of horseless carriages was governed entirely by "unspoken rules of decency" (as long as you ignore the fact that auto theft has steadily declined in recent decades, of course):
That competition has become even more fierce as the pandemic ushered in a reimagining of the city's landscape, with restaurant tables occupying pavements and streets closed off entirely to cars on weekends to allow outdoor life to flourish.
As a result, drivers say parking in residential neighborhoods has become untenable, akin to a high-stakes game of musical chairs in which age-old, unspoken rules of decency have been discarded and a sense of lawlessness has set in.
Once upon a time, when people were still breathlessly debating gentrification, newspaper articles on the subject were filled with quote after quote from neighborhood residents who clearly felt that no matter when they themselves moved there, anyone who came after was automatically a gentrifier. It's oddly reassuring to see the tradition live on in parking articles filled with the kvetching of people who all seem to think they should have been the last person in New York City allowed to buy a car, and that further sales should have been indefinitely suspended the moment the drove off the lot because these new drivers don't know what they're doing:
Veteran drivers complain that novices do not know how to properly parallel park, leaving so much space that an entire parking spot is lost.
Alas, even suspending sales wouldn't help, since some people just get cars for free:
Diana Richardson, 38, a learning specialist in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, inherited her grandmother's car in August, which she thought would allow her to escape the confines of pandemic city life and more easily visit her family in New Jersey.
But after Labor Day, when she found her cul-de-sac filled with cars of homeowners back from their summer homes, that idyllic notion was shattered.
Some might equate getting free stuff with entitlement, but with cars it's often the spending of money that breeds entitlement, and in this case, free from the burden of car payments, she came to an obvious conclusion that seems to have eluded everyone else in the article:
"That was the day I lost my mind," she said. After the virtual meeting, she began looking for monthly parking, eventually finding a garage where she pays $275 a month.
"It's a 12-minute walk from my apartment and I just text them 30 minutes before I need my car," Ms. Richardson said. "I wish I had done it sooner."
Hey, people love to complain about capitalism, but at least it got another car off the street:
[What is a oneless car, anyway?]
There was a time when I used to read such articles and marvel at how much drivers complain, but now I read these articles and marvel at how much people in Brooklyn complain:
Every article about parking woes focuses on people in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Brooklyn. Maybe the buried lede in all of this is that people in Brooklyn are huge whiners.*
*[And yes, I know it's really because all the journalists live in Brooklyn, but just go with it.] pic.twitter.com/tk5qzXBhVg
— Bike Snob NYC (@bikesnobnyc) January 5, 2021
Anyway, pending any large-scale parking reform, perhaps any New York City resident purchasing a motor vehicle should be required to listen to a one-hour recording of Noreen O'Donnell recounting her harrowing circling-the-neighborhood-in-a-dented-car tale and sign an acknowledgement that there's nowhere to park, and if they still want to go through with it after that then it's their problem. One wonders if that would have influenced the decision of the guy in the main image, whose Outback appears to be at least a 2020, judging by the roof rails:
As a fellow Outback-owning middle aged schlub I can't help but look at that photo and think, "There but for the grace of Lob go I," but honestly it's less about Lob's grace and more that I had the good sense to leave Brooklyn.
Sometimes you make your own luck.
Meanwhile–and the timing of this and the Times article is honestly kind of suspicious–Transportation Alternatives have just released their report concluding that (brace yourself for a shock) New York City doesn't have enough bike parking:
Bicycle owners are at a significant disadvantage to car owners in New York City. Comparing parking availability per bicycle and per registered car in New York City, there are 1.5 free on-street parking spaces for every car registered in New York City, but there is only one bicycle parking space for every 116 bicycles in New York City.
There is not enough bicycle parking in New York City. There are more than 100 free car parking spaces for every bicycle parking space. That contributes to why 95 percent of cyclists say more bicycle parking is a priority. While electric car-charging ports have been piloted and implemented, similar facilities for the newly legal and growing e-bicycle segment are missing, and should be advanced.
The lack of bicycle parking discourages New Yorkers from riding bicycles. When people choose not to bicycle, or choose to bicycle less often, lack of parking is the number two factor in their decision. Fear of bicycle theft may also deter cyclists from using a bicycle to travel to public transit or shop at local businesses.
While we obviously need more bike parking, I wonder if it's counterproductive to frame it in the context of car parking, and I can't help suspecting that as long as drivers insist there isn't enough car parking and bike advocates insist there's too much of it then the city will therefore determine that this mutual dissatisfaction is a sign that means the amount of car and bike parking is exactly right.
Rolling Into The New Year
When Words Lose All Meaning

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There were so many great things happening at SXSW this year— I wanted to share just a small sampling of some of the things I learned while there.
A small group of engineers and some passionate linguists and hobbyists control all our emojis. These teams must create and maintain a universal pictographic language that two billion people keep in their pockets. It needs to be an easy to understand, culturally aware, unbiased, visual language. That's not easy.
The best presentations use the format of the presentation itself to demonstrate the power of your idea. One of the best presentations I saw was about the power of sound to add additional meaning to your work. The presenter, Sam Crowther, used no slides. Instead, he had an iPod in his hand and a series of audio tracks; each track was an auditory slide that added background, meaning, and value to his talk.
Virtual reality can be an art form. I immersed myself in a short French film that created a very powerful narrative about the moral and ethical implications of artificial intelligence. For fifteen minutes I knew what it felt like to be an AI machine that is put on display, ignored, and ultimately dismissed. I felt sad about being easily cast aside and confusion over what it might mean for a computer to have feelings.
Have your products be an extension of the world in which your users live. Nickelodeon was creating a mobile game to pair with their TV show about some middle school girls who start a mobile app company. The game mechanics are simple and they created Narby the Narwhal as the protagonist. Through their research they discovered that a donut-eating narwhal wasn't strange enough, so they added legs and sneakers to him. Then they added in random objects and combos to achieve like "Double money monkey toilet!" which shows up across the bottom of the screen. The stranger they got, the more kids liked the game. This team reminds us that the best way to connect with people is to extend their world rather than forcing them into yours.


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Sunk Cost Fallacy: Do Children and Animals Avoid It?
The sunk cost fallacy appears in every introductory economics course. Rational behavior suggests that people should realize that they can't change the past. The amount of money or time or energy that has already been spent on some project is a "sunk costs," and it should be irrelevant to whether you keep going with the project. When making a choice, you should look only to the future costs and benefits of your actions.
Many people find it hard to disregard sunk costs. There are the romantic relationships that have been lukewarm or worse for a long time, with no likely prospect of change, but where one or both people can't break up because they've been together for so long. There are the investors whose stock portfolio or house has lost value, but who doesn't sell because if they just keep holding on, they can pretend that those losses haven't yet happened. There are large projects in business and government where a lot has been spent in the past, and so the project must be continued into the future--even though its prospects appear grim. Indeed, the sunk cost fallacy is sometimes called the "Concorde effect," after the supersonic jet where development and construction went on long after it was clear that the project was not economically viable.
Some evidence suggests that children and animals may be better at avoiding the sunk cost fallacy than adults. At some level, this makes sense. After all, children and animals may be less likely than adult humans to become ego-involved and locked down into what happened in the past, and thus more likely only to look forward. But I'll also admit that, at some level, this theory also sounds a bit ridiculous to me. How does one test whether children and in particular animals take sunk costs into account? The classic discussion of the evidence here here seems to be a 1999 paper by Hal R. Arkes and Peter Ayton called "The Sunk Cost and Concorde Effects: Are Humans Less Rational Than Lower Animals?" It appeared in a 1999 issue of Psychological Bulletin, published by the American Psychological Association (125:5, pp. 591-600). The journal isn't freely available on-line, but many readers will have access through a library.
As one example, here's a discussion from Arkes and Ayton of a study looking at whether female albino mice take sunk costs into account, or focus only on the future.
A prototypical study ... tested the litter defense behavior of female albino mice. On the 8th day of a mother's lactation period, a male intruder was introduced to four different groups of mother mice and their litters. Each litter of the first group had been culled at birth to four pups. Each litter of the second group had been culled at birth to eight pups. In the third group, the litters had been culled at birth to eight pups, but four additional pups had been removed 3 to 4 hr before the intruder was introduced. The fourth group was identical to the third except that the removed pups had been returned to the litter after only a 10-min absence.
The logic of the Maestripieri and Alleva (1991) study is straightforward. If each mother attended to past investment, then those litters that had eight pups during the prior 8 days should be defended most vigorously, as opposed to those litters that had only four pups. After all, having cared for eight pups represents a larger past investment than having cared for only four. On the other hand, if each mother attended to future costs and benefits, then those litters that had eight pups at the time of testing should be defended most vigorously, as opposed to those litters that had only four pups. The results were that the mothers with eight pups at the time of testing defended their litters more vigorously than did the mothers with four pups at the time of testing. The two groups of mothers with four pups did not differ in their level of aggression toward the intruder, even though one group of mothers had invested twice the energy in raising the young because they initially had to care for litters of eight pups. Thus, the magnitude of expected benefits, not the amount of prior maternal investment, determined the mothers' defensive behavior.
Arkes and Ayton also discuss a number of other animal studies: the behavior of a kind of fish called a convict cichlids (Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum); a study about how female digger wasps provide dead katydids for their larva to consume; the nest defense behavior of savannah sparrow; and others. They discuss alternative interpretations of these studies, but argue that the results generally support the claim that animals don't take sunk costs into account.
What about studies of children? They discuss a 1997 study that tested children in the age groups 5-6, 809 and 11-12 with this question:
Imagine you are at a fairground with your parents. Your mother gives you a 50 pence coin, and your father gives you a one pound coin.After walking around for a while you decide to use the 50 pence cointo buy a ticket for the merry-go-round. [But then you discover that you have lost your ticket./But then you discover that you've lost the 50 pence coin so you can't use it to buy a ticket for the merry-go-round.] Would you use the one pound coin to buy a new ticket? Half the children in each of the three age groups received one of the two sentences inside the brackets. ... [For the older children, when] the money was lost, the majority of the respondents decided to buy a ticket. On the other hand, when the ticket was lost, the majority decided not to buy another ticket. This difference was absent in the youngest children. Note that it is not the case that the youngest children were responding randomly. They showed a definite preference for purchasing a new ticket whether the money or the ticket had been lost. Like the animals that appear to be immune to the Concorde fallacy, young children seemed to be less susceptible than older children to this variant of the sunk cost effect.
Arkes and Ayrton cite some other evidence, not directly related to the sunk cost fallacy, that in some cases young children may act more in accordance with strict rationality than older children or adults, because adults are prone to more complicated strategies, while children don't overthink the situation. Here's a discussion of another study with younger and older children:
The participants ranged in age from 3.6 years to 18 years. Each of them faced a panel containing a horizontal row of three knobs, above which was a signal light and below which was a delivery mechanism for marbles. On each of 80 trials, participants were told to press one of the three knobs. Correct presses would be followed by the delivery of a marble. For all participants, pulling one particular knob was followed by reinforcement, but at a 33% rate for some persons and at a 66% rate for others. ... A participant was deemed to be a "maximizer" if the correct knob was pulled on at least 18 of the last 20 trials. ... [T]he youngest children were more likely to be maximizers than were the participants of any other age. Weir (1964) attempted to explain these surprising results:
"It is likely that the 3- and 5-year olds are drawn to the payoff button on the basis of a simple reinforcement notion only. . .. Older subjects . . . employ complex strategies. . . . It is interesting to note that . . . the belief that there is a complex solution actually results in fewer choices of the most frequently reinforced alternative ... The older participants were `too smart for their own good.'"
The exact reasons why people pay attention to sunk costs are not clear. One hypothesis is that people or organizations just don't like admitting error. Another hypothesis is that when disregarding sunk costs feels wasteful in some way, and people don't like to waste. Yet another hypothesis is that in many aspects of life, there is a positive correlation between past efforts and future payoffs, and so giving up on a project with large sunk costs feels like it is also giving up on future payoffs.
As noted earlier, I'm not confident about interpreting some of the evidence about animals and young children as a strong demonstration that they do ignore sunk costs. But I'm always looking for a lively way to explain basic economics concept to students. Explaining some of the evidence that animals and small childen may be better able to disregard sunk costs--appropriately hedged with caveats-- couuld help some students remember the concept of sunk costs more clearly.
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West Papua: Independence and exploitation
Down to Earth No. 44, February 2000
Companies which have profited from Indonesia's iron-fisted rule in West Papua, may be starting to feel jittery as calls for independence grow more insistent.
On December 1st last year celebrations took place in towns all over West Papua to mark the 38th anniversary of independence, declared when the territory was still under Dutch rule.
Loggers rush to strip Siberut
Siberut provides a vivid example of the way the powerful combination of Indonesia's economic problems and changes to local autonomy and forestry legislation threaten the future of the country's forests and indigenous people. A UNESCO workshop on conservation and sustainable development for the Siberut biosphere zone brought various conflicting parties together to look for local solutions.
The demand for independence
Down to Earth No 43, November 1999
The push for an independent West Papua is gaining strength: mass protests met the government's decision to split the territory into three provinces and the vote in East Timor fuelled demands for independence.


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Soggy September floods north Georgia
By Pam Knox for CAES News
By Pam Knox
Heavy rains caused record flooding in north Georgia in mid-September, while other parts of the state experienced and normal to below-normal rainfall.
A large, slow-moving low-pressure system brought extremely humid air into Georgia mid-month. It triggered days of intense rainfall, producing what was estimated to be a 500-year flood around Atlanta, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The highest rain totals estimated by National Weather Service radars were 15 inches to 20 inches in Douglas County and other areas east and west of downtown Atlanta.
Twenty-one counties were declared eligible for federal disaster funds. Preliminary damage estimates were $500 million to $1 billion. Thousands of homes were affected, and 500 were destroyed or significantly damaged.
The flood is considered the worst since 1919, when flood waters almost destroyed West Point in western Georgia.
Parts of four interstates were closed. I-20 remained closed for more than 24 hours as flood waters rose 3 feet over the pavement and inundated Six Flags Over Georgia.
Following the rain, Lake Lanier rose 1.5 feet in 24 hours. Lake Allatoona rose almost 9 feet during the week after. More than 130 dams and many bridges now require stability inspections.
Four water-treatment plants in Atlanta were damaged and dumped raw sewage into the Chattahoochee River. A pipe in a levee near Macon broke and discharged millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Ocmulgee River at the end of the month. Citizens were urged to stay out of the flood water. Some communities issued advisories to boil water.
Ten people were killed, most while driving onto roads covered by moving water. Seven deaths were in Douglas County, where the heaviest rainfall occurred. Additional deaths occurred in Carroll, Chattooga and Gwinnett counties.
The highest monthly total from National Weather Service reporting stations was 10.68 inches in Macon (7.42 inches above normal). The lowest was in Alma at 1.59 inches (1.75 below normal). Atlanta received 8.94 inches (4.85 inches above normal), Athens 9.86 inches (6.33 inches above normal), Columbus 5.30 inches (2.23 inches above normal), Augusta 3.63 inches (.15 inch above normal), Savannah 2.43 inches (2.65 inches below normal) and Brunswick 4.57 inches (1.67 inches below normal).
Forty-eight Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network observers reported 15 inches or more total rainfall for the month. The highest single monthly total was 22.86 inches near Kennesaw in Cobb County. However, two observers in Douglas County reported overflowing rain gauges. An observer in Lilburn in Gwinnett County reported 21.79 inches.
The highest daily rainfall reported by a CoCoRaHS observer exceeded 11 inches in a few hours near Douglasville on Sept. 21, when the rain gauge overflowed. The Carrollton observer nearest the area of maximum rainfall reported 10.64 inches in 24 hours ending that morning.
The Georgia Automated Environmental Monitoring site at Dallas in Paulding County reported 16.15 inches for the month, including 5.61 inches on the Sept. 20 and 4.54 inches on Sept. 21.
Numerous daily and monthly rainfall records occurred at National Weather Service cooperative observing stations around the state. Dallas and Carrollton broke 30-year records of heaviest daily rainfall. Atlanta broke a daily maximum rainfall of 3.52 inches on Sept. 19, and Macon broke daily records with 2.32 inches on Sept. 17.
No tornadoes were reported. Scattered reports of strong winds or small hail where reported four days resulting in toppled trees or scattered power outages.
The heavy rains in north Georgia caused extensive damage to nurseries, vineyards and hay fields. Many counties reported rot in cotton and insect infestations. Fieldwork came to a stop in many areas. In other areas, the rain was beneficial to crops and harvesting proceeded at a good pace.
Temperatures across the state were near normal in September except in Augusta where the average temperature was 75.6 degrees (1.6 degrees above normal).
(Pam Knox is the assistant state climatologist and a program specialist in the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.)
Pam Knox serves as University of Georgia Agricultural Climatologist with UGA Department of Crop and Soil Science.
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UGA CAES trains young scientists through 2019 Young Scholars summer research program Posted on 07/17/19 by Merritt Melancon
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Georgia 4-H honors statewide youth winners in Atlanta Posted on 07/17/19 by Cristina deRevere, Toni Hunlen
For 76 years, high school-aged Georgia 4-H'ers from across the state have gathered in the state capitol for state competition and recognition events. This year, the Georgia 4-H State Congress will be held July 23-26, at the Crowne Plaza Atlanta Perimeter at Ravinia in Atlanta, Georgia.
Celebrate Smart Irrigation Month in the home landscape Posted on 07/16/19 by Sadie Lackey
Landscape irrigation can be tricky, especially in the summer. During the month of July — Smart Irrigation Month — University of Georgia experts have advice on how to use irrigation as efficiently as possible.


Indie Musician Khava Sings Songs Of Joy!
Let me introduce you to Indie Musician Khavah Rueben. She is a singer songwriter and pianist. She started playing piano around ten or eleven years old and played for about 15 years then took a long break. She has since emerged in the last year or two breaking forth in song writing, singing and playing her piano. Her songs are filled with joy and happiness and the beauty of her voice lifts up your soul to heaven.
Deliverance Music is Happy to introduce to you a sneak preview of what you are in store for in the future production of her album (which is in the works). Just take a listen to her as she sings in her pure, beautiful and clear voice and plays her piano with a few of the songs she has written.


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Sendero Recognized on the 2020 Dallas 100 List
DALLAS, TX (November 6, 2020) – Sendero, a management consulting firm with expertise delivering strategic planning, technology enablement, and organizational effectiveness solutions, was recently named a winner on the 2020 SMU Cox Dallas 100™ List for the fifth time since the firm's founding in 2004.
The Dallas 100™ Awards, sponsored by the SMU Cox Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship, honors the ingenuity, commitment, and perseverance of entrepreneurial businesses by ranking the area's top 100 privately held companies based on percentage growth and absolute dollar growth over the previous three years.
Since its founding, Sendero has grown to over 208 employees across two offices in Dallas and Houston and serves clients in multiple markets across the country.
"It is an honor to be recognized on this year's Dallas 100™ list," said Sendero's CEO and Founder, Bret Farrar. "Our firm and our employees continue to demonstrate adaptability and resilience, and I am looking forward to seeing how we continue to progress and grow as we deliver exceptional results for our clients."
For more information on the Dallas 100™ list, visit the 2020 rankings.
About SMU Cox:
In 2020, the Cox School of Business celebrates 100 years of business education at SMU. The Cox School of Business is committed to influencing the way the world conducts business via prolific research that provokes innovation, change, and global thought leadership. SMU Cox offers a full-range of business education programs including BBA, Full-Time MBA, Professional MBA (part-time), Executive MBA, Cox MBA Direct, Online MBA, and Master of Science degree programs, as well as Executive Education. Consistently ranked among the world's leading business schools, SMU Cox maintains an active alumni network globally. SMU Cox is accredited by AACSB.
About Sendero:
Sendero is a management consulting firm dedicated to delivering impactful results for our clients and in our community. Whether a Fortune 100 company, a local non-profit, or an innovative start-up, we strive to help others unleash their potential while upholding the commitment to live our core values. Our experts provide guidance in strategic planning, technology enablement, and organizational effectiveness across a variety of industries. We partner with our clients by designing practical, high-value solutions to their unique challenges. We enable our clients to grow wisely by defining success with them, not for them.
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The long-term effects of smoking on our health and illnesses caused by smoking.
Whether you smoke 5 cigarettes a day or 50, there is no doubt that smoking is extremely bad for you and will seriously affect your health in some way.
Smoking cigarettes can harm almost every organ in your body, from top to bottom and inside and out. Moreover, it is only now that doctors are beginning to discover the true extent of the harm that smoking can cause to a person's health and to the health of those around him.
Smoking over a prolonged period of time can cause a number of serious diseases and illnesses, some fatal and others that will not kill you but will leave you with a poorer quality of life in general.
Usually a person takes up smoking when they are young and the effects that smoking may have on their health does not enter their head at the time. Within a short while, they will become addicted to nicotine and it will be too late to give up. The younger a person starts to smoke, the greater the health risks they will face later on in life.
Smoking is one of the biggest single causes of preventable disease and premature death in a large number of mainly developed countries around the world. In the UK around 120,000 people die each year from smoking-related diseases. 50% of long-term smokers die prematurely from smoking, a large number of them when they reach middle age.
Globally around 2.5 million people die each year from smoking and it has been estimated that some time during the 2020's the number of deaths caused by smoking will hit the 10 million mark.
The majority of people who die from smoking will have suffered from one of three main diseases: lung cancer, coronary heart disease or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Around 90% of all lung cancer deaths are caused from smoking and smoking is also the biggest risk factor for a number of other types of cancer as well. Overall, smoking has been linked to a third of all deaths from cancer. In the US, 1 in every 4 people die of cancer and over half a million people die each year from this disease. To give you a clearer idea, more than 1,500 people a day die from cancer.
People who smoke a lot of cigarettes a day are particularly at risk of developing cancer and if those people have been smoking for a long time, the risk is even higher. For example, a person who has been smoking one packet of cigarettes a day for 30 years is more at risk than a person who has been smoking two packs a day for 15 years.
Smoking also causes a quarter of all deaths from heart disease. Over 70% of smokers between the ages of 35 and 44 who die of coronary heart disease, die prematurely due to smoking. In teenagers who smoke, early signs of heart disease, such as the building up of fatty deposits in the arteries, can be detected.
In the US, coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death and more than 2,600 people die each day from some form of cardiovascular disease, which may have been caused by smoking.
Smoking also causes strokes and heart attacks and doctors say that smokers are twice as likely to suffer a heart attack than non-smokers and three times as likely to suffer a stroke. However, on a more positive note, if a smoker quits smoking, after 5 years, the risk of suffering a heart attack is halved and after 10 years the risk drops to the same as that of a non-smoker who has never smoked.
Another major illness and cause of death from smoking is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This term is used generally and includes a number of lung destroying and respiratory illnesses that are brought on by smoking. The main diseases are emphysema and chronic bronchitis. The airways and tissues of the lungs are destroyed, which will in time make breathing extremely difficult. Sufferers of these diseases may experience shortness of breath, chest pain, constant coughing and tiring after a small amount of exertion.
At the moment, the symptoms can be eased with medical treatment, however as yet no cure exists. If you already have either of these diseases, giving up smoking will stop their progression. If you do not suffer from any of the symptoms associated with either emphysema or chronic bronchitis, then giving up smoking will greatly reduce the risk of developing these seriously debilitating illnesses.
Smoking reduces a person's life expectancy from anything from 7 years to 30 years. Generally smokers are less healthy and less physically fit than non-smokers. In addition, they take more days off work through illness than non-smokers and are more prone to common illnesses such as colds or sore throats. Smokers will get out of breath much quicker after exertion and find it harder to exercise and they will also have a higher risk of infections, as the body's immune system is damaged from smoking.
As well as having long-term negative effects on a person's health, smoking also has immediate effects on the body. After smoking a cigarette your blood pressure will rise and your heart rate will increase by about 20 beats per minute.
Carbon monoxide, a poisonous gas, will enter the lungs and begin to replace the oxygen. The tiny hairs in the lungs that filter the air that you breathe will cease to work, as they become paralysed by the poisons that are contained in tobacco smoke. Circulation, especially to the hands and feet becomes less efficient and the temperature of the skin may drop by up to 5°C. Your nervous system will be altered and smoking can cause muscle tension.


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The victim, in his 40s, was attacked at a Premier convenience store in Radcliffe just before 7:30am.
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Police swooped on the area, north of Manchester, and performed an immediate search of the area.
They arrested a 35-year-old man on suspicion of murder. He remains in custody this afternoon.
Meanwhile, a car crash just outside the police cordon is not thought to be related to the fatal stabbing.
Chief Inspector Phil Spurgeon, of Greater Manchester Police, said: "An innocent man's life has been cruelly taken away and we have specialist officers supporting his family at this unimaginably difficult time.
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Writer Ahn Do Hyun attended Literature Event in Turkey.
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At the Leipzig Book Fair in Germany (March 22 to 25), the novelists Kim Joo-young, Lim Chul-Woo, and Ahn Do-hyeon gave readings from their works and not only in Leipzig but also in Dresden and Berlin. In particular, Ahn Do-hyeon's reading was part of the Korean Literature Essay Contest.


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In 2011, the Attorney General formed the Federal Interagency Reentry Council, a Cabinet-level working group dedicated to the rehabilitation and reintegration of individuals returning to their communities from prisons and jails. I am issuing this memorandum to ensure that the Federal Government continues the important work of this council and builds on its successes.
(i) the Department of the Treasury; (ii) the Department of the Interior; (iii) the Department of Agriculture; (iv) the Department of Commerce; (v) the Department of Labor; (vi) the Department of Health and Human Services; (vii) the Department of Housing and Urban Development;Start Printed Page 26994 (viii) the Department of Transportation; (ix) the Department of Energy; (x) the Department of Education; (xi) the Department of Veterans Affairs; (xii) the Department of Homeland Security; (xiii) the Small Business Administration; (xiv) the Office of Management and Budget; (xv) the Council of Economic Advisers; (xvi) the Office of National Drug Control Policy; (xvii) the Office of Personnel Management; (xviii) the Corporation for National and Community Service; and (xix) such other executive departments, agencies, and offices as the Co-Chairs may designate.
(b) The Co-Chairs may also invite representatives of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Trade Commission, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Social Security Administration to participate in the activities of the Reentry Council to the extent that such activities are relevant to their respective statutory authorities and legal obligations.
(c) As appropriate, the Co-Chairs may invite relevant representatives of the judicial branch, including representatives of the United States Probation and Pretrial Services System and Federal Public Defender Organizations, to attend and participate in meetings of the Reentry Council.
(i) within 100 days of the date of this memorandum, develop and present a Federal strategic plan to make communities safer by reducing recidivism and victimization; assist individuals who return from prison or jail to become productive citizens; and save taxpayer dollars by lowering the direct and collateral costs of incarceration; (ii) identify, implement, and promote evidence-based research, policies, strategies, and programming to support successful reentry and reintegration, including improved access to criminal justice data for research and evaluation purposes; (iii) promote regional partnerships among Federal agencies and with State, tribal, and local governments and organizations to advance local reentry and reintegration efforts; (iv) identify ways to improve the accuracy of records of arrest, criminal adjudication, or conviction (criminal records); and (v) identify and address unwarranted barriers to successful reentry.
(e) The Reentry Council shall engage with Federal, State, local, and tribal officials, including corrections officials, as necessary to carry out its objectives. The Reentry Council shall engage with nongovernmental organizations, including those representing or composed of formerly incarcerated individuals, exonerees, victims, and criminal justice agencies, to ensure that these stakeholders have the opportunity to offer recommendations and information to the Reentry Council.
(f) The Attorney General shall designate an Executive Director, who is a full-time officer or employee of the Federal Government, to coordinate the day-to-day functions of the Reentry Council.
Sec. 2. Reducing Barriers to Employment. (a) Agencies making suitability determinations for Federal employment shall review their procedures for evaluating an applicant's criminal records to ensure compliance with 5 CFR part 731 and any related, binding guidance issued by the Office of Personnel Management, with the aim of evaluating each individual's character and conduct.
(i) the nature and seriousness of the conduct resulting in the criminal record, including the circumstances surrounding the conduct and contributing societal conditions and the age of the individual at the time of the conduct; (ii) the time that has passed since the individual's arrest, adjudication, or conviction, or the completion of the individual's sentence, and the absence or presence of rehabilitation efforts; and (iii) the nature of the occupation requiring a license, including whether the criminal record is directly related to the occupation, whether the occupation offers the opportunity for the same or a similar offense to occur, and whether circumstances leading to the conviction will recur in the occupation.
(c) Independent agencies are encouraged to comply with the requirements of this section.
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, entity, office, or the head thereof; or (ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.


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"TJ Dillashaw, for a long time it was suspicious that he did steroids" says Gegard Mousasi
Gegard Mousasi has opened up that he suspected banned TJ Dillashaw for a 'long time' following the suspension of the former UFC bantamweight champ.
TJ Dillashaw was earlier this year tested positive for the prohibited substance EPO and was subsequently suspended for two years by the United States Anti-Doping Agency.
However, the 33-year old Dutch Bellator middleweight champion says he is not surprised that Dillashaw was positive to the test and that he expected that long time ago.
"The stupidity of fighters, knowing that they're gonna get tested, and they still do it. It shows how desperate they are, so it's usually a sign that people have been abusing it before, that they don't feel they can do it without it," Mousasi told The Score.
"And TJ Dillashaw, for a long time it was suspicious that he did steroids," Mousasi said. "And after USADA came, he still did it. They didn't catch him the first two times, but eventually they caught him.
"There's nothing to say about those guys. If you win a fight, you deserve it. It's yours. But let's say if you do steroids or you do some different things and you win it, then you steal something from the other guy. That's the way I see it. It's in the rules: no steroids. It's the same as don't go through a red light, don't kill anybody, it's a rule. And if they don't follow it, they should be punished and not very lightly, I feel, a lot heavier."
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David J. Peterson Invented the Language the Elves Speak in 'The Christmas Chronicles'
Two years after Netflix dropped their heartwarming Christmas flick The Christmas Chronicles, the adorable elves have made their return to the streaming platform in a sequel titled The Christmas Chronicles 2.
Anyone who tuned into the 2018 movie knows that the elves have a distinct language they use to communicate with their boss, Santa Claus. So, what language are they speaking in The Christmas Chronicles?
What language do they speak in 'The Christmas Chronicles'?
The language the elves speak in The Christmas Chronicles is called Elvish, but it isn't to be confused with the Elvish languages J.R.R. Tolkien created for the elves in his many novels.
The Lord of the Rings author first created Qenya, the primitive form of Elvish, before creating Sindarin, Avarin, Telerin, and Nandorin, all of which are Elvish languages. The grammar and sound patterns of Qenya are strongly influenced by Finnish, Latin, Greek, and elements of ancient Germanic languages.
But The Christmas Chronicles' Elvish is quite distinct from Qenya, and was created by the language creator David J. Peterson, who is best known for constructing the Dothraki and Valyrian languages for Game of Thrones.
When the first Christmas Chronicles initially came out on Netflix in 2018, the language the elves and Santa spoke was called Yulish. It was described as having a non-past tense, nouns that inflected for definiteness, and a dip in intonation when it came to stressing syllables in a word.
I had so much fun on the first one that I was delighted to be invited back for the second! <3 https://t.co/iRnURMtcbv
— David J. Peterson (@Dedalvs) November 27, 2020
Now, the language has gotten an update for the sequel, in which Elvish is featured even more prominently than in the first — to the point where some viewers on Twitter wish everyone would just speak in English!
"I had so much fun on the first one that I was delighted to be invited back for the second," David tweeted about his experience working on The Christmas Chronicles 2.
Fans, for the most part, appreciated how language was such an intricate part of the movie's world-building strategy.
"Christmas Chronicles 2 does a great job with Elvish, adding a level of depth & realism otherwise missed out on if elves & Clauses were speaking English," one person wrote after watching the Christmas film.
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Who is David J. Peterson, and what other languages has he created?
David is what linguists call a "conlanger," which means that he creates, or constructs, languages. He studied linguistics at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego, then went on to cofound the Language Creation Society. It was during his time at the Language Creation Society that HBO approached the group looking for a fictional language for Game of Thrones. The Language Creation Society started a contest out of the prompt, which David won.
Since rising to fame with such a high-profile project, David went on to create Castithan, Irathient, Indogene, and Omec for Syfy's show Defiance. He also created the language used by the Dark Elves in Thor: The Dark World, as well as languages for Netflix's Bright, CW's The 100, Showtime's Penny Dreadful, and Netflix's The Witcher.
Check out his YouTube channel, The Art of Language Invention, to learn more about him, his projects, and how languages are created.
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