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What is Mass-Energy Equivalence (E=mc^2): the most famous formula in science
The mass-energy equivalence is the crown jewel of special relativity, explaining the phenomena that power the stars, our homes, and humanity's most destructive acts.
by Rob Lea
in Feature Post, Mathematics, Physics, Science
In a series of papers beginning in 1905 Einstein's theory of special relativity revolutionized the concepts of space and time, uniting them into a single entity–spacetime. But, the most famous element of special relativity–as famous as the man himself–was absent from the first paper.
Mass-energy equivalence, represented by E=mc2, would be introduced in a later paper published in November 1905. And just as Einstein had already unified space and time–this paper would unite energy and mass.
So what does the mass-energy equivalence tell us and what is the equation E=mc2 saying about the Universe?
1 The Basics
2 Gathering Momentum: Where Does the Mass-Energy Equivalence Come From?
3 Locked-Up Energy
4 E=mc2: Breaking the Law (and Billiard Balls)!
5 Relativistic Energy .vs Rest Energy
6 The Consequences of E=mc2
7 Sources and Further Reading
If you wanted to walk away from this article with one piece of information about the equation E=mc2 (and I hope you won't) what would that be?
Essentially the simplified version of the equation of special relativity tells us that mass and energy are different forms of the same thing– mass is a form of energy. Probably the second most important piece of information to take away is the fact that these two aspects of the Universe are interchangeable, and the mitigating factor is the speed of light squared.
Still with us? Good!
Perhaps the most surprising thing about the equation E=mc2 is how deceptively simple it is for something so profound. Especially when considering that as the equation that describes how stars release energy and thus make all life possible. Mathematical formulae don't get much more foundational.
Gathering Momentum: Where Does the Mass-Energy Equivalence Come From?
There are actually a few ways of considering the origin of E=mc2. One way is by considering how the relationship it describes can emerge when comparing the relativistic equation for momentum and its Newtonian counterpart. The major difference between the two, as you'll see below, is multiplication by the Lorentz factor — you might remember in the last part of this guide to special relativity —concerning space and time— I told you it gets everywhere in special relativity!
Whilst you could argue that the only difference between the two is that velocity (v) has been replaced with a more complex counterpart that approaches v when speeds are far less than light–everyday speeds that we see everyday objects around us move at–but some physicists find this more significant than a mere substitution.
These scientists would argue that this new factor 'belongs' to the mass of the system in question. This view means that mass increases as velocity increases, and this means there is a discernable difference between an object's 'moving mass' and its 'rest mass.'
So, let's look at that equation for momentum again with the idea of rest mass included.
So, if mass is increasing as velocity increases, what is responsible for this rise?
Let's conduct an experiment to find out. Our lab bench is the 2-mile long linear particle accelerator at SLAC National Laboratory, California. Using powerful electromagnetic forces, we take electrons and accelerate them to near the speed of light. When the electrons emerge at the other end of the accelerator we find that their relativistic mass has increased by a staggering factor of 40,000.
As the electrons slow, they lose this mass again. Thus, we can see it's the addition of kinetic energy to the object that is increasing its mass. That gives us a good hint that energy and mass are interconnected.
But, this conclusion leads to an interesting question; if the energy of motion is associated with an object's mass when it is moving, is there energy associated with the object's mass when it is at rest, and what kind of energy could this be?
Locked-Up Energy
An object at rest without kinetic energy can, with the transformation of an infinitesimally small amount of mass, provide energy enough to power the stars.
As the equation E=mc2 and the fact that the speed of light squared is an extremely large number implies, in terms of energy just a little mass goes a very long way. To demonstrate this, let's see how much energy would be released if you could completely transform the rest mass of a single grain of sugar.
That's a lot of energy!
In fact, it is roughly equivalent to the amount of energy released by 'little boy'– the nuclear fission bomb that devastated Hiroshima on the 6th August 1945.
That means that even when an object is at standstill it has energy associated with it. A lot of energy.
As you might have guessed by this point, as energy and mass are closely associated and there are many forms of energy there are also many ways to give an object increased mass. Heating a metal rod, for example, increases the rod's mass, but by such a small amount that it goes unnoticed. Just as liberating a tiny bit of mass releases a tremendous amount of energy, adding a relatively small amount of heat energy results in an insignificant mass increase.
We've already seeen that we can accelerate a particle and increase its relativistic mass, but is there anything we can do to increase a system's rest mass?
E=mc2: Breaking the Law (and Billiard Balls)!
Until the advent of special relativity two laws, in particular, had governed the field of physics when it comes to collisions, explosions, and all that cool violent stuff: the conservation of mass and the conservation of energy. Special relativity challenged this, suggesting instead that it is not mass or energy that is conserved, but the total relativistic energy of the system.
Let's do another experiment to test these ideas… The first location we'll travel to in order to do this… a billiard table at the Dog & Duck pub, London.
At the billiard table, we strike a billiard ball 0.17 kg toward a stationary billiard ball of the same mass at around 2 metres per second. We hit the ball perfectly straight on so that all of the kinetic energy of the first ball is transferred to the second ball.
If we could measure the kinetic energy of the initial ball, then measure the kinetic energy of both balls after the collision, we would find that–accounting for the small losses of energy to heat and sound–the total energy of the system after the collision is the same as the energy before the collision.
That's the conservation of energy.
Let's rerun that experiment again, but this time we launch the billard ball so hard that instead of knocking the target ball across the table, it shatters it. Collecting together the fragments of the shattered ball and remeasuring the mass of the system, we would find the final mass is exactly the same as the initial mass.
And that's the conservation of mass.
We're starting to get funny looks from the Dog & Duck regulars now, and the landlord looks angry about the destruction of one of his billiard balls. Luckily, the third part of our test requires we relocate to CERN, Geneva. So we down our drinks, grab our coats and hurry out the door.
Trying the experiment a third time, we are going to replace the billiard table with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)–that's some upgrade– and the billiard balls with electrons and their equal rest mass anti-particles– positrons.
Using powerful magnets to feed these fundamental particles with kinetic energy we accelerate them to near light speed, directing them towards each other and colliding them. The result is a shower of particles that previously weren't present. But, unlike in our billiard ball example, when we measure the rest mass of the system it has not remained the same.
Just one of the particles we observe after the collision event is a neutral pion–a particle with a rest mass 264 times the rest mass of an electron and thus 132 times the initial rest mass we began with.
Clearly, the creation of this pion has taken some of the kinetic energy we poured into the electrons and converted it to rest mass. We watch as the pion decays into a muon with a rest mass 204 times that of an electron, and this decays into particles that are lighter still. Each time the decay releases energy in the form of pulses of light.
Relativistic Energy .vs Rest Energy
By now it is probably clear that in special relativity rest mass and relativistic mass are very different concepts, which means that it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise that rest energy and relativistic energy are also separate things.
Let's alter that initial infographic to reflect the fact that the equation E=mc2 actually describes rest energy.
This raises the questions (if I'm doing this right that is) what is the equation for relativistic energy?
It's time for another non-surprise. The equation for relativistic energy is just the equation for rest energy with that Lorentz factor playing a role.
Ultimately, it is this relativistic energy that is conserved, thus whilst we've sacrificed earlier ideas of the conservation of mass and the conservation of energy, we've recovered a relativistic version of those laws.
Of course, the presence of that Lorentz factor tells us that when speeds are nowhere near that of light — everyday speeds like that of the billiard balls in the Dog & Duck–the laws of conservation of mass and energy are sufficeint to describe these low-energy systems.
The Consequences of E=mc2
It's hard to talk about the energy-mass equivalence or E=mc2 without touching upon the nuclear weapons that devasted Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the close of the Second World War.
It's an unfortunate and cruel irony that Einstein–a man who was a staunch pacifist during his lifetime–has his name eternally connected to the ultimate embodiment of the most destructive elements of human nature.
The Sun photographed at 304 angstroms by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA 304) of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). This is a false-colour image of the Sun observed in the extreme ultraviolet region of the spectrum. (NASA)
Nuclear radiation had been discovered at least a decade before Einstein unveiled special relativity, but scientists had struggled to explain exactly where that energy was coming from.
That is because as rearranging E=mc2 implies, a small release of energy would be the result of the loss of an almost infinitesimally small amount of rest mass –certainly immeasurable at the time of discovery.
Of course, as we mention above, we now understand that small conversion of rest mass into energy to be the phenomena that power the stars. Every second, our own star–the Sun– takes roughly 600 tonnes of hydrogen and converts it to 596 tonnes of helium, releasing the difference in rest mass between the two as around 4 x 1026 Joules of energy.
We've also harnessed the mass-energy equivalence to power our homes via nuclear power plants, as well as using it to unleash a terrifying embodiment of death and destruction into our collective imaginations.
We could probably ruminate more about special relativity and its elements, as its importance to modern physics simply cannot be overstated. But, Einstein wasn't done.
Thinking about spacetime, energy and mass had open a door and started Einstein on an intellectual journey that would take a decade to complete.
The great physicist saw special relativity as a great theory to explain physics in an empty region of space, but what if that region is occupied by a planet or a star? In those 'general' circumstances, a new theory would be needed. And in 1915, this need would lead Einstein to his greatest and most inspirational theory–the geometric theory of gravity, better known as general relativity.
Sources and Further Reading
Stannard. R., 'Relativity: A Short Introduction,' Oxford University Press, [2008].
Lambourne. R. J., 'Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology,' Cambridge University Press, [2010].
Cheng. T-P., 'Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology,' Oxford University Press, [2005].
Fischer. K., 'Relativity for Everyone,' Springer, [2015].
Takeuchi. T., 'An Illustrated Guide to Relativity,' Cambridge University Press, [2010].
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Rob Lea
Robert is a member of the Association of British Science Writers and the Institute of Physics, qualified in Physics, Mathematics and Contemporary science.


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Q: Ошибка в JSON Почему так?

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property '15' of undefined

Код:
var list_json = '[{"beeline": {"15": "17"}}, {"megafon": {"15": "20"}}]';
var list_json_parse = JSON.parse(list_json);
alert(list_json_parse['beeline']['15']);

A: Строка валидна. JSONLint не показывает никакой ошибки. Chrome тоже:
JSON.parse('[{"beeline": {"15": "17"}}, {"megafon": {"15": "20"}}]');
>> [Object, Object]

UPD: потому-что у вас list_json_parse - это массив объектов. И надо сначала обратиться к элементу массива, а потом уже к свойствам объекта:
list_json_parse[0]['beeline']['15']
>> "17"

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class AccessibilityFocusHighlight : public ui::LayerDelegate,
                                    public ui::CompositorAnimationObserver,
                                    public TabStripModelObserver {
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  explicit AccessibilityFocusHighlight(BrowserView* browser_view);
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  // Disallow copy and assign.
  AccessibilityFocusHighlight(const AccessibilityFocusHighlight&) = delete;
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      delete;

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  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(AccessibilityFocusHighlightBrowserTest,
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  FRIEND_TEST_ALL_PREFIXES(AccessibilityFocusHighlightBrowserTest,
                           FocusAppearance);
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  static void SetNoFadeForTesting();
  static void SkipActivationCheckForTesting();
  static void UseDefaultColorForTesting();
  ui::Layer* GetLayerForTesting();

  // Create the layer if needed, and set node_bounds_
  void CreateOrUpdateLayer(gfx::Rect node_bounds);

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  void OnPaintLayer(const ui::PaintContext& context) override;
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There is a cemetery on Chamberlain Street; Smithfield Historical Cemetery #84. Heartless acts of vandalism have taken their toll in recent years, and most of the stones are now toppled or missing; but amidst the senseless destruction, a portion of a headstone has survived that bears an inscription which hints at a long forgotten and tragic love story.
Crawford Allen Smith was born in 1864, the only son of George and Sarah Smith, who owned and operated a successful farm in what was once Enfield, but is today known as Esmond. The farm next door was owned by Ephraim and Mary Sweet, who had a daughter Lucy Anna, born in 1868, who preferred to be called by her middle name.
Crawford and Anna met as children. He being four years older, probably looked upon her as a little sister, at least at first. As children, they no doubt shared many summer adventures together while exploring what was then rural countryside, and when school was in session, it is assumed that Crawford dutifully carried her books. Anna had pretty blonde hair, startling blue eyes, and a charming smile, and as she grew into a young woman, Crawford began to take notice of her in a different way. She noticed him also, for hard work on his father's farm had left him lean and muscular. By the time she was 17 he began courting her, and to some around Smithfield, it seemed inevitable that they would one day marry.
Every summer the Sweets would plan trips to the Rhode Island shoreline to swim, picnic, and escape the heat. Before the days of automobiles and paved roads, travel to Narragansett Bay from Smithfield was quite an ordeal, but the time spent at the beach was worth it, and something to look forward to in spring, and remember fondly during the winter.
On the morning of August 10, 1885, The Sweets left for the beach in their horse drawn wagon. Crawford and the Sweet's 15 year-old farm hand, Richard Manders, had been invited to come along. They arrived at Still House Cove in Cranston's Pawtuxet Village around 11 a.m. The horses were unhitched and allowed to graze while Anna and her mother set about preparing a picnic lunch. Meanwhile the men waded into the shallow water looking for clams to bake, but after an hour of digging they had but a few clams to show for their efforts, so Mrs. Sweet made a fire and cooked chowder instead.
After eating a sumptuous meal, Mr. and Mrs. Sweet went to rest in the shade and enjoy the water view, while the youths opted to go swimming. Crawford and Richard donned overalls, while Anna dressed in a modest bathing dress, complete with straw hat, and slippers. It was now about 4 p.m., and the tide which had been going outward for the last few hours was about to turn and start coming in. Since the water was at its lowest level, the trio was able to wade over three hundred feet out from shore. Yet even at that distance, the depth of the water was only about three feet deep.
Crawford and Anna held hands between bouts of playful splashing while the summer sun warmed their faces and the cool waters rushed past their feet. They frolicked as two young people in love would be prone to do, laughing and gazing at each other in silent acknowledgement, each knowing the other felt the same. For the two young people in love it was a glorious and golden day.
All the while, Richard Manders was keeping a respectful distance, but noticed the fact that the water was steadily getting deeper. He was much shorter than his companions, and therefore noticed it before they did. They gradually waded farther from shore, and before long the water was up to his neck forcing him to go no further, but his companions seemed not to notice even when it was up to their torsos.
Meanwhile, Anna's parents watching from shore grew increasingly uneasy. They knew Crawford to be a strong and capable swimmer, but Anna was still recovering from a bout of ill health, and they feared she might not have the strength to make her way back. As they looked on, a sailboat happened to pass near to the couple, and from their vantage point it appeared that Crawford and Anna had raised their arms to wave to those aboard.
However, Richard later recalled what happened next. Crawford, who was a little farther out than Anna, suddenly raised his arms and slipped beneath the water. When he didn't resurface right away, Anna became alarmed and went to his aid, followed by Richard. When Anna got to the spot where Crawford had disappeared, she suddenly found herself in trouble, and called out, "Save me Dickie, I'm exhausted!" Those were her last words before she slipped beneath the waves. Richard, who was encumbered by the weight of his overalls, could not reach her in time.
The Sweets knew right away that something bad had happened even before Richard could make it back to shore. Help was sent for, but it was already too late. Crawford's body was recovered shortly after midnight, but it took searchers two more days to find Anna. Those familiar with the area said there was an unexpected drop-off where the youths had gone under, and that, coupled with strong currents made it a dangerous place to swim. The Sweets were apparently unaware of this when they planned their trip.
The couple was brought back to Smithfield for burial, but before interment, Ephraim Sweet spoke with George Smith. He tried to console his neighbor by telling him what a fine man Crawford was, and that the drowning was not his fault. "I can't help thinking', Sweet told Smith, 'that this sad affliction was ordered by a higher power." He essentially felt it had been preordained.
Perhaps it was, for the two men decided that the young couple should be together in eternity as they had been in life, and buried them side by side in the same grave. A beautiful white marble obelisk was erected over the tomb. On one side was carved Anna's name, on the other, Crawford's. On a third side are the words"They were accidentally drowned while bathing".
What remains of the obelisk was pushed over by vandals, but to the immediate left of the grave is an old tree with a double trunk, its roots no doubt extending far and wide throughout the area. In a way, the couple is still enjoying the golden light of summer.


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DIXON – The documentary detailing Rita Crundwell's $53.7 million embezzlement scheme is coming back to Dixon, and it's open to the public.
"All the Queen's Horses," a 71-minute film about Dixon's former comptroller, whose theft spanning two decades has been called the largest municipal fraud in U.S. history, will be shown Oct. 28 and 29 at the Historic Dixon Theatre.
The documentary came to Crundwell's former estate for a private screening Sept. 24 with about 50 people in attendance, including former City Clerk Kathe Swanson, the whistleblower who uncovered the secret account Crundwell used to funnel millions into her private coffers and quarterhorse breeding empire.
Director Kelly Richmond Pope, an accounting professor at DePaul University, said Thursday that the documentary team is excited to return to Dixon. Several at the private showing asked whether they would come back for a public event.
The theater board originally didn't want to show the film, saying "we feel enough damage was done to our city by her actions," but that it might reconsider if asked by the city, according to a Facebook response the theater gave to a resident asking whether it would show the film.
Production company Cue Theatricals Inc., which brought a lineup of nationally touring shows to the theater that kicked off earlier this month, reached out to theater leadership in September to work out a screening.
Workiva, an Iowa-based software company focused on financial reporting and auditing, is sponsoring the free screening.
The first showing will be at 7 p.m. Oct. 28, followed by a Q&A session, Pope said. The time of the Oct. 29 showing was not available Thursday, but it likely will be a matinee.
The documentary features interviews with forensic accountants, equestrians, attorneys, government officials and local residents.
It was developed through the Diverse Voices and Docs fellowship program with Chicago-based Kartemquin Films, and it debuted at the Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival on Aug. 8, where it won the HBO Documentary Films Spotlight Award.


Connecticut Trolley Museum will hold their popular Pumpkin Patch event starting Oct 5th and will run the rest of the month every Fri, Sat & Sun including Monday, Oct 8th for Columbus Day. Pumpkin Patch is a family fun filled adventure where you ride on a trolley car out to the pumpkin patch field and each child can pick out a FREE pumpkin. Additionally, when you return back to the Museum you can decorate the pumpkins, get your face painted (Fri & Sat) & enjoy the outside play area with SPOOKTACULAR Halloween activities. Don't forget you can take as many Trolley rides as you would like. Visit www.ct-trolley.org for hours of operation. Admission is $12 for adults, $11 for seniors, $10 for youth (ages 4-12) and $3 for children (under age 3).
The New England Air Museum will hold an Open Cockpit Day on Saturday, October 6, from 10am to 4pm. Special activities will include Touch A Truck, designed for children of all ages to view some very large vehicles-up close – from the following industries: aviation, construction, 1st responders and the military, along with the chance to climb aboard historic aircraft including a WWII P-47 Thunderbolt, a jet-age F-100 Super Sabre and a F-104 Star-fighter, as well as number of helicopters. Other activities include hands on flight simulators and the opportunity to Build & Fly your own flying machine! Food and beverage will be available, and all activities are included with museum admission. Rubber-soled shoes recommended. www.neam.org.
OnTrend Crafts is hosting its 5th annual Fall Craft Fair on Saturday, October 13 on the beautiful Hadley Town Commons. More than 60 of the region's top indie crafters will be in Hadley selling their high-quality handmade goods. Shoppers will find handcrafted jewelry, home decor, paper goods, ceramics, body care products, knitted apparel, and much more. Locally sourced and made eats include tacos, ice cream, cake pops and more. Come support our talented local artisans! Free admission; rain or shine. For more information, visit ontrendcrafts.com or email Jennifer at jennifer@ontrendcrafts.com.
Join The Common School for their annual Children's Carnival on Saturday, October 13 from 10 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on their school's beautiful campus at 521 South Pleasant Street in Amherst. The Carnival is open to the public, with no admission fee. Many activities, such as a bounce house and games will be available for a small fee. Breakfast, hearty lunches and treats, such as, cotton candy, homemade baked goods and smoothies will also be available for purchase. In the event of rain, The Carnival will be held indoors at The Amherst Regional Middle School at 170 Chestnut Street. For more information, call 413-256-8989 or go to www.commonschool.org.
The Bement School is pleased to host the Pioneer Valley Independent School Fair on Tuesday, October 16, 2018 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. in the Kittredge Building. Twenty-five independent schools from the Pioneer Valley area participating represent pre-school through grade 12 and post graduate. Information sessions on topics such as how to apply for financial aid, finding the right match, and advice on applying to schools will take place from 5-6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Please contact Kim Loughlin in the admission office at Bement at 413-774-4209 if you have any questions. A list of schools participating in the event can be found at www.bement.org.
Celebrate the Valley's farms, food, and friends with Kestrel Land Trust's special 10th Annual 5K for Farmland & Farmers' Market Festival! Sunday, October 21, 11 a.m. – 2 pm on the West St. Common, Hadley. Family-friendly 5K race on a flat route through scenic farmland or a beautiful 2-mile riverside walk. Farmers' Market Festival after the race with music by "The Empty Bottle Ramblers," local food, products and crafts, plus a live Birds of Prey demo with Tom Ricardi. Henry the Juggler will be there, courtesy of Hadley Cultural Council. For the adults, free local beer by Valley Malt for registered participants age 21+. Get a special edition pint glass and be entered into a drawing for great prizes when you register at 5kforfarmland.org.
9-10am – HILLTOWN FAMILY VARIETY SHOW: Tune in on your FM dial, or listen live via streaming audio at www.valleyfreeradio.org. Inspiration. What is it? Where does it come from? What inspires us to make music? In this episode of the Hilltown Family Variety Show, Jamie Broza takes us through a diverse array of fantastic songs and singers that have inspired him to make music, and hopefully will inspire some of our listeners to start writing their own songs! Encore of Saturday's broadcast airs Sunday morning from 7-8am and podcast is posted here on Hilltown Families immediately following Sunday's broadcast. Listen to the Hilltown Family Variety Show podcasts anytime. Click here select from over 10 years of archived shows!


BAGDHAD, IRAQ - Iraq's trade minister has insisted there will be a "level playing field" for UK companies to win contracts in the war-ravaged country.
Speaking at an event organised by UK Trade and Investment, Dr Ali Allawi's sought to ease UK firms' concerns that US companies would be awarded most of the work.
Dr Allawi later told BBC News Online: "There is a natural historical relationship between the UK and Iraq. There are already UK firms in Iraq and we want to see more."
"There should be a level playing field for them to win contracts in areas such as infrastructure development, hospital management, and water provision," he added.
He insisted that the awarding of contracts would be dependent on "competitive bidding and no other factors".
Tom Foley, director of private sector development for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, said many opportunities exist for UK firms, despite the recent awarding of £2 billion worth of gas and oil repair work to US firms.
"Our focus is on private sector opportunity, and there are numerous openings there for UK firms, many of whom are already in Iraq.
"I am very confident UK firms will be able to take advantage of the growing Iraqi economy," he added.


Many have noticed and started using new features that are cropping-up as Don upgrades the software and user interface. I have no details - Don will be posting some commentary as time allows, so stay tuned.
One new Search feature, noticed by some, involves Tags. I am still experimenting with these myself. These should make the results of searches have more long-lasting relevance, and usefulness.
wrt "Tags", you will notice a window at the bottom of new posts, where you can choose to enter words of relevance. The choosing is not required, and would be most useful if not overused. Enter "Tags" for topical terms that may not be the main subject of the post/thread. This will improve cross-referencing for future searches as we all continue contributing to this growing database.
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Supporting the data agenda
Iain Rolfe, Assistant Director with the Public Data Group (PDG), at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills gives an overview of how the PDG brings together public sector bodies
The Public Data Group (PDG) was born out of the government's aim to make real meaningful progress on the open data and transparency agenda. At its heart is the idea that bringing together the organisations responsible for some of the most significant data in the public sector would help them to drive forward the development of the UK digital economy and to encourage innovation across both the public and the private sector.
Created in 2011, PDG brings together 4 organisations – Companies House, Land Registry, Met Office and Ordnance Survey – with world-leading expertise in collecting, refining, managing and distributing data on companies, property, weather and geography. It is an Advisory Board with an independent Chair – Claudia Arney – who reports directly to Business Minister Matthew Hancock. Its original remit was to explore synergies between members to deliver efficiencies, new products and enhanced support for the open data agenda.
The challenges PDG has faced in delivering this remit will be similar to many across the public sector: – Working across diverse organisations – Companies House and Land Registry provide statutory registration functions of the state whereas the Met Office is essentially a scientific organisation and Ordnance Survey is much more commercial in nature.
Engaging with multiple government policies – Companies House and the Land Registry are at the forefront of the digital transformation agenda and Ordnance Survey recently changed into a government Company.
An evolving governance landscape – change following the 2012 Shakespeare Review required PDG to adapt its role.
PDG's early focus was very much on operational opportunities, with working groups exploring IT, HR, data management, communications and licensing, which resulted in the best practice being shared and joint forums being created. One early and significant efficiency identified saw Land Registry move its surveying team to join with the larger Ordnance Survey operation, resulting in savings to government of in excess of £3m over 10 years. With the disbanding of the Data Strategy Board (DSB) in 2012, the focus shifted more to help the development and implementation of data policy.
PDG data is made available through a variety of channels and licences and includes both commercial agreements and the provision of open data. The value of the charged-for data to the economy is vast – with Ordnance Survey data widely used in the insurance sector, and the billions of pounds saved by the use of Met Office data and services in the aviation industry as just two examples. Equally, the value of the open data released by PDG is very significant and growing. The most recent estimate placed the value at over £900m annually.
Examples of the open data that PDG has released include:
Companies House has launched an Accounts Data Product that allows free access to all statutory accounts filed digitally.
Land Registry has made available more than 18 million definitive records of monthly residential property price data – dating back to 1995.
The Met Office releases a very large amount of open data particularly through their DataPoint service, which makes available both daily and 3 hourly forecasts, updated hourly, for over 5,000 locations.
Ordnance Survey has continued to enhance their suite of open data products, which ranges from a generalised street level map to Electoral and administrative boundaries.
PDG is, however, keenly aware that just throwing the data out there is not enough. The Board has encouraged activities to increase awareness of its data and to help people to use it. Examples include:
Publishing a PDG Summer Statement in 2014, which provided an overview and explanation of the data it makes available and a range of commitments for work going forward.
A range of engagement and hack events with data users and a diverse range of partners from Mozilla to NASA to the V&A museum.
Ordnance Survey's GeoVation challenge programme has involved eight events, supported 28 new ventures (and counting) and awarded almost £640,000 to turn innovative ideas into reality. The most recent challenge on housing has been a joint project with Land Registry.
Looking ahead PDG remains focused on ensuring it is supporting the open data agenda. There will be more data releases to come – not least the move by Companies House to make all its digital data available free of charge, and the recent announcement of new products and increased support for Ordnance Survey. There will also be more activities and events. In the immediate future, the focus is on a survey to better understand how businesses are using data to inform improvements to how PDG data is licenced, provided and communicated. Overall, PDG has made a significant contribution to supporting the UK's growth into a digital economy and is looking ahead to how it can continue to do more.
Iain Rolfe
Public Data Group | Assistant Director
Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
PDG@bis.gsi.gov.uk
www.gov.uk/BIS
www.twitter.com/Iain_Rolfe
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Laura Evans

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Disability and Disaster Response in the Age of Climate Change
It's been a year of catastrophic weather. Meet the people working to fix America's disability disaster response.
David M. Perry
Brad Matheney offers help to a man in a wheelchair while Hurricane Harvey passes through Galveston, Texas, on August 26th, 2017.
(Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
Throughout the morning of Sunday, August 27th, Angela Wrigglesworth kept her concerns off social media because she didn't want to worry her parents. But as the waters slowly rose into her Brays Bayou home in Houston, she discovered that emergency services were overwhelmed, dealing with more urgent crises than even the flooding in her neighborhood. Finally, a little after noon, she posted on Facebook: "There is water in our home and we need to get out at some point soon. ... If you know of anyone in the Brays Bayou area that has access to a raft or boat or is helping with rescue in anyway, can you please let them know of our situation? It may be that we need a good Samaritan to step in at this point."
Wrigglesworth has muscular dystrophy and uses a power wheelchair. She teaches third grade in Houston. When we talk, she describes herself as having "high medical needs," emphasizing how severe a threat rising water would be. She can't move through space independently without her wheelchair. She can't swim. She can't climb. Still, she and her boyfriend had decided not to evacuate, in part because her home was likely more accessible than any shelter. Moreover, no one else in her area was evacuating. No one had ever heard of her part of town flooding. And then it flooded.
Six hours and hundreds of phone calls, social media threads, emails, text messages, and other acts of networking later, a friend and two former marines showed up at her door with a red Bass Tracker Pro 170 boat. The three had traveled across the Houston area through horrific conditions to get to them. A few weeks after the incident, Wrigglesworth tells me on the phone: "My boyfriend and a friend transferred me into the boat. They picked up my 400-pound wheelchair and put it at the front of the boat; my big old hound dog and our kitty cat in a crate, and Justin [her boyfriend], we got in this boat." The rescuers waded through the water to pull the boat to their truck, loaded it onto a lift, and towed everyone safely downtown to a hotel.
At one point, Wrigglesworth started to wonder why the owner of the boat was willing to go to such incredible efforts to rescue her. She tells me, "As they pulled us to safety, I asked, 'How do you know my friend?'" The Marine responded: "Well, we've been dating for four days."
I spent the late summer and fall of 2017 watching the disability community respond to disaster after disaster. The efforts have included state, local, and federal governmental efforts and professional non-profit operations, but also the kind of community- and volunteer-based efforts of the sort that saved Angela Wrigglesworth. At their best, the responses combine the resources of both formal and informal networks to create resilient systems of protection and response for disabled people in the wake of disasters. When systems fail, people die.
There are four basic different types of needs related to disability that emerge in the aftermath of disasters: health maintenance (medicine, electricity, medical care), ability to move in and through physical areas, effective communication access, and what the experts call "program access." Some of these needs are obvious: People who depend on dialysis or oxygen need power. Diabetics need insulin. Chemotherapy patients need hospitals that work, and so forth. A wheelchair user might well not be able to cross flooded areas, climb stairs to escape rising water, or access a shelter. Shelter space might also be inaccessible because messages about locations aren't communicated in sign language or Braille. Such spaces might be too loud or chaotic for people with sensory integration needs (as would be true for my son, who has Down syndrome, many autistic individuals, and many others).
Needs can overlap. Many people fall into more than one of these categories, and access to the resources required to meet these needs is never distributed evenly. The consequences of a natural disaster for any individual will be intensified not only by specifics of the disability, but also by other forms of inequality and marginalization such as race, class, gender or sexual identity, and legal status. Disabilities can also be temporary or changing, especially when disasters bring injury or new health risks. Disability disaster response therefore requires understanding all the varieties of disabilities and the inequities of our society—and too often requires fighting against governmental structures built without disability in mind.
For the people engaged full-time in inclusive disaster response, the crises have begun to bleed into each other and are far from over. I began writing this piece about a week after Hurricane Harvey hit Texas. Those interviews all began with lessons learned and lingering traumas from Hurricanes Katrina, Andrew, or other disasters. At the time, everyone responding to Harvey was also worried about Irma, then bearing down on Florida. As I was gathering information about responses and disability-related crises (and deaths) linked to Irma, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico. There, the lack of power and clean water is killing and otherwise harming vulnerable people every day. In our hot new world, where extreme weather has become increasingly routine, the stakes of building resilient and fully inclusive systems couldn't be higher. Instead, resources are becoming strained. "We're depending on the kindness of strangers," Marcie Roth tells me over the phone. "And we're very fortunate. There have been a surprising number of kind strangers." Yet kindness, like all other resources, turns out to have its limits.
Roth started working on inclusive disaster response after 9/11, when she learned that security precautions were keeping personal care attendants and paratransit out of Ground Zero. Disabled folks living inside the cordoned-off area weren't getting their needs met. "It was a really pivotal 'aha' moment," she tells me over the phone. By 2009, Roth had a high-enough profile in disaster response to be invited by President Barack Obama to start a new inclusive response team at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and now she's chief executive of the Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies.
Donated wheelchairs for survivors of Hurricane Harvey.
(Photo: Houston Mayor's Office for People With Disabilities)
I found this kind of "origin story," where a specific crisis propelled a disability rights activist into the disaster response world, fairly typical. Paul Timmons, chief executive officer of Portlight Inclusive Disaster Strategies, told Pacific Standard in August that his start came after he was alerted to abandoned mobility devices at the New Orleans airport following Katrina. Shelley Hendrix, the founder of Unlocking Autism, started figuring out ways to support people with autism and their families, she tells me over the phone, after "we had six inches of black water" erupting from the sewer into her house after Katrina. They didn't have water for over four months after that, and bartered their electricity, which was on, for water access with neighbors who had no power.
These origin stories also clarify the enduring traumas that disasters leave behind. Hendrix's voice was tight as she told me about Katrina, but more relaxed than in the previous call. The first time we spoke, she was watching Irma's progress, worried both about the lone "spaghetti strand" of possible paths that sent it toward their home in Louisiana, and about the well-being of a friend in Miami and her two autistic teenage sons.
Maria Town, director of the Mayor's Office for People With Disabilities in Houston, has been dealing with the aftermath of hurricanes her whole life, including when Hurricane Katrina led to the death of her grandmother. That storm hit on the day in 2005 Town went to start college at Emory University, in Atlanta. Over the phone, Town tells me about her grandmother's death (from cancer, but also from stress and grief over other deaths in the family) and a letter she received weeks later: "My grandmother used to write me letters all the time," she says. "After she died, I remember standing in the mail room [at Emory] and opening my P.O. box and seeing a letter from her that she'd written as the storm was hitting, and that she forced my uncle to go out and mail. The mail was delayed, and she knew that, and she said it in the letter."
There's a pause in our phone call at this point, as Town collects herself, then lays out the challenges. "For a person with disabilities, things can get really hard because you might be flooded, your PCA [personal care attendant] might get flooded, or your cousin who has come in to help out might have had to evacuate." People with disabilities rely, she explains, on complex systems, formal and informal, public and private. When disaster strikes, people volunteer and send aid. But rebuilding disability systems takes months and years, with recovery continuing long after public attention fades. If the formal systems don't stay inclusive, the informal ones certainly won't.
Marcie Roth repeatedly emphasizes two points. First, inclusive disaster response is good for the whole community, not just for disabled individuals. Inclusive disaster responses are resilient systems. Disabled people, she says, "need physical access, program access, and effective communication access." She says that, if you build emergency response systems with these needs in mind, you will just generally have better emergency response systems.
This rarely happens. Instead, Roth tells me, pre-existing inequities in access get magnified during disasters. "It's the antithesis of what should be happening," Roth says. "We need to be at the top of our game in servicing people who require more physical assistance, more program assistance, more financial assistance." She ticks off scenarios. "If there's no accessible housing and I'm stuck in a shelter, I'm going to be stuck in a shelter until there's accessible housing." If kids can't go back to a school with disability resources, she continues, "then I can't go back to work, and we remain dependent on public systems." Communities cannot be made whole, of course, until everyone is in a home, back at work, kids at school, and supports fully in place.
"From a business perspective," Roth says, "it would be far smarter to be all-in on making sure that people with disabilities can get back to our lives. It's also the right thing to do."
Roth's second point is that federal systems often preclude this kind of inclusive response for a simple reason: There's no money to support the real experts, i.e. disabled people in affected communities. For example, she tells me, every time there's a disaster, the network of Independent Living centers swings into action. These are local, state, and national organizations that work to support disability rights and independence across countless communities. They are ideally positioned for disaster response, especially given the overarching concern that disabled people will be institutionalized after disasters. They receive federal funding, however, and all federal dollars have specific limitations for what they can be spent on. What this means, Roth tells me, is that "everybody else"—i.e. state, local, and federal relief organizations—"is getting paid to do this work." Roth would like to see widespread federal investment in local disability rights organizations, to help them join community preparedness teams and disaster recovery teams. In the meantime, the disability world is doing an extraordinary amount of work through small pots of discretionary dollars, donations, non-federally funded organizations like Portlight and the Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies, and volunteers.
In the meantime, those volunteers have been saving lives and softening trauma. As the floodwaters rose this autumn, informal networks helped direct people with boats, like the Cajun Navy or the fellow who collected Wrigglesworth in the Bass Tracker, toward people in need of rescue. After the first wave of emergencies, though, recovery tends to take a long time. I've been following Maria Town and her office coordinating mass distribution of mobility devices (wheelchairs, walkers, canes) in Houston and beyond ever since early September. Shelley Hendrix helps teach people who run shelters to get people with autism and other sensory needs into quiet spaces. She also raises money to distribute weighted blankets (often calming for people with autism) and small gift cards to Walmart or similar stores. Her hope is that, by keeping her families out of the chaos of a shelter floor, and then providing them with a few resources to get back on their feet, she can help everyone get through the dislocation a little more easily.
During the floods, social media made rescues possible. Now social media is a vector for targeting donations and relief. The artist Jill Jacobs has become a node in the informal networks of aid, expertise, and donations: Over Facebook and phone calls, she's helped coordinate boats for rescues, plus Amazon wish lists to buy school supplies for children in cases where the family is displaced and either the child, parent, or both are disabled. When Hurricane Maria hit, Jacobs started figuring out how to charter planes, and eventually collaborated with television personality Bethenny Frankel to bring oxygen to Puerto Ricans in need. On a typical day, Jacobs tells me, she's "mostly in my pajamas or in paint-covered clothes with fucked up hair." For now, though, there's just too much work to do. Even as I wrote this paragraph, she messaged me about a new campaign to bring disabled folks from Puerto Rico to New York.
The scope of the disability community's disaster response network is vast and includes hundreds, if not thousands, of disabled individuals, family members, professional disaster responders (many of whom are disabled themselves), and more. The few voices I've highlighted here are prominent and effective, but far from alone.
Still, the gaps are evident, and deadly. A nursing home in Galveston, Texas, was captured on camera with flood waters up to the waists of elderly folks in wheelchairs in August. As terrifying as that experience must have been, it could have been worse: A few weeks later, a nursing home in Florida lost power during Irma. Fourteen residents died from the heat, some lingering for weeks with complications from the natural disaster and subsequent human failure. Florida's nursing home industry has been largely de-regulated by Governor Rick Scott. Deaf individuals in Puerto Rico remain cut off from relief. Disabled and poor Puerto Ricans who depend on electricity for survival remain vulnerable, or have already succumbed. In California, deaf residents of Sonoma were often not alerted to the urgent fire threat because current systems rely on phone calls and sirens. One 28-year-old wheelchair user, Christina Hanson, died in the fires.
Toward the end of my long phone call with Angela Wrigglesworth, I ask her about the lessons of this hurricane season. She reflects for a bit about the vast chain of people, both in Houston and spread across the country, who helped get her onto that boat. She's proudly independent, but recognizes that her independence is fostered by community. She says: "As a person with a disability, I require the help of so many people. It takes a village to make my life work. ... We're going to have to help each other."
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David M. Perry is a former professor of history and a contributing writer at Pacific Standard's Ideas section on the topic of health-care access. He's currently senior academic adviser to the Department of History at the University of Minnesota.
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In previous blogs, I've talked about the need to start preparing earlier for retirement. Everyone needs to make sure that they understand what they'll need to enjoy their golden years and then start to put away the necessary amounts to reach their target.
Of course, that's not what most people are doing. And it's something that I've suggested that pension providers and retirement systems can help to address, particularly by providing new forms of digital support and tools to give savers a helping hand. So far, so simple. But those points I've previously discussed are aimed at everyone.
However, I've started to wonder whether there is a need to think about specific groups in different ways. That thought was prompted by the finding I came across that women are not only subject to a gender pay gap when they're working (earning, on average, 80 percent of what men earn), but they're also likely to save less than their male counterparts over the course of their careers. In addition, the Accenture Public Service Pulse Survey in the U.S. reveals that 70 percent of men, compared to 52 percent of women, are aware of actions to take to financially improve retirement.
But women live longer than men on average, and therefore need a bigger nest egg to fund more, not fewer, years of retirement. The US census shows, for example, that there are more than 50,000 Americans aged over 100 and the vast majority of them are women. Women are also 80 percent more likely than men to end up in poverty in their old age and tend to rely more on social security as their principal form of income than men do. Overall, by the time they reach their eighties, men's income advantage compared with women is 44 percent.
Do those kind of numbers mean we need to see gender-specific tools or even tools that include scenarios that give windows of time for men or woman gaps in income, so anyone can do retirement planning for what are likely to be very long periods of retirement—and start to redress the savings gap? I think it's a question that pensions providers, employers and policymakers will need to explore. I'd be very keen to hear your views.
See this post on LinkedIn: The Gender Pay Gap: Not Just About Salaries, Savings Matter Too.


This show followed a revolutionary concept for it's time. Each episode follows a simulated, real-time, one hour format. Every season consists of 24 episodes, so one full day. The concept is that agent Jack Bauer is a super spy who manages to unravel the mystery behind some form of terrorist attack and "save the world." This is one of the best action series of all time and served to rocket Kiefer Sutherland to one of the most recognizable actors in Hollywood.
Picking up where Jack Bauer left off, the new CTU continues to protect the world from terror, one day at a time.
A retelling of Anne from Green Gables, as an ongoing drama series.
Band Of Brothers follows a platoon called Easy Company from their recruitment until the conclusion of WWII.
An ex-con stumbles into a bar just as a new sheriff shows up and some heavies shake down the owner. All 3 end up dead, and the ex-con takes over the identity of the cop in order to start a new life for himself. Of course, the town is run by a crook, to the job won't be easy for him.
This series serves as a prequel to the Alfred Hitchcock classic, Psycho, with a young Norman Bates moving into the hotel that he and his mother will run and his murderous career begins.
This Breaking Bad spin-off follows the life of Saul Goodman before, during and after the drug empire of Walter White.
This spin-off series from Blacklist follows a Mission Impossible style format of Tom Keen and others, as they complete black-ops mercenary work around the globe.
A woman wakes up outside the FBI headquarters, without a memory, covered in tattoos, as part of an plot to overthrow the American government.
In 1920, prohibition in the United States began. The politicians and organized crime gangs of Atlantic City used this opportunity to make a lot of money, by continuing to provide alcohol to its patrons. This drama follows the lives of many of the real-life and fictional criminals alive during that time, starring Steve Buscemi in his first lead role, as "Nucky", the Treasurer of Atlantic City and the most powerful man in the city.


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Reglan. Available by prescription only but dang if it doesn't work. It was prescribed to me for acid reflux to take 4x per day. I only take it twice a day now but it's absolutely necessary for me.
Maidenform Bras. I had to buy a few new bras to get me through my third trimester and after looking for a good quality bra that wasn't too expensive I chose these. I love the fit and they're pretty. Anything that makes a preggo feel attractive is gold.
This belt. Because babies are heavy.
A pregnancy journal, I love this one. I bought it the week I had a positive test so I could keep track of my thoughts each week and to keep up with my ultrasound photos. The layout is great and I think it will make a great keepsake of this special time in my life.
Mama Bee Belly Balm. It smells a bit like plastic but I love the consistency and it makes my skin feel so soft. Plus it takes the itch out of my rather round tummy.
Coconut oil, can anyone tell me what this can't be used for? It's great to prevent stretch marks, for massages, and for dry skin.
Silk PureAlmond Chocolate Milk, a cold glass of this makes for a yummy dessert.
Tarte BB cream, pregnancy glow in a tube. I wanted a low maintenance product to use after birth so I chose to give this a go. There isn't a lot of color but it blurs imperfections and smooths skin.
Red raspberry leaf tea, I don't care much for the flavor honestly but the benefits alone make it worth drinking. I don't like it warm at all, probably the first tea I can say that about. This one needs to be sweetened a bit and cold for me to drink it and even then I have to drink it fast. I'm hoping that it helps my uterus prepare for labor and helps with healing afterward.
My final favorite is this link to a post from one of my favorite bloggers about her annual cleaning lists. It's been important to get some chores done before the our daughter arrives. I printed them out for some guidance to help me keep track of those important but not weekly chores. We have been Spring cleaning for weeks and it's great to find resources like them to help you keep organized. I'd recommend anyone check out her blog for other great ideas.


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Protecting Minnesota's Life at the Lake
by Kevin Coss
Lakes are part of our identity as Minnesotans—and protecting them is an important part of the legacy we leave for future generations. But there are 13 million surface acres of water in Minnesota, and a limited number of paid professionals available to prevent the serious threat lakes face from aquatic invasive species.
At the University of Minnesota, two environmental experts are enlisting passionate citizens to protect the pristine waters they call home. Megan Weber, aquatic invasive species educator with U of M Extension, and Dan Larkin, Ph.D., assistant professor and specialist with Extension and the College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences, are the researchers behind the innovative AIS Detectors program, which invites volunteers to help detect, respond to, and spread the word about invasive species.
The more than 200 volunteers currently in the AIS Detectors program are contributing to field research efforts, helping with data entry, speaking at local events, and even building sampling equipment to detect invasive species in the water.
See how volunteers like Stephen Long and Cecilia Riedman are working to keep the shores of Turtle Lake in north Itasca County free of invasive fish, plants, and invertebrates (like zebra mussels):
Our Lake, Our Legacy: protecting Minnesota's life at the lake
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See more stories of how the U of M brings discovery to Minnesota's doorstep.
Kevin Coss
Kevin is a writer with the Office of the Vice President for Research.
coss@umn.edu
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I have been waiting for two years now after interview, for a decision. Mine is Chicago Asylum Office. What do they say when you inquire about the reason? To me, they first sent a letter saying that my case is in immigration court. When I went in person to the office and asked for explanation, they said it was a mistake, and my case is still pending!!
i just had my interview today (05/01/18) at the chicago asylum office, too. i was informed that i would be able to pick up the decision on 05/14/18 but i kinda know that i would have to wait longer than the scheduled date, but i never thought it would be like 2 years long. i hope you get your decision soon.
I understand waiting times since Feb 18 are shorter. My interview was 04/26/18 at the Chicago Asylum Office. I should be hearing from them soon. I will keep you posted.
Hi all , hope you have some positive news. I'm still waiting. Every time I check the Asylum office replays that my desision is waiting a background check. I wrote to the Ombudsman last November , and I have not got a response yet.
How did you check? by mail?
I have no news. My interview was a month ago plus 3 days.
Hi PAitent1 hope you are doing well , did you get your decision? My father also received email from Arlington AO that his case is pending a final decision.
HAD MY INTERVIEW ON JUNE 4, 2018. I AM WAITING FOR A DECISION.
WHEN I HAD MY INTERVIEW THE OFFICER WAS VERY FRIENDLY, I HAD MY INTERPRETER BUT HE MADE ME HAVE THE INTERVIEW IN ENGLISH SAYING THAT MY ENGLISH IS FLUENT I'M BETTER THAN SOME INTERPRETER THAT HE USED TO HAVE HERE. AT THE END HE TOLD ME YOU DID GOOD, YOU SEE YOU DIDN'T EVEN NEED AN INTERPRETER. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT?
It's been over 2 months waiting for decision.
Arlington VA office . But we got interviewed at field office. Anybody are on the same boat please advise.
You Should get the decission soon.
I also applied in May 2015 but my interview was in October 2017 and i still didn.t get the decission.
They said they are processing 2018 cases and after that will proces the others, givving the fact that you got interview in 2018 you should get it anytime now.
On your interview notice is a number starting with 3 letters (other than A number or Lin) i had it in Chicago and is starts with ZCH (depends on the city ) , go to uscis.gov/check case status, put that number in and see what it says, if it says fees were waived you got approved.
Let me know and good luck!
My one is started with ZAR but it's giving me error.
It means decission was not made yet, good luck too you, keep us updated.
Call 800-898-7180, check if it wasn.t reffered to court. If it says is not in their system is still pending decission.
Thank you. I'll keep posted you.
It will show validation error online either if there is no decision or if it was referred to the court, it will only change online into (fees were waived) if the case was approved , because after approval they send to USCIS to issue a new employment authorization card and that's why the case changes online . Briefly the online update is actually for the employment Authorization card and not for the asylum case. It's just a hint that someone will receive the approval letter within a week or so.


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Ectopic thyroid tissue with a rare vascular variation
T. Ramesh Rao, R. Balakrishnan, Shetty Prakashchandra, R. Suresh
Awareness of the variations and anomalous existence of some structures serve as useful guide for both in studies of human anatomy and in clinical practice today. Identification of ectopic thyroid tissue and variations in origin, number and course of the branches of the superior thyroid artery are of significant practical importance for the general, vascular surgeons and radiologist. Angiographic images with such vascular patterns may lead to confusion in interpretation. The relations of these vessels with the other structures are important for accurate diagnostic and invasive techniques and to prevent further complications during surgical interventions. In our routine dissections with the purpose of preparation of the teaching and museum specimens, it was observed that in one of the elderly male cadaver showed median thyroid tissue at a site other than in its usual pretracheal region. It was situated in the median plane extending from the hyoid bone to the front of cricoid cartilage. Normal thyroid gland in the pretracheal region was absent. Added to this rare anomaly a vascular anomaly was found in the same ectopic thyroid tissue. Solely the superior thyroid arteries supplied this median thyroid tissue. The inferior thyroid arteries were found to be absent on both sides supplying this median thyroid tissue.
International Journal of Morphology
Thyroid Dysgenesis
Choristoma
Hyoid Bone
Ramesh Rao, T., Balakrishnan, R., Prakashchandra, S., & Suresh, R. (2007). Ectopic thyroid tissue with a rare vascular variation. International Journal of Morphology, 25(1), 121-124.
Ramesh Rao, T. ; Balakrishnan, R. ; Prakashchandra, Shetty ; Suresh, R. / Ectopic thyroid tissue with a rare vascular variation. In: International Journal of Morphology. 2007 ; Vol. 25, No. 1. pp. 121-124.
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Incentives; How to work less and be paid more.
I sometimes think that our employees in parliament have never heard of this word - incentive. I guess that they would want to be in parliament for a variety of reasons and the handsome salary and extensive perks is only a side issue. But, for the average Kiwi battler who is trying to support a wife and two kids the money is important.
There is an incentive to work. Normally people would think that by working hard and getting up the salary scale or putting in more hours that they would be rewarded by getting more money. After all, the government supplied "free" education now costs money and if anyone in the family should need an operation then the "free" hospital will put them on a waiting list to get on the waiting list. (No wonder it's free!) If it happens to be Dad who needs a hernia stitched up then he will find himself working in pain for years like my motor mechanic. So we need money for health insurance as well as everything else.
This is what incentive means.
The funny thing is that our Labour/Progressive government gives out incentives which mean that people can be better off by not working more but by working smart with their boss! Let me explain.
New Zealand is the home of small business, almost 300,000 of them and they account for the bulk of workers in the country. Workers outside of this are the few in large business, mostly multi-nationals, and bureaucrats. It is these small businesses that generate the money and wealth in New Zealand so we should all look after them. If they all stopped suddenly the government would not have any money to pay state servant salaries – so we must take good care of our small businesses.
Michael Cullen has a strange way of doing it. Look at his new tax regime that is due for launch next year. Suppose that I own a small business employing 5 staff making farm gates and like all small businesses I struggle from week to week to ensure that I have enough money coming in to meet the wage bill and PAYE and GST and ACC and all the other costs of running a small enterprise. My workers are skilled and we provide a range of gates from sound up to superior so my staff expect to get paid up to $60,000 per year for their efforts. That is, if they work 50 weeks a year and produce 10 gates per day earning $24.00 per gate they get paid $240 per day or $1200 per week. Unfortunately the government takes taxes off this and my typical employee with a partner and two kids only ends up with $45,236 in his pocket. If I pay him only $15.20 per gate he will earn $38,000 per year and still pay tax but get back much more from the tax man and end up with $42,860. Only $2376 worse off. If I paid him a daily clothing allowance of $10 he would get $2500 cash in the hand and he would be ahead of the guy being paid $60,000 per year. I am saving $8.80 per gate which gives me a grand total of an extra $110,000 per year.
I could certainly afford to give my employees 4 weeks holiday per year and send them off to Australia or other foreign parts to study gates one week a year all expenses paid. That would make my workers richer and happier and would make me richer and happier. Thank you very much Dr. Cullen!
Consider another business employing 5 people on a salary of $60,000. I could immediately reduce their salary to $38,000 and send them overseas on to a conference at a cost of say $10,000. Their after tax income would be down by $2376 but they would be going on an overseas "conference" with $10,000 to cover costs. The costs would include accommodation at a top hotel but I am sure that they would soon discover a cheaper place to stay and the daily allowance of say, $500 would soon add up to give them a cash surplus of more than $2376. In other words they would have an annual trip overseas with their family and more money in the pocket. I would be saving $12,000 per person or a total of $60,000 per year. Well worth my while to consider. What you might call a sizeable incentive.
Now we can look at this another way. An annual salary of $60,000 is $1154 per week over 52 weeks and a salary of $38,000 is $731 per week over 52 weeks.
Suppose that I decide to give my workers a 4 day job for $38,000 per year instead of a 5 day job for $60,000. The weekly rate is $731. They are only doing 80% of the work but are getting almost the same amount of money. The $2376 they lose by dropping from $60,000 to $38,000 amounts to $45.69 per week. They can have one day off a week and only lose $45.69 out of the pay packet. I still need to get the same amount of work done so I have to employ another salaried person on $38,000. My payroll has gone from 5 times $60,000 or $300,000 to 6 times $38,000 or $228,000; A saving to me of $72,000. If I could find a way of paying six people an extra $50 per week all 6 of them would be better off working 4 days a week than working 5 days a week. The extra $50 each per week would cost me $15,600 per year reducing my savings to $56,400.
Well that looks like a good deal all round. The workers get the same amount of money for working a four day week and I get an extra $56,400 per year for my brilliant idea. Thanks very much Dr. Cullen! Your incentives are working.
Now if I can just make an estimate of 300,000 small business saving themselves $56,400 each year from the tax bill that makes around $16,920,000,000. Only $16 billion Dr Cullen, that shouldn't be to hard to find.
Perhaps Dr Cullen will need to think up some more legislation to stop people following the incentives. How complicated will our tax system be then?


I have been wanting vegan smores for a couple of years now. There are a bunch of other posts on vegan smores, but I thought I would also post one since I was just a little excited about it and I had always eaten all of the marshmallows before I had the chance to make them, so I made sure to not let that happen.
Homemade Vegan Marshmallow – I have never made my own before, but here is a recipe.
Homemade Vegan Chocolate – Make vegan chocolate and put into a chocolate bar mould instead of the little ones I used in this post or use this recipe for more specific measurements.
If you are using chocolate chips/chunks, you can just melt them down and add a little bit of coconut oil if needed and pour the mixture into a candy bar mould, or use a small loaf pan, as I did and pop in the freezer until it is solid.
I used two pieces of Endangered Species Dark Chocolate Halloween Treats to make my smores.
Get out your graham crackers – two for each "smores". If you are using already made chocolate, get it out and make sure it fits onto your graham crackers. Break it so it fits, if needed.
Now get out a skewer for your marshmallows and toast them in a fireplace, camp fire, gas stove…etc, until toasty, melty and delicious (I'm sure these instructions are a bit unnecessary as I'm sure most people have made these.. I'm just a little late in the game as this was my first time making them.).
When the marshmallows are ready, place them on top of the graham cracker with the chocolate on top of it and then put the other graham cracker on top of the marshmallows and squeeze down so the marshmallows slide off the skewer. If the chocolate isn't melted enough, you can pop it in the microwave for a few seconds, if you'd like.
CLOSED! 🙂 Giveaway! $50 Shopping Spree at iHerb.com & Healthy Vegan Pumpkin Pudding Recipe!
I haven't had a s'more in AGES. Didn't realize gluten free/vegan graham crackers exists – must get my hands on them.
Just FYI, the graham crackers are NOT vegan. They contain honey. Please modify your post so people don't get confused.
wooow ! thankyou ver much..


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Israel develops new type of lasers to power Iron Dome missile system
WION Web Team Israel Jan 10, 2020, 03.40 PM(IST)
File photo. Photograph:( AFP )
The missile system jointly developed jointly by Rafael and Israel's Aerospace Industries and Raytheon has become the centrepiece of Israel's defensive strategy
Israel's defense ministry on Wednesday said it has developed a new laser technology which will give its Iron Dome anti-missile system an edge.
"We are entering a new age of energy warfare in the air, land and sea. The R&D investments made by the DDR&D in the last years have placed the State of Israel among the leading countries in the field of high-energy laser systems," Brigadier General Yaniv Rotem the head of country's defense ministry's weapon administration said.
In Pics: How Islamic Jihad tried to blunt Israel's Iron Dome with 'indigenous' Buraq 120 rockets
The missile system jointly developed jointly by Rafael and Israel's Aerospace Industries and Raytheon has become the centrepiece of Israel's defensive strategy against Palestinian militants in Gaza.
The Iron Dome has the capability to carry 10 kg explosives and can intercept projectiles from a close distance of 4 to 70 km. The Israeli army has been using the missile interceptor since 2011.
In Pics: How Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system blunts rockets from Gaza
"Investments by the Defense Ministry in recent years have positioned Israel among the leading countries in high-power lasers," Rotem pointed out.
The Israeli government has installed the Iron Dome system in cities as a ground-based installation used to shoot down short-range missiles.
Israel recently signed a deal with the Czech Republic to sell the radar system used in the Iron Dome missile system.
Last month, the Iron Dome intercepted several missiles fired by Islamic Jihad at Israel.
New issue with Boeing 737 Max's computer software discovered: Sources
India-Qatar bolster relationship with events as part of 'Year of Culture' series
Russia: Iran shot down Ukranian passenger plane after US jets were seen at its borders


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I have freestanding Series 8 dishwasher. LifeView have rebranded this range to the 'FlyTV' range.
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According to BMW, the i8 is 'a real-world performance car', with the ability to run 22 miles on electric power, crack 0-62mph in 4.5secs and top out at a limited 155mph.
BMW is yet to announce official figures, but the g/km CO2 rating is expected to fall below 59g/CO2, with a combined fuel consumption rating of 113mpg. Being a plug-in hybrid, the UK government will give you a £5000 subsidy towards buying one. Even so, expect to pay £95,000 for the privilege when this classy BMW arrives in showrooms in April or May 2014.
The i8 is so stuffed of technology, it's hard to know where to start. Power comes from three different sources: There's a 130bhp electric motor up front, powering the front wheels via a 2-speed gearbox, then there's a transverse 3-cylinder, 1499cc turbocharged engine sitting mid-ship – kicking out 230bhp and 236lb ft of torque to the rear wheels via a six-speed automatic gearbox.
The petrol engine is then also assisted by a 10KW electric motor-come-generator (connected to the engine via a belt) tasked with starting the engine, generating electricity or produce a quick burst of torque whenever the turbo is spooling up to eliminate turbo-lag.
Added together, this gives a total of 360bhp and 420lb ft of torque available to the driver, offering decent performance. Kerb weight is less than 1490kg thanks to the i8's carbon fibre construction, and extensive use of aluminium for the front and rear sub-frames. Also helping to keep weight to a minimum is the lithium-ion battery, which only has a capacity of approximately 7kwh (and positioned down the spine of the car). This is around a third of the size of BMW's i3 battery.