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Gog Magog are sons of Noah's third son Japheth. These two created one of the most dreadful tribes in the history of mankind. They oppressed all the people living near their tribe and didn't hesitate in wiping out civilizations. According to verses of Holy Quran, Torah and other historical transcripts that these tribes lived in North East part of Asia and they created havoc and devastation in the southern and western part of Asia. Some historians have suggested that they lived near Moscow and Tobolsk. However, others have believed that these tribes inhabited between Tibet in China Turkestan alongside Arctic Ocean. During the era of Prophet Dhul-Qarnayn, the tribes of Gog Magog attacked mercilessly on other civilizations. In order to safeguard his people, Dhul-Qarnayn created a gigantic wall between mountains. This wall is mentioned in Surah Al-Kahaf of Holy Quran.
Dhul-Qarnayn, a man who is mentioned in Holy Quran. Who he really was? These are difference among scholars and philosophers about it. There is various interpretation of who Dhul-Qarnayn (A.S.) really was. Many scholars believe that Dhul-Qarnayn (A.S.) was actually Alexander The Great. However, some disagree with the notion that Dhul-Qarnayn was actually a title given to King Solomon (A.S.). Philosophers of modern age have predicted that Dhul-Qarnayn was prince of Persia named Cyrus The Great. However, there is still some uncertainty about who was Dhul-Qarnayn.
According to Qur'anic verses, Dhul-Qarnayn was given tremendous resources by the grace of ALLAH. After conquering countries in East and West, he ended up near a mountain range where the tribes of Gog Magog were living. According to verses found in Surah Al-Kahf, Dhul Qarnayn came towards a mountainous region during his campaign towards north. Here he met with an unusual tribe who spoke a unique language. After starting conversation with them via a translator, he came to know that these people were devastated due to maltreatment by Gog Magog. They ask him to create a wall between them and people of Gog Magog.
Therefore, Dhul-Qarnayn created a wall between them. And it was not a wall in words, but it was a reality. It was created from molten Bronze and steel. It temporarily stopped the havoc created by Gog Magog. After this wall was created, Dhul-Qarnayn (A.S.) Thanked ALLAH for his divine help for safeguarding the people. However, he told his people that this wall is not immortal and will eventually fall apart whenever God has promised it be. And ALLAH fulfils his promises. So now the question remains where this wall is located.
There is disagreement among historians about its location as there have five different walls like this in the various era of humanity. Wall of China is the most prominent of them. However, it is made of soil bricks not molten bronze. Some historian argue that this great wall was actually the wall of Marib in Yemen. However, this wall was built to stop water and work as a Dam. According to information collected by pakistantv.tv, this wall was not made of bronze and iron. Similarly, according to religious scholars, this is the mountain range at the Caucasus, between Black Sea and Caspian Sea. There is a part in this mountain range that is made up of pure iron and can be seen by naked eye.
Although this wall is so strong that not even powerful and strong people like and Magog will not be able to break through it. However, ALLAH will thrash this wall into pieces when the time comes to fulfil the promise. And the promise is the re-emergence of Gog Magog near the day of Judgement.
According to Hadith of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) as provided via book Saheeh Bukhari, the Gog Magog create hole every day but are unable to finish it and when they woke up next day, the hole is filled and they had to do this exercise again. However, as the day of Judgement comes closer, one day Gog Magog will say that we will "INSHALLAH" finish the hole tomorrow that will be the day that Gog Magog will re-emerge in this world and restart their wrongdoings. In order to save the people from the pugnacities of Gog Magog, ALLAH will order Jesus Christ (A.S.) to safeguard the good people. Jesus will in turn ask for God's help and the tribe of Gog Magog will die though an epidemic virus. Every inch of the world would be filled with the corpses of the people of Gog Magog. Then God will send Bird of the size of Camel's neck and they will take away all the corpses. Then a rain will wash the entire world and it will become fertile again.


"Innodb is affected by the primary key much more than myisam and it could make a noticeable difference"
from question "Optimizing an InnoDB table and a problematic query"
"One thing is that if your inserts are not in the order of increasing primary keys innodb can take a bit longer than myisam"
from question "Slow inserts mysql"
"So that means that in practice an innodb write will take 3 times longer than a myisam write"
from question "Do table locks scale? / Would row locks be more efficient for nested sets?"
"Innodb is more strict in data integrity while myisam is not as"
from question "The best database for low volume banking software -PHP"
"Innodb is more strict in data integrity while myisam is loose"
from question "MySql: MyISAM vs. Inno DB!"
"Innodb -- more effecient than myisam because of the way the primary key is clustered with the data in innodb"
from question "What's the best choice for create a new primary key in a database?"
"I am creating an commerce website and i am stuck in a database problem i am storing customer orders please tell me which is better myisam or innodb i have to use transaction like feature in customer order table and i personally prefer myisam because it is much faster than innodb and it also supports full-text searching is there any way to use transaction like rollback feature in myisam so that if anything goes wrong table will be rollback to its previous state how to do that without any external library or any other server side access and i have to use mysql"
from question "How to use transaction like process in myisam in mysql"
"Innodb has better crash recovery while myisam is poor at recovering data integrity at system crashes"
"Innodb is a safer acid compliant engine with some integrity features that myisam lacks"
from question "MyISAM or InnoDB, for safety of data, which should I choose?"
"Innodb uses row level locking while myisam can only use table level locking that is why innodb has crash revovery is better than myisam"
from question "What is InnoDB and MyISAM in MySQL?"
"Also i can t see your table engine but myisam is better for full text searching rather than innodb"
from question "Query firebird slow order by / distinct"
"Myisam is actually better than innodb for spatial data btw because it also supports r-tree spatial indexes but not as powerful queries as postgis. if you just need points though innodb or myisam b-trees are adequate"
from question "Which FOSS RDBMS to use for geospatial data?"
"Innodb is relatively newer than myisam and is transaction safe"
from question "Mysql covering vs composite vs column index"
"Generally you can have as good performance for reading as in myisam in innodb tables - you just can use count without where clause and you always should have a suitable index for where clauses as in innodb table scan will be slower than in myisam"
from question "Will switch to MyISAM Engine help to improve the speed of reading operations?"
"Out of experience i m involved to a project that uses huge amount of data using mysql and we mostly prefer myisam for data that can be generated it allows to achieve much higher performance losing transactions but generally speaking myisam is faster but innodb is more reliable"
from question "Performance of MySQL Insert statements in Java: Batch mode prepared statements vs single insert with multiple values"
"Innodb is more complex while myisam is simpler"
from question "Using ORMLite with MySQL and MyISAM tables"
"But when myisam is really better than innodb"
from question "When MyISAM is better than InnoDB?"
"Mostly innodb is better choice than a myisam"
from question "Safe way of changing mysql engine from InnoDB to MyISAM"
"Myisam delivers better read performance compared to innodb at the cost of being less acid compliant"
from question "Can I have several 'similar' database tables to reduce retrieval time"
"Sometimes i got asked on some interviews what benefits does innodb have against myisam and when myisam is better than innodb"
"You insert in there but never select from there as far as i know today myisam is better than innodb in this case"
from question "MySQL: Is it absolutely normal to have 9 tables with InnoDB engine, but decide to keep 1 table with MYISAM one?"
"You can also try using innodb since it s said is better than myisam handling bulk inserts with data already on it"
from question "Slow INSERT query on 200m table"
"Myisam is better than innodb when you don t need those advanced features and storage speed is more important than other concerns"
"Therefore innodb can handle higher levels of concurrency better than myisam"
from question "How to choose optimized datatypes for columns [innodb specific]?"
"Innodb is a better choice as myisam is really old engine and would fade away in near future"
from question "MyISAM tables are better then InnoDB tables for full text searching"
"In fact oracle is so sure that innodb is better that they removed myisam from 8.0"
from question "MyISAM versus InnoDB"
"Oracle has kept improving innodb by so much that they declare that it is better than myisam in virtually all situations"
from question "MyISAM table with key_block_size set"
"Since myisam is better on selecting while innodb is better on writing"
from question "It is more efficient to use hybrid Mysql storage engine (innoDB+MyISAM) for log files?"
"Since you don t do updates i think myisam would be better than innodb in this scenario"
from question "Storage engine for large amounts of constantly inserted data which should be available instantly"
"I have heard that myisam performs better than innodb on read-oriented tables"
from question "Would MyISAM be better in an almost read-only table?"
"Innodb when tuned well performs better than myisam"
from question "MySQL Transaction/Commit Query"
"This is one way in which innodb is sometimes better than myisam"
from question "Why mysql explain says 'using index' while the index used do not contain required fields"
"I currently have myisam and i would like to stay with it because it had far better performance than innodb in my case but i heard that innodb has acid transactions"
from question "How to synchronize mysql database requests?"
"Myisam is more susceptible to data corruption than innodb and usually innodb performs better because it caches both data and indexes"
from question "Primary key auto increments"
"Innodb is harder to tune since it has more knobs but a properly tuned innodb system can often have higher throughput than myisam due to better locking and better i o patterns"
from question "MySQL transaction support with mixed tables"
"Innodb delivered 4.6x higher throughput than myisam while achieving"
from question "Suggestions to optimize and/or re-archictect large MySQL table"
"Myisam is the perfect choice since the database is almost only used for reading and myisam is significantly faster that innodb"
from question "Force django to create tables using MYISAM storage engine"
"Innodb is often slower than myisam being a transactional db engine with acid properties"
from question "MySQL InnoDB insert performance (Windows)"
"Myisam generally performs faster because it lacks certain functions innodb has such as rollback... but it has only table locking"
from question "What would the most efficient index type and table engine be for md5 lookups?"
"With innodb there is less time lost from table locking while myisam is faster in table readings"
from question "Optimizing Drupal via PHP Apache and Mysql optimization"
"In general it seems as though the concensus is to primarily use innodb but there are still some areas in which myisam is much faster than innodb"
from question "Do InnoDB vs MyISAM comparisons still hold true in terms of speed of reads vs writes?"
"After all innodb shouldn t be slower than myisam when using count + where but that s exactly what is happening here"
from question "InnoDB has index problems when using COUNT() + WHERE"
"Oh and just incase you were thinking innodb is slower than myisam - the myisam implementation i tested was twice as slow in all counts"
from question "Generating Depth based tree from Hierarchical Data in MySQL (no CTEs)"
"However innodb tends to be slower as myisam"
from question "MySQL ALTER TABLE on very large table - is it safe to run it?"
"Innodb is slower for read only databases because it has features acid compliant row level locking that myisam leaves out"
from question "MyISAM Tables getting Corrupt"
"Innodb shouldn t be much slower than myisam"
from question "MyISAM versus InnoDB simple update performance"
"I know innodb is heavier than myisam but just how much more"
from question "MySQL MyISAM & innoDB Memory Usage"
"Innodb seems slightly faster than myisam but this is really marginal"
"Myisam is often faster than innodb in terms of raw performance mostly because it is not acid"
from question "InnoDB or MyISAM for sessions?"
"2 - i have read about myisam vs innodb the conclusion for me was that myisam is faster when it comes to read-only whereas innodb is designed for tables that get updated or inserts more frequently"
from question "MySQL booking site: query/db optimization"
"In general is myisam faster than innodb"
from question "Move existing tables to InnoDB from MyISAM and which one is faster?"
"Myisam for reads may well be faster than innodb"
from question "Creating efficient join on two table with large amount of data in mysql"
"It is a massive over simplification in some cases and plain wrong in others to say we know that myisam is faster than innodb"
from question "When it is time for a table to change from MyISAM to InnoDb?"
"I heard myisam is faster but others say innodb can be fast also but it takes abit more to optimize it"
"Myisam table is much faster than innodb but no rollback is possible"
from question "MYSQL InnoDB fast delete?"
"Myisam is not faster than innodb anymore for most types of queries"
from question "Should I change my DB from MyISAM to InnoDB? (AWS notification)"
"If you are not using transactions while storing or updating tables switch table type to myisam its quite faster than innodb with much less overhead"
from question "Optimize MySql update performance / is there a recommended number of rows in a table?"
"Also note that some mysql engines are faster than others for example myisam may run faster than innodb at expense of the lack of real foreign keys"
from question "How to speedup mysql server operations in"
"In a thread i came to know that myisam is faster for reads innodb is faster for writes"
from question "Innodb or MyISAM"
"Beststat is innodb so i have row-level locking and consindering i do a lot of inserts-updates it should be faster than myisam"
from question "Slow INSERT .. ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE query with InnoDB"
"Use myisam usually much faster than innodb if your data base isnt transaction oriented"
from question "MYSQL Insert Huge SQL Files of GB in Size"
"Speed does matter here myisam is still slightly faster than innodb especially for reads"
from question "Why MySQL mysql table is still is MYISAM when InnoDB is encourage to use?"
"Myisam is faster than innodb for reads myth"
from question "2 question about better optimize database design"
"If there are many modifications of the data it s said that innodb works faster because it uses row locking instead of table locking like myisam"
from question "MyISAM or InnoDB to use for my Large project, to do multiple work at a time"
"Have you considered changing to innodb - it has much better concurrency support and in some contexts will run faster than myisam"
from question "TRUNCATE and INSERT from temporary table versus INSERT into non-temp table and RENAME"
"Ok there are some cases where myisam is faster than innodb but rarely enough that it s worth putting up with the lack of acid-compliance"
from question "Is it true that MyISAM engine is more preferable than InnoDB when we are building clustered storage? Why if it is so?"
"Note however that for high traffic websites we do modify the joomla core and we also switch the tables from innodb to myisam regardless what others might think here myisam is much faster than innodb"
from question "Run a web page with 3000 user requests, hw requirements"
"The script was tested using myisam and it indexes products relatively fast much much faster than innodb"
from question "InnoDB inserts very slow and slowing down"
"Most of the literature that says myisam is better faster whatever then innodb is old literature"
from question "At what read/write ratio does MyISAM beat InnoDB in performance?"
"And now i have learned that innodb uses more memory at-least while reading than myisam engine so i am trying to change the default engine of mysql to use myisam"
"There may be some exotic corner cases where myisam performs marginally better for certain workloads table-scans or high-volume insert-only work but the default choice should be innodb unless you can prove you have a case that myisam does better"
from question "Should I use MyISAM or InnoDB Tables for my MySQL Database?"
"Am i right that innodb is better for frequent concurrent updates and inserts than myisam"
"I heard correct me if i am wrong that innodb is better for tables that will be updated a lot because of row locking opposed to myisam s table locking"
from question "Is it good practice to have different table types in a database with MySQL?"
"To our suprise innodb took hours more than myisam"
from question "Csv upload is much slower in InnoDB than MyiSAM"
"Innodb doesnt read number of rows from stored cached value like myisam does if column is not null cause innodb is more optimized for writing than reading opposing to myisam"
from question "Why there's a lot of variation in MySQL (InnoDB) performance?"
"You will need about six times less disk space to store and memory to process your dataset compared to innodb or about 2-3 times less than archived myisam"
from question "Better Way of Storing Old Data for Faster Access"
"3 a first of all if you haven t done yet change the storage engine to innodb which has row level locking and in newer versions of mysql has more optimization than myisam has"
from question "Speed up php/mysql"
"As you know myisam table sizes are about three or more times smaller than same innodb tables"
from question "Usage of innodb and myisam tables together"
"There are some situations when myisam is infinitely more efficient than innodb when manipulating large data dumps offline because of table lock"
"If you find that innodb is much slower for inserts updates bear in mind that it offers a much better level of durability - if you tune it for approximately the same durability as myisam then you ll see good performance hopefully"
"Myisam tables have smaller footprints than innodb ones myth"
"This also affects how it is stored which leads to myisam being slower than innodb on insert due to myisam requiring a full index re-write on every insertion"
from question "EasyPHP MySQL Script Speed"
"First question is it normal that innodb is much slower 7x slower than myisam for such usage"
from question "MySQL slower performance *with* indexes?"
"During my tests of innodb v myisam i found that when i did resolve any contention issues the innodb model was 40 slower than myisam"
from question "Can Mysql Innodb handle heavy parallel processing"
"I am trying to compare the myisam and innodb write read performance but i am suprised that the myisam s read is much more slower than innodb while its write is much more faster this is totally opposite compared to what i have learned"
from question "MyISAM read is much slower than innodb"
"Innodb does support transactions and referential integrity but the trade-off is that it is a bit slower than myisam"
"Innodb table is a bit slower than myisam tables but i don t think it is a major problem as you told you are using drupal system is that a kind of mult-sites like a word-press system"
from question "Using a MySQL database is slow"
"Innodb is transactional so inserts will generally be slower than myisam"
"There are several q a for why is innodb much slower than myisam but i could not find any topic for the opposite"
from question "Why is myisam slower than Innodb"
"Also innodb is slower than myisam unless myisam is blocking for a huge select"
from question "Mysql replication - table locking?"
"I know innodb tends to be a bit slower than myisam on counting but this is far too long"
from question "COUNT is MUCH slower than regular select"
"There are other optimizations available but general rule is that innodb will be quicker than myisam is even with table growth"
from question "Does higher rows count in mysql explain means good or bad?"
"In this area i think innodb s change buffer does a better job than myisam s do it now"
"Select queries in myisam runs 2x faster then in innodb but the updates and insert queries are much slower in myisam"
from question "Optimizing the SQL Query to reduce execution time"
"Innodb implements mvcc multi-versioning concurrency control so locking is much more complex than with myisam"
"I ve figure out that even though myisam has locking contention it s still faster than innodb in most scenarios because of the rapid lock acquisition scheme it uses"
"There is a difference between the different storage engines though myisam is faster for a lot of select innodb is faster for a lot of insert update because it uses row locking instead of table locking and the way it handles indexes"
from question "Are MySQL INSERT statements slower in huge tables?"
"Myisam has historically been viewed as faster than innodb but for recent versions of innodb that is true for a much much smaller set of use cases"
from question "Performance difference between Innodb and Myisam in Mysql"
"But innodb has improved dramatically in the past few years and in most cases today innodb performs faster than myisam"
from question "Is it a common practice for PHP/MySQL apps to have Foreign Keys declared?"
"Therefore accessing myisam consumes less resources than innodb"


Ever been deeper than 600 feet?
Started by Retch. Last reply by Scott D Young Aug 8, 2009.
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I went to 200m and it f***** my shoulder up badly, well that and the tirfor i struggled with for 30 minutes and didnt need anyway.
I think this is the funniest lot on here. I dont actually remember the date of my dive or what i was doing cause it seamed like all the bell runs just ran together. Just another day and another buck for me at the time. Worked at Cal Dive on the Uncle John when i did most of my sat work, I guess it just wasnt that important to me to remember, Now if I hate 1000' i would probably remember and care more. The closest I got to that was when we de satted i got to watch the ROV's set some sub sea bridges that were in 1000+' We were supposed to set the 1000' one but they decided to go with the ROV.
Hi my deepest Sat was 230 meters (760 ft) during July 1976 working off the Oil Rig Sedco K. The company was Comex South Africa and the dives took place 120 km or so off Lamberts Bay Southern Africa. Our saturated depth in the chamber was 660ft and the dives were spescial ludion dives. We dived with electrically heated suits and kirby 10. I would have to look at my log book for all the other details. One of the dive team was Colin Beard and superintendant was Pony Moore.
I have reached 993 feet on the 16th of June 1976 in the North Sea on the Drilling Rig Sedco 700. It was at the time the deepest dive in European waters and we have had a lot of presse.
I do have some News paper articles which I will add later to this forum.
My name is Michael Wludarczyk, my sat training was done with Sub Sea Oil Services, of Milan Italy, now not any more in existance.
We used a modified COMEX-PRO full face mask and open cicuit breathing.
If you like to know more about the dive, I will reply to your mails.


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In discussions with GameSpot, Namco Bandai confirmed that Tales of the Abyss, the eighth title in the Tales series, will be seeing a release in North America. The PlayStation 2 RPG will hit American shores hot on the heels of Tales of Legendia, which came out earlier this year.
Tales of the Abyss, which was made by the same development team behind Tales of Symphonia, features the return of the series' trademark real time linear motion battle system amidst a story boasting anime cutscenes and a multitude of character skits. Other staples of the Tales games, such as character titles and an in-depth cooking system, will also be returning.
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Your Musical Self
Don't Stop Music Learning
Thoughts on music learning inspired by the documentary "Don't Stop the Music"
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I had the pleasure last week of serving on a panel following a screening of the BBC documentary Don't Stop the Music. The film chronicled the journey of professional pianist James Rhodes as he worked to collect enough instruments for one school to begin an orchestra program. The project has grown—according to the website, James Rhodes has helped collect over 7,000 instruments to date—and it's spread, having inspired a similar project in the US.
I'm a big believer in the key role music and the arts have for a child. I've blogged before about the importance of music learning as part of educational programming, have shared easy ways to engage young kids in music, and have put it into practice myself (both of my children began piano lessons before they turned 5).
However, when watching the film last week, I was reminded of which children benefit the most from engaging in music—it's the ones who face the most challenges. The children who need music the most are the ones who struggle the most.
There were three examples in the film. One boy found reading difficult, another had low self-esteem, and the third was a girl who easily gave up when a task got too hard. Though not explicitly stated in the film, in each case participating in the orchestra taught these children hard work, perseverance, and provided them with opportunities to feel proud of their accomplishments. These changes were reflected in test scores and observed classroom behaviors.
These changes also speak to the intrinsic value of music learning. Yes, research supports a relationship between music training and non-musical academic skills (extrinsic benefits), but what is arguably more important are the ways music training impacts the person, allowing one the experience to connect to others, and to be part of a group in which dedication and hard work are rewarded.
It's these skills and experiences that are so vital for our youth, particularly those in circumstances where these types of opportunities are not readily available due to environmental or developmental challenges (e.g. low socioeconomic status, developmental disabilities, trauma, medical needs, etc.).
I think, too, that this is part of why I love being a music therapist. Yes, my primary purpose is to target and practice non-musical skills and behaviors. But all of that happens through music, and by engaging in music with my clients, perhaps I am providing them with important intrinsic benefits as well.
Follow me on Twitter @KimberlySMoore for daily updates on the latest research and articles related to music, music therapy, and music and the brain. I invite you also to check out my website, www.MusicTherapyMaven.com, for additional information, resources, and strategies.
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"An Indonesian who died of bird flu after nursing his sick son might have caught the virus in a case of direct human-to-human transmission, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said today.
WHO gave its first details of the case of a family cluster of H5N1 avian influenza infections in which six people have now died, and today said it was still looking for the source of the outbreak.If it was a case of human-to-human transmission, the virus had not spread very far, it emphasised.
It would not be the first case of human-to-human transmission.
WHO said some limited human-to-human transmission occurred before in other countries, but as in the Indonesian case, it did not last long." [More]
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Sudden oak death spreading fast, California's coastal forests facing devastation
By Peter Fimrite
It is the forgotten killer when compared to our increasingly frequent climate calamities, but the virulent pathogen known as sudden oak death remains active and is spreading death so fast it could destroy California's coastal forest ecosystem, UC Berkeley scientists reported Thursday.
The deadly microbe has now established itself throughout the Bay Area and has spread along the coast from Monterey to Humboldt County, according to a study of 16,227 trees in 16 counties in Northern California.
Millions of coast live oak and tan oak trees have withered and died over the past quarter century, leaving acres of kindling for wildfires, but the outbreak this year was one of the worst. Oak trees have historically been abundant in California and southwestern Oregon, with hundreds of millions of them stretching all the way to Baja California.
The rate of trees infected almost doubled in 2019 — from 3.5% to 5.9% — and was 10 times higher in some places compared with the 2018 survey, said Matteo Garbelotto, the director of the UC Berkeley Forest Pathology and Mycology Laboratory, which tested leaf samples taken by 422 volunteers.
Infections were found in all the well-known hotbeds, like Marin and Sonoma counties, the East Bay, Big Sur and the Santa Cruz mountains. But the 12th annual survey detected more of the pathogen this year in virtually every location. That's mainly because the disease spreads faster in the kind of wet weather that hit California last winter, Garbelotto said.
"There was a significant increase in infection rates over last year, but that's not totally surprising because we had a lot more rainfall," Garbelotto said. "But it was a surprise to see them all at once. It's telling us we are entering a different phase of the disease, where the organism isn't really establishing itself in new areas, but is showing itself more when weather conditions are favorable."
Sudden oak death is an exotic disease that was discovered in Mill Valley in 1995. It now exists in forests and wildlands in 14 California counties and in Curry County, Ore., just across the state border.
It kills oak trees, including California's signature tree — the live oak — and there are 107 susceptible host plants, including such common garden ornamentals as camellias and rhododendrons. Although some hosts are sickened, they do not always die from the fungus-like ailment. Instead, these plants, bushes and trees help spread the deadly spores.
Source: Sudden oak death spreading fast, California's coastal forests facing devastation – SFChronicle.com, 2019-11-07
Posted on November 17, 2019 Categories NewsTags California, disease, forest health, fungi, invasive exotic species, sudden oak death
The green offensive
By Will Brendza
Jeremy Altdorfer's day of delivery was hectic, but successful. All day on Saturday, Oct. 5 he was zipping around Boulder in his car, which was loaded to the brim with white pine saplings; making one delivery after the next, dropping off the baby trees wherever they'd been requested. Meanwhile, his brother and other partners from Experience Dental, opening Oct. 30, were doling out more trees at several different locations throughout the county.
Their goal: to plant 1,000 trees in Boulder County in a day. Or, at least, to give out 1,000 ready-to-plant trees to individuals, businesses and schools that wanted and needed them. In part, Altdorfer wants to reduce his own business' carbon footprint, and in part, he wants to help save Boulder's threatened canopy of trees.
"I thought we were crazy, trying to do 1,000 in a single day," Altdorfer says. But by the end of the day, they'd met their goal — all 1,000 trees had been distributed.
Altdorfer's 1,000 white pines are going to help offset what the City of Boulder is calling the "Tree Crisis of 2019." Boulder's trees are currently under threat, and while the City's forestry department plants about 500 new ash trees a year, Altdorfer's contribution of 1,000 white pines in a single day is a welcome offering and a much-needed addition.
"Planting new trees is crucial to maintaining our urban tree canopy," says Kathleen Alexander, a forestry worker with the City of Boulder's forestry department.
According to Alexander, Boulder is projected to lose some 70,000 ash trees to the emerald ash tree borer (EAB), an invasive insect from Asia, over the next 10 years. By 2035, she says, the EAB could destroy 25 percent of Boulder's urban tree canopy.
It's why the City is urging residents and the community to take action and plant trees to replace those being killed, and to protect existing trees. It's why the City has planted more than 2,500 trees on public property since 2013, and why it's provided more than 3,900 trees to residents for planting on private property.
Having an assorted mix of tree species around the City and throughout Boulder County means the urban canopy is less vulnerable to any one stressor.
"A diversity of tree species is going to help make the urban forest more resilient long-term," Alexander says.
White pines are good options because they grow fast, they grow large (so they sequester a lot of carbon) and they aren't at risk from EAB.
Source: The green offensive – Boulder Weekly, 2019-10-24
Posted on October 26, 2019 Categories NewsTags Colorado, emerald ash borer, forest health, urban forestry
Forests of German myth in 'catastrophic' situation due to drought and heat
Millions of trees are at risk of succumbing because of devastating heat. "The situation is catastrophic," said one lumberjack.
By Andy Eckardt and Yuliya Talmazan
HAINICH, Germany — As forester Dirk Fritzlar walks through thick woodland on a sunny September morning, it starts to "rain" spruce needles.
"It is not normal for the trees to shed so many needles. It is far too dry. Many spruce trees are dying," Fritzlar said as he peeled off a piece of bark. He quickly finds a colony of bark beetles that are a major threat to the spruce — a common species in German forests.
In the last two years, Germany has experienced long summer droughts and rising temperatures, both of which are putting the country's woodlands in peril.
The potential fate of this forest and millions of German trees shows the danger climate change and changing weather patterns pose to biodiversity and raises questions of how states and citizens should protect their local green spaces.
In 2018 alone, 110,000 hectares (about 272,000 acres) of forest area in Germany were damaged and 33 million cubic meters of wood — equivalent in volume to 12 Great Pyramids of Giza — were declared dead, researchers at the country's Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems said.
A preliminary assessment for 2019 shows at least the same amount of damage.
German researchers and foresters have told NBC News the damage is the result of high temperatures and lack of rain drying out the trees, and in the case of the spruce, weakening its defenses against pests such as the bark beetle.
During a heat wave that hit much of Europe in July, Germany was one of several countries to break records, recording temperatures as high as 42.6 degrees Celsius (108.7 F).
Source: Forests of German myth in 'catastrophic' situation due to drought and heat – NBC News, 2019-10-20
Posted on October 22, 2019 October 22, 2019 Categories NewsTags climate change, drought, forest health, Germany
Beetles Turn Germany's Climate-Stressed Forests Into Ecological Graveyard
WELZOW: Germany's forests have long been treasured by its people, so the country has reacted with alarm and dismay as a beetle infestation has turned climate-stressed woodlands into brown ecological graveyards.
After two unusually hot summers in a row, vast patches of the forests mythologised by medieval fairytales, Goethe's writings and Romantic painters have turned into tinder-dry dead zones.
Given the scale of the threat to the one third of German territory covered by trees, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government convened a "national forest summit" on Wednesday.
There Agriculture Minister Julia Kloeckner pledged 800 million euros (about $880 million) in federal and state funds over four years to restore the 180,000 hectares of forest destroyed by drought and pests as well as storms and fires — the equivalent of 250,000 football pitches.
The chief culprit has been the tiny bark beetle, which has gone on a rampage as trees in water-starved habitats have lost their natural defences.
In vast parts of Germany, like Welzow forest 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of Berlin, once healthy trees have become defoliated skeletons, their trunks marked by tell-tale networks of tiny tunnels.
"The insect eats the bark and lays eggs inside," said forest ranger Arne Barkhausen. "The larvae then start to eat the trunk and block the nutrient pathways of the tree, which dies in about four weeks."
Source: Beetles Turn Germany's Climate-Stressed Forests Into Ecological Graveyard – NDTV,2019-09-27
Posted on September 28, 2019 Categories NewsTags bark beetles, forest health, Germany, insects
Boulder's battle against emerald ash borer tree loss fueling local woodworking economy
By Sam Lounsberry, Boulder Daily Camera
Even as Boulder County foresters press on in their fight against the invasive emerald ash borer harming the local tree population, officials acknowledge it is a losing battle.
But it is one lovers of ash trees don't have to walk away from empty-handed, even as sickened trees are in line for removal or have already been sawed to stave off the infestation.
Woodworkers like Evan Kinsley, who started the Boulder-based business Sustainable Arbor Works several years ago, have turned to ash trees to supply their furniture and art crafting practices as a way to maintain the local benefit provided by the species slated for a countywide death at the hands of the insect. Emerald ash borer has already dramatically altered the composition of forests across the middle and eastern regions of the country.
"It's a privilege to be able to work with a local hardwood like ash," Kinsely said.
When he first learned of the 2013 detection of emerald ash borer in Boulder — it has since spread to Longmont, Lafayette, Lyons and Superior, but until last month, when it was first detected in Broomfield, Boulder County remained the only area in the Mountain West with a confirmed presence — Kinsley and his now-business partner Aaron Taddiken looked at each other and said, "We have to do something."
The solution was to build a wood kiln to speed up the drying process for felled trees, and now Kinsely focuses on harvesting trees removed from the urban landscape, a large proportion of which are ash due to the pesky beetle's invasion, and reusing them for wholesale lumber slabs and designing and building custom furniture.
"It used to be most of this time, that a lot of woodworkers got their wood from big wood suppliers. That would come from all over the country, all over the world," Kinsley said. "It's not a new thing to use local lumber. But it was a new idea for smaller woodworkers, smaller lumber mills to start working with tree (removal) companies."
Supporting Kinsley's living is not the life cycle he prefers for the trees, but he feels he is making the best out of a bad situation…
While the city and Boulder County continue treating public ash trees to keep them alive as long as possible using pesticide applications, tree adoption programs and biological weapons, enforcement against declining ash trees on private property continues to ramp up.
In 2018, Read said the city sent 182 letters to private property owners asking them to address declining ash trees posing safety hazard; in 2017 the number was 118, in 2016 it was 82. This year he expects to send a significantly larger number of such letters. The growing number of letters aligns with the advance of the beetle infestation. Tree owners who receive such a letter will have to show the city a good-faith effort is being made to remove trees considered dangerous.
But work to preserve ash trees still free of the emerald ash borer goes on, even as replanting species that won't be affected by the invasive bug remains the focus of foresters for the future of Boulder's canopy. The city's Tree-Imagine campaign launched this spring is pushing city residents to collectively plant 25,000 new trees by 2025.
The county this summer introduced a swarm of a non-stinging, parasitic member of the wasp family on the Mayhoffer open space property in Superior, and also has enlisted 159 participants in its adopt-a-tree program for ashes slated for removal from public places. Program participants can choose to commit to pay for treatment to keep the trees alive.
"A lot of these ash trees are old and they've been with the community a long time," Kinsley said. "Trying to protect them in every way is a valiant effort."
Source: Boulder's battle against emerald ash borer tree loss fueling local woodworking economy – Denver Post, 2019-09-08
Posted on September 14, 2019 September 14, 2019 Categories NewsTags Colorado, emerald ash borer, forest health, insects, invasive exotic species, urban forestry, wood products
Oregon forest has an ancient unseen killer: 'Humongous Fungus'
By Jacob Jones
Atop a low ridge in the heart of Oregon's Blue Mountains, Michael McWilliams pushes through brittle branches and scrambles over toppled logs and decay. Bare trunks tower overhead, but the U.S. Forest Service pathologist focuses low. He's searching for something that lurks underfoot, hidden despite its immense size.
A sickly fir tree is where he finally stops and kneels. He begins raking at its roots with the curved adz blade of his wood-handled Pulaski. The tool clinks and scrapes, revealing a cream-colored film beneath the bark. It's an inches-long glimpse of what is likely to be the world's largest single living organism, a fungus thousands of years old yet still capable of strangling an entire forest.
"Yeah, baby," McWilliams says, scraping away. "This is a tree killer."
Dubbed the "Humongous Fungus," the honey mushroom officially classified as Armillaria ostoyae spreads underground through trees' root systems. It fruits an edible honey-brown cap just a few weeks each year, typically after the first fall rains. The rest of the year it's elusive, its presence subterranean.
But what a presence that is: Researchers estimate that the colony here covers 3.7 square miles and may weigh a collective 35,000 tons.
"If you can expand your perception of what a mushroom is," McWilliams says, "you can see it everywhere."
Another Forest Service scientist first noticed the widespread die-off of local tree stands in 1988. Greg Whipple linked the problem to armillaria, then worked with others to map samples across hundreds of acres. The teams eventually confirmed that many shared the same DNA.
Whipple, now retired, remembers how his early attempts to limit the damage by clearing out infected areas drew death threats. Timber wars were raging between loggers and environmentalists, upending federal forest management in the Pacific Northwest.
"It was my lesson into politics," he says.
Decades later, the killer fungus carries on, growing 1 to 3 feet a year. In satellite images of the Malheur National Forest in Eastern Oregon, rusty streaks of dead canopy and the pale, crisscrossed skeletons of downed trees now litter the infestation areas.
Researchers believe part of the colony could date to 6600 B.C. "It's one of those things that makes you realize mankind is pretty insignificant," Whipple says. "You realize just how small of a blip we are on the landscape."
Root disease kills more trees in this region than bugs or beetles, but it moves slowly, picking winners and losers over generations. The fungus remakes the forest as it expands, choking off fir or pine while sparing more tolerant larch. Stunted saplings turn orange as the fungus takes hold. Trees often keel over to reveal roots completely eaten away.
Source: Oregon forest has an ancient unseen killer: 'Humongous Fungus' – The Bulletin, 2019-09-01
Posted on September 8, 2019 Categories NewsTags ecology, forest health, fungi, Oregon
Invasive disease could nearly wipe out the UK's ash trees this century
By Chrissy Sexton
Professor Matthew Evans from the University of Hong Kong created a computer model to estimate how ash dieback disease may affect the UK's 125 million ash trees.
Human-induced changes to the environment are increasing the rate at which pests and diseases are introduced, which is severely threatening to native species. Long-lived species that reproduce slowly, such as forest trees, are particularly susceptible to new pathogens.
It is estimated that in 2015, 100 million hectares of forest were affected by pests and diseases around the globe. However, the subsequent impacts to any given forest ecosystem cannot be detected for years, so experts use computer models to predict future outcomes.
In a recent study, Professor Matthew Evans from the University of Hong Kong created a computer model to estimate how ash dieback (ADB) disease may affect the UK's 125 million ash trees.
ADB disease, which is caused by a fungus native to East Asia, was introduced to the UK seven years ago. This incurable infection leaves diamond-shaped scars on the bark and causes the leaves to fall off of the trees.
About one in every 100 ash trees is able to resist the fungus and avoid infection. This is likely due to a genetic advantage which allows the trees to shed their leaves earlier to prevent the fungus from establishing itself.
Professor Evans found that at the current level of resistance, 95 percent of the UK's ash trees could be wiped out by the end of the century. He determined that breeding more ash trees with resistance will prevent millions of deaths.
Source: Invasive disease could nearly wipe out the UK's ash trees this century – Earth.com, 2019-08-29
Posted on September 8, 2019 September 8, 2019 Categories NewsTags ash dieback, forest health, fungi, invasive exotic species, research, United Kingdom
Aggressive local effort curbed sudden oak death's spread
In 2001, forest pathologists in Oregon discovered what was killing trees in Curry County in southwest Oregon – a devastating disease known as sudden oak death. Almost 20 years later, sudden oak death hasn't spread beyond the county's borders.
Although the initial goal was eradication, limiting sudden oak death's spread proved to be a success, said Everett Hansen, a now-retired Oregon State University professor who helped spearhead the effort to contain the spread of the disease.
"From day one, we invoked legal machinery to mandate the destruction of diseased trees," Hansen said. "Every time we found a diseased tree we cut it down as fast as we could. We were going full bore. So, we went through all these years without any published data to suggest what we were doing was working."
In a new study published in the journal Forest Pathology, Hansen and colleagues at the Oregon Department of Forestry and U.S. Forest Service highlight the successes of the two-decade effort to manage and reduce the spread of sudden oak death in Oregon.
In 2001, federal, state and local agencies marshaled their resources to manage the outbreak. They quarantined areas where the trees had been infected and cut down and burned sick trees.
"We focused on local treatments instead of landscapes, sometimes by design but sometimes out of necessity," said Hansen, lead author on the study. "If it was one tree and we cut it down and all the surrounding trees for a mile we might well have eradicated it. But we never had that chance. We didn't have enough chainsaws."
However, the researchers found that these treatments did demonstrably reduce the infestation. They concluded that eradication of sudden oak death is difficult — the pathogen that causes the disease may survive in soil for several years – but not impossible.
Source: Aggressive local effort curbed sudden oak death's spread – KTVZ, 2019-08-19
Posted on August 24, 2019 Categories NewsTags forest health, fungi, Oregon, research, sudden oak death
Group urges nearly doubling of Madison tree canopy
By Dean Mosiman
Threatened by infestations, climate change and competing demands for space, Madison's tree canopy will shrink with "potentially disastrous results" unless the city invests more in its trees, a new report says.
After nearly two years of study, the city's Urban Forestry Task Force is making a series of recommendations — some with potentially significant price tags — to nurture and dramatically increase the area covered by trees from 23% to 40% of Madison's 80 square miles.
Already, the city has had to deal with infestation by the emerald ash borer that's forcing the removal of thousands of trees, as well as disease, climate change, loss of mature trees to development, road salt, and cramped space for planting and growth in the public right of way.
On private property, where most of the trees in the city are located, uneven care is also affecting the urban canopy, the report said.
The task force, created by the City Council on Aug. 1, 2017, has offered a 25-page report and recommendations aimed at elevating the importance of trees in the city's planning, investments and operations and creating a new city role in expanding the canopy on private property.
"We have a quality urban forest in the city," parks superintendent Eric Knepp said. "However, there are many opportunities to improve it."
The 46 recommendations call for a preservation ordinance to protect mature trees; a yet-to-be defined grant program for planting trees on private property; focusing attention on neighborhoods that need trees; written standards for how to care for trees; hiring a forestry outreach and education specialist; revisiting old sites that don't require much landscaping, such as parking lots at big shopping malls, and bringing them up to current standards; and planting more trees in parks than needed to replace those that are lost.
Source: Group urges nearly doubling of Madison tree canopy – Madison State Journal, 2019-07-28
Posted on August 4, 2019 Categories NewsTags climate change, emerald ash borer, forest health, invasive exotic species, urban forestry, Wisconsin
U.S. Forest Service hopes new minimum rates can help clear forests
By Scott Buffon
The U.S. Forest Service in Washington D.C. changed its national policy on the price of selling Forest Service timber in a way they hope will help forestry projects clear cut timber off of its thinning areas.
Across the country, Forest Service officials are now able to sell bundles of logs for a new minimum price that applies to trees regardless of its diameter — 25 cents per CCF. As 5 CCFs can fill a log truck, the new metric means a truck could be carrying a load worth only about $1.25 in areas with low-value lumber. John Crockett, Deputy Director of Forest Management, Range Management and Ecology at the Forest Service in Washington D.C., expects the change will not impact areas where trees are sold at high value, and will only help areas that are struggling to remove unhealthy swaths of trees.
The Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) works across four national forests and offers timber sales and stewardship contracts to clear unhealthy forests around northern Arizona. The new minimum rate will help 4FRI lower the cost of the wood, in the hopes that a business might be able to save money on the wood and afford the costs of removing it from the site.
Source: U.S. Forest Service hopes new minimum rates can help clear forests – Arizona Daily Sun, 2019-07-09
Posted on July 14, 2019 Categories NewsTags economics, forest health, harvesting, markets, national forests, U.S. Forest Service


This data set was acquired with a ship-based Echosounder Sonar, Meteorological Sensor, Navigation system, Thermosalinograph, and Fluorometer during Nathaniel B. Palmer expedition NBP1203 conducted in 2012 (Chief Scientist: Dr. Maria Vernet). These data files are of JGOFS format and include Conductivity, Visible Radiation, Meteorological, Temperature, Infrared Radiation, Bathymetry, Fluorescence, Navigation, and Salinity data. This data set was created from calibrated data decimated at 1-minute intervals. Several fields are derived measurements from more than a single raw input.


The Scriptures record Paul's conversion in Acts 9. We get descriptions of Paul's preaching and teaching activity immediately. Paul's first full recorded message comes in chapter 13.
Paul has been preaching Christ for 13-14 years when he speaks in the synagogue in Pisidian Antioch in Acts 13. Reading Acts 9 to Acts 13 only takes minutes. It can be easy to miss how much time has passed. When Paul accepts the invitation to speak in the synagogue he is seasoned.
Paul stands and preaches the gospel fully and faithfully. The full message (only 582 words in the NASB) could easily have been delivered in three minutes. Paul covers the history of Israel from the entrance of the people into Egypt through David. Paul focuses on the promises made to David and their fulfillment in Jesus Christ.


Our next Slinky 15 recording release comes from long time JAM On It resident Lando from Los Angeles. Lando came on the decks Saturday afternoon at 3pm and played until 4:30pm. It was a perfect way to smooth out the afternoon and get ready for some night time fun.
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With too many influences to count, Lando has a style that's very much his own. Whether it be funky, jazzy, Latin, disco, techy or tribal, he always tries to incorporate it all in his sets. Variety is the spice of life & he uses that motto to the fullest when it comes to djing. With some many musical elements involved in what we call house, it's would be a crime not too.
Lando Began spinning records in 1996 mostly at mainstream/all-age clubs where Chicago hard house and radio hip-hop was the norm. After getting more into house music in 1998 and taking time to refine his style, in 2001 we met Lando through a demo he sent out that caught our ear. We have had him on almost all of our lineups since Slinky 2. He's been playing all around Los Angeles since and played alongside djs like Q-burns Abstract Message, Eddie Amador, Dj Colette, David Garcia, Gene Farris, Jesse Saunders, the VinylTribe, BodyRockDJs and more.


Exclusive: Adam Driver is the newest cast member of Martin Scorsese's "Silence." He's joining Andrew Garfield and Ken Watanabe in the Japanese thriller set in the 17th century. Scorsese told me last night at HBO's annual star-a-thon post- Globes party that shooting will commence next summer. First, of course, Scorsese has to finish up a winter of Oscar promotion for 'The Wolf of Wall Street," which has turned into a gigantic hit at the box office.
Driver, of course, is the breakout star of HBO's "Girls," which had its season premiere last night. He will also be a big deal later this year in "Tracks," with Mia Wasikowska, The John Curran-directed romance/ adventure is — I know this is early, but true– on tracks for the 2015 Oscars. It's a wonderful film.
Scorsese and his "Wolf" crew, including Jonah Hill, were graciously invited in by HBO, which also had actors and directors from other studios who weren't giving big parties. Mad Men star Elisabeth Moss came with her Golden Globe– the first actual award she's received for her trenchant portrayal of Peggy on the hit show. Many of the "Girls" stars were in attendance including Zosia Mamet with boyfriend actor Evan Jongkeit, Allison Williams, and Jemma Kirke.
Meanwhile, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson were there, but split up to work the room. Tom spent a lot of time with our favorite Hollywood grande dame, Barbara Davis, and insisted I take their picture. Rita chatted with Judd Apatow, who told me he's getting ready to direct "Train Wreck"– sadly his wife, one of my favorite actresses, Leslie Mann, will not be in it. We did talk about how well "This is 40" is doing playing on HBO. It's been an enormous hit.
The best table: Helen Mirren, husband Taylor Hackford, CAA agent Fred Specktor, publicist Stan Rosenfield, and super woman Peggy Siegal. Dame Helen comes to Broadway, they confirmed, in spring 2015 with her West End hit, "The Audience," in which she once again plays Queen Elizabeth.
Elsewhere at the HBO shindig, I ran into four star actress Tony winner and Oscar nominee Janet McTeer. She rarely ventures to L.A. but is in town for a few days for meetings. For my money, McTeer might be the only actress in her age group equal to Cate Blanchett. On Broadway she peels the paint right off the walls. In movies. she's been a dynamic presence in "Albert Nobbs" and "Tumbleweeds." An Oscar win is in her future!


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Thus, KT is negative and its value is one short of K, or KG.
Graphically, tax multiplier has been shown in Fig. 3.18. Pre-tax consumption line and aggregate demand schedule are represented by C1 and C, + I + G, respectively. The corresponding equilibrium level of income is OYI. An increase in taxes shifts the consumption line to C2. Consequently, aggregate demand schedule also shifts downwards to C, + I + G. Consequently, income declines to OY2. Thus, the effect of an increase in taxes on income is contractionary.
One must know the distinction between KI or KG and KT.This is demonstrated in terms to Table 3.4.
Thus, KT is negative and one less than KI or KG.
The G-multiplier and T-multiplier are also called fiscal multipliers as these multipliers are associated with the fiscal activities of the government (i.e., changes in expenditure and taxation plans).


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Deanna Tanner Okun, Chairman of the United States International Trade Commission (USITC), announced today that Judge Charles E. Bullock has been named the Chief Administrative Law Judge at the USITC.
As Chief Administrative Law Judge, Bullock will provide administrative guidance and leadership to assure a thorough, yet expeditious, processing of the agency's section 337 investigation caseload. He will continue to preside in section 337 investigations as well. USITC administrative law judges manage proceedings, preside over evidentiary hearings, and make initial determinations in the agency's investigations involving unfair practices in import trade. These investigations most often involve allegations of patent and trademark infringement.
Bullock has served as Acting Chief Administrative Law Judge since August 2011, following the retirement of former Chief Administrative Law Judge Paul J. Luckern.
Bullock has served as an administrative law judge (ALJ) at the USITC since May 2002. From 1996 until joining the USITC, Bullock was an ALJ with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In that position, he conducted hearings and wrote initial decisions in enforcement proceedings brought under a number of environmental laws administered by the EPA.
Before Bullock joined the EPA, he had served for 24 years with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). For the last 12 of those years, he was an ALJ, conducting hearings and writing initial decisions in complex, multi-party cases involving electric utility and natural gas pipeline rates. Prior to assuming his judgeship at FERC, he was a trial attorney and then an Assistant General Counsel at that agency.
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The announcement comes with Catalina Behavioral Health aiming to provide those in need of support with professional care, facilitating effective recovery from alcohol and drug addiction. Focusing on the underlying causes of such addictions, its Arizona rehab campus utilizes scientifically-developed therapies designed for long-lasting results.
Its new Tucson-area center offers an expanded variety of programs dedicated to helping clients overcome their dependence on harmful substances. According to the center, its clinical staff members draw on their experience with treating trauma damage and mental health disorders in order to apply holistic models that target continuing sobriety.
Providing a combined array of inpatient and outpatient services, Catalina Behavioral Health looks to find optimal solutions tailored to the unique needs of those in its care. For those who seek to reside in their own homes while pursuing their recovery, the center points to its intensive outpatient program as a suitable choice for Tucson and the surrounding areas as well.
Its inpatient treatment, on the other hand, allows for residential live-in care at its Tucson facility – while its partial hospitalization program is described as offering more flexibility for its clients. The center explains that its clients are guided through mental health counseling with individual and group therapy courses as per their requirements and background.
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Jonathan "Junior" Juniper è un personaggio dei fumetti creato da Stan Lee (testi) e Jack Kirby (disegni), pubblicato dalla Marvel Comics. La sua prima apparizione avviene in Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos (vol. 1) n. 1 (maggio 1963).

Giovanissimo membro fondatore degli Howling Commandos "Junior" Juniper viene ricordato principalmente per essere stato il primo personaggio Marvel Comics a morire nonché uno dei primi in generale nel mondo dei fumetti. Cosa che, oltre a colpire molto il pubblico dell'epoca, ha segnato profondamente il personaggio di Nick Fury per tutta la sua successiva vita editoriale.

Biografia del personaggio
Dopo l'attacco di Pearl Harbor Jonathan Juniper, matricola di un'imprecisata università Ivy League, mosso dal patriottismo, si arruola nella United States Air Force venendo soprannominato "Junior" per via della sua giovane età. Successivamente, vista la sua incredibile abilità con coltello, granate, dinamite e mitragliatore Thompson, nonché l'enorme talento nell'utilizzo del mitragliere di coda dei Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, "Happy Sam" Sawyer lo assegna alla First Attack Squad di Nick Fury che salva durante la prima missione quando, ispirato dalla storia biblica di Gedeone, convince i commilitoni a mettere in fuga i nazisti che li accerchiano servendosi delle loro grida e di un altoparlante; cosa che vale poi alla squadra il soprannome "Howling Commandos".

Assieme ai compagni, Junior partecipa a una missione in Francia e a una in Germania dopodiché Fury, intrapresa una relazione con la contessa britannica Pamela Hawley, si offre di salvare suo fratello Percy Hawley dalle grinfie dei nazisti; questi però si rivela un simpatizzante di Hitler e, nello scontro che ne segue, Junior perde la vita.

Ritenendosi responsabile della morte del ragazzo, Fury decide di intensificare l'addestramento degli Howling Commandos affinché non succeda più un nulla di simile, mentre il suo posto in squadra viene occupato da "Pinky" Pinkerton.

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In una realtà alternativa che immaginava cosa sarebbe successo se la Seconda Guerra Mondiale fosse stata combattuta nello spazio, "Junior" Juniper è uno degli Howling Commandos, paladini del Settore Alpha dell'universo agli ordini di un super computer. Il gruppo riesce a catturare e uccidere il barone Strucker senza che vi sia alcuna perdita.

X-Men Forever
Nell'universo di X-Men Forever compare il nipote di "Junior" Juniper, Tommy, agente S.H.I.E.L.D. ucciso durante una missione in Sud America, cosa che spinge Nick Fury a investigare

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Junior Juniper, interpretato da James Austin Kerr, compare nella serie televisiva Agent Carter. In tale versione, egli è un giovanissimo soldato che, dopo la guerra, si arruola nella seconda formazione di Howling Commandos, capitanata da Dum Dum Dugan, e, nel corso di una delle sue prime missioni, viene assassinato da una delle bambine facenti parte del Programma Vedova Nera.

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Their carefree cavorting seems typical, but rather than racing on foot, they chase each other in wheelchairs with their mother carefully watching. Wanda Sierra, 36, warns the boys to watch the speed of their motorized wheelchairs. She doesn't want them crashing into either each other or others playing nearby. Anthony and Jorge Adames, 12 and 10, have Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a rapidly progressive, incurable form of the genetic disease that erodes muscles. In most cases, those with the disease, usually male, are confined to wheelchairs by age 12. In the Adames' case, Anthony can no longer walk. His brother can still stand with the use of crutches but is no longer mobile without the wheelchair. Duchenne can cause mental impairment, and the boys have learning disabilities related to the disease. Luckily, their general health so far is good. Despite their physical limitations, they are spirited, yet shy, enjoy school and have plenty of friends. Sierra, who is raising the boys on her own in a handicapped-accessible apartment in the Laurel Gardens public housing complex on Main Street, strives to keep life for them as normal as possible. "They can run around - in their chairs," Sierra said. "Everybody knows them here, and the other kids always look out for them." It's not easy, she says, but the boys are the loves of her life, and she is happy for each day she shares with them. But she has mixed emotions about this summer when she and her sons will be separated for the first time. The boys plan to go away for a week in August to a Muscular Dystrophy Association camp in Spring Valley, N.Y. The camp is provided free to the families. "I'm sure they're going to love it," Sierra said. "Once they go, they won't want to come back home." At first, Anthony was nervous about leaving home. But his Broadview Middle School social skills counselor, Christine Miller, convinced him camp would be a great experience - and would give his mother a break. Beyond taking care of the boys, including all of their personal hygiene needs, Sierra has worked part-time for the past seven years at the Dollar Max store on Main Street. "I'm going to miss them," Sierra said. "But it's just a week, and I need a break. It's really hard working and taking care of them, but I wouldn't change it. I ask God every day to give me the strength and health to be there for them." To encourage Anthony to consider camp, Miller brainstormed with him on how this could help his mother. Together, they decided for the week he and his brother were at camp, they would give his mother a surprise - mom's camp. "I've never met such a selfless person in my life as Wanda," Miller said during a visit to their home. "If I have something go wrong in my life, I'm crabby, but she is always happy. Anthony and I talked about all she does for him and all she deserves." With the idea in mind of offering their mother a "camp" experience while the boys are away at camp, Anthony wrote a letter to local businesses asking for contributions to allow their mother a chance to enjoy things she otherwise could not afford. In his letter, Anthony, who just finished sixth grade, described his mother's devotion to him and his brother, who will be a fifth-grader at Pembroke School. "She is the best mother ever. The problem is, she doesn't ever do anything for herself because she is always so busy caring about Jorge and me. She goes to work when we are at school, so she basically never gets a break," Anthony wrote. He said neither he nor his brother has ever been away from their mother because she is the one they depend on for everything. "But this year, I'm going because I want to do something special for my mom," Anthony wrote of "mom's camp." "She deserves to relax and be spoiled for once. I think it would be nice if she got a massage for her muscles, got her nails done, didn't have to clean or cook, and just had some fun." Sierra was delighted with the thoughtfulness of her sons. "We just wanted to do something nice," Anthony said. "She deserves a great camp," Jorge said. So far, Miller said, she has received one gift certificate for a massage and facial but hopes other businesses, maybe a salon or area restaurants, could contribute. "If anyone deserves a Mother's Day experience for a week, it's Wanda," Miller said. � Anyone wishing to make a contribution can do so through the Broadview Middle School KIDS program in care of Christine Miller, Broadview Middle School, 72 Hospital Ave., Danbury, CT 06810.


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No matter what kind of work you do, it's getting harder and harder to steer clear of conversations about how artificial intelligence is poised to change everything. If it feels like the mid-90's all over again to you – when it seemed every conversation was about the World Wide Web and the Information Superhighway (thank you Al Gore) – I get it.
Here's the plain truth: as real and as revolutionary as the Internet was in the 90s, so will be the case for AI in the coming years, in what's being hailed as the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Closer to home and much more practically, let's take a look at how AI is changing the contact center and customer experience, and where the impact is most significant. Specifically, we'll focus on three applications of AI that will forever change how we build and run contact centers: Chatbots, analytics, and the agent experience.
AI-powered Chatbots
Chatbots – automated conversation programs designed to replicate talking with human agents in an effort to help brands eliminate wait times – are nothing terribly new, first appearing on the scene around 1966. The modern chatbot era began in 2010 with Apple's Siri, and today they are more or less mainstream, with an Oracle report from 2016 stating that 80% of C-suite leaders and senior marketers have already implemented chatbots or plan to do so by 2020.
To be clear, there are chatbots and then there are AI-powered chatbots (read this to understand the difference). Chatbots that run on keywords and without the benefit of tools such as Natural Language Processing (NLP) are a dime-a-dozen, easy to spin up, and acceptable in the right context. Wire them up with AI, and now you're into a whole new level of customer engagement. That's because AI (or specifically the NLP branch) lets chatbots partake in far more natural conversations; they're far better at understanding your customers' intentions, and as a result can respond more accurately.
If you've deployed a non-AI chatbot before and had some success, well 'you ain't seen nothing yet'. AI-powered chatbots interact better with your customers, leading to better experiences for them and higher satisfaction scores for you. When integrated with your core business systems, AI-powered chatbots are a huge step up from their non-AI ancestors. I'll leave the human evolution analogies out of this one.
I deliberately opened this story with chatbots as they are the most recognized and most widely adopted form of AI. That's because they're also the most press-friendly AI implementation. But the reality is that the impact chatbots have on customer experience pales in comparison to the next two use cases.
AI-powered Analytics
If you remind yourself that AI is, in its simplest definition, the application of computer programming to human brain-like activities, then it becomes easy to think of AI involvement in areas other than speech or communications.
The human brain has an amazing capacity to process vast amounts of data simultaneously. How else can you explain how you're able to recognize your best friend from 100 yards away just by the way she walks? Your brain has concurrently recognized height, build, gait, gestures, and loads of other data points to tell you 'hey, there's Sarah!'. To do this, your brain uses something called crystallized intelligence – the application of knowledge acquired through experience. A traditional computer's equivalent would be its programming; it can do what it knows how to do, and not much else as it has no capacity to learn new things. AI is not burdened by this limitation.
Business intelligence is one domain already witnessing a massive overhaul thanks to AI. When you point AI at vast amounts of disconnected data – sales history, customer profile, website cookie data, chat history – it will be able to see patterns and deduce insights in ways that humans can't, because it takes us much longer to ingest and store all this data. To put a blunt point on it, when you use AI applications to comb through your customer data, you will begin to identify key indicators of critical business traits including risk, revenue opportunities, churn, and much more. The deductive power of AI hooked up to the computational power of today's business hardware puts more and deeper insights within short reach. Your ability to use data more intelligently will completely revolutionize how you run your business, let alone your customer experience operation. There are many examples of businesses already doing just that.
AI-powered Intelligent Assistance
I've saved this one for last because to me it's not only the most exciting to ponder, it's also perhaps the most accessible. AI for your agents – for, not instead of – will change the contact center more profoundly than the first telephone switchboard or soft phone ever did. It will make your agents faster and more efficient, and will leave them more challenged and fulfilled on the job than ever before. At Comm100, we call it Agent Assist.
A customer starts a conversation with you via chat, social media, messaging, email, wherever. Agent Assist 'listens in' on the conversation, determines what the customer wants to do, and presents your agent with a range of answers or resources to resolve the question. The agent chooses the best option based on their sense of the situation and passes it along to the customer themselves (unlike a bot which would handle the conversation completely). Their problem solved, the customer goes away happy.
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If the customer's question was entirely new with no pre-existing resource available, then your agents can flag it as a gap that needs closing. This will make it incredibly easy for your agents – the ones who need the answers most but who until now had no way to ask for help without totally disrupting their routine – to help your organization fill in the knowledge gaps.
I mentioned this type of AI application being more accessible, so let me explain that. Aside from offering substantial productivity gains, agent-facing AI is also the easiest and least risky to implement. That's because when you take away the customer-facing angle, a whole lot of anxiety disappears. I refer to the naturally human hesitation and concern that you and your management team may have around adopting customer-facing AI technology like the chatbots mentioned above. Internal applications are understandably easier to swallow.
Now do you see why this AI application is the most exciting to me? First of all, any technology that makes the contact center faster and more productive is a good thing. Second, any technology that strengthens the role of human agents is also a good thing (yes, I know chatbots can be seen as replacements, but realistically, if all your agents face are the simple, boring questions then you're likely experiencing considerable agent churn or at least having to constantly deal with poor motivation and productivity).
Lastly, and most importantly, there's no putting this stuff back in the box. But you wouldn't want to because then you'd miss out on all the amazing enhancements these technologies stand to deliver for your business. Chatbots aren't your thing? I get that (sort of). Data analytics not in your domain? Fair enough. But AI applications that make your agents better? Why on earth would you not go there? Let AI find the answers, and let your agents deliver them with care and compassion. It's a win-win.
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From August to September 2013, I created more direct rewrites of the eight basic classes presented in the Fourth Edition Player's Handbook — Cleric, Fighter, Paladin, Ranger, Rogue, Warlock, Warlord, and Wizard.
These are "Heroic" classes — they only span the first ten levels of play. They're designed for a direct comparison to the original classes as an experiment in eliminating the bookkeeping of daily powers in favor of features.
Divine leader, the Templar is a straightforward rewrite of the basic Templar — eliminating need of deities for powers, and incorporating at-will healing. The Templar is more aggressive than my earlier Monk and Healer leaders.
Martial defender, the Dragoon is a paragon of martial supremacy — he protects himself and his allies from incoming charge attacks using his enhanced reach and unprecedented flexibility in opportunity actions. This is a cool class.
Divine and Martial defender, the Guardian is another "no frills" kind of Paladin. The Guardian protects allies by taking hits for them, which enables use of his Righteous Smite — only accessible while the Guardian is bloodied.
Primal and Martial striker, the Archer came about when I realized the Swashbuckler Ranger I had written belonged "too much" to the Martial source and I preferred to include a Primal Ranger. The Archer filled the role quite naturally.
Martial striker, the Scoundrel is a straightforward slimming-down of the classic Rogue and Essentials Thief classes. In some versions I've replaced the encounter attack power with Backstab. I'm still not sure what I prefer.
Shadow striker, the Cultist represents my vision of a more straightforward "dark" Warlock that doesn't rely on gimmicky mechanics. It follows my realization that the Warlock's flavor coincides with the Shadow source, not the Arcane source.
Martial leader, the Marshal has at-will healing and uses the "exploded" model for leader healing — rather than scaling powers, I've underlined their effectiveness by making "improved healing" an essential part of leader class features.
Arcane controller, the Warmage draws inspiration from older versions of the classic "Magic Missile" spell for its encounter powers. Wizard rewrites and remixes have proved difficult to design as the original class is considerably lacking.