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Wind on the Water
Energy developers are watching how the Cape Wind Project plays out. It could clear the way for more big wind farms off the coasts of places such as New York, Maryland, and Michigan. (Photo courtesy of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
A big shift to alternative energies
such as wind and solar will take a
change in thinking. One example is
the Cape Wind project. Cape Wind
plans to build one-hundred-thirty
windmills in the water. It would
be the country's first off-shore
wind farm, but not everybody likes
it. Mark Brush reports the fight
over this wind farm could clear
the path for others:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/feature_brush_122409.mp3
Say you want to make some money putting up windmills. You need a place with lots of wind, lots of open space, and lots of people who will want to buy your power.
It turns out, Nantucket Sound off the east coast is an ideal setting.
Jim Gordon first proposed the Cape Wind Project in 2001. The windmills would be as tall as 40 story buildings. And could power hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses.
"Look, it's not a question of Cape Wind or nothing. It's a question of Cape Wind or a new nuclear plant or a new coal plant, or a heavy oil fired power plant."
And that's where people on Cape Cod get their power now – a power plant that burns oil. Boats making deliveries to the power plant have spilled oil into the water.
Jim Gordon thought it was a no-brainer. Replace dirty power plants with clean renewable energy.
But his plan ran into a bunch of opposition from rich and powerful people.
Roger Whitcomb wrote a book on the Cape Wind Project. Whitcomb said at a recent lecture that a lot of the opposition came from names we're all familiar with – the Kennedys, the duPonts, and the Mellons.
"Most of these people were summer people. And they basically just didn't want to look at these wind turbines, or the way they thought would look, because many of them had actually never seen a wind farm or a wind turbine. But they didn't like the idea of anything violating the visual integrity of their horizon."
There's also some opposition from fisherman, some Indian tribes, and some locals who live on the islands. But Whitcomb says the bulk of the money for the fight against the Cape Wind Project comes from the rich and powerful.
Right now, those groups are challenging environmental reviews and permits in the Massachusetts Supreme Court. All these legal challenges – all these permitting hoops – put a damper on big projects.
Roger Whitcomb says we used to be a people who thought big. But that's changed.
"It's very difficult to do anything in the United States anymore. We're way behind everybody else. This isn't a can-do country anymore. There's been a huge change. This is not where things are done."
Energy developers are watching how the Cape Wind Project plays out. It could clear the way for more big wind farms off the coasts of places such as New York, Maryland, and Michigan.
And despite all the legal and political barriers, it looks like the country is closer than ever to seeing its first ever offshore wind farm built.
There's a lot of popular support for the project in the region.
Ken Salazar heads up the Department of Interior. He told us this past spring he expects projects like Cape Wind will go forward.
"You know I expect that it will happen during the first term of the Obama Administration. I think that there is huge potential for wind energy off the shores of especially the Atlantic because of the shallowness of those waters."
Siting big wind farms is a new kind of battle in this country. In some cases – like the Cape Wind project – energy development is moving closer to the wealthy.
Ian Bowles is the Secretary of the Energy and Environmental Affairs Department for the State of Massachusetts:
"Many of the dirty fossil plants of a generation ago were sited in cities and many times in environmental justice areas where there's lower income residents. And I think today, you've got in many ways you have more wealthy set of opponents of wind power that is going to relieve the people who live in cities of some of the clean air burdens from siting decisions made a generation ago."
That means some wind farms can change the game. They move power plants from the backyards of the poor, and into the views of the rich and powerful.
For The Environment Report, I'm Mark Brush.
Cape Wind Project
Wikipedia's page on Cape Wind
A related interview from TER
Author Mark BrushPosted on December 24, 2009 Categories FeaturesTags alternative, alternatives, atlantic, beach, beaches, cape, energies, energy, horizon, ocean, oceans, offshore, power, powered, powers, shores, sight, turbine, turbines, view, views, water, waters, wind, winds, windy
If You Can't Beat 'Em, Eat 'Em
Every march, the Cownose Stingrays migrate into the Chesapeake Bay from the Atlantic. They come to give birth, mate, and eat. (Photo courtesy of NOAA)
We like seafood – a lot. Many
species are disappearing. That's
causing a ripple effect that's
changing the patterns of sea creatures.
In the Cheseapeake Bay, it's an invasion
of stingrays. The cownose stingray
is eating oysters that are commercially
raised there. Some people say: if
you can't beat them, eat them. Sabri
Ben-Achour has the story:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/feature_benachour_112309.mp3
In a little boat just off shore of Virginia's Cone River, AJ Erskine leans overboard. He is using 20-foot poles with gaping jaws full of long needle like teeth to scrape the bottom of the emerald colored river.
"These things are called hand tongs."
Up comes a pile of oysters. They're only about a year old.
"We don't feel comfortable giving them more than one year of a chance."
That's because Erskine is worried about stingrays, specifically Cownose Rays. Every march, the winged sea creatures migrate into the bay from the Atlantic. They come to give birth, mate, and eat.
"What they do is flap their wings, put the oysters in a pile, and crunch the shells, and they go through a seed bed of oysters in a weekend."
Erskine says it's become a huge problem for oyster farmers.
The rays also damage the underwater environment. They uproot aquatic grasses, destroying nurseries for fish and blue crabs.
Some biologists believe there are more rays because a main predator – the shark – has been overfished out in the Atlantic. Tiger Sharks in this area have declined 99% over the past 30 years.
Other biologists say it's that strict limits on fishing in the Chesapeake Bay have meant fewer rays caught accidentally in giant nets. Whatever the reason, oyster farmers are looking for a way to control the rays.
A hundred miles inland, in Richmond, Mead Amery thinks he has a solution.
"Depending on how you prepare it, it's delicious."
Avery is a seafood distributor. He and officials with the State of Virginia want you to try stingray.
"The texture is wonderful, it has a veal pork type of texture."
It's been a tough sell so far.
"People hear ray and think, 'I don't wanna eat that!'"
Marketers are trying hard though. They don't call it Cownose Ray but rather Chesapeake Ray. They're pushing the ray in restaurants from Virginia to Japan. And it may take off – after all, lobsters used to be considered insects of the sea and only the poor ate them. The popular Chilean Sea Bass used to be a nuisance by-catch.
But, while those cases offer hope for marketers, they carry warnings for environmentalists. Both Sea Bass and Maine lobsters were dangerously overfished because of their popularity. Bob fisher is a biologist with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. He knows full well there are risks involved in going after stingrays.
"You remove a top predator like that from the food chain, we don't know what the repercussions would be."
He says stingrays are slow to mature and give birth to only one offspring at a time. And no one even knows how many there are. But Fisher is still very much open to the idea of harvesting the rays given the problems they seem to be causing for oyster growers.
"I look at things that are in our oceans as resources, it's our responsibility to take care of our resources, but it's also a resource that's there that can be, and I believe should be, utilized for humans."
Fisher is working with the Marine Products Board, and the Department of Agriculture to come up with a plan to strictly limit fishing of the ray to what's sustainable.
So, if the whole thing is successful, you might find Chesapeake Ray on a plate near you.
For The Environment Report, I'm Sabri Ben-Achour.
Wikipedia's page on the Cownose Stingray
An article from the Chesapeake Bay Journal
Author Sabri Ben-AchourPosted on November 23, 2009 Categories FeaturesTags atlantic, beach, beaches, boat, boats, catch, caught, coast, coastal, coasts, eating, fish, fished, fisher, fisherman, fishermen, fishing, food, foods, nets, ocean, oceans, oyster, oysters, pacific, rays, seafood, water, waters
Hurricane Season Is Here
Monday, June 1 is the official start day of hurricane season (Photo courtesy of NASA)
Today is the first day of the Hurricane season,
but we've already seen a tropical depression off
the Atlantic coast. Lester Graham reports:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/spot_graham_060109.mp3
Today is the first day of the Hurricane season, but we've already seen a tropical depression off the Atlantic coast. Lester Graham reports:
The Weather Channel noted that tropical depression was farther North earlier than any potential hurricane in the 159 years of storm records.
You can't help but wonder whether climate change is having an effect here.
Jeff Masters is a former hurricane hunter, now with Weather Underground.
He says that's not what's happening. He says this storm was getting stronger by following the the gulf stream.
"There just happened to be a little blip of warm water associated with the gulf stream that this storm took advantage of. It was a very small storm so it was very lucky. It was able to stay over the warmest part of the gulf stream."
Masters says it'll be decades before we'll be able to tell if climate change is actually affecting hurricanes.
Forecasts this year call for a pretty average hurricane season.
Masters says an El Niño event could occur later. That's important, since the number and intensity of Atlantic storms are usually reduced during an El Niño year.
For The Environment Report, this is Lester Graham.
The National Hurricane Center
FEMA's page for Hurricane Season '09
Author Lester GrahamPosted on June 1, 2009 Categories News SpotsTags atlantic, depression, hurricane, hurricanes, ocean, oceans, rain, rains, severe, south, storm, storms, tropical, water, waters, weather, wind, winds
Bringing a Fish Back From the Brink
The American Shad became so rare that hatcheries had to help restore depleted populations (Photo courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service)
A million year old cycle of fish migration almost came to an end in the waters off of the nation's capital. But a monumental conservation effort has brought them back from the brink. Sabri Ben-Achour explains:
A million year old cycle of fish migration almost came to an end in the waters off of the nation's
capital. But a monumental conservation effort has brought them back from the brink. Sabri Ben-
Achour explains:
I bet you can't recognize this sound.
It is the sound of a female shad – it's a type of fish – having its eggs squeezed out into a metal
"In the bowl, it looks like applesauce."
That's biologist Catherine Lim. We are on a boat in the middle of the Potomac, 20 miles south of
Washington DC, harvesting and fertilizing shad eggs. Lim picks up a male shad and gives it a
squeeze.
"Yeah, he sprayed out there."
She mixes the brew around and adds water.
"We'll bag them up and send them to the fish hatchery."
This is all part of an effort to restore the population of the American Shad. For millions of years,
the large silver-iridescent fish have swum in from the Atlantic and up the rivers of the East Coast
every spring to spawn. They return to the same place where their lives began, guided by a
unique geological odor that seeps from the earth and mountains that feed each river.
Once upon a time – only a century ago – these fish were so numerous they turned the water silver
and made rivers move.
At least that's what Jim Cummins says, he's a biologist.
"On the Susquehanna, there were so many of them they created a wave as they came up the
river, a standing wave."
On the Potomac they fueled entire industries. According to newspaper reports, Washington DC
exported 4 million barrels of salted shad every year in the 1840's.
"The wagons would come into Georgetown were so heavy that they crammed up the city – I think
it's the first report of gridlock in Washington."
The fish fed more than just commerce – they nourish everything from crabs to dolphins. Bald
Eagles actually evolved to time their egg laying early, so their chicks would hatch just as the Shad
and their relatives appeared in the river. And then came overfishing, dams, and pollution.
"In the 1960's, there were times when the migratory fish came up to spawn in the area and met
that pollution, and hundreds of thousands of them died and made a stinking mess."
The clean water act was passed in 1972, but by 1980, the fish were almost wiped out. A
moratorium on fishing at the time was too little too late. Water quality gradually improved as
waste water treatment plants were upgraded and aquatic grasses returned. But still, no Shad.
So Cummins began the Shad restoration project.
They had to use several nets – each hundreds of feet long – just to catch one fish. They got help
from fisheries and even elementary schools. Dams were fixed to let fish go around them. The
Shad population exploded.
At a boat house just outside of DC, anglers Steve Bocat and Louis Covax are enjoying success
that up until recently, few alive have seen here.
"It was great we had incredible fishing. I mean, between the two of us, we had, what, 50-60 fish
up to the boat?"
Another sign of success, a pair of Bald Eagles recently returned to the area following the fish –
the first in decades.
The Potomac River American Shad Restoration Project
History and information on the Shad
Wikipedia's page on Shad
Author Sabri Ben-AchourPosted on May 11, 2009 Categories FeaturesTags animal, animals, atlantic, dams, fish, fishes, fishing, migrate, migrated, migration, number, numbers, ocean, oceans, pollute, polluted, pollution, population, populations, revival, revive, river, rivers, save, saved, saving, washington, water, waters, wildlife
Invasive Die-Off Stirs Fishery Debate
A naturally reproduced wild lake trout fingerling. (Photo courtesy of MI DNR.)
Alewives held up in a net. Alewives are an invasive species on which introduced salmon and other predator fish feed. They are among the prey fish species that have declined severely in Lake Huron. (Photo courtesy of MI DNR.)
Alewives being pulled from the lake. (Photo courtesy of MI DNR.)
The fisheries in the Great Lakes are seeing dramatic changes. In one lake, an invasive species that has become part of the food chain has collapsed. But some native fish are doing better because of that collapse. Lester Graham reports some fishery managers are debating what to do next:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/graham_120406.mp3
The fisheries in the Great Lakes are seeing dramatic changes. In one lake, an invasive species that has become part of the food chain has collapsed. But, some native fish are doing better because of that collapse. Lester Graham reports some fishery managers are debating what to do next:
When we started digging canals, connecting the lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, things changed a lot for the fish in the Great Lakes.
First, the sea lamprey got into the lakes through the Welland canal that bypasses Niagara Falls.
The lamprey is an eel-like parasite that nearly wiped out the big fish in the Great Lakes by attaching to them and sucking the life out of them.
Also slipping through the canals was a smaller fish, the alewife. Since the lamprey wiped out most of the predator fish in the lakes, the alewife population exploded. They out-competed native fish for food. It got so bad, that by the mid 1960s, if you weighed all the fish in Lake Michigan, more than 80% of the weight would have been alewives.
So, once wildlife managers got the sea lamprey under control, they had to figure out what they could do to get alewives under control. The fish biologists decided to introduce new predators, trout and salmon, to prey on the alewives. These fish were not native to the Great Lakes. Expensive nurseries were built by federal and state game agencies to keep supplying new trout and salmon every year to prey on alewives.
Forty years later, in Lake Huron, the alewife population collapsed, and in Lake Michigan alewives are declining rapidly. Mission accomplished, right?
Well, in that 40 years, a whole recreational fishing industry has grown up around fishing for those introduced trout and salmon. Some fishery managers now say we have to find a balance of the right amount of alewives to sustain the introduced trout and salmon fishery. So, recently states have cut their trout and salmon stocking programs to give alewives a chance to recover.
Tom Trudeau [who] operates a fish nursery for the state of Illinois says it would cause trouble to try to take the Great Lakes back to native fish only.
"We do have this industry that we have pressure to keep. You know, you're putting a lot of people out of business if you get rid of it."
And Trudeau says because of ecological damage, many of the smaller native fish on which big predators used to feed have been wiped out.
"So, I mean, of the six or seven species in that category, we only have one. And a couple of them are extinct. So, I mean, we could talk about going back to the ideal situation of pure native species, but we've disrupted the habitat so much."
So, the argument goes, the invasive alewives are now needed. But something unexpected happened when the alewives disappeared from Lake Huron. The native fish, walleye, yellow perch, and lake trout started doing better.
Dave Fielder is a fisheries research biologist with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
"We've long known that adult alewives were a predator and a competitor on newly hatched perch and walleye fry. We just didn't realize how substantial that effect was until finally the adult alewives were removed from the system and now we're enjoying some greatly increased reproductive success. Walleye, particularly in Saginaw bay, are at some of the highest levels that we've seen in a long time."
But, after 40 years, people are used to fishing for those introduced trout and salmon. And some fisheries managers are wondering what will happen to all those expensive nurseries that provide their jobs.
What happens to all of those charter boat fishing operations, fishing tourism, if the government were to stop stocking those trout and salmon? Would they switch to fishing for native fish? And, can the native fish even survive in the long-run since so many of the smaller native prey-fish are no longer around?
Dave Fielder says it's hard to say.
"So, we're kind of in the middle of a change – it's really a paradigm shift in many ways – and that's always scary because nobody really knows how we're going to end up, but I prefer to be optimistic. I think there are a lot of reasons to be hopeful in regards to the benefits that we're seeing for our native species."
But some fisheries managers say the debate of whether to go all native or to try to find the right mix of native and non-native fish is not over. Since invasive species, pollution, and habitat destruction have changed the Great Lakes so much, wildlife managers think they'll still have to keep stocking one kind of fish or another to keep the recreational fishing industry going. If that's the case, does it matter whether it's native fish, or the introduced fish that anglers have grown to like so much?
Michigan DNR Lake Huron food web (.pdf)
Learn about the alewife die-off.
A related Environment Report story
Author Lester GrahamPosted on December 4, 2006 Categories FeaturesTags alewife, alewives, atlantic, dave, dnr, fielder, fisheries, fishery, great lakes, illinois, invasive species, invasives, lake huron, lake michigan, lamprey, michigan, native fish, niagara falls, nurseries, saginaw bay, salmon, tom, trout, welland canal
Migration Season Brings Bird Flu Worries
Julie Craves stands in the area where she sets up mist nets during migration to catch land birds. (Photo by Christina Shockley)
Researchers have been monitoring the spread of a potentially deadly strain of avian influenza overseas. Health officials worry the H5N1 strain could mutate into a form that could infect humans. Some researchers say the virus could make its way to the United States as early as this fall… by way of wild migratory birds. The GLRC's Christina Shockley reports:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/shockley_040306.mp3
Researchers have been monitoring the spread of a potentially deadly
strain of avian influenza overseas. Health officials worry the H5N1
strain could mutate into a form that could infect humans. Some
researchers say the virus could make its way to the United States as early
as this fall… by way of wild migratory birds. The GLRC's Christina
Shockley reports:
Wild birds carry all sorts of influenza viruses. Most are of no threat to
people, but the H5N1 strain is different. When it gets into people… it's
often fatal. Overseas the strain has killed whole farms of poultry such as
chicken and ducks… it's also infected other types of animals, including
The H5N1 strain has not been found in the United States, but most
experts say it's just a matter of time before it is. Some say infected
domestic poultry or smuggled pet birds will likely bring the virus to the
U.S. Others say the virus could come here by way of migrating birds…
that are on the move now.
Steve Schmitt is the lead veterinarian for Michigan's Department of
Natural Resources. He says birds from Asia… that are possibly infected
with the H5N1 strain are on their way to Alaska right now. There, they
could mingle with birds that will later fly back to the United States.
Schmitt says there are four major flyways over the U.S.… the Pacific,
central, Mississippi, and Atlantic.
"There are birds that will winter in Asia and then come back and nest in
Alaska. If they bring the virus back with them, then they could transmit
that to birds that are in Alaska that come down any of these four major
flyways, and that of course is a big concern, moving it all over the
Schmitt says most birds that nest in Alaska use the Pacific flyway along
the Pacific coast… to migrate south to the U.S. and Mexico. He says
that means, if the virus were to come to the United States via migratory
birds, the pacific coast would probably be its first stop in the lower 48.
Schmitt says then, birds that use the other flyways could become
infected.
"Most of the migration is north-south, but you do have a few that will
move – jump over to another flyway, and when that happens, the
potential to move the virus to that new flyway happens. Once it's in a
new flyway, that north-south movement would take over."
Programs are underway an Alaska and throughout the United States to
test wild birds for various strains of avian influenza, including H5N1.
Experts say waterfowl and shore birds are the most likely carriers of the
dangerous strain, but some say land birds – such as migrating songbirds –
should be tested, too.
(Sound of birds)
Julie Craves studies land birds at the Rouge River Bird Observatory on
the University of Michigan's Dearborn campus. She catches and bands
thousands of wild birds each year during their spring and fall migrations.
This year, Craves will participate in a study that hopes to eventually test
hundreds of thousands of birds across the U.S. and Latin America for
avian flu strains.
"It's just a great opportunity with people handling birds already, we may
find out some very interesting things about which subtypes are present in
land birds, and if indeed this disease does come to North America, we
will have a head start on seeing what types of migratory pathways are
being used by birds."
Craves says very little is known about how avian flu moves among land
birds, and experts say each time the virus is transmitted to a different
species it mutates, and each time it mutates, the chances are greater that
it will change into a form that's easily passed among humans. That's a
big concern, because such a mutation could lead to a quick spread of
human cases across the globe.
But some say that might never occur… they say the strain might be
unable to mutate into one that's dangerous to humans.
Arnold Monto is a professor of epidemiology at the University of
Michigan. He says there will be a problem if the strain mutates, but it's
unlikely people will get the virus from migrating birds.
"I doubt very much whether we're even gong to see even a handful of
cases in the United States, should avian influenza arrive, and it probably
will, with the migratory birds coming down from Alaska, perhaps next
Monto says most of the human transmissions overseas have been from
poultry being raised in the back yard, and not from wild birds. That
means visiting the ducks and geese in the park… and feeding songbirds
in the back yard… are not high-risk activities. Monto says people should
take basic precautions, such as washing hands, to avoid contracting any
sort of flu virus.
Many experts say, on the list of things to worry about, catching a deadly
form of avian influenza is no where near the top of the list of dangers.
For the GLRC, I'm Christina Shockley.
CDC on bird flu
Rouge River Bird Observatory
More information from the U.S government
Author Christina ShockleyPosted on April 3, 2006 Categories FeaturesTags alaska, arnold, asia, atlantic, birds, central, chicken, domestic, ducks, epidemiology, farms, fatal, flyways, humans, julie, latin america, mexico, michigan, migratory birds, mississippi, monto, pacific, poultry, schmitt, smuggled pet birds, songbirds, steve, transmit, university of michigan, veterinarian, virus, waterfowl, wild birds
Smaller Fish After Alewife Die-Off
Alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus). The fish is not common in Lakes Superior or Erie. (Image courtesy of Wisconsin SeaGrant)
This past year, the size of salmon in some Great Lakes
is getting smaller because their main food source is dying off in some
areas of the lakes. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Lester Graham
This past year, the size of salmon in some Great Lakes is getting smaller because
their main food
source is dying off in some areas of the lakes. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's
Graham reports:
In the 1960's, fish and game officials introduced Pacific salmon such as chinook,
coho and
steelhead to control the invasive species alewife. That's a small fish that moved
in from the
Atlantic. The salmon are popular fishing. But since the alewives are not native…
they're
especially susceptible to quick weather changes. And fisheries managers suspect
with zebra mussels for food also affects alewives. Recently, alewife populations
have crashed in
some places. Jim Dexter is with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources…
"The primary reason that there are not alewives in Lake Huron and you get
fluctuations in Lake
Michigan is related more to the climate. You know, now, zebra mussels are tied into
that, into the
equation at some point but not probably to the affect that the climate is having on
those."
So, without as many alewives, salmon don't have as much to eat… and they're smaller
than usual.
Fisheries managers say the effect is probably temporary.
For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, this is Lester Graham.
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Predator and prey in the Great Lakes
More about the alewife
Author Lester GrahamPosted on January 3, 2005 Categories News SpotsTags alewife, atlantic, chinook, climate, coho, dnr, eat, fish, fishing, game, invasive species, lake huron, michigan, pacific salmon, popular, populations, steelhead, susceptible, temporary, weather, zebra mussels
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Q: Abstract classes with static methods in PHP Pre: I am looking at a quite big PHP project developed by a company which we need to partly interact with while building a new webapp.
The whole application is developed in PHP 5.
Most of the classes in this project, and in particular all the classes that interact with the database, are declared abstract and contain only static functions.
Take for example this file:
abstract class DataHelper_Command
{

    /**
     * @param unknown $id_device
     * @param unknown $latest_command_id
     * @return Command[]
     */
    public static function getCommandsToSend($id_device, $latest_command_id)
    {
        $rows = DBUtility::executePreparedQuery('SPS_COMMANDS_TO_SEND', array(":id_device" => $id_device, ":latest_command_id" => $latest_command_id));
        return DataHelper_Command::commandsFromDataTable($rows);
    }

    public static function getFW()
    {
        $rows = DBUtility::executePreparedQuery('SPS_FW_VERSION');
        return $rows;
    }

    /**
     * @param unknown $rows
     * @return Command[]
     */
    private static function commandsFromDataTable(&$rows)
    {
        $res = array();
        foreach ($rows as &$row)
        {
            $res[] = DataHelper_Command::commandFromDataRow($row);
        }

        return $res;
    }

    /**
     * @param array $row
     * @return Command
     */
    private static function commandFromDataRow(&$row)
    {
        return new Command($row["id_command"], $row["type"], $row["text"]);
    }
}

I don't even see any trace of using a Singleton pattern in the project!
That sounds a bit strange to me, as I always heard that using static classes is a nightmare in terms of performance.
This server was meant to be able to run on both standard webservers and on a really performance-limited embedded device (An ARM running at 400MHz, with 128 MB of RAM).
Am I missing something here? Are there any use-cases in which this is considered a good practice?

A: Performance is not even the biggest problem here, secret dependencies and lying APIs are.
From a testable point of view, static methods are awful, because they usually represent global state, which, surprisingly, is awful as well, because it means if you run a function two times, you can get different results even when the inputs are the same (that is what global state does). How do you test that?
I cannot really see any case, where I would prefer static methods instead of normal ones. If you can, do not use them, if you must use them, your design is most likely wrong and needs refactoring.
Check Clean Code Talks by Miško Hevery from 2008, they are still relevant and provide great explanations on why static methods and singletons should be avoided.

Some youtube references to some talks by Miško Hevery:

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*Global State and Singletons

*Inheritance, Polymorphism, & Testing

*How to Write Clean, Testable Code

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We are constantly learning more and more about Salhouse Broad, gaining new photos brought in by locals and visitors alike. I am fascinated by the history of my work place, so strive to piece this puzzle together.
If you have any old photos or memories that you would like to share, please get in touch.
8000BC- The Broads are based on alluvial deposits of peat and silt laid down around 10,000 years ago.
900s - The site was dug by hand for sand and gravel. Today, we can see the sandy beach is a result of this extraction. Joyce Lambert, a young botanist in the 1950's, deduced that the Norfolk Broads were not created naturally, but instead were man made. This finding transformed our understanding of the Broads today and our knowledge of the economy of the area in the middle ages. Joyce conducted her own research, whereby she made a selection of close space borings through the silt to the underlying peat in a variety of locations within the Broads, upon which she realised that the watercourses were mostly basin- shaped with vertical, rather than sloping slides, highlighting they were dug out by man. This realisation was initially received skeptically at Joyce's presentation to the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists Society in 1952, as it was understandably puzzling as to how such extensive excavations could have been dug by hand within areas of the floodplain, that are now subject to regular inundation.
14th Century (Middle ages) - The pits gradually flooded with water from a local river, which made it increasingly hard to dig for resources on the site. The flooding formed the unique network that is now the Broads. Joyce and her colleagues attributed the flooding partly to a deterioration in the climate of East Anglia, and partly to sea level rises. At this time, the Broads were used for commercial transport, with wherries carrying cargo of farm produce, coal, beer, bricks, timber and even ice. River trade- bringing in raw materials and exporting finished goods, helped to make Norwich England's second city. It wasn't until the road network became dominant that the Broads siezed to act be used for commercial transportation.
Interesting fact: Wherry men were not adverse to a little smuggling. In one famous case, a wherry man was sentenced to four years hard labour and the confiscation of his craft due to smuggling. However, his friends were quicker than the law and took the wherry and sunk it in a broad. When the owner came out of prison, they raised it to find the cargo still intact!
Mid 17th Century- The big Oak tree , which sits in prime place on the Hill overlooking the Broad, began its life.
Farmer owned Salhouse Broad & Broad Farm - Reggie Youngs?
View in 1902. Note how far you can see- there were far less trees in 1902 than there are now.
Early 1900s - first part of the Broad bought (as far as one could walk into the Broad, up to the knee) by the Cator family. At this point, the waters of the Broad would have been much cleaner than today, with many more waterlillies, reeds and other large water plants along the banks. Since then, with more people living around the area and using the Broad, and more intensive farming practices occurring in close proximity to the Broad, the waters have become more nutrient rich, in particular with phosphates and nitrates.
1926 - the rest of the Broad is conveyed to John Cator.
Second World War- Salhouse Broad was a popular destination during the second world war. As the beaches along the coast were closed and protected against invasion, people had to look for alternative places to relax during the Summer months. At this time, the sandy beach ran the whole length of the left hand bank (before being replaced by quay heading to allow more boats to moor up).
An aerial view of Salhouse Broad and Hoveton Great Broad in the 1960's.
An ML350 in Newlyn Harbour in Wales. We think this is of the same design as the wreck in Salhouse Broad, although a little more intact. The shape of the bow and the apurtures are very much like the wreck.
The old wreck which lies at the mouth to the Old Wherry Cut, and is gradually dying away, is thought to have been a Submarine Chaser, or Gun Boat in World War One. It is likely that is was a Motor Launch order from the USA and built by the Canadians, delivered between 1915-1916 in the batch ML1-550. In all there were 580 motor launches (ML), also known as Mosquitoes.
After World War One, the ML was bought privately by a local character known as 'The Major', and used as a pleasure craft. For many years she was enjoyed by her owner on these waterways. From the video we can see that in 1953 that it still had the name Water Witch written on the bow.
At the start of World War Two the boat, along with others, was requisitioned by the Ministery of Defence and moored on Salhouse Broad with arrangements of posts and wires to deter German seaplanes and spies from landing.
Following the Second World War, any similar boats that were in good enough condition, were taken to boat yards for repairs. Water Witch was not so lucky and remains on Salhouse Broad today.
The wreck is now overgrown with reed and saplings. Work is being planned to cut back the foliage to allow us to see the beautiful gun boat once more.


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From Labor Tribune:
By SHERI GASSAWAY
In Missouri, legislative discussion and voting on measures is unpredictable. It can take days for a bill to hit the floor or it can happen at lightning speed. The latter was the case with the recent vote on paycheck deception (HB 1891).
The Missouri AFL-CIO learned of the anti-worker bill moving through the Senate just a few short days before the final vote was cast. That knowledge prompted a call for the first of what will be many Front Porch meetings of the 2016 legislative session.
The Tuesday, March 1 union member-to-member walk focused on the districts of two Republican senators – Paul Wieland (Imperial) and Ryan Silvey (Kansas City). Missouri AFL-CIO President Mike Louis sent out the urgent call to action, urging union members to bring as many volunteers to the event as they could
"We really need a huge turn out to show senators Wieland and Silvey that we appreciate their position of standing with workers," Louis said.
The effort was at least partly successful. Wieland voted against the measure. Silvey, however, followed his party's line and voted for it.
HUGE TURNOUT
Union members in the St. Louis and Kansas City areas turned out in full force for the canvasses. Participants were given names and addresses of union members living in close proximity and folders containing "paycheck deception" talking points. Union members went door-to door asking other union members to write notes to their senators asking them to vote "no" on the paycheck deception measure.
More than 150 letters and postcards were collected from both sides of the state, said Merri Berry, Missouri AFL-CIO political director. "We immediately drove to the State Capital in Jefferson City to deliver them to the senators., she said"
MORE FRONT PORCH MEETINGS TO COME
Berry said there would be many more Front Porch meetings pertaining to the 2016 legislative session. For more information on the canvasses or to get involved, email Berry at politicaldirector@moaflcio.org.
Published by Kevin at March 17, 2016
Paycheck Deception
Union members joined forces in last-minute push to fight paycheck bill
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SSDs (Solid State Drives) are getting cheaper, bigger and faster.
Most recording studio DAW users have been using SSDs for audio and media for quite a while. Adding a new SSD for your audio and media is quite an easy task. Just plug it in and start using it.
However, it is amazing how much difference it will make to the speed and feel of your system by replacing the operating system drive with an SSD. But replacing an operating system drive is often considered a more daunting and difficult task. Especially if the existing OS drive needs replacing with a larger one. In the past, many of us simply replaced the drive with a new one and re-installed the OS.
The answer is to clone the drive. This technology has existed for a long time but there are some rules that make it much more effective.
I have done this a number of times over the years and recently done it again, upgrading from a normal 500GB HDD to 1TB SSD for example.
So here is my method which should help to avoid problems. This is also recommend by others if you dig deep around the web you may find this information in a longer form.
Yes there are other tools that can be used to do this job but Acronis is the one I have always used. It is not free. But it is not crazily expensive either. Plus it can be used for other things too. However, even if you are not using Acronis, most of the rules below still apply.
Step Two. Make bootable media.
Make a bootable media using a USB stick so that you can boot directly to the Acronis tools using the USB. This is very important. It is possible to clone and OS drive from within Windows but that method is prone to failures. Of course if you are cloning a non-OS drive then the bootable media is not required.
Step Three. Change the drive locations.
This is the most vital (and probably the most ignored) step of the procedure.
Test that the bootable media works by following the first three steps in Step Four. Once you see the Acronis screen you know all is good. You can then proceed.
Remove your existing OS drive.
Put the new SSD drive in the exact same place that your old OS drive was.
Put the old OS drive in another place (preferably in an external USB enclosure) so that when you start your computer it will not try to boot from or reference it in any way.
I use a USB docking station for placing external drives, useful for backup purposes too. You can move your OS HDD to another location within your machine though, just be aware that you must not let the computer attempt to boot from it. This is why the external USB method is good because it can be started after the USB media has booted your machine.
Step Four. Go for it!
Bearing in mind that if things go wrong, all you have to do is put your old OS drive back where it was. So not really much to worry about.
Start the computer. You may have to enter BIOS to tell the computer to boot from the USB media.
You should now see the Acronis application.
Once Acronis has booted from the media simply follow the instructions to clone the disk. This can take a while depending on the disk size. My most recent job took about an hour for a 1TB HD with about 700GB of data cloned to a 1TB SSD.
When the process is complete and you are ready to reboot.
Remove the old original OS drive.
You may have to enter BIOS again and set the boot drive back to the original settings. Remember your new drive is in the place of the original one. So the computer should not notice any difference. It will effectively think that your newly cloned SSD is actually still your original HDD.
And remember you now also have a spare HDD drive which still has your full OS on it which can be used in case of emergencies or can be reformatted and used as a backup drive.
It may seem daunting at first but the benefits you will see from going through this procedure will honestly amaze you.


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Announced back in June, Perfect World recently announced it will be publishing Torchlight Mobile in China later this year , and celebrated the occasion with a new CG trailer. According to Runic Games, which is now a studio under Perfect…
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I am currently playing Torchlight II now, and I must say I am enjoying TONS of fun with the game. Yes, not as big budget as its richer cousin and without the fancy cinematic, but hey, I don't care as…


Since 2003, Vallejo has paid out at least $10.1 million related to police misconduct. And the civil rights violations keep piling up. On January 22, Adrian Burrell was assaulted by Vallejo police while video recording a traffic stop. On February 9, six Vallejo police officers shot Willie McCoy to death after they found him unconscious in a Taco Bell drive-through. Family members and allies touched by the death of Willie McCoy gathered outside the Taco Bell where he was killed to remember him and protest the police on February 16 and 17.
BART police officer Joseph Mateu shot Sahleem Tindle three times in the back, killing him on January 3, 2018. Ten months later, District Attorney Nancy O'Malley released a report declaring that she would not bring any charges against Mateu. To mark the one-year anniversary of the slaying, Sahleem's family and activists with the Anti Police-Terror Project gathered at the West Oakland BART station. After two hours in front of the station, expressing frustration with the lack of accountability for Sahleem's murder, protesters stormed inside the station, leading BART to close it. The family is still pursuing a civil case against BART and Mateu.
Chinedu Okobi was the third man to die after being tased by law enforcement in San Mateo County in 2018. He was unarmed and walking with shopping bags in Millbrae in October when five police officers attacked him. More than two dozen people protested his murder in the District Attorney's office on January 23, then went to the county Sheriff's office and the county Board of Supervisors to demand answers of the President of the Board and County Manager.
On January 19, at women's marches throughout the Bay Area, the focus was on unity rather than the rift in the national group. Optimism was abundant despite a slight decrease in attendance. The marches were not without critics who cited a lack of attention to the plight of the underhoused and other issues effecting women. Unlike New York where there were two separate marches, a spirit of solidarity ruled the day.
For the 5th year running, the Anti Police-Terror Project calls Bay Area residents into the streets for the People's March to Reclaim MLK's Radical Legacy. In Oakland, a full day of activities center at Oscar Grant Plaza beginning at 8am, with a rally set for 11am and march at noon. A march is scheduled for San Francisco with people starting to gather at 9:30am. Other events will be held in cities across Northern California.
A video captured on December 21 shows UCPD officer Sean Aranas violently assaulting someone hanging out in People's Park. Aranas pulls him up and throws him to the ground. UC Berkeley has long wanted to develop the park and deny public use. The university has been whittling away at the foliage and, on the morning of December 28, 41 trees were destroyed. The unannounced predawn timing was apparently calculated to avoid protests. A vigil was held on December 29 in response.


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MOSCOW, 11th October. Afghanistan minister of finance Eklil Hakimi met Russian envoy Alexey Mantytsky to discuss economic cooperation.
After 2nd session of Russian-Afghan joint commission of trade and economic cooperation Russian and Afghanistan representatives have given consideration to the following topics: investments in Afghan economy, business relations strengthening, further trade and economic cooperation.
Last month brought several fruitful discussions in this field. Afghanistan is looking forward to work with Russia in transport, energetic and house building fields.


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South For Winter Release "Ten Black Crows" Off Of Upcoming Debut Album
With two EPs under their belt, South For Winter have hit the studio to record their debut album. Now is the time to fine tune their sound and truly hone in on their fullest potential, and with the release of their latest single titled "Ten Black Crows," they've done just that.
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Premiere: Madeleine // Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind
Nashville based indie artist Madeleine will be releasing her new single "Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind" this Friday, but you don't have to wait — you can stream this catchy track today through our exclusive premiere!
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Indie Folk Duo Fawkes & Hownd Release New Single "Our Time"
Settle into the weekend with the cozy new single "Our Time" from Nashville based duo Fawkes & Hownd. Made up of one part Phöenix Lazare and one part Justin Kelley, Fawkes & Hownd deliver a dreamy blend of indie folk lyricism and singer-songwriter harmonies.
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Dan Moxon Releases Debut Single, "Where You Gonna Sleep Tonight"
Vancouver based indie folk artist Dan Moxon provides a glimpse into a pivotal point of a tumultuous relationship on his vibrant debut single, "Where You Gonna Sleep Tonight." The pairing of Moxon's soulful vocals and the groovy instrumentals makes for a blast from the past while exploring a modern dilemma.
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Premiere: Sun Brother // Afterglow
Nashville based indie-folk band Sun Brother will be releasing their new single "Afterglow" this Friday. Today, you can stream "Afterglow" through our exclusive premiere down below!
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Sleeping With Sirens Release New Single "Leave It All Behind"
Sleeping With Sirens have been in the music scene since 2009 and it's no secret that the band's sound has evolved with each new album. Over the last few months, vocalist Kellin Quinn has been hinting at new music and even dropped hints that the band would return to their post-hardcore roots. On June 19th, Sleeping With Sirens announced a new album titled How It Feels To Be Lost and gave fans a taste of what's to come with the leading single "Leave It All Behind."
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Jennifer Pettigrew Delivers Heartfelt Message On Debut Single "Oh Mama"
The amazing thing about music is that there's a song for almost every situation ranging from the good to the bad and everything in between. One of the hardest stories that any musician can tell is that of a loved one passing. While this subject is a reoccurring theme across genres, each experience is made unique with delicate details. Nashville based singer-songwriter Jennifer Pettigrew shares an intimate glimpse into the passing of her father on her debut single "Oh Mama." Pettigrew's sound is a wonderful mix of folk and indie with a dash of pop, her voice blending with her musical style seamlessly.
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Myylo's New Single "I Can't Help But Look" Is Here Just In Time For Summer
Hot on the heels of his spring 2019 EP I'm A Nice Boy, Myylo's back with a summertime single titled "I Can't Help But Look." Myylo's previous releases are a mix of chill pop and upbeat bops, culminating in "I Can't Help But Look" being a powerhouse of bouncy beats and cheeky lyrics.
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Hora Douse // Balloons
Manchester based trio Hora Douse dropped a new single titled "Balloons" at the end of May. Initially, the track strays from the group's usual hard hitting punk rock sound but finds its way back as the chorus hits. If you haven't heard it yet, do yourself a favor and give it a spin.
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Premiere: Hownd // Pressure
Justin Kelley, AKA Hownd, has a brand new single, "Pressure," coming out this Friday. We're happy to announce that you can exclusively stream "Pressure" today right here through Out From The Pine Box!
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Hannah May Allison // Right Now
Nashville by way of Palo Alto singer-songwriter Hannah May Allison doesn't hold back on her latest single, "Right Now." Following last fall's "Stand Corrected," Hannah channels strength, independence, and confidence on her saucy new single.
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Madeleine Debuts Music Video For "Carpet"
Connecticut native Madeleine has made her home in Music City, a perfect place for artists to grow. Today, she debuted the music video for "Carpet," the opening track off of her late 2018 album Matter Of It.
This slow moving, easy going Americana track offers a sincere depiction of mental health. The video provides a clear look into the murky waters of isolation, anxiety, and depression woven together with delicate lyrics.
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Mary Moore Digs Deep On New Single, "Map My Body"
Following in the wake of 2018's "The Sinner" and "Hesitant Kiss," Mary Moore released her latest single, "Map My Body" on May 3rd. As with her previous music, Mary digs deep with candid introspection. "Map My Body" takes a different path in terms of delivery and is a delightfully imaginative song.
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Daisy Maude // Pretend
We recently spoke to Daisy Maude in our Friday Feature interview with her. She mentioned that a new single would be coming out soon, and that day has come! "Pretend" hit the world on April 26th. While different from her previous releases, this song fits her sound and overall aesthetic with amazing synchronicity.
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Van Isaacson // Loving You Back
Van Isaacson, Wisconsin native turned Chicago local, blends indie rock with a smooth, soulful sound on his latest release, "Loving You Back." Isaacson's past knowledge as a writer and backing musician has now led him in the direction of a solo artist. Isaacson's sound boasts confidence as he finds and creates his own unique style.
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Premiere: South For Winter // Twine
Nashville's South For Winter are currently recording their debut full length album at The Tracking Room right here in Music City. While the album's leading single "Twine" will officially be released this Friday, we're happy to be exclusively premiering the track today!
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The Busks Blend Past And Present With New Single "To Make You Happy"
It's no secret that fantastic music comes out of Tennessee, with Nashville natives, The Busks, being no exception. Lead by brothers Dylan and Jacob Miller, the pair create indie-folk music fit for any occasion and any time of the day.
After taking a break, The Busks are back and ready to make more music for the world to hear. Their latest single, "To Make You Happy," gives fans a taste of what the band is capable of in terms of future releases.
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Jared Minnix debuts new single "Might As Well"
With this past Wednesday marking the first official day of spring this year, Nashville's Jared Minnix's latest single comes just in time for warmer weather. The latter part of last year saw an EP from Minnix titled Virginia Rose, and today's release, "Might As Well," is a nice surprise for fans of his previous music.
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Permiere: Lucy Isabel // Something New
Today we're premiering "Something New," Nashville based singer-songwriter Lucy Isabel's latest single. Following late 2018's "California Come Down," this is a slow moving single that allows the listener to sink into the story. Lucy's crisp and clear vocals take center stage as "Something New" unfolds to a folk-inspired melody.
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Premiere: Katie Lyon // I Struck Gold
Today we have a special treat for you! We're exclusively streaming "I Struck Gold," the new single from singer-songwriter Katie Lyon. While the single will officially be released on February 12th, you can give it a listen in advance down below.
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What is the Child Mania Rating Scale?
The Child Mania Rating Scales (CMRS) is a 21-item diagnostic screening measure designed to identify symptoms of mania in children and adolescents aged 9-17 using diagnostic criteria from the DSM-IV, developed by Pavuluri and colleagues.
There is also a 10-item short form. The measure assesses the child's mood and behaviour symptoms, asking parents or teachers to rate how often the symptoms have caused a problem for the youth in the past month. Clinical studies have found the CMRS to be reliable and valid when completed by parents in the assessment of children's bipolar symptoms. The CMRS also can differentiate cases of paediatric bipolar disorder from those with ADHD or no disorder, as well as delineating bipolar subtypes. A meta-analysis comparing the different rating scales available found that the CMRS was one of the best performing scales in terms of telling cases with bipolar disorder apart from other clinical diagnoses. The CMRS has also been found to provide a reliable and valid assessment of symptoms longitudinally over the course of treatment. The combination of showing good reliability and validity across multiple samples and clinical settings, along with being free and brief to score, make the CMRS a promising tool, especially since most other checklists available for youths do not assess manic symptoms.
The Child Mania Rating Scale (CMRS) was created as a complement already existing measures like the Altman Self-Rating Mania Scale and the Young Mania Rating Scale, which were formulated for adults. The purpose of the CMRS is to both assess the symptoms of mania in paediatric bipolar disorder, and to accurately discriminate the symptoms of mania from symptoms of ADHD. It is important that the CMRS accurately discriminate from symptoms of ADHD because core symptoms of adolescent Bipolar Disorder and ADHD are shared between the two disorders: hyperactivity, impulsivity, and distractibility. The CMRS was designed specifically for younger children who may or may not have the ability to accurately answer questions about their behaviour. As a result, the questionnaire is filled out by parents are/or caregivers who work with the children on a daily basis. Previous mania scales were designed for use by either the clinician or the patient. Therefore, the CMRS is unique in that it allows parents and caregivers to contribute information about their child's symptoms. This is especially important in cases where the child may be too young to fill out the questionnaires themselves.
Historically, effective rating and diagnosis of mania has been limited. Though many mania scales have been tested on adult populations, the Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS) – which was tested against the child version (CMRS) as standard measure for screening mania- is the only adult scale that has also been studied for validity and reliability in prepubertal children. Previous attempts include the Beigel Scale/Manic State Rating Scale (MSRS) and the Patterson Scale, which used nurse and clinician reports to rate levels of mania. Neither scale effectively and consistently captured levels of mania in patients. Other measures of paediatric mania are generally limited because they are completed by the clinician, introducing potential for bias, and because they lack the depth necessary to differentiate between patient-specific ways in which symptoms are presented. The CMRS Parent and Teacher versions attempt to address some of the limitations by including a checklist that can gather information about behaviour at home, school, and other settings, rather than focusing only on what a clinician could directly observe. One study examined the accuracy of a shortened version of the CMRS-P, which included only 10 items, and found that its accuracy was similar to the full scale.
Typically, the CMRS takes only 10-15 minutes to administer. The questions ask about behaviour-specific actions and tendencies the child may have exhibited within the past month. The parent rates the behaviour on a scale from 1 to 4, where 1=never/rarely, 2=sometimes, 3=often, and 4=very often. A clinician examines the total score and determines if the child has ADHD or Bipolar Disorder. If a diagnosis Bipolar Disorder is deemed to be appropriate, the clinician will also determine the sub-type.
There is a short version (10 items) of the CMRS called the Brief CMRS/Brief CMRS-P. The shorter version was created because a shorter version is preferred to longer assessments if the shorter gives similar accuracy, which it does. Additionally, there is a teacher's version of the CMRS called the CMRS-Teacher (CMRS-T).
Table 1: Rubric for evaluating norms and reliability for the Child Mania Rating Scale.
Rating (Adequate, Good, Excellent, Too Good)
Norms N/A
Internal Consistency (Cronbach's Alpha, Split Half, etc.) Excellent, too good for some texts. Alphas routinely over .96
Inter-rater Reliability N/A Designed originally as a self-report scale; parent and youth report correlate about the same as cross-informant scores correlate in general.
Test-Retest Reliability Adequate r = .96 over 1 week. Data on test-retest reliability over longer periods are needed.
Repeatability Not published No published studies formally checking repeatability.
Construct validity analyses (Exploratory Factor Analysis and Confirmatory Factor Analysis) for the CMRS-P indicated that the scale is unidimensional. Internal consistency measured by Cronbach's alpha was .96 in a sample consisting of ADHD, Bipolar, and healthy control participants. In a sample of participants with bipolar disorder, the cronbach's alpha was 91. Additionally, it has the ability to accurately differentiate paediatric bipolar disorder from ADHD and healthy controls greater than 90% of the time.
The teacher version (CMRS-T) also has 21 items. The internal consistency, measured by Cronbach's alpha, was .86. Correlations between the parent and teacher versions of the CMRS range from .23 to .27. The CMRS teacher version has not been shown to discriminate bipolar from nonbipolar cases at better than chance levels and is not recommended for use in clinical practice for diagnosing bipolar disorder in children.
Table 2: Evaluation of validity and utility for the Child Mania Rating Scale
Content Validity Excellent Covers both DSM diagnostic symptoms and a range of associated features. Consistently distinguishes between PBP sub-types and comorbid disorders.
Construct Validity (e.g. Predictive, Concurrent, Convergent, and Discriminant Validity) Excellent Shows convergent validity with other symptom scales. Correlations between CMRS-P and other several clinician-rating scales intended to measure manic symptoms (e.g. Washington University Schedule for Affective Disorder and Schizophrenia mania module, the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia Mania Rating Scale, and the Young Mania Rating Scales) were excellent (.78 to .98).
Discriminative Validity Excellent/Too Good Preliminary studies show that CMRS scores discriminate cases with unipolar and bipolar mood disorders from other clinical disorders. AUCs of >.90 are quite high. Comparison to healthy controls might imply unrealistic performance when compared to realities of clinical practice.
Validity Generalisation Adequate Shown to be effective for ethnically representative samples. More research and multiple settings are needed to sufficiently determine generalization.
Treatment Sensitivity Good The CMRS-P has also been found to be sensitive in detecting symptom change over the course of treatment in multiple studies.
Clinical Utility Excellent Free (public domain), designed to be completed in 10-15 minutes, preliminary data are promising. Less research than some of the other contenders, but easier reading level than General Behaviour Inventory and more sensitive to treatment effects than Mood Disorder Questionnaire.
Development and History
The CMRS was developed as a shorter, reliable, and valid parent-report screening instrument for mania. The short form was derived from the CMRS 21 item scale which is the first original mania rating scale developed for children and adolescents. It was not developed from the Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS) that was originally designed for adults, 'Young' being the name of the author than the fact that it was a scale for 'young' population. The YMRS was derived from the Parent-Young Mania Rating Scale (P-YMRS). This scale, developed from the YMRS, was created for use with adult inpatients. The items of the P-YMRS did not include the updated DSM-IV criteria for adolescent Bipolar Disorder, and it includes several items with poor factor loadings. Furthermore, the content is not developmentally appropriate for children, as many of the items require insight or appearance, which are irrelevant to young children. Another promising measure is the GBI as it has good psychometric properties. However, the GBI is lengthy and complicated and requires the child to have at least a 7th-grade reading ability. One of the most widely used measures of mania symptoms is the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia mania section. However, this measure is extremely extensive and requires much clinical training to administer.
During the development of the CMRS, researchers found that reliable and more accurate diagnostic accuracy is found in parent reports in comparison to teacher reports or self-reports and that these other reports rarely added new information to the parent report. Furthermore, the areas under the curve (AUC) of parent-rated instruments reported modest to excellent validity. Based on the evidence, the developers of the CMRS chose to create a measure that relied mainly on parent report.
Other parent report measures have been used to screen for Paediatric Bipolar Disorder, but these measures were not developed to look specifically for mania. One such measure is the Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL). The CBCL, in addition to providing markers of psychopathology, has been used to detect mania in children. However, on the CBCL, researchers saw a consistent pattern of elevated scores, especially on the following symptoms: aggressive behaviour, attention problems, delinquency, anxiety, and depression. This pattern may be due to the high comorbidity of ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, and anxiety disorders in children with paediatric Bipolar Disorder. And although the CBCL is a reliable and validated measure, low scores on the CBCL may only rule out mania – conversely, it would be erroneous to rule in mania using CBCL scores alone.
For these reasons, the CMRS was developed to accurately and reliably assess mania in paediatric Bipolar Disorder, and differentiate its symptoms from other disorders with high comorbidity with paediatric Bipolar Disorder.
Though there is no gold-standard screening tool for Paediatric Bipolar Disorder, the CMRS has been described as a promising and useful tool for such a purpose. For example, institutional protocols for diagnosing and evaluating Bipolar Disorder in children may use the CMRS as an initial screening tool to establish the need to further evaluation of mania symptoms. In addition, the parent version of the CMRS (the CMRS-P) has been used in research studies to detect changes in children's mania symptoms due to pharmacotherapy or psychotherapy. The CMRS is the first measure specifically developed for the purpose of screening for Bipolar Disorder in children.[30] As such, it offers an alternative to broadband rating scales like the Child Behaviour Checklist, which has been used as a screening tool for Bipolar Disorder in children with mixed findings regarding its reliability.
Furthermore, the CMRS-P (both the brief and full versions) have shown to be effective in distinguishing between mania and ADHD. The brief version effectively retains characteristics of the original CMRS, allowing for wider application and longitudinal use. Psychometric studies of the CMRS has demonstrated that the measure has excellent reliability and validity. Internal consistency is excellent and the measure correlates with clinician-administered interview measures for diagnosing paediatric mania. The measure is also accurately able to differentiate symptoms of paediatric Bipolar Disorder from ADHD and healthy control groups more than 90% of the time. Furthermore, the use of the CMRS in pharmacological research suggests that this measure is sensitive to treatment over time, which means that you can use this measure to assess treatment effectiveness.
The CMRS suffers from the same problems as other self-report inventories, in that scores can be easily exaggerated or minimised by the person completing them – in this case, the parent or teacher – in a phenomenon called the social desirability bias. Like all questionnaires, the way the instrument is administered can also influence the final score. If a person is asked to fill out the form in front of other people in a clinical environment, for instance, social expectations have been shown to elicit a different response compared to administration via a postal survey. The age of the youth also may matter. Although the Child Mania Rating Scale has been shown to be a valid and reliable measure of mania in children, one concern is that its validity might change as the youth becomes an adolescent, and parents or teachers have less influence and awareness about the youth's behaviour outside of the home or school. Additionally, it is also unclear of the CMRS's ability to assess the change in mania systems as a child cycles out of mania and into depression.
Use in Other Populations
While the CMRS has not been validated in other languages, the CBCL, YMRS, GBI, and KSADS all have. However, the CMRS has been tested and translated into Spanish. The CMRS is available in fourteen languages with back translation through native/bilingual speakers, though not tested in all languages.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: NM legislators want to require future plans from students
http://www.kob.com/politics-news/new-mexico-legislature-politics-post-high-school-plan-bill/4766980/
New Mexico bill would force students to apply to college
By MARY HUDETZ and MORGAN LEE
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico's high school juniors would be required to apply to at least one college or show they have committed to other post-high school plans as part of a new high school graduation requirement being pushed by two state lawmakers.
The proposal is scheduled for its first legislative hearing on Thursday. If it eventually becomes law, New Mexico would be the first state to require post-high school plans of students, said Jennifer Zinth, who is the director of high school and STEM research at the Education Commission of the States, a Denver-based group that tracks education policy.
The bill sponsored by Rep. Nate Gentry, a Republican, and Daniel Ivey-Soto, a Democrat, would make it mandatory for public school juniors to apply to at least one two- or four-year college. Exceptions would be made for students who can prove they have committed to military service, a vocational program, or work upon graduation in an apprenticeship or internship. Parents and school guidance counselors would have to approve of the students' plans.
This has to be the dumbest piece of legislation I've heard of lately.
As the "college degree" has been generally acknowledged as worthless unless you want to be a doctor, lawyer, engineer, or such. The cost of "college" inflict a huge debt burden on the "student" that is often impossible to repay. The inflation of college cost is linked to the Gooferment, its loan programs, and its subsidization of "state skrules".
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With the release of an ambitious overhaul of the tax code, House Republicans are moving to fulfill a long-held desire of corporate America: a large and audacious tax cut.
Yet economists are divided over whether the plan is likely to revitalize the economy or merely bestow a windfall on the wealthiest investors.
Even before President Trump vowed as a candidate to sharpen America's competitive edge, Republicans led by the House speaker, Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, were arguing that large tax cuts would unleash a hurricane of economic activity.
Economists are still parsing the details, but even some ardent supporters of the plan say expectations about heady growth and job gains are exaggerated. Interest rates are already at bargain-basement levels, plenty of potential investment capital is sloshing around, and the official jobless rate is at lows not seen in many years. Moreover, the cost of the tax package will inevitably deepen the deficit and lead to spending cuts that are likely to hit low- and middle-income workers.
Such dismissiveness failed to deter fans of the twin pillars of the House bill: lowering the top nominal tax rate on corporations to 20 percent from 35 percent, and changing the way global profits are taxed.
"This will make the United States a better place to invest and a better place to be headquartered in," said Mihir A. Desai, an economist at Harvard Business School who has at times complained about the White House's economic claims.
Under the current system, multinational corporations have been shopping around the globe for countries with low tax rates where they can locate their profits and sometimes their operations. Those global profits are taxed by the United States, but only after they are booked at home. The result is that companies warehouse trillions of dollars offshore, indefinitely postponing the payment of United States taxes.
Tax rates don't single-handedly drive investment decisions, and even now deductions and tax credits often shove the rate paid by corporations far below the 35 percent maximum. Still, many economists argue that matching or undercutting the top rate in other advanced industrialized countries — particularly in Western Europe — should encourage investment and productivity.
Slashing the rate to 20 percent is "a pretty dramatic change in the attractiveness of the United States relative to other countries," said Alan Viard, a tax specialist at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.
A shift to taxing domestic and not foreign profits is aimed at discouraging multinationals from moving headquarters, investments and recorded profits abroad. Most other nations have embraced some version of this approach, known as a territorial system.
But economists are split on whether that will reduce or worsen global tax avoidance. The bill proposes a global minimum tax of 10 percent to ensure that companies will have to pay something no matter where they have their headquarters. If they pay a lower rate in a foreign country, they would have to remit the difference to the United States. What could bite even harder is a proposal to tack a 20 percent excise tax on transactions between multinationals and their foreign affiliates to deter them from stripping profits out of the United States tax base.
Yet if the House plan resolves some longstanding issues with the corporate tax code, it also creates new ones. Congress has, in effect, set aside $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years to pay for revisions to the tax code, but to keep the cost of the plan to that limit, the Republican leadership is relying on financing gimmicks to phase in some provisions, or put time limits on others.
A proposal that allows companies to immediately deduct business expenses rather than stretching them over a number of years potentially has the most impact on smaller companies that need money to build up or expand their business. Indeed a hefty chunk of the administration's growth estimates is based on the extra investing it is supposed to cause.
But the proposal has a five-year time limit. "If expensing goes away at the end of 2022, they should not expect any permanent growth effect," said Mr. Viard of the American Enterprise Institute.
For businesses, predictability about the tax code is as important as any specific alteration. And temporary measures that obscure the costs deter long-term investment. New low rates and breaks will not be sustainable over the long term if they do not provide enough money to run the government.
All would-be tax reformers juggle varying goals. They want to entice domestic and foreign companies to invest in the United States, which should, in turn, produce more jobs and stockholder returns.
They want to create a system that is widely judged as fair.
And they need to collect enough revenue to keep the lights on. That includes having the money to cover Social Security payments, antiterrorism measures and disaster relief, as well as maintaining or upgrading the educational, transportation, technological and other systems that undergird the nation's overall economic strength.
Critics worry that the focus on corporate competitiveness gives other goals short shrift.
"The corporate rate cuts are a windfall immediately for stockholders, and not workers," said Steven M. Rosenthal, a tax lawyer and senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. And because 35 percent of United States stocks are foreign-owned, he calculated that $70 billion a year of the tax benefits would go to people in other countries.
As for working people, he labeled the supposed benefits a "sideshow" because they come so far down the road and are so speculative.
As economists can attest, American competitiveness can be an elusive concept.
An earlier version of this article misstated a calculation made by Steven M. Rosenthal, a tax lawyer and senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. Mr. Rosenthal said that foreign investors who owned United States stocks would receive $70 billion a year in tax benefits, not $70 billion over all.