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How Technology Has Helped Grow the Medical Aesthetics Industry
People have always wanted to feel better and look their best. Back in the colonial days, for instance, powdered wigs were fashionable – much of that was to keep the fleas and lice out of everybody's hair. But still, people liked how they felt and looked in them. Abraham Lincoln grew his beard after a little girl wrote to him and said she thought he'd look better with one. So anyone following the medical aesthetics industry may well wonder – why now? People didn't just wake up a few years ago and start saying, "I'd like to look 10 years younger." The "I want to look and feel better" mindset has been going on for a long time.
The answer is in your smartphone. That drone flying overhead. In the wireless coffeemaker you've been thinking of buying.
Technology in Medical Aesthetics
That is, technology is the "why" behind "why now". Technology has allowed the medical aesthetics industry to thrive. Instead of invasive surgical procedures helping to keep Father or Mother Time at bay, technological innovations in non-surgical cosmetic procedures have become the norm. Here's how.
Technology has made the medical aesthetics industry less expensive. The industry is getting rich, but you no longer have to be rich to have cellulite reduced or wrinkles and facial lines filled. Some of that may be perception more than anything because prices over the years have gone up for some procedures and down for others. According to the American Med Spa Association and Marketdata, laser hair removal has climbed almost 51 percent from 2011 to 2016, but dermabrasion was down 12 percent and chemical peels went down by 9 percent.
Still, the point is, as technology evolves and allows procedures to be done more safety and efficiently, and more and more major players, like Allergan, Inc., and Cynosure, Inc., make a bigger footprint in the medical aesthetics industry, and more medical spas open up, that all helps keep prices lower – and at the same, all of these changes help to create a wider and more mainstream market so that new and repeat customers increase.
Larger companies are driving technological innovation – which helps drive demand. You know how a snowball, rolling down a hill, will increase in size and get bigger and bigger? Well, that's what is happening in medical aesthetics. The industry has momentum that's making it bigger and virtually unstoppable. As noted, larger players have been getting into the medical aesthetics marketplace and buying smaller companies and leveraging those acquisitions and their research and development departments. As these giants race to become leaders in the medical aesthetic industry, that becomes good for all players, big and small. Innovations are happening at a rapid pace, so that new technological advancements and product launches are constantly happening. So as word gets out about how easy it is to get a Botox injection, or to have your lips fuller or your facial creases softened – there's that snowball effect.
More people are going to medical spas than ever, and so more companies than ever are innovating, which in turn will continue to spur the public to continue coming. As the Global Medical Aesthetics Market report showed last year, the market is expected to have more than doubled from 2016 ($10.12 billion) to 2024 (an expected $26.53 billion).
Technology has made procedures shorter – and allowed people to get results faster. Many procedures these days are being done within an hour, if not within minutes, which fits in with our "it needs to be done now, if not yesterday" culture. People used to order merchandise and be okay with it being delivered in a couple weeks. Now, a couple days makes some people antsy, which, of course, is why some businesses will deliver products, like groceries, within the hour. Well, technology in the medical aesthetics market has allowed expectations here to evolve as well.
Why spend weeks at the gym trying to reduce some stubborn fat when you can get fat cells frozen off with a Coolsculpting treating within an hour? You can spend weeks and months putting on facial creams on your face, hoping for some results, or you can go into a medical spa and know that you'll get age spots zapped off after a couple sessions.
So, yes, we have always wanted to look and feel better – but it's technology that's allowed people to do that faster and more frequently than ever. And it's allowed an industry to grow and thrive.
Of course, just as it's always been human nature to want to look and feel better, as a society, we've always utilized the latest and greatest in tech tools to do just that. It's just that the non-surgical cosmetic equipment we use has never been as advanced as it is now. Fortunately, we have come a long way from the technology of powdered wigs.
There' never been a better time to take advantage of the rapidly growing medical spa industry.
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D'Youville ranks as top private university in its region
Chiropractic Economics October 6, 2020
For the second consecutive year, D'Youville is ranked as the top private university in Western New York in recognition of its academic excellence, according to the 2021 U.S. News and World Report rankings. It is the second-highest nationally ranked university in Western New York.
Lorrie Clemo, PhD, president of D'Youville, cites the dedicated efforts of faculty, administration, and staff in achieving this distinction, through their diligent, interdisciplinary work toward the strategic vision envisioned by the Board of Trustees.
"U.S. News and World Report continues to recognize the excellent quality of D'Youville's academic programs, as well as the exceptional experience we offer our students through our updated learning spaces, latest technology, and increased scholarship opportunities," she says. "We are gratified to once again receive this significant recognition as a national university."
Last year, U.S. News moved D'Youville from the "Regional Universities – North" to the "National Universities" category, following its placement in the university category by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The Carnegie system, the nationally recognized source used by the U.S. Department of Education, classifies D'Youville as a National University for meeting one or more of its criteria: a full range of undergraduate majors, master's, and doctoral programs, faculty research emphasis, and awarding of professional practice doctorates.
D'Youville currently awards eight different doctorate degrees, the most of any private institution in Western New York, including Chiropractic (DC), Educational Leadership (EdD), Family Nurse Practitioner (DNP), Health Administration (EdD), Health Professions Education (EdD), Pharmacy (PharmD), Physical Therapy (DPT), and Psychiatric Mental Health Practitioner (DNP).
Clemo is particularly pleased by D'Youville's rank of No. 90 in the category of Social Mobility by U.S. News, which measures how well universities graduate students who receive federal Pell Grants, which are typically awarded to students who come from households earning less than $50,000 annually.
"D'Youville is committed to eliminating barriers to higher education for economically disadvantaged or first-generation college students," Clemo says. "We have several programs in place to help support such students in pursuing degrees leading to well-paid, highly sustainable health care careers, including unlimited Say Yes scholarships."
In addition to the U.S. News and World Report rankings, Buffalo Business First ranked D'Youville #2 for Largest Buffalo Healthcare Educators, with nearly 2,500 graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in its School of Nursing, School of Pharmacy, and School of Health Professions. D'Youville was the highest ranked private university on the list.
Other rankings by U.S. News and World Report include Best Nursing Schools, Doctor of Nursing Practice; Best Nursing Schools Master's; Best in Occupational Therapy; Best in Pharmacy; Best in Physical Therapy; Best in Physician Assistant Programs; Best Online Bachelor's Programs; and Best Online MBA Programs.
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176. Japanese director Naomi Kawase's "Still the Water" (Futatsume no mado) (2014): A perspective on death, grief, and continuity for those alive and questioning their lives' meaning
Naomi Kawase stated that she expected to win the Golden Palm at the 2014 Cannes film festival for her film Still the Water during a press conference but she was disappointed. All the awards and attention were instead grabbed by the Russian film Leviathan and the Turkish film Winter Sleep, both competing with the Japanese film for the honors. But a close evaluation proves there was very little differentiating the three awesome films, except for the cultural differences of the subjects in each of the three films.
Trees and the sea enveloping growing minds
This critic had described Ms Kawase as the Terrence Malick of Japan on this blog in February 2012 while reviewing her previous work Hanezu, which had lost out to Malick's The Tree of Life at Cannes for the top honor of 2011 at that festival. But if you ask a Japanese cineaste about Terrence Malick he or she is likely to call Malick the 'Kawase of USA.' And for good reason—Kawase's 2007 film The Mourning Forest was about loss of loved ones, death and regeneration, while Malick's 2011 film The Tree of Life also dealt with death and reconciliation with a larger cycle of life. Both dealt with the sun and the trees/forest. Only for Malick the loss is often of the young, while for Kawase, the loss is often of adults. For Malick, the references are Christian theology and scriptures; for Kawase it's Buddhist scriptures and shamanism. For both directors, nature teaches humans to live a better life by observing nature, not resisting it.
Kyoko swims in the sea wearing her school uniform
Still the Water begins with visuals and sounds of the wrath of the sea only to be followed by visuals of the quiet sea where a schoolgirl goes swimming in her school uniform. Yes, the waters can be stilled, philosophically. What matters is our attitude.
Like most Kawase's films, there is a death of an elder that provides the fulcrum of the film. Kawase's choice of the beautiful Makiko Watanabe (who plays Kyoko's dying mother in Still the Water and a minor role of Wakako in The Mourning Forest) is laudable and elevate the quality of both films. Preceding the death of the elder in Still the Water is a cruel, unsavory killing of a goat by an old man watched by a young person that almost makes you leave the auditorium unless you know Kawase's visuals have a purpose beyond shock and gore. The old man pats with affection the goat that he has just killed. (This is the second important film in recent times that begins with the graphic killing of an animal, the first being Emir Baigazin's Kazhak film Harmony Lessons (2013), winner of a Silver Bear at the Berlin film festival, only to be followed by a contrarian humanist story.) While the gore repulses the viewer, the films use these scenes to prepare the viewer for deeper thought as the films unspool. The death of goat/sheep is contrasted with peaceful death of young Kyoko's lovely mother dying in the company of her caring husband and daughter from an unspecified disease. The 'waters' of the film are metaphorically stilled. "Mother's soul will be part of you," Kyoko is told in consolation. A large banyan tree, occupies some space in the movie's script and visuals, with drooping branches and aerial prop roots that grows into thick woody trunks making it difficult to distinguish them from the main trunk.
Wisdom of the elders for the young
Much of Kawase's films have autobiographical touches. Kawase's father had abandoned her when she was young and she was brought up by her grandmother. In Still the Water, the young shy boy Kaito, is being raised by his mother after his father has left the village to live in the city blaming the circumstances on 'fate'. Thus both the youngsters in the film suffer from a missing parent whom they love. The girl loves the sea, while the boy is afraid of water. Early in the film a wise old man comments: "These kids don't know what lies in the sea." Animate and inanimate objects have relevance in the films of Malick and Kawase in equal measure. Both are visual poets of nature, life and death.
Halcyon days: Father, daughter, and the sick mother during a light interlude
Kawase's handling of Kyoko's mother's death is truly unforgettable. The mother, a shaman, dies holding her daughter's hand s the villagers sing the mother's favorite song. Friends come to sing and dance as the mother dies reminiscent of an Irish wake.
For Kawase, memory of successive generations lives in trees and forests (The Mourning Forest and Still the Water), and rocks (Hanezu) and life is eternal (the arachnids of Hanezu and roots of the banyan trees in Still the Water.) The most interesting line Kawase provides in Still the Water is "Young people should be brave to leave us elders to pick up the pieces."
The banyan tree as a metaphor of life
The tale of life, death and love as it affects two young people in a Japanese village on the forlorn island of Amami is scripted by the Japanese director herself. The appeal of what she provides as cinematic visuals and storyline could be eclectic to Occidental viewers but it would appeal more to the Oriental mind that seeks spiritual connection with nature and respects the forces of nature. She might not have won the admiration of Cannes with Still the Water but this work is her most engaging work since she made The Mourning Forest. The love tale of the boy and the girl is submerged by the sea of philosophical thought the film attempts to provide. Most other directors would have been inclined to do just the opposite. The unknown killer of Kyoko's mother's lover is never revealed. The detail is peripheral for Kawase; instead the effect of the death on other characters is more important for her. That is where we need to admire Kawase, she is different from the regular filmmaker. For this critic, Kawase is the finest living active filmmaker of Japan today.
P.S. Kawase's earlier films Hanezu and The Mourning Forest have been reviewed in detail earlier on this blog. Still the Water is one of the author's top 10 films of 2014. Ms Kawase is also one of the author's 15 favourite active filmmakers.
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Saint-Pierre-des-Corps to Tours by train
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Travelling from Saint-Pierre-des-Corps to Tours by train
Fast trains from Saint-Pierre-des-Corps to Tours take around 5 minutes, covering a distance of approximately 2 kilometres. There are frequent services on the rail route between Saint-Pierre-des-Corps and Tours.
1. Are there direct trains from Saint-Pierre-des-Corps to Tours?
Direct trains from Saint-Pierre-des-Corps to Tours have been found.
We usually find around 72 direct trains on the route from Saint-Pierre-des-Corps to Tours every weekday.
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The Saint-Pierre-des-Corps to Tours train travel time is normally about 5 minutes, whatever time you make the journey.
3. What are the Saint-Pierre-des-Corps to Tours train times and schedule?
On weekdays the earliest direct train to Tours is usually scheduled to depart Saint-Pierre-des-Corps around 07:16 and the last train is around 23:15. At weekends the first train of the day leaves Saint-Pierre-des-Corps around 07:22, and the last at 23:15.
What's the Saint-Pierre-des-Corps to Tours train price?
The cheapest tickets we've found for trains from Saint-Pierre-des-Corps to Tours are $2.05, and there isn't much difference in price depending on when you book.
Trains departing 30 days in advance will cost around $2, and when booking 7 days in advance the price is usually the same. Booking on the day of travel may be more expensive.
When to book Saint-Pierre-des-Corps to Tours train tickets?
Trains in France usually open for booking around 3 months in advance. If booking is not yet open for your dates then you can set a booking alert to receive an email on the day that the cheapest tickets are released for your journey from Saint-Pierre-des-Corps to Tours by train.
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More than one train company operates on the route from Saint-Pierre-des-Corps to Tours, so you'll be travelling with one or more of the following rail operators:
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Оберётка —деревня в Солецком районе Новгородской области.

География
Находится в западной части Новгородской области на расстоянии приблизительно 18 км на юг-юго-восток по прямой от районного центра города Сольцы.

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В 1909 году здесь (деревня Старорусского уезда Новгородской губернии) было учтено 42 двора. До 2020 года входила в состав Выбитского сельского поселения.

Население
Численность населения: 213 человек (1909 год), 7 (русские 100 %) в 2002 году, 0 в 2010.

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Street Art Meets Climate Science in the Big, Blue Face of Zeus
Artist Eric Skotnes uses surface-cooling paint to create a South L.A. "eco-mural" aimed at raising awareness about climate change. Photo by Mary Braswell
Street Art Meets Climate Science in the Big, Blue Face of Zeus Massive mural in South L.A. is painted with a surface-cooling coating to start a conversation about our warming world
October 22, 2019 /0 Comments/in Climate Change, Environment, For Faculty, For Policymakers, School of Public Affairs, Sustainable Energy, Urban Planning V. Kelly Turner /by Mary Braswell
By Mary Braswell
The gigantic mural at the corner of Avalon and 62nd in South L.A. is super cool. The face of the Greek god Zeus painted in electric blues against a black background looks down as people walk by on the sidewalk and cars pass on the street. At 72 feet wide and 27 feet high, the street art makes a big, bold statement in a neighborhood of warehouses and loading docks.
It also literally cools down the brick wall it's painted on.
Created with a solar reflective coating that reduces surface temperatures up to 30 percent, the so-called eco-mural aims to tap into the popularity of street art to start a conversation about climate change, said V. Kelly Turner, assistant professor of urban planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.
Project leaders V. Kelly Turner, left, and Lizy Dastin. View more photos from the "cool art" mural project on Flickr.
Turner conducts research on urban design and the environment, including the effectiveness of cooling surface paint to combat the "urban heat island effect" that drives up temperatures in cities. She does extensive work with the city of Los Angeles, which is testing the reflective coating on streets in every council district.
"L.A. has the first-of-its-kind cool pavement project. And we're also a vanguard for supporting the street arts," Turner said. "But no one's ever done a street art intervention or mural using cool paint."
To make that vision a reality, Turner reached out to street art advocate Lizy Dastin, who teaches art history at Santa Monica College. Dastin recruited muralist Eric Skotnes from the activist art collective Indecline, whose work blending graffiti art and classical figures has been commissioned on spaces across the United States and as far away as Israel and Peru.
By the time the mural Turner envisioned was unveiled — on an October day when temperatures in Los Angeles hit 95 degrees — the list of collaborators included artists, urban planners, climate scholars, community activists and entrepreneurs. But as Skotnes put the finishing touches on the towering face of Zeus, the excitement was tempered by the gravity of the underlying issue.
Turner cited research showing that extreme heat leads to more deaths than all other weather-related hazards combined. The danger is especially acute in cities, where buildings, roads and parking lots trap heat during the day and hold on to it into the evening, making afternoons and nighttime temperatures unnaturally hot.
In Southern California, cities often run 9 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than the undeveloped regions that surround them. By 2021, as climate change intensifies, Los Angeles could experience an additional 60 to 90 days of temperatures above 95 degrees every year, UCLA research shows.
Facing that grim prospect, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has commissioned several urban design interventions — including planting trees and applying cool paint to roofs and streets — to fulfill his pledge of lowering citywide temperatures by 3 degrees Fahrenheit by 2035.
Muralist Eric Skotnes of the art collective Indecline puts finishing touches on the face of Zeus. Photo by Mary Braswell
To help the city gauge the effectiveness of the cool pavement strategy, Turner travels across the region to collect field data on the reflective paint. She has attached 100 tiny sensors to key fobs and placed them in trees in Ontario, Watts and Fresno. Along with collaborator Ariane Middel of Arizona State University, she has accompanied a temperature-sensing robot named MaRTy as it trundled down the sidewalks of Pacoima and Ontario to measure how the average pedestrian would feel the heat.
While other studies have focused on surface temperatures, the research by Turner and Middel is the first to determine the cool pavement sites' "mean radiant temperature," a more accurate predictor of thermal comfort for humans. The suite of measurements includes surface and air temperature, long- and short-wave radiation, wind speed and humidity.
The two researchers found that cool pavement surface temperature is lower than untreated asphalt at all hours, but mean radiant temperature can be almost 7 degrees Fahrenheit higher in the afternoon. Turner noted, "Cool pavement is not a panacea but one tool of many in making climate-adapted cities that are less hot."
It's all part of what she calls a "fantastic urban experiment."
"Anytime a city does something like this — green interventions, let's call them — as scholars, it's incumbent on us to evaluate them using the tools of science," she said. "We are really doing what's called 'adaptive management'— do, learn from doing and adjust."
Turner is a social scientist who identifies urban design problems and builds teams to develop answers. That skill was clearly evident in the network she built to make the South L.A. mural a reality.
The idea for the project came in the middle of the night, she recalled. She immediately sent predawn emails to Dastin, a friend from their days at Wellesley College and founder of the street art advocacy venture Art and Seeking, as well as research partner Middel, who conducts climate studies as director of the SHADE Lab at Arizona State.
Armed with a thermal camera, Middel captured the heat signature of the finished mural, swirls of yellow, orange and purple that showed the effects of the cooling paint.
"That's the most exciting part. The art exists in the visual spectrum and the infrared," Turner said. "It's interesting from an artistic perspective because it's a different artistic parameter, a challenge for the artist."
Muralist Skotnes developed the Zeus concept in tribute to the building owner, Amped Kitchens, whose logo includes a lightning bolt — the god of sky and thunder's weapon of choice. The building houses a community of Los Angeles food makers who rent state-of-the-art production, packaging and storage facilities. Owners Mott Smith, a UCLA alumnus, and Brian Albert are advocates of sustainable urbanism and eagerly offered their 1920s-era building as a canvas for the mural.
The solar reflective coating was donated by Creative Paving Solutions of Arizona, and the project was underwritten by UCLA's Luskin Center for Innovation and the nonprofit Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles.
Turner sees the mural as an eye-catching way to raise public awareness about the urgent need to adapt to a warming world. But she says her end goal is to offer practical, data-based solutions for cities like Los Angeles.
"As a human environment geographer," Turner said, "my passion is trying to think through how to make this research more useful for a city planner who needs to figure out, 'OK, I've got this intersection, how can I make it cooler for people waiting for the bus?' "
The "cool art" mural as seen in infrared, left, and to the naked eye. Photos by Ariane Middel
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Over the years Sandy has advised more than 60 PhD students. Almost half are now tenured faculty at leading institutions, with another one-quarter leading industry research groups and a final quarter founders of their own companies. Together Sandy and his students have pioneered computational social science, organizational engineering, wearable computing (Google Glass), image understanding, and modern biometrics. His most recent books are `Social Physics,' published by Penguin Press, and 'Honest Signals', published by MIT Press.


Here are simply a few proso millets and a foxtail millet. All can be used for human consumption but should be dehulled. They are also quite decorative and can be used in dried arrangements.
A proso millet with blond heads and seeds. Readily self-seeds.
A proso millet with dark heads and red-brown seeds. Readily self-seeds.
Foxtail Millet has heavy compact dark brown heads. Plants are tall and erect, bending over when the heads are mature, and very little stooled out. Often seen for purchase as bird food still in the unthrashed heads.


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Tim Roemer
This article originally appeared in The Economic Times.
We are living in a highly volatile time with uncertainty in world affairs. Assuming the role of leader of the free world is both an incredible opportunity and an immense challenge. The new president is entering office at a time of seismic change, where a local brushfire can fast become an all-consuming regional firestorm at a moment's notice.
Dousing these fires and managing crises is the responsibility of every president. America can and must continue to lead and serve as an example of the world we aspire to leave for the next generation. But America is not alone.
We have strong relationships and deep partnerships with other nations that have been built over decades; none more important than our relationship with India. Every president and their national security team must also devote time and resources to the carefully calibrated set of strategic priorities that will define their presidency.
Eight years ago, President Barack Obama entered a complicated global stage. When he asked me to serve as the US ambassador to India, I knew it was an opportunity to not only represent the country I love, but to help shape the defining partnership of the 21st century with India.
Our many similarities may not be instantly apparent, but they are strikingly deep. Our constitutions begin with the simple phrase, 'We the People'. Our citizens are proud, innovative and always looking towards the future. A world in which America succeeds is a world in which India succeeds, and vice versa. We are both promoting common international values of democracy, freedom, diversity and human rights.
We will have a new US ambassador to India. And President Donald Trump will have frequent conversations with PM Narendra Modi and realise the incredible benefits of this partnership.
These discussions must include the goals and strategy to moving this relationship forward. There are four areas the US should work on to build on past progress. These will help President Trump's goals to strengthen America, and also further deepen the relationship that can define the 21st century.
First, defence and security cooperation have significantly increased at the bilateral level and should be expanded to trilateral and multilateral relationships with Australia, Singapore, Japan and Malaysia. Counterterrorism and intelligence-sharing have improved significantly. Still, ongoing tensions with Pakistan will continue to create instability on the border.
Acalming of potential hostilities with Pakistan will allow India to look towardsgreater regional security opportunities with Afghanistan. With the South China Sea a rising hotspot, the US, India and Asean partners can play a significant role in counterbalancing forces of insecurity and instability. The Indian Ocean and the Strait of Malacca are now critically important trade routes for the world economy.
Second, Indians could be included in more efforts worldwide to combat ISIL and international terrorism. India and the US are setting a gold standard for global security by tackling the most pressing issues that face the international community today, including counterterrorism operations, intelligence cooperation and cyber security. A strategic Dialogue on Homeland Security, started in 2010, should be reenergised.
Third, economic and trade issues need attention and solutions, and new sector or state-to-state agreements are worth exploring. Both President Trump and PM Modi intimately understand how business is conducted. While bilateral trade can be a major frustration in the relationship, making progress on intellectual property, anti-corruption efforts and cutting needless red tape could help unlock the great economic power of our two nations. With targeted work and important breakthroughs, we can increase annual bilateral trade between the US and India from just over $100 million to $200 million or $300 million.
Finally, education and health initiatives are driven by government agreements, but also people-to-people ties, social entrepreneurship and philanthropic organisations. Our respective democracies can be even better aligned in these crucial areas, including community colleges and universities.
Working closely, the US and India have increased treatment success rates of tuberculosis to 87% and reduced the spread of AIDS in India by a third over the last decade. We have also engaged in meaningful student exchanges.
Today's world can be overwhelming, lurching from one crisis to the next. There are "problem countries" (e.g., North Korea, Iran) and problem-solving countries. India is a problem-solving country. The "fires" the administration manages on a daily basis can seem never-ending.
As the US looks forward to opportunities to strengthen world peace and serve the American people, the critical bilateral partnership with India — built on years of friendship, trust and hard work — can solve problems and promote global prosperity. The Trump Administration must prioritise this relationship, and the sooner the better.
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Tim Roemer, former six-term U.S. representative for Indiana's 3rd congressional district, most recently served as U.S. ambassador to India.
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the screen is like black or transparent all the time and you can see hardly anything. Anyone knows how to fix this?
it does this for me with gsdx on, with zerogs its even worse and gamam is off.
That's strange...are you sure you are using the latest GSdx 0.1.14 and PCSX2 0.9.6? What are your PC specs?
my specs are a 9800 gt (nvidia), 4 gigs ram, dual core anthlon x2 5600+.
well I believe I have the pal version does that make any difference?
I've also been playing the PAL version. Mine runs at full speed (constant 50 FPS) without any graphical glitches.
bios problem I believe. I used the 1.6 instead of the 2.0 european bios.


Prepare grill for indirect cooking, placing pre-heated Kingsford® briquets on one side of the charcoal grate and leaving the other side of the grill cool. Add 2–3 chunks of your favorite smoking wood to the charcoal, place main cooking grate on the grill, and cover the grill until ready to use.
To prepare the MOINK balls, cut bacon slices into thirds and wrap each meatball with bacon. Secure bacon with a toothpick then dust meatballs with BBQ dry rub seasoning. Place MOINK balls on the cool side of the grill, cover, and allow them to cook for 20–25 minutes until the bacon is browned and crisp.
Cherry Chipotle BBQ Sauce: Combine ingredients in a small saucepan and warm over medium-low heat for approximately 10 minutes until the cherry juice has reduced and the sauce has thickened. Remove from the heat and use immediately or refrigerate until ready to use.
Credit: Recipe by Clint Cantwell, adapted from the original MOINK Ball created by Larry Gaian.


New construction by Fischer Homes in beautiful Highlands at Summersfield is Ready Now! This open Maple floorplan with a Western Craftsman is one floor living at its finest. A separate Living Room supplements a generous Family Room which opens to a large equipped Kitchen/ morning room with a nice pantry. The Owners Bedroom features a private bath and walk-in closet. Two additional bedrooms adjoin a full bath. A 1st floor laundry and 2 car attached garage round out this offering.


Dear members earlier I posted an article from web resources about Badaga Origin. I am pleased by the views and ratings. Now another article I happend to hit in the web resources.
The Names like - Jogi - Nandhi , are seen in Punjab , West Bengal. A typical Badaga name for passport application in northern India makes the officials feel we are punjabis for the obvious sounding names.
The Badagas (Kannada:ಬಡಗ ಜನರು) are an indigenous people inhabiting the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu, southern India.The term 'Badagu' in old Kannada means 'North',so 'Badaga' should mean 'Northener'.
For example, the Badagas have traditionally hired musicians from other Nilgiri groups (such as the Kota and Irula) to play at their social functions, which is symbolic of submission and control in that region . However, they are also known to have paid tribute in grain to other groups, such as the Todas. In general, neither stereotype of caste or tribe can be readily applied. They are most likely Dravidian by descent and they are by religion Hindus of the Saiva sect.
Research has indicated they migrated to the Nilgiris from the Mysore region, sometime around 1600 after the break-up of the kingdom of Vijayanagara. They are an agricultural people and far the most numerous and wealthy of the hill tribes. Many have relocated to towns and cities of the region, and earn income from urban-style employment . Their language is Badaga, a dialect of Kannada. This is the correct representation of Badaga people ,let us see why there is confusion.
Badaga ethnic group from Central/East Europe for survival had to accept the local language after migration to southern India and then to the Nilgiri Hills (the nilgiris then belonged to the Vijayanagara Empire), hence the dialect of Kannada. The badagas hence adopted the language for verbal communication and did not accept the Script as it was Foreign to them . The date of the second migration from present Karnataka is probably said to be around 1500 AD - 1600 AD. But this theory is put up to convert badagas to Christianity . The same theory has been put forward in neibhouring kodagu to successful effect in conversion. To somehow show they are closer to European to spread Christianity .
The above statement of origin is further diluted based on the examination of R1a1 in South Indian tribals and Dravidian population groups Saha et al. (2005) questioned the concept of its Indo-Iranian origin . Sengupta et al. (2005) claim R1a's diverse presence including even Indian tribal and lower castes (the so-called untouchables) and populations not part of the caste system. From the diversity and distinctiveness of microsatellite Y-STR variation they conclude that there must have been an independent R1a1 population in India dating back to a much earlier expansion than the Indo-Aryan migration. The other Ethnic group from southern India which belongs to the R1a1 haplogroup are the Kodava whose customs and cultural aspects for centuries have been said to be related to the Badagas.


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Q: JAVA GSON date converter : How to get midnight as 00:00 AM instead of 12:00 AM I use GSON to get a Json with different data. Everything works fine but when the user type 00:30:00 AM as half past midnight, it is converted as 12:30:00 AM. I d like to have it as 00:30:00 AM.
Is there a way to do without changing anything else in date conversion ?

A: I would have preferred to persuade GSON to give me the desired format, but sorry, I don't know GSON so cannot tell you whether that's possible. However, if it isn't, reformatting the string you get isn't difficult when you know how:
    DateTimeFormatter gsonTimeFormatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("hh:mm:ss a");
    DateTimeFormatter desiredTineFormatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("KK:mm:ss a");
    String timeStringFromGson = "12:30:00 AM";
    LocalTime time = LocalTime.parse(timeStringFromGson, gsonTimeFormatter);
    String formattedTime = time.format(desiredTineFormatter);
    System.out.println(formattedTime);

Output from this snippet is:

00:30:00 AM

The format pattern letters hh (lowercase) and KK (uppercase) both mean hour within AM or PM, but the former goes from 01 through 12, the latter from 00 through 11, so gives you the desired hour, also in case the hour from GSON happened to be 12.

A: Set your date format when creating gson object from Gson builder.
Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setDateFormat("HH:mm:ss").create();

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Bo-Kaap Cape Town, a colour lover's heaven - What's Katie Doing?
You may have seen my recent trip to South Africa on social media. I spent two weeks in that beautiful country and I adored seeing all the different places. From the beauty of nature along the coast, to the old charm of houses and gardens in Stellenbosch. But what I was really looking forward to was the colourful walls of the Bo-Kaap area in Cape Town. This photo blog aims to share this with you and leave you similarly inspired!
Yes I dressed up deliberately, no I didn't realise that I would find a wall that matched my dress lol!
There was a lot of posing as my photographer tried out some arty shots – the reason for the hand in the hair was the wind!
Sarah also chose a fancy dress for this photo shoot!
It's a district in Cape Town – also called the Malay quarter, on the slopes of Signal Hill. This is where many ex-slaves settled after the abolition of slavery – mainly a Muslim population from Malaysia and Indonesia. The local Mosque is also painted in bright pastel colours.
Whilst not colourful, this door was crying out for a picture!
Why are the houses painted so colourfully?
I've seen several explanations of why the residents of Bo-Kaap paint their houses such bright colours. Everything from the original residents of Bo-Kaap being slaves that only had the ability to express their personalities on the walls of their houses; to the focus as a mainly Muslim area – the painting of the house is linked to the celebration of the festival of Eid at the end of Ramadan; to the fact that they used whichever paint was cheapest!
The Bo-Kaap museum is the hub of this area. It explains about the history of its residents and is worth a short visit for a nominal R30. It won't keep you entertained for long though.
This time lapse video shows you the movement of the clouds rolling off of Table Mountain.
I would totally recommend starting at the museum and then walking around the area – whilst the majority of the bright houses are close by, you'll be able to find some without hordes of tourists if you check down alleyways and sidestreets.
If you decide to lunch before or after your visit then Bree Street and Heritage Square are a few blocks away, where there are plenty of restaurants and cafes.
Bo-Kaap is only a short walk from the CBD or 20 minutes from the V&A waterfront. However it's very easy to get around Cape Town with Uber – so if it's too hot or windy or you are not comfortable walking, I would take an Uber. The area is not ideal for self driving due to parking issues and the narrow one way streets.
Pin me for colour inspiration!
Or pin me for posing tips!
I hope I've inspired you to visit soon Sandy!
Haha funny seeing you in my hood. I stay in Bokaap and I love it. Its a special place. Glad you had a good time.
That's awesome that you live there – I love how vibrant it is!
Wow! Sooo pretty! Love colourful places like this, makes such good photos.
Oh yes they do! I love it for the same reason Zara!
Had no idea there was a place where Indonesian settlers other than Holland. I Guess it makes sense that they went there because South Africa was a Dutch colony too.
I love the colourful houses as well as your dresses! The perfect match 🙂 So many people are currently in Cape Town, makes me so curious!
LOVEEEE how well you matched with the red! I've seen so many photos of this place on social media so it was nice to read a bit more about why it looks the way it does. Hope i can make it here someday!


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Political Science, Authoritarianism, and Climate Change
Can the Climate Crisis Undermine Democratic Legitimacy?
Jeremy Wallace
Editor's Note: As I mentioned in the preface to Ariel Ron's post two weeks ago, I'm trying to use the limited amount of subscription funds this newsletter generates for something more productive than feathering my own nest. Namely, I'm using it to pay writers I admire to write the sorts of texts I admire. Along those lines, I'm thrilled to introduce today's guest post from my brilliant friend, Jeremy Wallace. Jeremy is an associate professor of Government at Cornell University, studying authoritarianism and focusing on China, cities, statistics, and climate change, which he writes about on his substack: The China Lab (you should subscribe!). His forthcoming book, Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China, argues that a few numbers came to define Chinese politics until they didn't count what mattered and what they counted didn't measure up. Relevant to the piece below, he also wrote (with Michael Neblo) "A Plague on Politics: The COVID Crisis, Expertise, and the Future of Legitimation." On climate change, Columbia University's Center for Global Energy Policy published Gatekeepers of the Transition: How China's Provinces Are Adapting to National Decarbonization Pledges, a report he wrote with Ned Downie. Above and beyond his sterling academic credentials, many, many decades ago Jeremy also went to high school with me. And he bossed me like an expert authoritarian as the captain of the speech and debate team. Bossing me is no easy feat, so you can be certain that Jeremy knows what he's talking about when it comes to today's topic. Take it away, Jeremy!
A recent political science article claimed that if democracy fails to adequately respond to the climate crisis, then 'political legitimacy may require adopting a more authoritarian approach.' A furor ensued—eco-fascism, Fox News, and more—that muddied the waters instead of clarifying them. Academics need to do more to engage in the climate debate, and to do so thoughtfully, both in journals and in public. The nature of digital debate often makes that difficult, with more views accruing to wilder claims, but responsible scholarship requires slowing down the debate and resisting the lure of internet sensationalism. The climate crisis is a global phenomenon that is unfolding now and will continue to do so over the course of many human lifetimes. That scale makes it thornily resistant to simple narratives of cause and effect.
Consider the following tweet.
Faber @dfaber84
Your consumption of pears, not cows, is destroying the planet.
2:37 PM ∙ Dec 31, 2021
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A trail of crumbs has been laid out with the implied chain of logic like a game of connect the dots, all the more compelling to the reader for having to finish the work. It feels natural to assume that taking a pear grown in Argentina, sending it to Thailand for packing in plastic, and subsequently sending it back across the Pacific Ocean to the United States to be eaten would involve production of significant amount of pollution—namely, emissions changing the atmosphere and warming the planet. Surely all of this distance would trump any kind of problem arising from natural, wholesome, local beef production. Think of all the labor and logistics involved, the machines, the vehicles, the time. The tweet preys on our frustrations with modern globalized capitalism, to mask self-interest and status quo bias, for of course the tweeter here is a dairy farmer who is not particularly interested in your pear consumption habits but is deeply wrapped up in continued bovine agricultural production.
Yet studies that have investigated the emissions associated with different kinds of agricultural production are quite clear. Transportation is almost always at under 5% of emissions of a given product. In the end, it is what is on our plates, not the elliptical journeys that it takes on its way there that matters. But despite its consistency in statistical analysis, this result clashes with our own lives. Transportation is a major source of carbon emissions for people living in the developed world; depending on the length of your commute and mode of transportation, it is quite likely the majority of your emissions. Extrapolating from the individual-level to the crazy complexity of globalized capitalism is difficult and non-intuitive. Large container vessels exist on a scale in size that is hard to fathom. A Suezmax container ship such as the Ever Given, which was you may remember was a main character from 2021—stuck nearly sideways for six days blocking the Suez Canal and the billions of dollars in goods that it transit daily—is 399.9 meters long. Its dwarfing of the excavator that tried to help push it back into the deeper channels of the canal makes plain the immensity of these craft. It can carry 20,124 standard twenty foot containers; that's a lot of pears.
Scale. Suez Canal/AFP
With most food being shipped via such efficient means, there is little in the way of emissions per mile. So unless one is eating a lobster flown in that evening from half a continent away, there is little to be concerned about in terms of transportation emissions in food. On the other hand, cows burp out copious amounts of methane in their digestive process, and methane is eighty times more potent than carbon dioxide in its climate forcing, although it does stay in the atmosphere for a shorter period of time.
So, the farmer's tweet calling to cancel pears attempts to perpetuate the status quo by taking advantage of the complexities and attitudes of those who might see it, masking self-interest with conspiratorial language. Of course, it's just a tweet. And, as such, exists at the heart of an ecosystem pushing vast quantities of information in front of our eyeballs, draining our energy or evading the intellectual defense of skepticism that might have triumphed if one pondered beyond the half a second that it shows up on your phone screen while you scroll down to see something, anything else.
Climate change's complexity interacting with a technology that makes sharing information instantaneously so simple and considered deliberation so impossible in a context of democratic decline recently yielded what can best be described as a brouhaha for the discipline of political science. But it is precisely because of these forces remapping our world that demands that we try to have these conversations, to clarify different values and viewpoints, to assess tactics, strategies, and logistics, to consider likely failure points, and to imagine better futures. It will not be easy, but needs to be done, both with passion and clear-sightedness.
In December, the discipline's leading peer-reviewed journal, the American Political Science Review, published an article entitled "Political Legitimacy, Authoritarianism, and Climate Change" by Ross Mittiga. The discipline as a whole, especially APSR and other top journals, has neither taken a great interest in nor published significant materials on climate change.
As someone who considers this topic vital, I was excited to see a new piece in the discipline's top journal, and as one does these days, tweeted about it based on a quick perusal of the abstract. Almost immediately others alerted me to potential red flags, so I attempted to read the article with sufficient care and communicate with others about their reading of the pieces as well.
As is likely clear from its title, the article covers very charged material. It begins by invoking authoritarian success — "As the climate crisis deepens, one can find a cautious but growing chorus of praise for 'authoritarian environmentalism'"—but quickly shifts to lingering on democratic failures in addressing climate change—"it is undeniable that nearly all wealthy democratic states have failed to respond adequately to the climate crisis."
It uses this frame despite what I will call the Footnote Two Problem. In the piece, the second footnote highlights that existing research points in favor of democracies doing more than authoritarian states on climate change. This result exists even though many living in democracies remain frustrated by the inability of their governments to take action sufficient to be crisis. This feeling (a totally reasonable one to have that I share deeply!) does not translate into a comparative analysis of the efficacy of authoritarian states. The empirical scholarship that has been done suggests that democracies are comparatively active in acting on or mitigating climate change compared with non-democracies.
Let me quote the footnote in full:
According to Stevenson and Dryzek (2014), there is at least some evidence that more deliberatively democratic governments perform better. See also Looney 2016; Povitkina 2018; Shahar 2015.
The footnote in total mentions four pieces. Obviously the first, Stevenson and Dryzek (2014), supports the notion that democratic governments do more on climate change. So to do the second and third. In "Democracy Is the Answer to Climate Change," Robert Looney's stance is clear from the title. The same can be said from Dan Shahar's: "Rejecting Eco-Authoritarianism, Again." It is only the fourth study, Marina Povitkina's, "The Limits of Democracy in Tackling Climate Change," that perhaps suggests a counterpoint to this pro-democratic tide. However, even it comes to agree with the others, though it imposes one condition on that claim:
The results indicate that more democracy is only associated with lower CO2 emissions in low-corruption contexts. If corruption is high, democracies do not seem to do better than authoritarian regimes.
The Footnote Two Problem is this: the article's frame takes democratic failures as destroying the legitimacy of those regimes, implying growing legitimacy for authoritarianism—but authoritarian failures are worse.
Yet this recognition of the existing data feels overwhelmed in the piece. On page two, the article says
To be clear, though, the argument presented here should not be understood as an endorsement of authoritarianism but rather as a warning: should we wish to avoid legitimating authoritarian politics, we must do all we can to prevent emergencies from arising that can only be solved with such means.
But why should we expect that the climate emergency "can only be solved with such [authoritarian] means" when just a page before footnote two presents the result from scholarship to date that democracies have done more than authoritarian states to avoid the worst outcomes of climate change?
The paper's use of "authoritarian" is a bit incoherent. The literature in footnote two treats it as one regime type on a spectrum running from democracy to authoritarian (or splitting country-years into one or the other). This fits with most scholarly and colloquial uses of the term. But authoritarian is also used to describe particular actions or governance practices that deviate from some kind of liberal democratic ideal. Or, as Peter Cannavò noted, there is a conflation of democracy with liberalism.
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Third, this raises another issue. Though he acknowledges in a footnote that "the future need not be considered purely in terms of maintaining prevailing forms of liberalism or succumbing to authoritarianism," Ross does tend to conflate democracy with liberalism.
6:46 PM ∙ Jan 2, 2022
"Authoritarian climate governance" ranges the gamut from on one end "curbing meat heavy diets," installing "a censorship regime that prevents the proliferation of climate denialism or disinformation in public media," or "imposing a climate litmus-test on those who seek public office, disqualifying anyone who has significant (relational or financial) ties to climate-harming industries or a history of climate denialism" to, on the other end, court orders consistent with due process like the "Netherland's Supreme Court's decision that Shell was in violation of Articles 2 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights." Democratically-elected officials passing laws that subsidize clean power, tax fossil fuels, or require coal to be left in the ground is not authoritarianism even if it does represent a break with prior propertarianism.
One can imagine a different framing and language that does not rely on slicing regimes neatly into democratic or authoritarian categories but instead rests on ideas about delegation to technocrats with some (limited?) democratic backstops. After all, as Kate McNamara put it: "we have been debating EU 'output legitimacy' for decades & the legitimacy of technocratic delegation to independent central banks …"
Kate McNamara @ProfKMcNamara
Kinda befuddled at the whole APSR article controversy, I mean we have been debating EU 'output legitimacy' for decades & the legitimacy of technocratic delegation to independent central banks… its just usefully pushing those ideas out to their extremes, no?#SoMuchGrumpiness
Jeremy Wallace @jerometenk
@erinrpineda I was planning on writing a response/reflection on the original piece, but now it's going to be more complicated/depressing/interesting to do without infuriating everyone….
2:03 AM ∙ Jan 3, 2022
One can read this in two different ways: the article rips the mask off of the tremendous power that "technocrats" have in existing institutional settings by calling them all authoritarian. Or, by muddying the waters between systems that empower elites but maintain some democratic checks and systems that do away with such checks leaving technocrats unencumbered by the demos, the argument readies the way for anti-democratic action to manage the climate crisis.
But, this was over the holidays, and reading and thinking takes time. Then on New Year's Eve, a thread critiquing the piece went viral on twitter.
Alexander Wuttke @Kunkakom
A prestigious journal in political science, @apsrjournal, has published a disturbing piece of l political theory. In my reading, it explicitly argues that we must put climate action over democracy and adopt authoritarian governance if democracies fail to act on climate change.
9:38 AM ∙ Dec 31, 2021
3,334Likes1,205Retweets
Let's pause here for a modern moment of zen and ponder the locus of authority. Does it rest in the peer-review process in prestigious but generally inaccessible disciplinary journals or in a viral Twitter thread about said article that likely has 1000x the readership of the original piece?
The text of this first tweet already shows that a misreading has taken place. Mittiga explicitly argues that this argument is a warning, not as an endorsement. And yet, the article's argumentation proceeds from the premise that authoritarian governance would be legitimated by democratic failures to address climate change challenges despite the empirical record of dictatorships doing even less than democracies to this point.
The article's key move is to separate legitimacy into "foundational" and "contingent," with the former focused on keeping citizens alive and the latter on how those lives might be lived. The question of whether there are circumstances where life should be sacrificed for freedom or freedom for the sake of preserving life is a classic one, but there's little acknowledgement in the article about how security is always partial and tradeoffs between these values is inherent to human communities. Take speed limits. Despite fewer miles being driven in 2020 than in previous years, more Americans died in car crashes; the general assumption is that this is due to speed. Crashes at higher speeds are much more likely to be fatal. But speed limits are chosen to try to balance the dangers of moving half-ton steel cages with people inside with the desire to allow people to move about their environment. Debates about whether the status quo gets that balance right persist—see the Vision Zero movement—and even whether limiters should be installed to keep automobiles at legal velocities.
The argument can seem to be tilted in favor of authoritarianism as it barely weights the freedoms of democracy, leading to readings like this from the viral thread:
Democracy does not fulfill primary needs. Its value is contingent and more like a fashion. In our times, people value it, but in earlier centuries people did not. So its value is not foundational but contingent on the people's current desires.
65Likes5Retweets
Note that Wuttke continues to quote the actual article and engage with its substance, if continuing to pull selectively from it, but also that the engagement numbers this far down the thread have dropped off markedly.
The quote tweet phenomenon allows or encourages amplified simplification (of an already simplified bit of discussion in the tweet / thread). Many drew connections to COVID-19 policies, suggesting that "They're going to try to push climate lockdowns. Don't let them." Or even further: conservative blogger and radio host Erick Erickson said "This really is becoming a new religion with jihadist sensibilities." Economist Noah Smith wrote "The kids call this 'ecofascism', I believe." On the anniversary of the US capitol insurrection, Fox News published a story about the article saying that it "suggests 'authoritarianism' might be necessary to fight climate change."
These critiques are unfair to the article and led to a circling the wagons by political theorists.
Samuel R. Galloway @SamuelRGalloway
@erinrpineda @jerometenk Exactly! A friend cautioned against circling the theory wagons reflexively, but the effect of the viral thread was to do real harm by granting legitimacy to these very sorts of actual fascists.
Who are we in conversation with? What grants legitimacy to "actual fascists?" A junior scholar writes an academic article that goes through peer review and is published. It knowingly engages in "unsettling" debates and through some combination of its own limitations, the non/misreading of others, and the amplification of Twitter, millions of impressions are made. Can we count on the fact that "Twitter's memory is that of a goldfish" to dismiss this as a tempest in a teapot?
The environmental movement, after all, has had dalliances with authoritarian practices, perhaps most troublingly when the topic turns to population. Garrett Hardin's extremely influential idea of the tragedy of the commons was not just wrong empirically when Science published it in 1968, its subheadings—e.g. "Freedom To Breed Is Intolerable"—make transparent the authoritarian leanings of his lifeboat ethics. The Ehrlichs published The Population Bomb that same year, and the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth followed in 1972. The Chinese rocket scientist Song Jian leapt to attention and thrust himself into demography, stressing the ease with which one can switch "missile velocity, position, and thrust" to "population density, death rate, and migration rate." His intervention was critical to the One Child Policy on the Chinese people, arguing that without it the country would likely fall into a Malthusian disaster. While post-hoc China has claimed that the policy helped protect the climate through reducing the number of people born, there's serious debate whether economic growth is a better explanation for the decreased fertility rate. What we do know is that local officials zealously implementing the policy coerced women into abortions and sterilizations.
And this must be a major concern for those so frustrated with the piecemeal and pint-sized political responses of democracy that assume that the grass must be greener on the other side. Not that authoritarians will use their awesome powers to rapidly decarbonize and save the world, but that the pretext of ecological catastrophe will be used to justify their existing agenda. Nils Gilman refers to this as "the coming Avocado Politics"
Avocado Politics": green on the outside but brown(shirt) at the core. The term is an ironic nod to a moniker used in the 1970s and '80s to describe the green parties in Western Europe: "Watermelon Politics" — green on the outside, red on the inside….
Avocado Politics is the parallel phenomenon on the Right: just as watermelon politics repackaged the political wish list of the Left on the basis of the environmental crisis, Avocado Politics reiterates the policy agenda of the far right, but now justified on the basis of the environmental crisis. As traditional conservative parties crumble and the far right gains power in many countries, embracing the reality of global warming is likely to be used to provide a powerful new set of justifications for the far-right policy program.
In the recent China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet, Li and Shapiro distinguish between depictions of China that uses its authoritarianism to achieve environmental ends and what they see as more dominant: state-led environmentalism that has non-environmental spillover effects, most notably on the centralization of political power and the suppression of individual rights and public participation. "In the name of ecological wellbeing, the state exploits the environment as a new form of political capital, harnessing it in the pursuit of authoritarian resilience and durability." Mittiga fails to grapple with these ideas about the justificatory power of environmental rhetoric pursuing other ends. Authoritarianism here is just an effective engine for environmental action if democracies continue to fail.
But beyond the explicit framing of the paper as a warning, Mittiga's argumentation is not that we should ignore contingent legitimacy, but instead that
[Patrick] Henry is criticizing the idea of authoritarian power being used in normal (non-SOE [state of exception]) conditions to maintain an artificial peace. My argument, however, is that relaxing or suspending CL standards is justifiable only when—and to the extent that—doing so is necessary to address serious and credible threats to citizens' safety.
But citizens' safety is always partial, even in normal times. Nevertheless, continuing this line then moves us to a discussion of when we can know an emergency when we see one that allows for normal politics to be pushed aside, Schmitt's state of exception. Climate change, it is argued, is an emergency in two ways: an emergency of effects, because of the daunting scale of dangers to human life, and an emergency of action, because "the time window for preventing these dreary outcomes is rapidly closing." While the scale of the climate crisis merits consideration as an emergency, the ticking clock embedded in the "emergency of action" conception is wrongheaded in two ways. The damages are already here, and at the same time there is no cliff that we are about to walk over, no explosion about to wreck the whole world.
This latter misunderstanding is cinematic and pervasive. In Adam McKay's satirical Don't Look Up, a nine kilometer wide, 'planet-killer' comet is discovered to be on trajectory to slam into earth in six months. American elites in government, media, and business manage to fail to deflect the celestial body which (*spoiler*) obliterates all human life on earth. Written as an analogy to climate change, the movie has received serious plaudits from those banging the drums of the climate emergency as "the first good movie about climate change." But while many aspects are enjoyable, its notable and telling failure to understand climate politics mirrors Mittiga's article.
The comet as ticking clock fuels the movie's momentum and drama, but it does not translate into the climate change space. Rather than a step-change from a comfortable world to a too-hot and dangerous one, continued accumulation of climate forcing gases in the atmosphere is shifting us along a distribution of probabilities, making formerly rare occurrences more common and difficult to conceive of events like the heat island over the Pacific Northwest last summer that killed hundreds of people and billions of animals possible. Weather is always variable and random day-to-day, but now the game is being played with loaded dice that are become more so over time. If we pass the 1.5 or 2 degree lines that the COP negotiations highlight, those indicate greater damages and increased likelihoods of passing thresholds but ultimately they are arbitrary lines in the sand that we are drawing based on the metric system. David Wallace-Wells of The Uninhabitable Earth fame recently wrote that the worst-case scenarios are looking less and less likely.
If there are tipping points where positive feedback will make it difficult-to-impossible to return to where we are now, these are not yet known. For some places, we're already there (low-lying islands, king tides flooding coastal cities like Miami and Boston, fire-prone California communities…). A meta-study of such the economics of such tipping points suggests that they should factor into our assessments of the costs of climate change, but one of the authors, Gernot Wagner, wrote about the study that "There are good reasons to believe that extreme weather events like floods, droughts, or hurricanes may have much larger economic impacts than the kinds of large-scale planetary 'tipping points' we focus on."
More significantly, air dirty from smoke from burning things, mostly fossil fuels but also wood, crops, and forests, is killing millions of people now. Not in the future. Now. This is already happening. Death on that scale is hard to process, but few if any climate-emergency-amplified crises seem likely to kill as many as quickly.
The emergency is already here, it's just not evenly distributed and in a form different than most of us think.
The probabilistic nature of climate change impacts also affects the way people consider them. People tend to ignore differences between very low probabilities. People aren't going to cavalierly give up eating meat or driving just because experts believe that there is a better world if these things were to happen. Technocratic limits are compounded by the collective action problem — what's one extra hamburger in all this madness? Why should I give it up if nobody else is going to?
Don't Look Up falls into what I think of as The Daily Show trap of lamenting failure in a way that generates catharsis but without creating any intention or action. Its depiction of a morning news show, The Daily Rip, is a place that ignores the significance of things and simply laughs at reality. Its hosts at the moment of impact are more explicit—they just want to talk shit about people—which could serve as an encapsulation of Don't Look Up's critiques.
Indeed, basically all American elites are targets in the film. Only science is held out as worthy of praise — yes, he takes a swipe or two at Leonardo DiCaprio's astronomer as an individual and sees institutionalized organizations (NASA) as corrupt — but the totemic chants of "just look up" and "trust the science" suggest a desire for scientific daddies to come take over and solve the world's problems. Peer review has never been as significant a plot point in a Hollywood picture.
But peer review just means that a couple of scientists have dutifully agreed to an act of unpaid service to the broader disciplines and assess the quality of another piece of scholarship. And so we return to the Mittiga paper and the disciplinary brouhaha.
Like the movie, the paper does not deeply consider the global nature of the climate crisis. Should Belgians give up democracy in order to achieve a tiny bit more mitigation when their total share of global emissions is less than 0.27%? When Hebei produces more carbon dioxide than Germany, these details matter. Even the United States was only 14% of emissions in 2019. China's centrality to global emissions today and tomorrow is difficult to overstate, and of course, it's already authoritarian.
In some ways, Mittiga is trying to have his cake and eat it too regarding authoritarianism. While the paper starts out saying it's just a warning, by the end it comes closer to an endorsement. Here's the final sentence:
"if adhering to CL (contingent legitimacy) factors proves incompatible with responding effectively to the climate crisis, then political legitimacy may require adopting a more authoritarian approach."
That's going further than a warning that a failure to act may lead to authoritarianism; it says political legitimacy may require authoritarianism. This is a strange place to end up, not just because of the weak empirical basis for preferring authoritarianism on climate change grounds (the Footnote Two problem) but that legitimacy itself has become the reason to adopt authoritarianism. This gets things backwards. We care about values, actions, and outcomes. These are the where legitimacy comes from; a government that prioritizes its own legitimacy above other factors is a dangerous place to be a citizen.
Science, especially social science, isn't perfect. Flawed pieces, flawed readings, flawed institutions, flawed people, flaws all the ways down. The goal is just to improve on the flawed work that is out there already. These flaws are why the religious tinge of "I believe in science" has always rankled me. As the changing understandings of COVID-19 make clear, science is not inherently true but it is self-correcting. Scientific understandings are only part of a conversation. They can clarify what risks are out there, give estimates of the effectiveness of different interventions, predict the probability of different outcomes, and more. But science has no way of assessing the warm feelings you get from making homemade pork dumplings with your family for lunar new year against the carbon emissions from industrial pig farming. Thinking through tradeoffs like these is not a matter of calculation but of human conversation.
We need to try to have more of these kinds of conversations. Or rather, we need to acknowledge that these conversations are happening already and either participate in them or not. I'm of the opinion that my colleagues in political science are smart, thoughtful, and well-trained in thinking through issues of political economy in systematic ways. Having more of us in these conversations will help rather than hurt the discourse and policy discussions that arise from it.
The footnote two problem is an empirical one for this article, but it would be important to know if the existing research pointed in the other direction — that authoritarian regimes were better at climate mitigation — not that it would justify some kind of Gaia dictatorship but to treat the world, its citizens seriously and honestly rather than rejecting certain types of results because they are morally objectionable. APSR should attempt to have as limited of an editorial line as it can (rather than print only defenses of democracy given that democracy is ostensibly in decline). Who's democracy? Helene Landemore's Open Democracy? Dahl's Polyarchy?
As Erin Pineda pointed out, studies in our discipline often have morally chilling possibilities inside of them, such as a well-cited paper which found indiscriminate state violence to be less likely to provoke insurgent response than more precisely targeted violence. My first book, Cities and Stability: Urbanization, Redistribution, and Regime Survival in China, examined China's "management of urbanization," which helped account for the country's economic development and political stability. The foundation of that management was (and is) the household registration system, which discriminates against those who happen to be born in the Chinese countryside. One could try to claim that the book justifies this system or recommends it for other countries trying to develop their own economies. On page 33, I try to head off this interpretation with the following text:
There is, of course, an ethical component to what amounts to an effective restriction on the basic freedom to locate here. I offer explanations but not justifications for the policies of migration restrictions that dictators put in place. I simply attempt to improve understanding and bring light to previously murky areas of political behavior in nondemocratic contexts.
Perhaps you think this is insufficient, that more space should have been devoted to my ethical qualms with the system and the inequality that it engendered. That's fine, but I do insist that developing better understandings of and explanations for how our societies work is part and parcel to the conversations about how to change them for the better.
And on climate change, these conversations are definitely already happening. Andreas Malm published How to Blow Up a Pipeline in the past year. It's already been a couple of years since Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright published Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future. The economist Gernot Wagner just published Geoengineering: The Gamble.
Debates about where the infrastructure to power a clean energy transition should be built are happening in town councils, state legislatures, and yes, on twitter every day. NIMBYism is always a difficult foe, and there are hard political questions here. How should the lithium that powers the modern battery revolution be mined, and how should its global benefits be weighed against local costs on the places where its extracted? Cobalt? Were Maine voters right vote down a gift to their (hated) local utility or are they responsible for the New England grid running on oil this winter when they blocked power lines to bring in hydropower from Quebec? How can a chapter of an organization literally called Sunrise support a solar moratorium? Well, does the solar facility really need to chop down an old-growth forest? The New Yorker just ran a fascinating profile of "eco-protestors" who chained themselves to trees and then lived in tunnels attempting to block … high-speed rail. American environmental groups have strong anti-development impulses from their conservationist origins that served them—and the environment—well for decades. But decarbonization requires clean electrification, with massive investments in new infrastructure, and those impulses can be hard to shake.
"Authoritarianism" is often appealing as a way to slice through the indecisiveness of deliberative governance—it's sometimes pitched as "the end of politics"—but authoritarian states still have politics. Beyond that, the scale and fractured nature of the climate crisis guarantees there will be no decisive end, no point when we can be certain of a path out of crisis with minimal tradeoffs. No governing system—authoritarian or democratic—can offer that, and it remains the difficult task of political scientists to refuse the fantasy of that kind of resolution.
The climate crisis will be a dominant feature of 21st century life on Earth, political scientists need to be able to debate these issues and take them seriously, in our journals and throughout the public sphere with all of its context collapse and gamification. And we need to treat it rigorously, thinking systematically about the complex interplay of psychology, sociology, economics, and politics.
Apparently this saying, like many descriptions intended to separate humans from our animal brethren, is unfair to goldfish, which can make memories lasting weeks or even months.
Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future begins with a heat wave in India that kills 20 million, which if you took the heat dome from the Pacific Northwest and planted it in just the right location at just the right time and extended it for another full week could plausibly happen.
"This suggests that FL (foundational legitimacy) is also intimately related to trust or confidence in a government's long-term capacities and ability to endure. Even if a state is characterized by peace and material sufficiency in the present, should it be sufficiently vulnerable to future threats—such that at any point it could plausibly no longer be able to respond to an emergency, maintain order, and protect citizens—then it appears that government already lacks FL." p. 4. The problematic nature of a self-interested government prioritizing its own future above the lives of citizens is tossed off as not a problem for the argument in an example about police violence against protestors in Chile that is supposed to be seen as obviously objectionable, but the point remains deeply concerning.
Jeremy Wallace is an associate professor of government at Cornell University. His forthcoming book, Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China, will be published later this year.
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EITO shares vision for Australian ICT sector
Around 23, 000 companies registered in Australia's ICT sector last year according to a report released by the European Information Technology Observatory (EITO).The report states that these companies "employed approximately a quarter of a million people and accounted for eight percent of the gross national product".
Written by Kristyn Maslog-Levis, Contributor on May 4, 2004
Around 23, 000 companies registered in Australia's ICT sector last year according to a report released by the European Information Technology Observatory (EITO).
The report states that these companies "employed approximately a quarter of a million people and accounted for eight percent of the gross national product".
CeBit Worldwide Events managing director Joerg Schomburg said Australia has shifted from an agricultural focused country to an information hub in the last years.
"The ICT industry is becoming increasingly important in Australia. In the last few decades the country has developed away from being the producer of agricultural products and minerals - it has gradually become a competitive services society with a well developed ICT sector. The trend will continue," Schomburg said.
Among the countries best assets for a blossoming IT industry, Schomburg listed a high degree of political and economic stability, a well-trained labour force, competitive wage levels, and an economic infrastructure with attractive cost levels.
"This environment was the basis for our decision to risk the venture in Australia," said Schomburg referring to CeBit's decision to hold the tradeshow here for the last three years.
Schomburg went on to share his vision for developing the country's IT sector and heaped praise on the country's attitude to the task.
He singled-out education, pointing out that Australia had attached "considerable importance" to university education and further training programs for employees of SMEs.
Schomburg was also complimentary when it came to the Federal government's telecommunications initiatives such as 'Networking the Nation' -- an initiative to ensure adequate provision of telecommunication and Internet services throughout rural areas.
Even with the US still topping the ICT charts, a report by the World Economic Forum last year confirmed that Australia is on "the right path with this policy". The organisation has placed Australia in ninth position world-wide in terms of development towards becoming an information society.
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Rice-a-Roni, apparently, is a boxed mix of rice and noodles that is sold in the grocery stores. We never bought Rice-a-Roni brand, but we did occasionally indulge in a "Rice and Vermicelli" box mix from another company, and it was always so yummy and delicious.
This is a recipe for your own homemade Rice-a-Roni, or Rice with Vermicelli, that is "just a tad" healthier than the boxed variety, as well as cheaper. You can easily make this gluten free as well, so its pretty allergy friendly, fortunately.
I don't make this very often, but it is a nice change from "boring" rice or noodles.
It's not ultra packed with flavor- I like it as is, but the flavor is more subtle. My husband likes smothering it in ketchup (but then again, he likes to do that with almost every food). If you want to up the spices in it, feel free.
I made a bunch of this and froze it for after birth.
This recipe is in two parts. The first part is a mix that you make at one time and then store it, and then the second part is what you do to actually cook it up.
1. Break 4 cups of spaghetti or angel hair pasta into 1-2 inch pieces. This should be approximately a pound of noodles.
2. Mix the broken spaghetti with the rice, garlic powder, celery salt, dried coriander or parsley, and thyme.
3. Mix very well to get a uniform mixture.
1. Chop an onion and saute in oil.
2. If using, add ground meat/poultry or gizzards and cook for a few minutes. If using raw ground meat, cook it while stirring until it's all crumbly.
3. Add 3 cups of the Rice-a-Roni mix, and cook for a few more minutes.
4. Add broth, bring to a boil, and then lower to a small flame. Cover and cook for 15 minutes or until all the water is absorbed.
Do you ever eat/buy Rice-a-Roni? Did you ever have it growing up? Did you call it Rice-a-Roni or Rice with Vermicelli?
Any chance you'd make this recipe?


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'Friends' reunion to shoot next month, David Schwimmer confirms - Metroscene Mag
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"Friends" fans have been asking for a reunion for ages — and now it's finally happening!
David Schwimmer dropped the news that filming for the long-delayed "Friends" reunion is finally happening and it's sooner that we all expect.
In an interview with Andy Cohen on SiriusXM, the actor, who played Ross in the beloved 90s sitcom, said the gang is finally having a reunion that even the COVID-19 pandemic can't stop.
"Oh, it's happening," said Schwimmer. "Actually, in a little over a month, I'm heading out to LA." The 54-year-old actor said.
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"We figured out a way to film it safely, and there's going to be a portion of it that we film outside because of, you know, for safety protocols," he said.
When asked who would be hosting the reunion special, Schwimmer replied: "I don't know if I can say who. It's not Ellen [DeGeneres], it's not Billy Crystal. I could tell you who it's not."
"Friends," ran between 1994 and 2004 starred Schwimmer, Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Perry, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow and Matt LeBlanc. The show is so iconic that even the younger generations still binge watch it.
The one-off special, will air on WarnerMedia's new streaming service HBO Max. When? We don't know yet.
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Congratulations, Dave. Great poem. Good that the younglings get to see it.
Cheers matey. Nobel here I come!
Congratulations! How wonderful that the young will grow knowing your work and your feelings expressed here!
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Professor Sally Barnes talks about the South West Doctoral Training Centre.
Together with the Universities of Bristol and Exeter (with the University of Plymouth and the University of West of England as pockets of excellence), we have formed one of the UK's largest Centres of postgraduate research training for social scientists: the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) accredited South West Doctoral Training Partnership (SWDTP).
This builds on the extremely successful ESRC-funded South West Doctoral Training Centre (SWDTC) which commenced with the 2011/12 academic year and we are about to recruit its final cohort for 2016/17.
The Centre draws together the established research excellence of more than 770 academic and research staff at the three institutions.
The SWDTP delivers a number of research training pathways. Each pathway comprises two parts: a one-year MRes course, followed by the three-year PhD research degree (known as the '1' and the '+3' stages respectively).
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Working with Proxy Services - Enterprise Service Bus 4.8.0 - WSO2 Documentation for your Wiki!
A proxy service is a virtual service that receives messages and optionally processes them before forwarding them to a service at a given endpoint. This approach allows you to perform necessary transformations and introduce additional functionality without changing your existing service. For example, if you want to use WS-Security with an existing, unsecured service, you can create a secure proxy service with WS-Security enabled with a specified security policy. Additionally, if you want a service to handle messages that are in different formats, you can create a Transformer proxy service to transform requests and responses based on specified XSLT configurations. A proxy service can also switch transports , process the messages with mediation sequences and tasks, and terminate the flow or send a message back to the client even without sending it to the actual service.
Do not confuse a proxy service, which processes messages on their way to a service, with a proxy server, which acts as an intermediary for handling traffic to a server. For example, a server might require HTTP basic authentication over a proxy server before it will handle communication from the ESB.
A proxy service is created and exposed on the specified transports through the underlying Axis2 engine. The proxy service can be a SOAP or REST/POX service over HTTP/S or SOAP, POX, Plain Text, or Binary / Legacy service for other transports such as JMS and VFS file systems. It exposes service EPRs as per the standard Axis2 conventions based on the service name.
You can use the pinnedServers attribute to specify the list of Synapse servers where this proxy service should be deployed. If there is no pinned server list, the proxy service is started in all server instances. The pinnedServers attribute takes the Synapse server names separated by commas or spaces. The Synapse server name is specified in the system property SynapseServerName or through the axis2.xml parameter SynapseConfig.ServerName. If neither of these are set, the server hostname is used, or it defaults to localhost. You can give a name to a Synapse server instance by specifying the property -DSynapseServerName=<ServerName> when you execute the startup script wso2server.bat or wso2server.sh, or by editing wrapper.conf to do this where Synapse is started as a service.
Each service could define the target for received messages as a named sequence or a direct endpoint. Target inSequence or endpoint is required for the proxy configuration, and a target outSequence defines how responses should be handled. Any supplied WS-Policies apply as service-level policies, and any service parameters can be passed into the proxy services' AxisService instance using the parameter elements (for example, the JMS destination). If the proxy service should enable WS-Reliable Messaging or Security, the appropriate modules could be engaged, and specified service level policies will apply.
Use the given WSDL instead of generating the WSDL.
showAbsoluteSchemaURL true/false false If this parameter is set to true, the absolute path of the referred schemas of the WSDL is shown instead of the relative paths.


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Ex-Hastings mayor jailed for fraud
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A former Hastings mayor and ex-councillor has been jailed for defrauding community groups out of tens of thousands of pounds.
Paul Smith, 74, of Addington Grove, Lewisham, London, initially entered no pleas to the charges of fraud by abuse of position when he appeared before Hastings magistrates on April 10.
But on May 8, Smith admitted all four counts when he appeared at Hove Trial Centre.
He appeared in court on Tuesday (May 28) for sentence and was jailed for two years.
Prosecutor Oliver Dunkin said between October 9, 2013 and December 25, 2016 Smith, while treasurer of Hastings and St Leonards Museum Association, abused his position as treasurer by committing fraud, intending to keep £12,276.62 for himself.
Smith, while treasurer of the Castle Ward Forum, committed the same offence between March 31, 2014 and April 1, 2017, intending to keep £7,316.49 for himself.
The court also heard he also committed fraud by abusing his position as treasurer for Hastings and Rye Liberal Democrat Association, intending to keep £4,250.16 for himself between February 15, 2013 and March 5, 2017.
Smith abused his position as treasurer of St Leonards Methodist Church between October 2, 2014 and February 10, 2017 by committing fraud and intending to keep £12,408.15 for himself.
Mr Dunkin told the court Smith, who has no previous convictions, signed off cheques for himself, forging signatures, one of which belonged to someone who had died.
Richard Body, defending, said Smith was 'deeply ashamed and remorseful' over what he had done.
Mr Body said: "He feels he has had to leave Hastings because of the shame. He was actively involved in Hastings for many years. Hastings really was his life."
He said Smith was in financial difficulties and was 'too proud' to claim housing benefit and other benefits he was entitled to.
Mr Body said: "This was a deeply foolish crime."
Bexhill man drove on busy St Leonards road while more than twice over drink drive limit
Sentencing Smith, Judge Shani Barnes said: "This is an indictment that is shocking. A man who has been the mayor and councillor and worked for the community most of his life comes before me at the age of 74 having spent four years defrauding four organisations.
"This was a long-term, systematic act of dishonesty. It was a callous set of offences. The fact that you left the area tells me you walked away from the shame and refused to deal with what you did to the local community.
"You abused the trust of the community while you were in positions of power and trust. You could have applied for housing benefit and other benefits that you were entitled to but you chose a dishonest path."
Police name man who died outside St Leonards Sainsbury's


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