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Evolution, evolved
By Matthew Cawood
/ 19 August 2022
Credit: Whitworth Images
Within the familiar skins of sheep and cattle, computer-aided breeding is turbocharging evolution in humans' – and the global climate's – favour.
At the heart of climate change is an energy problem — the use of fossil fuels — through which is threaded another energy problem: providing fuel for people.
The global population is forecast to reach eight billion around 15 November and nine billion by 2040. Those people need food, even as the planet's capability to produce food is being reduced by human pressure.
Most attempts to address this challenge are built around advances in technology, often with technological innovation as a profitable end in itself. But life itself has nearly infinite power to innovate. What happens when technology enables us to assist evolution for our ends?
Invisible to most people — even to many of the farmers whose viability they support — professional livestock breeders and the research ecosystem around them are using computer-aided data analysis and genomics to "accelerate evolution" and produce animals unlikely ever to be fashioned by nature.
The intensive poultry, pork and dairy industries, which operate in relatively controlled environments, have pushed furthest with this approach, but a similar evolutionary phenomenon has been happening out in the paddock. Even if it appears that the cattle and sheep grazing beyond the fence are unchanged, within these species' familiar skins, their capabilities are evolving.
How livestock are changing, and how quickly, tells us something about how life itself holds some of the answers to humanity's fate on a rapidly changing planet.
Livestock bred bigger and better, faster
The Angus cattle stud Te Mania was founded in New Zealand in 1928 and spread to Australia in 1971 in the hands of the Gubbins family. On both sides of the Tasman the stud has sustained an intense focus on pushing the Angus genome as far as possible in the quest for better productivity.
Tom Gubbins, who with brother-in-law Hamish McFarlane runs the Australian Te Mania on properties in western Victoria, says his operation keeps records on 27 genetic traits of importance, all of which have to be kept in balance to ensure properly functioning animals.
One trait in particular demonstrates how far the stud has pushed the genetic envelope.
That trait is known in the industry as '600 day weight' – a data-derived prediction of how much an animal will weigh at about 20 months of age (this, and all other beef cattle "estimated breeding values" are delivered through the massive BREEDPLAN genetic evaluation system).
When Te Mania started pushing for improved 600 day weights in the mid-1980s, the aim was to grow steers to "slaughter weight" by 20 months of age. The stud has now leaned hard on that trait through data-informed strategic breeding for the best part of 35 years.
The result: the offspring of a contemporary Te Mania bull will weigh about 100 kilograms more at 600 days than a mid-1980s predecessor would have.
Cows from above. Credit: Umkehrer / Getty Images.
"That's an extra 100 kilograms of genetic capability the animals have gained in the last three-plus decades," Gubbins says. "That 100 kilos means that animals can reach carcass weight 100 days earlier. And if an animal is reaching its potential 100 days earlier, that's 100 days when the farmer doesn't have to maintain the animal."
In 2022, Australia will slaughter about six million head of cattle. A simplistic calculation suggests if every one of those animals needed 100 fewer days of feeding and growth, there would be 600 million extra days per year without cattle producing methane, and not requiring nutrition.
Even using the lower limit of a ruminant animal's greenhouse-gas-producing potential – estimated at 250–500 litres per day – that's 150 million tonnes of methane each year kept out of the atmosphere. Methane is more than 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide at trapping heat. That potential greenhouse-gas saving is sitting there in the bovine genome.
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About an hour's drive west of Te Mania, John and Brigita Keiller run Cashmore Park, a stud primarily dedicated to producing seedstock — pedigreed animals bred for genetic improvement — for prime lamb producers.
In the 1980s, while on a visit to the United Kingdom, John Keiller learned that UK sheep breeders were recording the performance of seedstock animals to better inform breeding programs. Back on the family farm at Cashmore, he started taking notice of ewe #928248, who each year consistently dropped twins or triplets while most of the flock delivered single lambs.
"I wondered, how do I get two of her? A dozen? A hundred, a thousand?" Keiller recalls. "I've shaken that question like a rat for more than three decades now."
In 2022, Australia will slaughter about six million head of cattle.
The rat-shaking has delivered. More than 30 years of subsequent performance-driven breeding means that Keiller now has several thousand versions of #928248 among Cashmore Park's 20,000 stud ewes.
How that translates to productivity is summarised in the Sheep Genetics breeding value 'Weaning Rate': a data-driven forecast of how many lambs a ewe will give birth to, and which will survive through to weaning ('Weaning' refers to the point when lambs are removed from their mothers, which varies from 10 to 16 weeks age).
There is a buffet of genetic traits wrapped up in Weaning Rate: not only the ewe's ability to give birth to multiples, but her ability to feed them and guide them to shelter in poor conditions, and the inherent vigour of the lambs.
The data tells Keiller that compared to 1990, he is now weaning 29 more lambs per hundred ewes.
Cashmore Park didn't make any direct technological intervention to get that result: it was an evolutionary process, driven by data.
The same process has made Cashmore Park's flock one of the most parasite-resistant in Australia.
Gastro-intestinal parasites plague the sheep industry. Decades of reliance on chemical treatments have bred gut 'worms' that are progressively becoming more resistant to every available molecule used against them.
The costs, in animal health, and the time and money spent addressing parasites, has influenced many farmers to abandon sheep in favour of less demanding enterprises.
But not all sheep are created equal in their vulnerability to parasites. Some animals are naturally resistant, which shows up as much lower worm egg counts in their faeces. The physiological reasons for this are not clearly understood, but the implications are: by using data-driven genetic selection, breeders can infuse their flocks with the genes for worm resistance.
Cashmore Park breeds productive, pest-resistant sheep / Credit: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket, Getty Images
That's what Cashmore Park has done. Over the past 10 years, Keiller's top 20 rams have collectively gone from being quite resistant to worms, to very resistant. Compared to the average of all relevant rams in the national Sheep Genetics database, this group of rams has moved from being 76% less susceptible to gastrointestinal parasites in 2011, to 91% less susceptible in 2021.
Keiller believes his stud ewe flock is possibly the most parasite-resistant in the country.
In the warm, damp conditions of the last two La Niña-influenced years, it is not uncommon for some eastern states' farmers to 'drench' (chemically treat parasites in their flocks) every few weeks. Cashmore Park has now cut back to two drenches a year in adult sheep, an economy that Keiller has never experienced in 30-plus years of farming.
All this has Keiller thinking about how strategic breeding might create an ultra-low-input sheep. What if sheep were bred without tails? At the moment, that appendage is cut off lambs because of its tendency to promote fouling that attracts flies.
Over the past 10 years, Keiller's top 20 rams have collectively gone from being quite resistant to worms, to very resistant.
"Without tails, all you might have to do at lamb-marking is put an e-tag in their ears, and the next time you see them is when they go onto the truck for slaughter," Keiller muses.
Computer-aided breeding of sheep and cattle is only a few decades old. The recent arrival of genomics is already accelerating the pace of evolution. Over the next 30 years, it's likely that the familiar envelope of sheep and cattle will still remain unchanged, but what those familiar species are capable of will be – in the truest sense – extraordinary.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is firm that livestock are of "enduring importance" for the world's agricultural systems and food security. Livestock turn huge areas of low-value or unusable plant matter into nutrient-dense meat and dairy, along with a range of other products — one of the reasons they have co-evolved with us for more than 10,000 years.
The evolution continues, but in a different operating environment. In the past, the value of livestock was accepted without question. Today, we urgently need those familiar animals to do their usual thing, but without causing further damage to our biosphere. The work of Australian scientists and breeders is suggesting: it's possible.
Originally published by Cosmos as Evolution, evolved
Matthew Cawood
Matthew Cawood has written about agriculture and the environment for more than 30 years. He currently works in communications with the University of New England.
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#include "ExclusionPolygon.h"
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#include "LengthFunctions.h"
#include "WindRule.h"
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static PassOwnPtr<ExclusionShape> createExclusionRectangle(const FloatRect& bounds, const FloatSize& radii)
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{
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{
    return adoptPtr(new ExclusionPolygon(vertices, fillRule));
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PassOwnPtr<ExclusionShape> ExclusionShape::createExclusionShape(const BasicShape* basicShape, float logicalBoxWidth, float logicalBoxHeight, WritingMode writingMode)
{
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        exclusionShape = horizontalWritingMode
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        float centerX = floatValueForLength(ellipse->centerX(), boxWidth);
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        exclusionShape = horizontalWritingMode
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    exclusionShape->m_logicalBoxWidth = logicalBoxWidth;
    exclusionShape->m_logicalBoxHeight = logicalBoxHeight;
    exclusionShape->m_writingMode = writingMode;

    return exclusionShape.release();
}

} // namespace WebCore

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CJJR co-sponsored the 2016 CJJ National DMC Conference, titled "Confronting the Crisis: Creating Pathways to a More Equitable Juvenile Justice System." It was held from December 4-6 in Baltimore, Md. Learn more!
The Center for Juvenile Justice Reform (CJJR) is committed to assisting leaders within juvenile justice, child welfare and other youth-serving systems to create fair and equitable practices and approaches for all youth. This work is paramount given the research indicating that youth of color are disproportionately represented in the justice system and often face disparate treatment compared to their counterparts. Below is a summary of how CJJR equips, educates and supports leaders to address racial and ethnic disparities in their jurisdictions.
Reducing Racial & Ethnic Disparities Certificate Program
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Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities Certificate Program
Since 2012, CJJR has conducted an annual Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Juvenile Justice (RED) Certificate Program in partnership with the Center for Children's Law and Policy. The program seeks to help jurisdictions reduce overrepresentation of youth of color in the juvenile justice system through a data-driven and research-based approach. By examining the key decision points in the juvenile justice system, the program's curriculum provides participants a better understanding of the disparate treatment youth of color experience as compared to white youth within the juvenile justice system, and also focuses on the relationship between disproportionality in the juvenile justice system and disparate treatment in other child-serving systems, including child welfare and education.
RED Certificate Program participants continue their commitment to reform through the development and implementation of a grassroots Capstone Project. Examples of current Capstones include:
Analysis of law enforcement referral data from schools, leading to an MOU between the County Attorney, Police Department, Public Schools and Human Service Department and implementation of a pre-referral diversion program for low level assaults
Reduction in racial and ethnic disparities in school-based Disorderly Conduct charges through redefined protocols for school staff around law enforcement involvement, implementation of a uniform set of graduated sanctions for in-school behaviors and creation of a community-based diversion program
Implementation of a diversion program for first-time, simple misdemeanor offenses that includes new law enforcement policy around diversion of eligible youth, training for key partners and front-line staff and development of diversion classes.
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Scott County Capstone Project RED Data
After attending the 2015 RED Certificate Program, the Scott County, IA team focused their Capstone Project on developing a diversion program for first time youth offenders of non-traffic, simple misdemeanor offenses. When analyzing their local data, Scott County team members learned that disparity appears to impact the most youth in the initial entry and referral to juvenile court services. In 2014, Scott County had over 1000 juvenile arrests. Of those arrests, 58% were African American youth, even though only about 12.5% of Scott County's population is African American. Based on this data, Scott County team developed a new policy that requires all police officers to divert eligible youth, provided training for key partners and front-line staff, and created new diversion classes that aim to help youth understand human behavior, improve communication and decision-making skills, and reinforce pro-social behaviors.
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Scott County, Iowa RED Certificate Program Team | Class of 2015
Lori Frick, Service Area Manager, Iowa Department of Human Services
Latrice Lacey, Executive Director, Davenport Civil Rights Commission
Molli Nickerson, Coordinator, Scott County Kids
Shawn Roth, Detective Sergeant, Davenport Police Department
Robert Scott, Executive Director, Davenport Schools
Judge Cheryl Traum, District Associate Judge, State of Iowa
David Tristan, Juvenile Court Officer, Juvenile Court Services
Julie Walton, Assistant Court Attorney, Scott County Attorney's Office
Learn more about the Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities Certificate Program.
CJJR hosts two peer-support groups bi-annually and annually: the Juvenile Justice Leadership Network (JJLN) and the Public Information Officers Learning Collaborative (PIOLC). Both groups have focused strategically on reducing the disproportionate numbers of youth of color in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, and youth of color who cross between them. Topics have included effective strategies to reduce Disproportionate Minority Contact, bridging the gap between policy and practice, implicit and explicit bias training, implementing race neutral assessment and structured decision making tools, decision point analysis and responsibility of decision makers, cultural sensitivity and how best to shape internal and external messaging. Each collective is described in more detail below.
The JJLN facilitates the convening of a small group of progressive and innovative public agency juvenile justice probation and correctional leaders at the state and local levels, and results in the formulation of ideas that the leaders implement or fine-tune for use in their reform efforts. The JJLN bolsters the work of top leaders in the juvenile justice field, increasing the probability of their successes, while also potentially contributing to the work of the field as a whole. CJJR hosts the JJLN in partnership with the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators and the Public Welfare Foundation.
Learn more about the Juvenile Justice Leadership Network.
CJJR also partners with Casey Family Programs, the Public Welfare Foundation, the Communications Consortium Media Center, Justice Policy Institute, and the Annie E. Casey Foundation to conduct the PIOLC, an annual meeting for juvenile justice and child welfare Public Information Officers (PIOs). The collaborative discusses techniques to deal with crisis situations and ways for PIOs to employ proactive messages about their jurisdiction's reform efforts, both individually and across systems. As a result, PIOs develop and implement strategies to engage their peers in other child and youth-serving agencies, in order to better communicate about their reform efforts and utilize more consistent and comprehensive strategies in reaching their constituencies.
Learn more about the Public Information Officers Learning Collaborative.
CJJR operates two initiatives designed to advance best practices for serving youth involved in the justice system: the Crossover Youth Practice Model (CYPM) and the Youth in Custody Practice Model (YICPM). Each effort, described more fully below, includes a focus on addressing racial and ethnic disparities through the use of data collection on key decision points and the development of targeted strategies to address identified gaps.
CJJR's Crossover Youth Practice Model is a research-based initiative that assists jurisdictions to better address the unique needs of "crossover youth"—that is, youth who move between the child welfare and juvenile justice systems or are known to both concurrently. Since 2007, CJJR has worked in 96 counties in 21 states to address the issues faced by this population. With CJJR's on- and off-site support, sites implementing the CYPM enhance collaboration and communication across agencies and partners to better serve crossover youth. CYPM goals include reductions in the: (1) number of youth placed in out-of-home care; (2) use of congregate care; (3) disproportionate representation of youth of color; and (4) number of youth crossing over and becoming dually-involved.
Learn more about the Crossover Youth Practice Model.
In partnership with the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators (CJCA), CJJR also operates the Youth in Custody Practice Model, an initiative that assists state and county juvenile correctional agencies to implement a comprehensive, research-based, and effective service delivery approach for youth in post-disposition custody. Over the course of 18 months, CJJR, CJCA and a team of consultants provide participating jurisdictions with training and technical assistance on essential practices in four key areas: (1) case planning; (2) facility-based services (e.g., education, behavior management, rehabilitative programming); (3) transition/reentry; and (4) community-based services. Launched in 2015, four jurisdictions are currently participating in the inaugural cohort of the program.
Learn more about the Youth in Custody Practice Model.
Addressing racial and ethnic disparities is a theme consistently present in CJJR's presentations and publications. Below are a few resources CJJR has developed to further inform the field in this area:
Achieving Racial Equity, A Multi-Systems Focus
As part of an ongoing training series for Crossover Youth Practice Model sites, on October 26, 2016, CJJR hosted "Achieving Racial Equity, A Multi-Systems Focus." This webinar is designed to help facilitate effective cross-systems dialogue and strategies for achieving racial equity in CYPM jurisdictions. Presenters Lyman Legters, Senior Director at Casey Family Programs, and Shay Bilchik, CJJR Director, provide key definitions, discuss institutional and structural contexts related to racial disparities, present national research on disproportionality through a cross-system lens, and offer strategies and selected resources to help advance the work.
Click image for presentation or download it here.
CJJR Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Juvenile Justice Certificate Program Webinar
On April 22, 2015, CJJR hosted a webinar on the Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Juvenile Justice Certificate Program. The webinar provides an overview of the program, which is co-directed by CJJR and the Center for Children's Law and Policy (CCLP), and discusses issues that jurisdictions face in the overrepresentation and disparate treatment of youth of color in the juvenile justice system. Presenters include CCLP Executive Director Mark Soler, CCLP Policy Director for Equity and Justice Tiana Davis, and CJJR Senior Research Fellow Jill Adams.
Racial and Ethnic Disparity and Disproportionality in Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice: A Compendium
In March 2008, CJJR and the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago hosted a symposium titled "The Overrepresentation of Children of Color in America's Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems." This publication presents the content of that symposium, including a piece written by CJJR Director Shay Bilchik on "Policy Reforms to Address Racial and Ethnic Disparity and Disproportionality in the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems: Federal, State and Local Action." The compendium includes articles that establish a common language across child serving systems to describe the various problems associated with this overrepresentation and make recommendations for the future.
Addressing Disparity and Disproportionality: Lessons from Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice
Research confirms that there is disproportionate representation of African American children and families in the United States' child protective services systems such that leads to disproportionately negative outcomes for the families involved. This presentation, delivered by CJJR Director Shay Bilchik at the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative Second Annual Conference in Massachusetts on September 22, 2009, outlines potential reasons behind these disparities and recommends various Child Welfare Practice Responses for dealing with current Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) with the juvenile justice system.


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Read more about the Research Driven Improvement Projects.


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Two very interesting redefinitions
Vanna, can I buy a clue for $500?
Is it becoming reality?
In which case, the point is conceded
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Kyle Smith of National Review nails it. The despicable behavior of those like Harvey Weinstein in Hollywood is really "on the job" (but unpaid) training for the depravity that is Hollyweird. Now granted, Smith doesn't deserve that much credit--and I'm sure he'd admit such--because all he's saying is what Maureen O'Hara said. In 1945.
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Check out this interesting paper linked by John Ellis, a Christian writer based around Washington DC. What's most interesting about it is not the actual measurement taken--is anyone really surprised that use of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana among minors ("those not allowed to use any of these legally in any state") is linked? Of course not--you break the law to use one substance, and it will follow that you'll be more likely to break it in others.
No, what's really interesting is how the terms are defined. If you look closely at the paper, the definition of "gateway drug" appears to have changed. When I was a young pup, a "gateway drug" was the drug you took on the way to seriously dangerous drugs like heroin, cocaine, and the like. In this paper, it simply means that the use of marijuana is linked to the use of legal drugs like nicotine and alcohol.
While there are serious dangers to tobacco and alcohol, the reality is that in terms of immediate danger to the user, they don't rank up there with crystal meth, heroin, and cocaine.
In the same way, the definition of "addiction" seems to have changed as well. When I was young--many moons ago, as they say in the westerns--"addiction" meant that somehow, your body had developed a need for a particular drug. It wasn't sufficient that you had the habit, but was limited to actual physical addiction. Back then, we saw opioids like heroin as addictive, but not marijuana.
Now, it appears that any persistent bad habit is being redefined as an "addiction", which means, of course, that I am a blogging addict, I guess. More importantly, what these two redefinitions mean is that the drug enforcement community is increasingly not distinguishing between physical addiction and bad habits. In a country where we have somewhere around 50,000 deaths due to the abuse of truly addictive drugs (opioids), that is going to leave a mark.
Personally, I vote that we go back to the old definitions.
Social justice warriors have apparently decided that the TV version of Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer, the whole point of which is that we ought to accept others who are different, is sexist, bigoted, and the like.
Now I can get some confusion over books like Huckleberry Finn, since Mr. Clemens did after all sprinkle the "n" word around it like it was pepper on my scrambled eggs, obscuring Huck's very real love and esteem for Jim, but this one baffles me.
Powerline links a very damning report from the Miami Herald claiming that Alex Acosta, current Secretary of Labor, made a plea agreement with "Lolita Express" owner Jeffrey Epstein that spared him not only a possible life sentence, but also concealed the full extent of his crimes and the number of people involved. This agreement also shut down an investigation that would likely have implicated any number of Washington and society bigwigs, including former President Bill Clinton, who flew on the Lolita Express no less than 36 times, apparently.
The question is why this was done--really why so many prominent cases of sexual assault are not prosecuted. The prima facie reason given is that Epstein gave information critical to prosecuting financial crimes, but I have to wonder if there is something more sinister--that if others who flew the "Lolita Express" were named, shamed, and prosecuted, that it would paralyze the Deep State.
Other reasons are possible, including the Bear Stearns claims, and quite frankly also including that for federal and local law enforcement alike, it's more profitable to do traffic enforcement and prosecute drug crimes, but sad to say, more sinister reasons seem to come to mind.
The really horrific part of this, in my view, is that I'd have to guess that a major part of the drug problem is the result of victimizations like this. And scarier yet, does part of this explain why President Trump has kept Acosta around despite Acosta running interference for Obama era policies?
Back in 2009, I pointed out (as did Cold Fusion Guy) some big issues about the UAW bailout of 2009, starting with the fact that the bailout was not of GM and Chrysler, but was rather of the UAW and fat wage/pension/etc., payouts to unions that had helped put President Obama in office. That agreement left systemic problems in place that I predicted might even result in Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
While thankfully that hasn't occurred, today GM announced workforce cuts of around 15% of workers, the closing of five plants, and that the Chevy Cruze, Chevy Impala, Chevy Volt, Buick Lacrosse, and Cadillac CT6 will no longer be produced.
The question, really, is whether this is the UAW tax or something else. In this case, GM asked for 8000 workers to accept buyouts, but only 2250 did. Going way out on a limb, I'm guessing that the huge pension cuts for salaried workers in 2009-2010 made them unwilling to take a buyout that might be snatched from them--and that has everything to do with Obama's UAW bailout, which maintained pay scales that cost GM $25 more per hour than Toyota and Honda pay in our country.
Others might point out that this also has a lot to do with the fact that GM doesn't really have anything to compete with Honda or Toyota sedans, or frankly with Mercedes, BMW, Audi, and Lexus luxury vehicles, and while I'd agree, I'd also point out that engineers worried about being laid off, and who have seen former colleagues get screwed ripped off by the Obama administration, just might have something getting in the way of top quality work. Yes, we can, at least in part, blame the UAW bailout for the fact that GM doesn't have a Corolla or Accord in their stable.
Sad to say--and I write this as the owner of two GM vehicles and the son-in-law of a UAW retiree--I don't foresee good things for them in the future unless this changes in a major way.
After months of hemming and hawing, the DoEd's new guidance for Title IX sexual assault and harassment investigations has been released, and advocates on both sides are in an uproar, mostly about the two major provisions of the proposal.
The first is one that courts have repeatedly mentioned in overturning Title IX disciplinary procedures; given that Title IX discipline really is something that can follow a person for most of his life, Sixth Amendment protections (as well as others) apply, and the accused has the right to confront the evidence arrayed against him. Agreed. On the same side, victims' advocates note that the Title IX structure does not provide adequate guidance to prevent cross examination from becoming a re-victimization. Also agreed.
The second major issue is the question of which offenses ought to be investigated by universities; whether it should be just those which occur on campus, or whether off-campus offenses involving students ought to be dealt with as well. The logic on the part of the critics is that off-campus offenses involving students will impart a sense of fear among victims and their friends if they are not dealt with. Agreed as well.
In other words, the debate about DeVos's recommended policy changes has everything to do with whether universities are actually capable of investigating these things, and advocates for victims ought to be sobered in that regard by how badly many schools, especially my alma mater, have done in this regard. So is the solution to retain Obama-era guidelines that are almost sure to be overturned in court sooner or later?
I think not. Rather, once again, the solution here is for universities to put the onus on local police forces to actually do their job and investigate these allegations, and to have simple rules students can follow. If you're convicted of sexual assault or stalking, you're expelled. If you're indicted, you're suspended until the matter is resolved--and if you're exonerated, you retain the right to pick up your studies right where you left off. If you're arrested, you're suspended until you are either indicted or exonerated.
If you're a victim, you have the right to understand that your university will do the above, and if you file a police report, you have the right to, with the university's assistance, transfer to another equivalent school without losing academic standing or credits.
Chances of the above becoming law; slightly less than zero, I'd guess, because too many jobs are at stake in the matter. Title IX is, in my view, simply an attempt to co-opt the behavior codes schools used to enforce, but with quasi-legal authority. I predict a lot more hullaballoo and a lot more people suffering because we refuse to treat sexual assault as the criminal matter that it is.
ProPublica generates an interesting article noting that many police departments are "clearing" cases of reported sexual assault where they have sufficient evidence to make an arrest or more. What's really troubling is the rationale; federal guidelines allow police to use "cleared" to describe many cases where they know who and where a suspect is, but can't make an arrest for reasons "outside their control".
With all due respect, are all of these suspects really going to third world countries without an extradition treaty with the U.S.? The article makes clear that's not the case. What is the case? Well, the judgmental side of me has to suggest it might have something to do that you don't get $120 a pop for arresting rapists like you get for writing speeding tickets.
Probably not all of these cases fall into the "we need to take Officer Friendly off traffic patrol and task him with arresting rapists", but the article mentions precisely such cases. In reality, if this were done to any significant degree--say if a "mere" 50,000 out of the nations ~800,000 police officers were to take a week each year away from writing speeding tickets to make an arrest for sexual assault--we might roughly double incarceration rates for sexual assault. Given that most who commit sexual assault do it far more than once, it's entirely possible that a ~10% ease of traffic patrol could lead to a huge drop in sexual assault.
Cost: a few billion bucks. Maybe we can take it out of the money we're currently giving Planned Parenthood and Tesla, as well as corn subsidies.
In today's climate of fighting every allegation to the bitter end, this story is a huge blessing. Instead of fighting a lawsuit that would likely have been initiated by the widower of a woman who died after she passed out in front of an emergency door with asthmatic symptoms, the hospital executives responsible apologized in person to the widower.
And in a remarkable show of grace, Peter DeMarco is not suing. Now again, I don't guarantee that a real apology will end every lawsuit, but I have a hunch that owning up to what went wrong would make things a lot less expensive. Hats off to DeMarco, Patrick Wardell, Cambridge Health Alliance, Dr. Assad Sayah, Somerville Hospital, and Lynette Alberti.
And rest in peace, Laura Levis.
This article from Fox suggests that many women in Asia need to heed the timeless wisdom of Dave Barry; if you can stick a pin more than a quarter inch into your face without feeling anything, you may be wearing too much makeup for the business environment. Apparently, thick wax makeup to make Asian noses look Caucasian, sharpen chins, and the like is all the rage there.
No skin off my nose if they do that, of course (ha), but one would hope that ladies who desire to look beautiful would remember that at a certain point, their husbands are going to see them without the warpaint battle wax, and maybe, just maybe, they might do well to just leave nature well enough alone.
Also on the light side, a Canadian winery has released a wine that would be just perfect for a bris. Made from four different kinds of grapes and fermented as a red (with skins), it's called "4 skins". Sadly, it does not appear to be kosher, so unless you're Reform or don't care, you can't put it out there with the cocktail wieners and such.
Which man? John Manly, attorney for many of Larry Nassar's victims, is saying here that the thing his clients are most interested is not money--though some of that is necessary--but rather repentance and openness so others don't have to go through what they did.
I'm not saying here that those who work with young people can somehow evade large settlements if they come clean, apologize, and investigate what went wrong and figure out how to avoid it in the future. I will say, however, that it's entirely possible that doing so will not only help the healing process, but will also result in smaller monetary settlements than would otherwise be demanded.
One other note is that that somewhere between 88% and 96% of all reported sexual assaults end with neither a conclusion that the complainant was wrong or lying, nor a conviction of a perpetrator. In this case, various agencies have been tremendously slow to investigate, and it suggests that for a significant portion of those 88-96% of complaints that end with "not enough evidence to arrest" or "not enough evidence to indict" become so for a very simple reason; the police are not willing to aggressively investigate these crimes, just like we saw here in Minnesota and have seen nationwide.
Yes, these crimes are messy, traumatic, and difficult to investigate, but if we want a world where fewer people become victims, we need to start treating sexual assault like the criminal matter that it is. And yes, take Officer Opie off traffic patrol for a while and see what he can find out. Maybe if such were done, the city of New London would be able to hire officers of above average intelligence because they weren't getting bored out of their minds issuing speeding tickets.
.....just contacted me to tell me I didn't have to spend a goodly chunk of change. Hats off to the mechanics at Lupient GMC of Rochester, MN, for telling me something despite the fact that it would have benefited them not to.
Also on the bright side of life, a flight attendant in the Philippines has taken customer service to a new level. For those airlines not lucky enough to employ Patrisha Organo, putting in a few packets of formula on planes might be a great public relations move as well.
After putting a guy who ran interference for cop killers into the Attorney General spot, you can shut (the expletives) up about ethics in politics. Forever.
(never mind Keith Ellison's obvious adultery, probable domestic abuse on at least two occasions.....yeah, this will be a real dumpster fire in that office for the next few years)


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Q: group by ggplots using dummy variables I am looking to create a code in R that does the exact same as the following code:
CombData <- CombData %>%
  group_by(Date, ESG) %>%
  mutate(Ratings = n())

ggplot(data = CombData, aes(x=Date, y=Ratings, group=ESG, color=ESG)) + geom_line()

But instead of including all data I only want data of the group "Large", "Medium", or "Small" to be included respectively. I therefore either want one plot with large, medium and small firms being divided into two categories: Rated and Unrated, or 3 plots consisting of small unrated and rated firms, medium unrated and rated firms and, large unrated and rated firms.
My current data looks like this:
    ISIN            Date        Ticker  Price Close MarketCap   MarketSeg   Number of Firms Ratings ESG
1   BSP951331318    31-01-2010  UIE     434         2232199578  Medium      26              120 Not Rated
2   BSP951331318    28-02-2010  UIE     440         2263059480  Medium      26              120 Not Rated
3   BSP951331318    31-03-2010  UIE     513         2638521621  Medium      27              120 Not Rated
4   BSP951331318    30-04-2010  UIE     512         2633378304  Medium      25              120 Not Rated
5   BSP951331318    31-05-2010  UIE     465         2391642405  Medium      24              120 Not Rated
6   BSP951331318    30-06-2010  UIE     481         2473935477  Medium      23              121 Not Rated
7   BSP951331318    31-07-2010  UIE     497         2556228549  Medium      23              121 Not Rated
8   BSP951331318    31-08-2010  UIE     438         2252772846  Medium      23              121 Not Rated
9   BSP951331318    30-09-2010  UIE     445         2288776065  Medium      23              121 Not Rated
10  BSP951331318    31-10-2010  UIE     486         2499652062  Medium      23              122 Not Rated

A: One solution for your second suggestion would be:
CombData <- CombData %>%
  subset(MarketCap %in% c("Large", "Medium", "Small")) %>%
  group_by(Date, MarketCap, ESG) %>%
  summarise(Ratings = n())

ggplot(data = CombData, aes(x=Date, y=Ratings, group=ESG, color=ESG)) +
  geom_line() +
  facet_wrap(~MarketCap)

As for the first option, it needs more detail of what it would be like.

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CODAworx, the new brand recently announced by The Art Commission, launched a new website showcasing design projects that feature commissioned artwork in interior and architectural spaces.
CODAworx (Collaboration of Design + Art) is open to participation by all members of a design team, including artists, architects, interior designers, art consultants and industry resources. The mission of the new site is to encourage collaboration between artists and design professionals, bring greater visibility to their collaborative projects, and celebrate these projects with a global audience.
CODAworx builds on the original conceit of The Art Commission, which served as a marketing platform for commission artists. CODAworx.com will continue to showcase the largest collection of leading commission artists with a full artwork search function, but will also expand to allow any member of a design team to upload images of projects where commissioned artwork has been incorporated into commercial, healthcare, hospitality, institutional, landscape, liturgical, public, or residential spaces. Each project lists all members of the design team, who may join the site and be included in a directory of people and firms, with personalized profiles and contact information.


If you are not someone who likes or wants to climb stairs, this article is not for you. On the other hand, if you like a physical challenge, read on.
The city of Le Havre is built partially at sea-level and partially on top of the cliffs that adjoin the sea. In the old days ("old" is relative since Le Havre is only 500 years young, a baby compared to cities like Paris) the workers lived on top of the cliffs while their work was below in the harbours, city centre and at the seaside. This meant going up and down the steep cliffs, everyday! To stop people from slipping and falling, the authorities over the years installed several stairways; 89 in total! The stairs were needed to enable people to climb or descend for up to 100 meters at a time, often quite steep!
NOTE: On the map below you will see many pink numbers. Each number is associated to a photo and description of a stairway. You can click on he number for a short explanation on the map, click on the "for more information" to jump directly to the description or just scroll down the page to see much more information. You can also zoom into the map, or move it left, right, up or down.
NOTE: On the map below, when you zoom in, you will notice dotted lines. Those lines represent the stairways.
You'll notice on the above map between number 14 and 15 there is a big gap. That is because the "Jenner" tunnel is there, joining the lower part of the city with the higher part. The Jenner tunnel is nowadays used only by vehicles, trams and buses.
Below are a few of the stairs that, if you are so inclined, you can go up or down. If you prefer just walking down, there is a funicular that will bring you to the top. There used to be another way on the other side of the city, but it was stopped in 1984 (more about that later on).
TIP: If you don't really feel like climbing to heaven, but want to see one of the stairs, take the funicular (there are no intermediary stops, just the lower end and upper end, so you can't go wrong), and at the top turn left and walk for a few hundred meters until the "Escalier Beasley" (see above photo) and go down those stairs (Reuben Beasley was a Consul to the United States between the 1700's and 1800's, and was credited with starting the first steam ship service between Le Havre and Honfleur). Or you can take any of the stairways on the "Felix Faure" road, just keep reading and you'll discover all the big ones.
To give you an idea how long and steep these stairs really are, here is a video inside the funicular while it was going up. The speed is normal (i.e. not slowed down), so it'll give you a good idea how long it'll take you to climb the stairs. The funicular does it in 2 minutes and 30 seconds…. can you do it faster on foot??
In June of 2017, the city organised a foot race, called the LH Urban Trail, which consisted of running a 42 kilometres marathon, including 4500 steps on the many stairways of the city. A gruelling race which could be run alone, in duo or in team.
Now let's have a look at some of the stairs in Le Havre (and the adjoining city of St. Adresse).
The photo at the top of this article is the "Escalier Beasly" (taken from the bottom). Some of the stairs are very steep and narrow, while others are wide and easy. Many of the stairways have railings you can hold onto, handy if it's wet and slippery.
The "Escalier Beasly" and the following stairways all go up to the "Rue Felix Faure", the same road where the Funicular also ends.
TIP: If you want to try these stairs but don't feel the energy to climb up, take the funicular and then walk down one of the many stairs here.
The "Rue Germain Coty" stairway part road and a lot of stairs brings you towards the Le Havre city centre. This is the top end view.
The "Rue Germain Coty" stairway part road and a lot of stairs brings you towards the Le Havre city centre. This is the bottom end view.
A long and winding stairway can be found a few hundred metres to the right from the previous one, it is called the "Escalier des Marchés" (translated it means the Market Stairs).
Le Havre Stairway "Escalier des Marchés".
A few hundred meters to the right from the "Escalier des Marchés", there is another very long and winding stairway, called the "Rue du Grand Escalier" (meaning the Big Stairway Road).
The following photo shows part of the wall that holds the "Rue du Grand Escalier" stairways. It was taken close to the bottom of the stairway, but it clearly shows you a part of the infrastructure that was put in place for the stairs.
Towards the right of the "Big Stairway Road" is, as can be expected, another stairway. And since the previous one was called "the Big Stairway Road", it goes without saying that this one is called "Rue du Petit Escalier", or "The Small Road Stairway".
All the stairways mentioned above end at the top at the road called "Rue Felix Faure", which is a residential area (with some interesting and beautiful villas and manors). If you go towards the beginning of this road (towards the right on the map), cross the busy road that intersects with Felix Faure, you'll see a steep hill. And of course, there is a very long and winding stairway & path going downhill (or uphill if you start at the bottom).
The Escalier Lechiblier stairway seen from the top.
The Escalier Lechiblier stairway seen from the bottom.
The "Escalier-Olivier-Senn" stairway is short but joins the "Impasse-du-Beau-Site" stairway. At the top you'll find one of the famous Gouzou art work.
Further to the right on the busy "Rue du 329eme" road, you will see a massive fort on the left (the "Fort de Tourneville"). This fort can be visited since it part of an artist colony and entertainment area.
A few kilometres onwards on the "Rue du 329eme", the road becomes the "Rue Salvador Allende". There, you will find an enormous stairway called "Escalier de Montmorcency".
The top part of the "Escalier de Montmorcency" used to be the main stairs which workers took to go downtown. Two side separated by an escalator.
These used to be the main stairs taken by workers/labourers living on top of the cliffs and working in the city or harbour. Many workers used to "commute" daily, so in 1928 the city installed an escalator to help the tired workers. The wall on the left of the above photo is part of the former escalator. At the top and bottom of the stairways, you can still see the structure that housed the escalator mechanism.
In the photo above, you can barely see the bottom part of the stairs (see the cars at the bottom part of the stairs?).
The bottom part of the "Escalier de Montmorcency" used to be the main stairs which workers took to go downtown. Two side separated by an escalator.
The top part of the "Escalier de Montmorcency" with the housing of the defunct escalator.
However, the escalator was stopped in 1984 due to extensive repairs being required. The city had promised that it will reopen, but so far, it has not happened and it probably never will (most people nowadays have a car).
There are many more stairways on this side of the cliff; to name a few of the bigger ones – (click on the following named links to have a new window open with Google Maps pointing at the stairways): "Escalier du Pasteur", "Passage de l'Epargne", "Escalier de Bocage", "Escalier LeFort", "Escalier du Bois Cody", "Escalier de la Defense Passive", "Sentier des Genovefains", "Escalier de l'Abbaye", "Passage Stanley", "Rue de la Cote Verte", "Escalier Claude Lorrain" or "Escalier du Paradis" (which translated in English means "Stairways to Paradis") .
Just zoom into the map above and look for the dotted lines. Each dotted line is a stairway, and you'll see them spread around the city.
Click on the following links for a new window with Google Maps loaded, showing you the location of the stairways: "Escalier Henri Matisse" and "Rue de la Cote Verin". There are some smaller ones, but more difficult to find your way.
But not all stairs are to be found between the top of the cliff and the city centre. At the seaside there are a few stairs as well, since often the cliffs end up a few meters from the sea.
This following stairway, "rue Jospeh Morlent", brings you from the busy "Rue Guillemard" down to the beach road, right at the middle of the beach area.
The "Rue Joseph Morlent" is a busy road taken to go to the Le Havre beach area.
A little bit to the left on the map is another stairway that brings people to the beach, the "Escalier de la Falaise", or "the Cliff Stairways". This stairway is much less used.
The "Escalier-de-la-Falaise" is a less busy stairway taken to go to the Le Havre beach area.
One real challenge comes for the long ,and often steep, path which starts at the bottom in Le Havre and ends at the top of the cliff at Sainte-Adresse. Sainte-Adresse, a big village that lies to the left of Le Havre, is an upmarket village with many beautiful houses.
At the very top of the cliff lies an adorable fisherman's church with a great view over the Le Havre harbour and city centre. The church is quite small but with a pleasant and peaceful garden and decorated with all sorts of model boats and with its walls full of commemorative plaques of fishermen who have perished at sea.
To get to the top of the Notre Dame des Flots church and see this magnificent church, you can take the long and winding path/stairways that leads to the top.
The path is called "Sentier du Pain du Sucre", named for a monument a widow placed at the top after her husband was lost to the sea.
At Sainte-Adresse you will also find a very large and imposing building. This building, named "Nice-Havrais", used to be the Belgium's government's building during the 1st World War. Belgium had been overrun by the Germans during WWI, and the French government donated Sainte-Adresse to Belgium to use as their capital-in-exile. The King had a castle, and the government ministers used the "Nice-Havrais" building as their seat of power for Belgium (today the building are private apartment and can not be visited).
From this "Nice-Havrais" building to the beach is, you can guess it, a very long stairway. The stairway brings you not all the way to the beach but to the Le Havre yacht club. After the club is the beach.
If you are into hard physical exercises, walking these enormous stairways is a real challenge, no matter how fit you are. But in the end, the views can be spectacular, and the physical activities rewarding.
Or as I stated in the beginning, take the funicular, and then walk down one of the many stairs (that's what I do).
If you've done several of the stairs climbing, leave a comment how difficult it was and/or rewarding. I'm eager to find out.


Happy Friday to you all! I hope you have had a good week. I've had a lovely week 🙂 It was my birthday on Tuesday and my daughter's on Wednesday and of course there was Mother's Day last Sunday! I'm pleased to report that I have been very spoilt – and why not?!! Lol!! Anyway, today I'm sharing some inspiration with this cute little character called Lili Pad Frog which is available at Scrap n' Dipity. This was a new release from last week – but if you head on over there you'll find some more fun images that have been released today 🙂 While you're there why not check out the Challenge Blog? You have until the 14th of March to link up and this month our theme is 'Anything Goes'. There is a FREE image called Creeper Bear that you can use to take part – however you don't have to use a Scrap n' Dipity image to take part. Rules for the challenge are HERE.
I also used DP from American Crafts – Dear Lizzy 'Neapolitan', blue cardstock – American Crafts, WRMK Corner Chomper, My Favorite Things – cloud dies, Glossy Accents, Spectrum Noirs and a Frantic Stamper stitched edging die. The sentiment is computer generated.
Belated Happy Birthday, Karen! Glad to hear you were spoiled!
What a CUTE frog on the lily pad…great card! And, happy late birthday to you and your daughter!!!
Cute card Karen – I like the water feel you created with that border die!!
Thanks so much Jo – and I couldn't agree with you more hehe!!!
Frogs, how cute they are! This one is no exception. And I like the design of it, the type that works for men and woman, younger or older. Fun scene too, clever use of DP, paper and dies!


This month marks REALL's sixth anniversary. For our special meeting, we will feature Matt Nisbet, the public relations director for CSICOP (Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal) and Skeptical Inquirer magazine, presenting Skeptics Vs. The X-Files: The Media and the Paranormal. This is an interesting topic, and an area in which there is some internal disagreement within the skeptical community. Should skeptics spend time and energy with fictional TV shows like The X-Files? Or should we focus on allegedly non-fiction shows like the many schlockumentaries that pop up on network television from time to time? I've seen many good arguments, both pro- and con-, and will be very interested to see what Matt has to say. In addition to tackling The X-Files, he also will highlight recent cases of media promotion of the paranormal and review recent studies on the link between the media and belief. I hope you will all come to this special anniversary meeting!
Which reminds me — this meeting will not be held on our regular first Tuesday of the month. It will be Monday, February 15, but still at 7 p.m. and still in the Lincoln Library's Carnegie Room South.


You can go to upper right corner (I assume you're on a desktop), Click Settings, there will be Edit Avatar option :) Cheers!
Using the app since a few months now ( or more ? ... Time passes so quickly ! :p ) ... and slave to it now as I couldn't do without, I found quite normal to register here and make a donation.
I am new in this forum i want to know how i create a new post or thread in this forum.
Just like on any other forum, but if you try to spam(email alert) just once I'll come get you.
New to this forum, not quite so new to simracing, for me it started with Pcars when some friends who had crowdfunded it talked to me about it.
Originally I didn't have a wheel and raced with a stick, my old Saitek X-52.....according to my friends I was good for a stick driver, still spun out way to often which made me first get a used G27, which I got at steal and then got myself Assetto Corsa, tried out R3E, left that for a while and then later really got into it, after I had found a copy of the ADAC GT Masters experience for a Tenner.
Got me into Rfactor and back into GTR and GTR2, bought them years ago but since I didn't have a wheel back then, kept my boxes of them and some other games. And well the GTRs were still fun, unlike some of the higher rated more popular games of the day like the DTM/Toca race Driver etc.
Now got myself Rf2 recently and the whole host of old Simbin Goodies, as well as some other racing games.
Found Crew chief on the Pcars forums and it was a godsend, no doubt about it because the Pcars Pit Engineer was an annoying fool, never follow his advice.
One of the moments that sold it for me was in a free practise session for Pcars Career Mode in Monza National (the short one with the walls of death;)* ), when it told me that the temps were falling and it made me able to predict a return of the earlier fog.
hi, my names phil, ive been using cc and chatting with jim for a few years now but never got around to using the forum....so here i am! HI.
Hi NewbieRacer here. Been playing Assetto Corsa for a short while and caught CC in a YouTube video. It has transformed my game. The guidance when passing is invaluable. Why is this not in Assetto Corsa or RaceRoom by default? Great job. Donated.
New here, but been using CC for a while now :) Awesome piece of software!
Hello just started sim racing since I got my force feedback wheel for Euro truck. I'm absolutely hooked and in love with motorsports now. CrewChief adds so much immersion I cant thank you enough for creating this wonderful program.


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Transnational Perspectives on the Paris Climate Agreement Beyond Paris: Redressing American Defaults in Caring for Earth's Biosphere
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Nicholas A. Robinson, Transnational Perspectives on the Paris Climate Agreement Beyond Paris: Redressing American Defaults in Caring for Earth's Biosphere, 34 Md. J. Int'l L. 301 (2019).
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Ernst says $1,200 emergency relief checks will go out ASAP
Mar 26, 2020 @ 12:04pm
WASHINGTON —- The largest emergency aid package in U-S history, worth two-point-two trillion dollars, unanimously passed the U-S Senate Wednesday night. Iowa Senator Joni Ernst says the Senate "stepped up in this time of crisis and delivered critical relief."
The package is dubbed the CARES Act, for Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security. Ernst, a Republican from Red Oak, says it includes 12-hundred dollar checks for individuals. "Secretary (of the Treasury Steven) Mnuchin was very adamant about making sure that Americans are seeing relief as soon as possible," Ernst says. "To get those checks out, direct assistance from the federal government, we want to see those checks going out in a matter of weeks, not months."
In addition to the individual checks, the package includes 130-billion dollars to hospitals and 367-billion in loans and grants to businesses. The U-S House is expected to take up the measure on Friday. "By getting the bill passed and signed into law by the president, that's just the first step," Ernst says. "We have a lot of agencies that will be working with the additional monies and additional requirements on programs. They will have to bear that burden as we move forward."
Ernst is urging House members to quickly approve the measure so the massive and complicated process of sending out hundreds of billions of dollars can begin to jump-start the economy in the midst of the pandemic. She says it will be an enormous undertaking involving multiple federal departments. "We are going to be working very hard with those agencies to make sure that Americans are seeing relief as soon as possible," Ernst says. "I don't want to be a 'Debbie Downer,' I want to be very optimistic. I know they are working as hard as they can to get those dollars out the door once the package is signed, but Americans need to understand, relief is on the way."
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley issued a statement last night: "This health crisis is quickly becoming an economic crisis. This bipartisan legislation rapidly delivers recovery checks to help individuals and families cover their immediate expenses. It also helps businesses of all sizes keep employees on the payroll throughout the crisis and ensures that those who are furloughed or laid off have access to beefed up unemployment insurance. The bill also provides a much-needed infusion of cash to our health care professionals who are fighting the pandemic on the front lines."


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Bobby Ghosh: Iran's regime is already a big loser at the World Cup
From the commentary:
From left, Iran's defender Ehsan Hajsafi (03), Iran's goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand (01) and Iran's defender Morteza Pouraliganji (08) listen to the national anthem ahead of the Qatar 2022 World Cup Group B football match between England and Iran at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2022.
(Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)
By Bobby Ghosh / Bloomberg Opinion
There is a long tradition of authoritarian states using soccer's World Cup to distract attention — domestic and foreign alike — from their tyranny. The Islamic Republic milked buckets of self-serving propaganda out of the national team's participation in the quadrennial competition, never more than in 1998 when Iran beat the "Great Satan" in Lyon, France.
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Iranians, like much of the rest of the world, are soccer mad; the country comes to a halt when Team Melli, as the national squad is known, plays in the World Cup. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei himself stayed up late to watch the famous win in Lyon. When the team returned home, he reportedly invited Hamid Estili, who scored the first of two goals against the U.S., to his residence and kissed him on the forehead.
The regime played up the win as a symbol of its resistance against American perfidy and the wild celebrations across Iran as proof that the nation was united, not just behind Team Melli but also the government.
That won't work this time, no matter how the Iranian team fares against the U.S. when they clash in Doha Tuesday in the latest iteration of the tournament. For one thing, the streets are now a stage for protest, not celebration. For more than two months, Iranians have been calling for the regime's downfall. It would be hard for the regime to boast of resistance against the West when even on the day of the first game, security forces were intensifying their violent crackdown on protesters, especially in the northwestern city of Mahabad.
For another, Team Melli isn't playing along with the propaganda this time. Any hope the regime in Tehran may have harbored of using the World Cup to distract attention from its brutal attempts to put down a sustained protest movement were dashed when Iran's players refused to sing the national anthem before their opening game against England, the theocrats' second-choice Western bugaboo.
The team thus joined other Iranian sports teams and athletes who have either remained mute during the playing of the anthem or have used other gestures to express solidarity with the protesters. Afterward, soccer captain Ehsan Hajsafi was blunt: "We have to accept the conditions in our country are not right and our people are not happy," he said. "We are here but it does not mean we should not be their voice or we should not respect them."
Team Melli's defiance is doubly remarkable because officials had warned the players not to express solidarity with the protests. Khamenei himself had admonished them not to "disrespect" the country. Ahead of the tournament, the team met with President Ebrahim Raisi and gave him the No. 12 jersey.
This had earned them the scorn of the protesters, some of whom took to calling them "Team Mullah" in street chants and on social media. Some Iranian fans at the stadium in Doha were heard to shout "Shameless! Shameless!" at the players.
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From the commentary: Businesses are already struggling under the extraordinary cost of doing business in Minnesota.
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Bill Torpy: History Center's film on Stone Mountain a view to the present
From the commentary: Today, many Confederate memorials are being curated with markers being erected nearby to tell the story of how the Lost Cause was mythologized. Stone Mountain would certainly need a big marker. Or, a museum.
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From the commentary: The takeaway from this book will be measured not in changed views of the monarchy, or of Harry and Meghan, but only in the bank account balances of the Sussexes, which is the bottom line. Shame on them.
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Since Iranian state TV didn't show the team's mute protest, their solidarity with the protesters didn't immediately register back home. After the game, videos posted on social media platforms showed some Iranians celebrating the national team's defeat by honking car horns. In one especially remarkable video, a couple is seen waving the Union Jack.
Has Team Melli redeemed itself in the eyes of the protesters by refusing to sing the anthem?
Meanwhile, you can bet that Iranian officials will be putting enormous pressure on players to sing lustily before their game against the Americans — if nothing else, then to push the narrative that Iranians hate the U.S. more than they despise their own rulers. But the World Cup's propaganda value to the regime will have already been drained.
Bobby Ghosh is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering foreign affairs. This commentary is the columnist's opinion. Send feedback to: opinion@wctrib.com.
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I Texas Rangers sono stati un gruppo di architetti che ha insegnato presso la University of Texas School of Architecture ad Austin, Texas dal 1951 al 1958.

Storia
Il gruppo dei Texas Rangers cominciò con l'incarico di Harwell Hamilton Harris come primo direttore della scuola nel 1951. Harris, entusiasmato da un nuovo approccio al disegno ispirato dal primo membro del Bauhaus, Josef Albers, cominciò ad arruolare architetti per insegnare nella sua scuola in cui l'approccio per il disegno e l'architettura fu appunto simile ad Albers. Fra gli architetti che Harris era riuscito ad attrarre alla University of Texas School of Architecture c'erano Colin Rowe, John Hejduk, Robert Slutzky, Werner Seligmann, Lee Hirsche, Bernhard Hoesli, Lee Hodgden, e John Shaw.

Bibliografia
 Caragonne, Alexander, The Texas Rangers:  Notes from the Architectural Underground, (Cambrdge MA and London:  MIT Press, 1995) ISBN 026203218X  ISBN 978-0262032186
 Germany, Lisa, Harwell Hamilton Harris (Austin TX:  University of Texas Press, 1991), pp. 139–156.

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Martin Logan's Neolith dwarfs mere mortals with its largest electrostat ever
By Ryan Waniata	 November 5, 2014
The stunning piece of technology above is not the cockpit guard from an X-Wing fighter, nor some sort of teleportation device plucked from the future. No, this curious, screened contraption is the latest breakthrough from the audio gurus at Martin Logan, a new speaker called the Neolith. And that screen rising from that stout anchor of speakers at the base isn't for show — it's the company's largest-ever electrostatic radiating surface.
Channeling the history nerd inside, Martin Logan apparently named the Neolith after the Neolithic period. For those a little rusty on their background of human evolution, the Neolithic period was a watershed moment for civilization — a time when humankind stepped from the shadows of ignorance, created tools and agriculture, and took its first real strides towards enlightenment.
It's perhaps a fitting name for what Martin Logan is painting as a powerful step forward for audio performance. Using what the company calls a "curvilinear electrostatic transducer," the Neolith aims to create a 3-dimensional sonic image, able to reproduce nearly the entire soundstage with specialized dispersion technology to create a vividly accurate audio performance in virtually any environment. Along with its 22 x 48-inch electrostatic transducer, the speaker hosts a 15-inch rear-firing woofer, and a front-firing 12-inch midrange driver, all of which is set in a "super-dense" composite chassis for minimal resonance.
For those unfamiliar with electrostatic transducers, the technology has been around for years but rarely makes an appearance in consumer audio. Primarily used in audiophile-grade hi-fi systems, electrostatic transducers create sound by exerting force on a thin membrane suspended in an electrostatic field. The speakers are notorious for their stunning accuracy, and extremely agile response due to a diaphragm that's much smaller than that of a standard dynamic driver. And while the tech is known for its limited bass response, the Neolith's added conventional drivers help it reach down to a claimed 23Hz at the low end.
This speaker is far from the first of its kind for Martin Logan in the genre. The Neolith, which was three years in the making, is the evolutionary stepchild of both the company's famed Monolith electrostatic speaker circa 1983, and the company's Statement e2 speaker, the latter of which is claimed to be the culmination of 15 years of research and product development.
Promising a performance so realistic and accurate the company calls it "living sound," Martin Logan is taking its fantastical new electrostatic creation on the road to show listeners first-hand just what it can do. Dubbed the Truth in Sound Tour, the trek will begin with a two day event at Overture Ultimate Home Electronics in Wilmington, DE on November 7 and 8. On the second day, the Neolith will be taking requests as Martin Logan allows audience members to play their own music on a first come, first serve basis.
Naturally, you want a pair — who wouldn't? Take a deep breath, though, because — are ya ready? — the made-to-order Neollith start at $80,000/pair and go up from there, depending on finish choice. Hey, evolution always comes at a price, and this paradigm shift is particularly pricey one.
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