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Agreeing to put Medicaid expansion to a popular vote would open the way for lawmakers to negotiate other thorny, but less intractable budget issues. Prominent among those, on the governor's side, would be bigger raises for public school teachers and blocking the proposed move of the Department of Health and Human Services from Raleigh to Granville County. For Republicans, taking the expansion issue off the table might move Cooper to accept yet another of their proposed corporate tax cuts.
The governor might oppose a referendum because it would further delay expansion of the health care plan for low-income families. He has the votes to uphold his budget veto and wants to apply pressure for expansion's passage now. As Rep. Marcia Morey, a Durham Democrat, put it: "Time is of the essence. The more we delay, the more we deny people the health care they need."
Berger and Republican leaders likely don't want the people deciding this issue. Polls show that a clear majority of voters support expanding Medicaid. It's easy to see why. Expansion would provide health insurance for hundreds of thousands of uninsured North Carolinians, create thousands of jobs and offer a lifeline to struggling rural hospitals. The federal government would cover 90 percent of the cost. Under Cooper's plan, an assessment on hospitals and other health care providers would cover the other 10 percent.
Objecting to letting the people decide is a hard position for Republican lawmakers to take now. They, after all, spoke a lot about "the people's will" when they put six constitutional amendments on the 2018 ballot. Those included big issues — a photo ID requirement for voting and capping the state income tax rate — and a frivolous one that protected the right to hunt and fish.
Why now be reluctant to let the people speak on the state's most consequential matter?
N.C. Senate leader Phil Berger discusses Gov. Roy Cooper's veto of the budget with the media on Friday, June 28, 2019. Julia Wall jwall@newsobserver.comSenate
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I opened a YouTube channel when my lovely friend Louise @louisenails requested a tutorial for a 'ghost rider mani', but I wasn't planning to make any more videos. Since I put the video up though, I've been getting encouraging comments asking for more tutorials so I decided to make another one. I made short Instagram version and the longer YouTube version. I embedded the YouTube version at the end of this post.
For today's mani, I started off with Sinful Colors Out of This World, then stamped a floral design from MoYou London Pro 06 XL using MoYou London Palatinate Purple. (I used the same pattern for this mani; seriously I can't get enough of this plate!) Then I coloured the petals as dots using a dotting tool. The rest of the process is the same with other advanced stamping technique.
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Ohio Approves More Than 300 Sports Gambling Licenses
Ohio's sports betting business is ready to become a colossus following the state's Wednesday approval of three professional teams to conduct various sports betting activities. They will be permitted to begin accepting wagers on their sporting facilities as early as 2023.
In addition to approving more than 300 licenses, the Ohio Casino Control Commission issued permission to the state's professional teams, including the Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Browns, and Columbus Crew.
On January 1, 2023, each of them will open a business in the state.
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The Commission evaluated ten applicants for Class A or Class B casino licenses and approved eight shortlisted candidates who will have both Class A and Class B licenses:
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In addition to the professional sports team organizations, the Commission evaluated and issued 300 Class C licenses for a variety of restaurants, pubs, and suppliers that can now offer gambling kiosks on their premises.
The Commission gave similar licenses to 200 taverns and restaurants across the state in August, with the number expected to rise.
In the meantime, according to the executive director of the Commission, Matt Schuler, at least 33 percent of applicants have failed to provide the required employee and leadership documentation.
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Schuler reminded them that failure to do so by the deadline of October 5 would render their applications invalid. The CEO was visibly annoyed that applicants expected the commission to handle late paperwork, which would not be possible because the Commission, according to Schuler, was operating at full capacity and lacked extra personnel.
Schuler stated that candidates whose licenses have not yet been authorized would have until November 2 to present the relevant papers.
In both instances, the executive advised applicants to be conscientious and submit their applications in advance so that the commission's personnel can review them.
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Today marks the opening of ESOF2012 - the Euroscience Open Forum - taking place, this year, in Dublin.
The event is Europe's largest, general science meeting and is held every two years, this year from July 11th-15th. The forum aims to showcase advances in science and technology; to promote a dialogue between science and society; and to stimulate interest, excitement and debate about science.
President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins opened the event, pointing out that the achievements and reputation of Ireland in the arts is often mentioned by commentators but that "unfortunately not really all of them would mention prominent parts of the Irish intellectual achievement which is just as important, older and maybe even more central: Bell's Theorem, the development of fibre optics, the splitting of the atom, the Beaufort scale or the effectiveness of the mariner's compass or the many other inventive and forward-thinking achievements which owe their success to the innovation, creativity and above all, original thinking of talented Irish scientists".
The President name-checked a number of notable Irish scientists such as Ernest Walton, Robert Boyle, John Tyndall, Agnes Mary Clerke and Lucy Everest Boole who, he said, had laid the groundwork on which today's scientists build.
"Science", the President said "is being re-imagined in an era of new and global cultural context that sees it in a far more engaged and challenged way than any functional narrowness of recent times might suggest".
President Higgins welcomed the focus on ethical issues: "The moral challenge is ever greater now.... our new responsibilities are to a planet already made fragile and a global population of which so many, a great proportion, has been excluded".
"As a nation, we continue to have much to offer to the world of science and technology", the president noted.
Attracting scientists and those interested in science from around the world, a number of distinguished scientists and policy makers will deliver keynote addresses, including synthetic biology advocate and pioneer Craig Venter; Nobel Prize winner and co-discoverer of the DNA double helix, James Watson; European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science Maire Geoghegan-Quinn; Former President, UN High-Commissioner and climate justice advocate Mary Robinson; astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell; and Director General of CERN Rolf-Dieter Heuer.
There's much more to see and hear at CERN and one-day passes are still available for the Dublin Conference Centre. For those who can't make the event in person, you can watch the keynote addresses live via webcast.
To celebrate the arrival of ESOF2012, the Science in the City programme has been running as part of the Dublin City of Science year-long festival.


The Confucius Institute at Texas Southern University held the opening ceremony of Chinese cooking class with the support of the Chinese Consulate in Houston, Jinjiang Restaurant, and over 300 TSU faculty and students who attended the opening ceremony.
For the opening ceremony, the prepared Chinese dishes included: carved watermelon, Kung Pao Chicken, General Tao's chicken, Salt Pepper shrimp, and Yangzhou -styled fried rice. Guests were excited to eat authentic Chinese food while learning how to use chopsticks, and therefore, many students signed up for cooking classes on the spot.
McDowell expressed that Confucius Institute has been the backbone of cultural exchanges between China and the United States. In addition to providing Chinese classes, the Confucius Institute for the first time opened a series of Chinese culture courses including cooking, handmade, painting, martial arts and chess. He firmly believes that by integrating culture and language will enable American students to understand China in a vivid way.
The cooking class lasting for six weeks.Class was instructed by the Chef Dengzhong Ding from Jinjiang restaurant specializing in Huaiyang cuisine. Chef Dinghas has more than 40 years of cooking experience and his own T.V. food program.As an authentic local celebrity food star,he is very keen on the strong platform of Confucius Institute and hopes to expand and enlighten people on the Chinese culture by way of food.


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Open Source, WTF Is Cloud Native
WTF is Wrong with Open Source Communities?
If the tech industry has a diversity, equity and inclusion problem, then the open source world has a catastrophe on its hands. While women make up a still shameful 20 to 23% of the tech industry, women and other gender minorities make up only about 3 to 4% of OSS. While Africa represents 16% of the global population, it makes up just 2% of GitHub, the world's largest open source repository. There are many other important DEI measurements to be made, but there's still surprisingly little research being done.
As open source program manager Emma Irwin wrote, "If a demographic representing nearly half the population on Earth fares so poorly, how will we ever progress in other areas of representation including non-English speakers, race/ethnicity, age, family status, socioeconomic status and dis/ability?"
This lack of diversity is unacceptable. Open source dominates at least 70% of enterprise stacks. It's an essential tech skill, with open source contributions continuing to rise. Open source is even more important in the Cloud Native space which is built on open source projects, making Cloud Native experience a must-have for the highest paid roles in tech. Contributing to an open source community is also a fantastic way to network, gain core social skills, and give proof of code, all supporting your next gig.
The open source tech experience can be special because of its communities, but that's where it's really losing out by its lack of diversity. And if open source is building the future, then everyone must be represented in its creation.
Open source communities can be, by nature, unwelcoming
Some of this diversity problem is self-fulfilling due to the unique nature of open source. As Divya Mohan explores elsewhere in this WTF collection the vast majority of open source contributors are either volunteers or work for sponsoring organizations. Those in minoritized groups are more likely to bear the brunt of unpaid care work and don't often have the extra time to donate. And Fortune has found that the world's biggest companies, who are the frequent sponsors of high-profile OSS projects, are still lagging behind in diverse hires.
Also there's an attraction to abscond your identity in an open source community, which may be falsely keeping some contributor demographics lower. This can be because you feel isolated as the only woman or person of color contributing to a project within a country.
Or it could be because you just want your code approved; a preliminary study suggests that the pull requests of women who hide their gender are more likely to be accepted than men or women who are open about it.
There's also the staggering accounts of harassment from both victims and witnesses. The 2017 GitHub Open Source Survey, which remains the broadest examination of DEI in the space, covered a lot of negative behavior that deters contributions. Sexual harassment, stalking and/or doxxing is experienced by about 3% of contributors and witnessed by about 14%. Again, these are unacceptable levels that lead to contributors dropping out.
Dr. Vandana Singh's combination of anecdotal and empirical research has uncovered "hostile, discriminatory and predatory experiences of women and underrepresented minorities" in open source communities. She is a recent recipient of the Google Research Award for Inclusion Research and has dedicated her career to studying open source communities.
GitHub has found tooling to be the most effective way of addressing harassing behavior—namely reporting and blocking features—but that shouldn't get maintainers and other community leaders off the hook. There are a lot of other ways to foster safer, more welcoming communities that can't be automated.
And remember, an unwelcoming open source community doesn't just interrupt people from voluntary contributions, it can block their success at their current and future jobs.
Enforced codes of conduct matter
One of the most significant trends over the last few years toward diversity and inclusion in both open source communities and in tech events in general is the widespread adoption of codes of conduct—which outline expected behavior in a community and consequences of not meeting those expectations. This is in part because in 2015 the Contributor Covenant became the de facto CoC for open source communities.
But even as this covenant reads: "Simply adopting [the] Contributor Covenant will not prevent conflict or toxicity in your community." You have to enforce it. "A code of conduct without such enforcement sends a false signal that a community is welcoming and inclusive, which can have a disastrous impact on marginalized or otherwise vulnerable people."
Singh's research has found that women strongly consider open source codes of conduct before making their first contributions, specifically looking for mentions of diversity and how problems will be addressed. She's found that the most successful codes are adapted to speak to the specific community and call out the specific kinds of diversity it is working to include—and how.
Open source leadership should come to expect that people are going to break the codes of conduct—otherwise you're not being aspirational enough for your community. Some communities like the Cloud Native Computing Foundation automate responses to inappropriate language within Slack, while others leverage linters to keep them out of documentation. You can also set up Slackbots to remind folks about the code of conduct.
But when someone is a repeat offender or does something more egregious, She Code Africa's open source program manager Zainab Daodu says you have to make an example of them. This can be through a public apology or even suspension from the community. And always respond publicly, secrecy builds apathy and a sense of insecurity.
Always remove offensive behavior from triggering someone else—but not without screenshotting receipts first.
And, as our Container Solutions colleague Carla Gaggini pointed out, it's especially important that leadership is held up to the same standards. If a maintainer is caught breaking your code, they should be made an example of.
How to welcome anyone
Singh's most recent research is aptly titled "Motivated and Capable but No Space for Error." Unsurprisingly, all women she interviewed reported a lack of other women in their immediate open source environments.
One respondent said she is sick of being singled out as representing half the world population:
One thing I always hate is that they point me out all the time, 'Oh, you're a female. What's your opinion?' Like I'm some kind of a dinosaur in the room, and I have to have an opinion because I'm a woman. And I have to represent the multitude of women that are not in the room. No, I'm not representing them. They should be there with me. I think, again, almost equally, but because we are missing so much in numbers, we lack opportunities and presence, definitely.
This feeling of isolation is likely to be replicated across all underrepresented demographics. And "Only Black Developer Syndrome" is a real problem talked about all the time. As Coding Black Females founder Charlene Hunter said, "I shouldn't have spent eight years of my life not meeting another Black woman who does coding and has the same skills as me."
Safe spaces ranging from special interest groups (SIGs) to meetups and both private and public Slack channels can allow those both with technical and social interests to self-organize and feel less alone.
This can also have an added benefit that not only you're offering support, but it helps you know profiles of those from underrepresented groups to highlight—with permission of course.
We all know that onboarding is essential for any tech retention. It could be doubly so in open source communities. Singh has found first experiences to be essential in determining whether women stick around to become active open source community participants. By pairing new contributors with warm and welcoming mentors, you automatically create a safe space to ask for help navigating the often complex communities—from where to start contributing to who to ask for help with what.
Diversity of thought and experience matters, too
Another bad habit that bleeds over from marketing in tech all the way into documentation and product is the use of the words "easy" and "simple." As developer advocate Wesley Faulkner put it, "If a new learner has an issue with one of these 'simple' steps, they may give up and not continue because it's only going to get harder, right? Removing that wording will help to not add additional pain and shame that comes with learning something new."
It's better to mark things as beginner—and guide them to beginner Slack channels—as well as to flag other levels. Often someone who is contributing to your open source project for the first time may have loads of experience in your language or domain and be ready to help you with a more advanced issue.
Another part of onboarding is that, in open source, it's not just about getting to Hello, World. There are so many more opportunities to contribute that are as important and need as much recognition as coding. Make sure your leader boards aren't just highlighting people with the most pull requests — quantity of code should not be the only gauge of quality of contribution.
Documentation is often poor or lacking in tech but the problem is notoriously bad in most open source software, because technical writing is a skill that is often under-appreciated by developers, who already have ever-expanding responsibilities. This is particularly ironic given that for an open source project you really want users and contributors to do as much self-service as possible. Documentation not only helps people learn about your code, it helps learn about your community and its purpose. It creates a written history of decisions made and creates a baseline knowledge for everyone. Doc writing should be a celebrated OSS contribution.
A win-win contribution that helps the community recruit and increases diversity is translation work. The tech industry overall persists diversity issues by putting English proficiency as an artificial barrier to entry.
Developer advocate Kat Cosgrove also recommends that you define a concept, tool or word the first time you use it—at length. "Explain not just what that thing is but why it's so useful. I don't have the experience you do; I need context and the why to understand," she said.
All tides rise together. Like most open source diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, when you do something to welcome one group, you enrich the community experience for everyone. Helping one person be successful, helps everyone be successful.
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R. Kelly Invites You to His 'Christmas Party'
R. Kelly's "Backyard Party" is the ultimate summertime jam and now the crooner has delivered his holiday ditty, "Christmas Party."
Much like "Backyard Party," the song is a funky and festive track with Kellz singing - with yuletide glee - the joys of spending Christmas with friends and family.
"I hear the ringing of the sleigh bells / Me and my baby under the mistletoe / Children listening, we're reminiscing on old times / While drinking and playing dominoes," he sings.
The song comes at the right time as R. Kelly is set to release his 13th solo album, titled The Buffet, on Dec. 11.
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Bud Smith's Growing Pains by Patrick Trotti
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Bud Smith is more than the sum of his individual traits, and yet any one of those would be enough to buoy a lesser person's ego. He's a hell of a writer: honest and vulnerable and sincere. More importantly, he's a nice guy, approachable and willing to lend a helping hand. His writing, in many ways, is emblematic of what makes him a decent person. Complex yet relatable, his words balance universal emotional truths with a touch of both humor and sadness.
Smith has been on the online indie writing scene for almost a decade now, maybe longer. He's been published in various publications, such as Wigleaf, PANK, and Hobart. I remember coming across a story of his in a small online magazine of some renown. I was intrigued by the sparsely named title. Surrounded by clickbait titles, the name "Everybody's Darlin'" was simple and direct, something the rest of the piece continued, and conjured up a country song title. He had me at the first line, "I became a minor celebrity around town after the police threw me through the plate glass window of the porno shop." For the next ten minutes, I wasn't disappointed. His words had weight behind them. In an age of constant scrolling, his story made me slow down and think and wonder. The text was unadorned. The dialogue was tight and crisp.
We drove behind the porno shop. A narrow path. Branches slapping the windshield making me flinch, but she didn't flinch. Some lucky people fear nothing.
But in the trees, all sap covered and weather-faded, I saw a blow up doll someone had resurrected from the dumpster, and hung there in the dead branches, lying horizontal flying like Superman or Superwoman. Transexual. I pointed up, but the girl didn't lose a beat.
"I see that every day," she said, and just kept cruising. "Hey why'd they do that? Why'd they throw you through the window?"
"I walked in the backroom and caught those cops masterbating on a guy they'd handcuffed. Having some kind of a race."
"That's what our tax dollars are for?"
"Some of them, anyway." I wiped my bloody brow, quivering. Adrenaline gone and me suddenly overtaken by weakness. "I was just looking for a quiet place to get high."
Bud's writing style is distinct—He writes autofiction, or autobiographical fiction, in a way that is devoid of the usual pretentiousness otherwise found in that genre. But he doesn't simply write about things he's lived. He balances the high-wire act of fiction and non-fiction.
Vintage, May 10, 2022
His latest book, Teenager (Vintage 2022) has been tabbed as a teenage Bonnie & Clyde road novel but, like most of Smith's other works, it's not that simple. From that trope, he extrapolates a heartbreaking narrative that explores many topics, such as romance, religion, and violence. The prose style is similar to that of his shorter online works in that it's direct but is accompanied by passages of unbridled exuberance and flowery, descriptive language that sprinkles the work with a touch of humanity. It's a love story and an ode to Americana, past and present. Sentimental at moments, but also biting in its critiques of our modern culture, the book finds a sweet spot somewhere in-between and vacillates between the two.
The book begins with an escape from prison and just escalates from there. From the very first chapter the reader is plunged into a narrative of halted, seemingly simple sentences. Direct declarations that portend deeper meanings.
Again the first key fit. But it wouldn't turn. He tried another, and another, worrying about the guard, but keeping his cool, thinking of Tella, of the bomb threat that got him locked up in the first place, of his foster mom's trailer—he wouldn't be going back there. Thinking of Tella's father, mother, brother, the water tower, the Scrabble game two of the other kids were playing in the rec room that morning and all the three-letter words they'd made. Their low scores.
The lock disengaged. He stepped through the second gate. He slipped out the front door of the Mayweather, no alarms sounding. He couldn't hold back his laughter. His sneakers crunched on the frosty grass. He sprinted across the fullmoon-lit field. Carefully scaled the far chain-link. Didn't even damage himself on the razor wire. All of it, beginner's luck.
When talk of writing comes up, Smith is just as straightforward as his own fiction. "I always have a few projects going at once. They all take years. But each year I seem to finish something. Teenager was written while I wrote two collections of short stories, a book of poems, and a memoir. I'm always making a messy first draft of something new while also furthering a draft of something else, bouncing back and forth. All I can say about the journey of the novel was that I'd write it and know I could do better and then think of what had to be done. A couple times that meant retyping the whole thing. Once I read it all out loud to Rae then I retyped it again." Although Smith's work can evoke Hemingway, Bukowski, and Kerouac minus all the faux machismo crap, he lists Martha Grover, Scott McClanahan, Kurt Vonnegut, Tim O'Brien, and John Steinbeck as his biggest literary influences. "Everything I see and experience finds its way in my work somehow. I'm influenced by what happens to me every day. Teenager holds my critiques for my country and my adoration for this country too."
This is Smith's coming-out party, as it's his big-press debut, but longtime fans of his fear not¾he hasn't lost the voice that he's honed over the past decade as he's climbed the literary ladder. Nor has his approach changed: "I usually write on my phone at work on coffee break and lunch breaks, working in power plants and refineries at my heavy construction job. When I come home for the night I usually retype something on my typewriter to get it to a further draft, or I edit something on my laptop. I do write almost every day but I don't care if I miss a day, or two, if I don't feel like doing it I don't do it that day."
There is a poetry to even the most mundane descriptions within the book. A feeling that you're in on a secret that no one else is privy to.
Almost dark. They scrambled across ditches, through difficult woods, brambles, vines, spiderwebs. Explosions in the distance got more frequent. Stumbling, bumbling. Bombs let loose. Bottle rockets screeching. Cricklecrack cricklecrack. Amateur cannons shot. Kody and Teal kept falling forward, misstep after misstep.
Through the branches they saw a strip mall with a neon sign. Some ridiculous jack-of-all-trades. A psychic who issued bail bonds and was also a small-claims lawyer who gave payday loans. The business' sign said FUTURE SO BRIGHT.
There are many takeaways from his novel, Teenager, but Smith tries not to get too philosophical. "There's no message in there I can point to, it's up to the reader. But I do hope when people get finished with the book they get an itch to travel and see their country, hit the road, meet their neighbors."
Patrick Trotti is a writer, editor, and Oxford comma enthusiast. He's perpetually at work on another novel. He lurks on Twitter @patricktrotti and can be found at patricktrotti.com
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Papers related to the teaching or theory of informal logic or critical thinking, and papers on argumentation theory, will be considered for the prize.
There are no restrictions on authorship. Authors need not be members of AILACT.
Previously unpublished papers, and papers published or accepted for publication between January 1, 2015 and September 1, 2018 are eligible. Maximum length: 6,000 words (exclusive of footnotes and references).
Entries will be assessed on the basis of their argument, scholarship, style, and importance to the field. There is a limit of one entry per author.
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We have loved and studied this breed for many years......so we were happy to wait for THE BEST.
We were fortunate to have his highly respected and successful breeder, breed Thor's litter especially for us.
We chose Thor at the tender age of 8 weeks and were thrilled for him to start his voyage to make his way Down Under. As the breed was not recognised here, the daunting task of achieving this ensued.
Thor exemplifies the breed standard and exudes the quality and hallmarks of the breed.... a pedigree chock full of working Icie's from the Nordic countries...how could we be so fortunate with this boy.
*Excellent construction, correct tail carriage....correct height (males 18 in)...amazing temperament.....and....double dew claws.
Thor looks forward to meeting all and will be out at shows in the very near future.
As the breed almost became extinct, the breed has been fortunate in having some very dedicated individuals contributing to its welfare and preservation.
One of the strategies to keep the breed diverse has been to encourage breeding of dogs descended from the rare family lines, so that their genetic resources will not be lost from the population.
This is not a breed that is suitable for everyone. They can be very vocal and they need both physical and mental stimulation on a daily basis,so they are best suited to energetic owners who are prepared for the challenge of living with an extremely intelligent dog.
through puppyhood and adolescence is not for sissies."
Icelandic Sheepdogs know every individual sheep in their owners' flocks, presumably by their keen sense of smell. Every fall, their task becomes to seek out and gather all of their sheep, which have scattered across the Icelandic hills during the lush summer grazing months and must be brought home for winter. The dogs travel far and wide, over difficult and often treacherous terrain, to collect their charges and return all of them safely to their owners. Icelandic Sheepdogs are said to be able to find their sheep even if they are buried under many feet of snow.
The first breed standard for the Icelandic Sheepdog was drafted in 1887. It was written in Danish. The first breed club was formed in 1969, for the purpose of preserving and promoting this ancient breed.
The ancestors of the Icelandic Sheepdog are believed to have arrived on the island of Iceland between 874 and 930 AD, coming with the first Norwegian settlers (the Vikings) and their livestock. This is thought to be one of the very oldest of all domestic dog breeds. Icelandic Sheepdogs were described in the Icelandic Sagas more than one thousand years ago and are mentioned in modern literature dating back to the 16th century.


Bye Bye Johnny have written and recorded a song called King of the Scuttlers for MaD Theatre Company's forthcoming production Angels with Manky Faces. The track was recorded at Vibe Studios in Manchester. Once owned by New Order, Vibe is now run by musician and DJ Martin Coogan (formerly of the Mock Turtles). You can listen to King of the Scuttlers on Bye Bye Johnny's myspace here.
Bye Bye Johnny will be playing a set in the bar at the Library Theatre in Manchester, prior to the last performance of Angels on Saturday 22 August.
For another song on the scuttlers – based on a poem by Mike Duff – watch this space.
Check out the page of poems by Mike Duff for "The ballad of Owen Callaghan." Mike's new poem tells the tale of an Angel Meadow scuttler of the 1880s.


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When Hurricane Matthew hit the Atlantic coast in the American Southeast, Florida was one of the hardest hit states. The Sunshine State is famous for its many retirement homes and senior communities. Evacuation of the elderly and infirm during this natural disaster was a challenge.
When catastrophe strikes, families rightfully question whether or not staff at a given facility can properly provide safety for those under their care. Seniorsmatter conducted an interview on this topic with John J. Schaum. Schaum is the Executive Director of Arbor Terrace, an assisted living facility in Ponte Vedra, Florida. He revealed several helpful points for evaluating facilities on this matter. Schaum's leadership on this issue comes from over thirty years in healthcare and fourteen years working in long-term care facilities. His experience and planning led to a successful evacuation and re-entrance for his residents during the disaster.
Priorities for Evacuating the Elderly during Natural Disasters
When constructing plans for evacuation, Schaum studies the type of disaster anticipated. In Florida, hurricane season nearly always brings trouble. Schaum coordinates "with the other department heads" in his facility, since each person can articulate various needs and priorities. In his words, "everybody's input is vital" to a successful emergency plan. Once Director Schaum has these in hand, he creates the Emergency Management Plan for evacuating the elderly.
As soon as a tropical storm begins brewing, Schaum coordinates with staff to begin preparation for a possible move. The preparations begin with packing enough food, clothing, and medications for a short stay away from the facility. Planning food for a few days without power can be complicated. Schaum recommends packing food that does not need to be heated, such as peanut butter and jelly sandwiches or salads. Small personal items help residents settle in well at a new place. A blanket or a few photographs of loved ones are reassuring too. Staff members assist residents with packing up such items in the days leading up to a possible evacuation. When the moment comes, though, and everyone must go, "Just go," Schaum says. There is no time to dawdle when evacuating the elderly during a natural disaster.
Relationships to Local Agencies and Families
The evacuation of Arbor Terrace went so well, in part, because of the relationships Schaum cultivates with local officials. He received word one morning from a St. John's county official that a mandatory evacuation would be announced that evening. Rather than wait for the rush of traffic or the panic to hit with the evening news, Schaum and his team sprang into action early. Administrators of assisted living facilities benefit from such relationships. These benefits get passed on to their residents in the form of safety in an emergency.
One of the first steps to coordinating an evacuation is to alert the families of residents. Schaum asks first if families would like to come to the facility and take their loved ones home with them. He and his staff then ensure that relatives' homes will meet the needs of the seniors who will stay there. Some will need generators to power breathing machines or keep medications cold. Others need to arrange someone to be home enough to care for an elderly relative at risk for wandering. Keeping in touch with these families, as well as providing all families with telephone and email updates, keeps the circle of care strong and well-informed.
Arbor Terrace owns three buses of its own. These are typically used for such activities as doctor's visits, group outings, and running errands. However, on the day of evacuating the elderly, the buses became the best and safest way to get 38 seniors from one facility to another.
Schaum recommends loading ambulatory seniors onto a bus first. Those residents can board themselves or with a little assistance, and they can disembark more easily too. Silver Rehab, which provides occupational therapy for Arbor Terrace residents, volunteered their staff to help with evacuating the elderly with mobility challenges. Familiar with and trusting of Silver Rehab staff, the residents knew they were in good, safe hands. The boarding was expedited, and Schaum says, "Not one of our residents got hurt during that transfer."
Receiving Facilities
Identifying a receiving facility in the case of evacuating the elderly is vital. The priorities here vary depending upon the residents' needs. Ideally, the receiving facility would be fully outfitted for power loss, including having backup generators. It would have plenty of cots or beds in lots of private rooms, and be similar to the home facility. It is best that a receiving facility have staff who are at least familiar with senior care. Proximity to a hospital is an even bigger bonus, in case of any health emergencies. Schaum was able to place his residents in a new sister facility safely out of the evacuation zone, further inland. This facility had enough private space for residents and was fully outfitted to fit the needs of seniors. The staff, although unfamiliar with these specific residents, was well-trained and knowledgeable in senior care, including memory loss. All this made the transition that much easier.
Providing for Memory Care-Related Needs while Evacuating the Elderly
Key to caring for seniors with memory loss is a facility that allows for entrances and exits to be monitored and locked. Seniors with dementia and other cognitive decline are at high risk for wandering and confusion. If they have easy access to an exit, especially in an unfamiliar place during a stressful time, they may leave. This can occur even in the middle of a hurricane or other natural disaster. Ensuring that a receiving facility has lockable doors, or doors that can be monitored day and night, is a high priority.
During transportation, Schaum recommends first moving those seniors whose cognitive function is higher. This is because those with lower cognitive function often need more rest. They also benefit from arriving at a facility where others have begun to settle in. Higher-functioning residents are more likely to get to the new facility, understand the situation, and be able to get comfortable. Thus, they serve as role models to the residents needing more orientation.
Once seniors are settled, however, it is business as usual. Whenever possible, mealtimes, medication times, and even activities are held according to the regular schedule. In fact, activities and food may even increase. Schaum says that, during their stay at the sister community, the staff of Arbor Terrace "provided plenty of activities and food." Chuckling, he adds,"We ate a lot."
Reassuring everyone that they are safe also helps keep the atmosphere light. The staff explains, "We're going to go somewhere else for a little while. We're going to go somewhere else where we're going to be taken care of." Once residents arrive, activities, low lighting, closed blinds, and no news keep the weather off everyone's minds. The other best tool for reassuring seniors they are safe is continuity of staff. Many of the people working at Arbor Terrace at the time came with the residents and stayed during the evacuation. In fact, "not only did they evacuate from their homes, but they brought their spouse, their child, to the community with us" to stay safe from the hurricane, Schaum says. Maintaining familiar staff reduces anxiety and unfamiliarity for seniors who are easily distressed by having to mentally process change.
Anyone looking into long-term care facilities should discuss emergency management plans. Natural disasters, fires, or burst water or gas pipes may lead to evacuating the elderly. Knowing how a facility cares for residents during emergencies adds to peace of mind for families. It also shows how adept and experienced the staff is. How prepared they are for emergencies shows how they react to and care about threats to their residents' safety.
Schaum's excellent leadership serves as a model. He says that a good leader knows that "this is a population [seniors]that needs to be targeted differently and the residents need to be cared for differently." This is especially true for residents who suffer from cognitive decline. "Doing your homework" is good advice for leaders everywhere who want to create better outcomes for seniors, in times of emergency and at all times.
Assisted Living Federation of America (ALFA). Emergency Preparedness Toolkit. ALFA.org. Available at http://www.alfa.org/images/store/Emergency_Preparedness_Tool_Kit.pdf. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
California Assisted Living Association (CALA). Disaster Preparedness. CALA, 2016. Available at http://caassistedliving.org/provider-resources/and-more/disaster-preparedness/. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
Interview with John J. Schaum, Executive Director, Arbor Terrace, Ponte Verda, Florida. October 21, 2016.
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The Fate of Your Digital Assets - Joseph Ferrucci, Attorney at Law P.C.
With the boundless expansion of the digital age, nearly everyone has digital assets. Digital assets are electronic information of all kinds that are stored online or on computers, tablets, and phones, such as email messages and attachments, social media posts, blogs, documents and photographs. At the time of death, your digital assets may be a valuable component of your estate, may contain information vital to administering your estate, or may have sentimental value for your loved ones. Accordingly, it has become essential to address digital assets in estate planning.
Until recently, estate planning for digital assets was hampered by the absence of a legal framework. After the death of a loved one, access to their digital assets was often limited by the user agreements he or she entered into when each service or account was established. Companies like Facebook and Google all have different policies and procedures for, and restrictions against, granting access to user accounts after the death of the user.
Fortunately, California now provides new options for estate planning for digital assets. Under AB-691, also known as Cal-RUFADAA ("California Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act"), which went into effect on January 1, 2017, it is now possible to plan for digital assets with more certainty, and estate fiduciaries now have more standing to receive disclosures of digital assets from custodians.
Cal-RUFADAA defines digital assets as electronic records in which an individual has a right or interest. Digital assets may include, but are not limited to, the content of e-mail communications, electronic bank statements, domain names, and photographs. However, a digital asset does not include the underlying asset or liability. For example, an email message regarding a bank account does not include the bank account as a digital asset per se unless the asset or liability is itself an electronic record. A custodian of a digital asset is a person or entity that carries, maintains, processes, receives, or stores digital assets of a user such, as Facebook, Google, and Yahoo!
To understand how Cal-RUFADAA workds, consider the example of an amateur photographer named Meg who posts her photographs on Facebook, stores them in her Google cloud account, and sells them on a commercial website called Meg's Marvels. After Meg dies suddenly in an accident, her mother Tammy and her sister Maggie want access to her photographs both for sentimental reasons and because of their potential monetary value.
(1) Online Tool. An online tool is an electronic service provided by a custodian that allows the user to name fiduciaries entitled to receive disclosures and the extent to which they may receive them. Designations via an online tool receive the highest priority.There are several widely-used custodians that offer a version of the online tool, mainly Google and Facebook, but as of now online tools are not a common option provided by custodians. Custodians that do provide online tools each have their own options regarding what type and to what extent a user can grant authority. For example, Facebook has a "legacy contact" feature which allows users to designate someone to manage their page in the event of their death. The designated person is allowed to do things like write a post, respond to new friend requests, and download posted material, but cannot log in as the deceased, view private messages, or perform certain other actions.
Returning to the example above, if Meg set up her "legacy contact" on Facebook and named her sister Maggie as her designated contact, Maggie would be able to log into Meg's account and view her pictures, but would not be able to delete or alter them. Maggie could save Meg's photos for sentimental reasons, but because a "legacy contact" is a fiduciary, Meg could not personally profit off the photos (i.e. sell them) solely because she has access to them.
(2) Written Record. Written records prevail in the event there is no online tool indicating the decedent's wishes. A written record is any written instrument, including an estate plan document such as a trust, will, or power of attorney. If a written record contradicts the online tool, the online tool still prevails, as it is given the highest priority, with very minor exceptions. But written records are more powerful, because they can be used to allow broader access to digital access, compared to online tools which often provide more limited options.
In Meg's case, if Meg left a Will that names her mother Tammy as executor and grants the executor the power to access her digital assets, then Tammy should be able to access Meg's Google cloud account and her commercial website. But what about the Facebook account? The authorization for digital assets in the Will appears to contradict the online tool naming Maggie as the "legacy contact." But given that the Will provision grants broader powers than the online tool, would both Tammy and Meg have access, each having different powers? How such a conflict would be resolved is not entirely clear. Meg would have been better off making the Will and online tool consistent, i.e., naming the same person in each role, or simply leaving the online tool blank and relying solely on the Will to grant access.
(3) Terms of Service. If there is no online tool in effect or written record regarding digital assets, the terms of service control. Terms of service is the user agreement entered into between the user and the custodian prior to beginning the use of the service.
Besides the issue of who can access digital assets, there is the issue the what exact digital assets can be accessed. Cal-RUFADAA draws a critical distinction between records and content. Generally speaking, records are a data set with information about the content, whereas content is the actual digital material itself. For example, email records would be a list of sent and received emails, including the date, time, subject, and sending and receiving parties of each email. Email content would be the written body of the emails themselves, including documents or images attached to the emails.
Requesting records requires a written request by the fiduciary, a certified copy of the user's death certificate, and evidence of fiduciary authority over digital assets. Requesting content, however, requires something more — evidence that the user wanted the fiduciary to have access to the content itself. Therefore, if users want to grant access to content, they should explicitly say so in their estate plan documents.
In the above example, if Tammy was trying to access the photos in Meg's Google cloud account using the authorization granted in Meg's Will, Tammy would have examine the language of the Will carefully to confirm that it explicitly grants access to ditigal content. If the Will does include such language, then Tammy should be able to use the Will as evidence of Meg's intent and should be granted access to the actual photos.
Before making disclosures to a fiduciary, the custodian has the authority to request supplemental information, such as information identifying the user's account. If a custodian does not comply with a proper request, a fiduciary may seek a court order. When a fiduciary requests a disclosure of digital assets, the custodian has some discretion in granting access. For example, the custodian may grant the fiduciary full access, partial access sufficient to perform necessary tasks, or only providing hard copies of digital assets. A fiduciary who gains access to the user's digital assets is still bound by the terms of service of the custodian and is required to uphold the fiduciary duties of care and loyalty. That is, the decedent's digital assets can only be used or applied for the benefit of the user's estate beneficiaries.
In sum, if you have not updated your estate plan recently, you may need or want to update it to address your digital assets, and more specifically, to make sure that it gives your estate fiduciary access to your digital content, to the extent you wish. If you have questions about Cal-RUFADAA or how it applies to your estate planning, contact your estate planning attorney.


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Keep Northern Illinois Beautiful more than the name implies
By Bob Balgemann
LOVES PARK – Some hearing the name, Keep Northern Illinois Beautifu (KNIB), likely think it's an organization that keeps roadsides free of trash and other debris.
Well, it does, but that's a small part of its mission.
This multi-faceted organization has been around since 1988 and in that time has been involved with a clothing drives, collecting and shredding Christmas trees, environmental education, metals and electronic recycling and medication disposal. And, of course, the Great American Cleanup.
In addition, KNIB has recycling centers at 4665 Hydraulic Dr. in Rockford and at 13125 N. Second St. in Roscoe.
Lori Gummow, executive director, has made plenty of appearances in the area to drum up support for the mission by explaining what it does to benefit so many people.
Aug. 3, she spoke to more than 100 members of the Harlemites, graduates of Harlem High School who themselves are involved in a number of events that benefit the community.
KNIB is a private, non-governmental, 501C3 organization committed to educating and involving individuals in productive solutions that care for the local, sensitive environment.
It works with businesses, schools, neighborhood groups and local governments to enhance neighborhoods and to reduce, reuse and recycle resources for future generations.
How about recycling crayons. Yes, KNIB does that. It collects used crayons from local schools between June 1-15 each year
"Millions of crayons are worn out every year because kids love coloring in their books, on the walls, the floor, wherever they can find to be artful," Gummow said. "So, what happens to all the used up crayons? Should they wind up buried in the local landfill?"
Not if KNIB has anything to say about it.
Once the crayons have been collected, KNIB volunteers strip the paper from each crayon and sort them by color. Other volunteers then melt the stubs and recast them in different shapes, such as cars, dinosaurs, flowers and more.
When a new school year begins, the recast, fully usable crayons are distributed to children at the lower grade levels by the thousands, when KNIB does programs in the classrooms.
"These old, used-up crayons reinforce the message that children, too, can be environmentally helpful," Gummow said.
Clothing drives
The organization has several clothing drives each year, with the next one coming up from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 10 at all Schnucks Markets.
Locally, the grocery store is at the corner of Alpine and Harlem Roads. Clothing also is collected at the two aforementioned KNIB recycling centers and at the Belvidere Township building, 8200 Fairgrounds Road in Belvidere.
This is actually more than a clothing drive, with acceptable items being in any condition, wearable or not. The list includes men's women's and children's apparel, coats, hats, shoes, pants, shirts, blouses, dresses, backpacks, towels, curtains, bathmats, stuffed toys, bedding and pillows and tag stock and unusable items.
Collected items are shipped immediately to a supplier in Milwaukee, who processes them within 30 days of receipt. Clothing is sent to areas in the United States as well as Africa, Asia, Central and South America.
Since 1999, KNIB has collected more than 3.24 million pounds of clothing. More than 4,500 households participated in the three drives held so far this year.
Other 2014 outcomes
It took two pages to include all of the activities KNIB was involved in during the past year. Here are some of them, with a few numbers that may amaze:
* In April, 1,354 volunteers removed the winter's accumulation of litter as part of the national Great American Cleanup effort. They cleaned 338 miles of municipal streets and highways, with nearly 41 tons of litter being removed.
Gummow said the presence of litter reduces property values by 7-10 percent and adds to blight and crime.
* More than 25,000 Christmas trees were delivered to the KNIB collection sites for shredding. That reduced the load on municipal and county landfills, while providing free mulch to anyone who needed it.
* The two recycling centers is beneficial to many residents of condominiums and apartments, as well as residents of unincorporated areas, who do not have curbside recycling.
The long-standing recycling center in Roscoe, operated by volunteers, served 6,000 residents last year and recycled an average of 22 tons of goods every month. The Rockford center on Hydraulic Drive opened in September 2014.
* During the three multi-faceted clothing drives, KNIB collected 163,580 pounds of clothing, linens and soft goods, with 3,998 area residents participating.
* Close to 1,500 people recycled 181,500 pounds of scrap metals, appliances, tools and electronics in 2014. All items were recycled, freeing up local landfill space.
* The medication collection drive allowed 1,367 area residents to properly dispose of their unwanted medications, whether expired or unexpired. In all, 3,102 pounds of medications were collected, protecting more than 3 billion gallons of groundwater from pharmaceuticals.
KNIB's program was recognized by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as "a model for other programs to follow."
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Lori Gummow (center), executive director of Keep Northern Illinois Beautiful, with Harlemites Paul Brown and Delores Hall during the Aug. 3 breakfast meeting of the organization of Harlem High School graduates.


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UM anthropologist's book explores Indigenous history
May 22, 2017 By cmsadmin
By Missoula Current
A University of Montana anthropology professor's research is helping fill holes in the history of indigenous peoples living in the Pacific Northwest during the time of the Fur Trade.
Through excavations of a semi-subterranean dwelling in southern interior British Columbia, Anna Prentiss found that ancestors of today's St'át'imc people were actively engaged in maintaining traditional lifestyles while making the best of new opportunities for trade and group interaction.
Her research is outlined in the newly released book, "The Last House at Bridge River."
"This is the first complete excavation and study of an aboriginal household from the early- to mid-19th century in the interior Plateau region," Prentiss said. "The deeper floors span circa 1,000 to 1,500 years ago and are providing unprecedented insight into the unfolding of household and village history."
The single home, known as Housepit 54, includes the longest fully documented occupation sequence in the Pacific Northwest region – one of the longest single house sequences found anywhere – 17 superimposed floors. Prentiss' book details the home's final occupation during the late Canadian Fur Trade period.
"Our data suggest that this was the last pithouse occupied at the Bridge River site just before the region was overrun by thousands of miners associated with the Lillooet Gold Rush of 1858 to 1861," Prentiss said.
The Bridge River archaeological site is an ancient village containing remains of 80 housepits. By partnering with the Xwísten, the Bridge River Indian Band, and with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Prentiss initiated the Housepit 54 project's first excavation in 2012, with additional digs in 2013, 2014 and 2016.
According to the team's research, the village's population peaked at about 1,000 residents between 1,200 and 1,300 years ago.
"Our research has focused on understanding relationships between demographic change, economic activities and socio-political complexity, including social inequality measured as material wealth differentiation," Prentiss said.
A rich ethnographic record enhanced the anthropologists' interpretations of the site, in particular, James Teit's early 20th-century writings regarding the St'át'imc or Upper Lillooet people of the Middle Fraser Canyon, Prentiss said. Housepit 54 was chosen as the best housepit at the site to provide evidence for resilience in how the families managed a long-lived household.
Excavations produced 8,000 animal bones – dominated by salmon and deer remains – and 12,000 stone artifacts from the Fur Trade period deposits alone, including more than 230 hide scrapers and over 130 arrow points.
"We are employing cutting-edge science to tease out patterns previously impossible to recognize – a recent example includes extracting and sequencing ancient DNA from a stone hide scraper," Prentiss said.
Research now focuses on reconstructing life on the 16 older floors from Housepit 54 using distributions of hearths, storage pits and post-holes, as well as stone, bone, artifacts and food remains.
"The Last House at Bridge River," published by The University of Utah Press, is available for preorder online and will be on bookstore shelves in August.
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An Inconvenient Truth About Climate Change Science
Governments, corporate interests and academics have been spreading fear and panic about climate change in advance of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit billed as our last chance to avoid catastrope. The secret is out now though, the scientists are frauds and the politicians are opportunists. So what is the inconvenient truth about climate change.
An Inconvenient Truth About Climate Change Science.
KEYWORDS: climate, climate change, global warming, science, scientists, scam, government, politics, power, money, control
I've said many times I became suspicious of "climate change science" when the climate change scientists started attaching the word "anthropogenic to it. I mean, anthropogenic, WTF is that all about? Anthropologists study hominids; primitive man, chimps and those dwarf chimps that are always wanking, baboons, gibbons, gorillas and monkeys. Anthropology is the study of human development right? The study of humankind according to the OED if we are being picky (there is bound to be some boy-scientists along who wants to brandish the Wikipedia definition and I can't be arsed slapping them down. Similarly anthropogenisis, the word from which anthropogenic must derive , relates to the origins of humanity.
So anthropogenic global warming? are we saying it is all down to cavemen and baboons farting? Well they did have a high fibre diet but there weren't enough of them to make much difference.
The attaching of anthropogenic to phrases like global warming or climate change is a typically crude and hamfisted attempt by scientists to baffle us all with big words because their scam has been well and truly sussed out. Anyone who expresses the smallest degree of scepticism about the "science" is dismissed and ridiculed as a climate change denier, conspiracy theorist, right wing crank or a fascist.
There is plenty to be sceptical about however. Without even getting into recent exposure of the use of fraudulent data in creating climate change models, the use of mathematical modelling and linear predictions to forecast something as non linear as weather patterns is extreme folly. What happened to the "barbecue summer" the clever scientists at the Met Office promised us? Well despite billions of pounds spent on research, bigger computers on which to build more complex mathematical models, the science of meteorology (study of weather) has not proved capable of forecasting the weather accurately much more than 24 hours ahead, something my Grandad could do with a pine cone and a twinkle in his eye. In spite of that the weather scientists insist their science is valid and their lack of accuracy is all the fault of us tightwad punters who will not tolerate the 150% income tax required to give the nerds who would rule the world bigger, more expensive computers than have ever been built and the unlimited resources needed to fashion the software that will tell us as accurately as Grandad's pine cone what the weather will be like next week.
You think I am showboating? Read what Simon Jenkins was writing in The Guardian earlier this year.
I was always told that you cannot predict summer weather in Britain. My early holidays on Cardigan Bay were enlivened by my father given a running commentary on the titanic struggle between "a depression off Iceland" and "an anticyclone off the Azores", as if it were Arsenal v Chelsea. Between this Scylla and Charybdis flows the Gulf Stream. As it collides with the complex profile of the British Isles, it generates the south-westerlies that pummel the coast all summer. The result is lost in chaos theory, vulnerable to a butterfly in Greenland or a leatherback turtle in the Caribbean. Yet whenever criticised, the Met Office pleads for more staff, more research and a bigger computer. It is like burning pound notes in a gale.
I'm not the only one to come to this conclusion then. The climate change scientists like the climate change lobby and the Large Hadron Collider team at CERN always use scientific curiosity and the "expanding the boundaries of human knowledge" argument to justify their demands for more money. Unfortunately the politicians, who in this respect have really imposed a one party state on us, all governments being of The Emperor's New Clothes Party, have not been willing to ask for what benefit are we investing taxpayers money. There is something in the scientific mindset that cannot ever accept "we just don't know and are never likely to" as the answer to most of the great questions of life and the human condition.
The Large Hadron Collider (it gets scientists so excited I'm always tempted to reverse the d and r) is a prime example of how feeding this scientific curiosity and thirst for knowledge becomes a bottomless pit into which we pour money. The one now being wound up to full speed at CERN is latest in a long line of colliders. The scientists in charge of each have given vague predictions of possible material benefits that might accrue from the experiment. So far each generation particle collider has failed to answer any of the questions we were told it would answer and has raised a lot of new questions which necessitate more expenditure and research. You want to know how The Universe works. It works, that's how.
How does this relate to the futility of the Copenhagen Climate Summit? Simple, as with the Universe so with the climate. It works. Left to itself the planet will balance everything eventually.
Leaving the planet to itself and just belting up, battening down the hatches and preparing for a rough ride is not good enough for the science lobby though. They, who when faced with doubts and queries about compulsory vaccine programmes, accuse their questioners of using emotional blackmail to manipulate public opinions, who insist we all have to be automatons, devoid of emotion, running on pure logic when addressing "scientific problems" are very quick to resort to sentimentality and emotional blackmail when "science" comes in for criticism.
"But you must trust the scientists and implement their solutions or billions of people might die," they wail. Then they add that it is the people in the poorest countries who will suffer most. "Oh the poor poor people, suffering again when they have already suffered so much for the sake of our western lifestyle," we are supposed to say. But is it all our fault. The science lobby, manipulative and disingenuous as usual, are just trying to guilt trip us.
Bangla Desh, one of the poorest countries in the world and with a large portion of its 165 million population living on low lying land in the deltas of the Ganges and Brahmaputra and around the Bay of Bengal, is likely to be one of the nations worst affected by climate change. When I read that information I was gobsmacked. Bangla Desh a hundred and sixty five million people? Where did they all come from? It was only 110 million in 1997.
There we have one of the main reasons for our problem. That population has increased by almost 50% in ten years. 165 million people in a land area the size of England (without Scotland and Wales that between them account for around ten million of Britain's 60 million. All those people consume resources.
In a world that insists on clinging to an economic system based on perpetual growth all those extra people, extra consumers, may seem not such a bad thing. What the perpetual growth enthusiasts, Barack Obama, Gordon Brown and most other western leaders glibly overlook is that we live of a planet of finite resources. There is only so much land available to grow food, only so much water available to drink and bathe and wash cars, only so much coal and oil to be dug or pumped out of the bedrock. The answer is simple then, we need less economic activity not more.
Far from being our salvation and the answer to all our problems science is actually at the root of most. Look at Bangla Desh again. Shortly after partition from Pakistan during which there was an influx of political migrants Bangla Desh a famine which killed millions, the government are coy about how many millions. Without the protection of larger, more prosperous Pakistan, Bangla Desh had not been able to organise an effort to cope with the rapidly increasing population.
It may sound harsh and uncaring to say this but reality has no time for soppy liberal sentiment. The famine was caused by western science. In poor areas disease and hunger were always regulators of population. Western medicine and powdered milk prolonged life and reduced infant mortality but the bigger communities lacked the means to feed themselves. The west was willing to supply contraceptives but not willing to take the necessary steps to change attitudes. Without a western attitude to family size and birth control disaster was inevitable. It is easier for the science lobby to pull number tricks of course. The USA has three hundred million people they say as if this makes the USA culpable for Bangla Desh's poverty. So the US has twice the population, it also has fifty times the land area. We can say many things about America but not that it is overpopulated.
But science is to blame in many other ways for our predicament. While the narrow minded scientists and short termist politicians focus on only one thing, carbon emissions, understanding the problem requires a much broader vision. The way we produce our food is one of the biggest contributors to emissions. The western diet high in meat comes in for much criticism but with only slight changes in the way we eat (more mutton and deer for example) much unproductive upland could be brought into use. Factory farming beef cattle as well as being inhumane is hugely wasteful.
Another debate waiting to explode into open battle is the question of Genetically Modified crops but we will save that for another day. Again the science lobby here are incapable of intelligent debate. The ability of GM foods to feed the world is scientifically proven they argue. The case for GM technology is no more proved than the case for Anthropogenic Climate Change was. Scientists decided on the shakiest evidence and a compelling desire for it to be so, that climate change was entirely due to human activity just as they have decided the case for GM crops. These things have never been proved, they could probably never be proved even if it were true. There are just too many factors in the equation that cannot be measured or controlled.
In both cases though it would suit the science industry and the corporate and financial interests that fund it and the political establishment for their arguments to go unopposed. Thus they resort to bullying and intimidation. The imbecile Obama and the cretin Brown have even talked of making a crime of expressing dissent from the official stance on climate change. Dissent though is not denial. Few people actually deny that climate change is happening. The question that has never been settled is that of cause. And the answer is "We don't really know." The world is stubbornly unscientific.
"We are scientists, that proves we are right," is in the stock argument of the climate change science lobby. That is, is it not, more fatuous than a Bible fundamentalist saying, "If it is written in The Bible that is proof enough."
So the whole catalogue of climate change science aruments is bases of emotion, sentiment, blind faith, self-interst, grrede and lust for power. That is the inconvenient truth about Climate Change. Is it any wonder then critics have started talking of the climate change evangelists as a fundamentalist religion.
We must fight for our right to think for ourselves, hold our own opinions and express them freely. The Copenhagen Summit is not really about climate change, it is about power and control.
News Used To Be Important - Now It's Just EntertainmentPeople talk about technology, mainly television, cellulat telephones and the internet having given us an unprecedented ability to communicate. But have they? OK, we can trade meaningless messages with strangers on the other side of the world, we can join the cacophony of social netwoks where everybody yells at once and nobody listens, or we can sit in isolation, shouting inmto the void. But none of those are communicating. Technology has actually inhibited communication. ...
Oil Shale Salvation
Recent discoveries of huge gas and oil bearing shale deposits in the USA, CAnada, Russia and under Britain's territorial waters as well as off the Falkland Islands and in the Antarctic are raising false hope of an early end to the energy crisis and food price inflation. What is the reality of these new oil and gas reserves, do they really offer the economies of the developed world salvation and a return to business as usual.
Domestic Heating Oil ShortageAs snow began falling again across the country, the Government confirmed that the situation could become "very serious," with some households already facing waits of up to four weeks before they can receive supplies [ ... ] With prices of fuel oil for domestic heating systems escalating rapidly as demand from developing nations puts pressure on the available supplies there is no respite in sight for consumers. As well as problems obtaining deliveries due to stocks running low and the difficulty of getting deliveries through to remote areas due to weather conditions there is a hidden problem here. Many households that rely on oil for ...
Leading Sceptic's Climate Change U Turn?When one of the world's best known climate change deniers starts talking about how we can deal with climate related problems you might expect the climate scienceology cultists to be cheering. They are remarkably quiet however about Bjorn Lomborg's new book because it reveals he has never been a climate change denier as he was dubbed but was merely questioning the shaky science on which the carbon driven AGW case was based ...
The Growing Problem Of Rising Food PricesWhile the warmists rant about carbon and the Church of Scienceology Cult rave about climate science. there are threee real and immediate problems facing us that nobody is talking about. These are overpopulation, water shortage and food price inflation. This article deals with food prices, links at the bottom lead to our posts on population and water scarcity.
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As the arguments rage on between the Climate Science Wankers lobby and the sceptis, realists and out and out deniers we observe that still nobody who gets media coverage, nobody who is talking sense about climate chaos, carbon based fuels, deforestation or over population is really being heard. Quite simply there are too many of us and we want too much. Who needs science or politics to understand that?
Chief Of Climate Science Panel Under Pressure To ResignBy far the best news of the month is the discredited head of the United Nations Inter-governmental panel on climate change is under pressure to resign following twelve months of revelations showing how he manipulated the panel's work to support suggestions that climate change was far worse and a far more imminent
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NBA 2K20 MyCareer Trailer: Idris Elba, Rosario Dawson Lead a Loaded Cast
The trailer for NBA 2K20's MyCareer story has dropped and man does it look phenomenal. Featuring a star-studded cast that includes Idris Elba, Rosario Dawson, Thomas Middleditch and more, the story looks deep, immersive and real.
As mentioned, Elba, Dawson and Middleditch seem to play central roles, while Ernie Hudson, Lamorne Morris, Maverick Carter and LeBron James also show up. On top of that, a ton of other players appear to be involved as they are every year.
NBA 2K has become as essential to sports gamers as the Madden games have. In fact, they may have surpassed Madden as far as cultural significance goes.
Credit goes to 2K sports which has developed top-notch game action while tying in deep, interesting stories players can live out with their characters. NBA 2K20 looks to be a continuation of that wave.


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China's media freedom is in name only
July 14, 2008 — 10.00am
If China's superstar Liu Xiang fulfils his destiny and wins gold in the 110 metre hurdles at the Beijing Olympics, most of the nation's 1.3 billion television viewers will not see his achievement live.
Chinese authorities have ordered a 10-second broadcast delay to avoid "undesirable" incidents - such as protests or anti-Chinese slogans - being seen by the domestic masses, according to Hong Kong's Ming Pao daily, a Chinese-language newspaper.
But technically the 4 billion viewers around the world should be able to see everything live - including any protests - under China's promise to give the foreign media "complete freedom to report when they come to China". This was to include uncensored internet access.
But with only 25 days until the opening of the Games, China's pledge of media freedom is sounding distinctly Orwellian.
Last Thursday, a top Communist official, Li Changchun, when he inspected the new main press centre, repeated the pledge that foreign journalists could report freely before and during the Olympics.
Mr Li, a member of the powerful Politburo standing committee, said journalists could even lodge complaints with the president of the Beijing organising committee, Liu Qi, as if that would solve any problems.
On the ground it is a different matter. Foreign media, including those that have paid billions of dollars for broadcast rights, have been battling with Chinese security officials for months to try to get decisions or clarity on multiple issues that compromise television coverage.
These include equipment stuck at the docks or in customs, delays or refusals to issue visas to journalists, the right for satellite trucks to move freely around the city - without multiple forms filled out beforehand for every possible stop - and the right to broadcast from sites such as Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City and the Great Wall.
Last week ZDF Television, a German rights holder, had its live transmission from the Great Wall - for which it had received approval - interrupted continually by local police.
And although some previously blocked websites, including Wikipedia and the BBC's news sites, are now accessible, internet censorship remains pervasive, and proxy servers, which enable those in China to evade the censors, are regularly detected and blocked.
The New York group Human Rights Watch said the Government's response of dismissing complaints about interference as inevitable glitches in a vast, politically decentralised country was only partly true.
Like other China-based foreign press, the Herald has had the central government, usually through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, intervene on its behalf when local officials refused to co-operate. But when the foreign media was under attack over alleged bias in its coverage of the Tibetan unrest, the ministry refused to investigate death threats against at least 10 foreign media members, despite a request from the Foreign Correspondents Club of China.
The foreign media bashing involved personal details of reporters being posted on domestic websites, prompting hundreds of phone, text and email threats to journalists, their Chinese staff and sometimes their families. Many were just insults, but a number were death threats.
The president of the Foreign Correspondents Club, Jonathan Watts, said the Government had yet to live up to its promise of complete reporting freedom and was giving mixed signals. He said the introduction of Olympic reporting regulations 18 months ago to allow foreign, but not domestic, reporters to travel freely and interview anyone who consents was a welcome improvement but implementation was patchy. The club has documented at least 259 cases of reporting interference since January 1 last year. Many more go unreported.
Some government officials continue blatantly to deny there are any travel restrictions on Tibet or Tibetan areas. Other officials use the euphemism that travel is permitted everywhere in "accordance with the regulations" - but the regulations ban you from travelling openly to Tibetan areas and Chinese citizens risk jail or worse for speaking to foreign reporters.
The other problem foreign media will have is that Beijing Olympic Broadcasting Co Ltd (BOB) is responsible on behalf of the Beijing organising committee for releasing footage of all aspects of the Games, except protests.
Depending on their budgets, Olympic rights holders can put their own cameras into venues but most of the world's media will rely on the footage BOB provides. Asked this year whether BOB would film and immediately release footage of disputes or protests, a senior executive told the Herald that "Beijing Olympic Broadcasting will do its best to avoid it". "Why would we [film and release protests]?" the executive said. "We are not a news organisation. We're there to film the event."
Chinese and foreigners in China hoping to rely on satellite coverage from foreign stations, such as CNN or the BBC - which are legally permitted to broadcast in housing compounds where foreigners live, upper-end hotels and other exempt areas - or stations such as the ABC's Australian network which is available on illegal - but so far tolerated - satellite, should note what appear to be increasing "signal" problems.
CNN and BBC reports on sensitive issues such as riots are regularly censored - the station signal is just stopped until the segment is finished. Western business residents in Beijing have also complained about an increase in dropout in mobile coverage within the city and delays in email and text transmissions.
The International Olympic Committee also seems reluctant at times to push China on the issue of media freedom. The IOC president, Jacques Rogge, said last week that journalists' fears of restrictions and censorship were unfounded.
"Never will the media have had so many possibilities as today," he said. Which is correct, but it is not the same as "complete media freedom", as in previous Olympics.
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Paul Signac (1863-1935) Neo-Impressionist painter
Paul Victor Jules Signac (11 November 1863 - 15 August 1935) was a French🎨 Neo-Impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the Pointillist style.
Paul Signac was born in Paris. He followed a course of training in architecture before deciding at the age of 18 to pursue a career as a painter after attending an exhibit of Monet's work.
He sailed around the coasts of Europe, painting the landscapes he encountered.
He also painted a series of watercolors of French harbor cities in later years.
In 1884 he met Claude Monet and Georges Seurat.
He was struck by the systematic working methods of Seurat and by his theory of colors and became Seurat's faithful supporter, friend and heir with his description of Neo-Impressionism and Divisionism method.
Under Seurat's influence he abandoned the short brushstrokes of Impressionism to experiment with scientifically juxtaposed small dots of pure color, intended to combine and blend not on the canvas but in the viewer's eye, the defining feature of Pointillism.
Many of Signac's paintings are of the French coast.
He loved to paint the water.
He left the capital each summer, to stay in the south of France in the village of Collioure or at St. Tropez, where he bought a house and invited his friends.
Paul Signac, Albert Dubois-Pillet, Odilon Redon and Georges Seurat were among the founders of the Société des Artistes Indépendants.
The association began in Paris 29 July 1884 with the organization of massive exhibitions, with the device "No jury nor awards" (Sans jury ni récompense).
"The purpose of Société des Artistes Indépendants - based on the principle of abolishing admission jury - is to allow the artists to present their works to public judgement with complete freedom".
For the following three decades their annual exhibitions set the trends in art of the early 20th century.
At the 1905 Salon des Indépendants, Henri Matisse exhibited the proto-Fauve painting Luxe, Calme et Volupté.
In the Divisionist technique and brightly colored, it was painted in 1904, after a summer spent working in St. Tropez on the French Riviera alongside the neo-Impressionist painters Paul Signac and Henri-Edmond Cross.
The painting is Matisse's most important work in which he used the Divisionist technique advocated by Signac, which Matisse had first adopted after reading Signac's essay, d'Eugène Delacroix au Néo-Impressionnisme in 1898.
Signac purchased the work after the 1905 Salon des Indépendants. In 1908 Signac was elected president of the 24th Salon des Indépendants.
In 1886 Signac met Vincent van Gogh in Paris.
In 1887 the two artists regularly went to Asnières-sur-Seine together, where they painted such subjects as river landscapes and cafés.
Initially, Van Gogh chiefly admired Signac's loose painting technique.
In March 1889, Signac visited Van Gogh at Arles.
The next year he made a short trip to Italy, seeing Genoa, Florence, and Naples.
In 1888, Signac discovered anarchist ideas by reading Elisee Reclus, Kropotkin and Jean Grave, who all developed the ideas of anarchist communism.
With his friends Angrand Cross, Maximilien Luce and Camille Pissarro he contributed to Jean Grave's paper Les Temps Nouveaux (New Times).
His financial support was considerable; he sent regular cheques and made a gift of his works for five lotteries between 1895-1912.
Signac's 1893 painting, In the Time of Harmony was originally titled In the Time of Anarchy but political repression targeting the anarchists in France at this time forced him to change it before the work could be accepted by a gallery.
Signac loved sailing and began to travel in 1892, sailing a small boat to almost all the ports of France, to the Netherlands, and around the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople, basing his boat at St. Tropez, which he "discovered".
From his various ports of call, Signac brought back vibrant, colorful watercolors, sketched rapidly from nature.
From these sketches, he painted large studio canvases that are carefully worked out in small, mosaic-like squares of color, quite different from the tiny, variegated dots previously used by Seurat.
Signac himself experimented with various media.
As well as oil paintings and watercolors he made etchings, lithographs, and many pen-and-ink sketches composed of small, laborious dots.
The Neo-Impressionists influenced the next generation: Signac inspired Henri Matisse and André Derain in particular, thus playing a decisive role in the evolution of Fauvism.
As president of the Société des Artistes Indépendants from 1908 until his death, Signac encouraged younger artists (he was the first to buy a painting by Matisse) by exhibiting the controversial works of the Fauves and the Cubists.
Signac served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal, a grant given between 1919-1954 to painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians. | © Wikipedia


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