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LME, Inc. was a  less than truckload (LTL) carrier located in Minnesota which served ten states in the Midwestern US. LME, Inc. was founded in the early 2010s as a successor to Lakeville Motor Express to take over Lakeville's non-union regional freight business when its owners split this segment from their unionized business The unionized business remained with Lakeville which became a cartage agent for LME.

Lakeville shut down operations in November 2016 and filed for bankruptcy protection in January 2017. LME shut down in July 2019.

Predecessor

Foundation
Lakeville Motor Express was founded in Roseville, Minnesota in 1921 by Vincent Wren. In 1979, Vincent handed management of the company to his oldest son, John, who later became full owner by buying out his two brothers. John continued to operate the company as a family business until the late 2000s.

Strategic networks
One key aspect of Lakeville's strategy in the late 1990s and early 2000s was a pair of interline relationships with other regional carriers.

In 1996, it formed "ExpressLink", a partnership with Estes Express Lines and TST Overland Express in which the three cooperated in transferring shipments between each of their areas of focus effectively extending each company's range. This remained in place for 12 years since for most of that time each carrier had a strong focus on specific regions: Lakeville in the Midwest US, Estes in the US South, East, and West, and TST in Canada. During this time, Lakeville's revenue grew from less than  to $115 million in 2008.

The agreement officially ended March 1, 2008, a move attributed to Estes' encroachment into Lakeville's territory. To replace ExpressLink, Lakeville worked with Averitt Express, a Southern and Southeastern US regional carrier, in 2007 to form an interline relationship which it called the "Reliance Network". When the new network began operations in 2008 it included 4 additional regional carriers, all of them non-union: Pitt Ohio Express in the Mid- and Central-Atlantic US, Canadian Freightways and Epic Express in Canada, DATS Trucking in the Western US, and Land Air Express in New England. By 2016 it included Kingsway, Mountain Valley Express, and Peninsula Truck Lines.

Late history

John Wren sold the business to Roger and Shari Wilsey in December 2009 with Roger becoming the company's CEO. Roger was a vice president at Lakeville and the Wilsey family had a 65 year history owning and operating Indianhead Truck Lines until its closure in 1997. At the time, Lakeville had approximately 500 employees, 1,000 tractors and trailers, and 34 terminals.

The Wilseys restructured Lakeville, separating the company's unionized and non-union business in the early 2010s. The non-union regional LTL business was moved to a new company, LME, Inc., which also absorbed Lakeville's truckload operations. Lakeville Motor Express continued to be based in Roseville and maintained the unionized business. It acted as a cartage agent for LME for the St. Paul area. From August 2015, Kevin Deming was president and sole owner of Lakeville Motor Express.

Lakeville shut down operations unexpectedly on November 19, 2016 and subsequently filed for bankruptcy protection on January 20, 2017. Lakeville's president, Deming, blamed the closure on "heavy financial losses" citing challenges in "handling business levels as required" and difficulties hiring drivers. In a November 19th letter to a local Teamster's Union leader, Deming said, "Lakeville is out of cash and has no reserves to pay any amounts owed to employees or vendors..."

LME

Foundation

LME, Inc. was founded in the early 2010s in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul suburb of New Brighton, Minnesota and absorbed the non-union business of its predecessor, Lakeville Motor Express, based in nearby Roseville.

When Lakeville ceased operating in November 2016, LME said that Lakeville's shutdown would not impact LME's operations.

Closure

On July 12, 2019, LME shut down, closing all of its approximately 30 locations in the Midwest. The shutdown occurred with short notice to employees, though the company said that some employees would remain to help redirect freight for delivery by alternative carriers. A Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry spokesperson said it would "assess the situation" given reports in local news outlets that some employees had not been paid.

Controversies

Lakeville Motor Express closure

Immediately following Lakeville's November 2016 closure, Union officials, who represented 95 Lakeville drivers and dockworkers, accused the company's ownership of redirecting freight to Finish Line Express, a carrier formed earlier in 2016 by a former Lakeville executive. Union leadership also criticized Lakeville for giving employees little to no notice of a possible shutdown especially in proximity to a holiday.

Following the shutdown, union workers who had been laid off from Lakeville filed complaints, along with the Teamsters, with the state of Minnesota and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleging unfair labor practices.

On January 26, 2017, the state of Minnesota sued Lakeville, LME, and Finish Line accusing the three companies of fraud, wage theft, and fraudulent transfer of assets from Lakeville to the other two companies. The suit claimed Lakeville's shut down had been a ruse manufactured as an excuse to lock out union workers and withhold back pay.

In March 2018, two additional suits were filed alleging violations of the company's bankruptcy and pension obligations. On March 15, a number of Teamsters pension funds sued Lakeville, LME, Finish Line, as well as Roger and Shari Wilsey. The suit alleged unpaid liabilities, which it claimed to be $90.1 million, toward a number of pension plans related through a collective bargaining agreement. On March 28, LME and Finish Line Express co-owner Roger Wilsey was sued by the trustee responsible for Lakeville's bankruptcy petition. According to the suit, Lakeville was not eligible for bankruptcy protection because of alleged "fraudulent transfer" of Lakeville assets to either LME or Wilsey. According to the trustee, the transfer had been a way to hide assets including $4.3 million in payments to LME. The suit also claimed that LME controlled or shared Lakeville's operations and many other functions through 2016.

The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry said in April, 2018 they had reached a tentative settlement agreement with LME for the department's case. Further details were withheld for 60 days since Lakeville and LME were still in talks to settle other cases. Also in April, the NLRB informed the Teamsters it had found enough cause for concern to open an investigation into the union's assertion that Lakeville had not actually shut down but had effectively switched to cheaper, non-union labor and continued operations as LME. The NLRB said it would attempt to settle with Lakeville to avoid going to trial.

In 2018, the NLRB found that the workers had been wrongly terminated in favor of cheaper, non-union labor with LME acting as the "alter ego" for Lakeville. The ruling concluded that the workers were entitled to $1.25 million in back pay. LME officials denied the allegations but were forced to began paying back pay in June 2019.

References

Companies based in Minnesota
Economy of the Midwestern United States
Trucking companies of the United States
1921 establishments in Minnesota
Transport companies established in 1921
Transportation companies based in Minnesota
Privately held companies of the United States


Those look like 18's to me.
my bad. I think my screen is too dark or something... they just looked a lil smaller. I love the look of your car. What springs you running? Also what tire did you use in the rear for those 18x10's? a 305 DR? post up some more pics if you got em!
Thanks man, 305 nitto rr2's outback. I'll have to take some more to post up. IM running steeda sport springs.
18x9f/18x10r Polished Bullits with 255/35/18 and 285/35/18 Toyo T1-s.
They look good, keep posting guys, this thread is awesome thanks to everyone!
Man, is this thread dyin or what? Keep posting pictures guys, this would make a very helpful sticky.
Car look great Mike. Did you lower your's more in the rear?
Those FR500's are BAD@$$ I wish i had the $$$$$$$$ for them.
I just put the MM control arms on it. I hope to build a good suspension on the car over the winter.
That car does look sweet! Nice Job!
Would anyone happen to have pictures of Anthracite FR500's on a black mustang. I really want these. I never really thought about them, but last night i had a dream that they were on my mach, and they looked SWEEEETTT!!!
Cant you just be a pal and do it? haha. i know that would be a pain in the @$$. i wouldnt do it.
By the way, are those 18X9's? what size and brand of tire do you have on them?
Best thread ever! Great looking cars guys.....I really want some wheels for my Azure but dont know which ones to get!!!
Mine are 9s&10s I will next big clean up. If you only knew what I have been through on wheels in the last few weeks.
Man i love those wheels!!!
If you don't mind me askin, how much did your rims run you? I've been wanting to get a set of those and paint the centers either dark charcoal or black. I like the lip on the torque thrusts much better than the bullits.
I love the original look with the larger wheels & rubber. Very nice setup there.


The British Aerosol Manufacturers' Association's (BAMA) 10th annual Forum and Awards Dinner will be held on the 17th and 18th October at the prestigious Oulton Hall Hotel, Leeds.
Entries for the 2018 Awards will close on August 31st.
The social highlight of the aerosol industry's calendar, the awards dinner itself will take place on Wednesday 17th October. Guest speakers include the broadcaster, writer and Church of England priest, Reverend Richard Coles.
Patrick Heskins, BAMA chief executive, said: "The BAMA Forum has always proved to be a thought provoking event and the Awards ceremony is the perfect opportunity to highlight many of the UK Industry's success stories to guests and BAMA members, sharing best practice and recognising innovative skills across the industry.
"There is still time to submit your entry and we would encourage all BAMA members to use this opportunity to showcase the skilled, innovative and varied work which characterises our industry.


You can enjoy this baked eggs recipe any time of the day, from breakfast right through to late at night. Use any mushrooms you wish – a selection is great – and serve with some good crusty bread to wipe up the juices.
2. Put a medium-large frying pan over high heat. Add the oil and when hot fry the mushrooms until they are golden. Season with salt and black pepper.
3. Add the butter and toss the mushrooms around in the pan for a few moments, then stir through the tarragon, vinegar and cheese. Cook for a couple of minutes, then crack the eggs on top of the mushrooms, season again and place under the grill. Cook for 3–4 minutes or until the eggs are cooked to your liking.
4. Serve straight away with the extra tarragon sprinkled over.
Marcus Wareing is one of the most respected and acclaimed chefs in Britain today. Owning three restaurants, two being two Michelin-starred Marcus has a long list of awards, including Restaurateur of the Year and Young Chef of the Year. Marcus is also a judge on of MasterChef: The Professionals, where he can showcase his tips and tricks to contestants and viewers. Marcus at Home focuses on great flavours and his recipes will become favorites in you home. It contains food you can make in a rush or when you want to create a showstopping meal.
Marcus at Home by Marcus Wareing is published by Harper Collins Publishers and available to buy on Amazon.


Thank you for your interest in volunteering with Volunteer Access Mental Health Visiting and Activity Program. Volunteering in health care is a privilege and serious commitment.
Please complete the following questions. Once we have received your inquiry survey, you will be considered for an interview where you will be asked to complete a full application and assessment process.
These requirements to volunteer support excellent health and care for clients in an Island Health location and provide you with the a good foundation for volunteering in health care.
We appreciate you taking the time to consider whether volunteering with Volunteer Access Mental Health Visiting and Activity Program is the right choice for you.
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The intake process takes six to eight weeks. Do you wish to continue with your application?
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About Us - The background that led to Hardy Tropicals, both the garden and the website.
Hi, let me introduce myself, I'm Dave Brown and live at Chalk, North Kent, on the Thames Estuary, 35 Miles East of London, England. I have been growing palms and exotics since the early 1970s, after being told by my father, "don't be silly, they won't Grow in England". That threw down the gauntlet. It has been a lifetime's work finding out what WILL grow, but I have ended up with a garden that amazes most visitors, looking like it has been moved from somewhere more exotic.
Many of the pictures on this website are of palms and exotics in my garden, so I think I can safely say I met the challenge of growing palm trees in England. I have many Palms, Bananas, Agaves, Cycads, and Cordylines which grow outside all year round, plus huge leaved Alocasia, Colocasia, Ensete and Cacti that are housed in an unheated conservatory during winter. My wife, Kim (Accounts), and Son, Aido (Webmaster) have set up Hardy Tropicals to advertise what can be grown in a cool temperate climate.
How did I get involved in exotic gardening back in the 1970s ?
Well, in 1970, at the age of 14, I went on my first foreign holiday, to Majorca in the Mediterranean. The land of the Palm trees. I was totally besotted by the tropical form of palms and wanted to grow them at home.
The holiday was in mid December so it was not a beach affair. It was warm enough to sit in the sun for a couple of hours a day, but it cooled off rapidly, and was cold overnight with frost. This was totally alien to what I had expected. I thought palm trees required heat, and there wasn't any! My thoughts were... If palms can stand frost in Majorca, why can't they stand it in England, and I couldn't see any reason why not. This was when my father told me not to be silly "Palm trees won't grow in England". Now having several palms himself, he has admitted he was mis informed.
July 1973 in Majorca finding out about Palms, and with hair!
When I returned home the hunt for palm trees started, but it was an uphill struggle as the nurseries all said we don't sell them, they don't grow in England. The closest I got was a yucca, which I was told was not hardy. Of course, it was.
From there things snowballed but the real big breakthrough was the emergence of the internet from about 1990 onward. Now it is clear that many more exotic plants are hardy in the UK.


Chris Davies Plumbing & Heating Services serves those living in Neath & Briton Ferry and the surrounding area, so please feel free to call them on 01792 410817 .
Please help support Chris Davies Plumbing & Heating Services and when you use their local service, let them know that you found them in Neath's 'Residents' Handbook'.
Chris Davies Plumbing & Heating Services provides a valuable service for Briton Ferry, Neath and the surrounding area and supports the local Residents' Handbook. Without their support the Handbook and this website could not exist.


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Okręg Moulins () – okręg w środkowej Francji. Populacja wynosi 106 tysięcy.

Podział administracyjny
W skład okręgu wchodzą następujące kantony:
 Bourbon-l'Archambault,
 Chantelle,
 Chevagnes,
 Dompierre-sur-Besbre,
 Lurcy-Lévis,
 Montet,
 Moulins-Ouest,
 Moulins-Sud,
 Neuilly-le-Réal,
 Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule,
 Souvigny,
 Yzeure.

Moulins
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Longtime readers of this column know that, in addition to clinical pearls, we may sometimes include clinical "bloopers." Bloopers are humorous grammar or spelling errors that occasionally occur in transcriptions. They also pop up at times when using voice-recognition or spelling-checker software. This month's column offers both laughs and learning--two bloopers and three clinical pearls. I hope you enjoy them!
Dr. Charles Hermes of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., is retired, but several years ago, he delivered a male infant with some minor genital issues. Eventually, he saw a note that documented that the little fellow had undergone an operation to correct an "undefended" left testicle. Dr. Hermes wondered what type of operation was required.
Jennifer Hepp, D.O., of Littleton, Colo., uses an electronic medical records system. She tried to document the fact that her patient had been "counseled regarding osteopenia," but the system typed out that her patient had been, "counseled regarding osteopenis." I don't think I'll comment on this one!
Dr. Bruce L Hilger of Marysville, Calif,, sent us a pearl on vaginal hysterectomy that we published about 4 years ago. Now, he has come up with something I've never heard of before. He has been in practice for about 40 years and has a vast amount of experience using pessaries for relief of pelvic organ prolapse. He recently had several ring pessary failures and that gave him the interesting idea of putting in two pessaries. He chooses the ring size that is the best fit for the patient and then uses one size smaller to be the bottom of the pair. Dr. Hilger says these elderly patients are happy with the "stack pack" and none have had to go to surgery. Has anyone else ever heard of this?
Dr. Michael J. Wolpmann of Venice, Fla., has a trick that he "learned through exasperation." When performing laparoscopic surgery and using an endoscopic bag for specimen retrieval, he occasionally experienced equipment failure, that is, the bag is inserted through the port but will not unfold, no matter what you try. To avoid removing and ruining the expensive bag device and starting over, he devised a true "solution." Next time this happens to you, grab your suction irrigator and fill the bag with saline, which will expand it nicely. Then suction the saline out of the bag and use it as intended.
Dr. Mark P. Trolice of Winter Park, Fla., is a reproductive endocrinologist who has performed many office hysteroscopies with a 2- to 3-mm diameter flexible tip. When a woman has a parous cervix, distension of the uterine cavity becomes challenging because of leakage at the os. His pearl is to place a ring forceps vertically across the external os and gently squeeze as the scope is intrauterine. Distension improves, allowing adequate visualization. Mark also recommends that a hys-teroscopy should be performed during cycle days 6-12 when the endometrium is more optimal or anytime if your patient is on oral contraceptives.
BY BRUCE L. FLAMM, M. D.
Dr. Flamm is clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California, Irvine, and a practicing ob.gyn. at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Riverside, Calif.
Insured patients get earlier cancer diagnoses.
Age, comorbidity predict use of pessaries beyond 1 year: pelvic organ prolapse.
The silicone ring pessary called most useful for majority of women with vaginal prolapse.
Ring pessary preferred for prolapse.
Not so thrilled with this Lindsay horror; DVD.
Pessary use improves sexual function in pelvic organ prolapse.
Tips for the office and operating room.
Bloopers, buttons, cubes, and tubes.


30th Birthday Party Photo Booth Props Our 30th birthday photo booth kit is a great way to celebrate in style and create memorable photos with family and friends! The kit contains lots of fun different props, which include a hat, spotty bow tie, '30' and lots more! 10 photo booth props per pack.
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In 2003, Tenaglia co-founded Zero Point Zero Production with producing partner Chris Collins. Together they created and continue to Executive Produce the Peabody and Emmy Award winning series Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown for CNN and have since grown ZPZ to a 150+ person company producing hundreds of episodes of television across numerous series, including the Emmy Award winning Mind of A Chef, Emmy nominated The Hunt with John Walsh, and critically acclaimed, award winning Meateater with Steven Rinella.
Along with partners Collins and Joe Caterini, Tenaglia oversees all creative development for ZPZ and has Executive Produced content for Netflix, CNN, Discovery, PBS, SyFy, Spike, Esquire, Travel and A+E Networks and for brands such as MasterCard, Breville, Sonos and Yeti. In 2016 Tenaglia directed the feature documentary Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was picked up for theatrical distribution by The Orchard. In 2017 Tenaglia produced the feature documentary Wasted! The Story of Food Waste, which also premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was picked up for theatrical distribution by NEON Super LTD.


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Ruční papírna Papyrea je malá rodinná manufaktura v obci Zdislava. Název papírny je odvozen od latinského jména papírnické moruše (Broussonetia papyrifera). Právě lýko z moruše je hlavní surovinou při výrobě japonského washi papíru. Vyrábí zde ruční papír, pořádají se víkendové kurzy, přednášky.

Papírna ukazuje celý proces výroby, od sazenic morušovníku, přes stříhání, loupání, čištění, vaření, bití vláken, až po finální ponoření síta do kádě, lisování a sušení.

Externí odkazy
 http://www.papyrea.cz
 http://liberecky.denik.cz/zpravy_region/unikat-ve-zdislave-vznika-japonsky-rucni-papir-20130810.html
 http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/regiony/zpravy/papirna-na-liberecku-chce-lakat-turisty-na-japonsky-rucni-papir/972293
 http://www.toulavakamera.cz/article.asp?id=4304

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LANSING, Mich. – Following a two-game road trip, which saw the team claim its first victory in club history on March 30, Lansing Ignite FC will kick off against the Richmond Kickers in their first game at Cooley Law School Stadium in downtown Lansing (BUY TICKETS).
LIFC earned its first victory against the Kickers in Week 1 of the League One regular season and will be looking to defeat them a second time after securing the 3-2 result in Virginia.
The celebration of soccer in the Michigan capital will continue three days later, when LIFC faces off against the Michigan State Spartans in the Capital Cup (BUY TICKETS), presented by Sparrow.
Visit one of our Official Pub Partners to watch the match.
"We've been together now since mid-February, and this date has been building, so it's a great privilege for us to do this - professional soccer in Michigan for the first time in a long time," LIFC Head Coach Nate Miller said. "It's a huge opportunity and responsibility that our team carries, and we're ready for the challenge. The team has been preparing extremely well and is extremely excited for it."
Now in their 27th year of existence, the Richmond Kickers compete at City Stadium, a venue the club has played at since 1995. The team has garnered numerous accomplishments over the years, including winning the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup in 1995 and most recently finishing first in the 2013 USL Championship regular season. The club is led by Chairman Robert Ukrop, and the team is coached by former player David Bulow.
LIFC is 1-1-0 in the USL League One regular season, defeating the Richmond Kickers 3-2 on March 30 before falling 2-1 to Greenville Triumph SC on April 6.
Tumi Moshobane scored the first goal in club history against the Kickers on March 30. Xavier Gomez and Kevin Coiffic scored the second and third goals, respectively, in the team's first victory. Ricky Lopez-Espin scored the only LIFC goal in the team's game against Greenville on April 6.
Tumi Moshobane, Richi Perez and Ricky Lopez-Espin are suspended from Saturday's match.
Following their strong performances against Richmond on March 30, Xavier Gomez and Grant Stoneman were named to the USL League One Team of the Week for Week 1.
Richmond is 0-1-1 this season after falling 3-2 to LIFC on March 30 and tying South Georgia Tormenta FC 0-0 on April 6.


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Madonna Dedicates Song to "Malala," the Pakistani Teen Shot by Taliban Gunmen
Singer gives onstage shout-out to education-activist who was injured while returning home from school.
By Colin Bertram
Madonna performing during her "MDNA Tour."
Controversy and Madonna often go hand in hand. And when the material mom brought her "MDNA Tour" to Los Angeles Wednesday night, it was business as usual.
"This made me cry," Madonna said to the 18,000 fans in attendance, "The 14-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot on a school bus for writing a blog ... who wrote a blog about how important education was to her. The Taliban stopped her bus and shot her ... Do you understand the sickness and absurdity of this?"
The multi-hyphenate entertainer was talking about Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old who was shot by the Taliban on her way home from school in Mingora, Pakistan, this week. Yousafzai drew the ire of the Taliban for defending her right to an education. The outspoken teen had carried out her campaign since the age of 11 through an online diary she wrote for the BBC.
"Support education! Support the people who support women!" Madonna went on to shout to the appreciative crowd Wednesday.
Star Power: Celebrities on Team Romney
To emphasize her point later in the show, the "Vogue" superstar stripped to her bra and rolled down her trousers to reveal the word "Malala" scrawled across the small of her back.
"This song is for Malala," she said, before launching into a performance of her hit song, "Human Nature."
News of the display drew disapproval from Pakistan, where some took to Twitter to have their say: "Get it Right: Associating #Madonna with #Malala IS DISRESPECT TO #Malala!!! Plz. Give #Malala a rest!" wrote @OHPakistan to NBC News' Amna Nawaz on Friday.
Star Power: Celebrities on Team Obama
Others closer to home tweeted their support for her actions. "Maybe was not perfect by #MADONNA to paint #Malala name on back in concert But she is VERY powerful influencer idol Gives boost to topic," wrote @mabogsi.
Yousafzai is not the only subject Madonna has drawn attention to during her tour. While onstage in Moscow she made an impassioned plea for the release of jailed Russian punk band Pussy Riot.
The act of violence against her has turned Yousafzai into an international icon for girls' rights, an icon simply referred to as "Malala" on social networking platforms and on activist placards in Pakistan.
According to the Atlantic, some of those concerned activists have forwarded media reports saying that Yousafzai was transferred to a hospital in Rawalpindi after surgeons removed a bullet that passed through her head and lodged in her shoulder. Relatives of the girl said she appeared to be doing well after the three-hour operation, reported The Sydney Morning Herald.

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Philippines is on sale once again as PHILTOA (Philippine Tour Operators Association) opens the biggest travel sale in our country, the 24th Philippine Travel Mart: Sale ng Bayan Part 3.
It will be held on September 6-8, 2013 at SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay City.
Grab this opportunity to book and buy cheap tours and packages, cheap flights, hotel and hostels reservations, cheap car rentals, transfers, travel insurance, and more!
PHILTOA is the main proponent behind the Philippine Travel Mart (PTM), the exposition running for 24 years now that promotes nationwide tourism destinations, products and services.
So what are you waiting for? Block your schedules and get ready to check the colorful booths and pavilions from the 350 exhibitors.
Wow! This s a great, great news for anyone who loves to travel and explore the beauty of the Philippines. This is what everybody awaits, cheap tour packages, cheap flights and hotel reservations. Thanks for the information!
Wow! my favorite season of the year. I love Filipino festivities. The feeling of fun and adventure with your whole family is priceless. Plus you get to appreciate Filipino culture.


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Richard Powers on the Standing of Trees
March 2/9, 2020, Issue
The author of The Overstory hikes through the Great Smoky Mountains and discusses giving personhood to nonhumans.
By Zoë CarpenterTwitter
Richard Powers, author of The Overstory at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in 2018. (David Levenson / Getty Images)
"Wow! Look at that!" Richard Powers exclaims, pointing to a tree rising from the slope above us. Branches arch outward from its stout trunk, bark marbled in a greenish cast. The tree, which he identifies as a tulip poplar, looms over the slender young beeches that surround it. "That's 20 feet at breast height in circumference," he continues, amazed.
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Powers, a novelist, has spent the last eight years studying and thinking about trees, an obsession that resulted in his 2018 novel The Overstory. The book—his 12th—is an expansive allegory about the relationships between trees and humans. The story weaves botany and dendrology together with mythology and the history of the timber wars of the 1990s, when logging interests and environmentalists on the West Coast of the United States fought sometimes violent battles over forests slated for harvesting.
The Overstory won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It also reconfigured Powers's life, uprooting him from Silicon Valley, where he lived when the book began to take shape. Up in the Santa Cruz Mountains, he encountered a patch of uncut primary redwood forest, which got him thinking about how changed most other forests are by human appetite. That feeling was accentuated by a brief research trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which still contains pockets of virgin forest. He says he thought he knew what an eastern forest looked like, but in the Smokies he realized he'd had no idea. Almost a year later he decided to move to the park's Tennessee foothills, where he lives today. When I asked him if he'd join The Nation for a drink, he suggested we meet for a walk in his adopted habitat.
Although Powers has lived in Tennessee for four years now, he still considers himself a "beginner" in the Smokies. He says he hopes to walk all of the park's trails eventually. "Not in an imperialist, colonialist, toxic masculine mode," he clarifies, laughing a bit, "but in an exploratory, humbled, and attentive mode." The trail we're walking today, which follows a creek at the park's northeastern edge, is new to him. Powers—tall, slender, wearing two long-sleeve T-shirts and round glasses—speaks in deliberate, full paragraphs and walks at a mellow pace, stopping often to marvel or puzzle over something growing or rotting along the way.
The first lesson he offers is that sometimes the best way to figure out what's growing around you is to look down. Studying the leaves and needles and seedpods beneath our feet, he does a quick accounting: "There's tulip poplar seeds, eastern white pine, hemlock, maples, oaks. Basically you could make a one-meter square here and get 15 species of trees." He points out three kinds of pine cone, the longest spanning my palm, the smallest the size of my fingernail.
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"If you can't read a forest, it's a blur. You're just looking at a lot of green things," Powers says. But knowing too much can be its own kind of blindfold. "Your expectations can start to impede your ability to observe and to be present…. If you know what a hickory looks like and you walk by and you say, 'That's shagbark hickory,' and you're not present to it, you could miss something incredibly interesting about that particular shagbark hickory. It's important to have sufficient expectation to make yourself present to something but not so much expectation that you blind yourself to what's actually there."
The Overstory is Powers's attempt to get people to really see the forest, as well as how much is at stake as we destroy it. The book hums with tension between wonder at the complexity and splendor of the natural world and anguish for its destruction. It begins with a gutting account of the blight that wiped out the American chestnut across the Northeast in the early 20th century; later come fresh stumps oozing resin in a beloved city park and clear-cuts that look from above "like the shaved flank of a sick beast being readied for surgery." Yet awe remains, in a solitary chestnut that survives the blight on a Midwestern farm or high up in the branches of Mimas, an ancient redwood where two of Powers's characters spend a year, hoping to save it from the chain saw, or in an area of temperate rain forest in the western Cascades, thick with "the sheer mass of ever-dying life," where a scientist makes discoveries that scramble the distinction between the human and nonhuman. "We found that trees could communicate, over the air and through their roots," she explains. "That trees feed their young and synchronize their masts and bank resources and warn kin and send out signals to wasps to come and save them from attacks."
Powers describes The Overstory as an experiment in attempting "to grant personhood, to grant character status, to grant subjectivity to the nonhuman." While the book features plenty of human characters—including a gifted paralyzed computer coder, a psychology student studying environmental activists, a patent lawyer who spends most of his life defending private property, and a Vietnam veteran eking out a living by replanting clear-cut hillsides—all of them have relationships with distinct trees, which Powers treats as characters in their own right. (As for his favorite tree, he says he's particularly fond of the pawpaw, an understory tree with a purple flower, leaves "like a 1970s necktie," and fruit that tastes like butterscotch pudding.)
His interest in endowing nonhuman beings with agency was inspired by the 1972 article "Should Trees Have Standing?" by University of Southern California law professor Christopher Stone, which advanced an argument for giving legal rights to the environment. "The history of civilization can in some ways be seen as the gradual expansion of who gets to be a person," Powers says as we walk up the trail. "Why stop with 23 chromosomes?" The light around us dims as we enter a tunnel of rhododendrons. "We grant personhood to companies…so why shouldn't we be able to bring out a lawsuit on behalf of a river or a mountain or an ecosystem or a stand of trees?"
Beside the trail we see trees with roots like pillars, straddling the space left by logs that once provided nutrients and have since rotted clean away. Recalling dinner parties in Silicon Valley at which guests would discuss the possibility of the end of death, Powers points out that there are bristlecone pines that have been alive for 5,000 years and clonal colonies of aspens whose root systems are tens of thousands of years old. Developing "plant consciousness," as he puts it, is a way to recognize that humans are not separate from this enduring system and its immense, cyclical timescale. "You kind of get less anxious about your own mortality," he says.
We're coming back down the trail now, out of the rhododendron tunnel and into the thin January sun. Powers picks up a seedpod from a sweet gum tree, a pocked globe sprouting spikes. "How does that shape come into being?" he asks, holding it in his palm. "Look at how byzantine it is, how complicated. Isn't that great?" A few minutes later we encounter the massive tulip poplar, which we overlooked on the walk uphill. He radiates quiet pleasure at the sight of it. "That's some tree," he says. "Wow. I am very happy."
I ask Powers how he sustains that joy in the face of constant reminders of degradation—the cotton-white clusters he points out on the underside of hemlock needles, egg sacs from a pest that is killing old trees in the park; the fact that many streams in the Smokies are still poisoned by acid rain; the uncanny warmth. "That's the question," he responds. "Not only how does a person who feels that alternate kind of joy and that alternate kind of pleasure and excitement sustain it in the face of a human exceptionalist, individualist, capitalist commodity culture but how do you communicate it to a person who doesn't yet feel it? And then the grand prize, how do you reach a critical threshold where sufficient people in the culture feel it and are therefore willing to change the infrastructure of society?"
How to upend conventional modes of thinking and behaving is a question that The Overstory asks without fully answering. "I hate activists," the book's psychology student says at one point. "Anyone who gets righteous…doesn't understand." But by the end, he has joined their ranks, at great personal cost. When I ask Powers if the research for the book radicalized him, he says, "It certainly made me more capable of empathizing with people who were going over lines that I would have been uncomfortable crossing at the time." In the timber wars he saw a precursor to our current politics, its rigidity and "violent undertones." "Let's say that we actually took into our heads and our hearts the idea that the interconnected living world is coming apart because of our actions and we do not have a lot of time. And let's say that the system of property and rights and privileges does not budge. What can and can't you identify with in terms of [the actions of] people who would like to have a future? That's the question of the book, really, in miniature, and the question that we're all facing right now."
At the end of the trail, we sit on a moss-furred rock and drink tea from a thermos. Powers is already working on his next book, which will expand on the preoccupations of The Overstory.
Each of Powers's previous novels emerged from a specific fascination—with music, artificial intelligence, sandhill cranes—that he felt he'd satisfied by the time he finished writing. Trees are different: They still have a hold on him. "Once you catch the bug," he says, "you don't lose it."
Zoë CarpenterTwitterZoë Carpenter is a contributing writer for The Nation.


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China's coal demand to peak around 2025, global usage to follow: report
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's coal demand will start to fall in 2025 once consumption at utilities and other industrial sectors reaches its peak, a state-owned think tank said in a new report, easing pressure on Beijing to impose tougher curbs on fossil fuels.
Cranes unload coal from a cargo ship at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China December 8, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer
The world's biggest coal consumer is expected to see total consumption fall 18% from 2018 to 2035, and by 39% from 2018 to 2050, the CNPC Economics and Technology Research Institute, run by the state-owned China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), forecast in a report on Thursday.
Cutting coal consumption and replacing it with cleaner energy like natural gas and renewables has been a key part of China's energy strategy, but it has continued to approve new mines and coal-fired power plants and support new projects overseas.
Though the share of coal in the country's total energy mix fell to 59% last year from 68.5% in 2012, overall consumption in 2018 rose 3% from a year earlier to 3.82 billion tonnes, official data showed.
However, the CNPC researchers said they expected the total share of coal to drop to 40.5% by 2035 as renewable, nuclear and natural gas capacity continues to increase rapidly.
"With coal demand in China falling gradually, world coal consumption is forecast to reach a peak within 10 years. Meanwhile, China's coal demand, currently accounting for half of the world's total, will decline to around 35% by 2050," the report said.
Li Ruifeng, vice director of the China Energy Technology and Economics Research Institute, a think tank run by the China Energy Group, China's biggest coal producer, said coal would remain China's major fuel over the next 15 years, with smaller mines replaced by bigger and more efficient collieries in the west.
That would force utilities on China's east coast to turn to foreign markets to guarantee supplies, with imports set to remain at around 200 million tonnes per year in the coming years "if there is no significant trade barrier", he said.
China, the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, has promised to show "the highest possible ambition" when it renews its climate pledges next year, and its energy policies have come under increasing scrutiny ahead of a major United Nations climate change conference in New York in September.
Though it is unclear what new pledges Beijing will make, special climate envoy Luis de Alba told Reuters on Tuesday that the UN had received positive responses from China and India when it comes to ending investment in coal at home and in the "Belt and Road" region.
"Certainly there is a transition that needs to be taken into account. But the message (on coal) itself was clear and well received," he said.
Reporting by Muyu Xu and David Stanway, additional reporting by Valerie Volcovici in WASHINGTON


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Listrac-Médoc (; ) is a commune in the Gironde department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France.

Geography
The commune is situated in the Médoc on the Route nationale 215, between Bordeaux and Le Verdon-sur-Mer.

Population

Wine
Lying  northwest of the city of Bordeaux, the village is best known as one of the six appellations of the great wine-growing regions of the Médoc. In a region where a mere  can be the difference between a great wine and an average one, its distance from the beneficial effect of the Garonne means that its wines are not as highly rated as those of the other appellations. Nonetheless it is home to many vineyards whose blends of cabernet sauvignon, merlot and cabernet franc can age over a long period.

See also
Communes of the Gironde department

References

External links

 Listrac-Médoc on the site of Insee

Communes of Gironde


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Attempts at doping indium in MgB2
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Department of Energy Conversion and Storage
Indium (In) doped MgB2 polycrystalline samples were prepared by solid-liquid phase reaction in Ar. After reaction at 800 °C, less than 1 at.% Mg was replaced by In in the MgB2 phase, without significant influence on its lattice parameters and only a slight decrease of its superconducting transition temperature. For all studied In concentrations in the nominal composition, the formation of InMg was evidenced by X-ray diffraction. The critical current density and accommodation field of the wires are decreased in the samples containing In. The flux pinning mechanism can be described by surface pinning in both the doped and undoped samples.
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Q: How to convert a specific string to DateTime? I have a string in this format:
Tuesday, Sep 01, 2020 04:15
Thursday, Aug 27, 2020 03:56
Friday, Aug 28, 2020 07:30
Tuesday, Aug 04, 2020 08:00

[Route("/test")]
public async void TestParseTime()
{
    string pattern = "dddd, MMM dd, YYYY HH:MM";
    string newsTimeString = "Thursday, Aug 27, 2020 03:56";
    DateTime newsTime = DateTime.ParseExact(newsTimeString, pattern, null);
    Console.WriteLine("newsTime = " + newsTime);
}

But the parsing of the string to datetime fails with the following exception:

How to convert it to a DateTime in C#?

A: I would suggest to use the powerfull Convert.ToDateTime method and simply feed the input in there:
string newsTimeString = "Thursday, Aug 27, 2020 03:56";
DateTime newsTime = Convert.ToDateTime(newsTimeString);
Console.WriteLine("newsTime = " + newsTime);

Output:

newsTime = 27.08.2020 03:56:00

Actually the "Thursday" string is superfluous information for the DateTime object. Because it will know the day of week from the calendar. You can print it via the property:
Console.WriteLine("Day = " + newsTime.DayOfWeek);

Output:

Day = Thursday

EDIT:
Apparently: "Convert.ToDateTime is just a call to DateTime.Parse" (comment by Panagiotis Kanavos) So in this case you can also use:
DateTime newsTime = DateTime.Parse(newsTimeString);

and get the same result, without specifying any format.
Disclaimer:
From the Remarks section of the documentation:

"If value is not null, the return value is the result of invoking the DateTime.Parse method on value using the formatting information in a DateTimeFormatInfo object that is initialized for the current culture." -

A: Your pattern is incorrect. patterns are case-sensitive. Use this pattern instead:
dddd, MMM dd, yyyy hh:mm
string pattern = "dddd, MMM dd, yyyy hh:mm";
Console.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToString(pattern));

string newsTimeString = "Thursday, Aug 27, 2020 03:56";
DateTime newsTime = DateTime.ParseExact(newsTimeString, pattern, null);
Console.WriteLine("newsTime = " + newsTime);

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NDP calling on government to address short-staffing concerns in healthcare
The NDP was joined at the Legislature today by Brooke Ofstie, whose family members suffered firsthand the consequences of short-staffing in health, to call on the government to provide proper funding for frontline healthcare.
"Short staffing levels continue to plague the province's emergency rooms and health care centres," said NDP Health Critic Vicki Mowat. "While they're gearing up to celebrate a so-called 'return to balance,' we're seeing in stories like Brooke's just who is paying the price for their cuts. We need to see action to ensure staffing levels are at a place where every patient receives the care they need, and workers aren't stretched to the breaking point."
NDP calls on Sask. Party to live up to their promise to properly fund long-term care
Rose Botting knows first-hand the damage that underfunded and short-staffed long-term care can cause to a family. Her mother Frances Sander died just days after moving into the Rose Villa long-term care home in Rosetown. Today at the Legislature, Botting joined NDP Seniors Critic Danielle Chartier to share her experience and her concerns.
"The Sask. Party committed in 2016 to using $7.5 million in savings from reduced administrative positions and costs in Regional Health Authorities to fund long-term care, but they have so far failed to do so," Chartier said. "That's not fair to families throughout the province whose loved ones aren't getting the care they need."
NDP accuses province of balancing its own books at the expense of municipalities and municipal ratepayers
The Saskatchewan NDP raises the alarm today over the growing amount owed in municipal property tax arrears as a result of the province offloading expenses onto municipalities and driving up costs by expanding PST to construction labour. Over the past four years, the amount owed to Saskatchewan municipalities in unpaid property taxes climbed 12 per cent in Prince Albert, 85 per cent in Saskatoon, 112 per cent in Moose Jaw, and 145 per cent in Regina.
"People across the province are unable to balance their budgets and are falling behind on their property taxes because of all the expenses this government has offloaded onto municipalities," said NDP Leader Ryan Meili. "Now people are supposed to cheer because they achieved 'balance' at the expense of people and municipalities? That's bad policy, and it hurts people."
NDP raises concern over lack of transparency with irrigation districts
Today, Agriculture Critic Yens Pedersen raised concerns on behalf of farmers in Saskatchewan irrigation districts who feel bullied by the provincial government. The Sask. Party government is insisting on non-disclosure clauses in connection with its privatization of hundreds of millions of dollars of public irrigation assets.
"Members of irrigation districts are frustrated that they can't discuss these details without jeopardizing their funding because of government-enforced gag orders," said Pedersen. "If the Sask. Party government doesn't want to look like they're hiding something, they're doing a poor job of it."
NDP call for deeper dive into Sask. Party Minister's Pinehouse dealings
Given the government's delayed response to concerns around the Village of Pinehouse, and the then-Minister of Government Relations' personal relationship with members of village council, the NDP is calling on the Conflict of Interest Commissioner to take another look into the Minister's acceptance of gifts from Pinehouse officials.
Advocates join NDP in calling for universal drug coverage
Today, health professionals joined NDP Leader Ryan Meili in calling on the Sask. Party government to support universal drug coverage for Canadians. The federal government is currently formulating a course of action, but the Sask. Party has not thrown its support behind this important initiative.
"Canada is the only country with universal health insurance that doesn't have universal drug coverage," said Meili. "This gap does an incredible amount of damage, especially for lower income households struggling to make ends meet. When people are forced to choose between paying their power bill or buying their medication, that's not right. So why has Scott Moe so far failed to stand up for universal drug coverage for Saskatchewan?"


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Comparing Senior Communities – Ease the Frustration
James and Sarah came to us for help regarding her Mom's estate plans. In their case the solutions were relatively simple. What wasn't simple, however, was comparing senior communities for her mom. As they shared their story, it was clear that they were worn out, at the end of their rope. After visiting 15 communities, they were still stymied.
The number of senior communities in St. Louis has increased dramatically in the last three years. In one sense, it serves our region well to have more choices. Making a good choice, however, isn't so simple. Trying to make straight-up comparisons is a little mind-numbing, especially with the added dimension of memory care, with its various complexities in treatment.
The Easy Part of Comparing Senior Communities
Some aspects of choosing a senior community are straightforward, like verifying their credentials. Are they licensed by the State of Missouri? If they are not currently licensed, that's a clue to drop them from your list.
The State of Missouri issues licenses to qualified Senior Communities. The Department of Health and Senior Services has a division called the "Section for Long-Term Care Regulation." That section of the DHSS is responsible for inspecting communities (they use the term "facilities") and issuing licenses.
This page on the state's website offers links to show lists of licensed communities, either by City, County, or Region. At the time of this writing, the lists appears to have been last updated on July 3, 2018.
If memory care is not an issue, the search is simply a matter of price, location, availability, and other preferences. Carefully consider the preferences of the person living in the community, not just the convenience of visiting them. Do they like what they see? Will other community residents have similar interests and socioeconomic backgrounds? Finally, assess the chemistry you have with the staff at each community you visit. These are important issues, but not terribly difficult to work through.
Comparing Senior Communities – The Memory Care Component Adds Complexity
Has your family member been diagnosed with a cognitive impairment? Choosing a community will be a lot more complex, for several reasons. Here are a few things you should know.
Others get involved in the decisions. Once a diagnosis of cognitive impairment has been made, doctors and community staff members get involved, deciding the appropriate level of care required. In some cases, a loved one is assigned to a higher level of care. It might be sooner than the family would otherwise choose.
Cognitive impairment shows up and progresses in a variety of ways. Several diseases cover the cognitive impairment spectrum. Dementia and its related diseases, traumatic brain injury, and a host of other issues manifest and progress in different ways. They all require different kinds of care.
Communities Handle Treatment Differently. Even the very best have their limitations. They have different emphases and philosophies that influence their approach to treatment. You're more likely to make the best choice when you know how to match your loved one's individual situation with the capabilities of the community.
Consider the Pathway to Safety. What happens in the event of a fire, flood, earthquake, or tornado? How will your loved one make it to safety? What kind of help will they need? Well-lit exit signs aren't enough. What about help with doors, wheelchairs, and personal assistance working through the fog of confusion? Verify that the community you're considering is fully prepared with the plans and means to keep them safe.
Get Help Choosing a Senior Community in St. Louis
Knowing these few points is helpful. But making a choice among the many senior communities here in the St. Louis area might still be overwhelming. You don't have to do all the research on your own. Consider these options.
The Voyce Directory: Voyce offers a Consumer Resource Directory for a small fee. Learn more here.
Seniors' Resource Guide: These are available in hundreds of local retailers including all the major grocery chains or online at www.stlouistimes.com
Senior Living Guides: These are published for St. Charles County & West St. Louis County. Several thousand guides are printed every year, They can be fund at local area shops, restaurants, doctor's offices and businesses throughout the year, while supplies last.
Elder Care Advisors: Comparing senior communities is a daunting task. Quinn Estate & Elder Law offers Elder Care Advisors as a great resource for you. When you have questions or need direction, call Deirdre at 636-443-3022 or email her at deirdre@eldercareadvisors.org
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Probably the most controversial claim in my work with John Mearsheimer on the Israel lobby is our argument that it played a key role in the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. Even some readers who were generally sympathetic to our overall position found that claim hard to accept, and some left-wing critics accused us of letting Bush and Cheney off the hook or of ignoring the importance of other interests, especially oil. Of course, Israel's defenders in the lobby took issue even more strenuously, usually by mischaracterizing our arguments and ignoring most (if not all) of the evidence we presented.
Blair's comments fit neatly with the argument we make about the lobby and Iraq. Specifically, Professor Mearsheimer and I made it clear in our article and especially in our book that the idea of invading Iraq originated in the United States with the neoconservatives, and not with the Israeli government. But as the neoconservative pundit Max Boot once put it, steadfast support for Israel is "a key tenet of neoconservatism." Prominent neo-conservatives occupied important positions in the Bush administration, and in the aftermath of 9/11, they played a major role in persuading Bush and Cheney to back a war against Iraq, which they had been advocating since the late 1990s. We also pointed out that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and other Israeli officials were initially skeptical of this scheme, because they wanted the U.S. to focus on Iran, not Iraq. However, they became enthusiastic supporters of the idea of invading Iraq once the Bush administration made it clear to them that Iraq was just the first step in a broader campaign of "regional transformation" that would eventually include Iran.
"As I recall...I think, in fact, I remember, actually, there may have been conversations that we had even with Israelis..."
Blair is sending signals a mile wide to Anglo-American liberal-fascist ideological Zionist elements, the Israel lobby, and their controlled mainstream media in response to the increasing demands in Britain that he be tried for war crimes: get on board my defense, or my testimony can bring down the entire corrupt house of cards.
Blair is also a talented politician and clever manipulator able to detect which way the political wind is blowing, or likely to be blowing soon, and the wind is most definitely shifting in an anti-Zionist direction. So he may also be sending signals to the anti-Zionist ranks: I'm willing to cut a deal in which I will implicate the Israelis in the criminal Iraq war enterprise in exchange for immunity or leniency.
It's really only a matter of time before George W. Bush is in Blair's shoes, as well. And he'll probably eventually role over on or attempt to extort the Zionists, just as Blair is in the process of doing today. This is how snakes behave, by their nature. They really all deserve one another.
Chris, great analysis. Not many have made this point. Blair uses the Clinton scheme of triangulation. Blair seems to be throwing some meat to the public, as a warning sign to the Zionists.
I would think they will bend over backwards for him at this point. They don't need a domino effect occurring throughout the world at this time.
Any idea why Blair became a Catholic recently?


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Amy Coney Barrett, my abortion, and the right to choose
She sits in judgment on the Supreme Court weighing cases involving reproductive rights and the lives of all women. Her track record doesn't look good for people who support choice.
By Mary Ann D'Urso Contributor,Updated October 30, 2020, 1:36 p.m.
Barrett was barely born when Roe v. Wade passed in 1973, much less experiencing the cultural atmosphere of the country in its aftermath.Samuel Corum/NYT
I had this nurse named Muriel. The kind of face people would describe as handsome. Smooth skin with a trace of blush. Smoky brown eyes. When she laughed, you could see almost all of her teeth. Salt and pepper hair with soft curls that fell around her shoulders. She got the IV line going, ready to switch to a line of insulin or glucose, depending on my blood sugar level.
Rolling down the hallway on a gurney, I grabbed her hand. She clutched my fingers and didn't let go until we got to the elevator. See you soon, she said. We'll have some hot food waiting for you.
It was 1985, I was 24. I had the legal right to terminate the pregnancy. Roe v. Wade was passed in 1973, a year after Amy Coney Barrett was born. Now she sits in judgment on the Supreme Court, weighing cases involving reproductive rights and the lives of all women. Her track record doesn't look good for people who support choice, and access to legal and easily accessible doctors and facilities.
The moral question for me wasn't whether this was life. Raised Catholic, in my core I knew I was carrying life. The moral question was, did I want to be a single mother and could I, at 24, take care of a baby?
At the time, there wasn't anyone in my immediate New York circle of white professional women who hadn't had an abortion. The sisterhood was extraordinary, supportive. It was an older female reporter friend, a mother of two adult daughters, who put me up in her house, which was near the hospital. It was a close single girlfriend from Manhattan who took the train and would go with me.
Our feelings about a woman's right to choose — not pro-abortion as the language has mutated — were well-defined. We supported the work of Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights. We were the people who marched in Washington, D.C., some 30 years ago when Roe became vulnerable.
I remember the rally where I marched alongside Jesuit priests fighting to preserve what Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told senators questioning her during her Supreme Court nomination hearings: A woman's right to choose is "central to a woman's life, to her dignity. It's a decision that she must make for herself."
Roe did this for me. The United States Supreme Court justices did this for me when they handed down that landmark decision.
Barrett, a fellow Catholic, was barely born, much less experiencing the cultural atmosphere of the country in the aftermath of Roe. And today, though it remains a complex issue, the majority of Americans support a woman's right to legal access to abortion.
The morning of my procedure, my nausea worsened as we approached the operating room. There was a warm cotton blanket on the table and the loose socks for my feet slid up to my knees. The anesthesia tasted like garlic. The giant clock read 11:30.
These arrangements had been made by my endocrinologist who, ironically, also was an infertility specialist. Previously, on a routine visit about my insulin-dependent diabetes, he asked me a few times what was going on.
Finally, I said I had thought I was pregnant, but a urine test was negative. He said, "I want you to have a blood test."
Thirty-five years later, I do not remember if he had arranged the lab work or confirmed the results. There was never a doubt what my choice would be. Still, knowing this did not in any way dilute this kind of painstaking decision.
My endocrinologist spoke with his colleague, a good doctor who would perform the procedure.
I remember none of the details about making the appointment or what I might have said on the phone. That day when I first met him, before he came into the examining room, one of his staff came in and started talking about prenatal care.
I think I said, "That's not why I am here."
When the gynecologist entered, a short stocky man with thinning hair, he apologized profusely for her intrusion. Then he began explaining the surgical process of what would happen in the morning, at the hospital.
He was kind, respectful as he inserted three match-sized sticks of sterilized and dried Japanese seaweed to start dilation in preparation for the morning procedure.
"Was that another one?" I asked.
"Yes. I'm sorry. Did it hurt?" he asked.
"You're doing great. Just one more. You're doing fine," he said, explaining that I might feel a little bloating or abdominal pressure, which was normal.
I had very good employer health care that paid for most of the services. I was treated with humanity, empathy, respect. My endocrinologist did this for me. My gynecologist. Muriel. The hospital. My insurance. My friends. My constitutional right.
When I was back to work and ran into the woman from Human Resources at the elevators, she looked me in the eye and said softly, "Are you doing okay?"
I understood in that moment that she must have seen the Explanation of Benefits. This was some 10 years before the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 was enacted. When I nodded yes, her smile was gentle, kind, without judgment.
These were my graces — the people, my physical and emotional treatment, and the law — which undoubtedly helped me to heal.
The morning of the Senate vote to confirm Barrett, I made a last-ditch effort to reach Republicans who might just stand up for health care, for reproductive rights, for the decency to listen to people who wanted to wait until after the election to make a court appointment. I called Senators Ben Sasse, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Shelley Moore Capito, and Mitt Romney. But for Collins, the others rolled over.
I fear for the future of women of child-bearing age and their right to control their own bodies. I was one of the lucky ones. It was the right decision then. And even though I never married or brought children into the world, it is the right decision now.
Mary Ann D'Urso's column appears regularly in the Globe.


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Introducing... STEMBox: a Monthly Science Box for Girls
Kina McAllister started working as a research tech for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, after graduating from Seattle University with a B.S. in General Science with a focus in Biology and Chemistry.
Her interest in science started at young age when she'd use her allowance to buy Gross Science! kits (instead of the more girly beauty science kits), trying to prove that she could do things just as well as boys. Now, she wants to give girls a real taste for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), by giving them their own equivalent of Gross Science! kits.
Aimed at girls aged 7-14, STEMBox is a subscription box that feature a different scientific concept each month. Each box features an experiment, and contains sophisticated labware (those used in real labs), the required reagents, a protocol, fun science accessories, and a link to a corresponding video.
Scientista chatted to Kina to find out more.
Here's a taste of what STEMBox has to offer... courtesy Stephanie Evans of The STEMulus.
Want to help make this cool new initiative a reality? Show Kina and her team your support by pledging to the STEMBox Kickstarter campaign.
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In this month's ArtScopeTO podcast, I interview renowned painter Mary Lynne Atkinson, whose current series Land on Fire is showcased from November 2-25, 2017, at Toronto's Urban Gallery.
Visit www.atkinsonartworks.com for more info on the artist.
Special Thanks to Mary Lynne Atkinson for her time, Urban Gallery's manager Calvin Hambrook and curator Allen Shugar and Glenda Fordham at Fordham P.R. for facilitating the interview.


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Q: Instantiate a Java Generic class in a generic class Here is a minimal code example. The interface:
interface Individual<T>  {
    public T getVariableValue(int index) ;
    public void setVariableValue(int index, T value) ;

    public int getNumberOfVariables() ;
    public int getNumberOfObjectives() ;

    public Individual<T> copy() ;
}

And the class:
public class  minimalExample<S extends Individual> {

    private List<S> doCrossover(List<S> s){
        S mom = s.get(0);
        S dad = s.get(1);

        int crossoverPoint = 5;

        S girl = mom.copy();
        S boy = dad.copy();
        for (int i = 0; i < mom.getNumberOfVariables(); i++) {
            if(i > crossoverPoint){
                boy.setVariableValue(i, mom.getVariableValue(i));
                girl.setVariableValue(i,dad.getVariableValue(i));
            }
        }
        return s;
    }
}

If i try to compile this i get:
java: incompatible types: Individual cannot be converted to S

Which seems confusing. Doesn' the extends keyword mean that S has to be of type Individual or a subtype?

A: The method copy() returns an object of type "Individual", which cannot be assigned to the type "S" since S is a subtype.
Why are girl and boy declared to be of type "S" and not Individual?

A:
Which seems confusing. Doesn' the extends keyword mean that S has to be of type Individual or a subtype?

Yes, but that does not mean that the type returned by an S's copy() method is also an S.  The Individual interface requires only that it be an Individual.
Moreover, I observe that your class minimalExample is using the raw type Individual, whereas it ought to use a properly parameterized version (or else Individual should be made non-generic).
You may be over-parameterizing here.  Does minimalExample really need to use S instead of directly using Individual?  Obviously, this example class does not, but perhaps the one that inspired the question doesn't, either.
On the other hand, if you do need a parameter for the specific type of Individual, then perhaps you need to further parameterize that interface to describe the kind of object its copy() method returns:
interface Individual<T,I extends Individual<T, I>>  {
    public T getVariableValue(int index) ;
    public void setVariableValue(int index, T value) ;

    public int getNumberOfVariables() ;
    public int getNumberOfObjectives() ;

    public I copy() ;
}

You could then declare your class MinimalExample with the needed additional information:
public class MinimalExample<T, S extends Individual<T, S>> {
    // ...
}

And here is a dummy implementation of Individual that you could use with that:
public class ExampleIndividual<T> implements Individual<T, ExampleIndividual<T>> {

    public T getVariableValue(int index) { return null; }
    public void setVariableValue(int index, T value) {}

    public int getNumberOfVariables() { return 0; }
    public int getNumberOfObjectives() { return 0; }

    public ExampleIndividual<T> copy() { return new ExampleIndividual<T>(); }

}