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With the Harmonica, You Have to Watch Your Mouth!
August 21, 2014 - Musical instruments
Our NYC harmonica school gives lessons on how to make the most of this tiny instrument.
You know the saying: to each his (or her own). It means that we all have our own individual tastes and preferences, and that includes the kind of music we like and the instruments we want to listen to or play. If you like big, then upright bass, drums, or the piano would be a good fit for you. But if you are partial to a small and light instrument that you can carry in your pocket, the harmonica is a good match.
In fact, it is – hands down – the most portable instrument you will likely find. It is way smaller than a breadbox, but certainly makes better music! There is no doubt about it: the harmonica is a tiny instrument with a big sound.
Watch your mouth!
Also called the French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, the harmonica makes music through a set of reeds that vibrate when you blow air through any of the instrument's 10 holes. Although there is some evidence that the ancient Chinese made the first harmonica, it was a German teenager, Christian Friedrich Buschmann, who is credited with this invention in 1821. Although Buschmann's design was rudimentary and even primitive by today's standards, he was quite pleased with it. As he said to his brother, the new instrument was "truly remarkable. In its entirety it measures but four inches in diameter…but gives me twenty-one notes, and all the pianissimos and crescendos one could want without a keyboard, harmonies of six tones, and the ability to hold a note as long as one would wish to." With time, the harmonica's initial design was modified; five years after it was invented, a Bohemian instrument maker named Richter (his first name is not known), developed an improved version that resembles the type we use today. And don't be fooled by the harmonica's size – this small instrument comes in different varieties, such as diatonic, chromatic, tremolo, octave, orchestral, and bass versions, depending on the sounds you want to produce and the genre of music you are playing – be it folk, blues, or rock and roll.
Oh, Mickey! When I hear you playing the harmonica, my heart sings!
— Minnie Mouse Mickey and Minnie might be fictional characters (you did know that, right?), but the quote itself has a ring of truth in it – the melodious tunes of the harmonica do tug at the heartstrings. The instrument made its early appearance in the United States before the Civil War, and soldiers on both sides of the conflict played it. In the 20th century, harmonica bands were a popular part of vaudeville acts. In the 1930s, an American musician Larry Adler performed with major symphony orchestras and became known as the world's most skilled harmonica player . Later on, more harmonica enthusiasts, including 105 musicians who called themselves the "Largest Uniformed Harmonica Band in the United States," brought this instrument into the mainstream. Since then, scores of famous musicians, including Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, Bruce Springsteen, and Billy Joel, integrated the harmonica into their acts. And Bob Dylan multi-tasked by placing the harmonica on a neck frame to free the hands for playing the guitar or piano at the same time.
It ain't heavy, it's the harmonica!
The only way I can play the harmonica is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.
This is how comedian Steven Wright described his attempts to play the harmonica. Though the image of the harmonica sticking out the window of a moving car and making sound through the force of the wind is funny, we suggest that you choose a more conventional way of mastering this instrument – for example, with our Manhattan music lessons. Just call us and one of our harmonica instructors will come to your Manhattan, Brooklyn, or Riverdale home or office and teach you the "proper" way to blow the music into (and out of) this instrument – no fast driving required!
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As Humira readies for biosimilar rivals, AbbVie looks to ASH to build oncology momentum
by Arlene Weintraub |
Dec 2, 2016 9:37am
Researchers will present data on three AbbVie cancer drugs at the upcoming ASH meeting.
AbbVie and its development partners have big plans for the upcoming American Society of Hematology (ASH) meeting that starts Dec. 3. They're presenting 25 studies of three cancer drugs: Imbruvica (ibrutinib), Venclexta (ventoclax) and Empliciti (elotuzumab). For AbbVie, the event will be one step in an ongoing effort to beef up its oncology pipeline as it braces for the loss of its $14-billion-a-year drug to treat autoimmune diseases, Humira (adalimumab).
Gary Gordon, vice president of oncology development for AbbVie, says the company is excited about all three drugs but has particularly high hopes for Venclexta, which it develops in partnership with Roche. The FDA approved the drug in April to treat patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) who have a mutation called 17p deletion. At ASH, researchers will present data in CLL, acute myeloid leukemia (AML), as well as three studies of the drug in multiple myeloma.
After Venclexta's initial approval, analysts estimated the drug could bring in about $2 billion a year. But AbbVie and Roche continue to look for market expansion opportunities, not just by testing the drug in other blood cancers, but also by looking at potential combination treatments. During ASH, researchers will present a safety analysis from a trial of the drug in combination with Roche's Rituxan (rituximab) in patients with relapsed CLL. "We're waiting for that study to read out," Gordon told FiercePharma in an interview. "We hope sometime in the next year to have very exciting data."
Gordon says the company is also encouraged by early signals of Venclexta's effectiveness in multiple myeloma. ASH will feature data on Venclexta both as a monotherapy and in combination with Velcade (bortezomib) and steroids. "I think we're beginning to understand some of the markers that might predict who in the setting of multiple myeloma is likely to have good responses to Venclexta," Gordon says.
AbbVie and Roche are also presenting several studies of Venclexta in AML. The companies boast FDA "breakthrough" designation for newly diagnosed AML patients who can't tolerate chemotherapy—a population that's in desperate need of more treatment options, Gordon says. "We're pretty excited about that program. AML is an area that hasn't matured very much in terms of therapeutic options in the last couple of decades," he says. "It's nice to see it's a nut that's beginning to crack in terms of medicines that are bringing new tools to the table."
Several studies of Imbruvica (ibrutinib), which AbbVie is developing with Johnson & Johnson, will be presented at ASH, including results from a trial in patients with marginal zone lymphoma, a form of the disease for which there are no FDA-approved therapies. Empliciti (elotuzumab), marketed in conjunction with Bristol-Myers Squibb, will be featured in two poster presentations, one of which will analyze the budget impact of the treatment in multiple myeloma. That's appropriate considering that the drug, approved a year ago in combination with Celgene's Revlimid (lenalidomide) and dexamethasone, has drawn criticism for its estimated annual cost of $142,000.
At ASH, AbbVie will have plenty of competition from other biopharma companies hoping to draw attention to their emerging treatments for blood cancers. Analysts at BioPharm Insight expect that Novartis, Juno and Kite will grab the spotlight with long-anticipated late-stage data on their chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) treatments. Recent patient deaths linked to Juno's experimental product will raise the scrutiny among analysts, BioPharm Insight predicts, but there is still plenty of enthusiasm for its two rivals. ASH will include fresh data on one of Novartis' CAR-T treatments in pediatric patients, and another in adults with multiple myeloma.
Kite, which could complete its first FDA filing for a CAR-T treatment by the end of the year, will present data at the conference in non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Kite recently added a drug to its treatment protocol to prevent seizures, Biopharm Insight notes, which "could be effective to curb neurotoxicity rates, experts say," it wrote in a pre-ASH report, "yet an incomplete understanding of seizures generates uncertainty."
As for AbbVie, ASH could be a prime venue to boost the profile of its oncology pipeline and take a bit of attention away from the loss of Humira. Over the summer, the FDA approved a biosimilar version of Humira made by Amgen, prompting AbbVie to sue for patent infringement. AbbVie has been aggressively defending its patents on the drug, predicting it will hold off biosimilar competition until 2022. But analysts are far less optimistic: Citi's Andrew Baum has predicted sales of the drug will hit $16 billion next year and then start to decline, falling to $6 billion in 2022.
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Holidays are part of family life, and in many cases you will find you are not only able to take foster children on holiday with you but are encouraged and supported to do so.
That's because experiencing a 'typical' family holiday benefits children in a number of ways - it introduces them to new cultures and experiences, helps them to socialise, builds confidence in different circumstances. And of course, it gives them notes to compare with school friends about how they've spent their six weeks off!
This means that as long as the child's individual circumstances are taken into account and their welfare and safety considered paramount, in most cases foster children are able to go on holiday.
When a child is placed with you, you will usually be informed of any reason why they may not be able to go away and whether extra permissions will need to be sought from the local authority or birth parents for such trips. In any case, it's always wise to consult with your Supervising Social Worker if you are planning to book a family holiday. They'll be able to offer specific advice and advise if extra paperwork is required for the trip, they will be able to help ensure it is provided in time.
For some foster families, a holiday here in the UK is an ideal choice because it it doesn't mean being too far out of reach of social workers or their fostering agency. For foster children who are going on holiday for the first time, a trip to the British seaside or countryside is a treat without being as much of a shock to the system as a trip abroad may perhaps be.
That being said, depending on individual circumstances, children can benefit from holidaying abroad and experiencing new cultures, foods, and activities and so long as you have the necessary paperwork and permissions, this is an option that is open to many foster families.
The suitability of accommodation is a concern for many foster parents planning family trips.
We always ask that foster families are able to provide foster children with a bedroom of their own at home. On holiday, not all children will be able to stay in shared family apartments – before you book, speak to your Supervising Social Worker who will be able to advise you on how best to approach choosing places to stay, and if appropriate help you complete a risk assessment.
Your foster child's personal safety parameters will also have an impact on the type of activities you choose to include in your holiday.
There will be lots of fun things you can do together but along with careful planning and consideration of suitable undertakings, little ones and even older children may need extra reassurance over the course of your holiday. For example, if travelling abroad children may need you to explain cultural norms they are not familiar with so that they feel more at ease.
Holidays are an expensive event for any family and in recognition of this many fostering agencies increase the foster carer allowance over the school holidays, which can go some way to helping fund holiday fun. You may also be entitled to an additional payment should you choose to take your foster child with you on a family break, so check with your agency or local authority to be sure.
And just as a handy tip, don't forget to check you're all covered on your holiday insurance too, in case anyone falls ill while you're away. You can compare insurance and learn more about what to keep in mind by visiting the Money Saving Expert website.
If you're not able to take a holiday with your foster child for whatever reason, you can still make sure they have lots of fun this summer by planning some fun day trips - why not check out our recent blog post for inspiration?
Sharing holiday time with foster children can be very fulfilling but it's also important to remember that when you work hard at any job you do need to take a break. With this in mind, you may want to consider seeking some respite foster care to allow yourself the opportunity to rest and recuperate too.
If you have any further questions about taking foster children on holiday or want to explore the possibility of providing respite care for other foster parents, please do get in touch. You can speak to one of our advisors by calling 0845 200 4040, or send us an email to info@nfa.co.uk.


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Man seeks wife, son's release from China
12:53pm Jul 24, 2019
An Australian man, whose wife and son are trapped in far western China, is pleading with the federal government to fast-track their return to Sydney.
Sadam Abudusadamu has resolved to ramp up pressure on the Morrison government to help bring his family home, travelling to Parliament House in Canberra to put his family's struggle in the spotlight.
His wife Nadila Wumaier and son Lutfy, who is an Australian citizen, are stuck in a region of China where more than one million Muslim Uighurs are being held in mass detention.
Joined by four other Uighur men, including one whose wife is imprisoned, and flanked by former footballer Craig Foster and Amnesty International campaigners, Mr Abudusadamu held his son's citizenship certificate aloft.
"I'm not going to cry anymore because I'm really past it," he told reporters on Wednesday.
Mr Abudusadamu is hoping to meet with Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne.
"I'm nearly there and I believe that; I'm always giving my wife hope, please don't give up, we're almost there," Mr Abudusadamu said.
"I'm just a simple dad. In August my son will turn two; I really want to celebrate his birthday with my wife, with my son. That's all I'm asking for."
Earlier this month, the federal government formally requested Chinese authorities allow Ms Wumaier and her son to travel to Australia.
However Mr Abudusadamu's lawyer, Michael Bradley, says the government must first issue Ms Wumaier a visa, calling on public officials to fast-track the paperwork.
Mr Bradley said neither he nor his client had heard from the government in months, since a passport was issued to Mr Abudusadamu's son.
"We haven't had any direct contact from either DFAT or Home Affairs since April - that's why we decided to go public," he told AAP.
Foreign Minister Marise Payne last week said China doesn't provide consular access to dual nationals, unless they have actually entered China on their Australian passport.
Earlier this month, Australia co-signed a letter to the UN Human Rights Council, urging China to dismantle its arbitrary detention scheme.
Beijing retaliated by accusing the 22 signatory nations of "smearing" China and interfering in its internal affairs.
The mass internment of Uighurs and members of other ethnic minorities appears to be the largest detainment of people on the basis of religion since the Holocaust.
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James L. "Jim" Branson, 74, of Shelbyville
James L. "Jim" Branson, 74, of Shelbyville, passed away Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at Franciscan Hospital in Indianapolis.
He was born February 6, 1948, in Shelbyville, the son of William C. "Bill" and Edna May (Stanley) Branson. On March 4, 1990, he married his wife of 32 years, Sharon Dillender, and she survives.
In addition to Sharon, Jim is survived by his daughter, Monica Lawson and boyfriend, Jason Hensley, of Shelbyville; son, Jeremy Cord and wife, Crystal, of Fairland; sister, Sharon Turner and husband, Lynn, of Arlington; brothers, John C. Branson and life partner, Peggy Leslie Humbles, and William R. "Bill" Branson, both of Shelbyville; grandchildren, Taylor Lawson, Chad Morton, Paige Davis and Ema Cord; and brother-in-law, Ron Dillender and wife, Darlene, of Shelbyville.
He was preceded in death by his parents; brother, Jerry Stanley Branson; and infant sister, Mary Charlene Branson.
Jim graduated in 1966 from Shelbyville High School.
He retired from KCL, with 35 years of service. After retirement, Jim worked for the City of Shelbyville at the wastewater treatment plant for 12 years, retiring again in 2003.
Jim enjoyed watching old movies.
His passion was music and he enjoyed playing lead guitar in numerous bands across Indiana.
Jim was an animal lover and was preceded in death by his dog, Max and leaves behind his dog, Sissy.
Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to noon, Monday, July 25, 2022, at Freeman Family Funeral Homes and Crematory, Carmony-Ewing Chapel, 819 S. Harrison St. in Shelbyville.
Funeral services will be at noon on Monday, at the funeral home.
Interment will be at Forest Hill Cemetery in Shelbyville.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Shelbyville-Shelby County Animal Shelter, 705 Hale Road, Shelbyville, Indiana 46176.
Online condolences may be shared with Jim's family at www.freemanfamilyfuneralhomes.com.


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Родственные души:

 Родственные души — два человека, чувствующих глубокую или естественную близость.

Художественные произведения
 «Родственные души» () — рассказ О. Генри.
 «Родственные души» () — американский фильм ужасов 1992 года, режиссёр Тандер Левин.
 «Родственные души» () — гонконгский фильм 1997 года, режиссёр Чхён Чхи Лён.
 «Родственные души» () — индийский фильм-драма 1999 года, режиссёр Сампуран Сингх Гульзар.
 «Родственные души» () — южнокорейский телесериал 2006 года.
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Where housing is concerned, even old news is good news
Nunavut politicians give Godfrey's recycled message a good-natured reception
About 30 good-natured politicians clapped politely for visiting Infrastructure Secretary of State John Godfrey last Thursday, even though the "announcement" he delivered was old news.
Twenty-five minutes of podium speeches revealed only that the Canada-Nunavut Strategic Infrastructure Fund would put $40 million into social housing across the territory.
"It's a good thing — we already spent the money," said one member of the audience who works for the Nunavut Housing Corp.
The funding was originally announced in October, 2003.
But any progress on Nunavut's chronic housing shortages is viewed in a positive light.
Johnny Ningeongan, mayor of Coral Harbour and president of the Nunavut Association of Municipalities, said he was pleased that the fund will distribute 160 new social housing units in all of Nunavut's communities.
Ningeongan was also "very encouraged" to see that NAM was included in short- and long-term infrastructure planning. Godfrey's first stop on his trip to Nunavut was dinner with the NAM executive. The next day, he met with them again, along with Housing Minister Peter Kilabuk.
"Basically our thoughts were being rubber-stamped," Ningeongan said.
Several politicians crowded into the foyer of the Legislative Assembly said Godfrey's visit would have a positive impact on the territory. Godfrey managed to pack a community infrastructure tour into his tight, three-day schedule.
High winds ruled out a planned trip to Pangnirtung, where a community infrastructure tour had been planned for the minister. Instead, a flight was arranged to sunny Kimmirut later that morning, where Godfrey managed a short hamlet tour before hopping back on a plane 45 minutes later.
The opportunity to see a remote, northern community was not lost on the minister.
"Obviously the most significant challenge with the growing population in Nunavut is housing," Godfrey said. "I have been made aware of it now in a dramatic and personal way."
The Canada Strategic Infrastructure Fund, which contributed $20 million to the $40 million housing fund for Nunavut, is not generally used for social housing. In other parts of the country, the fund is spent on public transit, highways and tourism infrastructure projects.
An exception was made for Nunavut, where the housing shortage makes new homes a vital infrastructure need.
In his speech Kilabuk and Godfrey acknowledged that $40 million only goes so far.
"Over half of Nunavut's Inuit live in overcrowded conditions… this is not acceptable. It is crucial to remember that in Nunavut our social housing units are home to over half our population," Kilabuk said.
"People with diverse housing needs must be accommodated within social housing because there are almost no other choices. An important example is our homeless population — people who would be out on the streets if they lived anywhere else in Canada."
Addressing a number of dignitaries — including Senator Willie Adams, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami president Jose Kusugak, Nunavut Tunngavik president Paul Kaludjak, MP Nancy Karetak-Lindell, the NAM executive and several MLAs — Godfrey also promised future announcements related to Paul Martin's Northern Strategy.
"Things are on track for an announcement on the consolidated approach of the northern strategy this spring," he said. "And as you know, there are many key issues to be addressed to properly meet the unique needs of the North."


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In Advance of the Holiday Season – A Special Report from Katrina's Dream
Please do excuse the typos… but do make calls to your US Congress Elected Officials – Not One More Day Will We Wait…
Dear Family & Friends,
Addition's to the Katrina's Dream Team
This has been an amazing year. So many wonderful things taking place with the ministry of Katrina's Dream. We have new Board Member Bishop Musonda Trevor Selwyn Mwamba who brings a worldly perspective to our organization as the Retired Bishop of Botswana and the Honorary Bishop of Chelmsford in Barking (London, England). We also are built bridges of peace and love with our newest consultant from hails from the Middle East, Mahmood Allahmeen King, a Bedouin who resides in Qatar. As a member of the Islamic faith, he prays for peace for everyone, everything, everywhere. He too believes in Equality for all. We are blessed to call him a team member sharing his wisdom on inter-religious relationships as we continue to move forward and towards mutual respect for believers and non-believers alike across the globe. I invite you to peruse our website page of our Board Members and Consultants brief bio's. Please Click Here.
We continue to promote and educate folks here in the USA and around the world to the importance of the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (E.R.A.), originally introduced as the Lucretia Mott Amendment, into the U.S. Constitution. We hold The Call, a weekly national non-partisan program to pass the E.R.A., with our colleagues Sharon J. Hill of Public Eye Reports and Tammy Simkins of ERA Action. Both women are diligent in the various groups they are members or are working with, which include the League of Women Voters, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Organization for Women, just to name a few. Please read on up these amazing women dedicated to Removing the Deadline on the ERA and the ratification of just one more state. We are blessed with their many and varied gifts that bring to the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Earlier this year our board member, Bishop Mwamba welcomed folks to our Let's Pass the Equal Rights Amendment Panel and Workshop, a parallel event, as part of the 63rd United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women Conference held at the headquarters held on March 11, 2019 in New York City, New York. Katrina's Dream submitted written testimony and entered in the record by Representative Steve Cohen on the April 30, 2019 hearing on H.J. Res. 38 – Removing the deadline on the ERA. And this year through the efforts of those who participate in our weekly program The Call we are now nearing the number of 218 co-sponsors, which Speaker of the House imposed after the April 30, 2019 hearing on H.J. Res. 38, we pray that there will no further delays coming from her offices, (as may or may not be aware my pilgrimage across the United States covering the then 15 unratified states was cited in the Nevada General Assembly Record as being the spark that lite the fire for Nevada to ratify becoming the first state in the 21 Century to ratify and was also part of the written record in 2017). Most recently the folks of ERA Taskforce AZ staffed our table at the Episcopal Diocesan Convention for Arizona, we look forward to having more tables at other diocesan events over the months and years to come.
Sustainable Social Justice Ministries
We are very much still active in addressing a wide gambit of societal concerns here in the USA which range from sustainable practices in one's personal, business, and/or professional life and in governance of this country. On a local community level here in Park Slope, New York in the borough of Brooklyn at my late brother's business Mailboxes on Fifth, we are continuing in the Carpenter tradition of putting everything to good use, we recycle used shipping boxes, we are using the walls to promote the artistry and crafts of painters and sculptors alike, we have shelving for DVD's and CD's, and books and greetings cards, and other knick-knacks. On wall of our weighing and packing station we have various literature from the pilgrimage and other church related program. And we remain dedicated to my father-in-law, the Rev. George Swanson's ministry addressing various Prison Reform concepts. This year California suspended the executing folks on Death Row which accomplished with the swift pen of Governor Gavin Newsome, and as many of you might recall my late husband William held a weekly candlelight vigil for several years calling for the Closing of the Death Chamber. So in that vein, we invite folks to put together their own production of Natural Causes Killed Victor a folk opera written by George Swanson and performed at St. Saviour's Episcopal Church in Bar Harbor, Maine a few years back. On the global scale we look forward to our continuing relationship with Bishop Pradip Kamble and his wife the Rev. Magda Kamble, as we further explore how to best proceed with our visionary program serving all the peoples of India. Then, we are also in the very early stages of addressing the issues of poverty and strife in the Middle East and have launched our new ministries Save Syria and Yea! Love 2 Yemen. All this we look forward to showcasing 21st Century Church concepts and theology and our ministries at The Marketplace at next year's Lambeth Conference 2020.
I pray that each and everyone who reads this email takes a moment to call their US Congressional Members and call for their support of H.J. Res. 38 in the US House and S.J. Res. 6 in the US Senate.
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At a previous meeting, one intrigued participant asked if we'd put on a 'systems primer' to provide an introduction for those unfamiliar with the concepts and practises of systems thinking. It would be of interest to many NET2 members, she said, but more than that, members could invite colleagues or friends who're wondering what this systems thinking thing is and ready to find out a little more.
We liked the idea. As a result, we decided to run a practical simulation exercise successfully used before. Rather than 'talk & chalk', it's an approach that gives participants a chance to be a part of a typical organisation system – an office-based one in this instance, but the learning applies to any setting. By experiencing the highs and lows of performing day-to-day 'in the system' together participants can explore just what's been going on and, more to the point, why.
The simulation was led by Philip Eastburn, Lesley Cairns and David Allen, all of whom met in a former life working with City of York Council. At the time, Philip worked for the Centre for Service Improvement Learning based at York St John University, while Lesley was a Delivery Manager with the School Food Trust. David has his own management consultancy, as well as being Joint Convenor of NET2.
At the end of the simulation, everyone involved discussed what it was like. Here's what they said.
Spotting errors is what the company is good at!
The way it made you feel was what mattered; terrible. And it wasn't about to change.


GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — At one end of a converted trailer in the American military detention center here, a graying Pakistani businessman sat shackled before a review board of uniformed officers, pleading for his freedom.
The prisoner had seen just a brief summary of what officials said was a thick dossier of intelligence linking him to Al Qaeda. He had not seen his own legal papers since they were taken away in an unrelated investigation. He has lawyers working on his behalf in Washington, London and Pakistan, but here his only assistance came from an Army lieutenant colonel, who stumbled as he read the prisoner's handwritten statement.
As the hearing concluded, the detainee, who cannot be identified publicly under military rules, had a question. He is a citizen of Pakistan, he noted. He was arrested on a business trip to Thailand. On what authority or charges was he even being held?
But an examination of the Guantánamo review boards by The New York Times suggests that they have often fallen short, not only as a source of due process for the hundreds of men held here, but also as a forum to resolve questions about what the detainees have done and the threats they may pose.
Some limitations have long been evident. The prisoners have no right to a lawyer, or to see classified evidence, or even to know the identity of their accusers. What has been less visible, however, is what many officials describe as a continuing shortage of information about many detainees, including some who have been held on sketchy or disputed intelligence.
Behind the hearings that journalists are allowed to observe is a system that has at times been as long on government infighting and diplomatic maneuvering as it has been short on hard evidence. The result, current and former officials acknowledged, is that some detainees have been held for years on less compelling information, while a growing number of others for whom there was thought to be stronger evidence of militant activities have been released under secret arrangements between Washington and their home governments.
Military officials emphasize that the boards are an administrative forum and were never intended to replicate judicial standards of fairness. But they say the hearings offer prisoners a viable opportunity to rebut the government's evidence.
"At the end of the day, it's about giving the detainee the flexibility and freedom to present his case," said Capt. Philip L. Waddingham, a former Navy pilot who oversees the operations of the panels at Guantánamo.
Administration officials also emphasize that the reviews are more rigorous than the battlefield tribunals that have traditionally been used to determine the status of wartime prisoners under the 1949 Geneva Conventions.
But the Geneva tribunals were established to answer questions about the identities of soldiers and spies from regular armies. Sorting through the identities and past actions of suspected participants in a shadowy global terrorist network, military officials said, has proved far more complex.
To date, 377 Guantánamo detainees, nearly half of the 773 who have been held there, have been released or transferred to other governments. Of those, about 150 have been repatriated through the review process since mid-2004, officials said.
The administration's push to reduce the Guantánamo population is more evident in another statistic. The final arbiter of prisoner releases, Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon R. England, has overruled the panels' recommendations in more than 15 percent of the 237 cases he has decided so far this year, officials said. In virtually all of those, the boards had recommended continued detention.
Still, a recent study of the review process found that detainees arguing their innocence were routinely denied witnesses they tried to call, even when the witnesses were other prisoners at Guantánamo. Lawyers for the detainees complain that the government has made almost no effort to have the panels consider information they have gathered and has often blocked their attempts to learn the accusations against their clients.
Many of the detainees appear to have given up on the reviews as a way to win their freedom. In the latest round of annual hearings, which were completed this month, only 18 percent of the prisoners chose to attend.
The review system at Guantánamo began operating in July 2004, more than two years after most detainees were imprisoned there. Officials said it was intended in part to deflect criticism that the prison had become a legal black hole. They also hoped it would resolve what had become a contentious struggle among national security agencies over which prisoners to hold and which to free.
Even before Mr. Bush decided in February 2002 that the United States would not observe the Geneva Conventions in fighting terrorism, Donald H. Rumsfeld, then the defense secretary, dismissed the idea of Geneva-style hearings for the detainees, maintaining that they would never be entitled to the prisoner-of-war status that such tribunals could grant them in other conflicts.
"There is no ambiguity in this case," Mr. Rumsfeld said.
Yet intelligence officers at Guantánamo found ambiguity everywhere. Many of the detainees had been captured by Afghan militias, Pakistani border guards and other surrogates, and some had been turned in for bounties, intelligence officials said. Information about their identities and actions was often vague and secondhand. Physical evidence, if any existed, was sometimes lost before reaching Cuba.
Still, the detainees who were held on the weakest information tended not to be a priority for either intelligence officers or the military's criminal investigators.
"It wasn't the job of the intelligence community to verify their guilt or innocence," said Col. Brittain P. Mallow, a retired Army investigator who led a task force that gathered evidence for war crimes tribunals that are expected to prosecute about 50 to 70 of the remaining 396 detainees.
Faced with growing international criticism, the Bush administration moved in May 2004 to set up a kind of annual parole system, called Administrative Review Boards, to weigh each detainee's continuing threat and intelligence value. But before those hearings began, the Supreme Court called that June for a one-time review of all Guantánamo detainees using the sort of panels called for by Army regulations — and by the Geneva Conventions.
Those first panels, called Combatant Status Review Tribunals, or C.S.R.T.'s in military parlance, required three military officers to decide cases by majority vote, based on a "preponderance of the evidence." The boards were allowed to consider a wide range of intelligence, including statements obtained by coercion.
Midlevel officers were assigned to help the detainees prepare for their hearings. Military lawyers were not permitted to serve in that role, however, because of concern that limitations on that assistance might open the lawyers to charges of violating professional ethics rules.
By the time the C.S.R.T. reviews got under way, intelligence agencies had confirmed that half a dozen detainees released from Guantánamo were fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan. Such risks were raised frequently in government debates.
"It was sort of a mantra in the system: 'You have got to make sure that you don't release any of the wrong people,' " recalled Charles W. Moore Jr., a now-retired vice admiral who set up the review apparatus under Mr. England.
The early results of the hearings, in which officials said a surprising number of detainees were found not to be enemy combatants, only heightened the unease.
Internal critics, including the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Special Operations branch of the Pentagon, complained heatedly that the boards did not properly understand the intelligence they were assessing, said current and former officials who participated in the debates.
The critics were later allowed to provide further training to the panels. In the first round of annual reviews after the C.S.R.T.'s, officers with military intelligence backgrounds also took over the role, previously assigned to lawyers, of vetting evidence and presenting the government's case.
While some officials perceived an undue influence over the panels from intelligence agencies and their allies, others said those critics were mostly beaten back.
"The intelligence community wanted to derail the C.S.R.T. process and dictate the decisions, and that didn't happen," said one former senior official, who, like several others, would discuss the policy deliberations only on the condition of anonymity.
According to documents and interviews, the Pentagon office in charge of the reviews ordered the repetition of some C.S.R.T. boards that recommended the release of detainees. Defense Department officials would not discuss those cases in detail.
The largest number of repeated hearings appears to have involved some of the 22 Muslim detainees from western China who were part of the Uighur (pronounced WEE-gur) ethnic minority.
The Uighurs' sworn enemy was not the United States but the Communist government of China, which had long oppressed their people. The military accused the detainees of belonging to a separatist group that the Chinese authorities had persuaded Washington to list as a terrorist organization, but some experts on the region disputed that characterization of the group and the detainees denied any link to it.
The State Department, fearful that the men would be tortured if they were sent back to China, had already begun trying to place the Uighurs as refugees in Europe when their cases came for review at Guantánamo, officials said.
Because the Uighurs told very similar stories, Pentagon officials were confounded when at least five of them were determined not to be enemy combatants and the rest properly held, officials said.
At least several of the Uighurs, including some found not to be enemy combatants, had their cases reviewed again, officials said. They described the impetus for doing so as "quality control." But available documents show that at least one of the detainees, whose case was reviewed again, was finally found to be an enemy combatant.
Five Uighur detainees were finally sent to Albania as refugees in May.
Yet other cases in which questions arose were not revisited. One of those involved a Sudanese man, Adel Hassan Hamad, who was seized in Pakistan in 2002.
According to the unclassified summary of allegations in his first hearing, Mr. Hamad, who is now about 48, had worked for two nongovernmental organizations, or N.G.O.'s, with ties to Al Qaeda and had come into contact "with persons who had positions of responsibility in Al Qaeda." But the military presented no unclassified information that Mr. Hamad was anything but a hospital administrator and former teacher, or that he knew of his employers' purported ties.
As with all such cases, it is not possible to judge independently the evidence against Mr. Hamad because part of it is secret. But while two panel members found him to be rightfully detained, a third officer, an Army lawyer whose name was blacked out in the declassified document, objected strongly.
The panel's 2-to-1 decision was reviewed by two other military lawyers, each of whom tersely upheld its "legal sufficiency." One of them, Cmdr. James R. Crisfield Jr. of the Navy, described the Army officer's dissent as "articulate and thoughtful," but emphasized the review panels' modest standard of proof.
"Given the low evidentiary hurdle posed by a preponderance-of-evidence standard and the rebuttable presumption of genuineness and accuracy that attaches to government evidence, I believe that the test is satisfied in this case," Commander Crisfield wrote.
Two federal public defenders in Portland, Ore., who took Mr. Hamad's case last year said they had located about a dozen witnesses who corroborated parts of his account. Although much of that information has been filed as part of a habeas case in federal court, there is no sign yet that it has made any difference for Mr. Hamad.
Several officials who helped establish the review panels said they tried to create mechanisms that would let detainees present witnesses and evidence and allow the panels to gather new information.
But some officials said those ambitions, however sincere, had often been undone by the speed of most reviews — often conducted in just hours — and the low priority assigned to the collection of information on the detainees by intelligence agencies and foreign governments. This year, three panels at Guantánamo handled as many as 13 or 14 cases a week, they said.
Captain Waddingham, the chief of the review office at Guantánamo, said the boards followed the recommendations of military intelligence officials 95 percent of the time. But both he and the overall head of the review program, Frank Sweigart, insisted that the panels were able to get new information when they needed it.
But other current and former officials described a system that was frequently inefficient in collecting information that might determine a prisoner's fate.
Some officials said military and civilian intelligence agencies gave little priority to requests for information from the panels, particularly when they involved time-consuming inquiries overseas. And though officials including Mr. England, the deputy defense secretary, have urged foreign governments to develop and pass on their own information about detainees from their countries, few of them did.
Officials said some governments, including those of Kuwait and Bahrain, had provided extensive files on their detainees. Partly out of diplomatic considerations, they said, the State Department pressed Mr. England to move up review hearings for at least several detainees from those two countries and, ultimately, to overrule review panel decisions and repatriate them.
On Nov. 3 last year, the Pentagon sent two Kuwaitis and three Bahrainis home from Guantánamo on Mr. England's approval, despite what two officials said had been negative rulings by the review panels in at least some of those cases.
But other releases are harder to explain. In one such case, lawyers for Nazar Chaman Gul, an Afghan prisoner, said they were mystified to learn of the repatriation on Dec. 16 of another Afghan, Mohammad Akhtiar, after his annual review.
Lawyers say that detainees who have tried to use the review system to challenge the accusations against them have often been frustrated. According to a recent study of 102 unclassified C.S.R.T. files by the Seton Hall University law school, the military denied all requests by the detainees for witnesses who were not also being held at Guantánamo and denied requests for detainee witnesses 74 percent of the time.
Although a growing number of lawyers have begun to conduct their own investigations into accusations against their clients, a former military intelligence officer who has presided over dozens of review boards was dismissive of those contributions.
"As far as what the habeas lawyers have to say, for the most part it wouldn't factor in because they have made themselves not credible," said the officer, a Marine colonel who suggested that the lawyers took detainees' claims of innocence at face value.
The lawyers respond that the obstacles to their input in the process raise questions about the military's desire to learn everything it can about the detainees. More than a week after the hearing for the Pakistani businessman accused of ties to Al Qaeda, a Washington lawyer who had been trying to help him told a reporter that he had not even known the session had taken place.


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Explore distant galaxies in Reid Library
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What's new in the University Library
Come and explore distant galaxies with our new exhibition of science fiction publications and artwork taken from the Library's Graham Stone Collection.
Graham Stone's interest in science fiction as a teenager led to a lifetime of documenting and preserving works and information relating to Australian science fiction. He was considered among the foremost authorities and collectors of the genre in Australia. Stone contributed stories to numerous zines, journals, and magazines; oversaw the running of several fan societies (including the Futurian Society of Sydney and the Australian Science Fiction Society); and played a significant role in establishing Australia's first national science fiction convention.
In 1968 he published the first comprehensive bibliography of Australian science fiction (Australian Science Fiction Index 1925-1967), and in the mid-1980s started methodically combing through newspapers and periodicals, discovering hundreds of long-forgotten stories by Australian science fiction authors. In 1990 he began to assemble his findings into a book attempting to trace the science fiction genre's development in Australia. The result, Notes on Australian Science Fiction, was self-published in 2001, followed by his Australian Science Fiction Bibliography (2004, revised 2011). In addition to publishing his own works, Stone's small press also republished rare but historically significant Australian science fiction.
Stone's contribution to the genre was acknowledged by his peers when he became the recipient of the 1999 A. Bertram Chandler Award for Outstanding Achievement in Science Fiction.
Stone worked at the Public Library of NSW and The National Library of Australia film division during his long career as a librarian and bibliographer from 1954 to 1976, before retiring to sell second-hand books and concentrate on his science fiction literature research.
The University Library obtained a large selection of publications from Stone's personal archives in 2007 and 2008 to form the Graham Stone Collection.
Each exotically illustrated magazine contains at least one story by an Australian author (in many cases by the prolific A. Bertram Chandler), as well as pieces from several other internationally renowned science fiction writers, including Isaac Asimov, Anne McCaffrey, Arthur C. Clarke, and Philip K. Dick.
Visit this stunning collection in the Reid Library, Ground Floor.
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European Values Think-Tank is legally a civic association. Download the covenants HERE.
The name of the think-tank 'European Values' refers to the basic principles which have been evolving in Europe for centuries and gave birth to political institutions of liberal democracy. Such institutions can be found in Northern America, Australia and at many other places all over the world. In our terms, the 'European values' are the 'values of Western civilisation'.
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Home NASCAR Track News Vision Becomes Reality: France's Alabama International Motor Speedway Comes to Life in...
Vision Becomes Reality: France's Alabama International Motor Speedway Comes to Life in 1969
Bill France Sr. (right) enlisted the assistance of Bill Moss of the Moss-Thornton Construction Company of Birmingham, AL, to help build Alabama International Motor Speedway – today known as Talladega Superspeedway. Groundbreaking took place on May 23, 1968, with the first racing weekend on September 13-14, 1969. NASCAR's biggest track celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
With the Help of Many Local Supporters, Groundbreaking Took Place in 1968 on the Biggest, Most Competitive Race Track in the World, Known Today as Talladega Superspeedway
TALLADEGA, Ala. – Back in September of 1969 prior to the first NASCAR premier series race at Talladega Superspeedway, Bill France Sr. was asked why he decided to build the world's largest and greatest Superspeedway near a northeastern Alabama community.
"Talladega is centrally located within a 300-mile radius of a population of 20 million people," said France, then the President of NASCAR and International Speedway Corporation (Talladega's parent company). "It's stock car racing country. We wanted Talladega because we wanted to take the world's best racing to the people. That's why we built the world's greatest speedway where we did."
And, so, Talladega Superspeedway – then known as the Alabama International Motor Speedway – was born. In 2019, the 2.66-mile, 33-degree banked venue celebrates its 50th anniversary, kicking off with a tripleheader weekend, featuring the GEICO 500 on April 28. The track has come a long way since that first race that saw journeyman Richard Brickhouse go to Gatorade Victory Lane. But, just how did the palace of speed come to be?
"We could have built a major speedway almost anywhere in the country," said France, who also built Daytona International Speedway, nearly 50 years ago. "We considered a Spartanburg, SC site and we had Talladega in the back of our minds for quite some time, but it wasn't until Bill Ward (from nearby Anniston, AL) entered the picture that the possibilities began to materialize."
Ward, an insurance salesman who was known by many, was friends with former popular driver Fonty Flock (from Fort Payne, AL). In 1965, Ward was visiting with Flock in Daytona Beach when he first met France. Flock was already urging France to put a speedway in Alabama, but the land Flock proposed, just off Highway 78 in the Bynum community, wasn't large enough.
France told Ward, "You find me 1,000 acres of land close to an interstate, and I'll come look at it." Ward had a property in mind near his native Atalla, but it was a no-go. That's when he remembered the Eastaboga Air Field, built to train pilots in World War II and eventually sold by the Air Force to the City of Talladega for $1.
Ward went to Talladega city leaders and proposed the race track "and they told me I was crazy," laughed Ward, who is still in the insurance business today in Anniston, a couple of years ago. But after France hosted those officials in Daytona, "They wouldn't leave me alone," Ward says. "They said 'Get that man up here and let's talk about that race track.'"
Through Ward's efforts, France came to Alabama and looked over the almost abandoned airport, then he and airport officials discussed the possibility of building a major racing facility on the property. From that point on, there were many locals who helped in the process.
The late O.V. Hill Sr., a native of Talladega, and a man possessed with as much determination as France, saw the potential for the area. Hill, an industrial specialist at Auburn University, organized an influential group of local leaders that would head to the track construction and the building of necessary roads for handling traffic.
Dr. James Hardwick, Mayor of Talladega, was influential in organizing community leaders in support of the project as well. Then there was Travis McCaig, a Talladega real estate developer, who introduced France to John and Bill Moss of Moss-Thornton Construction Co. (from Birmingham, AL), and the huge engineering and construction firm (which would eventually build the track) immediately joined in sharing the enthusiasm France held for the development.
So, on May 23, 1968, groundbreaking took place, and on September 13-14, 1969, Alabama International Motor Speedway would host both the BAMA 400 NASCAR Grand Touring event as well as its first 500-mile Cup Series race.
"We have tried to provide the fastest, most complete racing facility in the sport," France said at the time. And, in a letter to the fans in the souvenir program for that first race weekend, France hit the nail on the head – and it stands true today: "As visitors of Alabama International Motor Speedway and supporters of our great sport of stock car racing you are participating in the beginning of what I think will become the World's No. 1 automotive showplace.
"We are happy to be opening the world's fastest closed Speedway in the heart of Alabama. I think you will agree that this is a beautiful setting for a major sports facility. The people of this area join me in welcoming you."
Since then, Talladega has recorded five glorious decades of motorsports history, and France's vision continues April 26-28 with the General Tire 200 for the ARCA Menards Series (which has been a staple of Talladega Superspeedway since October of '69), the MoneyLion 300 for the NASCAR Xfinity Series and the GEICO 500 for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. For ticket information, log onto www.talladegasuperspeedway.com or call 855-518-RACE (7223).
About Talladega Superspeedway
Talladega Superspeedway – which will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year – is the most competitive race track on the NASCAR schedule (record 88 lead changes in 188 laps), the highest-banked (33 degrees) and the longest (2.66 miles) as well as the most fun and fan-friendly. Talladega offers something for everyone, including hundreds of acres of free camping, amazing kids tickets and college student prices, along with special offers for military members, first responders, teachers and educators. The historic venue, which opened in 1969, is deemed NASCAR's "Party Capital" thanks to the track's infamous infield, the traditional Saturday Night Infield Concert on event weekends and renowned Talladega Blvd., home of the "Big One on the Blvd." party. It's the site of the most comfortable seats in motorsports, large ISM Vision HD video boards lining the frontstretch and numerous pre-race activities for fans on race day, including special Kids VIP opportunities. For ticket information, visit www.talladegasuperspeedway.com or call 855-518-RACE (7223).
The track, along with its parent company, International Speedway Corporation, announced last year Transformation – The Talladega Superspeedway Infield Project presented by Graybar. The approximate $50 million redevelopment endeavor is part of ISC's long-term capital allocation plan and reinvestment into its major motorsports complexes. The project, highlighted by a one-of-a-kind Talladega Garage Experience, will feature "up-close" access, interactive attractions and enhanced amenities for fans, sponsors, teams and stakeholders in the iconic Talladega infield. Full completion of the modernized project is scheduled for October 2019. Fans can learn more about the project and view the progress 24/7 via the construction cam by visiting www.talladegasuperspeedway.com/transformation.
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The data also includes the results of any availability web tests that you have set up.
Sampling. If your application sends a lot of data, the sampling feature may operate and send only a fraction of the generated telemetry. Learn more about sampling.
You can inspect the storage directly in the portal. Click Browse, select your storage account, and then open Containers.
The date and time are UTC and are when the telemetry was deposited in the store - not the time it was generated. So if you write code to download the data, it can move linearly through the data.
Each blob is a text file that contains multiple '\n'-separated rows. It contains the telemetry processed over a time period of roughly half a minute.
Each row represents a telemetry data point such as a request or page view.
Detailed data model reference for the property types and values.
For a larger code sample, see using a worker role.
If you change the key to your storage, continuous export will stop working. You'll see a notification in your Azure account.
Open the Continuous Export blade and edit your export. Edit the Export Destination, but just leave the same storage selected. Click OK to confirm.
The continuous export will restart.
On larger scales, consider HDInsight - Hadoop clusters in the cloud. HDInsight provides a variety of technologies for managing and analyzing big data, and you could use it to process data that has been exported from Application Insights.
But all I want is a one-time download of a chart.
Yes, you can do that. At the top of the blade, click Export Data.
I set up an export, but there's no data in my store.
Did Application Insights receive any telemetry from your app since you set up the export? You'll only receive new data.
If the account is owned by your organization, you have to be a member of the owners or contributors groups.
Can I export straight to my own on-premises store?
No, sorry. Our export engine currently only works with Azure storage at this time.
Is there any limit to the amount of data you put in my store?
No. We'll keep pushing data in until you delete the export. We'll stop if we hit the outer limits for blob storage, but that's pretty huge. It's up to you to control how much storage you use.
How many blobs should I see in the storage?
For every data type you selected to export, a new blob is created every minute (if data is available).
In addition, for applications with high traffic, additional partition units are allocated. In this case, each unit creates a blob every minute.
I regenerated the key to my storage or changed the name of the container, and now the export doesn't work.
Edit the export and open the export destination blade. Leave the same storage selected as before, and click OK to confirm. Export will restart. If the change was within the past few days, you won't lose data.
Can I pause the export?


Some voices must be silenced,they threaten the structures of seemingly safe respectable lives.
some voices must not be silenced.
The smooth impenetrable glass of indifference and uncaring is cool and pleasant to the touch,like the stone heart of power that conceals the rottenness within.
In the night anger burns like fire along the veins in the brain and at the core of the anguished unavailing heart.
Red,bright red as blood luminous with life.
Anger runs through the brain.
with shadows dark to black.
(come see the blood of children in the streets of Soweto).


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Antarctic Ozone Hole Shows 1st Signs of Healing
By Kacey Deamer 30 June 2016
Scientists launch an ozonesonde, a balloon that carries ozone measuring equipment, at the South Pole.
(Image: © World Meteorological Organization/Flickr)
More than 30 years after scientists first spotted a hole in the atmosphere's protective ozone layer over the South Pole, they are seeing the "first fingerprints of healing," researchers reported today (June 30).
Measurements of the ozone hole taken in September revealed the breach has shrunk by more than 1.5 million square miles (4 million square kilometers) — about half the area of the contiguous United States — since 2000.
The researchers attributed the ozone's recovery to the continuing decline of atmospheric chlorine originating from chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). These chemical compounds, once commonly used in aerosols, dry cleaning and refrigerators, were banned when nations around the world signed the Montreal Protocol in 1987 in an effort to repair the ozone hole. [Image Gallery: Life at the South Pole]
"We can now be confident that the things we've done have put the planet on a path to heal," lead author Susan Solomon, an atmospheric chemist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said in a statement. "We got rid of them [CFCs], and now we're seeing the planet respond."
The ozone layer, which extends from 2 to 19 miles (20 to 30 km) above Earth's surface, protects the planet from the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays. Thinning of ozone, which is a molecule made up of three oxygen atoms, can occur due to exposure to certain chemicals, like CFCs.
The ozone hole, a region of thinned ozone, was discovered in 2000, when scientists noticed that the total ozone above Antarctica in October was dropping. From then on, ozone depletion was typically tracked using October measurements.
That's because the ozone hole varies seasonally, as specific conditions are needed for chlorine to eat away at the molecule, Diane Ivy, a research scientist at MIT and co-author on the new study, explained to Live Science in an email. Chlorine interacts with ozone in this destructive way only if light is present and the atmosphere is cold enough for polar stratospheric clouds to form. The clouds are the surfaces which these chlorine reactions can occur.
Ozone depletion therefore starts each year in late August, as Antarctica emerges from winter, with the hole fully formed by early October.
For their research, the scientists thought a clearer picture of chlorine's effects on the ozone would be seen by monitoring ozone levels in September.
"I think people, myself included, had been too focused on October, because that's when the ozone hole is enormous, in its full glory," Solomon said. "But October is also subject to the slings and arrows of other things that vary, like slight changes in meteorology. September is a better time to look, because chlorine chemistry is firmly in control of the rate at which the hole forms at that time of year."
Slow to heal
There is still a long road to recovery for the ozone hole, the researchers said. The molecules that deplete ozone have very long life spans, and the study scientists estimate it will still be decades before complete recovery.
"We won't get back to pre-ozone-hole conditions for another 40-some years," study co-author Douglas Kinnison, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, told Live Science.
But scientists have seen healing of the ozone, which Ivy defined as "an identifiable increase in ozone that is linked to reduced amounts of ozone-depleting substances."
However, the hole itself may fluctuate each year in the healing process, due, in part, to volcanic activity. Eruptions emit sulfur dioxide, which can form aerosols in the stratosphere, allowing more ozone depletion to occur.
For instance, in 2015 the ozone hole neared a record-breaking size. Due to the April 2015 eruption of Calbuco in Chile, it was "a whopper of an ozone hole" that year, Kinnison said.
"So we probably will see a much less severe ozone hole [this year]," he said. "But we'll have to wait and see."
Original article on Live Science.


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Q: Flutter: Why can't remove an item from a list with the .remove() method and a textFormField Hi I have a list of Daytile objects and I want to remove them based on an AlertDialog that asks the user to input the name of the dayTile they want to remove. However, even when inputting the name exactly as it is, the element is never removed from the list.
Removal Logic
TextFormField(controller: titleController, inputFormatters: [
                LengthLimitingTextInputFormatter(14),
              ]),

...
TextButton(
                        onPressed: () async {
                          setState(() {
                            dayTiles.remove(
                                DayTile(title: titleController.text));
                            // print(dayTiles);
                          });
                          saveData();
                          Navigator.pop(context);
                        },
                        child: const Text("Remove")),

Thank You!

A: You are creating new instance, what do you need is to find item index on this case.
final itemIndex = dayTiles.indexWhere((element) => element.title == titleController.text);
  if(itemIndex>-1)
      dayTiles.removeAt(itemIndex));

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Certificate System automatically applies ECC profiles when setting up root CA with ECC certificates This update enhances Certificate System to automatically apply ECC profiles when setting up a new root CA with ECC profiles using the *pkispawn* utility. As a result, administrators no longer have to set the profile overwrite parameters for ECC certificates as a workaround in the configuration file passed to *pkispawn* when setting up a root CA.
During installation, pkispawn should distinguish RSA form ECC and point them to the respective set of enrollment profiles.
I tested this Bugzilla on 10.5.9-4.el7 version.
I tried it without a workaround. During the pkispawn it distinguishes between the RSA and EC profiles.
After the successful installation, I'm able to see the admin, subsystem and Server certificate is generated as per the admin key type.
This Bugzilla working as expected.


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Q: Graphite docker image does not accept messages from Spring boot There is a problem with Graphite Docker images I try to run on my PC. Containers start up gracefully but I'm not able to send any message so that it would be displayed under "Metrics" tab. Volumes Mounting doesn't help either. Default storage-schema.conf should accept all messages.
The message used for testing is such:

echo "test.bash.stats 42 date +%s" | nc localhost 2003.

Moreover, most of the time (but not always) after sending above listed message "400 Bad request" error is responded.

Following images has been tested:
https://hub.docker.com/r/hopsoft/graphite-statsd/
https://hub.docker.com/r/kamon/grafana_graphite/
Any ideas, I'm missing something to configure additionally?

A: Despite the above explained issue there is is question related to Spring Boot Metrics export to Graphite over StatsD.
As described here http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/production-ready-metrics.html in section 49.8.3 Example: Export to Statsd there is a requirement only to add com.timgroup:java-statsd-client as dependency and add property spring.metrics.export.statsd.host.
Unfortunately nothing is send to Graphite (docker image running on local PC https://github.com/kamon-io/docker-grafana-graphite). I have checked network with Wireshark (udp.port=8125). Is there maybe something missing to add into Spring boot project with metrics?