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Meet the newest addition to Ocean County's fleet of pumpout boats: The Pollution Solution.
The boat, the seventh in the fleet, was named by seventh grade science students at Lavallette Elementary School.
The pumpout boats patrol Barnegat Bay and can hook up to private boats so they can cleanly empty their waste tanks. The free service prevents boaters from emptying the tanks directly into the bay, as had been a practice in years past. The pumpout boats can be accessed by contacting the captains on VHF Radio Channel 9.
The seven boats were all purchased by Ocean County with the costs being reimbursed through the Clean Vessel Act Grant and the NJ Shore-to-Please license plate program. Municipalities on the waterfront keep and maintain the boats through grant funding.
The county's newest freeholder, Virginia Haines, has a special connection to the program – when she was a member of the state General Assembly, she sponsored the legislation that created the Shore to Please license plate, which raised money to help get the program started.
Since the program began in 1997, more than 65,000 recreational boats have used the free service and more than 1.3 million gallons of effluent have been disposed of properly. The new boat will be operated by Seaside Park and will be working in the area of the central Barnegat Bay. Seaside Park also operates the first pumpout boat in the state, the Circle of Life, as well as the Waste Warrior.
The Pollution Solution, named by the students with the help of their teacher, Jill Lorenz, is a 23-foot boat with a 420 gallon holding tank.
The boats operate Memorial Day weekend through October each year, including major holidays like July 4, and have steadily expanded their operations.
For more information on the pumpout boat program visit the Ocean County Planning Department's website at www.planning.co.ocean.nj.us/coastal.htm.


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Q: Is destroying people's stuff worth it? I've been happily smashing my way through stacks of boxes and barrels so far, and while I find the process mildly enjoyable (about on par with popping bubble wrap), I can't help but notice that the rewards are paltry.  On average thus far, I seem to be ending up with 15-20 gold, if anything at all.  It slows me down to find ALL the crates in an area, and I can't help but wonder if I'd be better off just running past these items and braining monsters for their loot instead.
Do the rewards for breaking people's stuff scale up as I progress, or is this even worth the effort?  Will it always be gold, or can I find other useful/valuable items by smashing crates and barrels?

A: I think you're asking the wrong question.
Destructibles have two main purposes in KoA.
First, like so many Zelda games before it, it's always worthwhile to run around smashing pots, barrels, and everything else because someone stashed money in them. There's no reason to not take this free money, especially since gold doesn't take up any inventory space.
The second, is that destructibles have a tendency to hide chests and other interactable objects. In this case, the piddling amounts of gold you might glean from the destruction isn't the focus - the phat loots in the chests are. If you're unwilling to hunt down these boxes, you risk missing out on something much better, especially if you've got Detect Hidden (which gives greater chance for gold from destroyed objects)
The problem that you're running into, is that it's tedious to run around and make sure that every crate is smashed. So my solution? Stop running around smashing barrels. If you're investing into Archery, use your bow. It'll auto-target the destructibles and it shoots much faster than you can swing your melee weapons.
I thought the bow was the go-to choice to fight the barrel infestation. And then I found these bad boys.

Chakram's are ranged AoE weapons of awesome. All you have to do is get marginally close to your target, then tap a button and they all break.
Before:

After: Elapsed time: 1 click.

The charged moves are especially useful, and even investing only a single point will net you enough AoE to clear entire rooms (of barrels and enemies) with ease.
And where would I be without an appropriate picture to demonstrate the storied tradition of protagonist-on-crate violence‽

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package org.appspot.apprtc;

import org.appspot.apprtc.RoomParametersFetcher.RoomParametersFetcherEvents;
import org.appspot.apprtc.WebSocketChannelClient.WebSocketChannelEvents;
import org.appspot.apprtc.WebSocketChannelClient.WebSocketConnectionState;
import org.appspot.apprtc.util.AsyncHttpURLConnection;
import org.appspot.apprtc.util.AsyncHttpURLConnection.AsyncHttpEvents;
import org.appspot.apprtc.util.LooperExecutor;

import android.util.Log;

import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import org.webrtc.IceCandidate;
import org.webrtc.SessionDescription;

/**
 * Negotiates signaling for chatting with apprtc.appspot.com "rooms".
 * Uses the client<->server specifics of the apprtc AppEngine webapp.
 *
 * <p>To use: create an instance of this object (registering a message handler) and
 * call connectToRoom().  Once room connection is established
 * onConnectedToRoom() callback with room parameters is invoked.
 * Messages to other party (with local Ice candidates and answer SDP) can
 * be sent after WebSocket connection is established.
 */
public class WebSocketRTCClient implements AppRTCClient,
    WebSocketChannelEvents {
  private static final String TAG = "WSRTCClient";
  private static final String ROOM_JOIN = "join";
  private static final String ROOM_MESSAGE = "message";
  private static final String ROOM_LEAVE = "leave";

  private enum ConnectionState {
    NEW, CONNECTED, CLOSED, ERROR
  };
  private enum MessageType {
    MESSAGE, LEAVE
  };
  private final LooperExecutor executor;
  private boolean initiator;
  private SignalingEvents events;
  private WebSocketChannelClient wsClient;
  private ConnectionState roomState;
  private RoomConnectionParameters connectionParameters;
  private String messageUrl;
  private String leaveUrl;

  public WebSocketRTCClient(SignalingEvents events, LooperExecutor executor) {
    this.events = events;
    this.executor = executor;
    roomState = ConnectionState.NEW;
  }

  // --------------------------------------------------------------------
  // AppRTCClient interface implementation.
  // Asynchronously connect to an AppRTC room URL using supplied connection
  // parameters, retrieves room parameters and connect to WebSocket server.
  @Override
  public void connectToRoom(RoomConnectionParameters connectionParameters) {
    this.connectionParameters = connectionParameters;
    executor.requestStart();
    executor.execute(new Runnable() {
      @Override
      public void run() {
        connectToRoomInternal();
      }
    });
  }

  @Override
  public void disconnectFromRoom() {
    executor.execute(new Runnable() {
      @Override
      public void run() {
        disconnectFromRoomInternal();
      }
    });
    executor.requestStop();
  }

  // Connects to room - function runs on a local looper thread.
  private void connectToRoomInternal() {
    String connectionUrl = getConnectionUrl(connectionParameters);
    Log.d(TAG, "Connect to room: " + connectionUrl);
    roomState = ConnectionState.NEW;
    wsClient = new WebSocketChannelClient(executor, this);

    RoomParametersFetcherEvents callbacks = new RoomParametersFetcherEvents() {
      @Override
      public void onSignalingParametersReady(
          final SignalingParameters params) {
        WebSocketRTCClient.this.executor.execute(new Runnable() {
          @Override
          public void run() {
            WebSocketRTCClient.this.signalingParametersReady(params);
          }
        });
      }

      @Override
      public void onSignalingParametersError(String description) {
        WebSocketRTCClient.this.reportError(description);
      }
    };

    new RoomParametersFetcher(connectionParameters.loopback, connectionUrl,
        null, callbacks).makeRequest();
  }

  // Disconnect from room and send bye messages - runs on a local looper thread.
  private void disconnectFromRoomInternal() {
    Log.d(TAG, "Disconnect. Room state: " + roomState);
    if (roomState == ConnectionState.CONNECTED) {
      Log.d(TAG, "Closing room.");
      sendPostMessage(MessageType.LEAVE, leaveUrl, null);
    }
    roomState = ConnectionState.CLOSED;
    if (wsClient != null) {
      wsClient.disconnect(true);
    }
  }

  // Helper functions to get connection, post message and leave message URLs
  private String getConnectionUrl(
      RoomConnectionParameters connectionParameters) {
    return connectionParameters.roomUrl + "/" + ROOM_JOIN + "/"
        + connectionParameters.roomId;
  }

  private String getMessageUrl(RoomConnectionParameters connectionParameters,
      SignalingParameters signalingParameters) {
    return connectionParameters.roomUrl + "/" + ROOM_MESSAGE + "/"
      + connectionParameters.roomId + "/" + signalingParameters.clientId;
  }

  private String getLeaveUrl(RoomConnectionParameters connectionParameters,
      SignalingParameters signalingParameters) {
    return connectionParameters.roomUrl + "/" + ROOM_LEAVE + "/"
        + connectionParameters.roomId + "/" + signalingParameters.clientId;
  }

  // Callback issued when room parameters are extracted. Runs on local
  // looper thread.
  private void signalingParametersReady(
      final SignalingParameters signalingParameters) {
    Log.d(TAG, "Room connection completed.");
    if (connectionParameters.loopback
        && (!signalingParameters.initiator
            || signalingParameters.offerSdp != null)) {
      reportError("Loopback room is busy.");
      return;
    }
    if (!connectionParameters.loopback
        && !signalingParameters.initiator
        && signalingParameters.offerSdp == null) {
      Log.w(TAG, "No offer SDP in room response.");
    }
    initiator = signalingParameters.initiator;
    messageUrl = getMessageUrl(connectionParameters, signalingParameters);
    leaveUrl = getLeaveUrl(connectionParameters, signalingParameters);
    Log.d(TAG, "Message URL: " + messageUrl);
    Log.d(TAG, "Leave URL: " + leaveUrl);
    roomState = ConnectionState.CONNECTED;

    // Fire connection and signaling parameters events.
    events.onConnectedToRoom(signalingParameters);

    // Connect to WebSocket server.
    wsClient.connect(signalingParameters.wssUrl, signalingParameters.wssPostUrl,
        connectionParameters.roomId, signalingParameters.clientId);
  }

  // Send local offer SDP to the other participant.
  @Override
  public void sendOfferSdp(final SessionDescription sdp) {
    executor.execute(new Runnable() {
      @Override
      public void run() {
        if (roomState != ConnectionState.CONNECTED) {
          reportError("Sending offer SDP in non connected state.");
          return;
        }
        JSONObject json = new JSONObject();
        jsonPut(json, "sdp", sdp.description);
        jsonPut(json, "type", "offer");
        sendPostMessage(MessageType.MESSAGE, messageUrl, json.toString());
        if (connectionParameters.loopback) {
          // In loopback mode rename this offer to answer and route it back.
          SessionDescription sdpAnswer = new SessionDescription(
              SessionDescription.Type.fromCanonicalForm("answer"),
              sdp.description);
          events.onRemoteDescription(sdpAnswer);
        }
      }
    });
  }

  // Send local answer SDP to the other participant.
  @Override
  public void sendAnswerSdp(final SessionDescription sdp) {
    executor.execute(new Runnable() {
      @Override
      public void run() {
        if (connectionParameters.loopback) {
          Log.e(TAG, "Sending answer in loopback mode.");
          return;
        }
        if (wsClient.getState() != WebSocketConnectionState.REGISTERED) {
          reportError("Sending answer SDP in non registered state.");
          return;
        }
        JSONObject json = new JSONObject();
        jsonPut(json, "sdp", sdp.description);
        jsonPut(json, "type", "answer");
        wsClient.send(json.toString());
      }
    });
  }

  // Send Ice candidate to the other participant.
  @Override
  public void sendLocalIceCandidate(final IceCandidate candidate) {
    executor.execute(new Runnable() {
      @Override
      public void run() {
        JSONObject json = new JSONObject();
        jsonPut(json, "type", "candidate");
        jsonPut(json, "label", candidate.sdpMLineIndex);
        jsonPut(json, "id", candidate.sdpMid);
        jsonPut(json, "candidate", candidate.sdp);
        if (initiator) {
          // Call initiator sends ice candidates to GAE server.
          if (roomState != ConnectionState.CONNECTED) {
            reportError("Sending ICE candidate in non connected state.");
            return;
          }
          sendPostMessage(MessageType.MESSAGE, messageUrl, json.toString());
          if (connectionParameters.loopback) {
            events.onRemoteIceCandidate(candidate);
          }
        } else {
          // Call receiver sends ice candidates to websocket server.
          if (wsClient.getState() != WebSocketConnectionState.REGISTERED) {
            reportError("Sending ICE candidate in non registered state.");
            return;
          }
          wsClient.send(json.toString());
        }
      }
    });
  }

  // --------------------------------------------------------------------
  // WebSocketChannelEvents interface implementation.
  // All events are called by WebSocketChannelClient on a local looper thread
  // (passed to WebSocket client constructor).
  @Override
  public void onWebSocketOpen() {
    Log.d(TAG, "Websocket connection completed. Registering...");
    wsClient.register();
  }

  @Override
  public void onWebSocketMessage(final String msg) {
    if (wsClient.getState() != WebSocketConnectionState.REGISTERED) {
      Log.e(TAG, "Got WebSocket message in non registered state.");
      return;
    }
    try {
      JSONObject json = new JSONObject(msg);
      String msgText = json.getString("msg");
      String errorText = json.optString("error");
      if (msgText.length() > 0) {
        json = new JSONObject(msgText);
        String type = json.optString("type");
        if (type.equals("candidate")) {
          IceCandidate candidate = new IceCandidate(
              json.getString("id"),
              json.getInt("label"),
              json.getString("candidate"));
          events.onRemoteIceCandidate(candidate);
        } else if (type.equals("answer")) {
          if (initiator) {
            SessionDescription sdp = new SessionDescription(
                SessionDescription.Type.fromCanonicalForm(type),
                json.getString("sdp"));
            events.onRemoteDescription(sdp);
          } else {
            reportError("Received answer for call initiator: " + msg);
          }
        } else if (type.equals("offer")) {
          if (!initiator) {
            SessionDescription sdp = new SessionDescription(
                SessionDescription.Type.fromCanonicalForm(type),
                json.getString("sdp"));
            events.onRemoteDescription(sdp);
          } else {
            reportError("Received offer for call receiver: " + msg);
          }
        } else if (type.equals("bye")) {
          events.onChannelClose();
        } else {
          reportError("Unexpected WebSocket message: " + msg);
        }
      } else {
        if (errorText != null && errorText.length() > 0) {
          reportError("WebSocket error message: " + errorText);
        } else {
          reportError("Unexpected WebSocket message: " + msg);
        }
      }
    } catch (JSONException e) {
      reportError("WebSocket message JSON parsing error: " + e.toString());
    }
  }

  @Override
  public void onWebSocketClose() {
    events.onChannelClose();
  }

  @Override
  public void onWebSocketError(String description) {
    reportError("WebSocket error: " + description);
  }

  // --------------------------------------------------------------------
  // Helper functions.
  private void reportError(final String errorMessage) {
    Log.e(TAG, errorMessage);
    executor.execute(new Runnable() {
      @Override
      public void run() {
        if (roomState != ConnectionState.ERROR) {
          roomState = ConnectionState.ERROR;
          events.onChannelError(errorMessage);
        }
      }
    });
  }

  // Put a |key|->|value| mapping in |json|.
  private static void jsonPut(JSONObject json, String key, Object value) {
    try {
      json.put(key, value);
    } catch (JSONException e) {
      throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
  }

  // Send SDP or ICE candidate to a room server.
  private void sendPostMessage(
      final MessageType messageType, final String url, final String message) {
    String logInfo = url;
    if (message != null) {
      logInfo += ". Message: " + message;
    }
    Log.d(TAG, "C->GAE: " + logInfo);
    AsyncHttpURLConnection httpConnection = new AsyncHttpURLConnection(
      "POST", url, message, new AsyncHttpEvents() {
        @Override
        public void onHttpError(String errorMessage) {
          reportError("GAE POST error: " + errorMessage);
        }

        @Override
        public void onHttpComplete(String response) {
          if (messageType == MessageType.MESSAGE) {
            try {
              JSONObject roomJson = new JSONObject(response);
              String result = roomJson.getString("result");
              if (!result.equals("SUCCESS")) {
                reportError("GAE POST error: " + result);
              }
            } catch (JSONException e) {
              reportError("GAE POST JSON error: " + e.toString());
            }
          }
        }
      });
    httpConnection.send();
  }
}

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HogMaw is an American band from York, Pennsylvania, United States.  The music of HogMaw has been described as a combination of bluegrass, folk, funk, and heavy metal called "thundergrass".

History
HogMaw formed in 2008 when fiddler Ryann Lynch met guitarist Matt Baldwin and banjo and mandolin player Colin Reeves at a folk music festival in rural New Jersey. HogMaw has appeared as a featured group on Philadelphia-area public radio station WXPN's Folk Show. In June 2011, the band entered a band competition sponsored by the Philadelphia Folksong Society, which invited campground musicians from its annual music festival to compete for a chance to perform on stage. HogMaw was one of two bands who won, and later that August they opened on the main stage of the annual 50th Philadelphia Folk Festival, one of the largest in North America.

Hogmaw performed at the Bucks County Bluegrass Festival in 2011.

HogMaw is also featured in the independent film At Fest. The music and members of HogMaw are included in the 2013 trailer for the feature-length documentary.

HogMaw released its first album, Wake, in July 2012. To raise money for the project, they used crowdfunding website Kickstarter ultimately doubling their goal and raising $2,400 from supporters of the band.  The album received a positive review at Tristate. The group entered the studio in early 2013 and recorded a second album, Ideal Proof with producer Dom Flemons.

In 2014, Hogmaw performed at the Little Buffalo Festival and the Spring Pickin' Bluegrass Festival in Pennsylvania.  In 2015 they performed at the Camp Jam in the Pines Music Festival in New Jersey.

Members
Matt Baldwin - guitar, vocals
Colin Reeves - mandolin, banjo, vocals
Ryann Lynch - fiddle, vocals
Johnny Calimari - upright bass

Discography
Wake (2012)
Ideal Proof (2013)

References

External links
 Official site
 HogMaw at Last.fm

American bluegrass music groups
Musical groups from New Jersey

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32× Justifiable Casualty (Trillium)
32× I Want You (The King Blues)
32× Closed Casket (Mos Generator)
32× Whipping boy (Red Rider)
The Rising Tide (Imany)
How do you fight the rising tide? How do you flee the dark in skies from here? After the Earth has been so kind Then welcome greed with open arms How do you said, just we're perceived? There's no time to grieve No, no, no, no There won't be no man around No more seasons, no more reasons No, no, no, no There won't be no man around No more seasons, no more reasons This world of us collapse We live in denial How do you trust the human kind? How do you mend the broken line from here? How do you greet the year at night When tears of trees are streaming down? How do you said, just we're perceived 'Cause there's no time, no to grieve No, no, no, no There won't be no man around No more seasons, no more reasons No, no, no, no There won't be no man around No more seasons, no more reasons This world of us collapse Think about it once, think about it twice Money won't replace what matters I'm saying Think about it once and think about it twice Money won't replace what matters No matter how much you lie to yourself No, no, no, no There won't be no man around No more seasons, no more reasons No, no, no, no There won't be no man around No more seasons, no more reasons This world of us collapse We live in denial How do you fight the rising tide? How do you mend the broken line? And sleep
Interpret: Imany

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Hitchhikers Guide to the Cosmos, Our Blue Planet & Life Everlasting
Dan Akin
Daniel (Danny) Lowell Akin (born January 2, 1957) is the sixth president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and the College at Southeastern in Wake Forest, North Carolina
June 5, 2015: Baptist Global News: Pastor criticizes seminary president's endorsement of secularist group
Randy White, pastor of the 2,500-member First Baptist Church in Katy, Texas, said Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary President Danny Akin should "repent" for his recent online affirmation of Openly Secular, a campaign to improve the image of non-believers led by atheist activist Todd Steifel.
Apr 6, 2015: Baptist Press: Baptists sign SCOTUS gay marriage case brief
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary President Daniel Akin, among the signatories, emphasized in a written statement to Baptist Press the importance of protecting free speech as the cultural definition of marriage evolves.
Jan 23, 2015: Between The Lines: In Case You Missed It
5) This week SEBTS held its opening convocation for the spring semester. Danny Akin preached on Acts 10:1–48 and the gospel for all nations.
Jan 5, 2015: Tim Challies: Good Doctrine Wins People, Not Arguments
Justification means "just as if I've never sinned" and "just as if I've always obeyed perfectly," as my friend Daniel Akin has said. Jesus Christ can forgive you entirely, and give you His perfect righteousness.
Dec 18, 2014: Baptist Press: Akin tells grads of 'Win-Win Scenario'
Daniel Akin, Southeastern's president, spoke on "The Ultimate Win-Win Scenario" in his commencement address. "The Lord is now sending you out to serve across North America and around the world to take the life-changing Gospel of Jesus Christ to those who desperately need to hear it," Akin said. "We are very proud of you and thankful for you."
Sept 8, 2014: 5 Pt Salt: Daniel Akin & Al Mohler's Denial of Original Sin
Daniel Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Seminary, along with Al Mohler have written a position on infant death. I think it's important here to recognize that their arguments are a basic denial of original sin, namely, that all who are born in Adam as their federal head and representative are guilty of trespass before God, His Law, and stand in condemnation at birth. This is not "hyper-calvinism" but a very biblical foundation of the Christian faith – Man stands condemned because he was born in Adam!
Daniel (Danny) Lowell Akin (born January 2, 1957) is the sixth president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and the College at Southeastern in Wake Forest, North Carolina. A leader in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), he has authored and edited numerous books and journal articles and is best known for his commitment to expository preaching and to the Great Commission.
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You know the saying.............time flys when you're having fun! Loved the camping with the girls pretty quilts.............that must have helped to feel a bit like home. You sure are brave, all of you..........enjoy!
AND not so much loving you have crashed .. .. .. wish I could bring dinner ;'( BUT a yarn shop is a bonus !! !!
Awesome to see how settled you all seem - neat to have some momentos from home there already and wonderful to see your new life through the girls' eyes and the camera. My sister moves countries for her work and I know how unsettling it can be on the family. Enjoy spring!


Contract Pending. On market for back up offers, subject to original buyers having 48 hours to exercise their first right to purchase. Huge, well maintained 2 story home with over 4000 finished square feet, 5 bedrooms, 3 car garage, tucked away on an over-sized corner lot in Pacific Meadows and situated across the street from the West Papio Trail! Recent updates include remodeled kitchen and master bathrooms, many windows replaced throughout, new carpet in upstairs bedrooms and basement, whole exterior repainted, a new water heater, and more! Located in the award winning Millard School District, and minutes from shopping, dining and the West Dodge Expressway, you will be proud to call this home for many years to come!


Green Bay - Edward C. "Dewey" Vandenack III, age 81, a lifelong resident of Green Bay, passed away Wednesday, March 20, 2019. He was born November 22, 1937 in Green Bay, son of the late Edward C. and LaVerne (Ritter) Vandenack II and was a graduate of Green Bay East High School, Class of 1957.
Ed married JoAnne Detrie, May 6, 1961 and the couple shared 54 loving years of marriage before JoAnne passed away in 2016. He was a proud founding member of the Magnetos Motorcycle Club with several of his lifelong friends.
Ed was a member of the Green Bay Fire Department, serving the community for 3 decades, where he enjoyed the camaraderie of his fellow firefighters and cooking many delicious meals for them.
Ed had a unique and fun sense of humor and loved to prank any unsuspecting victim. His dedication to family was first and foremost with summer camping trips and involvement with athletics and other activities for his children/grandchildren. Edward's children will proudly share his legacy of service to the Green Bay community and his memory will live on through his family.
Visitation will be held at Newcomer-Green Bay Chapel (340 S. Monroe Ave., Green Bay), Sunday, March 24, 2019 from 4 to 6 PM. A final salute by the Green Bay Fire Department and sharing of memories will follow at 6 PM. To leave an online condolence for the family, please visit www.NewcomerGreenBay.com.
Ed's family would like to thank the entire staff at Woodside Manor as well as Heartland Hospice for their excellent care and compassion.
"sorry for your loss. He is now with Joanne. love you guys..."
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It is important for one to learn both sides of having a home garden. While a home garden tend to be attractive to the eyes, one would also need to know that the same garden can attract bugs. Where one has no other option of getting rid of the bad bugs, he or she can only get help from the good bugs. One would need to for example know that adult lady beetle is very good at eating mites, aphids, and mealybugs which are all ad bugs to the garden. One would need to look at the ground beetle as a friend to your garden as they tend to eat slugs, snails, and cabbage maggots. Where one's home in infested by caterpillars, he or she would be more than lucky to have ground beetles in his or her garden. Where the bugs are neither destructive to the garden or to the family, it would be modest for one to let them be.
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A lost virtue in today's world is the ability to have a long perspective. We wildly overestimate what we can get done in a week or a month and we drastically underestimate what we can get done in five or ten years. So, make five year plans. Make ten year plans. Don't let things that aren't connected to your long perspective demand too much attention.
Why is the long perspective hard? We intuitively know that there are thousands of unexpected things that happen in a year or two, let alone five years. That gets overwhelming so we keep our focus on a shorter horizon.
But that is exactly the point: a lot happens in 5 years. Just because you can't predict it doesn't mean you should waddle half-hazardly through it. Having a long perspective doesn't mean you have planned for everything, it just means you have long goals. When the unexpected happens adjust or capitalize.
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Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)
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Mountain Rivera, a punchy has-been managed by the unprincipled Maish, is mauled in a fight and forced to quit boxing. Can his devoted cutman and a sympathetic social worker help him find a ... See full summary »
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Action | Adventure | History
In 1948, at the U.S. embassy in Zadestan, a young diplomat is ordered to find the missing daughter of an influential U.S. Senator.
Director: James Fargo
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Michael Sarrazin, Christopher Lee
The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969)
Comedy | Drama | War
During WWII in Italy, a wine producing village hide a million bottles from the Germans
Director: Stanley Kramer
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Virna Lisi
Guns for San Sebastian (1968)
Action | Adventure | Drama
In 1743, outlaw Leon Alastray is hunted by the Spanish army but is given sanctuary by a priest in a village terrorized by marauding Yaqui Indians.
Director: Henri Verneuil
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Anjanette Comer, Charles Bronson
Patterns (1956)
When Fred Staples is recruited onto the board of a high-powered New York corporation, he finds his ethics and ambition at odds.
Director: Fielder Cook
Stars: Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley
An unwed pregnant teenager is run out of town and years later she returns there as a rich woman, raising the town's expectations with her generosity, but she's only out for revenge.
Director: Bernhard Wicki
Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Paolo Stoppa
I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967)
The professional and romantic misadventures of an advertising executive in 1960s swinging London.
Director: Michael Winner
Stars: Oliver Reed, Orson Welles, Carol White
Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (TV Movie 1988)
Biography of the life of Aristotle Onassis, a Greek who rose to become one of the world's most wealthiest men, detailing his rise to power and unhappy marriages.
Director: Waris Hussein
Stars: Raul Julia, Jane Seymour, Anthony Quinn
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In WW2, a Romanian Gentile peasant is denounced by the village gendarme and sent to a concentration camp for Jews where, due to an error, he's drafted into the SS.
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Virna Lisi, Grégoire Aslan
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In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling but their ship is taken over by pirates who become fond of the kids.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Stars: Anthony Quinn, James Coburn, Dennis Price
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Famous Spanish bandit Artiguez returns to his native Spanish village after 20 years in French exile but Spanish cop Vinolas is setting a trap for him.
Director: Fred Zinnemann
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Director: Robert Parrish
Stars: Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, James Mason
After his mistress is savagely beaten up a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Frederic Forrest, Robert Forster
Anthony Quinn ... Louis 'Mountain' Rivera
Jackie Gleason ... Maish Rennick
Mickey Rooney ... Army
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Stanley Adams ... Perelli (as Stan Adams)
Madame Spivy ... Ma Greeny
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Mountain Rivera, a punchy has-been managed by the unprincipled Maish, is mauled in a fight and forced to quit boxing. Can his devoted cutman and a sympathetic social worker help him find a life outside the ring, or will Maish find a way to exploit him one more time? Written by John Whorfin
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The original theatrical release (@ 102 minutes) includes the following three segments which were removed from the VHS and DVD releases (both of which are approximately 86 minutes):
Following the fade on Ma Greeny's reaction shot as Maish is beaten in the boxing ring, there is a seven minute sequence in the hotel bar and adjacent alley: Maish asks Mountain if he has any money stashed away (to pay off Ma Greeny); Mountain recognizes and stops to help a bleeding, drunk fighter in the alley and gets into a fight with his scumbag promoter of illegal matches, which is broken up by Army and Maish, who rejects scumbag's idea of getting Mountain a wrestling career with Pirelli. Scene ends with Maish's clichés about the Three Musketeers and "Til death do us part" that reinforce the illusion that "Nobody jumps anybody in this group!"
A 1 minute 43 second transitional sequence after Mountain is rejected for the movie usher job shows him rejected as he tries to get a job on a moving van crew and as a sparring partner for a boxer who's training to fight Clay. Again he starts a fight after the boxer says, "I already got a punching bag!"
A 6 minute 27 second sequence after Maish's reaction shot in the stairway following his confrontation with Grace Miller. Pirelli is coaching Mountain in the gym to "make it look real!" Again Mountain starts punching his wrestling partner after his seriously injured eye is intentionally reinjured. Ma Greeny's goon squad warns Maish that he has till tomorrow to come up with the cash. And Ma Greeny tells Maish that "we're cutting out the middleman" and that Pirelli will pay her directly for Mountain's wrestling contract. Maish says, "I wish you weren't a woman," and Ma replies, "Maishy darling, that's the nicest thing anyone ever said to me!"
The VHS release adds an additional scene (@ 1 minute 11 seconds) which was cut from both the theatrical and DVD releases. [Since the DVD restores the original sequence at this point, and significantly changes the emotional focus of the ending, the DVD is preferable to the VHS release.] As Mountain ascends (both literally and figuratively) to the wrestling ring, the deleted scene has Maish warning the newbie who wants to sign a boxing contract replacing Mountain to "Go home!" instead of starting a career in which there are only eight champions and everybody else is a loser. The VHS also cuts medium shot in which the referree says, "Come on, Mountain, let's get this show on the road!" and, more significantly, the closeup in which Mountain makes the crucial decision to embrace his humiliation and starts his warwhoop dance around the ring.
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This is a golden oldie if there ever was one. Adapted from Rod Serling's earlier `Playhouse 90' TV drama, it improved greatly on the original by taking full advantage of the film medium, including moody film-noir lighting, an excellent music score, and superb direction. Anthony Quinn is excellent, getting all the pathos out of the role without overdoing it. Mickey Rooney and Jackie Gleason, neither of whom is renowned for subtlety and restraint, hit just the right note in their performances, as does Julie Harris. The ending of this film couldn't be more different than the `Playhouse 90' ending. One of the more bizarre elements of this film, which was not in the original TV play, is the character of Ma Greeney, a really frightening person and the only example I am aware of in film of a lesbian gangster (and in 1962, yet). I can still remember how startled I was to see this character when I first watched this film on TV back in the late 1960s.
The new DVD of `Requiem for a Heavyweight' offers both a full-screen and wide-screen presentation. The quality of the transfer is really outstanding. The liner notes indicate that it is mastered in high definition. While I don't have the hardware to watch it in high-def., I can say that on an ordinary monitor it looks outstanding. Perhaps the sharpest DVD picture I've ever seen. The sound is clear, and the subtitles are very helpful in picking out dialog that may be indistinct, or not easily understood because of Anthony Quinn's manner of delivering the lines while in character.
However. It seems to me that at least one whole scene and a part of another scene is missing. I distinctly remember Maish (Jackie Gleason) telling Ma Greeney what he would do to her if she weren't a lady. In response, she laughs and says `that's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me.' This is part of the early scene where Maish is attacked in an abandoned boxing ring by Ma's thugs. There is another whole scene I can recall in which Mountain (Anthony Quinn) is practicing holds with a wrestler. He asks that the wrestler stay away from his injured eye, and when he purposely goes for the eye, Mountain punches his lights out. The cuts I recall seeing on TV years ago always included these scenes, and I've never seen this shortened cut of the film before. It's still a great film, but I really miss these two scenes.


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In a previous post, we already showed different options to draft the harem pants pattern from scratch. Our goal now is to show you how to design harem pants, by modifying a commercial pants pattern, or one you drafted yourself.
Don't be overwhelmed by how this sounds, this is another beginner-friendly project.
Again, there are three different approaches to this task that I am going to show you in this lesson. The designs you see in the pictures below were created using these exact steps. Feel free to choose the one that is going to work best for you.
This is how I made the pattern for this pair of pants.
You can see that the crotch doesn't go too low, just a couple of inches. I worked on an existing pattern. I kept all its features, including the fly, the zipper and the pockets. The only thing I changed was the crotch rise.
To achieve a similar look to the image on the left, you should choose this variant of altering the pattern.
It is not a big change, just 5-6 inches/12-15 cm lower than the original rise of the crotch. That's why we need to keep the curve in its original shape.
it is not going to restrict the movement of the body. I wouldn't recommend this variant of modifying the pants pattern if you want a really low crotch. If you do, you should straighten the crotch curve, or even better, use some of the other two variants to modify the pants pattern.
In this variation, we need to alter both the front and the back pattern detail. We are going to cut and sew 4 details, as we do with a regular pants pattern.
The only measurement for this pattern modification is the crotch rise. Just measure how low you would like the crotch to go.
decide how low you want to make the crotch line go. As I said, in my case, it was 5-6 inches/12-15 cm lower than the original rise of the crotch. Make sure to apply the same distance on both the front and the back panel of the pattern (figure 1).
use a french curve ruler or any other way to replicate the crotch curves exactly (figure 2). Keep in mind that there is a difference between the front and the back crotch curve. Keep them as they are.
starting at the waistline, measure and mark the same distance that you are about to use to lower the crotch (figure 3).
move the duplicated crotch curves down, starting at the new mark and finishing at the end of the first arrows (figure 3).
redraw the curve, then connect the end of the curve with the leg in as natural shape as possible.
the new pattern should look like the drawing on figure 5.
You can make this modification to any pattern size.
In this variation, you can choose to alter both front and back pattern detail (especially if you keep the darts and zip), or just one of them. We are going to draft 1/2 front/back and use only two pattern details to cut.
leg opening, where your harem pants would end. It could be the ankle, the knee or the calf, according to your preferences.
again, we have to decide how low we would like to draft the crotch and mark point A (figure 1). Then, make a horizontal line that starts approximately in the middle of the leg and, passing through point A, extends double the length from start to point A. Mark point B at the end of the line we've just drafted (figure 2). We don't have to be absolutely precise here. We are going to adjust the overall length of this line later.
mark point C at the middle front/back detail (figure 3). Connect points B and C.
from the outer leg towards the middle of the pattern detail, measure as wide as the width of the dart (if there is any) and mark point D (figure 3). We do this if we want to make the harem pants without the dart. That would be in case we modify the pattern for knit or stretchy fabrics that don't need shaping with darts. In case you are keeping the dart, you should keep the width of the waist as it is. Keep in mind that in that case, you are probably going to need a zip, which you should add at the side seam. Starting at the waist, draw a straight line down. This line should be as long as you want the harem pants to be. At the end of that line, mark point E (figure 3).
from point E towards the middle, apply 1/2 of the leg opening circumference and mark point F (figure 4).
connect point F to point B (figure 5).
adjust the position of point B and the crotch line curve, so that you get a nice right angle in the middle (figure 6).
The third way to design harem pants is very similar to the one above. In my opinion, it's the easiest way to do it.
We are going to need the same measurements as in variant 2.
take the pattern detail and position it so that the waist and the crotch match the edge of the paper. Mark those two points as A and B (figure 1).
measure the crotch rise and mark point C (figure 2).
measure and mark the desired length on the outer seam (figure 3).
from the outer seam inwards, apply 1/2 leg opening circumference.
connect the inner leg opening with point C.
redraw the curve so that the angle in the middle of the crotch curve is right (90-degree angle).
in the middle of the waist, re-draw the line to form a more natural line.
You can see the new pattern with a higher and a lower rise on figures 2 and 3.
I hope you are going to find those tree ways to design harem pants useful and the instructions easy to follow. If I can help with anything, please ask here or email me through the contact form.
I've used two of the variants to draft my own harem pants and they turned out great! I actually find it easier to make than to draft them from scratch. Thank you.


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We all knew it was coming, Suning already revealed all there is to know about the device, but it is always good to hear from the source. HMD Global has today officially unwrapped a refresh and the sequel to its 2017 mid-range smartphone – the Nokia 6 (2018). The device has a unibody design crafted out of a 6000 series aluminum chassis – a product of a two-color anodization process and diamond cutting technology.
Unsurprisingly, the device retains the traditional 16: 9 ratio design element, but has now ditched the capacitive touch buttons below the display in favor of on-screen buttons, while the fingerprint scanner has found a location to the rear.
The highlight of the Nokia 6 (2018) is the presence of a Dual-Sight technology that is only presently found in Nokia 7 and Nokia 8. It uses both front and rear cameras simultaneously directly from your camera app to create Bothie – a split screen visual for both photos and videos. It features a 16MP primary camera with f/2.0 aperture and an 8-megapixel front-facing camera. The rear features dual-tone LED flash, PDAF, 1.0um pixel size, while the front camera features 1.12 pixel size, and 84° wide-angle lens.
Inside the aluminum unibody design is a 5.5-inch 1080p display covered with 2.5D curved glass and Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. The Nokia 6 (2018) will sadly boot Android 7.1.1 Nougat out of the box, with a Snapdragon 630 Mobile platform coupled with 4 GB of RAM and 32/64 GB of internal storage expandable to 128 GB via a micro-SD card.
The device has almost the same battery capacity as the Nokia 8 – 3,000 mAh non-battery with fast charging technology that can supposedly charge up to 50% in 30 minutes. Connectivity options include a 3.5 mm jack, a type-C port, GPS, Bluetooth 5.0, 4G VoLTE, and WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n.
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Quilliam Foundation: All Muslims are Dangerous Except Us
Abu Reem
The report is a bit dated, but it seems that Quilliam continues to make a mockery of taxpayer money in UK. Last year, I reported and exposed Quilliam for the treacherous organization it is, and its mischievous goals for Muslims in UK. However, it seems they continue to blindside the UK government and continue to engage in an active witch-hunt against all Muslim groups that are really Muslim!
Quilliam's founders, Ed Hussein and Majid Nawaz are part of the "Ex-Extremist" cottage industry, who unfortunately collect from fearful governments and individuals in the hope that as ex-extremists, their experiences will help protect the society at risk (according to them).
In its latest leaked report, supposed to be confidential (for obvious reasons as they didn't want to be caught snitching, but more importantly snitching AND lying), Quilliam wants to government to know that all Muslim organizations that actually are Muslim in action, not just in name, are thus "Islamists" and thus dangerous. Quilliam wants the government to stop interacting and engaging dangerous groups, such as MCB (Muslim Council of Britain), Muslim Safety Forum, Islam Channel of course, and a bunch of other organizations. The more the government stops engaging these groups, of course, the more attention Quilliam gets. Perfect case of self-serving deceptive interests.
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Inayat Bunglawala, chair of Muslims4Uk and a former MCB spokesperson, said: "This is just like something straight out of a Stasi manual. The advice from Quilliam is frankly appalling and incredibly self-serving".
See more in the article below:
List sent to terror chief aligns peaceful Muslim groups with terrorist ideology
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A secret list prepared for a top British security official accuses peaceful Muslim groups, politicians, a television channel and a Scotland Yard unit of sharing the ideology of terrorists.
The list was drawn up for Charles Farr, the director general of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism (OSCT), a directorate of the Home Office. Farr is a former senior intelligence officer.
It was sent to him in June by the Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremism thinktank which has received about £1m in government funding.
Quilliam was co-founded by Ed Husain and Maajid Nawaz, former activists in the radical Islamist party Hizb ut-Tahrir. Critics of the foundation accused it of McCarthyite smear tactics and branded its claims ridiculous. The foundation declined repeated requests for comment.
The document sent to Farr is entitled "Preventing terrorism; where next for Britain?" It lists alleged extremist sympathisers, including the Muslim Council of Britain, the main umbrella group in Britain for Islamic organisations. It also claims that a Scotland Yard counter-terrorism squad called the Muslim Contact Unit is dominated by extremist ideology.
Other groups include the Muslim Safety Forum, which works with the police to improve community relations, the Islamic Human Rights Commission, and even the Islam Channel, which provides television programmes for Muslims on satellite.
The briefing document says: "The ideology of non-violent Islamists is broadly the same as that of violent Islamists; they disagree only on tactics.
"These are a selection of the various groups and institutions active in the UK which are broadly sympathetic to Islamism. Whilst only a small proportion will agree with al-Qaida's tactics, many will agree with their overall goal of creating a single 'Islamic state' which would bring together all Muslims around the world under a single government and then impose on them a single interpretation of sharia as state law."
The document adds that if local or central government engages with such groups "it risks empowering proponents of the ideology, if not the methodology, that is behind terrorism".
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Guardian: List sent to terror chief aligns peaceful Muslim groups with terrorist ideology
In this particular case, the new British government wants to slash it's spending in a very tough austerity program and QF is doing whatever it can think of to hang on to its budget!
If these lot at QF want to help Britain fight its enemies, then why dont the weasils join the army and fight on the front line? Sounds like these "ex"-terrorists have got the right experience.
They can then use their wages to fund their stupid organisation.
They should stop sponging off the state.
"The ideology of non-violent Islamists is broadly the same as that of violent Islamists; they disagree only on tactics."
This is their mantra they use to ostracize any grass-roots representative Muslim organization that doesn't toe the neocon party line. They make the Muslim Council of Britain as if they share the same "goals" as Al-Qaeda. Even if, for the sake of argument, the MCB was a direct surrogate of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, the claim is still untrue. The leading figures in the MB do not share the same ideology as the leading figures of rogue Salafi Jihadism.
Quilliam is a dangerous organization. They were ideological extremists in Hizbu Tahir, and they are ideological extremists now; they've just converted to another ideology, that's all.
Agree. They are the flip-side of the radicals.
Looks like they are being exported to the U.S. now:
http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/38448/ex-islamist-husain-fight-extremism-usa
MuslimMatters falls under Ed's definition of 'extremism'. You have been warned!
Thanks for the warning. If we didn't fall under it, then we'd be worried that we are doing something really wrong!
Apparently Ed is on his way to America… not enough "extremists" in England apparently, so he is coming to do his branding in America.
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Climate Crises Can Lead to Improved Social Cooperation and Economy
by April M. Short
Chemical plant, Albany, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair.
The going assumption is that the impacts of climate disasters on institutions and economics will be negative. However, this is not always the case. Climate disasters can actually have the opposite effect, historically, as shown in a recent article about climate-related disasters in ancient Mesopotamia. The study found that climate-related tensions in effect forced greater cooperation and a more widespread distribution of power across social sectors.
The article, "Climate Change and State Evolution," was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) on April 6 and was authored by Carmine Guerriero from the University of Bologna in Italy and Giacomo Benati from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in Germany. The authors note in the article's abstract that prior literature on climate disasters in ancient societies focuses on "collapse archaeology," and tends to correlate "severe droughts" with "institutional crises." The article instead used a game theory approach to analyze a stream of papers that have been published in recent years on Bronze Age Mesopotamia that challenge this narrative.
As the article's abstract states, the papers the authors analyzed for the study have been "building on more detailed data on Bronze Age Mesopotamia and a more credible theory-based empirical strategy." The abstract further states that the authors' study of these papers yielded the following two results:
"First, severe droughts pushed the elites to grant strong political and property rights to the non-elites to convince them that a sufficient part of the returns on joint investments would be shared via public good provision and, thus, to cooperate and accumulate a culture of cooperation. Second, a more favorable climate allowed the elites to elicit cooperation under less inclusive political regimes as well as a weaker culture of cooperation and, possibly, incomplete property rights."
April M. Short of the Independent Media Institute interviewed the PNAS article's authors, Carmine Guerriero and Giacomo Benati, about how their findings might provide insights relevant to the current global climate disaster and economic realities.
April M. Short: Your article notes that natural disasters/climate crises do not always translate to institutional collapse or crises, though this has been the narrative in most of the available literature up until now. This research shows an example of just the opposite occurring—progress born from a difficult reality. Why was it important for you and your team to provide what can be looked at as an alternative piece of literature and insight into crises?
Giacomo Benati and Carmine Guerriero: First, our framework proposes a theory of hope. It implies that societies embrace more inclusive political, fiscal and legal orders for the sake of enduring cooperation in the face of unfavorable environmental conditions. This idea is in contrast with mainstream narratives in archaeology and economics, respectively linking climate change with tales of overshoot and collapse, or characterizing (preindustrial) state formation as a protection racket with ruling elites acting as "robber barons" and seeking solely to extract rents from powerless citizens via coercive means. In the same vein, [the mainstream narrative of most economics literature, sometimes called "history curse" literature] has been painting a rather gloomy and fatalistic portrait based on the idea that today's economic and institutional outcomes are determined by historical characteristics whose persistence shackles the present, thus entailing that if a country has a history of autocracy, a democratic transition would be unlikely.
Second, it is important to stress the fact that we can attempt to tackle pressing social issues, such as climate change, also by gathering important insights from the past. Ancient societies can be considered "completed social experiments," and as such they provide rich records and time-deep perspectives about the impact of climate change on human communities—perspectives that we would otherwise lack if we were only to consider the contemporary world. However, archaeologists and historians feature very little in policy-making efforts that are aimed at proposing solutions for reducing the social and economic impact of environmental changes—possibly because of the fallacious reasoning that climate change is an inherently modern problem. To make headway in climate change scenario planning, it would be important to exploit the potential of historical and paleoclimatic records in combination with methods and theories from applied economics that allow specifying causal pathways in historical dynamics.
Short: How did you decide on a game theory approach to this research, and how would you explain your research in layman's terms for our readers?
Guerriero: Instead of guessing the determinants of state evolution as most of the empirical research on state evolution does, our aim is to identify them by analyzing the rational choices of elites and non-elites. Operationally, we study the possible cooperation between these two groups in a joint investment such as a farming activity. When the expected investment return is limited—but not too tiny to avoid any cooperation—the non-elites cooperate only when their property rights are fully protected and they have been granted the more inclusive political process and, thus, the power to fully tax the output and produce their preferred public goods.
These reforms are favored by the non-elites [through the] accumulation of a culture of cooperation, i.e., the internalized return from cooperating in any economic activity. Intuitively, a larger implicit reward from cooperation credibly signals the non-elites' commitment to invest even in activities inducing a small payoff and, thus, receiving a little value from public goods provisions. When, instead, the expected investment return is intermediate, the elites do not need to give up their preferred public good and accept full taxation to entice the non-elites, who, in turn, do not need to accumulate a large culture of cooperation to credibly signal participation. Then, the elites do not enact the more inclusive political institution, and the tax rate falls with the investment return. Yet, the protection of the non-elites' properties must be complete to assure their participation in investment. When, finally, the investment return is sufficiently large, the elites can also restrict the non-elites' property rights.
Short: What was the most surprising thing you found in your research about this society and these social structures, and why?
Benati: It is a widely held assumption in both historical and social-scientific disciplines that early state societies were characterized by endemic warfare, lack of economic development, and predatory regimes that ruled unconstrained over masses who had no enforceable rights. This is a portrait that fits well with works of fiction, such as "Apocalypto" by Mel Gibson or "300" by Frank Miller, but that does not seem to agree with an in-depth scrutiny of historical evidence.
In fact, our research, by combining state-of-the-art concepts about the conditions that drive the rise of political institutions, derived from politics and economics, and a detailed database about early Mesopotamian states, was able to overturn this age-old idea and precisely establish which environmental-related factors incentivized Mesopotamian elites to expand the political franchise by integrating certain formerly disenfranchised groups into their governments, providing a larger share of public goods and more secure enforcement of property rights over land to farmers, and achieving at times remarkable economic development. This is an idea that matches with the view—stretching back to thinkers of the caliber of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau—that the state is created as a social contract among individuals for solving development problems.
Short: Why did you decide to focus your research on climate change and societal cooperation in ancient Mesopotamia in particular?
Benati: There are three main reasons. First, we decided to focus on Mesopotamia because my team member Federico Zaina and I have spent several years perfecting the knowledge of Mesopotamian history and archaeology, and therefore Mesopotamia is the ancient society that we know best.
Second, Mesopotamia is not only among the very first places in human history in which states and writing emerged, but it is also one of the best-documented ancient societies due to the fact that the writing medium of choice—clay tablets—unlike perishable materials such as paper, wax, and papyri, is incredibly durable. This has made it possible to recover thousands of documents that illustrate in striking detail the functioning of political institutions. The availability and quality of proxies allowed us to credibly link environmental changes with the changes occurring at the economic and political level in Mesopotamian history and study their coevolution.
Third, understanding the nexus between environmental/political change and cooperation is at the core of a new strand of literature in historical economics, targeting the biogeographic drivers behind state formation in the preindustrial world—and my co-author [Guerriero] has vastly contributed to this line of research. Thus, we decided to combine our unique knowledge of the historical experiment and of the theories about the geographic-related incentives behind state formation.
Short: The idea of climate crises stimulating social restructuring and what some would consider advancement seems relevant to our current reality. Could you speak to this a bit? Can this ancient model and the findings of this study potentially inform the challenges we currently face on a global scale with climate crises, a pandemic and increased natural disasters?
Benati and Guerriero: We believe it is relevant because, as we say in the paper, the negative effects of climate change on our economies are unmistakable, but we don't know yet—global warming being a relatively recent phenomenon—what kind of long-term effects it will have on our political systems. Our findings clarify that democratization episodes, both in preindustrial and industrial societies, tend to follow dips in income and, more generally, adverse production shocks, and, thus, climate change might ease institutional formation in the long run.
First, generally our results imply that institutions evolve to tackle economically relevant technological failures and that it is absurd to believe that societies remain stuck in eternal institutional traps. Second, our findings will help identify reforms that ease the endogenous rise of the state's institutional capacity in developing countries where transplantation has failed. Both types of societies share a lack of institutionalized decision-making power and a culture of cooperation and, in turn, the difficulty to cooperate in more complex economic activities and to escape the Malthusian trap.
We are currently testing our model, linking climate change and state evolution on a new panel dataset—which is based on factors such as drought severity, farming production, political institutions and public goods—using 39 samples from among the most agriculturally-based developing countries, observed for each year between 1960 and 2018. Preliminary results are consistent with both our time-inconsistency theory of state evolution and the results we obtained for ancient Mesopotamia. Severe drought is linked to reforms toward more democratic regimes and a shift of public spending from military to education expenses.
Short: Do you think there is hope for cooperation similar to that in your article, to provide guidance to the societies of today?
Guerriero: Our findings suggest that in the aftermath of major adverse production shocks, policymakers should calibrate their intervention to the degree which complements the skills of differently powered groups, rather than mechanically limiting heterogeneity and enacting more inclusive political institutions or assuring the rule of law for the non-elites. When the degree of skill complementarity is large, cooperation must be elicited by favoring the participation of elites and non-elites in joint investments. That, in turn, will lead to the endogenous rise of the fiscal, administrative and legal orders. When, instead, group-specific skills are substituted, policymakers can either favor sectors fostering skill complementarity or, if such a strategy induces large misallocations, support the accumulation of a forceful culture of cooperation.
Crucially, these lessons from the far past offer an encouraging perspective through which to assess the full-scale impact of the present-day pandemic and take steps to turn a dramatic short-run social failure into a future success. Finally, the project conclusions will help evaluate the long-run institutional impact of climate change. While severe droughts ease shifts toward open access social orders, less severe ones are related to less inclusive political regimes. Yet, provided that the production conditions generate a sufficiently large output to share, a less inclusive political process will still be able to incentivize joint elite–non-elite investments. This second implication, together with the first one, speaks against the unfettered transplantation of strong political and property rights, a centralized fiscal and administrative order and a decentralized legal order in all developing jurisdictions.
Short: The study's abstract begins by stating, "Despite the vast evidence on the short-run effects of adverse climate shocks on the economy, our understanding of their long-run impact on institutions is limited." Why is this the case, in your opinion?
Guerriero: As we discuss in our article, the only systematic body of research on the impact of climate change on state evolution has focused on ancient societies, which are the most suited laboratories for evaluating the total impact of climate change. These civilizations, indeed, are characterized by economies that were sufficiently simple to credibly relate variation in geographic characteristics to institutional evolution as well as an unparalleled experience with environmental and institutional change.
This literature, however, has restricted itself to amass anecdotal accounts, first, and empirical evidence, later, on disastrous episodes in which adverse climate shocks were accompanied by social unrest and institutional decline. Assuming that these correlations imply causal relationships, this "collapse archaeology" literature has concluded that severe droughts are bound to trigger epochal institutional crises and induce state dissolution.
Yet, these oversimplified, if not deterministic, conclusions spring from two methodological issues that we solve contemporaneously. First, errors in the measurement of institutional and climate variables are greatly worsened by the usage of coarse-grained archaeological chronologies and by the reliance on the few available local proxy climate data as measures of regionwide shocks. Second, the unfamiliarity of archaeological research with causal inference has greatly limited the credibility of these conclusions because of the endogeneity issues generated by both relevant unobservable factors and the even more subtle possibility of misspecifications of the empirical models embraced to study the relationships between climate change and institutional evolution.
Short: Your team is made up of researchers from around the world. Do you feel these various perspectives and backgrounds benefitted the research and findings you were able to uncover?
Benati: Yes, absolutely, the team integrates widely different expertise—spanning from econometrics, law and economics to geography, archaeology, cuneiform studies, history and so on—which was crucial for both devising the research design for tackling our research questions and for accessing sources that require a high level of specialization. To elaborate on this point, an in-depth knowledge of econometric methods and theories was necessary for establishing the correct identification strategy for testing state formation theories, and a detailed knowledge of historical/archaeological sources was necessary for hand-collecting data since statistics about Mesopotamian institutional history are not available.
By combining these perspectives and skillsets, we have been able to provide not only a highly innovative account of one of the earliest and most important instances of state formation in human history but also a methodological improvement over the research targeting the link between climate and political change and deriving historical insights that may be relevant for how we conceptualize institutional changes today.
Short: Do you see examples of cooperation that parallel that of Mesopotamia playing out in the modern day?
Benati: There is one main example that comes to mind, the so-called "democratic deepening" phenomenon that some countries in the developing world are experiencing. Bluntly put, to counteract increasingly unpredictable climatic conditions that make agricultural outputs hard to forecast, some governments in those parts of the world that rely most heavily on agriculture are integrating local decision-making groups into the institutional sector, and they are decentralizing policymaking on local matters to [include] civil society.
The rationale here is that local communities are better equipped than central governments to deal with rapidly changing conditions because they have better knowledge of their territories; therefore, it makes sense for policymakers to empower civil society. This evidence matches our own results that climate shocks in countries most reliant on agriculture have the effect of depressing the economy in the short term but have enduring effects on political institutions triggering reforms toward more inclusive political regimes.
This article was produced by Local Peace Economy, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
April M. Short is an editor, journalist and documentary editor and producer. She is a writing fellow at Local Peace Economy, a project of the Independent Media Institute.


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New Canada Research Chairs foster outstanding research at uOttawa
Posted on Wednesday, December 16, 2020
From left to right, top row: Katalin Toth, Azzedine Boukerche, Michael Geist, Shawn Beug, Jennifer Brunet.
Second row: Pierrot Ross-Tremblay, Melanie J. Sekeres, Marceline Côté, Benoît Lessard, Adam Shuhendler.
The University of Ottawa has earned a total of 10 Canada Research Chairs (CRCs) covering a broad scope of subjects, from the exploration of disruptive impacts of stress on higher brain functions to the need to preserve Indigenous traditional cultural memories, and emerging computing technologies that pave the way to smart cities.
A total of three Tier 1 CRCs, including two renewals, and seven Tier 2 CRCs, including three renewals, have been awarded to outstanding researchers from the faculties of Arts, Engineering, Health Sciences, Medicine, Science and Social Sciences, who are developing innovative and multidisciplinary approaches to advance their research.
"I am thrilled by the University's results in this most recent competition of the Canada Research Chairs Program. Their funding will support a remarkable cohort of chairholders, as they work on solutions to address pressing scientific and societal issues," said Vice-President, Research Sylvain Charbonneau. "With the recent launch of our Institutional Knowledge Mobilization Strategy, our chairholders' research will play a major role in reaching our objective to better understand and improve the world around us."
The Canada Research Chairs Program aims to attract, support and retain world-class researchers in post-secondary institutions across the country. In partnership with the Canada Research Chairs Program, the Canada Foundation for Innovation is also providing funding for research infrastructure through the John R. Evans Leaders Fund to professors Shawn Beug and Katalin Toth.
The new Tier 1 Canada Research Chair is:
Katalin Toth (Faculty of Medicine) — Canada Research Chair in Neuronal Signalling
Dr.Katalin Toth is an expert on cellular mechanisms essential to memory, learning and spatial navigation. Her research program aims to identify the processes by which neurons create, store and retrieve new memories in the hippocampus, the part of the brain that plays a major role in memory formation. Her studies focus on synaptic interactions between neurons that define information flow in neuronal networks. Understanding these complex processes is essential for developing therapeutic strategies for neurological diseases affecting memory formation.
The renewed Tier 1 Canada Research Chairs are held by:
Azzedine Boukerche (Faculty Engineering) — Canada Research Chair in Large-Scale Distributed Simulation Systems and Vehicular Networking
Professor Azzedine Boukerche is at the forefront of an emerging 5G mobile edge/fog computing and vehicular data analytics technology, a new connected vehicle architecture that elevates the computation, communication and storage burden from the cloud to the edge/fog of the network. His research program aims to advance the development of efficient, scalable, sustainable and meaningful complex distributed and mobile systems, such as autonomous vehicular networks intelligent transportation systems, smart disaster management systems and smart city digital twins.
Michael Geist (Faculty of Law, Common Law Section) — Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law
A worldwide expert on technology law and policy, Professor Michael Geist addresses pressing policy issues on intellectual property, privacy, e-commerce, and the liability of Internet platforms regarding the conduct of their users. Through theoretical and legal analysis, his research program contributes to developing Canadian-specific policy reforms that seek to strike a balance between safeguarding freedom of expression and addressing risks that can arise from disinformation, privacy breaches and online harms.
The new Tier 2 Canada Research Chairs are:
Shawn Beug (Faculty of Medicine and CHEO Research Institute) — Canada Research Chair in Apoptosis in Cancer and Immunity
Through state-of-the-art molecular and genetic approaches, Professor Shawn Beug's research aims to identify factors required for cell signalling, communication and survival in both cancer and immune cells. The insights gained on factors regulating cancer and immunity will contribute to the development of new immune-based therapies for cancer treatment.
Jennifer Brunet (Faculty of Health Sciences) — Canada Research Chair in Physical Activity Promotion and Cancer Prevention
A professor of human kinetics, Jennifer Brunet is a leader in the development, implementation and evaluation of tailored interventions promoting physical activity intervention among cancer survivors. Building on a multidisciplinary research approach, Brunet aims to integrate biological, physical, psychological and social perspectives in support of interventions that contribute to mitigating adverse treatment effects and help improve the quality of life of cancer survivors.
Pierrot Ross-Tremblay (Institute of Indigenous Research and Studies, Faculty of Arts) — Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Intellectual Traditions and Self-Determination
Professor Pierrot Ross-Tremblay (Innu Essipit) researches how to preserve and make accessible the richness of Indigenous stories, testimonies and interpretations, and especially those of Elders. His research supports First Peoples' self-determination in research so that they can independently restore their cultural memories and gain control of their historical narratives to better access the legal and intellectual traditions that these memories convey.
Melanie J. Sekeres (Faculty of Social Sciences) — Canada Research Chair in Contribution of Neurocognitive Functioning to Brain Health
A professor of psychology, Melanie J. Sekeres will investigate the neural mechanisms underlying chemotherapy-induced cognitive and behavioural disruptions such as memory impairment, anxiety and depression, which are commonly reported in breast cancer patients. Her research program will explore the correlation between lifestyle factors, such as chronic stress and exercise, and the development of cognitive impairment, thus helping to target intervention aimed at promoting recovery from chemotherapy.
Marceline Côté (Faculty of Medicine) — Canada Research Chair in Molecular Virology and Antiviral Therapeutics
Professor Marceline Côté will pursue her investigation of entry pathways of emerging viruses, such as Ebola, Marburg and Lassa fever (LFV), that can spill over from animal species to humans and cause high fatality rate outbreaks. She will expand her studies of host factors essential for LFV infection, as well as of the development of novel pan-antiviral therapies against these emerging viruses.
Benoît Lessard (Faculty of Engineering) — Canada Research Chair in Advanced Polymer Materials and Organic Electronics
Professor Benoît Lessard's research program explores the use of novel carbon-based semi-conductor and polymeric dielectric materials, in organic electronic prototype devices. He aims at developing inexpensive materials and manufacturing processes for application such as highly specific point-of-source cannabinoid sensors and bendable solar cells.
Adam Shuhendler (Faculty of Science) — Canada Research Chair in Chemical Biology
Through the development of cutting-edge biomedical imaging technologies, Professor Adam Shuhendler seeks to expand diagnostic imaging capabilities in live subjects, and to better understand biomolecular activities deep in the body. His research will shed light on how biomolecules affect injuries such as concussions, and how they come into play in therapeutic treatments, by creating drug resistance in certain type of cancer treatments.


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Microsoft plans to bring Xbox Series X/S games to Xbox One with xCloud
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Microsoft plans to bring the next generation games of Xbox Series X/S to Xbox One using its streaming service called xCloud. In this way, the era of Xbox One will not be over.
A lot of good news came from Microsoft for Xbox, especially when entering the current generation . Xbox players were very happy at the E3 presentation in the past days. With both its games and services, Xbox is currently doing pretty well for gamers. The latest news from Xbox is one that will make players very happy.
Xbox Series Games Coming to Xbox One
As you know, many games of Xbox in the new generation will only be released for PC and Xbox Series . When the generation changes, as you know, the old generation will not play games after a while because games are developed according to new technologies. However, Microsoft's latest move seems to change things. Xbox has a streaming service called xCloud . With Cloud Gaming, players can only play games with the internet without having a powerful hardware. This service will come to Xbox One.
According to an announcement on Xbox Wire, Microsoft plans to bring Xbox Series exclusive games to Xbox One by bringing xCloud to Xbox One . In this way, the era of Xbox One will not be over and players will be able to continue playing the games by purchasing the console they want. In fact, this news more clearly shows that the focus of Xbox is xCloud , not games and console . With the development of streaming platforms, it seems that there will be a very clear change in the gaming industry.
xCloud is currently not accessible in our country, but it has been officially announced that there are studies on this subject.
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Proposition D funds will mean more than $2 billion in new funding for roads and bridges and over $15 million in local funding in Christian County.
The Nov. 6 election is only a couple of weeks away, and we have all been bombarded by signs and ads for and against candidates and issues. One item that you might not have seen on TV is Proposition D.
Proposition D will ask voters to raise the per-gallon fuel tax in two-and-a-half-cent increments totaling 10 cents over four years. If this issue is passed, Missouri will almost catch up with the loss in purchasing power that the current 17-cent gas tax had in 1996 — the last time that tax was adjusted. Missouri is currently ranked 47th in highway funding while having the 7th most miles of roads in the nation. One of every 10 bridges and overpasses in Missouri is compromised.
"So what?" you might say. We pay enough taxes now, so just have the Department of Transportation do more with the resources they have. And I would agree — except that MoDOT has done that for the last decade as legislators in Jefferson City have kicked this can down the road. Seventeen cents will just not buy what it did 20 years ago. MoDOT is ranked as the 3rd most efficient Department of Transportation in the nation and needs more resources order provide us with safe roads and bridges.
Over the next 10 years, Proposition D funds will mean more than $2 billion in new funding for roads and bridges and over $15 million in additional local funding right here in Christian County. That will pay for about 46,000 miles of highway pavement and fixing or replacing more than 1,700 bridges throughout the state. President Trump has pledged to match the funding states put toward building and maintaining roads and bridges. This initiative will allow Missouri to receive back more than $1 billion of our federal tax dollars over the next four years — money that could go to other states.
Good roads are one of the key elements that drive economic development, both in Christian County and across the state. For every $1 spent on highway construction, $4 of economic activity is generated, meaning that Proposition D will result in over $1 billion of new economic activity and will also generate more than 5,000 jobs a year. That means more money for our schools and our communities, all while repairing and improving our roads.
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You wont get both "4" cells aligned.