There may be a bit of heresy in this, but once in awhile, there's a reason to choose Epson's Hot Press Natural printing paper for a reason other than its image reproduction qualities — HPN is tough.
HPN is not a coated paper, so it's hard to scratch or injure. And there are those times when I want to be able to hand out great looking prints without handling them (or expecting them to be handled) with kid gloves.
Yes, it might be that an image would look better on a coated paper that accommodates photo black ink. But none of that matters if the print won't make it back home with the person to whom I've given it.


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Assistenttrener Martin Foyston gir seg etter to sesonger i Strømsgodset. Her er hans avskjedsord.
Engelskmannen fra Hull tok farvel med spillere og trenerteam etter søndagens cupfinale på Ullevaal. Det har vært klar en stund at Martin ikke kommer til å fortsette i Strømsgodset og familien hans har flyttet tilbake til Stockholm, som var deres base før han begynte her hos oss.
I would like to wish all staff, players and the club, every success for the future.
I would like to thank those at Godset who have worked behind the curtains with sincerity and respect without any expectation of appreciation in return. Those are often ones we take for granted the most, thank you.
To the supporters who kept the fire going in good and difficult weather, earn my deepest gratitude of all.
And lastly, for those who have been close to me during my time at the club, thank you for your part in my journey and thank you for allowing me to be apart of yours.


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Underwater Ant House
Mark Duggan, Virginia Commonwealth University
Zachary Ellis, Virginia Commonwealth University
Zachary Soulier, Virginia Commonwealth University
The project seeks to design and test and submersible enclosure capable of sustaining oxygen breathing life. A mesh covered in a superhydrophobic coating can both restrain water up to a maximum pressure and retain a direct interface between air and water. Oxygen can transfer over this boundary if there is a sufficient difference in concentrations between the water and air.
Multiple designs have been produced with the intent of testing and demonstrating these theories. 3D printing allowed for quick and customizable production of every component. Enclosures were made for testing the maximum allowable pressure and to fit an oxygen sensor. These mostly consisted of a rectangular frame with slotted to fit removable mesh slides. Oxygen concentration experiments were conducted with crickets as live subjects and were designed to analyze the transfer of oxygen through the mesh. The team ran tests to investigate additional factors including coating application and quality, the influence of the mesh substrate material on hydrophobic and coating properties, and mesh sizing influence.
Testing indicates that there is sufficient oxygen transfer for small animals to survive. The enclosure can be submerged to approximately four centimeters before failure. This project demonstrates the feasibility of maintaining breathable air using a hydrophobic mesh enclosure and creates the opportunity for further investigation into possible uses of this technology.
Superhydrophobic, Submersible, Air, 3D Printing

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To quote from The Jesus Storybook Bible: "There are lots of stories in the Bible, but all the stories are telling one Big Story. The Story of how God loves his children and comes to rescue them. It takes the whole Bible to tell this Story. And at the center of the Story, there is a baby. Every Story in the Bible whispers his name." Through memory verses, fun and engaging activities, and the stories within the Jesus Storybook Bible, your children will discover that Jesus loves them and that he is the Great Rescuer!


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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Poland coach Adam Nawalka struggled to explain his team's off-key display on Tuesday as they produced a lethargic, error-ridden performance to lose 2-1 to Senegal in their opening game of a World Cup Group H they had high hopes of winning.
An own goal by Thiago Cionek late in the first half and an appalling defensive mix-up that let M'Baye Niang score into an empty net on the hour put Senegal clear, with Grzegorz Krychowiak's header in the 86th minute changing nothing.
"I don't think any excuse is good enough for the first half," Nawalka said.
"There were many different elements that contributed to the poor performance. We weren't aggressive enough, the wingers didn't do a good job and neither did the midfield. We weren't dynamic or coordinated.
It was a particularly disappointing display after an impressive qualifying campaign that helped lift Poland to eighth in the world rankings and brought them to their first World Cup for 12 years with high hopes.
However, it was the same old story as they have not won their opening match since 1974 and the late consolation header on Tuesday was their first goal in the last six of them.
In truth they were extremely poor, looking sluggish in their build up and extraordinarily inaccurate with their passing.
Nawalka did have sympathy for his team over the second goal as Krychowiak looped a high-risk 50-yard back pass straight into the path of Niang, who was then presented with an open goal after keeper Wojciech Szczesny rushed outside his box but failed to reach the ball.
The coach said the players had been surprised that Niang was allowed to re-enter the fray after having treatment and that his players had not been aware he had slipped back on.
After Japan's 2-1 victory over Colombia earlier on Tuesday the group remains open but Poland will need to show a dramatic improvement when they face the South Americans next.


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Deputy Senate President Escapes Assassination Attempt
The Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, on Tuesday escaped an assassination attempt on his life in Abuja, his aid, Mr. Uche Anichukwu, has said.
"The attempt occurred at about 10:00am between Apo Flyover and Dantata Construction Company's yard, close to the Old Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) headquarters junction on his way to work," Anichukwu said.
"The suspected assassins who operated in a tinted, white-coloured Mercedez Benz AMG E63 without a plate number, were chauffeured by a long-bearded light-skinned foreigner, apparently a mercenary.
"The vehicle, which was positioned by the Apo Bridge, on noticing that the deputy president of the Senate's convoy took the right turn to join the Nnamdi Azikiwe Expressway instead, made a turn. The occupants attempted to attack the convoy, but were blocked. The driver violently broke into the convoy and they made several frantic attempts to attack the senator's official car.
"When charged at by the security operatives attached to the deputy president of the senate, the Benz driver made a U-turn, and partially smashed an oncoming vehicle on the opposite lane of the highway and escaped.
"The development has already been reported to the security agencies."
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Podcast & Youtube
Top 33 Progressive News Shows on YouTube [2020 Edition]
Ryan 8 months ago
This is the third edition of the Top Progressive News Shows on Youtube article, and my first update in over two years.
After a decade following Progressive news shows on YouTube, I feel like I have a solid understanding of the offerings of the online left.
But, if you're just starting to watch or listen to Progressive News shows, at a time with more options than ever and a lot of time to spend on YouTube, it may be hard to find that perfect show for you.
The range of shows is wide, but all of the shows on this list share two characteristics. (1) They create content that reflects progressive values, and (2) they do it on a regular basis.
Give the channels on this list a chance if you haven't already. I don't love them all, but in one way or another, all of these shows speak to progressive audiences. Let me know which shows are your favorites and your thoughts on the list in the comments below.
Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, and John Iadarola lead the charge for the most popular and longest-running online news show in the world. The TYT team is unabashedly progressive and leans heavily towards Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
But, the opinions about the show are polarizing. You'll regularly find the show being bashed in comments sections for not taking a harder stances against Warren's foreign policy positions, for the false notion that they deny the Armenian Genocide, or for vague ideas about them selling-out in one way or another. All of that aside, Cenk and the TYT audience are responsible, in part, for developing the Justice Democrats which brought us Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omaar, Rashida Talib and the progressive wave that has engulfed the Democratic party. That movement has galvanized money in politics as a top-level issue and has significantly damaged the reputation and influence of PACs and corporate interests that dominate our political discourse. No matter your stance on TYT, their work towards building a progressive revolution in the United States is undeniable.
The TYT Network features a lot of content. Check out the Main Show, The Damage Report with John Iadarola, No Filter with Ana Kasparian, and The Conversation, which provides an invaluable resource for progressive candidates at all levels to reach progressive voters.
Secular Talk
Kyle Kulinski is a really smart dude and his show has a rabid fanbase. Though his channel name suggests a focus on atheist/secular/agnostic/religious topics, he deals with the full spectrum of political discourse. Considered one of the left's top debaters, he is a regular at Politicon where he battles right-wing grifters and crazies every year.
Kyle was a co-founder of Justice Democrats and is a must-know name on the left. He puts out a ton of daily content and should be near the top of any left-leaning media diet. Right now he is pissing a lot of people off because he said he's not voting for Biden, and he welcomes the blame. Kyle is a badass.
The Majority Report
Sam Seder has been in the entertainment business for a long time. Based out of New Jersey/New York, Sam and the Majority Report team offer smug, dickish commentary that is second to none in terms of comedy and entertainment. Not to mention, Sam and his guests are a wealth of information about politics, the pressing issues of now, and of the past.
If you've never seen Sam debate a Libertarian, you aren't really living. The daily multi-hour Livestream is an early afternoon ritual for me and many others on the left. The Majority Report is consistently a top tier show for news, commentary, education, and open debate.
TMBS
Michael Brooks is Sam Seder's counterpart on the Majority Report. His personal show, The Michael Brooks show, offers a Leftist perspective on current events and takes regular deep dives into important topics that don't get the media attention they deserve. Brooks is particularly knowledgeable/interested in topics related to South America, the CIA, and crushing alt-right and IDW dweebs. He is, bar none, the funniest person on the left.
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These are all great choices but there are a couple commentators that I think are also worth pointing out:
#1. Gleen Greenwald, host of Systems Update on The Intercept. A newer show, but definitely a must watch. Not only is he an amazing journalist, but he also has great commentary on US and International politics, especially Brazil. He has also frequent great guests including Kyle Kulinski from Secular Talk.
#2. Kim Iversen, host of the Kim Iversen Show. Although she has the occasional odd view on politics that may break with most progressives, I enjoy watching her a lot. Her show has only been around for over a year, but it's been SUPER FAST growing (at around 250k on YT last I checked). Although her first choice was Tulsi Gabbard throughout most of the 2020 election cycle until after New Hampshire when she switched to Bernie, her videos exemplify class A journalism. An ardent BernieOrBuster/NeverBiden voter, she is especially notable when she comments on controversial and often sensitive foreign policy issues (especially in the Middle East): her videos on Syria, Saudi Arabia, the Uyghur crisis in Xinjiang, and the Petrodollar and its relation to American Imperialism are a must-watch.
#3. Useful Idiots podcast on The Rolling Stones, hosted by Katie Halper and Matt Taibbi. Both are very well-known among progressives. Especially Katie Halper, who's now one of the people on the frontlines fighting for Tara Reade's sexual assault story to be heard.
#4. The Nomiki Show hosted by Nomiki Konst. Nomiki is a cohost of the Majority Report, but she also recently started her own show. She's a very razor-sharp focused commentator who always has a strategy for the Not Me Us movement to continue. There is quite frankly no one else I trust more in talking about DNC politics and power structure and electoral strategy.
#5. I'm not sure how much you are interested in this, but the Grayzone has also been a growing outlet on the left especially on issues of American Imperialism. It's hosts Benjamin Norton, Max Blumenthal, Anya Parampil and Aaron Maté all bring great knowledge and insight to the conversation despite being accused by some as being overly reactionary in their foreign policy.
I know there are other shows out there but I can't really think of them right now off the top of my head 😅
Hey thank you so much for these. I considered including Glenn but ultimately didn't, but now I feel like I should add him. I know of Kim Iverson but I've never watched. Just had heard so much negativity. I'll check her out though. As well as the others you listed. And I totally didn't know Nomiki had her own show. I'm a fan. A bunch of these will be added to the blog in the coming days.
Yeah I understand why Kim may not be everyone's cup of tea. She does have some odd opinions on things, but I overall view her contributions to left independent media as far more useful than not.
A great video to start with (this was from quite a while ago but it's still relevant) is her video on Venezuela, where she breaks down very complex geopolitics behind US foreign policy in that country and its relation to the larger issue of the petrodollar (This one was probably one the most eye-opening videos I've ever watched on YouTube):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a2ednyUDOM&t=16s
Her Saudi Arabia video series are also a Must-watch; here's part one of that series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Od2DEVt7q0&t=36s
She also a couple months ago travelled to the West Bank as part of a delegation. She came back and did a livestream talking about what she saw, (a very candid and detailed account):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDJPf_JY-AE&t=2176s
Those are the 3 videos that came to mind immediately when I thought about her show. I know people often give her crap a lot, especially with regards to some tweets she's made in the past. But I really hate cancel culture and although there are things that I vehemently disagree with her on, I think it's still important to give her a chance cuz she's done a lot of great work and reporting and I try not to have one or two things that bother me about her get in the way of me watching her good stuff.
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Q: How do use combn generally when pairs are not always possible? I am looking for a generic method to deal with situations in which combinations are required, but when data does not always meet the assumptions of the combn function.
Specifically, I have a dataframe of members of Congress and their committee assignments. To examine this network of politicians, I want to associate (that is, create links between) any members who belong to the same committees.
The data look like this:
name_id     assignment
 A000374    Agriculture
 A000370    Agriculture
 A000055 Appropriations
 A000371 Appropriations
 A000372    Agriculture
 A000376        Foreign

So, the resulting network data should look like this:
from       to          committee
A000374    A000370     Agriculture
A000055    A000371     Appropriations

The problem is that my code (below) throws an error because there are not always pairings ( ncombn command in code that identifies such cases. Is that the right approach, and if so, how does one create a command that accounts for this problem generally?
Here is my code, currently:
library(RCurl)
x <- getURL("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bac3917/Cauldron/master/cstack.csv")
cstack <- read.csv(text = x)

# split the string into two columns that represent name_id and committee assignment
cstack <- cstack %>% separate(namePaste, c("name_id","assignment"))

# use combn and dplyr to create pairs (results in error)
edges<-cstack %>%
  group_by(assignment) %>%
  do(as.data.frame(t(combn(.[["name_id"]], 2)))) %>%
  group_by(V1, V2) %>%
  summarise(n( ))

A: As Ben mentioned, combn(x, 2) does not work for x < 2.
You could define a function that calculated combn only when x > 1.
Below is a data.table version.
library(data.table)
cstack <- fread("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bac3917/Cauldron/master/cstack.csv",
    header=TRUE)[, tstrsplit(sub(" ", "\01", namePaste), "\01")]
setnames(cstack, c("name_id","assignment"))
mycomb <- function(x) if(length(x) > 1) data.table(t(combn(x, 2)))
cstack <- cstack[, mycomb(name_id), by = "assignment"]
setcolorder(cstack, c(2,3,1))
setnames(cstack, c("V1", "V2"), c("from", "to"))
cstack
#>           from      to      assignment
#>     1: A000374 A000370     Agriculture
#>     2: A000374 A000372     Agriculture
#>     3: A000374 A000378     Agriculture
#>     4: A000374 B001298     Agriculture
#>     5: A000374 B001307     Agriculture
#>    ---
#> 12957: C001053 L000491  Ranking Member
#> 12958: C001053 R000582  Ranking Member
#> 12959: D000619 L000491  Ranking Member
#> 12960: D000619 R000582  Ranking Member
#> 12961: L000491 R000582  Ranking Member

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Clinton and Indian Foreign Minister S.M.Krishna. At her news conference with Krishna, Clinton alluded to those divisions.
"Each of our countries, as you would expect, has different perspectives about the problems we face and how we will solve them," she said. "But as the oldest democracy and the largest democracy in the world we believe we can work through these differences in our perspectives and focus on shared objectives and concrete results."
Clinton said her talks Monday finalized two agreements. One is an Indian designation of two sites on which U.S. companies would have exclusive rights to sell civilian nuclear power reactors. That could be worth an estimated $10 billion in U.S. sales. The other deal is designed to allow the U.S. to ensure that technology in sensitive American defense items purchased by India are not transferred to third countries.
"We want to broaden and deepen our strategic understanding" and find more common ground with India, Clinton told an audience of several hundred students and faculty members at Delhi University earlier Monday.
Her trip has not gone strictly according to script: she and an Indian official had a blunt exchange on the U.S. push for India accept binding limits on carbon emissions.
Even as Clinton expressed optimism about an eventual climate change deal to India's benefit, its minister of environment and forests, Jairam Ramesh, told her: "There is simply no case for the pressure that we — who have among the lowest emissions per capita — face to actually reduce emissions."
"And as if this pressure was not enough, we also face the threat of carbon tariffs on our exports to countries such as yours," he added.
U.S. officials had expected the discussions to focus more on cooperation in related areas of energy efficiency, green buildings and clean-burning fuels.
Clinton said that Ramesh had presented a "fair argument." But she also said that India's case "loses force" because the fast-growing country's absolute level of carbon emissions — as opposed to the per capita amount — is "going up, and dramatically."
Later, at an agricultural research site in a farm field outside the capital, Clinton told reporters she is optimistic about getting a climate change deal that will satisfy India.
"This is part of a negotiation," she said. "It's part of a give-and-take and it's multilateral, which makes it even more complex. But until proven otherwise, I'm going to continue to speak out in favor of every country doing its part to deal with the challenge of global climate change."
Clinton also met Monday with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss forging a more productive partnership between two countries still struggling to overcome profound distrust rooted in Cold War rivalries. The Obama administration regards India as an emerging world power and a key to turning the tide against violent Islamic extremism.
In her session with Singh, Clinton presented an Obama invitation for a state visit Nov. 24 and the prime minister accepted, Clinton aides said.
Clinton, on her fourth visit to India and her first as secretary of state, used her appearance at Delhi University to stress the importance of stepping beyond formal diplomacy to encourage U.S.-India contacts on other levels, including academic and business.
"We have to get to the real meat of the matter, and our cooperation will do that for us," she told her university audience.
On Wednesday Clinton was flying to Thailand for talks with senior government officials and to attend an international conference later in the week.
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Massive Loop 1604 expansion project could get green light next month
SAN ANTONIO – The push to make Loop 1604 a less headache-inducing drive from Bandera Road to I-35 is attracting statewide attention. For frustrated San Antonio motorists, relief could be imminent.
Local officials are hopeful the Texas Transportation Commission green lights the massive $880 million, 10-lane expansion project at it's Aug. 29 meeting. So far, $388 million has been allocated for what would be a 22-mile makeover.
"I would say we're all cautiously optimistic," says Linda Vela, the planning and public involvement program manager of the Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Organization.
"It's one of the top most congested corridors in our state. Traffic on Loop 1604 has grown like 93 percent since the year 2000."
But it's far from the only congested corridor in the state, and that's part of the problem. San Antonio is competing with other metro and rural areas for funding.
"It's still a competition and we have bad traffic, but so does Austin, so does Houston. so does Dallas," Vela says. "We're basically competing for funding against all of those different interests."
All four major Texas cities have rush hour problems, but San Antonio motorists maintain none are worse than frequently gridlocked 1604.
"It's just a disaster," says Salvador Butcher, a San Antonio resident. "There's people merging on, and people merging off. No one yields, so it's a challenge every day."
The 1604/I-10 connection may be the worst part of the highway.
(SBG photo)
"Those cloverleaf designs were really meant for more rural traffic," Vela says. "The community has just grown up around it. It's really created a problem in terms of traffic flow in those areas."
If the commission approves the project, the next step would be a start date. A priority system will determine whether construction on the multi-year project begins in 2020, or later in the decade.
Some wonder if even 10 lanes will be enough to handle all of the growth the city is expecting.
"If you look at where all of our growth is happening, it's outside of Loop 1604 and to the far west. That tells us the congestion is only going to increase as we move forward."
With growth will come more cars.
"We're expecting another 1.1 million people. That's a lot more vehicles. When someone moves here, they might come with two or three cars," she says.
"The problem is we're building projects today that were needed 10 years ago," Vela says.
The Texas Transportation Commission will consider the Loop 1604 request as part of its Unified Transportation Plan late next month.
"Something needs to be done," Butcher says. "It seems like from what I can tell, that there's a lot of band-aids being put on a variety of different traffic projects that we're just gonna outgrow sooner or later."
Vela commiserates with area motorists who anxiously await a solution.
"We live in the community," Vela says of her colleagues who are trying to push the plan through, including Bexar County Commissioner Kevin Wolff. "We're stuck in the traffic too."
Maps of the Loop 1604 project.
Link for Loop 1604 travel times.
Article originally published by News 4 SA – Jim Lefko


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Run, Walk, Honor our Heroes!
The third annual Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers South Carolina 5K Run & Walk is set for Friday, September 18, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. in Columbia's Vista. Lexington Medical Center is pleased to be the presenting sponsor. Along a picturesque course spanning the Gervais Street and Blossom Street bridges at sunset, the race celebrates and appreciates first responders and military service members who serve, save and sacrifice on our behalf every day.
The race is named in honor of Stephen Siller, a New York City firefighter and father of five who died on September 11. That day, Siller was off-duty and on his way to play golf. When he heard what was happening at the World Trade Center, he strapped on 60 pounds of gear and ran from the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to the World Trade Center. He gave his life to save others. The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation is committed to ensuring that Americans never forget 9/11 and that our children understand the sacrifices made by many on that day.
The route for the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers South Carolina 5K Run & Walk begins near the First Responders Historic Remembrance Memorial next to the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center on Lincoln Street. Participants will travel down Blossom Street, across the Blossom Street Bridge, into Cayce, up the Gervais Street Bridge and back to Columbia's Vista in the early evening.
The goal of Tunnel to Towers is to support first responders and military service members who have been catastrophically injured in the line of duty. Proceeds from the 5K will benefit the building of smart homes for quadruple and triple amputee veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation's "Building for America's Bravest" program.
You can register for South Carolina's Tunnel to Towers 5K Walk and Run at www.t2trun.org. The entry fee is $30. Importantly, businesses and organizations are encouraged to build a team of participants.
In 2013 and 2014, participants included more than 800 Fort Jackson soldiers running in formation, South Carolina first responders, law enforcement officers, military service members from all branches of the Armed Forces, avid runners, families and teams from Lexington Medical Center, which is the presenting sponsor of the race. More than 2,000 people participated. Many more are expected this year.
There will be an opening ceremony at 6:30 p.m. and a block party with an awards ceremony, music, food, beverages, vendor booths and family friendly activities after the race at Tin Roof on 1022 Senate Street.
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This is a prototype implementation of the idea presented in Combining Syntatic and Semantic Bidirectionalization by Janis Voigtlaender, Zhenjiang Hu, Kazutaka Matsuda and Meng Wang.
the paper "Combining Syntactic and Semantic Bidirectionalization"
and Meng Wang, which is accepted at ICFP'10.
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Efforts to keep at-risk borrowers in their homes have actually worsened over the past year, according to a report released by the State Foreclosure Prevention Working Group.
As of the end of May 2008, 305,000 subprime loans were in the process of foreclosure, and over 131,000 foreclosures were completed on subprime and Alt-A loans during the month alone, up 28.2 percent from October 2007 levels.
As delinquencies continue to rise, new efforts to prevent foreclosures are falling, with a 28 percent decrease in loan modifications in process seen between the January and May period, which the group attributes to a failure to develop a systematic approach.
The report found that nearly eight of ten seriously delinquent borrowers were not on track to receive any loss mitigation outcome, up from seven of ten homeowners in the prior reporting period.
Additionally, it found that loan modifications outnumbered short sales by a ratio of just two-to-one, compared to a ratio of four-to-one in the earlier reporting period, meaning fewer borrowers were actually retaining their homes via loss mitigation efforts.
And of the loans that were modified in the past year, one of five is currently delinquent, suggesting that previous measures to reach out to homeowners could simply be delaying the problem.
"Servicers appear to have reached the 'low-hanging fruit' of subprime loans facing interest rate resets, while not developing effective approaches to address the bulk of subprime loans which are in default before interest rate resets," the report said.
The report, which you can see in its entirety here, includes data from 13 of the largest subprime loan servicers, covering roughly 57 percent of the subprime market.


The public play test of D&D Next has been released. This preview allows us to get an idea of where they are going with the the successor to 4th edition. Their stated goal is to simplify the game and return to the roots of the game. I'd like to break down some of the major changes, using 4E as a starting point, but with references to past editions where useful.
Themes were introduced late in 4E's lifecycle as a way to add some extra abilities and perks to a character. In Dark Sun for example, you could add a Noble Adept theme to gain extra psionic power. This is the best for psionic characters but it could also spice up another character. In DDN, themes are integrated into the basic gameplay and seem to absorb what was formerly the "role" of the class. Being a fighter in 4E also made you a defender. Being a fighter in DDN just makes you a weapon swinging armor wearer. If you want to be a defender, you'll take the "guardian" theme, which confers bonuses similar to basic defender powers in 4E.
4E had a large number of classes due to the matrix created by multiplying the four roles (Defender, Striker, Leader, Controller) by the power sources (Martial, Divine, Arcane, Primal, Psionic, Shadow). Psionic+Defender = Battlemind, for example. Each class, over its 30 levels, has over a hundred powers. Many of these powers overlapped or were similar to powers of other classes. By pulling the role out of the class, the complexity of classes can be reduced substantially.
Backgrounds are also absorbing part of what classes use to provide, mainly skills. Each background, which are things like "soldier" or "commoner", provides three skills and a feat-like bonus ability. Backgrounds in 4E gave smaller bonuses to two skills. Backgrounds help get some flavor for a character, and tying bigger bonuses give a bigger incentive for players to seriously consider them.
Skills have traditionally been the second most complicated system (after combat). DDN simplifies the system by looking at the reality of skills in 4E. In 4E, you're good at the skills your ability scores (Strength, Intelligence, etc) support, decent at a few others, and useless at the rest. To reflect this, DDN removes the massive skill list. Instead, skill rolls go through your ability scores (so, Athletics would simply be a Strength check). Your class, theme, and background can provide specific skill bonuses, and feat training seems likely. This reduces the list of skills from 17 to just the 3-5 that you have. Skill bonuses can be (and are, in the play test) much more specific. The wizard has several different knowledge skills.
Fortitude, Reflex, and Will have been removed and saving throws are back. The "Non-AC Defenses" (NADs) were part of 4E's effort to differentiate physical attacks from magical ones and allow some physical attacks to target weaker attributes of opponents. This has been all but scrapped in DDN and ordinary spells just target AC. Those that don't (generally, the most severe ones) cause the defending player to make a saving throw, which target an ability score appropriate for the spell's effect.
Combat advantage from 4E is a +2 bonus that comes from many situations: flanking a monster with two players, attacking a character that is knocked down, attacking from stealth, etc. There are -2 penalties as well, though they don't have a generic name: attacking a character who is partially behind cover, attacking while dazed, etc. Now these have been given a simpler name, advantage/disadvantage, and have been incorporated into all rolls, such as skill checks. Advantage and disadvantage negate each other one for one, so if you have two advantageous conditions and one disadvantageous (such as stealth attacking a prone creature while drunk), you simply have advantage. Multiple advantageous factors don't provide a multiplied bonus, however.
The way the bonus works has also changed. If you have advantage, you roll 2d20 and take the higher die. With disadvantage, you take the lower. This works out to roughly +2 or -2, but has an interesting effect on the cognitive load put on the person rolling the die. I hear this conversation often: "I rolled a 19" "Was that with combat advantage?" "I think so…" "Did you add the +1 for charging?" "Let me recount". CA is common enough that this kind of confusion happens frequently. In the situation I outlined, the character would simply have advantage and make the two rolls.
This one is pretty deep, so we'll start with pre-4E, then move forward. Pre-4E healing was at the mercy of one's supply of healing potions and the kindness of your clerics. A character with 20 hp might be able to count on receiving one healing potion and one or two healing spells during a day of adventuring, effectively doubling his starting total for HP he could use before dying. Keep in mind that neither of these are available at low levels, where potions are too expensive and clerics have few spells. On the other end, one could hypothetically heal an infinite amount of damage in a day if she had a bag of healing potions.
4E introduced the concept of surges, which represent the amount of wounds a person can be healed in a day. Each surge restores a quarter of your health, plus any bonus that the healer himself provides. A weak character might have 6/day (or, 150% of his starting HP) and a tough character might have 12/day (or, 300% of her starting hp). Anyone can spend surges during a rest, and a night's sleep restores surges.
DDN seems to revert to a pre-4E system, with a small nod to non-magical healing. Potions and healers operate in a pre-4E fashion. Out of combat, characters can use healer's kits to use their "hit dice", which allow them to heal some portion of their health back. A first level character has a single one of these hit dice, which are d6 for weaker characters up to d12 for stronger characters. Such a character would have around 20 hit points, so a hit dice restores 5% of his health at its worst and 50% at best. For the rest of her healing, she depends completely on healers and healing potions.
This change dramatically shortens the adventuring day from 4E levels. Your starting health is the majority of the total health you will be able to spend in the day. As a defensive character, you could take three or four mild hits in a fight and be too wounded to even have a second fight. This is one of the largest departures from 4E.
The grid becoming optional doesn't itself change much, but it does remove much of the "design space" of potential powers and spells. Spells that rely on pushing and pulling or on specific ranges just don't work. It moves much of the remaining combat logic to the DM and players. How many of these 10 goblins are surrounding the fighter? Is the rogue behind the corner or just near it? Did the ranger, as he backed away from the ogre, step backwards towards the wall or towards the door?
Player powers are pre-4E style. Spellcaster have "X casts per day" restrictions and melee character have only basic attacks. Monsters are similarly simplified. Whereas there are 4 or 5 different types of low level goblins, each with 2 or 3 powers or tricks, there is one regular goblin and a much, much more powerful boss goblin.
Both the grid change and the simplification of monsters may just be part of the nature of this particular play test. Wizards has said that they want to have add-on modules that add extra rules to the game, for DMs and players that wish to include them. Melee characters may have expanded rules as part of this subsystem. Other changes, like the prominence of ability scores and class changes, seem too deep to swap out with a module modification. We'll see what Wizards has in mind. D&D is certainly a game of house rules, and we'll see if this core gameplay can serve as a basis for all types of players.


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'United States of Europe', a plan in process or an idealism?
16 March 2018 by Agora
This article looks at the European Union's future political development and current EU reform proposals, identifying connections between Brexit and the proposed plan of the "United States of Europe".
In December 2017, former Leader of the Social Democratic Party, Martin Schulz, proposed a plan – supported by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron – which called for the creation of a "United States of Europe" by 2025. The "United States of Europe" is a proposal that calls for a constitutional treaty which integrates EU member states into a federalist institution with common foreign, security, and defence policies designed on a federal basis of the "union".
The idea of the "United States of Europe" or a "Super-state Europe" is not new. On the 19th of September 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his famous speech in Zurich calling for the creation of a "United States of Europe". Following the defeat of Nazi Germany, he called for a reconciliation between France and Germany, and "the re-creation of the European family" bringing up political and social stability and integration in the region. He suggested that, instead of Britain become a member, it should, along with the US and the then USSR, be the "friends and sponsors" of the project.
Nevertheless, the present plan seems to be a dream of Eurocentric governors' who seek to promote European ideals and refute nationalist ideas and movements. For example, the European People's Party leader, Manfred Weber, said on February 6th that "we are equal, we are all Europe and that is our future idea…The nationalists, dear friends, are stupid and naïve". His comments reflect the wider arguments over a "United States of Europe" that were born in the wake of the Brexit negotiations and the rise of nationalistic parties across the EU's member state.
Defence programme
Alongside the divisive issue over a "United States of Europe" are questions concerning to what extent European defence should be coordinated. In 2017, the European Commission launched the European Defence Fund, which is intended to encourage member states "to spend taxpayer money more efficiently and reduce duplications in spending". Crucially, the fund aims to coordinate, supplement, and amplify national investments in defence research, in the development of prototypes, and in the acquisition of defence equipment and technology.
It also established the first ever single command centre for EU military training and advisory missions (called the MPCC), launched as a Centre of Excellence to improve analysis and capacity to address hybrid threats and stepped up cooperation with NATO.
On Friday 23th February 2018, European leaders also unanimously agreed, to expand on a common defence and security policy and deter illegal immigration in their next long-term budget.
Financial reforms
The European Commission also intends to reform the Financial Supervision (ESFS) and EU's supervisory architecture.
With these reforms, the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) are likely to make decisions more transparent, while newly-created Executive Boards will lead to EU-oriented decisions. The EU budget will continue to contribute a share of the ESAs' funding and the rest will be funded by contributions from the EU financial sector.
But what does this mean for Brexit? The ESAs are expected to be given extra resources, taken from UK-headquartered firms, under order to enforce and regulate the City. The new reform proposes that the ESAs will report to the European Commission which implicates an influencing role of deciding which firms have access to the Single Market post Brexit.
The ESAs reforms are one aspect of th 37 EU laws that could be imposed on Britain during the Brexit transition period. Among the directives proposed, the EU would be allowed to force "clearing houses" in order to withdraw from the City and to be relocated to Europe before Britain's official departure from the EU.
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The EU published its plan to keep Northern Ireland in the single market and customs union post Brexit, yet British PM Theresa May has ostentatiously rejected it. This has led EU leaders questioning the ability of UK government to take a lead on Brexit negotiations. At this moment both Ireland and Northern Ireland are part of the single market and customs union. The plan therefore is designed to stop a return to a hard border between the UK and Northern Ireland.
The EU's institutionalism seems to be in an ongoing process of transforming its roles and proceedings alongside the Brexit negotiation process. Whereas its Eurocentric governors are proposing the creation of the "United States of Europe", expanding the organisation's influence over its member states and reinforcing the idea of the "union" that seek to negate nationalistic ideas and strengthen organisational autonomous policy-making.
Maria Ioannou is a graduate in International Relations from University of Amsterdam, and interested in international relations, current political affairs, European politics, political parties, Brexit, and industrial growth issues.
Can carbon capture and storage find its second wind?
5 March 2018 by Agora
The UK government passed up the opportunity to lead the global carbon capture and storage (CCS) sector. Can they learn from offshore wind to give the much-maligned technology a genuine chance?
In 2014 then UK Prime Minister David Cameron sat before the House of Commons Liaison Committee to discuss the UK's approach to staving off the threat of climate change. Reflecting on the strategies needed to decarbonise the UK's economy, he singled out one technology as "absolutely crucial if we are going to decarbonise effectively". Fast-forward four years and many readers would be surprised to know Cameron was referring to CCS.
In an industry understandably excited by the potential new era of smart grids, decentralised energy systems and renewables, advocates of this decidedly less glamorous technology have struggled to be heard. Like all good tales however the history of CCS is littered with plot twists, conflicts and lessons for those who appreciate the morals of the story.
The latest chapter of the CCS saga began in 2010 with the announcement of the second iteration of a £1 billion CCS Commercialisation Competition. This flagship programme was billed as the final push needed to take the technology from demonstration phase to commercial scale, pitting industry heavyweights such as Shell and Drax against each other in a race to build an economically viable CCS system. The government's enthusiasm did not last long however and following the formal cancellation of the project five years later (by the now divisive Chancellor George Osborne) the competition's last remaining project in Peterhead, Scotland, was shelved.
Today the North Sea storage sites proposed by the Peterhead projects remain conspicuously free of CO2. In the waters surrounding them however, a different low-carbon energy source is fast emerging as a significant force in the UK energy mix. 2017 saw a stunning 25% increase in wind power capacity in Europe, with the UK accounting for over half of this rise. Industry insiders were similarly stunned when two wind farms agreed to a Contract-for-Difference (CfD) price of less than £58/MWh in September, representing a drop of over 50% in just 2 years.
The contrasting fortunes of CCS and wind power offer many lessons for policymakers. The decision to abandon the CCS Commercialisation Competition, described succinctly by the then Scottish Energy Minister Fergus Ewing as a "disgrace", seems emblematic of the thinking around CCS that has undermined attempts to get the industry off the ground. Economic assessments of CCS, whilst rightly pointing to the prohibitively high costs in the short-term, have given less thought to the wider picture. The remarkable drop in the wind energy prices show how costs can be driven down in an environment where companies can learn on the job in a competitive market. CCS has yet to be given the chance to realise the efficiency improvements that come naturally from operating a plant at commercial scale.
Through the CfD scheme wind has also benefited from the security of receiving a guaranteed 'strike price' for the energy it produces, providing vital stability to project funders. Subsidies for CCS have invariably come in the form of grants for initial capital costs, leaving organisations at the mercy of the market once the technology is in operation and spooking would-be investors.
The elephant in the room is that there is currently little financial incentive to develop CCS, meaning successive governments have kicked the technology into the long grass. There are however many future scenarios in which it becomes a commercially necessity (ramping up of carbon taxes being the obvious one), and if countries are actually serious about their emissions reduction targets the intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) reckons widespread CCS is probably unavoidable. This, therefore, suggests a significant possibility of there being global demand for CCS technologies and expertise over the coming decades, and in the author's opinion CCS could be a smart bet for any government willing to take a mature, long-term approach. The recently announced CCS Cost Reduction Taskforce is a start, but the chequered history of CCS suggests its wise not to count the chickens until they've hatched.
For all its successes the offshore wind boom is notable for its absence of UK-based organisations, and the key players in the industry's growth from France, Denmark and Portugal have left little room for any British entrants. Supporting the British CCS industry at this stage however gives the UK a chance to be a world-leader in the sector. Whilst international carbon transport and storage infrastructure may seem a lofty ambition it will be vital in the long-term if CCS is to make a dent in global emissions. Taking a lead in the development of such infrastructure can extend the UK's geopolitical influence.
With Brexit around the corner the opportunity to establish knowledge-exchange partnerships with countries at an earlier stage of their CCS journey and would also be an excellent source of soft power as the UK attempts to define its new role in the global knowledge economy. Perhaps CCS deserves another chance?
Jacob Ohrvik-Stott is a policy professional from London whose research interests span the relationships between energy, technology, and society.
'Us versus Them' – how immigrants are portrayed by the British press
Why do some members of the electorate feel so irrationally hostile towards immigrants? The answer: a rabid and divisive press that has manufactured an ethnic consensus in which there is very little scope or variety.
The UK political landscape is becoming increasingly divided with debate and reason replaced by tribalism and emotion. Nowhere is this trend better witnessed than in the debate surrounding immigration.
The possibility of ever increasing migration into Britain ensures that immigrants and asylum seekers are highly valued as a newsworthy topic. This coverage is rarely positive however, and is dominated by a discourse that immigrants undermine 'British culture', 'our' culture; how 'they' take our jobs and offer 'us' terrorism and disease in return. This narrative is dominant in the mainstream media, with news outlets such as the Express and Daily Mail openly crusading on an anti-immigrant platform.
The press are able to maintain the salience of this negative rhetoric by producing content that is culturally resonant with the British population. They achieve this by constructing a binary opposition that casts migrants as criminals and immoral 'invaders', versus the lawful, hardworking and innocent British host society. Other depictions include migrants as dangerous and fearful, who threaten our 'British values' and the freedoms we hold dear. The employment of these negative terms by the press to describe immigrants encourages readers to make similar associations.
Another interesting component in the press's coverage of immigration is its frequent use of language that degrades and dehumanises migrants to this country. By referring to migrants as a 'swarm' or a 'flood', the press questions their status as human being and subtly suggests that they have not risen above their animal origins; they are less than human. The description of migrants living conditions as a 'jungle' epitomises this. Why bother about people who live in a 'jungle', who are cast as primitive and uncivilised? Why bother about people who are not like us, civilised citizens in a democracy? This characterisation is unchallenged, and becomes normalised by politicians using similar rhetoric. The most notable instance of this involves former PM David Cameron, and his infamous pledge to get tougher on immigration and "end the swarm of migrants". The use of this language compares migrants to insects. Not only are insects devoid of human emotions, but they are also disease carriers, pests, and potentially harmful. The press frame immigrants to be considered in the same way.
The effectiveness of the press's representation of immigrants as threatening, as invasive creatures, is increased by the general uncertainty over the contextual and legal status of immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees. It is difficult for the press to challenge refugees from a humanitarian perspective, as refugees have strong legal rights and are worthy of sympathy. It appeals to the public's basic compassion to help other humans who face persecution or are fleeing from an oppressive regime. The tragic death of Alayn Kurdi – the three year old Syrian refugee found on a Turkish beach after his boat sank in the Mediterranean – illustrates this point.
The strategy is to reclassify refugees as something else. New labels such as 'asylum seeker' are applied which changes the eligibility for the status of a refugee. These labels are effective in removing the humanitarian frame, and reinforcing a negative association with asylum seekers. This allows the press and, by extension, the public, to stigmatise and dismiss the needs of asylum seekers in a normalised and acceptable fashion.
It is clear then that a negative portrayal of immigrants is well established in the British press. Themes of invasion and hostility are predominant, fostering a climate of unease, suspicion and resentment towards immigrants. By framing immigration as an 'us versus them' issue, the press has created a consensus where its readers are invited and encouraged to view the incomers as a threat. This has culturally resonated with the British population, allowing the press to manufacture an ethnic consensus in which there is very little scope or variety. This offers a partial explanation as to why positive depictions of immigrants – centred on their significant contribution to British society and public services – are less salient. It does not resonate with readers. What can we do to rectify this unjust narrative?
Ideally, the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) would adhere to stronger guidelines concerning the demonisation of immigrants. This could be achieved by preventing irrelevant references to an individual's immigration status in a negative story. This would avoid the generalisation that immigration status is the primary reason behind a person's negative actions. IPSO could also be more proactive in challenging the press's emotive rhetoric that has converted editorial opinion into fact. Even with a wealth of data maintaining that immigrants do, in fact, provide a positive contribution to British society, there is a common misconception that they are a burden on public services and the welfare system. These perceptions are based not on figures, but on inaccurate, divisive and unchallenged media portrayals. As long as these negative portrayals continue, along with the 'us versus them' mentality that the press adopts, immigrants will continue to be considered in a negative light by the British public.
Joel Wilson-Hunt is a recent politics graduate from the University of Essex and lives in Kent. His research interests include British politics, political communication and migration studies.
The EU project, as Britain diverges will Europe continue to converge?
22 February 2018 by Agora
Brexit negotiations mean uncertainty not just for the UK but for the countries it leads behind in the EU, nowhere is this truer than on the issue of whether Brexit will lead to greater unity of disunity within the Union.
In the classic British satirical comedy Yes Minister the civil servant Sir Humphry explains to the bumbling Minister Hacker the reasoning for Britain joining the EU was a cynical way for Britain to maintain power and influence by ensuring disunity within the European project.
In reality, however, Britain's history and relationship with the EU has, of course, been a little more complicated and complex than this; in many ways Britain's position within the EU as a perceived obstacle to unity and greater convergence has ensured that divergent views are expressed and opposing ideologies met with compromise. The UK has historically encouraged a much more liberal approach to areas of trade and the social contract – a key example being its opt-out form the Schengen Visa system – often in stark opposition to the other central powerful EU state such as France and German.
Yet now that the UK is leaving a starkly different EU may emerge. Once the UK leaves the EU there will be a dramatic shift in the balance of power within the EU. The UK was one of the EU's most influential players and alongside France and Germany was regarded as an economic and political pillar. Its strength and position, alongside its ambivalence to the grander EU project, allowed it more, than any other country, to extract the most exemptions and opt-outs, such as membership of the Euro and Schengen.
So with its departure, will the EU move to greater convergence after Brexit? This is surely the hope and wishes of Germany and now France (with one of its most pro-European presidents); both of which are pursuing greater cooperation and convergence, putting aside superficial differences in place of a vision for the post-Brexit EU.
Historically France and Germany have always been the drivers of the post-war Europe project, whilst British positions have more often than not been the brakes on European unity. This may be due to the fact that Britain only joined in 1973, 16 years after the Treaty of Rome, due mainly to French opposition.
However, Britain's departure will also lay bare the stark and growing differences within the EU project, especially between the core and peripheral countries, in both the economic and political realm. Economically, Greece is still struggling; following near economic collapse and a number of issues need to be resolved in the country to ensure the stability of Greece and the EU such as Greece's debt sustainability and management.
Furthermore, whilst the EU project has predominantly been an economic project, there is a clear political component to the EU, and this will no doubt be one its greatest tests post-Brexit. There is a growing collection of central and eastern European states which in many ways are avowedly pro-EU according to public sentiment but, in many ways, have deeply nationalist governments. Leaders such as Hungary's Viktor Orban have espoused the idea of "illiberal democracies" and seek political inspiration from international figures such as President Putin in Russia. Poland and the Czech Republic, to name two, also appear to seek similar political paths as Hungary.
How the EU deals with the rise of 21st century neo-nationalism will be one of its ultimate tests, especially for its future unity. This may be where Brexit will leave its lasting legacy. If countries with strong neo-nationalist forces, like Hungary, see Britain not only managing but thriving outside the EU, it may provide the ammunition populists like Viktor Orban need to argue for a Hungary outside the EU. Once the UK leaves, the EU will have to confront fundamental issues that for various reasons have been avoided. Its survival depends on reconciling in some cases paradoxical differences. Time will tell if the UK outside will be a unifier for the rest of Europe or a beacon for European disillusions.
When Britain leaves the EU, there will be great challenges facing those its leaves behind. Ensuring unity – or even seeking greater convergence – for the remaining EU member states will have to face a number of political and economic barriers in a markedly changed Union.
David Lee has a Masters in Diplomatic Studies and is a Policy Assistant at a national think tank. He lives in London.
Mining for answers in Britain's ever-shifting coal policy
Coal seems to many as a thing of the past, connotating miners is sooty uniforms and canaries in cages, yet we are still haunted by coal's legacy even today. In the face of an ongoing climate crisis, why can't the British government make up its mind about coal?
Modern society is undoubtedly in the era of Petroleum, with the fossil fuel characterising not just the way we live, from transport to energy, but also to how the world is run. Since the principal discovery and exploitation of the resource in the mid-1800s, our world was changed. However, none of this would have been without the boost in capacity for growth that its predecessor, coal, provided.
Even though we have transitioned from the era of coal to the era of petroleum, however, coal is very much an integral part of our society. Coal still makes up more than ¼ of the world's energy mix, with it primarily being burnt to produce electricity in coal-fired power generation. Over the past few years, given the growing pressures and efficiencies of renewable energy sources, and even the cheaper price points of petroleum and natural gas, coal has slowly been put on the backburner in terms of national energy policy. Yet over the past few years, the British government can't seem to make up their mind on what they think about coal – why?
There are several reasons for this. First – the coal industry in the UK has a complex history rooted in the heart of the Industrial Revolution. Coal allowed Britain to emerge as one of the cornerstones of the world, with a massive boost to its economy and enabling its military capacity to grow to the largest it has been in its entire history.
This leads thus into the second reason, being the institutionalised nature of coal in our national energy mix and infrastructure. While coal only makes up approximately 9% of the national energy mix, and has been gradually replaced by the more favourable natural gas (which in contrast makes up 43% of the mix), the phase out of coal power stations has been slow. Whilst the numbers may indicate that coal is not a big deal, it is still 9% of dirty fossil fuel that is being burned compared to natural gas which is marginally cleaner.
The slow phase out of coal has not been helped by the contemporary culprit: the lack of any concrete perspective on coal by the government for the past four years. After a shift from Liberal Democrat to Conservative hands following the 2015 election, the government has had three separate Secretaries of State for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs; the most current being MP Michael Gove. Additionally, the past three years have obscured the presence of any explicit department for energy with a concrete plan. What was once the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC), no longer exists as of 2016 and is now a mere fragment of the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
What does all this mean? Quite simply, it means that the fight against climate change has been put on the backburner with regards to the government's main focuses. The disappearance of DECC into BEIS indicates that climate change, whilst still a serious issue, cannot be prioritised over the economy. Current international ties, particularly to the United States appear to make coal a desirable part of the energy mix; given President Trump's election promise to revive the coal industry, prompting "Trump digs Coal" signs to pop up at rallies along the campaign trail. Bilateral relations with China may have a stake in the presence of coal, particularly given China's role in British nuclear power. Even relations with the EU, through which the UK receives most of its natural gas as a result of an agreement with the Russian Federation, may revive the importance of coal following Brexit.
The British government claims to be a 'leader' in the fight against climate change, with the conservative party claiming to be the 'greenest party ever', yet these statements beg questioning given the blatant contradiction-in-terms. It is clear that the presence of coal is still here in the UK, and it is going to take more than converting the skeletons of our sooty past like Battersea Power Station, and the flimsy plan to close all current plants by 2025 to change this.
Micheil Page is currently reading an MSc in Global Energy and Climate Policy at SOAS, University of London, specialising in Arctic governance. He is also the Director of UniSolar, the UK's first student-led community energy enterprise.
Westminster Woes – Brussels Battering? Why government insecurity does not necessarily mean foreign weakness.
Despite Theresa May's weakness reasonable progress has been made in Brussels. No no deal. No Brussels trouncing. Why did her weakness not lead to weakness in the negotiations and what can we learn from this?
2017 was, at the very the least, an ill-starred year for UK Prime Minister Theresa May and her Conservative government. May was dogged by gaff, scandal and disaster at home, all whilst attempting to negotiate the Brexit settlement abroad.
Compounding the Prime Minister's misery were the parliamentarians and pundits, on hand after every misfortune to explain why her crumbling authority would have negative consequences for Britain in the Brexit negotiations. Dire predictions abounded; the negotiations were going to be a Brexi-nightmare and Britain was to be Brexi-bulldozed.
And yet here we are. Many would argue that a seemingly reasonable compromise has been reached on the Irish border, citizens' rights and the divorce bill. Furthermore, it appears that the UK has not been bullied into capitulating wholesale at the negotiating table despite May's weakness. What are we to make of this state of affairs?
First, we should not be surprised. American political scientist, Robert Putnam, showed negotiations are two level games: the agreement is negotiated internationally at level 1 and ratified domestically at level 2. Each negotiating team has a set of all possible agreements which could be reached at level 1 (the international level) and that ratifiers (members of the cabinet, parliament and the public) could accept at level 2 (the domestic level).
Providing a deal does not fall apart then the negotiators at level 1 will usually arrive at an agreement somewhere in the middle where their domestic win sets overlap and they can be confident of ratification.
So, if we take the divorce bill and citizens rights both sides began by touting their preferred options before ceding ground until an acceptable middle ground was reached. This is how negotiations between relative equals proceed – domestic weakness does not mean foreign surrender.
Second, and more speculatively, perhaps the law of unintended consequences has helped May, albeit perversely. The stronger a government is, the greater the number of potential agreements they can accept at the international level because they know they can simply force them through at the domestic level. Strangely therefore, strong governments can end up ceding more at the negotiating table. Had May done well in the June election she would have gone to Brussels with a strong parliamentary majority and her own personal mandate. As it turned out her gamble backfired catastrophically leaving her with no parliamentary majority and a divided party. Perhaps this has allowed her to withstand demands from the EU for say, a greater amount in the divorce bill, on the grounds that she would not be able to get the deal ratified at home.
However, this does not automatically mean that a negotiating team will be able to gain concessions. This is only possible if a government's best alternative to no agreement is credible. In the UK, this would be to separate without continuity from the EU, falling back on WTO rules in the critical area of trade. If the EU did not believe this was credible and could have negative implications for the EU as well then they may well have taken advantage of May's weakness to try and force a punitive deal upon the UK. Yet they have not.
Therefore, finally, EU leaders are committed to securing a sensible deal for both parties. They do not want to see a no deal scenario and such a scenario now looks highly unlikely. This could explain why EU leaders are publically praising May. Perhaps they feel that it is better to prop up a weak but amenable Prime Minister than deal with her potential replacement who would possibly be more prepared to destabilise negotiations by playing the 'no deal' card.
Dire domestic politics does not necessarily translate into a dire position at the negotiating table abroad. It now appears that May and the EU will reach a deal. That deal will not be optimal for either side but if the wiser heads prevail it will be fair and Britain will not be bulldozed.
Chris Kunkler (24) is a graduate student and lives in London. He is currently studying for a master's degree in global politics at LSE.


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Title: Different roles of E proteins in t(8;21) leukemia: E2-2 compromises the function of AETFC and negatively regulates leukemogenesis.
Pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants in non-FGFR genes were identified in 43 individuals, with diagnostic yields of 14% and 15% in retrospective and prospective cohorts, respectively. Variants were identified most frequently in TCF12 (N = 22) and EFNB1 (N = 8), typically in individuals with nonsyndromic coronal craniosynostosis or TWIST1-negative clinically suspected Saethre-Chotzen syndrome.
Title: A craniosynostosis massively parallel sequencing panel study in 309 Australian and New Zealand patients: findings and recommendations.
These results identify HEB as a critical regulator of human mesodermal and hematopoietic specification.
Title: Targeted Disruption of TCF12 Reveals HEB as Essential in Human Mesodermal Specification and Hematopoiesis.
HDAC1 promoted migration and invasion of gallbladder tumor cells by binding with TCF12 to promote epithelial mesenchymal transformation.
Title: HDAC1 promoted migration and invasion binding with TCF12 by promoting EMT progress in gallbladder cancer.
Study describes the identification of three large inherited intragenic exon deletions in TCF12 using whole-genome sequencing and one large inherited duplication using targeted TCF12 sequencing in patients with craniosynostosis.
Title: Identification of Intragenic Exon Deletions and Duplication of TCF12 by Whole Genome or Targeted Sequencing as a Cause of TCF12-Related Craniosynostosis.
Heb expression is regulated by Med19 in breast cancer cells.
Title: Decreased expression of TCF12 contributes to progression and predicts biochemical recurrence in patients with prostate cancer.
HEB may be involved in GBM cell proliferation, as HEB silencing reduced proliferation in cells cultured as monolayers or neurospheres. Furthermore, the results suggested a potential role for HEB in the maintenance of GBM stem cells, as HEB silencing affected the differentiation capacity of cells.
Title: HEB silencing induces anti-proliferative effects on U87MG cells cultured as neurospheres and monolayers.
Two novel translocations leading to the inactivation of RUNX1 and its partners SIN3A and TCF12 in myeloid leukemia.
Title: t(15;21) translocations leading to the concurrent downregulation of RUNX1 and its transcription factor partner genes SIN3A and TCF12 in myeloid disorders.
Studies suggest that transcription factor 12 (TCF12) should be included in level 2 genetic testing.
Title: Expanding the mutation spectrum in 182 Spanish probands with craniosynostosis: identification and characterization of novel TCF12 variants.
Homologs of the TCF12 gene: The TCF12 gene is conserved in chimpanzee, Rhesus monkey, dog, cow, mouse, rat, chicken, zebrafish, mosquito, and frog.
Transcript Variant: This variant (6) lacks multiple exon in the 5' UTR and 5' coding region and uses an alternate 5' most exon compared to variant 1. The encoded isoform (d) has a shorter and distinct N-terminus compared to isoform 1.
Transcript Variant: This variant (7) has multiple differences in the 5' UTR and coding region compared to variant 1. The encoded isoform (e) is shorter and has a distict N-terminus compared to isoform a.
Transcript Variant: This variant (3) differs in the 5' UTR and coding region (compared to variant 1), resulting in a protein that maintains the reading frame but is shorter, compared to isoform a. Variants 3 and 4 encode the same isoform b.
Transcript Variant: This variant (1) encodes the longest isoform (a). Variants 1 and 2 both encode the same isoform a.
Transcript Variant: This variant (2) differs in the 5' UTR compared to variant 1. Variants 1 and 2 encode the same isoform a.
Transcript Variant: This variant (4) differs in the coding region (compared to variant 1), resulting in a protein that maintains the reading frame but is shorter, compared to isoform a. Variants 3 and 4 encode the same isoform b.
Transcript Variant: This variant (5) has multiple differences in the 5' UTR and coding region compared to variant 1. This results in a shorter isoform (c) with a distinct N-terminus, compared to isoform a.


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ONHS cross country team building on improvements
Posted on Sep 3, 2019 by Dawn Walschinski
Dakota Swamp and CJ Summers stretch out before training for Cross Country.
Oneida Nation High School (ONHS) Senior CJ Summers and first-time cross-country runner Dakota Swamp stretched out before starting their practice for their sport.
"I'm trying to get under 20 minutes for three miles," stated CJ on his goal for the season.
"I'm just trying to keep up with him," said Dakota.
Coach Curt Summers hopes to build on the momentum of improvements the team made over the course of last year's cross-country season.
"We progressively got better each meet. Times always got better," he said.
The team of 5 to 6 runners will participate in 5 meets this year, sometimes against higher division schools with bigger teams.
"The competition is set pretty high for those meets, but these boys (and girls) tend to work really hard," said Curt. "They put in the work, and usually by the end of the season it really shows."
Curt has the team doing strength training to improve overall fitness and hopefully avoid injuries.
"We really need these athletes to really think about that part of their sport. It's just not basketball, or it's just not lacrosse or it's just not football, because there's a lot of things that come along with those sports and one of the big things is injuries, so one preventative is strength training," he said.
While both CJ and Dakota think of lacrosse as their main sport, they enjoy cross-country running for its own benefits.
"I just really like to run, and it really trains for my other sports that I play, and it clears my mind a lot, too," said CJ.
"I know it's good training for, because I play lacrosse, it's going to be good from my lungs and stamina," said Dakota. "It takes your mind off of things, it also makes you take a step back and realize where you are."
ONHS Cross-Country Team will run on Saturday, September 7 at Irish Waters Golf Club in Freedom at 8:30am.
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