The latest blackface controversy doesn't involve a Virginia leader or college students. This time, the offender is a sweater made by the Italian luxury brand Gucci.
Images of the sweater, a wool balaclava jumper that retails for $890, were shared to social media on Wednesday and sparked intense backlash, many calling the garment's design "racist," or "Haute Couture Blackface," as one person described it. Late Wednesday night, Gucci issued an apology and confirmed that the turtleneck had been "immediately removed from our online store and all physical stores."
"Gucci deeply apologizes for the offense caused by the wool balaclava jumper," the company said in a statement shared to Twitter. "We consider diversity to be a fundamental value to be fully upheld, respected, and at the forefront of every decision we make."
The statement continued: "We are fully committed to increasing the diversity throughout our organization and turning this incident into a powerful learning moment for the Gucci team and beyond."
The photos appeared to have first been shared Wednesday afternoon by a Twitter user who wrote: "Balaclava knit top by Gucci. Happy Black History Month y'all." The same person also discovered that Gucci was selling a black hat that looked like the top half of a ski mask, writing, "They have a mask to match so you can have a chic classic black face moment without the mess of paint." As of early Thursday morning, the pair of tweets had nearly 2,000 comments and had been retweeted roughly 5,300 times combined.
"someone obviously didnt let gucci know its Black HISTORY Month and NOT BLACKFACE Month," one person tweeted.
Another person wrote, "ah yes, black face but make it fashion huh?"
It happened in the 1980s, when he was in college.
The sweater was part of Gucci's fall winter 2018 collection, according to a description from ModeSens, an online fashion shopping search engine. The multicolored knitted balaclavas, a form of closefitting cloth headgear, featured in the line were inspired by vintage ski masks, the description said, noting that the turtleneck "combines the accessory with the ready-to-wear collection."
But for many critics, the top's hybrid design and the way it was modeled created an image that too closely resembled the title character of a 19th-century children's book called "The Story of Little Black Sambo," which has historically been used as a racist trope.
"I get the Idea they were going for . . . BUT WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE BLACK?" a Twitter user asked. Another wanted to know why the red lips had been added.
One person argued that the design was "intentional."
"They could have literally chosen any other color scheme, but they went with this," the person tweeted.
It didn't take long for "boycott Gucci" calls to begin spreading across social media.
"This is DISGUSTING," a person wrote on Twitter. "I don't wanna see any of you with Gucci belts and slides after this."
"This is ridiculous, it is a . . . sweater, stop thinking so far into things," a person tweeted. "Since when do sweaters have anything to do with race?"
Gucci isn't the only fashion brand to be accused of marketing a product that invokes blackface. In 2016, Moncler pulled a jacket and shirt bearing designs of what was intended to be a penguin-inspired character with white rimmed eyes and a grinning red mouth, Essence reported. More recently, in December, Prada was widely panned for a window display in its New York SoHo boutique that featured giant versions of a keychain charm that looked like a monkey with a prominent red mouth, The Washington Post's Robin Givhan reported. Prada also apologized, took down the display, announced it would no longer sell the $550 keychain and vowed to create an advisory council "to guide our efforts on diversity, inclusion and culture."
Last Friday, Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam initially admitted to being in a photo in his 1984 medical school yearbook that showed one person in blackface and another wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe. Later, Northam insisted he was not in the picture, but did say he had once used black shoe polish on his face to look like Michael Jackson. On Wednesday, Virginia Democratic Attorney General Mark Herring said he dressed in blackface during college - the same day the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill condemned a 1979 yearbook with a picture of two people in Klan attire appearing to hang another person in blackface.


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Q: Can only obtain address using GeoCoder with WiFi, not mobile internet (LTE) When I run the "Location Address" sample found here:
https://github.com/googlesamples/android-play-location
The app only fetches the address when connected to WiFi. When I turn WiFi off and use LTE I see "Sorry, the service is not available."
I'm trying to transfer this code to my own project but I want this to work using mobile internet as well as WiFi.
Does anyone know why this is happening?
logcat following timeout:
09-28 21:05:40.219  16344-19027/com.google.android.gms.location.sample.locationaddress E/fetch-address-intent-service﹕ Sorry, the service is not available
java.io.IOException: Timed out waiting for response from server
        at android.location.Geocoder.getFromLocation(Geocoder.java:136)
        at com.google.android.gms.location.sample.locationaddress.FetchAddressIntentService.onHandleIntent(FetchAddressIntentService.java:92)
        at android.app.IntentService$ServiceHandler.handleMessage(IntentService.java:65)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:145)
        at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:61)

A: Some posts from 2014 indicate Geocoder may not work as well with LTE. See for example
Geocoder "Timed out waiting for response from server"
The suggestion was to use the web API instead. See Google Geocoder service is unavaliable (Coordinates to address)
Please report back with any success you have. I'm using geocoder too but so far, just on Wifi (and it works)

A: I couldn't figure out how to get geocoder working using mobile internet so I resorted to using google maps api, which works over wifi and mobile internet. Here is my implementation:
try {
            URL url = new URL("http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=" +
                    latitude + "," + longitude + "&sensor=true");
            HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
            conn.setReadTimeout(10000);
            conn.setConnectTimeout(15000);
            conn.connect();

            jsonResult = inputStreamToString(conn.getInputStream()).toString();
            JSONObject jsonResponse = new JSONObject(jsonResult);

            Log.d("json result", "Geocoder Status: " + jsonResponse.getString("status"));
            if("OK".equalsIgnoreCase(jsonResponse.getString("status"))) {
                JSONArray addressComponents = ((JSONArray)jsonResponse.get("results")).getJSONObject(0).getJSONArray("address_components");
                for (int i = 0; i < addressComponents.length(); i++) {
                    String addressComponent = ((JSONArray) ((JSONObject) addressComponents.get(i)).get("types")).getString(0);
                    if (addressComponent.equals("locality")) {
                        locality = ((JSONObject) addressComponents.get(i)).getString("long_name");
                    }
                    if (addressComponent.equals("administrative_area_level_1")) {
                        admin1 = ((JSONObject) addressComponents.get(i)).getString("long_name");
                    }
                    if (addressComponent.equals("country")) {
                        countryCode = ((JSONObject) addressComponents.get(i)).getString("short_name");
                    }
                }
                Log.d("json result", locality + "." + admin1 + "." + countryCode);
            }

        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (JSONException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

private StringBuilder inputStreamToString(InputStream is) {
    String rLine = "";
    StringBuilder answer = new StringBuilder();
    BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
    try {
        while ((rLine = rd.readLine()) != null) {
            answer.append(rLine);
        }
    } catch (IOException e) {
        // e.printStackTrace();
        Toast.makeText(mContext.getApplicationContext(),
                "Error..." + e.toString(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }
    return answer;
}

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The Risky Race for a Quick Coronavirus Vaccine
After bungling containment, the Trump administration hopes for a fast-tracked fix. But compressing trials comes with its own hazards.
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As the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 sweeps across the world, scientists are racing to find vaccines that could stop the virus in its tracks. On Monday, Moderna Therapeutics, a Massachusetts-based company, began the first human clinical trials of its vaccine in Seattle, Washington—skipping the typical phase of trials wherein a new vaccine or medication is tested on animals first. A successful vaccine could be a lifesaver for many. But bioethicists are also concerned about the compressed timeline—and what it means for vaccine development in the future.
Some argue that desperate times call for desperate measures—that the risks of a worsening pandemic outweigh the possibility that the vaccine could adversely affect participants. The call for trial participants put out by the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, where the study will be conducted, pointed out that a vaccine is "urgently needed" because of the large number of people already sick or likely to get sick around the world, and the virus's ability to spread from person to person. Participants in the study, who must be healthy adults between 18 and 55 years of age, will receive a total of $1,100 for their participation—$100 "for each of the in-person study visits."
In the United States, some of the pressure to create a vaccine quickly is coming from the top: President Donald Trump has said that a vaccine will be available "in a fairly quick manner"—having misunderstood in a meeting with drug company executives, according to The New York Times, the difference between when a vaccine is ready for initial trials and when it is ready to be offered to the public. He also reportedly offered a German company funding for a vaccine to which the U.S. would have exclusive rights. (The U.S. ambassador to Germany denied that there were plans to keep the vaccine solely for U.S. use.)
Moderna, a biotechnology company, sent its vaccine to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which will sponsor the trial, on February 24. By early March, Kaiser Permanente had begun recruiting participants for the study, which will last for just over a year. (Moderna declined to comment, telling me that it was no longer commenting on stories involving this vaccine development process, and Kaiser Permanente did not respond by press time; if it does, this story will be updated.)
"There's a few reasons to think that this is something that we shouldn't be doing," Nicholas Evans, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, told me. This trial is not just skipping a significant safety step, he said; it's also skipping the important step of learning, through the animal trial, whether the vaccine will be useful at all. "So this is a pretty big deal."
Although vaccine developers usually test on animals before humans, there are no laws saying they must. Typically, regulators like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration require proof that a product is safe and is likely to work before it's tested on humans—and some of that proof can come from trials with mice or other animals.
But in this case, Moderna has gotten approval from the FDA to change up the order. The animal trials began at the same time as the human trial began recruiting participants. One difficulty researchers may face is that standard mice don't seem to be affected by this virus. As a result, mice that are susceptible to it will need to be bred over the next few weeks.
Conducting the trials simultaneously or reversing the order is a rare but not unheard-of move, Jeffrey Kahn, director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, told me. For reasons of safety, efficacy, and ethics, he said, it's usually better to test on animals before humans. "You have to have good reason to say, 'We need to go straight to humans or go to humans at this particular point,'" he said.
Kahn worries about people signing up to be in the trial because they think the vaccine could give them immunity before it becomes available to everyone else. In reality, this kind of early trial is just to make sure that the vaccine is not toxic and does indeed provoke some kind of immune response in people. Participants are very unlikely to be fully immunized to the virus over the course of their participation.
Vaccines have different ways of, essentially, tricking the human body into thinking it is facing the real form of a certain disease and getting it to develop immunity without facing the full-blown disease itself. Oftentimes, a weak or dead form of the virus or bacteria is used. This vaccine doesn't do that. Instead, it relies upon a snippet of genetic code called messenger RNA, or mRNA, which essentially teaches cells how to respond to viruses like SARS-CoV-2 (the name for the virus that causes the disease Covid-19).
The coronavirus looks a little like the sun, with tiny rays extending out. Once the virus is in your body—say, it's gotten inside your nose—it uses these "rays," which are actually proteins, as hooks to attach to your cells' receptors and get comfortable in your body. Moderna's vaccine is actually a bundle of instructions that would teach cells how to create proteins similar to the virus's "rays," in order for your body to learn how to defend against the actual viruses. It's kind of like a fire drill. This study will test the safety of the vaccine in humans, and it will also see whether the vaccine seems to work. Will the immune system figure out what the instructions are telling it to do, and will it be able to create enough immunity to the virus?
There's another hitch here: Moderna has never brought a product to market.
A company that did have "a long track record of bringing drugs to the market," Evans said, would have more credibility when asserting that this vaccine needs to be fast-tracked despite not having completed animal trials yet.
Both Evans and Kahn stressed the need for explaining clearly the potential risks to the study participants. The call for volunteers from Kaiser Permanente notes that this vaccine has not been tested on humans before. But it doesn't mention that it hasn't been tested on animals, either.
"I think that's a huge issue," Evans said. The consent form that participants sign before enrolling in the trial hasn't been released, but he and Kahn agreed that truly informed consent is a fundamental part of conducting human testing—especially in a fast-tracked process. "We need to understand, as best we can, the risk that people are being asked to expose themselves to," Kahn said.
And there's also the issue of paying participants. In general, while researchers may compensate participants for the expenses of being in a study—for instance, for transportation costs—"it should only offset the cost that the individual bears by their participation," Kahn said. "You're not supposed to pay people to accept risk." In the research community, the question of how much to pay participants can be a tricky one. It's a way of making sure that participants don't drop out of the trial, Kahn said. "The number gets set in a way that isn't overly enticing somebody to participate, like, 'Wow, I could pay my rent with this money,' or something."
Several other companies are racing to find effective vaccines. Novavax, a Maryland-based company, is also working on a vaccine that doesn't use dead or weakened viruses. Instead, its vaccine is a recombinant nanoparticle—basically, a fake version of the virus that hooks into the cell in the same way as SARS-CoV-2, giving the cells practice at warding off a harmless facsimile of the virus. The company has made similar vaccines for other respiratory viruses, like the flu, and other coronaviruses, including SARS and MERS. The other coronavirus vaccines have made it through animal testing before, although they weren't brought to market because of a lack of demand, the company says. The flu vaccine will soon undergo human testing.
Dr. Gregory Glenn, president of research and development at Novavax, said the company plans to begin human testing of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in May or June, with results expected by the end of the summer. They are currently testing several different vaccine possibilities in animal trials now.* Normally, it takes several years to get a license, but this pandemic may mean an accelerated timeline. "Usually you do phase one, phase two, phase three—that often takes, you know, six to eight years," he told me, pausing. "This can't."
Glenn hadn't heard the news about Moderna, he told me. "That's kind of remarkable," he said. "That shows the FDA's flexible." If the regulatory agency is changing its mind about how it's typically done things, he said, that could be good news for vaccine makers.
But Evans isn't so sure. The Trump administration has largely failed to act during this pandemic, he said, "but at the same time, we're seeing the shredding of regulations and regulatory norms as part of their response to this outbreak. That's a really dangerous proposition." Evans said, "I am concerned about what it means for this particular trial, but I'm also concerned about what it means for all future trials. I think that could be really bad for science, and that could be really bad for the people involved in this trial."
Evans is particularly worried that fast-tracking human trials and potentially exposing people to risk could become fodder for the anti-vaccine movement. (Trump, now a vocal supporter of the coronavirus vaccine, has a long history of anti-vaccine statements himself.) If the study participants experience adverse side effects from new vaccines that haven't been thoroughly tested, others might be less likely to trust vaccines in general. Even if the study goes well, Evans said, anti-vaccine advocates could use the rushed process in this case to argue that the entire vaccine industry is unsafe and poorly regulated. Broad swaths of the population refusing to give their kids the polio or measles vaccine could have devastating consequences. Evans urges caution. "I think that everyone is very panicked, and I think that we are running a real risk of creating more problems, years in the future," he said.
These trials, which normally take years to conduct, are only the beginning for creating an effective new vaccine. The next step would be getting them approved by the FDA and producing them on a large scale. But how vaccine makers conduct themselves in this health emergency could have ripple effects for years to come.
*This piece has been corrected. Novavax will be starting human trials, not animal trials, for their SARS-CoV-2 vaccine this summer—the animal trials are already underway.
Melody Schreiber @m_scribe
Melody Schreiber is a journalist and the editor of What We Didn't Expect: Personal Stories About Premature Birth, published in November 2020.
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George Joseph Herriman (New Orleans, 22 augustus 1880 - 25 april 1944) was een Amerikaans stripauteur van Creoolse origine. Hij werd bekend dankzij zijn stripreeks Krazy Kat.

Biografie
Op zijn zeventiende verkocht Herriman zijn eerste cartoon aan de Los Angeles Herald, maar zijn gedocumenteerde carrière begint pas in 1901. Het eerste decennium van de twintigste eeuw was Herriman een soort reizende striptekenaar, voortdurend pendelend tussen Los Angeles en New York, en zijn werk verkopend aan al wie er interesse voor had, met als voornaamste klanten de krantenuitgevers Joseph Pulitzer en William Randolph Hearst, en de World Color Printing Company. Hearst was een onvoorwaardelijke fan van zijn werk, en vanaf 1906 tot zijn overlijden was Herriman ononderbroken in dienst van Hearst.

Herriman creëerde een hele reeks door uitzinnige karakters bevolkte strips die een kort leven beschoren waren: Musical Mose (1902), Professor Otto and His Auto (1902), Acrobatic Archie (1902), Two Jolly Jackies (1903), Lariat Pete (1903), Major Ozone's Fresh Air Crusade (1904), Home Sweet Home (1904), Bubblespikers (1904), Bud Smith (1904), Mr. Proones the Plunger (1906), Rosy Posy, Mama's Girl (1906), Grandma's Girl (1906), Baron Mooch (1909), Mary's Home From College (1909). Hij experimenteerde ook met dierenstrips, met name Daniel and Pansy (1909), over een varken en een kangoeroe, Gooseberry Sprig (1909), en Alexander the Cat (1909), dat binnen zijn oeuvre uniek was in die zin dat Alexander een niet-pratende en niet-denkende, doodnormale kat was.

In 1910 begon Herriman met The Dingbat Family, dat later werd herdoopt tot The Family Upstairs. Na enige tijd werd de onderste strook van deze strip voorbehouden aan de belevenissen van een kat en een muis. Beide beesten sloegen zodanig aan dat zij in 1913 een eigen strip kregen, Krazy Kat, die zou blijven bestaan tot Herrimans dood. Parallel aan Krazy Kat bleef Herriman andere series opstarten: Baron Bean (1916), Stumble Inn (een soort Fawlty Towers, 1922), Us Husbands (1926), en ten slotte Embarrassing Moments, dat geen eigen creatie was en dat van 1928 tot 1932 liep. Vanaf 1932 wijdde Herriman zich uitsluitend aan Krazy Kat.

Na Herrimans dood werd zijn as verstrooid over Monument Valley, in Coconino County, Arizona. Tegen de gewoonte in werd er geen poging gedaan om de strip aan een ander over te dragen: Hearst respecteerde Krazy Kat als Herrimans exclusieve creatie.

Krazy Kat

De kern van Krazy Kat bestaat uit een merkwaardige driehoeksrelatie tussen een kat, een muis en een hond. Krazy Kat is een nu eens vrouwelijke dan weer mannelijke kat met een zweverig poëtisch karakter, die verliefd is op Ignatz Mouse. Ignatz, die getrouwd is en kinderen heeft, is allesbehalve blij met de aandacht van Krazy, en uit zijn afkeer door bakstenen naar zijn/haar hoofd te gooien, wat door Krazy echter als een teken van affectie wordt beschouwd. De hond, Offissa Bull Pup, is een toegewijde wetsdienaar die een stevige boon heeft voor Krazy en hem/haar tegen Ignatz probeert te beschermen door deze steeds weer in de gevangenis op te sluiten. Dit drietal wordt door vele andere dieren omringd, waaronder Joe Stork, Kolin Kelly de steenbakker, en eerdere creaties als Gooseberry Sprig en (Sancho) Pansy. Een belangrijk onderdeel van de strip is de achtergrond, die doet denken aan de woestijnlandschappen van Arizona, en die wordt aangeduid met de poëtische naam Coconino County, overigens een bestaande county.

Herriman kreeg voor Krazy Kat de vrije hand; dertig jaar lang experimenteerde hij volop met allerlei formaten en surrealistisch aandoende tekeningen, kleuren en kadreringen, en ontwikkelde hij een bizar en poëtisch patois.

Krazy Kat was te veeleisend om populair te worden; in 1944 verscheen de strip slechts in tweeënvijftig dagbladen. Onder de weinige bewonderaars bevonden zich echter veel kunstenaars, intellectuelen en prominenten. Er wordt verteld dat president Wilson tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog de strip vóór de vergaderingen aan zijn oorlogskabinet voorlas. De appreciatie blijft enorm; nog in 1999 werd de strip door het prestigieuze striptijdschrift The Comics Journal (#210) uitgeroepen tot de beste Engelstalige strip aller tijden.

Herriman, George

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New Podcast: Just How Secret is the Government?
How many secrets does the government have? And where are they keeping them? POGO's Joe Newman and Suzie Dershowitz sat down with Amy Bennett from OpenTheGovernment.org, which just released its annual Secrecy Report, to discuss how secret the federal government was last year.
Find out what agency takes three years to process certain FOIA requests and which agency known for being secretive supposedly only classified four new documents last year. Find the podcast below.
Andre Francisco is an online producer with the Project On Government Oversight. Image by Pam Rutter.
Ready for another POGO podcast? POGO staffers recently sat down to dissect the President's fiscal year 2013 budget request. Did the executive branch ask Congress to keep funding the Energy Department's billion-dollar boondoggles? Did costly weapons systems get curtailed? Will U.S. troops continue to keep a watchful eye on Italian beaches?
Have a listen to get the scoop on how the President wants to spend your tax dollars.
Bryan Rahija is POGO's Blog Editor. Photo by POGO's Pam Rutter.
You might not realize it, but U.S. taxpayer dollars are being used to fund labor trafficking. U.S. government contractors working in contingency zones often bring in laborers for various projects through subcontrators. But these laborers—usually men from poor, rural areas in places like India—are often taken advantage of. They're forced to live in appalling conditions, and sometimes promises of work never materialize, despite the enormous sums that the laborers pay to get to job sites.
All of this is enabled by a lack of oversight from the U.S. federal government.
POGO's podcast team recently sat down with Sam McCahon and Sindhu Kavinamannil, two activists who are making a documentary about this labor trafficking process.
McCahon is a former federal prosecutor, former general counsel for Agility (a major Pentagon contractor), and is currently in private practice with his law firm, McCahon Law LLC.
Kavinamannil is a certified fraud examiner, has experience in establishing and maintaining compliance programs in Iraq, Kuwait, and India, and is the CEO of Compliance Consulting Services.
We ended up having a fascinating discussion about the intricacies of this often-overlooked issue.
Listen to the podcast here, and make sure to subscribe to our podcasts on iTunes for discussion on other important topics.
For this week's podcast, POGO's blog editor Bryan Rahija and POGO's Beth Daley Impact Fellow Dana Liebelson sat down with Scott Amey, POGO's general counsel, and Paul Chassy, a POGO investigator. The topic was the recently released Bad Business: Billions of Taxpayer Dollars Wasted on Hiring Contractors report.
The report studied 35 occupational classifications to see if outsourcing federal government jobs to contractors was cost effective. To find out the results, and hear some analysis and special commentary, listen to the podcast.
For our latest podcast, the Office of Special Counsel's (OSC) Adam Miles gives an overview of how the OSC works with federal whistleblowers. Miles was a speaker at the July seminar in POGO's Congressional Oversight Training Series. The series is put on by POGO to train congressional staffers on the art of congressional oversight.
Photo from a recent Congressional Oversight Training Series seminar by POGO's Pam Rutter.
In May 2010, leaders at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) proposed a rule that would require NIH-funded researchers to publicly disclose their financial arrangements with drug and medical device companies.
This proposal would bring a much needed dose of transparency to federally funded medical research. Now, one thing stands in its way: the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). POGO is concerned that OMB will weaken or block this proposal, and in July, we sent a letter urging OMB to leave the rule intact.
For this podcast, POGO Staff Scientist Ned Feder and POGO Executive Director Danielle Brian discuss why this proposal is so important. After we recorded this podcast, Nature News reported that the proposal has been dropped. Things aren't completely final just yet—but if the NIH's disclosure proposal does wind up on the cutting room floor, it would be a significant blow to transparency and taxpayer interests. Have a listen to learn more.
Despite containing some of the highest concentrations of radioactivity on the planet, the structures housing the majority of U.S. spent nuclear fuel--our nuclear graveyards so to speak--are designed to withstand little more than a bad thunderstorm.
In this podcast, POGO staffers talk with Bob Alvarez, a Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), about why this is a problem, and whether or not a disaster like the one at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi plant could happen in the U.S. Alvarez is the author of a new report on storage of spent nuclear fuel that was released by IPS with support from POGO.
New Podcast: Is Kazakhstan Funding Members of Congress?
POGO staffers recently sat down to chat about our June letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, which called for an investigation into potentially unlawful foreign funding of Members of Congress.
As we wrote a few weeks back, this story "has all the twists of a Hollywood blockbuster: shadowy international figures, a plot to overthrow an oil-rich Central Asian country, an attempted assassination, allegations of kidnapping and murder, and a battle in an American courtroom for control of billions of dollars in seized assets."


It's a mark of just how far the cruise industry has come along the road to meet consumer trends. Ships once renowned for groaning buffet tables and all-you-can-eat dining rooms are now promising healthy eating and introducing the concept that less really is more.
And, in the week where vegan crusaders stole the headlines across Australia, Oceania – whose proud boast is serving "the finest cuisine at sea" – announced an astonishing range of "plant-based" dishes designed to tickle the taste buds of those who prefer to eschew meat and animal products altogether.
Plant-based foods? Are veggies taking over the favoured space once occupied by surf and turf among cruisers? We will soon see.
Certainly almost every cruise line has now embraced the move to healthier eating, and most offer vegetarian or vegan alternatives on their menus. It has seen one of the biggest changes in the galleys at sea in the past five years.
Oceania has partnered with world-renowned chef, culinary instructor and author, Christophe Berg, to put together this new menu of 200 dishes that claim they can improve your 'wellness' and provide balance to the line's fame culinary delights.
"Plant-based cuisine is the craft of preparing dishes using 100% plant-based ingredients," Chef Berg explains in an essay.
"There's a perception that many people undertake cruises to overindulge on sumptuous foods and laze on a lawn chair all day with a Pina Colada in hand, however this simply isn't true. Many of our guests actually come on board to lose weight or improve their health and fitness," says Oceania Cruises.
The new healthy menu selections on Oceania will be offered at all main meals in The Grand Dining Room and Terrace Café, as well as available upon request during dinner service in each of the specialty restaurants.
"These new plant-based options are flavourful, colourful, bold, and creative. Our hallmark finest cuisine at sea now provides an innovative and appealing menu of choices that reflects our guests' evolving palates and heightened focus on wellness while balancing our more decadent and extravagant dishes," says Bob Binder, President & CEO of Oceania Cruises and a well-known foodie.
"Plant-Based meals are suitable for vegan people, plant eaters, vegetarians, flexitarians as well as any omnivorous eater looking for a different culinary experience," explains Chef Berg.
So basically you get to enjoy healthy food (i.e lactose and cholesterol free, low in saturated fats and refined ingredients) without getting political about it.
You can also find vegan and vegetarian menus on other lines but Oceania's plant-based menu is the latest update in the culinary space for non-meat eaters at sea.
The menu is currently available on Riviera and will offered across their fleet by August this year.
Chef Berg's international experience brings a range of cuisines to the menu, including Italian, Greek, Middle Eastern, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Mexican, Italian, Malaysian, and more.
And it's not just salads on the menu. There are healthy Power Bowls and Poke Bowls, hearty pastas and pad Thai, light and refreshing salads and soups and even decadent items like an Impossible Cheeseburger, Truffle Mac and Cheese.
They even have a selection of desserts in the menu, such as an Apple-Oatmeal Crumble with plant-based Vanilla Ice Cream and Coco-Vanilla Cashew Crème Brûlée.
"Our vegan menus, like our other non-plant-based menus, are the finest at sea because we select only the best ingredients and the most talented chefs from around the globe," says Oceania Cruises.
Ironically, Norwegian Cruise Line's stable mate Regent Seven Seas also issued a new set of menu options. If you wished to see what a classic luxury cruise line has on offer, Regent's menu is designed to make you lick your lips.
Look out for new offerings at Compass Rose, Pacific Rim, La Veranda, Chartreuse and Prime 7 from February 2020 on the Seven Seas Splendor.
To give you an idea, Compass Rose, the largest specialty restaurant on board will be introducing dishes such as Malaysian-Style Braised Beef Short Rib with a flavourful Curry Sauce and Jasmine Rice; Paddlefish Caviar, served with Smoked Haddock Jelly and Lemon Cream.
The chic Parisian fine dining, Chartreuse, will be serving up Frog Legs in Garlic Cream Sauce with Rutabaga or relish the tender Veal Rack Loin with Caramelised Endive, Grape Chutney and the earthy tones of a Walnut Veal Jus Sauce.
Prime 7, the line's steakhouse will be bringing it with Applewood Smoked Salmon Steak, with Asparagus, Tamarind-Whiskey Sauce; Seared Diver Scallop and Cured Pork Belly Confit with Orange Pomegranate Sauce; and Hamachi Ceviche.
Here is a range of the dishes on offer from both lines. Which would you choose?
We are meat eaters and would never cruise if meat was not the main menu.
If they listen to the minority VEGANS, Cruise company's are CRAZY…….
VEGANS should mind there own business and let us decide what we want.
My husband and I are meat eaters and will never be vegans..This is already turning us off Princess. We don't care what George Clooney has to say, as adults we can make up are own minds. We know what's going on.
I am vegetarian and have always wondered how well my diet would be catered for on a cruise ship. I have been looking at cruises for a holiday next year and would certainly consider Oceania based on the dishes you have shown. They look fantastic.
Totally agree Mike, they terrorised farmers and their families in several parts of Australia, and chained themselves to production lines at two abbatoirs, they are not crusaders in any sense of the word. If they invade cruise ships we won't bother to embark.
Mike, don't be so naive to follow a vegan diet is very different from a vegan.
Many people choose vegan for health reasons, helping to save our environment and/or because you don't need to eat meat to thrive.
It fantastic that such a variety of food is now on offer for all to enjoy regardless of the reason, well done.
The vegans in Australia have totally disgraced themselves by their recent protests in the cities and on farms and businesses therefore do not pander to this group of wackos. If they don't want meat then feed them seaweed!


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Have you ever wondered what the end bosses of poker are doing that makes them so much better than everyone else?
If you're like me, then you most certainly have.
Lucky for us the end bosses at Upswing listen to what the people want, and have dedicated an entire Upswing Lab module to breaking down hands that took place in the toughest high stakes games on the planet.
In this article we'll take one of those hands and analyze it street by street. I'll include bits of Doug Polk and Ryan Fee's thoughts from the Lab along the way, and sum up what we learned at the end of each street.
Stay until the end of the article for an exclusive video clip from The Truth About High Stakes Poker module.
The hand takes place at a 3-handed $50/$100/$20 table on Pokerstars between "Katya_18," a long time high-stakes winner, and "LLinusLLove," a relatively new high-stakes player who has been crushing since he came on the scene.
Here's the start of the hand.
Pokerstars $50/$100 $20 ante. 6-Handed. Effective Stacks $10,000.
BU folds. Katya_18 raises to $400 with 9♦ 9♣. LLinusLLove calls with T♦ 2♦.
Even though this is a cash game, the SB's strategy will be more similar to a tournament strategy. This shift happens because antes are in play, which gives the SB much better odds to call. And so Katya will be encouraged to play many more hands than normal.
In theory, the mixed strategy reigns supreme in a game without antes but only by a very small amount and the extra expected value (EV) it generates is countered by a high degree of complexity.
Whichever one you choose, make sure that you understand it well because it heavily impacts your post-flop play!
That being said, Katya opens to 4x with pocket nines, which is completely fine. His sizing indicates either a tighter raise-only strategy or a mixed one. Either way, it suggests a pretty strong range.
Linus has a very standard defend, getting almost 2:1 on a call with position and 100bb effective stacks.
When there are antes in play, the SB should play a lot more hands than usual, either as a call or raise.
The EVs of mixed strategies and raise-only strategies are similar.
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Katya_18 bets $282.81. LLinusLLove calls.
The board is fairly dry, and Katya has the stronger range. So, he is incentivized c-bet at a high frequency with a small sizing. He could however choose to check with some hands, such as Aces, 66, some 6x combos, and his worst possible hands (like 4♣ 3♣).
When the action gets back to Linus he has two options: call or raise.
In this situation it's important to be careful with raising. The main risk is ending up with too many flush draws in one range. His specific hand is a middle-of-the-road type of draw, because hitting a Ten means winning at showdown pretty often.
There is more incentive to raise a lower flush draw here, such 4♦ 3♦. This is because hitting a 4 or 3 doesn't add much showdown value, as opposed to hitting the Ten with T♦ 2♦. Combined with the fact that a raise often gets a fold, and because the opponent's hand is almost certainly better, this is a very efficient spot to bluff. Raising is thus superior to calling.
Now, that being said, both raising and calling with Linus's hand have merits. In the end he elected to call.
On paired boards in blind vs blind situations, we should fire a small c-bet at a very high frequency.
When bluff-raising versus a c-bet on the flop, we want to choose either a very strong or a very weak draw.
Katya_18 checks. LLinusLLove bets $1963.22. Katya_18 calls.
Even though this is the type of spot where the SB needs to check a lot of his range in order to remain fairly balanced, Doug and Ryan think this hand likely deserves to be part of a small betting range.
In Ryan's opinion, the worst thing that can happen for a hand such as 99 here is to bet a size between half and three-quarter pot on the turn, and then on the river not be able to get a fourth bet in from our opponent's Jx hands.
For this reason, he thinks a small bet is best here. It puts a lot of pressure on the BB's range, forcing him to make tough decisions with a lot of hands and compelling him to raise with some of his Jx hands, thus allowing us to get max value with a full house.
However, checking is not bad. We still have the option to check-call on the turn in order to check-raise on the river, since a Jx will be confident enough to bet twice after a check from the BB.
Indeed, Katya went for the check, and the action got back to Linus who then decides to go for an overbet, setting up for stacks on the river.
Doug thinks this overbet is a mistake, because going for a big size on the turn and on the river gives the SB an opportunity to fold 60% of his range on the turn and then another 60% of his range on the river without being exploitable. This sizing will make it so that on the river the SB will not be forced to make many loose calls, and the BB may end up bluffing too much.
In the end, Doug believes a smaller sizing is appropriate for this spot, and that an overbet is only appropriate on the river.
Katya decides to call. This is by far the best option, since he is bound to win a large amount of chips regardless of whether the flush draw completes or not.
After c-betting on the flop at such a high frequency, we need to check on the turn at a high frequency–with both medium to strong hands–in order to avoid becoming exploitable.
If we are in the BB and the SB checks in a spot like this, we usually shouldn't overbet the turn and the river because it makes the small blind's decision easy: only call with trips or better.
Katya_18 checks. LLinusLLove goes all-in for $7333.97. Katya_18 calls.
LLinusLLove shows a flush and mucks.
Katya_18 shows a full house and wins the ~$20,000 pot.
The play here is very standard from both sides, with Linus shoving his flush and Katya calling with a full house.
When we hold near-nut hands on the river, we want to use very large bet sizes in order to extract maximum value. We should, of course, balance this play with some bluffs in order to remain unexploitable.
Online high stakes poker has become very complex, and it takes a brave heart and sharp mind to dive in. For those of us who don't play high stakes there's a lot to learn from the players who do, so be sure to check more analysis from Doug and Ryan in the Lab Module.
Play a lot more hands than usual from the SB with antes in play.
Mixed strategies and raise-only strategies from the SB have similar EVs.
Fire a small c-bet at a very high frequency on paired boards in blind vs blind situations.
Bluff-raise with either very strong or a very weak draws versus flop c-bets.
If your wide-range c-bet on the flop is called, you should check on the turn at a high frequency–with both medium to strong hands–in order to avoid becoming exploitable.
Don't bet big when it will make your opponents' decision easy with a large portion of their range.
Use very large bet sizes with very strong hands on the river in order to extract maximum value, and balance with some bluffs in order to remain unexploitable.
I hope you enjoyed this brief analysis. Leave your questions and comments below. And good luck, grinders!
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I had the opportunity to attend the "Grouper in Action: Access Management Strategies for Higher Education and Research" tutorial as well a variety of technical sessions related to the solutions for research and education track. Each of these sessions have broadened and furthered my knowledge-and I am excited to share with my team at Purdue all that I have learned.
I am very grateful for the strong role models, both women and men, that I got to meet during this meeting and so thankful for the other 3 super smart and strong women I got to meet and become friends with: Lisa, Manisha, and Stephanie."
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Not only was the conference full of informative sessions, it was also an excellent networking opportunity. I have met so many IT professionals from several different concentrations, many of which have offered their assistance should I ever need it. This conference was a wonderful way to gain an understanding of what other universities are doing to adapt to the evolving needs of their networks. The greatest compliment I can give is that this conference can serve all within the R&E community. There are those in attendance that have very sophisticated networks transferring large amounts of data, to intermediate networks looking for the next step, to those who are looking for a starting ground. With such diversity in attendance, the exchange of ideas and knowledge occurs naturally and easily."
"First, I would like to extend my appreciation to the committee for reviewing and selecting my scholarship admission. I cannot express enough how rewarding the Internet2 Global Summit was. Although rewarding, it was also humbling. The discussions with many of the women in the technology community made me realize that I have been rather fortunate in my experiences. Although, through these conversations I reflected on these experiences and gained insight into what may be perceived as unconscious biases and how they may be influencing decisions made by myself and others without cruel intentions. The most valuable experience was connecting with the other awardees and forming friendships.
Discussions with Linda, Marla, Jennifer, Wendy and my fellow awardees were the most enlightening. These discussions throughout the week contributed to me questioning my experiences throughout life, digging into what has made me who I am today, and thankful for those who have truly inspired, critiqued and praised me along my journey. They also motivated me to think more about how women are regarded in technology and beyond, through their own perspectives and others, including other women and men. The culmination of these discussions sparks my curiosity of unconscious biases in relation to underrepresentation of women in technology, with respect to men and women. Again, thank you for the opportunity, it will be one I will never forget and continue to reflect upon."
"The Internet2 2018 Global Summit was a one of a kind experience for me. The sessions and the human networking I got to experience at this conference were exhilarating. I had not heard about Internet2 before this, and the exposure that I received in the three days of the conference has unveiled many aspects of the research and education community.
The "New IT Managers' Program" workshop by Educause.
Screening of the movie Bias with an opportunity of meeting the director, Robin Hauser, was extremely thought provoking.
"IT Centralization, Shaping Culture & Research Credibility: Success is Possible" really resonated with me as we are going through IT centralization at our university.
Understanding of big data - hearing from experts about it really peaked my interest in this topic, specifically how big data concepts apply to the R&E community.
"Male Allies and Advocates for Equity" presentation - it was interesting to see universities working on initiatives which help us understand the context of gender inequity in academia and what steps we can take to narrow the gender gap.
I am also grateful to have personally connected with many accomplished people from both academia and industry. I got to interact with my fellow awardees and I feel very humbled to share the award with these other wonderful women. I really look forward to giving back and enabling others at my university to experience this conference. I also would like to be part of a workgroup to keep learning and be connected with Internet2. I am enthusiastic to bring the ideas from the conference back to my peers at UCSD and share the experience with our community! As a female professional, this opportunity has empowered me to become more engaged in ensuring that inclusivity is promoted not only in IT, but in all areas which will help us get past our biases."


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Taming fire has always been one of man's best achievements. Starting a fire on a moment's notice is an easy task with the right skills and tools.
There are plenty of options for these tools that range from compression pistons to a few sticks to rub together. One tool stands above the rest in reliability and versatility: the ferro rod.
Invented by a German scientist at the turn of the 20th century, ferrocerium has become well known for its fire starting properties. When it is formed into a tube shape or a rod, ferrocerium can be struck with many types of materials to produce extremely hot sparks. These sparks let you start fires in what would be otherwise miserable conditions.
Lighters are convenient but have limited uses. Matches can only be used once and need a strike surface. Both matches and lighters are terrible in wet conditions. Compression pistons and the traditional flint and steel can be finicky in wet conditions as well.
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Disaster relief housing caught the attention of Team Kentuckiana, a group of students and faculty from the University of Louisville, Ball State University, and the University of Kentucky, who were selected to compete in the 2013 Solar Decathlon (SD) Competition sponsored by the Department of Energy (solardecathlon.gov). This biennial competition challenges 20 collegiate teams from across the US to design, market, and build a cost-effective, energy-efficient, and attractive house that runs on solar energy.
During the design phase of the competition, Team Kentuckiana identified the need for low-cost, solar-powered habitats for disaster relief. The team worked toward a quickly and easily deployed structure powered independently of the electric power grid. The home features a grid-compatible power system for net metering and can be linked with other homes to form local microgrids. Additionally, the house can also help address the pressing need for low-cost, energy efficient housing in rural areas where power access can be prohibitive. Typical manufactured homes used in these areas are very inefficient and key contributors to elevated energy costs. The team's housing system, which will be designed to be comparable in cost to conventional manufactured housing and utilities, can be used in rural areas with greater efficiency and long-term equity.
Team Kentuckiana's "Phoenix House" was showcased in Fall 2013 at the national competition site at Orange County Great Park in Irvine CA. It won first place in the Affordability segment of the competition as well as Team Favorite. After the SD competition, the Speed School of Engineering utilized The Phoenix House on the UofL campus as the administrative offices for Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research, which opened in 2016 and includes an outdoor laboratory and sculpture garden built by assistant director Andrew Marsh. The house continues to be utilized for further technology studies and testing of residential scale prototypes as well as for student outreach in conjunction with the Campus Health Initiatives program.
For more information about the competition, visit the Solar Decathlon website: http://www.solardecathlon.gov/.
Solar Decathlon Competition rules: Download (pdf)
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Ephedra; al. Meertraübehen; English. Ephedra, joint fir.
Stems air.
The dioecious subshrub with ephedra are thin and angular stems and leaves reduced to scales. The male flowers amentos are grouped into yellowish, female flowers are reduced to ova surrounded by bracts, and fleshy red when ripe.
The species of interest are all of Asian origin, but the genre, which includes dozens of species, is present on all continents.
The active components are arilalquilaminas whose structure is very similar to that of catecholamines. Some consider them as alkaloids, while for others, because the nitrogen is not part of a heterocycles is protoalcaloides. The drug also contains several flavonoids (flavones and flavonols, 0. 3% in stems of E. cynical, C - glucosil flavones) proantocianidolesand polysaccharides.
Protoalcaloides. Its content, which varies depending on the species, is a maximum of 3%. The majority component is almost always the (ephedrine (1R, 2S) 1 phenyl - 2 - methylamino propane - 1 - ol. Different species also contain (pseudoephedrine (1S, 2S) and the related rules and methylated derivatives involved. These bases are accompanied by small amounts (10 - 5 - 10 - 4) cyclic derivatives: 5 - feniloxazolidinas and efedroxano (= (4S, 5R) 3, 4 - dimethyl 5 - feniloxazolidona)
It also notes the presence of macrocyclic alkaloids, derivatives of spermine: orantina in the stems, efedradinas B, C and D in the roots. Within the latter, also has been isolated substances with hypotensive activity: derivatives of histamine, proantocianidoles [630 and ref. mentioned] and an amino acid compounds: the maoconina.
Pharmacological data.
Ephedrine, structurally related to adrenaline, causing a release of endogenous catecholamines postganglionares sympathetic fibers: a sympathomimetic indirect. Breathing speeds up the movement and its intensity increases, stimulates the heart and automatism is vasoconstrictora. Its strong lipophilicity allows you to cross the blood - brain barrier and exert important effects: to increase the vigil, decreasing the feeling of tiredness. The answer adrenergic obtained with a fixed dose of ephedrine, gradually decreases in intensity until it disappeared (a phenomenon of tachyphylaxis)
While ephedrine and pseudoephedrine are identical bronchodilator activity, the activity on the myocardium, the tension and the CNS the first is more important. In the case of drugs entirely, the interference of other components with the intestinal absorption of phenethylamines, quantitatively modifying the action of these, their becoming more gentle and prolonged. The splitting of the methanol extract of E. shows that the primary responsibility for the anti - inflammatory activity is the (pseudoephedrineand to a lesser extent, the efedroxano [626] whose complex pharmacology has been able to demonstrate [634] Polysaccharides are hypoglycemic.
Observations on the Man.
All properties of ephedrine, mentioned above, have been observed in humans and exploited in therapeutics. Its wide variety of activities and the phenomenon of tachyphylaxis have made their therapeutic indications are limited. It presents numerous contraindications coronary heart disease, prostatic hypertrophy, diabetes. It also presents drug interactions: with MAOIs (monoamine oxidase inhibitors) and digitalis. In most usual therapeutic indications (analéptico, antiasmático) ephedrine has been replaced by more manageable molecules. Ephedrine is not without toxicity. It has been described a teratogen in chick embryo. For 5000 years, traditional Chinese medicine uses the stems (ma huang) in the treatment of asthma, bronchitis and numerous ailments. The Eastern tradition gives properties opposite to the bodies underground.
Employment.
Different species of ephedra at present, almost not used for the extraction of ephedrine. Ephedrine and its salts are used only in the formulation of "pectoral syrups" (bronchodilators) This amine is also part of the solution to instillations composition of nasal used in case of rhinorrhea (vasoconstrictora) Prolonged use can lead to the emergence of iatrogenic rhinitis (and also, though more rarely, an iatrogenic arterial hypertension) In children, there may be a risk of CNS depression and cardiovascular reactions. Sympathomimetic activity of the stem provides lipolytic properties and anorectic used in case of excess weight. Criomolida the drug does not produce any toxic event in the trials of acute and subacute (3 g / kg, 300 and 600 mg / kg / day, 6 weeks, rat, per os)
The drug.
Stems air of different species of ephedra are thin, angular and longitudinally striped. The leaves, reduced membranous scales are embedded in pairs at the nodes. The size of internodes varies depending on the species. Anatomically, its sinuous epidermis presents stomata (not very marked) from the division of a stem cell (haploqueílicos stomata) The stalks contain tracheids that dotted by scores of union cross, glasses are almost open or unlocked. The log is sort of gymnosperms. Ephedrine is analyzed by C. C. F. but does not differ from their isomers) To reveal the plates are ninhydrin preferable to use instead of reactive general alkaloids. The H. P. I. C. is very suitable for the determination of alkaloids.
O. PUREV, F. POSPÍŠIL and O. Motl.
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In California, we can't predict if we'll be lucky enough to have a rainy winter. But thankfully this year we've had an incredible, much-needed season of rain. It's been raining week after week and been super cold too – my favorite! Spring will be stunning when it officially arrives…tomorrow! And when the sun is out and shining for good (we have more rain coming in this week), I anticipate the sounds of a lot of neighborhood outdoor home improvement projects. Everyone's exterior is in desperate need of TLC!
We had the most incredible glimpse of Spring this weekend with temps in the 70s. No better time to get outside and tackle a front yard home improvement update. I can't wait to share this before and after I completed this weekend in partnership with Lowe's. And in only 2 days time!
Couldn't be more proud…or sad about leaving it behind.
Anyway, back when I was planning the front yard – the end goal was to add something temporary until we decided on a kitchen renovation plan. Interior plans included the front porch / windows / wall getting pushed out completely to make room for a bigger kitchen. Therefore I added a temporary path and flowers I didn't really care about removing or relocating at a later point. With changes happening personally, the new kitchen never happened. So the front yard began to look sad and overgrown. Not at all what was planned.
Between sad plants and flowers and the incredible rainy season we've had, it was time to clean up the front yard. I couldn't wait to dig in and thankful the weather was great all weekend!
Everything happened this weekend and even more! Was thrilled to have enough plants and flowers remaining to improve a couple backyard beds.
I was up bright and early on day 2 to get get this beautiful project completed – get ready to see this after!
Oh my gosh – love! Let's get into the details please!
I can't begin to explain or photograph just how delicate and beautiful this boxwood is! It makes me so so happy! It's fresh and light….
I chose a mix of perennials and annuals that could handle full sun, which is what happens in this front yard.
I mentioned above just how much inventory was available at my Lowe's Garden Center – I mean that! It was easy to find the variety of flowers and plants I was dreaming of and the staff couldn't have been more helpful pulling items onto the cart and loading the car.
It smells fresh out here and looks really pretty!
My 14 year old crushed me…in a good way. When the project was completed he said he didn't want to tell me how much his disliked the front yard – especially the overgrown hedge. And he shared his love of the front yard now. Such a sweetie! Made my heart burst to hear him love the after just as much as I do…and that he didn't say anything about the before because he thought it would have made me sad. Love this guy!
What sold me on this lawn food, besides the incredible results I know are on the way, is that the kids could re-enter the lawn after feeding. There was no wait time…and with the weather as nice as it was this weekend, they wanted to play ball.
With the excellent price point at the Lowe's Garden Center, I had enough plants and flowers remaining to update a few beds along the back of the house too. I'll eventually mulch here, but waiting until after the exterior is painted. Yes, that is my next project with Lowe's – can not wait to see that transformation! It's going to be epic!
Visit your local Lowe's store or the Lowes.com website for the best prices on all things spring! Lowe's offers the strongest promos of the season, price-matching and free shipping / easy returns. They truly make your shopping experience painless and easy. I get totally lost walking through the aisles – no matter what project I'm working on, there is something to inspire me!
Are you getting ready for Spring?? I hope this post motivated you to start thinking about Spring updates and outdoor improvements.
Next on my improvement list? It's a long one! I'm going to continue mulching and planting the various beds around the property, clean up the front path with fresh pebbles, update the exterior lighting on the house, work on interior updates / fixes and the biggest impact will come when the exterior is painted. We're waiting on the weather to cooperate for this one…can not wait to see this house with a fresh coat of paint and a new front door!
Thank you for reading you guys! It means so much to have you here and be able to share the progress of my house getting ready to go on the market.
Awesome transformation! Our ranch has basically the same size front porch…nice, but not deep enough to really do anything with. Same brick facade on the front too…I think we even have the same front door mat. Love what you did with the driveway…such a difference, very clean look. You'll have to try your hand in landscape design!
Awe thank you! It was an easy project with more to come soon. And thank you for the driveway compliments. It truly is such a unique property!
Happy spring. Better days are ahead I promise.
Thank you! Wishing you a wonderful spring too!


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The Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Order of Council 2010
Health Care And Associated ProfessionsDoctors
Made 24th February 2010
Laid before Parliament 1st March 2010
Coming into force 1st April 2010
At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 24th day of February 2010
By the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council
Their Lordships make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 34C(2)(c), 34D(2)(c) and (3), 34F(2), 34G(1) and 34K(1)(c) of the Medical Act 19831.
1. This Order may be cited as the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Order of Council 2010 and shall come into force on 1st April 2010.
2. In this Order—
"the Act" means the Medical Act 1983;
"previous legislation" means—
(a) the European Specialist Medical Qualifications Order 19952; and
(b) the General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 20033.
S-3 Persons eligible to be registered in, and liable to removal from, the General Practitioner Register
Persons eligible to be registered in, and liable to removal from, the General Practitioner Register
3.—(1) Persons are eligible to be registered in the General Practitioner Register for the purposes of section 34C(2)(c) of the Act if they are—
(a) eligible general practitioners as specified in article 4;
(b) eligible general systems general practitioners as specified in article 5; or
(c) persons who are—
(i) registered in the list of visiting medical practitioners from relevant European States mentioned in section 30(1)(d) of the Act; and
(ii) providing services in the United Kingdom as a general practitioner on a temporary and occasional basis, in exercise of entitlement under Schedule 2A to the Act.
(2) If a person whose name is included by virtue of paragraph (1)(c) in the General Practitioner Register ceases to satisfy any of the conditions specified, the Registrar may remove that person's name from that register.
S-4 General practitioners eligible for entry in the General Practitioner Register
General practitioners eligible for entry in the General Practitioner Register
4.—(1) Persons are eligible general practitioners for the purposes of article 3(1)(a) if they are exempt persons and hold any of the following issued in a relevant European State other than the United Kingdom—
(a) a qualification in general practice listed in Annex V, point 5.1.4 of the Directive, together with the corresponding professional title;
(b) a certificate of acquired rights; or
(c) a qualification in general practice which is not listed in Annex V, point 5.1.4 of the Directive, if that qualification—
(i) is accompanied by a certificate of a competent authority of the relevant European State in which the qualification was obtained, to the effect that the qualification is evidence of training which satisfies the requirements of Article 28 of the Directive, and
(ii) is treated by that State as if it were a qualification listed in relation to that State in Annex V, point 5.1.4 of the Directive.
(2) Persons are also eligible general practitioners for the purposes of article 3(1)(a) if they hold—
(a) a certificate of prescribed experience; or
(b) a certificate of equivalent experience,
which was issued under previous legislation, either by the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board or by the Joint Committee on Postgraduate Training for General Practice.
(3) Persons are also eligible general practitioners for the purposes of article 3(1)(a) if they were exempt from the need to have acquired the prescribed experience by virtue of paragraph (1)(a), (b), (c), (d) or (f) of regulation 5 (exemptions) of—
(a) the National Health Service (Vocational Training for General Medical Practice) Regulations 19974;
(b) the National Health Service (Vocational Training for General Medical Practice) (Scotland) Regulations 19985; or
(c) the Medical Practitioners (Vocational Training) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 19986.
(4) Subject to paragraph (5), persons are also eligible general practitioners for the purposes of article 3(1)(a) if they do not fall within paragraph (1), (2) or (3) but have—
(a) undertaken training in general practice; or
(b) been awarded qualifications in general practice,
and the Registrar is satisfied that that training is, or those qualifications are, or both when considered together are, equivalent to a CCT in general practice.
(5) If a person falling within paragraph (4)(a) or (b) is an exempt person and holds a qualification in general practice which—
(a) was granted otherwise than in a relevant European State, and
(b) has not previously been accepted by a relevant European State as qualifying that person to practise as a general practitioner in that State,
the Registrar must, before determining that the qualification is equivalent to a CCT in general practice, also be satisfied that the qualification in general practice is evidence of training that meets, or under Article 22(a) of the Directive is to be treated as meeting, the requirements of Article 28 of the Directive.
(6) If a person falling within paragraph (4)(a) or (b)—
(a) is an exempt person and holds a qualification in general practice which—
(i) was granted otherwise than in a relevant European State, but
(ii) has been accepted by a relevant European State, other than the United Kingdom, as qualifying that person to practise as a general practitioner in that State; or
(b) has acquired experience or knowledge in general practice, wherever obtained,
the Registrar shall take account of that acceptance or of that experience or knowledge, when determining the equivalence of the training or qualifications to a CCT in general practice for the purposes of paragraph (4).
(7) In paragraph (1)(b), "certificate of acquired rights" means a certificate issued under Article 30(1) of the Directive to the effect that its holder has an acquired right to practice as a general practitioner under the national social security scheme of the issuing State without the evidence of formal qualifications of a general practitioner referred to in Annex V, point 5.1.4 of the Directive.
S-5 General systems general practitioners eligible for entry in the General Practitioner Register
General systems general practitioners eligible for entry in the General Practitioner Register
5. A person is an eligible general systems general practitioner for the purposes of article 3(1)(b) if—
(a) their case falls within regulation 3(9)(e) of the General Systems Regulations;
(b) regulations 20 to 26 of those Regulations apply to that person by reason of the operation of regulation 3(4) of those Regulations; and
(c) that person has a right to practise as a general practitioner in the United Kingdom by virtue of Part 3 of those Regulations (having, in particular, successfully completed any adaptation period that that person may be required to complete pursuant to that Part of those Regulations).
S-6 Persons with acquired rights
Persons with acquired rights
6.—(1) For the purposes of section 34G(1) of the Act, a person has an acquired right to practise as a general practitioner in the United Kingdom if they fall within any of the categories of persons specified in paragraphs (2), (3), (5) and (6).
(2) A person has an acquired right if, on 31st December 1994, their name was included in a medical list kept by an FHSA or in any corresponding list kept by a Health Board in Scotland or by the Northern Ireland Central Services Agency for the Health and Social Services in Northern Ireland.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), a person has an acquired right if, on 31st December 1994, they were suitably experienced within the meaning of—
(a) section 31 of the National Health Service Act 19777(requirement of suitable experience);
(b) section 21 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 19788(requirement of suitable experience); or
(c) Article 8 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 19789(requirement of suitable experience).
(4) Paragraph (3) does not apply where the person was suitably experienced by virtue of—
(a) regulation 8(1)(e) or (h) of the National Health Service (Vocational Training) Regulations 197910(exemptions for applications to be a restricted services principal and for doctors who are EC nationals);
(b) regulation 8(1)(e) or (h) of the National Health Service (Vocational Training) (Scotland) Regulations 198011(exemptions for applications to be a restricted services principal and for doctors who are EC nationals); or
(c) regulation 7(1)(d) or (g) of the Medical Practitioners (Vocational Training) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 197912(exemptions for applications to be a restricted services principal and for doctors who are EC nationals),
even if on that date that person had yet to obtain a certificate of prescribed experience or a certificate of equivalent experience under any of those Regulations.
(5) A person has an acquired right if, on 31st December 1994, they were established in the United Kingdom by virtue of a qualification in medicine awarded in a relevant European State other than the United Kingdom which had, in their case, to be recognised in the United Kingdom by virtue of the Directive as entitling that person to be registered under section 3(1)(b) of the Act as a fully registered person.
(6) A person has an acquired right if, on at least 10 days in the period of 4 years ending with 31st December 1994, or on at least 40 days in the period of 10 years ending with that date, they had—
(a) been engaged as a deputy by, or provided as a deputy to, a doctor whose name was included in the medical list of an FHSA or in any corresponding list kept by a Health Board in Scotland or by the Northern Ireland Central Services Agency for the...