Here's a tip for no wind launches. I call this whole technique "The Nail" or "Nailing it", meaning nailing your launch, nailing your ground handling and nailing the proper setup of the wing.
You aggressively horse shoe the wing, so much that it is in a "V" shape, fold wing tips over 2-3 feet, back up 3-4 paces (even all the way to the wing if you are not as strong or have a tough, old or bagged out used wing), use 30% + power while leaning back resisting the thrust. Then just keep power and go! Run fast while applying slowly full power in about 3-5 seconds. Be aware as you "jump start" or "pop" the paraglider up it can over shoot you if it has: easy inflation, holding "A's" to long or if the wind gusts up. Learn to control the surge or wing from over shooting you while ground handling before adding the motor. Strive for smooth steps, timing and keep the wing perfectly straight. If you can resist any side movement while running or launching, then your take off will be in 25% the normal running distance. If you have ever towed with resisting the tow and saw that it was easier to get up while being assisted, then apply this to what the motor will do for you.
Set up for the center of the wing to come straight up, while using prop power, steps and body weight to get it up. The trick is you can back up all the way to the wing (for older slug wings), but only about three large paces are needed for a good wing. You use a jump start of paces and power on throttle to kick the wing up, the problem is you "must" keep it centered to "nail the launch", so too much power or to fast of a jump start will shoot the wing quickly to the side and be unrecoverable if you're not perfectly square!
1. Set your wing up facing "directly" into wind as usual.
A. Your wing tends to roll up and fly over better when laying on top surface opposed to folded on to it's self like an accordion.
B. You pulled your center cell only, thus you have a nice "V" shape or exaggerated horse shape. make sure your ram air leading edge cells are tight with no sloppy spots, laying on the top surface and the wing totally symmetrical (evenly laid out if cut down the center)!
3. Fold the wing tips onto themselves about 2-3 feet in or 2-3 cells. This assists one tip to not catch slight wind gust, cuts your uneven riser control or helps to prevent a tip or side from flying over fast. Again, when jump starting by running or with power it's easy to fly it up to one side if you just lay it out with no horse shoe or exaggerated horse = a "V" shape. Yes, a tad more pull is needed to get it up with the "V", but you never notice as power or extra steps help pop it up. Your center flies straight, then tips inflate.
5. Stay off the brakes, gain speed! Speed is your friend on launch and especially landings. If you can't run any faster and the wing is stable above (no side to side), then pull 1/4 brakes and "hold them" as you climb out creating more lift. Keep feet moving in case you come down for a touch off. Then, very slowly let of brakes as your 50 feet up and climbing. Or better yet, if you do what's best and a right turn after take off. Try reverse steering and let off only the left brake! Then you will turn to right and have max climb and steering on your nailed launch.
6. Use the throttle... embrace power! Use your motor, it's your friend. Always make sure you warmed it up for 3 minutes for power. Use any where from 1/3-1/2 as you start. Lean back to resist the power, then go. Applying more power slowly as you get the wing up for 3-5 seconds. Too much power might over shoot you and you'll need to quickly tap the brakes so your wing doesn't overshoot you casing a frontal collapse and fall into you. I like about 1/3, then apply smoothly in about 3 seconds full power. If you nailed it, then your off in about 5-10 steps! For big boys who have problems running or anyone with used or older bagged out or poor designed, as I call "slug" wings. You might need full power and backing up all the way to your wing to really jump start as mentioned above.
The key is when you have used this technique and do "all" mentioned you pop it up, but the center flies the fastest, thus your on the gas, running and your wing is above you where you need it, not off to the side.
I've seen too many good pilots, locals and students during their solos try 5-6 attempts, ready to throw their helmet across the field, then I suggested use the nail technique and they surely nailed it! Some times after a tiring day at work we need a bit of help or perfect lay outs, especially in summer hot and humid high altitude density conditions.


Cue: parents getting heart-eyes about books and our kids run screaming from the pressure.
I Tried These. They Didn't Work.
Forcing the kid: ("Read 20 minutes every day and write something once a week, whatever you want, honey! Won't that be fun?!" with a manic forced smile) Yeah… forcing doesn't work, it's just us exerting our adult-will on a child and dismissing their wants, needs and the root of their feelings. Our kids may resentfully cooperate for a while, but they're not learning to love words and stories. They're just doing what we tell them because we're bigger or out of fear. Or, our kids may become defiant, angry or meltdown because we aren't showing that we understand how they feel embarrassed or ashamed when they have to read/write.
Bribing the kid: Reading for cookies/screentime/whatever. Yeah… Bribes don't make people love reading, they just love the cookies/screentime/whatever. And, c'mon parents, we all know bribes are really just one-time solutions anyway.
Resentfully ignoring: Parents get frustrated and "letting kids get away with not reading/writing." We think we're letting it go because we're not talking about it, but damn that frustration reads all over our faces! Our kids are smart, they know! Yeah… Nothing like silent resentment to make us all bitter.
What do I really want my child to remember about her childhood? Being loved, feeling precious and important, being given opportunities to try hard (fail or succeed), being surrounded by creativity and imagination, exploring the world with her own hands. …And being snuggled up with me and a book. I want to nurture a love of words and story in her childhood: whether she writes/types the words herself or not, whether she reads them herself or not.
Parenting can be an illusion of control: because we cannot really control our kids. They are their own people with their own wants, needs, challenges and motivations. So we are the safety net, the guard rails, the guide and coach. One of the guiding concepts behind unschooling that keeps me centered each day is: Kids do things when they're ready, when they can, and when they have a desire/need to. So we just keep creating an environment that is nurturing of play, learning, creativity and growth.
So in this season of play, attachment and imagination: I'm taking the pressure off of my Sweetpea.
PS: I capture every single one of these in my unschooling Evernote notebook as a meaningful language arts experience when they happen. Because they are meaningful learning!
Read aloud to kid(s) every day. This is a cornerstone of our daily family rhythm: I read aloud for at least 30 minutes during "fill your belly" before bed while my Sweetpea eats a snack. Then I continue reading while she's getting in bed and falling asleep. 45-60 minutes of reading aloud a day, and there is never a single attempt to get her to be the reader. We do this for babies and toddlers, but older kids get JUST as much out of being read aloud to. She just snuggles, listens, watches my face, follows my finger along the words, and imagines the story in her head. And she has one important job: she is the story-chooser. We plow through picture books and chapter books; we read and re-read her favorites; we read Captain Underpants. It is not a time where I try to gently guide us towards "literature" or books I want. This is all about the stories SHE wants to hear me read. Want more inspiration? Check out the Read Aloud Revival! I have also found that my girl consistently picks books that represent HER, so our current favorite series for my 8yo are: "Sugar Plum Ballerinas" series and "Nikki and Deja" series.
A page from my Sweetpea's printed book of her stories.
Jot it down: narrated stories. When I first considered homeschooling (with curriculum), I found the lovely Brave Writer by Julie Bogart. Some of the concepts stuck and have been meaningful for us (although a daily curriculum of writing isn't us right now). One is a way to encourage reluctant writers to author stories and be proud: the child narrates and the parent transcribes (writes/types) the story verbatim. I just wait until my kid is naturally starting to tell me a story, and I'll offer "Want me to type it for you while you tell me?" and she'll say yes or no. My Sweetpea has narrated at least half a dozen stories to me, that I typed exactly as she said them. She then picked out fonts and colors, we printed the pages, hole punched them, and added them to a binder. Some she chose to illustrate. She is proud of "her book of stories" – full of her friend's names, cute expressions she uses, and plot twists that are all "her". Our kids have stories inside them, some just need us to do the mechanics of capturing the stories. Consider this: parents of kids with dysgraphia can ask for their child's public school 504 to include voice-to-text software. If we make accommodations like these for kids in school, we should wholly embrace them in home-based learning!
Audiobooks. Our public library has a wealth of e-books and audiobooks available through the OverDrive app. And we use Audible when we absolutely MUST listen to something and can't wait for a library hold to be ready. When we're driving around doing errands or going to the pool, we're also working our way through a classic children's novel or contemporary chapter book. We also bought a box set of Junie B Jones audiobooks on CD for the house, which my Sweetpea loves to play while painting or play-doh. Sometimes the narrators have accents, or different voice actors for different characters. It's a way for my kiddo to watch the landscape go by, while she gazes out and imagines the book in her mind. That kind of connection to a story is hard to get when you're doing Very Hard Work trying to read (especially when a kid's interest level far surpasses their reading level).
Book vs movie. Recently we listened to the audiobook of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and then watched the movie on the day we finished the book. While it was all fresh in our minds, we watched the movie to see what was different. We also did the same with "A Wrinkle in Time" (Mrs. Beast, where are you?!?!?!).
Poetry teatime. This was another Brave Writer concept that we love (there's a Poetry Teatime website). Make hot herbal tea or hot cocoa, invite some friends over, pull out Shel Silverstein or any other fun book of poems, and take turns reading the silliest ones you can find! Here's a post by a mom-of-boys who shares how her underwear-throwing boys have grown to fall in love with the fun, the rhyme, and the rhythm of poetry.
Word games. Our family has taken bananagrams to our favor ite Chinese restaurant. We play Scrabble with teams (so it doesn't feel like we're secretly trying to make her do spelling, but just fun exposure to playing with words).
Madlibs. Yes, they'll say "poop" for every field for the first 10 madlibs. Still. Madlibs are a hilarious way to bring even very-reluctant-readers/writers into the creative fray!
"Story Pirates" Podcast. Kids write stories and send them to Story Pirates. A hilarious team of comedy actors make songs and sketch comedy out of the stories. The podcast is so funny that I laugh aloud every time. It's a great way to spark kids imaginations to write and submit their own stories.
Lexile Levels. If your kid does read some, but is prone to randomly picking out books and then being frustrated by that particular book being above their capacity, check out Lexile Levels. Each book is assigned a number for the degree of difficulty and examples are given of the hardest words in that book. If there's a book your kid can read successfully and feel accomplished, find out the lexile level and then look for more books around that level.
Large font size on the Kindle makes it easier to decode a book in one or two sentence chunks at a time, instead of a full spread of text.
Read to the dog / dolls / other people who aren't parents. You know who doesn't correct you when you read? Dogs. Barbies. Cats. Stuffed animals. You know who doesn't give off any "stressed parent vibes about how I'm reading or the fact that I'm reading"? The babysitter. The parent who works out-of-the-house and isn't part of the homeschool day. Family friends who come over to play.
Magazines of your kid's interests. Our kiddo is the family mail-checker and holy cow does she get excited when there is mail with HER name on it. She currently gets Kazoo magazine (for girls who aren't afraid to make some noise! It's brilliant) and Nat Geo Kids (because animals). These magazines create lots of opportunities for her to try reading little bits on her own – less commitment because it's not a book but snippets on a page – and bringing me longer articles or stories to read aloud to her.
Rotate the books lying around. I might leave the children's animal encyclopedia lying open on the breakfast table. I'll swap out the pile of picture books by her bed. I shift around the books visible in the living room. Kids notice what's new and have a high "novelty factor". Some unschool parents call this "strewing"… leaving something out to see if it piques anyone's interest. Sometimes that can feel a little manipulative if the parent is trying to covertly create a "lesson". I just figure that we paid for those books… might as well see them! And if my kid happens to flip around and ask about the snow leopard page, bonus.
Be a reader yourself. Build a family value of loving words and stories. If they ask what you're reading, just start reading aloud wherever you're at. Talk about what you're reading at the dinner table. Compliment kids on their awesome vocabulary when you notice them using a new big word. When you finish reading a book aloud to a kid and know they enjoyed it, say simple things like "You loved that book!" Point out when a family movie night choice was originally a book. Once we had a solid library of audiobooks under our belt, my kiddo no longer felt like these comments were pressures to read that book herself. Instead she'd ask me if we could find the audiobook of it.
What does your family do to nurture a love of words and stories, without pressuring kids to read/write before they're ready? I'd love to hear in the comments!


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Woodside faces production issues, 'volatility' as oil and gas prices rise
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The management of Woodside Petroleum Ltd. said a combination of maintenance, weather and geopolitical tensions impacted its oil and gas production and sales in the first quarter. However, rising prices – especially for liquefied natural gas (LNG) – have kept revenues high.
The Australian producer experienced a mix of ups and downs with its gas business during the quarter. Its onshore Karratha gas plant near the offshore North West Shelf Venture and its Wheatstone LNG project in Western Australia saw higher liquefaction volumes during the period, but their adjacent fields saw reduced production. The Pluto LNG facility, also in Western Australia, suffered the effects of "reliability events" and weather issues, according to the company.
In addition to production issues, Woodside CEO Meg O'Neill said the company had experienced a drop in sales volumes as a result of the war in Ukraine and "reduced business activity in the market currently volatile global energy market". But, with the heightened volatility, O'Neill said "revenues were supported by a strong average realized portfolio" as oil and gas prices soared over the period.
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Woodside's LNG sales volumes increased compared to the same period last year, reaching 22.0 million boe in 1Q2022 compared to 21.0 million boe in 1Q2021. LNG sales revenue also topped the prior year, growing to $2.04 billion in 1Q2022 from $838 million in 1Q2021.
Woodside reached an average realized LNG price of $16.00/MMBtu in 1Q2022, compared to $6.90/MMBtu in 1Q2021. Its average realized price for LNG remained unchanged compared to 4Q2021.
Combined production volumes for all products fell to 22.3 million boe in 1Q2022 from 23.7 million boe in 1Q2021.
As volatility and production issues kept Woodside's results below those of the previous quarter – a record quarter in terms of revenue for the company – O'Neill said the producer could be able to continue to meet its challenges and pursue healthy returns in the next quarter.
"We expect in the second quarter to see continued benefits from stronger pricing, reflecting the oil price mismatch in many of our LNG contracts," O'Neill said.
The company is also anticipating the results of what it called a "significant transition point" for its assets in the North West Shelf Venture after reaching start-up of its Pluto-Karratha Gas Plant Interconnector pipeline in March. With the pipeline in place, Woodside will be able to process third-party gas at its Pluto LNG facility for the first time.
Woodside said the pipeline also supports accelerated production from its Pyxis Hub subsea gas tie-in project in the North Carnarvon Basin. The first phase of the project is now operational and has supplied gas for an LNG shipment. The overall Pyxis Hub project is expected to include the subsea connection of the Pyxis, Pluto North and Xena offshore fields to Woodside's Pluto platform. The company said the project is 83% complete and on track for work on the second phase to begin later this year.
Also on the company's horizon is its potential merger with BHP Group announced last year. The deal would merge their natural gas and oil portfolios in an all-stock transaction estimated at $28 billion.
Shareholders are expected to vote at the annual general meeting on May 19. If approved, the resulting company could be one of the largest producers in the world and the largest energy company on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Woodside posted revenue of $2.35 billion for 1Q2022, compared to $1.12 billion in 1Q2021.
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The Holy Spirit inspired the writers of the Old and New Testaments which point to Jesus Christ, the Savior.
There is one God, eternally revealed to the world as the Father, the Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.
By God all things were created.
God sent His son, Jesus Christ, to redeem all of mankind.
Jesus Christ was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life on this earth, performed miracles, was crucified for our sins, buried and raised from the dead for our redemption.
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We believe in the multi-faceted work of the Holy Spirit to bring conviction of sin and revelation of the Gospel of Christ, to guide sinners to God and adopt mankind into the Body of Christ, to distribute and administer of the gifts of the Holy Spirit in a believer's life.
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Q: Action with no state variable Is there a way to specify an @UpnpAction with no associated @UpnpStateVariable in Cling?. I tried something like
public class ApplicationExecutionServer {
    @UpnpAction
    public void anAction() {
        // do something
    }
}

but got an error saying that the action "anAction" is not associated to an state variable.

A: Unfortunately, there is no way to have a 'headless' action. You CAN however have an inert variable. For example, I have a service like this which uses a supposed String setter to simulate an action that really doesn't involve a primitive state variable.
@UpnpStateVariable(defaultValue="0", sendEvents=false)
private String clientHandshakeData = null;

/**
 * "Headless" action with ephemeral/transient state variable.
 * @param handshakeData
 */
@UpnpAction
public void setClientHandshakeData(@UpnpInputArgument(name="NewClientHandshakeDataValue")String handshakeData){
    clientHandshakeData = handshakeData;
    processCurrentHandshakeData();
    clientHandshakeData = null;

}

Essentially 'clientHandshakeData' is ephemeral and I expect each call to have a new value (with new clients connecting). Each time a new one connects, I 'process' the current handshake data and immediately set it null.

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The term derives from the Greek "akouw," for "hearing" (as opposed to deaf) and a range of associated meanings: to hear, to listen or attend to something heard, to understand (in particular, what was heard), to learn (through listening), and even to obey ( a word itself arising from the Latin "audire," to hear, as if the open ear canal were a conduit for suggestion and the implantation of the desires of others, to which there could be no resistance). It was first applied to the disembodied voice of the classical Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras, as he required his students to listen to his teaching from behind a curtain so that they would not be distracted by his appearance, a usage that resonates with the arguments by film and media theorists that the embodied voice is experienced as partial and limited, rather than authoritative and commanding; hence the source of the classic documentary voice-over is never revealed (and gods too must not be seen but heard). As defined by French film scholar Michel Chion, who borrowed the term from Pierre Schaeffer (a French composer, engineer, and musicologist), acousmatic sound differs from visualized sound because it lacks a clear source in the image (for Schaeffer, it referred to a media-saturated culture whose sound sources are not readily apparent). It evokes anxiety because it seems omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. All offscreen sound is therefore acousmatic, and the diegetic world of narrative film is extended beyond the bounds of the frame by visualizing sounds first heard through cinematography or editing that finally locate them onscreen, revealing their source.
The reverse is also true: visualized sound can be acousmatized in shots that succeed those in which it was introduced and assigned an origin, bridging space (and time). Sound, in particular, sync sound, which is visualized sound, thus contributes to the effect of realism in film, while acousmatic sounds introduce a spectral, uncanny dimension to an otherwise realist diegetic world, which is why they are an important element of gothic and horror films (by contrast, the loss of sync disrupts filmic realism and seems to mock the speaker or singer whose voice floats free of his or her body and apparent control). Media involving the telepresence of a voice unanchored from its speaker, such as the telephone, phonograph, and radio, have been experienced as weird and ghostly when first introduced, and hearing one's own voice on an answering machine or other recording device still produces a similarly unsettling sensation, as one does not sound like oneself when air alone is the primary transducer of sounds typically conducted through bone and soft tissue at the same time. The voice as theorized by psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan is always acousmatic, only loosely articulated with the body from which it emanates, since the desire and the language to which it gives rise comes from the Other. Voice as the vehicle of authentic self-expression, as in feminist, ethnic nationalist, and other "New Left" social movement discourses is for him largely an illusion, since the voice is always alien and alienating. For Lacan, voice belongs first and foremost to the Other as the cause of desire, an unattainable object around which the "invocatory drive" endlessly circles, as the subject tries to sustain a distance from and pacify the siren call that might be its undoing.


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Mr David Morfesi, Executive Director of the Institute of International Trade said higher education, already Australia's most valuable services export, is set to grow under the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement.
and UIBE, captures not only the gains achievable in higher education under the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement, but creates a bilateral collaboration producing the next generation of economic, business and cultural leaders who will have a heightened understanding and appreciation of one another," Mr Morfesi said.
UIBE is a leading institution and the degree will be highly valuable to students interested in building capabilities to do business with China, and to work with partners from China in Australia and around the world.
Professor Christopher Findlay, Executive Dean of the Faculty of the Professions, and Professor Han Weichun, the Dean of the School of International Education at UIBE, signed the agreement in Beijing this week.
Professor Findlay said programs like this will give students a significant advantage and 'on the ground' experience and exposure to the Chinese market.
"The University of Adelaide is committed to building key partnerships like this to offer students programs relevant to current and future employment opportunities," Professor Findlay said.
The program consists of two years studying at the University of Adelaide and two years at UIBE, and participating students will graduate with a Bachelor of Commerce from both institutions. The UIBE part of the program will be taught in English and students can nominate to take part from their second year at the University of Adelaide.
Students interested in the program can join one of the Faculty of Professions' many China study tour options for a taste of studying and working in China.
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I've been having trouble getting to sleep lately, so I downloaded this app to my iPhone that is supposed to help you relax and fall asleep faster. It's narrated by a Scottish dude who sounds like Liam Neeson in the movie Rob Roy, which, all by itself, made the thing worth the $2.99 I paid for it. So, last night, I tried it, and I don't know if it was the app, or that icy Grey Goose martini I had beforehand, but I fell into a deep, dreamy sleep, and didn't wake up until almost noon today. Whew, I needed that! While I was out, I had a really vivid dream that I was riding around in an SUV with Madonna–she was driving–and she was insistent on finding a place that served "chicharrón de queso." She was pronouncing it correctly, too, in a very exaggerated way, like when white, midwestern news anchors suddenly bust out a latin accent when they say the word "Nicaragua." Anyway, I kept trying to tell Madonna that the only place I knew that served it is in Mexico City, and she said "That's fine, we can be there in 20 minutes." I guess that SUV could transform into the Concorde! After I woke up, I turned on PBS while I was sipping my coffee, and there's Rick Bayless in Mexico City, eating chicharrón de queso at a taqueria! How weird is that?
So, I feel like the universe–and Madonna–are telling me to find and/or make this delicious, cheesy snack, as though my life might depend on it. I'm not sure where to find it in San Francisco. The only place I've ever had it, as I repeatedly told Madonna, was in Mexico City. My friend Bruno introduced me to it at a D.F. taqueria in the middle of the night, after we had been out and about. When he suggested it, just from the name, I was afraid it had something to do with pork rinds, of which I am not a fan. But, no…it is just cheese. Nothing but cheese. Cheese, cheese and more cheese, grilled on a hot griddle until the fat comes out of it, and then it's shaped to cool into a perfectly crisp cylinder. Oh, cheeses-mary-and-joseph, it is out of this world fantastic. It's the Mexican cousin of the Italian frico, the lacy, dainty Parmesan crisp. Ain't nothin' dainty about the chicharrón de queso, though. Just like Mexico itself, it is big, and salty and caramelized and imposing, and absolutely worth every ounce of plaque in your arteries that it may deposit. Although, since they brush the fat out of it as it cooks, it might actually not be all that bad. Yeah…let's go with that.
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That's a Lot of Travelin' Clams!
The main thing that has kept me from traveling more is that, when I have the time, I don't have the money, and when I have the money, I don't have the time. Sound familiar? Well, I can't do anything about your schedule, but as for the money, listen up: Afar Magazine has teamed up with Vayama, the online international travel agency, to offer five $2,000 vouchers good on Vayama.com, and one five-day trip to Copenhagen, to the authors of the six best travel highlights and photos uploaded to Afar's online, collaborative travel guide. Details here. Afar calls these contests "Catch" contests, they hold them frequently, and they are no joke. Trips to Europe, India, vouchers for airfare and hotels, iPads and other valuable items for travelers have featured as past prizes.
Now, I realize I'm reducing the odds of winning the Catch contest myself by telling you all about this, because now you're going to go and compete with me by submitting your own highlights that will probably be better than mine. But, I don't care. The reason Afar is such a great resource is because of the number of travelers who contribute their input. Even if you don't want to contribute a highlight, take a gander at the site, and see if you don't lose a whole afternoon drooling over the highlights of exotic places and experiences posted by others. You can even save highlights to your own personal "Wanderlists" for ease of reference when you're getting ready to plan your own trip.
I contribute to Afar pretty regularly, but I spend even more time gathering inspiration and ideas for future travels by browsing through the highlights posted by others. Do yourself a favor, and take a look, you'll be amazed. Then, join the party, sift through your travel photos and upload a highlight of your own. You just might win two thousand bucks to spend on your next trip!
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I spent my birthday this year in Mexico City, visiting a good friend who runs the cutest little boutique hotel in the southern part of the city, not far from the quaint Coyoacan district. Removed from the bustle and crush of downtown Mexico City, Coyoacan was once a separate town. Even now, after urban sprawl has enveloped it within the boundaries of Mexico City, Coyoacan retains its adorably Mexican small town charm. It's the kind of place where, in the evening, the locals wander out to the plaza to mix, mingle, canoodle with their sweeties, let the kids run off some energy, or just watch the world go by. A place where you see guard dogs on the roofs of the colonial homes that dot the tree-lined streets, so they can bark warnings to approaching strangers, but can't actually bite anyone.
Anyhoo, I ended up getting an essentially private showing of this exhibit, because I got to La Casa Azul not long before the museum was supposed to close (thanks to SOMEONE's inability to get out of the damned house before 3pm, thank you very much), and I really had to pee, so I went directly to the baño. And got locked in. The attendant was standing on the other side of the door, hollering at me in Spanish, "A la derecha, Señora! A la derecha!" assuming, I guess, that this blonde was just too dumb to realize that the door latch turned to the right. But I was turning it a la derecha, and it was just stuck! After what seemed like an eternity, but was probably only about five or ten minutes (which, in all fairness, really does constitute an eternity when you're trapped in a tiny, smelly bathroom), they sent for the handyman, who came and took the doorknob off with a screwdriver and freed me. They felt so bad about trapping me in there, that they let me stay for almost an hour after closing, so I could see everything. That was great, actually, because I got to poke around and look at everything closely without anyone else in the way. So, I suppose, after all, I do recommend getting locked in the bathroom at Frida's house–as long as you do it right before closing!
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Isaac and John Foss of Chester New Hampshire
john foss and tabitha sargent
On 11 March 1743 Tabitha Sargent, the 17 year old daughter of Jacob and Judith Harvey Sargent married John Foss in Chester, New Hampshire. Less than three years later, she was a widow. The marriage would produce a single child, a boy, born 12 October 1744, they named David. I have traced Tabitha's Sargent family back multiple generations, but who was John Foss of Chester.
John was probably a very young man when he died so he left very few clues as to who he was or who his parents might be. Sifting through records and other genealogical writings shows that there was another Foss in Chester at the same time, he was Isaac Foss who moved had there from Greenland, NH. It would seem possible if not probable that the two men might be related. So who was Isaac?
Well it is probable that he was a grandson of John Foss and Mary Berry of Rye, NH, subjects of an earlier post. The genealogy of John Foss of Rye is a tangled mess as he is confused with John Fost of Dover. I can tell already that this is going to take a lot of picking apart of data, head scratching and possible tantrums on my part. But here we go. I think I'll start with the children of John Foss and Mary Berry and take it from there.
children of john foss and mary berry of rye
Okay, I already have a headache. Looking at the internet and books on the Foss Family I have complied several lists of children for John and Mary. Here are a few based on the best known genealogical books that include the Foss Family. The names in black are included all three lists, blue on two and red on only one.
Cutter Sterns Noyes Libby Davis_________________________
John John John
Samuel (Humphrey) Elizabeth
Joshua William Samuel
Elizabeth Hannah Martha
Mary Joshua Thomas
William Hinkson William
Walter Mary Joshua
Hannah Benjamin Zachariah
Thomas Thomas Hannah
Hinkson (Jemima) Richard
(Humphrey) Elizabeth
(Jemima) Samuel
The only thing these three list seem to agree on is that John was the first born son. In his deed/will, John Sr. named only three children: John, Joshua and Zachariah. It is interesting that Cutter and Sterns do not even include a Zachariah on their lists. In 1699 John Fost of Dover died leaving children named: Humphrey, Jemimiah, William, Mary, Elizabeth and Samuel. I think we can strike Humphrey and Jemima off our list of John Foss' children as they are undoubtedly the children of John Fost. Hinkson is a very unusual forename name, in fact it was the surname of at least two women who married sons of John Foss, Sr. For this reason, I doubt that he was the son of John Foss, I believe that he was rather his grandson. I also think Walter, Benjamin and Richard were not sons of John Sr.
potential list of fathers of either isaac or john of chester
So I think we can make a list of potential fathers of either Isaac or John of Chester, NH. I would include John, Joshua, Thomas, Samuel, William and Zachariah. A a review of genealogy books shows that Joshua did not seem to have had a son named John or Isaac, so I am ruling him out. In his book, Genealogical and Family History of New Hampshire, Sterns believed that John of Chester was the son of John Jr., grandson of John Sr. On the internet many sites have William and Sarah (Buswell Foss) were his parents, especially on ancestry.com.
William and Sarah Buswell did have a son named John, baptized in Greenland in 1717. William lived in Greenland for a while but it looks like he moved to Scarborough, Maine shortly before his death in 1718. If William was indeed the father of John of Chester, how did John get there and what is his relationship to Isaac?
Okay, I have to tell you that I do know who John's father was. In a deed registered Oct. 1740 Isaac Foss, of Chester, wrote that for the "parental love and natural affection I have to bear towards my beloved son, John Foss" and deeded him lot 105 in Chester. Isaac later deeded land to other sons Timothy, Thomas and Isaac Jr. According to the book "The History of Chester", Isaac Foss was originally from Greenland.
So, now the question is, who was Isaac? If John followed his father to Chester, did Isaac follow his father to Greenland? The progenitor of this Foss family lived in Rye. Greenland was a "suburb" of Rye. In 1711 three Foss males were paying taxes: John, Samuel and William. These are presumed to be sons of John Foss Sr. So was one of them the father of Isaac?
two isaacs
Just to keep things interesting, there were two men named Isaac that seem to be descendants of John Foss, Sr. One is our Isaac of Greenland and Chester and the other was Lt. Isaac Foss of Stratham. Lt. Isaac Foss is known to have died in Stratham in 1761, he is said to be the son of Thomas Foss and Abigail Cole of Greenland.
Our Isaac deeded property in 1757 to his son Timothy. Noyes, Libby, Davis say he was still alive in
1760, and that was the last time his name was recorded. The probate records from this period have yet to be put online, so I am not sure if he wrote a will, maybe this is what NLD are referencing in their 1760 information.
so who was isaac's father
I don't know. It was probably either John Foss Jr. or his brother Samuel. I am betting that it was John Jr. My evidence for this is circumstantial and should not be taken as anything other than a guess. That being said, Isaac named his first son John, and did not name a son Samuel. John Jr. witnessed Isaac's deed when he left Greenland. Flimsy, yes, but that's all I got.
what do we know about isaac foss of chester
If Isaac was the son of either Samuel or John Foss Jr. then he must have been born by 1700. He married Abigail Hinkson on 5 December 1717 in Greenland. The had at least five children. John and Isaac Jr. were baptised in 1722, Abigail in 1724, Thomas in 1728, all in Greenland. The also had a son Timothy who I believe must have been born in Chester.
On the 30th day of April 1729 Isaac bought, for 80 pounds, Jonathan Elkin's land in Chester, NH. One day prior he and Abigail sold all their property in Greenland to Thomas Berry. Isaac continued to buy and sell land in Chester. He deeded each of his sons land. In his last deed, dated Dec 25, 1760 he and his son Thomas sold land, their wives also had to sign the deed. Isaac's wife was Judith, so Abigail had died some time prior to 1760 and Isaac had remarried.
Isaac was not mentioned much in the history of Chester. He was a surveyor in 1730. I wish there was more to tell, but that's all I have for now.
There are no dates for the death of Isaac, Abigail or Judith Foss.
1. never trust other trees on ancestry.com, do your own research
2. even the great genealogists of the past can be wrong, do your own research
3. New Hampshire registry of deeds is a great source of info
My Foss Ancestry:
John Foss and Mary Berry
John Foss Jr. and Wife or Samuel Foss and Wife
Isaac Foss and Abigail Hinkson
John Foss and Tabatha Sargent
David Foss and Anne Richardson
Anna Foss and Reuben Moore
Mary "Polly" Moore and Samuel Duncan Rowell
Enoch Rowell and Viola Rowell
Jennie Clover Rowell and John Clark Thornton
Stearns, Ezra S., William F. Whitcher, and Edward E. Parker. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. New York: Lewis Pub., 1908. Print.
Cutter, William Richard. New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial; a Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation. New York: Lewis Historical Pub., 1913. Print.
Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, Noyes, Libby and Davis,
Chase, John Carroll. History of Chester, New Hampshire, including Auburn a Supplement to the History of Old Chester, Published in 1869. Derry, NH: J.C. Chase, 1926. Print.
Rockingham County Registry of Deeds, book 28 page 44 has the deed where Isaac gives land to his son John
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Monkeypox: Are we dealing with a deliberate virus release?
by: Sara Middleton, staff writer | July 27, 2022
(NaturalHealth365) When critical thinkers quickly suggested that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, could have escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, China – the disease was first identified in Wuhan, after all, the exact same location of a Biosafety Level 4 lab associated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology – public health officials were all too quick to label that suggestion as a "conspiracy theory." Yet it wasn't long before even mainstream outlets gave credence to the "lab leak theory" as a plausible explanation for COVID's origin story.
Now, it remains unproven whether the SARS-CoV-2 virus was intentionally released from the Wuhan lab (if the virus did, in fact, come from there) or if it was accidentally released in an unthinkable breach of biosafety conduct. But a new study out of Portugal suggests that the current and highly suspicious global outbreak of monkeypox could have had dark origins, too.
Is the current global monkeypox outbreak part of a vile ploy straight out of the world elites' playbook?
It seems too unbelievable to be "coincidence," doesn't it?
In March of last year, the nonprofit, nonpartisan global security organization Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) teamed up with a group called the Munich Security Conference to conduct an "exercise" to prevent and reduce "high-consequence biological threats."
According to their November 2021 official report of the exercise, NTI and the Munich Security Conference set out to examine "gaps in national and international biosecurity and pandemic preparedness architectures – exploring opportunities to improve prevention and response capabilities for high-consequence biological events."
In Figure 1 of this report, you'll notice the group's anticipated "scenario developments" for the fictitious countries of Arnica and Brinia that were impacted by the "theoretical" outbreak. Chief among them:
A monkeypox outbreak began on May 15, 2022
The outbreak began when a group of terrorists released the "highly contagious and deadly" pathogen (an intentional release)
By December 2023, there will have been an estimated 3.2 billion cases and 271 million deaths
Now, let's look at real life:
The world IS experiencing a monkeypox outbreak, allegedly, with the first reports to the World Health Organization (WHO) coming in on May 13, 2022
Reports of monkeypox are coming from several countries, including the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, and Germany – this is HIGHLY unprecedented as far as this virus is concerned
Real-life monkeypox is rarely fatal and has been labeled a much milder version of smallpox – at least, that's how it's been throughout history so far …
So, awful coincidence – or the sign of something more sinister?
Portuguese study suggests current monkeypox virus causing global outbreak has been heavily tinkered with in a laboratory
A group of researchers from Portugal's National Institute of Health (NIH) recently published a study in which they analyzed clinical specimens of 9 people with monkeypox between May 15 and May 17, 2022. Their analysis led them to several important conclusions. Here are some:
The "multi-country outbreak most likely has a single origin, with all sequenced viruses released so far."
The "outbreak virus belongs to the West African clade and is most closely related to viruses (based on available genome data) associated with the exportation of monkeypox virus from Nigeria to several countries in 2018 and 2019, namely the United Kingdom, Israel, and Singapore." This point right away raises the plausibility of there having been a lab leak.
Strangely, the "outbreak virus" exhibits a mean of 50 unique genetic variations (also known as single nucleotide polymorphisms or SNPs) that distinguish it from the 2018/19 viruses, "which," as the authors warn, "is far more than one would expect." A plausible explanation for this unusually high degree of genetic variation is that the current "outbreak virus" was genetically tinkered with in a laboratory.
Dr. Robert Malone, mRNA technology inventor and a staunch advocate against mandatory COVID shots, especially for kids, has been quoted as saying that the current monkeypox virus looks "more like a laboratory manipulated strain than a naturally evolved strain."
"Furthermore," he adds, "this double-stranded DNA virus, infections which have historically been self-limiting, appears to be evolving (during the last few days!) to a form that is more readily transmitted from human to human."
Will the truth prevail as more research is done on the current outbreak? Will public health officials learn from past mistakes during the COVID-19 pandemic and be more willing to look to lab leak origins – intentional or otherwise – as a possible source?
Or is this all just part of one big plan? Stay tuned, as we at NaturalHealth365 continue to closely monitor these developments.
NTI.org
Virological.org
Centerforhealthsecurity.org
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Ethnic Studies Classes Illegal in Arizona as of Jan. 1
Lourdes Medrano,
The Christian Science Monitor | Report
Tucson, Ariz. – A controversial Arizona law targeting ethnic studies in public schools will take effect come midnight.
Like the state's tough immigration law – which a federal judge put mostly on hold last summer – the new measure that Gov. Jan Brewer signed in May has sparked protests and legal action, as well as concerns about the future of education.
The law bans classes that promote the overthrow of the United States government and resentment toward a race or class of people. Also outlawed are courses designed primarily for students of a particular ethnic group and those that advocate ethnic solidarity rather than treat students as individuals.
In Arizona, critics claim that the law – along with the partially suspended immigration law – threatens to make the state a "new South" of discrimination against minorities. Meanwhile, educators in states such as California worry that the law could become a model for other states to follow.
For his part, Tom Horne, the force behind the Arizona law, says ethnic studies serve to divide rather than unite. "Fundamentally, I think it's wrong to divide students by race," says Mr. Horne, the outgoing Arizona schools superintendent, who was elected state attorney general in November.
The program teaches "one-sided propaganda" and is inconsistent with American values, he adds
Horne helped draft the law in response to complaints about a program that teaches Mexican-American history and culture in the Tucson Unified School District, the city's largest with more than 50,000 students. He plans to announce Monday the district is in violation of the law. It will be his last day in that office.
District Defends Program
Opponents of the law say Horne's actions are politically motivated, and they point out he has never attended a class to learn first-hand about a program that is offered to all students, not just those of Mexican heritage.
"The state has no business telling the local school board what to teach," says Roberto Rodriguez, a professor at the University of Arizona and member of the district's Mexican-American studies advisory board. "The state superintendent is overreaching – meddling, literally."
Mexican-American studies has evolved over several years and has had "some pretty significant achievement results," says John Pedicone, the district's newly-hired superintendent. "It's done some very important things, we believe, for an underserved population. The students that go through the program seem to do very well."
Mr. Pedicone says district data shows that about 70 to 75 percent of the students that go through the program go on to college, compared with 20 to 25 percent of a similar demographic group.
Despite the risk of losing state funds, the district plans to keep its program. Officials believe it is in compliance with the law. "The law was created listing the things that a course of studies cannot do, and the district's position all along has been that this course of studies does not do that," says Pedicone.
Once Horne declares the district is breaking the new law, school officials have 60 days to present evidence of compliance at a hearing, Pedicone says. The ultimate decision rests with Horne's successor, John Huppenthal, a Republican senator from the Phoenix area who also has been critical of ethnic studies both at the Tucson district and at the University of Arizona.
Impact Beyond Arizona
The impact of the law is worrisome to educators and students around the state. Teacher representatives at the University of Arizona recently formally stated their opposition to a law they say sends the wrong message to Arizona students.
Concerns over the law also reach beyond the state. In early December, teachers and students attended a discussion and presentation about the Arizona ethnic studies law on the University of California, Los Angeles campus.
"They thought it could have implications in California," says Shaena Engle, a spokeswoman with UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
Professor Rodriguez says it's not the first time such programs have been singled out, but now "it's being acted upon." He views the state's ethnic studies and immigration laws as attacks on all Hispanics and as reasons why some people might refer to Arizona as "the new south."
Lourdes Medrano


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Satyam Gets Nod For Inducting Strategic Investors
The Company Law Board (CLB), the apex regulator of companies, has given the go ahead to Satyam Computer Services to increase its capital base and rope in strategic investors. CLB has given the nod to the fraud-hit IT major to up its authorised capital to Rs 280 crore from Rs 160 crore. Satyam's government appointed board has also received a nod to make a preferential allotment of at least 26% of its equity, either at par or a premium.
Satyam's suitors include engineering group Larsen & Toubro (L&T), Tech Mahindra, BK Modi-owned Spice Group, and Hinduja Group. L&T has said that it's currently reviewing the CLB order and only after that will take a decision. The new board has appointed investment banks Goldman Sachs and Avendus to find strategic investors.
Satyam needs a strategic investor to bring in new management, induct funds to pay employees and stop clients from abandoning the firm.
In another development, Satyam has decided to relocate most of its onsite support staff to low-cost destinations. The company has also put a freeze on capital expenditure ahead of the strategic sale.


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Whata��s a Punjabi girl to do when she is invited to her sister-in-lawa��s English countryside wedding? Panic, of course. When the purple-themed invite arrived in the post, a thousand questions raced through my mind. What should I wear? How much will this trip cost me? How cold is it going to be in October? Do I have to buy presents for everyone? And oh God, the visa.
I took a quick look at my bank balance and austerity measures were immediately put in place. The first thing to sort out was the flights. Herea��s a useful tipa��set up price alerts on kayak.com. When you find a number you like, take the leap of faith and unsubscribe from the alerts, lest the prices fall further and forever taint your trip. Qatar and Etihad Airways are your cheapest bet at around 45-50k, if you dona��t mind the long airport stopovers. If your company has just been bought out, by all means indulge in British Airwaysa�� new Dreamliner flights or Lufthansaa��s super luxurious seats that will cost you anywhere between 70k and 1.5 lakhs, depending on when you book.
a�?You can wear a sari if you like,a�? said my kind MIL, having sensed my anxiety over wedding wear. But as every woman knows, you never, ever do anything that has the slightest potential to divert attention away from the bride. I decided that a bright silk sari would definitely spell disaster. So I began my monumental dress hunt and foraged through Flipkart, Myntra and a host of other sites. While they help you understand different styles, I always find it best to walk through the shops and find one that fits well. If you feel it needs to be altered, abandon it and move on. I settled for a dark blue lace Latin Quarters dress, matched with a cream belt and embroidered cream wedges, a simple bracelet and drop earrings.
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On the day of the wedding, we drove to the venue for the afternoon ceremonya��a stately home in Northamptonshire. As the Irish lady on the SatNav system guided us through a�?roindaboitsa��, I admired the fields dotted with grazing sheep, cows and the occasional horse. The stone mansion stood bold and beautiful in all its vintage glory against a picturesque background of meadows. Of course, the English weather lived up to its miserable reputation and it rained that day.
The bride wore a stunning off-white full length dressa��layers of finely tailored fabric, with sheer straps, and beads and sequins at the waist. She matched it with a tiara, studs, a simple necklace and white stilettos. While the mothers wore beautiful knee length dressesa��complete with jackets and elaborate hatsa��the men were in morning suits, purple patterned waistcoats and cravats. The bridesmaids made a pretty picture in off-shoulder purple gowns with matching hair accessories. While the bride was relaxed and composed, the groom was rather stresseda��he attributed it to people not taking their places quickly enough.
During the civil ceremony, everybody sat in respectful silence. People did not chatter, chairs did not move and cell phones did not ring. So unfamiliar. This was followed by photographsa��minus the glaring lights and makeshift stagesa��the a�?wedding breakfast,a�� speeches, toasts, tears and free flowing champagne. If you are vegetarian, brace yourself for copious amounts of bean burgers, lentil salads, margherita pizzas and bland pasta. The celebrations concluded at 1 am the next day, with the bridea��s grandmother swaying to Oasisa�� Champagne Supernova as everyone devoured slices of the tiered wedding cake.


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"Zero was never a realistic expectation"
Official academics downplay the risks of school reopenings as pandemic rages across the US
By Benjamin Mateus
Last month, the Atlantic published an article by Professor Emily Oster, an economist at Brown University, titled "Schools Aren't Super-Spreaders," which has since been promoted by multiple media outlets to pressure communities to resume in-person learning in K-12 schools and universities across the United States. The New York Times has been early and steadfast in its endorsement of the policy.
In her article, Oster argued that "fear and bad press" led to the slowing down and cancellation of school reopenings in late summer, even in places "with relatively low positivity rates" like "Chicago, L.A., and Houston—all remote, at least so far." As her article title suggests, Oster seeks to allay these fears by asserting that schools are not super-spreader locations, where one person transmits COVID-19 to multiple others.
Young boy protesting the opening of schools following an outbreak of COVID in Brooklyn, New York. (Credit: Reuters Carlo Allegri)
In reality, COVID-19 is often transmitted in "super-spreader" fashion because its aerosolized form allows it to linger and concentrate in a closed space, with poorly-ventilated and overcrowded classrooms being highly conducive to this type of spread.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) reported Monday that there were 61,447 new child COVID-19 cases last week, bringing the total in the US to 853,635. This represents 11.1 percent of all US cases, up from 2 percent in April. In October there were nearly 200,000 new cases in children, predominately in Western states such as Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico and Utah. Other states reporting a greater rise among children include the Dakotas, Kentucky, Michigan and Wisconsin, where recent surges have been significant. These rapid rises coincide with the expansion of school reopenings in recent weeks.
The basis of Oster's data was limited to the last two weeks of September, where she notes that infections in schools were very contained. She writes: "Our data on almost 200,000 kids in 47 states from the last two weeks of September revealed an infection rate of 0.13 percent among students and 0.24 percent among staff. That's about 1.3 infections over two weeks in a school of 1,000 kids or 2.2 infections over two weeks in a group of 1,000 staff. Even in high-risk areas of the country, the student rates were well under half a percent."
According to CISION PRWeb, only 38 percent of K-12 school students were attending schools in person on Labor Day. However, by Election Day that figure exceeded 60 percent, with 35.7 percent of schools offering in-person learning every day, 26.5 percent in a hybrid schedule of 2-3 in-person days per week and 37.8 percent of schools only offering virtual learning.
There are more than 53 million K-12 students enrolled in schools in the US, meaning that over 30 million students are attending schools that now offer some form of in-person learning. The Brown University data set represents 200,000 school children during a period of time when schools were largely being conducted remotely and community transmissions were low.
With close to 10 million cases of COVID-19 in the US, the seven-day moving average has climbed from 35,000 at the end of summer to over 85,000 cases per day. Hospitalizations across the US have exceeded 50,000, and the number of daily fatalities is climbing again. Just yesterday the number of new cases exceeded 108,000.
The conclusions reached by Dr. Oster should be treated with the utmost skepticism. The siloed approach of the study is not appropriate for the complex, dynamic disease transmission of COVID-19, which is spreading amid a complete lack of any coordinated governmental effort to locate the contagion at a granular level. The study is analogous to a blurry, static photograph taken from a film reel. However, these are real-life situations with deadly consequences that require the utmost precision and careful analysis.
In her efforts to downplay the impacts of reopening schools, Dr. Oster is joined by her new colleague at Brown University, Dr. Ashish K. Jha. After working with the Harvard Global Health Institute and serving as a frequent guest on cable news programs throughout the pandemic, Dr. Jha was recently appointed the Dean of Brown University's School of Public Health.
In an interview Monday with Education Week, Dr. Jha stated callously: "Obviously, if going back to in-person education was going to lead to a lot of infections and deaths, you'd say OK, that's a cost we can't bear. But districts that are being too cautious are doing enormous harm to children and families in their communities."
Seemingly oblivious to the deepening surge of COVID-19 cases across the US, Dr. Jha added: "I'm not saying schools should never close. They probably should at some point if things get really horrible."
Such casual asides by Oster, Jha and their ilk demonstrate deep resentment of and contempt for the working class, including the more than 50 teachers, staff, maintenance workers and students who have perished from COVID-19 since schools began reopening in late July.
The arguments put forward by these upper-middle-class "liberal" academics follow a similar logic to that proposed by the Great Barrington Declaration of "focused protection," as advocated by Stanford University neuroradiologist and Trump acolyte Dr. Scott Atlas. This variant of herd immunity is intended to ensure that the workforce is fully engaged in producing profits and not parenting.
More principled academics have approached the question of school reopenings with greater concern. Zoe Hyde, a senior research officer at the University of Western Australia, stated recently: "If community transmission rises, then you will see outbreaks in schools. This has become very apparent in Europe as they battle their second wave." She added, "It's quite likely we are not spotting a lot of the infections which are occurring in children."
Kim Powers, an epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina, commented, "While we know we are only seeing part of 'the iceberg' of all infections, we don't exactly know how much of that iceberg we are seeing."
As part of its homicidal efforts to achieve "herd immunity" through the mass infection of the population, the Trump administration has aggressively pursued school reopenings. Democrats and Republicans at every level continue to support this reckless policy, while the teachers unions have worked with Democrats to promote the fraud that schools can "safely" reopen with a slight increase in funding.
Numerous studies from case reports, modeling analysis and clinical epidemiological research have found that not only are children able to be infected but are a critical component of community transmission. It is precisely for this reason that it becomes necessary for health departments to make all efforts to follow-up and test children in the chains of transmission.
Additionally, it has been recognized that some children can develop severe Kawasaki-like symptoms that can have significant morbidities and even be fatal. More recently, it has been determined that post-viral syndrome, also known as "long-COVID," impacts a substantial percentage of the population, including children and young adults. Patients can have an assortment of dysautonomia disorders, which can cause their heart rates to race at dangerously high levels. Others suffer from chronic fatigue and poor concentration for several months.
What is required is a comprehensive strategy of public health measures, including scaled testing, a massive investment in contact-tracing resources, and offering isolation and quarantine facilities that can monitor and treat individuals while safeguarding their families and communities' livelihood.
Stated bluntly, there is no national contact-tracing infrastructure in the United States. Presently, there are only 53,116 contact tracers in the country, a four-fold increase since April but a far cry short of the more than 100,000 that are recommended. As of October 8, only six states have reached their per capita benchmark: New York, Massachusetts, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Utah, as well as Washington D.C. However, as the surge proceeds, even these limited systems are becoming overwhelmed. It has been estimated that fewer than 5 percent of those infected are traced in time to stop them from transmitting to others.
The continued reopening of schools amid a raging pandemic is unconscionable and will only exacerbate the spread of COVID-19 throughout the US and internationally.
Rank-and-file educators must recognize that they can help bring an end to the pandemic through unifying their efforts against state and federal mandates to resume in-person learning. The official bourgeois academics and health experts, as evidenced by the likes of Oster, Jha and Atlas, place the profit interests of the ruling class above the safety and lives of the working class.
Schools and the children who attend them are society's most precious resources. Educators play a pivotal role in society as community leaders and stand in a position to sway considerable influence within the broader working class. Only through coordinating their efforts with the working class, in preparations for a general strike movement, will teachers and education workers be able to close schools and ensure that adequate resources are provided for high-quality remote learning and the social needs of working-class families.
The Socialist Equality Party and the World Socialist Web Site have been at the forefront of the struggle to build independent, rank-and-file safety committees among educators, parents and students in California, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Tennessee and New York. We have organized online discussions to coordinate these efforts, while publishing numerous articles on the terrible impacts of school reopenings throughout the US and internationally. We urge all those who take science and public health seriously, and who wish to fight for the closure of schools until the pandemic is contained, to join the Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee and contact us today to get involved.
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The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
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Matt Taibbi is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone and the author of five previous books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Great Derangement and Griftopia. He lives in New Jersey.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS
A scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis
Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery:
Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles.
Fraud by the rich wipes out 40 percent of the world's wealth. The rich get massively richer. No one goes to jail.
In search of a solution, journalist Matt Taibbi discovered the Divide, the seam in American life where our two most troubling trends—growing wealth inequality and mass incarceration—come together, driven by a dramatic shift in American citizenship: Our basic rights are now determined by our wealth or poverty. The Divide is what allows massively destructive fraud by the hyperwealthy to go unpunished, while turning poverty itself into a crime—but it's impossible to see until you look at these two alarming trends side by side.
In The Divide, Matt Taibbi takes readers on a galvanizing journey through both sides of our new system of justice—the fun-house-mirror worlds of the untouchably wealthy and the criminalized poor. He uncovers the startling looting that preceded the financial collapse; a wild conspiracy of billionaire hedge fund managers to destroy a company through dirty tricks; and the story of a whistleblower who gets in the way of the largest banks in America, only to find herself in the crosshairs. On the other side of the Divide, Taibbi takes us to the front lines of the immigrant dragnet; into the newly punitive welfare system which treats its beneficiaries as thieves; and deep inside the stop-and-frisk world, where standing in front of your own home has become an arrestable offense. As he narrates these incredible stories, he draws out and analyzes their common source: a perverse new standard of justice, based on a radical, disturbing new vision of civil rights.
Through astonishing—and enraging—accounts of the high-stakes capers of the wealthy and nightmare stories of regular people caught in the Divide's punishing logic, Taibbi lays bare one of the greatest challenges we face in contemporary American life: surviving a system that devours the lives of the poor, turns a blind eye to the destructive crimes of the wealthy, and implicates us all.
Praise for The Divide
"Ambitious . . . deeply reported, highly compelling . . . impossible to put down."—The New York Times Book Review
"These are the stories that will keep you up at night. . . . The Divide is not just a report from the new America; it is advocacy journalism at its finest."—Los Angeles Times
"Taibbi is a relentless investigative reporter. He takes readers inside not only investment banks, hedge funds and the blood sport of short-sellers, but into the lives of the needy, minorities, street drifters and illegal immigrants. . . . The Divide is an important book. Its documentation is powerful and shocking."—The Washington Post
"Captivating . . . The Divide enshrines its author's position as one of the most important voices in contemporary American journalism."—The Independent (UK)
"Taibbi [is] perhaps the greatest reporter on Wall Street's crimes in the modern era."—Salon
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In search of a solution, journalist Matt Taibbi discovered the Divide, the seam in American life where our two most troubling trends—growing wealth inequality and mass incarceration—come together, driven by a dramatic shift in American citizenship: Our basic rights are now determined by our wealth or poverty. The Divide is what allows massively destructive fraud by the hyperwealthy to go unpunished, while turning poverty itself into a...
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Q: How to update status in DataTable listing page in Laravel I need without refresh listing page update status of record. I have tried it with full page refresh but I want to an AJAX feature with Laravel rules.

A: If you like to update a record with Ajax you have to implement Ajax in your template and request a controller method that execute the change.
jQuery example:
$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: '/pageController/updateStatus',
    data: {id: 15, status: 'example'},
    success: function(response) { // Change elements in the DOM },
});

This will post the page ID and status to the updateStatus controller method. On success you can update values in the DOM.
Controller example:
class PageController {
    public function updateStatus(int $id, $status) {
        $page = Page::findOrFail($id);
        $page->status = $status;
        $page->save();

        return $page->status;
    }
}

In the controller you search for the given ID in the Page model. Then you update the status, save it, and return the new status so you can use it in the front-end.

A: Add Jquery in footer
Add list view page this function
Add your datatables

$('#table_user').on('click', '.status_clik', function(){
 var sid = $(this).attr("sid");
$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: '/pageController/updateStatus',
    data: {id: sid},
    success: function(response) { // Change elements in the DOM },
});
});

In controller page
class PageController {
    public function status(Request $request){
        $id = $request->get('id');
        if($id!=''){
            $geStatus = DB::table('tablename')->where('id', $id)->first();

            $update_data = array('eStatus'=>GET_OPPOSITE_STATUS[$geStatus->eStatus]);
            $update = DB::table('tablename')->where('id', $id)->update($update_data);
            if($update){

                return response()->json(array("status"=>1,"message"=>'Status updated successfully'));

            }else{ return response()->json(array("status"=>0,"message"=>_FAIL_TO_PROCESS)); }
        }else{return response()->json(array("status"=>0,"message"=>_FAIL_TO_PROCESS));}
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