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The current near-record low price per barrel of oil has weakened one of the last arguments against divestment. Although prices have begun to climb slightly, profits will likely remain low through 2016, as a decrease in demand intersects with overproduction in the market. At present, the student-led divestment movement ...
One of the challenging issues for the divestment movement is the claim that fossil fuel stocks represent a financially sound investment. Indeed, this belief that the value of fossil fuel stocks will continue to climb explains the resistance from college administrators and boards to student-led divestment efforts. By ar...
But the declining profitability of the industry, even if temporary, also provides an opportunity for deeper reflection about the impact of fossil fuel extraction on our political systems. It is clear that in this age of modernity, high profitability in the fossil fuel industry brings with it tremendous sociopolitical a...
First, as the IPCC, and climate activists like Bill McKibben, and others have pointed out, we cannot continue to extract and use fossil fuels at current rates if we hope to keep the warming of the Earth below an additional 2° Celsius. Declining demand for fossil fuels is therefore a net environmental good. Second, the ...
The blowout of the Deepwater Horizon was caused by BP, Halliburton and Transocean cutting costs on safety equipment. In turn, 11 workers from “one of the last great blue-collar jobs” were killed in the explosion. Further, despite the settlement, the after-effects of the spill have harmed or ruined the livelihoods of mi...
The divestment campaign is in part based on a moral argument: By investing in fossil fuel companies, colleges and universities are giving license to these practices. To be sure, opponents have argued that divestment is the wrong strategy for challenging the industry. Having followed the movement and participated in mee...
However, these criticisms are unconvincing. Divestment will certainly have little effect on the bottom line of fossil fuel companies, and treated in isolation, it is primarily a symbolic gesture meant to show solidarity among environmental movements. However, the divestment movement has never been about treating divest...
Finally, accusing supporters of divestment of hypocrisy for continuing to use fossil fuels, or investing in companies that use fossil fuels, is grossly unfair. Our modern reliance on fossil fuels is a product of deliberate policy decisions that have shaped the human geography of the United States, effectively limiting ...
In conclusion, a sober accounting of the fossil fuel industry reveals a very troubling relationship with the American political economy. High industry profits and corresponding oil and gas exploration mean greater sociopolitical and environmental problems, particularly for marginalized populations. Of course, it is in ...
Apple’s new iPhone 5, iPod Touch, iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle models, which were all revealed last night, proved to be super-slim thanks to the use of a new Lightning connection for both charging and data transfer.
Much smaller than the standard 30-pin connection that’s been a standard on Apple products for a decade, many of us feared that the new Lightning connection would make old stereo docks and accessories obsolete due to the big size difference. However, at the event in San Francisco yesterday, Apple promised that a £25 ada...
But now a day on it seems as though that may not be the case. Even if you do buy the 30-pin-to-Lightning adapter, some docking stations and accessories may not actually be compatible.
The Apple website itself states that “some 30-pin accessories are not supported”, and outright admits that “video and iPod Out [are] not supported” by the adapter.
The only possible solution would be that tucked away inside that tiny adapter is an even tinier DAC (Digital-to-Analogue Convertor). But at just £25, we think that’s pretty unlikely.
The Tech Digest team are reaching out to Apple about this now, and will update when we hear word back.
Bernhard Lewkovitch (born 28 May 1927) is a Danish composer, educated at the musical conservatories at Paris and København. He has worked as an organist and cantor at the Catholic St. Ansgar's Cathedral in Copenhagen.
His works include various pieces for instrumental ensembles, along with numerous compositions for mixed choir, e.g. Five Danish madrigals (op. 12) and Three Italian madrigals (op. 13), the latter set to poems by Torquato Tasso. Lewkovitch's style moved from modality to serialism in the 1950s, and he has also worked wit...
have to end their recent road woes to the Philadelphia Flyers.
seeking its longest home win streak in three seasons.
losses in the 2010 Eastern Conference finals.
season, a 5-3 loss April 3.
1.59 goals-against average in his 10 previous games.
streak at the Wells Fargo Center since a seven-game run Oct.
where he played six seasons and topped 30 goals in two campaigns.
seven matchups with the Flyers.
Complete coverage of the shootings across Paris, Europe’s worst terrorist attack in 11 years.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud is believed to have organized a string of attacks that made him the most talked-about — and, in jihadist circles, feted — terrorist since Osama bin Laden.
At least 130 people were killed Nov. 13. They included an architect, an American college student, an Algerian violinist and many, many music fans. Here are some of their stories.
Mr. Abdeslam had evaded the authorities for four months; his fingerprint was found in a residence raided by the police this week.
By the time the U.S. withdrew from Iraq, it thought it had subdued the Islamic State. The group is now on a very different trajectory.
Mr. Clain, who had navigated French jihadi circles for two decades, recorded propaganda messages for ISIS.
The venue said the work, painted on an emergency exit door, was a memorial to the victims of the 2015 terror attacks.
The Islamic State is weakened, and the jihadist threat to the U.S. has diminished.
The Islamic State has been degraded, but not defeated. Despite what President Trump said, our mission is not complete.
Après les attaques reçues par des activistes d’extrême-droite, Médine a annulé deux concerts qui devaient être le bouquet final de sa tournée. Mais il affirme ne pas vouloir être vu comme une victime.
After outrage from right-wing activists, Médine canceled the concerts that were supposed to be the pinnacle of his current tour. But he says he won’t be seen as a victim.
Three years after the terrorist attacks that killed 130 people, films, novels and memoirs allow survivors and others make some sense of what happened.
“The problem is that Emmanuel suffers from a very low Approval Rating in France, 26%,” wrote President Trump, whose approval rating in France is 9 percent.
Muslim Rapper Cancels Bataclan Concerts. French Far Right Celebrates.
The health ministry of Japan will be conducting a gaming disorder survey following the World Health Organization’s definition of the pathological condition back in June. The WHO then said that it is anticipating an update of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) where the organization will be adding the...
Gaming disorder, both online and offline, will be grouped with “disorders due to substance use or addictive behaviors” in the ICD’s 11th edition. This major revision comes as a first in almost thirty years.
It has been discovered that about 1,500 Japanese pay a visit to the National Hospital Organization Kurihama Medical and Addiction Center in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture for internet addiction. As per the Japan Times today, Oct. 16, patients in the center have turned malnourished and barred themselves from society. Oth...
“Among the pathological internet users who visit us as outpatients, 90 percent are gaming addicts and most of them are aged between 10 and 19,” Susumu Higuchi, director of the medical center, was quoted as saying.
The number of people afflicted with the disorder continue to rise due to the availability and prevalence of mobile games on smartphones.
Meanwhile, the Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association, an enclave of gaming companies in Japan, are also taking efforts in advocating for measures against gaming addiction. For one, the group has suggested the concept of applications that limit the length of one’s game play, a call that they promote on their web...
Thus far, the health ministry’s survey on gaming disorder will be the first of its kind and will be conducted as early as the current fiscal year. Today, no official information and data are available regarding the number of Japanese people afflicted with gaming disorder.
Tim Farrell/The Star-LedgerMiddlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan shown in this 2007 file photo. Kaplan's office announced this afternoon that a former New Brunswick police sergeant has been charged with mishandling 81 internal affairs investigations over a five-year period.
NEW BRUNSWICK — The Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office announced this afternoon that a former New Brunswick police sergeant has been charged with mishandling 81 internal affairs investigations over a five-year period.
Richard Rowe, 43, a 21-year veteran of the force, was suspended on March 21 without pay after the New Brunswick Police Department discovered that internal affairs files, to which he was assigned, were missing, according to a statement from Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan. He has been charged with tampering with physical eviden...
Kaplan said based upon the audit done by the police department and recently-concluded reviews and re-investigations, the complaint charges Rowe knowingly made false entries between 2003 and 2007 in police department records indicating that 81 internal affairs investigations assigned to him had been completed even thoug...
The complaint also charges Rowe removed, concealed or destroyed some of the files regarding the 81 investigations.
Rowe, who was making $123,202 when he was suspended, resigned in August.
Kaplan said following the discovery that the files were missing, his office and the state Attorney General's Office were notified an an audit was begun immediately by the police department.
He said all internal affairs complaints handled by the department, not just those handled by Rowe, from Sept. 23, 2002 to March 17, 2008 — when Rowe was assigned to the internal affairs division — were reviewed. Any incident where the file was missing, had not been investigated, and/or deemed to be improperly investiga...
Kaplan said the city police department also implemented changed to its internal procedures to better ensure oversight and further safeguard record-keeping.
The statement said, "despite these safeguards, and in the hope of promoting public confidence, the New Brunswick Police Department has now requested increased oversight of its internal affairs division by the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office."
Kaplan said that the police department will notify the county prosecutor's office whenever internal affairs complaints are filed. He said his office will review each investigation and proposed findings of the police department before each case can be closed.
In light of the recent shooting of a New Brunswick man, Barry Deloatch, by a New Brunswick police officer — a case under investigation by the prosecutor's office — Kaplan said the investigation into internal affairs and Rowe revealed neither of the two officers involved in the shooting Sept. 22 was the subject of any u...
The prosecutor said, however, one of the investigations mishandled by Rowe did involve one of the officers linked to the Deloatch shooting. During an incident on May 23, 2006, an internal affairs complaint was filed against that officer and his partner by a New Brunswick resident who charged the officers failed to comp...
Kaplan said the complaint against the officers was investigated by a supervisor, but Rowe is alleged to have failed to properly close out the file. The officers were cleared of any wrongdoing.
The prosecutor said pursuant to the guidelines of his office and the attorney general's office, the police department has submitted revised quarterly and/or yearly internal affairs summary report forms to both agencies for the years 2003 through 2010.
Rowe’s lawyer, Lawrence Bitterman of New Brunswick, called his client an honest, exemplary police officer. He admitted Rowe was sloppy in his handling of the files, but said his actions were not an attempt to protect other officers. He said Rowe has filed for his pension.
But New Brunswick Mayor James Cahill condemned the former sergeant, saying Rowe’s "alleged actions caused tremendous damage to our police department."
Cahill has scheduled a press conference for Wednesday to outline measures enacted to prevent a similar breakdown, and outline new programs to help residents understand the internal affairs system.
Will Technology In Healthcare Make The Rich Healthier And The Poor Sicker?
The Future Tech Evolution: Affordable to All?
It is the future. People have been genetically engineered to stop aging after turning 25. But time is the new currency, and people need to pay money to live beyond 25.
Sounds familiar? That could be because this is the plot of the 2011 movie ‘In Time’, starring Justin Timberlake. It portrays a dystopian world where the rich can become immortal, but the poor struggle to literally live. Come to think of it, this isn’t actually going to happen in our ‘real’ future. Or is it?
We live in a world of income inequality. The expression ‘the haves and the have-nots’ has probably been used since the 1700s, but today it might be more apt to say ‘the have-nots, the haves and the have-mores’ – meaning that this inequality has only worsened with time! This problem, as the renowned World Bank economist...
Why does this matter for healthcare? Poverty affects a person’s ability to access care – or, in the case of most developing countries, access to the best quality care. We are still trying to address these issues; in fact we are succeeding in doing so, enabled by technological advances such as telehealth, mHealth and Ar...
But what does the future hold?
With the fast pace of technological evolution, the realm of healthcare is likely to see advances like genetic editing, personalized medicine, smart hospitals, smarter cities with tech-enabled public health initiatives, and probably several more. Will access to these curative technologies be accessible and affordable to...
The pharma industry prices its prescription drugs at a very high cost, justifying this with the amount of money spent on research to develop them, and the high failure rate of potential drug candidates. Given this trend, is it likely that smart hospitals will promise a higher quality of care and faster hospital dischar...
Some of these situations can be very well illustrated with present-day examples: some populations struggle to access basic care, while in contrast the ‘other’ world has access to advanced but expensive treatments, to stay not only healthier, but even younger. Anti-aging drugs, procedures, and devices are one such examp...
Or consider the field of women’s health, where limited access to reproductive health in turn perpetuates the problem of economic inequality. Granted, women’s health has been a neglected area for a very long time, and for a variety of reasons, but this in itself offers a lurid picture of what could happen with technolog...
So does the future offer a similar prospect, where rich people in developed regions could tailor and augment their human bodies to their liking and to enhance their abilities, and could even order synthetic organs (think artificial pancreas) or lab-cultured organs (think stem cell therapy) online, while the poor could ...
If the economic divide results in a healthcare access divide, this is likely to create another dimension of the haves vs. the have-nots issue. With higher spending capacities, the haves could access better technology, like bionic rather than regular prostheses, giving them better capabilities. They could – theoreticall...
The economic divide is likely to give rise to another divide between humans – one not based on caste or religion, but this time on how healthy, or how much more physically and perhaps mentally capable, they are. This will further perpetuate the divide, allowing the haves to grow to have-mores, and the have-nots to perh...
Are We Creating a ‘Digital Divorce’ in Health Tech?
As we have just started 2018, it is important to think about the implications of these innovations and technology, and the impact they will have on the future. The internet may have created equality across the world, but the future of health tech could just do the opposite, creating a digital divide. The real question,...
In my humble opinion, technological advances must focus on making the benefits of such innovations available to the masses. The mantra of growth by volume might just be a necessity here. Furthermore, the current problems of rising healthcare costs and countries struggling to rein them in could be reproduced in this fut...
If making innovations available to the masses globally at affordable costs is not made a priority objective, only some innovations will work to improve inequalities in access. The rest will actually aggravate the problem of access, further compounding the basic problem of the income divide. Multiple stakeholders may ne...
If you would like more insights on the economic divide in healthcare, please connect with us! Email siddharths1@frost.com and speak to a thought leader in this field.
The Driving Decision, a workshop designed to help caregivers and professionals deal with unsafe drivers, will be on Thursday, April 29, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Beaman Memorial Library.
A paint and chemical collection will take place Saturday, May 1, at the Wachusett Watershed Regional Recycling Center, 131 Raymond Huntington Highway, from 8 a.m. to noon. Cost is $4 per gallon, $2 per pound of household hazardous chemicals like paint, pesticides, cleaners and pool chemicals. For more information, call...
Beginner�s bird walk for anyone interested in learning how to identify birds by sight and sound will be held May 1, from 8 to 10 a.m. Participants will spend the morning exploring the Wachusett Reservoir. The walk will include identification and habitat requirements of several local bird species. Wear hiking boots or s...
A dog and cat rabies clinic will be held at the Animal Medical Center, 29 Prospect St., on May 1, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call (508) 835-6258. This clinic is no limited to West Boylston residents.
West Boylston seniors are invited to attend the �Keep Moving� walking club leader trainings on May 11, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Brockton Council on Aging, 10 Father Kenney Way, Brockton or on May 14, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Central Mass. Area Health Education Center, 35 Harvard St., Suite 300, Worcester. Parti...
The Woman�s Club of West Boylston will hold its meeting on Tuesday, May 4, at O�Connor�s at 11 a.m. Lunch will be at noon. Order off the menu. This is an important meeting and all members are urged to attend. For reservations, call Anna Buron at (508) 835-3092.
Friends of the West Boylston Council on Aging will meet on Wednesday, May 5, at the Senior Center at 6 p.m. All interested in joining the Friends or learning more about assistance with the Senior Center are invited.
Coffee brewer, activist and author, Dean Cycon will be at the Beaman Memorial Library on Wednesday, May 5, to talk about his travels around the world in search of organic, fair-trade coffee to sell under his �Dean�s Beans� label. Come at 6:30 p.m. to taste coffee. The presentation begins at 7.
A Floral Design Workshop will be held at the Beaman Library, 8 Newton St., Thursday, May 6, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. with award-winning floral designer Lori Bourn. Create a centerpiece in time for Mother�s Day. Cost is $25 and includes all materials. Pre-registration is required. Email classes@wbaf.org or call Mark Baldi at...
A Foxwoods trip for West Boylston seniors will be May 10. The bus will leave at 8 a.m. from the Mixter parking lot. Depart from the casino at 3:30 p.m. and be back in West Boylston at about 5 p.m. Cost is $20 per person and includes the choice of one buffet coupon or a $10 food coupon or $15 Keno coupons. The trip must...
The Our Lady of Good Counsel Women�s Club will hold its annual banquet on Tuesday, May 11, at the Manor Restaurant. The dinner will follow a mass for deceased club members and the installation of the new slate of officers for 2010/2011 will be at 6 p.m. at the church, 111 Worcester St. For dinner, the menu choice is ba...
Eldercare 2010 at the Manor will be Tuesday, May 11. This is a free event for seniors and caregivers and includes 60 exhibiting companies. Informative meetings begin at 10:30 a.m. and ends at 1:30 p.m. and includes seminars on �My Life, My Health,� �The Well Kept Secret: Veteran�s Benefits,� and �Getting Your Loved One...
An open poetry reading with students of the West Boylston High School literary journal �Dickinson�s Ribbons� and poets Alex Charalambides, of the Worcester Youth Poetry Slam, and �Cowboy� Matt Hopewell, of the Q Caf�, will be at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 12, at the Beaman Memorial Library. Come to listen or to read y...
A nature photo workshop and hike with nature photographer Mike Backunas will be sponsored by the West Boylston Arts Foundation on May 15, from 10 a.m. to noon, at Moore State Park in Paxton. This event is free. To register, e-mail classes@wbaf.org or call Mark Baldi at (508) 835-6489.
The Senior Center is looking for help in the kitchen on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Volunteers will assist with packaging food to be delivered by the caterer for Meals on Wheels and filling delivery bags for the drivers. Also, they will help serve meals in-house to congregate meal participants. Tho...
�Putting Hear and Humor to Work,� a workshop at the Senior Center on May 14, at 1 p.m. The program will encourage participants to bring more uncommon sense, more heart and a health sense of humor to work to improve outlook, morale, productivity and teamwork and to defend against stress. To reserve a seat, call the Seni...
An appliance, electronics and bulk items collection will take place Saturday, May 15, at the Wachusett Watershed Regional Recycling Center, 131 Raymond Huntington Highway, from 8 a.m. to noon. Computers and computer parts ($3 for monitors), TVs ($10), car tires ($2), truck tires ($10), large equipment tires ($ 40 to $8...

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