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__label__wiki	0.901203	0.901203	E3 Expo Videos and Trailers GamingShogun-TV Screenshots / Photos Windows PC Review Xbox 360 Review Airsoft Reviews Peripheral Review Haunted Attraction Reviews Geek News, Movie News, News The Game Awards to Simulcast in Cinemark Theatres November 14, 2019 — The world’s biggest video games are coming live to the big screen on December 12. Today, The Game Awards, Cinemark Theatres, and Sony Pictures announced a first-of-its-kind superticket program that pairs a live simulcast of The Game Awards in 53 Cinemark theatre locations with a bonus screening of Sony Pictures’ “Jumanji: The Next Level.” “The Game Awards is all about bringing the game community together, and this year, for the first time, we’re giving fans the option of gathering live in a Cinemark auditorium to watch all the awards, musical performances and world premieres of the most anticipated games of the future on the big screen, with the added perk of being some of the first fans to see ‘Jumanji: The Next Level,’” said Geoff Keighley, Creator, The Game Awards. “We know video games are a big passion point for a huge segment of our audience, so this unique superticket brings fans the ultimate night out at the theatre,” said Justin McDaniel, SVP, Global Content, Cinemark. “Cinemark is proud to be the only place to see both the opening night showing of ‘Jumanji: The Next Level’ and The Game Awards live on the big screen.” “Given that the premise of our last two Jumanji films is about getting transported into a video game, we couldn’t think of a better pairing than this,” said Ann-Elizabeth Crotty, EVP, Global Client Services and Exhibitor Partnerships, Sony Pictures Entertainment. “As soon as it became clear that our release date perfectly aligned with The Game Awards, we knew we had to do something special for fans.” This special, one-night-only cinema event will be available in 53 Cinemark locations across the U.S. on December 12. “Jumanji: The Next Level” will play before the live simulcast of The Game Awards. Tickets are available for purchase for $20. Find more information and see participating Cinemark locations at www.cinemark.com/gameawards. events gaming the game awards Previous postJurassic World Evolution: Return to Jurassic Park Announced Next postKingdom Hearts Classic Titles Coming to Xbox One Sideshow and Hot Toys Announces Dark Trooper... Vulcanoids Co-Op Update Trailer Creative SBS E2900 2.1 Bluetooth Speaker... Jerry Paxton Marvel’s Behind the Mask Gets Debut... About author View all posts Creative SBS E2900 2.1 Bluetooth Speaker System Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic II Review Immortals: Fenyx Rising Review (Xbox Series X) Amnesia: Rebirth Review Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate – A Review (Xbox One) All content Copyright 2006, GamingShogun.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line752
__label__cc	0.605649	0.394351	Frank Michaels Errington's Horrible Book Reviews Reviews of what I'm reading. Mostly in the Horror genre, but you never know. Guest Post: Michael Pogach I’m Bad, and That’s Good: How Thanos Redeems Infinity War I watched Infinity War for the first time this past weekend, and it reminded me of a lot of the writing advice I’ve both given and received over the years. Stories need smart plots, but they also need proper pacing. And characters need room to grow. Infinity War is a good movie because it both accepts and flouts these assertions. It’s essentially one long climax punctuated by quips and banter (I know, I know…that’s what she said). Yet, it works because it’s not really a standalone movie, which allows us to forgive some its lack of character development and pacing issues. That said one way in which Infinity War nails it is the antagonist. Thanos is a damn good bad guy. Yes, his arc is a bit predictable when it comes to his adopted daughter, but the point is he has an arc. Remember, a character’s arc is not entirely about how they evolve. Characters don’t exist in vacuums. It’s also about how they are revealed. We’ve seen villains as good guys, like Wreck-It Ralph and Dexter and Riddick. We’ve seen villains who seek or find redemption, such as Darth Vader and Spawn. And we’ve seen a ton of antiheroes, such as Lisbeth Salander and Deadpool and Roland Deschain. But writing a villain who plays the role of antagonist while demonstrating emotional evolution and eliciting empathy from the audience is more unique. Let’s compare Darth Vader and Thanos. Both want to end conflict and suffering. Vader’s gig is that order will prevent strife. Thanos’ deal is he thinks killing half the universe will fix overpopulation and starvation. They have similar goals and are willing to commit similar atrocities to achieve them. The key difference is Vader never feels regret for the deaths he causes. His only expression of “feeling” is for the suffering of his son at the very end. Thanos, on the other hand, suffers the guilt of making an impossible choice, on both the large and small scales. Both are excellent villains, but for Infinity War, a Vader wouldn’t do. Thanos is necessary to counterbalance the film’s other character-based shortcomings. This premise is something most writers struggle with. In my first novel, The Spider in the Laurel, the main character’s struggle is very much an internal one. He—Rafael Ward—is the “good guy,” though in a very Jason Bourne kind of way. By the end of the novel, however, he is drifting towards more of an Evey Hammond role: the citizen who comes to understand the only way to fix what’s broken is to break it further. In the sequel, The Long Oblivion, Rafael Ward faces a clear antagonist, in addition to battling his own demons of regret and guilt. The antagonist in book two is driven by a very relatable desire, one which Ward himself has relied on to justify his own actions. Two different books; two different types of antagonists. As authors, we need to remember to write our characters for what the story needs. To do this we have to read, watch, and listen to everything we can, both in and out of our genre. Look, I’m not telling you the audience MUST feel sorry for every villain who’s conflicted about their victims. We need irredeemable baddies like Joffrey Baratheon and Anton Chigurh as much as we need Hannibal Lector and Harley Quinn. What I am saying is that I, as an author as well as a fan, am impressed with how Thanos was written. There’s an accessible humanity in him that buoys Infinity War when it might otherwise sink under the weight of its own wit and explosions. He’s bad alright, and that’s damn good. Posted by Frank's Horrible Book Reviews at 6:49 PM Indie Horror Book Award (Reviewer) I am not currently accepting unsolicited requests for reviews Frank's Horrible Book Reviews Tweets by @FrankMErrington HWA Membership Supporting member of HWA Frequently Auto-Approved by publishers on NetGalley Top 1% Reviewer Review: A Season In Hell - by Kenneth W. Cain Review: The Long Oblivion: Rafael Ward Book Two - ... Review: The Moore House - by Tony Tremblay Review: Suspended In Dusk II - edited by Simon Dewar Review: The Peoples Republic of Everything - by Ni... Review: glass slipper dreams, shattered - by doung... Review: Welcome to the Show: 17 Horror Stories – O...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line753
__label__cc	0.745106	0.254894	Insane Coronavirus Responses and Bizarre George Floyd Protests in UK Our UK Correspondent has some observations that might interest all readers. There is a possibility that some of her views might run afoul of Big Tech or the burgeoning pro-authoritarian, surveillance state advocates. By Amelia Florence UK Correspondent, Frank Report I am sending a few screenshots of BBC news and other items of interest. This is what we arise today to! There is a huge undercurrent of others using George Floyd demonstrations for their own agenda. Note the government run broadcasting service BBC is using twitter feeds to promote unrest I saw this video on the BBC and thought you should see it: Coronavirus: Merseyside’s ‘forgotten street’ – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52930891 “Throughout the coronavirus crisis, we’ve seen the poorest communities hit the hardest. The death rates in the most deprived areas of England are more than double those in the most affluent. Now, Public Health England says the pandemic has, in some areas, deepened existing health inequalities.” White privilege? As with America, there are masses who have no privileges, white or black! Does this suggest that this is, in places, a secretly funded protest? We have had a week of it even in BELFAST …BELFAST ??? They don’t protest China, not on your life. Meanwhile China/Russia, they don’ even grip what China is all about!! Wel, here we go – wall to wall all day …and most likely into the night…This is a load of kids being used and the BBC leaning their usual far left to facilitate! I love this. People are allowed to protest and hang shoulder to shoulder, but they cannot work or in the UK even visit each other and stay overnight. Clearly, they should be able to do both. Honest, this is off the twitter feed BBC News — Don’t see many tweets re black lives matter… till now… June Gay Pride is cancelled. Black Lives Matter seems to be one way to get on the streets? This is in the Twitter feed BBC used. This is a paid for by the taxpayer funded UK main media outlet and… look whom they use. This is who B B C using in THEIR news LOOK AT WHOM THE B B C NEWS USE IN THEIR COVERAGE DOLLING OUT ADVISE AND PROPAGANDA TO PROTESTERS I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it: ‘It doesn’t matter which skin color you have’ – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52944606 Of course, from our own BBC propaganda station – wall to wall live coverage of further protests around the world. Children being used on the so-called “front line”. What would they understand? Human shields when the violence begins. China is about to take them over. They don’t care …. send them much bigger distractions – the virus. They don’t care. China is brutality murdering its own citizens by the millions over many years. They don’t care. Taking over territories, smashing Democracy in Hong Kong… etc. They don’t care What would this lot know… or care? Nothing to do and all day to do it in. Makes for very dangerous situations in idle hands!! Can we trust the Daily Star? If so, bald guys better wear a hat. Technically, based on methods used around the nation, and the world, George Floyd died of COVID-19 because his autopsy showed he had the virus when he was murdered. In some states, anyone who died with COVID-19 is listed as a COVID-19 death even if he or she died from something else. George Floyd died at the hands of the police. He happened to have COVID-19. It might have had an impact on his ability to breathe, but the fact of a murderous policeman having his knee on his neck for almost 9 minutes probably had a greater impact. Seems intelligent. Requiring all older people to wear face masks. Wearing a mask reduces intake of oxygen—and forces people to breathe in their own carbon dioxide. This often leaves them feeling faint, light-headed, or “smothered.” Less oxygen and more carbon dioxide are just what seniors need. Frank has a fiduciary duty as an editor to not make the articles and stories his autobiography. Which begs the question. Is Frank writing a memoir after his acquittal? We can only hope so. This sycophant says goodnight!!!! Ken Gibson says: Thanks for the info from the UK. I do fear that the protests will lead to an increase in COVID 19. That may be what PR China wants. Here in New York, I do protests outside the PR China consulate and only Frank Report covers it, despite the fact that I string and write for many papers including Guardian, NYT, NY Post, Independent, New Internationalist, Our Town, etc. PR China seems to be shielded from criticism, and such issues as 5G and the effectiveness of chloroquine are sidelined. I hope that COVID 19 does not strike again in the UK – I lived there for many years, many happy years. That’s interesting Ken, I’m an established contributor to the Education Guardian section, over three decades now. I was given my first commission by Ian Mays, who saved me from being sacked as an inefficient sub-editor. My god, how time flies. Frank, hahahaha, pussy. 2 comments barred because they reveal your ‘journalistic’ hypocrisy. Yada-yada free speech so long as its from the execrable shadow state or cock. Does this report exist because you had to deal with someone more corrupt than yourself? which you certainly did. Never thief from a thief right? Never grift from a grifter, especially if he’s got friends in um, high places. Wishing you justice in your up-coming case, at least as much ‘justice’ as Joe and John had to endure. Nothing more, nothing less. Anonymous Grace, thanks for wishing me justice. I expect it and will fight to get it. If you want to debate anything else about me, show your real name. I suppose I know you already which is why you are afraid to use your real name. Cowards like you are part of the burden of confronting evil. I doubt very much that I’m part of YOUR problem. I’m also no type of coward, old man. To understand who is meant, the sentence should be completed: “Wishing you justice in your up-coming case, at least as much ‘justice’ as Joe [O’Hara] and John [Tighe] had to endure. Nothing more, nothing less.” Frank, you have a sense of sarcasm because I assume you understood Grace’s comment. Justice is not something you have to endure. Justice is something that happens to you ‘rightly’. Justice has not been done to Joe O’Hara and John Tighe, only in a perverted form that has little to do with justice. Grace wishes you the opposite of justice. Maybe justice will be done for Grace. Let’s see what it looks like. No criminal excitement in my life, ever. Not much personal need for justice. We’ll see. It may come yet. There are others who demand justice, you are never alone. Dear Grace, You forgot the saying…. No honor amongst thieves. I think we all can guess who you are Grace………… Your writing and sentence structure and punctuation usage is a dead giveaway. I never alter my writing; it follows my thinking as is. Fantastic that you can all guess who I am, although I can’t imagine why it should be so interesting to you all, that you have somehow communicated and reached a consensus. You can wish cancer on contributors to the Frank Report, persistently, I mean really swear your way through the 1st amendment. But don’t attack the lunatic white supremacist clique currently waging a war against its citizens in the US. Of course, like the other responses and comments, this too will be withheld, for the purposes of your sick spin and frankly, because of that lame fact, I don’t give a damn. Grace, if you’re facing another nervous breakdown, avoid the Frank Report. It’s bad for your health. Tsk, This is just a website whose owner and some commenters get especially butt-hurt when receiving any criticism of the full-clown posse that has captured your republican party and state. white supremacy. Good luck with that. Frank runs low grade shit journalism to bore off anyone with more than a couple of braincells, that way his claim of fearless journalism, is just swallowed wholesale by his increasingly small pond of contributors. A bit like the modus operandi of the cult he brought to its knees. The Execrable Shadow State says: Since living in this “racist” country causes you so much pain, here is the Expedia web page for cheap flights to South Africa. https://www.expedia.com/Destinations-In-South-Africa.d165.Flight-Destinations Or would you prefer flying to Mexico City to hook up with NXIVM’s Omar Boone? Maybe Omar could brand you on the “pussy” like his old Master Raniere appreciated. https://www.expedia.com/Destinations-In-Mexico.d11131.Flight-Destinations The Execrable Shadow State This is nearly as brilliant as ‘An Irish Mother Writes.’ whatever happened to your um, ‘Belfast Correspondent’? However did you manage to find two completely inarticulate ‘correspondents’ from the UK? Reads like a standard failure of imagination. Anonymous Grace, if it bothers you so much, don’t read it. Shelve the comments till you have something to negatively spin. I must have got right under your white supremacist skin. Reading writing editorialized even on this site since 2017. Two responses! I must have really gotten to you. I had faith in the Frank Report which I’ve been contributing to, yes even in editorial, since 2017 and was a great defender of yours. Even had a Rainbow School shut down in my manor. But over the years, I’ve observed the way you treat the women and some men who you inveigle into your own cause with the promise of assisting them in their issues with Nxivm. I think you are doing all this to save your own skin. You are a full-blown apologist for a white supremacist government. While this may have heretofore been a popular position in your country to take, it won’t be for much longer. So sure, get all angry with me why don’t you, while allowing the most horrendous bullying (remember Heather?) and bullshit to stand as a matter of course, on this, you’re not so very Frank Report. Fully expect you to censor this as you generally do with comments that make you uncomfortable. Ha, how many times have I read a sentence like that and not given it any credence. Until now. Frank, clearly someone is holding a gun to Grace’s head and forcing her to read every word. You need gender sensitivity training. Corrupt Communist New York City Cops protect Looters and Arrest Innocent Bystanders. This is America’s Future under Communism. ANNA SLATZ: NYPD ignored looters, arrested bystanders — including me “Communist cops.” That’s terrible. What’s next? Communist Astronauts? Democratic Party Riots and Treason says: If the cops follow the orders of NYC’s Communist Mayor Bill DeBlasio, then they are Communists too. In NYC, it’s not a crime to riot, loot, and burn but it is a crime to report on it. Commie astronauts? Actually they are called cosmonauts. Natashka says: The only thing of interest in this is the hot naked guy Whites first, to the back of the line Natashka666. LOL This Christian Texan has first dibs on the man meat. LOL Scott’s ghost never said such thing. LOL Scott’s not Christian. LOL Very funny! Nataska Frank is finally appealing to his female readership and giving them some eye candy. I wonder how Frank came by that photo? Is that Claviger? 😉 That’s what I thought! Wow man skin at last on FR. Well, let’s not include a hairy KR and we have to rejoice his ass was never shown. I have to admit the hot naked guy gets less attractive when I read the post that accompanies it. Definitely not relationship material reading that self-pity. Maybe a one night stand if he promised to not speak until he was calling a cab. As a Brit myself I like to call the BBC the British Bias Corporation as they have become mostly the voice of the state. Their reporting on the true impact of Coronavirus has been shameful. The BBC tend to tell the truth only after everybody already else has. As regards George Floyd, I’ve posted my opinions already on other threads. Do you know Pyriel? Tell her I said hi. She and Natashka are the two most NORMAL commentators on the website. Hastily cobbled together copy fodder by a hastily cobbled together fictional character ‘By Amelia Florence Do better than that Frank. Hehehe “Grace” you are a LUNATIC and a Shill, you asshole!! Keep telling the TRUTH, Frank!! Actually atm, I’m a nurse. (this will never be printed!) London, England has a knife, acid attack and gang pandemic, with the perpetrators being n****. Look at the black crime rate in the UK and these cunts think their lives matter. On a side note, one in ten boys in London are called “Mohammed”. Disgusting. All darkies ever do is bring misery on the people they leach off. Also, the BBC is tax payer funded. Can you guess the racial group who predominantly funds it? Whites. Those cunts even had a n*** play Achilles in a bullshit tv series about the Greek legend Troy. Muslim rape gangs get away with it because the police and social workers are terrified of being called ‘racist’. These cunts say “silence is violence”. Well let’s talk about the nig-nogs, muslims and all the other privileged colords. Whether you are a Polish toilet cleaner, Greek NHS nurse, or Italian dishwasher, you are “privileged”. Fuck right off. Who Checks the Fact Checkers? In Brave New Big Tech World 5G Health Concerns Must Be Censored Alternative Perspective on the Deification of George Floyd: ‘Where Is My Memorial?’	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line754
__label__wiki	0.713429	0.713429	Month Archives: September 2015 Third Annual Ex-Gay Awareness Month to be Marked by “Safe Exit Summit” by Peter Sprigg Defenders of the truth that change is possible for those with same-sex attractions will mark the Third Annual Ex-Gay Awareness Month by gathering in the Washington, DC area for a “Safe Exit Summit” on Friday and Saturday, October 2 and 3. Dr. Michael L. Brown, host of The Line of Fire radio program and author of the books A Queer Thing Happened to America, Can You Be Gay and Christian? and the just-released Outlasting the Gay Revolution, will be the keynote speaker. Attorney Charles Limandri of the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund, who defended a Jewish ex-gay ministry in a New Jersey lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, is scheduled to receive an award. The Summit will also feature testimonies by individuals who have left homosexuality and entertainment by ex-gay Christian songwriter and singer Dennis Jernigan. The principal organizers of the Safe Exit Summit are Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX); Voice of the Voiceless; and Equality and Justice for All. Family Research Council is a supporting sponsor of the event. The “Safe Exit” term is drawn from a new program by PFOX to help churches to provide a safe space for those struggling with same-sex attractions, while also providing an exit for those who wish to escape the homosexual lifestyle. For more information and registration, visit the Summit website. President Obama: Patiently Chiseling Away at Religious Liberty by Travis Weber, J.D., LL.M. At a recent Democratic Party fundraiser, President Obama reportedly said: “We affirm that we cherish our religious freedom and are profoundly respectful of religious traditions … . But we also have to say clearly that our religious freedom doesn’t grant us the freedom to deny our fellow Americans their constitutional rights.” This is a perfect example of the incrementalism by which rights are diminished, relegated to second-class status, and eventually dismissed altogether. President Obama’s comment may sound innocuous on its face, but what he’s actually saying is the First Amendment is to be subjugated to his own vision of society as implemented through his own view of the Fourteenth Amendment — a view which for our nation’s entire history was never even seriously considered right up to a few years ago. It’s noteworthy that President Obama also publicly opposed same-sex marriage in the not-too-distant past — a fact which should tell us (and his current swooning supporters) something about his convictions. The “constitutional rights” to which he now so confidently refers are actually nonexistent in the text or meaning of the Constitution, only imposed on the nation through one ill-formed opinion of the Supreme Court. On the other hand, the First Amendment (which he fails to even mention) has plainly and openly provided protection as the first of our Bill of Rights for centuries (since the founding of our country), clearly protects wide-ranging and robust religious practice, speech, and action, explicitly protects the “free exercise” of religion (which protects far more than the “religious traditions” and “religious institutions” the president references), explicitly prevents the government from “establish[ing]” what citizens must believe (in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, the Court said, “no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein”), and has been consistently held by the courts to provide strong and wide-ranging protection from government interference and coercion in religious matters. Thus, with one off-putting comment, President Obama attempts to use “rights” which aren’t even mentioned in our primary written legal authority (the Constitution) to denigrate rights which are clearly protected by the first provision of the Bill of Rights of that same Constitution. As it’s said: “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” FRC’s Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin on The Dana Loesch Show by FRC Media Office Yesterday, FRC Vice President Lt. Gen. (Ret.-US Army) Jerry Boykin appeared on The Dana Loesch Show to discuss the recent situation involving the training of U.S. Marines in Afghanistan. They are being trained that rape in Afghanistan is a “cultural issue.” Senator Lee Response to NY Times Editorial on the First Amendment by Mandi Ancalle Earlier this month, the New York Times published an editorial regarding the First Amendment Defense Act (“FADA,” H.R. 2802 / S. 1598), alleging “G.O.P. anti-gay bigotry threatens [the] First Amendment.” However, FADA is neither bigoted nor a threat to the First Amendment. In fact, the editorial contains a number of misrepresentations and outright lies about the original bill that was introduced and fails to address the new language Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Congressman Raul Labrador (R-ID) are pushing. Senator Lee’s letter to the Editor briefly responded to the inflammatory Times editorial. In his letter, Senator Lee highlights that we “must come to these debates with tolerance and modesty.” Senator Lee also clarifies that the reason he is pushing for passage of FADA is that he is “concerned about what the solicitor general told the Supreme Court: that after Obergefell, the decision that legalized same-sex marriage, faith-based institutions providing valuable public services could lose their nonprofit status because of their now-heterodox beliefs about marriage. Without new protections provided by FADA, hospitals could lose Medicaid funding, and K-12 institutions could have their nonprofit status revoked.” Essentially, the impetus behind the First Amendment Defense Act is a fear of federal government persecution of believers, not outrage over gay rights. In fact, Senator Lee clarifies that FADA would not “negate federal anti-discrimination measures protecting gays and lesbians. To the contrary, the bill does not alter any civil rights protections, state or federal.” The bill simply says the federal government may not penalize, through tax policy or the grant and contracting processes, those who disagree with the Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling. The bill does not attempt to overturn the ruling, and, in fact, explicitly prevents a denial of federal benefits authorized under the Court’s new marriage definition. FADA is not an endorsement of discrimination—logically, a bill that explicitly prevents discrimination does not thereby also provide a “legal justification to discriminate.” The Times editorial presumes that same-sex couples must not only be allowed to be married, which the Court has ruled, but also that the government must force everyone to affirm that view. This view distorts a live and let live approach on the question of marriage, and makes clear the liberal left does not simply want to secure rights for people who identify as homosexual, but wants to punish those who disagree with the Supreme Court’s inclusion of same-sex couples in its new definition of marriage. Senators and Representatives should support and co-sponsor FADA to ensure people who believe in a natural view of marriage are not pushed into the periphery of society. Sexual Abuse of “Dancing Boys” in Afghanistan – Bacha Bazi and Its Impact on Americans Serving There by Chris Gacek In a significant article, the New York Times has broached the subject of the rampant sexual abuse of young children and teens by Afghan men. The story is tied to its reporting on the effects this has had on American forces in Afghanistan who have been told to ignore such acts – even if they occur in their presence or on military bases. As the story notes, in one example, “Dan Quinn was relieved of his Special Forces command after a fight with a U.S.-backed militia leader who had a boy as a sex slave chained to his bed.” His story and those of two other Americans is recounted. Apparently, there has been much personal and career damage caused by this amoral policy of non-intervention. As it turns out, in Afghanistan there is a ritualized form of sexual abuse called “bacha bazi” – or boy play. (The practice was supposedly banned under the Taliban, and it is nominally illegal under current Afghan law.) The boys are often trained to dance and dress as young girls before being used for sex. Some boys are just sodomized if they can’t learn these perverse geisha-like talents. An Afghan journalist, Najibullah Quraishi, produced a documentary, “The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan,” that was shown in London in late March 2010 (run time: 52 min; this version is available on vimeo.com). In the United States, a slightly longer and more polished production was aired on PBS’s Frontline in April 2010 under the same title. It can be found here. The nation needs to support the efforts of Reps. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) and Vern Buchanan (R-FL) who are trying to investigate this horrific practice and salvage the career of Sgt. First Class Charles Martland, a member of the Special Forces who joined Captain Quinn in beating up the Afghan who is reportedly a child-molesting commander. Pro-life leaders support Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act Arina Grossu, Director of FRC’s Center for Human Dignity, joins Sen. Lindsay Graham and other pro-life leaders in support of the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act — legislation that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, when unborn babies become susceptible to intense pain in the womb. President Obama: Insulting Friends, Placating Adversaries by Rob Schwarzwalder Today’s Washington Post carries one of the most remarkable and surprising op-eds that paper has published in a long time. Note: This op-ed is the paper’s own “voice,” not a piece by a columnist. Commenting on the Obama administration’s inclusion of “transgender activists, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop and a nun who criticizes church policies on abortion and euthanasia” in the welcoming ceremony planned for the Pope’s upcoming visit, the Post comments: What struck us as we read about this small controversy is the contrast between the administration’s apparent decision to risk a bit of rudeness in the case of the pope and its overwhelming deference to foreign dictators when similar issues arise. When Secretary of State John F. Kerry traveled to Havana to reopen the U.S. Embassy recently, he painstakingly excluded from the guest list any democrat, dissident or member of civil society who might offend the Castro brothers. And when Chinese President Xi Jinping comes to the White House next week, shortly after the pope leaves town, it’s a safe bet that he won’t have to risk being photographed with anyone of whom he disapproves. Chen Guangcheng, the courageous blind lawyer, for example, lives nearby in exile, but he probably won’t be at the state dinner. Neither will Falun Gong activists, democracy advocates or anyone else who might, well, give offense. The Obama administration argues that it will include many people of every background. Yet according to the Wall Street Journal, “The presence of these (controversial) figures is especially irritating, (a) Vatican official said, because it isn’t yet clear if the White House has invited any representatives of the U.S. anti-abortion movement, traditionally a high-priority cause for the U.S. bishops.” Read that, no one active in the pro-life movement is welcome to greet the head of the world’s largest pro-life organization. There will be some Evangelical leaders present at the event. U.S. News reports that they include “the Rev. Joel Hunter, an evangelical megachurch pastor from Florida who is a confidant of Obama on spiritual matters; the Rev. Leith Anderson, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, which represents about 40 conservative Christian denominations; and the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.” While it’s nice of the White House to include some Evangelicals, the inclusion of persons at overt and public odds with the teachings the Pope represents and the omission of others whose political activities — standing for the unborn and their mothers — are essential to Catholic teaching are startling. Remarkable: A stinging and blunt calling-on-the-carpet of an Administration far more concerned with advancing an aggressive “gay rights” agenda than defending religious liberty here at home or standing with those being horribly persecuted for their faith in repressive nations around the world. As I have written elsewhere, President Obama “cannot defend abroad what (he and his) administration … are working to erode here at home.” The willingness of this Administration to affront the leader of the world’s largest Christian tradition is an embarrassment to our country. It demonstrates a moral arrogance so profound as to be one of the few things that still surprises after nearly seven years of the President’s diligent efforts to, in his words, “transform the United States of America.” Insulting foreign friends while placating foreign adversaries strikes one as an unusual approach to advancing America’s national security and vital interests. Sadly, this Administration seems eager to do just that. Social Conservative Review: An Insider’s Guide to Pro-Family News September 18, 2015 Click here to subscribe to the Social Conservative Review One could not watch the Republican presidential candidate debate Wednesday evening, nor can one scan the headlines of today’s papers, without realizing that protecting the unborn has become one of the most decisive issues of our time. The horrific videos of Planned Parenthood personnel coldly discussing income from selling the body parts of the unborn have struck the conscience of the nation, and moved pro-life lawmakers to demand a complete end to federal funding of the abortion giant. FRC stands with them in this effort. As FRC President Tony Perkins has said, “FRC is demanding that Congress zero-out Planned Parenthood’s funding on a must-pass piece of legislation.” This is what legislation by U.S. Rep. Diane Black of Tennessee would do. As she wrote recently in National Review, her bill would “ultimately increase available funding to community health centers by $235 million during this one-year period. The legislation further prioritizes women’s health care over abortion by reallocating federal funding to the more than 13,000 facilities nationwide that provide preventive care to those who need it most and do not perform abortions.” Pro-life champions like U.S. Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona have offered legislation to curtail the destruction of unborn life. Rep. Franks, who spoke about his efforts yesterday at FRC, has authored the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (H.R. 3504), which is scheduled to be considered in the House over the next several days. And next week, the Senate will consider U.S. Sen. Lindsay Graham’s “Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act,” the House version of which was also authored by Rep. Franks. The bill, which has already passed the House, would protect unborn children from abortion in almost all cases for two reasons: one, as documented by the Director of FRC’s Center for Human Dignity, Arina Grossu, these little ones feel pain — intensely. And two, they have inherent value as little lives created by a loving God. FRC will never compromise our commitment to those whose precious, God-given lives are treated by the abortion industry merely as revenue sources and saleable commodities. The image of God they bear, from conception onward, calls us to defend them. Protecting unborn babies and their mothers from the predatory abortion industry is one of the highest callings of our time. Affirming the value of life is a privilege. And we can rejoice that in our time, we have the honor of standing for it. Rob Schwarzwalder Senior Vice-President P.S. Are you coming to FRC’s annual Values Voter Summit? It’s not too late to register to hear leading presidential candidates and key conservative leaders lay-out their agendas for the coming year. And don’t miss Chelsen Vicari’s excellent review of Tony Perkins’ important new book, No Fear. “Free to Believe” – Kim Davis: The Issues of Accommodation and Burden – Rob Schwarzwalder, FRC Kim Davis Faces “Seemingly Impossible Choice” (Liberty Counsel) – Mat Staver, Liberty Counsel Connect Judge orders Kim Davis released from jail – Kate Scanlon, Daily Signal Victory for Chaplain Wes Modder Could Send Waves of Freedom Throughout Military – Liberty Institute First a Clerk, Now a Judge: Oregon Jurist Under Investigation for Refusing to Perform Same-Sex Weddings – David French, National Review ’Lawless’ in Kentucky - Dr. John Eastman, National Review International Religious freedom- We need the U.S. Commission on International Religious Liberty – Rob Schwarzwalder, The Stream The Double Standard and Foreign Policy – Herbert London, WAMC Marriage Licensing– Bill to abolish marriage licenses dies in Alabama House – Mike Carson, AL.com ‘Spouse’ and ‘spouse’ replaces ‘bride’ and ‘groom’ on Florida marriage licenses - Adrienne Cutway, Orlando Sentinel Religious Liberty in the public square – Favoring some claims of conscience over others – Travis Weber, Washington Times Texas Supreme Court to Houston Mayor: Let your People Vote! – Travis Weber, Townhall Navy Chaplain Exonerated From Possible Discharge After Expressing Biblical Beliefs on Homosexuality - Samuel Smith, Christian Post Why We’re Losing Liberty – Robert George, Prager University Want a vibrant public square? Support religious tax exemptions – John Inazu, Washington Post U.S. Senator Mike Lee discusses future of tax-exempt status for churches – Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod Planned Parenthood and Abortion in the States: Good News in the Battle for Life – Rob Schwarzwalder, ChristianHeadlines.com 10th Planned Parenthood Video Reveals Strategy To Hide Organ-Trafficking Involvement – Bre Payton, The Federalist Keeping the Spotlight on Planned Parenthood – Stephen J. Heaney, Public Discourse Office Depot’s ‘Apology’ To Pro-Lifers Could Use Some Major Work – Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist Sen. Mike Lee Says Exactly What Americans Needs To Hear On Planned Parenthood – The Federalist Staff, The Federalist States Should Follow Wisconsin’s Lead And Ban ‘Research’ On Aborted Babies – Bre Payton, The Federalist Whistleblower Raises More Questions About Planned Parenthood – Amy Otto, The Federalist A Down Syndrome Prediction Shouldn’t Be A Death Sentence – Rachel Mullen, The Federalist She aborted her baby. Now she’s sharing her photo to warn other women not to do the same. – Sarah Terzo, LifeSite Race and Margaret Sanger - Paul Kengor, Spectator.org Planned Parenthood’s California Counsel - Steven Greenhut, City Journal On Abortion, Medical Science is Still Waiting to be Heard - Philip Hawley, Jr., Public Discourse A Timely Model: Abolitionist William Wilberforce and the Pro-Life Movement – Ryan Hoselton, Gospel Coalition WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT ADOPTION – Elizabeth Kirk, First Things Raped, living in her car, mom makes bold choice for adoption - Robin Keahey, LiveActionNews.com Federal funding of abortion Four Ways the Senate could end Taxpayer Funding of Planned Parenthood - Kelsey Harkness, Daily Signal Pastors in John Boehner’s District Encourage him to be bold and Defund Planned Parenthood - Kate Scanlon, Daily Signal Senate Will Vote Next Week on Pro-Life Bill Banning Late-Term Abortions After 20 Weeks - Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com FACING THE UNBORN – Richard Stith, First Things Healthcare conscience Overnight Healthcare: Senate leaders eye vote on late-term abortion ban - Sarah Ferris and Peter Sullivan, The Hill Five federal judges rebuke court: don’t tell the Little Sisters how to be Catholic – EWTN News Families Brace for Steep Hikes [in ObamaCare] - Grace-Marie Turner, Galen.org House Republicans Just Got a Big Win in Their Lawsuit Against Obamacare – Peter Suderman, Reason Family Economics Families need Congress to renew tax credits - Karen Barsell, Reno Gazette-Journal The Marriage Tax Penalty: What Couples Should Know Before Tying the Knot - Kimberly Parr, How Money Walks Human Sexuality (Homosexual/ gender issues) Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom – FRC Lecture with Ryan Anderson Evangelicals will not be surrendering to the sexual revolution – Russell Moore, First Things How Many Gay Marriages? – Bryan Ballas, Juicy Ecumenism At What Point Does the Homosexual Agenda Become a National Religion? – Daniel Horowitz, Conservative Review Photographing Human Trafficking in New York – Evelyn Nieves, The New York Times There Is No School for Millions of Working Children Worldwide - Tony Magliano, Christian Post End Child Pornography: Enforce Adult Pornography Laws – Patrick A. Trueman, The Public Discourse 10 Lies You Must Affirm in Order to Look at Porn – Jared H. Moore, Canon and Culture Sexual Exploitation Summit Takes on Predatory Porn Industry and Victims of Child Porn – Ray Nothstein, Christian Post Pro-Marriage divorce reform What’s Driving the Marriage Divide? — Rachel Sheffield, Public Discourse Millennials are killing the institution of marriage? Not so fast - Meeri Kim, Philly Voice “Fuller Seminary Takes a Stand” That’s the title of a new piece in First Things by the distinguished New Testament scholar Dr. Robert Gagnon. Dr. Gagnon, a professor at Pittsburg Theological Seminary, spoke at FRC on the Bible’s teaching on homosexuality last year and we honor him for his careful, judicious, and thorough teaching concerning what Scripture says about human sexuality. Today he reports that California’s Fuller Seminary has “decided not to offer tenure to a New Testament professor, J. R. Daniel Kirk, whose view of marriage does not comport with Jesus’s view.” He notes that while this must not have been an easy decision, it was an important and necessary one: “Had Fuller set a precedent of embracing faculty whose position toward sexual ethics was so at odds with Jesus’s own, it would soon have ceased to be an evangelical institution.” He is right. And despite calls by some on the Left that schools like Fuller should lose accreditation, federal student loan eligibility, or even tax exempt status, Dr. Gagnon reminds us that the cost of following Jesus is such that any temporal loss is worth accepting if it comes as a result of following Him faithfully. As he writes: “American Evangelical, Orthodox, and Catholic colleges and seminaries will face greater challenges in the not-too-distant future if they do not bend the proverbial knee to the unconstitutional, new state definition of marriage. They will be threatened with lawsuits and loss of accreditation. Their students will be denied access to federal student loans. This will happen for ‘discriminating’ not only against faculty supporters of ‘gay marriage’ but also against homosexually active job applicants. Eventually sanctions may be imposed even for permitting faculty to teach or write against homosexual practice. Yet no matter what comes, we must heed Jesus’s exhortation to ‘estimate the cost’ of being his faithful disciple and of ‘carrying one’s own cross’ (Luke 14:27-28).” Sen. Mike Lee’s Senate Speech on Planned Parenthood U.S. Sen. Mike Lee’s eloquent speech on Planned Parenthood in the Senate last week deserves wide distribution. Here is a short excerpt; speaking of the videos released by the Center for Medical Progress, the Senator said: The evidence points to only one conclusion: Planned Parenthood really does these horrifying things—and makes money at it, and laughs about it over lunch. But aside from the primary evidence, Mr. President, do you know how else we know it’s true? Because if it were false, we would know for sure. The mainstream media—Big Abortion’s loudest shoe-banger of them all—would be thundering Planned Parenthood’s vindication from every headline, every home page, every network satellite. If the videos were false, Mr. President—if a pro-life group somehow fabricated this narrative of Planned Parenthood’s greed, barbarism, and cruelty—it would be a story. Who are we kidding? It would be the story: a career-making scoop, with fame and Pulitzer Prizes and lucrative book deals and speaking tours awaiting the journalist who broke it. And yet, if you open a newspaper, click on the legacy media sites, and turn on the news… nothing. The major networks have gone dark on the videos over the last month. And major newspapers have scrubbed the scandal from their front pages. Why the silence? Simple. They know it’s true, too. 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__label__cc	0.636201	0.363799	The Division 2: How to Recalibrate Equipment? Usama Naveed In The Division 2, you might need to recalibrate your equipment to make your gear stronger. Not sure how to recalibrate equipment? Read on to find out how. In The Division 2, you can recalibrate equipment at the Recalibration Station. To start recalibrating equipment, you will need to recruit Emma Richards as well. After reaching recruiting Emma Richards, you can use the Recalibration Stations which is located in the White House. What is the Recalibration Station in The Division 2? The Recalibration Stations in The Division 2 allows you to recalibrate your equipment. You can change the talents on your weapons making your gear stronger and suit your playing style. However, this is not available on all equipment but only on high rarity equipment. How to Calibrate your equipment in The Division 2? When you’re at the Recalibration Station in The Division 2, in order to select the equipment you want to improve, open the Open Category option at the Recalibration Station. Then head into weapons inventory if you want to improve a weapon and select the weapon. When you have selected the weapon, you can then select the talent you want to replace and it opens up the option where you can replace it with talent from another weapon. It’s important to add that only one talent can be taken from an item and talents are transferred between equipment of the same category, for example, transferring between a sniper rifle to a sniper rifle. What happens to the weapon you take the talent from in The Division 2? In order to take the talent from any equipment, it needs to be deconstructed. So, the item is useless after the talent is taken. How to Get Nemesis Sniper Rifle This is all on Recalibration of equipment in The Division 2. If you have any more queries then leave a comment below. The Division 2 is now available on Xbox One, PS4 and PC. Massive Entertainment PC PS4 Tom Clancy's The Division 2 Ubisoft Xbox One Apex Legends: What are Wattson’s Abilities? Apex Legends: Hitbox Sizes Changed After Update Apex Legends: Mirage’s Ultimate Given a Huge Buff Fortnite: How to Merge Fortnite Accounts? Days Gone: What are Crater Lake Horde Locations? Days Gone: How to Fix FPS Drop Bug	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line759
__label__wiki	0.777191	0.777191	Patty Jenkins, Chris Pine and Gal Gadot Share ‘Wonder Woman 84’ Footage & Talk Building on the Success of ‘Wonder Woman’ at SDCC Britany Murphy July 21, 2018 Leave a Comment One of the most highly anticipated San Diego Comic Con panels is happening right now and it’s the Warner Bros. DCEU panel. With Aquaman and Shazam! now just around the corner, fans were also hoping to get a look at the second Wonder Woman film. Ask and ye shall receive. Director Patty Jenkins and stars Gal Gadot and Chris Pine were in attendance and chatted about the upcoming film, answered some fan questions and even screened a little bit of footage from Wonder Woman 1984. Chris Pine, Patty Jenkins & Gal Gadot at San Diego Comic Con 2018 (via Patty Jenkins’ Twitter) According to Deadline, the footage shown that was shown in the famed Hall H comprised of: “Wonder Woman flying into a mall, rescuing a cute kid and disarming a couple of gun wielding thugs.” When Jenkins spoke about the film, she said: “One of my fave things about making the original was that it took place during WWI, in 1917, an era full of metaphors like modernity and the mechanized world. I grew up in the 80s, and this has its own look and feel. The reason I am excited is it showed mankind at its best and worst. It was grand and wonderful, there was great music and there were elegant and beautiful things. But other things about the decade revealed the worst of us. To have Wonder Woman in that period of time that was us at our most extreme, is wonderful.” Both Gadot and Jenkins do not exactly see Wonder Woman 1984 as a sequel. Gadot said, “The way we look at this is not a sequel, it’s a new chapter, it’s a new story.” Jenkins followed up Gadot’s reply with, “I never want to do more of anything for the wrong reason…I don’t want to go to that place of ‘how do you keep it going and cash in?’ in my head. I have these characters that I love and this world that I love and we can make a whole new movie that’s completely unique and as strong as the first one? Of course I want to do that. But it’s not ‘more’ of anything, even though it’s evocative of everything that happened to the first one.” Are you excited for Wonder Woman 1984? Be sure to let us know your thoughts in the comment section below. Wonder Woman 1984 has a current release date of November 1, 2019. Sources: Deadline & CBR Published by Britany Murphy Twitter & Instagram: @britany_murphs Freelance photographer, artist and writer. Sidenote: I have a love for all things nerdy, artistic, literary and musical. View all posts by Britany Murphy Chris Pine, DCEU, featured, News, Patty Jenkins, warner bros, Wonder Woman 2 Geoff Johns Explains Robin’s Contempt for Batman in ‘Titans’ Trailer Lobo Debuting in Live-Action as Villain in Season 2 of ‘Krypton’	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line760
__label__cc	0.602312	0.397688	Posts Tagged ‘Islamophobia’ Wednesday Links! * A lost eighth continent was recently discovered underneath the Mediterranean region of Southern Europe, but it’s all pretty boring actually. * How the US built the world’s largest immigrant detention system. A list of companies that contract with ICE. * Checking in on Duke and UNC under siege. * 2019 Genius Grant awardees, including Lynda F’ing Barry. * Only an English major can prepare you with the psychic resilience needed to endure a lifetime under capitalism. * Allegations of white supremacy are tearing apart a prestigious medieval studies group. The Whitesplaining of History Is Over. * The kids are all right: Students protest demonstration policy, deliver letter to Zilber. Inspiring photos of @MarquetteU's undergrads protesting investments in fossil fuels and Puerto Rican debt. @PresLovell should have divested from Baupost a long time ago! #solidarity from #MUnion pic.twitter.com/hv5SVL0j4w — Tom 🌹 (@TomHansberger) September 24, 2019 * Student activists at UNC Chapel Hill have created a text alert system that warns the campus when racist groups are nearby. * Wisconsin students make up smallest share of UW-Madison freshman class in at least 25 years. The Great Decline. * And on the China and college beat: US universities see decline in students from China. China’s Higher-Ed Ambitions Are at Odds With Its Tightening Grip on Academic Freedom. * Impacts ‘accelerating’ as leaders gather for UN talks. Earth’s Oceans Are Getting Hotter And Higher, And It’s Accelerating. ‘Unprecedented Conditions’ Will Rule the Oceans This Century, Striking New Report Finds. The African Congo Is Quietly Being Deforested As The Amazon Rainforest Burns. Scientists Set Out to Drift With Arctic Ice for a Year to Study Climate Change. On white supremacy and green living. The Environmental Movement Needs to Reckon with Its Racist History. This is daytime. Nation Perplexed By 16-Year-Old Who Doesn’t Want World To End. “You’re So Accustomed to the Erasure and the Normalization of Catastrophism.” Turns out the hippies were right about almost everything and no one will ever admit it even if it means the f'ing species dying out. — David Roberts (@drvox) September 24, 2019 young people telling septuagenarians how much they despise them for what they did to the planet is good, actually * It’s called M-Journal, and it will help you convince your professor that you’re citing a real academic source. * Shoulda been Bruce. * Can a burger help solve climate change? * The Bible may have a naming discrepancy, and a Duke researcher plans to correct it. * I might have done this one already, but what the hell: Le Guin’s work is distinctive not only because it is imaginative, or because it is political, but because she thought so deeply about the work of building a future worth living. * A real “hold my beer” moment for neoliberalism: A doctor and medical ethicist, who happens to be Rahm Emmanuel’s brother, argues life after 75 is not worth living. * Time travel is real y’all. * Chris Ware, whose Rusty Brown is finally out, about which I am very excited, celebrates Peanuts. * Epic Disasters: Revisiting Marvel & DC’s 1980s Famine Relief Comics. * What Ad Astra Gets Wrong About Space Travel, Astronomy, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life. * Normal society that is definitely normal and good. * Autism aesthetics. * Die a villain, or live long enough to rebound as a hero. * Will Google’s quantum computing breakthrough change everything? * The 50 Best Video Games of the 21st Century. Surprisingly solid #1 and #2 picks. * And I’d like to see Ol Donny Trump wriggle out of this jam! Impeachment step by step. 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Le Guin, white supremacy, Wikipedia, Wisconsin Monday Night Links! * Navajos on Mars: Native Sci-fi Film Futures. * They’re renaming the Tiptree Award after all. From Julie Phillips: On Tiptree and naming. * The Tragedy of GJ237b: A Role-Playing Game for No Players. * Happy 82nd Birthday to The Hobbit. And from the archives, in celebration: The Most Metal Deaths in Middle-earth, Ranked. Happy #HobbitDay! It’s the canonical birthday of Bilbo Baggins. Our collection includes the only known copy of a play adaptation of The Hobbit by Joanna Russ, written in 1959 when she was a playwriting grad student at Yale. pic.twitter.com/i5XQc1tZqV — Browne Pop Culture Library @ BGSU (@BGSU_PopCultLib) September 22, 2019 * Students protest climate change, MU demonstration policy. * Essay mills are using TurnItIn to prove they’re selling original content. * Terrible, if inevitable: Grad Students at Private Colleges Could Lose the Right to Unionize. * Got Shakespeare? What about Milton on Shakespeare? * The university in ruins in Buffalo. * Humanities ‘risk becoming cherry on top’ of other disciplines. Thinking of writing a Chronicle op-ed claiming that the liberal arts are necessary because they cultivate habits of ironic critical distance from one's own convictions, which are necessary for future middle-managers to carry out their orders and still live with themselves. — Adam Kotsko (@adamkotsko) September 18, 2019 * “University of Wisconsin Madison, which announced last year it would open joint research campus with Foxconn in 2020, is well behind its original promise.” * The Problem with Sugar-Daddy Science. * Today in actual threats to free speech: U.S. Orders Duke and U.N.C. to Recast Tone in Mideast Studies. * The Trump administration’s crackdown on campus criticism of Israel is Orwellian. * New Mexico Announces Plan for Free College for State Residents. * Johns Hopkins Ends ICE Contracts. * Long-hidden documents reveal the University of Texas’s blueprint for slowing integration during the civil rights era. * Can’t believe MOOCs didn’t work. * Don’t teach, strike! * Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard. * Is Meritocracy Hurting Higher Education? * Academia’s Holy Warriors: How a network of Catholic intellectuals is making the case against liberalism. * To Protect Your Faculty from Right-Wing Attacks, Follow the Money. * US academic given two weeks to leave UK after eight years. * Thoughts on the planetary: An interview with Achille Mbembe. * 80 Years Ago, a Football Powerhouse Ditched the Sport as a ‘Crass’ Distraction. Why Haven’t More Colleges Followed Suit? * A new issue of Analog Game Studies is up. * #NotMyAriel. * On Dark Matter and White Empiricism. * CFP: UW Women and Gender Studies Consortium Call for Proposals: Resistance and Reimagination. CFP: U Chicago Grad Student Symposium: Race and Capitalism Defined. * Actually, Gender-Neutral Pronouns Can Change a Culture. * A Brief History of Trans Philosophy. * Dear Disgruntled White Plantation Visitors. * We Didn’t Stand a Chance Against Opioids. * Most American teens are frightened by climate change, poll finds, and about 1 in 4 are taking action. It’s right to be scared, says top UK scientist. Climate change is morally wrong. It is time for a carbon abolition movement. Millions Of Young People Around The World Are Leading Strikes To Call Attention To The Climate Crisis. ‘We will make them hear us.’ Best Protest Signs From the Global Youth Walkouts. How to be Young in a Climate Emergency. I have a dream that the powerful take the climate crisis seriously. The time for their fairytales is over. ‘You’re not trying hard enough. Sorry.’ This is all wrong. Why Greta is Good. 2018 \| 2019 pic.twitter.com/zH0vNClPRQ — James Shield (@jshield) September 20, 2019 Greta Thunberg at #UNGA: "This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you come to us young people for hope. How dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words." Via ABC pic.twitter.com/NudonxKNss — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 23, 2019 * Only a Green New Deal can douse the fires of eco-fascism. * Hello From the Year 2050. We Avoided the Worst of Climate Change — But Everything Is Different. * It’s Kids vs. the World in a Landmark New Climate Lawsuit. * Does Science Fiction Have a Moral Imperative to Address Climate Change? * To decarbonize we must decomputerize: why we need a Luddite revolution. * Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns. * Elsewhere in headlines from the Anthropocene: SF’s Treasure Island, poised for building boom, escaped listing as Superfund site. * Faster Than We Thought: What Stories Will Survive Climate Change? * ‘Worse Than Anyone Expected’: Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions. Only 8 People in This Indigenous Tribe Still Speak Their Native Language. The Amazon Fires May Wipe It Out Completely. North America Has Lost a Quarter of Its Birds in Fifty Years. ‘Opening the Door to Hell Itself’: Bahamas Confronts Life After Hurricane Dorian. ‘This situation brings me to despair’: two reef scientists share their climate grief. Exposing The Myth Of Plastic Recycling: Why A Majority Is Burned Or Thrown In A Landfill. America’s Nuclear Power Plants Were Not Built for Climate Change. America’s Great Climate Exodus Is Starting in the Florida Keys. 9 Oldest Trees in Africa, Some Over 2,000-Years-Old, Now Dead. The Capitalocene. sometimes I think the most fictive aspect of post-apocalyptic stories is the idea that we're going to have the benefit of a clear before and after rather than a perpetual enervating slide into more and more misery — Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) September 17, 2019 Signs and impacts of climate change speeding up, latest science says: -> Sea-level rise accelerating from 3.2mm per year since 1993 to 5mm per year ->5-year period from 2014 to 2019 warmest on record ->Temperatures up by 1.1°C since 1850, 0.2°C just between 2011 and 2015 pic.twitter.com/2O0OV0zAER — Assaad Razzouk (@AssaadRazzouk) September 22, 2019 What's striking is this younger generation seems to be arriving at "Oh, wait, how about instead we meet just outside the village, regroup, go back to Omelas and get that kid out of the fucking basement." — John Rogers (@jonrog1) September 20, 2019 * That’ll solve it: Following the lead of Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a former 2020 contender, many candidates have set a target date for, at minimum, requiring all new passenger vehicles be zero-emission: Sen. Kamala Harris of California and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg put it at 2035, for example, while Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts aim for 2030. * Simpsons did it. "Haven't you heard? Communism is awful, millions died." "But haven't millions died under capitalism too?" "Yes, but under capitalism poor people deserve to die." — Existential Comics (@existentialcoms) September 18, 2019 * “How did the Army exceed its recruiting goals this year? It was the student loan crisis, not the wars, service leaders say.” * The Student Debt Problem Is a Family Crisis. * The Electoral College Really Does Give Republicans a Massive Advantage in Close Elections, a New Paper Finds. * The Case Against the Popular Vote. * More voters are registering than dying — but differences by state could shape 2020. * Elizabeth Warren’s Crusade Against Corruption. * I think people are severely underestimating the likelihood that Hunter Biden was involved in Bad Stuff in either Ukraine, or China, or both. found a good meme on facebook pic.twitter.com/7ArsBwe9o7 — whatever forever (@wrong_rachel) September 22, 2019 * It’s Not Just Millennials — Gen Z Is Dealing With A Lot Of Debt Now Too. Wisconsin remains in the top ten states in the nation for the percentage of graduates with student loan debt. * Elsewhere in everyone being super broke. Millennials believe they’ll die before they retire. America has two economies—and they’re diverging fast. * WeWork and the Great Unicorn Delusion. * How Boeing’s Managerial Revolution Created the 737 Max Disaster. * Sandy Hook parents release chilling ‘back to school’ PSA. * ‘Fantasy Island’: How the American Dream fueled Puerto Rico’s decline. * In 2007, 47 dogs were rescued from an illegal dogfighting ring organized by NFL quarterback Michael Vick. They could have been euthanized. Instead, they became family pets. * She Quit Her Job. He Got Night Goggles. They Searched 57 Days for Their Dog. * New York Judge Fines Landlord $17,000 for Threatening to Call ICE on Tenant. * But Milwaukee’s 30-year voucher experiment has not yielded results that are clearly better than the public schools. * King of Kong sequel shaping up nicely. * This game should be illegal. * This question about art predicts Trump support better than educational attainment. * There’s a shortage of perfect movies in this world. It would be a pity to damage this one. * Emma Thompson’s new movie The Lost Girls paints Peter Pan as the villain he’s always been. * Watching Toy Story 4 I simply assumed this was how the movie would end, and was shocked when it didn’t. * Saved by the Bell: The New Class: The New Class. * How Wes Anderson Makes Films. * We needed the X-Men, and now — thank the mutant gods — they’re back. * Since the 1940s, professional clowns Copyright their faces by painting them on eggs. There’s a Clown Egg Registry in London, England. Since the 1940s, professional clowns Copyright their faces by painting them on eggs. There's a Clown Egg Registry in London, England pic.twitter.com/h9eXthxbCC — 41 Strange (@41Strange) September 18, 2019 * Why do people believe the Earth is flat? Why don’t we agree on the urgency of climate change? Because of a moneyed conspiracy to make us doubt it. Why did we let a single family amass riches greater than the Rockefellers while peddling OxyContin and claiming it wasn’t addictive? Because of a moneyed conspiracy. Why do some 737s fall out of the sky? Why are our baby-bottles revealed to be lined with carcinogenic plastics? Why do corrupt companies get to profit by consorting with the world’s most despicable dictators? Conspiracies. In other words: Big Tech doesn’t have a mind-control ray, but it does have an incredibly sophisticated people-finding machine, and if you’re looking for people who might believe in your conspiracy, it helps if there’s a massive pool of people around who’ve been battered (and had their lives irreparably harmed) by conspiracies. * What the Apps That Bring Food to Your Door Mean for Delivery Workers. * China forcefully harvests organs from detainees, tribunal concludes. * Industrial agriculture and #MeToo. * A 6-Year-Old Girl Was Arrested After Throwing A Tantrum. * Look at this incredibly over-the-top unveiling for Staples new logo. * How the Black Turtleneck Came to Represent Creative Genius. * How pencils are made. * How TikTok Holds Our Attention. * How a sneaky asteroid escaped detection. * How we invest in our cities is broken. * We’ve Reached Peak Wellness. Most of It Is Nonsense. * Why Jeffrey Epstein Loved Evolutionary Psychology. * Purdue Pharma, Maker of OxyContin, Files for Bankruptcy. * Graffiti That Helps You See Through Walls. * So, the Navy just admitted the Blink-182 guy leaked actual UFO footage. * A Lunar Space Elevator Is Actually Feasible & Inexpensive, Scientists Find. * The Socialists Who Think Revolution Will Come When the Aliens Get Here. * How a ‘Sesame Street’ Muppet became embroiled in a controversy over autism. * Artificial Intelligence Confronts a ‘Reproducibility’ Crisis. * MIT Media Lab Kept Regulators in the Dark, Dumped Chemicals in Excess of Legal Limit. * An Alzheimer’s vaccine? * How an online gag about storming the military base became a real-life drama involving a rural town, the government, and frequent evocations of the Fyre Festival. * Impossible Burgers Aren’t Healthy, and That’s the Whole Point. * Meet Shampoodler, the podcast and Twitch superfan who’s the future of fandom in interactive media. * Frozen II just remains inscrutable to me. Disney: Here's the Frozen 2 trailer! It starts with a flashback to Anna and Elsa's parents! Me: Are they being chastised for years of emotional abuse? Disney: …no, but here's a man who might be Elsa's love interest! Me: pic.twitter.com/RpJeZzBZ79 — Abigail Nussbaum (@NussbaumAbigail) September 23, 2019 * Aron Eisenberg, the Actor Who Played Nog on Deep Space Nine, Has Died. * Hey, God, which beings are conscious? * And I’ve been saying it for years: Scrabble is broken. Tagged with #MeToo, 737 Max, academic freedom, Achille Mbembe, Africa, air travel, aliens, Alzheimer's disease, America, animal intelligence, animals, apocalypse, Area 51, artificial intelligence, asteroids, autism, Boeing, Buffalo, capitalism, Catholicism, CBP, CFPs, charter schools, China, class struggle, climate change, climate grief, climate strike, clowns, college footballs, college sports, comics, communism, consciousness, conspiracy theories, copyright, Cory Doctorow, cultural preservation, democracy, Democrats, deportation, Disney, dogs, Donald Trump, drugs, Duke, ecology, Electoral College, electric cars, Elizabeth Warren, English departments, essays, evolutionary psychology, fast food, film, first contact, flat Earthers, Florida, Florida Keys, Foxconn, free college, free speech, Frozen II, games, games studies, gender, Generation Z, genius, gig economy, graffiti, Green New Deal, Greta Thunberg, Groundhog Day, guns, Harvard, High Line, How the University Works, Hunter Biden, Hurricane Dorian, ice, Impossible Burger, indigenous futurism, industrial agriculture, Islamophobia, Israel, James Tiptree Jr., Jeffrey Epstein, Joanna Russ, Joe Biden, John Milton, Johns Hopkins, kids today, King of Kong, Koch brothers, language, legacy admissions, logos, Lord of the Rings, Luddites, Marquette, Marvel, mass shootings, meritocracy, Michael Vick, military-industrial complex, military-industrial-academic complex, millennials, Milwaukee, MIT Media Lab, modern art, MOOCs, Muppets, names, necropolitics, neoliberalism, New Mexico, New York, NLRB, nuclear power, opioids, organ theft, Orwell, over-educated literary theory PhDs, OxyContin, Palestine, pencils, Peter Pan, physics, plagiarism, plantations, podcasts, politics, popular vote, Posadism, Princess Bride, protest, Puerto Rico, race, racism, recycling, reproducibility crisis, Republicans, resistance, retirement, revolution, San Francisco, Sandy Hook, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Saved by the Bell, scams, school-to-prison pipeline, science, science fiction, Scrabble, sea level rise, Sesame Street, Shakespeare, Shampoodler, since the dawn of time man has yearned to destroy the sun, socialism, space elevator, standardized testing, Star Trek, Star Trek: Deep Space 9, strikes, student debt, student movements, Superfund sites, the afterlife, the Amazon, the Anthropocene, the Bahamas, the Capitalocene, The Hobbit, the humanities, the kids are all right, The Little Mermaid, The Lost Girls, The Princess Bride, The Simpsons, the truth is out there, the university in ruins, TikTok, Tiptree award, Tolkien, Toy Story 4, trans* issues, trees, TurnItIn, Two Americas, UFOs, Ukraine, UNC, unions, University of Buffalo, University of Texas, University of Wisconsin, vaccines, war on education, wellness, Wes Anderson, WeWork, white people, Wisconsin, X-Men * Marquette now requires permission for on-campus protests. An Open Letter Opposed to Marquette U.’s Anti-Demonstration Policy. Two aspect of Marquette's new protest policy worth noting: 1) All protests must be approved by the administration and in the designated protest era. This recalls the "free speech zones" of the Trump era. Essentially: denude protest of power by hiding it. pic.twitter.com/zh8aG9ztUm — Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) August 28, 2019 * Elsewhere in academics behaving badly: Professors rally behind MIT Media Lab director after Epstein funding scandal. * The Quantitative Easing of the Humanities. The dangerous essence of the humanities is loyal criticism of the institutions one serves. — William Pannapacker (@pannapacker) August 27, 2019 * Most-Expensive 4-Year Private Nonprofit Institutions, 2018-19. Impressive for Harvey Mudd to be so committed to that last three dollars to tick just over $75,000/year. * College Board Drops Its ‘Adversity Score’ For Each Student After Backlash. * New analysis finds that education researchers, unlike scholars in many other disciplines, don’t check one another’s work. * Academia: A Life. ✍ by @tomgauld pic.twitter.com/FQ3EkVW12M — New Scientist (@newscientist) August 26, 2019 * The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials. * I just knew it would be something like this. * As e-scooters take over Milwaukee streets, other cities reckon with injured riders, scarce helmet use. * This Professor Compared a Columnist to a Bedbug. Then the Columnist Contacted the Provost. A Q&A With the Man Who Called Bret Stephens a Bedbug. Bret Stephens’s “bedbug” meltdown, explained. Who Gets to Speak Freely? Aaron Bady goes all the way back to 2005 for a good old-fashioned blog post. Rorschach's journal, August 27, 2019: “Time to do what I long ago promised to do. Twitter is a sewer. It brings out the worst in humanity. I sincerely apologize for any part I’ve played in making it worse, and to anyone I’ve ever hurt. Thanks to all of my followers, but I’m deact the thing you have to understand is that university administrations absolutely despise faculty and will gleefully seek out any opportunity to hurt them no matter how petty or embarrassing https://t.co/VZ1b9PotBD * Speaking of the mystery of free speech: Incoming Harvard Freshman Deported After Visa Revoked. “When I asked every time to have my phone back so I could tell them about the situation, the officer refused and told me to sit back in [my] position and not move at all,” he wrote. “After the 5 hours ended, she called me into a room , and she started screaming at me. She said that she found people posting political points of view that oppose the US on my friend[s] list.” * Southern California police arrest 3 middle school students for inciting a riot. * Journalism Is an Action. * Photos: The Burning Amazon Rainforest. The basic premise of geoengineering is that it will be easier to get the planetary atmospheric and ecological systems to change the way they work than to get the capitalist economy to change the way it works. It is immoral to have climate change in the era of babies. Wildfires and Floods Push Russia to Revise Its Stance on Climate Change. Let’s just spray trillions of tons of snow on Antarctica? it cost $350 million to make Avengers: Endgame https://t.co/WOdh4fEcxN — flglmn (@flglmn) August 26, 2019 The US spends $32 million on its wars – per hour. https://t.co/0oetA6fFod — Amir (@AmirAminiMD) August 26, 2019 That’s what climate change is. https://t.co/ooGMmSbIw7 * The Affair, climate change, and the new realism. * Florida Marine vet teacher on leave after telling students he would ‘be the best school shooter.’ * Bigotry and hate are more linked to mass shootings than mental illness, experts say. * Trump suggested nuking hurricanes to stop them from hitting U.S. (A rebuttal.) Science division of White House office left empty as last staffers depart. Trump Allies Reportedly Set Up Network to Smear Journalists Ahead of Election. He also has told worried subordinates that he will pardon them of any potential wrongdoing should they have to break laws to get the barriers built quickly, those officials said. * The Entire Plane of the Milky Way Captured in a Single Photo. Keep scrolling, there’s more! * A reading list on alcoholism. * School Administration Reminds Female Students Bulletproof Vests Must Cover Midriff. * Native American Lacrosse Teams Reported Racial Abuse. Then Their League Expelled Them. * When your kids start beating you in games. * Where the candidates campaign. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Understands Democracy Better Than Republicans Do. * When you’re extremely on message. * Congress by the numbers. * Being Andrew Luck. * Amazon Has Ceded Control of Its Site. The Result: Thousands of Banned, Unsafe or Mislabeled Products. * Dairy Queen burgers are not made of human flesh, a county coroner is forced to confirm. He’s in on it. * Johnson & Johnson must pay over $572 million for its role in Oklahoma opioid crisis, judge rules. * Drug prices in 2019 are surging, with hikes at 5 times inflation. As 1/4 of diabetics ration their insulin to survive, here's how much Pharma execs rake in: Regeneron: $118M Merck: $49M Pfizer: $47M Johnson & Johnson: $46M Abbott: $32M Gilead: $22M Eli Lilly: $14M Pharma's greed is as lethal as the diseases they’re supposed to be treating. — Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) August 23, 2019 * The US Created MS-13. * 2 California towns where chickens have free range. * Uber And Lyft Take A Lot More From Drivers Than They Say. * A growing army of ‘Airbnb’ police gets paid to expose the addresses of homeshare hosts. * ‘They’re Putting People at Risk’: Sexual Misconduct, Harassment, and Inaction at Zeel, the Top Massage App. * Human-guided burrito bots raise questions about the future of robo-delivery. * More evidence of YouTube rightwing radicalization. In a study of >79 million YouTube comments, @manoelribeiro et. al. shows that a high % of people who now comment on Alt-Right videos used to comment exclusively on IDW or Alt-lite videos. * ProPublica found that – despite the TSA saying it is committed to treating all passengers equally and fairly – five per cent of civil rights complaints against the TSA related to the treatment of trans passengers, despite trans people making up less than one per cent of the US population. * Lots of nerds think they like science fiction because of the technology and perditions. * Marvel Comics Just Retconned the Entire Vietnam War. * There Are People Who Think The West Invaded Iraq Over a Stargate. * Mystery Deepens Around Newly Detected Ripples in Space-Time. * “We are in a mass delusion that it’s all Gary, that he’s the father of role-playing games,” he said. “Humans do not like to admit they’ve been hornswoggled, lied to, cheated, or fooled.” * We Can Be Heroes: How the Nerds Are Reinventing Pop Culture. The Campbell Award gets a new name. * How Do We Colonize the Moon? * And submitted for your approval: the new culture industry. Tagged with academia, actually existing media bias, adjunctification, adversity score, Airbnb, alcoholism, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, alt-right, Amazon, America, Andrew Luck, Antarctica, apps, artificial intelligence, bedbugs, bigotry, Bolsonaro, Bret Stephens, burritos, California, cannibalism, capitalism, CBP, chickens, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, class struggle, Congress, cosmology, culture industry, Dairy Queen, democracy, deportation, Disney, Donald Trump, drugs, Dungeons and Dragons, eating meat, education, Electoral College, football, free speech, games, geoengineering, graduate student movements, guns, Harvard, health, Heroes, How the University Works, ice, Iraq, Islamophobia, Jeffrey Epstein, Joe Biden, John W. 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SFFTV CFP: “When the Astronaut is a Woman: Beyond the Frontier in Film and Television.” At the link there’s also details for SFFTV’s year-round reading period. * Climate Scientists Warn That All Super Mario Levels Will Be Underwater by 2025. * On academic mobbing. * Okay, but it’s only barely half. * Duke University’s non-tenured faculty have reached a tentative agreement in their first union contract, which includes higher pay and longer-term teaching appointments. * Yours, Mine, but Not Ours: Why the politics of national security means that we’re all living in failed Hobbesian states. * Ethnic cleansing remains the one arena of policy where this White House can focus. Emboldened by Trump, U.S. Border Officials Are Lying to Asylum Seekers and Turning Them Away. * Judge Derrick Watson is soft on grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins. * Trump Lawyer Marc Kasowitz Threatens Stranger in Emails: ‘Watch Your Back , Bitch.’ * I sincerely hope the lawsuits associated with this pronouncement bankrupt Anthem. * Game of Thrones fan fiction getting serious now. * At the end of the second Obama administration, there seemed to be more time and world in which to noodle around with those questions than there is today. In this new age of anxiety and emergency, existential threats seem very close indeed. Our own game of thrones has taken a terrifying turn. Winter is other people. * It is ridiculous how beyond debate the collusion case has become and how little it matters anyway. * It’s going to pass. In retrospect Dems should have just cooked up argument it’s unconstitutional to repeal Obamacare. GOP showed it doesn’t matter if it’s true. — Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) July 14, 2017 Nuke-the-sky lawsuits over repeal’s constitutionality, explaining how blue states will refuse to implement, promising single payer, etc. * Why Are We So Unwilling to Take Sylvia Plath at Her Word? * SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING (dir. John Hughes, 2017). This will definitely hold up in court. I hope this is still legally binding. At this point I’d at least hear them out. When you stare too long into the abyss. From A to Z. * “I set a goal to only eat meat that I killed and helped butcher myself” is the most Hannibal Lecterish thing this guy has ever said. So far. Amazing post. Zuckerberg is going to extraordinary lengths to connect with average Americans. pic.twitter.com/ELBXean4rw — Pixelated Boat (@pixelatedboat) July 14, 2017 in the future, every famous person will be President of the United States for 15 minutes — Gavin Mueller (@gavinmuellerphd) July 13, 2017 * The war on drugs goes speculative. * Income Inequality Will Survive the Nuclear Apocalypse. * And Here’s Your First Look at an Insanely Detailed Model of Disney’s Star Wars Land. Tagged with abuse, academia, adjunctification, adjuncts, AHCA, amusement parks, apocalypse, astronauts, Barack Obama, Batman, bullying, bunkers, CFPs, class struggle, climate change, collusion, DEA, deportation, Disney, Disney World, Donald Trump, dragons, Duke, ecology, English majors, ethnic cleansing, Facebook, futurity, Game of Thrones, general election 2016, George R. R. Martin, health insurance, Hobbes, How the University Works, immigration, income inequality, Islamophobia, John Hughes, Mark Zuckerberg, mobbing, nationalism, nuclear war, nuclearity, poetry, politics, Putin, Russia, science fiction, Science Fiction Film and Television, Silence of the Lambs, Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Star Wars, Super Mario, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, the courts, the law, unions, Venn diagrams, war on drugs, when you stare too long into the abyss the abyss stares back into you, women I May Have Committed A Little Light Treason Links * thisisfine.jpg: An iceberg the size of Delaware has broken off Antarctica. My kids are three and five. Just 90. And you’re a little late. * Blogger completely debunks claim Amelia Earhart was a Japanese prisoner. * CFP: The George Slusser Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy, University of California, Irvine, on April 26–29, 2018. CFP: Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction. And our deadline was extended a month with the rest of the SUS: Suvin Today?, A Roundtable Discussion, The Society for Utopian Studies (November 9-12, 2017 in Memphis, TN). * Nothing now would better serve the maturity and the invigoration of the Democrats than to give up any hope of sound advice or renewal from Bill or Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. They were pleasant to think about, but their politics have turned out wrong, and there’s nothing they can do for us now. The Age of Detesting Trump. * Fredo, Fredo, Fredo. I tried to warn you: These revelations—and the possibility that more is yet to come—have made it increasingly untenable for Trump’s supporters to argue that there is nothing to the collusion story. And so, many have now begun to argue that even if there was collusion of the kind suggested by the Times, it wouldn’t be a crime—or even all that out of the ordinary. Some Trump loyalists are even making the case that it was smart and savvy for the campaign to pursue help from the Russians. Trump supporters know Trump lies. They just don’t care. * Too many Fredos. * Fredo deserves better. * I mean the wheels are really coming off. TRUMP ODDS 7/2017 reelected 35% defeated 35% dies in office (natural causes) 15% impeached 3% resigns 0.5% coup 5% immortal god-emperor 6.5% It’s sort of perfectly crafted, narratively, that the presidency of the worst father in the world now hinges on how much he loves his son. * Trump still hasn’t resigned from his businesses like he promised, either. * Meanwhile, ladies and gentlemen: The Democrats! The Democrats Are Eisenhower Republicans. * The attempt to stay faithful to the actual facts of the world that would make this impossible tanks the piece, but the overall message — that our political elites are soulless monsters without any hint of integrity or principle — is absolutely sound: What If Trump Had Won As a Democrat? * Democrats should take the class warfare message to upscale suburbs. * Science Fiction and Dystopia in the Age of Trump. * Could a Robot Be President? * What happens to America if Anthony Kennedy retires? * Cancer researcher was held at Boston airport. Now he is being sent back to Iran. * 23 emotions people feel, but can’t explain. * Space colonization, faith, and Pascal’s Wager. * In St. Louis, America’s nuclear history creeps into the present, leaching into streams and bodies. * Between 2009 and 2011 more than 1 in 8 Milwaukee renters experienced a forced move. Rent Is Affordable to Low-Wage Workers in Exactly 12 U.S. Counties. * Stage four credentialing. The Library of Heaven. * The Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA) garnered more than 3,000 complaints regarding the uniforms. They conducted their own tests and found concerning evidence: a short-sleeved jacket had levels of cadmium, a highly toxic chemical, that were above the acceptable textile industry standard. The tests also found traces of formaldehyde, nickel, and tetrachlorophenol, all of which can cause major irritations. Formaldehyde, for instance, is even on the American Cancer Society’s list of known human carcinogens. What’s more, in 2011, Alaska Airlines experienced a very similar problem after issuing uniforms from Twin Hill. Around 10 percent of employees reported reactions and that airline issued a recall. Despite this damning evidence, American Airlines maintains that their uniforms are safe. * Looking forward to this movie: Chicago Library Seeks Help Transcribing Magical Manuscripts. * Gotta love a headline that has the courage of its convictions: CRISPR gene editing technique is probably safe, study confirms. * We were driving away from Hedgesville when the third overdose call of the day came, for a twenty-nine-year-old male. America leads the world in drug overdose deaths — by a lot. Trump-Loving Sheriff Won’t Let Deputies Carry Overdose Antidote. A Small-Town Police Officer’s War on Drugs. * The Klan comes (back) to Charlottesville. * Drones keep dropping drugs and porn into prisons. * No! No! No! * Yes! Yes! Yes! And I’m especially all in for this: Quentin Tarantino’s Next Movie Will Be About the Manson Family. * Makes you think. * Dark Stock Photos. * Remembering Milwaukee’s Own Cordwainer Smith. * Mizzou, two years later. * The mass defunding of higher education that’s yet to come. * Jeff VanderMeer Amends the Apocalypse. Russia 1917: You Are There. Nor Secret Griefs Nor Grudges: Laura Kipnis’s Unwanted Advances. Cottage Industry. * The racial daring of Sundance’s Cleverman gives it an edge most superhero stories can’t match. * The main reason for the contemporary evasion of Arendt’s critique of careerism, however, is that addressing it would force a confrontation with the dominant ethos of our time. In an era when capitalism is assumed to be not only efficient but also a source of freedom, the careerist seems like the agent of an easy-going tolerance and pluralism. Unlike the ideologue, whose great sin is to think too much and want too much from politics, the careerist is a genial caretaker of himself. He prefers the marketplace to the corridors of state power. He is realistic and pragmatic, not utopian or fanatic. That careerism may be as lethal as idealism, that ambition is an adjunct of barbarism, that some of the worst crimes are the result of ordinary vices rather than extraordinary ideas: these are the implications of Eichmann in Jerusalem that neo-cons and neoliberals alike find too troubling to acknowledge. * As you can probably tell by looking around, every employee at our startup is 23 years old. On the morning of your 24th birthday, the barcode on your employee ID stops working and you can no longer enter our building. We do this to ensure our company has a ceaseless, youthful energy. We believe old people are displeasing to look at and also, bad at ideas. * The relationship between the Internet and childhood memory, or generational memory, is a strange one that hasn’t yet been sufficiently chronicled or really thought through. * Nightmare jobs I’d never even though about: Rape Choreography Makes Films Safer, But Still Takes a Toll on Cast and Crew. * Cyberpunk lives! * First object teleported to Earth’s orbit. * Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again! Junot Diaz and Margaret Atwood in conversation. * Wakanda and Zamuda: A Comparative Analysis. * And sure, I can pick up tacos on the way home. Using salt circle runes to trap an A.I. car is possibly the most cyberpunk thing ever. pic.twitter.com/4ckbQlMyBS — Kasper Hawser (@Gossenphilosoph) July 11, 2017 Tagged with a new life awaits you in the off-world colonies, academia, air travel, Amelia Earhart, America, American Airlines, Antarctica, Anthony Kennedy, apocalypse, Arendt, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Black Panther, Bojack Horseman, books, Borges, Borne, bureaucracy, capitalism, careerism, CFPs, Charles Manson, Charlottesville, Chicago, childhood, China, China Miéville, class struggle, Cleverman, climate change, Colorado, Coming to America, communism, Cordwainer Smith, CRISPR, Curb Your Enthusiasm, cyberpunk, Darko Suvin, Democrats, deportation, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., drones, drug addiction, drugs, dystopia, ecology, Eichmann in Jerusalem, emotion, espionage, eviction, fathers, fathers and sons, film, Flat Earth, flat Earthers, Fredo Corleone, Game of Thrones, general election 2016, geoengineering, HBO, Hillary Clinton, How the University Works, ice sheet collapse, immigration, Iran, Islamophobia, Japan, Jared Kushner, Jeff Vandermeer, Junot Díaz, kakistocracy, KKK, kleptocracy, magic, Margaret Atwood, memory, Milwaukee, Mizzou, moral panic, never tell me the odds, Nnedi Okorafor, nuclearity, Obi-Wan, opioids, origin stories, outer space, over-educated literary theory PhDs, parenting, Pascal's Wager, politics, prequels, prison, public universities, race, racism, rape, rape culture, Republicans, Ridley Scott, robots, Russia, Russian Revolution, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, science fiction, Soviet Union, St. Louis, Star Wars, startup, stock photography, student debt, superheroes, Supreme Court, Tarantino, taxes, teleportation, The Apprentice, The Godfather, the Internet, the rent is too damn high, the suburbs, Title IX, treason, Utopia, UVA, Wakanda, white supremacy, Who Fears Death, Wisconsin, World War II, Zamuda Monday Morning Links! * On Saturday night the SFRA announced its award winners. Congrats to all! And here’s a Storify of the weekend’s #SFRA2017 tweets. * Civilizations in Crisis: Chinese Speculative Fiction. And at the New Yorker Radio Hour: The Cultural Revolution and the Alien Invasion. * The Jobless Utopia of La Zarzuela. * SF, Pulp & Grit. * ‘Seat 14C’ short stories imagine a 20-year time warp – and now you can hop on board. * As one of the four finalists for the Edward Said Chair, I returned from the campus interview to experience a prolonged waiting period. When the news was finally delivered, I did not learn whether I had gotten the position or not. Rather, the email informed me that the position had been cancelled altogether, due to unforeseen administrative issues. * Constructing the cyber-troll: Psychopathy, sadism, and empathy. * President Trump appears to have sourced his CNN wrestling tweet from a racist troll on Reddit. * Let us instead critique liberal multiculturalism and liberal feminism, while advancing a socialist-feminist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist vision. And let us try to leave behind the sectarian divisions that have hampered us and seize the opportunity to build a new left. During the election, CNN hired hacks just to shout on screen. You turn politics into pro wrestling, and a pro will wrestle it away from you. — Zeynep Tufekci (@zeynep) July 2, 2017 This is truly the worst case scenario of teaching an old person how to use the Internet — Aparna Nancherla (@aparnapkin) July 2, 2017 not sure how anyone thinks a president with content this fire could fail to be reelected — traxus4420 (@traxus4420) July 2, 2017 * Proponents insist that the emails, as deranged as they might seem, work. Critics argue that the tactic has a short shelf life and is deceptive. But Their Emails. * D.C. police are investigating whether patrol officers struck an 11-year-old bicyclist with their cruiser Thursday night in Northwest Washington’s Park View neighborhood and drove away without reporting the incident. * Did Trump break the law over alleged Morning Joe National Enquirer blackmail threat? Oh honey. The Time I Got Recruited to Collude with the Russians. Trump’s CNN Tweet Linked To Reddit User HanAssholeSolo. * Democrats completely around the bend. * How handsome is Mike Pence? We asked the experts. * Once we dispense with the pragmatic-compromise explanation for the MSPRA, it’s much easier to understand what CAP is doing. They are proposing a “bipartisan” patch on Obamacare, not because they think they can win through compromise, but because they largely agree with what Republicans want to do. They are promoting market-based healthcare instead of embracing popular support for single payer because they do not want to see single payer succeed. There’s no counter-intuitive chess game going on here; liberals are telling the left exactly what they want, and we would do well to take them at their word. * Generation Catalano rebrands again, again. University of Melbourne Associate Professor of Sociology Dan Woodman—who, probably not coincidentally, was born in 1980—says the “Xennial” label applies to those born between 1977 and 1983. It’s a unique demographic group, he argues, because Xennials spent a significant chunk of their childhoods without access to computers—and indeed, will someday be among the last people on Earth to remember a time before the internet—but experienced the internet revolution early enough to still become early adopters of new technologies. People who were actually college aged when Facebook came out, in other words. * Another one: Generation Space. Xennial (noun): a person who identifies this woman as Xena. pic.twitter.com/ZU89SFJdfr — Eric Hittinger (@ElephantEating) July 2, 2017 * The forgotten cyberspace of the Neuromancer computer game. * Okja and translation. * Iran’s temperature hit 127 degrees yesterday. * Being James Thomas Hodgkinson’s widow. * Methadone for social media addiction. * As Cost Of Opioid Epidemic Rises, One City May Consider Not Reviving Addicts Who Repeatedly Overdose. * How valuable is Stephen Curry? How valuable is Stephen Curry? In 2010 Lacob bought Warriors for $450 million. Now worth $2.6 billion. — Ann Killion (@annkillion) July 1, 2017 * Phone Sex Operators Say They Are Making Less Than Minimum Wage. * Escaped elephant takes a stroll through Wisconsin neighborhood. * Ancestry.com presents: Descendents of the Founding Fathers. * disappointedspringsteen.gif. I mean really. * Debt and the future. * McConnell’s nearing a deal. Don’t sugarcoat this. Trump just called for 32 million people to lose health coverage. * A Muslim doctor in Trump country. * New Florida law lets any resident challenge what’s taught in science classes. * ‘Terrorism’ misspelled on bench at Indiana war memorial. * Mass Grave Of Dozens Of Tortured Black Men Found In Deceased KKK Leaders Estate. UPDATE: This was a fake story. * Personally, I think teaching is improv. * Against Gorsuch. Against Gorsuch. Against Gorsuch. * Fascinating analysis: The newspaper offered no definitive answer, but the question itself points to a broader issue that tends to be underexplored in the context of wrongful convictions: what typically happens with respect to the underlying crime—and, by implication, the cause of justice and of public safety—when the person found legally responsible for committing it later is determined not to be. * A Brutal Intelligence: AI, Chess, and the Human Mind. * Privilege and responsibility are the words we call on when the dream of a society organized by individual merit runs up against the hard world of systematic and intractable inequality. * In Honoring Enslaved Laborers, Colleges Seek to Blunt the Force of Their Pro-Slavery Icons. * Wikipedia as Text Adventure. * The Hardest Job in the World. I’m like an X-Man with psychic attack powers. Time Management: A Guide for Busy Moms. * Factionalism / small talk. All things carry yin and embrace yang. Look for the helpers. * Horror is the only film genre where women appear and speak as often as men. * Never meet your heroes. * And I consider this a canonical part of Zefram Cochrane’s backstory. 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I’ll be presenting this afternoon in the 4 PM session: “No, Speed Limit: Hyperspace in the Anthropocene,” mostly talking about John Scalzi’s The Collapsing Empire but also hitting Octavia Butler, Cixin Liu, Kim Stanley Robinson, Margaret Atwood, H.G. Wells, and others. * And just in time for #SFRA2017, SFFTV 10.2 is now available! A special issue on the SF films of Stephen King. * From Canavan’s Razor to Kotsko’s Hammer: If you believe that you have caught your enemy in a contradiction, you are mistaken. At best, you have misjudged their real priorities and goals. At worst, you have fallen for a deliberate smokescreen, designed to confuse and distract you. * CFP: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein at 200 (Science Fiction Studies, Special Issue). * Emma Watson has been hiding copies of Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale around Paris, with a handwritten note inside each one. * The City University of New York picked the worst time to raise the salaries of its top administrators to as much as $402,700 — the same day it cut the operating budgets of its four-year colleges and raised tuition. * Can’t you see? Star Wars needs mediocrity. * Return of the travel ban. Return of the lawsuits. The travel ban going into effect would have saved zero lives from terrorist attacks in the last 20 years. It’s going to get worse. * This seems normal and fine. * Gun Sales Are Plummeting and Trump Wants to Help. * GOP Operative Sought Clinton Emails From Hackers, Implied a Connection to Flynn. * Republican Health Care Bill Cuts Medicaid 24 Percent By 2036. Trumpworld’s push to get a Senate health deal. Senate GOP Health Care Surrender Watch. * “California decided it was tired of women bleeding to death in childbirth”: The maternal mortality rate in the state is a third of the American average. Here’s why. * The Case for Paying Less Attention to Donald Trump. And Now the Trump Presidency Begins to Fail for Real. MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski say President Trump and his White House used the possibility of a hit piece in the National Enquirer to threaten them and change their news coverage. any remaining pieties of respectability inhering in the institution/office/process really shouldn't survive this term. but it will, OC — Patrick Blanchfield (@PatBlanchfield) June 29, 2017 Is anybody going to do anything about this situation my problem with Trump is just my outdated belief that the President of the United States shouldn't be dumber than the dumbest person I know — maura quint (@behindyourback) June 29, 2017 * Hell yes, Rep. Barbara Lee. * Normally I’d say “teach the controversy,” but these allegations are simply too serious to treat flippantly: NASA Denies That It’s Running a Child Slave Colony on Mars. * Cyberattack attacks Chernobyl radiation monitoring station. * On desistance and detransition. * Global warming will intensify regional inequality in the United States, according to a revolutionary new economic assessment of the phenomenon. * Two brothers, two deaths. * Illinois Approaches 3rd Year Without Budget. * US quietly publishes once-expunged papers on 1953 Iran coup. * SCP-3008-1 is a space resembling the inside of an IKEA furniture store, extending far beyond the limits of what could physically be contained within the dimensions of the retail unit. Current measurements indicate an area of at least 10km2 with no visible external terminators detected in any direction. Inconclusive results from the use of laser rangefinders has lead to the speculation that the space may be infinite. SCP-3008-1 is inhabited by an unknown number of civilians trapped within prior to containment. Gathered data suggests they have formed a rudimentary civilisation within SCP-3008-1, including the construction of settlements and fortifications for the purpose of defending against SCP-3008-2. * Just what is happening at Disney? * Rick and Morty season three, at last, by God. * And Jurassic Park but with the dinosaurs from the 90s TV show Dinosaurs, forever and ever amen. Tagged with a republic if you can keep it, academia, actually existing media bias, Adam Kotsko, administrative blight, Afghanistan, AHCA, America, Anthropocene, apocalypse, austerity, Barbara Lee, California, Canavan's Razor, CFPs, Chernobyl, Cixin Liu, class struggle, climate change, coups, CUNY, democracy, desistance, detransition, dinosaurs, Disney, Don't mention the war, ecology, Emma Watson, film, Frankenstein, general election 2016, guns, H. G. 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The overall message of 2017 special elections is that Republicans are in trouble. Why Paul Ryan’s race for Congress next year bears watching, even if he’ll be hard to beat. An Associated Press study of U.S. House races found that Republicans may have gained up to 22 additional seats in the 2016 election due to redistricting. The AP’s analysis also found four times as many states with GOP-skewed state legislative maps as Democratic-skewed ones. Voter suppression is a greater threat to U.S. democracy than Russian election tampering, if you can imagine it. * Bernie and Jane Sanders, under FBI investigation for bank fraud, hire lawyers. * Senate GOP expected to add new penalties for the uninsured into their health bill. Privately, health plan worries Senate bill would “cause most small employers’ premiums to go up.” Coverage Losses Under the Senate Health Care Bill Could Result in 18,100 to 27,700 Additional Deaths in 2026. Crazy waivers: the Senate bill invites states to gut important health insurance rules. Medicaid Cuts May Force Retirees Out of Nursing Homes. You’re Probably Going to Need Medicaid. Pure Class Warfare, With Extra Contempt. Can the moderates save us? Even Ron “Horrible” Johnson: ‘We should not be voting’ on healthcare this week. (But, you know, partial credit at best.) The principled support for the bill is apparently pass it no matter what’s in it just cause Team Red. Trump and Social Darwinism. Keep calling. The health insurance industry is where you pay a company to keep you alive and then they deploy a huge bureaucracy to worm out of doing it. feeling old? this is what the guy from a-ha looks like now pic.twitter.com/0ryYzELAsi — mitch said (@said_mitch) June 23, 2017 * What we have just witnessed can, I think, be legitimately referred to as the popping of the Blair-Clinton bubble. That is, the ending of the assumption that a tepid, compromised, market-friendly, bureaucratic centrism that nobody actually liked was the only form left-of-centre politics could take, because everyone was convinced that everyone else thought so. * What It Was Like to Star in the Trump-Themed Julius Caesar. * Centrist Democrats are now the great defenders of social justice? Please. Watching the centrists talk themselves into supporting Zuckerberg, on no grounds, two years before the primary. Genuinely incredible. * Trump’s Deflections and Denials on Russia Frustrate Even His Allies. * Remember when we had laws and dumb stuff like that? God, we were such dorks. * NJ Assembly Passes Bill Requiring Kids Be Taught to Interact With Police. Maybe give some of the same training to off-duty cops next? * Cops Sent Warrant To Facebook To Dig Up Dirt On Woman Whose Boyfriend They Had Just Killed. * I wasn’t one, but congratulations to all the Locus Award winners! * The Many Lives of the Medieval Wound Man. * Pale Blue Dot. The Weinersmith Test for Artificial Intelligence. Everything happens for a reason. Hot lava. Markov dating. * Alarmingly, one source speaking to THR claims that upon the announcement to the crew that Ron Howard would step in to take over the film a day after Miller and Lord’s firing, applause broke out. Report: Lucasfilm Was So Concerned About Alden Ehrenreich’s Han Solo Performance It Brought in an Acting Coach. What a mess. * The race to save Florida’s devastated coral reef from global warming. * Crimebook noplane freedomhate. * High Court Mostly Revives Trump Travel Ban, Will Hear Appeal. * High-stakes scenarios and market failure. * The amount of work that once bought an hour of light now buys 51 years of it. * Everyone, get your guesses in! Last call for Kennedy bets. * This is no time for optimism. * Prince Was a Secret Patron of Solar Power. * Flashback: David Bowie’s Failed Attempt to Adapt George Orwell’s ‘1984.’ * 150 times actors were forced to say the title of the movie they’re in. * Riot at Disney tonight, details TK. * Superhero Rescues Put Everyone in Danger, Urge Scientists. * This is why we can’t have nice things. Do not panic; the authorities are in complete control. Bitch I might be. Happy last week of summer school. * And I’ve said it all along: don’t blame me, blame the world. Tagged with 1984, A-Ha, academic freedom, AHCA, air travel, Anthony Kennedy, artificial intelligence, asteroids, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Bill Clinton, books, Burlington, Burlington College, Chief, class struggle, climate change, coral reef, dating, David Bowie, David Graeber, DC Cinematic Universe, democracy, Democrats, depression, Disney, Donald Trump, drama, everything happens for a reason, FBI, film, Florida, general election 2016, gerrymandering, Godzilla, Hall of Presidents, Han Solo, health care, health insurance, hot lava, Islamophobia, Jane Sanders, Julius Caesar, labor, leisure, light, Locus Award, Magritte, malapportionment, Mark Zuckerberg, Markov generators, medieval wound man, midterm election 2018, Minnesota, music, neoliberalism, New Jersey, Orwell, Paul Ryan, Philando Castile, plays, police #BlackLivesMatter, police violence, politics, polls, prediction markets, Prince, Putin, race, racism, reality, Republicans, Ron Howard, Ron Johnson, rule of law, Russia, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, science fiction, Scott Walker, Sean Spicer, Sinofuturism, Social Darwinism, social justice, solar power, St. Louis, Star Wars, summer school, superheroes, Supreme Court, Take on Me, techno-Orientalism, the 1980s, the courts, the law, the Senate, theater, this is not a pipe, this is why we can't have nice things, title drop, Tony Blair, true crime, TSA, Vermont, Victor von Doom, voter suppression, Wisconsin, Wonder Woman, work, xkcd, Yellow Peril Sunday’d Reading! * Presenting the International Journal of James Bond Studies. * On graduate labor and the Yale commencement protest. * A shadowy international mercenary and security firm known as TigerSwan targeted the movement opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline with military-style counterterrorism measures, collaborating closely with police in at least five states, according to internal documents obtained by The Intercept. The documents provide the first detailed picture of how TigerSwan, which originated as a U.S. military and State Department contractor helping to execute the global war on terror, worked at the behest of its client Energy Transfer Partners, the company building the Dakota Access Pipeline, to respond to the indigenous-led movement that sought to stop the project. * “Self-defense” in America safeguards the privileges of white men as possessors of property, arbiters of sexual access, and inflictors of violence. * Jared! Jared! Jared! Jared! Jared! Jared! Jared! Jared! Jared! Jared! Jared! Jared! Jared! KUSHNER (Oliver Stone, 2018) – Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Jared), Jennifer Lawrence (Ivanka), Mickey Rourke (Trump), Daniel Craig (Putin) — Jesse Hawken (@jessehawken) May 27, 2017 * Flynn, Sessions, etc. * So old I can remember when Eric and Donald Jr. were going to run the business and not have a political role. (January.) * Cool, thanks for looking into it. * Same joke but with the one of the highest capitalized companies on the planet claiming poverty to avoid not being quite so sexist. * Google has begun using billions of credit-card transaction records to prove that its online ads are prompting people to make purchases – even when they happen offline in brick-and-mortar stores, the company said Tuesday. * Google’s AI Is Now Creating Its Own AI. * The Republicans Broke American Politics, and Media Elites Are Blind to It. A week that reveals how rotten today’s Republican Party is. Simple from here: 1. Trump pardons everyone, including himself 2. Republicans openly laugh about it 3. The End 4. Worst Thanksgiving Ever — Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 27, 2017 ballpark, how many relatives do you have that would gladly murder you if Fox/Trump/Limbaugh said they should * The life and death of the Seth Rich conspiracy theory. It’s too late, of course, the cultists will believe in it for all time. * Horrific hate crime in Portland. Seems to be part of a disturbing trend. * New Orleans principal loses job after wearing Nazi-associated rings in video. Glowing 2015 profile. * Meanwhile, in Arizona. In New Jersey. * New Jersey not doing great in my newsfeed today generally. Though this was good. * U.S. Airstrike Killed Over 100 Civilians in Mosul, Pentagon Says. The U.S. Is Helping Allies Hide Civilian Casualties in Iraq and Syria. * ‘Mostly Toddlers’ Among 31 Drowned. * A spectre is haunting Goldman Sachs. * Trump going to the mattresses. * How Alleged Russian Hacker Teamed Up With Florida GOP Operative. * Democrats doing much better, still can’t win a damn thing. The only answer is to keep offering them nothing and telling them they’re stupid, until they finally come around. Wake up, liberals: There will be no 2018 “blue wave,” no Democratic majority and no impeachment. Donald Trump Is A Big Reason The GOP Kept The Montana House Seat. Democrats are going to declare it a historic victory when Trump retakes the White House after losing the popular vote by six million. Getting to still run the Dem Party after losing to Trump is like getting to still run a Wall St bank after engineering the financial crisis — David Sirota (@davidsirota) May 27, 2017 * The end of Breitbart? * Remember how terrible the AHCA is? * Can Trump pardon by tweet? * Trump and the drug war. * RNC PR BS but even more so. * Sheriff Clarke and some totally appropriate, not at all batshit insane behavior. * A GoFundMe Campaign Is Not Health Insurance. * A 31-year-old undocumented Honduran bicyclist, Marcos Antonio Huete, was hit by a car in Key West, Florida, on his way to work. The policeman’s camera shows him inquiring about the victim’s immigration status before offering medical assistance. He was later detained by the Border Patrol. * Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers ate breakfast at a Michigan restaurant, got up, and detained three employees on Wednesday morning. * “We want you to think Luke is bad” is an awfully large part of Last Jedi hype. I have to think that means they won’t actually do it… * Title IX Policy shift at the University of Oregon: Faculty members at the University of Oregon will no longer be required to notify campus authorities when students confide in them that they’ve been sexually assaulted or harassed but say they don’t want the information reported. * Wealth, I realized, is the adult version of magic: an incredibly powerful but ultimately arbitrary resource that transfers primarily through inheritance. It has some logic to it— but also enough randomness that those without can hope for a spontaneous windfall in the form of an improbably lucrative investment or a secret inheritance. * Disaster: The Game! try think of an album that came out last year. WRONG. it came out in 2009. you're old as fuck dude — thomas violence (@thomas_violence) May 25, 2017 * Unexpected and interesting: Joss Whedon isn’t just finishing Justice League; he’s been working on it for a while. * Not So Random Trek. * Truly, ours is the darkest timeline. * Spiders appear to offload cognitive tasks to their webs, making them one of a number of species with a mind that isn’t fully confined within the head. * The average person keeps thirteen secrets, five of which he or she has never shared with anyone else. * A chance meeting with Mr. Rogers. * RIP, Denis Johnson. * Crayola by the numbers. * If you’d bought $1,000 of Bitcoin in 2010, you’d be worth $35M. * Uber: a cheap scam all the way down. * Original draft of Revenge of the Sith actually treated Padme as an interesting character. * Obituaries My Mother Wrote for Me While I Was Living in San Francisco in My Twenties. * These birds have the right idea. * This one cuts me. When you’re in your thirties. Call CPS. #TheResistance. * Everything was connected, and I was fucked. * Can someone please explain the physics of Casper? * And N6946-BH1 is all of us right now. 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Today’s entries are all about space sex. Also: Everything About Mars Is The Worst. * Also at FiveThirtyEight: The Odds You’ll Fill Out A Perfect Bracket. * TRAPPIST-1 seems like a no-go for humanity, but three of the worlds are close enough for life to hop between them. * New York 2140 vs. The Collapsing Empire: Which New Sci-Fi Novel Is for You? * ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Turns 20, from my “Buffy at 20″ co-organizer James South. * On the coming apocalypse (and other’s people’s babies). Your grandchildren were murdered by your parents. * What if Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Had Swapped Genders? * From the archives: Snow Days Under Socialism. * No, big snowstorms like this aren’t normal. * America elected a parasite. Let’s take away health insurance from 24 million people. Or 26 million, who’s counting. This Level of Corruption Is Unprecedented in the Modern History of the Presidency. Gotta save money to steal money. “Senate Democrats prepare for spring battle over Trump’s border wall.” 24 million people losing insurance is roughly equivalent to the population of: combined. — Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) March 13, 2017 more people will lose health insurance under trumpcare than the entire population of florida — Oliver Willis (@owillis) March 13, 2017 Fun fact: AHCA is projected to kill 17,000 people its 1st year. If all 301 GOP congressmen vote for it, each will have murdered 56 Americans — Sandra Newman (@sannewman) March 13, 2017 find a man who smiles at you the way Paul Ryan smiles at a rise in the infant mortality rate — Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) March 13, 2017 Ah good, Paul Ryan is finally clearing up some misconceptions about the GOP's health plan: pic.twitter.com/FWRiMb30Ni — Pixelated Boat (@pixelatedboat) March 14, 2017 TRUMP: I will use the bodies of dead 64-year-olds to build my wall. DEMOCRATS: lol I thought you said Mexico would pay for it * Remember the People America’s Healthcare System Has Already Killed. * The university in ruins, Trump edition. * The Party of Eugenics. They both are, honestly, but the GOP is just so much more vulgar about it. * At every moment when Trump might have been stopped, when he might have been forced into bankruptcy, had his credit denied, had his loans called in, his licenses revoked, at every juncture where he might have been convicted of a crime or sent to jail—and, again, this is well before he makes his successful bid for the White House—some unplanned and unintended conspiracy of economic reason and political lowlifery mobilizes to protect him. (And it really is unplanned and unintended. The genius of the American system is how the Invisible Hand works to produce systemic vice rather than incidental virtue.) * Must be nice. * We’re heading towards something very ugly: Employers can ban staff from wearing headscarves, European court rules. * American Empire: The Reboot. * Seeing red: Membership triples for the Democratic Socialists of America. * The Onion struggling to lampoon Trump. * Museums and activism. * Violent video games found not to affect empathy, again. * The hype for Logan seems to be reaching comical proportions, but still, you’d be hard-pressed to find another recent superhero movie that was worth emulating. * Behold, the super-agers. * Should a Chimpanzee Be Considered a Person? * MMMBop: Hanson announces 25th anniversary tour as your death rapidly approaches. * The economics of airline classes. * Bowie impersonates other singers like Springsteen, Lou Reed. Everything has been bullshit since Bowie died. * Because you demanded it! Young Sheldon. * USA Today discovers Hello from the Magic Tavern. They’ve hit a real stride lately as story events have allowed them to move away from their standard format — and they were great before. * Every Author on Your English Syllabus, Summed Up in a Single Sentence. * It’s Donald Trump’s Fault Iron Fist Is Bad, Not Marvel’s, Says Star Finn Jones. If you say so. * A People’s History of the Marvel Universe. Via Abigail Nussbaum’s second Hugos post. * And a nation turns its lonely eyes to Veep. Tagged with a new life awaits you in the off-world colonies, academia, aging, AHCA, airlines, America, animal personhood, animals, apes, apocalypse, austerity, because you demanded it, Big Bang Theory, Bowie, bracketology, Buffy, CBS, chimpanzees, class struggle, climate change, conferences, democratic socialism, Donald Trump, ecology, empire, English classes, eugenics, Europe, extrasolar planets, FiveThirtyEight, games, general election 2016, Hanson, health care, Hello from the Magic Tavern, Hillary Clinton, How the University Works, Hugos, I grow old, infant mortality, international students, Iron Fist, Islamophobia, John Scalzi, Joss Whedon, kids today, Kim Stanley Robinson, literature, Logan, longevity, March Madness, Marquette, Mars, Marvel, Mexico, MMMBop, monkeys, moral panic, mortality, movies, music, NCAA, neoliberalism, Netflix, New York 2140, outer space, Paul Ryan, podcasts, politics, race, racism, Republicans, satire, sex, snow, socialism, Springsteen, Steve King, super-agers, superheroes, syllabi, television, The Collapsing Empire, The Onion, the university in ruins, Trappist-1, Trumpcare, Veep, violence, visas, white people, Wolverine, Young Sheldon Weekend Links! * Angela Davis at Marquette, March 29. * CFP: From Sanctuary to Sabotage: Fighting the Fascist Creep at and beyond Universities. * “Virtually nothing about our standard model of sleep existed as we know it two centuries ago.” * Modern love. * 20 Years Ago, Starship Troopers Showed Us What Happens When Fascism Wins. * 11 things I learned about academia by analysing 14 million RateMyProfessor reviews. * Remember that Iowa lawmaker who wanted to purge universities of Democrats? Guess what! * When the CIA read Foucault. * Nice, low-key interview with Kim Stanley Robinson on Flash Forward TV. * Abigail Nussbaum walks you through her Hugo short fiction nominations. * Trump and the Myth of Nuclear Flexibility. * Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War. * My alma mater in the news! * America divided into states with the population of California. Which is to say, if we allow ourselves a crudely democratic understanding of what representative democracy should be, there would only be 16 senators in a Senate that fairly represented people living in California. * America has locked up so many black people it has warped our sense of reality. * Exiting the Roach Motel, or, What’s the Matter with the Democratic Party? The Democratic Party is a roach motel for leftists. We go in full of vision and energy, like the Sanders kids, like the Ellison supporters, and we get crushed and stuck in the slime. Sanders and Ellison had to play by the rules and call for continuing support for the Dems after their losses. Having played the game, they were stuck with the rules in the roach motel. Once you go in, you may never come out. * Slavery and the academy. * Twilight of the meritocrats. * Palantir and ICE. Freeze on H-1B Visas. Customs Giving Literacy Tests At JFK Is A Thing Now. Deportation fears impacting criminal case. Don’t Get Your Undocumented Friends in Trouble: A How-To. Are you listening, SXSW? * White House aide Sebastian Gorka said Wednesday that objections to President Donald Trump’s creation of a new office to highlight crimes committed by undocumented immigrants are “un-American.” All right, then, I’ll go to Hell…. * “Accompanied by his wife Jessica, a U.S. citizen who is six months pregnant with their first child.” Trump administration considering separating women, children at U.S.-Mexico border. Detained after a press conference, Daniela Vargas was seven when she came to the U.S. A 13-Year-Old Girl Sobbed While Recording Her Immigrant Father Get Arrested By ICE Agents. ICE Plans To Deport Oregon Immigrant With 5 Children, No Criminal Background. Immigration agents deport Houston father of two who previously held immigration reprieve. After Decades In The U.S., NY Immigrant With Years-Old Pot Misdemeanor Faces Deportation. Does even a single person with a conscience work for this administration? * Kushner and Flynn. Two other Trump advisers also spoke with Russian envoy during GOP convention. Your cheat sheet to four potential investigations of Russia and President Trump. Mysteries of Jeff Sessions. Recusal is not enough. Isn’t it pretty to think so? The Innocent Explanation. Why Trump Sounding ‘Presidential’ Only Makes Him More Dangerous. Style and Substance. Trumpism and heroism. You Cretins Are Going To Get Thousands Of People Killed. This one broke while I was tagging the post. Jeff Sessions looks like a child that got turned into an old man for stealing a pie from a witch's window sill. pic.twitter.com/NxNQZURRjk — Adam Murray (@Atom_Murray) February 9, 2017 y'all, i apologize. i got so excited to do racism that i slipped up and did a dang perjury! pic.twitter.com/sl04VNuTeG — ceeks (@70Ceeks) March 2, 2017 * Hard to blame them: European Parliament votes to end visa-free travel for Americans. * Four mosques have burned in seven weeks. Nearly half of the country’s Jewish community centers have received bomb threats in 2017. Today’s arrest (an apparent copycat) covered less than 10% of that. * Destroying the planet is too important to let a silly little thing like national borders get in the way. The end of the Great Lakes. Gutting the Chesapeake Bay. Massive Permafrost Thaw Documented in Canada, Portends Huge Carbon Release. Antarctica hits record high temperature at balmy 63.5°F. — Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) March 1, 2017 * The rich are different: they control everything. * Adam Roberts rereads The Time Machine. * The Feminist Bookstore Movement. * Fascinated by this: Price of Lab-Grown Burger Falls from $325K to $11.36. * A rough stat from up the street: Only 1 in 5 black students enrolled at UW-Milwaukee graduates in 6 years. * Team Plagiarizes Golden State Warriors. Team Is Undefeated. * Could different borders save Europe? Could different borders save Europe? Ethnographic maps suggest an alternative to the continent's current configuration of artificial states pic.twitter.com/eAETsKtoVI — Nicholas Danforth (@NicholasDanfort) March 2, 2017 * “We concluded that Ms. Conway acted inadvertently and is highly unlikely to do so again,” he wrote. “Ms. Conway has acknowledged her understanding of the standards and has reiterated her commitment to abiding by them in the future.” * A diabetic boy’s parents ‘didn’t believe in doctors.’ Now they’re guilty of his murder. * Are the Yuuzhan Vong coming back? * After oil was discovered on their Oklahoma reservation, the Osage Nation became the richest people per capita in the world. Then they began to be murdered off mysteriously. In 1924 the nascent FBI sent a team of undercover agents, including a Native American, to the Osage reservation. * 69 Cock Lane is yours for £449,950, but is it Britain’s naughtiest address? * Study: half of the studies you read about in the news are wrong (And yes, this could be one of them). * This is the future liberals want. Though of course the meme is good too. this is the future that liberals want pic.twitter.com/Ha8vbroPoU — o_O (@franglophonic) March 2, 2017 This is the future liberals want. pic.twitter.com/9iH1ddpgqV — Dan Hassler-Forest (@DanHF) March 2, 2017 This is the future that liberals want. pic.twitter.com/68FVp6pv5v — Freddie Campion (@FreddieCampion) March 2, 2017 This is the future that liberals want. pic.twitter.com/YfA08Konou — Maris Kreizman (@mariskreizman) March 2, 2017 Too good to remain hidden behind an anon account: This is the future liberals want. pic.twitter.com/vpWKBFzWkx * But not this one: “basically a Fitbit for your man bits that tracks thrust speed and velocity.” * Disney is super proud of itself for this incredibly progressive leap forward. Next: Scar, Ursula, and Captain Hook were all gay, too! * There’s nothing sweet in life: Protesting Dr. Seuss Week. * Nobody hates college more than the people who run colleges. * A transgender boy just won the Texas girls’ state wrestling championship. * No More Saturday Marches. While the Iron Is Hot: The Case for the Women’s Strike. * The line must be drawn — here! * Ethical zoo. * A People’s History of Daria. * These colleges are better than Harvard at making poor kids rich. * George W. Bush, with the soul of an artist. die in jail serving consecutive life sentences or live long enough to become a beloved grandfatherly elder statesman https://t.co/DDorNHjHOb * Massive Open Online Rubber Arrow through the Head. * You know what? Fine. * Statement of teaching philosophy. * This week’s I Was There Too interviews someone I’ve always wondered about, the actor who replaced Crispin Glover in Back to the Future Part Two. The Biff episode was good too though if you follow Back to the Future arcana you’ve probably heard a lot of it before. I’ll be nominating it for a Hugo next year. @BenRobertson @marc_laidlaw * Trump’s worst crime is forcing me to agree with David Frum. * Neoliberalism in everything: “Ark Encounter doesn’t live up to economic promise.” * NASA’s about to learn a valuable lesson about the Internet. * And the positive reviews have done it: I’m going to ruin my career and buy a Nintendo Switch so I can play the new Zelda. 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Wells, Harvard, How did we survive the Cold War?, How the University Works, Hugo awards, I Was There Too, ice, ice sheet collapse, immigration, income equality, Iowa, Islamophobia, Jared Kushner, JCCs, Jeff Sessions, job creation, journamalism, Kellyanne Conway, Keystone XL, Kim Stanley Robinson, lab-grown meat, liberals, Lord of the Rings, love, maps, Marquette, mass incarceration, memes, meritocracy, Mexico, Michael Flynn, Milwaukee, MOOCs, moral panics, mosques, murder, NASA, NBA, neoliberalism, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, Noah's Ark, nuclear war, nuclearity, oil, Oprah, oral histories, Osage Nation, Palantir, parenting, Patrick Stewart, permafrost, Peter Thiel, podcasts, politics, prison, prison-industrial complex, protest, Putin, race, racism, radiation, Rate My Professor, resistance, roach motels, Robert Heinlein, Russia, sabotage, sanctuary campuses, science fiction, sea level rise, sex, Sizzler, slavery, sleep, smart condoms, Star Trek, Star Wars, Starship Troopers, State of the Union, Steve Martin, strikes, SXSW, terrorism, The Hobbit, the news, the rich are different, the Senate, The Time Machine, theory, this is the future liberals want, this is why we can't have nice things, Tolkien, totalitarianism, transgender issues, Trappist-1, true crime, undercommons, UWM, visas, voice, wiretapping, Wisconsin, women's strike, Yuuzhan Vong, Zelda * Are you at AWP? Or in DC generally? Jaimee is! She’ll be doing a book signing at the Waywiser Table at 12:30 Saturday and then reading at the Waywiser reading at 7:30 PM at the Den. * I’ll be giving a short workshop on Octavia Butler and Kindred at the Stanford Humanities Center next Thursday, if that’s convenient to you! * This is so outrageous. 21 years in the US, arrived at 14, two US citizen children, arrested at a scheduled check-in with ICE. You could hardly find more compelling proof that this is entirely and exclusively about cruelty. * “Pentagon journal explores what could happen if a president called for Muslim internment camps.” Gee, I wonder. * Meanwhile, in another classic authoritarian maneuver, the outsized ego at the heart of the Trumpist seizure of power has surrounded himself with an obliging retinue of enablers and quisling yes-men. Trump likes to divide people between “haters and losers”—a cheap shot that is actually a fairly useful way to categorize his own team. It’s Already Happened Here. How to Stop an Autocracy. Profiles in Courage: Rand Paul, Civil Libertarian. * Every day. Something crazy happens every day. 1. Trump lost appeal. 2. NYT broke China won't take our call. 3. Wash P broke Flynn lied about Russia. 4. Conway broke the law. — Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) February 10, 2017 It's been 20 days since the swearing-in, and you could make solid legal cases for firing Conway, Flynn, and Bannon, and impeaching Trump. — Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) February 10, 2017 * The history of this era is going to be so, so unbelievable. * Neither Nordstrom nor Ivanka but International Socialism. * Of course… Do you support impeaching Trump? 2 weeks ago—35% 1 week ago—40% Today—46% —via @ppppolls https://t.co/eNG6SOYc9u — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 10, 2017 * It’s getting to the point where you can’t even call for the wanton slaughter of students without some PC SJW raising a stink about it. * How Political Fear Works. Beware of Self-Censorship. Who Benefits From Trump’s Chaos? What’s in it For The Collaborators? There Are No Good Reasons Not To Fight. * Obama’s Lost Army: When Obama Killed OFA. * I liked this: The Meitheal Manifesto: Thirteen Agreements to Save the World. * Some rare good news on the climate. * Darkest thing I’ve ever seen, first for one the one reason and then for the other. * The arc of history is long, but Mac malware is slowly catching up to its Windows rivals. * Solitary Confinement Is a Great American Shame. * Remembering Richard Rorty on Trump (and the reformist left) (again). * No one is reading those reference letters. “Truly, this is the single easiest fix in academic culture.” * Science education in the time of Trump. * You can’t argue with facts, little brother. * Bees aren’t endangered anymore! Surprisingly easy fix actually. * Everything is hot now and getting hotter. Everything seems off or wrong and it is hard to get your bearings because so few of the old landmarks remain. It is hard to believe that some things ever happened, that certain places ever existed. Sometimes I am convinced my memory is wrong or fooling me. The idea that there might be a United States. The idea that this vast and unruly countryside, these ruined cities, these endless refugee camps, might have once been something else. If no one invades us now and only some countries send food and aid, it is only because they too are under stress. Or because we are so fucked up and so many of us have so many weapons. Somewhere in the lost places, there are still nukes, too. Jeff VanderMeer’s “Trump Land.” * SF Cities Beyond Blade Runner. * Graverobbing the Star Wars Expanded Universe. * Source map from the first great comic book crossover. * TGIF! * Oh, this was so brutal to read. There but for the grace of God go I at least for now. Here are my vitals: I have more than $200,000 in student loans and $46,000 in credit card debt—all accumulated during my B.A., M.A., and Ph.D., and then search for a tenure-track job. My annual salary translates to a little more than $3,000 in monthly take-home pay. I pay $800 a month in rent, $1,100 in credit card bills (paying only the monthly minimums), $350 in student loans, and have $285 a month car payment. I also pay the usual insurances, utilities, groceries, gas, et al. I don’t have cable. Or a kitchen table. Or blinds on any of my windows. I’ve cancelled all magazine and newspaper subscriptions—an actual dilemma for a journalism professor. For my first year in Bangor I didn’t even have a bed. Instead I slept on a Target air mattress until it lost its breath; then I moved to the couch (which I had purchased on credit), until my back finally demanded I buy a bed (credit, again). * And of course you had me at A New Deep Space Nine Documentary Reveals What Would Have Happened in Season Eight. Here’s another good writeup. Tagged with academia, academic jobs, authoritarianism, autocracy, AWP, Barack Obama, bees, Blade Runner, Chuck Schumer, cities, class struggle, climate change, comic books, computers, concentration camps, Corey Robin, debt, Deep Space Nine, Democrats, deportation, documentary, Donald Trump, dystopia, endangered species, fascism, first-born children, Guadalupe García de Rayos, Heroes, humanity, immigration, impeachment, intelligence, Islamophobia, Ivanka Trump, Jaimee, Jeff Vandermeer, Kellyanne Conway, Kent State, kids, Kindred, letters of recommendation, libertarianism, Macs, malware, manifestos, maps, memory, metafiction, Michael Flynn, my scholarly empire, Nordstrom, Obama for America, Octavia Butler, our brains don't work, parents, poetry, politics, prison, prison-industrial complex, profiles in courage, protest, Putin, Rand Paul, reformism, resistance, Richard Rorty, Russia, sanctions, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, science, science fiction, solitary confinement, Stanford, Star Trek, Star Wars, Star Wars Expanded Universe, Steve Bannon, student movements, the Iliad, the Left, totalitarianism, Washington D.C., World of Warcraft Trumpsday Reading * Trump is targeting up to 8 million people for deportation. Making America Cruel Again. The triumph of cruelty. Inside the White House-Cabinet battle over Trump’s immigration order. 24 Hours at JFK. ‘Breathtaking violation of rights.’ Constitutional crisis. Hero Lawyers. Stop that plane: The frantic race to halt a deportation. A Q&A With the ACLU. Our New Itinerary. Travel ban causes high anxiety for Milwaukee’s international students. The little-noticed bombshell in Trump’s immigration order. Half Of World’s Refugees Are Running From U.S. Wars. Trump’s First Weeks Leave Washington— and the White House Staff—Panting. The leaks coming out of the Trump White House right now are totally bananas. Yes, all this happened. Gasp! Trust Records Show Trump Is Still Closely Tied to His Empire. Ivanka lied about the leaving the Trump organization too. Make War with Mexico Great Again. Trainwreck in Yemen. Even Australia. Onward to Iran! 14 Versions Of Trump’s Presidency, From #MAGA To Impeachment. Trump and the Republicans Are on a Suicide Mission Together. Editing Trump. Authoritarian Government Watch. We just let this one go without even making a big deal about it. And this one was crazy too! A Series of Unfortunate Events. This is fine. This is fine. This is fine. Seems legit. This is not normal. #TheResistance. A Reader for Trumplandia. Trump: A Resister’s Guide. SNL 1, 2, 3. Oh man. The law, in its majestic equality. 4 in 10. A whole year? Jesus. The numbers. A 3,900 percent increase. It takes 3.5% of a population engaged in sustained nonviolent resistance to topple brutal dictatorships. Here’s how much the anti-Trump protests cost, at Trump paid-turnout rates. Disobey. * I had a very brief segment on Wisconsin Public Radio last week discussing 1984 and the Trump administration. * The worst, most terrible things that the United States has done have almost never happened through an assault on American institutions; they’ve always happened through American institutions and practices. These are the elements of the American polity that have offered especially potent tools and instruments of intimidation and coercion: federalism, the separation of powers, social pluralism, and the rule of law. All the elements of the American experience that liberals and conservatives have so cherished as bulwarks of American freedom have also been sources and instruments of political fear. In all the cases I looked at, coercion, intimidation, repression, and violence were leveraged through these mechanisms, not in spite of them. * There is a style of political reasoning which the Trump moment lends itself to, which can be called conspiracism. Against omniscience. * Everyday Authoritarianism is Boring and Tolerable. * V-Milwaukee! * Vaughn Prison Uprising. * Screaming about Trump into a Well: A Text Adventure. * The Democratic Response to Gorsuch Is Easy: Just Say No. Why Democrats Should Oppose Neil Gorsuch. Make Republicans Nuke the Filibuster to Confirm Neil Gorsuch. * Football players at private institutions in college sports’ most competitive level are employees, the National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel stated this week, and will be treated as such if they seek protection against unfair labor practices. * Chris Ware on George Herriman. A rebuttal. * The African Speculative Fiction lecture series at the University of London. * Inside the Disney Vault. * The Hot New Brand of Higher Education. * Riot at Berkeley. #Milosexual and the Aesthetics of Fascism. * After-the-Horse-Has-Left-the-Barn Department. Well at least you’re sorry. * Who Cares If the Dow Jones Hit 20,000? * Under A New System, Clinton Could Have Won The Popular Vote By 5 Points And Still Lost. * The U.S. military’s stats on deadly airstrikes are wrong. Thousands have gone unreported. * Academics boycotting the U.S. * The end of Locked-In Syndrome… in the Twilight Zone. Okay so this really is like a news story straight out of Black Mirror – right down to the ending. pic.twitter.com/RrFaQ4SH3W — Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) February 1, 2017 * Same. * The new issue of the SFRA Review is up. * The Youth Group That Launched a Movement at Standing Rock. * Poker and the machines. * Guns, hostile lawmakers, and professional bigots are more dangerous to academic freedom than left-wing activists are. * Other Space, the best SF series no one but me watched. * Against the Constitution. Against the Supreme Court. * Video Game Voice Actor Strike Now Second-Longest In SAG History. * Zelda map size comparisons. * How a Cult That Believes Cats Are Divine Beings Ended Up in Tennessee. * How to Kellyanne Conway. * Why the voting age should be lowered to 16. * February 17 is the next time the general strike isn’t actually going to happen. * In the Trump International Penal Colony and Golf Resort. * Marquette in the ne — come on, again? * Also they enslaved and tortured generations of animals, but that’s not important right now. * no no no no no no no no * If you want a vision of the future. * …and now it’s canon. * Decolonizing Science Fiction. * How an Interstellar Starship Could Actually Explore Alpha Centauri. * How Astronauts’ Brains Are Changed By Spaceflight. * In the future, everyone will be hated by thousands of strangers for 15 minutes. * The Milwaukee Bucks Century. * The war comes to Whitefish Bay. * Pension giant TIAA is leading a global wave of deforestation and the destruction of small farmers’ livelihoods. * The richest society in human history. * And like Nietzsche said: it is forgetting, not remembering, that makes life possible. Tagged with #NoBan, #NoDAPL, 1984, A Series of Unfortunate Events, academia, academic boycotts, academic freedom, ACLU, Adam Kotsko, Afrofuturism, Alpha Centauri, alt right, America, Andy Warhol, animal rights, animals, animation, artificial intelligence, Australia, authoritarianism, basketball, Ben Shapiro, Berkeley, Black Mirror, brands, canon, cats, Charlie Brooker, Chris Ware, circuses, class strugle, cockroaches, college football, college sports, comics, conservativism, conspiracy theory, cults, decolonization, deforestation, Delaware, democracy, Disney, disobey, Donald Trump, dreams, drones, Electoral College, Facebook, fascism, FedEx, forgetting, free speech, games, general election 2020, general strike, George Herriman, George Orwell, guns, How the University Works, immigration, impeachment, infrastructure, intergenerational struggle, Iran, Islamophobia, JCC, Kafka, Kellyanne Conway, kids today, Krazy Kat, labor, Lemony Snicket, Locked-In Syndrome, maps, Marquette, Mars, Mexico, military-industrial complex, Milo Yiannopoulous, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Bucks, Minnesota, Mountain Goats, Nazis, NBA, NCAA, Neil Gorsuch, Nietzsche, Nintendo, NLRB, Other Space, our brains work in interesting ways, outer space, Paul Feig, Phobos, poker, politics, protest, Reddit, refugees, resistance, Ringling Brothers, riots, Saturday Night Live, science, science fiction, SFRA, sleep, social media, spaceships, Standing Rock, Star Wars, stress, strikes, Supreme Court, Tennessee, text adventures, the Cabinet, the Constitution, the courts, the filibuster, the Holocaust, the Jedi, the kids are all right, the law, the Senate, the stock market, this is why we can't have nice things, TIAA-CREF, Twitter, UWM, Vaughn Prison, Venn diagrams, Virginia, voting, war huh good god y'all what is it good for? absolutely nothing say it again, white nationalism, white supremacy, Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, Won't somebody think of the children?, Yemen, Zelda #NoBan Trump’s Muslim Ban Triggers Chaos, Heartbreak, and Resistance. Unknown number of U.S. permanent residents stuck overseas as a result of Trump’s immigration ban. Trump Visa Ban Also Applies to Foreigners With More Than One Passport, State Department Says. Inside the confusion of the Trump executive order and travel ban. Trump redefines the enemy and 15 years of counterterrorism policy. Malevolence Tempered by Incompetence. Could affect up to 500,000. This Is a Constitutional Crisis. Heartbreaking Refugee Stories Following Trump’s Muslim Ban. A Yazidi Refugee, Stranded at the Airport by Trump. Warm Welcome for Syrians in a Country About to Ban Them. Anne Frank and her family were also denied entry as refugees to the U.S. Boston-area academics are facing bans on entering US. University Of Michigan Defies Trump By Refusing To Release Immigration Status Of Students. Trump’s anti-immigration orders are ‘inhuman,’ says Newark archbishop. There Have Been No Fatal Terror Attacks In The U.S. By Immigrants From The 7 Banned Muslim Countries. Middle Eastern immigrants to U.S. confront upended lives. Hours after Trump signs Muslim ban, Texas mosque goes up in flames. The Lawyers Showed Up. Judge Blocks Trump Order on Refugees Amid Chaos and Outcry Worldwide. After His Own Lawyers Can’t Justify It. Giuliani not even pretending. Yes Netflix, yes Lyft, no Uber. Nothing can express more contempt for the ideology of legal immigration than what Trump has now done. Even the war machine doesn’t like it. A few hundred of my tweets from yesterday, if you want more. Donate to the IRC and the ACLU, if you can. Tagged with #NoBan, America, class strugle, disobey, Donald Trump, immigration, Islamophobia, politics, protest, refugees, resistance, the courts, the Holocaust, the law RT @cjstarr215: Can we circle back on this twitter.com/joebiden/statu… 2 hours ago RT @RussellHFilm: friend of mine posted this on FB lol https://t.co/SCl3JVNtjZ 2 hours ago	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line762
__label__cc	0.629767	0.370233	March 4, 2011 March 4, 2011 Glanzer Ryan’s US Travel Guide: Part 2 of 3 11. Wisconsin First Visit: August 1997 Most Recent Visit: February 2011 The Glanzer/Bell family road trip made one final stop before returning home as we spent a night with family in Janesville, WI in 1997. I have returned to Sconny often over the years—several times for Twins/Brewers series, a few times passing through en route to Chicago or other eastward destinations, and even just hopping a mile over the border to visit relatives in St. Croix Falls. In the summer of 2010, Lauren, Walsh, Sarah, and I canoed down the St. Croix River, which is the border between Minnesota and Wisconsin. When you drift to the east side of the river, you’re in Wisconsin; when you’re towards the right, you’re in Minnesota. I had WAY too much fun with that stupid novelty. But Wisconsin is a lovely place to visit; in some ways it’s even better than Minnesota. I mean they don’t close liquor stores on Sundays! Must-See Attraction: McGillicuddy’s Bar in Milwaukee after a Twins/Brewers game What to Avoid: The men’s room at the Corner Bar in Friendship. WISCONSIN: Tailgating before a Twins/Brewers game. 12. Nebraska First Visit: April 2000? Most Recent Visit: February 2006? Shockingly, I have very limited knowledge as to my first and last visits to Nebraska. It is very tricky because as many times as I’ve taken I-29 south from South Dakota on down towards Kansas City, it runs right along the Nebraska/Iowa border but never actually goes into Nebraska. In high school we went to the Student Extravaganza in Kearney in 2000, and I have gone to Nebraska so many times to visit Liz at college and Jason’s family. And I have at least twice driven through that horrible barren western half of the state on I-80 where no radio stations tune in. The only reason I know I haven’t visited Nebraska more recently than 2006 is last summer when Lauren and I visited Jordan’s family in Vermillion, we considered driving another mile south so Lauren could say she had been to Nebraska for the first time, but we opted against it. Must-See Attraction: Lisa’s Radial Cafe in Omaha What to Avoid: Western half of the state. NEBRASKA: Chris at a popular Omaha thrift shop. 13. Wyoming Most Recent Visit: March 2003 Wyoming is another state that has bridged the gap between Point A and Point B, but has never been the final destination. The Glanzers and Bells set off for a family reunion in Colorado in 2000, and spent a night in Cheyenne along the way. My only other visit there was on the way home from spring break 2003 when Brandon and I drove the length of the state after leaving Salt Lake City that morning. So really I’ve only spent portions of three days in Wyoming. I have very few stories to tell. Must-See Attraction: Rocky Mountains What to Avoid: Cheyenne Burger King 14. Colorado The family trip to Steamboat Springs for a family reunion in 2000 marked my first trip to Colorado. With friends Brandon and Kathy along, we tubed down the shallow Yuma River one day and went hiking in the Rockies another day. The craziest night in Colorado definitely took place on spring break in 2004 en route to Las Vegas, when the gang stopped at a Red Roof Inn near the Denver airport for the night. We went to a nearby bar and things got out of hand very quickly. We ended up inviting a dozen bar patrons up to our room for the after-party that night. The following day we walked the streets of Denver and ate at ESPN Zone. We also saw former Nuggets head coach Don Issel in a gas station. Must-See Attraction: Downtown Denver. What to Avoid: Tourist traps in Steamboat Springs. COLORADO: Two rad dudes checking out the Rocky Mountains. 15. Arizona First Visit: June 2000 Arizona is one of my favorite states to visit, if not #1 overall. I surprisingly spent quite a bit of time in Arizona in the early 2000s. In 2000, I went on a small school trip to Flagstaff for some sort of rural youth gathering at the campus of Northern Arizona. In 2003, Brandon and I road-tripped to Tucson for spring break and stayed with some friends from that Flagstaff trip. (Brandon eventually moved there permanently.) In 2004 the gang stopped at the Grand Canyon on the Las Vegas spring break trip. Some of the best Arizona moments include eating at the T.G.I.Friday’s in the outfield at Chase Field, seeing Diamondbacks and White Sox spring training games in Tucson, visiting the BioDome, the giant Navajo burger in Keyanta, Saguaro National Park, and watching a friend do a cartwheel over the Utah/Arizona border hand-first into a small cactus. Must-See Attraction: Spring training. What to Avoid: Cacti on the border. ARIZONA: Visiting the Grand Canyon on the way to Vegas in 2004. 16. California First Visit: April 2001 Most Recent Visit: January 2009 In 2001, some other students and I managed to somehow get a $10,000 grant to travel to San Francisco for the Kids Who Know and Do Conference and Expo. Brandon, Guy, and I gave our Stretch & Shades Technology lecture to one person, an Asian woman who wanted to know how to use the Print Screen key. Seriously, $10,000 was given to us for that. But we sure weren’t complaining, taking in all the sights of the city. I was back in San Fran again in 2007 for the Macworld trade show, and again in 2009. Brandon and I also drove over 100 miles out of the way on our road trip home from Tucson in 2003 to graze the eastern tip of California and the city of Needles just to say we were there. Must-See Attraction: Silver Cloud karaoke bar in San Francisco. What to Avoid: Moscone Center food court. CALIFORNIA: Visiting the world's crookedest street, Lombard Ave., in San Francisco in 2001. 17. Michigan First Visit: July 2001 The summer after high school graduation, Brandon, Guy, and I hit the road to Mattawan, Michigan to visit good friend Jesse Van Heukelom and family. While in Michigan, we went to the beach at Lake Michigan and a blues festival in Kalamazoo. On spring break 2005, the gang and I visited Liz in Detroit where she was living for a year. We frequented some sleazy bars, Fuddrucker’s, and for nightlife entertainment we went into Windsor, Canada. A historical highlight of our Detroit visit was when a few of the guys got out and peed on the old Tiger Stadium, which was still standing at the time. Must-See Attraction: What’s left of Tiger Stadium; Detroit Fuddrucker’s. What to Avoid: Paved streets in Detroit. MICHIGAN: The gang exploring barren downtown Detroit in 2005. 18. Ohio In the summer of 2003, Valleyfair co-workers Springer, Gwost, Libby, and I planned a summer trip to fellow Cedar Fair, LLC amusement park Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, the roller coaster capital of the world! It was doomed from the get-go in Springer’s AstroVan, as he cut a driver off while we were still in the Twin Cities and nearly hit someone. In Rockford, IL, the van crapped out on the side of the road and we waited for hours before getting a rental car and driving overnight to Ohio. I threw up in the backseat of the rental car after eating a whole pound of Hot Tamales. But we made it successfully and went on a ton of awesome rides. That Millennium Force roller coaster was worth the drive. It was on this trip that Springer and Libby first got together, and now they’re married with babies! Must-See Attraction: Cedar Point What to Avoid: The rest of Sandusky which smells like sulfur. OHIO: Springer, Libby, Gwost, and I reach Cedar Point 19. Oklahoma First and Only Visit: March 2003 When Brandon and I set out for Tucson on spring break ’03, it was Brandon’s original intent to drive directly to Tucson without stopping. But at 2am the first night, we hit Ardmore, Oklahoma and decided it was best to get some sleep and let the car rest for a while. We woke up the next morning, ate breakfast, and bid adieu to Oklahoma once and for all. Must-See Attraction: Days Inn in Ardmore What to Avoid: Free breakfast at hotel Naturally, the next state after Oklahoma on this same trip with Brandon was Texas. We wouldn’t have even visited either of these states if not for my idea to specifically go out of the way to drive through them because I had never been there. We hit Dallas in the morning and branched southwest through Abilene, Odessa, and eventually El Paso by night. We didn’t envision the state of Texas taking us nearly 24 hours, but as you know Texas is a huge state. And the drive through central Texas was painfully boring, right up there with western Nebraska in terms of entertainment. We stopped a couple times for gas and to move around, otherwise just kept on plugging along until we crossed the border into New Mexico, but that’s a story for next time. Must-See Attraction: The oil rigs along the side of the road. What to Avoid: El Paso McDonald’s. TEXAS: Stretching at a scenic stop along I-20 Previous Ryan’s US Travel Guide: Part 1 of 3 Next Ryan’s US Travel Guide: Part 3 of 3 RT @CoryBooker: It was very cold out today. It was -45. https://t.co/2XdMrzzHaW 29 minutes ago	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line763
__label__wiki	0.868085	0.868085	Goat Eggs Urban sketches and a little watercolor. Restoration begins at NASA for historic mission control Mind the process, not the results At One NASA Lab, Art And Science Share The Same Orbit Written by joeltexas A team of artists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratories created the Orbit Pavilion. Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech Nestled among palm trees at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens near Pasadena, Calif., there’s a mysterious, metallic structure that curls like a nautilus shell. It’s called the Orbit Pavilion, and it was created by a team of artists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratories, or JPL. Step inside the 17-foot-tall structure and you’ll hear otherworldly sounds triggered by the tracking signal of 19 orbiting satellites above Earth. "All day long they move all around you," says artist Dan Goods. "It’s much like listening to a bird sort of flying across the sky. And in this particular case, it’s satellites that are helping us understand the Earth." The Orbit Pavilion produces sounds based on orbiting satellites. Goods heads JPL’s visual strategy team, known as the Studio at JPL. His team has made travel posters for planets in distant galaxies, and they’ve simulated Jupiter’s churning atmosphere in a small room. They once drilled a hole in a grain of sand, then displayed it alongside six rooms filled with sand to give a sense of how tiny we are in the vast universe. Goods describes his team as "artists, designers, makers, thinkers helping come up with ways of telling the public about what NASA does, as well as helping scientists and engineers think about the future." He’s speaking from a wood-walled JPL conference room lined with the paintings of stern-faced former directors, including the one who hired him. Goods says, "The director of JPL gave me a six-month opportunity, and that was 14 years ago. What I find is that a lot of really creative people here — we think in similar ways. You know, we’re always trying to experiment; we’re trying to ask big questions and see where our experiments take us. It’s been an amazing place. It’s like a playground for nerds here." Projects like the Orbit Pavilion are meant to engage the public, but many of the team’s art experiments live on JPL’s highly secure Pasadena campus. (Those pieces are meant to reinvigorate scientists who may not get feedback from their projects for months, or even years.) Back in 2013, during its mission to Jupiter, NASA’s Juno space probe was set to make a brief pass near Earth, and Goods hatched a plan: Ham radio operators around the world would team up and contact the spacecraft in Morse code. "We ended up getting thousands of people all around the world to all signal at exactly the same time, and we had them say, ‘Hi,’ " he recalls. "… We got the data back, and we could actually hear them. But when you hear the sound, it’s beautiful because it really is these thousands of people from around the world all working together to do something. And it says ‘Hi.’ " Goods’ team works out of a nondescript trailer that’s packed with stuff — remnants from projects, architectural models, plans and images pinned-up on every conceivable patch of wall. David Delgado, Goods’ longtime collaborator, is working on a project inspired by a NASA satellite that tracks changes in water on Earth. "We have water that’s melting from the glaciers up in Greenland and going into the ocean," Delgado says. "So just to get a sense of where we are — I mean, how much water are we using, what’s going to happen in the future, rising sea levels — we’re building a digital water feature that will show the flow and movement of water around the Earth." They haven’t decided what final form that project will take. The Studio’s mission isn’t so different from that of JPL’s scientists: It aims to inspire a sense of wonder and encourage the public to think about the universe and our place in it. Andrew Limbong and Ted Robbins produced and edited this story for broadcast. Sydnee Monday and Nicole Cohen adapted it for the Web. via NPR.org http://ift.tt/2DJrwi0 Restoration begins at NASA for historic mission control Previous Mind the process, not the results Next @joelwalker @_HerbBaker @Jenna_Foertsch She is Herb and fortunate to be working in the best org on site! 1 day ago @TeachingOtter @SpaceCenterHou You will absolutely love it! Congratulations! 1 day ago @jackiantonovich It’s a little bit of a random list don’t you think? Dan’l Boone, Elvis and Helen Keller? 2 days ago @AndrewSolender Hey @TheCoonskinCap he left out General Bob Neyland and Peyton Manning. Maybe the new administratio… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 days ago @jackiantonovich Dolly Parton is the crowning touch... 6 days ago MAAS nursery path MAAS Nursery Cuzco Peru joelwalker@goateggs.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line765
__label__wiki	0.576761	0.576761	Human remains could be missing elderly The Grenlec secret deal “A crisis of homosexuality among young people in Grenada” Rachael Roberts on the attack Victory for Nazim Burke against PM Mitchell Grenada News News from Grenada Lotto under fire for helping NNP activist The Grenada National Lottery Authority (GNLA) is coming under fire for allegedly using state funds to put at the disposal of a political activist of the ruling New National Party (NNP) in the St. George North-east constituency to help with a Christmas Hamper programme. Opposition Leader, Tobias Clement who is… Diverge from Grenlec shares, NDC tells government Grenada’s main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has expressed grave concern that if the Keith Mitchell regime continues to hold onto the 72% majority shares of Grenlec that “it will open the door to further mismanagement, lack of transparency and accountability. The party made the charge in light of what… Gov’t urged to come clean on WRB settlement Where did the New National Party (NNP) government of Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell get the funds needed to repurchase the 72% majority shares in Grenlec from the Florida-based WRB Enterprises? This is the million dollar question still etched on the minds of many Grenadians, even after a virtual press… Hoteliers are “bawling”out for help The words used by one of Grenada’s leading hotel operator to describe the status of the tourism industry on the island since Covid-19 was first detected here in March 2020. The hotelier told THE NEW TODAY that the sector is currently on its death bed in Grenada. “We are fighting… Covid-19 case in Mt Horne linked to top NNP activist Details are beginning to emerge about the fear and panic created in Mt. Horne, St. Andrew over the presence of a positive Covid-19 individual in the village. THE NEW TODAY was told that several villagers including a top political activist for the ruling New National Party (NNP) in the constituency… Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 … 1,260 Next	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line769
__label__cc	0.664146	0.335854	Haris Zulfiqar Gutenberg Theme Styles Integration and almost WYSIWYG Post author By Haris Zulfiqar 3 Comments on Gutenberg Theme Styles Integration and almost WYSIWYG I am betting on Gutenberg. WordPress desperately needed a modern editing experience to evolve from the blogging platform it was, to the CMS that it is now. Competing with website builders like Wix, Squarespace, and Shopify that keeps chugging away at WordPress’s market share called for an obvious solution, an editor that made building websites easy. TinyMCE could never achieve this. Plugins and themes that built their own solutions helped but that required installing and configuring them to make WordPress ready to build websites. Gutenberg fills this gap. It is an important gap to fill and I’m glad that this is taken seriously. Recently, I’ve been trying to learn the reason behind the approach Gutenberg took in comparison to all the website builders out there. I asked this question on WordPress’s official slack channel. I wanted to understand the reason behind the choice of the backend approach of Gutenberg which requires writing CSS styles for both the frontend and backend, separately. I wanted to understand why Gutenberg didn’t take the approach of frontend editing experience from the get-go because that would offer tighter integration with the existing themes without additional requirements. We already have so many successful examples in the form of existing website builders. I couldn’t find an answer to it. I understand that Gutenberg was critical and we might eventually get to the point where frontend editing experience might be offered but my current opinion is that even with the full-site editing experience, we will still have almost WYSIWYG editing experience which is actually an inconvenience for the developers and strange for the users. According to the replies on the official WordPress slack, I was explained that this is simply a user-interface gap and Gutenberg blocks work similarly to the existing frontend editors (Elementor in this case). I understand their explanation behind the user-interface gap but this is a huge gap that doesn’t simply feel like a user-interface gap. From the tech perspective, Elementor only requires frontend markup once to build its block. Gutenberg, on the other hand, requires building a view for both backend edit and frontend save. For this same reason, I am hitting roadblocks in the development of my own Gutenberg plugin. I found an ugly workaround to match the styles in the frontend but it is still an almost WYSIWYG experience. This could have been avoided with a frontend editing experience. This causes inconvenience and a lack of full integration when developers don’t have full control over the theme’s style. To explain this further, theme editors need to update and build styles for Gutenberg blocks. In comparison to Elementor, this is not a requirement. 3 thoughts on “Gutenberg Theme Styles Integration and almost WYSIWYG” Matías April 16, 2020 at 10:36 pm Great reflections, Haris. I’ll try to cover some of the points. The main reason for the edit / save split comes from the reality that the ideal and most semantic markup for rendering content to visitors is not necessarily the most semantic (and accessible) markup for rendering the interactive model of the block within the editor, particularly when there is a design emphasis on direct manipulation. It’s more evident on those blocks where the interactive capabilities are richer but I’d say it remains an important aspect for all blocks to consider. The mindset sort of follows these two thoughts: “what is the most meaningful and simple markup we can save” and “what is the most intuitive interface for manipulating the content”. I believe Elementor also generally has a render function (for the front) and a _content_template (for the editor) in its widgets for similar purposes. That said, I’d consider the “almost WYSIWYG” problem you outline a bit separate from the edit / save split because it is important that we get closer towards a single way to define how a block should look even if there are differences in the editing and viewing output. A related challenge has been that the editor, so far, doesn’t utilize an iframe to render the content, so a theme supplying styles to blocks needs to be transformed into styles that target only the content and not the surrounding interface. There is some good progress towards consolidating the way a block author or theme can declare styles for blocks so that it works simultaneously in both places (plus native mobile apps!), but it’s work that requires some stepping stones first to do it gracefully and reliably for both block authors and theme authors alike. I’d be curious to see what are the main challenges you have faced as well. Haris Zulfiqar Post author April 18, 2020 at 12:41 pm Hi Mattias, Thank you for responding, I appreciate it. I appreciate the explanation on `edit` and `save` being done separately and I understand that Elementor and other page builders offer the same features but it seems optional. The block editor does give a huge boost to the editing experience of the blocks and `edit` definitely makes sense in that regard. I don’t have the full technical scope of the limitations but from what I can understand, this can still be done on the frontend. In my view, editing on the frontend would offer a smoother integration between blocks and themes with requiring a major update from the theme or plugin developer. GB in its current form will require all plugins and themes to update and manually add compatibility for the backend views. I understand that this is necessary to provide a user-friendly experience to the users but in my opinion. I’d be happy to share my experience. I have a really good demo of the problem I am experiencing. Matías April 19, 2020 at 1:41 pm Absolutely, would love to check it out 🙂 © 2021 Haris Zulfiqar	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line780
__label__wiki	0.874996	0.874996	Sandeman re-launches aged tawnies to "re-affirm leadership" in fastest growing UK Port category By Jo Gilbert Sandeman is aiming to put its stamp on the tawny category with its new look range of 10, 20, 30 and 40 year-old aged tawnies. Taking "cues" from the premium industry, the leading Port house has launched a new see-through glass bottle and Vinolok glass bottle stopper which promises to preserve the wine for 6-8 weeks once opened. Designers Stranger and Stranger helped to re-package the range, changing the bottle from a dark green to clear to allow visibility of the progression of colour from 10 to 40 old ports through the glass. The changes were made with the growth of the tawny category in the UK over the past five years in mind, and to draw in an audience of younger drinkers. Although only sales of tawny Port only accounts for 5% of the UK market, tawny is the fastest growing Port category in the UK. According to Sandeman, sales of tawny-style Ports rose by 30% this year compared to 2015, and saw a compound growth rate of 8% for 2011-2015. As competition ramps up for a share of this increasingly popular style, Gonçalo Sousa Machado, managing director of parent company Sogrape UK, said the re-vamped range has been design to re-affirm Sandeman's credentials to lead the category. "This is a ground-breaking new luxury package for the Port category and we believe it clearly demonstrates Sandeman's authority in Aged Tawny Port," he said. The UK is something of an anomaly when it comes to Port, with UK consumers favouring ruby in contrast with the majority of countires - including France - where tawny is the dominant style. Rupert Lovie, marketing manager at Sogrape, said traditional ways of consuming Port are slowing changing. "We're trying to break out of old port cues. Ruby was traditionally the favourite style in the UK but that's changing. We want to get away from this idea that the only Port is Ruby and that can only be drunk when you're eating cheese or toasting the Queen," he said. A re-launch of their ruby range is due to follow next year, followed by a new look for Sandeman's LBV and vintage Ports. Wines by type Jo Gilbert HWS - Jo Gilbert 'Progrigio' - the new budget Prosecco? New Waddesdon national sales director looks to expand Rothschild wines in the UK The week that was: top news, Q&As and opinion on Harpers.co.uk Brexit: Hush Heath reports rising demand post referendum	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line781
__label__wiki	0.778252	0.778252	Geek Girl We Love: Zoe Saldana by E. Peterman on Dec 09, 2009 June 24, 2012 Zoe Saldana landed on geeks’ radar screens in a major way via J.J. Abrams’ “Star Trek” movie last year, but she started showing the community some love as early as 2002. That’s the year she starred as Laila, the marching band dance team captain Nick Cannon wooed in “Drumline.” Yeah, the movie was set at a historically black college and suggested that band types could reach “Top Gun” levels of badassery, but there is nothing geekier than being in a marching band (I was) and taking it seriously (I did). Saldana went on to rock the role of Uhura —and her minidress — with aplomb. Like the rest of that great cast, she paid homage to a beloved character while bringing something fresh and unexpected to the table. She’ll be getting her geek on again soon as the extraterrestrial lead, Neytiri, in James Cameron’s “Avatar.” I’ll be honest; I can’t tell whether that movie is going to be amazing or “Battlefield Earth” terrible. But whatever happens, I’m so happy that a minority actress (Saldana is of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent) is getting high-profile film work that doesn’t require her to act alongside a man in drag or simply act as a sounding board/best friend. I mean, when my daughter told me she wanted to dress up as Uhura next Halloween, I almost turned a cartwheel. Interviews suggest that Saldana is not only comfortable with being, as the L.A. Times put it, “a queen of the Comic-Con tribe,” but genuinely stoked about it: “I’m very happy about that! I can’t think of better fans,” she told the paper. “These are people with a passion, and I love that. And science fiction is wonderful. We can’t limit our imagination, and that’s what science fiction never wants us to do.” (The interview, part of the L.A. Times‘ countdown to “Avatar,” is here. Saldana would be my pick to play Agent 355 in Hollywood’s version of Brian K. Vaughan’s “Y: The Last Man” (I hear the studio wants Alicia Keys. No. No. Please. No.), and also she’d make a lovely Isis if DC-Warner Brothers were so inclined. I’m looking forward to seeing how the “Star Trek” sequels develop Uhura’s character and her relationship with a certain Vulcan. And while the jury is out on “Avatar,” who am I kidding? I’m totally going to see it. Rock on, Zoe! Mom. Geek. Journalist. Geek Girl We Love, Zoe Saldana Previous: Wondy’s Undies Next: Naughty Boots	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line787
__label__wiki	0.513971	0.513971	Violent Northeast storms bring flooding, outages A series of intense, slow-moving thunderstorms unleashed high winds and torrential rains around the Northeast, causing widespread river flooding and ripping up streets in Vermont on Friday and leaving parts of central Pennsylvania and upstate New York without power. MONTPELIER, Vt. – A series of intense, slow-moving thunderstorms unleashed high winds and torrential rains around the Northeast, causing widespread river flooding and ripping up streets in Vermont on Friday and leaving parts of central Pennsylvania and upstate New York without power. About 200 people were forced from their homes in Vermont, and high winds toppled a circus tent in western Pennsylvania. Churning brown water from the rising Winooski River and a tributary flooded into the streets of Vermont's state capital, sending business owners with already-inundated basements scurrying to move merchandise from store windows to higher ground. "It looked like the river was right there on my porch," said Darlene Colby, 47, of Montpelier, who was woken up by police around 1 a.m. She gathered a bag for belongings for herself and 25-year-old son and spent the rest of the night at a shelter. School was cancelled for the day in Montpelier and a number of other communities in central Vermont and state workers were given a delayed opening. National Weather Service Meteorologist Peter Banacos said Friday the rain came from a front that stalled over central Vermont overnight. Plainfield, just east of Montpelier got 5.22 inches of rain, St. Johnsbury got 4.74 inches and Montpelier got 3.89 inches. The heavy rain caused flash-flooding in parts of northern New Hampshire, with some homes evacuated in the Littleton area and a few roads washed out. In western Pennsylvania, high winds toppled a circus tent, injuring five people including three children. One adult was struck in the head and hospitalized in intensive care after the Lewis and Clark Circus tent collapsed during a brief storm Thursday in Seward, Westmoreland County. Numerous strong storms wreaked havoc with roads and homes across the Pennsylvania. Damaging hail up to 2 inches in diameter was reported in in Franklin, Schuylkill, Cumberland and Northumberland counties. The National Weather Service was investigating several funnel cloud reports. Nearly 30,000 customers were still without in power in central Pennsylvania early Friday. In eastern New York, about 65,000 utility customers were without power. Most of the New York outages Friday were in the Binghamton area, where Thursday's violent storms brought torrential rain and winds that knocked over trees and brought down power lines. Downed trees and flooded roads were reported Thursday in the Lake Champlain community of Willsboro, and a lightning strike was blamed for setting a home on fire Thursday evening. No one was injured. Helicopter Crashes into Southern California Building Rooftop Snipers. Helicopters. A Hostage Team. Las Vegas Gears Up for New Year’s Eve. Son of city manager charged in death of doctor Lawyer: Baseline Killer suspect a 'ravenous wolf' Clinton urges reforms by new Tunisian govt Live by the Dow, Die by the Dow? Trump Is Quiet on Market	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line788
__label__cc	0.725058	0.274942	Home School Hub Category : Boarding , Early Intervention , Post Primary , Primary Just to let you know that because of the schools closing Home School Hub is being repeated and Home School Hub ISL and After School Hub The Best Bits ISL will also be rebroadcast on RTÉjr and streamed live on RTÉ Player. Details below: From Monday, Home School Hub ISL will transmit week days @ 1pm on RTÉjr. (UPC channel 600, Saorview channel 7, Sky channel 623) After School Hub Best Bits ISL will TX at 18:05 on Saturdays and Sundays on RTÉjr, starting Saturday 16th. All ISL versions of HSH are also available on RTE Player. All Irish Sign Language versions of Home School Hub available on RTÉ Player. An ISL version of Home School Hub will be available live streaming and for catch up on weekdays at 1pm. Also, ISL After School Hub Best Bits, on Saturday and Sundays at 6.05pm, will also live stream and be available for catch up. After School Hub (select the ISL option): https://www.rte.ie/player/series/after-school-hub-best-bits/SI0000008002 A full list of content available with ISL is available here: https://www.rte.ie/player/all-programmes/Irish-sign-language/rte-isl-programmes « Back to School – Online	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line792
__label__wiki	0.938387	0.938387	Horrified Press Audio Book Releases Barbwire Butterfly Books available titles Best of Horrified Press 2016 collection entries Bloody Kisses Press available titles Books on special offer Current acceptances Erebus Press available titles Full Moon Books available titles Horrified Press available titles PILGRIM OFF-FIFTH PRESS AVAILABLE TITLES Rogue Planet Press available titles Silent Fray Productions available titles Sinister Saints Press Available Titles Thirteen O’ Clock Press available titles Welcome to Rogue Planet Press, an imprint of Horrified Press. Rogue Planet Press is dedicated to publishing anthologies and novels in the twin genres of fantasy and science fiction. We aim to bring to the reader the cream of the newest talents in the realms of space opera and sword and sorcery, steampunk and cyberpunk and heroic fantasy. 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__label__cc	0.743083	0.256917	healthcarereimagined Envisioning healthcare for the 21st century While Trump Moves To Dismantle Health Law, Public Favors Repair – KHN Posted by timmreardon on 10/13/2017 By Jordan Rau October 13, 2017 President Donald Trump has collided with a wave of public disagreement by moving to strip the Affordable Care Act of provisions intended to keep insurance prices stable. In a poll conducted before Trump’s Thursday announcement of unilateral changes to the law, 71 percent of the public said they preferred the administration try to make the law work rather than to hasten replacement by encouraging its failure. Even Republicans, by a small margin, favored a more conciliatory approach to the law, according to the poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation. (Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent program of the foundation.) Trump took the opposite tact Thursday, in the wake of Congress’ failure to replace the 2010 law. He announced two actions that are likely to disrupt the insurance markets for people who buy their policies on their own rather than through their employers. First, he ordered the government to allow associations of small employers or other membership groups to band together and offer their own insurance that would not have to provide all the types of coverage required under the health law. That same executive order also directs officials to loosen rules for low-cost, short-term health insurance. Trump argues these changes would give consumers cheaper coverage options, while many health care experts fear it could shift insurance markets back toward their pre-ACA configuration, when healthy people paid less but people with medical conditions often found coverage unaffordable. Second, Trump ordered the government to stop paying insurers subsidies that allowed low-income people to avoid out-of-pocket medical costs that otherwise this year can be as high as $7,150 for individuals and $14,300 for families. Those insurance subsidies, technically known as cost-sharing reductions, or CSRs, had been embroiled in a legal and political battle between former President Barack Obama and Republicans over whether Congress had authorized the president to pay them. The foundation’s poll, conducted Oct. 5-10, found that 60 percent of the public thought Congress should guarantee that these payments continue. A majority of Republicans, however, considered them bailouts of insurance companies and thought they should cease. The poll found that 69 percent of the public favored broader bipartisan congressional compromise to continue the payments — as most Democrats desire — in exchange for allowing states to have greater (but unspecified) flexibility in what kind of plans could be sold on their marketplaces, as Republicans generally favor. Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) have been trying to forge a deal to stabilize insurance markets that could draw support from both parties. The poll found that support for a compromise was equally strong among independents and members of both political parties. The poll found no such comity in the views of most other issues relating to the health law. Democrats overwhelmingly want Trump and Congress to work together to stabilize the marketplaces, while Republicans by a narrow margin prefer lawmakers resuscitate efforts to replace the law. A majority of Republicans (56 percent) are confident Trump and Congress can work together on improving health care, while only 1 in 7 Democrats (14 percent) think so. Independents leaned toward the Democrats’ skepticism. Even before Trump’s actions Thursday, 66 percent of Democrats thought his approach was undermining the insurance markets, but only 12 percent of Republicans thought so. Among independents, 41 percent thought Trump was hurting the markets. The poll found similar partisan divides on many of the other current debates over the law, including whether the government should fine people who do not obtain insurance and whether the federal government should spend less on advertisements encouraging people to sign up for coverage. The federal enrollment period for 2018 coverage begins Nov. 1 and runs through Dec. 15. The telephone poll included 1,215 adults. Its margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points for the full sample. 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__label__cc	0.706268	0.293732	By Kevin RocheNovember 27, 2009Headlines Big Pharma Sells Out DrugsPharmaceutical The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at [email protected]. Healthy Skeptic Podcast As is usually the case in health care, the big just keep getting bigger. UnitedHealth Group’s Optum division is buying NaviHealth, which helps manage post-acute care for Medicare Advantage members. Stellar Health shines as it raises $10 million in new financing for its business of aiding providers and payers in doing value-based care. The Office of the Actuary annual report on national health spending, covering 2018. 2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Employer Health Benefits Report Previous PostWall Street Journal Next PostBloomberg The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry through Roche Consulting, LLC. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements and may be reached at [email protected]. © Roche Consulting, LLC. Terms of Use. © 2021 Healthy Skeptic.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line799
__label__cc	0.613794	0.386206	Sarah K Kreations- Architectural Artist July 5, 2018 July 1, 2020 by hellogorjessblog I absolutely love art and have a deep appreciation for artists (most likely because I wish I had artistic ability). I had the pleasure of meeting Sarah Hebert, a local Houma artist who has captivated my artistic interest with her extraordinary artwork. I began following Sarah last year on Instagram and fell in love with her neutral color palette and detailed aesthetic when capturing staples of Louisiana culture. Sarah says, “About a year ago, I really starting expressing my love for architecture, especially New Orleans architecture. I can’t take a trip to the city without obsessing over the gorgeous buildings anywhere from the French quarter, to the colorful shotgun homes, to the stunning uptown gallery style homes. Another one of my favorite things to paint are the iron street lights throughout downtown Nola or the amazing ironwork in the rails and fencing in the French Quarter.” When viewing Sarah’s work in person, the detail throughout her collection had me awestruck! The amount of detail that goes into each piece is truly something you must all see in person. Sarah, a Nicholls graduate, wanted to put her marketing degree to use by combining her hidden talent and artistic ability. Many of her friends and family knew of her artistic ability, so Sarah decided to open up her own Etsy shop to put her marketing degree to use while being able to express herself creatively. Sarah says, “Although I have never taken a single art class, I can remember many people saying I should follow through with my talent, but at the time I just thought of it as a hobby.” The story of where Sarah’s talent derives is truly inspiring. At the age of 38, Sarah’s great grandfather was diagnosed a quadriplegic from contracting polio. Her great father, an active farmer and mechanic, who was faced with a life-altering future, was encouraged by her great grandmother to take up a hobby. Sarah’s great grandmother suggested that her great-grandfather take up painting, an unfamiliar teritiory in which he could express himself freely. “I do feel that I inherited at least a piece of my talent from my great grandfather that I didn’t have the chance to meet, says Sarah. He started with number paintings and that developed into “free mouth” paintings. Yes, he painted all of his painting with a paintbrush in his mouth. He completely taught himself this newfound talent despite the obstacles life threw at him, so his story is a huge motivator for me.” Her great grandfather is the definition of talent. This painting of a Louisiana boat hangs in Sarah’s studio. This is one of the paintings Sarah inherited from her great grandfather. She told me that having this picture hanging in her studio is a constant motivator as she works on the new pieces in her collection. Just as her great grandfather, Sarah’s work is inspired by Louisiana culture. She says, “Not only does the architecture majorly inspire my work, but the culture ties everything together in making New Orleans the city that it is. Of course, I can’t resist painting Louisiana’s beautiful magnolias or good ‘ol seafood, like oysters and crabs, that is obviously a HUGE part of the culture here. There’s just so much more than “Louisiana swamps” that I feel so many people stereotype it to be and I try to bring out that beauty and the details in my work.” Sarah’s talent is truly extraordinary. I can’t express that enough! I left her studio feeling so inspired. My goal when starting this blog was for this to not only be a reflection of me, but the area in which I live. Sarah has managed to capture staples of our culture and heritage and find beauty in the detail of something as simple as the New Orleans style fencing and street lights. For the future of her busines, Sarah says, “I would love to have my own gallery one day, but it’s more important for me to work with homeowners and designers to create the perfect pieces to accent their homes! For people living in this state, it’s a reminder of the uniqueness their home state has to offer. I have painted pieces for people that have moved away from Louisiana, and I can tell you that it is so rewarding to hear that I have created a piece for them that “brings them back home.” If any of you are interested and eager to see Sarah’s work in person, you can find much of her work at Furnish in New Orleans. I guarantee you will not leave empty handed or disappointed. It was such a pleasure to feature Sarah and her work on the blog. Be sure to follow her on social media (instagram), (facebook) to keep up with the latest pieces in her collection! Stay GorJess Best Louisiana Etsy Shops What’s All The Hype About Collagen?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line803
__label__cc	0.546718	0.453282	Home \| Keynote Address/Plenary Speech at Symposium/Conference Read the rest of this page Hisashi Kobayashi – Keynote Address, etc. (54) K1. System Modeling and Analysis (10) K2. Communications and Networks (6) K3. Technology Overview (2) K4. Creativity and Innovation (3) K5. Research Management (2) K6. International Competition and Cooperation (3) K7. PRML: Capitalizing on Analogy (8) K8. Network Security (2) K9. University Education and Human Capital Development (8) K10: Future Internet Architecture (6) K11. Other Topics (4) K1-1. Plenary Speech, “Queueing Models,” NSF Symposium on Modeling and Analysis of Data Networks, Washington, D.C., March 1976. K1-2. Plenary Speech, “Computer System Modeling,” International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) Seminar, Delft, The Netherlands, October 1977. K1-3. Plenary Speech, The Operating System Theory Symposium, Visegrad, Hungary, December 1979. K1-4. Plenary Speech, The Dutch Operations Research Symposium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January 1980. K1-5 Plenary Speech, “Analytic Models of Computer Performance,” The 10th IFIP Conference on System Modeling and Optimization, New York City, September 1981. K1-6. Plenary Speech, “Analytic Models of Computer Performance,” SEARC Computer Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 1982. K1-7. Opening Speech, Performance ’84 Symposium, Paris, France, December 1984. K1-8. Opening Speech, 1987 Symposium on Simulation of Computer Networks, Colorado Springs, CO, August 1987. K1-9. Keynote Address, “Product-Form Networks and Computational Algorithms,” The IFIP WG.7.3 Workshop on System Modeling and Analysis, May 16 & 17, 2007 at Cologne, Germany. K1-10. Plenary Lecture, “Queueing and Loss Network Models: Computational Algorithms and Asymptotic Analysis,” 12th WSEAS International Conference on Communications, July 23-25, 2008, Heraklion, Greece. (see http://www.wseas.org/conferences/2008/greece/iccom/) K2. Communications and Networks (6), K2-1. Plenary Speech, NATO Advanced Study Institute on “New Concepts in Multi-User Communications,” Norwich, England, August 1980. K2-2. Keynote Address, “High-Speed Communication Networks,” ISR Workshop on New Directions in Super-Computing, Aoyama Tepia, Tokyo: December 11, 1991 K2-3. Plenary Speech, “High-Speed Communication Networks: Architectures and Performance,” IEEE Singapore International Conference on Networks & International Conference on Information Engineering’93 (SICON/ICIE ’93), Singapore, September 8, 1993. K2-4. Lecture, “Global Telecommunications,” Distinguished Lecture Series, University of California, Irvine. October 21, 1993. K2-5. Plenary Speech, “Telecommunication Revolution,” 2nd IEEE Malaysia International Conference on Communications (MICC95), Langkawi, Malaysia, November 20-22, 1995. K2-6. 基調報告「テレコミュニケーション革命―あなたは今、世の中で何が起きているか知っていますか？」日本大学総合科学研究所リサーチセミナープログラム、平成8年7月12日、日本大学会館 Keynote Report: “Telecommunications Revolution: Do you know What is happening in the World?” at Research Seminar Program, Nihon University, Advanced Research Institute for Sciences and Humanities. July 12, 1996. K3-1. Plenary Speech, “A Perspective of Computer Technology,” KISS (Korean Information Science Society), Seoul, Korea, October 1984. K3-2. Keynote Address, Worldwide Chain Store System (WCSS)’s Tenth Annual User Conference, Chicago, IL, June 13, 1988. K4-1. Plenary Speech, “Scientific Creativity and Engineering Innovation in Japan,” The AAAS Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, February 1987 (published in the Proceedings). K4-2. Keynote Address, “Creativity in Research & Development,” The 7th New Energy Industrial Symposium, October 1987, Tokyo (published in the Proceedings). K4-3. パネリスト｢90年代イノベーションの方向と波及｣ 1991国際経済経営会議、シンポジウム3、都ホテル東京、1991年3月18-19日 Panelist “1990’s Innovations: Directions and Influences,” 1991 International Conference on Economics & Management, Miyako Hotel-Tokyo, March 18-19, 1991 K5-1. 記念講演｢米国にみる研究・開発マネジメントの実際｣　研究・開発マネジメント・フォーラム’88．研究環境と人材開発、明治記念館、1988年11月17日Commemoration Speech, R&D Management Forum ’88, sponsored by Nihon Keizai Newspaper, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 17, 1988. K5-2. 特別講演「21世紀における研究所の体質は如何にあるべきか？」独立行政法人産業技術総合研究所設立記念式典講演会. 2001年4月9日 Special Lecture, “What should a research organization in the 21st century strive for?” At the Opening Ceremony of National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology (AIST), Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Tokyo, Japan, April 9, 2001. K6-1. Keynote Address, “International Frictions in Science and Technology,” IEEE Data Engineering Conference, Kobe, Japan, April 11, 1991. K6-2. Keynote Address, “Technological Competition and Cooperation,” at the 1991 International Conference on the Performance of Distributed Systems and Integrated Communication Networks, Kyoto, Japan, September 10, 1991. K6-3. 特別講演｢科学技術の研究における国際間の摩擦と協力について｣ 1991年度鹿島技術研究所研究報告会、1991年11月7日 Keynote Address, “International Frictions in Science and Technology,” (in Japanese) Kajima Corporation’s Annual Research Conference, Tokyo, November 7, 1991. K7-1. Plenary Lecture, “Capitalizing on Analogies between Different Applications in Stochastic Modeling,” The 9th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, June 5-8, 2005. K7-2. Keynote Address, “Capitalizing on Analogies between Different Applications in Stochastic Modeling,” at the Second International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine2005), Orlando Florida, August 22 -24, 2005. K7-3. Award Lecture, “35 years of Progress in Digital Recording,” (coauthored by F. Dolivo and E. Eleftheriou of IBM Zurich Research Lab), at The 2005 Eduward Rhein Technology Award Lecture, October 2005 at Technical University of Munich, Germany K7-4. Invited Lecture, “Capitalizing on Analogies between Different Applications in Stochastic Modeling,” at the University of Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro, sponsored by the Serbian Academy of Engineering, October 21, 2005. K7-5. Invited Lecture, “Capitalizing on Analogies between Different Applications in Stochastic Modeling,” in the Michigan State Distinguished Lecture Series, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, November 3, 2005. K7-6. Keynote lecture, “Thirty Yeas’ Progress in Digital Recording,” at the 2006 Hawaii, IEICE, and SITA Joint Conference on Information Theory, held at Nara, Japan on May 23-26, 2006. http://www.ieice.org/~it/HISC06/ K7-7. Invited Lecture, “Capitalizing on Analogies between Different Applications in Stochastic Modeling,” at IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, February 27, 2006. K7-8. Keynote Address, “35 years of Progress in Digital Recording,” (coauthored by F. Dolivo and E. Eleftheriou of IBM Zurich Research Lab) The 11th International Symposium on Problems of Redundancy in Information and Control Systems, July 2-6, 2007, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. http://www.k36.org/redundancy2007/files/itsn.pdf (This talk was based on an updated version of The 2005 Edward Rhein Technology Award Lecture,” given in October 2005 at Munich, Germany). K8-1. Invited Lecture, “Security of Ad Hoc Wireless Networks,” in the Networked Systems Distinguished Lecture Series, University of California at Irvine, March 12, 2004. K8-2. Lecture, “Network Security,” Corporate Affiliate Program, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, May 2004. K9-1. 講演「米国から見た日本の大学の良い点、悪い点とその改善策」、国際シンポジウム「大学における教育と研究―21世紀に向けての新展開」三田共用会議所、平成6年1月10-11日, 講演要旨（平成6年12月発行） pp.10-14 Keynote Address, “How to Improve the Japanese University System,” International Symposium on University Reform (sponsored by the Ministry of Education), Tokyo Japan, January 8-10, 1994. Proceedings (published in December 1994) pp. 10-14. K9-2. 招待講演「日本とアメリカの大学が抱える課題」第二回大学改革シンポジウム、文部省・東京大学　1996年11月26-27日 Plenary Speech, “Japanese and U.S. Universities: Their Issues and Challenges,” The Second University Reform Symposium, The Ministry of Education and the University of Tokyo, November 26-27, 1996. K9-3. 招待講演「日米の大学の抱える問題点：我々は如何に取り組むべきか？」21世紀に向けての産官学連携戦略―ネットワーク社会における科学と産業―AGIP21 奈良先端科学技術大学院大学（NAIST）平成8年11月28-29日 Plenary Speech, “Japanese and U.S. Universities: Their Issues and Challenges”, Symposium on Strategies for Academia-Government-Industry Partnerships Towards the 21 st Century (AGIP21), Nara Institute of Science & Technology (NAIST), Nara, Japan, November 28-29, 1996. K9-4. Keynote Address, “University in the 21st Century,” The First Symposium of Graduate School of Information Science Technology, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, November 11, 2002. K9-5. Keynote Address, “The Role of Higher Education in the Age of Globalization,” at Conference on “Higher Education Reform in Japan and Germany—Taking Stock and Looking Ahead,” Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall, February 28, 2006. K9-6. Keynote Address, “The Higher Education in the Age of Globalization,” at The Japanese-German University Presidents’ meeting: Higher Education Reform in Japan and Germany-Taking Stock and Looking Ahead, held on February 28, 2006 at Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall, National Center of Science Building, Tokyo. http://www.hrk.de/eng/hrk\_international/hrk\_international\_1821.php http://www.hrk.de/eng/download/dateien/Programme\_Jap\_Engl.pdf The abstract of my speech is found at http://www.princeton.edu/kobayashi/eng/news.html The slides are found at http://www.hrk.de/eng/download/dateien/Vortrag\_Kobayashi.pdf K9-7. 招待講演「グローバル時代の人材育成」第21回六甲会議、神戸ポートピア、2010年4月16－17日 Plenary Speech, “Human Capital Development in the Global Age” The 21st Rokko Conference, held at Kobe Portopia Hotel, April 17-18, 2010. (https://hp.hisashikobayashi.com/?p=170) K9-8. 招待講演「国際競争力へ向けての人材育成」日本学術振興会・先導的研究開発委員会、2012年11月27日 Invited Speech, “Human Capital Development for International Competitiveness,” at The JSPS Research and Development Technical Committee Meeting, Nov. 27, 2012 K10-1. 基調講演「新世代ネットワーク・アーキテクチュア：機会と課題」ＮＩＣＴ京阪名研究所の開所記念式典、2008年6月23日 Keynote Address, “New-Generation Network Architecture: Its Opportunities and Challenges,” at the Opening Ceremony of the NICT Keihanna Laboratory, June 23, 2008 at Keihanna, Japan. https://hp.hisashikobayashi.com/?p=132 K10-2. H. Kobayashi, “Keynote Address: Network Virtualization- Its concept and performance aspect,” ITC specialist seminar, May 18-20, 2009 at Hoi An, Vietnam. (http://www.itcspecialistseminar.com/keynote.php) K10-3. Keynote Address, “An End to the End-to-End Arguments,” Euroview 2009, July 27-28, 2009, Univ. of Wuertzburg, Germany (see http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/euroview/2009/ ) K10-4. H. Kobayashi, Keynote Addres: The New Generation Network (NwGN) Project: Its Promises and Challenges,” The NICT New Vision Symposium, November 9, 2011 at Tokyo Conference Center, Shinagawa. K10-5. H. Kobayashi, “Keynote Address: Modeling and Analysis Issues in the Future Internet,” at the 24th International Teletraffic Congress, September 4-7, 2012, Kraków, Poland. K10-6. 招待講演「ビッグ・データと将来のネットワーク：米国からの展望」第7回新世代ネットワーク推進フォーラム、ホテルフラシオン青山、2013年1月16日 Plenary Speech, “Big Data and Future Networks: A Perspective from the United States,” 7th New Generation Network Promotion Forum, Hotel Floracion Aoyama, Tokyo, January 16, 2013. K11-1. Keynote Speech, “Ludwig Boltzmann: His Impacts on Information and Communications Technologies,” at the Symposium honoring Ludwig Boltzmann (Ludwig Boltzmann: February 20, 1844 -September 5, 1906), February 20, 2009, Austrian Embassy, Tokyo. K11-2. 祝辞「東京大学大学院入学式での祝辞」日本武道館、2010年4月12日ビデオ：http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfJDYeKdWXs Guest Speech, The Matriculation Ceremony of the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo, April 12, 2010 (see https://hp.hisashikobayashi.com/?p=167 for English translation of the speech, and for video in YouTube). K11-3. 講演「2012年Ｃ＆Ｃ賞受賞記念講演 ANA インターコンテイネンタル・ホテル東京での式典，2011年11月28日 Lecture, “Speech at the 2012 C&C Prize Ceremony,” ANA Intercontinental Hotel Tokyo, November 11, 2012. K11-4. 招待講演「小林昭七の生涯と業績」桑港赤門会の年次総会、2013年2月9日 Invited Speech, “The life and achievements of Shoshichi Kobayashi,” at the Annual Meeting of San Francisco Akamon-kai (Alumni of UTokyo).	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line806
__label__cc	0.530436	0.469564	Tag Archives: biographical sports-drama film Movie Time …. “Race: Jesse Owens and the 1936 Olympics”!! Posted on February 20, 2016 by Dr. Rex ~~February 20, 2016~~ Incredible true story of Gold Champion Jessie Owens I went to the movies yesterday. I had seen the previews of this film and I knew it was a “must-see” for me. I have seen some reviews. It seems that some critics feel that the film didn’t “perform” as expected. I don’t really follow what critics say. Most of the time, in my humble opinion .. like the weathermen … they are wrong. I enjoyed the movie thoroughly. For history buffs, for sports fans and for any interested in periods of time where ignorance, bigotry, racism and prejudice were the “law of the land” (Wait … isn’t it still?) Race is a 2016 biographical sports-drama film. It is the second feature biopic film about African American athlete Jesse Owens, who won a record-breaking four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. Directed by Stephen Hopkins and written by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse, the film stars Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Jeremy Irons, William Hurt, and Carice van Houten. Principal photography began on July 24, 2014, in Montreal, Canada. Forecast Pictures, Solo Films, and Trinity Race produced the film, Entertainment One released the film in Canada, Focus Features and TriStar Pictures in the United States on February 19, 2016, and Square One Entertainment will release in Germany on May 5, 2016. The film was supported by the Owens family, the Jesse Owens Foundation, the Jesse Owens Trust and the Luminary Group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(2016_film) ~~GRAPHICS SOURCE~~ I do not own these images. No intention of taking credit. If anyone knows the owner of any, please advise and it will be corrected immediately. ~JESSE OWENS~ James Cleveland “Jesse” Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete and four-time Olympic gold medalist. Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as “perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history”. His achievement of setting three world records and tying another in less than an hour at the 1935 Big Ten track meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been called “the greatest 45 minutes ever in sport” and has never been equaled. At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin,Germany, Owens won international fame with four gold medals: 100 meters, 200 meters, long jump, and 4 × 100 meter relay. He was the most successful athlete at the games and as such has been credited with “single-handedly crushing Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy.” In 1936, Owens arrived in Berlin to compete for the United States at the Summer Olympics. According to fellow American athlete James LuValle, who won bronze in the 400 meters, Owens arrived in Berlin to a throng of fans, many of them young girls, yelling “Wo ist Jesse? Wo ist Jesse?” Many of them had come with scissors and had begun snipping at Owens’ clothing, forcing him to retreat back onto the train. After that, when Owens left the athletes’ village, he usually had to go with some soldiers to protect him. In contrast, Adolf Hitler was using the games to show the world a resurgent Nazi Germany.He and other government officials had high hopes that German athletes would dominate the games with victories. Meanwhile, Nazi propaganda promoted concepts of “Aryan racial superiority” and depicted others, including those of African descent, as inferior. Owens countered this by winning four gold medals. …. and the rest is history …. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Owens ~~Race Official Trailer~~ Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis Biographical Drama Movie ~~Published on Oct 14, 2015~~ (2016 Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis Biographical Drama Movie #MovieTime #AmericanDramaFilm #Race #IncredibleTrueStory #GoldChampion #JessieOwens #BiographicalSportsDramaFilm #AfricanAmericanAthlete #RecordBreakinFourGoldMedals #BerlinOlympicGames # AdolfHitler #NaziGermany #GreatestMostFamousAthlete #TrackFieldHistory #SingleHandedly #HitlersMyth #AryanSupremacy Posted in Equality \| Tagged "It Is What It Is", #MovieTime #AmericanDramaFilm #Race #IncredibleTrueStory #GoldChampion #JessieOwens #BiographicalSportsDramaFilm #AfricanAmericanAthlete #RecordBreakinFourGoldMedals #BerlinOlympicGames # AdolfHitler , 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, 1936 Olympics, 1936 Summer Olympics, African American athlete Jesse Owens, Anna Waterhouse, Aryan supremacy, autibiography, bigotry, biographical sports-drama film, Blacks, Dr Rex Equality News Information Education, Germany, gold champion, Hitler, Hitler's myth, Horty, HortyRex ©, ignorance, James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens, Jesse Owens, Jews, Joe Shrapnel, LGBT community, LGBT community Orlando Florida We all are one, long jump, Movie time, movies, Nazi Germany, prejudice, race, racism, record-breaking four gold medals, single-handedly crushing, sports, sprints, Stephen Hopkins, track and field, track and field athlete, USA, We ALL are ONE, We Are All Connected, we are all one, We are ONE, We are the Voice of the Voiceless, youtube video, youtube video LGBT community Orlando Florida We all are one \| 2 Replies	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line807
__label__cc	0.657589	0.342411	Corto Maltese - Ballad of the Salt Sea Pintstein Corto Maltese - The Ballad of the Salt Sea From Hugo Pratt's masterpiece comic book, comes the first adventure of the adventurer Corto Maltese, the captain without a ship. In The Ballad of the Salt Sea, we find Corto lost at sea tied to a raft, only to be rescued by the infamous scoundrel Rasputin and brought aboard his Fijian Catamaran ship. Together with First-Mate Cranio, they navigate the treacherous waters of the South Pacific. They eventually reach the "Escondida" Island, the lair of the mysterious pirate king, known only as the "The Monk". This set would include Rasputin's Catamaran (~390 pieces) and The Monk's Throne (~100 pieces), plus a small display "island" for the minifigures. This means that the project could easily be made into a€/$49,99 set. With the ship I tried to recreate Pratt's design while keeping the size manageable and adding some play features. It has a two-story deck, with intricate weaving pattern on the outer walls. The roof is detachable to allow easy access to the bottom floor. The mast if fully articulated, as are the traditional melanesian sail's edges. There is a secret trap-door for smuggling on the ship's bottom. The minifigure display stand doubles as an Escondida Island beachfront, and can be placed in front of the Monk's Throne. Essential minifigures would be: Corto Maltese - the "rogue with a heart of gold", the captain without ship, an adventurer who likes to carve out his own destiny where nature failed to assign him one. He has seen wars and revolutions, but keeps his allegiances to himself. Rasputin - a trickster, thief and, at the moment, a pirate of the South Seas, deep down he is not as bad has he seems. Very deep down... Cranio - the Melanesian first-mate of Rasputin's Fijian catamaran, Cranio is an excellent sailor and a better henchman... The Monk - the elusive and mysterious Pirate King of the South Seas, The Monk controls all traffic from his stronghold at the Escondida Island. Additional minifigures (not necessarily because they are less relevant to the story, but simply because they would make less iconic minifigures): Pandora and Cain Groovesnore - British cousins, rescued from a shipwreck. Tarao - a Maori sailor from New Zealand, also rescued from the shipwreck. I hope you like the project and all comments and suggestions are more than welcome. Check out my other projects: After Jules Verne: Robur's Albatross, Clipper of the Clouds The Crimson Thunder More on Corto Maltese and The Ballad of the Salt Sea: Wikipedia entry (english) Wikipedia entry (french, much more information) A review of the book And another one Browse through these images to see Hugo Pratt's awesome artwork	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line812
__label__cc	0.546406	0.453594	Our inequality research spans all areas of Institute research to examine how systems of inequality and disadvantage arise, and how they can be addressed to improve social and economic outcomes. ISSR takes a particular interest in social mobility, focusing on areas of an individual’s life that can be leveraged to improve social and economic outcomes, such as education and employment. We also investigate the determinants of disadvantage and wellbeing to uncover the characteristics that influence a person’s ability to make constructive changes. Contact us for partnership opportunities Engagement and impact ISSR Director joins Lateline panel discussion on the Priority Investment Approach to Welfare Dr Cassandra Goldie, Sally Sinclair, Prof Mark Western, and David Lipson Should Australians lose their welfare benefits if they don’t comply with the government’s new welfare rules? That was the question put to an expert panel including ISSR Director, Professor Mark Western, on Lateline on Friday 23 September 2016. Professor Western joined host David Lipson, Sally Sinclair, CEO of the National Employment Services Association and Dr Cassandra Goldie, CEO of the Australian Council of Social Service to discuss the government’s recently announced Priority Investment Approach to Welfare. Watch the ABC Lateline vodcast Welfare dependency or inherited disadvantage? Are hard work and individual effort enough to help a person break free from a life of disadvantage, or are there systemic inequalities that prevent some people from becoming the masters of their own destiny? ISSR's Director, Professor Mark Western, and the Life Course Centre's Director, Professor Janeen Baxter, discussed these questions with a public audience at The University of Queensland’s Global Leadership Series public lecture on Wednesday 16 November, where they provided insights into tried and tested interventions that have been making inroads to even out the playing field. Read more in the ISSR article Learning catalysts: Improving educational outcomes for disadvantaged children The Learning Catalysts project investigates factors associated with educational success based on a study of 34,000 disadvantaged young people and their families. The project aimed to examine the circumstances of disadvantaged young people and their families, identify factors contributing to improved educational outcomes and address the objectives of the partner organisation, the Smith Family (TSF), to support educational outcomes. We employed an innovative approach that combines the analysis of detailed administrative data on TSF Learning for Life (LFL) scholarship holders and their families, student achievement data from school reports, a purpose-built supplementary survey and in-depth qualitative interviews. Read our story (PDF 91 kb) Social Networks & Health & Wellbeing Social science and social policy increasingly recognise that people’s family, friendship and other networks matter for their health and well-being. But it remains unclear why networks are important and what kinds of positive and negative effects they might have.... Read more Utilisation of Social Science Research Academics lament that policy-makers ignore their research, while policy decision-makers argue that academic research is largely irrelevant to their needs. This project aims to reconcile these two positions by investigating social science research utilisation within public sector agencies.... Read more The impact of the place of living on social participation and wellbeing in older age This study explores the links between place of living, social participation and wellbeing at older age using data from large-scale panel surveys covering Australia and other countries. Environmental conditions, such as housing and neighbourhood conditions, can impact on societal participation by older people.... Read more Privacy & Terms of use \| Feedback \| Updated: 12 Feb 2020	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line818
__label__cc	0.514668	0.485332	Seattle Teachers Go On Strike, Say It’s “About Caring For What’s Right for Our Kids” Mario Vasquez September 8, 2015 Since late April, Washington state teachers have been striking for reduced class sizes and better funding for classroom programs. (Washington Educators Association / Facebook) UPDATE: Seattle teachers did not come to a settlement with the school district last night, and teachers walked off the job this morning. The Seattle Education Association, representing 5,000 teachers in Seattle Public Schools, voted to strike unanimously last Thursday, declaring that they will not be working the first day of school on September 9 if an agreement between the district and the union cannot be reached. “There was incredible passion around the issues tonight,” SEA Vice-President and bargaining team chair Phyllis Campano told In These Times after the unanimous vote. “It really, truly is about caring for our kids and what’s right for our kids. We don’t want to strike, but we feel that’s our only option right now.” After participating in over 20 meetings with the school board since starting negotiations in May, their contract expired on August 31. The union’s proposals contain a wide variety of social justice-based demands. Campano has said that SEA will be the first large union in the country to attempt to include a set amount of recess time in bargaining, asking the district for at least 30 minutes a day, a decrease from earlier demands of 45 minutes. Union members argue that the lack of protections for a set amount of time for recess has schools fluctuating between an hour and as a little 15 minutes a day for recess. The schools most likely to have shorter recess times are those attended predominantly by low-income students or students of color. A 2013 report by the American Academy of Pediatrics calls recess time crucial, saying, “Recess is a necessary break in the day for optimizing a child’s social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development.” SEA is looking to cement an end to the ties between student test scores and teacher evaluations, and hopes any agreement includes the union in any test-scheduling decisions. SEA’s proposals are bolstered by the fact that Seattle is home to a burgeoning local opt-out movement that has energized students, parents, and teachers toward school-wide test boycotts at several sites in recent years. Another crucial point for SEA is the fully-funded creation of institutional space for race and equity teams at each school site, aiming to, through team-led training, decrease punitive punishment that has disproportionately affected students of color. “At some schools such as Seattle’s Washington Middle — where, despite comparable populations, 94 African-American kids were disciplined and just seven whites — the data is so lopsided that confrontation with uncomfortable questions becomes difficult to avoid,” the Seattle Times reported in June. “Today is the beginning of a break [from a] failed model of partnership unionism, and moving towards social movement unionism,” says Jesse Hagopian, a history teacher who led a test boycott movement at his site, Garfield High, in 2013. “Our bargaining team has put forward an incredible list of demands for the school district, and I think the reason why they have put forward a social justice platform of demands is because of the social justice educators inside the union.” While the union and district have been able to come to agreement on 30 minutes of guaranteed recess since the strike was called, the biggest deal-breaker in negotiations has been the district’s reluctance and hedging on meeting SEA’s goals for compensation. With no cost-of-living increases in 6 years, or increases in health care funding in 5 years, many teachers have seen a loss in compensation over that time. But last week, according to the union, the district made matters worse for the union as it began demanding an extra 30 minutes per school day, with little assurance of a higher salary. This proved to be the breaking point that led to scheduling the strike vote, according to Campano, who stressed that the district has $40 million in extra funding that could go towards increasing pay and benefits. “When school boards ignore the needs of their students, and absolutely refuse to act in the best interest of their students, sometimes all educators can do is to withhold their services,” SEA president Jonathan Knapp said in an September 6th op-ed for the Seattle Times. “When that happens, I am proud that educators have the strength to stand in unity and solidarity with the children they serve.” SEA last walked out earlier this year in May, participating in a 65-district, 40,000 teacher-large rolling strike wave, protesting the state legislature’s failure to achieve court-mandated, and voter-approved class size reductions. Six thousand teachers and supporters marched through downtown Seattle to support the one-day walkout. SEA activist Susan DuFresne told In These Times at the time that the strike could be “placed at the tipping point in the struggle between progressive education reform and corporate education reform.” Because the legislature has since failed to implement the court-ordered increases in funding, the Washington state supreme court began fining the legislature $100,000 a day on August 13 until it funnels the required amount into education coffers, making it the first time the court has ever sanctioned the state, according to Joseph O’Sullivan of the Seattle Times. Some lawmakers have shown a lack of urgency in return, finding any financial penalty paltry compared to the multi-billion-dollar price tag attached to increasing education funding in the tax-light state. “We’re tired of being disrespected, and we’re tired of seeing a district with enough resources, willfully withhold those resources and refuse to create a school system that our students deserve,” says Hagopian. “I’ll go back to work when they start respecting students and teachers.” Mario Vasquez is a writer from southern California. He is a regular contributor to Working In These Times. Follow him on Twitter @mario_vsqz or email him at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)/= 0)out += unescape(l[i].replace(/^\s\s/, ‘&#’));while ( – j >= 0)if (el[j].getAttribute(‘data-eeEncEmail_JkRTuBCpnw’))el[j].innerHTML = out;/]]>/. 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__label__cc	0.739273	0.260727	info@investcurb.com INVESTCURB MarketCurb The Cheye Store InvestCurb Global Tech News-Resources Forex WebTrader The Financial Game Coaching Stock Charts Enter The Network InvestCurb, LLC. Investcurb, LLC. is a private real estate investment management limited liability corporation, which was established in Cape Coral, Florida to act as a management firm for InvestCurb, LP which is the fund and soon a list of more funds. We will be developing a diverse investment portfolio across the real estate sector. The portfolio will consist of real estate properties, stocks, reit’s, and etfs. The goal of the real estate fund is to reach elevated returns of 8% or higher by the end of each year. The first five years we will start up as an aggressive growth fund, trying to acquire as many deals and assets in our path. More towards the ten plus years, we will graduate to more moderate and conservative strategies to preserve what we have consumed into investments we see fit to last the next 20 to 100 years. InvestCurb RE Investment Fund (“The Fund) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and after expenses, correspond generally to the total return performance of the global real estate market. Our organization will establish various divisions with these real estate asset classes. Each class will in turn develop varied projects worldwide. Classes such as proptech platforms, real estate purchases and sales of multi-family homes, land acquisitions, equity trades and more. Our short-term goal over the next five (5) years is the development of the overall organization. The long-term goal is the establishment of each division independent into smaller subsidiaries. Financial/Property technology is expected to grow substantially over the next decade providing many entrepreneurs the ability to acquire support from investors and demand in the market. At the same time, the real state industry is going through a revolutionary technological change. InvestCurb’s goal is to ride the wave of change in the Fund Financial/Property technology space and further its mission by providing direct access to fully vetted, institutional-grade real estate investments empowering investors with strategic, analytical, and cutting edge technology. - Develop a workable, accurate set of environmental markers for a wide range of environmental impacts a company faces. - High-quality financial performance investment research. - Price the service so that there is a good profit margin while remaining competitive. InvestCurb, LLC. is an active real estate investment management firm focus on delivering professional performance and client portfolio solutions. We developed a website platform that will allow the developers, sellers, buyers, and investors to meet in one market place the same way Wall Street was built. Instead, our sidewalk, on a street corner, under a tree, is now called the world wide web. Only financially prudent/performing properties, stocks, and dividend reits, are evaluated, ensuring that its recommendations make both financial and environmental sense for our investors. Our niche market of SW Florida was built for the retirement community which consist of boaters, golfers, and people who also enjoy fishing. We look at this motto on a gradeur larger scale because with very few high rises and a ton of open land everywhere, InvestCurb can build Investment Real Estate Funds and it's platform to build high rises, office buildings, affordable community developments, and turn SW Florida into the next metropolis. © InvestCurb, LLC 2020. All Rights Reserved. InvestCurb RE Stocks Newsletter	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line825
__label__wiki	0.590826	0.590826	IoT Premier League IoT Portfolio Media, Industry and Analyst Partners: IoT MasterClass Previous MasterClass Healthcare IoT Women in IoT Security Privacy Trust Mac Devine Mac Devine is VP & CTO Strategic Customer Success, Watson Cloud Division – IBM Fellow and has 27 years of experience with networking and virtualization. The first 7 of those years were spent in mainframe software development where he served as chief programmer for several VTAM releases. Mac then moved to mainframe software design where he served as chief designer for several Communications Server releases and lead the design work for Sysplex and SNA over IP networking (aka Enterprise Extender). In 2000, Mac went on temporary assignment for 2 years to assist the new networking alliance teams (IBM/Cisco, IBM/Nortel) in the role of lead solutions architect. Upon conclusion of this temporary assignment, he started the Linux Networking Solutions team within Enterprise Platform Software and served as it’s product director and chief architect. In 2005, Mac started the Enterprise Platform Software Architecture Board and served as it chairman. The ESAB is the System z focus area for the SWGAB and is responsible for the architecture, design and strategy of solutions using IBM middleware on System z. In 2007, Mac started the zCloud Innovation team and served as its chief architect. The zCloud Innovation team provided the architecture, design and development for several in-market experiments leveraging System z as a premier cloud platform. Mac’s innovative zCloud architecture and design resulted in him being named an IBM Master Inventor. In 2008, Mac was appointed as an IBM Distinguished Engineer and became the WebSphere CTO for Cloud Computing. Mac’s innovations in this role resulted in him being appointed as a member of IBM’s prestigious Academy of Technology in July 2009. In 2009, Mac went on temporary assignment for 2 years with the IBM Corporate Strategy team where he served as the CTO for Cloud Partnerships and Client Innovations. During this time, Mac co-authored the Springer’s Handbook of Cloud Computing which is used by many Colleges and Universities. Upon conclusion of this temporary assignment, Mac joined the IBM Global Technology Services team and served as its Director and CTO for the Cloud Portfolio. In this role, Mac lead the technical due diligence for the SoftLayer acquisition and the creation of IBM’s new Cloud Services Division. In 2014, Mac was the Vice President and CTO for the Emerging Technology and Advanced Innovation team within the IBM Cloud Division. The innovations by this team not only lead to new Cloud and IoT services but also the acquisition of the Weather Company, uStream and ClearLeap. In 2016, Mac was appointed as IBM Fellow, IBM’s highest technical honor. Mac currently serves as the Vice President and CTO of Strategic Customer Success for the Watson Cloud Division. Mac also serves on the faculty of the Cloud Computing Expo, Things Expo and IoT LinkedIN Community as well as the IBM executive Sponsor for MIT. Mac is a 1988 Clemson University graduate with a Masters of Science degree in Mathematical Sciences and now serves as its IBM executive Sponsor. Mac is married with 2 sons. Advisory Board: The function of the IoT Community, is to focus on the adoption & application of IoT in commercial environments, seeking to understand & contribute to applying the technology or overcoming the wide variety of barriers, inhibitors, and technical & operational issues. As a member of the board, Mac Devine will provide impartial input and guidance to the overall vision, strategy and execution that is helping to shape the current and future direction for the IoT Community, as well as the broader IoT industry. Register for IoT Day Slam 2021! @IoTChannel Tweets by IoTchannel The IoT Community – Internet of Things Community Announces Valuer Has Joined its Elite IoT Ecosystem as a Platinum Level Corporate Member January 20, 2021 Internet of Things Community – (IoT Community) Announces Its IoT Slam® 2021 Conferences Commencing April 9th and June 24th 2021 January 12, 2021 Featured Corporate Member © Copyright IoT Community Ltd \| IoT Slam® and the IoT emblem, and IoT Community - Internet of Things Community® are USPTO Registered Trademarks of the Internet of Things Community® - IoT Community® and registered across other jurisdictions. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. All Rights Reserved Follow us on Twitter @IoTChannel \| Tweet us using hashtag #IoTCommunity This website uses cookies for quality control and to improve your experience. By your continued use of the site you accept our privacy policy. Accept Read More	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line826
__label__cc	0.659401	0.340599	PCMag India Software & Services Productivity Contact Managers & PIMs - Products LinkedIn is the most important cross-industry professional network around, despite some well-grounded gripes many people have with the interface and service. Everyone serious about their career should have an account. The best online professional network there is. Great profile tools, including ability to add multimedia pieces. Excellent job board with improved job listings. Very good search capabilities. Premium subscriptions cater well to different types of users. Excessive email communication by default. Busy, piecey look. Not enough clarity on what's sent when invitations to connect are submitted. LinkedIn is the number one online network for developing a professional network, finding new work opportunities, and building a career. Everyone over the age of 20 with career aspirations should have a LinkedIn account, even though the service falls well short of perfection. The service needs throttle back the volume of emails it sends, and it shouldn't send canned emails as invitations to connect. Still, the benefits of LinkedIn far outweigh its nuisances, making it a clear Editors' Choice. This review looks at LinkedIn broadly and does not specifically consider the use case of hiring managers, recruiters, or businesses, although information regarding Premium accounts for those users is summarized below. There's no need for everyone to tend to their LinkedIn account everyday, though job seekers and recruiters may find that doing so brings them real value. LinkedIn, which launched in 2003, is the place where professionals stay connected. LinkedIn is part professional networking site, part social networking site, and part job board. It's a place to go to find people, despite whether you know them personally. I use LinkedIn as a replacement for paper business cards, which are almost always out of date within a year. With LinkedIn, I can stay in touch with people from past jobs, volunteer work, schools, and professional groups, and I like that LinkedIn puts the onus on them to keep their contact information current. Similarly, people in my network can find me because I keep my LinkedIn profile up to date. LinkedIn facilitates communication between professionals while also leaving up some guards that give you privacy from people you don't know if you choose. There are a lot of settings to customize in LinkedIn and features to learn. Likewise, the Premium membership options have changed a lot in recent years. Plans have become more expensive, but they're also more tailored to specific types of users. If LinkedIn just seems like yet another online network that requires maintenance, I'd say quite the opposite is true. You can get a lot out of LinkedIn even if all you do is establish an account, customize a few settings, and leave it alone until your next career move. The vast majority of users won't need to tend to their LinkedIn account every day, though job seekers and recruiters may find that doing so is essential. LinkedIn Basics As with any other online networking site, new users set up a free LinkedIn account and draft an online profile. Here, however, profiles resemble resumes. Where general-interest social networking sites frame tiresome lists of movies, bands, and favorite quotes as evidence of one's persona, LinkedIn emphasizes professional affiliations, work experiences, skills, and job titles. You can even add multimedia to your profile to showcase videos you've created, articles you've written or that have been written about you, and other spotlight moments. For advice on setting up these multimedia pieces, read my tips for getting the most from LinkedIn. Free to use, LinkedIn requires little more than an email address and password to get started, although you'll want to fill in your profile completely to get all that the site has to offer. As mentioned, the profile is similar to a resume, with a summary section and job history prominently displayed. LinkedIn prompts you to upload other information about yourself, including a photo. Until your profile is 100 percent filled in, the site will remind you periodically to complete the process, and it's mutually beneficial that it does. Users get more out of the site when their profiles are complete, and the more user data the site has, the better an experience it delivers. The next step is to connect to people you know. You can find them by importing names and addresses from a variety of email programs. If one of your providers isn't supported, you can always upload a .csv, .txt, or .vcf file containing other contacts. To be connected on LinkedIn, both parties must agree to the relationship. Additionally, before you can request to connect with someone, you need to either note your relationship, such as colleague or former colleague, or know a piece of verified data about him or her, such as an email address or phone number that the person has provided to LinkedIn. If you don't know someone, you can still send them a LinkedIn private message, or InMail, though you need credits to do so. To get InMail credits, you need a Premium account, which you can read about below. As you connect with coworkers, friends, and business partners, LinkedIn begins to suggest people you may know based on shared relationship and company affiliations. Sometimes I find these suggestions a little nagging. People who use LinkedIn are usually looking to find a job or clients; hire or partner with new people and experts; keep tabs on their business acquaintances; and network, or more specifically, become visibly active in professional communities that matter to their long-term career goals. For all of these purposes, LinkedIn is pretty stellar. When it comes to finding employment or employees, LinkedIn offers phenomenal search tools that let you drill down by multiple factors. You can search for people or companies by location, field of expertise, skill level, and even keep the search to people within your network or who are only one degree removed (in which case, you can request an introduction from the mutual contact). In terms of design, the LinkedIn website has a busy, modular look. LinkedIn's Android app and iPhone app, however, recently got a redesign that gives them a much more contemporary spin, among other improvements. If you were disappointed by them in the past, there are new reasons to try LinkedIn's mobile apps. Here's to hoping some of those updates make their way to the main site soon. The Social Component LinkedIn also functions as a social network that lets users post updates or read updates from others. These can be quite long (very similar to a blog post) or they can be as short as single link. You can follow the activity of users and businesses even if you are not directly connected to them. Some of my friends and colleagues use Facebook in much the same way that I use LinkedIn. On Facebook, you can add your job history and professional skills to your profile, but I see too many gaps in Facebook that make it unsuitable for business. Its privacy settings aren't as well designed as LinkedIn's for professional use. Facebook requires too much vigilance for keeping your reputation squeaky clean and still publicly searchable. If you lock down your Facebook profile and enable all the privacy settings and approval requirements, no one but your friends will be able to find you, which limits your ability to network effectively in a business sense. Facebook doesn't have a job board, either, nor does it offer a way for employers to search widely for candidates that meet very specific criteria. I love the compartmentalization that I get from keeping my business and professional contacts on LinkedIn and not on Facebook. Twitter, on the other hand, is a different story. I personally use Twitter to browse interesting ideas from people I follow whom I might not know personally or professionally. I also use it as a socialization mechanism with co-workers, where work and personal life often overlap. Twitter lacks the deep search functionality that LinkedIn provides for finding jobs, businesses, and people. At any rate, if you couldn't tell, I'm a fan of using different online networks for different purposes. The value of LinkedIn, in this context, is that it simply provides a huge array of business-networking services. Like many online sites and services, LinkedIn is free to use but offers a Premium subscription upgrade with some added perks. There used to be just one Premium account that cost only $20 a month, but now there are four, which makes sense because people use LinkedIn in very different ways depending on their roles. The four Premium account types are: Job Seeker ($29.99 per month) Business Plus ($59.99 per month) Sales Navigator ($79.99 per month or $700 per year) Recruiter Lite ($119.99 per month). A representative also explained to me that LinkedIn offers a full-strength package for recruiters sold separately by its Talent Solutions division. Contact the company for pricing if that sounds more like what you need. I'll summarize a few of the benefits, but you can get the full details on LinkedIn's Premium page. Job Seekers get three InMail credits per month, 90 days' worth of "who's viewed your profile" data including how they found you, featured applicant listing for job applications, and applicant insights that show you compare with other candidates for the same position. New, improved job listings with richer information about the listing company, among other improvements, are in the process of rolling out as of this writing. Business Plus members get 15 InMail messages, 90 days' worth of "who's viewed your profile" data including how they found you, advanced search filters, and unlimited profile searches up to three degrees of separation. Sales Navigators get 15 InMail messages per month, advanced search for creating custom lead lists, lead recommendations, and the ability to save leads. Recruiter Lite members get 30 InMail messages with templates, enhanced information on who has viewed your profile, automatic candidate tracking, unlimited profile search results up to three degrees of separation, and more. Settings and Customizations If you're going to use LinkedIn, you need to set aside time for reading through all the settings and customizations, as many of them are very important and will make or break your experience with the site. One huge gripe LinkedIn members have is that the service sends them excessive email. I absolutely feel that LinkedIn sends too much email by default (there are more than 20 different types of email notifications to customize or disable), but I also think the options it offers are excellent. It's just that going through those options is a mandatory exercise. In some circumstances, the email summaries actually allow you to visit LinkedIn less often. They give you information you want, such as a listing of open jobs that might fit your experience, and if you read that email and decide that nothing tickles your fancy, you're done. You don't have to go to LinkedIn and investigate further. All the relevant information is in the email. In LinkedIn's Settings are options for making your public profile visible to no one (outside your network, that is) or everyone. If everyone can see your profile, you still have the option to turn off or on the visibility of certain sections, such as picture, headline, summary, skills, education, and additional information. All these customizations and others in the Settings and Privacy section are really important to review thoroughly. LinkedIn for Everyone If you're at all invested in your career, you really should be on LinkedIn. The site makes it easy to have an account that provides real value without asking much of you in return, although you can certainly explore the site's many features and services, too. Setting up an account takes some time, but it's worth doing. Have a resume handy when you do. LinkedIn remains a great site that delivers real results for both networking gurus and people who are sometimes wallflowers in real life. For all it can do to help you get ahead, LinkedIn is a clear Editors' Choice for employment related social networking. LinkedIn India head Akshay Kothari quits Everything Businesses Need to Know About LinkedIn Russia asks Apple, Google to remove LinkedIn from app stores Russian regulator says had constructive meeting with LinkedIn Microsoft and LinkedIn Put a Ring On It	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line827
__label__wiki	0.747266	0.747266	Amy Roloff Learned Matt Had ‘More Than a Working Amy Roloff is opening up about the quiet of her marriage with ex-husband Matt. In her new ebook, A Little Me, Amy, fifty-four, alleges that Matt, fifty-seven, became involved along with his current girlfriend Caryn Chandler at the same time as the Little People, Big World stars had been nevertheless married. Before relationship Matt, Chandler turned into a long-time employee at Roloff Farms in Hillsboro, Oregon, in which the TLC own family’s show is based. “Matt was spending increasingly more time at the tavern he frequently frequented within the evenings after filming and working at the farm, and our farm supervisor regarded to be round increasingly more often as well. What, if something, changed into taking place?” Amy writes in her ebook. “Then it dawned on me. Matt and our farm manager, who were operating for us some of the years by way of then, regarded to have greater than only a running relationship or friendship. I noticed messages, pix, and other matters that must no longer have been shared among folks who worked collectively and had been nevertheless married to other people,” she writes. “I become devastated.” Amy later writes, “In hindsight, I realise I ought to have said something proper away. However, I didn’t. I changed into scared and ashamed whatever remotely like this will be happening. Was Matt, in reality, curious about a person else proper in front of me? Why would he even go there while we were nonetheless married?” Matt and Chandler did now not respond to PEOPLE’s request for remark. After 27 years of marriage and four youngsters together — they proportion twins Jeremy and Zach, both 29, daughter Molly, 25, and youngest son Jacob, 22 — the TLC stars finalised their divorce in April 2016. Earlier this yr, the mom of 4 were given candid about the cease of her courting with Matt in multiple Facebook Live videos filmed together with her friend Lisa Dixon, while she spread out approximately the “issues” of their marriage and alleged that Matt and Chandler have been “involved” earlier than she cut up from her ex. “When you have got problems, and you recognise you have got problems, whether it’s in your face or another aspect, I think when you start searching earlier than you’re separated of marriage, this is tough. I imply whilst you end up concerned or a great deal more than only a friend, but you end up perhaps extra in a courting that’s more than only a, ‘Hey, hello friend, permit’s exit for coffee’ type of factor, I suppose that can be difficult on the alternative individual as nicely,” Amy said in a video filmed on March 31. “And I assume that’s what occurred in my case. You recognise, we have someone that laboured for us for a very, very long term on our farm and I accept as true with — this is all from my attitude — you understand that there has been extra than just buddies going on. And I suppose that evolved to some extent wherein that got inside the way of our marriage as well,” she persevered. Amy went on to assure viewers that while she’s not dissatisfied that Matt has determined happiness with Chandler, she became pained to find out how she believes their courting started. “It’s not that I’m unhappy that Matt has discovered someone, I assume it is extra about how it developed, the way it occurred, the way it commenced. I assume that’s what hurt. And unfortunately may have, via an edited show, induced me to be a touch sour; may additionally have had me stumble upon as being a touch more irritated. It changed into tough, and I’ll be frank. It changed into tough. It changed into a technique for me, and it will be a process for a little bit longer to get via,” she persevered. How to Protect Your Money in a Divorce Third birthday celebration in the back of divorce?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line831
__label__wiki	0.611386	0.611386	Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition A buffered form of creatine does not promote greater changes in muscle creatine content, body composition, or training adaptations than creatine monohydrate Andrew R Jagim1, Jonathan M Oliver1,2, Adam Sanchez1, Elfego Galvan1, James Fluckey3, Steven Riechman4, Michael Greenwood1, Katherine Kelly5, Cynthia Meininger5, Christopher Rasmussen1 & Richard B Kreider1 Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition volume 9, Article number: 43 (2012) Cite this article 52k Accesses 176 Altmetric Creatine monohydrate (CrM) has been consistently reported to increase muscle creatine content and improve high-intensity exercise capacity. However, a number of different forms of creatine have been purported to be more efficacious than CrM. The purpose of this study was to determine if a buffered creatine monohydrate (KA) that has been purported to promote greater creatine retention and training adaptations with fewer side effects at lower doses is more efficacious than CrM supplementation in resistance-trained individuals. In a double-blind manner, 36 resistance-trained participants (20.2 ± 2 years, 181 ± 7 cm, 82.1 ± 12 kg, and 14.7 ± 5% body fat) were randomly assigned to supplement their diet with CrM (Creapure® AlzChem AG, Trostberg, Germany) at normal loading (4 x 5 g/d for 7-days) and maintenance (5 g/d for 21-days) doses; KA (Kre-Alkalyn®, All American Pharmaceutical, Billings, MT, USA) at manufacturer’s recommended doses (KA-L, 1.5 g/d for 28-days); or, KA with equivalent loading (4 x 5 g/d for 7-days) and maintenance (5 g/d) doses of CrM (KA-H). Participants were asked to maintain their current training programs and record all workouts. Muscle biopsies from the vastus lateralis, fasting blood samples, body weight, DEXA determined body composition, and Wingate Anaerobic Capacity (WAC) tests were performed at 0, 7, and 28-days while 1RM strength tests were performed at 0 and 28-days. Data were analyzed by a repeated measures multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and are presented as mean ± SD changes from baseline after 7 and 28-days, respectively. Muscle free creatine content obtained in a subgroup of 25 participants increased in all groups over time (1.4 ± 20.7 and 11.9 ± 24.0 mmol/kg DW, p = 0.03) after 7 and 28-days, respectively, with no significant differences among groups (KA-L −7.9 ± 22.3, 4.7 ± 27.0; KA-H 1.0 ± 12.8, 9.1 ± 23.2; CrM 11.3 ± 23.9, 22.3 ± 21.0 mmol/kg DW, p = 0.46). However, while no overall group differences were observed (p = 0.14), pairwise comparison between the KA-L and CrM groups revealed that changes in muscle creatine content tended to be greater in the CrM group (KA-L −1.1 ± 4.3, CrM 11.2 ± 4.3 mmol/kg DW, p = 0.053 [mean ± SEM]). Although some significant time effects were observed, no significant group x time interactions (p > 0.05) were observed in changes in body mass, fat free mass, fat mass, percent body fat, or total body water; bench press and leg press 1RM strength; WAC mean power, peak power, or total work; serum blood lipids, markers of catabolism and bone status, and serum electrolyte status; or, whole blood makers of lymphocytes and red cells. Serum creatinine levels increased in all groups (p < 0.001) with higher doses of creatine promoting greater increases in serum creatinine (p = 0.03) but the increases observed (0.1 – 0.2 mg/dl) were well within normal values for active individuals (i.e., <1.28 ± 0.2 mg/dl). Serum LDL was decreased to a greater degree following ingesting loading doses in the CrM group but returned to baseline during the maintenance phase. No side effects were reported. Neither manufacturers recommended doses of KA (1.5 g/d) or KA with equivalent loading (20 g/d for 7-days) and maintenance doses (5 g/d for 21-days) of CrM promoted greater changes in muscle creatine content, body composition, strength, or anaerobic capacity than CrM (20 g/d for 7-days, 5 g/d for 21-days). There was no evidence that supplementing the diet with a buffered form of creatine resulted in fewer side effects than CrM. These findings do not support claims that consuming a buffered form of creatine is a more efficacious and/or safer form of creatine to consume than creatine monohydrate. Creatine has proven to be one of the most effective and popular dietary supplements for resistance-trained athletes [1–3]. The form of creatine that has been most extensively studied has been creatine monohydrate (CrM) [1]. Studies have consistently indicated that creatine supplementation increases muscle creatine and phosphocreatine concentrations by approximately 15-40%, enhances anaerobic exercise capacity, and increases training volume leading to greater gains in strength, power, and muscle mass [1–10]. A number of potential therapeutic benefits have also been suggested in various clinical populations [11–17]. Studies have indicated that creatine monohydrate is not degraded during normal digestion and that nearly 99% of orally ingested creatine is either taken up by tissues or excreted in urine [18–20]. Further, no medically significant side effects have been reported in the literature [21–27]. Nevertheless, supplement manufacturers have continually introduced newer forms of creatine into the marketplace [1]. These newer forms have been purported to have better physical and chemical properties, bioavailability, efficacy, and/or safety profiles than creatine monohydrate [1]. However, there is little to no evidence that any of the newer forms of creatine are more effective and/or a safer form of creatine than CrM whether ingested alone and/or in combination with other nutrients [1]. In addition, whereas the safety, efficacy, and regulatory status of CrM is clearly defined in almost all global markets; the safety, efficacy and regulatory status of other forms of creatine present in today’s marketplace as a dietary or food supplement is less clear [1]. A buffered form of creatine (Kre-Alkalyn® [KA], All American Pharmaceutical, Billings, MT, USA) has been marketed as a more efficacious and safer form of creatine than creatine monohydrate [28]. According to the manufacturer’s website [28], this patented form of creatine [29] is a “buffered” or “pH-correct” form of creatine that remains more stable in the stomach, is not degraded to creatinine, and thereby has greater bioavailability. According to patent filings [29], this is accomplished by adding an alkaline powder (e.g., soda ash, magnesium glycerol phosphate, bicarbonate) to creatine (e.g., creatine monohydrate, creatine phosphate, creatine pyruvate, creatine citrate) in order to adjust the pH to a range between 7–14. The manufacturer claims that this form of creatine is “the only Creatine guaranteed to stay 100% stable all the way to the muscle cell”; that it is “up to ten times more powerful than ordinary Creatine”; that “1.5 grams of Kre-Alkalyn is equivalent to about 10–15 grams of ordinary Creatine”; that it is “an alternative to all the bloating, cramping, and other side effects associated with traditional creatine supplementation”; and, that it is “the world’s most potent creatine” [28]. The manufacturer cites several clinical studies on their website performed in Bulgaria to support their claims [28, 30]. However, we could find no peer-reviewed articles cited in the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed related to “Kre-Alkalyn”, or “buffered creatine” from the purported study authors or anyone else. One paper that was presented at the International Society of Sports Nutrition annual meeting in 2007 reported that the conversion of creatine to creatinine from CrM at a pH of 1.0 and 37°C was less than 1% after 5, 30 and 120 minutes while KA had a 35% greater conversion to creatinine under similar conditions [31]. However, full details of this study have yet to be published. Our research group has extensive experience in conducting clinical research studies on the efficacy and safety of supplementing the diet during training with various forms of creatine [9, 25, 26, 32–39]. As a result, AlzChem AG (Trostberg, Germany), a primary raw material provider of pure creatine monohydrate, provided a grant to our university to conduct an independent research study to compare the effects of supplementing the diet with KA at recommended doses (1.5 g/d for 28-days) and creatine equivalent loading (20 g/d for 7-days) and maintenance doses (5 g/d for 21-days) of KA to CrM (20 g/d for 7-days, 5 g/d for 21-days) on muscle creatine retention, body composition, strength, anaerobic capacity and markers of health status. We also sought to determine whether ingesting the purported buffered form of creatine would be associated with fewer side effects than creatine monohydrate as claimed. Theoretically, if KA is indeed a more efficacious form of creatine, the recommended doses of KA (1.5 g/d) would be as effective or more effective than consuming standard loading (20 g/d for 7-day) and maintenance doses (5 g/d for 21-days) of CrM on increasing muscle creatine levels and training adaptations with fewer side effects. Additionally, ingesting creatine equivalent loading and maintenance doses of KA would theoretically promote greater effects with fewer side effects in those ingesting standard loading and maintenance doses of CrM. Table 1 presents the general experimental design employed in this study. The study was conducted in a double-blind, randomized controlled manner. The independent variable was the type of creatine ingested. Dependent variables included muscle creatine content, body composition, one repetition maximum (1RM) bench press and leg press, anaerobic sprint performance capacity, serum and whole blood clinical markers of health, and self-reported side effects. Dietary intake was not controlled but participant’s dietary intake was recorded prior to each testing session and analyzed for energy intake and macronutrient content. Participants were instructed to maintain their normal resistance-training program and maintain training logs so training volume could be compared. Subjects who qualified for the study participated in a familiarization session in which the study was explained to the participants and informed consent was obtained. After the familiarization session, subjects were matched for bodyweight, years of training experience, and age and randomly assigned to one of three groups: 1.) KA at manufacturer’s recommended doses (KA-L, 1.5 g/d for 28-days); 2.) KA at creatine equivalent loading (4 x 5 g/d for 7-days) and maintenance (5 g/d for 21-days) doses as CrM (KA-H); or, 3.) CrM at normal loading (4 x 5 g/d for 7-days) and maintenance doses (5 g/d for 21-days). Table 1 Overview of Study Design Apparently healthy resistance-trained males with no self-reported recent history of creatine supplementation were recruited to participate in this study. Participants were not allowed to participate in this study if they had any metabolic disorder including known electrolyte abnormalities; heart disease, arrhythmias, diabetes, thyroid disease, or hypogonadism; a history of hypertension, hepatorenal, musculoskeletal, autoimmune, or neurologic disease; if they were taking thyroid, anti-hyperlipidemic, hypoglycemic, anti-hypertensive, anti-inflammatory, or androgenic medications; or, if they had taken dietary supplements containing creatine within three months prior to the start of the study. Participants were recruited from the student population and from area fitness facilities. Participants completed demographic, health history and exercise history forms. Those who met eligibility criteria were informed of the requirements of the study and signed informed consent statements in compliance with the Human Subjects Guidelines of Texas A&M University and the American College of Sports Medicine. Subjects participated in a familiarization session that included practicing the Wingate anaerobic capacity test. Testing sessions Participants were instructed to record all food ingestion on food record forms four days (4-d) prior to the start of the study. In addition, subjects were asked to fast for 8 hours and abstain from exercise for 48 hours prior to baseline testing. Once reporting to the lab, subjects donated a muscle biopsy and fasting blood samples using standard clinical procedures. Subjects were then weighed, had body water assessed using a bioelectrical impedance analyzer (BIA), and body composition assessed using a Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometer (DEXA). They also performed 1RM tests on the bench press and hip sled/leg press and performed a 30-second Wingate anaerobic capacity sprint test on a cycle ergometer. Subjects then began a 7-day initial supplementation phase. After 7 days, subjects repeated all tests with the exception of 1RM strength measures. The subjects then followed supplementation schedules for 21-days and returned to undergo all tests. This allowed for the assessment of acute and chronic supplementation protocols on muscle creatine levels, body composition, exercise performance, as well as markers of clinical health and safety. Participants were asked to maintain their current training programs and record all workouts. Participants were also asked to report side effects on a weekly basis. Supplementation protocol Participants were matched into one of three groups according to body weight, training status/experience, and age. Subjects were then randomly assigned to one of three groups to ingest, in a double blind manner, capsules containing CrM (Creapure® AlzChem AG, Trostberg, Germany, Lot #108631) or KA (Kre-Alkalyn® All American Pharmaceutical, Billings, MT, USA, Lot #1067000) at two different dosages. Supplements were provided by the supporting sponsor in red 0.75 gram (00 sized) capsules and placed in generic single-serving packets that were put in labeled containers for double-blind administration on a weekly basis. Creatine content of the capsules was independently verified by Covance Laboratories (Madison, WI). Certificate of analysis results are presented in Table 2. Participants in the CrM groups ingested 8 capsules per serving containing approximately 5 g of CrM four times daily (20 g/d) for 7-days and once per day (5 g/d) for 21-days. A small amount of dextrose (~60 mg per capsule) was added to the CrM capsules to enhance flowability during encapsulation. Participants in the KA creatine monohydrate equivalent group (KA-H) ingested 8 capsules per serving containing approximately 5 g of CrM four times daily (20 g/d) for 7-days and once per day (5 g/d) for 21-days. Participants assigned to ingest the manufacturers recommended doses of KA (KA-L) ingested 8 capsules containing a total of approximately 1.5 g of KA mixed with 3.5 g of dextrose once per day and 8 capsules containing 5 g of dextrose three times per day during the initial 7-day loading period. Thereafter, participants in the KA-L group ingested 8 capsules per day containing 1.5 g/d of KA mixed with 3.5 g of dextrose for 21-days. Participants were instructed to ingest supplements at 8:00 am, 12:00 pm, 4:00 pm, and 8:00 pm during the initial 7-day supplementation period and at 8:00 am during the maintenance phase. Supplementation compliance was monitored by having the subjects return empty containers of the supplements at the end of each week. In addition, subject’s compliance was verified by administering and collecting weekly questionnaires. After completing the compliance procedures, the subjects were given the required supplements for the next week. Table 2 Supplement Certificate of Analysis Results Diet and training analysis Participants were instructed to maintain their current dietary habits and to keep detailed dietary records. Prior to each testing session subjects completed a dietary record that included 3 weekdays and 1 weekend day. Dietary inventories were reviewed by a registered dietitian and analyzed for average energy and macronutrient intake using the Food Processor Nutrition Analysis Software Version 9.1.0 (ESHA Nutrition Research, Salem, OR). Participants were also instructed to maintain their current training regimen and record the type and number of sets and repetitions performed on training logs. Training volume was calculated by multiplying the amount of weight lifted times the number of repetitions performed for each set performed. Total training volume during the study was analyzed by summing all lifts (upper and lower body) to determine if there were any differences among groups. Body composition testing occurred on day 0, 7 and 28 of the study. Height and weight were recorded to the nearest 0.02 kg and 0.01 cm, respectively, using a self-calibrating digital scale (Cardinal Detecto Scale Model 8430, Webb City, Missouri). Body composition was determined using a Hologic Discovery W QDR series DEXA system (Hologic Inc., Waltham, MA) equipped with APEX software (APEX Corporation Software version 12.1, Pittsburgh, PA). Quality control calibration procedures were performed on a spine phantom (Hologic-X-CLAIBER Model DPA/QDR-1 anthropometric spine phantom) and a density step calibration phantom prior to each testing session. DEXA has been validated as an accurate method for body composition assessment [40]. Mean test-retest reliability studies performed on male athletes in our lab has yielded mean coefficients of variation for total bone mineral content and total fat free/soft tissue mass of 0.31% to 0.45% with a mean intra-class correlation of 0.985 [41]. Body water was estimated using an ImpediMed DF50 bioelectrical impedance analyzer (ImpediMed, San Diego, CA). Blood and muscle samples Subjects donated approximately 10 ml of fasting blood using venipuncture techniques from an antecubital vein in the forearm according to standard sterile procedures. Serum blood samples were sent to Quest Diagnostics (Houston, TX) for comprehensive metabolic panel analysis using an Olympus AAU 5400 Chemistry Immuno Analyzer (Olympus America Inc., Center Valley, PA). Whole blood samples were analyzed for complete blood counts with platelet differentials using an Abbott Cell Dyn 3500 automated hematology analyzer (Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL). Reported test to test reliability of performing these assays generally range from 2 to 6% for individual assays. Samples were run in duplicate to verify results if the observed values were outside control values and/or clinical norms according to standard procedures. Muscle biopsies were obtained using a modified Bergstrom needle biopsy technique following standard procedures [42]. Percutaneous muscle biopsies (50–70 mg) were obtained from the middle portion of the vastus lateralis muscle of the dominant leg at the midpoint between the patella and the greater trochanter of the femur at a depth between 1 and 2 cm into the muscle. For the remaining two biopsies, attempts were made to extract tissue from approximately the same location as the initial biopsy by using the pre-biopsy scar, depth markings on the needle, and successive incisions that were made approximately 2 cm proximal to the former site. After removal, adipose tissue was trimmed from the muscle specimens which were then immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen and then stored at −80°C for later analysis. A total of three muscle samples were obtained (Day 0, 7, & 28). Muscle tissue samples were analyzed spectrophotometrically in duplicate for creatine (Cr) using methods developed by Harris and colleagues [7, 8, 43]. Briefly, approximately 50–70 mg of muscle tissue was cut and placed in a microfuge tube, and then placed in a vacuum centrifuge (Savant ISS110 SpeedVac Concentrator, Thermo Scientific, Milford, MA) and centrifuged for 18–24 hours. Connective tissue was removed from the dried samples which were then grinded into a powder in a porcelain plate and placed into pre-weighed microfuge tubes. Muscle metabolites were extracted in a 0.5 M perchloric acid/ 1 mM EDTA solution on ice for 15 minutes, while periodically vortexing. Samples were then centrifuged at 7,000 rpm for 5 minutes. The supernatant was transferred into a pre-weighed microfuge tube and neutralized with 2.1 M KHCO3/0.3 M MOPS solution. The samples were then centrifuged again at 7,000 rpm for 5 minutes and the supernatant was removed and placed into microfuge tubes and frozen at −80°C. Extracts were assayed for Cr in the presence of 50 mM imidazole buffer, pH 4.7; 5 mM magnesium chloride; 20 mM potassium chloride; 25 μM phosphoenolpyruvate; 200 μM ATP; 45 μM NADH; 1250 U/mL lactate dehydrogenase; 2000 U/mL pyruvate kinase. The assay was carried out in a standard fluorescence microplate reader using 10 μL of sample to 1 mL of reagent. The reactant solution was vortexed and read using a fluorometer (Shimadzu RFMini 150, Japan) with an excitation wavelength of 340 nm and an emission wavelength of 460 nm for baseline absorbance values. Five μL of CK (25 μ/mg) was added to 1 mL of the above buffer and stabilized using 1 mL of reagent. After 10 minutes the plate was read again for post-reaction absorbance values. Test to test reliability of duplicate muscle creatine assays was 0.22 ± 2.4% (r = 0.90) with a coefficient of variation of 6.8. We also assayed muscle samples for phosphocreatine (PCr) but several values were out of normal ranges, there was large variability in values observed, and overall PCr levels declined over time despite creatine supplementation suggesting a lack of validity in this assay. Therefore, these data were not reported. Maximal strength tests were performed using a standard isotonic Olympic bench press and hip sled/leg press (Nebula Fitness, Versailles, OH) according to standardized procedures [44]. Hand positioning on the bench press and foot and seat position on the hip sled/leg press were standardized between trials. Participants followed a standardized warm-up (10 repetitions at 50% of 1RM) prior to beginning 1RM attempts. Rest recovery was standardized between attempts at 2-min and participants typically reached their 1RM within 3–5 attempts after warming up. Participants performed the hip sled/leg press 1RM test, rested for 4 minutes, and then began warming up on the bench press. Bench press 1RM was determined following similar procedures as the hip sled/leg press 1RM test. Test-to-test reliability of performing these tests in our lab on resistance-trained participants have yielded low day to day mean coefficients of variation and high reliability for the bench press (1.1%, intra-class r = 0.99) and hip sled/leg press (0.7%, intra-class r = 0.91). Subjects rested for about 20-minutes and then warmed up on a bicycle ergometer for 3-minutes (70 rpm @ 1 kg resistance). Participants then performed a 30-second Wingate sprint anaerobic capacity test on a Lode Excalibur Sport 925900 cycle ergometer (Lode BV, Groningen, The Netherlands) at a standardized work rate of 7.5 J/kg/rev. The seat position was standardized between trials and the participant was asked to pedal as fast as possible prior to application of the workload and sprint at all-out maximal capacity during the 30-second test. Test-to-test variability in performing repeated Wingate anaerobic capacity tests in our laboratory yielded correlation coefficients of r = 0.98 ±15% for mean power. Participants practiced the anaerobic capacity test during the familiarization session to minimize learning effects. Side effect assessment Participants were given weekly questionnaires on how well they tolerated the supplement, how well they followed the supplement protocol, and if they experienced any medical problems/symptoms during the study. Compliance to the supplementation protocol was monitored by turning in empty weekly supplement containers, supplement logs and verbal confirmation. After completing the compliance procedures, subjects were given the required supplements and dosages for the following supplementation period. Participant baseline demographic data were analyzed by one-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). Study data were analyzed by Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) with repeated measures. Overall MANOVA effects were examined using the Wilks’ Lamda time and group x time p-levels as well as MANOVA univariate ANOVA group effects. Greenhouse-Geisser univariate tests of within-subjects time and group x time effects and between-subjects univariate group effects were reported for each variable analyzed within the MANOVA model. In some instances, repeated measures ANOVA was run on variables not included in a MANOVA design with univariate group, time, and group x time interaction effects reported. Data were considered statistically significant when the probability of type I error was 0.05 or less and statistical trends were considered when the probability of error ranged between p > 0.05 to p < 0.10. If a significant group, treatment and/or interaction alpha level was observed, Tukey’s least significant differences (LSD) post-hoc analysis was performed to determine where significance was obtained. A priori power analysis of the design indicated that an n-size of 12 per group was sufficiently powered to identify previously reported changes in muscle creatine content and training adaptations in responses to creatine supplementation (>0.70). Subject demographics Forty-one participants were initially recruited for the study, completed consent forms and participated in the required familiarization session. Of the original 41 participants, 36 completed the 28-day research study. Three participants dropped out due to time constraints, one due to an unrelated illness, and one due to apprehension of the muscle biopsy procedure. None of the participants dropped out of the study due to side effects related to the study protocol. Table 3 shows the baseline demographics for the participants. Overall, participants were 20.2 ± 2 years, 181 ± 7 cm, 82.1 ± 12 kg, and 14.7 ± 5% fat with 3.8 ± 3 years of resistance training experience. One-way ANOVA revealed no significant differences among groups in baseline demographic variables. Table 3 Participant Demographics Compliance, side effects, training, and diet Based on compliance records, all participants exhibited 100% compliance with the supplementation protocol without experiencing any side effects throughout the duration of the 28-day supplementation protocol. Table 4 shows the total training volumes for upper and lower body lifts. One-way ANOVA revealed that there were no significant differences among groups in total upper body training volume (p = 0.89) or lower body training volume (p = 0.55). Table 5 presents mean energy intake and macronutrient content for each group. MANOVA revealed no overall significant Wilks’ Lambda time (p = 0.39) or group x time (p = 0.56) interaction effects in absolute energy intake (kcal/d), protein intake (g/d), carbohydrate (g/d) or fat intake (g/d). MANOVA univariate analysis revealed a significant time effect suggesting that energy and protein intake tended to decrease during the study but no significant interactions were observed among groups. Similar results were observed when assessing energy and macronutrient intake when expressed relative to body mass. Table 4 Training Volume Table 5 Dietary Caloric and Macronutrient Intake Muscle creatine analysis Table 6 presents muscle free creatine content data while Figure 1 shows changes in muscle free content. Sufficient muscle samples were obtained to measure baseline and subsequent creatine on 25 participants. Subjects with missing baseline or day-28 data were not included in the analysis. Two day-7 missing creatine values were replaced using the last observed value method. A MANOVA was run on muscle creatine expressed in mmol/kg DW and changes from baseline expressed in mmol/kg DW and percent changes from baseline. An overall MANOVA time effect (Wilks’ Lamda p = 0.002) was observed with no significant overall MANOVA group x time interactions (Wilks’ Lambda p = 0.55). MANOVA univariate analysis revealed significant time effects in muscle free creatine content expressed in absolute terms (p = 0.03), changes from baseline (p = 0.03), and percent changes from baseline (p = 0.003). No significant groups x time interactions were observed among groups. However, while no overall group differences were observed (p = 0.14), pairwise comparison between the KA-L and CrM groups revealed that changes in muscle creatine tended to be greater in the CrM group (KA-L −1.1 ± 4.3, CrM 11.2 ± 4.3 mmol/kg DW, p = 0.053 [mean ± SEM]; KA-L 2.4 ± 8.5, CrM 24.6 ± 8.5%, p = 0.078 [mean ± SEM]). Table 6 Muscle Creatine Levels Changes in muscle free creatine content from baseline. Table 7 presents body composition results observed during the study while Figure 2 shows the changes observed over time in fat free mass and percent body fat. Overall MANOVA revealed significant time effects (Wilks’ Lambda p = 0.001) with no significant group x time interactions observed (Wilks’ Lambda p = 0.90) in body composition variables. Bodyweight increased in all groups over time (1.0 ± 1.9, 1.42 ± 2.5 kg, p < 0.001) with no significant group x time interaction effects observed among groups after 7 and 28-days, respectively, of supplementation (KA-L 0.7 ± 0.83, 0.9 ± 1.6; KA-H 1.7 ± 2.9, 2.3 ± 3.7; CrM 0.6 ± 1.1, 1.1 ± 1.4 kg, p = 0.35). Fat-free mass significantly increased over time for all groups (0.67 ± 1.0, 0.89 ± 1.2 kg, p < 0.001) with no significant group x time interaction effects observed among groups (KA-L 0.42 ± 1.2, 0.37 ± 1.3; KA-H 0.96 ± 0.9, 1.2 ± 1.4; CrM 0.6 ± 0.8, 1.1 ± 0.9 kg, p = 0.43). Body fat percent was not significantly decreased over time for all groups (−0.28 ± 1.0, -0.22 ± 1.4%, p = 0.41) and no significant group x time interactions were observed among groups (KA-L −0.04 ± 1.3, 0.15 ± 1.2; KA-H −0.28 ± 0.7, -0.31 ± 1.6; CrM −0.53 ± 0.9, -0.50 ± 1.4%, p = 0.77). Total body water expressed as a percentage of bodyweight significantly decreased over time for all groups (−1.25 ± 3.7, -2.68 ± 3.4%, p < 0.001) with no significant group x time interaction effects observed among groups (KA-L −0.58 ± 4.1, -1.95 ± 4.4; KA-H −2.25 ± 2.0, -3.28 ± 3.1; CrM −0.92 ± 4.6, -2.82 ± 2.6%, p = 0.71). Table 7 Body Composition Changes in fat free mass and body fat from baseline. Training adaptations Table 8 shows upper and lower body 1RM strength data observed for each group while Figure 3 shows the changes in 1RM bench press. There was a significant increase in 1RM for bench press in all groups over time (97.6 ± 22.3 to 101.3 ± 22.6 kg, p < 0.001) with no significant group x time interactions observed among groups in changes in bench press 1RM (KA-L 3.22 ± 1.5, KA-H 3.3 ± 6.8, CrM 4.5 ± 3.7 kg, p = 0.73). There was no significant difference observed in hip sled/leg press 1RM over time (449.5 ± 162, 471.1 ± 167, p = 0.33) or interactions observed among groups in changes in hip sled/leg press 1RM (KA-L 8.7 ± 111, KA-H 68.8 ± 96, CrM −13.3 ± 185 kg, p = 0.33) Table 9 shows results for the anaerobic capacity test while Figure 4 presents changes in total work observed for each group. MANOVA analysis revealed an overall time effect (Wilks’ Lambda p = 0.001) with no significant overall group x time effects (Wilks’ Lambda p = 0.47) in anaerobic capacity variables. Univariate MANOVA analysis revealed that average power (p = 0.005), peak power (p = 0.003), and total work (p = 0.005) increased in all groups over time with no significant group x time interactions observed among groups. Total work performed on the anaerobic capacity sprint test increased in all groups over time (−69 ± 1,030, 552 ± 1,361 J, p = 0.02) with no significant group x time effects observed among groups (KA-L −278 ± 676, 64 ± 1,216; KA-H 412 ± 1,041, 842 ± 1,369; CrM −301 ± 1,224, 775 ± 1,463 J, p = 0.32). Table 8 One Repetition Maximum Strength Changes in bench press 1RM strength from baseline. Table 9 Wingate Anaerobic Sprint Capacity Changes in cycling anaerobic work capacity from baseline. Clinical chemistry panels Table 10 presents blood lipid data observed throughout the study Overall MANOVA revealed no time (Wilks’ Lambda p = 0.17) or groups x time effects (Wilks’ Lambda 0.15) in blood lipids. Univariate MANOVA also found no group x time interactions in total cholesterol (TCHL, p = 0.10), high-density lipoprotein (HDL, p = 0.64), the ratio of TCHL to HDL (p = 0.09), and triglycerides (TRIG, p = 0.45). Some group x time effects were observed among groups in low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels (p = 0.005) with LDL levels significantly decreasing after the loading phase in the CrM group. However, values remained low and near baseline. Univariate ANOVA revealed no significant differences among groups in blood glucose (p = 0.67). Table 10 Serum lipids and glucose Table 11 shows markers of catabolism and bone status. Overall MANOVA revealed significant time (Wilks’ Lambda p < 0.001) effects with no significant group x time effects (Wilks’ Lambda p = 0.19) in markers of catabolism. Univariate MANOVA found no significant group x time interactions in blood urea nitrogen (BUN, p = 0.75), BUN to creatinine ratio (p = 0.24), aspartate aminotransferase (AST, p = 0.68), alanine aminotransferase (ALT, p = 0.48), total protein (p = 0.84), and total bilirubin (TBIL, p = 0.26). Serum creatinine levels increased in all groups (p < 0.001) over time with a significant group x time interaction demonstrating higher doses of creatine in the CrM and KA-H groups promoting significantly greater increases in serum creatinine (p = 0.03) than the KA-L group. However, creatinine levels in the CrM and KA-H groups were only 0.1 – 0.2 mg/dL greater than the KA-L group, well within normal values for active individuals, and of no clinical significance. MANOVA analysis of bone related markers found no significant time (Wilks’ Lambda p = 0.83) or group x time effects (Wilks’ Lambda p = 0.78). Likewise, univariate MANOVA analysis revealed no significant interactions among groups in bone mineral content (p = 0.66), albumin (ALB, p = 0.89), globulin (GLOB, p = 0.42), the ratio of ALB to GLOB (p = 0.45), calcium (p = 0.76), or alkaline phosphatase (ALK, p = 0.65). Table 11 Markers of catabolism and bone status Table 12 presents serum electrolyte data. Overall MANOVA analysis revealed a significant time effect (Wilks’ Lambda p = 0.02) with no significant overall interaction (Wilks’ Lambda p = 0.26). Univariate MANOVA analysis revealed some small time effects in chloride levels (p = 0.008) and a trend toward an interaction in potassium levels (p = 0.08) but the small changes observed would have no clinical significance. Finally, Table 12 shows whole blood markers assessed throughout the study. Overall MANOVA revealed no significant time (Wilks’ Lambda p = 0.25) or group x time effects (Wilks’ Lambda p = 0.78). Likewise, no significant interactions were observed among groups in white blood cell count (WBC, p = 0.45), red blood cell count (RBC, p = 0.64), hematocrit (p = 0.65), hemoglobin (p = 0.59), mean corpuscular volume (MCV, p = 0.56), mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH, p = 0.44), mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC, p = 0.68), red blood cell distribution width (RBCDW, p = 0.92), or platelet count (p = 0.48). Table 12 Serum electrolyte status Table 13 Whole blood markers The purpose of this study was to determine if supplementing the diet with recommended (1.5 g/d for 28-days) or creatine equivalent loading and maintenance doses of a purported buffered form of creatine (20 g/d for 7-days and 5 g/d for 21-days) was more effective in increasing muscle creatine retention, body composition, strength, and/or anaerobic capacity than supplementing the diet with creatine monohydrate (20 g/d for 7-days and 5 g/d for 21-days). Additionally, the study was undertaken to determine whether supplementing the diet with recommended or equivalent creatine doses of a purported buffered form of creatine was associated with fewer side effects in comparison to creatine monohydrate. Results of the present study clearly show that supplementing the diet with a purported buffered form of creatine is not a more efficacious and/or a safer form of creatine to consume than creatine monohydrate. According to product claims [28, 30], KA is “up to ten times more powerful than ordinary Creatine”. The rationale for this contention is based on experiments reported in a patent [29] and/or on the manufacturer’s website [28, 30] which indicates that KA has less conversion of creatine to creatinine in fluid over time compared to creatine monohydrate. This is despite the fact that studies show that creatine monohydrate is not significantly degraded to creatinine during the normal digestive process and nearly 99% of creatine monohydrate that is orally ingested is either taken up by tissue or excreted in the urine [1–3, 18, 21]. Because of this fact, an accepted method of assessing whole body creatine retention has been to subtract daily urinary creatine excretion from daily dietary intake of creatine [32, 33, 45–47]. Additionally, while it is true that generally the lower the pH and higher the temperature, the greater conversion of creatine to creatinine, studies show that this process takes several days to occur at significant levels even when creatine is exposed to low pH environments [1, 19, 48]. As described in a recent review [1], the degradation of creatine can be reduced or even halted by either lowering the pH to under 2.5 or increasing the pH. A very high pH results in the deprotonation of the acid group, thereby slowing down the degradation process by making it more difficult for the intramolecular cyclization of creatine to creatinine. However, a very low pH (as is the case in the stomach) results in the protonation of the amide function of the creatine molecule, thereby preventing the intramolecular cyclization of creatine to creatinine [1]. This is the reason that the conversion of creatine to creatinine in the gastrointestinal tract has been reported to be minimal regardless of transit time [7, 18, 20]. Thus, on the surface, the KA manufacturer’s claims that creatine monohydrate is degraded to creatinine in large amounts after oral ingestion and that a “buffered” or “pH-correct” would significantly reduce this effect once consumed and thereby promote greater uptake of creatine in the muscle is inconsistent with available literature on creatine [1]. Results of the present study do not support claims that a large amount of creatine monohydrate was converted to creatinine during the digestive process and thereby resulted in less of an increase in muscle creatine than KA. In this regard, while serum creatinine levels increased to a greater degree in the KA-H and CrM groups that ingested larger amounts of creatine, the 0.1 - 0.2 mg/dL greater increase observed in creatinine compared to the KA-L group was well within normal limits (i.e., <1.28 ± 0.20 mg/dl) particularly for resistance-trained males. Therefore, this small change would be clinically insignificant. Additionally, a significant increase from baseline in serum creatinine was also observed in the KA-L and KA-H groups despite claims that KA completely prevents the conversion of creatine to creatinine. These findings do not support contentions that CrM is degraded to creatinine in large amounts or that KA is not converted to creatinine at all. Previous research has shown that ingestion of 20 g/d of CrM for 5–7 days can increase muscle creatine content 10-40% after 5–7 d of supplementation [1, 4–8, 10]. Prolonged low-dose ingestion of CrM (e.g., 2 – 3 g/d for 4–6 weeks) has also been reported to increase muscle creatine content in a similar manner as loading strategies [4, 7, 8]. The manufacturer of KA claims that ingesting 1.5 g of KA is equivalent to ingesting 10–15 g of CrM [28]. If this were true, those ingesting recommended levels of KA (1.5 g/d for 28-days) should experience a similar increase in muscle creatine as those participants ingesting recommended loading (20 g/d for 7-days) and maintenance doses (5 g/d for 21-days) of CrM. Results of the present study indicated that supplementing the diet with manufacturer’s recommended levels of KA (1.5 g/d) did not increase muscle free creatine content to the same degree as loading and maintenance doses of CrM. In fact, although no overall group effect was observed among the three groups studied (p = 0.14), pairwise comparison of the mean group change from baseline in the KA-L group was 11 times less than the change observed following CrM supplementation (KA-L −1.1 ± 4.3, CrM 11.2 ± 4.3 mmol/kg DW [mean ± SEM], p = 0.053). After 28-days of supplementation, muscle free creatine content in the KA-L group was increased by 4.71 ± 27.0 mmol/kg DW compared to 22.3 ± 21.0 mmol/kg DW in the CrM group representing a 4.7 fold less effect of KA supplementation than CrM when comparing recommended levels. Consequently, results of the present study do not support claims that ingesting 1.5 grams of KA is as effective as ingesting 10–15 grams of creatine monohydrate. Even when participants ingested creatine equivalent amounts of KA and CrM (i.e., 20 g/d for 7-days and 5 g/d for 21-days), KA did not promote greater increases in muscle free creatine. In fact, while not significantly different, changes in muscle creatine in the KA-H group were more than two times less than the changes observed in the CrM group (KA-H 9.07 ± 23.2; CrM 22.3 ± 21.0 mmol/kg DW). Thus, results of the present study do not support claims that ingesting a purported buffered form of creatine is more effective in increasing muscle creatine content than creatine monohydrate. While some may argue that since there is generally large variability in measuring muscle phosphagen levels and we were unable to obtain reliable PCr measurements, it is difficult to make a definitive conclusion about the effects of KA on muscle creatine content based on measuring muscle free content alone. However, present findings also provide no support for claims that KA supplementation is “up to ten times more powerful than ordinary Creatine.” In this regard, while time effects were observed in training adaptations, supplementing the diet with KA (at recommended or creatine equivalent loading and maintenance doses) did not promote statistically greater gains in fat free mass, 1 RM strength, or anaerobic sprint performance capacity compared to CrM. At best, one can conclude that ingesting recommended and creatine equivalent loading and maintenance amounts of KA resulted in similar training adaptations as creatine monohydrate supplementation at recommended loading and maintenance levels. However, results of the present investigation provide no evidence to support claims that KA is “the world’s most potent creatine” [28]. Further, results of the present investigation provided no evidence that KA is a safer form of creatine to consume at either lower recommended levels or higher creatine equivalent doses compared to normal loading and maintenance doses of creatine monohydrate. In this regard, there were no significant differences observed among groups in BIA determined total body water or serum electrolyte status. Likewise, no cramping or other side effects were reported. These findings are consistent with previous studies that have indicated that creatine supplementation does not promote dehydration and/or cramping [9, 21–26]. There were also no significant differences observed among groups in serum lipids (TCHL, HDL, TCHL:HDL ratio, TRIG) or blood glucose. Serum LDL decreased slightly in response to creatine loading in the CrM group but returned to baseline after ingesting maintenance doses of CrM suggesting these changes were transient. Additionally, no significant differences were observed among groups in markers of catabolism (BUN, BUN:CRN, AST, ALT, Total Protein, TBIL), markers of bone status (bone mineral content, ALB, GLOB, ALB:GLOB, calcium, ALK) or whole blood markers (WBC, RBC, Hematocrit, Hemoglobin, MCV, MCH, MCHC, RBCDW, platelet counts). Moreover, values remained within normal levels for active individuals. These findings are consistent with other studies that have examined the safety of creatine supplementation in active individuals [1, 3, 21, 26, 27, 38]. Consequently, present findings do not support claims that KA is a safer form of creatine to ingest than creatine monohydrate. In summary, supplementation of the diet with recommended doses of a purported buffered form of creatine (1.5 g/d) for 28-days or equivalent loading (20 g/d for 7-days) and maintenance doses (5 g/d for 21-days) of CrM did not promote greater increases in muscle creatine content or training adaptations in comparison to creatine monohydrate (20 g/d for 7-days, 5 g/d for 21-days). Additionally, there was no evidence to support claims that the buffered form of creatine was associated with fewer side effects or was a safer form of creatine to consume than creatine monohydrate. While it could be argued that supplementing the diet with any form of creatine may provide some health and/or ergogenic benefits over time as long as it delivers sufficient amounts of creatine to increase muscle creatine content; present findings do not support claims that KA is a more efficacious and/or safer form of creatine than creatine monohydrate. With this said, some limitations of this study should be noted. For example, this study did not have a control group and depended on participants to self-report side effects. Therefore, while the safety profile of short and long-term creatine monohydrate supplementation has been well established, safety and efficacy could only be compared to ingesting different levels and forms of creatine and not controls. There is also variability in conducting muscle and blood assays as well as variability in conducting performance tests. In some instances, large mean differences among groups were either not statistically significant or only approached significance. It is possible that some of these differences would have been significant if a control group was included in the study design and/or more subjects were studied to increase statistical power. Nevertheless, results from the present study do not support claims that KA is a more efficacious and/or safer form of creatine to consume than creatine monohydrate. Supported by AlzChem AG, Germany. 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We would like to thank the individuals who participated in this study as well as all of the students and administrative support staff at Texas A&M University that assisted in conducting this study. We would also like thank Dr. John Thaden for clinical chemistry technical support and Dr. J.P. Bramhall for providing medical supervision for this study. “All authors have approved manuscript for submission.” Department of Health and Kinesiology, Exercise and Sport Nutrition Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843-4243, USA Andrew R Jagim, Jonathan M Oliver, Adam Sanchez, Elfego Galvan, Michael Greenwood, Christopher Rasmussen & Richard B Kreider Department of Sports Medicine and Nutrition, Neuromuscular Research Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15203, Oakland Jonathan M Oliver Department of Health and Kinesiology, Muscle Biology Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843-4243, USA James Fluckey Department of Health and Kinesiology, Human Countermeasures Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843-4243, USA Steven Riechman Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, TX, 7843-1114, USA Katherine Kelly & Cynthia Meininger Andrew R Jagim Adam Sanchez Elfego Galvan Michael Greenwood Katherine Kelly Cynthia Meininger Christopher Rasmussen Richard B Kreider Correspondence to Richard B Kreider. AlzChem AG (Trostberg, Germany) provided funding for this study through a research grant to Texas A&M University. All researchers involved independently collected, analyzed, and interpreted the results from this study and have no financial interests concerning the outcome of this investigation. RBK has received grants as Principal Investigator through institutions with which he has been affiliated to conduct exercise and nutrition related research, has served as a legal and scientific consultant, and currently serves as a scientific consultant for Woodbolt International (Bryan, TX). Remaining coauthors have no competing interests to declare. Data from this study have been presented at the International Society of Sports Nutrition Annual meeting and have not been submitted for publication to any other journals. Publication of these findings should not be viewed as endorsement by the investigators or their institutions of the nutrients investigated. ARJ served as the study coordinator, oversaw all testing, and assisted in data analysis and writing of the manuscript. JMO assisted in data collection and statistical analysis. AS assisted with data collection. EG assisted with data collection and reviewed and approved nutritional records as the studies’ registered dietitian. JF and SR supervised the biopsy procedures. MG assisted in experimental design, data analysis, and manuscript preparation. KK supervised muscle assays and CM served as a collaborating scientist. CR served as lab coordinator and oversaw data collection and quality control of the study. RBK served as Principal Investigator and contributed to the design of the study, statistical analysis, manuscript preparation, and procurement of external funding. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Adam Sanchez, Elfego Galvan, James Fluckey, Steven Riechman, Michael Greenwood, Katherine Kelly, Cynthia Meininger, Christopher Rasmussen contributed equally to this work. Jagim, A.R., Oliver, J.M., Sanchez, A. et al. A buffered form of creatine does not promote greater changes in muscle creatine content, body composition, or training adaptations than creatine monohydrate. J Int Soc Sports Nutr 9, 43 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1186/1550-2783-9-43 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1550-2783-9-43	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line838
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__label__wiki	0.972094	0.972094	Black Lives Matter boomerang: How media flipped script on violent protests after Capitol riot After a year of equivocation on destructive BLM riots, journalists appear to reverse position. By Daniel Payne Updated: January 8, 2021 - 9:19am argued The violent, deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday has prompted numerous media players to apparently flip the script on violent protests, brushing aside standards that they established last summer when much of the country was gripped by Black Lives Matter-led violence and rioting in major American cities. Wednesday's riot, in which an unarmed woman was shot by a U.S. Capitol Police officer, was spun off from a massive "Stop the Steal" rally organized by supporters of President Donald Trump in protest of congressional certification of President-elect Joe Biden's 2020 election win. A large group of attendees from that march eventually stormed the steps of the U.S. Capitol, pushing back a police barricade. A smaller but still sizable portion of that group made its way inside, breaking windows and driving lawmakers into evacuation while effectively seizing control of portions of the Capitol for a period of time. While there, protesters dangled from ledges in the Senate chambers, occupied and trashed the offices of various elected officials, stole and/or defaced property, and clashed with police. In many cases law enforcement had their weapons drawn and pointed at protesters. Ashli Babbit, a 35-year-old U.S. Air Force veteran and Trump supporter from Ocean Beach, Calif. was shot in the neck and was later pronounced dead. Media drops rationalization of violence in favor of condemnation The violent intrusion into the Capitol was met with near-universal condemnation worldwide, including by virtually every media outlet, broadcaster and commentator. Yet the language on display from much of the media yesterday was a sharp departure from rhetoric deployed by journalists last summer at the height of the Black Lives Matter-led riots and violence that gripped the country intermittently for several months. At the time, many reporters, commentators and news organizations took pains to contextualize, rationalize and in some cases soften their coverage of those riots. Nearly 20 people died in the civil unrest in its first two weeks, which caused billions of dollars in damage to businesses, homes and other property, turning some urban centers into fiery wastelands and sending business owners scrambling to fortify their shops against destruction. In early June, CNN host Chris Cuomo argued at the time that protesters should not be expected to be "polite and peaceful" during their demonstrations. "[P]lease, show me where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful," he said at the time. "Because I can show you that outraged citizens are what made the country what she is and led to any major milestone. To be honest, this is not a tranquil time." In the midst of Wednesday's Capitol riot, Cuomo appeared to have sharply changed his tune. "Those who stoked these flames must be remembered. They fed lies and moved people to exactly what we are seeing," he wrote on Twitter. "This is what you all pushed for," he wrote later, referring to Trump-aligned conservatives. "Stoked. Agitated. Deceived. So angry, all 'us vs them' ... and this is where it led. As you all knew it might." He further referred to the riot as "the low point in modern history." The Associated Press, meanwhile, appeared in its coverage of the riot to depart from a new stylistic approach it adopted last year. Informing readers that it would be "us[ing] care" in describing civil unrest, the news organization in September wrote on Twitter: "A riot is a wild or violent disturbance of the peace involving a group of people. The term riot suggests uncontrolled chaos and pandemonium." The AP argued that "focusing on rioting and property destruction rather than underlying grievance has been used in the past to stigmatize broad swaths of people protesting against lynching, police brutality or for racial justice, going back to the urban uprisings of the 1960s." Suggesting an alternative, the AP wrote: "Unrest is a vaguer, milder and less emotional term for a condition of angry discontent and protest verging on revolt." The news wire appeared to utilize that standard in its coverage of last summer's violent demonstrations, when in the late spring it described violent looting, arson, flag-burning and clashes with police as "unrest." It similarly described as "unrest" sustained chaos in Minneapolis that involved the burning of a police station and multiple other buildings, some of which firefighters were unable to access due to ongoing violence. Yet the Associated Press in multiple stories this week described the Capitol crisis as a "riot," making it unclear just how the news service applies the standards it appears to have developed in the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests last year. As with his colleague Chris Cuomo, CNN's Don Lemon also appeared to sharply reverse his position on rioting after Wednesday's crisis. Criticizing what he alleged was Trump's culpability for the riot at the Capitol, Lemon addressed Trump as "the worst of the worst" and said: "Some day in the future that will be all anyone remembers of you, that you were awful, terrible, the worst president, and that you won by an electoral fluke and by lying to people. You are a complete and utter disgrace is what people will remember." On Twitter, meanwhile, he wrote of the protests: "So much for [law and order]." Yet Lemon was more sanguine about riots during last year's Black Lives Matter demonstrations. Noting that the violent demonstrations at the time were "quite frankly anarchy," Lemon nevertheless argued: "Our country was started because [of] the Boston tea party. Rioting." "So do not get it twisted," he said further, "and think this is something that has never happened before and this is so terrible and these savages and all of that. This is how this country was started." The riots, he argued, were "indicative of the pain and sadness in this country of people who feel that they have no other alternative but to exhibit this behavior in our country. No other option." In late May of last year, after two nights of violence, arson and destruction in Minneapolis, "Today Show" reporter Craig Melvin said the network would be refraining from calling the mayhem a "riot." "While the situation on the ground in Minneapolis is fluid, and there has been violence," he wrote on Twitter, "it is most accurate at this time to describe what is happening there as 'protests' — not riots'." On Thursday, on the other hand, the "Today Show" referred to the Capitol riot as a riot. None of the media figures or organizations named in this article responded to queries from Just the News on Thursday. Don Lemon says Trump voters cast ballots for the candidate the KKK and Nazis supported YouTube suspends Trump channel for seven days in latest strike by big tech censors 'This employee no longer works for PBS,' organization says in response to Project Veritas report	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line845
__label__wiki	0.732648	0.732648	webmaster@cvradio.com 810 W 200 N - Logan, UT Stream KOOL 103.9 Turnbuckle Trash Podcast GUNS N’ ROSES SUES BEER COMPANY OVER KNOCKOFF BREW AND MERCH Guns N' Roses has filed a lawsuit against a company that it claims has been selling a knockoff beer named after the band. Canarchy Craft Brewery Collective has allegedly been selling a beer called Guns 'N' Rosé, along with hats, t-shirts, pint glasses, stickers, buttons, and bandannas with the Guns 'N' Rosé name on them. The beer itself is described as “a 6 percent ABV ale brewed with hibiscus and prickly pear.” The lawsuit, filed by Guns members Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan, claims that the Colorado-based Canarchy tried to trademark the name but after the band objected, the brewery consortium agreed to abandon the application. The band also claims that it reached out several times to tell Canarchy to stop selling all merchandise with the name completely and say that Canarchy agreed to stop, but not until March 2020. That position was rejected by the band members, who claim that Canarchy “has refused to immediately and completely cease sales and marketing” the beer and all the goods. Guns N’ Roses is suing for trademark infringement and seeking unspecified damages. Tagged Music News KOOL 103.9 is a classic hits radio station in the heart of beautiful Logan, Utah. Proudly owned and operated by the Cache Valley Media Group. Interested in Radio + Digital Advertising? Copywright © 2020 Cache Valley Media Group – Design by Anasi Business Solutions	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line849
__label__wiki	0.527311	0.527311	Gamma-tubulin reorganization during mouse fertilization and early development M.J. Palacios, H.C. Joshi, C. Simerly, G. Schatten Journal of Cell Science 1993 104: 383-389; M.J. Palacios H.C. Joshi C. Simerly G. Schatten gamma-Tubulin, a component of spindle pole bodies in fungal cells and pericentriolar material in vertebrate cells, is thought to play a role in the nucleation of microtubule growth and to define their polarity. In contrast to the adult somatic cells, microtubules are nucleated in the absence of centrioles in mammalian oocytes and early embryos. By studying acentriolar mouse oocytes and their early development following fertilization, we show that gamma-tubulin antibody crossreacts with a 50,000 M(r) protein in unfertilized mouse oocytes and demonstrate that gamma-tubulin distribution is rearranged dramatically during fertilization. In unfertilized mouse oocytes, gamma-tubulin is concentrated in the broad spindle poles of meiotic spindle (MII) and as the distinct foci which form the centers of the cytoplasmic microtubule asters (cytasters). The integrity of these gamma-tubulin foci and their cytoplasmic location is maintained during the drug- or cold-induced depolymerization of microtubules. gamma-Tubulin is also found in the basal body of the mouse sperm. During fertilization, the gamma-tubulin is found at the cytastral centers as well as in the incorporated sperm basal body complex, and the gamma-tubulin foci coalesce at the perinuclear microtubule organizing regions of the two pronuclei at the first mitotic prophase. During mitosis, gamma-tubulin is found associated with broad bands that form the poles of the first mitotic spindle. 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__label__wiki	0.605109	0.605109	January 2014 - Volume 9 - Issue 1 Thought you might appreciate this item(s) I saw at Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS. DOES ANTIRETROVIRAL TREATMENT AT HIGH CD4 COUNTS REDUCE DISEASE RISK FOR HIV-POSITIVE PATIENTS?: Edited by Jason V. Baker and Caroline A. Sabin Immediate antiretroviral therapy in young HIV-infected children: benefits and risks Collins, Intira J.; Judd, Ali; Gibb, Diana M. MRC Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, London, UK Correspondence to Intira J. Collins, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London WC2B 6NH E, UK. Tel: +44 20 7670 4767; e-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivitives 3.0 License, where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0. Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS: January 2014 - Volume 9 - Issue 1 - p 87-94 doi: 10.1097/COH.0000000000000027 Recent WHO guidelines recommend immediate initiation of lifelong antiretroviral therapy (ART) in all children below 5 years, irrespective of immune/clinical status, to improve access to paediatric ART. Interim trial results provide strong evidence for immediate ART during infancy because of high short-term risk of mortality and disease progression, but there is wider debate regarding the potential risks and benefits of immediate ART in asymptomatic children aged above 1 year. Concerns include long-term toxicities and treatment failure, particularly in resource-constrained settings with limited paediatric treatment options. Benefits of immediate ART among infants appear to be maintained in the mid-term to long-term, with low risk of treatment failure, and better neurodevelopmental outcomes. In contrast, a trial reported no benefits of immediate versus deferred ART in asymptomatic children aged above 1 year. However, observational studies suggest that ART initiation at older ages and lower CD4 reduces the probability of immune reconstitution, with unclear implications on risk of clinical events or treatment change. A recent trial on treatment interruption following early intensive ART suggest that this may be a safe alternative approach. Although there are clear benefits of immediate ART among infants, there remains conflicting evidence on the benefits for older children. In 2011, an estimated 3.3 million children aged below 15 years were living with HIV, of whom more than 90% lived in sub-Saharan Africa, and the vast majority were infected through mother-to-child transmission [1]. Despite the rapid scale up of interventions for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, coverage in the top 21 Global Plan priority countries remains highly variable, ranging from 9% to more than 95% [2]. Within these priority countries, there were an estimated 210 000 children newly infected in 2012 alone [3]. Without antiretroviral therapy (ART), up to 50% of children will die by 2 years of age in resource-limited settings [4,5▪]. Yet, the global coverage of ART among children continues to lag behind at 28% of those in need of treatment, as compared to 58% in adults [6]. The WHO recommendations on when to start ART in children have been revised four times over the past decade, each time relaxing the eligibility criteria to higher CD4 levels, and more recently increasing the age for immediate ART from all those below 2 years to all below 5 years, irrespective of clinical or immune status [7] (Table 1) [7–11]. Older children are recommended to start ART when CD4 is less than 500 cells (an increase from <350 cells), in alignment with adult guidelines, and following studies which showed similar risk of disease progression in children aged above 5 years as young adults [12]. Changes in World Health Organization recommendations on immunological threshold of when to start antiretroviral therapy by age from 2003 to 2013 In contrast, the United States and European Paediatric European Network for Treatment of AIDS (PENTA) paediatric guidelines only recommend immediate ART for all infants below 12 months, whereas older children are recommended to initiate ART based on clinical and immune status [13,14]. However, the WHO recommendations are based on a public health approach, taking into account programmatic issues in resource-limited settings, such as difficulties in provision of CD4 testing and high rates of loss-to-follow-up among children not eligible for treatment [15,16,17▪]. Furthermore, recent data suggest that a large number of children still present late for treatment, when severely immunocompromised and at advanced disease stage [18], with high risk of mortality during screening and in the first year of ART [15], especially in those aged below 2 years [19,20]. With the aim to minimize the risk of disease progression and mortality, under the consolidated WHO guidelines HIV-infected children would initiate lifelong ART from infancy. In this review, we focus on the most recent evidence on the risks and benefits of earlier initiation of ART in three main areas: survival and AIDS-free survival; immune restoration, as this is closely associated with risk of disease progression; and neurodevelopmental outcomes, because of their important implications on quality of life. Lastly, we briefly review the latest evidence on treatment-sparing strategies. This is critical to minimize long-term toxicities and to preserve future treatment options, particularly in resource-limited settings wherein often only first and second-line regimens are available [21]. WHEN TO START ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY: SURVIVAL AND AIDS-FREE SURVIVAL Up until 2008, the WHO recommendations on when to initiate ART in children were largely based on observational data which demonstrated younger age and poorer immune status as the main predictors of risk of disease progression and death, as well as higher risk in untreated children in sub-Saharan Africa compared with Europe and the USA [22,23]. To date, there have only been two clinical trials assessing when to start ART in children, both conducted in low or middle-income countries. The Children with HIV early antiretroviral therapy (CHER) trial in South Africa randomized 377 asymptomatic HIV-infected infants (CD4 >25% at median 7 weeks of age) to immediate initiation of ART before 12 weeks of age or deferred ART based on WHO 2006 clinical or CD4 criteria. After a median of only 40 weeks, there was a 76% [95% confidence interval (CI), 49–89%, P <0.001] reduction in mortality and 75% reduction in disease progression (95% CI, 59–85%, P <0.001) in the early treatment arm [24], and these results were confirmed in the final analysis at 4 years of follow-up [25▪▪] (Table 2) [25▪▪,26,27▪,28▪▪,29▪]. Table 2-a: Summary of recent trials on in HIV-infected children Table 2-b: The majority of excess deaths observed in the deferred treatment arm was among untreated children who died before meeting the clinical/immune criteria for ART. Following the interim result of this trial, the WHO, United States and PENTA guidelines were all revised in 2008 to recommend immediate ART in all HIV-infected infants under 12 months, irrespective of clinical or immune status [10]. In the WHO 2010 guidelines, this was extended to all children under 24 months [11], for programmatic reasons and also in recognizing that observational data indicate the higher risk of AIDS and death extend to young children below 2 years [22,23]. Importantly, final results of the CHER trial showed that very few children in the early ART arms switched to second line (4 of 252), although this may have been partly because of the treatment-sparing strategy in which infants on early ART were randomized to treatment interruption after 40 or 96 weeks of ART (see later section) [25▪▪]. The Paediatric Randomized Early vs. Deferred Initiation in Cambodia and Thailand (PREDICT) study, randomized 284 children, aged 1–12 years with CD4 of 15–24% and no AIDS-defining illness to immediate ART or deferred treatment until CD4 less than 15% or Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stage C. At 3 years of follow-up, there was no difference in the AIDS-free survival: 97.9% (95% CI, 93.7–99.3) and 98.7% (95%CI, 94.7–99.7, P = 0.6) in the early and deferred arms, respectively [28▪▪]. The rate of events was very low (one death and five CDC C events), and the authors concluded that the study was underpowered to detect a difference between the two strategies. However, there were also no differences between the two arms in any secondary outcomes: rate of hospitalization, CDC stage B or C events, virological suppression, immunological response or neurodevelopmental outcomes, suggesting no significant benefit of earlier treatment in asymptomatic children above 1 year. However, it is important to note that children in the deferred treatment arm received CD4 assessments every 3 months and prompt ART initiation at higher median CD4% as compared to other studies in comparable routine care settings [30,31]. Furthermore, this trial included mainly older surviving children, with a median age of 6.4 years at randomization (only 26% were aged <3 years and 6% aged 1–2 years); therefore, the findings may not be generalizable to all children below 5 years. In the absence of clinical trial data, the South Africa International Epidemiologic Database to Evaluate AIDS collaboration conducted a causal modelling analysis, using data from the their large cohort of approximately 3000 children aged 2 to below 5 years at first presentation [32▪]. The model estimated mortality over 3 years if the 2013 guidelines for immediate ART was implemented as compared to starting ART when CD4 declined to less than 25% or less than 750 cell counts as per routine practice within the cohort. The model showed no significant benefit in mortality from the immediate treatment strategy, most likely because of the relatively low risk of mortality in children aged 2–5 years with CD4 more than 25%. In summary, there is limited evidence to support immediate ART in children aged 2–5 years in terms of survival or AIDS-free survival. This is partly reflected in the WHO recommendations, which state that priority for immediate ART should be given to children aged less than 2 years or those aged 2–5 years with advanced disease stage [7]. IMMUNOLOGICAL RECONSTITUTION As most children on ART are now surviving into adolescence and young adulthood, there is a need to study the impact of earlier treatment initiation on long-term response and morbidity. Numerous studies have shown that children who initiate ART at low CD4 or older age are less likely to achieve immune reconstitution to near normal levels, often defined as CD4 at least 25% [33–35] or at least 30% [36], which represents the upper threshold for start of treatment in children above 2 years. Children who fail to reach this threshold may be vulnerable to disease progression. However, most studies have been limited to follow-up of 2–5 years on ART, and the long-term trajectory of immune response is unclear. To address that, one novel study by Lewis et al.[37▪▪] used data from the PENTA-5 clinical trial, of 127 European/South American children in an immunological sub-study, to model the CD4 trajectories of children on ART into adulthood. As expected, the long-term CD4 z-scores were significantly lower for children starting ART at older ages and those with lower pre-ART CD4. However, children starting with lower CD4 cell count at younger ages had greater capacity for immune reconstitution as compared to older children, possibly due to increased thymic activity and a shorter duration of infection [37▪▪]. The same model was also applied to data from the Antiretroviral research for Watoto (ARROW) trial, of 1206 children randomized to clinical-based or clinical and laboratory-based monitoring in Uganda and Zimbabwe, with 4 years of follow-up on ART [38▪]. Similar results were observed, whereby higher long-term CD4 cell counts were predicted for children starting ART at younger ages and with higher CD4 cell counts (P <0.0001). Interestingly, children starting ART aged above 10 years were unlikely to ever normalize CD4 cell counts, irrespective of their CD4 at start of therapy. These findings are consistent with recent results from an observational study in Thailand. Among 507 children followed up for a median of 7 years, 22% failed to achieve immune reconstitution defined as confirmed CD4 of at least 25%, of whom over half had sustained viral suppression less than 400 copies throughout their follow-up time [39]. Age above 7 years and very low CD4 less than 5% at start of ART were associated with poor immune reconstitution, although the impact on clinical events was not assessed. In contrast, in the PREDICT trial, composed of similarly older children, there were no differences in long-term immune response in the immediate versus deferred ART arms, and it was unclear if there was an effect of age at start of therapy [28▪▪]. In summary, observational studies suggest that delayed initiation of ART until age above 7 years or when severely immunosuppressed significantly reduces the probability of immune reconstitution, although the clinical implications of this remains unclear. In adult studies, nonimmune response despite viral suppression has been associated with increased risk of severe clinical events [40] and death [41], whereas prolonged periods of immune reconstitution (defined as CD4 ≥ 500 cells/mm3) have been associated with improved life expectancy, comparable to the general population [42,43]. No equivalent study has yet been conducted in perinatally infected patients, mainly because of lack of data on long-term clinical outcomes; this highlights the need for continued follow-up after children transfer to adolescent and adult clinics. NEURODEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOMES There were two recent reviews on neurodevelopmental outcomes in perinatally HIV-infected children and adolescents [44▪▪,45]. AIDS-defining illness and low CD4 have been associated with poorer neurodevelopmental outcomes in resource-rich and resource-limited settings [46▪,47▪]. However, the debate on whether earlier treatment initiation improves neurodevelopmental outcomes among children without advanced disease stage continues. In the CHER trial's neurological sub-study, children in the early ART group had significantly higher General and Locomotor scores at 11 months of age as compared to the deferred ART group, and were comparable to HIV-uninfected controls [27▪]. However, differences between the groups were relatively small, and the mean General and Locomotor score in the deferred arm remained within the normal developmental range. In the PREDICT trial sub-study, with a median age 9 years at last examination, there was no difference in the neurocognitive performance in the early versus deferred ART groups, despite repeat measurements throughout the study. Both groups had poorer outcomes as compared to HIV-exposed uninfected controls on key measures [29▪]. However, it is important to note that these measures were based on the methods developed in the USA or Europe and have not been standardized for these other settings. Also comparisons with HIV-exposed uninfected controls may be subject to unmeasured confounders, such as differences in the family settings and access to care, which may affect outcomes. Also the magnitude of differences in outcomes and their impact on daily function, learning capabilities and quality of life are unknown. OTHER CONSIDERATIONS: TOXICITIES, VIROLOGIC FAILURE AND TREATMENT-SPARING STRATEGIES As with adults, earlier initiation of lifelong ART poses potential risks of long-term toxicities, increased risk of virological failure and limited treatment options. A fuller discussion of potential toxicities is beyond the scope of this review. Briefly, concerns have been raised regarding prolonged exposure to tenofovir (recommended first line for children >3 years) and protease inhibitors (lopinavir is recommended first line for children <3 years) among children and adolescents because of their impact on bone mineral density/kidney function and metabolic disease respectively, during critical periods of growth and development [48▪,49,50]. Such concerns are particularly important in resource-constrained settings wherein there is limited monitoring of such toxicities. Recent results from the CHER and PREDICT trials show very good long-term virological suppression and low rates of switch to second line among children on immediate ART [25▪▪,26]. However, data from observational studies in routine care settings suggest much higher rates of virological failure in Asia and Africa (range from 19 to 25% at 3–5 years of ART in settings with routine virological monitoring) [51,52▪,53]. Also a recent meta-analysis reported higher levels of triple-class virological failure in European adolescents starting ART compared with 5–9-year olds [54]. In countries, where only first line and second-line treatment options are available, this presents a critical dilemma and has resulted in trials exploring treatment-sparing strategies. The first is the Nevirapine Resistance Study (NEVEREST) trial, wherein children aged below 3 years started ART with lopinavir-based therapy and continued on this regimen or switched to nevirapine-based regimen after a prolonged period of virological suppression with the aim of preserving lopinavir for second line. Results suggested that those who switched to nevirapine had poorer virological outcomes but better growth and CD4 responses [55▪▪]. The other strategy was within the CHER trial, in which children on early ART had a treatment interruption at 40 or 96 weeks with CD4 and clinical-guided criteria for reinitiation of ART [25▪▪]. Up to a third of children in the 96 weeks arm remained off treatment at the end of the study with good CD4 profiles. The study showed that this strategy was well tolerated and superior when compared with deferred ART. However, the study was not powered to detect a difference in outcomes between the two treatment interruption arms, and there was no early ART continuous arm to compare with. These findings suggest that there may be a future role for early intensive treatment followed by periods of interruption, but, critically, rely on close clinical and laboratory monitoring, which is not available everywhere. Nonetheless, the findings confirm conclusions from previous studies that, unlike in adults, treatment interruption in children appears well tolerated without higher risk of mortality, serious clinical events [56] or negative impact on long-term immune/virological response after reinitiation of ART [57▪], although further study is needed. With an estimated 300 000 children newly infected with HIV in 2012 alone, questions concerning when to start lifelong ART remain extremely relevant to paediatrics. Although there is strong evidence of wide ranging benefits of immediate ART in infants, there remains conflicting evidence on the benefits of early ART in asymptomatic children above 1 year. Modelling studies suggest that delayed ART initiation at older ages and lower CD4 reduces the probability of immune reconstitution with unknown implications for long-term disease progression, highlighting the need for continued follow-up of perinatally infected patients as they transfer to adolescent and adult clinics. Lastly, recent trial results suggest that treatment interruption following early intensive ART during infancy may be a well tolerated alternative strategy but requires close monitoring, which is not available in most of the affected regions. We thank David Dunn for his comments on this article. 1. 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__label__wiki	0.705619	0.705619	マーベルは、32 ビットおよび 64 ビットの ARMADA Soc 組込み型プロセッサ･ファミリを、ソフトウェアソリューションおよびパートナー各社の優れたエコシステと組み合わせて、をさまざまな用途に利用できるように拡張しています。 Marvell strengthens its leadership commitment with support of fully integrated, comprehensive software offering and hardware platform solutions for the industry-leading 32-bit and 64-bit ARMADA SoC family of embedded processors Santa Clara, Calif. and Nuremberg, Germany (February 23, 2016) – Marvell (NASDAQ:MRVL), a world leader in storage, cloud infrastructure, Internet of Things (IoT), connectivity and multimedia semiconductor solutions, today announced the 32-bit and 64-bit ARMADA® system-on-chip (SoC) ecosystem of software solutions and partners for a variety of applications. Marvell’s expanded, rich ecosystem brings strong support and commitment to the open source community with software offerings including mainline Linux kernel and mainline U-Boot on publicly available community hardware platforms. 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In addition, the Marvell Media Processing Engine (MMP) is designed to enable VoIP applications through integration with the open source Asterisk solution and integration with M5T SIP Client Engine SDK from Media5 Corporation; M5T SIP Client Engine SDK is now available for the ARMADA 38x SoC family. “Media5 Corporation is honored to collaborate with Marvell. M5T SIP solutions have proven their interoperability in SIP and IMS based environments such as VoLTE, RCS and PacketCable,” said Stephane Ross, Product Line Manager at Media5 Corporation. “We are pleased to show Marvell’s ARMADA 38x SoC family enabled by Avnet Memec - Silica EMEA Yocto 2.0 layer at embedded world 2016,” said Mario Orlandi, President Avnet Memec - Silica EMEA. “Avnet has had a long-lasting successful collaboration working with Marvell and witnessing first-hand the company’s commitment to helping customers quickly create and deliver premier products to market. We look forward to continuing our close collaboration with Marvell to provide customers with world-class design engineering services and resources to support the development of innovative, high-performance products and solutions.” Key features of Marvell’s ARMADA SoC family of embedded processors that can be leveraged on the ARMADA 38x family: ARMADA 38x family robust software offering includes: Marvell Linux SDK Marvell ADP software stack Marvell MMP software stack Marvell In-House JTAG debugger Lauterbach JTAG debugger Community open source software that includes mainline Linux kernel, mainline U-Boot, OpenWrt and FreeBSD Available open source software that includes OpenWrt 14.07 and Yocto 1.6 (https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors) Carrier Grade operating systems that include MontaVista CGE7 Linux and Wind River Linux Commercial Linux solutions that include O.S. Systems Embedded Linux and TimeSys LinuxLink Third party software stacks that include Aricent IoT Gateway, Media5 M5T SIP Client Engine SDK, Sartura CPE management solutions, StreamUnlimited Stream SDK and Trend Micro Smart Home Network Solution Google Brillo ARMADA 38x family publicly available hardware platforms include: Globalscale ARMADA 38x PrimaBox (https://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-66-primabox.aspx) SolidRun ARMADA 38x ClearFog (http://solid-run.com/marvell-armada-family/clearfog/) Marvell Andromeda Box™ Connect (http://andromedabox.org/) The Marvell ARMADA 38x family’s rich ecosystem is being showcased in the Avnet Memec – Silica booth (Hall 1, Booth No. 370) at embedded world 2016, Feb. 23–25 in Nuremberg, Germany. For more information about the ARMADA SoC Family of Embedded Processors ecosystem of partners, please visit http://www.marvell.com/embedded-processors/partners/. For more information about the Marvell ARMADA SoC Family of Embedded Processors, please visit: http://www.marvell.com/embedded-processors/ . Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is a global leader in providing complete silicon solutions and Kinoma® software enabling the “Smart Life and Smart Lifestyle.” From storage to cloud infrastructure, Internet of Things (IoT), connectivity and multimedia, Marvell’s diverse product portfolio aligns complete platform designs with industry-leading performance, security, reliability and efficiency. At the core of the world’s most powerful consumer, network and enterprise systems, Marvell empowers partners and their customers to always stand at the forefront of innovation, performance and mass appeal. By providing people around the world with mobility and ease of access to services adding value to their social, personal and work lives, Marvell is committed to enhancing the human experience. For more information, please visit www.Marvell.com. Marvell, the M logo, ARMADA and Kinoma are registered trademarks of Marvell and/or its affiliates. Andromeda Box, FLC and MoChi are trademarks of Marvell and/or its affiliates. これ以外の名前やブランド名が他社の所有物として権利を主張される場合があります。	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line868
__label__wiki	0.57039	0.57039	Marvell Powers 10,000th SheevaPlug Developers Rush to Create Thousands of New Applications for the Powerful but Diminutive Plug Computer at the Heart of the Always-On Lifestyle Santa Clara, California (December 22, 2009) – arvell (NASDAQ: MRVL), a world leader in storage, communications, and consumer silicon solutions, today announced that 10,000 SheevaPlug™ units have shipped featuring Marvell® CPU technology. A pioneer in carving out the concept of Plug Computing, Marvell has enthusiastically powered every major innovation in the Plug Computing ecosystem – persistently driving innovation in products to offer users high performance, always on, always connected, and environmentally friendly computing. "The evolution of the 'always-on consumer' is the muscle behind the development of these new innovative concepts and rapid Plug Computing adoptions," said Dr. Simon Milner, Vice President and General Manager of the Enterprise Business Unit, Consumer and Communications Business Group at Marvell Semiconductor. "Every SheevaPlug shipped has the potential to transform into new product concepts in different market segments including healthcare, home and office automation, storage, industrial and access controls, and more." In celebration of this milestone, Marvell is launching a worldwide Plug Computer developer competition, "Free Your Imagination", to award the most innovative Plug Computing concept submitted. For more details, please visit www.plugcomputer.org. Plugcomputer.org is the main web resource for the plug application development community. The forums, wikis, and software downloads on the site enable easy software development on the SheevaPlug, and facilitate free and open exchange of ideas and software. "Plug Computing makes the concept of always-on computing for many much more of a reality," said Rob Enderle Principal Analyst for the Enderle Group. "Increasing demand for Plug Computing is expanding the number of ways that consumers are acquiring and experience media. While Marvell celebrates its milestone, some Plug Computing vendors will celebrate industry accolades awarded for their Plug Computer based on Marvell’s CPU technology. For example, 4Home Energy’s ControPlug has been named a CES 2010 Innovations Award Honoree for its groundbreaking Services Delivery Platform that utilizes the SheevaPlug form factor to deliver a mass-market solution for enabling connected home services. The Plug Computing ecosystem is rapidly expanding to include a full value chain of product partners, application developers, and educational institutions. For more information, visit www.marvell.com. About the SheevaPlug Development Platform The award-winning SheevaPlug is designed to make high-performance, always-on, always connected, and environmentally friendly computing readily available for developers and end-users. It was recently recognized by Popular Science's "2009 Best of What's New" award in the Computing category. The SheevaPlug development platform uses a Marvell Kirkwood™ processor based on an embedded 1.2 GHz Sheeva™ CPU equipped with 512 Mbytes of FLASH and 512 Mbytes of DRAM. Connection to the home network is via Gigabit Ethernet. Peripherals such as direct attached storage can be connected using a USB 2.0 port. Multiple standard Linux 2.6 kernel distributions are supported on the SheevaPlug development platform enabling rapid application development. The enclosure is designed to plug directly into a standard wall socket and is designed to draw so little power it can be left on all the time. Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is a world leader in the development of storage, communications, and consumer silicon solutions. The company’s diverse product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless, and storage solutions that power the entire communications infrastructure including enterprise, metro, home, and storage networking. As used in this release, the terms "company" and "Marvell" refer to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries. Marvell and M logo are registered trademarks of Marvell or its affiliates; Sheeva, SheevaPlug and Kirkwood are trademarks of Marvell or its affiliates.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line869
__label__wiki	0.736916	0.736916	Mem û Zîn Study You Are Here: Home » KRG, Kurd news, Kurdistan » Kurdish community shocked by Erbil terror attack PKK Should Realise Their Armed Struggle is Futile KRG: Release the unlawfully detained journalists and human rights activists immediately Kurdistan Region: The Scope of Electoral Reforms and its Implications – Report Gebze Women’s Closed Prison – Political Prisoners Distress Call Turkey and Erdogan’s Dream of Empire The Endless Cycles of Betrayals and Killings of the Kurds “Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.” ~Rosa Luxemburg Kurdish community shocked by Erbil terror attack Written on September 30, 2013 by Editor in KRG, Kurd news, Kurdistan By Shivan Fazil Kurdi: Six people were killed and more than 60 others injured in Erbil yesterday after suicide bombers tried to storm the main security headquarters. “A minibus driven by a suicide bomber tried to storm the security office in Erbil, but he was fired upon and killed by the guards, and as a result the vehicle exploded,” said an official statement. Immediately following the explosion, four suicide bombers armed with weapons and hand grenades attacked and tried to enter the security headquarters, but they were killed by the guards. The attacks began at 1.24 p.m. Minutes after the first attack, a second suicide bomber arrived at the headquarters, driving an ambulance packed with explosives. President Barzani visits victims in hospital The Kurdistan Region has been the safest part of Iraq, escaping much of the violence that has raged in the rest of the country since the fall of the Saddam regime in 2003. “Our forces have undoubtedly foiled many such plans in the past six years,” said an Erbil security office spokesperson. Yesterday’s attacks are first since 2007 when terrorist groups blasted the KRG’s interior ministry, a walking distance away from Erbil security head office. These attacks came as the Kurdistan Region was celebrating a successful parliamentary election. Moreover, the city has recently hosted the 9th International Trade Fair in which hundreds of international companies participated. The UK Prime Minister’s Business Envoy Lord Marland led the biggest British companies’ delegation. Companies from other EU countries such as Germany, Portugal, Austria and Italy had a strong presence in the fair too. The Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, claim they are responsible. However, it is unknown for sure who is behind this terrorism which has shocked the Kurdish community in the region and worldwide. Shivan Fazil Kurdi: MSc. Advanced Computer Networks, University of Derby, UK and BSc. Information Technology, University of Kurdistan-Hawler, Kurdistan. He is author of the book, ‘Cloud Computing Security’; he is a university lecturer and a freelance writer. 3 Responses to Kurdish community shocked by Erbil terror attack Kuvan Bamarny Iam assuming that the security headquarters of Hawler (Asayesh) has tons of surveillance cameras installedall from the gate of the building to all around the buliding.How come none of these cameras captured any videos of the attackers or even a single snapshot of the terrorists while trying to attack the building ? Suleiyman October 1, 2013 \| 02:02 It’s still too early to stipulate and they might have some evidence which they would rightfully withhold until some leads are made. So far the Asayesh have done enough over the years to gain our trust. Moving forwards is a different field to prove. Erbil hit by suicide bombing, at least 4 killed - The Kurdistan Tribune […] is the first fatal suicide attack on Erbil since September 2013. Although no one has claimed responsbility, it is believed that ISIS are behind today’s […] Wanting to leave an <em>phasis on your comment? HTML is allowed in the comment box above. You can use the following tags: <b></b>, <strong></strong>, <i></i>, <em></em>, <address></address>, <abbr></abbr>, <acronym></acronym>, <a href=""></a>. Trackback URL https://kurdistantribune.com/kurdish-community-shocked-by-erbil-terror-attack/trackback/ alexander modenos on France Grants Asylum to Yezidi Families under President Macron’s Promise Jamal Fuady on Tribunal Rebukes Turkish President Erdogan For War Crimes Against His Own People Kurdish groups accuse Theresa May of 'racism' in the House of Commons - Turkey Agenda on Kurds Are Not Terrorists Stranger on Ocalan v. Barzani: Two contradictory worlds Howard D Rowland on Afrin and its People Will Never Surrender to Fascist Turkish Invaders and their Terrorist Lackeys! Copyright © 2021 The Kurdistan Tribune Become our Facebook friend	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line880
__label__wiki	0.798098	0.798098	PREVIEW: Melbourne City Wrestling (MCW) – Clash Of The Titans (3/16/19) By: Jamie Apps \| March 12, 2019 March 21, 2019 This weekend’s Clash Of The Titans could very well be Melbourne City Wrestling’s (MCW) highest stakes event of all time as the MCW World Heavyweight Champion and MCW Intercommonwealth Champion go toe-to-toe in a winner takes all encounter. JK Moody vs Taylor King Photo: MCW Last month at Vendetta JK Moody came to Australia looking to challenge Melbourne’s best, much to his disdain though he was greeted by Perth’s former WWE star Mikey Nicholls. Whilst Moody tasted bitter defeat that night he now understands why. Moody says that he showed far too much respect to Nicholls at Vendetta and will not be making the same mistake twice. This Saturday Moody will once again be squaring off with another man from Perth, in the form of hot young prospect Taylor King. In recent months King has been making waves over in the west and will now look to bring that momentum with him for his debut with MCW. Mike Burr vs DCT Former Insane Championship Wrestling (ICW) World Heavyweight Champion DCT made the bold claim last month at Vendetta that he is “the hardest man in Melbourne.” This weekend he will have to put his money where his mouth is for his in-ring Melbourne Championship Wrestling debut when he battles the ‘War Dog’ Mike Burr. Expect these two men to absolutely destroy each other in a match which will be incredibly hard hitting and not for the faint of heart. Robbie Eagles vs Ritchie Taylor Since his debut in MCW late last year, Ritchie Taylor has quickly become a fan favourite, despite some disappointing results. What better way to immediately jumpstart his MCW career than by clipping the wings of the ‘Sniper Of The Skies’ Robbie Eagles. Eagle’s is coming into this match off the back of a hellacious schedule which has seen him competing in Japan for New Japan Pro Wrestling and also touring Australia defending his World Series Wrestling Heavyweight Championship against the world’s best. Will fatigue play a factor into this match and allow Taylor to pick up the biggest win of his career? Indi Hartwell vs Avary vs Kellyanne The rivalry and animosity between these three ladies have reached a point where it can only be described as hatred at this point. Over the course of the past year, these three have gone back and forth fighting each other, interfering in each other’s matches and ultimately straight up fighting each other any chance they get. Earlier this month, in fact, the hatred between the ladies spilt over to the G.IRL Women’s Wrestling event as all three brawled as the entire locker room attempted to keep them apart. These are three of the best performers in Australia but don’t go into this one expecting a technical masterpiece. These three women are simply going to attempt to kill each other as they all stake claim to the top spot in the MCW women’s division. MCW Tag Team Championship – Tables, Ladders & Chairs: The Brat Pack (Nick Bury & Mitch Waterman) vs. The Law (Dowie James & Adam Brooks) After losing the MCW Tag Team Championships in a triple-threat match in January The Brat Pack finally get their rematch this weekend. The LAW, however, had one stipulation to add before accepting the match, that being that this match would be fought under TLC rules. With the MCW Tag Team Championships hanging high above the ring of the Thornbury Theatre fans of MCW can expect this match to quickly descend into chaos. Whilst The Brat Pack have managed to defeat many of Australia’s finest tag teams throughout their career this could be their toughest challenge to date. Fun Time Phil vs Lochy Hendricks As the ‘Loverboy Farewell Tour’ continues Lochy Hendrick will be looking to land one final blow to the hearts of the MCW faithful as he takes on the beloved Fun Time Phil. Not only will Hendricks be looking to humiliate Phil in this match but the stakes have been raised even further with the stipulation that Phil’s partner Aria will be fired from MCW if he loses. Champion vs Champion: Gino Gambino vs Slex Two of Australia’s most prestigious championships will be on the line this weekend in a winner takes all encounter, where there must be a winner. Since winning the MCW Heavyweight Championship by defeating Dowie James Gino Gambino has continued to elevate the prestige of the championship. He has done this taking on the finest talent Australia has to offer, such as JXT, Robbie Eagles, Jonah Rock, before then heading abroad to defend the championship on foreign soil against New Zealand and the UK’s best. In doing so Gambino has awarded World Championship status to the MCW Heavyweight Championship, making it amongst the most coveted in the entire wrestling business. During this same time period though Slex and cast of others have been not so quietly elevating the MCW Intercommonwealth Championship by stealing the show whenever the championship is defended. Boasting a list of names which includes the likes of Will Ospreay, Robbie Eagles, Adam Brooks and Jonah Rock as former champions it’s clear why the MCW Intercommonwealth Championship has become so coveted by competitors and adored by fans. For many fans, these two championships are on an equal footing in regards to their importance within MCW, which is an opinion which certainly doesn’t sit well with Gino Gambino. This weekend Gambino and Slex will battle it out to settle the debate once and for all. There must be a victor in this match with one man walking out of the Thornbury Theatre holding both championships aloft as the king of champions! You can catch them on the wrestling streaming service PowerSlam TV on Roku, Apple TV and other streaming providers. You can download Powerslam TV for Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Prime and Google Play. Posted in Australia, Featured, InternationalTagged Adam Brooks, Aria, Avary, Brat Pack, Clash Of The Titans, DCT, Dowie James, Fun Time Phil, G.IRL Women's Wrestling, Gino Gambino, Indi Hartwell, Insane Championship Wrestling, JK Moody, Jonah Rock, JXT, Kellyanne, Lochy Hendricks, MCW, Melbourne City Wrestling, Mike Burr, Mitch Waterman, New Japan Pro Wrestling, Nick Bury, NJPW, Ritchie Taylor, Robbie Eagles, Slex, Taylor King, The Brat Pack, The Law, TLC, Will Ospreay, World Series Wrestling, WSW	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line882
__label__cc	0.547379	0.452621	About Last Post Since 1928, Legion Magazine has honoured those Canadians who have served their country by publishing in print short death notices for Royal Canadian Legion members with military backgrounds, Canadian veterans and Legion members with police service. With the advent of the Internet, we have created as a historical archive for your free use a Last Post database that goes back to 1982. It currently contains over 200,000 names but this number will rise as further entries are published in print and updated with the newest entries throughout the year. We will gradually go back further in time as our resources permit. All Canadian veterans are eligible for inclusion in the Last Post. Last Post is published as a free service in recognition of those who served their country and to allow readers to learn of the passing of comrades with whom they have served. The database, found at legionmagazine.com, is reserved for these groups: 1) Canadian citizens and Commonwealth subjects who were ordinary members of The Royal Canadian Legion at the time of death; 2) life members who were previously ordinary members; 3) Canadian veterans who were not Legion members at the time of death. The database has historical value and can be searched by name, date of death, unit or period of service. Forms for filling in the information are available at Legion branches. Those submitting notices are urged to be thorough and accurate. Type or print to ensure legibility. Submit notices promptly to ensure timely publication. As long as the date of death is within the time period of entries on the website (1982 to present), the notice will be added to the database and appear in the printed edition. Notices within a year of the date of death can be submitted by family members, but entries that are more than a year old must come from a Royal Canadian Legion branch. Reproduction or re-creation of the Legion Magazine Site Last Post database, in whole or in part in any form or media, is strictly forbidden and is a violation of copyright, which resides with Canvet Publications Ltd., the magazine's publisher. Legion Magazine owes a special thank you to our volunteers Heather Meikle, Terry Prill and Robyn Zettler who are helping us process entries for this database. Master Corporal Roland A. ABBORS Date Deceased: January 1st, 2007 Rank: Master Corporal Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force Legion Magazine 3 hours ago The next issue in the award-winning series Canada’s Ultimate Story is “Canada’s Great Naval Battles.” Pre-Order here \| Ships first week of February: https://t.co/zxFnakGix8 Thank you for visiting the Last Post database Sign up to receive notification on Last Post updates, fascinating stories and editorial content from Legion Magazine, as well as exclusive benefits. Powered by ConvertPlus™	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line894
__label__wiki	0.8235	0.8235	Kim Kardashian Has Backed off from Kimono Recently announced her new business line in clothing line, Kim has recently received a backlash for trademarking her brand by the name of Kimono. And after a long fight, she finally decided to back off from the name. Kimono has always been a tradition and a part of the Japanese culture for hundreds of years, and the sudden news by the world icon, Kim Kardashian who wished to trademark the word ‘Kimono’ instantly broke the hearts of many. The line was about to be named Kimono Solutionwear, and as it used the word Kimono, the name then stirred so many accusations of cultural appropriation. Kim herself explained that she didn’t try to trademark the word as a whole but the word with a special font for it, just like how Taylor Swift trademarked ‘1989’–not for the word but for the style of writing it. However, the social media was in rage for her action after all and even moved Kyoto Major, Daisaku Kadokawa to ask Mrs. West to reconsider her decision to use “kimono,” through a formal letter. Major wrote on his letter that “it is a culture that has been cherished and passed down with care in our living, a fruit of craftsmanship and truly symbolizes sense of beauty, spirits, and values of Japanese.” Following the frenzy of anger on her social media regarding her brand’s name, Kim finally posted a new announcement that she would be coming under a new name for the brand. Kim explained that “I so appreciate the passion and varied perspectives that people bring to me. When I announced the name of my shapewear line, I did so with the best intentions in mind, my brands and products are built with inclusivity and diversity at their core and after careful thought and consideration, I will be launching my Solutionwear brand under a new name.” making it official that she is willingly change her brand’s name as an appreciation for the Japanese culture. Source: Okezone One response to “Kim Kardashian Has Backed off from Kimono” General star7 DR Dr Tri Agung Prabowo LLM PhD SSos MP says: I am a talentscout of prpgress. Sovia field of Voice of America. In portofolio. Happy of have to letter.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line897
__label__wiki	0.979644	0.979644	Tel: 07839 202201hello@liberate.gg20 - ONE St Julians Avenue, St Peter Port, Guernsey, GY1 1ZQ Ask Liberate Info For Trans People Trans Terms Explained Understanding Gender CI Pride Mission 71 DIFERA DIFERA Accredited BBC interested in hearing from LGBT islanders include, Inform, newsBy Karen Wickham 04/04/2016 The BBC have made this announcement: Are you LGBT, aged between 16-34 and live in a small village, hamlet, coastal town, suburb, island, mountain, or anything in between? Do you have a story to tell about what it’s like being gay in the place you live? Maybe it’s positive, maybe it’s not, either way we… Some gestures can be deemed discrimination according to courts Inform, newsBy Karen Wickham 04/11/2015 A gay man has won damages from a Southend-on-Sea locksmith, after one of its employees subjected him to ‘gay gestures’ which were meant to be derogatory. BBC news reports that, after a minor disagreement, in late 2013, over a refund, the man was subjected to sarcastic and lewd gestures by one particular employee each time he… Estimated 3000 crowd at first ever Channel Islands Pride events, newsBy Karen Wickham 13/09/2015 An estimated crowd of 3,000 people descended on St Helier, Jersey for the first ever Channel Islands Pride parade on Saturday. More photos of this event are shown below. You can also read about the event on BBC News, and Gay Star News. BBC News Magazine provides guide to transgender terms Do you know anyone who is transgender? It’s fair to say many people don’t know how to speak to or about transgender people. So what do the terms involved mean and what’s considered polite? With Bruce Jenner’s transformation to Caityln much in the news recently, the BBC have come up with a list of terms and a useful… BBC New – Guernsey marriage law ‘most forward-looking in the world’ Inform, news, reformBy Ellie Jones 29/05/2014 Guernsey’s proposed “Union Civile” law is one of the most forward-thinking pieces of marriage legislation in the world, says a gay rights campaigner. Martin Gavet, chairman of the gay rights campaign group Liberate, was speaking after a meeting on Tuesday with Chief Minister Jonathan Le Tocq. The meeting was friendly, frank and refreshing, said Mr… BBC News – Guernsey States to fund gender change surgery include, news, reformBy Ellie Jones 21/05/2014 A great concise and informative article from the BBC News on the policy change for gender reassignment surgery. Read the full article here. BBC News – Guernsey ‘woefully behind’ in gay marriage Here is a BBC News report from January 2014, just before Liberate was formed. It’s good to know that we’ll have some great support when we open our dialogue with the States of Guernsey shortly. You can read the full article here. BBC News – Channel Islands gay rights movement gains momentum BBC News reports on our petition calling for equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) people in the Channel Islands and has attracted more than 800 signatures in one week. You can read the full article here. © 2014-2020 Liberate All rights reserved Guernsey Registered Charity No. 399 \| Privacy & Cookies	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line900
__label__cc	0.650573	0.349427	Firefighters save pup after south London townhouse fire Published Tuesday, December 1, 2020 6:06PM EST Last Updated Tuesday, December 1, 2020 9:15PM EST Firefighters help resuscitate a dog with oxygen after a fire in London, Ont. on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. (Jim Knight / CTV News) LONDON, ONT. -- London firefighters used their life-saving skills to rescue a four-legged friend Tuesday afternoon. After some CPR and oxygen the small dog was able to pull through. It had been overcome by smoke in a south London townhouse unit. Crews responded to a fire in the basement of a unit at 166 Southdale Rd. W. at around 3 p.m. One person who lives in the unit was also checked over by paramedics for smoke inhalation before being taken to hospital. The cause of the fire isn't know, but firefighters say smoke filled the entire unit. No damage estimate has yet been released. Incident update 2: fire under control at this time. Firefighters have resuscitated the dog and he is expected to survive. One male transported to hospital by @MLPS911 Fire Investigator has been requested. Ventilation & overhaul underway. #ldnont @lpsmediaoffice pic.twitter.com/pe1yyKtLK1 — London Fire Department (@LdnOntFire) December 1, 2020 Firefighters work at the scene of a fire in London, Ont. on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. (Jim Knight / CTV News)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line905
__label__cc	0.734254	0.265746	Diet & Lifestyle, Gut Health, Nutrition Articles Dietary management of histamine intolerance has been an area of focus in central Europe for decades, but remains relatively unknown elsewhere. a few recent studies have ignited interest because of important reported benefits of a low-histamine diet. What is histamine intolerance? Histamine intolerance (HIT), also known as enteral histaminosis, is a condition that is characterised by the development of a diverse set of problematic symptoms after the ingestion of histamine containing foods. Importantly, current thinking is that HIT is not solely due to dietary histamine exposure, but exposure coupled with insufficient or impaired histamine detoxification What causes histamine intolerance? Elevations in histamine due to an imbalance between detoxification and dietary exposure can cause histamine receptor mediated complications with allergic type symptoms such as flushing, headaches or urticaria, and gastrointestinal symptoms including diarrhoea and abdominal pain Dietary histamine is found at particularly high concentration in aged foods (eg cheeses, alcoholic beverages, cured meats, fermented or spoiled foods) where it is produced by bacterial or yeast fermentation of the amino acid histidine to histamine. Other foods, such as citrus for example, may have the capacity to enhance histamine release even though they contain low levels of histamine themselves. Detoxification of dietary histamine normally occurs in intestinal epithelial cells via the enzyme diamine oxidase (DAO) as well as histamine-N-methyl-transferase (HNMT) in the liver. If DAO fails to inactivate histamine, it can be absorbed through the gut epithelium and enter the bloodstream and systemic circulation where it can cause the typical symptoms of Histamine intolerance. There have been associations between genetic variants that affect DAO and/or HNMT activity and inflammatory bowel disease, asthma, allergic rhinitis and migraine headache, suggesting increased susceptibility to histamine intolerance in some individuals How is histamine intolerance diagnosed? The diagnosis of HIT typically requires the presence of two or more symptoms, improvement with a low histamine diet and/or antihistamines, and the exclusion of food allergies. Testing remains controversial as blood and urine histamine is often normal,and the usefulness of determining DAO levels or DAO and HNMT genotype is unclear. HIT appears to be transient, and may depend more on modifiable physiological and environmental factors than genetic susceptibility. Damage to the gastrointestinal mucosa, as in inflammatory bowel disease or coeliac disease, may reduce histamine detoxification capacity and should be considered. Limiting exposure to histamine provoking foods (see Table 1) as well as alcohol, which competitively inhibits intestinal DOA, are common clinical practices. After dietary histamine removal and symptom improvement many patients may be able to tolerate histamine-containing foods again and return to a normal diet. In addition to dietary therapy, nutritional supplementation with nutritional co-factors for DOA has been suggested, in particular zinc, copper, vitamin C and vitamin B6. Of these nutrients, both vitamin C and B6 have some evidence to suggest they would support histamine detoxification Gut bacteria and histamine intolerance Finally, although it has been relatively unexplored, it is plausible to suggest that differences in gut bacteria could result in increase histamine production through fermentation of histidine to histamine,or have direct affects on intestinal DOA activity. Lending support to this idea the GG strain of Lactobacillus rhamnosus (LGG) was found to reduce allergy-related immune activation by down regulation of the expression of histamine receptor genes In summary, it appears more attention should be given to the possibility of HIT as a clinical diagnosis, namely because nutritional therapy appears to be a safe and effective treatment for symptoms that may be otherwise misdiagnosed and treated with little hope for resolution.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line906
__label__wiki	0.540286	0.540286	mfachicagophotographynycpainterinterviewtunesspotlightlvl3officialartArtist of the weeknew yorksaicsculpturebfalos angeleslvl3 interviewmusicdesignpaintingfashionAOWartistlooksbrooklyn Pacifico Silano pacifico_photo www.pacificosilano.com Pacifico Silano is a lens-based artist whose work is an exploration of print culture, the circulation of imagery and LGBTQ identity. Born in Brooklyn, NY, he received his MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts. His work has been exhibited in group shows, including at the Bronx Museum; Tacoma Art Museum; Oude Kerk, Amsterdam; and ClampArt, New York City. He has had solo shows at ClampArt, Baxter ST@CCNY, Rubber-Factory and Stellar Projects, NYC. Tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do. I’m a lens-based artist who works with appropriated imagery. I’m interested in the emotional and physical voids felt within the LGBTQ community as a result of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. I re-photograph, fragment, and collage vintage gay pornography to explore themes of loss, longing and queer melancholy. What are some recent, upcoming or current projects you are working on? I’ve been working on my on-going series of photo collages and experimenting with their final form/installation. I’m keeping busy. I have 2 solo shows that I’m preparing for in 2019 and I’m in the early stages of planning a show in 2020 with the Houston Center for photography and group show at The Andy Warhol Museum. What is influencing your work right now? Right now I’m listening to all of Lana Del Rey’s recent fan tracks on constant loop. I like to daydream with “Venice Bitch” playing in the background. I love how she is able to tap into and subvert tropes of Americana and melancholy. What is your photographic process like? I spend a lot of time researching and collecting printed images. I’ll meditate on their meaning for a bit. Sometimes I’ll put a tear sheet away for years in a drawer before I find the right use for it. I’ve also spent some time photographing at NYU’s Fales Library, documenting the Richard Marshall Collection of Erotica and Pornography which requires me to work much faster. What was the last exhibition you saw that stuck out to you? I just visited Pittsburgh and saw the painter Devan Shimoyama’s solo show “Cry Baby” at the Andy Warhol Museum. I was blown away. The curator Jessica Beck did a fantastic job giving a survey of his work to date. It was a beautiful exhibition full of poignancy and heart. Any advice for emerging artists? Make work that you really care about. Don’t chase trends. Enjoy being a creative person and try not to worry about what other people have. It’s a form of self sabotage that will only derail your own creative output. What is the most powerful thing about photography? Photography is a visual language we all speak. It crosses all barriers while informing every facet of our existence. What is one of the key elements you consider when installing your work? I think a lot about the relationship between multiple images. I can imbue new meaning on a finished work just by how it is displayed on the wall, it’s one of the most exciting things about photography. It’s always in flux, its definition is never fixed. The visual rhythm changes depending on what is shown next to an image. What is it like living and working in NYC? It can be really soul-draining living/working in NYC. It’s not an easy place to live if you aren’t wealthy but it can also be the most incredible place full of endless potential.I was born in Brooklyn and have deep roots here. It’s hard to imagine living anywhere else. Describe your current studio or workspace. The Bronx Museum of The Arts, AIM program just provided me with my first ever studio. I’m beyond thrilled to finally have my own work space outside of my apartment. I just moved in and will be working in their new downtown space for the next 6 months. Have you ever been surprised by someone’s response to or interpretation of your work? I had a recent public art project cancelled over censorship and homophobia in Bal Harbour, Miami. I spent 8 months working on creating new work that was meant to engage the LGBTQ community in Miami Dade county. Jose Diaz, the chief curator of The Andy Warhol Museum and Claire Breukel were curating the exhibition and had to defend my photographs to the city manager, assistant city manager and the mayor. The city officials deemed my work inappropriate for tax paying families and they were censoring my images and curatorial statement. The whole thing was extremely disheartening. As a result it’s made me more committed to the work that I do. What do you want a viewer to walk away with after seeing your work? I would like for viewers to feel the absence of those who have come before us in the LGBTQ community and to contemplate the infinite life of a photograph. Any major changes happening in the studio? I’m refining my visual vocabulary and really enjoying the process of making new work. I have a text based project that has been a dream of mine to complete the last 2 years. I’m hoping that 2019 is the year it happens. Fingers crossed on those grant applications. #AOW #artist #Artist of the week #brooklyn #lens #lens-based artist #LVL3 #LVL3 gallery #lvl3 interview #lvl3 media #LVL3 Official #lvl3gallery #new york #Pacifico #Pacifico Silano #queer #Silano #The Bronx Museum of The Arts Artist of the Week: Janina Anderson Artist of the Week: Dan Devening 1542 N. Milwaukee Ave, 3rd Floor, Chicago, IL 60622 Sundays 1pm–4pm \| Private showings by appointment © 2021 LVL3. All rights reserved	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line907
__label__wiki	0.624955	0.624955	Top News December 20, 2020 December 20, 2020 Microsoft is said to be making proprietary Surface ARM chips for the MacBook M1 by Bruno Glover Early Reviews of the New Powered Apple Silicon Chip MacBook Air M1And the MacBook Pro M1 And the Mac mini Glowing, it seems Apple isn’t the only company to adopt ARM-based chips. to me Bloomberg From the sources, Microsoft is currently exploring the possibility of manufacturing its own chips, which could leave Intel in the open. While the report confirms that the main focus of any new chipsets will be on servers running the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, one of the site’s sources added that it “could” lead to a first-party ARM chip for Surface products. This was referred to as “another chip” earlier in the segment, so it doesn’t look like it will be a one-size-fits-all processor. As expected, Microsoft did not confirm the existence of the project when contacted for comment. “As silicon is a fundamental building block of technology, we continue to invest in our own capabilities in areas such as design, manufacturing and instrumentation, while strengthening and strengthening partnerships with a wide range of chip providers,” said Microsoft’s Frank Shaw. Although partnerships with third parties have been pointed out there, this is undoubtedly bad news for Intel, which currently provides the majority of processors for Azure cloud services, as well as chipsets for most of the Surface lineup (Microsoft provided Ryzen powered Surface Laptop 3 in the last year). Intel stock closed down 6.3%, thanks in part to the leak. The ARM powered rooftop can go in one of two ways. On the one hand, the new Apple M1 MacBooks were a revelation, offering impressive power and stronger battery life than the old Intel models. Benchmarks indicate this Windows 10 works well on Apple devices Also Because of licensing issues There is currently no way that consumers can easily see for themselves. READ Motivation: Don't expect a second screening this year. But this is what Congress can do An apple Surface Pro X It is powered by an ARM chip with SQ2, which was jointly developed by Microsoft and Qualcomm, but its performance and battery life lag behind the latest laptops with Apple Silicon. So now is the time for Microsoft to take matters into account. Best Apple Macbook Air (M1 2020) deals today Apple 13.3 ” MacBook Air M1 … The new Apple MacBook Air with … 13.3-inch MacBook Air Laptop … Bruno Glover “Total analyst. Coffee fanatic. Alcohol trailblazer. Organizer. Typical internet enthusiast. Zombie scholar.” More from Bruno Glover Five tips from President-elect Biden’s victory speech Joseph R. Biden Jr waited too long to give Speech delivered in... Biden urged that Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive of Google, not be selected for the management position Explanation of Texas and Trump Supreme Court lawsuit challenging Biden’s victory Eastern Massachusetts feels strongest earthquake in decades – CBS Boston Previous articlePompeo: Russia is “clearly” behind a massive cyber attack Next articleSNL introduces new product Joe Biden Alex Moffat after Jim Carrey’s exit There is no need for an appointment to get a COVID-19 vaccine in St. John’s County, the Department of Health says	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line913
__label__cc	0.674354	0.325646	Litigation Lawyers South Carolina Lawyers Rock Hill Litigation Lawyers Rock Hill Civil Litigation Lawyers Find the right Litigation attorney in Rock Hill, SC Litigation Lawyers in Rock Hill In Rock Hill, South Carolina, "civil litigation" refers to the legal procedures involved in resolving legal disputes that do not include allegations of criminal conduct. Either public or private entities can be involved. In Rock Hill, South Carolina, the purpose of civil litigation is not punishment or retribution for the perpetrator, or to deter future wrongdoing. Rock Hill, South Carolina civil litigation is rather designed to make sure that individuals who injure someone else due to intentional or negligent conduct are made to compensate their victims for the harm they caused. This compensation almost always takes the form of money. Other relief, such as injunctions, can also be made available under some circumstances, but this is rare. Common subjects of civil litigation in Rock Hill, South Carolina Many different instances that might lead to civil litigation in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Remember, a legal wrong can be committed in almost any situation. Of course, there are some situations that give rise to civil litigation in Rock Hill, South Carolina more often than others. Employment: The relationship between employers and employees leads to civil litigation in Rock Hill, South Carolina with a good deal of frequency. For example, allegations of gender discrimination, failing to pay at least the minimum wage, and injuries suffered on the job can all lead to civil litigation. Personal Injury: When somebody is harmed because of the carelessness of someone else, they normally are able to seek redress through the courts for their injuries. In Rock Hill, South Carolina, civil litigation is normally how individuals try to compel the person who injured them to provide compensation for medical expenses, lost wages, etc. Family: Family relationships in Rock Hill, South Carolina can sometimes become pretty turbulent, leading to civil litigation among family members. Civil litigation in the family context is most common between former spouses, and normally involves things like child custody, alimony, and child support. How Can a Rock Hill, South Carolina Lawyer Help? In Rock Hill, South Carolina, civil litigation is rarely easy or simple. It also never happens at a time that's proper for anybody involved. So, consulting with a brilliant Rock Hill, South Carolina civil litigation attorney is never a bad idea, if you have reason to suspect that a case involving civil litigation is in your near future. Life in Rock Hill Rock Hill is the fourth largest city in South Carolina but is the largest in York County. 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__label__wiki	0.606369	0.606369	Articles by Andrea Alley Parent Alert: 3 Open Houses open houses at Manchester high schools Tuesday, March 5, 2019 Andrea Alley 0 Three of the high schools in Manchester are scheduled to host open house events from incoming students and families. READ MORE Jan. 24 student art exhibit at West High School Tuesday, January 22, 2019 Andrea Alley 0 A free art exhibit open to the public will celebrate the talents of students at Manchester High School West. READ MORE Parkside Middle School Career Trades exploration program poised to serve as statewide model Thursday, September 20, 2018 Andrea Alley 0 Local politicians, school district officials, and educators joined Associated Builders and Contractors of New Hampshire/Vermont (ABC) and its Young Professionals Group as they delivered a $2,000 donation, in addition to commitments from local companies, to help support the Middle School at Parkside’s new careers in construction exploration program. READ MORE School superintendent names MacDonald as new Hallsville principal Wednesday, August 15, 2018 Andrea Alley 0 Christopher MacDonald moves into his new position from Northwest Elementary School in Manchester, where he was assistant principal since 2008. READ MORE Beat the rush: 2018 Manchester School Summer enrollment days Aug. 7-9 Tuesday, July 31, 2018 Andrea Alley 0 You can enroll your new-to-the-district student without waiting until the last minute, during a three-day pre-enrollment bonanza, taking place at three different school locations around the city over three days. READ MORE Parker-Varney Elementary School to welcome new principal Monday, July 30, 2018 Andrea Alley 0 Bryan Belanger succeeds Amy Allen, who became assistant superintendent last October. READ MORE Day of fun and learning: National Summer Learning Day kicks off July 12 at Gossler Park Wednesday, July 11, 2018 Andrea Alley 0 All children and families are welcome to attend all of them throughout the day. School district names new transportation coordinator Thursday, June 28, 2018 Andrea Alley 0 The district-wide transportation coordinator is responsible for managing all aspects of school transportation, including routes, schedules and special requests. READ MORE Parental Involvement: School District survey deadline June 30 Tuesday, June 26, 2018 Andrea Alley 0 The Board of School Committee Special Committee on Parental Involvement recently surveyed all stakeholders of Manchester School District to plan the further work of this group to engage parents, grandparents and the community in becoming more involved in our schools. READ MORE Southside Principal elevated to Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Andrea Alley 0 In addition to her experience as a building administrator, Jennifer Gillis has spent nearly 15 years teaching, mentoring, coaching and advocating for students in public education. Previously, she worked in the field of brain injury rehabilitation. READ MORE	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line924
__label__wiki	0.654664	0.654664	Face identification accuracy impaired by poor sleep by Ali Howard, University of Glasgow Credit: University of Glasgow It is often necessary to identify unfamiliar people by comparing face images: for example a CCTV image to a mugshot, or a passport photograph to a traveller. Now researchers have shown, in a new study published in Royal Society Open Science, that the accuracy of these decisions is impaired by poor sleep. However the study also found that poor sleepers were just as confident in their decisions, highlighting possible implications for security and policing. The study, which was led by the University of New South Wales in collaboration with the University of Glasgow, set out to examine how sleep would affect the accuracy of facial identification. Participants were asked to decide whether two images, presented on a computer monitor at the same time, pictured the same person or two different people. The researchers set the task to differ from the face recognition tasks most of us encounter in our daily lives in two important ways: firstly, the people pictured in the images are unfamiliar. Secondly, the task did not involve memory, because the images appear on the screen at the same time. The authors noted that while most people would typically expect to perform well on these tasks, many are surprised at how many errors they make. Previous studies have shown impaired memory for faces following restricted sleep. However, until now it was not known whether lack of sleep impairs performance on face identification tasks that do not rely on recognition memory. Dr Louise Beattie, the University of Glasgow's School of Psychology, said: "We found that poor sleep in the three days leading up to the test was associated with poorer performance on the face matching test. In a separate experiment, we also found that participants with insomnia were poorer on the task. "Sleep disruption is common in the general population, and especially so among night-shift workers. Here we show for the first time that performance in a crucial "passport task" is affected by poor sleep, and our research has important implications for those working in security or forensic settings. "This adds to the literature showing poor sleep and shift work to be associated with a range of adverse health, cognitive and emotional effects." The authors noted that poor sleep was not only associated with poorer performance, but also with higher levels of confidence in errors. David White, from the University of New South Wales, added: "In modern society it is often necessary to identify unfamiliar people by comparing face images. In this study we show that the accuracy of these decisions is impaired in poor sleepers. "Worryingly, although poorer sleep was associated with reduced accuracy, poor sleepers were not less confident in their responses. This has important implications for security and policing, where shift work is common." Scientists show that a 'Superman' disguise could actually work More information: Louise Beattie et al. Perceptual impairment in face identification with poor sleep, Royal Society Open Science (2016). DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160321 Journal information: Royal Society Open Science Provided by University of Glasgow Citation: Face identification accuracy impaired by poor sleep (2016, October 6) retrieved 20 January 2021 from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-10-identification-accuracy-impaired-poor.html Amino acid identified associated with poor performance under sleep restriction Study finds no link between sleep apnea and joint pain Need better sleep? Consider the cognitive shuffle Night shift nurses more likely to have poor sleep habits Helping people with Parkinson's get a better night's sleep	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line930
__label__wiki	0.855807	0.855807	medicine world council medicineworldcouncil.com Home » Health News » What Will It Take for People to Embrace a COVID Vaccine? What Will It Take for People to Embrace a COVID Vaccine? October 26, 2020 Health News 0 MONDAY, Oct. 26, 2020 — When scientists finish developing a COVID-19 vaccine, will people be willing to take it? An international research team analyzed data from 19 countries hit hard by the new coronavirus and found that when confidence in government was low, hesitancy to accept a COVID-19 vaccine was higher. Based on a previous survey of more than 13,400 people, researchers found that about 72% were likely to take a vaccine. About 14% would refuse and a similar percentage would hesitate, the survey showed. “The problem of vaccine hesitancy is strongly related with a lack of trust in government. Vaccine confidence was invariably higher in countries where trust was higher,” said study co-leader Jeffrey Lazarus, of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) in Spain. Study co-leader Ayman El-Mohandes said health leaders need to increase confidence and improve the public’s understanding of how they can help control the spread of COVID-19. El-Mohandes is dean of the School of Public Health at the City University of New York (CUNY). Vaccine hesitancy will be a key obstacles for public health officials, in addition to the already challenging tasks of developing, producing and equitably distributing a vaccine. More than 90 COVID-19 vaccines are in development around the world, and about half are in human trials. Vaccine acceptance varied by country, with the highest percentage of positive responses, 87%, coming from respondents in China. The lowest number of positives, 55%, was from Russia. In the United States, 76% of survey respondents gave positive responses. About 11% were negative; 13% of respondents had no opinion. Respondents who were older and those with higher incomes were more likely to accept a vaccine. People who had been sick with COVID-19 or whose relatives had been sick were not more likely to respond positively. “It will be tragic if we develop safe and effective vaccines and people refuse to take them,” said study co-author Scott Ratzan, a lecturer at CUNY. “We need to develop a robust and sustained effort to address vaccine hesitancy and rebuild public confidence in the personal, family and community benefits of immunizations,” he said in a CUNY news release. Ratzan noted that the results were consistent with recent surveys in the United States, which point to diminished public trust in a COVID-19 vaccine. The findings were published recently in the journal Nature Medicine. What would it take to make FMT mainstream? Two publications consider the opportunities A parent-to-parent campaign to get vaccine rates up A dietary Supplement for the brain is useless: What do you do instead, can What is witch hazel and what is it used for? How the old-fashioned telephone could become a new way for some to see their doctor How zika virus degrades an essential protein for neurological development, getting it to ‘eat itself’ 'covid vaccine? El Paso Sets Curfew After Running Out of ICU Beds for COVID Patients: ‘We Are in a Crisis Stage’ The Sweetest Photos of Hilary Duff and Matthew Koma's Growing Family FDA Approves Orladeyo Novavax Announces COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Development Progress Pfizer Vaccine Should Still Be Effective Against the New COVID Strain, Study Finds A Doctor Explains What the Smell of Your Poop Says About Your Health COVID delays in IVF treatment has biggest impact on women over 40 Why Is It So Hard for Some People to Acknowledge Racism? Here's What Experts Say Sen. Elizabeth Warren: What's at Stake for Women on November 3 3 Ways to Celebrate Thanksgiving Safely During COVID-19	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line931
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__label__cc	0.702346	0.297654	Thomas Farinelli ran his wrinkled fingertips over the lyre strings. After fifty years, they were as smooth and tight as when he first touched them. He wrapped his calloused palm around the gold-trimmed arm, then raised his head and shifted his eyes to the priest standing in front of him. The acolyte, no older than twenty years, stood shoulder-high beside the priest. “We’ve tried to destroy it, but we cannot,” the priest said, his voice saturated in disdain. “It is certainly cursed.” Thomas rose from his chair. He didn’t look, but he heard the soldier at his door shift his hands to the hilt of his sword. Thomas’ knees ached as he walked toward the window. There were swordsmen posted in the courtyard. “You’ve come from Rome?” Thomas calculated. Five in the courtyard and one stood behind the priest. That leaves five others behind the closed door. “How did you find me?” “A man changes his name, but the soul remains unchanged,” the priest murmured. His eyes shifted from Thomas to a distant corner, then to Thomas again. He moved cautiously, like a man expecting something to leap at him from nowhere. Curiosity compelled him to pause at the bookshelf, and he reached for a book. “The infamous Thomas Antonious Devini from Tuscany had an affinity for donating large quantities of gold to scientific research.” He held the book for his acolyte to read the title, Decretum Glasianum. The acolyte lifted an eyebrow. “A lust for things forbidden by the church.” He returned the book and walked toward Thomas. “And like all of Tuscany, a love for vineyards.” The priest stood beside Thomas and gazed through the glass. “I must say that your vineyard is divine.” His voice became a whisper. “It would be such a travesty if it suddenly burst into flames.” Thomas did not react. The priest growled. “Did you finance it from the fortunes you stole from knights of the crusades?” Thomas eviscerated the priest with tawny eyes. “What do you want from me?” “Tell us how to destroy the lyre.” Thomas returned to his chair. He rotated the gold memento on his finger. It reminded him of the older days when he could easily spot an overzealous and ambitious soldier in his ranks. The priest was no different from them—they were often the first to die. “If you cannot, then tell me what you know about it. And spare me no detail.” Thomas sighed. His shoulders slumped in defeat. He ran his fingers through his gray beard and reached for the lyre. “Very well,” he surrendered. Holding the lyre, he remembered more. “It was near the end of my campaign with the English. We had a successful push against the Sultan Saladin. Tall al-‘Ayadiyya was ours. The soldiers, hungry and rife with lust, took to raid the Saracen homes, much to my disgust. I rushed into a hovel ahead of two of my best men. Inside, three other subordinates pillaged and terrorized. They had already killed the father and ravaged the mother. I arrived too late for the parents, but in enough time to save the mute. He was no older than ten. When I saw him cornered, his back was against a wooden chest as if he was its defender. “They chastened when I threatened them with charges. Humbled, they left, and I pulled the mute away from the chest. He kicked and bit at my men’s hands while I opened the chest. Inside, I found the lyre. “With villagers and Muslim troops, we contained some three thousand men, women, and children. Such a massive number gave us great negotiating leverage against the Sultan. But the mute had leveraged my heart. I kept him in my tent; maybe as a pet or servant, I don’t know. When I gave him the lyre, something in my soul gave way. His fingers danced over the strings with a grace seen only in French ballrooms. “What the mute could not say in words, he spoke through the notes of his lyre. Tranquility blanketed me. It often numbed me into a stupor somewhere between sleep and imagination. Victimized by the music, I had visions and revelations. I saw a mass exodus of armed Christian men leaving Jerusalem. The sarcin victory shamed them as they went. That’s how I knew Saladin would conquer it. I also knew then, as I do now, that a thousand years later, Christian kingdoms will fight for the Saracen lands. Battle after battle, they will resist us with an infallible resolve that shan’t break. “Such made me ask if we, the followers of the cross, were indeed sent by the one true God to conquer them, or if we are mere pawns for the papacy.” He peered deeply into the priest’s eyes. “I admit, my doubts have not yet dissipated.” He shifted in his seat, and his eyes moved to the young boy. He stared intensely at him. Something wasn’t right about the way the boy’s eyes widened with interest. “Now you may not believe me, but I saw this home. I saw the vineyards and orchards. I saw the heavenly serenity of the golden sun setting behind it. I saw visions of my lovely wife, and her gauntly face when the bloody cough took her away. “I was so captivated by the music of the lyre that I selfishly kept the mute as my enslaved entertainer. Each night he played for me, and I saw visions. At the time, I was no more than entertained by them until the night of August nineteenth. That is when I saw the most heinous futuristic vision. It sickened me, and my stomach poured into my mouth. It was so real; I could smell the sweat and blood of a thousand swords from Englishmen slaughtering Muslim prisoners. Every man, woman, and child—indiscriminately killed; their lifeless bodies stretched over the dusty horizon. A man’s arm here, a woman’s head there; I saw children in trees, their dead bodies swaying in the wind. “That morning, the Sultan agreed to our terms to swap prisoners. But hours after Saladin released the Christians, Richard ordered, to my dismay, the execution of every Muslim prisoner—man, woman, and child prisoner. I saw the vision of the night before, fulfilled. “In protest, I refused to follow the lionheart to Ascalon. I left their camp before the Sultan’s rage fell upon it like a vengeful fist of God. I took the mute and his lyre with me.” Thomas was quiet for a while. His eyelids closed in a feeble attempt to suppress the memories. But nothing stopped the cold hands of regret that squeezed his heart. Pointing to the jar of wine on a mantel across the room, he ordered the acolyte to fill a cup. “When did you know the instrument was cursed?” asked the youth delivering the wine. Thomas sipped. “I never knew for certain. When my bride of just two years fell ill, I petitioned your Holiness, and he blessed us with his prayers. Both priest and cardinal arrived to chase away evil spirits, but it was not until the mute sat at the foot of her bed and played his lyre that she healed.” Thomas smiled. “He loved her as much as me. She often read to him. The book of Genesis was his favorite.” Thomas eyed the acolyte again and sinisterly chuckled. Placing the empty glass on the tabletop, he mumbled. “It was a miracle,” so the priest said. “But when men and women brought their sick children to hear the mute play and stopped patronizing the church’s offering plate, the mute and the lyre were curiously defamed. “I wanted to know how it worked, from where the power came. One day, the mute showed me. He sat on the floor, not ten feet away from me. His brown eyes gleamed hypnotically into mine. The music was a perfect transport into trance. I saw a lady naked sitting inside a painted circle on a white floor. Around her were black and red candles burning with gentle flames. They gave the only light and cast thin lines of gray ash smoke into the air. She possessed the lyre, the same as the mute played. “Magically, the strings moved without a finger to move them. The most melodious sounds suffused my ears. The smoke from the candles thickened into a haze that filled the room. It was alive. I don’t mean that in a poetic sense. It was alive. I saw the smoke take shape upon the woman’s call. She sang her evocation, and the smoke transformed into two winged figures. ‘Iblis, I give my womb to you.’ She stood and watched the smoky figures approach the circle. From the smoke emerged a face more handsome than a man’s face should be. His eyes were alive like flames on a candle. He reached a hand still covered in smoke to her. Not taking it, she turned to the second figure. ‘Kasdeja, I offer you my blood.’ “She then reached for the devils’ hands and stepped outside the circle. Her caramel body, smooth as the Arabian sands, prostrated before the spirits, and they copulated. Their bodies merged, not like a man and a woman, but the spirits passed through her opened legs.” Thomas saw the boy wet his lips. Delighted, he continued. “She turned and gyrated. Her moans entwined with the music.” “Enough!” yelled the priest. He frowned and firmly slapped the boy across the face. “You will not fancy the abomination this relic of a man paints.” Thomas watched the acolyte reach for his lip. Blood covered his fingertips. Thomas leaned back in his chair and noted a flicker of contempt in the lad’s dark eyes. He apologized and continued. “It was then that I understood the lyre was the djinn’s gift to her, like a dowry. The Nephilim she bore? His name is on the lyre, inscribed with the djinn letters. It reads Yaron—Orpheus in Greek.” Thomas turned the lyre to the priest and, after wetting two fingers with his tongue, scrubbed the crossbar until the inscription, smeared with soot, became visible. The priest gasped as he studied the letters. “There is an Orpheus written about in Greek myths,” the acolyte spoke apologetically to the priest. Thomas nodded. “Yes, there is.” He smiled as if the acolyte understood a secret anecdote. The priest stood over the boy and scowled at him again. “I brought you with me at the behest of the cardinal. I would assume to leave you in the forest for barbarians and wolves. You are to learn and not speak.” The boy nodded, and his eyes lowered to the floor. There was a story between the boy and the priest. Thomas was curious about why the cardinal insisted the priest bring the boy with him. Was the acolyte forced into service, or was he the victim of church violence that made him an orphan? “I’d like to know from where this boy comes. I see Macedonian hints in his face.” “That is not your concern.” The priest exploded. “I grow impatient with your lingering. Get to the point. We already know the lyre is evil.” Thomas smirked. He sensed something gloomy in the boy. Instead of pushing the issue, he continued. “The cardinal sent an army for the mute. They burned my vineyards and my storage houses. They destroyed my distillery. Yet I did not surrender the mute. Then they breached my defenses with battering rams. My gates crashed to the ground, and they trampled them. Their archers, with flaming arrows, attacked my east wing. The wind accelerated the inferno. “My last memory was the mute sitting in the lobby as the cardinal’s men broke down the door. He bore no fear of them. He simply played the lyre, and the men entered the room. All who heard the music were enchanted. They gathered around him and more entered—the room filled with men and steel. Shoulder to shoulder and toe to heel, they all stood entranced by the mute. When the lot of them were enchanted, the mute suddenly stopped playing. I saw him stand and lift his hand and the lyre above their heads. Then the mute spoke. ‘Let there be.’ “My home trembled, and the floor collapsed. Wood, stone, brick, and mortar gave way as if the Almighty’s hand cast them all into an endless pit. I saw them plummet to their deaths deep into my dungeons. I escaped with my wife and a few servants.” “You pained us with your recollections only to say the lyre is cursed.” The priest turned and, with a wave, ordered the soldier behind him to draw his sword. Thomas shook his head and held the lyre in his arms. He cuddled it like a child. “Father, you misunderstood me. The point is that this lyre does what its master created it to do.” His eyes moved past the priest to the acolyte. “No different from all creation. It submits to the will of its wielder.” His voice was soft and slower; eyes focused on the acolyte. “No different than a sword, or even the universe.” “Your old age and forbidden books have driven you mad,” the priest grimaced. “We intended to drag you back to Rome, but I see now there is no need for that. You should wallow in your misery. But with one missing hand as a penalty for your insolence, I will increase your misery.” Neither the approaching soldier nor the priest’s words moved Thomas. “Would you like to know how to wield it?” The soldier hesitated. “I’d rather not.” The priest waved again, and the swordsman stood firm. “First, you touch it with something from your body; blood, perspiration, even saliva will do.” His hand moved over the strings, and a bar of notes came from it. “I only wish to destroy it,” the grimace smeared into an impatient scowl. “Then, you place your focus on what you’d like it to do.” His eyes moved to the priest. Then to the boy. “If you want it to destroy itself, I’m certain that it will oblige.” The priest’s eyes widened. He stepped closer to Thomas. “Then play it and cause it to do so.” Thomas shook his head. “It would not be wise. You’ve entered my home unannounced and made irrecoverable insults. You’ve threatened to maim me. I would rather play this lyre and kill you all.” He placed the instrument on the tabletop. “No, someone with purer thoughts than mine must do it.” The priest turned to the soldier and then to the boy. With nothing more than a nod, he ordered the boy to take the lyre. Thomas smirked as he instructed the boy. “Yes, hold it like this. Place your fingers here. No, not the thumb, the two that you put to your lips. Yes. Now concentrate. When you’ve formed in your mind the image you want, stroke the strings.” The acolyte closed his eyes for a moment. When he opened them, his blank stare fixed on the priest. Thomas did not know what to make of the stare, but when the boy stroked the strings, the priest’s legs buckled, and his lifeless body flopped to the floor. A second stroke and the soldier’s sword slipped from his hand. His body flopped to the floor. Then there were two thuds behind the door. The steel from the soldier’s armor dropped with a dull clang. They were all dead. The acolyte’s face was pale, and his mouth gaped when he turned to Thomas. The exhilarating emptiness that swept the corridors and into Thomas’ chest was all too familiar to him. By now, he had grown too comfortable with death. He yearned to escape it but knew that he could not. “Take it,” Thomas ordered. “It is neither gift nor curse, but a thing to be ruled; no different from the desires and the wills of men. Take it and go away. The power you have will bring you no peace. Such is the curse of power.” Anton D. Morris Short stories and Novels Family Critics (OMG)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line938
__label__wiki	0.57377	0.57377	Dear Mckoy McKoys TV Peter Bunting Says During Tenure Board Followed Due Process Kingston, Jamaica, August 20, 2017: Peter Bunting Says During Tenure Board Followed Due Process and Kept Diligent Records of Decisions and Actions. The Opposition Spokesman on National Security and who was the Minister of National Security in the last PNP administration, Mr. Peter Bunting categorically rejects any suggestion that the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) under his watch granted firearm licenses in a manner not consistent with the most transparent and rigorous standards. “I am confident that the actions of the FLA, under the Chairmanship of Robert Gregory, and the Firearms Licensing Review Board, under the Chairmanship of Retired Director of Public Prosecution Kent Pantry, followed due process and kept diligent records of their actions and decisions,” Bunting asserted. The records should be available to investigators for review. Mr. Bunting says he, “rejects attempts by anyone to besmirch the integrity and reputation of these public servants who served the FLA under my watch, by suggesting that approvals were not in keeping with the rigors required by due process or by law.” In the haste to concoct evidence against the PNP appointed FLA, the “source” didn’t even realize that one of the allegations regarding a reversal of a decision for an applicant, supposedly convicted for illegal possession of firearm and money laundering, took place on March 6, 2012. They clearly didn’t realize that although the PNP had been in office, it was the JLP appointed Errol Strong led FLA that was still in place on that date. Furthermore, the Opposition Spokesman said he regards the entire episode and the allegations of impropriety contained in the Gleaner article as a very ‘transparent’ attempt by the JLP to deflect attention away from its sordid politicization and corruption of the FLA, which even now is still headed by one of its political activists – Shane Dalling. It is under Dalling’s watch that these politically motivated leaks are taking place, and it underscores why confidence cannot return to the FLA under his leadership. The JLP has been in office for 18 months, but only since their FLA board has had to resign in disgrace that these accusations about the previous board are surfacing. The timing of this so-called anonymous whistleblower source coming forward is quite curious. Investigations are underway by MOCA and the OCG. Rather than awaiting the outcome of the official investigation, attempts are being made by the JLP and its surrogates to create moral equivalencies to muddy the water. It is important to remind the Gleaner newspaper that fairness and natural justice demands that past FLA members, whose reputations are being tarnished, be given access to the files in question to be able to first identify the case, as well as defend and justify their decisions. The matter of the probity and transparency of the process by which firearm licenses are granted and to whom such licenses are given bears directly on Jamaica’s national security. “This was of paramount importance to me while I held the portfolio responsibility and I appointed, with the approval of Cabinet, persons whom I believed to be of high integrity to oversee the process,” Mr. Bunting re-affirmed. This is the very thing that has been jettisoned by the current administration and we believe that all of Jamaica has a vested interest in ensuring that those responsible are ferreted out and be held accountable as the process made right. 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__label__wiki	0.68263	0.68263	Konstruktor(4) (including Konstruktor(4A)) Konstruktor(4) (including Konstruktor 4A) was a Stabil-like construction system. It appears to have been made by a number of different manufacturers over the years. However as the parts and models including drawings in the manuals appear to be all very similar (many identical), I am treating it as a single system. It was made in Russia/USSR from the 1930s to the 1980s. Info from the Metal Constructional Systems Database for KONSTRUKTOR [4] STABIL type --- (Screwed Rods or Bolts are used as axles.) Nuts: hexagonal Bolts: round (slotted) Small selection of STABIL-like parts. Info from the Metal Constructional Systems Database for KONSTRUKTOR [4A] 25 (approximately) 12.5 (probably) Nuts: Bolts: Set similar to KONSTRUKTOR [4] but coloured parts, & thus it may be earlier. The Windmill model shown on Ebay is identical to one for KONSTRUKTOR [4] but crudely drawn. Below there are manuals/leafets which can be downloaded by clicking on the appropriate image. A Konstruktor(4) manual dated 1938 made in the Kuibyshev children's colony from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. (Куйбышевской детской колонией от МВД). This early manual has additional parts and models not seen in any of the other manuals. Photos of a Konstruktor(4) set from 1938 made in the Kuibyshev children's colony from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. (Куйбышевской детской колонией от МВД). A Konstruktor(4) manual for a set 1 made in 1946 by the Industrial cooperative artel Metalloshtamp, Leningrad (Промыслово-кооперативная артель «Металлоштамп», Ленинград). A Konstruktor(4) manual for a set 1 made in 1966 by the Forge and Mechanical Plant. (zd “Metalist”), Leningrad (Кузнечно-Механический з-д. (з-д “Металлист”), Ленинград). Photos of a Konstruktor(4) set 1 made in 1966 by the Forge and Mechanical Plant. (zd “Metalist”), Leningrad (Кузнечно-Механический з-д. (з-д “Металлист”), Ленинград). A Konstruktor(4) manual for a set made by an unidentified manufacturer in 1952. NOTE - This manual is shown in the MCS database and OSN 27 as Konstruktor(4A) A Konstruktor(4) manual for a set 1 made in the 1940s by NZK - Novosibirsk capacitor plant (НЗК - Новосибирский завод конденсаторов) in Siberia. A Konstruktor(4) manual for a set 1 made in 1975 by NZK - Novosibirsk capacitor plant (НЗК - Новосибирский завод конденсаторов) in Siberia. A Konstruktor(4) manual for a set 1 made by NZK - Novosibirsk capacitor plant (НЗК - Новосибирский завод конденсаторов) in Siberia. Not certain of the date but no later than 1982. A Konstruktor(4) manual for a set made in 1989 by the Dneprovsky plant named after Lenin (Днепровский завод им. Ленина). NOTE - This manual is shown in the MCS book and database as Konstruktor(4) Photos of a Konstruktor(4) set made in 1989 by the Dneprovsky plant named after Lenin (Днепровский завод им. Ленина). Page content last updated - 16th October 2019	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line942
__label__wiki	0.615768	0.615768	David J. Strick, Ph.D. Director of Safety & Emergency Management, School of Medicine - Office of Facilities Planning & Management Education & Certifications Postdoctoral, Stanford University, Genetics (2011) Ph.D., The University of Texas Medical Branch, Cell Biology (2005) B.S., Grand Valley State University, Biology (1998) djstrick@stanford.edu Focus on Molecules: MERTK EXPERIMENTAL EYE RESEARCH Strick, D. J., Vollrath, D. 2010; 91 (6): 786-787 View details for DOI 10.1016/j.exer.2010.05.006 Mertk Drives Myosin II Redistribution during Retinal Pigment Epithelial Phagocytosis INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE Strick, D. J., Feng, W., Vollrath, D. 2009; 50 (5): 2427-2435 Mertk is a key phagocytic receptor in the immune, male reproductive, and visual systems. In the retinal pigment epithelium, Mertk is required for the daily ingestion of photoreceptor outer segment (OS) tips. Loss of Mertk function causes retinal degeneration in rats, mice, and humans; however, little is known about the mechanism by which Mertk regulates the ingestion phase of retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) phagocytosis. To address this, the authors sought proteins that associated with Mertk during OS phagocytosis.Lysates of RPE-J cells challenged with OS for various times were immunoprecipitated with Mertk antibody. Potential interacting proteins were identified by mass spectrometry and characterized with confocal microscopy, pharmacologic inhibition, and siRNA knockdown coupled with an in vitro phagocytic assay in primary RPE cells.Myh9, the non-muscle myosin II-A heavy chain, was enriched in immunoprecipitates from OS-treated samples. Myosin II-A and II-B isoforms exhibited a striking redistribution in wild-type rat primary RPE cells challenged with OS, moving from the cell periphery to colocalize with ingested OS over time. In contrast, myosin II-A redistribution in response to OS was blunted in primary RPE cells from RCS rats, which lack functional Mertk. Wild-type rat primary RPE cells treated with the myosin II-specific inhibitor blebbistatin or myosin II siRNAs exhibited a significant phagocytic defect.Mertk mobilizes myosin II from the RPE cell periphery to sites of OS engulfment, where myosin II function is essential for the normal phagocytic ingestion of OS. View details for DOI 10.1167/iovs.08-3058 Perspektive: Tissue engineering bei RPE-Transplantation in AMD - in German Spektrum Augenheilkd Stanzel, B.V., M. Englander, D. J. Strick, S. S. Sanislo, P. Huie, M. S. Blumenkranz, S. Binder, M. F. Marmor 2007; 4 (4): 212-217 Rab15 effector protein: A novel protein for receptor recycling from the endocytic recycling compartment MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL Strick, D. J., Elferink, L. A. 2005; 16 (12): 5699-5709 Sorting endosomes and the endocytic recycling compartment are critical intracellular stores for the rapid recycling of internalized membrane receptors to the cell surface in multiple cell types. However, the molecular mechanisms distinguishing fast receptor recycling from sorting endosomes and slow receptor recycling from the endocytic recycling compartment remain poorly understood. We previously reported that Rab15 differentially regulates transferrin receptor trafficking through sorting endosomes and the endocytic recycling compartment, suggesting a role for distinct Rab15-effector interactions at these endocytic compartments. In this study, we identified the novel protein Rab15 effector protein (REP15) as a binding partner for Rab15-GTP. REP15 is compartment specific, colocalizing with Rab15 and Rab11 on the endocytic recycling compartment but not with Rab15, Rab4, or early endosome antigen 1 on sorting endosomes. REP15 interacts directly with Rab15-GTP but not with Rab5 or Rab11. Consistent with its localization, REP15 overexpression and small interfering RNA-mediated depletion inhibited transferrin receptor recycling from the endocytic recycling compartment, without affecting receptor entry into or recycling from sorting endosomes. Our data identify REP15 as a compartment-specific protein for receptor recycling from the endocytic recycling compartment, highlighting that the rapid and slow modes of transferrin receptor recycling are mechanistically distinct pathways. View details for DOI 10.1091/mbc.E05-03-0204 Functional properties of Rab15 effector protein in endocytic recycling GTPASES REGULATING MEMBRANE TARGETING AND FUSION Elferink, L. A., Strick, D. J. 2005; 403: 732-743 Receptor recycling has emerged as an important regulatory mechanism for cell surface composition, pathogen invasion, and for control over the intensity and duration of receptor signaling in multiple cell types. In the case of the transferrin receptor, receptor recycling is an important step for facilitating iron uptake into the cell, by regulating the availability of the receptor at the cell surface. Following internalization into clathrin-coated pits, the transferrin receptor first enters peripheral sorting endosomes. Here, internalized transferrin receptor is either sorted for recycling back to the cell surface directly, or targeted to a slower route of recycling through a perinuclear population of endosomes termed the endocytic recycling compartment. This chapter describes methodologies to examine the fast and slow modes of transferrin receptor recycling, with a particular emphasis on the function of the novel protein Rab15 effector protein. View details for DOI 10.1016/S0076-6879(05)03064-8 Mammalian suppressor of Sec4 modulates the inhibitory effect of Rab15 during early endocytosis JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY Strick, D. J., Francescutti, D. M., Zhao, Y. L., Elferink, L. A. 2002; 277 (36): 32722-32729 Rab15 is a novel endocytic Rab that counters the stimulatory effect of Rab5-GTP on early endocytic trafficking. Rab15 may interfere with Rab5 function directly by sequestering Rab5 effectors or indirectly through novel sets of effector interactions. To distinguish between these possibilities, we examined the effector binding properties of Rab15. Rab15 does not interact directly with the Rab5 effectors rabex-5 and rabaptin-5 in a yeast two-hybrid binding assay. Rather mammalian suppressor of Sec4 (Mss4) was identified as a binding partner for Rab15. Mss4 preferentially binds GDP-bound (T22N) and nucleotide-free (N121I) Rab15, consistent with the proposed role of Mss4 as a chaperone that stabilizes target Rabs in their nucleotide-free form. Mutational analysis of Rab15 indicates that lysine at position 48 (K48Q) is important for the binding of Rab15-GDP to Mss4. Moreover, the mutation K48Q counters the inhibitory phenotype of wild type Rab15 on receptor-mediated endocytosis in HeLa cells and homotypic endosome fusion in vitro without altering the relative amount of cell surface-associated transferrin receptor. Together, these data indicate a novel role for Mss4 as an effector for Rab15 in early endocytic trafficking. View details for DOI 10.1074/jbc.M205101200	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line943
__label__wiki	0.884889	0.884889	Drivers & Crew - Car Skylar Robinson Teams With Dylan Murry in IMSA Prototype Challenge By Kevin Bobbitt August 5, 2019 Category: Uncategorized 2nd Generation IMSA Racers Making Their Marks Braselton, GA (August 5, 2019) – MLT Motorsports today announced Skylar Robinson will join Dylan Murry behind the wheel of the #54 Prototype Challenge car in round five of the championship. The pair will share the Nissan powered Ligier in the 1:45 hour race at Virginia International Raceway on August 24th. Robinson’s father, Chip, won the 1987 IMSA Camel GT championship in a Porsche 962 while Murry’s father, David, has competed in numerous IMSA classes and finished second at the 2011 24 hours of Le Mans. The second-generation drivers are forging their own ways in the world of racing and are looking to continue the success the young team has seen in its debut season. MLT Motorsports joined the series for the second round of the 2019 campaign at Sebring International Raceway, with the father-son pairing of David and Dylan Murry. It was the first time the two had co-driven and they proved to be fast teammates, finishing 5th. Dylan teamed with Dakota Dickerson for the next round at Mid-Ohio Sportscar Course where the team earned its first victory. Murry and Dickerson backed up their win with a solid 4th place finish at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park at the next round in early July. Dickerson, who also competes in the F3 Americas Championship, has a scheduling conflict for the VIR race, which provides the opportunity for Robinson to join Murry and the team. Dickerson is slated to return for the final round of the championship in October at Road Atlanta. “This is a mega opportunity to get back behind the wheel with Dylan and MLT Motorsports,” said Robinson. “This will be my first race in a P3 car but this is the perfect team to join. They are young and hungry for more victories. I have known Dylan for years and I am looking forward to sharing the car with him later this month.” “I am excited to have Skylar in the car with Dylan. Both drivers are mature beyond their years and equally as important, they are fast,” added Dr. Mike Thompson, MLT Motorsports team principal. “We have had a dream debut season with three top five finishes, including our first win. Skylar, Dylan and the entire team are working hard to get us back on the podium at VIR.” Round five of the IMSA Prototype Challenge from VIR will be available live at IMSA.TV at 5:45 PM GMT on August 24. A delayed broadcast on NBC Sports Network will be shown on September 2nd at 6 PM. Championship Friday for MLT Motorsports MLT Motorsports Conquers Mid-Ohio, Again MLT Motorsports Returns to Mid-Ohio MLT Motorsports Takes on VIR Countdown Until Next Race mltmotorsportsmedia@gmail.com mltmotorsports We race in the IMSA Prototype Challenge series. Follow for updates from the track. Happy race day! @imsa_racing @ligierautomotive @mi MLT Motorsports 2020	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line946
__label__wiki	0.546439	0.546439	Share this Story: Rent or buy? Montreal millennials weigh in on the homeownership debate Rent or buy? Montreal millennials weigh in on the homeownership debate With real estate prices continuing to rise, there may be no time like the present to buy — if that's what you're looking to do. Erik Leijon • Special to Montreal Gazette Nov 27, 2019 • December 6, 2019 • 4 minute read Josh Faier hands over boxes of kitchen accessories to Ally Brumer as the couple move into their Ville-Émard condo. Photo by Pierre Obendrauf /Montreal Gazette Young professional Montrealers face the inevitable question: rent or buy? They’re discovering that when it comes to homeownership, there’s a balancing act between being financially ready to own a home or condo in the city, or risking waiting too long and getting priced out altogether. With house prices continuing to rise, there may be no time like the present, whether you’re ready or not. Rent or buy? Montreal millennials weigh in on the homeownership debate Back to video One couple that just took the plunge is Ally Brumer, 26, and Josh Faier, 28. Both West Island natives, the pair recently left their first apartment together in Verdun for a condo in nearby Ville-Émard. They wanted something new and modern, but couldn’t find it in Verdun in their price range. “We started looking last February,” Brumer said. “After we got over the hump of living together, we immediately looked to buy. I don’t like paying someone else’s mortgage — I want to pay my own mortgage.” They had a specific set of criteria, most notably proximity to work, which isn’t easy since Brumer works in Pointe-St-Charles and Faier in Brossard. “My mentality was always that condos are for downsizing retirees,” Faier said. “I was raised in a house in the West Island, so that was my idea. But we have jobs that aren’t in the suburbs, and now we realize the inconvenience of the long commute.” Josh Faier with Ally Brumer. “I don’t like paying someone else’s mortgage,” she says. “I want to pay my own mortgage.” Photo by Pierre Obendrauf /Montreal Gazette While Faier admits homeownership is a hot topic of conversation among friends, one of his old university pals sticks out as someone who intends to keep renting. “If there’s something wrong with my place, I call my landlord and they take care of it. I don’t have to worry about it. For now I need a place to eat, sleep and work,” said Dan Kozel, 26, who rents in Côte-St-Luc with a roommate. Kozel’s plans are a more ambitious, however: He would consider owning multiple units in the future, but doesn’t ascribe to the theory that owning a duplex or triplex is a sound investment because of the amount of work and money involved in maintaining the property. He also doesn’t think settling down and starting a family will change his perspective on buying a home. “I wouldn’t buy a property to live in,” Kozel said. “I’ll forever rent where I live and rent out what I own.” Another couple, Daniel Kay and Michelle Bocchicchio, just went from renting in Ville-Émard to buying a detached home in LaSalle, primarily because their apartment got a bit too cramped with a young child. “I’ve outgrown my fishbowl, and if we rented a 5½, it would be close to what we’re paying for our mortgage,” Bocchicchio said. “I had grown tired of street parking, and tired of walking up the stairs with groceries and a baby.” The process for Kay and Bocchicchio was faster than most: They went from seeing the place to signing in a matter of weeks. “It was moving so fast,” Bocchicchio said. “Our agent would send us a listing, and by the next day it would already be off the market.” Like many young professionals, Kay is a freelancer. His work status, combined with Bocchicchio being on mat leave, had them feeling like “numbers on a page” when it came to getting mortgage approval. “You have to find your balance between excitement and ‘this is the most stressful thing ever,’” Bocchicchio said. Sacha Orenstein, 35, recently moved to N.D.G. with his girlfriend. He’s originally from the neighbourhood and wouldn’t mind buying, but it’s a bit out of his price range. If you work in town, the convenience of being able to live closer to work and renting may outweigh the benefits of buying a place but being forced to move farther out. Born and raised in the city, Orenstein doesn’t have a driver’s licence and doesn’t see himself as a fit in the suburbs. He also works in music and would benefit from not sharing walls with neighbours, but finding a standalone house in Montreal isn’t easy. “With my savings and a mortgage, I could get a decent condo, but that would feel more like an investment because my life wouldn’t feel all that much different compared to living in an apartment. I’d still have neighbours above and below me,” Orenstein said. Hugo Prévost and his partner are also in the same boat: They value living in the Plateau and the proximity to everything, but they’re looking for a place and might not find something affordable in the neighbourhood. They’ve expanded their search to include anything near a métro station. “It’s a goal, but there’s also peer pressure,” Prévost said. “We have a lot of friends who just bought properties and are starting families. We’re in a good situation right now, so we’re looking to buy before it becomes completely unaffordable.” Brumer and Faier have careers in budgeting and accounting, but even they were surprised by the process of buying a home. They found a realtor they trusted, but found there’s no way to know what the steps are in buying a home until you’re knee deep in it. Brumer said she’s already offering advice to friends who are looking to buy in the coming years. “They don’t teach you in school how to buy a place, how a mortgage works, about tax credits for first-time homebuyers or taking money out of your RRSP,” Brumer said. “Even though it’s such an important part of life.” Buying a new condo? Here are seven common pitfalls Montreal millennials ditch the corporate dress code Montreal budget: Tenants could be hardest hit by property tax increases	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line951
__label__wiki	0.594089	0.594089	Wikimedia Foundation elections/Board elections/2011/en < Wikimedia Foundation elections‎ \| Board elections‎ \| 2011(Redirected from Board elections/2011/en) The election ended 12 June 2011. No more votes will be accepted. The results were announced on 17 June 2011. In other languages: Afrikaans (af) aragonés (an) العربية (ar) مصرى (arz) asturianu (ast) azərbaycanca (az) Boarisch (bar) беларуская (тарашкевіца)‎ (be-tarask) български (bg) বাংলা (bn) bosanski (bs) català (ca) čeština (cs) Cymraeg (cy) dansk (da) Deutsch (de) Zazaki (diq) Ελληνικά (el) English (en) Esperanto (eo) español (es) euskara (eu) فارسی (fa) suomi (fi) français (fr) galego (gl) עברית (he) हिन्दी (hi) hrvatski (hr) magyar (hu) հայերեն (hy) Bahasa Indonesia (id) íslenska (is) italiano (it) 日本語 (ja) ភាសាខ្មែរ (km) ಕನ್ನಡ (kn) 한국어 (ko) Lëtzebuergesch (lb) lietuvių (lt) latviešu (lv) मराठी (mr) Bahasa Melayu (ms) norsk bokmål (nb) नेपाली (ne) Nederlands (nl) occitan (oc) ଓଡ଼ିଆ (or) polski (pl) português (pt) română (ro) русский (ru) संस्कृतम् (sa) srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски (sh) සිංහල (si) slovenčina (sk) slovenščina (sl) shqip (sq) српски / srpski (sr) svenska (sv) தமிழ் (ta) Tagalog (tl) Türkçe (tr) українська (uk) Tiếng Việt (vi) ייִדיש (yi) 粵語 (yue) 中文（简体）‎ (zh-hans) 中文（繁體）‎ (zh-hant) [edit] Introduction and rules Candidate presentations The 2011 elections to the Board of Trustees will be held from May 29th through June 12th 2011. Members of the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to elect three candidates to a two-year term which will expire in 2013. The Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons. The elections are held securely on servers belonging to Software in the Public Interest. Votes are secret, and no one from the Election Committee, the Board, or anyone not affiliated with Software in the Public Interest has access to them. Voter information is visible to the select few persons who audit and tally the election (the election committee). Voters submit ranked preferences by numbering candidates. The votes will be tallied using the Schulze method to rank candidates based on the number of voters who prefer that candidate over other candidates. The Election Committee will announce the results on or before June 15th. Detailed results will be available. 1 Information for voters 1.2 How to vote 2 Information for candidates 2.1 Roles and responsibilities as member of the Board 2.2 Prerequisites to candidacy 2.3 How to submit your candidacy 3 Organization 3.1 Time line 3.2 Translators You may vote from any one registered account you own on a Wikimedia wiki (you may only vote once, regardless of how many accounts you own). To qualify, this one account must: not be blocked on more than one project; and not be blocked on the project you are voting from; and not be a bot; and have made at least 300 edits before 15 April 2011 across Wikimedia wikis (edits on several wikis can be combined if your accounts are unified into a global account); and have made at least 20 edits between 15 November 2010 and 15 May 2011. Are Wikimedia server administrators with shell access; or Have commit access and have made at least one commit between 15 May 2010 and 15 May 2011. Staff and contractors Wikimedia Foundation staff and contractors qualify to vote if they have been employed by the Foundation from 15 February 2011 to 15 May 2011. Board members and advisory board members Current and former members of the Board of Trustees and the Advisory Board are qualified to vote. If you are eligible to vote: Read the candidate presentations and decide which candidates you will support. Go to the wiki page "Special:Securepoll" on one wiki you qualify to vote from. For example, if you are most active on the wiki meta.wikimedia.org, go to meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Securepoll. Follow the instructions on that page. You have to enable cookies on wikimedia.amellus.net to be recognized by the voting interface, otherwise you'll get an error. If you get the error «Sorry, you are not in the predetermined list of users authorized to vote in this election.», you're on the wrong wiki: try to access "Special:Securepoll" from your home wiki. Roles and responsibilities as member of the Board From the board manual The Board of Trustees is the governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation. Responsibilities of the Board include: determining mission, goals, long-term plans and high level policies of WMF and its projects selecting the Executive Director of the WMF, who oversees its day-to-day operations, and evaluating his or her performance ensuring the sustainability of the organization by defining a number of independent revenue sources communicating about the direction and the activities of the WMF to the community providing oversight to staff with regard to accounting, budgeting, and programs maintaining legal and ethical integrity recruiting and orient new trustees articulating the mission of the WMF in public The responsibilities of the Board do not include: interfering in day-to-day operations, except in emergencies setting Wikimedia project-level editorial policies resolving basic community disputes volunteering in specific areas of regular WMF organizational work Characteristics of effective trustees: Strategic – e.g., to provide long term direction Thoughtful – e.g., to avoid being reactionary to controversial issues High integrity – e.g., to put the interests of the foundation as a whole over personal or specific constituent interests Responsiveness – e.g., to email requests from other trustees Follow through – e.g., to complete tasks such as committee assignments as committed. Respectful – e.g., to listen carefully to other trustees' points-of-view even as they may differ from one's own Collaborative – e.g., to partner with other trustees and the Executive Director on the Board's work Prerequisites to candidacy The eligibility requirements for candidates are the same as for voters (see above), with the following additional requirements: you must publicly disclose your real name in your candidate presentation (because the identities of Board members are a matter of public record, it is not possible to hold a position on the Board of Trustees anonymously or under a pseudonym); and be at least 18 years old and of legal age in your home country; and submit proof of your identity to the Wikimedia Foundation (see below). How to submit your candidacy Write a brief summary of no more than 1200 characters stating what you would do if you were elected to the Board of Trustees, your relevant opinions and experience, and anything else you think is relevant. You may not use your candidate summary to link to lists of endorsements or other platform pages, and may not run on a slate with other candidates. Submit your summary between 00:00, May 2nd 2011 (UTC) and 23:59, May 22nd 2011 (UTC). After May 22nd, it cannot be changed except for minor corrections (for instance, spelling correction) or translation. Any additions or changes to content submitted after this deadline will be time-stamped and presented separately from the original summary, and will only be presented to voters if they get translated into all of the same languages as the original summary. You should note that earlier submissions allow time for translation into more languages, and that submissions provided on the due date or just before may not be as widely translated. Submit proof of your identity to the Wikimedia Foundation before May 22nd. You will be privately contacted by a member of the Election Committee with further information about meeting this requirement when you list yourself as a candidate. 05 April–02 May 2011: primary translations phase. 02–22 May 2011: candidate submissions. 22 May 2011: deadline to send proof of identity (late or missing submissions will be disqualified). 29 May–12 June 2011: elections. 13–15 June 2011: vote-checking 15-20 June 2011: publication of results. To ensure that a representative cross-section of the Wikimedia community takes part in this election, it is important to translate election notices and candidate statements into as many languages as possible. To help translate, please see the translation page. Retrieved from "https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/Board_elections/2011/en&oldid=20205320"	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line952
__label__wiki	0.838722	0.838722	Popovic and Tedesco braced for special derby Neighbouring rivals Valletta and Floriana lock horns for the first time this season when they meet in the final fixture of matchday 12 of the 2017-18 BOV Premier League at the National Stadium (kick-off 4pm). The capital derby is one of the most eagerly-awaited matches of the Malta FA calendar and Sunday’s clash has taken on added significance as both Valletta and Floriana are challenging for the title. With 11 matches played, Valletta are sharing top spot with Gżira United and Balzan on 24 points, only one ahead of Floriana. The Malta FA Media and Communications team attended a training session of both clubs in the build-up to Sunday’s derby. Valletta coach Zoran Popovic said: “This is a big derby. It will be a good weekend for the supporters. It will be a tough match for us but also for them. We have respect for Floriana but they must also respect us.” Giovanni Tedesco, the coach of Floriana coach, said derby matches are no ordinary occasions. “I’m convinced that derby is different from the other matches,” the Italian said. “It’s a special match where technique and tactics are secondary. It’s the pride and the heart that really count, the humility and the willingness to fight for every ball. “We are facing a very strong squad and therefore we know that we will encounter some difficulties but we are coming from a positive period and we are confident.” The expectations are high for both teams with Valletta chasing a win to stay top and bounce back from back-to-back goalless draws. Floriana, still unbeaten this season, will overtake their rivals in the standings if they take the three points on Sunday. The National Stadium is certainly the place to be on Sunday with two derby duels on the card... Tarxien Rainbows-Hibernians at 2pm followed by Valletta-Floriana at 4pm.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line956
__label__wiki	0.569183	0.569183	mid-east.info Home Business News Lleida.net UAE’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority accredits Lleida.net as a certification service provider Lleida.net UAE’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority accredits Lleida.net as a certification service provider Madrid and Dubai, U.A.E: Listed technology services company Lleida.net (BME:LLN) (EPA:ALLLN) (OTCQX:LLEIF) has been accredited by the United Arab Emirates Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) to operate as a certification services provider in the country. This accreditation is the previous step for automatic legal recognition of the electronic contracting and notification services of the company, whose titles are traded in New York, Paris and Madrid. This recognition has been achieved through Lleida Information Technology Network Services LLC, the company’s subsidiary in the region. “Our internationalisation policy in the Middle East is not only focused on boosting the commercialisation of our services, but also on strengthening our position as a benchmark player in the region,” explained Sisco Sapena, CEO and founder. “TRA’s recognition of the validity of our services in the UAE is critical to further progress in this direction,” he added. Lleida.net is, at present, the main European company in the eSignature industry. Its electronic notification and contracting services are recognised as valid before courts and public administrations in more than 75 countries. In 2018, Lleida.net became the first Spanish company to obtain the Eidas certification, which allows it to operate without barriers at a European level and makes its electronic certificates to be admitted by default before any European court or administration. Likewise, the company has 187 patents in the digital signature industry, which have been granted by more than 50 countries in the five continents, including the United States, the European Union, the Gulf Cooperation Council, China, Russia, India, Mexico, Japan, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, South Africa, Nigeria, Australia or New Zealand. Lleida.net started trading in the OTCQX Best Markets index in New York last week. On September 14th, 99.86% of the votes present at the General Shareholders Meeting expressed their approval to this IPO. During 2020, Lleida.net became the company with the highest stock market growth in Euronext and one of the major stock market successes in the world throughout the health emergency caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Its shares have increased up to 940 per cent during the year. Lleida.net is a European pioneer in an industry that is expected to grow exponentially in the next five years. On 2020, the sector experienced enormous growth, as the lockdown taking place in many nations forced millions of companies to change their contracting and notification formats to digital models overnight. Previous articleNew Portal to hire maids and nannies in Dubai and Abu Dhabi Next articleSchneider Electric Wins Best Corporate Wellbeing Programme and Best HR Technology Implementation Cherry Mayangao One-third of global business executives say Saudi Arabia provides an innovation-conducive... GE January 20, 2021 UAE-BASED GPX RACING SCORE ITS FIRST VICTORY AT ITS HOME CIRCUIT... GPX Racing January 20, 2021 UNHCR & Al-Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy announce the start of phase... UNHCR January 20, 2021 Under the Patronage of H.H. Sheikha Wafa Hasher Al Maktoum, FN... Ape Creative October 11, 2016 Premier global leadership advisory firm, Boyden, appoints Tamer El Naggar to... Boyden July 11, 2017 NDIGITEC becomes 1st full HD flexo plates certified prepress company in... NDIGITEC September 8, 2016 Reports and Analysis264 Insights94 Etihad Aviation Group - EAG92 Etihad Airways74 Al Masah Capital54 Dubai Culture & Arts Authority46 Huawei45 Mid-East.info (MEi) is a daily updated online business news publisher, covering the greater Middle East region. We publish news, articles, reports and other forms of content for those who are interested in business news and information from the Middle East. Contact us: admin@mid-east.info © mid-east.info \| Middle East Business News and Information	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line964
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Allmendinger Alex Bowman Aric Almirola Austin Cindric Austin Dillon Brad Keselowski Brandon Jones Brendan Gaughan Bubba Wallace Carl Edwards Chase Briscoe Chase Elliott Chris Buescher Christopher Bell Clint Bowyer Cole Custer Corey LaJoie Dale Earnhardt Jr. Danica Patrick Daniel Hemric Daniel Suarez Darrell Wallace Jr. David Ragan Denny Hamlin Erik Jones Garrett Smithley Greg Biffle Hailie Deegan Jamie McMurray Jeffrey Earnhardt Jimmie Johnson Joey Logano John Hunter Nemechek Justin Allgaier Justin Haley Kasey Kahne Kevin Harvick Kurt Busch Kyle Busch Kyle Larson Landon Cassill Martin Truex Jr. Matt DiBenedetto Matt Kenseth Matt Tifft Michael Annett Michael Jordan Michael McDowell Parker Kligerman Quin Houff Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Ross Chastain Ryan Blaney Ryan Newman Ryan Preece Timmy Hill Tony Stewart Trevor Bayne Ty Dillon Tyler Reddick William Byron Hendrick Motorsports’ recent run, Jimmie Johnson’s win has competitors on notice By Dustin LongOct 9, 2016, 7:47 PM EDT CONCORD, N.C. — Competitors saw this coming, yet there was nothing they could do to stop it. After a lackluster summer that led some people to question how far Jimmie Johnson would advance in the Chase, Hendrick Motorsports has returned to prominence. Johnson’s win Sunday at Charlotte Motor Speedway moves him into him into the Round of 8 and alters the feeling of this Chase. “I think people would probably rate them as probably the favorite,’’ said car owner Joe Gibbs, whose teams have won a series-high 11 of 30 races this year. Even as David Wilson celebrated Martin Truex Jr.’s win last weekend at Dover, the president and general manager of Toyota Racing Development, said he knew a challenge was coming from Johnson’s team. “What struck me as much as winning the race (at Dover) was how good (Johnson) was,’’ Wilson said Sunday. Johnson didn’t contend for the win at Dover because of a pit road penalty. A speeding penalty prevented him from racing for the win at Chicagoland Speedway to open the Chase last month. Johnson’s team had no issues Sunday, leading 155 of the 334 laps to score his first win since March. Johnson and his team have been mistake-prone this summer because they’ve been pushing to try to catch up to the Toyotas. But with the cars better, Johnson and his team showed that they no longer have to operate within a razor-thin margin of error. “The easiest way to describe it would be I don’t have to scare myself to put up a good lap time,’’ Johnson said of what’s changed with his car since this summer. Earlier this season, Johnson couldn’t make the car comfortable. The result was a 14-race stretch where he did not lead more than five laps in any race. Now, he can. “To have the car as consistent and stable as it is has really allowed us to be competitive, work through traffic, work through changing track conditions, and then if I do need to go out there and scare myself and pull away from (Matt Kenseth) or pull away from (Denny Hamlin), I can do it and get rewarded for it,’’ Johnson said. That was no more apparent than the final restart. Kenseth led and had the preferred line. When the green waved, they went through Turns 1 and 2 side by side and drag raced down the backstretch, a mano-a-mano battle between Chevrolet and Toyota with Johnson’s Chevrolet pulling ahead and then pulling away. “We were just a little off,’’ Kenseth said. “I just couldn’t run (Johnson) on a short run. I don’t think I could have done anything different there.’’ Kenseth wasn’t the only one searching for more speed Sunday. Brad Keselowski finished seventh — his lowest finish in the first four Chase races — but crew chief Paul Wolfe wasn’t thrilled. “I feel like the Gibbs cars, we’re close to those guys, but it’s like the Hendrick cars and (Truex) have had the raw speed,’’ Wolfe said. “I feel like we’ve kind of been tit-for-tat with the Gibbs cars, depending on track position or balance. We’re just off right now. “We could not get the speed to maintain in the top five once we got that track position. Wolfe said that if he can’t find the speed, he’ll have to be more aggressive to make up for the deficit. It isn’t just Johnson who has been fast for Hendrick. Chase Elliott led at least 75 laps for the second time in four races Sunday before he was collected in a crash on a restart. Kasey Kahne’s third-place finish was his fifth top-10 result in the last six races — his best stretch all season. “Nobody ever gave up, and you know, we know what a champion Jimmie is,’’ car owner Rick Hendrick said. “We were good here in the May race. We’ve been good on the mile‑and‑a‑halves, and we’ve been better than we’ve finished. But this feels good.’’ To all but the competition. Now Johnson in set for the Round of 8 and the rest of the Chase field has two races to determine who will join him. Follow @dustinlong	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line984
__label__cc	0.741744	0.258256	NASP to develop patient satisfaction survey in conjunction with assessment firm SullivanLuallin Group Jul 15, 2016 · NASP News National Association of Specialty Pharmacy (NASP) to develop patient satisfaction survey in conjunction with assessment firm SullivanLuallin Group Organizations will jointly develop a new survey tool expected to become the gold standard for specialty pharmacies. July 14, 2016: The National Association of Specialty Pharmacy (NASP) announced today that it has engaged the SullivanLuallin Group (SLG) to develop a patient survey that will address the unique attributes and quality objectives of its specialty pharmacy industry. NASP is a trade association with a membership consisting of 1,600 specialty pharmacy professionals and 100 corporate members including specialty pharmacies, managed care organizations, integrated health systems, distributors and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Thanks to the diversity of the NASP membership, experience and commitment in the specialty pharmacy market NASP members have gained valuable insights, which will be incorporated into the strategic design of the new assessment survey. “Our aim is to ensure that this tool accurately and precisely measures specific drivers of patient engagement and satisfaction within the specialty pharmacy industry,” said Burt Zweigenhaft, president of NASP. “This includes valuable data about cost savings, quality, outcomes, prescription access, clinical services and patient education. By participating in this assessment, specialty pharmacies will gain valuable insight that will help them benchmark and improve on all of these factors.” SLG is one of the nation’s most recognized providers of patient experience assessment and consulting services. The organization has a 30-year track record which includes working with more than 2,500 healthcare organizations, including leading hospitals, medical groups and health systems. Its surveys are distributed to over one million patients every year. According to Thomas P. Jeffrey, president of SLG, “Today, specialty pharmacies employ a wide variety of survey models and metrics to gauge patient satisfaction. This lack of standardization makes it difficult for payers, patients and pharmacies themselves to adequately assess and compare performance across the industry. The combined expertise of NASP and our organization will be incredibly useful in developing a new gold standard for specialty pharmacy assessments that directly addresses this challenge.” NASP also expects that many payers, including national health plans, will be particularly interested in using industry-wide data from this survey as they develop specialty pharmacy utilization and network strategies. This information may be made available in a blinded report available through the trade association, with initial results being shared at the upcoming NASP Annual Meeting September 26-27 in Washington, DC.. The new patient satisfaction survey can be distributed through either direct mail or web-based options. Information about the assessment, which will be available to NASP members in July of this year. About NASP The National Association of Specialty Pharmacy (NASP), based in Washington, DC, is a 501(c)(6) trade association representing all stakeholders in the specialty pharmacy industry. Its members include the nation’s leading specialty pharmacies, pharmaceutical and biotechnology manufacturers, GPOs, distributors, and more. With 100 corporate members and 1,600 individuals, NASP is the unified voice of specialty pharmacy in the United States. NASP is dedicated to patient access, national policy advocacy, specialty pharmacist education and certification, and the engagement of all stakeholders in the specialty pharmacy industry. For additional information visit www.NASPnet.org. About SullivanLuallin Group SullivanLuallin Group (SLG) provides comprehensive services and programs for patient experience transformation — from assessment tools and surveys, to improvement planning and programs, to ongoing maintenance of success. With more than 20 years of healthcare experience, SLG has seen the industry evolve, and understands the unique challenges organizations face concerning patient satisfaction, employee engagement and retention, and budget constraints as well as reimbursement. SLG is comprised of senior-level consultants and strategic thinkers that have worked over the years with more than 2,500 healthcare organizations nationwide, including physician groups, hospitals and provider networks. To learn more, visit www.sullivanluallingroup.com. For SullivanLuallin Group: Thomas Jeffrey, (619) 283-8988 or TJeffrey@SullivanLuallinGroup.com For National Association of Specialty Pharmacy: Todd Speranzo, (623) 742-1719 or todd.speranzo@avella.com NASP Issues Letter to CMS Jun 09 On March 4, NASP wrote a letter to CMS Deputy Administrator & Director Sean Cavanaugh regarding... read more	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line985
__label__cc	0.504506	0.495494	Blaming, Crypto, Middleton's Stop Blaming Kate Middleton’s Problems on Meghan Markle Kate Middleton is reportedly “exhausted” thanks to her new responsibilities. She allegedly blames Meghan Markle and Prince Harry for being “selfish.” Kensington Palace denies the rumors, which don’t reflect well on Duchess Kate. Kate Middleton would like you to know that it’s not easy being the future Queen Consort. According to a new report, the Duchess of Cambridge has a lot of responsibilities, and she’s just “exhausted” by them all. This same report claims that it’s Meghan Markle’s fault that Middleton and Prince William have these new and increased responsibilities. And though Kensington Palace claims this report is false, the question still remains: how did the British gutter press even come to this ridiculous conclusion? Why Are Kate Middleton’s Responsibilities Reliant on Meghan Markle? Is Kate Middleton so fragile that she can’t take her children to school and handle her professional responsibilities? \| Source: Shaun Jeffers/Shutterstock.com According to an unnamed royal insider, Kate Middleton is under so much stress, and she feels it’s all Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s fault. Meghan and Harry have been so selfish. William and Catherine really wanted to be hands-on parents and the Sussexes have effectively thrown their three children under a bus. There goes their morning school runs as the responsibilities on them now are enormous. Kate is furious about the larger workload. Of course she’s smiling and dressing appropriately but she doesn’t want this. Perhaps I’m just a “stupid American,” but can someone explain how Middleton is under “stress” now that her in-laws are out of the way? Welp! This tweet just about sums it up. \| Source: Twitter In-law jokes are the subject of countless American punchlines. And I’d bet that the average American wife would be standing at the front door, smiling broadly, calling the Uber with one hand, and holding the valise with the other, if the in-laws announced they were leaving. Second, and perhaps most importantly, is Kate Middleton so fragile that she can’t take her children to school and handle her professional responsibilities? Countless mothers all over the world do it every day. What makes her so special? These Accusations Are Really Tiresome Naturally, Kate Middleton — through her representative — denied these reports as “categorically false.” And who can blame her? This story is outrageous, even by British gossip press standards. That’s what it sounded like to us, too. \| Source: Twitter We get it: there’s a faction of Britons that don’t like Meghan Markle. Whether it be because she’s American, because she’s black, because she’s an actress, or because she didn’t want to put up with “The Firm’s” nonsense, you would think that Meghan Markle was Myra Hindley with the way some people carry on about her. And honestly, she’s really not that bad. This writer would venture to say that Prince Andrew cavorting with Jeffrey Epstein is far, far worse than an American actress not wanting little girls to wear tights during a late spring wedding. This is what people have a problem with? Really? \| Source: Twitter But to make it seem like Kate Middleton can’t be around her own children because Meghan Markle wants to live her own life is absurd. Was Meghan Markle the Windsor nanny, and we only just got the memo? Both Duchess Kate and Duchess Meghan have something great to offer the world, in different ways. You don’t have to attack one to uplift the other. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of CCN.com. This article was edited by Josiah Wilmoth.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line990
__label__wiki	0.528382	0.528382	> College of Arts & Sciences > Departments & Faculty > Visual & Performing Arts > Theater Program > Student Testimonials Theater Student Testimonials A degree in Theater Arts at Arcadia empowers you to make your mark in the professional world. Our alumni find professional theater work and study at some of the nation’s top graduate programs. “The Arcadia Theatre program helped me break through emotional barriers, taught me patience, and gave me the tools I needed to thrive outside the theater world in a business-minded economy.” —Dustin Karrat, BA ’09 “The Arcadia Theatre program helped me break through emotional barriers, taught me patience, and gave me the tools I needed to thrive outside the theater world in a business-minded economy.” —Dustin Karrat, BA ’09 “The theatre program at Arcadia prepared me for every aspect of a professional career in theatre arts. My experiences with performance, tech, administration and collaboration equipped me with a valuable tool set that I am able to use on a daily basis.” —Sara Accardi, BA ‘07, Manager of Individual Giving, Theatre Development Fund “The theatre program at Arcadia prepared me for every aspect of a professional career in theatre arts. My experiences with performance, tech, administration and collaboration equipped me with a valuable tool set that I am able to use on a daily basis.” —Sara Accardi, BA ‘07, Manager of Individual Giving, Theatre Development Fund “I don't know where I would be without the warmth, passion, and talent I was surrounded by during my 4 years in Arcadia's theater program. I grew exponentially as an artist and as a human being, thanks to the unwavering support from the incredibly insightful and encouraging teachers. Even now, my teachers still come up to see me in my shows in New York!” —Morgan Everitt, BFA ‘11, MFA Candidate, NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, Graduate Acting Program “I don't know where I would be without the warmth, passion, and talent I was surrounded by during my 4 years in Arcadia's theater program. I grew exponentially as an artist and as a human being, thanks to the unwavering support from the incredibly insightful and encouraging teachers. Even now, my teachers still come up to see me in my shows in New York!” —Morgan Everitt, BFA ‘11, MFA Candidate, NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, Graduate Acting Program “My professors at Arcadia gave me the skills I needed to work confidently in the professional theatre world. The years I've spent training in the BFA program helped me define the kind of artist I want to be. My professors are now my cast mates, and even now, long after graduation, I can still call on them for advice and support.” — Taysha Canales, BFA ’11 “My professors at Arcadia gave me the skills I needed to work confidently in the professional theatre world. The years I've spent training in the BFA program helped me define the kind of artist I want to be. My professors are now my cast mates, and even now, long after graduation, I can still call on them for advice and support.” — Taysha Canales, BFA ’11 “Arcadia’s diverse curriculum allowed me to explore many different facets of theater and to grow in every aspect. My professors pushed me to be stronger and to find my own unique path, and taught me the skills to land a job working at a professional theater right after graduation.” — Sara Viniar, BFA ’13, Director of Group Sales and Advertising, The Ritz Theater Company “Arcadia’s diverse curriculum allowed me to explore many different facets of theater and to grow in every aspect. My professors pushed me to be stronger and to find my own unique path, and taught me the skills to land a job working at a professional theater right after graduation.” — Sara Viniar, BFA ’13, Director of Group Sales and Advertising, The Ritz Theater Company “Arcadia's Theater Arts program helps you become the theatre artist you want to be. I was able to customize my electives, and thanks to the knowledgable and dedicated professors, I went into the theatre world confident that I could not only act professionally, but also step into directing, designing, choreographing, and stage managing. I was trained to be a versatile theatre artist.” —Katie Keith, BFA ’08 “Arcadia's Theater Arts program helps you become the theatre artist you want to be. I was able to customize my electives, and thanks to the knowledgable and dedicated professors, I went into the theatre world confident that I could not only act professionally, but also step into directing, designing, choreographing, and stage managing. I was trained to be a versatile theatre artist.” —Katie Keith, BFA ’08	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line991
__label__wiki	0.632577	0.632577	Home Headlines Armed Bandits takes over Birnin Gwari – Nigpilot … kidnap, kill villagers travelers on a daily basis Despite repeated assurance by the Military High Command and other security agencies that activities of armed bandits have been curtailed, the Birnin Gwari Progressives Union (BEPU) said that armed bandits have taken over the area. It also frowns at the seeming laissez-faire attitude towards banditry in the Birnin Gwari area by the governments at all levels. Chairman, Birnin Gwari Progressives Union (BEPU), Barrister Salisu Haruna who said this in a statement added that the New Year 2021 has begun in sorrow and tears for the people of Birnin-Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna state. He said that on Sunday, 3rd January 2021, armed bandits lay siege on innocent travelers at Zankoro, along the dreaded Birnin-Gwari-Kaduna Highway, killing nine people, including 3 infants that are on their way for a ceremony at Doka, Birnin-Gwari Local Government. He further disclosed that the bandits came out today Monday 4th January 2021 at the same Zankoro at about 9.00 am, shooting sporadically and abducted an unspecified number of people, and wounded six others that are currently receiving treatment at Buruku along Kaduna-Birnin-Gwari Highway. According to him, “the last two weeks, bandits terrorizing the people of Birnin Gwari, especially those traveling along Birnin Gwari-Funtua and Birnin Gwari-Kaduna highways have become intensely aggressive as they continue to kill and abduct innocent citizens unabated. “From December 20th, 2020 to January 4th, 2021, bandits have mercilessly terrorized the people of Birnin Gwari thereby kidnapping them at homes, farms, and during travels. “The bandits have ruthlessly been killing the people of Birnin Gwari and the Kaduna state government has evidently chosen to take off her eyes from our pathetic situation, at least by acknowledging cases of abductions and serial killings by the bandits as it does on other areas like Lere of recent. “Hence, BEPU tersely calls on the Kaduna State Government to note that: There are cases of kidnappings and killings every day along Birnin Gwari-Kaduna and Birnin Gwari-Funtua highways. “There are more than 40 abductees currently at the mercy of the bandits who were kidnapped between 20th December 2020 and Monday 4th January 2021; some of them have been reported terribly ill. “A total of Nine (9) innocent travelers were killed at Zankoro along Birnin Gwari-Kaduna highway on Sunday 3rd January 2021. A total of 11 people were kidnapped at Dan Kungi village on Sunday 3rd January 2021. “BEPU, therefore, calls on the government to deploy immediate response squad to mount offensive operations along Birnin Gwari Kaduna and Birnin Gwari Funtua highways”. The group also urged the government to sit up to its responsibility and protect the lives and property of defenseless people of Birnin Gwari whose bloods are spilled daily by the bandits. In conclusion, the Union tasked the government to launch an offensive attack to neutralize bandits terrorizing Birnin Gwari whose skills and warfare strategies are increasingly advancing every day. Previous articleNDA raises fraud alarm over sale of 73 Regular Course Entry Form – Nigpilot Next articleNew year message: APC govs restate commitment to good governance, human development -Nigpilot PIB: How govt official paid self N145m for media campaign –... …he's a blessing to Petroleum Ministry - Perm Sec Senate has uncovered how N145mllion meant for media campaign on Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, was paid... Senator Akpan empowers 520 persons with disabilities in A’Ibom – Nigpilot A total of 520 physically challenged persons in Akwa Ibom yesyerday in Uyo received life support training skills initiated by the Senator representing Akwa...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line997
__label__cc	0.597939	0.402061	Saudi Arabia Says It Foiled Houthi Attack On Oil Facility Saudi Arabia has thwarted a… Oil Price War Puts Entire Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia At Risk The ill-timed oil price war… Turkey’s Latest Geopolitical Gamble Could Result In Catastrophe Turkey’s aggressive moves in the… Zainab Calcuttawala Zainab Calcuttawala is an American journalist based in Morocco. She completed her undergraduate coursework at the University of Texas at Austin (Hook’em) and reports on… Saudi Arabia Thwarts Attempted Attack On Aramco Facility By Zainab Calcuttawala - Apr 26, 2017, 11:45 AM CDT It seems the violence in Yemen may be spilling over into Saudi Arabia. On Wednesday, the KSA’s state-run media agency reported an attempted attack on an oil product distribution center in a province bordering the Kingdom’s war-torn southern neighbor. The press agency cited an unidentified spokesperson from the Interior Ministry who said security forces spotted a remote-controlled boat full of explosives leave a Yemeni island and head towards Saudi’s coast. The countries defense forces will protect Saudi citizens and oil infrastructure from Shi’ite Houthi rebels’ attacks on shipping routes in the Red Sea, the ministry added. No group has claimed responsibility for the failed attack so far. Yemen’s oil facilities have also been under attack in recent weeks from local residents. Twelve people died and 29 others were injured from an oil pipeline fire in the Bajel district of Yemen in early April, according to a security official. After being hit with a “sabotage act,” the pipeline began leaking oil. Citizens from the area began gathering the crude oil, with one Yemeni attaching a generator near the leak to speed up the rate of the leakage. The electric current from the device caused a spark, setting the oil on fire. Related: Top 5 Risks To Oil Prices The Red Sea port, near the Bab al-Mandab strait, is currently controlled by the Houthis, and whoever maintains control of it has a strategic advantage. This port is a pathway connection to the Middle East (where the world’s largest proven oil reserves are) and Sub-Saharan Africa (a region expected to see a four-fold increase in energy demand by 2040), making it a coveted geopolitical prize for regional powers, but a livelihood-destroying burden for Yemen’s residents. Roughly one year before the civil war began, Yemen’s oil production topped 127,000 barrels per day, but hostilities have forced the exit of virtually all international producers due to security concerns. Existing fields are close to maturity, and in the absence of new oil discoveries, the country’s crude reserves would be exhausted in less than a decade. By Zainab Calcuttawala for Oilprice.com EIA Takes Markets By Surprise, Reports Major Crude Oil Inventory Draw Can An OPEC Extension Push Oil To $60? Iceland Geothermal Project Completes Deep Drilling In Volcano How The Saudi Rift With Egypt Is Spiraling Out Of Control Oil Politics Driving Libya Closer To Failure Has Iran Massively Underestimated Joe Biden? UAE Oil Takes Center Stage In U.S. Pushback Against China U.S. Energy Independence Is Fueling Iran’s Middle East Power Grab	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1001
__label__wiki	0.912967	0.912967	Tramel: Sooners are the best barometer of Iowa State football's upgrade Published: Mon, October 5, 2020 5:30 PM Updated: Mon, October 5, 2020 6:53 PM There was no party in Ames, Iowa, on Saturday night. At least not in Matt Campbell’s house. Iowa State’s fifth-year head coach was pleased with his Cyclones’ 37-30 victory over OU, but it’s not like he hasn’t beaten the Sooners before. ISU won 38-31 at OU in 2017, a game that announced the Cyclones as a competitive program. This victory announced the Cyclones as a Big 12 championship contender. “We’ve had good wins and we’ve had gut-wrenching losses, and we’ve experienced those all quite often over the last couple of years,” Campbell said. “It’s a sense of leadership and maturity. I would say there’d be a party if we didn’t expect to have success. But I think this team and this culture has moved from hoping to have success to expecting to have success. 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Video: OU Football: Riley reviews loss to Cyclones Video: OU football: Rattler says Cyclones should've been flagged on final offensive play Video: OU Football: Defensive struggles continue “Part of that is handling wins and then handling losses. We’ve had to handle, even in this short season, we’ve had to handle both of those. So it takes great leadership and leadership by your players.” Indeed, Iowa State lost to Louisiana-Lafayette in a September 12 season opener. But now ISU is 2-0 in the Big 12, tied with OSU and Kansas State, and the Cyclones have victories over the Sooners and TCU. K-State has beaten OU and Texas Tech. OSU has beaten Kansas and West Virginia. So you could say the Cyclones have navigated the toughest schedule among the leaders. In the 10 years before Campbell’s 2016 arrival from the University of Toledo, Iowa State went 41-82. Then the Cyclones went 3-9 in Campbell’s first season. But since then, Iowa State is 25-17. “We’ve had some really great wins,” Campbell said. “Obviously, when you play a team like Oklahoma, that’s had a ton of success, you want to have the opportunity to go win the football game, because you want to get your program to a point where they’re at. By no means are we there yet. But anytime you can win a significant football game, that’s important. Quite honestly, any time you can win A football game, that’s important. We’ll take it and we’ll just continue to move forward.” Parity appears to have arrived in the Big 12. Of the 10 conference games played so far, six were decided by seven points or less, and another was a 10-point game. “The uniqueness of this year, in general in college football, I don’t think there’s just parity in the Big 12, I think there’s probably parity all over college football,” Campbell said, referring to the coronavirus pandemic. “Again, a really unique year. How do you measure good teams? Good teams are the teams that have the ability to get better every week. That takes a lot right now, in this day and age, and the kind of year we’re in. Time will tell who or what comes out of all this.” But this much is true. Nothing proclaims the improvement of Iowa State football more than its series against the Sooners. In the five OU-ISU games from 2011-15, the Cyclones lost them all, by a combined score of 220-66. In the five games since Campbell started, the Cyclones are 2-3 and have been outscored just 174-167. “I don’t know if you have any idea about any program until you get in there and you really figure out what’s going on,” Campbell said of envisioning going toe-to-toe with the Sooners. “For us, I don’t know if that was ever the thought. More the thought was, man, how do we just get ourselves to be competitive in this conference, once we got here and figured out what some of the challenges were. “I think our big thing then was, how do you build it, and once you do, you had the opportunity to be competitive, how do you build it? Take your program to where it has a chance to do what everybody hopes to do, which is play as good as anybody in this conference. “For us, it really has been a process of trying to get better one year at a time, one day at a time, one game at time. It’s taken us a long time to get there. But we continue to work on that very own process, because it gives you at least a fighting chance.” CommentsTramel: Sooners are the best barometer of Iowa State football's upgrade	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1002
__label__cc	0.622324	0.377676	Last edited by Mauzahn Wednesday, April 29, 2020 \| History 2 edition of spiritual conflict and conquest found in the catalog. spiritual conflict and conquest Lorenzo Scupoli Published 1903 by Burns & Oates, Benziger in London, New York . Asceticism -- Catholic Church. Statement by J. Castaniza ; edited, with pref. and notes by Jerome Vaughan ; reprinted from the old English translation of 1652. Contributions Vaughan, Jerome M., Castañiza, Juan de, d. 1598. Pagination lxx, 510 p. ; fresh perspective, of the events of the conquest of Michoacán. This book is an attempt to analyze the representation of the events of the conquest of Michoacán in order to consider how these representations have privileged the view of the conquerors and distorted . About the Book Earlier, spiritual awakening came to him through satsang of holymen beginning with Kanchi Periava, Ramana MahaT\sh\, Swam\ Sivananda and many more. 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We cannot guarantee that Conflict Conquest And Conversion book is in the library, But if You are still not sure. is owned by: Ministry Helps, Vern Cora Road, Laurens, SC Hours: Monday - Saturday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. EST \| Email: Click Here Phone: God at War -- The Bible and Spiritual Conflict by Gregory A. Boyd Since working in the Tsunami in Aceh, Thailand and with those affected by the earthquake in Pakistan, I have been grappling again with life issues such as prayer, suffering, about warfare, the destructiveness of creation and the problem of /5. The Bible: Joshua: Conflict and Conquest Joshua as leader: chapter 1. Joshua is one of the Bible’s great books of courage and faith. God told Joshua: “Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I. Addeddate Identifier TheSpiritualConflictAndConquest Identifier-ark ark://t4hm6k Ocr ABBYY FineReader Ppi Full text of "The Spiritual Conflict and Conquest" See other formats. Audio CD-Strategy for Conquest (Spiritual Conflict Series) (4 CD): Derek Prince: Audio CD - Unabridged: Christian Spiritual conflict and conquest book - Spiritual Warfare book. Get this from a library. The spiritual combat, or, The Christian pilgrim in his spiritual conflict and conquest. [Lorenzo Scupoli; Richard Lucas; Juan de Castañiza]. Spiritual Conflict – Volume 4: Strategy For Conquest by Derek Prince — Study Note Outline — SC4 Four Tape Series God’s Word—The Spirit’s Sword The Gospel Of The Kingdom For All Nations The Power Of Personal Testimony Triumphant Praise God’s Word—The Spirit’s Sword I. Introduction A. Eph. –17 1. Revised and Expanded Edition. Imagine fighting a battle without knowing the Rules of Engagement. Winning would be out of the question. ( pages, x in.) Also available as an e-book through Amazon Kindle. Also available as an e-book through Barnes & Noble Nook. The spiritual conquest of Mexico: an essay on the apostolate and the evangelizing methods of the mendicant orders in New Spain, Translated by Lesley Byrd Simpson by Ricard, Robert and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at The book of Joshua is not a simple work. John Bright thinks it “presents as complex a literary problem as any book in the Bible.” John Bright, “The Book of Joshua,” in The Interpreter’s Bible, ed. George A. Buttrick (New York: Abingdon Press, ), The same can. God at War is a challenging and provocative book, challenging spiritual conflict and conquest book of our traditional philosophical ideas about God and reality and provoking us to join this cosmic battle on God's side, the side of good. Boyd displays a keen understanding of the scriptural passages about conflict, and he quotes extensively from authors who have studied 4/5(7). The aim of this book is to carefully bring out some of the more important principles of spiritual growth in order to help build on a sound biblical foundation in Christ. He can honor no other. The Holy Spirit has Paul write to each of us: “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith” (II Cor. ), and the recommendation is certainly. Another difficult distinction lies between spiritual and philosophical principles that are embraced by, and guide, communities. In the section of this essay discussing Chinese conflict resolution methods, for example, reference is made to the influence of Confucius, who may or may not be considered a spiritual leader. book. Chapter 10 pulls back the spiritual curtain and gives us a brief glimpse into the third year following his conquest and victory over Babylon and Verse one then adds the interesting comment, “and it was a great conflict.”File Size: KB. The reality of spiritual conflict in our world is a given to those who believe the Bible, but sometimes those who are convinced of the reality of spiritual conflict deny or minimize the reality of psychological and psychiatric illness. Often Christians suffering from psychological or psychiatric illness have been treated as if they were demonized. In Conquest of Canaan: Warfare and Victory in the Christian Life, the prolific author Jessie Penn-Lewis examines the story of Israel’s war with Canaan in the Old Testament as an eye opening new look not only at the war itself, but also at the spiritual warfare of the modern Christian.5/5(2). THE ANGELIC CONFLICT. The Angelic Conflict rages around us. This is not a world war. This is a war beyond the world—an invisible warfare between the forces of Satan and the forces of God. Ultimately God will win. Long before the advent of human history, Satan arrogantly rebelled against his Creator. Conquest takes place roughly 16 years after the Illyri, a race similar to humans, take over the Earth. Syl, conceived among the stars and the first Illyri born on Earth, lives with her father, the governor of Britain and Ireland, in Edinburgh castle/5. The Book of Joshua corresponds to the Epistle to the Ephesians in the New Testament where we see that the believer is blessed with all spiritual blessings. The practical possession and experience of them depends upon conflict and conquest. Themes often centered around Christian defeats of pagans, notably Spanish over pre-Conquest groups. Whole communities participated. High social importance, and gave Amerindians an opportunity to portray themselves their pre- Spanish Catholic culture X. Settler-missionary conflict. Conquest of Mind is a book that describes practices and strategies for leading the spiritual life. Written by Eknath Easwaran, the strategies are intended to be usable within any major religious tradition, or outside of all book was originally published in the United States in Multiple revised English-language editions have been published, and translations have also Author: Eknath Easwaran. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. Romans The night is almost gone, and the day is near Therefore let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us behave properly. The spiritual combat: or, the Christian pilgrim in his spiritual conflict and conquest: By John de Castaniza. Translated from the French, with some additions. Revised and recommended by the Reverend Richard Lucas, D.D. rector of St. Katharin Coleman-street. The history of Christianity concerns the Christian religion, Christendom, and the Church with its various denominations, from the 1st century to the present. Christianity originated with the ministry of Jesus in the 1st century Roman province of ing to the Gospels, Jesus was a Jewish teacher and healer who proclaimed the imminent Kingdom of God, and was crucified c‑33 AD. Spiritual Conflict Today: Case Histories. The experiences of spiritual conflict in different contexts vary to a great extent but they also have much in common. Through listening to voices from different parts of the world we noticed significant differences in experience and interpretation. Book Three. Celestial mayhem. A supernatural threat leads to a magical journey into the after-life that triggers spiritual consequences. The saga of the magical Realm dramatically concludes when allies of the kingdom are suddenly killed by a vengeful spirit from the after-life. THE BOOK OF REVELATION CONFLICT, COMFORT AND CONQUEST By John Cripps. Introduction: The book of Revelation is one of the most neglected and yet one of the most abused books of the New Testament today and in times past. This view point is. 2 Managing the Conflict from Within: A Spiritual Model earthly ministry to shift from the stage of conflict to the stage of crisis (Tenney, ). The disciples interpreted Jesus’ behavior leading up to the supernatural resurrection of Lazarus with contempt and disbelief. The Spiritual Conquest of Mexico: An Essay on the Apostolate and the Evangelizing Methods of the Mendicant Orders in New Spain, Robert Ricard University of California Press, - Friars. Royal Priesthood - Secrets Of Spiritual Conquest Royal priesthood, we are called to invade, occupy, and influence this world for Christ. The war is on. As part of the remnant, you have been authorized for spiritual conquest and occupation. You are unstoppable having received a. Audio CD-Strategy for Conquest (Spiritual Conflict Series) (4 CD)Audio CD-Strategy for Conquest (Spiritual Conflict Series) (4 CD) (Audiobook) Specifications. Features: Compact Disc. Series Title: Spiritual Conflict. Publisher: Whitaker House. Book Format: Audiobook. Original Languages: English. Author: Dr Derek Prince. ISBN Brand: Dr Derek Prince. Welcome to my Official Web Site. All info for book releases, book signings and fun happens here. You can also reach out to me thru my email to be added to my list: Just drop me a quick note at [email protected] "A Love Forever" sequel to "A Love in Name Only". Spiritual Conquest Puritans By contrast, most reformation leaders were amillennialist (did not believe the world was ending) Thought the world would end eventually, but it was arrogant to predict God's plan Spiritual Conquest Puritans Puritans, a branch of Christianity, arrived. Million Book Mission. East Africa Update; Spiritual Conflict - Volume 4: Strategy For Conquest (Four Part Series) Loading Hover for zoom Click to enlarge. CD or MP3. Until Jesus returns, we have one supreme assignment, for which God has already provided all the spiritual equipment. Four Part Series. God's Word - The Spirit's Sword; The. SPIRITUAL CONQUEST NOW (CBI GRADUATION) Dr. Criswell. Acts p.m. The title of the message tonight is Spiritual Conquest Now. And in our Bibles let us turn to the twenty-sixth chapter of the Book of Acts. Acts chapter 26; and we shall read out loud together verses 16 through 20—Acts. The Spiritual Conflict. Preached at Zoar Chapel, London, on Jby J. C. Philpot "For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other; so that you cannot do the things that you would.".Spiritual Conquest of Mexico I. "We came for the glory of God and to get rich!" - Bernal Diaz II. Early Missionaries A. Orders get the job because of dedication to Rule 1. Franciscans got job initially 2. First group numbered 12 3. Soon followed by 12 Dominicans 4. No more than missionaries by s B.The Franciscans came into conflict with the state and other orders as they began to consolidate their control in the Yucatan. beheld of in the book of revelation. [Prescott pp,] Temples were destroyed and replaced with cathedrals, monasteries and schools. Did it vary in different areas and was there a true spiritual conquest. amstrad.fun - Spiritual conflict and conquest book © 2020	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1010
__label__cc	0.651895	0.348105	post-title Love me in Liguria: Apricale and the stone streets Love me in Liguria: Apricale and the stone streets > Love me in Liguria: Apricale and the stone streets A small medieval village on the west coast of Liguria emerged on a hill overlooking the entire coastline: Apricale is a place full of charm and history. Situated on the west coast, on a hill overlooking the whole coast, Apricale stands. It is a small hamlet whose name derives from the Latin “apricus” which means “exposed to the sun” and is just the light that gives the village a unique charm and atmosphere. During the years Apricale has been the destination of numerous artists from all over the world who have contributed to “restoring, painting and rediscovering” making it a place of great, charming and magical place. «We reach apricale when the sun finally manages to win against the clouds, and the roofs of tiles and slates of the houses around us shine like diamonds. Even the Castello della Lucertola (Castle of the Lizard), sitting there high on the top of the rocky spur, seems to stretch its arms of stone towards the light, searching for warmth like the animal it was named after. They tell us that during the summer the inner courtyard is transformed into an open-air stage: a village in love with the clouds and the sun. We lose ourselves within the narrow walls passing under too low arches, we stop to peek inside small shops that smell of fresh paint and ancient passions, we kiss at the crossroads of cobbled streets that still have a feel of ancient times. Yet, even in a world of stone, you are able to find love. You gently point them out to me with your hand, almost afraid to frighten them away. Above the wooden gates of the houses, near ancient lanterns in the darkest alleys, at the corner of a street, under the arch of a staircase, dozens of murals light up in colour, brightening your eyes. They are religious scenes, pastoral scenes, rural scenes, they are the souls of Apricale that exude from its stones, they are the testimony to an art that never dies. So, when you look at me at a certain point and confide in me seriously that there is a bicycle on the top of the bell tower, I kiss you and I promise that we will return here again, to the small village that searches for heaven and where bikes fly.» A Medieval village for a romantic holiday in the Liguria region: Taggia The most romantic places of fascinating Liguria region Love me in Liguria: Villa della Pergola Love me in Liguria: Cervo and Camogli Giulia Bazzocchi 9th October 2017 Hotel, Liguria, location, romantic holiday Between art and culture, Elopment, Love me in Liguria About Giulia Bazzocchi View all posts by Giulia Bazzocchi →	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1012
__label__cc	0.665131	0.334869	UNIC Lusaka United Nations Information Centre Lusaka About UNIC International Decade For People Of African Descent The SDGS The United Nations Digital Library- UNDL UN Careers Secretary-General’s statement on the awarding of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Peace to the World Food Programme I am delighted by the decision of the Nobel Committee to award this year’s Prize for Peace to the United Nations World Food Programme. The World Food Programme is the world’s first responder on the frontlines of food insecurity. In a world of plenty, it is unconscionable that hundreds of millions go to bed each night hungry. Millions more are now on the precipice of famine due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The women and men of the WFP brave danger and distance to deliver life-saving sustenance to those devastated by conflict, to people suffering because of disaster, to children and families uncertain about their next meal. There is also a hunger in our world for international cooperation. The World Food Programme feeds that need, too. WFP operates above the realm of politics, with humanitarian need driving its operations. The organization itself survives on voluntary contributions from UN Member States and the public at large. Such solidarity is precisely needed now to address not only the pandemic, but other global tests of our time. We know that existential threats such as the climate change will make the hunger crisis even worse. I warmly congratulate David Beasley, WFP Executive Director, and the entire staff of the World Food Programme, for advancing the values of the United Nations every day and serving the cause of “we the peoples” as the Organization marks its 75th anniversary year. Note: Statement first appeared on the UNSG webpage. This entry was posted in Latest news, Secretary Generals Messages, UN75 and tagged covid-19, David Beasley, Humanitarian Assistance, Nobel Peace Prize, UN@75, UNWFP, WFP on October 9, 2020 by Charles Nonde. About Charles Nonde Public Information Assistant at UN Information Centre, Lusaka Zambia. View all posts by Charles Nonde → ← PRESS RELEASE-UN welcomes Vice-President’s announcement of a technical review to address rumours on CSE Framework in Zambia The Secretary General Message on International Day of the Girl → Oceans Conference Op-eds Senior UN Staff Press Releases (Zambia) Secretary Generals Messages SG Op-eds UNRC Zambia	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1015
__label__cc	0.725858	0.274142	Fashion Week Night Outs in New York Posted on August 29, 2017 February 11, 2019 It is that time of the year when the big fours kick off at an otherwise dreary, empty loft on 550 Washington Street that transforms into frantic green rooms known for last-minute meltdowns, glitzy red carpets, coveted front rows and bustling runways that could give Manhattan’s streets a run for its traffic. A full week of creators, influencers, and artists that influences the billion-dollar fashion on the street next season. If you do survive the day with ample of hydration and antioxidant-rich food, there is enough reason to live it up at night. What is a glamorous fashion week without a night out? There couldn’t have been a better location for New York Fashion Week than in the neighborhood of SoHo which is historically an art district of Manhattan known for its boutiques, luxury designer outlets, galleries and design hotels. But then SoHo is closer to the bar scene of New York City as well and nothing says ‘IT’ lifestyle than an all-nighter at a speakeasy and then show your presence at the event next day 10am. If you are lucky to have chosen one of these chic boutique hotels for New York Fashion Week you will be near every watering hole to be seen. Image Courtesy: Dead Rabbit New York Until someone topples it over at this year’s World’s 50 Best Bars, Dead Rabbit remains at the apex of the nightlife pyramid. Located in the financial district, it takes an obsessive love for perfection, exhaustive historically accurate menu (72 cocktails and growing by the year) and legendary levels of perseverance to hit the top spot in the world’s best bars. Dead Rabbit has its roots in the Irish-American heritage with two Irishman Sean Muldoon and Jack McGarry at the helm, who insist on being either No.1 or not at all. The historic and heritage references of the bar date back to the 1800s New York City with its streets infested with mob fights and ruthless entrepreneurs amassing obscene amounts of wealth. The bar has three levels of spaces suitable to your liking – The Taproom ( if you don’t mind your Chloe block heels marking over sawdust strewed floor), The Parlor is most suitable for the dandy du jour for an after party post the fashion event and then if exclusif is your only mantra ‘The Occassional’ is where you need to say cheers. For more details please visit Dead Rabbit Image Courtesy : Employees Only Closest to the NYFW venue is another among world’s top bars – Employees Only. Infused in the Art Deco and Prohibition era of New York, Employees Only is adamant not to fix what’s not broken like it’s place in the bar scene. It is the quintessential speakeasy of New York with wood-panelled decor from the 20s and 30s of the past century. It has a chic vibe with its decor, patrons and bartenders. The menu undoubtedly has been pivotal and influential in etching its place in the World’s 50 Best Bars time and again. From the classics like Manhattan to originals such as Provencal, Billionaire, Ready Fire Aim, it takes more than just a good menu to get straight A’s for eight years on the world’s volatile bar scene.For more details please visit employeesonlynyc.com/menus/cocktails NoMad Bar Standing this year on number 8 spot on World’s 50 Best Bars, the all wood, bottle-green leather dimly lit bar at The NoMad Hotel in Manhattan reminds us of the resplendence and debauchery of 20s when bars and speakeasy were at their peak in New York. Located on the 28th and Broadway, it’s name is inspired by the cocktail rich historic neighbourhood of North of Madison Square Park where legendary classics were created. An understated entrance through the hotel lobby that’s almost hidden like a speakeasy does add to the experience of stepping into a time portal that whisks you into the prohibition era. Being a steady contender in the top 10 bars list you’d not imagine anything paltry as far as the cocktail menu is concerned. From Montauk to Zombie or Adonis the range is sufficient to soothe the nerves and drown the stress. Death & Co Image Courtesy : Instagram Death & Co NYC Image Courtesy : Death & Co NYC This decade-old cocktail institution rose to the heights of being the best cocktail bar in America and one of the top bars in the world in the shortest time. Today they have a book of cocktails thanks to the bartenders which includes hundreds of recipes from the contemporary cocktails to the classics. The menu is a slice of the book which ranges from classics to innovative cocktail recipes. For more details please visitdeathandcompany.com/menus/ Image Courtesy : Attaboy New York City Image Courtesy : Instagram Attaboy New York City Being a fashion week attendee you are too keen to be seen at watering holes that are leading the curve in nightlife than lagging. Attaboy seems to be right up your alley if inventive drinks, bespoke experience and top of the charts is what you associate your bar scene to be. What began as a small Lower East side bar has mushroomed across the Pacific as well. Its speakeasy trend and secretive existence are all the brilliance of Sasha Petraske. Don’t be surprised if you aren’t given a menu because there is none. Walk up to the bartenders and ask for the drink you crave in that moment and they will conjure it for you. 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__label__wiki	0.975866	0.975866	Reactor defuelling completed at UK Wylfa site The final flask of used fuel from UK’s Wylfa Site has been dispatched for reprocessing at Sellafield in Cumbria, marking the end of defuelling operations at all 26 of UK’s first-generation nuclear reactors. The Wylfa Site was the biggest and last Magnox reactor site to be built in the UK. Its two 490MWe reactors began commercial operation in 1971 and 1972. Wylfa unit 2 was permanently shut in 2012, and unit 1 in 2015. The site generated 232TWh of electricity during that time. Completing defueling will enable Wylfa to move into its decommissioning phase, and allows Magnox and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), which owns the site, to progress with the cleanup of the UK’s civil nuclear legacy safely, securely and cost-effectively, according to a joint statement on 19 September from Magnox Ltd, NDA, and Sellafield Ltd. Some 87,890 fuel elements were removed from the twin-reactor site. “The elements, which measure 43 inches in length, would stretch for 17-and-a-half miles if placed end to end,” the statement said. The final shipment means that more than 99% of the total radioactivity has now been removed from the site. Wylfa Site Director Stuart Law said it was not an easy task and the work at Wylfa is far from complete, but nevertheless a significant landmark had been reached in the site’s journey towards care and maintenance. “The defuelling process was hampered by ageing equipment for the first 18 months which brought challenges, but the dedication and problem-solving abilities of the Wylfa team and expertise drawn from across the nuclear industry led to what is, overall, an incredible performance in completing this task,” he noted. Gwen Parry-Jones, Magnox CEO, added: “As the final Magnox site to defuel, this marks a significant landmark for Magnox as a whole in carrying out our mission to safely decommission our fleet and marks a new focus on the next phase for the whole company.” Wylfa will now refocus its team on decommissioning activities, including a mix of conventional and radiological projects to further reduce hazards on site. The workforce at Wylfa that once stood at about 600 will be reduced to 175 by the end of November. Tim Dunham, head of nuclear operations for Magnox, which is now part of NDA said: "All of us are now looking for something else to do - and change is challenging." He added that the expertise of the engineering teams at Wylfa meant few would be out of work, but recognised that for some it remained a difficult time. Decommissioning at Wylfa will now move to preparation for "care and maintenance", which will start in December, as the site is cleared. Buildings will be demolished and the turbine halls will be dismantled. This is expected to take up to seven years and would leave only the two reactor buildings and the empty dry fuel stores. Under current plans, those buildings will be monitored for a century - until about 2126 - when radiation will have decreased to manageable levels. Last flask of fuel from the Wylfa reactor (Credit: Magnox) Magnox Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Sellafield Source: NEI Magazine Date: Wednesday, 25 September 2019 Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsreactor-defuelling-completed-at-uk-wylfa-site-7421026 Cavendish Fluor Partnership takes ownership of Magnox and RSRL UK Magnox site declared fuel free UK seeks innovative methods for waste segregation Two decommissioning milestones met in the UK Fuel removal completed at Wylfa Wylfa / Final Flask Of Nuclear Fuel Shipped From North Wales Site UK closes its last Magnox reactor Breeder waste looks destined for Sellafield UK NDA reports reduced clean-up costs Decommissioning milestones at Magnox sites Copyright © FinNuclear ry 2021	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1031
__label__wiki	0.932247	0.932247	Pope condemns 'savage' church attack, urges French to be united Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:22 GMT About our Humanitarian Crises coverage From major disaster, conflicts and under-reported stories, we shine a light on the world’s hotspots (Recasts with message on behalf of pope) VATICAN CITY, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Pope Francis condemned as "savage" an attack in which three people were killed at a church in France on Thursday, and the Vatican said terrorism and violence were never acceptable. "Informed of the savage attack which was perpetrated this morning in a church in Nice, causing the death of several innocent people, His Holiness Pope Francis joins in prayer with the suffering of the families and shares their grief," said a message sent in his name to the bishop of Nice. It said the pope condemned "in the most energetic manner such violent acts of terror" and urged the French people to remain united. Earlier, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said the attack "sowed death in a place of love and consolation," a house of God. "It is a moment of pain in a time of confusion. Terrorism and violence can never be accepted," Bruni said. (Reporting By Philip Pullella Editing by Jon Boyle and Frances Kerry) EXPLORE MORE Humanitarian Crises NEWS World in denial on climate action 5 years after Paris accord, says Greta Thunberg Kenyan women win damages for sexual violence during 2007-8 poll violence War crimes feared in Ethiopia's Tigray conflict Fears world's biggest trade deal could spark conflicts, hurt farmers	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1037
__label__cc	0.703024	0.296976	Home Home / News & Events / Science & Tech Creative industries, especially the gaming development industry, are a strong area of trade between the United States and New Zealand. To promote this trade, U.S. Embassy New Zealand through the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Arts Envoy Program has co-hosted a series of American creative industry experts to do training with aspiring game … On 22 April, amidst the isolation of the lockdown, the U.S. Embassy Youth Councils in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin celebrated the 50th anniversary of Earth Day via an online meeting. Thanks to the wonderful team at the U.S. Embassy and Consulate here in New Zealand, we were privileged to have the opportunity to listen … Between September 7 – September 27, Ana File-Heather took part in the International Visitor Leadership Program’s Women and Entrepreneurship exchange. Ana is from Rarotonga, in the Cook Islands, and is very active in her community as both a volunteer and local business operator. You can check out her profile on our Pacific Women Leader’s Blog here . We are delighted … Via Metro News Christchurch-based U.S. Embassy Youth Councilor and New Zealand Broadcasting School student, James Fleury, shared his MetroNews article which highlighted the importance of engaging the public on scientific outreach being undertaken by NASA in Christchurch, NZ. This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the public, and VIP tour for members of the U.S. Embassy Youth Council, proved a huge success! * … NASA’s aircraft SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) is in Christchurch and is offering you one chance to tour, between 11am and 3pm on Saturday July 20. The last boarding time is 2:30pm. Find out all the details, including when tickets are available, for a free tour on Eventbrite . What is SOFIA? The Flying Observatory … Not all amazing creatures come in bright packages. In fact, one of New Zealand’s most incredible birds is, to look at, a little on the dull side. Drab, brownish, with a little bit of grey thrown in to lighten things up, the godwit, or kuaka, doesn’t grab the imagination the way many of our native … How is technology going to transform the way we grow and sell? Every piece of the supply chain is up for the disruption. How is the market changing? Consumer tastes are evolving, and so are their expectations: of quality, transparency, and social responsibility. What business models should we be exploring? How can we focus less … U.S. Embassy NZ teamed up with Te Papa’s Innovation hub, Mahuki , to bring Walt Disney Imagineering Creative Program Manager, and Art & Technology instructor of Themed Entertainment Design at UCLA, MK Haley, to New Zealand for a series of lectures, workshops, and programming March 25-30 in Auckland (introduced by Consul General, Katelyn Choe), Wellington, Christchurch and … The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter (USCGC) POLAR STAR (WAGB-10) will make a port call in Wellington next week. The United States has been granted New Zealand’s permission for the POLAR STAR to visit after completing its seasonal operations in support of the National Science Foundation-managed U.S. Antarctic Program. “Each year the USCGC POLAR STAR … Ambassador Scott Brown enjoyed his first visit to Blenheim and the Marlborough region as part of his ongoing program of outreach to the provincial centers of New Zealand. He was met by guide for the day, local Member of Parliament Stuart Smith, and kicked off the visit with a courtesy call at the Regional Council … By Will Seal, Public Affairs, U.S. Consulate Auckland. This September, Dr. Adam Warren from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) visited Samoa and the Cook Islands to meet with government agencies, the private sector, and academia to share best practices on island energy issues, renewable energy policy, and practicalities of implementing … Acting Ambassador Ms. Susan B. Niblock attended an extensive program of briefings, functions, and events on September 27-29 in Christchurch to celebrate the beginning of the summer season for polar research and exploration. Ms. Niblock met the Mayor of Christchurch, Hon Lianne Dalziel, to thank her for the outstanding assistance from the Christchurch City Council. The establishment of … Leading into World Space Week , we are celebrating 60 years of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). For six decades, NASA has led the peaceful exploration of space, making discoveries about our planet, our solar system, and our universe. At home in America, NASA research has made great advances in aviation, helped to develop a commercial … Professor Craig Rodger is the Head of the Physics Department at the University of Otago in New Zealand. His primary research field is “Space Weather”, and he also acts as an independent advisor to NASA. He has travelled multiple times to Antarctica, won a Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award in 2015 – and plays a … NZ students now eligible for NASA Internships New Zealand Government Press Release Hon David Parker Minister for Economic Development. New Zealand tertiary students will be offered the chance to participate in NASA’s International Internships Programme, under an agreement between the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and NASA. “Through the programme, high-achieving students will have the opportunity to work in NASA’s best and most … By Mike Cousins \| 27 August, 2018 \| Categories: Connecting with Kiwis, Former Ambassadors, News, Science & Tech \| Tags: Hon David Parker, International Internships Programme, NASA, New Zealand Space Agency, Sir William Pickering It was a busy weekend down in Otago for our Deputy Chief of Mission, Sue Niblock. Sue was honored to participate on a panel at the New Zealand International Science Festival on “the future of scientific collaboration across the globe”, alongside UK Deputy High Commissioner to NZ, Helen Smith, Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand, Ewen McDonald, … Auroras, Galaxies, Black Holes and High-Altitude Adventures on NASA’s SOFIA By Will Seal, Senior Public Affairs Specialist, U.S. Consulate Auckland. Seeing the Aurora Australis, traversing the Antarctic Circle, and peering into never before seen stars in the centre of our Milky Way galaxy might individually sound like unique achievements – but for the crew and astronomers of NASA’s SOFIA airborne observatory, it’s all in a … By Mike Cousins \| 6 July, 2018 \| Categories: Connecting with Kiwis, News, Science & Tech \| Tags: Antarctic Circle, Aurora Australis, Christchurch, NASA, SOFIA U.S. Embassy staff attended the NZ Antarctic Society’s annual Mid-Winter Antarctic Celebration at Victoria University on June 20. Notable Antarctic figures such as Randall Heke shared stories from their time on the Ice and discussed ongoing research with the current team. Attendees were lucky enough to be able to ask questions of researchers at Scott … The U.S. Embassy has been in partnership with the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) since 2012 to bring you the Project technology/entrepreneur series…Project Connect. In 2018 Project Connect has entered into a new partnership with some innovative and talented people down in the Wynyard Quarter in Auckland. The WINTalk Project Connect Event Series 2018 is a collaboration between AUT, Wynyard Innovation Neighbourhood and the US Embassy of … This week marks Earth Day, a day where we celebrate the ingenuity of those making tangible efforts to protect our environment. Now celebrated worldwide and officially observed by the UN, Earth Day began in the United States in 1970 as a response to public concern over rising pollution levels and anger over a massive oil … When the United States Embassy in New Zealand asks if you’ll do an Earth Day post about impacts of mismanaged waste on the global environment—with a focus on seabirds—what do you do? Quick, call Lilly Sedaghat and Steph Borrelle ! Sedaghat is one of my four fellow Fellows ( 2017-2018 Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellows , that is), currently studying waste management in Taiwan. Borrelle is … Almost half of the world’s population relies on fish and seafood as a key source of protein – yet, overall, 80 percent of the world’s fish stocks for which assessment information is available are reported as fully exploited or overexploited, requiring effective and precautionary management. As part of tackling this issue, February 10-11th 2018 saw three teams … The Embassy was honored to send two of New Zealand’s leading entrepreneurs – Jessica Manins ( ProjectR Director) and Alexia Hilbertidou (Founder of GirlBoss ) – to the 2017 Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in India late last year. We highlighted Jessica’s experience last week. Next up, Alexia… * Guest blog post by Alexia Hilbertidou I was so excited to represent New Zealand at the Global … The Embassy was honored to send two of New Zealand’s leading entrepreneurs – Jessica Manins ( ProjectR Director) and Alexia Hilbertidou (Founder of GirlBoss ) – to the 2017 Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in India late last year. In the coming week, we’ll highlight Jessica’s and Alexia’s personal experiences at GES 2017. First up Jessica… * Guest blog post by Jessica Manins I recently … NASA Senior Economist Dr. Alex MacDonald connects with New Zealand’s emerging space sector Dr. Alex MacDonald is NASA’s Senior Economic Advisor within the Office of the Administrator at NASA Headquarters and is one of the foremost experts on the economic history of American space exploration and contemporary private-sector space activities. During a one-week trip to New Zealand, Dr. MacDonald connected with a wide array of government, academic, and … By Ola Thorsen \| 28 December, 2017 \| Categories: Auckland, Business, Doing Business in the U.S., News, Science & Tech, U.S. & New Zealand, U.S. Consulate Auckland \| Tags: AUT University, Consul General Melanie Higgins, NASA, Peter Beck, RocketLab, Space exploration, TedxAuckland, U.S. - N.Z. Youth Council Media Release. The United States has sought, and been granted, New Zealand’s permission for a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter (USCGC) POLAR STAR (WAGB-10), to make a port call at Lyttelton on its way to complete its seasonal operations in support of the National Science Foundation-managed U.S. Antarctic Program. The visit … The Department of State welcomes the entry into force of the Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area (MPA) – the world’s largest – covering 1.55 million square kilometers (about twice the size of the State of Texas or about 7% of the Southern Ocean), of which 1.12 million square kilometers is fully protected. The Ross … The Embassy invited U.S. creative leadership experts, Aithan Shapira ( MIT Sloan School of Management ) and Elysa Fenenbock (Designer in Residence at Google ), to keynote at a Creative Leadership conference ( #CLNZ2017 ) to 160 business leaders and startup founders. Areas covered included realigning your teams and projects with design thinking, looking at jazz as a way to respond to … By Public Affairs staff, U.S. Embassy, Wellington. The Embassy is honored to send two of New Zealand’s leading entrepreneurs – Jessica Manins ( ProjectR Director) and Alexia Hilbertidou (Founder of GirlBoss ) – to the 2017 Global Entrepreneurship Summit in India later this month. The United States of America and the Republic of India are proud to announce … By Public Affairs staff, U.S. Embassy Wellington. Kate Drane, Senior Director of Outreach for Tech and Hardware at San Francisco-based crowdfunding platform Indiegogo, is in New Zealand on an embassy run program, to share her thoughts on the future and current trends of crowdfunding. Monday saw Kate engage with Kiwi entrepreneurs at GRID Auckland’s Innovation Hub, … “Brand Strategy by Design” with Andy Cunningham Guest blog post by U.S. Embassy Youth Councilor, Jay Choe. Andy Cunningham was in Auckland for the Project series , founded by the U.S. Embassy and the Auckland University of Technology. See below for further Project events coming up. “Brand Strategy by Design” was the third event I attended as part of the U.S. Embassy Youth Council. Upon … By Mike Cousins \| 26 September, 2017 \| Categories: Auckland, Business, News, Science & Tech \| Tags: Andy Cunningham, Apple, Brand Strategy by Design, Jay Choe, Pixar, Project17, U.S. Embassy Youth Councilor Guset blog post by Alexia Hilbertidou. I was chosen by space agency NASA to ride on-board their 747 jumbo jet aircraft during a special overnight mission. In one 10 hour flight, I travelled at -70C and zero per cent humidity while measuring stardust and taking in the breath-taking displays of the atmosphere, such as the … Guest blog post by Robbie Morrison, 2017 U.S.-NZ Youth Council member. Christchurch U.S.-NZ Youth Council chatting science, technology, health, and trade promotion with U.S. diplomat Craig Halbmaier. The Christchurch branch of the U.S. Embassy Youth Council is always excited to engage with experts, dignitaries and officials from the United States. On Friday 14 July the … Ambassador Brown spent August 1 meeting leaders of New Zealand’s dynamic innovation and start-up sector, an important economic and cultural U.S.-New Zealand link, in Wellington. Start-ups demonstrated their technology and explained where they are seeking to partner with U.S. expertise and investment to grow further. The tech tour included Mahuki – Innovation Hub of Te Papa , Creative HQ ProjectR , BizDojo , and Xero . Wellington … Small grants funding opportunity of up to $7,500 USD – details…. The U.S. Embassy in New Zealand announces a small grants funding opportunity of up to $7,500 USD for projects in the realm of Science, Technology, Health, Environment and Business. Eligibility is limited to non-profit/nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and educational institutions within New Zealand, the Cook Islands, and Niue. Proposals should demonstrate creativity, substance, and relevance … By Mike Cousins \| 3 August, 2017 \| Categories: Business, News, Public Affairs, Science & Tech \| Tags: Business, Environment, Health, innovation, Science, Small grants, Space, Technology Guest blog post by Rameka Carbon Forest volunteers. In 2016, a U.S. Embassy small grant award added the perfect touch of magic to ensure that our reforestation project could bloom – helping to transform the Rameka Carbon Forest just like Cinderella turned into the belle of the ball. The ugly duckling Planting may seem … TEDxWellington with Hasbro’s Phil Sage By Public Affairs staff, U.S. Embassy Wellington. This week Phil Sage, Senior Director of Design and Development at Hasbro, was in Wellington on an Embassy-sponsored visit to speak at TEDxWellington and meet some of Wellington’s tech and entrepreneurship community. Phil’s TEDxWellington talk to a sellout audience of 1,000 (with a livestream audience of 5000, #1 trending … By Mike Cousins \| 23 June, 2017 \| Categories: Connecting with Kiwis, News, Science & Tech \| Tags: Acting Deputy Chief of Mission, Bizdojo, Creative HQ, Demian Smith, DK, Mahuki, NZ VR/AR Association, Phil Sage, ProjectRNZ, Puekeko Pictures, Sir Richard Taylor, TEDxWellington, Wellington East Girls’ College By Public Affairs staff, U.S. Embassy Wellington. The U.S. Embassy and Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) welcomed U.S. tech investment duo Steve Meller and Larry Howell to New Zealand last week for a series of events and meetings in Wellington and Auckland. The area of focus for the week was the GovTech space – the area of digital transformation within the public sector … Application End Date: 10 July 2017 at 9:00am New Zealand Time Maximum Award Amount: $100,000 USD Contact: Auckland Public Affairs Section, HosodaMK@state.gov PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The Public Affairs Section (PAS) of the U.S. Consulate General in Auckland, New Zealand seeks proposals for a project entitled “TechCamp New Zealand for Health Communicators.” The proposed project will consist of … By Public Affairs Staff, U.S. Embassy, Wellington. The U.S. Embassy was proud to support Jessica Manins, CEO of Blackeye VR , in bringing U.S. transmedia producer, Caitlin Burns to keynote at the Future Realities VR/AR conference in Auckland and Wellington as part of New Zealand’s first nationwide Tech week . During her time in New Zealand, Caitlin met with some of … By Public Affairs staff, U.S. Embassy Wellington. Last week, we welcomed Disney Imagineer, Mk Haley, to Wellington. With Support from the U.S. Embassy, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Florida State University and Creative Program Manager at Walt Disney’s Imagineering, Mk Haley, gave a series of talks in Wellington. The week was hosted by Mahuki – Te Papa’s innovation hub . Mk Haley’s first talk … Repost from blogs.nasa.gov/superpressureballoon . Acting U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand Visits NASA’s Super Pressure Balloon Operations in Wanaka; Some 250 Attend Open House. The acting U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand, Chargé d’Affaires Candy Green, paid a visit to Wanaka Airport, New Zealand, March 23 to see first-hand NASA’s super pressure balloon operations, the science it supports, … Charge d’Affaires Candy Green, along with embassy staff, visited the NIWA ‘s Lauder Station on March 24 2017. Lauder Station is one of the five leading atmospheric research stations in the world. Lauder continues to lead global scientific efforts tracking the hole in the Earth’s ozone layer, and now has a growing role at the forefront of … NASA’s Super Pressure Balloon launch window opens March 25 Posted on blogs.NASA.gov March 20, 2017 at 10:48 pm by Jeremy Eggers . While the launch window for NASA’s next Super Pressure Balloon launch from Wanaka, New Zealand, opens March 25, there are a number of factors that need to align prior to making an actual launch attempt. Operationally, all the balloon systems—power, communications, telemetry, etc.—need to be checked out and tested. Today, … By Mike Cousins \| 23 March, 2017 \| Categories: News, Science & Tech \| Tags: NASA, Super Pressure Balloon, U.S. Department of State, Wanaka Guest Blog by Thomas Goodin, Young Entrepreneur and Alumni of Young Enterprise Scheme and VentureUp Justin Milano was the first speaker for the 2017 Project Connect series, presenting at AUT on the Four Pillars for Entrepreneurial Success. Justin helps entrepreneurs build thriving companies. As a serial entrepreneur and executive coach, he uses a unique blend … Project17 Auckland: “Four Pillars for Entrepreneurial Success” The Auckland University of Technology is kicking off our Project17 speaker series with a bang – Justin Milano (Good Startups, USA), serial entrepreneur, executive coach, intrepid traveller, author and producer will be sharing some valuable insights and inspiration… If you are an entrepreneur, intrapreneur, or simply want to encourage entrepreneurial thinking in yourself and your … By Mike Cousins \| 14 February, 2017 \| Categories: Auckland, Connecting with Kiwis, News, Science & Tech \| Tags: AUT, entrepreneur, Good Startups, intrapreneur, Justin Milano, Project17, Transforming Fear into Creativity, USA Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Christchurch International Airport Christchurch, New Zealand November 12, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Hi, everybody. How are you? QUESTION: Hi there. QUESTION: Welcome back to New Zealand. SECRETARY KERRY: Well, let me just say what an extraordinary experience it was and how impressed I am by the remarkable commitment of so … U.S. Embassy Youth Councilors find out about NASA’s Atmospheric Tomography Mission Guest post and views of U.S. Embassy Youth Council member, Josiah Tualamali’i. Everyone’s heard of the US Space Agency NASA’s space missions and the exciting push for Mars, but lesser known about is the exploration and research they do inside earth’s atmosphere. Members of the US Embassy Youth Council and University of Canterbury students got … By Mike Cousins \| 28 September, 2016 \| Categories: Science & Tech, Uncategorized, Youth Outreach \| Tags: Atmospheric Tomography, Atom, Big Bang Theory, DC-8, Dr. Paul Newman, Josiah Tualamali'i, NASA, University of Canterbury, US Embassy Youth Council, US Space Agency Ele and Eric speak Open Source Open Society By U.S. Embassy Youth Council Members Sarah Peraira and Hannah Craighead. During the 22 and 23rd of August, we were lucky enough to attend the Open Source Open Society (OS/OS) conference in Wellington. The Conference theme was how technology and open ways of working can transform your life, your work, your organisation and our society. Through speeches, panels and workshops, … By Mike Cousins \| 15 September, 2016 \| Categories: Connecting with Kiwis, News, Science & Tech, Youth Outreach \| Tags: Department of Homeland Security Digital Servic, Development and Operation, DevOps, Ele Munjeli, Eric Hysen, Google, Open Source Open Society, OS/OS By U.S. Embassy Youth Council members James Coventry, Liana Kaiwai, and James Tawhiao. Lasting only a day, but packed with enough advice and inspiration for a whole week, Project16 was a crash course in making dreams reality, achieving success and doing the unthinkable. The conference kicked off with an address by U.S. Ambassador Mark Gilbert. It … Eric Hysen – from Google to Government Thanks to the U.S. Embassy and KiwiConnect , Eric Hysen of the United States Digital Service came to New Zealand to keynote at the annual Open Source Open Society conference. At the conference Eric spoke on the challenges and rewards of modernizing U.S. Government systems. Eric is one of the Founding members of the USDS , and is the Digital Service Lead for the United States Department of Homeland Security. As a former employee at Google, Eric has worked … By Mike Cousins \| 8 September, 2016 \| Categories: Business, Connecting with Kiwis, News, Science & Tech \| Tags: Agile, Alina Siegfried, Bizdojo, Creative HQ, Defense, Departments of Homeland Security, Education, Eric Hysen, GRID Auckland, Health and Human Services, KiwiConnect, Open Source Open Society, startups, State, USDS, Veterans Affairs Guest blog post by Josiah Tualamali’i. A 21 year old Samoan Kiwi studying Politics and History at the University of Canterbury & member of the U.S. Embassy Youth Council. Around our main Universities in Aotearoa, the US Embassy NZ has their Youth Councils. This helps the US Embassy NZ to build a two-way relationship with … By Mara Hosoda, Public Affairs Section, U.S. Consulate General, Auckland. On July 4, 2016 NASA’s Juno mission arrived at Jupiter to study the large, distant planet. Studying what Jupiter is made of and what lies beneath its swirling clouds is critical to understanding how the solar system and Earth came about. Auckland was fortunate to … Flashback: 2.30am…. on route to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2016 Last June, the U.S. Embassy were proud to support New Zealand startup company Founders attendance at the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Summi t in Silicon Valley, USA. Let’s hear about their experience at GES2016… April McLennan – Founder & Trustee at Limitless Charitable Trust… There’s an excitement that comes with early morning starts. Flashback: 2.30am, June 18, 2016. Emerging from a bleary-eyed … By Mike Cousins \| 28 July, 2016 \| Categories: Connecting with Kiwis, News, Science & Tech \| Tags: 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Summit, April McLennan, GES2016, Limitless Charitable Trust. NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman visits New Zealand [ View the story “NASA Deputy Adminstrator Dava Newman visits NZ” on Storify ] By Mike Cousins \| 15 July, 2016 \| Categories: Former Ambassadors, Key Officials, Science & Tech \| Tags: Dava Newman, Dr Dava Newman, NASA, Science, STEAM, STEM By Mike, Emily and Shivani, Public Affairs. Adriana Gascoigne, Founder and CEO of Girls in Tech , recently visited New Zealand to keynote at Project Connect in Auckland and Wellington – a speaker series founded by the U.S. Embassy and the Auckland University of Technology’s (AUT). Alongside the Project Connect talks, Adriana had a series of meetings, round-table discussions and dinners throughout the country – including a … By Mara Hosoda, Public Affairs Section, U.S. Consulate General, Auckland. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs)–heart disease, cancers, lung disease and diabetes–are a major issue for the Pacific. NCDs are the leading cause of death in the Pacific and in some Pacific Island countries life expectancy is declining as a result of NCD-related premature deaths. Developing a sustainable … The U.S. Embassy in Wellington announces a small grants funding opportunity of up to $5,000 USD for projects in the realm of Environment, Science, Technology, and Health. Eligibility is limited to non-profit/nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and educational institutions within New Zealand, the Cook Islands and Niue. Proposals should demonstrate creativity, substance, and relevance to national goals … Youth Council Highlights: Discussing Cybersecurity, Gender Equality, and Climate Change By Mara Hosoda, Public Affairs Section, U.S. Consulate, Auckland. On April 25, 2016 the Auckland Youth Council met with Ambassador Mark Gilbert. In recognition of the recently-signed COP 21 Agreement on Climate Change, signed by 155 countries in New York on April 20, Earth Day, the group discussed climate change, especially in relation to the … By Mike Cousins \| 24 May, 2016 \| Categories: Business, Consulate General, Events, Former Ambassadors, Human Rights, Our Ocean, Public Affairs, Science & Tech, Youth Outreach \| Tags: Ambassador, Ambassador Mark Gilbert, Business, Consulate General, Earth Day, Events, Haunui Waka, Human Rights, Our Ocean, Public Affairs, Science & Tech, Sir Peter Blake Trust, Te Toki Voyaging Trust, Youth Outreach By Phil McKenna, Public Affairs Section, U.S. Consulate, Auckland. For a number of months, U.S. Consulate General in Auckland has been busy the high-profile Tripartite Economic Summit between the cities of Auckland, Los Angeles, and Guangzhou, which took place from 16–17 May at the huge ANZ Viaduct Events Centre in Auckland. The summit program included … Blast-off for Auckland NASA Space Apps 2016 By Mara Hosoda, Public Affairs Section, U.S. Consulate General, Auckland. NASA is on a mission to foster innovation around challenges affecting us at home and in space; this year it created the world’s largest international annual hackathons. On Friday April 22, 2016, Acting Consul General, Emily Armitage kicked off the 2016 NASA Space Apps Challenge … By Ola Thorsen \| 3 May, 2016 \| Categories: Auckland, Connecting with Kiwis, Consulate General, Education, Environment, Events, Public Affairs, Science & Tech, Youth Outreach \| Tags: AUT, Hackathon, NASA Space Apps Challenge, New Zealand, RocketLab, STEM A Warm Dunedin Welcome for Nancy and Ambassador Gilbert By Mara Hosoda, Public Affairs Section, U.S. Consulate General, Auckland. On April 13 and 14, 2016 the U.S. Ambassador Mark Gilbert and his wife, Mrs. Nancy Gilbert, made their first official visit to Dunedin, New Zealand. The Gilberts met with a cross section of Dunedin’s government, business, university, and civil society sectors. It was a … By Mike Cousins \| 21 April, 2016 \| Categories: Connecting with Kiwis, Doing Business in the U.S., First People's Connect, Former Ambassadors, News, Science & Tech, U.S. & New Zealand \| Tags: Animation Research, Craig Halbmaier, Dunedin, Dunedin City Council, Fulbright, Harlene Hayne, Nancy Gilbert, NASA, Otago Business School, Otago Museum, Pacific Islands Centre, TPP, U.S. Ambassador Mark Gilbert, University of Otago, Vice-Chancellor, Visiting Executives Program, Youth Council Google employee #43 and Venture Capitalist, Jeremy Wenokur, meets with NZ entrepreneurs By Mike Cousins, Public Affairs, U.S. Embassy Wellington. Google employee #43 (and now Silicon Valley entrepreneur/investor) Jeremy Wenokur was in New Zealand earlier this week to listen to and give startup advice to some of New Zealand’s young entrepreneurs. Jeremy’s NZ program included a roundtable (the kitchen table to be exact!) discussion with GRID Auckland startup residents, a Project Connect fireside chat … By Mike Cousins \| 8 April, 2016 \| Categories: Connecting with Kiwis, Former Ambassadors, News, Science & Tech \| Tags: American entrepreneur, AUT, Bizdojo, entrepreneur, GRID Akl, Jeremy Wenokur, U.S. Ambassador Mark Gilbert 2016 NASA Space Apps Challenge NASA Space Apps Challenge is a 48-hour multi-disciplinary global weekend hackathon—for developers, entrepreneurs, astronomers, coders, marketers, product designers, data analysts, engineers, artists, enthusiasts etc. You don’t need to be an expert about space, just willing to work cooperatively as team to come up with creative solutions to one of the challenges set by the international … By Mike Cousins \| 4 April, 2016 \| Categories: Events, News, Science & Tech, Youth Outreach \| Tags: Aeronautics, Earth, Mars, NASA Space Apps Challenge, Solar System, Space Apps, Space Station, Technology U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland Suzi LeVine and Nancy Gilbert spoke with a group of women entrepreneurs at BizDojo at a Collider Wellington on Tuesday March 29, while in New Zealand on a family holiday. Ambassador LeVine has an extensive background in tech, working at Microsoft and Expedia, and founding her own companies, prior to her appointment as President … TEDxWellington – Charles Babb talks Gaming and the Importance of Diversification The U.S. Embassy were proud to host Charles Babb in Wellington, New Zealand to speak at TEDxWellington 2016. Charles is the Founder of Fairchild Consortium – a firm that has seasoned creatives and industry veterans venturing into Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality development. Charles Babb’s TEDx talk will be available in the coming weeks on the TEDx YouTube channel , … By Mike Cousins \| 21 March, 2016 \| Categories: Events, News, Science & Tech \| Tags: Bizdojo, Charles Babb, Creative HQ, Gaming, Geo AR Games, TEDx, TEDxWellington, U.S. Ambassador Gilbert, VR, Wellington Mayor Designing Your Business Success – Jeremy Wenokur and U.S. Ambassador Gilbert This year’s Project Connect series hosted by the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and the U.S. Embassy kicks off with a very special one-time only interview with Silicon Valley entrepreneur/investor Jeremy Wenokur, moderated by U.S. Ambassador, Mark Gilbert. Jeremy will discuss how NZ companies can creatively position for offshore investment as well as cultivate potential USA buyers, … By Mike Cousins \| 16 March, 2016 \| Categories: Auckland, Events, Former Ambassadors, Former U.S. Government Leaders, News, Science & Tech, U.S. & New Zealand \| Tags: AUT, Barack Obama, Corporate Development for Google, entrepreneurs, Google, Jeremy Wenokur, Project, Project Connect, Tech, U.S. Ambassador Mark Gilbert New Frontiers 2016: A Heartfelt Thank You U.S. and New Zealand entrepreneurs, creative technologists, educators and investors visited New Zealand for the 2016 New Frontiers conference held in Whiteman’s Valley between February 12-26, 2016. The programming of New Frontiers was designed with three overarching themes: Planet, Story, and Economy. Each day featured a mix of U.S. and local keynote talks, in-depth panel discussions, open … By Mike Cousins \| 28 February, 2016 \| Categories: Connecting with Kiwis, Education, Environment, Former Ambassadors, Science & Tech \| Tags: creative technologists, educators, entrepreneurs, Environment, New Frontiers, Whiteman’s Valley 2016 Vex Robotics National Championship By Mara Hosoda, Public Affairs Section, U.S. Consulate, Auckland. Auckland Consul General Melanie Higgins attended the 2016 Vex Robotics New Zealand National Championship, which was held on February 27-28, 2016 in Auckland. The robotics competition brings together high school teams from across New Zealand, competing to represent New Zealand at the Vex World Robotics Championships … By Mike Cousins \| 27 February, 2016 \| Categories: Auckland, Connecting with Kiwis, Consulate General, Education, Events, Science & Tech \| Tags: 2016 Vex Robotics New Zealand National Championship, Aerospace Education, and Mathematics, Aquabots, Auckland, AURA, AUT, Autodesk, Brightsparks, Consul General Melanie Higgins, CPIT, Engineering, Four Winds Foundation, Fuji Xerox, House of Science, Kiwibots, KiwiSpace, Massey University, Melanie Higgins, NZTech, Science, SMC, STEM, Technology, The Mind Lab, Unitec, Vex Robotics, WelTec Robotics: The C21 Team Sport Guest blog post by Chris Campbell. Most people don’t participate in robotics in New Zealand because most people don’t know what it is, but it is the fastest growing “sport” in my US school district, Bloomfield Hills , Michigan. Sitting in my dining room in Waikanae Beach at 1:00am on December 20 to Skype my team members instead … By Mike Cousins \| 3 February, 2016 \| Categories: News, Science & Tech \| Tags: Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, robotics, Waikanae Beach Ambassador Gilbert visits Antarctica by Ambassador Mark Gilbert As the New Year dawns, I’ve been reflecting on the past twelve months and looking ahead to continuing to deepen our vital friendship with New Zealand and Samoa. 2015 was an amazing year, and I am so grateful I was able to meet with and be inspired by so many New … By Ola Thorsen \| 19 January, 2016 \| Categories: Environment, Former Ambassadors, News, Science & Tech \| Tags: Antarctica, NSF, U.S. Ambassador Mark Gilbert Over the next year of the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary , our new virtual intern, Ryan , will be publishing blog posts on various U.S. National Parks. The first was on the great Yellowstone National Park . Today he talks to us about the Grand Canyon. * Explore the Grand Canyon of the Old West, by Ryan Valencia. At the heart of the … Ashley Campbell, talks to us about her U.S. Education Experience This week marks the 16th Annual International Education Week (IEW), a joint initiative between the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education. Initially created so that America could inspire its students to travel abroad, IEW now encourages and supports foreign students interested in making the leap to study in the United States. Today IEW is … By Mike Cousins \| 20 November, 2015 \| Categories: Education, Exclude, Science & Tech \| Tags: Ashley Campbell, Biochemistry, Columbia, Education, IEW, IEW 2015, International Education Week, MO, PhD, University of Missouri Rebecca Purvis, talks to us about her U.S. Education Experience By Mike Cousins \| 19 November, 2015 \| Categories: Auckland, Education, Science & Tech \| Tags: Accelerated Programs, Arcadia University, Education, IEW, International Education Week, Philadelphia, Rebecca Purvis Kiwi, Priyanka Shekar, talks to us about her U.S. Education Experience By Mike Cousins \| 15 November, 2015 \| Categories: Education, Exclude, News, Science & Tech \| Tags: Education Week, IEW, Lean In Campus Leader, San Francisco Bay Area, Stanford, Stanford Graduate School of Business Ignite program, Stanford Laptop Orchestra, Stanford University, Stanford University Singers Duke’s Global Fellowship Recipient James Tremlett, talks to us about Marine Conservation. Guest Blog by James Tremlett, Marine Conservationist and Social Scientist, Recipient of Duke’s Global Fellowship in Marine Conservation. Could you briefly tell us a bit about yourself? I was born and raised in Tāmaki Makaurau and for the past few years have made my home in Pōneke. I grew up relishing any contact with the … By Mike Cousins \| 25 September, 2015 \| Categories: Connecting with Kiwis, East Asia & Pacific, Former U.S. Government Leaders, Science & Tech \| Tags: Barack Obama, envionment, James Tremlett, Marine Conservation, marine science, oceans, Our Ocean 2015, our oceans, Tāmaki Makaurau, University of Auckland Delighted to support TEDxChristchurch 2015 The Embassy is delighted to support TEDxChristchurch this year, held in Christchurch at the majestic Theatre Royal. UPDATE: View photos from this event on FlickR . text from TedxChristchurch.com: TEDxChristchurch 2015: Think Again will be a stunning, one-day event like no other in Christchurch! At TEDxChristchurch, curious, open, passionate people come together to be intrigued, inspired, provoked and … By Mike Cousins \| 23 September, 2015 \| Categories: Events, Featured Event, Former U.S. Government Leaders, News, Science & Tech \| Tags: Bill Clinton, comedian Michele A’Court, Eric Liu, Ian Wright, Isaac Theatre Royal, Journalist Rod Oram, Ladi6, musician Jason Kerrison, Robyn Twemlow, TEDxChristchurch 2015, Tesla Motors, Think Again Entrepreneurship Expertise from NYC Social impact entrepreneur Soraya Darabi spent a week in New Zealand, September 1-4, speaking to audiences and groups about managing change and scaling startups in an Embassy funded program. In Auckland Soraya headlined Project:Connect (a tech/entrepreneurship/innovation seminar series, of which the Embassy is a founding partner) at AUT University to two audiences totaling over 250, … By Mike Cousins \| 22 September, 2015 \| Categories: Connecting with Kiwis, Events, News, Science & Tech \| Tags: Akina Foundation, AUT University, Bizdojo, Diana Hardeman, Grow Wellington and Enspiral, Hvngry Magazine, IIP, Michelle Dickinson, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Soraya Darabi Acclaimed National Geographic wildlife photographer Brian Skerry talks with us Guest post by Brian Skerry, National Geographic. We caught up with acclaimed National Geographic wildlife photographer Brian Skerry ahead of his visit to New Zealand, Australia and Singapore to headline the winter series of National Geographic Live Pacific coming to Auckland and Wellington in October (details below). He talks with us about some of his most memorable experiences and what drives … By Mike Cousins \| 15 September, 2015 \| Categories: Events, Former U.S. Government Leaders, Public Affairs, Science & Tech \| Tags: Brian Skerry, Environment, John Kerry, National Geographic, National Geographic Live Pacific, Whales Soraya Darabi is coming to NZ – How to lead the audacious change needed to keep your company relevant By Public Affairs staff, U.S. Embassy, Wellington. The U.S. Embassy are excited to host Soraya Darabi in early September for the next Project Connect event. Soraya will speak at AUT University on September 1 on the topic “how to lead the audacious change needed to keep your company relevant”. Further details can be found at … By Mike Cousins \| 4 August, 2015 \| Categories: Events, News, Science & Tech \| Tags: AUT, AUT University, Brandweek, Brooklyn, Disney, Foodspotting, GSMA, Manager of Digital Partnerships, Michelle Dickinson, Most Creative People in Business, Nanogirl, New York, Open Table, Project:Connect, project.co.nz, Sir Paul Reeves Building, Soraya Darabi, The New York Times, Time Inc, Wired Magazine, Young Global Leader, Zady	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1042
__label__cc	0.613838	0.386162	In-depth Analysis of the Data Science Platform Market Pune, New York, USA, November 26 2020 (Wiredrelease) Research Dive :Over the last decade, data science has been rapidly progressing both as a technology and as a discipline. Best practices have been created by the leading businesses and it is now becoming part of the operational core for organizations. However, there is a need for a next step for product evolution in data science platform that supports and provides both business users an integrated solution for managing, building, and optimizing predictive models. Get Exclusive Sample Report which provides you the insight information related to various Key Market Projection of Upcoming Years of Data Science Platform Market with its Overview. Click here for the Sample Report @ https://www.researchdive.com/download-sample/77 Nowadays, data science platform is the most talked about topic in data science meet-ups, conferences, and top publications. According to a Research Dive analyst review, the concept of data science platform is not novel in the big data space but the need of data science platform in business is still unknown to many. Need for a Data Science Platform To Enable Better Teamwork with Data Scientists If the data scientists are solving the same problem in several ways, the productivity will decrease as it wont deliver effectual value to the organization. One of the best solutions to ensure effective teamwork with data scientists is to provide them with a centralized flexible platform and the required set of tools to work upon. By using a data science platform, it ensures that all the contributions of the data scientists i.e. data models, data visualizations, and code libraries exist in a single shared reachable location. This helps data scientists to reuse the code, facilitate better discussion around research projects, and share best practices to make data science easily scalable and less resource exhaustive. How COVID-19 Impact on the Market and Connect to the Analyst for more insight into the report and know Wide Range of Use in Various Industries of Data Science @ https://www.researchdive.com/connect-to-analyst/77 Help Minimalize Engineering Effort With data science platforms, the data scientists get help in moving analytical models into production without any need of additional engineering effort or DevOps. For instance, if a company wants to build a product recommendation engine then the data scientist will require the efforts of a software engineer for testing, refining and integrating the data model before the users start seeing the product recommendations on the basis of their behavior. A data science platform makes sure that the data models are accessible behind an API so that the data scientists do not have to depend much on engineering efforts. Help to Offload a Number of Low Value Tasks The burden of data scientists is released with the help of data science platforms. The burden of low value tasks such as reproducing past results, configuring environments for non-technical users, running reports, and scheduling jobs is offloaded from data scientists. Facilitate Faster Research and Experimentation Data scientists do not have to deal with extra data management tasks, as data science platforms allow people to see what and how others are working on. Moreover, whenever there is a new hire in the data science team, the employee can quickly start working as it is easier to restore the work of the people who leave through a unified platform over various isolated tools. The Market Overview Currently, the global market for data science platform is progressing rapidly and is about to positively grow in the near future. According to the Research Dive report, the global data science platform market is projected to garner a revenue of $224.3 billion at a 31.1% CAGR from 2019 to 2026. This is majorly due to the growing adoption of analytical tools across the globe for learning the unobserved customer purchasing pattern. The key prominent players of the market are adopting several strategies such as product development along with many approaches such as collaborations and RD activities to stand strong in the global market. The major players of the global data science market include Alphabet Inc. (Google), Databricks, Domino Data Lab, Inc., Civis Analytics, Dataiku, Cloudera, Inc., IBM Corporation, Anaconda, Inc., Microsoft Corporation., and Altair Engineering, Inc. Research Dive is a market research firm based in Pune, India. Maintaining the integrity and authenticity of the services, the firm provides the services that are solely based on its exclusive data model, compelled by the 360-degree research methodology, which guarantees comprehensive and accurate analysis. With unprecedented access to several paid data resources, team of expert researchers, and strict work ethic, the firm offers insights that are extremely precise and reliable. Scrutinizing relevant news releases, government publications, decades of trade data, and technical white papers, Research dive deliver the required services to its clients well within the required timeframe. Its expertise is focused on examining niche markets, targeting its major driving factors, and spotting threatening hindrances. Complementarily, it also has a seamless collaboration with the major industry aficionado that further offers its research an edge. Research Dive 30 Wall St. 8th Floor, New York NY 10005 (P) + 91 (788) 802-9103 (India) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/research-dive/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ResearchDive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Research-Dive-1385542314927521 Blog: https://www.researchdive.com/blog Follow us: https://marketinsightinformation.blogspot.com/ This content has been published by Research Dive company. The WiredRelease News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. For press release service enquiry, please reach us at [email protected]. AnalysisDataindepthMarketPlatformscience Jaguars robust to climate extremes but lack of food threatens species Health care is going digital and that could make it ‘almost free,’ says tech investor Tim Draper	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1044
__label__wiki	0.918151	0.918151	'Everything-repellent' coating could kidproof phones, homes by University of Michigan In an advance that could grime-proof phone screens, countertops, camera lenses and countless other everyday items, a materials science researcher at the University of Michigan has demonstrated a smooth, durable, clear coating that swiftly sheds water, oils, alcohols and, yes, peanut butter. Credit: Michigan Engineering In an advance that could grime-proof phone screens, countertops, camera lenses and countless other everyday items, a materials science researcher at the University of Michigan has demonstrated a smooth, durable, clear coating that swiftly sheds water, oils, alcohols and, yes, peanut butter. Called "omniphobic" in materials science parlance, the new coating repels just about every known liquid. It's the latest in a series of breakthrough coatings from the lab of Anish Tuteja, U-M associate professor of materials science and engineering. The team's earlier efforts produced durable coatings that repelled ice and water, and a more fragile omniphobic coating. The new omniphobic coating is the first that's durable and clear. Easily applied to virtually any surface, it's detailed in a paper published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Tuteja envisions the new coating as a way to prevent surfaces from getting grimy, both in home and industry. It could work on computer displays, tables, floors and walls, for example. "I have a 2-year-old at home, so for me, this particular project was about more than just the science," Tuteja said. "We're excited about what this could do to make homes and daycares cleaner places, and we're looking at a variety of possible applications in industry as well." He says the new coating is the latest result of the team's systematic approach, which breaks with the traditional materials science "mix-and-see" approach. By mapping out the fundamental properties of a vast library of substances, they're able to mathematically predict how any two will behave when they're combined. This enables them to concoct a nearly endless variety of combinations with very specifically tailored properties. "In the past, researchers might have taken a very durable substance and a very repellent substance and mixed them together," Tuteja said. "But this doesn't necessarily yield a durable, repellent coating." They discovered that even more important than durability or repellency is a property called "partial miscibility," or the ability of two substances to mix together in exactly the right way. Chemicals that play well together make a much more durable product, even if they're less durable individually. Tweaking the miscibility of this particular coating posed a special challenge. To make a versatile coating that's optically clear and smooth enough to repel oils and alcohols, the team needed to find a repellent ingredient and a binder with exactly the right amount of miscibility, as well as the ability to stick to a wide variety of substrates. They also needed a coating that would stay smooth during processing and drying. "You can repel water with a rough surface that creates tiny pockets of air between the water and the surface, but those surfaces don't always repel oils or alcohols because of their lower surface tension," Tuteja said. "We needed a very smooth surface that interacts as little as possible with a variety of liquids, and we also needed ingredients that mix together very well, because too much phase separation between ingredients will scatter light." Ultimately, the team discovered that a mix of fluorinated polyurethane and a specialized fluid-repellent molecule called F-POSS would do the job. Their recipe forms a mixture that can be sprayed, brushed, dipped or spin-coated onto a wide variety of surfaces, where it binds tightly. While the surface can be scratched by a sharp object, it's durable in everyday use. And its extremely precise level of phase separation makes it optically clear. "The repellent and binder mix together well enough to make a clear coating, but there's a very small amount of phase separation between them," said Mathew Boban, a materials science and engineering graduate researcher and an author on the paper. "That separation allows the F-POSS to sort of float to the surface and create a nice repellent layer." Tuteja believes that the coating will be inexpensive by the time it sees the mass market—fluorinated polyurethane is an inexpensive, common ingredient. And while F-POSS is rare and expensive today, manufacturers are in the process of scaling it up to mass production, which should dramatically lower its cost. The research team is also doing further studies to ensure that the coating is nontoxic for use in places like daycare centers. Tuteja estimates that the coating could go to market within the next two years, and he believes childproof coatings are just the beginning. The coating could also be used in refrigeration, power generation and oil refining—all industries that depend on the condensation of liquids. The new coating could enable equipment to slough off condensed water and chemicals more quickly, increasing efficiency by up to 20 percent. That's a game changer, as those industries are some of the world's most high-volume and energy-intensive. The paper is titled "Smooth, All-Solid, Low-Hysteresis, Omniphobic Surfaces with Enhanced Mechanical Durability." A self-healing, water-repellant coating that's ultra durable More information: Mathew Boban et al. Smooth, All-Solid, Low-Hysteresis, Omniphobic Surfaces with Enhanced Mechanical Durability, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2018). DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b00521 Journal information: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces Provided by University of Michigan Citation: 'Everything-repellent' coating could kidproof phones, homes (2018, April 11) retrieved 20 January 2021 from https://phys.org/news/2018-04-everything-repellent-coating-kidproof-homes.html Spray-on coating could ice-proof airplanes, power lines, windshields New coating material embeds anti-smudge polymer chains in graft-copolymer micelles A material that most liquids won't wet New material to revolutionize water proofing Beyond stain-resistant: New fabric coating actively shrugs off gunk	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1055
__label__cc	0.627946	0.372054	Air quality improves by up to 40% in cities that took action on COVID-19, researcher finds Cities that declared a state of emergency in February due to outbreaks of COVID-19 saw air pollution decrease by up to 40% as businesses close their doors and residents stayed home, a University of Toronto researcher has ... What you should know about air quality alerts "It's a code red day for ozone." If you hear this on your local news, what does it mean? Are you at risk? Do you know what to do? An air quality alert like this informs the public about pollution levels in the air and advises ... After worst smog in 11 years, Mexico City braces for more Choking smog returned to the skies of Mexico City this week at levels not seen in more than a decade, prompting fears of more eye-watering days to come as efforts to curb pollution run afoul of the courts and the realities ... India to measure air quality in world's most polluted capital India's government launched a new air quality index on Monday, under intense pressure to act after the World Health Organization declared New Delhi the world's most polluted capital. Singapore shrouded in smog as haze returns to SE Asia Acrid smog blanketed Singapore Friday as the city-state was hit by the year's first major outbreak of haze, an annual crisis sparked by forest fires in neighbouring Indonesia. More Chinese cities issue red alerts for heavy smog More Chinese cities are issuing their first red alerts for pollution in response to forecasts of heavy smog, after the capital, Beijing, issued two this month following criticism for not releasing them earlier. Mexico City declares pollution alert, postpones football semi-final Mexico City declared an environmental alert Tuesday, ordering vehicles off the road and postponing the semi-finals of the first-division football league as a blanket of smog enveloped the sprawling capital. Smog shuts schools in Bosnia's Sarajevo Air pollution forced Bosnian authorities to shut schools in the capital Sarajevo on Thursday, while smog levels also spiked in other parts of the Balkan country due to a lack of rainfall, local officials said. Interactive map shows air quality in real time across Europe An interactive map that makes it possible to check air quality in real time across Europe, where air pollution has been linked to hundreds of thousands of premature deaths every year, went live on Thursday. Hong Kong announces new air pollution index Hong Kong on Friday announced a new air quality health index, the first in Asia to use the system, in its ongoing battle to combat air pollution.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1056
__label__cc	0.67099	0.32901	meteorite hunters News tagged with meteorite hunters 'Fireball' meteorite contains pristine extraterrestrial organic compounds On the night of January 16, 2018, a fireball meteor streaked across the sky over the Midwest and Ontario before landing on a frozen lake in Michigan. Scientists used weather radar to find where the pieces landed and meteorite ... Space dust fossils are providing a new window onto Earth's past To be a meteorite hunter means to search for the unutterably rare. On any given patch of land the size of Wales, an average of two olive-sized space rocks will fall in a year. Scientists and collectors are forced to go to ... Rapid detection and recovery—the science of hunting meteorites At 8:10 p.m. on Jan. 16, hundreds of people in Michigan reported the bright glow of a meteor streaking through the sky, rattling windows as it broke the sound barrier. The meteor then broke apart in the Earth's atmosphere, ... Field Museum scientists in Chicago studying Michigan meteor Scientists at Chicago's Field Museum are studying a piece of the meteor that broke apart earlier this month over Michigan. Meteorite hunters find first fragments of Michigan meteor Meteorite hunters who flocked to Detroit from across the U.S. after a meteor exploded are finding the fragments. Monster meteorite found in Texas On April 6, 2015, Frank Hommel was leading a group of guests at his Bar H Working Dude Ranch on a horseback ride. The horses got thirsty, so Hommel and crew rode cross-country in search of a watering hole. Along the way, ... Team studies rare meteorite possibly from the outer asteroid belt (Phys.org)—Scientists found treasure when they studied a meteorite that was recovered April 22, 2012 at Sutter's Mill, the gold discovery site that led to the 1849 California Gold Rush. Detection of the falling meteorites ... Poles unearth rare 300-kilo meteorite, largest in Eastern Europe Polish geologists have unearthed the largest meteorite ever found in Eastern Europe and are hoping the rare find will provide fresh clues about the composition of the Earth's inner core, they said Wednesday. NASA researchers search for meteorite fragments in a zeppelin It's not every day that NASA descends on your backyard, hunting for clues to extraterrestrial life. Scientists to use blimp to look for meteorites (AP) -- A group of scientists will board a blimp to search for meteorites that rained over California's gold country last month.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1057
__label__cc	0.668185	0.331815	Fun facts about nonprofits, general giving and gift planning. Have something to add? Contact us! The nonprofit sector contributed nearly 900 billion to the U.S. Economy last year. This number is about 5 percent of the gross domestic product. Only 35% of registered nonprofits file forms 990, 990-EZ or Form 990-PF with the IRS. This leaves many unnoticed. Over 25% of the U.S. population volunteered in 2014. Public charities are the largest category of 30 types of nonprofits. Their numbers grew to 950,000 different organizations ranging from arts, culture, education, healthcare and the largest group human service organizations. There is competition there! Only 5.3% of public charities are 10 million or more in size. About 60% of nonprofits do not have a major gifts strategy. And most do not have a planned giving strategy. Most donors do not give for tax benefits. They give to causes they like. But more importantly, they give through people they like. That’s you! The future for philanthropy is bright. According to a new Giving USA report, people are giving more this year. Disproportionate heavy giving happens in December, especially in the last 5 days. An average planned gifts is nearly 200 times a donor’s largest annual gift. Nearly 50% of charities total revenue comes via fees for services and goods while charitable giving accounted for 13%. Religion and education got nearly 50% of all contributions in 2014. Nearly 10% of cash donations come from mobile devices. The open rate for nonprofit emails is about 15% and 17%. Click-through rates have fallen across the board, however. U.S. Mail is still more popular. Bequests make up over 90% of all planned gifts. They are easy to market, give, and receive. It’s a gift that costs nothing during donor’s lifetime. Market it as such! Most Americans do not know the term “bequest”. Use: “a gift through your will.” Again, a bequest is the most popular gift. Those fundraisers (that’s you!) who even “dabble” in planned giving earn 50% to 100% more than those who do not. By the time someone is 65, chances of them leaving you in their will decreases to 12%. You won’t get the gift unless you ask! Bloomerang, National Council of Nonprofits, Capterra, PlannedGiving.Com Dropdown FundraiserConsultantOther	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1066
__label__cc	0.651091	0.348909	USA: Crisis and political tensions prevented ten presidents from re-election PoliticsWorld Pressure is high in this final phase of Donald Trump’s first term, with the Covid-19 pandemic causing more than 213,000 deaths in the United States and accentuating economic disaster, compounded by rising unemployment and historic protests against the police and racist violence. Donald Trump, who was infected with Covid-19 a few days ago, remains confident of his re-election, but most polls give opponent Joe Biden a big advantage. What is certain is that the results will not be fully counted on the electoral night of November 3, with a large part of the population voting by mail. In the history of the United States of America, ten Presidents campaigned for their second term in the White House and failed to win re-election, often due to the country’s economic difficulties, political tensions or conflicts with the outside world. Read more in portuguese at Jornal de Angola. This article is available in: Português 繁體中文 Trump finally promises transition as calls mount to remove him AFP - International - 08/01/2021 Audio shows Trump's attempt to alter Georgia election result Folha de S.Paulo - Brazil - 04/01/2021 SocietyWorld One million Americans vaccinated against Covid-19 Russia does not expect "anything good" from Joe Biden Dinheiro Vivo - Portugal - 23/12/2020 Education ministers meet remotely on Friday Most local talents overseas want to return Macau News Agency - 20/01/2021 Trump halts deportation of Venezuelans for 18 months AFP - USA - 20/01/2021 Costa to debate H1 priorities with European Parliament Lusa - International - 20/01/2021 Gov’t won’t lower guard against Covid-19 in face of uncertainty, says Chief Executive of Macau Lusa - Macau - 19/01/2021 Gaming industry in Macau already achieving better than breakeven results MNA - Macau - 19/01/2021 This site uses cookies to allow a better user experience. By browsing the site you are consenting to its use.OkRevokePrivacy policy	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1067
__label__cc	0.627034	0.372966	Group Assignment For Semester 2, 2018 University Of Adelaide Assignment Advance Funds Management (M) Semester 2, 2018 Assignment Brief: Your 3-member Mutual Funds Analysis team has recently been hired to (i) Create an Australian Equity Active fund, (ii) Analyse a US bond fund, (iii) Create an Australian/US multi-asset (Equities and Bonds only)class fund. 1. Create and Active Australian Equity fund Each team will create an active Australian equity fund. This portfolio will have a tracking error around 15% per annum and sector allocation against the ASX 200 benchmark will be +/- 10%. Active returns will be generated through (i) 20 mispriced securities (using the equities analysed in EVA(M)) as well as (ii) sector rotation using sector indexes. Each team will provide the first 4 steps of the Investment Management Process for the various aspects of this Active Australian Equity Fund. 2. Analyse an Active US/Australia equity and an Active Bond fund a. Selection: Each team will select two mutual funds: 1 (One) equity mutual fund and 1 (One) Fixed Income Security Mutual Fund from the same market: EITHER US OR Australia. Each fund needs to have been in the market for at least 3 quarters. Fund details are available on Thomson Reuters Eikon database (Lipper database). Fund selection can be based on the team member preference, however, teams cannot choose either the best or the worst mutual fund over the 3 quarters. In terms of analysis it will be beneficial that sector allocation must be provided on a historical basis. Most US funds provide this information, though not as many Australian funds provide this information on a historical basis. b. Comparison Funds: Once the team has selected the Equity Mutual Funds, and the Fixed Income Security Fund, The team now needs to get 2 (two) comparison funds for each chosen Mutual Fund. 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__label__cc	0.636065	0.363935	Political News, Analysis & Opinion White House 2012 U.S. SENATE RACES GUBERNATORIAL RACES Tag Archives: Obamanizing Governor Corzine Tries To Appeal To Voters By Changing His Name In what, to date, has been an issueless and unenthusiastic race for Governor of New Jersey, incumbent Governor Jon Corzine, (D) has shaken things up in dramatic ways. Just days before state ballots are prepared for printing, the Governor has gone to court to have his name legally changed. After a summer of trailing his Republican opponent Chris Christie by double digits, efforts to make the unpopular Governor somewhat more likeable, forced the Corzine campaign to closely associate him to the still popular image of President Barack Obama. The move has worked and the gap has been closed. But with Christie still 3 percentage points ahead of the Governor, Jon Corzine decided that he needed to do more than just compare himself to the President of the United States. Hoping to take the lead over Christie, Governor Corzine took his case to court where he filed papers to change his name to Jonnie Obama. A spokesman for the Governor called the move “an act of necessity”. Campaign spokesman Jack Kennedy (formerly known as Adolf Mitler) explained “we just have not been able to move our numbers lately and with nothing else for us to add to how we intend to improve the quality of life in New Jersey, Governor Corzine felt that the people of the state would appreciate having a Governor named after our President”. In a statement released by now Governor Obama the newly named candidate for reelection focused on what he called his “willingness to go to great lengths to win”. He further stated “if sacrificing some of my personal fortune accumulated by a lucrative Wall Street golden parachute is not enough to get votes, than I am willing to sacrifice my identity and my name for the sake of New Jersey” Prior to this extreme move, then Governor Corzine, had sought medical advice regarding the best way to change his complexion. In a process opposite to Michael Jackson’s skin bleaching, the Governor wanted to darken his skin with a political procedure called Obamanizing. In the end strategists decided against the procedure due to fears that a dark skinned Corzine might come across too minstrel show-like and too politically incorrect. Democrat Lt. Gov. Nominee Loretta Weinberg Democrat pollster B.J. Clinton, (formerly known as Ernest Madoff) pointed out that the name change has already had a positive impact on Governor Obama’s once static numbers. Analysts from the Jim McGreevy School of Political Ethics believe that the Governor’s name change was a wise move. The schools executive director Patty Pantsdown (aka: Lou Morella) called the name change a stroke of political genius. According to Pantsdown “Oh honey, now after months of trying to associate himself with President Obama in an attempt to deflect the focus off of the Governor’s higher taxes, tolls, unemployment and lower state revenues and job opportunities, changing his name to Jonnie Obama does a number of things. First of all it adds a little spice to an otherwise drab name. Secondly, right away, it brings the voters minds to exactly what the Governor needs to put the focus on, which is anything but the condition that the state is in right now and last but not least, it adds more meaning to the phrase ‘my brutha’ which is how the Governor ends all of his speeches when referring to the President”. Estelle Getty as fiesty Golden Girl Sophia Petrillo Kitty Litteur, a spokesman for Governor Obama’s lieutenant governor running mate , Loretta Weinberg, notified members of the press that Senator Weinberg is also going to seek a name change. The state senator who describes herself as a “feisty Jewish grandmother” is exploring the possibility of changing her name to Sophia Petrillo, the name popularized in the role played by Estelle Getty on the hit 80’s sitcom Golden Girls. According to Litteur, “we have the Jewish grandmother vote in the bag, now we’re going after the Soprano vote and Italian grandmothers”. Meanwhile the campaign of Chris Christie released a statement of their own which made clear that as usual, they would “not go into detail”. They do however claim that the Republican nominee for Governor anticipated this from the beginning. Chris Christie denied that he would try to change his name before the November ballots were printed. “I do not intend to seek a name change that distracts from any of the distractions that I have been working hard to create during the course of this campaign” said the Republican hopeful. Representatives for his lieutenant governor nominee, Kim Guadagno, confirmed that she too will not have her name changed. Press Secretary Barnaby Jones claimed that no one knows who Kim is or that she is running for anything so we would rather not have to explain who she is, what she is running for and her name change all at the same time. The Christie camp is dealing with it’s own troubles and does not want to play the name game. The Republican ticket is finding it hard to keep pace with all the spending that Governor Obama has invested in the race. So avoiding the $39.95 legal fee for a legal name change in New Jersey is seen as a cost saving measure. However, the lack of finances in the closing days of the campaign still concerns Christie. For a quick infusion of cash, the Christie campaign has signed on to two new contracts. One has Chris Christie contracted to be in the cast of next seasons, “Biggest Loser” which is a show that has teams of overweight celebritiy has-beens, compete against one another to see which team can lose the most weight. The other contract is for a string of 15 new ads that will feature Chris Christie along side of Jenny Craig spokeswoman Valerie Bertinelli. Mr. Christie will be used for the “before” pictures used in comparing the dramatic results seen after one has used a new Jenny Craig diet program that is designed for men. Gubernatorial Cnadidiate and Wannabe Chris Christie The unorthodox campaign tactics being seen in the race for Governor of New Jersey has many scratching their heads. Shaquida Nelson of Newark said “I thought Jon Corzine was that white boy who hits that doohickey on ice for the New Jersey Devils, I never knew he was a brutha”. Denis O’Shea of Matawan wanted to know why Valerie Bertinelli still has not gotten back together with Eddie Van Halen. Political analysts claim that the disinterest in the campaign is to be expected when the top two major candidates have upside down poll numbers that indicate more people have unfavorable opinions of them than favorable opinions of them. They add that the lack of any public awareness in the campaign is in large part due to the fact that neither Corzine or Christie have said anything of value during the campaign. That and the state’s unique North-South divide and its disjointed news coverage that relies on New York and Philadelphia, helps to keep New Jersey voters uniquely uniformed. As for their assessment of Governor Obama’s name change one Quinnipiac pollster who wanted to remain anonymous believes that the biggest difference the name change will make is in the area of billboards. According to him, Governor Obama invested a lot of money in billboards that connect him as close as possible to the President and now the Governor will have to invest some money in having those billboards changed from reading Obama/Corzine to now read Obama/Obama. 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__label__cc	0.716322	0.283678	TSE November 2010 Re: Attitudes / Prejudice "Rickard A. Parker" <[log in to unmask]> Sun, 28 Nov 2010 06:14:54 -0500 Mike Callaghan wrote: > Nancy et al > I would be glad if you could point me towards any reference of Eliot and > Omar Khayyam (other than James Miller). I find this most interesting > and was not aware of the poet's influence on TSE. > Mike Originally published in the Paris Review and now online http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4738/the-art-of-poetry-no-1-t-s-eliot Perhaps I can begin at the beginning. Do you remember the circumstances under which you began to write poetry in St. Louis when you were a boy? I began I think about the age of fourteen, under the inspiration of Fitzgerald's Omar Khayyam, to write a number of very gloomy and atheistical and despairing quatrains in the same style, which fortunately I suppressed completely—so completely that they don't exist. I never showed them to anybody. The first poem that shows is one which appeared first in the Smith Academy Record, and later in The Harvard Advocate, which was written as an exercise for my English teacher and was an imitation of Ben Jonson. He thought it very good for a boy of fifteen or sixteen. Then I wrote a few at Harvard, just enough to qualify for election to an editorship on The Harvard Advocate, which I enjoyed. Then I had an outburst during my junior and senior years. I became much more prolific, under the influence first of Baudelaire and then of Jules Laforgue, whom I discovered I think in my junior year at Harvard. Eliot's "Harvard Advocate" poems are at http://world.std.com/~raparker/exploring/tseliot/works/poems/eliot-harvard-poems.html	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1084
__label__cc	0.629844	0.370156	Minisode: Tips on Screen Time Adam Griffin shares tips for individuals and families on how to faithfully steward our screens. This is the first of our new mini episodes. As In Heaven What’s at Stake?: Gospel Opportunities and Implications In this episode of As In Heaven, hosts Jim Davis and Mike Aitcheson welcome Soong Chan-Rah to discuss reclaiming the church from cultural captivity and the specific ways that Western attitudes of individualism have crept into our modern ministry philosophies. Rah shares insights regarding the ethics of the kingdom and paints a picture of hopes and dreams for the future. Rah focuses on the positive gospel opportunities in addressing race and justice with kingdom ethics. * An introduction to Soong Chan-Rah (:58) * Cultural shifts in objections to the gospel (2:54) * The significance of minority leadership in this shift (9:43) * The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church From Western Cultural Captivity (13:27) * “Captivity” in the conversation (17:11) * Advice for church leadership in these conversations (21:14) * “Aren’t we pas this now?” (28:10) * How important it is for the church to get this cultural moment right (33:55) * What happens when churches dismiss these cultural conversations (37:59) * The church’s two minute drill (42:44) * Hopeful realism (49:21) Explore more from TGC on the topic of race.DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: * What are some biblical truths that the church stands by that you see the church as failing to live into? * What does it mean that we should embrace “the full biblical narrative”? In the arc of that narrative, which parts of the narrative do you see yourself latching on to more easily? * What are ways that the church has gone into “captivity” to western values? What are ways you have seen this in our bible reading? In our community life? In Christian engagements with social issues? * What are ways that we can remember the sins of our past corporately in regard to how the church has engaged with minority racial groups? What gospel hope does Jesus offer in our remembering? * What are your hopes for the future of the Western Church? How do you hope to see the church embrace values that are biblical, rather than cultural? What would that look like for your local church? Help Me Teach The Bible The Gospel Coalition, Nancy Guthrie Dan Doriani on James (Re-release) To teach us how to teach the book of James, Nancy Guthrie talked with Dan Doriani, vice president of strategic academic initiatives and professor of theology at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis. Doriani is the author of _Getting the Message: A Plan for Interpreting and Applying the Bible_, a book that is essential reading for every Bible teacher, as well as numerous commentaries. He also wrote the introduction and notes on the book of James in the _Gospel Transformation Bible_. Topics in this discussion include: * the way Jesus is presented differently in James compared to other epistles * the tree tests of James * the nature of “true religion” * the gospel according to James * bringing a social justice framework to teaching James * whether there’s conflict between James and Paul regarding faith and works * praying for healing according to James Here are some additional resources you may find helpful in preparing to teach James: * Doriani’s class lectures on James at Covenant Theological Seminary (registration required) * Sermons on James by Alistair Begg * Sermons on James by Dick Lucas * Let’s Get Real! sermon series by various teachers at All Souls, Langham Place For further study, here are some books you may find helpful, including titles from Crossway, the sponsor of Help Me Teach the Bible: * _James _(Reformed Expository Commentary) by Dan Doriani * _The Letter of James _(Pillar New Testament Commentary) Douglas J. Moo * _James: Faith that Works_ (Preaching the Word Commentary) by R. Kent Hughes * _James: a 12-Week Study_ by Greg Gilbert Knowing Faith Training The Church #98 – The Mega Q&A Episode We go over the following questions: * When you say that we’re asking Genesis questions that it’s not asking itself...is that literal? How would I apply that to other books of the Bible? * How would you describe/define the imago dei in light of disability? * Who’s your favorite person to talk theology with other than each other? * New ESV translation of Genesis 3:16? * When was the promise of the land fulfilled in the Abrahamic Covenant? Was it fulfilled during David or Solomon’s reign? * If God is the one who gives faith, and He wishes that none should perish-why doesn’t He give the gift of faith to everyone? * How do you strike a balance between reading the Bible and Christian books or books about the bible? * When is it ok to leave a church? * What are some practical tips for starting a theological program for women at your church? * What did you think about the West Wing reunion? * Could you explain the doctrine of the sufficiency of scripture? * What are your favorite hymns? * Do you think God made another world before this one? * What is discipleship and how/where does discipleship happen? What does it mean to make disciples? * Is doubt a sin? * What advice do you give to someone just starting out as pastor? * If you could have a table discussion with any 3 theologians, past or present, who would be at your table? Don't forget to support the show and have access to merch, monthly newsletters, behind-the-scenes, and more at Patreon.com/KnowingFaith Follow us on social media on Instagram @knowingfaithpodcast, Twitter @KnowingFaithPod, and on Facebook at Knowing Faith. Jackie Hill Perry, Melissa Kruger, Jasmine Holmes As 2020 finally ends, it feels appropriate to look back on what we've learned and ultimately celebrate what God has done, even in the midst of one of the most difficult years ever collectively experienced. In this special bonus episode of Let's Talk, Collin Hansen is joined by TGC colleague Melissa Kruger, who co-hosts the Let's Talk podcast. They discuss big trends and stories from 2020, share their hopes for 2021, and reflect on God's faithfulness displayed through TGC and many other areas of life. To hear the full conversation, head over to the episode "The Hardest Year and the Hope That Never Fails", originally released on Gospelbound. TGC Podcast Navigating Ministry and Marriage as a Pastor’s Wife During The Gospel Coalition’s 2018 Women’s Conference, Noël Piper, Latoya McCutcheon, Lauren Hansen, and Megan Hill participated in a panel discussion titled “Co-Laboring in the Gospel: A Conversation for Pastors’ and Elders’ Wives.” Through the conversation, they encouraged and challenged ministry wives, knowing that the role in which they walk is both difficult and a deep, lasting blessing. They discussed the struggles and joys, sacrifices and rewards, and the importance of finding security, strength, and direction in God’s Word. Cultivated: A podcast about faith and work Makoto Fujimura on How What's Broken Becomes Beautiful Makoto Fujimura is a painter and the author of several books on the intersection of faith, culture, and the arts. Most recently he’s published Art and Faith: A Theology of Making. In this episode, Mako describes his calling as an artist and how living three blocks from the World Trade Center transformed his painting. He also describes his work in kintsugi – the Japanese art of mending broken ceramics by pouring gold between the shattered pieces. The medium itself is a vision of grace: taking something that appears ruined and making it more beautiful and more valuable than the original. It’s a conversation about vocation, creativity, the abundance of God’s love, and the importance of culture making as vision of the new creation. Produced by Mike Cosper Edited by Mark Owens Music by Dan Phelps Theme Song “Eden Was a Garden” by Roman Candle The Crossway Podcast Should Christians Fear God? (Michael Reeves) Michael Reeves discusses what the Bible is actually getting at when it commands us to "fear the Lord." He makes the case for the difference between rightly fearing God and sinfully being afraid of him, explains why the fear of the Lord is so often paired with examples of God's gracious blessing and commands to love him in Scripture, and offers encouragement for the Christian wrestling with consistent guilt, shame, and even fear on account of their sin. The Paul Tripp Podcast 151. What Is Prayer? [Street-Level Christianity 13] Prayer can be a struggle for Christians. We know that we're supposed to pray, but we don't always know why or how. As we continue through Street-Level Christianity, Paul Tripp reminds us what prayer is and how prayer does. TGC Q&A The Sanctity of Life: What Does it Mean to Be Pro-Life? _Please listen with discretion as this episode contains content related to abortion and pro-life issues. _ In this episode of TGC Q&A, Karen Swallow Prior introduces a new four-part series on the sanctity of life, addressing the true meaning of being pro-life and what she believes is necessary to end abortion. She addresses: * Defining “sanctity of life” (1:42) * Understanding abortion in her own story (3:52) * Getting involved—serving those facing crisis pregnancy (6:23) * Acting as a last voice giving women the opportunity to choose life (8:01) * Moving beyond politics to end abortion (9:00) * Building a bridge to those who are secularly pro-life (11:56) * Defining “pro-life” and a pivotal call to action (14:59) Explore more from TGC on the topic of abortion. Karen's recommended resources: * _Abortion and the Early Church_ by Michael J. Gorman * _Defenders of the Unborn_ by Daniel K. Williams * _Beyond the Abortion Wars_ by Charles C. Camosy * _Embryo: A Defense of Human Life_ by Robert P. George * _The Gospel and Abortion_ by Russell Moore and Andrew T. Walker * Find your local crisis pregnancy center for volunteer opportunities and resources Christian Nationalism Is Worse Than You Think Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries. As crowds lined up in front of the Capitol last week, Christian imagery was on display amidst the Trump/Pence 2020 and confederate flags, QAnon memorabilia, and viking helmets. People held crosses, “Jesus Saves” signs and “Jesus 2020.” As protesters crowded onto the Capitol steps, across the street, someone blew a shofar while a woman sang “Peace in the name of Jesus. The blood of Jesus covering this place." In the aftermath of the Capitol attack, many saw a clear connection between the violence and Christian nationalism. As Tish Harrison Warren wrote for CT: The responsibility of yesterday’s violence must be in part laid at the feet of those evangelical leaders who ushered in and applauded Trump’s presidency. It can also sadly be laid at the feet of the white American church more broadly. Paul D. Miller is professor of the practice of international affairs at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He is also a research fellow with the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. He recently released Just War and Ordered Liberty and is currently finalizing a book tentatively titled Christian Nationalism in the Age of Trump for InterVarsity Press. Miller joined global media manager Morgan Lee and editorial director Ted Olsen to define Christian nationalism, shed light on its rise in the white evangelical world, and offer advice to church leaders trying to deradicalize members of their own community. What is Quick to Listen? Read more Rate Quick to Listen on Apple Podcasts Follow the podcast on Twitter Follow our hosts on Twitter: Morgan Lee and Ted Olsen Follow our guest on Twitter: Paul D. Miller Some of Whitehead and Perry’s Christian nationalism numbers Music by Sweeps Quick to Listen is produced by Morgan Lee and Matt Linder The transcript is edited by Yvonne Su Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices BibleProject Rescued for a Purpose Last week, we explored_ how_ God rescues his people when they cry out to him. In today’s episode, we’re reflecting on why God rescues his people. He doesn’t only free us _from _corruption, he free us _for_ restoration. His rescue is not just for us but for the restoration of the whole world. Bible Reading: Exodus 19:1-6 Reflection Questions: * Choose one of the following characteristics of God to reflect on: wisdom, justice, or love. How have you specifically experienced that one characteristic of God in your life? * Where do you lack an experience of one of these characteristics in your life? * Let’s invite God’s Spirit of wisdom to empower our reflection of his character. Ask God how he wants to show his wisdom, justice, or love through you today. Listen for what he brings to mind. Want to Go Deeper? Watch a video and explore more questions for yourself or group discussion online. View this episode's Bible study. Show Credits * Host: Cheree Hayes * Message: Dr. Carissa Quinn * Production and Bible Reading: Dan Gummel * Theme music: Grant William Harold * Background Music: "Fields of Meditation" by Emmanuel Jacob Powered and distributed by Simplecast. #38: Gender Pt. 3: Where the Gospel Meets Gender Dysphoria Christians believe God doesn’t make mistakes, but what happens when your gender doesn’t seem to match your biological sex? Stories of Christians fighting the battle of body versus brain. Featuring Mark Yarhouse (Understanding Gender Dysphoria). The Art of Pastoring Stay True (And Maybe Stop Yelling) If a sermon isn’t a lecture, lesson, or chance to raise your voice, then what is it? On this episode of The Art of Pastoring, Jared Wilson and Ronnie Martin talk about the role of preaching in the local church. They discuss the trends they’ve noticed among preachers in the past few years, remaining true to the Biblical text, and how to preach according to the needs of a congregation. And they encourage listeners to remember that all parts of the body come together to glorify God and build up his church. Produced by Mike Cosper Edited and Mixed by Aaron Leslie Theme Song "Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah" by Jeremy Casella CCEF Podcast: Where Life & Scripture Meet CCEF Let me ask you a question. Is it okay for Christians to feel really bad? Is it okay for Christians to get upset and feel terrible? Do you have a place in your theology for a Christian to be sad or angry or afraid or any of a host of other negative emotions? The Missions Podcast Alex Kocman & Scott Dunford Dan Strange: A Theology of Religions and The Southgate Fellowship We know missionaries should have a theology of God, the Bible, and salvation—but what does it mean to develop a theology of religions? And what are the bigger problems plaguing evangelical missiology? Dr. Dan Strange, theological director at Oak Hill College and co-chair of The Southgate Fellowship, joins us from London to discuss his new […] The Bible Project 2020 Hyde Park United Methodist Episode 58 // Finale // Your Hosts For our Finale, your hosts through the year, Mat, Nikki, and Monica come together for a year in review. Listen for a personal take on the project from your hosts. Thank you for journeying with us for the Bible Project 2020! #HydeParkUMC Learn more about The Bible Project 2020. Join our Facebook discussion group. Facebook account required. RPS #68 — Via Negativa: Why It’s Better to Remove than Add Things to Your Life A lot of times we think that be more productive, we need to add things to our lives. Another habit, another app, a new routine, etc. But, actually, the very opposite is true. If you want to add to your productivity, the best place to start is by subtracting things from your life. Sign-up for the Redeeming Productivity Newsletter. If you enjoy Redeeming Productivity, consider supporting my work on Patreon, where you’ll get exclusive updates and early releases of new content. Show Notes: 0:00 – Welcome * 2:10 – What is via negativa? * 9:04 – Why does via negativa work? * 15:19 – Is it biblical? * 19:33 – How to effectively employ via negativa in your life * 33:43 – Keep it simple & a challenge * 34:34 – Conclusion Exploring My Strange Bible Tim Mackie An Update From Tim A message from Tim to let everyone know that we will be putting this podcast on pause for now. It will remain active online so you can still listen or re-listen to his sermons. If you want to hear more from Tim, check out The Bible Project Podcast: https://thebibleproject.com/podcasts/the-bible-project-podcast/ The Speak Life Podcast Speak Life with Glen Scrivener and Paul Feesey Are ALL lives valuable? Lord Sumption vs Piers Morgan \| SLP 342 We have a deep sense of the equal value of all people no matter their age, sex, race, creed, etc. But where has this come from? And what does it mean about the difficult decisions we have to make when rationing scarce resources? Recently Lord Jonathan Sumption sparked a controversy on the BBC1 programme, The Big Questions, by saying that not all lives are equally valuable. The controversy is testimony to his unfortunate language but also to the deeply ingrained Christian sentiments we still share in the West. But when Piers Morgan tries to call out Sumption it turns out he digs a pit then falls into it. We speak far more about the originals of human rights and equality in our RESET series. See in particular this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODhbp... Support the show (https://speaklife.org.uk/give/) Gospelbound The Gospel Coalition, Collin Hansen Russell Moore: How to Stand When the World Is Falling If I want to read anyone’s reflections on recent years, it’s Russell Moore. The president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the SBC hasn’t been as visible or vocal as he was before 2017, at least until the last week following the attack on the U.S. Capitol. But his newest book, _The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear Without Losing Your Soul_, published by B&H, is even better than a tell-all memoir. It’s a grace-infused reflection on where and how to stand tall when it feels like the world is going to crush you. Moore says, “The courage to stand is the courage to be crucified.” Indeed, Jesus sets the tone for this book. And if you’re going to worship and follow a Savior who submitted to the cross, you’re not going to follow the world’s typical mode of courage. I see this book as seeking to reclaim Jesus, or at least his reputation and authority, among evangelicals. Moore observes, “An entire generation is watching what goes on under the name of American religion, wondering if there is something real to it, or if it is just another useful tool to herd people, to elect allies, to make money.” Elsewhere he writes, “I’m not surprised now when I see Jesus used as a mascot to prop up some identity politics or power agenda, or even to cover up private immorality or public injustice.” We’ve seen that recently with the Jericho March, and then the protests-turned-attack at the Capitol. Moore joins me on Gospelbound to tell us what scares him, how to lead when no one seems to be following, ambition masquerading as conviction, and much more. 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__label__wiki	0.536277	0.536277	The future of literary diversity? By Patrick Dobson 21.Sep.15 Established in 2013 as reparations for the women overlooked by the Miles Franklin Award and to advance and protect female authors in the future, the Stella Prize seems to be doing its job. Last year was a fine year for female authors. Out of sixty literary prizes surveyed for the purpose of this article, prize money amounted to $1,061,500 for female writers (not including the $135,000 endowed by the Kibble Awards, the Stella Prize, and the Barbara Jefferis Award), compared to $481,000 for male writers. Furthermore, prestigious short story awards like the Jolley Prize, and Overland’s VU Short Story Prize and inaugural Story Wine Prize boasted female authors placing first, second and third. The same can be said for the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, the Calibre Essay Prize and the Porter Poetry Prize. A good year, indeed. And this is no cause of concern for male authors. The figures above don’t represent the antithesis stage in the Hegelian Dialectic of Gender Inequality in Literature. Anyone familiar with games of almost-even chance (red and black on the roulette wheel or the flip of a coin, for instance) knows you can witness a streak of twenty of the same result without there being a systematic bias, or effecting the almost-even odds of the next result. If anything, the prize winners of 2014 amplified the voice of the literary community in Australia demanding one thing: diversity. In his recent article in Sydney Review of Books, publisher and professor Ivor Indyk suggested literary prizes and literary festivals pander to the lowest common denominator in the interest of provoking popular appeal. Yes, we are seeing greater attendance at literary festivals. Yet, rather than popularising literature, which in itself might be impossible, the literary community is embracing more voices. What Indyk perceives as the mediocrity of popularism could just as easily be seen as the growing competitive force of inclusion. As the systematic biases are stripped away from prize-giving and the reviewing of Australian authors, I do expect we will see more authors from wider and richer backgrounds represented on shortlists for these prizes. And it makes my heart swell, even though it means such a strong competition. These literary awards are the one place in the literary world where year after year, success is a zero-sum game. It strengthens the entire community when the voices of the disenfranchised and the overlooked are represented alongside those who have enjoyed the lion’s share of awards and accolades for so long. Literary prize money plays a large role in subsidising the cost of the starch-heavy diets of starving artists. The truth is that authors and readers in this country cannot afford any more insults. The Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards becoming biennial this year was a disgusting affront. The Queensland premier abolishing the state’s literary prize entirely in 2012 was intolerable. Not only do we strip away the small consolations of a career in letters, we also silence voices so beautiful that the reading of them drowns out the dissonance of our daily lives with euphony. One such voice, that of Jennifer Down, I would never have heard if not for her win in the 2014 Jolley Prize. Because I had the pleasure of reading Aokigahra, I was moved to read her other short stories, like Turncoat, which won the 2013 VU Short Story Prize. I think anyone who shared the same satisfaction in reading these stories would join me in promoting the necessity of literary prizes in Australia for nurturing talent and presenting new voices to readers. If anything, we need more prizes, more awards, more festivals, more literary journals, more writers, more readers, and greater inclusion. The experiences I have had reading prize-winning authors and attending literary festivals in the last few years reminds me of Hunter S Thompson describing the feeling of being a party to the activism and the inclusive spirit of the 1960s in San Francisco: ‘We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.’ It is my responsibility and yours to keep up the momentum by doing what we can to support prizes and festivals and the literary community in Australia. Image: simonbooth / Flickr Writer, clerk. Melbourne. More by Patrick Dobson From R D Wood on 21 September 2015 at 5.29 pm Why though are prizes the answer to the ills of ‘literature’ – here thought of as prose? Why should competitive forms of assessment where money is the expression of congratulation be seen as a boon rather than the proliferation of market logic? Does prize-money really afford people a sense of security? Who lives from prize to prize? Surely, changes in the eco-system, changes Indyk has suggested elsewhere, are what is necessary. Moreover, there is no mention of how the central point of his piece ‘The Cult of the Middlebrow’ was to boost poetry because of its neglect in the Melbourne Prize. Why too the failure to articulate what constitutes the aesthetic requirements, parameters, logic, method, elements for choosing X over Y? In that sense there is very little argument or criticism that takes place in the public domain to justify why a winner is a winner – judges do themselves and the industry as a disservice because they fail to adequately explain why one is deserving and one is not. This is applied in this article as well – quite simply, it is to ask of Jennifer Down’s appeal: please explain? From Patrick Dobson on 22 September 2015 at 12.04 pm You can read my reply below. If you’d like me to edify you about any other subjects, I’d prefer to do so via private correspondence. From Patrick Dobson on 22 September 2015 at 1.13 am “No man, said the Nolan, can be a lover of the true or the good unless he abhors the multitude; and the artist, though he may employ the crowd, is very careful to isolate himself. This radical principle of artistic economy applies specially to a time of crisis, and today when the highest form of art has been just preserved by desperate sacrifices, it is strange to see the artist making terms with the rabblement.” (‘The Day of the Rabblement’, James Joyce) We both agree with the Nolan, Mr Wood. I agree with you further that prize-giving is a flawed system. Here, we differ on the path of recourse. You will note my primary concern in the article is the skewed spread of prize-winners compared to the demography of Australia, and I am concerned with this distortion because I assume talent is parceled out unequally to the individual yet evenly across the population. However, I also perceive progress in the yearly data and it fills me with tremendous hope because it suggests the current pulls us towards that highest form of art. You see, my concern is artistic excellence, and in the same way baseball in the United States must be considered an inferior and incomplete sport until 1947 with the inclusion of black players, the practice of prize-giving must be considered a circle of congratulatory lip service until the excellence it advertises is demonstrably inclusive. For a moment I will digress by clarifying my own position and criticizing another author’s response to the issue. I was reluctant to address minorities. Firstly, I have not the time or inclination to deduce a prize-winners background based on their skin tone or by their name or by LADO or something equally distasteful. I have no intention of parceling out identity based on arbitrary racial and social epithets as if I’m an authority. Secondly, the sample size is inadequate to analyse. If you spin a roulette wheel a hundred times you should witness a more or less even distribution of red and black, odd and even. You would not, however, be able to estimate sincerely a 2.63% representation of the number 22. Such a prediction is known as the gambler’s fallacy. If I suggested because Kim Scott has won the Miles Franklin Award twice in its fifty-eight years that the prize adequately represents Aboriginal writers I would be committing myself to the gambler’s fallacy. However, this is not intended to dismiss the very real issues of structural and systematic bias which cause under-representation of certain minorities, but rather to highlight my own inadequacy and the inconclusive data. It is enough that I can extrapolate the world is unfair and the odds uneven, and that the opportunity cost of becoming even an amateur writer is too high for the impoverished and the subjugated and the downtrodden, and that those who persevere in a career in letters deserve what small compensation literary prizes endow. Maxine Beneba Clarke wrote, in an article on this matter for this same website, ‘How is it possible that in the same year the Sydney Morning Herald shortlisted five writers of colour as their Young Novelists of the Year, one state premier’s literary award gave lucrative awards across three or four categories to white writers whose work either heavily relied on multicultural Australia or told the stories of real or imagined people of colour in favour of works written by writer’s of colour?’ Behind the ambiguity and confusion of her meaning lies a philistine accusation without the merit of consideration or aim. It is a slander against the imagination, experience, and empathy of those writers she leaves anonymous. Here I quote from Nabokov’s lecture ‘Good readers and good writers’ “Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.” Furthermore, the wise maxim “Write what you know” is not synonymous with “Write autobiography”. To conclude on the matter of under-representation I should clarify when I referred to “voice” in my article I referenced the artist’s voice which is individual, and not some abstract voice of a people, which belies the nature of the artist. Onto the subject of the winners. Again, I agree with you and Indyk and the Nolan. Often prizes seem to be awarded as arbitrarily as one hundred spins of the roulette wheel, and only very few have I seen given for the highest art. It is not because any prize or panel is corrupted in some way, only every panel suffers the humanity of its judges. A multitude of cognitive biases come into play. I think when panels fail it is due to a plural ignorance, when one judge fools the others that the Emperor is wearing clothes. But why are we discussing human error as if it’s a surprise? We could sit all day and think of experiments. To gain some insight, institute a prize for the best collection of poetry. The prize would be judged by a double-blinded judging panel, chosen from the pool of candidates Indyk dismisses in ‘The Cult of the Middlebrow’. In this model, two panels would discuss the entries separately, without any collusion between the panels, and their conversation could be recorded digitally or by a stenographer. Any discrepancies in the shortlists and winner would need to be addressed. Such an experiment would surely help in some way to clarify your issues with process, in the same way that measures like the Stella Prize will be able to compensate for under-representation with varying degrees of success by the virtue of the mindfulness such measures provoke. But you won’t be able to compensate for human error. We are a prejudiced animal, and the literary hall of fame so often inducts its members posthumously that “hall” might be misspelled. Ken Kesey explained this phenomenon more eloquently than I can, in a lecture he gave at the University of Virginia: “Shit floats, Cream rises.” The instances of inadequacy in prize-giving might be a stench we have to experience sometimes if in some other vessel we want to find the cream. As to the aesthetic, I presume Thomas Aquinas would be considered high-brow in Indyk’s estimation, and so quote from his aesthetic, ‘The good is that towards the possession of which an appetite tends’ and ‘Those things are beautiful the apprehension of which pleases.’ As to the impact of prize money, I’m sure I don’t know if prizes provide a sense of security, Mr Wood, but I will let you know if and when the Scandinavians abandon the tradition they have of not awarding Borges and me the Nobel Prize. Considering the inadequacy of my answer, I will quote for you from Robert Musil’s preface to the ‘Posthumous Papers of a Living Author’ (now deceased) “The age that brought out the pre-fab custom-made shoe, and the tailor-made suit to fit all sizes, also appears to want to bring out the pre-fab poet, who is put together out of ready-made inner and outer parts. Almost everywhere these days, the made-to-measure poet lives completely cut off from life, but even so does not share with the dead the ability to do without roof, food, and drink.” I prefer to ignore Indyk’s destructive impulses, because I think gutting the prize-giving system to fund his social engineering project is unnecessary once you accept that literary prizes and his fine ideas are not mutually exclusive, and that funds could be procured to bolster one and build the other. And if he chooses to ignore this in favour of his bloodlust and if you continue to support him, I will have to make a formal accusation that you and Indyk were responsible for the destruction of the Library of Alexandria, and I will posit as motive your belief it held a few hundred lines of mediocre poetry. Consider for a moment if the future of literary diversity is Nolan, Kesey, Nabokov, Aquinas, Musil. If ever there was a list of pale, male, stale references here it lies, now exposed. If one advocates for diversity surely one’s own references could reflect that? So, ‘the excellence it advertises is demonstrably inclusive’? Inclusive of whom? To use the baseball analogy, inclusivity butts up against the rules of the game. Should something be seen as excellent because it came from a certain type of person? My assumption would be no, you still have to play the game to a particular level. This holds for sport, but for art there needs to be change about what constitutes the guidelines, criteria, possibilities for excellence, not grounded in identity politics but in aesthetics, which are of course always political. And the failure to discuss aesthetics is what rankles with prizes and something that is pointed out by Indyk. The failure to discuss aesthetics is evident here too, not even a mention of why Jennifer Down is ‘pleasurable’. Why then the focus on the author? Why reify the liberalism in such a position? This is advocacy of a certain type of diversity that might be inimical to real progress and actually assimilative. I refer back to the author list mentioned in the beginning. If this is who the target is for prize winning – ‘the impoverished and the subjugated and the downtrodden’ why not state there is an economic imperative at work rather simply assuming that diversity is essentially identity based? Kim Scott or Ken Wyatt are not the same as people I know in ‘the Village’ in Roebourne. Moreover, if one were so inclined the sample size is big enough – there have been hundreds of prizes awarded in Australia over the years, which might be Indyk’s point. So why propose yet another layer of bureaucracy? That is what seems eminently wrong with the literary economy at the present – a point made by Indyk. Why should there be more time and money going to judges rather than writers? It is not necessarily a destructive impulse, but a redistributive one that he highlights. And I don’t think that would be redistribution towards the estates of Nabokov or Musil. From jacinda on 22 September 2015 at 2.17 pm Why do people think the only gatekeepers are in competitions and not inherent in being published more generally? For what it’s worth, I thought the establishment of a second bureaucracy was exactly what Indyk was proposing, something akin to the Australia Council, where monies and fellowship would be awarded by some kind of cultural gatekeeper to work said cultural gatekeeper deemed aesthetically pleasing, and which would rarely be the work of new and unpublished writers or poets (as it’s hard to be awarded such things without a body of work/awards/shortlistings behind you). From ms attachment on 22 September 2015 at 3.59 pm I look forward to the day when literary prizes have no monetary value attached. Would these arguments exist still? If not, what does that tell us? If yes, then the argument is worth having. From ms attachment on 22 September 2015 at 11.30 pm further, didn’t thespis get a goat for winning the first dyonisian drama prize, hence tragedy (goat song)? and we know that the extant tragedies we have were but a fraction of the total output. the point? a greater proliferation of literary forms and genres, both high and low, including writing and reading the real, included in prize lists, rather than those overstuffed xmas narratives churned out by corporate turnkeys, please The willful, if productive, misreading continues. As Jacinda writes: ‘awarded by some kind of cultural gatekeeper to work said cultural gatekeeper deemed aesthetically pleasing.’ As opposed to now, as opposed to this very thing? One suspects this comes with the terrain. The future of literary diversity is not because of who we are, but the stories we tell. If you come from a marginalized background – like I do – why would you want to publish at all when gatekeepers such as editors refuse your right of refusal? But surely the abolition of prizes means less administration? Where, in all these prose opinion pieces, which share a remarkable lack of quotation from Indyk’s piece, is discussion of poetry? Poetry, where administration is done by participants (witness the absence of agents), offers us one potential model that is inimical to the bureaucratic largess of the Australia Council. My logical leap of faith is that poetry, which Indyk has championed elsewhere for precisely this reason (and others), has a different set of social relations, a differ market, a different logic. Why can’t there be a gift-esque economy model in a new, prize-less literary environment? And could you please point out where he states this would exclude new and unpublished writers? By jumping to the opposite conclusion, we see an argument that in generating more heat than light demonstrates both the market driven desire for concocted outrage (which gets readers) and a profoundly anti-progressive attitude to literature. You could get 2 Hannah Kent book deals for $2m or you could get a whole nation of poets. Prize winning pulp that does nothing for the nation and everything for the individual or a change in the culture? Please though let me know though when someone else publishes Carpentaria or Death Fugue. Perhaps Jacinda, or even the author of this piece, would also care to elaborate on how the cited European canon is new or indeed how Joyce matters for the future of literary diversity? Lolita, anyone? From jacinda on 23 September 2015 at 7.52 am Nowhere did I mention the European literary canon, nor that new and unpublished writers would be ineligible. Rather, that it would be hard, even in a prize-less ‘gift-esque economy model’, to make oneself eligible for such ‘gifts’ without a body of work behind you (which often comes through the awarding of prizes, or the publication of books, which have often been supported by universities or funding bodies). Yes, quite possibly poetry is different, but it seems like people in these arguments often want the benefits of the market without recognising it’s a market they’re talking about. There are already levels of competition embedded in literature. For instance, how many poets have been able to get APAs for postgraduate research? What Indyk seemed to suggest he didn’t like was the quality of literature been chosen by judges of competitions, and that he’d prefer a different way of distributing that money, via a different group of people who could determine what challenging/real literature was. But to just put that into historical context: when has that ever been a model for supporting radical literature (which by its very nature is anti-establishment)? I see it this way: there’s a finite amount of money under capitalism, and these current debates are all different ways of determining where that money goes. Ultimately, someone somewhere is doling it out, whether that’s based on commercial imperatives, artistic prejudice or a publisher deciding what great literature is. Seems to me that the only alternative under capitalism is what Joshua Mostafa suggested on Twitter – a universal basic income, which will allow people to live while writing. From R D Wood on 23 September 2015 at 9.33 am Yet again, the willful, if productive, misreading continues. Reference: ‘Nowhere did I mention the European literary canon, nor that new and unpublished writers would be ineligible.’ You did not mention the canon, but Dobson did – to which I asked for a response from both of you, perhaps in authorial and editorial capacities. The desire for a response still stands. As for the second part of that sentence, this refers to my previous question: ‘And could you please point out where he [Indyk] states this would exclude new and unpublished writers?’ That question still stands and nowhere did I suggest you had done otherwise, simply that you had misread Indyk. The gift economy is, of course, from Mauss and in this instance is used to refer to the lack of financial administrative burden in a prize-free culture. Why though conflate competition with the market unless it is to shoehorn both into a convenient argument? Why though should we want to support ‘radical’ literature? Or what do people even mean when they say ‘radical’ (Jacinda) or ‘excellent’ (Dobson)? Does Overland think that radical literature is simply because of an author’s identity? Or could we point to the rank conservatism of form in this very journal’s prose? Moreover, those terms are eminently, gloriously, contestable – for example Overland likes to wear the mantle of being ‘progressive’ but readily accepts and doles out cash in prize giving that approximates capitalist modes. Or is it more a system of patronage befitting its Stalinist roots? Where is there not a finite amount of money – do Communist regimes print more money? Does a living wage just materialize or is it also doled out? And if this is a question of welfare and income, how might this connect to the very quality of literature in the first place? To my mind the benefit of Indyk’s piece was, as he stated,: ‘I would spend it on fellowships and residencies and international exchanges. On a national body to coordinate the reprinting of Australian classics. On the proper funding of literary translations, into and out of Australia. On the establishment of ‘literature houses’ in metropolitan and regional centres, to host national and international touring programs. On a centre for Indigenous storytelling. On a national poetry festival and archive.’ Those are changes in the ecosystem that are beneficial to the diversity of literary futures (translation, Indigenous storytelling most obviously), which seems eminently more progressive than spectacular outrage.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1090
__label__wiki	0.747971	0.747971	Home / Audio Books/CDs & Downloads / A Soul Remembers Hiroshima (Audio Book) By Dolores Cannon A Soul Remembers Hiroshima (Audio Book) By Dolores Cannon Audio Choose an optionCDDigital DownloadFlash Drive Clear A Soul Remembers Hiroshima (Audio Book) By Dolores Cannon quantity SKU: H-A Categories: Dolores Cannon, Audio Books/CDs & Downloads Prior to contacting Dolores for a regression session, a 22 year old American woman inexplicably became deeply traumatized and overwhelmed by a sudden rush of memories that had no rational explanation. The memories were triggered in the following settings. On an ordinary day as she walked into her living room, a program was playing on the television where survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima were being interviewed. There were no scenes of the bombing, simply the interviewer discussing the event with the guests. As she viewed the images of the survivors describing their experiences, without explanation, she suddenly began experienced scenes flashing through her mind of the actual bombing as it occurred in real time. As well as experiencing visual images of the event, additional senses were stimulated as she could also hear the screams of people and feel the deep pain of the experience. Intuitively, she knew she had been present when the event occurred. In the days and weeks that followed after watching the program, the horrific scenes of the explosion itself and the resulting aftermath continued to persistently flood her mind. She was able to push them to the back of her mind for a brief period of time so she could function in every day life, however, this became too exhausting a process which provided no explanation to what was happening to her or why. At this point, she contacted Dolores and she sought her help via a session. This book is the story of how Dolores carefully traced these experiences back to her life as a Japanese man named Nogorigatu living in Hiroshima during WWII. It tells the story of what the Japanese people experienced during the war and is a side of history that has neither been fully explored nor written about. At the time, it was Dolores most challenging case because she was unsure of how the young lady would react to reliving dying in an atomic explosion. It had to be handled with extreme care. The resulting story cries out to our time, “Do not let this horror happen again!” CD, Digital Download, Flash Drive Five Lives Remembered (Audio Book) By Dolores Cannon Coming Home to Lemuria- FREE Meditation Audio Download By Charmian Redwood A New Earth Rising – FREE Audio Download By Charmian Redwood Keepers of the Garden (Audio Book) By Dolores Cannon	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1092
__label__cc	0.740674	0.259326	Kate Gosselin: a defense Kate Gosselin is being slammed in the media these days. I’m not a big TV watcher, but I do watch the odd episode of Jon & Kate plus Eight, mostly because I think those sextuplets are cuter than a baby unicorn being nuzzled by a lamb with a teacup-sized otter on its head. The blogosphere is lately full of people complaining about Kate, though, and I’m sick of it. Criticizing Kate Gosselin really means that you have no idea how television works. Despite the fact that it’s called “reality TV”, it should be noted that when you watch these shows, you’re not really seeing reality at all. Kate Gosselin exists for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and from those 168 hours- that’s over 10, 000 minutes a week- the show’s producers select only about 10 minutes to use as Kate’s screen time per episode. That’s 0.001% of her life that we see on this show. Do you think the producers go gaga for sweet moments where she quietly cuddles her kids or husband? Or do you think it’s more likely that the producers might go out of their way to include clips where she’s doing something attention-grabbing, like maybe acting annoyed, tired, frustrated, and bossy, or reacting to the chaos of having a film crew and 8 kids in the house working on a tight schedule, or showing some other unpleasant (but human) emotion? I agree that sometimes she doesn’t come off super-well on the show. But if you don’t think I could film YOU for a week and pick 10 minutes that made you look like a total jerk, well then listen, I have a videocamera. Name your week, sucka. I promise that I can capture that 0.001% of the time that you behave badly and edit you into a TV trainwreck, too. Why would the producers go out of their way to make Kate look bad? Because making Kate out to be a jerk sells magazines and makes the show a topic of conversation. Because conflict drives stories, and reality TV is a story. Because every story needs a villian and the easy choice is often the meeeean woommaaaaan, in this case, Kate Gosselin. I’m not saying she’s perfect. But you gotta admit, she’s an easy target. All the bloggers hating on Kate (and there are a lot), you might as well be screaming “She’s just not ladylike! And also I don’t like her haaair!” Oh wait, most of you couldn’t resist putting that in there, too. Listen, I personally know dozens of people who have appeared on television, several on reality shows and many more in televised interviews. Not one of them seemed at all like their “real” selves in those situations. My real friends don’t cry profusely, burst into song, or wear golden bikinis when they’re just sitting on the porch. Let’s all try to remember that edited TV is NOT impartial. The producers have a point of view and a financial agenda. Remember that their point of view is deliberately skewing your entire experience of “what really happened”. What you see of Kate on the show cannot possibly be an accurate picture of what she’s really like- it’s just what the producers want you to THINK she’s like. Don’t confuse the semi-fictional characters you see on reality TV with real people, and for pete’s sake, let’s all find something better to criticize than her damn haircut. 6 Comments \| acting, television \| Tagged: gosselin, jon & kate, kate gosselin, reality tv, sextuplets \| Permalink Is this a joke? Here’s a new invention. But I don’t really understand. I mean, I guess I can see how you might like to have one of these, but I think I’d feel weird about folding it up and putting it back in my backpack after everyone on the camping trip has enjoyed its use. Also, what are you supposed to do with the filled baggies afterwards? The site vaguely suggests that you “dispose of them responsibly”, but surely we should define “responsibly” before we just assume we’re all on the same page about where the poo should go. I mean, Wikipedia suggests that in rocky areas one should “smear it over the rocks for faster drying,” an unsubstantiated claim which sounds like a 1980s interior wall decor faux-finishing idea gone horribly wrong, and also, uh, some of us might like sitting on those rocks for sunbathing and picnics. And not to mention, where are your friends while you’re a-smearin’? Are they just waiting for you a few yards away on the trail? And upon your return to the group, does anyone high-five you? I think people will be more likely to just toss the bags in the trash like a doggie bag, which isn’t a great idea, as human waste has pathogens that are bad for other humans (don’t get me wrong, dog crap is gross too, but at least it’s not full of hepatitis). I’m not gonna lie to you, this whole idea makes me a little upset. I was amused that the bags are “degradable”, though. Not biodegradable. Just degradable. Like, you can ask them to do things no self-respecting bag would ever want to do. Like collect human waste. Oh wait. Promise this isn’t gonna become a scat blog. I was just confused, is all. Leave a Comment » \| ick, it's made of science!, macgyver hack \| Tagged: bag, biodegradable, camping, cardboard, degrade, poo, portable, toilet \| Permalink Mandy Sellars, a 34 year old British woman, has a rare medical condition that confuses many doctors, but is most often diagnosed as something like Proteus syndrome (the same condition as so-called “elephant man” John Merrick). The congenital condition has caused her legs to continually and unevenly grow for her entire life. Sellars’ legs now weigh over 200lbs (not counting the weight of her torso) which causes her mobility issues, ongoing medical complications, and pain. There’s a short print interview with Sellars here, and more photos here and here. The other woman in the above photo also has PS and has had one of her legs amputated to increase her mobility; Sellars plans to do the same at some point in the future. She’s the subject of a number of documentary pieces, and lives in England, where she helps organize fundraisers for the Proteus Syndrome Foundation. 2 Comments \| fascinating, it's made of science!, medical \| Tagged: congenital, giant, john merrick, large, legs, mandy sellars, proteus, syndrome \| Permalink Whack-a-Meow Whack-a-Kitty is just what it sounds like: awesome possum. Leave a Comment » \| animals, cute, game, i am not a crazy cat lady \| Tagged: cat, kitten, mole, whack, whack a kitty \| Permalink Guest Post: “My Acting” – IT’S ALIIIVE, by Shannon & Shannon Well wasn’t THIS the most delightful thing to wake up to. A pair of friends, acting their very best acting to the tune of Pageslap’s recently-unveiled short play transcribed from reality, “My Acting”. Oh the Shannons, how I adore thee. Some people spend their Friday nights bumping and grinding at revolting nightclubs. Others spend their Friday nights wandering into strangers’ houseparties and trying to flirt. But you two? You two get cozy in your jammies with some chardonnay and a webcam, and what do you do? YOU DO YOUR ACTING. Shannon and Shannon for the win! Next time I see you I’ll be sure to have a trophy of some sort to present to you. Hopefully it will be shaped like acting. Or possibly like Tim Allen. – Shannon and Shannon are actors. And so much more. 6 Comments \| acting, guest post, heartwarming, humor, the funny things my friends say \| Permalink Miranda July’s “The Hallway” 5-minute video of a conceptual art installation. Online here. Leave a Comment » \| art \| Permalink Garfunkel & Oates – Update Remember those funny chicks who sang “Pregnant Women Are Smug“? You can download a whole album’s worth of their songs for freeeee! Wheeeee! 1 Comment \| comedy, funny, music \| Tagged: garfunkel, garfunkel and oates, kate micucci, oates, riki lindhome \| Permalink Chords of Pop: G-C-Am-D Ever notice how many pop songs use the exact same chord progression? Axis of Awesome noticed. One online commenter notes that this progression naturally tells a story: “Start out with your main character (tonic). Heap on some adversity (subdominant). See how character responds to this adversity/climax (dominant). Then wrap up the story (tonic again).” 6 Comments \| funny, humor, music \| Tagged: alternative, axis of awesome, chord progression, music, pop, rock, same, story \| Permalink Zach Galifianakis profiled by NYT Comic Zach Galifianakis, as profiled by the NYT. “This advertising firm from Sweden called me out of the blue and asked me to do an ad,” Galifianakis said. “The one request they had was to not make it look too ’80s, since Absolut is perceived as kind of an ’80s brand.” He paused there for a moment, clearly savoring the memory. “That’s what gave us the idea to make the skits a kind of homage to ‘The Golden Girls.’ ” Also, clips of Zach as his own twin brother, Seth, are pretty awesome. Thanks to Charles for the tip. Leave a Comment » \| badassery, comedy, food & drink, funny, humor \| Tagged: absolut, comedy, galifianakis, golden girls, seth galifianakis, vodka, zach galifianakis \| Permalink Cats talking, and how to film & voice rodent actors Watch a little of this clip first (if you are not a crazy cat lady, you don’t need to watch the whole thing) Then watch this clip: Usually in animation, the voices are recorded early on and the animators match the picture to the voice performance. But when speaking for animals, the actors have to match the voice performance to the animal behaviour, since the animals’ timing is so difficult to control. I do a couple voices on a really cute kids series where all the characters are rodents: the lead is a hamster, and there are mice, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs (I know rabbits and guinea pigs aren’t technically rodents but let’s just relax with the taxonomy for a sec) and a chinchilla (what did i say about your taxonomic rigidity). Anyway, the scripts are written ahead of time, the sets are built to animal scale (using a lot of dollhouse props), and then they pop the animals into the set and film them running around interacting with things. Lots of seeds, bits of broccoli, and peanut butter are strategically placed to get the animals to hit their marks and interact with props. Convincing a dwarf hamster to flop over on its back and point its tiny right foot? NOT EASY The director shoots the animals like they were human actors, taking wide shots and closeups of them, and because you can’t really tell a chinchilla what to do, the crew ends up rolling until the animals finally approximate the behaviour that he needs, more or less by chance. With human actors, this director usually shoots about 3-to-1 or maybe 5-to-1, which means 3 or 5 takes in order to get the 1 take you need. With furball actors, he shoots 20-1: it might take 20 takes before he gets the hamster to walk down the stairs and pause to eat the broccoli. The hamsters are paid extra for stunts, as per the ACTRA upgrade system. One thing I love about this particular director is that he goes out of his way to choose takes where the animals’ behaviour is extra-cute: for instance, perhaps all that he needs at a given moment is a closeup of the rabbit that lasts 3 seconds. But if on one take, the rabbit were to sneeze, you can pretty much guarantee that’s the take he’d use in the episode, which means the voice actor now has to sneeze midway through his line to match the rabbit’s behaviour. It adds richness and humour to the series. They tried to use this glossy baby gerbil in an episode but it was so cute that I ate it. Oops. Later, in the voice record sessions, the director plays us the footage, along with a “scratch track” of himself reading the lines at approximately the right pace, with many of the little extra details included. He gives the actors tons of freedom and lets us create lines that reference what the animals are actually doing. I’ve gotten to improvise lines where Burfy, my shy salesmouse character, is talking, and out of nowhere she shakes herself (“Brrr! Is it cold in here or is it just me?” or where she’s speaking and the hamster randomly starts licking her face (“Sir, please! Too close! Too close!”). You can see some examples in this clip- in the beginning a rabbit cleans his face while he’s talking, and later the hamster has one of my favourite lines from the whole series: “What the–? How the–? Blublle blubble bluuble blubble-the–?” This series was double Gemini-nominated last year, which I thought was well deserved. Anyway, all this to say that’s why I love the talking cats video so much. Having to match performance to an animal’s behaviour can lead to some really awesome little moments, and the cat video has lots of these. When he muffles his mouth for the cats as they hunch down and whisper while licking each other? Man. Canadian YouTube user Klaatu42, the dude who did those cat voices, totally rocked it. I wonder if he does animation? Or maybe he just wanders around with small animals sitting on his shoulders and interprets their innermost thoughts for them, like he’s totally insane, yet oddly saintly. 2 Comments \| acting, animals, cute, funny, humor, i am not a crazy cat lady \| Tagged: acting, animation, cats, hamster, meow, talking cats, voice \| Permalink You are currently browsing the pageslap blog archives for May, 2009.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1094
__label__cc	0.716146	0.283854	← Here we go again No, fluoridation is not associated with leading causes of death → Anti-fluoridationists exploit infant deaths by fiddling statistics Posted on April 9, 2017 \| 440 Comments A useful reminder of how activists lie with statistics The local anti-fluoride people have not stopped rabbiting away with their “science” – searching for anything bad they can argue is caused by community water fluoridation. The latest claim they make – fluoridation is responsible for infant deaths! And they have some statistics to “prove” this. The table below presented by well-known US anti-fluoride activist, Karen Favazza Spencer, in her article America First – Chemical Warfare on Infants: That table is simply lifted from a conspiracy style web page Why Pregnant Women Should Not Drink Fluoridated Water. OK – these statistics might fool some people – especially if you have a bias to confirm. But the more critical person might pick up that these figures are most likely cherry-picked and want to see the full data set or some analysis of the data. It’s not hard to find this data as there are tables of all sorts of things for US people organised by state. So, is there a relationship between infant deaths in each state and the extent of fluoridation in each state? There actually does appears to be one at first sight – here is the graph of the data for infant deaths in 213 plotted against the extent of fluoridation in 2012. But, just a minute – it is not actually statistically significant (p=0.106) and would account for only about 5% of the variance in infant deaths. Fluoridation is certainly not the main factor – and probably involved at all if other factors are considered. Here I will just take into account the influence of state elevation – because I know from previous work that fluoridation extent is related to mean state elevation (see ADHD linked to elevation, not fluoridation). Here is that relationship for the extent of fluoridation in 2012: So, the extent of fluoridation in each state is related to mean state elevation and this relationship is statistically significant (p=0.005). Actually not surprising as the larger and older cities where fluoridation might be expected are generally situated at lower elevations for a number of reasons. But what is the relationship between infant death and mean state elevation? Well, it is stronger than for the extent of fluoridation (p=0.002). Elevation accounts for about 18% of the variance in infant deaths in 2013. Finally, let’s combine both elevation and extent of fluoridation into a multiple regression and see what the relationship when both factors are combined. This multiple regression shows a statistically significant association (p=0.007) of the extent of infant deaths in each state in 2013 with the mean state elevation. However, there is no statistically significant association (p=0.592) with the extent of state fluoridation. So while infant deaths could be explained by mean state elevation and most probably one or more other factors, they certainly are not explained by the extent of fluoridation. Not at all! Preterm birth and conspiracy theory In her article, Karen Favazza Spencer makes the bald claim “Fluoridation is positively correlated with preterm birth and increased death rates by state “ – again citing from the conspiracy style web page mentioned above. Sure, that page makes that claim – “Domestic water fluoridation was independently associated with an increased risk of PTB [preterm birth].” But that is hardly credible evidence because that page goes on the say: “This study was never published nor was any follow-up research done, despite the fact that 2 years earlier, the US Institute of Medicine reported: ‘Those born preterm have an appreciable risk of long-term neurological impairment and developmental delay.'” Strange! It is not hard to find data for preterm birth. In fact, here it is for 2014 compared with the extent of state fluoridated in 2012: Clearly, there is no association between preterm births and extent of fluoridation. Yet that web page claimed there was and that the information had been suppressed! I guess that is another way ideologically motivated activists “prove” these sort of things – invoke a conspiracy theory to claim a relationship exists but the data is suppressed. So, once again the lesson is – never take at face value the claims made by anti-fluoridation activists – no matter how “sciency” their information looks or what data they invoke to “prove” them. Always check such claims for yourself. This entry was posted in Health and Medicine, SciBlogs, science, Science and Society and tagged fluoridation, fluoride, infant deaths, preterm births., SciBlogs. Bookmark the permalink. 440 responses to “Anti-fluoridationists exploit infant deaths by fiddling statistics” chris \| April 9, 2017 at 2:56 pm \| Nothing new there. Ms Spencer is a master at quoting Papers that have nothing to do with the argument she is trying to defend. So the point, cited to check all anti fluoride links is so relevent soundhill1 \| April 10, 2017 at 8:28 am \| More water can be consumed in pregnancy but less probably at higher altitudes which are cooler. Rather than extent of fluoridation need to work with extent of fluoridated water consumed as that increases fluoride intake. Elevated towns may be smaller and use sodium fluoride for fluoridation. Do they add lime in similar quantities or maybe alkalinise with sodium carbonate or hydroxide? And we already came across a sodium fluoride fluoridation health problem didn’t we? And its all crap unless you allow for magnesium Ken \| April 10, 2017 at 8:50 am \| Brian, I am afraid your comment is all crap – it does not even refer to the point of my article – the misuse of statistics. A proper look at these shows absolutely no association of infant death or preterm births with fluoridation. None at all! Hence your attempted diversion. soundhill1 \| April 10, 2017 at 11:01 am \| I was saying the things a “proper look” should consider. Ken \| April 10, 2017 at 11:41 am \| So your comment is a criticism of FFNZ and of Karen Favazza Spencer, Brian? Well, why didn’t you say. I think my criticism was fundamental. Stuartg \| April 11, 2017 at 7:34 am \| “And it’s all crap.” That sentence would have been accurate if it stopped there. Writers should be encouraged to take many possible variables into account. Altitude affects air pressure which is not good for pre-term births. It also affects UVB which may be good for pregnancy via vitamin D. If some individuals be more susceptible to fluoride via COMT variant I assert it be not fair to write them off using the excuse altitude shows a greater affect over the whole population. soundhill1 \| April 12, 2017 at 12:06 pm \| Even low air pressure at altitude does not affect all individuals the same. Here compare Tibet: the “original” inhabitants vs the newly arrived Han Chinese as regards neonatal troubles: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199511093331903#t=article The Dunedin Study which TV series Ken asked us to watch related of the COMT variant and how it did not have to be followed by antisocial characteristics but might even be banked on for special ability. It would be interesting to look at advanced rugby players and their COMT variants. They may be more affected by fluoride. I assert it be not the simple affect on all the sports people that Stuartg is suggesting. soundhill1 \| April 12, 2017 at 1:06 pm \| Ken I think your chart of infant deaths vs average state elevation should be segmented with an increase in the rate to about 7,000 feet as air pressure decreases followed by a decrease as the increased UVB effect shows. There are a few high outliers possibly. Need also to investigate residence in high rise buildings and note the Trumps live on the 66th floor where the air pressure must be a percent lower than ground level. (I can find my thinking to be not so clear even on a plane ascending to 18,000 feet where pressurisation keeps it like 900 – about 3,000 feet.) Stuartg \| April 12, 2017 at 5:45 pm \| “the simple affect on all the sports people that Stuartg is suggesting” If you read back, you will see that I’ve made no mention at all about the mental health of sports people. Oh, wait, it’s yet another spelling mistake that wasn’t picked up by proof reading. I suggest that you read back over the last few years and see exactly who has suggested that CWF has an effect, either simple or complex, on sports people. All I’ve ever done is ask that person to provide evidence why they believed the coincidences they’d found weren’t. They haven’t provided any. 14th June last year TV1 played a Dunedin Study episode which dealt the forms of the MAOA gene. 30% of people have the weak form and it is claimed they can become antisocial if maltreated up to age 11. Professor James Fallon who found 7 convicted murderers in his father’s family tree got his own brain scanned and it showed the problem pattern. But his mother had treated him well and his energy chanelled him to be a professor if you call that mental health. Stuartg: “If you read back, you will see that I’ve made no mention at all about the mental health of sports people.” I imagine top rugby players need controlled aggression if you call that mental health. I have been talking about top players but Stuartg wants me to extend the study to all players, suggesting that any problem of fluoridation on top players should affect all players. Stuartg \| April 12, 2017 at 11:45 pm \| “I have been talking about top players” I suggest that you read back. Let us know who extended their fantasy to lower grade players by first mentioning lower grade rugby teams, such as Timaru and Petone. Let us know who first mentioned football teams in the lower UK leagues such as Birmingham City. In fact, you could let us know who first raised the fantasy that CWF could reduce sports players performance by “more than 10%”. Then let us know who hasn’t been able to demonstrate significance in the tiny number of coincidences he’s been able to cherry pick among the thousands (millions?) of results available for him to peruse. FYI, affect ≠ effect. Stuartg \| April 13, 2017 at 12:57 am \| “Stuartg wants me to extend the study to all players, suggesting that any problem of fluoridation on top players should affect all players.” Read back. I’ve asked you to follow the scientific method: 1. Spot an oddity – done 2. Get an idea – done 3. Formulate a hypothesis – not yet achieved 4. Test the hypothesis for non-coincidence – not yet achieved 5. Present your research findings to the rest of the world – not yet achieved 6. Defend your research findings by answering the questions expected from the rest of the world – not yet achieved You’ve gone from stage 1, where you’ve spotted an odd result, to stage 2, getting an idea. You then appear to fantasise that means you’ve achieved all the rest of the stages. Or maybe you imagine that you’ve achieved ultimate proof, definitively established cause and effect, and that you are now merely awaiting the Nobel? In reality, you’ve managed to get stuck at the stage many non-scientist or anti-science people end up at. And you’ve even started calling your idea a “study”. You haven’t been able to recognise logical extensions to your idea. (eg more than 10% impairment in sports performance would be immediately obvious over all sports, over all grades) You haven’t been able to recognise when your ideas are self-contradictory. (eg you tell us that more than 10% impairment in sports performance would only be evident in the very peak grades whilst telling us you’ve observed it in lower grades) You haven’t been able to answer valid questioning of your ideas. You have perceived valid questions of your ideas as a personal attack. It would appear that you are unaware that all scientists have to defend their findings and reasoning. I suggest that you look up what earning a PhD entails. All in all, soudhill, you’re not managing the scientific method very well. Perhaps you should follow my suggestion and attend high school classes in the subject? Stuartg: “Let us know who extended their fantasy to lower grade players by first mentioning lower grade rugby teams, such as Timaru and Petone. Timaru (Sounth Canterbury) was in Division 1 until fluoridation and producing lots of All Blacks. Petone was in the top Wellington competition (Jubilee Cup) until the Petone Tech closed and boys had to go to school in fluoridated Hutt. Birmingham CIty was winning against Manchester United and playing in the top competition (becoming Premier League). 8 years after fluoridation it was still playing in the top competition but not winning against Manchester United. So it was relegated. And Stuartg claims I am comparing top teams against lower ones. Only because they become lower some time after fluoridation. Stuartg wrote: “You haven’t been able to recognise logical extensions to your idea. (eg more than 10% impairment in sports performance would be immediately obvious over all sports, over all grades)” Unless the genetics and environment are different for the top players. Stuartg: “Then let us know who hasn’t been able to demonstrate significance in the tiny number of coincidences he’s been able to cherry pick among the thousands (millions?) of results available for him to peruse.” Going through your list to check here’s one I have come across that does not give a correlation: Aston Villa vs Blackburn Rovers. But the p value is so high using my system that the result cannot be trusted. While 47 clubs have competed since the inception of the Premier League in 1992, only six have won the title: Manchester United (13), Chelsea (4), Arsenal (3), Manchester City (2), Blackburn Rovers (1) and Leicester City (1). The current champions are Leicester City, who won the title in 2015–16. A small part of Leicester is fluoridated but I can’t find when it started. With 10% of England fluoridated shouldn’t 10% of the winning years tend to be from fluoridated areas? Stuartg: “and that you are now merely awaiting the Nobel?” No I know I make too many spelling mistakes. Good spotting of unusual results. You’ve obviously had an idea. 💡 Now it’s up to you to do something with that idea. Don’t just remain stuck there and complain no-one pays attention to your idea. Do something with the idea that’s worth someone paying attention to. Be scientific about it. First you’ve got to formulate a hypothesis. Then you need to test your hypothesis for non-coincidence by using fresh data. (Re-using data that was used to generate a hypothesis isn’t testing it). I’ve already pointed out how you can get such data from the ‘net. Then publish your observations, your data and your results. Then defend your data, thinking and results against scientists’ questioning. At that stage you may, or may not, have demonstrated a correlation between CWF and sports performance. You want it investigated further? Then you have to demonstrate non-coincidental correlation. Until you’ve done all of that, your appearance to the world remains that of an anti-fluoridationist living in a conspiracist fantasy world of your own imagination, one who is denying the many decades of epidemiological research that confirm the benefits and safety of optimally fluoridated water supplies. “Then you need to test your hypothesis for non-coincidence by using fresh data.” How about you testing your claim that anything which affects some teams must affect all, Ken if it makes a difference you may have used the maximum elevations rather than the average for the states. Colorado is the highest at 6,800 ft. Maximum elevation is only “explaining” a bit over 60% of average elevation I make no claim other than that you appear to have spotted coincidence. You, however, claim to have observed detrimental effects (more than 10%) from CWF over multiple sports, multiple teams, multiple grades of sport, and multiple countries. But if you’ve changed your mind and are now no longer claiming there’s an effect on all teams, all sports, all grades, all countries, then you’ll have to allow for that when you produce your hypothesis before testing it. Your idea now begins to sound very close to the default of you having spotted coincidence. Personally, I think that you’ll be unnecessarily complicating your hypothesis if you start claiming the effect only occurs sometimes, some places, some sports, some grades: it would be like you, as an electrical technician, trying to find an rare intermittent fault on a circuit board – most of the time your testing would show nothing wrong with the board. Now, how about you providing some evidence of this effect (more than 10%) you claim to have observed? Bear in mind that repeating the coincidences that you’ve cherry picked to highlight your idea does not constitute providing evidence. Form your hypothesis from your cherry picked data, then use fresh data to test that hypothesis for non-coincidence. You could even pretend to be a scientist when you use the scientific method. Stuartg as with the “testing” of earthquake hypotheses which you related of, new types of foundations, it may take some time for new test circumstances to occur. Stuartg: “Bear in mind that repeating the coincidences that you’ve cherry picked to highlight your idea does not constitute providing evidence.” I relate them as a reminder then in discussion with you new ideas emerge that I have not seen before such as early this morning: “With 10% of England fluoridated shouldn’t 10% of the winning years tend to be from fluoridated areas?” I find it hard to do a correlation test over all the sorts of things I noticed, but maybe someone else can become interested. As I said I noticed unfluoridated Canterbury to be doing well. That formed my hypothesis then I started looking more widely. I don’t think myself to be seriously cherry picking. “I find it hard to do a correlation test over all the sorts of things I noticed” Why can’t you do it? Your comments about other people’s statistical analyses imply that you are conversant with doing them yourself. Go ahead, no-one is stopping you. No data? Well, I’ve pointed out how to find sources for the new data that you need to do the testing. Why don’t you use them? Not doing the correlation testing suggests that you already know there is no correlation between sports performance and CWF. “But maybe someone else can become interested” Highly unlikely. After the multiple decades of epidemiological research into populations with optimally fluoridated water supplies that completely contradict your beliefs, scientists are aware that the prior probability that your observations are non-coincidental is close to zero. So why should they waste the time and energy? But maybe you could interest some of your anti-fluoride cronies in doing the correlation studies that are evidently beyond your abilities? Or maybe they also think you’ve noticed coincidence and so can’t be bothered? “That formed my hypothesis” No. Hypotheses are for testing. That you haven’t tested one in – how many years now? – shows that you don’t have a hypothesis. Just fantasies. You claim to have observed detrimental effects (more than 10%) from sports people drinking optimally fluoridated water, occurring over multiple sports, over multiple teams, over multiple grades of sport, and over multiple countries. You now say you are unable to provide evidence to back that claim. I think an applicable phrase is: put up, or shut up. Stuartg: “Highly unlikely. After the multiple decades of epidemiological research into populations with optimally fluoridated water supplies that completely contradict your beliefs,” I have asked for how many studies. Let’s make it easier, which of these ranges?: 1,001- 10,000 Or better still give me some citations. Stuartg I wonder if you have ever seen cases of pellagra. Is ir showing again with poverty or idiosyncratic diets reappearing which were extremely uncommon when you went to medical school? Imagine yourself back in history you are seeing patients with varying degrees of dermatitis, diarrhoea, dementia, death. What sort of proof would you have wanted of a cause before treatment? Could you have encompassed the three or four symptoms into one disease or would you have had to separate them? How is correlation done when one cause can have a number of outcomes, as you note for my fluoridation/sport picture? And my fluoridation picture is further complicated by temperature/water consumption, modification of calcium/magnesium level and balance in water and the possibility for effects pre-conception to current with possibility for apparently delayed action. Stuartg you must have come across pellagra, possibly without knowing it and prescribing antidepressants, in patients on certain medications or even alcoholics. “The classical triad of pellagra is dermatitis, diarrhea and dementia. The symptoms do not have to appear in this order. Early symptoms of pellagra include lassitude, weakness, loss of appetite, mild digestive disturbances and psychiatric or emotional distress (anxiety, irritability and depression).” Click to access 56c0990b08aeedba05647102.pdf You will say I am diverting the topic but I say you are trying to force an oversimplified approach to studying possible fluoridation effects. As I said: put up, or shut up. Ken \| April 15, 2017 at 4:07 pm \| Brian – thanks for pointing out my mistake with the figure where I use maximum rather than mean state elevations. I have checked it out and fortunately, the mistake is only with that graph (I pulled out some information at the last minute for the graph and must have been confused). Fortunately, I have used the correct elevation figures in all the statistical analysis, etc. I have also corrected the figures where I wrongly cited infant death rates as percent. I guess that comes from missing my daily power nap. 🙂 Stuartg wrote: “As I said: put up, or shut up.” How about you stop shutting up and answer my questions which help elucidate about getting an agreed framework. Some of the time pellagra shows up as black tongue in creatures. But you can’t demand black tongue as a symptom before your treat with vitamin B3 rather than antidepressants like Prozac. Fluoridation could have one or more of several possible synptoms in sports teams from an area. The effects could be caused by 1. quantity of water consumed by players 2. change in the balance and concentration of calcium/magnesium when the water is treated. 3. interaction with other issues such as low iodine and or COMT and MAOA gene variants which may affect drives. 4. epigenetic effects – that gene switching on or off adaptation is inherited by offspring. 5. effect of results of 1-4 above on secondary school players with a follow on result on the adult teams they may be at the top of in 8 years. 6. possible other interactions or direct effects. So the sampling and correlation testing be not simple, Ken possibly to improve your analysis please note that the average dweller in a state may be in cities which are on average below or above the average elevation of the state. That if your elevation – preterm/morbidity/morality figures be correct they impact on the assumption in the Han/Tibetan blood oxygen saturation I cited, don’t they? Itâs not my analysis, Brian, and I am not interested in digging deeper into searching for causes. I do not have such expertise. I was simply showing how that the information being promoted by the FFNZ is completely wrong. They are scaremongering. Just as they did with the offensive email to Green Party MP Julie Anne Genter: https://matterchatter.wordpress.com/2017/04/15/an-open-letter-on-fluoride-science-and-kindness/ Ken though when research papers are claiming that altitude reduces oxygen saturation and causes trouble and your result claims altitude reduces trouble doesn’t that clash need to be sorted? Ken \| April 16, 2017 at 12:55 pm \| Not by me. Are you attempting to divert again away from the lies being told by the FFNZ people? That is what the article is about. Ken your relationship with altitude could be a coincidence just as Stuartg claims about a result of mine even though it had an excellent p value. Of course it could be, possibly. Correlation is never causation. But we do know that the association with fluoridation is bogus, don’t we? Correlation is not causation. But the issue is that your p value of 0.002 means that there are 2 chances in a 100 that the correlation is only by chance before even thinking about causation. My correlation at 3:05pm https://openparachute.wordpress.com/2017/03/23/fluoride-coffee-and-activist-confusion/#comment-81572 Results n=106, Rs=0.3041, t=3.26, p (two tailed) = 0.001506 has a better p value than yours but Stuartg pointed out it could be coincidence. You must be careful not to be tending to get people to think into circular thinking when you say, “But we do know that the association with fluoridation is bogus, don’t we?” since you are basing the bogusity claim on the correlation aren’t you? No I am not – did you not understand the article. I am basing the bogus charge on the fact that there is no statistically significant correlation with percentage of fluoridation in a state. And when covariates are included the level of significance drops even further – through the floor. Fluoridation should be the last fact to consider. Ken your p value of 0.592 means that your calculation cannot be relied on for its assertion of low correlation. What do you mean, Brian? Do you interpret such a large p value as indicating a statistically significant association? Surely not! Ken the p value says whether the r value (correlation) obtained is “significant.” You haven’t given the r value you obtained. Whatever it be, high or low means little since the p value is high. To claim a low correlation you state it and p must be<0.05 or better. Al you have shown is that your calculation has not come up with a good enough p value to say anything. I am not the one saying anything – it is your mates in FFNZ claiming that fluoridation is associated with increased infant deaths. The extremely high p value shows they are wrong when elevation is included as a covariate. Even without including any covariates their association is still not statistically significant. There is absolutely no association between fluoridation and infant death – why try to claim there is? Ken: “The extremely high p value shows they are wrong when elevation is included as a covariate.” No it just shows that the data you have put into that sort of calculation is not sufficient to make any claim and the p value is telling you. The high p value means a correlation cannot be claimed using those figures and that method. But it cannot be ruled out. To rule it out the calculation needs to produce a very low r and p<0.05 or better. Ken you might try this, entering in say your r values you have for any relationships between say pre-term and fluoridation, pre-term and altitude, and altitude and fluoridation. I presume N will be 51 if you have data for every state. Vassarstats will do its sort of calculation and give t and two-tailed p values., holding each of the three variables controlled in turn. http://vassarstats.net/par.html By putting in larger values of N it is possible to see how many states would be necessary to give significant partial correlations when the non-partial correlations are low. Please do not confuse “significant” with notable – the magnitude of the correlation. “Significance” (the p value) only indicates whether the correlation which has been calculated can be trusted. “Fluoridation could have one or more of several possible synptoms (sic) in sports teams from an area. The effects could be caused by” “could”? You’re not sure? The first thing you need to do then is to actually show if an effect actually exists. If the effect is “more than 10%”, as you say, then there should be plenty of evidence for you to cite. Why are you not able to cite evidence that the effect actually exists? Why are you unable to “put up”? The logical answer is that you can’t provide evidence for the simple reason that CWF has no effect on sports performance. Brian, you are welcome to try whatever you want in your efforts to retrieve a nasty role of fluoride. The data is freely available. But I am not going to waste my time. But there is clearly no association of preterm births with fluoridation extent – you can tell that just be eyeballing the data in the figure. Why bother attempting to revive the claim. It is clearly another lie from the FFNZ people. You are just attempting to cover that lie up with yet another diversion. Stuartg I have produced many observations putting fluoridation under suspicion. They are of differing scenarios. I am not all the way there yet as you aren’t when you prescribe mental health treatment without checking vitamin B3 status. “the average dweller in a state may be in cities which are on average below or above the average elevation of the state.” Yep. Average is average. “I have produced many observations putting fluoridation under suspicion” But you still haven’t produced any evidence that your observations are not coincidence. Until you do so the suspicion remains entirely your own fantasy. As I said: put up, or… As Ken, along with many others, said: correlation is not causation. You haven’t yet demonstrated correlation. But you fantasise that you’ve demonstrated causation. You really should attend classes about the basics of science. Perhaps someone else talking about the toxicity of fluoride may help? Ken perhaps you should also take into account induced abortion rate. On your preterm births chart the high points would be Mississippi, Louisianna, Alabama and West Virginnia. They are in the lower half of abortion rates. So might it be expected that less viable babies are being kept as long as possible? Those states are about half way long your altitude chart, making the line more horizontal than it would be if they were not at that point. Induced abortion rates are negatively correlated with altitude r -0.3638 t -2.62 P two-tailed so presumably positively correlated with fluoridation extent, so going by averages these four states could be further along the chart increasing the slope. Have you not got the message, Brian? My article pointed out how FFNZ was using cherry picked data to lie about the relationship of infant deaths to fluoridation. I showed there is no statistically significant association – particularly when one possible covariate (which is related to fluoridation extent) is included. The weak and statistically non-significant relations they claimed is not due to fluoridation. As for preterm births – they advanced a conspiracy theory to imply measurements have found a statistically significant relationship but this information had been suppressed. I simply showed there is no statistically significant relationship, the data is readily available and they are lying about suppression. I have shown that yet again, FFNZ is lying and they a fiddling statistics. Yet again! My task is complete – I have absolutely no interest in doing any of the things you suggest. You are simply trying to divert attention away from the purpose of my article and what I have shown. That FFNZ is lying – yet again. And the top 3 of those states have African American percentages of MS 37.3 (2nd in US) LA 32.4 (3rd) AL 26.38 (7th) and when working with all subjects you still need to be fair comparing like with like, then the line would be steeper. One way of lying with statistics – in epidemiology – is to leave out categories who don’t support your case, as the CDC did with MMR, Black boys and ADHD. Or to include non-equivalent group members when it suits. Making a start to get equivalent groups I have left off Hawaii and the 10 states with about 20% or more African American population. (Actually 19.91% or above). Then correlating preterm births against fluoridation extent I calculate from Vassarstats number of states 40 correlation 0.3628 or fluoridation “explaining” 13% of preterm births. t value 2.4 (two-tailed) That last comment demonstrates two things you lack: knowledge of statistics and inability to question anti-fluoride propaganda. http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2016/01/06/the-cdc-whistleblower-data-dump-redux-even-william-thompson-appears-not-to-believe-the-antivaccine-spin/ But well done for trying to divert again. Stuartg so you make a big thing about where Thompson saved the computer files at the time of the document destruction: “All the associated MMR-Autism Study computer files have been retained on the Immunization Safety Office computer servers since the inception of the study and they continue to reside there today.” Stuartg:”you lack: knowledge of statistics” I think you to be referring to my race-based selection of subjects which then shows a result. What protocol would you use about comparing likes with likes? I’d refer to a statistician, someone who knew more than me about the subject. I’m aware I don’t have the knowledge to comment. I only have two years of statistics at university so am much less qualified to talk on the subject than an electrical technician who hasn’t managed high school science. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect “Thompson saved the computer files at the time of the document destruction” Haven’t you heard? Hooker’s incompetent “re-analysis” (subsequently retracted) was of Destefano et al’s already published data. He had no need to save data files already in the public arena. You continue to demonstrate that you are unable to question anti-fluoride doctrine. Do you have an anti-fluoride catechism? One that you use for cut and paste? One that you’re not allowed to deviate from? Even when it’s been repeatedly proven wrong? You give that impression. Stuartg: “He had no need to save data files already in the public arena.” The files only remained on the computer because Thompson saved them. They are not exactly in the public arena now it is very hard to get permission to review them. Stuartg: “Do you have an anti-fluoride catechism? One that you use for cut and paste? One that you’re not allowed to deviate from?” No I think things out for myself. Another example 7 or 8 years ago http://tumeke.blogspot.co.nz/2009/03/someone-please-tell-national-that.html “At 27/4/09 3:47 pm, Blogger soundhill said… Ian Wishart wrote: “And memo to Bomber, the planet is currently cooling overall, not warming. Latest data, FWIW, shows Antarctica in particular has cooled by up to 0.21C since 1980.” I would expect Antarctica to cool with global warming. Deep ocean currents bring heat to calve icebergs which then travel to latitudes where they reflect away heat which was formerly being absorbed by seawater. ” I also sent emails to some scientists and the subject is turning up in Scientific American years later. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/antarctica-rsquo-s-sleeping-ice-giant-could-wake-soon/?WT.mc_id=SA_DD_20170412 Stuartg are you referring to this DeStefano paper?: Click to access PediatricsDeStefanoMMRAtlanta113(2)259.pdf They specify male and female, and race but do not give race by sex. http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2016/01/05/the-cdc-whistleblower-documents-a-whole-lot-of-nothing-and-no-conspiracy-to-hide-an-mmr-autism-link/ An earlier comment of mine was: I notice that you still haven’t shown correlation, that you still haven’t shown that your observations are not coinidental. The obvious conclusion is that any relationship between CWF and sports performance that you noticed is pure coincidence. Unless you show correlation, that is… Coincidental, not coinidental. No, I refer to the complete original paper. Stuartg my cite was a complete paper not just an abstract. If you think there to be something more “original” dividing Blacks by sex, then please cite. Stuartg I have shown several correlations. You have not shown any correlations. What you have done is to mention some interesting coincidences. Nothing you have written or cited has demonstrated non-coincidence of those observations. I’ve pointed several ways that you can demonstrate non-coincidence of your observations, any of which could be easily used by an expert statistician. Once you demonstrate non-coincidence, then you have correlation. Unless you demonstrate correlation, all you have is coincidence. But then, expert statistician that you claim to be, you already know all of that. Failing to attempt demonstration of non-coincidence suggests that you already know there is no correlation and that your entire purpose is spreading FUD about CWF. You want the original data from Destefano et al? Simple. Such data is never deleted as the authors may want to re-analyse when additional data becomes available. It’s still available from the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/developmentaldisabilities/maddsp-data-sets.html Stuartg, from that how is anyone supposed to know what data sets are available? And Dr Hooker says Destefano was the one who had ordered the destruction of the data and took over from Thompson and presented fraudulent data in a talk to the Institute of Medicine which Thompson had been supposed to give. Stuartg a correlation can be by coincidence – chance. The associated p value tells of the chance the correlation is only the result of chance. At p=0.05 there is one chance in 20 that that correlation only happened by chance – coincidence. My p values were usually better. So my correlations are regarded as statistically significant. You may only claim I have not demonstrated a causal connection – the same with any set of correlations. The figures I gave for South Canterbury’s contribution to the All Blacks appears that I would get a significant negative correlation with fluoridation. That does not mean that I would get the same for other places say like Tauranga, Then I would look for other factors such as low South Canterbury iodine compared to Tauranga. Small numbers mean unreliable statistics. Even a high school student of statistics could tell you that. But then, as an electrical technician who has never done science, your skills with statistics are obviously so much greater than someone who’s actually been taught statistics. “That does not mean that I would get the same for other places say like Tauranga” – and I’m encouraging you to do the same for places like Tauranga. Or New Plymouth. Or Southland. Or Marlborough. Or Northland… In fact, why don’t you include everywhere in the country so that you have significant numbers and can allow for confounding variables? I’ve pointed out how you can do the same for UK football teams. I’ve pointed out how you can check secondary level NZ teams. I’ve pointed out how you can check with different sports, using different grades, both sexes, all ages. …But you don’t do so. I suspect that you already know that you would demonstrate coincidence and non-correlation by checking other, larger, numbers. So, instead, you ignore the science and continue to use cherry-picked coincidences to spread FUD about CWF. Here’s a simple challenge for you, directly related to your “observations’ and “studies”: After over 70 years and many hundreds of millions of people enjoying the benefits of optimally fluoridated water, please cite one documented example of any physical harm to any person, or to any population, because they drank optimally fluoridated water, even for as much as a lifetime. Stuartg, if I do the same for Tauranga, then if the correlation for Tauranga be statistically significant, then it be worth comparing it to Timaru, if Timaru also be statistically significant. Stuartg perhaps an analogy will help. If I am on holiday Is it safer to drive a car on the right or left side of the road? Say I holiday in Australia of Japan and do OK on the left in a statistically significant fashion, then you are like someone who holidayed in the USA or China who claims driving on the left be not safe for them in a statistically significant fashion. You are like saying I ought take a larger sample over more countries. In that case there is the obvious difference where we know that the rules are different. Some countries drive on the left and some on the right. Taking the wider average does not help. If I holiday in several countries I should soon find out the two statistically significant patterns. Unless I am slow at learning and think there should be one way overall to be testing. If my thinking ability develops I may see there may be something to do with which side of the car the steering wheel is on. Or there may be arrows on the road. All that is so easy to see so why not for possible interactions of fluoridation with temperature, activity, amount of water drunk, in combination with other inputs, balances of minerals and sunlight/ vitamin D at various latitudes/altitudes/skin colours, other genetic types of person? Do you see that to leave out more principles and just ask for one overall tally for fluoridation be wrong, just as it be wrong to leave out knowledge of different driving rules in various countries? It is like you keep asking me for one example where driving on the left side of the road isn’t safe because it has been proven it works in the whole “British Commonwealth.” There may be better analogies. Do go on… Everyone is noting how you are unable to provide any evidence that people or individuals have been harmed by drinking optimally fluoridated water in more than seventy years. “perhaps an analogy will help” No. Evidence would help your argument. If you have any. Stuartg please define “optimally fluoridated water.” Are you going to give me the 1990 version or what? Why has the definition changed? If no harm then no need for change. Unable to answer the question? You can use today’s definition, or that of 70 years ago, or any intervening, as long as you justify your choice. Everyone is still noting how you are unable to provide any evidence that populations or individuals have been harmed by drinking optimally fluoridated water for over seventy years, even over entire lifetimes. Evidence would really help your argument. But you still haven’t produced any. If you have difficulty in deciding what an optimal level of CWF is, you could always use the level from somewhere that democratically chose to continue CWF. Perhaps the level in Ken’s home, Hamilton? Stuartg: “As I said: put up, or…” Do you only accept overt symptoms? Stuartg do you have to see bandy legs in a child before you prescribe vitamin D? (By which time it be too late of course) Stuartg how large does a patient’s thyroid have to be before you are prepared to send them for a thyroid test? Don’t you think it be more fair to be awake to earlier signs? Stuartg: “I suspect that you already know that you would demonstrate coincidence and non-correlation by checking other, larger, numbers.” I have shown correlation figures and their associated p values which demonstrate statistical significance at much better than what may be accepted in many studies. What level of p value do you demand? Stuartg: “If you have difficulty in deciding what an optimal level of CWF is, you could always use the level from somewhere that democratically chose to continue CWF. In other words, not answering my question but proclaiming: “Obey me! Abracadabra you shall forget history.” It should be obvious that my references to overt symptoms, bandy legs and enlarged thyroid are follow-ons to earlier indications that could have been dealt with to prevent the eventual aggravated conditions. And that I maintain such matters as correlations between fluoridation and poorer community sports performance ought to be noted and acted upon before overt symptoms in individuals appear. We can still see that you are unable to cite any evidence that individuals or populations have been harmed by drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies in the more than seventy years since CWF was started. Even when you are allowed to define “optimally” and “harm” yourself, provided you also justify your definition, you are still unable to cite evidence. What next? Do you need someone else to define the terms “water”, “drinking”, “fluoridated”, “seventy”, or “years” for you? You may have shown “correlation figures”, but you have not yet shown correlation or non-coincidence. But then, could we expect an electrical technician with no secondary education in science to understand that? Maybe not, especially when the Dunning-Kruger effect is so strong. Stuartg: “You may have shown “correlation figures”, but you have not yet shown correlation or non-coincidence.” The likelihood of “coincidence,” or the calculated correlation value happening by chance is given by the p value. At p=0.05 it is a 1 in 20 chance, which is accepted in many studies as a statistically significant correlation. What p value limit do you require? Stuartg: “What next? Do you need someone else to define the terms “water”, “drinking”, “fluoridated”, “seventy”, or “years” for you?” The point is that “optimally fluoridated,” has changed from meaning a range: 0.7 – 1.2 mg/l to meaning only 0.7 mg/l in USA and NZ may be catching up. The story goes mild dental fluorosis is not an illness in fact it be good for you. But because it is increasing a little with better tooth brushing with fluoridated toothpaste the level put into water is going to be decreased. You weren’t being harmed it has been good for you but we’re going to decrease fluoridation level because of that increase in that good effect. “That good effect in which fluoride was damaging the cells which form tooth enamel causing the enamel to get develop with white opacities.” …And the point is that even though you are able to specify your own level for optimal fluoridation, provided you justify that level, you still have been unable to cite an individual or a population that has been harmed by drinking such optimally fluoridated water, even for over seventy years consumption. And though fluoridation plus toothpaste was damaging the cells which form your tooth enamel especially in some people, and so causing the white opacities on the teeth, we don’t know if it be genetic and we don’t think it to be damaging anything else. Stuartg: “you still have been unable to cite an individual or a population that has been harmed by drinking such optimally fluoridated water” I have cited populations it is just that you have a mind set that illness has to be really bad before you accept it. Bad like too late to do anything much except arrange extra carers. You have the option to define “harm”, as long as you are able to justify your definition. You have the option to define the level of fluoride at which “optimal fluoridation” occurs. Again, you have to be able to justify your definition. Now, given your ability to set those definitions, could you please explain to us why you are unable to cite any documentation of harm that has occurred to individuals or to populations from drinking optimally fluoridated water over at least the past seventy years? Of course, the default answer, the obvious answer, is that in more than seventy years of study epidemiologists have never found any harm to individuals or populations from drinking optimally fluoridated water. Your inability to cite evidence to the contrary is merely supporting the epidemiologist finding of no harm. Stuartg: “You have the option to define “harm”, as long as you are able to justify your definition.” Why not reduced community rugby performance? Stuartg: “You have the option to define the level of fluoride at which “optimal fluoridation” occurs. Again, you have to be able to justify your definition.” The accepted level for that community at that time. Stuartg: “could you please explain to us why you are unable to cite any documentation of harm” The discussion on this group could lead to eventual publication by me or others. Until then no citation of published work can be produced. You appear to try to be convincing readers that since nothing has been peer reviewed yet that it never can be. Funny, by your logic we would never see any new discoveries. You believe that harm is/has been produced by CWF. At least, that’s what you tell us. So why is it that you cannot cite any documents that support your beliefs? Unless there is no evidence out there? After all, CWF has been used by millions of people for more than seven decades now. Hundreds, if not thousands, of epidemiologist have been studying those communities, searching for harm. Hundreds, if not thousands, of local and national governmental departments have been monitoring those communities – and most, if not all, of their monitoring data has been published online. And yet you are still unable to cite any published documents that support your beliefs. Maybe those unsubstantiated beliefs are better called fantasies? https://thelogicofscience.com/2017/04/23/science-matters-because-it-works/ Stuartg: “You believe that harm is/has been produced by CWF. At least, that’s what you tell us.” Reduced community football performance for one thing Documents have to be written before they can be cited. How about 100 cites then? I doubrt they be what you imply. It always has to start somewhere. Everything starts as a fantasy. You brought up the factor of trading of players between teams. I think it would work against my observations as players move from fluoridated to non-fluoridated areas or vice versa, not reinforce them. That will be something to eventually publish then people will be able to cite it. Stuartg cited: “Now, at this point, inevitably lots of people are going to get offended and respond with something to the effect of, “I’m not anti-science, but…I disagree with the way that science is being done, I think that massive corporations are buying off scientists, I have anecdotes that don’t match the science, scientists have been wrong in the past, scientists are close-minded, etc.,” but those aren’t valid responses and by using them you are standing in opposition to science, which makes you, by definition, anti-science.” Give a verification for that, please. You are not standing in opposition to science you are doing what science demands – challenge. Continuing, one thing we are led to believe is science, that is vaccines, is actually just a business venture. The vaccine manufacturers don’t even have need to work for safety since unlike most health areas they are absolved from any liability. Dr Hooker: “There is no inertia and there is no impetus for the CDC or the vaccine manufacturers to make safe vaccines. They know that vaccines are block-buster business. Many employees at the CDC end up in industry. Case in point Dr. Julie Gerberding, who was the director of the CDC from 2001 until 2008, took a very lucrative position as the head of the vaccine division in Merck in 2009. She was given stock options in the millions for that particular position so she overnight became a millionaire. There have been other employees that have gone on to lucrative positions. There’s actually a revolving door between the CDC and the vaccine industry. Dr. Thompson himself came from Merck. He worked at Merck before he worked at the CDC. Dr. Frank DiStefano who is the current head of the immunization safety office at the CDC actually left the CDC, went into industry and then came back to the CDC.” soudhill, OK, I understand what you’re saying. I suspect that so does everyone else. You fantasise that drinking optimally fluoridated water impairs sports performance. By about 10%, you said, which would reduce professional or Olympic grade athletes to about high school level. Absolutely no epidemiologists have ever noted that drop in performance, even though they’ve been actively searching for something like this for over seventy years. Neither have sports scientists – and they look for fractions of a percentage improvement or impairment. The truth is that you’ve observed some minor sporting coincidences, none of which have been duplicated elsewhere, and you now believe that with those coincidences you have proved harm occurs from CWF. Go ahead, write it up. Don’t forget to mention that you have no references to cite and that the entire thing depends on those coincidences you’ve observed. Even your anti-fluoride cronies will recognise it as fantasy. All your comments up to date show you agree with the scientific maxim that the dose makes the poison; the higher the amount of fluoride ingested, the greater the degree of fluorosis on teeth and the greater degree of other effects. That maxim means that any effect of fluoride on sports performance is not going to be an on/off effect. It would be expected to be greater with increased fluoride intake, just as happens with other effects. The effect would be most evident in areas with high levels of fluoride in the water, exactly like the increased level of fluorosis in those areas. We can find such areas around the world: China, India, parts of the USA, many areas in Africa, areas in South America, areas of the Middle East, several of the ‘Stans, parts of Australia. How come no epidemiologists in those areas have noted a massive (“greater than 10%”, remember?) impairment of sporting performance from fluoride? Not even Chinese researchers, those that you have so frequently cited in the past for their dubious recognition of effects of high water fluoride, managed to observe the massive changes in sporting performance that you claim occur. Thousands of scientists, working worldwide, haven’t been able to detect an effect of CWF on sporting performance, in over seventy years of searching, even though they were actively searching for such things. Or what if the effect was not dose dependent, but instead it actually was an on/off effect, with optimally fluoridated water capable of triggering your claimed 10% impairment of sporting performance? 10% impairment would mean that NZ would not have any international level athletes from Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Dunedin… Indeed, there would not be any international level athletes from any areas of the world with CWF or higher water fluoride. We can readily see that’s not the case by looking at the sporting pages of most newspapers. Why look at p values when even The Press contradicts the idea of an on/off effect? p values (sigh!) You claim Birmingham City results to be statistically significant, p=0.05 for significance. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_football_clubs_in_England. Birmingham City is just one club in the top 27 leagues in England. Each league has about 20 clubs, some more. Each club has several teams. And you’ve noticed an effect on just one team from a list of well over 500 clubs? There should be many more teams with similar records, purely by coincidence. (Back of the envelope calculation: over 2,500 teams, so we should be able to identify similar records in over 120 teams) You have failed to identify a simple coincidence; instead you used that coincidence to reinforce your own beliefs, fantasising that you had identified cause and effect. Your logical reasoning is highly flawed, soundhill. Maybe if you had taken secondary school classes in science it would be better? Maybe you would understand statistics enough to recognise your lack of knowledge in the area? Maybe you would be able to identify coincidence? Stuartg: “Not even Chinese researchers, those that you have so frequently cited in the past for their dubious recognition of effects of high water fluoride, managed to observe the massive changes in sporting performance that you claim occur.” Tibet has to compete under the Chinese flag in the Olympics. Out of its over 3 million people it has only ever achieved one medal: a bronze in a women’s walk in 2012. Compare to New Zealand which achieved 18 for 4.5 million people last year. Tibetans drink a lot of brick tea which is high in fluoride. China with 1.7B people came 76th in the number of population per medal (70 total medals.) Yet again you cherry pick. Didn’t you notice that China has multiple high fluoride areas, not just Tibet, yet continues to gain multiple gold medals? So does the USA. And Australia. And African countries. And even NZ, with its areas of CWF, still manages to gain gold medals at the Olympics. And, hadn’t you noticed, your idea of “more than 10%” impairment in sports performance from CWF (or even high fluoride area) implies that no-one from Tibet would even qualify for the Olympics? Someone from Tibet winning a gold medal at the Olympics implicitly suggests that your idea is wrong. And, yet again, I will point out that you are still unable to cite any published evidence that any individual or population has been harmed by drinking optimally fluoridated water in the more than seventy years during which such harm has been sought. Stuartg: “And, hadn’t you noticed, your idea of “more than 10%” impairment in sports performance from CWF (or even high fluoride area) implies that no-one from Tibet would even qualify for the Olympics?” It is that the correlation offers 10% and in the case of Aston Villa 5%, if I remember, explanation for the order of wins related to fluoridation plus 8 years. It does not mean take the percent off the score. Sorry I let you say it a few times before commenting. So to comment on your other Olympic comments take a look overall at the Olympics. http://fluoridealert.org/content/bfs-2012/ gives the percent of a country which is fluoridated. If not shown I have assigned 0. http://www.medalspercapita.com gives the number of Olympic medals per capita. 86 countries are shown. For ones on the fluoridation list but not on the medals list such as SIngapore (100% fluoridation) I have assigned rank 87. Using Vassarstats rank correlation I get those further down the rank are correlated to greater percent fluoridation of the countries. 95 values entered. rank correlation 0.2382 and squaring that gives 5.7% explanation. t value 2.36 P one-tailed two-tailed whether you think this to be one or two-tailed. Check it for me please. And please note if I were working with fluoride in the water the correlation may be greater. That be because countries like China with 0 fluoridation actually have quite a lot of natural fluoride. Its low medal ranking would then be associated with more fluoride not zero as for its fluoridation. Please note I work with rank correlations, that is comparing the 1st 2nd 3rd …&c. largest variables in each set. So my correlations relate to position on the list, not the scores. You still have not cited any published evidence to demonstrate that drinking optimally fluoridated water has caused harm to individuals or populations for more than seventy years, in spite of millions of people benefiting from CWF. Some actual evidence from you may benefit your claim. Stuartg just because evidence is published does not mean it to be infallible. See Retraction Watch. And the lack of publication is not infallible either. Have you heard of publication bias? I never interpreted your claim of “more than 10%” sports impairment by CWF as “take the percent off the score.” (Except maybe in your imagination?) I interpreted it to mean what you typed, that CWF impairs sports performance by “more than 10%”. After all, if that’s not what you meant, then why did you bother to type it? You have previously claimed that what you typed is not what you meant, and so I then advised that you should review your typing before hitting “Post.” Obviously you didn’t bother to take that advice, either. So what made you decide that, among all the people in the world, you are the only one whose claims do not require any evidential support? Claims without evidence are known as fantasies. I note that at least one paper you cite (on a topic other than CWF) has had the distinction of appearing on Retraction Watch. But you still appear to treat it as infallible gospel. Stuartg: “I note that at least one paper you cite (on a topic other than CWF) has had the distinction of appearing on Retraction Watch.” The paper by Seralini et al was retracted by Food and Chemical Toxicology after a Monsanto employee came on to the board of the journal and a story was made up that Seralini had not used enough rats for a cancer study but it was not a cancer study. It was a toxicology study and used same number and type of rats as Monsanto. Unlike the Monsanto study it did not stop at 3 months. Since then several authorities are classifying glyphoste as a cancer promoting possibility. Seralini was only reporting tumours as is proper protocol if they occur. Stuartg: “So what made you decide that, among all the people in the world, you are the only one whose claims do not require any evidential support?” I am not making claims I am pointing out possible connections. I am working with published sports data. If everyone has to work with cited research data then new discoveries could not show up. Stuartg:”I interpreted it to mean what you typed, that CWF impairs sports performance by “more than 10%”. After all, if that’s not what you meant, then why did you bother to type it?” I can’t find the original statement but here’s what I said to David Gierstien: “Using the Manchester United vs Birmingham City football results – 106 games starting 19th century I have given Manchester United 1 for a win 0 for a draw and -1 for a loss. Starting from 1979, 8 years after fluoridation stated in Birmingham City, Manchester United had no more losses against them. I assert that Birmingham City players were harmed by fluoridation. Using 0 for the years up to 1978 and 1 for the years from then on I have used Vassarstats to do a rank correlation. p (two tailed) = 0.001506. Correlation is not causation, however in this case the chance is 15 parts per 10,000 that it is only chance that fluoridation after a short delay “explains” over 9% of the results.” Have you converted 9 to 10 Stuartg? Not that that amount is important just that you seem to be bending things then being so sure about your bent results. Sorry I let you go on so long with the “10%.” If I did say it I apologize and how about you refer me to the place. There is no claim there that fluoridation has affected the results. It is stating results and a calculation to think about. Note “explains” I put in in inverted commas. It is a common use of the word, isn’t it, for statistical connection and does not mean actual causation? I didn’t recall the Seralini paper. That makes at least three retracted papers that you continue to cite. “More than 10%” – note the quotation marks I use when quoting you directly. “I am not making claims” – in that case, why are you attempting to use statistics to back up your non-claims? Let’s summarise. You’ve observed some interesting results in multiple sports in multiple countries. You haven’t investigated them further, for instance by looking to see if the results extend to other, similar teams. That’s commonly known as cherry picking. You have then directly related those interesting observations to the presence or absence of CWF at various stages in the life of the players. You have not considered other causes, including coincidence. You have attempted some statistics without actually identifying the complete population you need to work with, making your results irrelevant. Based on your cherry picking and inappropriate statistics, you then claim that CWF causes harm to populations: “Reduced community football performance for one thing” – yes, that’s a claim made by “I am not making claims” soundhill. Another claim you make is “more than 10%” impairment of sporting performance. And all of this without being able to cite a single shred of evidence. CWF has been in use for over seventy years. Millions of people drinking CWF have been extensively studied by epidemiologists and both local and national governmental organisations for those seventy plus years. Many of their results and studies are freely available. And, amongst all that evidence, you have been unable to find anything to support your claims. That alone is a pretty good refutation of your claims. Stuartg: “WOW! More than 10% impairment in sports performance is attributable to CWF! That amount of impairment is really noticeable: About 1 second in the 100 metres About 23 seconds in the 1500 metres Then please explain what you said: “I never interpreted your claim of “more than 10%” sports impairment by CWF as “take the percent off the score.”” I have been talking about ranks. I see you quoted me about the 10% before: ““(The reference) says 10% which does not explain the differences I believe may be related to fluoridation.”” [I am not sure if you or I wrote “(the reference)” which is by the way] but it is not what you say: ““More than 10%” – note the quotation marks I use when quoting you directly.” What I was saying was that you had said it had been said the colour of the gear could produce a 10% improvement. I thought you were serious, and I said I thought (believed) fluoridation to have more effect than that, yes. But when I calculated the correlation from the Birminghan Manchester United results it only came out to just over 9% – obtained by squaring the correlation I obtained. Stuartg: “I didn’t recall the Seralini paper. That makes at least three retracted papers that you continue to cite.” Please cite again. Stuartg, I am not making claims I am pointing out statistically significant correlations in certain groups from certain geographical areas. You have wanted me to look wider which I believe my Olympics medals rate and percent fluoridation does. Stuartg: ““I am not making claims” – in that case, why are you attempting to use statistics to back up your non-claims?” You are the one making a claim – fluoridation to be safe. I have not made a claim that it isn’t – I have only presented statistically significant correlations which caste doubt and which need to be investigated carefully, not just write them off as many coincidences. Ken investigates – he introduces new possible “causes” (statistically thinking.) then does multiple regressions and finds no statistically signficant result in the controlled situation. That does not prove no connection. A statistically significant near-zero correlation be required for that. Also Ken ought to try to compare similar populations across USA. Some of the states have very different African American population proportions, and we know from Thompson of the CDC that their young males can relate differently in some matters, for example MMR- autism. It be no use the way you did, Stuartg, giving the anecdotes about a few fluoridated countries and their Olympic successes. Well it would be if it led to better correlating. Come on science! I’ve told you this before, several times, but it bears repeating. One of the first rules of statistics is that you do not use the data used to generate an idea or hypothesis to then test the hypothesis. After all, you already know the outcome and are just duplicating your own work. To test an idea or hypothesis you need to generate a completely new set of data and do the statistical analysis on the new data. I’ve pointed out several ways to get new data to test your ideas but you have completely ignored my suggestions. Because you’ve never sought out new data (possibly because it disproves your ideas?), we can completely ignore any statistical work you have done on the original, idea generating, observations. But then you would already know that if you had bothered to learn science at secondary school level. You give a brilliant example of the Dunning-Kruger effect in action, believing you have an advanced knowledge in a subject because you don’t actually understand the basics. Stuartg don’t you think the Olympics data to be new? “The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which low-ability individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability as much higher than it really is.” No Stuartg, I always express a level of uncertainty, sometimes quantified as a p value in a particular set of circumstances. I am working with new ideas, which have to enter into science somehow. I seems to be rather your high-handed “we can only take proven publications into account,” to be Dunning Kruger. Should be “It seems to be.” And Stuartg like Unison Network wanting to tax solar power you come under suspicion of trying to suppress new stuff. “don’t you think the Olympics data to be new?” No. Just another idea created by an entirely unrelated set of data. To test an idea, the new set of data actually has to be related to the original idea: To test an idea about team captains, you need data about the captains of other teams. To test an idea about UK football team results, you need data from the results of other UK football teams. To test an idea about second grade rugby teams, you need data from other second grade rugby teams. Yet you appear to be trying to test an idea about rugby team captains by using data from the Olympic games. And it’s not even data from Olympic rugby games! And yet you can’t understand what’s wrong with your “study”. So why is it that you think you’re an expert at statistics? As I said previously, you provide a good example of the Dunning-Kruger effect in action. You would get better reception for your “new stuff” if you actually had some evidence to support it. You now accuse me of “trying to suppress new stuff” when I’m asking you to supply evidence in support of your “new stuff.” When you prove you can’t provide the evidence, I’m giving you advice on how to actually obtain such evidence. Exactly how is that suppressing you? …Or is accusing me of “trying to suppress new stuff” another claim that you’re not making? You appear not to listen unless it already be published evidence. Any already published is old, not new. Stuartg has been saying put up published evidence or shut up. What is that if not intended to discourage the new as yet unpublished material from being discussed? Of course I’m asking for published evidence. Tell us exactly how, if evidence has not been published, anyone is expected to evaluate it? How can it even be called evidence? Evidence: “that which is seen” You want me to cite retracted papers you keep referring to? Hardly. Some names: Seralini. Hooker. Wakefield. “What is that if not intended to discourage the new as yet unpublished material from being discussed?”(sic) Soundhill, explain exactly how you expect unpublished material to be discussed. Or maybe I could “suppress” you further by encouraging you to publish your observations and subsequent “studies”, along with the claims you’re not making, so that we can see the data, the data analysis, the results of the analysis and your interpretation of them, any claims that you’re not making, and open all of that for discussion. After all, if there is any evidence to support the claims you aren’t making then shouldn’t it be released to the world rather than remaining hidden inside a single persons’ brain? I see that you are still unable to cite evidence to support your “I am not making claims” claim that drinking optimally fluoridated water has resulted in harm to any individual or population in the more than seventy years that CWF has been around. After all, there’s been more than seventy years of epidemiologists actively searching for any harm. More than seventy years of local and national governmental agencies publishing data about those populations. But up to now, your silence makes it appear that you haven’t found even one citation to support your “I am not making claims” claim. Stuartg: “But up to now, your silence makes it appear that you haven’t found even one citation to support your “I am not making claims” claim.” I am dealing with as yet unpublished, maybe never to published, things I have observed, and stating appropriate caution and p values where i have done correlations. They are things for discussion, not claims. Stuartg: “Soundhill, explain exactly how you expect unpublished material to be discussed.” On groups like this. Such as I cited from Tumeke and perhaps also sci.geo.oceanography I think about mechanisms of polar ice and temperature, some of which has now appeared in Nature to some extent. Tell me, Brian, why you donât submit such âthings for discussion, not claimsâ to FFNZ blogs, websites or Facebook pages? You might get a more sympathetic hearing there than you are going to get here where we recognise your bias and eccentricity. Ken I am not looking for sympathetic hearing. FFNZ Facebook page is complex as it has in it a lot of material easy to contradict, and I wonder if some of it has posted there with that purpose. “FFNZ Facebook page is…easy to contradict” And so are your “I am not making claims” claims. The more so because you are unable to cite any evidence supporting them, even with more than seventy years of published research into the topic. Since you seem to be keen on discussing things that have never been published, please discuss why seventy years of epidemiological research have been unable to demonstrate any harm from drinking optimally fluoridated water, resulting in no publications being able to support your “I am not making claims” claim of harm from drinking optimally fluoridated water? Bear in mind that, since you ask others to cite evidence supporting their viewpoint, the same is expected of you. Stuartg: “Bear in mind that, since you ask others to cite evidence supporting their viewpoint, the same is expected of you.” I have presented figures which indicate not enough research has been done. Let’s see yours to criticise it, especially for lack of looking at genetic types and other factors such as iodine intake. Do you have an opinion on whether quality of sleep ,may affect athletic performance? The pineal gland is close to the blood stream and so able to uptake fluoride. Where is your research which says all genetics types are safe and none will suffer early menarche and or poorer sleep from impaired pineal melatonin or other hormone production? I note that, in spite of your claim of wanting to discuss unpublished data, you are not willing to discuss the dearth of data showing harm from drinking optimally fluoridated water, even though there’s more than seventy years of research data that has been unable to show harm. You also seem to be going on to a Gish Gallop in an attempt to divert from your inability to demonstrate harm from CWF. That’s being kind: sleep, menarche, pineal gland, blood supply, iodine and genetics in one comment are probably better described as flight of ideas. You appear to be more concerned about imaginary unpublished “studies” (for want of a better word) than about what science actually shows us about the real world. If you are complaining that no-one has done the studies, then nothing prevents you from doing them yourself. (Apart from maybe the lack of knowledge about high school science and statistics, lack of grounding in research methods from university bachelors, masters and doctorates, lack of decades of research work and experience in the field…) “I have presented figures which indicate not enough research has been done” Have you? Please cite your publication. CWF has been place for more than seventy years. Epidemiological research into CWF has been continuing and being published for all that time. Local and governmental organisations have been monitoring and publishing about those populations for all that time. Millions of people have been documented as benefiting from CWF over that time. Yet from amongst that flood of research and evidence you are unable to cite anything that documents harm in an individual or population from drinking optimally fluoridated water, even for entire lifetimes. You make “I am not making claims” claims that CWF effects IQ, thyroid function, sports performance, (and now menarche, pineal function, sleep and genetics?). Well, if any of those things happen in the real world, you have more than seventy years of research and data, involving populations of millions of people, that will be capable of demonstrating just those effects. That’s why it is so telling that you are unable to cite anything that documents harm in an individual or population that has resulted from drinking optimally fluoridated water. Seventy years of research. No harm shown. It’s highly improbable that any harm results from CWF. Stuartg: “CWF has been place for more than seventy years. Epidemiological research into CWF has been continuing and being published for all that time. ” Show me one that has followed up on Lin FF et al low iodine interaction. Or else there must be publication bias or bias on what research is approved for funding. Show me the followups on COMT variants. Show me the followup division of early menarche related to fluoridation studies divided by genetic types. If I ask for funding for a study and Stuartg is on the approvals panel it is likely I would be told, there is no evidence of that therefore we will not fund it. So new evidence is being suppressed. Same for other people, possibly. Drug companies do not publish so many negative studies. And governments want to fund things to prove their policy. I believe that I asked you to cite evidence supporting your “I am not making claims” claim that harm has been caused to either individuals or populations from drinking optimally fluoridated water in the millions of people who have had documented benefits. For instance: show that there has been an effect on menarche from CWF that actually requires further research. Why do the research if there’s no effect to study? For instance: Lin et al studied high fluoride areas. Show that the same effect (which can also be termed “harm”) is present in areas with optimally fluoridated water supplies. If the effect is not present in areas with optimally fluoridated water supplies, then why does Lin et al have to be followed up? The most generous interpretation of their paper is that fluoride levels in those areas need to be reduced to the optimum level. So, where is your cited evidence that anyone has been harmed by drinking optimally fluoridated water in the more than seventy years it has been supplied to the millions of people who have documented benefits? I’m not on any approval panel. But if I were, anyone who could cite evidence of harm to individuals or populations from drinking optimally fluoridated water would get my support. There’s more than seventy years of data out there, not all of which has been included in the published research. If there is any documentation of harm in that data, I would want to know a lot more and would support more research – after all, that’s how science works (or weren’t you aware?) Or you could bear in mind that large amounts of research are published for which the author(s) did not request or require funding. I would suspect that online data mining of public databases from local and national governmental agencies and comparing whether CWF was present or not, such as I’ve previously suggested that you do, does not require much, if any, funding to support. A few hours on the ‘net and you’d have your data ready for statistical analysis. How much funding support does that require? Many years ago there was a comedy song “My boomerang won’t come back”, about a little aboriginal boy full of misery. The culminating line of the song was “first, you’ve got to throw it!” You’re like that miserable little boy in that you’re complaining that no-one is discussing or paying attention to your data. In your case the culminating line is “first, you’ve got to show us!” Humans have not evolved the ability to directly extract data by mind reading. That’s why we use the medium of written language to convey ideas and data between each other. You seem to have missed out on learning that point, instead expecting others to be able to discuss ideas and data that exist only in your head. I encourage you to publish your ideas, data, analyses and references so that people other than just yourself are able to discuss them. Stuartg: “In your case the culminating line is “first, you’ve got to show us!” “I would suspect that online data mining of public databases from local and national governmental agencies and comparing whether CWF was present or not,” but not from sports bodies? For that’s really what I have been doing. Anyway you now seem to be being less demanding about it being already published research. So, are you actually going to cite any evidence to support your “I am not making claims” claims about CWF? Or just carry on whining that, because you don’t cite any supporting evidence, no-one wants to discuss your evidence-free fantasies? In case you hadn’t noticed, sports results are also available on the ‘net. I’ve even pointed you to them and how to use them when you asked in another thread. Just because someone uses a single example does not mean that example cannot be expanded upon. “You now seem to be being less demanding about it being already published research” You want to discuss data, ideas and hypotheses that have not yet been published? Fine. Tell us exactly how you fantasise that anyone can partake in a discussion without the subject of the discussion having been published. Then you can cite the evidence supporting your “I am not making claims” claim that CWF has caused harm to individuals or populations in the more than seventy years it has been supplied. Stuartg: “Fine. Tell us exactly how you fantasise that anyone can partake in a discussion without the subject of the discussion having been published.” When they are interested in helping to check out or formulate new ideas with a view to building towards an excellent publication. soundhill1 \| May 1, 2017 at 7:43 am \| Sruartg: “Then you can cite the evidence supporting your “I am not making claims” claim that CWF has caused harm to individuals or populations in the more than seventy years it has been supplied.” My claim is that my annoying statistically significant localised correlations be noted. “For instance: Lin et al studied high fluoride areas. Show that the same effect (which can also be termed “harm”) is present in areas with optimally fluoridated water supplies.” Their words “high fluoride” and “low fluoride” were just distinguishing their two groupings. Their “high” was like optimally fluoridated water. Click to access fa-fu-et-al-1980-low-iodine-and-high-fluoride-environment-to-subclinical-cretinism-ln-xinjiang-term-effects-of-theiodine-slow-re.pdf Stuartg \| May 1, 2017 at 8:42 am \| “When they are interested in helping to check out or formulate new ideas with a view to building towards an excellent publication” That sounds like authors writing an article for publication. How do you expect others, not included in the list of authors, to participate in the discussion without communicating the data, analysis, thoughts and ideas to them, ie publication? CWF has been used for more than seventy years. Millions of people have received the documented benefits of CWF. Investigation of fluoride in water began prior to introduction of CWF. Epidemiologist have monitored the populations and individuals with CWF for more than seventy years so far. Epidemiologists continue to monitor those populations. National governments release population data for those areas with/without CWF. Local governments release population data from those areas with/without CWF. Many other agencies release data about populations with/without CWF. In more than seventy years of research and data analysis, no-one has been able to demonstrate any harm, to individuals or to populations, from drinking optimally fluoridated water. What do you think is the most likely reason that drinking optimally fluoridated water has never been shown to cause harm? People with an understanding of science or logic would consider it’s because optimally fluoridated water does not cause harm. But not you? You argue that CWF causes reduction in IQ because of some poor quality studies from high fluoride areas. Well, you’ve got more than seventy years of data from both fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas, data from tens of millions of people, and more than seventy years of examination results from those same areas as a marker for IQ. Show us that there’s an effect of CWF on IQ in the real world, not just in your imagination. You argue (I think – do you intentionally stay vague?) that CWF prevents people from captaining international sports teams by cherry picking a coincidence from the All Blacks. Well, it should be easy enough to demonstrate that’s not a cherry picked coincidental result. Look at the captains of other international sports teams – All Whites, Tall Blacks, Silver Ferns, Wallabies, FIFA teams, etc, etc. Show us that there’s an effect from CWF in the real world, not just in your imagination. You argue that there’s an impairment in sporting ability caused by CWF by cherry picking some coincidental results from an individual rugby team in the Wellington area. Well, it should be easy enough to demonstrate whether this is coincidental or not. There are many other rugby teams from fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas. Their results are freely available on the ‘net. How do their results compare? Show us that there’s an effect from CWF in the real world, not just in your imagination. You argue that there’s an impairment in sporting ability caused by CWF in the UK football leagues. You’ve again cherry picked a set of coincidental results, this time from two teams that play in different leagues because they have different skill levels. You claim that the, not unsurprising, result of the team in the higher league winning more games is because the lower league team drinks CWF. Well, there are many other pairs of fluoridated and non-fluoridated clubs out there, in many countries, some of them even playing in the same league. Their results are all on the ‘net. Use those other results to show us you haven’t just cherry picked a coincidental set of results. Show us that there’s a harmful effect of CWF in the real world, not just in your imagination. You argue something about thyroid function and CWF. Again on the basis of very poor quality studies (has there ever been a negative study out of China?) Well, population health and diagnoses are available for both CWF and non-CWF areas on the ‘net. Even from outside of china. Why not look up incidences of thyroid disease in those areas and compare? Or you could compare use of thyroid medication between CWF and non-CWF areas. Show us that there’s an effect of CWF on thyroid metabolism in the real world, not just in your imagination. I could go on, but you, and others, should get the picture. Imagination is a great thing, but when it comes to discussions about the real world, evidence is of huge benefit. You imagine great harm from CWF. You even manage to cherry pick a few coincidences. But you have not managed to produce or cite any evidence to support your imagination. In the real world there has been more than seventy years of ongoing epidemiological and other research into populations drinking optimally fluoridated water. None of that research has found any harm. Against that there’s a single person with a scattering of cherry picked results who cannot demonstrate that those results are not coincidental. Please discuss. Stuartg: “You argue that CWF causes reduction in IQ because of some poor quality studies from high fluoride areas.” In true political fashion Stuartg repeats assertions over and over in the hope it will be believed which they often are. People who have taken the time to read the Lin Fa Fu study note their “high fluoride” level was 0.88 mg/L, which is like NZ’s optimally fluoridated water.: “Area with high fluoride and low iodine levels (Area A) – ln the township Xinyuan in the lower reaches of Kliya river in the county of Yutian, north of the highway, we examined 250 schoolchildren, aged 7-14 years. The goiter prevalence was 91 % and dental fluorosis 20.80%. The average level of iodine in drinking water was 5.21 micrograms per litre, and that of fluoride 0.88 milligrams per litre.” The “low fluoride” level was 0.34 milligrams per litre, some 50% more than the Waikato River before fluoridation for Hamilton: “Area with low iodine level (area B) – ln the townships of Langan and Jiayi in the alluvial plain before the mountains and to the south of the highway, we examined 256 schoolchildren, aged 7-14 years. The goiter prevalence was 82% and dental fluorosis of 16.00%. The average water iodine level was 0.96 mcg/L and that of fluoride 0.34 mg/L. Ken has maintained the Lin FF article to be in a ‘news’ publication. A translation of it was in “Iodine Deficiency Disease News.” But as I have said before the original was in the “Endemic Disease Bulletin.” http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-DFBT199102016.htm Stuartg: “How do you expect others, not included in the list of authors, to participate in the discussion without communicating the data, analysis, thoughts and ideas to them, ie publication?” On blogs. Stuartg: “You argue (I think – do you intentionally stay vague?) that CWF prevents people from captaining international sports teams by cherry picking a coincidence from the All Blacks.” I point out that Auckland being NZ’s largest city and mainly fluoridated with some 30% of our inhabitants it should be statistically likely for a good proportion of our All Black captains to be born there. Indeed that was the case until 1966 and fluoridation. Since then not one has been born there, which is statistically unlikely out of the 12 born in NZ since then. 30% population gives a probability of 0.3. There are 12 choices since then (I’ll neglect Samoa). The number of “successes” for Auckland is 0. From the binomial calcuator http://www.danielsoper.com/statcalc/calculator.aspx?id=69 I get the chance of that to happen coincidentally to be about 1.4%. Ken \| May 2, 2017 at 7:15 am \| Donât misrepresent me again, Brian. I have never asserted that Linâs article was âin a ‘news’ publication.â I have simply pointed out it was a brief article in a newsletter. Stuartg: “But you have not managed to produce or cite any evidence to support your imagination.” This is the blog discussion time searching for associates to work with me and demonstrate evidence by publishing which you demand has to be in respected journal. Brian you writeâ âStuartg: “How do you expect others, not included in the list of authors, to participate in the discussion without communicating the data, analysis, thoughts and ideas to them, ie publication?” On blogs.â The why do you not set up your own blog to facilitate this? Our experience of your comments is that they are rambling nonsense. Completely undisciplined and unorganised. If you had your own blog you could set forth your ideas as organised articles â rather than obscure comments. Ken “The why do you not set up your own blog to facilitate this?” “Why” because yours has somewhat academic fluoridation readership already. Ken: “I have never asserted that Linâs article was âin a ‘news’ publication.â” Somehow Stuartg thinks the article to be low quality. I would call it concise rather than brief. Brian â doesnât this show a degree of opportunism or dishonesty: â”Why” because yours has somewhat academic fluoridation readership already.â The fact is you have not been able to win a single example of approval from this readership. If you honestly think there is any substance to your ideas then it would be normal to present them consistently and in an organised fashion. Impossible to do in a brief comment â but a blog article would be ideal. Personally, I would offer you space for an article here if I thought there was anything in your claims â but I cannot see anything at all. I donât think anyone else can either -although you might find some sort of acceptance at FFNZ. So, I repeat â why not produce your own blog. It is not difficult. If your articles prove useful it will win a readership. You are not winning either acceptance or readership with these weird comments here. Over seventy years of CWF worldwide. Millions of people worldwide experiencing documented benefits from CWF. More than seventy years of research and publications into the effects of humans drinking optimally fluoridated water worldwide. That’s more than seventy years of testing for harm from CWF! And you are unable to cite any harm to individuals, or to populations, from drinking optimally fluoridated water. Well, welcome to the rest of the world! Instead you try to provoke FUD about CWF by repeating your cherry-picked coincidences or repeatedly mentioning poor quality newsletter articles with faulty mathematics and uncertainties of translation. You steadfastly refuse to test your cherry-pickings for non-coincidence even though simple methods of doing so have been repeatedly pointed out to you. When you “discuss” your ideas, you ignore comments of others. If they contradict your ideas they are immediately discarded. Advice is disregarded with disdain. Anyone using established data to reason contrary to you is instantly wrong. Your ideas have to be correct, because they are yours, and anyone questioning them has to be wrong (I suggest that you look up the “Galileo gambit.”) Your unwillingness to test your ideas, your refusal to use the scientific method on them, your hesitance in discussion of them – all give the impression that you have a total lack of confidence in the veracity of your “I am not making claims” claims. Have you ever considered that you convey the impression of someone living in a blinkered fantasy world? Someone who is completely unable to accept reality? soundhill1 \| May 2, 2017 at 10:57 am \| Stuartg: “You steadfastly refuse to test your cherry-pickings for non-coincidence even though simple methods of doing so have been repeatedly pointed out to you.” I just use available data. Got any other places to look for lists of representative NZ captains? Not easy to find. Stuartg \| May 2, 2017 at 1:23 pm \| You have told us that you can see the effects of CWF in multiple sports. “Got any other places to look for lists of representative NZ captains?” As I’ve suggested before: captains of the All Whites, the Silver Ferns, the Black Sticks, the Black Ferns, the Tall Blacks, the Black Caps… All are available on the ‘net. Or are you now denying that you see an effect of CWF in Association Football and all the sports of the Olympics as you previously suggested? Thanks for confirming my recent comment: “Advice is disregarded with disdain.” soundhill1 \| May 2, 2017 at 2:21 pm \| Stuartg, I can’t see a list of captains for the Black Sticks. Hockey is an interesting game because it does not perhaps have so much head injury as rugby or soccer. My impression is that team photos of hockey teams show more smiley faces than rugby or soccer. So maybe they have more brain space left to cope with other impacts if fluoridation may be called one. It is fairly time consuming looking for sports results. I have tried NZ cricket captains since around the time of fluoridation. Since about half the people of NZ live in fluoridated water areas I would wonder if half the NZ representative cricket matches should be captained by men from fluoridated areas. Sorry this is hard to read: Captain grew up fluoridated matches captained total Lee Germon 1968 Christchurch 0 12 Stephen Fleming 1973 Christchurch 0 80 Dion Nash 1971 Dargaville 0 3 Kane Williamson 1990 Tauranga 0 9 104 Daniel Vettori 1979 Auckland/Hamilton 1 32 Ross Taylor 1984 Masterton 1 14 Brendan McCullum 1981 Dunedin 1 31 77 So 104 matches captained by men who grew up in non-fluoridated areas and 77 from fluoridated areas. I test that with http://vassarstats.net/binomialX.html which tells me that the probability that the fluoridated areas could get 77 or less captained matches is about 0.027 with a p value of just over 0.05 if you are thinking of this as a two-tailed situation which is still confusing me. I am not sure how the calculation is affected by the way captains hold on to the top job for a long time. Now Stuartg will say this data is part of what I use to form my hypothesis so I can not used it in testing? If data is used to generate a hypothesis, it cannot be used to test the hypothesis. Since the data has already been used, how can it test itself? Fresh data is needed to test a hypothesis. That’s basic science. Stuff you’d already know if you’d attended high school classes in science or statistics. “I can’t see a list of captains for the Black Sticks” Well, I can’t see one for All Black captains. It just takes a bit of searching. “It is fairly time consuming looking for sports results.” But you are willing to do so if it supports your fantasies? Like All Black captains? Like MUFC vs BCFC? But not Black Sticks captains? Not MCFC vs BCFC? And we’re still waiting for any citations from you that demonstrate that anyone has been harmed by drinking optimally fluoridated water during the more than seventy years it has been supplied. Why no citations? 1. No-one has been harmed by CWF in over seventy years? 2. Is there any other reasonable answer? Stuartg: “Fresh data is needed to test a hypothesis.” Every time I produce fresh data Stuartg says that it is just being used to formulate the hypothesis. Count your hypotheses (allowing for your vagueness): 1. Something to do with All Black captains and whether the place they were born has CWF. 2. Something about second rate rugby teams and players currently drinking CWF. 3. Something about three rugby teams in NZ and their relative altitude. (There’s something about CWF there, too, but it’s not clear.) 4. Something about an English lower league football team losing games to a top league team about a decade after they started drinking CWF. 5. Something about people from areas with CWF not being able to win Olympic medals. Apart from the exceptions. 6. I can’t be bothered with others, these will suffice… Basic science tells us these are separate hypotheses and require separate sets of data. But you’d know that if you had lessons in high school science. Since you didn’t have those lessons in high school science, you think that English football results can be used as data to test All Black birthplaces. Or Tibetan athletes can test lower division NZ rugby team results. Or… I’m beginning to wonder if you are intentionally attempting to parody the scientific method. …but to be successful with parody, first you would have learn about what you’re parodying. I really do suggest that you take high school classes in science. You really don’t understand why Tibetan Olympic results, English football teams, or second rate NZ rugby teams cannot be used to test All Black birthplaces, do you? Your blinkered view of CWF has completely blinded you to the lack of evidence supporting your fantasies. It’s also blinded you to what evidence actually is. Stuartg, if an adult patient presents to you with some of these symptoms you know to suspect lead poisoning as a possibility: Difficulties with memory or concentration Reduced sperm count and abnormal sperm Miscarriage, stillbirth or premature birth in pregnant women. If the patient has only reported the mood disorders I suspect you will tend to think of prescribing an antidepressant. I am asking you to check for bigger patterns. With CWF I am asking for acknowledgment not just of patterns in individuals but in communities. If you have all members of a family in your practice you might diagnose an environmental toxin by the various members of the family showing various aspects of the poisoning in varying degrees. Or of a deficiency. One person with a headache might not suggest to you to send them for a blood test for lead. And even if another is becoming forgetful. What when a third is suffering stomach pain and a fourth has stillbirth? None of those symptoms by themselves might suggest to you to send the patient for a lead test but seeing the range in a family you might. Each by itself could be weak evidence of lead poisoning. Could there be a pattern like that with CWF where it may be useful to be awake to several possible symptoms when together correlated by some mathematical means, I am not sure what? Still there would be room for mistake. I see I have made a mistake about the date of fluoridation in Birmingham which is 6 years earlier than I thought. So a longer delay may be involved for soccer symptoms to appear. Stuartg: MCFC v BCFC The correlation is smaller though still statistically significant at the accepted level if we think of this as one-tailed, which still confuses me for this sort of example. n= 146 games, correlation r=0.156 one-tailed p= 0.03 I have put the changeover when ability is tending to drop at 1980, that being about 16 years after fluoridation in Birmingham. Teams can change in what division they play. Birmingham has not always been in a lower division than Manchester. And contrary to what you are suggesting teams mainly do not play one another if they are not in the same division. In NZ a team in any division can challenge for the Ranfurly shield. In the case of Birmingham vs Manchester the results stop at 2011 and so Birmingham must have been relegated then. The drop in division could be pointing to CWF or other factors. I understand computer diagnosis of medical conditions is available. How does it deal with family patterns when different members show different symptoms of a conditions such as scurvy? What is the correlation algorithm? Ken: “You are not winning either acceptance or readership with these weird comments here.” I think that because my points are a bit challenging Stuartg tries to take a laugh which is not amenable to readership. Readers want some serious discussion. Stuartg: “You really don’t understand why Tibetan Olympic results, English football teams, or second rate NZ rugby teams cannot be used to test All Black birthplaces, do you?” You just don’t get it, do you? I’ll reiterate: The scientific method is a process. Data generates an idea – “That’s odd” Further thinking about the idea generates a hypothesis. To test the hypothesis, the original data is discarded and new data is sought – fresh data, appropriate data, larger amounts of data. Then a statistician works on the new data. The statistician can determine whether a correlation is present or not by using that completely new data. …and after all that there’s still no proof, just an indication of where further research may point to proof. Your method: An idea: “CWF causes harm” How can I prove it? Here’s some coincidences from the world of sport. Data? Why do I need more data? Aren’t these coincidences enough? Look, I’ve found some more coincidences. “The coincidences are mounting”. Hey, I’ve managed to use a computer program to produce some numbers. These numbers prove CWF causes harm. No, I can’t cite any actual evidence that CWF causes harm, even though scientists have been searching for harm from drinking optimally fluoridated water for over seventy years. (Actually, I won’t admit that because my ideas can never be wrong) My coincidences and numbers prove CWF causes harm. Why does nobody think CWF causes harm? I’ve proved it. You proudly proclaim that you are self taught in science. It’s obvious that you had a terrible teacher. Maybe those high school classes in science that I suggested you undertake wouldn’t be a bad idea after all. “With CWF I am asking for acknowledgment not just of patterns in individuals but in communities.” Then it’s simple. All you have to do is to demonstrate non-coincidental patterns, in either individuals or in communities, that can actually be acknowledged by scientists. That’s what you’ve repeatedly been told but don’t seem to understand. Your most appropriate comment so far has been: “The coincidences are mounting.” And that comment tells us that you are certainly aware that the examples you uses are coincidence. I asked: You really don’t understand why Tibetan Olympic results, English football teams, or second rate NZ rugby teams cannot be used to test All Black birthplaces, do you? Why do you think I’m trying to inject humour? Look back. You brought up English football results to support your vague ideas about All Black birthplaces. You brought up results of lower grade rugby teams to support the same idea. You even asked me whether I thought your Olympic data was new enough to support your idea: “Stuartg don’t you think the Olympics data to be new?” OK, some humour was there. But it truly appears that you don’t understand why data from English football teams is irrelevant to All Black birthplaces. You don’t understand why rugby team results are irrelevant to All Black birthplaces. You certainly didn’t understand why I rejected your “new” Olympic data as irrelevant to your “studies” about All Black birthplaces. In your fantasy world any coincidences that you see have to be due to CWF in some way or another. All it takes is sufficient mangling of coincidences to allow you to reject reality. Stuartg you are like: A med student is interested in public health. They want to confirm or not their hypothesis that lead poisoning may be a cause of stomach pain. In the initial observations they notice still-births. You tell them that has nothing to do with their study. Rather you should allow two studies. Stuartg: “You don’t understand why rugby team results are irrelevant to All Black birthplaces.” Is memory loss relevant to premature birth? Yes if they are both caused by lead poisoning. You’re continuing to ignore the science. You’re continuing to ignore your errors. You’re continuing to ignore when others point out your errors (exactly the opposite of what a scientist does). You’re continuing to attempt diversion away from your errors, “if I ignore people pointing out my errors then they’ll never have happened, because I can never be wrong.” Your obvious opinions on fluoride: “I am correct. I cannot be wrong. More than seventy years of research is wrong. Science is wrong. The rest of the world is wrong, because my fantasies have to be correct.” And you still don’t understand why lower rugby team results, English football results, and Olympic medal totals are completely irrelevant to All Black birthplaces. You brought them all up, saying they were a test of your vague ideas about All Black birthplaces, yet not even your cronies at FFNZ can understand how you reached that conclusion. You really do need to be taught the basics of science and logic. Introduction of new evidence to a pre-existing worldview (with a USAnian bent) http://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe Stuartg: “And you still don’t understand why lower rugby team results, English football results, and Olympic medal totals are completely irrelevant to All Black birthplaces. You brought them all up, saying they were a test of your vague ideas about All Black birthplaces,” The non-fluoridation status of All Black birthplaces, or rather where the parents and infants were living around the time of birth appears to be correlated to appointment as captains. It is not vague. Olympic medal status of a country per population appears to be correlated to non-fluoridation status. English football successes appear to be correlated to non-fluoridation status. In Wellington the team from Petone which remained non-fluoridated did much better after fluoridation of the other teams’ areas. It was a top team until Petone Tech closed and the boys went across the Hutt River to school in a fluoridated area. Then it was no longer a top team. You are trying to apply that label as if it remains constant same as you are doing about Birmingham soccer teams. What part of your medical training is that? Do they teach you to try to confuse patients in drug company seminars? Or do you just learn it yourself in order to get the target prescription levels? I did not bring up those points saying they were a test of All Black birthplaces!! (Are you trying to suggest I have been talking astrology?!!) I brought them up as part of a picture in which fluoride is present as a variable and because of the correlations it has to be considered as to whether it may be a cause in them. And please note with your sales talk that is not a claim of fluoridation’s harm. It is a list of correlations. It is not even a claim that the fluoride has to be a problem. It could be that a change in the calcium and magnesium levels in the water or their balance owing to the treatment process may be implicated. Stuartg \| May 4, 2017 at 10:10 pm \| You keep saying that. I simply ask you to demonstrate that your “studies”, relating to multiple ideas, are not coincidental. You don’t, won’t, or can’t demonstrate that your “studies” are not coincidences. If you can’t, or won’t, answer that question, then you could answer a simpler one: given that thousands of epidemiologists have been searching for harm caused by drinking optimally fluoridated water for more than seventy years, and neither they nor yourself are able to cite such harm, why do you think that no harm has ever been documented from drinking optimally fluoridated water in millions of people in the real world? soundhill1 \| May 4, 2017 at 11:03 pm \| Stuartg: “You don’t, won’t, or can’t demonstrate that your “studies” are not coincidences. I am gradually working through the Birmingham Manchester water related teams if you hadn’t noticed. Even a small correlation has not turned to negative. Would expect half to be negative if it were only random. All Black captains were easy to find. Not so easy for other teams. They list current players and a few eminent ones. Searching “black sticks” “grew up” seems to show more ones from non-fluoridated areas. That is not just captains. Do you know the history of the knowledge about scurvy? I suppose for a while it colud have been treated as a number of unrelated diseases by some physicians. Were there experiments done to prove each symptom is caused by a lack of vitamin C totally in isolation from developing a whole picture? Or was it easy to realise all the various symptoms were part of the same disease? Like the sports facets I relate of considering any fluoridation connection. And Stuartg you don’t seem to have acknowledged the Black Caps captains analysis: https://openparachute.wordpress.com/2017/04/09/anti-fluoridationists-exploit-infant-deaths-by-fiddling-statistics/#comment-82128 You’ve completed a circular argument, from All Black captains to All Black captains. What you haven’t done is produce any evidence. Why does no-one pay attention to your ideas? Because you haven’t provided any evidence. You have not, will not, or can not show that your “studies” are not coincidence. For that to happen you need to produce evidence, and you don’t realise that observations used to develop an idea, or even a hypothesis, are not evidence. It appears that you are unable to understand even the basics of science and statistics, that you have to test a hypothesis and show non-coincidence before anyone will pay attention to your ideas. You don’t even understand that you have to formulate a hypothesis before you gather data to test it. So, soundhill, can you tell us what your hypothesis about English football results actually is? If you can’t produce the hypothesis, why then are you “gradually working through the Birmingham Manchester water related teams”? Leave out All Black captains if you so judge as part of a case for checking on whether fluoridation impairs sporting performance by impinging at any stage of of a player’s or future player’s development. Though I maintain my hypothesis was generated before checking up on them. Are you going to be like: “This patient’s teeth are falling out. It could be scurvy. My hypothesis will be that the patient has scurvy and I shall not take the falling teeth into account as part of my diagnosis since it generated my hypothesis. By circular argument I think you mean I am suggesting that because All Black captains were not born in Auckland after fluoridation started that they were not born in Auckland after fluoridation started. They are just one point on the chart of fluoridation’s correlation to sport impairment. I had thought Birmingham to be fluoridated in 1970, I am not sure why. I saw Birmingham teams impaired 8 years after that. Though some of the correlations are low none are negative which would be expected if the effect were random coincidence. Now I see it was fluoridated in 1964 so the time of impact could go back to infancy. So that adolescence effect hypothesis (if you want me to generate separate hypotheses) disappears to some extent though I need to think more about Petone boys starting to go to Hutt Valley High School. There may be another impact on the Petone team there, that the boys started playing for Hutt Valley and went on to the Old Boys there. However that would not affect the earlier rise of Petone after fluoridation of the other areas of Wellington playing in the top competition the Jubilee Cup. How about a comment on the Black Caps calculation? You don’t even understand that you haven’t provided any evidence, do you? “What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” – Carl Sagan. Where is your evidence, soundhill, so that it can be examined? Stuartg: “Where is your evidence, soundhill, so that it can be examined?” It’s a bit of a long list. Where shall we start? “Where shall we start?” Maybe by producing some evidence? Which do you wish to examine first? A science paper does not start by producing evidence, if it be the published sort you need. Publication comes after review so we need to start with that. Evidence? Well, since CWF has been used for more than seventy years, with millions of people, you could start by citing evidence that even a single person has been harmed by drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies. You haven’t managed to find any evidence so far – care to tell us why not? There’s hundreds of international sports teams – rugby, football, netball, hockey, cricket, basketball, ice hockey, American football, Australian rules, etc, etc. Both male and female. Tens of countries – NZ, Australia, England, Scotland, France, Germany, South Africa, Argentina, etc, etc. You only use the All Blacks – why don’t you use any other teams? There’s thousands of captains of international sports teams to get data from, but you cherry-pick a couple of dozen All Blacks and ignore the rest – why is that? Hundreds, if not thousands, of English football clubs, but you cherry-pick the results of only two teams and ignore the rest – why is that? Hundreds, maybe thousands, of lower grade rugby teams around the world, but you ignore most of them and cherry-pick only Timaru and Petone. Care to explain why you don’t use results from anywhere else? You’ve had some ideas. Great. You haven’t yet produced hypotheses from those ideas. Not good. And that’s it. Nothing further. You still haven’t provided any evidence. What’s worse, you don’t even seem to understand that you haven’t provided any evidence. “Publication comes after review” Actually, reviewing of papers by other scientists can’t actually happen until after publication. Unless you’ve managed to discover a method of distribution of knowledge that doesn’t involve publication/communication? Stuartg: “Actually, reviewing of papers by other scientists can’t actually happen until after publication.” Very few papers are published without peer review happening before publishing. Often the peer reviewers make suggestions which the authors must attend to before the journal will accept the paper for publication. A study covering the whole world is often preceded by a limited pilot study. The peer reviewers will not turn it down stating the reason it does not cover the whole world yet. Stuartg: “You haven’t yet produced hypotheses from those ideas. Not good.” That CWF is correlated with facets of reduced community competitive sport levels. You don’t seem to wish to comment about my statistical approach with regards to Black Caps captains. “CWF is correlated with facets of reduced community competitive sport levels” is not yet a testable hypothesis. As you would know if you had attended high school classes in science. But a least you have acknowledged what everyone else has identified – that you have not demonstrated any correlation between CWF and sports performance. “You don’t seem to wish to comment about my statistical approach with regards to Black Caps captains” – statistics relating to less than a couple of dozen people’s birthplaces? It’s just as useless as your “statistical analysis” of All Black birthplaces. Is that a good enough comment for you? If you knew the basics of statistics you would know not to bother with such small numbers; they won’t tell you anything. Why else would I be encouraging you to test your idea using hundreds, if not thousands, of international sporting team captains? And you still don’t seem to wish to comment about your inability to cite any harm from drinking optimally fluoridated water, even though scientists have been looking for such harm in millions of people for more than seventy years worldwide. Even though you make “I am not making claims” claims alleging such harm. Look in all that data, soundhill. Millions of people. Decades of CWF. Hundreds, if not thousands, of research papers. Hundreds, if not thousands, of local and national governmental agencies looking at and providing data. Hundreds, if not thousands, of NGOs looking at and providing data. And amongst all of that data, you are still unable to cite any harm from CWF. So, since you can’t find any harm from CWF in those millions of people in that huge mass of data, you try to perform a completely useless “statistical analysis” on a couple of dozen people with birthdates scattered over a century or so? Very much the non-scientist. Stuartg how do you quantify how many subjects required for a statistically significant result? Stuartg: ““CWF is correlated with facets of reduced community competitive sport levels” is not yet a testable hypothesis.” Winter is correlated with worse weather. Is that testable? Worse weather has a number of facets: lack of sunshine, frost, hail, rain, wind, snow. (Though they can occur in summer.) Fluoridation is correlated with poorer sport performance: fewer captains, fewer wins, relegation to lower division. soundhill, if you have to ask that question then you obviously know very little about statistics. Perhaps you should start with a high school course? Stuartg they do not teach me about you, Stuartg, in a school class. I want you to say what you think because it seems different from what others think. How much frost, snow, wind, hail, rain. cloud, fog, sunshine, blue sky weather in how many cities for how many years at how many latitudes is it necessary to check up before a summer – winter pattern starts to appear and Stuartg no longer calls it coincidence? “Fluoridation is correlated with poorer sport performance” Feel free to cite some evidence in support of your belief. You haven’t done so yet. Maybe you weren’t taught what evidence actually is because you haven’t taken lessons in high school science? But, then again, maybe you could find some evidence of harm from drinking optimally fluoridated water among the millions of people drinking fluoridated water supplies worldwide? There’s been more than seven decades of data and research into the subject. It’s been more than a month since you were asked to cite evidence of harm from drinking optimally fluoridated water. Not only have you been unable to cite evidence of harm, you’ve undertaken the Gish Gallop several times, squirming and wriggling in your attempts to divert attention away from your inability to cite evidence. Well, it hasn’t worked. We can still see that you are unable to cite evidence of harm from drinking optimally fluoridated water. To those watching, it is obvious that you have no evidence to cite. Have you considered that maybe the reason you can’t cite any harm from CWF is because drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies has not actually caused harm to anybody? The way I think is known as “scientific” to all but the self-taught in science. If someone claims “my car can do 400 km/hr”, the scientist says “prove it”. If someone claims “I’ve built a man-powered helicopter”, the scientist says “prove it”. If someone claims “Fluoridation is correlated with poorer sport performance”, the scientist says “prove it”. If someone claims CWF causes reduction in IQ, the scientist says “prove it”. When soundhill makes an “l am not making claims” claim that CWF has caused any harm at all in the millions of people drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies in the more than seventy years it has been available, I ask soundhill to cite evidence to back up that claim – in other words “prove it”. soundhill obviously is unaware of how a scientist thinks and is also unaware that proof is required when someone makes a claim. “An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof.” Marcello Truzzi. Stuartg, I gave correlation figures and p values. You say it is coincidence and it could be at the 1 in 20 to 1 in 1000 or something level. For the indivual results. But when several effects like captains, losses, relegations are taken together, like cold temperatures, rain, cloud in summer/winter then the 1 in 20 and better coincidence possibility of each of the scenarios reduces considerably. I said a long time ago I am not quite sure about how much adding of the various scenarios reduces the coincidence probability that fluoridation is doing something. Enough of your 400km per hour talk! We know fluoridation at optimal levels damages the cells of infants which are supposed to be producing tooth enamel in many more of the population than are likely to have a 400 km/hr car. As I has said before it does not have to be fluoride causing trouble. Does anyone know if lime started to be added to Auckland water at a similar time to when fluoridation was begun? For calcium can affect the thyroid. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229080539_Dietary_calcium_induced_cytological_and_biochemical_changes_in_thyroid There once was a boy named StuG Who came to New Zealand from England. So puzzled was he When he did see The very good weather at Christmas. So he got to thinking in whispers I’ll wait for June to see what is brought Cause that ought To be warm holiday weather But oh my I never, Was putting on a show. It’s a small sample Only one example So probably coincidence But in great diligence He wrote home To find if snow on its own As a sign of winter Could begin to With help of other sign Like more days fine Sort the Christmas matter But came back the old patter What’s that got to do With the snow? “We know fluoridation at optimal levels damages the cells of infants which are supposed to be producing tooth enamel” Prove it. Cite any harm done in the real world to people drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies in the more than seventy years since they were introduced. Another coincidence to add to your list: Fluoridated Birmingham City remains in Championship League; non-fluoridated teams relegated. Since 1991 the Premier League has been the top of the table. So Div 1 was no longer as high after then. Wiki: “The Football League Championship, which was introduced for the 2004–05 season, was previously known as the Football League First Division (1992–2004), and before that was known as Division Two (1892–1992).” Stuartg it is a misconception to think that the white markings on teeth are something extra added by fluoride. They are where the enamel is not properly mineralised because the cells which are supposed to do it are no longer working as a result of fluoride or other trauma. So, you’re saying that we can ignore your claims about Birmingham City because they’re not in the Premier League. I recall saying something similar early on when you first started comparing football teams in different leagues. You still haven’t cited any evidence that drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies can cause harm, even though the research and data collection has been happening for more than seventy years and involves millions of people. Stuartg: “I recall saying something similar early on when you first started comparing football teams in different leagues.” I was comparing competing teams. Usually they have to be in the same league to compete. Birmingham were in LEVEL ONE about 65% of the years before fluoridation (leaving out 12 for the wars) and 37% of the of the years since fluoridation. They were in LEVEL THREE for 4 years starting 15 years after fluoridation, but not at all before fluoridation. Because the names of the levels have changed I have given the names “LEVEL ONE” to the new Premier League and to the old division one which it was. LEVEL TWO to the Championship, which was introduced for the 2004–05 season, was previously known as the Football League First Division (1992–2004), and before that was known as Division Two (1892–1992). LEVEL THREE to the old Division Three equivalent to the new Division Two. There’s no need for you to rename the football leagues – they have perfectly good and understandable names already. I undersrtand that you are saying that the purported effect of CWF on sporting performance only occurs at the very highest levels of a sport. You imply that we can ignore promotion and relegation in the Championship League because it is not the highest level of the sport. In that case, we can ignore your observations about Petone since they play in local Wellington leagues – hardly the very highest level of the sport. Certainly nowhere near as high in the sport as Birmingham City is in theirs. And do we ignore your observations about Timaru as well? Every one of Birmingham City’s players is a full time professional, but the same can’t be said of Timaru. It appears that your observations are now limited to just two “coincidences” – your term – that you have noted: Some of the All Black captains are from non-fluoridated areas. Manchester United started paying more for better players several years after CWF was introduced to Birmingham. Conversely, if you still wish to include lower level NZ rugby teams in your list of “coincidences”, then you must also include lower league teams in the England. In that case, your ideas have to account for why non-fluoridated teams are relegated this year and fluoridated teams are not. Extraordinary ideas require extraordinary evidence. I’m going to repeat something I said earlier, something that you have previously completely ignored, in the (I suspect vain) hope that you will not ignore it this time: Stuartg the thing about the highest level in an area is that it tends to eliminate teams just having social fun. They will be players working to their max the whole week/season and putting stresses on their metabolism so showing up any weak link in the chain. Petone indeed did not compete nationally. But it was frequently at the top of Greater Wellington, some half million people. And it was much more at the top after most of the rest of Greater Wellington became fluoridated but not Petone. Stuartg: “What’s worse, you don’t even seem to understand that you haven’t provided any evidence.” According to you I can’t provide it till I have published it. “They will be players working to their max the whole week/season” You mean just like the full time professionals that play in the Championship League? Those with CWF Birmingham City remaining in the League and other full time professional non-fluoridated teams being relegated? Or do you mean “teams and players that are only able to be found by soundhill and by no-one else”? It seems like you mean the latter, doesn’t it? And if you are the only person able to find affected teams or players, then that suggests it’s purely your imagination doing the finding. Publish: to make information available to people. Providing, even on a blog, is publishing. You may have made some hypothesis-generating observations, but you haven’t done anything with them other than spread FUD about CWF. You haven’t even managed to generate a testable hypothesis! Idea: “That CWF is correlated with facets of reduced community competitive sport levels.” What type of correlation? What facets? “community” – so not necessarily international, professional, levels? What sort of “community” levels? High school, primary school, semi-professional, keen amateur, local pub teams? “sports” – what sports? We’ve got rugby, football, Olympic sports from you so far. Any others? Are any sports not included? If not, why not? “competitive” – what level of competition is required for it to be evident? Why is it not evident below that level? Your idea needs to be turned into a testable hypothesis. Or do you just want to leave it untestable, demonstrating how little you know about the scientific method? Publish/provide your hypothesis. Publish/provide your additional research data, the data needed to test your hypothesis. You could provide it to a peer reviewed journal and let them “publish”. You could provide it to a non-peer reviewed journal. You could provide it to Fluoride. You could set up a blog of your own to publish/provide the data and hypotheses. Maybe Ken would let you provide it here? What you have not done so far is go to beyond observing a few “coincidences”, telling people that “the coincidences are multiplying”, and having an idea. If you really want to discuss your ideas, your hypotheses, your data, – don’t you think it would be a good idea to let others actually know what they are? Erm… not quite. Maybe you’ve got it the wrong way around? Non-fluoridated Hull City, Middlesbrough and Sunderland have been relegated from the Premier League. Fluoridated Newcastle is being promoted, and non-fluoridated Blackburn, Wigan and Rotherham are being relegated from the Championship League. Remember, soundhill, all of these clubs are composed of full time professional players. These clubs aren’t playing in local amateur leagues like Petone is. Are you going to ignore those results because they don’t fit in with your fantasy world? Remember: fluoride in water has been studied for well over seventy years. Community water fluoridation has been used worldwide for over seventy years. Millions of people have been drinking optimally fluoridated water for over seventy years. Those populations have been extensively studied by epidemiologists, by local government agencies, by national government agencies, by non-governmental agencies. Many of those studies and much of the data is freely available on the ‘net. And amongst all those studies and data, you are unable to cite anything that shows harm, even to a single individual, that has been caused by drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies. “In God we trust. All others must bring data.” – attributed to W. Edwards Deming. You have not brought any data with which to test your observed “coincidences”. soundhill1 \| May 11, 2017 at 11:14 am \| Stuartg: “And amongst all those studies and data, you are unable to cite anything that shows harm, even to a single individual” I talked of lead poisoning but take noise deafness. Workers go deaf when exposed to noise over a certain level. That level having been found then if a worker goes deaf it will be accepted it is noise damage and they will get compensation if they have been exposed to over that level. If a person has bigger outer ears collecting more I maintain or for some other genetic reason they may be more susceptible to noise deafness from a certain level of sound. If the levels had not been determined by the plight of unfortunate individiduals as in the early days of industrial noise there would be no compensation – no proof of noise deafness in an individual. I maintain that as with my idea of the size of the outer ear in hearing loss (not proven either) or other genetic difference or perhaps environmental difference, that sports players working extremely hard will be more at risk from fluoride toxicity or from something else done to the water at the time of water treatment associated with fluoride like changing the balance/levels of calcium and magnesium. I suspect I shall eventually be able to prove damage to a single individual form fluoride but not until after I have proved a connection in a group. “I talked of lead poisoning” That’s right, among many other things. You talked of anything but water fluoridation in a discussion that was about water fluoridation. It was as though you had no evidence and were doing anything to avoid revealing your lack of evidence. The one thing that you never did was to cite any harm caused to individuals, or to communities, caused by drinking optimally fluoridated water. Millions of people, more than seventy decades, and you are still unable to cite any harm done by CWF. Even after I’ve given you suggestions on how to go about searching for it. You’ve been given the opportunity to provide your own definition of harm, or your own definition of optimal fluoridation level, provided that you could justify the definitions, but you have still been unable to cite any harm, to individuals or to populations, caused by drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies. It’s exactly as though optimally fluoridated water supplies do not cause harm, isn’t it? “I shall eventually be able to prove damage to a single individual form (sic) fluoride but not until after I have proved a connection in a group.” That’s nice. But will you? You still haven’t provided anything other than an idea after observing “coincidences.” You haven’t even produced a hypothesis from that idea that can be tested for non-coincidence. Develop the hypothesis, then you will know in what population to look for data in order to test for non-coincidence. I guess you believe you have had a vision of harm from CWF. You certainly haven’t seen any proof. I urge you to remember that most visions turn out to be hallucinations. By the way, where are your comments about the apparent inverse correlation between English football success and non-fluoridation seen in the Leagues this year? You were so keen on that subject before… Stuartg: “By the way, where are your comments about the apparent inverse correlation between English football success and non-fluoridation seen in the Leagues this year? You were so keen on that subject before…” Need to average over a number of years. Probably also average out where players come from. As soccer has become big business the amount of player trading may have increased. Changing your mind again? “Need to average over a number of years” – how many years? Does you now mean that if a change happens immediately CWF is introduced (Petone…) then we can ignore CWF as the cause? “As soccer has become big business the amount of player trading may have increased.” Football has been big business with player trading since before CWF was introduced. Previously you were saying it was all about whether there was fluoridation at the sportspersons’ birthplace. Is it? Or is it about CWF where a person works – as with football teams? What happens to rugby teams with player trading? You really need to develop hypotheses that can be tested, not this wishy-washy changing your ideas every time someone points out where the real world disagrees with your ideas. And I still note that you are unable to cite any harm documented by anybody drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies, even though those supplies have been drunk by millions of people over multiple decades. Stuartg: ““Need to average over a number of years” – how many years? Does you now mean that if a change happens immediately CWF is introduced (Petone…) then we can ignore CWF as the cause?” Don’t draw a conclusion from one year. “Football has been big business with player trading since before CWF was introduced.” Proportion not changed of players traded? “What happens to rugby teams with player trading?” If teams get enough good players from non-fluoridated areas they may start to win and spoil my effect. You also think vaccines have not caused serious harm whereas hundreds of millions of dollars per year are paid out in vaccine injury compensation in USA. Vaccines have nothing to do with CWF. That comment is just yourself trying to divert from your inability to cite any evidence that anybody has ever been harmed by drinking optimally fluoridated water in the more than seventy years it has been supplied. Try three thought experiments. Suppose that CWF actually did impair sporting performance. What evidence would you expect to find? Suppose that CWF actually improves sporting performance. What evidence would you expect to find? Suppose that CWF has absolutely no effect on sporting performance. What evidence would you expect to find? Awaiting your response… Stuartg: “Vaccines have nothing to do with CWF.” So you can say whatever you want about them., true or not, without making people suspicious about your statements about CWF? Stuartg: “Suppose that CWF actually did impair sporting performance. What evidence would you expect to find? You will try to tell me that nothing has anything to do with anything else but I suggest that there are certain principles underlying metabolic effects. Varying effects depending on the intake if a proportional effect is to be expected. On or off effects like light switching the body’s hormonal cycle from the night time relaxing cycle to the more constrictive daytime serotonin cycle. Effects which vary depending on different types genetic or epigenetic. Interactive effects depending on other environmental influences UVB from sunlight, iodine from food or water, That studies would be produced averaging out effects so bringing the effect on some genetic types or activity types to be below statistical significance. I would also consider the principle like a car without its petrol gauge working which works very well till the petrol runs out. If you have had contact with heavy alcohol drinkers you may know of some saying they cannot drink spirits any more. I presume some of their liver, which detoxifies alcohol, has been converted to fatty – cirrhosis. So if the fluoride metabolism has been overloaded in early life, when the body sends some half of intake to bones and teeth, then there may be less ability to deal with intake later on, under stress. Or perhaps other mechanisms which may have been damaged such as the pineal gland (melatonin serotonin) may be more noticeably impaired when the organism is placed under stress such as in demanding sport. You can try to divert from the subject of CWF all you like. All that it achieves is to show that you are unable to maintain the subject; that you prefer to divert away from your inability to provide evidence supporting your claims about CWF. What would we expect to see if CWF provided an advantage in sporting performance? I’ll use your already used assumptions. Rugby: captains of international teams would all come from areas with CWF. So would the locks. And the backs. In fact the entire of the team and squad would be expected to come from areas with CWF. Because they would outperform players from unfluoridated areas. The same would apply to international netball teams. Cricket teams. Basketball teams. Football teams. Hockey teams. Even bowls teams. The Premier and Championship Leagues would be absolutely full of clubs from CWF areas. Maybe one or two clubs from unfluoridated areas. After all, it takes years to get to the highest spots in the UK football leagues. Unfluoridated Petone would be bottom of its Wellington league, beaten by the rest of CWF Wellington. So would Onehunga in Auckland. And Mosgiel in Dunedin. That would apply to rugby clubs. Or football clubs. Or netball clubs… That’s just a brief summary of what we would expect to see if CWF provided an advantage in sporting performance. You can extend it if you wish. What would we expect to see if non-fluoridation provided an advantage in sporting performance over CWF? Again, I’ll use your already used assumptions. Rugby: captains of international teams would all come from non-fluoridated areas. So would the locks. And the backs. In fact the entire of the team and squad would be expected to come from non-fluoridated areas. Because they would outperform players from areas with CWF. The Premier and Championship Leagues would be absolutely full of clubs from non-fluoridated areas. Maybe one or two clubs from areas with CWF. After all, it takes years of consistent performance to get to the highest spots in the UK football leagues. Unfluoridated Petone would be top of its Wellington league, beating the rest of fluoridated Wellington. So would Onehunga in Auckland. And Mosgiel in Dunedin. That would apply to rugby clubs. Or football clubs. Or netball clubs… That’s just a brief summary of what we would expect to see if non-fluoridation provided an advantage in sporting performance over CWF. You can extend it if you wish What would we expect to see if there were no adverse effects on sporting performance from CWF? That sporting performance from CWF and non-CWF areas were exactly the same? Well, we’d expect that international rugby teams and squads would have a mix of players from CWF and non-CWF areas. That there may be some coincidental runs of locks or captains from CWF areas. Or non-CWF areas. That the same could be seen in international football teams. And netball teams. And hockey teams. And croquet teams. We would see that the UK Premier and Championship Leagues were full of a mixture of teams from fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas. That promotion and relegation between the major (and minor) UK football leagues would be randomised between fluoridated and non-fluoridated clubs. We would see random results in local leagues – Petone may rise or fall. Onehunga may rise or fall. Mosgiel may rise or fall. Whether the team be rugby, football, netball or bowls. That’s a brief summary of what we would expect to see if community water fluoridation had absolutely no effect on sporting performance. Again, you can extend the thought experiment if you wish. Stuartg \| May 14, 2017 at 10:20 pm \| Now, soundhill, which of the three thought experiments give results closest to those seen in the real world? Well, obviously, the All Blacks are composed of players from a mix of CWF and non-CWF areas. So are the All Whites. And the Silver Ferns. And the Black Caps. And the rugby teams from Australia, England, Argentina… And the FIFA football teams. Even Olympic bowling teams. So there may be an occasional run of captains, or goalkeepers, or full backs, or goal defence, or goal keepers, from fluoridated or non-fluoridated areas. But we can be expect that merely from random chance. The Premier and Championship Leagues have clubs from fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas distributed at random. Promotion and relegation of clubs are unrelated to fluoridation status – as has already been pointed out. Local clubs show results entirely unrelated to fluoridation status, with rugby, football, netball, hockey and other teams being randomly scattered through their leagues irrespective of fluoridation status. Check out Petone, Onehunga, and Mosgiel sporting teams in their relevant leagues for instance. Overall, the results we see in sporting teams, irrespective of the level at which they play, are exactly what we would expect if there were no effect of CWF on sporting performance. You therefore have to show that the observations in your “studies” are not the occasional coincidental results that we would expect if there is no effect on sporting performance from CWF. It would greatly help your position if you were able to cite any evidence, from more than seventy years of available data and studies, that there has been harm sustained by even one individual from drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies. Stuartg how about some p values? Stuartg: “It would greatly help your position if you were able to cite any evidence, from more than seventy years of available data and studies, that there has been harm sustained by even one individual from drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies.” As a doctor you ought to know that whereas some types of harm such as traffic accidents are obvious, there are other types that we accept because we know from effects to varying degrees on populations exposed. People can be harmed without it being accepted as caused by a particular cause at the time but we know later. Wiki: “Curie died in 1934, aged 66, at a sanatorium in Sancellemoz (Haute-Savoie), France, due to aplastic anemia brought on by exposure to radiation while carrying test tubes of radium in her pockets during research, and in the course of her work at field hospitals during World War I.” Surely if Marie Curie had known she were being harmed by the radium she carried in her pocket she would have stopped doing that. “The acute effects of radiation exposure were first seen in 1896 when Nikola Tesla purposefully subjected his fingers to X-rays and reported that this caused burns to develop, although at the time he attributed the burns to ozone.” http://www.news-medical.net/health/Radiation-Poisoning-History.aspx The harm could not be attributed to radiation burn at that time. It had to wait for more researchers to notice damage associated with radiation. Then it would be proved in retrospect that Tesla was harmed by radiation. So we must wait for population studies before we can say fluoridation be harmful to sports performance. Wiki “Discovery of X-ray mutagenesis 1926 marked the beginning of a series of major breakthroughs. Beginning in November, Muller carried out two experiments with varied doses of X-rays, the second of which used the crossing over suppressor stock (“ClB”) he had found in 1919. A clear, quantitative connection between radiation and lethal mutations quickly emerged. Muller’s discovery created a media sensation after he delivered a paper entitled “The Problem of Genetic Modification” at the Fifth International Congress of Genetics in Berlin;” (Muller sometimes written Meller) “By 1928, others had replicated his dramatic results, expanding them to other model organisms such as wasps and maize.” Stuartg please note it did not require a wait for the problem to be seen in wasps and maize before being accepted. It took a much smaller sample and in a similar fashion fluoridation injury does not have to be proven in every sports person on earth to be accepted as injury. A small group and a p value is all that is required to have a “statistically significant” result for someone to follow up on and who knows whether someone may be interested enough to be following up on my results? Furthermore even after injury from radiation to corn and wasps had been shown it still required a huge amount of work to have it accepted. “An estimated 4,000 workers were hired by corporations in the U.S. and Canada to paint watch faces with radium. At USRC, each of the painters mixed her own paint in small crucibles, and then used camel hair brushes to apply the glowing paint onto dials. The then-current rate of pay, for painting 250 dials a day, was about a penny and a half per dial (equivalent to $0.280 in 2016). The brushes would lose shape after a few strokes, so the U.S. Radium supervisors encouraged their workers to point the brushes with their lips (“lip, dip, paint”), or use their tongues to keep them sharp. Because the true nature of the radium had been kept from them the Radium Girls painted their nails, teeth, and faces for fun with the deadly paint produced at the factory.[6] Many of the workers became sick. It is unknown how many died from exposure to radiation. Many of the women later began to suffer from anemia, bone fractures and necrosis of the jaw, a condition now known as radium jaw. It is thought that the X-ray machines used by the medical investigators may have contributed to some of the sickened workers’ ill-health by subjecting them to additional radiation. It turned out at least one of the examinations was a ruse, part of a campaign of disinformation started by the defense contractor.[4] U.S. Radium and other watch-dial companies rejected claims that the afflicted workers were suffering from exposure to radium. For some time, doctors, dentists, and researchers complied with requests from the companies not to release their data. At the urging of the companies, worker deaths were attributed by medical professionals to other causes; syphilis, a notorious sexually transmitted infection at the time, was often cited in attempts to smear the reputations of the women.[7]” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls Again we see you trying to divert attention from your inability to provide evidence supporting your “I am not making claims” claims about harm from CWF. Vaccines, petrol gauges, now radiation – not one of them relevant to a discussion about purported harm from drinking optimally fluoridated water! Flailing around, trying to change the subject at random – all point towards your inability to support your claims. In spite of more than seventy years of research and data, involving millions of people, you are unable to cite any evidence that drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies has ever caused harm, even to a single person. Your own observations, or “studies”, show expected normal variations in sporting results, but you don’t recognise this and don’t bother actually testing your observations for non-coincidence. You now tell us, in a poorly thought out sentence, that you expect any evidence not to reach statistical significance: “That studies would be produced averaging out effects so bringing the effect on some genetic types or activity types to be below statistical significance”. And then you ask others for p-values! So, no evidence, failure to acknowledge coincidence, not expecting ever to see evidence, inability to understand how statistics works… What you have there is faith/belief/fantasy. It’s certainly not science. But you don’t understand that. You provide a good example of the Dunning-Kruger effect in action. I really do think that you should attend some basic lessons in how science and statistics work, rather than relying on self-taught systematic errors. Maybe basic high school classes would be in order? Stuartg: “Vaccines, […] now radiation – not one of them relevant to a discussion about purported harm from drinking optimally fluoridated water! ” They have relevance as to whether doctors tell the truth. You have strongly supported the safety of fluoridation and vaccination. Note that in the USA the vaccine injury court pays out hundreds of millions of dollars per year. “They have relevance as to whether doctors tell the truth” – which is yet again irrelevant to your “I am not making claims” claim that CWF causes harm. All you are doing is attempting a diversion and hoping that people don’t remember what you have previously written. You are unable to cite any harm from drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies from more than seventy years of research and data. You don’t recognise that your own “studies” merely show expected coincidences. You are unwilling or unable to test your observations for non-coincidence. You don’t expect any research to into harm from CWF to reach statistical significance – implying that you understand that harm is not being caused. You don’t understand why your own “statistical analyses” aren’t. You don’t understand the scientific method. I recommend that you turn off your imagination and use science to find out how the real world works. For starters, go and learn about science and statistics at your local high school. Stuartg: “All you are doing is attempting a diversion” No, you claim fluoridation has not been shown to hurt anyone but why should we trust your claim when you also claim vaccination is not harmful despite hundreds of millions of dollars in vaccine adverse event payouts? I have given data which point to possible sport impairment by fluoridation. Look back. Just scroll back and read. It’s easy to do. Confirm your (fallible, human) memory, or realise that your fallible, human memory is wrong. I make no claims about lack of harm from vaccination. It’s only your imagination that tells you that. I also make no claim that CWF has never caused harm. Again, it’s just your imagination that tells you that. All I have done is to ask you to provide evidence to back your “I am not making claims” claim that CWF has and does cause harm. But you have been and still are unable to back your claim. That’s in spite of you having more than seventy years of data and research available, involving millions of people, into the effects of drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies. You make the claim, so you have to provide the evidence. It’s one of the first things a high school student would learn in science classes. It’s a pity that you didn’t attend the lessons and admit only self teaching in science. You obviously had a poor teacher. No. You have observed coincidences that are expected to be seen if CWF has absolutely no effect on sporting performance. And you’ve probably observed them at a lower frequency than would be expected if no harm comes from CWF. You haven’t even bothered to test those observations for non-coincidence, even though you have had advice on how to go about that task. And now you say you don’t expect to observe any evidence that reaches statistical significance. Seriously, soundhill, all you are managing to do is to point out that your idea/fantasy/dream about optimally fluoridated water supplies affecting sporting performance is just that – a dream or fantasy. If you don’t wish to learn about science in high school classes, this may help: http://psc.dss.ucdavis.edu/sommerb/sommerdemo The problem is, I suspect that you may need the basics of high school science before you gain any insight (that Dunning-Kruger effect again…) Stuartg: “I make no claims about lack of harm from vaccination.” You implied it when you wrote on last Aug 4: “Just for your information, I have encountered exactly one post vaccination side effect in my entire career. I didn’t report it because we realised the painful deltoid was the opposite one to that which had been injected.” A report to the NZ Parliamentary Select Committee: “Between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2009, 4,757 reports of adverse events following immunisation were submitted to the Centre for Adverse Reactions Monitoring.” Now say there are some 4,000 or 5,000 doctors working in general practice in NZ that would mean on average one report per GP every 5 years but you have reported none in probably 40 years. From the same report: “The vast majority of reports describe known and expected reactions such as injection site pain, swelling, redness and itching or raised temperature, headache and general malaise. Expected reactions such as these are estimated from clinical trial information to occur at a rate of between 2 to 10 percent of people immunised.” So if a doctor happens to be reporting the adverse events at 1 every five years and those make up 3 percent of the vaccinations that would mean they are either severely under-reporting or else it means 1 vaccination is 3% of the vaccinations they perform in 5 years in other words they are doing in total some 6 vaccinations per year or one every two months. Exactly what has vaccination got to do with your inability to cite any evidence backing your claim that CWF causes harm? Apart from you use of the subject to divert from your inability to use the scientific method, of course. “I have encountered exactly one post vaccination side effect in my entire career”. According to your logic, since I have encountered only one traumatic arm amputation in my career, that means that I imply they don’t happen… Your ability to think logically is demonstrably somewhat impaired. I guess that’s why you still claim that CWF causes harm, even when you are unable to cite supporting evidence. You don’t bother, or are unable, to test your observations for non-coincidence. You are unable to recognise coincidence. You don’t understand how statistics works. You even tell us that you don’t expect an investigation to reach statistical significance. …but you still believe/fantasise that drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies causes harm. Definitely impaired logic. Perhaps philosophy should be added to those lessons in science and statistics that you lack? Stuartg I have not a cite until someone gets around to publishing, the way they have done with other matters… in gradual progression. A fairly recent example is the recognition of a toxicity in glypohsate-based herbicides, now taking into account the interaction with tallowate surfactant substances in them, when up until recent times the toxicity of a glyphosate-based herbicide only took into account the glyphosate working in isolation. You Stuartg are similarly hanging on to old reports about fluoridation which do not take into account interactions. If you are trained properly you know not to vaccinate people in poor health if avoidable – you acknowledge that, but you want to apply blanket safety categorization for fluoridation to everyone, regardless of their iodine status of their environment, or the greater demands which may be placed on the metabolism of sports people. I suggest you are working by a general principle of trying to suppress annoying new public knowledge. It shows in that you are not notifying adverse vaccine associated events. You are supposed to be notifying, not because you have proof that a vaccine caused the event, but to offer the info to others to analyse, in case they can see some pattern when taking into account the stuff from several doctors. Stuartg: ““I have encountered exactly one post vaccination side effect in my entire career” You left off the bit where you say it was only caused by a squash ball implying that you have seen none in your career so implying to people who may not have read the data that they ought to believe there to be much less risk than there actually is, because you have reported none. Stuartg your UCDavis ref is interesting, however it does not deal with “self plagiarism.” Self plagiarism is when you are still analysing your own data from last study in your new study, if you forgot to cite it I think. Oponents of your work can have your study retracted for self plagiarism. Then if the journal had asked for the rights to your study I am not sure what happens to your further work. “I have encountered only one traumatic arm amputation in my career”. The logic is that if one statement implies I claim lack of harm from vaccination, as you say, then the second must also imply that I claim lack of harm from traumatic arm amputation. But then no-one ever accused you of clarity of logic, did they? But again, you are merely trying to divert from your inability to cite any evidence, even though you have more than seventy years of data documenting its’ effects, that CWF has ever caused harm to any individual. Can you explain to us why you are unable to cite any evidence to support your “I am not making claims” claim that CWF causes harm? Evidence that the scientific method requires you to supply to endorse your claim? You haven’t yet been able to show us that even one person, among the millions drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies for over seventy years, has had harm from CWF. Please tell us why not. “your UCDavis ref is interesting, however…” It is a semester long course from the University of California. How did you manage to complete it in under a day? Maybe your belief that you have completed a semester long course from the University of California in less than a day is merely another example of the Dunning-Kruger effect in action? I note that there is no science that supports your fantasies. If there was, I assume that you would have produced it in the comments of this or other threads. Since you have no evidence to support your “I am not making claims” claims, you attempt to divert to irrelevant topics (vaccines, lead, herbicides, VAERS, radiation, petrol gauges – in the last thirty or so comments in this thread alone) in your endeavours to hide your lack of evidence. It hasn’t worked. Then you start attacking persons who have asked you to cite your evidence, who have supplied advice on how to obtain evidence and test for non-coincidence… It’s almost as though you know know that you are completely wrong with the science, yet still are trying to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt about one of the most proven, effective, and cheap methods of improving the health of a community. Are you a shill for “big dentistry”, trying to increase the incidence of dental caries by reducing the availability of optimally fluoridated water supplies and so assuring a greater number of teeth to repair? That seems to be the most likely reason for you comments. Of course, lack of knowledge about science, statistics, logic and health care could be an alternative reason… Stuartg there is a difference between a vaccine side effect and a vaccine adverse effect. The adverse effects are bad effects which happen after vaccination but are not necessarily side effects. Vaccinators report them in case there may be a new side effect not yet known about or maybe in relation to further improving knowledge, of incidence, severity &c., of known side effects. If accidents, such as your squash ball incident, increase in frequency after vaccination that might point to a side effect of poorer physical co-ordination in addition to headache, nausea &c., known side effects of vaccination. Stuartg: “You haven’t yet been able to show us that even one person, among the millions drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies for over seventy years, has had harm from CWF. Because by “show” you mean cite a published paper. A few years ago I could not cite a published paper that glyphosate-based herbicies cause harm. Now work has been published which does not only consider the effect of the glyphosate in isolation but in association with tallowate surfactants which increase its entry into cells. So now it is possible to show harm. So far papers have been published showing increased harm from excess iodine in association with increased fluoride. Both excess and deficient iodine can cause thryoid trouble. I have discussed quite a bit the Lin Fa Fu paper which deals with iodine deficiency, fluoride at a level equivalent to that used in CWF, and increased IQ impairment. As with lead poisoning, knowing that populations are harmed by a certain lead level, individuals with that level are considered to be proven poisoned by lead if they have that level in association with accepted symptoms. With radium burns it took a while to associate them to radium’s ionisation radiation tissue damage. Dentists’ knowledge gradually increases and now it is known what was causing the burns on their finger when they held xray plates in many patients’ mouths with their finger. That was learned quite a while ago but about how glyphosate is much more toxic in association with surfactants is fairly recently proven as publicly released. So relying on studies before Lin FF to show CWF to be safe I maintain to be invalid. Maybe brick tea could have been involved with Lin FF but they did urinary fluoride tests. Stuartg you are claiming CWF to be perfectly safe. I am not claiming it to be harmful, only that data I have casts doubt on its safety when considering certain ages of exposure, interacting factors such as iodine deficiency, genetic types and people like dedicated energetic sports players who may be using their metabolism to the max so any small impairment becomes more punishing. So we shall go on and on, with Stuartg saying there is no evidence of harm of CWF and I shall go on saying published evidence is further starting to develop. I shall go on giving examples from other areas of how that happens and Stuartg will go on pretending he can see no relevance. You say “I am not making claims”, but go on to claim that CWF harms by reducing sporting performance. You do so even though the observations you have made, calling them your “studies” and “evidence”, show results less than would be expected by coincidence. You don’t bother testing for non-coincidence, even though how to develop the new data sets to test your observations for non-coincidence has been pointed out to you. You then tell us that you don’t expect any harm from CWF to reach statistical significance. “I am not making claims.” Yeah, right. You didn’t need to continue making this many comments if you hadn’t made the claims that you continue to attempt to justify. “I shall go on saying published evidence is further starting to develop” …and I’ll keep asking you to cite that “published evidence” as long as you make evidence-free claims. So far your “published evidence” appears to exist only inside your imagination and you appear unwilling to actually share that evidence in any way whatsoever. If you weren’t making claims, then just acknowledge you have absolutely no evidence supporting a claim of harm from drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies. Don’t be ashamed of not having any evidence to support the claim; no-one else has any evidence either and that’s the simple reason why you are unable to cite anything. Stop trying to divert away from your inability to provide any evidence that CWF causes harm. Just acknowledge that there is no evidence to cite, even though there’s more than seventy years of data and research available, and the harm caused by higher concentrations of fluoride in untreated drinking water supplies is well known. Then you can keep your evidence-free fantasies to yourself and no-one will make any more comments about the evidence-free conspiracist world of fantasies that you appear to live in. And let the rest of us live in the real world. Stuartg you are not understanding the process by which new points arise to be tested. You have not understood the vaccine adverse event reporting system and when I point that out you say I am attacking you, I thinking it must be about that point. A vaccine adverse event does not have to be caused by the vaccine in order to be reported. It is anything a little out of the ordinary which happens after vaccination that when reports from many vaccinators are taken into account may suggest the need for further study. You say I have not proved non-coincidence but you should know such a proof is not possible. It is only possible to give a level of probability. Perhaps I’m just ignoring your comments about vaccines because you are merely using them to attempt diversion of discussion from your evidence-free “I am not making claims” claim that CWF causes harm? “You say I have not proved non-coincidence” No. You haven’t even attempted to prove non-coincidence, either because you are unable to or you can’t be bothered. At least seventy years of data and research into CWF for you to scrutinise. No citable evidence to show that CWF causes harm. A few coincidental observations (of your own?) No attempt to test those observations for non-coincidence. Inability to formulate a testable hypothesis. Expecting any future research (presumably by someone else) not to reach statistical significance. It’s almost as though you believe that drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies doesn’t cause harm to individuals or to populations. “I am not making claims” Not even to the Health Services Select sub committee? “Brian R SANDLE Presentation to the Health Services Select sub committee on 23 March 2014 (corrected 2017) on the Health (Fluoridation of Drinking Water) Amendment Bill” But you seemed so proud of those claims that you didn’t make! Stuartg you said I should not be looking at p values. It seem you want me to have proof of a relationship first? How is “proof” found without the first researchers starting by examining p values and their associated correlation values? Stuartg I presented some facts to the Select Committee. In my opinion they cast doubt on the safety of fluoridation if your are going to want your baby to excel as a rugby player, or if you are living in a low iodine environment, or of a certain genetic type (COMT variant maybe). Therefore I asked for the legislation to require district health boards to enquire into possible costs other than than the technology and materials to fluoridate water. One of the first things you would have learned, if you had ever been to classes on statistics, is that before you can test for non-coincidence you first have to develop new data sets. You would also have learned that the observations used to develop a hypothesis cannot be part of the data set used for testing the hypothesis. You are obviously unaware of both of those. By the way, opinion without supporting data is commonly termed fantasy. Your “facts” were evidence-free claims. If you still have the belief that you have supporting data, after multiple comments advising you why you don’t actually have any data but rather have coincidental observations, then you really do need to enroll in science and statistics classes at your local high school to find out why. If they aren’t claims, they don’t require defending. So why write hundreds of comments on blogs attempting to defend them? The scientific method would suggest that you acknowledge your opinions are evidence-free and either test them for non-coincidence or just drop them. Stuartg: “One of the first things you would have learned, if you had ever been to classes on statistics, is that before you can test for non-coincidence you first have to develop new data sets.” Before you go to the bother of developing new data sets you need to know whether it is going to be worth it. Stupid taking a guess and being wrong 95% of the time. You are confusing facts with drawing conclusions. It still isn’t proof. It just reduces the probability of coincidence as the p value decreases. I was thinking about troubles of fluoridation. I noticed Canterbury (non-fluoridated) rugby to be excellent. So I hypothesised that fluoridation impairs strongly competitive sport performance. One area I am still thinking about, about the only one I have found so far that the effect may not seem to happen is women’s rugby. Women’s rugby didn’t get serious until about the 1990s. And it seems more to attract Maori or maybe Polynesian players so will rugby be stronger where their population density and total number to select from is greater. Stuartg: “You would also have learned that the observations used to develop a hypothesis cannot be part of the data set used for testing the hypothesis.” In other words when you form a hypothesis about a patient’s medical condition and do a diagnosis you do not include what formed your hypothesis in your diagnosis? That is supposed to offer protection, from cherry picking a result at p <0.05 and then saying it to be significant. Even starting with new data sets does not verify anything better than the p value says. So I think this new data set idea is pumping up false confidence. Am I the only one to have had that idea or is it dismissed in the text books? This seems to have a connection to what Ken does when he does multiple correlations which alternatively may be connected to things fluoridation is said to be connected and cherry picks one like altitude, and you don't complain, Stuartg. Yet more bluster. Still no evidence. And very obviously no understanding. An excellent example of the Dunning-Kruger effect, in fact. Rather than you using the comments section of a blog to ask for advice on statistical methods, I really suggest that you take lessons in statistics. Your local high school may be able to help you. “when you form a … diagnosis you do not include what formed your hypothesis in your diagnosis” You apparently have no idea of the process here, either. Dunning-Kruger again? Any provisional diagnosis is tested by getting new data – labs, imaging, more history, repeat examinations, procedures… Just like a hypothesis in science is tested by getting new data. theStoartg: “Any provisional diagnosis is tested by getting new data – labs, imaging, more history, repeat examinations, procedures… Just like a hypothesis in science is tested by getting new data.” Yes bur the parallel is the original symptom you saw is then ignored, going by your requirement that only new data may be used. Stuartg: “Still no evidence.” But you have not denied that the original symptom in medical diagnosis, which instigated your hypothesis, still forms part of your diagnoisis, is actually part of your evidence for your diagnosis. Stuarth, so my initial cursory diagnosis was that sport is stronger in non-fluoridated Canterbury than fluoridated areas of NZ. So I looked for new data. * No All Black Captains born in our most populous city since fluoridation started there. * English soccer teams do better from non-fluoridated areas after the young children raised there have time to grow up. * Rugby in Greater Wellington’s half million population was topped much more frequently by Petone after the rest of Wellington was fluoridated. * More of the Hawke’s Bay representative rugby team come from the unfluoridated part. * Many All Blacks came from the South Canterbury/Timaru rugby team until fluoridation of Timaru then no more did and its division was also relegated. In the Super Rugby that non-fluoridated Canterbury/West Coast-based Crusaders have achieved much better than teams from two fluoridated regions. * Eminent All Black Captain Richie McCaw did not even achieve a place in the NZ secondary schools rugby team while boarding at a school in fluoridated Dunedin. He only started to excel when he went to non-fluoridated Lincoln. * Captains from non-fluoridated areas have captained the NZ cricket team team in many more matches since fluoridation started than captains from fluoridated areas. Though the sample is not very large, *Contrarily the pattern may not show in women’s rugby however the interest comes very much from Maori players who do not have such a wide geographical distribution in great numbers for testing and serious interest only started in the 1990s a long time after most fluoridation started in the mid 1960s. Or there could be a sex-based effect as with MMR-autism link showing in boys. Brian – you said in a previous comment: This seems to have a connection to what Ken does when he does multiple correlations which alternatively may be connected to things fluoridation is said to be connected and cherry picks one like altitude,” That misrepresents me. I have never “cherry-picked” altitude. Why should I? I am making absolutely no claims about altitude. What I have done is included several likely covariates in a multiple regression of ADHD prevalence and fluoridation extent. This was to show how the Malin and Till paper was faulty7. The lack of any significant relationship of ADHD prevalence with fluoridation is hardly surprising. Yet you avoid accepting that and look for any way to avoid facing up to the objective evidence. As for altitude – it is Huber et al (2015) who made that investigation because of their existing model of possible causes of ADHD. I have no views on that model or their explanation of the significant correlation. As I have often said parameters like altitude could really be acting as surrogates for other things connected to city living. Similar parameters like fluoridation extent can also be acting proxies – as was certainly the case for Malin & Till’s faulty analysis. Ken but you originally did a correlation table and picked elevation but no mention of Huber. https://openparachute.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/adhd-linked-to-elevation-not-fluoridation/ Your p value was 0.009 and I think your were justified in pointing it out. However technically I maintain you were cherry picking. My point is whether cherry picking should always be ruled out. I think not. According to the protocol which Stuartg points out, Ken should have been only using his US ADHD – altitude correlation as forming a hypothesis, then discarding that data and testing the hypothesis in many other regions. Yes, I did, Brian. So what? I identified a range of possible confounders which, because of the significance in a simple regression, should be considered as covariates. I have not in any way promoted any significance for that except to point out that Malin and Tillâs conclusion was clearly wrong. Something you refuse to acknowledge because of your unfounded assumption that fluoride must be bad. Donât be silly, Brian. Ken: “Donât be silly, Brian.” In this case Ken did not have to do the extra work since he later found it being done by Huber. I do not say fluoridation to be bad for everyone, just there is the chance it impairs certain categories of people who are wiped out in the wider averaging. That always can be a problem in a democracy. Ken: “I identified a range of possible confounders which, because of the significance in a simple regression, should be considered as covariates.” Same for me with the fluoridation confounder and strongly competitive sports success. Stop your continuing dishonest silliness, Brtan. No extra work was required because I showed that when several covariates were included the association claimed by Malin and Till was completely unsupported. You are refusing to accept that. As for Huber, they did not include fluoridation as a covariate so in fact their contribution was not directly related to my original article (except to confirm altitude had a significant relationship. Brian, if you are into identifying a range of covariates let’s see them put together in a multiple regression. I don’t think you have used any substantial data to establish a single covariate yet. Ken fluoridation is the single “covariate” or variable, that I have considered and I have given substantial data for pilot purposes. Why do you think not? Do you suspect fluoridation might be overshadowed in its effect by altitude? In NZ and England there is not a great variation of altitude in the populated areas. I might include climate, and note higher temperatures mean more water consumption. Take a look at success of 3 rugby teams from varying temperature areas in New Zealand the the Super Rugby competition In the first column I have the tally of the points won by the Auckland, Canterbury and Otago-based Super 12 rugby teams, less the points again st them. In the second column is the population of the province. The third column gives won – lost points per 10,000 population. Unfluoridated Canterbury is far ahead. Fluoridated, but cool climate Otago in southerly NZ is in the middle and hot fluoridated Auckland in hotter northerly NZ is very behind. 696— 1377000– 5 Auckland (Blues) 2141— 600100– 36 Canterbury (Crusaders) 518 –– 219200– 24 Otago (Highlanders) So things are a bit complex. Fluoridation of course includes possible changes to calcium and magnesium hardness of water, but they might be divided out. Including any interaction between them. I note you criticise studies of fluoride vs IQ when they fail to note low iodine. You seem to want the impairment to be thought of only as either/or fluoride/iodide (and indeed not fluoride), not having breadth for accounting for interaction between iodide and fluoride, meaning low iodide may not be so bad without fluoride’s increase. Brian, I have not seen any data from you – let alone substantial data. That is why I keep suggesting that you set up your won blog or website where such data can be presented. it cannot be presented in comments here and I simply refuse to attempt to sort out the mess you continually post in comments. If you do not respect readers sufficiently to use a forum enabling proper presentation then don’t expect us to read such messes. And, really, don’t expect me to look at a 3 sample dataset. Come off it. “According to the protocol which Stuartg points out…” That’s news to me. I can’t recall pointing out protocols, just the first things you need to do when you have a problem. It’s like your own job. As an electronic technician, what is the first thing you do when given something that doesn’t work? It’s broken. How can you fix it? Well, I would suggest that your first step is to seek new data. Look at the soldered joints, the wires, the individual components. Get out the multimeter and check for continuity, resistance, capacitance… Without new data, how do you expect to fix that broken electronic device? Or is your method to just throw it out and tell the owner to get a new device? Why is it that you believe that science, medicine, statistics, epidemiology, work any different to your own profession? If you’ve got a problem, test it. Testing it means that you necessarily acquire new data. Test whether the All Black captains being from non-fluoridated areas is coincidence? Get data about the captains from other national sports teams. You can use the captains from rugby teams around the world. You can use captains from the FIFA football teams. You can use captains from netball, hockey, ice hockey, cricket, bowls, baseball, basketball, Americas cup yachting… Thousands of team captains available for testing, but you restrict yourself to cherry-picking just a couple of dozen rugby players from NZ and don’t bother to test your idea. If you did that as an electronic technician, you would rapidly lose your job. The same can be said for your UK football league results. And I have done. But, again, you stick with your cherry-picked results and don’t bother to get new data in order to test your idea. The same can be said for Petone. And I did. And, yet again, you stuck with your cherry-picked data and didn’t bother to get a new data set and test whether your idea had any validity. I repeat, if you did that as an electronic technician, you would rapidly lose your job. Your ideas are interesting, but the results you have observed are well within the normal range that would be expected if CWF has absolutely no effect on sporting performance. They are well within the normal range that would be expected if drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies does not cause harm to individuals or to populations. If you wish to pursue your ideas further, you need to follow the well established methods of science, statistics and epidemiology. My suggestion is that you start by learning the basics – high school classes in science and statistics would be a good start. “there could be a sex-based effect as with MMR-autism link showing in boys” Citation required. “(I) note higher temperatures mean more water consumption.” Especially when you are discussing peak sporting performance where the cooling requirements are related more to the maximum heat generation capacity of the human body than to environmental temperatures. “Take a look at success of 3 rugby teams from varying temperature areas” Especially about the temperature variations. Which province is hottest, coldest, has the highest temperature variations, rainfall, sunshine hours, etc. Also about the transferring of players between those teams, overseas origins of those players, out of province origins, etc. And why you cherry-picked those teams and didn’t bother mentioning the many other provincial teams. And why you cherry-picked Super-12 rugby, but didn’t mention the performance of provincial teams in netball, football, hockey, cricket, other forms of rugby… Or is the performance of other provincial teams and other sports in disagreement with your fantasies? https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/5/21/15505812/lancet-teach-informed-health-choices-teaching-kids Maybe it’s just too late for you to learn about science, statistics and epidemiology? Stuartg: “Well, I would suggest that your first step is to seek new data. Look at the soldered joints, the wires, the individual components. Get out the multimeter and check for continuity, resistance, capacitance…” Indeed and make sure the big capacitors are not put in by the assemblers in reverse polarity or else the whole factory gets a big surprise. There is a lot to check and often only a small sample of each fault. You have to take action much sooner than a statistical research protocol would allow. Get the circuit diagram and component specifications books and make sure the printed circuit board is designed properly. There is a lot more discarding these days with new products being cheaper than time spent on repair. My notion is that the same discarding is happening to humans. Stuartg: “there could be a sex-based effect as with MMR-autism link showing in boys” If you think the CDC were correct in eliminating children without easy access to birth certificate data which turned out to be the affected Back males then there is other stuff where sexes react differently a 2003 study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15562745 “Gender differences regarding reactogenicity were evident and should be considered when designing future studies.” Stuartg: “Citation required. Especially about the temperature variations.” I am not sure how trustworthy this may be anout avaerage monthly temperatures: http://www.newzealand.com/int/feature/new-zealand-climate-and-weather/ Auckland 10.9 to 19.7 Dunedin 6.6 to 15.3 And it is not only about playing/training but amount drunk at other times including by the pregnant mum. “For a given individual, water consumption increases with temperature, humidity, exercise and state of health, and is modified by other factors including diet. Roughly, the closer to the Equator, the higher the water consumption (Murray, 1986).” Click to access fluoride_drinking_water_full.pdf Stuartg your VOX cite: A proper scientific educator would have explained to the children the power of placebo/suggestion and that that is what they were investigating. That course is very lacking, “Colour of medication: Patients’ compliance of medication and treatment is strongly influenced by the role (they think) medicine plays [22]. The size and colour of the tablets are significant factors. Blue is seen as depressant-sedative, and yellow as stimulant antidepressants [23]. Blue preparations are more soothing; and red, pink or yellow as more stimulating [24]. De Craen et al. [25] confirmed that stimulation was associated with medicine which was marketed in hot colours (red, orange, yellow), and antidepressants were marketed in cold colours (blue, green, purple). In a study with volunteer medical students, similar observations were made [26]. Expectations thus drive the placebo effect [27]. Where patients see their illness as hot or cold, they will only accept medication which deals with the heat or cold. Buckalew and Coffield [23] demonstrated that white capsules were seen as analgesics by Caucasians, but as stimulants by African Americans, whereas black capsules were seen as stimulants by Caucasians and as analgesics by African Americans. Interestingly, among passive individuals who were intellectually oriented, sedative agents produced higher (than expected) levels of sedation [2]. Regrettably, in drug trials, these factors are not taken into account.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acps.12422/full Stuartg: “Also about the transferring of players between those teams, overseas origins of those players, out of province origins, etc.” If it were happening more I would expect the differential to decrease. Maybe it is. Citation still required. …but your comment is about provincial rugby, not cities. Dunedin temperatures are hardly representative of Otago – try looking at Alexandra temperatures, for instance. So, citation still required. And let’s not forget that, in spite of there being more than seventy years of data and research into the subject, you are completely incapable of citing any harm caused by drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies. So, as I said, interesting ideas, but no evidence available to support them. Stuartg: ““According to the protocol which Stuartg points out…” You suggested I should not do some correlations and select the ones with low p and ignore others and say I have proven significance, didn’t you? It is a wrong protocol. For if I do 20 correlations I should by probability get one “statistically significant” at p<0.05 purely by chance. You didn't call it a protocol but what is supposed to be done is to get a notion using reason then test it for statistical significance, as I have begun to do with temperature and fluoridation. Even at p<0.01 one correlation per 100 meeting that p value happens purely by chance. A notion I have to test: increase in violence and suicide against increase consumption of food with unfermented soy bean protein extender in it (soy being a problem for thyroid as a possibility), fluoridated toothpaste and water (fluoride also being a thyroid problem at low iodine which may add or interact.) Fortunately NZ health ministry recommend not to feed infants on soy milk where avoidable. In rats soy has been shown to interfere with development of the endocrine system. It is strongly hormonal, more so if treated with glyphosate-based herbicide. Traditional soy food in Asian countries is fermented which early peoples seem to have found improves it. The fermented products are called natto in Japan, fluffy tofu in China and Tempeh in Indonesia. So I have set out that notion beforre doing a p value table and selecting. Fluoridated toothpaste, water, soy consumption, violence and suicide have all increased. What else would you put in the list, giving a reason for the notion? Stuartg as far as I can see no Highlanders players come from Central Otago. Out of the 41 current squad at least 16 were born in non-fluoridated areas maybe more since i do not know about 4 from places in Samoa and Tonga and I am not sure when Garth Evans’ mother came from Zimbabwe. Only 4 seem to be born in fluoridated Dunedin. “You suggested I should not do some correlations and select the ones with low p and ignore others and say I have proven significance, didn’t you?” “Out of the 41 current squad at least 16 were born in non-fluoridated areas” “Only 4 seem to be born in fluoridated Dunedin” Check your maths. 41 – 16 = 27, not 4. “Only 4 seem to be born in fluoridated Dunedin” If less than 10% of the squad was born in Dunedin, why do you use weather averages for Dunedin as representative of the >90% not born there? Are you doing the same for Canterbury? For Auckland? Why haven’t you included Taranaki? Southland? Lot’s of other provinces? The obvious lack of thought you have put into your “I am not making claims” claims implies egregious cherry picking. If you remember, I did suggest that you could cite any evidence you have to support your claim that drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies, in the form of CWF, causes harm. You still haven’t cited any evidence to support your claim. Stuartg: “If less than 10% of the squad was born in Dunedin, why do you use weather averages for Dunedin as representative of the >90% not born there?” Stuartg I think you still have that either-or thing going. You want me not to claim fluoride could affect initial human development as well as later functioning. You were very big on it before, “what has that got to do with that?” in a very obfuscating fashion, too. Or maybe I suppose you are trying to hope people will realise that you want it to be two separate investigations. One perhaps being the early-life effect on pineal development with ongoing change to the melatonin/serotonin mechanism, the other being the effect on the thyroid noticeable in people working extremely at their limit. Dunedin being better for environmental iodine may avoid that somewhat. Yes over half of these players came from fluoridated birth regions, it looks. About 5 from Palmerston North I think, though sometimes the description “Manawatu” could mean elsewhere. Sorry it’s a bit hard to trace the players’ origins. Josh Dickson was born in fluoridated Perth but grew up, went to primary school, in non-fluoridated Wanaka which is almost Central Otago. I don’t know at what age he went there. That may increase the non-F births to 18. The team (with reserves) which is playing internationally (Perth) has some other players not in the main list. (Including 7 reserves 9 from fluoridated birth places 10 from non-fluoridated and 3 not sure. So there is a small shift to increased non-F proportion for international match. Sorry I have not done every team yet. It takes a bit of time. Stuartg: “If you remember, I did suggest that you could cite any evidence you have to support your claim that drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies, in the form of CWF, causes harm. Whay don’t you consider Lin Fa Fu et al’s work to be evidence? Point out to us all where Lin Fa Fu et al studied people who had been drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies. http://www.skepticalob.com/2017/05/alternative-health-dunning-kruger-and-the-tuteur-corollary.html Substitute your own thinking about Community Water Fluoridation if you wish. Stuartg: “Point out to us all where Lin Fa Fu et al studied people who had been drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies” So you think there is more to fluoridation than the level of fluoride? Then tell us why their basic maths contains errors. Then perhaps you could find a certified translation. After all, if the authors/editor/typesetter/translator demonstrably leave numerical errors in their tables, who knows what other errors are present in their text? Stuartg: “Point out to us all where Lin Fa Fu et al studied people who had been drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies.” By “fluoridated” do you exclude naturally to a similar level as artificial? A problem of “science-based medicine” is that science finds it much easier to look at one illness one drug when the door may have more than one key to open it. Not just Ken’s confounding variables which may act independently but variables interacting – working together. In the case of iodide Ken refers to its lack as a confounder but it’s lack in the presence of slightly elevated fluoride may make things worse. What maths errors is it Stuartg? Stuartg: it is not a typesetting error. ig means micrograms. http://acronymsandslang.com/definition/103129/IG%2FDL-meaning.html Ken \| May 26, 2017 at 7:30 am \| Extremely rare? First time I have seen that abbreviation â after a long career in chemistry research. I suggest one would only use it for pretentious reasons or out of ignorance. After all, the purpose of communication is to be understood â why resort to use of abbreviations not recognised by people in the appropriate community? Incredibly rare – first time I’ve ever seen that use as well! But it was actually the numerical errors I referred to, not nomenclature. I’ve pointed out the errors to you in the past, as have others, and they are still present in the translation. It’s remarkable that you have elected to ignore those errors in your quest to find small, low quality, cherry picked studies that you believe add to your fund of anecdotes. It’s interesting to note that you were ready to defend this incredibly rare and non-recommended SI usage, though; I hadn’t even registered it! Microgram is usually abbreviated to µg, or ug if your keyboard can’t manage the mu. That’s the SI standard. Handwritten medical notes are recommended to use mcg to reduce risk of error (handwritten µg often misinterpreted as mg). But those comments are just another example of your use of diversion. You still are unable to provide any citations to support your evidence-free imaginative speculation that drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies causes harm to individuals or to populations. And that’s with more than seventy years of research and data available from the real world among which you would surely be able to find evidence to support your speculation. If CWF doesn’t cause harm, then I would not expect you to be able to cite any evidence of harm. Interestingly, your lack of citations thus tends to support the scientific consensus that CWF does not cause harm. Stuartg: “Microgram is usually abbreviated to µg, or ug if your keyboard can’t manage the mu. That’s the SI standard. Handwritten medical notes are recommended to use mcg to reduce risk of error (handwritten µg often misinterpreted as mg).” If ug, the u being the second letter of mu, the english for the Greek µ, why not go more English and use the second letter of micro? Both are using the second letter to avoid the common confusion between micro and milli. Though I suppose it is the second letter of milli also. People familiar with nutrition should know by the figures. Stuartg we had a good go at this 6 months ago: “soundhill, I’m not going to do your library searches for you. I’m just not interested enough to follow it further. I’ll trust the scientific consensus rather than rely on the three papers you think contradict the scientific consensus.” So I give 3 papers then you talk about a contrary consensus and tell me to look up the data for your consensus? People won’t be trusting you to be other than trying to create a perception unless you give some studies to back up your claim for consensus of no effect involving people subjected to fluoride levels relevant to fluoridation when they are low or high on iodine intake. “If ug, the u being the second letter of mu, the english for the Greek µ, why not go more English and use the second letter of micro?” As you never learned science at school, you obviously never learned about how and why SI standards were developed and why they are standards. Is your comment derived from the Dunning-Kruger effect, or is it just your automatic “my fantasies have to be right, so all those thousands of experts have to be wrong in spite of their evidence and many years of learning” approach? You want me to give you evidence about the scientific consensus? Again? As though I hadn’t done it several times before? Take a modern textbook on dentistry. It doesn’t matter which. Or perhaps a modern textbook on epidemiology. Or both. Or more than one of each. In any language. Or take all of them. Turn to the chapters on community water fluoridation. Read them. Read the references. Read their references. That’s the scientific consensus on community water fluoridation. Against that consensus you have a fantasy that CWF causes harm. In your opposition to the scientific consensus, the sum total of your citable evidence is… nothing. That’s in spite of more than seventy years of research and data into the millions of people who have benefited from drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies over the decades. Surely there’s something in all that evidence to support your fantasy? Well, since you haven’t found anything, maybe not. You are denying the science and the scientific consensus because you have a fantasy. Stuartg the SI system of units is not about the symbols used to represent those units. It just replaced the foot pound second system and the centimeter gram second system with the metre kilogram second system, didn’t it? And now when I try to find the original occurrence of ig/L in Lin FF Google brings up the Greek mu but when I copy and paste it here the result is /ig/L. And viewing the version of Lin FF that Ken linked uses the Greek. So you are looking silly making so much out of it, And you are weakening your case as you try to create a perception that Lin FF carries no weight. I may be a bit wrong about there. But “mcg” is not part of SI. “When the Greek lowercase “μ” (Mu) in the symbol μg is typographically unavailable, it is logically replaced by the Latin lowercase “u”. The United States-based Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommend that the symbol μg should not be used when communicating medical information due to the risk that the prefix μ (micro-) might be misread as the prefix m (milli-), resulting in a thousandfold overdose. The non-SI symbol mcg is recommended instead.[1][2] However, the abbreviation mcg is also the symbol for an obsolete CGS unit of measure known as millicentigram, which is equal to 10 μg.” “But “mcg” is not part of SI.” Who said it was? Perhaps you could actually read what I said, rather than relying on your imagination? Both Ken (“Extremely rare? First time I have seen that abbreviation â after a long career in chemistry research”) and myself (“Incredibly rare – first time I’ve ever seen that use as well!”) merely commented about your defence of Lin Fa Fu et al using the term “ig” – ” it is not a typesetting error. ig means micrograms” If you read back you will see my comment that I hadn’t even noticed their use of “ig”, So, by bringing it up, who is making “so much out of” the use of “ig”? And how much do you think it diverts away from your inability to cite evidence to support your fantasy about CWF causing harm? “It (the SI system) just replaced the foot pound second system and the centimeter gram second system with the metre kilogram second system, didn’t it?” You really should take those high school science classes. Stuartg which text book gives the consensus on any interaction between moderate fluoride and low or high iodine? Unfortunately the way medical scientific research goes there are things like liability that doctors have to cope with. If they give two new drugs together and the patient suffers a reaction how do they know which one it was to apportion liability? Liability is a very heavy weight on doctors. So taking account of things working together is often off the radar. You may not find it in the text books as much as it should be for positive actions, but often it is cited for bad drug interactions that have been obvious. But who takes liability for nutrient deficiency? Then next who takes liability for interaction of deficiencies? Will I find that written in the ethics texts? soundhill. If you read back you will see my comment that I hadn’t even noticed their use of “ig” …because on checking it, my copy didn’t have that usage. So why are you making yourself look silly by making so much fuss about it? …and why can’t you find any citable evidence supporting your fantasy that drinking CWF causes harm? “Will I find that written in the ethics texts?” You will find that discussed in ethics textbooks. As you would know if you had read them. Here is another example of dealing with a moderate supplement of something (folic acid) and the problem effect if something is low (vitamin B12), and the mess that people are being subjected to: http://anhinternational.org/2013/09/04/fighting-forest-fires-with-teaspoons-folic-acid-fortification-and-vitamin-b12-deficiency/ Where can I find citable evidence to support your “I am not making claims” insistence that drinking CWF causes harm? Keep on trying to divert if you like. It makes it really obvious how much you are denying the science, denying the evidence of multiple decades of research and data into the lack of harmful effects of drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies in the millions of people who have benefited from it. “Here is another example” …of attempting diversion using irrelevancies unrelated to CWF. (FYI, I first diagnosed SCD over thirty years ago – it’s not as uncommon as you appear to think, as most NZ third year medical students could tell you) Stuartg: “If you read back you will see my comment that I hadn’t even noticed their use of “ig” …because on checking it, my copy didn’t have that usage” You talked about typographical errors and I suppose it will be your strategy to leave us guessing over and over and take a laugh each time we get it wrong. You are lacking. https://consultations.health.gov.au/chronic-disease-and-food-policy-branch/review-of-the-2006-nutrient-reference-values-for-a/supporting_documents/AustraliaandNewZealandNutrientReferenceValuesforIodine.pdf go to the Pettigrew Porter ref which I pasted/ You had said “What is the measurement “Ig/L” you are using in your cut & paste? I cannot find any reference to it in the official SI units.” Stuartg: “(FYI, I first diagnosed SCD over thirty years ago – it’s not as uncommon as you appear to think, as most NZ third year medical students could tell you)” Sickle Cell Disease is a genetic affliction. Sufferers may actually have better survival than normal in malaria prone areas. If you prescribed folic acid or folate did you also prescribe Vitamin B12 to try to avoid the nerve damage that folic acid may mask? You do not have to have sickle cell disease to be short of vitamin B12 and be at risk of getting only folic acid supplementation as in our breads. Silly who will be writing a citable paper on my claims or lack of them? Sruartg: “It makes it really obvious how much you are denying the science, denying the evidence of multiple decades of research and data into the lack of harmful effects of drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies in the millions of people who have benefited from it.” Science does reviews. Ken brought up a review of Lin FF last November whcih I challenged parts of. But no review of Fugui Hong or Dali Ren et al.. Soundhill1: “Sickle Cell Disease is a genetic affliction. Sufferers may actually have better survival than normal in malaria prone areas.” Sorry it may be just those with one copy of the gene, I am not sure. Stuartg: ““It (the SI system) just replaced the foot pound second system and the centimeter gram second system with the metre kilogram second system, didn’t it?” To my knowledge the units kept the same names it was just decided to adopt different ones from amongst them. In the MKS system one newton acceleartes a mass of 1 kg at 1 metre per second per second In the FPS system one poundal accelerates a mass of one pound at a rate of one foot per second per second. In the CGS system a force of one dyne accelerates a mass of one gram at a rate of one centimeter per second per second. The MKS system was adopted and school children no longer had to work in poundals and dynes. Feet as a measurement of length was replaced by metres. Pounds were replaced by kilograms. But I don’t think the decimal multipliers of metres and kilograms &c changed for SI. Though the kilogtam became the accepted unit of mass they did not call a gram a millikilogram SCD – subacute combined degeneration of the cord. Caused by B12 deficiency and can be contributed to by folate deficiency. Or had you no idea what you were talking about and just cited something that you thought was near enough? “To my knowledge…” It’s obvious that your knowledge doesn’t include why the Système International was introduced, or why it is in use today. You really should attend some lessons in basic science, rather than assuming that you have a good teacher whilst being self taught. You still keep attempting to divert from your inability to cite evidence that can support your assertions that CWF can cause harm to the people that drink it. Would you explain to us why you are completely incapable of citing such evidence? After all, you’ve got more than seventy years of research and data, involving millions of people, from which to provide such evidence. If it exists. Perhaps you should read this: http://www.skepticalob.com/2017/05/alternative-health-dunning-kruger-and-the-tuteur-corollary.html I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned it before and can’t be bothered looking back on a Saturday night when I’m trying to recover from a series of night shifts. Stuartg: “SCD – subacute combined degeneration of the cord” It’s not in this list of acronyms: https://www.allacronyms.com/_medical/SCD But those don’t leave off essential parts of the concept such as “cord” in your definition. It has to be worse than the old Latin prescriptions and doctors’ bad handwriting which must have caused much confusion before computers. How about standardising the medical acronyms into a Systeme Internationale (SI) like the physical and chemical units? So I didn’t get it correct but I did get something related to a vitamin B12 connected disease, It avoids a lot of conversion to be required going from one system to another. The Anericans tend not to use it so much. There is some standardisation of powers of 10. Like for Americans a billion is 1,000,000,000 but the English used to call 1,000,000,000,000 a billion and 1.000.000.000.000.000.000 a trillion. so giga, tera, exa and zeta have been substituted to reduce confusion. What is the SI for billionaire? Tuteur: Who is doing this to me? Why is the doctor sticking to a failing protocol if I have terminal cancer? Why is a clinical trial aimed at advancing science, not doing the best for an individual patient? Why is it aimed at one key when the door to cancer may have several requited? Who are these monsters putting me down with names like Tuteur and Dunning Kruger when my life is ebbing? Stuartg: “CWF can cause harm to the people that drink it.” You don’t listen, Some people that drink it. “Some people that drink it.” So give us some citeable evidence that “some” people get harmed by drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies. Or citable evidence that even one person has been harmed by CWF. Definitely there has been death with CWF accident at only 150 times the recommended optimum level. http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJM199401133300203 Brian, can you not realise that providing a single example of an accident in response to Stuart’s question: is extremely damning for your case? You are admitting that you cannot find a single example of harm to individuals from CWF. No Ken, one person died and a lot were made sick who would not have been if CWF were not taking place. It wasn’t at the LD50 level where half die. More like LD0.3. The point is that responses to fluoride vary. At what level can no risk be associated? What do all the studies which Stuartg goes on about say about the tails of their distributions? Low or high iodine segment? COMT variant? Where are the papers that look at EQ on top of IQ yet? The paper you cite documents harm from water with a fluoride concentration of 150mg/L. That’s 150 parts per million when NZ has recommended the optimum fluoride concentration in water to be 0.7 to 1.0 ppm. Could you please justify your selection of 150 ppm as the optimum fluoride concentration in drinking water supplies. After all, if you didn’t select that as optimum, the paper has zero relevance to your claims. We’re still waiting for you to provide citable evidence demonstrating harm to even a single individual, let alone “some” people, from drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies. Haven’t you produced them yet? After all, we still haven’t seen citations from you to support your assertion that drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies affects IQ. “The point is that responses to fluoride (at optimal water fluoridation concentrations) vary.” You’re making an assumption there. You need to back that supposition with citations justifying your use of such speculation. No problems if you are talking about fluoride concentrations well above those optimal for reticulated water supplies, but then your statement would be completely irrelevant to discussion of CWF. “At what level can no risk be associated?” Well, unless you can provide citations that harm has been caused to any individual from drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies, we can be pretty certain it includes the level recommended for reticulated water supplies. Stusrtg: “Could you please justify your selection of 150 ppm as the optimum fluoride concentration in drinking water supplies. After all, if you didn’t select that as optimum, the paper has zero relevance to your claims.” They were intending/attempting to do 1ppm or so as you say they should. NO escaping. Stuartg: “The point is that responses to fluoride (at optimal water fluoridation concentrations) vary.” You’re making an assumption there. You need to back that supposition with citations justifying your use of such speculation” Of course they vary. Some get dental fluorosis more than others. Even cats learn to avoid other cars when one hits them. Unless they are trained not to as you seem to try to be doing to people who see dental fluorosis and wonder what else may be happening. So you can only find evidence of harm from drinking fluoride in water when the concentration of fluoride is one hundred and fifty times that recommended? Hardly surprising. Most things can cause harm when one hundred and fifty times the recommended amount is ingested – try eating one hundred and fifty scones for morning tea. In NZ optimal fluoridation is currently set at 0.7 to 1.0 ppm. The recommendations will never include the 150 ppm that caused the only harm you have been able to cite. Where are your citations showing harm from drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies? More than seven decades of CWF. Millions of people benefiting. Yet you can’t show harm in even one person from drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies? If you had bothered to acquaint yourself with the scientific consensus on CWF you would know why you can’t cite evidence of harm from CWF. It’s all there in the textbooks and their references. Threshold concentrations for harm from fluoridated water supplies were known from observations of people drinking naturally fluoridated water worldwide well before CWF was introduced. In other words, they’ve been known for over seventy years. There have been, and always will be, minor jiggles in the evaluation of that threshold – but that’s just how the scientific method works. The recommended concentration for optimally fluoridated water supplies always has been, and always will be, much less than the threshold known to cause harm. Epidemiologists have been studying those populations with CWF for over seventy years, specifically looking for evidence of harm from CWF. They haven’t found any. Amateurs (probably the kindest way of describing anti-fluoridationists) have also been looking for evidence of harm from drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies for over seventy years as well. They haven’t found any evidence, either. Let’s repeat that. No-one, not scientists, not epidemiologists, not anti-fluoridationists, has ever found evidence of anybody being harmed by drinking optimally fluoridated water. The simple reason that you can’t cite evidence of even a single person being harmed by drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies, soundhill, is that no-one has actually been harmed by drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies. I’d have thought you would have figured it out by now. I know that you won’t believe my comment above – simply because you think that everyone who doesn’t believe your fantasies are shills – but the comment is there for others to see why your belief/fantasy/faith that CWF causes harm means that you are denying the reality demonstrated by the scientific method. As I see it, you’ve got a couple of options to choose from: 1. Ask an anti-fluoridationist cobber to cite evidence of harm to persons drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies. (I doubt you’ll manage to find any yourself) 2. Go to high school classes, learn about science, statistics, logic and philosophy. Then maybe some advanced work at university. Then read the textbooks on Community Water Fluoridation, the references and their references. In other words, you can read and understand the scientific consensus on CWF. If you attempt the first, you’ll find even Connett is unable to cite harm caused to an individual from drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies. And, believe me on this, he’ll have been looking longer and harder than you have. If you manage the second, including the all important understand, it will take many years of your time and at the end of it all I suspect that you will find that you support CWF. Because by then you’ll have learned and understand the scientific method, what the evidence is, and why your current beliefs have no supporting evidence. Or you can go to option 3: Keep on attempting diversion to irrelevant topics in your endeavours to conceal your basic lack of knowledge of science, statistics, medicine and logic. I wonder which it will be? Stuartg: “So you can only find evidence of harm from drinking fluoride in water when the concentration of fluoride is one hundred and fifty times that recommended?” Accepts there is harm when there has been a death. “Threshold concentrations for harm from fluoridated water supplies were known from observations of people drinking naturally fluoridated water worldwide well before CWF was introduced.” Define “harm.” Please cite evidence in support of your claim that drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies has caused harm to individuals or to populations in the more than seventy years it has been available. I will repeat myself: you are able to define both “harm” and “optimally fluoridated” provided you are able to justify those definitions. Do you want to re-define “drinking”, “water” and “seventy years” as well? So far you appear to have defined “optimally fluoridated” at one hundred and fifty times the NZ recommended level, but you have neglected to justify that definition. “Accepts there is harm (from drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies) when there has been a death”. Only if soundhill is able to justify resetting the definition of optimally fluoridated water supplies to 150 ppm fluoride. Accepts there has been harm when fluoride level has got to 150mg/l and there has been a death. But does not accept damage to the ameloblasts as harm, or it seems anything until the level gets up to 150mg per liter and there is a death. I’ll repeat what I said earlier: You can define “harm” to a human being in any way you like, providing you can justify that definition. Personally though, If I were you, I would use one of the already accepted expert definitions of harm. Following that, you can continue to demonstrate to us that there is no citable evidence of harm, to individuals or to populations, that is caused by drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies. And if you continue to insist that 150ppm fluoride causing harm is “optimally fluoridated”, then: {citation required} Stuartg: ““Where are the papers that look at EQ on top of IQ yet?” If EQ is to have anything to do with suicide I have to note suicide seems to have a small negative correlation of -0.26 to proportion of state fluoridated in USA. p value about 0.065 two-valued. Could be that there may be more suicide in rural regions which may have less fluoridation. In NZ correlation of suicide to population of DHB gives about 0.4 p=about 0.06 two-tailed. Taking a wild guess at fluoridation of NZ DHBs usng only 1 for more fluoridated , 0 for less fluoridated and 0.5 for Hastins/Napier sort of area I get a rank correlation about -0.3 but the p value is too large at two-tailed 0.18. But taken together with USA there may be an effect. The partial correlation holding population constant is -0.29. Used Vassarstats. Brian, you are implying there is ” damage to the ameloblasts” from CWF. Could you please provide a citation and/or link? Soundhill1: “In NZ correlation of suicide to population of DHB gives about 0.4 p=about 0.06 two-tailed.” sorry should be -0.4 with the smaller DHBs having more suicide. “does not accept damage to the ameloblasts as harm (to a human being)” Exactly what damage is caused to ameloblasts by exposure to optimal fluoride concentrations? Before you start a rant, yes, I know that excess fluoride makes ameloblasts incorporate more fluoride into the enamel matrix and results in dental fluorosis, but they’re still healthy, undamaged cells. And, yes, I know that zero fluoride means the enamel matrix ameloblasts produce is more porous and so more prone to dental caries, but they’re still healthy, undamaged cells. And yes, I know that ameloblasts with optimal fluoride levels are also healthy, undamaged cells. So can you cite anyone with evidence that the same optimal fluoride levels are causing damage to ameloblasts? And if you can, exactly what sort of harm does that cause to the human organism? After all, you are the one with the “I am not making claims” insistence of human harm from CWF. And, once you’ve done that, you can continue to demonstrate the lack of citable evidence you have that drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies causes harm to individuals or to populations, even though some have drunk it for a lifetime. Stuartg: “Before you start a rant, yes, I know that excess fluoride makes ameloblasts incorporate more fluoride into the enamel matrix and results in dental fluorosis, but they’re still healthy, undamaged cells.” Cite please.I don’t think you will find a cite and you still have the misconception I have spoken of several times. What I have read is that fluorotic white marks are “hypomineralisation.” Hypo meaning less than should be. The ameloblasts no longer form proper transparent hydroxyapatite. In severe cases protein is left where enamel should be causing brown marks. Stuartg: “I am not making claims” insistence of human harm from CWF.” No just caution. Even if fluoridation were to be reducing suicide would it be doing it by some mechansim such as that other very light and reactive element lithium which though may dampen the affect may damage the liver? StuartgL “And, yes, I know that zero fluoride means the enamel matrix ameloblasts produce is more porous” No on the contrary. More porous with fluoride. It is just that jydroxyapatite is less resistant to acid attack than fluorapatite. If tooth enamel without fluoride were more porous it also would not be transparent the way it is. Citation? Certainly. http://m.jbc.org/content/280/24/23194.full Or you could try the relevant dental textbooks. Now why can’t you provide the citations to support your claims? Probably because evidence for your claims exists only in your imagination. Suicide: another diversion attempting redirection from your inability to cite evidence to support your “I am not making claims” insistence that CWF causes harm. “No on the contrary. More porous with fluoride. It is just that jydroxyapatite (sic) is less resistant to acid attack than fluorapatite. Your imagination is running away again. Read the scientific consensus. Or, failing that, the citations I provided. Perhaps you can tell us why you are unable to cite harm to individuals or to populations from drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies? After all, with more than seventy years of data and research into the effects of CWF, your lack of citations makes it highly unlikely that CWF causes any harm to humans from drinking it. If your “I am not making claims” insistence is indeed “just caution” then the absolute lack of evidence available in its support (millions of people, multiple decades…) would be indicative that the “just caution” is no longer warranted. Initial opposition to the railways were concerned that humans would not survive speeds over 30 mph. In spite of the lack of evidence to support that concern, are you still exhibiting “just caution” and sticking to walking and horse riding like those people? “For the first 10 kg of weight, a child needs 100 mL per kg of weight.” “Children who are vomiting, have diarrhea, are sweating excessively, or who are exposed to extremely high temperatures, require even more fluids than listed above.” Click to access 00037.pdf Now Stuartg from your second ref “Enamel fluorosis is observed in young children at fluoride intakes as low as 0.03 mg F/kg body weight,” That would be 0.3mg for a 10 kg child, and at a fluoridation rate of 0.7mg/l its fluid requirement of 1 litre would inflict over double that. Stuartg: “If tooth enamel without fluoride were more porous it also would not be transparent the way it is.” Thanks for reminding me about those citations. Non-porous hydroxyapatite is not as resistant to acid as fluorapatite. Due to the scattering of light at the interface between the apatite and any pores in it, porous hydroxyapatite would be translucent but not transparent. Stuartg’s second ref: “the effects of fluoride on ER stress require further study at lower doses.” The endoplasmic reticulum is involved in many body processes. As a doctor do you know how a person’s kidneys have to have their function considerably reduced before they present with symptoms? The kidneys have quite an amount of spare capacity. What percent would you say would be gone before a patient presents? Would a hard working sports person, like Jonah Lomu, notice the impairment earlier? Would the number of hard working sports people in the Dunedin Study be sufficient for them to statistically significantly sway the population picture about any bodily development aspects where the ER may have affected reserves? Soundhill1: “Even if fluoridation were to be reducing suicide would it be doing it by some mechansim such as that other very light and reactive element lithium which though may dampen the affect may damage the liver?” “The affect” there related to affection, and being sort of the set of emotions. Lithium is used to treat manic depression but can result in death from failed liver. So, still no citations to support your evidence-free fantasies that CWF causes harm? After all, more than seven decades of research, seven decades of data accumulation, multiple countries, millions of people benefiting, yet you’re still not able to find evidence that even one person in the real world has been harmed by drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies. You can fantasise and speculate for as long as you like, but your inability to provide supporting evidence from the real world exposes those fantasies for exactly what they are: make-believe from your world of pure imagination. I suggest that you read back. The reason I placed that phrase in quotation marks is because it originated with you. Don’t try attributing it to me. It has nothing to do with my opinions and everything to do with yours. We note, yet again, your attempt at diversion from your inability to provide evidence supporting your claims. It still doesn’t work. It still makes you look foolish – your insistence that others produce evidence whilst you convincingly demonstrate that you are incapable of doing so yourself is somewhat injudicious of you. You haven’t even acknowledged that your completely inaccurate evidence-free belief that fluoride damages ameloblasts has been shown to be wrong – by evidence available from the real world. So, yet again, where are your citations from the real world that drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies causes harm to humans? Surely somewhere amongst those millions of people, decades of data, you can find evidence that even one person has been harmed by CWF? Or do we conclude that your “I am not making claims” assertations and speculations are the products of pure fantasy? Stuartg: “So, yet again, where are your citations from the real world that drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies causes harm to humans? ” You are talking legal proof. Knowledge that the speed of train travel shouldn’t be feared indeed took a while to develop and legal proof of asbestos and lead injury took a while to develop. Just because there may be no legal proof of fluoridation injury in NZ does not have to mean there to be no impairment. I think Stuart was actually talking about scientific proof â not âlegal proof.â One does not rely on lawyers when considering safety issues. But you have certainly exposed your desperation n with this comment that absence of âproof of fluoridation injury in NZ does not have to mean there to be no impairment. There is no proof there are fairies at the bottom of your garden â are you then going to use this absence to argue that they are really there? Stuartg \| June 1, 2017 at 12:00 am \| “Knowledge that the speed of train travel shouldn’t be feared indeed took a while to develop” Certainly. It took one short trip lasting less than an hour. Confirming Ken’s comment: I don’t have the knowledge of law or the legal system to make comments about legal proof. Unless otherwise stated, all my comments are, and have been, about scientific proof. (FYI, in case you hadn’t noticed, that’s why I keep mentioning science, the scientific method and the scientific consensus) So how long do you think we have to wait for (scientific) proof that CWF does not cause harm? Many countries (not just your insistence of NZ). Millions of people. More than seven decades. Even entire lifetimes. There’s lots of proof of the health benefits of CWF. There’s lots of proof showing how CWF works. There’s lots of proof showing that CWF does work. There’s even lots of proof of the financial benefits of CWF (But here I’ll take the word of others because I’m not an economist) And yet you still have no citable evidence, despite those millions of people and those multiple decades, that even a single person worldwide has been harmed by drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies. Probably because CWF does not actually cause harm? Ken: “There is no proof there are fairies at the bottom of your garden â are you then going to use this absence to argue that they are really there?” We tend to attribute things to fairies when we do not understand them such as the rate of infant language acquisition about which there has been much debate. I think you left out “not.” Just because Marie Curie did not scientifically know she was being damaged by nuclear radiation doesn’t mean she wasn’t being damaged. Just because my observations are not as yet accepted in a scientific journal does not mean there is nothing in them. And Stuartg seems to want a much higher level of testing than is normally required for a pilot study. And what he is asking like for all sports to be tested does not work unless all those sports are played in as wide areas and for a similar long duration spanning years before fluoridation as rugby in NZ. So my caution still remains. “Just because my observations are not as yet accepted in a scientific journal does not mean there is nothing in them.” And it does not mean there is anything in them. It is up to you to provide evidence – and arguing along those line is not evidence. It is simply an admission of lack of evidence and pleading for a free pass – the right to claim something as a fact when you have no evidence. That is religion, not science. You are demanding a free pass to scaremonger. You don’t get it here. You only get laughed at. Ken: “You are demanding a free pass to scaremonger. You don’t get it here. You only get laughed at.” No I am just responding to Stuartg who is keeping on suggesting many times that because I have not provided peer-reviewed published evidence that there must be no effect. “Stuartg seems to want a much higher level of testing than is normally required for a pilot study.” No. Just any testing at all. Perhaps attending high school lessons in statistics, where you would learn what is actually required of a pilot study, would be of help? Hint: a pilot study needs a larger, entirely new set of related data to test for non-coincidence. Looking at scanty numbers and saying “that’s odd” does not consist a pilot study. But epidemiologists looking at multiple countries, over multiple decades, with millions of people involved, and finding absolutely no citable evidence of harm from drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies, well that does provide some pretty compelling evidence that Community Water Fluoridation does not harm the populations that benefit from it. And the level of evidence from that science is much, much greater than that of a pilot study. So can tell us why you are denying the science of thousands of experts? Why do you fantasise that the scanty numbers of your make-believe “studies” are so much more definitive than those thousands of experts? Perhaps, not having learned the basics of science, statistics, logic and philosophy, you have succumbed to the Dunning-Kruger effect and your knowledge is insufficient to know that you lack knowledge? Or maybe you’re just a science denier? You maintain “I am not making claims” protestations that Community Water Fluoridation causes harm – by impairing sporting performance in rugby, football, Olympic and probably other sports. To everyone but yourself, those are claims. You even provided a couple of dozen observations and called them “studies”, imagining they supported your claims. Those are extraordinary claims, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. So where is your extraordinary evidence? Where is even a single citation that just one person has ever been harmed by drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies? All you have given us is make-believe fantasies based on some observations that would be consistent with the coincidences that occur in all sporting endeavours from time to time. You need scientific evidence to support your claims, not fantasies from your imagination. As I said before: “put up, or shut up”. Put another way: I ask for the scientific evidence to support your claims that CWF causes harm. You repeatedly demonstrate that you are unable to supply any scientific evidence in support of those claims. As Ken says, the obvious conclusion is that you have a religious fantasy belief that CWF causes harm. You certainly don’t have any evidence from the real world. Brian – again you are demanding a free pass to scaremonger.. You say: “because I have not provided peer-reviewed published evidence that there must be no effect.” Your statement means either that you are completely inept at searching the literature or that there is no credible published evidence. If the latter is the case then according to logic and the normal process of human progress the best conclusion is that there is no effect. We are theretofore justified in proceeding with CWF, always keeping in mind that new evidence may appear to cause us to review our consensus. And, no, you are not advancing any credible new evidence despite your hubris. We do that with lost of things – if we didn’t we would have long ago expired as a species. Your demand for a free pass is again rejected and I repeat – such demands just get you laughed at around here. Ken I am gradually extending back my list of All Black captains to compare who were born in Auckland before fluoridation started to after it started. You are keen for me to do multiple regression. What variables do you suggest? “I am gradually extending back my list of All Black captains…” If the effect you postulate actually exists, then the effect would be seen among the full backs of the All Blacks, among the hookers of the All Blacks, the five-eighths of the All Blacks, indeed in every position of the All Blacks. It would also be found among the captains of the All Whites, Tall Blacks, Black Sticks, Silver Ferns, Black Caps… And in every position of the All Whites, Tall Blacks, Black Sticks, Silver Ferns, Black Caps… It would be found among the captains of all international rugby teams, netball teams, football teams, cricket teams, hockey teams… No matter from which country they originated. And found in every position of all international rugby teams, netball teams, football teams, cricket teams, hockey teams… No matter from which country they originated. Actually, it would be found in every level of competitive sport in every country in the world and there would be no need for you to cherry pick your teams and players. It would be obvious in any team, any sport, no matter which level of competition. Your inability to cite any evidence that even a single person has been harmed by drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies is extremely good evidence that you will never be able to scientifically demonstrate the validity of your claims that CWF impairs sporting performance. All your cherry picking does is to remind us that runs of coincidences are a feature of competitive sports, because of the vagaries of chance, and that we need to test any unusual run of results for non-coincidence before we can reach any conclusions. You have approached from the opposite direction: you have reached the conclusion, as a religious belief, and are now obviously cherry-picking in the entirely erroneous belief that you are emulating the scientific process. You really need to go to those high school classes to learn exactly what the scientific process involves. It would help if you attended classes in statistics at the same time. I’ve repeatedly informed you how you can get new information to test for non-coincidence, in the quantities that are needed for statistical significance. It would be extremely easy for you to gather the required information and then test for non-coincidence, but you haven’t bothered to do so. You actually have no idea why the scientific process requires you to do the testing. Instead, your words tell us that you are examining each sportsperson as a single entity before deciding whether to include them in your make-believe “studies” or not. It’s self-confessed cherry-picking. But I guess that you are unaware of that because you haven’t even been taught high school statistics or science. The Dunning-Kruger effect means that you don’t even know what is wrong with your approach. Stuartg Ken asked for multiple regression. Are you going to deny their possibility in Auckland by not commenting? I presume he would want them in every region/team if you require every team to be calculated for. But you do know vaccines do not have to be proved in every person in every country before they are declared sufficiently safe. What proportion of the world was tested for Gardasil? Sruartg: “are now obviously cherry-picking” No I am not cherry picking. You say “obviously” because your “religious” belief (if you are wanting to down grade religion) is that fluoridation could not be causing harm and when you see my figures you flail around looking to how to discredit them. I am just reporting as I go along. As I said women’s rugby may not fit the pattern. It may not be so widely played. Ahead of my study I mentioned EQ and had the notion to look at suicide as one indicator of poor EQ, But I found it to be negatively correlated to fluoridation in US and NZ. Now because I suggest fluoridation may blunt emotions therefore it may reduce suicide, like the other compound of a very reactive very light substance, lithium, do you say I am cherry picking about that? In most research the notion is about a positive result. Choosing what you are going to statistically check when it looks like it might be positive is not cherry picking. It happens to be the normal way of science. I forgot I had a bit of a look at Te Matatini which had a good representation from a fluoridated part of Auckland but a lot from unfluoridated areas. May take a look at the Michael HIll International Violin Competition, live at the moment http://www.violincompetition.co.nz/2017-competition/quarter-finalists/ It looks there to be not a good representation from countries largely fluoridated. Stuartg: “You really need to go to those high school classes to learn exactly what the scientific process involves.” What text book do you recommend now? Bluster again? Is that why you’re attempting diversion to vaccines? It hasn’t worked. All I did was suggest, long ago, that you test your observations for non-coincidence. You didn’t test them. So, I suggested ways that you could get larger amounts of new data that would be needed to test for non-coincidence. You didn’t get that new data to test. “when you see my figures you flail around looking to how to discredit them”. Actually, soundhill, I ignore them: A couple of dozen rugby players from tens of thousands worldwide? That’s either cherry picked or coincidence unless further testing for non-coincidence is done. Two football teams out of thousands in the UK? Out of tens of thousands worldwide? Again, either cherry picked or coincidental unless further testing for non-coincidence is done. One rugby team out of a local league? Out of 18,000 teams worldwide? Yet again, it’s either cherry picked or coincidental unless further testing for non-coincidence is done And now “I am just reporting as I go along” and “women’s rugby may not fit the pattern” – in other words, you’re examining each result and then deciding whether it fits your fantasy “pattern” or not. You are telling us that you are picking results and fitting them to a pattern! If, as is likely in the real world, women’s rugby results don’t fit your fantasy “pattern”, it provides evidence to scientists and statisticians that your “pattern” does not exist. But that won’t matter to you; you will just ignore and disregard the contrary data. As everyone but yourself seems to understand, first you get the data, in sufficient numbers (at least hundreds of data points for significance, out of the many thousands available, rather than the few non-random points that you think is sufficient), and once you have obtained the data, only then do you analyse it. You do not perform statistical analysis by “just reporting as I go along” …well, obviously you do, and that’s a marvelous way for you to introduce bias when statistics is supposed to be about elimination of bias. If we step back and look objectively at the way you are approaching your “observations”, we see a few options: You don’t understand about coincidence and why you need to test for non-coincidence (lack of basic knowledge about science) You don’t understand how to test for non-coincidence (lack of basic knowledge about statistics) You don’t understand why we have to use statistics in analysis (lack of basic knowledge about statistics) You have a belief that CWF causes harm so there’s no way you are going to test your ideas for non-coincidence, and you will ignore anything that does not “fit the pattern” (your fantasy means that no amount of scientific evidence is going to influence your religious beliefs) It’s obvious that your “self-taught” methods have sent you down multiple dead end byways that have many times been shown to be detrimental and useless in both science and statistics. Not having a teacher able to point out your most basic of errors has been a complete waste of your time. The textbooks you “self-taught” from were not rudimentary enough and you missed out on many of the basics. So, soundhill, that’s why I recommend that you attend your local high school classes in science and statistics. Stuartg: “If, as is likely in the real world, women’s rugby results don’t fit your fantasy “pattern”, it provides evidence to scientists and statisticians that your “pattern” does not exist. But that won’t matter to you; you will just ignore and disregard the contrary data. No just that women rugby players may not be selected from a wide enough geographical area. I have lived by a rugby club for many years and women do not play here except for touch in the summer. Here is the proportion of Black Ferns to All Blacks that the provinces have produced. Mid Canterbury proportion looks high but it is only total 1 Black Fern 3 All Blacks to make the 33% 0.00% BULLER 0.00% EAST COAST 0.00% HOROWHENUA-KAPITI 0.00% KING COUNTRY 0.00% NORTH HARBOUR 0.00% NORTH OTAGO 0.00% POVERTY BAY 0.00% SOUTH CANTERBURY 0.00% TASMAN 0.00% THAMES VALLEY 0.00% WAIRARAPA BUSH 0.00% WEST COAST 1.35% TARANAKI 2.00% SOUTHLAND 5.88% WANGANUI 9.30% HAWKE’S BAY 10.00% NORTHLAND 10.53% COUNTIES MANUKAU 13.51% OTAGO 14.71% MANAWATU 17.57% WELLINGTON 19.25% CANTERBURY 24.19% WAIKATO 27.27% BAY OF PLENTY 30.27% AUCKLAND 33.33% MID-CANTERBURY The data came from this: http://nzrugby.co.nz/about-us/our-members/provincial-unions Stuartg: “So, soundhill, that’s why I recommend that you attend your local high school classes in science and statistics.” But you are not offering the name of a text book. How do you know what is being taught? Look back quite a few years when you may have taken UE physics. It could have been the PSSC course which attempted to introduce the scientific process Newton &c. But a lot of kids found it too boring or hard and I think school physics went back to explaining principles and problem-solving didn’t it? Mostly now when I look up about the normal distribution and physics all I get is about scaling up marks to get more kids to pass. Stuartg since you bring fear of train rides into the discussion I do not think it to be fair to stop me from bringing in vaccination statistics. Stuartg: “And now “I am just reporting as I go along” and “women’s rugby may not fit the pattern” – in other words, you’re examining each result and then deciding whether it fits your fantasy “pattern” or not. You are telling us that you are picking results and fitting them to a pattern!” Yes or matching them up against a pattern to see if more fit or not. Stuartg: “Two football teams out of thousands in the UK?” Stuartg you are forgetful. How about this for a null hypothesis?: “There is no difference between the fraction of All Black captains born in the area of Auckland which was fluoridated, before and after fluoridation.” Or: “There is no difference between the number of Black Caps matches captained by captains from fluoridated areas to non-fluoridated areas.” But we already know there is difference. Fluoride is said to have a different effect on female hormones compared to male. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12011-016-0726-z It may decrease testosterone in men and increase it in women. Though the high level in this paper is higher than fluoridation level by a factor of 3 or a bit more: Let’s take a null hypothesis that fluoridation has no effect on Silver Ferns captains. Looking at the Sliver Fern captains and how many caps since about the time of fluoridation. https://www.mynetball.co.nz/silver-ferns/history/captains.html I am not right up with this but I’ll get some thought going: —————————-born——————Fluor–caps Katrina Grant 1987 Papakura 1 94 Laura Langman 1986 Hamilton 1 141 Casey Kopua 1985 Hamilton 1 101 Adine Wilson 1979 Hawera 1 79 Anna Stanley 1976 Christchurch 0 92 Julie Seymour 1971 Wigan 0 90 Belinda Colling 1975 Cromwell 0 92 Bernice Mene 1975 Christchurch 0 76 Lesley Rumball 1975 Invercargill 1 110 Sandra Edge 1962 Gisborne 0 94 Julie Carter 1975 Julie Townsend 1960 Waipawa 0 It looks like the null hypothesis might be destroyed with more caps to captains from fluoridated areas. That all sounds like special pleading to me – if you can’t make the data fit your “pattern” then you decide to ignore the data. No Stuartg, I said a while back that males and females might be affected differently. Let’s imagine for a few minutes that CWF does have an effect on sporting performance, and then contemplate what effects we would expect to see. (Sorry about the length of this comment, Ken) You’ve previously suggested a 10% deterioration in sports performance, but such an effect would be immediately obvious, being similar to the difference between high school sports performance and international representative sports performance. So exactly how much sporting performance deterioration do we expect from CWF? If we look at the peak of performance, say your favourite of the All Blacks, then a change in individual performance of a mere 1% would be sufficient to drop a player out of the squad. It could be argued that so would a change of 0.1%; after all much less than 0.1% of NZ rugby players are in the All Black squad. So, since you can name at least some All Blacks from CWF areas, that implies the change in sporting performance between CWF and non-CWF players has to be less than 1%, and probably less than 0.1%. That tiny signal, if it existed, would be very difficult to pick out from random background noise. No scientist or statistician would expect to be able to pick it out from a random list of a couple of dozen players; it would need several hundred players chosen at random in order to have a chance to detect the signal. But then we all noted that your list is not a random list of players, but is actually a carefully chosen list. So, your tiny list of All Black captains does not have the numbers to detect such small changes in performance, unless it has been cherry-picked precisely for that reason. Such a tiny list, if randomly selected, would only be able to detect massive changes of performance that were immediately obvious to coaches, spectators, journalists, etc. That’s why I suggest that you need to test your idea on a much larger and random list. But if you knew the basics of statistics then you would already know that to detect such small changes in performance a random list needs to be much larger than a couple of dozen. So, let’s get a larger list of randomised players, one that has a chance of picking out a signal from random noise. Or, more accurately, a chance of determining that there is no weak signal present among the noise. How large a list do we need? Well, you claim to be the expert at statistics so I’ll let you decide. But it’s going to be several hundred. At least. Not just your cherry-picked couple of dozen. So you’ll need to look at all other positions in the All Blacks. After all, if that tiny difference in sports performance is really there from CWF, we can expect to see it in all positions in the team, not just the captain. Or are you arguing that the rest of the All Blacks are not at the peak of their sport? (And anyway, you claim the effect is present at much lower levels of sports, otherwise why did you mention Petone, Timaru, Birmingham City?) If we look at the entire All Black squads since the start of fluoridation in NZ, will we have sufficient numbers to rule out the presence of a weak signal among the noise? Possibly, but I doubt it. I suspect that you are going to have to include other international squads to get sufficient numbers, which is why I previously suggested that you will need to look at the squads from England, Australia, Ireland, South Africa, etc. But then again, if there really was a diminution from sporting performance from CWF, would we have to go that far? Is there another way? Wouldn’t we expect to see the same result in all All Black positions as you cherry-picked with the captains? Because even a slight diminution of performance would mean that almost no players from CWF areas would be in the All Black squad, wouldn’t it? So, soundhill, what percentage of All Blacks would be expected to be from non-CWF areas if CWF impaired sports performance? 90%? 95%? 98%? Higher? I’ll leave it to you, as the self-taught expert in statistics, to work out which of those you would expect. I’m not going to do the research for you, but a brief look at the All Black squad shows many members from Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin – all areas with CWF. The percentage appears to be nearer to 50%. If there were any difference in sporting performance attributable to optimally fluoridated water supplies then it would be overwhelmingly obvious. To everybody. Not just to one electronic technician self-taught in science and statistics. More than 90% of the All Blacks would be from non-fluoridated areas. So would the Black Sticks. And the Silver Ferns. And the Black Ferns. And the All Whites. And the Black Caps… And the members of any international squad from any sport, from any country you care to name. (Just a random thought – would anyone with dental fluorosis (meaning they’re drinking water with a higher than optimum fluoride level) be capable of playing any sport at international level? Wouldn’t that be in accordance with your ideas? Or do you go to special pleading again?) So, we can reach some conclusions. The cherry-picked list(s) that you supply do not have the numbers required to demonstrate a non-coincidental correlation between CWF and impaired sporting performance. Findings that we would expect if CWF actually did impair sporting performance are not present. Findings from the real world are highly suggestive of no effect on sporting performance from CWF. But then, you already knew that, didn’t you? You have been unable to produce any citable evidence that anyone has ever been harmed by drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies. Not from among millions of people. Not from multiple countries. Not from over seventy decades of research and data. Not even from your anti-fluoridationist cronies. The lack of effect on sporting performance from CWF is just extending the evidence you are unable to provide in trying to bolster your “I am not making claims” assertions that CWF causes harm. Said? An opinion? How about citing evidence showing harm from optimally fluoridated water supplies, rather than evidence of fluoride poisoning from water with toxic levels of fluoride? Netball captains: Exactly how valid is a statistical analysis performed on just twelve people? I’ll bear in mind that I’m asking the question of a self-taught, self-proclaimed, “expert” in statistics, so I don’t exactly expect an intelligible answer. Stuartg \| June 6, 2017 at 12:00 pm \| “There is no difference between the fraction of All Black captains born in the area of Auckland which was fluoridated, before and after fluoridation.” “that fluoridation has no effect on Silver Ferns captains.” All three different. And different, yet again, from your initial All Black “study”. Why not use the same “hypothesis” for all three? Or four? Are the differences the only way you can fit the answers into your non-existant “pattern”? Lots of little “observations”. None of them with numbers capable of reaching statistical significance. None of them able to be combined with another. Yet all are labelled as “studies” by someone who demonstrably doesn’t understand the first principles of statistics. “But you are not offering the name of a text book.” Because the textbooks you “self-taught” from previously were obviously not rudimentary enough and you manifestly missed out on many of the basics. You need a teacher who can correlate your lack of learning with the level of textbook required. Then they would have to point out where you are fantasising that you have read something different to what was actually in the book. Stuartg: “Exactly how valid is a statistical analysis performed on just twelve people?” A couple of those were born before fluoridation started in most places. So it’s really would be just 10 in any analysis. Same as with the Black Caps captains are holding on for quite a while. In both cases it is possible to think of the games as the variable. Then the statistics is a bit like tossing a coin for each game of which there are quite a number. In the case of males the ones in non-fluoridated areas show up in many more games, while for females the converse. Besides the restricted geographical areas the Black Ferns are arising from this sex-fluoride effect might be showing up for Black Ferns, too. Why wouldn’t there be any sex difference? Sex differences can be obvious as for premature menopause after Gardasil. But sex differences don’t only show in obvious ways. You’re making assumptions again. At the age of 11, well before UE, I knew about and was using the scientific process. And Newton. At the age most sit UE, I was playing with the physics of fission and fusion. I’m still interested in physics today, it’s just not my job. How do I know what is being taught in high schools? Because I work with high school children and help them at times when they have difficulties. Not all education is capable of being taught from books, as you so obviously demonstrate, so the ideal way of acquiring knowledge requires human interactions as well as book learning. Your local high school science teacher will advise you on the best textbook for your level of education, and they will expect to have to assist you with the parts you don’t realise you aren’t understanding. I guessed wrong. It’s not an unintelligible answer. It’s not an answer. Just what question do you think I asked? (Hint: it was about statistics). Stuartg: “Why not use the same “hypothesis” for all three?” “There is no difference between the number of (a) All Black (b) Black Caps (c) Silver Ferns, matches captained by captains from fluoridated areas to non-fluoridated areas.” However it loses the possibility that Auckland’s climate may have an effect and controlling for that. “But we already know there is a difference.” For you it’s got to be fluoride. Nothing but fluoride. No matter that you have exactly zero citable scientific evidence in support of your idea, it just has to be fluoride. It can’t be any other reason, can it? The captains of international teams come from non-fluoridated areas! All of them! Well, except for all rugby teams that aren’t the All Blacks. Or women’s teams. And maybe a lot of other teams as well. It looks a lot like cherry-picking, soundhill. Fluoridated football teams don’t win as many games as non-fluoridated and they get demoted! Except for the ones that win more games and get promoted. And I’ll just ignore the non-fluoridated teams that lost games and got demoted. Looks like cherry-picking again, soundhill. Non-fluoridated Petone wins more games after the rest of the league they play in gets CWF! Let’s not mention Onehunga and Mosgiel which didn’t start winning after the rest of their leagues got CWF. Yet again we see you cherry-picking, soundhill. So. More than seventy years of data and research. Millions of people involved. Multiple countries involved. Thousands of researchers. Even multiple languages. And not a single citation demonstrating harm to an individual or to a population. It’s exactly as if drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies doesn’t actually cause harm in the real world. Sruartg: “…Mosgiel which didn’t start winning after the rest of their leagues got CWF. ” Taieri is the Mosgiel Club. I can’t find many results but Taieri seem to several times be the top team holding the Speights Challenge Shield for the Metro rugby. I would like to see history. Stuartg: “Fluoridated football teams don’t win as many games as non-fluoridated and they get demoted! Except for the ones that win more games and get promoted.” Do you know of some teams from fluoridated areas which got promoted when in a league playing against teams from non-fluoridated areas? Please tell me which ones then I can calculate what happens on average. I wonder if Stuartg is able to avoid, when coaching school pupils, getting them to think it all has to be one way or one other way, and nothing in between. “I would like to see history.” So would we all. In this case it’s called evidence. You haven’t yet managed to produce any scientific evidence from the real world that supports your fantasies about CWF. Tiny numbers from the sportsfield, incapable of producing valid statistical results – interesting, and short runs of coincidence can be expected, especially in sports, so why don’t you test them to see if they are coincidence or not? More than seventy years of data and research from multiple countries, involving many millions of people, and absolutely no citable evidence showing harm to individuals or to populations from drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies. Haven’t you noticed the cognitive dissonance that you hold? You consider a couple of dozen sports players to be absolute proof that CWF causes harm. Yet you also consider that the evidence from millions of people over multiple decades is insufficient to demonstrate lack of harm from CWF. Clear demonstration that you don’t understand the first principles of statistics. Also highly suggestive that you are a science denier. “I wonder if Stuartg is able to avoid, when coaching school pupils, getting them to think it all has to be one way or one other way, and nothing in between ” Like your fantasy that CWF causes harm? In spite of absolutely no citable evidence? I’m prepared to accept that it is possible for CWF to cause harm. I just need to see some evidence of the harm. In contrast, you say CWF HAS to cause harm, even though you have zero citable evidence of such harm. And remember – thousands of researchers, many countries, millions of people, and more than seventy years of data and research suggesting (not proving) no harm. You definitely demonstrate a binary outlook on life. “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” https://todayinsci.com/S/Schopenhauer_Arthur/SchopenhauerArthur-Quotations.htm Stuartg please keep that in mind. You quoted me and replied: You have made your pronouncement about Onehunga without evidence, then. I shall try to get more Taieri results. Last year they lost the Speights Challenge Shield to Harbour, another region apparently without fluoridation. http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/services/water-supply/metro-water-system/treatment-plants Ken: “Your statement means either that you are completely inept at searching the literature or that there is no credible published evidence. If the latter is the case then according to logic and the normal process of human progress the best conclusion is that there is no effect.” “according to logic and the normal process of human progress” – an assertion of faith? Discussion of peer review failure: Brian, you dihoestly deleted important aspects of what I wrote. We do that with lots of things – if we didn’t we would have long ago expired as a species. You are demanding a free pass – arguing that absence of evidence supports your position because evidence may well turn yup in the future. Ignoring all the evidence against your position we currently have and may well get in future. Now that does require faith – and if humanity had operated that way we would have become extinct long ago. And as an argument it is completely dishonest. “But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” – Carl Sagan. And, just like Carl Sagan, I rely on scientific evidence. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. On one hand there is an electronic technician with no training in logic, philosophy, science or statistics who asserts that CWF causes harm in everyone who drinks it, yet is unable to supply any citable scientific evidence at all to support his protestations. On the other hand there is the scientific consensus, reached by thousands of epidemiologists, dentists, and other researchers, that Community Water Fluoridation is cheap, effective and safe. And backing that consensus there is more than seventy years of experience, research and data, sourced from millions of people in multiple countries, which has failed to find scientific evidence of harm in either individuals or populations from drinking optimally fluoridated water supplies. Which of the two is most likely to be correct? soundhill or the scientific consensus? I would submit that with the current state of evidence it is self-evident that the scientific consensus is correct. 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New Zealand science book prize – 2015 Short list ADHD linked to elevation not fluoridation Anonymous comments on social media More poor-quality research promoted by anti-fluoride activists Ukrainian “suicides?” Free download – “Severe dental fluorosis and cognitive deficits” Are submissions on fluoridation worth it? Social media and science – the problems and the challenge A couple of “oldies” inject some sense into international politics Open letter to Lisa Hansen on NZ Fluoridation Review February ’15 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking Paper claiming water fluoridation linked to hypothyroidism slammed by experts Dirty tactics by anti-fluoride activists in Taupo NZ Fluoridation review – Response to Micklen NZ Fluoridation review – HS Micklen responds to critique Did business interests interfere with Hamilton’s fluoride tribunal process? A perspective of distances in space Download report analysing anti-fluoride attacks on NZ Fluoridation Review Social health policies, freedom of choice and responsibility Reality of war for civilians Stephen Fry not pulling any punches January ’15 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking US meddling in Ukraine behind coup Hypocrisy Sunday reading – Richard Dawkins reads some of his “fan mail” Is debating with anti-science activists worth the effort? Six months on – concerns about MH17 investigation Severe dental fluorosis and cognitive deficits – now peer reviewed Those evil chemicals “Internet and social media misinform thousands daily” “I just know” The victims of terror Fluoride Free NZ report disingenuous – conclusion Spotting Bad Science October ’14 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking December ’14 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking The MH17 blame game Down-under Christmas Science never claimed to know everything Special pleading by Philippe Grandjean on fluoride The inverted ethics of doxxing? Fascinating and painless chemistry lessons Did the Royal Society get it wrong about fluoridation? “Do your own research!” Dirty politics over MH17? Cherry-picking and misinformation in Stan Litras’s anti-fluoride article Today’s fantasy, tomorrow’s possibility The farce of a “sciency” anti-fluoride report November ’14 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking Creationist ‘audits’ science museum “Real” experts’ on climate change? Really? Water fluoridation and dental fluorosis – debunking some myths Proving anecdotes are reliable Declan Waugh pushes another anti-fluoride myth Severe dental fluorosis the real cause of IQ deficits? Catch 22 in Ukraine Let’s rely on anecdotes instead! Standing up to junk science in New Zealand Declan Waugh claims it’s “clear as day” Unusual photo of Moon and Earth. Criminal investigation of MH17 tragedy – where is it at? There is something about those climate records that keep getting broken Putting politicans in their place on climate change Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 – what really happened? Fluoridation – a racist conspiracy? Curiosity’s historic comet photo When science deniers turn to science Fluoride debate: Second response to Rita Barnett-Rose – Daniel Ryan Fluoride debate: Response to Daniel Ryan’s critique – Rita Bartlett-Rose Fluoride debate: A response to Rita Barnett-Rose – Daniel Ryan Fluoride debate: The scientific evidence against fluoridation – Rita F. Barnett Another legal defeat for NZ anti-fluoridation activists Anti-fluoridation propagandists promoting shonky “review” How to change your Mind – and why it is good for you The science and politics of climate change Science and belief September ’14 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking Peer review of an anti-fluoride “peer review” The information war – The NZ Listener takes up arms MOM “a thousand times better than cricket” Activist’s anti-science adverts found misleading – again Don’t you get tired of this? It’s time we did something about sugar Crude dredging of the scientific literature Anti-fluoride activists define kangaroo court as “independent” MH17 – Preliminary report leaves most conspiracy theories intact Do you prefer dental fluorosis or tooth decay? Emotion Drives Decision Ingested fluoride, dental health and old age August ’14 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking Sad news – Victor Stenger has died Making money out of fanatics Dirty politics on the Royal Society fluoride review Review finds community water fluoridation safe and effective Anti-fluoride activists unhappy about scientific research The Mind of the Science Denier Open letter to Jane Nielson – a “fluoridation convert.” Accidental Renaissance – or intuition? Tactics for science denial Natural News comes out with a load of heavy metal rubbish on fluoride July ’14 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking Declan Waugh continues his distortion of Finnish fluoride research Another fluoridation whopper from Declan Waugh I am still waiting for my cheque An answer to the anti-fluoride critics – in one image Some answers to the confusion about the #MH17 crash site Informed parents know water fluoridation is good for their children Making political capital out of the deaths of innocents Elected officials must ignore activists and listen to own voters The irony of some peer-review and citation complaints Ken Ring pontificates on climate change Anti-science US Congressman on House science Committee! “Creative” reporting of fluoridation science What happens when fluoridation is stopped? June ’14 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking Controversial IQ study hammered in The Lancet New group challenging the anti-science brigade Fluoridation: what about reports it is ineffective? Approaching scientific literature sensibly Declan Waugh’s misinformation on fluorosilicic acid A healthy attitude towards quantum mechanics An open letter to Declan Waugh – new mechanism for fluoride toxicity? Toxicity is in the dose or concentration of fluoride Councils and scientists targeted by anti-fluoride activists Lugansk – a modern Guernica? Inna Kukuruza – “her eyes spoke to the whole world” Connett’s hypocrisy on fluoride & IQ May ’14 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking Confirmation blindness on the fluoride-IQ issue Where do teeth come from? The stork theory There is research and there is “research” Fluoridating water does not lower IQ – New Zealand research Fluoride and IQ – once more Another anti-fluoride myth in the making A balanced debate It’s all the fashion in Ukraine Fluoridation: What a difference a year makes? Wishart misrepresents fluoride science to advance his extreme ideology Fluoridation: emotionally misrepresenting contamination April ’14 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking Peer review, shonky journals and misrepresenting fluoride science Ingested fluoride is beneficial to dental health. Anti-fluoridation advertising deceptive Fluoridation: putting chemical contamination in context The first victim! An outdated tax anomaly – charitable status of relgion Declan Waugh scaremongers over fluoride – again Arrogance of ignorance? Pandering to anti-fluoridation campaigners International cooperation in space serving humanity Is anyone listening? March ’14 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking Scientific cooperation despite political posturing Fluoridation returns to Hamilton City. European border changes over 5000 years Dental fluorosis: badly misrepresented by FANNZ What makes something right or wrong? How do we know what is true? Cherry-picking and ring-fencing the scientific literature Fluoride and heart disease – another myth Graphic information in science Corporate backers of anti-fluoride movement lose in NZ High Court. Terry Pratchett making sense Fluoride and the 5 easy steps of a conspiracy theory February ’14 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking Pseudoscience in your supermarket Another god debate Repeating bad science on fluoride Truth about those science fairs Quality and selection counts in fluoride research The precautionary principle How can scientists use social media? Curiosity sees a familiar “evening star.” The fluoride debate – what do the experts say? January ’14 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking Entertainment is brain exercise Download The Fluoride Debate Determining scientific knowledge by petition Fluoride debate: Final article – Ken Perrott Fluoride debate: Paul Connett’s Closing statement The good(?) old days of scientific writing Most of us missed this one False balance and straw clutching on fluoridation Who is funding anti-fluoridation High Court action? Astro-turfing for scientific credibility Losing trust in religious leaders Conspiracy theorists misuse analytical evidence All things bright and beautiful December ’13 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking Fluoride debate: Ken Perrott’s closing response to Paul Connett? Putting vaccination risks into context Fluoride debate: Arguments Against Fluoridation Thread. Part 8. Paul Alan Turing receives royal pardon	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1102
__label__cc	0.528556	0.471444	1990s / Capitol Hill / Congress / Day in history / Democracy / Foreign Policy / Past Daily / Poland / Police / Politics / Radio / Social Commentary / Society / Solidarity / Soviet Union / The Fourth Estate / The Press / Uncategorized / United Nations / Vintage Recordings / Week In History / World News Cheney In Manila – February 19, 1990 by gordonskene · Feb 19, 2015 Defense Secretary Cheney – making friends wherever he goes. https://oildale.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/22094425/News-for-February-19-1990.mp3 . . .or click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – February 19, 1990 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Busy day, this February 19th in 1990. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney was busy being snubbed by Philippines President Corazon Aquino and yelled at by protestors in the streets of Manila. Nevertheless, he continued talks on this day with other members of the Aquino government, pledging the Bush Administration would stick to its commitment to the Philippines – and no, the U.S. bases weren’t going anywhere. Cheney cut his visit short and headed off to Japan. And in Japan it was a case of “meet the new Boss – same as the old Boss” with a return of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to power in election returns. Despite a legacy of sex and money scandals, the party defied the odds and maintained control of the powerful lower House of Parliament, overcoming an unpopular sales tax and yet another sex scandal. Voters looked at the possibilities of a new party in power and said “not yet”, even though opposition Socialist Party did make significant gains, but mostly at the expense of smaller opposition parties. And even the LDP rode to victory, it was not considered a mandate and its grip on power was weakened in the election. And Defense Secretary Dick Cheney was heading to Tokyo. And ground was broken for an Interfaith prayer center near the former Auschwitz Death Camp in Poland. It would also include a convent for Carmelite Nuns, whose continued presence in a home a mile away beside the camp wall has been a cause of friction between the Catholic Church and Jewish groups. And debate continued just a month ahead of East Germany’s first free elections over what sort of military alliance might follow reunification. Some feared a NATO presence might extend all the way to the Polish border, while others thought neutrality would work best. Either way, all believed reunification would become a fact of life. All the talk and comments about the possibilities of reunification included Czech Playwright Vaclav Havel, who endorsed the idea and said he was all for reunification as long as it meant being a Democratic entity and not a totalitarian one. Havel was heading to Washington, after a visit to Canada, to discuss ideas ahead of a Czech election, which Havel was being pressured to participate in and campaign for President. Havel was expected to address a Joint Session of Congress while he was in the U.S. And the possibilities of a nightmare scenario was talked about today. Word came via the Washington Times of disclosure by intelligence sources of a recent development in Azerbaijan, where Muslim fundamentalists stormed a nuclear weapons stockpile near Baku, almost capturing a nuclear weapon. All this, and a lot more for this February 19th in 1990, as reported by The CBS World News Roundup. And while you’re here -please consider making your pledge to help keep Past Daily up and running and our Archive safe from destruction. We need to raise a little over $2,000 in the next 13 days. So any amount you can pledge; large or tiny, it’s all tax deductible, will be gratefully appreciated – and every penny, every cent goes into keeping us up and running. So make your pledge today before it’s too late. Click on the link below and join the others who are making a huge difference, and tell your friends – we need you all! Tags: Benjamin NetanyahuComing outCowboy hatDick CheneyGeorge H.W. BushGeorge W BushJewsJohn BoehnerJoint session of the United States Congress Next story Lush – In Session 1990 – Nights At The Roundtable: Session Edition Previous story Ride – Live At Town & Country Club – 1991 – Nights At The Roundtable A Few Words From Shirley Chisholm – 1972 – Speaking Of Candidates – Past Daily Reference Room Mothers Of Invention – Live In Toronto – 1969 – Past Daily Backstage Weekend In Good Shape At The Moment – In Bad Shape Comparatively – February 5, 1961	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1107
__label__wiki	0.572303	0.572303	Justia Patents Including Surface Acoustic DetectionUS Patent Application for METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENSING AN INPUT OBJECT RELATIVE TO A SENSING REGION OF AN ULTRASOUND SENSOR DEVICE Patent Application (Application #20140225873) METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENSING AN INPUT OBJECT RELATIVE TO A SENSING REGION OF AN ULTRASOUND SENSOR DEVICE Apr 18, 2014 - SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED A subsystem, system and method for sensing an input object relative to a sensing region of an ultrasound sensor device are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a subsystem for sensing an input object relative to a sensing region of an ultrasound sensor device includes a circuit, a switch coupled to an output of the circuit, and an integrating capacitor coupled to the output of the circuit. The circuit has an input for receiving a resulting signal comprising positive and negative polarities, the resulting signal having effects indicative of the input object relative to the sensing region. The integrating capacitor is also coupled to a substantially constant voltage source and to the switch. The circuit is operable to output a rectified signal to the first integrating capacitor indicative of the input object relative to a sensing region. Latest SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED Patents: Sensor design for NFC-integrated touchpad Three layer force pad BASELINE UPDATE FOR INPUT OBJECT DETECTION Device and method for subpixel rendering Plural Gammas Control Technology for Display Panel Skip to: Description · Claims · Patent History · Patent History This invention is a continuation application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/289,732, filed Nov. 4, 2011, which is incorporated by reference in its entirety, and which claims benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 61/410,774, filed Nov. 5, 2010, and titled “TFT RECEIVER FOR PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER ARRAY”, which are incorporated by reference in their entireties. FIELD OF INVENTION Embodiments of the invention generally relate to a subsystem, a system and method for sensing an input object relative to a sensing region of an ultrasound sensor device. Input devices including proximity sensor devices (also commonly called touchpads or touch sensor devices) are widely used in a variety of electronic systems. A proximity sensor device typically includes a sensing region, often demarked by a surface, in which the proximity sensor device determines the presence, location and/or motion of one or more input objects. Proximity sensor devices may be used to provide interfaces for the electronic system. For example, proximity sensor devices are often used as input devices for larger computing systems (such as opaque touchpads integrated in, or peripheral to, notebook or desktop computers). Proximity sensor devices are also often used in smaller computer systems (such as touch screens integrated in cellular phones). Many commercially available proximity sensor devices utilized capacitive and optical sensing. Capacitive sensing, although having a robust history of use, is susceptible to geometric distortion or edge effects at the perimeter of the sensing region, and is also susceptible to damage and/or inaccurate output due to electromagnetic interference (EMI) and electromagnetic discharge (ESD). Moreover, capacitive sensing is limited to the detection of conductive objects relative to the sensor, thus limiting the types of inputs devices which may be utilized. The accuracy of optical sensing devices may be diminished due to the effects of dirt, oils and other contaminants. Ultrasound sensing has been recognized as a potential improvement for next generation touch panel devices. However, significant challenges remain in the development of ultrasound sensing prior to acceptance for commercially viable use. Therefore, there is a need for an improved subsystem, system and method for sensing an input object relative to a sensing region of an ultrasound sensor device. SUMMARY OF INVENTION In another embodiment, a system for sensing an input object relative to a sensing region of an ultrasound sensor device includes a detection module having an input coupled to an array of sensor electrodes disposed on a substrate. The array of sensor electrodes are operable to provide resulting signals, each comprising positive and negative polarities in response to presence of the input object in the sensing region. The detection module is operable to integrate charges onto integrating capacitors of the detection module with rectified signals in response to receiving the resulting signals from the array of sensor electrodes. In another embodiment, a method for sensing an input object relative to a sensing region of an ultrasound sensor device is provided that includes receiving a resulting signal and charging an integrating capacitor with a rectified signal in response to receiving the resulting signal. The resulting signal includes positive and negative polarities. The first resulting signal also includes effects indicative of the input object relative to the sensing region. So that the manner in which the above recited features can be understood in detail, a more particular description, briefly summarized above, may be had by reference to embodiments, some of which are illustrated in the appended drawings. It is to be noted, however, that the appended drawings illustrate only embodiments of the invention and are therefore not to be considered limiting of its scope, for the invention may admit to other equally effective embodiments. FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram of an exemplary input device, in accordance with embodiments of the invention. FIG. 2 is a partial schematic of an exemplary input device illustrating an example of a ultrasound wave (i.e. a transmitter signal) interfacing with an input object and a sensor module of the input object. FIG. 3 illustrates an example stack-up of one embodiment of a sensor module that may be used in the input device to sense the input object. FIG. 4 is a partial cross sectional schematic view of one embodiment of the sensor element. FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating one example of an array of sensor elements configured as piezoelectric detectors coupled to a detection module of a processing system. FIG. 6 illustrates one embodiment of a receiver circuit of a detection module coupled to an output of a sensor module. FIG. 7 is a flow diagram of one embodiment of a method for sensing an input object relative to a sensing region of an ultrasound sensor device. To facilitate understanding, identical reference numerals have been used, where possible, to designate identical elements that are common to the figures. It is contemplated that elements disclosed in one embodiment may be beneficially utilized on other embodiments without specific recitation. DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS The following Description of Embodiments is merely provided by way of example and not of limitation. Furthermore, there is no intention to be bound by any expressed or implied theory presented in the preceding technical field, background, brief summary or the following detailed description. Various embodiments of the present invention provide input devices and methods that facilitate improved usability of a touch screen device. FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram of an exemplary input device 100, in accordance with embodiments of the invention. The input device 100 may be configured to provide input to an electronic system (not shown). As used in this document, the term “electronic system” (or “electronic device”) broadly refers to any system capable of electronically processing information. Some non-limiting examples of electronic systems include personal computers of all sizes and shapes, such a desktop computers, laptop computers, notebook computers, tablets, web browsers, e-book readers, and personal digital assistants (PDAs). Additional example electronic systems include composite input devices, such as physical keyboards that include input device 100 and separate joysticks or key switches. Further example electronic systems include peripherals such as data input devices (including remote controls and mice), and data output devices (including display screens and printers). Other examples include remote terminals, kiosks, and video game machines (e.g., video game consoles, portable gaming devices, and the like). Other examples include communication devices (including cellular phones, such as smart phones), and media devices (including recorders, editors, and players such as televisions, set-top boxes, music players, digital photo frames, and digital cameras). Additionally, the electronic system could be a host or a slave to the input device. The input device 100 can be implemented as a physical part of the electronic system, or can be physically separate from the electronic system. As appropriate, the input device 100 may communicate with parts of the electronic system using any one or more of the following: buses, networks, and other wired or wireless interconnections. Examples include I2C, SPI, PS/2, Universal Serial Bus (USB), Bluetooth, RF, and IRDA. In FIG. 1, the input device 100 is shown as a proximity sensor device (also often referred to as a “touchpad” or a “touch sensor device”) configured to sense input provided by one or more input objects 140 in a sensing region 120. Example input objects include fingers and styli, as shown in FIG. 1. Sensing region 120 encompasses any space above, around, in and/or near the input device 100 in which the input device 100 is able to detect user input (e.g., user input provided by one or more input objects 140). The sizes, shapes, and locations of particular sensing regions may vary widely from embodiment to embodiment. In some embodiments, the sensing region 120 extends from a surface of the input device 100 in one or more directions into space until signal-to-noise ratios prevent sufficiently accurate object detection. The distance to which this sensing region 120 extends in a particular direction, in various embodiments, may be one the order of less than a millimeter, millimeters, centimeters, or more, and may vary significantly with the type of sensing technology used and the accuracy desired. Thus, some embodiments sense input that comprises no contact with any surfaces of the input device 100, contact with an input surface (e.g., a touch surface) of the input device 100, contact with an input surface of the input device 100 coupled with some amount of applied force or pressure, and/or a combination thereof. In various embodiments, input surfaces may be provided by surfaces of casings within which the sensor electrodes reside, by face sheets applied over the sensor electrodes or any casings, etc. In some embodiments, the sensing region 120 has a rectangular shape when projected onto an input surface of the input device 100. The input device 100 may utilize any combination of sensor components and sensing technologies to detect user input in the sensing region 120. The input device 100 comprises one or more sensing elements for detecting user input. As several non-limiting examples, the input device 100 may use ultrasonic, capacitive, elastive, resistive, inductive, surface acoustic wave, and/or optical techniques to provide one or more resulting signals which include positive and negative polarities, the one or more resulting signals including effects indicative of the input object relative to the sensing region. Some implementations are configured to provide images that span one, two, three or higher dimensional spaces. Some implementations are configured to provide projections of input along particular axes or planes. In FIG. 1, the processing system (or “processor”) 110 is shown as a part or subsystem of the input device 100. The processing system 110 is configured to operate the hardware of the input device 100 to detect input in the sensing region 120. The processing system 110 comprises parts of or all of one or more integrated circuits (ICs) and/or other circuitry components; in some embodiments, the processing system 110 also comprises electronically-readable instructions, such as firmware code, software code, and/or the like. In some embodiments, components composing the processing system 110 are located together, such as near sensing element(s) of the input device 100. In other embodiments, components of processing system 110 are physically separate with one or more components close to sensing element(s) of input device 100, and one or more components elsewhere. For example, the input device 100 may be a peripheral coupled to a desktop computer, and the processing system 110 may comprise software configured to run on a central processing unit of the desktop computer and one or more ICs (perhaps with associated firmware) separate from the central processing unit. As another example, the input device 100 may be physically integrated in a phone, and the processing system 110 may comprise circuits and firmware that are part of a main processor of the phone. In some embodiments, the processing system 110 is dedicated to implementing the input device 100. In other embodiments, the processing system 110 also performs other functions, such as operating display screens, driving haptic actuators, etc. The processing system 110 may be implemented as a set of modules that handle different functions of the processing system 110. Each module may comprise circuitry that is a part of the processing system 110, firmware, software, or a combination thereof. In various embodiments, different combinations of modules may be used. Example modules include hardware operation modules for operating hardware such as sensor electrodes and display screens, data processing modules for processing data such as sensor signals and positional information, and reporting modules for reporting information. Further example modules include sensor operation modules configured to operate sensing element(s) to detect input, identification modules configured to identify gestures such as mode changing gestures, and mode changing modules for changing operation modes. In some embodiments, the processing system 110 responds to user input (or lack of user input) in the sensing region 120 directly by causing one or more actions. Example actions include changing operation modes, as well as GUI actions such as cursor movement, selection, menu navigation, and other functions. In some embodiments, the processing system 110 provides information about the input (or lack of input) to some part of the electronic system (e.g., to a central processing system of the electronic system that is separate from the processing system 110, if such a separate central processing system exists). In some embodiments, some part of the electronic system processes information received from the processing system 110 to act on user input, such as to facilitate a full range of actions, including mode changing actions and GUI actions. For example, in some embodiments, the processing system 110 operates the sensing element(s) of the input device 100 to produce electrical signals indicative of input (or lack of input) in the sensing region 120. The processing system 110 may perform any appropriate amount of processing on the electrical signals in producing the information provided to the electronic system. For example, the processing system 110 may digitize analog electrical signals obtained from the sensor electrodes. As another example, the processing system 110 may perform filtering or other signal conditioning. As yet another example, the processing system 110 may subtract or otherwise account for a baseline, such that the information reflects a difference between the electrical signals and the baseline. As yet further examples, the processing system 110 may determine positional information, recognize inputs as commands, recognize handwriting, and the like. “Positional information” as used herein broadly encompasses absolute position, relative position, velocity, acceleration, and other types of spatial information. Exemplary “zero-dimensional” positional information includes near/far or contact/no contact information. Exemplary “one-dimensional” positional information includes positions along an axis. Exemplary “two-dimensional” positional information includes motions in a plane. Exemplary “three-dimensional” positional information includes instantaneous or average velocities in space. Further examples include other representations of spatial information. Historical data regarding one or more of positional information may also be determined and/or stored, including, for example, historical data that tracks position, motion, or instantaneous velocity over time. In some embodiments, the input device 100 is implemented with additional input components that are operated by the processing system 110 or by some other processing system. These additional input components may provide redundant functionality for input in the sensing region 120, or some other functionality. FIG. 1 shows buttons 130 near the sensing region 120 that can be used to facilitate selection of items using the input device 100. Other types of additional input components include sliders, balls, wheels, switches, and the like. Conversely, in some embodiments, the input device 100 may be implemented with no other input components. In some embodiments, the input device 100 comprises a touch screen interface, and the sensing region 120 overlaps at least part of an active area of a display screen. For example, the input device 100 may comprise substantially transparent sensor electrodes overlaying the display screen and provide a touch screen interface for the associated electronic system. The display screen may be any type of dynamic display capable of displaying a visual interface to a user, and may include any type of light emitting diode (LED), organic LED (OLED), cathode ray tube (CRT), liquid crystal display (LCD), plasma, electroluminescence (EL), or other display technology. The input device 100 and the display screen may share physical elements. For example, some embodiments may utilize some of the same electrical components for displaying and sensing. As another example, the display screen may be operated in part or in total by the processing system 110. It should be understood that while many embodiments of the invention are described in the context of a fully functioning apparatus, the mechanisms of the present invention are capable of being distributed as a program product (e.g., software) in a variety of forms. For example, the mechanisms of the present invention may be implemented and distributed as a software program on information bearing media that are readable by electronic processors (e.g., non-transitory computer-readable and/or recordable/writable information bearing media readable by the processing system 110). Additionally, the embodiments of the present invention apply equally regardless of the particular type of medium used to carry out the distribution. Examples of non-transitory, electronically readable media include various discs, memory sticks, memory cards, memory modules, and the like. Electronically readable media may be based on flash, optical, magnetic, holographic, or any other storage technology. The input device 100 may be based on ultrasound technology, and detect input objects using the differences in the acoustic index of refraction of the materials in the paths of the ultrasound waves. The ultrasound waves reflect at the interfaces of different acoustic indices of refraction. The reflections indicate what was in the paths of these waves, and where they were located along the paths. Thus, ultrasound sensor devices can obtain information from reflected ultrasound waves about locations and characteristics of materials encountered. Compared to some other touch sensing technologies, ultrasound sensor devices may be made less susceptible to EMI, to ESD, to geometric distortion, to edge effects, to contamination by dirt or oils, etc. Ultrasound sensor devices may also be made thin, and some embodiments may be just a few mm thick. Further, ultrasound sensor devices can respond to input by objects regardless of the conductivity, the optical reflectivity, or other aspects of the input objects, thus making selection using the input device more convenient, versatile and efficient for the user. FIG. 2 is a partial schematic of the exemplary input device 100 illustrating an example of an ultrasound wave (i.e., a transmitter signal 200) penetrating a cover material 202 disposed over a sensor module 204 of the input device 100 and interfacing with the input object 140. The sensor module 204 is configured to make available the resulting signal, which includes effects indicative of the input object 140 relative to the sensing region 120, to the processing system 110. In the embodiment depicted in FIG. 2, the input object 140 is in contact with the cover material 202. The ultrasound wave encounters two interfaces 208, 210 where the different acoustic indices of refraction change. Thus, the ultrasound waves reflect at each of these interfaces 208, 210. These reflected ultrasound waves 212, 214 (“echoes”) carry information about the acoustic environment. Echoes are also further reflected as they encounter other interfaces (not shown) with unmatched acoustic indices of refraction, so the actual map of ultrasound waves is much more complicated than what is shown in FIG. 2. The sensor module 204 receives the echoes that reach the sensor module 204, and uses these echoes to determine information about what caused the reflections by making available the resulting signal to the processing system 110. Any appropriate ultrasound transmitter technology may be used to generate the ultrasound waves used by the input device 100. For example, ultrasound transmitters may use piezoelectric technology to provide an ultrasound transmitter signal which may be driven onto the sensor module 204. The ultrasound transmitters may also be of any appropriate shape and cover any appropriate number of dimensions. For example, a transmitter may be in the form of a point transmitter, a linear transmitter, a planar transmitter, or combinations of two or more thereof. Other example transmitter designs may incorporate curved lines or surfaces, multiple ultrasound transmitters, etc. Similarly, any appropriate ultrasound detector technology may be used to detect the echoes. For example, ultrasound detectors may use piezoelectric technology to generate a signal indicative of the input object 140 relative to the sensing region 120. The ultrasound detectors may also be of any appropriate shape and cover any appropriate number of dimensions. For example, the detector may be in the form of a point ultrasound detector, a one-dimensional (1D) linear ultrasound detector, a two-dimensional (2D) ultrasound detector, or combinations of two or more thereof. Other example ultrasound detector designs may incorporate curved lines or surfaces, multiple detectors, etc. Ultrasound detectors, such as but not limited to those described above, may be configured to detect near-field images, or far-field images with beam steering to some part farther away from the sensor. For example, a 2D detector may acquire a near-field C-mode image of ultrasound reflectivity in a plane that is parallel to the plane of the transducers. As another example, a linear detector may be used to acquire a B-mode image of ultrasound reflectivity in a plane that contains the line of detectors. As a further example, a planar detector may be used to acquire a three-dimensional image of space near the detector. Further, the ultrasound transmitter and ultrasound detector may comprise components configured to both transmit as well as receive, or components that are dedicated for either transmission or reception. For example, some ultrasound transducers are well suited to transmit ultrasound as well as receive ultrasound, and so can be used as ultrasound transmitters and as ultrasound detectors. This may be done in some embodiments using a time-multiplexed approach. As another example, some transducers are better suited for transmission and some transducers are better suited for reception. Other considerations in whether or not to use combined or dedicated ultrasound transmitters and receivers include the type of image to be obtained, the type of object to be imaged, the physical geometry and arrangement of components of the system, etc. FIG. 3 shows an example stack-up of one embodiment of a sensor module 204 that may be used in the input device 100 to sense the input object 140 (shown as a finger in FIG. 3) that is contacting an input surface 302 in the sensing region 120. The input surface 302 is provided by a platen 304 disposed between the input object 140 and a sensor element 306 of the sensor module 204. The sensor element 306 may be configured as the ultrasound transmitter, the detector, or a combined ultrasound transmitter and detector. If the acoustic index of the refraction of the typical input object is known, the platen 304 may be configured to have a similar acoustic index of refraction in some embodiments. A backing 308 is shown supporting both the platen 304 and the sensor element 306. FIG. 4 is a partial cross sectional schematic view of one embodiment of the sensor element 306. The sensor module 204 generally includes a plurality of sensor elements 306, each of which operable to make available a resulting signal to the processing system 110 of the input device 100. The sensor element 306 generally includes a first electrode 402 and a second electrode 404 sandwiching a piezoelectric material 406. The piezoelectric material 406 in the sensor element 306 when used as a piezoelectric transducer deforms in response to an applied charge (positive or negative). In a piezoelectric ultrasound transmitter application, charge can be applied to deform the piezoelectric material 406 to create ultrasound waves. Also, piezoelectric material 406 in the sensor element 306 when used as a piezoelectric detector will supply or sink charge in response to deformation. In an ultrasound detector application, ultrasound waves impacting the sensor element 306 apply a force, which deforms the piezoelectric material 406, thus generating charge. The instantaneous force applied by ultrasound waves is the instantaneous sound pressure integrated over the relevant sensor area of the sensor element 306. This force is generally monotonic with respect to the sound pressure level of the incident waves multiplied by the relevant sensor area of the sensor element 306. This force usually creates a charge that is roughly proportional to the applied force, over the operating range of the sensor element 306. Piezoelectric transducers used in sensor elements 306 suitable for ultrasound detection may generate a resulting charge transfer on the order of 1-20 picoCoulombs per Newton of applied force. This charge transfer may be measured directly, amplified, integrated on a capacitor of the processing system 110 to produce a voltage, etc. In one embodiment, the instantaneous rate of charge transfer (Coulombs/second) is current. This current may be converted to a voltage (such as by passing it through a resistor). In those embodiments where the sensor element 306 is used as an ultrasound detector, the first electrode 402 may be connected to a reference node such as ground and a receiver circuit of the processing system 110 may be coupled to the second electrode 404 to receive the output of the sensor element 306 for analysis. In those embodiments where sensor module 204 is fabricated from an array of sensor elements 306 configured as piezoelectric transducers, the processing system 110 may include an array of corresponding receiver circuits coupled to the array of sensor elements 306. The sensor elements 306 configured as ultrasound detectors may be designed and sized based on the finest feature that the sensor module 204 would be configured to detect. For example, sensor elements 306 with sensing surfaces of 50 μm×50 μm may be fine enough to distinguish ridges and valleys of human fingerprints. Ultrasound detectors with larger sensing surfaces, or sensing surfaces having different aspect ratios, may distinguish between larger objects. Where the sensing surfaces are small, the resulting charge per transducer due to ultrasound reflections during normal operation may be too small to measure accurately with simple circuits. Some embodiments accumulate charge over multiple cycles to increase the size of the charge being measured. As the leading edge of an ultrasound reflection compresses the piezoelectric material 406 of the sensor element 306, a charge of the polarity associated with compression results. Then, as the trailing edge of an ultrasound pulse decompresses the piezoelectric material 406 of the sensor element 306, a charge associated with decompression (of opposite polarity) results. Some embodiments of the processing system 110 rectify these opposite-polarity charges to the same polarity as further discussed below. FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating one example of an array 500 of sensor elements 306 configured as piezoelectric detectors coupled to a detection module 502 of the processing system 110. Although the exemplary array 500 of FIG. 5 has three rows and three columns of sensor elements 306, the array 500 of sensor elements 306 may be arranged in alternative configurations having more or less sensor elements 306 comprising the sensor module 204. The detection module 502 includes receiver circuits 504, and in the embodiment illustrated in FIG. 5, each receiver circuit 504 is coupled to a respective one of the sensor elements 306 of the sensor module 204. In one embodiment, the detection module 502 is fabricated using TFT (thin-film-transistor) technology on an appropriate substrate 514, such as glass, plastic, or other suitable substrate, on which the sensor elements 306 are formed. In another embodiment, at least a portion of the detection module 502 is formed by an integrated circuit, i.e., a chip, which may be mounted proximate the substrate 514 on which the sensor elements 306 are formed, for example on a flexible tail secured to the substrate 514. In another embodiment, at least a portion of the detection module 502 may be physically integrated in other parts of the electronic system utilizing the input device 100. The processing system 110 may also include a row select module 506 and a column multiplexer module 508. The row select module 506 is a logic circuit operable to select among the different rows of sensor elements 306. The column multiplexer module 508 multiplexes the readout of the columns of sensor elements 306 to readout circuitry 512. The inclusion of the row select module 506 and the column multiplexer module 508 may reduce the number of different readout circuits utilized in the input device 100. In the example illustrated in FIG. 5, a timing module 510 and/or a transmitter module 520 may be included as part of the processing system 110. The timing module 510 generates timing signals that synchronizes the different modules of the processing system 110. For example, a first signal generated by the timing module 510 may be provided to the transmitter module 520. The transmitter module 520 may be configured to drive a transmitter signal onto the array 500 of sensor elements 306. The transmitter signal may be an ultrasound wave generated by an ultrasound driver of the transmitter module 520. Although the transmitter module 520 is shown as a separate component from the sensor elements 306 in FIG. 5, the transmitter module may share none, some, or all of the components of the sensor elements 306. In another example, the timing module 510 may generate one or more timing signals utilized by the detection module 502 to process the resulting signals received from the array 500. In the embodiment of FIG. 5, the timing module 510 provides a first timing signal and a second timing signal to the detection module 502 which is utilized to selectively activate the detection module 502 to charge an integrating capacitor of the detection module 502, as further discussed below with reference to FIG. 6. The timing module 510, transmitter module 520, may be mounted to the substrate 514 or other portion of the input device 100. Continuing to refer to FIG. 5, in one embodiment, the exemplary array 500 includes nine second electrodes 404 of each piezoelectric sensor element 306 associated with each receiver circuit 504. Each piezoelectric sensor element 306 shares the same first electrode 402. In other embodiments, array 500 includes various numbers of second electrodes 404, piezoelectric sensor elements 306 and receiver circuits 504. Further, in various embodiments each or a portion of each piezoelectric elements 306 may share the same first electrode 402. In some embodiments, the array 500 of sensors elements 306 comprising the sensor module 204 is part of a TFT panel. For example, the array 500 of sensors elements 306 and/or the receiver circuits 504 may be manufactured with TFT technology, the substrate 514 may be TFT glass, and the second electrode 404 may be a top layer of the TFT panel. The top electrode of the TFT panel may be placed in direct contact with the array 500, or be the second electrode 404 of the array 500 of piezoelectric transducers being in contact with the piezoelectric material 406. Alternatively, the TFT substrate containing an array of the detection module 502 may be connected to the array 500 of sensor elements 306 configured as piezoelectric transducers in a fashion similar to how a readout IC (ROIC) is attached to an image sensing array. FIG. 5 shows a specific example of the array 500 and detection module 502, and other embodiments may differ. For example, some embodiments may have a different number of rows, a different number or columns, or a different number of total pixels (i.e., sensor elements 306). As another example, some embodiments may not have a column multiplexer module 508. As a further example, some embodiments utilizing TFT technology may have different components than shown in FIG. 5 residing on the same TFT panel. As yet another example, some embodiments may contain a many-to-one or one-to-many ratio between receiver circuits 504 and sensor elements 306. That is, some embodiments may have a many-to-one ratio where one sensor element 306 is shared by multiple receiver circuits 504; and some embodiments may have a one-to-many ratio where one receiver circuit 504 is shared by multiple sensor elements 306. FIG. 6 illustrates one embodiment of the receiver circuit 504 of the detection module 502 coupled to an output 606 of the sensor module 204. Although only one output 606 is shown connecting one of the sensor elements 306 comprising of the array 500 to a single receiver circuit 504, it is understood that the array 500 includes a plurality of outputs 606 each coupling a respective one of the sensor elements 306 of the array 500 to a respective one of the receiver circuits 504 comprising the detection module 502. The detection module 502 may also include a first switch 602 and a first integrating capacitor 604. As discussed above, the sensor element 306 of the sensor module 204 is operable to make resulting signals available to the receiver circuit 504, the resulting signals including positive and negative polarities, and including effects indicative of the input object 140 relative to the sensing region 120 adjacent the array 500 of the sensor module 204. The receiver circuit 504 is operable to receive the resulting signal from the sensor element 306 and charge the first integrating capacitor 604 coupled to the receiver circuit 504 with a rectified signal in response to receiving the resulting signal. The rectified signal generated by the receiver circuit 504 may be fully rectified or half rectified. Stated in another manner, rectified signal generated by the receiver circuit 504 is of a single polarity regardless of the positive and negative polarities of the received resulting signal. The receiver circuit 504 may generate the rectified signal in response to only the positive polarities of the received resulting signal, the negative polarities of the received resulting signal, or both the positive and negative polarities of the received resulting signal. The receiver circuit 504 may output the resulting signal as described above utilizing any suitable configuration of circuit elements, for example, utilizing one or more current mirrors. In the embodiment depicted in FIG. 6, an output of the receiver circuit 504 is coupled to the first switch 602 and to the first integrating capacitor 604. The receiver circuit 504, the first switch 602 and the first integrating capacitor 604 may be embodied as an integrated circuit. In the embodiment depicted in FIG. 6, the first switch 602 may be in the form of a transistor, which may be activated by a signal from the row select module 506. When activated to open, the first switch 602 couples the first integrating capacitor 604 to the readout circuitry 512, thereby allowing the first integrating capacitor 604 to be addressable by the processing system 110 so that information of the input object 140 relative to the sensing region 120 may be determined. The receiver circuit 504 is illustrated in the embodiment of FIG. 6 as a transistor network 600. The transistor network 600 is operable to receive the resulting signal from the sensor element 306 and charge the first integrating capacitor 604 coupled to the receiver circuit 504 with the rectified signal in response to receiving the resulting signal. In one embodiment, the transistor network 600 includes a first transistor network 610, a second transistor network 620, and a third transistor network 630. The first transistor network 610 includes an input 611, a first output 612 and a second output 613. The input 611 of the first transistor network 610 is coupled to a constant first voltage source 618 that provides a constant voltage to the first transistor network 610. The first output 612 of the first transistor network 610 is coupled to a first input 621 of the second transistor network 620 and a first input 631 of the third transistor network 630. The second output 613 of the first transistor network 610 is coupled to a second input 622 of the second transistor network 620 and a second input 632 of the third transistor network 630. In one embodiment, the first transistor network 610 includes two transistors 614, 615 arranged as a current mirror, such that the transistors 614, 615 share the common input 611, while the transistor 614 provides the first output 612 and the transistor 615 provides the second output 613. The second transistor network 620 and the first transistor network 610 may be activated to charge the first integrating capacitor 604 in response to receiving the positive polarities of the resulting signal received from the sensor module 204. The gate of transistor 624 of the second transistor network 620 is coupled to an output 606 of one of the sensor elements 306 comprising the array 500. In one embodiment the output 606 of the sensor elements 306 is the second electrode 404. An output 623 of the second transistor network 620 is coupled to substantially constant voltage value (i.e., system ground or some other substantially constant voltage value) 608 through a second switch 640. The second switch 640 may be in the form of a transistor, operable to couple the output 623 of the second transistor network 620 to ground 608 in response to receipt of the first timing signal provided by the timing module 510. In the embodiment depicted in FIG. 6, the second transistor network 620 includes a first transistor 624 and a second transistor 625. The first transistor 624 is operable to connect the first input 621 with the output 623 while the second transistor 625 is operable to connect the second input 622 with the output 623. A voltage signal is developed across the resistor 644 in response to charge from the output 606 of the array 500 flowing through the resistor 644. The current through the first transistor 624 changes in response to receipt of this resulting voltage signal. The current through the second transistor 625 changes in the opposite direction so that the sum of currents through transistors 624 and 625 remains substantially constant. The third transistor network 630 and the first transistor network 610 may be activated to charge the first integrating capacitor 604 in response to receiving the negative polarities of the resulting signal received from the sensor module 204. The gate of transistor 635 of the third transistor network 630 is coupled to the output 606 of one of the sensor elements 306 comprising the array 500. An output 633 of the second transistor network 630 is coupled to substantially constant voltage value (i.e., system ground or some other substantially constant voltage value) source 608 through a third switch 646. The third switch 646 may be in the form of a transistor, operable to couple the output 633 of the third transistor network 630 to substantially constant voltage value source 608 in response to receipt of the second timing signal provided by the timing module 510. In the embodiment depicted in FIG. 6, the third transistor network 630 includes a first transistor 634 and a second transistor 635. The first transistor 634 is operable to connect the first input 631 with the output 633 while the second transistor 635 is operable to connect the second input 632 with the output 633. A voltage signal is developed across the resistor 644 in response to charge from the output 606 of the array 500 flowing through the resistor 644. The current through the second transistor 635 changes in response to receipt by transistor 635 of this resulting voltage signal. The current through the first transistor 634 changes in the opposite direction so that the sum of currents through transistors 634 and 635 remains constant. In one embodiment, the transistor network 600 described above provides charge to the first integrating capacitor 604 with a polarity responsive to which switch 640, 646 is closed. Thus, by providing either of the first or second timing signals to control the open/closed state of the switches 640, 646, the portions of the transistor network 600 may be selectively activated to integrate a charge onto the first integrating capacitor 604, either during periods of the positive polarities of the resulting signal, during periods of the negative polarities of the resulting signal, or during periods of both positive and negative polarities of the resulting signal. In various embodiments, a second receiver circuit 504 is operative to charge a second integrating capacitor 604 utilizing another transistor network 600 in a similar manner as described above. Respective groups of associated receiver circuits (such as receiver circuit 504), integrating capacitors (such as integrating capacitor 604) and switches (such as switch 602) are utilized for the other remaining sensor elements 306 comprising the array 500 to handle the resulting signals from each output 606 of the sensor elements 306. In the embodiment depicted in FIG. 6, the transistor network 600 comprises receiver circuit 504 and associated first switch 602 and first integrating capacitor 604, which may be matched one-to-one with each sensor element 306 comprising the array 500 of piezoelectric transducers. In various embodiments, transistor network 600 may be one of an array of transistor networks. The arrays of transistor networks (one of which is shown in FIG. 6), may be fabricated using TFT processes on glass or another substrate. The receiver circuit 504 of FIG. 6 may be operated to (a) synchronously rectify charge pulses from the piezoelectric transducer (which varies in polarity with the leading and trailing edge of the ultrasound pulse), (b) amplify the rectified pulses, (c) integrate and store the rectified and amplified charge pulses onto a storage capacitor, (d) allow range-gating, and (e) provide addressable readout of the charge stored on a storage capacitor. In the embodiment depicted in FIG. 6, an ultrasound wave front, for example, a transmitter signal driven onto the sensor module 204, impinges on the piezoelectric material 406 of the sensor element 306. The common electrode serves as the first electrode 402 for all of the sensor elements 306 in the array 500, and is grounded in this example. One second electrode 404 of the many second electrodes 404 comprising the array 500 is shown in FIG. 6, while the other second electrodes 404 are not shown for the sake of clarity, but it is to be understood that the non-shown second electrodes 404 are each coupled to a respective and separate receiver circuit 504 comprising the detection module 502. The shading of the wave front indicates that the front has different magnitudes at different portions of the common first electrode 402, and affects different portions of the piezoelectric material 406 differently. The part of the waveform affecting the piezoelectric material 406 associated with the second electrode 404 shown causes charge to flow through the resistor 644, generating a voltage waveform shown as waveform 650. In one embodiment, the voltage waveform 650 is the resulting signal at the gate of the transistor 624 in the receiver circuit 504. The receiver circuit 504 shown in FIG. 6 may be operated as follows. The timing module 510 generates the first signal that defines when the ultrasound transmitter module 520 emits ultrasound waves that are driven onto the array 500. The timing of the ultrasound waves may be based on the finest feature to be imaged. For example, various embodiments of the timing module 510 may produce waves at 1 MHz-1 GHz, where higher frequencies are more conducive to detection of smaller features of the input object 140 within the sensing region 120. The timing module 510 also generates the first and second signals that correlate with the rising edges and the falling edges (i.e., the positive and negative polarities) of the ultrasound pulses (i.e., the transmitter signal) impinging on the piezoelectric material 406, which in turn generate the resulting signal with correlating positive and negative polarities. The widths and positions of these highs of the first and second signals may be determined for synchronous rectification, range-gating, and/or some other consideration. Range-gating, to control the depth of the plane to be imaged, may be accomplished by adjusting the timing of the first and second signals relative to the pulse timing applied to the ultrasound transmitter module 520 by the timing module 510. Thus, the first signal is high during the time period at which the leading edge of each ultrasound pulse of the transmitter signal propagates through the sensor element 306, and this turns on the second switch 640 during the leading edge of each ultrasound wave. When the second switch 640 is activated, current is allowed to flow through transistors 624, 625, 614 and 615. Meanwhile, the second timing signal is low, keeping transistors 646, 634 and 635 off. This results in charge being integrated onto the integrating capacitor during only positive portions of the resulting signal. The current flowing through transistor 624 is (I+i(t)). I is a quiescent current that results from the voltage provided by the second voltage source 642, and i(t) is a current of a first polarity (e.g., positive current) due to the voltage developed across the resistor 644 as charge of a first polarity (e.g., positive charge) is generated by the piezoelectric material 406. The current mirror formed by the first transistor network 610 mirrors the current flowing through the transistor 624 (I+i(t)) through the transistor 615. The same quiescent current, I, flows through transistor 625 due to the voltage provided by the second voltage source 642. Thus, a net current of i(t) flows into the first integrating capacitor 604. Analogously, when the second timing signal provided by the timing module 510 is high and first timing signal is low during the falling edge (i.e., the negative polarities) of each ultrasound pulse of the transmitter signal, a charge of a second polarity opposite to the first polarity (e.g., negative charge) is generated by the piezoelectric material 406. However, with rectification, the current flow into the first integrating capacitor 604 is still current of the first polarity (e.g., a positive current) i(t). After N number ultrasound transmitter signal pulses, the charge on the first integrating capacitor 604 is increased by the amount ΔQ, where ΔQ=2N×\|Δq\|×ROLOADgmK. In this equation, ΔQ=charge increase on the first integrating capacitor 604, N=number of pulses in the transmitter signal, Δq=charge generated by the piezoelectric material 406 at each edge of an ultrasound pulse of the transmitter signal, ROLOAD=load resistance in the receiver circuit 504, gm=small-signal transconductance of transistors 624, 625, 634 and 635 and K=current ratio of the current mirror provided by the first transistor network 610. Some embodiments may use K=1 for improved matching. After M ultrasound transmitter signal pulses have been received, the first switch 602 is turned on by a row select signal provided by the row select module 506. M may be a predefined number of transmitter signal pulses. When the first switch 602 is on, the first integrating capacitor 604 is connected through the first switch 602 to the external readout circuitry 512. The readout circuitry 512 can read the voltage on the first integrating capacitor 604 and then determine the accumulated charge based on this voltage, or directly read the charge accumulated on integrating capacitor 604. After readout is complete, the readout circuitry 512 can reset the first integrating capacitor 604 prior to opening the first switch 602 and readying the receiver circuit 504 for another iteration of detecting presence of the input object relative to the sensing region 120. Some embodiments read the voltage on integrating capacitor 604. Other embodiments read the accumulated charge rather than the voltage on integrating capacitor 604. The other embodiments may be designed such that: (1) voltage-dependent nonlinearities of the value of integrating capacitor 604 do not substantially affect the amount of stored charge, (2) process and temperature variations of the value of integrating capacitor 604 do not affect the amount of stored charge, (3) parasitic capacitance on the pixel column node (i.e., sensor element 306) does not affect the amount of stored charge, or for some other reason. Also, many alternatives and variations of the circuit of FIG. 6 are possible. For example, cascode transistors may be added in series with each of the transistors comprising the second and third switches 640, 646 (between the second switch 640 and the node common to transistors 624, 625, and between the third switch 646 and the node common to transistors 634, 635). This configuration may increase the linear operating range of the receiver circuit 504. As another example, a super current mirror, such as a Wilson-super current mirror, may be used in place of the mirror provided by the first transistor network 610. This configuration of the receiver circuit 504 can increase the accuracy and/or the linear operating range of the circuit. As yet another example, the receiver circuit 504 may be built on some other type of substrate or using some other processes. As a specific example, the circuitry may be built on a semiconductor substrate (such as a silicon wafer) using semiconductor processing technology. In some embodiments, the second electrodes 404 are connected to the relevant pixel columns by row-select transistors disposed on a TFT. In other embodiments, the receiver circuits 504 are not on the TFT, but are parts of integrated circuits such as ASICs which may reside on a flexible tail coupled to the substrate 514, or in another part of the processing system 110 or electronic system utilizing the input device 100. The pixel columns are communicatively coupled to the ASIC, and thus selectively coupled to the relevant receiver circuits 504. Operation can be analogous to what is discussed above. Such embodiments may provide for higher performance or speed in some cases. It is contemplated that at least one or more of the receiver circuits 504, the timing module 510 and the readout circuitry 512 comprising the detection module 502 may be embodied in an integrated circuit, such as ASICs. For example, the receiver circuits 504, the timing module 510 and the readout circuitry 512 may be embodied in a single integrated circuit. In another example, the receiver circuits 504, the timing module 510 and the readout circuitry 512 may be embodied in two or more separate and communicating integrated circuits. The receiver circuits 504 residing in the integrated circuit are coupled to the array 500 of the sensor module 204 as described above, while the readout circuitry 512 makes information obtained from the array 500 available for use by the electronic system incorporating the input device 100. The proximity of the integrated circuit to the array 500 reduces the combination time between the circuits and sensors, thereby allowing faster read times and sampling. The proximity of the integrated circuit(s) to the array 500 also reduces potential damage due to electrostatic discharge (ESD) and additionally improves the accuracy of signal transmission through reduced susceptibility to electromagnetic interference (EMI). Also, the receiver circuits 504 described herein are generally applicable for use with sensor elements 306 configured as piezoelectric ultrasound detectors. For example, it is applicable to a wide variety of shapes and arrangements of piezoelectric detectors, and it is applicable regardless of the location of the input object 140 to be imaged and the ultrasound transmitter of the ultrasound wave, as long as the reflected wave reaches the detectors. As another example, the described receiver circuit 504 may be used in a phased array of receivers to accomplish beam steering for A-mode or B-mode ultrasound imaging. The phasing may be accomplished by adjusting the timing of the first and second timing signals on a per-pixel basis. FIG. 7 is a flow diagram of one embodiment of a method 700 for sensing an input object relative to a sensing region of an ultrasound sensor device that may be practiced using at least a portion of the input device 100 or other suitable input device. The method 700 begins at step 702 by receiving a first resulting signal. As discussed above, the first resulting signal includes positive and negative polarities, and also includes effects indicative of the input object 140 relative to the sensing region 120. At step 704, the first integrating capacitor 604 is charged with a first rectified signal in response to receiving the first resulting signal. The method 700 may further include the step of driving the transmitter signal onto a plurality of pixel electrodes of a piezoelectric transducer array, a first pixel electrode of the plurality of pixel electrodes providing the first resulting signal, wherein the pixel electrodes are the parts of the sensor elements 306 of the array 500. The method 700 may also further include the step of generating the first rectified signal in response to a timing signal synchronized with the transmitter signal. The method 700 may also further include the step of receiving a second resulting signal comprising positive and negative polarities, the second resulting signal comprising effects indicative of the input object relative to the sensing region, wherein the second resulting signal is received from a second pixel electrode of the plurality of pixel electrodes. The method 700 may also further include the step of charging a second integrating capacitor with a second rectified signal in response to receiving the second resulting signal. The method 700 may also further include the step of integrating charge onto the integrating capacitor in response to at least one of the positive and the negative polarities of the first resulting signal. Thus, subsystem, system and method for sensing an input object relative to a sensing region of an ultrasound sensor device have been described. The invention described herein is less susceptible to damage and/or inaccurate output due to electrostatic interference (EMI) and electromagnetic discharge (ESD) as compared to conventional capacitive sensing devices. Moreover, the ultrasonic sensing system described herein enables the detection of both conductive and non-conductive objects relative to the sensing region, thus allowing a wide variety of inputs device types to be utilized. Furthermore, the ultrasonic sensing system described herein less susceptible to inaccuracies due to the effects of dirt, oils and other contaminants as compared to conventional optical sensing devices, thereby providing a more robust input device. 1. A subsystem for sensing an input object relative to a sensing region of a sensor device, the subsystem comprising: a first circuit comprising: an input for receiving a first resulting signal, wherein the first resulting signal is in a form of a waveform comprising positive and negative polarities, the first resulting signal comprising effects indicative of the input object relative to the sensing region; a first transistor network; a second transistor network; and an output; a first switch coupled to the output of the first circuit; and a first integrating capacitor coupled to the output of the first circuit, to a substantially constant voltage source and to the first switch, wherein the second transistor network and the first transistor network provide a first portion of a first rectified signal to the first integrating capacitor based on the positive polarities of the resulting signal. 2. The subsystem of claim 1, wherein the sensing region of the sensor device comprises an ultrasound sensor device. 3. The subsystem of claim 1, wherein the sensor device is configured as a fingerprint sensing device. 4. The subsystem of claim 1, wherein the first circuit further comprises: a third transistor network operable with the first transistor network to provide a second portion of the first rectified signal to the first integrating capacitor based on the negative polarities, the first portion of the first rectified signal and the second portion of the first rectified signal having the same polarity. 5. The subsystem of claim 4, wherein the first circuit is operable to: turn on the second transistor network in response to a first timing signal; and turn on the third transistor network in response to a second timing signal. 6. The subsystem of claim 1 further comprising: a second circuit having an input for receiving a second resulting signal comprising positive and negative polarities, the second resulting signal comprising effects indicative of the input object relative to the sensing region; and a second integrating capacitor coupled to the output of the second circuit, wherein the circuit is operable to output a rectified signal to the second integrating capacitor. 7. The subsystem of claim 1, wherein the first transistor network and the second transistor network are disposed on a thin-film transistor substrate. 8. A system for sensing an input object relative to a sensing region of a sensor device, the system comprising: a first substrate; an array of sensor electrodes disposed on the first substrate and operable to provide a first resulting signal, wherein the first resulting signal is in a form of a waveform comprising positive and negative polarities in response to presence of the input object in the sensing region; and a detection module comprising a first input coupled to the array of sensor electrodes, an output, and a plurality of transistor networks, wherein the plurality of transistor networks provide a first rectified signal to a first integrating capacitor of the detection module, wherein the first rectified signal is based on the first resulting signal. 9. The system of claim 8 further comprising: a second substrate, wherein the second substrate is a thin-film transistor substrate; and wherein at least a portion of the detection module is disposed on the second substrate. 10. The system of claim 8, wherein the first substrate is a thin-film transistor substrate. 11. The system of claim 8 further comprising: a transmitter module configured to drive the transmitter signal onto the array of sensor electrodes. 12. The system of claim 8, wherein providing the first rectified signal to the first integrating capacitor comprises: providing a first portion of the rectified signal based on positive polarities of the first resulting signal; and providing a second portion of the rectified signal based on negative polarities of the first resulting signal. 13. The system of claim 8, wherein the sensor device is an ultra-sound sensor device. 14. The system of claim 8, wherein the sensor device is configured to sense fingerprints. 15. The system of claim 8, wherein the detection module further comprises: a second input configured to receive a second resulting signal from the array of sensor electrodes, wherein the plurality of transistor networks provide a second rectified to a second integrating capacitor of the detection module, wherein the second rectified is based on the second resulting signal. 16. A method for sensing features of an input object relative to a sensing region of a sensor device, the method comprising: receiving a first resulting signal, wherein the first resulting signal is in a form of a waveform comprising positive and negative polarities, the first resulting signal comprising effects indicative of the input object relative to the sensing region; and charging an integrating capacitor with a first rectified signal with at least one of a plurality of transistor networks, wherein the first rectified signal is based on the first resulting signal. 17. The method of claim 16 further comprising: driving a transmitter signal onto a plurality of pixel electrodes. 18. The method of claim 16, wherein generating the first rectified signal via a plurality of transistor networks comprises generating a first portion of the rectified signal based on the positive polarities and a second portion of the rectified signal based on the negative polarities. receiving a second resulting signal comprising positive and negative polarities, the second resulting signal comprising effects indicative of the input object relative to the sensing region, wherein the second resulting signal is received from a second pixel electrode of the plurality of pixel electrodes; and charging a second integrating capacitor with a second rectified signal with at least one of the plurality of transistor networks, wherein the second rectified signal is based on the second resulting signal. 20. The method of claim 16, wherein the first resulting signal contains effects indicative of ridges and valleys of a fingerprint. Publication number: 20140225873 Type: Application Filed: Apr 18, 2014 Publication Date: Aug 14, 2014 Patent Grant number: 8902202 Applicant: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED (San Jose, CA) Inventors: Jeffrey A. SMALL (Rochester, NY), Clyde WASHBURN (Rochester, NY) Current U.S. Class: Including Surface Acoustic Detection (345/177) International Classification: G06F 3/043 (20060101); G06F 3/041 (20060101);	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1108
__label__wiki	0.878392	0.878392	Justia Patents US Patent for Apparatus for transferring blocks of information from one node to a second node in a computer network Patent (Patent # 4,777,595) Apparatus for transferring blocks of information from one node to a second node in a computer network Mar 24, 1986 - Digital Equipment Corporation Method and apparatus for transfer of packet-type information from the memory (24B) of one node (14) in a computer network to the memory (24C) of another node (16) in the network. The invention is of particular utility in transfers over serial buses (e.g., 18). Packets are sent from a named memory buffer (25A) at a first node (14) to a named memory buffer (25C) at a second node (16), allowing random access by the first node to the memory of the second node without either node having to have knowledge of the memory structure of the other, the source and destination buffer names are contained right in the transmitted packet.The first node (14) can both write to and read from the second node (16). An opcode (40A) sent in each packet signifies whether a read or write operation is to be performed. For reading from the second node, the opcode actually causes the second node to write back to the first node; in this situation, the second node, upon detecting the appropriate opcode, places the remainder of the received packet on a command queue (202), to be executed with the commands locally generated at the second node, without need for host interruption. Latest Digital Equipment Corporation Patents: Web-Based Electronic Mail Server Apparatus and Method Using Full Text and Label Indexing Electrostatic discharge protection clamp for high-voltage power supply or I/O with nominal-or high-voltage reference Method and apparatus for clustering-based signal segmentation Speech interface for computer application programs Method and apparatus for reducing heat generation in a portable computer The invention which is the subject of this Application is particularly useful in a system incorporating one or more of the inventions shown in the following commonly assigned applications, filed on even date herewith: U.S. patent application Ser. No. 376,069, titled INTERFACE FOR SERIAL DATA COMMUNICATIONS LINK in the names(s) of Robert Giggi, John Buzynski and Robert Stewart; U.S. patent application Ser. No. 376,068, titled DUAL PATH BUS STRUCTURE FOR COMPUTER INTERCONNECTION, in rhe name(s) of William D. Strecker, David Thompson, and Richard Casabona; and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 375,983, titled DUAL-COUNT, ROUND-ROBIN DISTRIBUTED ARBITRATION TECHNIQUE FOR CONTENTION-ARBITRATED SERIAL BUSES, in the name(s) of William D. Strecker, John E. Buzynski and David Thompson. To the extent necessary for understanding aspects of the present invention not fully explained herein, if any, and to the extent helpful to a more complete understanding of the utility or advantages of the present invention, the explanations contained in the aforementioned applications are hereby incorporated by reference, as though fully set forth herein. This invention relates to the field of computer system interconnections and, more specifically, to an apparatus for transferring information from a memory associated with a first node in a computer network to a memory associated with a second node in the network. In a distributed computer network comprising a system of interconnected compuer nodes, information comprising commands, responses and data must be transmitted between two or more nodes and combinations of nodes in order to allow the various components of the system to interact. Since the terminology involved in describing such a network is not fully formalized in the industry, it should be understood that as used herein, the following terms have the indicated meanings, unless it appears otherwise from the context in which used: A "port", also called an "interface" or "adapter", is the mechanism through which a (host) computer or other device gains access to a bus for communicating with other computers and devices. A port includes a port processor, port buffer, and link components; the roles of these components is explained below. A "node" comprises a host computer and at least one port; a node may also have or use multiple ports and these ports may also communicate with each other over the bus. A "bus" is an interconnection between devices through which information may be transferred from one device to another; it includes a communication channel and associated components and control. A "network" is a system of nodes interconnected via a common bus. The mechanism employed for transferring information from one node to another (and from one port to another) significantly affects both the communications efficiency and the processing efficiency of the network. In the past, with rare exceptions, computer interconnection schemes have been designed either (1) to be mere communications channels or (2) to take into account the specific characteristics of specific models of equipment. However, with the proliferation of manufacturers and models of computer equipment, the need has existed for some time for an efficient, cross-product compatible, general purpose computer intercomputer communications link which is more than just a communications channel but is also more broadly useful than a product-specific bus. This need has become all the more acute with the advent of (1) so-called "intelligent" input/output systems which have significant computing capability of their own, (2) high availability systems structured as networks of closely coupled computers, each with its own independent memory and operating system and (3) load-sharing distributed processing systems where a number of tightly-coupled computers share a common resource, such as a file system. The design of the message communications system for a multi-node network is highly dependent upon the kind of bus employed as the electrical interconnection. Such networks differ from each other qualitatively, and are characterized, by the way in which bus access is obtained and the way in which messages are directed from one point to another. This includes the method by which a message destination is indicated and recognized, the way message-handling tasks are controlled and the types of reliability enhancing and error-detecting and error correcting features employed. As a result of different design approaches, the operational sequence of steps necessary for accomplishing a message transfer may differ markedly from one network to another. Computer networks broadly may be categorized as either tightly-coupled or loosely-coupled. Loosely-coupled networks are also called "distributed" networks or systems. In tightly-coupled networks there is generally one memory which is shared by different devices, such as processors, input/output devices, etc., and all are in close physical proximity. These different devices use the memory as a mailbox through which information can be exchanged, one device putting a message into the mailbox and another device taking it out. A memory bus interconnects the memory with the other devices. By contrast, in loosely-coupled networks, nodes containing the devices and subsystems mentioned above are usually separated by greater distances and cannot efficiently utilize a common memory bus. Therefore, the interconnection between nodes of such a network is often some sort of communications bus which simply acts as a communications channel. Distributed networks thus usually have different operating modes than tightly-coupled networks and require a greater number of steps to effect a transfer from one node to another. Also, a transmitting node normally has no knowledge of where in its memory a receiving node puts a particular message. One form of communications bus, which also is the type used herein, is referred to as a contentionarbitrated bit-serial bus. Other common drawbacks of prior art systems are (1) that sometimes only undirectional transfers are supported--i.e., only write operations, but not read operations--since memory of one node is not directly accessible from another; (2) messages may be lost at times; (3) long transfers may monopolize the bus for an unfairly long time; and (4) processor interruption is needed to signal completion of a transfer. Indeed, multiple interruptions of a host processor may be needed, sometimes as often as once per packet sent over the bus; and with each interrupt, the process or is diverted from other work and that other work is delayed. Accordingly, it is an object of this invention to provide an efficient, cross-product compatible, general purpose intercomputer communications link for computer networks. It is a further object of this invention to provide a message transfer system for distributed computer networks which closely simulates the performance of a tightly-coupled network. It is another object of this invention to provide such a message transfer system wherein a transmitting node (and port) knows, at least symbolically, the location in the receiving node's (and port's) memory to which each message is sent. It is also an object of the present invention to provide a new method and apparatus for message transfer between the nodes of a multi-node network using a contention-arbitrated bit-serial bus, with provision for insuring high reliability of information transfers. It is a further object of this invention to provide such a network and apparatus in which message transfer is guaranteed to be non-duplicated, loss-free and error-free. Yet another object of such invention is to provide a bi-directional interconnection capable of supporting both read and write operations between nodes of a multi-node network. Still another object of this invention is to provide a non-atomic transfer service wherein a single transfer may be broken into blocks to prevent bus latency build up, so that long transfers do not block a port from start to finish of the transfer. A further object of the invention is to support prioritizing of both read and write operations by the initiating node. An additional object of the invention is to provide for general addressing of buffers in destination nodes, eliminating the need for the transfer-originating node to know in detail the memory addressing structure of the destination node. A still further object of the invention is to provide a transfer apparatus and method in which the required number of host interventions or interrupts, is minimized (i.e., substantially reduced) The foregoing and other objects and advantages of the invention are accomplished by a high speed data transfer method and apparatus which allows random access by a port originating a transmission to specifically named memory locations in a receiving (i.e., destination) port. The transmitting node and port need not have any knowledge of the actual memory structure (whether virtual or physical) of the receiving node and port. All transmissions are accomplished between a memory buffer in a transmitting node and a memory buffer in a receiving node. These buffers are in actual memory at each node and are not to be confused with communications buffers which interface between the communications bus and the other elements in a node, within the data link of the port. Each memory buffer is named and names are of a predetermined, fixed length. Mapping of memory buffer names to actual memory space is implementation-specific. Prior to a transfer, the names, offsets and lengths of buffers in other nodes are determined and exchanged through higher level protocols. The message packets of the present invention reference only the name, length (in bytes) and offset (i.e., location relative to the starting address of the buffer) into the buffer. Offset mapping is also implementation-dependent. To write data from a first node to a second node, the first node puts an appropriate number of so-called SNTDAT packets onto the communications bus, each containing a part of the data and labelled with the name of the destination (i.e., receiving) buffer in the second node and the offset in the receive buffer for that particular packet. A transaction identifier unique to the group of packets also is transmitted, for use in the message confirmation process. The last packet in a message is identified by a unique flag which is appended to it by the sending port. On receipt of this flag at the receiving port, the receiving port generates a command to itself, instructing itself to return a message to the sending port, confirming receipt. The confirmation message comprises the transaction identifier. This confirmation shows not only that that specific packet sequence was transmitted successfully over the bus, but also that it was intact when it reached the host computer of the receiving node (as opposed to just reaching the communications buffer) and that the confirmation is not one for another message which is erroneously assumed to relate to the message just sent. Digressing briefly, note the use of terms to describe the nodes, ports and buffers according to their functions. A node or port starts out sending a message and, to complete the transaction, ends-up receiving a confirmation or acknowledgement; or its starts out receiving a message and then sends (i.e., transmits) a confirmation or acknowledgment back to the port from which the original message came. This duality of roles sometimes leads to slightly confusing terminology. To alleviate confusion, it should be understood that the same node or port may be referred to in different situations as, variously, the "sender", "initiator", "originator", etc., or, conversely, as the "receiver", "responder", etc. Buffers are usually referred to herein as simply "source" or "destination", depending on whether they are supplying or receiving information, respectively. To read data from second node, a first port sends to the second node a special request packet (DATREQ) which carries the transfer length, and names and offsets of the source and destination buffers. The DATREQ packet causes the receiving (i.e., second) port to generate a WRITE command internally, and to write the requested information to the sending (i.e., first) port with return data (RETDAT) packets which are similar in format to the SNTDAT packets. The data is returned in as many packets as necessary by the second (i.e., responding or receiving) port. The last packet of the transfer is marked with a special flag signifying that it is the end packet of the transmission. This confirms to the sender that the transfer was both complete and successful. To minimize the number of host interrupts, commands can be generated in the receiving port automatically, responsive to a basic command from the sending port, as in the case of generating a confirmation message or performing a READ operation. Thus, a command in a local port may be caused to be executed in a remote port without host intervention. Although messages (both commands, responses and data) are transferred as packets, large blocks of data are not limited in size to a single packet. Thus a large block of data is broken into multiple packets which are individually transferred. In doing so, only the sending node need concern itself with the state of the transfer; the receiving node state is controlled by the "last packet" flag. All operations are confirmed upon completion in the initiating port. As discussed more fully below, communications are carried out via port-to-port virtual circuits. In the event of an error occurring during either a read or write transfer, the virtual circuit is closed in the port where the error was detected. This prevents completion of the transfer, though only the port where the error was detected is aware of it immediately. An exchange at a higher level protocol must be used to inform the other port involved and to re-initialize the circuit. (Note that a virtual circuit is said to be "open" when it is usable and "closed" when it is unusable. This choice of language is unfortunate though accepted in the art, as it leads to confusion with electrical circuit terminology, wherein an "open" circuit is broken and a "closed" circuit is a valid path, but the terminology is not the inventors'.) If a single transfer requires multiple data packets, they need not be sent consecutively and may be interspersed with other packets between the same pair of controllers. They should, however, be sent in order of increasing offset. Data packet length is discretely variable. All the packets of the transfer except the last should be of an agreed-upon size and the last packet should carry the remainder and be less than or equal to the preceding packets in size. This invention is pointed out with particularity in the appended claims. The above and further objects and advantages of the invention may be better understood by referring to the following description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an exemplary network wherein the present invention would be useful; FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic illustration of the format of an information packet as passed between ports. FIG. 3 is a high-level block diagram of the functional components of an interface according to the invention; FIG. 4 is a diagrammatic illustration of the body of a packet of FIG. 3; FIG. 5 is a diagrammatic illustration of the format of the body of a Datagram type packet according to the invention; FIG. 6 is a diagrammatic illustration of the format of the body of a Message type packet according to the invention; FIG. 7 is a diagrammatic illustration of the format of a buffer name according to the invention; FIG. 8 is a diagrammatic illustration of a buffer descriptor according to the invention; FIG. 9 is a diagrammatic illustration of the format of a Virtual Circuit Descriptor of the Virtual Circuit Descriptor Table according to the invention; FIG. 10 is a flow diagram illustrating the process of sending (i.e., writing) data from one port to another; FIG. 11 is a diagrammatic illustration of the format of the body of a packet for sending (i.e., writing) data from one port to another; FIG. 12 is a diagrammatic illustration of the format of the body of a confirmation packet; FIG. 13 is a flow diagram illustrating the process of returning (i.e., reading) data from another port; FIG. 14 is a diagrammatic illustration of the format of the body of a command for requesting (i.e., returning or reading) data from a remote port; and FIG. 15 is a diagrammatic illustration of the format of the body of a packet for data being returned; and FIG. 16 is a diagrammatic illustration of the port-port driver interface of the invention, showing how the architecture is employed to provide remote execution of instructions. DESCRIPTION OF AN ILLUSTRATIVE EMBODIMENT FIG. 1 shows an example of a network 10 wherein the present invention would be useful. There, three nodes 12, 14 and 16 are connected by a bus 18. Node 12 is an intelligent input/output (I/O) node while nodes 14 and 16 are general purpose computers. Each node contains a processor (22A, 22B or 22C), memory (24A, 24B or 24C) and a bus interface or port (26A, 26B or 26C). Memory 24A of I/O node 12 is formed in two parts - an I/O system buffer memory 28 and a mass storage device 29; for purposes of this discussion, the mass storage device is not involved. Processor 22A, may include a controller for mass storage device 29. By contrast, memories 24B and 24C are primary memory units which, not being peripheral devices, do not need separate controllers. Memories 24A, 24B and 24C contain memory buffers between which the exchanges described herein take place. For example, memory 24B is shown as having memory buffer locations 25A and 25B, while memory 24C is shown as having memory buffer 25C and 25D. At the highest conceptual level, the invention involves accomplishing a packet transfer from, for example, memory buffer 25A in a first node 24B to memory buffer 25C in second node 24C, as indicted by the dashed line between those memory buffers. The host computer system at a node (i.e., the processor and memory) may, for example, be a model VAX 11/780 or other VAX computer of Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Mass. Where references herein are made to specific propert or characteristics of a host (or of its memory, for example), that computer will be used as the basis for the reference. Suitable background information on such computers can be found in "VAX Architecture Handbook", published by Digital Equipment Corportion, to which reference should be made (for, e.g., a description of VAX memory mapping). Each port, is identified by a unique addressing number. This may, for example, be an eight-bit identifier. All communications between ports are packet-oriented. Each packet is framed by a special start character and by a byte count carried in the packet header. A 32-bit CRC (i.e., cyclical redundancy check) character is calculated and appended at the end of the packet for detection of transmission errors. Packets are integral numbers of bytes from about 10 to about 4,100 bytes in length, for example, excluding header and trailer fields. Each byte is transmitted bit-serially, using Manchester encoding, for example. Information packets transferred over the bus 18 have the format shown in FIG. 2, wherein the first transmitted byte is at the top and the last, at the bottom. Each packet can be divided into three parts. The first part (i.e., header), 37, comprises a series of bit sync and character sync bytes. The second part is the informational section of the packet, 38. The third and last part of the packet, 39, contains the CRC character plus a sequence of trailer bytes. First and third packet portions 37 and 39 are supplied by link 36. Second, informational packet portion 38 is supplied by the packet buffers 34. Packet portion 38 starts with an indication of packet type and some high order bits of a packet length field, 40A which carries over to subsequent byte 40B. The true and complement values of the destination node name 40C and 40D are sent next, followed by the source node name 40E. The actual body of the packet (i.e., data, command, response, etc.) is sent last in that part of the packet, 40F. For an acknowledgment packet (see below), the format is the same except that packet length and packet body may be (and are) omitted as unnecessary. Three major types of communications mechanisms are supported by this interconnection. The first, called "Datagram service," is the simplest, providing best effort (though not loss-free) delivery of single data blocks. The second, so-called "Message service" uses "virtual circuits" to provide a more reliable transfer of similar size data blocks. The third mechanism, "Block Data transfer service," moves longer blocks of data, also via virtual circuits. Virtual circuits are well-known in the art and are well described in the literature, such as in Andrew S. Tananbaum, Computer Networks, Prentice Hall 1981. Each virtual circuit is constructed of a set of state variables in the sending and receiving ports. Virtual circuits ensure that packets are delivered loss-free, duplicate-free, sequentially and error-free. "Loss-free" means that the packet is guaranteed to be delivered to its destination. "Duplicate-free" means that a packet is not received a second or subsequent time once delivery is successful. "Sequential" delivery ensures that data is delivered in the same order as that in which it was sent. "Error free" delivery means that data will not be corrupted. Virtual-circuit-controlled Message service delivery is sequential, non-duplicated, and error-free; the loss-free characteristic is not used. "Block Data transfer service" is used to move large blocks of buffer data directly from one memory to another (DMA). This is done by dividing such large blocks into multiple sub-blocks and (non-atomically) transferring them in separate packets. The Block Data service uses the same virtual circuits as the Message service and is therefore guaranteed sequential and error-and loss-free. Acknowledgment of packets is immediate; that is, bus time is reserved immediately after each packet is sent for the receiver to transmit an acknowledgment back to the originator. The type of acknowledgment depends on the result of the transmission. If any error in the packet was detected, no acknowledgement is sent; the transmitter detects the problem by an expiration of a timer. If the packet was correctly received and buffered (at least in the interface), a positive acknowledgment (in the form of special "ACK" packet) is sent to the originating port. If the packet is correct but the interface is unable to buffer it, a negative acknowledgment packet ("NAK") is returned. Retransmission occurs if the response is anything other than a positive acknowledgment; such retransmission follows a defined algorithm. The algorithm is designed such that if failures are detected at the timing limits, it is very likely that a hardware failure has occurred. Each bus interface consists of three functional components, as indicated in FIG. 3. These three components are a port processor 32, packet buffers 34 and a link 36. The port processor 32 interfaces to the node's host memory (such as memory 24a, 24b, or 24c) via the host's memory bus, and controls the link 36 and packet buffers 34. The port processor 32 is responsible for data mapping, address translation, buffer loading, packet interpretation, and control of the host-port interconnection. The packet buffers 34 are a temporary storage interface between the link 36 and the port processor 32. It is not imperative that the buffers be large enough to hold full packets statically. For example, the buffer might actually be a small first in-first out (FIFO) stack. If an implementation does not fully buffer packets, though, it must be highly likely that the data can be accepted for the entire packet at the bit transfer rate of the bus. The effective bandwidth of the bus can be greatly reduced if ports lose a high percentage of packets due to buffer overflow and retries are then needed. Link 36 is responsible for the implementation of most of the data link protocol and moving the data between the bus 18 and the packet buffer 34. It includes a front end portion which performs the bit level operations of encoding/decoding and carrier detection. A good description of link 36 is contained in the aforementioned application Ser. No. 376,069, incoporated by reference here. Architecturally, a full description of intercomputer communications over the bus involves specification of three layers. The bottom layer, termed the "physical channel", includes a description of the transmission medium, bit encoding/decoding and carrier detection function. The middle layer, termed the "data link", encompasses the functions of data packetization and bus control (i.e., arbitration and acknowledgment). The top layer, called the "port processor layer", is the level at which the protocols are specified for port-to-port communications; it provides the highest level communications mechanisms. The interface of the host port to the next higher layer is implementation-dependent and beyond the scope of this specification, as it varies with the host computer system at each node. To the extent possible, the specification of the internal function of each layer is intended to be independent of the other layers, such that implementation changes within a layer are effectively isolated. In practice, however, it is recognized that hardware/firmware/software tradeoffs may not dictate such a separation. Ideally, information used in one layer is ignored and untouched by all the lower layers through which it is passed. Information that is used by a layer is "peeled off" before passing to a higher layer. The exceptions to this are in addressing and framing. Framing at the port processor layer is implicit in the data link framing. Addressing information is also used by both the data link and port processor layers. As stated above, the Message service provides sequential, error-free delivery service via port-to-port independent virtual circuits. The virtual circuit state is maintained in each port on a per-port basis for all active ports. The state of each circuit consists of one bit indicating that the circuit is open (i.e., on) or closed (i.e., or off) and two single-bit sequence numbers, one for transmitting message packets and one for receiving message packets. Before a message can be sent successfully from one port to another, the corresponding sending and receiving sequence numbers must be equal and the circuit open. This is accomplished by a higher-level protocol. The Message mechanism is only to be used for "trustworthy" or highly predictable communications, since errors of any type result in circuit closure and therefore require reinitialization. The Block Data transfer mechanism provides a reliable, multiple-packet transfer service for moving blocks of data from a buffer in one node to a buffer in another node. This mechanism uses the same port-to-port virtual circuits used for Messages, guaranteeing sequential, non-duplicated transfers. Data transfers can be accomplished in both directions, namely a "read" and a "write" with respect to either one of the ports. The buffers are named and the name of each must be passed to the other node, under prior agreement by a higher-level protocol. Any errors in the Block Data transfers close the virtual circuit, disabling both Block Data and Message communications. The data link layer provides the port with reliable delivery of single packets across the physical channel. This, of course, is a packet property only and says nothing of what becomes of a packet(s) beyond the data link layer; it is also independent of the virutal circuit characteristics. It performs packetization of blocks of data and channel access control. The packetization includes framing, addressing and integrity checking. Framing is accomplished by marking the beginning of the packet with a special character, called the character sync. The end of the packet is determined by a packet length indication, which is included in the packet and immediately follows the character sync. Addressing is accomplished by following the packet length with the destination port address. The address is the port number. Each port has one address which is unique on the particular bus to which it is connected. A second copy of the destination port address is sent in complemented form to increase the reliability and preclude single component failure sources. The source port address is carried also, to allow the destination port to return an acknowledgment. Packet integrity is checked by means of the aforesaid 32-bit cyclical redundancy check (CRC) character is computed from the packet contents and appended to the packet by the sending interface. Upon receipt of the packet, the computation is repeated on the received packet body and the result checked against the value sent with the packet. If the comparison reveals matching CRC characters, the probability is high that the packet was, in fact, correctly received. Channel access and control consists of arbitration, acknowledgment and retransmission (if necessary). The preferred arbitration mechanism is disclosed in commonly assigned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 375,983, titled Dual-Count, Round-Robin Distributed Arbitration Technique for Serial Buses. According to the present invention, a port receiving the packet immediately acknowledges receipt. At the conclusion of the transmission of a packet, all ports wishing to transmit are required to wait a minimum time for the packet's destination port to return an acknowledgment packet. The nature of the acknowledgement is dependent on the results of the transmission. If the packet was not successfully received (e.g., due to a collision, a bus error or busy receiver), there is no acknowledging transmission and the originating port detects this by timing out on the acknowledgment receipt interval. If the packet was successfully received and buffered in the destination port, a positive acknowledgment (ACK) packet is returned. If the packet was correctly received but the interface was unable to buffer it, a negative acknowledgment (NAK) is returned. In the case of transmission failure, the sending port makes an equal probability decision immediately to arbitrate and transmit or to wait a delay time before doing so. If delayed, the same decision is made at the end of the delay period. This is repeated until retransmission occurs. This random delay (exponentially distributed) is used to break possible deadlock situations. See the aforementioned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 375,983. The physical channel layer is the interface between the data link layers of two ports. The data packet is conditioned and sent out on the bus by line drivers to be received on the other end at the destination port. The data, address, CRC, header and trailer components of each packet (see FIG. 2) are assembled together when the packet is passed to the physical channel. This layer performs media-specific tasks in transferring the data over the bus. Included are generating the data clock, encoding the data with the clock, decoding the data and separating out the clock, driving and receiving from the media, generating the carrier-detection logic signals and transporting the data signals from port to port. This layer provides the electrical compatability between port/nodes and a dependable means of data transport. Preferred carrier detection, clock isolation and clock/separation circuitry are illustrated in the commonly assigned patent application Ser. No. 376,069, titled INTERFACE FOR SERIAL DATA COMMUNICATIONS LINK. The general format of the body of a packet is illustrated in FIG. 4. As shown there, the packet body consist of a first byte 42, containing an opcode (OPC), a second byte 44 containing flags which comprise special miscellaneous code modifiers and then a series of bytes 46 containing packet type specific information. The parameters passed to and from the data link layer with each packet body are designated as DST, SRC, BODY LEN and status. DST denotes the port number to receive the packet (i.e., the destination) if transmitting, or the number of the port if receiving. SRC refers to the number of the originating port if sending a packet (i.e., the source) or to the number of the port which sent the packet when receiving. BODY LEN denotes the length of the body of the packet, in bytes. As it is type specific, the value is specified for each type of packet. The actual packet length, in bytes, may differ from the BODY LEN value by a predetermined amount. STATUS denotes the packet status which is passed with received packets and returned subsequent to transmission of those packets. SEQUENTIALITY AND PRIORITY The operations of the port (both those initiated by the port driver and those initiated by the received packets) are performed at multiple priority levels. This reduces the latency of performance-critical transactions. Of course, real-time response can not be guaranteed since latency will be primarily a function of network load. However, this mechanism can be used to disproportionately provide bandwidth as desired. Sequentiality must be preserved on a per-packet basis between port pairs. Prioritization is performed for each packet, but may, in fact, be limited by pipelining of the implementation. The only guarantees of prioritization are performed on a prior-operation basis. Operations are service-specific, but consist of sending a specific packet unless otherwise specified. The following set of rules defines the sequence in priority of operations: If, while an operation of a first priority is being performed, an operation of a greater priority becomes available to the same port, the best effort is made to preempt the lower priortity operation between packets to perform the higher operation in its entirety, and to then resume the lower priority operation. The best effort is limited to four packets; that is, no more than four packets of the lower priority operation are transmitted after the higher priority operation becomes available. Any number of priority levels can be employed. Provision for four priority levels has been found desirable. VIRTUAL CIRCUITS A virtual circuit is the mechanism used to provide a higher quality of service for a series of packets. As stated above, delivery of packets under virtual circuit control is guaranteed to be loss-and error-free, sequential, and non-duplicated. The circuit is constructed of a set of state variables in the sending and receiving ports. Virtual circuits are maintained on a per-port basis. That is, each of a pair of ports has a virtual circuit state with respect to the other ports. Therefore, in each port an array of state values is maintained, with one set per port "connected" by a virtual circuit. Several of the communications mechanisms specified in the port use virtual circuits. In fact, the same circuit is shared simultaneously by any of the mechansisms that are in use. The circuit guarantees are on a per-packet basis, independent of the particular packet type (as long as that type uses the circuits). The state of a circuit consists of three bits in each port: Circuit State (CST), Sending Sequence Number (NS) and Receiving Sequence Number (NR). The circuit state (CST) bit reflects whether or not the particular circuit has been initialized. Its values are OPEN (initialized and "on") and CLOSED (uninitialized and "off"). The bit value representing each state can be implementation-dependent, with suggested values being 1 for Open and 0 for Closed. The Sending Sequence Number (NS) is the number of the next packet to be sent (or the value of the current packet for which delivery is being attempted). The Receiving Sequence Number is the number of the next packet to be received. On the sending end, when the packet is to be delivered, it is loaded with the current NS value in the defined bit of the FLAGS field 44. When the data link returns successful transmission status, the NS value is incremented modulo 2 (i.e., complemented). In the receiving port, when a packet is received for a circuit, the value of the NS bit of the FLAGS field is checked against the current value of NR. If equal, the packet is accepted and NR is complemented. If not, the packet is discarded. This is the mechanism for discarding duplicates. If an acknowledgment (at the date link level) is lost due to bus error, the sending end retransmits the packet. If the packet actually was received and only the acknowledgment was corrupted, NR will have been complemented and the packet accepted. Upon receipt of the retransmission, NS will not equal NR and the second packet (a duplicate) will be discarded, although acknowledged at the data link layer. The circuit state determines whether or not packets may be sent or accepted on the circuit. If the circuit is closed in the sending end, no virtual circuit packets may be sent for that circuit. If the receiving port state is closed, then incoming virtual packets for that circuit will be discarded at the port level. The circuit state should be closed if a transmission of a virtual circuit packet fails. Additionally a port may close its circuit at any time. In general, any type of error that may interface with sequentiality should result in circuit closure. DATAGRAMS All ports provide bi-directional, general purpose datagram service. Nodes must be able to handle a predetermined minimum datagram text length. In this example, that minimum is 58 bytes. Larger values up to some predetermined maximum, such as 4089, bytes may be used between ports based on prior agreemnnt. The prior agreement on increased size limits is left to a higher level protocol. The body format of a datagram is shown in FIG. 5. As illustrated there, the first byte 48 of the datagram body contains an opcode (OPC) signifying a datagram. In a second byte 50, the lower 7 bits must be zero (MBZ) and the most significant bit 52 contains a packing format flag PF, implying the type of data packing (i.e., 512 or 576 bytes per block); it is useful for certain types of ports. The remaining bytes 54 comprise a text field containing datagram text which is passed to the port layer. Thus, for datagrams, the body length (in bytes) is equal to the text length (in bytes) plus 2. The Message mechanism provides a highly reliable delivery of single packets using the virtual circuits. Messages can be of varying length, ranging from 0 to some upper limit (e.g., 4089 bytes) in textual length. The maximum size message that may be exchanged between ports is determined by prior agreement and at a higher level protocol. However, any ports capable of receiving Messages must be able to receive Messages of at least the above-mentioned textual length of, for example, 58 bytes. The body format 60 of packets of Messages is illustrated in FIG. 6. Such format comprises a first byte 62, a second byte 64 and a plurality of bytes 66; the latter comprise a variable length message text field. First byte 62 contains an opcode (OPC) signifying that the packet is a message packet. Second byte 64 is subdivided into four fields. The least significant bit 68A must be 0 i.e., MBZ). The next bit 68B contains the Sending Sequence Number; it holds the current value of NS for the destination port of the circuit. The next five bits, field 68C, must be 0. The most significant bit, 68D contains a packing format (PF) flag implying the type of data packing to be used by certain types of ports. The data transfer mechanism of the present invention provides for the transfer of large blocks of data not limited in size to a single packet. There are, of course, some upper bounds on the number of packets which can be accommodated based on buffer size. A block of data is broken into multiple packets which are individually transferred by the data link layer. The state of the transfer is maintained on the end sending the data. Both read and write operations are provided, and each is confirmed upon completion in the initiating port. All packets involved in data transfers are sent on virtual circuits to provide a high quality of service. Data transfers reference named buffers of predetermined length. The mapping of buffer names to actual memory space is implementation-specific. The transmitted packets reference only the name, length (in bytes) and offset (32-bits each) into the buffer. The offset mapping is also implementation-dependent. Offset determines where in a buffer the data of the packet is to be placed or taken from. Buffer name values, offsets and lengths must be determined prior to the transfer, through higher level protocols. Such protocols are not part of this invention and therefore will not be discussed in any greater detail. To write data, a port merely sends the packets of the transfer to the destination port, using the appropriate opcode. The last packet of the transfer is marked with a special flag. Upon receipt of such a packet, if the transfer was successful, the receiving port sends back a special confirmation packet which indicates that status. To read data, a port sends a special request packet which carries the transfer length and the names and offsets of the source and destination buffers. The receiving port responds as though it were writing data to the requesting port. The last packet of the transfer is again marked with a special flag. This is the confirmation to the initiator that the transfer was complete and successful. As will be seen further below, the special request packet generated by the read operation includes a direction to the receiving port instructing it to send a write data operation back to the originator. Thus, the write operation is effected by the originator in a remote port. The read operation capability is therefore obtained with virtually no additional cost once the write operation is available. And there exists a generalized capability of sending commands to remote ports for direct execution there without bringing the remote host into play; this is particularly useful, for example, for diagnostics. Any errors in completing either read or write transfers result in virtual circuit closure in the port where detected. The closed circuit prevents completion of the transfer. Only the port where the error was detected is aware of it. Higher level protocols must be used to inform the other involved port of the error, if necessary, and to reinitialize the circuit. The data packets of a single transfer need not be sent consecutively. They may be interspersed with packets of another transfer, as explained above. BUFFER DESCRIPTOR TABLE Named memory buffers are defined by buffer descriptors in a Buffer Descriptor Table (BDT). A buffer name is a 32-bit value (for example), which may have the format shown in FIG. 7. As indicated there, the lower 16 bits (69) are used as an octaword index intothe BDT. The higher order 16 bits (70) are a field which acts as a "key". The key must match a corresponding key field in the buffer descriptor. The use of this interlocking key reduces the probability of an incorrect access of a buffer. To open a buffer, the port driver fills in the appropriate fields of the buffer descriptor and sets the Valid (i.e., "V") bit (see below). At this point, the buffer description and the associated buffer mapping PTE's (i.e., Page Table Entries) are "owned" by the interface. To close a buffer, the port driver clears the V-bit and insures that the interface does not have any internally cached address translations for that buffer. The format of a buffer descriptor is illustrated in FIG. 8. There first longword (i.e., four 8-bit bytes) 71A is divided into six fields. First field 71B, comprising the lower nine bits, contains a buffer offset (BUF OFFSET) value indicating the starting byte of the buffer relative to byte 0 of the page defined by the PTE whose address is given by the PT ADDRESS field in the buffer description (see below). The next field (71C) bits 9-11 must be zero. Twelfth bit 71D comprises a one-bit Access Control (AC) field. The next two bits provide an Access Mode (AM) field 71E; the latter specifies the mode to be checked against the PROT field of the PTE of the host computer, for access control. Bit 15 is a onebit Valid (i.e., "V") bit field 71F. If it is set, the buffer is opened and the remaining fields must contain valid information. The rest of longword 71A is a buffer KEY field 71G, as outlined above. Second longword 71H contains the buffer length (BUF LEN), in bytes. Third longword 71I, labelled PT ADDRESS, contains the system virtual address of the bases of a vector of PTE's mapping the buffer. Fourth longword 71J is reserved for software and is ignored by the port. VIRTUAL CIRCUIT DESCRIPTOR TABLE The interface implements virtual circuits between the host memories associated with pairs of ports, for sequenced transfers. For commands in the same command queue (see below), sequential communcation is guaranteed. Sequentiality is not guaranteed across command queues, however, with the exception that if a command is inserted on a higher priority command queue before another command is inserted on a lower priority command queue, the former is executed first. The state of the virtual circuits is stored in a Virtual Circuit Descriptor Table (VCDT). The VCDT contains one Virtual Circuit Descriptor (VCD) per interface in the network (including the local interface for that node). The VCD, whose format is shown in FIG. 9, consists of five information fields: Circuit State (CST), Send Sequence Number (NS), Receive Sequence Number (NR), Datagram free queue inhibit (DQI), and Path Status (PSTS). The latter two fields are not part of the virtual circuit state and appear in the VCD for convenience. Circuit State field 71K indicates whether the circuit is open ("1") or closed ("0"). PSTS field 71P indicates the condition of the bus path or paths. For example, if zero, both paths of a two-path system are bad; if one, a first path is good; if two, the other path is good; if three, both paths are good. A packet to be sent on a circuit carries the NS value from the sending port's VCD. When the packet is acknowledged, the sending port's NS value is complemented. If the command sending the packet fails, the circuit is closed by the sending port clearing the CST bit. Subsequent commands attempting to send on the same circuit fail with virtual circuit closed status. Once a packet is sent on a circuit, no other packet is sent on the circuit until an acknowledgemnt is returned. Incoming packets on a circuit carry the NS value from the sending port's VCD. This value is compared to the NR value of the receiving port's VCD. If they are equal, the packet is accepted and NR is complemented. If they are not equal, the packet is discarded, presumably as a duplicate due to a lost acknowledgment. If the circuit for an incoming packet is closed, the packet is discarded. The sending side must detect this through a higher level protocol. The architecture of the interconnection system overall involves nine structural elements (see FIG. 16): (1) a port 26B, as described herein and in the other above-referenced applications; (2) a port driver 23--i.e., host computer software for controlling the port; (3) command queues 202--i.e., queues used by the port driver to give commands to the port; (4) a response queue 204--i.e., a queue used by the port for giving responses to the port driver; (5) a Datagram free queue 206--i.e., a queue used by the port as a place to put command queue entries not inserted in the response queue and as a source of queue entries for responses resulting from received packets; (6) a Message free queue 208--i.e., a queue like the Datagram free queue but for sequenced or Message type commands and responses; (7) a Buffer Descriptor Table (BDT) 210--i.e., a table of named buffer descriptors used to move data directly between bus packet and virtual address space buffers; (8) a Port Queue Block 212--i.e., a data structure used by the port and port drive containing command and response queue headers, pointing to free queue headers, sizes of free queue entries, and addresses and lengths of virtual memory mapping data structures; and (9) control/status registers 214. These are illustrated in FIG. 16, discussed below. The command queues, response queue, Datagram free queue, Message free queue and Buffer Descriptor Table are memory-resident structures addressed in each host computer system's virtual address space. The Port Queue Block is a memory-resident structure addressed physically. The control/status registers are in the I/O address space. The command queues provide a memory stack for holding commands prior to execution. When a command reaches the head of a command queue, it is removed and executed by the port. Entries on higher-numbered command queue entries have priority over entries on lower-numbered ones, by convention. No command on a lower priority command queue entry will begin executing while a higher priority queue is non-empty. And if a command is inserted on a higher priority command queue while there is a command executing on a lower priority entry, the latter command will (a) complete transmission of the current and any other internally buffered packets (including all retries) or (b) suspend execution if additional packets need to be sent. In the latter event, command execution resumes once the commands on higher priority queue entries have been executed. A response given to the port driver by the port via the response queue 204 is either (1) the queue entry of an executed command or (2) a queue entry resulting from receipt of a packet on rhe bus. When the port driver inserts an entry on an empty response queue, it requests an interrupt. If the port finds the Datagram free queue 206 empty, it discards the packet. Datagram free queue entries are for unsequenced or datagram type commands and responses. With respect to the Message free queue 208, the port requests an interrupt if it finds that queue empty while attempting to remove an entry. WRITING DATA The operation of writing data from one port to another is best explained with reference to FIG. 10. As shown there, the originating port 70 which desires to transfer data first reads that data from its memory buffer into the interface's packet buffers 34, which breaks the data into appropriately sized packets. Step 72. These packets are sent as a particular packet type, termed Sent Data (SNTDAT) packets over the bus 18. These are show as packets 74(0) through 74(LP). Packet 74(LP) is the last packet of the transfer and contains a special flag called the Last Packet (LP) flag, to indicate that significance. Each packet 74(i) carries a destination buffer name and offset which determines where the data is written in the receiving/responding node. In the port 80 receiving the packets, the receipt of a SNTDAT packet with the LP bit set indicates conclusion of the transfer. If no errors have occurred, a condition determined at step 82, a confirmation (CNF) packet is sent back to the port which sent the data (step 84). On receipt of the CNF packet, step 86, the initiating port knows that the transfer was successful. If an error occurred at any time in receiving the data or sending the CNF packet, the virtual circuit must be closed, thereby preventing completion of the transfer. Steps 88A, 88B, 88C and 88D. The operation returning the CNF packet should preferably occur at a predetermined priority sufficient to insure its prompt communication. The body format of a suitable exemplary SNTDAT packet is illustrated in FIG. 11. There, first byte 92 contains an opcode signifying a SNTDAT packet. The least significant bit 96 of second byte 94 contains the LP flag. The second bit 98 of byte 94 contains the sequence number flag, NS. The remaining bits of that byte must be 0 The next eight bytes, collectively labelled 100, contain a transaction identifier, XCT ID. The next four bytes, collectively 102, contain the receive buffer name, REC NAME. They are followed by four other bits collectively labelled 104, which specify the receive buffer offset, REC OFFSET. The remaining bytes comprise a field 106 which contains the data being written. The body format of a suitable CNF packet 110 is shown in FIG. 12. It starts with an opcode in the first byte, 112, signifying a CNF packet, and then is followed by a flags byte, 114, wherein all bits except the second bit 116 must be 0. Bit 116 contains the sequence number flag, NS, for the destination port. The next eight bytes comprise a transaction identifier field 118; it has the same value as the corresponding SNTDAT packet with the LP flag set that resulted in its generation. READING DATA As explained above, data is read from a remote node/port by requesting that the data be returned to the requester. The data read operation is illustrated in FIG. 12. The operation starts with the originating port 120 generating a Data Request (DATREQ) packet, step 122, which is sent by the bus 18 to the responding port 130 from which the data is to be read. The DATREQ packet specifies the names and offsets of buffers to supply and accept the data and the length of the transfer, in bytes. If there is an error detected, the virtual circuit is closed. (Step 124). Otherwise, the requested data is read from the buffers where it is stored in the memory of the port 130 into the packet buffers of that port, step 126, and then is transmitted as Return Data (RETDAT) packets 128(0) through 128 (LP), in much the same manner as data is sent in SNTDAT packets. The last RETDAT packet, 128(LP), is marked by the LP flag being set. Each RETDAT packet is buffered as it is received, step 132; and receipt of the LP flag confirms transfer success, step 134. Detection of an error in transmission, step 136, or in reception, step 138, causes closure of the virtual circuit and aborts the transfer. The size of individual packets to be returned, except for the last packet, is specified in the request. The maximum allowable size must be determined by prior agreement between the involved ports, using a higher level protocol. The priority for the data return operation is specified by the particular opcode value in the DATREQ packet. The body format of the DATREQ packets 140 is illustrated in FIG. 14. First byte 142 is, as usual, an opcode. As indicated, the opcode may vary with the priority level of the request. Second byte 144 is, as usual, the FLAGS byte. Bits 0, 2 and 3 of that byte must 0. Second bit 146 contains the NS flag. Most significant bit 148 contains the P flag indicating the basic packet size for return data transfers, where two basic packet sizes are available. For example, the user may be able to choose between 512 byte and 576 byte format; the P flag may be 0 to indicate 512 byte blocks and 1 to indicate 576 byte blocks. The M flag in a three-bit field 150 at bit positions 4-6 indicates the packet size multiple; packet data length is equal to the basic size determined by the P flag multiplied by the factor (M+1). The next eight bytes 152 contain the transaction identifier XCT ID. This is followed by four bytes 154, which contain the transfer length in bytes, designated XCT LEN. This is followed by another four byte field 156, containing the name of the sending buffer, SND NAME. The sending buffer offset, SND OFFSET is communicated in a four byte field 158. It is followed by another four byte field 160 containing the receive buffer name, REC NAME. This is followed the four-byte concluding field 162 which contains the buffer offset, REC OFFSET. The body format of a RETDAT packet 128 is illustrated in FIG. 15. It, of course, starts with a byte 172 containing an appropriate opcode. This is followed by a FLAGS byte 174 which has only two active bits. The least significant bit 176 contains the LP flag. It is only set in the last packet of the transfer. The next bit 178 indicates the Sequence Number flag, NS. The remaining bits of that byte must be 0. An eight byte field 180 contains the transaction identifier. This is followed by a four-byte field 182 naming the receiving buffer and another four-byte field 184 specifying the buffer offset for the packet. The concluding field 186 is of variable length and contains the data being returned. The architectural elements of the port/port driver interconnection are illustrated in FIG. 16, wherein a port such as 26B and an associated port driver 23 of a host computer 22B, 24B utilize one or more command queues (of which only one, 202, is shown), a response queue 204, Datagram and Message Free queues 206 and 208, respectively, a buffer description table 210, a port queue block 212 and control status registers 214. This figure shows how this architecture facilitates remote execution of commands. Received message packets (e.g., packet 209) are loaded into the entries of Message Free queue 208 as they are received. A decoder 216 in port 26B looks at the opcode and steers the packet either to a command queue 202 or reposnse queue 204. Basically REQDAT and SNTDAT (LP) packets are steered to a command queue and other packets are steered to the response gueue. Decoder 216 may, of course, be a suitably programmed port processor. Each queue entry contains a pair of "pointers"--one to the address of the preceding queue entry and one to the address of the next subsequent queue entry. These addresses need not be in any prearranged sequence. Neither does each queue have to be of predetermined size; by virtue of the use of the pointers, queue size may vary. In addition, each queue preferably includes an interlock device, such as one preassigned bit the value of which signifies that the queue is in use. The foregoing description is limited to a single specific embodiment of this invention, but it will be apparent that this invention can be practiced in data processing systems having diverse basic construction or in systems using different internal circuitry or design while nevertheless achieving some or all of the foregoing objects and advantages of this invention. Therefore, it is the object of the appended claims to cover all such variations, modifications and obvious improvements as come within the true spirit and scope of this invention. 1. A digital data processing system including a source node and a destination node, each including a host computer, and a common bus, said source node further including a source buffer means for storing a block of information to be transferred, said source buffer means being identified by a source buffer name, and said destination node further including destination buffer means for receiving a block of information, said destination buffer being identified by a destination buffer name, and said destination node including means for identifying the name of the destination buffer means to the source node; A. said source node further including: i. message assembly means connected to said source buffer means for assembling a packet comprising a plurality of fields including: (a) an information field including information from said source buffer means, (b) a packet type field containing a packet type that identifies the packet as containing information for the destination buffer means or as containing a command to be executed by said destination node, (c) a destination name field including the name of said destination buffer means, ii. source port means connected to said message assembly means and said common bus responsive to the generation of a packet by said message assembly means for transmitting the packet over said common bus B. said second node including: i. destination port means connected to said common bus for rceiving packets from said bus; ii. means for selectively writing a received packet to the destination memory buffer comprising: (a) packet type decoding means for decoding the contents of the packet type field in the received packet to determine whether the packet contains information for the destination buffer means; and (b) directing means connected to said packet type decoding means responsive to the packet type decoding means determining that the packet contains information for the destination buffer means and further responsive to the contents of the destination name field for directing the contents of the packet to the identified destination buffer. 2. A data processing system as defined in claim 1 wherein each packet generated by said message assembly means includes an offset field whose contents identify an offset within the destination buffer into which the information in the information field is to be received, said directing means being further responsive to the contents of said offset field for directing the contents of the information field of the packet to the portion of said destination buffer identified by the contents of said offset field. 3. A data processing system as defined in claim 1 wherein said message assembly means includes means for generating a plurality of packets to transfer the information in said source buffer means, each packet generated by said message assembly means further including a last packet field which contains a last packet flag which is set when the packet is the last packet for the message. 4. A data processing system as defined in claim 3 wherein said destination port means further includes means for generating a confirmation packet for transmission to said source node in response to the receipt of a packet from said source node in which said last packet flag is set. 5. A data processing system as defined in claim 4 wherein each packet generated by said message assembly means further includes a packet sequence field whose contents relate to the number of the packet since the beginning of the message, said destination port means further including sequence counter means, comparison means responsive to the receipt of a packet for comparing the value from the sequence counter means to the contents of the packet sequence field to verify that the packet is the proper packet in the sequence, and incrementing means for incrementing said sequence counter means in response to the receipt of each packet to identify the sequence number of the next expected packet. 6. A data processing system as defined in claim 1 wherein the destination means further includes command execution means for executing a command when said packet type field indicates that the packet contains a command to be executed by said destination node. 7. A data processing system as defined in claim 6 wherein one command requests the destination node to send information from said destination buffer means to said source node, said source node further including source buffer means identified by a source buffer name, said source node including means for identifying the name of the source buffer means to the destination node, said destination node further including message assembly means connected to said destination buffer means for assembling a packet comprising a number of fields including: A. an information field including information from said destination buffer means, and B. a source name field including the name of said source buffer means, said destination port means further including means connected to said message assembly means for transmitting the packets generated by said message assembly means over said common bus. 8. A data processing system as defined in claim 7 in which said source port means further includes means for receiving packets from the common bus and source node directing means connected to said source port means and responsive to the contents of the source name field for directing the contents of the packet to the identified source buffer means. 9. A data processing system as defined in claim 8 wherein said destination message assembly means includes means for generating a plurality of packets to transfer a message comprising the information in said destination buffer means, each packet generated by said message assembly means further including a last packet field which contains a last packet flag which is set when the packet is the last packet for the message. 10. A data processing system as defined in claim 9 wherein said source port means further includes means for generating a confirmation packet for transmission to said destination node in response to the receipt of a packet from said destination node in which said last packet flag is set. 11. A source node for connection to a common bus in a digital data processing system including a destination node connected to said common bus, each node including a host computer, and a common bus, said source node further including a source buffer means for storing a block of information to be transferred, said source buffer means being identified by a source buffer name, and said destination node further including destination buffer means for receiving a block of information, said destination buffer being identified by a destination buffer name, and said destination node including means for identifying the name of the destination buffer means to the source node, said source node further including: (c) a destination name field including the name of said destination buffer means, and ii. source port means connected to said message assembly means and said common bus responsive to the generation of a packet by said message assembly means for transmitting the packet over said common bus. 12. A source node as defined in claim 11 wherein each packet generated by said message assembly means further includes an offset field whose contents identify an offset within the destination buffer into which the information in the information field is to be received. 13. A source node as defined in claim 11 wherein said message assembly means includes means for generating a plurality of packets to transfer the information in said source buffer means, each packet generated by said message assembly means further including a last packet field which contains a last packet flag which is set when the packet is the last packet for the message. 14. A source node defined in claim 13 wherein each packet generated by said message assembly means further includes a packet sequence field whose contents relate to the number of the packet since the beginning of the message. 15. A source node as defined in claim 11 wherein one command requests the destination node to send information from said destination buffer means to said source node, said source node further including source buffer means identified by a source buffer name and means for identifying the name of the source buffer means to the destination node. 16. A source node as defined in claim 15 in which said destination node includes means for transmitting packets each including an information field and a source name field including the name of the source buffer means, said source port means further including means for receiving packets from the common bus and source node directing means connected to said source port means and responsive to the contents of the source name field for directing the contents of the packet to the identified source buffer means. 17. A source node as defined in claim 16 wherein said destination node generates messages comprising a plurality of packets each packet further including a last packet field which contains a last packet flag which is set when the packet is the last packet for the message, said source port means further including means for generating a confirmation packet for transmission to said destination node in response to the receipt of a packet from said destination node in which said last packet flag is set. 18. A destination node for connection to a digital data processing system including a source node, each including a host computer, and a common bus, said source node further including a source buffer means for storing a block of information to be transferred, said source buffer means being identified by a source buffer name, and said destination node further including destination buffer means for receiving a block of information, said destination buffer being identified by a destination buffer name, and said destination node further including means for identifying the name of the destination buffer means to the source node; said source node assembling a packet comprising a plurality of fields including (a) an information field including information from said source buffer means, (b) a packet type field containing a packet type that identifies the packet as containing information for the destination buffer means or as containing a command to be executed by said destination node and (c) a destination name field including the name of said destination buffer means and transmitting the packet over said common bus; said destination node further including: i. destination port means connected to said common bus for receiving packets from said bus; (b) means connected to said packet type decoding means responsive to the packet type decoding means determining that the packet contains information for the destination buffer means and further responsive to the contents of the destination name field for directing the contents of the packet to the identified destination buffer. 19. A destination node as defined in claim 18 wherein each packet includes an offset field whose contents identify an offset within the destination buffer into which the information in the information field is to be received, said directing means being further responsive to the contents of said offset field for directing the contents of the information field of the packet to the portion of said destination buffer identified by the contents of said offset field. 20. A destination node as defined in claim 18 wherein said source node generates messages comprising a plurality of packets to transfer the information in said source buffer means, each packet further including at last packet field which contains a last packet flag which is set when the packet is the last packet for the message, said destination port means further including means for generating a confirmation packet for transmission to said source node in response to the receipt of a packet from said source node in which said last packet flat is set. 21. A destination node as defined in claim 20 wherein each packet generated by said source node further includes a packet sequence field whose contents relate to the number of the packet since the beginning of the message, said destination port means further including sequence counter means, comparison means responsive to the receipt of a packet for comparing the value from the sequence counter means to the contents of the packet sequence field to verify that the packet is the proper packet in the sequence, and incrementing means for incrementing said sequence counter means in response to the receipt of each packet to identify the sequence number of the next expected packet. 22. A destination node as defined in claim 21 wherein the destination means further includes command execution means for executing a command when said packet type field indicates that the packet contains a command to be executed by said destination node. 23. A destination node as defined in claim 22 wherein one command requests the destination node to send information from said destination buffer means to said source node, said source node further including source buffer means identified by a source buffer name, said source node including means for identifying the name of the source buffer means to the destination node, said destination node further including message assembly means connected to said destination buffer means for assembling a packet comprising a number of fields including: said destination port means further including means connected to said message means for transmitting the packets generated by said message assembly means over said common bus. 24. A destination node as defined in claim 23 wherein said destination message assembly means includes means for generating a message comprising a plurality of packets to transfer the information in said destination buffer means, each packet generated by said message assembly means further including a last packet field which contains a last packet flat which is set when the packet is the last packet for the message. 25. A node for connection to digital data processing system including a plurality of nodes, each including a host computer, attached to a common bus, said node further including a source buffer means for storing a block of information to be transferred, said source buffer means being identified by a source buffer name, and destination buffer means for receiving a block of information, said destination buffer means identified by a destination buffer name; said data processing system further including at least one other node also including a destination buffer means identified by a destination buffer name and means for identifying the destination buffer names to all of said nodes, said node further including: A. source means comprising: (c) a packet type field containing a packet type that identifies the packet as containing information for the destination buffer means or as containing a command to be executed by said destination node (b) a destination name field including the name of a destination buffer means, ii. source port means for connection to said message assembly means and said common bus responsive to the generation of a packet by said message assembly means for transmitting the packet over said common bus; B. destination means comprising: i. destination port means for connection to said common bus for receiving packets from said bus; 26. A node as defined in claim 25 wherein each packet includes an offset field whose contents identify an offset within the destination buffer into which the information in the information field is to be received, said directing means being further responsive to the contents of said offset field for directing the contents of the information field of the packet to the portion of said destination buffer identified by the contents of said offset field. 27. A node as defined in claim 25 wherein said message assembly means includes means for generating a plurality of packets to transfer the information in said source buffer means, each packet generated by said message assembly means further including a last packet field which contains a last packet flag which is set when the packet is the last packet for the message. 28. A node as defined in claim 27 in which at least one other node in said data processing system generates and transmits messages including packets each of which includes a last packet flag which is set when the packet is the last packet for the message, said destination port means further including means for generating a confirmation packet for transmission in response to the receipt of a packet in which said last packet flag is set. 29. A node as defined in claim 28 wherein each packet generated by said message assembly means further includes a packet sequence field whose contents relate to the number of the packet since the beginning of the message. 30. A node as defined in claim 29 wherein at least one other node in said data processing system generates and transmits messages including packets each of which includes a packet sequence field whose contents relate to the number of the packet since the begining of the message, said destination port means further including sequence counter means, comparison means responsive to the receipt of a packet for comparing the value from the sequence counter means to the contents of the packet sequence field to verify that the packet is the proper packet in the sequence, and incrementing means for incrementing said sequence counter means in response to the receipt of each packet to identify the sequence number of the next expected packet. 31. A node as defined in claim 25 wherein the destination means further includes command execution means for executing a command when said packet type field indicates that the packet contains a command to be executed. 32. A node as defined in claim 31 wherein one command requests the node to send information from said destination buffer means to the commanding node which sent the command, said commanding node further including commanding buffer means identified by a command buffer name, said commanding node including means for identifying the name of the commanding buffer means to the node, said node further including message assembly means connected to said destination buffer means for assembling a packet comprising a number of fields including: B. a commanding name field including the name of said commanding buffer means, 33. A node as defined in claim 32 in which the data processing system includes at least one node generates and transmits packets in response to the receipt of a command including an information field and a commanding name field, said source port means further including means for receiving packets from the common bus and source node directing means connected to said source port means and responsive to the contents of the source name field for directing the contents of the packet to the identified source buffer means. 34. A node as defined in claim 33 wherein said destination message assembly means includes means for generating a plurality of packets to transfer the information in said destination buffer means, each packet generated by said message assembly means further including a last packet field which contains a last packet flag which is set when the packet is the last packet for the message. 35. An interface unit for connection to a host digital computer system and a common bus in a digital data processing system, said host computer including processor unit means and memory means, said interface unit generating packets for transmitting information over said common bus and receiving packets containing information from said common bus and comprising: A. interface means for connection to said common bus for transmitting packets over and receiving packets from said common bus; B. storage means connected to said interface means and for connection to said memory means, said storage means containing a plurality of storage locations for storing information from said memory means and for storing packets received by said interface means; and C. port processor means connected to said interface means and said storage means and for connection to said processor unit means responsive to commands from said processor unit means, said port processor means including: i. information retrieval means for connection to said memory means and said storage means for enabling information to be transferred from said memory means to said storage means, ii. message assembly means connected to said storage means for generating a message comprising at least one packet including a plurality of fields including (a) an information field including information from said buffer means, (b) a packet type field containing a packet type that identifies the packet as containing information or as containing a command to be executed and (c) a destination name field identifying the node to receive the packet, iii. transmission enabling means connected to said message assembly means and said interface means for enabling said interface means to transmit the assembled message over said common bus, and iv. control means for connection to said processor unit means and connected to said information retrieval means, said message assembly means, and said transmission enabling means for receiving commands from said processor unit means for enabling each said means in response to commands from said processor unit means. 36. An interface unit as defined in claim 35 wherein said interface means transmits packets to the other nodes and receives packets from other nodes over said common bus using a virtual circuit protocol, said port processor means further comprising virtual circuit descriptor table means comprising a plurality of entries each associated with one virtual circuit, each entry including circuit state means identifying the state of the virtual circuit, send sequence number means identifying a sequence number of packets sent over the virtual circuit, receive sequence number means identifying a sequence number of packets received over the virtual circuit, and path status means indicating the operability of the common bus. 37. An interface unit as defined in claim 35 wherein said memory means includes a plurality of buffers each having a name, packets received from said common bus having a name field containing a buffer name, said port processor means further including means responsive to the receipt of a packet for using the contents of the name field of each packet for enabling information in said packet to be transferred to the buffer named in the packet. 4032899 June 28, 1977 Jenny et al. 4156798 May 29, 1979 Doelz 4200930 April 29, 1980 Rawlings et al. 4412286 October 25, 1983 O'Dowd et al. 4430700 February 7, 1984 Chadima, Jr. et al. 4449182 May 15, 1984 Rubinson et al. Tokoro, M. and Tamaru, K.; "Acknowledging Ethernet" at 320-325. Network Systems Corporation; "Systems Description; Series A Network Adapters". Network Systems Corporation; Application Report Number 101; "Hyperbus Enhances Multimini Computing". Network Systems Corporation; Application Report Number 102; "Macrowaves and Hyperbus". Network Systems Corporation; Application Report Number 103; "Hyperbus Improves Graphics Performance". Introduction to the Tandem--16. Data Research Corporation; "Tandem Non-Stop Systems". Filed: Mar 24, 1986 Date of Patent: Oct 11, 1988 Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation (Maynard, MA) Inventors: William D. Strecker (Harvard, MA), Robert E. Stewart (Harvard, MA), Samuel Fuller (Harvard, MA) Primary Examiner: Gareth D. Shaw Assistant Examiner: Daniel K. Dorsey Law Firm: Cesari and McKenna Application Number: 6/843,937 Current U.S. Class: 364/200 International Classification: G06F 300;	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1109
__label__wiki	0.866498	0.866498	Justia Patents US Patent for Substrate with multilayer reflective film, reflective mask blank for EUV lithography, reflective mask for EUV lithography, and method of manufacturing the same, and method of manufacturing a semiconductor device Patent (Patent # 9,740,091) Substrate with multilayer reflective film, reflective mask blank for EUV lithography, reflective mask for EUV lithography, and method of manufacturing the same, and method of manufacturing a semiconductor device Jul 15, 2014 - HOYA CORPORATION An object of the present invention is to provide a substrate with a multilayer reflective film, which gives a reflective mask achieving high reflectance and exhibiting excellent cleaning resistance. The present invention is directed to a substrate with a multilayer reflective film, which has: a substrate; a multilayer reflective film, formed on the substrate, comprising a layer that includes Si as a high refractive-index material and a layer that include a low refractive-index material, the layers being periodically laminated; a Ru protective film, formed on the multilayer reflective film, for protecting the multilayer reflective film; and a block layer, formed between the multilayer reflective film and the Ru protective film, for preventing the migration of Si to the Ru protective film, wherein the surface layer of the multilayer reflective film opposite from the substrate is the layer comprising Si, and at least part of the Si is diffused into the block layer. Latest HOYA CORPORATION Patents: Endoscopic basket delivery catheter Endoscopic balloon catheter MASK BLANK, PHASE SHIFT MASK, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE Reflective mask blank, reflective mask and method of manufacturing semiconductor device Spacer and hard disk drive apparatus This application is a National Stage of International Application No. PCT/JP2014/068762 filed Jul. 15, 2014, claiming priority based on Japanese Patent Application No. 2013-151618 filed Jul. 22, 2013, the contents of all of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety. The present invention relates to a substrate with a multilayer reflective film, which is an original form for manufacturing a mask for exposure used in, for example, manufacturing a semiconductor device, a reflective mask blank for EUV lithography, a reflective mask for EUV lithography, and a method of manufacturing the same as well as a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. As demands for VLSI devices having higher density and improved precision are further increasing in recent years, EUV lithography, which is an exposure technique using an extreme ultraviolet (hereinafter, referred to as “EUV”) light, is considered promising. EUV light indicates light in a wavelength range of a soft X-ray region or a vacuum ultraviolet region, specifically, light having a wavelength of about 0.2 to 100 nm. A reflective mask used in such lithography has formed on, e.g., a glass or silicon substrate a multilayer reflective film for reflecting an exposure light, wherein the multilayer reflective film has formed therein a pattern of an absorber film for absorbing an exposure light. In an exposure machine for performing pattern transfer, light striking the reflective mask mounted on the exposure machine is absorbed by portions of the multilayer reflective film having the absorber film pattern and reflected by portions of the multilayer reflective film having no absorber film pattern. Then, the reflected light image is transferred through a reflection optical system onto a semiconductor substrate, such as a silicon wafer. For achieving a semiconductor device having an increased density and improved precision using the above reflective mask, the reflective region in the reflective mask (the surface of the multilayer reflective film) is required to have a high reflectance with respect to an EUV light which is an exposure light. The above-described multilayer reflective film is a multilayer film comprising elements having different refractive indices, which are periodically laminated, and, generally, a multilayer film is used in which a thin film of a heavy element or a compound thereof and a thin film of a light element or a compound thereof are alternately laminated in about 40 to 60 cycles of the layers. For example, as a multilayer reflective film for an EUV light having a wavelength of 13 to 14 nm, a Mo/Si periodically laminated film in which a Mo film and a Si film are alternately laminated in about 40 cycles of the layers is preferably used. Mo is easily oxidized in air which decreases the reflectance of the multilayer reflective film, and therefore the Si film constitutes the uppermost layer of the multilayer reflective film. As a reflective mask used in the EUV lithography, for example, there is a reflective mask for exposure described in Patent Document 1 below. Specifically, Patent Document 1 has proposed a reflective photomask characterized by having: a substrate; a reflective layer, formed on the substrate, comprising a multilayer film in which two different films are alternately laminated; a buffer layer, formed on the reflective layer, comprising a ruthenium film; and an absorber pattern, formed on the buffer layer so as to have a predetermined pattern form, comprising a material capable of absorbing soft X-rays. The above-described buffer layer is also called a protective film. When forming the absorber pattern, a part of the absorber film is etched through a resist, and, to ensure the formation of the absorber pattern, the absorber film is subjected to slight over etching, and therefore the film present under the absorber film is inevitably etched. In this instance, to prevent the multilayer reflective film under the absorber film from suffering a damage, a protective film is formed. With respect to the protective film, further, from the viewpoint of suppressing the formation of a diffused layer (which leads to a reduction of the reflectance of the multilayer reflective film) between the Si layer constituting the surface layer of the multilayer reflective film and the protective film, a protective film comprising a Ru alloy having Zr or B added to Ru has been proposed (Patent Document 2). Further, for solving a problem that, in the steps conducted when manufacturing a mask blank or a mirror or in the steps conducted when manufacturing a photomask from the mask blank (for example, cleaning, defect inspection, heating step, dry etching, and defect correction steps), or in the EUV exposure, the protective film and further the uppermost layer of the multilayer reflective film (Si layer in the case of a Mo/Si multilayer reflective film) are oxidized and reduce the EUV light reflectance, the formation of an intermediate layer containing Si and O in predetermined amounts between the Mo/Si multilayer reflective film and the Ru protective film has been proposed (Patent Document 3). Patent Document 4 discloses a reflective mask blank having: a substrate; a multilayer reflective film, formed on the substrate, to reflect an exposure light; a protective film, formed on the multilayer reflective film, to protect the multilayer reflective film; and an absorber film, formed on the protective film, to absorb an exposure light, the reflective mask blank being characterized in that the protective film comprises ruthenium (Ru), or a ruthenium compound containing ruthenium (Ru) and at least one member selected from molybdenum (Mo), niobium (Nb), zirconium (Zr), yttrium (Y), boron (B), titanium (Ti), and lanthanum (La), wherein a thermal diffusion suppressing film comprising a material having a refractive index (n) of more than 0.90 and having a linear attenuation coefficient (k) of less than −0.020 is formed between the multilayer reflective film and the protective film. The above documents further indicate that the multilayer reflective film may be subjected to heat treatment at 50 to 150° C., for example, to reduce the film stress of the multilayer reflective film, and that, in the working Examples, the multilayer reflective film was subjected to such heat treatment. Afterwards, the individual interfaces between the Si film as the uppermost layer of the multilayer reflective film, the thermal diffusion suppressing film, and the RuNb protective film were examined by means of a transmission electron microscope, and, as a result, a diffused layer was not confirmed in any of the interfaces. PRIOR ART REFERENCES Patent Documents Patent Document 1: JP 2002-122981A Patent Document 3: WO2011/068223 pamphlet SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Problems to be Solved by the Invention In manufacturing a semiconductor device utilizing EUV lithography, the lithography is performed in a high vacuum, and impurities, such as carbon, may be deposited on the above-described reflective mask when being irradiated with an EUV light or after being irradiated with an EUV light. For this reason, after the lithography, the resultant reflective mask must be cleaned. Further, generally, the reflective mask is repeatedly used, and therefore cleaning for the mask is repeatedly conducted. For this reason, the reflective mask is required to have a satisfactory cleaning resistance. The protective film is formed on a portion of the reflective mask in which the absorber film pattern is not formed, and therefore both the absorber film pattern and the protective film are required to have a cleaning resistance. However, according to the studies conducted by the present inventor, it has been found that, with respect to the reflective mask having the conventional configuration disclosed in Patent Documents 1 to 4 above, when cleaning for the mask according to general RCA cleaning is conducted a plurality of times, stripping of the Ru protective film on the multilayer reflective film in the exposed reflective region occurs. The reason for this is as follows. Specifically, in the configuration in Patent Documents 1 and 2, Si migrates from the Si layer in the multilayer reflective film toward the Ru protective film and diffuses through the grain boundary in the Ru protective film with the passage of time (and then forms Ru silicide (RuSi)), and reaches the surface layer of the Ru protective film and suffers oxidation reaction due to a cleaning agent or gas to form SiO2, or, when the protective film is not dense, a cleaning agent or gas penetrates the protective film, so that SiO2 is formed within the protective film. The adhesion between Ru and SiO2 is poor so that these are separated to cause stripping. Also in the configuration in Patent Documents 3 and 4, it is considered that the adhesion between the intermediate layer (thermal diffusion suppressing film) and the Ru protective film is poor or unsatisfactory so that the repeated cleaning causes the Ru protective film to suffer stripping. The occurrence of the above-described stripping of film causes further dust or causes the reflectance to be non-uniform, and, in such a case, there is a danger that, upon transferring a pattern onto a semiconductor substrate, the pattern cannot be accurately transferred, and this is a serious problem. Accordingly, the first object of the present invention is to provide a substrate with a multilayer reflective film, which gives a reflective mask achieving high reflectance and exhibiting excellent cleaning resistance, and the second object is to provide a reflective mask blank for EUV lithography manufactured using the above substrate with a multilayer reflective film, for example, a reflective mask for EUV lithography obtained from the mask blank and a method of manufacturing the same, and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device using the reflective mask. Means to Solve the Problems The present inventor has made studies with a view toward solving the above-described problems, and thought that it is difficult to prevent Si from coming in contact with gas or a cleaning agent to be oxidized to form SiO2, and therefore it is the most important to suppress the diffusion of Si into the Ru protective film. As a result of the studies actually made, it has been found that when a block layer for suppressing the diffusion of Si into the Ru protective film is formed between the multilayer reflective film and the Ru protective film so that at least part of Si, which constitutes the surface layer of the multilayer reflective film opposite from the substrate, is diffused into the block layer, there can be obtained a reflective mask for EUV lithography in which stripping of the Ru protective film is suppressed and resistance to the repeated cleaning is satisfactory. Thus, the present invention has been completed. Specifically, for solving the above-described problems, the present invention has the following configurations. (Configuration 1) A substrate with a multilayer reflective film, having: a substrate, a multilayer reflective film, formed on the substrate, comprising a layer that includes Si as a high refractive-index material and a layer that include a low refractive-index material, the layers being periodically laminated; a Ru protective film, formed on the multilayer reflective film, for protecting the multilayer reflective film; and a block layer, formed between the multilayer reflective film and the Ru protective film, for preventing the migration of Si to the Ru protective film, wherein the surface layer on the other side of the multilayer reflective film opposite from the substrate is the layer comprising Si, and at least part of the Si is diffused into the block layer. As described in Configuration 1 above, in the substrate with a multilayer reflective film having a multilayer reflective film using Si as a high refractive-index material, by employing a configuration in which the top surface of the multilayer reflective film is the layer comprising Si and a Ru protective film is formed on the layer, and further a block layer for preventing the migration of Si to the Ru protective film is formed between the multilayer reflective film and the Ru protective film wherein Si is diffused into the block layer, the migration of Si to the Ru protective film is prevented, suppressing the formation of a silicon oxide (such as SiO2). Thus, there can be obtained a substrate with a multilayer reflective film, which is an original form for manufacturing a reflective mask for EUV lithography having excellent cleaning resistance. The substrate with a multilayer reflective film according to Configuration 1, wherein the block layer comprises at least one member selected from the group consisting of at least one metal selected from Ti, Al, Ni, Pt, Pd, W, Mo, Co, and Cu and an alloy of the above two or more metals, and a nitride, a silicide, and a silicide nitride thereof. As described in Configuration 2 above, the block layer preferably comprises, specifically, at least one member selected from the group consisting of at least one metal selected from Ti, Al, Ni, Pt, Pd, W, Mo, Co, and Cu and an alloy of the above two or more metals, and a nitride, a silicide, and a silicide nitride thereof. The substrate with a multilayer reflective film according to Configuration 2, wherein a gradient region in which the content of the metal component constituting the block layer continually decreases toward the substrate is present between the layer comprising Si, which is the surface layer of the multilayer reflective film opposite from the substrate, and the block layer. As described in Configuration 3 above, when a gradient region in which the content of the metal component constituting the block layer continuously decreases toward the substrate is present between the layer comprising Si, which constitutes the top surface layer of the multilayer reflective film, and the block layer, a reflective mask obtained from the substrate with a multilayer reflective film is advantageously further improved in the cleaning resistance. The substrate with a multilayer reflective film according to any one of Configurations 1 to 3, wherein the low refractive-index material is Mo. As described in Configuration 4 above, for achieving excellent reflectance for an EUV light, in the layer comprising the low refractive-index material constituting the multilayer reflective film, Mo is preferred as the low refractive-index material. The substrate with a multilayer reflective film according to any one of Configurations 1 to 4, wherein the block layer has a thickness of 0.2 to 2.0 nm. As described in Configuration 5 above, the block layer preferably has a thickness of 0.2 to 2.0 nm because the block layer may slightly lower the reflectance of the multilayer reflective film. The substrate with a multilayer reflective film according to any one of Configurations 1 to 5, wherein the block layer comprises at least one member selected from the group consisting of titanium (Ti), a titanium nitride (TiNx (x>0)), a titanium silicide (TiSix (x>0)), and a titanium silicide nitride (TixSiyNz (x>0, y>0, z>0)). As described in Configuration 6 above, from the viewpoint of achieving a reflective mask for EUV lithography having excellent cleaning resistance, the block layer preferably comprises at least one member selected from the group consisting of titanium (Ti), a titanium nitride (TiNx (x>0)), a titanium silicide (TiSix (x>0)), and a titanium silicide nitride (TixSiyNz(x>0, y>0, z>0)). A reflective mask blank for EUV lithography, having the substrate with a multilayer reflective film according to any one of Configurations 1 to 6, and an absorber film, formed on the Ru protective film in the substrate with a multilayer reflective film, for absorbing an EUV light. As described in Configuration 7 above, the reflective mask blank for EUV lithography of the present invention has a configuration having, on a Ru protective film in the substrate with a multilayer reflective film of the present invention, an absorber film for absorbing an EUV light. By virtue of Configuration 7 above, there can be obtained a reflective mask blank for EUV lithography, which is an original form for manufacturing a reflective mask for EUV lithography achieving high reflectance and exhibiting excellent cleaning resistance. The reflective mask blank for EUV lithography according to Configuration 7, further comprising a resist film on the absorber film. As described in Configuration 8 above, the reflective mask blank for EUV lithography of the present invention includes an embodiment further having a resist film on the absorber film. A method of manufacturing a substrate with a multilayer reflective film, which has: a substrate; a multilayer reflective film, formed on the substrate, comprising a layer that includes Si as a high refractive-index material and a layer that include a low refractive-index material, the layers being periodically laminated; a Ru protective film, formed on the multilayer reflective film, for protecting the multilayer reflective film; and a block layer, formed between the multilayer reflective film and the Ru protective film, for preventing the migration of Si to the Ru protective film, wherein the surface layer of the multilayer reflective film opposite from the substrate is the layer comprising Si, and at least part of the Si is diffused into the block layer, the method having the steps of: forming the multilayer reflective film on the substrate; forming, on the layer comprising Si, which is the surface layer of the multilayer reflective film opposite from the substrate, a block layer for preventing the migration of Si to the Ru protective film; and forming the Ru protective film on the block layer, the method further comprising the step of, after forming the block layer, subjecting the resultant substrate to heat treatment under temperature conditions wherein at least part of the Si in the multilayer reflective film is diffused into the block layer. By the method of manufacturing a substrate with a multilayer reflective film described in Configuration 9 above, as obtained in Configuration 3 above, there can be obtained a substrate with a multilayer reflective film, which is an original form for manufacturing a reflective mask for EUV lithography achieving high reflectance and exhibiting excellent cleaning resistance. (Configuration 10) A method of manufacturing a reflective mask blank for EUV lithography, having a step of forming an absorber film on the Ru protective film in the substrate with a multilayer reflective film obtained by the method of manufacturing the substrate with a multilayer reflective film according to Configuration 9. As described in Configuration 10 above, the reflective mask blank for EUV lithography of the present invention can be manufactured by forming, on a Ru protective film in the substrate with a multilayer reflective film of the present invention, an absorber film for absorbing an EUV light. The reflective mask blank can be used as an original form for manufacturing a reflective mask for EUV lithography achieving high reflectance and exhibiting excellent cleaning resistance. A method of manufacturing a reflective mask for EUV lithography, having a step of patterning an absorber film in the reflective mask blank for EUV lithography according to claim 8 with the resist film to form an absorber film pattern on the Ru protective film. As described in Configuration 11 above, by patterning an absorber film in the reflective mask blank for EUV lithography of the present invention with the resist film, an absorber film pattern is formed on the Ru protective film, and thus, by performing the above step, the reflective mask for EUV lithography of the present invention having excellent cleaning resistance can be obtained. A reflective mask for EUV lithography, having the substrate with a multilayer reflective film according to any one of Configurations 1 to 6, and an absorber film pattern, formed on the Ru protective film in the substrate with a multilayer reflective film, for absorbing an EUV light. As described in Configuration 12 above, the reflective mask for EUV lithography of the present invention has a configuration having the substrate with a multilayer reflective film of the present invention, and an absorber film pattern, formed on the Ru protective film in the substrate with a multilayer reflective film, for absorbing an EUV light. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, having a step of forming a transfer pattern on a semiconductor substrate using a reflective mask for EUV lithography obtained by the method of manufacturing a reflective mask for EUV lithography according to Configuration 11 or using the reflective mask for EUV lithography according to Configuration 12. As described in Configuration 13 above, using a reflective mask for EUV lithography obtained by the method of manufacturing a reflective mask for EUV lithography of the present invention or using the reflective mask for EUV lithography of the present invention, a transfer pattern is formed on a semiconductor substrate, and subjected to other various steps, so that various types of semiconductor devices can be manufactured. Effect of the Invention In the present invention, there is provided a substrate with a multilayer reflective film, which gives a reflective mask achieving high reflectance and exhibiting excellent cleaning resistance, and further there are provided a reflective mask blank for EUV lithography manufactured using the above substrate with a multilayer reflective film, for example, a reflective mask for EUV lithography obtained from the mask blank and a method of manufacturing the same, and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device using the reflective mask. FIG. 1: A schematic diagram showing the cross-section of the substrate with a multilayer reflective film of the present invention. FIG. 2: A schematic diagram showing the cross-section of the reflective mask blank for EUV lithography of the present invention. FIGS. 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D, and 3E: A schematic diagram showing the method of manufacturing a reflective mask for EUV lithography of the present invention. FIG. 4: A schematic diagram showing the step of transferring a pattern to a semiconductor substrate with a resist by a pattern transfer apparatus. MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Hereinbelow, the present invention will be described in detail. In the present specification, the word “on” as used in the expression, for example, “the second film on the first film” is not used only for indicating a case in which the second film formed on the first film is in contact with the upper surface of the first film, but includes a case in which the second film is formed above the first film and separate from the first film, and is used to have meanings encompassing a case in which a layer is present between the first and second films. [Substrate with a Multilayer Reflective Film] FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing the cross-section of the substrate with a multilayer reflective film of the present invention. A substrate with a multilayer reflective film 10 has a configuration which comprises, on a substrate 12, a multilayer reflective film 14 that reflects EUV light used as exposure light, and a Ru protective film 18, formed on the multilayer reflective film 14 that protects the multilayer reflective film 14, and that further has, between the multilayer reflective film 14 and the Ru protective film 18, a block layer 16 that prevents the diffusion of Si into the Ru protective film 18. <Substrate 12> With respect to a substrate 12 used in the substrate with a multilayer reflective film 10 of the present invention, in the case of EUV exposure, for preventing the absorber film pattern from suffering strain due to heat during the exposure, one having a low thermal expansion coefficient in the range of 0±5 ppb/° C. is preferably used. As a material having a low thermal expansion coefficient in the above range, for example, SiO2—TiO2 glass or a multicomponent glass ceramic can be used. The main surface of the substrate 12 on the side on which a transfer pattern (which the below-described absorber film constitutes) is to be formed has been subjected to surface processing so that the main surface has high flatness from the viewpoint of obtaining at least pattern transfer precision and positional precision. For example, in the case of EUV exposure, in a region of 132 mm×132 mm of the main surface of the substrate 12 on the side on which a transfer pattern is to be formed, the flatness is preferably 0.1 μm or less, further preferably 0.05 μm or less, especially preferably 0.03 μm or less. Further, the main surface on the other side of the surface on which a transfer pattern is to be formed is a surface held by an electrostatic chuck when being set in an exposure machine, and, in a region of 142 mm×142 mm of this main surface, the flatness is 1 μm or less, further preferably 0.5 μm or less, especially preferably 0.03 μm or less. In the present specification, the flatness is a value representing warpage of the surface (deformation) indicated by TIR (Total Indicated Reading), and is an absolute value of a height difference between the highest position of the surface of the substrate present above the focal plane and the lowest position of the surface of the substrate present below the focal plane, wherein the focal plane is a plane determined by a method of least squares using the surface of the substrate as a reference. In the case of EUV exposure, with respect to the surface smoothness required for the substrate 12, the surface roughness of the main surface of the substrate 12 on which a transfer pattern is to be formed, in terms of a root mean square (RMS) roughness, is preferably 0.1 nm or less. The surface smoothness can be measured by means of an atomic force microscope. Further, as the substrate 12, for preventing the substrate from suffering deformation due to the film stress of a film (such as a multilayer reflective film 14) which is formed on the substrate, one having a high stiffness is preferred. Particularly, a substrate having a Young's modulus as high as 65 GPa or more is preferred. <Multilayer Reflective Film 14> In a substrate with a multilayer reflective film 10 of the present invention, a multilayer reflective film 14 is formed on the above-described substrate 12. The multilayer reflective film 14 imparts a function of reflecting an EUV light to a reflective mask for EUV lithography, and has a configuration of a multilayer film in which layers of elements having different refractive indices are periodically laminated. Generally, a multilayer film in which a thin film of a light element, which is a high refractive-index material, or a compound thereof (high refractive-index layer) and a thin film of a heavy element, which is a low refractive-index material, or a compound thereof (low refractive-index layer) are alternately laminated in about 40 to 60 cycles of the layers is used as the above-described multilayer reflective film 14. The multilayer film may be one in which a high refractive-index layer/low refractive-index layer laminated structure, which is formed by laminating the high refractive-index layer and the low refractive-index layer in this order from the substrate 12 side, is taken as one cycle and the layers are laminated in multiple cycles, or one in which a low refractive-index layer/high refractive-index layer laminated structure, which is formed by laminating the low refractive-index layer and the high refractive-index layer in this order from the substrate 12 side, is taken as one cycle and the layers are laminated in multiple cycles. The layer of the top surface of the multilayer reflective film 14, that is, the surface layer of the multilayer reflective film 14 opposite from the substrate 12 is a high refractive-index layer. In the above-described multilayer film, when a high refractive-index layer/low refractive-index layer laminated structure, which is formed by laminating the high refractive-index layer and the low refractive-index layer in this order from the substrate 12 side, is taken as one cycle and the layers are laminated in multiple cycles, the low refractive-index layer constitutes the uppermost layer of the multilayer film. When the low refractive-index layer constitutes the top surface of the multilayer reflective film 14, the low refractive-index layer is easily oxidized to reduce the reflectance of the reflective mask, and therefore the high refractive-index layer is formed on the low refractive-index layer as the uppermost layer of the multilayer film to form the multilayer reflective film 14. Further, in the above-described multilayer film, when a low refractive-index layer/high refractive-index layer laminated structure, which is formed by laminating the low refractive-index layer and the high refractive-index layer in this order from the substrate 12 side, is taken as one cycle and the layers are laminated in multiple cycles, the high refractive-index layer constitutes the uppermost layer of the multilayer film, and therefore, in this case, the high refractive-index layer as the uppermost layer of the multilayer film constitutes the top surface of the multilayer reflective film 14. In the present invention, as the high refractive-index layer, a layer comprising Si is employed. Examples of materials comprising Si include Si simple substance, and Si compounds comprising Si, and B, C, N, or O. By using the layer comprising Si as a high refractive-index layer, a reflective mask for EUV lithography having excellent reflectance for an EUV light is obtained. Further, in the present invention, a glass substrate is preferably used as the substrate 12, and Si has excellent adhesion to the substrate. As the above-described low refractive-index material, an element selected from Mo, Ru, Rh, and Pt or an alloy thereof is used. For example, as a multilayer reflective film 14 for an EUV light having a wavelength 13 to 14 nm, a Mo/Si periodically laminated film in which a Mo film and a Si film are alternately laminated in about 40 to 60 cycles is preferably used. The multilayer reflective film 14 solely has generally a reflectance of 65% or more, and the upper limit of the reflectance is generally 73%. The thickness of the individual layers constituting the multilayer reflective film 14 and the cycle of the layers may be appropriately selected according to the wavelength of exposure light, and is selected so as to satisfy the Bragg's law. In the multilayer reflective film 14, a plurality of high refractive-index layers and a plurality of low refractive-index layers are present, and the high refractive-index layers may not have the same thickness, and the low refractive-index layers may not have the same thickness. Further, the thickness of the Si layer as the top surface of the multilayer reflective film 14 can be controlled in such a range that the reflectance is not reduced. The thickness of the Si layer as the top surface can be 3 to 10 nm. The method for forming the multilayer reflective film 14 is known in the related technical field, and the multilayer reflective film can be formed by depositing the individual layers by, for example, an ion beam sputtering method. In the case of the above-described Mo/Si periodic multilayer film, for example, by an ion beam sputtering method, a Si film having a thickness of about 4 nm is first formed on a substrate 12 using a Si target, and then a Mo film having a thickness of about 3 nm is formed using a Mo target, and a series of the formations of the two films is taken as one cycle, and the films are laminated in 40 to 60 cycles to form a multilayer reflective film 14 (wherein the top surface layer is a Si film). <Block Layer 16> In a conventional reflective mask, a protective film is formed on the multilayer reflective film, and, to suppress the formation of a diffused layer between the Si layer and the protective film, a protective film comprising a Ru alloy having Zr or B added to Ru has been proposed. However, suppression of the diffusion of Si even by such a Ru protective film is unsatisfactory, and Si diffuses into the Ru protective film and is oxidized to form a silicon oxide (such as SiO2), which causes stripping of the film when being subjected to repeated cleaning during the process for manufacturing a reflective mask, or during use as a finished product. Further, the formation of an intermediate layer or thermal diffusion suppressing film containing Si and O in predetermined amounts between the Mo/Si multilayer reflective film and the Ru protective film has been proposed. However, depending on the material for the intermediate layer or thermal diffusion preventing film, the layer has such unsatisfactory adhesion to the Ru protective film that stripping of the film occurs at the bonded portion. The fact that Si is oxidized or that the adhesion between a silicon oxide (such as SiO2) and the Ru protective film is unsatisfactory is very difficult to avoid, and therefore, in the present invention, a block layer for preventing the migration of Si to the Ru protective film is employed. Further, the block layer is in a state in which at least part of the Si in the multilayer reflective film is diffused into the block layer. By virtue of the above configuration, the migration of Si may be inhibited. Thus, Si can be prevented from diffusing into the Ru protective film and coming in contact with gas or a cleaning agent to form a silicon oxide (such as SiO2), which leads to stripping of the film, so that a reflective mask having high reflectance and excellent cleaning resistance can be obtained. Further, by virtue of having the above configuration, there can be obtained a reflective mask which maintains high reflectance even after experiencing any subsequent heat history, and which has excellent cleaning resistance. The block layer 16 is formed between the multilayer reflective film 14 and the below-described Ru protective film 18. With respect to the constituent material of the block layer 16, there is no particular limitation as long as the material can prevent the migration of Si to the Ru protective film 18, but, as examples of the constituent materials of the block layer, there can be mentioned at least one metal selected from Ti, Al, Ni, Pt, Pd, W, Mo, Co, and Cu and an alloy of the above two or more metals, and a nitride, a silicide, and a silicide nitride thereof. The block layer 16 may comprise either one of these constituent materials or a plurality of materials. The nitride means a nitride of a metal, such as TiN, and a nitride of an alloy, such as TiAlN. Similar meanings apply to the silicide and silicide nitride. In the present invention, the block layer 16 comprising the above material is formed and then, subjected to heat treatment under temperature conditions such that at least part of the Si in the multilayer reflective film 14 is diffused into layer 16. The heating causes Si to diffuse into the block layer 16, and a metal simple substance, an alloy, or a compound of the metal or alloy constituting layer 16 and the above Si together form a strong silicide, and therefore, before migrating from the multilayer reflective film 14 to the Ru protective film 18, Si diffuses into the block layer 16 to form a strong silicide in the block layer 16 to be captured. When such a silicide is formed in the block layer 16, Si cannot pass through the block layer 16 and migrate to the Ru protective film 18, suppressing stripping of the Ru protective film 18. Further, the silicide has excellent adhesion to the Ru protective film 18, as compared to the above-described intermediate layer or thermal diffusion suppressing film containing Si and O in predetermined amounts, and therefore stripping of the Ru protective film due to a lack of the adhesion to the block layer is also suppressed. From the viewpoint of the formation of a silicide and achieving excellent adhesion to the Ru protective film 18, it is preferred that the block layer 16 comprises at least one member selected from the group consisting of titanium (Ti), a titanium nitride (TiNx (x>0)), a titanium silicide (TiSix (x>0)), and a titanium silicide nitride (TixSiyNz (x>0, y>0, z>0)). Further, with respect to the thickness of the block layer 16, there is no particular limitation as long as heating the layer under the above-described predetermined temperature conditions can form a silicide in such an amount that Si migrating from the multilayer reflective film 14 can be satisfactorily prevented from migrating to the Ru protective film 18. The block layer 16 has a low transmittance for an EUV light, as compared to, e.g., the Ru protective film 18, and hence, when the block layer has too large a thickness, the resultant reflective mask may be lowered in reflectance. Therefore, the block layer 16 preferably has a thickness of 0.2 to 2.0 nm, more preferably 0.5 to 1.5 nm. The block layer 16 can be formed by various known methods which can form a thin film of a material constituting the block layer, and examples of the methods include an ion beam sputtering method, a sputtering method, a reactive sputtering method, a vapor deposition (CVD) method, and a vacuum vapor deposition method. The block layer 16 is formed and then, as described above, the resultant substrate is subjected to heat treatment under temperature conditions such that Si in the multilayer reflective film 14 diffuses into the block layer 16. To form a silicide sufficient to prevent Si from migrating from the multilayer reflective film 14 to the Ru protective film 18, in the heat treatment, heating is performed at a temperature higher than the prebake temperature (about 110° C.) for a resist film in the process for manufacturing a reflective mask blank for EUV lithography. Preferably, heating is performed at a temperature higher than the heating (about 50 to 150° C.) for, for example, reducing the film stress of the multilayer reflective film disclosed in Patent Document 4. Specifically, the temperature condition for the heat treatment is generally 160 to 300° C., preferably 180 to 250° C. The heat treatment step for diffusing Si of the multilayer reflective film 14 into the block layer 16 may be performed before forming the Ru protective film 18 and after forming the block layer 16 on the multilayer reflective film 14, or may be performed before forming an absorber film 20 and after forming the block layer 16 and the Ru protective film 18 on the multilayer reflective film 14. In the former, there is obtained the substrate with a multilayer reflective film 10 wherein a composition gradient region in which the content of the metal component constituting the block layer 16 continuously decreases toward the substrate 12 is present between the layer comprising Si, which is the surface layer of the multilayer reflective film 14 opposite from the substrate 12, and the block layer 16. In the latter, there is obtained the substrate with a multilayer reflective film 10 wherein the composition gradient region in the former is present and, in addition, at least part of the metal constituting the block layer 16 is diffused into the Ru protective film 18, and further a composition gradient region in which the content of the metal component constituting the block layer 16 continuously decreases toward the Ru protective film 18 is present between the block layer 16 and the Ru protective film 18. Before performing the above-described heat treatment, the boundary between the block layer 16 and the multilayer reflective film 14 (in the above latter case, further the boundary between the block layer 16 and the Ru protective film 18) is considered definite, and it is considered that the heat treatment causes the above-described diffusion of Si to form a composition gradient region, so that the above-described boundary becomes indefinite. In both cases in which the heat treatment is performed before or after forming the Ru protective film 18, a strong silicide is formed in the block layer 16 to obtain an effect of improving the cleaning resistance of a reflective mask obtained from the substrate with a multilayer reflective film 10 of the present invention. <Ru Protective Film 18> The Ru protective film 18 is formed on the above-formed block layer 16 to protect the multilayer reflective film 14 from dry etching and cleaning in the below-described process for manufacturing a reflective mask for EUV lithography, completing the substrate with a multilayer reflective film 10. The Ru protective film 18 is comprised of a material containing Ru, and specific examples of the materials constituting the Ru protective film 18 include Ru and alloy materials thereof, and Ru compounds comprising Ru or an alloy thereof and an element, such as N, C, or O. As a Ru alloy, preferred is a Ru compound having Ru and at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of Nb, Zr, Rh, Ti, Co, and Re. Specific examples of such alloys include a RuNb alloy, a RuZr alloy, a RuRh alloy, a RuTi alloy, a RuCo alloy, and a RuRe alloy. The Ru protective film 18 may be of a laminated structure having three layers or more in which the lowermost layer and the uppermost layer are a layer comprised of the above-described material containing Ru and a metal other than Ru or an alloy thereof is present between the lowermost layer and the uppermost layer. With respect to the thickness of the Ru protective film 18 comprised of Ru or, e.g., an alloy thereof, there is no particular limitation as long as it can function as a protective film, but, from the viewpoint of the transmittance for an EUV light (the entering EUV light passes through the Ru protective film 18 and then is reflected by the multilayer reflective film 14, and the reflected light passes through the Ru protective film 18 to be emitted), the thickness of the Ru protective film is preferably 1.2 to 8.5 nm, more preferably 1.5 to 8 nm, further preferably 1.5 to 6 nm. Further, from the viewpoint of improving the cleaning resistance of a reflective mask obtained from the substrate with a multilayer reflective film 10, it is preferred that when the above-described Ru protective film 18 is subjected to X-ray diffractometry measurement by an In-Plane measurement method, diffraction peaks appear mainly at (100) and (110), that is, the Ru protective film 18 has an orientation plane mainly at (001) plane. In the present invention, the expression “diffraction peaks appear mainly at (100) and (110)” means a state in which diffraction peaks appear at (100) and (110) as measured by an In-Plane measurement method for X-ray diffractometry, and there are no other diffraction peaks appearing at, for example, (102), (103), and (112), or the above other diffraction peaks are satisfactorily low. A state in which there are diffraction peaks appearing at, e.g., (102), (103), and (112) in addition to the diffraction peaks appearing at (100) and (110) is defined as random orientation. Further, the state in which “diffraction peaks appear mainly at (100) and (110)” includes a state in which there are high-order diffraction peaks for (100) and (110), such as secondary diffraction peaks {(200), (220)} or tertiary diffraction peaks {(300), (330)}. When diffraction peaks appear mainly at (100) and (110) as measured for the Ru protective film 18 by an In-Plane method, the particles of the Ru protective film 18 are deposited on the block layer 16 so that the (001) planes of the particles are uniformly arranged along the horizontal direction of the substrate 12. Therefore, the diffusion of Si from the Si layer of the multilayer reflective film 14 and the penetration of a cleaning agent or gas into the Ru protective film 18 are suppressed, so that the reflective mask is further improved in the cleaning resistance. In contrast, in the case of random orientation, the crystal particles of the Ru protective film 18 are deposited on the block layer 16 in a state such that the orientation of the crystal particles is random, and therefore an effect of improving the cleaning resistance due to the orientation of the Ru protective film 18 is unlikely to be obtained. In the present invention, as a method for forming the Ru protective film 18, one similar to a conventionally known method for forming a protective film can be employed without any particular limitation. Examples of such methods for forming a protective film include a sputtering method and an ion beam sputtering method. For achieving the Ru protective film 18 in which diffraction peaks appear mainly at (100) and (110) as measured by an In-Plane method as described above, namely, achieving the Ru protective film 18 having an orientation plane mainly at (001) plane, the film is deposited by sputtering so that the angle of incidence of sputtered particles forming the Ru protective film 18 to the normal of the main surface of the substrate 12 is 0 to 45 degrees, preferably 0 to 35 degrees, more preferably 20 to 30 degrees. The Ru protective film 18 is preferably formed by an ion beam sputtering method. As described above, the substrate with a multilayer reflective film 10 of the present invention has the substrate 12, the multilayer reflective film 14, the block layer 16, and the Ru protective film 18. The substrate with a multilayer reflective film 10 is suppressed in stripping of the Ru protective film 18 by virtue of the block layer 16, and has excellent cleaning resistance while achieving high reflectance, specifically, a reflectance of 63% or more with respect to an EUV light having a wavelength of 13.5 nm. Further, the substrate with a multilayer reflective film 10 may have a back side conductive film on the main surface of the substrate 12 opposite from the surface on which the multilayer reflective film 14 is formed. The back side conductive film is formed for the purpose of adsorbing the substrate with a multilayer reflective film 10 or a mask blank on an electrostatic chuck used as supporting means for the substrate with a multilayer reflective film 10 when manufacturing a mask blank, or on an electrostatic chuck used as supporting means for mask handling during the pattern process or exposure for the below-described reflective mask blank for EUV lithography of the present invention. The back side conductive film is formed also for the purpose of stress correction of the multilayer reflective film 14. Further, in the substrate with a multilayer reflective film 10 of the present invention, a base film may be formed between the substrate 12 and the multilayer reflective film 14. The base film is formed for the purpose of improving the smoothness of the surface of the substrate 12, for the purpose of reducing defects, for the purpose of reflection enhancement effect for the multilayer reflective film 14, for the purpose of preventing the charging effect during the electron beam drawing, and for the purpose of stress correction of the multilayer reflective film 14. Further, the substrate with a multilayer reflective film 10 of the present invention includes an embodiment in which a resist film is formed on the multilayer reflective film 14 or the Ru protective film 18 when a fiducial mark as a reference for the defect position in the substrate 12 or the substrate with a multilayer reflective film 10 is formed by photolithography on the multilayer reflective film 14 or the Ru protective film 18. [Reflective Mask Blank for EUV Lithography] FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the cross-section of a reflective mask blank 30 for EUV lithography of the present invention. The mask blank 30 of the present invention can be obtained by forming the absorber film 20 for absorbing an EUV light on the Ru protective film 18 in the above-described substrate with a multilayer reflective film 10 of the present invention. The absorber film 20 has a function of absorbing an EUV light which is an exposure light, and, in a reflective mask for EUV lithography (the details of which are described below) which is formed using the reflective mask blank 30 for EUV lithography, the absorber film may be one having a desired reflectance difference between the light reflected by the above-described multilayer reflective film 14, the block layer 16, and the Ru protective film 18 and the light reflected by the absorber film pattern. For example, the reflectance of the absorber film 20 with respect to an EUV light is selected from 0.1 to 40%. In addition to the above-described reflectance difference, a desired phase difference may be present between the light reflected by the multilayer reflective film 14, the block layer 16, and the Ru protective film 18 and the light reflected by the absorber film pattern. When a desired phase difference is present between the above reflected lights, the absorber film 20 in the reflective mask blank 30 for EUV lithography is also called a phase shift film. When a desired phase difference is caused between the above reflected lights to improve the resultant reflective mask in the contrast of reflected light, the phase difference is preferably set to be in the range of 180±10 degrees, and the reflectance of the absorber film is preferably set to be from 3 to 40%. The above-described absorber film 20 may be of either a single layer or a laminated structure. In the case of a laminated structure, the structure may be either a laminated film of the same material or a laminated film of different materials. The laminated film can be changed in the material or composition stepwise and/or continuously in the thickness direction of the film. By subjecting the absorber film 20 to dry etching through a resist, a predetermined absorber film pattern is obtained, so that a reflective mask for EUV lithography having portions (the Ru protective film 18 and a portion under the protective film through which the block layer 16 and the multilayer reflective film 14 are exposed) that reflect light (EUV light in the present invention) and a portion (absorber film pattern) that absorbs the light is obtained. With respect to the material for the absorber film 20, there is no particular limitation as long as the material has a function of absorbing an EUV light and can be removed by, e.g., etching {preferably can be etched by dry etching using chlorine (Cl) or fluorine (F) gas}. As a material having such a function, tantalum (Ta) simple substance or a tantalum compound comprised mainly of Ta can be preferably used. The absorber film 20 comprising tantalum or a tantalum compound can be formed by a known method, such as a sputtering method, e.g., a DC sputtering method or an RF sputtering method. For example, using a target comprising tantalum and boron, the absorber film 20 can be formed on the Ru protective film 18 by a sputtering method using argon gas having added thereto oxygen or nitrogen. The tantalum compound is generally an alloy of Ta. With respect to the crystalline state of the absorber film 20, from the viewpoint of the smoothness and flatness, an amorphous or microcrystalline structure is preferred. When the surface of the absorber film 20 is not smooth or flat, the edge roughness of the resultant absorber film pattern is increased, so that the dimensional precision of the pattern may be degraded. The surface roughness of the absorber film 20 is preferably 0.5 nm Rms or less, further preferably 0.4 nm Rms or less, further preferably 0.3 nm Rms or less. As the above-described tantalum compound, for example, a compound comprising Ta and B, a compound comprising Ta and N, a compound comprising Ta, O, and N, a compound comprising Ta and B and further at least one of O and N, a compound comprising Ta and Si, a compound comprising Ta, Si, and N, a compound comprising Ta and Ge, or a compound comprising Ta, Ge, and N can be used. Ta is a material which has a large absorption coefficient with respect to an EUV light, and which can be easily dry-etched by chlorine gas or fluorine gas, and hence is an absorber film material having excellent processability. Further, by using Ta having added thereto, e.g., B, Si, or Ge, an amorphous material is easily obtained, making it possible to obtain the absorber film 20 with improved smoothness. By using Ta having added thereto N or O, the absorber film 20 with improved resistance to oxidation is obtained, so that an effect is obtained such that the stability with time can be improved. In addition, by controlling the temperature of heating the substrate upon forming the absorber film 20 or the sputtering gas pressure upon forming the absorber film, the absorber film material of microcrystalline can be obtained. Further, as examples of materials constituting the absorber film 20, there can be mentioned, in addition to tantalum and tantalum compounds, materials, such as WN, TiN, and Ti. The above-described absorber film 20 preferably has an absorption coefficient of 0.025 or more, further preferably 0.030 or more with respect to the wavelength of an exposure light, from the viewpoint of a reduction of the thickness of the absorber film 20. The thickness of the absorber film 20 may be a thickness that can satisfactorily absorb an EUV light which is an exposure light, but is generally about 30 to 100 nm. The reflective mask blank 30 for EUV lithography of the present invention includes an embodiment in which a resist film 22 for forming a pattern by dry etching is formed on the above-described absorber film 20. Further, the reflective mask blank 30 for EUV lithography of the present invention includes an embodiment in which a hard mask film is formed between the above-described absorber film 20 and the resist film 22. The hard mask film has a mask function upon patterning the absorber film 20, and is comprised of a material having an etching selectivity different from that of the absorber film 20. When the absorber film 20 is comprised of tantalum or a tantalum compound, a material, such as chromium or a chromium compound, is selected for the hard mask film. As examples of chromium compounds, there can be mentioned materials comprising Cr and at least one element selected from N, O, C, and H. In the substrate with a multilayer reflective film 10, on the surface of the substrate 12 on the other side of the surface facing the multilayer reflective film 14, a back side conductive film for the purpose of electrostatic chuck as described above may be formed. The electrical properties required for the back side conductive film are generally 100 Ω/square or less. The method for forming the back side conductive film is known, and the film can be formed by, for example, a magnetron sputtering method or an ion beam sputtering method using a metal, such as chromium (Cr) or tantalum (Ta), or an alloy thereof as a target. With respect to the thickness of the back side conductive film, there is no particular limitation as long as the above-described purpose is achieved, but the thickness is generally 10 to 200 nm. As described below, the reflective mask blank 30 for EUV lithography of the present invention is further processed to obtain a reflective mask for EUV lithography, and, with respect to the obtained reflective mask, generally, an inspection for pattern and correction are performed. In the case of a reflective mask using an EUV light as an exposure light, as an inspection light used in the inspection for pattern, a light having a long wavelength, as compared to an EUV light having a wavelength of, for example, 193 nm or 257 nm, is often used. For dealing with an inspection light having a long wavelength, it is necessary to reduce reflection of the light off the surface of the absorber film 20. In this case, the absorber film 20 advantageously has a configuration in which an absorber layer having mainly a function of absorbing an EUV light and a low reflective layer having mainly a function of reducing reflection of the inspection light off the surface are laminated from the substrate 12 side. When the absorber layer is formed from a material comprised mainly of Ta, a material having O added to Ta or TaB is preferred as the low reflective layer. [Reflective Mask for EUV Lithography] Using the above-described reflective mask blank 30 for EUV lithography of the present invention, the reflective mask for EUV lithography of the present invention can be manufactured. In manufacturing the reflective mask for EUV lithography of the present invention, a photolithography method that enables high-definition patterning is most preferred. Hereinbelow, a method utilizing a photolithography method is described in which the absorber film 20 in the reflective mask blank 30 for EUV lithography is patterned with a resist film to manufacture the reflective mask for EUV lithography of the present invention. A schematic diagram of the method is shown in FIGS. 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D, and 3E. In FIGS. 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D, and 3E, with respect to the same parts, only one part is indicated by a reference numeral, and indication of the reference numeral for the other same parts is omitted. First, in mask blank 30 in which the substrate 12, the multilayer reflective film 14, the block layer 16, the Ru protective film 18, and the absorber film 20 are formed in this order {FIG. 3A}, the resist film 22 is formed on the absorber film 20 {FIG. 3B}. A mask blank in which the resist film 22 has already been formed is also the reflective mask blank 30 for EUV lithography of the present invention, and therefore the method may be started from such a mask blank. A desired pattern is drawn in the resist film 22 (exposure), and further subjected to development and rinsing to form a predetermined resist pattern 22a {FIG. 3C}. Using the formed resist pattern 22a as a mask, dry etching using etching gas is conducted to etch a portion of the absorber film 20 which is not covered with the resist pattern 22a, forming an absorber film pattern 20a on the Ru protective film 18 {FIG. 3D}. Examples of the etching gases include chlorine gas, such as Cl2, SiCl4, CHCl3, and CCl4, a mixed gas containing a chlorine gas and O2 in a predetermined ratio, a mixed gas containing a chlorine gas and He in a predetermined ratio, a mixed gas containing a chlorine gas and Ar in a predetermined ratio, fluorine gas, such as CF4, CHF3, C2F6, C3F6, C4F6, C4F8, CH2F2, CH3F, C3F, SF6, and F, a mixed gas containing a fluorine gas and O2 in a predetermined ratio, a mixed gas containing a fluorine gas and He in a predetermined ratio, and a mixed gas containing a fluorine gas and Ar in a predetermined ratio. Then, the resist pattern 22a is removed using, for example, a resist stripping agent, followed by wet cleaning using an acid or alkaline aqueous solution, obtaining a reflective mask 40 for EUV lithography achieving high reflectance {FIG. 3E}. [Method of Manufacturing a Semiconductor Device] By a lithography technique using the above-described reflective mask 40 for EUV lithography of the present invention, a transfer pattern based on the absorber film pattern 20a in the above-described mask is formed on a semiconductor substrate, and subjected to other various steps, so that a semiconductor device having, e.g., various patterns formed on the semiconductor substrate can be manufactured. As a more specific example, a method for transferring a pattern to a semiconductor substrate 56 with a resist by means of a pattern transfer apparatus 50 shown in FIG. 4 by an EUV light using the reflective mask 40 for EUV lithography is described. The reflective mask 50 having mounted thereon the reflective mask 40 for EUV lithography substantially comprises a laser plasma X-ray source 52, the reflective mask 40, and a reduction optical system 54. As the reduction optical system 54, an X-ray reflecting mirror is used. By the reduction optical system 54, the pattern reflected by the reflective mask 40 is reduced generally to about ¼. For example, using a wavelength in the range of 13 to 14 nm as an exposure wavelength, the system is preliminarily set so that the optical path is in a vacuum. In such a condition, an EUV light obtained from the laser plasma X-ray source 52 is allowed to strike the reflective mask 40, and the light reflected by the mask is passed through the reduction optical system 54 and transferred to a semiconductor substrate 56 with a resist. The light striking the reflective mask 40 is absorbed by the absorber film at portions having the absorber film pattern 20a and is not reflected (or is reflected to a certain extent when the absorber film is the above-described phase shift film), and, on the other hand, the light striking portions having no absorber film pattern 20a is reflected by the multilayer reflective film 14. Thus, an image formed from the light reflected by the reflective mask 40 enters the reduction optical system 54. The exposure light which has passed through the reduction optical system 54 forms a transfer pattern on the resist layer on a semiconductor substrate 56 with a resist. Then, the exposed resist layer is developed, so that a resist pattern can be formed on the semiconductor substrate 56 with a resist. Then, by performing, for example, etching using the above resist pattern as a mask, a predetermined interconnection pattern can be formed on, for example, a semiconductor substrate. A semiconductor device is manufactured through the above steps and other required steps. Hereinbelow, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the following Examples, which should not be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention. Reference Example 1 <Manufacture of a Substrate with a Multilayer Reflective Film> The substrate to be used is a SiO2—TiO2 glass substrate (which is 6 inches square and has a thickness of 6.35 mm). The edge face of the glass substrate was subjected to beveling and grinding processing, and further subjected to rough polishing treatment using a polishing agent containing cerium oxide abrasive particles. The thus treated glass substrate was set in a carrier of a double-side polishing apparatus, and subjected to precision polishing under predetermined polishing conditions using an alkaline aqueous solution containing colloidal silica abrasive particles as a polishing agent. After completion of the precision polishing, the resultant glass substrate was subjected to cleaning treatment. Thus, a glass substrate for a reflective mask blank for EUV lithography was prepared. With respect to the main surface of the obtained glass substrate, the surface roughness in terms of a root mean square (RMS) roughness as excellent as 0.10 nm or less. Further, the flatness in a measurement region of 132 mm×132 mm was as excellent as 30 nm or less. Then, on the back side of the glass substrate for reflective mask blank for EUV lithography, a back side conductive film comprising CrN was formed by a magnetron sputtering method under the conditions shown below. Conditions for forming a back side conductive film: Cr target; Ar+N2 gas atmosphere (Ar:N2=90%:10%); film composition (Cr:90 at %; N:10%); film thickness: 20 nm. Then, on the main surface of the glass substrate for reflective mask blank for EUV lithography opposite from the surface on which the back side conductive film is formed, a multilayer reflective film was formed as described below. As a multilayer reflective film formed on the glass substrate, for forming a multilayer reflective film suitable for an exposure light in a wavelength range of 13 to 14 nm, a Mo film/Si film periodic multilayer reflective film was employed. That is, a multilayer reflective film was formed by alternately laminating a Mo layer and a Si layer on the substrate by ion beam sputtering (using Ar) using a Mo target and a Si target. A Si film having a thickness of 4.2 nm was first formed, and then a Mo film having a thickness of 2.8 nm was formed. A series of the formations of these two films was taken as one cycle, and the films were similarly laminated in 40 cycles, and a Si film having a thickness of 4.0 nm was finally deposited to form a multilayer reflective film. Subsequently, a metal layer comprising Ti having a thickness of 1.0 nm was formed on the above-described multilayer reflective film similarly by ion beam sputtering (using Ar) using a Ti target, and further a Ru protective film having a thickness of 1.5 nm was formed on the metal layer by ion beam sputtering (using Ar) using a Ru target. In the thus obtained substrate with a multilayer reflective film, the reflectance of the surface of the Ru protective film with respect to an EUV light having a wavelength of 13.5 nm was as high as 63.50%. <Manufacture of a Reflective Mask Blank for EUV Lithography> On the Ru protective film of the above-obtained substrate with a multilayer reflective film was formed an absorber film comprising a laminated film of TaBN (thickness: 56 nm) and TaBO (thickness: 14 nm) by a DC sputtering method to manufacture a reflective mask blank for EUV lithography. A substrate with a multilayer reflective film was manufactured in substantially the same manner as in Reference Example 1 except that the metal layer was changed to a TiN layer having a thickness of 1.0 nm. The TiN layer was formed by ion beam sputtering using a Ti target and Ar+N2 mixed gas. In the obtained substrate with a multilayer reflective film, the reflectance of the surface of the Ru protective film with respect to an EUV light having a wavelength of 13.5 nm was as high as 63.20%. Using the above-obtained substrate with a multilayer reflective film, an absorber film comprising a laminated film of TaBN (thickness: 56 nm) and TaBO (thickness: 14 nm) was formed on the Ru protective film by DC sputtering in the same manner as in Reference Example 1 to manufacture a reflective mask blank for EUV lithography. A substrate with a multilayer reflective film was manufactured in the same manner as in Reference Example 1. The metal layer was deposited and formed by ion beam sputtering (using Ar) using a Ti target, and then subjected to annealing (heating in a vacuum at 200° C. for one hour) so that Si in the Si layer as the top surface of the multilayer reflective film is diffused into the metal layer to form a block layer. The diffusion of Si forms titanium silicide in the block layer. Further, a Ru protective film was formed on the block layer by ion beam sputtering to manufacture a substrate with a multilayer reflective film. The above-described Ru protective film was formed by depositing Ru particles at an angle of 30 degrees to the normal of the main surface of the glass substrate. In the obtained substrate with a multilayer reflective film, the reflectance of the surface of the Ru protective film with respect to an EUV light having a wavelength of 13.5 nm was as high as 63.65%. With respect to the Ru protective film in the substrate with a multilayer reflective film, an X-ray diffractometry measurement was conducted by an In-Plane measurement method, and, as a result, only diffraction peaks appearing at (100), (110), and (200) were observed, and the film was found to have an orientation plane mainly at (001) plane. Further, a compositional analysis in the film depth direction of the substrate with a multilayer reflective film was conducted by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The results have confirmed that a gradient region in which the content of the titanium component constituting the block layer continuously decreases toward the glass substrate is present between the Si layer, which is the top surface layer of the multilayer reflective film, and the block layer comprised of titanium silicide. A substrate with a multilayer reflective film was manufactured in the same manner as in Reference Example 2. The TiN layer was deposited and formed by the same method as that in Reference Example 2, and then subjected to annealing (heating in a vacuum at 200° C. for one hour) so that Si in the Si layer as the top surface of the multilayer reflective film diffuses into the TiN layer to form a block layer. The diffusion of Si forms nitrided titanium silicide in the block layer. Further, a Ru protective film was formed on the block layer by ion beam sputtering to manufacture a substrate with a multilayer reflective film. The Ru protective film was formed by depositing Ru particles at an angle of 30 degrees to the normal of the main surface of the glass substrate. With respect to the Ru protective film in the substrate with a multilayer reflective film, an X-ray diffractometry measurement was conducted by an In-Plane measurement method, and, as a result, only diffraction peaks appearing at (100), (110), and (200) were observed, and the film was found to have an orientation plane mainly at (001) plane. Further, a compositional analysis in the film depth direction of the substrate with a multilayer reflective film was conducted by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The results have confirmed that a gradient region in which the content of the titanium component constituting the block layer continuously decreases toward the glass substrate is present between the Si layer, which is the top surface layer of the multilayer reflective film, and the block layer comprised of nitrided titanium silicide. A substrate with a multilayer reflective film was manufactured in the same manner as in Reference Example 1. The metal layer was deposited and formed by ion beam sputtering (using Ar) using a Ti target, and a Ru protective film was formed on the metal layer, and then subjected to annealing (heating in air at 200° C. for one hour) so that Si in the Si layer as the top surface of the multilayer reflective film had diffused into the metal layer to form a block layer. The diffusion of Si forms titanium silicide in the block layer. A substrate with a multilayer reflective film was manufactured in the same manner as in Reference Example 2. The TiN layer was deposited and formed by the same method as that in Reference Example 2, and a Ru protective film was formed on the TiN layer, and then subjected to annealing (heating in air at 200° C. for one hour) so that Si in the Si layer as the top surface of the multilayer reflective film is diffused into the TiN layer to form a block layer. The diffusion of Si forms nitrided titanium silicide in the block layer. A substrate with a multilayer reflective film was manufactured in the same manner as in Example 3. The metal layer was deposited and formed by ion beam sputtering (using Ar) using a Ti target, and a Ru protective film was formed on the metal layer, and then subjected to annealing (heating in a vacuum at 200° C. for one hour) so that Si in the Si layer as the top surface of the multilayer reflective film is diffused into the metal layer to form a block layer. The Ru protective film was formed by depositing Ru particles at an angle of 30 degrees to the normal of the main surface of the glass substrate. With respect to the Ru protective film in the substrate with a multilayer reflective film, an X-ray diffractometry measurement was conducted by an In-Plane measurement method, and, as a result, only diffraction peaks appearing at (100), (110), and (200) were observed, and the film was found to have an orientation plane mainly at (001) plane. Further, a compositional analysis in the film depth direction of the substrate with a multilayer reflective film was conducted by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The results confirmed that a gradient region in which the content of the titanium component constituting the block layer continuously decreases toward the glass substrate is present between the Si layer, which is the top surface layer of the multilayer reflective film, and the block layer, and that further a gradient region in which the content of the titanium component constituting the block layer continuously decreases toward the Ru protective film is present between the block layer and the Ru protective film. Example 6 to Example 11 Substrates with a multilayer reflective film were individually manufactured in substantially the same manner as in Example 5 except that the metal layer was changed to an Al layer (Example 6), a Ni layer (Example 7), a Pd layer (Example 8), a W layer (Example 9), a Co layer (Example 10), or a Cu layer (Example 11), each having a thickness of 1.0 nm. In the obtained substrates with a multilayer reflective film, the reflectance of the surface of the Ru protective film with respect to an EUV light having a wavelength of 13.5 nm was as high as in the range of from 62.00 to 63.65%. With respect to the Ru protective film in the substrate with a multilayer reflective film, an X-ray diffractometry measurement was conducted by an In-Plane measurement method, and, as a result, in all of the Examples, only diffraction peaks appearing at (100), (110), and (200) were observed, and the films were found to have an orientation plane mainly at (001) plane. Further, a compositional analysis in the film depth direction of the substrate with a multilayer reflective film was conducted by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The results have confirmed that a gradient region in which the content of the metal component (Al, Ni, Pd, W, Co, or Cu) constituting the block layer continually decreases toward the glass substrate is present between the Si layer, which is the top surface layer of the multilayer reflective film, and the block layer, and that further a gradient region in which the content of the metal component (Al, Ni, Pd, W, Co, or Cu) constituting the block layer continually decreases toward the Ru protective film is present between the block layer and the Ru protective film. Using each of the above-obtained substrates with a multilayer reflective film, an absorber film comprising a laminated film of TaBN (thickness: 56 nm) and TaBO (thickness: 14 nm) was formed on the Ru protective film by ion beam sputtering (using Ar) in the same manner as in Reference Example 1 to manufacture a reflective mask blank for EUV lithography. Comparative Example 1 A substrate with a multilayer reflective film was manufactured in substantially the same manner as in Reference Example 1 except that the metal layer was not formed. The Ru protective film had a thickness of 2.5 nm. In the obtained substrate with a multilayer reflective film, the reflectance of the surface of the Ru protective film with respect to an EUV light having a wavelength of 13.5 nm was as high as 64%. [Mask Cleaning Resistance Test] Using each of the reflective mask blanks for EUV lithography obtained in Reference Examples 1 and 2, Examples 1 to 11, and Comparative Example 1 above, a reflective mask for EUV lithography was manufactured. Specifically, the procedure is as follows. First, a resist film for electron beam drawing was formed on the absorber film of the reflective mask blank, and a predetermined pattern was drawn using an electron beam drawing machine. After the drawing, a predetermined development treatment was conducted to form a resist pattern on the absorber film. Then, using the above-formed resist pattern as a mask, the TaBO film as the upper layer was subjected to dry etching by fluorine gas (CF4 gas) and the TaBN film as the lower layer was subjected to dry etching by chlorine gas (Cl2 gas) to form a transfer pattern in the absorber film, forming an absorber film pattern. Further, the resist pattern remaining on the absorber film pattern was removed using hot sulfuric acid to obtain a reflective mask. Thus, from each of the reflective mask blanks in Reference Examples 1 and 2, Examples 1 to 11, and Comparative Example 1, 20 reflective masks were formed. <RCA Cleaning Evaluation 1> With respect to the obtained reflective mask, general RCA cleaning was repeated 100 times to evaluate the cleaning resistance of the reflective mask. As a result, in each of the reflective masks in Reference Examples 1 and 2 and Examples 1 to 11, no stripping was observed in the Ru protective film exposed surface after the 100-time RCA cleaning, which indicates that these reflective masks have excellent cleaning resistance. In contrast, in the reflective mask in Comparative Example 1, the 5- to 10-time cleaning caused stripping of the film, which indicates that the cleaning resistance is poor, as compared to those in the Reference Examples and Examples. The state of stripping of a film was examined by means of a SEM (scanning electron microscope). Further, with respect to the reflective masks in Reference Examples 1 and 2 and Examples 1 to 11, the above-described RCA cleaning was repeated 150 times to evaluate the cleaning resistance of the reflective mask. As a result, in the reflective masks in Reference Examples 1 and 2, no stripping was observed in the Ru protective film exposed surface after the 100-time RCA cleaning. In the reflective masks in Examples 1 and 2, no stripping was observed in the Ru protective film exposed surface after the 120-time RCA cleaning, which indicates that these reflective masks have excellent cleaning resistance, as compared to those in the Reference Examples. Further, in each of the reflective masks in Examples 3 to 11, no stripping was observed in the Ru protective film exposed surface after the 150-time RCA cleaning, which indicates that these reflective masks have especially excellent cleaning resistance. DESCRIPTION OF REFERENCE NUMERALS 10: Substrate with a multilayer reflective film 12: Substrate 14: Multilayer reflective film 16: Block layer 18: Ru protective film 20: Absorber film 20a: Absorber film pattern 22: Resist film 22a: Resist pattern 30: Reflective mask blank for EUV lithography 40: Reflective mask for EUV lithography 50: Pattern transfer apparatus 52: Laser plasma X-ray source 54: Reduction optical system 56: Semiconductor substrate with a resist 1. A substrate with a multilayer reflective film, comprising: a substrate, a multilayer reflective film, formed on the substrate, comprising a layer that includes Si as a high refractive-index material and a layer that include a low refractive-index material, the layers being periodically laminated, a Ru protective film, formed on the multilayer reflective film, for protecting the multilayer reflective film, and a block layer, formed between the multilayer reflective film and the Ru protective film, for preventing the migration of Si to the Ru protective film, wherein the surface layer on the other side of the multilayer reflective film opposite from the substrate is the layer comprising Si, and at least part of the Si is diffused into the block layer. 2. The substrate with a multilayer reflective film according to claim 1, wherein the block layer comprises at least one member selected from the group consisting of at least one metal selected from Ti, Al, Ni, Pt, Pd, W, Mo, Co, and Cu, an alloy of the above two or more metals, and a nitride, a silicide, and a silicide nitride thereof. 3. The substrate with a multilayer reflective film according to claim 2, wherein a gradient region in which the content of the metal component constituting the block layer continually decreases toward the substrate is present between the layer comprising Si, which is the surface layer on the other side of the multilayer reflective film opposite from the substrate, and the block layer. 4. The substrate with a multilayer reflective film according to claim 1, wherein the low refractive-index material is Mo. 5. The substrate with a multilayer reflective film according to claim 1, wherein the block layer has a thickness of 0.2 to 2.0 nm. 6. The substrate with a multilayer reflective film according to claim 1, wherein the block layer comprises at least one member selected from the group consisting of titanium (Ti), a titanium nitride (TiNx (x>0)), a titanium silicide (TiSix (x>0)), and a titanium silicide nitride (TixSiyNz (x>0, y>0, z>0)). 7. A reflective mask blank for EUV lithography, comprising the substrate with a multilayer reflective film according to claim 1, and an absorber film, formed on the Ru protective film in the substrate with a multilayer reflective film, for absorbing an EUV light. 8. The reflective mask blank for EUV lithography according to claim 7, further comprising a resist film on the absorber film. 9. A method of manufacturing a reflective mask for EUV lithography, the method comprising a step of patterning an absorber film in the reflective mask blank for EUV lithography according to claim 8 with the resist film to form an absorber film pattern on the Ru protective film. 10. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the method comprising a step of forming a transfer pattern on a semiconductor substrate using a reflective mask for EUV lithography obtained by the method of manufacturing a reflective mask for EUV lithography according to claim 9. 11. A reflective mask for EUV lithography, the reflective mask comprising the substrate with a multilayer reflective film according to claim 1, and an absorber film pattern, formed on the Ru protective film in the substrate with a multilayer reflective film, for absorbing an EUV light. 12. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the method comprising a step of forming a transfer pattern on a semiconductor substrate using the reflective mask for EUV lithography according to claim 11. 13. A method of manufacturing a substrate with a multilayer reflective film, which has: a substrate; a multilayer reflective film, formed on the substrate, comprising a layer that includes Si as a high refractive-index material and a layer that include a low refractive-index material, the layers being periodically laminated; a Ru protective film, formed on the multilayer reflective film, for protecting the multilayer reflective film; and a block layer, formed between the multilayer reflective film and the Ru protective film, for preventing the migration of Si to the Ru protective film, wherein the surface layer on the other side of the multilayer reflective film opposite from the substrate is the layer comprising Si, and at least part of the Si is diffused into the block layer, the method comprising: forming, on the layer comprising Si, which is the surface layer on the other side of the multilayer reflective film opposite from the substrate, a block layer for preventing the migration of Si to the Ru protective film; and the method further having the step of, after forming the block layer, subjecting the resultant substrate to heat treatment under temperature conditions wherein at least part of the Si in the multilayer reflective film is diffused into the block layer. 14. A method of manufacturing a reflective mask blank for EUV lithography, comprising a step of forming an absorber film on the Ru protective film in the substrate with a multilayer reflective film obtained by the method of manufacturing the substrate with a multilayer reflective film according to claim 13. 8580465 November 12, 2013 Mikami et al. 8828626 September 9, 2014 Mikami et al. 20020045108 April 18, 2002 Lee et al. 20060270226 November 30, 2006 Hosoya 20120219890 August 30, 2012 Mikami 20120225375 September 6, 2012 Mikami 20120231378 September 13, 2012 Mikami et al. 20130115547 May 9, 2013 Mikami et al. Foreign Patent Documents 2 511 945 October 2012 EP 2002-122981 April 2002 JP 2003-133205 May 2003 JP 2006-332153 December 2006 JP 2008-16821 January 2008 JP 2011-181657 September 2011 JP 2013-74268 April 2013 JP 2011/068223 June 2011 WO 2012/014904 February 2012 WO International Search Report for PCT/JP2014/068762 dated Oct. 21, 2014. Filed: Jul 15, 2014 Date of Patent: Aug 22, 2017 Patent Publication Number: 20160147139 Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION (Tokyo) Inventors: Takahiro Onoue (Tokyo), Hirofumi Kozakai (Tokyo) Primary Examiner: Stephen Rosasco Current U.S. Class: Non/e International Classification: G03F 1/24 (20120101); G03F 1/48 (20120101); G03F 1/76 (20120101); G03F 7/20 (20060101);	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1110
__label__wiki	0.645995	0.645995	Tag Archives: battlefield ‘Blood of Jihad’: ISIS training video promises recruits they will leave Iraq’s battlefields as ‘martyrs’ Posted in Iraq, ISIL - Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, Islam, news, War, War on Terror \| Tagged battlefield, blood, Iraq, Is, ISIL, Isis, Islamic State, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, Jihad, Martyrs, news, promises, recruits, training, video \| Leave a comment After Fatwa, Pastor in Pakistan Beaten with Bricks Convert, a former fighter in Afghanistan, had protested Islamic attack. SARGODHA, Pakistan, November 5 (CDN) — Muslim extremists in Islamabad on Monday (Nov. 1) beat with bricks and hockey sticks a Christian clergyman who is the subject of a fatwa demanding his death. The Rev. Dr. Suleman Nasri Khan, a former fighter in Afghanistan before his conversion to Christianity in 2000, suffered a serious head injury, a hairline fracture in his arm and a broken bone in his left ankle in the assault by 10 Muslim extremists; he was able to identify two of them as Allama Atta-Ullah Attari and Allama Masaud Hussain. The attack in Chashma, near Iqbal Town in Islamabad, followed Islamic scholar Allama Nawazish Ali’s Oct. 25th fatwa (religious ruling) to kill Khan, pastor of Power of the Healing God’s Church in the Kalupura area of Gujrat city. A mufti (Islamic scholar) and member of Dawat-e-Islami, which organizes studies of the Quran and Sunnah (sayings and deeds of Muhammad), Ali is authorized to issue fatwas. Khan, 34, had relocated to a rented apartment in Islamabad after fleeing his home in Gujrat because of death threats against him and his family, he said. The fatwa, a religious order to be obeyed by all Muslims, was issued after Khan protested anti-Christian violence in Kalupura last month. Muslim extremists who learned of his conversion had first attacked Khan in 2008 – killing his first child, 3-month old Sana Nasri Khan. He and wife Aster Nasri Khan escaped. “During the Kalupura Christian colony attacks, once again it came into the attention of Muslim men that I was a converted Christian who had recanted Islam, deemed as humiliation of Islam by them,” Khan said. In this week’s attack, Khan also sustained minor rib injuries and several minor cuts and bruises. He said the Muslim radicals pelted him with stones and bricks while others kicked him in the chest and stomach. They also tried to force him to recite Islam’s creed for conversion; he refused. On Monday night (Nov. 1) Khan had gone out to buy milk for a daughter born on July 19 – named after the daughter who was killed in 2008, Sana Nasri Khan – when during the wee hours of the night five unidentified Muslim extremists began kicking and pounding on the door. “When my wife asked who they were, they replied, ‘We have learned that you have disgraced Islam by recanting, therefore we will set your house on fire,” Khan told Compass. “When my wife told them that I was not at home, they left a letter threatening to torch the house and kill my whole family and ordered me to recant Christianity and embrace Islam.” Khan had sold some of his clothes at a pawnshop in order to buy milk for the baby, as he has been financially supporting six Christian families from his congregation who are on a Muslim extremist hit list. Islamic militants have cordoned off parts of Kalupura, patrolling the area to find and kill the families of Allah Rakha Masih, Boota Masih, Khalid Rehmat, Murad Masih Gill, Tariq Murad Gill and Rashid Masih. Often feeding her 5-month-old daughter water mixed with salt and sugar instead of milk or other supplements, Aster Nasri Khan said she was ready to die of starvation for the sake of Jesus and His church. Before her beaten husband was found, she said she had heard from neighbors that some Muslim men had left him unconscious on a roadside, thinking he was dead. The Rev. Arif Masih of Power of the Healing God’s Church in Islamabad told Compass that he was stunned to find Khan unconscious in a pool of blood on the roadside. Saying he couldn’t go to police or a hospital out of fear that Muslims would level apostasy charges against Khan, Masih said he took him to the nearby private clinic of Dr. Naeem Iqbal Masih. Khan received medical treatment there while remaining unconscious for almost four hours, Masih said. Born into a Muslim family, Khan had joined the now-defunct Islamic militant group Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, which later emerged as Jaish-e-Muhammad, fighting with them for eight and half years in Kashmir and Afghanistan. While fighting in Afghanistan’s civil war in 2000, he said, he found a New Testament lying on the battlefield. He immediately threw it away, but a divine voice seemed to be extending an invitation to him, he said. When he later embraced Christ, he began preaching and studying – ending up with a doctorate in biblical theology from Punjab Theological Seminary in Kasur in 2005. Upon learning of the Oct. 25 fatwa against him, Khan immediately left Gujrat for Islamabad, he said. He was living in hiding in Chashma near Iqbal Town when Muslims paid his landlord, Munir Masih, to reveal to them that Khan was living at his house as a tenant, he said. A young Christian whose name is withheld for security reasons informed Khan of the danger on Oct. 29, he said. The young Christian told him that Munir Masih revealed his whereabouts to Allama Atta-Ullah Attari, a member of Dawat-e-Islami. Khan said he confided to Christian friends about the dangers before him, and they devised a plan to hide his family in Bara Koh, a small town near Islamabad. “But as I had sold and spent everything to help out Kalupura Christians,” he said, “I was penniless and therefore failed to move on and rent a house there.” Posted in Afghanistan, Christianity, Islam, Pakistan \| Tagged 2000, 2005, 2008, able, Afghanistan, Allah Rakha Masih, Allama Atta-Ullah Attari, Allama Masaud Hussain, Allama Nawazish Ali, ankle, anti-Christian, apartment, apostasy, area, Arif Masih, arm, assault, Aster Nasri Khan, attack, attacks, attention, authorized, away, baby, Bara Koh, battlefield, beat, beaten, before, began, biblical theology, blood, bone, Boota Masih, born, bricks, broken, bruises, buy, charges, Chashma, chest, child, Christ, Christian, Christianity, Christians, church, city, Civil War, clergyman, clinic, clothes, confided, congregation, conversion, convert, converted, cordoned, creed, cuts, danger, daughter, Dawat-e-Islami, dead, death, deeds, deemed, defunct, demanding, devised, die, disgraced, divine, doctorate, door, Dr, embrace, embraced, emerged, ending, escaped, extending, extremists, failed, families, family, fatwa, fear, feeding, fighter, financially, find, fire, first, fleeing, followed, force, former, found, fracture, friends, group, Gujrat, hairline, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, head, heard, help, hide, hiding, hit list, hockey, home, hospital, house, humiliation, husband, identify, informed, injuries, injury, instead, invitation, Iqbal Town, Islam, Islamabad, Islamic, issue, issued, Jaish-e-Muhammad, Jesus, joined, Kalupura, Kalupura Christian Colony, Kashmir, Kasur, Khalid Rehmat, kicked, kill, killed, killing, landlord, later, learned, left, letter, level, living, lying, medical, member, men, militants, milk, minor, mixed, move, Mufti, Muhammad, Munir Masih, Murad Masih Gill, Muslim, muslims, Naeem Iqbal Masih, name, nearby, neighbors, New Testament, obeyed, ordered, organizes, paid, Pakistan, parts, Pastor, patrolling, pawnshop, pelted, penniless, Persecution, plan, police, pool, pounding, Power of Healing God's Church, preaching, private, protested, Punjab Theological Seminary, Quran, radicals, Rashid Masih, ready, reasons, recanted, received, recite, refused, religious, relocated, remaining, rent, rented, Rev, reveal, rib, roadside, ruling, sake, salt, Sana Nasri Khan, Sargodha, sayings, scholar, security, seemed, serious, set, small, sold, spent, starvation, sticks, stomack, stones, studies, studying, stunned, subject, suffered, sugar, Suleman Nasri Khan, Sunnah, supplements, supporting, sustained, Tariq Murad Gill, tenant, thinking, threatening, threats, threw, torch, town, treatment, tried, unconscious, unidentified, violence, voice, water, whereabouts, whole, wife, withheld, young \| Leave a comment ANZAC DAY: Remembering the original ANZAC legend Posted on April 25, 2009 by particularkev Today is ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) Day in Australia and New Zealand. It is a time to remember our fellow Australians (and in New Zealand their fellow New Zealanders) who made the great sacrifice of their lives in order to defend Australia (and New Zealand – from here in I will speak of my own country, though New Zealand is also implied) and our interests in time of war. ABOVE: Images from the original ANZAC campaign that created the ANZAC legend. ANZAC Day is a national public holiday in Australia and though the day specifically remembers the sacrifice made by ‘diggers’ in World War I on the battlefield of Gallipoli in Turkey, we also remember those who made a similar sacrifice on the other battlefields of World War I, including Belgium and France. On ANZAC Day we also remember those Australians who sacrificed their lives throughout the world on all other battlefields as well, including those of World War II, Korea and Vietnam, as well as those of more recent times including Iraq and Afghanistan. We will remember them – lest we forget. Posted in Afghanistan, Australia, Belgium, France, Iraq, New Zealand, news, North Korea, South Korea, Special Days, Turkey, Vietnam, War \| Tagged Afghanistan, ANZAC, ANZAC Day, Australia, Australians, battlefield, Belgium, campaign, country, created, Day, defend, definition, diggers, fellow, forget, France, Gallipoli, great, images, implied, interests, Iraq, Korea, legend, lest, lives, national, New Zealand, New Zealanders, original, public holiday, recent, remembering, remembers, sacrifice, similar, specifically, time, Turkey, Vietnam, War, world, World War I, World War II \| Leave a comment	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1115
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__label__cc	0.661094	0.338906	Pierce policies for presence in classes By Grace Amsden 6 years ago Grace Amsden At Pierce College, there isn’t a uniformed rule for attendance for the widespread of classes. There isn’t a rule such as the Truancy (Becca Bill) and Compulsory Attendance policy, which states that children ages 8-17 in Washington state must attend either public, private or homeschool education. If there’s unexcused absences, repercussions will follow. At Pierce, students can come to their classes on campus whenever they please, yet some instructors have policies for attendance. According to the parent access to records for Running Start policy on the Pierce College website, “attendance policies are set by each instructor and therefore must be adhered to so as not to negatively impact student grades.” Besides this, there is another policy regarding attendance set by instructors: the Administrative Withdrawal policy. In 2012, the Council for Learning and Student Success, now called the Learning Council, approved a new policy that went into effect summer quarter of 2012. Page 16 of the Pierce College catalog under administrative withdrawal Non-Attendance states: “Pierce College reserves the right to administratively withdraw registered students who fail to attend initial class sessions and fail to make arrangements for excused absences through the instructor.” According to this, students must make prior arrangements and contact the professor if they are to miss the first days. “We allow the opportunity because life happens,” Agnes Steward, dean of student success, said. If students don’t make contact, the instructor can report them for not attending and the student can be dropped if they don’t show the first five days of class (which is also the period of full refund for the class). Just as the individual instructor can choose whether or not to have attendance policies, instructors can decide for themselves to implement the administrative withdrawal policy. Prior to the policy, Steward says that students who kept missing class would find out at the end of the quarter that their grade was a 0.0, which is one of the reasons why the policy was put into place. Another reason for the creation of the policy is because of the waitlists. For students not attending and once instructors withdraw them, it might lead to an opening. “Some (faculty) use it and say ‘well, if the first person on the list comes, I will add you’ if somebody drops. So, that is a benefit there, but it’s still no guarantee,” Steward said. According to Steward, the administrative withdrawal policy is designed to emphasize the importance of being in class, since a student may miss out on valuable learning if they aren’t present. It holds the student responsible. As far as attendance goes, various Pierce College students have views on the policies for their own classes. Student Jasmine Reed says attendance policies should be based on the excuse. “If they are just not coming for no apparent reason, then they should be punished,” Reed said. “But if they have a problem – like most college students have kids, or family, and if there is personal thing – that’s a totally different story.” For student Christopher Frank, he feels that professors should allow students to miss up to 7-10 classes. “At the start of the quarter, I was sick for two days so I automatically used up my two absences,” Frank said. Frank says that for his political science class, students can miss two to three days while for his math class, students can miss four days, and then grades become affected. “I like the math policy better because it allows four days versus two or three because sometimes you can’t help being absent if you’re sick,” Frank said. Whether there will ever be a policy for, such as the Truancy (Becca Bill) and Compulsory Attendance policy, it’s not a concern for Pierce. It’s a college with more freedom for students to do as they please and each professor reserves the right to their own classroom policies. Former Editor-in-Chief at The Puyallup Post Latest posts by Grace Amsden (see all) How to roast pumpkin seeds - November 11, 2016 Looking at the bigger picture: new movie club - November 11, 2016 Student musician on campus plans to take passion to Japan - November 11, 2016 Tags: Archives Previous Fightin’ Words: Should teachers have an attendance policy? Next Pierce president raises scholarship funds by Grace Amsden time to read: 3 min Archives Pierce president raises scholarship funds Archives Fightin’ Words: Should teachers have an atte…	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1121
__label__cc	0.655307	0.344693	The Lily Garden Yuri visual novels, yuri anime, and yuri manga Visual Novel Reviews Anime Series Reviews Written Features “Best Girl in Aqours” Series Common Anime Features Thoughts on Yuri Anime What About? Misc. Articles How do you feel about honorifics? Anime, Love Live!, Love Live! Sunshine!!, Love Live! Sunshine!! 2nd Season A lot of anime fans make a big fuss about honorifics. Some may even argue that a translation isn’t authentic or accurate if honorifics are dropped. I find that sort of dismissive attitude to be too fussy (plus the specifics and semantics of “genuine” translations, localizations, etc are not the topic of this post), but I do admit that I prefer honorifics being included. That’s because honorifics shed some interesting insight regarding how a character perceives his or her relationship with others. In my opinion, such subtleties are lost if honorifics are abandoned. For instance, a character who doesn’t use any honorifics at all might come across as being blunt, or overly familiar, or not particularly caring for social graces. When people get close to one another they might drop honorifics (it’s especially noticeable in regards to lovers), but this particular character skips the prerequisite bonding and just starts calling people by their surname or given name. The interpretation of this character may vary wildly, but it’s an element that would be readily less apparent if honorifics were not included in the translation at all. There are also individuals who addresses everyone with the -san honorific, which is apparently rather normal in real life. This practice paints a particular picture, however, when the individual insists on calling most people “__________-san” while only calling a select few by their first or last name (with no honorifics). Is there a sense of distance between the individual and others? Does the individual feel like he or she is closer to others? Does the individual feel like he or she needs to convey respect towards those who he or she addresses with the -san honorific? These are the sort of thoughts I think when I see a character who is stubbornly consistent with calling nearly everyone “__________-san.” Reminder: Love Live! Sunshine!! S2 episode 4 was basically about Dia trying to get her juniors to call her “Dia-chan” instead of “Dia-san.” Is this confirmation that honorifics are a big deal?! What I find interesting is when someone uses honorifics in public but doesn’t do so mentally. For example, A-san might call B-san, well, “B-san” when they interact, but A-san might think of B-san as just “B” in his or her thoughts. To me, this indicates that A-san is cognizant of their own relationship and is adhering to the social standard that is expected during their interactions, but A-san is a bit more relaxed when it comes to long and revealing internal monologues. Or maybe A-san wishes they were closer to B-san? Such nuances are definitely up to personal interpretation, but again, it’s something that would have been missing entirely if honorifics were dropped altogether. It gets more interesting when we look at “-kun.” Said honorific is often used to address male characters and is more familiar than “-san” (in other words, if A-san starts saying “B-kun” instead of “B-san,” then something must have happened which resulted in the two of them dating feeling closer to one another). But the “-kun” honorific can also denote that the addressed is of a lower position than the addressee. And, believe it or not, “-kun” can be used for women, too. Teachers in particular might use “-kun” for female students in order to denote the difference in social standing while avoiding the potential connotation and infamy that might come with addressing a student with the intimate “-chan” honorific. So does A-san feel closer to “B-kun” or is A-san subtly reminding B-san of their respective positions on the totem pole? See, this sort of potential controversy would be completely absent if the translations just had A-san calling B-san “B.” Honorifics sure are interesting, huh? There is soooo much more to talk about in regards to honorifics. There’s “-sama.” What about “-dono?” Don’t forget “-chan,” “-chin,” and “-tan,” too! But for now, I’ll stop here. What do you think of honorifics? I would love to hear your thoughts! July 24, 2018 July 24, 2018 Remy FoolAnime, honorifics, Kurosawa Dia, Love Live! Sunshine!!, Love Live! Sunshine!! 2nd Season 54 thoughts on “How do you feel about honorifics?” I think it’s very very evident how I feel about honorifics 😂😂 In my culture (tradition?) we have our own set of honorifics, but it works differently from the way Japanese honorifics work. For us it isn’t added to the name, rather to the pronouns. Different levels of respect go with pronouns while relations go with names. I’ve been brought up that way, so I find it really uncomfortable to address older or more experienced people as ‘you’, but English doesn’t give us anything else to work with so had to go with the Japanese as we are blogging about anime and all. And there I’ve digressed from the topic. But sometimes the manga translators don’t bother to keep the san or kun and honestly, it irks me. Or they make it mr. And I get so annoyed. Sometimes the translator change midway and stop using honorifics and I get so confused, “When did they get so close??” Once again great pick of the topic Remy-nii. And once again, sorry for the long comment 😅 Pingback: Must-read Monthly Monday (August 2018 ed.) – The Animanga Spellbook Manga Addict Alice says: Personally I always feel like something is really missing if honorifics are excluded from a dub. It provides you with a really intimate sense of character’s relationships, as well maintaining more cultural authenticity. But then again, I say that now as a Japanese studies student who has basically had their different usages drummed in to my soul. I can remember them being seriously confusing when I first started watching anime as a teen. Remy Fool says: Mmm they’re a bit confusing for those who are just beginning to get into anime, but honorifics really do add a little element that’s hard to express otherwise like you said. I’m for them, too, but it’s probably not a black-and-white issue. To be honest, I don’t even notice them when they are gone. I just assume they were think of a western audience. Hmmm that’s possible! Awwwww…. Remi-kun, I love honorifics! I agree that sometimes they can be inconsistent. I love having them in anime because it reminds me of what a respectful society these anime come from. I also don’t just love them in anime, but my K-Drama as well! They’ve changed a lot recently and become more modern, so a lot of honorifics have been dropped, but I loved when I first started watching them and you couldn’t be around a boy you didn’t know unless you grew up with them and you were very close so they would be Oppa, women you are close to like a sister to another woman is Noona, for men it is Hyung and Unnie. I love it! 💖 Mmmm honorifics are great! Hahaha I took a Korean history class in uni and my professor told me that girls just need to call older guys oppa to make them melt. Men are easy ;__; magicconan14 (Aria) says: I don’t quite care either way because I understand the arguments on both sides. On one hand, when I started reading manga (a few years before I started learning Japanese) I read some which had the honorific explanation so I got fairly used to them early on. Then again, I see Funimation/Viz try to drop/substitute them as much as possible (“En-chan” -> “Enny” is a horrendous substitute because while it works in cultural equivalence it doesn’t sound quite right, while “Tsu-chan” -> “Tsu” is more reasonable because it’s natural-sounding and culturally equivalent), but that’s because they’re handling most of the anime/manga which appeal to a wider audience. In short, it’s very much a case-by-case basis, where the translator needs to make a choice that fits the context and then make it as consistent as they can without compromising the rest of the translation. …then again, in the internet age, even if you translated with honorifics then had someone who didn’t understand read them, they’re just a search away from understanding you… Pingback: In Case You Missed It – 100WordAnime OG-Man says: When the people in question put great importance in honorifics then so do I. Like in the aforementioned “Perfect Episode” (You know which one). I even adapted to addressing my online gal pals with “-chan”, senpai or “-sama” on occasion…so yes I’m cool with honorifics. Makes sense to me! It was a pretty fun episode, yes! One of the best episodes of 2017 without a doubt. Pingback: Anime Blog Posts That Caught My Eye This Week: July 27, 2018 \| Lesley's Anime and Manga Corner Dawnstorm says: Would you believe that this is a terribly confusing topic for me? First, a little background on myself. I’ve studied sociology at University and have a degree. At the time I did this, you needed a secondary subject to complement your first, and I chose “Anglistics and Americanistics”, which is a mish-mash of linguistics, English language in particular, and cultural studies. I’ve always been particularly interested in linguistics, and also in translation. I’ve participated in poetry translation workshops in eccess of what I needed to graduate, because I loved the excercise, and I had two translations published, one of which got picked up by another mag and was re-published. The point of this: I have fairly well ingrained ideas on translation, and I know what theories I’m in opposition to. I understand those other theories and don’t think they ruin anything. Translation isn’t just translation: you can’t do a word-for-word and hope to be comprehensible. And some concepts just don’t translate well. Generally, there are two opposed theories on localisation: (1) make the translation as comprehensible as possible to an audience who knows nothing about the culture from which the work springs: localise references you won’t get, iron out target-language associations that are not in the original language (e.g. Pokémon vs. Pokemon in English, to block a certain pronunciation and association – wanna poke Pikachu?) etc. – or (2) stick as close as possible to the original text and give the audience the opportunity to engage with a culture they don’t quite understand yet. I’m firmly in the stick-to-the-text camp. I won’t have the full experience, but the more I read, the more I’ll pick up. From childhood on, I’ve gone for subtitled films over dubbed films, anime or no, just for that reason. But there’s a problem: notice how often “as much as possible” comes up in the above paragraph? No matter what theory you prefer, there will be times you find yourself using techniques from the opposing camp. You have take things on a case-by-case basis. Some things just don’t translate, but those are hard to approximate, too, and you have to get creative. Honorifics sit squarely in that no-man’s-land. You can’t translate them, but you also can’t just leave them in. Since you translate everything else, the likelihood that you keep the subtleties that let you figure out relationship stuff through them is low. It’s not a problem with subs, since you have subtitles and audio complementing each other, but in, say, a novel? Say you’re hired to translate a light novel. Leave honorifics in? It sounds rather strange in English, and though your audience may get used to it, do you preserve enough subtleties in English to warrant the inclusion? Then there’s the target audience: there’s likely to be huge overlap between the anime and light novel audiences, but how many of them actually prefer subs? How many of them are actually familiar enough with honorifics to understand the subtleties without prompting? Enough to sell the novels? I’d like to say “include honorifics in translation,” but then I wonder if there isn’t an imbalance with the rest of the translation, and that strange mix, rather than aiding understanding, doesn’t actually aid a stagnant exoticsm, a sort-of “honorifics are so cool” effect instead? I’m slightly leaning towards leaving them off, even though everything in me screams “leave them in”. It’s not an easy-to-decide topic for me, and I understand both sides. I’d imagine leaving them in to be easier to justify in highly formalised settings (say “court intrigue” stories that are openly about diplomacy) – mostly, because if all the language is carefully controlled, you get away with a more stilted, less natural tone. In that sense, it’s probably a case-by-case decision. In any case, it’s not an issue with subs for me, since I have the orignal audio anyway. I tend towards leaving them off in subs (less to read is a plus when the text on screen is timed). Dubs? I don’t really know. But considering that a lot of the time even the names are mispronounced, I don’t think there’s much point leaving them in. People who care probably go for subs anyway. So once again, probably leave them out. I really have no clear-cut position on this topic, but it’s something like: sympathetic to leaving them in, but in practice probably leaving them out more often than not. Mmm it’s obviously a far messier topic than what I had presented but I think you presented a very thorough point of view. Thanks for sharing. I sometimes wonder if it’s the topics that are messy, or if it’s my mind. Sometimes, it’s definitely my mind. Example: you carry lots of bags and have to open the door. How do you balance them? How much time do you spend thinking about it? Or do you just put down the bags and open the door? Well, I don’t. I spend some time thinking and then balance some of them on the wrist of the hand I’ll use to unlock the door. Welcome to my mind. [It’s not that I do it on purpose. I sometimes just can’t see the simple solutions.] I liked your post a lot, but I think that may have gotten lost in that wall of words. Hmmm I think I understand. I’m not implying yours is the same, but my own mind is definitely at least a little abnormal. I have difficulty quantifying it, though. In regards to the opening the door while wielding multiple bags conundrum, I would consider moving all the bags to one hand so I can quickly fetch out the keys (which is very situational and dependent on how many bags I’m talking about here) or putting the bags on the floor. But your preferred method is usually the one I opt for when I know there’s no one else inside. If I know there’s someone who can assist me and I want them to do some extra work, I use my forehead to knock on the door. Maybe that’s not the brightest idea, but that’s how I roll sometimes. Sometimes the simple solutions aren’t the best! I still think the wrist method is the best overall. Ah, thank you. No worries! I registered that honorific s were important, but for some reason treated them as an after thought. Then about a month ago I was watching an older series and I noticed that didn’t characters said each others names differently and it just clicked. I started enjoying the series a lot more after that. Ohhhh yeah it’s kind of subtle yet noticeable like that haha. Which older series are you talking about? Magical Angel Creamy Mami, hearing the way the characters address each other gave the series a new depth for me. Good thing to, because it really doesn’t have much depth. I usually prefer honorifics kept in. However, for series that are clearly set in place where they don’t speak Japanese, then they shouldn’t be included, although replacements like Mr./Ms. may be needed. It does drive me a little crazy like how Yen Press manga uses honorifics but Yen On light novels don’t. It can be the same series and same translator, but two different handlings of names and stuff! Strong opinions there! But it is a bit jarring to see British characters in the UK use honorifics. Whoa, that’s wild! And maybe a bit inconsistent? Yeah, it’s a bit discombobulating to go from, for example, “Chi-Sis” to “Chi-ne-cha” (baby talk). Plus, “Chi-Sis” sounds like she’s trying to say “Jesus”… rossiroad says: Just watch Legend of the galactic heroes, there is so much more there due to the military system. Honorifics are an important part of Japanese culture so I think that it’s good to have as it explores things not really possible in English. However if you’re subbed then you can hear the “san”/”kun” anyway so writing it doesn’t really matter and is just a preference in my opinion. jerem says: I actually feel uncomfortable when subs don’t have honorifics. I think which honorifcs a certain character use to refer to other characters give a lot of insight to what type of person they are. One example I could remember clearly is the Love Live Sunshine episode where Dia wanted to be referred to as Dia-chan because -chan is a title for endearment. Yeah, I feel the same way. Mmm, that was the recent example I decided to mention! I feel the honorifics do add something important to the character relationships and while sometimes the bluntness or respect or other aspects end up being conveyed in other ways in translations that drop them, there’s still a little something lost. That said, I don’t think it is the be all and end all. if a translation keeps honorifics, I enjoy them. If it drops them, then as long as it all still makes sense that’s fine. I find it weird though when in the original Japanese a character either changed how they called a character or the honorific they used and then the English has to give the character some ridiculous nickname to try to mimic the process, or it just ignores that particular step in the relationship. Either way I feel something gets lost here. Mmm, I agree. I feel like I have to add that sometimes things are lost simply due to the fact that there was a translation involved. Sometimes certain puns only make sense in Japanese, for instance. Sure, we can try to accommodate and maybe in the long run it’s not a big deal if nuances are lost. But in regards to honorifics, there really is something there and silly nicknames don’t quite bridge the gap like you said. Jon Spencer says: I don’t really care that much. It can come across as kind of stilted and forced in some dubs but other times it fits in seamlessly. Kind of case-by-case. Oh, right, dubs. Forgot to take dubs into consideration. Wait… I totally thought that’s what you meant. Like, this kind of thing in dubs lol. Well either way, my thoughts don’t really change. LaurelsCode says: Honorífics where a weird concept at the begging, I mean I’m used to call my peers by names or nicknames… So seeing young people being a bit formal with each other was weird but it’s nice to know that other cultures work a tad different than yours. As for how important they are the only thing I imagine is when lovers star calling each other by name as a way to show intimacy (I guess you can translate that as using petnames?) Yeah, it’s a little different compared to what many of us are used to. Hmmm sounds reasonable to me! As a country who doesn’t really use honorofics at all, I think one of the things that I have always found interesting and quite frankly something I have real respect for, in Japanese movies/anime is the use of honorifics. I don’t know them all, nor do I know all the exact rules for when to use certain ones, but I do think it’s one of the things that makes it only feel more authentic. I have no particular objection when they are lost in a translation, but I do think it loses some power, if they are not used. Wonderful post about a very interesting subject. Ah, makes sense. It does take some getting used to, but I think honorifics add a little special something that cannot be replicated otherwise. tetrax4berium says: I think when it comes to translation of the medium, it is best to stick to the honorifics when it is used. As you have mentioned, honorifics is an important story-telling element in some anime. Using the A-san B-san example, if the translation decides to do away with the ‘san’, less experienced viewers may not pick up on the slight detail (and potential implication on the plot, if it has). Of course, it really wouldn’t matter too much if a viewer doesn’t take much notice in the honorifics from the start. For myself, I enjoy reading the subtleties, because I can then try to understand said characters/scenario better. I don’t know, I like complicated stuff. 😛 Yeah, I suppose it really depends on the sort of viewer you are. There’s no one way to watch a series, after all. But complication and nuance and details is what helps keep a story interesting to me, too. Editing my comments on mobile is a pain….I’m glad we’re on the same side! moyatori says: I always wonder how people who develop romantic/platonic relationships come to drop the honorifics (or switch to a more intimate one). Who’s going to start?? When’s the right moment? Do you address the issue in a conversation? I must be overthinking it, but it just feels so stressful! From what I’ve seen in anime/drama, there’s usually a consensus (both of them have a feeling of their relationship developing into something more than friends — Really good friends?!), which when one of them drops the honorifics the other will either 1) Be surprised at first, but follows suit easily or 2) Acknowledge it like it should have happened some time ago. Then again, it also depends on how the person who initiates does it. Does that person do it clumsily/awkwardly/boldly/casually. (wait… I’m forgetting about the contrast of one-way and two-way communication in the context…) I think there’s no need to overthink from a 3rd person point of view, but I sure agree that if one is in that person’s shoes it can certainly be very stressful! Yeah, that’s what I get from the occasional anime too. It must take great courage to take that first step. It does sound so stressful! I guess it depends on the individuals involved. Good thing we don’t have to deal with that, phew. RisefromAshes says: For me since I lived there awhile it’s a habit to use them, more or less. My host family actually yelled at me for using them and formal language since we are ‘family’. I almost genuinely cried that day. That being said I’ve gotten in some really deep shit for NOT using at least san in work situations, and in other social interactions. Then again, that was in real life not anime. I prefer them now that it’s been ingrained through subs and real life. Sometimes people read too much into them, other times people miss out on those subtle nuances they provide. All and all, basic context about why they’re important would be helpful but not a requirement when watching. Whoa that is so touching. And that is scary. Real life is terrifying!! Mmm that’s a very reasonable stance. Nothing is black and white despite what hastily written posts about honorifics might possibly lead you to believe. Real life is both touching and terrifying! Nothing like these anime moments!! lmao I try to be reasonable with my approach to life, sometimes it works lol. It’s always interesting to see people’s thoughts on various things though. I hadn’t really thought about it all for ages until I seriously watched ‘Rose of Versailles’ and was screaming at some characters for not properly using them for other people (Andre got a pass though). I’m a subs man, so I’m not too fussy about honorifics being kept in so long as I can still hear the Japanese audio. I think there’s a lot of context you can imply from the use of honorifics (along with the way people refer to themselves — watashi, ore, boku, watakushi etc) that doesn’t necessarily really “work” if translated into English, but if you understand enough of the Japanese to be able to get that context from the original source while still reading the subs, that’s good enough for me. That’s more or less my position which I conveniently left out of the post, yay. I hadn’t considered this from the dubs perspective, oops. Luminous Mongoose says: In my country, we also use honorifics, and it’s honestly just a culture thing. Even though I have been thoroughly westernized, it really just sticks with me to use honorifics around older people. Not so for younger peeps than me tho, first name all the way. Sounds reasonable to me. I’m also throughly westernized but I try to keep honorifics in mind when I’m addressing my elders. For English-speaking peers, though, I’m also with you. We gon be intimate as Japanese lovers by jumping to a first name basis. Unless if I feel revolted by you. Then we’re on a last name basis. If they’ve a funny name, then it’s a full name basis! marthaurion says: i pretty much agree. i have a preference for preserving honorifics because they add a layer of nuance that’s hard to translate. barring that, i would say to just leave them out. i personally think that trying to localize them is the worst option, because it leads to some really awkward names… Mmm makes sense to me. GO AHEAD MISTA JOESTAR Thiago Margarida says: I’ve seen this discussion on Twitter and Reddit and some people, including Frog-kun and some Japanese anime fans pointed out that western anime fans gives way more importance to that than it actually have. In the end, I prefer honorifics for the sake of being anime/light novel, but I think for light novels, not including honorifics may help the medium reach a broader audience, who won’t understand or care for the honorifics anyway Yeah, I referenced those sort of discussions early on only to go on to vaguely talk about why I appreciate honorifics, even though they’re not strictly necessary. Ah, I guess dropping honorifics might allow anime appeal to a wider audience. Good point. I-it's not like I want you to leave a comment or anything. B-baka. Cancel reply Previous Previous post: Saki: Interhigh Finals Predictions Next Next post: Is there a purpose to episode previews? Follow The Lily Garden on WordPress.com ❀˳꒰´◡`꒱❀ Blog Stats! 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__label__wiki	0.679834	0.679834	(TV) PROJECT RUNWAY PHILIPPINES SEASON 3 Finale Airs JULY 1 on ETC In a twist none of the contestants expected, for the first time in Project Runway Philippines history, four designers will be heading to the Final Runway. Tune in onJuly 1, Sunday at 8PM on ETC to see Milka Quin Redoble, Cheetah Rivera, Nel Claveria, Jr., and Amor Albano as they compete to be declared Project Runway Philippines Season 3 champion. Milka, a 34-year old online fashion entrepreneur from Pasig City, established herself as an early favorite when she wowed judges with her “butanding-inspired” dress and elegant jumpsuit to win the first and third challenges. Then in episode nine her dessert inspired dress won her, her third challenge and immunity, something that came in very useful when she failed to deliver an avante-garde creation. Having started on a high, Milka enters the finale having placed in the bottom group of designers for the past two challenges; will she be able to redeem herself at the Final Runway? Cheetah, a 24-year old fashion designer from Manila, had a rocky start on the show as she learned early on that time management is crucial in the competition when she broke the 15-minute shopping rule while getting materials. In the food inspired challenge Cheetah found herself for the first time in risk of elimination only to bounce back to win the next three challenges and a spot in the finale. Her ingénue with material, out of the box design aesthetic and winning streak makes her a favorite entering the Final Runway. Nel, a 30-year old overseas based fashion designer from Camarines Sur, impressed judges to score his only challenge win in the second episode of the season with his binakol made dress. After that he found himself facing the judges as part of the bottom group of designers three more times prior to earning his spot in the final four. Swinging from top to bottom constantly, Nel is the only finalist out of the four to have won only one challenge. With a strong technique in construction, what surprises does Nel, the season’s dark horse, have up his sleeve for his Final Collection? Amor, a 28-year old fashion designer from Laoag City, was struck by home sickness early on in the competition as she appealed to the judges to let her go home. Refusing to let her leave as they saw potential in her work, Amor then continued on in the competition to win the men’s clothing challenge with her futuristic hoodie vest. Having started off emotionally weak, the judges have proven to Amor that her plea to quit would have been a big mistake as she would have ultimately missed out on the biggest moment of her career, a chance to show a collection at Project Runway Philippines Final Runway. So, who’s in and who’s out? Tune in on July 1, Sunday at 8PM on ETC for the final showdown to find out who will be the next Runway Royalty. ETC is seen on free TV RPN-9, Sky Cable Ch. 14, Destiny Cable Ch. 14, Cable Link Ch. 12 and Cignal Ch. 14 in Metro Manila. For subscription please call your local cable provider.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0043.json.gz/line1129

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