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16 Dec 2014

Equality, Efficiency and Economic Theory (Social Journal Europe)

Dani Rodrik, Good And Bad Inequality
Dani Rodrik
In the pantheon of economic theories, the tradeoff between equality and efficiency used to occupy an exalted position. The American economist Arthur Okun, whose classic work on the topic is called Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff, believed that public policies revolved around managing the tension between those two values. As recently as 2007, when New York University economist Thomas Sargent, addressing the graduating class at the University of California, Berkeley, summarized the wisdom of economics in 12 short principles, the tradeoff was among them.
Early this year, economists at the International Monetary Fund produced empirical results that seemed to upend the old consensus. They found that greater equality is associated with faster subsequent medium-term growth, both across and within countries.
Moreover, redistributive policies did not appear to have any detrimental effects on economic performance. We can have our cake, it seems, and eat it, too. That is a striking result – all the more so because it comes from the IMF, an institution hardly known for heterodox or radical ideas.
According to Dani Rodrik, we have to distinguish between good and bad inequality.
On the other hand, Venezuela’s aggressive redistributive transfers under Hugo Chávez and his successor, Nicolás Maduro, were financed by temporary oil revenues, placing both the transfers and macroeconomic stability at risk. Even though inequality has been reduced in Venezuela (for the time being), the economy’s growth prospects have been severely weakened.
Latin America is the only world region where inequality has declined since the early 1990s. Improved social policies and increased investment in education have been substantial factors. But the decline in the pay differential between skilled and unskilled workers – what economists call the “skill premium” – has also played an important role. Whether this is good news or bad for economic growth depends on why the skill premium has fallen.
If pay differentials have narrowed because of an increase in the relative supply of skilled workers, we can be hopeful that declining inequality in Latin America will not stand in the way of faster growth (and may even be an early indicator of it). But if the underlying cause is the decline in demand for skilled workers, smaller differentials would suggest that the modern, skill-intensive industries on which future growth depends are not expanding sufficiently.
In the advanced countries, the causes of rising inequality are still being debated. Automation and other technological changes, globalization, weaker trade unions, erosion of minimum wages, financialization, and changing norms about acceptable pay gaps within enterprises have all played a role, with different weights in the United States relative to Europe. Each one of these drivers has a different effect on growth. While technological progress clearly fosters growth, the rise of finance since the 1990s has probably had an adverse effect, via financial crises and the accumulation of debt.

24 Oct 2014

Ha-Joon Chang, Political Class
Ha-Joon Chang

Will The Juncker Commission Continue To Entrench Neoliberal Policies?

Lukas Oberndorfer, Juncker Commission
Lukas Oberndorfer

The Neoliberal Reform Alliance Is Targeting The Remaining Countries

Old Ideas, New Candour: Enforceability For The Commission’s Recommendations

Overcoming Democratic Obstacles

11 Oct 2014

NEW THOUGHTS ON CAPITAL - Thomas Piketty (From TED Talks)

1 Oct 2014

If You Look At One Graph About Inequality Look At This!

Henning Meyer
Henning Meyer

29 Sep 2014

Th Austerity Disaster and its impact - Lessons for New Zealand? (From Social Europe)

Europe’s Austerity Disaster

Joseph Stiglitz, Austerity Disaster
Joseph Stiglitz
“If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the theory,” goes the old adage. But too often it is easier to keep the theory and change the facts – or so German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other pro-austerity European leaders appear to believe. Though facts keep staring them in the face, they continue to deny reality.
The European economy is still in major trouble and the policy direction is making matters worse, according to Joseph Stiglitz.
Likewise, Italy is being encouraged to accelerate privatization. But Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has the good sense to recognize that selling national assets at fire-sale prices makes little sense. Long-run considerations, not short-run financial exigencies, should determine which activities occur in the private sector. The decision should be based on where activities are carried out most efficiently, serving the interests of most citizens the best.

The Damage Fallacies of Neo-Liberal economics cause

Neoliberalism has brought out the worst in us

City of London and Canary Wharf

25 Jul 2014

Why the Super-Rich need Governments. (from Social Europe Journal)

Dani Rodrik

The very rich, F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote, “are different from you and me.” Their wealth makes them “cynical where we are trustful,” and makes them think “they are better than we are.” If these words ring true today, perhaps it is because when they were written, in 1926, inequality in the United States had reached heights comparable to today.
During much of the intervening period, between the end of World War II and the 1980s, inequality in the advanced countries was moderate. The gap between the super-rich and the rest of society seemed less colossal – not just in terms of income and wealth, but also in terms of attachments and social purpose. The rich had more money, of course, but they somehow still seemed part of the same society as the poor, recognizing that geography and citizenship made them share a common fate.
As the University of Michigan’s Mark Mizruchi points out in a recent book, the American corporate elite in the postwar era had “an ethic of civic responsibility and enlightened self-interest.” They cooperated with trade unions and favored a strong government role in regulating and stabilizing markets. They understood the need for taxes to pay for important public goods such as the interstate highway and safety nets for the poor and elderly.
By contrast, today’s super-rich are “moaning moguls,” to use James Surowiecki’s evocative term. Exhibit A for Surowiecki is Stephen Schwarzman, the chairman and CEO of the private equity firm the Blackstone Group, whose wealth now exceeds $10 billion.
Surowiecki thinks that the change in attitudes has much to do with globalization. Large American corporations and banks now roam the globe freely, and are no longer so dependent on the US consumer. The health of the American middle class is of little interest to them these days. Moreover, Surowiecki argues, socialism has gone by the wayside, and there is no need to coopt the working class anymore.
Yet if corporate moguls think that they no longer need to rely on their national governments, they are making a huge mistake. The reality is that the stability and openness of the markets that produce their wealth have never depended more on government action.
The super rich are now more separated from the rest of society than ever before (photo: CC 4WheelsofLux Photography on Flickr)
In periods of relative calm, governments’ role in writing and upholding the rules by which markets function can become obscured. It may seem as if markets are on autopilot, with governments an inconvenience that is best avoided.
As former Bank of England Governor Mervyn King aptly put it in the context of finance, “global banks are global in life, but national in death.”
But when economic storm clouds gather on the horizon, everyone seeks shelter under their home government’s cover. It is then that the ties that bind large corporations to their native soil are fully revealed. As former Bank of England Governor Mervyn King aptly put it in the context of finance, “global banks are global in life, but national in death.”
Consider how the US government stepped in to ensure financial and economic stability during the global financial crisis of 2008-2009. If the government had not bailed out large banks, the insurance giant AIG, and the auto industry, and if the Federal Reserve had not flooded the economy with liquidity, the wealth of the super-rich would have taken a severe blow. Many argued that the government should have focused on rescuing homeowners; instead, the government chose to support the banks – a policy from which the financial elite benefited the most.
Even in normal times, the super-rich depend on government support and action. It is largely the government that has financed the fundamental research that produced the information-technology revolution and the firms (such as Apple and Microsoft) that it has spawned.
It is the government that enacts and enforces the copyright, patent, and trademark laws that protect intellectual property rights, guaranteeing successful innovators a steady stream of monopoly profits. It is the government that subsidizes the higher-education institutions that train the skilled work force. It is the government that negotiates trade agreements with other countries to ensure that domestic firms gain access to foreign markets.
There is no reason to expect that the super-rich will act less selfishly than any other group. But it is not so much their self-interest that stands in the way of greater equality and social inclusion. The more significant roadblock is the missing recognition that markets cannot produce prosperity for long – for anyone – unless they are backed by healthy societies and good governance.

8 Jul 2014

YESTERDAY'S RUBBISH..why is a minimum wage different from Free Trade?

Andrew Watt
Andrew Watt
Germany’s first post-war Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is usually held to be the origin of an often-quoted phrase „Was kümmert mich mein Geschwätz von gestern?“. Roughly: why should I be concerned about the rubbish I talked yesterday? Whatever the rights and wrongs of this attribution, the phrase – used to draw attention to someone who places political flexibility over intellectual consistency – has occurred to me numerous times over recent months in the context of Germany’s debate over the introduction of a statutory minimum wage.

The statutory minimum wage in Germany

The decision was finally taken yesterday in the Bundestag. Germany will, for the first time in its history, apply a statutory minimum wage of EUR 8.50 to almost all workers from the start of 2015. It is estimated that up to 3.7 million workers will benefit, and given very pronounced wage inequality at the bottom of the German labour market, the wage rises for some workers will be substantial. There is a two-year transition phase for pre-existing sectoral collective agreements. A number of groups of workers have been excluded, some permanently the majority for a transition period, from the minimum wage requirement, which has given rise to an intense debate in the country.
This debate about exemptions, as with the battle over the minimum wage more generally, has centred, unsurprisingly, on possible negative employment effects. Once the minimum wage has been introduced it will be possible to analyse its employment effects, even if this will be difficult because its impact will not be easy to disentangle from that of other factors happening at the same time. For the moment, one has to rely on studies focusing on past minimum wage introductions and increases in other countries. The thrust of that literature is that, provided the minimum wage is at a “reasonable rate”, it is very hard to identify negative employment effects in the aggregate. (For a discussion of whether EUR 8.50 is “reasonable” in the German context see here.)
What we will see though is a lot of “argument by anecdote”. Firm A in region B has been forced into bankruptcy by wage increases necessitated by the minimum wage. Worker C in city D was happy about the minimum wage when it was being discussed, but now he is furious because instead of a job paying EUR 6.50 he is unemployed. Indeed, we are already seeing this argument being deployed in the form of threats and predictions. Handelsblatt, the German business daily, recently had a piece whose title asks whether the minimum wage will lead to bankruptcies (“Pleiten dank Mindestlohn?”, Handelsblatt, 15.05.14). The article answers the rhetorical question in the affirmative, based on the opinions of the director of the hotel and catering lobby organisation, the board chairman of a chain of hairdressers, and the president of the German employers association BDA. And this concern has been expressed by many liberal economists, by employer-linked think tanks such as the Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft[1], and, not least, by the German Council of Economic Advisers.[2]

Political flexibility or intellectual consistency?

What I find interesting here is less the specific arguments put forward (which are rather weak) than the fact that the basis for the arguments is completely at odds with the way that employers’ representatives[3], and certainly liberal economists, normally position themselves. It is as if, on the issue of the minimum wage they are collectively saying: why should I be concerned about the rubbish I talked yesterday?
Consider the debate on free trade. A country has tariffs that protect a sector of its economy. They are removed, leading to job losses and bankruptcies in the least productive firms in that sector. Do employer representatives and liberal economists favour an anecdotal approach here and call for the reimposition of tariffs in order to protect jobs and companies? On the whole they take a very different line. The production and employment protected by the tariffs is “inefficient”. Free trade brings a welcome does of competition. It enables higher incomes and a shift of production to areas in which the country has a comparative advantage. Workers who lose their jobs move to more productive occupations or regions and everyone is better off. (At least, the more sophisticated would add, this is the case after an intervening adjustment period.) Focusing on protecting “old” jobs is a barrier to productivity and progress. One cannot judge from individual job losses that the overall employment level must fall.
A similar argument is put forward with respect to technological change. Yes, some workers are thrown out of work when new, more efficient machinery and production processes are introduced. Others have to adjust through training. But here, too, the overall impact is beneficial (after a lag), because lost employment can be recouped elsewhere in the economy, as higher-productivity jobs pay higher wages that in turn expand employment opportunities for workers in other parts of the economy. If you are against technological change you are a Luddite and economically illiterate.
This begs the question why different standards seemingly apply in the case of the minimum wage. Firms facing a rise in labour costs in the wake of its introduction have a number of ways to adjust. (These are not mutually exclusive in practice but can be separated for expositional purposes.) They can increase prices. Given that the minimum wage applies across the whole economy (i.e. will not just affect individual firms) this is likely to happen. Relative prices will adjust: the prices of goods and services produced with the use of large quantities of low-skilled labour will increase relative to those using more high-skill labour and capital. The economic (not technical) productivity of the low-wage workers will rise, thanks to higher product and service prices, to match the increase in their wages. Or firms can raise their productivity (in the technical sense), through innovation and reorganisation, just like a firm facing a dose of wholesome foreign competition because tariffs have been cut. Companies may also accept a lower profitability, and the wage share would rise somewhat. (If nothing else, this would make Thomas Picketty happy).
But, undoubtedly, in some firms these adjustment strategies may not be practicable or sufficient. Some may lay off workers and others be forced to close. This is the basis for the anecdotal argument. But surely, given their normal argumentative pattern, business representatives and liberal economists should be vociferously pointing out that this is actually not a problem, certainly not an inevitable one. For as we have seen a minimum wage has very similar effects to a bracing dose of foreign competition or the “creative destruction” associated with technology. Induced productivity gains and higher wages generate additional income that sustains employment in firms across the whole economy. Those employers that cannot keep up are forced out of business. And the labour that is displaced will, or at least should[4], be rapidly deployed to other regions or sectors where it can be put to more productive use.

Yesterday’s rubbish?

From the macroeconomic point of view it makes no sense at all to lock a large proportion of the workforce into low-paid, low-productivity jobs. If they were consistent, liberal economists and employers’ front organisations should be making that point. But they are not. It could be that they have suddenly abandoned liberal views as yesterday’s rubbish. This is implausible, however. The argument still applies in other areas; see for example the salutatory effects that such commentators ascribe to the TTIP (Transtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership).
Rather the discrepancy is presumably because the same effect is produced by two different causes: trade or technological change, on the one hand, which are seen as market outcomes, and the minimum wage, on the other, which is perceived as an market intervention. This dichotomy is wrong, or at least oversimplistic, of course. Trade and technology are also highly regulated, while many economists argue that the minimum wage (at a reasonable level) is correcting a market imperfection that gives undue power to employers. But even those who believe in it should be aware of the inconsistency of using anecdotal argument from individual companies as a stick with which to beat the minimum wage.
It will be quite some time before careful studies, with all the required controls, are made of the employment impacts of the introduction of the statutory minimum wage in Germany. Until they are done, expect a lot of heart-rending anecdotal argument about job losses and bankruptcies. And when you hear or read them, remember to confront those making such arguments with Konrad Adenauer, or whoever it was who said: Was kümmert mich mein Geschwätz von gestern?

[1] In its „eight facts about the minimum wage“ the INSM states baldly (translation mine) „ The introduction of a minimum wage, whatever ist level, destroys all those jobs that no longer pay. And a job no longer pays when the employer gets less from it than he pays the worker. And so it is clear: the higher the minimum wgae, the greater the job losses.“
[2] In their annual report 2013/2014. It is worth emphasising that one of the „Five wise persons“, Peter Bofinger, dissented from the majority view on the minimum wage issue.
[3] The following may not apply to heads of individual companies, who can be very protectionist, but it usually does to those representing employer interests at national level.
[4] The word “should” here can be understood in the sense that redeployment will happen if appropriate measures are in place to maintain aggregate demand and smooth the adjustment process through active labour market policies. And of course provided the increase in the minimum wage is “reasonable” so that the employment reallocation system is not completely overwhelmed.

7 Jul 2014

Robert Reich on the 7 big lies told by neo-liberal politicians.

This video is worth watching and listening to as Robert Reich exposes the fallacies that underpin the neo-liberal economics so beloved by John Key and his asset stripping cronies.

27 Jun 2014

The anatomy of Dirty Tricks.

National has not played a straight bat on this story.

24 Jun 2014

The Ground gets boggier under Key's shifting feet

22 Jun 2014

Murkier and murkier - What happened on Sunday June 3rd 2007?

19 Jun 2014

A video of Thomas Piketty’s recent LSE lecture is available here
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18 Jun 2014

The murk around Donghua Lui grows each day.

From The Standard:
  • the perfectly timed OIA release.


HIV: Listening to voices not heard

London HIV Chaplaincy
House of Lords

Come and hear the stories of people who have been stigmatised  by their families, friends and faith communities; come and hear what is being done in London to help people living with HIV to articulate their pain and regain self respect; come and hear the challenges their experiences offer to our church life - hosted by The Rev. Baroness Kathleen Richardson in the House of Lords on behalf of the London HIV Chaplaincy (a charity that works on your behalf and receives funding from Methodism).

To book a place email by 12noon on Monday 4 July. You will then receive an invitation letter to help you access Parliament.  Please collect your letter from the Conference Help Desk.


By Robert Armstrong, Mark Drapeau, Cheryl Loeb, James Valdes

Ever due to the fact guy took to the battlefield, biology has performed an important role—both by accident and intentionally—in clash. sooner than the invention of the germ idea of illness, so much strive against deaths have been the results of infections. or even ahead of that knowing, biology was once utilized in an offensive function. An early instance used to be the Tatars’ hurling of plague sufferers’ our bodies over the wall of the Crimean urban of Kaffa in 1346, which most likely helped unfold the Black dying. regardless of numerous treaties and protocols, offensive organic guns use has persevered to today, with the anthrax assaults of 2001 being the newest incident. Such job has resulted in a robust protecting software, with scientific technology constructing quite a few countermeasures that experience benefited either civilian and army populations. yet that's the “old” organic conflict. Covert courses for the advance of novel guns will boost; likewise, the advance of countermeasures also will proceed. the current quantity, besides the fact that, doesn't deal with those matters. really, it reports and analyzes present examine and certain destiny advancements within the existence sciences and the way they're going to considerably impact the organic fabric on hand to warfighters—not as guns platforms, yet as augmentation to presently to be had apparatus. this can be the “new” face of organic struggle. The editors of this quantity have assembled specialists in study, warfighting, and protection coverage to explain organic functions from the smallest to the biggest scale. furthermore, they express how pondering in organic phrases can enhance our procurement cycle and improve our improvement time and prices. ultimately, no description of biotechnology will be entire and not using a attention of moral and criminal concerns concerning such learn and improvement. This edited booklet is a vital contribution to the literature and well captures a few ongoing army easy technological know-how study tasks with long term implications for the dep. of safety. It doesn't purport to be an exhaustive accounting, however it is a superb creation for policymakers to garner an knowing of the place biology goes to slot into 21st-century readiness and preparedness for our scuffling with strength.

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The expansion of knowledge in the life sciences, however, is not only rapid, but it is also deep, broad in that it encompasses a wide range of disciplines, and widely available. Moreover, the knowledge that is being gained is being put to use; that is, it is not just remaining in the realm of basic science. More and more of that knowledge is applied in forms that are increasingly making it a commodity. This “commoditization” has several significant implications. Most importantly, it demonstrates that the civilian sector—both science and business—is the key driver in pushing this scientific and technological advance.

Some will simply not be deterrable. It is time to rethink our priorities. Our current commitments to Iraq and Afghanistan provide us with a unique opportunity to do so. Reset for What? The extensive wear and tear on our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan has altered the debate about the future military force. Many have come to the conclusion we will have to focus our efforts on resetting rather than transforming the force. ” Do we rebuild our forces to fight a near-peer competitor? Or to fight a smaller state?

They can take several forms including bacteria, or small, single-celled organisms; viruses, or organisms requiring living cells in which to replicate; rickettsia, or microorganisms with characteristics similar to both bacteria and viruses; and toxins, or poisonous chemical substances produced by living things. Examples of traditional biological weapons that fall into these categories include the bacteria anthrax, brucellosis, and plague; the smallpox virus as well as viruses that produce dengue fever or hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola and Marburg; and rickettsia such as Q fever or Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

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Before I get into movements, let’s start with how you should hold the bar. Many people grab a dumbbell or barbell with a "suicide" grip. This is a hand grip where the thumb is not around the bar. This grip works OK for some movements but if you are looking to improve your hand strength during training, there is a better option.

Challenging the grip during training is another way to build functional strength. Today’s exercises will definitely challenge your grip. I like to use a basic "farmers walk." It conditions the entire body to carry heavy loads. Although this exercise is normally done with dumbbells, today’s modification is done holding plate-style weights. This is because there are generally no handles on barbell plates.

You’ll find that even light weights will prove menacing. I like the plate "farmers walk" because it forces the entire hand to get involved. The four fingers and thumb squeeze opposing sides to suspend the weight as you walk. Holding that vice grip for the duration of your walk will do wonders for your strength.

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Instructions for Farmers Walk

Stand with the feet hip width apart. Contract the glutes, core and back. Hold a weight plate in each hand so the top of the wrist is facing out. Pull the shoulders back and hold the head neutral.

Perform two to four sets. Form flaws include letting the back bend, shoulders come forward or knees crash inward. These flaws manifest when the hands fatigue and the body tries to compensate with an altered movement pattern.

Instructions for Towel Row

Wrap a towel around a pole at chest height. Grip it at each end and stand arms-length away from the pole. Contract the glutes, core and back.

Pull the hands toward the ribs to perform the row, then controllably release to the starting position.

Perform two to four sets of 10 to 20 repetitions. Form flaws include letting the back round or the shoulders migrate forward. Sometimes people will pop the hips when coming out of the row.

Progress this exercise by walking the feet toward the pole so the body begins in a more declined position.


Day 148: Herman is feeling playful

After he got over the initial disappointment that forrest moss couldn’t be eaten, Herman found that it could be useful in other ways. For one thing, because it was softer it was easier to burrow in. He also found that the moss made a nice, if temporary, hat.

Day 146: Herman has a strong objection

Yesterday had been a very long day for Herman. He did not want to get up when the lights went on in his home and, unexpectedly, the guardian did not seem inclined to make him. What he did not realize, what he could not have imagined, though, was that his reluctance to rise and greet the day would mean that the guardian would leave his food bowl empty that morning. Actually, that wasn’t entirely true. Mocking him, in the centre of an otherwise empty dish, was the new cuttlebone the guardian had been trying to convince him to try the night before. Although he didn’t have any specific objections to cuttlebones, he did have a strong objection to missing breakfast.

Being the resourceful fellow that he was, Herman spent the morning digging around looking for food. He felt that although the dish was empty (as far as he was concerned), it didn’t necessarily mean that there was no food available. The new moss floor had a tendency to cover up leftover lettuce, so Herman felt optimistic that with some work he could find an overlooked, almost fresh piece of escarole or radicchio if he dug around a bit. The majority of his time was spent focused on his food dish, but he also searched the pond, the climbing rock and all around his tree trunk. Around noon, the search improved dramatically when the guardian appeared and fed him.

Day 144: Herman tries again

Herman had quite enjoyed the home decorating he’d done yesterday and, although it hadn’t been successful, his enthusiasm for the activity had not diminished. However, he took such great care to keep his route over the pond wall to his food area clear that he ended up blocking the basking area from the rest of his home. He could have easily scaled the pond wall, but having the cactus in his way distracted him and he forgot. Fortunately, he’d made sure to eat breakfast before rearranging his home, so he was perfectly happy taking a nap at the base of his climbing rock. But he did decide that he’d leave all future home decorating to the guardian. She seemed to enjoy that sort of thing anyway.

Day 143: Herman does some home decorating

With the addition of the climbing rock, there was now less space for Herman’s cacti and the guardian was having a hard time figuring out where they should go. Since it was his home, Herman felt that he should contribute by offering some suggestions. When the guardian returned home she discovered that Herman had managed to move the round cactus to the other side of his home. After a brief consultation, however, it was decided that the new location would impede Herman’s pond wall scaling activities and it was agreed that it should be moved back until a better location was found.
14.03.25.Herman(pictured above: where the guardian put the cactus; below: Herman’s suggestion)

Day 140: Herman gets a climbing rock

14.03.22.HermanEvery home needs to be freshened up from time to time, and Herman’s home was no exception. After initial efforts to maintain moderate levels of humidity in his home failed, the guardian sought expert advice and it was decided that forest moss was the solution. The new flooring was softer and, though his exploratory mouthfuls proved that this new green stuff was not edible as he had hoped, Herman approved the change. Although he didn’t particularly care much about the flooring, the change included a new climbing rock and he was quite excited about that. Unlike the pond, the climbing rock had an easy and a difficult slope that he challenge himself with. It also gave him an excellent vantage point to stare back at Lucy, who often spent her mornings watching him from her perch on the bed.

Day 127: Herman’s strategy for dealing with a long winter

As the dark days of January and February slid quietly into March, Herman noticed that the prolonged winter seem to be wearing the guardian down. In the morning, her usual greeting was becoming less cheerful and when she pulled the blinds down, she would sigh at the thin, weak light coming in. Herman felt sad about that and wished that he could somehow explain to her his secret for thriving during the long winter months. He knew that guardians felt that remedies like bundling up and engaging in winter activities or traveling to somewhere warm were helpful in making the season less arduous, but he felt that he’d discovered the true secret to winter happiness. And that secret was kale. Also, endive, radicchio, and sometimes escarole. The guardian didn’t seem to eat much lettuce as far as he could tell, and Herman was sure that if she ate more lettuce she would be happier.


Though the holy month of Ramzan is associated with deprivation, overeating is a common practice once the sun goes down. In many hospitals, the month means a sharp rise in inpatients.

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Doctors often complain that they see a fair increase in digestive-related complaints with an uptick in cases of indigestion, gastroenteritis and peptic ulcer disease in Ramzan.

Though experts agree that fasting itself isn’t the problem, so much as how it’s practised. The month which is associated with self-discipline is spent overeating, sleeping, and taking more calories than usual.

In Gulf countries, thousands are hospitalised due to fasting-related illnesses. It’s a combination of overeating or binge eating, and reduced immunity due to dehydration and bad sleeping habits.

Heat stress due to dehydration, particularly among construction workers, is a particular problem. There is also an increase in traffic accidents, which many attribute to fasting-related drowsiness.

According to doctors, fasting and poor sleep aid this. They lead to tiredness and a lack of concentration.

Fasting-related illnesses have become an increasing problem in Gulf countries. In 2011, the Hamad Medical Corporation in Doha reported 7,700 cases in the first week of Ramzan alone.

There’s a surge in uncontrolled diabetes cases during Ramzan. Flare-ups are often aggravated by the fact that many with the disease forgo their medication during this time.

Of 173 families interviewed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, two-thirds reported weight gain among some or all of the family members after Ramzan. Many pointed to the rich food and lack of exercise.

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“Call Me Crazy,” But We Love Anna Miller’s “Crazy” Podcast

Perhaps you were not aware, but the Digital Scholarship Lab works hard to build partnerships with professors and classes. And as digital media becomes more and more prevalent in education, our role on campus and in the classroom is expanding. Elizabeth Gibes, librarian and director of the DSL, was embedded in Dr. Theresa Tobin’s Spring 2017 Feminist Philosophy class this past semester, and helped the students to create a magazine of essays on Medium, each exploring an intersection between gender and philosophy and society.

Anna Miller’s project took a unique format — instead of writing an article, Anna wrote out and recorded a podcast for the assignment.

In the podcast, Anna traces the rhetoric of the word “crazy” as it’s been applied to women across modern culture and history. She focuses especially on the point where two definitions of the word interact in a way that minimizes and oppresses the agency and voice of women. Calling upon feminist philosophers and academics such as Sandra Bartky, Claudia Card, Elaine Showalter, and more, Anna exposes how “crazy” as “mental illness” and “crazy” as “female sexuality” are employed by the patriarchy to undermine women’s self-worth, contributions, and existence. Calling women crazy, Anna says, “shapes how we think, how we interact with the world, how we interact with our bodies,” and ultimately, how we perceive our ability to react to sexism and oppression in our society.

So, why a podcast? Why not just a regular essay on the topic?

Anna says that she chose a podcast for a couple of reasons, and not just because she loves them herself. The appeal, she tells us, are the possibilities for presenting information in a different way than you would in a regular term paper. A podcast is less an argument, and more the telling of a story, and it uses a different style of language and rhetoric than an academic paper would. Not to mention it gave her the chance to feature not just examples but clips from the songs and television shows she was referencing as she explained her point.

It’s exciting to think about, the way digital media opens the door to thinking about the presentation of information in new and interactive ways. Sitting and listening to Anna’s podcast tonight, I was able to engage with the information in a much different way than if I’d been reading a paper on the topic. And it was certainly quite enjoyable.

If you’d like to learn more about podcasting or the tools the DSL offers for creating, recording, and publishing podcasts, please stop by and introduce yourself. Our group of librarians, staff, and student tutors will be happy to help!


If you go down to the woods today...

Generational changes and UK Forest School Leaders' identities
Selected f ndings from doctorate research, Mel McCree, University of Gloucestershire, 2012 i Forest School? A type of outdoor play and learning for all ages, developed in the UK for 15 years and across Europe in different forms. The ethos aims for eco-social flourishing; deeper relationships with nature and a holistic view of the child. Children follow their interests and lead their own learning within as wild an environment as possible, ideally woodland. Repeat visits are made and many schools, nurseries, clubs and groups deliver it as part of their activities. There are over 4000 providers in the UK and this is increasing rapidly. Ecological Identity This was important for the leaders as an influential factor in why they did their role, often due to early experience in nature in their own life (Chawla, 1999). It can be defined as: “ways people construe themselves in relationship to the earth as manifested in personality, values, actions & sense of self” so that “nature becomes an object of identif ication” (Thomashow, 1995) “direct, personal, immediate & emotionally significant experiences with the natural world that change the individual's understanding of self” (Clayton & Opotow, 2003)

Generational changes in childhood. What makes a Forest School Leader? Adult behaviour presents barriers to children This ethnographic study follows 9 trainee accessing free play outside in natural leaders over a year as they begin to practice. settings, or within their education and care. What impact does the training have? Key areas of concern for the leaders were: Or as visualised by the artist Hundertwasser: What factors influence the leaders? How do they act and adapt in their new role? • Free range childhoods. • Childhood to be accepted rather than Findings developing 'citizens of the future' Several key themes emerged from the study. • A lost generation with little experience or The ownership of an ecological identity and relationship in the natural world the impact of generational changes were a • Decreasing green spaces and signif icant part of the findings. independent mobility • Increasingly industrial, sedentary and Why go outside? indoor lifestyles Why stay inside? It is an assumption that • The impact of consumerism and the play and learning has to be indoors. The commercialisation of childhood research investigated where the present • Removal of choice & freedoms to space indoor culture comes from and the socioand thought, prescriptive education and cultural change surrounding Forest Schools culture, controlled play and behaviour. and other outdoor play & learning.

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Saturday, October 1, 2016

About Voting: From my old friend Bill V.

Some of you have heard my statements starting last Spring that I intend to vote for Thomas Jefferson Paine for President of the U.S. in November. My argument is that I refuse to support either Hillary or Donald, or any of the other "official" candidates, but that I do feel a duty to vote, at least in honor of those who have given the last full measure of devotion to protecting that privilege. Here is a short piece by Richard J. Maybury in his October 2016 Early Warning Report about that subject:

âž¥ About voting: Numerous odd experiences have convinced me that the universe really does contain something, or perhaps many somethings, that care about what each individual does, and react to it. The visible effects are known by several tags such as karma or, what goes around comes around, you reap what you sow, and poetic justice. All my life, people have been voting for the lesser of the two evils. This means they have been voting for evil, and that is exactly what we have been receiving. However, there is a bright side to voting, which is that your one ballot is a drop in the ocean and cannot possibly change anything. Therefore, you are completely free to vote your conscience, to cast your ballot for whatever you sincerely believe is good. I hope you will do that. View voting not as a public duty, but as a private one between you and the something. Write in someone. If you cannot think of anyone, write in yourself. But send your little drop-in-the-ocean message to the powers that be, both in DC and in the universe, that you are interested in good, and you refuse to participate in the lesser-of-the-two-evils hoax.â™¦

Enjoy exercising your privilege.


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Author: Benjamin S. Jeffries

Publisher: Schiffer

ISBN-10: 0764353071; ISBN-13: 978-0764353079

The personification of all that is most feared has been present in the form of the boogeyman for countless generations, ever since cavemen cowered in fear at seeing shadows against the wall from unknown creatures lurking in wait to pounce upon them while they slept. Benjamin S. Jeffries, author of Lost in the Darkness: Life Inside the World’s Most Haunted Prisons, Hospitals and Asylums, Grim Shadows Falling: Haunting Tales from Terrifying Places and Vile: Peeking Under the Skin of Murderers now brings us the riveting drama of Beelzebub incarnate, in a range of distorted forms stretching across the centuries, and first given literary form in the epic saga, Beowulf, in the shape of Grendel and his hideous and unremittingly evil mother. Jeffries shows how, over the ages, the concept of what was originally the Boogg, a medieval creature symbolizing both winter and death, came to be rendered in many different guises, including that of the Pied Piper of Hamlin and of flesh-eating vampires that were nothing like the glamorous Bram Stoker version.

Despite the reference to an interview in the title, most of Interview with the Boogeyman: A Monster for all Times is, in fact, written in straightforward narrative form: the interview with Tenebris, the Boogeyman, serving as an introduction to the remainder of the text. The initial interview format is not only contemporary in its approach, but it also leads into a celebration of the fully fleshed out ‘man’ himself. Jeffries’ approach is direct and startling, providing fascinating insights into how the conceptualization of the Boogeyman changed in both adults’ and children’s minds over the years. Although clearly glorying in the dark and forbidding nature of his tale, Jeffries goes far beyond the bounds of mere emotional appeal to explore the rationale behind the various guises assumed by the Boogeyman, seeing them as manifestations of cultural differences across the world. Fear is all-pervasive, even in the modern day, leading to a more technologically sophisticated version of the ancient monster, but one that is, nevertheless, still omnipresent.

Interview with the Boogeyman is clearly signposted throughout with insightful chapter titles, and numerous straightforward headings that clearly indicate the nature of the contents to be covered in the following paragraphs, with most being focused on the various apparitions involved (“The Black Annis” and “The Dullahan” being two instances of the same—with the latter being, notably, anything but ‘dull’). The text is well illustrated with black-and-white drawings and facsimiles of paintings, adding, in many cases, to the gruesomeness of the text. Jeffries revels in the written text, and had a vast body of material at his disposal. Undaunted by the need to cover such a wide field, as he delves into the subject from West to East to back again, his logical and carefully structured presentation provides an understandable, and coherent, way into the world of the macabre. Yet there is also levity in the work, as the Boogeyman is seen not only to be a fearsome creature, but one who also has a keen sense of humor, being quite capable of making a wisecrack or two. (He claims, for instance, that Stephen Spielberg owes him royalties for his purloining of the concept of gremlins from him.)

Interview with the Boogeyman: A Monster for all Times is fully capable of stirring the imagination, as well as chilling the backbone, of any reader who is drawn to unravelling the impetus behind the darker side of life. Delving into the character of the essentially unknowable and unfathomable provides a springboard for the imagination, so that all who possess a creative instinct would do well to heed the dire implications of this text.


BPQ Home   BPQ32 Home

Robust Packet and the BPQ32 switch.

If you have a single port SCS PTC (the PTC-IIex or PTC-IIusb, but not the PRO models) you can run Robust Packet as well as Pactor on the same port. You can scan for and make calls in either mode.

To enable this feature, add the following commands to your SCSPactor configuration:

 PAC BAUD R600           ; Sets the PTC Packet Modem to Robust Packet Mode
 SCANFORROBUSTPACKET n   ; The PTC will listen for Robust Packet calls for the first n seconds
                         ; of each scan interval, and for Pactor for the rest
 USEAPPLCALLS            ; PTC will respond to connects to your APPLCALLS

To enable monitoring of Robust Packet activity to the BPQTerminal Monitor window, add

As by default Robust Packet mode retries connects every 5 seconds, I suggest you set SCANFORROBUSTPACKET 7, and your Rigcontrol Scan Interval to 10. The PTC will then listen for Robust Packet for 7 seconds, and Pactor for 3.

Making Calls.

To call in Robust Packet mode, enter RC Callsign, instead of C Callsign

John Wiseman GM8BPQ/G8BPQ
19th December 2010


Discovery Surveys, Inc.
Specializing in Employee Opinion and Customer Satisfaction Surveys
Improving the Workplace

By Bruce L. Katcher, Ph.D. President of the Discovery Consulting Group, Inc.

1 out of 2 employees say senior managers in their organization do not work well together.

The results were clear from a recent employee survey I conducted for a manufacturer of medical instruments. Morale was very low in one of their operating units. Senior management asked me to visit the facility to learn more about the problem. After spending time interviewing the employees and their managers, the reasons for the low morale were also clear. The heads of the manufacturing and engineering departments were constantly fighting.

Unfortunately, this is a common problem. Our research in more than 90 organizations has shown that, on average, 1 out of 2 employees say that senior management in their organization does not work well together as a team.

The problem is much like what happens to children when their parents fight. Children of parents who are in continual conflict exhibit many similar behaviors.

  1. They notice the conflict even when the parents argue behind closed doors.

    Senior managers may think that their arguments and disagreements are private, but they usually are not. Employees can sense when there are constant disagreements. They can see it in their facial expressions, glean it from their email messages, and feel it when they are in the room with them. If the managers happen to publicly express their feelings even just once, it spreads like wildfire throughout the organization.

  2. They do poorly in school and have difficulty thinking (i.e., with problem solving, abstract reasoning, and memory).

    When senior managers constantly quarrel, the quality of the work in their organization or work units suffers. Deadlines are not met, employees feel less comfortable expressing their views openly, creative ideas are less forthcoming, collaboration between departments is poor, and employee engagement declines.

  3. They often speak ill of one parent to the other.

    Employees frequently take sides with a particular manager. Warring camps develop which stifle cooperation and communication.

  4. They experience persistent anxiety and health problems (e.g., insomnia).

    Instead of enjoying their work and their coworkers, when senior managers are in conflict, there is a constant tension in the air that permeates the work environment, as well as the personal lives of employees who are exposed to it. I have often seen that the constant pressure of feuding managers leads to decreased energy among employees, and an increase in absenteeism and turnover.

  5. They do not interact well with other children and often act out by displaying behavior problems, anger, or violence.

    It is very common for the tenor of the relationships between senior managers to mirror their way throughout the organization. For example, if senior managers yell and scream at each other, more of this type of behavior often happens at lower levels of the organization. If senior managers withhold information from each other, the same thing is more likely to occur at all levels.

Here are several things that organizations can do to when senior managers are bickering.

  1. The senior-most executive must get involved.

    He or she must let the managers know that their behavior is adversely affecting employees and is unacceptable. Further, he or she should say that no matter what their past or present contributions to the organization, unless they correct the situation, there will be serious consequences.

  2. Involve human resources professionals.

    Before the problem escalates, human resource professionals should intervene by conducting individual and group coaching sessions with the parties involved.

  3. Make certain the guilty managers recognize the problem and commit to resolving it.

    Unless the offending parties recognize the problem and sincerely agree to resolve it, no amount of intervention by senior management, human resources, executive coaches, or anyone else will make a difference.

  4. Have them make public apologies.

    Employees need to hear from the guilty parties that they recognize the problem, understand that it is having a negative impact on the organization, and apologize to each other and to the organization.

  5. Hire an executive coach.

    In many cases it is best for human resources to step aside and defer to an outside executive coach who specializes in solving these types of problems. Such coaches can offer a more objective and neutral perspective than an insider can provide.

  6. Conduct the JFK Exercise

    Although not a yet common term in the organization development literature, my "JFK exercise" fits the bill here. My frequent readers will recall that this exercise asks conflicting parties to refocus their energy from finger-pointing to asking what they can do to help the other party. When both parties do this, the problems will gradually disappear. It does, however, require that both parties be sincerely interested in improving the situation. I am proud to say that I have had great success using this approach in many organizations.

  7. Recognize positive behaviors.

    This is where senior management must step in again. When they see improvements in how the warring managers are working together, they should praise them for it both privately and publicly.

  8. Use the performance management process.

    If all else fails, senior management must use the organization's performance appraisal system to document the problem, identify improvement goals, and monitor the progress or lack thereof. Termination of one or both parties should not be ruled out.

Just like fighting parents traumatize children, employees suffer when their managers are in conflict. Use the approaches described above to improve the situation. Doing nothing is just bad business.

All material is © copyright , Discovery Consulting Group, Inc.


Plant DecisionsThis image shows the experimental setup used to determine whether pea plants weigh the risks in deciding how to grow.Photo Courtesy of: Hagai Shemesh

In making tough, life-changing decisions, people often weigh the risks associated with the options before them and choose accordingly. Now researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on June 30 have found that pea plants also make choices about how to grow based on an assessment of risk.

"To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of an adaptive response to risk in an organism without a nervous system," says Alex Kacelnik of Oxford University in the UK. "We do not conclude that plants are intelligent in the sense used for humans or other animals, but rather that complex and interesting behaviours can be theoretically predicted as biological adaptations, and executed by organisms, on the basis of processes evolved to exploit natural opportunities efficiently."

Related Article: Tracking Sugar Movement in Plants

Plant DecisionsIn this image, a pea plant grown in two pots weighs the risks in deciding how to grow.Photo Courtesy of: Hagai ShemeshIn the study, Kacelnik and his colleagues at Tel-Hai College in Israel grew pea plants with their roots split between two pots. The plants were faced with a decision about how much effort they should allocate to growing roots in each one.

In the first experiment, the researchers found that plants grew more roots in the pot with more nutrients, much as animals spend more time foraging in richer food patches. They then split the roots of each plant between two pots that offered the same nutrient levels on average. However, one pot offered a constant level of nutrients. In the other, nutrient levels varied over time. The question was whether plants would choose to grow more roots in one pot or the other.

Based on theoretical analyses of how decision makers such as humans or animals should respond to such choices, Kacelnik and his colleagues predicted that plants might prefer the more variable pot, accepting more risk, when the average nutrient level was low. In that setting, the more variable environment is still a gamble, but one that could pay off. When the average nutrient level was high, they predicted the plants would choose just the opposite. There would be no reason to accept the risk associated with the more unpredictable environment.

Plant DecisionsThis photo shows the growth of a pea plant that was grown in two pots and had to weigh the risks in deciding how to grow.Photo Courtesy of: Hagai ShemeshThe researchers compare the choice that the plants had to make to a person choosing to take $800 or to toss a coin for a 50 percent chance of winning $1,000 and a 50 percent chance of winning nothing. Most people realize that the first option would pay more on average, and would prefer it if there are no other restrictions, Kacelnik says. But now imagine that you are stranded with no money in a remote place and $900 could get you home. Under those circumstances, the coin toss gives you a 50 percent chance of providing what you need, while the less risky option falls just short.

The researchers say they don't yet know how the plants' sense variance, or even if their physiology is specifically adapted to respond to risk. Nevertheless, the findings show pea plants as surprisingly "dynamic strategists" with the ability to make decisions much as an intelligent being would.

"I used to look at plants as passive receivers of circumstances," says Efrat Dener, who is now a master's student at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. "This line of experiments illustrates how wrong that view is: living organisms are designed by natural selection to exploit their opportunities, and this often implies a great deal of flexibility."

"To see that decision-making models developed by economists for human decision makers and by zoologists to understand animal behavior can predict the behavior of plants facing similar choices is fascinating," adds Hagai Shemesh of Israel's Tel-Hai College. He says that they are now eager to present plants with additional tasks requiring adaptive responses, to explore the extent to which "optimality considerations proposed for brained agents anticipate the solutions evolved by plants."

Related Article: Scientists Uncover What Makes Plants 'Clot'

This study was funded by a Tel-Hai College internal research support grant.

Current Biology, Dener et al.: "Pea Plants Show Risk Sensitivity"


KAIST team uses nanotech to solve vehicle battery problem

Korean scientists have discovered a way to improve the energy output and lifecycle of lithium-ion batteries by applying nanotechnology in the development of lithium manganese oxide for use in cathodes. The materials have been studied over the years as an alternative to lithium cobalt oxide to boost power and life expectancy of rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles. However, the dissolution of manganese during the chemical reaction process to create the compound has shortened the life cycle of lithium-ion batteries.

A team of scientists and researchers led by professor Choi Jang-wook at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology’s Graduate School of Energy, Environment, Water and Sustainability have found a way to deter manganese dissolution. It said that the team was able to realign the atoms in the crystal structure of lithium manganese oxide by applying nano materials, which were able to boost the activity of both manganese and lithium-ion chemical elements.

This process led secondary batteries to generate five times as much power as existing batteries with lithium cobalt oxides, and have three times their life expectancy.

For full article, see Korea Herald.


The Catholic Church of Nigeria explains why Father Ejike Mbaka was transfered

The Catholic Church in Nigeria has cleared the air concerning the transfer of outspoken Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka.
The Catholic Priest was transferred by Catholic Bishop of Enugu Most Reverend Calistus Onaga from Christ The King Parish Enugu to Our Lady Catholic Church, Emene in Enugu.

Judging by the controversies surrounding the priest and his open support for President Muhamadu Buhari before and after the 2015 general elections, many people have come to the conclusion that the sudden transfer was a punitive measure to put the Priest in check. It is widely believed that the Catholic Church was pressured by the PDP to effect the transfer of the Fr. Mbaka.

The Catholic Church has however denied that the said transfer was politically motivated.
The Secretary-General of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, Reverend Father Ralph Madu, while reacting to the claims made by Fr. Mbaka that  the said transfer was a “calculated move” to make him suffer”, said his transfer would make him more useful in his service.

Mbaka’s transfer is not an exception; the Bishop has the right to post any priest wherever he feels his service would be more useful to the church.
His posting should have been a privilege, not a punishment which the Bishop can do because he has the power. If he says it’s a punishment, then it’s open for further investigation. Posting is a regular thing, a priest can be transferred after two, three, four, or more years. It depends on the discretion of the Bishop. That ministry (Adoration Ministry) is his private ministry. It does not belong to the church. Overseeing a parish is a full time job. Overseeing a ministry is a bigger task. If the church decides to take him somewhere where he’ll have more time to carry out his ministry, how is it punitive? That should not be the language.”

He further said that although Fr. Mbaka had in the past broken so many rules, he has never been punished by the Catholic Church.

“He is supposed to be a missionary. What if the Bishop had closed down the ministry , which is within his power to do? Sometimes, transfers can be for the good of the priest as something can be going wrong which he might not be aware of. The Bishop is free to move any priest at any time, it is his prerogative.”


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James Lambert, creator of the documentary You Don’t Know Hitler, wrote a blog post explaining that the documentary had been taken down from YouTube over a copyright claim. The copyright claim was sent by the record label BR Enter Music, which was seemingly acting on behalf of Deutsche Nationalbibliothek(DNB), also known as The German National Library. However, DNB contacted TorrentFreak, saying BR Enter Music does not represent them. Even though DNB has distanced themselves from the claim, the video remains unavailable on YouTube at the time of this writing.

According to the claim, the video was taken down because it contained a portion of the song “Horst Wessel Lied,” which was used as an anthem for the Nazi party from 1930 to 1945. Specifically, it claimed that DNB held the sound recording rights to a specific performance of the song. Lambert filed a counter-notification, but criticizes the process YouTube has set up. He is particularity critical of the fact that there is a limited number of characters allowed to make his argument that the video is not infringing. In the counter-notification he wrote:

In my expert opinion, as a documentarian and a professor of film, with an MFA in my field, I am confident that my documentary should not have been removed. I have composed a lengthy argument 1) Explain why Nazi Propaganda is in the Public Domain, and 2) Why, even if it was not in the Public Domain, everything I have done in this film meets the four criteria commonly used to define Fair Use in U.S. Courts. Unfortunately, YouTube’s ridiculous system limits the number of characters I can type here.

In the blog post, he has a longer explanation than could be provided in the counter-notification system. He argues that the song in question is in the public domain. He argues on moral grounds, that the Nazis were so evil its unthinkable that they retained their copyrights after being defeated by the Allies. He mentions other documentaries which used Nazi material without permission. He also cites a Hollywood filmmaker Frank Capra who made use of clips from the German propaganda film Triumph of the Will in his own series of propaganda films called Why We Fight, and the U.S. government seemingly did not consider that to be a violation of copyright law. The song used in Lambert’s documentary was taken from the same German film.

However, even if the sound clip is somehow still protected by copyright, Lambert has a fair use defense to fall back on. He argues that that film is a documentary, meant to educate people about the Nazis. It is also transformative work, which arranges clips alongside narration to make important arguments. The video is not monetized and Lambert makes no profit from the documentary. He also only uses a short clip rather than the entire song. For these reasons, he believes that this is a clear example of fair use.

For now, the documentary is still available on Vimeo.

Should copyrights on Nazi propaganda be enforced today? Do you think this is a copyright troll? Leave your comments below.

Max Michael

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An artist’s rendering of a cosmic-ray air shower with a water-Cherenkov detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory in western Argentina. Photo: A. Chantelauze, S. Staffi, L. Bret

Fifty years ago, scientists discovered that the Earth is occasionally hit by cosmic rays of enormous energies. Since then, they have argued about the source of those ultra-high energy cosmic rays—whether they came from our galaxy or outside the Milky Way.

“We are now considerably closer to solving the mystery of where and how these extraordinary particles are created—a question of great interest to astrophysicists,” said University of Wuppertal Professor Karl-Heinz Kampert, spokesperson for the Auger Collaboration, which involves more than 400 scientists from 18 countries. “Our observation provides compelling evidence that the sites of acceleration are outside the Milky Way.”

Cosmic rays are the nuclei of elements from hydrogen to iron. The highest-energy cosmic rays, those of interest in this study, only strike about once per square kilometer per year—equivalent to hitting the area of a soccer field about once per century.

Such rare particles are detectable because they create showers of secondary particles—including electrons, photons and muons—as they interact with the nuclei in the atmosphere. These cosmic ray showers spread out, sweeping through the atmosphere at the speed of light in a disc-like structure, like a dinner plate but several kilometers in diameter.

At the Auger Observatory, the shower particles are detected through the light they produce in several of 1,600 detectors, spread over 3,000 square kilometers of western Argentina—an area comparable to that of Rhode Island—and each containing 12 tons of water. Tracking these arrivals tells scientists the direction from which the cosmic rays came.

“This result unequivocally establishes that ultra-high energy cosmic rays are not just random wanderers of our nearby universe,” said Paolo Privitera, UChicago professor in astronomy and astrophysics, who heads the U.S. groups participating in the project.

“The imprint detected in their arrival directions—a tantalizing evidence for extragalactic origin—required several years of observations with a detector working, in Jim Cronin’s words, ‘like a Swiss clock.’ It was a tribute to Jim’s vision to build an observatory and unveil the mystery of the origin of the most energetic particles in the universe,” he said.

Even at these high energies, cosmic rays may be significantly deflected by magnetic fields in outer space; thus the excess found by the Auger Collaboration in a broad section of the sky cannot yet determine which extragalactic objects might be the specific sources, the authors said. The observatory is looking to examine even higher-energy cosmic rays—rarer, but less likely to be deflected—which may provide a clearer route to their sources. Work on this problem is targeted for the observatory’s upgrade, scheduled to be completed in 2018.


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Complex and Adaptive Dynamical Systems: A Primer by Claudius Gros

By Claudius Gros

We reside in an ever extra advanced international, an epoch the place human activities can for that reason gather far-reaching prospects. complicated and adaptive dynamical structures are ubiquitous on the planet surrounding us and require us to evolve to new realities and how of facing them.

This primer has been constructed with the purpose of conveying a variety of "commons-sense" wisdom within the box of quantitative advanced procedure technology at an introductory point, supplying an access element to this either attention-grabbing and very important subject.

The strategy is modular and phenomenology pushed. Examples of rising phenomena of ordinary significance taken care of during this e-book are:

-- The small global phenomenon in social and scale-free networks.

-- part transitions and self-organized criticality in adaptive systems.

-- lifestyles on the fringe of chaos and coevolutionary avalanches caused by the unfolding of all living.

-- the concept that of dwelling dynamical platforms and emotional diffusive regulate inside of cognitive procedure theory.

Technical path necessities are a uncomplicated wisdom of standard and partial differential equations and of information. each one bankruptcy comes with workouts and proposals for additional analyzing - ideas to the workouts also are provided.

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Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC, has officially commenced investigation into the N28billion bailout that was accessed by the governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom.
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When I first started researching about amicable numbers, I was confused on what they were.  Not only that but I felt like I should know what they are because one of the the first websites I opened about them stated that if your are familiar with number theory you should know what amicable numbers are.

After reading more into it and exploring other websites, the explanation of what they were finally clicked. After that I remembered learning about these numbers in class, however I do not recall learning about them prior to my senior year capstone class in college.  Therefore, I would not find it surprising that others do not recall what they are or how they work.

I found through research that there are 42 pairs of amicable numbers below 10^6 with 9 new ones found.  Finding these pairs require a lot of time and precision.  I would not say it is “hard” work to find them once you get the hang of the pattern, but it is most definitely time consuming.

How I understood these numbers and the best way for me to explain this concept is through looking at an example as to how they work.

The simplest form of amicable numbers is the pair (220,284).  To start off we will like the factors of both of those numbers.

1, 2, 4, 71, 142

Now that we see the factors of both numbers, our next step is to add up all of the number in 220 and then again in 284.  When added together, we see the following:

Since the factors of 220 add up to 284 and the factors of 284 add up to 220, this is therefore an example of a pair of amicable numbers.

A list of more, found from my research is found at my given websites:

Link 1

Link 2

Why am I telling you about these numbers? Well, I was just interested at seeing how many pairs were out there.  Clearly there are more than six, in fact, as said earlier, there are more than 42 pairs which is a lot more than people originally thought.  The first pair, displayed above was said to be originally founded by Pythagoras.  Although there is no yet use for these numbers other than to compare with one another within the pair, when discovered, these pairs did more than just that for the people of that time.

During the time of the discovery, these numbers were said to be magical.  They were used by astrologers to prepare horoscopes.  They were also known to create special ties between two individuals. (I believe that is because of the special tie the numbers had in the pair.)

Back on how many pairs there are.  Even though the research I have found has said that there are around 42-51 pairs of amicable numbers, I have continued my research to find that there are 390 pairs of these numbers.  The people involved in this discovery included the following:

  • Fermat
  • Arab al-Banna
  • Descartes
  • Euler
    • Who found a huge amount
  • Escott
    • offering the other pairs adding up to 390.

So now my research is up to 390 pairs, but I believe there to be much more.  In fact, with infinite being the highest form of a “number” we have, I think that there must also be an infinite number of amicable pairs.  I have no clue how I would solve or prove this, but I am sure it has been or needs to be done.

I liked doing this research.  I feel much more knowledgeable about the subject and found the whole thing very interesting.  I was intrigued by the subject just because of how many unknowns there still are within this subject matter.  I am curious to know if more research is being done and when/if anything more will be discovered.


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Transplant outside when all danger of frost has passed. Space plants 6″ apart, in rows at least 12″ apart in well-drained but relatively poor soil in a location that receives full sun to partial shade. Once plants are established they will require little care. Plant height 1”.

Thyme plants are susceptible to fungal diseases, avoid over watering. Wetting their leaves, while watering, also reduces their fragrance. Once established it is a drought tolerant groundcover. Deer and rabbit resistant.

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