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NSE counsels youths on clean, renewable energy
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Mrs Ebele Okeke, Chairman Board of Fellows, Nigerian Society of Engineers, has urged youths to utilise their creative and innovative capacities to utilise clean energy and develop energy efficient infrastructure to tackle climate change.
Okeke, also former Head of Civil Service of the Federation, stated this at the 2021 Valerie Agberagba Clean, Renewable and Energy Efficiency Competition (CREEC) and Public Lecture, in Abuja.
She said that the youths should also be involved in climate change issues to enable the tackling of the nation's environmental challenges.
According to her, one thing we need to know is that whatever policies and strategies we are putting in place now; we have to ensure that they are sustainable for future generations.
"This will make the youths to benefit from it and that is what engineers are planning, so that even when they are doing the planning they, are thinking of generations to come.
"It is the generations to come that will benefit from what is being put in place by the engineers.
"One thing we know is that for the Sustainable Development Goals to be achieved, engineers should be involved and that means that it must be for the younger generations to be able to key into whatever policy that is being put in place.
"The youths are the ones to implement the policy, enjoy the policy, and build on the policy.
"We saw that talking about climate change to adults, they already have a mindset on what they want to do, so we are talking of the future generation who will engage the environmental policy that will help to address climate change and other environmental issues,'' she said.
Mrs Lynda Elesa, Chairperson, National Institution of Environmental Engineers, (NIEE), Abuja Chapter, said that the theme of the programme was: "Sustainable city''.
Elesa said that the programme would bring in industry, government and private institutions, non-governmental organisations and academia to discuss environmental challenges.
"The discussion will also incorporate scientific and engineering solutions to their businesses, the energy sector and other sectors of the economy, towards sustainable national development.
"The project is aimed at spurring children to use their creative and innovative capacities to utilise clean and renewable energy, develop energy efficient infrastructure and equipment as well as climate change solutions.
"This competition will help the students test their knowledge of energy efficiency, clean and renewable energy. It will also help to know how their designs, science, engineering, and knowledge stack up against their peers.
"It is our desire that young and innovative engineers, town planners, energy experts and other professionals will emerge as a result of this exposure.
"The overall aim of this programme is that the contestants will become change-makers in their own communities and the nation at large,'' she said.
Elesa said that the institution, in collaboration with Global Awareness for Development Initiative (GLADI), was committed to promoting environmental sustainability in the country.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that seven schools in the FCT emerged in the Valerie Agberagba Clean, Renewable and Energy Efficiency Competition (CREEC).
Government Junior Secondary School, Karu took first position in the competition, Government Junior Secondary School, Zone 1, Wuse, took second, while the third position was won by Government Junior Secondary School Karshi.
Mrs Valerie Agberagba, past Vice President, World Federation of Engineering Organisations (WFEO), congratulated the schools and advised them to ensure they made good use of their talents.
Agberagba said that the theme of the programme was "sustainable city" aimed at making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable in the country.
She added that the students should, therefore, ensure that they worked hard to achieve a sustainable environment for a better Nigeria.
Mr Sobande Paul, GSS Karu, Basic Studies Teacher, who spoke on behalf of other schools, appreciated the NIEE for organising the competition.
Miss Benita Nkemakonam, a student of GSS Karu also thanked the organisers for the opportunity given to the schools to participate in the competition.
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Micro/nano scale surface roughness tailoring and its effect on microfluidic flow
Jing Ren, Iowa State UniversityFollow
Sriram Sundararajan
The rapid growth of applications of lab-on-chip and bio-MEMES (Micro-electro-mechanical systems), arranging from cell culture and drug delivery to the microscale energy harvesting, microelectronics cooling, requires an understanding of microfluidic flow. Surface roughness, even at micro and nano scale, both deterministic and random, is considered an important parameter to affect fluid flow at the microscale. Over the past several decades, a variety of studies have been carried out on the impact of surface roughness on microfluidic flow behavior, including pressure drop, friction factor, heat transfer, laminar-turbulent transition, etc. However, most of the current studies focus on the large, deterministic roughness with patterned shapes formed by micromachining or microfabrication techniques. The effect of micro/nano scale random roughness on micro fluid flow remains relatively unexplored. As the size of microfluidic chip shrinks, the effect of realistic surface roughness on the microchannel walls cannot be simply ignored. In this work, the effect of realistic random surface roughness on fluid flow at the microscale was investigated through experiment and numerical simulation.
Methods for roughness generation were explored. Chemical wet etching was used to vary the surface roughness on glass substrate. The evolution of roughness with etching parameters and the surface distribution was studied to provide a better understanding of random roughness characterization. In addition to this study, a hybrid surface tailoring process combining particle masking and reactive ion etching was developed to generate and control roughness on quartz substrate. A mathematical model was built to predict the roughness parameters, which was validated by the Atomic force microscopy (AFM) measurement. It was proved mathematically that the process is able to produce a random surface with controllable amplitude and spatial parameters.
Based on the surface tailoring techniques, microfluidic devices were fabricated with desired surface roughness inside. This was made possible through incorporating the chemical wet etching treatment to the microfluidic device fabrication. The device is made from PDMS and glass substrate using soft lithography. Different levels of roughness were generated on the glass substrates for the study.
Micro particle image velocimetry (microPIV) was utilized as an analysis tool for the microfluidic flow characterization inside rough channels. Measurement was carried out on both Newtonian fluid (deionized water) and non-Newtonian fluid (dilute xanthan gum solution) at low flow rate condition. The roughness data obtained from optical profilometry was integrated with Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) to resolve the effect of the realistic nanoscale roughness. This work demonstrated that realistic random surface roughness, even at the nanoscale, has a measurable effect on microfluidic flow. This effect can be characterized through microPIV measurement and full-scale coupled experimental-computational analysis. Particularly, this study provides promising potential of surface roughness harness for respective lab-on-chip applications, such as chemical mixing, cell manipulation and drug delivery, etc.
https://doi.org/10.31274/etd-180810-3279
Jing Ren
Ren, Jing, "Micro/nano scale surface roughness tailoring and its effect on microfluidic flow" (2013). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 13562.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/13562

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Watch a Limp Bizkit fan cover Rage Against The Machine and sit in Fred Durst's Dad Vibes throne
By Liz Scarlett
Fred Durst recruited a Limp Bizkit fan to duet on Rage Against The Machine's Killing In The Name, before letting him chill on-stage in the Dad Vibes arm chair
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Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst recruited a fan to duet with him on stage for a cover of Rage Against The Machine's classic floor-filler Killing In The Name at a recent US show.
The fan was also granted permission to sit in the Dad Vibes throne, aka the La-Z Boy recliner the band feature on stage as part of their new "domesticated" image.
Although the gig took place earlier this month, back on May 7, we've only just stumbled upon the footage, but we're flagging it up now, because, well, it's pretty unmissable.
As part of his band's ongoing Still Sucks summer tour, Durst has been opening every show sitting in the big, crusty-looking recliner, before playing around with a retro TV remote in stereotypical fatherly fashion, and kicking off into the song Dad Vibes.
Alongside Durst's new silver wig, the band have adopted another prop to represent this domestic new era, including a 25ft blow up doll that looks like a housewife from the 1950s, with a vacuum cleaner in its hand and a Marlboro ciggie in its mouth.
Just before inviting the fan onstage at the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Durst announces that it's time for some "Karaoke-e-e-e," and spits out a few bars of the Rage hit.
Then, after selecting a member of the audience – who rocks up in a prime Limp Bizkit era backwards red-cap and chains, no less – the pair dive into the song together, trading verses and coming together for the chorus. The fan in question is also quite the performer, and can be seen stomping around the stage and for some reason, even grabbing his crotch.
Following the duet, Durst raises the fan's arms up and closes in for a hug. Then, he invites "The Loco" to hang out backstage, before shortly changing his mind and offering him the chance to chill on the Dad Vibes La-Z-Boy.
"This is your seat right here. Just relax. Jus' relax. That's my man right there, he was going hard as fuck," the frontman says admiringly, while offering up a selection of beverages.
We imagine for this one lucky fan, it was a show to remember.
Check out the footage below:
Liz Scarlett
Liz works on keeping the Louder sites up to date with the latest news from the world of rock and metal. Prior to joining Louder as a full time staff writer, she completed a Diploma with the National Council for the Training of Journalists and received a First Class Honours Degree in Popular Music Journalism. She enjoys writing about anything from neo-glam rock to stoner, doom and progressive metal, and loves celebrating women in music.
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Sir William Turners 6th Form / Redcar and Cleveland College, Redcar Lane
Posted on January 6, 2011 by chris.twigg
Not a building with any aesthetic beauty or history, but a lot of locals including myself passed through.
The Sir William Turners 6th Form was built around 1975 when the Sir William Turner's School for boys and the Cleveland Grammar School for girls merged. Via further merger it became part of Redcar & Cleveland College in 1994.
These photos were taken during the auctioning off of the buildings fixtures and fittings in late 2008 before it was demolished in early 2009 to make for housing (that was never built due to the global financial meltdown)
A couple of interesting items that were in the building but I don't recall being for sale were the college shield and foundation stone from the original Coatham Road Sir William Turners School. I'm not sure what became of them
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4 thoughts on "Sir William Turners 6th Form / Redcar and Cleveland College, Redcar Lane"
Gemma Woodhead on August 2, 2013 at 11:15 am said:
The building work on the houses has recently started and there is around 8 houses built so far.
Lynda ALLAN MBE on September 9, 2017 at 2:32 pm said:
Sad to see that my college has gone. I was one of the first year of students at Willy Turners
Peter Sotheran on June 28, 2019 at 12:47 pm said:
The ceramic crest (lower picture) is in storage at Sir Wm Turner's Almshouses, pending possible re-use on their site.
The foundation stone stands outside the main entrance of Redcar & Cleveland College which houses the SWT Learning & Resource Centre (Library!) and the SWT Lecture Theatre – both funded from the proceeds of the sale of the former 6th Form College site. The name lives on!
Peter Sotheran,Chairman, Sir Wm Turner Foundation. June 2019
Steve Moses on July 6, 2020 at 4:42 pm said:
This building was erected in 1967 as James Mackinlay Secondary Modern, replacing the old Aske road site. The school was renamed Saltscar Comprehensive in 1975 and moved to what had previously been Sir William Turner's Grammar school on Corporation road. The Redcar Lane site then became the sixth form college.


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This memorial was made for Trinity Brooks. It was set up in the spot where she was fatally struck by an oncoming vehicle.
Photo by Mike Ursery
Trinity Brooks was fatally struck on a sidewalk alongside Delvale Avenue on Dec. 2.
Photo used with permission from Tara Ann Reinhardt.
A candlelight vigil was held for Trinity Lynn Brooks on Delvale Avenue on Dec. 6. Brooks was fatally stuck by a vehicle driven by Jennifer Jones on Dec. 2. Charging documents said Jones smelled of alcohol, and nearly 100 200-ml liquor bottles were found inside her vehicle.
A second memorial was set up in a yard next to Delvale Avenue.
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Remembering Trinity
By Mike Ursery mursery@chespub.com
Candlelight shined just as bright as street lights on Delvale Avenue on Dec. 6, as family, friends and neighbors held a candlelight vigil in memory of Trinity Lynn Brooks.
Brooks, 15, was the victim of a fatal car accident on Dec. 3. Jennifer Jones, 30, from Millersville, lost control of the 2006 Nissan Altima she was driving, driving onto a sidewalk and then a resident's backyard, but not before fatally striking Brooks on the sidewalk.
"I hope and pray (Jones) serves life in prison," Gennie Scarff, Brooks' grandmother, said at the vigil. "I'm never going to see her again and it's not fair to me."
Dozens of people, some neighbors, some from surrounding neighborhoods, and others from various places around Dundalk, showed up to show support for Trinity's family. One person played a song he recorded in Trinity's memory. Family members and friends recounted memories and expressed their sorrow after her loss.
"It's amazing. It shows everyone how much my granddaughter showed love," Scarff told local media. "All these people came here for her. They're all supporting the family, and they all tell us she didn't deserve this."
Charging documents show that just before 5:30 p.m., Jones was driving south on Delvale Avenue at a high rate of speed, according to an eyewitness. Jones swerved and jumped the sidewalk, fatally striking Brooks, before driving through a fence and into a backyard at 1814 Marshall Rd. Her 2006 Nissan Altima continued through more backyards before finally settling at 1814 Marshall Rd.
Brooks was pronounced dead at the scene. Jones, on the other hand, was found unconscious inside her vehicle. First responders noted that she smelled an odor of alcohol, according to charging documents. Charging documents also said that a firefighter believed Jones was under the influence of an opioid and administered Narcan.
Charging documents show that authorities recovered two empty 200-mL bottles of Fireball 66 proof whiskey, and found 92 200-ml bottles of "99 brand" liquor in the floorboard of the vehicle. A glass pipe with marijuana and a substance believed to be heroin was found in her pocket. Several pill bottles labeled Bupropion and Hydrochloride were also found.
According to charging documents, Jones told police she began drinking at 10 a.m. that morning and did not stop drinking until five minutes before the crash. She was told by a medic that she hit a pedestrian. Jones is from Millersville, according to charging documents. She told authorities she was on her way to Sparrows Point to pick up her boyfriend, but did not know why she was going in the opposite direction of Sparrows Point, according to charging documents.
A trip to the grocery store
Trinity's mother, Tara Ann Reinhardt, told The Dundalk Eagle that she had sent Trinity to the grocery store that evening to buy cat food and ice cream. Her last words to her family: "Bye. I love you."
She walked to Weis Market, located at 7200 Holabird Ave. She was fatally struck while returning to her home. Reinhardt said she was returning home on foot from a separate shopping trip, and that's when she saw first responder vehicles on Delvale Avenue.
"I could tell by the way traffic was turning up the road that they had the road (Delvale Avenue" closed off," Reinhardt said.
Reinhardt said Trinity's father had mentioned that he had hoped no one was injured. She said she thought of Trinity because she was walking down that same path.
"Then we're rushing down here to see if it was her," Reinhardt said. "The cops weren't really talking to us, so we couldn't find out."
Reinhardt said it was confirmed after 9 p.m. that Trinity was the victim at the scene. She and her husband originally went to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center because they overheard someone mention the name of that hospital at the scene. Reinhardt said that when they arrived, they received the phone call that Trinity was deceased. Jones was transported to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
"We knew it was her because we saw the stuff that she bought laying on the ground," Reinhardt said. "They wouldn't let us nowhere near. They wouldn't talk to us, and said they weren't ready to talk yet. 'We can reassure you that it wasn't your daughter' is what one officer kept telling us."
Reinhardt said that she initially sensed something was wrong because she tried calling Trinity on her cell phone, but it went straight to voicemail, something out of the ordinary. There were times when she would call and Trinity didn't answer, but the call never went straight to voicemail, she said.
It was easy to see the impact that us as older brothers had," Xavior Reinhardt, Trinity's older brother, said.
The second-oldest in a family of five siblings, Xavior Reinhardt told this newspaper about the impact he had on his "baby sister." He listens to punk rock, and he said she went through a similar phase at one point.
"She started listening to my music," Xavior said. "She started dying her hair black. She was going through the punk rock phase and that's how I live my life. I loved coming to visit her, and she would ask me, 'What are you listening to now? What are you wearing now? I like your hat. Can I have that hat?'"
The hat Xavior talked about bears the name Avenged Sevenfold. He said that he wore it when he went to visit his family in Dundalk two months ago. She told them that she liked the hat. Xavior said that Trinity wore the hat when she was buried on Dec. 10.
The middle child in a family of five siblings, and the only girl among the five, Xavior said Trinity was a "spice of feminism in a brutal brotherhood." Her death was especially hard for a father who lost his baby girl, Xavior said.
"She was like a second mother to all of us," Xavior said. "She always had some kind words to say, and something smart to say, something I never would have thought of. She gave advice that she was way too young to give. I'll miss that about her. She was smart beyond her years.
Austin Brooks, Trinity's oldest brother, said Trinity was kind-hearted and always put others before herself. She always tried to help everyone, even if it hurt her in the end.
"No matter what it was or what it was about, she always tried to do the right thing," Austin said. "She'd give her last, even give the shirt off her back if she had to."
Xavior agreed about Trinity's kind-hearted and thoughtful nature.
"That little girl would have found every reason in the world to forgive this woman," Xavior said. (Trinity) would try to find reason with her, to try to find out what she was going through. Why she was in such a hurry. Why she was drinking so much, and why she had a problem. She would forgive this woman, and she would defend her without a second thought."
Ryan Davis, one of Trinity's friends, is a senior at Dundalk High School. He has been friends with her for a year-and-a-half.
"She was more than just a friend," Davis said. "She was loyal. She was passionate. Even on her worst days, she would come in and be like 'today is not my day,' but when someone else was upset she would talk to them. She would make their day even though she was going through the worst. She always was outgoing and helped everybody out."
Trinity was a freshman at Dundalk High School. She was an athlete on the girls track and field team. She practiced baton handoffs, a part of relay races, before leaving school that day. It would be the last thing she would do at Dundalk High.
Trying to move forward
The support for Trinity's family is way beyond those who showed up at the vigil. Reinhardt said the family home has had several visitors since Trinity passed. People stop by to deliver food and to offer their condolences, she said.
Multiple gofundme's were started to cover funeral expenses. Reinhardt said that adding to visitors at the family home, she has received messages showing support on social media, and has received several friend requests on Facebook.
"I feel overwhelmed. A good feeling overwhelmed, with all of the support from the Dundalk community," Reinhardt said. "I've only lived in Dundalk since 2015. I haven't had a tragic situation show me, as much as this, how the community really comes together."
Austin said the family sits and jokes the way Trinity would joke with them, and they all try to smile like Trinity would smile. They continue to care for her pet turtle. They are trying to enjoy life the way she would enjoy life, he said.
"(The support) is heartwarming," Austin said. "It shows how much love she gave out and how much is being sent back her way."
The vigil was held at the exact spot on Delvale Avenue where Trinity was struck. The family placed pictures of her along the fence. Some who attended brought flowers. Tea candles were placed on the ground in front of the fence, spelling "TRINITY."
Beyond the fence is a second memorial. More candles and flowers are placed on the ground. Next to them is a big plush teddy bear with a red ribbon around its neck, tied into a bow. It's the spot where Trinity landed after being fatally struck.
As for Jones, she was charged by Baltimore County Police with vehicular manslaughter, a felony. She is being held without bond at the Baltimore County Department of Corrections. Her trial is scheduled for Feb. 3, 2020.
"She made the immoral choice to get behind the wheel of her car after a day of drinking," Xavior said. "Wrong time. Wrong place and it cost me my baby sister. I can't hate her because it's not in my heart. It's not in my family's heart and it's not in my sister's heart to hate somebody. She needs help. She needs to sober up, and she needs to feel the guilt and the consequences of her actions. There's no justice in the world that will bring her back to me. There is no amount of tears that will bring her back to me. This woman needs to feel the regret of waking up every day and realizing that she took this young girl's life."
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Stance of tourism dept vindicated, says Parulekar
Beaches of Goa
How can anyone take the word of the tourism minister? He has no clue what he talks about and says …this is just another of his big proclamations. The Lokayukta verdict is awaited .
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Stance-of-tourism-dept-vindicated-says-Parulekar/articleshow/53309303.cms
Tourism minister Dilip Parulekar has claimed that his department's stand on the beach cleaning contract being devoid of any irregularities, whatsoever, has been vindicated by the latest report of the director of vigilance.
"All the procedures were abided for the tender and there were no irregularities. The allegations were levelled without any base and have been proved to be false," said Parulekar, in a written statement to the media along with the copy of the vigilance director's status report.
Director of vigilance had called for a status report in response to a letter from the registrar, Goa Lokayukta, on the complaint filed by Aires Rodrigues, an advocate, alleging a multi-crore scam in the tender of comprehensive management of Goa's beaches, raising the number of issues and demanded to register a first information report against many persons. The status report says that the complaint was without any supportive evidence vis-a-vis charges of corruption.
Also, the allegations of failure to supervise beach cleaning activity, be it on the part of the tourism department or the beach cleaning agency, were sans any concrete proof and do not fall within the purview of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
As regards to accusations of quantum of payment for beach cleaning now as compared to the past and the release of payments by the tourism department, the report states that those are technical aspects that have to be probed into by the technical wing.
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Climate change law lecture raises over $7000 for bushfires
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The UWA Law School and the Law Society of WA, with the support of the WA community, held a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) fundraiser at the University Club of Western Australia on Thursday 30 January to raise money for the Australian Red Cross' bushfire efforts.
Over 220 attendees and donors from the Perth legal and wider community contributed more than $7,600 to the Australian Red Cross's bushfire appeal through this event.
"Like so many other Australians, my heart went out to the victims of the bushfires and I wanted to do something to help them." said Dr Marilyn Bromberg, who curated the event.
"Curating a fundraiser to raise money for the Australian Red Cross bushfire relief seemed like the most practical way that I could help. I am very grateful and proud that the WA legal community gave the event such tremendous support."
Professor Robyn Carroll from the UWA Law School welcomed attendees and the two speakers. The Honourable Robert French AC, Chancellor, alumnus and Law School Adjunct Professor, made opening remarks about climate change litigation and climate change law expert Associate Professor David Hodgkinson delivered the lecture, providing background to climate change law and policy in Australia over recent decades. He discussed current efforts to establish regulatory mechanisms to address climate change and examined the relationship between climate change and the recent Australian bushfires.
Following an informative Q&A the President of the Law Society of WA Nicholas van Hattem thanked the organisers, speakers, donors and the many WA law associations who supported the event.
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Is There Enough LGBT News to Sustain a Huge Marketplace?
David Badash in the Huffington Post has taken his earlier work on the future of LGBT news sites (from his blog the New Civil Rights Movement) to a larger audience. It relies on a story at the Nieman Labs on whether it is possible to be too niche when it comes to news, focusing specifically on LGBT news sites.
Badash's thesis is that online LGBT news sites live in perilous times and that the turnover recently inside the online world may have a larger implication on whether LGBT news sites can survive.
Is there a future for the gay news and politics sites and blogs that focus on and advocate for the LGBT community, or will we continue to see them consolidate — or just disappear? Why are so many gay news sites finding it so challenging to stay afloat? Are advertisers leery of being associated with distinctly gay sites? Is this niche just too "niche?"
"Whether corporate-run or a one person shop, the outlook for gay news blogs is that most of them are not turning a satisfying profit," writes Nikki Usher, at Harvard's own niche journalism site, Neiman Journalism Lab, in a recent article, "How niche is too niche? The case of gay news blogs."
Publishers of gay news sites talk about the issues Usher's piece raises: inconsistent advertising and few advertising network options, and lack of support from LGBT organizations. While visits at many LGBT sites are growing, most journalists and bloggers work very hard to attract and keep each and every reader.
Badash suggests that readers, advertisers, and the activist left need to support online LGBT news sites and that without that support, we could see more turnover. Included is an interesting set of quotes from Bil Browning of Bilerico Project and Pam Spaulding of Pam's House Blend on the relationship between the activist community and the LGBT online world.
"The right wing has no problem using its 'wing nut welfare' to amplify its messaging through politically compatible blogs," says Pam's House Blend's Pam Spaulding. "The left is at once averse to that model but also queasy about what any blogger might say that is off-message or not 'safe,' and thus don't want to make that investment in the blogs as part of overall movement support. That activist/reader reticence, along with the current feeble support through ads and direct fundraising campaigns, will never raise enough money to make LGBT-focused blogs sustainable."
Bil Browning, founder and publisher of Bilerico, agrees. "While conservatives are funding right-wing Internet sites, blogs, and pundits to the hilt, the left has abandoned progressive citizen journalists since Obama's election," says Browning. "For LGBT news and political analysis sites, this tightfistedness on the part of Democrats, LGBT and other progressive organizations, and large funders has resulted in quite a bit of belt tightening."
Many serious LGBT news and analysis sites are consolidating, reducing staff, or going out of existence entirely. Browning feels that "at this point, the left and LGBT leaders should be investing in our sites as an inexpensive way of moving their message, but instead they expect citizen journalists to work for solely altruistic reasons. Just because we believe in the same ideals doesn't mean we don't need to eat and pay our rent, too."
While there's a lot there that makes people whetted to the traditional media model cringe–working with political activists, funding from progressive organizations–to me the larger question is whether even relying on progressive organizations for funding will work or whether there is just only so much room in the marketplace for LGBT news and opinion.
I get most of my LGBT news via Twitter, RSS feeds, and Facebook. I'm constantly struck by how similar the news is from various sources–traditional online news, connected to brick-and-mortar news outlets, and opinion. At the end of the day, it seems like there are only a few national stories worth reporting on and the rest is filler.
Call me a cynic, but I'm just not that interested in the "It Gets Better" video by the baristas at a Starbucks in WeHo. I'm not sure news consumers really want a constant stream of tidbits about D-list conservative activists that are unknown outside of the conservative fringe and the LGBT blogosphere. Frankly, writing about every utterance coming from inconsequential candidates like Rick Santorum just doesn't seem to meet the news threshold. And don't get me started on celebrity news.
So is there also a news gap? Has the turnover in the LGBT news world occurred because they can't survive and don't have enough support, or is it because there just isn't enough news to sustain?
We are welcoming some new bloggers to this blog and I hope their debuts will take on some of the questions raised by Badash.


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Record share of Americans are unmarried – even though most want to say 'I do'
Among Americans ages 25 to 34, 49 percent have never been married, according to census data compiled by Pew. The result can be greater financial challenges, economists say.
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Bride and groom Emily and Joey Schonlau pose for photos in front of the Sacred Heart Church immediately after their ceremony, in 2009.
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For Americans ages 25 to 34, the likelihood of being unmarried is four times greater today than it was in 1960 – a trend that is reshaping the economics of household life.
It's not that the younger generations have lost all interest in marriage. But the actual prevalence of marriage has declined, reaching a record low according to a new survey.
The result, economists say, is greater financial challenges for households including unmarried couples and single parents with children.
Here are the latest numbers:
Some 1 in 5 adults over 24 has never been married, according to 2012 Census data compiled by the Pew Research Center. And if you narrow the focus to ages 25 to 34, fully 49 percent have never been married, a figure that stood at 12 percent in 1960.
In part, many Americans see a positive side to the longstanding trend of decline in marriage. The social stigmatization of being single or in a cohabiting relationship has greatly eased.
But the financial toll of less marriage, and later marriage, is significant, economists say – ranging from lower living standards to diminished opportunities for children.
"Married people are happier, healthier, and wealthier than their unmarried counterparts – even after adjusting for some obvious differences between the two groups," writes Brookings Institution scholar Isabel Sawhill in a new book, "Generation Unbound."
The consequences of the decline in marriage for children are even more important, Ms. Sawhill argues. Not only are 40 percent of US births today happening outside marriage, but most of those are also unplanned, she says – circumstances that are "too frequently accompanied by a less-than-favorable environment for the child."
Brighter prospects for individual households would help the whole economy, too, affecting things like taxpayer costs for antipoverty programs and remedial support at schools.
What's the answer to these economic challenges?
Improving the marriage rate is a possibility. Polling by the Pew Research Center found that young adults generally still aspire to marriage. Only 4 percent of never-married adults ages 25 to 34 say they don't want to get married, the center reported Wednesday.
One stumbling block lately has been a weakened job market. Among that younger age group, there are 91 employed men for every 100 women, whereas in 1960 that ratio was 139 employed men per 100 women, according to Pew.
So strengthening overall job creation and job training could help improve the pace of "I do" vows – even as it boosts the economy more broadly for others.
It's possible, too, that targeted marriage-promotion efforts, perhaps led by churches and other civic institutions, could help revive marriage rates over the long term.
Whatever happens, Sawhill takes it as a given that rates of childbirth outside marriage will be higher than in the past. With that in view, she argues for a parallel focus on supporting successful parenthood – whatever the marital status of the parents – such as by promoting low-maintenance forms of birth control that have proved effective at reducing unwanted pregnancies.
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GEEEK shows off its G1 aluminum small form factor PC case
Taiwan-based GEEEK has shown off its first aluminum small form factor (SFF) PC case, the G1, in the first round of images. The case appears to take on the size of GEEK's acrylic A50 PLUS case with the build quality of the expensive DAN Cases A4.
The first image shown off by GEEEK was a shot of a silver and black G1 case with the side panels off and no components inside. From the image, we can see it follows the same two-chamber design that separates the graphics card from the rest of the components while forgoing USB and audio ports on the front.
To keep the design clean and minimalistic, the front has been left with a single button that will allow you to turn the PC on, off, and restart it with a long press. Looking inside of the case, we can see it uses an aluminum spine that supports an ITX motherboard and power supply with a cutout on the back for what looks to be a two-slot GPU.
The cage-like component appears to be the SSD caddy, which will allow you to add two 2.5″ drives to the computer with the ability to add SSDs or HDDs. The side panels appear to screw on with similar thumbscrews to GEEEK's previous cases but will likely have rubber added to prevent scratches from appearing.
Looking at the second image shared on Twitter, we get to see the GPU side of the case this time. The spine of the PC looks to come out a little to the edge of the case to support the PCI-E riser cable for the GPU, while doubling as a spot for the only GEEEK logo to be added.
The case's legs also appear to raise it slightly higher than the A50 PLUS to allow for more airflow from a possible fan that could be added in. Looking at the vents on the case, you can see GEEEK has chosen to go with the more aesthetically pleasing circular holes rather than, the more efficient hexagons on previous cases.
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Josh has been a senior editor for the last few years, focusing on drones and related technologies. During this time, he grew interested in small form factor PCs and decided to launch SFF GEEK – a website focused on the topic.
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Hello and welcome back to my private email about the life and times of the ultra MAGA. I've been sending this email for a full year now—Puck turned one this week!—and it's been, to put it lightly, insane how the movement has evolved in the time since Donald Trump's exile from Washington.
Today, we're looking at the most ultra MAGA guy I've seen yet on the national stage, even more MAGA than Trump himself: Doug Mastriano, the election-denying, January 6th-attending G.O.P. gubernatorial candidate who, as one Pennsylvania strategist described him to me, "truly believes that God is talking to him." He's far outside of the realm of a normal Republican, even in these extremist times, and seems to be actively rebuffing all opportunities for mainstream acceptance. Is this a clever strategy, or is it evidence of a hyperactive MAGA amygdala at play?
Doug Mastriano's Snowflake Strategy
After crashing through a G.O.P. primary, Mastriano's fringey brand of Q-inflected, hyper-MAGA politics has been a harder sell with general election voters. The Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate hasn't made things easier by insulating himself from the very media outlets he needs to win.
TINA NGUYEN
Among the more fringe candidates who muscled their way onto the sputtering G.O.P. rocket ship this year, Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, might be the purest of MAGA true believers: an election-denying, vaccine-dismissing, QAnon-espousing, self-proclaimed Christian nationalist and Confederate cosplayer. As Larry Ceisler, a Philly-based political communications strategist told me about Mastriano, "He truly believes that God is talking to him. And God wants him to run MAGA." Ceisler is a Democrat, but he's not wrong: Mastriano led a prayer session on Jan 5., 2021, calling on God to help Trump "seize the power." The next day, he marched on the Capitol.
Mastriano's radical brand of post-Trumpian politics has been a tough sell with Pennsylvania's general election voters. After beating nine less zany Republican rivals with a whopping 42.3 percent of the primary vote, Mastriano is now lagging his Democratic rival, the state attorney general Josh Shapiro, by somewhere between 3 and 11 points, depending on the poll. That's worse than expected given the G.O.P.'s structural advantages this cycle, but it's basically in line with Dr. Mehmet Oz's performance against John Fetterman, also in Pennsylvania. And, frankly, it's still within striking distance of Shapiro, especially if the polls are off. Mastriano still has time, in theory, to modulate some of his hard-right positions, as Blake Masters has done in Arizona, or to engage traditional media, to capture the moderate voters he needs.
But Mastriano, thus far, has evidenced zero ability to pivot. He barely has a relationship with the Republican Governors Association, the organization that's supposed to be working on his behalf, and he's been downright hostile toward the mainstream press—not just national outlets like The New York Times, but also local television and radio stations in Pennsylvania. Instead, he's deliberately limited his media exposure to digital livestreams with far right internet personalities, such as Real America's Voice and the Chris Stigall Show, and appearances on Newsmax, OAN and Steve Bannon's War Room. His campaign rallies are functionally closed to the press. He's beefed with Breitbart and ignored Fox News, very occasionally talking to their digital team but otherwise ignoring their cable arm.
The closest that any non-MAGA journalist has gotten to interviewing Mastriano was when the Washington Examiner's national political columnist, Salena Zito, approached Mastriano at a Turning Point USA rally that he held with Ron DeSantis in August. Initially waved through by a Turning Point representative, Zito immediately found herself blocked by a Mastriano staffer. "He said, 'Well, you're not going to talk to Mastriano. That's not happening today. You've not been nice to him,'" Zito told me. She wasn't surprised: like dozens of other journalists covering the Pennsylvania governor's race—both national and local—Zito had already experienced the pointy end of the Mastriano campaign's non-press strategy. Indeed, there have been numerous reports of journalists being explicitly barred from entering his rallies by armed security, and shoved out of Mastriano's path, to say nothing of having requests for comment even returned. (True to form, the Mastriano campaign did not respond to my requests for comment.)
I was surprised because Zito, who's also a columnist for the New York Post, is hardly the stereotypical Fake News stooge. In fact, she's drawn mainstream scorn and Never-Trump hatred, as well as praise from outlets like The Federalist, for her sympathetic profiles of Trump voters. Nevertheless, earlier in the summer Zito had committed the apparently unforgivable sin of writing a column asking why Mastriano was avoiding the media. The affront had not been forgotten two months later when she was stiff-armed by the Mastriano staffer, who told Zito that the campaign would reconsider her access to the candidate if she was "nicer" in the future. Zito was baffled. "I'm like, this is not a transactional relationship," she told me. "I mean, our job is to ask the questions that voters want to know."
"What Is He Hiding?"
The bunker media strategy may have worked in Mastriano's favor during the G.O.P. primaries. While he faced more than a dozen candidates in the primary, several of whom were pro-Trump stalwarts like Rep. Lou Barletta, Mastriano took his campaign off the grid with a grassroots coalition of election skeptics and QAnon sympathizers, cultivated largely on Facebook. In the end, he trounced his more moderate opponents, despite several of them dropping out in a last-minute bid to coalesce around an establishment challenger. A belated endorsement from Donald Trump helped seal the deal.
And Mastriano has kept to that strategy, so far, during the general election, even going so far as to refuse to attend any debates unless he can pick the moderator himself. Last week, he posted a video on his Facebook page with a screenshot of an article titled "Doug Mastriano's Ghosting of Media in PA Guv Race Brilliant, Working: Experts." (Replied one follower: "Stick to it Doug! It's working!")
The safe-space strategy, I'm told, was the brainchild of Mark Serrano, the C.E.O. of the conservative firm Proactive Communications, which also consulted on Trump's 2020 presidential campaign. But if it's supposed to reflect the middle-fingers-to-the-media ethos of the MAGA movement's leader, it also has a massive blind spot. "Even Donald Trump engaged with the news media day in and day out. In fact, he relished it, even though he argued and battled with them every chance he had," noted Jim Schultz, a former Trump White House counsel and a Pennsylvania Republican supporting Shapiro. "Mastriano's apparent strategy of ignoring the news media and insulating himself from any accountability makes no sense. The question everyone should have is 'what is he hiding?'"
It's a hard question to answer, for that very reason. Mastriano's media quarantine on conspiracy island has forced journalists to make near-herculean efforts to dredge up info on the would-be governor, such as scouring fringe websites that are practically unknown outside of MAGA world. (Have you ever heard of The Wendy Bell Show?) The result has helped to insulate Mastriano's public profile as a suit-and-tie-wearing gubernatorial candidate from his downright nutty private life. (Mastriano spoke at an event for a church that worships the AR-15 assault rifle, for example.)
And for a certain number of voters, it's working. There are plenty of Republicans in Pennsylvania who are fine closing their eyes and pulling the lever for the guy with the R next to his name, and the less they know about him, the better. But Mastriano's refusal to engage with the press, and his aversion to traditional television advertising, has also given Shapiro endless opportunities to define his opponent. "They're not allowing Mastriano to normalize himself," Ceisler told me, referring to Democratic attacks. "That's why they keep pushing out the anti-Semitic stuff, the Confederate stuff, all of that."
With six weeks in the race left, it's unclear whether Mastriano can get over the near-infinite number of hurdles in his way—a severe lack of money, a paltry ad budget, a record of insanity miles long—or even get out of his own way. If there's a silver lining for Republicans, it's that Mastriano won't necessarily drag down Oz, or vice versa, since Pennsylvania allows voters to split their votes across multiple parties on the same ballot. "I was just out in Somerset County and Westmoreland County, and I saw signs that had Shapiro and Oz in them," Zito told me. Good news for Oz, perhaps, but it's hardly the portent that the G.O.P. needs.
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Tommy Orange's shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to each other in ways they may not yet realize. There is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and working to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, who is pulling his life back together after his uncle's death, has come to work at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil has come to perform traditional dance for the very first time. Together, this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American—grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism.
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Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma of the Lacrimal Gland
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Jacqueline Ng, MD
Cat Nguyen Burkat, MD FACS, Jacqueline Ng, MD, Jonathan Kim MD, Marcus M. Marcet, MD, Michael T Yen, MD, Paul O. Phelps, MD, FACS and Todd Mondzelewski, MD
Jonathan Kim MD, Paul O. Phelps, MD, FACS
by Jonathan Kim MD on March 31, 2020.
Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma
2.2 Histologic diagnosis
3.1 Treatment
3.2 Follow up
Lacrimal gland tumors comprise about 10% of all space-occupying orbital tumors. About 20% of solid lacrimal gland tumors are of epithelial origin, with about 45% being malignant. Of the malignant epithelial lacrimal gland tumors, about 60% are adenoid cystic carcinomas, and these most often involve the orbital lobe of the lacrimal gland.
Adenoid cystic carcinoma generally presents in young or middle-aged adults with a mean age of 40 years, but can occur in the first decade of life. There is a slight predilection for women. Diagnosis of adenoid cystic carcinoma generally occurs within 6 months of presenting signs and symptoms.
Given the superotemporal location of the lacrimal gland in the orbit, often the initial presenting sign is proptosis with inferior and nasal deviation of the globe (Fig. 1). Pain from bone and nerve invasion by this unencapsulated tumor is a distinguishing feature from benign lesions, which tend to be slowly progressive without pain. Nerve invasion may also present with frontotemporal hypoesthesia. Patients may also present with "S-shaped" blepharoptosis, diplopia, and ocular motility deficits.
Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may demonstrate an ovoid soft tissue mass in the superotemporal orbit with irregular margins and possible bony erosion even while the tumor is small. Focal calcifications may also be present (Fig. 2A, 2B).
Fig. 1: Proptosis and globe dystopia from left lacrimal gland adenoid cystic carcinoma.
Fig. 2: (A) Coronal CT of an adenoid cystic carcinoma with irregular mass arising from the left anterior superotemporal orbit with possible focal calcification. (B) Axial CT of an adenoid cystic carcinoma invading the left lateral orbital wall (arrow).
Histologic diagnosis
If there is any suggestion from clinical work-up that a lacrimal gland mass is malignant, excisional biopsy at minimum is strongly recommended to prevent further seeding of tumor cells in the orbit. Fine needle aspiration biopsy has been proposed in the literature and may be more appropriate for unresectable tumors, but should be limited to institutions with experienced cytopathologists.
On histology, the tumor is defined by bland appearing, but malignant epithelial cells clearly delineated from adjacent connective tissue. The tumor can present in several subtypes including cribiform (Swiss cheese), sclerosing, basaloid, comedocarcinoma, and tubular (ductal).
The cribiform variant is the most common and consists of lobules with circular pools of mucin (Fig. 3). The sclerosing variant consists of elongated cords of epithelial cells with a dense hyalinized stroma. The basaloid variant is poorly differentiated with large basophilic nuclei and scant cytoplasm in solid epithelial lobules (Fig. 4). This variant has been thought to have a poorer prognosis than the other variants. The comedocarcinoma variant is composed of epithelial lobules with large foci of central necrosis. The tubular variant is made up of elongated epithelial tubules lined by two to three layers of cells.
Fig. 3: Cribriform variant
Fig. 4: Basaloid variant
Differential diagnosis includes lymphoma, and other inflammatory conditions including chronic dacryoadenitis, reactive lymphoid hyperplasia, sarcoidosis, Sjögren's syndrome (Mikulicz disease), lipogranuloma, and dacryops. Pleomorphic adenoma is also an important differential and is the most common lacrimal gland tumor. Pleomorphic adenoma is a benign lacrimal gland tumor, typically painless, but has the potential for malignant transformation. Pleomorphic adenoma (benign mixed tumor) can also demonstrate bony orbital expansion on imaging as well. Also on the differential are other malignant epithelial tumors of the lacrimal gland. Of the malignant epithelial lacrimal tumors 20% are pleomorphic adenocarcinoma, 10% are primary adenocarcinoma, and 5% are mucoepidermoid carcinoma.
Treatment continues to be controversial. Many authorities today will often initiate surgery (orbital exenteration vs globe-sparing resection) with or without bone removal and adjuvant radiotherapy (external beam or proton beam therapy). The decision for exenteration may depend on involvement of the orbital apex and extension beyond the orbit. Removal of bone is usually guided by radiologic evidence of bony involvement or intraoperative abnormal bony structures. Radiotherapy is often initiated in cases of perineural invasion. Radiation therapy may also prolong long-term survival. Other less studied modalities of treatment include intraaterial chemotherapy and brachytherapy. Over the past decade, there has been a trend toward an emphasis on adjuvant treatments (rather than surgery alone) such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Most centers currently rely on a combination of all available modalities to reduce local surgical morbidity (when appropriate), combined with adjuvant therapies in an attempt to improve survival rates.
There have been numerous studies looking at outcomes with different modalities of treatment.
In one study by Ahmed and Esmaeli, a retrospective review of 53 cases of adenoid cystic carcinoma were classified according to the American Joint Committee on Cancer Classification to evaluate predictive outcomes of treatment and local recurrence. The study concluded that prognosis was worse for patients with >T3 tumors (Fig. 5) with higher incidence of recurrence and metastasis despite aggressive treatment. Poor outcome was also noted in patients who had basaloid variant and perineural invasion. For patients with >T3 tumors, local recurrence was higher in patients treated with globe preserving surgery compared to those who underwent orbital exenteration and radiotherapy. Earlier studies by Wright, Rose, and Garner on 38 patients from Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, and Font, Smith, and Bryan on 21 patients with adenoid cystic carcinoma seemed to also favor aggressive surgical intervention with radiotherapy. Ahmed and Esmaeli attempted to distinguish more advanced tumors from less invasive tumors, and although the study was less conclusive for <T3 tumors, globe preserving surgery with radiotherapy seemed to provide local and regional control.
In cases of advanced tumors with high risk of recurrence, neoadjuvent intraarterial chemotherapy with cisplatin and doxorubicin has been used with exenteration and irradiation. In a small study by Tse et al comparing additional intraarterial cytoreductive chemotherapy in 9 patients compared to conventional surgery and radiotherapy, the study concluded that the 5-year carcinoma specific death rate (16.7% compared with 57.1% respectively) and recurrence rate (23.8% compared with 71.4% respectively) was significantly lower in patients treated with intraarterial cytoreductive chemotherapy. Although adjuvant chemoradiation is often routinely employed in other head and neck tumors, there is limited data on the efficacy of this modality in adenoid cystic carcinoma of the lacrimal gland.
In cases where minimal residual tumor remains after surgical intervention, brachytherapy with iodine-125 (I-125) plaques has also been used. In a small study by Shields et al of 4 patients with microscopic residual tumor after excision, brachytherapy with I-125 plaques with a target dose of 50 Gray was applied. Of the 4 patients, 3 had tumor control while one patient required exenteration for recurrence separate from the area of treatment.
Although promising initial data, there is currently insufficient conclusive data on this modality of treatment.
Fig. 5: American Joint Committee on Cancer Classification of Carcinoma of the Lacrimal Gland.
Careful follow-up is critical in patients diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma given the tendency for local and regional recurrence and metastasis despite aggressive treatment.
Adenoid cystic carcinoma has a poor overall prognosis, compounded by the limited number of studies available given the rarity of the entity and lack of consensus in treatment approach.
Literature has cited predictors for prognosis including basaloid variant, tumor stage, perineural invasion, age, and presence of apoptotic markers. The often cited study by Gamel and Font indicated a 5-year survival rate for basaloid variant was only 21% as compared to other variants where the survival rate was 71%. Similar findings have been noted in subsequent studies. Multiple studies have also concluded that more advanced tumors, especially with neural invasion results in a poorer prognosis with higher likelihood of recurrence and metastasis even with invasive treatment. However, in one case by Tellado et al, 11 cases of adenoid cystic carcinoma in patients 18 years or younger demonstrated that younger patients had a better prognosis possibly due to less aggressive histology including less basaloid variant and less perineural invasion. In another study by Strianese, the presence of apoptotic markers with down-regulation of p53 and up-regulation of Bcl-2 was also associated with worse prognosis and survival rates.
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Politics In Spires Schools
OxPol / December 11, 2013 / 0
The divide between subjects taught in the school classroom and university-level research is often exaggerated. Someone between 16-18 would be familiar with many themes addressed by Oxford's Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR). Still, some content, and especially research methods, would be completely new. Articles published in this series are part of a pilot scheme to bridge this divide. Recently, postgraduates from the DPIR visited schools to discuss its research programme with 16-18 year-old students taking courses in government and politics. The conversation pointed to many similarities. All A-level Politics courses aim to develop critical awareness of the nature of politics and increase understanding of the structures of authority and power. This is also true of University research. These …
Interview with Margaret MacMillan: The War That Ended Peace
OxPol / July 18, 2014 / 1
Margaret Macmillan, Professor of International History at the University of Oxford and Warden of St Anthony's College, discusses her new book 'The War That Ended Peace' with DPhil student Katharine Brooks. The book is a re-examination of the causes of World War One and seeks to answer the question of why the long peace preceding 1914 failed to hold. Katharine asks what Professor Macmillan felt she has been able to add to our understandings of World War One, what parallels can be drawn from 1914 to 2014 and why academia still fails to come to an agreement on the causes of this most important of world events.
The Trouble with Standards in Public Life
David Hine / January 13, 2014 / 0
In the United Kingdom, thanks to the powerful influence of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, we tend to see public ethics primarily in positive terms: as standards to be upheld not as criminal corruption to be prevented. The Committee's approach has been built on four key elements: high-level principles; codes of conduct for each area of public life; mechanisms of independent scrutiny; and education and training in the values implied by the principles and codes. Unfortunately, however, the focus on "standards" creates an ever-expanding public-ethics agenda. It builds on a challenging, if intuitively persuasive, premise: that we really can identify what, in its most recent Inquiry, the Committee called "best practice in promoting good behaviour in public life". Too frequently it seems we fail to do so. The more we discuss "standards" the more we see the gap between theory and reality. Public organisations have regularly failed to deliver on basic standards of provision – for example in health or social care – and then concealed their failures. Public-private partnerships have revealed manifest unaddressed conflicts of interest. At senior levels blame avoidance is a regular feature of the policy process. As a result, we are still struggling to identify what, in cultural terms, works to uphold a cultural approach to ethics and integrity.
'We were just using different words to mean the same thing': Exploring the affective norms of political party manifestos
Spyros Kosmidis / January 9, 2014 / 0
This is a research project that aspires to measure and understand the affective norms of political discourse. We already know that political parties propose policies to persuade the electorate. In fact, all else being equal, the party developing the most persuasive set of policies will win the election. But, we also know that persuasion is not only about numbers, policy proposals and goals. Rhetoric has an affective aspect that is difficult to measure and understand. How do political parties present their policies to make them more appealing and persuasive? And, how can political scientists extract these pieces of information? With respect to the first question, we argue that on top of the programmatic content of political texts, political parties use emotional appeals to convince that their policies are superior. To measure that we examine how affective political rhetoric is through a content analysis of political language.
Protecting Civilians
Hugo Slim / January 6, 2014 / 1
It feels wrong to watch the news about Syria and the Central African Republic night after night without seeing any effective international action being taken to stop the killing, displacement and rape. After millions of civilians were killed in the Second World War, the United Nations was set up specifically "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war". So why doesn't it? Hugo Slim investigates the current state of international politics regarding the legitimacy of humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect.
The Prospect of Scottish Independence
Jim Gallagher / January 4, 2014 / 0
In September 2014 there will be a referendum in Scotland about whether to leave the United Kingdom, and if Scotland votes yes that will signal the end of a 300 year union. How has it come to this, what would Scottish independence mean, and what's going to happen? Jim Gallagher, Gwilym Gibbon research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, examines the potential consequences of a 'yes' vote both for an independent Scotland and the rest of the UK.
Rethinking Europe in a Non-European World
The international landscape is changing. The emergence of new and powerful global players such as China, India and Brazil lessens Europe's traditionally strong position on the international stage. One of the questions facing European policy-makers today is thus how Europe can exert influence in an increasingly globalised world despite its comparative decline in military strength and economic capacity vis-a-vis the new emerging powers. In the mid 200s at the University of Oxford, a group of researchers, led by Kalypso Nicolaidis, founded the research project RENEW – Rethinking Europe in a Non-European world – in order to address precisely this question as well as to reflect more widely on Europe's role in a changing world order.
What would change if the voting age was lowered to 16?
James Tilley / December 26, 2013 / 1
This autumn, in his speech to the Labour party conference, Ed Miliband called for the voting age to be lowered to 16. This follows legislation by the SNP government in Scotland to allow 16 and 17 year olds to vote in the forthcoming referendum on Scottish independence. Explanations of the merits of extending the franchise to younger people normally begin with statements such as 'if someone's old enough to X…' with X replaced by 'marry', 'go to war', 'pay taxes' and so on. We might note that these are, at best, weak arguments since 16 year olds can only marry and join the army with their parents' permission and even 5 year olds pay tax in the form of VAT when their pocket money is translated into sweets.[1] Either way, it seems likely that the SNP's decision was not really based on the merits of the case and was simply a narrow electoral consideration. Young people are generally in favour of Scottish independence, so allowing them to vote will increase the proportion of people voting yes. It seems reasonable to think that this is also the major reason why the Labour party is now interested in lowering the voting age in general elections to 16. Young people are seen as more likely to vote Labour, so allowing them to vote will boost Labour's prospects in future elections. What is never quite clear is whether these are sensible conclusions. Would the entrance of 16 and 17 year olds into the electorate make much difference?
Yesterday's Tomorrows – What Happened to the Future of Government?
Ruth Dixon , Christopher Hood / December 23, 2013 / 0
Christopher Hood and Ruth Dixon explain the results of their recent project aiming to assess the effects of successive efforts to reform the executive government (the 'state machine') of the UK over the past thirty years. This project explores how those reforms played out, and how far they delivered on what had been claimed and expected of them. How much 'leaner and meaner' was the state machine after a generation of such changes? Such an exploration is not only an interesting study in its own right; it is also significant for assessing the prospects for the future of government in the coming decades, for example in assessing how government changed in the periods of cutbacks in the 1980s and early 1990s in the context of what is likely to be a period of prolonged fiscal restraint in the 2010s.


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"If anyone tells you solar energy doesn't work in Kentucky, they are wrong. It's all about a balance of what you use and what you produce," says Sam Avery.
And he has the proof. His farmhouse in Upton, Kentucky, touts several solar features, including a water heater, thermal heating system and rooftop photovoltaic panels.
Sam and his wife, Bonnie, built the house in 1978, shortly after purchasing the tract of land in Hart County. Along with a couple dozen friends, they did so as a part of the "back to the land" movement. Sam incorporated passive and active solar into the design of the home from the start.
Electricity-free hydraulic pump sends 10 gallons of water per hour to the house from the nearby stream
"These things just seemed common sense to me when I built the house," Sam said to a crowd of 35 that gathered at his farmhouse on Friday, July 6. A mix of farmers and friends toured the farm to learn about how each of the home's renewable energy systems works.
Several people climbed up on the roof to see the solar panels and the large tank in the attic peak that holds the home's hot water. Another group walked down the hill to understand how the electric-free hydraulic pump that brings water up the hill from a nearby stream works.
Through his business Avery and Sun, Sam, a trained installer, has put solar systems on other homes in the area as well. Two years ago, he installed a system on the home of neighbors Wendy and Dennis Price that produces as much electricity as they use.
Wendy likes how easily the solar panels replaced their reliance on coal-burning grid-based electricity. "You don't notice anything different at all, except a few clicks at dawn and dusk when the system comes on and turns off," she said.
Everyone at the party was a customer of EKPC's rural electric cooperatives – living in either the Nolin RECC or Farmers RECC district. As a result, the group was particularly interested to learn about efforts to Renew East Kentucky, a campaign to shift the rural electric co-ops toward a culture of energy efficiency and renewable energy.
Sam noted that getting involved in reforming local electric co-ops is a good place to start advocating for clean energy. "As you know, the co-ops are in fact democratic. But as long as the lights go on, most people don't think about the fact that we are owners of them," Sam said.
The Averys also encouraged people to understand more about the source of their electricity by lobbying their legislators for better state clean energy policy.
Having joined the Kentucky Sustainable Energy Alliance as a business member, Sam has been particularly active in advocating for the Clean Energy Opportunity Act, a bill in the Kentucky legislature that would establish a renewable and efficiency portfolio standard and feed-in tariffs for Kentucky.
Sam described himself to the crowd as someone who is not a "joiner." But he said he continues to volunteer his time around clean energy advocacy because he believes it will work.
"It takes people organized, people writing letters, it takes time. We'll have progressive energy legislation in this state – we will have it."
Facts about the Avery farmhouse:
Insulation layer outside of stone walls creates a thermal wrap
Large windowed front foyer is heated by passive solar and provides an energy efficient air buffer
Solar thermal collector provides ½ the home's heat and heats a below-ground greenhouse
Has solar hot water heater
Rooftop solar panels produce 16 kilowatt hours per day in peak conditions (more than the home uses)
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Russell ATC Center Wind Turbine
In May 2008, a host of Russell Area Technology Center students and electrical technology instructor Doug Keaton gathered around a 60-foot tall, 1-kilowatt wind turbine to celebrate its opening operation. Using electricity generated by the turbine is just one part of Russell ATC's larger plan to reduce the school's energy costs by 25%.


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Scourged by Kevin Hearne (2018, Audiobook)
Published by Del Rey. Read by Luke Daniels. Produced by Random House Audio.
Unchained from fate, the Norse gods Loki and Hel are ready to unleash Ragnarok, a.k.a. the Apocalypse, upon the earth. They've made allies on the darker side of many pantheons, and there's a globe-spanning battle brewing that ancient Druid Atticus O'Sullivan will be hard-pressed to survive, much less win.
Listen time: About 9 hours, 5/22-23. (At 120% speed.)
This is the ninth and allegedly final book in the Iron Druid Chronicles.
At this point in the series, we all know what we're going to get, and this book is no different. There is one slight change, however, in that there are three different POVs interwoven throughout the book: Atticus, of course, but also Granny-wail (whose name I have literally no idea how to write, as I've never seen it written down), and Owen. It is essentially three different stories woven together into one book, because the three druids each have their own separate tasks to complete.
Previous books have only dabbled with occasional secondary POVs. This one takes them all on full force, and it's a bit of a shift in tone. Not unpleasant, just different.
Oberon is sidelined for much of the book, for reasons that make perfect sense in the situation, but his perspective is sorely missed. We miss him as much as Atticus does.
As for the story itself, I hate to say it but I found it somewhat uninteresting and anticlimactic. The vast majority of the book describes a gigantic battle on three fronts, and as such, most of the text is about fighting, and that gets old. I honestly don't care about fighting techniques or which hand is used to block which punch from which direction, in this book, or any other. There isn't much in the way of character development. It is basically just one last, large-scale battle which brings back many of the side characters we've seen in the previous eight books for various cameos. Honestly it felt like a very short book.
Still, I found it to be a satisfactory ending, if not particularly grand or noteworthy. Without spoiling too much, I didn't feel much of any emotion one way or another at how it ended. In fact, it didn't really "end"-thanks to the final epilogue, there is no reason Hearne couldn't pick things up again sometime in the future and keep going. To be honest, I feel like Hearne just got bored writing these books and wanted to do something else, and I can certainly sympathize with that. The latter books felt almost like he was contractually obligated to write them, and didn't have quite the same zest and zeal as the initial three or four books.
I will say though that I have appreciated how the series from beginning to end has shown a broad and varied view of many different cultures' religious pantheons, both historical and modern. I feel like I've learned a lot from reading these books, and been exposed to a lot of things I might not otherwise have been. The ninth and final book is no different, giving us a glimpse of The Monkey King and the culture surrounding him, something that I might have laughed about as a joke prior to this book, but is actually a real Chinese legend.
Luke Daniels' reading was, as always, fantastic. Even if the text is not all that interesting, he is able to make it sound interesting with his tremendous array of voices. I can't even imagine reading these books as plain text now.


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Apple's newest ad makes a haunting plea to take climate change seriously
By Patrick Kulp 2017-06-08 03:37:55 UTC
Apple's latest commercial is advertising the Earth.
In a rare topical turn for the company, the ad makes a lofty appeal for environmentalism at a moment when such efforts face historic threats from Donald Trump's administration.
SEE ALSO: Apple will soon block autoplay videos and data tracking in Safari
"Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand," the late astronomer Carl Sagan says in the ad's voiceover. "It underscores the responsibility to deal more cleanly with one another and to preserve and cherish the only home we've ever known."
Climate change is never explicitly mentioned. Nor are any of the many other problems the planet's facing. But the gist is clear, and the broad language actually packs a bigger punch.
The ad debuted during Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday night.
Apple is not exactly the most modest company, and it has a long tradition of grandiose commercials with an air of self-importance that borders on self-parody.
That tone works much better when applied to climate change's colossal existential threat to life on Earth than, say, the Apple Pencil.
Apple can also put its money where its mouth is. It's positioned acting on climate change as a core value of the company. It already powers nearly all its data centers, offices and retail stores worldwide with renewable energy sources, and is working to clean up its vast supply chain in developing nations such as China. Cook personally called President Donald Trump to try to persuade him to remain in the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, an entreaty which did not succeed.
The timely cause is a departure from Apple's usual apolitical marketing. While CEO Tim Cook often comments on the topics of the day, Apple mostly sat out the growing trend towards social commentary in advertising until now.
Decision to withdraw from the #ParisAgreeement was wrong for our planet. Apple is committed to fight climate change and we will never waver.
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) June 2, 2017
The ad isn't pure altruism, of course; it's also a continuation of Apple's "Shot on iPhone" campaign that pulls from user footage to show off the device's camera.
WATCH: Apple ruined the MacBook Pro charging cable — this magnetic adapter will make it all better
Topics: Activism, Apple, big-tech-companies, Business, Climate


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Better than money in the bank?
Investing in classic cars for some feels like mixing business with pleasure. But with bank interest rates and stocks and shares on a rocky road since 2008, the old car market has been buoyant and investment cash flows into the sector.
If your budget doesn't quite stretch to a mint Miura, here are our top tips for appreciating classics below £10,000. The key at this level, where the car will be used, is to buy well. A poor car will cost money rather than make it. Watch out for our advice on what to ask buyers to ensure you buy well - on the blog shortly.
At Great Escape Classic Car Hire we watch the classic car market daily to spot cars that our customers will want to hire. And we buy and sell classics for our fleet all the time. With £10,000 in your pocket here are out top picks for appreciating classics in 2012. Let us know what you think at http://www.greatescapecars.co.uk/ or call 01527 893733.
1. Jaguar XJ6/XJ12 Series 1
The lovely old Series 1 XJ Jaguar has been slumbering for a while, stuck in the shadow of the iconic Jaguar Mk2. But as a new breed of buyers enter the market, who grew up with the younger car, it's the Jaguar XJ that is appreciating. Values for good XJs have skyrocketed over the last 12 months but there are plenty about so there are still lots of well priced cars. We think that XJs will go the same way as Jaguar Mk2s. The safe money is in a Series 1 (with the bigger radiator grille) with the 5.3 litre engine but the 4.2 is also worth a look. If your budget is tighter look at a Series 2 - the same car but with a smaller grille and for some reason less loved (misguided concerns about BL build quality that no longer apply after 40 years). We think this strange prejudice will mellow and prices will balance.
2. VW Golf GTI Mk1
The original hot hatch has been promising to appreciate for some time. There are surprisingly few unmolested, well maintained examples of the veedub around, which is seeing values for good cars increase. 12 months ago £3,000 would have bought a good one, now it's closer to £5,000. We think they'll go higher as buyers appreciate their reliability, useability and sheer capability. And with more children of the 1980s entering the nostalgia market for 'cars they grew up with' we expect demand for good cars to increase.
3. Peugeot 205 GTI
While we're on the subject of hot hatches, the more youthful 205 GTI is ripe for investment. Like the Golf, good cars are rare and now command serious premiums - this is usually a sign that the car is on the up. While average cars can be found for less than £1,000, decent 205 GTIs are around £4,000, significantly up on 12 months ago. Like the VW Golf, nostalgia will fuel this market.
4. BMW 6-Series Mark 1
The shark-nose Beemer coupe of the 1980s has lurked in the shadow of the earlier CS coupe for years. We're not sure why - it's a great looking car that's reliable and backed by a decent club and specialist repair network. The ones to go for are the M635, 635 or the Highline. There are plenty about and values have still to rise. We think they'll follow the CS, which has appreciated dramatically in recent years, despite expensive rebuild costs that don't really apply to the better built later car. Although beware - all 6-Series cars rust.
5. Jaguar XK8
In the world of youngtimer classics, not many people would put their money into a Jaguar as a sure fire investment. The big cats usually take years and years to climb out of the old banger world. But we think the elegant XK8 coupe and convertible are different because they look so good - plus the Jaguar brand is seriously on the up at the moment. We are already seeing a lot of hire demand in these cars, up significantly year on year, which suggests that interest is there. The reliability and sheer useability of these cars gives them very broad appeal. Good cars are already starting to rise, we expect that to continue as demand for decent cars outstrips supply.
Great Escape Classic Car Hire has 4 out of 5 of these cars (all except the XJ6 sadly) available to hire from one of our 8 UK locations. To find try before you buy call 01527 893733 or visit http://www.greatescapecars.co.uk.
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Dianne Feinstein pushes bill to ban 205 'assault weapons,' limit magazine size
Jen Krausz
The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives voted this week to pass a pair of gun-control measures widely opposed by the GOP.
Not to be outdone, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has introduced a bill that would ban more than 200 so-called assault weapons, Breitbart reported.
"This bill saves lives"
Along with the support of 34 Senate Democrats who co-sponsored the legislation, Feinstein also wants to ban ammunition magazines holding more than 10 rounds as well as bump stocks, which were banned in 2019.
Under the proposal, current owners of the banned weapons would be allowed to keep them, but transferring ownership to someone else would require an FBI background check.
Claiming the measure would "save lives," Feinstein said that the Assault Weapons Ban of 2021 would replace a previous ban that expired 17 years ago. Critics, on the other hand, say her numbers are wrong and doubt the bill would save any lives at all.
"It's been 17 years since the original Assault Weapons Ban expired, and the plague of gun violence continues to grow in this country," the California Democrat said. "To be clear, this bill saves lives."
During the decade in which the ban was in place, she claimed that "gun massacres declined by 37% compared with the decade before" and upon its expiration, "the number of massacres rose by 183%."
"Too small for reliable measurement"
According to the National Institute of Justice, however, the prior ban did little to reduce crime.
"The ban's effects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement," a report from the institute determined.
For her part, Feinstein did not include citations about where she got her numbers. Data from 2011 showed that just over one-tenth of one percent of deaths were attributed to assault weapons.
Of course, the same party pushing for more gun control is the same group that has moved to effectively shut down our society indefinitely in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Law-abiding gun owners and freedom-loving Americans across the nation are sure to wonder where Democrats might end their attempt to curtail constitutional freedoms and, with control of Congress and the White House, stop pushing through highly partisan legislation and executive orders.


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Road Widening and Reconstruction Eglinton Avenue East at Brentcliffe Road – South Side
Thu, 2020-06-11
ORIGINAL POST: MAY 8, 2020
Road Widening and Reconstruction
Eglinton Avenue East at Brentcliffe Road – South Side
As part of construction of the future surface alignment for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, crews will be performing road widening and reconstruction activities on the south side of Eglinton Avenue East between Brentcliffe Road and the West Don River Bridge. Activities include road widening, curb and sidewalk construction, wet utility relocations and electrical works. Work will take place early May through to early July 2020.
Road works on the south side of Eglinton Avenue East will continue through to early July 2020.
Work may occur from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday.
The contractor may not always work during the permitted hours but may do so at its discretion.
Work may be rescheduled due to weather conditions or unforeseen circumstances.
Crews will be widening and reconstructing the south side of Eglinton Avenue, east of Brentcliffe Road.
Crews will be relocating wet utilities, reconstructing curbs and sidewalks and completing electrical works for street lighting.
Construction activities include:
- Concrete removal
- Excavation
- Concrete works
- Backfill
- Compaction
- Paving
- Streetlight installation
Noise and vibration from construction equipment and vehicles can be expected.
Site lighting may be required.
In addition to construction activity, residents can expect to see equipment and material storage within designated work zones.
TRAFFIC, PEDESTRIAN AND TTC DETAILS
There will be no impacts to the existing traffic configuration.
The east crosswalk at the Brentcliffe Road and Eglinton Ave East intersection will remain closed.
The pedestrian walkway on the south side of Eglinton Avenue East will remain available for the duration of these works.
No changes to existing TTC stop locations.
Travelling Smart during Construction
Travel delays are expected with the Crosstown construction. Please allow extra time for your journey. Traffic will be extra heavy at peak periods during the Crosstown construction. When possible, please travel during the off-peak period between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Sign up for e-mail updates at www.thecrosstown.ca/sign-up [1] or download the Crosstown traffic app to get real-time traffic and transit information for the Eglinton corridor
Brentcliffe Road [2]
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[3] http://thecrosstown.ca/fr/news-media/whats-new/construction-updates