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Webinar Recording Available: The Green New Deal: What is a reasonable "realism" in the face of an existential threat?
October 16, 2019 Erin Lennox
Presented by Eric Kemp-Benedict of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) .
On October 9th, 2019 Eric Kemp-Benedict, senior scientist at SEI and USSEE member, presented for the USSEE webinar series on the topic of the Green New Deal. You can find Eric's webinar on the USSEE Youtube page here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt5qF4hh9fA
Eric has also made his slides from the presentation available here
Webinar Abstract: In high-income countries, the first generation likely to be substantially impacted by climate change is coming of age, and they are urging us to action. Greta Thunberg is asking us to please panic, while Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez led the writing of the Green New Deal resolution. Their calls are grounded in appeals to "the science": the physical mechanisms driving climate change and evidence of impacts from the natural sciences. Meanwhile, William Nordhaus was given the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics for his work on the economics of climate change. His research program has arguably allowed for people to tell us not to panic. Yet, his has not been the only view within economics. In this presentation, I will briefly survey some of the alternatives and present a simple model for exploring broad alternatives. I will then talk about the role of social and institutional trust in making major systemic changes in a time of uncertainty.
UVM Launches $4,000 Environmental Writing Prize
September 29, 2019 Erin Lennox
Now accepting submissions for Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics
The Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont invites submissions for the inaugural Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics, which celebrates outstanding writing on the environmental limits of our finite planet.
The winning author will receive $4,000, plus financial support for a trip to the University of Vermont for a public campus event in Burlington, VT.
The Zencey Prize will recognize the best current affairs book or long-form journalism that addresses real-world environmental issues using the principles of ecological economics, a field that explores the relationships between economics and Earth's limited natural resources.
To be eligible, submissions must be published in English, in the years 2018 or 2019, and target a general audience.
The prize is named after Eric Zencey, a pioneering scholar and public intellectual who worked to bring ecological economics outside the academy to understand and address the political, economic, social, and environmental challenges facing society.
"I hope this prize will inspire future generations of environmental writers and ecological economists to communicate real-world solutions beyond 'the Ivory Tower,'" said Eric Zencey (1954-2019), whose life will be celebrated on Sept. 29.
UVM students and scholars will benefit from the Zencey Prize through educational opportunities, seminars, readings, and events.
"The Gund Institute for Environment is a leader in ecological economics, thanks to the efforts of scholars like Eric Zencey," said Taylor Ricketts, Director, Gund Institute. "The Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics is an important new prize for the field – and exemplifies Eric's passion for real-world issues. We thank the Zencey family for their vision and generosity."
The term "ecological economics" need not appear in submitted works, but the field's underlying goals – understanding links among ecological, economic and social systems and advancing sustainability, equity, and human well-being – must be evident.
The Zencey Prize is awarded by the Gund Institute, in collaboration with the U.S. Society of Ecological Economics.
Learn more and submit writing to the Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics.
Lizzie King Webinar Recording Available
Video December 8, 2018 Kyle Gracey
Advancing the Integration of Ecosystem Services and Livelihood Adaptation
Presented by Lizzie King for the United States Society for Ecological Economics Webinar Series.
The concept of ecosystem services has become a cornerstone in dialogues and policymaking in conservation, natural resource management, and sustainable development. Most methods for ascribing values to the benefits provided by ecosystems are based on a conceptual "flow model" in which natural capital yields services, which in turn yield valued benefits to people. However, in sectors such as rural development and urban planning, there are increasingly vocal criticisms of outcomes that arise when decisions based on optimizing ecosystem services are put in to practice.
In this talk, I will examine two limitations of mainstream conceptualizations of ecosystem service flows, and some methodological tools and cutting edge research from other disciplines that can help overcome those limitations. The first limitation is a failure to account for the range of capabilities that people need in order to co-create ecosystem services, and the second is a failure to formally consider how the benefits and values are distributed among members and segments of society. Principles from Sustainable Livelihood Analysis and the nascent field of adaptation studies can complement ecosystem service analyses and valuations to give more holistic and realistic understandings of ecosystem service flows and who benefits from them.


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Socialism, Capitalism, and Democracy
Living in the age of the 1 percent and the 99 percent, mired in the swamp of crony capitalism where Citizens United makes a mockery of "one man, one vote," presided over by a felonious billionaire who has most likely never read the Constitution and is not inclined to obey it, the very notion that capitalism and democracy might cohabit the same political universe seems like a bad joke. Capitalism in its current form has become the graveyard of democracy.
The recent re-emergence of democratic socialism promises to raise the dead. It flourishes, after itself spending a long time interred, largely because it appears not so much as a pathfinder for socialism, but as a restorer of democracy, and especially economic democracy.
Many observers have noted that at ground level the democratic socialism heralded by Bernie Sanders and the movements he's inspired, seems more or less like an expanded version of the New Deal than it does what is conventionally understood as socialism. Debates rage about whether this is a good thing or bad thing, a betrayal or a savvy strategic demarche, an inevitability given the endemic American allergy to socialism or a choice that avoids the profound transgressions of previously existing socialisms, a way station or a final resting place for a dream deferred. This argument will no doubt continue…but not here.
Instead, it is worthwhile to re-examine what now seems axiomatic: that capitalism is inherently the mortal enemy of democracy. Some may perceive such an endeavor as perverse. At a time like this, when really existing capitalism demonstrates every day in every way that it is the relentless destroyer of all manifestations of democratic society, why resurrect a fantasy? Because at various times in the past and even today, it has been more than a fantasy. Because a case can be made that capitalism both invites and undermines democracy. Because socialism in America has suffered from a surplus of enemies, among which the most tenacious and seductive has been the mythos of democratic capitalism. Most of all, because exploring democratic capitalism compels us to come to grips with just what distinguishes or should or might distinguish democratic socialism as a way of life.
Capitalism and the National Mythos
"'Liberty produces wealth and that wealth destroys liberty.' So said Henry Demarest Lloyd, widely read critic of America's newly risen plutocracy and leader of the anti-trust movement during the country's first Gilded Age."1 The second half of that equation seems to us, as it did to Lloyd, a self-evident truth…
But it is the first element of that social mathematics—that "liberty produces wealth"—which, more often than not, has epitomized the American credo and anesthetized sensitivity to the grievous economic and political costs of capital accumulation. We are, after all, reputed to live in the land of the free where that freedom has nourished a fabled cornucopia that has underwritten democracy.
Stories about what some now call "the homeland," its origins and unfolding, do not, conventionally, feature capitalism. Other tales about the country's history usually take priority. Favorites include, perhaps first and foremost, the New World as the incubator of liberty and democracy in the western world. Others emphasize the nation's embrace of people from a global everywhere, America as the nation of nations. Another is heroic and tracks the conquest of frontiers, both physical and spiritual, a legendary odyssey requiring fortitude and audacity. Organically tied to that one is the apotheosis of America as the land of entrepreneurial genius, daring-do risk-taking, a business civilization resting on a human landscape of indigenous inventiveness. That last tale does indeed spill over into a celebration of capitalism. But it does this less as a form of political economy, more as an epiphany of the self-made man, cleansed of the social abrasions that real capitalism inevitably trails in its wake, and thereby fit to occupy a space in which a society of the self-reliant could practice democracy.
All of these accounts carry their own truths. There is little question but that the country was in the vanguard of certain democratic forms and practices and that it incubated notions of civil liberties. "Huddled masses" did indeed flock here, and, no matter the various reasons they did so, their presence imparted a distinctive cosmopolitanism to the country's self-conception. Despite the presence of native peoples inhabiting societies ten thousand years old, there is too a truth to the flattering self-fascination with Americans as pathfinders, triumphing over all natural or man-made impediments. And it is a self-evident form of national narcissism that "we the people" have been astonishingly good, almost preternaturally gifted, when it comes to entrepreneurial esprit.
No doubt, all of these accounts tend to leave out of account their more mordant undersides: the selective distribution of liberty and democracy and the frequent instances of their undermining; the chronic stigmatizing, stereotyping, and exclusion of the "huddled masses"; the pathfinder as exploiter, expropriator, and exterminator; the numbingly frequent collapses of entrepreneurial phantasms dragging down along with them lives and livelihoods; and the tithing of human labor and the insults to the human dignity of those legions who labored in the vineyards to make American capitalism the extraordinary world power it became.
Nonetheless, even those versions of these origin myths that allow for these taints and complaints, retain a certain traction. Moreover, they all can be subsumed under the rubric of "American Exceptionalism." It's the story that functions as the meta-tale, the one that exempts the New World from the social antagonisms that had for centuries disfigured European civilization—the Old World—from which our freethinkers and freebooters, our instinctive democrats and immigrant refugees, our frontiersmen and adventurers were in flight. This was, and remains, a utopian fantasy, embedded in the heart of the heartland. Here social hierarchies and the fatal confrontations they inevitably fostered, would go to die, liquidated by the boundless prospects of self-advancement that a continental abundance of land and natural resources made possible.
If capitalism figures in at all, it is to forefront opportunity, entrepreneurial vigor, material abundance, economic democracy, and the seven league boots of manifest destiny. Conflict may rear its unseemly face but only episodically, as a kind of alien or aberrant detour off the main road of America's exceptional career through the world. Instances of serious social discord, when they draw notice, get transcended, a course correction allowing the utopian project to resume.
So, if we tuck inside a grand canyon sized parenthesis all those dreary exceptions to the nation's "exceptionalism" (granted, not a simple feat of intellectual engineering), there is no denying the left side of Lloyd's equation. Liberty did produce wealth. Had it not, it is highly unlikely the faith and trust in the American Dream would have gained the traction it did and lasted as long as it has. Moreover, that wealth exists not as an inanimate pile of things or their monetary equivalent, or not only as that. Freedom—to venture forth, to transform organic or inorganic nature into vendible commodities—has also served as a spiritual elixir. Homely acts of commercial enterprise appeal also because the liberty to engage in them free of outside interference by political authorities or economic overlords armored with state powers, are simultaneously acts of self-invention. They can seem to escape not only material privations but also all previously ascribed social positions, especially the humblest ones.
Freedom anchored in acts of self-reliance and the mastery of the market, of nature, of the libido, of other people, can be intoxicating, functioning like an aphrodisiac. Even if its social reach recedes as capital accumulation becomes more and more the exclusive terrain of only the mightiest of the conquistadors, the dream abides.
Lloyd was right of course that "wealth destroys liberty" which helps account for the enormous energy fueling the antitrust movement of his day, and for that matter the wide breadth of anti-capitalist sentiment that darkened the flashy exterior of the Gilded Age. Nonetheless, precisely because of capitalism's fluidity, its systemic compulsion to sweep away established forms of economic enterprise and antiquated technologies, opportunities to refresh the dream periodically rise to the surface. This was true during and as a consequence of the maelstrom of cyclical booms and busts characteristic of the economy beginning even before the Civil War and continuing with numbing regularity through to the Great Depression. Levelling the ground in this way crushed underfoot many a striving businessman (not to mention millions of working class families) and turned bankrupted enterprises into trophies for hardier and more ruthless predators who could acquire these assets on the cheap. But in the aftermath, new terrain was opened-up for wannabe entrepreneurial heroes, nurturing the dream among many people however unpromising their actual position on the ladder of social preferment.
Ambitions of this sort were alive and well during the original Gilded Age, and again during what is now commonly characterized as our own second Gilded Age. This is the soil in which free market ideologies rooted, where hostility to government generally, and to regulation in particular, bubbled to the surface of public life. The proliferation of small and medium-sized businesses during our era of neo-liberal, decentralized and "flexible capitalism" has been remarkable (over 80 percent of American firms are small, family-owned ones and employ over two-thirds of the labor force). Here is where the dream abides. Shaking off the straight-jacket of any outside authority is part of the dream, at the core of the metaphysics of individualism.
Even while the portals of public life seem increasingly closed off to millions of citizens, a universe of entrepreneurs and wannabe entrepreneurs celebrates the economic democracy they consider a national birthright. Before dismissing it as so much boiler-plate myth-mongering or as a toxic form of "fake news," it is worth remembering that this is, more or less precisely, the prospect of America enunciated by Abraham Lincoln.
The Two Life-Forms of Democratic Capitalism
Visions of an independent and roughly egalitarian household economy—what one might call family capitalism—originated before the nation did, way back in colonial days when Captain John Smith surveyed the New World and spied there a land where "every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land." In a famous speech before the Wisconsin Agricultural Society in 1859 and again in his first annual message to Congress after the outbreak of war Lincoln put it this way: "The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied." This was a "labor theory of value" that celebrated the middling sorts and their aspirations, whether on the land or household enterprises in towns and cities, for a "competency." While acknowledging the existence of hired labor, Lincoln denied that anyone need be "fatally fixed in that condition for life; and that thence again that his condition is bad as, or worse than that of a slave." While it might be true that labor and capital did indeed enter into relations of super and subordination, that was more exceptional than commonplace. Like John Smith, Lincoln conceived of America as a land of families working for themselves, "taking the whole produce to themselves, and asking no favors of capital on the one hand nor of hirelings or slaves on the other." He concluded that, if "the prudent penniless beginner in the world labors for wages a while, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself; then labors on his own account for another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him" then all might eventually enjoy that competency which insured their independence.
Family capitalism in its Lincolnesque version bears therefore not only a distinct "labor theory of value," but also a theory of proletarian emancipation. And it is a promissory note foretelling an egalitarian society where democracy can flourish precisely because its citizenry lives free of any dependency on overlords of the plantation or factory. Even insurgencies as potent as the Knights of Labor and the Populist Party in the late 19th century, bitter antagonists of the robber barons, nonetheless envisioned a cooperative commonwealth roomy enough for private enterprise.
This is the first life form of capitalist democracy. The Lincoln version is benign, even utopian. But under the right set of conditions it can shed its democratic instincts in favor of a patriarchal authoritarianism for which Donald Trump is the pathological embodiment today. Many have assumed family capitalism was already on the road to oblivion even while Lincoln was relying on it. But it has displayed an extraordinary resilience, both as a politically potent myth and as material form of economic reproduction.
Nonetheless, modern times reduced this prospect of everyman an incipient bourgeois to a soured hope for millions whose actual chances of ascending out of a subordinate status of well or not-so-well-paid proletarian dependency is close to nil. The shattering news that wage slavery was here to stay turned the country into an inferno of class conflict. A hundred-year war of democracy against plutocracy, of "the masses against the classes" beginning around the time Lincoln was killed lasted through the Great Depression and beyond. The proximate outcome of that war was a new life-form of capitalist democracy. Best known as the New Deal, it might be summarized as the Constitution plus the welfare state.
Here's what it accomplished and didn't accomplish. It democratized the workplace, legitimating collective bargaining, extending the rule of law inside the black box of private enterprise where once an industrial absolutism as impregnable as any monarch's had prevailed. However, this new industrial democracy did not level the hierarchies of command and obey. It did not democratize ownership. It left in place the elemental prerogative of private capital to deploy social resources upon which all depended as it saw fit.
The New Deal order pried open the electoral system, and the Democratic Party in particular, to the influence of millions of once voiceless working-class people. But that new political order also shut down fledgling efforts to create independent political vehicles of working-class demand and desire. Instead class interests were brokered by a political class whose first loyalties were to the business system, the interest group ne plus ultra.
The New Deal disciplined the free market, leaving it less free to wreak havoc. Yet this regulatory state presumed the free market as the ultimate arbiter of the country's economic fate, only establishing more robust protocols under which the essentials of competitive capitalism would continue. In many more instances than is generally recognized, the regulatory impulse originated among peak corporations and financial institutions whose self-interests and systemic interests required stable markets.
Modern capitalist democracy civilized its savage Darwinian precursor; wage minimums, hour maximums, insurance against unemployment and the miseries of being too old to work, and base-level welfare payments for the poorest, together erected an umbrella of protections against the inherent insecurity of old-style capitalism. But the welfare state assumed a dependent proletariat and a reserve army of the unemployed. Its bureaucracy crystallized a tutelary relationship with its "clientele," functioning as a disciplinary superintendent armed with social engineering credentials and inbred presumptions about its cultural superiority.
Keynesian economic techniques—the leveraging of monetary and fiscal policy—were conceived to moderate the business cycles where insecurity breeds and which are endemic to capitalism; but it never pretended to eliminate them. Its tools were designed to manipulate the volumes and sources of tax revenue, to modestly redistribute income, and fine tune the levers of public and private credit, but not to direct the flow of capital. That Keynesian tool box proved reasonably useful until it didn't, when the underlying structures of mass consumption capitalism began to break down and found themselves at odds with the most fundamental needs of capital accumulation. De-industrialization, de-unionization, and debt servitude are the work of neo-liberal version of capitalist democracy, not right-wing conservatism.
Critics of the New Deal order have roundly and rightly pointed up its serious limitations including its exclusion of women and minorities from its protections, its tacit tolerance of Jim Crow, the way it tied social insurance and relief to male employment, its cramped efforts to provide low-cost housing, its failure to provide medical insurance, and so on. Whatever the many reasons for these severe instances of unfinished business, they should still be thought of as the unfinished business of this new form of capitalist democracy. Some of these deficiencies were partially remedied in the years that followed, especially during the era of the Great Society. Medicare and Medicaid did this most prominently on the social welfare front; civil rights legislation to extend Constitutional protections and formal equality to the disinherited in the political arena. Had they been achieved back in the New Deal years or were they to be achieved today (presumably after repairing and rectifying all the damage that has been done to civilized capitalism since the return of its more barbaric ancestor), we would be living in the realm of capitalist, not democratic socialism.
Capitalist Democracy vs. Socialist Democracy
Contemporary tendencies to conflate the two echo what first happened when the New Deal order was being born. Much of the radical energy that powered the landmark reforms of the New Deal originated in the protracted era of anti-capitalism that ran through public life from the Gilded Age onwards. Socialism was part of a family of political languages that had indicted capitalism and wage slavery as undemocratic, immiserating, and inherently plutocratic. What became the New Deal was midwifed by all those currents of anti-capitalist rebellion occurring at a time when many believed the system had entered its terminal crisis. But it is also the case that the New Deal order became the gravedigger of socialism and the broader culture of anti-capitalism.
Currents of radical anti-capitalism did surface and then subsided. Militants who powered the uprising of industrial workers through the CIO during its formative years sought and sometimes succeeded in seizing control of the shop floor. Briefly the CIO as an institution lobbied for co-determination of all corporate affairs by councils of workers, management and public officials. The Tennessee Valley Authority and other public undertakings implanted the notion of state planning of the economy, although its roots were shallow. Proposals were mooted about how to solve the problems of unemployment and poverty by mobilizing the unemployed to open shuttered factories and operate them under government auspices, distributing their output to the needy. Independent labor parties formed (although were soon absorbed into the left flank of the New Deal). Norman Thomas and the Socialist Party continued to distinguish what they were after from what the New Deal was about.
All this died away. Death by a thousand cuts, but perhaps the most fatal was the supplanting of an older Lincolnesque dream of democratic capitalism by a new one. Instead of propertied independence, the new reverie took root on the terrain of mass consumption capitalism. The homely competence and modest independence ennobled by Lincoln could still be achieved even while "wage slavery"—no longer known by that distressing name—nonetheless continued to describe the dependent condition of most people. Mass consumption—a consumers' democracy—and the fantasies absorbed into the psychic bloodstream through the medium of consumer culture made space for internalized triumphs of self-invention, indeed for multiple acts that recreate the self over and over again. These soothe the wounds of real-life insults to self-esteem and to precarious social position made hurtful by the chasms of inequality that have become so conspicuous over the last generation. In an act of historical alchemy classes and class hierarchies were to vanish or rather were dissolved into one class, the great American middle class, the class that is no class. This second life form of capitalist democracy might be reformulated as the Constitution plus the welfare state plus mass consumption.
No matter which expression of capitalist democracy prevails (both are with us today), no matter how preferable we may consider the New Deal species from its free market relative, they share certain essentials. Both are rooted in property rights in capital, however constrained; neither contemplates the overcoming of property rights nor challenging their a priori status. As a civil religion both are grounded on individual rights and have little or no regard for collective rights. Formal equality is the hallmark of both democracies, content with equality of opportunity as it comports so well with its foundational individualism. Substantive equality of condition meanwhile makes capitalist democracy profoundly uncomfortable.
Democratic participation in both versions is largely confined to the electoral arena. Neither type feels at ease with more muscular and substantive expressions of democracy characteristic of socialism in its heyday: the Soviet or council of workers deputies of which there cropped up a few in the United States; the syndicalism represented in the Wobblies One Big Union whose reach was ecumenical crossing boundaries of ethnicity, race, gender, skill, and economic sector, and which described itself as the new socialist society in waiting; the committees of the general strikes which erupted in several American cities, functioning as parallel governing bodies taking responsibility for everything from health care and sanitation to policing and transportation in places like St. Louis, Seattle, Minneapolis and Oakland; the sit-down strikes that occupied industrial plants, retail stores, and other enterprises and that formed democratic bodies to oversee life in these workplaces while the strikes lasted; the anarchist cooperative communes that formed, died away, and reproduced themselves again and again in cities and towns across the country.
These were all more than tactics. Rather they were conceived as embryos of economic democracy preparing to carry on the life functions of society. Nowadays, the preoccupation with the electoral arena makes it seem like that is where democracy is born and where it belongs. But voting is the most passive form of public participation and the most fragmenting and private. It suits capitalism—so long as it retains the basic apparatus of democracy—because it mirrors and reinforces the individualism which is axiomatic for a society premised on private enterprise and private capital accumulation. Democratic socialism, however, imagines a different subject; the social body engaged in actively directing society's vital functions. Putting hands on the levers of social reproduction is both a manifestation of power, sturdier than what's on offer in the electoral arena, as well as a rehearsal for a democratic socialist future.
Notwithstanding all the talk about globalization, capitalist democracy operates within the framework of the nation-state. Its internationalism is an empty piety and in the case of the United States a cover for its world dominion. Creating the nation-state was once a great accomplishment overcoming, often at the cost of much bloodshed, the divisions of clan, village, ethnicity, and faith. In that way it widened the arc of fellowship. So too, the nation-state helped create the institutional infrastructure of a widening marketplace within which capitalism thrived. Moreover, business usually seeks—although not always—peace and stability; trade among capitalist nations was supposed to, and sometimes did function as an international sedative. But for some long time now, nationalism has been living way past its due date and making mayhem. When naked nationalism sloughs off even the camouflage of international alliances among the unequal, then the hypothetical connection between democracy and raw national self-interest is severed.
Democratic socialism adopts a "foreign policy" that sheds the false claim to domestic social unity that nationalism rests on, instead grounding its relationship to the rest of the world on the organic fraternity of laboring humanity. Democratic socialism breaks down the artificial distinction between domestic and foreign affairs; after all, what national capital does abroad—trade, invest, exploit, plunder, make war—reverberates in the "homeland," creating landscapes of industrial ruins, sweated labor, "wounded warriors," military-industrial complexes and a militarized society which in the end is bound to undermine democracy. Democratic socialism is an antidote to capitalist rivalry among nations and the subordination of the global South, whether those confrontations manifest as tariffs or troops.
No matter how civilized or savage capitalism may be, no matter how democratic or not, it lives entrapped by the antagonism between wealth and commonwealth. Democratic socialism chooses the latter unequivocally. No matter its form, capitalist democracy commodifies its world and, first of all, its human inhabitants. They live as vessels of labor power and as empty receptacles of the goods, services, and delusions of consumer culture. Democratic socialism promises a decent standard of living for all as a birthright not as the outcome of a contract. But it does more. It opens-up the possibility that society will stop treating its members as if they were the containers of tradeable and infinitely fungible exchange values.
Steve Fraser, Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property: Capitalism and Class Conflict in American History (New York: Verso, 2019), 1.
Steve Fraser
is a writer and historian. His latest book, Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property: Capitalism and Class Conflict in American History has just been published by Verso. He is the author of Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion, and The Age of Acquiescence, among other books. "Socialism, Capitalism, and Democracy" will appear in Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker and Michael J. Thompson (eds), An Inheritance for Our Times: The Principles and Politics of Democratic Socialism, to be published by OR Books.

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NORFOLK, Va. – School officials responded Friday to reports of an alleged threatening list that was made by a Granby High School student.
Granby High school administration received a report that a student had allegedly made a list that could be deemed a threat to the safety of several other students. This report was taken seriously and investigated immediately. The police were notified, and the school investigated in partnership with the police. Students on the list have been identified and their parents have been contacted.
Please encourage your students to say something to an adult if they see or hear something concerning. This incident occurred in the community and was reported to the school. However, the school is taking appropriate actions in partnership with NPD.


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Q: ValidationError with Passport.js I'll preface this by mentioning that I am very new to programming, node, js, and especially passport/authentication in general. I have searched relentlessly and found similar issues on stack but am unable to formulate a solution based on the answers I found. I apologize if my for the lengthy question and if it breaks any SO etiquette.
I know the user input values are correctly being passed from the ejs form to my my authController function (I can log each in the console through req.body...). I also know my database is working properly as I have accessed it in other areas. One thing I suspect based on my research is that the password could be passed as an object and isn't properly serialized somehow. That being said, in my app.js file, I am sure to do the following which I believe should avoid this issue:
var User = require('./models/users');
passport.use(new LocalStrategy(User.authenticate()));
passport.serializeUser(User.serializeUser());
passport.deserializeUser(User.deserializeUser());

I am receiving the following error:
ValidationError: User validation failed: user_password: Path `user_password` is required.

 message: 'Path `user_password` is required.',
    name: 'ValidatorError',
    properties: [Object],
    kind: 'required',
    path: 'user_password',
    value: undefined,
    reason: undefined,
    '$isValidatorError': true

/models/users.js
var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var Schema = mongoose.Schema;
var passportLocalMongoose = require('passport-local-mongoose');

var UserSchema = new Schema(
  {
    first_name: {type: String, required: true, max:100},
    last_name: {type:String, required: true, max: 100},
    email_address: {type: String, required:true, max: 100},
    username: {type:String, required: true, max: 100},
    user_password: {type: String, required:true, max: 100}
  }
);

UserSchema.plugin(passportLocalMongoose);

module.exports = mongoose.model('User', UserSchema);

authController.js
userController.doRegister = function(req, res) {
  console.log(req.body.user_password);
  var newUser = new User({
    first_name: req.body.first_name,
    last_name: req.body.last_name,
    email_address: req.body.email_address,
    username: req.body.username
  });
  User.register(newUser, req.body.user_password, function(err, user) {
    if (err) {
      console.log(err);
      return res.render('register', { user : user });

    }

    passport.authenticate('local')(req, res, function () {
      res.redirect('/');

      console.log('reached end of doregister in auth contro');
    });
  });
};

register.ejs

First Name	<input type="text" name="first_name" >

Last Name	<input type="text" name="last_name" >

Email Address	<input type="text" name="email_address" >

Username	<input type="text" name="username" >

Password	<input type="text" name="user_password" >

<input type="submit" value="Register" >

A: As I can see, your error is probably related to this:
var newUser = new User({
    first_name: req.body.first_name,
    last_name: req.body.last_name,
    email_address: req.body.email_address,
    username: req.body.username
 });

Here you should have to have user_password
var newUser = new User({
    first_name: req.body.first_name,
    last_name: req.body.last_name,
    email_address: req.body.email_address,
    username: req.body.username,
    user_password: req.body.user_password
});

Since this is required you cannot create a new user without it.
A better approach is to treat the password in the before save, there you hash and validate it.

A: First of all, you don't want to handle user password in your schema (i.e. remove user_password in your user schema).  That is not safe since you did not hash and salt your user password, that is also the reason why you want to use passport library.  Since obviously you don't want to touch password hashing and salting, so please just let passport-local-mongoose does it for you.
Next, the real problem in your controller middleware is that you did not pass your user mongoose object to req.login. passport.authenticate('local', (err, authUser) => { (do_something) }) is a middleware, which gives you the authenticated user object ass a call back, but it does not populate req.user object until you decide to "login" the user.  So you should try this instead:
userController.doRegister = function(req, res) {
  console.log(req.body.user_password);

  const newUser = new User({
    first_name: req.body.first_name,
    last_name: req.body.last_name,
    email_address: req.body.email_address,
    username: req.body.username
  });

  User.register(newUser, req.body.user_password, function(err, user) {
    if (err) {
      console.log(err);
      return res.render('register', { user : user });
    }

    req.login(user, err => {
      if (err) throw err;
      console.log('reached end of doregister in auth contro');
      return res.redirect('/');
    });

  });
};

Note: Please don't use var since we now have const.

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Grafana and time series databases
More than a Thousand Words
Article from ADMIN 40/2017
By Martin Loschwitz
We look at database back ends for monitoring, alerting, and trending analysis in the Grafana visualization tool.
Admins are rumored to feel more at ease working with text-based terminals than with graphical tools, and the command line often is better suited to classic admin tasks than a GUI because it allows scripting and direct input. For other admin tasks, though, this assessment is typically inverted: When it comes to processing measurement data and statistics, visual tools are clearly superior. In particular, data for monitoring, alerting, and trending (MAT) that comes from several sources requires visualization for meaningful analysis.
Virtually every large environment, whether a container platform or a public cloud environment, is strongly dependent on MAT. Only MAT provides reliable clues on the health and usage of systems that let you know when you need to add new hardware because your platform is currently fully utilized. Grafana [1] targets admins who need MAT analysis.
Match Winner
Grafana cooperates with various back ends and can pull the data you want to display from many sources. Its developers refer to this configuration as data-driven architecture. In place of classic event monitoring, in which monitoring is a spin-off of the need to collect various metrics continuously, Grafana uses a time-series-based principle. For example, if you operate a multinode cluster for MySQL based on Galera, you will want the load on all database back ends to be equally high. If system load on one of the back ends suddenly drops off, it is a certain indicator that something is wrong.
Unlike typical incident monitoring in the style of Nagios, Grafana bases its conclusions on performance data. Although Grafana is not primarily about monitoring, it does help you prepare the corresponding time series from monitoring systems in an easily interpretable way. In this article, I first highlight the key features of Grafana and then present the most important back ends from which it can draw its information.
New Monitoring Paradigm
To understand the motivation behind Grafana, you need to take a small excursion into the world of monitoring. A paradigm change has taken place in the past few years that, in turn, is closely linked to cloud computing. Monitoring a cloud is different from monitoring conventional IT platforms, which to a certain degree are static and, after setting up the environment, change only in the details. The standard tools for monitoring are well known to experienced admins: Nagios, Icinga, Check_MK, and various other solutions of same design.
Monitoring in conventional environments relies on events. If a service stops running on a server, the monitoring system notices and raises an alert. Trending plays a minor role in this classic scenario, because the workload of such a setup will tend to grow evenly, giving you sufficient time to purchase new hardware. That said, even conventional monitoring solutions cannot completely do without trending. For example, PNP4Nagios [2] uses checks to collect performance data and then displays the data in a graphical format directly in the Nagios web interface.
This arrangement no longer works for a public cloud, because it is not predictable when the platform will need to scale horizontally by adding new servers. For example, a new customer with a huge workload could easily set up an account in a typical public cloud and start generating a massive load.
Trending Becomes More Important
For newer types of platforms, trending therefore plays a bigger role than for its conventional predecessors. PNP4Nagios or comparable solutions look more like stop-gaps in these cases. They normally store their measurement data in the background in a normal database, usually MySQL, which is perfectly suited for classic, event-based monitoring, in which incidents become separate entries in a table. Because you are interested in the individual events in this scenario and the data is stored exactly that way in MySQL, you will have no problem retrieving or processing the data.
Trending changes the rules of the game because it does not focus on events, but on the evolution of performance data over time. In the case of trending, you no longer want to know whether or not a specific service was working at a given time; instead, you are interested in the central health values of the systems (e.g., CPU load and RAM usage). If their values remain high over a period of time, new hardware will be required for load balancing.
However, if you want to generate this information from individual events stored in a MySQL database, it would require many individual database queries, and thus a correspondingly high load. Also, it takes quite a while for MySQL or a similar database to provide answers to these queries.
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The Battles Wharf Historic District comprises a portion of Battles Wharf, Alabama between Mobile Bay and U.S. Route 98. The area, also called Battles, is a narrow stretch of bayfront with long, deep lots accessible by shell-paved lanes. Houses in the area date from about 1842 to the present day, and are in a distinctive wood-frame cottage style with tall windows and broad porches. Many houses feature so-called "rain porches," deep shed-roofed screened porches attached to the main house and elevated on short masonry piers. The district includes 14 contributing structures and two non-contributing structures. The properties are linked by a public footpath that serves as a thoroughfare. The district has principally functioned as a summer retreat for residents of Mobile, Alabama.

The area was originally called Dadeville after the Robert Dade family who settled there in 1849. A resort hotel had been established in 1822 at Point Clear and the high shoreline overlooking Mobile Bay became a popular retreat. Several hotels were built in the 19th century. By the early 20th century the area had a school, a post office, an orphanage, several churches and two hotels. At about this time it became known as Battles, after the Battles family bought much of the property. The area declined from 1927 after a causeway was built across the bay to Mobile, taking traffic from the community.

Battles Wharf was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 28, 1988.

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Emily Lakdawalla • Dec 05, 2013
Chang'e 3 and LADEE updates -- and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, too, for good measure
Update Dec 6 7:54 a.m. PT: Chang'e 3 has arrived in lunar orbit.
Chang'e 3 is just about to land on the Moon, and the LADEE orbiter has begun a new science mission there, while Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is still producing amazing images.
Chang'e 3
The lander is poised to enter a 100-kilometer circular lunar orbit at 9:30 UTC on December 6 -- or about 7 hours from now, my time. Mike Loucks (one of the LADEE navigators) has performed some simulations of Chang'e 3's planned path based upon the limited public information available about its course -- definitely go check that blog post out!
The mission has already completed one trajectory correction maneuver and waved off a second as being unnecessary before their orbit insertion maneuver. According to a timeline from this article (with translation help from Yong-Chun Zheng), on December 10, they'll drop the periapsis to 15 kilometers, and they'll land on December 14. The rover should drive off the lander the next day, with rover and lander shooting photos of each other.
I cannot wait to see those.
The landing will occur in Sinus Iridum. Planetary cartographer extraordinaire Phil Stooke has posted this base map showing the possible area of Chang'e 3's landing site, where the Chang'e 2 orbiter achieved high-resolution imaging coverage.
Yesterday, while fixing an old blog entry that had some cool in-space videos shot by Chang'e 2, I came across this one, showing the surface of Sinus Iridum rolling beneath the orbiter as it flew only 15 kilometers above the lunar surface. Think about that for a moment. Fifteen thousand meters. Fifty thousand feet. So close. That's as close as China managed to get with Chang'e 2. With Chang'e 3, they'll land inside their highest-resolution images.
LADEE
I've now received some official comment from NASA regarding the question of how Chang'e 3's impending landing will affect the LADEE mission. As I mentioned before, while it adds a little complication, in the long run it is a great addition to the LADEE experiment. In particular, "The resultant atmospheric changes will provide LADEE with a new scientific opportunity. A known quantity of propulsion products of known composition, released at a known time and location, provides an excellent active scientific experiment. For example, one of the products will be water -- and LADEE may be able to monitor how water migrates across the surface. Such measurements could shed light on how water could be cold and trapped at the lunar poles -- a topic of considerable interest to the planetary community."
LADEE has issued two updates on their status; they are now well in to their science mission. They have finished commissioning the instruments and lowered themselves into their 75-kilometer science orbit in two steps on November 11 and 21. I wasn't sure what that meant for when they really started collecting science data, so I asked LADEE program scientist Sarah Noble. She told me that the official start of the science phase was on the 21st, when they were in their final science orbit, but that the science instruments started data collection on the 11th, after the periapsis had been lowered to 75 kilometers. So they've already been collecting data for almost a full lunar day already, and will have nearly a complete lunar day's worth of data from their science orbit by the time Chang'e 3 lands.
Meanwhile, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is still doing its thing and will be performing lots of observations designed to complement the LADEE mission during the brief time that it is orbiting the Moon. And, even though there is no formal cooperation between NASA and the Chinese space agency, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera will certainly be taking a close look at the planned landing site for Chang'e 3. Camera team leader Mark Robinson posted a lengthy article on their website speculating about this, which I'll quote below:
Robinson wrote:
[The landing site for Chang'e 3 is] not yet publicly designated, but it seems likely the landing will take place in Sinus Iridum, possibly near the fresh crater Laplace A (8 km diameter). Why this particular spot on the Moon? Likely there are critical engineering constraints in terms of landing site selection as well as important science goals. And there is the dramatic grandeur of the lunar landscape!
Imagine the first rover-eye view from the crater rim - a sheer drop of 1600 meters at your wheels, and an 8 km view across to the far wall! From LROC NAC images we know rock is exposed in the upper walls and dramatic landslides streamed material down to the crater floor. Speaking of the crater floor - it hosts a now frozen lake of impact melt 2500 meters (1.5 miles) in diameter. Imagine the moments after the crater formed, the floor was a cauldron of molten rock with debris sliding down into the melt, and the crater itself was deforming as the floor uplifted after the initial pressure of the impact was relieved.
Robinson continued:
Laplace A is a fascinating scientific target for a rover. It is a great example of a very young crater formed in mare basalt. A rover traversing the crater's ejecta blanket is in essence similar to driving down into the crater (in a geologic sense). We know from studies of terrestrial impact craters (such as Meteor crater) that material ejected from deep in a crater ends up near the rim, and rocks from the pre-impact surface are thrown far from the crater (a crater radius or more). So as a rover drives closer and closer to the rim it can characterize rocks from deeper and deeper below the surface.
Some of the many outstanding questions regarding the nature of the mare basalts include: how thick are individual flows, does the composition of the erupted magma change with time and location, and are pyroclastic (explosive) eruptions intermingled with effusive eruptions? These questions can be directly addressed with the Chang'e 3 rover! No humans or robots have ever visited a fresh crater anywhere near this size on the Moon (or Mars for that matter) so the return from this mission has great potential for advancing our knowledge of the Moon.
Robinson continued (emphasis mine):
But wait, there's more! Another key question can be addressed: what is the 3D nature of large contractional ridges on the Moon? The rover is thought to have a ground penetrating radar (GPR) and it just so happens that a large wrinkle ridge (a contractional landform) lies about 10 km east of Laplace A. Although the exact mission plan is not publicly available, one potential scenario is that the lander sets down just east of the wrinkle ridge and deploys the rover. After initial testing of the lander and rover, and geologic characterization of the landing site, the rover could set off to the west towards the crater. As the rover drives up and over the wrinkle ridge the GPR would continuously probe the subsurface, slowly building up a 3D profile down to 100 meters or more (?) beneath the surface. Wrinkle ridges are complex landforms created when mare basalts are compressed, causing them to buckle and break along faults. However, wrinkle ridges have not been fully explored, and the geometry and number of faults associated with each wrinkle ridge is not known. A subsurface profile of a wrinkle ridge could tell us the number of faults, where the faults are located, and how steeply the faults dip: is it 15°, 30° or 45°? From LROC images we have mapped the location of all the mare wrinkle ridges, and measured their surface topography, but all we have for the subsurface are models! Soon we may have actual measurements providing a good first step towards interpreting these poorly understood features. Wrinkle ridges are also found on Mercury and Mars, so better understanding a lunar example will help scientists unravel the tectonic story across the inner Solar System. Since only a handful of human and robotic missions have ever landed on the Moon, the results from the Chang'e 3 mission will provide important new scientific insights into our Moon.
Once Chang'e 3 has landed, LROC should be able to spot the lander and the rover; LRO will be above Laplace A on 25 December, 22 January, and 18 February. The LROC team looks forward to posting images of the two vehicles!
Coincidentally, Lunokhod 1 landed only 250 km to the southwest of Laplace A over forty years ago (17 November 1970). This intrepid Soviet rover explored for almost a year and traveled a total distance of 10.5 km. Both the lander vehicle (Luna 17) and the rover can be seen on the surface today.
It would be so cool if the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter team delivered us a Christmas present of a photo of Chang'e 2 on the surface of the Moon. Stay tuned....
Read more: Chang'e program, Chang'e-3 and Yutu, LADEE, Lunar missions, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mission status, Pretty pictures, Space missions, The Earth-Moon system, The Moon, Worlds


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Avon's Richmond, Martin, Raha and 4×800 relay team qualify for State Open
Gerry deSimas, Jr., Collinsville Press
AVON, February 9 – Avon junior Rhiannon Richmond is going back to the State Open indoor track and field championships.
Richmond will be joined at Saturday's State Open by five members of the Avon High boys indoor track and field team that qualified after the recent Class M championship meet.
Freshman Jack Martin, Max Raha and the 4×800 relay team each turned in top five finishes to earn invitations to the State Open at the Floyd Little Athletic Center on the campus of Hillhouse High in New Haven.
Richmond qualified for Open for the second consecutive year by finishing second in the 3,200 meters at the Class L championships with a time of 11:33.49. Guilford's Meredith Bloss was far ahead of the field with a time of 11:25.92.
Richmond was second in the 1,600 a year ago in Class L and followed that up with a top 10 finish at the State Open. This year, Richmond was the only girl to score for the Falcons at the Class L meet with Avon finishing 18th with eight points.
At the Class M meet, the boys team turned in their best performance since the indoor team was reinstated in 2010, finishing 13th with 12 points. Avon had an indoor track team in the 1960s.
Martin had an outstanding run, finishing a close third in the 1,600 meters with a school-record time of 4:29.83, just 0.25 of a second off the winning pace set by Suffield's Nick Sinofsky. Suffield's Kyle Englander was just ahead of Martin in second place with a time of 4:29.81.
All three came across the finish line virtually together.
Martin was also a runner on Avon's 4×800 relay team (Martin, Tyler Hinrichs, Hari Patchgolla, Anish Rajamanickam) that finished fourth with a school record time of 8:24.95. The team shattered the previous school record by 20 seconds and knocked 26 seconds of their previous best time this season.
In the long jump, Raha leaped 20-3 feet on his final jump of the finals to finish fifth. Teammate Jack Grady was 15th with a leap of 17-8.
Raha also competed in the 55 meter dash, finishing 12th with a time of 6.90 seconds.
Rajamanickam had a pair of top 10 finishes – taking seventh in the 600 meters with a time of 1:27.94 and eighth in the 300 meters with a time of 38.12 seconds. Hinrichs was tenth in the 600 meters in 1:29.50 while Alvin Guo was 17th in the 600 with a time of 1:31.64.
In 2010, Avon reinstated indoor track for the boys and began a girls team. The Falcons are still looking for their first indoor track state champion in this century. Seven girls and two girls relay teams have finished second since 2010 with Martin's third place finish being the best finish for the boys in that span.
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Gerry deSimas, Jr., is the editor and founder of The Collinsville Press. He is an award-winning writer and has been covering sports in Connecticut and New England for more than 30 years. He was inducted into the New England High School Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2018.
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BEZA to set up 1000MW solar electricity zone in Chandpur
Published at 03:08 pm June 23rd, 2017
Last updated at 03:43 pm June 23rd, 2017
Bangladesh Economic Zone Authority (BEZA) has planned to set up a solar power zone in Baher Char area in Chandpur district with a target of generating at least 1000 megawatts (MW) of electricity. "The authority has started the process of acquiring around 4000 acres of land in Baher Char to develop the solar zone, which will be the country's biggest hub for solar power," said BEZA Executive Chairman Paban Chowdhury, reported BSS. The BEZA chief also said the solar power zone could be named after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman if an approval is given by the Prime Minister Office. "Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) and POWERCHINA have shown interest in developing the solar zone," said the BEZA chief, hoping that the construction of the solar zone will begin soon so it can start generating electricity from next year.. BPDB will get 1,000 acres land, and the rest 3,000 acres for POWERCHINA for setting up the solar zone. "A major percentage of the electricity generated through this would be supplied to the national grid to help meet the growing demand for electricity", said BEZA chief. Also, BEZA plans to give the Power Division approx. 2,000 acres of land at Mirersharai Economic Zone in Chittagong to develop another solar hub to produce 600MW electricity. Bangladesh is now producing 15,379 MW of electricity and the government aims to generate 24,000 MW of power by 2021 and 60,000 MW by 2041 to meet the ever growing demand for electricity, of whose at least 10% would be met from renewable sources including solar power systems.
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Love You More is the second track to be revealed from Control of The Going's debut album I Love You But It's Going To Rain, due for release on February 23rd. The song is a live favourite already and a big bold statement of intent from the Tameside six-piece.
Swirling ambitious and atmospheric guitars and keyboards introduce the song before Liam's vocals come in, layered to give maximum effect. It's a million miles away from the scrappy but intriguing demos that the band introduced themselves with a couple of years ago. It's the sound of band that wants to make their mark, following on from the success of their previous single She that attracted the attention of Clint Boon and won them a place at the Off The Record festival late last year.
They play Manchester Night People on January 30 before launching the album on home territory at Ashton-Under-Lyne Witchwood on February 24.


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COOLIDGE & CHERKOVSKI: IN CONVERSATION
Directed by Kyle Harvey
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Coolidge & Cherkovski listens in on an intimate conversation between two legendary American poets, Clark Coolidge and Neeli Cherkovski. Swapping personal stories and anecdotes, Coolidge and Cherkovski offer insight into a wide range of topics including The New York School, The San Francisco poetry scene of the 60s/70s/80s, The Language School, The Vancouver Poetry Conference, The Berkeley Poetry Conference, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Charles Olson, Philip Whalen, David Meltzer, Charles Bukowski, Philip Whalen, William de Kooning, Philip Guston and more.
Clark Coolidge is the author of more than forty books, including Space, Solution Passage, The Crystal Text, At Egypt, Now It's Jazz: Writings on Kerouac & The Sounds, The Act of Providence, and most recently Poet, 88 Sonnets and A Book Beginning What And Ending Away. Connected to both the Language movement and the New York School, his poetry utilizes syntactical and sonic patterns to engage, and generate, meaning. In a 1968 poetics statement, he noted, "Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity." Initially a drummer, he was a member of David Meltzer's Serpent Power in 1967 and Mix group in 1993–94. Currently he has returned to active drumming with Thurston Moore and the free jazz band Ouroboros.
Neeli Cherkovski is the author of many books of poetry, including Elegy For My Beat Generation (2018), From the Canyon Outward (2009), and The Crow and I (2015). He was the coeditor of Anthology of L.A. Poets (with Charles Bukowski) and Cross-Strokes: Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Cherkovski also wrote biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski, as well as the critical memoir Whitman's Wild Children (1988). His papers are held at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. He has lived in San Francisco since 1974.


The pattern for making shrubs is simple. Begin with sugar, flavoring, and water – in other words a flavored simple syrup – add good vinegar, and you've got a shrub. Most people top off the shrub with alcohol or carbonated water (either club soda or seltzer) or both. I like ice in mine too.
My first shrub, spiced pineapple, got high praise from my family, especially when my son Liam added rum to the non-alcoholic version I offered him. I'll have another pineapple shrub to share later in the summer. In the meantime, I've been experimenting with other ingredients as the flavor base.
Shrubs take several days to make, as they have to mellow in two or three stages. However, they are simple to put together and none of the preparation is time consuming. If you are patient, the reward is considerable. They are great party drinks – put out the pitcher of drinking vinegar and let your guests add the other elements (ice, alcohol, and/or carbonated water) according to their own taste.
This month, it is my turn to host Progressive Eats. In summer, I love using fresh herbs, preferably whatever we are growing on our deck. So it was easy to decide that "Herbs Every Which Way" would be this month's Progressive Eats theme.
With shrubs on my mind and our rosemary thriving, my contribution was almost fated to be this Lemon Rosemary Shrub. The idea for it began during a conversation with our cousin Zach, one evening after dinner. As we sat at the table, swapping recipe ideas, I mentioned the concept of a shrub that included herbs from our deck. We settled on rosemary as the herb of choice and he began describing the ingredients and preparation for a lemon rosemary shrub. While I did play around a bit with proportions and directions, the concept is his.
The lemon is dominant in this version, but that's to be expected. The rosemary kind of sneaks up on you – in a good way. Keep in mind that the strength of the rosemary aroma and flavor in the drink depend entirely on the particular qualities of the herb you're using. That makes this recipe more art than science. Taste as you go, and don't hesitate to let the fresh rosemary and your own tastebuds be your guide.
The vinegar adds tartness. It is the ingredient that makes this drink a shrub and not simply a rosemary-scented lemonade. I've specified a Prosecco or Champagne vinegar because those are tart without being medicinal. You may find another white wine vinegar that works as well, but don't substitute ordinary white vinegar.
I was happy with that choice. To my taste, it is smooth and well suited to a lemon-based shrub. Still, as you'll see in the recipe, my tendency is to go light on the gin if you're making this shrub into a cocktail. The 4 (gin) to 1 (shrub) ratio in this recipe was tilted way too far to the alcohol in my view.
One last note on shrubs. Researching Michael Dietsch, I discovered that he wrote a well-reviewed book on shrubs. I don't know anything more about it than the reviews, but they were enough to pique my interest. It's not surprising that there is a whole book of shrub recipes. My only question is whether I should consult it before or after I develop my own shrub repertoire.
A delightful version of the "drinking vinegars" known as shrubs. This one combines lemon simple syrup with rosemary, Prosecco or Champagne vinegar, and a splash or two of gin and/or sparkling water/club soda.
Zest the lemons making thick strands of peel. Add to the sugar and mix with your hands or a fork until the peel is well-coated with sugar. Place the mixture in a closed container, shake it periodically to further mix the sugar and peel, and refrigerate the mixture overnight.
Add 3/4 cup water. Put the mixture in a saucepan on a low light. Heat it just until the sugar dissolves. Then take the mixture off the heat and remove the lemon zest without taking any of the sugar mixture with it. (If necessary, scrape the rind with a butter knife as you remove it.) Add a 3-4-inch stem of fresh rosemary and refrigerate the mixture in a closed container for a second day. If the rosemary has not yet added aroma to the mixture, add more rosemary and refrigerate for another day.
On the second or third day, add the vinegar and refrigerate for another 2 days.
Serve the shrub with or without ice cubes. Add a splash of club soda/seltzer/sparkling water or similar carbonation. To turn the shrub into a cocktail, add 1 ounce of gin, or more if desired. The cocktail version can be made with or without the splash of carbonation. If making a cocktail, the gin is typically added before the carbonation.
I like this hint from Fork + Plate for measuring ounces if you don't have a shot glass or jigger with a specified size. (Both shot glasses and jiggers can vary, some are as little as 1 ounce, while others are 1 1/2 or 2 ounces.) A tablespoon is about 1/2 ounce. So 1 ounce of gin equals 2 tablespoons of gin.
The preparation time does not take into account the several days of mellowing for the mixture to fully develop taste after each addition.
Welcome to Progressive Eats, our virtual version of a Progressive Dinner Party. Our menu this month features all dishes that include our favorite herbs! We've got a great mix from a cocktail to desserts; all recipes showing just how versatile these garden favorites can be! Hosting this month is Laura from Mother Would Know.
Thanks for hosting and kicking off our event with this lovely summer cocktail!! Cheers!!!
Delighted to host Liz. Thanks for joining in the fun.
I think I will make one of these over the weekend!
Please do Theresa. And we can have a virtual toast as we raise our shrub glasses together.
This is absolutely the perfect summertime drink – I'll take mine with Prosecco thank you, LOL. Such a great and fun theme this month for #ProgressiveEats!!
haha – I'll be glad to pour you a Prosecco version. Glad you're enjoying #ProgressiveEats this month, so am I.
What a refreshing drink, Laura! I do love a good shrub–I have some strawberry "drinking vinegar" in my fridge right now!
I love how recipes just sort of happen during conversation–love seeing how your mind works.
Thanks for hosting us this month!


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Q: Graalvm unknown identifier when passing java object to js I am trying to run this Graalvm sample code:
package org.homi.scripting.experimental;
import org.graalvm.polyglot.*;
import java.nio.file.*;
import static java.nio.file.StandardWatchEventKinds.*;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
public class ScriptEngine {

    public static class Name {
        @HostAccess.Export public String name = "hello";

        @HostAccess.Export
        public String getName() {
            return name;
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Name n = new Name();
        Context context = Context.newBuilder("js")
                .allowAllAccess(true)
                .allowIO(true)
                .allowPolyglotAccess(PolyglotAccess.ALL)
                .build();
        context.getPolyglotBindings().putMember("name", n);
        context.eval("js", "var name = Polyglot.import('name');");
        context.eval("js", "console.log(name.getName())");

    }
}

I am getting this exception:
Exception in thread "main" TypeError: invokeMember (getName) on org.homi.scripting.experimental.Name@2313052e failed due to: Unknown identifier: getName
    at <js> :program(Unnamed:1:12-25)
    at org.graalvm.sdk/org.graalvm.polyglot.Context.eval(Context.java:379)
    at ScriptEngine/org.homi.scripting.experimental.ScriptEngine.tester(ScriptEngine.java:43)
    at ScriptEngine/org.homi.scripting.experimental.ScriptEngine.main(ScriptEngine.java:29)

I'm new to graalvm, what am I doing wrong? I was following this demo from the documentation (see the section on host interoperability):
https://www.graalvm.org/sdk/javadoc/

A: The code and the stack trace don't match, for example the code lacks the tester method
    at ScriptEngine/org.homi.scripting.experimental.ScriptEngine.tester(ScriptEngine.java:43)

When you specify allowAllAccess(true) you allow all access, so the HostAccess stops being necesary.
The code in the question works for me and prints hello as expected.


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IRS to start processing returns
Happy Valentine's Day. Monday is the day the Internal Revenue Service plans to start processing paper and e-filed tax returns delayed by the late tax law changes approved by Congress, according to the IRS.
The IRS says it needed the extra time to update its systems to accommodate the tax law changes.
The delay involves returns claiming itemized deductions on Schedule A, the higher education tuition and fees deduction (Form 8917) and the educator expenses deduction.
For the first time, the IRS isn't automatically mailing tax forms this year. Some post offices and libraries have the updated forms, as do many tax software providers. Taxpayers can call 1-800-tax-form to get forms mailed to them or download the forms free at www.irs.gov.
Want help with college finances?
BCCC
A financial aid information night is set for Wednesday at Bucks County Community College to help parents and students navigate the application process.
You'll learn how to fill out a free Federal Student Aid application and review the types of aid available for students planning to attend college anywhere.
The work session will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Gateway Auditorium at the college, 275 Swamp Road in Newtown Township.
Snow date is Feb. 16. The event is free. Call: 215-968-8200 or www.finaid@bucks.edu.
Potholes hotline waiting for calls
With the freeze-thaw cycle taking its annual toll on pavement, PennDOT urges motorists to call 1-800-FIX-ROAD (1-800-349-7623) to report the location of potholes on state roads.
Callers are asked to be as specific as possible when reporting pothole locations. For state routes, callers must report the county, municipality, street name, or preferably the state route (SR) number found on small, black-and-white signs posted along state roadways. Callers should also offer a description of any familiar landmarks that will help PennDOT find the problem area.
The hotline may be used to report any maintenance concern on state roads such as potholes, deer removal or signage issues. Once notified, PennDOT will work expeditiously to address concerns when weather permits; however, winter services remain the primary focus of maintenance crews at this time of year.
To report potholes on local roads, motorists should contact the municipality in which the pothole is located.
Potholes develop when water seeps below the road through small cracks in the pavement surface. As the water repeatedly freezes and thaws, a cavity below the road is formed and larger cracks develop, causing the pavement to crumble.
Motorcycle driver courses available
Free motorcycle safety programs are being offered by PennDOT for both experienced and new riders.
The courses will be offered March through October. A full schedule is available online at www.pamsp.com.
Locally, the courses will be held at Brian's Harley-Davidson, 600 S. Flowers Mill Road in Middletown, and the Middle Bucks Institute of Technology, 2740 Old York Road in Jamison. Registration at Brian's opens March 15 for classes in May, and at the tech school on Feb. 27 for classes in April.
The 15-hour basic rider course is designed to prepare riders for entry into the world of traffic. It consists of five hours of in-class instruction and 10 hours of practical riding experience. The six-hour basic rider course addresses the skills needed for low risk, enjoyable on-street motorcycle riding.
Participants must have a motorcycle learner's permit or motorcycle license. All courses are conducted on a riding range, under the management of certified rider coaches.
For more information and to enroll in a course, visit the website or call 1-800-845-9533 between 8 a.m. and noon Monday through Friday.
Gourmet breakfast for all Saturday
The tuxedo-clad Rotarians will be serving a gourmet breakfast Saturday at the Morrisville United Methodist Church.
The menu: your choice of eggs benedicts or quiche, garnished with steamed asparagus, fresh pineapple and strawberries.
Breakfast will be served from 8:30 to 11 a.m. The cost is $8 per person. Tickets can be purchased from a Rotary Club member or by calling Ted Fletcher at 215-736-2286. Tickets may also be bought at the door.
Fairytale breakfast for drama club
Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White are just a few of the celebrities expected at the Bensalem High School Drama Club charity breakfast next week.
Breakfast will be served at 8 a.m. Feb. 19 inside the Applebee's at 3219 Street Road in the township. Organizers promise pancakes, sausage, juice and coffee, crafts and sing-a-longs.
Tickets are $6 and must be purchased in advance through the mail. For additional information and ticket order forms, go to www.bensalemsd.org/hsdrama.
Proceeds will benefit the drama club.
Township GOP to screen for candidates
NEWTOWN TOWNSHIP
The Newtown Township Republicans will hold a screening at 6 p.m. Sunday at The Temperance House Restaurant, 5 S. State St., Newtown Borough, to interview candidates.
Two seats on the board of supervisors, one auditor and two school board seats are up for election this year. Anyone interested should contact Mick Petrucci at 267-987-6589 or mick1973@comcast.net.
100 years ago in Bucks
Mr. Niles, who has been working for C.R. Smith at the blacksmith shops at Morrisville, has taken the Watson blacksmith shop vacated by Oscar Barber.
News item from the village of Fallsington in Falls as printed in the Bucks County Gazette of February 1911


Madurai: Permitting 24x7 operations of shops, malls and other work places would wipe out traditional retail traders and activate cultural degradation in the country, Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TNCCI) has said.
In a statement, president of the chamber, N Jegatheesan and senior president S Rethinavelu said the Union government had approved model shops and establishments (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Services) Bill 2016, to allow shops, malls, restaurants and cinemas to remain open round-the-clock throughout the year. Being a model bill it will not be referred to Parliament for approval. It is left to the discretion of the individual states to pass the model bill as an Act to be enforced in their respective states.
If the bill is adopted by the states, it would sound the death-knell for innumerable small retail trade units across the country. It would affect the livelihood of over 20 crore people who dependent on retail trade. Most retail units in India are managed by families under the direct supervision of the heads of families and such units would find it impossible to function 24 hours a day. There would also be health implications. As the bill would be applicable only to shops with more than 10 workers, most of them in the country would be denied the intended benefits.
The 24x7 policy will be beneficial only to foreign and domestic retail giants with chain stores and with substantial financial muscle power and loss sustaining capacity. This can be realised through the fact that foreign giants like Walmart had hailed the model bill. The Centre's move to permit 100% FDI in marketing of food products produced and manufactured in India without any conditions was the first salvo fired against our traditional retail units and present passing of the model bill permitting shops to open round-the-clock is the second such assault against their very survival, they stated in the release.