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Q: how does Git internally handle git push where no outstanding commits How does Git internally handle a git push for the case where the local branch is up-to-date with the remote , i.e. no outstanding commits ?
Does Git actually retrieve the latest state from the remote origin to determine that "Everything is up-to-date" --or-- does Git rely on its local cache of the remote origin ?

A: Git push will check the ref from the remote server (via something similar to git ls-remote and get the hashes from there. If the hashes are the same as the one your branch has then it doesn't need to do anything else and thus will display that message.

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module Es6
  module Generators
    class AssetsGenerator < ::Rails::Generators::NamedBase
      source_root File.expand_path("../templates", __FILE__)

      def copy_es6
        template "javascript.es6", File.join('app/assets/javascripts', class_path, "#{file_name}.es6")
      end
    end
  end
end

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There are collectors … and then there's Mick. He has filled his large house with Star Wars memorabilia – every square inch of it. The trouble is Mick's super tolerant wife has decided their new born baby – appropriately named Leia after Princess Leia – needs some room too! Lucas and Mick pick out pieces that will fetch great money – including a full-size Jar Jar Binks model that needs restoring. All up Mick raises nearly $17,000 at a specialty auction. Lucas hits the country roads to meet Farmer George. It's been drought for too long, and Farmer George decides he needs to cash up a few old items, and Lucas is the man to get the job done. Some old football caps of George's great grandfather have been sitting around gathering dust – so he decides to let them go. One of them – a mid-19th century English test cap – collects a handy $14000. Meanwhile, Adrian has invited Lucas in to look at a piece given to him by his father that he thinks could be worth a fortune. It's a jacket, reputedly worn by rocker Jimi Hendrix! Lucas gets the research going, because if they can authenticate the jacket it could be worth upwards of ten thousand dollars.
It's always amazing what people collect – and Shaun is quite the collector! Among his Pacific artefacts and bizarre art pieces, he has a full size stuffed brown bear. Shaun had picked it up cheap from a fire sale of office furniture – it was a football club mascot – and he wants to see if Lucas can find it a good home. Shaun also has a handful of paintings in his garage he acquired at a garage sale – $50 for 50 paintings. One of the paintings catches Lucas' eye – turns out it's a genuine Arthur Streeton watercolour – and collects over $2000 at auction. Not a bad earner! The bear sells for good money to a keen collector with an eye for the quirky. Ian is a collector-cum-author who loves Australian history, and hanging on his wall is an iconic Ned Kelly movie poster that if original could be worth thousands. Lucas gets it authenticate and places it in a specialty auction where it goes through the roof!
Lucas is invited to Lisbeth's home to take a look at her deceased grandfather's possessions. She's sorted the sentimental keepsakes – and now wants to sell the rest. Much of it is bric-a-brac that will make a few dollars but hidden in a jar of old coins is a find that could be worth thousands -an old convicts coin called a love token. Lucas gets it authenticated, then takes it to a dealer he knows who offers $13,000. That's some love! Meanwhile, an old mate of Lucas' has been collecting chairs from the side of the road for decades and he invites Lucas in to see of anything takes his eye. Straight away Lucas spots a classic Featherstone 70s chair. The Featherstones were Australian designers of the 60s and 760s, and their retro furniture is much in demand. The only problem is that the chair has a broken leg – so Lucas organises a mate to match and fix the leg .. and it sells at auction for good money. Lucas hits the road to visit the country, and is invited to Penny and Rob's place. Originally an old courthouse, it's holding cells are now stacked with old wares they have been collecting, and Lucas spots some great sellable pieces including an original Nobel Dynamite box that goes for great money, and a dozen or so Penfold's Grange wine that make Panny and Rob a tidy sum. Still in the country, Lucas drops in to help Craig sort out his garages – he has 3 of them full of all his dad's old junk! The pick of the pieces – footy cards. These were bubblegum cards featuring Rugby League players of the 1960s and 1970s, and he finds a buyer willing to part $5000 for them. He also spots a dusty old guitar – and has it valued as a 1936 National – worth $3000.
Harry has two old Holden cars in his garage and has decided he only really needs one. His classic green FJ has been handed down through generations and he can't part with that – but the gorgeous red FC is in showroom and condition and ready to be moved on. As Lucas is the 'man who knows the man' – he suggests Harry goes to Australia's biggest car enthusiast show to meet a mate who is keen to buy a piece of Aussie history. Lucas meets Victoria, an op shop and garage sale fanatic who has collected some great pieces over the years, and now wants to sell some stuff so she can buy more! Lucas selects a beautiful and unique dinner plate setting, and some rolex watches. He does his homework and realises the setting is an iconic Californian post war designer and sells the pieces in his shop. The Rolexes are authenticated and sell for good cash. Out in the country, Lucas has a mate with a keen eye for great furniture – but he knows he's missing a big market because he doesn't come to the city. Lucas selects some beautiful pieces including an English picnic setting and an ornate carved Australian woodbox. The box goes for big money when Lucas' research reveals it has quite the pedigree.
In the quiet Sydney suburbs lives an extraordinary old bloke who has made it his life's work to collect Australian items – so much so he has turned two garages into his private museums. He invites Lucas to scour the items to see what he can get good money for, as he'd like to be able to give his adult children some much needed cash. Lucas finds old lolly jars, original oil cans, a Hills Hoist model, and first edition Enid Blyton books and makes William a tidy sum. On Sydney Harbour Lucas has arranged to meet two divers who collect bottles. They dig deep below the sandy bottom of the harbour to find pieces that stretch back to Sydney's colonial days. Lucas realises there could be good money in their pieces, so he visits a bottle fair and talks to the experts. The inform him bottles sell for as much as $20,000 each! Lucas reports back to his diver buddies that their bottle built superannuation is secure! Lucas gets a call from Bill – who has an 1820s bible that he thinks could be worth big money. On his visit to Bill's Lucas spies something remarkable – out in the backyard Bill's cats are sitting on some classic mid century chairs which are slowly rotting in the weather. Bill explains he found the chairs by the side of the road so didn't think much of them. Lucas shoves the cats aside only to discover the chairs are designer classics, and with a bit of TLC could go for big money. After some work, they sell to a 70s obsessed couple. And the bible? Turns out no-one wants old bibles these days, so it's returned to Bill.
Lucas heads bush to discover an old ironmonger who has spent a lifetime collecting farming paraphernalia – and sadly he passed away. Now his widow and family think it's time to clear the yard, so they set about the biggest yard sale in the country! Among the treasures are old Furphy water carts that sell for thousands of dollars, original farm tools, and classic items. Lucas is in his element as people travel from all over Australia to snap up the goods. One of the tricks of Lucas' trade is to know what's a bargain, and how to upsell it to pull in big money. Often the op shops have great items massively under-priced, so he decides to help out his local St Vincent de Paul shop by selecting some items off the shelf and seeing if he can make them big money. The pick of the bunch is a beautiful Cressida Campbell book they have listed for $45 that sells at auction for $950 – a nice little earner for the charity shop! Old Frank has an even older MG sitting in garage rusting away – so Lucas convinces him to get rid of it and free up the space. Lucas does his homework by visiting the MG Collectors Club and discovers Frank's car could be worth big money if it's done up. Old Frank decides its best to let someone else do the work – so he sells it to a mate of Lucas for a tidy $2300. Not bad for a rust bucket!
5:30am Trucking Hell

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Yale Professor Zoe Chance Joins Nordic Business Forum Helsinki 2022 Lineup
Zoe Chance, a professor at Yale School of Management, has been confirmed to the Nordic Business Forum Helsinki 2022 lineup. In September, Zoe will share her insights on influence.
We are thrilled to announce that Zoe Chance will give two keynotes on our stage in Helsinki next September! She is a writer, teacher, researcher, and climate philanthropist obsessed with the topic of interpersonal influence. In Helsinki, through the lens of behavioural economics, Zoe will share with us her insights on how to positively influence others.
"Interpersonal influence is an extremely important tool for any leader to master, so I consider Zoe's expertise and teachings very important for our audience and this year's event", says Priit Liiv, the Interim Managing Director at Nordic Business Forum.
About Zoe Chance
Zoë Chance is a Yale School of Management professor who wants to help people and businesses do good in the world.
Through the lens of behavioral economics, Zoe studies and teaches persuasion and decision-making. Her research findings have been published in top academic journals like Proceedings of the National Academy of Science and in influential business media such as Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist and Psychology Today.
Chance's new book Influence Is Your Superpower shares research-based, practical influence strategies to help you develop yourself as a good influencer within your organization—whether a business, nonprofit, school, political party or government.
If you are interested to learn from Zoe in Helsinki, check out the Nordic Business Forum 2022 event website for tickets.
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Duncan Wardle Wins the 2022 Speaker Contest
Duncan Wardle will join the speaker lineups of this year's Nordic Business Forum, Oslo Business Forum, and Amsterdam Business Forum and will be paid a 70,000 € speaking fee. On the 31st of May, the 2022 Speaker Contest final was […]
Business Forum Group Introduces a New Initiative to Bring Together the Most Influential Young Business Owners in Northern Europe
Business Forum Group has launched a new initiative to bring together 35 of Northern Europe's most influential business owners who are 35 years old or under. Nordic Business Forum, Oslo Business Forum, and their carefully selected collaborators from Sweden, Denmark, […]


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Cheika: Made pre-match grunt sculpture in AB toilet.
NEWSDESK: Eye gouging, refereeing criticism and boot throwing – you can now add a surreptitious pre-match steamer to the list.
Under-fire Wallabies coach Michael Cheika has been accused of defecating and creating an offensive odour in the All Black dressing room before his team's 29-9 defeat at Westpac Stadium on Saturday night.
Closed circuit TV confirms the Wallabies coach entered the opposition shed carrying that morning's Dominion Post sport section under one arm, shortly before the cave painting was discovered.
Head coach Steve Hansen is playing the incident down. "The smell was worse than a dead possum in the boot, but we train for this kind of thing. The boys stuck to their processes and still got the result.
The IRB issued a statement expressing its disappointment in the inter-changing room floater, and reminded member countries to obey the usual home and away ablution protocols. The incident was being referred to the newly formed Bodily Function Sub-Committee, whose report is due mid-2019.
The incident is the first trans-Tasman turd since Michael Brial shat in Frank Bunce's shoe at a 1996 Bledisloe post-match function.


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Passman & Kaplan Wins Major MSPB Appeal After Landmark Oral Argument
On behalf of Passman & Kaplan, P.C., Attorneys at Law posted in News from Passman & Kaplan on Wednesday, January 26, 2011.
The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB or Board) issued its decision in the consolidated Aguzie and Barnes cases, holding, for the first time, that OPM-directed suitability determinations are subject to full MSPB review under 7 USC § 7513, which includes a review of the penalty determination. In so doing, the Board found certain Office of Personnel Management (OPM) regulations that interfere with those appeal rights to be inconsistent with the Board's statutory authority. Passman & Kaplan Founding Principal Joseph V. Kaplan represented Holley C. Barnes at oral argument on this appeal, which was only the second oral argument held by the MSPB in the past 27 years. Aguzie, Barnes v. Office of Personnel Management, 2011 MSPB 10.
At issue in the Barnes case was an order from OPM to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Ms. Barnes' employing agency, directing that Ms. Barnes, a non-probationary employee, be removed from her position, declared ineligible for other pending competitive selections and debarred from the federal competitive service for three years. OPM found Ms. Barnes unsuitable for federal employment for an alleged falsification of her employment application. Ms. Barnes appealed to the MSPB. Under OPM regulations, however, the MSPB was restricted in its review and could not, for example, review the appropriateness of the decision to impose removal, debarment and cancellation of eligibility as penalties. In reviewing the relevant statutes and legislative history, the MSPB found that OPM exceeded its authority in promulgating regulations which purport to strip the MSPB of full authority to review the OPM suitability determination and the chosen penalty. In holding OPM's regulations inconsistent with the Board's statutory authority, the MSPB confirmed its authority to review the merits of OPM's suitability determination, as well as to examine the propriety of OPM's penalty determination under the MSPB's Douglas mitigation factors. Further, agreeing with Mr. Kaplan's argument, the MSPB also extended its authority to review additional penalties imposed, such as the penalties of debarment and cancellation of eligibility as part of an appeal of an OPM unsuitability determination.
As a result of the Board's decision, Ms. Barnes' case was ordered remanded to the administrative judge for further proceedings to determine, in the main, whether her removal, and other penalties, were justified by all the facts in this case. Ms. Barnes was represented by Passman & Kaplan Founding Principal Joseph V. Kaplan.
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Dance-inspired music that will transport you beyond the concert hall to rustic landscapes and posh ballrooms. World-renowned Maestro Ramón Tebar conducts! The Master Chorale of South Florida performs Borodin's dynamic Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor!


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FINAL DESTINATION Producer Teases New Movie
'Final Destination,' the supernatural horror about a small group of people who escape impending death only to bumped off by Rube Goldberg-style setpieces, turns 20 this month. Now, everyone is talking about where the franchise will go next.
Back in 2019, it was revealed that Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, the twisted minds behind 'Saw IV,' 'V' and 'VI,' 'Saw 3D' and 'The Collector,' had been brought on board to shape the script for a sixth installement. However, things have been quiet since then. Thankfully, franchise producer Craig Perry has shed some light on the new film.
Talking to DigitalSpy, Perry said, "We're toying with having it take place in the world of first responders: EMTs, firemen, and police. These people deal with death on the front lines every day and make choices that can cause people to live or die. We rely on their good judgment, expertise, and calm demeanour. So why not put those people in the nightmare situation where every choice can bring about life and death – but now for themselves? We're thinking that world might be an interesting way into a Final Destination movie, and one which can also generate unique set pieces in a very credible way."
Franchise creator Jeffrey Reddick also spoke with DigitalSpy, adding "I've been talking to Craig, and the concept behind it is unique. I think reboot is probably too strong of a word, it makes it sound like they're going to change everything, but it's definitely a Final Destination movie. Craig is the master of coming up with crazy openings and set pieces. He's told me a couple of things that happen in this one, and it's going to be a lot of fun. It's not going feel like cash-grab Final Destination film."
Based on an unproduced spec script by Reddick, originally written as an episode for 'The X-Files,' 2000's 'Final Destination' starred Devon Sawa as a teenager who cheats death after having a premonition of a catastrophic plane explosion. He and several of his classmates leave the plane before the explosion occurs, but Death later takes the lives of those who were meant to die on the plane. The film spawned four sequels, as well as a series of novels and comic books.


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1974: Warlord
1974 is an important year for the gaming hobby. It is the year that Dungeons & Dragons was introduced, the original RPG from which all other RPGs would ultimately be derived and the original RPG from which so many computer games would draw for their inspiration. It is fitting that the current owner of the game, Wizards of the Coast, released the new version, Dungeons & Dragons, Fifth Edition, in the year of the game's fortieth anniversary. To celebrate this, Reviews from R'lyeh will be running a series of reviews from the hobby's anniversary years, thus there will be reviews from 1974, from 1984, from 1994, and from 2004—the thirtieth, twentieth, and tenth anniversaries of the titles—and so on, as the anniversaries come up. These will be retrospectives, in each case an opportunity to re-appraise interesting titles and true classics decades on from the year of their original release.
If you are of a certain age, then you will remember Apocalypse. Not the 'Apocalypse', but Apocalypse: The Game of Nuclear Devastation, a board game published by Games Workshop in 1980 in bookcase format along with Valley of the Four Winds and Warlock. It saw generals fighting for territory in a near future Europe in conflicts that would quickly escalate into nuclear confrontations and inevitably, nuclear devastation. The rules were simple and to our fourteen-year-old minds, the fun thing about the game was that every time you won a conflict, you were awarded a stage for your nuclear missiles. The game included little plastic missile stages that clipped together to form slightly wonky nuclear missiles and when you fired them, each missile devastated several regions on the board and destroyed whole armies. It was in my English teacher Mister Peter Rolfe's opinion, when we explained it to him, very poor taste.
The truth of it was that Apocalypse was produced on a low budget. The map was quite small, the missiles were of cheap plastic, the armies of thin card, and the six-sided die included in the game was arguably the worst die I have ever seen. Fortunately, this did not matter. The die was never intended to be rolled in Apocalypse. A couple of years later I got to play again, but not Apocalypse, but The Warlord, the original version of the game that was not quite as simplified as Apocalypse and had better components—although the copy I was playing used Lego blocks as missile stages. What was interesting was that I was playing with the designer's nephew. I never did get to meet the designer—Mike Hayes—then, but by chance I met him at UK Games Expo 2013 where he had a new edition of the game available. Not of Apocalypse: The Game of Nuclear Devastation, but Classic Warlord – The Holy Grail of Wargaming, a new version of the original game first self-published in 1974.
Classic Warlord, a game of bluff, conquest, and nuclear confrontation, is designed for two to seven players—Apocalypse was for between two and four. Classic Warlord retains the same simplicity of rules as Apocalypse and is designed to be modular. Its eight map boards sit together to cover Europe, the Near and Middle East, and North Africa. What this means is that a short game can be played out over a small theatre over two maps—for example, the Madrid and Rome maps to form a Western Mediterranean theatre—in an hour or two with two, three, or four players. With all eight maps and all seven players, a game could last several hours.
Classic Warlord comes richly appointed. In addition to the eight full-colour map boards—each marked with mega-cities, key urban areas, rural regions, mountains, deserts, and sea regions, the big box includes two sets of the three-page rules sheet, seven separate red cloth bags full of small coloured discs—these represent the players' armies, a black bag of thick squares used to mark irradiated regions, two sets of missile stages—red for A-Bombs, white for H-Bombs, and a large die. Also included in the box is a twenty-four page combined FAQ and set of Designer's Notes. What is missing from the box is a cup under which to hide the die during battles, but that is easily supplied.
Once the map boards have been selected, players take in turn to place a single army on an unoccupied and unconnected mountain region until they have all been filled. What this means is that the players begin the game with unconnected forces, each conducting the near-future conflict in a balkanised fashion as a mini-empire of its own. Then on his turn, a player conducts three phases. The first phase consists of firing and detonating missiles—this occurs later in the game after a player has won a few battles against his opponents. In the second phase, a player receives more armies, the number based on the number of separate empires he owns, as well as the number of mega-cities, key areas, and rural regions he controls at the start of his turn. These are placed within the empires they are generated from.
In the third phase, he can move his armies to occupy empty regions and he can also attack enemy-held regions. Classic Warlord's combat mechanics are where the game begins to shine. The attacker selects a number on the die not greater than the number of armies he is attacking with and hides it under a cup. The defender now has to guess the number selected. If he does so, the attacker loses that number of armies from his attacking forces. Essentially, the attacker is staking a portion of his forces on the defeat of the defender. If on the other hand, the defender fails to guess the number correctly, he loses one of his armies and the attacker gains a single A-Bomb missile stage that he can place anywhere within his empire that he attacked from, to be launched in the first phase of subsequent turns. Attacking mega-cities, mountains, and from sea onto the land are difficult to stage.
For example, it is Dave's turn. He has already reinforced the Apennines in Italy so that it has six armies. He wants to capture Milano to the north which Niamh defends with just two armies. Dave as the attacker takes the die, selects a number between one and six, and hides it so that the number cannot be seen or changed. Niamh has to guess the number, which must be between one and six. She selects three, but Dave chose two, so Niamh loses an army. Dave also gains an A-Bomb missile stage to place anywhere in his empire in Italy. He also continues the attack. He again selects three, thinking that Niamh will not choose that, but she does! Dave loses three armies from his forces and decides not to press his attack.
Once a player has a missile, he can launch it during the first phase of his turn. A missile's range is determined by the number of its stages. When it strikes, the targeted region is irradiated—marked with one of the game's black squares—and rendered unsafe for the rest of the game. In addition, all of the adjacent regions are devastated and any armies in them destroyed. These regions can be reoccupied. H-Bombs are more effective. They not only irradiate the targeted region, but also all of the adjacent areas. Of course, all of the regions adjacent to the irradiated regions are devastated.
If any missile—A-Bomb or H-Bomb—is stationed in an area that is devastated, it will also detonate, having the same effect as if it had been launched at a region. It is thus possible to set off a chain-reaction of missiles is they are placed too close to each other. (It should be noted that our fourteen-year-old selves would look upon this with unbridled glee!). Although missiles do permanently remove territory from the game, their devastation effect is an efficient means of removing enemy armies from the map.
For example, Niamh wants to stop Dave from staging further attacks from the Apennines, so on a later turn she launches a two-stage A-Bomb from the Tyrol on the Apennines. It irradiates the Apennines and devastates Emilia, Milano, Torino, the Ligurian Sea, Toscana, Umbria, and Marche. In the next phase, Niamh will receive more armies and not only reinforce her armies in the Alps, but march south into northern Italy. For launching an A-Bomb, Niamh also receives an H-Bomb to place in her empire in northern Italy...
Play continues like this until there one last survivor who is declared the winner of the game.
In the process, irradiated and devastated areas will ripple and grow across the map. This will affect further battles as players' forces are channelled around irradiated areas. H-Bombs exacerbate this issue. As this happens and players are eliminated from the game, battles are likely to become bigger and bigger, but more tightly focused on certain terrain.
By modern standards, Classic Warlord shows its age—after all, it is more than forty years old. It is a brutal wargame in which no prisoners are taken; it is not a balanced Eurogame in which the play is competitive rather than combative; and it is a game in which the players are eliminated from play one after another. Its subject matter has also dated—we no longer live in fear of imminent nuclear annihilation. That said, there is a simple elegance to the design of this game and there is a complete absence of luck—Classic Warlord is not Risk with its reliance on dice rolls. The mechanics in Classic Warlord rely purely on player decision, bluff, and deduction. Selecting how many armies to commit to a battle is a tough decision for the attacker and deducing how many the attacker is prepared to risk lies at the heart of the game. A larger number of armies means that the attacker has greater choice in how many he can risk, but risking too many means that his attack can fail more spectacularly. The defender of course, has to gauge just how many the attacker is prepared to risk…
In comparison to the earlier Apocalypse, the new edition of Classic Warlord is bigger, bolder, and better presented. It has been streamlined in places—there are fewer mega-cities and it is not possible to reconstruct irradiated areas. As much as they are destructive in their effect, the addition of H-Bombs from earlier iterations of the game—they do not appear in Apocalypse—actually speeds play because they knock territories out of the game and reduce the need to battle over them.
In larger, multiplayer games, one issue is that the players are sat around doing nothing when it is not their turn. Of course, there is nothing to stop them enjoying the tension of the confrontation between the current combatants or indeed involving themselves in attempts to form or break alliances. This diplomatic aspect to the game is not discussed in the rules, but it is implicit with this kind of multi-player wargame.
What then of Classic Warlord as a simulation? It certainly does not simulate actual warfare, its scope and mechanics being too broad and too abstract for that. In a sense, it is more like Diplomacy or Risk in terms of its scope and mechanics, but given that its setting is that of a then near-future post-Cold War conflict (the game having been long developed and published before the end of the Communist Bloc at the end of the 1980s), what it does simulate is a conflict that never came to pass. It is thus a 'what if?', although loose parallels can be drawn to certain post-Cold War conflicts in Classic Warlord's set-up of small empires jockeying for power and territory combined with the post-Cold War fear of post-Soviet states and factions gaining control of nuclear weapons. Certainly though, it models the brinkmanship of nuclear conflict.
Given its set-up and its expanded playing area with the extra maps, it is disappointing that Classic Warlord does not entertain the possibility of scenarios to simulate possible conflicts. Given the game's age, the obvious would be a Warsaw Pact/NATO confrontation in Germany, but the collapse of the Balkans could also be played out, as could numerous conflicts in the Middle East.
Physically, Classic Warlord is nicely presented. The maps are well down and mounted on sturdy cardboard. The plastic pieces are sturdy, though the armies are a little fiddly to handle. Although a nice touch, the inclusion of bags for all of the plastic pieces does seem a little redundant given that they come in ziplock bags. Lastly, the rules sheet is nicely done. At just three pages in length, it points to the game's simplicity and elegance.
There is no denying that the premise behind Classic Warlord is unwholesome. Indeed, it may even be unpalatable to some, yet there is an undeniable pleasure—a guilty pleasure perhaps—in seeing the game back in print, but a pleasure nonetheless. Even though its premise has dated, there is no denying the sheer brutality and elegance of Classic Warlord's design.
Labels: 1970s, 1974, Board Game, Games Workshop, Nuclear, Post Apocalypse, Retrospective, Wargame
Tom Tuesday, 14 January 2020 at 18:22:00 GMT
I've never heard of this game, but it's the kind of game I would have loved as a kid (and been disturbed by, but that's part of the appeal). Great review!
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It's easier than ever to get content from your local library. Apart from the general free-ness of the service, many resources let people stream and download content electronically.
But for many of the roughly 5.7 million people in America living with Alzheimer's or dementia, the simplicity of that access can feel like a world away.
That's why the Monroe County Public Library has been taking big steps toward making itself as accessible as possible to people with Alzheimer's and dementia. And in doing so, MCPL has earned a new, more involved level of certification.
Jackson works primarily on the library's outreach services like the Bookmobile, the Library Van Service and the Homebound Service. He said his time spent expanding those programs has shown him just how vital this need for accessibility is.
Jackson and MCPL got in touch with Indiana University Health's Alzheimer's Resource Service, which offers free resources and education to 11 counties in south central Indiana to make businesses more welcoming to those with the disease.
Through ARS's one-hour training seminar, staff at MCPL learned about the best practices and communication for dealing with situations people with Alzheimer's and dementia often face.
"The Level I certification can be obtained by any organization," said Dayna Thompson, Alzheimer's educator for the Alzheimer's Resource Service. "A trainer comes to you and provides education on dementia, how to communicate and some environmental factors to be aware of."
But, Jackson said, there was more they could be doing.
"We got high marks in a lot of areas, in terms of having friendly staff and a generally accessible and approachable building. But there were some things we learned we could be doing better," he said.
That's when Jackson learned that ARS was looking to launch a more involved type of certification. As part of a pilot program for Level II Dementia Friendly status, MCPL brought in someone with dementia to walk through the building and note small but crucial issues that might cause them problems down the road.
At the start of the walk through, the business is given a survey with a list of items and features necessary to be Level II-certified. If they are found at the end of the walkthrough to have 80 percent of those items, they reach Level II.
Apart from updated signage and simplified layouts, the library now offers new programs and even technology designed to appeal to people with Alzheimer's and dementia.
Musical Memories is an event series that invites people with Alzheimer's and dementia to enjoy music from years past and from artists like Cole Porter and Hoagy Carmichael.
"Music touches our brains in a way that's very emotional, and that connection can last even when other parts of the brain have been degraded by the disease," Jackson said.
It's important to note that the library isn't trying to help only those with Alzheimer's and dementia. Caring for family, friends and loved ones with these diseases is often a monumental, thankless task; with over 16 million Americans providing unpaid care for people with Alzheimer's and dementia, MCPL wants to do what it can to ease that burden.
"Caregiving is often a very lonely endeavor that takes a lot of time and a lot of money. Many people aren't really prepared for it," Jackson said.
The library wants to make that task a bit less daunting with Caregiver University, a monthly program where experts discuss issues pertinent to caregiving. Classes are themed closely to dementia and Alzheimer's care, but not exclusively; there's also talk about legal issues that may pop up, navigating assisted living and everyday tasks like helping a patient's mobility.
Jackson says other business taking part in the free, one-hour training session for Level I status is a no-brainer. Doing so gets said business a sticker identifying it as Dementia Friendly, which Jackson says gives customers with Alzheimer's and dementia and their caregivers confidence that they'll be taken care of.
While ARS currently has only two levels of certification, Thompson says accessibility for people with Alzheimer's and dementia looks different from place to place.
Even before a business earns official certification, Thompson says, becoming more welcoming to people with dementia is as simple as slowing down and taking time to communicate.
And as the Monroe County Public Library continues to expand its accessibility efforts, Jackson says they're constantly looking for feedback and ways to improve even more.
"We are going to do our very best to work out a solution for whatever it's going to take to have you included," he said.
If you and your organization are interested in becoming certified as Dementia Friendly, you can visit the Alzheimer's Resource Service's website.


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Smallville 1×08 – 'Jitters' – TV Rewind
By Eamon Hennedy 9 October 2019 8 October 2019
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'Jitters' is a very entertaining hour of television. It's an episode of Smallville made up of great moments, set pieces, performances and a fantastic final scene that has an incredibly bitter edge.
There is a major first here for the series as it features the first appearance on the series of Metropolis (Vancouver doing a great doubling job as always). Even though it's only for a few moments in the teaser sequence, the first reveal of the future Superman's home city is beautifully different to the small-town feel that the series has utilised up to this point, with a definite steel and glass looked combined with atmospheric rain to maximise the difference between the city and the sunny cosiness of the Kents' home.
Of course, the first trip to Metropolis involves introducing us to this week's 'freak-of-the-week, Earl, played by the wonderful Tony Todd. Martha and Jonathan are out celebrating their anniversary, which means that with Clark home alone, the series can throw in that all-time brilliant teen genre cliche – the house party.
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The episode cannot resist having Clark use his powers in attempting to cover up the party, and the moment when it's revealed to an unknowing, smug Clark that Jonathan and Martha are already home, is a beautifully played, genuinely funny moment. It's also one of the few moments of levity in an episode filled with a sense of paranoia and conspiracy which, as often with some of early Smallville, cannot help but remind one of The X-Files. In fact, there are many things in this episode that reminds one of Chris Carter's hit series.
Tony Todd, a fantastic actor with an iconic horror role under his belt in the shape of Candyman, also appeared in the famed genre series of the '90s, in the wonderful Howard Gordon-scripted 'Sleepless' where he played a similarly tortured soul inflicted with powers put on him by those above him; in that episode's case, US government scientists and the military.
This being Smallville, any sense of conspiracy and intrigue stems from the Luthor family tree, and with Lex on the side of the angels, here he's at his charming best, organising a fireworks show for Clark's party. It's a returning John Glover as Lionel Luthor that is the proxy for villainy and dastardly deeds, and even as a villain it's hard to resist enjoying Glover's portrayal. A recurring guest star at this stage, he walks into his scenes as if he owns the series, throwing himself into the middle of the hostage situation that forms the second half of the episode with gusto, and is a fantastic antagonist for everyone.
The hint that he and Jonathan have a past is a lovely set up for future episodes (although we'll have to wait a while for the pay-off) and there is a sense of tension to be gleaned from seeing the parents of our two heroes having to deal with both their children in danger.
The episode is essentially split into two parts: the first being a somewhat typical freak-of-the-week episode, albeit with a guest character that isn't a student at Smallville High, which means there's a vibe here that feels somewhat different to how Smallville usually utilises its storytelling format. We get a reference to a trip the Luthorcorp Plant earlier in the episode, and given that Earl used to work there and is insistent on there being a Level 3 in the building (not on the plans, denied by everyone, very X-Files) it's no surprise that the episode eventually takes a turn into Die Hard territory with a hostage situation.
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The hostage situation happens literally halfway through the episode and it's certainly a dramatic moment. It reminds us that the show is filmed in Vancouver by casting Robert Wisden as Chloe's dad, another famed X-Files guest star, who does a good job delivering dad jokes while Chloe gets increasingly embarrassed, and builds to a fantastic set-piece involving a footbridge falling apart due to Earl's increased jitters.
Yet, despite the fact it feels as if the episode has changed course somewhat, the extended finale is great and helps make this a wickedly entertaining episode. It's freak-of-the-week but it also has fun with the characters and the drama in a way that feels legitimately dramatic, and is punctuated by a fantastic final scene where Lionel stages an emotional hug with Lex, while the latter watches the Kents embrace each other for real.
It's a brilliantly bitter sting that ends the episode, and once again cements the fact that while Smallville is great fun as a freak-of-the-week style series, its handling of some of the most famous characters in pop culture is where its real brilliance lies.
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Q: plm: Fixed Effects Regression - Index / ID order I am running fixed effects regressions using the plm package.
Why and how does the order of the ID code have an impact on the regression?
I used these codes for running the regressions, which only differ between the order of the ID code Company and Year.
The code:
MV_Year <- plm (MVlog ~ LEV + Size + DY + RDlog
                , data=Values, model="within", index= c("Year","Company"))

MV_Company <- plm (MVlog ~ LEV + Size + DY + RDlog,
                   data=Values, model="within", index= c("Company", "Year"))

The corresponding outputs:
MV_Year:
Oneway (individual) effect Within Model

Call:
plm(formula = MVlog ~ LEV + Size + DY + RDlog, data = Values,
    model = "within", index = c("Year", "Company"))

Unbalanced Panel: n = 17, T = 557-4280, N = 29890

Residuals:
     Min.   1st Qu.    Median   3rd Qu.      Max.
-5.250901 -0.457100  0.015763  0.476140  6.006483

Coefficients:
         Estimate  Std. Error t-value Pr(>|t|)
LEV   -1.95485031  0.04060539 -48.143  < 2e-16 ***
Size   0.75233709  0.00314849 238.952  < 2e-16 ***
DY    -0.00033192  0.00013482  -2.462  0.01382 *
RDlog  0.13148626  0.00300509  43.755  < 2e-16 ***
---
Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

Total Sum of Squares:    102610
Residual Sum of Squares: 17568
R-Squared:      0.82879
Adj. R-Squared: 0.82868
F-statistic: 36148 on 4 and 29869 DF, p-value: < 2.22e-16

MV_Company
Oneway (individual) effect Within Model

Call:
plm(formula = MVlog ~ LEV + Size + DY + RDlog, data = Values,
    model = "within", index = c("Company", "Year"))

Unbalanced Panel: n = 5911, T = 1-17, N = 29890

Residuals:
    Min.  1st Qu.   Median  3rd Qu.     Max.
-4.35967 -0.38711  0.00000  0.40528  5.48624

Coefficients:
         Estimate  Std. Error  t-value Pr(>|t|)
LEV   -1.88958140  0.04392991 -43.0135  < 2e-16 ***
Size   0.74650676  0.00375926 198.5782  < 2e-16 ***
DY    -0.00034308  0.00014585  -2.3524  0.01866 *
RDlog  0.13904360  0.00331886  41.8950  < 2e-16 ***
---
Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

Total Sum of Squares:    58168
Residual Sum of Squares: 12747
R-Squared:      0.78085
Adj. R-Squared: 0.72679
F-statistic: 21356.2 on 4 and 23975 DF, p-value: < 2.22e-16

Why do the outputs have these small differences between the different estimates and R^2?

A: The reason for the index= option is that plm() internally uses pdata.frame() which expects the first column to be the "id" and the second column to be the "time" if the according names are not specified by index=(<id>, <time>)
From ?pdata.frame we can read:

The index argument indicates the dimensions of the panel. It can be:

*

*a vector of two character strings which contains the names of the individual and of the time indexes,

*a character string which is the name of the individual index variable. In this case,  the time index is created automatically and
  a new variable called "time" is added, assuming consecutive and
  ascending time periods in the order of the original data, ...

The following example will help us to understand this. First we load the Grunfeld data, which looks like this.
library(plm)
data(Grunfeld)
head(Grunfeld, 3)
#   firm year   inv  value capital
# 1    1 1935 317.6 3078.5     2.8
# 2    1 1936 391.8 4661.7    52.6
# 3    1 1937 410.6 5387.1   156.9

First column is the ID, second column is the time. Let's estimate a model.
summary(plm(inv ~ value + capital, data=Grunfeld,
            model="within"))$coe
#          Estimate Std. Error   t-value     Pr(>|t|)
# value   0.1101238 0.01185669  9.287901 3.921108e-17
# capital 0.3100653 0.01735450 17.866564 2.220007e-42

Now, when we confuse the first and the second column,
summary(plm(inv ~ value + capital, data=Grunfeld[c(2, 1, 3:5)],
            model="within"))$coe
#          Estimate  Std. Error   t-value     Pr(>|t|)
# value   0.1167978 0.006331302 18.447672 3.586220e-43
# capital 0.2197066 0.032296107  6.802881 1.503653e-10

the result is different. But when we tell plm by index=(<id>, <time>) which columns to use,
summary(plm(inv ~ value + capital, data=Grunfeld[c(2, 1, 3:5)],
            index=c("firm", "year"),
            model="within"))$coe
#          Estimate Std. Error   t-value     Pr(>|t|)
# value   0.1101238 0.01185669  9.287901 3.921108e-17
# capital 0.3100653 0.01735450 17.866564 2.220007e-42

we get the old result. If we confuse the columns completely,
summary(plm(inv ~ value + capital, data=Grunfeld[c(3:5, 1, 2)],
            model="within"))$coe
# Error

plm() is indeed confused :) But jus as before, when we help plm() it behaves as expected and yields again the right result.
summary(plm(inv ~ value + capital, data=Grunfeld[c(3:5, 1, 2)],
            index=c("firm", "year"),
            model="within"))$coe
#          Estimate Std. Error   t-value     Pr(>|t|)
# value   0.1101238 0.01185669  9.287901 3.921108e-17
# capital 0.3100653 0.01735450 17.866564 2.220007e-42

Notice, that you are actually just calculating company fixed effects. If you intend to calculate a model with firm and year fixed effects, let's do this  as a LSDV model,
summary(lm(inv ~ value + capital + factor(firm) + factor(year) - 1, Grunfeld))$coe[1:2, ]
#          Estimate Std. Error   t value     Pr(>|t|)
# value   0.1177159 0.01375128  8.560354 6.652575e-15
# capital 0.3579163 0.02271901 15.754043 5.453066e-35

we see that the values are different from above, because the plms just included the firm fixed effect so far, see:
summary(lm(inv ~ value + capital + factor(firm) - 1, Grunfeld))$coe[1:2, ]
#          Estimate Std. Error   t value     Pr(>|t|)
# value   0.1101238 0.01185669  9.287901 3.921108e-17
# capital 0.3100653 0.01735450 17.866564 2.220007e-42

To get it right, we then also need to specify effect="twoways" to get firm and year fixed effects.
summary(plm(inv ~ value + capital, data=Grunfeld,
            index=c("firm", "year"),
            model="within", effect="twoways"))$coe
#          Estimate Std. Error   t-value     Pr(>|t|)
# value   0.1177159 0.01375128  8.560354 6.652575e-15
# capital 0.3579163 0.02271901 15.754043 5.453066e-35


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Watch the devastating aftermath of the Nepal earthquake in virtual reality
News organization releases short film on the ongoing effort to rebuild a ravaged country
Source RYOT
May 29, 2015, 10:58 AM UTC |
RYOT News this week released a virtual reality documentary on the aftermath of the massive earthquake that struck Nepal last month. The short film, narrated by Susan Sarandon, opens with familiar footage of buildings collapsing as the 7.8-magnitude earthquake first rippled across the country. It then transitions into VR mode, immersing the viewer in the mountains of rubble and devastation that lay behind. It would help to have a VR headset, of course, but you can still mimic the experience by shifting the camera's angle with your cursor to get a 360-degree view of every shot.
More than 8,000 killed by April earthquake
The footage was shot by RYOT co-founder David Darg in the districts of Bhaktapur and the Sindhupalchowk, which were among the hardest hit by the earthquake. The organization describes the film as both a "first in natural disaster VR," as well as an example of what the technology could do for "news and action," echoing the promise that some see in the growing medium. Vice News also used VR technology to shoot an eight-minute piece on last year's Millions March in New York City, where thousands gathered to protest police brutality.
More than 8,000 people were killed by the April 25th earthquake, and more than 20,000 have been injured. The Nepalese government has ended the emergency phase of its response, and US military personnel have withdrawn from the country, but relief efforts are ongoing, and there are fears that the coming monsoon season may hamper them. RYOT's video ends with a call for donations to assist the effort; other organizations involved in the recovery can be found here.


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IMEX America 2019 sets new records in Las Vegas
The latest IMEX America has wrapped its most successful event to date.
Taking place at the Sands Expo and Convention Center, IMEX Group reports an estimated 14,000 attendees participated in this year's event generating an overall economic impact of more than US$20 million. The show, which celebrated its ninth year in Las Vegas, included more than 3500 exhibitors representing more than 150 countries. In total, IMEX Group estimates a total of 76,000 individual and group appointments in 2019.
"Every year we strive to be our own competition, to push ourselves to deliver richer experiences, better education and, of course, a really strong business pipeline for our exhibitors," said IMEX Group chairman Ray Bloom.
"Our partners keep rising to the occasion too. We've seen some spectacular booths and activations this year and are delighted to see so many exhibitors aligning with our annual Talking Point and using it so innovatively each year. Their level of investment and commitment to business is remarkable."
During IMEX America 2019, Las Vegas once again exhibited on the trade show floor with 28 resort and industry partners in the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) trade show booth.
"It's been incredible to see IMEX America's growth over the last nine years and it's an honour for Las Vegas to serve as the home of this leading event as both brands continue to evolve and make impactful changes that shape our industry," said LVCVA vice president of business sales, John Schreiber. "We look forward to celebrating many additional successes with IMEX Group for years to come."
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In need of Magento 2 dev help? Today we investigate Magento 2 Varnish Cache vs built-in.
Magento 2 provides two options for a full page cache out of the box: the 'built-in' cache, which uses the filesystem similarly to M1 Enterprise Edition, and support for Varnish as a reverse-proxy in front of the web server. Varnish is a superior option since it caches static files as well, and avoids slow database or filesystem read/writes.
Following recent support work for a client, we have collated information to clarify how in practice Magento decides what to cache and how that information reaches Varnish.
As you'll already know, Magento uses a front controller pattern. Since cache hits need to be returned as early in the process as possible, in order to keep response times low, the built-in cache is implemented as a Magento plugin around the FrontController.
Since the Magento application bootstrapping still has to occur for the front controller to be run, the built-in cache is at a disadvantage to Varnish. We'll see why Varnish avoids this later in our post.
In essence, regardless of whether Varnish is enabled or not in the admin, the Varnish plugin simply continues with the request, sets up the private content cookie if needed ($this->version->process()) then adds some debug headers according to settings.
As the admin setting to switch between built-in and Varnish is a dropdown, both plugins will run but are essentially mutually exclusive – only one at a time will affect the response.
So if the Varnish option just returns the Magento result as usual (cookie and debug header aside), how does Varnish itself know what to cache?
$cacheableXml = !(bool)count($this->getXml()->xpath('//' . Element::TYPE_BLOCK .
Interestingly, the built-in cache uses the same approach – it checks whether the response has a cache-control header with a ttl >0, and if it does, stores the response in the appropriate backend cache.
What about non-cacheable requests? The FrontController sets no-cache headers as default, which are then replaced with a TTL if the request is later deemed to be cacheable.
Request to Magento for page → both built-in and Varnish plugins run but built-in quits out if Varnish is enabled → Magento builds response as normal, setting no-cache headers → Magento checks if the page should be cacheable (it assumes yes unless at least one block is not cacheable) → If cacheable, Magento sets cache-control and a TTL → if using built-in cache, the pagecache plugin looks for the caching header and saves the response accordingly, setting the cache header back to no-cache → the output is returned to Varnish or to the browser if Varnish is not present → Varnish uses the cache-control header to decide whether to store the response in cache.
Caching/not-caching boils down to response headers and layout xml.


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It is extremely accurate, and the calculations of Maya priests were so precise that their calendar correction is 10,th of a day more exact than the standard calendar the world uses today. Of all the ancient calendar systems, the Maya and other Mesoamerican systems are the most complex and intricate. They used day months, and had two calendar years: the day Sacred Round, or tzolkin , and the day Vague Year, or haab.
These two calendars coincided every 52 years. The year period of time was called a "bundle" and meant the same to the Maya as our century does to us.
The Sacred Round of days is composed of two smaller cycles: the numbers 1 through 13, coupled with 20 different day names. Each of the day names is represented by a god who carries time across the sky, thus marking the passage of night and day.
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Some of these are animal gods, such as Chuen the dog , and Ahau the eagle , and archaeologists have pointed out that the Maya sequence of animals can be matched in similar sequence to the lunar zodiacs of many East and Southeast Asian civilizations. Glyphs for two of the eighteen months of the Vague Year: Pop left and Zotz. In the day tzolkin , time does not run along a line, but moves in a repeating circle similar to a spiral.
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The two cycles of 13 and 20 intermesh and are repeated without interruption. Thus, the calendar would begin with 1 Imix, 2 Ik, 3 Akbal, and so on to 13 Ben, after which the cycle continues with 1 Ix, 2 Men, etc. This time the day Imix would be numbered 8 Imix, and the last day in this day cycle would be 13 Ahau. No one is certain how such an unusual calendar came into being. The day cycle may tie several celestial events together, including the configuration of Mars, appearances of Venus, or eclipse seasons.
It may even represent the interval between conception and birth of a human baby. The day calendar was used to determine important activities related to the gods and humans. It was used to name individuals, predict the future, decide on auspicious dates for battles, marriages, and so on. The world was supposed to have ended in , as foretold by a Mayan prophecy that, in the end, only prophesied that the Mayans would need to buy a new calendar. As the prediction went, our solar system would align with the black hole at the center of the galaxy.
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The magnetic poles would sweep and switch and falter, leaving the atmosphere to be stripped away by a devastating solar wind; the enigmatic shadow planet Nibiru would collide into ours and turn solid ground into a spray of magma drifting through space. But the prophecies will come back, before long. Either you die in the world, another speck to be mourned and then forgotten, or the world dies around you. Unknown planets or rising sea levels, whatever helps you imagine an ending. Before the Mayan apocalypse, it was the year that was supposed to kill us all. In turn they were drawing on a legacy of bimillennial fascination that includes medieval Catholic theologians, Marian apparitions, invented Nostradamuses, the Kabbalistic calculations of Isaac Newton, and cultists scattered across the centuries.
And it never happened, not even once. Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent and the god of wind and learning.
As the air fills with carbon dioxide, the seas are turning to acid mire, a soup of plastic particles and dead coral, where the fish are all dying and only the tentacled things survive. And as warships surround a North Korea bristling with missiles, could the sky not soon be full of dazzling, falling stars, and then empty forever? For its critics, this sense of a looming end is an expression of the same spirit that made all those bloated celebrity prophets predict the Second Coming around the year Panicked jeremiads about climate change are just another form of religious nonsense — so, for some, is Marxism, with its deterministic charts of universal history.
People who live in the desert would not live in fear of a global flood. They lived on an open steppe far from the ocean, where everything is flat and endless. Why would it ever end? Cultures that have big cities, forms of writing, a discourse of history, and centralized power. Cultures like the old eastern Mediterranean that gave us the Biblical prophets and the Book of Revelation. Or cultures like the Aztecs.
Chalchiuhtlicue symbolized the purity and preciousness of spring, river, and lake water that was used to irrigate the fields. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Aztec apocalypse is nothing like the Christian one. It comes out of an unimaginably different history and society to the world of Greece and Rome. Instead of considering apocalypses through their literary and conceptual lineages, we could think about them instead in terms of what kind of society gave birth to them.
The Aztecs, those strange and heartless people with their stepped pyramids and their vast urban civilization that never came out of the Stone Age or invented the wheel, are our contemporaries.
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Original Aztec sources are patchy — most of their beautiful codices were destroyed during the Spanish conquests in the early 16th century — and tend to contradict each other, but what makes the Aztec apocalypse so different to that of any other mythology, and so similar to the one we face now, is that they believed it had already happened.
This world is not the first. There were four that came before it and were destroyed in turn, all in the usual fashion — usual, that is, for end-of-the-world stories. Each was made by and contested over by the two gods, Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl, as a series of staging-grounds for their constant battles, two cosmic children bickering over a toy.
In the first, Tezcatlipoca turned himself into the sun, and a jealous Quetzalcoatl knocked him out of the sky with his club; in revenge, Tezcatlipoca set jaguars loose to wipe out all its people. Together the gods built a new race of humans, but they stopped worshipping their creators, so Tezcatlipoca turned them all into monkeys, and Quetzalcoatl, who had loved them for all their sins, destroyed them in a fit of spite with a hurricane.
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Illinois Director of The Nature Conservancy talks Leaving Finance and Why She's an Optimist
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Michelle Carr is the Illinois State Director of at The Nature Conservancy, and the newest member of ISEN's Executive Council. We sat down with her to find out more about her background, what inspired her to get interested in environmental issues, and how The Nature Conservancy is using programs in Illinois to inspire global conservation efforts.
Tell me a little about your background. Where are you from? How long have you been in Chicago?
I was born around Toledo, Ohio in a farm community. I grew up surrounded by cornfields. My interest in the outdoors came from my childhood. I was allowed a lot of time outside, and have a real sense of the freedom and peace and resilience that comes with nature experiences and really believe in it for my kids.
I went to undergrad at St. Louis University. I was the first person in my family to go to college. My dad owned an auto body repair shop. My mom was a homemaker.
And how long have you been in Chicago?
For almost 20 years.
Prior to joining The Nature Conservancy, you were at Goldman Sachs. How did you decide to make that transition from finance to the nonprofit world?
I have always been very civically engaged in my professional life. I've served on boards and was exploring getting more involved in the environmental community. I had served on President Obama's national finance committee, and I did that in part because I was so passionate about getting the candidate that I saw who would best support action on climate, and support the science. I finished that, and it was in the course of exploring getting more involved with The Nature Conservancy that I was approached about a job.
It was a really wild and crazy thing for me to make the change because I'm the breadwinner for the family. We have three kids, my husband's been a stay-at-home dad mostly, but he also works part-time as a writer. So we had to really pause and think about what we cared about, how much money do we need, what we want out of life. It took an hour-long conversation for me to go "I have to do this," and there's been no turning back.
So what skills or lessons from Goldman have been helpful in this new position?
There are so many similarities that it's almost like I didn't have to change anything with how I operate, believe it or not. The Nature Conservancy, like Goldman Sachs, is filled with people who work really hard, and who are really determined and passionate about what they do. In some ways, my workload has increased, in part because I've entered a new field so I have a lot of learning to do. But there's also the bane of all not-for-profits, which is, the issues you're trying to address are large, seemingly insurmountable in some cases. There are a myriad of approaches that one could take, and there's a lot to do. This job requires a lot of focus on determining what are the most strategic levers we can invest in, in order to make change without doing a lot of small, but good things, that don't amount to the change we need. So that is a change.
But the skills of negotiating, knowing what the other party is wanting, trying to really understand it, to understand the resources that you as an organization bring - those simple EQ skills that are so important in everything we do, are precisely what's need here, just like they were at Goldman.
I thought our students might be interested in hearing about your transition. They're very passionate about sustainability, energy, and environmental issues. But many end up going down other paths when they leave school, at least for a while.
It's a fabulous gift in life to be able to change what you're doing. And it doesn't mean that you were fed up with what you were doing. But it almost, for me, feels like I've gone back to school because I have to know a pretty decent amount about technical matters, and where I come from is business. It's really exciting. It makes the work exhilarating.
So you touched on this a little bit, but if there's more to add, how did you develop an interest in environmental and conservation issues?
I remember distinctly in high school, in a social studies class, talking about Malthus. He was a demographer in the late 1700's, early 1800's. And basically, he said that at the rate of population growth that we have, we're going to outstrip the food supply. It turned out he was wrong, but I was incredibly moved by that - our use of resources. We've got a problem here that we need to pay attention to. I think that is where the ethic of conservation was really born in me.
That led me to studying economics. I was very interested in development economics – educating women, birthrate, finding smart ways to make humans more sustainable. And that is exactly the mission of The Nature Conservancy – humans and nature and sustainability.
What are your priorities in Illinois for the next 3-5 years or so, and what's driving that decision-making?
So, I want to digress and talk about the structure of The Nature Conservancy so you can have a good picture, and then I'll go into priorities. The Nature Conservancy was founded over 60 years ago; we're global, in over 34 countries, and in all 50 states. The way we're organized is that we're one conservancy, so our headquarters is in Washington, D.C. And we are comprised of operating units, which may be based on geography, or they might be based on a particular aspect of nature that we're working on. So there are plans around global fresh water, oceans, climate change, cities, and land conservation. The assets Illinois brings toward meeting the big mission of protecting the land and water on which all life depends are what I'm tasked with maximizing.
There are several areas that we work. We do good old-fashioned protection - so we go out and buy land, restore it ecologically (for the Prairie State it's mostly prairie; also a lot of wetlands). We also protect water quality, which takes us to a different place because it involves how people interact with land and how the rules are made. Part of our mission is transforming the way the rules work, so it's government relations. And we're also trying to inspire new people to care about nature, so that's the next generation of conservation leaders.
With Chicago being the third largest city, we're doing really important urban conservation work. The work that we do in cities is, so often a partnership, just like our partnership with ISEN and Argonne. We care about natural solutions to infrastructure problems. The thing we're working on with Argonne and ISEN is monitoring our lands and stormwater catchment – natural infrastructure using green spaces. We also work to protect the tree canopy, again, with partners – Openlands and the Morton Arboretum, and each of us brings a different skill or expertise.
We're also working on the Chicago area waterways. Aquatic invasive species are a big problem between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi. Chicago area waterways are the biggest threat as a transfer point. The Asian Carp gets a lot of attention, but there are some 39 species that are knocking on the door of either one basin or the other. We want to make sure that both of the basins are protected as best we can. The complexity is that it's a major industrial corridor. The environmental community isn't the decider, and so there is a lot of negotiating and collaborating in order to make that happen.
We also are focusing very intently on how farming intersects with our water. There is a terrible problem with farm runoff in our watersheds, and we all need to eat. We all also need to drink. The practices that happen in the watershed are pivotal to the water quality. So we're doing the science of constructed wetlands and farm practices, and working closely with the city of Bloomington-Normal protecting their watershed. We're also looking at the Mississippi River basin holistically, all 31 states, and working together in order to make projects that will affect the Gulf hypoxic zone. The three main things we're doing are working with farmers, working to change the infrastructure to incorporate more natural infrastructure, and increasing habitat along the rivers.
So yes, the Illinois operating unit is tasked with the things that happen in our state, but we're doing so much work in teams for the Great Lakes. I work with a scientist at Notre Dame, a water hydrologist in Michigan who is helping to advise our Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, and with the Mississippi river. It's 100 people coordinating and working together.
I didn't have to ask anyone to put the Argonne sensors in the prairie, but that is part of our city work, and a network of 13 cities that share information. So this project will get shared with that network. There's a sharing and amplification that occurs.
The Nature Conservancy is global. So what efforts in Illinois are being amplified, as you described, and could really translate to global solutions?
Our work on the Illinois River grew into what is called the Great Rivers Partnership. It's a global network of rivers, including the Yangtze, and the Magdalena in Columbia, and there's a sharing of best practices. It's not infrequent that we would have a delegation from China coming in to see our projects, to talk about development. Here we are in Illinois with 0.1% of prairie left, when north of 60% of our state was prairie, and we have development right up to stream banks. People in Columbia or China, despite lots of development, have massive areas that are not developed, and there's this opportunity to share, if we had a do-over, what we would do differently. There would be more room for the river. The rules would be different; because part of the barrier for us to change is that our laws are built around allowing it [development].
The other big contribution we bring is that, in the face of highly altered hydrology, (which is what we have) what can one do to restore? So one example is our Emiquon Preserve. It's a 20,000-acre bluff-to-bluff wetland restoration, about 40 minutes west of Peoria. Until the late 2000's when we bought the portion that we own, which is about 6,000 acres, it was completely levied and in farmland for 100 years, and pumped so the farmer could keep it dry to have the cropland. We turned off the pumps, it immediately soaked up, and seeds that were in the seed bank for 100 years - which is amazing, such a wonderful resilience of nature story – popped back up. So we have a wetland, but it's not connected to the river. We're investing in a water control structure at the preserve, that will allow us to gravity drain the wetland when we want it to be drier, because sometimes wetlands are actually dry, and will allow us to let water in from the river in a controlled way.
So we're recreating where we couldn't before, and we're showing the engineering that it takes to do it.
If you had to pick just one environmental issue, globally, that you think is the most pressing - the thing that keeps you awake at night - what would that be?
Climate change. The effects of climate change
When you're not working on conservation and environmental issues, what's your favorite thing to do in Chicago?
I love swimming, biking by the lake. We live by the lake, and I have 3 kids – 15, 13, and 10, and it just feels like you're on vacation on the weekends. And we have such terrific ethnic food. I love hopping on the train or taking the water taxi to Chinatown for fun. I just enjoy our parks and our great melting pot of ethnic foods and neighborhoods and the outdoors.
My last question – would you say you're an optimist or a pessimist about our environmental future?
I'm an optimist. The story about the 100-year-old seed bank – when you hear that, to me, you can't not be an optimist. If I had a worry, it's that we do things that are irreparable. And certainly when we lose places, we lose biodiversity. And when we put too much carbon in the environment, that's irreparable too. But that doesn't mean we can't do our best, in order to show the value of getting it right.
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Devils shut out with leading scorer Taylor Hall sidelined
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NEWARK – Of course the Devils are not as good a team without leading scorer and All-Star Taylor Hall in their lineup.
But injuries are a part of life in the NHL and the bigger issue is the Devils stepping up their overall level of performance as the games get tighter and more difficult in the second half of the season.
"We've just got to be way harder," Brian Boyle said. "We're focusing on it. We're harping on it. We're talking about it. I don't know if we just want it to be easy but it's not. It's going to get way harder."
With Hall missing the first of what the Devils are hoping will just be a two-game absence because of a hand injury, they were shut out for the fourth time this season, 3-0, by the Red Wings on Monday night at Prudential Center as they went 0 for 5 on the power play.
That prompted a players-only, post-game meeting in which some of the team's veterans, Boyle, captain Andy Greene, goalie Cory Schneider and Drew Stafford among them, stood up to discuss the realities of a playoff race. The Devils (24-14-8), who have not made the playoffs since 2012, have lost two straight and are 2-5-3 since Dec. 29 and will play at Boston on Tuesday night with the Bruins on a 13-0-3 streak. Hall did not make the trip.
The Devils remain in second place in the Metropolitan Division but are just three points ahead of the Rangers, currently holding the final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.
"We need to get back to playing consistent hockey," said Schneider, who made 27 saves after being unable to play the three previous games because of a stomach illness. "We did a good job earlier this season stemming the bleeding and not going on a slide and obviously it helped us get to where we are. But that's in the past. We've got to look forward and understand how tough it's going to be to create wins and points and play as consistently as we did earlier in the year."
Devils' Brian Boyle has a special game in Boston ahead
"We know what's going on in this locker room and we need to turn the tide quick and start to make that push," added Blake Coleman, back in the lineup after being a healthy scratch the past three games with Brian Gibbons (hand) on injured reserve.
Jimmy Hayes, a healthy scratch the past 13 games, re-entered the lineup with Hall sidelined.
Backup Petr Mrazek notched his third shutout with 37 saves for the Red Wings (19-20-7), who had lost four of their last five. He made his best save by stretching to his right to rob Boyle's power-play look at the crease at 3:09 of the third period.
Both Greene and Kyle Palmieri hit posts in the second period.
But the Devils allowed a first-period goal for the sixth straight game and did not generate enough second-chance shots or traffic around the net.
"I think you have to ask the players that," Devils coach John Hynes said when asked about the Devils' slow starts.
"You have to value the hard areas of the game," Hynes added. "You have to value wall play. You have to value the blocked shot, getting in front of the net, boxing out. You have to value being ready to play and compete at the right time when the game starts. We haven't been at that level the last couple of games to be able to win."
Tyler Bertuzzi's rebound goal gave the Red Wings a 1-0 lead at 6:36 of the first period and
David Booth extended that to 2-0 at 18:12 of the second period with a rising slap shot from above the left circle that deflected down after hitting defenseman Sami Vatanen's stick.
Larkin closed the scoring at 11:02 of the third period.
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