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An article in the April 17, 2019, edition of Healthcare IT News (from HIMSS Media), by John Donohue, has the important title, "3 questions to ask before putting a healthcare application in the cloud." According to Donohue: "Several years ago, many experts were indicating that by 2020 everything would be running in the cloud." He continued: "Speed to market, costs savings, opt
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Derive Technologies (comprising our dedicated Derive Healthcare practice) has formed a unique solution provider relationship with the national healthcare GPO, Intalere.
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Capsa Healthcare and Derive Healthcare Elevate Performance for Healthcare Providers With Strategic Partnership
New York, NY, May 31, 2018 – Derive Healthcare, the dedicated healthcare practice of the NY/NJ-based, nationwide IT business solution provider, Derive Technologies – is expanding its alliance partnership with Capsa Healthcare.
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Building the best HIPAA contingency plan - From Modern Healthcare
April 5, 2018 -- An important article in the March 31, edition of Modern Healthcare, by author, Rachel Z.
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HPE Partners See New CEO Neri Accelerating 'Next' Era of Channel Sales Growth - From CRN
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Since March, this Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way we do business, and in many ways, the landscape of our country has become unrecognizable. Five months later, and many people are still unemployed, while small companies continue to struggle.
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"And, to show our appreciation, we gifted four 3×5 plexiglass partitions on wheels to our friends at Special Dogs and More in Columbus, Indiana," said Eddie Murphy, President of SpaceGuard Products. "We did this to help them increase their seating capacity, which has caused business to be turned away from this amazing restaurant."
These partitions offer adequate protection for social distancing, and customers are encouraged to draw on them as well with dry-erase markers. Children are in love with the idea!
"The partitions are helping. We have had more people eat inside this past week than in weeks before. Customers are taking advantage of the dry erase markers and drawing some awesome pictures on the boards, which is pretty cool."—Special Dogs Facebook Post
Special Dogs and More opened in October 2017 with the mission to "employ and train those with mental, intellectual, and developmental disabilities." Their goal is to help those who have been described as unemployable become employable, all while providing the best hotdogs, burgers, tenderloins, and corndogs around. And we believe they are accomplishing their mission!
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New Odin devotional book and a giveaway!
Beautiful, beautiful work. I have no talent in binding books, though I've tried my hand, so I'm highly impressed with Silence's skill.
The hand made Odin devotional books are now available on my Etsy store! I'm very excited to finally have these available.
I'm really pleased with how these have turned out and I'm excited to share them with other people who love and care for this very important Power.
Odin is family in no small way. I know Him best as wanderer, mage, and wild loner much more than I do as king. I celebrate His presence in my life, even if I am generally unaware of how close He is or how frequently He drops by. I've been blessed to know many of His people and it's with them in mind that this is primarily offered.


BLACK PRESS FILE PHOTO North Island MLA Claire Trevena wrote a letter to the Ministry of Health regarding Island Health's lack of consultation with North Island villages. Island Health responded back with a statement on the letter.
MLA Claire Trevena wrote a critical letter about Island Health's plans for Port Alice and Alert Bay.
Jan. 18, 2019 8:43 a.m.
North Island MLA Claire Trevena has gone to bat for the villages of Port Alice and Alert Bay.
The letter was cc'd to Port Alice Mayor Kevin Cameron, Port Alice Health Forum's Valerie Eyford, Alert Bay Mayor Dennis Buchanan, Island Health CEO Kathy MacNeil, and Executive Director for Island Health Dermot Kelly.
For the past two years Island Health has been engaging with health-care partners and the communities of Port Alice and Alert Bay on how best to support the future primary and community care needs in a way that reflects changing demographics, a changing workforce and an evolving health system design as outlined by the Ministry of Health in its strategy on team based primary and community care. We recognize the need for community involvement and consultation regarding service changes and are committed to continuing open dialogue with both communities.
In Port Alice, local leadership has attended the Port Alice Health Forum as a regular member and provided updates as required. In addition, and prior to MLA Trevena's letter, we met with the previous council and after the recent election we met with the new mayor and council members and have recommitted to community engagement and have requested their support. Most recently, Island Health's leadership met with Port Alice's mayor and council on January 14, 2019 to further the conversation about changes and enhancements in service delivery. In the coming weeks we will engage with the community to increase awareness of the new and upcoming service changes in the region.
In Alert Bay, we have had meetings with the Namgis First Nation and the Village of Alert Bay and are committed to ongoing conversations.
· Investing in community services and adding to the centre's health-care team in order to strengthen Port Alice's network of care and better meet the needs of the community by increasing services for two of our most vulnerable populations – frail seniors and individuals living with mental health and substance use conditions.
· Increasing the number home care hours and expanding the service to evenings and weekends.
· After-hours advice from trained nurses will continue to be available 24/7 via 8-1-1, while emergency services will continue to be provided by the local B.C. Ambulance Service.


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Toyota's latest solar-powered Prius can charge when on the move
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Toyota is set to start testing the new solar-paneled car this month on public roads in Japan
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Unlike the previous solar panels to adorn its the Prius plug-in hybrid, the new array will be capable of charging the vehicle while it is on the move
Toyota expects the latest array, which it has fitted to the roof, hood and rear hatch of a demo model Prius, to produce around 860 W
Toyota says the new Prius' solar array can add 44.5 km of battery-only range per day
Toyota has fitted out an experimental version of its Prius with a fresh rooftop solar kit to explore the limits of sun-powered road travel
Toyota has fitted out a demonstration model of its Prius with a new solar array
Toyota has also been exploring the potential of solar-powered cars for a little while now
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Toyota has fitted out an experimental Prius with a fresh rooftop solar kit to explore the limits of sun-powered road travel. Unlike the previous solar panels to adorn its plug-in hybrid, the new array will be capable of charging the vehicle while it is on the move, a feature that is hoped to give range and efficiency a significant boost.
The World Solar Challenge is an endurance race across Australia for solar-powered vehicles, and each instalment shows us what is possible when cars are built for maximum efficiency. Entrants are hardly the kinds of cars you can load the family into and take off on a holiday, but some of the technologies they employ has been adapted to cars of a more traditional mold.
The ambitious and recently revealed Lightyear One EV is one, which is being developed by members of Solar Team Eindhoven who won the World Solar Challenges in 2013, 2015 and 2017. These guys reckon they can leverage five square meters (53.9 sq ft) of solar cells embedded in the roof and hood to power the car for up to 20,000 km (around 12,500 mi) of clean travel per year.
Toyota has also been exploring the potential of solar-powered cars for a little while now, first introducing a solar roof option for the production version of its Prius in 2012. The latest production iteration of this developed together with Panasonic generates 180 W and adds around 6.1 km (3.8 mi) of battery-only range per day, when left to charge up in ideal conditions.
By comparison, Toyota expects the latest array, which it has fitted to the roof, hood and rear hatch of a demo model Prius, to produce around 860 W. This jump comes courtesy of new and improved solar cells developed by Sharp with a conversion efficiency of 34 percent (compared to 22.5 percent of the production version), and can apparently add 44.5 km (27.6 mi) of battery-only range per day.
Whereas the production model will only charge the battery while parked and otherwise just feeds power into the car's onboard navigation systems and the like, the new demo version can charge the car while it is being driven, stretching that range out to 56.3 km (35 mi).
Toyota is set to start testing the new car this month on public roads in Japan, and will use the trials to gather data on the cruising range and fuel efficiency. It is collaborating with Sharp and Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization on the venture, with an eye to developing more advanced onboard solar recharging capabilities for its vehicles.
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1stClassOPP July 8, 2019 10:55 AM
It's about time that the roof area of vehicles are put to work generating something useful, as opposed to the fairly common "moon" roofs the IMHO are added to vehicles as a useless expense. (Had a few, used very little)
Colt12 July 8, 2019 12:53 PM
This should work out well, most people have a short drive to work where the car sets in a parking lot for 8 hours or more. That amount of charging should top off the batteries every day.
Aleksandra Wladyczynska July 8, 2019 05:34 PM
Solar cells on cars are interesting, because
a) You're certain that the energy is renewable b) For the owner there is no effort required c) Most commuters work nearby/Cars are mostly standing still.
The news on the Prius still lacks some technical data. A conversion of 34%. What does it mean for the price? Is even realistic that it will become available?
RonAgneloSaldanha July 9, 2019 05:04 AM
44.5km? Pretty neat, wonder how many years we going to continue to hold this tech back to make money through fossil fuels and all that. 40km is pretty much my daily work back and forth commute on my Motorcycle!
tsvieps July 9, 2019 06:57 PM
If the cost and durability are right, this should prove quite useful.
We have a Prius-plugin. But for those without easy access to grid charging, a hybrid like this now could be practical. The higher solar conversion efficiency seems to be what was needed to make a solar-powered reasonable EV range practical. The area on the roof of a Prius is relatively small.
The materials matter. Are they fragile? We get pine cones and such falling on our car roof. A ding in the paint or small dent from such events is disappointing, but expensive damage to a solar panel would be most irritating.
ReservoirPup July 11, 2019 03:22 PM
I doubt they'll use the same 34% efficiency cells on the production model, as they're astronomically expensive. But who in their right mind would use 20% cells for a proto that paves the way for what is surely to become a ubiquitous tech in some 5-10 years? The only thing I'd try also is putting the same stuff on a minivan. Good job Toyota!


Since March 2011 Paul Neurath is a creative director at the Boston, US office of Zynga. Previously he founded the development studio Floodgate Entertainment in 2000. In March 2011 Zynga hired all six employees of the company and Floodgate was discontinued.
Neurath started making videogames in the mid-1980s as an independent game author who created several award-winning computer games. In 1990 he founded Blue Sky Productions, which was later renamed to LookingGlass, and became a leading US game development studio. Looking Glass developed eighteen titles and generated over $120M in sales. As creative director of the studio, Paul designed and directed the development of such acclaimed titles as Ultima Underworld, Terra Nova, Flight Unlimited, and Thief, which collectively earned over a dozen game-of-the-year awards.
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Ravages of time on an African cocoa plantation
Published: 00:18 EST, 31 May 2019 | Updated: 00:19 EST, 31 May 2019
Once cocoa was shipped out to the world from Agostinho Neto, a plantation in Sao Tome and Principe, but now it lies abandoned
"In the old days, you would open the door, and it would be a hive of activity. Now it's all closed down," sighs 89-year-old Agida Lucia.
She gazes down a paved road winding through the vegetation, and a smile returns to her lips as the memories flood back.
"Over there was the canteen. Up there, the foreman's office. There was a terrace and a big house. There were the seamstresses, the hospital, the cinema -- it was grand."
Time has not been kind to Agostinho Neto, where once cocoa was shipped out to the world.
Agida Lucia, 89, says the plantation, or roca, was once grand with a big house, hospital and cinema, and lots of activity. But now it's all closed down
From the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century, the 30 cocoa and coffee "rocas" (pronounced ro-ssas), or plantations, on Sao Tome and Principe were at their zenith.
Before World War I, the rocky Portuguese-ruled archipelago in the Gulf of Guinea, off Africa's western coast, was the world's leading cocoa exporter.
"There were 20,000 inhabitants in the villages and 33,000 living in the rocas, which had immense economic and political power," said Fernando d'Alva, a historian and professor at the University of Sao Tome and Principe (USTP).
"The rocas were perfectly organised. People lived better inside them than outside, they had electricity, medical care, the railway and luxuries -- as well as a well-oiled feudal system."
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No Sao Tomeans worked on the plantations themselves but some did hold management positions.
From the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century, the 30 cocoa and coffee "rocas", or plantations, on Sao Tome and Principe were at their zenith
The rocas' agricultural workers came from other African nations, as Sao Tome had a steady supply of slaves passing through as the last staging post on the trade route before ships left for the Americas.
After the slave trade was abolished in 1876, the workers became "contract" employees, brought -- often by force -- from mainland colonies Angola and Mozambique, as well as Gabon and the Congo.
Independence came to Sao Tome and Principe in July 1975, 14 months after a movement among officers in the Portuguese armed forces led to a military coup in Lisbon toppling an authoritarian regime in favour of democracy.
Former workers from the Agostinho Neto cocoa plantation now live in what is left of the hospital building on the site
It is hard to match the state of the plantation today in what is now one of the poorest countries in the world with the glorious recollections conjured up by an elderly former employee.
Whatever is left of the prosperous past has been looted or is rotting away as the forest takes over.
"In the old days, we would work a lot, but we could eat every day," recalled Lucia, who is of Angolan origin.
"Today, everyone lives their own life, nobody helps each other. We live here like animals -- if you have nobody to give you food, you die of starvation."
Willy, an inhabitant of the roca Agostinho Neto, escorts visitors around the hospital site in exchange for a few dobras, the local currency
While her 19-year-old granddaughter Sheila prepares snails for eating, the old lady fancies that "things could go back to how they were, that the Portuguese return."
Sheila expresses nostalgia for this past she never knew, saying that she would like to study law and fight for "heritage".
That heritage would include the hospital, described by another resident with a motorbike-taxi as "one of the best on Sao Tome... The state's to blame for doing nothing to keep it in shape."
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Former workers now live in what is left of the hospital building. Its roof is crumbling and tiles and whole walls in adjoining buildings have disappeared.
Before World War I, Sao Tome and Principe, the rocky Portuguese-ruled archipelago in the Gulf of Guinea, off Africa's western coast, was the world's leading cocoa exporter
"People come and cart off bits of roof, beams, walls and then they say it is the state's fault," says Willy, who escorts visitors around the site in exchange for a few dobras, the local currency.
After Sao Tome gained independence in 1975, its new Socialist regime nationalised the rocas.
The decision -- which coincided with rising competition from former British and French colonies on mainland West Africa -- was disastrous.
"It didn't work, the skills were lacking and there were too few technicians who understood the production methods," said historian D'Alva.
The nationalisation of the rocas after Sao Tome and Principe gained independence in 1975, together with rising competition from former British and French colonies on mainland West Africa hit the plantations hard
Once multiparty politics was introduced in 1991 and liberal economics followed, the state offered concession agreements to the private sector on plantations. Some found takers, but Agostinho Neto was among those left to rot.
For the 1,300 people still living on the roca, there is a glimmer of hope. In March, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) announced a plan to refurbish the rocas.
Lucia and her granddaughter remain to be convinced.
"They've often said that things will change. But we're still waiting," said the old lady.
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Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier
By Michael Murray
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Facebook: Michael Murray London – a commentary/digest of political news for busy people – posted to be shared widely.
Dictionary definition of foot soldier: "a dedicated low-level follower."
(1) "R & R – & R"
(2) "An idea whose time has come"
(3) "The Grownup in the Room"
R & R is, of course, Rest and Recreation: what happens when the pressure of electioneering and canvassing is off and the foot soldier is left with time on his or her hands. The third "R" is for Reflection: taking stock of where we are.
In a nutshell, while it's hard not to see 2017 as a turning point in British politics, within this year October will have a special place. It marks the point when the dust settled at the conclusion of the Party Conference season and we were left with the contrasting images of Corbyn and May's performances at their respective conferences – May's shambles, on the one hand, and Corbyn's strong and stable handling of the Labour conference, on the other. We are left with something else: confirmation of the General Election result and permission to accept and indulge the thought that there has been a fundamental sea-change in political ideas. Something else needs to be noted about October that may have been eclipsed by bigger events. At every level, from ward, or Branch, to the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party there has been change towards greater direct pro-Corbyn representation and, also important, enhanced Corbyn influence across the party. This has been felt in the selection process of candidates for next year's council election, and for other local and regional selection processes. Meanwhile, October has been a good month for Labour in council elections up and down the country too. So, much to reflect on.
"Corbyn's Momentum group is recruiting teams of paid activists on £25,000 salaries to oust Tory MPs around Britain."
A somewhat disingenuous headline in the Daily Mail, October 22. Momentum is recruiting a small number of full time team organisers not thousands of team members. Momentum duly posted the Mail article as it stood on Face Book and Twitter – to receive, in the first 12 hours, 9,000 visits to the Momentum recruitment page. "Thanks to the Mail," Momentum posted, "we're expecting an even more diverse, experienced and enthusiastic set of candidates for the positions."
Victor Hugo it was who coined the aphorism: "There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come." There is no clearer or better statement of this new idea than Jeremy Corbyn's, but, as a loyal foot soldier I would say that. It goes: "You can't cut your way out of a crisis, you can only grow your way out of it." That's it. That's the big idea. Around the elaborations of that simple idea you could write volumes. And people are writing them as the argument against neo-liberalism and austerity economics gathers pace. And now, that more and more people are grasping the relevance of it, we are beginning to see a political transformation happening.
At this year's annual Labour Conference, in the aftermath of the General Election, Jeremy could say: "2017 may be the year when politics finally caught up with the crash of 2008 – because we offered a clear choice. We need to build a still broader consensus around the priorities we set in the election, making the case for both compassion and collective aspiration. This is the real centre of gravity of British politics. We are now the political mainstream." (Official Party Transcript). What should be noted is the absolutely straight line between Jeremy's economic views at the very beginning of his bid for the leadership of Labour and the views he enunciated at Conference.
The source of Jeremy's "grow yourself out of a crisis" quote is one of the first labour leadership televised debates. First broadcast by Sky in 2015, it is still available on You Tube. Just google "Yvette Cooper Rips into Jeremy Corbyn. Or Does She?" There, only two short years ago, you will hear Yvette defend the Blairite neo-liberal "austerity lite" old idea and attempt to put the frighteners on the audience of Labour Party members present about what would happen to Labour "credibility" if Jeremy's idea won through. Her "killer" question was intended to be: "Well, Jeremy, how is the spending policy on infrastructural development going to be paid for?" The audience, hearing Jeremy's answer, conclusively and spontaneously grasped the truth of what was, within the Labour Party, a new and radical reframing of an idea that had been gathering traction since the 2007/8 crisis, rejected her argument. It is an absolute gem of a video capturing a key moment in the ideational transformation of the Labour Party and I can't understand why it hasn't enjoyed more "hits" on You Tube. (Aha! I can help to remedy that: I'm pausing here to post it (again) on my Face Book page. There: done! I ask you to do likewise.)
Here is another approach to spelling out what is happening: "Ever since Thatcher and Reagan it has been the common sense of the age that the markets should rule, the public sector diminish and the growth of inequality allowed to accelerate…But none of it works any more. And the public knows it." Jon Trickett, Labour's Shadow Lord President of the Council (don't ask: google. Clue Privy Council). LabourList, October 17. Another Labour Shadow Minister, Chris Williamson, says "Corbynomics is now the mainstream." In support of his claim he cites statements made during the month by the OBR (The Office for Budget Responsibility), the IMF (International Monetary Fund), a cross section of British sectoral businesses – all calling for measures to "kick start" the ailing global and local economy – all in line with Labour policies and at odds with the Conservative Party's clinging to out-dated Thatcher-Reaganomics with a bit of Corbyn-lite policies thrown in, under pressure to hold the line with her party moderates. When the measures being put forward by Labour at a recent PMQs were dismissed by Theresa May as belonging to "Planet Venezuela," it was one of those "is that all you've got?" moments.
"Corbyn's meetings with EU leaders shows Labour as the Brexit grownup, "was a heading in the Guardian, October 23. "This cordial welcome on the continent can be explained by variations on one theme: credibility." A few days earlier the Independent had published the findings of a Bostock Management Group survey which found that as many as three quarters of the British public believed the Tory government's Brexit strategy was failing. Almost half think a "no-deal" scenario – much beloved by the hard-line Tory Brexiteers – would be bad for the country. They also opined that abandoning the talks ought not to be an option. (Independent, October 20). Of course, the rise of Labour to the status of an alternative government must come as a relief to the EU leaders, especially in the light of the fairly extensive Bostock Management Group survey of which they would be aware. They must see Labour as its best chance of resolving the Brexit mess, to Britain and Europe's optimal mutual satisfaction. After all, the EU senior players are on record for recognising that internal Tory Party personality politics was not only the source of Brexit, but continues to be the major complicating factor in the Brexit negotiating process itself.
It should be mentioned here, in connection with the EU leaders' response, that Corbyn and his Labour colleagues also received a rapturous reception at the EU-wide "Socialists and Progressives Together" Conference in Brussels, a gathering of over 1,500 social democrat and progressive MPs, MEPs and others. Paul Mason also spoke, as a Labour activist and leading economist to an equally enthusiastic response. Their speeches can be found on You Tube at: "Jeremy Corbyn Speech and Q&A for Socialists Together Conference"; "Paul Mason Speech and Q&A for Socialists Together Conference"
In an article in the Guardian, "The Storm Clouds are Gathering," the UK economy was described as follows: "Business confidence dipping…inflation rising…consumer spending falling… household incomes shrinking." (October 24). Yet despite this and the debacle over Universal Credit, the NHS and Brexit – the quasi triumphalism of what's been written above about Labour's time having come – the most recent ICM/Guardian polls put Tories and Labour at 42% – neck and neck. (Lib Dems are at 7%). And, coming down the track (Final Report due 2018) is the Boundary Commission proposed changes, pointing to changes to the detriment of Labour – certainly enough to make a difference in a tight result.
Let's enjoy the break from electioneering – for however long it lasts. Enjoy the astonishing gains that have been made over the last few years. But not let's become complacent. There's a feckin' mountain to climb.


We must thank Andre Bishop and his staff at Lincoln Center Theatre for gifting us with a very early Christmas present called Falsettos, composer William Finn's musical with a book he co-wrote with James Lapine, who directed the show. It's an unalloyed gem, cast impeccably, staged with verve and imagination, Designed, Costumed, Lit and Sound Designed by David Rockwell, Jennifer Caprio, Jeff Croiter and Dan Moses Schreier.
The cast of 'Falsettos.' Photo by Joan Marcus.
Success? I call a lot of it luck. What I mean is, when things go right on a show, when you emerge from your hotel en route to a rehearsal, and it's pouring rain, an empty taxi pulls up to the door just as you arrive.
Of course he was being modest. But it is true that when an assortment of gifted artists commit to a project, and all of them happen to be on the same page, it does make magic for all of us lucky enough to share in the results.
I had seen the two one-act musicals that were presented, one act a time in 1981 as March of the Falsettos, with its sequel nine years later in the 1990s as Falsettoland, and again in 1992 when they were combined to form the piece that's on now, called Falsettos.
As marvelous as Michael Rupert and Stephen Bogardus were as "Marvin" and "Whizzer", the two principal characters, they are in the best of hands with Christian Borle and Andrew Rannels. The latter two have been growing into true stardom, Borle with several notable contributions (and two Tony Awards) in Peter and the Starcatcher, Something Rotten!, and Spamalot, plus much good work in the TV series Smash.
Rannels came to prominence as Elder Price in The Book of Mormon and briefly as King George in Hamilton, but as "Whizzer" in this current offering he has the opportunity to show his range as an actor. He and Borle as the gay couple who created a stir back in the early 80s, just as the AIDS epidemic was taking root, are absolutely up to anchoring a remarkable cast of 7 who populate this very moving story that deserves to reach a far greater audience than it did on its first outings, though they were deemed excellent in their day.
Christian Borle (Marvin) and Andrew Rannells (Whizzer). Photo by Joan Marcus.
Using a series of adult size building blocks, the actors themselves arrange and re-arrange them so they serve as settings for bedrooms, living rooms, classrooms, hospital rooms, a handball court and in one delightful section, as the bleachers facing a playing field at a local baseball diamond.
This piece is almost completely sung-through with most of the story being told by the lyrics, though there are bits of dialogue to bridge the almost 40 titled musical numbers. It's a sprightly score by William Finn, leavened with intelligent, often incisive lyrics that give the musical muscle and humor and value.
Stephanie J. Block (Trina) and Brandon Uranowitz (Mendel). Photo by Joan Marcus.
His mother, Marvin's estranged wife Trina, is beautifully sung and acted by Stephanie J. Block, who has done extensive concertizing as well as work on Broadway. Her character "Trina," could have been written and played one-dimensional as a self-pitier, a victim, or even a shrew. In her big number mid-Act One, "I'm Breaking Down," in which we see bits of all of these qualities, we empathize totally with her, we understand her confusion, frustration, determination to salvage whatever she can from her relationships with her son Jason, with her ex-husband Marvin whom she still loves, and even with Whizzer, the man who took him away from her. It's powerful and powerfully delivers it to us, stopping the show.
Brandon Uranowitz plays Mendel, the psychiatrist, who helps himself more than any of his patients during the course of the show, fighting his guilt at falling in love with one of his patients, an absolute no-no in his profession.
This excellent company is rounded out by the performances of Tracie Thoms and Betsy Wolfe as the lesbian Dr. Charlotte and her adorable partner Cordelia, a light hearted Latina who dotes on her. This is truly a sterling ensemble and every member in it has material with which to shine. As a result, the evening shimmers and sparkles, and manages the curve its story serves us with honesty and enormous pathos. We care about Marvin and Whizzer, and that their love for each other causes havoc in so many other lives is central to what Messrs. Finn and Lapine are telling us about life as it is actually lived.
Running Time: Approximately two hours and 45-minutes, with one intermission.
Falsettos is playing at The Walter Kerr Theatre -219 West 48th Street, in New York City. For tickets, call Ticketmaster at (800) 653-8000, visit the box office, or purchase them online.


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Post #76 – TPP: A Deeply Flawed Partnership
4May 2015 27 Feb 2017
(Note: A longer version of this post was subsequently published at
http://japanfocus.org/-Mel-Gurtov/4318/article.html.)
The American people have become used to government trickery in foreign affairs—wars and interventions based on lies and falsified evidence, "national security" used to justify the whittling away of privacy, classification of documents to hide embarrassing disclosures, massaging of budget figures to mask outrageous spending on arms, and claims of weakness in weapons systems that mask actual overkill capacity.
Now comes trickery in a different domain: trade and investment. It is called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and it has the dubious distinction of being a piece of legislation that has substantial bipartisan support and strong presidential approval. Eleven countries are awaiting the outcome in Congress as President Obama seeks approval to put the TPP on a "fast track," meaning skipping hearings, public input, and amendments and going directly to an up-or-down vote. Once passed, the TPP will do for US corporations operating in Asia what the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) did for them in Canada and Mexico—provide new incentives to send jobs abroad, increase corporate earnings, and remove more protections from both overseas and US environments and workers.
The TPP is partnership alright, but not of the sort you or I are likely to appreciate. Instead of enhancing partnership with working people who need higher wages and job training, and with grassroots organizations that are fighting to protect our natural environments, the TPP will promote the interests of trading and investment firms in the cutthroat competition that has come to define globalization. It's all about providing a "level playing field" for US multinational corporations, as Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Russel recently explained (see http://www.state.gov/p/eap/rls/rm/2015/04/240121.htm). President Obama, who once resoundingly criticized all such mega-trade agreements, is now its biggest fan, proving once again that money talks just as loudly with liberal as with conservative leaders. (But of course we all knew that from the Clintons' ties to Wall Street, its favoritism to corporate donors, and its vigorous pushing of NAFTA. Hillary, by the way, has waffled on TPP.)
Here are some of the specific drawbacks to the TPP. Every one of them is also true of NAFTA.
Administration claims to the contrary, TPP will export far more jobs than it will create. It will encourage countries to further weaken their currencies' value to promote exports to the US, thus widening the US trade deficit and reducing US jobs. At the same time, TPP will encourage US companies to invest abroad, and thus create jobs there. This consequence applies to free-trade agreements generally. Public Citizen, which tracks the impact of trade agreements, gives the example of the US-South Korea FTA since 2013. It has resulted in "a downfall in U.S. exports to Korea, rising imports and a surge in the U.S. trade deficit with Korea that equated to 60,000 more American jobs lost."
By shifting jobs to low-wage countries, TPP will further undermine attempts by workers to unionize. The threat by companies to move from one low-wage country to an even lower-wage country is always there.
No provision is made to protect workers sidelined by the effects of the agreement. As Dana Milbank points out in the Washington Post, President Obama lost an opportunity when the TPP was being drafted to insert provisions for worker training and spending on public works ("infrastructure"), both areas that the US spends far less on than the Europeans (http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-trans-pacific-partnership-trade-deal-is-an-abomination/2015/04/24/903e5a12-ea85-11e4-aae1-d642717d8afa_story.html).
Poor people in agriculture abroad also face the prospect of having to emigrate when corporate exports from, say, the US outprice locally produced goods. (Under NAFTA, the classic case is imports of cheap American corn, which flooded the Mexican market and forced thousands of campesinos off the land.)
It will undermine environmental, health, and safety laws because, as with the infamous Chapter 11 of NAFTA, TPP will allow countries that are blocked by regulations in another country from exporting certain below-standard goods—such as fish, fuel, timber, tobacco, and fruit—to sue in a special international court of arbitrators for financial redress on the basis of "restraint of trade." Under the TPP, the special court's ruling cannot be challenged in US courts. This crucial provision, called Investor-State Dispute Settlement, reduces environmental and public-health protections to the least common denominator. (Senator Elizabeth Warren has warned about this provision at washingtonpost.com/opinions/kill-the-dispute-settlement-language-in-the-trans-pacific-partnership/2015/02/25/ec7705a2-bd1e-11e4-b274-e5209a3bc9a9_story.html. On the threat TPP poses to local food safety laws, see Mark Bittman's article, www.nytimes.com/2015/04/22/opinion/obama-and-republicans-agree-on-the-trans-pacific-partnership-unfortunately.html.)
The special court operates in secret. Its decisions are binding on governments, and prevail over local laws and regulations.
The approval process for TPP is entirely undemocratic. The public has no "right to know" about the agreement's contents. And putting the TPP on a fast track is simply a way to avoid Congressional and public debate.
But TPP is more than a trade agreement; it has, at least for Washington and Tokyo, an equally important strategic dimension. The US Office of Trade Representative stated last year:
"TPP is as important strategically as it is economically. TPP would bind together a group that represents 40 percent of global GDP and about a third of world trade. Strategically, TPP is the avenue through which the United States, working with nearly a dozen other countries (and another half dozen waiting in the wings) is playing a leading role in writing the rules of the road for a critical region in flux."
Translated into plain English, it's all about China, the "800-pound gorilla in Asia [that] will create its own set of rules," according to the President. And for some governments, such as Japan's, and influential pundits, such as Thomas J. Friedman of the New York Times, determining the rules of the game to outflank China should be the essence of the argument in favor of the TPP. As Friedman wrote, agreements like TPP "would both strengthen and more closely integrate the market-based, rule-of-law-based democratic and democratizing nations that form the backbone of the World of Order" (www.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/opinion/thomas-l-friedman-on-trade-obama-right-critics-wrong.html).
A clearer "us versus them" world view could not have been written. You can see why some folks in Beijing see the TPP not as an opportunity for cooperation but as another element in the US strategy to encircle China—and why, in Washington, the selling of TPP requires hyping the China threat, thus reinforcing Chinese suspicions. To be sure, the Chinese are not standing still when it comes to Asia-Pacific economy; they are lining up their own tariff-cutting, investment-friendly, loan-approving groups in Asia, and those groups will have even less environmental and safety protections built into them than the TPP or NAFTA.
Since they have been invited to join the TPP but not to set its rules, the Chinese are doing what comes naturally these days: creating groups where they have preponderate influence in setting the rules, just as happened at the end of World War II when the US led the way in founding the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, and later the Asian Development Bank. The China-backed groups are the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific, not to mention a Silk Road Economic Fund. Of course Washington resents these Chinese "intrusions," especially since China is signing up countries friendly to the US, including the European Union and possibly Taiwan, in the AIIB. US officials are encouraging the Koreans and Japanese, among others, to stick with the TPP and not join China-sponsored organizations. But the pressure isn't working, nor should it. Americans believe in competition, don't they?
Regardless of what China does, Congress should defeat the TPP legislation. From a human-interest point of view, it fails the test of genuine partnership. No trade or investment agreement should be undertaken that pays mere lip service to environmental protection, puts corporate profits ahead of human rights, and interprets globalization to mean nothing more than getting ahead of the competition. There is a national security dimension to this bill, but it has to do with the way trade contributes to inequality in our streets and not to strategic balancing against China. Think Baltimore, not Beijing.
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The issues covered in post #76 sadly tell where we are going. Opposing this steamroller feels hopeless and letters to politicians have been answered without reference to the secretive supra-national ISDS court or retraining victims of jobs shipped out. It is very hard to understand why Obama, so far from his beginnings, failed to insist on retraining plans. One aspect that Congress might possibly influence could be insisting on provisions for funds to retrain those who do lose jobs to TPP outsourcing. But that provision must be accompanied by a very clear and broad, inclusive path on how to attribute the job losses to TPP to ensure eligibility for retraining and to keep funders from weaseling out of the obligation to discharged employees. Yes, I'm skeptical that Congress can succeed, but it should try. Wyden is a particular disappointment on this issue. Merkeley gets it.
disomalley says:
This president is so anxious to provide one last great give-away to corporate greed and Wall Street finance (his backers) that consideration of what's best for the US hasn't even entered his mind. He is the best Republican since Bill Clinton, and they both ran on the Democratic Party ticket. What frightens me most of all however are the Finance and Investment measures limiting capital controls and allowing individual companies to bring disputes against governments. This nearly guarantees economic crashes in every signatory country every few years (except the US and possibly Japan, if they sign). Economic and human development will be severely hindered under the TPP. As far as Congress altering the trajectory of TPP approval, I don't see that happening. The Congress hasn't done what is in America's best interest since the Johnson Administration (or at least it feels like it's been that long).


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Ryo Takahashi, Editor-in-Chief
Rethinking firms and their role in society: Ryo Takahashi (MBA '20) talks with Professor Rebecca M. Henderson.
It has been a commonly held belief that the purpose of firms is to maximize shareholder value.
This notion of shareholder primacy resonates with many business leaders' understanding of their fiduciary duties, and with our norms of how a properly functioning, laissez-faire economy ought to work.
After all, say thinkers ranging from Adam Smith to Milton Friedman, wouldn't the invisible hand lead a perfectly functioning, competitive free market to an efficient distribution of goods and services?
Why government isn't a cure-all
"The problem with this idea," says Professor Rebecca M. Henderson (MBA '85, PhDBE '88), "is that our markets aren't perfect.
"Milton Friedman says your moral duty is to increase your profits, but this assumes that the market is free and fair. For example if there are externalities which are not fairly priced, there may be significant distortion in the markets, and if this is the case there's no guarantee that maximizing profits will maximize social welfare.
"Take the energy industry for example. Today, energy is really just a commodity, and there's no cost to generating or buying energy produced by fossil fuels. If instead we included the social costs of burning fossil fuels in their price—something to offset the millions of people who die every year due to the pollution that's produced by burning coal, or to offset the likely future costs of the climate change fossil fuels are causing, we'd have an explosion of innovation and investment in renewable energy innovation, and we'd eliminate one of the greatest threats to the stability of our economic system," she says.
But, some may argue, isn't it the role of the government to address externalities? Professor Henderson disagrees.
"While it is true that climate change, inequality, and institutional degradation are at heart public goods problems, there are two problems with the idea that this problem is something for governments to solve and there is no role for business.
"First of all, we have no global governance, and many of these problems are global. And second, many governments around the world lack the legitimacy and capacity to address these issues. We see this today in the alarming spread of polarized politics and the rise of populism. That doesn't mean that government isn't important, of course—indeed I think business should be actively pushing for the regulation that will make the market both free and fair—but it does mean that business can't sit back and wait for 'someone else' to take care of things."
Enter the purpose-driven firm
Businesses, Professor Henderson argues, can and should address these issues. One answer, she says, is purpose-driven firms. Such firms stand to become profitable and competitive in a world where society increasingly recognizes their importance.
"This was perhaps best exemplified when Larry Fink's 2019 letter to CEOs came out.
"Fink is the CEO of BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world with over $6 trillion in assets under management. His letter suggested that business should care not only about shareholder value but also about social purpose.
"One CEO friend phoned me and asked, 'he's not serious, is he?' He initially thought all the interest in sustainability stuff was just talk, but over time he began to realize that everyone he was trying to hire believed it was important," says Henderson.
And, it seems, BlackRock isn't an exception.
"Take Unilever. They claim their fastest growing brands are their purpose-driven brands—indeed that these brands are growing at twice the rate of conventionally managed brands.
"Purpose-driven firms have a significant advantage in attracting talent. Many of the smartest, most creative, and most imaginative people want to play a part in these kinds of companies. For several years, for example, Unilever was included in the list of the top 10 most desirable employers on LinkedIn."
Hiro Mizuno, Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of the Government Pension Investment Fund of Japan (GPIF), which oversees $1.5 trillion in assets under management, is another strong proponent of business paying attention to the big problems.
"Hiro says, 'You know, I have to be able to pay pensions in 30 and even 100 years from now. If global warming does what the scientists say that it will, this ability will be seriously at risk.' He tells me, 'I have a financial interest in the externalities because I have to hold the market. I cannot diversify away from the systemic risk.'
"It turns out that Hiro is both bottom line focused and purpose-driven," says Henderson. "He thinks it's not okay that the economy in Japan is going south. He is going to push ESG [environmental, social, and governance criteria] on every asset manager in the world. He is going to tell all his asset managers they have to pay attention to this and that they have to do something, since systemic risk is such a crucial issue for the long-term stability of GPIF."
"I think capitalism is fabulous. It's an incredible source of growth and opportunities. But if markets are distorted it's no longer fulfilling its potential. If there's no real equality of opportunity for example, then markets may not maximize either prosperity or freedom.
"It's a mistake to put your head down and say, 'All I have to do is maximize profits.' People will come to you and say, 'These problems—the inequality, the environmental destruction—this is your fault.' You should at least have a response to that. Simply saying that government is going to fix it just won't be compelling."
Can businesses change the world? They can and should, says Professor Henderson. And together, we can see to it that they will.
The author would like to thank Professor Henderson for her input and comments for this article. Professor Henderson is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University. The title of "University Professor," created in 1935, allows individuals whose work crosses the boundaries of multiple disciplines to pursue research at any of Harvard's Schools; she is among 25 academics selected within Harvard for this honor.
Ryo Takahashi (MBA '20), originally from Japan, is a management consultant and writer. Prior to Harvard Business School, he worked as a Project Manager at the World Economic Forum (WEF) and was a Senior Associate at McKinsey & Company. Prior to these roles he worked at the Economist and the Japan Times. His writing has appeared in Time magazine, the Economist, the Japan Times, and the World Economic Forum, among other outlets. He received his B.A. in Economics (with Distinction) from The University of Tokyo and was also a Rotary Scholar to the London School of Economics.
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WHAT'S THE VALUE OF DIGITAL TRUST?
This week the BBC reported on the residual cost of wellbeing for victims of fraud– £9.3 billion, according to consumer group Which?. "The research suggested scam victims faced a drop in life satisfaction, significantly higher levels of anxiety, and lower levels of happiness... This brings home the scale of the emotional and psychological harm that victims suffer when they are defrauded." Having a close loved-one who fell prey to a scammer posing as HMRC, I know well how brutal the after-effects can be, and hope that through technology like Self, we can regain our trust as digital consumers.
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In a perfect example of "just because we can doesn't mean we should," nine schools in North Ayrshire, Scotland have begun using facial recognition to track student purchases in the canteen. While the schools claimed it was quicker and more covid-safe than other payment methods, privacy advocates have raised major concerns about privacy, especially considering consent is given by parents who may not have considered the consequences down the line for their child's biometric data being stored. Silkie Carlile, director of Big Brother watch, said,
"This is highly sensitive, personal data that children should be taught to protect, not to give away on a whim. This biometrics company has refused to disclose who else children's personal information could be shared with and there are some red flags here for us."
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Lessons from Dietrich Bonhoeffer in dark times
Martin Davie 04 October 2021 | 6:31 AM
Dietrich Bonhoeffer with students in spring 1932.Wikimedia Commons
I love exploring historic churches, and in this article I want to talk about two seventeenth century churches which teach us a lesson about how we should act as Christians when the times seem dark.
The first is Holy Trinity, Staunton Harold, in Leicestershire. In the 1650s the Staunton Harold estate was owned by Sir Robert Shirley, a monarchist and a devout Anglican at a time when the monarchy and the Church of England had been abolished the Commonwealth regime led by the Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell.
In 1653 Shirley started to build Holy Trinity in a traditional gothic style as a private chapel for his estate, and as an act of public witness to his Anglican convictions.
In response Cromwell declared that if Shirley could pay for such a fine church he could also pay to outfit a ship for the Commonwealth navy. Because of his political convictions Shirley refused to give any money for a ship and he was imprisoned in the Tower of London where he died at the age of 27.
Eventually, Holy Trinity was completed after the restoration of the Church of England, and over the West door of the Church there is a plaque written by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Gilbert Sheldon, to whom Shirley had offered refuge during the English Civil War. The plaque declares:
"In the year 1653 when all things sacred were throughout ye Nation either demolished or profaned, Sir Robert Shirley Baronet, founded this church, whose singular praise it is to have done the best things in ye worst times and hoped them in the most callamitous. The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance."
The second is St Andrew's, Walberswick, in Suffolk. At the end of the Middle Ages, Walberswick was a very prosperous trading port and between 1426 and 1520 its inhabitants used some of their wealth to build a huge new parish church in the fashionable perpendicular gothic style. Unfortunately, from 1539 onwards Walberswick went into steep economic decline, which meant that its inhabitants were no longer able to afford the church's upkeep.
However, they did not give up. Instead, in 1696, having received permission to rebuild, they kept the tower, but unroofed the rest of the church and sold the wood, the lead, and three of the four church bells to finance the erection of a new church building in the Western part of the old south aisle, a building where Christian worship has continued to take place ever since.
St Andrew's, Walberswick(Photo: Martin Davie)
It seems to me that the actions taken by Sir Robert Shirley and the inhabitants of Walberswick illustrate the teaching given by the great German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer about how Christians should live in dark times.
In a sermon on Matthew 16:13-18 which he preached in July 1933 following the German church elections in which the Nazi-supporting German Christians achieved a great victory, Bonhoeffer comments as follows on Christ's promise of 'I will build my church':
".... It is not we who build. He wills to build the church. No man builds the church but Christ alone. Whoever is minded to build the church is surely well on the way to destroying it; for he will build a temple to idols without wishing or knowing it. We must confess - he builds. We must proclaim - he builds. We must pray to him - he builds. We do not know his plan. We cannot see whether he is building or pulling down. It may be that the times which by human standards are times of collapse are for him the great times of building. It may be that the times which from a human point of view are great times for the church are times when it is pulled down. It is a great comfort which Christ gives to his church: you confess, preach, bear witness to me, and I alone will build where it pleases me. Do not meddle in what is my province. Church, do what is given to you to do well and you have done enough. But do it well. Pay no heed to views and opinions, don't ask for judgements, don't always be calculating what will happen, don't always be on the look-out for another refuge! Church, stay a church! But Church confess, confess, confess!"
Bonhoeffer makes three key points.
First, it is Christ alone who is responsible for building his Church. Building the Church is not our responsibility.
Secondly, in this world we can never know precisely what Christ is doing at any point in time. He knows what he is doing and that is all we need to know.
Thirdly, our calling is to confess Christ. We do this with our lips as we confess that 'Jesus is Lord' (Romans 10:9), but also with our deeds as we perform those actions which proclaim our faith in the light of the particular situation in which God has placed us. That was what Sir Robert Shirley did when he founded Holy Trinity Staunton Harold, and what the people of Walberswick did when they re-built St Andrew's.
As in the 1930s, our situation can seem very dark. Islam, with its explicit denial of the Christian faith, is on the rise across the globe. In the Western world, church attendance is steadily falling as society turns increasingly secular. A form of teaching and practice in opposition to the orthodox Christian view of human sexuality threatens to engulf the Church of England as it has engulfed so many other churches in recent years.
We do not know precisely what Christ is doing in all this, but we do know that he is building his Church, and that our calling is to confess our faith in him by doing what we can do in obedience to him in the situation in which he has placed us. Like Sir Robert Shirley, we can do the best things in the worst times, and continue to have hope in the most calamitous.
Martin Davie is a lay Anglican theologian and Associate Tutor in Doctrine at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.


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Pesticides are harming vital soil organisms, experts warn
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Agricultural pesticides pose a grave threat to organisms that play an important role in maintaining soil health. These are the findings of a study published Tuesday, May 4, in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science.
The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland in cooperation with two environmental organizations, the Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Earth U.S., is the largest, most comprehensive review of the impact of agricultural pesticides on vital soil organisms.
The researchers compiled data from nearly 400 studies, which showed that pesticides harm many beneficial soil-dwelling invertebrates, such as earthworms, ants, beetles and ground-nesting bees.
Based on their findings, the researchers urged pesticide regulators in the United States to also consider soil organisms when assessing the environmental impact of pesticides.
Pesticides harm soil invertebrates
Soil performs many invaluable functions. It filters water, supports plant growth and helps regulate the planet's temperature. However, little is known about the impact of pesticides on crucial soil invertebrates, which help maintain soil health. Regulators and researchers have mostly focused on the impact of pesticides on pollinators.
To understand the danger agricultural pesticides pose to soil organisms, the researchers reviewed roughly 400 studies on the effects of pesticides on non-target invertebrates that live part of their lives in soil. The review covered over 275 species and 284 pesticides, excluding those currently banned in the United States.
Overall, the review included over 2,800 "tested parameters," where a specific pesticide was tested on a specific organism for a specific parameter, such as mortality, abundance, behavior, reproduction and biochemical and morphological changes.
When the researchers analyzed the tested parameters, they found that 70.5 percent were negatively affected by pesticide exposure, 28 percent were not significantly affected and only one percent were positively affected.
For example, 84 percent of tested parameters in earthworms, which play a key role in fertilizing soil, were negatively affected by insecticides. Some herbicides and fungicides also harmed earthworms.
"Below the surface of fields covered with monoculture crops of corn and soybeans, pesticides are destroying the very foundations of the web of life," said co-author Nathan Donley, a senior scientist in the Center for Biological Diversity's Environmental Health Program.
Numerous studies have shown that the unregulated use of pesticides across millions of acres every year poisons organisms critical to maintaining healthy soil. Yet regulators continue to ignore the harm pesticides cause to these important ecosystems.
For instance, beetles and springtails considerably influence the porosity of soil, which determines water content. Unfortunately, they are among the most affected organisms along with earthworms. Miner bees, which create underground nests, also face great risks nesting in the soil.
And it's not just one or two pesticides that are causing harm to these important soil organisms. Study results were consistent across the whole class of chemical poisons. (Related: Experts warn that undisclosed ingredients in weedkillers can kill bees, even without glyphosate.)
Co-author Tara Cornelisse, an insect conservation biologist and senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity, also said it was extremely concerning that over 70 percent of cases show pesticides significantly harm soil invertebrates.
"Our results add to the evidence that pesticides are contributing to widespread declines of insects," she said in a statement. The troubling findings add to the urgency of reining in pesticide use to save and improve biodiversity, she added.
Matt Shardlow, chief of the nature conservation charity Buglife in the United Kingdom who wasn't involved in the study, said the findings show pesticides assault organisms that live in the soil. If regulatory agencies want to protect healthy soils, they need to take soil organisms into consideration when deciding if a pesticide is safe to use.
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If you wait until you're ready, you will never make it to where you want to go. Or at the very least you will look back and realize that you could have made it there a whole lot quicker. If you wait until you're qualified, you will be starting too late. But what is highly more likely is that you are already qualified for those things that you're putting off participating in.
If you wait until you're experienced enough, you will never have that experience that you believe you need.
If you think you need one more art class before you start trying to sell your paintings, then there will always be one more art class.
If you think you need more self-confidence before you start speaking out more in your environment, then you will forever be silent.
If you believe that you need a couple more weeks of training before you enter yourself in that extreme obstacle race, then you will be sipping beer on the sidelines while your friends get muddy, bloody, winded… and still have the time of their lives.
If you think you need one more relationship seminar before you commit to the person in your life, then you will become friends with loneliness.
If you're waiting for someone else to run through that wall before you move in that direction, then you will always be staring at walls. Or you will not have the satisfaction of knowing that you broke a barrier that others weren't willing to break.
I'm not saying that you should wake up and run a marathon tomorrow without having done any training, although I know a young man who did that and is still alive today. But he was a freak of nature. What I am saying is that now is a really good time to move forward, beyond what you think you can do, to reach those goals that you have set for yourself.
If you know where you're headed, and you have an idea of what your purpose is, then don't sell yourself short. Don't listen to the lies that creep into your ears and paralyze your heart. Because you are good enough. You are smart enough. You are creative enough. You do have enough confidence. You will fail. You will get right back at it though.
The only thing that is going to stop you is waiting until you're ready. We are never really ready for the great things in life. But its funny how they are always there when we start moving in their direction and taking larger steps than we thought we were ready for.
I have found that if you wait until you are ready to make 'that' move, it is usually too late and the opportunity has passed you by. So go meet the opportunity.