Health Canada is proposing a ban on the marketing of junk food to kids under the age of 17. It's wide ranging: possibly covering TV, online and print advertising, product labelling, in-store display and some sponsorships for sports teams.
The application of the prohibition needs to be be expansive because companies now employ many strategies and tools directed at the young. The proposal follows the lead of Senator Nancy Greene Raine, who introduced a private member's bill last November that would also have banned junk food advertising to children (but under 13).
It' s about time the feds took some initiative in this regard. Targeting kids to promote anything is nasty.
The law has long taken the view that children, because they are not fully capable of moral and other judgments, may need special safeguards and even restrictions whether in terms of voting, driving a car or smoking cigarettes. This concern for the welfare of young people extends to the influence of marketing, including by the food and beverage industries. Children can be a target for such promotional activities for three reasons: they are a "primary market" since they can spend money themselves; they are an "influence market" because they can shape parental purchases; and they are a "future market" because they will become adult consumers.
Those advocating controlling advertising to children make three main assertions. First, there is strong evidence of the association between marketing and consumption patterns of children. In the case of junk food such association can be a significant contributing factor to obesity. Second, restricting such advertising is justified because it exploits the development of children's cognitive abilities and capacity for judgment. Third, parents have limited power to counteract the substantial influences of such marketing upon their kids.
These are powerful arguments. But notice their relevance is not just limited to the promotion of non-nutritious food. They can apply to any kind of marketing to the young: games, toys, vacations and so forth. Quebec grasped this point when it banned all marketing to kids under 13.
All sorts of marketing to children is manipulative and unethical.
The federal proposal is an improvement on the Quebec legislation to the extent that it now raises the relevant age to 17. But, following the lead of that legislation, the feds and other provinces should act and not limit the ban to junk food. A specific reason such prohibition should be of general application is to avoid endless arguments about what foods are the subject of the ban. A more wide ranging justification rests on the arguments, set out above. All sorts of marketing to children is manipulative and unethical. The response should be straightforward: end all of it.
Such prohibitions will not be without complications. There will be enforcement issues including policing the borderless Internet. A webpage from a U.S. company targeting kids may be as accessible in Moose Jaw as it is in Boston. But such complexities can be addressed through national action and international cooperation. For the moment, let's get started. Let's send a strong message to corporate Canada -- no marketing to the young. Period.
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>>*tremble* if I were in your shoes!
>truth to be the ultimate goal for a Christian.
evolutionists, let alone Christian apologists.
>then open the door for those listening to leave the faith.
"teach" are even more "erroneous" than what they teach.
and/or preservation of hundreds, if not thousands of ordinary people.
alternative you have offered to date.
>that can actually be defended?
evolution must be criticised, shows muddled thinking, or worse.
>found out and because of this, he lost his trust in Christians.
*all* Christian apologists who oppose evolution and advocate creation.
>erroneous data with no fear of correction?
to answer this but I will draw my own conclusions if you don't.
>>scientist"! Who claimed that it did?
See below. Johnson was using the story told by "trained scientist"
>>quote, it was "The German BIOCHEMIST Bruno Muller-Hill"
>>story. It was a *scientist*, speaking from his own experiences.
>>sacred cow that is off-limits to Christian apologists?
>story of how science works. period.
"self-deception plays an astonishing role in science".
easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that.
After you've not fooled yourself, it's easy not to fool other scientists.
as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen."


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Drake Found A Sneaky Way To Diss Tory Lanez On 'Do Not Disturb'
Both are Canadian but really don't get along. Drake and Tory Lanez have an extensive history of tension that seems far from resolved, so it comes as no surprise that a few bars on Drizzy's new More Life release may have been dedicated to his Toronto rival.
As Genius points out, it appears the Canadian legend ( 10 Billions stream on Spotify ) found a sneaky way to diss Tory Lanez on the Closing track to his new ' Playlist' 'More Life that was released saturday.
While at first glance the line seems vague, if you take a closer look Tory's government name is Daystar Petersen and basically calls him an overnight celebrity, closing the bar with You one day star". Get it
You overnight celebrity you one day star
I swear I told you I'm in this bitch for eternity
I am a reflection of all of your insecurities
Behind closed doors a lot of 6 God worshipping
Done talk now 'cause there's other shit that concerning me
In a Hot 97 interview last June, Tory explained his competitive relationship with Aubrey Graham but is, to be honest, far from being a strong enough opponent. However, we feel that his Controlla Remix was way better than the original, the young canadian Emcee has a long way to go before he can even pretend to a competition with the music heavyweight drake is.
Drake's new playlist just hit the shelves, a 22-track project called 'More Life' which is available for streaming across all platforms. Let us know what's you favorite track now in the comment section.
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As of now, Tekashi has been assigned 300 hours of community service, with his attorney Lance Lazarro confirming that he has yet to have completed a single hour. With the world seemingly set to be his oyster come Saturday, Lazarro has since voiced concerns that actively engaging in the community service requirements will put his life at risk. A fair notion, considering serving one's community requires one to be physically present in a given location — though should 6ix9ine intend on doing anything beyond traipsing around his bedroom, he'll have to step outside eventually.
TMZ reports that Lazarro is requesting that 6ix9ine be able to do his service at a secured facility, providing the example of a hospital or a school. Think witnesses and security — the more the merrier. It's unclear whether or not 6ix9ine will ever ease up, though it's unlikely given how antagonistic he continues to behave on social media. Alas, these are the pitfalls of reckless designs.
Donald Trump has proven that truly anybody can be elected President of the United States. You don't need to be qualified for the job and still, if you've got enough support from the public, you can win.
Arguably the most newsworthy President of our time, Trump appeals to the non-critical thinkers of the world, those who will simply take what he says at face value without actually evaluating how much damage those same statements can cause. Now, he's seemingly afraid that his position at the White House is in danger after polling numbers have Joe Biden in the lead, so he wants the entire election to be delayed.
Taking to his favorite social media platform, the current President of the United States sent out the following message: "With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???"
This is not the first time he has spoken out against mail-in voting. However, he has not previously asked for the election to be delayed. At this point, things are pretty far along in printing ballots and all other preparations to practice our democratic right in November.
Do you think the outcome would change should the election be delayed?

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SUPPLEMENT • Women in Oceanography: A Decade Later
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A decade ago—March 2005—The Oceanography Society published a special issue of Oceanography on "Women in Oceanography." The issue's goal was to explore why men continued to vastly outnumber women at the higher levels of the field, even as the number of female graduate students grew steadily. We captured our story through statistical measures, longer narratives, articles describing some innovative US programs that were conceived to promote women and retain them in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, and one-page autobiographical sketches written by women oceanographers. In stitching together this latest compendium, "Women in Oceanography: A Decade Later," the steering committee used the same tools to illuminate both the progress that has been made in addressing career barriers since the last volume was published and areas where further attention might still be needed.
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Introduction to "Women in Oceanography: A Decade Later"
Kappel, E.S. 2014. Introduction to "Women in Oceanography: A Decade Later". Oceanography 27(4) supplement:1–4, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2014.105.
Women in Oceanography: Continuing Challenges
Orcutt, B.N., and I. Cetinić. 2014. Women in oceanography: Continuing challenges. Oceanography 27(4) supplement:5–13, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2014.106.
Invited Scientific Papers and Speakers and Fellow Awardees: Little Progress for Women Oceanographers in the Last Decade
Kappel, E.S., and L. Thompson. 2014. Invited scientific papers and speakers and fellow awardees: Little progress for women oceanographers in the last decade. Oceanography 27(4) supplement:24–28, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2014.110.
Advancing Women in Oceanography: How NSF's ADVANCE Program Promotes Gender Equity in Academia
Holmes, M.A. 2014. Advancing women in oceanography: How NSF's ADVANCE program promotes gender equity in academia. Oceanography 27(4) supplement:30–38, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2014.112.
The Impact of MPOWIR: A Decade of Investing in Mentoring Women in Physical Oceanography
Clem, S., S. Legg, S. Lozier, and C. Mouw. 2014. The impact of MPOWIR: A decade of investing in mentoring women in physical oceanography. Oceanography 27(4) supplement:39–48, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2014.113.
SIDEBAR | A Brilliant Impostor?
Breitbart, M. 2014. A brilliant impostor? Oceanography 27(4) supplement:14, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2014.107.
SIDEBAR | Mary Johrde and the Birth of the UNOLS Fleet
Kappel, E.S. 2014. Mary Johrde and the birth of the UNOLS fleet. Oceanography 27(4) supplement:23, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2014.109.
SIDEBAR | Women Exploring the Ocean: womenoceanographers.org Fifteen Years Later
Smith, D.K. 2014. Women exploring the ocean: womenoceanographers.org fifteen years later. Oceanography 27(4) supplement:29, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2014.111.
>> AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
Women of the Academy and the Sea: 2000–2014
O'Connell, S. 2014. Women of the academy and the sea: 2000–2014. Oceanography 27(4) supplement:15–22, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2014.108.
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The space industry wants to launch more rockets through an already congested airspace. The airline industry says that will lead to more flight delays.
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On Feb. 6, SpaceX launched the Falcon Heavy, its biggest rocket yet.
During the launch, a large swath of airspace over the Atlantic was closed to planes for over three hours.
To avoid the restricted area, Delta Flight 422 from New York to San Juan had to change its course.
Similarly, other flights had to fly around the area, with delays and increased fuel consumption.
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By Chris Davenport, John Muyskens, Youjin Shin and Monica Ulmanu
Washington — The launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket in 2018 was a triumph of engineering and another celebrated coup for Elon Musk's space company.
The airline industry says it was also a headache.
To accommodate the launch, and the possibility that the rocket could explode, the Federal Aviation Administration had to shut down a large swath of airspace for more than three hours, stretching from the Florida coast about 1,300 miles east over the Atlantic. That meant flights up and down the busy Eastern Seaboard had to go around the safety zone, causing delays and forcing planes to burn additional fuel.
Even though the rocket was out of the airspace in a mere 90 seconds before its three boosters flew back to Earth some eight minutes later, the "impact on the traveling public was real," said Sharon Pinkerton, senior vice president for legislative and regulatory policy for Airlines for America, which advocates for the industry.
As a growing number of commercial rocket companies ultimately plan to fly on a weekly basis, and from more places, airlines are concerned that they will significantly affect the already congested airspace, which handles more than 15 million airline flights annually.
Rockets have been blasting off into space since the dawn of the Space Age more than 60 years ago. But the launches have been relatively rare events — over its 30-year life span, the space shuttle took off just 135 times, an average of less than five times a year. So the impacts have been limited — "small in comparison to other constraints in the system because there are so few of them," according to Gregory Martin, a spokesman for the FAA.
Still, he said, a single launch "can affect hundreds of flights."
The SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from launchpad 39A at Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 6 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. It is the most powerful rocket in the world and carried a Tesla Roadster into orbit. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Now, a robust commercial space industry is growing fast, and it intends to fly much more frequently, forcing more airspace restrictions. Already, those closures "have led to extensive and expensive delays to commercial air traffic that are unsustainable," the Air Line Pilots Association wrote in congressional testimony this year.
More than 7 million airline flights have been affected this year by weather, airspace congestion and other problems, forcing them to fly an additional 155 million miles, according to the FAA. But of those flights, only 1,400 were affected by spacecraft, which caused the airlines to fly an additional 70,000 miles.
SpaceX flew 18 times in 2017 and has completed a record 20 launches in 2018. While the United Launch Alliance typically launches about 10 to 12 times a year, it is building a rocket that would be able to fly "many more" missions annually, a spokeswoman said. Blue Origin, the space company founded by Jeffrey P. Bezos, ultimately wants to fly even more frequently than that. (Bezos is founder and chief executive of Amazon and owns The Washington Post.)
The company is working toward flying tourists on suborbital missions that could take off on a weekly basis. Those missions, which fly straight up and down, require a relatively small airspace closure. But Bezos is also developing a monster rocket, known as New Glenn, that would fly from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station within a couple of years.
"One of the things I feel very, very strongly about is if you want to get good at spaceflight you have to practice," Bezos told reporters during a tour of the company's Kent, Wash., rocket factory in 2016.
Ultimately, he said, the goal is to fly more than 100 times a year. Recently, a top Florida space official told SpaceNews that the Space Coast was preparing "to support 100 to 200 launches a year."
In recent years, entrepreneurial ventures such as SpaceX have fueled a rise in rocket launches from U.S. soil.
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A dramatic increase in launches could be fueled by plans to put up constellations of thousands of small satellites. SpaceX has won approval from the Federal Communications Commission to put up 12,000 small satellites that would beam down the Internet across the globe.
With other companies also planning to put up their own satellite constellations, there are a number of small rockets in development to meet that demand — all of which are expected to launch frequently through the airspace.
Recently, Rocket Lab announced it would fly from the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Its ultimate goal: 130 launches a year. Vector, which is planning its first flight in 2019, hopes to eventually launch 100 times a year.
While years away, that many flights would lead to far more dependable vehicles, said Jim Cantrell the founder and CEO of Vector.
"Think about those big airplanes, those 747s flying over Tokyo, and no one blinks an eye," he said. "That's because they are very reliable."
Years away
When determining how large of an area to shut down, and for how long, the FAA looks at all sorts of factors, such as the flight trajectory, the size and power of the rocket, and the worst-case scenario — what would happen if the rocket blew up and rained down debris like mortar fire.
That's why many rocket launches to orbit occur at the coast — where they fly over water instead of populated landmasses. The Coast Guard also clears boats from entering the hazard zone.
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But reentering spacecraft can fly over land. When the space shuttle Columbia came apart as it reentered the atmosphere in 2003, it littered debris across East Texas and into Louisiana. No one was hurt, and there was only minor property damage. But if it had broken up a little earlier, officials said, the falling debris could have come down on Dallas, with potentially much more severe consequences.
Safety "is always the highest priority," said Tim Canoll, the president of the Air Line Pilots Association. "They'll default to the most safe operation, which of course yields these very large tracks of closed airspace for long periods of time."
The two industries say they are working closely together to help find a solution. And they agree that the FAA closes off more airspace than it should. What's more, the agency relies on an antiquated system that can see only airplanes in real time and does not have the ability to track rockets and spacecraft as they move through the atmosphere.
Instead, the controllers have to manually enter the flight path data of a rocket in the airspace — a system that can be prone to error and that some derisively call "sneaker net," meaning someone has to run that data across the room to the controllers.
"The FAA does not use the resources that are out there and available to effectively manage control of the airspace," said Eric Stallmer, the president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation. "There's a great deal of innovation and technology that could help alleviate a great number of these problems."
As a result, the FAA often shuts down the airspace for hours, even though the rockets streak through it in a matter of minutes, or even seconds.
But now the FAA is working on a program, known as the Space Data Integrator, to better integrate rockets into the airspace by allowing the air traffic controllers to see them in real time, as they do airplanes. That would allow the FAA to more quickly open up the airspace and to break the closures up "into smaller chunks as [the rocket] passes through," said Dan Murray, the manager of the FAA's Space Transportation Development Division.
The agency has a prototype it is testing with SpaceX and Blue Origin launches, but he said it won't be operational until 2021 or 2022.
"If the vehicle is only going to be passing through the airspace for 40 seconds, you don't need to close that down for three hours," Stallmer said. "You can really get it down to about 15 minutes."
The FAA is also working on a system that would be able to almost instantaneously calculate the hazard area of an explosion. That would allow air traffic controllers to keep substantially more airspace open during a launch and then close additional space in the event of a rocket failure.
Murray said that safety is paramount and that airline pilots would have enough time to respond "between when the vehicle might fail and the debris actually falls."
The FAA is also working toward boosting the automation that goes into the decisions air traffic controllers need to make, reducing workloads and the potential for human error. The agency is also working toward getting rocket telemetry and data directly to the airplane pilots, so they can see what's happening for themselves.
But those measures are years away, officials said.
'Manage together'
While the Falcon Heavy launch certainly caused delays for the airline industry, the week as a whole was not a great one at Orlando International Airport. The day before the launch, 74 flights were delayed an average of 43 minutes, according to FAA data. The day after, the number climbed to 95 flights with an average delay of more than an hour.
The day of the launch, 61 flights were delayed, fewer than any other day that week — a reminder, the space industry says, that weather and mechanical problems are far more likely to gum up the works than the relatively few rocket launches.
Unlike storms, which can pop up without warning, forcing air traffic controllers to scramble, launches are known well ahead of time, allowing the airlines to plan their routes accordingly to minimize the impact.
"We don't have any control over where the thunderstorms are. That's a force of nature," Canoll, the head of the Air Line Pilots Association, told Congress last summer. "This is something we can mange together."
The launch of the Falcon Heavy was an extreme example — the first test flight of what is now the world's most powerful rocket in operation. While the Falcon Heavy required a restricted area as long as the distance between Washington, D.C., and Dallas, SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket requires far less airspace to be closed and for a shorter amount of time.
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But a study by the FAA found that the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on March 1, 2013, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida caused planes to fly between 25 and 84 miles longer, burn between 275 and 2,387 pounds more fuel, and fly between one and 23 minutes longer.
If space travel remained an infrequent, special circumstance, it might not be a problem, the airline industry says. But more launches would "likely place pressure on regulators and operators to reduce the size of airspace protection zones, so as to minimize commercial space's impact on commercial aviation," a report from the Air Line Pilots Association said. "Without proper mitigations in place, the elevated levels of risk may not be acceptable."
Blue Origin launches its suborbital rockets over a very sparsely populated area in West Texas. But even there, its launches have an impact, particularly during the company's first flights when it was still learning how best to communicate with air traffic controllers.
As the space industry grows, there are spaceports and launch sites popping up around the country — 11 so far, including the Colorado Air and Space Port, the most recent to get an FAA license. The only problem, according to the airlines: It's located just a few miles from Denver International Airport, a major hub that is the sixth-busiest airport in the country.
Having spaceflights so close to a major metropolitan airport poses "a safety risk to the public as well as to commercial aviation," the pilots association wrote in its report. Sharing the airspace along the Eastern Seaboard is hard enough. Next to an airport "would add a level of complexity that we do not have the ability to manage within the current system."
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Others say the concerns are overblown. Before any spacecraft take off from the facility, the FAA still has to grant a launch license, and operators would have to show how they plan to protect people and property on the ground.
Further, the spaceport doesn't intend to cater to big rockets, capable of flying to orbit, but rather to much smaller vehicles that would "take off like traditional airplanes using jet fuel and fly to a special-use airspace where rocket boosters launch the craft into suborbital flight," it said in a news release.
Those kinds of spacecraft would be much easier to integrate into the airspace, said George Nield, the former head of the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
"There were a lot of people that said, 'Oh my goodness, we'll have lots of rockets close to Denver' — and that is just not true," he said. "Most of those spaceports will not be hosting large, dangerous rockets like shuttle or the Falcon Heavy. Instead, many are looking to the market for space tourism. Those are reusable, and many are about the same size of a small business jet, carrying between two and eight people."
While one day there may be a huge growth in the number of launches, today they are tiny when compared with the number of airline flights.
That's why both sides say it's important to find a solution now — before spacecraft are competing for more and more airspace.
"Now is the time to figure out when to integrate," Canoll said. "Not when they are launching five times a day and we're saying, 'No, you can't close that airspace again.' "
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As we stated earlier, before we can answer the question "how can I know that God exists?" we must first ask the question "how do I know anything at all." There are multiple ways that the intellect comes to know, and these modalities (or ways) of knowing are arranged hierarchically. I will go from the lowest form of knowledge to the highest – though this may seem unintuitive to the modern mind, which has been conditioned to see certainty as ordered in precisely the opposite direction. I will sort out these modern confusions as we proceed upon each level, inshaAllah.
The lowest form of knowing, and the least certain is that of sense perception. "Huh? But I thought you had to see it to believe it?" you may ask.
Ah, but you see sense perception deceives us all the time. We readily admit that. Sometimes we see things that aren't really there, and sometimes what we see does not reflect reality. For instance, we perceive the earth as being flat, the sun as setting upon the horizon, the stars as being small, and if I were to put my finger in a glass of water it would appear to break due to the refraction of light.
Take a look at this clip around 12:30 where Dawkins himself says that if he were to see a direct sign of God – the heavens opening up and seeing the angels – he would still disbelieve in God. Instead, he would find it more probable that he were hallucinating, that David Blaine or some magician were playing a trick on him, or that aliens with some advanced technology could manipulate reality to make him think he were seeing what he were seeing.
Nor is Dawkins alone in this sentiment. Here is a thread where hordes of atheists claim that they would find some other explanation even if they witnessed a grand miracle before their eyes.
Now, it is unimportant presently to discuss whether such sentiments are indeed rational. Rather, it is simply to point out that the only way such a judgment could exist; namely that sense perception is wrong, is if there is something above and beyond sense perception which is doing the judging – or at any rate helping us to make the judgment that the senses are deceiving us. This aid is called reason. That which is doing the judging is the consciousness at the root of your existence.
Reason helps to make clear to consciousness truth from falsehood, illusion from reality. You see, it is also possible the straw might be reforming immediately upon exiting the water, and breaking immediately upon entering it. But reason dismisses this possibility as too improbable, and instead reason opts for the judgement that our very eyes deceive us.
Sense perception, thus unsurprisingly, is not in the least immune from error. But this is not exactly true. I have been using the words "sense perception" somewhat colloquially thusfar. More accurately, the judgements we make based on the conception that the senses deliver to the mind is not in the least immune from error. You see, sense perception itself can never err insofar as we understand it to be the impression created in the mind. Even if you were hallucinating and "saw" a ghost – you really would be seeing a ghost in your mind. This you cannot doubt, and it could not possibly be in error; the conception is known by presence (or intellectual intuition). Rather, what is in error is that this conception correlates to some reality (i.e. when you go from seeing a ghost in your mind to judging that there really is a ghost in the room, that it is not simply a figment of your imagination).
To put this more succinctly: there are two stages of knowing (at least as far as we are concerned here) – impression and judgement. An impression in your consciousness can be formed through sense perception. You might experience a smell, or see a ghost as in our previous example. In as far as you are actually experiencing this, it can never be "false" (subjectively); what can be in error is the judgement we make that something in external reality correlates to the impression in the mind. Your discursive mind makes this judgement. Reason is more important than you think.
But what of the case of a malfunctioning organ? For instance, a colourblind person who sees a red light as green. Again – such a person, in fact, sees the light as green in their own mind. Any error made on their part would be in their judgement of how this relates to reality outside their own subjective mind. A perfectly functioning organ and a malfunctioning organ both deliver a conception to the mind, though a functioning organ would usually, but not always as we saw with the glass example, deliver a conception to the mind that correlates more accurately with reality.
Sense perception suffers from an imperfection – it is limited. We cannot perceive with our senses the vast majority of the electromagnetic spectrum, including x-rays, infrared and ultraviolet light, and radio waves. The senses cannot detect subatomic particles, nor can they encompass very far into space nor time. With a little imagination, it is easy to conceive of just how much we possibly don't know. The religious claim that our universe is inhabited, perhaps at a different frequency or plane of existence, by angels, jinn and what the pretentious might regard as fantastic creatures is, in fact, all too possible, but entirely unverifiable with sense perception. We have no reason to think that sense perception is telling us the full story, and very good reasons for thinking that it is not (in fact we know it's not). To dismiss, therefore, what is currently unverified by scientific inquiry, when only a few centuries ago something like electromagnetic waves, or quantum mechanics would have seemed equally laughable, seems to me to be a little hasty.
This is not to suggest that angels will ever be verifiable by the scientific method, as electromagnetic waves eventually became, but rather it is simply to open the reader's mind to the possibility that the universe is far stranger than we know. In fact, I will be arguing that the scientific method is not our ultimate source of knowledge – consciousness is, and angels are verifiable through the ascension of consciousness into higher realms of being. My point here is merely that the kind of mockery that certain atheists deride the religious with ad nauseam is not really on any solid grounds. Rather, it represents a preconceived notion of what the universe must ultimately be like (essentially some kind of complicated pinball machine), despite how little we know of it. A small dose of humility with a side of open-mindedness would lead one to at least taking seriously the agnostic position and acknowledge that there may well be higher orders of being as the mystics have claimed throughout the centuries.
Empirical observation is not as important as we might think. What does the heavy lifting in science is actually inductive inference, though to be sure I am not denying the importance of empirical observation as data points in the inductive logic machine. What I am saying, however, is that the confident dismissal of a Higher Power simply on the grounds that we should only believe what we see, what is material, what is "empirically testable" is really more empty rhetoric and a kind of moralizing about a narrow and short-sighted understanding of Reason™ more than anything.
In the next posts we will explore the way reason works and establish the legitimacy of deductive logic (which is what we need for metaphysical reasoning). We will also show, God willing, that science depends on the validity of deduction and so one cannot both affirm science and deny metaphysical argumentation, as is unfortunately common today.


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Live on a hot day, temple perianth scorched.My God!Fast water!"The young monk shouted, and then to the bucket of water."Don't worry," the old monk said, "now the sun, heat and cold, must die, and a little later poured.
"In the evening, the flower has become a vegetable."No sooner pour .. .." little monks muttered that, "must have been dead, how to cast could live.""Less verbose, pouring."The old monk called.
Water down, before long, already down flowers, he stood up, and full of life.My God!The young monk shouted, "they can really powerful, hold back there, holding the undead.""Nonsense," the old monk called, "not to support the undead, is alive and well.
""what's the difference?"The monk is low head."Of course," the old monk on monk, "I ask you, I this year, more than 80, I am holding die, still alive?"Vespers is finished, the old monk to monk called and asked him: "how, figured out?"No.
The monk is low head.The old monk knocks monk: "stupid, always afraid of people, holding the undead; every day look ahead, is alive and well.One day of life, will be a good day.Those alive every day to burn incense and pray that the fear of death, death can become Buddhas, certainly not the buddha.
"The old monk smiled, "his life to live, not live, why to heaven after his death better days?"One summer, I travel along the Yellow River, numerous stations in the Yellow River shore, see the river from the sky like a dragon tumbling, shed some women have, they like books.
Buy books, reading, writing, the book is the durability of their fashion and cosmetics in time about the art of living speech, the professor picked up a cups with water, asked the audience: guess, what this woman love man, in fact most men like shoulder; men fear women what, man most afraid of a woman flow let love continue, life goes on.


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Pro Control has announced that it will highlight its latest control and automation products at ISE 2016.
Published: February 5, 2016 ⋅ Updated: April 15, 2019
Pro Control has announced that it will highlight its latest control and automation products at ISE 2016. Exhibiting with RTI in stand 1-N75, the company will showcase how the new offerings allow users to control a multitude of third-party electronic systems dynamically from the convenience of a Pro Control handheld remote or an iOS device with the ProPanel app.
At ISE 2016, Pro Control will showcase its line of affordable — yet powerful — remote controls and processors, the ProPanel app, and the latest additions to the company's library of two-way drivers for manufacturers such as KNX, Lutron Caséta, Sonos, Nest, and Denon HEOS. Pro Control integration with KNX and other major lighting control manufacturers will be demonstrated in the booth, in addition to hands-on demonstrations of Pro Control Studio.
"This is Pro Control's fourth year at ISE, and we're proud to highlight our ever-expanding library of drivers and versatile solutions for attendees at the show," said Mike Everett, vice president of sales and marketing, Americas, for RTI and Pro Control. "Working with top partners in the industry, Pro Control now gives integrators and users the ability to leverage the power and flexibility of our control solutions with a wide array of lighting, video, audio, and environmental elements at the touch of a button. We invite everyone at the show to visit us and see these innovations firsthand."
From ergonomic remotes that incorporate vivid full-color displays, backlit buttons, and an elegant design, to control via the ProPanel app on an iPhone or iPad, and a large library of third-party two-way drivers, the company provides a total control solution. Using the Pro Control Studio programming software, integrators can customize installs quickly and easily to meet any client's needs.
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Numerous construction projects are taking place around the city that require adjustments to bus routes and schedules.
Current transit construction projects.
66 Street Tunnel Renewal/NAIT Station Closure
From April 28 to August 30 (excluding K-Days), crews will be completing revitalization work on the 66 Street tunnel between Coliseum and Belvedere stations, including track replacement and work on the overhead catenary system. As a result, from 5am-7pm on weekdays, Capital and Metro Line trains will run every 12 minutes between Churchill and Clareview, and Churchill and Kingsway, respectively. Trains will run every 6 minutes between Century Park and Churchill. On weekends and after 7pm on weekdays, Capital and Metro Line trains run every 15 minutes.
In July and August, ETS will operate 4-car trains on both lines, excluding special event days. For special event days (Eskimos games/K-Days parade), ETS will operate 5-car trains.
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During K-Days (July 19-28), work on the 66th Street tunnel will be suspended to allow Capital Line LRT service to return to regular weekday frequency (5/10 minutes from 5am-7pm). Metro Line trains will run every 15 minutes and evening/weekend frequency for both lines remains at 15 minutes. Both lines will run 4-car trains, except on the K-Days parade day (July 19) and on the Eskimos game day (July 25), when ETS will operate 5-car trains. NAIT Station remains closed during K-Days.
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These upgrades will occur on weekends and during evenings on weekdays (after 7pm). To complete the upgrades at Clareview and Kingsway/Royal Alex, there may be minimal service delays as trains pull into the station (five minutes or less).
However, due to the layover time at the station, southbound trains are expected to stay on schedule.
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Canvas size: 48" x 60"
It took me one full year to get this painting done -- from the time I got the inspiration to the time I got the courage to put it on display. I have to say, every single step of this creation was nothing short of mystical. There were things that happened during the creative process that I could not have planned, and only the mandalas' relentless desire to be born in a very specific way--their way-- that brought forward each magical, almost ceremonial, events.
I know, I know...I talk about the mandalas as if they were alive. It's because they are! They are so alive, they are magnificent! They are demanding, unbending, and unrelenting; they know exactly what they want, when, and how they're going to be painted. They are constantly stirring, energetically speaking, wanting attention and adoration. And that's exactly what they get! Once they get you going, they are addicting to paint, mesmerizing to look at, captivating your very heart and soul, searing deeply into the depths of your unconscious mind. They have a life of their own! They are incredibly meditative, powerful, enchanting, and most of all, beautiful.
The deeper I get into the process, I realize that in many ways my painting has become an extension and an expression of me; of my soul. Every part of the tree --the roots, the ground, the trunk, the branches, the butterflies, the colors, the blings, each mandalas, and the very essence of their quality-- is a representation of my being. Every facet of this tree is a reflection of me. Each mandala stirs an aspect of my spiritual-Self I could not even explain, but I know, and I feel, that something deep, humbling, poetic, and profound is happening inside of me beyond my conscious understanding. That's the magic of mandala. They stir your consciousness and reflect back to you the beauty, mystery, and depth of your own soul.
I can still sit in front of this Mandala Tree for hours and just be lost in their presence. Meditating on them gives me such a sense of inner peace and joy. I love it. I am grateful that they chose me to give birth to them. It wasn't an easy task, but it was deeply gratifying and enriching experience nevertheless. The hardest part was letting my ego get out of the mandalas' way. Painting 33 demanding mandalas in one giant canvas was one of the most remarkable creative and spiritual immersions I've ever done.
The painting is currently on display at my clinic, and you are welcome to check it out. My hope as an artist and as a healer that this creation, My Magical Mandala Tree, awakens something profound, something romantic and whimsical, something healing and insightful, something wonderful, inside of you as well as it did in mine.
I hope you enjoyed this story and the mandalas. I would love to hear your feedback. How did the mandalas affect you? Did they bring up something in your awareness? Did you feel the calling to create them as well? Would you be interested in mandala painting class? If so, I would love to hear from you!


What sleeping position provides the best muscle and joint health?
1. Sleeping on your stomach is not a great idea. The main problem with this position is that you must turn your head to one side in order to breathe effectively. People tend to consistently turn their head to the same side as a preference: the long-term result can be "wear and tear" on the joints of the cervical spine. This situation is absolutely comparable to sitting at a computer all day with your monitor off to one side. It is bad ergonomics to be constantly rotated to one side, whether it is for eight hours a day gazing at a computer screen or eight hours per night sleeping with your head turned to one side.
If you must sleep on your stomach, I would recommend placing pillows under your torso and neck. This will at least lessen the amount of neck rotation that you need to breathe.
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2. The second sleeping position that patients often find themselves is side-lying with the arms in an overhead position. Many people report that they will wrap the pillow around their head and secure it in place with their arms.
This position places stress on the downward-facing shoulder. The body weight placed on this shoulder in many cases will cause a compression of the nerve bundle as it passes into the arm. The symptoms of this include waking up with numbness in the arm and hand.
Lying on the side also tends to push the head of the humerus forwards, placing it in an ideal position for impingement of the rotator cuff tendons. I have seen many patients who delayed their recoveries from shoulder injuries because they insist on sleeping on the injured shoulder.
Be creative about changing your sleeping position. I had a patient tell me this week that he changed the placement of his bed so that he wouldn't need to turn to the side in order to avoid the morning sunlight coming in his window. Great idea!


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Q: Extract textPayload from PubSub log message in Cloud Functions I have created a workflow that sends some logs to Pub/Sub. These logs trigger a Cloud Function which process the logs and extract the textPayload, but that part it's failing.
Cloud Function code
def main(event, context):
    print("cf-dataflow-status-checker - main - start")
    """Triggered from a message on a Cloud Pub/Sub topic.
    Args:
         event (dict): Event payload.
         context (google.cloud.functions.Context): Metadata for the event.
    """
    pubsub_message = base64.b64decode(event['data']).decode('utf-8')

    print(pubsub_message)
    text_payload = pubsub_message['jsonPayload']['textPayload']
    print(text_payload)
    job_name = pubsub_message['jsonPayload']['resource']['labels']['job_name']
    print(job_name)

    if SUMMARY_ERROR_LOG in text_payload:
        message = 'Dataflow pipeline has failed.'
        proc_id = find_process(job_name)
        print('proc_id: {}'.format(proc_id))
        end_process_error(proc_id, message)
        return {'status': 'KO'}

    print("cf-dataflow-status-checker - main - end")
    return {'status': 'OK'}

The line
text_payload = pubsub_message['jsonPayload']['textPayload']

and
job_name = pubsub_message['jsonPayload']['resource']['labels']['job_name']

are causing the following errors:
text_payload = json_message['jsonPayload']['textPayload']
KeyError: 'jsonPayload'

Pub / Sub Message
pubsub_message = {
    "insertId": "000002-e8d21b19-1be9-4f76-8359-2c4bc8d5b451",
    "jsonPayload": {
        "insertId": "11qnus8bu4",
        "timestamp": "2022-01-11T18:15:52.85415621Z",
        "receiveTimestamp": "2022-01-11T18:15:53.543572717Z",
        "textPayload": "Workflow failed. Causes: S11:Merge/_CoGBKImpl/GroupByKey/Read+Merge/_CoGBKImpl/GroupByKey/GroupByWindow+Merge/_CoGBKImpl/MapTuple(collect_values)+Merge/RestoreTags+Process the data+Parse result 1+Parse result 2+Write to txt 1/Write/WriteImpl/Map(<lambda at iobase.py:1126>)+Write to txt 1/Write/WriteImpl/WindowInto(WindowIntoFn)+Write to txt 1/Write/WriteImpl/GroupByKey/Reify+Write to txt 1/Write/WriteImpl/GroupByKey/Write+Write to txt 2/Write/WriteImpl/Map(<lambda at iobase.py:1126>)+Write to txt 2/Write/WriteImpl/WindowInto(WindowIntoFn)+Write to txt 2/Write/WriteImpl/GroupByKey/Reify+Write to txt 2/Write/WriteImpl/GroupByKey/Write failed., The job failed because a work item has failed 4 times. Look in previous log entries for the cause of each one of the 4 failures. For more information, see https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/docs/guides/common-errors. Root cause: Work item failed.",
        "labels": {
            "dataflow.googleapis.com/region": "us-central1",
            "dataflow.googleapis.com/job_name": "jobname-test-01/11/2022-18:11:31",
            "dataflow.googleapis.com/job_id": "2022-01-11_10_11_31-8608721464069559920",
            "dataflow.googleapis.com/log_type": "system"
        },
        "resource": {
            "labels": {
                "region": "us-central1",
                "job_name": "jobname-test-01/11/2022-18:11:31",
                "step_id": "",
                "project_id": "{PROJECT_ID}",
                "job_id": "2022-01-11_10_11_31-8608721464069559920"
            },
            "type": "dataflow_step"
        },
        "logName": "projects/{PROJECT_ID}/logs/dataflow.googleapis.com%2Fjob-message"
    },
    "resource": {
        "type": "cloud_function",
        "labels": {
            "region": "europe-west1",
            "project_id": "{PROJECT_ID}",
            "function_name": "cf-dataflow-status-checker"
        }
    },
    "timestamp": "2022-01-11T18:16:01.692Z",
    "severity": "ERROR",
    "labels": {
        "execution_id": "aoov0zbhutdn"
    },
    "logName": "projects/{PROJECT_ID}/logs/cloudfunctions.googleapis.com%2Fcloud-functions",
    "trace": "projects/{PROJECT_ID}/traces/d149bc4fa2472054cf3fe0ec19e2b545",
    "receiveTimestamp": "2022-01-11T18:16:02.110779678Z"
}

I have copied the json to my code editor and it works perfectly...
Anyone knows whats happening?

EDIT
I have updated the code and parsed the response as JSON, but it still wrong (same error).
Surprisingly, seems like the log message has changed the format too:
pubsub_message = {
    "textPayload": "{'insertId': '4gfbllciqn', 'labels': {'dataflow.googleapis.com/job_id': '2022-01-17_02_07_14-4281631210038640640', 'dataflow.googleapis.com/job_name': 'Venezuela-synthetic_scenarios-01/17/2022-10:07:13', 'dataflow.googleapis.com/log_type': 'system', 'dataflow.googleapis.com/region': 'us-central1'}, 'logName': 'projects/{PROJECT_ID}/logs/dataflow.googleapis.com%2Fjob-message', 'receiveTimestamp': '2022-01-17T10:11:17.255522361Z', 'resource': {'labels': {'job_id': '2022-01-17_02_07_14-4281631210038640640', 'job_name': 'Venezuela-synthetic_scenarios-01/17/2022-10:07:13', 'project_id': '667130676776', 'region': 'us-central1', 'step_id': ''}, 'type': 'dataflow_step'}, 'severity': 'ERROR', 'textPayload': 'Workflow failed.... Root cause: Work item failed.', 'timestamp': '2022-01-17T10:11:15.981800283Z'}",
    "insertId": "000002-df693556-bc20-468a-990b-6a65c48d9c63",
    "resource": {
        "type": "cloud_function",
        "labels": {
            "project_id": "{PROJECT_ID}",
            "function_name": "cf-dataflow-status-checker",
            "region": "europe-west1"
        }
    },
    "timestamp": "2022-01-17T10:11:23.323Z",
    "labels": {
        "execution_id": "gbvxjxdemkou"
    },
    "logName": "projects/{PROJECT_ID}/logs/cloudfunctions.googleapis.com%2Fcloud-functions",
    "trace": "projects/{PROJECT_ID}/traces/114aa720bc030b439943e11b21b330e2",
    "receiveTimestamp": "2022-01-17T10:11:23.697331318Z"
}

A: Your pubsub_message is a string and needs to be parsed as JSON. Use something like the following:
pubsub_message = json.loads(base64.b64decode(event['data']))

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COVID-19 Update: Virus in All 50 States; 'Into the Swamp'; Italy Taps 10,000 Student Doctors
— A daily roundup of news on the novel coronavirus outbreak
by Judy George, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today March 18, 2020
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COVID-19 now is in every U.S. state as West Virginia confirmed its first case. (NPR)
European Union member states voted unanimously to close all 27 nations to most non-EU residents for the next 30 days, and the U.S. and Canada are working to close off their shared border outside of essential travel. (CNBC, Reuters)
No official data have been released by the CDC or any other agency, but an anonymous federal official said the government has received reports of more than 60 COVID-19 infections among healthcare workers. (Washington Post)
The current case count in the U.S. (as of 8:00 a.m. EDT Wednesday) is 6,496 -- up 40% since Tuesday -- and the number of deaths is 114.
Globally, the number of new coronavirus cases tops 200,000, and for a fifth straight day, new imported cases in China outpace local infections. (Reuters)
What's known about the first 100 U.S. deaths, according to a CNN tally from state health officials.
Doctors fear bringing COVID-19 home: "I am dipping myself into the swamp every day." (New York Times)
With more than 2,500 deaths and counting, Italy will tap 10,000 student doctors to work in primary care settings, so more experienced physicians can staff the country's rapidly filling hospitals. (Reuters)
As the Federal Reserve and White House announced plans to blunt the economic effect of the coronavirus pandemic, stocks rebounded Tuesday, with the S&P 500 up 6% and the Dow Jones average rising 5.2% after Monday's ugly performance. (CNBC)
Japanese public health investigators detailed the coronavirus's march among Diamond Princess crew members. (MMWR)
Kevin Durant is one of four Brooklyn Nets players testing positive for the coronavirus; the Los Angeles Lakers -- the Nets' last opponent before NBA games were suspended -- will be tested today. (ESPN)
Dollar General, Stop & Shop, and Food Town are among retailers reserving the first hour of each operating day for senior customers. (Newsweek)
Quarantined to entertain an audience: contestants from the reality show Big Brother around the world have been locked in houses with no idea about the pandemic outside. In Germany, they'll be told on live TV. (Vanity Fair)
A primary care doctor and public health researcher look at best social distancing practices. (The New Yorker)
And a psychotherapist offers a guide to staying sane during a pandemic. (The Atlantic)
Italy may extend its coronavirus lockdown beyond April 3 as its number of diagnosed cases climbs beyond 30,000. (Bloomberg)
"We have never seen anything like this," an Italian anesthesiologist writes in the New York Times. "My country's health care system may soon collapse."


Normally we'd be having a meeting this Wednesday night (third Wednesday), but we're going to skip that for this month. Instead here are a couple of other opportunities to do GAIT stuff in the next few weeks.
This Saturday 4/18 GAIT will have a table at the city's Earth Day event in the Pickering Barn during the farmers' market. If you want to spend some time talking to people about walk/bike/bus transportation and GAIT, I could use some company and help.
Next Saturday 4/25 GAIT will again have a table in the barn, this time for the Hobby and Volunteer Fair. I could use help at this event too, so let me know if you have some time that day.
The last Saturday is usually our trash walk day, but it's being pre-empted by Hobby and Volunteer Fair. Instead we'll do our next GAIT Trash Walk on Saturday 5/2. The location this time is the Sammamish Trail which is the trail that runs along the north side of SE 56th Street by the soccer fields across from PCC and Costco. I'll send a reminder a few days before identifying our starting point.
Wednesday 4/29 at 7pm in the Eagle Room at the police station is another opportunity to find out about the new group Sustainable Issaquah. At the earlier kick-off meeting, groups formed to start a community garden, to work on home energy efficiency, to promote local businesses, as well as several other focus areas.
Monday 5/4 at 7:30pm at the City Council's regular meeting, the city will be holding a public hearing on the draft 2010-2015 Transportation Improvement Program. This is the list of projects the city hopes to build in the next five years. You can view the draft plan and a map.


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Buffalo-Style Pizza Trail
Buffalo-style pizza has long been a relative secret, inspiring passionate debate locally, but little known outside Western New York. That's started to change. Buffalo was named one of America's favorite cities for pizza by Travel + Leisure, and the cup-and-char pepperoni trend crossing the country (written about in The Wall Street Journal) shows that in this case, Buffalo's long been ahead of its time.
If you're new to it, Buffalo-style pizza features a slim, sometimes non-existent crust coast-line with ingredients out to, and often over the edges, a thick, airy undercarriage with little structural integrity that's topped by a sweet sauce and enough cheese to guarantee a stringy pull. If you were going to use other regional styles to describe it, you might say it features a Chicago amount of cheese with a Motor City trim, a Maine undercarriage, and a New York City soul. But cup-and-char pepperoni is the baseline, and hey, its heart is all Buffalo.
If you only have time for two pizzerias, you must hit Bocce Club Pizza and La Nova, but here's a to-do list of Buffalo's top 10 pizzas for a more thoroughly saucy slicefest.
Bocce Club Pizza
Buffalo's O.G. pizzeria began in 1946 as a bocce club downtown until bartender Dino Pacciotti bought it, experimented with an oven he found in the basement and started turning out pies so popular parishioners of a nearby church began skipping mass for pizza. They moved a 20-minute drive north to Bailey Avenue in 1959, but over the years, Bocce's believers have grown legion and for good reason. Imagine a New York slice with a soft crust and a focaccia undercarriage, but with three times the cheese, twice the sauce, and so much pepp and cheese that they surge over the edge. It's gooey, gorgeous and pure gluttony. Love at first slice.
Macy's Place Pizzeria
Father-and-son team John and Nick Argy took over Macy's in 2009 (founder Chuck Maciejewski, opened it in 2002), a tiny spot on a quiet stretch of Genesee Street that would be easy to drive by if not for the statue of a chef on the roof. Cheese is the focus here—Macy's goes light on salt and sauce—and the one-day fermented dough is sweeter than the typical Buffalo slice. There's a modest 10 cup-and-char Margherita pepperoni rounds per slice (a third with browned edges, but all cupped), a light film of zesty grease across the top of the cheese, which seeps over the edges, and a pleasing crunch-crack to the crust. This tidy triangle resembles a little magic pizza carpet, a concentrated version of Buffalo-style pie worth a ride to Cheektowaga.
Deniro's Pizzeria
Deniro's is a tiny pizzeria with a yellow awning around the corner from the Duff's on Dick Road. Their classic cup-and-char pizza is a lion of a pie. Most slices don't have less than 12 rounds of pepperoni (some have twice that) providing a burst of spicy pepper flavor and 'roni edge crackle with every bite. There's ample cheese with cheese pulls on bites midway through the slice—but not so much you can't see the sauce, which is thoroughly, though not swimmingly, applied. It's a bendy slice with a soft undercarriage and little crispiness except at the crust, which is dark at the very edge and tastes delicious. Unless there's someone you really love who you need to get back to with food, this is quintessential parking lot pizza: place on the passenger seat, flip open, eat, repeat. (Just a 10-minute drive to the airport, Deniro's is a terrific first or last bite on the way in or out of town).
Santora's Pizzeria
Expansion hasn't been kind to Santora's rep, but its 1927 founding actually makes it Buffalo's oldest pizzeria (and arguably, America's sixth oldest). And founder Fioravanti Santora's legacy can be enjoyed in Depew (Santora's oldest spot, it opened in 1970) where owner Larry Santora says they go their own way. The white-pockmarked undercarriage is poofier than most Buffalo-style pizzas but well-browned, its crust lined with a blackened edge where the cheese turns crusty. The sauce is sweet, the pepperoni is charred, there's a crispy-crackly bite, and a hot melted cheese string stretches cartoon-like as you bite. While it looks less like the thin round pies of yesteryear found in old photos on Santora's website, and more like the Bocce Club Pizza style that has become so popular around town, one thing's clear: this is a great Buffalo pizza.
Imperial Pizza
Pizza Success, Pizza Perfect, Skyway Pizza, Southtown Pizza, Paradise Pizza—these are the names David Powers considered for Imperial, which he opened with partner Jim Bouris in 1992. Of course, now it seems it could never have been otherwise. If you see a similarity to Bocce, say the fact they serve portions of a full 18-inch pizza as their "sizes," there's a reason: the partners worked at Bocce (this also used to be a Bocce). The baseline cup-and-char is on the cheesier end with slice pies that are light on the char (though a slightly burnt crunchy 'roni edge adds nuance). There's a thick layer of sauce, a poofy, inch-deep incline to the crispy-edged crust with a deep-red dried-out sauce that leaves behind a concentrated sweetness like the memory of a crest of a summer wave. Imperial may only have one location, but with a pie like this, its empire of South Buffalo and the surroundings seem safe from all comers.
Artone's Pizza & Subs
Artone's is just a sliver of a place on Seneca Street in South Buffalo with a yellow sign out front, but the inside bleeds red, white, and blue with a series of patriotic signs that say things like, "This America. We play in the snow… we eat chicken wings and pizza. We love football." It's enough to make you want to order both and start a pickup game, but you'll settle for a slice. Artone's sauce has a classic sweet Buffalo bent (you can actually see tomato seeds in the sauce), the pepperoni is picture-worthy cup-and-char, and the cornicione has a 1/4-inch brown lip that is crispy and thin. There's a lighter brown strip about the same size, a bit thicker, that joins the edge to the rest of the crust. And the sauce coastline starts before the cheese.
Lovejoy Pizza
The downtown spot is Lovejoy's second, opened in 2012 (the original was opened with John Skotarczak in1998 in the 'hood for which it was named). Kulik prefers a dark finish, and there's actually a little restraint when it comes to cheese and pep—there's more cheese than on a New York slice, but not so much more that it doesn't leave bare the puffy under-crust and complete saucing. There's a bit of a gumline and not tons of color on the undercarriage, but unlike many Buffalo-style pies, there's a little crunch. Lovejoy's free crust upgrades—garlic, sesame, onion, poppy, hot pepper, Cajun seasoning, and deluxe (everything)—put it in a tier of places that go that extra step. They also do a great chicken finger pizza, and some of the best stuffed hot peppers you'll ever have. In recent years, there's been a call out by The Buffalo News that Lovejoy should be named to the city's list of pizza icons. For good reason.
La Nova Pizzeria
La Nova almost seems like a cousin of Bocce's style, but one whose parents were New York City transplants—the pies are thinner and crispier, and while cheese and pepperoni sneak out past the crust in places, there are untopped spots to get a handle on your slice. Of course, it has had a similarly long run—it was established by "Papa" Joe Todaro in Tonawanda in 1957, and moved to its iconic West Side location in 1973. There are at least 21 toppings to choose from and nearly as many specialty pies, but one of the most unheralded and delicious aspects of La Nova is the ability to customize your crust (already a revelation) for free with sesame seeds, onion, garlic, Cajun spice, or Parmigiano-Reggiano.
Mister Pizza
Founded by Anthony Colicchia in 1996, Mister Pizza is a well-lit takeout spot on the corner of Elmwood and Bird. There are nearly 60 subs, almost 20 wing sauces, tacos, wraps, garlic bread, poppers, calzones, salads, and dinners. And this is Buffalo's Rosetta stone of pizza menus—there are some 40 pizzas (double La Nova). Given its rep for inconsistency and slow service, some might argue they ought to pare down the menu. But when Mister Pizza is on, it's on. The first difference is the cheese. There's just more of it, and in a cheese-loving town, that says something. It seeps over the side and quickly spreads a quarter-inch away from the slice in seconds. The siren call of the glistening 17 pepperoni slices should prevent that from happening though. There's a thin layer of a well-spiced, deep-red acidic sauce not as thick as most places. This pizza is a chewy, cheese indulgent slice, and if that's your jam, Mister Pizza's an all-star.
– Arthur Bovino
Arthur Bovino is a restaurant, food media, and travel writer, The Daily Meal's founding Eat/Dine editor, author of Buffalo Everything: A Guide to Eating in the Nickel City and the Buffalo Cookbook: 70 Recipes From the Nickel City, and a graduate of New York City's International Culinary Institute.
Bocce Club Pizza – Amherst
4174 North Bailey Avenue
Amherst, NY, 14226
Stop #1: Bocce Club Pizza (4174 Bailey Ave, Buffalo, NY 14226)
Stop #2: Macy's Place Pizzeria (3348 Genesee Street, Cheektowaga, 14225)
Stop #3: Deniro's Pizzeria (2251 George Urban Blvd, Depew, NY 14043)
Stop #4: Santora's Pizzeria (3440 Transit Road, Depew, 14043)
Stop #5: Imperial Pizza (1035 Abbott Road, Buffalo, 14220)
Stop #6: Artone's Pizza & Subs (1882 Seneca Street, Buffalo, 14210)
Stop #7: Lovejoy Pizza (900 Main Street, Buffalo. 14202)
Stop #8: La Nova Pizzeria (371 W Ferry St, Buffalo, NY 14213)
Stop #9: Mister Pizza (1065 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, 14222)
2251 George Urban Boulevard
Depew, NY, 14043
3440 Transit Road
1035 Abbott Road
1882 Seneca Street
1244 East Lovejoy Street
La Nova Pizzeria – Buffalo
371 West Ferry Street
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Something Old, Something Newmont
By Grist staff on Jan 4, 2005
Mining giant Newmont continues to juggle pollution claims and lawsuits
The last two weeks have seen a continued flurry of activity surrounding charges that mining giant Newmont fouled the environment and sickened villagers around its operations in Indonesia's Buyat Bay. The New York Times revealed a 2001 internal memo from a Newmont VP recommending a cut in executive bonuses (horrors!) because the company had claimed — falsely — to adhere to American environmental standards in its global operations. The Times also exposed an internal company audit revealing that Newmont's Indonesian operation spewed some 17 tons* of mercury into the air and 16 tons into the water over four years — an amount that a U.S. EPA staffer called "a major concern." Later, a coalition of Buyat villagers dropped their lawsuit against the company, saying Indonesia's courts could not be relied on for a fair verdict. The company dropped its lawsuit against three activists. Indonesian officials did not drop their lawsuit against top Newmont officials. And finally, Newmont sought permission from U.S. regulators to block a shareholder motion that would require the company to perform an audit of its waste-disposal operations in Indonesia. After all, why do such an audit when everything seems to be going so smoothly?
*[Correction, 03 Jan 2005: This summary originally stated that 17 million tons of mercury were released into the air and 16 million tons into the water. In fact, it was only 17 tons and 16 tons, respectively.]


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CBP & USCG Celebrate 230th Anniversary of First Arriving International Vessel
Written by Imperial Valley News
Category: National News
Port of New York/Newark, New Jersey - U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U. S. Coast Guard (USCG) at the Port of New York/Newark held an event highlighting the 230th Anniversary of the legacy agency U.S. Customs Service, which preceded CBP, by greeting and processing an arriving international vessel marking the anniversary of the first foreign vessel to be processed in the United States at the Port of New York/Newark.
The first ship to usher in this era under the new Customs regulations entered the port of New York on August 5, 1789, less than a week after the Agency was established. The brigantine Persis sailed from Italy into New York Harbor carrying various goods consigned to William Seton, a successful importer who also served as cashier of the Bank of New York under Alexander Hamilton. Seton paid a duty of $774.41, the first collected by the United States.
230 years ago, on July 31, 1789, the Fifth Act of the First United States Congress created customs collection districts and regulated the collection of duties on ship's tonnage and merchandise at our first ports of entry. These duties funded virtually the entire U.S. Government over the next century. Revenue collected through Customs strengthened government infrastructure, financed construction of cities and buildings, and paid for the operation of the ports.
"Today, exactly 230 years later, we welcome the Maersk Kinloss and Captain Murray to the Port of New York/Newark. Things have changed just a bit. The Kinloss carries thousands of cargo containers. Each container can hold more cargo than the entire Persis, and a handful would weigh more than the entire ship. Just one shipment is valued at over 5.6 million dollars with an approximate duty of $565, 000," said Troy Miller, Director of CBP's New York Field Office.
"The Coast Guard has enjoyed an outstanding partnership with US Customs throughout our entire history. We are honored to be part of this momentous occasion commemorating US Customs' 230 years of dedicated service to our country, and we look forward to celebrating many more years of teamwork," said Captain Jason Tama, USCG Sector New York Commander.
"US Customs took the approach of integrating security into commercial operations and establishing global partnerships which has benefited our industry's customers from port of loading overseas to final delivery at our customer's distribution center. Working together with US Customs and the US Coast Guard is vital to our nation's economy and keeping our port commerce safe, secure and flowing, said Mark Tierney, Head of Corporate Security & Regulatory for Maersk in the Americas."
By the early twentieth-century, New York was the world's busiest port and generated substantial revenue for the United States Custom Service and the Federal Government.


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Elizabeth Arden Net Loss Narrows for 4th Quarter
For the year, net loss widened to $246.3 million, and sales declined 16.6 percent to $971.1 million.
By Molly Prior on August 6, 2015
Elizabeth Arden Inc. said it put a lot of elbow grease into fiscal 2015, as it worked to shine up its flagship brand and improve its fragrance business.
"We're coming out of a very difficult transformation period over the last two years," E. Scott Beattie, Arden's chairman and chief executive officer, told Wall Street analysts during the company's earnings call on Thursday.
During the fourth quarter, Arden narrowed its net loss attributable to the company to $108.7 million, or $3.65 a diluted share, compared with a net loss of $155.9 million, or $5.24 a share, in the year-ago period.
Net sales for the three months ended June 30 declined 8.5 percent to $175.5 million, compared with $191.7 million in the year-earlier period.
By region, net sales in North America declined 14 percent, and international sales gained 4 percent.
For the year, net loss attributable to Arden widened to $246.3 million, or $8.26 a diluted share, compared with a net loss of $145.7 million, or $4.90 a share.
Net sales for the year declined 16.6 percent to $971.1 million, compared with $1.16 billion.
Beattie said the company has worked to elevate its flagship Elizabeth Arden brand and tighten its distribution.
"This brand has high levels of awareness and a relatively low level of penetration," said Beattie. "All of the tough decisions we've made in terms of tightening our distribution, I think it absolutely can provide multiple years of substantial growth. But what we have to do is start showing that growth consistently and prove to our stakeholders and to ourselves that we're on the right track and that we're doing it and executing it."
In the quarter, adjusted net sales of the Elizabeth Arden brand declined 2 percent, but gained 7 percent in constant currency.
Beattie said, "This is the second consecutive quarter of sales growth for the Elizabeth Arden brand. The 7 percent constant currency increase this quarter is on top of a 9 percent constant currency increase in the third fiscal quarter. This gives us confidence as we head into the launch of the new Elizabeth Arden brand marketing campaign this fall, which is accompanied by a richer innovation pipeline."
The brand also has a change in leadership. On Monday, JuE Wong assumed the post of president of the Elizabeth Arden brand, a newly created role at the company.
Prior to Wong's appointment, Arden's former chief marketing officer had overseen the Arden brand and the company's fragrance portfolio, a role which Beattie acknowledged was "too complex."
With Wong overseeing the Arden brand and Joel Ronkin as president of the fragrance business, Beattie said, "We'll become much more agile on both business." He noted the company "will become simpler" and have less handoffs between functions.
During the quarter, Arden put its fragrance business under review, as part of its ongoing Performance Improvement Plan, which was introduced in 2014.
It reported that celebrity scents, which have seen sales fall off, now account for 5 percent of Arden's total sales. The company said it remains committed to the fragrance segment, but has introduced lower pricing for some brands and also introduced more value-laden body sprays.
Arden also signed a joint venture agreement for the Southeast Asia region with Luxasia, whose specific expertise is in Asia, and expects to commence operations in late September.
Beattie said, "We have great brands. We have a track record of success that we will return to, and our people have been incredibly dedicated during difficult times, and it is my objective to return our business to the growth and success that we've had in the past but built on a much stronger, more sustainable, profitable base of business."
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