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With BoJo now firmly encamped in Downing Street, could Right-wing Unionism be about to enjoy a boost it has not seen since the famous Reagan/Thatcher era? That's the poser political commentator, Dr John Coulter, addresses in his Fearless Flying Column today.
The Right-wing 'dream ticket' of The Donald in the White House and BoJo in Downing Street has finally become a reality - but will it yield the necessary results for the political Right-wing in the British Isles, or will Northern Ireland Unionists face another political stab in the back from a Tory regime?
The DUP by now will have drawn up a new shopping list of demands in return for the Confidence and Supply arrangements with the Conservative party in the House of Commons; the main problem being there's no Stormont power-sharing Executive to implement the 'magic money' spending spree.
What the DUP must ensure is that BoJo remains as Prime Minister for as long as possible because obviously the new Tory PM will have the long-term aim of guaranteeing a Conservative majority in Westminster without having to rely on the votes from other parties - and that includes the DUP.
Likewise, if BoJo is to win the next Commons General Election, he will have to unite his own party. Could the price of reconciliation between the Leave and Remain wings of Conservatism be a ditching of the DUP - no matter how secular the latter's spin doctors try to rebrand the party's image?
The target for the DUP will also be to get decision-making elected representatives back in power in Northern Ireland, whether that be at Stormont, or Direct Rule from Westminster. The DUP can boast - until the political cows come home - about the extra millions of pounds it is securing for the Province, but decisions still have to be taken as to who and how this dosh is spent.
During the time that the Ulster Unionists were the main Unionist party in Northern Ireland under the leadership of former Lagan Valley MP, the late Jim Molyneaux, it should be remembered he was a committed integrationist.
He made no secret of his distrust of devolution, and that the Direct Rule Northern Ireland Office should be manned by Northern Ireland MPs, not fly in/fly out Tory or Labour MPs from the mainland.
Could part of a new deal with the Tories be positions for DUP MPs as Junior Ministers in a Direct Rule Northern Ireland Office, even a seat at the Cabinet table?
The DUP knows the main sticking points for a return to Stormont would be same-sex marriage, more liberal abortion laws and an Irish Language Act. If the DUP rubbed out these three red lines, the Shinners would restore the partitionist Assembly and times could return to the successful era of the 'Chuckle Brothers' as existed under the late Paisley senior and McGuinness.
Then again, if the DUP can delay any return of Stormont until after 21 October, same-sex marriage and more liberal abortion laws will be introduced to Northern Ireland by Westminster, allowing the DUP to blame the Commons for such moves.
Westminster could even introduce an Irish Language Act for Northern Ireland. How would abstentionist Sinn Fein MPs explain that to their constituents - if you want something done, go directly to the British Government! How much more could be achieved if Sinn Fein abandoned abstentionism?
But all these three red lines for Sinn Fein run contrary to the DUP's core vote in the Christian Churches. If the DUP was to agree to same-sex marriage, more liberal abortion laws and an Irish Language Act, how big would the rebellion be among Christian evangelicals and fundamentalists?
The reality is that the DUP 2019 under former Ulster Unionist Arlene Foster is not the same political beast that was launched in 1971 under the late Rev Ian Paisley. The UUP always had a liberal wing to its political broad church, so has a secular section been slowly developing in the post Paisley era?
If the DUP was to become more publicly secular like a section of the UUP, would the pro-Union community witness mass defections from the DUP to either Jim Allister's TUV, or a rebranded Right-wing UUP?
Or, is it a case that evangelicals and fundamentalists in Northern Ireland no longer enjoy the same influence in politics as the Catholic Church once enjoyed in the Republic before the clerical abuse scandals erupted?
When the DUP was launched in Northern Ireland in 1971, could a situation have been imagined then that within half a century, the Republic - one of the greatest bastions of Catholicism outside of the Vatican - would vote overwhelmingly for same-sex marriage, and more liberal abortion and divorce laws, as well as have an openly gay Taoiseach.
The Catholic Church has lost its grip politically in the 26 Counties. Granted, there may be regions and parishes which will remain loyal out of tradition to the Church as an institution. Put bluntly, the old Unionist war cry of 'Home Rule Means Rome Rule' has been dumped into the theological dustbin.
This could lead to a startling debate which must be addressed within the current pro-Union community in Ireland - if BoJo cannot deliver a Brexit deal which protects the stability of the island's economy, north and south of the Irish border, is some form of Irish unity on the cards?
Could even the threat of a united Ireland, even the loss of a border poll, be the catalyst which brings about the political holy grail of Unionist unity? In a united Ireland, the pro-Union community (it would have to be known as something else!) would be the largest minority in an all-island Parliament, and would always be in power as a minority partner.
Likewise, what would be the point of Sinn Fein's existence if there was a united Ireland? It would be the same as asking - why would the UK need a Brexit Party or UKIP if the UK had left the European Union?
Would voters across the island of Ireland really vote for Sinn Fein in the event of Irish unity, for a party which is so left-wing it want to convert the island into some type of 21st century communist Cuba or the old Marxist East Germany?
Mind you, if BoJo can pull off the impossible - namely, a Brexit deal minus an Irish backstop, the Southern Irish economy will plunge into meltdown.
Currently, the EU negotiators are vehement that there must be a backstop. The EU cannot afford to give the UK a generous economic divorce deal otherwise the growing populist movements in France, Germany, Hungary and Poland will be banging on Brussels' doors to get similar deals for their respective nations.
The EU must show to the remaining 27 states that 'leave' will be an exceptionally painful economic nightmare. BoJo will have to play political hardball over the coming weeks, but his administration will have to decide which is the best Right-wing goal - Brexit by 31 October; Tory party unity; a new deal with the DUP to keep the Tories in power, or the healing groundwork to ensure an outright Conservative victory at the next Westminster General Election.
The pro-Union community in Northern Ireland must, in the meantime, discover which of these directions a BoJo Government will opt for.
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Fast Facts: What are High Seas Forecasts?
NOAA's High Seas Forecasts are weather forecasts and data transmitted around the world in real- and near-real-time.
The National Weather Service provides High Seas forecasts for large areas of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, U.S. coastal areas and the Great Lakes.
Seafaring can be very dangerous for ships at sea. For centuries, little could be done to make shipping safer, due to the unpredictability of the weather, the vast size of the ocean and a lack of international cooperation in the open ocean. However, the 1912 sinking of the "unsinkable" Titanic, with more than 1,500 casualties, sparked global concern about safety and standards for ships at sea. This tragedy would lead to new international conventions that established safety requirements and provided more accurate and standardized weather forecasts.
Today, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), an agency of the United Nations, provides real- or near-real-time weather forecasts and data that are transmitted around the world. The WMO's Global Observing System relies on member countries, which use their facilities on land, at sea and in space via satellites, to forecast weather conditions. Together, these resources allow meteorological and other environmental observations on a global scale.
As a member of WMO, NOAA's National Weather Service, through its Ocean Prediction Center, provides High Seas Forecasts for large areas of the U.S. Atlantic and Pacific oceans, as well as for U.S. coastal areas and the Great Lakes. The Center's Unified Surface Analysis of world weather also provides data on a complex set of surface observations. These forecasts from NOAA, as well as predictions from other member countries of the WMO, are available to anyone, and, most importantly, to all ships at sea.
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If there is a theme that binds these three scriptures, it must be HOPE. Not a short-term, easily disappointed hope, but a hope that holds on and recognizes that whatever is accomplished quickly is never as good as that which is accomplished with care. As the Indian hotel manager of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel says, "Things always turn out well in the end, so if it is not going well, one must know that it is not yet the end."


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Rabbi Andy Bachman (holding the challah) with members of his congregation. Photo: Peter Rad
Like many first encounters with Rabbi Andy Bachman, Leah Rosen's didn't take place in a synagogue. Rosen, a social worker, and her fiancé, Matt Schrag, who works in Internet advertising, were shopping for a wedding officiant and had arranged to meet their new rabbi in a Park Slope Starbucks. They'd begun chatting when a vaguely familiar song came on the sound system. The couple couldn't place it—but Bachman, dressed as usual like an indifferent fortysomething dad, could: "The Killing Moon," by Echo and the Bunnymen.
"We were like, 'Oh, my God, he's a rabbi?'" Rosen recalls.
It's rare, of course, to find a rabbi with such indie-rock fluency—but it's even rarer to find one who's not flogging that knowledge in an effort to seem hip with the kids. Such is the appeal of Bachman, a religious leader who balances worldly knowledge and approachability with a spiritual detachment therefrom. If you are a young, unaffiliated, but searching Jew in the city, you've probably heard his name over the past year. If you're one of his followers, you may have seen him at Jewltide, a Christmas Eve "alternative to Chinese food and a movie" that kicked off in 2003 with a Matisyahu concert at Southpaw, or been to his High Holiday services in Prospect Park. Or yours may just be one of the 100 families that have joined Park Slope's Congregation Beth Elohim since July, when he took over as head rabbi of the large but stagnant Reform synagogue. Since the 43-year-old came onboard, it's seen a 20 percent rise in membership at a time when synagogue affiliation nationwide is flat. The growth has come almost entirely from young couples with children, and Bachman has lured them to a synagogue whose physical appearance and reputation are conspicuously Establishment. One of the newest members, in fact, is Douglas Rushkoff—author of 2003's Nothing Sacred, one of the harshest condemnations of institutional Judaism ever written. Says Rushkoff, "If I didn't know Andy personally, nothing would get me in there," he says. "It's this 21st-century Judaism in this nineteenth-century facility."
Despite such praise, Bachman himself is skeptical of "hipster Judaism," the kind that fetishizes kitschy bar mitzvah photos. He learned the limits of a purely cultural approach when he was interim director of Reboot, the nonprofit whose projects have included retreats for Jewish power-networking and the reissue of irony-laden records like Jewface, an anthology of "Jewish minstrel songs." Such enterprises were "designed to till the soil of a certain generation," Bachman now says. "And that's fine. But there's still a life to live. What do I do about a Bris for my son? High Holidays? Marriage? That's by far the more important work."
Though many congregation members call his relaxed style a breath of fresh air after years of enduring scolding from aloof religious elders, Bachman himself isn't rebelling against a stultifying upbringing. The son of a Lutheran mother who converted to Judaism and a Jewish father, he describes a mostly secular youth of obsessions with sports and politics. He only became serious about the Jewish religion, he says, as a student at the University of Wisconsin. (His brother is nonreligious, one of his sisters is Catholic, and one is a practicing Jew.) Bachman's career choices after rabbinical school—campus work at NYU, then at Reboot—would seem to indicate little interest in cultivating a traditional congregation.
But he was a new father meeting young Jewish families. They were looking for a community with which to worship, but synagogues were literal reminders of Sunday-school boredom. In 2003, Bachman, his wife, and a core group of their friends started the Brooklyn Jews group. At first, they were a few dozen people meeting for Friday-night dinners. But before long, the e-mail list had grown to 1,000 and hundreds were gathering for events. Members were mostly young, the group had no official building, and its events would mix drinking with Torah study. In those ways it seemed contemporary, but in one important way Bachman's vision was more nineteenth century than 21st: The group was organized around the embrace of proximity. In the old country, of course, where Jews were restricted to ghettos or clustered in shtetls, all rabbis were neighborhood rabbis. In Orthodox communities, where everyone must be close enough to synagogue to walk there on Saturdays, they still are. But when Reform Jews fled cities for the suburbs, they lost that kind of informal, associative relationship with their clergy. The rabbi became someone you saw only on the weekend.
Bachman's followers are neighbors, drawn mostly from the precincts of brownstone Brooklyn. "The concept of the 'neighborhood rabbi' is at the core of my work," Bachman says. "If I forget to make a call to a sick person, if I was too brusque with someone, if I missed an appointment, I hear about it immediately because we all live in the same neighborhood." Before taking the job at Beth Elohim, Bachman warned the hiring committee that he wouldn't be in the office much. Instead, he makes house calls (recently, he held one with Park Slope resident Andy Postman at Game 7 of the Mets-Cardinals playoff series).
But institutional Judaism is older than the Mets and will have more staying power than Southpaw. People keep coming back for a reason. For some it's prayer, for others holiday rituals, for others a place to organize their social activism. But more than anything, the seekers Bachman meets want a community distinct from the gym or the office. Bachman's given them a place to share their tradition and pass it on to their children without the pieties that drove so many of them away. He isn't really inventing anything new—he's just had the good sense not to abandon everything old.
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New agents for Birmingham shopping centre and retail park
Birmingham Press / 18 January, 2017
New owners for One Stop leads to investment plans.
Leading property agents, Cushman & Wakefield and Savills have been appointed as joint letting agents at One Stop Shopping Centre and Retail Park in Perry Barr, Birmingham.
Located three miles from the centre of Birmingham, the 380,000 sq ft scheme sits on a site of 28 acres and was constructed in 1990. It comprises two elements – a shopping centre anchored by Asda and a retail park. Key retailers include, Marks and Spencer's, New Look, Wilko, Nike and Sports Direct.
Cushman & Wakefield and Savills will be responsible for attracting new tenants to the centre and providing strategic leasing advice across the whole asset.
The appointment closely follows the £70 million acquisition of One Stop Shopping Centre and Retail Park by fund manager Europa Capital and Sovereign Centros from Standard Life Investments UK last month.
Adam Lazenbury, Partner in Cushman & Wakefield's Retail team, commented: "We are delighted to have been appointed by Sovereign Centros and Europa Capital to help them achieve their goal of delivering a shopping experience which meets the changing needs and requirements of the centre's catchment area. Significant changes are planned in the area and we look forward to helping take the asset forward in these exciting times."
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Huawei Mate 30 will still push through even without Google Apps
Huawei will still push through with launching Mate 30 without Google Apps
The Mate 30 model can work with 5G networks and will have a large camera with four lenses.
Huawei hopes that the White House will lift the restrictions that prevent US companies from cooperating with the Chinese producer, but that will not prevent it from launching its new phone, the Mate 30, even if it does not have the certified Android operating system and programming Google and its ecosystem, Reuters picked up on Wednesday referring to several company representatives.
"Huawei will continue to use the Android operating system if the US government allows us to do so. Otherwise, we will continue to develop our own operating system ," said Chinese multinational spokesman Joe Kelly.
In turn, the company's senior vice president and advisor, Vincent Pang, confirmed last week that Huawei wants to "maintain a standard, an ecosystem, a technology" and said the company's new phones will continue to be based on Android.
Also, a source cited by the agency maintains that the new device will be presented on September 18 in Munich (Germany), although the date of release to the market is unknown at the moment.
According to the previous leaks , the Mate 30 model can work with 5G networks and will have a large camera with four lenses .
Within the framework of a trade war between the US and China, Huawei is in the spotlight of Washington, which accuses it of spying for Beijing through its devices, something the company denies.
In May, the US Department of Commerce included the Chinese manufacturer in its commercial blacklist, which prevents US suppliers from negotiating with the company
Almost simultaneously, Google announced that it suspended its business in common with Huawei and that it will stop providing technical support and collaboration for the Android and Google services of that manufacturer
These circumstances pushed the company to develop its own operating system , whose launch was announced this month.
On August 19, the US Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, announced the extension of the temporary general license granted to those who trade with that Chinese company until November 19, given that "some US companies depend on [the technology from] Huawei, so we are giving them a little more time to adapt "
At the same time, the US Government decided to add another 46 subsidiaries of Huawei to its commercial 'blacklist'


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HUBZone expansion includes Archuleta County
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Gov. Jared Polis, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), and the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) announced the expansion of HUBZone, a program to support small businesses that hire low-income residents in Archuleta, El Paso, Mesa, Montrose, San Miguel and Weld counties with opportunities to compete in the federal marketplace.
According to Pagosa Springs Community Development Corporation Executive Director Emily Lashbrooke, "This expansion means any local industry has an opportunity to bid on a federal contract with an increased success rate, bringing in more federal dollars to our economy."
The HUBZone, or "historically underutilized business" zones, fuels small business growth with a goal of awarding at least 3 percent of federal contract dollars to HUBZone-certified companies each year.
The newly designated areas are now viewable on the SBA's HUBZone map as "Governor-Designated Covered Areas." To be eligible for this program, communities must have a population of 50,000 or fewer, an average unemployment rate of at least 120 percent of the average unemployment rate for the U.S. or state (whichever is lowest) and be located outside of an urbanized area.
"My administration is focused on bringing good-paying jobs for Coloradans, supporting rural small businesses, and ensuring every Coloradan can thrive. We welcome the latest HUBZones designation, which builds on our ongoing work supporting rural economic development and providing equitable access to good-paying jobs across Colorado," said Polis.
The program allows governors to apply each year to expand their zones by 10 percent of the current number of zones. Colorado intends to apply annually to maximize the impact of this program in rural Colorado.
"This expansion of HUBZone areas in Colorado is a big step in bringing rural communities into a national network of small businesses with access to valuable support resources and contracting programs to better leverage the federal marketplace," said SBA Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman. "We look forward to partnering with more small businesses in these newly designated regions and we're happy to see more requests from our governors to expand covered areas in their states to support economic growth."
"I'm incredibly proud of our Business Funding and Incentives and Rural Prosperity teams for partnering with the Colorado Procurement Technical Assistance Center (CO-PTAC) and persevering to get this expansion across the finish line," said OEDIT Executive Director Patrick Meyers. "This program will open countless doors for businesses and workers in our state's rural communities."
The CO-PTAC supports small businesses around Colorado in obtaining federal, state and local government contracts and was instrumental in supporting this expansion of HubZones in Colorado.
For information about the HUBZone program and to see all active zones in Colorado, visit www.sba.gov/hubzone. For information about the CO-PTAC, visit: www.coloradoptac.org.
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En la mitología griega, las Nefalias o Nefelias eran fiestas que celebraban los antiguos atenienses. Durante ellas, se hacían ofrendas y ceremonias religiosas dedicadas a Helios, a Selene, a Eos, a Afrodita, a ninfas, a las Euménides, a Urania, a Mnemósine y alguna vez a Dioniso, ofreciéndoles aguamiel, leche, con exclusión del vino, y quemando en los altares maderas de todas las especies menos cepa e higuera.

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Vulcan Materials has sued Martin Marietta in federal court, accusing the smaller gravel, sand and stone supplier of launching an illegal takeover attempt of Vulcan.
Vulcan, based in Birmingham, Ala., also on Wednesday strongly recommended that its shareholders not tender their stock to Martin Marietta, which announced a hostile bid for the company earlier this month.
Martin Marietta, based in Raleigh, N.C., has said it plans to take a stock offer directly to Vulcan shareholders after Vulcan cut off negotiations that started more than a year and a half ago.
Under the offer, valued at about $4.74 billion, Vulcan Materials Co. shareholders would get half a share of Martin Marietta Materials Inc. stock for each of their Vulcan shares. That offer valued Vulcan at $36.69 per share, a 9.4 percent premium, based on the stock's closing price Dec. 9, the last trading day before Martin Marietta's announcement.
Martin Marietta also said when it announced its bid that it had filed lawsuits in both Delaware Chancery Court and New Jersey state court to ensure Vulcan shareholders get a chance to consider its offer.


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What's the true cost of buying a home?
When you shop for clothes or groceries, you can usually rely on the price tag as a fairly accurate predictor of what you'll be paying in the checkout line. With real estate, what you see as the bottom line at first is rarely — if ever — what you ultimately pay. In fact, your new home comes with a never-ending invoice of expenses that can add up extraordinarily fast.
The hidden costs of ownership can be crippling if you're not prepared. Here's what you need to know in order to avoid the financial pitfalls.
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017 at 11:18pm.
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017 at 12:58am.
FSBOs are more costly than homeowners realize -- including lower sales prices and hidden fees.
Selling a home is a complicated transaction -- sellers and buyers alike can get burned with FSBOs.
Time costs money -- a FSBO costs the seller valuable time, and it takes longer to sell.
Judy (not her real name) in Raleigh, North Carolina, fell in love with a FSBO (For Sale By Owner) home. She agreed not to use an agent and paid the homeowner $3,000 in earnest money.


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Burgell, R. E. & Gibson, P. R., 1 Mar 2016, In : Digestive Diseases and Sciences. 61, 3, p. 655-657 3 p.
Burgell, R. E., Asthana, A. K. & Gibson, P. R., 1 Dec 2015, In : Minerva Gastroenterologica e Dietologica. 61, 4, p. 201-213 13 p.
Foley, A., Burgell, R., Barrett, J. S. & Gibson, P. R., 2014, In : Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 10, 9, p. 561 - 571 11 p.
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On June 1, 2010, eight families moved into nearly identical, superinsulated homes on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. South Mountain Company designed and built the LEED Platinum homes for the Island Housing Trust with the goal of allowing the residents to operate them at net-zero energy, using the 5 kW photovoltaic (PV) arrays on the roofs for power. In case the energy cost savings didn't provide enough incentive, South Mountain offered a reward to any household that came in at net-zero energy for the first year. Two families achieved this goal, and won their choice of a $400 dollar gift certificate at a local fish market or a one-year membership at the local CSA.
South Mountain installed equipment to allow submetering of all the major energy systems in the homes, providing an unprecedented window into exactly how the families use energy. A report by South Mountain engineer Marc Rosenbaum, P.E. highlights key insights from this experiment—among them the importance of collecting data monthly. Though variations from the estimated energy use will be greater on a monthly basis than on an annual basis, it allows users to catch meaningful anomalies more quickly. In the case of one family, the data helped discover that a child had turned off an exterior AC disconnect from the PV system during the first month, allowing that family to generate only 279 kWh instead of the 630 kWh that the other seven homes averaged.


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Japan's LNG imports drop in July
Japan's monthly LNG imports declined last month following a slight increase in June as the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic continues to affect demand.
For illustration purposes only (Image: Tokyo Gas)
The world's largest importer of LNG received 6.03 million tonnes of the fuel last month, down 11.5 percent from a year earlier and representing the sixth monthly decline in volumes this year.
In the January-July period, LNG imports dropped 6.5 percent to 42.40 million tonnes with the costs reaching about $20.1 billion.
This compares to 45.40 million tonnes and around $24.9 billion recorded last year, respectively.
July LNG imports cost Japan about $2.3 billion, a decline of nearly 33 percent year-on-year, according to the provisional data released by Japan's Ministry of Finance.
Last month's LNG deliveries from Asia from countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia dropped by 22 percent to 1.15 million tonnes, the data shows.
Middle East LNG shipments from sources like Qatar declined by 20.1 percent to 970.000 tonnes.
Shipments from Russia slid almost 27 percent to 391,000 tonnes while US deliveries surged 121 percent to 467,000 tonnes.
On the other side, Japan's monthly coal imports for power generation also declined.
Japan imported 8.88 million tonnes of coal in July, down 13.4 percent year-on-year, the ministry's data shows.
https://nsrp.vn/latest-article/japans-lng-imports-drop-in-july/


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Aroha Weaver
'I believe that we can learn so much from children...'
Bachelor of Teaching and Learning (Early Childhood)
'It is so rewarding to be a part of children's growth and to build those positive relationships with children and their whānau,' Aroha says of her experiences so far in Early Childhood Teaching studies. 'Each day is new and exciting and to witness and be a part of their curiosity and exploration is truly a gift. I believe that we can learn so much from children.'
With her mother having completed an Early Childhood Teaching degree from UC, Aroha has already had the opportunity to see and be a part of the learning development of young children.
'It was through visiting the centres she worked in and her passion that I discovered my own passion for children, and was therefore inspired to take on this career path at uni so I could learn the skills and knowledge I needed to assist children in their growth and development in these crucial years of their lives.'
Most of her studies focus on practical applications of teaching skills. Aroha has had placements at local early childhood centres where she can observe and assist the teachers and children in play and learning activities, as well as in lectures both online and on campus.
'These can often be quite interactive where everyone's ideas and opinions can be shared and acknowledged. Lectures can also be quite fun and hands on where we get involved and practice activities that can be used in centres.'
Aroha advises other teaching students to use these opportunities as best preparation for real classroom settings.
'Make the most of the resources you have available to you including lecturers (they really do know what they're talking about). Enjoy uni, make the most of it and keep a hold of the passion that brought you into teaching in the first place,' she says. 'Be open to the knowledge, information and opportunities that are available to you because there is always room to grow.'
With this in mind, she is also considering doing further study after completing her bachelor's degree, to gain a qualification in primary teaching.
'Currently I am absolutely loving teaching the younger ones, however, I want to explore and further build on my teaching knowledge and career, as well as leave my future career options open for both age groups.'
She has thoroughly enjoyed her studies so far with the close-knit teaching community at UC.
'I love the supportive environment and people. I have met some awesome people along the way and always feel as though I can confidently seek help and support from lecturers,' she says.
'I can confidently say that I have grown so much throughout my degree as a result of the support from my lecturers and class mates.'
Jessica Clarke
'I think living in a hall of residence gives you the opportunity to make endless friends...'
Mark Hamer
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TRU students band together to make an impact on the community
Students hope to surpass last year's donations for the Boys and Girls Club Power Start Program
News Nov. 20, 2019 Cailyn Mocci
Last year, Comazzetto saw great growth in the annual fun run. (Submitted)
Kamloops is set to come together, one ugly sweater at a time with the third annual Brennan's Ugly Sweater Run. Event founder and TRU Interdisciplinary student Payton Comazzetto shares her passion for the event in memory of her late brother Brennan.
"We're just trying to boost people's mental health at the beginning of the holiday season and also try and give back to the community as well," Comazzetto said.
Brennan's Ugly Sweater Run has been a passion project for Comazzetto dedicated to her brother Brennan who was tragically killed by a drunk driver in 1999. Brennan's favourite holiday had always been Christmas and many of the best memories Comazzetto held of her brother centred around Christmas, making the holiday season the best setting for her memorial event.
"His favourite holiday was Christmas and that was something that he and I really valued and loved. All my best memories of him are from that time of year," Comazzetto said.
In 2017, while studying psychology, Comazzetto found in her research into mental health that many people who have experienced mental illness saw a significant decline in mental health during the winter holiday season. This pushed Comazzetto to begin this event in hopes of getting people out and enjoying the scenery around them.
Brennan's Ugly Sweater Run started as a project for Comazzetto's Service Learning class; a credit that allows students to become involved in their community while also earning credits towards their degree program.
During her own research last year, Comazzetto found that people experienced a mental health improvement while exercising in nature as opposed to urban environments; thus validating the beautiful scenery of the route along the West Highlands Community Centre overlooking Kamloops.
For the third year, 100 per cent of donations raised will be sent directly to the Kamloops Boys and Girls Club Power Start Program in an effort to provide underprivileged school-aged children with a nutritious breakfast to start their day right.
Last year, the Ugly Sweater Run nearly tripled their 2017 attendance and double their organic donations from the previous year.
Comazzetto states that for their 2019 goal they hope to be able to feed 50 Kamloops students for a year. To reach this goal, Brennan's Ugly Sweater Run will have to bring in $12,500 in donations.
Comazzetto hopes that by providing this support in her community, her team will be able to reduce the trauma hunger causes for students as they grow and learn.
For the first time in the history of Brennan's Ugly Sweater Run, Comazzetto has been able to assemble a team to make 2019's run bigger and better than ever. Comazzetto is joined by five other TRU students from varying disciplines.
This year's event is set to be the best yet as the run grows each year. The route will be completely decorated making for the best holiday fun run as cheerful holiday music floods the route. To top it off, runners can enjoy a cup of hot chocolate or hot apple cider to keep the cheer going.
Runners are encouraged to come dressed in their ugliest Christmas sweater or holiday costume. Prizes for the best sweater and costume will be up for grabs on the day of the run.
It's not too late for runners to register. Pre-registration will be open until Nov. 30 at runforbrennan.com/register/ and TRU students can register to run with the AdventureU club on campus. Comazzetto will also be holding a Registration night at Runner's Sole on Nov. 22.
All registrees registered before Nov. 30 will be entered to win a slew of door prizes donated from the community.
To register you just need the means to move your body and a minimum of a $20 donation (per individual) or $10 for TRU students.
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Some final (?) thoughts on SOPA/PIPA
We did it! Apparently. Whatever "it" is.
Wednesday's "SOPA Strike" finally got the attention of Congress (and millions of confused high school and college slackers who had to endure 24 hours without access to Wikipedia, humanity's only known source of information). In the wake of the protests, sponsors of both the House and Senate bills "shelved" the bills.
For now, they're gone. But do you remember the end of Halloween, when Loomis shoots Michael and he falls out the window, and then when they look down a second time, he's gone? Yeah, that.*
Before I move on to other topics (hopefully forever), I just wanted to share some final thoughts about SOPA/PIPA.
1. They're not really dead. Sure, it's entirely possible that we'll never hear about SOPA/PIPA — by those names — again. But if you think the MPAA, RIAA, and their legions of highly paid lobbyists are going to let it all go this easily, you must be new here. As long as there's any chance that anything the entertainment industry owns is being copied illegally, which is to say, until copyright law is forgotten during the zombie apocalypse (which might just be led by Zombie SOPA itself), old media dinosaurs will continue to fight for their lives.
Actually dinosaurs employing an army of zombies to fight Internet cyborg pirates sounds like a perfect Hollywood movie idea. (Copyright 2012 Scott Anderson. All rights reserved.)
2. Piracy is not really the problem. Sure, piracy happens. Sure, it's illegal, and very probably even "wrong." But what's really wrong (as in, factually incorrect) is the idea that piracy translates directly into lost income for movie studios and record labels, or, as they (and their cronies in Congress) like to put it, lost jobs for gaffers and key grips and best boys and Foley artists and all of those other weirdly named jobs you see scrolling by in extremely small type at the very end of the ending credits of big Hollywood movies.
Yes, if Hollywood goes down, it's going to take those kinds of middle class jobs down with it. But trotting these people out to get the average person to support this legislation is not unlike Prolife Across America's billboards with pictures of babies and speech bubbles saying "I could wiggle my toes at 18 weeks!" Bear with me. Regardless of whether they're right or wrong on the issue, both tactics are designed to appeal on a very simple, gut emotional level, and to discourage critical thought about what's really going on, whose agenda is really being promoted, and what the implications of that agenda are.
Aside from the documented cases of entertainment industry lobbyists making egregious "errors" in their calculations of the numbers of jobs affected or the billions of dollars "lost" each year to piracy, there's the simple logical fallacy that every pirated movie or CD equates to a lost sale. On reflection, this should be obvious: many, if not most, of the people who are pirating a movie or an album were not likely to buy it otherwise.
Then again, sometimes getting a copy of an album from a friend turns a person into a lifelong fan of a musician. A personal example: in my life I have purchased every album ever released by both Rush and Yes, which is a lot (there are 31 Rush albums and 29 Yes albums in my iTunes library right now), several of them multiple times, as each new remastered version is released. I have seen these two bands in concert a combined 8 times. I've bought their concert videos on VHS and DVD. In all I've probably spent over $2000 in the past 20 years on my Rush and Yes obsessions. And it all began because a friend made me cassette copies of A Show of Hands and Classic Yes (both of which I subsequently purchased on CD) back in high school.
So, you see, piracy is not really the problem in two ways: 1) an instance of piracy doesn't necessarily mean a lost sale up front, and 2) copying now may lead to a lot of purchasing later.
3. Copyright is broken anyway. The other day I mentioned that copyright law had been changed to allow Disney to retain exclusive rights to Mickey Mouse. In fact, the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 was even referred to as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act! I'm not against copyright, per se. I believe that the creators of original works should reserve the right to decide how their works are used and distributed, and to profit from their efforts.
But I also believe that an ever-changing law that allows that protection to extend in perpetuity, long after the creator's death, is counterproductive and harmful to the free exchange of ideas within a society. I'm firmly against software patents for the same reason. In fact, I'm even more against software patents than I am against indefinite copyright extension, but that's a topic for another post. But I think it's worth mentioning that I am equally, or even more so, opposed to protectionism in my own field than I am in the entertainment industry.
4. Adapt or die. That's it, really. As I've noted previously, these bills (and any future legislation like them) are not really designed to protect the interests of content creators. They are intended to prop up a dying industry that grew fat on profits over a period (specifically the 1970s through the 1990s) when their business was built upon a model that is ultimately unsustainable, especially as new means of distribution have proliferated. Combine that with what is broadly regarded as a precipitous decline in the quality of their products, along with untenable pricing, and you have a perfect recipe for the kind of collapse and failure currently underway. Don't blame piracy; blame yourselves for overcharging for a product of low value.
P.S. Boy, it feels good to be able to link to Wikipedia again!
* You seriously haven't seen it, and I spoiled the ending for you? Whatever. Also, would describing a portion of a film in a blog post like this have been a prosecutable offense under SOPA/PIPA?
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Recalling my brush with the DMCA, and how SOPA/PIPA would be immeasurably worse
This MetaTalk post concerning some erroneous DMCA* takedown notices reminded me of an episode from my personal experience that I had almost completely forgotten. It's a good illustration of how even the DMCA — copyright holders' current legal blunt instrument to wield against infringers, but nowhere near as powerful as SOPA/PIPA would be — can be used in harmful ways, either maliciously or mistakenly.
A geek, not a criminal
You see, I'm a geek. In particular, I'm a video game geek. I have a huge collection of 1980s video game antiquities. Over a dozen vintage consoles, hundreds of game cartridges. I even have a box full of instruction manuals and those catalogs Atari used to pack in with each game. And for a time earlier in the 2000s, I ran a website chronicling this obsession. I had meticulously compiled a spreadsheet of all of the games in my collection, and turned that into a page on the site, where visitors could (for some unimaginable reason) learn all about the contents of the bins full of 20+ year old plastic and silicon that I kept in my basement. It was harmless (if somewhat ridiculous) fun.
But, you see, there's this thing called emulation. People have written computer software that emulates the hardware of these old game consoles. And people have also developed ways to "dump" the ROMs (programs) of those games as files that can be run in these emulators, allowing you to play long-lost vintage console and arcade games on your computer.
The nature of the Internet makes it very easy to share these emulators and ROMs. Except, under copyright law, it's illegal. The emulators themselves are not illegal, and as I understand it, if you own the original cartridges, dumping their ROMs is fair use. But possessing the ROMs without owning the physical game is against the law, and sharing the ROMs online definitely is.
So, the copyright holders in these old games, at least the ones like Nintendo who still have lots of money and actually care about protecting those copyrights, have teams of lawyers scouring the Internet for sites that are illegally distributing ROMs. Under DMCA, they can demand that owners/hosts of infringing sites take down the infringing content, or face legal action.
And that's where my dumb little video game collection site comes in. I never shared a single ROM on that site (and would never be stupid enough to try). But Nintendo's lawyers didn't bother to figure that out. They simply saw an HTML table full of the names of old video games, some of which were Nintendo's IP, and they contacted my web host at the time, who also happened to be my former boss.
He called me on the phone (a rare occurrence) and was noticeably agitated. He couldn't believe I was doing something so stupid. Because I wasn't. Once I reassured him that Nintendo's lawyers were barking up the wrong tree, his tone changed. He's a Ron Swanson-esque libertarian, and was ready to fight back. And that's the last I heard of it.
You've probably encountered some DMCA takedowns yourself. YouTube is the most common place to find them. Have you ever clicked a YouTube link, but instead of seeing the video, you were presented with a black box with a message explaining that the video had been removed at the copyright holder's request? That's the DMCA at work.
Much worse
Under SOPA/PIPA, YouTube itself could be taken down**. For that one infringement. Any any sites that were linking to that one infringing YouTube video could be taken down as well.
For a couple of years (up until word started spreading about SOPA), I was running another site called "Hall of Prog: A Curated Exhibition of Progressive Rock on YouTube." Every post on that site was a link to a YouTube video. And given that it was all copyrighted music, most of the videos were probably infringing. Indeed, over the time I ran the site, a huge percentage of the videos on it (especially ones featuring Robert Fripp) were replaced with YouTube's generic DMCA takedown message. When it started to look like SOPA might pass late in 2011, I decided it wasn't worth taking any chances, so I took down the entire site. Now it's just a redirect to americancensorship.org.
I was not making money on that site. There were no ads. And I was certainly not trying to deny the artists/copyright holders (which should be the same thing, but rarely are) their right to revenue. In fact, if anything, I was giving them free advertising. Yes, people make that claim whenever they share something. But I made sure to include links to both the artist and album page on Amazon.com for every video I posted. (YouTube sure doesn't do that.)
Copyrights (and patents) stand at odds with the free exchange of information. There's no way around that. As a creator myself, I deeply defend the rights of people who produce creative works to benefit financially from their efforts and to decide how and where their works are distributed. But those rights also have to be balanced with the greater societal good to be gained from freedom of speech and sharing ideas. For decades, if not centuries, means of communication changed very slowly, and copyright law could adapt (or not even bother to adapt) with them. But the Internet has changed everything, and old school copyright holders (especially corporate behemoths like the movie and music industries) have scrambled frantically for the past decade and a half not to lose their foothold — no, make that their stranglehold — over copyrighted content.
I personally believe copyright, as it is currently written, doesn't work. (That's why I release my work under Creative Commons licensing.) It doesn't help that Congress keeps extending the lifespan of a copyright so Disney won't lose control over Mickey Mouse. (No, seriously… Google it. Tomorrow***.) But I respect the law enough that I make a concerted effort to ensure that the things I do online do not infringe copyright, or are covered by fair use. I cannot, however, just sit back and let the entertainment industrial complex steamroll over my entire livelihood and way of life simply to fight (spurious claims of) piracy.
The point of all of this is: we already have a law designed to allow copyright holders to take action (before resorting to legal recourse) against copyright infringers, the DMCA. And even that has already been shown to pose the risk of abuse. But the scope of damage the DMCA can inflict is at least mitigated such that it cannot significantly impede the free exchange of information and ideas so critical to making the Internet what it is — something that so many of us depend on every day. We cannot risk what SOPA/PIPA would do to our age of information. (See what I did there?)
Get involved! Go to americancensorship.org to learn more.
* That's a Wikipedia link, so you'll have to wait until after the SOPA/PIPA blackout to look at it.
** SOPA/PIPA is only supposed to apply to sites hosted outside the United States, but this would be hard to enforce, and could easily end up affecting U.S.-hosted sites as well.
*** Yes, I know Google's "blackout" isn't really a blackout. It was a joke.
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Participate in Wednesday's SOPA strike
Looking for an easy way to participate in tomorrow's SOPA (and PIPA) strike? The SOPA Strike website has some code you can use to automatically load this page.
I've set up my own customized version, which you're welcome to use. This does not completely black out your site. Instead, the page loads with a black screen. Then after a few seconds, the words "STOP SOPA" with a "Learn more…" link appear in white. The black box then fades to slightly transparent and animates to the upper left corner of the screen. It then stays fixed in the corner as the user scrolls around. The site is still usable, but the "STOP SOPA" message is ever-present. (Be forewarned: as I did not take the time to set up cookies, the entire process also repeats on each new page load.)
If you'd like to see how it works, I set up an awesome fake site to demonstrate the blackout animation in action.
If your site is already using jQuery, simply copy the code below into your page, ideally just after the <body> tag:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://atomic.room34.com/sopa_blackout.js"></script>
If you're not already using jQuery on your site, you just need to include it from Google Code first, like this:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
If you're using PHP, you can even use this code to automatically make it appear at 8 AM EST and disappear at 8 PM EST. (Update the times as needed to represent your time zone, and remove the Google Code line if you're already using jQuery.)
if (time() > mktime(8,0,0,1,18,2012) && time() < mktime(20,0,0,1,18,2012)) {
Note: As indicated above, I built this quickly, and have not done a lot of cross-browser testing. It's pretty basic, but it may not display correctly in some older browsers, especially earlier versions of Internet Explorer. Use at your own risk… just like the Internet itself!
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Why I care so much about stopping SOPA/PIPA (and why you should care too)
As someone who works with, and is constantly immersed in, the Internet, I've been hearing a lot about SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act, in the House) and PIPA (the Protect IP Act, in the Senate) over the last couple of months. But I suspect most Americans have heard much less about these bills currently under "debate" in the US House of Representatives and Senate. That's the way the sponsors of these bills (and their corporate donors) likely want it.
You can read the text of the bills, or the innocuous-sounding summaries the government has published. On the surface, without careful reflection, they seem like good ideas, designed to protect hard-working American creators from having their intellectual property stolen. But the implications of these bills, for freedom of speech, for innovation, even for the very feasibility of their technical implementation, are anything but innocuous, and may irreparably harm, rather than protect, the American economy.
What's it really all about?
Let us be frank: the true objective of these bills is not to prevent illicit foreign websites from destroying American jobs by stealing our movies and music. It is to prop up a dying dinosaur media industry that would rather kill innovation than have to learn to change. Follow the money. A simple look at the lists of corporate supporters of SOPA/PIPA, along with the corresponding list of companies that oppose these bills, tells the story.
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), countless "old media" conglomerates. These are the companies that want these bills to pass, because they are in their death throes after over a decade of spending their dwindling profits on fighting, in any way they can, the changes the Internet has wrought, refusing to admit that the massive profits they achieved from the 1970s through the 1990s were built upon an unsustainable model. These industries refuse to adapt. Adaptation is hard. But the world changes. You have to be prepared to change with it, or die.
So what's the threat?
The Internet has fundamentally transformed the way people communicate, and as a result it has changed the way they get their entertainment. Sure, piracy is a problem. It needs to be dealt with. But there are also huge opportunities to build profitable businesses legitimately selling entertainment products (intellectual property) online. iTunes, Amazon and Netflix prove that. The problem for old media, though, is that the Internet has obviated their role as a high-markup middleman. Look at Louis CK's wildly successful experiment in DIY production and promotion. Change or die.
True, as the old entertainment industry contracts, American jobs are being lost. But the entertainment industry is a small piece of America's GDP. By contrast, the Internet, and more broadly, information technology, is significantly larger. (According to Census Bureau data, in 2008 the film, recording and broadcasting industries employed 643,089 people; information services, software publishers and computer systems employed 3,443,162 people.)
The Internet is possibly the brightest spot in America's economy right now, and it is profoundly threatened by what SOPA/PIPA could do. So, in effect, Congress is preparing to kill (or at least maim) one of the most thriving parts of our economy to save a sector that is going to die anyway. (I'm trying to think of an analogy to make here but they're all too gruesome.)
Aside from understanding the true motivations of SOPA/PIPA, it's just as important to understand the implications these bills have for American Internet companies, our cherished freedom of speech, and the daily use of the Internet, even by Americans who by and large are engaging in purely harmless, infringement-free activities.
I'm about as squeaky-clean as Internet users come when it comes to copyright. Sure, I may have a handful of music files on my hard drive that I got from friends, just like we'd dub cassettes of our favorite CDs back in the late '80s and early '90s to share. Ever heard of a mixtape? But the overwhelming majority of my 18,000+ songs were purchased legitimately, either on CD or through download services like iTunes or Amazon. And a lot of the music I own, I purchased because I learned about it through friends. Even if they had already given me copies of the music. Even in the peak of the music industry's profits from CD sales in the '90s, that's how it worked.
(I'm also a content producer myself, as a blog writer and independent musician. I'm skeptical of current copyright law and as such have taken to releasing all of my work under Creative Commons licensing. But that's a topic for another post.)
The point is, sharing music doesn't necessarily reduce music sales. I'd argue that, in limited quantities, between friends with similar tastes, it actually encourages music sales. But even if we agree that illicit copying and redistribution of things like movies and music is bad (and, when it's done at a large scale, I do) piracy is not what's killing old media — mediocre content and exorbitant pricing are. And SOPA/PIPA can't help that.
The real danger of these bills is in their implementation. While ostensibly they're only targeted at foreign websites, their means of recourse against infringers could result in the blocking of entire sites due to the alleged infringing activities of one member. This sledgehammer approach has broad-reaching implications for all Internet users in the United States (to say nothing of what it means for free speech, and the company it places America in amongst governments that censor the Internet).
What's worse, it won't even work. Already there is much discussion online of means of circumvention (which I will not link to here), and, worse, it breaks the Internet. I don't just mean that it is going to destroy the way we use the Internet. I mean it actually runs contrary, on a deep technical level, to how the Internet functions. Even SOPA supporter Comcast (my ISP… for now) admits, albeit inadvertently, that at least on a technical level the requirements of the law are incompatible with how the Internet works.
A threat to America's small-business owners
I'm one of those fabled "small business owners" politicians so love to talk about. I've been freelancing full-time in web development since 2008. Business has been great, even through the worst economic times in America since the Great Depression. All of the work I do is 100% legitimate, for honest, productive American businesses. This is the new economy, and it is America's best hope for a brighter future. I'm expecting to expand my business this year, becoming an even larger presence in the community and helping to further spur on positive economic activity.
But SOPA/PIPA threaten the way I do business. Republicans in Congress put on some great political theater in 2009-2010 in their fight against "Obamacare," claiming its provisions represented an undue threat to small businesses. But here we have a real threat to small and growing Internet-related businesses. If passed, these laws will impose odious burdens of monitoring and self-policing upon website owners, and the threat of takedown without due process will have a chilling effect on whether or not new ventures even get started. In short, nothing could more effectively put the brakes on this "engine of growth" for the American economy.
So what can you do? Old media still has deep pockets, and is well-represented on K Street. It has the ears of Congress. But, last I checked, these elected officials do also still represent us, the individual Americans who will be affected by these bills. So call them. Politely tell them why you believe these bills are bad. Check out other online resources that can help you get involved.
I will admit, however, that personally I have not attempted to contact any of my representatives. I already know that my House representative, Keith Ellison, opposes SOPA. Over in the Senate, unfortunately, Amy Klobuchar is one of the sponsors of PIPA. And, despite his genuine progressive spirit and work on behalf of American individuals, Al Franken is simply too deeply connected to old media not to also back PIPA. I sincerely doubt either of Minnesota's senators will be convinced to change their position, no matter how many constituents call them.
But your representatives may still be on the fence. Reach out to them. Let them know why you think these bills are not just bad, but downright dangerous for America. The implications for America if they pass are far bleaker than the prognosis for the industries they are intending to protect.
And, this is an election year. Vote. While it will most likely be too late to affect SOPA/PIPA, do your part to make sure none of its supporters get re-elected in November. I have been a strong supporter of Amy Klobuchar in the past, even having donated to her first campaign, but unless she withdraws her sponsorship of PIPA, I will not be voting for her re-election this year.
As someone who works in the Internet, the implications of SOPA/PIPA are huge for me and for my business. But this affects us all.
As with a lot of hot-button issues, when I get my dander up it's sometimes hard for me to calmly and clearly explain the rationale for my argument. I've linked throughout this post to some great resources for learning more about what SOPA/PIPA is and why it's bad, but as I come across other sites that do a more effective job of explaining it than I have, I'll add them here.
Other sites discussing problems with SOPA/PIPA
Martin Fowler: An Open Letter to Pearson about SOPA/PIPA
Tucows: Why We Don't Like SOPA
Boing Boing: 60 senators won't meet with activists to talk about PIPA
Tim O'Reilly on Google+ discussing the White House response to citizen petitions about SOPA/PIPA
Mitchell Baker: On PIPA/SOPA and Why You Should Care
Updates on the fight against SOPA/PIPA
Ars Technica: Under voter pressure, members of Congress backpedal (hard) on SOPA
The Hill: SOPA shelved until 'consensus' is found
Boing Boing: SOPA is DYING; its evil Senate twin, PIPA, lives on
NY Times: Web Protests Piracy Bills, and 4 Senators Change Course
Al Franken, Amy Klobuchar, Business, Economy, freedom of speech, Internet, Keith Ellison, PIPA, SOPA


Heart failure can progress to a point where it becomes end-stage heart failure. At this time, your heart becomes so weak it needs mechanical assistance to help do its job.
Our expert surgeons can give your heart a boost by implanting a pump called a left ventricular assist device, or LVAD. This device helps your heart pump blood to the rest of the body.
Pioneers: One of our heart surgeons, Steven M. Boyce, MD, helped design one of the first third-generation, continuous flow LVADs, and is pioneering novel surgical techniques for implanting LVADs.
Excellent outcomes: We currently care for more than 100 people with LVADs, many of whom have been living successfully with this technology for many years.
Highly specialized care: Our team includes experienced LVAD coordinators, along with dedicated pharmacists, physical therapists, nutritionists and others with special training and expertise in working with advanced heart failure patients.
Dedication to quality of life: Many of our patients return to work full-time and maintain active lifestyles.
High patient volume: We are among the busiest sites in the U.S. for LVAD surgeries.
Deep experience: The very first implantation of an LVAD pump took place at a MedStar hospital in 1988. At that time, we were one of just four hospitals in the world to perform this pioneering surgery.
Expert surgeons: Our highly experienced doctors have been involved with the development of LVAD technology since its beginning. Newer programs seek them out for assistance and advice, both nationally and internationally.
Patient support: Our patients receive the benefit and counseling of a number of team members who are experts at managing their care. Team members include nutritionists, social workers and transplant coordinators. Learn more about patient support.
A left ventricular assist device is a small pump that helps circulate your blood when your heart becomes too weak to do its job effectively. The pump enables your heart to pump more blood with less work. An LVAD does not replace your heart and is not an artificial heart.
An LVAD is surgically attached to your left ventricle, your heart's bottom left chamber. The pump continuously moves oxygen-rich blood from the left ventricle into the aorta, where it is delivered to the rest of your organs.
Pump: Resides inside or near your chest, and is attached to your heart.
Driveline: A small cable that attaches the pump to an external controller. The driveline exits your body through the skin.
Controller: A small computer, this machine alerts you when batteries need to be changed or if your device requires other attention. The controller usually is worn in a pack around the waist.
Batteries: Your LVAD needs an electrical source at all times, so it is usually attached to rechargeable batteries.
Power plug: You usually connect to an electrical source to recharge batteries.
When will your doctor recommend a LVAD?
Your doctor may recommend a left ventricular assist device when medications are no longer enough to help your heart pump adequate amounts of blood to the rest of your body.
Bridge-to-transplant: For patients who are awaiting a heart transplant, an LVAD can serve as a temporary assistive therapy until a suitable donor heart becomes available.
Destination therapy: For patients who do not qualify for a heart transplant, or simply do not want one, an LVAD can be implanted as a long-lasting treatment. The pumps are designed to last for many years.
Initial evaluation: To help make sure you will benefit from receiving an LVAD, we perform a thorough medical and psychosocial evaluation, including blood tests, imaging studies and meetings with several members of the team.
Pre-surgical consultations: Before receiving a pump, you will meet with an LVAD coordinator who will educate you about how your LVAD works and answer your questions about the technology. You also will meet with a social worker to help you identify your social support systems and discuss what it is like to live with an LVAD. A financial counselor will meet with you to coordinate your insurance benefits and talk about the ongoing expenses of maintaining a left ventricular assist device.
Surgery day: The open-heart surgery performed to implant an LVAD takes about four to six hours.
Post-surgical recovery: After surgery, you will wake up in a cardiac intensive care unit. Our nurses have special training and expertise in caring for LVAD patients. Our expert cardiac intensivist physicians and their team will closely monitor you and oversee your care, in close collaboration with the surgeon and advanced heart failure cardiologist.
Progressive Care unit: When you no longer need intensive care, you will be transferred to a specialized heart failure unit. As you continue to recover from surgery, you will learn how to get around with your LVAD and take care of it before being discharged.
Going home: You may have many questions about living with your new left ventricular assist device. Your personal LVAD coordinator can talk you through these issues.
Follow-up: We will follow you closely after surgery to help you stay safe and healthy. At first, you will see our team in clinic on a weekly basis. These visits will gradually become less frequent as you continue to improve.
After the LVAD is implanted, it is our hope that patients resume an active lifestyle.
Bathing in a tub or swimming: Your LVAD controller cannot be submerged in water. Your LVAD coordinator will help teach you how to adjust your personal hygiene.
Contact sports: These activities could damage your device.
Sleeping on your stomach: You will need to sleep on your back or side to avoid damaging any of the lines attached to the pump.
Having an MRI scan: It is safe to undergo a CT scan or X-ray, but not an MRI.


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Q: R- plyr to parallelize I need to parallelize a probabilistic neural network calculus. Since I need a progress bar, I was told to use plyr instead of %dopar% and foreach.
Let's assume my table is:
tra<-data.frame(flag_compro=c(1,0,0,1,1,1,0), a=c(0.3,0.4, 0.2, 0.1,.04, .9, .2), b=c(.3, .6, .7, .6, .8, .9, .1))

the "training" although a pnn just memorizes the structure:
library("pnn")
pnn <- learn(tra, category.column=grep('flag_compro', colnames(tra)))
nn1 <- smooth(pnn, sigma=0.05)

then my function is:
pred_pnn <- function(x){
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Let's assume I'm predicting in another table (I will use the same for simplicity):
test<-tra[, -grep('flag_compro', colnames(tra))]

Now, I know that PNN package works for one row at a time. So the following does work:
pred_pnn(as.matrix(test)[1,])

So, if I try to use plyr package, with:
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I get the following error:
Error in do.ply(i) :
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In addition: Warning messages:
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I guess this is happening because I need to introduce a column name (?), but since I need to do it row by row how can I solve it?
Also how can I add a progress bar (or something that gives me an idea of the time left)?
Thanks

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Sheridan + Nick. Rivington Hall Barn.
Sheridan is one of those people with that magical gift of making you feel like a long lost friend the first time you speak to her. I met her on Skype to have a chat about her and Nick's Rivington Barn wedding and I could tell how excited she was about it, about having her grandad come out of retirement to perform the church ceremony and about having all the people she loves around her and Nick for what promised to be an amazing wedding at Rivington Hall Barn in the Lancashire countryside. And what an amazing wedding it was.
When I walked into the room where Sheridan was getting ready with her bridesmaids and mum, I was greeted with an amazing hug. Then Sheridan opened a series of gifts, each of which made her cry more and more! Then I headed over to meet Nick for the first time, and unsurprisingly he was just as wonderful and friendly. In a job as solitary as wedding photography can be at times, there's nothing better than working with people who welcome me into their lives for the day like Sheridan and Nick did. Sheridan had organised a surprise wedding car for Nick – his favourite car in the world, a Shelby GT. So cool.
The ceremony was probably my favourite part of the day. Because Sheridan's hilarious grandad had come out of retirement to perform it, it was so personal and such a happy, relaxed ceremony – all the traditions of a church wedding but it somehow felt like it was being performed at home. A difficult atmosphere to describe but extremely special.
After that they headed with all their guests over to Rivington Hall Barn for their reception. It was a scorcher of a summer's day and Sheridan and Nick were really keen to explore the grounds to get a super cool set of portraits, so that's exactly what we did and we were gifted the most amazing light to work with all day long! Nothing was out of bounds as Sheridan hitched up her dress and waded through the long grass to get to the locations I'd found!
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In The Genius Within, David Adam explores the groundbreaking neuroscience of cognitive enhancement that is changing the way the brain and the mind works—to make it better, sharper, more focused and, yes, more intelligent. He considers how we measure and judge intelligence, taking us on a fascinating tour of the history of brain science and medicine, from gentlemen scientist brain autopsy clubs to case studies of mental health patients with extraordinary savant abilities. In addition to reporting on the latest research and fascinating case studies, David also goes on his own personal journey to investigate the possibilities of neuroenhancement, using himself as a guinea pig for smart pills and electrical brain stimulation in order to improve his IQ scores and cheat his way into MENSA. Getting to the heart of how we think about intelligence and mental ability, The Genius Within plunges into deep ethical, neuroscientific, and historical pools of enquiry about the science of brain function, untapping potential, and what it means for all of us.Going to the heart of how we consider, measure, and judge mental ability, The Genius Within asks difficult questions about the science that could rank and define us, and inevitably shape our future.
Dr. David Adam, author of The Man Who Couldn't Stop, is an editor at Nature. The Man Who Couldn't Stop was the winner of the Medical Journalists' Association's Tony Thistlethwaite Award, was a Finalist for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, and was the recipient of the International OCD Foundation's Illumination Award. David has reported from Antarctica, the Arctic, China, and the depths of the Amazon jungle. He lives in England.
The Genius Within moves out of the medical world and into schools and workplaces, bringing us to the cutting edge of neuroenhancement.
Writing in an imminently accessible style, Adam treats readers to countless fascinating anecdotes, such as the advent of the IQ test. A fun and at times disturbing romp through the history of brain science and society's attempts to measure intelligence. If cognitive enhancement is in our future, this is an entertaining place to begin to understand what it entails.
A fine journalistic account of how science can make you smarter. Adam delivers a sensible, often skeptical review of his subject.
Adam deftly surveys attempts to test intelligence starting more than a century ago. I enjoyed The Genius Within enormously. Eminently readable.
— Trevor Robbins
Vastly entertaining. While The Genius Within is hardly alone in the bookstore, it is among the best.
A searing account. Adam [writes] with honesty, compassion and even humor about a malady so often stigmatized and caricatured.
Adam is a companionable Virgil . . . explaining scientific concepts in clear, nontechnical prose.
A compelling portrait. This is the most comprehensive and compassionate book on OCD to date, and it offers hope that our thinking and behavior both individual and collective can change.
Part memoir, part exploration of the science behind OCD, The Man Who Couldn't Stop is an obsessive read and one with heart.
Publisher: Pegasus Books
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Kobo eBook (February 6th, 2018): $12.99


Much like a weighted blanket, but on a smaller scale, a weighted lap blanket is a sensory tool that offers proprioceptive or deep touch pressure to legs as it rests lap when in a seated position. Some people with sensory processing disorder, autism or other conditions, may find touch can be overwhelming and even painful. This is known as tactile oversensitivity or tactile defensiveness. Research has shown that weighted blankets and weighted lap pads can help people with sensory processing challenges experience all the comforts of touch without feeling overloaded.
Weighted Lap Blankets are not recommended for children under the age of 3. If you have ANY concerns about your child's physical well-being (muscular, bone, sensory, vascular, etc..) you should consult with your child's doctor and/or occupational therapist prior to using a weighted lap blanket. Always follow your medical professional guidelines for use.


There are many natural springs in Uganda, but at source, you often find people and animals accessing the same contaminated water. This is not healthy for the villagers and often leads to illness. In 2014 in the village of Kapwatai, Humanity First encased the natural spring in concrete and established taps such that the villagers can now access the water safely, and can also use run off water for irrigation and for their livestock. This is one of many such projects done in the south and east of Uganda.


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