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Walz hits the brakes on Minnesota social life as COVID-19 rages
Four weeks of restrictions kick in Friday
Brian Bakst and MPR News Staff
PlayListenAs COVID surges, Minnesota dials it back. Here's what you need to know about the new rules
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Gov. Tim Walz on Wednesday rolled out a new COVID-19 order that prohibits all in-person social gatherings with people outside your household for four weeks. It restricts bar and restaurant service to takeout and delivery. Theaters and gyms must close, although retail stores can be open.
Organized sports for youth and adults are on hold. Collegiate athletics and professional sports can continue but with new spectator limits. Places of worship and child care can stay open with the proper precautions in place.
"We're at a dangerous point in this pandemic," Walz told Minnesotans in his address announcing the new restrictions. "How we act, and how this virus moves, will have huge implications on the number of people who will be hospitalized and, ultimately, those who will lose their lives."
He warned the virus was spreading exponentially now across the state, putting immense pressure on health care workers and hospitals dealing with a surge of admissions tied to COVID-19. Officials say hospital admissions have risen 80 percent the past two weeks.
He expressed hope that these new curbs would save lives until a vaccine was widely available, and that the process of vaccinating people might begin before the latest restrictions ended, but acknowledged that wouldn't make the next few weeks any easier.
Among the most painful changes: Weddings, funerals, and other similar celebrations can be held with the current rules in place, but all receptions and gatherings connected to these ceremonies must be canceled or postponed, according to the order.
Schools will continue to operate under the current guidance, which allows district to shift between in-person, distance, and hybrid learning depending on the local conditions of the virus.
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The new restrictions are set to kick in at the close of business Friday, so the dine-in prohibition would start Saturday. Gym closures would kick in midnight Friday.
The order and its restrictions will end on Dec. 18.
Walz and state public health leaders said they understood the pain the new curbs would cause but that the pandemic's alarming trajectory demanded a response.
The state was running about 2,400 new cases daily on average at the start of November. The most recent trend line has the state averaging nearly 7,000 new cases daily, a massive leap in the last two weeks.
Left unchecked, one model suggests Minnesota could hit 20,000 new cases per day by the start of the new year, Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm told reporters.
"Two weeks ago, I thought a 5,000-case day was horrific," she said. "Now, that looks like a good day."
Hospitality business takes another hit
The tough new curbs come as Minnesota struggles to get control of a rapidly worsening outbreak not limited to just one region or demographic group, like earlier in the pandemic.
Caseloads, hospitalizations and deaths are climbing largely unabated. The Health Department on Wednesday said 67 more Minnesotans had died, a single-day record that pushed the state's pandemic death toll above 3,000.
Officials believe many of the current outbreaks are being fueled now by the kinds of informal get-togethers with friends and family that multiply during the November and December holidays.
State health investigators have identified bars, restaurants, fitness centers, gyms, youth sports and social gatherings as sources of COVID-19 transmission in the current outbreak.
Still, news of the new restrictions fell hard on the state's restaurant, bar and hospitality business, which was still reeling from restrictions earlier in the pandemic.
Hours before the announcement, though, leaders of the state's hospitality industry were already pushing back, warning many bars and eateries won't survive the monthlong restrictions.
"Today's action will push many small restaurants, food service and other hospitality businesses over the cliff," Liz Rammer, CEO of the trade group Hospitality Minnesota, said in a statement.
She called on Minnesota to provide immediate financial aid "or these businesses will not be here in four weeks."
State officials said later that they were preparing to meet an expected surge in unemployment needs but noted that much of the federal aid that eased the pain earlier in the pandemic was either not available now or expiring at the end of the year. Walz called on Congress to act quickly to provide more aid.
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In March, Walz imposed restrictions limiting bars and restaurants to takeout only in the state's initial efforts at flattening the coronavirus curve, then gradually loosened restrictions as the summer wore on.
But in the spring, workers whose jobs were eliminated or furloughed were able to receive $600 in relief from the federal CARES Act, the economic stimulus bill enacted in March. Since then, that relief has expired, and this time around, impacts on the hospitality industry could be more financially painful.
'We love them'
Walz acknowledged that the "pause" in youth sports would be especially hard for kids and families.
Hours before the announcement, Paynesville football coach and activities director Max Meagher said he and his staff have tried to prepare athletes to end their seasons — and in some cases their final weeks of high school sports.
"We talked about that a little bit yesterday at practice already. And the message to them was that, you know, that we as a coaching staff, we love them. We appreciate everything that they put forward," Meagher said. "We recognize that they were in a difficult position this year, asked to sacrifice and to do things obviously for the good of, you know, all of society."
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In mathematics, the canonical bundle of a non-singular algebraic variety  of dimension  over a field is the line bundle  , which is the nth exterior power of the cotangent bundle Ω on V.

Over the complex numbers, it is the determinant bundle of holomorphic n-forms on V.
This is the dualising object for Serre duality on V. It may equally well be considered as an invertible sheaf.

The canonical class is the divisor class of a Cartier divisor K on V giving rise to the canonical bundle — it is an equivalence class for linear equivalence on V, and any divisor in it may be called a canonical divisor. An anticanonical divisor is any divisor −K with K canonical.

The anticanonical bundle is the corresponding inverse bundle ω−1. When the anticanonical bundle of V is ample, V is called a Fano variety.

The adjunction formula

Suppose that X is a smooth variety and that D is a smooth divisor on X. The adjunction formula relates the canonical bundles of X and D. It is a natural isomorphism

In terms of canonical classes, it is

This formula is one of the most powerful formulas in algebraic geometry. An important tool of modern birational geometry is inversion of adjunction, which allows one to deduce results about the singularities of X from the singularities of D.

Singular case
On a singular variety , there are several ways to define the canonical divisor.  If the variety is normal, it is smooth in codimension one.  In particular, we can define canonical divisor on the smooth locus.  This gives us a unique Weil divisor class on .  It is this class, denoted by  that is referred to as the canonical divisor on

Alternately, again on a normal variety , one can consider , the 'th cohomology of the normalized dualizing complex of .  This sheaf corresponds to a Weil divisor class, which is equal to the divisor class  defined above.  In the absence of the normality hypothesis, the same result holds if  is S2 and Gorenstein in dimension one.

Canonical maps
If the canonical class is effective, then it determines a rational map from V into projective space. This map is called the canonical map. The rational map determined by the nth multiple of the canonical class is the n-canonical map. The n-canonical map sends V into a projective space of dimension one less than the dimension of the global sections of the nth multiple of the canonical class. n-canonical maps may have base points, meaning that they are not defined everywhere (i.e., they may not be a morphism of varieties). They may have positive dimensional fibers, and even if they have zero-dimensional fibers, they need not be local analytic isomorphisms.

Canonical curves
The best studied case is that of curves. Here, the canonical bundle is the same as the (holomorphic) cotangent bundle. A global section of the canonical bundle is therefore the same as an everywhere-regular differential form. Classically, these were called differentials of the first kind. The degree of the canonical class is 2g − 2 for a curve of genus g.

Low genus

Suppose that C is a smooth algebraic curve of genus g. If g is zero, then C is P1, and the canonical class is the class of −2P, where P is any point of C. This follows from the calculus formula d(1/t) = −dt/t2, for example, a meromorphic differential with double pole at the point at infinity on the Riemann sphere. In particular, KC and its multiples are not effective. If g is one, then C is an elliptic curve, and KC is the trivial bundle. The global sections of the trivial bundle form a one-dimensional vector space, so the n-canonical map for any n is the map to a point.

Hyperelliptic case

If C has genus two or more, then the canonical class is big, so the image of any n-canonical map is a curve. The image of the 1-canonical map is called a canonical curve. A canonical curve of genus g always sits in a projective space of dimension g − 1. When C is a hyperelliptic curve, the canonical curve is a rational normal curve, and C a double cover of its canonical curve. For example if P is a polynomial of degree 6 (without repeated roots) then

y2 = P(x)

is an affine curve representation of a genus 2 curve, necessarily hyperelliptic, and a basis of the differentials of the first kind is given in the same notation by

dx/,   x dx/.

This means that the canonical map is given by homogeneous coordinates [1: x] as a morphism to the projective line. The rational normal curve for higher genus hyperelliptic curves arises in the same way with higher power monomials in x.

General case

Otherwise, for non-hyperelliptic C which means g is at least 3, the morphism is an isomorphism of C with its image, which has degree 2g − 2. Thus for g = 3 the canonical curves (non-hyperelliptic case) are quartic plane curves. All non-singular plane quartics arise in this way. There is explicit information for the case g = 4, when a canonical curve is an intersection of a quadric and a cubic surface; and for g = 5 when it is an intersection of three quadrics. There is a converse, which is a corollary to the Riemann–Roch theorem: a non-singular curve C of genus g embedded in projective space of dimension g − 1 as a linearly normal curve of degree 2g − 2 is a canonical curve, provided its linear span is the whole space. In fact the relationship between canonical curves C  (in the non-hyperelliptic case of g at least 3), Riemann-Roch, and the theory of special divisors is rather close. Effective divisors D on C consisting of distinct points have a linear span in the canonical embedding with dimension directly related to that of the linear system in which they move; and with some more discussion this applies also to the case of points with multiplicities.

More refined information is available, for larger values of g, but in these cases canonical curves are not generally complete intersections, and the description requires more consideration of commutative algebra. The field started with Max Noether's theorem: the dimension of the space of quadrics passing through C as embedded as canonical curve is (g − 2)(g − 3)/2. Petri's theorem, often cited under this name and published in 1923 by Karl Petri (1881–1955), states that for g at least 4 the homogeneous ideal defining the canonical curve is generated by its elements of degree 2, except for the cases of (a) trigonal curves and (b) non-singular plane quintics when g = 6. In the exceptional cases, the ideal is generated by the elements of degrees 2 and 3. Historically speaking, this result was largely known before Petri, and has been called the theorem of Babbage-Chisini-Enriques (for Dennis Babbage who completed the proof, Oscar Chisini and Federigo Enriques). The terminology is confused, since the result is also called the Noether–Enriques theorem. Outside the hyperelliptic cases, Noether proved that (in modern language) the canonical bundle is normally generated: the symmetric powers of the space of sections of the canonical bundle map onto the sections of its tensor powers. This implies for instance the generation of the quadratic differentials on such curves by the differentials of the first kind; and this has consequences for the local Torelli theorem. Petri's work actually provided explicit quadratic and cubic generators of the ideal, showing that apart from the exceptions the cubics could be expressed in terms of the quadratics. In the exceptional cases the intersection of the quadrics through the canonical curve is respectively a ruled surface and a Veronese surface.

These classical results were proved over the complex numbers, but modern discussion shows that the techniques work over fields of any characteristic.

Canonical rings

The canonical ring of V is the graded ring

If the canonical class of V is an ample line bundle, then the canonical ring is the homogeneous coordinate ring of the image of the canonical map. This can be true even when the canonical class of V is not ample. For instance, if V is a hyperelliptic curve, then the canonical ring is again the homogeneous coordinate ring of the image of the canonical map. In general, if the ring above is finitely generated, then it is elementary to see that it is the homogeneous coordinate ring of the image of a k-canonical map, where k is any sufficiently divisible positive integer.

The minimal model program proposed that the canonical ring of every smooth or mildly singular projective variety was finitely generated. In particular, this was known to imply the existence of a canonical model, a particular birational model of V with mild singularities that could be constructed by blowing down V. When the canonical ring is finitely generated, the canonical model is Proj of the canonical ring. If the canonical ring is not finitely generated, then  is not a variety, and so it cannot be birational to V; in particular, V admits no canonical model.

A fundamental theorem of Birkar-Cascini-Hacon-McKernan from 2006 is that the canonical ring of a smooth or mildly singular projective algebraic variety is finitely generated.

The Kodaira dimension of V is the dimension of the canonical ring minus one. Here the dimension of the canonical ring may be taken to mean Krull dimension or transcendence degree.

See also
 Birational geometry
 Differential form

Notes

Vector bundles
Algebraic varieties

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Q: Is there a way to check if a socket is still running? I need to make a chat between two clients. But I don't know when a socket is closed or not, is there a way to check if it is?
Here is the part of the code that I need to fix:
def main():
    """Implements the conversation with server."""
    # Open client socket, Transport layer: protocol TCP, Network layer: protocol IP
    client_socket = socket.socket()
    client_socket.connect((HOST_IP, PORT))

    # start conversation with new client in parallel thread
    name = input("enter your name ")
    protocol.send_request(client_socket, name)
    thread_for_responses = threading.Thread(target=get_responses,
                                            args=(client_socket, ))
    thread_for_responses.start()

    while True:
        # Get request from keyboard
        client_request_str = input()
        if client_request_str:  # if client_request_str not empty string
            # send request according to the protocol
            protocol.send_request(client_socket, client_request_str)
            # Get response from server

Instead of while True, I need to check if the socket is closed so it won't go into a loop where it will crush for using a closed socket.

A: Python programmers usually say it is easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission.  By this they mean "handle the exception".
For example, you cannot divide by zero.  Here are two ways you could deal with this fact:
def print_quotient(a, b):
    if b == 0:
        print("quotient is not a number")
    else:
        print("quotient is {}".format(a / b))

vs
def print_quotient(a, b):
    try:
        print("quotient is {}".format(a / b))
    except ZeroDivisionError:
        print("quotient is not a number")

These functions behave the same way so it doesn't make a lot of difference which approach you take.  This is because b cannot change.  This differs from your example where the socket can change.  External factors influence its state and this changes the behavior of trying to use it (for example, to send bytes with it).  In this case, exception handling is superior because it does not have to try to make sure nothing is going to go wrong, it just handles things when they go wrong.  There is no case where the code thinks it has set everything up to work correctly and then it turns out it has missed something.
So, when you use socket operations, apply exception handling for any exceptions that might arise from those operations.

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The news media carries stories every week about America's burgeoning Opioid Epidemic. Why? Because about 120 Americans die from prescription drug overdoses each and every day. It is completely out of control. So you may be wondering What The Opioid Epidemic Means To You.
The Opioid epidemic touches millions of families and businesses across the country. Have you been affected yet? Will you be next?
By far and away, the majority of prescription drug overdose deaths come from Opioids, also known as pain killers. For example, Tom Petty is the latest celebrity victim.
Furthermore, drug overdose deaths have risen so much that the average Americans' life expectancy has actually declined over the last 2 years. (Center For Disease Control) The last time Americans' life expectancy declined was when the AIDs epidemic peaked.
Most noteworthy, the FDA approved Oxycontin for children as young as 11 years old. Consequently, a Yale Medical Study showed that children's' Opioid overdose deaths doubled in just 5 years.
Pacira Pharmaceuticals reports that women aged 40 to 59 are prescribed more opioids than any other group; more than twice that of men the same age.
The DEA reports that abuse of controlled prescription drugs is higher than that of cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, MDMA, and PCP combined.
Finally, prescription drug overdoses now kill more Americans every year than breast cancer, gun violence, or auto accidents.
First of all, a whopping 12 million people report abusing opioids in 2016. (National Survey On Drug Use And Health) The vast majority (70%) of drug abusers are full-time employees. (US Department of Labor) Your employees?
The National Safety Council reports that drug abuse affects 7 in 10 businesses. And yet, 41% of employers do not yet test employees for opioids. Seems like an ostrich comes to mind.
Prescription opioid abuse leads to heroin addiction. Most noteworthy, NIDA reports a study where 80% of heroin addicts reported using prescription pain killers before resorting to heroin as a more affordable alternative.
Employers bear much of the cost of their employees health insurance. Ironically, in so doing, employers are paying for the pills that lead to their employees' heroin addiction, and often, death.
Opioid abuse accounts for a 20% decline in labor participation.
Furthermore, nearly half of men in their prime who do not participate in the workforce take opioids daily.
Especially relevant in 2017, The President's Council of Economic Advisers estimated that the cost of the Opium Epidemic exceeds $500 Billion a year. That's almost 3% of the country's total GNP!
Are 3 times more likely to be involved in workplace accidents.
File Workers Comp claims 5 times higher than average.
Are 4 times more likely to steal from you, your customers, and their co-workers.
Use 3 times more sick day benefits than average.
The 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) identified the reasons people abuse opioids.
The US Department of Health and Human Services has developed a 5-point plan to combat the Opioid Epidemic.
First, improving access to treatment and recovery services.
Next, promoting use of overdose-reversing drugs.
Then, strengthening our understanding of the epidemic through better public health surveillance.
Also, providing support for research on pain and addiction.
And finally, advancing better practices for pain management.
Some estimate that the cost of the Opium epidemic will double to over a trillion dollars in the next 5 years. Only time will tell how effective the government's efforts will be to curtail the Opium Epidemic.
Marijuana proponents with an obvious conflict of interest, laud pot as the answer to pain relief. Unfortunately, research shows the opposite. Pot smokers are far more likely to move on to opiates and other hard drugs, versus the other way around.
Keep watching here as we monitor the developing crisis to report what the Opioid epidemic means to you.


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Zion Announces Trail Closures on East Rim, Observation Point and Hidden Canyon
This information was part of this news release provided by Zion National Park:
The Zion National Park trail crew will begin a multi-year project to rehabilitate several of the trails out of the Weeping Rock shuttle area during the summer of 2014. Trail work will begin in early June. From June 16th through the end of September, the Hidden Canyon Trail and portions of the East Rim and Observation Point Trails will be closed for several days each week to allow newly-poured concrete to dry. Concrete pouring will occur on Monday or Tuesday of each week, which should allow the trail to be open most weekends.
The trail crew will also repair retaining walls on the Hidden Canyon Trail this summer beginning as early as July 7th. Once the work begins, the Hidden Canyon Trail will remain closed until the end of the project, which should be no later than the end of August.
Trail work is also planned for the Canyon Overlook Trail during the months of September and October, which will lead to Monday through Thursday trail closures.
Zion also provided the information below about this year's Ranger-led activities.
Ranger-led Programs
Enhance your understanding and enjoyment of Zion National Park by taking part in a ranger program. Programs are offered at Zion Canyon and Kolob Canyons from April to November. Topics include geology, plants, animals, human history, and more.
All ranger-led programs are free and for all ages. Check the current Map and Guide, or at visitor centers and bulletin boards throughout the park for times, places, and subjects.
Ranger-led Program Schedule - Spring 2014
Youth programs are designed specifically for families and children. Children must be accompanied by an adult while attending the programs.
Youth programs are offered intermittently through March and April, from Memorial Day through mid-August, and during Labor Day Weekend. Programs take place throughout the park, at the Zion Nature Center, and at the Zion Lodge.
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Rong Luo's research has been focused on elucidating the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which GPR56, a member of the adhesion G protein-coupled receptor family, regulates brain development. One of her projects was to define the function and signaling pathways of GPR56 in the developing mouse brain. Dr. Piao and Dr. Luo have successfully identified collagen III as the ligand of GPR56, which opens up many avenues for further studies. Dr. Luo's proposed studies cover several areas of research, including: 1) the role of GPR56 in CNS myelination; 2) GPR56 signaling in brain development and malformation; 3) identifying and characterizing the ligands of other adhesion G protein-coupled receptors, such as GPR126. Mouse genetics model and in vitro biochemistry, proteomics techniques are used to accomplish the research goals.


The city of Brookhaven has eliminated the $100,000 alcohol license fee it was charging certain nightlife venues as part of a controversial alcohol ordinance. The council's decision comes after a federal judge recently ruled a civil rights lawsuit challenging the ordinance could move forward.
Without discussion of eliminating the $100,000 fee during its Aug. 28 regular meeting, the City Council voted to revise the alcohol ordinance. The $100,000 alcohol fee was for "entertainment venues" — venues with a DJ, stage or dance floor.
The only public discussion before the vote was about some amendments to the ordinance, such as the decision to eliminate the five-member Alcohol Board and replace it with a single "hearing officer" to be appointed by the mayor and approved by the council. The revised ordinance was not included online as part of the agenda.
The council did hold a 20-minute closed door executive session during the meeting and before the vote after some confusion about the sell of alcohol at sexually oriented businesses. As part of the revised alcohol ordinance, the council agreed to postpone prohibiting sexually oriented businesses from selling alcohol until Jan. 1, 2021.
The council's decision to eliminate the exorbitant fee — that nightlife venues previously only paid about $5,000 annually for — follows a federal judge ruling against the city in a lawsuit by Josephine, XS Restaurant & Lounge and Medusa Restaurant & Lounge. The judge issued a preliminary injunction in favor of the nightclubs and the case is still pending in federal court.
In part, the three venues claim the city is discriminating against the black-owned clubs by rolling back last call from 3 a.m. to 2 a.m.. Their argument in part states the new ordinance violates the U.S. Constitution's equal protection clause because it allowed the white-owned Pink Pony to stay open until 4 a.m. seven days a week.
Due to an agreement between the city and Pink Pony in 2014, the club was able to stay open until 4 a.m. seven days a week while also employing a disc jockey and having a stage. As part of the agreement with the city, the Pink Pony pays the city $225,000 a year to cover public safety expenses. The agreement also states the Pink Pony must shut down in 2020.
After the ruling, though, the city started enforcing the 2 a.m. last call at the Pink Pony. The Pink Pony has urged the city to revert back to its former alcohol code and 3 a.m. closing time until the federal lawsuit is decided.
When the city instituted its "entertainment venue" ordinance and the $100,000 new alcohol license fee, it slapped eight minority-owned clubs with suspensions unless they got rid of the DJ, dance floor or stage.
Several businesses agreed to do so and signed agreements with the city stating the would do so at an April Alcohol Board meeting. The city did not immediately respond to a request for comment on what will happen to the agreements.
Arif Lounge, a popular hookah lounge, did not sign the agreement and successfully appealed their suspension to the Alcohol Board.
City officials said the $100,000 fee was necessary to cover police costs due to rising crime rates specifically along Buford Highway where most of the targeted venues are located.


The Silchester Fun Run took place on Saturday 12th May at the end of one of the hottest spells of weather we have seen for some time. In the end we were relieved that the day was a bit cooler and the runners set off at 11am under starters orders and our new chip timing system. We hope everyone enjoyed the event and being able to access their times immediately after the race. We were very happy to see our resident priest Rob Young taking part proving that life goes on at 70! We had one dropout near to the start when Paddy (the dog) decided that racing was not for him and refused to go on and then suffered the indignity of being led back to the field by one of the marshals but everyone else persevered complete with prams, small children and dogs. A big thank you to all our sponsors and also to Barrie Tribe, Chairman of the Tadley Runners, for presenting the prizes. The Tadley Runners have supported us and helped to run this event for several years now and we really appreciate their help. Congratulations to the winners and to all the runners who took part. A total of 411 runners took part this year. The day was rounded off with two birthday celebrations for Rose Nash who had just turned 65 and young Tommy Oliver who was celebrating his 4th birthday.
Our annual Fun Run took place on Saturday 6th May. We didn't get quite such a lovely sunny day as last year but the rain held off and the wind didn't quite take any of the gazebos away! The 5 mile race started at 11am and the first runner was crossing the finish line 30 minutes later – is that a record?
This year we staggered the races a bit more and the 2.5 mile race set off 20 minutes later with some impressive running in this event too especially from some of the juniors.
It was good to see our new resident priest Rob Young out running and his wife Jacquie helping out in the registration tent. We had a total of 493 entries this year and once again we had prizes for different categories in each of the races. See next page for the race results.
Well done to the Fun Run sub-committee along with all the helpers from the Tadley Runners and the Pavilion section and a special big thank you to all the volunteers from the village who helped out on the day with marshalling, registration, timing, catering, etc. We couldn't do it without you.
The Silchester Trail Fun Run took place on a gloriously sunny day on Saturday 7th May. The event was jointly organised by the Silchester Association, the Pavilion Section and the Tadley Runners. We had a record turnout with 425 runners - a huge increase from previous years and the queues to register on the day ran from the pavilion up to the playground! Finally everyone was registered and Ken Batt was called on to start the race. The serious runners set off first, followed five minutes later by the family runners, including many juniors and even parents with buggies and several dogs!
A big thank you to everyone who made the day so successful and helped us cope with the numbers. An enormous amount of work goes in to putting on an event like this which is entirely run by volunteers and it couldn't happen without the team of organisers, helpers on the day and most of all the runners and their supporters.
A record amount of money was raised on the day which will go towards future events or other benefits for the village.


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Global Trends In Antimicrobial Food Assessment Answer
According to the United Nations recent estimates, the current population of the world is 7.6 billion. On a regular basis, approximately 2 billion people worldwide are facing problems in procuring adequate amounts of food to eat or lack the necessary sources to grow it. Affecting more than one-third of the global population, this act as a significant issue that affects and raise concern towards the underlying factors of the human race for surviving. To explore and eradicate other significant issues affecting the society as a whole, it is necessary to address the global food security challenge. The given solution will discuss facts to vividly describe the problems which are very critical in our supposedly modern society (Badami & Ramankutty, 2015).
To start with, the provided definition for food security by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO's) in the World Food Summit of 1996 says that all people who have access to the nutrition of the people food, whether economically, socially and physically to meet their adequate dietary needs leads to a situation called food security. This situation also includes the preferences of food, the quantity and quality of it, and the acceptability of it in the given culture. The means to access menu and the choice of consumption of food (which may vary between cultures, ethnicities and geographical locations) is a prime factor. The power of food and the ability to produce and purchase it act as the determining factor in food security. Any situation of being deprived, neglected, or adversely affected may lead to entirely different scenario, which is the insecurity of food (Badami & Ramankutty, 2015).
Therefore, it is obvious that access to food is a fundamental human right. Whereas various reasons are leading towards a situation where food is being considered as a privilege rather than a power. According to recent researches, the estimates shows that approximately 36 million people starve to death each year. Making it a major reason for the increasing death number in the coming subsequent years. A death every 5 seconds is noted to be due to starvation. Children are the most vulnerable of these 36 million inhabitants (Rotsky, 2018).
There are many extreme reasons who are contributing to the creation of such a situation. Geopolitical differences leading to conflicts, diseases (both infectious and noninfectious), natural calamities such as flooding, drought, climate changes are some major reasons for the rapidly increasing challenges in sustainable agriculture and securing the necessary amount of nutritious food for billions of people (Issues.tigweb.org, 2018). The economic and demographic expansion of the world in total have affected the food security as compared to the last century. People have witnessed the technological advancements around the globe, which singlehandedly modernized the aspects of food production, agricultural reformations, processing of staples and improvements in the market structure of distribution. In the networking of food; hunger and malnutrition are still playing the immense role in threatening and affecting the health and well-being of millions of individuals around the world (MacRae, Welsh and Koc, 2014, p. 1).
Putting it straightforwardly, the world must be capable in feeding at least 9 billion people by 2050. If the demand curve is being optimized, it can be seen that it will increase by 60% than what it is today. Of all the resolutions, set by the United Nations, the most highlighted are achieving food security through improving nutrition and triumphing over hunger. In a list of Sustainable development Goals or (SDGs), endeavors in promoting sustainable agriculture ranks 2nd among 17 others ("Food security and why it matters", 2018).
Questions arise as to why food security amongst all has risen as one of the significant global challenges. Keeping aside the apparent reason of food as the utmost necessity, delivering food between the entire individual's in a nation and the entire world population is a complex situation.
In a country or preferably at the national level, the food supplies are made sufficiently available either from domestic sources or are imported from other countries. This process is maintained by a regulatory board; which meets the average consumption needs of all citizens of the country results into the availability of food in an adequate manner (Badami & Ramankutty, 2015). As for an individual in a country, the resources and powers needed to purchase food is mainly dependent and determined by the availability of the nation's foreign exchange to import food from outside; which assures food security within any given society. That is why it had become one of the essential priorities of a country to resource, monitor and provide food the citizens; irrespective of the state of developed or developing. Even in industrially advanced countries like Canada, each year nearly millions, directly and indirectly, depend on food banks. Reports have been submitted to the authorities in the United States, about the inability of more than 30 million people to buy nutritious foods that will help them in maintaining good health (MacRae, Welsh & Koc, 2014). Thus, procuring and distributing food is an immense global challenge as it directly affects the socio-economic and socio-political scenario of the world.
Individual countries are facing the burdens of significant issues like obesity malnutrition and hunger altogether. One in three people in the world suffer from malnutrition right now, and there are several other kinds of the same problem-affecting people belonging to the same community or country.
The rate of diet or obesity-related diseases, which are non-transmittable for instances strokes, certain kinds of cancers, cardiac diseases, etc. are rising in number, and this is irrespective of the developing or developed status of a country. It is a fact that right now, there are more people who are suffering from obesity, than people being underweight. When these two issues are combined, the number counts to almost half the population of the world.
The estimated cost to the world economy of diseases caused by obesity and the number of deaths caused by it count almost $2 trillion. Alongside, there are nearly 795 million people who are suffering from malnutrition, and who are battling with hunger, daily. More than two million people do not have sufficient micronutrients such as Vitamin A, Zinc, Iron, etc. which affects their lifespan and overall health. Almost a quarter of children within the age of five have stunted growths, diminished or low mental capacities and physical strength. Less than one-third of young infants in about 50 low to middle-income countries meet the dietary standards, which are required for growth.
The reasons, which lead to the overall food security challenge:
Population explosion- Despite initiatives being taken by the UNICEF, United Nations, UNESCO and other small organizations, the growth in population is varying between across the world. For example, population growth in Africa has an expectancy of doubling from 1 billion to two billion by 2050. In other developing countries in Asia, the rapid rate of urbanization is increasing day by day. An additional of 2.5 billion residents are projected in urban areas.
Changes in taste and preference- Along with the growth of population, the varied choices in diets are also changing. It is a prevalent factor that with the improvement of socio-economic scenario individuals are undoubtedly prone to opt for options in food, which are more expensive. Diet rich in preservatives, processed food of all kinds including meat and dairy is common consumptions. However, to produce more meat, there is need to provide more grain. It is very essential to sustain the crops that the farmers are growing.
Changes in climate- This is a hazardous factor. About 40% of the landmass of this planet is arid, and given the rapid fluctuations in the temperatures, it will not take long to turn the world into a bare desert, if the overheating continues. At this point, the amount of food that is being produced is only going to sustain half of the population, that too, until 2050.
Water scarcity- This could well be considered a continuation of the above point, which talks about the climate going downhill overall. Water crisis is hovering over our heads like impending doom. According to statistics, about 28% of the agriculture lies in the regions, which are water-stressed. It needs about 1500 litres of water to produce just a kilo of wheat. It takes about 1600 litres of water to produce a kilo of beef. As per calculations, by the year 2050, the need of the water would be doubled, as per the requirements of productions.
Troubled farmers- In countries, which are developed, the percentage of the population who take to farming or growing crops is less than 2%. This also includes the number of people breeding their animals for food. However, with the rise of the food prices with time, very few people are taking to farming as an occupation as they are being left with very less margins. In addition, over-farming is degrading the quality of the soils; irrigable lands are being lost to adverse conditions (Badami & Ramankutty, 2015).
Current situations
Ongoing activities on the matter are extensive right now, and more people are acknowledging the concern. Health organisations and governments are coming together to form policies which might cater to the question, helping millions of victims all over the world. There are different types of activities which are performed in and around, which majorly focus on the aspect of the retrieval which is related to the element of the functionality which is associated with the proper functioning of the sector which is taken into consideration. In most of the cases, it is seen that the market sector can be considered as one of the most essential aspect, which are related to the functionality of the element. It can be stated here that in recent times, the customers play a very vital role, which forms the essential feature of the aspect. It revolves around the element, which is included into the market area. Most of the people tend to get what they need for the reasonable prices, which is involved into their internal as well as external working.
The ultimate solution to the cause will always be able to provide the undernourished populations with opportunities to earn their breads with an assurance that there will be enough food to sustain them for the coming years and secure the lives of their future generations. More than 70% of the world's extremely poverty-prone areas are rural areas, where the role of agriculture is supreme as it is the prime activity as a source of income for us. People rely on farming for their food as well as their earnings (Badami & Ramankutty, 2015). This situation also includes the preferences of food, the quantity and quality of it, and the acceptability of it in the given culture. The means to access menu and the choice of consumption of food (which may vary between cultures and ethnicities and geographical locations) is also a prime factor. The entitlement of food and the ability to produce and purchase it is the determining factor in food security. Any situation being deprived, neglected, or adversely affected may and can lead to entirely different scenario, which is the insecurity of food (Badami & Ramankutty, 2015). Agriculture employs a considerable portion of the economically active population, which affects the world economy hugely. The primary factor, which is taken into consideration in the aspect, is related to the employment sector, which forms a crucial point in the life of the people in different ways. People tends to get most of the things differently mainly taking into consideration the functionality, which is related to the aspect. People should have a bright idea of what they are intending to do majorly the sector which they want to be indulged into.
So, one can say that the insecurities which are related to food scarcity can be solved partially or entirely through the implementation of policies formed to supply to the needs. There needs to be more strength on the factor that agriculture needs to develop, and rapidly because as much as the economy is depending on it, the source of food is still agriculture. The contribution of food availability to the import of food at national levels is associated with the capacity of the country to earn foreign exchange. It is not a very realistic idea to widen food gaps through the means of commercial imports. This is because most states have weak prospects than others for foreign exchanges. For some countries, 50% of total export earnings come from food exports. Food aid, which was used earlier to satisfy the hunger of the unprovoked, is no more a common practice. So basically, the policies which help to increase the incomes of the poverty-stricken population, accelerate agricultural and food productivity and enhance the export-import scenario in the country regarding food are the policies in need.
According to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture (AoA), the focus is not the security of food. The primary objective is to be able to establish a fair-trading system, which is market-oriented. The action is expected to correct and prevent restrictions in the world agricultural scenario. The framers of the AoA focuses on a need to alter the situation of the mounting production surpluses in certain foods produced in certain developed nations through the rising level of budget support and laws protecting imports.
On the other side, the bulk of developing countries faced a different situation. Instead of excessive support and rise in production surpluses, the case that they met was that of insufficient production in comparison to the agricultural potentials. The example, as a result, has been different in different countries, as the food insecurities in different nations stem from various problems.
If one is to pinpoint methods as activities, which have been taken up in general to improve the situation, they are:
Wiser use of fertilisers- people understand that with the use of synthetic fertilisers, crops are being affected at large. People are taking this awareness more seriously as they know now that the whole source of livelihood and food is agriculture. Making bad crops will be equals to making a bad future. As per studies, the usage of chemical fertilisers has reduced by at least 15%. It is expected that there will be further improvements on the matter and the figures will change.
Food for direct consumption- It is a fact that many of the calories in a mealis lost when they convert into animal feed or other uses which are not edible. If those crops could be used to feed humans directly, they could provide enough calories for about 4 billion people. This might need the place where plants are grown to be changed, but it will not be easy. Farmers growing crops must ensure that their own families are eating from the crops produced by them, or at least selling them to buy other edibles. People need to change diets, and this rectification might cause a change in the cycle of food scarcity. It may not radically create a difference but will undoubtedly add to the larger picture.
Watching the food waste- As per estimates, over a 40% of the food produced all over, the world goes to the bin due to factors like improper storage, incorrect cooking, and inefficient preservation. The United States contributes to being one of the prominent culprits for this and requires an agricultural land base, which can be 8 times more significant than a land base, which is located in India. If the wastage of food could be reduced, especially in India, China and the United States, that could feed 413 million people every year.
Better awareness- It is a fact that knowledge helps to come out of many problems. It is essential to be aware of the global issues which are affecting the growth of human population overall. With advancement of technology, people are being more connected to the worldly affairs. Therefore, to tackle the problems, which are coming on surface, a well-done research and intelligent steps are very essential. For instance, the betterment of irrigation processes and wiser use of water sources are crucial and farmers understand this as a need. The scarcity of water is something which needs to be tackled and to be able to do that, better irrigation methods along with planting crops consuming less water needs to be done.
The Paris Agreement has committed to keep the increase in temperature caused by global warming below 2-degree C above pre-industrial levels, with the intention to limit the rise to 1.5 degree. All over the world, emissions need to lower in level by 80% by the time it is 2050. According to estimates, the food system will be held accountable for the highest amount of GHG emission budget of the 2-degrees, which will leave other sectors with little space. This will be the probable reason to make it impossible to meet the aims of the Paris Agreement. Gradual climate change will change whatever that was possible to be grown, and the variability which makes up rainfall and average temperature will cause climatic shocks taking place more often such as floods, droughts, heat waves and cold snaps. This whole thing will reduce the capacity of lands yielding crops and overall bring down the rate of producing. According to studies and reports, the risk of extreme weather conditions affecting regions, which are significant producers of plants of the world, could become four times higher by the time it is 2040. This whole thing will affect the nature and number of produced crops. This will create a shockwave in the economy as well as lives of millions, probably causing a civil unrest.
The climate change can change the distribution of severity of diseases and pests in livestock and crops. This has the potential to have severe impacts on the production of food and animal welfare altogether. Almost a third of the produced food that is to be consumed by human is wasted or lost, whether it is early in the supply chain (through pests and diseases or post-harvest losses) or later in the supply chain (in consumption and retail). This brings variations in the estimate that is made of the number of crops, which need to be harvested.
The challenging fact understands how the world can come together, and redesign the food system to make it sustainable, healthy, and resilient to climatic changes and to help reach the goals of Sustainable Development and the agendas of the Paris Agreement. The Global Food Security program brings on a same platform the major public funders of the United Kingdom to address the challenges, helping an increase in collaboration and coordination in research and leading the policies to translate into practice.
It is essential to try to maintain the ecosystem as the whole food production deal is depending upon a sound and protected ecosystem. For instance, agriculture uses about 70% of all fresh water, producing around one third of all GHG emissions, which in turn contributes to loss of biodiversity and causes degradation in the quality of the soil. It is to be noted that 69% of the agricultural lands are of degraded value due to various factors. If demand for food continues to grow like it is currently, without sufficient produces, by 2050, the world would be needing 120% more water, 14% more forest, 42% more cropland and will be providing 77% more GHG emissions.
Even with the yield gap closure through SI, the world would need 55% more water at least, 8% more forest, 5% more croplands and produce 42% CHG. There will be the need to use all kinds of technology available, along will the best farming practices by the farmers and experts to ensure that there is an increase in the rate of production, enough to sustain the population in the coming years.
The factor that is even more important is the kind of attitude people have towards food. The amount consumed and the amount wasted should be watched. Food waste and diet changes are factors, which needs more carefulness and attention. The improvement in worldwide literacy should also be hand in hand with this particular issue of food scarcity. It is a fact that ignorance leads to many bad choices. People who suffer from obesity or other diseases could have been cured or avoided had they not been ignorant about what they are consuming. These are factors, which governments should take up more seriously and promote campaigns for. In a condition where people are dying of diseases caused by obesity, malnutrition and other things, sticking on to social stigmas and taboos and not being aware of the nutrition needs of the body would be foolish. Every society has a class who are much occupied in body shaming others. Other factors such as the psychological needs cause a person to choose a particular kind of food habit, which may cause harm to his health in the end.
One of the causes for the occurrence of most of the epidemics is the issue of food security or scarcity, and it has had the population of the world live with fear. Eradication of poverty and hunger is one of the prime goals. Even if people are walking towards the path of a future, which has food secure, people must watch our steps and set our priorities right so that there are no individuals going to sleep hungry.
The factors, which can help reduction of the food crisis in the world, now are:
Supporting small and medium-scaledfarmers-, most of the farmers in Africa are less productive than the farmers in the people even if that was a century ago. There is a need to train the small farmers, and there is a consensus between NGOs and the respective governments that the support provided to the small farmers will be the best way to eradicate hunger. If the small farmers are also rained and encouraged they will be able to produce some number of crops which it cannot fulfil, can at least contribute to the amount of crop production needed to sustain the population. A combination of aids, introduction to better seeds, and education about irrigation methods, which are effective, and fair fertilisers, could help small-scalefarmers up their game and contribute successfully to the revolution that is much needed. However, the problem here is that the rich countries have already involved genetically modified crops as a part of the schemes and have failed to deliver to the aid pledges of poor farmers.
Lessen the consumption of meat- Meat production is supposedly the wasteful use of the limited resources that the world has. Even in this date, 40% of the grain crops are fed to the livestock and fish. It is the most inefficient with the intensive beef farming cases. It has been shown that just 2% of the food that I give to the cattle add the same calories to our body when people consume the meat. This is the reason that the UN promotes the fact that agricultural production must rise by about 60% to feed about 3 billion extra heads by the time it is 2050. The problem, however, is that there is no such international mechanism which will regulate or change the kind of diet people have or the food intake they are choosing.
Target infant nutrition- It is very possible to attain a state free of malnutrition. According to Bill Gates, it has always been within the reach of the people who have the means, to come together and address this issue of malnourishment and poverty. Improvements have been going on in the mannerisms to control and regulate food; however, what is needed is education. It is essential to provide the mother with the right nutritious food right from the beginning of her pregnancy. Malnutrition, as is known, has caused more than a 10% fall in the GDP in the countries affected as it makes the people affected by it weaker and weaker. Therefore, if the government takes up policies, which secure the kind of food the expecting mother is consuming, she will give birth to a healthier child who will be able to fight better with diseases and adversities out in the world.
Reduce poverty- Poverty is something, which primarily affects the eating, habits of individuals. Socio-economic standard of a person determines the kind of food or the diet he would choose for himself or his family. It is a factor, whichis associated to the possibility of eradicating hunger. More trade, open markets, better flow of food- all of these can be accessed with better capital capacity. Successful reduction of poverty in China, for instance, has led to economists predicting that there would be no people who would be left hungry, by the end of 2020. However, this is a long process, and the steps towards achieving this goal are not easy to organize. In addition, malnutrition does not always have to do with poverty. For instance, in India, in spite of an economic boom, there are still instances of malnourishment.
Breaking down trade barriers- in times of distress, politics often becomes a problem solver, more than anything does. That is what happened in counties like Egypt, India and a couple of other countries whose policies of taxes were altered and tariffs dropped on imported food products for accessing cheaper food, faster than usual. By this, they accomplished better results in trade negotiations and set a record in months. By liberalising imports, the benefits have been enormous, for the market and the economy. However, if this has helped some the most, it would be the people who could alter their food habits. Liberalizing imports makes it easier to access more variety food at a kisser cost. This leads to more people being able to afford food. This is a process, which has been successful in making food more accessible to poor people too. However, it is upon all the governments of majority countries to take this step as valid process of helping the world scenario.
From the above discussions, it can be concluded that there are more problems than solutions that can solve the pressing issue that food security is. It is carving lifestyles, mindsets, and so much more. However, other points apart, the most important factors would be the active involvement of the governments and other bodies in power to create, validate, and execute policies, which think of the betterment of the scenario. Another significant step is to educate people about. Education will not only teach about better eating and other values, it would also show the need to be unaffected by social taboos of the generation which are very closely entwined with food security and scarcity. In most of the times, it can be stated that it is one of the most affected areas, which should be always taken into consideration.
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"Downtown Austin (Partial) (Day 14)"
I have almost a week at home before I go to teach another workshop. So I continued studying and painting my large "Downtown Austin" painting. I have spent two solid days, however the progress is painstakingly slow. I have seriously taken notes about my thought, my actions, my mistakes, and my discovers. Now my note about this project has 32 pages long so far and it is getting longer.
For self-learning painters, especially for painters who have been painting for a while, I highly recommend working on a few large paintings seriously and long term. This will save your time for going through what you have already known again and again, and staying in the unknown territory for as long as possible time. So you know your weak points. You work out solutions and get better. I know it is not fun working this way, and it is absolutely making no business sense if you are only market driven. To me, it is worth every minute. I am a late starter and have not got enough formal training. So this is my Academy.
My third demo was a mid-key floral. The yellow roses were not in good shape when I set them up. Being into this miserable world for too long, they kept wilting and fading. The gravity was mercilessly pulling their petals down to the center of the earth. I was using all my might to cheer them up and fight to use every minute to catch the last bit of their vitality and documented on my canvas. Oh boy It was a demonstration of struggling, both me and the roses.
Art is always a type of struggle. Things are not always working out. We don't have control on our fate. The only thing we can do is keeping on trying, and try a little more.
This is my second demo. A couple of yellow roses and a wood thingy in the back. It was very enjoyable of painting it. This painting is still available. I put it on the Daily Paintworks.
I am on my way back home this afternoon. I have taught 3 workshops in a row in this trip. It is a new milestone on my art journey.
Bonjour! I came out of US again. My 9th workshop of the year has been conducted in Montreal Canada. Great thanks to John Goodger for organizing and to all the Canadian artists for attending. I have really enjoyed these a few days. This is my first demo.
This is my 3rd demo. It is a new experiment. At the art center, I saw may spools of springs and ribbons. They have all kinds of colors and sizes. So I decided to give them a try. I formed this composition, and did this high key painting. It was challenge of doing this experiment in front of all workshop artists as a demo. I demonstrated how I struggled to learn new stuff.
The workshop at Lowell has ended. I have arrived at Montreal Canada yesterday.
This is the second demo. Roses and a turnip were together. It was kind of odd, but I was look into the colors for the painting. I guessed it was all right.
The workshop went well so far. I have tried my best to make the students learning easily and the information I give was practical and easy to remember. I hope the people who took my workshops can progress steadily and become better painters.
Flown out of Portland OR, I have arrived at Grand Rapids MI. Thanks to Franciscan Life Process Center and Kathy Bechtel for organizing my 8th workshop of the year. Thanks to all Michigan artists for attending. It is very quiet and peaceful here, It reminds me the meditation retreat I did a year ago. It is the world it should be.
This is the third demo at Hood River Workshop. I tried to approach my still life painting a little differently. I hope my high key painting will mature someday. Currently it is in the middle of development. If you have any suggestions, please let me know. That will help me significantly to grow.
Recall these a couple of years, I feel I have entered a relatively difficult phase of my art career. I need to recharge badly. However, I don't have enough time to concentrate on learning new stuff, and my existing style of painting has got too stylish. I personally don't feel satisfied with the current status, and long for new growth. I have been patiently studying with my very fragmented time, taking notes, did a large amount of research. You may not see much of changes on the surface in a short run, but I am getting better. I have discovered a lot of unknowns in my own art education, and little by little I am filling the gaps. For a while, you may still see too many similar demos paintings, but I am working hard and need your encouragement and guidance.
Low key still life painting is the scheme of my second demo. I felt pretty happy about this one. The color is harmonious. The center of focus is obvious, and the reading is smooth. The information about the bottle in the background is just adequate. I hope you enjoy this painting too.
My 7th workshop of the year has just finished at Hood River, OR. I want to thank Columbia Center for the Arts for organizing this workshop, especially Ceri and Sally. Thanks to all artists from Oregon and Washington States for attending. This is my first demo. The setup is very simple, but all the objects in this setup manipulate light differently. Painting light is the key.
The day before yesterday, Hsin Yao and I went plein air painting. We went to this old house near where I live. I have painted this place many times. It was cloudy. Hsin Yao loved it. I like light and shadow. Cloudy day is challenge for me. I have learned a lot by watching him painting. I was amazed how much paint he used - at least 5 times of the amount I used. You can imagine how rich and thick his painting was. You can tell how confident a painter is by how much paint he/she put on palette. So quantitatively, Hsin Yao is 5 time more developed than I am.
Hsin Yao Tseng (young man taller than I am, age 28. He looks 18 to me) is already a very successful artist living at San Francisco. This photo was shot at the InSight Gallery at Fredericksburg, TX at reception of his solo show. The art work behind us are part of his cityscape paintings. He is also showing at Legacy Gallery, AZ, and Waterhouse Gallery, CA. His art has been featured in many art magazines.
Jenna Ma (young lady on left, age 16. I hope she is not mind I mention her age). She is the Silver Medalist of the National Scholastic in Art and Writing Awards of 2015. Kyle Ma (young man on right, age 15, unrelated to Jenna) is very seriously developing his art in oil painting. He has shown his art works at the Whistle Pik Gallery in Fredericksburg.
I am fifty some year old now, but my mind is still young. As a relatively late starter, the time is very valuable to me. I treat every painting I do as my first one. I want to learn sincerely and gain as much as I can. I treat every painting I do as my last one as well. I want to try my best to make the painting have the utmost impact I like it to have.


Use this tutorial as a reference to support the work we did in class.
Create a cutaway object using the bevel edge techniques described in the tutorial. This should be your own creation and not the sample we created together in class.
When you are done with this image place it in your digital portfolio.


Happy holiday weekend to everyone! I am beyond excited to have three lazy days with my little family. There's a huge music festival going on here this weekend, so we are going to try and stay away from the traffic and just relax and maybe find some water to play in.
I can't believe I am already 29 weeks, you guys. This pregnancy is flying. In the last update, I mentioned that this has been my easiest pregnancy and it still stands (so far). Pregnancy has never really been kind to me, so I will take the minimal annoyances from this one and be thankful it wasn't like the other two! My hair and skin have even been better with this one.
The yucky parts of the second trimester were the migraines (one or two a week), the start of pregnancy insomnia, and towards the end, anemia. The anemia is making me so freaking tired and out of breath. I just started a new regimen of whole food based iron supplements, so I am hoping for a little more energy. The worst part of pregnancy right now is not being able to physically do as much as I want to do and it's driving me nuts. I know it will be a handful to have two under two, but being pregnant with a toddler is no walk in the park, either! Grayson is actually a big help, and I appreciate him so much. He's the best big brother the little ones could ever wish for.
I am doing maternity photos this coming weekend and I am pretty excited about that! I have never done them, and it's my last baby- so I figured why not? I have a couple of gorgeous dresses and flower crowns that I can't wait to show you. After that, we are in the home stretch! I had a 3D ultrasound yesterday and Lincoln is basically the cutest thing in the world and looks exactly like Charlie.
Cravings? Lately I have wanted citrus, other fresh fruit, and MEXICAN STREET CORN.
Aversions? I have no interest in eggs.
Oh man! I can't believe you're already 29 weeks. These last few months are going to fly by. And flip, baby Lincoln, flip!
Ahh I know! Thank you!!


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Battleships: WWII Evolution of the Big Guns (ePub)
WWII Naval
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Beginning with a pictorial essay on battleship construction in the 1930s and 1940s, this new book looks at the various design facets of the last great capital ships of the world's navies. Kaplan offers us a glimpse into those massive American and German navy yards and construction facilities that were put to use during this time, acquainting us with the arenas in which these final examples of battleship technology were laid down, built up, launched, fitted out, commissioned and taken out to sea.
The book roots itself in a period of monumental change within the history of contemporary warfare. With the baton being passed from the battleship community to that of the aircraft carrier, the iconic battleship was gradually superseded by a new and even more threatening weapons system. It was destined to be consigned to the history books, whilst newer, slicker and more efficient fighting machines took precedence. This publication serves as a tribute to a lost legend of naval warfare.
There is a look at some of modern history's most significant battleships, relaying their thrilling stories, defining characteristics and eventual fates. Ships featured include Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Warspite, Tirpitz and Yamato.
The book is completed with 'Fast and Last', a visit on board the four final examples of battleship technology and design, the last serving battleships USS Iowa, USS New Jersey, USS Wisconsin, and USS Missouri. Their Second World War careers are recounted, as are the qualities that made them special.
A Great book - 5 stars!
This book is one of the best I have read on battleships etc. during the 19th century. It goes into great detail about the location and damage that the ships incurred.
Beginning with a pictorial essay on battleship construction in the 1930s and 1040s, this new book looks at the various design facets of the last great capital ships of the world's navies.
Warship Worlds
I recommend this book to anyone interested in the history of some of the mighty battleships.
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About Philip Kaplan
Author/historian/designer/photographer Philip Kaplan has written and co-authored forty-seven books on aviation, military and naval subjects. His previous books include: One Last Look, The Few, Little Friends, Round the Clock, Wolfpack, Convoy, Fighter Pilot, Bombers, Fly Navy, Run Silent, Chariots of Fire, Legend and, for Pen and Sword, Big Wings, Two-Man Air Force, Night and Day Bomber Offensive, Mustang The Inspiration, Rolling Thunder, Behind the Wire, Grey Wolves, Naval Air, and Sailor. He is married to the novelist Margaret Mayhew.
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China halts more than 150 coal-fired power plants
China is to stop or delay work on 151 planned and under-construction coal plants as Beijing struggles to respond to a flat-lining of demand for coal power.
Lauri Myllyvirta & Li Danqing Posted on 13 October 2017 4 Comments
BEIJING, CHINA - NOVEMBER 27: Chinese boys look at their smartphone in front of their house next to a coal fired power plant on November 27, 2015 on the outskirts of Beijing, China. China's government has set 2030 as a deadline for the country to reach its peak for emissions of carbon dioxide, what scientists and environmentalists cite as the primary cause of climate change. At an upcoming conference in Paris, the governments of 196 countries will meet to set targets on reducing carbon emissions in an attempt to forge a new global agreement on climate change. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
The newly released list implements a target announced by premier Li Keqiang in March to stop, delay and close down at least 50,000 megawatts of coal-fired power plant projects in 2017.
The list affects coal power plants with capacity equal to the combined operating capacity of Germany and Japan (95,000 megawatts) costing around US$60 billion (389 billion rmb).
The amount of capacity affected hence exceeds the target set for this year but is still well short of the total of 150,000 megawatts the government says is needed by 2020.
However the number of plants on the list has shrunk by around 15% from an original list of 182; a watering down of earlier plans after intense political negotiations. Also, the majority of the plants are technically only "delayed", putting off the final decision to cancel the projects.
Building new coal-fired power plants doesn't directly increase CO2 emissions, because coal-fired generation in China is limited by lack of demand. But it does create a conflict between dirty and clean energy in the grid, because the grid operators tend to favor coal power plant operators when dispatching electricity.
Fewer plants hit
The coal industry bastion of Shanxi has managed to remove 6,000 megawatts of capacity from the list, despite having one of the worst overcapacity situations in the country.
Construction of coal-fired power plants remains a coveted source of economic activity and of demand for locally mined coal for many provinces but the boom in China's renewable industry and a slow-down in demand has left China with hundreds of coal plants it doesn't need.
What is over-capacity?
After a long period of rapid growth, the amount of power generated from coal flat-lined in 2014.
The change came thanks to China's renewable energy boom and a slow-down in power-demand as the country moved away from heavy industry.
Yet the country kept building coal plants leaving China with power-stations often operating at less than half their capacity.
China hit the brakes on approvals of new coal-fired power plant projects on the second half of 2016, but previously approved plants have continued coming online at a rate of almost one large plant per week.
Last year, China set a target of stopping or delaying at least 150,000 megawatts of coal-fired power plant projects to alleviate the looming overcapacity problem with the new list marking the start of this process.
Renewables boom
The task of addressing coal power overcapacity is made more urgent by newly increased targets for wind and solar power capacity, which will bring more clean energy to the market in the next few years.
The government's recent efforts to clamp down on the red-hot real estate sector and local government debt spending – key drivers of China's heavy industry volumes and power demand – will also leave less space for coal-fired power generation.
Source: Unearthed. Reproduced with permission.
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GlennM 2 years ago
But…But what about all their poor people who need coal ??
Joe 2 years ago
I guess they will stay in 'energy poverty' as our COALition keeps reminding us.
trackdaze 2 years ago
Energy poverty is when you get a bill from a coal flavoured retailer.
Energy freedom is when you install solar and storage.
MaxG 2 years ago
Maybe they can sell some coal and power stations to the COALition 😀


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It has become fashionable to insist on the importance of taking a long-term view but few achieve it in practice. Even in the world of pensions – vehicles that invest over decades – it is common to give too much weight to the present relative to the past.
Indeed, some behavioural finance experts argue that a 'present bias' is rooted in human psychology. Immediate rewards are overvalued relative to long-term goals. Whether or not this is the case, the temptations are understandable. It is easy to get trapped in the present. Examples include breaking political news, speculation about imminent interest rates changes and the latest asset allocation shifts.
Not that these are irrelevant – they are the stuff of news coverage after all – but the importance of the recent is exaggerated. In some cases it may be of vital importance but such instances are rare.
The antidote to short-termism is easy to identify but hard to implement. Through the study of history it is possible to learn to assess the relative importance of the most recent developments. It provides an anchor in a sea of constantly flowing information. Unfortunately, the historical approach is too often misunderstood. It is assumed to indicate a nostalgia for the past. Others see it as associated with a conservative world view.
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The attempt to understand geopolitical shifts using economic models is a particular example of this failure. As I argued back in December, such models are incapable of grasping the subject matter of politics: the study of discontinuities in human affairs.
These criticisms may sound academic but they have enormous practical consequences. It is not hard to find numerous examples of such errors in the world in general and the investment arena in particular. Indeed, the vast bulk of the discussion of social matters is coloured, to a greater or lesser degree, by presentism.
Under such circumstances, any attempts to view the world from a longer-term perspective should be welcomed. The recent study on the long-term development of emerging market equities as an asset class is just one example (see here).
Historical thinking is the only counter to the scourge of presentism.