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Children's Books Featuring Biracial and Multiracial Families
It's especially important in our current cultural climate that children not only see themselves in the books they read, but also that they read about children different from them. Below are some examples of books in NPL's collection in which biracial and multiracial children take center stage.
A few years ago, after finishing a family literacy workshop, a parent approached me with a question. She wanted to know if I had any particular recommendations for books about biracial children. Her daughter is biracial, she said, and was regrettably experiencing bullying at church. "It's even getting to where my daughter doesn't want to go to church," the concerned parent said, because of what the other children say to her.
At that moment, I could not recall any specific book titles. I was sad on behalf of the mom and her daughter, and felt somewhat powerless as well. I did not have a ready answer that I felt could really speak to and address the mom's visible hurt and frustration. Churches and other houses of worship are traditionally meant to be sanctuaries. Unfortunately, we know that this kind of bullying also happens in schools and other ostensibly "safe" spaces.
The above exchange, however, inspired me to seek out children's books featuring biracial children and families. It's important that children not only see themselves in the books they read, but also that they read about children different from them. This is especially important, I think, in our current cultural climate, in which children, teachers, and parents are reporting higher incidences of racialized bullying among students at all levels. Below are some examples of books in NPL's collection in which biracial and multiracial children take center stage.
black is brown is tan
By Arnold Adoff
First published in 1973, black is brown is tan features a white father, a black mother, and their two children, with extended family also making an appearance. The book is written in free verse poetry, in short rhythmic stanzas, perfect for reading aloud. Mom ("…mommy mama mamu meeny muh and mom again") and Dad ("…daddy dingbat da and kiss me pa") sing, read, cook, and puff and yell their children into bed. The love they have for each other and their family is evident in the gentle text and warm illustrations. This story poem is accessible for even the youngest readers.
I'm Your Peanut Butter Big Brother
By Selina Alko
Many a soon-to-be big brother or sister wonders about what their soon-to-be-born sibling will look like. In I'm Your Peanut Butter Big Brother, a young boy blended from "semisweet dark Daddy chocolate bar and strawberry cream Mama's milk" asks his "baby brother or sister" what shade of skin he or she will be, if they will maybe resemble one of his friends, or if their hair will be like his, like "soft, crunchy billows of cotton candy." No matter what, he promises, "together they will dream, draw, wrestle and play, do projects, sing, snack, chill, read and sleep." This is a lovely book to read with any child preparing for the birth of a new sibling. The imagery used throughout the book will appeal to the imaginative spark in every child, and the rich vocabulary will add to their verbal development.
Two Mrs. Gibsons
By Toyomi Igus
In Two Mrs. Gibsons, a woman reflects on the two women who helped raise her. One was tall, skin the color of chocolate, and born in Tennessee, while the other was small, with skin the color of vanilla, and hailing from the Japanese city of Gifu. While each Mrs. Gibson was different from the other and taught her different things-how to write in Japanese, sing in church, catch fireflies, or make origami cranes-each woman, one her mother and the other her grandmother, actually had a lot in common. They both loved her and her father. I like this book because it demonstrates how each member of a biracial or multiracial family can teach a child different things about their shared heritage. This can help a child build self-esteem and pride in who they are and where they-and their family-come from.
For parents who may be looking for handbooks geared to their particular questions about children, race, and identity, check out 40 Ways to Raise a Nonracist Child and Does Anybody Look Like Me? A Parent's Guide to Raising Multiracial Children, both available at the Public Library. While not a picture book, Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Children features photographs and stories from multiracial parents and children.
40 Ways to Raise a Nonracist Child
By Barbara Mathias
Does Anybody Else Look Like Me?: A Parent's Guide to Raising Multiracial Children
By Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Children
By Kip Fulbeck
More Books Featuring Multiracial Children
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Q: Android parse String ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException I'm trying to parse a String to obtain 3 Integer but I have a Force Close and the LogCat says : ArrayIndexOutOfBoundExceptions.
Here is the concerned part of my code :
    dateModif = tvDateAffichee.getText().toString();

    String[] separatedDate = dateModif.split(".");

    mDay = Integer.parseInt(separatedDate[0]);
    mMonth = Integer.parseInt(separatedDate[1]);
    mYear = Integer.parseInt(separatedDate[2]);

I checked the value of the string with a toast and it contains values like, for example : 13.9.2011
The mistake comes from this line :
    mDay = Integer.parseInt(separatedDate[0]);

(If I put it as comment, it gives the same mistake frome the next line)
Thanks for your help!

A: String.split() takes a regex in which case . means "any character". You'll want to escape it like this: \.. And since you specify the regex as a String literal, you'll need to double the backslashes: dateModif.split("\\.").
But it would be better to use real date parsing methods for this.

A: String dateModif = tvDateAffichee.getText().toString();

String []separatedDate=dateModif.split("[.]");

    mDay = Integer.parseInt(separatedDate[0]);
    mMonth = Integer.parseInt(separatedDate[1]);
    mYear = Integer.parseInt(separatedDate[2]);

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Vivus Hospital Madikeri is a 50-bedded multi speciality Medical Health Care Centre with various specialties. It is located in the heart of Madikeri Town.
Vivus Hospital Madikeri is well equipped with departments of critical and general care in various specialties. The centre offers 24-hour accident and emergency services and accepts Medico-Legal cases and conducts master health checkups regularly.
DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES: Vivus Hospital has a full-fledged laboratory for various Pathological/ Haematological and Bio-chemical investigations. This helps in quicker, accurate diagnosis and treatment with total control on quality and accuracy of the tests. Computerized auto analysis including electrolytes testing & computerized cell counter for accurate & quick reports.
X-Ray: X-Ray facility 24 hours a day. 300 mA unit � portable mobile X-ray facility for emergency / bed side X-ray's. We also have Ultra-Sound Scanning, Echo Cardiography & Colour Doppler facility to aid in faster diagnosis and treatment.
PHARMACY: The hospital has a pharmacy, which is open round the clock to provide timely medication for patients.
EMERGENCY SERVICES: Vivus Hospital is equipped with 24 hour casualty services with VENTILATOR, a Medical Officer is in service at casualty round the clock to deal with all types of emergencies - Cardiac, Surgical, Orthopaedic, Gynaec, Paediatric etc. All types of accidents including medico-legal cases are treated in our hospital. Respective consultant will be called in to attend to the critical patient within few minutes of patient's arrival. Consultant with necessary support will be ready in waiting if the arrival of the patient is notified in advance by phone.
VENTILATOR: Hospital is well equipped for complete medical & Cardiac Intensive Care management. Artificial breathing machine (ventilator) for patients with respiratory failure by poisoning, heart attacks etc., is available.
OPERATION THEATRE: Operation Theatre is well equipped with modern equipments to cater to all types of surgeries. UPS and centralised oxygen / gas supplies ensure problem free surgical procedures.
THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT [I.C.U]: I.C.U is equipped with all modern facilities to manage critically ill patients such as acute Heart Attack (MI), Stroke, Pneumonia, Hypertensive Crises etc., We have Bed side ECG monitors, Defibrillators, Central Oxygen supply & suction facilities with well trained nursing staff to cater the needs of ICU patients. In case of emergencies, specialist's service is available round the clock.
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DEPARTMENT OF ORTHOPAEDICS AND TRAUMATOLOGY: : It is headed by an experienced Orthopaedic surgeon expert in all the recent orthopaedic surgeries. All types of orthopaedic surgeries for fractures, joint injuries/ open fractures are being performed. Corrective surgeries for deformities-congenital or acquired - are also undertaken. Spine problems such as spondylosis / disc problems are also attended to. All types of accidents and trauma victims are attended to round the clock. Medico legal cases are also treated at our hospital.
DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE & CARDIOLOGY: Vivus Hospital Medical Department is well equipped with all the modern facilities, experienced consultant Physicians to deal with all types of Cardiac, Respiratory and renal diseases, Diabetes, Hypertension & Neurological disorders.
We have the state of the art facilities like Echocardiogram with Colour Doppler and Computerised stress testing (Tread Mill Test) to work up the Cardiac status. Ultrasound Scanning, X-ray department and well equipped laboratory to carry out rapid and accurate diagnosis.
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Our hospital is well equipped with modern labour room facilities. Motto of our obstetricians is natural and normal delivery, however they are fully geared up to handle complicated pregnancies also. Courteous and trained nursing staffs attend to the nursing mother and newborn and make their stay at the hospital a pleasurable experience.
DEPARTMENT OF PAEDIATRICS: The Paediatric department at Vivus is well equipped in dealing with General care as well as intensive care of ill new born babies and older children including resuscitation. Neonatal unit has equipments for resuscitation and support at birth and Intensive Care Baby Incubator and monitoring system for subsequent care. We also have a Phototherapy unit to manage cases of jaundice.
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Public in the Newsroom: Sarah Ryley at New York Daily News
发布者Jewel Loree日期2 月 20, 2014
Sarah Ryley is helping lead the charge for data driven journalism at the New York Daily News. The Tableau vizzes she's made as the Assistant City Editor for the Manhattan-based newspaper have set records. Her first dashboards on the NYPD Stop and Frisk program were the very first Tableau Public vizzes to hit one million views last July and still remain some of the most viewed vizzes of all time.
Since breaking the million view record, Ryley has created a number of innovative dashboards for the Daily News. Recently, she created this visualization, the most-sued NYPD officers over the past decade. Her novel use of DocumentCloud to embed PDFs of court records into the dashboard has been getting buzz at the Daily News, in the Tableau offices, and online.
"Everyone really likes it!" Ryley beamed. "It's not even really anything crazy or complicated. It only took me like a half hour to build. It was really quick," Ryley said with regard the Document viewer in her visualization. She explained that using URL action to control an embedded webpage on a dashboard was a trick she learned for a previous Tableau Public dashboard on open murder cases, so it was easy for her to build off of that concept.
To the surprise of many, Ryley has only been using Tableau Public for about a year. "I went to IRE and saw a demo and was really interested in the possibilities," she explains. She followed up, signing up for a full day training at NICAR the following year. "I waited an hour before class started to be sure I got a spot.." Luckily for the readers of the Daily News and for all her fans here at Tableau Public, a spot did open up. "After that, I had a pretty good idea of what could be done, but it was really helpful to have someone from Tableau to talk to and work with to make my ideas reach fruition," Ryley states.
After the training at NICAR, she reached out to the Tableau Public team with over 500k rows of data on the Stop and Frisk program and lofty ambitions to create a densely data-driven story highlighting the inefficiencies and injustices of the program.
After a couple months of following data down different rabbit holes, discovering the real story hidden in the 500k rows of individual stops, and finding the best ways to communicate that story, Sarah had an article and set of vizzes that became a hit. After the success of their first Tableau Public endeavor, Ryley reflects, "I'm really lucky to have a boss who trusts me. I think about it sometimes and it's really amazing because I really need to spend a lot of time on this. Unlike other news organizations that often have a big data department; I mostly do these on my own, so I have some discretion over how I spend my time."
When asked where she gets her ideas from, Ryley claimed that it all "depends on the data." She postulates that the data you have, the shape of it, the content, it will all drive the direction you need to take it. "You look at what is special about the data and go from there. With Stop and Frisk, we had all those locations… so you think 'map.' In the most recent one, we already had a Dropbox full of documents and I was looking at them and thought, 'It would be great if people could see these documents like this.'"
Speaking of data, hunting down more of it is a goal for Ryley this year. "When I go to NICAR this year, my goal is to learn how to web scrape and build some scrapes for stories," she says. Tableau Public has already given her the tools she needs to manipulate the data. "The software is great and easy to use on the fly for exploring data and stories. It's much more fun than Access. If you look at other free tools that are out there, they can't do nearly what Tableau can do without any programming knowledge." But having the ability to analyze her data doesn't mean anything if she can't get the data she needs for her stories.
"If you don't have the right tools, some visions for stories are just impossible to execute," Ryley affirms. Tools like Tableau Public are empowering newsrooms like the New York Daily News to put the power of data journalism in the hands of the journalists themselves, no programming required. "It's really the future of journalism, using these kinds of tools to incorporate data into your stories. None of these visualizations would've been possible without Tableau's help."

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He didn't understand how these things worked.
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He had all plans to explain it to her.
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Yes, it changed for good, at least he went on to ask her out for a date.
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Early Addition: New Yorkers Don't Care About Friday The 13th
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Millennials earn 20 percent less than baby boomers did at the same stage of life.
A new archaeological find puts humans in North America 10,000 years earlier than thought.
NY1 learns New Yorkers don't care about Friday the 13th.
Reminder: don't fight on airplanes!
And now no one will get to see Joseph Fiennes play Michael Jackson.
Paul Anka is not performing at the Trump inauguration, but Toby Keith and 3 Doors Down are.
William Peter Blatty, the author of "The Exorcist," has died.
A woman was killed by a superbug resistant to all 26 American antibiotics.
James Corden performed a Kanye West-inspired soap opera with Bryan Cranston, Jessica Biel and Giovanni Ribisi.
The NY Times wants you to dress happy even if you're miserable.
AP reports that Trump's national security adviser Michael Flynn has been in frequent contact with Russia's ambassador to the United States.
And finally, meet the "Monkey Mom" raising six monkeys like children:


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Peremyshl () was a town in the Grand Duchy of Moscow located on the right bank of the Mocha River, within the Troitsky Administrative Okrug of Moscow, to the west of the  village.

By the site of Peremyshl, there is the Rodnevo hill fort. Both sites  ("городище Перемышль Московский" and "Родневское  городище) are archaeological monuments of federal importance.

Historian Vasily Tatishchev claimed that the Peremyshl fortress was founded in 1152. However a 1339 document by Ivan Kalita refers to Peremyshl as a village. On the other hand, it as suggested that the fortifications existed in 1370. At the time it belonged to Serpukhov udel (appanage) of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

References

Former cities in Russia
Archaeological sites in Russia
Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Moscow Oblast

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Where Can I Watch
Posted October 13, 2020 • Last updated December 18, 2020
Where can I watch "Palm Springs" in Canada?
Here's what we know about Canadian availability for the comedy starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti.
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The 2020 comedy film Palm Springs, starring Andy Samberg, Cristin Milioti, and J.K. Simmons, was released in the U.S. on July 10, 2020, with a limited American theatrical release by Neon alongside streaming on Hulu. However, the film did not receive an authorized release in Canada – or any other country – at that point.
It wasn't until November 4 that Amazon announced it had acquired the premiere streaming rights to the film in Canada and a few other countries. Consequently, as of Friday, December 18, Palm Springs is now available in Canada at no extra charge to Amazon Prime Video subscribers. Prime Video is part of the Amazon Prime membership program, which in Canada costs $7.99 per month or $79.00 a year (plus applicable taxes), with a one-month trial available in most provinces for first-time subscribers.
Hulu and Neon had teamed up to pay a record $17,500,000.69 (USD), plus bonuses, for worldwide distribution rights to the film. However, Hulu is not available in Canada, and neither Hulu nor Neon indicated their plans for international release at the time, particularly following the onset of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.
While Amazon's press release did not mention which entity (or entities) they acquired these rights from, industry news site Deadline has reported that despite the "worldwide" rights discussed above, international sales were outsourced to FilmNation Entertainment and the deal was done through them.
A previous version of this article noted that Amazon has been on friendly terms with both Neon's main Canadian distributor Elevation Pictures, which has an output deal with Amazon for most of its theatrical releases, as well as Hulu parent company Disney, which has recently sold international streaming rights to shows like Little Fires Everywhere to Prime Video. But we had overlooked the international sales deal with FilmNation, so most likely these relationships did not directly influence the sale in this case.
If you're not interested in an Amazon Prime membership, it is possible that at a future point, Palm Springs could also be made available on rental/purchase stores like iTunes or Google Play. But at the moment, it seems likely this will be well after its release on Prime Video Canada.
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Popescu Working to Empower Faculty and Foster Inclusivity
Gabriela K. Popescu, PhD, intends to serve as a voice for the faculty members she represents as chair of the Council of Faculty and Academic Societies of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
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Gabriela K. Popescu, PhD, professor of biochemistry, has begun serving her two-year term as chair of the Council of Faculty and Academic Societies (CFAS) of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
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The AAMC represents the nation's medical schools and teaching hospitals and is dedicated to transforming health care through innovative medical education, cutting-edge patient care and groundbreaking medical research.
"I am honored to step into this new role," Popescu says.
This year, she plans to engage and lead the CFAS Administrative Board in an overall evaluation of current activities, to identify areas of success and to find ways to more effectively serve as a voice for the faculty members the group represents.
Goal of Representing Faculty Views
CFAS formed in 2013 at the request of faculty who had formerly been active in the AAMC's Council of Academic Societies, with the goal of more directly engaging and representing faculty views and issues and voicing them to the AAMC to help shape the development and implementation of its programs and policies.
As the largest of the AAMC Councils, CFAS represents more than 173,000 full-time faculty, with 350 faculty members, two representatives from each AAMC member school and society.
Popescu initially served on the Administrative Board, representing the Jacobs School. In 2017, she was named chair-elect and her primary responsibility was to chair the committee that organizes the annual CFAS spring meeting.
Sexual Harassment Among Topics Explored
Last spring, she and colleagues on CFAS organized what she calls "a tremendously effective plenary session on preventing sexual harassment in academic medicine" and one of a few pioneering sessions held at national meetings on the subject.
The session included opportunities for participants to learn and practice new skills designed to disrupt unconscious bias and to foster a more inclusive climate for women.
"As CFAS chair for the next two years, it will be important to continue to chisel the identity of this relatively new council, to engage and empower faculty representatives to speak loudly and effectively to the most critical issues facing academic medicine and to foster a culture of inclusivity and appreciation," Popescu says.
Showing Value of Science to Medical Schools
Popescu believes that her experiences as a bench scientist, as a woman in academic medicine and as an immigrant serve her well in this leadership position.
"Specifically, I feel that at this particular juncture, when the gender composition of our student body, for the first time in history, matches that of our nation's population, it is important to commit ourselves to advancing and achieving equity along the entire career span of scientists and physicians, and across the spectrum of disciplines and specialties," she says.
As a bench scientist, Popescu notes that she is a representative of what is arguably the smallest of the three traditional tracks in academic medicine — the others being educators and clinicians.
"Scientists here in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, like many others in academic medicine, have felt the specter of reduced National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and budgetary cuts for research, amid talk of the high 'cost' that basic research imposes on medical schools," she says.
"My CFAS colleagues have mobilized under this threat and have been instrumental in demonstrating the value that science brings to the mission of medical schools," she continues. "With this 'evidence from the trenches,' the AAMC partnered with many others to make a successful case for the profitable investment that scientific discoveries represent for medicine."
"Today, bipartisan legislatures support predictable and sustainable funding for the NIH, and many scientists at the Jacobs School and across the country receive federal funds to push the boundaries of knowledge."
Will Serve on Board of Directors Through 2023
Popescu currently directs research funded by three NIH awards totaling more than $3.5 million. She has invested much of her career studying a family of brain receptors — called NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptors — that are critical to learning and memory.
Her research on these receptors may lead to more effective strategies to treat a range of neurological and neurodegenerative conditions from stroke, chronic pain and addiction, to disorders such as schizophrenia and epilepsy.
A UB faculty member since 2006 and a UB alumna, Popescu began her two-year term as CFAS chair on Nov. 13 and will serve until Nov. 9, 2021, when she will become immediate past chair. She will serve as a member of the AAMC's board of directors through 2023.


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On August 2, 1995, a multi-agency task force led by the California Department of Industrial Relations raided a fenced seven-unit apartment complex in El Monte, California, a small community near Los Angeles. What they found was one of the most horrendous U.S. sweatshops in modern times.
Law enforcement officers arrested eight operators of a Chinese-Thai, family-owned garment sweatshop and freed 72 illegal Thai immigrants. The workers, most of them women, had been held in virtual slavery behind fences tipped with razor wire and forced to sew garments in conditions significantly worse than those found in most sweatshops.
Acting on a tip from the boyfriend of an escaped worker, investigators from the California Department of Industrial Relations staked out the apartment complex and gathered enough information to obtain a search warrant. On August 2, 1995, authorities raided the site. The working and living conditions they found horrified even these seasoned professionals.
Recruited from rural areas of Thailand, the workers were tricked into accepting employment by misrepresentations of their future working and living conditions. After signing indenture agreements promising to repay 120,000 baht (nearly $5,000 in 1997 dollars), they were smuggled into the United States on fraudulent passports.
On arrival, their passports were confiscated by their employers. Their debt, a guard force, and threats of harm to them and their families in Thailand discouraged the workers from escaping. Although the confinement of the work force was highly unusual, many aspects of the business, such as recruiting and illegally importing workers, are relatively common. Less enslaving forms of debt peonage occur surprisingly often in some Asian immigrant communities.
The sweatshop's store sold everyday items like soap and toothpaste as well as food and medicine familar to the Thai workers.
The operators kept the workers disoriented and confused by censoring their mail. To keep workers highly productive, the owners withheld incoming letters containing bad news. Some letters home were not mailed.
. . . I want to go home . . . I won't mess with you guys again. I'll forget about the living conditions here. I give you my word as an honest poor person, I won't cause trouble for you. At least many people love me. Have mercy on the poor people who are working, exchanging their efforts for their destitute families in Thailand.
. . . I want to visit you but can't because they won't let us go anywhere. Once a week they'll take us to buy groceries on Fridays at about 7:30 to 8:00 p.m. It is a very rushed trip there and back. I want to call but can't because they seized all documentation, including the business card that Mr. Chon gave me. That's how bad it is. They won't even let us out for a walk in front of the house.
. . . I really miss Thailand. If I knew it would be like this, I wouldn't have decided to come here . . . Samli, please tell me what to do. Sometimes I really think about running away from here but I don't have any documents.
. . . I went to your house and found out that your dad is very ill. The doctor says he won't live more than three months . . . He asked if you are going to come back to see him. I told him I didn't know. Nit, your dad deliriously speaks of you often. He says he wants to see your face one last time and wants to know if you will let him. Nit, all your brothers and sisters are here now. You're the only one left. Nit, are you going to come see your dad or not?
S&K Fashion (also known as S&P Fashion and D&R Fashion), a small manufacturing operation in the Los Angeles garment district run by the El Monte operators, fronted for the sweatshop. Working from two locations, the shop's 50 to 80 Latino employees provided the theoretical source of garment production when representatives from retailers and manufacturers came to inspect facilities and the merchandise they ordered. However, even this shop was in violation of wage and hour codes. Workers, mostly women, finished the garments, put them on hangers, and added tags in preparation for delivery to stores and manufacturers.
The El Monte shop assembled a variety of garments for retailers, manufacturers, and other contractors. Following the raid, federal authorities prosecuted the sweatshop operators on criminal charges, while the workers sued the companies that contracted with the El Monte shop for back wages.
Montgomery Ward, Mervyn's, Tomato Inc., Bum International, L.F. Sportswear, Miller's Outpost, F-40, Ms. Tops, Topson Downs, Beniko, and Balmara made no admission of wrongdoing but agreed to pay more than $3.7 million to the 150 workers who labored in the El Monte sweatshop and its front operation over the years.
As in most cases of sweatshop production, these 11 organizations contend that they did not knowingly contract with operators who were violating the law.
In February 1996, the eight operators of the El Monte sweatshop pleaded guilty to conspiracy, involuntary servitude, and smuggling and harboring of illegal immigrants. Their sentences ranged from two to seven years. Suni Manasurangkun, Wirachai Manasurangkun, Surachai Manasurangkun, Phanasak Manasurangkun, Sunthon Rawangchaisong, Rampa Sattahaprasit, and Suphon Wirayutwilai are currently serving time in federal prison. Seri Kanchakphair completed his sentence and has been deported to Thailand.
After the raid, the workers were held in custody awaiting deportation. Nine days later, they were released as material witnesses pending trial of the sweatshop operators. Concerned for the workers' safety if returned to Thailand, the federal government granted them legal residency with the right to work in the United States. All expect to apply for citizenship after residency requirements have been met.
The discovery of the El Monte sweatshop shocked the nation. What many consumers thought took place only in other countries was happening at home.
The El Monte sweatshop, like the Triangle Shirtwaist disaster, has become a powerful symbol in American history. Although many sweatshops have been raided in recent years, El Monte has been used as a media event by U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich; Victoria L. Bradshaw, State Labor Commissioner, California Department of Industrial Relations; and others to galvanize the American public into action. Some industry representatives suggested the situation has been blown out of proportion. Others wondered whether it was just the tip of the iceberg.


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Yet another new study: USA Permian Frac Basin leaking massive amounts of methane, "the largest source ever observed in an oil and gas field," more than double federal estimates. How many decades will the frac fraud go on for and why do NGOs and synergy groups keep enabling the fraud?
Posted on April 23, 2020 by Jessica Ernst
Quantifying methane emissions from the largest oil-producing basin in the United States from space by Yuzhong Zhang, Ritesh Gautam, Sudhanshu Pandey, Mark Omara, Joannes D. Maasakkers, Pankaj Sadavarte, David Lyon, Hannah Nesser, Melissa P. Sulprizio, Daniel J. Varon, Ruixiong Zhang, Sander Houweling, Daniel Zavala-Araiza, Ramon A. Alvarez, Alba Lorente, Steven P. Hamburg, Ilse Aben and Daniel J. Jacob, Science Advances, 22 Apr 2020: Vol. 6, no. 17, eaaz5120, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz5120
Using new satellite observations and atmospheric inverse modeling, we report methane emissions from the Permian Basin, which is among the world's most prolific oil-producing regions and accounts for >30% of total U.S. oil production. Based on satellite measurements from May 2018 to March 2019, Permian methane emissions from oil and natural gas production are estimated to be 2.7 ± 0.5 Tg a−1, representing the largest methane flux ever reported from a U.S. oil/gas-producing region and are more than two times higher than bottom-up inventory-based estimates.
This magnitude of emissions is 3.7% of the gross gas extracted in the Permian, i.e., ~60% higher than the national average leakage rate.
The high methane leakage rate is likely contributed by extensive venting and flaring, resulting from insufficient infrastructure to process and transport natural gas. This work demonstrates a high-resolution satellite data–based atmospheric inversion framework, providing a robust top-down analytical tool for quantifying and evaluating subregional methane emissions.
Permian Oil Fields Leak Enough Methane for 7 Million Homes by Bloomberg, Apr 23 2020
Enough gas to supply 7 million homes is leaking into the atmosphere above oil fields in Texas and New Mexico—the largest plume of climate change-driving methane pollution ever recorded over a U.S. oil field, a new study from Harvard University and Environmental Defense
The methane over the Permian Basin emitted by oil companies' gas venting and flaring is double previous estimates, and represents a leakage rate about 60% higher than the national average from oil and gas fields, according to the research, which was published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances. "Our study found that the quantity of methane emitted in the Permian Basin are the highest ever measured from any U.S. oil and gas basin. This is a really big deal from a climate standpoint," the study's lead authors, Harvard atmospheric scientist Yuzhong Zhang and EDF scientist Ritesh Gautam, said via email Wednesday.
Methane is the primary component of natural gas. It also is a powerful driver of climate change that is 34 times more potent than carbon dioxide at warming the atmosphere ovver the span of a century. Eliminating methane pollution is essential to preventing the globe from warming more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit)—the primary target of the Paris climate accord, scientists say. The Trump administration has taken steps to roll back the Obama administration efforts to cut methane pollution and leaks from oil and gas wells, particularly with the Bureau of Land Management's 2016 Waste Prevention Rule and the Environmental Protection Agency's oil and gas emissions standards.
$250 Million Worth of Methane
The Permian Basin's methane pollution accounts for about 10% of the total global increase in methane emissions from 2010 to 2020, Robert Howarth, a Cornell University biogeochemist studying fugitive methane emissions from oil and gas fields, said. He was unaffiliated with the study.
"We need to be reducing methane emissions, not allowing them to grow," Howarth said.
"When these sort of emission rates are considered, methane makes the greenhouse gas footprint of natural gas far worse than even that of coal." …
Fracking wells in the US are leaking loads of planet-warming methane by Adam Vaughan, April 22, 2020, New Scientist
Satellites have revealed the fracking heartland of the US is leaking a powerful greenhouse gas at a record-breaking rate.
The methane escaping from the oil and gas wells of the Permian basin, which straddles Texas and New Mexico, has the potential to warm the atmosphere by almost as much as the carbon dioxide released by all homes in the US annually.
Methane, also known as natural gas, is pumped out of the region's wells and captured for use, but the satellite analysis has shown they are also inadvertently leaking 3.7 per cent of that gas into the atmosphere.
The leakage rate is more than twice that assumed by the US Environmental Protection Agency, well above the average 1.9 per cent for 11 other major US basins, and higher than that recorded in any US oil and gas field before.
The findings undermine the dominant narrative in the US that its energy sector has become much cleaner in recent years as it switched to burning natural gas instead of coal for power.
Read more: Fracking boom could explain the puzzling rise in global methane levels
"Any emission rate greater than 1 per cent or so is significant in terms of the greenhouse gas consequences of using natural gas. And at 3.5 per cent or 3.7 per cent, natural gas is far worse for the climate than is coal," says Robert Howarth at Cornell University in New York, who wasn't involved in the research. Last year, he found oil and gas production in North America was to blame for a puzzling surge in methane levels.
The new research, led by Yuzhong Zhang at Harvard University, analysed state of the art measurements of methane columns in the atmosphere taken over 11 months during 2018 and 2019 by the satellite-based TROPOMI system. Launched in 2017, it started sending back data in 2018 that is much higher resolution than previous surveys and provides daily coverage. …
Super-Polluting Methane Emissions Twice Federal Estimates in Permian Basin, Study Finds, The methane is a byproduct of fracking for oil, often burned off at well heads or emitted into the atmosphere instead of being captured for use as fuel by Phil McKenna, April 22, 2020, Inside Climate News
Methane emissions from the Permian basin of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico, one of the largest oil-producing regions in the world, are more than two times higher than federal estimates, a new study suggests.
The findings, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, reaffirm the results of a recently released assessment and further call into question the climate benefits of natural gas.
Using hydraulic fracturing, energy companies have increased oil production to unprecedented levels in the Permian basin in recent years.
… Daniel Jacob, a professor of atmospheric chemistry and environmental engineering at Harvard University and a co-author of the study, said methane emissions in the Permian are "the largest source ever observed in an oil and gas field."
He added, "There has been a big ramp up in oil production in that region and when you don't care too much about recovering the natural gas, it makes for a large emission."
As a global oil glut threatens to curtail oil production in the region, it remains unclear if methane emissions from the Permian will diminish, or if emissions will continue to climb, as operators scale back monitoring and maintenance operations during the coronavirus pandemic.
… The current study estimates 3.7 percent of all the methane produced from wells in the Permian basin is emitted, unburned, into the atmosphere. That is more than twice the official EPA estimate for the region.
While the percentage may seem small, methane is a super-pollutant that is approximately 84 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. It is often called a "short-lived climate pollutant" because it lasts only 12 years in the atmosphere when carbon dioxide can last for centuries. Methane's relatively short life in the atmosphere means that any reduction in methane emissions will have a near-term benefit in helping to slow climate change.
… The study was based on 11 months of data from the European Space Agency's Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) collected during 2018 and 2019. TROPOMI is a space-based spectrometer that uses infrared imaging to detect the average concentration of methane in columns of the atmosphere averaged across approximately 4 mile by 4 mile sections of the Earth's surface. Launched aboard a European Space Agency satellite in 2017, the device has significantly enhanced researchers' ability to quantify methane emissions across regions like the Permian basin.
The study also draws on data from a U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite that detects heat from gas flaring and thereby pinpoints the location of oil and gas wells. When the data from the two different satellites are combined, they show that areas with a high number of wells correspond to areas with high methane concentrations.
"That is important because it adds further confirmation that the high methane concentrations observed in the Permian stem from emissions from oil and gas production," said Riley Duren, a research scientist at University of Arizona and an engineering fellow at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who was not involved in the new study.
Leaks May Offset Gains by Reduction in Flaring
… "EPA makes updates to methods and data sources periodically when new information is available to improve our emissions calculations," EPA spokesperson Enesta Jones said in a written statement.
American Petroleum Institute senior counselor Howard Feldman, who was also asked to comment on the new study, said, "As with any report, we will review the methods that Harvard used to validate the data and their conclusions." Feldman said that methane emissions are declining. Pfffft!~ Who but the oil patch players and their enablers, our "regualtors," corrupt politiicians, NGOs and synergy groups, believe him? "America's natural gas and oil companies," he said, "have initiated multiple initiatives across the U.S., like The Environmental Partnership and the Texas Methane and Flaring Coalition, to build upon the progress we've made to reduce emissions in producing basins like the Permian, during a period of significant oil and natural gas production growth."
Feldman added, "These initiatives underscore the industry's commitment to leveraging new technologies and innovative practices that reduce emissions and establish clear pathways for continuous environmental improvement." As usual, when industry spins the public, boasting it's "committed" to doing something about cleaning up its vampant life-threatening pollution, it's meaningless. Being committed does not mean actually doing anything.
Exxon Mobil Corp. announced earlier this month that it is conducting field trials of various methane detection technologies, including satellite and aerial surveillance monitoring of nearly 1,000 sites across the Permian basin, to further reduce methane emissions.
In 2018, Exxon, as part of a coalition of oil and gas producers known as the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative, pledged to reduce methane emissions from a 2017 baseline of 0.32 percent to 0.25 percent by 2025. The current study's basin-wide estimate of a 3.7 percent rate of emissions suggests that, at least in the Permian, Exxon and other producers are well off of their emission reduction targets.
An April 6 report by the Norwegian energy research firm Rystad Energy noted that flaring in the Permian has decreased from a high of nearly 900 million cubic feet per day in the third quarter of 2019 to approximately 700 million cubic feet per day in the first quarter of 2020. The firm projects that flaring will continue to decline by an additional 40 percent this year as an oil production downturn caused by Covid-19 and the ongoing oil price war continues.
Flaring significantly reduces methane's greenhouse gas impact. When methane is burned, carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere instead of methane. Reductions in flaring are typically an indicator that less methane is being wasted and that more of it is being shipped to market via pipelines.
Flaring, however, isn't entirely effective. Flares that aren't operating properly result in incomplete combustion, and the portion of methane that isn't burned by the flare is released into the atmosphere. In other cases, unlit flares allow all the methane that passes through them to vent, unburned, into the air.
Earthworks, an environmental advocacy group, argues that a steady increase in unlit gas flares may offset any benefits from the decreasing volume of flared gas. Field measurements of approximately 100 flares in the Permian basin by the group show that the phenomenon of unlit flares increased from 14 percent of all flares monitored in 2017 to 34 percent in 2020, according to an April 6 report by the group.
Sharon Wilson, a gas imaging specialist for Earthworks, said she anticipates unlit flaring to increase as financial pressure, work restrictions imposed by Covid-19 and the inability of environmental watchdogs to continue field observations, results in decreased maintenance of existing flares.
"At the moment I'm afraid there is all manner of mayhem happening out there," Wilson said. …
2020: Are Covid-19 fatalities a measure of the oil & gas industry's killing power? More and more studies prove how deadly & dishonest the industry is. Message to CAPP & AER: It's not "odours" killing us, it's pollution, including nitrogen dioxide.
"Clean" flaring like industry gets away with in BC?
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Or vexatiously deadly "clean" pollution flaring like Encana/Ovintiv's in Alberta?
2019: Encana's Vexatious Sour Gas Frack Flaring near Grand Prairie, Alberta; After clip posted, Encana pulls a scrubby dubby
2020: Another new study unravels oil & gas industry lies: Levels of fossil methane naturally released are about 10 times lower than previously reported while man-made are 25-40% higher! Benjamin Hmiel: "We've identified a gigantic discrepancy."
2020: The insanely polluting leaking oil & gas industry! New paper on methane leak detection & repair: More than 1,600 leaks & vents at only 36 sites in NW Alberta. Think of the cumulative pollution, community poisoning and public health harms, notably as more and more companies, enabled by politicians (industry's maids), regulators and courts, use bankruptcy to avoid clean up
2019: New study says shale gas not worth it, not even for the jobs: "Air pollution from shale gas development activities in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia from 2004 to 2016 resulted in 1,200 to 4,600 premature deaths in the region" costing $23 billion. "Climate impacts produced mid-range costs of an additional $34 billion" while cumulative impacts on water and air quality, ecosystem, climate, labor markets and public health "are still largely unexplored and unaccounted for."
2019: New study: Frac'ing in U.S. & Canada linked to worldwide atmospheric methane spike. "This recent increase in methane is massive," Howarth said. "It's globally significant."
2019: UK ruling delivers blow to oil & gas companies claiming natural gas is environmentally friendly. Advertising Standards Authority rules natural gas is 'not a low-carbon fuel.' Equinor should not have implied it was environmentally friendly
2019: The Leaks that threaten the clean image of natural gas
2019: Holy Frac-a-Leaky-Moly! New study in BC. Atmospheric pressure can dramatically affect how much industry's leaking natural gas might escape from subsurface into atmosphere. "Decreases in barometric-pressure led to surface gas breakthroughs (more than 20-fold increase in less than 24 hrs), even in the presence of low-permeability surficial soils."
2019: Open letter signed by 450 groups, universities, faith groups and celebrities around the world ask U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres to endorse global frac ban
2017: Ontario, In Norfolk, leaking abandoned industry *sour* gas wells forces exclusion zone for vehicles, vessels, and evacuation of 22 homes. In nearby Town of Jarvis (population 2,300), unusually high methane readings, firefighters test gas levels at every home. Compare to grossly negligent, "No Duty of Care," Charter-violating, lying, spying, heinous AER covering-up idustry's deadly gas leaks.
2017: To Honour the Fallen on Remembrance Day: Make public AER's secret "D79 Abandoned Well Methane Toxicity Preliminary Assessment" & Appendix 2 by Alberta Health, Admitting "2017: Acute-Life threatening" risks & "Neurological effects"
2017: "Flawed science or scientific fraud?" (Sounds like Alberta) USEPA significantly underestimated oil & gas sector methane emissions? Inspector General has opened an investigation. "This is a big deal. (A 2 % methane leakage rate = 200 coal plants of GHGs)"
2017: After decades of lies to landowners and the public by CAPP, industry & energy regulators, University of Guelph Study Proves Potentially Explosive Methane Leaks from Energy Wells Affects Groundwater, Travels Great Distances, Poses Safety Risks. Will the lies stop now? Not Likely. Will groundwater monitoring begin now? Not Likely.
2017: New University of Guelph study on methane migration in sand aquifer in Ontario: "Potentially explosive methane gas leaking from energy wells may travel extensively through groundwater and pose a safety risk"
2016: More Frac Fraud and Cover-up: High-Level EPA Adviser Accused of Scientific Fraud in Methane Leak Research
2016: Frac Fraud & Quashing Freedom of Expression Spreads from Alberta Across the Atlantic? UK fracking policy founded on scientific fraud, misrepresentation and prevarication; Pressure mounts over 'suppression' of UK frack impacts report, Govt accused of sitting on potentially explosive report from its official advisers. Sound Familiar? Glasgow University slated for 'silencing' fracking critic
2015: 'Natural Gas as a Bridge Fuel' Fraud? Another study: "Considering only physical climate system effects, we find that there is potential for delays in deployment of near-zero-emission technologies to offset all climate benefits from replacing coal energy systems with natural gas energy systems…."
2014: Shale Gas Plagued By Unusual Methane Leaks, Scientists investigate high levels of damaging gas released in fracked areas
2014: Drilling operations release plumes of methane 100 to 1,000 times the rate the EPA expects; drilling through coalbeds might be causing the high leakage
2013: High US methane emissions blamed on leaks; Harvard fracking study show industry methane leaks far higher than official estimates, rings methane alarm bells in Australia
2012: MIT Frackademics, The 'entire natural gas system' is driving methane emissions — MIT study
2012: Doctors raise alarm over toxic coal seam gas leaks, Gas Industry Attacks Scientists After Research Finds Triple The Normal Levels Of Methane At Australian Gas Fields
And who is measuring the endless methane leaking from frac'd drinking water aquifers like those Encana frac'd in Alberta and Wyoming, and who knows where else?
2006: Ernst's dangerously contaminated well water after Encana (now Ovintiv) illegally frac'd the aquifers at Rosebud Alberta, enabled by Alberta Health, Alberta Environment, EUB (now AER), the ALberta Research Council (now Alberta Innovates), and many many more.
And the methane leaking from oil patch contaminated water wells?
2020: Living with Encana (Ovintiv) in Pavillion, Wyoming. Sue Spencer, hydrogeologist: "There's this veil of secrecy about everything they do. … The oil industry went nuts. ….[the oil lobby] was just like, 'you can't say that groundwater was impacted by the fracking industry.'"
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Alberta teachers, unions "across-the-board livid" about KKKenney's UCP stealing control of their pensions via mega-money losing AIMCo. January 18, 2021
1982 Alberta: Sour gas and sickness; Smelly smelly run-around. Regulators/Health authorities, then and now, lie to the harmed, coddle the polluters. Alberta's Pollution Solution: Discredit the poisoned; call them crazy. January 18, 2021
"Rule of law" is a fart when it comes to oil & gas. Calgary-based dilbit polluter Enbridge tells Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to stuff her attempt to protect water and the public interest. January 16, 2021
Pregnant women must avoid frac pollution to protect their health and that of their babies. How, when living surrounded by frac'ing? January 16, 2021
Save Shell's Day with anti-science "corporate bootlicker" justice. Jan 19, 2021: Trump's new Supreme Court justice, Amy Coney Barrett, set to hear case against Shell, her Dad's employer for 29 Years, has not recused herself January 16, 2021
Pennsylvania GOP lawmakers sue over Delaware River drilling ban, Two Republicans claim Delaware River Basin Commission overstepped its authority and usurped the Legislature with its moratorium on natural gas development January 15, 2021
RCMP: Oil & Gas Industry's mafia January 15, 2021
Pennsylvania: Delmont-based Penneco Environmental Solutions' frac waste injection rears secretive toxic radioactive head. Dr. Ned Ketyer: "Fracking has a toxic and radioactive waste problem that has never been adequately addressed and solved." January 15, 2021
Big $ Anti-tax Club for Growth gave $20 Million to Trump Klan to overthrow the US election. And we the citizenry, many starving, are directed to call politicians "Honourable?" January 15, 2021
US "watchdog" (more like kitten) bends over for orange mad man and his mad Repuglicans (not a typo): Starting April 1, 2021, Big US banks forced to loan to oil & gas. Greg Baer, president, CEO of Bank Policy Institute: "The rule lacks both logic and legal basis, it ignores basic facts about how banking works, and it will undermine the safety and soundness of the banks to which it applies." Big Oil no longer equates to Big Jobs. January 15, 2021
Courageous feisty and wise Ireland! "Cork LNG is scrapped!" "Fracking and all of its effects has no place…. Not here, not anywhere." January 14, 2021
Lawyer Jay Michi: "It is high time BC abandon the archaic "My Lord and My Lady" vernacular" for judges. Alberta too! It's belittling to the citizenry that pays their way. January 14, 2021
Judge lets nasty frac'er escape bankruptcy, rules Chesapeake is worth $1 Billion more than the company does, sets free $7 Billion in debt, gives "big payday" to some, says to CEO Robert Lawler: "To remember that a lot of people have suffered a lot of pain for Chesapeake to have a second chance…." January 13, 2021
Florida: Bill filed to ban frac'ing and matrix acidization, "Because fracking is bad, actually." January 13, 2021
Mad mad greed in Ohio: Akron city council pushing to frack under 475 acres of watershed, upstream of the drinking water supply, for a few puny bucks January 12, 2021


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Greetings from Clay City Jr./Sr. High School! We are looking forward to the 2018-2019 school year and are confident it will be another great one! Our students are attaining and enjoying success in the classroom and in a vast array of extracurricular activities.
Clay City Jr./Sr. High School has earned an "A" Letter Grade from the Indiana Department of Education in past years, and we are extremely proud of our graduation rate of nearly 95% for the past several years! Our curriculum represents a vast array of educational opportunities for our students, including both A.P. and Dual Credit Courses. Our "APEX Program" helped students earn over 200 credits last year, and our students earned well over 200 Dual (College) Credits. Our "E.E.L. Corps" (Educational Excellence in Learning) is an Academic Booster Club that has provided additional ways for parents, community members, and stakeholders to assist in the educational opportunities for ALL students. We are very proud of our students' achievements in the classroom, testing, and in their preparation to become successful in their chosen fields beyond high school.
Several students and organizations have earned distinction as part extracurricular activities at our school. Our J.E.T.S./T.E.A.M.S. have advanced to Nationals, S.T.E.M. students has won the Ivy Tech "Spartan Match" and "Autonomous Vehicle Challenge" Competition at Rose Hulman, and students representing our F.C.C.L.A., B.P.A., and F.F.A. Chapters earned state and national honors. Our Imperial Regiment reached the State Finals at Lucas Oil Stadium in 2014 and is consistently ranked very high in the state. Clay City Jr./Sr. High School has earned the honor of being named a "School of Character" by the I.H.S.A.A. during the past four years, one of only a handful in the state!
Clay City Jr./Sr. High School – a great place to be – part of a wonderful community!
Clay City Eels – Respectful, Responsible, Honest, and Successful!!!


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Taylor Swift's "Midnights" is a sparkling success
Lia Fox, Arts Editor|October 26, 2022
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Taylor Swift's 10th studio album, "Midnights," was released on Oct. 21, 2022, combining a wide variety of emotions in each song.
A curated constellation of songs about her sleepless nights, Taylor Swift's latest album, "Midnights," is sure to keep you up.
On Oct. 21, as the clock struck midnight, Swift released her highly anticipated 10th studio album "Midnights." Then, at 3 a.m. she released seven additional tracks to complement the original 13.
"Midnights" is a soft, dreamy nostalgia trip married with a playfully petty angst. Swift described it as a "collection of music written in the middle of the night." This gives the album a restless but also reflective quality. The album is a tribute to Swift's lyrical genius and was effortlessly breathtaking. The themes of the album are reminiscent of some of her earlier work, specifically reminding me of her album "1989." She discusses the complexities of finding love amongst chaos, as well as the needed isolation from fame and glory.
Starting off strong with the first track, "Lavender Haze" is a perfect embodiment of the album. Filled with Swift's iconic imagery, as well as an unbeatable chorus, the song is utterly addictive. This song reminded me of "1989" and felt like a rush of rebellion paired with romance.
Many of the songs contrast yet compliment each other, which shows the expansive range of emotions she is able to describe. "Bejeweled" is a fun, retro-sounding, witty track that emphasizes self confidence and letting yourself shine. As if to mirror this, "You're On Your Own, Kid" is a much more melancholy piece. Her gentle vocals add to the heartbreaking quality of this reflection on feelings of isolation and required self-reliance.
On to my personal favorite: "Snow On The Beach (featuring Lana del Rey)." Swift's soft whisper-like vocals paired with the echo of Lana del Rey's eerie (albeit scarce) backing vocals add to the satisfying magic of this song. The silence right before the beat drop is almost therapeutic in its chilling effect. This love-ballad speaks to Swift's songwriting talents, as it compares the impossibility of falling in love with snow falling on a beach.
Though every song on the album was uniquely masterful, some were less successful than others. I felt a little let down by track 11: "Karma." I had high expectations for this song because of the name and Swift's known love of revenge. However, this song felt a little bit messy, and her ode to Karma came off a little cheesier than I had hoped. I still think it's a strong, fiery revenge anthem, but it doesn't fit in as well with the other tracks.
A final shoutout to track 12: "Sweet Nothing." This song further illustrates the theme of finding safety from love in crisis. Almost a lullaby, the song feels like having a cup of tea in a snowstorm. It reminds me of her bonus folklore track "the lakes," as it alludes to her quiet compassions. Its gentle melody is a lovely contrast to many of the more revenge-seeking tunes.
This album takes all the tiredness, angst, sorrow, thrill and raw emotion of the midnight hour, and synthesizes it into one cohesive piece. I thought "Midnights" was a sparkling success, and I highly recommend giving it a listen.
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Exercise – Aside from diet, another important factor that helps promote a healthy well-being is exercise. Studies suggest that as little as 30 minutes of exercise, 3 to 5 times a week can have great effects to the body as well as the mind.
Pray – If you believe in the power of prayer, pray. Many studies show that prayer is an effective way to relieve stress and anxiety as prayers have soothing and calming effect both on the body and on the mind.
Laugh – Laughter still holds the title as the best medicine. This is because when you laugh, your body releases endorphins or "happy chemicals" that help you to feel good and happier.
Identify where anxiety is coming from – Sometimes, anxiety attacks happen for no apparent reason. But that doesn't mean that there is really no reason. After all something cannot happen out of nothing. Thus, if you experience an episode of anxiety attack, there must be a trigger (it might be directly linked to the attack or it might come from something else, totally apart from the event).


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Tre-sektor-hypotesen er en økonomisk-erhvervsmæssig teori, der tager udgangspunkt i en opdeling af befolkningen efter deres næringsveje i tre hovedgrupper: jordbrug og udnyttelse af naturgivne råstoffer (primære), forædling, forarbejdning og fremstillingsvirksomhed (sekundære) samt tjenesteydelser og embedserhverv (tertiære erhverv). Teorien blev oprindeligt fremsat af William Petty, siden udviklet af Colin Clark og Jean Fourastié.

Ifølge teorien vil der med tiden ske en forandring af sysselsætningen, idet den historisk overvejende betydning af primære erhverv afløses først af sekundære erhverv og siden af tertiære erhverv som den mest betydningsfulde. Fourastié anså denne udvikling som et fremskridt, og i bogen "Det store Håb for det Tyvende Århundrede" skildrer han den forventede stigning i levestandard, social sikkerhed, blomstring i uddannelse og kultur, bedre kvalifikationer, bedre arbejdsvilkår og afskaffelse af arbejdsløshed, som forventede.

Lande med lavt bruttonationalprodukt befinder sig på det tidlige stadium; hovedparten af deres nationale indkomster hentes fra virksomhed i den primære sektor (landbrug, fiskeri, skovbrug, gartneri og lignende). Lande med et højere bruttonationalprodukt befinder sig på et højere udviklingsniveau og henter hovedparten af deres nationale indkomster fra råvareforædling, forarbejdning og varefremstilling (håndværk og industri). I de vest veludviklede lande med det højeste bruttonationalprodukt hentes hovedparten af de nationale indkomster indenfor den tertiære sektor (handel, embedsvæsen, tjenesteydelser, forskning med mere).

Strukturelle forandringer ifølge Fourastié

Fordelingen efter sysselsætning udvikler sig i de tre stadier i henhold til Fourastié som følger:

Første stadium: Traditionelle samfund

Fordeling af arbejdsstyrken:
 Primære sektor: 70%
 Sekundære sektor: 20%
 Tertiære sektor: 10%

Dette stadium afspejler et samfund, der endnu ikke har udviklet sine kundskaber og derfor ikke har taget maskiner i brug. Dette stadium modsvarer tilstanden i Europa fra middelalderen over renæssancen og frem til slutningen af 1700-tallet, eller forholdene i mange u-lande i det 20. århundrede.

Andet stadium: Overgangstiden

Fordeling af arbejdsstyrken:
 Primære sektor: 20%
 Sekundære sektor: 50%
 Tertiære sektor: 30%

Under dette stadium tages moderne maskiner i brug, hvorved blandt andet landbruget ikke har så stort behov for arbejdskraft som tidligere. Den derved frigjorte arbejdskraft finder for en overvejende dels vedkommende sysselsætning i fremstillingsvirksomheder inden for den sekundære sektor, der samtidig ved ibrugtagning af maskiner går over fra håndværkspræget til industriel produktion og derfor har et voksende behov for arbejdskraft til betjening af maskiner. Overgangsstadiet falder derfor sammen med samfundets industrialisering: omfattende mekanisering med ibrugtagning af kunstige kraftkilder (damp, gas, olie, elektricitet), der følges op af automatiseret produktionsgang og løbende nye tiltag (således blandt andet samlebånd).

Også den tertiære sektor oplever en vis udvikling, herunder handel, bankvæsen, transport og det offentlige embedsvæsen.

Tredje stadium: Servicesamfundet

Fordeling af arbejdsstyrken:
 Primære sektor: 10%
 Sekundære sektor: 20%
 Tertiære sektor: 70%

Den stadigt fremadskridende automatisering inden for den primære og den sekundære sektor indebærer et stadigt faldende behov for arbejdskraft inden for disse sektorer, idet automatiske maskiner indtager en stadigt mere fremherskende rolle. Derved frigøres atter arbejdskraft, som nu voksende efterspørges i den tertiære sektor: tjenesteydelser. Denne samfundstilstand er den, som findes i moderne, højt industrialiserede samfund og som vil vinde stadigt mere frem i fremtiden. Allerede ved indgangen til det 21. århundrede er den tertiære sektor i mange lande vokset til en størrelse, hvor man er begyndt at udskille informationsvirksomhed som en "fjerde sektor" og ikke-indkomstrettet virksomhed som en "femte sektor".

Teoriens efterprøvelse

De fleste vestlige lande har gennemgået en udvikling, der i store træk modsvarer den, Jean Fourastié forudså i 1949. For Danmarks vedkommende er ændringerne i sysselsætningens fordeling for de tre hovedsektorer fra 1800 til 1974, der i store træk svarer til det forudsatte forløb, vist i bogen "Arealplanlægning – status og problemstillinger" (Landsplansekretariatet 1974, Publikation nr. 27; ) s. 38.

Litteratur

 Colin Clark: Conditions of Economic Progress, Mac Millan 1940 (2. udgave 1951)
 Jean Fourastié: Le Grand Espoir du XXe siècle. Progrès technique, progrès économique, progrès social. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1949, (genudgivet 1989, )
 Rainer Geißler: Entwicklung zur Dienstleistungsgesellschaft. I: Informationen zur politischen Bildung. Nr. 269: Sozialer Wandel in Deutschland/2000, S. 19f.
 Stefan Nährlich: Dritter Sektor: "Organisationen zwischen Markt und Staat." fra serien: "Theorie der Bürgergesellschaft" des Rundbriefes Aktive Bürgerschaft, 4/2003
 Hans Joachim Pohl: Kritik der Drei-Sektoren-Theorie. I: Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung. Heft 4/Jg. 03/1970, S. 313-325
 Bernhard Schäfers: Sozialstruktur und sozialer Wandel in Deutschland. Lucius und Lucius, Stuttgart 7. Auflage 2002
 Uwe Staroske: Die Drei-Sektoren-Hypothese: Darstellung und kritische Würdigung aus heutiger Sicht. Roderer Verlag, Regensburg 1995

Eksterne henvisninger

 P. Nørregaard Rasmussen: "Om realindkomsten" (Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift, Bind 90; 1952)
 P. Nørregaard Rasmussen: "Økonomisk vækst" (Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift, Bind 93; 1955)

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In Detroit, park your car in 'The Z' and you'll find yourself in a drive-thru art gallery.
In a city known for its stellar street art scene, some of Detroit's most recently painted walls are inside a downtown parking garage.
Since it opened in January, drivers entering The Z, a 10-floor parking structure on Library Street, have been treated to an art show as they scale each slithering floor, designed to replace a series of former surface lots while leaving older neighbors intact.
Easy to spot with an odd, angular exterior, The Z's insides have been painted over by 27 different artists from around the world thanks to a partnership between the garage owner, Bedrock Real Estate, and its most artistic neighbor, the Library Street Collective, which highlights artists with a focus on public space.
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Guy Creates His Own Flying Car That Looks Like a Spider
September 14th, 2018 by Conner Flynn
Traffic in the Philippines capital of Manila is some of the worst on the planet, so it only makes sense that if you could fly over it, you would. Quezon City, Manila inventor Kyxz Mendoza is attempting to do just that, with the creation of his very own flying car. It took him six years to design and build the metal and carbon fiber sedecacopter (16-rotor) flying car after getting fed up with land-based traffic.
The video below from The Daily Mail shows off his first successful test light. After he tests it out more, Kyxz wants to design and sell sell a two-seater version. One of the big problems right now is that the vehicle needs about a two and a half hour charge to fly for only 12 to 15 minutes. That's fine for short trips if you are staying a while, but that will need to be improved to become truly practical.
The design is pretty cool, but that battery life is terrible. I would definitely fly to work in this thing. I would also park on top of a car that belonged to someone I didn't like. Hopefully, they wouldn't just drive off at the end of the day with my vehicle on their roof.
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Le Parti de la vertu (en , abrégé en FP) était un parti politique islamiste de Turquie fondé en 1998, qui a été interdit en 2001 par la Cour constitutionnelle car il violait la constitution laïque du pays.

Histoire du parti
Le parti est créé par d'anciens membres du parti islamiste Refah dissous en 1997 par la cour constitutionnelle. Fondé sur la même rhétorique islamiste que le précédent parti, il obtient 15,4 % des voix lors des élections législatives de 1999 et remporte 102 sièges sur les 550 de l'Assemblée nationale.

Merve Kavakçı, députée du Parti de la vertu, entre voilée dans l'enceinte du parlement le , une première depuis l'avènement de la République. Elle ne peut cependant pas prêter serment, le port du voile étant interdit au sein de la Grande Assemblée nationale de Turquie.

Les députés du parti s'illustrent au cours des débats parlementaires sur un assouplissement de la laïcité turque, la jugeant trop exclusive.

Dissolution
La justice turque remarque les liens unissant le FP avec d'anciens partis islamistes dissous. Le procureur de la république, soupçonnant le parti d'être le successeur juridique du Parti de la prospérité déjà interdit, entame la procédure de dissolution. Le , la cour constitutionnelle turque prononce la dissolution du parti politique pour atteinte au principe de laïcité. Lors de la fermeture de FP, Saadet Partisi a été créé à la place.

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Ancien parti politique en Turquie
Parti politique musulman
Parti politique interdit
Parti politique eurosceptique
Ancien parti politique conservateur
Parti politique fondé en 1998
Parti politique disparu en 2001
Groupe islamiste sunnite
Islamisme en Turquie


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Collective Intelligence and the Data Driven Organization
Collective intelligence draws on collaboration between individuals. It exploits their singularities, raises them to power, and creates, in the end, a real holistic system, much more valuable than the sum of its parts. Collective intelligence provides value for all, and it is not a framework for comparing individuals, or even worse, for discriminating against them. Collective intelligence gives strength to differences, distilling from each individual the contributions which then become food for the collective. (For an introduction to collective intelligence, see Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace, by Pierre Lévy, translated by Robert Bononno.)
Collective Intelligence and the Human Network
Collective intelligence draws its power from the network. It is a network that is rich in singularities, each different from the others, and one in which mutual connections allow for comparison and exchange, stimulating continuous adaptation, just as an organism continually adapts to its environment.
We can see a network of this type as the projection of a neural network, in which neurons are replaced by people and the synapses by interpersonal relationships. In the network that powers collective intelligence, not only does the strength of connections change over time, but the topology of the network also changes, with connections that break and are rebuilt elsewhere, with nodes that are turned off and replaced by others. This type of network is extremely fluid and highly adaptable to the context, with connections that are not purely numerical, but also emotional, because what are exchanged among the actors of the network are complex artifacts.
The Requirements for Collective Intelligence
To produce collective intelligence, we need, first of all, the strength to distribute the elements of its network, to enhance each singularity and mutual connection. On the other hand, we also need an underlying level of universal meaning. This is often taken for granted, but it is the basic element that supports collective intelligence, making it possible to understand what travels on the network.
If, for collective intelligence, it seems utopian to think in terms of a universal objectification of meaning, it is not, especially when considering the modern corporation, in which we need to balance the individual with the communicative substrate, so as to have a reasonable certainty that what is communicated is actually understood.
To implement collective intelligence we actually have a triple need:
To arrive at a conceptualization that can be considered reasonably common to all those who are part of the network
To make sure that such a conceptualization is open to ongoing evolution
To enable individuals to derive specialized versions of it
In Search of a Universal Semantic Model
Simple representation will not be sufficient, however. For collective intelligence, any representation of universal meaning must demonstrate the speed with which it can be adapted and the ease with which it can be investigated. Since the world is changing quickly, collective intelligence needs to be able to adapt to it with the same speed. Whatever model is chosen to represent the universal semantic base, it must be able to sustain this speed and not be an obstacle to it.
Specific organizations, guided by specific business objectives, which represent a set of guidelines on the possible conceptualizations of the domain in which the company operates, need to be able to define a reference semantic model that is both shared and extensible. Such a model would enable each individual or department in the company to define new, more specific models, so that the models can be directly applied to the tasks of every individual in the company. This would provide a strong foundation for collective intelligence.
Data Virtualization and the Universal Semantic Model
Data virtualization facilitates the creation of universal data models, a capability that often takes second place to the more technical capability of connecting heterogeneous data sources. But without the former capability, we would have incomplete operations that would never be able to express their full potential, exactly like knowledge without its awareness, since knowing and knowing-to-know are two syntactically similar expressions that are semantically very different (As Nicolaus Copernicus said, "to know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.")
The abstraction of data performed by data virtualization is the acknowledgment of two distinct moments: the first, when even before implementing any cognitive processes, one must understand the world on which these processes will be directed (a semantic model, from this point of view, is a conceptualization of the world to which it refers), which is a purely "logical" phase; and the second, when the triggering of these processes takes place. In this second moment, the cognitive processes give the conceptualization dynamism and produce, by virtue of their conclusions, an enrichment of the conceptualization itself, thanks to the connection of the logical components with the factual ones, creating that intimate link between the intentional components defined in the conceptualization and their correspondent extensional realizations. (Every cognitive process is a continuous rebound between a logical component, which operates on conceptualization, and a physical one, which connects it to its manifestations in the observed world. This is the rebound that makes learning possible, as it is based on the continuous comparison between what we know and what we really observe, which triggers us to reconsider our knowledge.)
This connection between the two components — intentional and extensional — is fundamental for a real implementation of a collective model of intelligence, given that a conceptualization alone, intended as a mere descriptive exercise (an approach adopted by some families of solutions that propose to formalize the "meaning,"), does not provide concreteness to the whole, leaving to others the task of creating the connections, or linking the concepts to their realizations. In addition to constituting an undue burden, such a solution exposes organizations to inconsistencies and ambiguities; if such a task is left to individuals, organizations need to accept that individuals' subjectivity can influence the result.
The way in which data virtualization operates, in particular by not physically moving data as long as there is no need, also satisfies the requirements of speed and agility, which are necessary to avoid slowdowns in a profoundly changing model, and to enable continuous adaptation to the reality on which the model projects itself.
The Foundation for Collective Intelligence
Collective intelligence is a disruptive phenomenon, made possible by breaking down barriers to communication. It is a phenomenon that transmits value on any scale, in any company, large or small. But communication always has two dimensions: the fabric that connects all those who are part of it, and what is transmitted over that fabric. If the fabric is technological, then the content that travels on it is in a conceptual dimension that cannot be separated from a common, shared semantic model. Such a model forms the basis on which we can graft and trigger higher cognitive processes that are the ultimate manifestation of collective intelligence.
I believe that data virtualization should be evaluated and understood from this point of view, as the best possible way to give life to a real data-sharing world, one that is not exclusively technical but is, above all, conceptual and data-driven. Data is never an end in itself, but always at the service of others, consumed to produce information, knowledge, and wisdom (The three remaining elements in the DIKW [Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom] Pyramid). Ultimately, data is shared to ensure that everything that derives from it results in a common heritage.
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Chrysops leucopsilus är en tvåvingeart som beskrevs av Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann 1828. Chrysops leucopsilus ingår i släktet Chrysops och familjen bromsar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Ouo is a department or commune of Comoé Province in southern Burkina Faso. Its capital lies at the town of Ouo. According to the 1996 census the department has a total population of 15,594.

Towns and villages
 Ouo	(2 204 inhabitants) (capital)
 Balgogo	(558 inhabitants)
 Beguele	(418 inhabitants)
 Bini	(283 inhabitants)
 Dagninikorosso	(75 inhabitants)
 Dapala	(417 inhabitants)
 Gangasse	(539 inhabitants)
 Gonga	(126 inhabitants)
 Guedanga	(195 inhabitants)
 Inzele	(276 inhabitants)
 Kien	(194 inhabitants)
 Konamisse	(919 inhabitants)
 K'poum	(352 inhabitants)
 Logue	(1 093 inhabitants)
 Mado	(193 inhabitants)
 Minse	(201 inhabitants)
 Nerkedaga	(409 inhabitants)
 N'golofesso	(685 inhabitants)
 Norkama	(1 000 inhabitants)
 Pambie-Sokoura	(907 inhabitants)
 Poikoro	(527 inhabitants)
 Safia	(1 050 inhabitants)
 Sassamba	(719 inhabitants)
 Siekoro	(650 inhabitants)
 Sirakoro	(430 inhabitants)
 Sokourani	(246 inhabitants)
 Soucie	(697 inhabitants)
 Toukoro	(231 inhabitants)
 Goweyi, campement de Toukoro Comoé
 Bawé, village de Kpoum

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With Johnson County Victory, Iowa GOP Wins All Three Lawsuits Challenging Rogue County Auditors
DES MOINES, Iowa -- In yet another big win for election integrity, today a judge found that the Johnson County Auditor broke the law by sending out pre-populated absentee ballot request forms. This ruling comes after similar rulings were made in Linn and Woodbury counties, where the auditors were also found to have openly violated Iowa law.
The Secretary of State made it clear to all county auditors that the voter ID PIN must be left blank in order to comply with Iowa law. Yet the Johnson, Linn, and Woodbury County Auditors chose to ignore the state's voter ID law, which exists to ensure a fair and secure election process.
"This should effectively close the case on rogue county auditors trying to skirt Iowa's widely-supported voter ID laws," said Aaron Britt, Communications Director for the Republican Party of Iowa. "Iowa Republicans will continue advocating for accessible and fair elections, and ensure the chaos and confusion created by rogue county auditors is put to an end. Iowans must be able to trust the validity and have confidence in our elections."


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Mamata Banerjee targets BJP on TMC's victory in West Bengal! says the victory of development over politics of hate
West Bengal By Poll Results: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has targeted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) while congratulating the Trinamool Congress candidates for the victory. The ruling Trinamool Congress has performed well in the by-elections on four legislative seats in West Bengal and has won two seats so far while leading with a big margin in two other seats. has been. Meanwhile, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has congratulated the TMC candidates for their victory even before the results were declared in all the seats and targeted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
People chose development and unity: Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee tweeted and congratulated TMC on the victory. "My heartiest congratulations to the four winning candidates! This victory is a victory of the people because it shows how Bengal will always choose development and unity over the politics of propaganda and hate. With the blessings of the people, we promise that we will continue to take Bengal to greater heights. TMC won two seats
Out of the by-elections held in four seats in West Bengal, the ruling Trinamool Congress has won two seats in two seats (West Bengal By Poll Results), while it has achieved a big lead in two other seats. TMC candidate Udayan Guha has won from Dinhata assembly seat by more than 1.5 lakh votes, while TMC has also captured Gosaba seat.
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