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From the Green New Deal to ecological socialism?
By Luke Neal
December 11, 2020 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Prometheus — "Our Green New Deal," read the Labour Party's 2019 manifesto, "aims to achieve the substantial majority of our emissions reductions by 2030 in a way that is evidence-based, just and that delivers an economy that serves the interests of the many, not the few."[1] This was a central pillar of the election platform that suffered an historic defeat last December. As the ecological crisis continues unabated, the Green New Deal has solidified its place as the programmatic response among the left. Its core ideas have reappeared in the immediate economic crisis in the guise of a 'green recovery' and calls to 'build back better'. This article argues that, from the perspective of Marxist ecology, the apparent path between a Green New Deal and an ecosocialism is confronted with several contradictions and strategic problems.
The first of these emanates from the fact that Labour under Jeremy Corbyn – the political movement in which the Green New Deal was re-popularised – was an attempted shortcut. The collapse of that project can largely be explained by the tensions of taking such shortcuts in a politically hostile institution, having achieved too little in terms of democratising the party, educating its base in socialist ideas, and spreading struggles and confidence among the working class. The Green New Deal in a way embodies both the height of the programme of the Corbyn period as well as its boundaries. It is similarly an attempt at a shortcut: an emergency programme which, while radical in some of its articulations and in the wider political context, essentially aims at reforms to reduce carbon emissions through green job creation and efficiencies, alongside mixed economy policies for redistribution and investment, and some changes to forms of ownership. How this would enable socialism as such is constrained by the initial scope of these reforms and is dependent on class struggle either leading to or following them.
Second is that the ecological implications of the programme are contested, primarily in that a rapid expansion of renewable energy is not the panacea that it is widely held to be. While most Green New Deals or green recovery measures celebrate 'green growth', this should be understood as a different means of processing the ecological contradiction of capital accumulation, with ongoing negative costs to the planet and workers alike. The political economy of mineral extraction for renewable power instead indicates that there are critical energy constraints to growth, which should be respected in any sustainable organisation of economic activity.[2] In other words, the changes that the Green New Deal proposes are insufficient as well as problematic from an ecological perspective. While they would be a decisive step in the effort to lower emissions as quickly as possible, dangerous and unintended consequences abound.
These issues problematise the role that the Green New Deal plays in the strategic imaginary of the contemporary left. This contribution outlines an alternative interpretation of the Green New Deal, emphasising the need for an ecological labour movement orientation for any kind of success in remaking and regulating our relationship with non-human nature. This view is based on the necessity and possibility of workers' democratic planning for a transition that could lead to the overcoming of the contradictions of green growth and the capitalist relations of production as a whole.
Labour's Green Industrial Revolution
The Labour Party manifesto continued:
"Just as the original Industrial Revolution brought industry, jobs and pride to our towns, Labour's world-leading Green Industrial Revolution will rebuild them, with more rewarding, well-paid jobs, lower energy bills and whole new industries to revive parts of our country that have been neglected for too long… prioritising sustainability will not only deliver immediate improvements to everyone's lives but also offer humanity a pathway to a more equitable and enlightened economy."
Among the variety of Green New Deals, Labour's ought to be regarded as one which is Keynesian in form, with ecosocialist aspirations. One of its core, and most troubling, underlying claims is that these two paradigms are reconcilable and situated along the same direction of travel.
A report commissioned by Rebecca Long-Bailey which formed the backbone of the proposals categorised their approach to the transition through four key goals: energy waste reduction, decarbonisation of heating, decarbonisation of electricity, and grid balancing.[3] These would be realised via a 'Green Transformation Fund' to channel £250 billion towards upgrading and adapting buildings and the energy and transport systems, energy efficiency improvements, demand-side energy reductions and a further shift to a 60% renewable energy mix. This was estimated to realise a majority of emissions reductions by 2030.
When the Green New Deal was adopted by Labour, it was heralded as a "socialist and internationalist transformation of the economy". There is, however, nothing socialist per se about green investment. Programmes of this sort are liable to adoption – in rhetoric and occasionally in investment terms too, though gutted of any concessions to the working class – by various political formations, such as both the European Commission and the UK government this year. This susceptibility can also be seen in Long-Bailey's suggestion that "the case for a Green New Deal is compelling, regardless of how green your politics are."[4] The idea that the current Tory government could enact such a programme to the benefit of 'everyone' belies a politics of governing in the national economic interest. This borrows from a flawed Keynesian interpretation of the problems of the British economy. For Long-Bailey the issue is that "the fruits of labour flow to ever smaller sections of society while the majority struggle to get by"; Grace Blakeley similarly reduces the issue to one of financialisation.[5] In this perspective it would be "reckless if we did not ensure that government investment on this scale was also a catalyst for broader economic transformation."[6] While this makes the case for deeper changes, these are by implication inessential to addressing climate change. Also crucial is that in this account, emissions reductions are the key and often sole measure of the ecological crisis.[7]
Claims to the Green Industrial Revolution as a socialist programme are best understood in the context of Labour's wider economic strategy of large-scale infrastructural investments co-ordinated through a National Investment Bank and regional public banks.[8] Industries such as the railways, energy transmission and distribution, and public utilities were to be taken back into public ownership, their nationalisation being precondition to community-owned and run utilities. Alternative models of ownership could then be the building blocks of a relatively decentralised, participatory form of socialism. For the Labour for a Green New Deal campaign, the generalisation of community ownership in renewable energy might extend towards "community-owned, non-profit making control over everyday production, consumption and services".
Although buttressed by some innovative thinking on ownership, the fundamental approach to the economy of the Green Industrial Revolution programme had much in common with Tony Benn's Alternative Economic Strategy. According to Coates this was a plan "for a mixed economy, not a socialist one, whose performance [would] depend on the creation of market and Social conditions favourable to private capital accumulation".[9] Tufekci has elaborated on this:
"The idea, explicitly advanced on the [mid 70s] Labour Left, was that the 'sectional' interests existing within the British economy—whether those of capital or labour, management or worker—had to be subordinated to the interests of the national economy as a whole, within which the capital-labour relation would continue to exist, albeit on 'improved' terms for the working class."[10]
The Green Industrial Revolution makes a parallel claim, incorporating the environment and climate targets into a 'virtuous cycle' of employment and growth. Its measures are geared towards managing the energy transition in a way that is minimally disruptive to British business, raising output and productivity while lowering energy demand through efficiencies and retrofitting only. As the subtitle to the Thirty by 2030 report states, it is a plan for "the fastest path to decarbonising UK energy and boosting the economy while we're at it". Indeed at a theoretical level, this is dependent upon the national accounting of Keynesian macroeconomics which, though updated to account for greenhouse gas emissions, remains blind to the system-wide effects of biophysical processes. The effects of geographically disperse production processes and those related to the total mass of capital do not register.
In the context of the world market, a national-oriented strategy will not only struggle to make the profitability of industry commensurate with its promise of more control and better conditions for labour.[11] Environmental goals, which are only meaningful at a total and cumulative level, are subject to the same mutual incompatibility. While the national economic strategy of maximising GDP and employment while reducing energy and resource use may appear consistent in a post-Keynesian framework, at a systemic level these are contradictory forces. To position these as reconcilable is to flatten the antagonistic relation between workers and capital, and the free appropriation of nature by the latter, while treating neoliberalism and the continuing use of fossil fuels as the root of the problem.[12] This also assumes that, with the exception of greenhouse gas-producing fuels, an infinite valorisation of nature is possible and commensurate with a socialist economic policy.[13]
Ecological contradictions of the Green New Deal
Reducing emissions through a renewable transition and energy demand through retrofitting and industrial efficiencies functions soundly according to a territorial measurement. However this does not translate into either production or consumption transformations at a systemic level. Rather, an adequate response needs to be planned and co-ordinated with global dynamics at its centre. It is positive that the discussion at The World Transformed has evolved somewhat in this direction, though it remains neutered by a deference to an NGO model of organising and the lack of a serious orientation to the rank-and-file of the labour movement.
The green energy boom that is now gaining momentum, albeit without enough rapid displacement of fossil fuels to avoid warming of 2°C and likely far more, will have the consequence of an expansion and intensification of extractive frontiers.[14] Under a Green New Deal, reliance on fossil fuels would make way for a dependency on the metals used in solar and wind power, the production of which is faced with major supply constraints. This also indicates an increasing mining of low-grade ores, requiring greater expenditures of energy and water, and a resort to more toxic means of extraction and processing.[15]
The energy transition demands unprecedented quantities of copper and aluminium for electrification; lithium, cobalt, and nickel for batteries; cadmium, indium, gallium, selenium, silver, and tellurium for solar photovoltaics; and neodymium and dysprosium for permanent magnets in wind power and electric vehicles. Potential increases of materials demand are anticipated to be of the magnitude of 87,000% for electric vehicle batteries, 1000% for wind power, and 3000% for solar cells and photovoltaics between 2015 and 2060.[16] By other estimates, demand for germanium will double in the next decade, while dysprosium and tantalum will quadruple, demand for palladium will increase by a factor of five, scandium by nine, and cobalt by 24.[17] As well as huge increases in the pressure on copper production, accumulated demand to 2060 is greater than the reserves of tellurium, indium, gallium, silver, lithium and tin.
The rate of recycling for these metals is low, limited by the logistical and physical challenges of collection, separation, and thermodynamic constraints; the economics of recycling; and problems related to growth. While there are numerous reasons to expect technological advances to facilitate more effective recycling (and which can be accelerated by state investment), they cannot suffice to meet total increases in demand.[18] Since the systemic logic of capital is that of expansive growth, there is a tendency towards increases in the mass of production enabled by such efficiencies (the rebound effect/Jevons paradox).[19]
The demands of renewable energy transition at the scale of the global economy require the scalar expansion and capitalisation of sites of extraction beyond their capacity now not only to be ecologically regenerative but also to deliver the required commodities in volumes enough to sustain growth, thereby establishing new, crisis-ridden path dependencies. An account of the production of green energy across its whole life-cycle shows that this form of green transition will reconstitute the "irreparable rift in the interdependent processes of social metabolism".[20] The notion of a green capitalist development, or even a green growth with a socialist gloss, is therefore ecologically contradictory rather than sustainable.[21] This is especially true of the idea that resource use can be absolutely decoupled from GDP growth.
Consequently, a future model of development in which renewable energy replicates the role played by fossil fuels in the twentieth century as the driver of industrial growth is not feasible. Whether considered in terms of resource supplies to construct a system of renewable energy to power a world economy expanding from its current size, or from the point of view of developing a system of relations of production based on interdependence with the non-human natural world, this presents the labour movement with a major dilemma. While the British economy is undergoing decarbonisation in energy – emissions are down from 1990 levels by around 29%, half of which has occurred since 2010[22] – which would progress under a green stimulus programme, it is not a model that can or should be replicated across the world economy.[23]
Beyond the conflict over acknowledging the nature of the situation, the dilemma lies in how to respond to the contradiction of a supposedly green economic development based on the presumption of the infinite valorisation of nature. That this could provide the basis for an ecological socialism is a contradiction in terms. Alternatively, anticipating the critical energy constraints to growth means a more radical change of course, including "voluntary decreases in material and energy needs affecting our global impact". Such an approach is qualitatively different in content to what was proposed as the Green New Deal of last year, but is unavoidable if the left seeks to do anything more than patch up a green capitalism. Though a large emphasis was placed on energy reductions in the Green Industrial Revolution programme, this is because such savings are viewed as means to contribute to emissions reduction. This can be primarily achieved through investment to upgrade fixed capital and housing stock and without much controversy. But going beyond this model would mean a more radical break with strategies based on compromises between what is feasible and what is deemed – following the recommendations of the Committee on Climate Change – least disruptive to capital, which have constituted the dominant strategy of democratic socialism till now. It means reorganising the industrial and political basis of the working class movement in order to pursue a struggle for an ecological socialism within planetary boundaries.
An ecological labour movement orientation
On the contrary, it seems that many socialists are hostile to acknowledging the constraints to growth. Some espouse the mistaken type of Prometheanism that was the charge raised against Marx by ecosocialist authors in the 1980s. A more relatable position has been articulated by Matt Huber in the form of scepticism of our ability to argue for a growth-critical perspective among the working class. This rightly foregrounds the centrality of waged workers' agency in realising the potential socialist elements that are associated with the existing Green New Deal and for advancing ecological struggles outside of electoral work. Huber is wrong, however, to dismiss a growth-critical perspective in favour of what he refers to as a class analysis. True, they are placed in dichotomy, such as in the anti-worker emphasis of degrowth manifestoes like Less is More, or by left-Keynesian economists who commit the opposite sin by proclaiming the shared benefits of GDP growth; but the two need not be. Growth is a facet of class rule in that surplus value is appropriated by capitalists, and its riches are only shared when the workers' movement is organised and confident enough to demand it is so. Capital is value in motion; it is only capital if it is in a constant state of metamorphosis. This means that continuous growth in the quantity of materials consumed in production is a requirement for the expansion of value.[24]
So while the 'question of growth' is not the likely immediate entry point for working class struggles, it is unavoidably part of the genetic structure of the capitalist economy. The question remains one of igniting and widening struggles over the adherence to humane conditions in the workplace to incorporate ecological transformations, and for these to transcend the question of the distribution of the surplus (i.e. in wage struggles) or mere window-dressing (most concessions e.g. recycling) to become matters of the direction, content and purpose of the labour process itself. Indeed there is no reason why emissions, energy and resource use, and the question of socially useful production will not provide fertile ground for disputes and labour movement campaigns; it is, as ever, a question of confidence, political education, and perceived interests. Carrying out decarbonising and ecologically-rebalancing measures is not just a question of winning support in the trade unions, though that is an important initial step. More fundamentally, it is a matter of transforming the unions into democratic organisations of class struggle, which means turning them upside down.
What is perhaps controversial is the idea that socialist militants in the labour movement should pose reductions of energy use as being in the interest of the working class as a whole. The simple answer is that working class consumption is not the problem. In fact we have much to gain from an egalitarian organisation of production and from the class struggles leading to it. More fundamentally, a post-growth, post-capitalist economy is unavoidable if we are to organise social life sustainably. If we are to shake off the defeatism that is holding the workers' movement down, we have to confront our class with these questions. How to do so is a matter of tactics, but the question of whether to do so comes down to whether to trust the working class movement with its own fate—and that of the Earth. Unlike the policy-writers and careerists of the Labour Party and the union bureaucracy, we have to believe that the working class can wield that power and assess the situation with clarity and a sense of its responsibility. It won't be easy, but there are sources of hope.[25]
Accomplishing this requires patience, something undoubtedly at odds with the urgency of the situation. Shortcuts are therefore all the more tempting. But since climate change is just one dimension of an ecological crisis produced by the core dynamics of capital accumulation, no quick fix could suffice to solve the problem. Green jobs and renewable energy can go part way to alleviating the pressure; likewise industrial conversions, efficiencies and energy savings. The Green New Deal, insofar as it can speed these along, is a useful demand, but one that can only be meaningful if it comes as part of a wider movement among the workers for ecology and democracy beyond capital. Again insofar as the programme allows for greater room to the political economy of the working class in the form of universal basic services, restoration of union freedoms and collective bargaining, it was positive. This is despite its ecological contradictions, since these measures allow for the potential space into which democratic ecological planning could grow and, in combination with co-ordinated decommodification of goods and services, ultimately replace the market with a sustainable system of production and exchange. There is no 'Green Industrial Revolution' from above.
The ongoing battle for limits to the working day can be considered in this light as an intervention by the labour to regulate the metabolism of nature and capital differently. The campaigns for a four day week, integral to many conceptions of the Green New Deal, are the strongest link between such reforms and the task we must confront today. The concept of socially useful production is an extension of the same principle: that industry can and should be directed towards socially good, environmentally just ends. One of the greatest difficulties will lie in creating effective democratic spaces in which what 'social needs' are and the meaning of 'socially useful' will be determined. For now, we must hope that initiatives to enact a worker-led just transition, and for industrial unionism and greater democracy from below in the labour movement can contribute to the opening of such a space.
Part of the problem in pursuing an ecological trade unionism is that it inherently speaks to matters beyond the firm or the sector. Individual enterprises are frequently inefficient in terms of energy usage due to the costs of upgrading capital, though this too is contradictory and uneven, since wastefulness is penalised by competitive pressures to lower costs, keeping material throughput in check.[26] The working class is uniquely positioned to intervene in this process, not only in that it runs and maintains production, but moreover in that it is able to practically undertake "a planned and life-guided recombination of environmental and economic reproduction".[27] This has the potential to move beyond the confinements of trade unionism and achieve the supersiding of the profit motive and the growth imperative. Tactically, we must draw from the general intellect of the class, the nascent strength of workers across all industry to collectively plan how ecological impacts can be minimised while use-values are expanded, and for this to be a constitutive part of the wider rebirth of cultures of socialism, class pride and internationalism
A genuinely ecological orientation for workers struggle, spanning from the leadership of carbon workers to demand and plan green jobs and socially useful production, as well as the struggle for conjoined reductions in working time and industrial energy use can be affirmed by the type of reforms of a Green New Deal, but not realised by them. Therefore linking these to the struggle for workers' control of the process of production and the political struggle for a government of and in the interest of the working class, remains the basic objective. In the British labour movement, the fundamental fight to realise the positive aspects of the Green New Deal and the Corbyn period remains that for a workers' voice in industry in order to assert collective class-ecological interests, and for that to be matched and expressed politically through a party organisation of and uniquely for the workers. The creation and democratic implementation of ecological plans is a key tool in the realisation both of this independent will and ecological industrial transformation. Alongside the reawakening of organised labour, these will be decisive in order to avoid the kind of green transition that is enacted at workers' expense, as well as the kind of development proposed through Green New Deal, which is reliant on new forms of unsustainable production.
The Labour Party, It's Time for Real Change, 2019, p. 12.
Iñigo Capellán-Pérez, Margarita Mediavilla, Carlos de Castro, Óscar Carpintero and Luis Javier Miguel, More growth? An unfeasible option to overcome critical energy constraints and climate change, 2015.
Tom Bailey et al. Thirty Recommendations by 2030. Expert Briefing for the Labour Party, October 2019, pp. 12-15.
Rebecca Long-Bailey, 'The Green New Deal is Our Way Out'. Tribune, Summer 2020, pp. 64-65.
See Bill Jeffries' review of Blakeley's Stolen: https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2019.1698197
Long-Bailey, 'The Green New Deal is Our Way Out', p. 65.
John Bellamy Foster: "…any purportedly socialist approach to environmental problems that focuses only on climate change, ignoring or even rejecting the idea of other planetary boundaries, and sees the solution as purely technological, represents a failure of nerve. It constitutes a refusal to embrace a new, wider realm of freedom, to meet the challenge that historical reality now imposes on us. Humanity cannot continue to develop in the twenty-first century without embracing more collective and sustainable forms of production and consumption in line with biospheric realities." The Long Ecological Revolution, 2017, p. 12.
Costas Lapavitsas, ''De-financialising' the UK Economy: The importance of Public Banks' in Economics for the Many, edited by John McDonnell, Verso, 2018. The policy of nationalisation of the big financial institutions was lost between its inclusion in 'Socialist Green New Deal' adopted by Labour Conference in September 2019 and the NEC endorsement of the manifesto and the Green Industrial Revolution for the December election.
David Coates, 'Labourism and the Transition to Socialism', New Left Review 129, 1981, p. 11.
Baris Tufekci, The Socialist Ideas of the British Left's Alternative Economic Strategy 1973–1983, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, p. 199.
Coates, 'Labourism and the Transition to Socialism', p. 14.
Paul Burkett's refutation of the treatment of class in ecological economics is applicable to this version of climate politics: "insofar as ecological conflicts concern irreconcilable claims on an economy's surplus product, their analysis requires some explanation of the social and material origins, specific social forms, and conflictual nature, of this surplus product – none of which can be undertaken without a clear specification of the class relations of production… analysis of production relationships is needed to identify, and intervene on behalf of, the social agency capable of leading the movement toward a more sustainable and human developmental economic system." Marxism and Ecological Economics: Toward a Red and Green Political Economy, Brill, 2006, pp. 290-291.
On the concept of the valorisation of nature: Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen, The Limits to Capitalist Nature, Rowman and Littlefield, 2018, Chapter 5.
Thea Riofrancos, Field Notes from the Extractive Frontiers, 2020.
Elmar Altvater and Birgit Mahnkopf, The Capitalocene: Permanent Capitalist Counter-Revolution, 2019.
Benjamin K Sovacool et al. Sustainable minerals and metals for a low-carbon future, 2020, pp. 30-31.
Guillaume Pitron, La guerre des métaux rares. LLL Numerique, 2018.
Helmut Haberl et al. The Material Stock–Flow–Service Nexus: A New Approach for Tackling the Decoupling Conundrum, 2017, p. 9.
Timothée Parrique, The political economy of degrowth, 2019, p. 105.
Karl Marx, Capital vol. 3. Penguin, 1981, p. 949.
The critique of growth-based sustainable development is multi-faceted and extensive. I have drawn from it minimally here, choosing instead to focus on the problems of scaling renewables to meet the energy needs provided by fossil fuels, since this is a key assumption shared by many of the Green New Deals and by the socialist left.
Calculation based on consumption-based inventory from Pierre Friedlingstein et al Global Carbon Budget 2019, with data from UK government, Inland energy consumption: primary fuel input basis 'ET 1.2 – monthly', 2020.
This is barely to scratch the surface of the dynamics of global unequal exchange which benefits the advanced capitalist economies, which are exacerbated by these states' uneven but generally advanced position in the energy transition. For an analysis of the imperial character of renewable energy minerals policy, see: Birgit Mahnkopf, 'Lessons from the EU: Why capitalism cannot be rescued from its own contradictions', in Gareth Dale, Manu V. Mathai and José A. Puppim de Oliveira JP, Green Growth – Political Ideology, Political Economy and the Alternatives, Zed Books, 2016.
Paul Burkett and John Bellamy Foster, Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique, Brill, 2016, p. 158.
There is much to learn from the two great pioneers of ecological trade unionism, Mike Cooley and Jack Mundey, who have sadly died this year. ↑
Burkett and Foster, Marx and the Earth, p. 160.
Burkett, Marxism and Ecological Economics, p. 300.


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VIII. CONCLUSION
Bhutanese refugee women and girls in Nepal continue to suffer from gender-based violence and discrimination without avenues for adequate redress. Successful prevention efforts must address women's status in the camps, including discrimination against women in the camp registration system and insufficient training and support for women's leadership.
The government of Nepal should take immediate steps to reform the camp registration and ration distribution system to remove the existing gender bias. They should amend the camp rules and cooperate with UNHCR to improve the prevention of and response to gender-based violence. Nepal cannot fulfill its international human rights obligation to punish perpetrators of violence without addressing the shortcomings in its laws. The thirty-five-day statute of limitations for reporting sexual offense cases and the lack of legislation addressing domestic violence tightly restrict survivors' access to justice. These constraints combined with camp-level initiatives to "reconcile" domestic disputes give abusive men leeway to commit violence with near impunity.
UNHCR's recent efforts to prevent and respond effectively to gender-based violence, though an important step forward, will fail if UNHCR does not ensure that women have independent access to humanitarian aid and if it does not treat domestic violence with the same seriousness as sexual violence. Despite significant progress in establishing a coordinated response to sexual violence cases, victims of domestic violence confront numerous obstacles that prevent them from obtaining either safety or redress. Ongoing information campaigns and more active outreach and monitoring are necessary for identifying and responding effectively to sexual assault, domestic violence, and trafficking cases.
As the repatriation process gains momentum, Bhutan, Nepal, UNHCR, and international monitors have a responsibility to guarantee that gender-based violence programming is not abandoned, and that refugee women's rights are fully respected at each step. In order to do so, Nepal should grant Bhutanese refugee women the ability to register their children regardless of the nationality of the father. Nepal and Bhutan should revise the verification and categorization process to meet international standards, and take active measures to promote women's full participation in the process. Bhutan should ensure women's human rights during repatriation and reintegration, and should grant full citizenship to all returning refugees.
The discrimination and violence that Bhutanese refugee women in Nepal confront reflect a chronic and widespread problem among displaced populations worldwide. The international community must fulfill its obligation to share responsibility for the protection of refugee women and children. Through financial aid, political pressure, and technical assistance, international donor governments, development institutions, and humanitarian organizations should ensure that guidelines and commitments to protecting refugee women do not just remain on paper, but result in decisive and lasting change.

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I have no idea why she suggests this is what I asked about. I asked about specific factual statements.
LOL. She's Donald Trump, but with lipstick?
One of AOC's policy staffers has "Every Billionaire is a Policy Failure" as their screen name on Twitter.
The philosophy behind that is wholly unAmerican.
My goal for this year is to get a moderator to ask "Is it morally appropriate for anyone to be a billionaire?" at one of the Dem primary debates. Ta-Nahesi just asked @aoc that question on stage at #MLKNow so we're getting somewhere.
She said it isn't btw.
We have actual communists in Congress.


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The first version of the software simulates the formation of the explosive atmosphere, then the deflagration of the reactive mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. This type of event represents a major risk of aggravating the consequences of a core melt accident at a nuclear reactor.
The accident at the Japanese Fukushima Daiichi NPP in March 2011 proved the devastating nature of a hydrogen explosion in a reactor, particularly for the containment of radioactive material. Thus, IRSN developed its own simulation tool, the software P2REMICS, to better control the complexity of the phenomenon modeled, and the relevance of the calculations made.
Developed as part of research into the hydrogen risk associated with severe accidents, the first version of the P2REMICS software simulates the formation of the explosive atmosphere, then the deflagration of the reactive mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. It can also be used to calculate dust deposition and aerosol transport, to simulate the interaction of a spray safety system with the containment atmosphere, and to factor in the effect of the hydrogen recombiners.
P2REMICS v1.0 has been put through a verification process consisting of 16 test cases and a validation process using 25 experimental tests. It required the development of computer models as well as the construction of numerical schemes for the resolution of balance equations obtained. This work has been facilitated by the research in theoretical analysis achieved by Raphaele Herbin (Institute of mathematics of Marseille), which earned her the medal of innovation of France's national scientific research center CNRS in 2017.
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State Board of Education raises testing standards
MOLLY BECK
SPRINGFIELD -- The Illinois State Board of Education voted Thursday to raise the curve on standardized tests taken by elementary and middle school students.
The new standards will make it harder for students to be considered proficient in reading and math, starting with tests to be given this spring, but ISBE officials said the results will more accurately represent how prepared a student is for college or a career.
"It is raising the bar, it is getting us ready," said State School Superintendent Chris Koch at the state board's monthly meeting Thursday.
Some area school superintendents criticized the timing of the change, in the wake of state funding cuts, and said it will send the wrong message to parents and the public.
"The hardest part of it all is they are telling us a year and a half in advance that everybody's going to fail," said Williamsville School Superintendent David Root.
The new standards are designed to mirror those of a new test that will replace the Illinois Standards Achievement Test in 2014.
The new test, called the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers assessment, will use the rigorous Common Core standards that Illinois also will officially adopt that year. School districts are already toward aligning their curriculums to Common Core.
Poor indicator
The ISAT has not proved to be a "strong indicator of college and career readiness," ISBE spokeswoman Mary Fergus said, noting that more students score well on ISAT tests than on the Prairie State Achievement Exam, which is given in 11th grade.
"We've seen this disconnect for a while and wanted to remedy it," Fergus said. "We wanted to give districts as clear a picture as we can now of student performance as they move toward the new assessments. We're giving this information now so they can prepare for it."
Students will have to boost their ISAT scores by 13 to 17 points in reading and 21 to 30 points in math to be considered proficient under the new standards.
ISAT results last year showed 79 percent of third- through eighth-grade students scored proficient in reading and 86 percent in mathematics, Fergus wrote in a news release. If the new standards had been in effect, those numbers would have fallen to 60 percent in both categories, she said.
"This drop is a result of raising expectations, not a reflection of student or teacher performance," she wrote.
Rochester School Superintendent Tom Bertrand said the percentage of Rochester third-graders falling short in math would have increased from 1 percent to 25 percent if the new standards had been effect last year.
Bad timing
Bertrand and Root also said the timing of the new standards couldn't be worse.
"The State of Illinois dehydrates us, and then ISBE turns around and forces us to run a further and faster race in scorching heat without any water to drink," Root said.
Bertrand agreed.
"School districts across the state face historic cuts in state funding, coupled with an overwhelming increase in state mandates, rules and regulations," he said. "This latest decision by ISBE illustrates the complete disconnect that has developed between the agency and the dedicated school administrators and teachers who work every day with the children in our school districts."
Fergus defended the ISBE's action.
"We know that this can be difficult, but we also know that it's the right thing to do to give accurate information about where students are performing," she said.
The ISBE has prepared sample letters for schools to send to parents and for administrators to send to teachers to explain why students' scores will probably drop.
Root said the situation would "almost be comical" if it wasn't so serious.
"It's almost like they (think) you're going to improve instruction based on public embarrassment," he said. "We can't be cutting people and programs and help these kids at the same time."
Molly Beck can be reached at (217) 788-1526. Follow her at twitter.com/MollyBeckSJR.


YDI. There's some things you should keep to yourself. I doubt your mom appreciated it any more than your grandma did.
I guess you can kiss that inheritance goodbye, sucker.
well u should be with ur fam on christmas without question!
awww I'm sorry. and im sorry she heard that.
She absolutely deserves it. Why would you say something that rude to your mother about her mother (in-law)? As #7 said some things should be kept to yourself.
Yeah, I can see the mom being upset if they planned on killing her because now the plans are spoiled.
Grandma was probably in the car thinking, "Wtf? I'm only 65." Let's just hope granny has a sense of humor come this Christmas.
I am not advocating any over-reaction on anyone's part. What good is family if you can't insult them every now and again? But if you are going to say dumb or rude things about a person, you can't exactly cry if they overhear. Has OP never watched a sitcom?
But if it was common talk, it wouldn't be an FML. At least, that was my way of thinking when I read it.
Maybe OP's grandma is ill and they know she won't make it. I doubt OP said it in a mocking manner, but probably intended it to relay her desire to spend as much time with her as she could.
Not if they act quick. Get to grams before she can change her will. You know what must be done, OP. Move your visit up to Thanksgiving.
We will have to infiltrate her dreams. I'll gather a team of specialized experts, then we'll sedate your grandmother with classical music, and a comfortable rocking chair.
Then, we make our move.
If your grandmother is about to die she is probably senile or something and probably way too old to even remember what you said. But you probably pissed off your mom, which you deserve.


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Kentucky is known as the "Bluegrass State", a nickname based on the bluegrass found in many of its pastures due to the fertile soil. One of the major regions in Kentucky is the Bluegrass Region in central Kentucky, which houses two of its major cities, Louisville and Lexington. It is a land with diverse environments and abundant resources, including the world's longest cave system, Mammoth Cave National Park, the greatest length of navigable waterways and streams in the contiguous United States, and the two largest human-made lakes east of the Mississippi River.


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Q: NumberFormat bracketted text to negative numbers Im displaying a negative amount in an Activity using
  double value = -1.0;
  NumberFormat defaultFormat = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(Locale.US);
  String formattedText = defaultFormat.format(value);

But when i run this on Samsung Galaxy S5 (Android 4.4.2) I'm  getting ($1.0) where as Nexus 5 (Android 5.1.1) gives it as -$1.0.
What is the issue here ?

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Be wary of the default locale
Note that there are many convenience methods that automatically use the default locale, but using them may lead to subtle bugs.
The default locale is appropriate for tasks that involve presenting data to the user. In this case, you want to use the user's date/time formats, number formats, rules for conversion to lowercase, and so on. In this case, it's safe to use the convenience methods.
The default locale is not appropriate for machine-readable output. The best choice there is usually Locale.US – this locale is guaranteed to be available on all devices, and the fact that it has no surprising special cases and is frequently used (especially for computer-computer communication) means that it tends to be the most efficient choice too.
A common mistake is to implicitly use the default locale when producing output meant to be machine-readable. This tends to work on the developer's test devices (especially because so many developers use en_US), but fails when run on a device whose user is in a more complex locale.
For example, if you're formatting integers some locales will use non-ASCII decimal digits. As another example, if you're formatting floating-point numbers some locales will use ',' as the decimal point and '.' for digit grouping. That's correct for human-readable output, but likely to cause problems if presented to another computer (parseDouble(String) can't parse such a number, for example). You should also be wary of the toLowerCase() and toUpperCase() overloads that don't take a Locale: in Turkey, for example, the characters 'i' and 'I' won't be converted to 'I' and 'i'. This is the correct behavior for Turkish text (such as user input), but inappropriate for, say, HTTP headers.

A: Thanks to @Bonati
public static String formatAmount(double value) {
        NumberFormat numberFormat = new DecimalFormat("'$'0.00");
        return numberFormat.format(value);
    }

This works fine for me.

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Gordon D'Arcy On Who He Thinks Should Start In The Centre For Ireland
by Jason Hennessy · October 15, 2020
Midfield.
For many years Gordon D'Arcy along with Brian O'Driscoll formed one of the best midfield partnerships in world rugby for both club and country.
The pair won European Cups and Six Nations titles and were a match for any midfield partnership on their day. But on the back of their respective retirements, Irish Rugby struggled in the centre for many years.
Fast forward to now and it's the complete opposite. Ireland have more high-level centres than they can accommodate and as a result – some really good centres are going to miss out Six Nations selection later this month.
As things stand, Garry Ringrose, Bundee Aki, Robbie Henshaw, Stuart McCloskey and Chris Farrell are all in the Ireland squad but only two of them can start in midfield come game day.
"I think it's hard to look past Aki [at the moment]." Gordon D'Arcy on who he thinks should start in the centre for Ireland in the Six Nations.
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So who does Gordon D'Arcy reckons should start? Speaking on this week's episode of the Up & Under Podcast, D'Arcy said it's hard to look past Bundee Aki given his recent form.
"At the moment it's hard to look past [Bundee] Aki with what he's doing at Connacht in the moment. He kinda gets the mainstay I'd say," D'Arcy said.
"And you're kind of building off around that.
"Chris Farrell is probably unlucky not playing in the last week or so to try and put his case forward.
"And Garry Ringrose skippering Leinster probably looks like he'll probably get the nod. So an Aki and Garry Ringrose centre partnership with possibly Henshaw being able to cover the multiple positions from the bench."


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FTX Fraud: Who Are Sam Bankman-Fried's Biggest Victims?
The collapse of FTX is already going down as one of the most severe crypto-related frauds in history.
Over the course of a week, Sam Bankman-Fried's carefully-curated empire was shattered along with his reputation.
While it's not know how many have been hurt by the scam, we do know who some of the biggest victims are so far.
FTX and its affiliated trading firm Alameda Research have been exposed. A November 2 CoinDesk article revealing Alameda's troubled finances put a series of events in motion that eventually revealed FTX as insolvent.
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried secretly used customer funds to bail out FTX's sister company Alameda Research, resulting in an estimated $10 billion hole in the exchange's books. To make matters worse, Bankman-Fried covered up his fraudulent activities for months, leaving investors, customers, and even his own employees in the dark right up until FTX declared bankruptcy on November 10.
In the aftermath of arguably the most earth-shattering deception in crypto history, Crypto Briefing takes a look at who has lost the most from Sam Bankman-Fried's monumental grift.
During its heyday, FTX attracted huge investments from some of the most prominent and well-funded venture capital firms in the world.
In July 2021, the exchange raised $900 million at an $18 billion valuation from over 60 investors, including crypto heavyweights such as Coinbase Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Paradigm, and others. Many of these investors also doubled down on FTX during its last funding round in January 2022, which valued the company at an eye-watering $32 billion.
FTX's raises stood out from those of other crypto firms through participation from high-ranking non-crypto venture firms. Softbank, VanEck, and Temasek all bought FTX equity during one of the company's many funding rounds. According to Crunchbase data, FTX sold equity totaling approximately $1.8 billion over its three years in operation. Now that the company is bankrupt, FTX shares are almost certainly worthless.
At the time of its collapse, the three biggest FTX stakeholders were Sequoia Capital at 1.1% and Temasek and Paradigm, each with 1%. In total, these three venture firms invested a combined $620 million into FTX.
Additionally, many venture firms that invested in FTX also used its services to hold cash and crypto assets. However, only a handful of these firms have publicly disclosed their additional FTX exposure. On November 9, Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz told CNBC that his firm had $76.8 million of cash and digital assets deposited on FTX at the time of its collapse, although he stated that his firm was in the process of withdrawing $47.5 million of that amount. However, In light of the corruption exposed during the exchange's final days, it seems unlikely FTX will honor this withdrawal.
Multicoin Capital, another prominent FTX equity investor, reported that it had 10% of its total assets under management trapped on FTX before the exchange declared bankruptcy. Crunchbase data shows Multicoin had raised $605 million through three separate funds, implying that it lost at least $60 million through its exposure to FTX.
As many venture firms have no obligation to disclose the exact amounts of their investments and losses publicly, it's hard to know how much they collectively lost from the FTX meltdown. However, with the evidence at hand, VC losses across the board appear to be well into the billions.
The Solana Ecosystem
Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX empire was heavily entwined with the Solana ecosystem, and the high-throughput blockchain is suffering greatly as a result.
When Solana experienced a boom on the back of the alternative Layer 1 narrative in August 2021, its native SOL token, along with many Solana ecosystem tokens soared in value. One such project was Serum, a Solana-based central limit order book exchange, in which Bankman-Fried was a co-founder and Alameda Research an investor.
While Serum initially soared in value, its predatory tokenomics, which gave huge amounts of its native SRM token to early investors like Alameda, caused its value to bleed over time. Despite dumping huge amounts of SRM onto the market throughout the 2021 bull run, Alameda still held over two billion tokens as collateral against loans at the time of its bankruptcy. Additionally, Alameda and FTX both held large SOL positions, which will also face liquidation. Now FTX and Alameda are bankrupt, these tokens will almost certainly be sold on the open market, driving prices down further.
FTX's involvement with Solana went beyond promoting the blockchain and investing in its protocols. To help bootstrap DeFi adoption, FTX also created Solana-based wrapped Bitcoin and Ethereum tokens backed by its reserves.
Both wrapped tokens were widely used across the Solana DeFi ecosystem. However, as it became apparent that FTX was facing a liquidity crunch, FTX-backed wrapped Bitcoin and Ethereum began to de-peg. After FTX declared voluntary bankruptcy on November 11, these tokens plummeted as it was clear FTX no longer held any real Bitcoin and Ethereum in reserve. Over the past week, Solana wrapped Bitcoin has fallen 93% to $1,363 and wrapped Ethereum 83% to $257. Presently, there seems to be little hope that either asset will return to peg.
One final way FTX has damaged Solana is through Alameda Research's investments in ecosystem projects. Several corroborating reports indicate that under the terms of investment, protocols were required or heavily incentivized to custody their treasuries on FTX. This practice not only left many projects high and dry after FTX's bankruptcy but also fed into the wider fraud taking place on the exchange. By requiring projects to keep their funds on FTX, Alameda could partially invest into a project but receive back the total sum of that project's raise. As was revealed when FTX went bankrupt, these customer funds deposited onto the exchange were being used in investments by Alameda.
The Customers
While venture capital firms and FTX-backed projects have suffered from Sam Bankman-Fried's years-long scam, ultimately, the ordinary customer is the biggest loser in the whole debacle. Many FTX users lost their life savings, believing that the exchange was safe. Endorsements from Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary and Jim Cramer comparing Bankman-Fried to J.P. Morgan also helped engender trust in the exchange as a legitimate and reliable entity.
It's hard to estimate how much customers holding funds on FTX lost, as reports vary, but the number is likely to be in the billions. The figure will almost certainly have been made worse by Bankman-Fried's since-deleted tweets in the lead-up to FTX's bankruptcy. The former FTX CEO assured users that assets held on the exchange were fully backed at 1:1, dissuading users from withdrawing funds. In hindsight, these tweets turned out to be bald-faced lies.
But it wasn't just Bankman-Fried and his "inner circle" of FTX employees who betrayed Customers—U.S. regulators who worked closely with the exchange and showed it lenience are also culpable. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler dedicated his organization's resources going after more minor, less significant DeFi protocols for enforcement action while the biggest fraud in recent crypto history operated right under his nose. Very probably, Bankman-Fried's status as a major political donor and his active involvement in drafting crypto regulation aided him in pulling the wool over the SEC's eyes.
The lack of regulatory clarity from regulators like the SEC also helped push U.S. crypto users onto unregulated overseas exchanges like FTX.com. If the SEC had instead worked with crypto industry stakeholders in the U.S. to draft fair, comprehensive legislation early, this whole situation could have been avoided or at least reduced in its severity.
Like the Mt. Gox hack before it, the FTX fraud will likely tarnish the industry's reputation with the current cohort of crypto-curious investors. Many who have been burned will not return. But it's also important to look for a silver lining in times of darkness. It's better that the rot in the crypto industry be exposed now rather than in the future when more is on the line. While it may seem bleak at the moment, in the long run, crypto will be stronger for having crooks like Bankman-Fried rooted out early, even if the cost is dear.
Disclosure: At the time of writing, the author of this piece owned ETH, BTC, SOL, and several other crypto assets.
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Less than two weeks after public consultation closes.
The federal government has moved to introduce the legislation underpinning its controversial crackdown on encrypted communications services.
The Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill was introduced into parliament by home affairs minister Peter Dutton on Thursday.
It comes less than two weeks after the Department of Home Affairs closed public consultation on the exposure draft of the bill, in which more than 14,000 submissions are said to have been made.
The government finally revealed the exposure draft in mid-August, a year after it first promised to do so.
The exposure draft outlined new powers to ask or compel service providers to assist law enforcement and national security agencies to access encrypted communications.
This could involve being required to build new tools, run government-built software, or facilitate access to targeted devices.
The bill places the onus on a range of companies - both domestic and foreign - that make up end-to-end communications services to come up with ways "to enable access to a particular service, particular device or particular item of software".
The government has said this will invariably involve some weakening of security, but denies that it will lead to systemic weaknesses or vulnerabilities like backdoors in products or services.
"The bill specifically provides that companies cannot be required to create systemic weaknesses in their encrypted products or be required to build a decryption capability," Dutton said in the bill's first reading.
"This is also not a new vehicle to collect personal information. Surveillance and interception must be authorised by existing warrants and authorisations, which are subject to their own safeguards, including judicial oversight."
He said the "sudden" uptake of encrypted communications platforms was a "seismic shift in the operational environment" for agencies, and that the bill was needed to strengthen their "ability ... to deal with the challenges of encryption".
While encrypted communications accounted for around 3 percent of internet communications intercepted by ASIO in June 2013, by July 2017 this had climbed to 55 percent, he said.
"The lack of access to encrypted communications presents an increasingly significant barrier for national security and law enforcement agencies in investigating serious crimes and national security threats," Dutton said.
"According to ASIO, encryption has impacted intelligence operations in at least nine out of every ten of its priority cases.
Dutton also said the government had changed the bill to reflect feedback from both industry and the public.
"The government has consulted extensively with industry and the public on these measures and have made amendments to reflect the feedback in the legislation now before the parliament," he said.
Debate on the legislation was adjourned.


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Parashat Vaera: The Four Cups and Our Ancestors' "Discount"
In the beginning of Parashat Vaera we read of the famous "Arba Leshonot Ge'ula" – "four expressions of redemption." G-d told Moshe to convey to Beneh Yisrael His promise to "take them" from Egypt, to "save them" from bondage, to "redeem them," and to "take them" as His special nation ("Ve'hoseti," "Ve'hisalti," "Ve'ga'alti," "Ve'lakahti"). Many people are familiar with the teaching of the Talmud Yerushalmi in Masechet Pesahim that the four cups of wine we drink at the Seder on Pesah commemorate these four promises.
What is less known, however, is the second explanation of the four cups given by the Yerushalmi. Surprisingly, the Yerushalmi associates this Misva with the dream of Pharaoh's cup-bearer, as he reported it to Yosef. The cup-bearer dreamt of squeezing grapes into Pharaoh's cup and then handing the cup to Pharaoh, and Yosef correctly interpreted this vision as foretelling the cup-bearer's imminent release from prison and reinstatement to his post. The word "Kos" ("cup") appears four times in the story of the cup-bearer's dream, and we thus commemorate this dream by drinking four cups of wine at the Seder on Pesah.
The obvious question arises, what connection is there between the cup-bearer's dream and the Pesah celebration? Why is it important to remember this dream as we celebrate the Exodus from Egypt?
The answer can be found in the special "discount" which Beneh Yisrael received in Egypt.
In one of G-d's prophecies to Abraham Avinu, He informed the patriarch that his descendants would endure 400 years of suffering and persecution in a foreign land. In Parashat Bo (12:40), the Torah tells us that the precise number of years was actually 430. Yet, Beneh Yisrael ended up spending only 210 years in Egypt. Many different explanations have been given for this remarkable "discount." Some explain that the work was so difficult and so intense that Beneh Yisrael completed in just 210 years the amount of slave labor that would normally be performed over the course of 400 years. Others claim that Beneh Yisrael's supernatural population growth in Egypt meant that the slave labor was performed by an exceptionally large number of people, such that they completed the decreed period of slavery in just 210 years. Another famous answer is that Beneh Yisrael had plummeted to the "49th level of impurity," and had they remained any longer, they would have fallen to the 50th level, from which they would have been unable to recover. And so although they were to have remained for another 190 years, G-d could not let them stay a moment longer.
Regardless of how we understand the reason for this "discount," we can trace its roots to Yosef, specifically, to the system he set in place when he served as vizier over Egypt.
Towards the end of Parashat Vayigash, we read that during the years of famine in Egypt, Yosef essentially revamped the country's entire economy. On behalf of Pharaoh, Yosef purchased all the agricultural lands in Egypt in exchange for grain, such that the people worked as serfs for Pharaoh. Yosef established that the people must pay 20 percent of their produce to Pharaoh, and they may then keep the other 80 percent. The Torah emphasizes that Yosef made this a "Hok" – an official rule, that the farmers paid 20 percent and kept the remaining 80 percent.
At first glance, it seems difficult to understand why the Torah gives us this information. Why is it important for us to know the economic policy that Yosef enacted when he ruled over Egypt?
The answer, perhaps, is that Yosef, prophetically foreseeing the slavery and bondage that Beneh Yisrael would soon endure, wanted to help them by establishing a rule allowing an 80 percent "discount." The policy Yosef enacted for the Egyptians was applicable also to Beneh Yisrael vis-à-vis the decree that they would endure a 430-year period of exile. The Midrash teaches that although Beneh Yisrael spent 210 years in Egypt, they were enslaved only when Miriam, Moshe's sister, was born – 86 years before the Exodus. It emerges, then, that Beneh Yisrael suffered for only 20 percent of the period that was decreed – 86 years, instead of 430 years. This is the deeper significance of Yosef's enacting this policy in Egypt.
With this in mind, we can return to the story of the cup-bearer's dream, and understand why the dream is worthy of commemoration on Pesah. The word "Kos" in Gematria equals 86. When Yosef saw how the word "Kos" was used four times in the context of the cup-bearer's dream, he realized that he was being assigned a mission – to reduce four times the value of the word "Kos" (86) from the decree issued against his people. Therefore, upon rising to the position of vizier, in the capacity of which he managed the Egyptian economy, he put in place this policy of paying just 20 percent – so that Beneh Yisrael would be able to leave after "paying" just 20 percent of the period of slavery that had been decreed, 86 years instead of 430 years.
This is why we commemorate the cup-bearer's dream at the Seder. This dream is what facilitated the 80-percent "discount" that our ancestors received. The four instances of the word "Kos" in the context of that dream is what led to the reduction of four times the word "Kos" from the decree of slavery, enabling Beneh Yisrael to leave after working for 86 years.
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Parashat Vaera: Embracing the Gift of Eretz Yisrael - 2019 Year
Parashat Vaera: Every Drop Counts - 2017 Year
Vaera: Defining Greatness - 2016 Year
Parashat Vaera: The Exodus and Matan Torah - 2015 Year
Parashat VaEra: Making Exile Intolerable - 2013 Year
Parashat Vaera: Maintaining Idealism - 2013 Year
Parashat Vaera: Anger and Idolatry - 2012 Year
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Miley Cyrus Needs to Release Her New Song From 'Miley's New Year's Eve' Performance
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Miley Cyrus made sure that her New Year's Eve party was filled with plenty of surprises. On top of guest performers, throwback songs, and (now viral) accidental wardrobe malfunctions, Cyrus kept the surprises coming. While on stage, she performed a new song that she has yet to record.
I personally was overjoyed hearing Cyrus's 2009 hit "The Climb" and was not expecting anymore than that. Instead, Cyrus decided to perform a brand new song for the audience. The singer could not release this song soon enough. With over 500,000 views on YouTube, fans are eager to get their hands on a recorded version of this song.
In the new song Cyrus talks bringing romance baggage into a new relationship. The lyrics of this tune are captivating through the way she tells her story. The song mentions wanting to do everything in the world with the new person, while also being open about how she's not the 'princess type'. The first performance of this song was filled with loads of passion out of the singer.
Following the performance, Cyrus shared a video of her new song to Instagram. Fans were beginning her to release the song for streaming, but the singer replied honestly to their request:
"This song is so new I haven't even recorded it yet. just wanted to do something special for YOU all!"
Although there's no telling as to when the singer will release this song, it's definitely going to do well. Fans have already become obsessed, so I'm sure this song will do extremely well on the charts. I don't think any fans of Cyrus would be mad about beginning the new year with a brand new song.
Miley's Viral New Years Eve Wardrobe Malfunction
If you were watching Miley's New Year's Eve, you may have noticed an accident that occured on stage. The singer exited the stage while singing "Party in The U.S.A." following her top malfunction. This didn't end the show for the singer, she continued to perform amid the wardrobe change, then came back on stage in a different top.
It's no secret that the internet loves wardrobe malfunctions, so it's no surprise that this instance went insanely viral on social media. Videos of the singer walking off stage has gotten millions of views, especially on TikTok. I thought this instance was funny considering Cyrus handled it as well as she did. As soon as she noticed something off, she grabbed the top and began to walk off stage with ease. She even later made a joke about it on stage. It was clear that she was in good humor following the mishap.
"Get a good look at the top that didn't stay on very long….. " Cyrus wrote on her Instagram caption on January 1.
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Samuels-Thomas looks to break out
Bryan Lipiner
Jordan Samuels-Thomas has always called Connecticut his home. The junior was born in West Hartford and spent time in Windsor throughout his childhood. After high school, he was drafted in the seventh round by the now-defunct Atlanta Thrashers, while also playing for the Waterloo Black Hawks of the United States Hockey League in 2008-2009.
Samuels-Thomas attended Bowling Green University beginning in the 2009-2010 season, where he led the Falcons in points with 25. In his sophomore year, Samuels-Thomas again led the squad in points, this time with 21.
Yet, after his sophomore year, Samuels-Thomas made the decision to transfer to Quinnipiac, citing various reasons such as being closer to home and playing under a prestigious coach.
"Coach (Rand) Pecknold has been at Quinnipiac for 19 years and his teams have been near the top of ECAC Hockey for a while now," Samuels-Thomas said. "Quinnipiac is only 40 minutes from home, which is awesome since I've been away since I was 17."
Currently, Samuels-Thomas is the only member of the Quinnipiac men's or women's ice hockey team to be a resident of Connecticut.
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Samuels-Thomas chose to redshirt his 2011-12 season, therefore rendering him ineligible to play. He was limited to the practice squad, and felt restricted at some points last winter.
"Last year was tough, for sure," Samuels-Thomas said. "There were definitely a few depressing days. The coaches and the team did what they could to keep my spirits up. I wanted to play every game, especially the tight ones, hoping I could make a difference or make a play to contribute to a win."
Yet, in his first contest with Quinnipiac, Samuels-Thomas didn't waste any time in making a difference.
On Oct. 6 at 18:31 in the third period at Alfond Arena in Orono, Maine, Jeremy Langlois won an offensive zone face-off . Samuels-Thomas received the puck, skated across the zone and ripped a shot past Black Bear goaltender Dan Sullivan for the 2-1 Quinnipiac lead.
His goal proved to be enough in the final 90 seconds, as the Bobcats walked away with their first win of the season over No. 15 Maine. Samuels-Thomas exited the ice with the game-winning goal against one of the top hockey programs in the United States.
"Scoring the game-winner against Maine was such a blessing." Samuels-Thomas said. "Leading up to the game, I was praying every night that I could make a difference somehow. Scoring was about the only good thing I did [that night] so I thank God for putting me in the right spot."
Since the beginning of the season, Samuels-Thomas has played on the second line with Jeremy Langlois and Travis St. Denis. The trio has combined for three goals when playing on the same line.
"Playing with Langer and Saint is great. Langer is such a dynamic player with a unique skill set. All he does is score," Samuels-Thomas said. "Saint is a young guy but is a proven playmaker in junior hockey."
When asked what his biggest ambition was when originally coming to Quinnipiac and his biggest ambition now, he responded with a having a successful career in Hamden.
"Coming here, my goal is to win," Samuels-Thomas said. "We have a good team here and I really think we can compete for an ECAC Hockey as well as an NCAA Championship this season. I think everyone is really excited."
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Before we can tackle your stress, you need to understand it better. Where does it come from? How does it tick?
Way back in the day (I mean way, way back), life and death struggles were a part of every human's every day reality.
The stress response evolved as a way for us to escape life threatening situations so we could live to gather another day. The sympathetic nervous system is how our body regulates stress. You've heard of "fight or flight"? When early man encountered predators, his body was able to fight or flee (depending on survival odds) because of this system. Cortisol and other stress hormones increase, blood evacuates the limbs and centers on primary body functions, heart rate increases, adrenaline rushes ... I think we're all familiar with the sensation. These biological processes help you perform your best to either fight or flee — to a point.
In 1908, two psychologists figured out that too much of a good thing was, in fact, too much.
Stress generally helps us perform — on tests, in athletic events, on the job — until the stress level gets too high. If you are under too much stress, your body will actually begin to shut down; you'll have trouble remembering things, your sleep with de disrupted, and you'll feel bad physically. Cortisol, just like other drugs, can get you "high" in small amounts. Large amounts can get you dead (or have you dropping out, since most of us don't fight cave bears regularly).
So I'm stressed. And so is everyone else!
If everyone else jumped off a cliff, would you? OK, don't answer that. Our society has normalized stress to such an extent that we actually have competitions with each other to see how unhealthy we can get. "I have two exams AND a paper due tomorrow." "Oh yeah? That's nothing! I have three exams, two papers, an 8-hour shift at work, three crying infants at home, and I haven't slept for four days!"
So ... does that make you ... the winner? Knock it off, people. Stress is not good for you. Sleep. Sleep is where it's at. Our memories are consolidated as we sleep. If you're not sleeping, you're actually getting dumber. It's science!
But, but, but, I have all this stuff to do!
Think of relaxation differently. You're not being lazy or unproductive — you're actually honing that fine brain of yours. It's time to relax, my friend. You've heard the phrase "work smarter, not harder?"
We need to trick your sympathetic nervous system. Think of it as interrupting an assembly line; if one part isn't working, the whole thing shuts down. If you can get one aspect of your stress response under control, you can stop the whole process from escalating.
Below you will find an audio file that is a relaxation exercise. During the exercise, you will learn various breathing and imagery techniques that you can use to help yourself relax.
Find a calm, quiet place where you will not be interrupted.
The relaxation is about 18 minutes long, so make sure you have enough time to listen to the entire thing.
When you are first starting out, you will need to listen to the exercise three to five times a week. Ideally you will use this at first in times where you are not stressed, so you can better use the skills later when you are. Think of it like learning a musical instrument — you don't learn to play the oboe during the concert. You practice first. It should take two to three weeks to feel like you have a good sense of the relaxation. At that time, you can begin modifying the techniques to use as helps you best.
If you enjoy this exercise, the Oasis has many, many more to choose from.


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> VServer at my Hoster.
> like to do use my IPv6 space on my server at home.
> So, now I do not know, how and where to start.
home network reachable from the IP6 Internet?
to your home-servers, depending on your firewall rules, of course.
IP4 was years ago. Getting an IP6 prefix for your home network is easy.
There's no need to recycle what you got for your vserver.
> using IPv4 private space.
> more on the Server but @home?
about OpenVPN to give you specific advice on this.
home servers, instead of subnetting within your vserver's prefix.
> Question: It is better to ask on <debian-ipv6> ?
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What's preventing Ontario's Darlington Nuclear Generating Station from going flexible?
By: Donald Jones, P.Eng., retired nuclear industry engineer – 2013 November.
A condensed version of this article will appear in the 2013 December edition of the Canadian Nuclear Society's BULLETIN.
The frequent periods of Surplus Baseload Generation (SBG) on Ontario's electricity system arise when baseload supply exceeds demand. The Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) takes steps to minimize the amount of SBG when it is forecast by increasing positive price out of province exports, reducing hydro and gas generation to the technical/contractual minimum, and reducing output of the Bruce A/B nuclear stations to the technical minimum by bypassing steam around the turbine-generators. Further reductions in SBG then come from curtailing output from wind generation and finally from nuclear unit shutdown. The major contributor to SBG is the 2,000 or so nameplate MW of unreliable intermittent wind on the system, soon to increase to around 8,500 MW, and not helped by low demand.
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7 Reasons To Cancel Your Cable Today!
Do you still have cable? Are you considering canceling your cable to save more money? Canceling your cable is a great way to potentially save over $200 per month!
Here are 7 reasons to cancel your cable today!
1. It's not 1995 anymore!
Back in 1995, everyone had cable and it was almost required then. There were only a few cable companies and they had limited cable options, but we all blindly purchased their cable plans anyway. However, we don't have to subscribe to cable companies at all. There are other options.
2. Watching cable TV is a waste of time.
Watching TV can be a huge waste of time. How many times have you sat down to watch "just one" of your favorite TV shows and realized that they are having a marathon. Eight hours later … you've accomplished absolutely nothing and just wasted the entire day.
3. Watching cable TV is a waste of money, too!
Spending $200 per month on cable TV is a lot of money that could be better spent on just about anything else. Do you ever wish that you had an extra $200? Well, here you go: cancel your cable and you'll have that extra $200 per month.
4. There are cheaper alternatives to cable TV.
If you must watch your favorite TV shows and movies, then are still much cheaper ways to watch TV. Cable is probably the most expensive way to watch TV these days.
Apple TV: The Apple TV is a one-time cost of approximately $100, but it allows you to connect to Netflix, Hulu Plus, iTunes and many other applications to watch TV for practically free. You can even rent a movie using iTunes for a low cost of less than $5 for those days you want to watch a movie with the kids at home.
Redbox: This is an awesome, low-cost way to watch movies at home for only $1 per movie per night. Rent the movie at a Redbox kiosk and return it the next day. Very easy and highly recommended!
Roku: There is a one-time cost of between $40 and $110 for a Roku because there are several different models and prices vary across regions. But this is just a one-time cost and it offers hundreds of channels.
Netflix: This is a very popular and inexpensive way to watch TV shows and movies for only $8 per month! Wow, that's much better than $200 per month! Many people are now canceling their cable and relying just on Netflix.
5. Do you really need 500 cable TV channels anyway?
I am always amazed when friends show me how they have over 500 cable TV channels. Wow, I'm not impressed at all! Seriously! It does not make you cool. It makes you wasteful of your money. How many of these TV channels do you really watch?
6. You don't need cable.
When you stop and consider it, having cable TV is really just a want and certainly not a need. If you're truly looking for ways to save money, then canceling your cable is an excellent option to save over $200 per month.
7. You will become much more productive without cable.
Once you finally make that difficult decision to cancel your cable, you will instantly have more time and become much more productive. Yes, instantly! Think about the hours you spend watching TV daily. That time can be spent studying for school, or playing with your kids, or learning a new hobby. Doesn't that sound exciting?!
Stop reading and cancel your cable company today!
That one phone call could save you over $200 per month, or $2400 per year!
Are you willing to make that call? Why, or why not? Let us know in the comments.


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'What do you do when you play' legend Lee Moon-se x Yoo Jae-seok'Girl' duet stage preview
Lee Moon-se, Yoo Jae-seok/ Photo = MBC'What do you do when you play?' Capture
Lee Moon-se and Yoo Jae-seok decided to present a duet stage.
In MBC's'What do you do if you play?', broadcast on the 26th, Yoo Jae-seok, Defcon, and Kim Jong-min as guests of the'Winter Song Rescue Operation' were drawn with singers Kim Beom-soo and Lee Moon-se.
Yoo Jae-seok, who met Lee Moon-se, a'living legend in the music industry' said, "It's a'Star Night Family' with'Star Night' from my school days to a newcomer. I've ruled my adolescence." I admired the eggplant very much. He said it very funny without making the other person feel bad."
Lee Moon-se said, "Is it that Yoo Jae-suk became a public MC? I have a little influence on me. I am very proud to hear this story through broadcasting for the first time."
Lee Moon-se, who led'Star Night' for 12 years, recalled, "At that time, I was in my mid-20s, too. There was not a big age difference with the listeners. So, I think they naturally shared their language and expressions."
Yoo Jae-seok asked Lee Moon-se, "One of my favorite songs is'Girl'," and "Can I ask for a'Girl' in the performance?" Then, Lee Moon-se seemed to hesitate, saying, "It's burdensome." But soon, he suggested a duet stage to Yoo Jae-seok, saying, "I will go to the performance. But there are conditions. Let's sing'Girl' together. If Lee Moon-se and Yoo Jae-seok sing together, how many people will have hope?"
Yoo Jae-seok was immediately embarrassed by Lee Moon-se's sudden duet stage proposal, but he soon replied "thank you" and raised expectations.
In the'Winter Song Rescue Operation', Mr. 2 appeared and sang'White Winter'. Jae-Seok Yoo and Jae-Hoon Tak sang'Happy Christmas' by Country Coko.
Meanwhile, Lee Moon-se was born in 1959 and is 61 years old this year.