We at Dollars & Sense are gathering activists' statements and op-eds about Wal-Mart and its effects on their communities. Here is one from D&S author Joel Harrison (author of Paying More, Getting Less), who has been involved in anti-Wal-Mart activism in San Diego. (This article originally appeared in East County Magazine.) For an anti-Wal-Mart op-ed by Martin J. Bennett of Sonoma County, Calif., click here. If you are involved in Wal-Mart-related activism and want to share statements, resources, op-eds, please drop us an email. —Eds.
On February 1, the San Diego City Council repealed its recently passed "Big-Box Statute" which required an economic and environmental impact study precede approval to build stores of 90,000 or more square feet with 10 percent of floor space dedicated to nontaxable items such as groceries and prescription drugs. Similar ordinances exist around the nation. While currently this only applies to the City of San Diego, the basic principle affects us all. Prior to and following passage of the "Big-Box Statute" Wal-Mart has spent millions of dollars on ads, full-page, radio and TV, created a front group "San Diego Consumers for Choice," and a signature drive to get it on the ballot. Given the City of San Diego's economic condition, the cost of a special election would have been prohibitive, so the City Council gave in. Does this mean anytime a rich powerful corporation disagrees with an elective body all they have to do is spend enough money, e.g. timing a signature drive for an off-election cycle, and they will get their way? This is not about the Big-Box Statute; but democracy itself.
Studies have shown a significant correlation between monies spent and the outcome of elections. While there are still instances where an initiative or candidate with fewer resources has won, more and more these instances are becoming the "exceptions that prove the rule." Following the January 2010 Citizens United ruling by our Supreme Court allowing corporations to use their enormous wealth to directly influence elections, one can expect ever fewer instances where the side with limited resources win (see recent report by Public Citizen, "12 Months After: The Effects of Citizens United on Elections and the Integrity of the Legislative Process," January 2011). Conservatives and Liberals alike have overwhelmingly disagreed with the Supreme Court's ruling. Now we find Wal-Mart going one step further and actually creating a situation where a financially strapped city government gave in to one powerful corporation. This reminds me of table stakes poker. I could hold a royal flush and another person not even a pair; but if they see me and raise me more money than I have, they win. Well, maybe this is OK in poker; but it signifies a major blow to deliberative democracy when a rich powerful corporation can bully a financially strapped city government into getting their own way. If we want to save money maybe we should stop electing our City Council and allow San Diego's 10 wealthiest corporations to appoint it?
As has been said many times, democracy is not a perfect system; but it is better than any other. Elected City Councils constitute deliberative bodies. They hold public hearings, have legislative aids who prepare position papers, and then vote on an issue. Their votes are probably one part deliberation based on the "facts", one part ideology based on their political values, and one part based on "pressures/influence" from constituents, campaign contributors, and powerful vested interests. People sign petitions for a variety of reasons. Many sign them assuming if the issue gets on the ballot they will have time to study it more carefully. Others are simply influenced by 30-second sound bites. Just because enough signatures were obtained, it doesn't mean in an election it would win. Members of the City Council who disagree with the "Big-Box Statute" may see this as an excuse to get their way; but what happens next time when some wealthy corporation or individuals disagree with something they support?
Comparison of average starting salaries and benefits, after five and ten years.
Comparison of percentage of workers who are promoted to managerial positions.
Comparison of estimates of percentage of gross revenue retained in the community, e.g. workers salaries and benefits, taxes, charitable contributions, etc.
Impact on wages, jobs, small businesses, and environment on communities before and after Wal-Mart had moved in.
Wal-Mart has already spent far more than the three million dollar cost of a special election. Under current circumstances our city council repealed the Statute. The repeal of the Statute sets a precedent that money, powerful corporations have a carte blanche to determine the future of our city.
In addition, Councilman Tony Young has tried to get Wal-Mart and other stores to locate in his district where 180,000 residents are served by only two stores. If the Ordinance doesn't contain a waiver process, I'm sure our Council could have added one. A waiver of performing the Impact Study could be given for areas "clearly" underserved following a public hearing. Areas such as University City with an abundance of stores would require the Impact Study. If Wal-Mart is so eager to serve the community, why haven't they offered to build in Councilman Young's district?
Without the Impact studies, if the Big Box stores affect our community, either or both economically and environmentally, once in place it would be virtually impossible to undo the damage. Who remembers the debate on deregulating our public utilities, promises of lower rates and better service? Once passed, we went through a time of rolling brownouts and blackouts and exponentially increasing rates.
With the repeal of the Statute, it is time to consider changing the initiative/special election section of our City Charter (Art. 1 Chap 4) first passed on March 16, 1889, in a very different world. We have regularly scheduled elections every two years. Initiatives collecting the requisite signatures should go on the next scheduled election. If the initiative supporters want a special election, they should pay for it!
What is the Impact of Wal-Mart on a Community?
Does Wal-Mart save consumers money and how much?
What effect does Wal-Mart have on local economies?
The average savings claimed by Wal-Mart is based on a select small number of consumer items, the Consumer Price Index (CPI), and average annual household expenditures. However, 60% of the CPI is based on non-household consumer items such as energy, medical, and housing costs. At best then Wal-Mart saves consumer families $920 per year (0.4 x $2300). This assumes similar savings for all items purchased at Wal-Mart, a highly questionable assumption. I personally have found many items at local stores, Vons, Albertsons, and Ralphs, when registered in their discount programs, to be comparable to Wal-Marts.
Wal-Mart contributes ca. $30 billion dollars to our trade deficit with China alone, contributing as much as $80 - $100 billion to our trade deficit. This includes U.S. suppliers who outsource to Third World nations. Each dollar circulating in a local economy actually adds 1.5 dollars (multiplier function), so Wal-Mart contributes to up to $120 billion lost to our economy, dollars lost to taxes which fund services such as fire departments, street repairs and libraries, dollars lost to churches and charities, and dollars lost to the purchase of goods and services.
As Wal-Mart gains a foothold in a local market, job availability, wages and benefits experience downward pressures. The 2003 supermarket strike in Southern California followed company claims that they needed to lower salaries and benefits to compete with Wal-Mart. It now takes 30 months for a new hire's family to get health insurance. So why should we care if supermarket employees are paid less and lack health insurance? Forget that morally, full time workers should be able to afford the basics of food, shelter and medical care. Many Wal-Mart employees received Medi-Cal ($40 million per year) and food stamps paid for by our taxes. Uninsured and underinsured people delay seeking care, resulting in increased emergency room visits. As emergency rooms fill, ambulances are diverted to more distant hospitals, increasing time to treatment with increased risks for death or disability for all of us. Bad publicity and enormous pressure forced Wal-Mart to improve health care benefits to its employees; but they still remain inadequate at the same time that benefits to the unionized workers deteriorated.
The "real wage" as calculated by economists measures what people can actually buy with their wages, taking into account the prices of things that have gone up (health insurance, housing) as well as the cheap goods available from importers like Wal-Mart. Productivity gains are supposed to translate into increased wages and benefits. Yet, over the past 30 years with significant increases in both productivity and low cost imports, average wages for most people have barely risen and for many have fallen. This indicates that the downward pressure on wages from "the Wal-Mart model" has for most Americans outweighed the positive effect of cheap imported goods.
In 2005, Costco, a company that offers excellent wages and benefits, posted a 2.0% profit margin compared with Wal-Marts 3.6%. In 1997, Wal-Mart posted a 2.9% profit margin. The Economic Policy Institute calculated that if Wal-Mart returned to its 1997 profit margin it would retain half the difference with Costco, yet be able to offer non-managerial employees a 13% salary increase (more than $2,000 per year). This increase would be spent locally. Wal-Mart, as the largest employer and one of the most powerful companies in the U.S. dominates the market. Its wealth and power allows it to dictate to suppliers, contribute to downward pressure on jobs, salaries, and benefits, expend enormous sums on lobbying, full page ads in local newspapers and contribute significantly to our trade deficit. And Wal-Mart has been the beneficiary of government subsidies worth well over $1 billion, e.g. building of access roads, tax relief, etc.
Over 20 years ago when I was working as a researcher in Houston, Texas, I began shopping at Wal-Mart following their "Buy America" campaign. Later it was revealed that often only one American-made item could be found on each rack, the others produced in Third World country sweat shops, often by child labor. This was just the beginning of revelation after revelation. Each time, Wal-Mart, spending enormous amounts of money, has conducted campaigns to deflect attention from such practices which included locking doors to force workers to work unpaid overtime hours.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, cloathed and lodged (Book I, Chapter VIII, pg.94).
Our merchants and master-manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people (Book I, Chapter IX, pg.117).
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty or justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary (Book I, Chapter X, Part II, pg.152).
This is found in Book IV, Chapter II "Of Restraints upon the Importation from Foreign Countries of such Goods as can be Produced at Home." If Smith were alive today and an American, his "invisible hand" would be a call to "Buy American!", not support corporations that export jobs, and to give employees pay and benefits that accord them a decent standard of living.
I've gone a bit astray in this OpEd as my main purpose was to draw attention to the threat to democracy represented by the enormous amounts of money corporations can muster against our financially strapped elected governments. Even if Wal-Mart represented the absolute best of corporate citizenship, something quite questionable, repealing a Statute because a wealthy corporation can mimic table-stakes poker by calling and raising with enormous sums of money is a threat to us all.
Joel A. Harrison, PhD, MPH, a native San Diegan, is a semi-retired epidemiologist. He has worked in the areas of preventive medicine, infectious diseases, medical outcomes research, and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. He is currently active in supporting the adoption of a single-payer health care system in the United States. For more information on single-payer go to Physicians for a National Health Program's website.


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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth is a side-scrolling action-adventure platform game released for the Commodore 64 in 1984, and re-released by CRL in 1985 under the title Journey.

Plot
The introduction simply places the player in the role of an unnamed explorer who must delve into a subterranean labyrinth to locate 11 hidden treasures and return them to the surface.

Gameplay

The game takes places in a massive, side-scrolling underground maze, throughout which is hidden 11 treasures. The goal is to find all of the treasures and return them to the surface. At the beginning of the game, the player character can run, jump, and climb. However, the player can obtain items that will expand their abilities, most of which are required to beat the game. They include dynamite to blow open walls, umbrellas to protect against falling rocks, oxygen pills to breathe underwater, a gun to shoot enemies, and more. The player has only 8 inventory slots, and each item and treasure occupies one; furthermore, the player cannot jump when carrying 6 or more, and cannot climb when carrying 8. Consequently, the player must backtrack to the surface several times over the course of the game to unload their currently-held treasure. The player can also drop unneeded items at any time. Items can be selected with the number keys on the keyboard and are used with the joystick's fire button.

Reception

A Journey to the Centre of the Earth received mostly positive reviews from the magazines of the day. C&VG gave it 8/10 for graphics, 8/10 for sound, 7/10 for value, and 8/10 for playability. Your Commodore gave it 5/10 for originality, 5/10 for playability, 3/10 for graphics, and 3/10 for value-for-money, finding the controls difficult but nevertheless concluding, "I recommend this game to anyone who wants a few hours of fun". Commodore Horizons gave it 5/8 for graphics, 5/8 for sonics, and 6/8 for gameplay, calling it an "agreeable arcade adventure . . . Unremarkable graphically; but good fun to play"

References

External links

A Journey to the Centre of the Earth at GameBase 64

1984 video games
Action-adventure games
Commodore 64 games
Commodore 64-only games
Metroidvania games
Platform games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Works based on Journey to the Center of the Earth
Video games based on works by Jules Verne

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Q: Looping through SQLdatareader and comparing row values I have a function that calls a stored procedure. I need to compare the result to an input parameter. I keep getting a warning that the function does not return on all code paths, but I can't figure out where.
So, 2 questions:
1. Am I looping through the SqlDataReader correctly or should I fill a datatable with my reader results?
2. Where am I missing a return value?
Function code:
Function FZCheck(FZ As String) As Boolean

    Dim constr As String = My.Settings.devTOD.ToString
    Dim con As New SqlConnection(constr)

    Dim cmd As New SqlCommand("spSelectFloodZones", con)
    cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure

    If con.State = ConnectionState.Closed Then
        con.Open()
    End If

    Dim rdr As SqlDataReader
    rdr = cmd.ExecuteReader

    If rdr.HasRows Then
        Do While rdr.Read
            If String.Equals(rdr(0).ToString, FZ) = True Then
                Return True
            Else
                Return False
            End If
        Loop
    Else
        Return False
    End If

    If con.State = ConnectionState.Open Then
        con.Close()
    End If

    rdr.Close()

End Function

Stored proc code: (very simple)
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[spSelectFloodZones]
AS
    SET NOCOUNT ON
    SET ROWCOUNT 0

-- ====================
-- Select flood zones
-- ====================

SELECT DISTINCT FloodZone
FROM TOD.dbo.FloodZones

Language is VB.NET, using SQL Server 2012.

A: Here you go with some minor refactoring.
Function FZCheck(FZ As String) As Boolean
        Dim constr As String = My.Settings.devTOD.ToString
        Dim con As New SqlConnection(constr)
        Dim result As Boolean = False

        Dim cmd As New SqlCommand("spSelectFloodZones", con)
        cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure

        If con.State = ConnectionState.Closed Then
            con.Open()
        End If

        Dim rdr As SqlDataReader
        rdr = cmd.ExecuteReader

        If rdr.HasRows Then
            Do While rdr.Read
                If String.Equals(rdr(0).ToString, FZ) = True Then
                    result = True
                End If
            Loop
        End If

        If con.State = ConnectionState.Open Then
            con.Close()
        End If
        rdr.Close()
        Return result
    End Function

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Do you have a Family Mission Statement? What is the point of your family? What are your goals? A Family Mission Statement can help you answer these questions and provide direction for your family. It also helps set your priorities which will affect your time, rather than your busy schedule dictating your values.
PDF on how to write a family mission statement.
Plan a family picnic out in the cold of winter. Use this experience to talk about the season of winter – how everything seems cold and dead – yet we know that Spring is coming where life will come bursting forth. Connect this to our life in Christ. When have you gone through a season of 'winter' in your life? How did your faith help you through that cold time? Talk about the wintery season in Jesus' life that lead to his death on the cross – just like Spring brings new life after winter – Jesus rose from the grave bringing new life to all who believe in him. Share your winter picnic stories by replying to this post.
Advent Calendars can be a wonderful tool for families to get into devotions together. But they can also be customized to help us accomplish more this Advent Season. Here are some ideas for creating your own countdown to Christmas.


SquareTrade®, the top-rated protection plan trusted by millions of happy customers, today announced the iPhone 6 and its larger sibling, iPhone 6 Plus, performed impressively in Breakability testing, and each carries the top Breakability Score™ in their respective category. The SquareTrade Breakability Score ranks today's top devices based on how prone they are to break due to accidents. Evaluating key elements such as front and back panel design, edge construction and materials, size, weight, friction quotient, water resistance and grip-ability, SquareTrade's Breakability Score fills in the missing gap left by traditional device reviews: it tests devices in everyday danger situations brought on by our lifestyles and habits.
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Summer 2017 The Health Care Schmozzle
Summer 2017 From the Editor's Desk
The Health Care Schmozzle
One big disorderly mess.
by Charles R. Kesler
The best description I've heard of the Republicans' ongoing attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare came from my wife. "It's a schmozzle," she said one day.
The word, new to me, is English slang, or maybe Australian, depending on which online dictionary you check, and, though not Yiddish, is said to have Yiddish roots. Only in America! At any rate, my wife, Sally Pipes, a health care expert and inveterate critic of Obamacare, knows a health care schmozzle when she sees one.
The word has two meanings, each relevant. A "schmozzle" is a minor melee, an ineffectual brawl, like a baseball fight—though in this bench-clearer, only one side bothered to leave the dugout. The Obamacare dustup involves Republicans only.
In its second sense, a "schmozzle" is a big disorderly mess, which is a good description of the GOP's three competing plans (one from the House, two from the Senate), all unpopular and none of which can command a Senate majority (as of press time).
Obamacare consists of five main parts: (1) its wide-ranging mandates dictating almost complete federal control over the market for individually purchased health insurance; (2) taxpayer-funded subsidies that help cover the artificially high premiums that result; (3) a huge expansion of Medicaid; (4) a bold but barely acknowledged raiding of Medicare funds to help defray the Medicaid bills; and (5) tax increases. The Republican bills take aim at one and a half of the five parts—the tax increases (though they've backed away from repealing all of these) and Medicaid. So maybe we're down to one part.
The bills call, essentially, for keeping the Affordable Care Act's structure while cutting off some of its revenue streams, and for out-year reforms in Medicaid and reductions in its rate of spending growth.
The GOP bills retain almost all of Obamacare's mandates, including that no insurer can charge higher prices to those who wait to buy coverage until they are sick or very sick. This "community rating" mandate is the main reason why premiums in the individual market have roughly doubled under Obamacare in just four years. Not the only reason, of course: the law prescribes an elaborate array of expensive minimum benefits that make insurance too costly for young people and families, who pay to subsidize the older and sicker.
Republicans would effectively repeal the individual mandate, as well as the laxly enforced employer mandate. But without significantly loosening the "essential benefit plans," insurance costs would continue to rise in subsequent years—probably dramatically. Only now, the increases would be blamed on Republicans.
How did the GOP get into this mess? When President Obama pitched the Affordable Care Act, he emphasized that nothing Americans liked about health care would change. He had to take that tack, because 17 out of 20 Americans liked their health coverage. The only change they would notice, he promised, was a reduction in their premiums ($2,500 per family, remember?). His bill proposed to expand access to the middle-class world of insurance, and for the poorest of the poor, to extend a lifeline to Medicaid.
In practice, however, the majority of the people who acquired new health care coverage got it through Medicaid (about 15 million), not the insurance policies offered on the exchanges (the 12.7 million Americans enrolled in the exchanges in 2016 soon boiled down to only 9.1, after subtracting those who didn't pay the premiums or couldn't prove citizenship). Obamacare soon went, in effect, from being an unpopular insurance reform to being a somewhat popular entitlement program.
Republicans are trying desperately to revive the health insurance market for individuals, but they are trying to sell a product that the experience of Obamacare has taught millions of Americans they don't want or need. Who needs insurance, after all, if you can get it at the last minute at the same cost, and if health care itself is a right that cannot be denied and that someone else will have to pay for?
Together with the deterioration of the Obamacare exchanges in many states, this development has trapped the GOP into a scramble to save Obamacare from itself, and to save the idea of a market for health care (and health insurance) from the entitlement maw. The first is popular, the second much less so; and the two are at odds.
On cue, the "public option," ostentatiously sacrificed by Obama and the Democrats in 2010, threatens to return, only this time not as an option. Yet Democrats in California recently retired their vaunted plan for a statewide single-payer system, because they had to admit they had no idea how to pay for it.
The Democrats are running out of other people's money, and the Republicans are running out of votes and time. If that isn't a schmozzle, I don't know what is.
Charles Kesler is a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute, Editor of the Claremont Review of Books, host of Claremont's The American Mind video series, and the Dengler-Dykema Distinguished Professor of Government at... read more
Con-Fusion
by David Azerrad
Modern conservatives live like Tocquevillians, but speak like Randians.
Diversity and Its Discontents
Immigration politics after 2016.
Trump and the Party of Lincoln; American Civil Religion; The State vs. Parents

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Apple Releases Second Beta of macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 for Public Beta Testers
Tuesday November 7, 2017 4:00 PM PST by Juli Clover
Apple this afternoon released the second beta of an upcoming macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 update to public beta testers for testing purposes, one week after releasing the first public beta and more than a month after releasing the High Sierra operating system. The second public beta of macOS High Sierra is identical to the second developer beta provided to developers earlier this week.
Beta testers who have signed up for Apple's beta testing program will be able to download the new macOS High Sierra beta through the Software Update mechanism in the Mac App Store.
Those who want to be a part of Apple's beta testing program can sign up to participate through the beta testing website, which gives users access to iOS, macOS, and tvOS betas.
macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 appears to focus primarily on bug fixes, performance improvements, security enhancements, and other under-the-hood updates. No major outward-facing features were found in the first two developer betas.
The previous update, macOS High Sierra 10.13.1, addressed a serious WPA 2 vulnerability and introduced new emoji.
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Any word on APFS for Fusion?
Dutch Regulators to Meet With Dating App Providers to Assess Apple's Plan for Alternate In-App Payment Options
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Malayotyphlops luzonensis (TAYLOR, 1919)
Can you confirm these amateur observations of Malayotyphlops luzonensis?
Malayotyphlops luzonensis »
Higher Taxa Typhlopidae (Asiatyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Common Names Luzon Worm Snake
Synonym Typhlops luzonensis TAYLOR 1919: 105
Typhlops luzonensis — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 109
Typhlops lozonensis [sic] — BROWN et al. 2000: 190
Typhlops luzonensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 766
Malayotyphlops luzonensis — HEDGES et al. 2014
Malayotyphlops luzonensis — WYNN et al. 2016
Distribution Philippines (Luzon, Negros, Marinduque, Cebu).
Type locality: "low on side of Mount Maquiling, Luguna, Luzon, Philippines"
Types Holotype: CM. 2653.
Diagnosis Diagnosis (genus). Species of Malayotyphlops have (1) eye, distinct (rarely indistinct), (2) snout, rounded, (3) head scale arrangement, non-circular, (4) frontorostral, absent, (5) nasal, incompletely divided (sometimes completely divided), (6) nasal suture origin, 2nd supralabial (rarely, 1st supralabial), (7) suboculars or subpreoculars, absent (rarely present), (8) postoculars, 2–4 (average, 2.75), (9) preocular-labial contact, supralabials 2 & 3 or 3rd only (rarely 2nd only), (10) midbody scale rows, 24–30 (average, 26.8), (11) scale row reduction, present, (12) total scale rows, 300–461 (average, 367), (13) caudals, 9–14 (average, 11.9), (14) maximum total length, 122–445 (average, 256) mm, (15) total length/midbody diameter, 31–58 (average, 42.0), (16) total length/tail length, 28–71 (average, 51.8), (17) dorsal color, variable (brown, gray-brown, reddish brown, greenish-black, black), (18) ventral color, vari- able (cream, yellowish, red, pink, pinkish-yellow), (19) dorsum darker than venter, (20) overall, patternless or with longitudinal lines, series of spots, or collar (Tables 1–2); only one species is included in the molecular phylogeny (Fig. 1).
In lacking a protrusible hemipenis and retrocloacal sacs (McDowell 1974), Malayotyphlops is separated from most other blindsnakes occurring in Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Australasia, and the western Pacific: Acuto- typhlops, Anilios, Cyclotyphlops, Ramphotyphlops, and Sundatyphlops. From other genera of Asiatyphlopinae, Ma- layotyphlops differs from Acutotyphlops in lacking a frontorostral and from Cyclotyphlops in having non-circular head scales (versus circular arrangement). It differs from Grypotyphlops in lacking subocular scales. It differs from Cyclotyphlops and Indotyphlops in having more postoculars (2.75 versus 1.0–1.03; averages). It differs from Anilios, Cyclotyphlops, Indotyphlops, Ramphotyphlops, Sundatyphlops, and Xerotyphlops in having higher average midbody scale rows (26.8 versus 19.4–23.5). It differs from Anilios, Grypotyphlops, and Sundatyphlops in having fewer total scale rows (367 versus 466–496, averages) and smaller body size (TL = 256 versus 353–630; averages). See also comments below regarding other potential diagnostic characters [HEDGES et al. 2014: 38]. For an alternative diagnosis see PYRON & WALLACH 2014: 55.
Comment Has been synonymized with T. ruber by MCDOWELL (1974)
Type species: Typhlops luzonensis TAYLOR 1919: 105 is the type species of the genus Malayotyphlops HEDGES et al. 2014.
Etymology The generic name is a masculine compound noun formed from the adjective malayanus (a, um; i.e., 'from the Malay Archipelago') and the Greek noun typhlops (the blind). The species is named after the ype locality.
Brown,R.M.; McGuire, J.A.; Ferner,J.W.; Icarangal Jr., N. & Kennedy, R.S. 2000. Amphibians and reptiles of Luzon island, II: preliminary report on the herptofauna of Aurora Memorial national Park, Philippines. Hamadryad 25 (2): 175-195
Ferner, John W., Rafe M. Brown, Rogelio V. Sison and Robert S. Kennedy 2000. The amphibians and reptiles of Panay Island, Philippines. Asiatic Herpetological Research 9: 1-37 - get paper here
McDowell, S. B. 1974. A catalogue of the snakes of New Guinea and the Solomons, with special reference to those in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Part l. Scolecophidia. Journal of Herpetology 8 (1): 1-57 - get paper here
SUPSUP, Christian E.; Nevong M. PUNA, Augusto A. ASIS, Bernard R. REDOBLADO, Maria Fatima G. PANAGUINIT, Faith M. GUINTO, Edmund B. RICO, Arvin C. DIESMOS, Rafe M. BROWN and Neil Aldrin D. MALLARI 2016. Amphibians and Reptiles of Cebu, Philippines: The Poorly Understood Herpetofauna of an Island with Very Little Remaining Natural Habitat Asian Herpetological Research 2016, 7(3): 151–179 DOI: 10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.150049 - get paper here
Taylor, E.H. 1919. New or rare Philippine reptiles. Philippine Journal of Science 14: 105-125
Wynn, Addison H.; Arvin C. Diesmos, and Rafe M. Brown 2016. Two New Species of Malayotyphlops from the Northern Philippines, with Redescriptions of Malayotyphlops luzonensis (Taylor) and Malayotyphlops ruber (Boettger) Journal of Herpetology 50 (1): 157-168. - get paper here
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Malayotyphlops&species=luzonensis
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Juneteenth & Father's Day Are Special For Black Dads During Covid
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Happy African family enjoying a picnic sunny day outdoor - Mother and father having fun with their daughter in a public park - Love, parents and happiness concept
By Paula Penebaker and Darryl Sellers
This year, Juneteenth and Father's Day fall on June 19. Of course, being a Black father in 2022 differs from the experiences of Black dads in 1865. So, let's take a closer look.
During slavery, Black men were viewed as breeders and were prohibited from participating in the traditional family structure, as marriage was illegal. Members of African families were sold separately, thereby depriving men of the traditional role of "head of household."
Juneteenth commemorates the historic date of June 19, 1865, when hundreds of thousands of enslaved African Americans in Texas finally learned they had been freed. Although President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, the news didn't reach Texas slaveholders until two years later because the state was farthest west of the Confederate states.
A great deal of progress has been made since then, but there is still so much work to do to achieve true equity and equality in our country. From the educational system to the health care system, inequities are evident in underfunded Black schools and Black communities that lack access to COVID-19 vaccines. The list goes on, especially for Black men.
Consider two of today's challenges for Black men: unemployment and incarceration.
Black men continue to experience persistent unemployment gaps and reduced economic opportunity, according to Forbes Magazine.
There were 626,800 fathers who were incarcerated as of 2021, according to the Sentencing Project.
Despite these daunting challenges, positive Black father figures are very visible. From the boardroom to the block, they serve as role models, mentors and coaches for their children and their communities.
Black fathers like Stephen B. Thomas, Ph.D., director of the Maryland Center for Health Equity, and Andre Russell, owner of the Barbershop Atlanta Salon, are true leaders who serve as pillars in their communities and this country. They are both fathers who are now on the national stage thanks to "Shots at the Shop," a White House-backed effort to recruit and select 1,000 Black-owned barbershops and hair salons nationwide to promote informed decision-making to increase COVID-19 vaccinations.
"When I got the shot, I wasn't just getting it for me," Russell said. "I was getting it for everyone else around me, to avoid spreading or getting the virus. It's also for you and our Black communities."
As Black Americans navigate their third summer with COVID-19, research has shown the pandemic, coupled with social factors such as structural racism, has had a profound impact on Black men.
"I think the message about COVID-19 vaccinations during this time needs to come from the kids to the adults — to their fathers," Thomas said. "This is the way these messages will be taken to heart because they'll come across as caring."
Stephen B. Thomas, Ph.D., director of the Maryland Center for Health Equity
Dr. Thomas, who has a son, said he's thankful that his young man is vaccinated. Russell said two of his four sons are still deciding whether to get the shot. As a father, Russell continues to encourage his unvaccinated sons to get their shots, as the family plans to get together for Father's Day and other gatherings this summer.
"My sons are independent," Russell said. "But It's hard to get all of us together on a Sunday afternoon. So, I keep driving home the message that it's important to get vaccinated. This is the best protection to prevent the virus from spreading. I remind them to take that into consideration, especially to protect me because I have COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)."
Many barbers and stylists involved in "Shots at the Shop" have become certified community health workers to help their communities. Local health department workers have been administering COVID-19 vaccinations at barbershops like Russell's since 2021. Since then, more than 2,000 vaccine shots and boosters have been administered at Russell's Barbershop, and more than 1,000 shots have gone into arms at many of the other barbershops and salons in the program.
"I see the barbershops and salons as the important and trusted information centers for our community, Dr. Thomas said. "We're going to write our own story. We're going to save ourselves."
This is a special time to celebrate Black dads and all they have had to overcome. Fathers play an invaluable role in their children's lives and in the communities where they live and serve. This Father's Day and Juneteenth let's honor them for the unique gifts and strengths they bring to life's table.
Paula Penebaker and Darryl Sellers are members of the Public Relations Team for Creative Marketing Resources, a strategic marketing agency in Milwaukee and a partner of the Cobb Institute.
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TAIB Bank is planning to begin the roadshow for its $50 million India fund at end of August, and then open the fund to subscribers at the end of September. The Everest Fund is part of TAIB's strategy to develop its activity in India, which includes setting up a joint venture merchant bank that will act as the Indian adviser to the fund (MEED 3:3:95).
'This year we are focusing our attention on India, because we think it is a growing market,' says Ramu Kennedy, who is to move from Bahrain to the Indian merchant bank to become head of asset management. TAIB Capital Corporation is 51 per cent owned by TAIB, with the remainder held by 10 leading industrial companies. The Bangalore-based bank will offer asset management and corporate advisory services, as well as acting as placing agent for Indian issues through the TAIB network of international offices. The bank is expected to begin operations in October, including advising the Everest Fund.
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Does dissection still have a place in the classroom?
Posted on June 27, 2016 by Bill Hodgins in FEATURES // 2 Comments
For many secondary students, science class dissection is a rite of passage. There is sense of validation…a cultural accomplishment. It's another check on one's life list.
"I can remember the smells of formaldehyde, the carefulness of using scalpel and tools, and even the ickiness of digestive liquids in the stomach of the pig," says Andrea Hennings.
Hennings is a graduate of Trent University, holding both a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Education with teachables in Biology and Geography.
She vividly recalls her initiation into dissection.
"This was a one-time experience in my high school and to me it felt like a rite of passage…I felt a little squeamish at first. This was my first time dissecting. But I thought it was fun, new, and hands-on, which is one of the best ways that I learn."
Hennings says that experience has helped her in her role as an educator. Currently, she travels from school to school throughout the province, speaking to students about invasive species as well as healthy habitats and biodiversity. She believes the hands-on involvement she received in school has helped her in understanding the impacts of the environment on certain species; that it makes her a better teacher.
"Using animals for learning is similar to growing animals for consumption or plants for consumption," she says. "Maybe it is all ethically unfortunate that we use (once) living things to learn but I believe that is the only way we are about to learn about the world around us."
But there are others in education who believe just as strongly in alternatives to animal dissection; that there are economic motives for considering something different, not to mention ethical reasons as well.
And for those opposed to the practice of classroom dissection, those pressures—coming from both the board budget level and the consciousness of the students themselves—are good reasons to consider anatomical models or digital programs.
John Vince is a science teacher at Frontenac Secondary School in Kingston. He experienced dissection as a student at both the secondary school and university levels, and he's had to instruct other students in the same way. Today, he struggles to justify the need and cost of letting high school students cut into animal samples.
"At most schools, science budgets are being more and more pinched," he says. "It's an expensive use of dollars for short-term gain. When you buy these $30-a-piece pigs, that's a lot of money for most of our schools."
Ethically, he says it's hard to justify as well.
"We are seeing that more and more, kids are aware of issues around factory farms…issues around how the animals are harvested or produced. I'm just not sure if that makes the most sense."
Certainly, there are societal pressures around the topic of dissection in the classroom. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has weighed into the discussion. "Modern teaching methods—including interactive computer simulations and clay models—save animals' lives, cost less than animal dissection, are suitable for all students, and are more effective than animal dissection," PETA claims.
They've extended that message both to the public and the education sector, promoting alternatives to animal dissection.
According to PETA, "in nearly every comparative study ever published, students taught using non-animal methods such as interactive computer simulations tested as well as or better than their peers who were taught using animals for dissection and other animal-based exercises."
Instead, it lobbies for methods such as narrated software programs with physiology animations or well-labeled anatomical models that allow students to learn "more efficiently, without being distracted by the gore of cutting up dead animals and trying to differentiate the discolored body parts."
They also believe that by using models or animations, each body system can be studied and virtually dissected repeatedly until students are confident with the material.
And it's not just PETA pushing for change. The New England Anti-Vivisection Society (NEAVS) is a US-based, national animal advocacy organization dedicated to ending the use of animals in research, testing, and science education. They go so far as to advocate for "cruelty-free classrooms" and suggest that involving animal use may have negative psychological effects on students.
It's difficult to ignore the economics of virtual alternatives. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a Washington-based non-profit that includes physicians from around the globe, investigated the costs of using animals versus alternatives in biology classrooms.
"New programs offer stunning educational advantages while reducing costs and decreasing reliance on animals," according to PCRM. It says alternatives cost thousands less than dissection, last for years, and several groups of students can use them simultaneously during each academic year.
For example, it puts the five-year cost of virtual frog dissection at just under $2,100 compared to almost $2,400 using animal samples. Over the same period of time, it estimates the savings in fetal pig dissections versus virtual education at as much as $2,600, and for cats the savings could reach $4,200 over a five-year period.
Then there's the growing business sector specializing in dissection alternatives who are capitalizing on that ethical wave. Programs such as Visual Frog, CatWorks Virtual Dissection, and Froguts Fetal Pig are finding welcome space on school-based hard drives.
That's something Vince can appreciate.
"Every teacher is different in how they approach (dissection)…how they handle it." Vince says the curriculum has changed over the past decade and expectations are quite different now. Often, it's only a small part of the Grade 11 curriculum, he says, and it allows for alternatives such as computer simulations and the use of anatomical models.
"There are always some students who look forward to it and some who are apprehensive."
"It's difficult to tell a student you have to do it when the curriculum offers three choices. Typically when they do it there are kids who don't want to. They can work in another room on a virtual model." It's also one reason why students are put into groups of three or four for animal dissection. There might be one or two who really want to do it and then the others can observe.
"I just don't know how useful it is. When I taught biology, we didn't do it anymore. I just don't think it's worth it." There's the argument that students going on to vet school or medical school would benefit, but he says that's not the case with most in the classroom.
"What you want the student to get out of it is the relation between the various systems…the relationship between the circulatory system and the respiratory system. But the online frogs have been around for a while now and they are getting quite good. You can buy fairly detailed mounted anatomical models that are just as good. And when you have a large class just hacking away at the animals, are they getting anything out of it anyway?"
Hennings still thinks so.
"I remember there were students in the class who were grossed out from the thought of dissecting the animals and they didn't want to participate in it. This is one of the reasons why our teacher put us in pairs, to reduce the amount of involvement from those who didn't want to participate."
But those that did participate took great interest, she says. And she feels it better prepared her for further dissections in university. "We dissected a pigeon, a shark, a rat and a mudpuppy, and each person in the course had their own. Each week we would learn the different systems of the body; integumentary, skeletal, nervous, muscular, cardiovascular and respiratory, reproductive and digestive systems."
"It was a difficult course to remember all the different systems, their anatomy and in different types of species, mammals, birds and amphibians. The hands-on experience and carefulness that I took with the specimens and my learning were greatly enhanced by using previously living animals."
Hennings does believe that electronic or digital models can help students who do not feel comfortable with actual species dissection or feel morally wrong about it. "Actually, I'm glad there are alternatives because I know students in my future classrooms might prefer using these methods. But I find that actual species dissection as an experience is valid and might not be achieved in an electronic setting."
"I see the point of view of using animals grown just for dissection as bad ethically but I never had these feelings during my dissection experiences. I still feel students can learn significantly more from the hands-on experience."
Vince says he can respect that there are two schools of thought. "Some of my colleagues would argue that well, do you want a doctor who has never cut into that, but really anyone who is going to be a doctor is going to go on and take anatomy courses at university. And they're going to work on actual human cadavers and get that experience there; that is a lot more relevant.
A peak into the world of virtual dissection
I guess I expected it to be a little like the old game of Operation.
Remember how you had to use a set of tweezers to carefully remove organs from Cavity Sam, fearful that if you weren't careful enough, his red lightbulb nose would illuminate and you would hear a shocking buzzer sound?
Well, online dissection is nothing like that. But if you are interested in virtual organ examination, it can still be fun.
It's been a decade or two (maybe more) since my high school biology teacher provided an opportunity to slice into a frog, all in the name of science
We each received photocopied diagrams ahead of time to tell us what we could expect to find. I don't recall everything about that day, but it still holds some significant space in my personal memory bank. What I learned that day, not so much.
That was one of my first takeaways from my online dissection attempt. There was a real opportunity to learn here. There would be step-by-step explanations.
There are plenty of options available on the Internet, but many online users had good things to say about Froguts. (It took me a little while to clue into the company's clever name…frog guts.) But
Froguts offers a free demo that's worth trying if you want to experience virtual dissection.
The three-dimensional graphics are impressive, and with a little mouse movement the user can rotate the frog and tilt it from side to side.
Information on the screen explained what I was looking at, and by hovering over different areas such as the nare and tympanum, I was told a little about some of the frog's features and how they work. I didn't get that on my old high school photocopy instruction. Did you know that on bullfrogs the tympanum actually amplifies their croaking sound? I learned that here.
When you are ready to start you dissection, you have a selection of tools to choose from. There is a scalpel, scissors, pins, forceps, and even more if you upgrade from the demo. I followed the directions and with my mouse, then chose the scalpel to cut the frog open. Maybe this can't compare do actually cutting with a real scalpel, but it does require the user to be accurate. Once three cuts are made, the user can select pins and—again with the mouse—pin back the skin to see inside. Scissors are required to cut the thorax.
By hovering the mouse over different areas of the frog's anatomy, the user can identify different organs and learn their role in the frog. Through the Froguts programs, the user is directed on a step-by-step level.
Finding certain organs—such as the bladder and small intestine—was simple enough, but I had a difficult time finding the lungs. They weren't where I thought they would be.
As you continue, you learn more about the organs and the skeletal and respiratory systems, but ultimately it prompts you to purchase the full program to proceed.
With the full program, you can take your dissection skills deeper into the frog, discover information about circulatory and reproduction systems, and Froguts also offers the opportunity to virtually cut into a squid, starfish, cow eye, fetal pig, and other common classroom dissection species.
It can be pretty graphic—and that's a good thing. Realism is what makes programs such as these worthwhile. And if your stomach can't take it, you can always stick to Cavity Sam. Surely he'll be hiding out at some yard sale or thrift store in your neighbourhood.
About Bill Hodgins
Bill Hodgins is a Peterborough-based communications specialist, a former journalist and a father of three.
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Dianna K. Goneau-Inkster // July 6, 2016 at 6:21 pm // Reply
I can only vaguely remember grade 9 or 10 biology where I think we did dissect something. A real specimen plus virtual specimens would certainly be useful for someone anticipating going on in biology or human medicine or veterinary medicine or other health sciences such as nursing and pharmacy as well as imaging. Why not have both ways of learning? Cost shouldn't be the major consideration, should it? While I never considered a career in medicine or any other health science, with a type 1 diabetic husband with unawareness that he is going low or high and some mental impairment after 38 years as a typoe 1 diabetic and an insulin pump with a continuous glucose monitoring system, I have found that I don't really have to know what the various species' pancreata look like. I just have to keep my husband's blood glucose in fairly normal ranges day and night. Fortunately, good mental arithmetic skills and dedication serve me better than the cutting up of a frog or an unborn piglet to find its pancreata. I'd suggest the biology class concentrate more on the fundtion of these systems and these organs than on finding them in a perserved specimen. Here's but one example from my life to illustrate my point: A lot of doctors don't seem to understand how insulin is delivered to the blood stream and when. All the specimens in the world and hours of dissection of them will not make doctors aware of how the pancreas and insulin function. Maybe, watching a continuous glucose monitoring device's graph might. And that after all is the most important bit of knowledge to take away. Make the knowledge real and I'm sure the students will benefit. And what is more hands on than feeding a type 1 diabetic an apple and a glass of milk and, then, watching the cgms graph climb from normal 4.8 to 16 or so if insulin is not administered? That's one example. Are there lots of other ways of making the students aware of how the healthy body works and how the unhealthy body does not measure up?
John B // September 21, 2016 at 5:54 am // Reply
There are other options we have used for dissection rather than kits, youtube is a great source. I have just come across this post on my own search. For research the best source seems to be http://www.samples-for-schools.co.uk, I have used and a email circular arrives with the schools with different dissection plans and instructions.
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private classC objC;
private Properties prop

initializeA(){
//Creating a new objC here
this.objC = new C(this.prop);
}
public void doStuffA(){
    //do something here that uses objC.method()
}
}

And my classB is:
 public class B{

    @Autowired
    classA objA;

    initializeB(){
    objA.initializeA();

    }

    public void doSomething(){
      //Multiple threads keep calling this method and this code block calls           objA.doStuffA()
       }

    }

Now, can anyone please explain what happens when initializeB() is called by a thread when some re-initializing is done?
ClassA would now have a new objC that has updated properties. The multiple threads that are accessing doSomething in classB, do they automatically use the new objC that classA created the second time when it was re-initialized?
PS: Is this solved using volatile variable, if yes how?

A: Ok given the following:
1) Assuming an instance of classA is created and autowired into B
2) Multiple threads are repeated calling doSomething which is using classA's current instance of classC
3) During the "iterations of step 2"  someone calls initializeB()  when this is called Object A's instance of classC is replaced with a new instance of classC.  This drops the old reference to the previous instance of classC.
At this point in time if a thread was in the process of your old instance of classC's object it will finish its execution using the old instance.  However, all future calls to doSomething will use the new instance of classC.
Do they automatically use the new objC that classA created the second time when it was re-initialized?
Yes

PS: Is this solved by using volatile variable, if yes how?
I am not seeing an issue with this code other than some poor programming practices.

If you don't mind my asking what are you trying to accomplish?  There is probably a much better way to do this.


Now that the sugaring-off season is well under way, it's time to head for a sugar camp - all the better to satisfy your sweet tooth…..May we also suggest an outing to a spa, a meal at one of our great hotel restaurants and outdoor fun with a host of winter (still) activities!
Sample the bounty of the season!
Seven sugar camps in the Townships offer maple syrup and maple products served with a unique twist – a whole new take on the bounty of the season!
Because of the abundant snowfall this winter, there is still enough of the white stuff to go and play in the great outdoors. Snowshoeing, cross-county skiing, downhill skiing, fat biking, winter hikes – the choice is yours!
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Cynthia joins Toronto Community Housing from the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, where she headed the refugee protection team for Central Region. She is experienced in adjudication, conflict mediation, arbitration, and claims investigation and review. At the board, she presided over a number of complex, sensitive, and high-profile refugee protection claims, and recently she oversaw the board's change management process.
Cynthia will draw on her experience in founding the municipal and community engagement unit for the Nuclear Management Waste Organization, and serving as the first director of York University's Office of Student Conduct and Dispute Resolution. Cynthia's professional experience also includes serving as a member of the Ontario Rental Housing Tribunal, practising social work at Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital, and representing the Province of Ontario at Social Assistance Review Board Hearings.
Cynthia has a bachelor's degree in political science and master's degree in social work, both from McMaster University in Hamilton. She is a member of the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, and the Society of Ontario Adjudicators and Regulators.
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This office works to ensure that protections exist for seniors (age 59 and older) and vulnerable tenants who have lost their subsidy or face possible eviction for not paying rent. The office is independent of Toronto Community Housing (the Commissioner reports to the board of directors). It is guided by the principles of integrity, impartiality, and independence.


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Cherry Hill Antiques
specializing in Chinese wood carvings, ceramics, furniture, miscellaneous wooden objects, mirrors and embroideries
Celedon Teacups
Ming or Yuan
Tea Wars
Emperor Hongwu
Emperor Chenghua
Embroidery work from Vietnam is a dying art having developed over hundreds of years and especially during the last 50 years of isolation. Known as "Tranh Theu" it has roots in the same traditions found in China where elaborate motifs are found on court robes and tapestries. In northern Vietnam embroidery evolved, among a small group of artists, to reproductions of paintings, photographs and other scenery in precise colors and duplicated to the last fine detail.
The uniqueness of Vietnamese embroidery by 59 years old Mr. Nguyen Huy Su from Ha Bac province is found in the use of overlapping and meshed silk threads to create subtle colors found in the original pattern. Su, who has been refining his art since age 15, trains a number of artists to draw the original on cotton, to lay out the basic design and fill in some of the detail leaving the finishing touches on complicated patterns for Su himself. Depending on the size and complexity of the pictures, a single embroidery can take from two months to one year to complete. While there are other embroidery artists in Vietnam, none approach the quality and detail of Su's work. Saigon embroideries are created in Da Lat and are typically less complex flower arrangements on black cotton, or other uncomplicated and cruder sceneries.
In 1965, Mr. Su became famous by creating a portrait of President Ho Chi Minh in embroidery. A picture so valued for its accuracy by President Ho that it hangs to this day in the presidential palace. No other embroidery artist in Vietnam has yet mastered the technique of creating realistic and accurate face and skin tones on pictures. For this reason, only Mr. Su creates the accurate reproductions of National Palace Museum paintings and embroideries provided by Cherry Hill Antiques.
Vietnam is perhaps the last place where embroidered scenes are found. Even in China the craft has disappeared as artisans moved to more lucrative professions. This is happening in Vietnam and suppliers predict that this kind of embroidery will be unavailable at any price in the near future.
Copyright © 2006 Cherry Hill Antiques. Design by Andreas Viklund.


Thanks For Coming Out To The 2018 Tiki Invasion!
Thank you to everyone who came out to the 3rd Annual Tiki Invasion! Additional thanks to the Village of Mamaroneck Parks & Recreation Department for helping to make this all possible. We hope to see you all again next year. In the meantime, check out some of the pictures from our event.
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Description Wild Animals of Victoria contain descriptions, photographs, identification aids and distribution data for virtually all species of mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs that live in the wild in this state. The database has the names, classification and conservation status of 780 mammal, bird, reptile and frog species, with a plain English description, and most are represented by one or more colour photographs. Users can also plot the distribution, as a series of grids, on any one of a range of maps of Victoria.


Today, Capstone has the honor of hosting Nonfiction Monday once again. We'll post reviews throughout the day, so check back often to see the amazing celebration of nonfiction books.
-At Ms. Yingling Reads, I have posted a review of the new Rightfully Ours as well as a reminder about Blumnethals' 2006 Let Me Play.
-Thank you for hosting today! Over at A Teaching Life, I've posted reviews of Barnum's Bones and Far From Shore.
-Thanks for hosting today! At Booktalking, I'm reading Watch Me Grow!: A Down-to-Earth Look at Growing Food in the City by Deborah Hodge (Author) and Brian Harris (Illustrator).
-At Perogies & Gyoza this week we have an introduction to the life cycle of adorable little loons!
-Thanks for hosting! At The Cath in the Hat I'm sharing the publication of my latest nonfiction book, The Big Book of What.
-Hi, over at Bookscoops today I have a review about Ramadan called Ramadan Moon by Na'ima B Robert and Shirin Adl. With Ramadan around the corner, it's a great time to learn more about it. Thanks!


Eye tracking data at real-time operation center.
Lack of situational awareness in drilling operations has become an important factor in causing safety accidents or nonproductive time. Process safety is another critical aspect for such high-risk operations and cannot be ignored. A review of testimony from offshore rigs worker suggests long working shifts and fatigue as one of the crucial issues affecting performance.
This study presents results from experiments conducted in a virtual-reality drilling simulator equipped with eye-tracking technology. The eye-tracking technology can be used to distinguish between less and more aware/alert participants, which, most of the time, is related to fatigue or onsite distraction. The ocular activity can be used to obtain visual cues that can quantify the state of drilling operator while operating. These cues can help in generating some warning alarms to alert the driller, thereby not only reducing accidents but also saving a tremendous amount of nonproductive time by improving efficiency. Because human eyes express the most direct reaction during less-alert or distracted mental states, ocular-activity data have been used as the basis for quantification of situational awareness by researchers. In recent years, eye-tracking systems have been developed in the form of static and dynamic devices. The camera installed in these devices capture different characteristics of the participants' ocular movement in real time. These oculomotor data, such as eye fixation count and duration and pupil size, has been implemented in several industries, such as aviation and medical, to assess the performance of participants in recent years.
In this paper, eye-tracking techniques are used to investigate alertness and awareness of participants while conducting different drilling operations on the simulator. Results obtained from this study indicate that the system can detect the distraction and alertness exhibited by humans. The results show the very promising application of this technology on the drilling rigs. The novelty in this work is the development of a framework for implementation of real-time eye-tracking technology in various drilling operations such as drilling rigs and real-time operation centers.
Find the paper on the HSSE-SR Technical Discipline Page free for a limited time.


Diphenhydramine is used to treat Parkinson's disease–like extrapyramidal symptoms caused by antipsychotics.
Diphenhydramine is not recommended for people older than 60 or children under the age of six, unless a physician is consulted. These populations should be treated with second-generation antihistamines such as loratadine, desloratadine, fexofenadine, cetirizine, levocetirizine, and azelastine. Due to its strong anticholinergic effects, diphenhydramine is on the "Beers list" of drugs to avoid in the elderly.
Acute poisoning can be fatal, leading to cardiovascular collapse and death in 2–18 hours, and in general is treated using a symptomatic and supportive approach. Diagnosis of toxicity is based on history and clinical presentation, and in general specific levels are not useful. Several levels of evidence strongly indicate diphenhydramine (similar to chlorpheniramine) can block the delayed rectifier potassium channel and, as a consequence, prolong the QT interval, leading to cardiac arrhythmias such as torsades de pointes.
No specific antidote for diphenhydramine toxicity is known, but the anticholinergic syndrome has been treated with physostigmine for severe delirium or tachycardia. Benzodiazepines may be administered to decrease the likelihood of psychosis, agitation, and seizures in people who are prone to these symptoms.
Recreational users report calming effects, mild euphoria, and hallucinations as the desired effects of the drug. Research has shown that antimuscarinic agents, such as diphenhydramine, "may have antidepressant and mood-elevating properties." A study conducted on adult males with a history of sedative abuse found that subjects who were administered a high dose (400 mg) of diphenhydramine reported a desire to take the drug again, despite also reporting negative effects, such as difficulty concentrating, confusion, tremors, and blurred vision.
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