Nowadays, transportation plays a very important role for students in the day to day life of the educational institutions, these institutes are mostly located out of cities. Need of monitoring the travel time and driver information are the major components of traveller information system in the institutions. The travel time of buses varies depending on some parameters such as Bus Drivers doesn't follow time schedules, negligence and beyond the speed limits. Monitoring the bus travel time information can give many advantages such as reducing accidents leaded by over speed, time delay, and miscellaneous activities of drivers.
In this paper, a cost effective idea is proposed, i.e., integration of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) with Zigbee. When compared with existing RFID and other technologies, the proposed system gives more reliable, cost effective and fast means of long distance objects identification.


Identifying and implementing age and developmentally appropriate activities throughout preschool and primary school is extremely important. If children are participating in activities beyond their physical capabilities, there can be both short-term and long-term consequences. One of the most important factors in the beginning stages of school and physical activity is safety. Most childhood injuries are considered "accidents" but upon further investigation, it has been found that most of these accidents can be prevented.
Another factor to consider, within the physical education program especially, is the identification of activities that may be contra-indicated. These are activities in which the risks of participation outweigh the benefits of participation. But most importantly is the recognition of activities that have the most overall benefits for the students. These activities must be age appropriate as well as developmentally appropriate in order for students to obtain the most significant benefit possible – a healthy lifestyle.
Safety is a pressing issue in preschool activities and in the physical education curriculum, especially with young children between the ages of about 2-6 years. Students in this age category are more likely to become involved in more dangerous activities and games. It is important that the supervisor or teacher develop a structure for the class that deals with the various safety issues concerning physical activity. One of the most common is aggression between students.
Because young boys are known to physically show their aggression it is important that conflicts be dealt with in a way that teaches assertive behavior, and shuns aggressive tendencies (Berk, 2001). Safety is also an issue when working with athletic equipment and playground facilities. Most injuries are the result of falls – falls to the ground below equipment, but falls from one piece of equipment to another are also reported.
Since a large number of injuries are caused by falls to the ground, protective surfacing under and around all playground equipment is the most critical safety factor on playgrounds as well as when dealing with classroom equipment. Teachers should regularly check equipment to ensure safety, and teaching the proper use of the equipment to the students will ensure safer participation for all children in the program. Prevention is the safest method when dealing with young students.
It is crucial when dealing with children to teach appropriate methods of warming up as well as safety while playing. Prevention of back injuries is a key element in physical education. At a young age students should be taught the importance of proper posture, correct lifting technique, and most importantly stretching. Developing this sense of body awareness at an early age will lead to safer play not only in the physical education program, but also at home. The concept of safe play is essential in the physical education curriculum.
Safe physical activity has the potential to keep students interested in staying active if the reason for not continuing to be active into elementary and junior high was an intimidating safety related accident as a child. There are many reasons for lack of physical activity, the most evident being the lack of exposure at an early age to physical skill development activities. Although it is important do develop physical skills at an early age, activities that may be contra-indicated should be avoided at all costs when dealing with growing children.
In these years, most of the student's bones, muscles and ligaments are still in imperative growth stages, and any activity that poses a threat to these tissues can have significant short-term and long-term consequences. Games and movements that pose a physical threat to joints such as the spine, ankle, and knee joints should be avoided completely. But if they are to be done, proper warm-up and instruction is necessary. Without the warm-up and proper technique for activities such as leg squats and certain spine movements, permanent damage can be done to the joints, ligaments and muscles.
If students in preschool or primary school are thrown into activities that are too physically demanding for their age, these activities can become contra-indicated. It may seem that the activities are developing the skills of the students, but they are really threatening their future development. Excessive stress or overload can lead to tissue breakdown and injury, which can stay with the child late into adulthood. Overuse injuries are also associated with contra-indicated activities.
Tendonitis and stress fractures can develop, as well as injuries to developing joint surfaces and severe injuries to the immature spine. Contra-indicated movements are also a threat to the epiphyseal growth centers. External stress from weight bearing activities on a young growing body may disrupt a growth plate, which could eventually lead to growth arrest or a long bone deformity (Anderson et al, 2000). This is why it is critical to get the right amount and the right type of exercise, especially at an early age.
In an article Promoting Physical Activity and Exercise among children (2003), Summerfield wrote: Health benefits can be derived simply from becoming more physically active, but the greatest benefits come from engaging in planned and structured exercise. Cardiovascular risk factors can be reduced and physical fitness enhanced with low to moderate levels of physical activity. The article stresses the importance of choosing activities that are moderately physically demanding for children to keep them active, while ensuring their physical safety in a time of immense and uncertain growth.
Developmentally appropriate and age appropriate activities are essential to a child's physical growth in future years. For example, children who do not learn the fundamentals surrounding running, jumping, and throwing will likely turn out to be adults who are inactive and socially unaccepted (Sanders, 2002). Although it is important to choose activities that will develop skills for the future, it is important not to choose activities that are too physically demanding for the children. Intense physical activity at such a young age has the ability to impede further development.
Young athletes who become involved in only one type of movement at an early age are denied the benefits of varied activity. Therefore correctly developing motor skills at an early age is essential for the progression of motor skills needed later in life. Adapted and progressive activities are the best way to teach motor shills to young students and children. Teachers need to make educational decisions based on what is known from research and experience about how children learn and develop.
For example, learning to hit a ball with a bat is not an easy task especially when using a regulation baseball and a large wooden bat. Teaching the skill with a plastic ball and a lighter bat is more developmentally appropriate and will initially better help most children to learn the skill. Using progressive tasks to build on motor skills can be used with activities such as running (varying the speed), jumping (building on the types of jumps), and even catching (starting with larger objects and gradually reducing the size).
In a 2002 publication of: The Importance of Developing Fundamental Motor Skills: Learning How to Catch a Ball, Steve Sanders states: If we want our children to participate regularly in physical activity we must first provide them with developmentally appropriate activities that will assist them in the development of physical skills. Catching is but one of those skills. When we as adults assist children in development of specific physical skills we empower them to learn about the importance of physical activity in their lives and to become physically active and healthy for a lifetime.
With this in mind, it is also important to note that healthy and well developed children lead to healthy and well-developed adults. "Physical activity supports many aspects of children's development – the health of their bodies their sense of self worth as active and capable beings" (Berk, 2001). If it is approached in the correct manner and with appropriate activities, physical education and active living can promote healthy lifestyles in today's youth population that will last throughout their lives.
Children should be encouraged to participate in a wide variety of physical activities as well as to develop a wide range of fine and gross motor skills. By addressing safety concerns such as equipment safety, by choosing activities that build skill rather than movements that are contra-indicated, and by choosing developmentally appropriate and age appropriate activities, children will learn the motor skills necessary to live healthy and active lives.


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Pristine (engl.: makellos) ist eine norwegische Hardrock-Band aus Tromsø, die bis einschließlich des vierten Albums als Classic Rock oder Bluesrockformation galt.

Geschichte
Die Band wurde im Jahre 2006 von der Sängerin, Songschreiberin und Bandleaderin Heidi Solheim gegründet, als sie am Musikkonservatorium in Tromsø Gesang studierte. Das Debütalbum Detoxing erschien im Jahre 2011 über Blues News Records und erreichte Platz 33 der norwegischen Albumcharts. Zwei Jahre später folgte das zweite Album No Regret. Im Jahre 2016 erschien das dritte Studioalbum Reboot, dass als erstes Album der Band auch außerhalb von Norwegen veröffentlicht wurde. Pristine gingen als Vorgruppe der Blues Pills auf Europatournee. Bei den Spellemannprisen 2016 wurden Pristine in der Kategorie Blues nominiert. Ebenfalls 2016 nahm das deutsche Independent-Plattenlabel Nuclear Blast, das auf Metal und Subgenres spezialisiert ist, Pristine unter Vertrag und veröffentlichte 2017 das vierte Studioalbum Ninja. Das Album wurde an nur einem Tag aufgenommen, dazu kamen drei Tage für Overdubs. Am 19. April 2019 erschien das fünfte Studioalbum Road Back to Ruin, das Platz 92 der deutschen Albumcharts erreichte.

Bei ihrer Deutschlandtour im Mai 2019 hatten sie siebzehn ausverkaufte Auftritte in Reihe. Das Rockmagazin eclipsed nannte sie im Mai 2019 "eine der Vorzeigebands des Genres" Hardrock. Ihre Musik besteht aus facettenreichem Rock und Balladen.

Diskografie

Alben
 2011: Detoxing
 2013: No Regret
 2016: Reboot
 2017: Ninja
 2019: Road Back to Ruin
 2023: The Lines We Cross

EP
 2020: Fireball

Musikvideos
 2013: Tell Me
 2016: Bootie Call
 2017: Derek
 2017: You Are the One
 2017: The Rebel Song
 2017: Ninja
 2019: Sinnerman

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks
 Offizielle Website

Bluesrock-Band
Metal-Band
Norwegische Band

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Picture HY1 (Unknown Originator). Probably early-mid 1960s, looking south out of the secured area past the RAF Police security picket (image right) and sliding electric gates. The administration areas lie beyond the gate and in the far distance are the standby generators and probable vehicle garage. I am assuming that this photo was taken from a centralised watch position on the maintenance building. Photography was prohibited on the site which either means this picture was taken against that ruling or that it was taken once the site was decommissioned. The latter is more likely as all 3 security gates are open, which would be highly unlikely if the site was in use.
RAF Barnham is a Royal Air Force Station in Suffolk, some 2 miles south of Thetford and northwest of Barnham Village, positioned on Thetford Heath. The original Barnham Camp had links to chemical warfare storage during the Second World War and was originally constructed as a bomb dump. The "bottom site" is still operational as a satellite unit to RAF Honington, utilised as a training camp.
During the mid 1950s a specialist storage area was constructed at Barnham to house Britain's first production nuclear free fall bomb, BLUE DANUBE. The National Archives have the RAF documents that describe the 'Specialist Storage Site' as forming in June 1954 as part of No. 94 Maintenance Sub Unit at RAF Barnham. Its main purpose, along with its sister site at RAF Faldingworth, was to serve the soon to be formed V-bomber Squadrons. Barnham was responsible for supporting No 3 Group, Bomber Command and included RAF Wittering, Marham, Cottesmore and Honington, with RAF Faldingworth taking care of the 'northern' bomber airfields. The storage bases would serve as maintenance depots for the weapons as well as holding a stockpile that were to be used in a 'second-strike' scenario.
Picture HY1a © Crown Copyright via AWE, from Wikipedia. Vickers Valiant dropping a BLUE DANUBE casing.
Picture HY2 © Crown Copyright. Barnham, over a decade before it became operational. The eastern part of 'Top Site' was positioned in the centre of the clump of trees on the image left. The ammunition storage areas of the old Barnham Camp can be seen image centre.
Picture HY2a © Microsoft Corporation © Getmapping PLC. A more recent view from a similar perspective showing 'Top Site' image left and the current RAF Barnham image right. This latter area was the domestic site for 'Top Site'.
Picture HY2b. Image is courtesy of the RAF Museum, Hendon, Department of Research and Information Services, catalogue number 192019. A 1955 image of Barnham from the South Aspect, probably pre-initial operating capability.
grouping. Hearsay reported the cost of the build at £1.5 million pounds in the 1950s, probably around £30 million in today's money.
The site became redundant when BLUE DANUBE and its smaller successor, RED BEARD, were retired from RAF service due to the advances in other nuclear weaponry. These newer weapons did not require a large storage and servicing depot such as Barnham. Changes in doctrine also played their part in Barnham's demise, with the hand over of the strategic nuclear deterrent to the Royal Navy in 1968 and the decision to store the tactical nuclear weapon, WE177, at the operating airfield's specialist storage areas with no required 'middle-man' unit.
The National Archive's reveal that Barnham's 'A' security grading was removed in July 1963 and in the same month the overhead flight bans were lifted and its buildings cleared. Its sister site at RAF Faldingworth remained operational for longer, after it began to store the YELLOW SUN H-bomb.
In 1966, the site was purchased from the RAF for £20,000 by the current owner, Mr Keith Eldred, for the purpose of growing mushrooms within the large explosive storage buildings. These buildings were once used to store the very large BLUE DANUBE bomb minus its fissile core; the latter were stored in individual fissile storage buildings known to those on site as igloos. Following this venture, Mr Eldred made use of the buildings as light industrial units and the site became the Gorse Industrial Estate, still in use today under Mr Eldred's ownership.
Due to Mr Eldred's resourceful utility of the site and passion for its history, it has remained mostly intact. There are only a handful of small support buildings and site features that didn't survive. The biggest losses were one of the large explosives storage buildings which was destroyed by a fire in the 1980s and a necessary demolition of the SECO guardroom in the 2000s.
Mr Eldred is working with English Heritage to preserve the site. Such is the significance of this facility to the history of the UK and the Cold War that it is now a scheduled ancient monument with three grade II* and two grade II listed buildings on site.
The University of East Anglia are also interested in this area and its preservation, it is a great example of a site that supports elements of their "COLD WAR ANGLIA" project.


Learn how to make your own adorable little crochet heart pouch with this free crochet pattern. This pattern makes a small little heart bag that can be a sweet gift or fun fashion statement. This post contains affiliate links, which help to support this site at no extra cost to you.
I have a new crochet pattern to share with you all today, and it's the perfect little project for Valentine's Day! These cute crochet heart pouches are simple enough to work up a whole bunch before heart day.
I made these heart pouches with the new Darice cotton yarn, and it worked great. It's a nice, inexpensive workhorse of a yarn that's perfect for small projects like this.
These pouches are small – probably only big enough to hold a few little candies or other small treats – but you could try using a heavier weight yarn and larger hook for a bigger heart. Now, I need to give that a try!
Right now, the pattern is available for FREE over on the Consumer Crafts Blog.
I am just finishing up your Hawthorne Afghan. I love the blanket! I did have trouble with the pattern (probably due to my inexperience). When I changed from the double crochet to the fan stitch – it seems I somehow got extra stitches in there? I made it work when I got to the other end. But I am still not sure what (if anything) I did wrong….
I would love to have it, but the link to get the free pattern for the crochet heart pouch does not work.
Sometimes I cannot open the site, have others experienced that too?
Now I can reach the site but cannot reach the heart pouch pattern. Can you please send it in email?


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Working with the National Horseracing College
The National Horseracing College, based in Doncaster, is one of only two specialist racing colleges in the country and trains hundreds of students each year for a career in the horseracing industry.
We first began working with them in 2015, when they approached us to create a Sky TV commercial for them. So when they wanted to create 360 virtual reality videos to show potential students what working in the racing industry is like, they saw Lucas Media as the natural choice and chose us as their preferred video partner once again.
The videos would be used in a virtual tour inside an Oculus VR headset at trade shows and educational/apprenticeship events to give users a fully immersive taste of various aspects of the horseracing industry, including riding on the College gallops, and watching a race at Doncaster Racecourse.
We used a Kandao Obsidian specialist 360 camera to shoot the video in 8K resolution this enabled us to also capture 360 panoramic images. Our crew, along with members of the NHC marketing team, filmed at various locations around the UK, including the College, Doncaster Racecourse and Goffs UK Bloodstock Sales, and at top horse trainer Jonjo O'Neill's Cheltenham stables.
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A full briefing from the College's Marketing team at the start of the project, as well as careful planning for each filming session, enabled us to put the 360 degree video camera in the right places to get the shots we needed while disturbing the horses as little as possible.
We then used specialist 360 video editing software to edit the footage down to 15 minutes in total which comprised of 15 individual clips that were used inside the VR headset as part of the virtual tour.
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Be sure to check out the new photo story I just posted, From Skin to Foot, documenting the century-old craft of leather tannery in Old Cairo, right before the entire district faces a forced eviction to the outskirts of the city.
A few weeks ago USAID Egypt hired me to photograph a very inspiring story of Heba, a young woman in Assiut, Upper Egypt, who is the manager of a team of 50 male technicians responsible for the public sanitation services of 5 villages. The story is inspiring on different fronts: Heba is an engineering graduate working in what is still very much a man's world, many men in her life supported her (her dad, husband, supervisor at work) and last but not least, Heba and her team provide much needed water sanitation services to thousands of villagers, who are now able to better fend off contamination and disease.
USAID Egypt did not only want me to go out and photograph this story, they wanted it to be broadcast to a large an audience as possible. That's when Everyday Egypt came to mind.
It was the first time Everyday Egypt collaborated with a non-profit and published a commissioned story, and it was the first time for USAID Egypt to collaborate with an online storytelling platform. And i think it is fair to say it was a successful collaboration!
Over three days, the ten-image story was posted across Everyday Egypt's Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr feeds, with the largest audiences present on Facebook (290,000+) and Instagram (72,000+).
You can view the full 20-image story here.
After 4 years of minimal updates on my old portfolio site, I finally found the time build an entirely new online presence that better represents my current work. Enjoy!
Stay up to date with the latest news of what I am working on.


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With Knoll's guidance, children's librarians will be informed and inspired to rise to the challenge of providing quality service to babies, toddlers, and care providers.
Debra J. Knoll is a former children's librarian and academic instructor. Her research has focused on the development of infants and toddlers and its implications for children's librarianship.
"Libraries are evolving in their interest and action regarding providing pre- and early literacy services to the library community. Historically, these patrons were not necessarily welcomed in the library. Now, libraries are shifting to the idea of providing learning environments for our youngest users. To embrace this, libraries must reevaluate library philosophy, space, and service … This is a meaningful resource for libraries that are looking to increase meaningful service to infants and toddlers."
"Knoll gives detailed examples of how a baby benefits from having a safe, public space in which to play, move, and explore; access to books and early literacy experiences; and opportunities to cultivate oral language and community connections with a trained and caring staff."


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Holy sh@t, 1000 poems since October?!
Anyway, I quite like the swiftness of this, it's entirety almost like the very bloom and wither you speak of…its conciseness reminds me of a haiku…and how I love haikus! They are perfectly distilled feelings that can be uttered in a single breath.
I can understand what you mean in one of your notes about the word "wither" with its negative connotations, I feel you wanted a word that was in itself graceful in describing the decline with age. I'm racking my brains here, maybe the word "languish" is a touch gentler? Or something like that.
Very nice. Now I must go off and wither.
About the consistent quantity of poems that I post…there have been well over 1000 since the middle of October. I sit down each morning with coffee, a pad and pen and say, "OK, what do You want to tell them today?" Then I write frantically for anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour and a half. I usually have three regular poems and Rainforest News which has three small poems as well as the other features. I usually post them throughout the day to keep the site name up on the search readers and also for my different time zone readers. I do this every day without fail unless my Internet is down and I can not get to a city for an Internet Cafe. This past week I posted less because I had some international visitors that I was hosting but still manage to post each day as I have a very firm commitment with The Boss about this. No one is more amazed than I as I had never written a poem or read a blog when I started in October. I recently heard of a woman from Portugual who is also receiving poems, but in English…and she does not speak or write English. I am trying to contact her to see if I may read her poems to compare them with what I am receiving. Would be interesting indeed. If possible, I will post them for her as she does not have a blog.
Succinct – and well said. The last two lines are useful at any age.


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How pay-as-you-go solar solutions can electrify Africa — and generate profits for you
Over 1.1 billion people have no access to electricity worldwide. Instead, they rely on kerosene lamps, candles, and inefficient cookstoves, which by themselves cause health and environmental problems. In Africa, alone, around 600 million people are left in the dark.
Yet, for many people where basic amenities are hard to come by, how can services reach them to provide the electricity they need?
Thankfully, Africa has an abundant resource that can be taken advantage of: sunlight.
As a result, companies are stepping up to give millions of people something that so many of us take for granted. Through pay-as-you-go (PAYG) solar solutions, companies are selling solar kits for small installments rather than lump-sum payments.
Solaris Offgrid was also one of the finalists in last year's New Energy Challenge, an initiative by Shell, YES!Delft, and Rockstart, which looks at innovative technologies and solutions within European and Israeli startups for the energy transition. The startup designs and manufacturers PAYG solutions to foster affordable and sustainable energy access in off-grid areas. It achieves this through its own field operations in Africa via its distributions arm, Solaris Tanzania.
BBOXX, which Shell invests in, designs, manufactures, distributes, and finances innovative plug and play solar systems to improve access to energy across Africa and the developing world.
Both companies took different approaches for their choice of business model: Solaris Offgrid decided on angel investors and venture capital investment while BBOXX followed the crowdfunding path.
Helping families through PAYG solutions
PAYG allows energy access to be broken down into manageable payment amounts, starting from as low as average spending on kerosene for the lanterns it will replace, says Dave Henry, head of business intelligence at Solaris Offgrid.
"Through Solaris Tanzania, we don't operate a strictly PAYG business model, but rather a lease-to-own, meaning that customers make payments for a defined lease length and then they own the system rather than continuing to make payments in perpetuity," he added.
With more than 100,000 BBOXX products sold in over 35 countries, the company has improved the lives of more than half a million people since starting in March 2010. Choosing a PAYG model, BBOXX is aiming to provide as much flexibility to their customers to make payments. This method is also helping it to reach its goal of providing 20 million people with electricity by 2020.
Yet, according to Anshul Patel, chief commercial officer at BBOXX, "the downsides are that credit and flexibility need to be balanced with business operational and financial goals."
A BBOXX customer — one of which is the Rukoki prison in Uganda — is typically off-grid in a rural location. Most earn their living by farming vanilla or coffee beans on small plots of one to two acres. They earn around $100 to $200 a month, but spend between $8 to $12 on kerosene, batteries, and charging their phones. In the case of Rukoki, prior to BBOXX they were using kerosene lamps to light the prisoners' wards. With the installation of the solar kit, they could afford electricity for the first time over a three-year payment plan with BBOXX.
The company says that their products have helped customers save $2.4 million on energy expenses. Additionally, 63,000 school children are now able to study without straining their eyes or inhaling fumes and soot.
Competing with other PAYG services
According to the Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report 2016, solar-powered home kits provide a better service at a low cost.
Yet, while PAYG solar kits are helping to capture consumer value, around a dozen firms are offering these services in Africa. For Solaris Offgrid, they are maintaining a competitive advantage by delivering hardware that is modular. This means that customers can upgrade their systems as their energy needs grow.
"Solaris Offgrid provides technology solutions that are developed 'in the field, for the field,' Henry explains. "Using our experience of last-mile distribution through Solaris Tanzania, we constantly iterate our products to ensure they meet end-customers needs."
Patel adds that BBOXX is able to maintain a competitive advantage by being a data-driven business that collects billions of data points daily. This ranges from customers records, their usage, payment patterns, to the technical performance of the firm's products.
"We use this data to proactively support customers and technical service," he says. "Together with a PAYG model that tunes to our customers' financial ability, we are able to build very strong customer service and relations with solar energy as an entry point to our customers' homes."
Crowdfunding vs. venture capital
Solaris Offgrid is backed by impact investors, specifically in energy access, says Henry. According to him, this means that they understand the industry and its cycles to ensure that the end goal is maintained.
Regarding the energy access hype cycle, Henry added: "Impact investors and venture capital involved in developing markets understand that the same timelines and quick market expansion may not be feasible like it is to launch a technology in developed markets, so as long as expectations are maintained with this in mind, investors and entrepreneurs are less likely to be affected."
For BBOXX, crowdfunding was the chosen option to raise funds. In Patel's opinion, it's a novel approach, but investors are given the visibility of the opportunity they are investing in and the expected social and financial returns.
According to their recent campaign through crowdfunding platform Trine, a €1,000 or more investment qualifies for an expected return of 8.75%.
Furthermore, this approach allows the company to unlock capital to deploy more services to customers while sticking to a commitment to repay the crowd through customer receipts, he added.
"Private investors have the opportunity to gain social, environment, and financial returns through their interest in our business, through a platform that provides transparency on where their funds have been used," Patel said. "This proposal is attractive when you compare current opportunities in Europe for example, where there is limited visibility on the actual investment and generally lower returns."
Valuable connections
Solaris Offgrid is still reaping the benefits of joining The New Energy Challenge, says Henry. The startup received a cash prize for their runner-up position, which has gone directly towards their operating costs to continue growing.
In addition, valuable connections were made, he concludes. "It was an intensely informative week, with a broad variety of expert insights given and a chance to develop the pitch of the company. And the relationship with the Rockstart accelerator gave us some opportunity for further coaching and mentoring."
Shell, YES!Delft, and Rockstart believe it's only through innovation and technologies that are effective, profitable, and scalable where energy transition solutions can be found. Did we mention there's also the chance of winning a €100,000 grant?
So if you're a startup with an idea that can help shape the energy system of the future, do sign up before July 23 to be part of the next New Energy Challenge. You'll receive expert advice and coaching, direct entry to world-class accelerator programs, business advice from Shell Ventures for at least a year, and the opportunity to pitch before the Shell Ventures investment committee.


I didn't expect this when I started capturing!
Walking by, I saw a young woman in her 20ies sitting on a bench with one foot slipped out of her flats. She was massaging her ped socks covered foot and I thought "well, ok, start the cam".
Just when I was sitting down, she put on her flats and man, she started a dangling show at its best. Normally young teens are doing this but rather not a young lady.
At first she dangled both flats at the same time, then she crossed her legs and went mad. I wondered why none of her flats flew away, so heavy was her shoeplay. I even had to put the cam to wide angle because her flats went outside of my view.
In summary you'll get a 16+ minutes clip with a second cam face shot, some foot massage and an incredible and very exciting flats dangling part. Enjoy, mates!


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The Personal Politics behind the Salem Witch Trials
The Rebecca Nurse House, home of one of the accused
Today is the first day of autumn. A beautiful time of year. But historically speaking, in an age of superstitution, people associated this season with darker things. There was much for a colonial New Englander to fear during lengthening autumn nights.
Fall always makes me think of Salem. And clearly, judging by the throngs of people who pack into the town as Halloween approaches, I'm not the only one. The Salem witch crisis began in late winter and continued for more than a year, so there is no particular reason to associate it with October. But the reasons for that are self-evident, I suppose.
It seems there's always more to learn about the Salem Witch Trials. My interest in this episode is derived primarily from the complex historical events but also from the sometimes outlandish explanations advanced by historians and scientists seeking to explain those events. Take, for example, the theory advanced by an accomplished behavioral scientist who argues that the people of Salem Village suffered from ergot poisoning–the results of a fungus in rye bread that produces hallucinations similar to LSD. That seems to me to be making things rather more complicated than they need to be. There is ample evidence that the Witch Trials (or at least the manner in which the crisis began) were personal. One need not seek any further than that for explanations.
I've always felt that history is driven largely by personal politics. Larger economic, social and cultural factors do come into play. But when people do things, they are rarely thinking about the bigger picture. We generally do what is best for ourselves, our families and friends. For reasons that are quite personal, we tend to cooperate with the people we like, and we work against the people we don't like. In some cases, our personal actions can have a ripple effect that affects history. The Salem Witch Trials are one of those cases in which personal choices, what at first seemed like small actions, had a tremendous impact on historical events.
Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum explored the bitter factionalism within Salem Village (now Danvers, Massachusetts) in their groundbreaking work Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft, demonstrating the manner in which the Putnam and Porter families were at odds throughout the 1670s and 80s. Their thesis has been reinforced by other historians including Frances Hill in A Delusion of Satan. The Putnams were farmers, conservative, and disliked change. The Porters an up and coming family, branching into maritime trade in adjacent Salem Town. They had a more worldly view and were a bit more liberal in politics and religion.
The two families had locked horns over land disputes, but things became hotter when it came time for Salem Village to pick a new minister in 1689. The Putnams and their camp wanted Rev. Samuel Parris, a conservative minister who did not tolerate unorthodox views on religion. They got their wish, but in 1691, just months before the hysteria burst, the Porter camp managed to take control of local affairs and took steps to cut Parris's salary.
Now we come to February 1692 and nine year-old Betty Parris (the minister's daughter) playing games with her friend Abigail Williams. The girls fancied that they could foretell who their husbands would be by dropping an egg into a glass of water and interpreting its shape…a trick they may or may not have been taught by Parris's slave Tituba. The minister caught them in the act, Betty went catatonic, and the local physician proclaimed that they had been bewitched.
Soon some of Betty's friends started throwing fits and claiming that they, too, were bewitched. One of the most convincing at this game was 12 year-old Ann Putnam, Jr., daughter of Thomas and Ann Putnam. Before long, the girls were singling out people in Salem Village as witches. These people included Rebecca Nurse (the Putnams had been embroiled in a bitter land dispute with her family), the previous minister Rev. George Burroughs (the Putnams had had him imprisoned back in 1683 because he owed their family money) and three of those who voted against collecting the revenue for Parris's salary–Philip English, Daniel Andrew and Francis Nurse.
Shrieking accusations from hysterical children weren't enough to begin investigations, however. Written complaints had to be registered with the magistrates for the accused to be questioned and/or imprisoned. The majority of these, at least in Salem Village before the hysteria spread, were signed by brothers Thomas and John Putnam.
It seems the crisis evolved into a means for Parris and the Putnams to take out their rivals. One can only wonder to what degree the girls might have been coached to do what they did. It's a terribly sad thing. Their rivals, the Porter camp, tried to put a stop to the hysteria. As a result, many of them were singled out as witches. It snow-balled from there, and became much bigger than the Putnams. But it certainly started with them.
Rev. Parris House foundation
It's been a few years since I've managed to get to Salem and Danvers. I want to get there this year. Last time I was in Danvers, I was with a group of friends and we managed to find a site that had eluded me on prior trips as it's hidden well off the road…Rev. Parris's house…or what's left of it. There's just a foundation now.
There's so much mythology around the Salem Witch Trials that at times the whole thing can seem like fiction. When sitting by this foundation, it seemed difficult to believe that this was the spot, a very real and tangible place where Rev. Parris caught his daughter practicing "magic." Ground zero, as it were, for the Salem Witch crisis.
Note: In addition to Salem Possessed and A Delusion of Satan (from which the above interpretation is taken), I recommend Frances Hill's Hunting for Witches, for those seeking a succinct version of the events. It also serves as a great guidebook to the historical sites in Salem and Danvers.
About Patrick Browne
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13 responses to "The Personal Politics behind the Salem Witch Trials"
Very cool post. While my fascination with the Salem hysteria & trials have not run as deep as yours, I have long held an interest, and have made a number of pilgrimages (heh) out there myself. I'll most definitely be checking out Hill's Hunting now. Have you perchance read The Devil in the Shape of a Woman by Carol Karlsen? While not limited to Salem, I found it to be a great read on the socioeconomic and gender-attributable aspects of many of the New England trials.
Historicist
Yes, I think I read that back in grad school days. Isn't that the one that focuses on the generational conflict? The girls singled out older women out of rebellion and all that?
Hill actually has a couple books on the subject, both very good.
Nice post, I enjoyed your perspective on the history. It is a very chilling story. I had a wonderful experience in Salem a few years ago. I was performing a piece based on one of trials in the Witch House museum. After the first performance I noticed a warrant framed on the wall which included the name of the man I was portraying and the the warrant was dated on the same date we were performing 311 years earlier.
That is VERY cool. Coincidences like that can just stop you in your tracks. I can't help but think that things like that mean something…And how cool to perform in the Witch House! Most interesting building in Salem Town.
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[…] The whole episode, from my perspective, has echoes of the Salem Witch Trials. Individuals motivated by financial and/or political issues alleging supernatural phenomena in order to win the upper hand. But you can read about that in an older entry. […]
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October 6th, 2014 at 10:39 am
I know you wrote this several years ago, but it's an excellent read.
And these lines really resonated with me: "Apply Occam's Razor here, for God's sake. This was personal and that's all there is to it.
"I have a theory about history. It is driven mainly by personal politics. When people do things, they are rarely thinking about the bigger picture. We generally do what is best for ourselves, our families and friends. For reasons that are quite personal, we cooperate with the people we like, and we work against the people we don't like. Our personal actions can have a ripple effect in some cases that literally affects history."
Indeed, the saying that all politics is local could probably be adapted to something akin to "All history is personal," or at least begins at a personal level.
If you've ever incorporated your paper on how personal preference was linked to the history of the antislavery movement into a blog post, or the paper itself is available online, I'd like to read it.
Patrick Browne
Hi, Kevin. Thanks for the good feedback. Funny you should put it that way about adapting Tip O'Neill's "all politics is local" to "all history is personal." I've said that very thing in many, many lectures. I don't think I've ever blogged about the personal politics of antislavery…not sure why not, come to think of it. The paper is available on JSTOR, here.
I enjoyed reading your paper. I was completely unaware of William Nell and the competing aims of anti-slavery movements in Massachusetts. More evidence of just how much history even those of us who enjoy the subject don't know. Keep up the good work.
Thanks very much, Kevin.
Bob Albert
I enjoyed your article, but wonder if the Porter vs. Putnam idea oversimplifies the underpinnings of the events. I am descended from Putnams (both accusers and defenders,) Porters, Proctors, Nurses, Popes, Hathornes, Dodges, and various other participants in the hysteria. It seems to me that the inter-family rivalries extended well beyond those two.
Thanks for the comment, Bob. To be sure, there were plenty of rivalries to go around and once the panic started to spread, it all got very complicated very quickly. But I think if you examine the roots of the thing, the very earliest origins, it did have a great deal to do with the Putnams/Porters. This whole theory was best advanced, I think, by Frances Hill in her succinct volume, "Hunting for Witches." She has also written other books on the topic.
Paul J Sacia
I was really quite amazed with your commentary Patrick. I have Porter ancestors from the first John Porter in Massachusetts. Their Porter-Bradstreet Homestead is a lovely read on danverslibrary.org I'm glad and appreciative of your personal efforts to inform and educate. Blessings )
Thanks, Paul. I'm glad you found it informative.


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When Bobby Kennedy and Jim Whittaker climbed a mountain
Michael Upchurch
The 2015 commemorative climb depicted in the documentary Return to Mount Kennedy. (Photo courtesy of Eric Becker)
It makes sense that a film titled Return to Mount Kennedy would have a mountain in it.
Less expected are news clips from the 1968 U.S. presidential campaign and extended archival footage of Seattle grunge band Mudhoney in its rambunctious 1990s heyday.
Return to Mount Kennedy is the story of the 1965 ascent of the newly named peak in the Yukon by Seattle mountaineer Jim Whittaker (the first American to summit Everest) and Senator Robert F. Kennedy who wanted to pay tribute to his brother, John F. Kennedy, for whom the mountain was named. It's also the story of three sons — Bob Whittaker, Leif Whittaker and Christopher Kennedy — who made a 2015 attempt on the peak to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1965 climb.
The film includes contemporary interviews with various Whittaker family members and an original score by Eddie Vedder. It touches on father-and-son relationships, the feverish politics of the late 1960s, the 1968 assassination of Bobby Kennedy, the early seeds of the environmental movement and the mapping of some of the last uncharted terrain in North America.
Director Eric Becker deftly crafts all those concerns into a compact, cohesive 80-minute narrative. The film is poignant, informative, eye-popping in its cinematography and unexpectedly humorous thanks to the clowning of Bob Whittaker, a one-time roadie for Mudhoney and R.E.M.
Becker grew up in Texas, moved to Seattle in 2008 and now lives in Boise.
"I'm one of the economic refugees from Seattle," he said in a phone interview last week. "I still kind of claim Seattle as my town. I visit there once or twice a month."
Here's a condensed, edited version of our phone conversation.
How did you become aware of the Jim Whittaker-Bobby Kennedy connection?
I made a short film about Jim Whittaker in 2013. Bob Whittaker saw that and gave me an email out of the blue. He said, "Hey, really great piece. Let me know if you want to hang out sometime." So, we became friends. He'd had this kind of idea of Mount Kennedy — doing a climb, visiting the area — percolating in his brain. We came up with the idea of putting together an expedition and making a film. At the time, we thought it was going to be a short little piece. But then the more that I got into the history and the more that I learned about the relationship between Jim and Bobby, the more I realized that it needed a formal treatment as a feature-length film and that there was a lot of digging to do to unpack the emotions surrounding both the climb and the assassination.
You're too young to have any memory of the RFK assassination, aren't you? Did you even have much sense of who Bobby Kennedy was?
I'm 38. So, it obviously happened before I was even a twinkle in my parents' eye. I knew some things about Bobby. I knew he was assassinated. I knew the name of the guy that assassinated him. But I didn't really know that much about him. And I think a lot of people in my generation don't know a lot about Bobby Kennedy. They know his name. They know he was assassinated. But they don't really know what he stood for, his political message and a lot of the events surrounding that time period.
Return to Mount Kennedy - Trailer from eric becker on Vimeo.
In your film, on the 1968 campaign trail, Kennedy says, "I run to seek new policies — policies to close the gap that now exists between Black and White, between rich and poor, between young and old, in this country and around the rest of the world." On environmental concerns, he proposes, "There are laws that we can pass about dumping and throwing refuse in lakes and streams and into the air. And I think that's what's going to make the difference in this country." As Jim Whittaker points out, when you talk to him, "That was not in the American consciousness in the 1960s." Were you surprised at how those issues from 50 years ago still feel urgent today?
I don't feel surprised. Issues facing the environment are worse today than in 1965. Becoming acquainted with Bobby Kennedy's message was a good reminder that the fight goes on.
This is your first feature-length documentary. What kind of background do you bring to these subject matters? What were the areas you were most familiar with and the areas where you really had to stretch?
Physically, doing the climb was challenging. I'm not a mountaineer. I've done some stuff on Mount Rainier, but I've never summited. I've always been into camping, but this was a new thing for me: gearing up and tying knots and being in negative-25-degree weather and 45-mile-an-hour winds. That was the biggest challenge for me. Being a filmmaker, you learn how to educate yourself, I guess, in whatever subject matter you're covering. So, I didn't feel like it was at any time an overwhelming amount of information in the realm of politics or history or music. It all just kind of came naturally. The tricky part really was weaving it all together because there's so many different themes and narratives.
A lot of that weaving had to come in the editing room. Were you the editor of the film as well as the director?
I worked with an editor. His name is Andrew Franks. But it was very much a collaboration.
The re-ascent took place in 2015, three years ago. Was that how long it took to wrestle the film into the form you were after?
We climbed in May of 2015. Then I got married in September of 2015. We found out we were pregnant the day after the wedding. And then we moved to Idaho. And then, you know, I have to pay the bills, so I have corporate work I do to keep the lights on. There definitely was some stuff that happened along the way in life that slowed it down. It wasn't like we were working on it every day for three years. But there's this strange thing that happens when you kind of wait for these stories to unfold. There was footage that came up within the last six months of work on the project. Like the eulogy that Jim Whittaker gave for Bobby Kennedy in the film — we didn't find that until, like, three months ago. Jim Whittaker found it in his garage in a pile of stuff. He called up Bob Whittaker and said, "Hey, I found this reel. It says 'Kennedys' on it. Do you want to look at it?"
I understand the grunge-era footage came from Matt Lukin, the bassist for Mudhoney.
They had forty hours of stuff that was sitting in Matt Lukin's attic that we digitized. We didn't do that until a year ago. It takes time to dig through these things, to figure out how to piece it all together. This was the most challenging edit that I've ever undertaken.
If you're 38, you're probably too young to be an original grunge fan. You would have been 12 or so, right?
Even though I was 12 years old, I was a huge Nirvana fan. I was a huge Mudhoney fan. I was a huge Pearl Jam fan. I had two different situations where I was at Eddie Vedder's house, showing him pieces of the film and doing the interview with him, which was very surreal. To have one of these guys who was, like, a musical hero of yours giving you music for your film was a career-defining moment. He's really good friends with Bob. I mean, they're buddies. I didn't know how connected Bob was to the grunge world until we really started to edit the film.
Usually mountaineering films don't have much humor in them. But with Bob Whittaker you have a court jester on hand. He has that wisecrack about the 2015 expedition "swimming in mystique and drowning in personalities." A little later, when Christopher Kennedy runs into trouble on the ice, he jokes, "Every fifty years we like to drop a Kennedy in a crevasse on Mount Kennedy, just for fun." You make good use of him. Did you know you'd be getting that dynamic when you started the film?
I knew I wanted to focus the film on Bob because he's so funny, and I knew that would provide some release from the heavy topics. I've been to a lot of adventure film festivals. That's kind of my filmmaking community. But I've never been a hardcore mountain guy, so I'm never going to make a film like "Meru." And I'm not really interested in making a film like that because I like these human stories about relationships and politics and history. My goal was to use an adventure as a platform to explore those emotions within the piece.
Jim Whittaker and Robert F. Kennedy at the summit of Mount Kennedy in 1965. (Photo courtesy of the Whittaker family collection)
Bobby Kennedy is a figure from before your time. What was the most startling thing you learned about him while making the film?
Just the fact that Bobby Kennedy was willing to go do that climb was impressive. He had no experience in the mountains. I think the biggest takeaway that we all had, and it's referenced in the film, was just how tough those guys were to pull that climb off. You know, it's not a technical climb. The last pitch is steep and technical, with some exposure. But it's a lot of walking and it's at a high elevation.
There's also the fact that, in the film, it's revealed that Bobby Kennedy was scared of heights.
Yeah — so am I. I'm terrified of heights.
How did you handle that? You didn't make it to the final peak where the ridgeline falls away steeply on either side. But still.
I've spent a lot of time on Jim Whittaker's message that things happen when you take risks. And fear, just fear, you learn to deal with it. It's good for you. I was completely prepared to do that last stretch. I knew what I was getting into. It's also terrifying to have this film that I have to show to people now who are going to judge my work. And I'm ready for it. Good things happen when you put yourself out there.
If you go: Return to Mount Kennedy screens on June 2 at the Kirkland Performance Center and June 9 and 10 at SIFF Uptown. Director Eric Becker will attend all three screenings.
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Bolton: A Prime Mover Of The Iraq WMD Fiasco
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by Greg Thielmann
[Editor's note: With the announcement that John Bolton will replace Gen. H.R. McMaster as Trump's national security adviser, LobeLog is republishing an article authored by Greg Thielmann, a 25-year veteran of the Foreign Service who served two tours in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research and who subsequently worked as a senior staffer on the Senate Intelligence Committee, in December 2016 when Bolton was reportedly being considered for Deputy Secretary of State.
The article, which was quoted by the New York Times, among other publications, addressed Bolton's efforts to subvert the intelligence in the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. We think the article is helpful in assessing Bolton's fitness for the job and steadily increasing prospects for the U.S. becoming involved in yet another armed conflict in the Middle East or elsewhere.The president-elect who repeatedly taunted his Democratic opponent for supporting the Iraq invasion and whose transition team recently dismissed a CIA assessment by noting, "these are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," is reportedly considering John Bolton to be deputy secretary of state. Bolton is, of course, one of these "same people." If Donald Trump chooses to nominate a prime mover of the Iraq WMD fiasco for a key State Department position, he will really outdo himself in converting the ironic into dark comedy.]
John Bolton served as undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs from 2001 to 2005. During this period, Bolton was a champion for unilateral and violent resolution of international differences, his views more closely aligned at the time with those of Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld than with those of his nominal boss, Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Bolton does not suffer from the intellectual laziness or attention deficit disorder of the president-elect. He was a voracious reader and energetic participant in the policy process at State. Even his critics acknowledge his positive contribution in launching the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), a multilateral effort to mitigate trafficking in weapons of mass destruction (WMD) material. But Bolton's ideological approach and grating manner damaged the international standing of the United States and the foreign affairs function of the U.S. government during his State Department tenure.
I was a firsthand witness to the negative consequences of Bolton's style and substantive approach while serving as director of the office in the State Department's intelligence bureau (INR/SPM) responsible for monitoring Iraqi WMD issues. As my office delivered to him the heavy volume of sensitive information provided by the intelligence community, he demonstrated a penchant for quickly dismissing inconvenient facts and rejecting any analysis that did not serve his policy preferences.
John Bolton was a key player in the early machinations toward war of the George W. Bush administration. Senior British officials accurately chronicled what was happening in their secret "Downing Street" memo to Prime Minister Blair in July 2002 when they reported that "the intelligence and facts are being fixed around the policy." As the path to war was paved throughout the fall, Bolton knew very well how the administration was misrepresenting to the public the more nuanced details of the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraqi WMD. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence exhaustively documented these distortions in a series of bipartisan reports following the 2003 invasion.
Moreover, Bolton was privy to the detailed reasoning behind INR's prescient dissent in the top secret NIE on Iraqi WMD, which warned that "the available evidence was inadequate to support the judgment that 'Iraq is currently pursuing…an integrated and comprehensive approach to acquire nuclear weapons.'"
INR has had a long and distinguished history of bringing to senior State Department officials sensitive, all-source intelligence and skillfully interpreting that intelligence. Although responsive to the broad policy interests and specific needs of the State Department customers, the bureau's leadership has also established a storied tradition of firmly protecting the independence and integrity of INR's civil servants and foreign service officers in their analyses. This protection extended to conclusions that sometime contradicted assumptions on which foreign policies were based and justified.
INR's willingness to dissent from conventional wisdom and majority opinion is an occasional irritant—not only to the policy bureaus of the State Department, but to other agencies seeking to achieve consensus in coordinating intelligence community assessments. But history vindicates the institutional value of such independence. It enabled INR to provide valid warnings of the other agencies' excessive optimism about the Vietnam War in the 1960s, their overestimation of Soviet military power in the 1970s and 1980s, and their false conclusion that Iraq had reconstituted its nuclear weapons program in 2002.
I can also attest to the pattern of behavior Bolton exhibited, which was later characterized by INR's Assistant Secretary Carl Ford as "kiss up and kick down." This included not just disregarding important information, but actively trying to suppress independent analysis. As undersecretary in Colin Powell's State Department, Bolton ran into a stone wall in trying to intimidate INR and squelch its independence. But if Trump succeeds in promoting Bolton to deputy secretary under a chain of command totally lacking in government experience, a purge of career professionals in the secondary and tertiary levels of the department seems likely. In that case, the wall protecting INR is likely to crumble. The loss will then not only be grievous to the foreign affairs function of the U.S. government, but to its intelligence function as well.
Greg Thielmann is a 25-year veteran of the Foreign Service, serving two tours in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He subsequently worked as a senior staffer on the Senate Intelligence Committee and a senior fellow of the Arms Control Association. Thielmann currently serves on the board of the Arms Control Association.
Photo of John Bolton by Gage Skidmore via Flickr.
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Michael K Rohde
So who will he recommend we conquer this time? We could reinvade Iraq because we certainly didn't get it right the first time. Then there is pesky old Iran. They are dying to be invaded. All they have done is comply with their agreement not to pursue nukes, to the satisfaction of Western Europe. Except for maybe Britain, which one can count on to parrot whatever the U.S. tells them too. They are as compliant as a lap dog. It makes you wonder how the British empire ever happened. Not really. They attacked people who were technologically unable to defend themselves against a modern military machine and then dominated them so they could drain their assets and keep those members of the House of Lords tax rates tolerable. I digress. Bolton is a bad actor. Period. He is not honest nor is he a competent administrator. He does believe in our inherent right to invade and conquer anyone we choose for whatever ginned up reasons he offers. And now he is national security adviser. Will he consult with israel on who to invade? He seemed to agree with the neo-cons up and down the line. And now he's back with more authority and access than before. Great, just great.
Christian Chuba
Using this character trait, he will be most destructive in the M.E. He pushes crackpot theories as fact to indict the villain du jour.
He is certain that Iran, Russia, and China are helping N. Korea build ICBM's (in that order), that N. Korea is giving chemical weapons to Syria, that Russia is helping N. Korea develop nuclear weapons. There is not a shred of doubt in his assertions. He will encourage DT's worst impulses.
jmanzano1930j
Sounds like one side is supine, and the other upright. Choose your side.
Operation Iraqi Freedom was a total bipartisan effort as a follow-on to the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 signed by President Clinton. In fact notable Democrat Party members including Gore, Biden and H. Clinton were instrumental in this mistaken war. Bolton hardly belongs in this august group.
Mr. Bacon misses the salient point that Bolton lied about the evidence to Congress and to the American people. He was instrumental in forming the lies on which Congress voted.


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Шелімар розташований за координатами  (30.443253, -86.583026).  За даними Бюро перепису населення США в 2010 році місто мало площу 0,74 км², уся площа — суходіл.

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Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у місті мешкало 717 осіб у 306 домогосподарствах у складі 217 родин. Густота населення становила 971 особа/км².  Було 328 помешкань (444/км²).

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 2,1 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 5,6 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 19,4 % — особи молодші 18 років, 65,5 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 15,1 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 47,4 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у місті припадало 90,7 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 89,5 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  доларів США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  долари (медіана — ). За межею бідності перебувало 8,1 % осіб, у тому числі 17,3 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 3,0 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило 300 осіб. Основні галузі зайнятості: освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 23,0 %, мистецтво, розваги та відпочинок — 18,3 %, науковці, спеціалісти, менеджери — 16,0 %.

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Introduction: Many of us take levodopa/carbidopa for substantial symptomatic relief; however, this dopamine replacement treatment only relieves symptoms without offering either neuroprotection or neuro-restoration. We are still anxiously waiting for the study to be released that announces "We describe a new Parkinson's compound and we've nicknamed it hopeful, helpful, and protective". Today's post will review an interesting paper from Yuning Che and associates in Dalian, China recently published in Cell Death and Disease (open access, click here to download paper). The 'hopeful' neuroprotective compound is the amino sulfonic compound taurine. Before we get lost in all of the possibilities, let's discuss the science and see what they describe, ok? First, we begin with some background.
Neuroinflammation and Oxidative Stress are Pathological Processes that Promote the Development of Parkinson's: Parkinson's is a neurodegenerative disorder where we lose dopamine-producing neurons in the mid-brain substantia nigra. There are several pathological patterns known to contribute to the development of Parkinson's as highlighted below. Related to this post is the negative-effect contributed by long-term neuroinflammation and oxidative stress.
Macrophages in the Brain are Called Microglia Cells: In many instances, the body initiates and uses the pro-inflammatory machinery as a host-defense response; in other words, we use it to protect ourselves. When it gets highjacked and becomes detrimental to the host, we realize the sheer firepower of our inflammatory system. The good-and-the-bad of inflammation is mediated primarily by the cells named neutrophils (along with the eosinophils and basophils), monocytes and macrophages. The monocyte leaves the bloodstream and migrates to various organs/tissues where it can 'mature' into a macrophage, which is a 'field commander' type-of-cell. Think of a macrophage as a General in the bunker of a battlefield, not only giving detailed marching orders but they are also leading the charging brigade of soldiers. Macrophages in the brain are named microglia cells. First, macrophages (microglia cells) are 'phagocytic' cells that are capable of engulfing foreign-damaged-invading substances/cells (phagocyte comes from the Greek phagein, "to eat" or "devour", and "-cyte", the suffix in biology denoting "cell"). Second, macrophages (microglia cells) direct the inflammatory response by releasing all kinds of substances that give other inflammatory/immune cells their instructions. Sometimes these cells and their instructions become bad to the neighboring tissue/organs; in our case, the dopamine-producing neurons in the midbrain.
Microglia-mediated neuroinflammation(Figure credit): Various substances initiate contact with resting unstimulated microglia cells. This 'activates' the microglia cell into a cell of considerable fire-power by producing and releasing many substances [nitric oxide (NO), reactive oxygen species (ROS), and several inflammatory cytokines (e.g., IL-1, IL-6, and TNF-alpha)]. This collection of pro-inflammatory substances secreted by the activated microglia cells creates a hostile microenvironment that promotes neuronal cell dysfunction and potential death to the cell.
Depending on the need and response of the 'environmental challenge', macrophages (microglia cells) can be activated to become either 'M1' (focused on becoming a pro-inflammatory) microglia cell or 'M2' (transforms into an anti-inflammatory) microglia cell [see Figure below, credit]. In the setting of an invasion or infiltration by microbes, you would want the microglia cell to be activated to a M1 state' they could attack, engulf and kill the invading microorganism. In this setting, the M1 microglia cell would be protective of you. By contrast, the role of M2 microglia cells would be to turn-off the resultant pro-inflammatory response. This implies that long-term inflammatory events that promote inappropriate M1 microglia cell activation could lead to dysfunction and even cell/tissue death. This description of appropriate/inappropriate microglia cell activation illustrates the complex nature of these inflammatory cells. What this says is in Parkinson's, chronic activation to M1 microglia cells could generate a detrimental neuroinflammatory environment able to attack host cells/tissues.
Taurine: Taurine is an amino sulfonic compound (many erroneously use the term amino acid) and it is considered to be a conditionally essential nutrient. We do not use taurine in the assembly of proteins from genes; however, it participates in several physiological systems. Taurine is apparently a popular additive/supplement in many different energy drinks. Both WebMD (click here) and the Mayo Clinic (click here) have posted overviews of taurine and consider it mostly safe. The structure of taurine is shown below (credit). Taurine is found in the brain, heart, muscle and in many other organs. Good sources of dietary taurine are animal and fish proteins. An interesting overview for using taurine to stay healthy and to promote longevity has recently been posted (click here). Taurine has many proposed physiological functions that range from neurotransmitter to cell anti-oxidant, from anti-inflammatory to enhancing sports performance. The 'problem' with having a multi-talented substance like taurine is actually studying these diverse functions individually and trying to test them in rigorous scientific studies, which leads us (finally!) to the paper introduced at the beginning.
It is becoming more evident that neuroinflammation and oxidative stress are likely key participants in the development of Parkinson's.
Surrounding the substantia nigra are a lot of unactivated microglia cells, which when activated to become M1 microglia cells they secrete several cytotoxic compounds that can easily harm or kill dopaminergic-producing neurons.
In particular, these neurons are susceptible to 'injury' due to their low antioxidant potential, low levels of calcium, increased amounts of iron, and the oxidation-susceptible dopamine.
Taurine has been shown in several reports to be a neuromodulating substance, boosting intracellular levels of calcium, anti-oxidant, and anti-inflammatory.
A recent report linked motor severity in Parkinson's to low levels of taurine in blood plasma.
The authors tested a hypothesis that the supplementation with exogenous taurine might be neuroprotective in a Parkinson's model sy\stem.
Previous studies have revealed a neuroprotective role for taurine in both glutamate-induced and hypoxic-ischemic brain models.
They used a mouse model of Parkinson's caused by injection with paraquat and maneb [(P + M) a two-pesticide model of Parkinson's], which showed progressive dopaminergic neurodegeneration, gait abnormality, and α-synuclein aggregation.
Taurine treatment protected the mouse from the detrimental effect of P + Mu.
Their results revealed three effects of taurine in the P + M model of Parkinson's (i) inhibition of microglia cell activation; (ii) reduced M1 microglia cell polarization; and (iii) reduced activation of cellular NOX2 and nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB).
Overview of Some of Their Results: Figure 1 presents the effect of P + M to promote a pathological state that resembles Parkinson's. Panels 1A and 1B show the loss of dopaminergic neurons by the staining of the brain with an antibody to tyrosine hydroxylase (a major dopaminergic neuron protein) following P + M injection. Panels !C and 1D show that P + M treatment lead to the expression of the toxic oligomeric α-synuclein. Not shown here, but P + M treatment resulted in displayed abnormal gaits (Figure 2 in the paper).
What do these results show? (1) In an interesting model of Parkinson's, taurine showed a potent benefit to the mice; (2) taurine reduced loss of dopamine-producing neurons in P + M mice; (3) taurine reduced oligomeric α-synuclein in P + M mice; (4) taurine treatment reduced neuroinflammation by suppressing M1 microglia cells to suggest a neuroprotective effect; and finally, (5) taurine reduced expression of both NOX2 and NF-kB, important genes for microglia cell activation. A similar neuroprotective effect was also found for taurine in an experimental model of Alzheimer's disease, which resulted in improved cognitive ability. The Parkinson's model clearly suggests that disease progression by P + M treatment is promoted by chronic neuroinflammation and M1-type microglia cells. Under the test conditions used, taurine was shown to convincingly reduce dopamine-producing neuronal cell degeneration in the presence of the pesticides P + M.
What do these results suggest? There is still much to learn about taurine. There is much potential to taurine being neuroprotective. However, there have been other seriously–convincing-positive mouse model results with other compounds that failed miserably in human clinical trials. The data shown here uses an interesting mouse model of Parkinson's with a simple yet elegant and solid set of data (that does not appear to be overly interpreted). Taurine has been shown to be safe in treating other human maladies (diabetes and cardiovascular disease). The results here are hopeful that taurine could provide neuroprotection in human Parkinson's. Hopefully, clinical trials will be started somewhere soon to determine the ability of taurine to provide neuroprotection in human Parkinson's disease.


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United States: Tackle greenwashing to boost sustainable investment, says IMF
Blog, Regular, Sustainability, United States / October 7, 2021 October 7, 2021 / Leave a Comment
The sustainable investment industry is too small to drive the global transition to a low-carbon economy and to help it grow governments must do more to protect investors from being misled by greenwashing, the IMF said on Monday.
Assets in sustainable investment funds have doubled over the past four years to about $3.6tn, the IMF noted in its semi-annual Global Financial Stability Report. But massive new investments estimated at up to $20tn will be required by 2050 to achieve the goal of reducing worldwide carbon emissions to net-zero by the middle of this century, it said. About 70 percent of this additional funding is expected to come from private sources.
Achieving this scale of expansion will demand that savers and investors properly understand how their money is used, the IMF suggested, calling on regulators to prevent financial companies from making misleading claims concerning their environmental credentials.
The original article can be found at ft.com


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Sensey is being used in a lot of places. This file exists to keep track of those instances.

1. Research work at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA
    - Paper
        ![citation](gesto/citation.jpeg)
        1. [Main Link](https://nsr.cse.buffalo.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/gesto-eics2019.pdf)
        1. [ACM Link](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3340630.3300964)
        1. [Copy in repo](gesto/gesto-eics2019.pdf)
    - Presentation
        1. [Main Link](http://beyondthegeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/gesto.pptx)
        1. [Copy in repo](gesto/gesto.pptx)

1. Thesis from the University of Coimbra for the degree of Master in Biomedical Engineering, uses Sensey to trigger an alarm to help vulnerable social groups via WeDoCare app they built
    - Thesis
        ![citation](wedocare/citation.png)
        1. [Main Link](https://eg.uc.pt/bitstream/10316/86127/1/Disserta%C3%A7%C3%A3o%20M%C3%A1rcia%20Rocha.pdf)
        1. [Copy in repo](wedocare/thesis.pdf)

1. Apps using Sensey

    - Push-Ups - [Playstore](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mk.push)
    - FastAccess - [Github](https://github.com/k0shk0sh/FastAccess)
    - Catradiod - [Playstore](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yopachara.catradiod), [Github](https://github.com/yopachara/Catradiod)
    - Get Off Your Phone - [Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nephi.getoffyourphone)

    - [Other apps using Sensey, via AppBrain Stats](https://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/details/sensey/sensey)

    > If you are using Sensey in your app and would like to be listed here, please let me know by opening a [new issue](https://github.com/nisrulz/sensey/issues/new)!


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Long ago, Fred Korematsu was arrested in San Leandro, Calif., his home town, for defying an executive order that led to the expulsion or imprisonment of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
He later went to the Supreme Court to fight it, much as others now oppose President Trump's executive order barring people from seven mostly majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States. Korematsu lost in 1944 and, although his criminal conviction was vacated in 1983, the case was not overturned.
More than 30 years after Korematsu challenged, for the second time, what is widely considered one of the most unjust government actions in U.S. history, the country watched another legal battle conclude this morning, when the Supreme Court issued its decision in Trump v. Hawaii. The court upheld Trump's travel ban and overturned Korematsu's case.
The irony is that Korematsu's vindication came as the Supreme Court actualized his worst fear by "racially profiling of a group because they looked like the enemy," according to Fred Korematsu's daughter, Karen.
"The Korematsu court presumed people were dangerous because they were of Japanese descent. Today, it is because they are from a particular country," said Erwin Chemerinsky, who is dean of the University of California at Berkeley Law School and once called the Supreme Court's ruling against Korematsu "one of the worst decisions in history." Neither assumption, he said, is rooted in equal protection of the law.
"In the majority opinion, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote, 'Korematsu was gravely wrong the day it was decided.' I think a future court will one day say [today's decision] was a huge mistake," Chemerinsky said.
Some attorneys, such as Josh Blackman, an associate professor of law at the South Texas College of Law in Houston, disagreed. Blackman believed the two cases were only similar in that they involved classifications based on nationality. The distinction, he said, is that in Korematsu the federal government rounded up citizens and interned them, while Trump dealt with noncitizens who sought entry.
Fred Korematsu was not yet 23 on the day Japanese warplanes killed more than 2,000 at Pearl Harbor. Two months later, as he began to fight a world war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order on Feb. 19, 1942, that led to the roundup and imprisonment of every Japanese American on the West Coast.
Korematsu's parents and siblings reported to military officials, who took them from their home to live in converted horse pens while permanent internment camps were constructed in other states.
"Horse stalls are for horses, not for people," Karen Korematsu recalled her father saying. Japanese Americans, she said, were treated inhumanely and without due process of law. As a young man in San Leandro, Fred Korematsu once had a surgeon cut a bit of flesh from his eyelids — to look less Japanese, less suspicious to his neighbors. It didn't work.
Korematsu made up a fake name and laid low in a rooming house. He lasted only a few weeks before he was spotted and arrested.
Korematsu learned he'd lost by letter, before being allowed to return to California.
Years later, when she was grown, Karen Korematsu came home one day in 1982 to find her father sitting in his living room with a lawyer named Peter Irons and a stack of old papers. Irons, who was also a political scientist at the University of California at San Diego, had discovered memos never seen during Fred Korematsu's Supreme Court trial; Irons, who had been researching a book, found the documents in mislabeled boxes belonging to the Justice Department.
In one letter, the general who ordered the internments wrote how the "racial characteristics" of Japanese people made them inherently less loyal.
In another, a naval intelligence officer estimated that fewer than 3 percent of the Japanese population might be saboteurs.
"I thought, 'My God, there's probably a lawsuit here,' " Irons recalled. So he rounded up three Japanese Americans who had fought their internments at the Supreme Court. The first two were eager for a rematch. And hard as he'd been to track down, Korematsu was game, too.
As the case proceeded, more about the Japanese internment program was being revealed to the country. A document declassified since World War II contained an admission that the program was designed in part to appease "public morale," The Washington Post reported in 2015.
A congressional panel ruled in 1983 that "race prejudice, war hysteria and the failure of political leadership" prompted the detentions.
Korematsu missed the end of his Supreme Court case in 1944, having been interned along with other Japanese Americans from the coast. But as a federal judge read out her decision in November 1983, Korematsu sat in a packed courtroom. By then, not even the government would defend his conviction.
"Apparently the government would like this court to set aside the conviction without looking at the record in an effort to put this unfortunate episode in our country's history behind us," U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel wrote in her decision.
At age 63, Korematsu was a pariah and convict no more.
In the remaining years of his life, until his death at age 86, Korematsu would hear apologies from U.S. presidents. He would receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Bill Clinton. And his name would sometimes be invoked when someone felt the government was again casting blanket of suspicion on innocent people.
Tuesday was one such day.
For months, Karen Korematsu heard echoes of her father's old warnings in the way Trump's order cast suspicion on an entire class of people, and the way its defenders in court made claim to national security without citing any evidence against the people the order affected.
She was reminded that during the campaign, Trump promised a broader ban on Muslim foreigners — as well as a registry of Muslims living in the United States.
She was reminded that one of his top backers cited her father's case as legal precedent for such things.
Karen Korematsu recalled her father's words. Japanese Americans, she said, were treated inhumanely and without due process of law.


Watch as the Calcutta Cup visited Shetland on one of many visits around Scotland. On 24 February, Scotland claimed a 25-13 victory over England in the NatWest 6 Nations 2018. This heralded a return of the Calcutta Cup to Scotland for the first time in a decade.Since then, the cup has been on tour around the country, from Shetland to Strewarty, Haddington to Hawick. It has visited rugby clubs, schools, agricultural shows, a children's hospital, a book launch an awards ceremony, community gatherings and charity events as well as the top of 1,400ft hill.


Issaquah, WA (USA) - September 28, 2012 - Version 10.5 Service Pack 3 (SP3) was released on September 28, 2012.
This Service Pack contains fixes to a number of bugs and errors that have been reported to (or independently discovered by) us over the past year. The key modifications are described in the Release Notes.
All users with current Subscriptions are encouraged to download this new version. All users with current Subscriptions can download GoldSim 10.5 SP3 directly from the Download Section of the GoldSim website.


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Tomten (fullständig titel: Tomten – en vintersaga) är en svensk kortfilm från 1941 av Gösta Roosling. Filmen är baserad på Viktor Rydbergs dikt Tomten från 1881, som i filmen läses av skådespelaren Hilda Borgström. Tomten gestaltas av Kiki. Filmen hade premiär 8 december 1941, som en del av kortfilmspaketet Kalle Anka bjuder på fest.

Filmen sänds traditionsenligt ännu idag i Sveriges Television på julafton eller juldagen.

Tomten spelades in på en gård i Storsved utanför Järvsö i Ljusdals kommun.

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 Kiki – tomten

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I am so excited about the future of the event marketing industry! Over the past 20 years, I have personally witnessed the event profession go from a purely logistics and design-focused role to a highly strategic, highly integrated marketing function.
A few forward-thinking corporations have begun to incorporate event marketing into the marketing campaign planning process, but event marketers have not always been privy to the same level of marketing education as their marketing peers.
As a veteran of the corporate event world, I have learned so much from my marketing and event peers in the industry, and have achieved tremendous success breaking out of the logistics grind getting a seat a the marketing leadership table.
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This is where the idea for Corporate Event Marketer came from. I have conversations with event professionals every day about how they can get promoted to the next level, but they are only taking on more and more work, hoping they will be noticed and rewarded for it. Unfortunately, corporations will give merit increases for great performance, but in order to get a promotion, you have to prove that you provide more value to the business than your peers who may also be in consideration for a promotion.
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