I have just returned from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Monaco, which reinforced my belief that Almaty is trailing in its race against Beijing for the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
With candidature files due to be submitted next month and the final vote by IOC members scheduled for July 31 in Kuala Lumpur, time is short to make up the deficit.
Perhaps this doesn't concern you unduly.
After all, with Kazakhstan due to host both a Winter Universiade and an international Expo in 2017, your country will have other opportunities to place itself in the international spotlight.
And with the recent buffeting received by the oil price, plus attendant political uncertainties, you may feel you have other priorities.
But given the series of withdrawals by other bidders, prospective and actual, and the perceived shortcomings of your only rival's plan, it would seem a pity if Almaty did not do its utmost to capitalise on the opportunity that has somewhat unexpectedly presented itself.
I am not sure that you have had the experience of fighting a campaign while behind in the polls.
Electoral candidates in this sort of position in liberal western democracies tend to have little to lose by taking risks: if they can catch the eye, they might build some much-needed momentum; if the gambit fails, they are no worse off than when they started.
With the possibility of a clash between the 2022 FIFA World Cup and the Winter Olympics in January or February, I think that Almaty should be giving careful consideration to announcing that it is ready, if the IOC judges it desirable, to let the Olympics stretch - for the first time ever - into March.
While I don't know the areas where the Games would take place, others who do, along with relevant temperature/precipitation charts, suggest that the climate could accommodate such an initiative.
The gesture might well be rendered redundant; it remains hazardous in the extreme to predict what dates for the Gulf's first World Cup FIFA will eventually settle on.
In the meantime, though, it would get the sports world focusing on Almaty's bid much more closely than has so far been the case, while at the same time demonstrating to the IOC both that Kazakhstan will do its utmost to be helpful and that bid leaders are attuned to the cut and thrust of international sports politics.
If FIFA did plump for a January/February tournament, then such a sequence, with one sporting mega-event following hard on the heels of another, would still be far from ideal.
The World Cup would probably coincide, in such circumstances, with the Olympic torch relay's passage through Kazakhstan - a territory so vast, as you recently put it, that it would "tire the wings of a bird to fly over it".
But it would be much better than an out-and-out clash - particularly for the IOC and winter sports federations (IFs).
Such an offer by Almaty might be greeted with reservations by the Winter Paralympic sports community, who may have concerns that an Olympic Games lasting into March might, in turn, push the Paralympics into an impractically late time-slot.
This too though could, I think, be turned to Almaty's advantage via a plan for much closer coordination of Olympic and Paralympic events.
Some Paralympic disciplines could actually be incorporated into the Olympic programme, while the remainder could be staged the following week.
Such a proposal would, once again, get people talking about Almaty and, if accepted, could justifiably be described as historic.
I don't want to mislead you: however brilliantly your bid leaders perform between now and July 31, it will be tough to triumph from the position in which I think Almaty now stands, not least because your remaining opponent is capital of the world's most populous, and one of its most powerful, countries - a city that, if it wins, would become the first in history to host both Summer and Winter Games.
But the task is not yet impossible: a bold, well-conceived and proactive strategy might yet put Kazakhstan's biggest city on The Bright Road to Olympic victory.
David Owen worked for 20 years for the Financial Times in the United States, Canada, France and the UK. He ended his FT career as sports editor after the 2006 World Cup and is now freelancing, including covering the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the 2010 World Cup and London 2012. Owen's Twitter feed can be accessed here.


We are slowly working our way through the Live 'N Learn Folder based on Birds and are learning things we never knew. Yesterday, we discovered that birds' eggs do not all look the same. I thought my kids knew this but apparently they did not. Not only do they not all look the same but they come in a surprising array of shapes, sizes, and colors.
Did you know that an emu eggs is naturally a dark green color and actually have three layers of color: dark green, teal, and white? In fact, because they have three layers of color, they make a cool carving medium. Check out this carved emu egg.
Last night, my kids were bugging me to do our edible craft that goes with this study. They were already in their jammies but we did it anyway. I love that "school" can happen any day or any time of the day when you homeschool.
Here are the kids forming the birds' nests that we made. They are constructed of chow mein noodles and melted chocolate chips. Then they are formed in foil lined muffin tins. After they are formed, you can add "eggs" of your choice and marshmellow chicks. We used white chocolate covered coffee beans (they were the right shape and size and my husband could enjoy the unused beans), but you can use white chocolate covered raisins or jelly beans as well. We didn't add the chicks because they aren't out for Easter yet. You can get the recipe at Enchanted Learning; this is one of the free items there.
Here are the kids enjoying their treats. Once the coffee beans are removed (yuck!), they are so yummy. Crunchy chocolate! I've already eaten three of them and there's seven left....somebody help me!


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Q: Apply Planning to Web search This is a homework, the question is : How would you apply the ideas of planning to Web search? Please answer at a high level; a paragraph or two will be sufficient.
I'm not sure what is the high level of planning, and don't know where to start. I read some papers about the information retrieval and web search but still cant connect them with Planning. Hope someone can give me some hints, like the relationship of planning and information retrival or web search.

A: I am not sure which part of web-search you are referring to. I'm assuming your question is about connection between AI planning and Web-search in general.
A web-crawler is integral part of a search engine. I think there are a plethora of AI planning algorithms used in order to decide which type of pages to crawl next and at what frequency to crawl a domain.
The other area where AI planning helps in Ad-Bidding. I'm not so sure about the applications specifically what kind of algorithms are used. May be do some google search to figure out.

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What is a Ground Effect Vehicle
GEV Applications
Ground Effect Vehicle History
Ekranoversion Hovercraft Conversion Kit
Hoversoar Ground Effect Vehicle
A Brief History of Wing-In-Ground Vehicles
Ground effect was originally observed in maritime birds flying close to the sea surface to travel longer distances with less effort. In World War II, German flight crews flew close to the sea surface to extend the range of their bombers, as well as presumably trying to avoid Radar detection. RAF flight crews found empty Lancaster bombers difficult to land on short runways because of ground effect.
After the War, two parallel streams of development took place. The Russian Ekranoplans and the German/US reverse delta WIG's.
The Russian developed machines, generally referred to as Ekranoplans, used rectangular wings in combination with a large T-Tail. The drawback with the rectangular lift wings is that the lift is concentrated to a line running across the vehicle, meaning it is a bit like flying a see-saw. This lack of longitudenal stability, has occasionally caused incidents, such as the KM nose diving into the water and an Orlyonok breaking into two. The lift to drag ratio also tended to be no better than a commercial aircraft, so this format has not found favour elsewhere.
Alexander Lippisch in German and the US, developed machines generally based on a forward swept delta wing format, in combination high-elevator tail with either single or twin rudders. This system proved naturally more stable as the lift is distributed more evenly along the vehicle's length and its lift to drag ratio is much better than the Ekranoplans, thus making them more fuel efficient than not just them, but commercial aircraft as well. As a result, these machines are beginning to find commercial success in archepelagos as a lower cost alternative to helicopters and a more practical alternative to fixed wing aircraft.
More on ground effect vehicle history can be seen at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_vehicle
http://hoverwing.webs.com/history.htm
http://www.brunodemichelis.com/Russian-Aero-marine.htm

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What Concept Redescription Can Do for an Argument
In 1591, François Viète published In Artem Analyticam Isagoge (Introduction to the Analytic Art), which presented a new way of writing equations that "constituted a radical departure from the traditions of ages" (Dantzig, 2007/1930, p. 89). Viète proposed that all given parameters be represented by consonants and all unknowns by vowels. So, instead of writing 5?2 + 4? + 7, one would write BA2 + CA + 7. Some years later, in his Géométrie, Descartes chose to use the first letters of the alphabet for parameters and the last letters for unknowns: AX2 + BX + 7, a simple improvement that, most likely through its easily visualized polarity, made the new system more intuitive. But the radical step had been Viète's.
The new notation allowed the paraphrasing of any equation into numerous equivalent forms (Dantzig, p. 90) and made it possible to speak in terms of classes, or "species" of equations, as Viète's phrase, "logistica speciosa" acknowledges. This reconceptualization thus cleaved algebra definitively from arithmetic: the former was calculating with types and the latter (the logistica numerosa) with individual numerical coefficients (Kline, 1980, p. 122). By rendering abstract all terms in the equation, this tidy new notation also made the arithmetic restrictions concerning negative and complex (e.g., √- 1) numbers irrelevant. "In vain, after this," notes Dantzig, "will one stipulate that the expression a – b has a meaning only if a is greater than b, that a/b is meaningless when a is not a multiple of b, and that n√a is not a number unless a is a perfect nth power. The very act of writing down the meaningless has given it a meaning; and it is not easy to deny the existence of something that has received a name" (p. 91).
Viète's discovery is a fine example of what the cognitive psychologist Annette Karmiloff-Smith (1992) has called explicit "representational redescription". Viète's discovery is also a compact and useful metaphor for thinking about how writers choose to name the concepts they wish to discuss, and how carefully considered redescribing of key concepts, objects, or persons, can enhance their readers' understanding and appreciation of the argument.
Recently I have come across three examples of very effective concept redescription in non-fictional exposition. The authors reject the accepted name of a concept or person for reasons that make good rhetorical sense. The new names they have chosen to work with allow the reader to engage in the equivalent of escaping the workaday cognitive operations required by the logistica numerosa for the more exotic, forbidding, and fruitful cognitive terrain of the logistica speciosa. In this installment and the next, we will look at how redescription enhances arguments in texts from different disciplines.
As a first example, let's consider the "placebo effect". There is a large literature on this effect, with contributions from a number of fields. The word "placebo" is commonly defined as a sham treatment given to trick patients into believing that they are receiving a medically active substance or treatment. In his book on the subject, the medical anthropologist Daniel E. Moerman (2002) claims that the term "placebo" has been used to refer to an overly broad range of phenomena and that it should be abandoned, or reserved only for control-group responses in clinical trials (p. 4). Moerman argues that the placebo effect is precisely not the effect of the placebo (p. 14), but a response to the meaning fashioned from the patient's involvement with the medical personnel and institution. He therefore redescribes the "placebo effect" as the "meaning response", and defines it as "the psychological and physiological effects of meaning in the treatment of illness" (p. 14). This redescription allows his concept to include placebos that cause negative effects (i.e., nocebos), thus enlarging the concept (as did Viète's new procedure), but it does much more than that. He wants to shift the grid so that the central concept is in an entirely different semantic neighborhood, thereby reorienting the argument so that the reader has both a better view of the newly-defined important sights and an enriched set of implicatures and connotations to enhance her experience of those sights. His new term highlights the patient's role in the process, and ties in closely with his hermeneutic perspective on the heretofore narrowly medicalized studies and theories concerning placebos and their effects. The new term thus broadens the semantic network of the reader, encouraging ideas that might not have been born of the older term and its cognitive and emotional networks.
But one might ask at this point: Is such concept redescription really like the move from the logistica numerosa to the logistica speciosa, and not just a sort of euphemism? Perhaps somewhat like saying "pre-owned" instead of "used" to sell more cars? I shall insist that the argumentatively effective concept redescription is not like euphemism, in which a rather drab or disagreeable concept is made to sound less drab or disagreeable through the use of a funny or aesthetically pleasing word or phrase. In fact, in the examples discussed here, the writer uses a less aesthetically pleasing word that moves away from singularity and toward conceptual extension. This redescription better captures the referent that the writer has in mind, and pries the concept away from the sparkle of the term commonly accepted in discourse on the subject. In our first example above, the Latinate term "placebo" (meaning, "I shall please") certainly holds more allure than the Old English-derived "meaning". But taking some of the shine off of the first concept is necessary to have the reader focus on the wider conceptual field of the second term, and on the claimed more extensive and profound psychological effects. What successful concept redescription most often does for an argument is to allow the reader to mentally place the concept alongside others of its species, which have been ignored by, downplayed by, or simply not detectable in the presence of the earlier term -- logistica speciosa.
As a rhetorical choice, Moerman's presentation of the new term "meaning response" is quite effective. One improvement that could have been made in the exposition would have been to refrain from using the word "placebo" subsequent to his presentation of the new term. Perhaps the interleaving of the two terms is undertaken in the text to remind the reader of the contrast between the two terms. Or perhaps the writer senses that there is more to be gained than lost in this particular case by allowing the two terms to be juxtaposed throughout the text. However, as we will see in next week's examples, there is much argumentative power to be gained by boldly presenting one's new term and never (or almost never) looking back.
Dantzig, Tobias. (2007/1930). Number: The language of science. London: Plume.
Karmiloff-Smith, Annette. (1992). Beyond modularity: A developmental perspective on cognitive science. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Kline, Morris. (1980). Mathematics: The loss of certainty. New York: Oxford.
Moerman, Daniel E. (2002). Meaning, medicine and the 'placebo effect'. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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Lab notes #013 Inserting keys beyond capacity
Jan 9, 2023 • 3 min read
programmer inserting keys beyond the capacity of a relaxed radix balanced trie
Spent the week fixing issues with insertion, mostly with different edge cases. Was able to solve an issue with inserting at the beginning and the end of the trie. The edge case was that take_left and take_right should take into account when we take everything or take nothing. It also exposed a bug with the height returned from concatenation. As implemented, merge_nodes for the left, center, and right tries when zipping up a concatenation always added a height to the resulting merged result. This may not be optimal, but for now, it's good enough, and returning the height should future-proof against any future changes.
There was an oversight that blew up the time to finish the insert_at implementation. Most of the papers were focused on using RRBTs to implement a Vector, which is an ordered list of elements with sequential indexes.
But if the keys need to support hashes, then we'd need to be able to insert keys beyond the current capacity of the trie. Can we, and do we need to?
Let's look at the requirements for the in-memory store for the data. The keys of each triplet in the covering index need to be:
Equivalent O(1) access time given a key.
Able to iterate over a range of keys in O(n) time.
Should the key be a hash or an index? The first requirement suggests the former, and the second requirement suggests the latter. In Lab note #008, I stumbled upon this issue with the ID already. Sequential UUIDs should suffice, and I would need a way to insert keys beyond capacity.
Following the papers carefully, I assumed that any reference outside of the capacity of an internal or leaf node would be an Err. This includes iterations over the node path when following a key.
Instead, the node path iterator should never error out when being created, but instead, return as much of the node path from the root as possible given the key. It's then up to the caller to detect whether the first node is a leaf or an internal node. If it's a leaf, then the full node path was found for the key. Otherwise, the key is looking for nodes outside of its current capacity, and the caller will have to then start creating room to hold the new value, hopefully using the already written append.
This shouldn't affect lookup terribly, but it's not clear to me that it will still work with insert. insert consists of take_left, take_right, append, and concat_sub_trie. Of the four, concat_sub_trie is the most complicated, and it's not clear to me that it can handle keys beyond its current capacity, because now the slot size table takes on a different meaning now.
Instead of being a list of the cumulative number of elements in the child sub-tries, it now will be a list of max keys in each child sub-trie. This breaks len(), which we rely on heavily.
The first alternative is to traverse down into each leaf node of a child sub-trie to determine its length. This is untenable since we'd have to traverse the entire triangle of internal nodes for every leaf node.
The second alternative is to store both the cumulative max key and the slot sizes of each child sub-trie. However, that doubles the amount of storage needed.
This bears some thought. Off the top of my head, perhaps just don't use Relaxation with the Map implementation. Length should have no meaning in a map, and without relaxation, we can just traverse down specific child tries, knowing that's where we need to be. If the child trie is missing, we just keep creating nodes until we reach zero height and just write a leaf node and then build a tower of internal nodes as we recurse back up and attach it to the child trie.
If we keep Relaxation, we can dispose of alternative two, if we find the correct child index given the current key's truncated segment. The other children would have to be empty, and we'd also have to update the slot size table for the entire node path back up to the root, which may consist of M writes per internal node.
The reason why we want Relaxation is that it allows concat in O(log n). But I just realized that I conflated concat with merge. In the database, we want to be able to merge the live index with the remote index. Concat is not going to cut it because it'll shift all the keys. It'll only work in the special case of non-overlapping tries that are concatenated in order.
This is a major setback. I'll need to go back and review my notes on Datomic and see where I went wrong with my evaluation of data structure to use, and see if there's a way to salvage the work.
The state management library front-ends are looking for is a database
State is a cross-cutting concern. Weak equivalence hinders re-rendering. Distance between code and data breeds complexity. State transitions need linear traces.
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Lab notes #015 Writing about state management
This past week was spent researching and reminding myself of the core problems of building interactive apps and addressing state management problems. React I Love You, but You're Bringing Me DownGet in Zoomer, We're saving ReactThe new wave of React state managementWhy React Context is Not a "State Management" Tool
Lab notes #014 Revisiting Requirements
The persistent data structure in Datomic is used as a live index for querying. However, it's unique in that it saves itself to a storage-backed key/value store in segments–continuous pieces of data akin to the data in the leaf nodes of a trie. By fetching a key/value
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Simple Tips to Manage an Amicable Break Up
When a relationship ends, it can be difficult to manage the split amicably. Often, each person wants what's best for themselves, and this can lead to some tense conversations and hurt feelings. If you're looking to split up in a way that is respectful and considerate of your former partner, follow these tips.
Talk openly and honestly
The best way to manage an amicable split is by talking openly and honestly with your former partner. This means discussing your feelings and thoughts honestly and listening to theirs in return. This can be difficult, but it's important to remember that you both deserve to have your voices heard. If you can communicate effectively and respectfully, it will make the split much smoother.
Stay respectful at all times
It's critical to be courteous and considerate of your prior partner at all times to split up amicably. This means not talking badly about them to others, insulting them, or engaging in any behavior that could be considered harmful. If you can remain respectful, it will help to keep the split as smooth as possible.
Keep conversations civil
When splitting up, it's important to keep conversations civil. This means avoiding name-calling, insults, and other hurtful behavior. It's important to remember that you're still talking to your former partner and that it's possible to have a respectful discussion even when things are tense. If you can't manage to keep the conversation civil, it might be best to postpone it until you can.
Don't badmouth your former partner to others
It's important to remember that when a relationship ends, it's not just about you. Your former partner is a human being with feelings, and they deserve to be treated with respect. Badmouthing your former partner to others will only make things worse and could damage your relationship with those people. If you have grievances with your former partner, try to address them in a constructive way.
Cooperate on shared responsibilities
One of the most important things to remember when splitting up amicably is to cooperate on shared responsibilities. This means being willing to work together to make sure things like bills are paid, the rent is covered, and the kids are taken care of. By cooperating, you can avoid any unnecessary conflict and ensure that the split goes as smoothly as possible.
Divide assets fairly
When splitting up assets, it's important to be fair and equitable. This means that each person should receive an equal share of the assets, regardless of who earned more or who contributed more to the relationship. This can be difficult to achieve, but it's important to try to remain objective and fair-minded.
If you're struggling to come to an agreement about asset distribution, it may be helpful to seek the help of a divorce lawyer. A divorce lawyer can help you negotiate a fair settlement and can also represent you in court if needed.
Respect each other's privacy
When splitting up, it's important to respect each other's privacy. This means not talking to others about the details of the split and not posting negative comments about your former partner on social media. By respecting each other's privacy, you can avoid any further conflict and allow yourselves to move on.
It's also important to remember that you are still in a relationship – even if it's a difficult one. You should avoid discussing the split with others, as it will only make things worse. If you need to talk about what's going on, try to do it in a private setting.
By respecting each other's privacy and keeping the split as civil as possible, you can minimize the damage done to your relationship.
Seek out support if needed
When going through a difficult time, it can be helpful to talk to someone who understands what you're going through. A therapist or counselor can provide you with support and guidance and can help you work through your feelings. If you're struggling to cope with the split, seek out help from a professional. It's important to remember that you're not alone, and there are people who can help you get through this tough time.
Splitting up is hard, but it doesn't have to be a disaster. If you follow these guidelines for amicable splits, you'll find that the process goes more smoothly and gives each person what they want in the end. Splitting up can be difficult on its own without any added complications – so make sure your partner knows how much effort you've put in to try to make things work out before ending anything too soon.
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The school year runs from February through December. Kids attend school for about four hours in the morning or the afternoon. Most schools require uniforms.
An estimated one-quarter of children in Brazil do not attend school at all, but work, especially in cities.
A traditional pastime is Queimada, a game of tag that is played in two teams. Jump rope, card games and checkers are other favorites.
Brazilian families are often large; having five or six siblings is not unusual. Nearly one-third of the population is under eighteen!
Most Brazilians live in cities. About a quarter of city dwellers live in hillside shantytowns called favelas.
Unique holiday: Festas Juninas, the Feasts of June, is a series of huge parties (sometimes even bigger than carnival) that celebrate saints Anthony, John and Peter. Festivities include costumes, dances and—because June is winter in Brazil—bonfires.
Did you know? Brazil has the largest area of rain forest in the world—almost a billion acres. It includes more than a million different insect species, tens of thousands of different plant species and more than a thousand different bird species.
For more information, go to the Fact Monster page about Brazil.


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Q: golang import struct pointer Ok i have a main package and a http handler package. Essentially what i am trying to do is setup a global struct so that way i can call upon information in that struct at any time.
Basic outline of my attempted example below:
Main package imports handler function
Main package calls handlerfunc
Handlerfunc sets http.ResponseWriter and other items into UrlInfo struct
Handlerfunc runs passed in function (without having to pass UrlStruct into function)
Run function (home in this example)
Function home can call upon variable uinfo at any time cause its a pointer UrlInfo struct
Obviously this doesnt work, but this is essentially what i would like to do so that way im not having to pass all this info into my home function. Keeping it clean and simple.
Any thoughts and ideas are welcome. Thanks.
Handler Package

package handler

// Struct containing http requests and variables
type UrlInfo struct {
    Res http.ResponseWriter
    Req *http.Request
    Item string
}

func HandleFunc(handlepath string, runfunc func()) {
    // Set handler and setup struct
    http.HandleFunc(handlepath, func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
        url := new(UrlInfo)
        url.Res = w
        url.Req = r
        url.Item = "Item information"

        runfunc()
    })
}

Main Package

import "handler"

var uinfo = &handler.UrlInfo{}

func init() {
    handler.HandleFunc("/home/", home)
}

func home() {
    fmt.Println(uinfo.Item)
}

A: From what I gather from your question, you are attempting to define a single, global instance of a structure which, among other things, holds a reference to the current Request and ResponseWriter.
If this is the intention, I should warn you this is going to cause problems.
Go's http package executes each request handler in a separate goroutine. This means that you can have arbitrarily many requests being handled simultaneously. Therefore they can not all refer to the same global structure safely and expect it to contain request information relevant only to that particular request. The global instance should not be used if you expect your server to be thread safe.
Keeping the code clean by grouping extraneous parameters in a structure can be handy, but in your case, I do not believe you can (or should) avoid passing a new instance of UrlInfo structure directly to home() as a parameter. It will make things unnecessarily complex and unpredictable.


On 11 March last year, Japan was hit by massive earthquake and tsunami, resulting in thousands of tragic deaths, as well as a nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima.
While global attention has long since shifted elsewhere, the nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima is far from over. This is the nature of nuclear accidents: they leave a long-lasting radioactive legacy.
One year on, the situation is not under control. The announcement by the Japanese government that the damaged reactors were in a state of "cold shutdown" was met with scepticism and anger from a concerned public – and with disbelief among nuclear experts.
As the recent rise in temperature in Reactor 2 has shown, the Fukushima facility remains unstable and highly vulnerable to a new earthquake. Meanwhile, it has been estimated that "cleaning up" the disaster will take a hundreds-strong workforce decades to complete.
Beyond the reactors themselves, and the arbitrary 20km exclusion zone, the surrounding area in Fukushima province and beyond will suffer from radioactive contamination for generations to come.
To give a concrete example: the amount of radioactive caesium 137 (which has a half life of around 30 years) released during the Fukushima disaster was 168 times that released by the Hiroshima bomb.
It has been estimated that excess deaths, due to radiation exposure in the region, could run into the thousands.
Fukushima, like Chernobyl 25 years before it, has shown us that while the likelihood of a nuclear disaster occurring may be low, the potential impact is enormous.
The inherent risk in the use of nuclear energy, as well as the related proliferation of nuclear technologies, can and does have disastrous consequences. The only certain way to eliminate this potentially devastating risk is to phase out nuclear power altogether.
Some countries appear to have learnt this lesson. In Germany, the government changed course in the aftermath of Fukushima and decided to go ahead with a previously agreed phase out of nuclear power. Many scenarios now foresee Germany sourcing 100% of its power needs from renewables by 2030. Meanwhile Italian citizens voted against plans to go nuclear with a 90% majority.
The same is not yet true in Japan. Although only three out of its 54 nuclear reactors are online and generating power, while the Japanese authorities conduct "stress tests", the government hopes to reopen almost all of these and prolong the working life of a number of its ageing reactors by to up to 60 years.
The Japanese public have made their opposition clear however. Opinion polls consistently show a strong majority of the population is now against nuclear power. Local grassroots movements opposing nuclear power have been springing up across Japan. Mayors and governors in fear of losing their power tend to follow the majority of their citizens.
The European level response has been to undertake stress tests on nuclear reactors across the union. However, these stress tests appear to be little more than a PR exercise to encourage public acceptance in order to allow the nuclear industry to continue with business as usual.
The tests fail to assess the full risks of nuclear power, ignoring crucial factors such as fires, human failures, degradation of essential infrastructure or the impact of an airplane crash.
In the UK, the government is determined to push ahead with the development of a new fleet of nuclear reactors, as the partnership announced by David Cameron and Nicholas Sarkozy shows.
The orchestrated effort between coalition officials and the nuclear industry to create a pro-nuclear public information campaign in the days after Fukushima showed that not even a large-scale nuclear incident could halt ministers' obsession with new nuclear. Officials did not even wait for the results of the government's own safety review before rushing to assure the British people that a similar disaster is not possible in the UK.
Now, the proposed electricity market reform is set to rig the energy market in favour of nuclear – with the introduction of a carbon price floor likely to result in huge windfall handouts of around £50m a year to existing nuclear generators.
Despite persistent denials by ministers, this is clearly a subsidy by another name, making a mockery of the coalition pledge not to gift public money to this already established industry. The Energy Fair group is arguing that the cap on liabilities for nuclear accidents is technically a subsidy and therefore illegal under EU law – and is now taking the case to the European commission.
Fukushima showed us that nuclear remains a high risk technology. But what is also clear is that nuclear fails to make the grade even in economic terms.
As we have seen with the two new nuclear reactors under construction in Europe, the already prohibitive upfront constructions costs have been grossly underestimated. The EPR reactors under construction in Finland and France are both around 100% over budget, with the end date for construction being constantly postponed.
The hidden costs of nuclear - such as waste disposal, insurance and decommissioning - are also huge, and it is the public that ends up footing the bill. Surely it makes more sense to invest billions of pounds in genuinely sustainable and low risk technologies?
One year on from Fukushima, we should not wait for another disaster to finally convince us to give up on nuclear power.


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The Most Anticipated Children's and YA Books of Spring 2018
Drawn from PW's Spring Children's Announcements Issue, here are our editors' selections for 18 children's and young adult books that can't arrive soon enough. And check out our picks for this season's most anticipated adult books as well.
Baby Monkey, Private Eye by Brian Selznick and David Serlin, illus. by Brian Selznick (Scholastic Press, Feb.) - Selznick loves to bend format and genre, and this hybrid picture book/chapter book/graphic narrative—created with his husband, Serlin—is no different. Readers follow Baby Monkey as he solves four robberies—while still leaving time for important things like eating snacks and putting on pants.
Hello Hello by Brendan Wenzel (Chronicle, Mar.) - Fresh off his Caldecott Honor for They All Saw a Cat, Wenzel returns with an animal tale of a different kind, a gentle reminder that many of Earth's creatures need our protection, told through spare rhymes and playful portraits.
Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall (Little, Brown, Apr.) - In Blackall's first solo outing since 2014's The Baby Tree, the Caldecott Medal–winning illustrator of Finding Winnie traces the idiosyncratic life and work of a lighthouse keeper and his growing family, until the time that his services are no longer needed.
Islandborn by Junot Díaz, illus. by Leo Espinosa (Dial, Mar.) - The author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and This Is How You Lose Her makes his first foray into children's books with the story of a girl named Lola, who turns to members of her community to better understand the island home on which she was born but that she herself has no memories of.
She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History by Chelsea Clinton, illus. by Alexandra Boiger (Philomel, Mar.) - Building on the success of 2017's She Persisted, which profiled 13 trailblazing American women, Clinton goes global, highlighting the accomplishments of a diverse group of women that includes Marie Curie, Wangari Maathai, J.K. Rowling, and Malala Yousafzai.
They Say Blue by Jillian Tamaki (Abrams, Mar.) - Tamaki—co-creator of the Caldecott and Printz Honor–winning This One Summer—presents her first picture book this spring, about a girl whose contemplations of nature lead her to ask questions, query the things she's been told, and take careful notice of the world around her.
Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi (Disney-Hyperion, Mar.) - This first book in the Pandava series kicks off the Rick Riordan Presents publishing program, which aims to tell stories drawn from underrepresented cultures, myths, and voices. Balancing action and comedy, Chokshi introduces 12-year-old Aru, who learns that she's the reincarnation of one of five Pandava brothers after she accidentally releases a demon who could bring about the end of all things.
The Creature of the Pines by Adam Gidwitz, illus. by Hatem Aly (Dutton, Apr.) - Gidwitz and Aly, whose The Inquisitor's Tale took home a Newbery Honor, have partnered with the founders of the creative studio Mixtape Club to launch the Unicorn Rescue Society series. In this first outing, students Elliot and Uchenna discover the eponymous society, which works to protect the world's mythological creatures.
New Shoes by Sara Varon (First Second, Mar.) - Acclaimed comics creator Varon, a former Sendak Fellow, highlights the flora and fauna of South America (Guyana, specifically) in the entertaining story of a donkey shoemaker who goes to great lengths to satisfy his new celebrity client: calypso singer Miss Manatee.
The Penderwicks at Last by Jeanne Birdsall (Knopf, May) - It's been three years since readers last saw the Penderwicks siblings, in 2015's The Penderwicks in Spring. In their fifth and final story, baby sister Lydia is now 11 years old, and her older sisters are returning to Arundel: someone is getting married.
Rebound by Kwame Alexander (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Apr.) - Alexander rewinds the shot clock in this prequel to The Crossover, as he gives readers a look at the basketball-playing youth of Chuck Bell—the father of the twins who starred in his Newbery Medal–winning novel-in-verse.
The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown (Little, Brown, Mar.) - Roz the robot is back in this sequel to Brown's bestselling novel, The Wild Robot. In that book, Roz struggled to fit in among the animal inhabitants of a remote jungle island, but now that Roz is off the island, a fresh set of challenges await.
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (Holt, Mar.) - This first book in the Orïsha Legacy trilogy marks a major debut for Adeyemi; acquired in a seven-figure deal, it's a West African–inspired fantasy set in a world into which magic, long banished, may be returning.
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, Apr.) - Ireland transports readers to an altered version of America's past, in which the Civil War ended when the dead inexplicably returned to the life as shambling hordes. Her heroine, Jane McKeene, has been trained to exterminate the undead, but her own life takes an unexpected turn when she uncovers a far-reaching conspiracy.
I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman (Viking, Mar.) - The lives of three strangers—a singer who has lost her voice, a gay Muslim teen struggling with a breakup, and a newcomer to New York City—collide in a novel from the bestselling author of If I Stay, set over a single day and rotating among their perspectives.
Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson, illus. by Emily Carroll (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Feb.) - Almost 20 years after its original publication, Anderson's first novel of silence and sexual abuse, a National Book Award Finalist, returns as a graphic novel, adapted by Anderson and featuring artwork by Through the Woods illustrator Carroll.
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas (HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, May) - Thomas's first novel, The Hate U Give, spent most of 2017 on the New York Times bestseller list, so all eyes will be on her sophomore outing, which is set in the same neighborhood as the previous book and focuses on an aspiring young rapper.
War Storm by Victoria Aveyard (HarperTeen, May) - The bestselling series that began with 2014's Red Queen comes to an end in this fourth novel, which sees Aveyard's lightning-powered heroine, Mare Barrow, seeking to overthrow the kingdom of Norta and secure freedom for her fellow Reds.
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Families would have the opportunity to customize their child's education in a bill approved by the Idaho House of Representatives today.
House Bill 590 creates the GEM (Guided Education Management) Scholarship. This innovative proposal would help qualified families with no additional cost for taxpayers.
The GEM Scholarship allows families to use the educational dollars allotted for their child to ensure they find the right fit. The GEM Scholarship would be available to students from low-income households (a family of four making less than $46,000 a year), students with special needs, students who are considered at-risk and children of active duty military personnel.
GEM Scholarships would be funded by private individuals or corporations who would receive a tax credit for the amount contributed to the scholarship fund.
"Every family should have the same opportunity to find the right educational fit for their unique needs. The GEM Scholarship would help a family afford the best education option which may otherwise be out of reach.
For more information on the GEM Scholarship, visit www.IdahoEdForAll.org. For more information on the power of educational freedom, visit ExcelinEd's policy library.


Beep baseball returns to Haddonfield on Saturday, June 20 at Crows Woods Athletic Fields, East Atlantic Avenue. The BSO Wolfpack vs. New Jersey Titans shall play from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Beep baseball is hosted by the Haddonfield Lions Club.
Beep baseball is a specialized form of America's pastime that has been adapted to be played by blind and sight-impaired players. The game uses standard softball bats, a 16 inch ball that makes a loud beeping sound, and flexible poles that buzz in place of bases.
The BSO Wolfpack team is an activity for blind and visually-impaired youth and adults in the tri-state area through the 4- year-old Blind Sports Organization, Inc., a non-profit community service organization. You can check them out on Facebook at www.facebook.com/blindsportsorg?fref=ts.
The New Jersey Titans team is a non-profit organization that serves North and Central New Jersey. You can find them on Facebook at facebook.com/njtitans.
For more on the Haddonfield Lions visit www.haddonfieldlions.org.


Flowers are the ornament theme for May, and I wanted to make a festive red one that will be appropriate for the tree come December. A quick search of "felt flower ornament" or somesuch led me to the blog Under the Table and Dreaming by Stephanie Lynn and this tutorial. I haven't spent a lot of time exploring the blog yet, but it seems to have a little bit of everything -- crafts, decor, plants, and plenty of DIY project ideas.


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Q30 Television gets new studio
By Melanie Careri '23 March 24, 2022
Q30 Television, Quinnipiac's student-run TV station, has unveiled a new set — featuring colored LED lights and a 75-inch digital backdrop.
Q30's President Joseph LoGrippo '22 wanted to have more than just an appealing set — but a hand-on experience with a more professional atmosphere that prepares his members for the world of television.
"Having a professional set will not only enhance our shows and content, but will help us to be recognized more on a national basis when high schoolers are looking at Quinnipiac," LoGrippo said. "It will surely help to attract students to join Q30 and the Quinnipiac communications program."
Q30's Entertainment Department Director Corinna Caimi '22 is passionate about the club. As a senior, she was ecstatic to see the new set and see the direction the organization is headed.
"Seeing the new studio for the first time was just so surreal and exciting," Caimi said. "Even though I won't get to use it for a very long time, it feels good knowing you're leaving something you care about in a much better place than when you came into it."
After being a part of the organization throughout all four years of college, Caimi has watched the club evolve quickly.
"Everything has changed — in the best way possible," Caimi said. "We want the station to keep advancing and I've seen it through the quality of content, the drive of the members coming in, the community we've created and, of course, fun upgrades like the new set."
The club's Head Engineer Aaron Roberts '22 has also been a part of Q30 for four years. He is proud of the new set and the outcomes of the organization.
"It felt like a major stride forward, and it enhances on-screen quality," Roberts said. "It adds depth to the image and really makes us looks professional."
Roberts said the club provided him with opportunities to further his technical skillset. During his last few months, he hopes to further develop the quality of equipment used by students. He wishes for an even brighter future for the organization and its members.
"Q30 changed my life for the better," he said. "It's as much as you make it out to be. You get what you put in. If you want something to fill your time and have fun, being a general member is the place for you. If you want to take your learning and talents to the next level, there are more than ample opportunities to do so."
Q30's Bobcat Breakdown Executive Producer Hannah Smith '23 is excited for the new opportunities to come with the new set.
"When I first saw the new studio, my jaw literally dropped," Smith said. "This new set was much needed for Q30. I am most excited to see how every show puts together a new set and I am so excited to see it get to use on live air! It will enhance the overall experience for Q30 in many ways."
Students join Q30-TV to learn more about the TV industry and share their passions with like-minded students. The club allows them to apply the skills they learn from the classroom into work that can be shown to future employers. Live shows happen throughout the week, and content is created around the clock. Departments include news, sports and entertainment. Students work together to make the weekly shows come to life.
Many say the club inspired them to pursue a career in television and shaped their college experience. Q30 newscast's Executive Producer Katie Coen '23 MS '24 said she's had a passion for storytelling and broadcasting since high school.
She said she is grateful Q30 allowed her to practice her skillsets even further in college.
"Q30 is an incredible, accepting environment for all students who are interested in the television industry, even if they are not in the School of Communications," Coen said. "We love working with new people and sharing our passion for broadcasting with the rest of the campus community."
Smith said Q30 welcomes students with warm, open arms. She encourages them to not be afraid to put themselves out there.
"If you a person who likes sports, join the sports department. If you are a person who likes music and movies, join the entertainment department. Do not be afraid to do what you love; life is too short. Make your Quinnipiac experience all that it can be and chase for your dreams."
Q30's Planning and Engagements Coordinator Carly MacManus '23 said she is grateful for the opportunities Q30 provides. She sees how students challenge themselves to learn, grow and apply their skillsets. As a member of the Q30 cabinet, she saw the hard work LoGrippo put into making his dream a reality, and the support he received.
"I think the new set gravitates more attention to the program, being that a student-run organization funded and advocated for a set to produce top-quality content," MacManus said. "I'm super proud of everyone involved and it's amazing to see how people grow from the second they step into the station."
LoGrippo said he is thankful for the help from Chief Experience Officer Tom Ellett and Provost Deborah Levowitz to help find the funds for the set and the advice and support from adviser Erin Provistalis. He hopes the new set will rank Q30 among some of the top student-run college TV stations in the nation.
"The set is one of the biggest acquisitions the station has ever seen in its 27-year history," he said. "I hope it attracts members to join, I hope it brings talented high schoolers to Quinnipiac and to Q30, and most importantly, I hope to look back at Q30 down the line and be proud of what those who came after me were able to accomplish."
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Quinnipiac celebrates opening of state-of-the-art Recreation and Wellness Center
Professional identity and training the focus of Gateway to Practice experience for first-year law students
Students embrace cultural immersion in Ecuador global health program
Students develop an international perspective in Hungary
Student capstone project celebrates decade-long contribution to physical therapy care in the New Haven area
Quinnipiac hosts CIAC eSports competition
Parents and Families Update: December 2022
University celebrates the successes, growth of 2022
Quinnipiac Legends to open for Radio City Christmas Spectacular in New York
Students highlight benefits of working with the Quinnipiac Poll
Faculty and staff serve up annual graduate, law and medical student holiday dinner
School of Law's mock trial team recognized on a national level
Alumnus excels post inaugural engineering class
Faculty, staff serve students traditional holiday favorites at 37th annual undergraduate dinner
Professor leads research of marginalized refugees in Uzbekistan
Professor reflects on 30 years of text messaging
Law student couple takes ambitious path to law school
Bobcat community rings in holiday season with Quad lighting
Faculty and staff share Thanksgiving traditions with international students
Women's volleyball defeats Fairfield to Win 2022 MAAC title
In photos: Road to winning the MAAC Championship
University community has numerous opportunities to support others this holiday season
High school students urged to find their superpowers
QSNA hosts heart-warming event for Connecticut Children's Medical Center
Parents and Families Update: November 2022
University welcomes first members of Class of 2027


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HOUSTON -- Arian Foster's mother finally got her fruit basket.
The Texans star running back fulfilled a childhood promise to her on Tuesday after signing a five-year, $43.5 million to stay in Houston.
When Foster was growing up in Albuquerque, N.M., the big-dreaming kid told each family member what he was going to get them when he hit the salary jackpot in pro football.
"I was, like, 7 years old," Foster said at a news conference. "I was going to buy a house, I was going to buy a car."
He had a specific gift in mind for each family member, and told his mother, Bernadette Sizemore, that he'd get her a fruit basket. It became a running gag in the family for years, with relatives always asking Arian when he would make good.
On Tuesday, Sizemore got the fruit basket delivered to her office in Albuquerque, where she's an administrative assistant for African-American students at the University of New Mexico.
"I was just really floored," Sizemore said in a phone interview. "It's funny, it's a joke. But it's also so profound in so many ways."
Foster held back tears as he recalled hardships that his family made when he was young. At one point, Sizemore pawned her wedding ring to buy food.
"I just told myself that I wanted to do something with my life," Foster said before stepping away from a podium to gather his emotions. "I just wanted to do something with my life to make sure that when I have a kid, she never had to worry about the lights being on, she never had to worry about any of that. I didn't care if I had to work three jobs, whatever."
Foster has a 2-year-old daughter, Zeniah, and thanks to the Texans, all the financial security he and his family will ever need.
"It's overwhelming," Sizemore said. "There were a lot of hard times along the way."
The contract also further validates the two-time Pro Bowl selection as one of the NFL's elite running backs.
An undrafted free agent in 2009, Foster made only $525,000 last season, even after leading the league in rushing in 2010 (1,616 yards). His agent, Mike McCartney, said Monday that the Texans told Foster that they needed to see him have another productive year before they talked about an extension.
Foster never considered holding out before the season, and never seemed upset by his contract situation during it. Bothered by a hamstring injury early in the season, he still ran for 1,224 yards and 10 touchdowns. Since becoming a full-time starter in 2010, Foster has led the NFL in rushing yards per game (97.9), rushing touchdowns (26) and yards from scrimmage (4,061).
"I'm an extreme believer in karma, for the most part," Foster said. "If you take care of this game, it will take care of you. Even if it didn't, something else in my life, I was going to be OK somewhat. I just believe that. I think belief is 90 percent of the battle."
Foster will make $18 million in base salary next season, and the deal includes $20.75 million guaranteed. He acknowledged that the negotiation was "nerve-racking," but says now the pressure is off.
"It's tough for an athlete to go out and play knowing a pending contract is there," he said. "I think playing with that weight off of your shoulders and not having to worry about a long-term contract, you get to play free and you just get to play ball. I'm excited. I can't wait to get back on the field and do what I do best."
The team's next major order of business is deciding the fate of outside linebacker Mario Williams, who will become an unrestricted free agent next week.
Another key unrestricted free agent is center Chris Myers, part of the offensive line that helped Houston finish second in rushing (153 yards per game) and set a franchise record for yards on the ground (2,448).
Myers, who just finished his fourth year in Houston, says he's hopeful that he and the Texans will get a satisfactory deal done.
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Q: How do i make Tailwind css work with .php file? I have an issue with tailwind css not working with php files but the same works with html file. When i change the extension to .html it starts working. What shall i do?
I installed tailwind css using npm and followed every step mentioned in the tailwind documentation.
I am new to tailwind css.
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A: You should check out this youtube video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPVotANrEYI.
Your tailwind.config file should look something like this:
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Commentary: The Iran deal: For U.S., it's just one more broken promise
Albany Times-Union, June 11, 2018
https://m.timesunion.com/opinion/article/Commentary-The-Iran-deal-For-U-S-it-s-just-12985919.php
Abstract: President Trump's decision to "tear up" the Iran Deal is just on more example of the United States backing out of or failing to uphold international agreements. As the author states, "This trend is making the world less safe, and it has significantly reduced the United States' "moral authority" and trust among other nations."
Trump's First Meeting With Kim May Be Little More Than a Photo Op
Fortune, June 11, 2018
http://fortune.com/2018/06/11/donald-trump-meeting-kim-jong-un-singapore/
Abstract: With the summit only hours away, the author offers some thoughts on what interested actors want out of the meeting. The author asks, "Will this be a showdown like the O.K. Corral? Or will it be parlayed, as some have suggested, into President Trump's "Nixon-to-China" moment?"
How Diplomacy With North Korea Could Be Doomed From the Start
Fortune, May 8, 2018
http://fortune.com/2018/05/08/us-north-korea-diplomacy-meeting-nuclear-weapons/
Abstract: The planned summit between the US and North Korea has the potential to reduce tensions. However, both sides must manage their expectations. As the author states, "North Korea believes it has a seat at the big kids nuclear table. The U.S. and the others must realize that an attempt at negotiations where already tense participants have different perceptions and expectations would be a failed effort at best."
North Korea's Nuclear Program Distracts Us From Kim jong un's bigger threats
Newsweek, January 10, 2018
http://www.newsweek.com/north-korea-nuclear-program-distracts-kim-jong-un-greater-threats-777091
Abstract: North Korea's nuclear and missile tests are, in the words of the author, "the equivalent of a magician distracting onlookers." The world needs to remember to pay attention to North Korea's more subtle threats: cyber attacks, and chemical and biological weapons production.
The Coming Genocide? Burundi's Past, Present, and Potentially Deadly Future
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, June 2017
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1057610X.2017.1341825
Abstract: The Great Lakes region of Africa is the most conflict-prone region of the world and one current concern is political violence in Burundi. This research investigates whether Burundi is on the precipice of a genocide. Burundi's weak democratic norms, genocidal history, and the impact of contagion and diffusion of violence in the region, provide a number of the conditions that could contribute to a genocide. This research investigates the past and present conflict variables of the Great Lakes region with a focus on Burundi and assesses the potential that the ongoing political violence in Burundi will lead to genocide.
North Korea's Nuclear Tantrum
Time Magazine, October 2016
http://time.com/collection-post/4527003/2016-election-north-korea/
Abstract: Assessing the actual threat posed by North Korea's nuclear weapons program, the author suggests that North Korea's actions are more comparable to a child throwing a tantrum that is used as a tool of extortion.
Testing for contagion/diffusion of terrorism in state dyads
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, March 2013
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1057610X.2013.763599
Abstract: This article tests the application of contagion/diffusion theories of political violence to terrorist activity. In order to apply theories of contagion/diffusion to terrorism, Granger causality analysis of terrorist activity in three state dyads—Lebanon–Israel, Peru–Colombia, India–Pakistan—is conducted. Within each dyad, terrorist activities in general and specific terrorist tactics in particular are analyzed. The test results show that there are correlations of terrorist events that indicate evidence of contagion and/or diffusion in all three dyads tested, although the patterns of contagion/diffusion are different for each dyad.
Boston Herald Articles
Articles Written by Dr. Cliff
~ Who's to blame? Just look in the mirror, voters.
In the latest Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll, 47 percent of those surveyed have "very unfavorable" views of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and almost 40 percent believe the election is rigged and biased.
~ With races too close to call, real winners are super PACs
The new Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll shows that in New Hampshire, the presidential race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and the U.S. Senate race between Maggie Hassan and Kelly Ayotte are statistical ties — and ties go to the super PACs.
~ View from a transplanted early-state N.H. voter
For those of you who may be suffering from "poll fatigue" or "candidate overload," I want to put these polls and the importance of the outcomes of the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary in perspective.
~ Hillary Clinton should be wary of taking 2008 road
As New Hampshire primary voting gets underway, one has to wonder what is going through the mind of Hillary Clinton.
Clinton was the presumptive nominee for the Democrats as soon as she announced her candidacy last April. At that time, her biggest concern was whether or not Vice President Joe Biden or, worse, Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren would also run. Bernie Sanders, the quirky U.S. senator from Vermont, was not on Clinton's radar.
~ Voters want safety, not just sound bites
The problem with terrorism as a campaign issue is that a functional counterterrorism strategy cannot be summed up in a 60-second sound bite, and the electorate wants direct action, when the best approaches are subtle and multi-faceted.
Articles Quoting Dr. Cliff's Expertise
Experts: World must brace for threat of more terror attacks, March 2016
Expert: Closing Guantanamo Bay would not compromise US security, February 2016


The Camino de Santiago has been drawing pilgrims for over 1200 years, and pilgrim numbers are growing by 10-20% a year. (Over 300,000 "official finishers" in 2018.) I had the opportunity to walk the "French Way" in the fall of 2018. A bit of the history of the Camino will be reviewed, along with the how and the why of the walk.
Curious about the Minnesota Rovers? The Intro Show is just for you! Watch our slide show of Minnesota Rovers members on various scenic trips—all set to music. Talk to our representatives about hiking, backpacking, canoeing, biking, rock climbing, and more. Come find out more about Minnesota Rovers and see what we're all about!
This will be at the REI in Bloomington at 750 W. American Blvd., Bloomington, MN, 55420.
Is there something that you would never go backpacking without? Is there a back story about how you learned the hard way not to forget that item? Here is one example I can think of: you brought one lighter to light your stove and fire, it got wet and then it wouldn't work. On future trips you bring multiple lighters and matches. Come to share your hack or come to learn from the experience/mistakes of others.
In this presentation you'll learn how to change a flat tire, patch a flat, and some basic bike maintenance. You'll feel confident out on the trails! Bring your bike wheel to practice with.
Big City Mountaineers is a national non-profit organization that facilitates week long wilderness trips for underserved young people. Here in Minnesota that means trips to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. We use these trips to both introduce teens to the outdoors as well as develop critical life skill like teamwork, leadership, resiliency, and self-efficacy.
Fred Sproat, the Minnesota Program Director for Big City Mountaineers, will talk about how Big City Mountaineers works to ensure that first time wilderness trips are positive and impactful and how individuals in the community can help support or work.
A bike tour of a thousand miles can begin with the first weekend trip. That trip can be low-cost and local, using a bike and gear you already have. This presentation will show how to use that gear for a weekend bike tour that starts near your home. Some gear you probably don't have is panniers, which are like saddlebags for a bike. Panniers for 1,000-mile trips can cost $100s of dollars, but this presentation will also show a low-cost option. That option is kitty litter pail panniers. They cost $10-20 each and have been used on bike tours going 1,000s of miles. Anyone interested is welcome to join weekend bike tours near the Twin Cities, this summer. They will be posted on the Rovers Website and led by Steven Malikowski, who has cycled for over 6,000 miles on bike tours. Any Rover joining those weekend bike tours can use gear for free from the Rover's Gear Locker.
Participate in our 2019 Backcountry Cook-off and help other outdoor enthusiasts expand their backcountry cooking repertoire! Show off your "old reliable" or try an interesting new recipe before you take it out on the trail. Here are the guidelines: It's Day Four of a wilderness backpacking trip. Ingredients and recipes should be appropriate for the backcountry. Recipes should take 20 minutes or fewer to prepare and require only a single-burner stove. We'll need lots of delicious entries, so we hope you'll consider entering! Tasters— bring your plates/bowls and utensils to sample the goodies and vote for your favorite!
Please bring everything you need (ingredients, pots/pans, etc.). Water available from the sinks in the nearby restrooms.
Cooking will begin as soon as the meeting part of our night is concluded (around 7:20). Sampling and voting should start by about 7:40.
Will YOU be the Minnesota Rovers 2019 Backcountry Cook of the Year? The winner and the winning recipe will be posted on the Minnesota Rovers web site!
Explore the basics of ebikes from someone who has almost 10,000 family and commuting miles on a cargo ebike. Whether you are commuting, doing group rides, or pleasure rides we can discuss how an ebike may benefit you. We will talk about the different motor styles such as mid drive and hub drive. We can explain the pluses and minuses of each system. I will spend a few minutes talking about motor wattage and battery capacity. More importantly I will discuss how these numbers relate to the riding experience. This will not be too techy…No experience necessary.
Yoga is a great way to take a break and get energized for the next leg of a long hike, bike ride or paddle. It can be done in the outdoors without any equipment – a mat is truly optional. You probably know that yoga increases balance, flexibility, and strength, but did you also know it protects the spine, cartilage and joints so we can continue to pursue an active lifestyle?
Bring a mat or blanket if you don't want grass or dirt on your clothes and Tammy N. (5 year Rover member) will lead us in some yoga poses and stretches.
Did you know that there exist approximately 75,000 edible plant species in the world? But that only 30 species produce 95% of the food we eat? This means that more than 99% of edible plant species are drastically underutilized. And a surprising number of these species live right in your own backyard— even in urban environments!
Join Maria Wesserle of Four Season Foraging to learn some foraging basics and discover common wild edible plants.
Four Season Foraging is a Minneapolis-based business that connects people with the resources necessary to start harvesting and preparing wild foods and medicines. This is accomplished by promoting trustworthy sources, writing informative blog posts, and offering classes and workshops.
Picnic area northwest of Estabrook Drive & Midway Parkway.


China Miéville is one of the most famous contemporary fantastic genre writers, who won several fantasy and science fiction awards with his works. His science fiction book Embassytown was published in Hungarian a month ago, and it was a great opportunity to ask for an interview from Mr. Miéville.
SFmag.hu: You've become a well-known and recognized author with the Bas-Lag novels. Do you have any plans on returning to that world?
China Miéville: Perhaps. But only if and when I can think of a story that necessitates returning, rather than going back just as a default.
SFmag.hu: Can we expect some more hard SF novels from you, or was Embassytown a one-time experiment?
China Miéville: It was an experiment but I may well go back. I have a feeling it may be the first of the 'immerverse' novels. We shall see.
SFmag.hu: What was the first thing you read which had a great impact on you?
China Miéville: I have no idea! It was too long ago. Possibly the Tarzan of the Apes comic strip drawn by Burne Hogarth.
SFmag.hu: How did it feel to win almost all important genre awards with your novel Perdido Street Station?
China Miéville: It was a very big thing, early in my career, and very humbling. Though you are too generous – it won some, but by no means 'almost all' the important awards!
SFmag.hu: Your novel The Scar takes place on the sea. Do you love sea, or was this location only interesting from a literary point of view?
China Miéville: Who doesn't love the sea? It is both literarily and 'in real life' fascinating. Though I prefer under the sea to on the top of it.
SFmag.hu: What is your method of writing? Do you write with a strict daily schedule? Who is your first reader?
China Miéville: I wish I were more organised, but no, sometimes I write every day, other times days go by and I fail to write anything. I'm too scattered. The first reader varies, project to project.
SFmag.hu: In your opinion, what makes a story good?
China Miéville: This is an impossible question! For me, I like a story that surprises me.
SFmag.hu: What comic book series would you whip into shape after Dial H?
China Miéville: Dial H was the one I was obsessed with, so I have had that itch scratched for a while. I'd like to do something with Dr Strange, one day, maybe, but I think there's a queue a mile long for that.
SFmag.hu: Can you name any works in the field of fantastic literature which you feel were undeservedly forgotten, yet you think that each and every fantasy-fan should read them?
China Miéville: Jane Gaskell; Marion Fox. I'm sure there are others, but those are the two who leap to my mind.
SFmag.hu: Cities as locations play an important part in most of your novels, and appear as a sort of characters themselves. Where does this 'city experience' come from? Is there any real town towards which you feel a particularly strong bond? Do you have a favourite town among those which you created?
China Miéville:Obviously London looms very large in my mind. I don't know where the 'cityphilia' comes from – I suspect that, just like many of us, I'm a creature of cities, and so it's no surprise that they fill my soul. Of the towns I've invented, I have a very soft-spot for New Crobuzon, of course, but my favourite changes day to day.
SFmag.hu: Is there any chance for us to see one of your writings on the silver screen?
China Miéville: Maybe! It's not under my control, however. You have to ask the holywood producers!
SFmag.hu: Do you read contemporary science fiction? Do you have a favourite among your colleagues?
China Miéville: I read some, but I'm too slow, and too far behind. More fantasy than science fiction, but I'm currently obsessed with Michael Cisco.
SFmag.hu: What is going to be the topic of your next novel?
China Miéville: I won't jinx it by talking about it!
SFmag.hu: Seeing the growing popularity of e-books, what is your opinion on the future of book publishing?
China Miéville: Anyone who thinks they know what's going to happen is either wrong or lying. I am excited, however – I don't think it's the end of publishing, I think it's an enormous revolution, and I'm ok with that. We'll figure it out.


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Send feedback and tips to bryan.walsh@axios.com, or hit reply. And thank you for the kind inquiries about my mental health day last week. To be clear, Axios has been good enough to give each employee one such day off per month. My mental health is pretty standard for these times, which is to say 😬.
1 big thing: Coronavirus accelerates AI in health care
Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios
From predicting outbreaks to devising treatments, doctors are turning to AI in an effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
Why it matters: While machine learning algorithms were already becoming a part of health care, COVID-19 is likely to accelerate their adoption. But lack of data and testing time could hinder their effectiveness — for this pandemic, at least.
What's happening: With millions of cases and outbreaks in every corner of the world, doctors were quick to employ AI tools in an effort to get ahead of what could be the worst pandemic in a century.
HealthMap, a web service run by Boston Children's Hospital that uses AI to scan social media and other reports for signals of disease outbreaks, spotted some of the first signs of what would become the COVID-19 outbreak on Dec. 30. This was days before the WHO formally alerted the rest of the world.
Early in the outbreak, Chinese tech company Alibaba released an AI algorithm that uses CT scans of possible coronavirus patients and can diagnose cases automatically in a matter of seconds.
In New York, Mount Sinai Health System and NYU Langone Health have developed AI algorithms that can predict whether a COVID-19 patient is likely to suffer adverse events in the near future and determine when patients will be ready to be discharged. Such systems can help overburdened hospitals better manage the flow of supplies and personnel during a medical crisis.
In trials, at least, AI has demonstrated a decent record of success, especially when it comes to rapidly diagnosing COVID-19 by interpreting medical scans.
A study published in Nature Medicine this month found an AI system was more accurate than a radiologist in diagnosing COVID-19 patients using CT scans — X-ray images of lungs — combined with clinical symptoms.
A systematic review of preprint and published studies of AI diagnostic systems for COVID-19 published in the British Medical Journal in April noted the models reported "good to excellent predictive performance," but cautioned the data was still limited for real-world applications and at high risk for bias.
The catch: That's the perennial challenge for AI systems in any field. Experts worry models that perform well in an experiment may not be able to replicate that success in a hospital under stress.
"There is a lot of promise in using algorithms, but the data in the biomedical space can be really difficult to deal with," says Gabe Musso, the chief scientific officer at BioSymetrics, a biomedical AI company that uses machine learning for simulation-based drug discovery. Genetic data, imaging data and data from electronic health records are often unstructured and rarely share a common format, complicating efforts to feed the information into an algorithm.
Many of the AI diagnostic systems being rushed into the fight against COVID-19 were developed before the pandemic and thus were trained on other respiratory diseases like tuberculosis. That reduces their accuracy — especially if their training datasets don't match the gender or age of typical COVID-19 patients.
As a result, pioneering computer scientist Kai-Fu Lee wrote in Wired recently, "I would give [AI] a B-minus at best" for its performance during the pandemic.
The bottom line: As both the size and quality of medical data on COVID-19 improves, so should the AI systems that draw from it. But that will take time.
"AI will not be as useful for COVID as it is for the next pandemic," Rozita Dara, a computer scientist at the University of Guelph, told Science recently.
2. Forecasting the "real robotic revolution"
Photo: courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
A new novel imagines a near-future America where AI has run rampant.
Why it matters: Sci-fi remains one of the best ways to envision how new technology will shape the future, and "Burn-In" is the rare work of science fiction that has the solid grounding of nonfiction.
Background: With their 2015 techno-thriller "Ghost Fleet" — which told the story of how Chinese cyberattacks brought the U.S. to its knees in a near-future World War III — P.W. Singer and August Cole didn't just make the bestseller list. They helped change the tide of military strategy, as the novel became required reading for officers working to preempt the next major threat to the U.S.
In "Burn-In" — an engineering term for pushing a new technology to its breaking point — Singer and Cole do for the future of AI what they did for the future of warfare in "Ghost Fleet."
Details: "Burn-In" tells the story of FBI agent Lara Keegan, who is assigned to field-test a new police robot called TAMS that combines a Siri-like virtual assistant with advanced hardware that allows it to operate in the real world.
Keegan and TAMS work together to uncover a plot by a terrorist who is planning to use the Internet of Things to unleash havoc on America, which has grown utterly dependent on automated technology.
The central conspiracy plot is Tom Clancy-level — in the best possible way — but what sets "Burn-In" apart is the deep research the authors used to build their near-future world, all of which is meticulously detailed in 26 pages of endnotes.
The bottom line: If you want to understand how AI, robots and cyber terrorism could remake our world — and you don't want to wade through hundreds of pages of scientific papers — "Burn-In" is the summer read for you.
3. Inside hackers' pivot to medical espionage
A wave of cyber spying around COVID-19 medical research is once more demonstrating the perils of treating cybersecurity as a separate, walled-off realm, Axios Codebook author Zach Dorfman of the Aspen Institute writes.
Driving the news: U.S. officials recently announced an uptick in Chinese-government affiliated hackers targeting medical research and other facilities in the U.S. for data on a potential COVID-19 cure or effective treatments to combat the virus.
Additionally, "more than a dozen countries have redeployed military and intelligence hackers to glean whatever they can about other nations' virus responses," reports the New York Times.
The big picture: For years, policymakers and media outlets have stowed cybersecurity threats and conflicts away in their own specialized silo. But the world of cyber espionage isn't really separate at all: It's just another means for countries to pursue their tactical and strategic objectives.
"When there's a cyber intrusion and exfiltration of a defense industrial contractor, that's not a cyber case, that's a counterintelligence case," said a current senior U.S. intelligence official.
In those incidents, the culprit is most likely a Chinese government agency, according to the official. "I have not been able to convince people of that. Because we've created this world of cyber, and it's like floating in the Atlantic. … We cannot get off that island. It's really frustrating."
Why it matters: We won't be able to understand or predict where the next threats will emerge unless we get better at integrating the stuff we call "cyber" with all the other ways we think about the world.
Axios Codebook relaunches today — sign up!
4. Video game concerts are a hit
Illustration: Eniola Odetunde/Axios
With concerts and music festivals canceled across the country, artists are flocking to virtual gaming platforms like Minecraft and Fortnite to give fans the next best thing to a live music experience, Axios' Sara Fischer reports.
Why it matters: Expect more virtual concerts to pop up as artists figure out how to get paid performing online and aim to connect with its bigger audiences.
Driving the news: Minecraft, a popular video game in which players can create and join 3D worlds, will host a dance music festival with some of the biggest electronic artists next month, including Diplo, A-Trak and Above & Beyond.
Be smart: Virtual concerts started out as a natural fit for electronic music artists, given how tech-heavy their work is, but they're quickly catching on with other music genres.
More than 12 million users watched rapper Travis Scott's concert on Fortnite last month. Many more watched the concert outside of the game, too, on live-streaming platforms like Twitch and YouTube.
My thought bubble: Video game concerts are just one aspect of what L'Atelier, the foresight arm for BNP Paribas, calls the "Virtual Economy" — "an agglomeration of sophisticated platforms, fledgling and often dubious marketplaces, skilled nixers, volatile assets, and ambitious pioneers that exist or operate uniquely in virtual environments."
L'Atelier estimates some 2.5 billion people participate in some form of the Virtual Economy, from video gamers to coders for hire. Expect that number to grow during the pandemic.
Go deeper: Video game sales surge in lockdown
5. Worthy of your time
Veil (Eliot Peper)
Peper specializes in eerily prescient speculative fiction, and in his new novel, he paints a near-future world under assault by a hijacked geoengineering scheme.
For schools, the lists of obstacles grows and grows (Erika Christakis — The Atlantic)
Two things are true: schools need to reopen to meet the needs of kids and parents alike, and school administrators have no idea yet how to do so safely.
Software will eat software in a remote-first world (Can Duruk — Margins)
Tech workers may find it relatively easy to adapt to remote work, but the shift could lead to the commodification of coding — and with it, less power and less money for the typical employee.
Pandemics: Early detection, networks, spreaders (a16z)
A podcast episode from the VC firm Andreessen Horowitz on how social media could be used to predict the next pandemic.
6. 1 time thing: How the pandemic disrupts our clocks
News you can use. Photo via Todd Meany, Fox 8 News
It's not just you — the pandemic lockdown is making days move slower while time overall seems to move faster.
The big picture: As we shelter at home, one day moves into the next with little change. Without specific memories to mark the time, our perception of the calendar becomes an endless blur, with no delineated past and no clear future.
How it works: Unless you're approaching the speed of light, time moves at a reliable rate. 60 seconds is a minute, 60 minutes is an hour, and 8,760 hours is a year — leap years aside.
But as author Claudia Hammond wrote in a recent piece for BBC Future, our perception of time is anything but clockwork.
We estimate time prospectively (how fast does it feel as if it is passing right now) and retrospectively (how fast did the past week or month seem to go).
If you've been home for most of the lockdown, working or not, the days can seem to drag by as we cycle through the same handful of activities in the same handful of places.
This is especially true if you're at home in the pandemic with small children, occupying an entirely unique and seemingly stationary slice of the space-time continuum.
But as the identical days bleed into each other, we form few new memories — the memories we depend on retrospectively to tell us that time has in fact passed. As a result, Hammond writes, "time can feel as though it has contracted."
The bottom line: As the Magnetic Fields would say: "It's only time."


A: The person(s) buying the home are recommended to attend. It is not recommended to bring many people to the inspection as they can get in the way of the inspector and may make it difficult to perform the inspection due to their distractions. If you have a realtor, they will be present. If you do not have a realtor, the current homeowner, or representative will have to let us in.
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