Happy Monday! Are you ready to begin knitting the yoke? Last week we talked about important prep work you should do before you start your sweater. If you missed it, check that out here.
This week, we'll be casting on, knitting the seed stitch collar, doing some stockinette rows, and some ribbing rows.
Use the long-tail cast-on to add the required number of stitches to the needle. (See the pattern PDF to determine the correct number of stitches for the size you are knitting).
Although we are using a circular needle, we are not going to be knitting in the round. This will be a straight back-and-forth knit. The circular needle is necessary because there will be too many stitches to hold comfortably on standard straight needles, but use it in the same manner as you would use two straights.
Don't be intimidated by the term "seed stitch." If you know how to do a knit stitch and a purl stitch, then you already know how to do seed stitch.
Seed stitch is a pattern of alternated knits and purls, both along the rows and along the columns. For the first row, you repeat a k1,p1 pattern to the end of the row. For rows 2, 3, and 4, you look at the stitch from the previous row, and you do the opposite of that stitch. In other words, you knit all of the purl stitches, and you purl all of the knit stitches.
Don't worry if you don't have enough experience yet to distinguish a knit from a purl in your fabric. As long as you follow the written pattern, seed stitch will emerge.
Work rows 1-4 as written in the pattern PDF.
To knit in stockinette stitch, you knit all of the stitches when you are working on the right side of the fabric (the odd-numbered rows) and purl all of the stitches when you are working on the wrong side (the even-numbered rows).
The Stockinette Rows in this pattern are slightly more complicated than that because we are also knitting a seed stitch button band at the same time. This means the first four and the last four stitches of each row will take on a seed stitch pattern, while all of the other stitches on the needle are stockinette.
In fact, this is true for the entire body of the sweater: the first four stitches and the last four stitches of every single row will be in seed stitch, regardless of what is happening to the rest of the row.
Also, keep in mind that there needs to be buttons on this sweater. The first buttonhole is added on Row 5, and a new buttonhole is added every 24 rows after that. Be sure to keep track of your rows as you knit, so that you know when to add the buttonholes.
Row 5 is the first row of the Stockinette Rows, and the first with a buttonhole.
Work Row 5 as follows: The first four stitches are seed stitch, so they are worked k1,p1,k1,p1. Place a marker to help you remember where the button band ends and the body begins. Knit all of the rest of the stitches on the needle until you get to the last four. Place another marker. Make a seed-stitch buttonhole by working k1, yarn over, knit the next 2 stitches together, p1.
Row 5 (buttonhole row): [k1, p1] twice, pm, knit to last 4 sts, pm, k1, yo, k2tog, p1.
The next six rows will be simple stockinette stitch with seed stich button bands on each edge.
Work rows 6-11 as written in the pattern PDF.
The next row is an increase row. Periodically increasing the number of stitches on the needle is how the yoke gets its rounded shape. This particular increase row is worked on the wrong side of the fabric, where we are doing purl stitches. To turn one stitch into two purl stitches, you need to purl into it twice before slipping it off of the needle: purl into the front of the stitch as you normally would when purling, but don't slip the stitch off of the needle; purl into the back of the same stitch and then slip it off of the needle. This is written as pfb.
Work row 12 as written in the pattern PDF.
Ribbing is another stitch pattern that is made up of knits and purls. All of the ribbing in this pattern is 2×2. This means two knit stitches are alternated with two purl stitches along the row. Unlike seed stitch, where the pattern alternates in the rows and the columns, ribbing alternates only on the rows. This means when you start the ribbing on subsequent rows you knit all of the knits and purl all of the purls, instead of doing the opposite.
Work rows 13-20 as written in the pattern PDF.
We'll finish the yoke with another batch of Stockinette Rows and Ribbing Rows. Until then, have fun starting your sweater! If you run into a trouble spots be sure to leave a comment. I would be happy to clarify anything that doesn't make sense. Good luck!
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Bestselling author Karen Kingsbury tells the childhood stories of her beloved Baxter Family characters in debut middle-grade series, cowritten with son Tyler Russell
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Bestselling author Karen Kingsbury tells the childhood stories of her beloved Baxter Family characters in debut middle-grade series, cowritten with son Tyler Russell Best Family Ever, the first book in the Baxter Family Children series, will be released by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing in February 2019 New York, NY, June 19, 2018—Paula Wiseman Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, announced today that it will publish Best Family Ever, the first book in The Baxter Family Children middle-grade series by…

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Well, it looks like the heavy snow a couple days ago did delay some K2 teams on their summit push with most of the K2 teams have delayed their ascent schedule by one day. It looks like Friday and Saturday will be the big days followed by another push in about a week – if the weather holds. The heavy snow on Wednesday came as a bit of a surprise.
K2 – Summits Not on Thursday, but Maybe Friday and Probably Saturday?
SST team changed the plan, we scheduled 20th for final rope fixing and 21st summit push with members.
All team members are safe in higher camps!! Mingma David Sherpa (leading member of Elite himalayan adventures) and Mingma Tenjen Sherpa are now, fixing rope above Camp 4 (7800m), rest of sherpa are in C4, and members + some sherpas are in Camp 3.
But Summit Climb's said their team was on their push hoping to summit Friday, 20 July which is doubtful since SST is fixing the ropes.
The Japanese team reported in on Thursday 19 July that "all of the eight members who attempt summit push are staying at Camp 3." he K2 skier, Andrzej Bargiel is lookinng to summit on 21 July noting, "I'm on my way to camp ii on the way road where Janusz Gołąb-8A Team is waiting for me, and tomorrow morning, we're going to the entrance to the summit is planning on July 21th. Fingers crossed!
Jason Black reported that the Madison team was returning to K2 base camp after a difficult night with the heavy snow, but later Lisa Thompson posted via her Garmin InReach they would hold on and stay at C2. Nothing official from Madison Mountaineering as of this post.
Furtenbach Adventures will begin their climb in a few days after their successful Broad Peak summit. Also Fredrik Sträng, and David Roeske "hope for a summit push within one week". Lets hope the weather holds for them … the winds look to be picking up.
Summit Climb's team said their push is tonight, Thursday, 19 July. The Chilean climbers Sebastian Rojas and Diego Señoret hope to summit in a couple of days.
Luis Stitzinger summited on 18 July. This was his eighth 8000er, all without supplement Os.


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Q: @objc requirement for Swift 3? Any idea why i my Swift 3 iOS app, this
@objc(mapView:rendererForOverlay:) func mapView(_ mapView: MKMapView, rendererFor overlay: MKOverlay) -> MKOverlayRenderer {

triggers,
but if I replace above statement with this
func mapView(mapView: MKMapView, rendererFor overlay: MKOverlay) -> MKOverlayRenderer {

does not trigger.

A: Even matt's answer is correct I want to explain the reason for the underscore.
Why do you need the underscore?
Short answer: Because this is the declaration of the method:
 optional func mapView(_ mapView: MKMapView,
      rendererFor overlay: MKOverlay) -> MKOverlayRenderer

https://developer.apple.com/reference/mapkit/mkmapviewdelegate/1452203-mapview
Long answer:
tl;dr: You need it to delete a leading parameter name for the first parameter in Swift 3.0.
To understand that you have to know the whole story:
Objective-C has akin of named arguments: The whole method declaration including the parts ahead of a parameter declaration is a part of the method identifier. Having the method …:
- (MKOverlayRenderer *)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView
        rendererForOverlay:(id<MKOverlay>)overlay;

… this means, that the identifier of the method (selector) is mapView:renderForOverlay:. This system was simple and in use for a long time. It was powerful, because it makes method overloading unnecessary.
According to Swift's design principle, to make working and simple things that complex that it is impossible to say, whether they are working, they did some tricky hacks:
Swift has akin of translation mechanism from Objective-C selectors to Swift function and parameter identifiers. They found a great solution in Swift 1.2(?), that makes things easier by far. Later they recognized, that the great and easy solution is confusing and they offered a new solution in Swift 2.0 which is greater and easier by far. Later they recognized, that the greater and easier solution is confusing and they offered a new-new solution in Swift 3.0, which is greater-greater by far-far.
While in Swift < 3.0 the first (external) parameter name defaults to nothing (because the first part of the selector becomes the function name) this rule does not apply anymore and you have to specify that. The underscore simply says, that there is no external name. So your method name is translated correctly to Objective-C's selector.
It takes the function name mapView adds no external name because of the _, so it is mapView:. And then it adds the next external parameter name renderFor, which leads to mapView:renderFor, then the parameter name overlay, capitalize it to Overlay, which leads to mapView:renderForOverlay: – the correct selector.
Quite easy, quite simple. Another feature that makes things in Swift great and easy. Much easier as in Objective-C

A: One obvious problem is that, in Swift 3, this is not the correct signature:
func mapView(mapView: MKMapView,
    rendererFor overlay: MKOverlay) -> MKOverlayRenderer {

The correct signature is:
func mapView(_ mapView: MKMapView,
    rendererFor overlay: MKOverlay) -> MKOverlayRenderer {

Notice the difference (the "underscore").
Another possible problem happens if your code is not inside a class or extension declaration that explicitly declares conformance to MKMapViewDelegate. Swift 3 is very choosy about this. (You did not show enough context for me to know if you're getting that part right.)
The @objc declaration works around both problems by explicitly bridging this function to Objective-C. But if you do it right on both counts, Swift will do the bridging for you and the @objc will not be needed.

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Swap unproductive debt for climate and sustainability-focused investments
by Matt Crossman, stewardship director, Rathbones 23 Oct 2020
Investors should have an awareness for growth conditions around the world
On 20 March 2020, the UK government announced the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), and take-up was spectacular.
Reporting in June, the Office for National Statistics said 9.4 million employments had been placed on furlough, with 1.14 million employers having made at least one CJRS claim. At the end of June, the total claimed was £26.5bn.
But the government wasn't the only source of financial relief for those hit hardest by the shut-down. Mortgage lenders across the board were quick to offer short-term relief to those struggling with three-month 'mortgage holidays'.
This shows us financial security isn't just about protecting income but sheltering the vulnerable from the burden of unserviceable debt. What's true in the micro is true in the macro. Details are hard to come by, but news reports in May 2020 revealed that one in five mortgage holders had requested a pause in payments.
This undoubtedly helped struggling families through the worst of the crisis, but arguably pushed the problem further down the road. Mortgage holidays are not debt relief, and those taking advantage still shoulder the burden of the full amount to be repaid in the same time frame, meaning higher repayments for many. That reckoning is just around the corner for many families in the UK.
Pan out and the same story is now playing out at an international level. Some of the hardest hit nations are having to choose between servicing their debts and investing in economies ravaged by Covid-19. The leaders of the G-20 recognised the hardship such choices could enforce on millions, and agreed to allow the poorest countries to postpone official bilateral debt repayments for three years. To date, around 43 countries have taken up the option.
Some readers may recognise the theme from the early 2000s and the Jubilee debt relief campaign. You would be forgiven for thinking this particular issue had been solved. Sadly, debt re-serving continues to drag developing economies down. 2005 saw the landmark Gleneagles summit in which G8 leaders were pushed to cancel 100% of multilateral debt owed by the poorest countries. According to the 'One' campaign against poverty, adding this to previous debt cancellation from Jubilee 2000, close to $100bn of debt was written off for 36 heavily indebted countries.
Why should investors care about debt relief? In as much as their portfolios reflect the world's economy, they should have an awareness for growth conditions around the world. Should we be investing heavily in those emerging economies whose governments are hamstrung by debt reservicing or combatting Covid-19?
Debt relief had a major impact on the African continent, for example, again according to the One campaign: "After years of burdensome debt payments, incurred by undemocratic leaders, African governments had a clean slate to invest in health, education, and their countries' growth. This led to real progress: the poverty rate has fallen 16 percentage points over the past two decades on the continent. Many of the fastest growing economies have been in Africa."
Now those countries face the same issue as UK householders: liquidity. The shutdown of economies has hit the ability to generate earnings and hence to service debts. As anyone familiar with loans and interest knows, the problem gets worse as time goes on, with a propensity to spiral out of control.
Investors and companies have flocked around the Sustainable Development Goals, proudly displaying graphics showing how their investments are contributing to each goal. But in the background, developing country debt had crept to $8trn in 2019, and that was before the before the pandemic hit. Debt servicing will cost developing countries around $3trn in 2020 and 2021.
However, out of crisis comes opportunity. The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) recently launched a paper arguing for use of an innovative solution – not another mortgage holiday, but a debt for climate swap. The context is helpful. Previous debt cancellation delivered in the 2000s was significant, but the debt accumulated since has not been directed towards investments that have spurred further productivity or resilience. There is a big opportunity should we be able to swap unproductive debt for climate and sustainability-focused investments.
Much has been made of 'building back better' or ensuring stimulus is directed towards solving the climate crisis. Such a focus is demanded by the debt servicing issue also. Heavily indebted countries are often the most vulnerable to climate change and have immediate investment needs.
Investments in climate action have concurrent effects on targeting poverty. Swapping debt for investments in climate resilience makes sense for creditors as they can agree a lower but more certain rate of return and find ways to deliver on the international climate commitments.
Establishing such a system would be no small undertaking, but the reward is significant. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change process recognises the need for huge investments to deliver on the Paris Goals (limiting global warming to at least two degrees); using large scale debt for climate swaps would 'dwarf the sums available from the Green Climate Fund', according to the IIED. Previous attempts at creative debt swaps haven't been saleable, but the world is a very different place with regard to clean energy capacity in 2020.
The UK and other developed nations have the facility to create stimulus packages of historic size. Poorer countries do not; that is why debt relief is such a powerful tool, being the most effective way to allow troubled nations to invest to solve their problems their way.
Matt Crossman is stewardship director at Rathbones and editorial panellist for ESG Clarity
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Woot suckered me into buying a 4K display at a fairly decent price and now I have a Samsung U28D590D sitting on my desk at home. I ordered a mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort from Amazon and it arrived just before the monitor hit my doorstep. It's time to enter the world of 4K displays.
I bought this thing because it does 3840×2160. How confusing. After searching through the monitor settings, I found an option for "DisplayPort version". It was set to version 1.1 but version 1.2 was available. I selected version 1.2 (which appears to come with something called HBR2) and then the display flickered for 5-10 seconds. There was no image on the display.
I adjusted GNOME's Display settings back down to 2560×1440. The display sprang back to life, but it was fuzzy again. I pushed the settings back up to 3840×2160. The flickering came back and the monitor went to sleep.
My laptop has an HDMI port and I gave that a try. I had a 3840×2160 display up immediately! Hooray! But wait - that resolution runs at 30Hz over HDMI 1.4. HDMI 2.0 promises faster refresh rates but neither my laptop or the display support it. After trying to use the display at max resolution with a 30Hz refresh rate, I realized that it wasn't going to work.
The adventure went on and I joined #intel-gfx on Freenode. This is apparently a common problem with many onboard graphics chips as many of them cannot support a 4K display at 60Hz. It turns out that the i5-5300U (that's a Broadwell) can do it.
One of the knowledgeable folks in the channel suggested a new modeline. That had no effect. The monitor flickered and went back to sleep as it did before.
I picked up some education on the difference between SST and MST displays. MST displays essentially have two chips handling half of the display within the monitor. Both of those do the work to drive the entire display. SST monitors (the newer variety, like the one I bought) take a single stream and one single chip in the monitor figures out how to display the content.
At this point, I'm stuck with a non-working display at 4K resolution over DisplayPort. I can get lower resolutions working via DisplayPort, but that's not ideal. 4K works over HDMI, but only at 30Hz. Again, not ideal. I'll do my best to update this post as I come up with some other ideas.
(New) Supported the 60Hz refresh rate of 4K (3840 x 2160) resolution monitor.
After a quick flash of a USB stick and a reboot to update the BIOS, the monitor sprang to life after logging into GNOME. It looks amazing! The graphics performance is still not amazing (but hey, this is Broadwell graphics we're talking about) but it does 3840×2160 at 60Hz without a hiccup. I tried unplugging and replugging the DisplayPort cable several times and it never flickered.


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Home » OPINION » Columns » Analysis: Mississippi budget practices receive mixed grades
Analysis: Mississippi budget practices receive mixed grades
Posted by: Associated Press in Columns, Govt/Politics, NEWS, OPINION 11/13/2017
EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
A nonpartisan group that evaluates state government budget practices is giving mostly midlevel marks to Mississippi.
The Volcker Alliance was formed four years ago by Paul A. Volcker, a former board chairman of the Federal Reserve, with the goal of making government more efficient.
The alliance issued a report Nov. 2 called "Truth and Integrity in State Budgeting," which evaluates all states' budget practices for fiscal years 2015 through 2017.
Like most states, Mississippi has a fiscal year that runs from July through June. So, the period covered by the report for Mississippi is July 1, 2014, through June 30, 2017.
The report examines how states forecast the amount of money they will have available to spend. It looks at how states write their budgets, including whether they use recurring sources of money rather than sources that are "one-time infusions" of cash.
The report also looks at obligations such as government pensions and at whether states maintain financial reserves, commonly known as rainy day funds. States are also graded on transparency.
"Faced with constitutional, statutory, or customary requirements for annually balanced budgets, a large number of states have been forced to reduce or reallocate spending," the report says. "The potential to defer or obfuscate in making these adjustments is very real. That is why the need for comprehensive and accurate accounting and transparent reporting of the financial positions of individual states is even more compelling."
Each state receives a report card, with A as the highest grade and F the lowest.
Mississippi received mostly B's for its three-year averages. It was among the 21 states receiving a three-year average of an A for the category of budget maneuvers.
The report says maneuvers can include balancing the budget by using one-time sources of revenue and by tapping into special funds to pad the budget's general fund. The general fund covers most big-ticket expenses, including education. Special funds can come from fees people pay that are supposed to fund specific services or agencies.
Mississippi received three-year average of C for budget forecasting, with a C for 2015 and a D for both 2016 and 2017. The report says Mississippi did not follow best practices for making multiyear forecasts of either how much money the state would collect or how much money it would spend.
Republican Gov. Phil Bryant was forced to make multiple rounds of midyear budget cuts during fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2017 because tax collections fell short of expectations. State economist Darrin Webb recently told lawmakers that Mississippi is continuing to recover slowly from the Great Recession, and the state's growth lags significantly behind that of the national economy.
The Joint Legislative Budget Committee recently set an estimate that Mississippi will have slightly less money to spend during fiscal 2019, which starts next July 1, than it has during the current year. The number was based on a recommendation from Webb and four other financial experts.
The Volcker Alliance report notes that many states are stretched by big expenses for Medicaid and public employee pensions. Mississippi is among them.
"The fiscal pressure is not likely to disappear anytime soon," the report says. "The Volcker Alliance's mission in grading states is to highlight those with practices that should be followed nationwide as much as it is to criticize those that fall short. The sheer magnitude of state and local spending — and the fact that much of the local portion comes from state budget appropriation — makes it essential that such expenditures are as transparent as possible, funded responsibly, and not left for future generations to shoulder."
» EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS has covered Mississippi government and politics since 1994. Follow her on Twitter: http://twitter.com/EWagsterPettus .
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Opinionator | After PTSD, More Trauma
After PTSD, More Trauma
By David J. Morris
January 17, 2015 2:30 pm January 17, 2015 2:30 pm
Couch is a series about psychotherapy.
Going in for therapy at a Veterans Affairs hospital is a lot like arriving at a large airport in a foreign country. You pass through a maze of confusing signage. Your documents are scrutinized. There are long lines you must stand in and a series of bureaucratic rituals that must be endured before anything resembling a human encounter occurs.
In April 2013, after doing a series of intake interviews and sitting on a waiting list for three months, I had my first human encounter with my assigned therapist at the big V.A. hospital in San Diego. Little did I know that the delay in treatment would be less agonizing than the treatment itself.
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My first session began with my therapist, a graduate student finishing up his doctorate in clinical psychology, offering a kind of apology. "Now, I'm probably going to make some mistakes and say some stupid things," he said. "Are you going to be O.K. with that?"
I understood. Two decades before, as a newly minted infantry lieutenant in the Marine Corps, I'd been charged with the welfare of a platoon of 30 young Marines. Too often my best wasn't good enough, and I made a number of errors in judgment while in command, errors that bother me to this day. Offering my therapist some grace seemed like my only option.
I'd come to the V.A. for a number of reasons. After being discharged in 1998 from the Marine Corps, I worked as a reporter in Iraq from 2004 until one day in 2007, when I was nearly killed by an improvised explosive device, or I.E.D., in southern Baghdad. Occasionally I had weird dreams about the war that mixed people and places from my time in the Marines with my time in Iraq. But what really concerned me was something that happened a few years later. I was sitting in a movie theater with my girlfriend when the world suddenly went black. When I regained consciousness, I was pacing the lobby of the theater, looking at people's hands to make sure they weren't carrying weapons.
Afterward, I asked my girlfriend what happened. "There was an explosion in the movie," she said. "You got up and ran out."
Post-traumatic stress disorder has stalked me for most of my adult life. I don't mean to say that I've suffered from it all that time. But the idea of it, the specter of it, has haunted me, as it haunts virtually everyone who has served in the military. You may not have PTSD, but most of your fellow citizens assume you do, and this fact alone has a powerful effect.
A year or so after the episode at the movie theater, with my symptoms not improving, I went to the V.A. for help.
There are two widely used treatments for PTSD at the V.A. One is called cognitive processing therapy. The other is prolonged exposure therapy, the effectiveness of which the V.A. heavily promotes. After explaining my symptoms to the intake coordinator, I was told that prolonged exposure was the best therapy for me. He said that the treatment worked for about 85 percent of people ("some pretty darn high odds if you ask me").
My therapist, with whom I would meet twice a week, started with a short overview. Prolonged exposure therapy was developed in the 1980s by Edna Foa, a professor of clinical psychology, and colleagues of hers at the University of Pennsylvania. It is built on the idea that after traumatic experiences like I.E.D. ambushes, plane crashes and sexual assaults, survivors can "overlearn" from the event, allowing fears arising from their trauma to dictate their behavior in everyday life. Some survivors find that the only way to feel safe is to restrict their daily routine to a small range of activities. One Iraq veteran I knew, who had lost several buddies in an I.E.D. blast near Falluja, stopped leaving his apartment.
The promise of prolonged exposure is that your response to your trauma can be unlearned by telling the story of it over and over again. The patient is asked to close his eyes, put himself back in the moment of maximum terror and recount the details of what happened. According to the theory, the more often the story is told in the safety of the therapy room, the more the memory of the event will be detoxified, stripped of its traumatic charge and transformed into something resembling a normal memory.
The process sounded like all my dealings with the V.A.: Before you could find any relief, you had to traverse a little bit of hell.
MY therapist instructed me to select a traumatic event to focus on. As someone who had spent 10 months in some of the deadliest parts of Iraq, I had collected a number of near-death experiences. Would I choose the time I rode in a helicopter that was nearly shot down over Falluja? The I.E.D. ambush I saw near the town of Karma that killed two Pennsylvania National Guardsmen? The week I spent with some Marines from my old battalion when we were shelled for seven days straight? To focus on a single event seemed absurd, the equivalent of fast-forwarding to a single scene in an action film and judging the entire movie based on that.
In the end I chose the story of the I.E.D. ambush I survived in 2007 in southern Baghdad. Over the course of our sessions, my therapist had me tell the story of the ambush dozens of times. I would close my eyes and put myself back inside the Humvee with the patrol from the Army's First Infantry Division, back inside my body armor, back inside the sound of the I.E.D.s going off, back inside the cave of smoke that threatened to envelop us all forever.
It was a difficult, emotionally draining scene to revisit. This was the work site of prolonged exposure therapy, where the heart's truest labor was supposed to happen. Given enough time and enough story "reps," when I opened my eyes again, I wouldn't feel forever perched on the precipice of a smoke-wreathed eternity. I wouldn't feel scared anymore.
But after a month of therapy, I began to have problems. When I think back on that time, the word that comes to mind is "nausea." I felt sick inside, the blood hot in my veins. Never a good sleeper, I became an insomniac of the highest order. I couldn't read, let alone write. I laced up my sneakers and went for a run around my neighborhood, hoping for release in some roadwork; after a couple of blocks, my calves seized up. It was like my body was at war with itself. One day, my cellphone failed to dial out and I stabbed it repeatedly with a stainless steel knife until I bent the blade 90 degrees.
When I mentioned all this to my therapist, he seemed unsurprised.
"You weren't drunk at the time?" he asked.
"No. That came later."
Following a heated discussion, in which I declared the therapy "insane and dangerous" and my therapist ardently defended it, we decided to call it quits. Before I left, he admonished me: "P.E. has worked for many, many people, so I would be careful about saying that it doesn't work just because it didn't work for you."
WITHIN a few weeks, my body returned to normal. My agitation subsided to the lower, simmering level it had been at before I went to the V.A. I began once more to sleep, read and write. I never spoke about the I.E.D. attack again.
In one sense, my therapist was right: Prolonged exposure has worked for many people. It has arguably the best empirical support of any PTSD therapy currently in use by the V.A. One recent study found that among veterans who completed at least eight sessions of treatment, prolonged exposure therapy decreased the proportion who screened positive for PTSD by about 40 percentage points. But the treatment may not be as effective as the V.A. would have you believe: About a quarter of the veterans in that study dropped out of the treatment prematurely, much as I had.
After my experience with prolonged exposure, I did some research and found that some red flags had been raised about it. In 1991, for example, Roger K. Pitman, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, conducted a study of exposure therapy on Vietnam veterans and observed some troubling complications: One subject developed suicidal thoughts, and others became severely depressed or suffered panic attacks. A similar study, published in the Journal of Traumatic Stress in 1992, found that Israeli army veterans experienced an increase in the "extent and severity of their psychiatric symptomology."
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There are many reasons to be disappointed, even angry with the V.A. right now — the unforgivably long wait times, the erratic quality of care, the reports of administrators' falsifying records to cover up those shortcomings. My own disappointment is that after waiting three months, after completing endless forms, I was offered an overhyped therapy built on the premise that the best way to escape the aftereffects of hell was to go through hell again.
A month after dropping out of prolonged exposure therapy, I began a treatment of cognitive processing therapy at the V.A. Here, our group was asked to examine our thoughts and feelings about our war experiences without revisiting specific traumas. We were allowed to let sleeping dogs lie. This has helped. As I wrote in my journal at the time, "If P.E. is a kind of emotional chemo, then C.P.T. is a kind of emotional tai chi."
I never saw my therapist again at the V.A., but I did I run into him one day at the Y.M.C.A. pool near my house. Recognizing him in the water, I said hello and mentioned a surfing trip I had planned to Costa Rica for the following month. We chatted about the many wonders of Central America, the beauty of the jungle, the power of the waves down there. Away from the hospital, he seemed able to express himself in a way he hadn't before. He seemed looser, more at ease.
Before us, a classic California tableau was painting itself, the sun setting through bands of liquid gold. Whatever secrets might have passed between us in the therapy room, whatever mistakes we might have committed together or on our own, whatever things separate survivor from healer, were gone. We were just two people alive together in the dying light. Before I ducked back under the water he turned to me and said, "Look at all that, isn't it beautiful, the colors and everything?"
David J. Morris, a former Marine infantry officer, is the author of the forthcoming book "The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder."
A version of this article appears in print on 01/18/2015, on page SR1 of the NewYork edition with the headline: After PTSD, More Trauma.
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Born in Bristol, Pennsylvania, the daughter of two college professors, Lauren grew up in the upstate New York town of Geneva. Her childhood was split between experiences that contrasted. She was privy to the shelter of growing up in a rural town and also exposed due to the erudite sophistication of her parents' academic careers. Lauren spent time traveling in Europe and lived for a year in London, where she studied languages and flute at the famed Sarah Siddons School. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College in New York, Lauren credits her love of acting to her great-grandmother who bred a family tradition of "treading the boards" on the musical theatre stages of Liverpool and London. Lauren's breakthrough motion picture performance came in the New Line Cinema's box-office smash, Dumb & Dumber (1994), with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels. Lauren captured the hearts of audiences, as "Mary Swanson", the woman who drove Jim Carrey to follow her across the country to pledge his love. Next, she received glowing reviews for her performance in the Edward Burns drama, No Looking Back (1998), as a woman whose life in a small seaside community is turned upside down by the reappearance of her ex-boyfriend. Lauren's other film credits include Oliver Stone's "Any Given Sunday," with Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz and Jamie Fox, Sydney Pollack's "Sabrina," starring Harrison Ford, the action-drama "Turbulence," co-starring Ray Liotta, the Miramax ensemble "Beautiful Girls," a lead role in the Universal production of "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story," "A Smile Like Yours," "The Adventures of Ford Fairlane," the comedy "Down Periscope," starring Kelsey Grammer, "Entropy" and "The Last Producer," starring and directed by Burt Reynolds.In television, Lauren's credits are no less impressive. Lauren recently starred in 2 films for Hallmark. She also boasts three seasons as Director Jenny Shepard in CBS/Paramount Television's top-rated drama series NCIS. Lauren was seen in the TNT movie "King of Texas," an adaptation of Shakespeare's "King Lear," playing opposite Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden and renowned actor Patrick Stewart, and in the NBC miniseries "Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot," alongside Jill Hennessy and Leslie Stefanson. Additionally, Lauren starred as plastic surgeon Jeremy Hanlon on David E. Kelley's Emmy Award-nominated CBS drama, "Chicago Hope," marking her second project with Kelley, following their successful collaboration on the critically acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning series, "Picket Fences." Lauren has worked on numerous Independent films. These feature films include the political thriller "Fatwa," in which she not only acted but also served as a producer, the Peter Schwaba penned and directed comedy "Godfather of Green Bay," "The Chumscrubber," an Arie Posen directed, independent film to be released by DreamWorks, "Pleasure Drivers," directed by acclaimed cinematographer Andrej Sekula and co-starring Angus McFadden, a Lifetime movie "Caught in the Act," which she also produced, and "Chasing 3000". Most recently, Lauren starred in "You're So Cupid" with Brian Krause and Jeremy Sumpter. Additional projects contributing to the broad and diverse body of motion picture work Lauren has compiled include the drama "Colored Eggs" with Faye Dunaway, the comedy "Raising Flagg" playing opposite Oscar winner Alan Arkin, the Darrell Roodt directed HBO thriller, "Pavement", co-starring Robert Patrick and Paramount Pictures', and "What Women Want" opposite Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt. In addition, Lauren served a lead role in Disney's Oscar winning animated motion picture "Spirited Away" as the voice of Chihiro's Mother. Coming up she will play a lead in "Perfect Age of Rock and Roll," produced by Spike Lee. Lauren currently [march, 2014] makes her home in Toronto, Canada with her "three kings", sons Alexander, George, and Henry. Hide
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Motive - Season 4
Good Witch - Season 5
Lucifer - Season 3
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Trump campaigned on deporting citizens, imprisoning his political opponents, weakening press freedoms and engaging in torture overseas. We know this because he talked about all of it. To somehow forecast politics-as-usual from the Trump regime ignores everything he's promised to do.
Out of nowhere, Donald Trump chose to drop a civil liberties bombshell on Tuesday, tweeting that flag burners should be either imprisoned or deported.
Not only did the outburst vindicate the notion that Trump doesn't have any functional understanding of the Constitution, specifically the First and Fourteenth Amendments, but it also established the fact that he plans to operate as an autocratic tyrant, jailing dissenters, if not fully revoking the birthright citizenship of anyone who farts in his general direction.
As we've discussed before, there's literally nothing to contravene the prediction that Trump will abuse his presidential power out of both ignorance of the law and in defiance of it. He campaigned on deporting citizens, imprisoning his political opponents, weakening press freedoms and engaging in torture overseas. We know this because he talked about all of it. To somehow forecast politics-as-usual from the Trump regime ignores everything he's promised to do. The very fact that he's spent much of his transition tweeting threats against the press, against theater actors, against political protesters and even against the integrity of the election that elevated him to the presidency tells us his administration is shaping up to be extraordinarily abnormal. And that's understating the threat.
Not surprisingly, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, who recently confessed to secretly advising Trump on the media, completely downplayed the president-elect's flag burning tweet. Scarborough told The New York Times' Anand Giridharadas that people of color, along with the rest of us, are exaggerating the threat of a Trump presidency.
"You have a situation where it's the boy who cried wolf, and everybody keeps talking about him being a neo-Nazi, and then what happens is, what do you call him next after you've called him a neo-Nazi when perhaps somebody in the administration does suggest something that runs afoul of the Constitution?" he said.
"I just personally have confidence in the Supreme Court of the United States and Congress and the system of checks and balance in our Constitution that I do think that we don't need to jump out of windows," he replied.
What Scarborough hasn't fully grasped yet (and perhaps he refuses to) is the reality that Trump could very easily and extra-constitutionally overrule whatever checks and balances he decides are impediments to making America great again. There's no procedure for removing the president when he defies the Supreme Court, other than impeachment, and it's unlikely that the lockstep GOP will have either the motivation or the votes to take us down that path.
So, what happens when the Supreme Court tells Trump he can't have something he wants -- hell, what if Congress disses him? What will Trump do? We have no idea because no one's asked him. But we know from his words and behavior that he's perfectly capable of doing whatever the hell he wants, and with the almost unanimous support of his voting base of 60 million Americans, backstopped by Fox News, talk radio and the neo-Nazi underworld of online hackers and Pepe The Frog disciples.
Contrary to what Scarborough said Tuesday morning, we've had a few presidents who've either thumbed their noses at the Court or outright defied its rulings -- Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln to name a two (both of these guys appear on our money, by the way). In fact, Lincoln famously issued a warrant for Chief Justice Taney's arrest.
Okay, so let's say an American citizen is illegally arrested and unconstitutionally deported for burning the flag. How long will this person live in exile before his or her case reaches the Court? And if it's stacked with conservative justices, how will they ultimately rule on the case? Again, we don't know. But it won't be quick, nor will it be a no-brainer. Texas v Johnson, which decided the flag burning issue, was a five-to-four decision -- barely overruling anti-flag-burning laws.
One last thing. Regarding Scarborough's "jumping out of windows" remark, I'm old enough to remember early 2009 during the debate over President Obama's stimulus legislation when Scarborough was routinely leaning on the Red Scare button, warning his audience about the end of capitalism and the rise of socialism in America. Of course, it never happened even though the stimulus passed and helped rescue the economy from collapsing.
Frankly, I really hope Scarborough is right and the rest of us are dead wrong. I'll be more than happy to cop to being wrong about Trump's presidency, but so far there's no indication it'll be an uneventful, on-the-level presidency. Trump's tweets are just hints as to what's in store -- one of several reasons why it's not a distraction but a series of canaries in the tyrannical coal mine.


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Getting a Sales-Tax Refund in Taiwan
by Steven Crook
February 9th, 2017 | Travel
Foreign citizens visiting Taiwan can take advantage of the government's sales-tax (VAT) refund system if they spend more than NTD3,000 in a single day at any participating shop no more than 30 days before leaving the country. Taiwan's VAT rate is a mere 5% but on big-ticket items the savings could be significant. It makes no difference whether you pay with cash or a credit card.
As you'd expect, tourists are required to take the goods with them when they depart. Qualified businesses include almost every department store in the major cities, some computer and jewellery shops and several opticians. Taking cost, quality and the speed with which they'll get your glasses ready, getting a pair of spectacles made while in Taiwan is a pretty attractive option. When touring Taiwan, you'll probably notice a lot of locals wear glasses. If you buy indigenous handicrafts from a small shop in Taiwan's east or south, likely no VAT will be charged, so there'll be nothing to reclaim.
If you're considering getting a laptop or a camera, bear in mind that any guarantees or warranties could be problematic when you're outside Taiwan, and that you're unlikely to get an English-language manual. An English-language list of participating shops can be found here. It's probably not complete because more businesses sign up to the scheme each month.
It's also worth knowing that if the total amount to be reclaimed is below NT$1,000 (for example, if the tourist spends less than NT$20,000) he or she may apply directly to the store for an on-the-spot refund. Otherwise, they'll have to wait until they're about to leave the country. Applications for refunds can be made at either terminal in Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (Terminal 3 should be ready in 2020), or at Kaohsiung, Taichung or Hualien airports. Those leaving by ferry or cruise ship can do the paperwork and get their money in the passenger terminals at Kaohsiung, Keelung, Hualien or Taichung harbours. There's still no refund counter in Kinmen County or the Matsu Islands, nor in Tainan Airport, which now has a handful of international connections. The relevant government webpage is here.
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Traditionally, Japanese doctors and consumers relied on brand-name drugs much more than other nations, but government targets to boost the use of generics have transformed Japan's pharmaceutical market and inspired a wave of potentially lifesaving research.
Faced with an aging population, increasing life-span and a low birthrate, reducing costs in Japan's healthcare sector is paramount. That's why, in 2007, the Japanese government began setting targets for generic drugs. At that time, the aim was for 30 percent of all pharmaceuticals sold to be generic by 2013. After meeting that goal, the targets have been steadily ramping up, with the current target set at 80 percent by 2020.
The shift to generics, which are produced using the same active ingredients as the original after the drug's patent has expired, has already made a hugely positive impact on the state's coffers. According to the Japanese health ministry, the country is estimated to have saved ¥1.3 trillion ($11.8 billion) in the 2017 fiscal year because of the increasing use of generics. This is the biggest reduction on record and greatly exceeded the government's predictions.
But generic drugs aren't just about saving money. The success of generics in what is the world's second-largest pharmaceuticals market, according to the Japanese government, has created new business opportunities for Japanese pharmaceutical companies. Now, innovative businesses are investing heavily in research that is changing how people around the world take their medication.
"Of course, to cure any sort of disease or illness, drugs must be properly taken and administered. That's why it is so important to make drugs that are easy to take," said Itsuro Yoshida, president of Towa Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.
Although Julie Andrews sang about a spoonful of sugar helping the medicine go down, for certain sectors of the population, properly taking medication can be much more complicated and serious.
Towa Pharmaceutical has already developed the exclusive and award-winning RACTAB (Rapid and Comfortable Tablet) technology, which is used to manufacture high-resistance tablets that dissolve in the mouth without the need for water. For healthy individuals, this may be a welcome innovation, but for people who have problems swallowing or lack access to safe drinking water, access to these types of pills can be the difference between life and death.
Towa Pharmaceutical's Okayama Plant. Between this, and the company's other two plants, Towa has the manufacturing capacity for a total of 11 billion tablets per year.
The Osaka Plant, which is open to receive visitors so they can observe Towa's cutting-edge manufacturing facilities for themselves.
Towa Pharmaceutical is also is the process of developing a new technology that completely masks the bitterness in all of their medications and is studying how to create more drugs that can be absorbed through the skin.
Another potentially critical innovation in generic drug research surrounds developing ways to make drugs that are longer-lasting and more durable. At the moment, the typical lifespan of tablets is 3 years and they lose their properties in heat, humidity or light, according to Yoshida.
"If we can create something that has a lifespan of 5 to 10 years and can survive in any sort of environment, we would be able to help many places, especially countries in South East Asia or Africa," he said, pointing out that in those regions adequate storage or safe-drinking water is not always available and the climates tend to be hotter and more humid.
So, with Japanese talent more focused than ever on generic drugs, the world may be in store for some game-changing advances in the pharmaceutical industry that could not only help states and consumers save millions of dollars, but also make safe and effective drugs more universally accessible.


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Douglas Schoen (born June 27, 1953) is an American lawyer, political analyst, author, lobbyist, and commentator.

Education
Schoen attended Horace Mann School in New York City. While still a high school student, he canvassed the Upper West Side for Dick Morris. He graduated from Harvard College (magna cum laude) and Harvard Law School.  Schoen went to high school with Mark Penn and then worked together with him on The Harvard Crimson.

Career
Schoen currently serves on the Advisory Council of Represent.Us, a nonpartisan anti-corruption organization.

It was reported in 2019 that he joined Mike Bloomberg's exploratory 2020 presidential campaign as a pollster.

Consulting work
While still at Harvard, Schoen first worked as an independent political consultant for Louis Gigante, who ran for New York City Council in 1973.

In 1977, he co-founded the political consulting firm Penn, Schoen & Berland with political strategists Mark Penn. Michael Berland joined the firm in 1987. Schoen worked for the political campaigns of politicians including Jay Rockefeller, Richard Shelby and Evan Bayh. Following the 1994 United States elections, President Bill Clinton hired Dick Morris, who brought on Schoen and Penn. Schoen worked on the 1996 campaign as well in survey analysis. Schoen also began doing corporate work beginning in the 1980s.

In 2000, Ukrainian steel oligarch Victor Pinchuk hired Schoen on a $40,000 per month retainer.  In 2004, Schoen introduced Pinchuk to Hillary Clinton. He also did work for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2008 and later became associated with the People United Means Action movement of disaffected Clinton supporters who refused to support Barack Obama. Schoen was a consultant for Jeff Greene in the 2010 Florida Senate election.

The firm was sold to WPP plc in 2001. Schoen left the firm later to work for news media.  In 2010, Schoen hosted a fundraiser for Republican congressional candidate John Gomez.

Pinchuk donated $13.1 million to the Clinton Foundation in the years after Schoen's introduction.  In 2011, Schoen registered as a foreign agent lobbying on behalf of Pinchuk.  Between September 2011 and November 2012, Schoen arranged nearly a dozen meetings between Pinchuk and senior State Department officials, including Melanne Verveer.  In September 2015, Pinchuk donated $150,000 to the Donald J. Trump Foundation in exchange for a 20-minute video appearance by Donald Trump shown at a policy conference that year in Kiev.  Michael Cohen solicited Schoen for the donation from Pinchuk, which was the largest outside donation the Trump Foundation received that year.  In March  2017, former Trump aide Monica Crowley registered as a foreign agent working for Pinchuk under Schoen's direction.

Media
Fox News hired Schoen as a political analyst in 2009 and Newsmax hired Schoen as a columnist. In 2010, he authored a book on the Tea Party movement with Scott Rasmussen. He has been writing a regular column for Forbes magazine beginning in July 2016 with a column "Donald Trump Through The Years".

Newsmax TV announced that Schoen would be leaving Fox News and joining them. On January 19, 2021, Schoen joined Newsmax TV as an Analyst.

Views
Schoen has identified as a member of the Democratic party, but has frequently criticized the party and taken positions on various political topics at odds with the party's views. Schoen's critics have called his identification as a Democrat "phony" and calculated to help his Fox News career. Steve Benen called Schoen the quintessential "Fox News Democrat" and said he is "actively hostile towards [Democrats] and the party's agenda."

Schoen says that lower taxes would be a successful Democratic strategy, opposed President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, and said that President Obama should not run for reelection in 2012.

He has stated that President Obama divided the country along partisan lines, and said that the Affordable Care Act has been a "disaster" for the Democratic Party.

Schoen has been critical of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement. In a The Wall Street Journal op-ed, he wrote, "President Obama and the Democratic leadership are making a critical error in embracing the Occupy Wall Street movement—and it may cost them the 2012 election." He believes that the protesters represent "an unrepresentative segment of the electorate that believes in radical redistribution of wealth, civil disobedience and, in some instances, violence," and that their common bond is "a deep commitment to left-wing policies." Schoen believes that the Democratic Party should not appeal to voters who support taxing oil companies and the rich, but rather to voters in the middle who want lower taxes.

Schoen advocated against impeachment of Trump in an interview with NPR on January 26, 2021, claiming it was divisive and distracting.

Works
Enoch Powell and the Powellites, Palgrave Macmillan, 1977.
The Power of the Vote: Electing Presidents, Overthrowing Dictators, and Promoting Democracy Around the World, HarperCollins, 2007
Declaring independence: the beginning of the end of the two-party system, New York: Random House, 2008, ,
The threat closer to home: Hugo Chávez and the war against America, New York: Free Press, 2009, ,
Hopelessly divided : the new crisis in American politics and what it means for 2012 and beyond, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012, ,
The Nixon effect: how Richard Nixon's presidency fundamentally changed American politics, New York; London: Encounter Books, 2016, ,
America in the age of Trump: opportunities and oppositions in an unsettled world, New York: Encounter Books, 2017, ,
The End of Democracy: Russia and China on the Rise, America in Retreat, Regan Arts, 2020

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Living people
21st-century American male writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
Alumni of the University of Oxford
American political commentators
American political consultants
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Fox News people
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Jewish American writers
New York (state) Democrats
People from New York City
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Would Apple Really Buy 5G Modems From Huawei?
Huawei is one of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) fiercest rivals in China. The Chinese tech giant controlled 28% of the country's smartphone market in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to Counterpoint Research, compared to Apple's 12% share.
Huawei is also one of the world's largest manufacturers of telecom equipment and networking hardware. It produces some of the chips and modems for its own phones, which reduces its dependence on third-party chipmakers like Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM).
However, Huawei doesn't come without its concerns. Its dominance of multiple communications markets, close ties with the Chinese government, cybersecurity and espionage concerns, and allegations of sanctions violations and intellectual property theft sparked a ban on its networking-equipment products at U.S. federal agencies last year. This dispute, which remains a flashpoint in trade talks between the U.S. and China, probably won't be resolved anytime soon.
Which is why it was surprising when Huawei recently declared that it was "open" to selling its new 5G Balong 5000 modems to just one American company -- Apple. Apple hasn't expressed any interest in accepting Huawei's offer, but it could resolve one of its biggest problems.
How Huawei could solve Apple's problems
Huawei, Samsung (NASDAQOTH: SSNLF) and Qualcomm are currently the only three chipmakers that have released 5G modems. Qualcomm was Apple's longtime modem supplier, but escalating legal disputes over the past two years led to an ugly divorce. Apple stopped buying modems from Qualcomm and shifted all its orders to Intel (NASDAQ: INTC).
However, Intel's 4G modems weren't as fast as Qualcomm's and its 5G modems probably won't arrive until 2020. This means that the first 5G iPhones will arrive about a year after 5G Android devices hit the market. To make matters worse, Intel's ongoing chip-production issues indicate that its 5G modem production could still hit additional delays next year.
Meanwhile, Samsung refused to sell its 5G modems to Apple, citing a short supply of its Exynos 5100 chips. The only other major modem maker, MediaTek, probably won't release its 5G chipset until 2020.
Apple is reportedly unhappy with Intel's sluggish progress but doesn't have any viable options left except for Huawei. Huawei clearly realizes this and sees an opportunity to extend what appears to be an olive branch to Apple and the U.S. government.
But would Apple take Huawei's offer?
Apple is falling behind the 5G curve while its iPhone sales are tumbling. Its iPhone sales fell 15% annually last quarter due to longer upgrade cycles and tough competition in higher-growth markets like China.
TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo expects iPhone shipments to fall between 5% to 10% in 2019, and the situation could worsen in 2020 if Intel fails to launch its 5G modem. Therefore, Huawei's offer likely sounds enticing to Apple.
The American government is concerned about Huawei's business practices and the Chinese government's demands on U.S. tech companies, but Apple probably isn't. The company already pulled VPN apps (which let Chinese users access sites normally blocked by the government) from its App Store, opened data centers in China to store the personal data of Chinese users for the government, removed politically charged songs from Apple Music, and even deleted an emoji of the Taiwanese flag from Chinese iPhones.
If Huawei wasn't being scrutinized by the U.S. government, Apple might take its offer in a heartbeat. However, U.S. regulators could block the deal by citing concerns about IP theft and espionage, and the subsequent PR blowback could tarnish its brand.
Therefore, it seems unlikely that Apple will buy Huawei's modems. Huawei clearly hopes the offer can defuse its conflict with the U.S. government, but it would be wiser for Apple to make peace with Qualcomm than tether itself to the Chinese tech giant.
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Dr. Ablow acknowledges at the outset of his article that we may not have had access to Kaczynski's delightful little thesis if Mr. Kaczynski hadn't demanded its publication under threat of blowing up more people if he didn't get his way. Yet, while Dr. Ablow's article states repeatedly and in bold that blowing people up is not good, and Kaczynski really shouldn't have blowed those people up, and No!! I really, really mean it!! Blowing people up is really, really bad!! he still insists that Kaczynski's ideas "are increasingly important" and "cannot be dismissed." I assume the bolded statements exist so that there is a legal wall shielding Dr. Ablow and Fox News if anybody takes Mr. Kaczynski or Dr. Ablow all that seriously and decides that blowing things up is actually a useful solution to whatever-the-hell it is that either of them are talking about.
Of course, taking Dr. Ablow seriously in this (and most other) case(s) is rather difficult for any rational person—which includes a whole lot of people who don't need bolded statements telling them not to blow people up. But perhaps Dr. Ablow just plain doesn't realize that what generally happens with the manifestos of psychopaths is that they are dismissed, except by other psychopaths. Instead, Dr. Ablow elevates Kaczynski's explosives-backed malarkey to the heights of time-honored literature, saying it "deserves a place alongside" Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World.
Never mind that Kaczynski's work, among other things, indicates his support for radical environmentalists, as he tries with much confusion to explain why they aren't really leftists. Never mind that Kaczynski advocates the destruction of technology and the collapse of the economy, stating, "conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth," which "inevitably break down traditional values." Never mind that Kaczynski ridicules Constitutional rights as bourgeois tools for enforcing control. What's really important is that either Dr. Ablow hasn't actually bothered to read Kaczynski's work, that Dr. Ablow is counting on anyone agreeing with his ridiculous column to not actually read Kaczynski's work, or that Dr. Ablow actually suffers from a reading comprehension disorder and didn't understand Kaczynski's (largely incomprehensible) work.
This entry was posted in Fox News, Mental Health, Psychology, Terrorism, Uncategorized and tagged Dr. Keith Ablow, Fox News, Psychology, Technology, Ted Kaczynski, Terrorism, Unabomber by jcschildbach. Bookmark the permalink.


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Fear the Deer! Barney is scared for sure.
Indiana upsetting Boston in the first round? Does Boston make a come back?
anyone even watching the conference finals? what a boring round of basketball.
ima say this only once, and I'm never gonna say it again. Parker's damn good.
I guess Cleveland decided to let Boston win one. That was nice of them.
LeBron was apparently sick for Game 3. We'll see if Boston can take tonight's game at home at least, but I doubt it.


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FLORIDA LAND STEWARD UPDATE 3/7/14
Listen to the Southeast AgNet interview about the upcoming Forest Stewardship Tour on 3/13.
Jim Helmers, owner and operator of Rocky Creek Timber, invites landowners interested in converting their land to longleaf pine to attend the upcoming Longleaf Pine Restoration Tour next week. There is still room to register: http://fsp-tour031314.eventbrite.com/
INVASIVE SPECIES AWARENESS WEEK
Last week was National Invasive Species Awareness Week but every week is in Florida! Non-native plants, animals and pathogens can harm humans and the environment and impact our nation's economy. The cost of damage done by invasive plants alone is in the billions of dollars per year. Invasive weeds can produce skin irritation, trigger allergies and poison pets and livestock. They can clog waterways, kill native trees, and shade out crops, ornamentals and prized native flora. They are found in every imaginable habitat, including oceans, lakes, streams, wetlands, croplands, rangelands, natural areas, parks, forests, urban environments, yards and gardens.
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Clean hiking boots, waders, boats and trailers, off-road vehicles and other gear to stop invasive species from hitching a ride to a new location.
Avoid dumping aquariums or live bait into waterways.
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Volunteer to help remove invasive species from public lands and natural areas.
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SITES NEEDED FOR UF COGONGRASS RESEARCH STUDY
Speaking of invasive species, Dr. Luke Flory, UF-IFAS Agronomy Dept, is looking at the effects of cogongrass invasion and soil moisture availability on longleaf pine seedling recruitment. He's looking for sites on private lands that would be suitable for his research. Here's what he's looking for:
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If you have a site that fits the criteria, contact Dr. Flory at (352) 294-1581, flory@ufl.edu
FWC TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETINGS IN CENTRAL FL FOR INPUT ON MANAGING BEARS
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March 18 - DeLand, City Hall, 120 S. Florida Ave.
March 19 - Fort McCoy, Whiteacre Memorial VFW Post 1020, 23498 NE Highway 314.
March 20 - Palatka, Ravine Gardens State Park, 1600 Twigg St.
March 25 - Gainesville, City Hall, 200 E. University Ave.
UF-IFAS SMALL FARMS ACADEMY
The goal of the Small Farms Academy is to train small farmers by providing unique, hands-on classes, workshops, and field days on specific topics in order to sustain existing small farms and increase the number of new small farms. All events here:
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PINEMAP VIDEO RELEASED
The Pine Integrated Network (PINEMAP) project integrates research, extension, and education to enable private landowners to manage forests to increase carbon sequestration; increase efficiency of nitrogen and other fertilizer inputs; and adapt forest management approaches to increase forest resilience and sustainability. Watch this six minute PINEMAP video focused on forest health management strategies, produced by Shelby Krantz, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLnxKfFIDJ4
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service was recently petitioned to list the eastern diamondback rattlesnake, historically found in the lower Coastal Plain from North Carolina to Louisiana, as a threatened or endangered species. As the Service reviews the status of the eastern diamondback, the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI) is soliciting information about observations of the snake to improve understanding of its distribution and habitat associations. If you encounter an eastern diamondback rattlesnake, we would greatly appreciate your completing a short online survey here:
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Уазо́н () — коммуна во Франции, находится в регионе Центр. Департамент — Шер. Входит в состав кантона Обиньи-сюр-Нер. Округ коммуны — Вьерзон.

Код INSEE коммуны — 18170.

География
Коммуна расположена приблизительно в 155 км к югу от Парижа, в 70 км юго-восточнее Орлеана, в 45 км к северу от Буржа.

По территории коммуны протекают реки Нер и Уазенот.

Население
Население коммуны на 2008 год составляло 722 человека.

Администрация

Экономика
В 2007 году среди 483 человек в трудоспособном возрасте (15-64 лет) 365 были экономически активными, 118 — неактивными (показатель активности — 75,6 %, в 1999 году было 70,6 %). Из 365 активных работали 330 человек (179 мужчин и 151 женщина), безработных было 35 (16 мужчин и 19 женщин). Среди 118 неактивных 20 человек были учениками или студентами, 59 — пенсионерами, 39 были неактивными по другим причинам.

Достопримечательности
  (XV век). Исторический памятник с 1926 года
 Приходская церковь Сен-Марсьяль (XII век)
 Деревянная статуя Св. Марциала (XVIII век). Высота — 97 см. Исторический памятник с 1963 года
 Статуя «Мадонна с младенцем» (XIV век). Высота — 65 см. Исторический памятник с 1963 года
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