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By making plant roots grow deeper, these geneticists hope to curb climate change
Science Jul 17, 2019 12:32 PM EST
The plants you see on land remove 29 percent of our carbon emissions from the atmosphere, according to recent estimates. But if we want to stave off global warming, given humanity's current rate of emissions, that may not be enough. So to siphon even more carbon out of our air and store it in the ground, growing deeper plant roots could help.
You don't need to genetically modify plants to get them to grow deeper roots. Some plants already do, and now scientists have figured out why and how to control it.
The new discovery, published July 11 in the journal Cell, could help researchers trap more climate-altering carbon underground.
The team discovered a gene that controls the direction roots grow…
The team discovered a gene that controls the direction roots grow and learned that some plants have a version of this trait that makes their roots grow deeper. The plants do this, not by growing longer, but by growing sideways less often and downward more often.
As roots grow, they nourish and stabilize plants, but they also help the planet by storing carbon in the earth — or at least until the plant dies, decomposes and releases the carbon back into the atmosphere.
The deeper roots grow, the longer they can store carbon because they don't get degraded by microbes as quickly as roots closer to the surface, said Wolfgang Busch, a plant geneticist at the Salk Institute who led the study.
Designing plants with deeper roots is one mission of the Harnessing Plants Initiative, a collaboration that launched in 2017. The $35 million initiative aims to develop crops that can remove significant amounts of carbon from the atmosphere by growing plants with deeper, bulkier and more carbon dense roots.
Among the public, "There's a lot of outcry about genetically modified plants," said Erin Sparks, a root biologist at the University of Delaware, who was not involved in the study. And though she doesn't think GMOs are bad, she said that public perception can affect how we accept such technology. In this case, the technology could amplify much-needed efforts to tackle climate change.
What the scientists did
Plant roots grow downward by sensing gravity using tiny, stone-like starch balls — called granules — in their cells. When gravity pulls the granules to the "bottom" of a cell, it triggers signals that tell the plant "this way is down."
But if a root hits a rock or senses nutrients in another direction, a separate signal will switch on and tell it to turn. How quickly and frequently the root changes directions determines how deep, versus how spread out, the roots will grow over time.
Scientists had previously surmised the plant hormone auxin was involved in the root turning process because it controls most aspects of plant growth, but they didn't know which gene was responsible.
So the researchers turned to the weed-like plant Arabidopsis to study root behavior. Think of Arabidopsis as the floral version of a lab mouse — it is commonly studied in laboratories to decipher plant genetics.
Busch's team gave 215 plants a low dose of a chemical known to block the auxin hormone, and watched for drastic changes in the roots.
Arabidopsis thaliana, otherwise known as the thale cress or mouse-ear cress, is a popular research tool in plant biology. Photo by lehic/via Adobe Stock
What they found
After treatment, they picked out two groups of plants: the ones that reacted strongly to the hormone blocker and grew nearly horizontal roots, versus the ones that tolerated the blocker and continued to push roots vertically.
When the researchers scanned the DNA in both groups, they found two slightly different versions of one particular gene called Exocyst70A3.
There's a good chance that this deeper-rooting trait is present in other crops.
Prior research had found that Exocyst70A3 is responsible for making a protein that helps move auxin out of the cell, a necessary step in root growth signaling.
The researchers reasoned that, because these two groups displayed such drastic contrasts in root architecture when auxin hormones were blocked, they might also see other differences when the roots were grown chemical-free. So they compared how deep each group grew their roots without the blocker.
The chemical-sensitive group grew roots more than twice as deep as the chemical-tolerant group. This was not because their roots were any longer, but because their roots were slower to change directions, the researchers found.
Between the deep- and shallow-rooted plants, shallow roots were also more drought-resistant, producing in some cases as many as 100 times more seeds under drought conditions than the deep-root group.
In a potential future of persistent, globe-altering drought, designing deeper roots may seem the wrong way to grow. But Busch said because Arabidopsis is a small plant, its shallow root system has to rely on surface water rather than deeper water reservoirs to survive. He said for larger plants, deeper roots could help increase drought resistance by accessing water further down in the soil that is unavailable to Arabidopsis.
There's a good chance that this deeper-rooting trait is present in other crops because most plants on land have the same group of genes — called a gene family — that contains Exocyst 70A3.
Sparks said that because the researchers found subtle changes in how roots grow naturally, the odds are strong that moving these traits to other plants will work outside of the lab.
The team next plans to search for similar genes in corn, soybean and canola. If a similar gene is found, the researchers will look for ways to promote root growth in those crops. Once developed, the goal of the Harnessing Plants Initiative will then be to convince farmers to plant these deeper-rooting versions of crops.
Left: A new genetic discovery could help researchers trap more climate-altering carbon underground. Photo by kateleigh/via Adobe Stock
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The Forgotten Golem: Michael Mann's The Keep (1983)
Posted by: Samm Deighan in Feature Articles, Slider January 29, 2020 1 Comment
Based on a novel by F. Paul Wilson, this strange film seems like wildly unlikely subject matter for director Michael Mann. Fresh off the success of crime films such as The Jericho Mile (1979) and Thief (1981), Mann was just about to launch the TV show Miami Vice (1984—1989), which he produced, and he was still a few years away from making his best genre film, the near perfect Manhunter (1986). But in 1983, Mann turned briefly away from crime and action cinema for a horror film set in WWII-era Romania about a powerful, vengeful spirit smiting Nazis in a mysterious fortress. The film is certainly an about-face from Thief and is a rare American horror film from the period set during WWII. While some early American genre films made this connection, such as B-movies like King of the Zombies (1941), Return of the Vampire (1944), and They Saved Hitler's Brain (1968), these were themes generally relegated to lower budget cult films rather than Hollywood productions. Certainly Mann was not the first director from the period to explore such subject matter, thanks to titles like Shock Waves (1977), The Boys from Brazil (1978), and Death Ship (1980), but in general, these films were few and far between. In the '80s and '90s, WWII narratives were far more often used as the focus of overwrought melodramas.
The film follows a perhaps unexplected protagonist: Wehrmacht Captain Klaus Wörmann (the wonderful Jürgen Prochnow), leading his unit in the midst of Operation Barbossa, the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union that began in summer of 1941—the largest (and arguably the most horrific) military invasion in history. Wörmann's unit infiltrates what is believed to be a medieval Romanian citadel. Believing it to be full of hidden treasures, some of the men attempt to loot the place, particularly targeting a series of ornate crosses in the walls. As a result, they accidentally wake up a creature known as Radu Molasar (Michael Carter), a Golem-like entity kept prisoner by ancient magics. A priest (Robert Prosky) convinces the Nazis—including a hostile SS unit who have begun executing locals and are led by the ruthless Sturmbannführer Erich Kaempffer (Gabriel Byrne)—that a Jewish historian (Ian McKellen) housed in a nearby concentration camp can solve the mystery of… the Keep (*cue dramatic music*).
Within the film, stakes are raised considerably because Radu Molasar's violent response against the German soldiers is blamed on Romanian partisans. In response, the SS begin executing local citizens, in keeping with an all too common practice on the eastern front during WWII. The creature functions similarly to the titular entity in Paul Wegener's German expressionist films Der Golem (1915) and especially The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920). The Golem is a mystical Jewish creation who can be summoned by Kabbalistic magic; while he is generally used as a protector against persecution, but the creature spirals out of control and caused widespread destruction. Radu Molasar likewise saves the historian's daugther, Eva (Alberta Watson), from being raped by two Nazis—also an all too common occurence during WWII. While the original silent film Golem serves as a sort of gestalt—symbolic of the lives of all Jews in the Prague ghetto, where the film is set—in The Keep, Radu's awakening seems to drive the local inhabitants mad. In an unexpected twist, Wörmann declares that the creature's evil and violence is a reflection of Nazi deeds.
The Keep is an undeniably strange beast, one that has slipped under the radar for many years. This US-UK co-production was beset by a number of difficulties, including extensive re-shoots, the death of original effects supervisor Wally Veevers, and Mann not being able to make up his mind over certain script details and visual design. He particularly struggled with how to portray Radu Molasar. The creature, which at first just appears as clouds or mist, is sadly an example of how rapidly effects dated themselves during this period (Krull, I'm also looking at you). In general, the visual effects and cinematography is experimental, but with a distinctly '80s vibe that would be shared by both Miami Vice and Manhunter, albeit in different ways. This is something I associate with the Michael Mann's best work, even Heat (1995), but it provides a jarring contrast with the WWII setting.
Probably the main issue with The Keep—much like David Fincher's equally fascinating but troubled Alien 3 (1992)—stems from studio interference. Paramount allegedly cut a three and a hour film down to 90 minutes, so continuity is completely out the window—though in their defense, Mann constantly reshot parts of the film and shot several different ending sequences (in my ultimate fantasy release that will never actually see the light of day, we get a series of endings tacked on as in the 1985 mystery-comedy Clue). After the first 20 or so minutes, where the Nazis arrive at the fortress and of course awaken the monster, there's a lot that doesn't make much sense, such as an abrupt cut to the awakening of Scott Glenn's character, Glaeken, a supernatural being who must fight Radu Molasar. His romance with Eva, the scholar's daughter, happens suddenly and the film's original happy ending, in which the lovers are reunited, was strangely excised by the studio.
With that said, The Keep has plenty of thrilling and wonderfully cult moments thanks to an all-star cast that includes Scott Glenn, Jürgen Prochnow, Gabriel Byrne, and Ian McKellen—all of whom speak with different accents, much like The Hunt for Red October (1990), making one long for the kind of overdubbing found in Italian genre cinema. Possibly the best part of The Keep, though, is the excellent, moody score from Tangerine Dream, who Mann previously worked with on Thief. It adds a powerful sense of atmosphere that makes it easy to forgive a number of the film's flaws. And say what you will about The Keep, it is a fascinating exercise in which Mann stepped out of his comfort zone—the glossy, contemporary crime thriller—to make a period set horror film effectively about the horrors of war and the depths of human evil. Like Clive Barker's Nightbreed (1990), another long and messy film cut down by the studio, The Keep can be thought of as as adult fairytale. It presents a universe where supernatural forces and real human horrors overlap, foreshadowing the Hellboy comic series—which it ostensibly influenced—by a decade.
Though it was released on both laserdisc and VHS, The Keep has bafflingly and notoriously been largely unavailable for home viewing—there are no DVD or Blu-ray releases. It occasionally pops up on streaming services like Amazon or Netflix, but—again, bafflingly—it is not always available streaming with the original Tangerine Dream soundtrack (something about rights issues). A documentary, A World War II Fairytale: The Making of Michael Mann's The Keep, has allegedly been in the works for years, so perhaps the curse of Radu Molasar lives on, decades later. I do hope one day footage turns up of the concluding scenes where Radu murders every Nazi remaining in the keep and makes their heads explode.
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There is ample evidence that a) it is toxic and b) its alleged cavity preventive status when swallowed is contestable. The practice of dumping toxic waste fluoride compounds in municipal water supplies has been challenged by many scientists all over the world on its ethics and scientific validity. Most of Canada and almost of all of Europe has either never started or quit this practice. Forced medication of women and their children is very wrong especially in a province that has a long history of human rights abuses. Water is Sacred, forcing medication is not something to be treated lightly, dumping a toxic waste in rivers and lakes via the water supply as a health initiative is hard to swallow.
As my Representative at city council i would like to remind you that you are not my doctor and I am requesting that my right to medical consent be respected.
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Rouville – regionalna gmina hrabstwa (MRC) w regionie administracyjnym Montérégie prowincji Quebec, w Kanadzie. Stolicą jest miasto Marieville. Składa się z 8 gmin: 3 miast, 3 gmin i 2 parafii.

Rouville ma 35 690 mieszkańców. Język francuski jest językiem ojczystym dla 96,8%, angielski dla 1,9% mieszkańców (2011).

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2017 Ford Super Duty Pickups to Use F-150 Aluminum Cabs
July 26, 2016 • by Tom Berg
Like all new SuperDuty pickups, this F-450 SuperCrew has an aluminum cab, front fenders, hood and cargo bed. Photos by Tom Berg.
Ford's 2017 SuperDuty pickups and chassis-cab models will come with more engine power and torque and advanced electronic features, as previously reported, but they'll also share their cabins with the popular F-150 pickup – something not done for more than 20 years.
At a launch event in Denver on Tuesday, Ford executives said that combining the cabs yields economies of scale, because the F-150 is one of the most popular vehicles of any kind in the United States and its three cab types are produced in great volume.
The change also provides more interior room for Super Duty models, because F-150 cabs were enlarged and updated with aluminum construction several years ago. By adopting those cabs, the '17-model F-250 through 550 SuperCabs and SuperCrews will be several inches longer than now. Also like the F-150, cargo beds, front fenders and hoods will also be aluminum.
Since the mid 1990s, SuperDuty trucks have had bodies separate from the F-150, executives explained. At first SuperDuties kept the old cabs originally used in the 1970s; then about seven years later they got new, slightly larger cabs – in steel as they'd always been – and used those through the current 2016 model year.
Aluminum cargo bed is stronger and lighter than steel, Ford says. Photo by Tom Berg.
Going to aluminum saves as much as 750 pounds for the largest F-150, but weight savings for a SuperDuty will be 350 pounds at most compared to current models, executives said. Light-weighting could've been greater, but engineers added beef to the new SuperDuty frames, which are made of mild and high-strength steel.
Among other changes, each of the heavier frames got at least three extra crossmembers, and with fully boxed main rails a SuperDuty frame is now 24 times stiffer.
The Ford event continues on Wednesday, and a more complete report on features and driving impressions will appear later on Truckinginfo.com.
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Banks have sought freedom to restructure loan accounts on a case-to-case basis without going through a uniform restructuring framework, two people aware of the matter said. This is part of suggestions presented to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) after the Supreme Court quashed the central bank's 12 February, 2018, circular prescribing a one-day default rule and mandatory insolvency filing for large loan accounts.
"The February 12 circular replaced all the earlier schemes like the strategic debt restructuring (SDR) scheme for sustainable structuring of stressed assets (S4A) and the 5/25 refinance. Abolishing all other schemes it gave banks full freedom to the banks to restructure accounts. We would like the RBI to maintain status quo on that front," said a senior banker, one of the two quoted above?
The suggestions, presented to RBI through the Indian Banks' Association (IBA), come after RBI governor Shaktikanta Das said after the first bi-monthly monetary policy of FY20 that the central bank will issue a revised circular for quick and effective resolution of stressed assets.
The IBA requested the central bank to change the requisite majority required to approve any resolution plan from 100% to 90%, and increase the default period from one day to 30 days before the resolution plan kicks in.
In its now-quashed circular, RBI had said a resolution plan involving restructuring or change in ownership must be implemented within 180-day period, and the account should not be in default during the "specified period", failing which the account will be referred for insolvency proceedings. This "specified period" was for the period from the date of implementation of the plan up to the date by which at least 20% of the outstanding principal debt as per the plan and interest capitalisation sanctioned as part of the restructuring, if any, is repaid. According to the people cited above, bankers have recommended that this 20% repayment requirement threshold be lowered to 10% of the sustainable debt.
Lenders have also said that refinance of good quality term loans should not be classified as restructured accounts and be considered as standard loans.
Last year, IBA had written to the central bank seeking similar relaxations in the 12 February circular ahead of its implementation. However, the regulator reiterated that there would be no dilution of norms despite pressures from several quarters.
Following these norms, several petitioners, including GMR Energy Ltd, RattanIndia Power Ltd, a Punjab-based textile company, Association of Power Producers (APP), Independent Power Producers Association of India, Sugar Manufacturing Association from Tamil Nadu and a shipbuilding association from Gujarat, had intervened in the matter in different courts.


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It's obvious, if you're a retiree you need income. With cash and fixed interest offering low yields, equities are a good place to look for income. On the surface, it may seem easy creating an income portfolio from shares – just select stocks from a list of high dividend yielders. However, setting up an income portfolio is harder than you think.
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Recent market turbulence has heightened many investors' interest in low-volatility equity strategies. While it's well known that a portfolio of low-volatility stocks can potentially outperform the market over time (the "low-volatility paradox"), stock selection is important.
Everyone has a different vision for their retirement. Yours might involve overseas and interstate travel and an active social life. Or perhaps you prefer spending time with family, working in the garden or volunteering.However, you choose to spend your time, it's important to make sure you have enough funds to support your retirement lifestyle. Forward planning now can make all the difference in the future.
After a downturn in share prices and higher market volatility, many super fund members may think twice about continuing to make voluntary contributions. In contrast, compulsory employer contributions power on – regardless of prevailing market conditions.
Trade wars continued to be a theme during the September 2018 quarter as tensions between the US and China escalated. In July, the US and China levied tariffs of 25% on $34 billion of each other's exports. This means consumers in the US and China now pay 25% more to buy tariff-affected products from each other.
A balanced diet and regular exercise have long been the bastions of good health, but more than ever, people are focused on raising the bar beyond simple living. Peak performance is increasingly the goal of ordinary people seeking to gain a competitive edge at work or to live longer. To reach those lofty ambitions, a holistic approach is required.
Generally speaking, financial security is peace of mind that comes from having confidence you can attain all of your financial goals both now and in the future.
Whilst we all dream of retirement and look forward to the time when we can reap the rewards of a lifetime of hard work, we need to be realistic and consider the possibility of an untimely death or disablement prior to retirement.
International share markets experienced major fluctuations during the June quarter owing to ongoing trade-tariff tensions. The Australian economy grew strongly, driven by strong Government spending on infrastructure and increased demand for Australian mining exports.
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The global economy looks strong for the next year but different risk factors may affect consumer and business confidence.
The Government played a pretty straight bat with this year's Federal Budget, sticking closely to its pre-Budget announcement themes of infrastructure and housing affordability. On the whole, the proposed changes were expected and mostly welcome in a Budget that Treasurer Scott Morrison described as being about making the "right choices" and being "fair and responsible".
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The launch of Bitcoin futures on some major US exchanges has been an important step in the development of the cryptocurrency, giving it greater familiarity and wider usage.
Whether you're buying your first home or you're ready to downsize, you may be able to use your super to help make the most of your money. These two new schemes support the Government's goal of reducing pressure on housing affordability in Australia.
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The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) reduced the official cash rate by 25 basis points to 1.50 per cent in the September quarter.
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I am a keen walker and when I moved to the United States ago to take up my position as Artist-in-Residence at Thomas More College, I immediately started to investigate the local country walks. I lived Nashua, a town in New Hampshire, very close to its southern border with Massachussetts. Both are beautiful states and there are state and national parks with developed paths within striking distance of here. These are very different from the British country walks that I am used to however. The countryside in Britain is almost all farmland of some description. So whereas in the US, as a general principle, the state and national parks aim to present man with a 'wilderness', that is countryside unaffected by man, the British national parks preserve a traditionally farmed landscape. Creating a network of walks across privately owned farms is possible in Britain because in this respect the attitude to private ownership of land is different in England to that in the US. In England there are public rights of way across private land which the landowner is obliged by law to maintain. In return, the public is expected to respect the land and the farmer's crops and animals and stick to the path. There are many thousands of miles of public footpath across private land. This is a system which would be impossible to police effectively, yet it works. On the whole the farmers happily keep the paths open and maintain them for the benefit of walkers, and the whole the public respects the farmers' land, crops and animals. So although backed up by law, it is founded mainly on mutual trust and respect. It is working example of the good that arises when individuals go beyond a strict interpretation of the law and create a covenantal approach for the benefit of the common good.
As a result, everyone in Britain has the chance to see firsthand how man can cultivate and work the land for benefit of all of us. This goes further than simple recreation. For those who wish to accept it, there is profound lesson to be learnt. Creating the possibility for all people to come into direct contact with land that has been worked by man beautifully will teach us that man is capable of working productively with the land in harmony with it. This counters the false idea that man's activity is necessarily destructive and 'unnatural'. This latter point is one of the fundamental premises of neo-paganism. It is an anti-human principle, which leads ultimately to the culture of death.
Some Americans might react sharply and suspect that this an example of the state overreaching itself. However, the idea of the right of the public to cross private land goes back to medieval times. It could not be enforced by the state anyway, because as explained earlier, it relies not so much on the law, but on mutual respect for its effectiveness. The way it worked was this. The landowner, perhaps the lord of the manor, agreed to allow men to farm a strip of his land to grow food in exchange for a tithe, a taxation of a tenth of the produce. The tithes were collected in huge barns – 'tithebarns'- the photographs, above and below show one example that still exists in Oxfordshire in England. However, there was a problem. Our serf might have the land to grow his food, but if it is situated in the middle of a large estate owned by someone else, how is he going to get to it without trespassing? To overcome this, a system of pathways developed that ensured that people could get to their land without fear of prosecution. They were allowed 'right of way'. They could cross someone else's land provided they followed the path and respected the property. This is part of an old tradition of noblesse oblige. This is a French phrase which means literally, 'nobility obliges'. It communicates the idea that with privilege comes the responsibility to use it well in service of the common good.
The idea of a public right of way survived, surprisingly, the industrial revolution right through to the 20th century. By the 20th century, however, many landowners were doing the best to close the paths down and stop public access. The demand for access to the land arose now not from the need to cultivate a leased strip of land, but for the desire for recreation by city dwellers, who otherwise had no chance to experience the countryside. This natural desire to be in contact with the land was being thwarted. There were mass peaceful protest walks. This resulted in Britain's national parks being set up in which not just the paths, but the traditional beauty of the farmed landscape was protected, as well as the maintenance of traditional public footpaths throughout the whole countryside (not just within the park boundaries).
As you can imagine, I would love to see a similar system set up in the US but was told that Americans' understanding of what private ownership of land means, as well as fear of litigation is less likely to allow this. To my surprise, however, I have found out that in New Hampshire at least allows there is the possibility of such a system. By New Hampshire law, the citizens have access to any land provided they respect what is on it. The same law protects landowners from litigation if the person who goes on to his land is injured in some way. The landowner can bar people from his land if he wishes however, by 'posting' it – putting up a publicly displayed notice which tells people that they are trespassing and if they encroach and they will be prosecuted. Landowners exercise this option by paying a higher rate of property tax to the state.
Also, I have recently seen some similar attempts working within American law in California, around the San Francisco Bay area, to create walks across pasture land rather than always 'wilderness'.
According to Catholic social teaching, land is a common good. It is created by God and all people therefore should have access to it. This would seem to mitigate against the idea of private ownership of land. However, in practice this is not the case. The best way to have a plot of land developed for the common good is to give favoured person the freedom to develop it and to exclude others only so far as they do not interfere with this. This is not a right to private property as many envisage it today, however. It is better seen as a privilege, an entitlement to develop it in accordance with the common good (and farming it for profit would qualify in this respect). In medieval times there was also 'common' ground, preserved for commoners who did not own the land, so that there was always somewhere for them to put their animals to pasture. Sadly, much common pasture land was seized for private ownership after the industrial revolution. There are exceptions however and Port Meadow in Oxford is one. You can walk across it today and see a charming hotchpotch of ponies, horses and cows grazing on this huge flat open expanse of grassland next to the Thames that reaches right into the city. Here in the US Boston Common exists right in the centre of the city today, admittedly as a public park and clearly it gets its name from the tradition of common pasture land. I do not know of its current status in law in regard to free pasture however. If any inner city goatherds can enlighten me in this respect, I would be grateful.
What is attractive about the medieval balance between practicalities and the preservation of land for the common good is that it allows for a blurring of the division between the two extremes of complete public access one hand and on the other a total exclusion of all those who d0 not own land.
It may be an unrealizable dream, but nevertheless I will end by encourage all landowners to consider the idea of noblesse oblige in regard to their land. At the same time I would like to encourage citizens, if accorded this privilege, to respect the land they go on to. I am aware that the Americans' love of hunting with guns might during deer season might need thinking about if this is going to work - perhaps this might have to restrained as a condition of access in some cases - but if we can find a way of making it happen, I believe that we will have an even happier nation if we do!
Photographs: aside from the tithebarn in Great Coxwell, Oxfordshire, the others are from a day's walk in the English county of Northumberland. It was a wet day (well this is Britain!) with only a few breaks in the clouds. The purple flowers are of heather in bloom. The rougher looking areas are sheep fells (pasture) and the building at the top is a shepherd's shelter in the moorlands on the Pennine hills the form the division between east and west in northern England. The greener, lusher areas are given over to cows as well.


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TJ Wins!
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Q&A With T.J. Allard of Good Day Live
TJ Allard.
What drives you to be an actor?
Freedom, to me acting isn't work, its fun. Why not spend my life doing something fun!
What do you think it takes to be a success?
I feel that persistence is the key to success in this business. A little bit each day, constantly letting the industry people know that you are out there and still working hard. You really have to make your own luck
What are your most notable roles?
At this point I don't think there are any "notable" roles, although I did get to do a scene with Susan Lucci when I was on All My Children.
What are your favorite ones?
My favorite role so far is from the movie Combat Jump. I played a real life WW2 Major named Ben Vandervort. Who was played by John Wayne in "The Longest Day". It was such a cool experience, I got to shoot old WW2 guns, wear some cool gear, and run around in the woods.
What's the dumbest thing you've ever done?
When I was 18 I ran up a wall to do a backflip, like those karate guys do, it was a very cool trick, and I had done it hundreds of times in my life. This time I was showing off at a dance club, the wall collapsed, and I shattered my knee.
Is it true that you are the number six rusher in Hartwick College history?
HAHA! I can't believe I hold any records there anymore, it was over 10 years ago, I give it 1 more year, then they will find out its all a mistake, and take my name down.
Number 22 at Hartwick College was a force to be dealt with.
What was that like?
It was an awesome experience! I would love to be able to play football again, although being my size, with the knee and hand operations from playing I wouldn't be much use. I think the reason that my name is still up there is because I received a lot of good press coverage from the newspaper and radio station at the college. I seem to remember that you had something to do with that. That good play by play calling, very in-depth, and exciting. All those times you made me seem like a superstar, even when I wasn't in the play. Thanks man!
[Note to my readers: I was the color commentator for WRHO's coverage of Hartwick College football games in the mid-90s].
If you could do whatever you wanted to do today...what would it be?
I want to experience weightlessness, that would be amazing!
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TJ was mentioned in today's New York Post.
He was featured in his hometown newspaper, the Utica Observer Dispatch.
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Assembly member proposes bills to curb education costs
Gladys Rosario
In response to rising college costs, a state Assembly member recently proposed two bills collectively named The Affordable College Act to lower the cost of California's higher education.
State Assemblymember Dan Logue (R-Sacramento), one of the bills' co-authors, proposed AB 181 on Jan. 25 aiming to cut the total costs of education for the university. The bill would cap the total cost of earning a bachelor's degree at $20,000 for the UC system with the goal of enabling students to graduate within three years. Logue proposed AB 51 in December seeking to set a fixed rate for a bachelor's degree at $10,000 for the CSU system.
The bills would establish a program that would coordinate high schools, community colleges and four-year public institutions to facilitate and cut the costs of attaining a bachelor's degree in the science, technology, engineering and math disciplines. The bills also stipulate a tuition freeze for student participants during their first two academic years at a CSU or UC campus.
Students would begin the program in high school by signing up for an unlimited amount of Advanced Placement classes and would have to maintain an average grade of at least a B. Participants would then be eligible to transfer to a four-year university after earning up to 60 credits at a community college.
"There will be high standards, and they're going to have high criteria," Logue said. "We're going to work with universities to define that."
Currently, the authors are working to garner support for the legislation. If approved, the state Legislature would initiate a pilot program involving schools from all levels. Several CSU campuses, such as San Jose State University and CSU Long Beach, have already expressed interest in the program. If successful, fields outside STEM would be allowed to participate as well.
Shawn Lewis, executive director for the Berkeley College Republicans, said that he supports the bills' "creative solutions" to the problem of college affordability but is skeptical of the program's funding methods.
"If one thing is clear, especially after the passage of Prop 30, California is not going to be able to tax its way toward lowering the cost of public higher education," Lewis said in an email.
Logue said one method being considered for cutting program costs is the implementation of online education.
"Online education can play a role in cutting college costs, especially as part of a hybrid or blended program, wherein traditional brick and mortar instruction is combined with online tuition," said Jason Christopher, lecturer and director of information technology at the Goldman School of Public Policy, in an email.
Cal Berkeley Democrats President Daniel Tuchler agrees that the proposal is "unique" and opens room for discussion revolving around the rising price of a college education. However, he said he questions whether the bills would preserve the quality of education that students are receiving.
"Are we going to sacrifice quality for lower price?" Tuchler said. "That was my other biggest concern. There really hasn't been an analysis of the economic effects, but I guess time will tell."
Gladys Rosario covers academics and administration. Contact her at [email protected].
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UC Regents consider plans to expand online courses
On Wednesday, the second of this week's UC Board of Regents meeting at the UCSF Mission Bay campus focused on the system-wide expansion of online education and its implications for the UC.
State senator proposes bill to support children of deported parents
California State Senator Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana, introduced a bill on Tuesday to support children of deported parents in attending California higher education institutions.
Following Dartmouth decision, UC faculty, students question AP credit
On Jan. 23, The American Council on Education published a report calling for universities to renew efforts to make college degrees more attainable by expanding the use of previous coursework, including College Board's Advanced Placement Exams.


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Q: Spring MVC @Transient Angular JAVA DTO Pass the value from backend to frontend I'm using the spring MVC and I want to pass the int value calculated in the @Service to front site in angularjs using @transient annotations.
Here's my entity with @transient value:
@Entity
@Table(name = "oferty_pracy")
public class Preference {
    @Id
    @Column(name = "id_oferta")
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private Integer id_oferta;
    private String tytul_oferty_pracy;
    private String preferowany_jezyk;
    private String wyksztalcenie;
    private String opis_oferta;
    private String nazwa_firmy;
    private String kontakt_firma;
    private String wojewodztwo;
    private Integer id_uzytkownika;

    @OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, mappedBy = "preference", fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
    public List<PreferenceRecomendations> preferenceRecomendations;
    @ManyToOne
    @JoinColumn(name = "id_uzytkownika", insertable = false, updatable = false)
    public User user;

    @Transient
    public Integer value;

    public Integer getValue() {
        return value;
    }

    public void setValue(Integer value) {
        this.value = value;
    }

I'm don't know how can I use this value in the Service, because it's null. I'm using the DTO, here's my controller: the MatchingValue is displayed on the front
private List<OfferDTO> transformToDTO(List<PreferenceRecomendations> recommendationList) {
        List<OfferDTO> offerList = new ArrayList<OfferDTO>();
        for (PreferenceRecomendations preferenceRecomendations : recommendationList) {
            OfferDTO offerDTO = new OfferDTO();
            offerDTO.setDetails(preferenceRecomendations.getPreference().getOpis_oferta());
            offerDTO.setCompany(preferenceRecomendations.getPreference().getNazwa_firmy());
            offerDTO.setTitle(preferenceRecomendations.getPreference().getTytul_oferty_pracy());
            offerDTO.setContact(preferenceRecomendations.getPreference().getKontakt_firma());
            offerDTO.setMatching_offer(preferenceRecomendations.getPreference().getValue());
            offerList.add(offerDTO);
        }
        return offerList;

And I don't know how I must get and send the value, because when I want to get this value in the service it's null:
@Service
public class DefaultRecomendationsService implements RecomendationsService {

    @Autowired
    public RecommendationsDAO recomDAO;

    public List<PreferenceRecomendations> proposeRecomendations(SearchForm searchForm) {
        List<PreferenceRecomendations> oferty_pracy = recomDAO.lista_rekomendacji_oferty_pracy();
        List<Preference> form_list = recomDAO.form_list();
        List<PreferenceRecomendations> oferta_spelniajaca_preferencje = new ArrayList<>();
        List<Integer> testowa_tablica = new ArrayList<Integer>();
        List<Integer> testowa_tablica_najlepsze_preferencje = new ArrayList<Integer>();
        List<Integer> tablica_zgodnosc_preferencji = new ArrayList<Integer>();

            int dopasowanie = recomendation_form.getValue();
float zgodnosc_zgodnosci = liczba_zgodnych_tagow.size();
float zgodnosc_zgodnosci_formularz = liczba_wybranych_tagow_w_formularzu;
float k = (zgodnosc_zgodnosci / zgodnosc_zgodnosci_formularz) * 100;
System.out.println("K: " + k);
dopasowanie = Math.round(k);

In the line:
int dopasowanie = recomendation_form.getValue();
I throught I get the value from the entity and then I can operated that's value but it's null and I can't do anything.
Please help me, because I don't know how can I fix this :(
Update: the RecomendationsDAO class (I'm using the hibernate criteria):
@Repository
@Transactional
public class RecommendationsDAOimpl implements RecommendationsDAO {

    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(RecommendationsDAOimpl.class);

    @Autowired
    SessionFactory sessionFactory;

    @Override
    public void save(Recomendation r) {
        Session session = this.sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
        session.persist(r);
        logger.info("Recomendation saved successfully, recomendations details=" + r);
    }

    // tagi_umiejetnosci table"umiejetnosci" do rekomendacji
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public List<Recomendation> recomendationsList() {
        Session session = this.sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
        Criteria criteria = session.createCriteria(Recomendation.class);
        List<Recomendation> recomendation = criteria.list();

        return recomendation;
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public List<Recomendation> the_best_recomendations() {
        Session session = this.sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
        Criteria criteria3 = session.createCriteria(Recomendation.class);
        List<Recomendation> bestie_recomendations = criteria3.list();

        return bestie_recomendations;
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public List<PreferenceRecomendations> lista_rekomendacji_oferty_pracy() {
        Session session = this.sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
        Criteria criteria2 = session.createCriteria(PreferenceRecomendations.class);
        List<PreferenceRecomendations> rekomendacja_ofert_pracy = criteria2.list();

        return rekomendacja_ofert_pracy;
    }

    // tagi_lang_edu table"oferty_pracy" do rekomendacji
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public List<Preference> form_list() {
        Session session = this.sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
        Criteria criteria = session.createCriteria(Preference.class);
        List<Preference> form_preference_list = criteria.list();

        return form_preference_list;
    }

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Ignore the glare. I snapped this at my parents' house. I'll have to get a copy made eventually.
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Can Employers Enact A Booster Shot Mandate?
Does an employer have a right to issue a policy that says it can fire an employee with just cause for refusing the Covid-19 booster shot? In most cases, likely no. However, keep in mind, like for any other reason, an employer can unquestionably fire an employee without cause for refusing a mandated booster except for the extremely rare case of someone who has a public health verified and approved medical exemption.
Regarding just cause dismissals, the law is not clear; there is no case law about non-unionized employees being dismissed for just cause for failing to get the vaccine yet, let alone the booster. However, in my opinion, a future court will likely hold that, on its own, refusing to get the booster will not amount to just cause. I will use twelve points to make my argument, each cited with appropriate sources.
Just Cause: Dismissal for misconduct with no severance (very rare).
Without Cause: Dismissal for any reason with severance (very common).
Wrongful Dismissal: A without cause dismissal without enough severance. It is not a wrongful dismissal if the dismissal was "unfair" or "unjust". All wrongful dismissal is concerned with is severance. In Canada, generally, the only job protections employees have is severance – they can be fired at any time and for any reason if they are given enough severance.
An employer generally has unfettered rights to issue and enforce policies affecting employees, and a breach of such policies can result in a termination for cause. However, just because a policy says an employee can be fired for cause for breach of such policies does not make it so. The common law of just cause still applies. And the common law of just cause is a difficult hurdle for employers to surpass. Number one, the employer must prove its covid booster policy is reasonable. Number two, the employer must prove that an employee refusing to get a booster in the face of the policy requiring it was both serious and wilful misconduct.
First, I believe that in the future many Canadian employers will generally be unable to prove that a policy requiring boosters is reasonable. More on this in the section below.
Second, whether or not an employer can prove that an employee refusing to get a booster was both serious and wilful misconduct will depend on each specific case and for this I will just repeat what my colleagues at Monkhouse Law said about the first two does:
… if an employer fails to consider the employee's history of employment (such as a lack of disciplinary history), and fails to enact progressive discipline, justifying a for cause dismissal will prove difficult…. If you are an employee with a history of misconduct and with progressive discipline taken against you, a blanket refusal to abide by a mandatory vaccination policy or alternative measures may tilt the scale in favour of the employer.
Whether a Workplace Requirement for a Booster is Reasonable
As discussed above, whether an employee can be terminated for just cause for failing to get an employer-mandated booster shot depends on if such a policy mandating the booster shot is reasonable. Thus, the question becomes, what is reasonable?
Future courts will likely agree that the boosters limit transmission, severe outcomes and deaths, particularly for people near the end of their natural lives.
Hence, in some cases, a mandatory booster shot requirement will be reasonable, for example, in healthcare settings and institutional residences for the elderly or otherwise near death.
In many other cases outside these settings, however, I would put forth that it will be difficult to prove a policy forcing a mandatory booster shot is reasonable.
First, the timetable for when someone can get a booster makes it unreasonable to mandate them at present time. If someone is double dosed, it could take three months before they can get a third dose. If someone is single dosed, it could take up to six months to be medically cleared and to book an appointment to get a second then third dose depending on the brand of the vaccine. And if someone is completely unvaccinated, it could take up to nine months. In the future, it is even more problematic. The fourth and fifth doses, etc. will supposedly be variant-specific and may only be given a year apart like the flu shot.
Second, at any given time, boosters can only conveniently be available from "mixed and matched" sources even though public health bodies have stated they prefer individuals to get a booster from the same vaccine as their first two doses. This causes obvious trepidation among the public.
Third, mandatory vaccine policies are only as reasonable as the vaccines themselves. To that effect, there is now new evidence from legitimate sources that vaccines are becoming less effective at preventing disease than before. This argument will be weighed against the clear consensus that vaccines prevent severe outcomes and death as discussed above. If the vaccine was a sure bet panacea, no judge would refuse a vaccine mandate, but that isn't the case, unfortunately. And, anecdotally, this is causing some apprehension among workers.
Fourth, judges will not ignore the evidence that natural immunity protects against the disease, perhaps even better than the vaccine. To that effect, a judge may find it may be unreasonable to require boosters, particularly where a large majority of a worker population has now had covid because of Omicron. Dr Fauci himself has even said covid "will find just about everybody".
Fifth, we are at the point of the pandemic where a consensus of public health bodies believes that covid will not be eradicated and that we have to live with the virus like the flu. In that regard, no judge in the Ontario employment law context has ever held that termination for cause was reasonable for refusing a flu vaccine (this is probably because very few non-unionized workplaces had flu vaccine policies, to be fair).
Sixth, public sentiment is shifting. While a strong majority of Canadians once agreed with mandatory two-dose vaccination, much fewer people agree with mandatory boosters and I would expect this disparity to increase. Indeed, not even a majority of Canadians support mandatory vaccinations as a way to end the pandemic anymore. This is reflected in the fact that Canadians are not nearly rushing out to get the booster as fast as they did for doses one and two. Courts will be reluctant to marginalize a greater number of people, especially when experts are predicting that the end of covid could "tear us apart" if we aren't careful.
Seventh, achieving high first and second dose coverage remains the focus and main priority of all governments' vaccination programs. Boosters are not recommended as broadly as doses one and two. And, importantly, just a two-dose vaccine qualifies as "fully vaccinated" by for example Ontario and Canadian government passport restrictions. In short, without universal recommendations from public health bodies, it is hard to see a broad booster mandate upheld as reasonable at most workplaces.
Eighth, nearly 80% of eligible Canadians are fully vaccinated with two doses. Those who are fully vaccinated with two doses continue to demonstrate milder cases than those who are unvaccinated, making booster mandates less urgent. The fact is, the decision to vaccinate is a private, personal decision that judges will be reluctant to impose upon vaccine-hesitant employees in perpetuity, particularly where a two-dose vaccine still works. There will be a time when a judge draws a line in the sand.
Ninth, judges may rationalize that employers' time and energy should be spent on convincing employees to vaccinate doses one and two. Employers, especially small ones, don't have unlimited resources, so maybe focusing on two doses is better than time spent convincing deeply reluctant individuals to get three doses. Things need to be put into perspective: two doses is better than none.
Moreover, judges may opine that employers have less punitive tools in their toolbox to limit spread. For example, sick days for the symptomatic or N-95 masks for employees who want them, to name just two. Labour arbitrators now believe a vaccine or weekly test system is reasonable. Perhaps judges will decide the same.
Tenth, trust and goodwill in respect of public health are falling. A Quebec judge, for example, may opine that too much trust and goodwill was squandered on unscientific restrictions, from closing swing sets to curfews to a tax on unvaccinated Canadians. Perhaps this judge may find that the public's increasing lack of trust makes a mandatory booster unreasonable.
Eleventh, mainstream experts agree Omicron is clearly a milder variant and perhaps this is a sign of the future. We don't know and can't know, but if the virus behaves every respiratory disease season with waves of new, but increasingly less deadly variants not unlike the difference between Delta and Omicron, judges will be less likely to enforce booster mandates because of the lack of risk to the public and to the workplace. Courts may assert that we are not in "Kansas March 2020" anymore.
Lastly, judges will need to weigh the reasonableness of booster mandates in terms of industry. A judge may find that an accounting firm, whose workers now largely work from home, has less reason to force a vaccine on the unwanting. Another judge, presiding over a wrongful dismissal trial concerning a dentist's office, may find that requiring boosters for workers is quite reasonable because of their close contact with patients' mouths and noses.
In summary, I would put forth that in the not too distant future, after the end of the Omicron surge, after the point in time when both the public's sentiment and public health's expert opinion has shifted to learn to live with the virus, judges may hold that the above-noted factors against booster mandates outweigh the reasons in favour of booster mandates.
Nevertheless, it is very important to keep in mind that employers are free to fire an employee without cause for any reason, including for the reason of not getting a vaccine or a booster. Thus, technically an employer can with almost 100% certainty fire an employee for failing to get a booster so long as the employer pays the employee severance (e.g. a 'without cause' dismissal.). In this regard, we may never see a booster in the workplace mandate go to trial because few employers will put up with the hassle of trial when they could simply fire the employee who refused a booster without cause, particularly if the employee has little seniority and is owed minimal severance.
There is one small caveat though: In extremely rare cases, human rights law will protect employees from being fired even without cause when a doctor determines they are in danger from life-threatening side effects and local public authorities have approved their exemption. No bona fide religious exemptions to mandatory boosters exist – no religion in Canada that I know of forbids covid vaccines or boosters.


In 2014, the US homeownership rate fell below 65 percent, which means it's back to where it was during the 1970s and much of the 1990s. Various federal agencies have long made homeownership a priority, and have introduced a bevy of government and quasi-government programs including the GSEs like Fannie Mae, FHA-insured loans, VA-insured loans, the Bush administration's "American Dream Downpayment Initiative" and, of course central bank meddling to keep interest rates nice and low for the mortgage markets.
The housing bubble became the gift that seemingly never stopped giving because with all this home buying came millions of new jobs in real estate, construction, and home mortgages. Seemingly everyone looked to real estate as a source of easy money. The bag boy at your local grocery store was selling condos on the side, and everyone seemed to be selling new home loans. Home builders couldn't keep up with the orders and contractors had six-week waiting lists.
Was the Bubble Worth It?
And for what? The opportunity cost of it all was immense and during the bubble years, total workers in housing-related employment ballooned to 7.4 million, many of whom were fooled by the bubble into thinking the home-sales industry was a good long-term career. To get these jobs they spent many hours and thousands of dollars on certification, training, and job experience. After the bubble popped, three million of those jobs disappeared. From 2001 to 2006, employment in the mortgage industry increased by 119 percent, only to have most of those jobs disappear from 2006 to 2009.
The people were promised more homeownership, but after just a few years, it has become clear they didn't get it. At the same time, Wall Street was promised high home prices, and when the prices faltered, it was offered bailouts instead. Wall Street got its bailouts.
The cost of the housing bubble is often calculated in dollar amounts that can easily be counted on Wall Street, but for those who aren't politically well-connected — for ordinary workers, homeowners, construction firms, and many others — the cost in time and lost opportunities will forever remain among the many unseen costs of government intervention.
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