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Now this is a first order ordinary differential equation for T ( t ). We can separate variables to get dT T − T ∞ = − h A ρcV dt, (5.188) integraldisplay dT T − T ∞ = integraldisplay − h A ρcV dt, (5.189) ln( T − T ∞ ) = − h A ρcV t + C, (5.190) T − T ∞ = C ′ exp parenleftbigg − h A ρcV t parenrightbigg . (5.191) CC BY-NC-ND. 2011, J. M. Powers.
5.6. TIME-DEPENDENCY 133 Here C ′ = exp( C ) and is also a constant. Now when t = 0, we have T = T o , so T o − T ∞ = C ′ exp parenleftbigg − h A ρcV 0 parenrightbigg , (5.192) = C ′ . (5.193) Thus T ( t ) = T ∞ + ( T o − T ∞ ) exp parenleftbigg − h A ρcV t parenrightbigg . (5.194) Notice that T (0) = T o and T ( ∞ ) = T ∞ . And notice that when the argument of the exponential is − 1, giving exp( − 1) = 0 . 357, we get a good estimate of the time it takes to get most of the way to equilibrium. We define this as the time constant , τ of the system. Here, we can get τ via − h A ρcV τ = − 1 , (5.195) τ = ρcV h A . (5.196) So we get fast cooking (small τ ) if • ρ is small (a light potato) • c is small, • h is large (the heat transfer rate is fast), • A/V is large (the surface to volume ratio is large). For our potato, let us model it as a sphere of liquid water with R = 0 . 05 m , ρ = 997 kg/m 3 , c = 4 . 18 kJ/kg/K . Let us take h = 0 . 012 kW/m 2 /K . Let us take T o = 20 ◦ C , T ∞ = 200 ◦ C . For a sphere, we have the surface to volume ratio of A V = 4 π R 2 (4 / 3) π R 3 = 3 R . (5.197) Our temperature varies with time as T ( t ) = T ∞ + ( T o − T ∞ ) exp parenleftbigg − 3 h ρc R t parenrightbigg , (5.198) = (20 ◦ C ) + ((20 ◦ C ) − (200 ◦ C )) exp   − 3 ( 0 . 012 kW m 2 K ) parenleftBig 997 kg m 3 parenrightBigparenleftBig 4 . 18 kJ kg K parenrightBig (0 . 05 m ) t   , (5.199) T ( t ) = (200 ◦ C ) − (180 ◦ C ) exp parenleftbigg − t 5788 . 14 s parenrightbigg (5.200) The time constant τ = 5788 . 14 s = 96 . 469 min . When T = 100 ◦ C , the potato is probably cooked enough. This occurs at t = 3402 . 19 s parenleftbigg min 60 s parenrightbigg = 56 . 7032 min. (5.201) If we leave the potato in the oven too long, it will get too hot, and all its water will boil away. The temperature history is plotted in Fig. 5.18. This example used what is known as the lumped capacitance method for analysis of T ( t ). In actuality, T is a function of space and time: T = T ( x, y, z, t ). It will be shown in later courses that the lumped capacitance method is valid when the so-called Biot number , Bi , is much less than unity. Biot himself CC BY-NC-ND. 2011, J. M. Powers.
134 CHAPTER 5. THE FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS 0 5000 10000 15000 20000 25000 30000 50 100 150 200 T (˚C) t (s) t = 3402.19 s = 56.7 min cooking time Figure 5.18: Temperature versus time for the potato in the oven. was an important physicist who played a small role in thermal sciences. He is depicted in Fig. 5.19. The Biot number for our potato problem is defined as Bi ≡ hR k , (5.202) where k is the thermal conductivity. For the lumped capacitance to be valid, we need Bi = hR k << 1 , thus k >> hR . (5.203) For liquid water, k ∼ 0 . 006 kW/m/K , so for this problem Bi = ( 0 . 012 kW m 2 k ) (0 . 05 m ) 0 . 006 kW m K = 0 . 1 . (5.204) This is a small enough Biot number that our lumped capacitance method is acceptable. Physically, if the thermal conductivity is high relative to the product of h and R , thermal energy diffuses rapidly in the solid, and internal temperature gradients are small.


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General Welsh: PLAAF To Be Larger Than USAF By 2030
by FighterSweep Staff Mar 3, 2016
Editor's Note: Here's another one for the Color-Us-Shocked! files: The People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) will have a larger and more advanced force than our own Air Force in fifteen years. We have watched the fighter gap grow as time passes, as most of our "Legacy" aircraft are either nearing or at the end of their service life. While new sensors, pods, weapons, coatings, etcetera are all well and good, at the end of the day, there's only so much you can do with a forty-year-old airplane who's tired, cranky, and prone to breaking due to its advanced age.
China's People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) will be able to match or exceed the United States Air Force in the number of fielded combat aircraft by 2030. Moreover, while American forces will still maintain an edge, the technological gap between the two great powers will have closed significantly between now and then.
Right now, the PLAAF is slightly larger in terms of personnel, however the U.S. Air Force has a "couple thousand more aircraft," Gen. Mark Welsh, Air Force chief-of-staff, told the House Appropriations Committee's subcommittee on defense on March 2.
The Chengdu J-20, China's first offering in the realm of 5th-Generation fighters, seen here with its weapons bay open. (Photo courtesy of http://www.apl-chine.com)
"At the rate they're building, the models they're fielding, by 2030 they will have fielded—they will have made up that 2,000 aircraft gap and they will be at least as big—if not bigger—than our air forces."
But it's not just sheer numbers, the PLAAF is rapidly fielding newer and much more capable aircraft. Some of those are completely new warplanes like the stealthy Chengdu J-20 and Shenyang J-31, while at least three more are upgraded versions of existing fighters like the J-11D and J-16 among others. Moreover, China continues to import advanced Russian-made fighters including the fearsome Sukhoi Su-35S Flanker-E.
"We are not keeping up with that kind of technology development," Welsh said. "We are still in a position of—we will have the best technology in the battlespace especially if we can continue with our current big three modernization programs."
Those modernization programs are the Boeing KC-46 tanker, Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and the Northrop-Grumman B-21 Long Range Strike-Bomber. However, even then America's technological edge will not be the vast gulf the nation has grown accustomed to since the end of the Cold War.
"[China] will have a lot of technology that's better than the stuff we've had before," Welsh said. "And the Russians are doing the same thing."
Dave Majumdar's article at National Interest can be viewed in its entirety here.
(Featured photo courtesy of Piotr Butowski)

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Q: Eclipse Plugin or else for coding footnote I love the Manning In Action Series. One of appealing area is that the code listing inside the book always has a footnote where there is a detailed explanation by a reference number. See below the example:

So I'm wondering if there is an Eclipse plugin or online blogging service that allows footnote taking in the source code?

A: I think the closest you'll get is the the eclipse "NotePad" plugin. It doesn't create footnotes directly, but rather just takes plaintext notes and puts them in the metadata. You'll find it at: http://eclipsenotepad.sourceforge.net/
Better, though, is to use eclipse's built-in indexing, and leave yourself
/* @TODO 1) take note of this notey note */

comments near important lines.
"But sleepynate", you may say, "that's madness! I don't have anything TODO there!"
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Annual fundraiser to benefit Doula Foundation
The Doula Foundation will host its annual Night of Caring on Saturday, Sept. 24 at MSU's Darr Agricultural Center from 6 – 10 pm.
Annual fundraiser to benefit Doula Foundation The Doula Foundation will host its annual Night of Caring on Saturday, Sept. 24 at MSU's Darr Agricultural Center from 6 – 10 pm. Check out this story on news-leader.com: http://sgfnow.co/2bSXGZU
News-Leader staff Published 2:34 p.m. CT Aug. 23, 2016
The Night of Caring is Sept. 24. It is a fundraiser for the Doula Foundation.(Photo: Submitted photo)
The Doula Foundation will host its annual Night of Caring 6-10 p.m. Sept. 24 at MSU's Darr Agricultural Center. The evening, presented by Jeff and Lisa Allen, will feature catered dinner, drinks, silent and live auctions, and dancing to the music of area favorite Brookline Station.
Night of Caring proceeds provide vital funding for low-income families who would not otherwise have access to the pregnancy services and programs the Doula Foundation provides. Tickets are $100 per person and are all-inclusive. Sponsorship opportunities are still available.
"This evening will be especially meaningful to the Doula Foundation," Chief Executive Officer Sue Robinson said in a release. "We are celebrating our 15th year of serving our youngest and most vulnerable members of our community, our children."
The Doula Foundation provides doulas, who are trained and certified birth companions with skills in family support to expectant and new parents who are at-risk for adverse childhood experiences such as child maltreatment, poor health outcomes, poverty, and child abuse and neglect, the release said. Doulas provide culturally sensitive pregnancy and childbirth education, early linkage to health care and social services, labor coaching, breastfeeding support and parenting skills while fostering parental attachment.
"We are the only community-based doula program in Missouri designed to provide support specifically to at-risk mothers and their babies," Robinson said in the release. "We believe that by providing parents with support, emotional care and education throughout a pregnancy and in the critical early days of parenthood, we build a bond and competency that helps prevent child abuse and neglect."
For more information on Night of Caring, visit doulafoundation.org, call 417-832-9222 ext. 204 or email marcy@doulafoundation.org.
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Chrissy Teigen John Legend Halloween Costume 2017 - What Is Chrissy Teigen Going to Be for Halloween?
Halloween is just around the corner, which means the time has come to a) share non-stop Hocus Pocus GIFs, b) discuss what Thackery Binx looks like now, and c) patiently wait for celebrity Halloween costumes.
Are those condoms or Raman flavor packs?


The first 'hot metal' was successfully produced at the Sohar Aluminium (SA) smelter in the first half of June, on schedule and after three years of meticulous construction and planning.
The first production, witnessed by SA chairman Ahmed Al Wahaibi and a host of SA officials, shareholder representatives and other special guests, marked the beginning of the smelter's production, which will take six months to reach full capacity.
Using Alcan/AP smelter technology, this $2.4 billion greenfield project involved the construction of a single 360-pot AP35G aluminium smelter potline with a capacity of approximately 350,000 metric tonnes per year, a carbon anode plant, a metal casting facility, and a port facility for product storage and ship loading and unloading. When complete, the potline will be the largest single potline in the world.
"We have all admired the perseverance of the operations teams having to prepare for start-up under difficult conditions, and this makes the hot metal achievement even more special, thanks to their dedication to getting the job done," said Al Wahaibi.
Sohar Aluminium's shareholders are Oman Oil Company (40 per cent), Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (40 per cent), and Rio Tinto Alcan (20 per cent).
SA chief executive Tony Kinsman congratulated Sohar Aluminium, Bechtel, Alstom and the contractor staff for working so well together to achieve first hot metal on schedule.
"This is a very proud moment for everyone at Sohar Aluminium, from the shareholders and management team to all operators, maintainers and support staff," said Kinsman.
As well as achieving its construction and production targets, the Sohar Aluminium project has also managed to stay on budget throughout the entire design, procurement and construction phase.
"In this world of rapidly escalating costs and lengthy project delays, what we have achieved here is truly remarkable," said the general manager of the smelter project, Geoffrey Brookes.
The start-up of the smelter requires each of the 360 cells cell to be brought on sequentially, one by one. The first cell to be energised was B005 on 06 June and, on Wednesday 11 June, the metal production process commenced.
"Initially, the team will start up one cell per day, with this number gradually increasing as the process becomes more proficient," said Sohar Aluminium operations general manager, Michel Huot.
In preparation for the start-up phase, Huot said the operations team had spent approximately one million man-hours in training in several countries around the world including France, Canada, Bahrain, Dubai and Australia. The operational workforce comprises more than 65 per cent Omanis, mainly from the local Al Batinah region.
While the company has no immediate plans for expansion, there is provision for the development of another potline in the future, a company spokesperson said.
SA has a metal offtake agreement with Rio Tinto Alcan.
The project gave a boost to the local economy. "During construction, we outlayed around $400 million in local contracts and there are a further 100 or so contracts that need to be filled during our operations phase," said the spokesman.


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Q: Python 3 builtin types __init__ doesn't call super().__init__? When deriving from a builtin type as well as from some other class, it seems that the builtin type's constructor doesn't call the super class constructor. This results in __init__ methods not being called for types that come after the builtin in the MRO.
Example:
class A:
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        print("A().__init__()")

class B(list, A):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        print("B().__init__() start")
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        print("B().__init__() end")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    b = B()

In this sample, A.__init__ is never called. When B is defined as class B(A, list) instead -- switching the inheritance order -- it works as intended (i.e. A.__init__ is called).
This very subtle dependence on inheritance order seems rather un-pythonic, is it intended this way? It also means that you must never derive from builtin types in complex class hierarchies, because you can't know where the builtin ends up in the MRO when someone else derives from your classes (maintenance horror). Am I missing something?
Extra info: Python version 3.1

A: The correct usage of super() is rather subtle and requires some care if the collaborating methods don't all have the same signature.  The usual pattern for __init__() methods is the following:
class A(object):
    def __init__(self, param_a, **kwargs):
        self.param_a = param_a
        super(A, self).__init__(**kwargs)

class B(A):
    def __init__(self, param_b, **kwargs):
        self.param_b = param_b
        super(B, self).__init__(**kwargs)

class C(A):
    def __init__(self, param_c, **kwargs):
        self.param_c = param_c
        super(C, self).__init__(**kwargs)

class D(B, C):
    def __init__(self, param_d, **kwargs):
        self.param_d = param_d
        super(D, self).__init__(**kwargs)

d = D(param_a=1, param_b=2, param_c=3, param_d=4)

Note that this requires that all methods collaborate, and that all methods need a somewhat compatible signature to ensure it does not matter at which point the method is called.
The constructors of built-in types don't have constructor signatures that allow participating in such a collaboration.  Even if they did call super().__init__() this would be rather useless unless all the constructor signatures were unified.  So in the end you are right -- they are not suitable for particpation in collaborative constructor calls.
super() can only be used if either all collaborating methods have the same signature (like e.g. __setattr__()) or if you use the above (or a similar) pattern.  Using super() isn't the only pattern to call base class methods, though.  If there are no "diamonds" in your multiple inheritance pattern, you can use explicit base class calls, for example B.__init__(self, param_a).  Classes with multiple base classes simply call multiple constructors.  An even if there are diamonds, you can sometimes use explicit calls, as long as you take care that an __init__() may be called several times without harm.
If you want to use super() for contructors anyway, you indeed shouldn't use subclasses of built-in types (except for object) in multiple inheirtance hierachies.  Some further reading:

*

*Raymond Hettinger's Python's super() considered super!

*James Knight's Python's Super is nifty, but you can't use it


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Q: Matlab extract from a cell of strings by regexp I have a cell of a couple of thousand strings that contain one or more underscores as shown below:
cel={'ABC_D234_567','ABD_X157_224','PT_D204_157','PT_O268_578','DTA_P2345','CBDRT_X345_D325};

I need to extract all the letters before the first underscore and one letter after; for example, 'ABC_D', 'PT_O', or 'CBDRT_X'.
I figured out a way to do so by using strfind, but it's several lines of code; finding indices for all underscores, using only the indices for the first underscores, then extracting strings from 1 to (index+1).
I'm pretty sure one can do this in one or fewer lines; something like:
cel_new = regexe(cel,'something something','once','match');

What would this 'something something' be?

A: use cellfun to apply this operations to each element of a cell. like
cel={'ABC_D234_567','ABD_X157_224','PT_D204_157','PT_O268_578','DTA_P2345','CBDRT_X345_D325'};

cel_new=cellfun(@(x) regexprep(x,'^([A-Z]+_[A-Z]).*','$1','once'), cel,'uni',false)

regexprep helps you find and extract the pattern, and cellfun applies this to each string in the cell.


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Shares of Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) battled back from a 12% plunge on Monday after FOX Business's Charlie Gasparino reported that Herbalife executives are telling people they don't believe the embattled nutrition company is the subject of a Federal Trade Commission probe.
Following the report, Herbalife issued a statement saying other than voluntary dialogue with regulators, "we are unaware of any other regulatory interest and/or investigation."
Herbalife's stock tumbled double digits earlier on Monday after the New York Post reported Los Angeles-based company is the subject of a law enforcement investigation, citing documents released by the Federal Trade Commission.
Herbalife said it is responding to "misleading and inaccurate information" and said it is demanding a correction from the paper.
Shares of Herbalife bounced well off session lows of $30.84 and were recently trading down just 4.02% to $33.66.
The rollercoaster day for Herbalife is nothing new as the company has been in the spotlight after hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman called it a pyramid scheme back in December. The allegations, denied by Herbalife, triggered an 80% selloff that the company has largely recovered from.
But Wall Street was spooked again on Monday as the Post revealed there have been 192 complaints against Herbalife over the past seven years, including some accusing the company of being a pyramid scheme and others about false promises.
But the company downplayed the number of complaints against it.
"Since its founding in 1980, Herbalife has positively impacted the lives and health of consumers," Herbalife said. "For a direct selling company of our size, we have had a relatively low number of complaints to the FTC. However, we take every one of them seriously and stand by our record of doing right by our distributors and all consumers of our products."
Shares of Herbalife are still up 38% since hitting 52-week lows of $24.24 on December 24 in the wake of the Ackman allegations. However, the stock is down 54% from its annual high of $73 set in late April.


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The Elmer's Treatment
The U.S. government shares vast amounts of information with the public, a touch of glue to help hold a skeptical polity together.
John Maxwell Hamilton, Kevin R. Kosar
The good news is that spring has sprung, and so has Americans' approval of Congress. The rollout of coronavirus vaccines and the arrival of government relief checks have helped bolster the public's esteem to its highest level since 2009. From January to March the approval rating rose, Gallup reports, from 25 percent to 36 percent.
So, what's the bad news? It's that the rise in public approval looks impressive only because the baseline was so abysmal. Less than half the public says it trusts the federal government to solve domestic or international problems. Only a third or so has an overall positive view of government, which is ranked behind every private sector of the economy, including lawyers and the dread media.
This distemper seems to have its roots in the public lack of confidence in government. Eight in ten Americans do not trust the federal government to do the right thing. Expressions of citizens' distrust have become particularly poignant during the coronavirus pandemic. Significant percentages of the public doubt the federal government's recommendations on masks and are wary of being vaccinated. The federal government has turned to celebrities like Morgan Freeman and Dolly Parton to sway skeptical citizens.
Some of this distrust is due to intense partisanship, of course. But beyond the partisan rancor lies a more profound belief that leaders have conspired to hide awful truths from us. Five years ago, a survey found that a fifth of Americans thought the federal government had plotted the September 11 attacks; a third believed that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was involved in a pedophilia ring.
Conspiracy theories about U.S. public officials are as old as the Republic. Tales of Masonic cabals pulling the levers of power circulated at the Founding and live on today. The mid-1960s, marked by the Kennedy assassination and the murky subsequent Warren Commission investigation, stoked suspicion that secret hands were manipulating our democracy. Public trust in government plunged from 77 percent in 1964 to 27 percent in 1979.
True, some of the suspicion must be attributed to febrile imaginations. But our leaders have too often been caught lying about important matters. President Lyndon Johnson's administration deceived Americans about purported attacks on a U.S. vessel in the Gulf of Tonkin and thereby plunged the nation into the Vietnam War. The media, which had been credulous toward government, published serial exposés about the breadth of government deception.
The eventual counteraction was President Trump's attempt to discredit the news by labeling it "fake," just as he tried to discredit the government he oversaw by calling it the "deep state."
But if it makes no sense for a democracy to trust government blindly, it is equally perverse to slip, as we have done, into assuming that government generally lies to us. One thing we would do well to remember is that there is a wealth of information that our government shares with the public on its activities. Such information can play a restorative role in the bonds between citizen and government.
Plenty of Ink Spilled
Every day, the federal government delivers us a torrent of high-quality information. We trust it without a second thought; indeed, we would have trouble getting through the day without it. This delivery has taken place since the government was created. It is an essential ingredient in binding Americans to one another and their polity.
Itemizing this information is as impossible as naming individual raindrops in a tropical storm. But we can categorize it:
For starters, think about government statistics. At a time when the Departments of State and War together had only a dozen or so people on staff, Alexander Hamilton, as the country's first secretary of the treasury, employed more than five hundred, many of them tasked with gathering data of practical value to not just government but commercial interests. Today, this kind of record-keeping, on a much grander scale, tells us what we are doing and where we seem to be headed. For example, every ten years the Department of Commerce carries out a national census. Each year the FBI provides a statistical summary of hate crimes. Every month the Department of Labor reports on levels of unemployment. Every day the National Weather Service tracks temperatures and issues weather forecasts to the country's cities and hamlets.
Next, think about accountability, an essential feature of democracy. The Founders did not fully embrace this principle at the start: When he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, Elbridge Gerry (who later lent his name to "gerrymandering") was distressed that members of the House of Representatives would be allowed to "conceal their journals" from the public. When he became a Representative, he called for a "full and impartial publication of the debates of the House." Finally, in 1873, Congress inaugurated the Congressional Record for its proceedings and debates, and it is now taken for granted as much as the publication of congressional hearings.
The Executive Branch, like Congress, was slow to embrace the idea of accounting for its activities. Woodrow Wilson's Committee on Public Information, remembered today for its enthusiastic propagandizing during World War I, actually began a great service by publishing a daily Official Bulletin, which listed government proclamations, rules, and purchases of items as mundane as boots for soldiers. The bulletin was killed at the end of the war; but in 1936, the Roosevelt Administration created a successor, the Federal Register, which published rules and regulations, executive orders, and presidential proclamations, all without editorial comment. In due course, other topics covered by the old Official Bulletin, like proposed procurement, contracts, and sales of government property, found their way into the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents and the Commerce Business Daily; and new publications have been steadily added, ranging from the annual Financial Report of the United States Government to Supreme Court arguments and opinions.
A third category of information, made up of government reports, draws from studies by the experts who became a significant feature of the Executive Branch around the turn of the 19th century. In 1895 the secretary of agriculture justified their presence by asserting that "new ideas" were "of more permanent value than old seeds." Government experts conduct research on optimum diets (at the Department of Agriculture), mitigation techniques for environmental accidents (at the Environmental Protection Agency), and the efficacy of various automobile seat belts (at the National Highway Transportation Administration). To help ensure the public is aware of this work, the government publishes both yearbooks summarizing the studies and indexes of the titles of government publications.
Congress now does this type of work as well. Citizens can find copies of legislation and explanatory digests on congress.gov, where they can also track the status of bills and nominations to government positions. More, they can read reports by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service that explain how Congress, executive agencies, and government programs operate.
Much of this work by experts leads to findings of urgent concern to the public that appear as government alerts. For instance, while the National Weather Service issues daily reports on sunshine and rain, it also monitors crises like hurricanes and issues the appropriate emergency warnings—alongside food recalls and FBI "most wanted" lists.
Finally, there are government guides, issued on the assumption that people need help to avail themselves of … government. They can be as straightforward as a web page telling you where to find your local Social Security office or as complex as a Department of Health and Human Services' "explainer" on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's Privacy Rule. During the coronavirus pandemic, federal agencies have delivered relentless communications trying to explain the perils of the virus, the ways those dangers can be mitigated, and the places where Americans can get tested and vaccinated.
Just the Facts, Please
Where there are information tools, there are opportunities for propaganda. This propaganda frequently appears when an administration uses agency communications channels to advocate for a policy or ballyhoo a President's achievements. For example, the Obama Administration's Environmental Protection Agency proposed an anti-water pollution regulation—and then used social media to fabricate public support for it. Just before the 2020 presidential election, the Trump Administration used the U.S. Treasury website to boast about the growth of the economy.
Needless to say, these activities blur the line between agencies' avowedly political leadership and their supposedly apolitical civil servants, whose job it is to administer the law.
The Biden Administration and, to a degree, Congress can bolster Americans' trust in government by not telling whoppers. But that is not enough.
Elected officials can proactively cultivate trust by explaining the many ways in which the government informs the public every day and talking about the government's duty to be truthful. The Biden Administration and members of Congress can even host hackathons that invite techies to take government data streams and make them more useful to the public in the form of apps or other free software.
President Biden, in particular, as government's most visible actor, can model integrity in his communications with the public. In his press conferences, he can play it straight with journalists; and he can require his spokespersons to do the same. His administration is off to a good start; but the President himself should go before the public regularly to build public trust.
Talk is important, but so is action that bolsters public confidence in government. The President can revise current policies governing classified information. Far too much of it is locked down at the moment it is created; government then has to work through dated and laborious processes to release it to the public. These processes should be changed to flip the presumption to non-classification, and Congress' funding for declassification needs to be increased. It is absurd that German secret ink techniques were kept classified for nearly a century.
The administration and Congress should direct agencies to move more of their useful data onto public-facing websites that are easy to use—and to improve the quality of this information to enable better public oversight and allow apps builders to make the data useful. The websites data.gov and usaspending.gov offer a wealth of information. The U.S. Geological Service has streams delivering data that boaters and fisherman use to plan their trips and stay safe. There should be more such resources.
The Biden Administration can also remake executive agency websites so that they are less "advertorial" and more informational. The citizen going to a government website wants facts, not feel-good pap peddled by blogging deputy assistant secretaries.
The President and Congress can take many other actions to bolster public belief in the federal government. It will take time; as any public-relations expert will tell you, changing long-held misimpressions requires sustained effort.
But the onus is also on American citizens. We have forgotten the many ways in which government information improves our lives. We too easily trust rumors originating with political operatives and unknown trolls on the internet. E pluribus unum requires us to do better, too.
John Maxwell Hamilton is a global fellow with the Wilson Center, serves on the faculty for Louisiana State University, and is author of Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda (2020). Kevin R. Kosar is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. They are authors of the 2016 R Street research report, Government Information and Propaganda: How to Draw the Line?


Hello! Happy Friday. Thank you for your nice comments on my last post, I had fun taking those sparkler photos. And hello new followers and readers, it is lovely to have you here. Making and baking for Christmas gifts continues. I have an amazing list. I am so good at lists. I have about ten things that are in progress, the same number at the, ahem, "planning stage" and one finished gift, a doll for my niece. I am so pleased with how it turned out but I'll wait until I've made the second, for my other niece, before I show you. The are sister-dolls for sister-nieces. I fear I may have slightly over-egged the gift making - I hope you're not disappointed!
Anyway, here's some cake. I know you don't really need a recipe for crispy bars, but I thought they were so good, and a few of you asked, so...here it is. I'll hang my baking head in shame.
5 Mars Bars, although any sort of supermarket "Chewy Caramel Bar" will do just as well.
120 g or 4 oz butter.
150 g or 5 oz Rice Crispies. Again, "Rice Pops" or "Rice Snaps" will suffice.
50 g or 2 oz white chocolate.
Melt the Mars Bars and butter together in a large bowl. I do this in the microwave so use a bowl big enough to hold the Rice Crispies but small enough to fit inside. Give it a good stir - it will look a bit curdled and unappealing at this stage but have faith. Stir in the Rice Crispies.
Tip the mixture into a square baking tray (mine is 8" x 9" or 20 cm x 23 cm). Squish it into the corners and flatten it down with the back of a spoon. Give it an hour in the fridge to set. Melt the white chocolate and then drizzle this all over the top of the crispy mix. This is huge fun for adults and children alike, and I defy you not to want to have a go. Then put it back into the fridge for another half an hour.
I use a silicone baking tray for these. I usually loathe these floppy baking tins and avoid them, but have found that for anything you want to bake or refrigerate hard, then tip out and cut into pieces - like flapjacks, crispy bars or rocky roads - they are fantastic. The bendy sides make it so easy to tip out, and you don't need to grease or line them.
The title of these bars is an issue. It's not very snappy, is it? But that's what we call them in this house. If you can think of a better one, do let me know. And have a lovely weekend.
Oh wow Gillian those bars look so yummy!
This look so yummy... I am experimenting with baking lately and I am not really so lucky which is a bit frustrating. Back to basics is plan over the weekend to restore my faith in my ability to bake. Have a lovely weekend.
I'm not a fan of the mars bar but eaten this way I think I could get used to them!
I don't think it matters how old you are you can't resist a rice crispy cake. I used to love making them for my own children. They are all flown and grown all bar one. I wonder whether they will be making rice crispy cakes when they have their own children.
These look great...I always enjoy looking at your foodie photographs! My mum makes something similar to these and she calls them "Space Bars"
Hmmm this look so so good. How about chocolate caramel crispie slice? Makes Mars bar crispie bars sound like a catchy name!
My mum calls this Mars bar crunch, she also puts some raisons in to be healthy but actually they do make it nice and gooey. Mars bars make this vastly superior to normal crispy cakes in every way!
Ooh, drool... that looks dee-licious!
Mmm, I could eat a couple of those right now. I'm sure the children would love making (and eating) these. As would I. I always think that with Rice Krispies in them, there are lots of extra vitamins. Which means they are actually quite good for you.
They would last about 4 minutes in my house, much less time than they'd take to make, might try them this weekend. thanks!
I love the name! I have never had these before, so I might have to make a batch really soon. They look delicious!
Mmmmm...That recipe takes me back. Used to make them for my sons when they were little.
They're making me quite peckish just looking at your photos. Mmmm crispy cakes!
You had me from the first photo, it wouldn't all have made it into the mix !
Yum!! I think I just put on 2kg looking at these pics!
I just found you and am soooo glad, I have made a version of these using marshmallows and toffee, but am going to experiment with other chocolate bars, Snickers are high on the list but I will add a little caramel for the stickyness. Oh I am going to follow as well.


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The Wonder of the Ordinary: A Crucible for Creativity, Talent, and Genius
Education March 27, 2014 / By Dona Matthews
In order to find their own kind of genius, children need time and opportunity to wonder at the ordinary. Parents can help their kids develop their intelligence, creativity, wisdom, and talents, by ensuring they have enough time for constructive daydreaming.
Parents can help their kids find their own particular kind of genius by encouraging their sense of wonder in the ordinary. You may or may not want your child to be a genius—an exceedingly rare and extraordinarily high achiever in a particular field—but you can help him develop his intelligence, creativity, and talents, by ensuring he has enough time for unstructured play and daydreaming.
In The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents, William Martin wrote, "Do you have agendas for your children that are more important than the children themselves? Lost in the shuffle of uniforms, practices, games, recitals, and performances can be the creative and joyful soul of your child. Watch and listen carefully. Do they have time to daydream? From your children's dreams will emerge the practices and activities that will make self-discipline as natural as breathing."
Too many kids' lives are too busy for them to find out what interests them, much less pursue that very far. In many busy families, the creative and joyful essence of daily life is trampled in the rush to get things done. If you listen closely, your children's dreams can provide the clues you need to help them discover the interests that motivate the kind of engagement in learning—the persistence, focus, and effort—that leads to creativity, intelligence, and talent.
I've been thinking about genius recently, stimulated by a debate where four experts considered questions like, What is the origin of genius? Does genius depend more on talent or deliberate practice? What about creativity? What can parents do to support the development of genius in their kids?
The experts agreed that no one is born a genius; genius takes time and opportunity to develop. David Shenk (author of The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ) said he didn't like thinking of geniuses as categorically different than others: 'Instead I want to be open to the genius around me.' He described genius as a process, not something someone has, but rather something that someone does.
The four experts also agreed that creativity is an important component of genius. Rex Jung (a neuropsychologist) described exceptionally high-level achievement as a dynamic interplay between intelligence and creativity, as well as a high level of mastery in a specific talent area.
When asked about parents' roles in encouraging genius, Zach Hambrick (a cognitive psychologist) said it was important for parents to pay close attention to children's interests, and help them develop them. 'The problem is when parents dictate what the kids' passion should be; that doesn't work,' he said.
David Shenk said that after a couple of years spent investigating geniuses, genius is not necessarily a good outcome or ambition: 'Speaking as a parent, I want my kids to be great at what they want to do. But I also want them to have full rich lives, career-wise. I want them to be able to relax…Interact with all sorts of others…And a little bit of happiness wouldn't be a bad thing.'
There was a strong consensus among these experts on intelligence, expertise, and creativity that parents and teachers should listen to children's passions, not try to dictate them. Scott Barry Kaufman emphasized the importance of taking every kid's dream seriously. He described his work with The Future Project, which works to support children in imagining and creating their futures.
When the panel was asked about the role of daydreaming, Rex Jung said, 'The most important class when I was growing up was recess. You try different things, you make mistakes—it can't be all stuffing stuff into your brain…The novelty generator needs a chance.' Scott Barry Kaufman said that kids need a chance to reflect in order to become motivated in order to find and follow their passions.
William Martin put these scientific findings into good parenting advice when he wrote, 'Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is a way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples, and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.'
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From Rum to Lobsters
Maine's modern lobsterboats owe a debt to Will Frost and his rumrunners
By Laurie Schreiber
William Frost, who is credited with originating the Maine-style lobsterboat, could build whatever a customer wanted, including fast rumrunners. In this 1933 photo, he poses with a small sailing pleasure boat, which would become increasingly important in the Maine boatbuilding industry, but was rare before WW II. Courtesy Penobscot Marine Museum, Atlantic Fisherman Collection, W.W. Hall photograph
Working in the Beals Island/Jonesport area during Prohibition, William "Will" Frost built hundreds of boats that were considered the fastest of their size and type. Many were used to smuggle rum; the very qualities that made them good for rum-running also made them good for lobstering. Frost's semi-displacement hulls, renowned for maintaining speed at capacity, have influenced the design of lobsterboats ever since.
Frost was born in 1874 and raised at Digby Neck, Nova Scotia. His family had built square-riggers that traveled the world, and he learned the trade from his father and grandfather.
Frost started building boats on his own at age 19. His first was a 26' centerboard sloop named Linnet. Several other small sailboats followed. Then, intrigued by the gas engine, he developed a hull design that would suit the engine's potential, and began building sleek, smooth hulls that sliced through the water with minimum resistance and maximum speed. His first powerboat, the Toronto, splashed in 1906. In 1912, he launched the Ethel Maud for his brother-in-law Shirley Tidd. It was a consistent winner at the local Digby races—one of which, according to family lore, was witnessed by Queen Victoria's son, Prince Arthur, then Canada's Royal Governor-General.
He was getting a reputation for building fast boats, often powered by more than one engine, said Jamie Lowell, Frost's great-grandson. "At one race, one of the engines went down and he still won the race on one engine."
From left, Jamie and Joseph Lowell hold a half model carved by Jamie based on an old Will Frost design. The brothers have continued the family building tradition at Lowell Brothers in Yarmouth. Portrait of Jamie and Joe Lowell by Laurie Schreiber Jamie and his brother Joseph Lowell carry on the family boatbuilding tradition today at Lowell Brothers boatyard in Yarmouth, Maine. They learned the craft from their father, Carroll Lowell, and their grandfather, Riley Lowell. The Lowell and Frost families were connected when Riley married Will Frost's daughter Wilhelmina. Other prominent boatbuilders in the family include Carroll's brother, Daniel Lowell; and their oldest brother, Royal Lowell, who was a designer for boatbuilders such as JC Boatworks, Bruno & Stillman, Newman, Sisu, Harris, and others.
If the Frosts and Lowells were boatbuilding royalty, Will Frost would be king, according to Jamie and Joseph.
Not that Frost didn't have his troubles. Around the time he built the Ethel Maud, he invested heavily in the construction of a ferry for a state contract that ended up going to another company.
"Gramps had leveraged everything for the contract," said Jamie. "They took the bed, the bureaus, everything but the clothes on their backs. He went into receivership, and in Canada, if you couldn't pay your debt you went to the big house. So he got the hell out of Dodge and went to his cousin's place at Beals Island."
The cousin didn't have much going on, so Frost set up on his own. His reputation for fast, well-made boats followed him, and he soon had commissions for fishing boats. During World War I,
he returned to Digby Neck and helped complete construction of the freight steamer Frances E. Boutilier, then continued building fishing boats. He moved back to Beals Island in 1919. Frost's renown grew as he took on commissions and expanded his crew to build lobsterboats, sardine carriers, motorsailers, and cruisers in the 30- to 60-foot range.
Frost built this motorcruiser, Kenebis, for a Rhode Island customer in 1935. Photo courtesy Penobscot Marine Museum, Atlantic Fisherman Collection When Prohibition started in 1920, Frost's boats were already well known for their speed when carrying a heavy load. According to family lore, a fellow from Rockland who was connected to the Mafia in New Jersey took notice.
Soon, Frost was building boats specifically for the illegal rum trade, first on Beals Island and then at a larger shop in neighboring Jonesport, where he shifted operations in 1928. The boats ranged from 30 to 80 feet long.
"Will Frost was the true originator of semi-displacement hull design," said Jamie. "And that was the origin of the Maine lobsterboat as we know it. There were similar types of boats, but nothing like what he developed. Before him, they were taking displacement designs and lengthening them to be able to get speed. But he understood how the semi-displacement hull worked, from planing to running along, to having a net in the water."
Unlike a displacement hull, which remains fully in the water at all times, a semi-displacement hull allows the boat to lift out of the water and plane.
Frost's lobsterboats, which became known as "Jonesporters" or "Beals Islanders," featured low freeboard, a narrow beam and a high bow. His early designs featured a torpedo stern, then he introduced the concept of a square stern. His shelters evolved from a canvas tent in the bow to a canvas "melon" spray hood, a canvas hood with a wooden house attached behind, and then, by the time Prohibition rolled around, the type of wooden trunk cabin and house commonly seen on lobsterboats today.
A Frost rumrunner at his Jonesport shop, circa the late 1920s. Photo courtesy Lowell Brothers Frost also built commuter boats and yachts, and continued to experiment with speed. In the 1920s, he designed an outboard-powered boat, the Miss Jonesport, that had air induction vents, allowing air to flow through the bottom and provide a cushion for the boat, lifting it out of the water. A photo shows it racing along with most of the hull out of the water. The Miss Jonesport achieved speeds of 40 or 50 miles per hour. Family legend has it that when Frost demonstrated the boat, it was going so fast that it slammed down on a deadhead (an underwater log) and the boat cracked up.
The boats were narrow: A 38-footer, for example, had an 8-foot beam. Frost also developed a V-shaped split windshield that gave the designs a classier look than the old flat windshields. He fitted them with one, two, and sometimes three V12 airplane engines and the boats flew along at anywhere from 35 to 50 miles per hour.
Most of his rumrunners were incognito. They looked like fishing boats, said Jamie. "They'd have a net out so they'd look like they were seining. It was all a façade to hide their activity."
There were clues as to their true purpose, though. Small shelters left more deck space for cargo. Tiny portholes helped captain and crew dodge the revenuers' bullets.
Frost is said to have built fast boats for the Mafia, the Kennedy family, and the Coast Guard—all at the same time during Prohibition. His granddaughter, Harriet Vaughan, said the first time the manager of the Merrill Trust Bank in Jonesport saw a $1,000 bill was when her mother, the bookkeeper, walked in with it as a deposit on a rumrunner.
Frost's boats were so fast the Coast Guard even got in on the action. The Coast Guard had apparently been chasing rumrunners on 80-footers built by John Trumpy of Mathis Yacht in New Jersey. "They knew Frost's boats were faster so they asked him to build six 80-footers for them," said Jamie. "They were three to four knots faster than the Trumpy yachts."
But the Great Depression and the end of Prohibition brought about hard times, and in 1933, Frost closed up shop and took his family to Somerville, Massachusetts, at the invitation of a wealthy doctor who promised a well-off clientele with many yachts to maintain. Frost established Frost & Co. there. Shortly after the move, the doctor passed away. In 1935, Frost and his family moved to Tiverton, Rhode Island, and established William Frost Co., which was run by his son Bert. In 1944, he returned to Maine, staying with family in the Boothbay area.
Frost retired briefly at age 72 due to poor health, but then he was asked to build a boat by a friend, Henry Dyer of Chebeague Island. So Frost set up shop again in Portland, where he designed and built the well-known Merganser, Leonard W, No Name, and many more boats over the next six years.
He retired again at age 78 in 1952, moved back to Beals Island, and passed away in 1965.
"Nobody was building the same design he was," said Jamie, who explained that at the time no one understood how a semi-displacement hull worked. "But you look at a boat built today, whether it's from Friendship or Mount Desert Island or Beals Island, and it's got Will Frost's thumbprint on that boat."
Laurie Schreiber has written for newspapers and magazines on the coast of Maine for more than 25 years.
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YEREVAN, MARCH 22, ARMENPRESS. Director of the National Security Service of Armenia Artur Vanetsyan assures that a lot of money will be returned to the state budget within the frames of several scandalous cases that are under investigation, he said during the session of the parliamentary standing committee on defense and security affairs, asked whether there are predictions in connection with the money to be returned to the budget in 2019, reports Armenpress.
"In this context the forecasts for the year are ungrateful job, but I assure that a large sum of money will be returned to Armenia's state budget. As the Prime Minister always states in his remarks, what has been stolen from the state should be returned. We do our job on this path, and you will see its results during the year", the NSS chief said.
The NSS is investigating a number of scandalous cases of major embezzlement by former officials.


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NEWSUBSTANCE wins Gold at the International Design Awards 2018
By Paul Crick — February 28, 2019
We're delighted to win Gold at the 2018 International Design Awards (IDAs) for our immersive art installation 'Spectra' at last year's Coachella Music and Arts Festival.
The jury commented: "Wonderful use of color and light. The images support the project in its multi-colored glory".
Spectra is a seven-story pavilion that visitors can journey through to experience the Coachella site from a new perspective. The temporary installation was one of the six artworks commissioned for the 2018 Coachella Music and Arts Festival. Spectra's window panels create a spectrum of colour that spirals up to the sky, embathing its guests with intense colour, and offering vibrant views of the festival as they orbit upwards within the structure. The building also lights up at night and responds visually to the California sunsets.
The IDAs recognise, celebrate and promote legendary design visionaries across Architecture, Interior, Product, Graphic and Fashion Design. We'd like to congratulate all of this year's winners and are really very honoured to be recognisedin such esteemed company. Thank you!
Spectra will be back at this year's Coachella, see it for yourself on the 12th – 14th, and 19th – 21st April.
Check out Spectra in its full glory.
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Stats argue why Alisson is "real reason" for Liverpool's Champions League success
Though he may not have scored the goals to fire Liverpool to the Champions League final, analysis ahead of Madrid argues that Alisson is the "real reason."
Few argued with the then world-record £65 million fee the Reds paid to sign Alisson last summer, in the wake of their disappointment in Kyiv, but he has proved worth every penny regardless.
The 26-year-old won the Golden Glove for his first season in the Premier League, with 21 clean sheets ensuring he finished the campaign ahead of his compatriot, Ederson (20).
But as Liverpool prepare to take on Tottenham in the Champions League final on Saturday night, ESPN's Ryan O'Hanlon has covered the extent of Alisson's impact on their European form.
In conversation with data company STATS analyst Paul Power, he assesses their model, which employs artificial intelligence to simulate "how likely a specific keeper is to save a specific shot."
This deduced Alisson to be the best goalkeeper in England in 2018/19, saving 0.31 goals per game more than the average.
"Liverpool needed a goalkeeper who was able to cope in one-on-one situations where the defence just completely collapsed and the keeper had to do something amazing," Power explains.
"Alisson's true strengths were that he was able to make these kind of superhuman saves.
"He would have saved at least seven goals that Mignolet or Karius would have conceded."
It is noted how Alisson's last-ditch save to deny Arkadiusz Milik in the 1-0 win over Napoli in December, and his five stops in the 4-0 win over Barcelona in the semi-finals, were central to Liverpool's progress to the final.
Two of those in the second leg at Anfield were 'big chances', and with just one away goal effectively deciding the Reds' fate the other way, these were crucial.
Alisson's sprawling save to thwart Milik was one that Power claims would only have been possible for "seven or eight" goalkeepers in world football.
This presents a familiar dichotomy with Loris Karius, who this time last year saw his Liverpool career crumble due to a concussion suffered at the elbow of Sergio Ramos.
Given Karius has now moved on with Besiktas, this is an unwelcome comparison, as the focus should now purely on Alisson, whose efforts between the sticks have been as essential as those of Sadio Mane at the other end.
Speaking to BT Sport's Des Kelly before what he described in an interview last week as "the biggest game of his life," Alisson stressed that his block on Milik was as important as a winning goal.
"It depends on the moment of the game. That save against Napoli was the same as scoring a goal," he said.
"Because after that moment [they] had no chance to score again. So I think it was pretty much like scoring."
And assessing one of those 'big chance' saves to stop Lionel Messi, Alisson said "it was the same thing."
"But it's my job. I'm there for that," he added, with the humility that quickly made him a favourite within the Liverpool squad.
If he makes another on Saturday night—perhaps to keep out the returning Harry Kane—Alisson could become a legend on Merseyside.
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I have no clue how it's possible that this was released over two weeks ago, but just entered my life now.
VietJet is a Vietnamese low cost carrier that is perhaps best known globally for their annual flight attendant bikini calendar. Personally I'm not a fan of objectifying flight attendants in that way, but I know others disagree. The airline also has an interesting CEO, who I believe is the first female billionaire in Southeast Asia.
I'm not sure it quite beats the catchiness of Turkish Airlines' former hold music, but I'd say it's a close second.
What do you make of VietJet's "Fly For Love" video — awesome, awful, or both?
That's Bonkers! I love it…!
This has a definite K-pop feel to it. Love it!
YAAAAS! It's great. Can you envision American doing this highlighting all their "pluses"!
You're right Lucky. She is the first self-made female billionaire of SE Asia with a net worth of over 1.4 billion USD. She is also the first female billionaire of Vietnam. She is self-made unlike the stupidity that is Forbes that said Kylie Jenner is on the path of becoming the youngest self-made billionaire. Ummm…born into riches and having numerous connections for her business expansion—-not self-made.
Hmm, is there an airline that doesn't try and use the attractiveness of its cabin crew to attract custom?
More entertaining than the Qatar airways one!
Qatar Airways upstaged by VietJet? Akbar Al Baker will be soo pissed!
what's a kylie jenner ?
This video nails it in so many ways. In the running for the best thing ever.
I love this!! It reminds us why we're flying to places in the first place.
Being Asian, I get excited whenever ads mention boba milk tea though. Love the accurate cultural references.
Bonus points: "We're so high!" is actually a line in the lyrics!
Awesome video! My son was in Vietnam with a friend a couple of years ago and he flew this airline and loved it. It was cool for him because he had no idea what it was before he got on and then was pleasantly surprised by a bunch of beautiful and friendly flight attendants. He told me it was way better than flying United.
How long before "Mee Too" also gets its claws into the SE Asia airline business?
Happy , good hearted , fun!
That… was more pleasant than I thought it would be.


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USD Hosts Memorial Service to Honor Those in Body Donor Program
USD Hosts Memorial Service Honoring Contributors to Body Donor Program
The University of South Dakota School of Health Sciences and the Sanford School of Medicine will honor the 2014 contributors to the Body Donor Program and their families during a memorial service at 3:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 18 in the atrium of the Andrew E. Lee Memorial Medical and Science Building.
This is the 11th year for the service that honors family members through testimonials and words of appreciation for the contribution their loved ones made toward the study of medicine.
"The service is an important opportunity for students, faculty and staff to show our appreciation for our donors' selfless gifts. The service also allows us to honor the family and friends who supported their loved one's wishes," said Sara Bird, coordinator of the Body Donation Program.
The Sanford School of Medicine and the School of Health Sciences rely on the voluntary donation of bodies for medical and other professional health programs. Body donations are crucial in teaching gross anatomy as the foundation for physicians, physician assistants, nurses, dentists, dental hygienists, occupational and physical therapists, and paramedics. Donors have served as the "first patient" for thousands of USD students.
"The anatomy laboratory is a unique educational experience, and the memorial service is an integral aspect of that experience." said Stuart Inglis, director of medical anatomical laboratories. "Students have an opportunity to express their gratitude to the donors' families, and to gain an appreciation of the rich and fulfilling lives that these people have led."


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ABOUT TRUE BELIEVER: THE RISE AND FALL OF STAN LEE
The definitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee, a writer and entrepreneur who reshaped global pop culture—at a steep personal cost
"A biography that reads like a thriller or a whodunit . . . scrupulously honest, deeply damning, and sometimes even heartbreaking."—Neil Gaiman
Stan Lee—born Stanley Martin Lieber in 1922—was one of the most beloved and influential entertainers to emerge from the twentieth century. He served as head editor of Marvel for three decades and, in that time, launched more pieces of internationally recognizable intellectual property than anyone other than Walt Disney: Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, Black Panther, the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Thor . . . the list seems to never end. On top of that, his carnival-barker marketing prowess more or less single-handedly saved the comic-book industry and superhero fiction. Without him, the global entertainment industry would be wildly different—and a great deal poorer.
But Lee's unprecedented career was also filled with spectacular failures, controversy, and bitter disputes. Lee was dogged by accusations from key collaborators such as Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko over who really created Marvel's signature characters—iconic figures for whom Lee had always been suspected of taking more than his proper share of credit. A major business venture, Stan Lee Media, resulted in stock manipulation, bankruptcy, and criminal charges. A second one, POW! Entertainment, has been repeatedly accused of malfeasance and deceit. And in his final years, after the death of his beloved wife, Joan, rumors swirled that Lee was a virtual prisoner in his own home, beset by abusive grifters and issuing cryptic video recordings as a battle to control his fortune and legacy ensued.
Abraham Riesman is a veteran culture reporter who has conducted more than 150 interviews and investigated thousands of pages of private documents, turning up never-before-published revelations about Lee's life and work. Lee's most famous motto was "With great power comes great responsibility." Stretching from the Romanian shtetls of Lee's ancestors to his own final moments in Los Angeles, True Believer chronicles the world-changing triumphs and tragic missteps of an extraordinary life and leaves it to readers to decide whether Lee lived up to the responsibilities of his own talent.
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How Do I Find the Value of Gold Coins?
With the price of gold remaining strong, you may have reached a decision to sell those old gold coins you have stashed away. Or you may be thinking of purchasing gold coins, and want to know the true value of gold coins before you go along to a dealer.
Whatever your reason for wishing to know the values of gold coins, this information should help.
First, you should understand there are basically two kinds of gold coins on the market.
There are historical gold coins which were issued for circulation in many countries, including the USA, up until the 1920s and 1930s. (Yes, gold dollar coins were once issued too.) These circulation coins include famous ones like the American half eagles, eagles and double eagles, Indian heads and Saint Gaudens, and British sovereigns. These coins are not pure gold, but have some copper or silver added, to make them more durable. However, because of their collector value, these coins are usually worth much more than the value of the gold they contain.
The other main type of gold coin is the modern bullion coin issued by many countries since the 1960s. These coins are not meant to be used as 'money' but for investment or for collectors. Popular bullion coins include the American Gold Eagle, the Canadian Maple Leaf, the Krugerrand, the Austrian Philharmonic and the Chinese Panda. The value of these coins is the value of the gold they contain (usually one ounce, or the fraction of one ounce as stated on the coin) plus a premium which can be as much as 10% or more.
To find the value of a gold coin whether it is an old gold coin or a modern bullion coin, you need to know the spot price of gold. This is published in most newspapers and online news sites. If you know the weight of the coin a simple calculation will give you a baseline value of the coin (although you may not get as much as the actual gold value of the coin from some dealers). Next, you need to consult online or printed guides for the price of the particular coin you are interested in.
There are many good online services which will show you the actual prices currently being paid for gold coins on auction sites like eBay. You can also browse auction sites like eBay yourself, to see what people want you to pay for particular gold coins. Remember that the rarity, and the condition or grade of gold coins, particularly historical ones, make a huge difference to their value. If you own a gold coin and have trouble identifying what it is, there are excellent books and catalogs you can consult which are still better and more comprehensive than anything online.
For historical coins you will need to know the actual gold weight of the coin (the percentage of the weight which is real gold) to assess its value against the spot price of gold, and many online services also make this easy. For bullion coins, the actual weight is stated on the coin itself.
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WCG's Employers of Excellence series honours outstanding employers across the country that provide exceptional opportunities to job seekers of all ages and abilities. Our ServiceAbility Training Program team is pleased to recognize Winners for its dedication to providing meaningful employment in Courtenay, British Columbia.
The ServiceAbility Training Program, delivered by WCG Services, has a track record for changing lives through service-based training and work, so we asked a few recent graduates for their stories about how the program impacted them. ServiceAbility is located in Courtenay-Comox and delivers skills training and job search support for participants interested in working in the service sector.
Yuki arrived in Canada with just a working visa. She wished to stay in Canada and build a future here. She looked for fulltime employment but she could only find seasonal part-time work at a coffee shop. When the employment season ended, she was out of work for three months before she contacted the ServiceAbility Training Program.
Sarita was a stay-at-home mom of her young children for four years.
Chawalee spent most of her adult life living abroad with her husband who worked overseas. She did not work while abroad, and when she returned to Canada she had not been employed for 17 years. When she was ready to enter the workforce, she lacked applicable experience and the self-confidence necessary for finding a position. She enrolled in the ServiceAbility Training Program where she received specialized training for working in the retail and service sector.
WCG's Employers of Excellence series honours outstanding employers across the country that provide exceptional opportunities to job seekers of all ages and abilities. Our ServiceAbility Training Program team is pleased to recognize The Home Depot Canada for its dedication to providing meaningful employment in Courtenay, British Columbia.
WCG's Employers of Excellence series honours outstanding employers across the country that provide exceptional opportunities to job seekers of all ages and abilities. Our ServiceAbility Training Program team is pleased to recognize Locals Restaurant for its dedication to providing meaningful employment in Courtenay, British Columbia. WCG's ServiceAbility Training Program is designed to prepare job seekers for employment in the retail and service sectors. Tricia and Ronald St. Pierre, owners of Locals Restaurant are outstanding employers and members of the community.


We spent Thanksgiving in Saratoga Springs, New York, a city that on first impressions is as "Victorian" as Salem is "Federal". I wasn't able to spend the entire long holiday weekend there (and I was sick most of the time I was there), so I didn't go on a long architectural/photographic walking tour as is my typical inclination, but I did dash down North Broadway, which is lined with Gilded Era mansions, as well as a few downtown side streets. I'm going back for more soon. Even before the quick trip to Saratoga, I had been thinking about Victorian houses here in Salem, and how I've never really done justice to this broad category of architecture. There are so many subcategories and styles! I've always been a bit confused about two in particular: Queen Anne and Second Empire. Not the styles of these houses, which are easily recognizable with their towers, turrets, and mansard roofs, but the names: how did these thoroughly American houses get named for the last Stuart monarch, who reigned in Britain a full 150 years before a "Queen Anne" house was built across the Atlantic, and the French Second Empire ruled by Napoleon III (which was at least contemporary with Second Empire houses here in America)? These names seem to imply a cultural imperialism that is incompatible with the assertive American spirit of the later nineteenth century, but then again, I'm neither an American historian or an architectural one, so my impression could be incorrect.
Queen Anne (r. 1702-1714) in 1705 by Michael Dahl, and an carte-de-visite of Napoleon III (r. 1852-70), National Portrait Gallery, London.
I can understand the use of the term "Victorian" for nineteenth-century houses on both sides of the Atlantic, as Queen Victoria really dominated her long era, but Napoleon III was no Queen Victoria! I suppose the rebuilding of Paris–the cultural center of the world–in Second Empire style during his reign provides the general explanation for the use of that term over here. The use of "Queen Anne" remains a mystery to me, but here are a couple of Queen Anne houses: the first one in Saratoga, the second in Salem. There are several great Queen Anne houses in Salem, mostly outside the city center, but this more compact example is just a few steps from the Common: it seems to feature all the characteristic details of the style in a much smaller footprint than the grand Saratoga house. This is a house that even a Federal fan such as myself could love.
The Second Empire style was forged by the Haussman Plan, a comprehensive urban planning initiative in Paris commissioned by Napoleon III and administered by Georges-Eugène Haussmann between 1853 and 1870. Much of central "old" Paris was swept away and replaced by grand boulevards and squares lined with mansard-roofed and embellished multi-story buildings made of "sanitary" stone. The "haussmannization of Paris" was projected to the world via serial publications and French paintings, creating an international style.
Images of the new boulevards of Paris, 1850s-1870s, Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
When I walk down the streets of Salem, I see structures, small and large, that seem to be inspired by the Second Empire style: American translations in a "colonial" context. Lafayette Street gives off a "French" impression in more ways than one, and not far from the Queen Anne house, just off the Common, is a multi-family painted-brick house that comes close to the French standard, at least to my untrained eye. The Salem house that really reads Second Empire to me, however, is over on my side of town, on upper Essex Street. Even though Bryant Tolles (in Architecture in Salem: an Illustrated Guide,1983) refers to it as reflecting "French Academic and High Victorian Italianate" influences, the Putnam-Balch House, which was built at the height of the Second Empire style, always reads "Paris, 1870s" to me. This majestic mansion, somehow all the more extravagant because it is built of wood, really dominates the streetscape with its sheer presence: it once served as an American Legion post and has recently been restored.


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The Robot Strippers Are Coming! (…But Probably Not For Our Jobs.)
Jan 9, 2018·6 min read
Jan 8, 2018: The lovely ladies of Sapphire pose with robot dancers at CES 2018 in Las Vegas, NV. (photo credit The Busty Bruiser)
When hypnotizing videos of robot strippers went viral just before Christmas, the internet was abuzz. (At least it was in my circles, comprised primarily of current/former sex workers and horny writers who never miss an opportunity to crack a Philip K. Dick joke.) People marveled and joked and hypothesized about the potential implications these gyrating mannequins might have on the strip club landscape: Were these robots here to replace ladies who dance for a living? Were men actually like, into this? Should your friendly neighborhood strippers start worrying about being usurped by rechargeable batteries and knees that will never need replacement? It seemed that everyone who encountered this quirky bit of tech-lore was either mesmerized, amused, or vaguely hostile to the idea; but was anyone actually turned on? (Turns out, the answer to all of these questions is essentially: not really.)
An old friend with tech media connections was able to score an invite to an exclusive media-only event being held at Sapphire, a major pillar of the Vegas strip club scene. We were lucky enough to check out the robots up close and personal before they make their debut on the CES Expo floor later this week. I spoke with the robots' creator, Giles Walker, about their inception and how they came to be the most buzzed-about attraction at the biggest tech event of the year.
Despite all of the jokes and speculation about emotionally-stunted nerds in basements building girlfriends for themselves, Walker doesn't even come close to the socially-awkward engineer I had envisioned. In fact, he's a British sculptor with deep roots in the London punk and art scenes. With his spiked ear-gauges and cheeky fedora, Walker looks more like the guy who wants to sell you rare Japanese Sex Pistols b-sides on eBay, not the Dr. Frankenstein of sexy late-stage capitalism. An active member of art collective, The Mutoid Waste Company, which erects guerilla-art installations all over Europe, Walker first began incorporating motors into his found-object sculptures in the mid-1990s using scavenged parts from junkyards. "When I first started I was just a broke punk, you know? I didn't have $10 in my pocket, so I had to use whatever I could find on the street." Today, the robots are constructed using mannequin limbs, windshield-wiper motors, a gate-opening motor, and CCTV cameras.
The dancing fembot concept first began to take shape for Walker around 2003, after the broadcast of an infamous "sexed-up dossier" on British television convincing the nation to go to war in Iraq. At the time, Walker says, "I started noticing these CCTV surveillance cameras on every single street corner in London, it was nuts. And those things are total garbage! They don't even protect people, they only protect f*ckin' property!"
This idea of the state "sexing up" surveillance in order to sell a war was the impetus for Walker's first prototypes, which all have CCTV cameras in lieu of heads. ("I wanted to build a piece as a reaction against these mechanical Peeping Toms that were appearing on every street corner," Walker shared with Make magazine in 2013.) In his 2007 piece entitled Peepshow, two robots dance seductively while the audience stares, hypnotized, unaware that they are also being watched via CCTV: "The piece was about watching and being watched, and being seduced into letting your government watch you."
But, as any artist will confirm, once your work gets released into world, it typically assumes a life of its own. People interpret, experience, and use art to serve their own agendas, and the robot-dancers were no exception. Rather than becoming a signifier to demonstrate the perils of the surveillance state, the robots began receiving invitations to parties and raves all over the world. When asked what brought him and his creations to Las Vegas, Walker's answer was simple, "Ha, the money, obviously. I've totally sold them out to ravers all over the globe, it's actually kind of silly. But they provide me with enough funding to continue my other art projects, so that's the cool part."
Jan 8, 2018: Giles Walker, the British artist who created the dancing robots. (photo credit: The Busty Bruiser)
Like any artist struggling with the delicate balance between art and commerce, Walker seems torn. He asks for my input regarding a potential future collaboration with a popular camming site, and we both seem equally perplexed by the idea of anyone actually paying money to watch the fembots dance on cam. But, I tell him, the most truthful nugget of wisdom I've sussed from my near-decade in the sex industry is that there's a market for just about everything, so really, what the hell do I know?
As for the bots themselves, #R2DoubleD and #TripleCPU are indeed a very cool sight to behold but (in my opinion) don't come close to anything ever approaching "arousing." When I asked some of the attendees what they thought of the bots, the general consensus was that they were, "very cool, but not at all sexy." When I asked Sapphire employees if they were nervous about losing their jobs to robots they all laughed and rolled their eyes, "Until those things learn how to give lap-dances, we're not worried!" (Fortunately, for now, the bots can only work the pole.)
Jan 8, 2018: Robot Strippers dancing for the media at CES 2018 in Las Vegas, NV. (Video credit The Busty Bruiser)
So, did the working ladies of Sapphire actually mind watching the robots take up valuable real estate in their club? Not at all, they said. Reiley, one cocktail waitress I spoke with, was particularly enthusiastic, "The robots are really cool and people love them! If they bring more people into the club to check them out, then that's awesome for us." Reiley was also sweetly concerned for the welfare of the robots because all night long she'd spotted men touching them on the sly: "Hopefully someone comes over and tells these dudes to take their hands off the robots; that's just wrong!" (A true sister in solidarity, that Reiley.) I truly didn't think we'd be delving into complex issues of robotic-consent (and the effects of too many greasy man-paws on the sculptures) when I arrived here tonight, but welp, here we are.
Hilariously (and quite unexpectedly, according to club management), the bots earned a not-insignificant amount of crisp dollar-bills for their efforts. (A clear tip-bucket was placed beneath each one, so I don't really know how unexpected the tips were, but that's another piece entirely.) Patrons enjoyed making it rain for photos and slipping dollar-bills into garters on the bot's legs. As a lifelong hustler, I was especially concerned with where exactly these dollars would be going at the end of the evening. I tried asking around, but no one seemed to know where the approximately $100 scattered around the stage would wind up. (When I asked Walker if he knew where the tips would be going, he stated that it had "absolutely nothing to do with me, so I really have no idea.")
Jan 8, 2018: The stripper-bots hustle for those dollars.
On my way out, I asked Anthony Newcomb, a Sapphire floor manager, and he informed me that a "post-shift meeting" would be conducted to discuss it. I kindly requested that the funds be split among the actual, real-life ladies who worked the event, but I have no confirmation whether they'll actually see that cash. Seeing as how robots can't spend fiat currency (yet), I pray it finds its way into the pockets of the lovely ladies of the club. (But even if it doesn't, fear not gals; our jobs definitely aren't going anywhere anytime soon.)
…is a sex worker based in Las Vegas. Her writing has appeared on Jezebel and Tits & Sass. She can typically be found ranting on Twitter @bustybruiser.
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By Stuart Radnedge2014-02-28T13:32:00+00:00
BOC Healthcare, the UK's largest medical gases business, has announced that it made its first delivery of compressed medical gas to NHS hospitals in Scotland on 3rd February.
It marks the start of the company's new contract to supply medical gases to over 330 customers from Shetland down to the Scottish Borders.
BOC Healthcare, which is part of BOC, a member of The Linde Group, won the four-year contract (with an option to extend for a further year) after a lengthy tender process. The contract covers the supply of all medical gases cylinders to 144 Scottish Hospitals and a number of community based health centres in the 14 Health Boards in Scotland and sees BOC Healthcare taking on the business of the previous supplier. The first delivery was made to the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and a four-month transition period has now begun which will see more than 30,000 cylinders swapped over.
Commenting on the contract, Andrew Harvey, Head of BOC Healthcare, said, "Our experience as a medical gases supplier has given us a deep understanding of the needs of medical gas users. BOC has a well-earned reputation for reliable delivery and strong contingency planning as well as our robust and intuitive cylinder tracking. We look forward to providing our new customers with a first-class service."
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Reports of paranormal and supernatural activity are on the rise worldwide.
For instance, tens of millions visit apparition sites hoping to encounter the Virgin Mary. Many believe that these increasing manifestations signal the advent of a new era on earth. Thousands of messages from the apparition of Mary indicate that we are entering a critical moment in world history - cataclysmic changes may soon occur.
Those who follow the apparitions believe Mary has come to turn us back to God, while others insist that these events are either fabrications or the working of Satan. Does the Bible anticipate apparitions, signs and wonders in the last days? Does the Word of God reveal the origin of these phenomena? How might the apparition of Mary and other paranormal events transform the world in the third millennium?
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The Premier League fights back
Chloe Beresford
Thursday 2 December 2021
The MP Tracey Crouch's fan led review is creating waves. Is one of the world's most successful leagues under threat?
Hi, I'm Chloe and this is the Playmaker.
One story every day to make sense of the world of football.
Today… the Premier League fights back.
Yesterday's episode featured the former sports minister, Tracey Crouch. Her review into the way professional football is run in England is creating waves.
We heard what it is, and why many think it's a good idea.
Today, the review that threatens the world's most successful league.
When the balance of power is challenged, there is always going to be some pushback.
"I don't think the problem lies in the Premier League, I think the solution lies with the Premier League. It's the… it is the… everything good in English football sits in the Premier League."
"Right… OK."
"And so can we work with Tracey to try and fix some of the problems further down the pyramid? Of course we can. Do we need to appoint somebody, take a year to find them, give them the name regulator… probably not!"
That was the Aston Villa chief executive, Christian Purslow. He posed an interesting question: do Tesco – the country's biggest supermarket chain – give financial support to the corner shop?
We know the answer: of course not.
You can see why the boss of a Premier League football club would make the point… but is football really comparable with other businesses?
The Leeds United CEO, Angus Kinnear, is challenging the Crouch Review – and in particular its proposal for a ten percent levy on Premier League transfer fees to fund clubs in lower divisions.
He says the Premier League already goes beyond the call of duty when it comes to supporting the clubs.
And he argues that with football flourishing, self-regulation works. This despite Leeds losing money every year bar one since 2001. Last year, their losses amounted to 66 million pounds.
Kinnear maintains that spreading the wealth will only reward poor governance in the lower leagues.
"Football," he wrote in the programme notes for Leeds' game against Crystal Palace this week, "is a private sector business… enforcing upon football a philosophy akin to Maoist collective agriculturalism… will not make the English game fairer."
Well, speak your mind Angus.
But hold fire a minute. Let's take the emotion out of the argument.
If we look at the issues from an economic standpoint, the Premier League is the wealthiest and most successful football league in the world.
Some would say… if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
And it doesn't stop with the top flight. The Championship is by far the most prosperous second tier in world football.
And it all started when Sky bought the TV rights to the old Division One in 1992.
The league was renamed and rebranded. And it caught fire.
"How big it was going to be, I don't think anyone could've predicted."
"The money became so vast, I did change."
"Footballers became sort of like rock stars, overnight."
It was inevitable the Premier League would take issue with Tracey Crouch. But others have too.
Take Mark Littlewood, from the Institute of Economic Affairs – a free market think tank.
Writing in the Sunday Times (whose owner, Rupert Murdoch, ploughed billions into the Premier League through his other media business, Sky), Littlewood raised the possibility of reforms here resulting in leagues elsewhere – in Spain, Germany and Italy – being able to compete more effectively in the transfer market.
The flow of top talent to England could be reversed.
And anything that undermined the enormous success of the Premier League, he argued, could have an impact on clubs further down the pyramid.
In his Sunday Times column, he asked, what's to stop the new independent regulator in charge of football becoming power hungry over time?
His words were "could independent simply be code for unanswerable?"
There's nothing in the review document to indicate that might be the case but it's question that needs answering.
And there's another factor we might also consider.
Aren't the clubs accountable to the fans rather than anyone else?
Fan power was attributed to the rapid demise of the European Super League idea.
But should it always be down to fans to make sure that football is run properly?
If we go back to the Tesco analogy… it's not up to their customers to make sure that supermarket business practices are above board.
Isn't the idea of an independent regulator to make sure the fans' views aren't bypassed in the first place?
"Most Liverpool supporters I've seen, and as you can imagine, you know, we talk to a lot and we sort of you know, are having conversations all the time with Liverpool supporters and just a lot of anger, a lot of frustration, and the fact is again, you know, the owners of our football club have gone ahead and done something, you know, without a proper consultation with supporters. And if they'd have asked supporters, they would've realised just how strong the feeling is about something like this."
There's also the question of whether it's realistic to expect an independent regulator to solve football's problems.
With such a lot of vested interests in the game, there's going to be plenty of people afraid to lose something… power, money, influence.
"Reading that report, that is the kind of future they see for football. It is going to be this great future where everyone is going to get on, no clubs are going to go out of business, the fans are gonna be happy, ticket prices are going to be sensible, replica shirts are going to be cheap, you can drink in the stands… everything's going to be marvellous. Now, that's great. But we live in the real world and I'm not sure whether all this will come to pass."
So who's going to shape professional football? Will it be the clubs, the TV companies, the fans or the government?
Today's episode was written by Chloe Beresford, and produced by Matt Russell.