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How 3D printing turns imagination into reality
by Dr Ahmad Beltagui
This blog post is part of our Summer Showcase series, celebrating our free festival of ideas for curious minds.
Ordinary people can now use 3D printers to make almost anything they currently buy. We asked the question: why would they want to?
When so many things can be bought cheaply and we can do almost everything online, why would someone spend their time in the messy business of making things? In Victorian Britain, the Arts and Crafts movement revived traditional crafts as a response to industrialisation. Similarly, today we have baking and sewing contests on TV, artisan street foods, a revival of apparently obsolete technologies like analogue cameras, and people sharing the use of 3D printers for collaborative design projects. All of these involve people physically doing or making something that requires them to learn traditional skills, from learning to manually focus the camera lens to designing shapes that can be 3D printed.
While 3D printing has often been overhyped as a driver of a new industrial revolution in recent years, ambitious predictions of a miniature factory in every home have yet to materialise. This may be because it is easier to share than to own a printer. To find out what motivates 3D printing users, we went to 'makerspaces': places where people share access to fabrication tools, including 3D printers.
Prototype bike mount for mobile phone, being 3D printed. 4Delta ©
What is 3D printing?
3D printing usually refers to a range of digital fabrication technologies, or computer-controlled machines that build physical objects one layer at a time. While these technologies have been around since the 1980s, they are becoming more popular – and affordable – now that the first patents have expired. Although the top-end machines can cost hundreds of thousands of pounds, a few hundred pounds can buy a small desktop machine that turns designs from a laptop screen into small plastic shapes. They can be found in schools, local libraries, some supermarkets – and in dedicated makerspaces. Members of these shared spaces invest their time and resources on projects, either making something for personal use, learning from others or simply interacting with other like-minded makers. Our field-study took in a number of makerspaces, including one run by a local community and one giving entrepreneurs a workspace and tools to start and grow their businesses. We interviewed makerspace members to understand how and why they use 3D printers.
3D printing offers possibilities for creativity that recall people's childhood memories. As one of the participants in our study explained, his love of making and fixing could be traced to his grandfather. He recalled tuning and repairing a radio or learning to use workshop tools, over half a century previously. Others talked about how playing with Lego helped them create their own world, without the structures imposed by computer games, or working with computers. With the aid of free-to-download design tools and access to a 3D printer at a makerspace, these people escape from the restrictions of modern technology and relive their childhood memories of making anything they can imagine.
Using 3D printers is not as simple as it might sound – a complex mix of mechanical, chemical and electronic processes are at play. Yet the apparent simplicity encourages people to engage with the elements they do understand and work with others to learn the rest. We found that makerspaces help these people to learn new skills and celebrate their sense of achievement at having mastered them.
Computer-aided design (CAD) was used to create the mobile bike mount before 3D printing. 4Delta ©
Democratising innovation
The most fascinating thing we learned was how, having found a new toy to reawaken their creativity, people are using 3D printing to do things that wouldn't ordinarily be possible. Eric von Hippel, an MIT Professor, wrote about "democratising innovation", pointing to examples of ordinary people, not companies, creating new products and technologies. While this phenomenon has been widespread in the open-source software movement, 3D printing is making it possible for physical products.
We met a startup company making monitoring devices that track the conditions of crops in coffee plantations. Having won a contract with a big customer, they are now investing in the tooling required to make a high-quality product in larger numbers. Winning the contract, however, was only possible because they used a 3D printer at the makerspace to transform a collection of parts (including a plastic lunchbox, some piping and self-made electronics) into a working prototype that survived months in the field. Thomas Edison is reported to have said that to invent, you need a good imagination and a big pile of junk. Perhaps to make inventions for the 21st century, it also helps to have a 3D printer?
Dr Ahmad Beltagui is a lecturer in project and operations management at Aston Business School. His project was funded by a BA / Leverhulme Small Research Grant in 2017. Also working on this project are Dr Nikolaos Stylos from the University of Bristol and Dr Achilleas Sesis, founder of 4Delta Group.
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Elena Livshina remembers well the times where she's been the only female at a table full of senior executives.
"You get goosebumps just thinking about it," she recalls.
It may seem like simple advice, but it can be surprisingly hard to do, she explains. Many people, particularly women, tend to hold back their thoughts for fear that they may not be relevant or important. "We're at the table because what we have to say is important," exclaims Elena.
Elena has seen the issue from both sides—in the recruitment process and as co-lead and mentor for an employee resource group at Novo Nordisk, Women in Novo Nordisk (WINN). The phenomenon, she explains, seems to intensify as the seniority of the position at hand goes up.
"The further up you go, the more difficult it is to find talented, skilled and ready female talent. The reason behind it is not because they don't exist but that a lot of them don't take the opportunities and are not actually seeking the opportunities out, for one reason or another," Elena explains.
Elena is adamant that ensuring the readiness of female leaders comes down to both company policies and individual actions on the part of females.
On one hand, it takes a company-wide dedication to employee development.
It also requires thorough and open-minded recruitment procedures.
Ultimately, though, Elena feels the readiness of female leaders rests with having strong individual development plans in place. Elena's goal for the women she mentors is an ambitious and comprehensive vision of their futures, with just enough flexibility to be achievable.
"I want them to not just think about their next position or next step but also what is going to develop them as individuals and professionals. I want them to be open about their career gaps and build on their own strengths to get to where they want to go. I actually ask them 'What do you dream about being in 10 years?' We start big and work backward, to talk about the opportunities that could get them there," she says.
For Elena, the idea of a development plan is no elusive managerial tactic, it's something she's embraced, with much success, in her own professional development.
Every step in her career has been on an unrelenting quest to follow her passion and continue her development. From leaving the finance and banking sector to pursue a new degree in international business to choosing the Novo Nordisk Business Processes Graduate Programme over a senior project manager position at another international organisation, Elena's focus isn't just moving up, it's moving forward.
Elena's journey, so far, has taken her up through the ranks at Novo Nordisk and to eight different countries. Born in Russia, Elena has also lived in Denmark, Switzerland, the UK, the Czech Republic, Australia, Canada and now, the United States. At the modest ages of three and six, her children already hold three passports a piece, something she notes causes a double take when clearing passport control and makes for a plethora of holidays celebrated in the home. Her favourite of which is International Women's Day, which in Russia is recognized as a national holiday allowing for a day off of work to celebrate women.


With the whir of electric wheels on rail, a black Great Northern engine, followed by a coal car, bright blue box car and caboose winds its way around miniature farm houses, a cafe with clients on the patio, and a train station with an impressive resemblance to the former Boston & Maine historic station in downtown Raymond, NH. It passes solar panels, colorful petals, an occasional lettuce head, and brightly tinted glass and porcelain flowers created from upcycled dishes.
Bob & Kathy McDonald are both members of the NH Garden Railroad Society and like their Raymond home, their garden scale railroad also benefits from the power of the sun. While the solar railroad makes use of regular solar garden lights to illuminate the buildings along its path, in the background their ground-mounted photovoltaic array soaks up the sunshine of a clear summer day.
The McDonald's, who met at UNH Durham and married a few years after graduation, have lived in NH for over 30 years. Kathy is an artist and environmentalist who designs upcycled creations, turning trash into treasure, and Bob owns a commercial valuation and cost segregation consulting practice. They turned to solar for their home several years ago.
For them, solar made financial sense. Through his consulting practice Bob has appraised many commercial and industrial properties, including solar energy farms, across the country. He says, "I've seen the total installed cost for solar go from $11 per watt, to about $5 per watt when we installed our own system (pre-tax credit), to now as low as $3 or less." He also acknowledges that he's seen many of his clients' businesses move out of NH to states with lower electricity rates.
Wanting to work with a local firm with a good reputation, they chose ReVision Energy out of several proposals to install the system – a 14.4kW array completed in October 2015. The array was designed to produce roughly 16,553 kWhs, and offset 15,177 lbs. of carbon pollution each year.
In fact, they were so pleased with the investment, they decided to pursue high efficiency heating and cooling for their home as well.
The air source heat pumps are especially beneficial for Bob's mother's house across the street, they explain. She was from Florida and chose a home design that also originated from the Sunshine State – with a propane heating system inefficiently located in the attic. The two new mini-split indoor units are installed on the first floor and in the basement which had never had heating prior. Now the basement heat pump works to heat and dehumidify, and if someone were to buy the house the McDonald's say, it would add a lot of value – quite contrary to if they ever saw that propane bill!
All in all, solar and heat pumps have paid off. The McDonald's say their monthly electric costs are now in the $30 range as compared to average of $300 before the solar array. They're able to monitor their system in real time with web based monitoring and report that the system has produced over 40,000 kilo-watt hours since the installation in 2015. Based on current electric rates, that's a value of over $6,400.
Having witnessed the power of electricity generated by the sun, both for their railroad and for their home, Kathy & Bob plan to continue their clean energy transition (perhaps with an electric vehicle!) They're passionate about the systems that have made such a difference in their energy costs and hope to see more of their neighbors take up solar in the years to come!


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Montenegro to open Chapter 8 on 30 June, Serbia not opening new Chapters this month
by EWB 26. 06. 2020.
European Council meeting room; Photo: European Union
BRUSSELS – The EU-Montenegro Intergovernmental Conference, at which the chapter should be officially opened, will be held on Tuesday, 30 June, at the level of Ambassadors.
The permanent ambassadors of the EU member states in Brussels confirmed the decision to open Chapter 8 – Competition with Montenegro, the correspondent of TVCG in Brussels has learned, NOVA reports.
Earlier, the representatives of the 27 member states in the Working Group of the EU Enlargement Council (COELA) on Tuesday spoke positively about the opening of the last negotiation chapter with Montenegro, Vijesti writes.
The decision to open negotiation Chapter 8 with Montenegro was made during the last week of Croatia's presidency of the EU Council, which will be taken over by Germany on 1 July.
Chapter 8 – Competition – is one of the most demanding negotiation chapters that always opens and closes among the last, according to the official website of the Office for European Integration of Montenegro.
Montenegro has so far closed provisionally closed three Chapters.
Serbia will not open any new Chapters
Serbia will not open Chapter 2 in accession negotiations with the European Union, it was confirmed to N1 in the European Council.
Chapter 2, Freedom of Movement for Workers, was the next Chapter that Serbia was to open.
So far, Serbia has opened 18 of the 35 chapters, two of which have been provisionally closed.
In 2018 and 2019, Serbia opened new Chapters every June and December – this is the first time that more than six months will pass since the previous Chapter(s) was opened.
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I've been working with curvature of parametric curves and quadratic Beziers in particular as part of the project on arc-length parameterization of a general path. A few recent emails have broached this topic. Differential geometry often discusses both extrinsic and intrinsic curvature. Intrinsic curvature is too theoretical for this casual post. Extrinsic curvature is defined on curves embedded into a Euclidean (or other) space. A relationship exists between extrinsic curvature and the radius of the osculating circle (read all about it on Wikipedia).
Extrinsic curvature for parametric curves is well covered in Grey . Given a Bezier curve, B(t), curvature is defined as κ(t) = |B'(t) x B"(t)|/||B'(t)||3 . Now, a quadratic Bezier is a parabola and geometric properties, including curvature, can be computed from parabolic representation or the polynomial coefficients. There are, however, instances where control-point coordinates are immediately available and it is not desirable to compute coefficients. Fortunately, the open literature contains everything we need to work with curvature based solely on the geometric constraints of the quadratic Bezier curve.
Suppose the control points are p0, p1, and p2. Let A represent the area enclosed by the convex hull (triangle in this case) of the control points. Computing the area given the control point coordinates is trivial. Let m be the midpoint of the pop2 segment. The distance, d = ||p0m|| = ||mp2|| is the diameter of two circles passing through p0, m, and p2. A screen shot from the output of a simple Flex program to illustrate these properties is shown below.
p1 is the top, middle control point. m is the red dot.
are the curvature at B(0) and B(1), respectively.
Knowing regions of monotone curvature and relationships between curvature at the endpoints vs. maximum curvature is helpful in that there are nice heuristic relationships between arc length and curvature in these regions. That is, we can subdivide a quadratic Bezier into equivalent quadratics with monotone curvature and use the information to sample the curve to reparameterize on arc length. Only control points immediately available from subdivision are needed.
The appealing feature of this approach is that the geometric constraints of the curve itself determine the sampling, not a predetermined heuristic. This tends to increase both accuracy and efficiency by not undersampling curves with large lengths and points of high curvature or oversampling curves with small length or near linearity.
 Gray, A. Modern Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces with Mathematica, 2nd ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1997.
 Deddi, H, Everett, H. and Lazard, S., "Interpolation problem with curvature constraint," In C. Rabut A. Cohen and L. L. Schumaker, editors, Curve and Surface Fitting. Vanderbilt University press, Nashville, 2000.


Fountain of Trevi at night.
This December we went back to Italy and visited the fabulous city of Rome. We were very fortunate and had beautiful, sunny skies during our visit and a crisp air and temperature of around 50 degrees. It is always nice to visit a city like Rome in the winter months when there are very few tourists. However, when visiting in the winter, you take the chance of getting weather that may not be optimal. Lucky for us, it was perfect during our stay.
We stayed at Hotel Albergo del Senato which is located on the Piazza della Rotunda and overlooks the majestic and beautiful Pantheon. It was the absolute perfect hotel and location. We were mesmerized by the Pantheon itself; built in 126 AD and one of the world's largest unreinforced concrete domed structures centered by an oculus providing natural light inside. It was originally built as a shrine to pagan gods but was converted to a church hundreds of years later and still serves as a church to this day. We spent countless hours during our stay sitting at outdoor tables of enotecas and trattorias along the Piazza della Rotunda. We always sat under delightfully warm heat lamps, devouring bottles of wonderful red wine and admiring the view of the Pantheon. Our hotel room's balcony also looked out onto the Patheon's front portico and we loved observing the busy comings and goings of people visiting each day.
We visited other Roman must-see places such as the Fountain of Trevi, the Spanish Steps and the Castelo Sant Angelo. We walked across the Tiber River on ancient bridges and browsed the high-end shopping paradise of the Via del Corso. The window shopping was stunning with huge storefronts for Italian fashion houses like Prada, Valentino, Roberto Cavali, Armani, Versace and Bulgari- just to name a small few.
Another highlight was the wonderful food. We mostly just wandered in to small trattorias and sampled their specials throughout the day. We drank lots and lots of Italian red wine with each and every meal. It was a wonderful stay!
After Rome, we went to the French sea-side town of Toulon and took a fantastic tour of the Bandol wine region in the Provence region of France. Known for their fantastic Rose' wine, the Bandol vintners we visited did not disappoint. We loved every sip and have found some new favorites to ship home.
It was a wonderful European getaway which was followed by a transatlantic cruise to Florida. 15 days of rest and relaxation as we crossed the Atlantic- pure heaven! We did stop in some other great European ports (Barcelona, Azores), but we have visited those places before and written about them here on Gumbopirate. We came back rejuvenated and ready for the hustle and bustle of the holidays. Also, we came back to face a long-awaited knee-replacement surgery for the Pirate. Ugh.. But now I am happy to report that we are 3 weeks post-surgery and Pirate is doing well (no need for a peg leg) and back on his diet staple of rum! Each day he makes great strides with his knee and he is working hard to rehab before our next adventures- our annual trip to the Daytona 500 and a fabulous tropical getaway to St. Martin and Anguilla!! Stay tuned….
Cajun in front of Pantheon..
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Takeover Tuesday Playlist: Picture This Uncover 'Modern Love' With The 1975, Maggie Rogers & More
By Whitney Pierce On 12 February 2019
Welcome again to Takeover Tuesday, the place every week, Billboard faucets chart-topping artists and tastemakers to compile their very personal playlist unique to Billboard's Spotify account. We give the artists free rein to base the record on no matter topic they select. The solely rule? Make it as artistic and distinctive to them as doable.
Irish quartet Picture This are gearing up for the discharge of their sophomore album, MDRN LV, on Feb. 15. The post-Valentine's launch completely aligns with the alt-rock group's love-themed set of tunes, which kicked off with the rocking-yet-heartbreaking lead single, "One Drink," in October.
But MDRN LV gained't simply deal with breakups, as evidenced with Picture This' newest launch from the LP, the buoyantly produced "If You Wanna Be Loved." The album's 12 songs will span all phases of a relationship — together with different monitor titles like "Broken" and "Dance Away With You" — and experiencing love in as we speak's world. So when it got here to picking a theme for his or her Takeover Tuesday playlist, naturally the Picture This guys selected to deal with fashionable love.
The 18-track playlist options traditional hits like Maroon 5's "She Will Be Loved" and Michael Jackson's "The Way You Make Me Feel," in addition to love songs from extra modern artists, like The 1975's "Be My Mistake" and Julia Michaels' "Into You." Picture This' decisions additionally replicate some nation affect, as the fellows threw in tunes by Jake Owen ("Anywhere With You"), Rascal Flatts ("Yours If You Want It") and even newcomer Steve Moakler ("Jealous Girl").
While a lot of the songs Picture This chosen — together with their MDRN LV monitor "If You Wanna Be Loved" — are lighthearted and romantic, some contact on the robust facet of affection, like Charlie Puth's "BOY" and Maggie Rogers' "Light On." But as frontman Ryan Hennessy places it, that's precisely what fashionable love is: "the highs, lows and every part in between."
"It consists of the gorgeous and damaging sides of what it means to be in love within the fashionable age," the singer provides of the playlist. "This is fashionable love. We are fashionable lovers."
Check out Picture This' "fashionable love" Takeover Tuesday playlist beneath, and pre-order MDRN LV here.
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Every kid is different! Tom shares the same philosophy as Butch Harmon when it comes to junior golf.
"You can't teach talent, but you can wreck it."
Tom keeps the instruction as simple as possible and seeks to build self esteem with positive reinforcement. Kids do a great job of playing, and golf is a game that is meant to be fun.
Whether the lessons are semi-private or individual, lessons are fun and competitive with a lot less talk about mechanics than adult lessons. Ask Tom about junior golf tournaments and competitions, as well as the path to playing High School and Collegiate Golf.
Please give adequate space for your child to learn from their teacher. The instruction is for them. Thank you for understanding!
Definitely sign up your junior golfer for the Northern California Golf Association's Youth On Course program.
Summer Camps are offered and will sell out. Email tom@tomjohnsongolf.com with any questions before signing up online.


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Q: How to have the cell value blank instead of undefined in google app script I have this script which runs correctly but the problem is that where there is no value to be calculated it returns "undefined" and "#NUM!" in the cell instead of leaving the cell blank.
The script gets the price from the products sheet depending on the currency in column O and product code  which can be in either column P or column AA. If a product code exists in column P then the price it put in column Z. If there is no product code in column P then column Z for that row should be blank. Likewise if there is a product code in column AA then the price is put in column AC for that product. The problem I have is that when the product code cell is blank in column P the script puts "undefined" in the corresponding Product price cell in column Z. Also if there is no product code in column AA the script is putting "#NUM!" in the corresponding cell in column AC. If there is no product code I require the Product price cell to be left blank.
The spreadsheet can be viewed
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dk57-ulWiHD_fYbEnYcMkqwQyDKkEyQVPNetqMVIgN0/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks for any help
function updatePrice() {

  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
  var jobSheet = ss.getSheetByName('BLOCK ORDERS');
  var productSheet = SpreadsheetApp.openById("1jbG_PLWU_eXfQTkwUn1krtYfzniw7HwnwnunhohzL60").getSheetByName('PRODUCTS');

  // get products and jobs
  var products = productSheet.getRange("A2:D" + productSheet.getLastRow()).getValues()
  var jobsRange = jobSheet.getRange("O2:BO" + jobSheet.getLastRow())
  var jobs = jobsRange.getValues()

  // get the list of products on the Jobs sheet and Product Codes on the products sheet
  var jobProducts = jobs.map(function(e){return e[1] })
  var prodCodes = products.map(function(e){return e[0]})
  // find the indices of every Job in the Product array
  var indices = jobProducts.map(
        Map.prototype.get,
        prodCodes.reduce((m, v, i) => m.set(v, i), new Map)
    );

  var priceArray = []

  // for each job get the Products index and the Price and push the price onto an array

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    // assign value depending whether currency = Sterling or Euro
    if (jobs[i][0] === "STERLING" && jobs[i][1] !=""){
      var productValue = products[indices[i]][2]
    }
    else if (jobs[i][0] === "EURO" && jobs[i][1] !=""){
      var productValue = products[indices[i]][3]
   }
   var zoneSurcharge = j[49];
    priceArray.push([productValue + zoneSurcharge])
  })
  jobsRange.offset(0, 11,jobs.length,1).setValues(priceArray)
  console.log(priceArray);
  var jobProducts = jobs.map(function(e){return e[12] })
  var prodCodes = products.map(function(e){return e[0]})
   // find the indices of every Job in the Product array
  var indices = jobProducts.map(
        Map.prototype.get,
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    );
   var priceArray = []
   // for each job get the Products index and the Price and push the price onto an array
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      var productValue = products[indices[i]][2]
    }
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      var productValue = products[indices[i]][3]
   }
   var zoneSurcharge = j[49];

    priceArray.push([productValue + zoneSurcharge])
  })

  jobsRange.offset(0, 14,jobs.length,1).setValues(priceArray)

  SpreadsheetApp.flush

}

A: This script runs correct
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    }
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      var productValue = products[indices[i]][3]  + jobs[i][49]
   }

    priceArray.push([productValue])
  })
  })```

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Synthesis of 4, 5-dihydroxy-9, 10-dioxoanthracene-2-benzyl carboxylate ester from rhein
Rajesh S. Gavit* and K. S. Laddha
Rhein and several analogues thereof, are particularly important from commercial point of view and are known for their use in the treatment of degenerative diseases of the joints, for example osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis. Rhein occurs in nature in plant families such as Cassia, Rheum and Rhamnus, but in a very less concentration. Aloin, a natural substance isolated from various species of aloe, consist almost exclusively of barbaloin (10-β-glucopyranosyl-1, 8-dihydroxy-3-hydroxymethyl-anthracen-9-one). Barbaloin, the C-glycoside of aloe-emodin anthrone, localizes in the outer rind of the aloe vera leaf, has been reported to constitute upto 30% of aloe plants dried leaf exudate and proposed as a part of defense mechanism against herbivores. In this paper, an attempt has been made to prepare rhein from barbaloin via formation of aloe-emodin and its chemical modification using benzyl alcohol to prepare its benzyl carboxylate ester.
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Rajesh S. Gavit* and K. S. Laddha. Synthesis of 4, 5-dihydroxy-9, 10-dioxoanthracene-2-benzyl carboxylate ester from rhein. J Pharmacogn Phytochem 2012;1(2):10-13.


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Exhibits You Won't Find in the New National Museum of African American History and Culture, Part 2
by Cliff Kincaid on September 23, 2016
In Part 1 of this two-part report, I pointed out that "Many exhibits in the new $500 million National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. will be worthwhile. They will highlight the struggle to overcome slavery and give black people the rights they were promised in the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution. Many black Americans have achieved great success."
I also pointed out that "black leadership in America, which is viewed by the media as almost exclusively liberal and Democratic, is not without major flaws. In addition, we think that the growing black conservative movement will not be given the attention it deserves. In the spirit of truth and transparency, we offer examples of exhibits that we have reason to believe, based on advance publicity, will not be available to those visiting the museum."
In Part 1, I identified nine such exhibits that won't be available to museum-goers, plus a list of the top donors to the museum. Here are 10 more such exhibits:
Bill Cosby's history as a sexual predator. During an interview with NBC Nightly News anchorman Lester Holt, museum director Lonnie Bunch said that a guiding principle of the new museum is to "tell the unvarnished truth" about the black experience in America. For example, a statue of founding father Thomas Jefferson is shown in front of 600 bricks, each one named for a slave he owned. However, an exhibit about black entertainer Bill Cosby has only one sentence about his sexual scandals, saying that the "revelations about his alleged sexual misconduct have cast a shadow over Cosby's entertainment career and severely damaged his reputation." Lawyers for Cosby are now claiming that racial bias is to blame because 12 of the 13 women who are scheduled to testify in court that he drugged and molested them are white. In total, more than 50 women have accused him of rape, sexual assault, molestation or sexual harassment.
The anti-police cry of "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" was a lie. The false claim that blacks in Ferguson, Missouri responded to a police stop there with "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" fueled the riots that cost businesses and taxpayers millions of dollars, and ruined the career of Police Officer Darren Wilson. The evidence and witness statements in the case demonstrated that no such statement was made, and that a black thug assaulted Officer Wilson and was shot and killed. Yet the museum features the "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" image. Colin Flaherty, an award winning reporter and author of Don't Make the Black Kids Angry: The hoax of black victimization and those who enable it, says that what happened in Ferguson was a carefully orchestrated hoax, perpetrated with the help of the media.
Black-on-black crime: the Chicago experience. By September 8, 2016, the number of homicides in Chicago this year had already reached 500. This is a 20-year high. In addition, 2,949 people had been shot, according to the Chicago Tribune. A 71-year-old man who was watering his lawn was recently shot by a young black thug who wanted his money. Columnist John Kass reports, "The shooters, these feral young men, aren't an accident. They are the direct product of the Democratic welfare state that helped destroy families. The government became the father, the fathers became irrelevant or were driven off, and black families that had withstood decades of Jim Crow segregation began to collapse."
White people were also slaves. Janet Levy, an activist and freelance journalist, notes that while institutional slavery conjures images of pre-Civil War Southern ownership of African slaves, it is actually "an ancient practice dating from ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, as well as early Amer-Indian empires in Mexico and Central America. It was also well established and ideologically sanctioned in the Muslim world from the days of Mohammed." Reviewing the contents of the book, Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters, by Ohio State history professor Robert Davis, she adds, "Concurrently with African enslavement in the Americas, a flourishing slave trade existed from 1500 to 1800 of white Christian Europeans by the Muslims of North Africa's Barbary Coast."
Slaves helped burn down and build the White House. "I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves," says first Lady Michelle Obama. However, some slaves were hired by the British to burn down the White House during the war of 1812. The British were offering faux freedom to slaves if they would fight for the British oppressors and wage war on America. Some of these slaves wore redcoat uniforms. Jane Cook, the author of Stories of Faith and Courage from the Revolutionary War and The Faith of America's First Ladies, reports, "Called the Colonial or West Indies Militia, these former slaves were part of the British marines, soldiers, and sailors who attacked Washington. These forces defeated American forces at Bladensburg, Maryland, on August 24, 1814, and arrived at sunset in Washington, where they burned most of the public buildings, most notoriously the White House and the U.S. Capitol."
Blacks in America have had a much better life in America than Africa. Former Washington Post reporter Keith Richburg, author of the book, Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa, said he was lucky that his ancestors came to America, even though they came as slaves. He wrote: "Would I be better off if this great tragedy, this crime of slavery, had not occurred? What would my life be like now?" As AIM chairman Reed Irvine noted in a review of the book, Richburg's answer, as he viewed the victims of the massacres that took the lives of an estimated million people in Rwanda in 1994, was, "There but for the grace of God go I." Today, black billionaires in America include Michael Jordan, the former basketball player; Oprah Winfrey, and tech investor Robert Smith.
Black power advocate Angela Davis was a hard-core pro-Moscow communist. A "Black Power" exhibit at the new museum shows black activist Angela Davis. In fact, Davis supported the imprisonment of Soviet political dissidents (calling them common criminals), and was awarded the International Lenin Peace Prize by communist East Germany. She personally met with East German dictator Erich Honecker. She was a former Communist Party vice presidential candidate, and was acquitted as an accessory to the 1970 murder of California judge Harold Haley.
Blacks Are Worse Off Under Obama. Black conservative Demetrius Minor points out that under Obama, the number of blacks owning homes has declined, the black workforce has decreased, and the median minority family income has declined. Black conservative Deroy Murdock points out that the percentage of blacks in poverty and the number of blacks on welfare has increased under Obama.
Some current black leaders are racial demagogues. The Reverend Al Sharpton participated in the Tawana Brawley hoax, back in 1987, in which a black girl made false and damaging charges of rape against a group of white men. Sharpton was found guilty of defamation and ordered to pay a fine in that case. The Federal Election Commission ordered Sharpton to return $100,000 that he had received in federal matching funds for his presidential campaign after citing financial irregularities. The Reverend Jesse Jackson, who served as an aide to Martin Luther King, Jr., admitted having sex with a female employee and having an illegitimate child. Tommy R. Bennett, who served as Jackson's personal travel assistant and ran the legal clinic at Jackson's organization, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, has alleged that he escorted women to Jackson's hotel room and was then ordered to clean up after Jackson had sexual intercourse with them. Jackson has denied the charges. Also, Barack Obama's "former" pastor Jeremiah Wright falsely claimed during a National Press Club speech that the U.S. government had manufactured the AIDS virus to kill black people.
Abortion is black genocide. Minority women constitute only about 13 percent of the female population (ages 15-44) in the United States, but they underwent approximately 36 percent of the abortions, according to the website blackgenocide.org. Pro-life activist Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., says, "African-American communities are targeted by the abortion industry and too many of our babies die in abortion." She says, "My uncle didn't live to experience the horrors of legal abortion, which includes death to babies and harm to women. Today he would have fought just as hard to secure the rights of unborn Americans as he fought for racial justice for Blacks." She says that her uncle was offered an award from abortion provider Planned Parenthood in 1966, but didn't accept it in person. She says the reason her uncle was offered the award was to attract the black community to Planned Parenthood.
You can read Part 1 here.
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President Donald Trump Suspends Entry of Immigrants Who Will Financially Burden the United States Healthcare System
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Presidential Proclamation on the Suspension of Entry of Immigrants Who Will Financially Burden the United States Healthcare System | Issued on October 4, 2019
Healthcare providers and taxpayers bear substantial costs in paying for medical expenses incurred by people who lack health insurance or the ability to pay for their healthcare. Hospitals and other providers often administer care to the uninsured without any hope of receiving reimbursement from them. The costs associated with this care are passed on to the American people in the form of higher taxes, higher premiums, and higher fees for medical services. In total, uncompensated care costs — the overall measure of unreimbursed services that hospitals give their patients — have exceeded $35 billion in each of the last 10 years. These costs amount to approximately $7 million on average for each hospital in the United States, and can drive hospitals into insolvency. Beyond uncompensated care costs, the uninsured strain Federal and State government budgets through their reliance on publicly funded programs, which ultimately are financed by taxpayers.
Beyond imposing higher costs on hospitals and other healthcare infrastructure, uninsured individuals often use emergency rooms to seek remedies for a variety of non-emergency conditions, causing overcrowding and delays for those who truly need emergency services. This non-emergency usage places a large burden on taxpayers, who reimburse hospitals for a portion of their uncompensated emergency care costs.
While our healthcare system grapples with the challenges caused by uncompensated care, the United States Government is making the problem worse by admitting thousands of aliens who have not demonstrated any ability to pay for their healthcare costs. Notably, data show that lawful immigrants are about three times more likely than United States citizens to lack health insurance. Immigrants who enter this country should not further saddle our healthcare system, and subsequently American taxpayers, with higher costs.
The United States has a long history of welcoming immigrants who come lawfully in search of brighter futures. We must continue that tradition while also addressing the challenges facing our healthcare system, including protecting both it and the American taxpayer from the burdens of uncompensated care. Continuing to allow entry into the United States of certain immigrants who lack health insurance or the demonstrated ability to pay for their healthcare would be detrimental to these interests.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and 1185(a)) and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, hereby find that the unrestricted immigrant entry into the United States of persons described in section 1 of this proclamation would, except as provided for in section 2 of this proclamation, be detrimental to the interests of the United States, and that their entry should be subject to certain restrictions, limitations, and exceptions. I therefore hereby proclaim the following:
Section 1. Suspension and Limitation on Entry. (a) The entry into the United States as immigrants of aliens who will financially burden the United States healthcare system is hereby suspended and limited subject to section 2 of this proclamation. An alien will financially burden the United States healthcare system unless the alien will be covered by approved health insurance, as defined in subsection (b) of this section, within 30 days of the alien's entry into the United States, or unless the alien possesses the financial resources to pay for reasonably foreseeable medical costs.
(b) Approved health insurance means coverage under any of the following plans or programs:
(i) an employer-sponsored plan, including a retiree plan, association health plan, and coverage provided by the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985;
(ii) an unsubsidized health plan offered in the individual market within a State;
(iii) a short-term limited duration health policy effective for a minimum of 364 days — or until the beginning of planned, extended travel outside the United States;
(iv) a catastrophic plan;
(v) a family member's plan;
(vi) a medical plan under chapter 55 of title 10, United States Code, including coverage under the TRICARE program;
(vii) a visitor health insurance plan that provides adequate coverage for medical care for a minimum of 364 days — or until the beginning of planned, extended travel outside the United States;
(viii) a medical plan under the Medicare program; or
(ix) any other health plan that provides adequate coverage for medical care as determined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services or his designee.
(c) For persons over the age of 18, approved health insurance does not include coverage under the Medicaid program.
Sec. 2. Scope of Suspension and Limitation on Entry. (a) Section 1 of this proclamation shall apply only to aliens seeking to enter the United States pursuant to an immigrant visa.
(b) Section 1 of this proclamation shall not apply to:
(i) any alien holding a valid immigrant visa issued before the effective date of this proclamation;
(ii) any alien seeking to enter the United States pursuant to a Special Immigrant Visa, in either the SI or SQ classification, who is also a national of Afghanistan or Iraq, or his or her spouse and children, if any;
(iii) any alien who is the child of a United States citizen or who is seeking to enter the United States pursuant to an IR-2, IR-3, IR-4, IH-3, or IH-4 visa;
(iv) any alien seeking to enter the United States pursuant to an IR-5 visa, provided that the alien or the alien's sponsor demonstrates to the satisfaction of the consular officer that the alien's healthcare will not impose a substantial burden on the United States healthcare system;
(v) any alien seeking to enter the United States pursuant to a SB-1 visa;
(vi) any alien under the age of 18, except for any alien accompanying a parent who is also immigrating to the United States and subject to this proclamation;
(vii) any alien whose entry would further important United States law enforcement objectives, as determined by the Secretary of State or his designee based on a recommendation of the Attorney General or his designee; or
(viii) any alien whose entry would be in the national interest, as determined by the Secretary of State or his designee on a case-by-case basis.
(c) Consistent with subsection (a) of this section, this proclamation does not affect the entry of aliens entering the United States through means other than immigrant visas, including lawful permanent residents. Further, nothing in this proclamation shall be construed to affect any individual's eligibility for asylum, refugee status, withholding of removal, or protection under the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, consistent with the laws and regulations of the United States.
Sec. 3. Implementation and Enforcement. (a) An alien subject to this proclamation must establish that he or she meets its requirements, to the satisfaction of a consular officer, before the adjudication and issuance of an immigrant visa. The Secretary of State may establish standards and procedures governing such determinations.
(b) The review required by subsection (a) of this section is separate and independent from the review and determination required by other statutes, regulations, or proclamations in determining the admissibility of an alien.
(c) An alien who circumvents the application of this proclamation through fraud, willful misrepresentation of a material fact, or illegal entry shall be a priority for removal by the Department of Homeland Security.
Sec. 4. Reports on the Financial Burdens Imposed by Immigrants on the Healthcare System. (a) The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the heads of other appropriate agencies, shall submit to the President a report regarding:
(i) the continued necessity of and any adjustments that may be warranted to the suspension and limitation on entry in section 1 of this proclamation; and
(ii) other measures that may be warranted to protect the integrity of the United States healthcare system.
(b) The report required by subsection (a) of this section shall be submitted within 180 days of the effective date of this proclamation, with subsequent reports submitted annually thereafter throughout the effective duration of the suspension and limitation on entry set forth in section 1 of this proclamation. If the Secretary of State, in consultation with the heads of other appropriate executive departments and agencies, determines that circumstances no longer warrant the continued effectiveness of the suspension or limitation on entry set forth in section 1 of this proclamation or that circumstances warrant additional measures, the Secretary shall immediately so advise the President.
(c) The Secretary of State and Secretary of Health and Human Services shall coordinate any policy recommendations associated with the reports described in subsection (a) of this section.
Sec. 5. Severability. It is the policy of the United States to enforce this proclamation to the maximum extent possible to advance the interests of the United States. Accordingly:
(a) if any provision of this proclamation, or the application of any provision to any person or circumstance, is held to be invalid, the remainder of the proclamation and the application of its other provisions to any other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby; and
(b) if any provision of this proclamation, or the application of any provision to any person or circumstance, is held to be invalid because of the failure to follow certain procedures, the relevant executive branch officials shall implement those procedural requirements to conform with existing law and with any applicable court orders.
Sec. 6. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this proclamation shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) United States Government obligations under applicable international agreements;
(ii) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(iii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This proclamation shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This proclamation is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
Sec. 7. Effective Date. This proclamation is effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on November 3, 2019.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand nineteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-fourth.
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Hypothesis Dashed
In discussing intelligence and other abilities, and how they relate to performance and success, I have often taken the analogy of basketball because the attributes height, speed, and gross-motor coordination are all extremely important, but not equally so - and other attributes contribute as well. To succeed at the highest levels more than one of these is going to be needed, even if you have one in abundance. Consider Tacko Fall, who is 7'6", but even he has needed some hard work and engineering-level intelligence to overcome his lack of speed and general coordination. One could also use music as an analogy for similar reasons.
I have consequently believed that in the same way that height is the #1 requirement for basketball but is a threshold phenomenon, and after a certain point other characteristics take on increasing and eventually equal importance, that intelligence is the same in it's operation across a huge number of activities. Yes, one needs an IQ of 90 to get into the USMC, and probably 110 to be an officer, but beyond that other characteristics such as self-discipline begin to gradually take over as predictors of success. Certain hard sciences may have very high floors, up into the 130 range or even more, but even there the ability to work with others, the capacity for hard work, etc become of increasing importance.
That is at one level true, because IQ alone won't get you much. But the effect of the other characteristics such as the modern favorites "grit" (the Angela Duckworth book), growth mindset, EQ, 10,000 hours (with or without focused practice), or privilege - or the old favorites hard work, charisma, luck, training, or connections turn out to matter only a little each according to Michigan State researcher Zach Hambrick. Even at high levels of expertise, intelligence remains the best predictor of the ability to next level up. Not EQ. Not growth mindset. There does seem to be some sort of generalisable sales ability, but it has proven very tough to measure. which doesn't stop these guys from selling you theories about what it is and what works. Selling sales is big business.
I had expected a different result. But his methods seem good and the samples are large, including the ASVAB data in some cases. Hambrick is on the committee to improve the ASVAB and AFQT, and he is at pains to say that he thinks they are already quite good but could be better, not that the test should be discarded after 100,000,000 tries.
His explanation is not universally accepted, but this is always true in IQ research. People's priors are that something else, maybe anything else, should be true and there is motivated reasoning. Even I hoped that the hypothesis above would prove out and the starkness that g-factor is the single largest predictor in field after field would be relieved at least a little.
People do have trouble understanding even a two-factor model when it goes against their priors, and they immediately accuse one of claiming that those other things don't matter at all. No, it's just that they vary from task to task whether they are important, with little generalisation among them, and even at highest levels do not match intelligence. Speed in basketball is big, but not as big as height. Beauty is big in Hollywood, but sustained excellence over decades is better predicted by intelligence, as in Phi Beta Kappa Glenn Close.
So maybe Hedy Lamarr's high intelligence had something to do with her success as an actress, as well as with her inventing activities?
Since g doesn't explain everything, we want to look for g' that explains the rest. Maybe it's a combination of things that have to work together. Maybe Brady was good-but-not-great until he played alongside some guys who used some practice he needed.
I know luck plays a little role (which they don't deny, of course). I remember a math class I took. I was having trouble remembering which orthogonal function was which and why, but the prof's oral exam question was about the gamma function. I'd been fascinated with it and playing around with it on my own for a month, and had obscure facets of it on the tip of my tongue. That was the one question from the course that I could really ace. I wouldn't have failed with a different question, but I looked a little better than I really was.
Generalized sales ability but difficult to measure...one factor here is that there are so many different ways to be a great salesman. The extraverted-loudmouth stereotype doesn't always apply.
Interesting that the original post uses basketball as an example, where height, hand size, and reflexes are at a premium. That is not to say there is no intelligence involved in basketball, but g will probably not correlate as well for basketball as for many other fields.
Hambrick: One important point to make here is that G is far from perfect as a predictor of job performance or any other outcome, so there's value in searching for additional predictors.
Hambrick: The average correlation across a wide range of jobs between G and performance is about 0.5, somewhere in the neighborhood of 0.5.
About half, so, g is not destiny.
Hambrick: it's possible that an individual can, in a sense, defy that trend and reach a high level of performance in becoming a helicopter pilot or something through just doggedness.
Doggedness is often a factor in success.
Hambrick: Well, and I would just add that they're {high-IQ nonconformists} probably not going to enlist in the first place.
Hambrick uses military testing as the basis for most of his findings. But this group is self-selected. A non-conformist may not do well in the military regardless of g, and will be less likely to be included in Hambrick's stats. Presumably, non-conformists would do poorly in the infantry regardless of g, suggesting the actual correlation with success is lower than its measured value. Non-conformists may do better in certain fields of art or design, but success in art can be very subjective and subject to popular trends.
Hambrick: They stipulate that full concentration is necessary for deliberate practice. Well, how do you know whether somebody is concentrating fully? Can anybody ever concentrate fully on something? Does that mean that 100% of your attentional resources… How would you ever know that?
This misunderstands deliberate practice. It's a specific type of practice that breaks complex tasks down into simple components. A piano player may practice the thumb cross. A baseball player may repeatedly practice swinging low and wide. A chess player may practice knight and pawn endgames.
Hambrick: We can make predictions about what individuals can do, but it's possible that an individual can, in a sense, defy that trend and reach a high level of performance
So, g is not destiny.
Christopher B said...
People do have trouble understanding even a two-factor model when it goes against their priors, and they immediately accuse one of claiming that those other things don't matter at all.
Discusion at Twitter: Is it true that Successful People = Boring People?
https://twitter.com/KTmBoyle/status/1588911438705217536
Ganzir said...
"Yes, one needs an IQ of 90 to get into the USMC"
I thought the reputation of Marines is that they're not so bright.
I say this not to disparage the Corps, but just to relay the stereotype as it reached me.
The numbers fluctuate depending on wartime and recruitment needs, but in general it 90 for Army, 91 USMC, 93 Navy and Coast Guard, 95 USAF. Obviously, officer corps are different, and if you want to be in many specialties your AFQT is going to be higher than that minimum. 90-110 is considered average intelligence.
According to wikipedia:
In 1824 Sir Walter Scott used the phrase "Tell it to the Marines – the sailors won't believe it" in his novel Redgauntlet.
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The Green Wellbeing Alliance is a collaboration of organisations in and around Brighton that provide therapeutic outdoor activities. Participants improve wellbeing and health while connecting with nature and other people.
All members of the Alliance offer "nature-based interventions designed and structured for health and social care treatment, for vulnerable groups in society including those with mental illness, learning difficulties, dementia, or life limiting illness".
I am really excited to be a part of this group who are working together to raise the profile of nature-based therapeutic activities, establish best practice, share resources and establish a broad-based platform for the funding and commissioning of green wellbeing activities.


Why not celebrate your hen weekend with us?
Cheltenham is becoming a more popular destination for Hen Parties and hen weekends. There are so many things to do and see in and around Cheltenham. The shopping is second to none with many independent boutique style shops as well as your favourite brands. We can arrange meals, spa treatments and entertainment if you want to stay in the Lodge.
Or if you plan to have a night out on the town we can organise taxis or a minibus to take you to the many restaurants, bars and nightclubs in the Cheltenham and Cotswolds area. There are so many ideas and options for hens, we can guarantee you will have a fabulous time.
We can provide hen party accommodation for your guests in our 12 ensuite rooms. You can simply book a few rooms or if you are a large hen party you can take the whole guest house on an exclusive use basis to make the weekend really special!
There are so many ways that we can help with the celebrations. We can arrange for make up or nail artists; hairdressers; beauty therapists and/or masseurs, to come to you here at Hilden Lodge. You could book cake decorating classes or salsa classes and we have some deals with local SPA's which may be a way to pamper the lucky Bride to Be.
Why not have an afternoon tea, then sit, relax and have fun. We can provide a TV /DVD player so that you have a little fun (at the Hen's expenses hehe!!), before heading out on the tiles for that last night of freedom.
For large bookings we throw in a little surprise for the Hen.


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Species Directory
Dwarf Seahorse
Overview Conservation & Management Resources
Hippocampus zosterae
Protected Status
CITES Appendix II
Throughout Its Range
Habitat loss, Oil spills and energy exploration, Harvesting
See Regulatory Actions
About the Species
The dwarf seahorse is the third smallest seahorse species in the world. It is found in seagrass beds in the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Coast of Florida, and the Caribbean.
The dwarf seahorse is not listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act.
Read the 2020 Status Review Report (PDF, 90 pages)
Gasterosteiformes
Syngnathidae
zosterae
Last updated by NOAA Fisheries on 09/15/2022
Management Overview
In July 2020, NOAA Fisheries determined that the dwarf seahorse does not warrant listing under the Endangered Species Act.
Regulatory History
12-Month Finding (July 2020) (85 FR 45377)
Status Review Report: Dwarf Seahorse (Hippocampus zosterae) (February 2020) (PDF, 90 pages)
90-Day Finding (May 2012) (77 FR 26478)
Petition to List the Dwarf Seahorse Under the ESA (April 2011) (PDF, 68 pages)
Key Actions and Documents
Actions & Documents
12-Month Finding on a Petition to List the Dwarf Seahorse as Threatened or Endangered under the Endangered Species Act
We, NOAA Fisheries, announced a 12-month finding and listing determination on a petition to list the dwarf seahorse (Hippocampus zosterae) as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. We have completed a status review of the dwarf…
12-Month Finding (85 FR 45377, 07/28/2020)
90-Day Finding (77 FR 26478, 05/04/2012)
Status Review to List the Dwarf Seahorse Under the ESA (2020, PDF, 90 pages)
Petition to List the Dwarf Seahorse Under the ESA (2011, PDF, 68 pages)
Population Viability Analysis of the Dwarf Seahorse in Florida
Technical memorandum provides a population viability analysis that evaluates the status of dwarf…
Proceedings of the International Workshop on CITES Implementation for Seahorse Conservation and Trade, Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico
NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OPR-35 Workshop Date: February 3-5, 2004


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Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi is set to retire from playing ODI matches for his national side after next year's Cricket World Cup.
"Boom Boom" explained his decision and insisted he wanted to choose when the time to step down after a legendary career playing 389 ODI matches.
Afridi: "I want go out of ODI's with self-respect and with my fans wanting more from me."
The 34-year old also added: "I always wanted to do this having seen the problems faced by bigger players in the past. It was not an easy decision to take and I think many of my seniors also found it difficult to go out at the right time."
My 18 yrs dream dedicated to Pak. First ever player(respect) to hv such hard decision bt will paved way for many new talents!
My journey has seen many ups and downs but I am feeling satisfied that I am leaving on my own terms.
I am happy about my achievements and records but the only regret I have is losing fastest ODI century record.
At initials of my career stand off to Wasim Akram,Saeed Anwar,Ramiz Raja,M.khan,Waqar Yunus,Inzamam for their endeavouring support.
Afridi had a phenomenal ODI career, smashing the record for setting the quickest century off 37 balls. He held it for 17 whole years before New Zealend's Corey Anderson set the bar with his 100 from 36 balls, one less than Afridi's..
Afridi will turn his attention to captaining Pakistan's 20 over side and strive to win the T20 World Cup in India in 2016.
Shahid Afridi has had one of the best ODI careers in Pakistan history, blemisihng batsmen with his devastating leg spinners, but also smashing relentless sixes off his foes. A legend to say the least.


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creation, direction and production
set and costume design: Amy Keith
sound design: John Wilson
lighting design: Pascal Turmel
performers:
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The Suspension of Wait trilogy seeks to take an intimate look at immigration/ emigration, and cross-culturalism in Canada. The trilogy follows our couple (the boatmakers) – one who has immigrated from Italy, the other who has emigrated from a small village in Quebec – through the experience of leaving their home, arriving in a new country / the big city, meeting each other, and forming a life together. Part One of the trilogy, Leaving, explored the reasons someone leaves their country for another, and their small village for the big city. The process of leaving, the journey, and the immediate arrival.


There are over 80 fully-qualified members of the teaching staff; appropriate support staff are also employed by the Governors.
CLERICAL OFFICERS….. Mrs J. BARR, Mrs D. McBURNEY, Mrs J. MILLAR, Mrs H. JOHNSTON, Miss R. McCABE, Mrs A. SINCLAIR, Miss H.WATERSTONE.
LABORATORY TECHNICIANS………….N. GORDON, S. WILSON, Mrs P.J. McAULEY, J. ARMSTRONG.
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Ludlow (Kalifornia) – miasto (town) w stanie Kalifornia, w hrabstwie San Bernardino. Liczba mieszkańców 10 (2000). Jest położona na pustyni Mojave na wschód od Amboy przy autostradzie międzystanowej nr 40, drodze nr 66 (Route 66) i linii kolejowej. Rezerwat Mojave (Mojave National Preserve) położony jest na północny wschód od osady.

Ludlow zostało założone w 1883 roku jako punkt uzupełniania wody dla parowozów.  Dzięki usytuowaniu przy drodze nr 66 rozwinęły się usługi związane z obsługą podróżnych. Część miejscowości znajdująca się przy drodze nr 66 została opuszczona w 1973 roku po otwarciu autostrady międzymiastowej nr 40.

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Miasta w hrabstwie San Bernardino


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Competition for Active TGFβ Cytokine Allows for Selective Retention of Antigen-Specific Tissue- Resident Memory T Cells in the Epidermal Niche
Immunity. 2021 Jan 12;54(1):84-98.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2020.10.022. Epub 2020 Nov 18.
Toshiro Hirai 1 , Yi Yang 2 , Yukari Zenke 3 , Haiyue Li 4 , Virendra K Chaudhri 5 , Jacinto S De La Cruz Diaz 6 , Paul Yifan Zhou 6 , Breanna Anh-Thu Nguyen 6 , Laurent Bartholin 7 , Creg J Workman 8 , David W Griggs 9 , Dario A A Vignali 10 , Harinder Singh 5 , David Masopust 11 , Daniel H Kaplan 12
1 Department of Dermatology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA; Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA. Electronic address: t-hirai@biken.osaka-u.ac.jp.
2 Department of Dermatology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA; Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA; Department of Dermatology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China; The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
3 Department of Dermatology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA; Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA; Department of Dermatology, St. Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
4 Department of Dermatology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA; Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA; School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, No. 1 Tsinghua Yuan, Haidian District, Beijing 100084, China.
5 Center for Systems Immunology and the Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
6 Department of Dermatology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA; Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA.
7 TGF-b & Pancreatic Cancer Lab, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon (CRCL), Centre Léon Bérard, INSERM 1052, CNRS 5286, Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France.
8 Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA; Tumor Microenvironment Center, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA.
9 Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University, MO 63104, USA.
10 Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA; Tumor Microenvironment Center, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA; Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Program, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA.
11 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Immunology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
12 Department of Dermatology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA; Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA. Electronic address: dankaplan@pitt.edu.
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2020.10.022
Following antigen-driven expansion in lymph node, transforming growth factor-β (TGFβ) is required for differentiation of skin-recruited CD8+ T cell effectors into epidermal resident memory T (Trm) cells and their epidermal persistence. We found that the source of TGFβ -supporting Trm cells was autocrine. In addition, antigen-specific Trm cells that encountered cognate antigen in the skin, and bystander Trm cells that did not, both displayed long-term persistence in the epidermis under steady-state conditions. However, when the active-TGFβ was limited or when new T cell clones were recruited into the epidermis, antigen-specific Trm cells were more efficiently retained than bystander Trm cells. Genetically enforced TGFβR signaling allowed bystander Trm cells to persist in the epidermis as efficiently as antigen-specific Trm cells in both contexts. Thus, competition between T cells for active TGFβ represents an unappreciated selective pressure that promotes the accumulation and persistence of antigen-specific Trm cells in the epidermal niche.
Keywords: TGFβ; antigen; bystander Trm; competition; keratinocytes; niche; resident memory T cells; skin; α(v)β(6); α(v)β(8).
Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Binding, Competitive
Bystander Effect
CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes / immunology*
Cellular Microenvironment
Clone Cells
Epidermis / immunology*
Keratinocytes / immunology*
Organ Specificity
Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta / metabolism
T-Cell Antigen Receptor Specificity
T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory / immunology*
Transforming Growth Factor beta / metabolism*
Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta
Transforming Growth Factor beta
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India broke into the top 10 list of agricultural produce exporters in 2019 with a sizeable share in the export of rice, cotton, soya beans and meat, according to a World Trade Organization (WTO) report on the trends in world agricultural trade in the past 25 years.
In 2019, Mexico and India, with 3.4% and 3.1% share in global Agri exports, respectively, replaced Malaysia (7th) and New Zealand (9th) as the largest exporters, while the US, which topped the list in 1995 (22.2%), was overtaken by the European Union in 2019 (16.1%). The US's share fell to 13.8% in 2019. Brazil maintained its ranking as the third-largest exporter, increasing its share from 4.8% in 1995 to 7.8% in 2019. China climbed from the sixth spot in 1995 (4%) to fourth in 2019 (5.4%).
The top rice exporters in 1995 included Thailand (38%), India (26%) and the US (19%). In 2019, India (33%) overtook Thailand (20%) to top the list, while Vietnam (12%) overtook the US to the third spot. The top 10 exporters accounted for more than 96% of exports in both 1995 and 2019.
India is also the third-largest cotton exporter (7.6%), and the fourth-largest importer (10%) in 2019. It had not featured in the top 10 list in 1995. In the largest traded Agri product, soya beans, India (0.1%) has a meagre share but was ranked ninth in the world. In the "meat and edible meat offal" category, India was ranked eighth in the world with a 4% share in global trade. While India was the seventh-largest wheat and meslin exporter in 1995, it does not feature in the top 10 list in 2019.However, India lagged behind as a value-added contributor to world Agri exports. India's share of foreign value-added content in its Agri exports was also low at 3.8% primarily due to high tariffs on Agri imports to protect the domestic market.
In a report, "Reforms to promote Agri exports" released earlier this year, the commerce ministry had said that the government's consistent and concerted endeavours to usher in reforms to boost agricultural exports have been highly fruitful.
"Despite the unprecedented global pandemic, India has been able to step in to meet the increased global demand, emerging as a significant global supplier of food and other essential agricultural products," the ministry added.
Source:https://www.livemint.com/news/india/india-breaks-into-the-top-10-list-of-agri-produce-exporters-11626975654126.html
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Today, 214 million women in developing countries want to avoid pregnancy but are not using a modern method of contraception. While this is a daunting number, it reflects a decline from 225 million women with unmet need for modern contraception just three years ago—notwithstanding an increase in the number of women of reproductive age in the intervening years.
This steady progress is a direct result of global commitments to address women's sexual and reproductive health needs—including by investing in contraceptive services. The United States has long been a global leader in funding family planning programs in the world's poorest countries. This standing, however, is now threatened by the policies of the Trump administration that threaten to reverse the United States' long-held development goal of improving health worldwide.
On his first business day in office, President Trump signed an executive policy that not only reimposed, but expanded the global gag rule, blocking all US global health assistance to foreign nongovernmental organizations that use their own funding to engage in abortion-related services, referrals, or advocacy. Beyond its effect on abortion-related services, the global gag rule bans the most effective and trusted providers of family planning services from receiving US aid if they refuse to abide by it. The ultimate irony is that—by undermining access to family planning services and denying women the tools that they need to prevent unwanted pregnancies—the gag rule contributes to the very thing it purportedly seeks to reduce: the likelihood of abortion.
Continuing its attacks, the administration announced in March that it would defund the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), one of the leading providers of sexual and reproductive health services in the world. And in May, the administration called for the outright elimination of all US international family planning aid. This year alone, this funding made it possible for 26 million women and couples to receive contraceptive services and supplies, averting eight million unintended pregnancies and 15,000 maternal deaths.
Every additional dollar spent on contraceptive services in developing regions saves $2.30 in maternal and newborn healthcare. This is because investing in family planning services decreases the incidence of unintended pregnancies, unplanned births, and abortions, which significantly lowers the cost of pregnancy-related care.
Women with an unmet need for modern contraception—those who want to avoid a pregnancy but are not using a modern contraceptive method—account for 84% of all unintended pregnancies in developing regions. Enabling these women to use effective contraceptives is therefore critical.
Expanding and improving services to meet all women's needs for modern contraception in developing countries would cost $11 billion annually, or $1.75 per person per year. The impact of this investment would be dramatic.
Fully meeting family planning needs would result in 67 million fewer unintended pregnancies per year. There would be 23 million fewer unplanned births and 36 million fewer induced abortions—many of which would occur in countries where abortion is broadly restricted and, as a result, is often performed under clandestine conditions.
We know that investing in family planning works. Ensuring that women and couples can prevent unintended pregnancies improves women's health, strengthens families and communities, and saves lives and money.
Given the tangible progress we are starting to see in meeting women's contraceptive needs, more investments in family planning services in developing countries are needed at every level. Now is not the time to turn back the clock on this progress.
Ann M. Starrs is president and CEO of the Guttmacher Institute. She is an expert in reproductive and maternal health. She is also an influential advocate for the health and rights of women and adolescent girls worldwide.
This piece is originally from The BMJ Opinion.


Locum tenens is a confusing situation in the case where a physician takes a vacation or otherwise isn't available and hires a physician to see patients on site, Medicare can deny the claim unless it is properly documented. The reason is that Medicare is very strict about seeing specific modifiers on medical billing claims that involve a substitute or locum tenens physician.
Further, your medical billing claim must have the time limits observed for locum tenens doctors. Otherwise, Medicare won't pay for their services rendered to patients. Also, you can't hire a locum tenens as extra staff. This includes situations where the regular attending physician goes on vacation, has an illness with a lengthy recovery time, maternity or family healthy leave, or educational reasons such as attending continuing medical education classes. When you use a locum tenens physician it must always be in the capacity as a temporary replacement that substitutes for the services of a specific physician.
Remember to use Modifier Q6 on all your locum tenens claims. There are some extra steps that must be taken in order for your locum tenens claims to be reimbursed by Medicare. The Q modifier should be listed as a procedure code so Medicare knows you're claiming services rendered by a locum tenens physician. If you don't use the modifier, you claim will likely be denied. Also the maximum time limit for billing for locum tenens physicians is currently sixty days for Medicare and private payers will have different criteria for length of service. Call before you file is a good rule of thumb, you may be missing reimbursements if you don't. Some good questions to ask would be if the payer requires the locum tenens be credentialed even for a short period of service time; also, which provider's ID would they prefer to be reported?
Using the correct modifier and a call before you file can save you a lot of hassles and delays in receiving your reimbursements for the locum tenens type of medical billing claims.


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Adrien Broner Arrested After Driving Bullet-Riddled SUV!
The boxer was pulled over by Kentucky police after they noticed his white Chevy Suburban was covered with bullet holes. Officials detained Broner when they realized he was wanted on an outstanding warrant from 2014.


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Kash/Starr To Meet Canadian Perfection In Single's Competition, Mayor Mystery Promises Mayhem
Mayor Mystery has shocked the Keystone State Wrestling Alliance by assembling The Allied Forces of Evil—The Blood Beast and Ali Kaida—at they have their collective sights set on Mayhem at the Moose on May 7th.
At the conclusion of the Joe Abby Memorial Tournament, The Blood Beast assisted Ali Kaida in reaping a non-title victory over KSWA Heavyweight Champion The Latin Assassin. Mayor Mystery somehow orchestrated the attack and the teaming, as a way to assume significant leverage in the KSWA. Now the Allied Forces of Evil will take on Latin Assassin and Mitch Napier in a tag team Main Event on May 7. Mayor says that he has bested new interim KSWA Kommissioner Joe Perri and that lifting the KSWA title from The Latin Assassin is his new number one ambition.
In other action, both members of the Canadian Perfection tag team—J.P. Goulet and Drew Belanger—will take on Shane Starr and Kris Kash respectively in single's competition. The upstart Canadians have been pushing Starr and Kash in recent months and this is the first opportunity for all four Megastars to meet each other in single's competition. The matchups are unique in that the Starr/Goulet pairing has turned more personal than Kash and Belanger. Starr noted that he is more experienced in the ring than the younger Goulet. Goulet, in turn, turned the charge around and commented that he is more hungry than the former tag team champion. Belanger claims to be a better technical wrestler than Kash, a former KSWA Golden Triangle Champion. These matchups promise just to be the start of a long and storied feud between these two remarkable teams.
In a rare occurrence, all three members of the VIPs—Golden Triangle Champion Anthony Alexander, as well as the KSWA tag team champions, Shawn Blanchard and Lou Martin (along with Advisor Frank Durso)—will meet Justin Sane, Jay Flash and Bobby Badfingers in a 6-Megastar match. This conglomerate promises to be unique as the VIPs have not worked in a 6-man team for some time, Sane has become more unhinged than ever and Jay Flash looks ready to move to the next level. However, there haven't been any reports on the condition of Bobby Badfingers after being jumped by Blanchard and Martin at the KSWA Arena following a work out. Sane looks poised (if he ever finds a tag team partner) to go after Blanchard and Martin while both Flash and Badfingers have their sights set on the Golden Triangle strap. Badfingers has come close to earning the title, while Flash continues to hold onto a contract opportunity for the gold.
In a match that has the possibility to steal the entire show, Alex Arcadian challenges "The Ice Man" Tony Johnson for the brand new KSWA Jr. Heavyweight Championship. Johnson has looked formidable since winning his first-ever KSWA title during a Gauntlet Match at FanFest last December. Now Johnson has his hardest defense against Arcadian, a friend and sometime traveling partner. Arcadian has worked hard to qualify for the 200-lb or less limit. Contrast that to The King Del Douglas, who sees his weight continue to hold north of the magic 200. Johnson and Arcadian know each other well and possess a genuine respect for one another. They are both great technical wrestlers. Arcadian has showcased more of a temper than Johnson, but we'll see how demeanors play out once inside the squared circle.
One of the most dramatic moments in recent KSWA history was the surprising return of Ric Rumsky at the Joe Abby Memorial Tournament. It was last year when Rumsky's former tag team partner, Vinnie Stone turned vicious on his long-time friend and and put him on the shelf. For a long time it appeared that Rumsky was through, that he wouldn't ever return to wrestling, or the KSWA. Instead, Rumsky super-kicked Stone to one of the loudest, longest ovations at the Home of Professional Wrestling in Pittsburgh the KSWA Arena. Now the two former co-horts go at it, one-on-one. Chants of "Rumsky's gonna kill you" will be heard all the way up to Butler Street.
The Masked Marvels will ride once again as The Great Toyota and The Drunken Luchadore Joey Quervo will suit up to battle The King Del Douglas and The Jester. At the Joe Abby Tournament, Quervo and Toyota battled in one-on-one competition, but still left friends after a Quervo victory. This time around they go head-to-head with Douglas and his crazed Jester. This may not be a clinic in technical wrestling, but this tag team competition will assuredly be entertaining. As it stands, Douglas will need any exercise he can get if he plans to make the less-than 200 lb weight limit for the Jr. Heavyweight Championship shot he's been pining to have.
Also in attendance will be KSWA Owner Bobby O and new KSWA interim commissioner Joe Perri. Mayhem is Saturday, May 7 at the Home of Professional Wrestling in Pittsburgh, the KSWA Arena, 51st St., Pgh, PA 15201. Tickets $10 for adults, $8 for kids. Bell time is 7:30 p.m. Card is subject to change. Call 412-726-1762 for more info or check out www.kswa.net, And as always, KSWA wrestling, as well as many KSWA Megastars and personalities are on Facebook & Twitter.


At an event held on 14th April, HTC, in an unprecedented move, announced the arrival of the HTC One M9+ instead of the One M9. The phone, which was first announced at MWC 2015, was all ready to be greeted by Indian consumers, when HTC showed up with the One M9+ instead.
Today, HTC refreshed its smartphone line-up in India with the launch of three new devices, the Desire 326G, the One E9+ and the One M9+. Surprisingly, there is no One M9 for the Indian market and the Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer has popped up a bigger sibling of its latest flagship. The 326G handset is an addition the Desire series, while the latter two are high-end gadgets. Coming on to the One M9+, the device is priced at Rs. 52,500 and will go on sale starting May 3 in the country.
HTC launched its new flagship device at MWC this year with much fanfare. The company now seems to be ready to bring it to India. The company has sent out invites for the One M9 launch in India scheduled for the 14th April. It has been said that this device addresses all the shortfalls of the last HTC flagship, the One M8.
HTC introduced its flagship for 2015, the One M9 at the Mobile World Congres this year. After the launch, a few leaks suggested that HTC might be working on a new, bigger device called the HTC One M9+. Well, HTC confirmed the leaks today by unveiling the device in the Chinese market.
The One M9+ sports a 5.2 inch QHD (2K) display with a pixel density of 534 ppi. It is powered by a 2.2 Ghz, Octa-core, Mediatek MT6795T along with 3 GB RAM. The M9+ offers 32 GB of internal storage that is expandable up to 128 GB. The device is juiced up by a non-removable 2840 mAh battery.


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Luann de Lesseps defends fiance after kiss photos: 'It wasn't an affair, it was a mistake'
"I'm not going to let a stupid kiss ruin the rest of my life," the reality star said.
Luann de Lesseps at the New York screening of "Public Morals" on August 12, 2015. File Photo by Lev Radin/Shutterstock
NEW YORK, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Luann de Lesseps is willing to move past fiancé Tom D'Agostino Jr.'s recent infidelity.
The 51-year-old Real Housewives of New York star revealed in an interview with People that her engagement to D'Agostino is still on despite him kissing another woman.
"I'm not going to let a stupid kiss ruin the rest of my life," she told the magazine. "He screwed up. What he did was wrong. But this wasn't premeditated. It wasn't an affair. It was a mistake."
De Lesseps' co-star Bethenny Frankel had given the bride-to-be photos of D'Agostino kissing an ex-girlfriend at the Regency Hotel in New York. The incident took place after the couple fought the night before their engagement party.
"He was upset with me," de Lesseps said. "It was a stupid retaliation of some sort. He did the wrong thing, and he totally recognizes that. I know in my heart of hearts that he loves me."
Wednesday's episode of The Real Housewives of New York will see de Lesseps confront A D'Agostino over the kiss. A preview shows D'Agostino claiming not to remember the incident, although he now tells People he regrets his actions.
"If I could take it back, I would," he said. "I deeply regret the mistakes I've made, and most of all hate the way it hurt Luann."
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