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Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.
The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.
So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.
Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful.
One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.
Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.
Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.
I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.
I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.
I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.
I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.
Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?
By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.
By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.
Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.
As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.


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Q: How do I access the Joystick on windows in a non-deprecated way? I want to write a Windows application which accesses the joystick. It is just a very simple application which reads the values and sends them to a server, so I am not using any game programming framework. However, I am confused about which API to use.
I looked at the Multimedia Joystick API, but this is described as superseded by DirectInput. So I looked at DirectInput, but this is also deprecated in favour of XInput.
However the XInput documentation talks only about Xbox360 controllers, and says it does not support "legacy DirectInput devices".
Have Microsoft consigned the entire HID Joystick usage type to the dustbin and given up on supporting them in favour of their own proprietary controller products, or am I missing something?

A: The most common solution is to use a combination of XInput and DirectInput so your application can properly access both type of devices. Microsoft even provides instructions on how to do this.
Please note that DirectInput is not available for Windows Store apps so if you intend to distribute through there, that's not an option.
XInput devices like the XBox 360 controller will also work with DirectInput but with some limitations. Notably, the left and right trigger will be mapped to the same axis instead of being independents, and vibration effects will not be available.

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Tag Archives: John Lennon
Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Levon Helm, Music, Pop Goes Our Culture, The Band, The Beatles
April 8, 2021 stilsongreene	Leave a comment
The first track of an album is your introduction to the artists' work. Like a novel it can be their first, their sequel, their latest in a series or their last. And like a book it can drive the reader into the story or out of it. These 11 tracks are some of my picks that lead you on a journey into a seminal work. A work that establishes or re-establishes the creators as major players. A work that turns their past work upside down and either confirms it or destroys it. The first track also is as worthy as every track that follows, it is the first chapter of a remarkable book that stands the test and ravages of fickle time.
The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Right off the bat you knew something was different, what did it mean, where were the Fabs? Ok Revolver was different and wonderful but who are these guys? Well, from here to Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds to A Day In The Life you found out and it blew your mind… and the first track starts the engine. All aboard the train from Fabland to Pepperland… and beyond.
Alice Cooper – Under My Wheels – Killer
A blast of screaming guitars, howling vocals, booming bass and drums and you knew Alice Cooper had arrived. Every teenaged boy's catharsis embodied over 8 rocking tracks and, of course, every parent's nightmare. Wonder why Alice Cooper is enshrined in the Rock n Roll hall of fame? Here's the answer in about 37 minutes.
Bob Dylan – Like A Rolling Stone – Highway 61 Revisited
The needle hits the vinyl and explodes. This ain't no Blowing In The Wind. This is Dylan tough, uncompromising, and plugged in. Considered the greatest rock song ever written Like A Rolling Stone starts your journey all the way down to Desolation Row. It's a hard earned trip but worth every minute.
The Band – Across The Great Divide – The Band
This song sets the stage for a sepia toned trek through the full spectrum of American music – country, blues, rock n roll – and characters. From The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down to King Harvest Has Surely Come, The Band opens the back doors to rock's history. This is where the genre Americana started and where it ends. It is a timeless precious artifact.
John Lennon – Mother – Plastic Ono Band
The bells toll and the John begins to sing. The music is stark, the vocal full of angst but beautiful in its rage. This was not The Beatles, nor the John of In My Life, this was the John of In My Real Life Fuckin' Right Now. If you had to pick only one Beatle solo record for your collection, this is the one. It is one of the most brutal and beautiful albums ever recorded. John's singing was never better than on this collection, just listen to God, and Ringo's drumming is fantastic. John's emotional travels always starts and ends with his Mother, as it does here.
Linda Ronstadt – You're No Good – Heart Like Wheel
Up to now she had made nice music with a terrific voice, but with the first punch of You're No Good you know this is really a Different Drum. This starts a musical trip of fantastic songs sung by one of the greatest voices in any genre of music. Produced to bring out her vocal prowess, backed by her crackerjack band and an array of pros and stars, such as The Eagles and David Lindley, this was a game changer of a record and remains one.
Tom Waits – Tom Traubert's Blues – Small Change
This voice was different from his first two studio albums, it was rough, gravely and as real and impactful as any instrument. Tom Traubert's Blues kicks this album off and it is a masterpiece of songwriting and as sad and beautiful as any Charles Bukowski poem. Waits wrote of the life after dark: the alleys, the bars, the dives, the drunks, the taxi drivers, the night people. Here on this album he writes from the life. It marks a change for him artistically and emotionally and more than likely saved his career and life. After all, the starting gun track's character is named Tom.
The Rolling Stones – Rocks Off – Exile On Main Street
The needles hits this first track like a race car hitting the gas – but it's not quite what you'd expect. Rocks Off is a great Stones rocker punctuated by some horns but the sound is murky, the vocals are to the back of a muddy mix. Thus the greatest rock n roll album by the World's greatest rock n roll band begins. Upon first listening you may think you have a badly pressed vinyl but no, listen again. Underneath that dark water is why they were also labeled the most dangerous rock n roll band in the World. These songs form a quilt of sex, drugs, sweat, piss and blood. It's a masterpiece but a dark masterpiece. It gets your rocks off.
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks – Astral Weeks
Well from the first bars you know this ain't no Brown Eyed Girl. This first and title track opens up an album of mystery and mojo. Like most critics and fans I can't explain its beauty or its compelling allure. It has no genre, it has no shelf, it has no structure, what is has is magic. All I can tell you is to turn down the lights, have a glass of your favorite beverage, sit with someone you love then start Astral Weeks, you won't understand it, only feel it. And it's fine.
Deep Purple – Highway Star – Machine Head
The bass starts, the drums kick in, the organ lays a riff, guitars well up, the vocal rises up and Highway Star starts one the best heavy rock/metal albums ever released. The song tells the truth of the work, here's what you get and you'll like it. This is driving fast music, either in or out of the car. Look, it has Smoke On The Water and Space Trucking in its gas tank, hit the damn ignition and ride with it!
Taylor Swift – The 1 – folklore
Yup Taylor Swift. The 1 starts an album of great beauty and heart. Written during 2020's unprecedented pandemic times, this is a masterful work that we needed right then and now. This is songwriting at the highest level and every track rings true. Lyrically and musically here is an artist working at the top of her game, just listen to The Last Great American Dynasty. One of the best albums of this 21st Century.
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December 14, 2020 stilsongreene	Leave a comment
Bob Dylan – Rough & Rowdy Ways
A masterpiece from our greatest songwriter/poet. Murder Most Foul, a 17 minute pop culture treatise on the JFK assassination alone is worth the price of admission. Brilliant.
Taylor Swift – folklore
A beautiful, cleareyed journey into the storytelling charm of this gifted writer. A not expected acoustic cycle of songs with The Last Great American Dynasty being her best work… up to this point.
Jason Isbell – Reunions
A raw, intimate album burning with introspection, regret and triumph. Isbell's greatest gift is opening his heart to the listener without losing it. It Gets Easier is a spare anthem of truth to recovery.
Every Echo – self titled
Four singer/songwriters form a project to present their gifts to the waiting arms of pop connoisseurs and raconteurs everywhere. Full of hooks and heart and so many ear worms you may need a prescription. Fantastic.
Andrew McKnight – Treasures In My Chest
Exploring a family tree has never sounded so good. A rustic unpacking of family secrets and treasures written and performed beautifully by one of America's true troubadours. A companion book chronicles the trip.
REISSUES / BOX SETS
John Lennon – Gimme Some Truth
Procured by Yoko and Sean Lennon, these totally sonically remastered tracks represent the best of John's solo work. Uncovering these deep tracks and rarely heard works bring a clearer view to his body of work. Love, Out of the Blue, I Know (I Know) and Steel and Glass are just some of these prizes. The accompanied hardback book that comes with this set is a revelation of design, photos and ancedotes.
Tom Petty – Wildflowers & All The Rest
A remastering of one Tom's most beloved albums would have been sufficient but to add a whole other disc of outtakes and songs that didn't make the cut, well that's a beautiful thing. What I cannot understand is how these unreleased songs stayed unreleased. They show the wealth of talent of this remarkable artist making our hearts break more for his absence.
Elton John – Jewel Box
A massive box set of deep cuts, rarities and never heard songs. The latter being recored before his debut album Empty Sky, here you can hear the raw talent ready to explode. With all the glitz, glamour and showbiz of Sir Elton we overlook his body of work with Bernie Taupin. Look no further here it is in all its splendor, from Tumbleweed Connection to Wonderful Crazy Night. Thankfully the Bitch never left. Glorious.
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Books, John Lennon, Movies, Music, Pop Goes Our Culture, The Beatles, TV, Uncategorized
January 25, 2017 stilsongreene	Leave a comment
1. Van Morrison is singing better than ever, this proves it.
2. Cerphe's Up should be on every music lover's bookshelf.
3. We need John Lennon today more than ever.
4. It's scary times when elected officials, especially Congress, are more afraid of the President than the power of the people.
5. The half hour black and white Gunsmoke episodes are better than the full hour color episodes.
6. Saturday morning cartoons suck. I'm so happy I grew up with Hanna-Barbara and Warner Brothers toons.
7. The new Tarzan movie was great and critics are wrong most of the time.
8. Jim Gaffigan, Chelsea Handler, Amy Schumer and Conan O'Brien have never made me laugh.
9. The Beatles could have thrown their careers away in 1964 when the refused to play America's segregated venues, instead they changed the world.
10. The bottom line is not money, it's people.
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Covers Better Than The Original? Yep.
July 30, 2014 stilsongreene	11 Comments
Everybody loves a list so here's mine on a topic that is on many music blogs and sites. Now most of the time I prefer an artist's own rendition of their work. Many people prefer Rod Stewart's version of Tom Wait's Downtown Train. Granted Rod has a voice that is like a sandpapered angel, beautiful; Tom's is a sandpapered frog . But Tom's version is full of the city's mean streets and its hard luck citizens. I believe it is the vastly superior version.
So here are five covers I like better than the original, it's subjective and personal, just like music.
5. Turn, Turn, Turn – The Byrds. That shimmering guitar jangle and Fab-like harmonies make one beautiful song. The great Pete Seeger's original, not so much.
4. House Of The Rising Sun – The Animals. This was a traditional blues folk song brought to radio life by a great British Invasion band. Here is an original interpretation by blues legend Leadbelly and his wife.
3. Mr. Bojangles – The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Originally recorded by its writer Jerry Jeff Walker and released in 1968. It was a minor hit. In 1971 it was eclipsed by TNGDB and their excellent version.
2. Twist And Shout – The Beatles. Originally recorded by The Top Notes, then more successfully by the Isley Brothers, the song is now on hold to The Fabs and John Lennon's throat tearing vocals. One of the great vocal performances in rock and roll.
1. All Along The Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix. Sorry Bob Dylan, I love you, but Jimi now owns this.
So, there are my favorite covers that outshine the originals, I'd love to hear yours.
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Your Life's Playlist, So Far.
April 17, 2013 stilsongreene	4 Comments
Imagine you have to choose twenty songs that represent who you are, not just your favorite songs but songs that are you. Twenty songs that make up your life's playlist as you stand right now. Twenty songs that friends would reflect upon you, but more importantly, twenty songs that a stranger would hear and form a glimpse of the person you are. Well, here's mine.
1. When You Wish Upon A Star – Jiminy Cricket
2. Jailhouse Rock – Elvis
3. Old Wooden Cross – Johnny Cash
4. I Want To Hold Your Hand – The Beatles
5. A Change Is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke
6. Country Comfort – Elton John
7. Every Picture Tells A Story – Rod Stewart
8. Willie The Wandering Gypsy and Me – Waylon Jennings
9. Kentucky Avenue – Tom Waits
10. Gimme Shelter – Rolling Stones
11. Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight – Bob Dylan
12. Daniel And The Sacred Harp- The Band
13. Real Love – John Lennon
14. Wonderful Remark – Van Morrison
15. When Johnny Strikes Up The Band – Warren Zevon
16. Buffalo River Home – John Hiatt
17. Alien Love Song – Todd Wright
18. Here (A Song For Tammy) – Stilson Greene
19. The Weight – The Band
20. In My Life – The Beatles
So as of today, there's mine, it could change tomorrow. I'd love to hear yours, so post on……
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Lennon's Solo Albums – A Stamp In Time
February 10, 2013 stilsongreene	2 Comments
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John's solo releases are a fascinating look inside an artist at a particular time and space in his life. I think it's hard for some listeners to hear and connect with an artist's personal outlook, demos and all, if that outlook doesn't relate or seems out of touch with their sensibilities. John's solo albums fall into that pit.
1. Plastic Ono Band – December 1970 – John was undergoing primal scream therapy and the work reflects it. The songs are raw and emotional, stripped to basics, and deeply personal. Starting with Mother, a heart wrenching plea of John's inner child lamenting his Mother's early death and his father's abandonment. Working Class Hero's lyrics of society and its expected results of us is as relevant today as then. Love is a beautiful song to the aspects of romantic love as a physical manifestation. The work God takes his therapy and throws down the gauntlet to kings and kingmakers, including himself. It is one of Lennon's greatest vocals on one of rock's seminal albums. POB gets better with age as we look back on the end of the Sixties' dream, but at solo Lennon on a tightrope without a net.
2. Imagine – September 1971 – You cannot escape the title cut, Imagine has become the world's anthem. It is ubiquitous and deservedly so, but the album is pretty damn good, too. John was still in the process of discovering who he was post-Beatles, but unlike POB, Imagine is a gentler journey. Not to say he was beyond petty foibles, listen to How Do You Sleep, his send-off to Paul McCartney for a perceived slight from Paul's solo album, Ram. Therapy wasn't softening his strong jealous streak either. John always professed that jealousy was the biggest motivator of his art, but in typical John fashion, he takes that trait and writes one his greatest songs, the lush and lovely Jealous Guy. The Imagine album was an embrace, not only to the public, most of who thought POB cold and harsh, but an embracing of John himself. He was accepting the Beatles as past and looking forward to John.
3. Some Time In New York City – June 1972 – The less said about this album the better. It is a perfect snapshot of the time, John was caught up in New York's radical political movement. It was a short lasting fling and the quality of the songs reflect it. It is John's greatest stumble, a big, bold, ass-over-teacups stumble. The only shining moment was the Chuck Berryish cut, New York City. Que pasa New York?
4. Mind Games – November 1973 – Mind Games would hopefully take away some of the grime of the New York fiasco from our ears, but it only washed some of it away. John was reeling from his very first commercial and critical failure and the continuing crumbling of his marriage to Yoko. Mind Games' title cut was a minor hit and over the years has grown in stature but the album as a whole contains some of Lennon's most limpid writing. The exceptions being the title cut, One Day At A Time, Only People and the beautiful Out Of The Blue. Mind Games is a work of an artist who for the first time in his career faces a deep look inside his creative well and sees it draining.
5. Walls And Bridges – November 1974 – I won't go into the whole Lost Weekend era of John's life, but the Yoko-less months of debauchery did produce a welcome back to statis work from John. WAB is a good album, lavishly produced with confident songwriting and vocals. Its snapshot is of an artist finding his footing, emerging from a cloud of self inflicted smoke and haze while pining for his true love. The album is not bitter though, it is as life affirming as John has ever been up to this point. It contains his only number 1 hit, Whatever Gets You Through The Night, but the masterwork here is #9 Dream.
6. Rock N Roll – February 1975- Recorded between Mind Games and Walls And Bridges, Rock N Roll was a contract resolution recording and it shows. Produced by the ever-mad Phil Spector and using the best LA musicians, the album is a mish mash of old rock covers played without any heart or urgency. John gives it his best vocally but the whole retro vibe falls flat, fun but flat. He was years ahead of the rockabilly renaissance but he missed the midnight train. The album remains a inconsequential member of the Lennon Canon. Slippin' And Slidin' is the best of the lot.
7. Double Fantasy – November 1980 – The sad irony of the album was the great happiness and joy surrounding its release and the murdering of its creator only a month later. After a 5 year self-imposed absence John returned with songs of domestic bliss, fatherhood, love and hope. He was happy, really happy for the first time in his life and the art sings it. Starting Over signals his arrival with an Elvis wink, Woman wraps Yoko and all women in a fabric of love and respect, Beautiful Boy is a lullaby to his son and fatherhood while Watching The Wheels accounts to the naysayers and the critics that there is more to life than art, there is life. Douuble Fantasy won the Grammy in 1981 as Best Album. It deserved the award on its own right, as I grow older its songs have become part of the litany of adulthood, being a husband and fatherhood. There is grace in there somewhere, I just haven't figured out where yet. (Note: The original release and even the remastered CD are really hard to find, what is readily available is the "stripped down" remastered version released in 2010)
8. Milk And Honey – November 1984 – A release of produced demos and songs recorded during and after the Double Fantasy sessions. The songs continue John's winning streak of happy introspection but with a little more salt, as in Nobody Told Me and I'm Stepping Out. The ironic and poignant Borrowed Time is hard to listen to but remains a beautiful tune. Grow Old With Me was John's last masterpiece. A touching love letter to enduring love not only for our partners, our family and friends, but our relationship with John. Grow Old With Me deserves the pinnacle of Imagine, I doubt that it will ever reach that, it may be too precious and personal for that mass ritual. It is a fitting close to John Lennon's work, career and life.
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A Courthouse Lawn, John Lennon, Atheists, God and me
January 9, 2012 stilsongreene	8 Comments
Artwork © Stilson Greene
In Loudoun County, Virginia the courthouse lawn has exploded into an arena for freedom of speech versus religious expression. This past Christmas season the lawn was host to two manger displays, a skeleton in a Santa suit crucified on a cross and a large billboard portraying the birth of Christ as the birth of the Giant Flying Spaghetti Monster or some such nonsense. Atheists, and others, use the lawn throughout the year to promote their views or non-views. First of all, everyone is entitled to their belief or non-belief and I do respect their point of view, especially when it comes to religion. I do not respect it when someone ridicules a religion, or wraps their view in hateful and disrespectful imagery; and, say what you will, but on this lawn, Christianity is the most frequent target of tasteless assaults.
My other point is the Atheists wrong-headed use of John Lennon as a visual icon of atheism. Every year a large image of John Lennon with the lyrics "Imagine there's no heaven…" is erected on the courthouse lawn promoting their tenet of "No God." Admittedly, John questioned many things in his short life, and his songs "God" and the oft-quoted utopian anthem "Imagine" are full of his searching and questioning. They are full of love and hope, too.
In the middle 1970's John had an spiritual awakening on a fateful sailing trip and not only made his peace with his God but with his own creativity.
Of course there isn't any empirical proof to this except in one of John's songs entitled "Grow Old With Me". It is one of his most personal works and one of the last songs he wrote. It only takes a listen or a look at the chorus to determine if John was an atheist and an icon worthy of atheistic beautification:
When our time has come
We will be as one
God bless our love
I don't think those lyrics, again, some of his last, give any indication to his atheism but actually defy that view.
So if you do want to be taken seriously with your public displays of Atheism I suggest you dial down the venom and use an appropriate visual spokesman; John Lennon certainly is not one of them.
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MFX's very own Tess Rodriguez visits the Aveda Institute Corpus Christi to teach a class on waxing. Tess just returned from a trip down to South Texas and the Aveda Institute Corpus Christi. As part of our ongoing commitment to education, Tess attended a makeup class that was hosted by the Aveda Institute. While she was there, a few of the educators asked if she would be willing to teach a class on waxing to their esthetician students. While working with the students, she spent time sharing her knowledge about client etiquette, the importance of communication, and even demonstrated some of the more advanced waxing techniques such as the traditional bikini wax and brazilian.
Over the years, Maximum FX has established a strong relationship with the Aveda Instititute, San Antonio. MFX sends team members at least once quarterly to share their knowledge with budding cosmetologists who are enrolled as students at the institutes. The Aveda Institute of San Antonio and Corpus Christi are owned and operated by Kathy Thalman, Chase Thalman, and Holly Zapata of San Antonio. They also own and operate the very successful K. Charles and Co. salons and spas in San Antonio. We look forward to nurturing our strategic partnership with the teams at the Aveda Institutes in San Antonio and Corpus Christi.


Lebanon is one of the more religiously diverse nations in the Middle East with a mix of Sunnis, Shiites, Druze, and Maronites. How does this country maintain stability and have there been any stresses to the political arrangement known as consociationalism that helps to negotiate these differences? Kenneth Vaughan, a PhD candidate in sociology at Baylor University, explores this question and also discusses his other research and experiences in post-Soviet republics and China.
We can be found on many podcast aggregators. Find us on your favorite!


Marina Bay, a 360-hectare district in Southern Singapore, was identified by Singapore's Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) to seamlessly extend Singapore's downtown district and further support the city-state's continuing growth as a major business and financial hub in Asia. With its waterfront location and availability of unencumbered land, Marina Bay provides an opportunity to develop a unique business centre in a 'city-in-a-garden' setting. It will also be complemented by a full range of residential, shopping, dining, cultural, leisure and entertainment facilities as part of a total live-work-play environment.
The adjacent Greater Waterfront, covering Tanjong Pagar area with a land area about three times the size of Marina Bay, will include housing as well as commercial and entertainment facilities. New tourist attractions will also be developed to boost the tourism industry and anchor this precinct as the Southern Gateway of Asia.


The Archer C5400 does more than just create faster Wi-Fi, it helps your devices achieve optimal performance by making communication more efficient. With MU-MIMO technology 1, the Archer C5400 can provide four simultaneous data streams, allowing all connected devices to achieve speeds up to 4X faster than standard AC routers.
Eight antennas with Beamforming technology detect the locations of your connected devices and concentrate wireless signal strength toward them. This makes all of your connections more efficient and stable , improving network performance, even in medium-sized offices and public cafes.
We've all encountered slowdowns when multiple devices are trying to connect to Wi-Fi at the same time. Phones,laptops, and tablets using older Wi-Fi standards can slow down your home network.With Airtime Fairness, the Archer C5400 equally divides attention between newer and older devices improving overall Wi-Fi performance and reliability without letting older devices limit your network.
the connection speeds to an external storage device for even faster streaming and data backups than ever.
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You don't need to buy a separate security box device like Cujo or Circle to add security to your network. TP-Link HomeCare TM is powered by Trend Micro TM* and comes with antivirus, parental controls and QoS.
Every device that uses Wi-Fi is protected by HomeCare TM. That includes things that don't normally have protection from cyber threats, like Wi-Fi cameras, smart locks and game consoles. It even protects devices that your friends use at your home.
Whether you want to block websites, set time limits, see which sites your kids are using or pause the internet, you can with HomeCare TM. And you can do it all from the Tether app.


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Q: Changing the activation behavior of joomla1.5 I am wondering if i can change the activation behavior after registration in joomla 1.5.
The requirement is such that when a user registers and depending on the group the user belongs the activation code is either sent through email or as sms to the subscriber phone.
If the user is sent an sms the user enters the generated activation code before the account is active.
I need to know how to go about this and what best practice should i adhere to.
I am using rsMembership component for subscription.
Thank you all

A: I am assuming you have access to an API that will provide the SMS service, but you will basically need to rewrite certain sections of the 'register' task method in the com_users controller. I cannot give you specifics as you have not provided enough details, i.e. how will you determine the group etc?
The basic run down would be:
Registration > Catch it before it sends the email > run an assertion > connect to the API, send the SMS
You would then need to create either another page in the com_users component, or separate to it, that will take the activation code, compare it with the value in the database (you should take the email address too and select the row using that as the key), if the code if correct, set the rows 'blocked' value to 0, or whatever needs to change in order to be seen as an active user, you can then finish up with an activation email if you wish.


Calthorpe Project's Ray Ansah has been named MyLocalPitch's London Sports Venue Manager of the Year Award for 2017.
Ray has been working within grassroots sports for the last ten years and joined the Calthorpe Project in 2015. A key reason for joining the project was the combination of sports development and community engagement. Calthorpe runs several initiatives, activities and classes aimed at early years, children and young people.
MyLocalPitch launched the award to provide a chance for grassroots sports users to honour elite managers and reward them for atheir hard work in making the best sporting experience possible.
MyLocalPitch users have been voting for the venue managers who consistently make Londoners' sporting lives easier.
London Sports Venue Manager of the Year recognises the important role which venue managers play in the grassroots sector. Ray was presented with a trophy and a signed certificate by David Sheepshanks OBE and MyLocalPitch co-founder Jamie Foale.


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Dr. Eddy H Luh first in Nevada to offer innovative TCAR procedure to treat carotid artery disease.
(Las Vegas) Eddy H Luh, M.D., F.A.C.S., is the first and the only doctor in Nevada to treat carotid artery disease while preventing future strokes using a new procedure called TransCarotid Artery Revascularization (TCAR). This procedure is clinically proven, minimally invasive, and a safe approach for high surgical risk patients being treated for carotid artery disease.
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This disease is a form of atherosclerosis, a buildup of plaque, in the two main arteries in the neck that supply oxygen-rich blood to the brain. If left untreated, carotid artery disease can often lead to stroke; it is estimated to be the source of stroke in up to a third of cases, with 427,000 new diagnoses of the disease reported annually in the U.S.
TCAR temporarily reverses blood flow during the procedure. Any small bits of plaque that may break off will be diverted away from the brain, preventing a stroke. A stent is placed inside the artery to stabilize the plaque, minimizing the risk of a future stroke.
"One of the issues we have had with carotid surgery in the past was the technical challenges protecting the brain during surgery," explains Dr. Luh. "This procedure offers a new way to avoid potential problems."
Before TCAR, the main treatment option for severe carotid artery disease was an open surgical procedure called carotid endarterectomy (CEA). The large incision left a visible scar the length of the neck. It carried risks including surgical complications, infection, heart attack, bleeding, and cranial nerve injuries causing possible difficulty with speaking, swallowing, and sensation in the face.
The TCAR procedure was developed by Silk Road Medical, Inc. and includes the ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection (NPS) and Stent System―the first devices designed and FDA-approved specifically for TCAR.
Dr. Luh serves as the Chairman, Department of Surgery and is a member of the Medical Executive Committee at Valley Hospital Medical Center. He obtained his B.A. from Cornell University and attended medical school at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He completed his general surgery residency at the University of Nevada and his vascular surgery fellowship at the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery in the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. Dr. Luh is board certified by the American Board of Surgery in Vascular and General Surgery. He is a senior partner with Las Vegas Surgical Associates, located at 8930 West Sunset Road, Suite 300. For more information, visit lvsurgical.com.
ABOUT STROKE AND COVID19
As the novel COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the nation, hospitals around the country have implemented numerous protocols to stop the spread of the virus and protect patients during this crisis. People's day-to-day activities have drastically changed to safeguard themselves from the virus, but there is one thing people should not avoid due to the COVID-19 virus – delaying care for life-threatening conditions such as carotid artery disease which may lead to a stroke.
Strokes still happen during a pandemic. In fact, every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke. Worldwide, nearly 6 million people die from a stroke, and another 5 million are left permanently disabled every year. Yet, there was a 40% decline in patients seeking stroke evaluations during the COVID-19 pandemic (cite). Even with the fear of COVID-19, it is crucial to get care as soon as possible to prevent the chance of a future stroke. With up to a third of strokes caused by carotid artery disease, Dr. Luh offers his patients minimally invasive options such as TransCarotid Artery Revascularization (TCAR) to prevent future strokes with faster recovery time.
ABOUT LAS VEGAS SURGICAL ASSOCIATES
Las Vegas Surgical Associates is a multi-specialty surgical group that offers services across a broad range of surgical specialties. Eddy H. Luh, MD, RPVI, FSVS, FACS has been with the practice since 2009 and is board certified in Vascular and General Surgery with special interests in vascular surgery, endovascular interventions, and venous disease. Visit lvsurgical.com for more information.
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Someday a little fish may make a big difference to your health, but not because it's good to eat. The zebrafish, a tropical fish often found in home aquariums, is fast-replacing the white mouse as the most widely used tool in biomedical research.
They are easy to breed and lay eggs in great quantities.
They are small and inexpensive to house.
The zebrafish embryo is transparent which allows researchers to observe development of their insides under various conditions.
They share many common biological features with humans like a backbone, a liver, a pancreas, kidneys, and intestines; their eyes have a retinal structure similar to humans; and their hearts have chambers that rhythmically pump blood through the body.
Zebrafish have been used to help find cures for cancer, to investigate chemical toxicity, and to understand human development.
With research institutions investing heavily in zebrafish projects, there is a critical need to identify and treat zebrafish disease. The OSU Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (VDL) is one of the few labs in the country that specializes in the identification of zebrafish diseases.
In a non-descript, cement-block building on the OSU campus, Donna Mulrooney, Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory Coordinator, opens a box full of filleted zebrafish mounted in paraffin. No bigger than your thumb, the waxed specimens are tested for disease by shaving off an extremely thin sample of tissue that is placed on a slide. Histology technicians then treat the slide with an acid-fast stain, turning the fish blue. Any pathogenic bacteria that may be present turn red. The fish and the slide are coded so Mulrooney can match them up and use the slide as a guide for extracting a tiny colony of bacteria for testing. This is one of 500-plus zebrafish that will be tested by the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory this year.
Dr. Michael Kent, an OSU professor with joint appointments in Microbiology and Veterinary Medicine, developed the first state-of-the-art molecular diagnostic test for diagnosing zebrafish disease. Dr. Christiane Lohr, a pathologist in the VDL and Dr. Danielle Meritet, NIH postdoc scholar, went on to develop the current array of tests used. Molecular diagnostic tests analyze genetic content for disease information. They focus on gene and protein activity patterns in different types of bacteria or viruses. Also called "molecular signatures," these patterns make diagnosis of disease faster and more specific than the traditional method of observing the appearance of pathogens under a microscope.
Dr. Kent has been investigating zebrafish disease for two decades. His laboratory developed the first pathogen-free zebrafish, and these fish are now provided to researchers all over the world through the Sinnhuber Aquatic Research Laboratory. They are the only pathogen-free zebrafish available and researchers value them because they ensure that laboratory results will not be impacted by the second- hand effects of infection.
The use of zebrafish as a model for biomedical research has increased exponentially in the past decade and OSU is on the cutting-edge of service to the scientists who are using them to make life-changing discoveries. Dr. Jerry Heidel, Director of the VDL, is gearing up to test ever increasing numbers of these important little swimmers. "The VDL expects submission of diagnostic specimens from zebrafish will increase significantly in the next few years," says Dr. Heidel.


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Nuclei, Septation, Branching and Growth of Geotrichum candidum
Carolyn Fiddy1, A. P. J. Trinci1
Affiliations: 1 Microbiology Department, Queen Elizabeth College, Campden Hill, London W8 7AH
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Summary: A study was made of growth, septation and branching in Geotrichum candidum, a mould which forms physiologically complete septa. A correlation was observed between septation and branch initiation; branches were almost invariably formed just behind septa. Primary branches and their parent intercalary compartments initially increased in length at an exponential rate before eventually attaining a constant rate of extension. The whole branching system (which eventually contained seven tips) produced by an intercalary compartment increased in length exponentially until it attained a total length of at least 1·5 mm.
The total length and the number of nuclei of undifferentiated mycelia increased exponentially at the same specific growth rate. The results suggest that nuclei divide just before or just after arthrospore formation.
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Симон Мршић (Сан Франциско, 18. јуна 1991) амерички је фудбалер.

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Прошавши млађе категорије Сан Дијего Сурфа, Мршић је на почетку сениорског бављења фудбалом био члан Сан Хозе ертквејкса. Године 2011, Мршић је прешао у Хрватску, где је једно време провео у Вараждину, али је услед финансијских проблема у клубу напустио истоимено место и отишао на пробу у Задар. Касније се придружио Осијеку, да би се потом вратио у Америку и прошао пробни период у клубу Колумбус кру. Ту се задржао до доласка нове администрације, а након тога је прешао у Слогу из Добоја. У Слоги се задржао до 2014. године, али за клуб није наступао у званичним утакмицама. По повратку у Калифорнију, Мршић је до 2016 године у два наврата наступао за клуб Ист беј стомперс, док је краћи период током 2015. провео као играч Рудара из Приједора.

Почетком 2017, Мршић је приступио екипи ОФК Бачке из Бачке Паланке, али је услед административних проблема званично регистрован у марту исте године и том приликом задужио је дрес са бројем 26. Свој професионални дебитантски наступ Мршић је забележио у оквиру последњег кола Суперлиге Србије за сезону 2018/19, ушавши у игру уместо Марка Зечевића у 77. минуту утакмице против суботичког Спартака.

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Симон је рођен у Сан Франциску, граду на северу Калифорније, савезне државе Сједињених Америчких Држава и најмлађи је од тројице синова у породици. Његова мајка је Американка мексичког порекла, а отац, бивши југословенски фудбалер Иван Мршић, рођен у Теслићу. Поред матерњег енглеског, Мршић познаје и српски језик, који је научио током боравка у неким од земаља бивше Југославије, након своје 20. године. Током његовог боравка клубу из Бачке Паланке, Мршићу је цимер био руски голман Иван Коновалов, а саиграчи су их прозвали Трамп и Путин, алудирајући на председнике њихових држава.

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Рођени 1991.
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Tag: Hizbullah
Hizbullah back in the news
On February 17, 2005 June 30, 2020 By Martin Kramer
The New York Times runs a piece on U.S. efforts to have Europe list Hizbullah as a terrorist organization. According to the article,
The Europeans are not solidly opposed to listing Hezbollah as a terrorist group, the [unnamed U.S. and European] officials said. The Netherlands, Italy and Poland support the Bush administration's view, several officials said, while Germany and Britain believe the issue is moot unless the French change their minds. One European diplomat said other countries were "hiding behind" France on the issue.
Well, of course. This is a time to remind readers that this website is loaded with my past writings on Hizbullah. For a general account, see my entry on the movement from the Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. Another good introduction is the article entitled "Hizbullah: The Calculus of Jihad." If you click here, you'll turn up search results for the entire site. I wrote most of these pieces in the 1990s, but they stand up pretty well.
Sheikh Obeid, Now Free, on Women Suicide Bombers
On January 30, 2004 July 1, 2020 By Martin Kramer
Yesterday, Sheikh Abdul Karim Obeid led the parade of freed Lebanese prisoners. Israel seized him in 1989 from the southern Lebanese village of Jibshit, where he was the local prayer leader. Israel hoped it might trade him for a missing airman. I wrote this about him in the New York Times, shortly after his abduction: "Sheikh Obeid was not among Hizbullah's leading strategists, or one of its smooth and dissimulating ideologues. He personified the zealous local cleric, passionately preaching war and sharing his meals, his home and his guidance with the young militiamen of Hizbullah." Now he's being hailed as a returning hero, and the ideas of this once-obscure man will command attention.
In an article I published in 1991, I had occasion to quote Sheikh Obeid. The subject: women suicide bombers. In the 1980s, pro-Syrian nationalist organizations worked to emulate Hizbullah's suicide attacks against Israelis. It became a kind of competition, just like the present-day Palestinian competition among Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, and so on. But the pro-Syrian nationalists, unlike Hizbullah, didn't hesitate to use women. The Lebanese daily newspaper Al-Safir decided to ask Sheikh Obeid what he thought about that. His answer (issue of July 28, 1986):
One of the nationalist women asked me, does Islam permit a woman to join in military operations of the resistance to the occupation, and would she go to paradise if she were martyred? The jihad in Islam is forbidden to women except in self-defense and in the absence of men. In the presence of men, the jihad is not permissible for women. My answer to this woman was that her jihad was impermissible regardless of motive or reason. She could not be considered a martyr were she killed, because the view of the law is clear. There can be no martyrdom except in the path of God. That means that every martyr will rise to paradise. I do not deny the value of the nationalist struggle (nidal) against Israel, but the jihad of women is impermissible in the presence of men. I do not deny women of the right to confront the enemy, but we must ask whether all of the nationalist men are gone so that only the women are left, or whether their men have become women and their women have become men.
Sheikh Obeid expressed the classic position of Islamic law, and he didn't hesitate to discourage the woman from taking up arms. Unfortunately, during the years he's spent in prison, a parade of Islamist "authorities" have chipped away at the limitation on women, simply because any method that kills more Jews is deemed to justify itself. Here, for example, is a man hailed by some in the West as a great Islamist force for moderation, the noxious Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi. He was asked by the Hamas monthly magazine about whether women could commit martyrdom (suicide) operations:
When jihad is obligatory, as when an enemy invades a country, the woman is summoned to jihad with the man, side by side. As the jurists have said: if an enemy invades the country, its people are obliged to rally to arms. A woman must act even without the permission of her husband…I believe the woman can fulfill her role in this jihad, to the extent she is able. The organizers of these jihad actions have already assigned some believing women to this matter, as they are able to reach places that a man could not reach….I believe that women have a right to a role in the way of jihad, and to share in the way of martyrdom.
And here is Ayatollah Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah, the very clever Beirut cleric who is a spiritual guide for many Shiites in Lebanon and beyond:
It is true that jihad is not a duty for women, but Islam has permitted women to fight, if the requirements of a defensive war necessitate a conventional military operation or a martyrdom [suicide] operation to be carried out by women. Thus, we believe those martyr women are making a new and glorious history for Arab women. We also express our denial of any reservations concerning the martyrdom operations which have been carried out by women.
Neither of these Islamo-celebrities, who whisk about in limos while preaching jihad against this and that, really addresses Sheikh Obeid's main point: the jihad of women is impermissible in the presence of men. Obeid, who made his ruling when he was down there on the front lin in south Lebanon, thought that "no motive or reason" could justify an exception, and that "the law is clear."
One of the charges frequently leveled by Islamist clerics against state-employed clerics is that that latter are too pliable, and that they twist the law to suit circumstances. In fact, the Islamist clerics do just the same thing, as this case perfectly illustrates. If Hizbullah gives Sheikh Obeid a limo, he too might begin to sound like the rest of them. But when it counted, at a time when he guided the local "resistance" to Israeli occupation, he saw the issue with perfect clarity. What we have heard of late, from the leading lights of contemporary Islamism, is deviation.
Will Germany Release an American-Killer?
In the next few days, Israel and Hizbullah are supposed to consummate their exchange of prisoners, bodies, and information. Germany has been the mediator in the deal. It wouldn't be the business of the United States, except now there is a report that the Germans have promised to release a brutal Hizbullah terrorist, who in June 1985 hijacked an American airliner to Beirut, and tortured and killed a U.S. Navy diver.
The report is by Israeli journalist Aluf Benn in today's Haaretz. Benn states that in return for Hizbullah's disclosure about the fate of missing Israeli airman Ron Arad, Germany has "slated" three persons for release—a Hizbullah operative and two Iranian agents—all imprisoned in Germany for terror attacks. "One of them," the report goes on to say, "was convicted of murdering an American naval officer; he took orders from Imad Mughniyeh, who coordinates international terror strikes for Hezbollah." The report relates that Germany has "promised to release" this terrorist, Muhammad Ali Hamadei, now serving a life sentence for the June 1985 hijacking of TWA 847, and for the murder of one of the passengers, Navy diver Robert Stethem.
I have no idea who is feeding Benn with information, but this story follows the newspaper's lead story from the day before, in which Benn alluded to the same thing. So someone is floating a trial balloon—and it's time to shoot it down, before it gains any altitude at all.
Who is Muhammad Ali Hamadei? I'm going to let Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) tell you that. This is from a statement he made on the floor of the Senate in May 1989, congratulating a German court for sentencing Hamadei to life imprisonment:
The facts of the Hamadei case shock the conscience. On June 14, 1985, Trans World Airline flight 847 departed Athens International Airport enroute to Rome, Italy with 153 passengers and crew on board, most of them Americans. Approximately 10 minutes into the flight, two hijackers, later identified as Mohammad Hamadei and Hasan Izz-al-din, commandeered the aircraft and ran through the plane brandishing hand grenades and a pistol while randomly striking the seated passengers on the head, neck, and shoulders with their weapons. The hijackers forced Chief Stewardess Uli Derickson to the flight deck area and gained access to the cockpit. The hijackers then pistol-whipped the flight crew inside the cockpit and ordered the pilot to fly to Algiers. The aircraft ultimately flew between Beirut and Algiers several times during the next 2 days while the hijackers retained control of the plane.
Once in control of the aircraft, the hijackers ordered Derickson to collect all passports and separate those of U.S. citizens and military personnel. The terrorists then ordered the military personnel into the first-class section one at a time for questioning, beginning with Navy diver Robert Stethem. The hijackers bound his arms together with an electrical cord, cutting off his circulation, and beat him until he was unconscious. Several other passengers were also beaten. Stethem regained consciousness, only to be shot in the head in cold blood. The hijackers dumped his body onto the tarmac in Beirut before several more hijackers boarded the plane for its flight back to Algiers.
The terrorists eventually abandoned the plane after its final landing in Beirut. Thirty-nine passengers were removed from the aircraft and held hostage in various locations in Beirut for 17 additional days before they finally were freed on June 30, 1985.
Hamadei, a Lebanese Shiite Muslim, was arrested in Frankfurt, West Germany. A number of the Members of this body, including this Senator, believe that the West Germans should have extradited Hamadei to the United States to stand trial in Federal district court, but that did not come to pass. While I regret the West German decision not to honor our extradition request, I commend the Germans for bringing this terrorist to justice and I applaud the West German court for imposing the maximum sentence of life imprisonment upon Hamadei.
A bit more context: the West Germans had arrested Hamadei on January 13, 1987, at the Frankfurt airport, through which he was trying to smuggle explosives. The United States immediately requested his extradition; Hizbullah immediately abducted two West Germans in Beirut, and threatened to kill them if Hamadei were extradited. That pretty much solved the dilemma for the West Germans: they would try Hamadei themselves. Even a personal appeal from President Ronald Reagan to Chancellor Helmut Kohl didn't change their minds.
It's been seventeen years since Hamadei's arrest, and almost fifteen years since his conviction. In fact, there isn't a sentence long enough for Hamadei, but he was sentenced to life, and life he should serve. He didn't commit his ruthless crime against Germany or Israel, and Germany has no moral right to pardon or release him. His co-hijacker, Hasan Izz al-Din, is still on the FBI's list of most-wanted terrorists for his part in the same hijacking and murder. Izz al-Din's wanted poster offers a reward of up to $25 million for information leading to his arrest. From the U.S. point of view, the 1985 TWA hijacking is a fresh crime, and now would be a good time to remind the Germans of just that.
Want to send a reminder yourself? Tell Senator Specter to speak out again. (Contact information here.) Back in 1989, on the Senate floor, Senator Specter praised the West German criminal justice system "for convicting Mohammad Hamadei and imposing the maximum sentence of life imprisonment." The German government should be told exactly what it would hear on the Senate floor, and across the United States, were it ever to free this American-killer.
More background: The failure to secure Hamadei's extradition in 1987 is taught as a case study in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Many persons were interviewed for the study. The extradition, according to this account, became a bone of contention among the Justice Department, the State Department, and the National Security Council. In the end, Reagan gave Kohl an exit, much to the consternation of Justice.


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I can remember the first time I read an editorial comment that had somehow crept into a news story. It was in TIME magazine sometime in the early 1980s. Since studying journalism in college and launching into my career in communications, I had always followed the newswriting style in TIME – casual yet factual – as the standard that I would try to mimic.
I don't remember the specific story I was reading, but I do remember the moment of surprise I experienced. What was that I had read? The writer's opinion? I probably passed it off at the time, but now I see that moment as eerily prescient. Today we live in a world where it would be difficult to find any news story that doesn't have at least an element of editorial opinion inserted somewhere – if not in the actual copy, then in the headline, placement, or sources included to support the idea. It's the world we have built and chosen for ourselves, and it wouldn't exist if it weren't profitable – or at least perceived to be a path to profitability – for the media companies that propagate it.
So is there still a role in this world for basic journalistic principles based on truth, fairness, accuracy and objectivity? I certainly think so. I hope so. Not only is journalism one of the cornerstones of our democracy, assuming the role of public witness for members of society, but we all can benefit from experiencing the thrill of reading a well-written and thoroughly researched piece.
In the public relations profession, good writing still counts, and I'm excited to see new young professionals who bring these skills to their work. Part of what we're selling is quality, and you can't argue with a well-written sentence or clever turn of phrase.
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These Are Some Climate Stories That Flew Under the Radar in 2020
By Sharon Kelly
At the start of December 2020, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres spoke at Columbia University, appearing not before a packed auditorium as in years past, but before a "virtual" audience, making his annual State of the Planet address. "To put it simply," he said, "the state of the planet is broken."
"Today, we are at 1.2 degrees of warming and already witnessing unprecedented climate extremes and volatility in every region and on every continent," Guterres said.
"Let's be clear: human activities are at the root of our descent towards chaos," he went on. "But that means human action can help solve it."
The speech was a fitting postscript for a year that brought not just the Covid-19 pandemic, but also a pummeling of catastrophes worldwide, many related to climate change.
But amid those disasters and under an openly hostile-to-science Trump administration, momentum continued to quietly build — albeit excruciatingly slowly — away from the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas and towards, perhaps, meaningful action to slow the climate crisis.
The past year may be a difficult one to look back on — but amid the crises, there are signs that long-entrenched powerful interests may in fact be dug in on shaky ground.
Unprecedented Disasters
2020 may well be the warmest year ever recorded, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced in mid-December.
Amid that heat came a seemingly unending series of climate-linked disasters, prompting the Red Cross Secretary-General Jagan Chapagain to warn in November that "climate change will have a more significant medium- and long-term impact on the human life and on Earth" than even Covid-19.
The U.S. was hit by a billion-dollar weather and climate disasters 16 times between January and September, according to NOAA — an average of one major catastrophe every 2.5 weeks for 40 weeks.
During this record-shattering Atlantic hurricane season that brought 30 named storms (the historic yearly average is 12), other multi-billion-dollar disasters barely registered in the national media. NOAA's list includes eleven outbreaks of derechos, tornadoes, hail, or "severe weather" in the central and southern U.S., along with three named hurricanes (Laura, Sally and Isaias).
"It was such a busy and crazy a year that a derecho that savaged the Midwest somehow flew under the radar, despite damage nearing $10 billion, and is barely remembered," the Associated Press reported of the August events.
Grain bin at the River Valley Cooperative in Martelle, Iowa – the tallest structure in this town of 250 people – which collapsed onto itself, spilling thousands of bushels of corn to the roadway, due to derechos in August. Photo Credit: Phil Roeder, via Flickr.
And while major storms themselves made headlines, the toxic pollution that followed in their wakes often barely registered in the national press — and at times, went unmeasured because monitors were offline.
Fires Around the World
In January, as Wuhan entered its first lockdown and quarantine and the first Covid-19 cases were diagnosed in the U.S., Australia was battling deadly bushfires that ultimately raged across an area twice the size of Florida.
By summer, it was the U.S. Pacific coast that was burning. A horrific fire season this year turned skies blood-red from California to Washington state.
San Francisco smothered in smoke, September 9, 2020. Credit: Christopher Michel, via Flickr
As of December 18, the National Interagency Fire Center had tracked 56,914 wildfires in the U.S., which burned across more than 10.25 million acres.
"We're seeing fires in places that we don't normally see fires," Crystal A. Kolden, a University of California, Merced professor of fire science, told the New York Times in September. "Normally it's far too wet to burn."
That's in part because 2020 also brought an extraordinary — but relatively less discussed — drought that spread across a third of the U.S. "Compared to late 2019 and early 2020, when there was very little drought in the continental United States, this is quite an extreme single-year event that developed rapidly over the course of 2020," Benjamin Cook, a climate scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said. "But if you look over longer time scales, I would argue this is really a continuation of a multi-decadal event that began around 2000. There have been some breaks, but the Southwest has been in more-or-less continuous drought conditions since then."
Not only did California's wildfires continue into December, but a third major wildfire system further south also burned this year while attracting less global attention. In Brazil, the Pantanal wetlands — afflicted by drought — caught fire repeatedly this year and burned rapidly, with the blazes consuming a quarter of the tropical wetlands in what the World Wildlife Fund* calls "one of the most biologically rich environments on the planet."
And this summer, the Arctic, which has seen climate heating at roughly double average rates, not only experienced an abnormally hot summer — with temperatures in the Siberian town Verkhoyansk hitting 100.4°F, the highest temperature ever recorded within the Arctic circle — but the Siberian tundra then broke out in wildfires of its own.
Plummeting Fossil Fuel Prices
But amid all the crises, signs of a different shift have begun to emerge — one that may have some potential to alter the climate trajectory we've stayed on for decades.
The oil, coal, and gas industries went into 2020 in rough financial shape, generating the lowest returns in the S&P 500 in 2019 after underperforming compared to the rest of the economy for a decade. That was before the price of oil plunged — and even, for a very brief moment in April, dipped far below zero.
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Take, for example, ExxonMobil, which has continually doubled down on fossil fuel expansions. "The company, for decades one of the most profitable and valuable American businesses, lost $2.4 billion in the first nine months of the year, and its share price is down about 35 percent this year," The New York Times reported in December. "In August, Exxon was tossed out of the Dow Jones industrial average, replaced by Salesforce, a software company."
Also in December, Exxon's former CEO Lee Raymond, incidentally, quit the board of JPMorgan Chase, a role he'd held for more than three decades. Divestment campaigners at 350.org took credit for an ouster, calling it "a sign of the changing winds of financial institutions taking climate action seriously."
Cheap Renewables
In contrast, renewable energy sources like solar and wind have proved to be relatively resilient — or, in the words of Fatih Birol, director of the International Energy Agency, in November, "immune to Covid."
Utility-scale renewable energy saw costs continue to fall, making renewable energy often cheaper than fossil fuels — and installations reflected that competitiveness. "For solar, for example, new U.S. residential installations will be basically flat for 2020, and new non-residential (commercial, industrial, and institutional) megawatts will be down from 2019's tally," The Union of Concerned Scientists, an environmental organization, writes. "But large-scale projects have mostly been able to keep happening, boosted by favorable (but declining) tax incentives, and their successes will be enough to actually propel solar to a record year: We look set to have a total of more than 19,000 megawatts in new solar power capacity, 43 percent above 2019's installations, and 20 percent above the previous record."
Solar installer. Photo Credit: Tool Dude, via mechanicalcaveman.com
Building electrification efforts also spread in 2020. As of December 2, Sierra Club tracked 40 communities in California that had made that commitment, and 50 more considering all-electric policies. While electricity is still mostly generated by fossil fuels, those efforts lay the groundwork for renewable energy and proponents claim they will help reduce a single-family home's emissions by up to 90 percent within 30 years.
Exposing Risk
This year also saw investigative reporting into ways that, for example, automakers GM and Ford have known for a half-century that climate change was underway and failed to act. Journalists have also exposed the ways that PR firms like FTI Consulting used deceptive campaigns and front groups to spread pro-fossil fuel propaganda.
The impacts of climate change drew closer scrutiny from large financial institutions. "More banks are getting buyers in coastal areas to make bigger down payments — often as much as 40 percent of the purchase price, up from the traditional 20 percent — a sign that lenders have awakened to climate dangers and want to put less of their own money at risk," the New York Times reported this summer. "And in one of the clearest signs that banks are worried about global warming, they are increasingly getting these mortgages off their own books by selling them to government-backed buyers like Fannie Mae, where taxpayers would be on the hook financially if any of the loans fail."
That, of course, isn't exactly a heartwarming story of hope — but it is a sign that efforts by fossil fuel companies to sow confusion and doubt on climate change are becoming less and less compelling to decision-makers.
The year also saw Black Lives Matter protests become what the New York Times called the "largest movement in U.S. history" in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. This summer's uprisings across the U.S. brought growing attention to widespread, institutionalized racial injustice — and echoed with the idea that, as marine biologist and Urban Ocean Lab founder Ayana Elizabeth Johnson put it in a June column in Time magazine, "we can't solve the climate crisis unless Black lives matter."
In 2021, in addition to taking a more intersectional approach towards environmental justice, climate activists have vowed to keep the pressure on the incoming Biden administration — which has promised to move the U.S. towards a net zero pathway. If it does so, the U.S. will join China, Japan, and South Korea which all announced net zero emission targets this year.
This shift, according to the Financial Times, means that the Paris goals aren't entirely out of reach. "'If all these countries meet their long-term targets of net zero, then the Paris agreement goals are within reach again,' says Niklas Höhne, professor of environmental systems at Wageningen University in the Netherlands," as the FT reported in December. "Warming of 2.1C is now likely by the end of the century — much lower than seemed likely only a few years ago, according to analysis he has done with colleagues at the NewClimate Institute and at Climate Analytics, both non-profit research groups."
The picture, of course, looks a lot more grim when you take into account countries' questionable records of delivering on Paris pledges, the FT adds.
School strike week 121. Tomorrow marks 5 yrs since the Paris Agreement. 5 yrs of inaction and creating loopholes.
We can't go on like this.
Time to move from distant "net zero" targets to real zero with binding, annual CO2 budgets starting now.#FightFor1Point5 #fridaysforfuture pic.twitter.com/LhYs30F7Sv
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) December 11, 2020
While this was a year of compounding and overlapping crises and tragedies, there is perhaps some glimmer of hope to be found in the fact that some of the past year's under-reported stories could signify — depending on what we all do in the coming days — that structural shifts may be underway and that, as U.N. Secretary Guterres suggested, as 2020 comes to an end, some elements of the climate crisis remain unwritten.
*Updated 1/4/2021: The World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) name has been corrected from "World Wildlife Foundation."
Main Image: A wildfire at Florida Panther NWR, April 2009. Photo Credit: Josh O'Connor – USFWS.
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Sharon Kelly is an attorney and freelance writer based in Philadelphia. She has reported for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, National Wildlife, Earth Island Journal, and a variety of other publications. Prior to beginning freelance writing, she worked as a law clerk for the ACLU of Delaware.
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Fobzu and ORFA host talk by Director of Palestine Natural History Museum, Dr Mazin Qumsiyeh, at Oxford
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Completing a tour of UK universities, museums and town halls, Dr Mazin Qumsiyeh spoke at Oxford University's Middle East Centre on Wednesday 1st November in an event co-hosted by Fobzu and Oxford Ramallah Friendship Association (ORFA). The Director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History, who also teaches at Birzeit and Bethlehem Universities delivered a talk to a full Investcorp Lecture Theatre at St Antony's College, Oxford, chaired by Fobzu Director, Omar Shweiki.
Dr Qumsiyeh spoke to students, academics and members of the public about his experience as a teacher and scientist living and working in occupied Palestine and the work of the Institute of Biodiversity Research, which he recently founded at Bethlehem University. He described how the occupation's restrictions on movement, closures, blockade of Gaza and the Separation Wall undermine Palestinian academic freedom and the right to education for Palestinians. In the discussion that followed his talk, Dr Qumsiyeh called for solidarity among the UK academic community with Palestinian higher education in its struggle to overcome the barriers imposed by Israel.
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