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Transcript of Radio Interview – Triple J – Wednesday, 4 September 2019
SUBJECT: Biloela family.
HOST: Let's talk to the Opposition Leader, Anthony Albanese, who's been in the Queensland town of Biloela today. He's advocating for these families to stay. Thank you for coming on 'Hack', you've just landed from Biloela; are people there still hopeful that this family will be released?
ANTHONY ALBANESE, LEADER OF THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY: They are and they're very determined. Quite clearly this family have had a real impact in Biloela. Today I met with people including a woman who worked at the hospital where the two young girls were born. I've met with people who've worked with Nades; met with people who had seen the volunteer work that Priya has made. And this is a small town of 5000 people who are very clear – from the Mayor through to the people I've met with at the Civic Centre; through to the people at the RSL; the people I chatted to at the local bakery – they all were united in saying they want this family to be returned to Biloela, and be able to contribute as they were.
HOST: Anthony Albanese I want to know, though, Labor's immigration policy is to stop the boats. Your party doesn't usually support individual cases like this. Does your support of this family show you do support asylum seekers coming here?
ALBANESE: We support the existing migration arrangements which are there. We don't support people coming by boat. What we do, though …
HOST: So, why do you support this family?
ALBANESE: What we support is that the Migration Act allows for ministerial intervention where there are circumstances that warrant that intervention. You can't draw legislation that takes into account every single case. And we say that you can have strong borders without being weak on humanity. These are two young girls who've been born here. Who the local community wants to see them go to school here. You've got Nades who works at the local meatworks, it's a tough job, he works hard, he makes a contribution.
HOST: But in light of all those contributions that this family has clearly made to the community, and you're showing compassion by supporting them. They've applied all the way to the High Court to be allowed to stay here. So, should we be changing the goalposts to …
ALBANESE: They haven't met the requirements for refugee status. We understand that, we respect the legal processes and the courts. But there's another process as well that's allowed for under the law, which is ministerial intervention. Peter Dutton has intervened since he's been the minister on more than 4000 occasions. He has intervened on average over three times each and every single day that he has been the Minister for Immigration. And we know that at times that's been for example, because people picked up the phone and told him that they wanted a couple of au pairs who weren't eligible.
HOST: Sure.
ALBANESE: And the Minister signed off on that. What we say is that this is a far more serious task, and the minister at that time said that he was making that decision based upon compassionate grounds, well he should show some compassion here.
HOST: You don't usually support ministerial discretion, as you just said. So, why in this case in particular?
ALBANESE: I don't know on what basis you say that. I have indeed made representations to Minister Dutton and other immigration ministers, based upon what I believe to be cases of people in my electorate where it is warranted. Quite clearly here – the Government itself says they want people to settle in regional communities – the meatworks is full of workers from overseas on temporary migration visas, on 457 visas from other countries who are working there. This is someone who is also from overseas, but wants to settle there permanently and to make a contribution to this regional country town.
HOST: I do have one last question before we let you go. I mean, supporters of this family say this shows that our immigration system is cruel, because it essentially comes down to luck and the right people backing you as to whether you can stay in Australia and be saved by ministerial discretion. What do you say to that?
ALBANESE: Ministerial discretion has been in the Act for a very long time. And it should be there, because it's important to recognise the fact that you can't write legislation that will take into account every case. And in part here, what also should be taken into account; is the fact that the Government has essentially got a number of the moves that they've made wrong. I think it's wrong that you needed over half a dozen people arrive, without notice, in Biloela to take off this family. The children were separated from the parents. There is no need for that sort of behaviour to have occurred, just as there was no need to transfer this family to Darwin in the middle of the night, and then to transfer them to Christmas Island. This must be incredibly distressing, particularly for the two children who are involved in this.
HOST: Anthony Albanese, Opposition Leader, thank you for coming on Hack.
ALBANESE: Thanks for talking with me.


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Liz Phair and Other Things
Liz Phair is an artist I found too late. I finally heard "Exile in Guyville" about three years ago and I wanted to talk to everyone about how brilliant "Help Me, Mary" is, how it says in two minutes what I tried much of my teen years to say. It says a lot about how awkward and afraid I felt, and how I really wanted some supernatural force to help me channel those feelings into a way not to be angry, but also have my revenge. "Temper my hatred with peace, Weave my disgust into fame, and watch how fast they run to the flame."
But everyone already knows that album is great. They've listened and loved it and moved on.
Sometimes, I think about writing a horror novel.
The problem is that I don't know what I'm afraid of, supernaturally, that could sustain me through a book. I mean, I think ghosts are freaky, because I don't know. If I knew, I'd get used to them, used to having them around, and the messages from them would seem more like postcards from a stranger than fearsome missives from beyond the grave.
Vampires? God, who hasn't see The Lost Boys and thought Michael was crazy for wanting out?
And the monsters in real life–murderers, child molesters, etc.–I don't really care to spend so much time with.
The things I fear, like losing my family or having to be vulnerable with someone I care about without two or three stiff drinks before that, aren't really the stuff of horror novels.
Could you imagine?
He came into the office and stood there before her, while she finished up a phone call. She looked over at him, at the same time she was pretending to pay attention to Amanda's latest in-law story. He was just as cute as always. She could hardly wait to hug him hello.
She winked at him and slowly opened her desk drawer. The cool darkness slowly revealed the shimmering glass of the small whiskey bottle. She could almost feel it in her hand, the warm liquid burning down her throat.
But then, as she reached for the bottle, she realized it was too light. She gave it a shake. And another. "God, no," she gasped. Ignoring Amanda's worried inquires, she dropped the bottle to the ground.
Gentle reader, it was empty!
See, America, I don't think you're coming to Barnes & Noble to hear me read that shit.
Well, knowing you, America, you would show up just to point and laugh.
Another post about New York City!
When I lived, briefly, in NYC, I really enjoyed the Cloisters.
When I met Brittney from Nashville is Talking face to face, I was struck by how familiar she seemed.
Tell me it's not just me. Brittney is clearly the Queen of Heaven, isn't she?
Either that or Tim Morgan has gotten into the Cloisters website and worked his photoshopping magic.
I would not ask you to do this if it weren't important. You must go, right now, to the New York Times website and look at these photos. If you do not have a login, you must scrounge around on the web for one, or break down and give them your hotmail address (we both know you don't use it except for porn).
When you go, what you will see is, perhaps, the most beautiful display of womanly power. The picture I've been staring at all day shows a woman in a long yellow skirt, some black pumps, and a nice jacket with her arms up in the air as she comes flying off the top rope of a wrestling ring towards her opponent.
If you go through the slide show, you will see women in large pink skirts and matching pumps throwing each other around, a gray skirted woman standing triumphantly over her opponent, and some awesome fire-breathing.
There's something here, among the artistry and the athleticism and the shock of seeing your mom's wardrobe on wrestlers, that really gets me right in the gut.
I think it has in part to do with the fact that these women are throwing each other around in get-ups that, when you're in them, feel designed to keep you demure and calm and careful. But it also has to do with how triumphantly present they are.
I'm in awe of that.
I wish I were comfortable enough in my own body that I knew that, if I came flying at you from the top rope, I could hit you and we'd both be okay. Bruised, maybe, but okay.
The Rise of the Redneck
So, I'll admit, the Salon article from yesterday got me thinking about whether or not the least misguided premise of it was true. Are rural folks making a comeback?
When I was at the airport waiting for the Man from GM to arrive, I saw, much to my delight, many teenage boys sporting the same hairstyles teenage boys I smooched or wanted to smooch when I was a teenage girl wore: the parted down the middle, falling in your face, with the slight flip over at the ends.
When I was a freshman, there were these two fine boys–Tim and… for the life of me, I can't remember the other guy's name, but Tim was hotter–and they had longish, blond hair they wore this way. And, often, when I was standing inside the school, right at the doors, waiting for my dad to come and pick me up, they would be standing right outside the doors, smoking.
Sometimes, when it was raining, the smell of them, the rain, and the cigarettes was just about too much for me. I wanted so much to be the kind of dangerous girl they would love.
Ah, young stoners. The boys of my dreams.
If that's what's coming back, the aimless, stoned, kid with long shaggy hair, GM ought to be kicking itself in the ass right about now for discontinuing the Camaro. If that's what's coming back, I don't know if that's fair to call it "redneck." In my towns, the rednecks beat up kids like that.
Mom & Cats
So, just one short story this evening. Another one about the cats, who almost never make an appearance at Tiny Cat Pants, or about their litter.
The Butcher had spent a great deal of time cleaning out one of the plastic kitty litter tubs and then filled it with twenty pounds of rice, which he picked up at the store.
My mom came down and went on one of her cleaning sprees, and, for reasons that remain unknown, she combined one tub of kitty litter with the tub of rice.
For even more indiscernible reasons, the Butcher has proceeded to use the ricey litter for the cats.
America, let me tell you, this worked okay for a while, but now that the bin is mostly rice, it's really, really gross.

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Discussion in 'MacBook Pro' started by yjchua95, Dec 6, 2013.
If any of you have early/late 2011 15"/17" MBPs and have started to experience GPU failures (vertical lines, weird colors, freezes...etc), please post your experience here.
I have a 15" early 2011 MBP that's yet to fail me, and so I hope it lasts long enough until Apple officially issues a repair extension program for it.
Why would Apple issue an extended repair program? Is there any evidence that the failure rate is above average and that it can be traced back to production defects?
Do a Google search on it and you'll see the number of failures.
My early 2011 MBP just had a GPU failure 2 weeks ago. Cost me $600 to repair. I got my macbook back but my temperatures now are extremely high. For example, watching a 480p youtube clip via HTML5 (not flash) in Chrome with NOTHING ELSE running in the background or any other open apps, my temps reached 75C.
I'm NOT happy and afraid of using the laptop in fear of another GPU failure/overheating.
As great as the performance is in the Sandbridge macbooks... the reliability is AWFUL.
Super. I also have the same heating issues from just idling. 70-75ºC when I leave it on for 2 hours, screen off and charging while I took a nap. And when I woke up, the fans were whirring quite noticeably, and iStat Pro showed 75ºC.
Maybe because the room temperature was around 27ºC (I live in a tropical Malaysia), and the air-conditioning was off, along with the ceiling fan.
I will have to do this again, but leave the A/C on this time, to see how it affects the idling temperature.
I've actually got a 17" late 2011 MBP @ 2.4ghz with an AMD 6770M. With Chrome open and browsing forums, I'm sitting at 37C with my fans set to 2000RPM via smcFanControl.
Doing the same thing on my 15" MBP @ 2.3ghz w/ AMD 6750M I'm around 50-60C with fans set to 2500 RPM!
I'm going to try a thermal repaste, hopefully it brings down the temperatures to normal levels.
Mine's a 15" (2.3GHz, 16GB RAM, 512GB 840 Pro and 1G 6750M, AG screen). Mine idled at 3200rpm, 75ºC earlier today during my nap.
Edit: By the way can you use GFXcardstatus to check which GPU are you using, Intel or AMD when browsing forums via Chrome?
2.3ghz, 16GB RAM, Intel 320M 120GB in optibay, 6750M, AG screen, and 1TB WD.
Here's mine, with the a/c on.
GFXcardstatus shows that it's on Radeon.
Mid-2012 line that used Intel Ivy Bridge (3rd-generation Core i5/i7) CPUs. Apple still sells the 13-inch model brand new. A few of the base model 15s (they have a 512 MB GPU) are available from authorized retailers. The high-end 15s (1 GB GPU) are only available used or refurbished.
Also, did they ever make them with an anti-glare screen at 1680x1050?
Sounds like a botched thermal paste job on the GPU is the CPU temp also high?
I've got iStat Menus installed which does let me control the fan speeds. These temperatures are terrible. I'm going to take it apart and reapply the thermal paste. If that doesn't help, I'm selling the laptop and going to try to find a 2012 MBP with antiglare and an ODD. I need a dual drive setup.
Get apples hardware manual for the instructions apple wise and good luck!
A wee bit high on the CPU but that looks pretty normal to me, though if you want the temps to drop 4-5 redo the thermal paste.
I mentioned to Apple TWICE about the thermal paste application when they were replacing the logic board. I told them to go easy on it and they clearly DIDNT do their job! I'm so pissed.
I seem to be having this issue. Sometimes I have noticed that the screen flickers and shows some strange colours before it freezes, other times it just freezes.
I have an early 2011 15" MBP with the Radeon HD 6490m card.
The 17 inch unibodies always run cooler than the 15 mostly due to physics - I recall the first 15 unibodies you could almost cook an egg on the left hand speaker whereas the 17 would hardly get hot at all. A repaste for your 15 inch is an extremely good idea - already given my tips to get you all started!
The GPU or video ram chips are starting to fail by the look of that especially if it locks up solid.
Which thermal paste would you recommend?
Which shows the compounds like Prolimatech PK-1 drop temperatures even more than the Arctic Silver 5.
Silver 5 plus their two bottle cleaning kit they sell, the cleaner/purifier.
AND LMFAO! Just took a closer look at the list here from my link... take a look at the last item, haha. I burst out laughing at work.
Did you also monitor your temps before the logic board replacement?
I'd be curious to hear from anyone else who monitors temps and has had their logic board replaced for this problem.
It might be worth taking some extra steps to verify that heatsink fits correctly, that both sections of the heatsink fit flat against their corresponding dies. As I mentioned in the other thread, mine fit together perfectly (I've never had any problems with mine), but I'm not so sure that's always the case.
It would be helpful to know whether or not some manufacturing variations in the heatsink assembly is playing a role in these failures. All information is good. It would be helpful to know if it is. It would also be helpful to rule it out.


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Saint-Léger-du-Malzieu è un comune francese di 216 abitanti situato nel dipartimento della Lozère nella regione dell'Occitania.

Società

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Q: Sum of n iid random variables Let $X_1,X_2,\ldots,X_n$ be iid poisson random variables with mean $\lambda$ , then it can be verified using mgf that the sum $S=\sum\limits_{i=1}^n X_i$ is also poisson with mean $n\lambda$.
However, let $X_i$ be iid random variables having the pmf $$ f_X(x;\theta)=\frac{h(x)\theta^x}{\sum\limits_{y=0}^{\infty}h(y)\theta^y} ,x=0,1,2,\ldots$$ with  $\theta >0$. How do we verify that $S=\sum\limits_{i=1}^n X_i$ is also a member of the same distributional family? Using mgf seems tedious or is there a trick to calculate mgf?

A: Let $g(\theta)= \dfrac{1}{\sum\limits_{y=0}^{\infty}h(y)\theta^y}$, which does not depend on $x$,
so $f_X(x;\theta)=g(\theta)h(x)\theta^x$, a function of $\theta$ multiplied by a function of $x$ multiplied by $\theta^x$ with its sum over $x$ being $1$. Then
$$\Pr(S=s)=\sum_{\sum_j x_j=s} \prod_i f_X(x_i; \theta) = \sum_{\sum_j x_j=s} \prod_i g(\theta)h(x_i)\theta^{x_i} =  g(\theta)^n \left(\sum_{\sum_j x_j=s} \prod_i h(x_i) \right) \theta^s$$ which is of the same form of a function of $\theta$ multiplied by a function of $s$ multiplied by $\theta^s$, with its sum over $s$ being $1$.
So in that sense the distribution of the sum is the from the same general family of distributions over non-negative integers.

A: $\newcommand{\E}{\operatorname{E}}$
\begin{align}
M_{X_1+\cdots+X_n}(t) & = \E (e^{t(X_1+\cdots+X_n)}) = \E(e^{tX_1}\cdots e^{tX_n}) \\
& = \E(e^{tX_1})\cdots\E(e^{tX_n}) \qquad (\text{by independence}) \\
& = \left(\E (e^{tX_1}) \right)^n\qquad (\text{since the distributions are identical})
\end{align}
The mgf for the Poisson distribution is
$$
M_{X_1}(t) = \E(e^{tX_1}) = \sum_{x=0}^\infty e^{tx} \frac{\lambda^x e^{-\lambda}}{x!} = e^{-\lambda}\sum_{x=0}^\infty \frac{(e^t \lambda)^x}{x!} = e^{-\lambda} e^{e^t\lambda}  = e^{\lambda(e^t-1)}. \tag 1
$$
So the problem is to show that $(M_{X_1}(t))^n$ is the same as $(1)$ except with $n\lambda$ in place of $\lambda$.  That makes it a Poisson distribution with $n\lambda$ in place of $\lambda$.  So just apply a law of exponents
$$
\left( e^{\lambda(e^t-1)} \right)^n = e^{n\lambda(e^t-1)}.
$$
("That makes it a Poisson distribution with $n\lambda$ in place of $\lambda$."  Perhaps I should say: it makes it a distribution whose moments are all the same as those of a Poisson distribution with $n\lambda$ in place of $\lambda$.  If a distribution has the same moments as a Poisson distribution, is it the same distribution?  That's a subtler question, not usually expected of those who are assigned exercises like this one.)
You can also prove the result without MGFs by other methods.

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Bookshelf: All together now?
A month before the 2016 EU referendum, journalist Mike Carter retraced his father's 1981 unemployment march route. He found a country 'lost'
By Sarah Barrell
Published 9 Apr 2019, 00:20 BST, Updated 19 Jul 2021, 14:23 BST
Mike Carter
'The walk took me 340 miles from Liverpool to London. Walking is the pace most of us moved at until the Industrial Revolution, and it's the best way to observe life. Long-distance walking feels like coming home, somehow.
'Most of our daily lives are a series of journeys between one place and another. We plug into headphones and look at our phones. But when you're walking through a landscape without walls you become more accessible. It's easier to ask someone how they're doing without looking like a freak. I was still careful about who I shared the specifics of my journey with — there was a lot of anger in the country at the time about jobs and immigration. I wasn't sure what the reaction would be to my walking Britain's post-industrial landscape in the footsteps of a political march that my late father had organised in 1981 against unemployment. But most were genuinely positive.
'Visiting Walsall was particularly poignant for me; I went to college there in the 1980s. I was shocked at the changes — it felt so crushed, grey and despairing, full of boarded-up businesses, payday loan shops, pawn shops. And, of course, it's none of those things in its entirety — it's much more complicated than the architecture. But it's absolutely desperate what austerity has done to this country.
'Hemel Hempstead had a strong sense of local identity, but elsewhere I encountered a lot of anger that the South East gets all the investment. Post-industrialisation, there was no thought as to how former mining areas and places like the Potteries would function. There was great complacency in 2016 about how people would vote, because nobody had walked through our post-industrial heartland listening to how angry people were.
'When I set off, I travelled the main roads, but this involved so many near-death experiences that I went cross-country, along lanes, golf courses and canals that were once superhighways linking our industrial towns. I'd leave the roads, my cortisol levels rocketing, for bird song and the wind in the trees, and my body would instantly relax. Humans aren't designed for the amount of noise and stimulation we're battered with every day.'
Interview: Sarah Barrell.
All Together Now?: One Man's Walk in Search of His Father and a Lost England by Mike Carter. RRP: £14.99 (Guardian Faber Publishing)
Follow @travelbarrell
Published in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK)
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Since my husfriend and I decided to reduce our footprint on the planet by eating locally produced vegan food at home, we've had to get more creative in the kitchen ... and by we, I mean he, as the kitchen is one place my creativity finds its limits. I tend to follow recipes to a tee apart from the odd spur of inspiration, while he can whip up something wonderful in minutes with little more than a glimpse in the fridge and cupboard.
On my birthday last year, my husfriend crept in with breakfast in bed being the charming gem of a man that he is. Amongst the goodies on offer was this cup full of tasty goodness which has become our breakfast staple ever since.
- I put a star (*) beside what you need to make it, any additions are yummy additions but you'll still have something sweet without all the fixings.
* Shane makes our directly in the cups we'll eat them out of, but if you're a family of more than two I suggest you do it in a mason jar or bowl and dish it out later.
1. Grill cashews and pine nuts and white sesame seeds until they turn a golden colour and put aside.
2. Put about one heaping tablespoon (1 finger) of granola in the bottom of the glass.
3. Add a few teaspoons of agave to taste.
4. Add cashews (leave two for garnish), dried berries and chia seeds.
5. Add another heaping tablespoon of granola.
6. Add grilled pine nuts, flax seeds, vanilla (pod or a few drops of vanilla extract).
7. Add another teaspoon of agave syrup.
9. Cover and leave overnight.
10. In the morning pan cook a few thinly sliced apples (in water and a sprinkle of agave) and add them to the mixture.
11. Sprinkle the mixture with toasted sesame seeds to cover the top of the mixture (see photo).
12. Sprinkle some poppy seeds and a few crushed cashews (heated up if you want) to garnish it with a few fresh blackberries and raspberries or seasonal fruit of choice).


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Q: Call modules from an other module How can i call a module from a module?
Supposing i have two modules, mod_a and mod_b, in a directory called modules.
i would like to require mod_b from mod_a with require('./mod_b.js'), because they are located in the same directory.
Calling mod_a from a parent directory (with the main program) has the disadvantage that, it is called by require('modules/mod_a.js'); and the internal mod_b isn't found.
Using require(__dirname+'./mod_b.js') in mod_a wasn't helpful either.
I m aware that this is a very basic question but i couldn't find a solution.
Fixed: everything is fine now, it was an typing error.

A: __dirname will return something like /home/user/modules and you concatenate it with ./mod_b.js and get /home/user/modules./mod_b.js, but you expect /home/user/modules/mod_b.js
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*or use path.join

A: The issue is more likely with the "main program" requiring mod_a than with mod_a requiring mod_b.
Relative require() paths are expected to always start with a ./ (or ../):

Without a leading '/' or './' to indicate a file, the module is either a "core module" or is loaded from a node_modules folder.

So, the "main program" should instead be using:
require('./modules/mod_a.js');

Then, mod_a should be able to require mod_b without issue using:
require('./mod_b.js');


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Henderson Gleaner obituaries for Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016.
Damon Collins
Henderson Gleaner obituaries for Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016. Damon Collins Check out this story on thegleaner.com: http://www.thegleaner.com/story/news/obituaries/2016/02/05/henderson-gleaner-obituaries-for-saturday-feb-6-2016/86972602/
The Gleaner Published 4:10 p.m. CT Feb. 5, 2016
MORGANFIELD — Damon Collins, 17, Morganfield, died Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016, at St. Mary's Medical Center in Evansville.
He was a senior at Union County High School.
Survivors include his mother, Monica Dillman of Evansville; his father, Bobby Collins of Morganfield; three sisters, Shea Collins of Morganfield and Tasha Thrash and Sheila Olinger, both of Oklahoma; one brother, Joshua Collins of Oklahoma; and his grandmother, Betty Collins of Morganfield.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Whitsell Funeral Home in Morganfield. Brother Jimmy Terrell will officiate. Burial will be in Cedar Grove Cemetery in Webster County.
Friends may call from 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday and after 9 a.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Catherine Telford Beaton McIntosh
STURGIS — Catherine Telford Beaton McIntosh, 94, Sturgis, died Friday, Feb. 5, 2016, at her daughter's home.
She was a member of Sturgis General Baptist Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert McIntosh; and her parents, Lachland and Mary Phillips Beaton.
Survivors include one daughter, Laura Quertermous of Sturgis; two sons, Hugh McIntosh and Robert McIntosh, both of Greenock, Scotland; six grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 4 p.m. Sunday at Whitsell Funeral Home in Sturgis.
Friends may call after 2 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to Sturgis General Baptist Church.
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Front Range Biosciences to send hemp, coffee tissue samples to ISS to study microgravity effects
Wednesday December 11, 2019 0 comments Tags: Lafayette, Front Range BioSciences, Space Cells USA, BioServe Space Technologies, ISS, Jonathan Vaught, Peter McCullagh, Reggie Gaudino
LAFAYETTE -- Front Range Biosciences® announced a partnership with SpaceCells USA Inc. and BioServe Space Technologies at the University of Colorado, Boulder to send hemp and coffee tissue culture to space.
The mission will transport plant cultures to space to examine zero gravity's effects on the plants' metabolic pathways, FRB said.
The experiment, being targeted for transportation to the space station aboard the SpaceX CRS-20 cargo flight scheduled for March 2020, will look at how plant cells undergo gene expression changes or genetic mutations while in space.
Front Range Biosciences is providing the plant cultures, while SpaceCells will provide expertise, management and funding for the project.
BioServe has flight qualified hardware to house the plant cultures and facilities on board the International Space Station (ISS) to maintain the cultures under controlled conditions. BioServe will manifest and integrate the experiment and will work with the NASA astronauts to transfer experiment hardware to BioServe's incubator on board ISS and execute the experiment.
Up to 480 plant cell cultures will reside in a space-made incubator that will regulate temperature in their temporary home aboard the ISS for about 30 days.
The environmental conditions for the cultures will be monitored remotely from BioServe's payload operations center at CU Boulder. After about a month, the cells will be returned to Earth, where researchers at Front Range Biosciences will examine the plant samples and evaluate their RNA to determine how microgravity and space radiation exposure altered the plants gene expression.
"This is one of the first times anyone is researching the effects of microgravity and spaceflight on hemp and coffee cell cultures," said Dr. Jonathan Vaught, FRB's co-founder and CEO.
"There is science to support the theory that plants in space experience mutations. This is an opportunity to see whether those mutations hold up once brought back to Earth and if there are new commercial applications."
Ultimately, the results of the research could help growers and scientists identify new varieties or chemical expressions in the plant, FRB said, allowing scientists to better understand how plants manage the stress of space travel and set the stage for a whole new area of research for the company and the industry.
With the advent of private space travel, an area of space research has emerged called "new space," where researchers are studying the effects of microgravity on a variety of organisms, including everything from disease cells to various plant varieties.
SpaceCells is on the forefront of the commercialization of that research.
"We've been fortunate to be a leader in the new space industry and we're excited to explore these amazing opportunities with the team at Front Range Biosciences and BioServe," said Peter McCullagh, CEO of SpaceCells.
"These are big ideas we're pursuing and there's a massive opportunity to bring to market new chemotypes, as well as plants that can better adapt to drought and cold conditions. We expect to prove through these and other missions that we can adapt the food supply to climate change."
Because of rising temperatures due to climate change, there are many environments on Earth that are unable to support crops that once thrived in those regions, FRB said. Learning how plants respond to novel environments -- such as space -- can help companies like Front Range Biosciences breed crops to thrive in locations where they have not performed successfully in the past.
Front Range Bioscience's partner for coffee production, Frinj, has developed coffee varieties and farming methods for growing coffee in Southern California. The project with SpaceCells USA Inc. will mark the beginning of FRB's genomics program in coffee.
"We are excited to learn more about both hemp and coffee gene expression in microgravity and how that will inform our breeding programs," said Dr. Reggie Gaudino, FRB's VP of research and development.
The crew at Front Range Biosciences, SpaceCells USA Inc. and BioServe said they do not believe this will be the sole mission. Instead, the group said it plans to conduct a series of investigations that can boost the productivity and viability of terrestrial crops and plants.
"We envision this to be the first of many experiments together," said Louis Stodieck, chief scientist of BioServe Space Technologies at CU Boulder.
"In the future, we plan for the crew to harvest and preserve the plants at different points in their grow-cycle so we can analyze which metabolic pathways are turned on and turned off. This is a fascinating area of study that has considerable potential."


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Q&A with a 9to5 Georgia Organizer
January 14, 2021 January 14, 2021 / Georgia / By Krishna Inmula
The 9to5 Georgia team has been running full out for months, educating and turning people out for the 2020 November election… and then it continued! On January 5th Georgians made history once again and shattered records for runoff election turnout.
To hear what it was like to be on the ground for this historic effort, we spoke to LaToya Brannen, a 9to5 organizer in Savannah, Georgia who spearheaded local voting efforts.
LaToya holds election signage at a Party at the Polls in January 2021.
What was it like getting people election-ready in Georgia?
For months I have been working in my hometown of Savannah talking and activating friends, family, and neighbors around the importance of voting. From dropping off literature on issues and how to register, to helping cure ballots – all during a historic, unprecedented pandemic – we've all been working so hard. We've been encouraging and motivating people to vote and be civically engaged while also hearing about things like job loss, the impacts of COVID, and missing childcare. People are dealing with some really hard times right now and it was important to connect the very real issues they are facing to why voting matters. It's a way to put power and influence directly into the hands of everyday people.
What was one of the challenges in getting voter turnout?
There was so much misinformation and we had to dispel myths about voting and the ballot count process. All voting is local and with so much happening in the news and in people's lives it was so important to emphasize that piece. I talked to a lot of folks who were not every-year voters or who had only participated in presidential elections about how things like medicaid expansion, who the district attorney is, and county officials were all impacted by your vote.
How did you adapt your outreach to meet social distancing guidelines?
We really had to change the way we were approaching voter outreach once COVID hit. We increased our social media presence and had a call and text program to contact folks. We sent over 214,000 texts and made over 1,000 phone calls this election season. We also really focused on working with Black and Latinx community papers and getting on the radio to help amplify the message to get out and vote.
It's really important to understand that this was about more than just an election. This was about making sure our community was ok and how to make sure folks felt empowered to take action during a time when so much was up in the air. Community food and school supply giveaways were opportunities to both directly help folks with basic needs as well as include some info on voting and civic engagement.
What was it like doing this work in a tense election cycle with national attention on Georgia?
There was a lot of pressure with so many folks focusing on Georgia. I'm from here and this isn't our first rodeo with community organizing or civic engagement. On January 5th we were still working hard – calling, texting, giving out voter protection kits, items for kids to entertain themselves while waiting, and generally just trying to keep people in line. There was a worry that people from outside the community, city, or state would try to parachute in and try to "save the day" without really taking the time to learn about the community. We worked really closely with other organizations in the state to coordinate efforts and I think all the hard work really paid off with the numbers of people turning out to vote. There are so many amazing organizations doing local work and building grassroots power that really the best thing folks can do to support is to follow the lead of local organizers. We know our community.


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Pro MMA Record: 23-7-0 (Win-Loss-Draw)
Current Streak: 5 Wins
Last Fight: September 04, 2021 in UFC
Weight Class: Middleweight | Last Weigh-In: 186.0 lbs
Affiliation: Brunsons MMA and Fitness
Height: 6'1" (186cm) | Reach: 77.0" (196cm)
Career Disclosed Earnings: $510,000 USD
Born: Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
Fighting out of: Wilmington, NC
College: University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Foundation Style: Wrestling
Head Coach: Henry Hooft
Other Coaches: Greg Jackson
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Derek Brunson is an American middleweight fighter currently signed to the UFC. He fights out of Renzo Gracie's academy in New York and Jackson's MMA in New Mexico. He has fought for promotions such as Shofight and Strikeforce and holds notable wins over Lumumba Sayers and Chris Leben. Of his eleven wins, eight have been stoppages with equal numbers of submissions and T/KOs. He has won the "Fight of the Night" bonus one time.
Brunson is a former NCAA division ll wrestler turned mixed martial artist. He wrestled in college for the University of North Carolina at Pembroke where he was a three time All American. His nickname of "the human blanket" comes from his wrestling base. After college, Brunson immediately took up MMA, training at Renzo Gracie's Jiu Jitsu academy. He won his first six fights on the local circuit, five of which were by strikes. He eventually moved his camp to Jackson's MMA.
In 2011, Brunson debuted in Strikeforce. He went on to win his first three fights with the promotion. He was next supposed to fight Ronaldo Souza but the Ohio State Athletic commission would not allow him to fight with contact lenses as he had done in previous fights. He immediately had LASIK eye surgery to remove the need to wear contacts. He fought once outside of Strikeforce which resulted in a controversial decision loss to UFC veteran Kendall Grove. He returned to Strikeforce in August 2012, again scheduled against Ronaldo Souza. He would lose to the former Strikeforce champion by strikes in the first minute of the fight.
He was supposed to debut with the UFC on the seventeenth season of The Ultimate Fighter but on the first day of filming, he was pulled from the cast due to his Strikeforce contract linked to Showtime which he they would not release him from. He filled in for an injured Karlos Vemola against Chris Leben at UFC 155, his UFC debut. In the fight were he was an underdog, he surprised many by earning a decision victory against the long time UFC employee. He next took on the debuting Brian Houston at UFC: Fight for the Troops 3. After rocking Houston almost immediately with a head kick, he was able to sink in a rear naked choke to get the submission win. He would get back to action two months later when he was matched up with Yoel Romero at UFC Fight Night 35, but this time he would lose a back and forth fight by TKO with less than two minutes left in the fight. Both fighters were awarded the "Fight of the Night" bonus for their performance.
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Ward Previews Vanguard: What Judgments Come
What Judgments Come, the sixth installment in the Star Trek: Vanguard saga, will be available on September 27 from Simon & Schuster. In it, the secrets of the Shedai have been unlocked, but at what price? The Shedai, awakened from their slumber, are not pleased by Starfleet's actions. Meanwhile, Ambassador Jetanien comes to the realization that his peace efforts may have been undermined all along. And, elsewhere, exiled former Vanguard commander Diego Reyes may be Starfleet's last hope for stopping the Shedai. Simon & Schuster will release Star Trek: Vanguard: What Judgments Come as both a mass-market paperback and eBook. It's penned by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore, runs 352 pages and will cost $7.99 in the U.S.
StarTrek.com recently caught up with Ward for a quick interview. Here's what he had to say -- and check back again on Monday to read Ward's latest "Ten For Ward" blog, only at StarTrek.com.
What excites you most about this particular story?
Ward: Along with David Mack, Kevin and I are getting to do something that's never really been done before: bring to a planned conclusion one of the novel spin-off series. From the start, Vanguard has had a definitive endgame in mind, though specific details about how to get there were always left nebulous. As the story has evolved over the five previous novels, it became apparent that it was time to start the process of wrapping things up, and to do so before the series began to overstay its welcome, or was abruptly canceled due to dwindling sales or a change in editorial agenda or vision. It was actually a very tough sell, first to our editor at Pocket Books, and then to CBS Consumer Products. However, both parties allowed us to make our case, and it was during those discussions that the idea for the recent Declassified anthology came about, which serves as something of a prelude to the final arc of the Vanguard saga.
As for our novel, What Judgments Come, what excites me most about this story is that it, along with Dave Mack's forthcoming final novel in the series, Storming Heaven, was developed by the three of us: Dave, Kevin, and myself. It's the culmination of what essentially has been a very fun and very creatively exciting collaboration dating back to Kevin's and my first work on the series back in 2005. Whereas we often played a game of good-spirited "one-upmanship" so far as escalating storylines from book to book throughout the series, we've always worked together to make sure everything fit together. We took that to a whole new level for these last two books.
This is actually part one of a two-part conclusion to the Vanguard saga. Without ruining too much of what happens, in what ways do the events of this story dangle the threads that will be tied up in the final book?
Ward: What Judgments Come resolves a few character arcs and storylines on its own, while also "lighting the fuse" for what will be the climactic finish in Storming Heaven. There's even a shared framing sequence that starts and ends both books. Though Storming Heaven will pick up precisely where What Judgment Comes leaves off, Dave, Kevin and I made sure that each book tells its own story while at the same time working together to provide something of a "feature-length series finale episode" feel.
As far as you know, how far along is the final book?
Ward: Dave just recently submitted his manuscript for Storming Heaven a week or so ago, and he's currently waiting to hear back from our editor as to any requested changes or tweaks. I'm (hopefully) going to read it this weekend. Even though I have the outline and know how everything ends, it's just not the same as reading a Dave Mack novel, so I expect this to be a real treat, because I know he pulled out all the stops for this one.
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Age–Is it Just a State of Mind?
I wish I had said something that clever. It's a good philosophy, especially in our society which emphasizes and glorifies youth–anyone under 30 who looks the way fashion magazines dictate.
As my 70th birth anniversary quickly approaches (December 4, 2014), I'm in shock that I'm old. I'm five years past Senior Citizen status. I can no longer refer to myself as an "OBIT"–an Old Bat In Training. Now I are one!
Okay. So what?! I can bewail that fact OR I can look at it differently. I can congratulate myself that I've survived. I survived a dysfunctional and difficult childhood and young adulthood.
Somehow with the help of God and lots of great therapy, I'm managed to retain a semblance of sanity and normal functioning in the world. I've survived trouble, turmoil and disappointments in my relationships, work and home life.
And this is the MOST IMPORTANT POINT: My art and my spiritual studies and practices, especially meditation have been my saving grace, what kept me from checking in to the Rubber Room at the local psyche ward.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I discovered my talent for expression in art through the jewelry design classes I took. Something motivated me to explore beyond jewelry design. Over the years I found all manner of different art media that attracted me.
While I was diligent in learning the various media, some were short-lived for one reason or another. But the common factor was the centering and peace of mind I got from creating art in any form.
I can now look back and see how I processed through my art many, many deep emotions and feelings, stuck energy that blocked my joy and happiness. The process itself, whatever steps were necessary for that art media was calming and a way to focus on something positive and constructive.
The processing of emotions is also evident in my fascination with faces. I seem to put faces in most of my work whether it's a ceramic bust of a realistic face or subtle and in the background of a Phainting.
I now find it remarkable that I was so resilient as a child and a young adult in spite of everything I experienced. Each day is now an opportunity to reach back in time and love, admire and reassure that little girl of just how strong she was.
Each day is more precious–as it jolly well ought to be! I am deeply grateful for still being in excellent physical health so I can create.
I have no profound pearls of wisdom–at least none that haven't been said thousands of times. All I can say is honor your heart's song and create what makes you happy. Don't let age or feeling "old" stop you from creating.
Do you have any thoughts on this topic? Does any of it resonate for you? I'd love to hear from you. Thanks.


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Father Mark Gottemoeller served in parish ministry for 40 years
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Father Mark Gottemoeller, a retired priest of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, died on Dec. 15 at IU Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis from complications after surgery. He was 68.
The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Dec. 21 at St. Gabriel the Archangel Church in Indianapolis. Archbishop Charles C. Thompson was the principal celebrant of the Mass. Father Michael O'Mara, pastor of St. Gabriel, was the homilist.
Burial followed at the priests' circle at Calvary Cemetery in Indianapolis.
Father Gerald Kirkhoff, archdiocesan vicar for advocacy for priests, knew Father Gottemoeller for more than 40 years. He described him as a priest who sought to help people on the peripheries of society and of the Church.
"Mark was always for the underdog," Father Kirkhoff said. "Mark was a person who went to the prisons. He dealt with people who were struggling with thoughts of suicide, people who had problems with the faith.
"He was down to earth. He had what Pope Francis says we [priests] should have: the smell of the flock. Get out of the rectory, get out of the office, and go out there. That was his hallmark.
"He was looking for the person who was suffering, and he tried to do his best [to minister to him]," he added.
Father Kirkhoff also recalled his friend's love of the outdoors.
"He was a man of the earth—hunting, fishing," Father Kirkhoff said. "He loved fishing. I believe that came from his dad."
Mark Gottemoeller was born on June 10, 1949, in Indianapolis to Walter and Josephine Gottemoeller. He grew up as a member of St. Mark the Evangelist Parish and later of St. Jude Parish, both in Indianapolis.
Father Gottemoeller received priestly formation as an archdiocesan seminarian at the former Latin School of Indianapolis, the former Saint Meinrad College in St. Meinrad, and at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology, earning a bachelor's degree and a master's of divinity degree.
He was ordained a priest on May 22, 1976, by Archbishop George J. Biskup at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis. His first pastoral assignment was as associate pastor of St. Gabriel Parish in Connersville, serving there from 1976-80.
Father Gottemoeller then served as associate pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Shelbyville from 1980-81; as associate pastor of the former Holy Family Parish in Richmond in 1981; and as associate pastor of St. Mary Parish in Greensburg from 1981-85.
Beginning in 1985, Father Gottemoeller began eight years of ministry in the Tell City Deanery. He served from 1985‑93 as pastor of St. Augustine Parish in Leopold and administrator of St. Mark Parish in Perry County.
Beginning in 1989, he additionally served as administrator of Holy Cross Parish in St. Croix while continuing his leadership of St. Augustine and St. Mark.
Father Gottemoeller served as pastor of St. Martin of Tours Parish in Martinsville from 1993-2005, and as pastor of St. Thomas More Parish in Mooresville from 2005 until he was granted early retirement in 2016.
He is survived by a sister, Christine Dittman of Dayton, Ohio.
Memorial gifts may be sent to Catholic Relief Services (crs.org), 228 W. Lexington St., Baltimore, MD 21201-3443, or to Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology (saintmeinrad.edu), 200 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad, IN 47577. †
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Samsung Washer delivered but shipping bolts not removed!
Two months ago, we purchased a Samsung washer and dryer from your San Diego Pacific Sales Mission Valley store and the washer and dryer were delivered; we had the washer and dryer installed in our outdoor shed.
Our handyman put the washer and dryer on the pedestal and we started a load and left the house; when we returned, we noted the washer and dryer shifted a bit when we got home. We had our handyman put in brackets to keep the feet secure.
Two weeks ago, we took it off the pedestal and tried one more time; We ran another wash and noted the washer to be very loud. There was a terrible scraping noise with banging and extreme rattling during the spin cycle. We turned the spin cycle to low and still there was very loud and disturbing rattling. When the load was done, we saw the washer fell off the pedestal, with scratches and dents on the brand new washer and dryer! When it had knocked into the dryer, it tore the vent duct too.
We have had to call our handyman over several times to look at it. He cut the bottom of the shed after a week, it still didn't solve the problem. We put anti-vibration pads under the washer and dryer without help.
The washer now works fine but this has been quite an ordeal!! We love our washer and dryer, but didn't expect the extra expenses due to the handyman's multiple visits, anti-vibration pads, and the cutting of our shed, along with the damaging the pedestals, the washer and the dryer, all because of failure to remove the shipping bolts upon delivery as it should have been done.
We contacted Best Buy online and the person told me to expect some kind of compensation for our terrible experience and damages.
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The problem with living in a so-called "safe" seat is that there's not a great deal of reason for your MP to feel they have to work for their constituents. That's by no means true of all MPs in safe seats, but if re-election is all but assured, the danger is that these MPs are more bothered about the interests of their parties or themselves than the places that they represent.
The two present Southend parliamentary constituencies — Southend West and Rochford & Southend East — have never returned anything but Conservative MPs. Indeed, for anything different you have to go back to 1945, when the seat of South East Essex covered part of Southend and returned Labour's Ray Gunter.
So given that it has been 70 years since anything but a Tory MP represented any part of Southend, and present MPs Sir David Amess and James Duddridge both sit on hefty majorities (14,021 and 9,476, respectively), it seems fairly clear to me that both constituencies are Conservative safe seats.
Like I said, that doesn't mean that MPs have to be disinterested in the town. Which makes it all the more disappointing that they apparently are.
Yesterday morning saw the Labour team, including myself, out in Blenheim Park ward putting the below leaflet out across the ward. It was a bright and clear day, but as with last week the wind was bitter and biting. Not that that stopped us.
Over a few hours, we covered five counties: Kent, Norfolk, Surrey, Suffolk, and Middlesex. I am, of course, talking about the avenues within Blenheim Park ward bearing those names.
The weather won't stop us this morning either; there are more leaflets to go out, and only 102 days left until the election. Labour are serious, nationally and locally, about offering an alternative that will work. We're working hard for Southend, and I'm out every weekend talking to Blenheim Park residents, listening to what they want from their local representative.
Vote Labour for a better Southend. Vote Matt Dent for a better Blenheim Park.
Another weekend, another campaign session in Blenheim Park ward.
Blenheim Park isn't a small ward, which means there's a lot of ground to cover between now and 7th May. I haven't so far seen much evidence of campaigning by the other parties — the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, and UKIP all have reason to look hopefully at Blenheim — but I have to assume that they are at work.
The above UKIP leaflet, for example, was spotted in the ward. I've seen it before: one has come through my own door. What marks it out for me is the lack of a) local relevance, and b) actual content.


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Just say yes? Cannabis bubble expands as iconic Coke seeks a partner
Chad PrevostFriday, September 21, 2018Last Updated: Monday, March 25, 2019
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Coca-Cola was named back in 1885 for its two "medicinal" ingredients: extract of coca leaves and kola nuts. Just how much cocaine was originally in the formulation is hard to determine, but the drink undeniably contained some cocaine in its early days. Over the years, as people began to view cocaine as something other than merely medicinal, chemists, using the technology at their disposal, cut down on the amount of cocaine in Coca-Cola so that there were mere trace amounts leading up to 1929 when it was finally determined to be completely cocaine free.
So, it's not such a stretch some 130 years later that Coca-Cola has its eye on the cannabis industry, reports Bloomberg. The soft drink giant is reportedly in "serious talks" of launching beverages with Aurora Cannabis. But before people get their beehives too stirred up, the drink is intended to be "medicinal," infused with cannabidiol, also known as CBD, and not the psychoactive tetrahydrocannabinol, also known as THC, that would provide a "buzz." The medical benefits of CBD are known to ease inflammation and muscle cramping.
While it's not completely a done deal, analysts describe the talks as in the middle-to-late innings. It seems more about whether Aurora will be the partner Coke dances with, and not whether or not they ultimately plan to break into the market. Bloomberg calls the talks "a groundbreaking move that would signal a significant foray into the marijuana sector by one of the world's most iconic consumer brands." The CBD market was estimated at $202 million in 2015 and is expected to be worth $2.1 billion in 2020.
Beverage companies are enormous consumers of commercial freight services, including trucking. Companies like Ab Inbev, Miller, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and their peers spend over $8 billion on truckload shipping beverages across the U.S. Tight capacity has led to higher shipping costs, as well as mounting pressures due to tariffs on low-value commodities like aluminum and steel.
At the same time, the beverage industry as a whole is seen as not going anywhere anytime soon, in spite of new efforts and moves to condense, such as FreightWaves covered with the Keurig-Dr Pepper merger and PepsiCo's acquisition of SodaStream.
Coke is merely diversifying its portfolio. The company can put CBD or THC or whatever they want, and ultimately sell these drinks at a high margin.
However, the cannabis (valuation) bubble of 2018 may very well prove out to be the crypto bubble of 2017. While Coke may end up doing well in this new beverage space, the general cannabis market may be overhyped and overvalued, as Paulo Santos writes for Seeking Alpha.
Producing the underlying agricultural commodities in a highly competitive business, is ultimately a low margin business. What is cannabis once its farming is legalized and widespread? An agricultural commodity. And what are companies like Aurora engaged in? In farming it. So what will happen when everybody can farm it and legalization spreads? Low margins, like all other agricultural industries.
As for end-consumers who just want to mellow out? Well, have a Coke and a smile…or Open Happiness…or Taste the Feeling. Any slogan will do.
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Chad Prevost has covered a variety of beats for FreightWaves, with an emphasis on technology and industry trends. He has hosted and co-produced the shows What the Truck?!?, FreightWaves NOW, Off the Supply Chain, and Inside the Box. Prior to FreightWaves, Chad taught for seven years as an Assistant Professor of English and ran an independent publishing house. He is the author of several books, and has a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from Georgia State University.
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Fukushima Disaster Leaves Hundreds of Whales Radiated to Death
"The scene is absolutely devastating especially since no word of this latest crisis has been reported to the Japanese people or to the rest of the world. In fact the Japanese government has remained silent about today's latest events.
Local residents claim they were told not to worry as the nuclear plant was brought under control shortly after the March 11, 2011 incident and there was little to no radiation concerns.
But what I'm hearing from experts and scientist here today is that they estimate 219,000 tons of nuclear waste has leaked into the Pacific Ocean over the past two years which up until 14 days ago TEPCO had kept a secret. After it was reported that at 300 tonnes (300 long tons; 330 short tons) of "heavily contaminated water" has been leaking from a storage tanks into the ocean daily. They also state the ground water in the region has been contaminated with high levels of radiation, but since the government stepped in to take control of the site relieving TEPCO the government has said little about the events taking place here.
It is an outrage for the government to remain silent. Two scientist I spoke to on the beach tell me maybe the government has been silent because no one can yet begin to image the impact this debacle will have locally as well as globally. Scientist on the site admit this is a major event but they too can only speculate on what will come tomorrow."
Nigel J. Covington III
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New Clif High Wujo – E14 – global coastal event, Fukushima, radiation, more
E14 – July 10, 2012 – Oyster larva, spirograph, atoms, stream, kalapas, energy, interstellar boundary, global coastal event, Fukushima, radiation, more – 41 minutes
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Bluefin tuna record Fukushima radioactivity
Pacific Bluefin tuna caught off the coast of California have been found to have radioactive contamination from last year's Fukushima nuclear accident.
The fish would have picked up the pollution while swimming in Japanese waters, before then moving to the far side of the ocean.
Scientists stress that the fish are still perfectly safe to eat. [editor's note: wtf?!]
However, the case does illustrate how migratory species can carry pollution over vast distances, they say.
"It's a lesson to us in how interconnected eco-regions can be, even when they may be separated by thousands of miles," Nicholas Fisher, a professor of marine sciences at Stony Brook University, New York, told BBC News.
All the fish examined in the study showed elevated levels of radioactive caesium – the isotopes 134 and 137.
Caesium-137 is present in seawater anyway as a result of the fallout from atomic weapons testing, but the short, two-year half-life of caesium-134 means the contamination can be tied directly to Fukushima. There is no other explanation for the isotope's presence.
The measured concentrations were about 10 times the total caesium radioactivity seen in tuna specimens taken from before the accident.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18239107
CategoriesFukushima Japan, Health & foodTagsbbc, fukushima, radiation, tuna
10.50 microsieverts in Tokyo train
Posted on September 28, 2011 July 28, 2018
CategoriesFukushima Japan, Health & foodTagsfukushima, japan, video, youtube
Parents pack up Fukushima children
CategoriesFukushima JapanTagsfukushima, japan, video, youtube


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The Children's Museum of Manhattan designs dynamic explorations of culture, education, health and creativity for early learners and their families. Founded in a basement storefront in response to cuts in arts and cultural programs in New York City public schools, for nearly 45 years, the Children's Museum of Manhattan has helped children develop into healthy, well-rounded, engaged global citizens. Its exhibits, programs, classes and on-line resources reach over a million individuals per year.
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Love Among the Political Ruins: 1848 and the Political Unconscious of Men and Women
Stefan Hawlin
Volume 50, Number 4, Winter 2012
10.1353/vp.2012.0038
Stefan Hawlin (bio)
The blank interstices Men take for ruins, He will build into With pillared marbles rare, or knit across With generous arches, till the fane's complete. Casa Guidi Windows,
II.776–7791
The roots of the implicit politics of Men and Women (1855) lie in the era of the European revolutions and their aftermath. Although few of the poems were probably written at this time, Browning's responses to the events of 1848 to 1852 inspired much of the collection on which he started serious work in 1853. In these years, witnessing the Florentine revolution of February 1849, and then in Paris, in December 1851, Louis Napoleon's coup d'état (in effect one of the concluding events of the revolutionary phase), Browning experienced politics at first-hand with his wife, drawn into ongoing dialogue with her, their views developing in synergy, and disagreements consequently being painful. Politics was at the heart of their relationship. However, the nuances of Browning's politics in this period often seem tantalizingly obscure or hidden from view, for two main reasons. Firstly, there is only a limited amount of direct or open politics in the poetry, and, of course, Browning rarely writes in propria persona.2 Secondly, in this period, he wrote few letters by comparison with EBB, and in them he says very little directly about politics. It is therefore her voice that dominates politically, the daringly subjective voice of Casa Guidi Windows (1851) and of her correspondence, and so to a large extent it is through her politics that we must understand his.3
On March 14, 1848, when the French revolution was a recent matter, EBB makes this archetypal statement: "Robert & I agree & thoroughly agree in politics as in other things; & we talk & talk on this subject, very seldom differing on any angle of it."4 Here the desire to always agree can be seen, even at this early stage, long before their disagreements about Louis Napoleon, to contain a hint that they do not in fact always agree, that they may be trying to win each other round. [End Page 503]
Though Browning had intense political discussions with men—particularly in France in the wake of the 1851 coup d'état—his most intense discussions were undoubtedly with EBB. After the horror of the massacre of working-class protestors in Paris in the "June days" of 1848, EBB believed that the Second Republic would collapse; Browning differed: "My husband has a little [hope], with melancholy intermediate prospects; but my own belief is that the bourgeoisie have had enough of democratic institutions & will be impatient for a kingship anew. Whom will they have?" (BC, 15:98–99). Their varying predictions match up to some extent with their different hopes about likely outcomes. EBB's view is a distant anticipation of her acceptance of Louis Napoleon's coup of 1851 as a reasonable solution to the political stalemate. Browning is just as disturbed by the June days, but he is really hoping that the Second Republic can survive, and we can sense even in this his future dislike of empire and its works.
On March 9, 1849, EBB's and Browning's child, Robert Wiedemann, was born under the rule of the short-lived Florentine republic, a fact of which she was proud. As she was recovering from the birth and trying to dry up her milk—she had decided to use wet nurses—outside their home the celebrations blazed:
The milk caused me some headache & inconvenience—particularly as the republicans of Florence did us the honour to keep festa round the tree of liberty planted at our palazzo-door, with guns & cannons & a band of music & patriotic songs from morning till night, yes, & half the night through three days after my confinement, causing the monthly nurse to offer various petitions to the Madonna against a milk-fever.
(BC, 15:259–260)
The blurring of the personal and political here is typical—it is of course an important element in Casa Guidi Windows—part of a systematic refusal to experience politics in abstract terms...


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Finally I am getting around to doing this main update. If you follow my journals you probably notice I am posting three at once. This is just the main journal that will be posted last.
So the computer is fixed. I am so happy to have my computer back. But now it is time to start saving up for a new computer because it is getting older and it is just luck each time has only been the hard drive failing. I am hoping I got another two years so I can save up enough to get a new one by the end of those two years. It was nice to get a nice fresh start with a new hard drive but installing everything again took days out of my days off that I had. Not fun. I got a bit of time to play some games and than got the flu.
I have had some bad sinus problems for a year now. So bad it affects my hearing. I have spent a year without being able to hear properly and that is not fun. I work around the general public and they always question me about it and it is frustrating. Making things worse I have had to start using the strips that go over your nose to help open up my airways. This is all annoying to deal with daily when I am feeling fine, and luckily since this problem started I have not been sick. You can imagine how it is when you now can't breath too well because you are sick. I finally have an appointment with the specialist next month. I am so happy this may actually be the start of getting my hearing back and being able to breath though my nose again. My doctor things it may involve a little surgery but not anything too major. Fingers crossed it is the more simple solution with minor recovery time.
Anyone interested in doing a mini secret santa. I really want to do one this year. I picked a theme that I feel most people like that we have done before. I might try a new theme for one in the summer. But right now I will stick with this one. Sign ups start April 14th and will end the end of the day on April 28th. Find out more about it on this journal.
So I am still going to put this out there. Those who saw my last journal about the game idea I will mention it again at the start of May. I am already feel like I am spamming three journals out today so since this is not a major important one just yet I will bring it up in May's journal with more information. Again if you are interested please let me know.
Also Markimoofan123 has started making a play-though of my game. If you have not played it but still want to see it check out their video. I plan to make one someday and actually had one started when the computer crashed. So for now I share this one. If any of you guys do one and want me to share it let me know. I appreciate it a lot.
That is it for now. I will try to get some pictures posted. I do want to try out two different ways of colouring the comic and get you guys to vote on the style you like the best. Of course there will be art trade pictures coming too.
Awesome. I am glad you found me on here too. I will go back on to finish posting the stuff I was posting once my computer is fixed.
Hey hey hey... Dontworry I will reply to your note (and comments) next week. It is crunch time for secret santa and I picked up a few extra hours at work recently. But got a few days off early next week and the sign-ups for the secret santa end on the 19th so after that I will be able to sit down and reply to everything I have waiting for me.


Does the SRS indicator stay on, and is DTC 21-9x indicated?
NO - Intermittent failure, system is OK at this time. Go to Troubleshooting Intermittent Failures. If another DTC is indicated, go to the DTC Troubleshooting Index.
4. Disconnect the floor wire harness 4P connector (A) from the left side seat belt tensioner.
5. Connect the SRS inflator simulator (2 W connectors) and simulator lead K to the floor wire harness.
10. Disconnect the front right side seat belt tensioner connector.
12. Disconnect the simulator lead from the floor wire harness.
13. Check resistance between the No. 1 terminal of SRS unit connector B (28P) and body ground, and between the No. 2 terminal and body ground. There should be an open circuit or at least 1 MW.


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New ag research methods reach farm concessions
Living labs provide opportunities for global collaboration to solve complex issues in the agri-food industries
By Kate Ayers
Agri-food groups around the world promote sustainability throughout the value chain and launch new efforts to tackle overarching challenges.
Through living laboratories, better knowns as living labs, farmers, advisers, researchers, consultants, and other stakeholders co-develop and test innovative solutions to complex agri-environmental issues.
This widespread collaboration helps to expedite and broaden the adoption of best management practices in the industry.
For example, the European Union's AgriLink project aims to provide farmers with advisory services to support more sustainable production practices, the organization's website said. Contributing members established this organization in 2017.
AgriLink includes 16 partners from 13 countries who work together to create innovative food production approaches, analyze the governance of farm advisory systems, and develop socio-technical scenarios, the website said. To complete these tasks, the organization launched six living labs to test best management practices.
"Living labs have become a broad concept for multi-actor-participation. It started in the 1990s with students working in regional development. They (collaborated) with locals and university staff," Dr. Egil Petter Stræte said to Better Farming. He is the senior researcher for Ruralis, the Institute for Rural and Regional Research.
"However, the boost came when the European Union introduced living labs as a method (to stimulate) innovation in agriculture."
Ruralis is an independent, non-profit research organization based in Trondheim, Norway, the group's website said. The organization is an AgriLink partner.
The Ruralis research group studies ways to improve living labs as a method, Stræte said. Participants in Norway also use living labs to improve the effects of crop rotations on yields.
Dr. Egil Petter Stræte photo
The team cooperates with the regional agricultural advisory services to help farmers adopt more diverse crop rotations in their operations.
Two of the group's largest challenges are incentivizing farmers to use this best management practice and collaborating in new ways with advisers and farmers, Stræte said.
When the COVID-19 pandemic started, the advisory service and living lab organizers cancelled face-to-face meetings but participants immediately connected and discussed findings online. The regulations have since relaxed to once again allow face-to-face meetings, Stræte said.
This living lab in Norway has experienced success in its journey so far, but Stræte cautioned that teams must do some legwork to ensure projects run smoothly.
"I think the living lab method has potential, but it is important to be aware of the conditions for running a living lab. It is a tool and a method that is not suitable for all issues and situations," Stræte said.
"Living labs are (effective) for issues that have no obvious solution and where various stakeholders are involved."
Other AgriLink living lab projects include cultivating sustainable corn in the Netherlands and Belgium, rebuilding a local food community in Italy, and improving ag advisory services in Spain.
More details about these projects and AgriLink's work are available on the organization's website. BF


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The Outline of Love
26 Nov 2013 By collingwood21
Greek myth tells us of the young maiden Persephone, the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, who was abducted by Hades while out playing in the fields with her companions one day. Hades takes the girl to his underworld realm and makes her his bride, while above ground her mother Demeter, goddess of the harvest, searches in anguish for her lost daughter, pleading for Persephone to be returned to her. When she learns that Zeus has conspired in Persephone's fate, she refuses to let anything flower or fruit until her daughter is freed from Hades. Persephone is eventually returned so that her mother may restore balance to the world, but as she was tricked by her husband into eating his realm's food, she is condemned to spend each winter as queen of the underworld, with her return to Earth each spring signalling the time that Demeter will bring life and colour back to the world. In Morgan McCarthy's new book, The Outline of Love, we are given, if not a reworking, then certainly a parallel story that is broken up into ten parts, each preceded by a piece of the myth that creates a spine of structure throughout the text.
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The Other Half of Me
12 Jul 2012 By kingfisher
The Other Half of Me is Morgan McCarthy's first novel and it's an intriguing tale about an unusual and dysfunctional family. Jonathan and his sister Theo have grown up in Wales in a large old house called Evendon, brought up by a series of housekeepers while their mother lives in her own little world. They are pretty much left to roam free but do not necessarily enjoy having so much freedom. When their grandmother, Eve, returns, she brings an order to their lives but also an air of mystery. There seem to be some dark secrets lurking from the past that neither Theo nor Jonathan can make sense of.
The Other Half of Me follows Theo and Jonathan through from their younger days to early adulthood with the story moving between the past and the present.


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