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by Sherisse Pham April 24, 2017: 4:49 AM ET
Even top tech executives think they could be replaced by robots one day.
Alibaba founder and chairman Jack Ma, the man Fortune Magazine just named one of the world's great leaders, predicts that technology will make many CEOs irrelevant in the not-too-distant future.
"In 30 years, a robot will likely be on the cover of Time Magazine as the best CEO," Ma said in a speech over the weekend at an entrepreneurship conference in central China. And he warned of dark times ahead for people who are unprepared for the upheaval technology is set to bring.
"In the next three decades, the world will experience far more pain than happiness," the billionaire said, adding that education systems must raise children to be more creative and curious or they will be ill-prepared for the future.
Robots are quicker and more rational than humans, Ma said, and they don't get bogged down in emotions -- like getting angry at competitors.
But he expressed optimism that robots will make life better for humans in the long run.
"Machines will do what human beings are incapable of doing," Ma said. "Machines will partner and cooperate with humans, rather than become mankind's biggest enemy."
That's a more relaxed outlook than that of another global tech leader, Elon Musk. The Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX CEO said in 2014 that artificial intelligence is the greatest existential threat to humans, and he's now hoping to harness it in a way that will benefit society.
Ma's remarks come as Alibaba continues to expand beyond its main e-commerce business. The company is a leading provider of cloud computing that has been pushing the power of big data and has expanded into digital media.
Ma predicts that technology will eventually create a problem plenty of office workers would love to have: a shorter work week.
"In 10 or 20 years, people will work less than four hours a day, maybe three days a week," he predicted. With less time spent working, he said, we will question how to live.
-- Nanlin Fang contributed to this report.
CNNMoney (Hong Kong) First published April 24, 2017: 4:49 AM ET
http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/24/technology/alibaba-jack-ma-30-years-pain-robot-ceo/


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Car Bombs Target U.S., Iraqi Forces
July 15, 2005 10:49 GMT
15 July 2005 -- A series of car bombs exploded in separate areas of Baghdad today.
One car bomb targeted a U.S. convoy in the Rustamiyah area of southeastern Baghdad. Others exploded near Iraqi forces in the north of the city and in Andalus square in the downtown district.
News agencies report that up to six people may have died in the two attacks against Iraqi forces.
U.S. military authorities have yet to comment.
The attacks came as U.S. and Iraqi troops appear to be accelerating a search for insurgents linked to Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, head of Al-Qaeda's branch in Iraq.
The U.S. military said yesterday that U.S. and Iraqi forces arrested Khamis Abdul-Fahdawi, also known as Abu Seba, last week in Ramadi. He is a suspect in the slaying earlier this month of Egypt's top diplomat in Iraq.
(Reuters/AP/AFP)
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Everyday Air Pollution May Cause Stroke, Say Researchers
How to Disinfect Everything
Symptoms and Testing
Brandon Keim
Even low levels of air pollution may increase your chances of stroke, say University of Michigan epidemiologists. The findings, published last Thursday in the Annals of Neurology, were based on studies of air pollution and community health in a southeast Texas oil town. "The vast majority of the public is exposed to ambient air pollution […]
Even low levels of air pollution may increase your chances of stroke, say University of Michigan epidemiologists.
The findings, published last Thursday in the Annals of Neurology, were based on studies of air pollution and community health in a southeast Texas oil town.
"The vast majority of the public is exposed to ambient air pollution at the levels observed in this community or greater every day, suggesting a potentially large public health impact," said study co-author Lynda Lisabeth in a press release.
Lisabeth cautioned that more research in other climates is necessary to support her conclusions. There is, however, a large body of scientific literature describing the harmful effects of air pollution, especially at high levels.
That brings to mind a question: why are people so relatively sanguine about environmental human health issues? If a drug harms a handful of people, outrage and condemnations of industry and FDA incompetence erupt within days. But if a report says that, say, 30,000 people a year are killed by power plant emissions, only the usual activist suspects seem to notice.
I don't know the answer to this, but if any Wired Science readers have insight, comment away.
Ambient air pollution and risk for ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack [Annals of Neurology]
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Speaker kogi state house of assembly Prince Mathew Kolawole has urged members to take their legislative duties seriously.
The speaker who gave the charge at an emergency sitting of the house also used the plenary to welcome them back from the recess and into the new year.
While expressing the hope that the new year would be a more fruitful one Prince Kolawole enjoined members to carryout their oversight functions at committee levels as mandated by the constitution.
Meanwhile a bill for a law to provide for the revenue and expenditure of kogi state government for the year ending 31st December 2018 passed second reading on the floor of the house.
Leading the debate the majority leader Hassan Bello Abdulahi said the 2018 budget estimate of over 147 billion naira was presented by the governor to allocate the scarce resources of the state to critical areas of development.
In his ruling the speaker Prince Mathew Kolawole committed the budget estimate to the house committee on economic planning, budget monitoring and public accounts.
Also a bill for a law to provide for the revenue and expenditure for the 21 local government areas of kogi state for the year ending 31st December 2018 passed first reading.


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DAY OF THE EARTH
Climate Revolution in the Balearics
By Rosalinda Much
Climate change is doom and gloom and law-making on a worldwide scale is a slow and arduous process with an unsure outcome. However, with the clearing up of skies, lands and seas we have seen as a side effect of corona shutdown this Day of the Earth 2020 carries a message of hope – all the more so as, here on the Balearic Island, a quiet revolution seems to be underway.
A Spanish province -the Balearic Islands of Mallorca, Ibiza, Menorca and Formentera - operate as an autonomous community. Like other islands, they are especially vulnerable to climate change. But their government has devised a way to use the islands' insularity to advantage
Solar panels #
Engineer Joan Groizard Payeras is Mallorquin by birth. He graduated from Cambridge University before working in renewables in the UK, where he gained knowledge and experience on the climate change act, carbon emissions and more. Groizard was called home in 2015 to be the Balearics' Director General for Climate Change and Energy. As he told The Ecologist: "They wanted people who could focus on the technical side and bring new points of view to the islands."
The Balearics' new climate law brings the global commitments of the Paris Agreement into local legislation, drawing a path towards the islands' vision for 2050. It commits them to zero emissions from energy or transport and 100 percent sustainable energy, using the islands' natural resources of sun, waves and wind through specific graduated targets. "As an island, it's hard to find where to put renewable energy sources. The big car parks now have to incorporate solar panels as do all public buildings, enabling them to generate most of their own energy," Groizard said.
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From 2020, car hire companies must incorporate a quota of electric cars within their acquisitions. By 2035 every car they buy will be electric. From the same year, all new cars bought for the islands will also be electric or hydrogen and the government is working with petrol stations to incorporate charging points and repair shops to retrain their mechanics accordingly.
Mallorca's public transport is being revamped, too, the aim being to offer 50% more including new buses and train lines with the three major tourist lines electrified and others using natural gas as the first stage of transition.
Residents in the same municipality as wind farms are entitled to buy shares, making them financially and socially invested - echoing Denmark. From 2020, large and medium companies will have to calculate their carbon footprint with an obligation to reduce it from 2025 onwards.
"Tourism is central to our economy. We don't want to be a cheap destination. We want to be a great destination, which means being sustainable too." - Joan Groizard Payeras, Director General General for Climate Change and Energy of the Balearic Islands
Electric boats #
"Being an island," said Groizard, "we can do things that Madrid and Barcelona can't. We know when tourists and cars come in and out. Hopefully we can soon put up a big banner saying come to the Balearics, it's a nice place that's sustainable too."
In non-corona times, sometimes up to eight cruise ships were docked simultaneously in Palma, each carrying the equivalent of a small town and using its own power source for lights, air con, etc. Measurements at Palma's Bellver Forest record the significant impact this has on the city's air quality. In response, Palma's tourism department is negotiating with the cruise companies to stagger arrivals. Cold Ioning will provide a massive plug in the harbour connected to the local energy grid and many cruise ships are converting to natural gas, too.
Palma hosts Europe's largest marina. To protect posidonia, the algae that grow around Mallorca, the Biodiversity and Natural Spaces departments are working on legislation to ensure that boats don't anchor where they may pull up these plants, which support the environment by trapping carbon dioxide and returning it to the soil.
Around the island, other boats help yachts find buoys so that they can avoid using anchors completely. Beginning with ferries, the government is working to introduce electric boats.
Energy Efficient Housing #
For decades, the islands have suffered from poor housing construction with speed taking precedence over quality and sustainability even though the climate is ideal for sustainable housing. On Formentera, architect Carlos Oliver created a social housing scheme for fourteen houses prioritizing local materials including recycled wood and tiles created from sea plants that are manufactured by a company founded over a hundred years ago. Only five percent more expensive than conventional building methods, these are A class, A grade energy efficient homes. As Groizard says, the scheme dignifies social housing while freeing residents from most utility bills. Unusually for a housing project, the EU funded the scheme due to its sustainable nature.
Global Community #
"Historically the Balearics have an employment problem with economists, scientists, engineers and others waiting tables as their only means of making a living," Groizard said. "Once people see the advantages of new jobs created in connection with sustainable technologies, both they and their families become invested in the environmental benefits too. Not only are the islands becoming less dependent on tourism, but those who retrain have greater opportunities for work elsewhere." Words that gain an almost prophetic quality as during this COVID-19 crisis we see with new clarity how important it is to find alternatives beyond the horizon of tourism.
In addition, there is a commitment to sustain, revive and encourage traditional crafts such as using local carpenters to make wooden windows rather than importing PVC ones from China. In preference to a carbon tax, the new law makes it compulsory to incorporate locally sourced materials with certification used to ensure this happens.
Important elements of this law are its focus on creating a just or fair transition with easy to understand guidelines and a graduated process of change that ensures that private citizens, businesses or other entities are not left behind. The Govern Iles Balears wants civil society, citizens and the media to shine a light on what's happening in the Balearics. Hopefully the islanders will recognize how they are as much a part of Europe and the global community as anywhere else and fortunate to be so well known internationally due to their many residents and visitors from around the world, which is both a privilege and a responsibility to be used intelligently.
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It's clear how ambitious a task the government has set itself, but with over a hundred companies and a great many initiatives in the sustainable sector on Mallorca and more on the other islands, there are grounds to be hopeful.
Like Catalonia, the Balearics have experienced conflict with Madrid. On occasion, it has taken considerable courage to stand against the national government over issues such as closing the coal-fired power station at Alcudia, but the message is clear. "We don't want conflict. We're Spanish islands, please use us as a window and example to the world. Madrid can now go to Europe and say look what we're doing. It's still controversial but hopefully that will change," Groizard tells us.
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Fifty years later, the biggest and most constant threat to our planet is climate change. While the world continues to focus on economic growth not the climate, Groizard reminds us that, "Just as the Balearic Islands are finite with finite resources, so is the planet. Hopefully the similarity is clear."
Here in the Balearics, perhaps what is most exciting of all is the very inclusive nature of what is happening. Not only those living on the islands but by default, the world at large will benefit. This is no Don Quixote moment for the Balearic Islands, but a tangible opportunity to be both an inspiration and an example of how together we can move towards a better future for each and every one of us and Planet Earth herself.
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Pegram Harrison, Fellow in Entrepreneurship at the Said Business School, presents the 2nd lecture of the 2011/12 Building a Business lecture series.
Dr Lisa McNeil of Marketing investigates Generation Y. Generation Y is said to be the 'want it now' generation. A new study of consumption culture takes a closer look at the spending priorities of these young consumers and reveals that the very act of consumption is now integral to most of their social interactions, and fuelled by easy access to debt. But what implication does this have for society as Gen Ys grow older?
This course extends the ideas introduced in the course on first-order differential equations to a particular type of second-order differential equation which has a variety of applications. The course assumes that you have previously had a basic grounding in calculus, know something about first-order differential equations and have some familiarity with complex numbers.
This course is an introduction to basic NMR theory. Examples of biochemical data obtained using NMR are summarized along with other related experiments. Students participate in detailed study of NMR imaging techniques, including discussions of basic cross-sectional image reconstruction, image contrast, flow and real-time imaging, and hardware design considerations. Exposure to laboratory NMR spectroscopic and imaging equipment is included.
In addition to the traditional types of teams or groups outlined above, recent years have seen the growth of interest in two other important types of team: 'self-managed teams' and 'self-organising teams'.
Hannah Donovan, Lead Product Designer at Ripcord, explores the use of Big Data within the music industry.
Hindi songs are fun to listen to. But sometimes they can be difficult to understand. One of our listeners asked for an episode about the song Chori Chori Hum Gori Se from the movie "The Guru". In this lesson Kavitha explains the meanings of the words.
For a small country whose population has never been much in excess of five million, Scotland seems to have more than its fair share of famous men and women. Native Scots or those descended directly from them have been the recipients of some 11 per cent of all the Nobel Prizes that have been awarded.
In this section of the OpenLearn Scotland collection, we look in detail at the lives and work of four great Scots: John Napier, James Clerk Maxwell, Robert Owen and David Hume.


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The Lovecraft Reread
Roses Are Red, Violets Are Running Away As Fast As Possible: Michael Shea's "Nemo Me Impune Lacessit"
Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys
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Welcome back to the Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard's sandbox, from those who inspired him to those who were inspired in turn.
This week, we're reading Michael Shea's "Nemo Me Impune Lacessit," first published in the March 1982 issue of Whispers. Trigger warning for a man killing the woman who left him, also reference to snuff films. Spoilers ahead.
"What ecstasy of the flesh comes near that first savor of revenge arrived-at, assured?"
We begin with a passage from Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," in which revenge-obsessed Montressor reminds Fortunato that his family motto is Nemo me impune lacessit—No one attacks me with impunity. Witless with drink, Fortunato doesn't take the hint. Too bad for him.
Too bad the four who arrive at narrator "Monty's" country estate, Sternbrucke, don't see through his affected self-deprecation to his true ecstatic anticipation. They are ex-wife Valerie, beautiful but viciously self-absorbed; Kamin, Valerie's "porno prince" lover, equally beautiful, even more vapid; Natalie, Valerie's smarter sister—which Natalie will let you know, constantly; and Bo Beck, a "teasing, malevolent sort of pachyderm." As his visitors exclaim over the manse's "gothic" glory, Monty confides in the reader:
These shallow children believe him an "oddball, bookish cuckold; a gaunt, Old-Worldly man of late-middle age." In fact, Monty is more than 200 years old, a cosmos-delving warlock who serves the Old and Elder Ones. But for all his wisdom, he abandoned his priestly duties to woo Valerie, and play the "well-heeled bibliophile" in the gibbering maelstroms of New York and Los Angeles! Then porn film producer Roger and cameraman Bo persuaded Valerie to claim her rightful title as the "Queen of X." Sister Natalie urged her to divorce Monty in favor of a career that Natalie could help direct. Porn stud Kamin became Valerie's consort.
This left Monty free to return to his former service—a fortunate escape, and yet he insists on revenging Valerie's insult while appeasing his neglected gods. Revenge and sacrifice combined!
Monty's guests think they've come to film a horror-porn film, masterminded from afar by producer Roger. The set's to be a chapel with a unique stained-glass window. Bo thinks Sternbrucke's extensive and ancient cellars would make a scarier choice. Natalie has her own complaints. Who ever heard of combining horror and sex anyhow? And what's with the gobbledegook dialogue, Cthulhu fhtagn and crap?
Monty plies his guests with alcohol (served by mute butler Koboldus) and flattery, then skillfully separates them:
He lures Bo Beck into the cellars by hinting that Roger wants to use them for a snuff film. Bo fancies himself the future King of Snuff. Sex is old news, he tells Monty as they tour the underground labyrinth. Death is the new porn! If Monty does have medieval torture chambers, Bo can supply the trash-meat to torture, people dying anyway, wanting to make money, something to leave the mamacita, right? Proud of his puny Evil, Bo doesn't notice as they descend into a passage decorated with "Cthulhuoid art," wrought by the same webbed paws that dug the tunnel from the nearby sea. They enter a chamber with Bo's eagerly anticipated oubliette: Beneath the iron grates seethe shoggoths! Monty calls one forth to "embrace" Bo. Pliant to his will, it sucks out the brain but leaves the body intact…
Natalie assails Monty in the garden as he emerges from underground. He interrupts her renewed complaints with an emotional confession: He must tell her, as she's the only one with the insight to understand, that Roger wasn't behind their current project. He, Monty, created and financed it, paid Roger a quarter million to play along, all because he's a foolish lonely old man! Natalie squawks: A quarter million the sonofabitch hasn't shared with them? Monty groans: Oh, but Roger didn't get to enjoy the money, for Monty summoned an Entity to rapt Roger away. If she doesn't believe him (she raucously doesn't), he'll just show her his transcosmic Yuggothian roses.
Lead me to 'em, says Natalie, eager to play the skeptic. But before blooms bigger than cabbages, reds that devour the eye and set nerves afire, even she must sense Otherness. Her response, as Monty expected, is to attack the Strangeness, run into its enclosure as if she can make it yield. She cannot. She sinks to her knees. The colors aren't possible, she mourns. They're "feeling up my mind…groping my brain inside!"
Apparently this pleases Monty's masters: A body plummets into the rose bed, to be impaled by thorns. It's Roger, a "torn and emptied bag," dropped by Tsathoggua, to whom Monty sacrificed the producer. The Yuggothian roses open, disclosing yellow eyes. They press Roger with toothed kisses, devouring the god's discard, then uproot themselves and surround Natalie. Monty watches her demise, finding it… musical.
The last act of his revenge takes place in the chapel. Valerie and Kamin cavort on an altar beneath a vast color-shifting window. As the May Eve moon rises behind the glass, certain Visages appear. Bo Beck shambles to the camera. The actors speak their lines as if transported. The window seethes and resolves into a "cephalopod leviathan," great Cthulhu Himself! Valerie and Kamin scream, but their cries are lost in unearthly fluting.
Bo Beck steps forward, revealed as Koboldus in his true Deep One form. Monty intones Syllables of Consignment. The window bursts inward; Hounds of Tindalos attack Kamin and Azathoth's spidery companion Araknadd battens on Valerie's head. But the sacrifices have eyes only for Cthulhu, who "after one voluptuous pause, pinched those two squalling morsels from [the altar]."
Monty will relive this triumph to the end of his days, for few such are granted to any artist.
What's Cyclopean: New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles are full of "tube-battening, freeway-creeping, gibberish-howling yahoos." The warlock's dungeons, by contrast, delve down to meet "squiddish throngs."
The Degenerate Dutch: This is a story about a guy killing his ex-wife because she had the temerity to leave him, and has all the respect for women (and for men, for that matter) that you'd expect.
Mythos Making: Shoggothim in the dungeon, Yuggothians in the garden, and a flock of elder gods in the chapel. Sternbrucke is quite the estate.
Libronomicon: The story starts with a quote from Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado." In addition to Poe's Montressors, several military organizations also use the title phrase as a motto.
Madness Takes Its Toll: Beck howls and gibbers in his sanity's annihilation in response to meeting a shoggoth. Seems reasonable, if slightly unfair to the poor shoggoth.
Anne's Commentary
As this is my first Michael Shea story, I'm not sure whether he's having a laugh, but he's got to be having a laugh, right? Not that his laugh doesn't send chill shivers down the spine when it hits just the right eldritch pitch. I mean, if your book were titled Mythos Beasts and Where to Find Them, it would only need to contain two words: Sternbrucke Manor. Sternbrucke, minus one umlaut, is German for "star bridge," which is appropriate, given the window in the upstairs chapel. I wouldn't be surprised if Monty had a baker's dozen more interdimensional and/or transcosmic portals lying around the place.
To return to that verging-on-ridiculous plethora of Mythos entities, we've got both the Old and Elder Ones. (I wonder if there are also Aged Ones, Geriatric Ones, Superannuated Ones?) For deities active or called upon, we've got Cthulhu, Tsathoggua, Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth. No Nyarlathotep or Shub-Niggurath. Maybe They were on vacation together. For minor races/minions: Deep Ones, shoggoths, Hounds of Tindalos, Araknadd, transcosmic "roses" of the Yuggoth race. Why should Monty ever get lonely at Sternbrucke? I'm betting he felt more alone in New York and Los Angeles.
In addition to the Entity overload, there's a cast of characters that would be right at home in a Roger Corman horror flick, of his "upscale" but still tastily pulpy Poe adaptation variety. You know, starring Vincent Price as the gaunt, bookish Old-World man of late middle-age—hey! Wait a minute! Roger Corman, Roger the producer? Monty, who could certainly be played by—and Bo Beck even drops Mr. Price's name down in the cellars. Monty, Monty, Monty. You will forever be Vincent in my mind's eye now, as dear Valerie will be Barbara Steele.
About the revenge motif. Shea's story, explicitly, launches from Poe's great payback tale, but it is not a great payback tale. Nor is Poe's, for that matter, in the usual sense of a sympathetic-because-truly-wronged narrator and an obviously punishment-deserving villain. Poe's Montresor says that Fortunato has injured and insulted him but never tells how; the reader cannot, therefore, judge whether Fortunato "deserves" to be walled up alive. Probably not, right, or wouldn't the police be involved? As for Monty's victims, come on. Only snuff director wannabe Bo is loathsome enough to merit an eldritch fate. Monty is probably lying about Roger wanting to do a "snuff," so Roger's main "crime" is producing porn starring Valerie. Natalie's chief crime is being an annoying know-it-all who doesn't and who pouts when called on it. Could be the one good call Natalie made was to advise her sister to dump Monty, who (sorry Monty) just wasn't right for Valerie nor vice-versa. Valerie is Valerie. If Monty ever thought she was more than a toxically narcissistic beauty, he was blind or self-deluding—his fault, not hers. Kamin's a handsome shell, Valerie's male counterpart and accessory-of-the-moment, not worth Monty's ire.
Act your age, Monty! Which is 200 plus, and all those fantastic voyages through space and time! I have no sympathy for you, you whiny old warlock, wasting all that sorcerous energy and all those Entity-summoning points on your paltry revenges. Thinking you're all so complex with your posturings when it's Montresor who's really interesting with his odd little hesitations as the tiers of stone go up one by one. Or to compare you to another warlock, Howard's Joseph Curwen (who also kept minions under the floor of his subterrane altar chamber), try saving revenge for when people really do you wrong. Like when they lead mobs to your secret lair and get you killed, so you have to lie around dead for a couple hundred years before you can come back and revive them long enough to kill them horribly.
But—the whole Yuggothian rose garden thing was awesome, by far the scariest section of the story for me, and the one that brought home most powerfully (and ironically, given Natalie's earlier pronouncement) that sex and horror are intimates of old and ever. Oh, how the roses with their impossible colors feel up and grope poor Natalie's brain! How their blooming kisses devour the blushing flesh!
Red roses are for love, remember, for the next time you go to the florist. Except maybe not so much red roses out of space?
Ruthanna's Commentary
There are so many stories I would have enjoyed reading more than this piece of pettily icky, derivative meta-snuff that earns the Eight Deadly Words from me within the first page, but unforgivably continues for many more pages after that:
A story from the point of view of a horrible man who seeks some unpleasant goal, only to be eaten by a grue at the last minute—a plot that I prefer only to the version where the horrible man achieves his tediously predictable ends.
A story in which the warlock's occult taboo-breaking is set in opposition to his ex-wife's sexual taboo-breaking, and it turns out that out-of-bounds sex and out-of-bounds death bring equally vast and incomprehensible cosmic power. Livia Llewelyn could write this, and it would be glorious and terrifying.
A story entirely about cosmic botany beyond the scope of human comprehension. (That does not "feel up" your brain—sorry, but the telepathic equivalent of subway harassment is well within the scope of human comprehension.) Lovecraft could write this and make you glare suspiciously at every garden you passed for weeks.
A story about cosmic botany with the telepathic equivalent of subway harassment, but made campy beyond the scope of human comprehension. That would be the musical version of Little Shop of Horrors, which I haven't seen in way too long and could have watched in the time it took me to plod through "Nemo."
A story about the Transcosmic Yuggothian Roses, my next band, traveling the cosmos and destroying sanity with their mind-blowing music. Cat Valente basically already wrote this, and if you haven't read Space Opera you should.
A story about the poor shoggoth—the only character I found even remotely sympathetic—finally escaping its bonds and heading out to use its shapeshifting powers to film erotic comedies, an idea it got from eating Beck's brain and deciding to be as different as possible from the twit whose brain gave it indigestion. No one has written this yet.
Literally any story that contains a moment of surprise or an engaging character.*
I regret my life choices.
*I exaggerate for effect. I was, in fact, briefly startled to learn that Narrator was keeping a shoggoth in his oubliette. As my wife said, "That's certainly a choice one could make."
Next week, Ruthanna hopes desperately that an antidote to this week's story can be found in Dreams From the Witch House, and looks to Amanda Downum's "Spore" for her salvation.
Ruthanna Emrys is the author of the Innsmouth Legacy series, including Winter Tide and Deep Roots. Her neo-Lovecraftian stories "The Litany of Earth" and "Those Who Watch" are available on Tor.com, along with the distinctly non-Lovecraftian "Seven Commentaries on an Imperfect Land" and "The Deepest Rift." Ruthanna can frequently be found online on Twitter and Patreon, and offline in a mysterious manor house with her large, chaotic household—mostly mammalian—outside Washington DC.
Anne M. Pillsworth's short story "The Madonna of the Abattoir" appears on Tor.com. Her young adult Mythos novel, Summoned, is available from Tor Teen along with sequel Fathomless. She lives in Edgewood, a Victorian trolley car suburb of Providence, Rhode Island, uncomfortably near Joseph Curwen's underground laboratory.
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In My Creative Opinion: It's Christmas!
Ohhhhhhhhh these are all wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your cards are all so adorable (that shaker card.... swoon) and so was this kit! Echo park is one of my favorite lines of paper and this selection of paper is just darling. Your kit was just what I needed to help me get through my Christmas card list. Thank you Tracey for such a sweet kit! May all of your days be merry & bright!
Just gorgeous Tracey! I love the vintage looking Christmas colors!
Tracey, your Kit was just like Christmas... the anticipation was well worth it! So packed with fun - to borrow your phrase: our cards made themselves!
All wonderful, Tracey! The shaker is gorgeous! Love the combo of papers together! Have to say, I made good, good, use of your kit! Came in handy for the grandkids! Hugs, and thank you!
All the cuteness in one place!
Darling Kit,and fabulous cards Tracey.
Your kit was just the perfect thing to arrive in my mail! I loved it so much and it was such a big help for me as I was late getting cards made. Each of yours is fabulous--love all your sweet designs! The Echo Park papers were wonderful. And I was so happy to see the pup images--my favorites. Thanks so much for a wonderful kit! Hope you and your family have a very blessed Christmas!!
Oh, these are wonderful! There's something about the two Santa cards that tickle my fancy, but they're all a delight. Your kit was well worth the wait. I had so much fun with it, thank you!!
So perfect for Christmas. Beautiful.
Tracey thanks for this beautiful kit filled with so many good things.. pretty papers, gold embossing and all good things ! I love the cards you made..especially that shaker - it's absolutely magical!
Oh, wow. What a wonderful batch of cards. I really love the jumping santa with the dog and the perfect 'joy' sentiment to go along with that scene. Thanks so much for including me this month as your guest. I had so much fun with this kit.
Thank you for such a sweet Christma kit with so many pieces of patterned paper. Im sorry it was such a hard time for you to mail them out.
Each of your cards are absolutely darling! As always I love the clean look and can't wait to make a few more with your kit , they will be easy to mail ( not too thick) I love your Santa card!
Tracey, you are such an amazing talent! These cards are just gorgeous!!!
Six simply beautiful and incredible Christmas cards!!! Love them all but your second card with that sweet puppy just steals the show. This was one fabulous kit, so many wonderful images and all the gorgeous patterned paper! Thank you so much for such a fun and festive kit!!! Merry Christmas!


Major works of art of popular artists have been added to the collection throughout the years, giving the Musée a unique spot in the museum network of Québec.
The presence of famous artists, attracted by the beautiful landscapes, has given rise to a surge of talented artists in Charlevoix. Amongst them, painters Yvonne Bolduc, Georges-Édouard Tremblay, Robert Cauchon, Philippe Maltais et Berthe Simard; sculptors Joseph-Arthur Bouchard, Gérald Mailloux and many others are well represented in the collection of the Musée de Charlevoix. This anthology of regional folk art painters has prompted the Musée to take in interest in folk art, naïve, pure and undiscplined art forms from Québec and elsewhere. The collection also contains a great number of significant works in these unique artistic fields.
The Musée takes a particular interest in folk art but also collects the traditional art of famous artists who have been inspired and impressed by the region and who have participated in its fame, such as Clarence Gagnon, René Richard et Patrick Morgan.


Members receive by e-mail or snail-mail a quarterly subscription to The School Nurse Advocate. This quarterly publication keeps North Carolina school nurses informed about news, legislation, continuing education opportunities, and events related to school health.
Members are offered regional Continuing Education Programs on topics pertinent to school nursing.
Purpose: SNANC has established the Marilyn H. Asay Scholarship for School Nurse Leadership. The purpose is to enhance the clinical practice and leadership skills of school nurses in North Carolina through ongoing education to maximize the health and well being of the state's school age children and adolescents.
Members are eligible to receive the School Nurse of the Year Award and the School Nurse Administrator of the Year, presented annually by SNANC.
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SNANC supports a lobbyist at the Legislature. SNANC's lobbyist works long hours keeping SNANC's membership informed of legislation that impacts school nursing practice.
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The Townhouses at Cherry Creek North are located within one of the hottest and most convenient neighborhoods in Denver. Encompassing the Cherry Creek Mall and the local business district it offers movie theaters, galleries, grocers, fitness clubs, and endless options for retail and dining, all within walking distance. The property is primed for a condo conversion or turn-key investor. Excellent schools, both public and private, are available.


Motorola Mobility is a telecommunications equipment corporation of the United States and "Rick Osterloh" has recently named as the Chief Operating Officer (CEO). It is the cellular phone division of Motorolla and it was founded in January, 2011.
"Rick Osterloh" has recently named as the Chief Operating Offiicer (COO) of Motorola Mobility.
The current COO of the Motorola Mobility is ""Rick Osterloh".
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import android.os.Handler;

import com.daniellq.cleantabs.secondFragment.interactor.SecondFragmentInteractor;

import java.util.Random;

/**
 * Created by dani on 7/8/17.
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public class SecondFragmentRepositoryImpl implements SecondFragmentRepository {
    private SecondFragmentInteractor mInteractor;

    public SecondFragmentRepositoryImpl(SecondFragmentInteractor interactor) {
        mInteractor = interactor;
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    @Override
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                    String successMessageFromRepoteApi = "Second fragment message";
                    mInteractor.onMessageLoaded(successMessageFromRepoteApi);
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                    String errorMessageFromRemoteApi = "Failed to load message";
                    mInteractor.onMessageNotLoaded(errorMessageFromRemoteApi);
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            }
        }, 2000);
    }
}

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You can add all types of additional objects to your Microsoft Access forms for a customized look and improved functionality. In Design View, this group of additional objects is referred to as form controls. They allow you to refine categories and organize your filing system. Learn how to customize your forms by adding components with form controls.


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Q: How to wrap text in Dispform.aspx for all items in a list Does anybody know of a way to wrap text column headers/questions on a SharePoint 2013 list?
I had posted a question on here a few days back about how to do this on Newform.aspx. I have since managed this with the help of an answer from my question on here but it doesn't apply to Dispform.aspx. I have tried viewing a list item so it opens as a dispform.aspx and then editing the page, adding a script editor and inserting the same code used for newform.aspx but this doesn't seem to work.
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Does anyone how to make this work for dispform.aspx?

A: The default DispForm.aspx uses the class ms-standardheader, so you'd need to add
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Government officials from the Republic of Maldives visit Gulf Craft Factory
Male, Maldives; August 29, 2021: Gulf Craft's Chairman Mohammed Hussein Alshaali welcomed a delegation from the Government of the Maldives to the Gulf Craft shipyard yesterday, led by His Excellency Mohamed Aslam, Minister of National Planning, Housing and Infrastructure; Her Excellency Aishath Nahula, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation along with Adam Azim, CEO of the Maldives Transport and Contracting Company (MTCC).
The personal tour, hosted by Gulf Craft's Chairman and Terry Stamatakos, General Manager of Gulf Craft Maldives, comes after the shipyard was awarded the MTCC contract earlier this year to manufacture a fleet of specially designed high-quality speed boats for use across the Integrated National Public Ferry Network. The delegation visited the production facility where the vessels are being built by the shipyard's expert production team and were invited for a progress update and to inspect the boats, which are due to start being delivered later in 2021.
The new speed boats will offer a convenient and efficient transport system to all administrative islands of the Maldives, with capabilities to transport up to 53 passengers at a time, and will connect the capital city to nearby islands. The vessels will be equipped with special packages for passengers traveling in emergency situations and will include access for stretchers and people with disabilities. The government officials praised Gulf Craft for the shipyard's outstanding contribution to the Maldives economy. The public transportation project is one of the largest government initiatives and will contribute to connecting the various islands of the Maldives upon completion.
Aishath Nahula, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation said: "Gulf Craft has been overwhelmingly thorough in executing this project for the Maldives. It's been time-efficient, and we've been offered the best of quality that Gulf Craft has delivered over the 20 years in the Maldives. Given it's a public transport project for the country, the effort and dedication from the Gulf Craft team are remarkable. These vessels are going to complete our transport network and it's going to play a decisive role in the day-to-day lives of the people. It's truly a service to the nation."
Mohamed Aslam, Minister of National Planning, Housing and Infrastructure said, "A reliable public transport ferry service throughout the Maldives is one of the key pledges of the government. I am proud to acknowledge Gulf Craft is building the vessels for this service in the Maldives.
Chairman AlShaali added: "We and the friendly people of Maldives have a long-standing relationship that goes far beyond our current project together. I still recall the day when we opened our factory doors twenty years ago in the presence of former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. We are pleased to continue in building these distinguished relationships that unite us with the Government of the Maldives and its generous people."
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the Gulf Craft Maldives operation which has played a pivotal role in developing the marine transportation network of the island nation.
Gulf Craft provides almost 80% of the Maldives's water transport services which includes public transport, coast guard, emergency & ambulance services, resorts, and leisure sectors. With a strong and established presence in the country, Gulf Craft is now developing a new production facility dedicated to the manufacturing of vessels for use in the Indian Ocean which will see its operations and production capacity double within 16 months.
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Yesterday: Apple Keynote March 2019
Watch the Keynote:
https://apple.com/apple-events/march-2019
Apple Keynote – NYT Article
Apple Unveils Video Service With Celebrity Parade but Few Details – The New York Times
Apple's chief executive, Tim Cook, Oprah Winfrey, and Steven Spielberg at the company's headquarters after the announcement of Apple's new streaming-video service. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple unveiled a new video streaming service on Monday with a parade of celebrities rarely seen on a stage outside of Hollywood's awards season, with heavyweight directors like Steven Spielberg and J. J. Abrams and stars like Octavia Spencer and Jennifer Aniston.
Oprah Winfrey even served as the closer for the nearly two-hour event at the Steve Jobs Theater on Apple's campus. "They're in a billion pockets, y'all," Ms. Winfrey said of Apple's global reach. "A billion pockets."
As enthusiastic as the entertainment industry appears to be to work with Apple, it is increasingly clear that Apple needs Hollywood. After years of record profits, the company is slowing down. Phone sales are cooling, and despite the relative popularity of products like the Apple Watch, the next big thing has eluded the Silicon Valley giant.
Now, short of another game-changing gadget and facing tough competition from rivals like Amazon and Netflix, Apple is trying to make sure you never leave all those Apple devices you have acquired over the years. The company unveiled an expansive strategy to push consumers to do more than just buy its hardware products. It has plans for new monthly subscription services for TV programming, video games and news, as well as a new credit card.
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Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Transport, Tourism and Sport Robert Troy TD says the industrial action planned by Ryanair workers for Thursday should be deferred pending the outcome of negotiations.
Deputy Troy added that Ryanair must ensure passengers impacted by the industrial action are rerouted and compensated without delay.
Deputy Troy said, "The news that management and unions are set to meet tomorrow morning at a neutral venue for negotiations is encouraging. There is a reasonable case to be made for the industrial action planned for Thursday to be deferred pending the outcome of these negotiations. The negotiation teams now need to be given time and space to reach a deal.
"Regardless of the outcome, Ryanair must ensure passengers impacted by industrial action are rerouted and adequately compensated. There should be no unnecessary delays in helping passengers make alternative arrangements," concluded Deputy Troy.


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#TBT - Camp George Jordan: Seattle's Segregated Military Camp in SODO.
The #TBT series is a collaboration between the Black Heritage Society of Washington State and Africatown Seattle to give historical insights and perspectives into Black history and Black contributions in the Seattle area and Washington State as a whole.
By Stephanie Johnson-Toliver of BHSWA
Camp George Jordan: When Seattle Was Declared a Port of Embarkation
With military troops and veterans on my mind, this week I'll share the history of an important yet nearly forgotten, Camp George Jordan. Initially known as The First Avenue Camp, it was a segregated Army camp with "colored" troops housed on one side of the street and white personnel on the other for as long as the camp was active.
The camp was located at the foot of SW Spokane Street at 1st Avenue in Seattle. For reference, the camp site was in what we know as the SoDo District.
Port of Embarkation
There were military facilities established in the Puget Sound years before World War II. Fort Lewis and Fort Lawton were U.S. Army camps, where troops were stationed while preparing for and awaiting assignment for overseas duty. Other bases in the region included Navy and Air Force installments at Sand Point, Paine Field and Whidbey Island.
Prior to when the war with Japan ensued and the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941, Seattle's Port of Embarkation was a sub-port of San Francisco. Immediately following the attack, Seattle Port of Embarkation was declared independent and was ordered to be fully activated on March 1, 1942.
The 1st Avenue Cantonment
The Commanding Officer of Fort Lawton would have general supervision over the camp known as the 1st Avenue Cantonment. He was charged with providing administrative and supply personnel, and was responsible for discipline, morale, recreation and police of the camp.
The camp was to operate as a trucking company of African American enlisted men to transport troops from the local army bases to ships for overseas duty. In addition, they were responsible for loading ships and warehousing cargo.
Military personnel assigned to the camp were both white and African American enlisted men. However, Army command determined it to be a problem and undesirable to house them on the same campus. The designation of housing for detachments was defined and African American troops were located on the east side of 1st Avenue, south of Spokane Street. The camp began with 124 tarpaper shacks along the railroad tracks. Eventually it became 116 buildings.
In 1944, five African American units were assigned to the camp, designating 6 white officers and 213 black enlisted men in each of the units – the 578th, 846th, 847th, 851st, and 852nd Port Companies. Official records indicate additional units of African American troops continued to be assigned to the camp during its activation.
Name Change to Camp George Jordan
On November 26, 1943, General Order 102 announced the "Redesignation and Assignment of the Station". The order stated, "…Seattle Port of Embarkation troops known as the 1st Avenue Cantonment, is named Camp George Jordan in accord with Section 1, WD G.O. Bi No. 73." The camp was named in honor of an African American calvary man and Buffalo Soldier, Sergeant George Jordan (1847-1904), who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in recognition of his valor and bravery above and beyond the call of duty.
Camp Jordan Service Club
On the home front and at the heart of morale-building was the Camp Jordan Service Club. The club was a respite where black soldiers could pick up a conversation about back home, write letters, find light recreation, and on a regular basis live entertainment was organized on and off base for soldiers to get their "boogie woogie swing" on.
The mastermind and dedicated work behind the outreach and success at the Camp Jordan Service Club and other private venues that included the Elks, Eagles and the USO at the East Madison YMCA was Marjorie Polk Sotero. In 1944, Ms. Sotero accepted the position as the Director of the 6th Army Service Club at Camp Jordan. She needed an assistant and her sister, Kathryn Polk Lazard joined her as co-director.
Marjorie Polk Sotero (L) and Kathryn Polk Lazard (R) Kathryn Polk Lazard (L) and Marjorie Polk Sotero (R)
Image: Polk-Sotero Collection image: MOHAI/Al Smith Collection
With their success as Directors of the African American service club at Camp Jordan, the Polk's were asked to organize entertainment for Fort Lawton and Fort Lewis servicemen. The work did present its challenges on base because at this time segregation was still adhered to within the U.S. Army. The segregated practice is documented* in Camp Jordan flyers and the camp newspaper, The Jordan Journal, where the same entertainment is advertised separately for Cantonment 1 for African American personnel, and then at Cantonment 2 for white personnel.
The Polk Sisters recruited young women to help entertain at the dances and other special events. The volunteer hostesses often met at the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA (at the time it was located on 21st Ave off E Madison) to travel together to the venues.
*At BHS the Marjorie Polk Sotero Collection is rich with photos, flyers and articles of Seattle and the service club on the WWII home front that were donated by Ms. Sotero. The University of Washington, Special Collections holds two oral history projects that include interviews with Ms. Sotero. She elaborates on her childhood, education, family life, racial barriers and her involvement with Seattle's African American service clubs.
Marjorie Polk Sotero (R) pictured here with Roberta Byrd Barr (L), Seattle, WA c.1940's -Image: Property of Black Heritage Society of WA State, Inc.
War Ends – Troops Inactivated and Camp George Jordan Closes
On August 15, 1945, the war with Japan ended and it did not take long for steps to be taken to inactivate Camp Jordan. By October 1945 several quartermaster and transportation units were inactivated and through 1946 the careful process to demobilize the troops was high priority and attention for civilian employees, dependents of servicemen, supplies and equipment was critical.
On April 15, 1946 General Order 56 was issued, stating:
"1. Effective 15 April 1946, Camp George Jordan, Seattle, Washington is discontinued as a sub-installation under the Seattle Port of Embarkation and is transferred under the jurisdiction of the Fort Lawton Staging Area, Fort Lawton, Washington.
"2. Camp George Jordan's Central Post Fund will be closed not later than 15 April 1946." – By order of Colonel Jacobs
On March 10, 1947, the Seattle Times announced that Camp Jordan was declared surplus and its 116 buildings would be disposed of. The newspaper gave a brief history of the beginnings of the camp.
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Ground Turkey Salmonella Lawsuit: Butterball, Jennie-O | Pritzker Hageman, P.A.
Raw ground turkey sold at grocery stores nationwide has been linked to two recent Salmonella outbreaks. If you developed a Salmonella infection after eating turkey products associated with these recalled products you may have a claim.
One of the outbreaks, a Salmonella Schwarzengrund outbreak linked to Butterball ground turkey, has sickened six people in three states. These case-patients, who live in Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Carolina, range in age from less than 1 year old to 71 years old. One of them was hospitalized.
On March 13, 2019, Butterball, based in Mount Olive, NC, issued a recall for 39 tons of ground turkey products sold nationwide. These products, which were sold at retail stores including Kroger and Food Lion, were sold in plastic-wrapped trays with the "sell or freeze by" date of 7/26/18, lot code 8188 and establishment number "EST. P-7345" inside the USDA mark of inspection.
Health officials used Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) to identify the DNA "fingerprint" of the Salmonella strain that sickened the case-patients in this outbreak. In Wisconsin, unopened packages of Butterball ground turkey, collected from the home where all four Wisconsin case-patients reside, were tested. Results showed the packages contained the outbreak strain of Salmonella.
The other Salmonella outbreak includes a variety of raw turkey products including Jennie-O ground turkey. That outbreak includes 270 illnesses in 41 states, 107 hospitalizations and a fatality in California.
The strain of Salmonella Reading associated with this outbreak is widespread in the industry, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Jennie-O has issued two ground turkey recalls associated with this outbreak. In addition, Raws for Paws and Woody's Pet Food Deli, both makers of raw pet food, issued recalls after human illnesses were reported from contact with the pet food.
Pritzker Hageman Salmonella lawyers are representing several clients sickened in this outbreak including a 5-year-old girl who developed a painful bone infection called osteomyelitis as a complication of her Salmonella infection.
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The high pitched scream. The vibrating power. The imminent threat of horrendous injury or even sudden, violent death. You've assessed the scene, formulated your plan; you take a deep breath and begin your plan's execution. The chips fly as you begin; in no time at all one of nature's largest, and most majestic organism's teeters on the edge of falling. One last check to ensure the area is safe, and you begin the final cut. You hope that you have planned correctly. You hope that there isn't a random, unseen flaw in your plan, or in the wood. Trees don't hold grudges, but fate can be a fickle mistress. The giant begins to move, and so do you; you quickly turn and follow your escape path. You must resist the urge to turn to soon, but you want to see it all. Finally you turn and watch the final moments of a giant's fall. With a loud crash it's over, and you can relax as you plan the next phase.
Combining the intricacies and mysteries of physics and trigonometry with the thick browed savagery of a more primal time, the art of the sawyer is a thing of primal beauty. The work is physically demanding, as sweaty as it is dangerous. It is also a mental game: a challenge and a thrill. It can become an obsession.
What started as a simple problem faced by many homeowners led me down the rabbit hole into a grand adventure. My problem was a common one: I had some trees near my house that had become dangerous, or at least unsettling enough to make me nervous. They needed to be taken down for safety reasons. Some trees were too close to the house and lately there had been many strong storms with many trees being blown down in the area. Some were slowly dying and dropping limbs during every windstorm, and a few were growing at the top of an embankment that was gradually eroding underneath the trees root structures. The trees had to go and there were enough of them to pose a substantial cost to pay someone else to remove them. Plus, there was something about hiring someone else to cut down my trees in my yard that offended my inner machismo. So, in an effort to save face and money that would be better spent elsewhere, I decided to take the plunge and do the job myself.
For many, the chainsaw is the ultimate power tool. A marker on the road to manliness. And there I was, forty-two years old and I had never used a chainsaw. I was a chainsaw virgin. Other men would scoff at me, respond with a derisive "You've never used a chainsaw?". It was the high school locker-room all over again. But like the high school locker-room, upon closer scrutiny I discovered that many of my peers were also chainsaw virgins. Many were liars when it came to owning up to whether they had used one before, and of those who had, most did not know what they were doing. Their proficiency and abilities were greatly exaggerated. And so like so many before me, I turned to the internet in search of knowledge in how to tame this mechanical beast (how much mileage can I get out of this crazy metaphor?) Unfortunately the internet was also cluttered with unfounded claims of chainsaw mastery. Oh to be sure there were rich veins of knowledge to be mined, but the internet was also filled with fool's gold.
Oh, the hours of videos I watched, the pages of forum posts and articles I read and scoured, all in the pursuit of gaining some practical, and safe, knowledge in how to accomplish the solution to my problem. Perhaps that is what led to this obsession: the challenge, the work, and the thrill of power. Plus chainsaws are awesome. Really, really awesome.
And so a blog idea was born. I hope you enjoy the ride. In future posts we will explore the joys of finding the right compromise between size, power, cost, and durability when shopping for a new saw. We will also explore the various gear and accessories related to operating a chainsaw. It's time for some adventures in chainsawing.
And now we come to the disclaimers. The first being that I am not an expert. I don't make a living with a chainsaw, nor am I a certified instructor. I have not logged thousands of hours with a chainsaw in my hands. Hell, I don't even heat with wood, so I don't buck up cords of wood every year. This blog is meant to be a place that details my experiences, and what I, a dedicated amateur- an aficionado if you will, have learned in the quest for improving my knowledge base and skills with a chainsaw. Take what you read with a grain of salt. I whole heartedly advocate taking charge of your own adventure into learning, but I do hope that you find this blog to be a good starting point.
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The president carries on
United StatesSep 19th 1998 edition
Manhattan's welcome
FIRST the Internet, then last weekend's newspapers, now a clutch of instant paperbacks: the American public, it seems, has no way of escaping the Starr report and its relentless, pornographic 445-page detail. Nor, of course, has President Clinton.
But he must try, nonetheless, especially if America's television networks start airing the more embarrassing portions of Mr Clinton's videotaped testimony to Kenneth Starr's grand jury. After all, the price of failure will be both personal—the impeachment, censure or resignation of the president—and political. With the November 3rd mid-term elections looming, even Mr Clinton's closest Democrat allies are finding it hard to hide fears of an approaching electoral slide that will first present the Republicans with a filibuster-proof 60 seats in the Senate (they have 55 at the moment) and then deliver them the White House in 2000.
Hence the need for Mr Clinton to be presidential in appearance and word, if not always in deed and behaviour. On September 14th, for example, he was in New York, declaring that the United States and other economic powers must act together to meet "the biggest financial challenge facing the world in a half-century." Two days later, at a press conference in Washington with the Czech president, Vaclav Havel, he talked of encouraging phone calls from President Chirac of France and from the leaders of Mexico, Brazil and Canada. Questioned on his "moral authority", he replied in part: "What is important is that I do my job I am trying to do the still quite painful work that I need to do with my family in our own life, and I'm determined to lead this country and to focus on the issues that are before us."
All smoothly delivered, and with customary sincerity. But can any escape plan be assured of success? The more prurient passages of the independent counsel's report are gnawing away the public respect that comes with the presidency, encouraging Democratic politicians to distance themselves from a middle-aged leader who uses a cigar to play sex-games with a 21-year-old intern and who has oral sex while receiving telephone calls from congressmen. Whether Mr Starr, in his vindictive pursuit of the president, really needed to supply Congress with what amounts to the script for a porn-movie is beside the point. The script is public and, in the age of the Internet, even coy footnote number 210—"They engaged in oral-anal contact as well"—becomes a headline.
The president's instinct is to fight back as he has always done in the Monica Lewinsky saga: with careful semantics. While expressing abject contrition at a White House prayer breakfast, he noted that he would "instruct my lawyers to mount a vigorous defence, using all available appropriate arguments." Last week, even before they had seen the Starr report, Mr Clinton's lawyers issued a rebuttal dismissing the notion of impeachable offences and declaring that the report amounted to "nothing but the details of a private sexual relationship, told in graphic details with the intent to embarrass." Once they had read the report with its 11 "acts that may constitute grounds for an impeachment", the lawyers' reaction was much the same: "After four years, scores of FBI agents, thousands of documents, and tens of millions of dollars the Office of Independent Counsel has presented to the House a referral that no prosecutor would present to any jury The president did not commit perjury. He did not obstruct justice. He did not tamper with witnesses. And he did not abuse the power of the office of the presidency."
Or so they keep repeating, with precious little effect. After the president's lawyers wove their semantic way through last Sunday's TV talk-shows, Tom Daschle, Democratic leader in the Senate, issued a statement agreeing "with those who have grown impatient with hair-splitting over legal technicalities The president and his advisors must accept that continued legal jousting serves no constructive purpose." His counterpart in the House, Dick Gephardt, chimed in with a similar rebuke: "The considered judgment of the American people is not going to rise or fall on the fine distinctions of a legal argument but on straight talk and the truth."
Clearly so, but then Mr Clinton and his legal aides presumably fear that any straightforward admission of perjury, suborning perjury or obstruction of justice would leave the president open to criminal indictment, quite apart from giving Paula Jones added reason to seek the revival of her civil case alleging sexual harrassment. They are also well aware that Mr Starr's investigation continues. Hence the rumours that several White House staff—and even the First Lady—may yet find themselves indicted, perhaps on matters that go back to Mr Starr's original scrutiny of the Whitewater deal and then the administration's behaviour in "Travelgate" and "Filegate".
But at least the president can try to improve the presentational aspects of his defence. One attempt was the announcement this week of the "pastoral care" he is receiving from a Methodist minister and two Baptists (one of whom, like the president, is a repentant adulterer). Another was the appointment on September 15th of Gregory Craig, a State Department lawyer with a reputation for being a lot more street-smart in politics than Mr Clinton's private lawyer, David Kendall, to liaise with Congress.
Mr Craig's task will not be easy. One leading Democrat, Senator Joe Biden from Delaware, has already pointed out to the president's aides that some Democrats (not necessarily himself, he added) feel the country would benefit from Mr Clinton's resignation. Meanwhile, the Republicans can find a dozen ways of discomfiting the White House. Senator Frank Murkowski of Alaska, for example, has suggested Mr Clinton pay the cost of the Lewinsky enquiry, put by Mr Starr at $4.4m (a sum which does not include the cost to the taxpayer of the president's lawyers). Might such an idea be attached to a vote of censure? Conceivably; but the momentum towards impeachment by the House and trial by the Senate could become irresistible.
In the end, Mr Clinton's best defence may turn out to be his popularity. In polls taken since the Starr report's release, 60% or more of Americans approve of the way Mr Clinton does his job, and want him to complete his term. True, only 39% of Americans, according to a New York Times/CBS poll, now have a favourable opinion of his "personal image" but only 36% want impeachment hearings and 57% would prefer a censure vote. Indeed, Clintonian optimists argue that the "yuck factor" in the Starr report will produce a backlash in the president's favour. So too may his assertion that his enemies are cynically distracting the nation from his reformist agenda, and undermining America's role as the world's leader.
Maybe so. But pessimists counter that during the Watergate hearings only a third of Americans were in favour of Nixon's impeachment, and not until August—the month of his resignation—did a majority want him to leave office. One Democratic insider says resignation is not an option: Mr Clinton "will go downhill ski-ing through hell" before he resigns. But if that bravado is based on the opinion polls, perhaps he should think again.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline "The president carries on"
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Yan Bingtao regrets losing his first ranking champion at the Northern Ireland Open 8-9
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In the early morning of November 27th, Beijing time, the 2017 Snooker Northern Ireland Open ended perfectly. Chinese teenager Yan Bingtao, who was born after the 00s, was finally reversed 8-9 by Mark Williams, one of the 75 bests, and missed his first ranking championship, but he still became the youngest player in history to reach the finals of the major rankings.
Yan Bingtao, the best rookie of last year, has been in the profession for less than two years and has a good record. In the recent Daqing National Championships, Yan Bingtao defeated O'Sullivan and Higgins, two favorites, to win the semifinals. In this year's Northern Ireland Open, he continued to win consecutive snooker wins such as Mark King and Ryan Day. In the semi-final derby, he beat Wu Haotian 6-2 into the final and became the youngest finalist. Players.
The finals will be conducted in two stages with a 9-win system of 17 rounds. At the beginning of the game, Yan Bingtao played steadily and got a good start 2-0. Then Williams pulled back one game, Yan Bingtao was unwilling to show weakness and won the fourth game. In the fifth inning, Williams scored 104 points on a stroke, and Yan Bingtao replied with 63 points in a single stroke in the sixth inning, leading 4-2. Williams won the seventh game 63-3, reducing the point difference to 3-4. In the eighth game, Yan Bingtao did not give Williams a chance to tie the score. 66-12 rewritten the score to 5-3.
After the start of the second stage of the game, Yan Bingtao scored 134 points on a single stroke, and the score expanded to 6-3. Next, Williams won three games in a row and tied Yan Bingtao 6-6. The next four games were staged for Yan Bingtao to win, and Williams then tied. In the deciding game, Yan Bingtao made a mistake at a critical moment, and Williams seized the opportunity to seal the victory.
Although Yan Bingtao passed the first professional championship, he became the youngest runner-up in the history of snooker in the world. I hope he will continue to work hard and achieve even better results!
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Do students take notes in an optimal fashion, in line with what psychology research identifies as best practice? It's an important question given that modern surveys suggest that most students' preferred approach to exam preparation is to memorise their notes. To find out, a team led by Kayla Morehead at Kent State University has quizzed hundreds of university students about their note-taking methods and preferences, and they've reported their findings in the journal Memory.
According to Morehead's team, the evidence, though complex and mixed, suggests overall that it is better to take notes with pen and paper rather than typing on a laptop (laptops can distract the note-taker and those sat near them, and note-book notes tend to be more varied and less verbatim). Yet nearly half the sample reported that they took lectures notes on a laptop. However, around a third were flexible in their approach – for instance, they resorted to a laptop only when the lecturer spoke quickly. Whether the students' flexible strategies were effective has not yet been tested by research, the authors said.
Another key finding in the psychology literature is that it's better to use your notes to organise the information you're learning about, rather than to simply record what you hear verbatim. Nearly 60 per cent of the sample said they organised their notes, meaning a sizeable minority were following a sub-optimal strategy.
When it comes to learning from one's notes, passively re-reading is an extremely popular strategy, even though it's more effective to use the notes to test yourself. Over 90 per cent of the current sample said they spent time re-reading while about half tested themselves.
An increasing proportion of students are today enrolled in online courses where they can, in theory, revisit recorded lectures as many times as they like. Perhaps it is this sense of constant availability that explains why only around half of the online-course students in the sample said that they took notes. This is a concerning finding, the researchers said, since the ability to revisit online lectures does not negate the benefit of taking organised notes from them, nor using those notes for self-testing.
This is just one sample, based in the US, and the findings could be different in other cultures and settings. Nonetheless, there no obvious reason to suppose the findings would be radically different elsewhere: the mundanity and apparent simplicity of taking notes belies the importance of this activity for learning, and anecdotally, it's rare for students to receive formal advice or tuition on how to take notes. Among the current sample, fewer than half of participants said they'd received any formal training and nearly 60 per cent said they would like to take better notes.
"Given the importance of effective note-taking to memory for and learning of course content, continuing to examine student note-taking behaviour as technologies change will be an important avenue for future research," Morehead and her colleagues said.
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This is based on self-reported data which is a poor proxy of the note taking behaviours of students. A student could consider 'organising their notes' as using highlighting and colours, which has been shown to be an ineffective learning strategy. A more rigorous protocol would be to have trained instructors review the actual notes written by students and compare this with the lecture that was delivered to assess their actual note taking habits. For example, while the student survey in this study found that 96% of them reported they took notes, a third party observer in my lectures found that most students in my lectures do not. The margin of error is so great that throws suspicion about the generalisability of the results reported in this study. As students are now provided with notes from Powerpoint and videorecording of lectures, they are now less and less motivated to take notes.
All through my undergraduate and grad school years, I was always willing to share my notes with friends who may have missed a lecture or two.
Most would only ask once.
My notes would include the date, topic, and whatever key words, phrases, names, dates, figures, and side comments I thought might be useful. Most fellow students were somewhat appalled that they would write several pages of almost verbatim lines from the lectures and I would sketch out a couple of pages of cryptic entries. Whatever it took to jog my memory or remind me to look up later.
The bottom line is find out what works for you.
This is all well and good but it takes for granted that there are some students that can not write down the important parts of a lecture by hand, therefore having to rely on a laptop in order to keep up with the rest of the class. This perspective, skewed as it is, falls heavily into an ableist point of view. What's good for the goose is not always good for the gander. And for that matter, what's IN the notes should be far more important than HOW they're recorded.
In my experience in psychology classes at my university, those students taking notes by hand had lower grades, less time to focus on what was being lectured on and more often than not were drawing in the margins rather than writing down the important bits because they got behind attempting to write down their notes and gave up. Not to mention if someone was to ask for their notes they had to decipher chicken scratch and short hand that makes little sense to someone that isn't the original writer.
This study was taken from a very limited pool and needs to be remembered as such.
I agree with Trevis's ableist comment. I have osteoarthritis and I can no longer sustain any handwriting for more than a minute or two. The key many articles and papers have pointed out is that hand written note takers write summaries rather than writing verbatim. That technique can also be done on a computer.


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Former Canadian National Road Race Champion Ryan Roth wins White Spot | Delta Road Race
Tsawwassen, BC – Ryan Roth lists a burger, fries, and shake as his favourite food in his bio on the Silber Pro Cycling website, so perhaps it's extremely appropriate that he won the White Spot | Delta Road Race on Sunday. The BC-based restaurant has long been a supporter of the Tour de Delta and is famous the world over for its legendary burger.
No word on whether or not the 32-year-old from Kitchener, Ontario indulged after the race, but Roth certainly had a lot to celebrate after breaking away and cruising across the finish line 10.4 seconds ahead of Canadian National Road Race Champion Bruno Langlois and two-time White Spot | Delta Road Race winner Steve Fisher.
"I had fantastic legs today and I really wanted to be in the breakaway, so I went all in on that early and it didn't work and then it didn't work again, but luckily it played out pretty well," beamed Roth after finishing the 12 lap, 155.4 kilometre trek.
The race had a unique feel as it saw a massive group of riders go off at the beginning, and Roth's Silber team had some representation in the break, including Elliot Doyle who won Friday's MK Delta Lands Criterium, and just decided to jump across at that point.
"There was a few of us, but we didn't panic, we had two guys up there in that group, including some speed with Elliot," explained Roth, who is a former Canadian National Road Race Champion himself. "We really wanted to have three instead of two, just to have better numbers and luckily Will Routley and I, and a few of us guys bridged across and from there it was like 'chop it down' and play out the finish."
With this being the third year with UCI designation for the White Spot | Delta Road Race, the calibre of cycling just continues to improve. Roth makes no bones about the fact that his team was here to get the valuable UCI points.
"The UCI points are really important. For this week, it was the biggest objective for me because of the points. We want to try and win the UCI America Tour and the points really help us with invitations to the bigger tours like the Tour of California and races like that in the future," he said.
For 37-year-old veteran Langlois of Team Garneau Quebecor, the red maple leaf on the Canadian National Road Race Champion might as well have been a target because there's extra attention and motivation that goes along with it.
"When you get that jersey, you have to show that you deserve it. I'm happy to have the jersey and I wear it pretty proudly. That's why I attacked so much, that's why I went up the road, to give 110 percent to represent my country and that jersey, so today that's what I did. I got second and that's okay, Ryan was just stronger than me today," said Langlois, who lists hunting and fishing as two of his interests outside of cycling.
Being from Bellingham, Washington, Fisher is pretty close to calling the White Spot | Delta Road Race a hometown course. It's only an hour's drive for Fisher and he's also won the race twice – in 2012, and the first year it received UCI designation, in 2013. There's just something about riding in Tsawwassen that clicks with the 26-year-old, even if he can't quite put his finger on it.
"It's hard to say, I'm happy to have a team here this time so I can do this road race – I missed the last two years. It was pretty on from the start today and found myself in the right place again so I'm happy about that," he said, admitting that he was hoping for a sprint at the end. "I think my chances in a sprint are pretty good among that group, but Ryan and Bruno were both riding very strong today so I've got to hand it to Ryan for going away when he did. He was clearly the strong man and deserved the win."


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Angel Kelley (born 1967) is an American attorney and judge serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She is a former associate justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court.

Education

Kelley received her Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University in 1989, her Master of Laws in trial advocacy from Temple University in 2003, and her Juris Doctor from Georgetown University in 1992.

Legal and academic career

Kelley began her legal career as a staff attorney at The Legal Aid Society in the Juvenile Rights Division in Brooklyn, New York from 1993 to 1997. From 1997 to 2005, she was an attorney for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. From 2007 to 2009, Kelley served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts. From 1992 to 2005, she was a part-time instructor at Columbia University. From 2004 to 2005 she was a part-time instructor at New York University. From 2005 to 2007, she was a clinical instructor at Harvard Law School. Since 2012, she has been a part-time adjunct professor at Suffolk University Law School. Since 2016, she has been a volunteer instructor at Emory University School of Law and since 2018, she has been a part-time adjunct professor at Boston University School of Law.

Judicial career

State judicial service
In 2009, she was appointed to the Massachusetts District Court by Governor Deval Patrick and sworn in on September 17, 2010. On January 4, 2013, she was nominated to be a judge of the Massachusetts Superior Court and confirmed to the position on January 24, 2013, in a 6–2 vote.

Federal judicial service

On May 12, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Kelley to serve as a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts to the seat vacated by Judge Douglas P. Woodlock, who assumed senior status on June 1, 2015. On June 23, 2021, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On July 22, 2021, her nomination was reported out of committee by a 15–7 vote. On September 14, 2021, the United States Senate invoked cloture on her nomination by a 52-43 vote. Her nomination was confirmed later that day by a 52–44 vote. She received her judicial commission on September 15, 2021, and was sworn in the same day. She is the second African American female judge and the second Asian American judge to serve on the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts.

See also
 List of African-American federal judges
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Spring is the perfect time for maintenance and cleaning projects around the horse barn.
Spring is the perfect time to tackle maintenance and cleaning projects around your horse barn. Generally, the weather is becoming more pleasant and "spring fever" starts to kick in, endowing us with energies and enthusiasm we didn't know we had!
Take a look at the roof - how is it holding up?
If there has been some damage over the winter - for example, if high winds have lifted the corrugated tin sheets or shingles have been damaged - you'll need to think about repairing it. This may be something you feel confident doing yourself, or you may prefer to call in a contractor.
If there are a lot of leaves on the roof, use a high-pressure hose to clean them off.
Check the guttering - is it clogged with leaves?
If there are a lot of trees around your stable there's a good probability that the gutters and down spouts are clogged with leaves.
If you haven't got a high pressure hose, you can do just as good a job by hand, it will just take you longer. It will save a bit of time if you position a wheelbarrow by the ladder, so you can scoop leaves out of the gutter and drop them straight in the wheelbarrow, so you don't have to go round later sweeping up leaves.
Check windows and doors and replace those that have been damaged during winter storms.
How's the drainage around the barn area? If there are spots that continuously held water and got churned up and muddy all winter, considering improving drainage.
This can be accomplished in a number of ways, for example, digging drainage ditches or adding gravel to muddy gateways, but it's best to contact the Agricultural Extension Agent in your area for their suggestions. They will be familiar with what has worked, and what hasn't and can advise accordingly.
Check the fencing in the paddocks and pastures.
If boards are popping and nails are sticking out, you'll need to go round with a hammer and take care of the problem before you horse finds the protuding nails and injures himself.
Check the water troughs in the pastures - freezing temperatures may have damaged pipes.
If you are going to be doing any repairs in and around your horse barn, try to do them when the horses are not in the barn. Sweeping and activities such as sawing wood will create excessive dust which will not be healthy for the horses. After repairs have been completed, run over the whole area with a powerful magnet to pick up left over nails, before allowing the horses back in.
Do the rafters look like something out of "Arachnaphobia"?
Personally, I would get someone else to get up inside the roof with a large broom and take care of the spider webs! But that's just me and my fear of spiders.
Check the stall walls and doors.
Sometimes horses who are bored by being kept in during inclement weather, take out their frustration on the stall walls and you may need to do some repairs.
If you've got clay floors in your barn, you may want to consider levelling the floors and filling in the holes with a suitable material.
Sometimes the holes in clay floors are caused by horses pawing, sometimes by stall cleaning itself. However it's caused, left unattended, the situation will get worse, excess urine will collect in the holes, soiling bedding and creating an unhealthy environment.
Once you have checked your barn over and repaired anything that needs repairing, it's time to turn your attention to the tack room.
Now's a good time to send all those blankets out for cleaning.
It's possible to find a service that will collect all the blankets in the barn, clean them, repair them and pack them neatly in yards of cling-film which keeps them clean and keeps the bugs out. Services like this are worth their weight in gold!.
Having temporarily cleared out some space in the tack room, take advantage and spend some time with your tack spread all over the place, in pieces.
Check the leather for wear and damage. Replace what needs replacing, thoroughly clean the rest.
Use this opportunity to reorganize your tack room.
Add more shelves if necessary - hardware stores and building supply centers are good sources for modular shelving.
Look around for suitable containers that will keep small items neat and tidy. Rubbermaid, for example, make a wide range from their rough totes to stackable baskets.
Go through your First Aid kit and make sure that any items which are dated are still good and replenish any items you are getting low on.
Clean and disinfect all brushes, towels and other items before storing them back in your new shelves and containers.
I hope this has given you some ideas and inspiration to get started sprucing up your horse barn. Of course, you don't have to stop here--you can really go to town and give everything a new coat of paint, decorate the yard with some container plants and add nifty name plates to all the doors. By the time you are done, you'll have a facility you can be proud of!
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