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Student confirmed as COVID-19 case at H.B. Beal Seconday School
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Published Monday, September 21, 2020 4:17PM EDT Last Updated Tuesday, September 22, 2020 9:51AM EDT
LONDON, ONT. -- The Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) has confirmed that a person tested positive for COVID-19 at H.B. Beal Secondary School, the first school case in London.
It has been confirmed to CTV News that the case is a student and that only one class so far is impacted.
The case is not believed to have originated at the school.
Close contacts of the person in question have been notified and will be asked to get tested.
"We are working closely with the Thames Valley District School Board and the staff at Beal Secondary School to ensure everyone has the information they need to address concerns while also reducing the risk the virus could spread further," says Dr. Chris Mackie, Medical Officer of Health with the MLHU in a news release.
"In the meantime, we are asking parents of students, and staff members, to watch for symptoms of COVID-19 and to seek testing at an Assessment Centre should any develop," Dr. Mackie adds.
According to the Thames Valley District School Board, the MLHU has indicated that there is no evidence at this time that the case resulted from contact at the school.
Only students and staff who are at risk will be contacted by the MLHU. They will be asked not to return to school until they have been tested and free of symptoms.
The school will remain open at this time and school buses will operate.
Officials from the Thames Valley District School Board declined repeated requests for an on-camera interview Monday evening.
A joint news conference will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. with the board director and Dr. Mackie.
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Welcome to On Giant's Shoulders #54, the history of science blog carnival! Here, we celebrate the history of science with all its oddities, and modern science delves into the past. I can't think of a better way to spend my third blogoversary (of regular blogging) here at Contagions. Just a few days away from the winter solstice, I managed to fill my sleigh with a load of science history links. Cuddle up with a warm mug of hot chocolate (or whatever warms you) and settle in for some good reading.
Since the culture war between science and religion heated up, there has been friction between science and religious holidays like Christmas. Rupert Cole of Notes & Theories reminds us that this was not always so. In Victorian England, the popularity of science and Christmas festivities peaked with the public at the same time and reveled in each other. Victorian Christmas plays and pageants were followed by science lectures to explain the featured science and technology! Public Christmas trees were decorated with scientific instruments that were given to children. Those were the days. Though some science folks still know how to mix up the traditions. In a throw back to at least the sixteenth century, Diane Mcllmoyle of Esmeralda's Cumbrian History and Folklore writes about the holiday tradition of mummer's plays with its requisite quack doctor.
Let's kick this carnival off with a stimulating discussion on, of all things, the omnipresence and worth of (what we call today) pseudoscience. Rebekah Higgitt of The H Word addresses claims that pseudoscience is on the rise with a history lesson, and ThonyC of Renaissance Mathematicus goes one step further asserting that pseudoscience has sometimes been helpful to the development of science. Faye Flam of Lightning Rod writes on Michael Gordin's recent research on pseudoscience. Continuing with the supernatural, Lindsey Fitzharris of The Chirurgeon's Apprentice discusses Abraham Lincoln's conversations with the dead.
As always posts on Charles Darwin must be featured in On Giant's Shoulders. Suvrat Kher of Rapid Uplift writes about Darwin's slow, deep-thinking methods. Michael Barton of The Dispersal of Darwin calls out more quote mining of Darwin by anti-Darwinists. James Randerson writes of the private life of Charles Darwin. The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project also launched this month to coincide with the centenary anniversary of his death in 2013. Tim Jones of Zoonomian celebrated the birthday of the other famous Darwin, the polymath Erasmus Darwin (d. 12.12.1731). He also visits Annie Darwin's grave and reviews Dr Gully's water cures.
Joachim D of Mousetrap posted on Herbert Spencer's synthetic philosophy and the centrality of evolution in his thinking.
Kristina Killgrove of Powered by Osteons summarized Nutrition and Well-Being in the Roman World: The Evidence of Human Bones, a conference this fall in Rome. Katy Myers of Bones Don't Lie discusses how isotope data from bones informs on the social structure of an Anglo-Saxon settlement. In another post she discusses skeletal weapon trauma in medieval Ireland confirming the violence in Irish medieval records. In her most recent post she discusses the discovery and analysis of the graves of victims of the attempted mutiny of The Batavia off the coast of Australia in 1628.
Katy Meyers of Bones Don't Lie discusses a new study examining osteological and molecular evidence of TB at three neolithic sites in Germany at the transition to farming. I have a post on the Black Death Network reviewing the molecular evidence of the Black Death. If you have any interest in the 14th century crises — plague, famine, cattle murrain etc. — check out the Black Death Network. Spirochetes Unwound discusses the latest theory on the mysterious epidemic of 1616-1619 that decimated native Americans along the New England coast. Here on Contagions, I posted on the isolation of smallpox DNA from 17th century Siberia. The History of Vaccines blog posted a sketch of smallpox vaccine production in a cow, along with a discussion of vaccine production in 1872. Bringing us up to the 20th century, Rebecca Kreston of Body Horrors brings us the story of the first case of HIV in a 1961 Norwegian teenager who brought an unusual strain of HIV (group O) to his family and seeded it across in Europe.
Genomics can help unravel the history of peoples who have left little documentary record. History of the Ancient World Blog has a post on a new study examining Scythian genetic admixture. Katherine Harmon of Observations covers a new study showing Gypsy or Roma origins in India about 500 CE/AD. This places the movement of the Roma out of India into Central Asia during the Great Migrations period that occurred when the Western Roman Empire fell in the fifth century. Interesting to think of the Roma as the last of the 1500 year old Great Migration peoples. Also covered on Past Horizons.
Mike Drout and his team at Wheaton have been applying DNA analysis and statistics software to Old English texts to determine authorship. They call it Lexomics — check them out.
Early modern medical practice was in the spotlight this month. Mike Rendell, The Georgian Gentleman puts a spotlight on contemporary views of 18th century medical practice. Home remedies were not any more successful, as ThonyC of Renaissance Mathematicus writes about in George Boole's death from his wife's homeopathy. Jai Virdi of From the Hands of Quacks explores the motivations of Dr Curtis' founding of the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear. The Secret Histories Project brings us a biography of the unconventional Dr. James Barry, child genius, military surgeon, and annoyance of Florence Nightingale. Venessa Heggie of The H Word, writes on the 70th anniversary of the Beveridge Report, that founds the modern British welfare state, about earlier attempts to build a social safety net in Britain with Elizabethan Poor Laws and the infamous Victorian workhouses. New blogger Jennifer Evans of Early Modern Medicine writes about the rhetoric of men pushing through the pain. Lisa Smith's of the Sloane Letter project, she looks at the problem of bed wetting in the 18th century. Lindsey Fitzharris of The Chirurgeon's Apprentice got ready for the holiday season by picking 12 (medical) instruments of Deathmas; most are sure to make you squirm. Caro of The Quack Doctor writes about the fun and games at Illinois Pharmacological Association meetings for traveling salesmen near the turn of the 20th century. Lynsey Shaw of the History of Military Aviation Hospitals writes on The Oxford Military Hospital, 1939-45.
Efforts to figure out the brain were popular this month. Michael Finn of Asylum Science wrote about the use of ophthalmoscope to view the living brain in asylums. The Public Domain Review reprinted "The Brain of Charles Babbage" (1909), the 'father of the computer'. Darin Hayden wrote about a phrenological examination of Andrew White (who played a role in igniting the friction between science and religion).
On chemicals we are better off without, Marieke Hendriksen of the Medicine Chest writes about how mercury was viewed by early medical practitioners. Deborah Blum of Elemental writes about how early the US FDA knew about radiation dangers in cigarette smoke.
Christina Agapakis of the Oscillator writes about the medieval Urine Wheel to diagnose metabolic diseases.
Michelle DiMeo of the Recipe Project writes about Dr Crawford Long's exploration of the uses of ether for insect bites. Lisa Smith at the Recipe Project writes about a treatise claiming coffee cures the plague. In the area of hard to find reagents, Chelsea Clark of The Recipe Project shines light on the wonders of unicorn horns, bezoars and bones of a stag's heart for poisoning. Alas, black markets for animal products like Rhino's horn (a unicorn substitute) and bear gal bladder is still very active and taking its toll on increasingly rare animals. A little easier to resource, Jonathan Cey of the Recipe Project, shows us that feces-containing remedies were common in the early modern pharmacopoeia. So patients were more right than they knew when they said their medicine tasted like crap! Pamela Dangle also of The Recipe Project writes about some really "fishy" remedies for Melancholy (that seem rather unlikely to help, to me). Thinking of odd remedy names, Tim Jones of Zoonomian writes about medical misnomers of the past.
ThonyC of Renaissance Mathematicus writes about the astronomical and medical roots of the first pocket diary (calendars). I'll never look at those moon symbols on my calendar the same way again. Sorry Dad, the phases of the moon are not on the calendar to tell you when the fish are biting. Along similar lines of finding practical solutions to scientific dilemmas, Rebekah Higgit of The H Word writes about the catching and keeping of spiders to spin eyepiece filaments for astronomical observations. On the Royal Society blog, Rupert Baker writes about Thomas Hardy's historical fiction on early astronomers and the royal society.
Let's get a little textual with our astronomy, starting with Jenny Weston of Medieval Fragments who writes about medieval star-gazing. Astrolabes and Stuff discusses how to construct a medieval equitorium of Mercury and also for the Moon. Katy Barret of the Longitude blog writes about use of Cook's journals and her longitude book collection. Sarah Werner of The Collation writes about volvelles (movable wheels) on folios of science and pseudoscience books.
David Bressan of History of Geology writes about how philosophies of the nature of the world effected the study of the history of the Earth, and early efforts to measure its age. BibliOdyssey posts some of the original sketches and paintings of the discovery of Australia and its wildlife and then on Plant atlas from 1878-1783.
Dr SkySkull of Skulls in the Stars sets the record straight on Benjamin Franklin's kite electricity experiments, outlines Priestly's 1767 account of Franklin's experiments and writes of the dangers of experimental ballooning in 19th century. Moving on from riding aloft to the winds on the plains, Carol Clark of Wonders & Marvels writes about the role of wind power in settling the arid American west.
Christian Hansen of Hummus and Magnets writes about the analytical programming of Babbage's early calculating machines.
Lisa Smith will be hosting the next On Giant's Shoulders carnival on the Sloane Letter Project in January. So watch for Lisa's posts on twitter (@historybeagle) for more information.
I hope you found something enlightening and entertaining for a long winter's night. Watch out for sleighs this holiday season, reindeer get spooked with all the holiday traffic!
Nice stuff, and congratulations on your blogiversery (ugh that's the ugliest neologism I've typed down in a long time)!
A jolly Christmas to all!
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I've been practising Iyengar yoga for over 20 years and began teaching it 5 years ago. I still attend regular classes at the EIYC and it's an ideal place to be a student: everything is set up for yoga and it has a lovely calm atmosphere. My approach to teaching is positive and encouraging and I try to help people get the most out of their own practice. I love watching people develop as they get more interested in yoga and practice more. It's a great pleasure to share something that I get so much joy out of myself.


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Home » The Hispanic view of health
The Hispanic view of health
By Joanie Spencer
Hispanic consumers have very specific ideas when it comes to what constitutes healthy foods. In fact, Hispanic consumers put a heavy emphasis on how they perceive themselves when it comes to being healthy, according to Mintel. However, the majority of Hispanics perceive themselves as being healthy, with a third claiming themselves to be very healthy.
Then again, Mintel pointed out, the more acculturated Hispanics become, the lower the likelihood that they will self-identify as healthy. Part of the reason is that such individuals place more value on convenience than health. Hispanic consumers identify healthy foods as those that are prepared from scratch, and that has nothing to do with calorie counts. In other words, the fresher, the better.
"The Hispanic community is used to fruits," said Luis Lacal, president, Bakery Corp, pointing out fruits ranging from guava to pineapple to bananas.
Mario Somoza, president and CEO, Pan Pepin, added, "In the Caribbean, plantains are very popular in all our food."
Mintel also pointed out that non-acculturated and bicultural Hispanics are more likely to eat desserts; they just do it in a cautious way. The Mintel report Hispanic Consumers and Dining Out indicated that this group will find more interest in lower-calorie and mini-sized dessert offerings.
Using these types of fruits in products such as desserts, muffins and Danish, especially when the ingredients are fresh, can confer the halo of health as a selling point.
Developing and marketing Hispanic products — whether inside or outside the core demographic group — is a much more complex notion than one might anticipate, right down to identifying who the Hispanic consumers are. Whether it's traditional Hispanic products, inspired twists on Latino mainstays or mashing up flavor fusions from a variety of Hispanic cultures, bakers should get to know core demographic groups. And at the rate it's growing, bakeries and snack food manufacturers need only look in their own backyards.
The increasing role of health indicators
Around the world, consumers strike balance between health and indulgence


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Stadium application put on hold
The application has been put on hold
An application for a new stadium has been put on hold by Aberdeen FC.
City councillors had been due to make a decision on the plans for Kingsford next week.
But the club wants more time to discuss the proposals for the £50million complex near Westhill with planners.
Planning officials had been expected to publish their recommendation this week, ahead of the full council meeting, but this was delayed.
Planners have agreed to the club's request for a deferral.
A spokesperson for Aberdeen City Council said: "We can confirm that item 9(h), in relation to the application for planning consent for proposed community and sports facilities at West Kingsford, has been withdrawn from the agenda for the meeting of full council on October 11 at the request of the applicant, Aberdeen Football Club.
"Having regard to the nature of the application and the associated complexities, and in light of the public interest, the planning authority has acceded to the request on this occasion.
"The request has been made to enable the applicant to seek further discussions and clarification to take place with the planning authority. If necessary, further planning consultation will follow."
The stadium and training facilities have been earmarked for land between Westhill and Kingswells and close to the new city bypass.
Local objectors have highlighted increased traffic volumes, a threat to the green belt, and parking difficulties.
The club maintain that a move to a new 20,000 seater ground is vital for its future.


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Q: showing only data from machines which do not show up in another query I have a fairly typical show CPU usage query
100 - (avg by (instance) (irate(wmi_cpu_time_total{mode="idle"}[2m])) * 100) > 80
which results in data which looks a bit like this:
{instance="opus143.domain.com:9182"} 94.07140535559513
{instance="opus162.domain.com:9182"} 90.00755315803018
{instance="opus163.domain.com:9182"} 85.48084077380952

but I would like to query only for values for machines which don't appear in another list
opus_local_slaves_count > 0
opus_local_slaves_count{instance="opus143.domain.com:5100",job="opus-live",runname="SimV3.1a"} 54
opus_local_slaves_count{instance="opus143.domain.com:5110",job="opus-live",runname="SimV3.1a"} 54
opus_local_slaves_count{instance="opus145.domain.com:5100",job="opus-live",runname="SimV3.1a"} 54
opus_local_slaves_count{instance="opus145.domain.com:5110",job="opus-live",runname="SimV3.1a"} 54
opus_local_slaves_count{instance="opus146.domain.com:5100",job="opus-live",runname="SimV3.1a"} 54
opus_local_slaves_count{instance="opus146.domain.com:5110",job="opus-live",runname="SimV3.1a"} 54

I think I've been able to get part of the way there using label_replace to give me the host in each case
(label_replace((100 - (avg by (instance) (irate(wmi_cpu_time_total{mode="idle"}[2m])) * 100) > 80), "host", "$1","instance","(.*?)[.].*"))
{host="opus143",instance="opus143.domain.com:9182"} 94.07140535559513
{host="opus162",instance="opus162.domain.com:9182"} 90.00755315803018
{host="opus163",instance="opus163.domain.com:9182"} 85.48084077380952

label_replace((opus_local_slaves_count > 0), "host", "$1","instance","(.*?)[.].*")
opus_local_slaves_count{host="opus143",instance="opus143.domain.com:5100",job="opus-live",runname="SimV3.1a"} 54
opus_local_slaves_count{host="opus143",instance="opus143.domain.com:5110",job="opus-live",runname="SimV3.1a"} 54
opus_local_slaves_count{host="opus145",instance="opus145.domain.com:5100",job="opus-live",runname="SimV3.1a"} 54
opus_local_slaves_count{host="opus145",instance="opus145.domain.com:5110",job="opus-live",runname="SimV3.1a"} 54
opus_local_slaves_count{host="opus146",instance="opus146.domain.com:5100",job="opus-live",runname="SimV3.1a"} 54
opus_local_slaves_count{host="opus146",instance="opus146.domain.com:5110",job="opus-live",runname="SimV3.1a"} 54

But now I am really stuck trying to exclude hosts in the second list, from the first. Is this even possible in PromQL? In SQL it would be a simple NOT IN subquery
UPDATE: For context, what I'm trying to achieve is to be able to alert for high-CPU on servers, except servers in the second list, which should have high-CPU utilisation. Maybe there's a better way?

A: Solved it!
For anyone who finds this looking to do something similar... The saliant keyword is UNLESS!
I first simplified things by creating recording rules:
groups:
- name: custom_rules
  rules:
  - record: wmi_cpu_time_total_instance
    expr: 100 - (avg by (instance) (irate(wmi_cpu_time_total{mode="idle"}[2m])) * 100)
  - record: wmi_cpu_time_total_instance_host
    expr: label_replace(wmi_cpu_time_total_instance, "host", "$1", "instance","(.*?)[.].*")
  - record: opus_local_slaves_count_instance_host
    expr: label_replace(opus_local_slaves_count, "host", "$1", "instance","(.*?)[.].*")

which encapsulated much of the complexity in calculating and adding the host label, and I then found this blog (thank you Chris Siebenmann) https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/PrometheusFindUnpairedMetrics which pointed me at the UNLESS keyword so I could write the simple query
wmi_cpu_time_total_instance_host unless on(host) (opus_local_slaves_count_instance_host > 0)
which gives a list of hosts which don't have the opus_local_slaves_count label, or for which the opus_local_slaves_count = 0
Voila!

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Q: RestKit (v0.21) - Core Data: Mapping JSON without key path I'm having some trouble mapping this JSON message into corresponding core.data entities ...
JSON:
{
"d": [
    "Copenhagen (CPH), Denmark",
    "Copenhagen, Roskilde (RKE), Denmark",
    "Comitan (CJT), Mexico",
    "Cooperstown (COP), New York, United States",
    "Copan (RUY), Honduras",
    "Copiapo (CPO), Chile",
    "Copper Center (CZC), Alaska, United States"
]
}

Core.Data Entity ...
@interface MMAirportSimpleResult : NSManagedObject
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSString * name;
@end

@implementation MMAirportSimpleResult
@dynamic name;
@end

RestKit is configured like this ...
RKEntityMapping *airportSimpleResultMapping =
[RKEntityMapping mappingForEntityForName:NSStringFromClass([MMAirportSimpleResult class]) inManagedObjectStore:[RKManagedObjectStore defaultStore]];

[airportSimpleResultMapping addPropertyMapping:[RKAttributeMapping attributeMappingFromKeyPath:nil toKeyPath:@"name"]];

RKResponseDescriptor *airportSimpleResultDescriptor =
[RKResponseDescriptor responseDescriptorWithMapping:airportSimpleResultMapping pathPattern:@"services.asmx/CompleteAirportsSimple" keyPath:@"d" statusCodes:RKStatusCodeIndexSetForClass(RKStatusCodeClassSuccessful)];

[[RKObjectManager sharedManager] addResponseDescriptor:airportSimpleResultDescriptor];

This is the error I'm getting from RestKit:
'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Expected a dictionary representation' ...

I've tried mapping with a simple NSObject class and that is working perfectly with the above configuration ...

What am i doing wrongly with the core.data entity ...?

Thanks in advance


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GERTRUDE MARIE (KELLETT) MAY Was founding member of Montachusett Race League
LEOMINSTER - Gertrude "Trudy" Marie (Kellett) May, a long-time resident of Leominster, passed away on June 3, 2007, due to complications relating to lung disease.
She was raised in Goffstown, N.H. and graduated from Goffstown High School in 1953. She graduated from Springfield College in 1957 and later earned a master's degree in education from Fitchburg State College.
Trudy May worked for the Fitchburg Public School system for 35 years as a Physical Education and Health teacher.
She was the first female member of the Leominster Athletic Council. She was a founding member of the Montachusett Race League, an association created to offer alpine racing throughout Central Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire. She was an avid skier and swimmer. Trudy was an active member of the Springfield College Alumni Association, Class of 1957.
Trudy is survived by her husband of 48 years, Walter F. May and her children Michael May of Columbia, Md. and Brenda-Lee May Prescott of Stavanger, Norway, their spouses Mary and Jody respectively, and her grandchildren, Eliza and Hannah Prescott and Jack May.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to: Diversified Visiting Nurse Association (DVNA) Hospice Program, 25 Tucker Drive, Leominster, MA 01453 or The Trudy May Memorial Scholarship Fund, which is being created in her honor. Donations may be made to this fund as well, in care of Dr. Michael May, 6104 Stem Winder Court, Columbia, MD 21044.
The Silas F. Richardson & Son Funeral Home directed arrangements.
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Who is Awkwafina? How old is the Crazy Rich Asians and Oscars 2019 host and what does Nora Lum's stage name mean?
Who is Awkwafina? How old is the Crazy Rich Asians and Oscars 2019 host and what does Nora Lum's stage name mean?
AWKWAFINA has landed herself a secure spot around A-Listers thanks to her latest movies.
But, who is the Oscars 2019 host, what is her real name and what movies has she been in?
Who is Awkwafina and how old is the Crazy Rich Asians star?
Awkwafina is an American rapper, actress and television personality.
She is 29-years-old, having been born on June 2, 1989.
The New York City Native has a Chinese-American father and a South Korean immigrant mother.
Awkwafina majored in journalism and women's studies at the State University of New York at Albany.
After that, she went to Beijing, China, to study Mandarin at the Beijing Language and Culture University.
She has been rapping since 13 and released her popular song My Vag in 2012, which has attracted over three million views on YouTube.
She has recently made headlines with her acting performance in various movies.
What does Nora Lum's stage name mean?
The star's birth name is Nora Lum, with Awkwafina being a mere stage name.
She took on this stage name at the age of 16 when she was "looking for a 'stupid name'".
During her recent appearance, she discussed her stage name on Jimmy Kimmel Live, saying: "I wanted something - at that point I never thought that people would actually call me Awkwafina.
"I just thought it would make me and my friend, who at the time was my branding manager at age 16, we would giggle."
Awkafina's movie career began with Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising when she took on the role of Christine alongside Chloe Grace Moretz.
After voicing Storks' Quail, she went on to play Rebecca in Netflix original Dude.
However, Awkwafina's big break was when she played Constance in Ocean's Eight alongside A-Listers Sandra Bullock, Rihanna, Helena Bonham-Carter, Cate Blanchett, and Anna Hathaway.
More recently, the actress has been promoting Crazy Rich Asians that is set to hit movie theatres in the UK on Friday, September 14.


Learn how to draw a cartoon pig with these easy step by step drawing directions. This drawing tutorial guides you through constructing this classic farm animal.
Start off by drawing a sideways letter 'J' as pictured above.
Draw a curved line that turns into a backwards number '9' like shape (I highlighted it in blue).
Now draw the pig's ears by drawing 2 letter 'v' like shapes.
Now draw a bubble letter 'p' like shape for the pig's tail.
Now draw a letter 'v' like shape at the end of the tail ( as pictured above ).
Now draw the pigs legs. They are a little complicated so I highlighted them in different colors to help you. Draw a letter 'z' like shape (in red), draw a number '5' like shape (yellow), and a letter 'u' like shape (purple). Also draw a smile and a line in the pig's feet…for hooves.
Now draw the pig's eye by drawing an oval that has a line through it (at the top) for the eyelid. Also draw a circle (for the pupil) with a triangle highlight taken out of it. Now just erase lines that you don't need and darken lines that are important and you have a great cartoon pig.
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Fight Back by Giving – Connection!
The parallel passages in Matthew 5 and Luke 6 share a difficult command for our human natures to absorb. We exist in an upside-down kingdom where sometimes the commands of Jesus seem not to make sense. His followers are to fight back when they are mistreated, not in anger or retaliation, but by giving kindness and forgiveness. All the way through these passages, Jesus is saying that Christians should give more than what can be taken by force. Revenge is a selfish, carnal reaction. Treating others as we would like to be treated, even though we are often mistreated, should be in the heart of every believer.
There is an extraordinary story about overcoming evil with good in R. Kent Hughes's book Romans: Righteousness from Heaven, volume 45: During the Revolutionary War there was a faithful preacher of the gospel by the name of Peter Miller. He lived near a fellow who hated him intensely for his Christian life and testimony. In fact, this man violently opposed him and ridiculed his followers. One day the unbeliever was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death. Hearing about this, Peter Miller set out on foot to intercede for the man's life before George Washington. The General listened to the minister's earnest plea, but told him he didn't feel he should pardon his friend. "My friend! He is not my friend," answered Miller. "In fact, he's my worst living enemy." "What?" said Washington. "You have walked 60 miles to save the life of your enemy?
The story doesn't say how Miller's enemy responded or if he turned his life to Jesus, which emphasizes that likely our reward for overcoming evil with good may come only in eternity. Yet, it is always possible that by following the example of Jesus, who suffered on the cross rather than inflict suffering, eternal reward will come sooner than expected. Even so, a true disciple will obey Christ, whatever the consequences.
Lord, it takes a lot of faith to let You fight my battles for me. Give me that faith and help me to make up my mind ahead of time that I will not retaliate when I am wronged. Empower me through Your Spirit to respond to others as You would respond to them. Give me wisdom to know what is appropriate in each situation from Your perspective.
–Adapted from Encountering Jesus: Praying the Commands of Christ into Your Life by Norval Hadley. This book is available atprayershop.org. Use the code CONPSP3 at checkout to receive an additional 10% discount.
Praise God for his deep compassion for the poor, the suffering, the lonely (Isa. 58:5-7). Give thanks for the times when God has lifted you out of the pit of depression or loneliness or from the mire of circumstances (Ps. 40:2). Confess any times recently when your ears have been deaf to the cries of the poor in your area (Mt. 25:31-46). Commit yourself to becoming more aware of their needs. Ask God to show you his heart of compassion and how it can be revealed in your life (Isaiah 58).
Pray that oppressive governments may learn to respect the rights of all people and that true justice and mercy will prevail in courts and government decisions.


All Things Brantley, All Things Tribe: Brantley Silver Slugger Bobblehead Giveaway!
look how far he's come. last year at this time, Michael didn't even have 1 bobblehead; now, he's getting his 2nd! it was announced today that a Michael Brantley bobblehead will be given away at the Saturday, March 7, 2015 spring training game at Goodyear Ballpark against the Los Angeles Dodgers at 1:05 pm mountain standard time. this bobble will be limited edition and honor Michael's 2014 AL OF Silver Slugger Award. only the first 1,500 fans will receive this special bobblehead. no picture has been released at this time, which probably means the bobble has yet to be constructed. but as soon as i get more info, i will let everyone know.
i personally will need to pull off some kind of miracle in order to get this, as going to Arizona for spring training is absolutely out of the question for me. and what's sadder than Michael's #1 fan not having his Silver Slugger bobble? this would have been a fantastic promotion for a regular season Tribe game and i have to express my disappointment that the Indians opted to hold this giveaway for a Cactus League game. maybe they did it in hopes of drawing more fans to Goodyear, but that's not really fair to those of us who would love this bobble but can't fly out there to get it. i supported Michael long before he ever became a slugger, back when he was batting .118 as a rookie, and i blogged about every career moment he had this season. i am super bummed and totally jealous of all the fans who will end up with this exclusive Brantley bobblehead. it really is a tragedy that i won't be one of them.


In todays news update on Kheigl.com you can find several interviews and "The Ugly Truth" red carpet footage. You can see Katherine taking photos with her fans, talking to the audience, … and chatting about the movie.
To watch all the video clip click here and here and visit Katherine Heigl Online.


I'm pretty sure I won Karl's heart with potatoes: his favorite thing in the whole wide world. I learned early on in our relationship that I needed to become a potato-master, which I now proclaim to be.
These are the best potatoes ever- crispy, salty, easy to prepare, and no special equipment needed- no deep fryer, just a pan. Plus, they are a great vehicle for whatever you want to flavor them with. In the summer when we've got more basil than we know what to do with, we make these!
I'm kind of famous for my roasted potatoes. They might even be referred to as "Crystal Potatoes" in some circles. The trick is to use plenty of fat, cook them hot, and cook them long until they are turning golden brown on the top. And when they are golden brown on the top, they are brown and crispy on the bottom.
Crispy potatoes are one of the great pleasures in life.
If you use a Russet potato (the best for this!) the potatoes will be super crispy on the outside and pillowy on the inside. The waxier potatoes, like red or yellow will still turn golden, brown and delicious but not really as crispy. Both types will end up as a potato smothered in butter, so you really can't lose either way.
I like these potatoes served at room temperature just as much as hot out of the oven- which makes them a great choice for a picnic or potluck… or if you're just really bad at timing when different components of dinner will be done.
Leftovers are incredible with eggs! Cook up a little bacon or sausage, throw in some leftover potatoes, then top with whisked eggs and throw the pan into the oven for 20 minutes for a quick frittata.
MAKE IT A MEAL: serve these potatoes with simple baked salmon and salad with Maple Poppyseed Vinaigrette Dressing.
Preheat the oven to 425 F. Cut the potatoes into bite-sized pieces (I don't peel mine) and put them on a large sheet pan. Drizzle the oil or cooking fat over the potatoes and use your hands to toss them and coat in oil. Sprinkle evenly with the 2 teaspoons sea salt. Bake for 45-60 minutes, or until GBD (golden, brown and delicious).
When the potatoes are almost done, prepare the basil butter by grating (or very finely mincing) the garlic and placing it into a small saucepan along with the butter, chives, and 1/2 tsp sea salt. Heat on low to melt the butter and then gently simmer for a minute to cook the garlic a little. Turn off the heat and stir in the chopped basil.
When the potatoes are done, immediately scrape them off the pan into a large mixing bowl. This is my absolute favorite spatula for the job (and it's only $11.00!) because it is super-thin but strong. Pour the basil butter over the potatoes and gently mix and fold them until all coated. Serve and enjoy!


Tatsumi is taken by the Night Raid. They realized his potential as an assassin and asks him to join, but Tatsumi is conflicted. Though after learning more about each of Night Raid's team members, he learns of their objectives to defeat evil and corruption and eventually decides to join.


Audio: N.B.S. & Planet Asia - "Chain Vets"
GP: Late last year, the veteran east coast hip hop duo N.B.S. went on a European-tour partnering with west coast legend PLANET ASIA. The single CHAIN VETS is the first installment of this successful cooperation.
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Audio: Crumbzilla f/ Rittz - "Rise"
Matt: You can expect much of Crumbzillas' content to refer to financial struggles, relationship drama, drug use, the falling-out of friendships and the overall journey that we experience in an effort to accomplish our goals, face our fears, over-come obstacles and remain focused on the ultimate prize; regardless of our individuality.
New Singles: Maps Music, Sadistik, Pete Santos, AyoK & More!
Sy: A few new rap singles to check out!
New York, NY – Today, Questlove Supreme debuts special episode featuring Al B. Sure!
Audio: Shawn Archer - "Power Couple"
Q: One of the new hottest artist starting to buzz in the east coast Shawn Archer drops his new record "Power Couple" produced by Majestic Drama.
Video: Nametag Alexander - "Shoptalk Cypher"
Video: Sadat X & El Da Sensei - "Powermoves"
SG: Boom! Sadat X and El Da Sensei are back with the brand new single Power Moves off their latest album XL.
.@darealcanibus @MartyMcKay @CrookedIntriago "Trapped In The Darkness"
Canibus & Marty McKay f/ KXNG Crooked "Trapped In The Darkness"
Matt: For three-years socially-awake Producer & Vocalist, Marty McKay worked diligently with hip-hop icon Canibus to create an elaborate five series EP entitled Matrix Theory.
Audio: Nolan The Ninja - "Oranges"
Matt: Nolan The Ninja's SPORTEE will be released on 4-19-19 via Mello Music Group and features collaborations with Chuck Inglish (Cool Kids), T3 (Slum Village), Jaye Prime, Boog Brown & Charlie Smarts of Kooley High.
Audio: Taiyamo Denku - "Jigsaw"
JM: The basic instinct of Milwaukee Native emcee Taiyamo Denku is to rip a track apart with bars and lyrics and then piece it together again. That's just what he does on "Jigsaw" Witch a catchy , dark clever hook that plays into Pieces & Peace.


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People Category: Directors
Marinos Koutsomichalis
His research and artistic activities reciprocally inform one another by virtue of a mixed method that combines situated creative practice, bespoke software/hardware development, landscape exploration, ethnographic field-work, critical theory, live performance, production residencies, experimental making, and DIWO (Do It With Others) workshopping. In this way, they draw on, and concern, various subareas in arts, humanities, science, technology, philosophy, and design.
His artistic corpus is prolific, yet persistently revolving around the same few themes: material inquiry/exploration; self-erasure (in/through performance and production tactics); the quest for post-selfhood (through social, hybrid, and networked practices involving both human and nonhuman actors). He has hitherto publicly presented his work, pursued projects, led workshops, and held talks worldwide more than 250 times and in all sorts of milieux: from leading museums, acclaimed biennales, and concert halls, to industrial sites, churches, project spaces, academia, research institutions, underground venues, and squats.
He has a PhD in Electronic Music and New Media (De Montfort University, GB) and a MA in Composition with Digital Media (University of York, GB), has held research positions at the Department of Computer Science in the Norwegian University for Science and Technology (Trondheim, NO) and at the Interdepartmental Centre for Research on Multimedia and Audiovideo in the University of Turin (IT), and has taught at the University of Wolverhampton (Birmingham, UK), the Center of Contemporary Music Research (Athens, GR), and the Technical University of Crete (Rethymnon, GR).
He is responsible for more than 30 academic publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings, for more than 15 music albums, and for a book. He is a Lecturer in Multimedia Design for Arts at the Cyprus University of Technology (Limassol, CY) where he co-directs the Media Arts and Design Research Lab.
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Barbara G. Yust 77 passed away Friday morning, August 8, 2014 in her home after an extended illness. She was born April 3, 1937 in Racine, the daughter of Edward and Violet (nee: Anderson) Smith. Barbara married George J. Yust Sr. on December 17, 1955 in Racine. She was employed with S.C. Johnson retiring in 1994. Barbara was an active member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church and especially loved her grandchildren and great grandchildren. She is survived by her loving husband George Sr., and was the most loved mother of George (Cheri) Yust III, Michael Yust, Barbara (Rick) Stich, Carol Kampendahl, and Susan (Carl) Bauer, 13 grandchildren; George IV, Marie, Tina, Seth, Christine, Lisa, Joseph, Tiffany, Karl II, Kristian, Jennifer, Carole, and Angelia. Barbara is further survived by 9 great grandchildren, a brother Michael (Cheryl) Smith, nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents. A Memorial Mass of Christian Burial will be held Tuesday August 12, 2014 at 11 a.m. in St. Joseph's Catholic Church 1525 Erie St., Fr. Steve Vargas officiating. The family will receive guests in Church of Tuesday from 10 a.m. until the time of the Mass. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to St. Joseph's Church in Barbara's memory. ;
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Why social exclusion is hard to change: A behavioral perspective
Karla Hoff and James Walsh Tuesday, September 4, 2018
There is a lot of discussion in the press lately about whether impediments to equality of opportunity remain after structural barriers have been removed. Political ideology often dominates these discussions. We offer a perspective from behavioral economics and social science.
Suppose your political goal is to help people from a historically excluded group get the same shot at achieving success as people from privileged groups. After hard work, you remove binding structural constraints for education, training, employment, credit, health care, and transportation. Is your job done?
Karla Hoff
Lead Economist, Development Research Group - World Bank
eMBeD Unit - World Bank
DPhil student - University of Oxford
Traditional accounts in economics and political philosophy contend that it is. But recent evidence demonstrates that it's not. There's a lot more to do. Stable institutions have cognitive foundations—concepts, categories, social identities, and worldviews. They function like lenses through which individuals see themselves and conceptualize the situations they face. As the anthropologist Mary Douglas puts it, institutions have "schematizing" effects—they influence how people think. This can cause social exclusion to persist.
What happens after structural barriers to opportunity are removed?
Even after structural barriers are removed, people carry around in their heads categories and beliefs that legitimized the old rules. The entrenched cognitive structures and beliefs affect their behavior.
The precision of economics has benefited from field, lab, and as-if-random "natural" experiments. Economists now investigate whether socio-psychological barriers undermine equal participation in society by different groups.
In our recent paper, we review causes of social exclusion that go beyond the structural barriers identified by rational choice theory, and discuss policies to address them. A growing list of interventions has produced large benefits—like helping individuals from disadvantaged groups develop the self-confidence needed to succeed in high school and college.
Socio-psychological barriers persist, and impede women's mobility
Despite substantial female educational advances, vertical gender segregation in the workplace remains: men are disproportionately in the top ranks in industry and women are disproportionately at the lower end. Advancement depends in part on the allocation of time between tasks that are likely to affect one's career (revenue-generating tasks in industry and research-related tasks in research-oriented universities) and tasks with low promotability (like organizing an office Christmas party or participating in committees). Many people rightly feel a sense of obligation to spend some time on tasks that help their organization at the cost of advancing their careers.
If a person does such tasks, he or she benefits (everyone gets to go to the office Christmas party!), but all the other people in the organization benefit, too. The problem is that everyone prefers that the task be done by someone else.
Why do women typically end up with most of the tasks with low promotability?
Linda Babcock, Maria Recalde, Lise Vesterlund, and Laurie Weingart found a lot of evidence that women, rather than men, disproportionately do the tasks with low promotability. They ran an experiment to shed light on why.
Participants in an experimental session—all seated in one large room and each with a computer—were randomly divided into a new three-person anonymous group in each of 10 rounds. In each round, group members had to make one decision—to volunteer, or not, to "invest."
The investment would increase the payoffs of everyone in the group, but the increase to the investor would be less than the increase to each non-investor. In each round,
If nobody in the group invested, each player got $1.00.
If somebody in the group invested, that person got $1.25 and each other person in the group got $2.00.
To volunteer, a person clicked on a computer screen. As soon as one group member had clicked, or two minutes had elapsed, the round ended.
Each person waited to see if someone else in the group would volunteer to be the investor, and so investments were primarily made in the last 2 seconds of a round. In sessions made up of about half men and half women, the women volunteered almost 50 percent more often than the men. The graph shows that in every round, the probability among women that someone invested was always substantially greater than the probability among men.
Figure 1: In mixed settings, females volunteer more than males for the low-rewarded task
Source: Babcock et al. 2017
Does this result reveal that women are nicer than men? No. When the experiment was run with only men or only women in a session, so that participants knew that they were grouped only with members of their own sex, men and women were equally likely to volunteer to invest.
Figure 2: In single-gender settings, no gender differences in the probability of volunteering for the low-rewarded task
This suggests that the male-female gap in the volunteer rate in mixed-gender sessions was not driven by gender differences in preferences, but instead depended on the unequal status representations of men and women. Men may have expected women to volunteer for the relatively low payoff; women may have expected men to expect that.
Formal impartiality is not enough to create fairness
The results show that impartial rules are no guarantee that individuals in different social categories get a fair shot at a high payoff. If a social group was historically excluded by structural barriers, the way people inside and outside the group have come to think about the group can lead to behaviors that reproduce the old pattern of group inequality.
Social change, in the long run, may require a change in social constructs. Yet in the short run, many things can be done to make outcomes fairer. Designers of institutions should think about how the rules of the game interact with concepts, categories, stereotypes, and narratives that are the legacy of rules that were long ago abolished. In the case of tasks with low promotability, described here, policy could define every job as requiring a certain number of service hours, or fewer tasks could be allocated by asking for volunteers but instead by encouraging turn-taking.
Behavioral economics is shining a light on why social exclusion is hard to change.
Bringing behavioral economics to development
James Walsh and Karla Hoff
Kenneth Arrow and the promise of behavioral development economics


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LONDON/ZURICH, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Banks and regulators are powerless to find more than a fraction of the assets belonging to sanctioned regimes like Syria — even though they are right under their noses, say top finance officials and campaigners.
Experts charged with spotting undesirable assets and clients have to pit their wits against lawyers adept at exploiting the culture of client privacy in western financial centres, who have set up complicated networks of organisations, offshore trusts and legal loopholes.
This means that while European and U.S. governments have named dozens of individuals and entities with links to sanctioned regimes whose assets should be frozen, they can only ever get at a small amount of the money.
"Our current arrangements for the creation of trusts and the setting up of companies anonymously have created an environment which is permitting kleptocrats to move their loot around (and commit) tax evasion on a monstrous scale," said Anthea Lawson, head of the Banks and Corruption Campaign at Global Witness, a non-government organisation which campaigns against money laundering and corruption.
Those determined to hide money have numerous devices at their disposal: for example it is possible to establish an offshore company which belongs to an offshore trust behind which may be another trust, all spread across multiple jurisdictions and set up by an associate of a person on a sanctions list.
"It is so easy for extended families or powerful people with tame lawyers to set up fronts which make it immensely difficult to find (them) out," said John Christensen, former economic adviser to the government of Jersey, a British offshore financial centre, who now runs pressure group Tax Justice Network.
An added complication, bankers say, is the shifting status of individuals and regimes which in many cases established banking relationships before subsequently finding themselves on official blacklists after the onset of the "Arab Spring" revolts around the Middle East.
One London-based wealth manager running money for super rich international clients said he had sought unsuccessfully to pitch for business to the former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi when doing so was still legal.
British Treasury officials have circulated a list of 86 members belonging to the regime of Syria's Bashar Al Assad whose assets should be frozen if found.
It includes members of the Al Assad family, government officials, military figures and businessmen, as well as 30 entities including state bodies it says are "directly involved in repression" such as the Political Security and Military Intelligence Directorates.
Commercial ventures like phone operator Syriatel, controlled by Assad cousin Rami Makhlouf, are also named. Syriatel supports the regime by paying 50 percent of profits to the Syrian government, the UK government document states.
Most of the their assets have yet to be found.
"Swiss banks have only frozen 50 million Swiss francs, which we believe is a ridiculous amount compared to what people, entities close to the regime hold in Swiss accounts," said a source close to the Syrian opposition who asked not to be named because they are not authorised to speak publically.
Moreover, many regime figures were already holding large sums of money outside the country and had little difficulty in shifting it away from prying eyes before sanctions kicked in.
"It is hard to enforce sanctions because there are a lot of people acting as frontmen for the top ranks of the Syrian regime," said Nadim Houry, Beirut-based deputy director of the Middle East and North Africa division at Human Rights Watch.
Wealthy Syrians had already settled much of their money outside of the country, he added, given the limitations of the Syrian banking system which is still under-developed.
And the Swiss financial regulator FINMA identified control problems at four banks following an audit of accounts held by politicians from unstable countries, triggered by the freezing of assets of ousted North African leaders.
Nonetheless, bankers insist it has become harder to hide money behind complexity as regulators and compliance departments up their game.
This view is shared by the Financial Action Task Force,(FATF), a Paris-based inter-governmental body set up to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.
"It is fair to say we are not fighting a losing battle ... It has become harder and harder for criminals and corrupt dictators to hide their money," said a source at the FATF who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity.
But a senior compliance executive based in London at a global banking group said that while banks are challenging more clients or assets that decision was still a judgment call rather than "an exact science".
It was unlikely, the person said, that anything close to a majority of the illegitimate money coming through the western banking system was spotted by due diligence staff.
"When you look at the billions spent by the industry on due diligence ... (and) when you look at how little money is recovered and repatriated, how many convictions there are, it is a very poor rate," the person said.
Meanwhile the picture is further muddied by challenges to the sanctions lists.
Several of the people and organisations named on the Syria list claim they have no links to the regime.
For example: one entity listed is conglomerate Cham Holding, largely controlled by Assad cousin Rami Makhlouf, who appears alongside various family members on EU, U.S. and Arab League sanctions lists.
Cham Holding, the list says, benefits "from supporting the regime" while one of its subsidiaries, Cham Investment Group, is an "economic entity financing the regime".
However Vienna-based businessman Nabil Kuzbari, who is of Syrian descent, rejects this accusation and insisted to Reuters it has no political affiliations.
Campaigners and investigators believe the sanctions lists do not take into the account the sophistication of regimes' financial networks — which carefully obscure links to their beneficiaries.
"The people we are talking about are very well resourced whether they be heads of state of regimes that are corrupt or whether they are major drug traffickers or other types of criminal," the FATF source said.


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Live on Sky Sports: Southampton v Liverpool – Capital One Cup Quarter-Final Preview
Alex Butcher
Southampton and Liverpool meet in the fourth and final match of the Capital One Cup Quarter-Finals, in a match to be screened live on Sky Sports.
On Tuesday night, Manchester City, Stoke City and Everton all advanced over Sky Bet Championship opposition, and now the winner of this all-Premier League clash will complete the Semi-Final line-up.
Read more: Capital One Cup Quarter-Final Review
Six League Cup encounters have taken place between the two sides over the years, including a meeting in the inaugural competition back in 1960/1961 - the Saints emerging victorious on Merseyside.
However, the most recent clash in the competition came during the 2002/03 campaign, and it proved to be a good omen for Liverpool.
The Reds ran out 3-1 winners at Anfield in Round 3, and went on to lift the Cup in March, defeating arch-rivals Manchester United at Millennium Stadium.
The two sides have already locked horns once this season, battling out a 1-1 draw at Anfield, and Saints boss Ronald Koeman believes home advantage at a sold-out St. Mary's on Wednesday night could drive his team into the last four.
"It's always nice to play at home and to get the support of the fans," Koeman told the club's official website.
Watching #CapitalOneCup! Tomorrow #SaintsfcLiverpool. Big game and great support from the Fans
— Ronald Koeman (@RonaldKoeman) December 1, 2015
"I think the team needs at this moment after two defeats and hopefully it will be a great atmosphere in the stadium and that we beat Liverpool – it will be a perfect day then."
The build-up begins at 7pm on Sky Sports, with kick-off at 7.45pm. You can also follow the action via our live Twitter feed - @CapitalOne_Cup.
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National corporate TV news largely failed to cover Hurricane Ida as a climate justice story
Only 4% of Ida coverage from August 27-30 connected the storm to climate change
Special Programs Climate & Energy
Written by Allison Fisher
Research contributions from Evlondo Cooper & Ted MacDonald
Published 09/01/21 12:45 PM EDT
On Sunday, August 29 -- 16 years to the day that Hurricane Katrina made landfall -- Hurricane Ida slammed into Louisiana.
A Media Matters analysis found that over a 96-hour period from August 27-30 -- during which Ida rapidly intensified to a Category 4 hurricane and knocked out power for more than 1 million in Louisiana -- corporate broadcast and cable news shows rarely connected the devastating storm to our dangerously warming climate. Just 4% of the combined 774 total TV news segments on Hurricane Ida mentioned climate change.
Scientists have repeatedly warned that global warming is making storms like Ida stronger and wetter and even proved the extent to which human-caused warming has increased the damage caused by specific storms. Before Ida even hit land, climate scientists were warning that the storm could rapidly supercharge due to the warm ocean water it would pass over in the Gulf of Mexico.
The storm intensified so quickly that it hindered evacuation efforts, particularly for those without resources or transportation . In fact, the impossibility of evacuation in the face of a life-threatening storm is just one of the ways climate-fueled events, like hurricanes, disproportionately affect marginalized communities and communities of color. With few exceptions, this reality was not part of the Hurricane Ida coverage.
Corporate broadcast TV outlets — ABC, CBS, and NBC — aired a combined 93 segments about Hurricane Ida during morning and evening news programs from August 27-30. Only 5 of these broadcast news segments referenced climate change.
Of the 5 climate mentions, ABC had 3 mentions, while CBS and NBC contributed one each.
Cable TV news outlets -- CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC -- aired a combined 681 segments about Hurricane Ida during all original programming from August 27-30. Only 4% (29) of cable news segments referenced climate change during their Ida coverage.
Of the 29 climate mentions, CNN had 5 mentions, Fox News mentioned climate twice, and MSNBC had the most out of all networks with 22.
Corporate TV news largely failed to cover Hurricane Ida as a climate story
Coverage of Hurricane Ida by corporate TV news was extensive. All six networks included in Media Matters' analysis had meteorologists and correspondents on the ground delivering vital reporting on the strength and intensity of the storm. Many programs carried live press briefings from local and federal officials that included critical information on how to stay safe and what those affected should expect in the coming days. This has long been the role and goal of hurricane coverage -- and by and large, it was accomplished.
But the checklist of what hurricane coverage should constitute must also include communicating the connection to the climate crisis and making viewers more conversant about what stronger and more frequent storms mean for those who live in climate sacrifice zones such as southeastern Louisiana. At this point, to not do so is media malpractice.
Early indications of the storm's intensity, followed by wall-to-wall coverage, offered ample opportunity for networks to provide this type of in-depth coverage, but only 34 segments made even a passing mention of climate change. The vast majority of mentions were on MSNBC, with 65% of segments mentioning climate airing on the network -- though segments mentioning climate still made up only 9% of the network's total Ida segments. Fifty-eight segments mentioned the storm's rapid intensification -- going from a Category 1 to a Category 4 in less than 24 hours -- which is a clear climate signal, but they did not characterize it that way.
Some of the most substantive segments on the relationship between Hurricane Ida and climate change were aired on CBS and MSNBC.
The Sunday, August 29, edition of MSNBC's The Mehdi Hasan Show featured climate scientist Michael Mann, who, alongside former Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Craig Fugate, discussed both the relationship between Ida and climate change and the role of warming in driving the unprecedented increase in hurricane intensity in recent years. In addition to connecting the storm to climate science, host Mehdi Hasan also linked it to climate action:
MEHDI HASAN (HOST): Michael, at what point do we as a society look at the scenes on our TV screens, look at how once-in-a-hundred-year events are now once-in-10 or once-in-five-year events, and decide to take action on the biggest issue of our time? A lot of these states being pummeled by climate-induced disasters are red states filled with — or run by — climate deniers.
CBS chief meteorologist and climate specialist Jeff Berardelli joined the host of CBS This Morning for the Monday, August 30, edition to explain the connection between Ida and climate change. Berardelli also put the myriad extreme weather events experienced by millions of Americans this summer — wildfires, heat and drought — into context with the warnings being issued by the scientific community.
Importantly, Berardelli ended the segment by pointing to "the most vulnerable people, the ones that are suffering the most, and they contribute the least to climate change."
Even while individuals like Berardelli consistently connect climate to extreme weather, as a whole the Hurricane Ida coverage continues a multiyear trend of broadcast and cable TV news failing to contextualize devastating storms within the increasingly dire climate emergency. In 2017, broadcast news shows aired only four total segments that discussed climate change in the context of that year's extreme weather events, including just two segments that mentioned climate change in the context of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, or Maria. None of the broadcast networks' news reports mentioned climate change in coverage of the 2018 hurricanes, which included Hurricanes Florence and Michael. In 2019, broadcast TV news aired only one segment that mentioned climate change in a week of coverage of the year's most devastating storm, Hurricane Dorian. And in 2020, only one of the combined 93 segments by broadcast and cable about Hurricane Laura mentioned climate even though it was the most powerful hurricane to hit Louisiana in 150 years, while only 3% of segments about Hurricane Sally, none of the broadcast outlets' segments on Hurricane Delta, and only one of 30 segments on Zeta mentioned climate change.
Notably, TV news coverage of extreme weather events this summer has vastly improved over previous years. In terms of using science to link extreme weather to the climate crisis, the Ida coverage represents a setback to recent reporting. That said, the Ida coverage did offer some groundbreaking climate justice coverage.
TV news, with a few notable exceptions, did not report on Ida through a justice lens
Climate-fueled events like Ida affect everyone, but those on the front lines of the climate crisis have far fewer resources to adapt, evacuate, and rebuild after devastating disasters. The fact that poor communities and communities of color bear the brunt of the climate crisis is chronically undercovered by TV news, particularly in moments when those impacts are most stark.
A Media Matters analysis of coverage of seven hurricanes and one tropical storm that occurred between 2017 to 2019 found that none of the 669 corporate broadcast evening news segments about these storms explicitly discussed their outsized impact on low-income communities or communities of color.
The Ida hurricane coverage -- perhaps for the first time -- offered a glimpse of what climate justice coverage by TV news programs can and should look like.
The Sunday editions of ABC's Good Morning America and MSNBC's PoliticsNation brought climate justice into coverage of Hurricane Ida while the national focus was on the storm. ABC's meteorologist Ginger Zee during her weather report turned to a segment produced to mark the 16 years since the day Katrina hit. In addition to explicitly addressing the problems with the widespread tendency to compare the two storms, the segment focused on the "geographic inequities" that made flooding worse for black communities in New Orleans during Katrina and the underlying socioeconomic inequality and racist policies that continue to make it harder for those communities to return and rebuild.
Citation From the August 29, 2021, episode of ABC's Good Morning America
During the PoliticsNation segment, host Al Sharpton noted that "climate disasters are not equal opportunity events" and went on to reference a report by Scientific American on how flooding disproportionately harms Black neighborhoods. Then he asked guest Atima Omara, founder and president of Omara Strategy Group: "Is climate action a racial justice issue?"
Citation From the August 29, 2021, episode of MSNBC's PoliticsNation
In part, these segments were standouts because they were exceptional in framing these increasingly deadly storms around justice. Going forward, networks need to adopt that approach wholesale. Climate change helps us make sense of what is happening, but if the media doesn't start reporting on whom it's happening to and why, then climate policies and resiliency measures will only deepen the inequality borne by those who "have contributed least to climate change."
Perhaps the biggest missed opportunity to discuss inequity was in the evacuation process -- a story that was embedded in most of the hurricane coverage on Sunday. The national TV news networks focused a lot of attention on families and individuals that chose to ride out the storm, instead of on those who were left with little choice but to stay. But there were some good examples of coverage that acknowledged the complicated factors behind why people don't evacuate. On Sunday, August 29, MSNBC's Alex Witts Reports offered at least two examples of such coverage: one interview with a "gentleman who was trying to leave town, had family members that were working and couldn't leave, so he chose to stay behind," and another where NBC News correspondent Morgan Chesky mentioned that despite the mandatory evacuation, many people "either couldn't afford to or are choosing to stay," before sharing a story about family forced to stay behind because the father had recently contracted COVID-19 in between vaccine doses.
Coverage beyond the wind and the rain
For three days, and on Sunday in particular, one could tune into any network and receive very similar information about the strength, intensity, and physical impact of Ida on homes, business, and roads against the background of familiar storm-damage images. But the best coverage endeavored (or should endeavor) to tell us something new or explain how the story of Hurricane Ida fits into other pressing stories like the climate crisis, but also infrastructure, the pandemic, or the state of our preparedness and ability to respond to multiple and compounding emergencies.
It was widely reported on Sunday that Hurricane Ida made landfall near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, which means very little to most but is a hub for fossil fuel infrastructure that provides up to 15% of the country's domestic oil. Many reporters noted that connection, but they reported it without noting the irony. Rather than serving as a side note, these connections should spur conversations -- if not while the storm is happening, certainly after -- unpacking not just how our dirty energy system is vulnerable to climate-fueled events, but also how it fuels these events.
Some of the best coverage was reporting that highlighted how Hurricane Ida, and by extension climate change, threatened efforts to respond to the COVID-19 surge in the affected area. For many, the storm and the pandemic are a compounding crisis -- well understood by residents, but perhaps new for a national audience unaware of the devastating strain this coronavirus surge is putting on states like Louisiana and Mississippi.
To watch hurricane coverage by TV news is to hear ad nauseum about the wind speed, the storm surge, and the expected accumulation of rainfall. These things are important to document and are done by dedicated journalists and TV crews, but networks should expand their coverage beyond the meteorological phenomena. In these moments, before attention is pulled elsewhere, there is so much more to learn and so much more that could be said.
Media Matters searched transcripts in the SnapStream video database for ABC's Good Morning America and World News Tonight, CBS' This Morning and Evening News, and NBC's Today and Nightly News and all original programming on CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC for any of the terms "hurricane," "storm," or "Ida" from August 27 through 30, 2021.
We counted segments, which we defined as instances when Hurricane Ida was the stated topic of discussion or when we found "significant discussion" of Hurricane Ida in segments about other topics. We defined significant discussion as two or more speakers discussing Hurricane Ida with one another.
We then reviewed each segment for whether any speaker connected Hurricane Ida to climate change or whether the segment included discussion of the storm's impact on marginalized communities.
National TV news is beginning to connect climate change to extreme weather. Now they must continue to deepen their coverage
Three years of corporate broadcast news hurricane coverage failed to mention specific risks to marginalized communities
Research/Study 06/01/20 10:46 AM EDT
Corporate TV news needs to break its cycle of shallow coverage of extreme weather


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I have been here for hours.
It has been indescribably pleasant, here in front of the computer, serenaded by its hum & the sound of an occasional car going by outside, working on photographs, reading others' blogs, answering emails. No telephone ringing, no real place I need to be. A lazy soft Saturday. I slept late - no need to be up early for Maggie's weekly veterinarian visit; Michael was in town & able to give the weekend injection. We breakfasted out, watched Book tv, and then later Katie & I treated ourselves to Harvey. She was then off to a family reunion, and I was off to here, with Mexican food & a Dr Pepper. Outside with Lily, with the laptop in hand to begin catching up on blogs & friends, and back inside to look at today's photos. I have at least one more to share, but this one was so soft, and I feel very soft today, very relaxed, so this seemed to speak to me the loudest.
It's a rare gift - a day like today.
Oh, I'm in dire need of one of those days! I don't know if it will come soon enough!
You know, because of you, I rented Harvey a week or so ago....and I LOVED IT!!!!!!
It was so charming and sweet.
Absolutely loved it..thank you for sharing. I never would have known it was out there.
Paula - I am crossing my fingers for you to have a day like this soon!
Jaime - Oh, the scene where Jimmy Stewart is in the alleyway talking about how the pooka came to be called Harvey - how, because he'd never known anyone with that name, he had such hopes for it. It makes me cry!


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Looking for these to complete my set.
Have these dupes to trade if anybody needs them.
Last edited by #1Rangersfan; 04-06-2019 at 07:10 PM.
What kind of bv does the pink refractors have.
Pinks are 3x base cards so, in general, $1.50-$3. Between $80-85 for the cards listed.
If that works for you feel free to post for us. It will be Wednesday before I can mail out though.
Still looking for 2015 Topps Chrome pink refractors for my set.
I have these for you that you do not already have coming in.
Dennis had expressed interest in all of my Pinks a few days ago, was just waiting on him to get back with me on a link to tradelists. I saw the Ohtani refractor on your list as we were working up our other trade and inquired about it with Dennis yesterday, unfortunately did not hear back and it looks like you already moved it.
I'll check you tradelist again later for a few more of the 2010 Golds.
Haven't moved it yet. Can use the 15 tc pink refractors and he was picking up the 16 and 17 pinks for me also so if I have enough on my tradelist for them all plmk.
Please set aside the Ohtani refractor and Acuna Prism for me. The batch of 15 Pink Refractors is $38.
I'll work up a recap including the 2016 and 2017 Pinks. I can likely use some more of the 2010 golds on your tradelist.
The Ohtani refractor is $20 and the Acuna is a Xfractor and books $50 but a little picky on what I want for it, prefer Texas Rangers, Topps black or stats or bigger name pink refractor rc. The Acuna may be pending though.


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Splendid detached villa is located on the coastline of Corfu directly above the sea. The villa has a private swimming pool and direct access to the beach. This spacious and comfortably furnished villa in modern style is in the North of Corfu. It offers a spectacular view of the sea. nearby islands and even Albania. You can enjoy private access to the sea and the quiet beach. The superb nearby reef offers plenty of opportunities for snorkelling. The small pebble beach slopes gently into the sea making it an excellent place for children. Since this villa is located next to the villa GR-49081-02 and nearby the villa GR-49081-01. it is also possible to rent different villa s together for a holiday with friends or several families. There is plenty to discover in the vicinity. A car is recommended. You can visit the town of Sidari with its fascinating Canal D'Amour (Channel of Love). shops. restaurants and entertainment. You can also enjoy water sports. including fishing. You can take a boat trip to the coastal islands of Erikousa and Matraki. There are many other good beaches such as Paleokastritsa. Kassiopi and Barbati. You can visit traditional mountain villages. the Hydropolis Water Theme Park and Corfu City which is about a 40 minute drive away.
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China: The Next Generation of Sports Consumers
Entertainment	 07-24-2018
Seeing an opportunity to engage and ultimately monetize an enormous new fan base, the major leagues of North America and Europe are investing time and resources in China. These are wide-ranging strategies, covering everything from sponsorship acquisition and activation to strategic partnerships designed to develop sports from the bottom up, broadcast rights arrangements to staging events and opening dedicated offices in the country.
It has become common practice for Europe's major soccer teams to travel to China for pre-season matches during the summer, while the National Hockey League (NHL) played pre-season games in Beijing last year and will again this season, and the NBA—international pioneers in China—created a dedicated NBA China offshoot a decade ago.
Consumers under age 30 in China are of particular interest to sports properties and brands due to their wide range of interests, international sports fandom and receptiveness to sponsorship.
As global and Chinese properties find a foothold in this fascinating market, a deep and rich understanding of the Chinese consumer—who they are, what they like and don't like, how they behave, how they are changing and how they are different from fans elsewhere in the world—becomes ever more critical, in order to create, drive and maximize commercial partnerships.
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Esports, Jump In or Miss the Mark
The esports industry is growing quickly, with new leagues, teams and distribution channels. And this growth is attracting new high-profile esports investment from brands, media organizations and traditional sports rightsholders.
Amid Digital Sponsorship Options, Don't Neglect Social Media
With digital now a critical channel for brands, it's no surprise that they're actively looking to better understand and measure returns in the space. They're also actively looking to social media and sponsorships as a way to amplify their digital returns.
The best sports properties in the world will succeed in the long run by understanding the wants and needs of Generation Z and transforming themselves so they can attract and engage fans for years to come.
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