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Obama In Rolling Stone
April 25, 2012 — Ron Chusid
Barack Obama is on the cover of Rolling Stone. The interview started out with Obama making a point which I think many Democrats have missed. Obama has been criticized for trying to attract Republicans when it is obvious that Republican politicians have no intention to compromise. They prefer to block anything proposed by Obama for political gain, regardless of how much harm they do to the country. However, in trying to make his policies attractive to Republicans, it is Republican voters, not politicians, who Obama wants to attract. Many are brainwashed by Fox and the right wing noise machine, but Obama showed in 2008 that he can attract enough former Republican voters to win in states where Democrats had not won recently.
Let's talk about the campaign. Given all we've heard about and learned during the GOP primaries, what's your take on the state of the Republican Party, and what do you think they stand for?
First of all, I think it's important to distinguish between Republican politicians and people around the country who consider themselves Republicans. I don't think there's been a huge change in the country. If you talk to a lot of Republicans, they'd like to see us balance the budget, but in a balanced way. A lot of them are concerned about jobs and economic growth and favor market-based solutions, but they don't think we should be getting rid of every regulation on the books. There are a lot of Republican voters out there who are frustrated with Wall Street and think that they acted irresponsibly and should be held to account, so they don't want to roll back regulations on Wall Street.
But what's happened, I think, in the Republican caucus in Congress, and what clearly happened with respect to Republican candidates, was a shift to an agenda that is far out of the mainstream – and, in fact, is contrary to a lot of Republican precepts. I said recently that Ronald Reagan couldn't get through a Republican primary today, and I genuinely think that's true. You have every candidate onstage during one of the primary debates rejecting a deficit-reduction plan that involved $10 in cuts for every $1 of revenue increases. You have a Republican front-runner who rejects the Dream Act, which would help young people who, through no fault of their own, are undocumented, but who have, for all intents and purposes, been raised as Americans. You've got a Republican Congress whose centerpiece, when it comes to economic development, is getting rid of the Environmental Protection Agency.
If you want to lower the deficit, reduce government intrusion in individual's personal lives, have lower taxes on the middle class, and a stronger defense against al Qaeda, all things I would expect Republican voters to support, Obama has been the one to offer more sensible positions on these issues.
As for Mitt Romney:
Given all that, what do you think the general election is going to look like, and what do you think of Mitt Romney?
I think the general election will be as sharp a contrast between the two parties as we've seen in a generation. You have a Republican Party, and a presumptive Republican nominee, that believes in drastically rolling back environmental regulations, that believes in drastically rolling back collective-bargaining rights, that believes in an approach to deficit reduction in which taxes are cut further for the wealthiest Americans, and spending cuts are entirely borne by things like education or basic research or care for the vulnerable. All this will be presumably written into their platform and reflected in their convention. I don't think that their nominee is going to be able to suddenly say, "Everything I've said for the last six months, I didn't mean." I'm assuming that he meant it. When you're running for president, people are paying attention to what you're saying.
Drug policy is an area where many of us who did vote for Obama were disappointed. He did address this issue:
Let me ask you about the War on Drugs. You vowed in 2008, when you were running for election, that you would not "use Justice Department resources to try and circumvent state laws about medical marijuana." Yet we just ran a story that shows your administration is launching more raids on medical pot than the Bush administration did. What's up with that?
Here's what's up: What I specifically said was that we were not going to prioritize prosecutions of persons who are using medical marijuana. I never made a commitment that somehow we were going to give carte blanche to large-scale producers and operators of marijuana – and the reason is, because it's against federal law. I can't nullify congressional law. I can't ask the Justice Department to say, "Ignore completely a federal law that's on the books." What I can say is, "Use your prosecutorial discretion and properly prioritize your resources to go after things that are really doing folks damage." As a consequence, there haven't been prosecutions of users of marijuana for medical purposes.
The only tension that's come up – and this gets hyped up a lot – is a murky area where you have large-scale, commercial operations that may supply medical marijuana users, but in some cases may also be supplying recreational users. In that situation, we put the Justice Department in a very difficult place if we're telling them, "This is supposed to be against the law, but we want you to turn the other way." That's not something we're going to do. I do think it's important and useful to have a broader debate about our drug laws. One of the things we've done over the past three years was to make a sensible change when it came to the disparity in sentencing between crack cocaine and powder cocaine. We've had a discussion about how to focus on treatment, taking a public-health approach to drugs and lessening the overwhelming emphasis on criminal laws as a tool to deal with this issue. I think that's an appropriate debate that we should have.
Changing the legislation is important, and I do wish Obama would propose some meaningful changes. There is no doubt that the medical marijuana laws are used for people to obtain marijuana for uses beyond medical uses. On the other hand, it is clear that prohibition does not work and there is no point in using government to try to prevent the use of marijuana. I back the position of the California Medical Association in having doubts about the system for medical marijuana but believe the answer is to legalized marijuana and get government out of this issue.
Obama showed his support for the free market, while contrasting his views of a market economy from those of the Republicans:
Occupy Wall Street seems to have influenced your rhetoric. Has it had a deeper impact on your thinking about America?
You know, I think that Occupy Wall Street was just one vivid expression of a broader anxiety that has been around in the United States for at least a decade or more. People have a sense the game is rigged, so just a few people can do well, and everybody else is left to scramble to get by.
The free market is the greatest generator of wealth in history. I'm a firm believer in the free market, and the capacity of Americans to start a business, pursue their dreams and strike it rich. But when you look at the history of how we became an economic superpower, that rugged individualism and private-sector dynamism was always coupled with government creating a platform so that everybody could succeed, so that consumers weren't taken advantage of, so that the byproducts of capitalism, like pollution or worker injuries, were regulated. Creating that social safety net has not made us weaker – it's made us stronger. It liberated people to say, "I can move to another state, but if I don't find a job right away, my kids aren't going to go hungry. I can start a business, but if it doesn't work out, I'm going to be able to land on my feet." Making those kinds of commitments to each other – to create safety nets, to invest in infrastructure and schools and basic research – is just like our collective investment in national security or fire departments or police. It has facilitated the kind of risk-taking that has made our economy so dynamic. This is what it means for us to live in a thriving, modern democracy.
One of the major arguments we'll be having in this election season is a contrasting vision that says not just that government is part of the problem, but essentially that government is the entire problem. These guys, they don't just want to roll back the New Deal – in some cases, they want to go back even further.
Obama also reads some of the blogs as well as op-ed writers:
Do you read Paul Krugman?I read all of the New York Times columnists. Krugman's obviously one of the smartest economic reporters out there, but I also read some of the conservative columnists, just to get a sense of where those arguments are going. There are a handful of blogs, Andrew Sullivan's on the Daily Beast being an example, that combine thoughtful analysis with a sampling of lots of essays that are out there. The New Yorker and The Atlantic still do terrific work. Every once in a while, I sneak in a novel or a nonfiction book.
There's far more in the full text of the interview.
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"One of the agents involved in the scandal was on Sarah Palin's detail in 2008 when he was running for vice president. And he posted a picture on his Facebook – apparently he had a little crush on her – of him standing behind her kind of smirking and saying, 'I'm checking her out.' Which is more than you can say for the McCain campaign." –Bill Maher
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Mitt Romney Remains A Weak Candidate, Except Among The Very Religious
Last night's primaries, occurring after Rick Santorum left the race, turned out to give pretty much the same picture as when there was more of a contest: Mitt Romney will be the nominee, but many Republicans would prefer to vote for someone else. Smart Politics points out the weakness of Romney's victories:
Over the last 40 years there have been nearly 80 contests in which the presumptive Republican nominees played out the string after their last credible challenger exited the race.
In every one of these contests, the GOP frontrunner won at least 60 percent of the vote, even when ex- and long-shot candidates remained on the ballot.
But on Tuesday, Romney won only 56 percent of the vote in Delaware and 58 percent in Pennsylvania, home to Rick Santorum who dropped out on April 10th.
While Romney avoided the embarrassment of winning with a mere plurality, never has a presumptive nominee won a primary contest with such a low level of support at this stage of the race with his chief challenger no longer actively campaigning.
Clearly the author doesn't consider either Newt Gingrich or Ron Paul to be a credible challenger, and the assumption looks valid. Even Newt Gingrich has realized this, dropping out of the race. While Ron Paul's chances at winning are still the same as at any other point in time, zero, it will be interesting to see if he manages to receive more primary votes as the last candidate standing, allowing him to take a larger block of delegates to the convention than would otherwise occur.
Jimmy Carter says that, while he would prefer Obama, he would feel comfortable with Romney:
"I'd rather have a Democrat but I would be comfortable — I think Romney has shown in the past, in his previous years as a moderate or progressive… that he was fairly competent as a governor and also running the Olympics as you know. He's a good solid family man and so forth, he's gone to the extreme right wing positions on some very important issues in order to get the nomination. What he'll do in the general election, what he'll do as president I think is different."
I would refer Carter to yesterday's post on this subject. There is certainly a reasonable chance that Romney is more moderate than he now claims to be. It is really impossible to tell what opinions Romney has, or if he even has any, considering the way he can sound sincere while taking either side of any issue. Unfortunately Romney has painted himself into a "severely conservative" corner and will have difficulty moving out. Even should he prefer more moderate positions, it is hard to see him resisting the wishes of a far right wing Congress, which is the most likely result should conditions in the fall favor a Romney victory.
It is clearly far too early to predict who will win. Polls now favor Obama, but they can change by November. I am encouraged by Obama's strength in most of the battleground states, although he is likely to lose some states he won in 2008. Republicans who were encouraged by a narrow Romney lead in Gallup's daily tracking poll will not want to see that Obama has jumped to a seven point lead. I suspect that this is more a measure of the uncertainty among many voters as opposed to a major change in positions, but does emphasize the weakness of Romney as a candidate.
Gallup has also found that the usual partisan breakdown along religious lines still holds in a race between Obama and Romney:
Mitt Romney leads Barack Obama by 17 percentage points, 54% to 37%, among very religious voters in Gallup's latest five-day presidential election tracking average. Obama leads by 14 points, 54% to 40%, among the moderately religious, and by 31 points, 61% to 30%, among those who are nonreligious.
If this is viewed purely based upon religion, the results might not make any sense considering Obama's religious views. There are two additional factors in play. Many Republicans are still fooled by the attacks from the right wing noise machine, with a meaningful number still believing Obama is a Muslim. The other factor is that the concern among many on the religious right is not whether a candidate is religious but whether they will use government to impose their religious views upon others. In this case, perhaps the religious right has a better understanding of the outcome of a Romney presidency than Jimmy Carter shows.
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Veteran character actor Bill Paxton (Aliens, Near Dark, Big Love) will be joining Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD for at least four episodes.
The True Lies star will be playing Agent John Garrett, a character created by Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz, now an old colleague of Phil Coulson's, according to TV Guide.
Agents of SHIELD returns to Channel 4 in March. You can buy Aliens on Blu-ray for £8.68 at Amazon.co.uk.


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"The capabilities of our simulation software are very advanced. Thanks to the expertise of our engineering team, we are able to represent the flows of materials and pieces, in 2D & 3D, and build all the KPIs needed for decision making. In just a few minutes, we are able to simulate several months of production"
Pascal Dubuis
CEO, INOPROD
Can we start off with a brief introduction to Inoprod and the services it provides to the aerospace industry in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes?
Inoprod is an engineering consultant based in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes that helps industrial companies to optimize their manufacturing processes and supply chain management, with around 20% of our business in the aerospace sector. We can create new manufacturing plants, optimize existing plants, and, thus secure the CAPEX investments of our customers. We use dynamic flow simulation technology, through different digital tools. Thanks to this expertise we are able to create digital twins of manufacturing plants, and calculate the interaction between all of the processes and resources within it.
The capabilities of this simulation software is very advanced. Thanks to the expertise of our engineering team, we are able to represent the flows of materials and pieces, in 2D & 3D, and build all the KPIs needed for decision making. In just a few minutes, we are able to simulate several months of production and thus predict how the plant will be operating and what its the future performance will be, such as its ODT. This is particularly useful at the moment with the production ramp-up in the aeronautics industry, because we are able to calculate a company's capacity to meet demand, and advise on where they should invest their resources in order to increase their capacity.
Our projects can help operators work better and more safely; we can assess all of the work stations within plants and calculate their maximum resource capacity in terms of human ressources, energetic power, robots and all other types of machinery. We also simulate the impact manufacturing machinery is having on the people who are operating it: in order to avoid musculoskeletal problems arising from labour within manufacturing sites.We calculate the safest and most ergonomic ways for operators to use equipment by simulating them in a virtual environment, and then downloading the settings directly to the equipment. This means that there is less human risk involved, and time is saved in production.
OEM's are pushing for a consolidation of the supply chain in order to meet ramp-up demand. How can Inoprod contribute to a consolidation of the supply chain?
We contribute by helping small and medium companies in aerospace significantly increase their production capacity. First example, we were recently working with a company that produces engine parts for the Airbus A321Neo program, and who were having big problems with meeting ramp up demand; when they came to us, they were able to produce less than 100 parts per year. After working with us they are now producing 3000 parts per year; we spent one month assessing their site and developing a model for their future operations, which we then helped them to implement.
We are also in discussion with major companies in the ASD sector. For example we worked with the Ariane Group to help them develop their manufacturing processes for building the new Ariane launcher.
Companies across the value chain in the aerospace industry are increasingly incorporating Industry 4.0 into their processes. What role is Inoprod playing in this development?
We are a strategic partner in the implementation of Industry 4.0. For example, we met with Airbus recently, who confirmed that it is important for them to have a robust supply chain and guaranteed delivery times, which will only be possible with the integration of digital bricks as we propose them. Small companies need to prove that they can answer Airbus' needs, and we can help them do that. We are the only company that offers this kind of engineering and simulation services, so we expect to play a leading role in this development.
What is the future strategy for Inoprod?
We are expanding into the North American aeronautical market, particularly Canada. We have our first customers there now, and we expect to attract more quickly, as the Canadian aeronautic industry is increasingly committed to incorporating Industry 4.0 into their processes, and we are best placed to partner with them on this. Before the end of this year, we hope to have a subsidiary in Montreal in order to be near to our customers and offer them the best possible service.
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Pyrite Properties and Meaning. Pyrite is of the Sulfides family. Pyrite is a beautiful gold color, forms in clusters, and often shows up within and on other minerals such as Fluorite, ... As Pyrite is largely iron and gold in color, it grounds the gold ray into the physical body.
Pyrite is a good source of sulphur, but not a good source of iron because of the sulphur, which ruins iron and is hard to separate from it. It has been used for the manufacture of sulphuric acid. Copperas, the sulphate, is obtained by its oxidation.
Pyrite Meaning & Healing Properties To harness the powerful and protective vibes of Pyrite, give your self-confidence a boost when you use this warrior stone in a prosperity or aspiration healing layout.
Iron Pyrite, distributed by Washington Mills, is prepared from carefully selected pure monocrystalic iron pyrites (FeS 2). Description of Iron Pyrite. Iron Pyrite consists of finely grained Pyrite crystal splinters, which increases the thermal conductivity, the tensile strength, and the porosity of resin-bonded grinding wheels and cut off wheels.
Iron Pyrite is an iron sulfide which is very popular form of Ferrous Sulphide due to its metallic luster and pale brass-yellow hue. The bonds in this product are the iron atom bonded to convalent pairs of sulphur atoms which due to which this iron pyrite takes a cubic shape.
PROPERTIES: This beautiful stone takes its name from Pyrites lithos (Greek), "stone which strikes fire," in allusion to the sparking produced when iron is struck by a lump of Pyrite. Pyrite only allows the positive and infuses you with a "Just do it" attitude.
The name pyrite derived from Greek - fire, as it produces sparks when knocked. Because of its similarity to gold, pyrite is often called Fool's gold.It is metallic shiny and has pale brass-yellow hue.
Iron Pyrite Properties. Iron pyrite is one of the most common sulfide minerals in the world that's more popularly known as Fool's Gold. It got its name because it looks just like gold to people who don't know what real gold looks like!
Pyrite is a very protective stone, shielding the user from negative energy of all kinds. Pyrite blocks energy leaks and mends auric tears. Carry Pyrite in your pocket to protect you from both environmental pollution and physical danger.
Pyrite Gemstone Properties. General. ˈpī-ˌrīt. ... Striking it with steel can even cause the sulfur in it to spark! Pyrite is actually disulfide of iron, and the metallic crystal grows in cubes, nodules, masses of tiny crystals, and can even be found as flat discs.
Iron Pyrite is iron disulfide, with a hardness of 6-6.5. Iron pyrite is known as a stone of protection. Iron pyrite corresponds to the astrological sign of Leo. We have iron pyrite spheres, suns, specimens on matrix, and clusters. Iron pyrite is commonly known as fool's gold.
Healing properties for Iron Pyrite Photograph by Jem Iron Pyrite is known to be a powerful protection stone which is said to shield and protect against all forms of negative energy.
Pyrite Properties. Pyrite is a brass-yellow mineral and is the most common sulfide mineral. It occurs in high and low temperatures and forms in small quantities.
Pyrite has a darker yellow color to it that's similar to brass, while gold has a vibrant yellow color that's highly reflective to the surrounding light. Holding a piece of gold under the light will reveal a bright yellow color that's stronger than the dull yellow color of pyrite.
Psychic: Iron pyrites can be used for any divination work but especially scrying by candlelight. It can be used for channeling work. It can be used for channeling work. It Is The Stone Of: Carers, doctors, nurses, pharmacists and shamans.
Pyrite Properties General. pī-ˌrīt. Stone of ... Striking it with steel can even cause the sulfur in it to spark! Pyrite is actually disulfide of iron, and the metallic crystal grows in cubes, nodules, masses of tiny crystals, and can even be found as flat discs.


This technique allows the user to transfer their chakra to a target. The amount of chakra transferred depends solely on the user.
This technique was originally created by Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki in order to "connect" the spiritual energies of every living person. His intention was for it to be used to build and maintain peace through his religion of ninshū, but this technique ended up becoming another tool for war when humanity weaponised chakra. This technique is used by many shinobi, each one of them has shown to use technique in different ways.
Certain people, such as Minato Namikaze and Naruto Uzumaki could also mould the transferred chakra in order to adapt it to another person's specific chakra type. In the latter's case, due to Kurama's chakra, it also enveloped the recipients in a chakra cloak similar to his "Version 1" form, albeit with no tails. Once the user transfers its chakra, he/she is able to manipulate that chakra remotely.
Katsuyu and its summoners have a unique bond between them through Strength of a Hundred Seal and they can use Katsuyu: Immense Network Healing. Tsunade used this technique during Pain's invasion of Konoha, with Tsunade first transferring her healing chakra to Katsuyu, and then Katsuyu itself transferring it to the wounded villagers. Sakura used the same method of Tsunade with Katsuyu to heal wounded shinobi in Shinobi Alliance against Ten-Tails.
Tsunade used again this technique during the five Kage's fight against Madara Uchiha to give Ōnoki some of her chakra so that he could use a massive Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique to defeat Madara's wood clones. Sakura later used this technique to improve Obito's Kamui.
Zetsu's Spore Technique creates clones, which feed on chakra to grow are also able to transfer chakra to people they come in contact with.
Dan Katō was able to use this technique as a spirit in Tsunade's consciousness to restore her chakra and Strength of a Hundred Seal. Obito did something similar to give his chakra and dōjutsu powers to Kakashi after his body had been turned to ashes.
Jūgo was able to transfer natural energy to someone thanks to his clan's unique ability.
Tailed beasts are also able to freely share their chakra with whoever they choose, and as Kurama has noted, it is a less complicated process for them than it is for humans.
Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki was the first user of this technique to connect all humans living in the earth and gave the chakra to humanity besides his immediate family. Hagoromo also used this technique inside of Naruto and Sasuke who are the reincarnations of Asura and Indra. He gave the power to them to defeat Madara. While using this technique, a unique entity appears behind Hagoromo with a marking reminiscent of a third eye in its forehead.
If the Aburame member has proper control, the kikaichū are also shown able to transfer their accumulated chakra to others targets, replenishing them.
The Magaki Group uses this technique in a different way. First Nangō sends his chakra to Benten and Chūshin, and then both of them send it along with its own to Akaboshi, greatly enhancing the power of his techniques. He is able to shatter a barrier easily with his increased chakra.


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Brady cannot shake his suspicions about Nicole and Eric rekindling their romance.
Brady is upset when Nicole lies to him.


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Student praised for hoax woke essay claiming coffee is "colonized" by milk-YouTube screenshot
Student mocks "wokeism," writes paper on how milk is a "colonizer" of coffee and dupes professor
Posted by: Jim Patrick| January 3, 2022 |Categories Editorial, Featured
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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN- As the late, great Rush Limbaugh used to say, he liked to "mock absurdity by being absurd," such as when he referred to radical feminists as "feminazis," did "animal rights updates" and things of that nature.
Now, we see where a college student in Sweden took the issue of so-called "white privilege" and brought it to an extreme level, according to The College Fix.
Arvid Haag signed up for a class at Stockholm University called "Critical Whiteness Perspectives in Nordic Culture." And here you thought wokeness was only an American disease.
Haag had the opportunity to blow some money on what he called an "absurd" class due to some local pandemic rules, which provided grants to students in the form of student financial aid.
Haag figured that since the class wasn't costing him anything out of pocket, he'd "get something fun" out of the "harmless" class, however he soon found out that many of his fellow students took the whole "critical whiteness" thing quite seriously, which he referred to as an "American-born ideology."
Toward the end of the class, Haag would participate in the class sporadically, offering "critical" comments on occasion.
However he decided to wait until near the end to offer the ultimate mockery of the class in the form of an essay entitled, "Black And White Drinks," which he described as "an account of what had happened from the early 20th century in the struggle between coffee and milk."
In the essay, Haag told "how the marketing of coffee has been characterized by highlighting 'black and exotic elements' of the drink. When it comes to milk, it has instead been 'the local and white' that has been emphasized."
The question one can ask is whether it is really a reconciliation between milk and coffee that has been implemented or whether adding milk to the coffee is a way to take away from the coffee its unique properties and instead impose the black drink white properties.
Milk in the coffee can with critical glasses be seen as a drink-based colonization. The hot and strong coffee cools and is rounded off in taste with the help of the milk, which thereby controls and domesticates the coffee.
In the interview, Haag acknowledged that he hadn't even read "most of the books or blog posts" he cited, and for that matter didn't know what "critical whiteness perspectives meant.
Despite all of that, Haag actually earned a "B" for the essay, with the instructor noting it was an "exciting topic" that employed "critical thinking." He even suggested Haag expand upon his essay in a longer expose.
The only criticism given was that the paper "did not have exact source references [for the] photos."
"[The joke] must have gone over his head," Haag continued.
Haag's hoax is certainly not the first time such a ruse was put over on academics.
One such case is the "Sokal Hoax," where a mathematical physicist at New York University named Alan Sokal submitted a sham article to a journal called Social Text.
In that piece, Sokal took then-current topics in physics and mathematics, and "drew various cultural, philosophical and political morals that he felt would appeal to fashionable academic commentators on science who question the claims of science to objectivity."
Two years later, Sokal revealed the hoax in a separate journal, and revealed how he had "pulled the wool" over Social Text, noting he the article he wrote had been "liberally salted with nonsense."
He said the only reason his opinion was accepted was because "(a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions."
Things have gotten so absurd that it has become difficult to differentiate between factual work and satire. An example of that is the Babylon Bee, a satire site which pushes stories that are so absurd as to be unbelievable, however in the crazy 2020s, much of what they publish comes true.
College Fix identifies such essays, noting its hard to tell the difference. An essay called "Glaciers, gender and science: A feminist glaciology framework for global environmental change research" was a legitimate essay, while another, "The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct" was not.
Another bogus essay was entitled, "Our Struggle is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism," a "feminist" version of Hitler's Mein Kampf.
Want another hoax people fell for? How about one which said dog parks were "manifestations of rape culture and oppression."
Haag is apparently a political candidate, according to his Facebook page, and has posts on his page which criticize the Swedish government's COVID policies.
We recently reported on a number of white college students in the US, who lied about being minorities on their college applications to increase their chances of being admitted. For more on that, we invite you to:
Hey, if you can identify as a different gender, maybe it works for race and ethnicity too? It worked for Rachel Dolezal for a while, right? According to Breitbart, a new study has revealed that the current focus on diversity in colleges and universities has caused an uptick in the number of white applicants lying about their ethnic identity when applying for college.
According to Intelligent, "Some college applicants are misrepresenting their race in an effort to use their desired school's diversity efforts to gain admission, or obtain more financial aid," they reported.
A survey conducted on the platform Pollfish found about 1,250 white college applicants 16 and older said they "lied on their application by indicating they were a racial minority."
Of that grouping, an overwhelming majority (81 percent) said they lied in order to increase their odds of acceptance, while 50 percent said they were seeking financial aid.
The parameters of the survey required respondents "to have previously applied to a college or university in the U.S." while advising students to answer truthfully and to the fullest extend of their knowledge. The survey did not seek to independently verify each claim.
Demographically, white males were "three times as likely than women to lie about their race," with 48 percent of that group claiming to have lied on their application, while only 16 percent of women of women lied on their applications.
"Lying also varies by age groups, with 43 percent of people 35-44 years old, and 41 percent of 16-24 year-olds admitting to faking a racial minority status when applying to college. Those rates are lower for 25-34 year-olds (31 percent); 45-54 year-olds (28 percent), and people 54 and older (13 percent).
Nearly half of all respondents who lied about their minority status (48 percent) identified themselves as Native American on their applications. 13 percent claimed to be Latino, 10 percent claimed to be black, and 9 percent claimed to be Asian or Pacific Islander.
Twice as many men as women claimed Native American heritage on their applications (54 percent compared to 24 perectn [sp]). Meanwhile, one in four women (24 percent) claimed to be Latino. Women are also more than twice as likely as men to pretend to be black (18 percent to 8 percent).
According to Kristen Scatton, managing editor for Intelligent, she believes the popularity of applicants who claim Native American heritage is likely derived from the idea that "many Americans of European descent have some Native American DNA in their bloodline."
"For college applicants who are trying to give their application a boost by pretending to be a racial minority, they may seize on this notion that many Americans of European descent have some Native American DNA in their bloodline," said Scatton. "However, research has shown that's not all that common, particularly among white Americans."
"Lying on a college application about anything, including your race is never a good idea," she said. "Colleges can and will rescind admissions offers if they discover students lied during the application process."
All of this came to light as a result of the college admissions scandal which took place in 2019. While the primary focus of the scandal was on wealthy elites, such as Hollywood celebrities Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin bribing college officials, some students were also told to lie about their race.
In the case of Huffman, Loughlin and others, they paid over $25 million to a man named William rick Singer between 2011 and 2018 to bribe college officials and inflate entrance exams, as well as lying about extracurricular activities.
In case you missed it, here is a story about a university professor deciding to resign his position due to woke policies at the institution.
PORTLAND, OR – Peter Boghossian, an associate professor who has taught philosophy at Portland State University for the past decade, resigned Wednesday, saying the university has made "intellectual exploration impossible."
In his resignation letter submitted to Provost Susan Jeffords, Boghossian wrote:
"I never once believed — nor do I now — that the purpose of instruction was to lead my students to a particular conclusion.
Rather, I sought to create the conditions for rigorous thought; to help them gain the tools to hunt and furrow for their own conclusions. This is why I became a teacher and why I love teaching.
"Brick by brick, the university has made this kind of intellectual exploration impossible.
It has transformed a bastion of free inquiry into a social justice factory whose only inputs were race, gender, and victimhood and whose only outputs were grievance and division."
Boghossian often invited lecturers from many schools of thought to talk in front of his students during his ten-year tenure with the university. He wrote that he did so to expand the thought and questioning of his students:
"Over the last decade, it has been my privilege to teach at the university. My specialties are critical thinking, ethics, and the Socratic method, and I teach classes like Science and Pseudoscience and The Philosophy of Education.
But in addition to exploring classic philosophers and traditional texts, I've invited a wide range of guest lecturers to address my classes, from Flat-Earthers to Christian apologists to global climate skeptics to Occupy Wall Street advocates. I'm proud of my work.
"I invited those speakers not because I agreed with their worldviews, but primarily because I didn't. From those messy and difficult conversations, I've seen the best of what our students can achieve: questioning beliefs while respecting believers; staying even-tempered in challenging circumstances; and even changing their minds."
He said that he began receiving push back from the university when be began publicly questioning "social justice factories":
"At first, I didn't realize how systemic this was and I believed I could question this new culture. So, I began asking questions. What is the evidence that trigger warnings and safe spaces contribute to student learning?
Why should racial consciousness be the lens through which we view our role as educators? How did we decide that "cultural appropriation" is immoral?
"Unlike my colleagues, I asked these questions out loud and in public… the more I spoke out about these issues, the more retaliation I faced."
He said in the 2016-17 academic year, a former student lodged a complaint against him which turned into a Title IX investigation. It was concluded that Boghossian did not violate PSU's discrimination and harassment policy, though it was recommended that he receive coaching, he said.
Boghossian made headlines as part of a three-man team that went public in 2018 with a project rooting out what members describe as political bias in academic publishing. The academics posed as gender studies scholars and submitted hoax papers to journals to see if they'd get published and succeeded in several cases.
Publishing journals included Gender, Place and Culture, Hypatia, Sex Roles, Fat Studies, Journal of Poetry Therapy, Affilia, and Sexuality & Culture. Accepted papers include those on an adaptation of Mein Kampf, "fat bodybuilding" and monitoring "rape culture" via "dog-humping incidents" at parks in Oregon.
Boghossian was the only one of three researchers on the project to hold a full-time academic position, and Portland State University's Institutional Review Board (IRB) determined he committed research misconduct.
The university claimed the journal editors and reviewers tricked by the hoax papers were "human subjects" being researched, and that type of study required approval.
A determination letter from the university read:
"University policy requires that all research involving human subjects conducted by faculty, other employees and students (on campus) must have prior review and approval by the IRB."
In the resignation letter, Boghossian wrote that he faced threats and harassment for his work, and the university did nothing except come after him:
"Shortly thereafter, swastikas in the bathroom with my name under them began appearing in two bathrooms near the philosophy department.
They also occasionally showed up on my office door, in one instance accompanied by bags of feces. Our university remained silent. When it acted, it was against me, not the perpetrators.
"For me, the years that followed were marked by continued harassment. I'd find flyers around campus of me with a Pinocchio nose.
I was spit on and threatened by passersby while walking to class. I was informed by students that my colleagues were telling them to avoid my classes. And, of course, I was subjected to more investigation."
In concluding his resignation letter, he wrote that freedom to question is a fundamental right, and unlike Portland State University, educational institutions should remind students that the right is also a duty:
"Portland State University has failed in fulfilling this duty. In doing so it has failed not only its students but the public that supports it. While I am grateful for the opportunity to have taught at Portland State for over a decade, it has become clear to me that this institution is no place for people who intend to think freely and explore ideas.
"This is not the outcome I wanted. But I feel morally obligated to make this choice. For ten years, I have taught my students the importance of living by your principles. One of mine is to defend our system of liberal education from those who seek to destroy it. Who would I be if I didn't?"
In a statement, the university said:
"Portland State has always been and will continue to be a welcoming home for free speech and academic freedom.
"We believe that those practices are not in conflict with our core institutional values of student success; racial justice and equity; and proactive engagement with our community."
The university refused to comment on Boghossian's resignation specifically, calling it a "personnel matter."
University spends $50k to remove a rock that triggered students, claiming it reminded them of the past
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MADISON, WI- Simply put, you cannot make this stuff up. Apparently, rocks are now "racist." At least that was the allegation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where the university spent in the neighborhood of $50,000 to remove a rock that is likely billions of years old because—racism.
🚨#BREAKING : University of Wisconsin removes Chamberlin Rock, seen as sign of racism
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The University of Wisconsin removed a large 70 ton boulder from its Madison campus on Friday at the request of minority students who view the rock as a symbol of racism pic.twitter.com/qFHTZCn8tW
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) August 7, 2021
According to the Post-Millennial, the rock, called the "Chamberlin Rock," which has been sitting on Observatory Hill since 1925, has been removed from university property. Seriously we are at a time when people are offended by a flipping rock.
Apparently the rock was referenced by some kind of derogatory nickname for a large rock around 85 years ago.
The rock, dated at around two billion years old, is an example of the pre-Cambrian era, defined by scientists as the largest span of time in Earth's history prior to the current Phanerozoic Eon, according to Science Direct.
The rock was dedicated as a monument to honor Thomas Chamberlin, a geologist who served as president of the university between 1887-1892.
Last November, a group of students who apparently spent more time being offended than actually engaging in their studies, claimed the rock was a reminder of so-called "past and present injustices faced by students of color."
The chancellor of the university, Rebecca Blank apparently bought into it. The Wisconsin Black Student Union, in partnership with Wunk Sheek, the Native American student organization pushed for the rock's removal.
"Now is a moment for all of us BIPOC students to breathe a sigh of relief, to be proud of our endurance, and to begin healing," said @d8alder.
The rest of the story on the removal of Chamberlin Rock Friday morning: https://t.co/rSy2vBJZEn
— Erin Gretzinger (@GretzingerErin) August 6, 2021
"It took courage and commitment for the Wisconsin Black Student Union to bring this issue forward and to influence change alongside UW's Wunk Sheek student leaders," Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Lori Reesor said.
"In the midst of demands for justice following George Floyd's murder last summer, the students wanted change on campus, and they worked hard to see this through. While the decision required compromise, I'm proud of the student leaders and the collaboration it too to get here."
"Courage and commitment?" To move a rock? How are these whiny snowflakes going to survive in the real world?
The former president of the Wisconsin Black Student Union, senior Nalah McWhorter watched as the dream of having the racist rock removed took place on Friday morning.
"It was very meaningful for me to be there and to see the process all the way through to the end," McWhorter said wistfully. "It was about a year ago that we released our demands and met with the chancellor and explained to her why those demands meant so much to us. It was a powerful moment today to see this demand come full circle."
McWhorter is hoping the rock's removal will inspire other students to advocate for change on campus. Perhaps next they can move some offensive flowers, or perhaps have all the trees removed from campus, since in the Jim Crow south lynchings occurred from trees. You know, racism and all.
I demand they cut down all the trees that witnessed this rock's behavior! https://t.co/7isCvehyef
— 🍻 (@McCauley_B3) August 6, 2021
"I see this as offering the next generation of students something to build off of," she said. "We got this project going, and now the next round of students can continue to work on the other demands and come up with other ideas. We hope this movement and this momentum carries on."
There was a plaque affixed to the offensive, racist rock which was removed. A new plaque honoring Chamberlin will be placed in Chamberlin Hall on campus.
Historians at the university were unable to find any evidence that the racist term attached to the racist rock was used by the university in any capacity.
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Vasectomies Meet Earth Day in Iowa!
Nonprofit and local physician launch first mobile vasectomy clinic in the US for Earth Day
SimpleVas
Apr 15, 2021, 08:13 ET
DES MOINES, Iowa, April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- On April 20, in a joint effort with the nonprofit World Vasectomy Day (WVD), expert vasectomy physician of SimpleVas Clinic, Dr. Esgar Guarín, will be rolling out the very first Mobile Vasectomy Clinic in the United States, as part of the celebration of Earth Day.
Mobile Vasectomy Clinic
Members of the press are invited to attend a press event on April 20 at 11am, at the Holiday Inn Des Moines-Airport/Conference Center located at 6111 Fleur Dr, in Des Moines for the launch of the first itinerant vasectomy clinic on wheels in the US. (Zoom link for remote attendance will be available)
From Des Moines, the unit will be on its first road trip first to the parking lot next to Primary Health Care, 3510 Lincoln Way, Ames, IA 50014, on April 24. Dr. Guarín will be providing vasectomies at a reduced cost, and World Vasectomy Day will be making a $50 donation to a local environmental nonprofit for each vasectomy performed.
Inspired by volunteer work done for World Vasectomy Day in 2017 working in mobile medical units in Mexico City, Dr. Guarín saw the potential for increasing access and the visibility of the procedure, while disruptively promoting the conversation about male participation in reproductive decisions.
In conjunction with World Vasectomy Day, an organization that works globally to demystify vasectomy and build programs with ministries of health and other organizations, Dr. Guarin has set out to increase the public's awareness and understanding of vasectomy's benefits.
Going forward, World Vasectomy Day and SimpleVas will be working to further educate and make vasectomy accessible to families in Iowa, where tubal ligation is still the most common form of permanent contraception, and where the rate of unintended pregnancy is about 43%.
From the co-founder of World Vasectomy Day, Jonathan Stack: "As we approach Earth Day 2021, we support the effort to restore the planet to a sustainable level. WVD believes that people are both the cause and the solution to climate change."
When the first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970, Earth's population was just over 3.5 billion people. Today, we're reaching 7.9 billion. There are more people alive today than have been alive since the very first human walked the earth approximately 300,000 years ago.
Also from Jonathan Stack, "Certainly, every child deserves to be received with love, and treated to all of the benefits and rights that should come with being alive. Yet, the truth is every single major social problem we face is made more difficult to resolve with a growing population. For us to flourish as a species and for the biosphere to help support our existence, we don't need another billion people, we need to take better care of those who are already here."
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Abstract. Within the framework of the PAGES NAm2k project, 510 North American borehole temperature–depth profiles were analyzed to infer recent climate changes. To facilitate comparisons and to study the same time period, the profiles were truncated at 300m. Ground surface temperature histories for the last 500 years were obtained for a model describing temperature changes at the surface for several climate-differentiated regions in North America. The evaluation of the model is done by inversion of temperature perturbations using singular value decomposition and its solutions are assessed using a Monte Carlo approach. The results within 95% confidence interval suggest a warming between 1.0 and 2.5K during the last two centuries. A regional analysis, composed of mean temperature changes over the last 500 years and geographical maps of ground surface temperatures, show that all regions experienced warming, but this warming is not spatially uniform and is more marked in northern regions.
How to cite: Jaume-Santero, F., Pickler, C., Beltrami, H., and Mareschal, J.-C.: North American regional climate reconstruction from ground surface temperature histories, Clim. Past, 12, 2181-2194, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-2181-2016, 2016.
Within the framework of the PAGES NAm2k project, we estimated regional trends in the ground surface temperature change for the past 500 years in North America. The mean North American ground surface temperature history suggests a warming of 1.8 °C between preindustrial times and 2000. A regional analysis of mean temperature changes over the last 5 centuries shows that all regions experienced warming, but this warming displays large spatial variability and is more marked in high-latitude regions.


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Issue 68 – May 2012
Another Word: Dear Speculative Fiction, I'm Glad We Had This Talk
by Elizabeth Bear
Look.
I'm sitting down to have this conversation with you as a friend, as somebody who loves you. As somebody who's devoted thirty-odd years of her life to you.
We've all made some mistakes. We've all had moments in our lives when we got a little self-important, maybe. Where our senses of humor failed us.
I'm as guilty as anyone of taking myself too seriously.
But for you, it's become an addiction. You seem to think that nothing fun can have value; that only grimdark portentousness and dystopia mean anything. You wallow in human suffering and despair, and frankly—it makes me tired.
I remember when we were younger. You were so clever, so playful. So much fun. We had some good times. You could make me laugh and think at the same time. You made my pulse race.
But we got older and started understanding a little better how complicated the world is. How layered people's motivations are. At first, you seemed to handle the moral complexity well. You'd give me something like The Forever War or The Left Hand of Darkness, and we could talk about it for hours.
I mean, I sensed your ambivalence. But I had some ambivalence of my own. That's the thing about ambivalence—it's a kind of tension. And tension drives a narrative, right?
And I don't know if you got uncomfortable with the tension? Maybe you felt like you couldn't live in limbo anymore, but you'd seen too much to believe in happy endings anymore. I'm guessing, I admit—but I wonder if you felt like had to find some way to resolve things. Get some closure. And escapism . . . just wasn't open to you any more.
You started thinking you had to be cynical and mean to accomplish anything. You got wrapped up in your own history and your long-running arguments. You buried yourself in the seriousness of it all, and you forgot how to tell a joke. You even got—I hate to say it—kind of pretentious. Didactic, even.
The thing is, that kind of cynical pose is really just a juvenile reaction to the world not being what we hoped. We can't have everything—so we reject anything. But it's adolescent, darling, and most of us outgrow it. We realize that as much as the world can be a ball of dung, and horrible things can happen for no reason, there are positive outcomes too, sometimes. I'm not going to say things balance out, because of course they don't—life is not fair—but it's not just awful, either.
I'm not crying out for slapstick, here. You know that's never done it for me. And I'm certainly not saying that I want you to be shallower.
If anything, I'm asking you to be deeper—to embrace more of the range of human experience. Not just the bad times. I mean, sure, we need to acknowledge the bad times, and I've deeply admired your recent willingness to explore new perspectives, to take on issues of race and gender and sexuality that once you would have shied from.
I have never doubted your courage.
But look at Terry Pratchett. (I know, we should all be Terry Pratchett. But then what would he read?) He manages to be incisive without being pretentious. He manages to be sharp and illuminating by being funny. Look at Neil Gaiman. Here's a guy who can tackle some hard subjects and still have a good time. He makes people like him, and because they like him, they listen when he says hard, important things.
I almost hate to bring it up, but . . . J.K. Rowling? I know, you don't take her seriously. She's a woman, and she writes for kids, and in fairness some of the later books . . . could have used a closer encounter with the blue pencil. So it's easy for you to dismiss her. But what you can't dismiss is that she reaches people—and whether you agree with the way she discusses issues like class bigotry or not, the fact is, she does discuss them. Her awareness of them saturates her work, and it gets into people's heads—because millions of people read her work.
I guess what I'm saying here is, look at Lenny Bruce. Look at George Carlin. The angrier they got, the less fun they got—and the less effective they got, because nobody wants to listen to an old man cat-yell at the kids on his lawn.
Oh, honey, I'm not saying you're old. And I'm not leaving you. You're a big part of my life, and I will always be here for you. I'm just trying to make sure that you're always here for me, and sitting there in a toxic stew of your own bitterness . . . it's not good for you. Look at you. When was the last time you left the house? When was the last time you read something because it was fun, not because you thought it was good for you?
Stern-lipped moral uprightness is not a literary value, darling. Sure, theme is. I'm not disputing that. But did you know that John Gardner talked about this thing he called "disPollyanna Syndrome?" He considered it a literary vice—the cynical fallacy that the real world is unrelievedly bleak—and he considered it as great a disservice to art as its opposite. And . . . he cited Harlan Ellison as a chief practitioner in this mode.
Oh, I heard you gasp. But the New Wave is one of the primary influences on the way we live our life and do our work today. And also, I hear you say, Harlan was popular! And funny!
Well, yes, he was funny. That's why he got away with it. But you? I feel like all we have anymore is pus and severed limbs and the eschaton. And that's not something we can build a future on, is it?
Kind of by definition.
I'm just saying that it's right—and humane and morally correct—to harbor a deep and abiding concern for the world around you. And that it's a perfectly normal—even laudable!—trait to express that concern and draw attention to problems by being savagely trenchant, witty, and sarcastic. Caustic, even. I want you to speak out. I want you to say what you mean.
But sometimes lately, spending time with you is like having my face pressed down into a trough of human misery until the bubbles stop.
You can have a sense of humor too. It's okay. We'll still like you. We'll still take you seriously. We just think it'd be best for all of us if you could let yourself unbend just a little.
I know. It's easier to get people to take you seriously when you're all grit and pus and urban decay—or all gut wounds and bureaucratic incompetence, for that matter. It seems like a quick route to street cred. But the thing is, real people generally aren't miserable all the time. Even in horrible situations, they find ways to take a little pleasure, to crack jokes. Dying people and homicide cops and soldiers are generally really funny.
I want us to have a little pleasure again too.
And maybe we'd have more friends if you weren't such a downer to be around all the time.
Elizabeth Bear was born on the same day as Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, but in a different year. She is the Hugo, Sturgeon, Locus, and Campbell Award winning author of over 25 novels, most recently The Red-Stained Wings (Tor Books) and over a hundred short stories. She lives in Massachusetts with her partner, writer Scott Lynch, three adventurous cats, and an elderly and opinionated dog.
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More commonly known for their on-field achievements, AFL players are looking beyond the football boots and white lines and giving back to Ladder by sharing the paths they have gone down as they explore life beyond AFL football. A crucial part of this is identifying what steps they need to take to ensure they are prepared when the time comes to leave the AFL system. Jordan and Tom share with Ladder young people their experiences with this, along with the challenges they have faced, in the hope that Ladder young people will feel better equipped to explore their own employment, education and training pathways.
Having previously volunteered as a Ladder mentor, Jordan discusses the challenges he had remaining engaged in high school and finding the education pathway and course that suited him. It was important that he followed his passions and learnt how to filter the different advice he was getting about how to manage both education and football.
"I applied for an exercise science degree and I spent my first 12 months studying that before I realised it wasn't really for me, so I dropped out of that and the next two years of my football career I spent not really knowing what I wanted to do or what I should do."
- Jordan Roughead
Tom shares a different experience, having undertaken a Bachelor of Business where he was able to develop key teamwork skills. Tom completed the course over seven years while he balanced study with AFL football commitments. He explains the perseverance that was required in order to reach his goals in both AFL football and University.
"It allowed me to develop a number of skills, including teamwork through a number of group assessments. It's difficult to sometimes work with people who don't necessarily have the same ideas… and I think because of that, university really helped me to develop a number of skills."
Each player demonstrates a unique education, employment and training journey, over-coming their own set of challenges to reach the next stage in their journey.
Hear from Jordan and Tom below and gain insight in to overcoming challenges that may be faced as you navigate your education, employment and training pathway.
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A new material that's part plastic and part rock is forming on this Portuguese island
by faster | Jun 25, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: MNN and Science of the Total Environment DATE: June 25, 2019 SNIP: You know we have a problem when our plastic pollution starts becoming a permanent fixture of the planet's geology. And that seems to be exactly what's happening on the Portugeuese island of Madeira—a place famed for wine, mountain peaks and, perhaps soon, its plastic-encrusted shoreline. Back in 2016, marine biologist Ignacio Gestoso first spotted the unusual patterns on rocks scattered along the island's shore, as Gizmodo reports. It seemed that plastic was no longer content to wash ashore in its manufactured state, as bottles and wrappers and caps. Instead, it had formed a kind of hybrid material with the rock that would become known as "plasticrust." At the time, Gestoso wrote off the strange new material as an unhappy coincidence. Surely, this union of plastic and rocks couldn't last. But when he and his team returned to the island a year later, they found the marriage had not only lasted, but thrived. In a new study, published in Science of The Total Environment, Gestoso and his colleagues describe "plasticrust" as a synthetic moss covering huge swathes of the island's stony shoreline — and even sporting bright, new and terrible colors. In fact, the researchers estimate plasticrust taints nearly 10 percent of rocky surfaces on the Madeira shoreline. At this rate, plasticrust is poised to become a part of our geological record. "The dimension of the problem is so large that it is possible our current era will generate an anthropogenic marker horizon of plastic in earth's sedimentary record," the authors note in the study...
As the world grapples with plastic, the U.S. makes more of it — a lot more
SOURCE: Center for Public Integrity DATE: June 13, 2019 SNIP: Jace Tunnell shuffled forward near the water's edge, head bent. He was hunting for something that shouldn't be on this beach near Corpus Christi, and he kept finding it. Hidden in the sand — white, tan, nearly translucent — were tiny plastic pellets. They're about the size of a lentil, most of them, so insubstantial that several blew out of his hand as soon as he picked them up. Some were tan from baking in the sun. It wasn't hard to see why a bird looking for seeds would snap these imposters up. These are the products of plastics producers, intended to be turned into bottles, bags and countless other items. As much as anything one-tenth of an inch across could sum up the modern world, they do. A marvel of chemical engineering. A convenient material that will long outlast us. A global waste predicament of daunting scope. Microscopic plastic particles are in our oceans, the fish we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink. Plastic waste is piling up, increasing amounts of it going to landfills as U.S. recycling programs — dependent on Asian countries that no longer want our scrap — struggle to adjust. In March the United Nations, "alarmed" by the environmental and public health consequences of plastic items intended to be used once and thrown away, urged countries to "take comprehensive action." Against this backdrop, the United States is about to make a whole lot more of the stuff. Production of the most common plastic, polyethylene, is on track to jump more than...
What's Worrying the Plastics Industry? Your Reaction to All That Waste, for One
by faster | Jun 7, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Inside Climate News DATE: June 7, 2019 SNIP: One by one, they stepped to a clear plastic lectern at the Global Plastics Summit here and talked about what their companies were doing in response to the world's crisis in plastics waste. Representing businesses all along the supply and packaging chain, the speakers suggested solutions ranging from new technology that would take plastic back to its molecular building blocks for repeated recycling to redesigning plastic bottles with caps that stay connected to the bottle. But none of that is happening fast enough to keep pace with the global production of plastics, an analyst from IHS Markit told some 270 people attending the 2019 Global Plastics Summit. IHS Market, a co-host of the conference, expects plastics production to grow on average 3.5 to 4 percent per year through at least 2035. With recycling programs largely underfunded and ineffective, there's potential for billions more tons of plastic waste to be headed to landfills or out into the environment, said Dewey Johnson, an IHS Markit vice president. And new recycling technology is a decade or more away, he said. In the hallways and meeting rooms of a glitzy hotel that boasts a Rolls-Royce dealership, people from chemical manufacturers listened to presentations and talked business with representatives of plastic product makers, consumer products companies and recyclers. Government officials were also there for a meeting that was dominated by sessions on sustainability. Industry has been taking a beating in the public's eye—and cities, states and some countries have begun to restrict, ban or regulate certain plastics. Analysts described all this as one of many...
Treated like trash: south-east Asia vows to return mountains of rubbish from west
by faster | May 28, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: May 28, 2019 SNIP: For the past year, the waste of the world has been gathering on the shores of south-east Asia. Crates of unwanted rubbish from the west have accumulated in the ports of the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam while vast toxic wastelands of plastics imported from Europe and the US have built up across Malaysia. But not for much longer it seems. A pushback is beginning, as nations across south-east Asia vow to send the garbage back to where it came from. Last week the president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, threatened to sever diplomatic ties with Canada if the government did not agree to take back 69 containers containing 1,500 tonnes of waste that had been exported to the Philippines in 2013 and 2014. On 23 April a Malaysian government investigation revealed that waste from the UK, Australia, United States and Germany was pouring into the country illegally, falsely declared as other imports. Enough was enough, said Yeo Bee Yin, the environment minister. "Malaysia will not be the dumping ground of the world. We will send back [the waste] to the original countries." She has been as good as her word. Five containers of illegal rubbish from Spain discovered at a Malaysian port have just been sent back and on Tuesday Yeo announced that 3,000 tonnes of illegally imported plastic waste from the UK, the US, Australia, Japan, France and Canada would be returned imminently. Many believe this is the only way that countries, mainly in the west, will finally be forced to confront their own waste problems, rather than burdening developing...
'It's Raining Plastic': Researchers Find Microscopic Fibers in Colorado Rain Samples
SOURCE: EcoWatch and USGS Report DATE: May 23, 2019 SNIP: When Greg Wetherbee sat in front of the microscope recently, he was looking for fragments of metals or coal, particles that might indicate the source of airborne nitrogen pollution in Rocky Mountain National Park. What caught his eye, though, were the plastics. The U.S. Geological Survey researcher had collected rain samples from eight sites along Colorado's Front Range. The monitoring network was designed to track nitrogen trends, and Wetherbee, a chemist, wanted to trace the path of airborne nitrogen that is deposited in the national park. The presence of metals or organic materials like coal particles could point to rural or urban sources of nitrogen. He filtered the samples and then, in an inspired moment, placed the filters under a microscope, to look more closely at what else had accumulated. It was much more than he initially thought. In 90 percent of the samples Wetherbee found a rainbow wheel of plastics, mostly fibers and mostly colored blue. Those could have been shed like crumbs from synthetic clothing. But he also found other shapes, like beads and shards. The plastics were tiny, needing magnification of 20 to 40 times to be visible and they were not dense enough to be weighed. More fibers were found in urban sites, but plastics were also spotted in samples from a site at elevation 10,300 feet in Rocky Mountain National Park. The findings are detailed in a report published online on May 14. Where did the plastic fibers come from? Are they locally produced, or carried from distant states or countries? How do they...


Wintac focuses in the manufacture of small volume and large volume parenterals, sterile ophthalmic preparations and also marketing of pharmaceutical specialities catering to niche segments.
Wintac is a professionally managed and fully integrated pharmaceutical company that is committed in developing, manufacturing and marketing of high quality pharmaceutical formulations using innovative technologies and meeting the cGMP standards which are continuously updated to international requirements.
Wintac's success comes from its strong commitment to adherence to cGMP oriented technology. Over the last few years our plant has been subjected to several international audits and has been acclaimed as a plant meeting the cGMP standards. We have with us a highly competent technical team to oversee the entire manufacturing operations. Our strong value systems combined with good understanding of the various aspects of development and manufacturing has helped us to grow rapidly and also earn excellent image as a very reliable partner for manufacturing various pharmaceutical products.
Our manufacturing facility has been approved by regulatory agencies of various countries including: US FDA AFSSAPS (France) The approval of our manufacturing plant by the French Regulatory Authorities (AFSSAPS) has facilitated our entry into various European markets.
In addition to a strong commitment to quality, we bring to the table years of experience in customer service, and reliability in execution. We at Wintac are customer driven and focused at helping our clients succeed.
We have dedicated Regulatory Team who Expertise to develop Generic Products and Dossiers / CTDs.


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For World Psychological Well being Day, House & Hosed 's Declan Byrne speaks to Jack River, Caleb from Tiny Little Homes, and Help Act to delve into what it is actually like being a musician in Australia. Dance is likely one of the best forms of self expression and a solution to actually take a break from the hustle and bustle of your every single day, busy life. You probably have at all times needed to learn to do any dance, including the flamenco, you would possibly want to look into dance courses. These lessons can help you study the dance from the underside up, so that very quickly it is possible for you to to dance with confidence and passion.
From the gang, working in the music industry can look like a pure dream. However the extra we discuss mental well being and wellbeing, the extra we study that artists, managers, roadies, and the folks in their lives often discover themselves going through just as a lot wrestle as they discover and face success," stated Shaad D'Souza, Australian Noisey editor.
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What issues should you consider to make sure your investment in assessment delivers for students, teachers and your schools?
Assessment is now a routine and essential element of school life. Using classroom activities, homework assignments, periodic testing, or once-a-year summative assessments; teachers constantly monitor and appraise the students in their charge to help them realise their potential. I am always impressed when I speak with the teacher responsible for assessment in school at their depth of knowledge and the keen interest in using tests and assessments to establish a baseline for each student and to check their progress. Assessments are chosen carefully and used systematically, and the outcomes can support teachers' own judgements and influence teaching and learning. I find that schools are ready to change what they are doing if an assessment isn't delivering and will review and reduce the amount of assessment to lessen the burden on both teachers and students. Thankfully, the days are gone when the same test was wheeled out at the same time every year just because that's what had always been done.
When speaking with teachers I now find increasingly that they take a holistic approach and the focus is very much on the individual child. It's not just their academic attainment that is the focus, wellbeing too is very much part of the discussion.
Accountability is a driver but not the only one. Teachers want to do the best for every student, and one way of ensuring that nothing is missed is to use assessment carefully and sensitively, incorporating it in daily, weekly, termly and yearly discussions in which assessment data can play a part.
Recently, the expansion of Multi Academy Trusts has taken assessment to a different level. When schools come together it is often with different approaches to assessment – some will be doing very little, others may have a well-developed system which favours one or other approach (and provider), and some keep things fluid and are prepared to mix and match and try what's new. MATs are all about school improvement and raising standards, so it is natural that their leaders will rely on assessment to help realise their vision. The challenge is getting everyone on the same page!
I know, anecdotally, that this can be hard. Member schools with great results and a well-established assessment regime will not want to change but sometimes such regimes just don't transfer across many schools, some of which may not be performing well. However, assessment is one area of MAT life where schools can truly become interdependent in a positive way; every year that a school is left to set its own assessment agenda is a year that is lost to the gaining and sharing of meaningful insights into children's learning.
Use the same assessments for key subjects and fix the same assessment points across the year so that like-for-like comparisons will have real meaning. Data from tests and assessments are costly to generate and should bring real value to the MAT, school, teacher, and each student.
Reach a consensus (even if someone must back down) and involve teaching staff to ensure that they are happy that the outcomes of any and all assessments will reach the classroom, and that those outcomes will be appropriate to support their students.
Once the MAT has the data it requires schools can them decide on what else needs to be done to suit very precisely the children in their care.
Time spent in assessment is valuable but does need to be kept proportionate. So, spend a minimum time assessing, and use high quality tests that focus on what's key and come with clear, concise reports containing data that can be turned into actions.
A strong assessment programme will leave more time to teach, learn, support and, ultimately, succeed!


I'm hoping to enable the Finding Aid plugin for our Pawtucket installation (we are running Pawtucket 2), but am not quite sure how to use and customize it. I've enabled the plugin in /app/plugins/FindingAid/conf/FindingAid.conf by setting the 'enabled' field to '1', but have not seen the collection hierarchy displays on our Collection detail pages (as an example, sitename.org/Detail/collections/1). Does anything else need to be enabled for the Finding Aids to function? Or am I perhaps looking in the wrong place?
I've copied our FindingAid.conf file below in case it is useful (I've added some quotation marks to a few lines to help with display on this forum). Thanks for any help!
In Pawtucket 2 you no longer need to use the finding aid plugin. There is a Collections controller and views that has replaced the functionality of the plugin. You can see the default implementation at sitename.org/Collections/index. You will need to set configuration options in your theme's conf/collections.conf file. You can copy this file from the default theme to see what options are available. To enable the hierarchy browser in collection detail pages, set do_not_display_collection_browser = 0. The browser will only show up if the collection record has child records and they are accessible to the public.
Hi maria, thanks so much for this! That's good to know; we'll customize the views. Thanks again!


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Quaestio disputata cohabitation: Past and present reality
Michael G. Lawler
Department of Theology
Social scientific research, here only briefly summarized, discriminates between nuptial cohabitors, who have already made the commitment to marry, and non-nuptial cohabitors, who have not made that commitment. It further shows that for nuptial cohabitors their cohabitation is the first step in their becoming married, that their characteristics are more like the characteristics of married couples than singles, and that the data applicable for the 1970s and 1980s namely that those who cohabit prior to marriage and then marry have a heightened risk of divorce is no longer verified in recent cohorts. The Catholic Church needs to pay attention to this scientific data so as to develop a more discriminating pastoral approach to the phenomenon of cohabitation.
Lawler, M. G. (2004). Quaestio disputata cohabitation: Past and present reality. Theological Studies, 65(3), 623-629.
Quaestio disputata cohabitation : Past and present reality. / Lawler, Michael G.
In: Theological Studies, Vol. 65, No. 3, 09.2004, p. 623-629.
Lawler, MG 2004, 'Quaestio disputata cohabitation: Past and present reality', Theological Studies, vol. 65, no. 3, pp. 623-629.
Lawler MG. Quaestio disputata cohabitation: Past and present reality. Theological Studies. 2004 Sep;65(3):623-629.
Lawler, Michael G. / Quaestio disputata cohabitation : Past and present reality. In: Theological Studies. 2004 ; Vol. 65, No. 3. pp. 623-629.
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On Wednesday 6th July, residents at Bank Close House can sink into relaxation and enjoy one to one pamper sessions of their choice. Our new activities coordinator will be offering a range of treatments including nail care, hand massages and mini facials. Our hairdresser who regularly does the service users hair will also be coming in.
During the sessions, service users will be listening to soft relaxing music and will be offered refreshments.
Towards the afternoon we also have a live entertainer coming in house to sing for us. Friends and family are more than welcome to join us for this.


This versatile little number is based on our Necromancer top, but with a slightly longer, more voluminous body length and a cosy high neck. It looks amazing over your fave leggings or mini skirts, and the soft charcoal fabric and dramatic waterfall-style sides make it a styling dream.
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#9 Add then Multiply with David B Horne
David B Horne is a CFO who has written a best selling business book, "Add then Multiply". The book describes his FACE methodology for growing and exiting a business, and is great reading for CEOs and CFOs alike. He trained as a chartered accountant with PWC in Canada. Because he can speak fluent German, he wanted to work in a German-speaking office and so he went to Switzerland. From there, he got offered a job by his biggest clients and then transferred with them to London. These days he works as a portfolio CFO advising clients undertaking major transactions.
Add then Multiply
David B Horne is a CFO who has written a best selling business book. His book "Add then Multiply" was published in July 2019 and went to no. 1 on Amazon. In March 2020 Add then Multiply won the business self development category at the business book awards. You can buy Add then Multiply on Amazon
Who is Add then Multiply for?
CEO's and CFO's who want to fundraise and grow quickly through acquisition.
Are you frustrated by the challenges of growing your business organically? Have you ever wondered if there was a way to grow exponentially? Fast? There is a better way but you'll need to break a few rules in your thinking about business. This book shows you how.
What Add then Multiply all about?
Add then Multiply describes David's FACE methodology:
The FACE methodology is about getting step-by-step exponential growth in your business. It's about selling and buying businesses for growth and development.
F is for Fund
This is all about the process by which you raise money. How do you go about doing that? What do you have to prepare and what are the different types of investors (family and friends for early stage, angels, and then more institutional means like venture capital).
A is for Acquire
Acquire within David's framework is for more established businesses who want to scale up. The fastest way is through acquisition. David wrote many case studies for this in his book. The key point is that, if you've never done this before, don't try do it on your own. There are minefields out there. You need professional people who know what they're talking about there with you.
C is for Consolidate
Putting two businesses together. The key challenges are values and culture. The value destruction that comes after a small company and big company are acquired and merged is almost like night follows day for some. But, David does have some examples where it worked.
E is for Exit
Realising your dreams. Begin with the end in mind. A lot of entrepreneurs start off because they've never really though about their 'why' and the drive that pushes you in your endeavours.
David shares his advice for first time CFOs
David's first CFO role was in a very acquisitive PR group. He learned a huge amount about fast growth through acquisition in. a cash rich company. He learned many other lessons in a big step up from a no2 role
Listen to advice from peers or coaches and mentors. We explored the importance of this on a previous episode of the GrowCFO Show
The need to form strong relationships with the rest of the c-suite. David found he needed to change his attitude to many people. He learned to say sorry and apologise for behaving badly. This leads to gaining trust and the ability to work collaboratively. Some of these relationships can last through an entire career, and usually they are the relationships you might thin are the least important at the time.
The importance of networking. People can introduce you to people. Relationships are really important. David & Kevin first met via LinkedIn to record an episode of "The Next 100 Days Podcast"
Fundraising during Covid-19
David is fundraising right now. There's money still there, but it's a little harder to access. Funders are looking closely at valuations, and looking at risks of recession. Some funds couldn't invest early in 2020, so to some extent deals that weren't done are now being caught up. Investors have money, they are just being cautious.
The fight for fairer funding
David is thrilled to be the opening speaker at TEDxPCL on 9 October 2020. His talk "The Fight for Fairer Funding" is all about the challenges that female and diverse entrepreneurs face when raising capital to grow their businesses. In 2017 for every £1 funded, only 1p went to all female teams
David ran Funding-focus.com last year and will repeat this year as an online event. This told some great stories about female entrepreneurs, bur revealed the inequality isn't just in the UK, its global. Ethnic minorities of both genders face these inequalities too.
"The Fight for Fairer Funding" is set to be the title of Davids second book, where he explores the reasons behind the inequality. All female and mixed gender founders win a disproportionately low percentage of pitches. We highlighted cognitive bias from white male dominated equity houses as a major reason, but it isn't the only one. It promises to be a great read.
Do you want to reach out fo David? You can find him on LinkedIn or in the GrowCFO community
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The finance technology landscape is changing quickly. Possibly at a rate faster than ever before. So, what can we expect to see in 2023. Kevin…
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Harness natural curiosity for conceptual understanding!
Written for educators who strive to cultivate conceptual understanding while honoring students' innate curiosity, this is a must-have road map for implementing concept-based teaching in elementary classrooms.
"This book provides the research and resources educators need to help students take ownership of their learning. It fosters students' curiosity about their environment and it allows them to explore and become life-long learners."
"This is an important book for all teachers. We need to be honoring our students as thinkers who deserve developmentally appropriate intellectual rigor in the classroom. We will not achieve this in our traditional coverage based classroom. I am so inspired and can't wait to start this journey (making mistakes and learning along the way!)."
Chapter 1: What Are the Essential Elements of Concept-Based Curriculum Design?
Chapter 2: How Do I Set Up My Classroom for Deep, Conceptual Learning?
Chapter 3: What Are the Building Blocks of Concept-Based Instruction?
Chapter 4: What Additional Tools Can We Use to Design Lessons?
Chapter 5: How do we Design Assessments for Conceptual Understanding?
Chapter 6: How Can We Work Toward Equity in a Concept-Based Classroom?
Chapter 7: How Can Conceptual Understanding Help to Preserve a Love of Learning Beyond Childhood?
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"The practical strategies and examples supported by manageable theoretical information is exactly what teachers need to begin to take the steps that feel so difficult for many teachers who can't visualize what it would look like in their classrooms."
"This is the book that teachers who have been trying to implement concept-based teaching and learning have been waiting for. The research-based lesson frameworks create a clear and doable plan for teachers at any grade or content level. This book is a must for any instructional coach or curriculum writer."