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Duarte Design Halloween competition
It's Halloween, and that means it's time for the annual Duarte Design Halloween design competition. (Click on the image above to see all of the designs and to vote for your favorite.) According to the website, the winner will be announced at 1:00pm. (Presumably that is 1:00pm Pacific Daylight Time. PDT is UTC-7.) I don't know how long voting is open, but you'll clearly need to vote before then for your vote to count.
I didn't vote for the design at the left. I voted for one called "The Race." I think it's very creative, but it is slightly risque, and since this site is on a university server, I didn't think I should display that image here. You may not think it's as clever as I do, but if you need a little fun this morning, head over to Duarte Design and check all of them out. If you're there in time, vote for your favorite. If you're not, just enjoy all of them (and see whether I picked a winner).
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You get what you measure
Last December I saw a fascinating talk by Julie Posselt.1 She described work deriving from her PhD dissertation in which she sat in on meetings of doctoral admissions committees in a variety of disciplines at several different (and anonymous) elite private and public research university. She described how overreliance on "cut points" for GPA, GRE scores, or both led to admissions decisions that favored applicants from relatively privileged backgrounds. Even though the faculty making those decisions were almost uniformly committed to ensuring that they admitted doctoral students from a wide variety of backgrounds, the pool of admitted students was far less diverse than the pool of applicants. As she put it in a piece for Inside Higher Ed earlier this year: "Despite their good intentions to increase diversity, broadly defined, admissions work was laced with conventions — often rooted in inherited or outdated assumptions — that made it especially hard for students from underrepresented backgrounds to gain access."
Why does this happen? Partly it's because faculty aren't aware of advice from the Educational Testing Service on how to use GRE scores properly.2 Partly, it's because there are so many applicants to high-quality doctoral programs that admissions committees often use numerical screens to identify the small number of applicants worthy of close scrutiny.
Athene Donald points out another way in which relying on strict numerical criteria may be harmful to everyone, regardless of what their demographic, economic, social, or cultural background may be. She argues in the context of evaluating academics that in addition to the usual metrics of publication or creative activity and grant dollars (for those in fields where external funding is important), success as an academic should also include "building teams, seeing their students thrive and progress, working with people who sparked them off intellectually and seizing opportunities to try out new things and make new discoveries."
The challenge, of course, is that you get what you measure. If we only measure publications and grants, that's what we'll get. If we want to encourage team building and student support, we have to measure those things and give them as much weight as the things we traditionally measure. If we can't find numbers with which to measure them, we still need to find ways to assess them, because helping others gain the skills they need is what education is all about.
kent October 26, 2016 Academics 0 Read more >
Don't be that dude
Several years ago, Dr. Acclimatrix (@Acclimatrix) published a list of "Handy tips for the male academic." I just happened to run across it again this morning, and I thought I should pass it along. The advice she offers is as timely now as it was then. As she says:
Gender equality has to be a collaborative venture. If men make up the majority of many departments, editorial boards, search committees, labs and conferences, then men have to be allies in the broader cause of equality, simply because they have more boots on the ground. And, as much as I wish it weren't so, guys often tend to listen more readily to their fellow guys when it comes to issues like sexism. I've also found that there are a lot of guys out there that are supportive, but don't realize that many of their everyday actions (big and small) perpetuate inequality. So, guys, this post is for you.
The list includes 20 distinct pieces of advice. I've tried to follow all of them, but these are the ones I'm working on hardest right now:
3. Don't talk over your female colleagues.
5. Make sure your department seminars, conference symposia, search committees, and panel discussions have a good gender balance.
6. Pay attention to who organizes the celebrations, gift-giving, or holiday gatherings.
7. Volunteer when someone asks for a note-taker, coffee-run gopher, or lunch order taker at your next meeting.1
15. Don't leave it to women to do the work of increasing diversity.
19. Know when to listen. (more…)
I am a snoot
Last Friday I confessed to my obsession with grammar and usage. In response, Alex Buerkle (@disequilibber) passed along a link to a wonderful article by David Foster Wallace describing the state of the "language wars" in the early 2000s. If you've never heard of the language wars or of the epic battle between prescriptionists and descriptionists, you may not find the article all that interesting, but it really struck a chord with me. I am a snoot.
A SNOOT can be defined as somebody who knows what dysphemism means and doesn't mind letting you know it.
OK. Maybe I'm not really a snoot. I had to Google "dysphemism" – a derogatory or unpleasant term used instead of a pleasant or neutral one, such as "loony bin" for "mental hospital" – and I probably won't brag about knowing the definition now (and I doubt that it will enter my regular vocabulary). So maybe it's more accurate to say that I have a lot of sympathy with snoots. If you want to understand that means, I'm afraid you'll have to read Wallace's article. Here's the link: http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-2001-04-0070913.pdf Bottom line: Grammar and usage matter, because they convey a lot about us. The dialect we choose to use says a lot about who we are and about who we think our audience is.
kent October 21, 2016 Writing 0 Read more >
Reproducibility is hard
Last year, the Open Science Collaboration published a very important article: Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Here's a key part of the abstract:
We conducted replications of 100 experimental and correlational studies published in three psychology journals using high-powered designs and original materials when available. There is no single standard for evaluating replication success. Here, we evaluated reproducibility using significance and P values, effect sizes, subjective assessments of replication teams, and meta-analysis of effect sizes. The mean effect size (r) of the replication effects (Mr = 0.197, SD = 0.257) was half the magnitude of the mean effect size of the original effects (Mr = 0.403, SD = 0.188), representing a substantial decline. Ninety-seven percent of original studies had significant results (P < .05). Thirty-six percent of replications had significant results; 47% of original effect sizes were in the 95% confidence interval of the replication effect size; 39% of effects were subjectively rated to have replicated the original result; and if no bias in original results is assumed, combining original and replication results left 68% with statistically significant effects. Correlational tests suggest that replication success was better predicted by the strength of original evidence than by characteristics of the original and replication teams.
Since then, reproducibility has gained even more attention than it had before. My students and I have been taking baby steps towards good practice – using Github to share code and data (and versions), using scripts (mostly in R) to manipulate and transform data, and making the code and data freely available as early in the writing process as we can. But there are some important things we don't do as well as we could – I've never tried using Docker to ensure that all versions of the software we use for analysis in a paper are preserved, I'm as bad at writing documentation for what I'm doing as I ever was (but I try to write my code as clearly as possible, so it's not too hard to figure out what I was doing.
I need to do better, but Lorena Barba (@LorenaABarba) had a article in the "Working Life" section of Science that made me feel a bit better about how far I have to go. Three years ago she posted a manifesto on reproducibility. In her Science piece, she describes how hard it's been to live up to that pledge. But she concludes with some words to live by:
About 150 years ago, Louis Pasteur demonstrated how experiments can be conducted reproducibly—and the value of doing so. His research had many skeptics at first, but they were persuaded by his claims after they reproduced his results, using the methods he had recorded in keen detail. In computational science, we are still learning to be in his league. My students and I continuously discuss and perfect our standards, and we share our reproducibility practices with our community in the hopes that others will adopt similar ideals. Yes, conducting our research to these standards takes time and effort—and maybe our papers are slower to be published. But they're less likely to be wrong.
Barba, L.A. 2016. The hard road to reproducibility. Science 354:142 doi: 10.1126/science.354.6308.142
Open Science Collaboration. 2015. Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science 349:aac4716 doi: 10.1126/science.aac4716
kent October 19, 2016 Open scienceReproducibiity 0 Read more >
Terry Tempest Williams on wilderness
From The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks:
Wilderness is the source of what we can imagine and what we cannot—the taproot of consciousness
It will survive us.
kent October 17, 2016 Outdoors 0 Read more >
Noise miners
I've pointed out the problems with small, noisy samples using simulations (here, here, here, and here). But I've also learned that stories are far more persuasive than facts, and I've learned that I'm not good at telling stories. Fortunately, there are some people who tell stories very well, and John Schmidt is one of them. Here's how his recent story, Noise Miners, starts.
What most people don't understand about noise is how hard it is to find the good stuff.
You can get noise anywhere; most noise is just sitting on the ground, waiting for you to pick it up. Coincidences — "coinkidinks", as collectors sometimes call them — can be had by the dozen just outside your front door. As I arrived in this small university town, home to one of the largest noise mines in the country, I planned to see how the high-quality noise was dug, and to learn about the often-forgotten people who dig it for us.
Follow the link and read the whole thing if that piques your interest.
kent October 12, 2016 Statistics 0 Read more >
Sad chairs of academia
So you're in academia and you think you have it rough. First of all, remember how lucky you are to have the opportunity to spend your days working with a bunch of smart people who are passionate about the same arcane things that keep you up at night. Then, think about your chair. Click on the image to visit Sad Chairs of Academia.
Plants can be endangered too!
Yes. I know that if you're reading this, you already know that there are thousands of endangered plant species in the world. You may even know that I've spent a fair amount of time thinking about how to protect them and how to prevent those that have small populations from declining even further. So why the title? Two reasons:
First, Mung Balding and Kathryn Williams have a very nice article in Conservation Biology explaining why plant blindness is such a problem. Here's the abstract:
Plant conservation initiatives lag behind and receive considerably less funding than animal conservation projects. We explored a potential reason for this bias: a tendency among humans to neither notice nor value plants in the environment. Experimental research and surveys have demonstrated higher preference for, superior recall of, and better visual detection of animals compared with plants. This bias has been attributed to perceptual factors such as lack of motion by plants and the tendency of plants to visually blend together but also to cultural factors such as a greater focus on animals in formal biological education. In contrast, ethnographic research reveals that many social groups have strong bonds with plants, including nonhierarchical kinship relationships. We argue that plant blindness is common, but not inevitable. If immersed in a plant-affiliated culture, the individual will experience language and practices that enhance capacity to detect, recall, and value plants, something less likely to occur in zoocentric societies. Therefore, conservation programs can contribute to reducing this bias. We considered strategies that might reduce this bias and encourage plant conservation behavior. Psychological research demonstrates that people are more likely to support conservation of species that have human-like characteristics and that support for conservation can be increased by encouraging people to practice empathy and anthropomorphism of nonhuman species. We argue that support for plant conservation may be garnered through strategies that promote identification and empathy with plants.
Second, Robbie Blackhall-Miles (@fossilplants) has a passionate post in Gardens (the gardening blog at The Guardian) describing just how repugnant the trade in endangered plant species is.
Buying just one orchid illegally on the internet from Indonesia or a few snowdrops dug from the wild in Bulgaria fans the flames of a trade that has dire consequences for the world's plant life. Buying one of these plants is exactly the same as buying a carved piece of ivory, a tiger skin or a gram of ground rhino horn. Wouldn't you think twice about doing that?
OK. I can't help myself. There's a third reason. When you hear the phrase "endangered species" do you think of an orchid or a cycad, or do you think of a panda, a rhino, or a tiger? If a picture of an animal popped into your head first (and not just an animal, but a mammal), it shows how much work we have to do.
Balding, M., and K.J.H. Williams. 2016. Plant blindness and the implications for plant conservation. Conservation Biology doi: 10.1111/cobi.12738
kent October 7, 2016 Endangered species 0 Read more >


I believe this is an accident just waiting to happen. Local municipalities need to work on this along with the airport authority.
I have a concern about the lack of a pedestrian crossing on Canora Road between Weiler Avenue and Northbrook Drive.
Traffic is particularly problematical between Mary's Restaurant and Northbrook Drive.
Traffic comes and goes from Norseman Road and an adjacent parking lot opposite Northbrook Drive. Traffic enters and departs from Mary's Restaurant. Two bus stops are located in the area and a school also uses this zone. Pedestrians also have to negotiate the airport's new Flight Path. At the beginning and end of the workday the traffic is particularly heavy and fast moving.


Are you in the United States? If not, that's probably why you're not receiving calls.
so? the point is… when you make a internet business, find another host!
That's not even close to being the point. The point is R E D U N D A N C Y.
If you have a red car that gets a flat tire, would you grab the spare tire, or paint the car blue? Why have a spare tire in the first place? Oh wait, I know… the solution would be to replace the 3 tires that aren't flat with a different brand.
The DH apologistas are working overtime these days aren't they.


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Property Crime in Utah
Utah has experienced blistering population growth in recent years, according to the 2020 Census report, adding about 500,000 new residents since 2010 — a rate of 18 percent. While the fastest among the states, that's Utah's slowest rate since 1990 and represents a decline in the growth rate from 2010.
Still, with so many new families and individuals taking up residence in Utah, it's clear the state is an attractive option for tens of thousands of people. Anybody considering a move to the state or within the state should understand how common property crime is in Utah.
Though violent crime garners far more media attention, the average person in Utah and across the U.S. is much more likely to experience property crime like auto theft, burglary or larceny. What should people know about how common property crime is in Utah?
Want to learn more about our data? Click here.
With #1 being the best, Utah is ranked #27 for property crime out of 50 states + Washington, D.C.
You have a 2.17% chance of being a property crime victim in Utah in the next 12 months.
Utah's property crime rate is 3% higher than the average crime rate in the United States.
South Salt Lake has the highest property crime rate in Utah (73 incidents per 1,000 people).
South Salt Lake, which is part of the Salt Lake City metro, has Utah's highest property crime rate, while Salt Lake City isn't far behind. South Salt Lake's rate is based on almost 1,900 reported property crime incidents, which equates to a population-adjusted rate of 73 per 1,000 people. But while that puts South Salt Lake in the lead, Salt Lake City, home to about five times as many people, had more than 11,000 reported property crime incidents in 2019.
Utah is a fairly good stand-in for the nation as a whole when it comes to property crime, as the state's rate is less than a point higher than the U.S. property crime rate. Utah also fares well when compared to other states in the Western region, where the average property crime rate is about 23.3 incidents per 1,000 people. In fact, Utah has a higher property crime rate than only two states in the region — Wyoming and Idaho.
Utah's Most Current Property Crime Rates (2019)
Rate of Property Crime
Utah average:: 21.7 crimes per 1,000 people
National average: 21.1 crimes per 1,000 people
In addition to having a roughly average property crime rate, such incidents have fallen in Utah by 32 percent since 2010. That puts Utah in good company, considering that only two states — Alaska and North Dakota — have seen property crime increase in that time.
Utah's Overall Property Crime Trends (2010 – 2019)
Average Rate of Property Crime:
Utah 10-year average: 28.36 crimes per 1,000 people
National 10-year average: 25.61 crimes per 1,000 people
-32% Has property crime increased or decreased during this time?
There was a 32% decrease in property crime in Utah from 2010 as compared to 2019.
2010 Which year had the highest rate of property crime in Utah?:
The highest rate of property crime in Utah was 2010 (31.8 crimes per 1,000 people)
2019 Which year had the lowest rate of property crime in Utah?:
The lowest rate of property crime in Utah was 2019 (21.7 crimes per 1,000 people)
What incidents fall under the umbrella of property crime? Burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson are the four major property crime categories reported by the FBI. In every case, if the incident involves violence or threats of violence, it no longer is a property crime and is classified as a violent crime.
Utah's Property Crime Category Trends (2010 – 2019)
Which type of property crime occurred the most in Utah over the past decade?
Larceny occurred more than any other property crime at a rate of 21.7 crimes per 1,000 people.
Average property crime rate by category
Average burglary rate: 4.1 crimes per 1,000 people
Average larceny rate: 21.7 crimes per 1,000 people
Average vehicle crime rate: 2.5 crimes per 1,000 people
Average arson rate: 0.1 crimes per 1,000 people
Note: There were no FBI estimates for arson rates, so we used all available data that was reported by individual cities in Utah.
+2% Which types of property crime have increased during this time period?
All types of property crime dropped in Utah over the past decade, but the decline in vehicle theft was the lowest, just 2%.
-49% Which types of property crime have decreased during this time period?
Burglary fell at the most rapid clip, dropping 49%.
Researchers tend to link high crime rates to socioeconomic factors like wealth, jobs, and population density. However, looking at those metrics in Utah, one would assume the state would trail the nation when it comes to crime. Let's take a closer look:
Poverty: Just under nine percent of Utah residents live below the poverty line, which is the second lowest rate. About 12 percent of Americans are in poverty.
Income: The median household income in Utah is $75,780, 12th highest and well over the national median of $65,712.
Unemployment: Just under three percent of Utah adults were unemployed in May 2021, the fourth lowest rate and well under the national rate of 5.5 percent.
Urbanization: Of the four socioeconomic factors we explored, urbanization is the only one in which Utah has a higher-than-average rate that might reinforce theories about property crime. More than 90 percent of Utah residents live in urban areas compared to 81 percent of Americans. That's the ninth highest rate.
In the end, though, crime is a local issue, and we've already explored areas of the state with high property crime rates. But there are many Utah communities where property crime is extremely rare. Among cities and towns with at least one reported property crime, Salem has the state's lowest rate. This community of about 8,800 people is part of the Provo-Orem metro area and its property crime rate was about three incidents per 1,000 people.
Top 5: Best Property Crime Rates (based on 2019 data)*:
Salem, Utah (Utah County)
Mapleton, Utah (Utah County)
Enoch, Utah (Iron County)
Santaquin/Genola, Utah (Utah and Juab counties)
Naples, Utah (Uintah County)
Bottom 5: Worst Property Crime Rates (based on 2019 data):
South Salt Lake, Utah (Salt Lake County)
Riverdale, Utah (Weber County)
Murray, Utah (Salt Lake County)
Salt Lake City, Utah (Salt Lake County)
Alta, Utah (Salt Lake County)
* Excludes cities with zero property crime reported

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Tuesday, Jan 24 2023
Less than two weeks after making her latest pitch for "school choice," Governor Kim Reynolds got what she wanted. The Republican-controlled legislature approved the governor's expansive school voucher program, by 55 votes to 45 in the Iowa House and 31 votes to 18 in the Senate.
The state of play in the lower chamber was in doubt as recently as a few days ago. Reynolds had only one public event on her schedule last week, but she held private meetings with more than a few House Republicans who either opposed her plan or were on the fence about approving an unlimited new entitlement for families choosing private schools. According to the fiscal analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency, which does not include all expenses, the proposal will cost Iowa's general fund an additional $878.8 million over the next four fiscal years, with costs reaching about $345 million during the fourth year.
House leaders changed the chamber's rules to keep the voucher bill out of the Appropriations and Ways and Means committees, where there might not have been enough Republican support to send the legislation to the floor. Senate leaders used a procedural trick to prevent any Democratic amendments from being considered.
No GOP lawmakers spoke against the bill during the floor debates in either chamber. Three Republican holdouts (State Representatives Chad Ingels, Brian Lohse, and Tom Moore) indicated during the five-hour House session that they would like to be recognized by the chair. But each turned off their light at some point before being called on to speak.
The many Democrats who spoke raised numerous objections, ranging from the plan's astronomical cost to the devastating impact on public school budgets to the reality that private schools won't accept many students, especially those with disabilities, and will exclude children from LGBTQ households. Forthcoming Bleeding Heartland posts will discuss some of those problems in more detail.
This piece focuses on the Republicans who voted against the bill despite pressure from their own party's leadership. Before the 2022 primaries, Reynolds campaigned against several House Republicans who had not supported earlier versions of the school voucher plan. (Most lost those races.) She may seek retribution in 2024 against some GOP lawmakers who defied her this week.
I will also be watching to see whether some who voted no lose their positions on influential legislative committees.
IOWA HOUSE: NINE REPUBLICANS VOTED NO
Some of the Republican opponents represent areas with few to no private schools. Others have private schools within their district or nearby. Common Good Iowa created this map, showing the number of private schools located in each county during the 2021/22 academic year.
Michael Bergan was first elected in 2016 and represents House district 63, covering Winneshiek and Howard counties, and part of Fayette County.
Bergan's district includes a few private schools, and he's not opposed to school choice on principle; he praised last year's voucher plan for being "targeted and narrow." But he told constituents at a January 21 district forum that he would vote against the current proposal, in part because most of the state funds will go to families that already send their children to private schools.
Bergan chairs the House Appropriations Committee's subcommittee on Administration and Regulations and also serves on Health and Human Services, Labor and Workforce, and State Government committees.
Brian Best was first elected in 2014 and represents House district 11, covering Carroll and Audubon counties and portions of Shelby and Pottawattamie counties.
Carroll has a long tradition of Catholic schools alongside the public schools, and Shelby County has a private school as well. Best has publicly opposed voucher bills for the past three years. He did not face a GOP primary challenger in 2022.
Speaking in February 2021, when the pending bill was limited to a small number of low-performing school districts, Best said he was worried about a "slippery slope" of more state funding for private schools. The Carroll Times Herald reported at the time, "Best, an alum of Glidden-Ralston High School, said he is concerned about the 'dwindling' number of students in rural public schools and wants to protect those educational institutions, which he sees as essential to preserving small-town life in Iowa."
Best chairs the House Transportation Committee and also serves on the Commerce, Health and Human Services, Labor and Workforce, and Ways and Means committees, as well as the Appropriations subcommittee on Transportation, Infrastructure, and Capitals.
Jane Bloomingdale was first elected in 2016 and represents House district 60, covering Mitchell and Worth counties and parts of Floyd and Cerro Gordo counties. There are a handful of private schools in Floyd or Cerro Gordo, but none in Mitchell and Worth.
Bloomingdale was the only Iowa House Republican to survive a 2022 primary challenge despite having opposed school vouchers and some anti-abortion legislation. For some reason, Reynolds did not publicly endorse her GOP opponent, Deb Hild. But outside groups backing a "school choice" agenda spent money against Bloomingdale before the primary.
Bloomingdale chairs the House State Government Committee and also serves on the Commerce, Local Government, and Ways and Means committees.
Chad Ingels was first elected in 2020 and represents House district 68, covering Fayette County and parts of Black Hawk and Buchanan counties. Fayette County has no public schools, but some are within striking distance for constituents who live in Black Hawk or Buchanan counties.
Ingels served on the West Central Community School Board for more than 20 years, including nearly a decade as board president. Although he has opposed voucher bills each year he's served in the Iowa House, he did not face a GOP primary challenger in 2022.
While many House Republicans avoided taking a public position on the governor's top priority, Ingels explained the six reasons he opposes the bill in his most recent weekly newsletter.
"Public schools have many reporting requirements to assure that funds are being used in the taxpayers' best interest," but there's no similar accountability for how private schools use funds.
A provision of the bill provides millions to (mostly urban) public school districts for students within their boundaries who attend private schools, but many rural districts would receive no such funding.
"Iowa has as many or more choices available for parents than any other state with public school, open enrollment, private school, charter school, home school, dual enrollment and now, increasing online school options."
The bill would allow school districts to use one-time funds for some ongoing expenses.
The plan fails "to focus on closing the achievement gap" between schools.
Education savings accounts would cost more than $300 million a year, and that money could be put to better use by funding programs for "thousands of cognitively and physically disabled kids, teenagers and adults that are approved for services to help improve their lives and the lives of their families," but are stuck on waiting lists.
Ingels chairs the House Veterans Affairs Committee and also serves on the Agriculture, Economic Growth and Technology, and Education committees, as well as the Appropriations subcommittee on Agriculture and Natural Resources. Earlier on January 23, he was one of five House Republicans to vote against the rules package, which allowed the voucher bill to bypass the tax-writing and spending committees.
Brian Lohse was first elected in 2018 and represents House district 45, covering much of northern and eastern Polk County. Although he was known to be a holdout on the voucher bill last year, he did not face a GOP primary challenger.
Polk County has the largest concentration of private schools in Iowa, and Lohse surely has many constituents who would benefit from taxpayer-funded tuition for their children already attending parochial schools.
Lohse addressed the education savings accounts plan near the bottom of his latest legislative newsletter: "I have been vocal in my opposition to it and the reasons why, including the fiscal impact that we know of, but no one in the Capitol seems to want to talk about, which is $918 million in the first four years alone." He linked approvingly to Ingels' newsletter, which "summed up perfectly" the case against the bill. "All I can say is, Ditto." Like Ingels, he was one of five House Republicans to vote against the rules package, which put the voucher bill on a fast track.
Lohse chairs the Appropriations Justice Systems subcommittee and also serves on the Commerce, Health and Human Services, and Judiciary committees.
Gary Mohr was first elected in 2016 and represents House district 93, covering Bettendorf and some other parts of Scott County. The Quad Cities area has a well-established private school system.
Mohr was a known opponent of last year's "school choice" bill but did not face a 2022 primary challenger. He told Sarah Watson of the Quad-City Times that he had concerns about the cost of the governor's new bill and the possible threat to private schools' independence once they accept taxpayer dollars through education savings accounts.
Mohr chairs the House Appropriations Committee—he was absent for the vote on the rules package that allowed the voucher bill to bypass that panel—and also serves on the Commerce and Public Safety committees.
Tom Moore was first elected in 2015 and represents House district 18, covering Cass and Montgomery counties (which have no private schools), plus most of Page County (which has one).
Moore was a public school teacher for more than 30 years and served on a school board for seven. He opposed earlier versions of the voucher plan but did not face a 2022 primary challenger. After the January 23 vote, he told reporters that he represented the majority of his constituents, who don't support the bill. He also cited concerns about the fiscal impact and lack of accountability.
Rep. Tom Moore, R-Griswold, one of nine Iowa House Republicans to vote against passage of #IAGov Kim Reynolds school choice bill, said he voted no because of strong opposition from his constituents, even though his district is conservative. pic.twitter.com/HPLL8nemih
— Tom Barton (@tjbarton83) January 24, 2023
Moore doesn't chair any House committee but is vice chair of Labor and Workforce and also serves on the Economic Growth and Technology, Education, and Health and Human Services committees.
David Sieck was first elected in 2015 and represents House district 16, covering Mills and Fremont counties and part of Pottawattamie County. Mills and Fremont have no private schools; there are some in Council Bluffs (Pottawattamie), outside Sieck's district.
Sieck did not face a GOP primary challenger in 2022 despite being known as a voucher skeptic. He doesn't chair any House committees but is vice chair of Economic Growth and Technology and also serves on Agriculture, Labor and Workforce, and Transportation.
Brent Siegrist was the only member of the Republican leadership team to vote against the voucher bill. He served in the Iowa House for eighteen years, rising to the positions of majority leader and speaker before retiring in 2002 to run for Congress. He returned to the legislature following the 2020 election and now represents House district 19, covering part of Council Bluffs in Pottawattamie County.
Siegrist failed to qualify for the 2022 GOP primary ballot and was fortunate that no other Republican filed for the seat before the primary. That allowed the incumbent to win a district nominating convention last July.
Although there are long-established religious schools in the Council Bluffs area, Siegrist has opposed previous school choice bills as well as this one.
In addition to serving as an assistant majority leader, Siegrist chairs the House Administration and Rules Committee. He also serves on the State Government, Transportation, and Ways and Means committees, as well as the Education Appropriations subcommittee.
IOWA SENATE: THREE REPUBLICANS VOTED NO
The bill's passage in the upper chamber was always a foregone conclusion. Republicans had moved school choice bills through the Senate before with no trouble, and this year's majority is larger (34 to 16).
Nevertheless, three GOP senators were willing to stick their necks out and vote against the governor's top priority.
Lynn Evans was just elected for the first time in 2022 in Senate district 3, covering Osceola, O'Brien, and Buena Vista counties, plus large areas in Clay and Cherokee counties. There are several private schools in his district, though none are located in in Osceola or Cherokee.
Evans defeated a former Trump administration official in the 2022 primary for this open seat. I didn't see any public comments from him about school choice, so I didn't expect him to vote against the bill. He voted with fellow Republicans to move the bill out of the Senate Education Committee last week.
On the other hand, Evans is a former superintendent for several school districts in northwest Iowa. In that sense, it's not surprising he would sympathize with public school officials who fear this policy will accelerate enrollment declines in communities that are already losing population.
Evans doesn't hold a leadership role on any Iowa Senate committees. He serves on the Education, Ethics, Health and Human Services, Judiciary, and Natural Resources and Environment panels.
Charlie McClintock was known to oppose previous versions of the voucher bill in the Iowa House, where he served for two years before being elected to Iowa Senate district 42 in November. He easily won the general election but prevailed in a three-way primary by just two votes after a recount.
McClintock's district covers most of Benton County and most of rural Linn County. Many of his constituents live relatively close to a private school.
McClintock was the only Senate Republican to vote against the floor manager's amendment during the afternoon of January 23. That procedural maneuver prevented Democrats from offering any other amendments when the Senate debated the voucher bill later in the evening.
McClintock was named vice chair of the Senate Workforce Committee and also serves on Agriculture, State Government, and Veterans Affairs.
Tom Shipley was first elected in 2014 and represents Senate district 9, covering Cass, Montgomery, Adams, Page, Taylor, and Ringgold counties, plus most of Union County. No one ran against him in the 2022 primary.
Shipley hadn't voted against any previous school choice bill, to my knowledge, so he wasn't on my radar as a possible opponent of the governor's bill. On the other hand, most of the counties he represents have no private schools. He was also a public school teacher for a few years during the 1970s, before spending most of his career in agriculture.
Shipley chairs the Senate Ethics Committee and is vice chair on Natural Resources and Environment. He also serves on the Agriculture, Judiciary, Local Government, and Transportation committees.
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As we bid farewell to 2016, here's a look back at some interesting and thought-provoking articles in food science and agriculture that published in SciTech Connect this year. To review all the 2016 articles in food science and agriculture, please click here.
It is not possible to do full justice to the complete range of a superb wine's attributes while dining. However, the goal is always the same, to maximize the sensory enjoyment of the components of a meal. Epicurean dining is the art of raising a nutritional necessity to an experience fit for the gods.
It is recognized that a major threat to human health in Europe is that of chronic diseases and obesity with great negative impact on life quality. The quality and health beneficial effects of food consumed are an important key to tackle these challenges either by developing and offering new and healthier food raw material or through development of healthy food ingredients to be included in meals on a daily basis.
Feeding the expected additional 30% humans on earth by 2050 will be a monumental challenge. This will require many changes to our day-to-day habits as we also counter a warming planet. Warming induced climate change is altering the zones of cultivation while shifting weather patterns around the globe.
Learning more about these cell-specific circadian clock changes and why they amplify inflammation will give us a better understanding of why high-fat diets, and saturated fat in particular, lead to metabolic disorders, like obesity.
Cockroach Milk as the Future of Food? Are you Kidding Me? Let's Recover Wasted Food First!
People do not care to survive nuclear war they just do not want to make it happen. And yes, this cockroach milk could be an option in the future for survivors, but only if there are no other options. But let's remove our head out of the soil and look around. Stop watching the tree while there is a forest behind.
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Capitalism, Socialism and Petty Pro BOOK
Authors: Prabhat Patnaik ISBN Number: 978-9976-5483-1-0 Published By: Nyerere Resource Centre In Year: 2018
In November 2018, Emeritus Professor Prabhat Patnaik, delivered the annual Nyerere Dialogue Lecture published here. In this lecture, Professor Patnaik discusses the place of petty production in the development trajectory of the countries of the global South.
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In this 2018 Nyerere Dialogue Lecture, Emeritus Professor Prabhat Patnaik, discusses the place of petty production in the development trajectory of the countries of the global South. The received wisdom over the last half a century in the mainstream development economics has been that petty production in agriculture, that is peasant production, is a backward mode of production. The path of development lies in the industrialization and chemicalisation of agriculture. This is the path that developed European economies are supposedly to have followed in their journey to modernisation. Modernity is understood to mean capitalist modernity.
For over a decade now, heterodox and progressive political economists from the South have questioned this Euro-centric narrative of development. First, they argue, that the European and later American capitalist development has always been a worldwide system in which the South has been intimately imbricated. On the labour side, the surplus labour thrown out of agriculture as a result of penetration of capital and enclosure movement in the Europe was only partly absorbed by the industrial sector.
Secondly, the South does not have other geographical places to absorb their surplus population nor external sources of capital. It has to rely on its own people and resources to chart its autonomous path of development. To embark on the path of self-reliant autonomous development, the peripheries will have to de-link from imperialist centres in the first place, generate and mobilise internal sources of capital in the second place, and ensure that their path of development does not generate surplus population and that it does not degrade climate and ecology, in the third place. It is in this context that Patnaik and other progressive political economists from the South have argued that rather than condemn the peasantry as backward, the peasant should be placed at the centre of the autonomous development trajectory.
We hope that the publication of this lecture will re-open the debate, long lost in the thickets of neo-liberalism, on the alternative vision and path of development.
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Co-labor in a Vineyard of Migrants
Our city is filled with millions of migrants from unreached Central Asian people groups.
International worker—vocational track
Creative access
Single or couple
In partnership with mature believers from these groups, we are sharing the gospel, making disciples, and forming and strengthening churches so that the gospel will bear fruit and spread among these peoples, even beyond the city where we live and work.
Desire to work with migrant populations.
Experience in serving as a humanitarian aid worker or with refugees
Demonstrated positive ministry involvement in a local church
Completion of Alliance Polity course
Completion of the World Perspectives Mission Course (minimum of Certificate level) or equivalent.
A minimum Modern Language Aptitude Test (MLAT) score of 55.
Biblical Characteristics Desired:
Christ-centered character
Spirit-empowered ministry
Commitment to a healthy lifestyle
Biblical alignment
Passion for the glory of Christ to spread among all peoples.
Participation with other believers
Valuing the Word of God as the Holy Spirit's means of opening hearts and transforming lives.
Showing Christ's love in both word and deed.
Experience working with migrant populations
Experience in one-to-one discipleship or mentoring
Some training/education in social work/humanitarian aid
Applicants who meet International worker—clergy track qualifications may be preferred.
Partner in ministry with a mature Central Asian church leader or potential leader
Assist in various humanitarian aid projects that open doors for spiritual ministry.
Personal, friendship evangelism
One-on-one discipleship and/or mentoring
Timeline for Deployment:
Summer/Fall 2020. All appointees are required to attend a cross-cultural and language acquisition program and Pre-Field Orientation prior to deploying.
This city is one of the largest cities in the world and reluctantly multi-cultural. Central Asian migrants face much discrimination. They work long hours and are here only to earn money.
Work and Living Environment:
This city is an advanced European-style city that is pleasant to live in, although a bit crowded. Apartment-living is the only option, but these are comfortable.
Status of Christian Witness:
The people groups that we work with are all unreached people groups (UPG's). In addition, the migrants who come here to work are often from the least-reached parts of their home countries in Central Asia. Often, they are from small villages where it would be impossible for a foreigner to live and minister. This gives us a special opportunity to reach people who otherwise would be out-of-reach.
Language Expectations:
Language is an essential part of ministry. For those who do not have the language, they will attend language study. International workers (IWs) receive two years of intensive language and cultural study. The goal will be to speak, read, and write the language at a functional level in order to mentor, teach, and train others.
Language learning will likely be done in either a very small group of students or with a tutor. The expectation is that 12-15 hours a week will be in a classroom or with a tutor, and then additional hours doing self-study and practical application of what is being learned.
Health Considerations:
Like any large city, there are issues of pollution. It is also extremely cold.
Expectations for Spouse:
Spousal roles vary based on the spouse's gifts, training, and abilities, as well as the needs of the team. It is expected that both spouses will be meaningfully involved in meeting ministry objectives, depending on the nature of family roles, children, etc.
Children's Educational Plan and Options:
There is a well-established K-12 Christian school that serves international worker families in the city.
This position is designated to be funded through the Great Commission Fund (GCF). The Alliance compensates for this position, covering costs related to a monthly living allowance, housing, travel, children's education, and full benefits. Please visit the compensation page for details on how U.S. Alliance IWs are supported. GCF-funded workers share responsibility for raising GCF dollars from Alliance churches and other sources.
Whole-Life Health:
The C&MA is an evangelical denomination committed to planting churches both in the United States and internationally. Due to the nature of this ministry opportunity, part of the required qualifications include optimal emotional, spiritual, and physical health. These are assessed during the application process.
Important Clarification:
Applicants should be aware that serving in the international world often requires a higher degree of grace and flexibility. For example, overseas teams can be suddenly and unexpectedly impacted by illness, government decisions, financial realities, team changes, or other factors beyond the team's control. The challenge for applicants is that these factors can sometimes necessitate the sudden redefining of a position, which may take place before, during, or after the application/interview process has begun or is completed.
Please email Stacy Douglas at douglass@cmalliance.org.


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MERCEDES-BENZ SLS AMG INSPIRES
NEW CIGARETTE RACING BOAT
New Cigarette 46' Unveiled at Miami Boat Show
MIAMI BEACH – Two legendary performance brands — Mercedes AMG and Cigarette Racing — unveiled a custom Cigarette Racing boat and the SLS AMG, which inspired its design, at a special preview at the Miami International Boat Show. While each brand's playground is as different as asphalt and water, both AMG and Cigarette use their racing expertise to develop high performance machines for passionate enthusiasts.
Available this May, the 2011 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG was developed exclusively by Mercedes-AMG, the high performance and motorsports division of Mercedes-Benz. Featuring a lightweight aluminum spaceframe chassis, hand built 563-hp AMG V8 engine and signature "Gullwing" doors, the SLS AMG is sure to quicken the pulse of high-performance enthusiasts.
Founded upon mutual respect and product admiration, Mercedes-AMG and Cigarette Racing have developed a long-standing professional relationship, allowing Mercedes-AMG to provide manufacturing expertise and materials to enhance one of Cigarette Racing's top models, the 46' Rider.
The new Cigarette 46' Rider features hand-applied AMG ALUBEAM silver paintwork also available on the SLS AMG. This process, used exclusively by AMG, covers body surfaces like a metallic skin, targeting light reflections to further emphasize exterior character lines and design details. Showcasing the state of the art nanotechnology, this unique finish imbeds tiny pigments of color measuring just 30 to 50 nanometres. The ALUBEAM silver is contrasted with AMG Designo Mystic White metallic in a bold design echoing the Mercedes-AMG logo. Inside, the boat features marine-grade upholstery that resembles the two-tone AMG Designo porcelain and white Nappa leather offered on the SLS AMG.
While many of the influences of the SLS AMG can be seen in the exterior paint work and interior, the true benefits of the inspiration can be found below the surface. With more than 100 innovations on display, the all new 46' Rider serves as a technology showcase for Cigarette. From the propulsion system to the rigging, a clean sheet approach was utilized to build the all new 46' Cigarette. Powered by a pair of revolutionary twin-turbocharged 552 ci, 1350 HP Mercury Racing engines, the 46' Cigarette is estimated to have a top speed in excess of 130 MPH.
More details on the Cigarette Racing "Inspired by AMG" 46' Rider can be found online at www.cigaretteracing.com/legendary
About Cigarette Racing
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I'd been wrestling with a rubber stamp at work today trying to change the date on it. It's so impossible to change the date without being covered in ink. The rubber stamp won the wrestle (as it always does) and covered my fingers with blue ink. So off to the works kitchen I went to try and scrub it off with a scouring pad.
These were my hands (all two of them) before I started any treatment. My wedding ring is size "Z+".
As I was scrubbing, washing away the defeat of my battle with the afore-mentioned vulcanized office implement, a chap behind me remarked, "Wow, haven't you got big hands?!". I was quite taken aback, I was quite off guard. I smiled and said, "Ah, well you see I have a tumour on my pituitary gland, in the middle of my head, which is giving out growth hormone. One of the effects it has is that it makes my hands and feet bigger amongst other things.".
I then watched him as the cogs whirred around in his head for a moment. I was expectant for a significant response, I waited for a moment. His eyes darted in an up-and-down motion, when he asked, "So, apart from your hands and your feet, does it make anything else bigger?". I smiled, grabbed my coffee and strolled out.
Interesting post and it reminds me of something that happened about 6 years ago at work. I was talking to a colleague and while gesturing with my hands he commented, "Bob, your hands are huge".
This might have been one of the first observations that pointed in the direction of acromegaly.
I too had some interesting "blunt" comments about my hands. Being a girl, I did not quite enjoy those comments. I just said that I had "Mommy Hands" and that's what happens to our bodies when we have children…it changes. I had no idea that it was the big bad Acromonster that was attacking me.
Had a clerk in a store do an "Oh My Goodness" about my hand size once that was so loud everything seemed to stop and all eyes were in my direction. That was back long before I was diagnosed.
Ok, I think that guy was trying to cruise you and don't think he listened to a word you said about the illness. Hang in there!


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The Cell: Review for The Walking Dead 703
Post written by RC Murphy at November 12, 2016 10:24 pm
Tags: AMC, Daryl Dixon, norman reedus, review, Season 7, The Cell, The Walking Dead, the ZSC, TWD, zombie survival crew, zombies
Review for The Walking Dead 703
Spoiler warning! Not that there's much to spoil . . . .
Number one, the unavoidable Reedus nudity. I signed off on the last review with a snippy remark about Daryl being nude as a selling point for The Powers That Be at AMC. Sure enough, it took nearly ten minutes into the episode for Daryl to be sufficiently clothed. Master Dwight may have given Dobby clothes, but he's not a free elf. Much to my chagrin. This story line has the potential to go nowhere given the lack of know-how when it comes to handling the Character Development Forgot.
To balance out the awkwardness of cramming Daryl into the Sanctuary lifestyle, they give him a woman to talk to—a misnomer, she talks, he bobs his head or gives soulful eyes. Sherry originally came onto the show with her sister and Dwight after they stole insulin for the sister. Now she's back to make sure the show doesn't devolve into a sausage fest during Sanctuary scenes, and to give fans a woman to 'ship Daryl with, because that's so necessary. It's obvious no matter what comes out of her mouth, she has no agency to actually make it happen. Daryl doesn't listen to her. Dwight and Negan treat her like a commodity, though the former at least has the decency to blush as his boss lays out the full transaction for their new guest. She skulks around the compound like a frightened cat, and is always hidden the minute the big guy is nearby.
The inevitable showdown between Daryl and Negan only ever had one outcome. He effed up and got Glenn killed, that guilt will keep Daryl on the side of the angels for as long as possible. And now that he has a woman to fight for, or help Dwight fight for, he'll stubbornly remain Rick's attack dog. Until they beat it out of him, that is. Negan's not going to keep giving him free Alpo sandwiches, clothes, and shelter for long. Just like in The Kingdom, you reap what you sew in the Sanctuary. But you better be sewing a lot more than what the boss lets you reap. No one upstages that man except Lucille.
Dwight may be a potential ally, if Daryl could stop being an A-class jerk for half a second. His self-pity will prevent this pair-up from happening for too long, probably. Meanwhile, Dwight stews in his resentment, ripe for turning against Negan with a push in the right direction. Of course, it'd take a chess partner as skilled at manipulation as Negan to really make it work. Not sure Daryl is up for five coherent sentences in a row, let alone convincing Dwight to work from the inside out to dismantle the Saviors. Maybe that's why Sherry was brought along as baggage. She'll do the convincing so Daryl can brood enough for twelve TV bad-boys.
We meet more Saviors, some who'll probably be go-to men throughout the season. Only one of the goons got a name outside the official "I am Negan" moniker—Fat Joey. Dr. Carson seems reasonable, but is completely in Negan's sway. If the big guy crapped a rainbow, the doctor would say, "I told you so." On the flipside of the coin, Dwight chases a doomed character, Gordon, down the road a ways. This guy is done living in Negan's wet dream for the apocalypse. He just wants an out, any out. He'd rather take a bullet than serve Negan again. Instead of complying, Dwight's insecurity about his place in Sanctuary push him to permanently enslave Gordon as a walker on their fence line.
Why is it the actions of a new character scream development, but a man who's been there since episode two hasn't grown at all? If anything, Daryl has regressed into even less of a character since they stripped away his remaining family and doused pretty much every relationship he started which delved deeper than passing acquaintance. What are they waiting for? Why hold back with this one character? Crap or get off the pot, already. They need to find a way to make him an actual part of the story, not just an object the story happens to or around. I would've rather we see an episode without any of Rick's people involved to get a real taste of the Saviors. So far, everything's been from someone else's POV. If they want to truly shock us, let us see what it's like when the machine runs smoothly. Negan's efficiency is what's truly terrifying. He gets things done. But how? All we ever see is him reprimanding one man, maybe two. Show us how he handles all his business. Intelligence can be serious nightmare fuel in the right hands.
Next week, Negan makes a house call. It's supposedly a long episode, so anticipate me saying they added unnecessary things to make a non-event writing wise feel like a big to-do. It's all they ever do with these extended episodes. But I'll take it for the extra time to watch Jeffrey Dean Morgan smirk.


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