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Book Review: JFK and the Unspeakable (2008)
Posted on October 27, 2017 by Brian Wright
Why he died and why it matters
by James Douglass
"The extent to which our national security state was systematically marshaled for the assassination of President John Kennedy remains incomprehensible to us. When we live in a system, we absorb a system and think in a system. We lack the independence to judge the system around us. Yet the evidence we have seen points toward our national security state, the systemic bubble in which we all live, as the source of Kennedy's murder and immediate coverup." — page 370
The Turning …
In a crime, proof of guilt requires evidence of motive, means, and opportunity. But the greatest of these, especially for crimes of state, is motive. The distinguishing characteristic of JFK and the Unspeakable, aside from its rigorously passionate scholarship, is its complete unraveling of the "why" of the assassination of JFK.
"John F. Kennedy was turning. The key to understanding Kennedy's presidency, his assassination, and our survival as a species through the Cuban Missile Crisis is that Kennedy was turning toward peace. The signs of his turning are the seeds of his assassination." — page 321
James Douglass, a peace advocate with international stature,[1] homes in on the context of Kennedy's presidency with respect to the war machine—the military-industrial complex, the Pentagon, and the CIA.[2] We learn that Kennedy, to some extent, ascended politically by out-"Cold-Warring" his opponents, often by advocating a more belligerent military posture vis a vis several foreign policy annoyances… and promoting higher military spending. For example, in a 1958 speech, as Senator, Kennedy accuses President Eisenhower of enabling a missile gap between the US and the Soviets.[3]
But as Douglass points out, Kennedy's personality came into the presidency with a built-in genuine understanding and abhorrence of war, partly driven by his real heroics in the Pacific theater in WW2. He knew that war was insanity. With the continuing conflict with his Cold War-driven Pentagon and intelligence community—not to mention having to counter threats of actual Cold War collectivist opponents—he recognized the same insanity at work… only this time, the lunacy of war would mean the end of civilization (where the living envy the dead).
Douglass does a marvelous job of describing these spooks and kooks in the smoke-filled rooms, courageously documenting the demonology that many succumbed to back in the day. Kennedy's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Lyman Lemnitzer (inherited from Eisenhower), was the author of the famous Operation Northwoods plan, cited in 9/11 truth DVD Loose Change and other exposes of official treason.[4]
Let me tell you something, after reading this book, you will watch the movie Dr. Strangelove with an entirely different attitude. Just as we—and when I say "we" I mean elite spooks and kooks at CIA and Pentagon—nearly ended the species at the Cuban Missile Crisis, "we" meant to launch a preemptive nuclear strike on the Soviets shortly thereafter.[5]
For a number of reasons that Douglass painstakingly documents, John Kennedy came to a deep appreciation of peace in the midst of this culture of military power and aggressive war. Several events indicated his newfound commitment to a Peace Race:
"To work his way out of the arms race, Kennedy decided to create a series of peace initiatives. He began with the American University Address[6], the Partial Test Ban Treaty, National Security Action Memorandum 263 withdrawing US troops from Vietnam, and a covert dialog with Fidel Castro. [And a secret peace correspondence with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.]" — page 327
Needless to say, the corollary of a peace race was that billions of dollars would no longer be spent on war… and those billions of dollars are considered a sacred birthright for the generals and corporate poobahs who rely on them. JFK, was selling peace—and there were signs in the early 1960s that he was tapping into a popular peace movement and turning the American population away from the pandering lies and irrational fears… that had kept the people in bondage to warlords for centuries.
The Plot …
Kennedy had to be assassinated. This book provides detailed information of the machinations from the top—including the CIA's special offices inside the Pentagon and its methods for coopting other agencies such as the Secret Service and the FBI—down to ground-level operations. You will learn corroborated facts that have not been authoritatively presented elsewhere, at least not presented as an integrated structure showing beyond any reasonable doubt that the assassination was architected by the CIA and carried out by a collection of contacts and contracts under the CIA's complete operational control.
You will see how the coverup was propagated via the Warren Commission and a multitude of personnel either in the direct pocket of the CIA or under its auspices. Many witnesses or brave citizens having first-hand information that contradicted the patently absurd official story—that CIA asset and FBI informant Lee Oswald acted alone, firing three (and only three) bullets from the 6th-floor Book Depository window, using a rifle with a defective scope, after which nitrate paraffin tests and neutron activation analysis tests showed Oswald had not fired a rifle that day, struck and killed the president, despite mountains of contradictory eye-witness and circumstantial evidence that show multiple shooters and CIA causation—were summarily killed or otherwise disposed of.[7]
Douglass uses the phrase "the Unspeakable" to identify the black beast within and behind the dark deed of November 22, 1963. He borrows that phrase from another leading peace activist of the time, Thomas Merton, who has this to say of the times on the eve of JFK's borderline efforts for peace:
"In actual fact it would seem that during the Cold War, if not during World War II, this country has become frankly a warfare state built on affluence, a power structure in which the interests of big business, the obsessions of the military, and the phobias of political extremists both dominate and dictate our national policy. It also seems that the people of the country are by and large reduced to passivity, confusion, resentment, frustration, thoughtlessness, and ignorance, so that they blindly follow any line that is unraveled for them by the mass media." — page 11 (from Merton's, "The Cold War Letters")
The dark forces of this power structure did indeed assassinate the president of the United States in broad daylight. And so far, "we the people" have let them get away with it. For an understanding of the abdication of moral responsibility by the intelligentsia, please read Martin Schotz's book, History Will Not Absolve Us. There is, though, another broader area of society that shares responsibility for not rising up and bringing the killers and plotters to justice: that would be most of our nonintellectual friends and neighbors who generally prefer to eschew "politics."
The Jury is Still Out …
As with 9/11, which we can now see connected to the JFK killing, the crime of state—the Unspeakable—relies on what Douglass calls "citizen denial." We thus realize that too many Americans share with too many Germans in Hitler's time the same willingness to look the other way when confronted with vicious acts and facts of a holocaust: "Man, it can't be that bad. Did you see that call against the Red Wings last night? Now that's an atrocity."
But there is hope. Douglass has absolutely nailed the case shut, certainly from motive[8] and context, but also from his scholar-writer-detective work tying so many loose ends together to create a plausible and exacting story of what happened that day in Dealey Plaza. It's important that we, the American people who care and who care to think rationally, learn these things. Because you know what? The perpetrators of the coup d'etat and their descendents are still in power; they run the government. And last time I checked, assassins of an elected leader have no legitimate authority.
Anyway, The Unspeakable is a beautiful and tender book (you will have a hard time putting it down) that will certainly blow away the Unspeakable with the light of truth and the truth of light… provided we ordinary citizens are willing to stand up for it.
[1] From the book jacket: "James W. Douglass is a longtime peace activist and writer. He and his wife Shelley are cofounders of the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action in Poulsbo, Washington, and Mary's House, a Catholic Worker house of hospitality in Birmingham, Alabama. His books include The Nonviolent Cross, The Nonviolent Coming of God, and Resistance and Contemplation.
[2] Douglass normally applies the term CIA quite specifically to the Central Intelligence Agency organization, but sometimes he uses the term as Dr. Martin Schotz does in History Will Not Absolve Us, to signify "…the entire web of U.S. military intelligence agencies, including but not limited to the Central Intelligence Agency proper, the Office of Naval Intelligence, Army Intelligence, the National Security Agency, and so on."
[3] The United States in fact held an overwhelming strategic advantage over the Soviets' missile force. Kennedy knew that. Nonetheless, the first years of his presidency saw a dangerous military buildup as he played ball with the warmongers. (He also made the decision to launch the fabled Green Berets and other special forces… as military and secret-society tools for the suppression of popular movements against US-client-dictator states and the international corporate and banking system who benefited from the suppression.)
[4] Briefly, Operation Northwoods was intended to get the United States to attack Cuba by [the CIA] creating numerous false-flag operations in the United States and the Caribbean, which would include attacks on Cuban civilians, American civilians, and other clandestine activities. These false-flag operations would be blamed on the Cuban government. [Just as the 9/11 attacks were blamed on radical Muslims from the Middle East to justify preplanned wars against Iraq and Afghanistan (again, for international corporate and banking interests).]
[5] From the book: "Those who designed the plot to kill Kennedy were familiar with the inner sanctum of our national security state. Their attempt to scapegoat the Soviets [and Cubans] for the president's murder reflected one side of the secret struggle between JFK and his military leaders over a preemptive strike against the Soviet Union. The assassins' purpose seems to have encompassed not only killing a president determined to make peace with the enemy, but also using his murder as the impetus for a possible nuclear first strike against that same enemy.
[6] This speech is his well known attempt to break the stalemate induced by the war machinery of both systems, delivered at the American University in Washington DC, June 10, 1963: "So, let us not be blind to our differences–but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
[7] Particularly heartwrenching for me are the stories of two men destroyed by various complicit government agencies—local, state, and national—because they refused to accept the lies.
Civil servant and Secret Service agent Abraham Bolden was imprisoned and subjected to solitary confinement, drugs, and the harshest treatments, because he blew the whistle on another CIA (abortive) presidential assassination plot in Chicago a month earlier.
A refrigerator mechanic Ralph Yates who continued to bear witness to a second Oswald—which would destroy the government's case—was simply placed in a Texas mental hospital, where he was confined until he died of heart failure—Ralph received drugs and electric shock treatment—at the age of 39.
[8] Another motive stems from JFK's Kennedy's Executive Order 11110, which gave the Treasury Department the explicit authority: "to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury." This would have ended the Fed, which we know from several works now, makes "the Unspeakable" possible. JFK basically pissed off the warlords and the warlords' financiers.
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2 thoughts on "Book Review: JFK and the Unspeakable (2008)"
Brian Wright on June 27, 2018 at 20:56 said:
Thank you, Susan. I was also deeply moved by this book and tried to communicate that passion with the review.
Susan Ward on June 27, 2018 at 20:53 said:
This is the most important book I have ever read. I was in high school the day that JFK, my first hero, was killed. I will never forget that moment, and the next days with all TV stations only televising what was happening in Washington, D.C. The depth of research in this book and the "unspeakable" truth is stunning, painful and heart breaking on every level. But it is something we all need to know, to appreciate, understand and to carry with us with open eyes in the future.


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The objectives of the Third Road Safety Week should be achieved by appropriate campaigns at the national level to be organized by Governments and national organizations. The international character of the campaigns will be expressed by:
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(v) if possible, make a contribution to the International Festival on Road Safety Film to be organized in Lille by the LASER Association
(vi) elaborate and distribute as widely as possible a brochure containing a message from the Executive Secretary of the UN/ECE, the text of resolution No. 246 of the Inland Transport Committee, a statement by the Chairman of the Working Party on Road Traffic Safety and data and information useful for national campaigns, to be elaborated on the basis of statistical data concerning vulnerable road users. The brochure may be used by member countries as a sample for the design of their own brochures;
(vii) if possible, produce and distribute, in cooperation with member Governments, the UN Department of Information and possibly the LASER Association, a video which could be used by television stations in ECE member States during the Third Road Safety Week.
(viii) organize a round-table debate on: Safety of Vulnerable Road Users is Your Safety at the Palais des Nations in the course of the thirty-fourth session of the Working Party just prior to the Third Road Safety Week;
After the Road Safety Week the secretariat will prepare a report on the Third Road Safety Week on the basis of information received from Governments and international organizations concerned. The report will be used by the Working Party on Road Traffic Safety for the evaluation of the Road Safety Week and the adoption of follow-up action.
The list of envisaged ECE activities and the deadline for their implementation are the following:
1. Adoption of the Programme of the Third Road Safety Week. 1-4 September 1998
2. Transmission of the adopted Programme to member Governments and international organizations concerned. October 1998
3. Issue of a UN/ECE Press Release to be prepared on the basis of the Programme. December 1998
4. Consideration of matters arising from the preparatory work for the Road Safety Week by the Inland Transport Committee. 8-12 February 1999
5. Launch of ECE road safety web site. March 1999
6. Issuance and distribution of brochure. September 1999
7. Issuance of newsletters containing information about the activities planned for national campaigns in member countries. Periodically during 1999
8. If possible, production and distribution, in cooperation with member Governments, of a video to be used by national authorities. By the end of 1999
9. Organization of a workshop Autumn 1999
10. Contribution to international festival on road safety film organized by LASER Association. April 2000
11. A round-table debate to be organized at the Palais des Nations. April 2000
12. Elaboration of the report on the Road Safety Week by the secretariat on the basis of contributions from Governments. June 2000
13. Issue of a UN/ECE Press Release summarizing the Road Safety Week. June 2000
14. Evaluation of the Road Safety Week and adoption of follow-up action by WP.1
Activities to be carried out by other international organizations.
The European Commission, the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are invited to support the Third Road Safety Week. The International Labour Organization, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) are invited to give their support to the Third Road Safety Week by appropriate action dedicated to the objectives of the Third Road Safety Week. The United Nations Postal Administration is invited to consider the possibility of issuing a set of stamps on the theme of the Third Road Safety Week. The Universal Postal Union (UPU) is asked to consider inviting national postal administrations to issue a special stamp(s) on the occasion of the Road Safety Week. Non-governmental organizations dealing with road safety, in particular the European Road Safety Equipment Federation (EUROADSAFE), the European Federation of Road Traffic Victims (FEVR), the International Federation of Pedestrians (FIP), the International Motorcycle Manufacturers Association (IMMA), the International Motorcycling Federation (FIM), the International Road Federation (IRF), International Road Safety (PRI), the International Road Transport Union (IRU), the International Road Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) and the International Touring Alliance/International Automobile Federation (AIT/FIA) are invited to give the widest possible support to the Road Safety Week, to provide Internet links to the ECE road safety week web page and to recommend their members to take an active part in national campaigns. The European Broadcasting Union is invited to announce the Road Safety Week to its members and to recommend them to participate in national campaigns. NATIONAL ACTIVITIES
National activities to be carried out in the framework of the Road Safety Week and specific messages to be addressed to vulnerable road users (or to a specific subset of this group) should be determined and implemented in accordance with the road safety situation and problems in the particular country.
During national campaigns it may be appropriate to focus on issues relating to vulnerable road users provided they meet the following criteria:
(i) address the various groups of vulnerable road users;
(ii) differentiate between vulnerable road users (or a particular group of them) and other road users (physical and mental abilities, characteristic behaviour, etc.) in particular traffic situations and challenges;
(iii) provide measures designed to improve the safety of vulnerable road users;
(iv) influence mass-media, advertising agencies and private organizations which could shape public opinion to further the aims of the campaigns.
Examples of such issues are:
Disabled persons: relevant traffic rules and regulations, the use of prescribed signs on vehicles driven by disabled persons, special attitude required from other drivers, etc.; Children: relevant traffic rules and regulations, particularities of the behaviour of children on the road and in the proximity to roads, marking of school buses, car seats/restraints recommended for use by children, wearing of seat belts, etc. Governmental and municipal authorities as well as private entities and road users organizations active in the area of road traffic safety and mass media should be involved in the campaign as widely as possible. They should be invited by Governments to contribute to campaigns as early as possible.
In order to ensure the exchange of information about the activities planned for national campaigns, Governments are invited to transmit to the secretariat relevant information and details on focal points, as soon as the programme of the national campaign is established. Information received from Governments should be circulated to all member countries by the secretariat through newsletters and/or Internet.
The implementation of the Road Safety Week should be continuously monitored. After the Third Road Safety Week, Governments are invited to transmit to the secretariat a report on the holding of the Third Road Safety Week in their country with an indication of particular problems and possible lacunas in national and/or international legislation regarding the safety of vulnerable users in order to enable the subsequent evaluation and adoption by WP.1 of follow-up action as referred to in paragraph above

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Composable Commerce 2.0
Going Headless
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Lessons from over 20 Shopify Plus headless commerce builds
If there was a headless build tally in the industry, our CEO Brian Anderson would top the list. Between his Shopify Plus agency days and his work at Nacelle, he has been associated with over 20 headless commerce builds and counting.
He'll be the first to tell you that the reason he knows how to do headless commerce the right way, is because he tried all of the wrong ways first.
We got him to spill the beans on the trials and tribulations behind building a headless commerce solution—here are his answers.
How did you come to realize that headless commerce was a good idea for Shopify Plus?
Brian Anderson: The Shopify Plus ecosystem is strong and there's a lot of momentum behind it. When you go headless you want to pick a platform that has a lot of integrations, or at least expertise on how to optimize your stack and integrate the Shopify Plus tools that you use. You want to go headless, but you don't want to lose the value of the ecosystem.
When I first got into headless commerce, I was running a Shopify Plus agency and our clients were coming to us describing a particular pain point around page load speed. It came at a time when more and more traffic was coming from mobile devices as opposed to desktop. We realized then that this was revolutionary in the way that people shop online.
Prior to this point, people thought shoppers weren't comfortable breaking out their credit card to buy an expensive purchase on their phone, but that feeling really diminished. This was also during the advent of performance marketing, where people started buying through ads on Instagram, Facebook, and Google Mobile.
Merchants started to see this overwhelming amount of mobile traffic. Slow page load speed is annoying on desktop, but infuriating on a mobile phone.
We didn't call it headless commerce at the time, but we were trying to replace the part of the tech stack that wasn't working well. In our world, that was the frontend, and we naturally went down the path of decoupling the site's frontend and the backend, which is the definition of headless commerce.
We realized that if we separated the frontend and backend the right way, we could unlock a lot of value and build a mobile solution that was just as powerful as a native app—without forcing customers to download anything on their phone. This in combination with Shopify's checkout technology, Shopify Pay, makes for a very robust solution.
What were the biggest lessons learned from those first few headless commerce builds?
Brian Anderson: In order to have a good frontend, you need an extremely performant backend. This is a paradigm shift.
If you're using technology on the frontend to execute a great shopping experience—things like Vue and React—and doing it right, with advanced techniques like static generation and single page application, you'll see the most conversion rate gains. All merchants are after that.
In order to satisfy the requirement of single page applications and static generation, you need the ability to do a massive amount of queries within a very short period of time. You'll have to query multiple APIs, such as Shopify Plus and the CMS you choose, if you're not using a backend like Nacelle.
The first mistake we made at the agency was trying to do many queries against many disparate systems, all at once. It was a mess to pull that data efficiently.
If that's not happening, your frontend and your backend are not going to be consistent. There's going to be a discrepancy between what's appearing to shoppers on your Shopify Plus storefront, what's going on in your content management system (CMS), and what's actually happening when you're statically generating.
We quickly realized we needed a backend solution in order to support these frontend technologies that help enable the best shopping experience.
The first few headless builds we did worked really well for our merchants, but there were so many challenges to overcome. In the process of doing over 20 headless builds, we've learned so much about what works and how to navigate the headless environment on Shopify Plus.
Was there a moment when you knew it was time to leave the agency and start Nacelle?
Brian Anderson: Yes, when we realized how much time it took to build a backend data layer for each client individually. We realized there was just no way to sustain that. We'd have to bill $2 to $3 million just as a starting point—minimum—to get it right. And that wouldn't include maintenance or upgrades.
We realized that a lot of other folks will have this problem too. Building a system that was multi-tenant with one big, strong, scalable architecture was key. Our architecture had to be elastic, which means many merchants sending thousands and thousands of requests a minute without affecting performance in any way. We knew a SaaS business model would be a much better match than an agency model.
What are the most important considerations when thinking about headless commerce?
Brian Anderson: First and foremost, you have to understand that headless is not just an app you're installing. It's not just something on the frontend that's a little widget.
This is a change to your business. It affects the shopping experience and how you merchandise your store. It affects content modeling and how you drag and drop to move items around on the page. Sure, we can give you drag and drop functionality, but does your merchandising team understand the new way of approaching changes and how to build landing pages? It will be different.
Your brand needs to be big enough where this is going to be a no brainer for ROI. We've found that it becomes really relevant at $25 million GMV and up. Anything less than that and maybe you're focusing on the wrong thing. You want to make sure you have strong product market fit before you make this move. You should also be willing to invest in engineering, whether that means bringing people in-house or working with an agency.
For merchants that are right, the ROI is monumental. For instance, our Barefoot Dreams case study—64% improvement in conversion rate and we have others in the 20% to 30% range.
The ROI just on conversion rate alone is immensely compelling. Also, when you start to realize that you can merchandise faster and build landing pages that convert faster, the door opens to other second- and third-level benefits that really help you and your team.
Are there any red flags to be aware of while searching for a headless commerce solution?
Brian Anderson: When I started this endeavor in the agency world, merchants realized that this was an essential part of what they do every day. So, they were a little leery about letting us just build out a custom stack because they didn't want to feel locked into an agency.
The truth I learned about agencies after doing it for years is that people leave. People come, people go, and sometimes they're key people with tribal knowledge about your codebase. Suddenly when a key person leaves, there's a lot of knowledge about your custom codebase that's lost too. I really recommend that merchants use a platform to solve this problem as opposed to custom code.
A lot of other companies out there claim to be headless, yet they have an opinion on what CMS or PIM you need to use, or worse, they force you to register content management components that are specific to their solution into your frontend framework—which means it's not actually headless. It creates a hard dependency between your backend and your frontend, and therefore it's not decoupled.
If you're going to do the work to go headless, we highly recommend that you stay headless and don't experience vendor lock-in during the process. We're anti rip and replace. We want to work with what you have and that's an important aspect of going headless.
Any headless commerce implementation "gotchas" to look out for?
Brian Anderson: The most important thing is that you have a strong data layer in place. That data layer is aggregating everything on the backend including your PIM, CMS, and OMS. If you're using something like Shopify Plus—fantastic, but you're probably going to want to pair it with a headless CMS, so you're still going to have the issue of joining and merging disparate data sources together into one. Don't make your build more complicated than it needs to be by calling all these different APIs in order to do your static builds and PWA builds.
Choosing an API that's immensely robust so you don't have rate limit issues is also going to be important. It ensures you're getting the right data to your customers on the frontend. This is one of those issues where if your technical team is looking at the APIs from your stack it looks like you can pull this off and it will work, but it's deceiving.
An analogy we like to use here is that it looks like you can build Twitter in an hour—it's just a form with 160 characters. Of course, it would never scale the right way. Understand that there is a certain amount of data you will need to flow into your frontend at a very rapid pace. If you don't get that right, your effort will be in vain. And it's tricky too, because you don't realize it until you go into production.
Implementation details like content modeling are also important. Understanding that yes, you're getting a powerful content solution—Contentful, Strapi, Sanity, or another great CMS—but if your merchandising team and your marketing team aren't taking the time to sit down and flesh out how it's going to be used, and what components you need to build on the frontend, it won't be successful. If that work isn't done up front, and isn't done well, you're not going to have a good headless build regardless.
Of all the headless commerce builds that I've been involved with, that's probably the number one implementation detail after the data layer that turns a build sour.
The third thing that's relevant are the apps and app integrations. You'll want to do an app audit so you can understand what will work well in a headless world. Truthfully, different apps have different levels of APIs and different levels of JavaScript SDKs. Some just work better in the headless landscape than others.
How would you describe Nacelle's biggest differentiator from other headless solutions in the market?
Brian Anderson: I think it's twofold. First, we're a backend data layer that supports the frontend framework. We understand that in a world of PWAs you need to get a lot of data in a short period of time.
Our solution is built around elastic technology, it can scale up in milliseconds. Having that available to developers, not worrying about infrastructure, not needing a big DevOps team to get those capabilities—that's the number one differentiator.
Number two, is this idea that we're not the CMS, PIM, checkout system, etc. We have no opinion on these. We combine data from disparate systems and we join it together in one API. This is great because developers on the frontend only have to call one API or SDK.
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Most of them use common materials (not necessarily found in Indian homes) and do link it up to ideas of science. But all of these are aimed at the young. There is a book, which I browsed at in my friend's house, written by a science journalist. I have forgotten her name and the name of the book, but I remember the introduction. In essence, what she said was that we go (or are taken to) to science museums and displays when we are young but replace these with visits to art galleries and music concerts when we grow up. Science becomes remote unless you are a scientist.
Then there is the 'scientific temper' that is talked about. It has become a catch- all phrase when superstitions or habits are discussed. It divides beliefs into 'scientific' or 'non-scientific' a meaningless division but deeply alienating to people who feel that their ideas are being put down. The idea of questioning and scepticism, not taking any thing for granted, considering the value of evidence, is not the sole prerogative of science; it is the foundation on which all learning rests and is equally important in history and literary criticism! Since education in India does not have much room for this method of learning, it leaves people distanced from the enjoyment the subjects can give. We find our way back to literature and history, but rarely do it for science, because it seems too hard. Very few magazines and newspapers have articles on science (not technology, science).
The author works with Centre for Learning, Bangalore. She can be reached at yasmin.cfl@gmail.com.


TLDR: Cells become islands of raised K+ ion concentration when energy is supplied.
The trans-membrane potential from the pumped protons is stable while ever the pumping and the consumption of protons is balanced. The problem is that it doesn't need many protons to generate that 180mV. Pumping any more than basic needs generates too great a membrane voltage. The converse is that it doesn't take much excess proton consumption to collapse the potential. So you need a buffer which does not waste the energy used to pump.
Obviously the Na+/H+ antiporter is being driven by the pH component of the proton gradient. It's neat how evolution has separated out the pH and electrical components of a proton gradient!
The whole system is fully reversible so if there is a sudden drop in proton pumping the transmembrane Na+/K+ gradient can be reconverted to a proton gradient to "buffer" changes in proton translocation. This seems to be how modern, proton pumping bacteria with superbly proton tight membranes work. In E coli the ion channel and antiporter are ATP gated.
That's how Skulachev looked at modern bacteria in 1978.
Let's have a think about LUCA, with a cell membrane which is tight to Na+, and probably K+ too, but highly leaky to both protons and hydroxyl ions. Metabolism is based on Na+ pumping and a Na+ specific ATP synthase. The initial Na+/H+ antiporter (from the Life series) is gone as a source of Na+ gradient as soon as LUCA leaves the alkaline hydrothermal vents.
There is no need for the Na+/H+ antiporter in this scenario because there is no pH change associated with pumping Na+ ions, so all we need is the ion specific channel for K+.
This sets up a non-electrical energy store which is "accessible" to form an electrical gradient when primary Na+ pumping is low.
The buffer automatically implies the generation of a raised intracellular K+. We have here, based on a tiny step beyond Skulachev's ideas, a place within LUCA which is potassium rich. It's simply produced to buffer changes in ion pumping by the primary Na+ pump (or usage by ATP synthase) across relatively primitive membranes. And driving intracellular K+ higher is an indicator to the cell that there is excess of energy available, which should select for increased enzyme activity based on rising intracellular K+ concentration. Many of the "core" LUCA enzymes do indeed use K+ as a cofactor to function optimally.
Summary: Cells become islands of raised K+ ion concentration when more than basal a level of energy is supplied. Remember that for our later discussion about Mulkidjanian's ideas on the origin of life on Earth.


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ISO/IEC 22535:2005 specifies tunnelling of "QSIG" over the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) within a corporate telecommunication network (CN).
"QSIG" is a signalling protocol that operates between Private Integrated services Network eXchanges (PINX) within a Private Integrated Services Network (PISN). A PISN provides circuit-switched basic services and supplementary services to its users. QSIG is specified in International Standards, in particular ISO/IEC 11572 and ISO/IEC 11582.


The quality of food is made of countless details, all incredibly important: it takes a good stove, to inflame flavor of your recipes; it takes large shelves, to support the shopping for the whole family , safe from any gluttonous tooth from two to four legs; It wants efficient appliances, to help prepare the most important lunches and to relieve you from the hassle of washing the dishes afterwards. We want to fill spaces with shelves, doors, handles to choose carefully, one detail at a time ... This is the kitchen. Are you at home.


We are now almost 7 years since then. Jayden is thriving and doesn't let her disability stop her. Her right hand is noticeably smaller than her left, and her left foot is two shoe sizes smaller than her right.
Jayden has realized that she can't tie her shoes, or ride a bike, along with many other obstacles. We are currently trying for the fifth time to get her on disability. We go every year to Shriners Hospital for children in Chicago.
This year they plan on doing a surgery on her right hand so she will be able to use her thumb. In her current state Jayden cannot bend her right thumb and she cannot make a fist with her right hand. The surgery this year will be to take a tendon from her right index finger and wrap it around the palm of her hand and attach it to the base of her thumb. This is so, after physical and occupational therapy, she will be able to bend her thumb when she moves her index finger.


Although peshat often is translated as the plain or simple sense of the text, there is nothing plain or simple about it when we take it seriously. Sifting through many centuries of scholarship and methodology coupled with pursuing contemporary approaches and research is a life-long endeavor, as we continue our attempts to refine truth and approach God's word through our eternal sacred texts. In his fourth collection of essays on Tanakh, Rabbi Hayyim Angel presents eleven studies on developing a religious methodology that is rooted in Jewish tradition and in the principles of scholarship employed by our classical commentators. The contributions of great medieval figures such as Rambam, Abarbanel, and Sforno; coupled with the latest developments in the literary-theological school of the 20th and 21st centuries, are explained in an accessible manner. He follows those studies with ten essays on specific biblical texts, applying the methodological principles from the first section. By drawing from the best of traditional and academic scholarship, these essays serve to bridge people of all backgrounds and levels of religious observance in an active, engaged relationship with our most sacred text.


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Halfway to reality
Ten years after its inception, the international Iter project has passed the halfway mark. Judith Perera reviews the progress.
THE ITER ORGANISATION CELEBRATED ITS 10th anniversary in 2017 after what it described as "a very significant year." The project, which is being built in Cadarache, southern France by a scientific partnership of 35 countries also passed the halfway mark towards first plasma. It will be the world's largest experimental tokamak fusion facility. Europe contributes almost half of the construction costs (45.6%), while the other six members – China, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the United States – contribute equally to the rest (9.1% each).
All the milestones set by the Iter Council were met in 2017. Preparation for machine assembly has begun and the cryoplant, the twin magnet power conversion buildings, and the cooling tower zone have received their first equipment. In factories on three continents, Iter members continued to manufacture strategic Iter components that were delivered to the site as planned. In the Poloidal Field Coil Winding Facility, Europe began manufacturing the fifth poloidal field coil. Nearby in the Cryostat Workshop, Indian contractors started work on a second cryostat section—the lower cylinder—and continued to advance welding and nondestructive examination testing of the cryostat base.
When the Iter project was formally launched in 2007 the estimated cost was €5bn. Construction began in 2010 but there have been delays. First plasma, originally scheduled for 2018, and the start of deuterium-tritium operation for 2026 were deferred until November 2019 and March 2027, respectively. By 2011, the budget forecast had risen to about €16bn and in May 2016 newly appointed Iter chief Bernard Bigot said the project would be delayed by more than a decade and incur cost overruns of another €4bn, estimating the overall cost to commissioning to be at least €18bn ($22bn).
More than 80% of the cost of Iter is contributed as components manufactured by the partners. Many of these massive components of the Iter machine must be precisely fitted—for example, 17-metre-high magnets with less than a millimetre of tolerance. Each component must be ready on time to fit into the Master Schedule for machine assembly. Members asked for this arrangement for three reasons. First, most of the Iter costs paid by any member are paid to that member's companies, which means the funding stays in-country. Second, the companies involved build new industrial expertise in major fields—such as electromagnetism, cryogenics, robotics, and materials science. Third, this new expertise leads to innovation and spin-offs in other fields.
Iter meets its milestones
"For the past two years, we have met every agreed project milestone. This has not happened easily," said Bigot in an end-of-year statement. "A project of this complexity is full of risks; and our schedule to first plasma in 2025 is set with no 'float' or contingency. Effective risk management is a daily discipline at Iter."
Bigot said the design has taken advantage of the best expertise of every member's scientific and industrial base. "No country could do this alone. We are all learning from each other, for the world's mutual benefit. Looking ahead, we will need the commitment and support of every member to maintain this performance."
Plans for 2018 include starting integrated commissioning of an ion source test bed by March. At the PRIMA neutral beam test facility in Padua, Italy, the key technologies of Iter's powerful heating neutral beam system will be tested and qualified on two test beds. The first of these, SPIDER (for Source for the Production of Ions of Deuterium Extracted from a Radio frequency plasma) will be ready for integrated testing during the first quarter of 2018.
Access to the Tokamak assembly area depends on the maturity of Tokamak Building civil works. The target is to finish the bioshield and the concrete crown by the second quarter of 2018 to allow access for the first components to be installed.
The first toroidal field coil is expected to arrive from Japan in the third quarter of 2018. Weighing 310t each, and measuring 9x17m, the toroidal field coils are among the largest components of the Iter machine. Nine will be produced in Japan and ten in Europe (18 and one spare).
The first vacuum vessel sector, measuring over 14m and weighing 440t, is expected to arrive from Korea in the fourth quarter of 2018. Nine sectors in all, supported by the overhead in-pit assembly tool, will be aligned and welded together in the Tokamak assembly pit. Fifty-three port structures will also be welded into place during the assembly of the vacuum vessel.
The final goal is not just circulating plasma [scheduled for 2025], but fusing deuterium and tritium to create a 'burning' plasma that generates significantly more energy than it uses.
Iter's successor, the Demonstration Fusion Power Reactor, or DEMO, will aim to demonstrate the continuous output of energy, supplying electricity to the grid. According to Eurofusion, DEMO is expected to follow Iter by 2050. Currently in the design stages, DEMO must have linear dimensions about 15% larger than Iter and an about 30% greater plasma density.
Work continues at JET
Meanwhile, the UK's Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) and the Joint European Torus (JET) have continued experimental work as the precursor to Iter, despite growing concerns about how Brexit may affect the project. JET is operated by the CCFE under a contract between the European Commission and the UKAEA. It is used by all European fusion laboratories in the Eurofusion consortium. The peaceful use of nuclear energy within the EU is governed by the 1957 Euratom Treaty. The UK government has said it intends to leave Euratom as part of the Brexit process, but officials have tried to reassure the nuclear industry that the effect will be minimal. "There is political commitment right across the British government to ensure as much continuity as possible for the nuclear industry," David Wagstaff, deputy director of the Euratom exit at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), told delegates at the UK Nuclear Industry Association's annual conference in London in December. BEIS is working "very closely and collaboratively", he said, with the Department for Exiting the European Union.
In December, the UK government announced investment of £86m to fund the building and operation of a National Fusion Technology Platform (NaFTeP) at Culham, which is expected to open in 2020. BEIS said the new funding is part of a series of measures to support the development of 'next-generation nuclear technology', following publication of the government's Industrial Strategy white paper in November. NaFTeP comprises two new centres of excellence: Hydrogen-3 Advanced Technology (H3AT), which will research how to process and store tritium, one of the fuels that will power commercial fusion reactors; and Fusion Technology Facilities (FTF), which will carry out thermal, mechanical, hydraulic and electromagnetic tests on prototype components under the conditions experienced inside fusion reactors. NaFTeP will "provide a powerful signal of the UK's intent to continue its participation in international science collaboration after leaving the European Union", UKAEA said.
UKAEA said the new facilities will help to secure around £1bn ($1.35bn) in contracts from Iter. So far, 38 UK companies have won contracts totalling more than €500m from Iter. Looking ahead, UKAEA said the facilities will enable development of technology for the first nuclear fusion power plants and put UK industry in a strong position to exploit their commercialisation. H3AT and FTF will work closely with the industrial supply chain to create knowledge to position them for the next phase of Iter procurements in areas including the tritium plant, hot cells, measurement systems, assembly, maintenance and reactor materials, UKAEA said. NaFTeP is expected to create around 100 jobs at Culham and many more in the wider nuclear industry supply chain.
Progress in Korea and China
A number of other fusion projects worldwide announced progress during 2017.
The Korean Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR), a tokamak nuclear fusion reactor, which achieved 70 seconds in high-performance plasma operation at the end of 2016 at South Korea's National Fusion Research Institute (NFRI), has now significantly improved the stability of the elongated plasma in the facility. A team of US and Korean researchers, led by physicist Dennis Mueller of the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), has now sharply improved the stability of the elongated plasma in KSTAR, successfully demonstrating a method to control the vertical instability of the plasma. "As the plasma got taller it moved away from stable operation," Mueller told the 59th annual meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics in October. "The new correction method stops the plasma from bouncing up and down by stabilizing the vertical centre of the plasma. Control of the vertical instability has allowed for taller plasmas in KSTAR than the original design specifications." This was achieved using new magnetic sensors developed at KSTAR.
In China, researchers at the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) at the Hefei-based Institute of Plasma Physics announced in July that they had set a world record by achieving 101.2 seconds of steady- state H-mode operation of the tokamak. In 2016, the EAST team achieved over 60 seconds of steady-state long-pulse H-mode discharge of the device. Similar experiments in other countries have created plasmas that lasted longer but were less stable and difficult to control for the purpose of power generation.
In December, the Chinese central government announced it was backing the project for the next-step experimental fusion power station, DEMO, launching a competition among cities in China to host the project. Hefei is hoping to be selected. According to a timetable posted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, design work on DEMO will continue, and construction will start in 2021. The reactor will be built in parallel with Iter rather than waiting for results from Iter, expected in 2025.
Progress has also been reported from Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X), the world's largest stellarator, which began operating in 2015 at the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics in Greifswald, Germany, and is seen as a competitor to tokamak technology. Stellerators also use magnetic confinement, but are designed differently. The W7-X was intended to show that the earlier weaknesses in the stellarator fusion concept had been addressed. In September, experiments resumed at the reactor after a 15-month break. A recent upgrade means it is now capable of higher heat and longer pulses. The device was also fitted with measuring instruments that allowed scientists to track the turbulence in the plasma. "We shall be able for the first time to check whether the promising predictions of theory for a completely optimised stellarator are correct," said project head Thomas Klinger.
An alternative fusion technology to the magnetic confinement technology of the tokamak and stellerator is inertial confinement fusion (ICF) which aims to initiate nuclear fusion reactions by heating and compressing a fuel target using a powerful laser. The largest operational ICF experiment is the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in the USA, which typically uses a pellet containing a mixture of deuterium and tritium as the target. A similar large-scale device in France, Laser Mégajoule, was officially inaugurated in October 2014. However, progress is slow.
Hydrogen-boron fusion might be a faster alternative. In December, in a paper in Laser and Particle Beams, Heinrich Hora from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney and international colleagues proposed a new design for ICF using a target of hydrogen-boron. "I think this puts our approach ahead of all other fusion energy technologies," said Hora, an emeritus professor of theoretical physics at UNSW, who predicted in the 1970s that fusing hydrogen and boron might be possible without the need for thermal equilibrium. Hydrogen-boron fusion is achieved using two powerful lasers in rapid bursts, which apply precise non-linear forces to compress the nuclei together and create the fusion reaction.
Hydrogen-boron fusion produces no neutrons and, therefore, no radioactivity in its primary reaction. Dramatic advances in laser technology are close to making the two-laser approach feasible, according to UNSW, and a spate of recent experiments around the world indicate that an 'avalanche' fusion reaction could be triggered in the trillionth-of-a-second blast from a petawatt-scale laser pulse, whose fleeting bursts pack a quadrillion watts of power. If scientists could exploit this avalanche, Hora said, a breakthrough in proton-boron fusion was imminent.
An Australian spin-off company, HB11 Energy, holds the patents for Hora's hydrogen-boron fusion process. "If the next few years of research don't uncover any major engineering hurdles, we could have prototype reactor within a decade," said Warren McKenzie, managing director of HB11. "From an engineering perspective, our approach will be a much simpler project because the fuels and waste are safe, the reactor won't need a heat exchanger and steam turbine generator, and the lasers we need can be bought off the shelf," he added.
Three helium cold boxes were installed in the cryoplant in late June 2017 (Credit: Iter Organization)
Iter is taking shape (Photo: ITER Organization/EJF Riche)
A UKAEA fusion engineering test rig at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, which recently received a funding boost from the UK government
Concept a laser-ignited hydrogen-boron fusion reactor
Assembly work is underway on one of the sub-segments of vacuum vessel sector #5 in Europe (Credit: Iter Organization)
Seven segments of the cryostat left India in October. Assembly is now underway on site (Credit: Iter Organization)


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Fact Check: Is COVID-19 A Bacteria & Causes Death By Coagulation Of Blood? Here's The Truth Of The Viral Claim Attributed To Singapore
News Mobile Asia > Coronavirus Fact Check > Fact Check: Is COVID-19 A Bacteria & Causes Death By Coagulation Of Blood? Here's The Truth Of The Viral Claim Attributed To Singapore
Amidst rising coronavirus cases, a post is being shared on different social media sites with a claim that Singapore has become the first country in the world to perform an autopsy on COVID-19 victims and has found that the infection is caused by a bacteria that has been exposed to radiation and causes death by coagulation in blood.
The text of the post reads, "*MUST READ – IMPORTANT* SHARE THIS EVERYWHERE .. Singapore has become the first country in the world to perform an autopsy (post-mortem) for a Covid-19 corpse. After a thorough investigation, it was discovered that Covid-19 does not exist as a virus, but rather a bacterium that has been exposed to radiation and causes human death by coagulation in the blood. Covid-19 disease has been found to cause blood clotting, which causes blood clotting in humans and causes blood clotting in the veins, which makes it difficult for a person to breathe because the brain, heart and lungs cannot receive oxygen, causing people to die quickly…READ MORE"
We found that similar posts were in circulation last year too wherein it was claimed that an autopsy in COVID-19 victims has been done in Italy and Germany and Russia.
NewsMobile did a fact check and found that all the claims in the post are FAKE.
Claim 1: Singapore did an autopsy on Covid-19 victim
On running a Google search using relevant keywords, we found a Facebook post by Singapore Health Ministry dated June 7, 2021.
Refuting the viral claim, the ministry stated that 'Singapore has not performed any such autopsy. The message states false information concerning the pathophysiology of COVID-19 infection, which is not borne out by current evidence'.
Claim 2: Covid-19 is not a virus, but a bacteria
Coming to the second claim, we found that World Health Organisation (WHO) on its website has clarified that the virus that causes COVID-19 is from a family of viruses called Coronaviridae. It has stated that it is NOT a bacteria.
Claim 3: Singapore went against WHO protocol to perform an autopsy
WHO has no protocol that states that autopsy should not be performed on COVID-19 victims. Various countries have done autopsies on victims who succumbed to the disease. India did the autopsy on a COVID-19 body in October 2020.
Claim 4: Coronavirus can be cured with antibiotics and aspirin
We found another post by WHO that explained that COVID-19 cannot be cured with antibiotics. It explained that since Coronavirus is a virus, antibiotics cannot be used as a means of prevention or treatment.
Government of India's nodal information agency – Press Information Bureau (PIB) – also debunked the claim and said that COVID-19 is a virus and cannot be treated with aspirin.
A viral #WhatsApp forward claims that #COVID19 is a bacteria that causes intravascular coagulation (thrombosis) and can be cured with aspirin.#PIBFactCheck: This claim is #Fake. COVID-19 is a virus and currently, there is no licensed medication available yet.#Unite2FightCorona pic.twitter.com/g2juuqwgLy
— PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) October 31, 2020
Claim 5: COVID-19 causes blood clotting which leads to death
While there have been cases of blood clotting, it is not the only or major cause of death in COVID-19 patients. As per a study published in The Lancet, Respiratory failure is the main cause behind the fatalities which was also the case in previous viral pandemics, such as the Spanish flu of 1918.
Another study published in The Lancet stated that the people who had comorbidities like hypertension, diabetes or heart disease were more likely to succumb to the disease.
Claim 6: Doctors did not use ventilators to treat COVID-19 patients after the discovery
We found a report that stated that a group of innovative Singapore clinicians has developed a portable, low-cost ventilator, SG-Inspire (Singapore invasive/non-invasive support for effective respiration), that can be used for pandemics. The ventilators are being used to treat COVID-19 patients with severe illness.
Earlier, NewsMobile debunked a similar claim, where a similar message was shared in the name of Italy and Russia.
https://newsmobile.in/articles/2020/06/17/fact-check-viral-video-falsely-claims-that-coronavirus-is-a-bacteria-and-not-a-virus/
https://newsmobile.in/articles/2021/05/04/fact-check-coronavirus-is-not-a-bacteria-and-cannot-be-cured-by-aspirin-and-anti-biotics/
Hence, based on the above information, it can be stated that the various claims made in the post are Fake.
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    // Get the status of the event pipe.
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    // Get the event used to write metadata to the event stream.
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    // Delete deferred providers.
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    inline bool IsRundownThread(Thread *pThread)
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    // The provider used to write configuration events to the event stream.
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Brand New Authentic Size: men's USA 5, women's USA 6.5, Eur 37.5, UK 4.5 Color: Black Reason for selling: like it very much but is slightly big for me. I bought half size bigger.
Bought for 40+, brand new yoga mat. Slighter bigger size than the normal mat. Thickness is roughly half finger width.
Adidas Duramo 9 size US 9.5, UK 9.
Brand new. Decided to get another pair. Size 42(EU), 9-9.5 (US). Bought at $169. Barefoot running!
Bought at 50, brand new condition. Fits mobile phone perfectly.
Broks energy gel (candy chew) 1 bar $4.50 firm. Orange favour, very nice taste.
Brand new Under Armour XS ladies tights - full length turquoise pattern. Can't find this design in Singapore as it is exclusively for the US! Reason for selling - got as gift from US but too small for me. Another pair of tights and a top available too - check other listings.
S size. Wore a few times, now selling to get new ones.
Size: US9.5 Condition: 9/10 Only worn for three months, selling as does not fit me well.


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Houston is a large metropolis in Texas, extending to Galveston Bay. It's closely linked with the Space Center Houston, the coastal visitor center at NASA's astronaut training and flight control complex. The city's relatively compact Downtown includes the Theater District, home to the renowned Houston Grand Opera, and the Historic District, with 19th-century architecture and upscale restaurants.
Houston was founded on August 28, 1836, near the banks of Buffalo Bayou (now known as Allen's Landing) and incorporated as a city on June 5, 1837. The city was named after former General Sam Houston, who was president of the Republic of Texas and had commanded and won at the Battle of San Jacinto 25 miles (40 km) east of where the city was established. The burgeoning port and railroad industry, combined with oil discovery in 1901, has induced continual surges in the city's population. In the mid-20th century, Houston became the home of the Texas Medical Center—the world's largest concentration of healthcare and research institutions—and NASA's Johnson Space Center, where the Mission Control Center is located.
Houston's economy has a broad industrial base in energy, manufacturing, aeronautics, and transportation. Leading in health care sectors and building oilfield equipment, outside of New York City, Houston has more Fortune 500 headquarters than any other U.S. municipality within its city limits. The Port of Houston ranks first in the United States in international waterborne tonnage handled and second in total cargo tonnage handled. Nicknamed the "Space City", Houston is a global city, with strengths in business, international trade, entertainment, culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine, and research. The city has a population from various ethnic and religious backgrounds and a large and growing international community. Houston is the most diverse city in Texas and has been described as the most diverse in the United States. It is home to many cultural institutions and exhibits, which attract more than 7 million visitors a year to the Museum District. Houston has an active visual and performing arts scene in the Theater District and offers year-round resident companies in all major performing arts.
With more than 2.2 million residents, the city attracts visitors and transplants with a wonderful mix of world-class arts, booming business, pro sports and award-winning cuisine.
As the rest of the country discovers what locals have known all along, Houston is finally enjoying the recognition it deserves. Just last year, the city landed on several "best of" lists, including the Travel + Leisure roundup of America's Favorite Cities and the Hotwire.com index of most affordable U.S. vacation destinations.
See for yourself, here in Houston, where much of daily life happens outdoors, thanks to mild, year-round temperatures. Take time to explore the eclectic, culture-filled neighborhoods, gallery spaces and attractions, which offer diverse flavors that can only be found here.
Take the food, for example. Countless cutting-edge chefs have made a home in Houston, where diners eat out more than residents of any other city. Here, you'll find James Beard Award winners and internationally renowned chefs serving up innovative cuisine that frequently catches the attention of foodies in Bon Appetit, Food & Wine and Saveur
At Bullion Trading LLC we like to stay informed and keep customers informed about anything and everything to do with gold and silver buying/selling and investing but this directory is specifically for Cuban link chains for men in Houston, TX. Over the next year Bullion Trading LLC will be publishing numerous articles on our blog where the best chains will be recommended. A common theme that runs through all of these blog posts is the prominence of Houston, Texas Cuban link chains. This style of chain is also referred to as the "Miami Cuban link chain".
The Cuban link chain is the king of gold chains in every way. It's the most expensive, it's the heaviest, it stands out over the rest, it's the most stylish and it's the most coveted of all men's gold chains in Houston.
And we should know. The feedback online from customers who have purchased these Cuban link chains in Houston, TX in relation to all of other available gold chains is pretty impressive. But certain types of customers have a real devotion to the Cuban link style chain is astounding.
So we decided to dedicate a whole directory which includes Houston, TX to this spectacular chain.
It's said that everything is bigger in Texas, and this includes Houston necklaces shops. The Houston area is home to several large, reputable necklaces sellers. On this page we will go over the different sales tax rates which apply in the city of Houston, as well as some popular necklaces shops located there.
Local necklaces dealers in Houston, TX
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NANTA AGM To Concentrate On Tourism In Recessed Economy
in Featured, Tourism & Culture
NANTA National President, Mr Bankole Bernard
THE 41st non-elective Annual General Meeting (AGM)of the National Association of Nigeria Travel Agencies (NANTA) would be an historic point stage for situating and setting plan that will address the present issues shaking the aviation, tourism and travel industry in Nigeria.
NANTA president, Mr Bankole Bernard, who made this know in a press briefing in Lagos, together with the AGM panel, said the event which would hold at the Sheraton Hotel in Lagos on March 21, 2017, would show prominent industry masters from the public and private sectors.
As indicated by Bernard, "the AGM which will be looking into Tourism in a recessed economy: The way forward is aimed at orientating all and sundry on exploring tourism as a low hanging fruits a this time we are struggling to come out of recession."
He said the AGM has turned out to be basic in light of the fact that NANTA has turned into an applicable voice in the aviation business.
Bernard noted that the closure of the Abuja air terminal is an open door in mask for his individuals to investigate the undiscovered tourism potentials within the zone.
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He expressed that NANTA has recorded a ton of visible achievement within his one year as the president of the body, including demonstrable skill for the individuals who are no longer observed as touts, yet as experts.
On the issue of a large portion of the outside aircrafts not going to Kaduna due to the conclusion of Abuja air terminal, he said a portion of the carriers may have a reexamine when Abuja airplane terminal is at long last shut.
In her discourse, the first Deputy President of NANTA and Chairperson of the AGM sorting out board of trustees, Mrs Susan Akporiaye revealed that the event will be graced by former president Olusegun Obasanjo; Information and Culture Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed; the Minister of State for Aviation; Senator Hadi Sirika; Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II; the Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Tourism and Hospitality (NIHOTOUR), Mrs. Chika Balogun, among other dignitaries.
Akporiaye included that the keynote speakers for AGM are the previous Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Dr Harold Demuren, who will be speaking on the government aspect of aviation and how things are run, while the Chief Executive Officer of Med-View Airline, Alhaji Muneer Bankole, will anchor the private sector angle as a practical player and owner of Med-View Airline.
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Q: Add a Polymer paper-dropdown-menu to a page from javascript? I'm trying to add a paper-dropdown-menu into my page from JavaScript. However, when I do it this way, it ends up malformed on the page - the list items display by default and do not collapse back into the list.
This is the basic structure of a paper-dropdown-menu, so it looks like I need to create 3 elements nested within each other and then append it to my target div...
<paper-dropdown-menu label="Type">
 <paper-menu class="dropdown-content">
  <paper-item>Test</paper-item>
 </paper-menu>
</paper-dropdown-menu>

To that end, I wrote this so far:
index.html
<paper-button id="AddList" on-tap="_addList">Add List</paper-button>

app.js
app._addList() = function(e) {
  // creating the dropdown container
  var elDropdown = document.createElement('paper-dropdown-menu');
  elDropdown.label = 'Type';

  // creating the paper-menu to go inside the paper-dropdown-menu
  var elMenu = document.createElement('paper-menu');
  elMenu.id = 'ProjectType';
  elMenu.className = 'dropdown-content';

  // creating one item (option)
  var elItem = document.createElement('paper-item');
  elItem.value = 'test';
  elItem.innerHTML = 'Test';

  // nesting the item inside of the menu
  elMenu.appendChild(elItem);

  // nesting the menu inside the dropdown
  elDropdown.appendChild(elMenu);

  // attaching the new dropdown element to the page/DOM
  document.querySelector('#ListGoesHere').appendChild(elDropdown);
};

It just doesn't seem to be nesting these elements properly - the paper-menu appears outside of the paper-dropdown-menu element and does not react at all when clicking the paper-dropdown-menu. I've done similar things with other Polymer elements such as paper-inputs and paper-textareas and they worked as expected. Is there something different/special about the dropdown elements?

A: I think that this is not a good way to add elements to the polymer dom dynamically, this still does not  render ok and the binding does not works.
The right way to implement this I think is to make list of dropDown menus and create dom-repeat template ,this is easier way.
<template is="dom-repeat" items="{{dropMenus}}">
   <paper-dropdown-menu label="Type">

       <paper-menu class="dropdown-content">
          <template is="dom-repeat" items="{{item}}">
            <paper-item>{{item}}</paper-item>
          </template>
        </paper-menu>

   </paper-dropdown-menu>
  </template>

And append to the itemsArray item by using the push method
  this.set('dropMenus',[['item1','item2'],['item1','item2'],['item1','item2']]);

or if you use app
  app.set('dropMenus',[['item1','item2'],['item1','item2'],['item1','item2']]);


The following article seems to confirm, on the basis of dental traits, the hybrid origin of Southeast Asians, with the earliest inhabitants being Australoids, to which Mongoloids were later added, starting probably with the Neolithic.
It seems to me that in South and Southeast Asia, and perhaps in South Arabia to the west, and stretching into Oceania in the east, the earlier inhabitants were of an old, pigmented subequatorial "Paleo-Asian" type. Over this Paleolithic stratum, the main Eurasiatic races were added: Caucasoids in Arabia and India, and Mongoloids in Southeast Asia.
This article uses metric and nonmetric dental data to test the two-layer or immigration hypothesis whereby Southeast Asia was initially occupied by an Australo-Melanesian population that later underwent substantial genetic admixture with East Asian immigrants associated with the spread of agriculture from the Neolithic period onwards. We examined teeth from 4,002 individuals comprising 42 prehistoric and historic samples from East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, and Melanesia. For the odontometric analysis, dental size proportions were compared using factor analysis and Q-mode correlation coefficients, and overall tooth size was also compared between population samples. Nonmetric population affinities were estimated by Smith's distances, using the frequencies of 16 tooth traits. The results of both the metric and nonmetric analyses demonstrate close affinities between recent Australo-Melanesian samples and samples representing early Southeast Asia, such as the Early to Middle Holocene series from Vietnam, Malaysia, and Flores. In contrast, the dental characteristics of most modern Southeast Asians exhibit a mixture of traits associated with East Asians and Australo-Melanesians, suggesting that these populations were genetically influenced by immigrants from East Asia. East Asian metric and/or nonmetric traits are also found in some prehistoric samples from Southeast Asia such as Ban Kao (Thailand), implying that immigration probably began in the early Neolithic. Much clearer influence of East Asian immigration was found in Early Metal Age Vietnamese and Sulawesi samples. Although the results of this study are consistent with the immigration hypothesis, analysis of additional Neolithic samples is needed to determine the exact timing of population dispersals into Southeast Asia.


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U.S. Mint to Launch Sales of National Park Service Coins at Lincoln Memorial
March 23, 2016 By Coin Update Leave a Comment
The U.S. Mint has announced that it will highlight tomorrow's launch of the 2016 National Park Service 100 Anniversary Commemorative Coins by opening sales of the issues at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The Mint's Principal Deputy Director Rhett Jeppson will join National Park Foundation President Will Shafroth and N.P.S. Deputy Director Peggy O'Dell as hosts of the event, which will take place from noon until 1 p.m. ET.
Collectors will be able to choose between Proof and Uncirculated versions of a $5 gold coin, a silver dollar, and a clad half dollar, each with unique designs. A three-piece set containing Proof versions of each coin will also be available for $466.45 and has a mintage limit of 15,000 sets.
For more information on the National Park Service Commemorative Coins, please visit the U.S. Mint's Web site. You can read the Mint's press release regarding tomorrow's launch below.
United States Mint Opens Sales for National Park Service Commemorative Coins on National Mall
The United States Mint (Mint), National Park Foundation and National Park Service will open sales for the 2016 100th Anniversary of the National Park Service Commemorative Coin Program at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall.
Thursday, March 24, 2016, noon – 1 p.m. ET
Lincoln Memorial at National Mall and Memorial Parks, Washington D.C.
National Park Foundation President Will Shafroth
National Park Service Deputy Director Peggy O'Dell
United States Mint Principal Deputy Director Rhett Jeppson
Public Law 113-291 authorizes the United States Mint to strike and issue 100,000 $5 gold coins, 500,000 $1 silver coins and 750,000 half dollar clad coins to commemorate the National Park Service's 100th anniversary. Surcharges are authorized to be paid to the National Park Foundation to support projects that help preserve and protect resources under the stewardship of the National Park Service and promote public enjoyment and appreciation of these resources.
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Forum > Man Animal Conflict > Human Animal conflict
Human -Tiger Conflicts
Whenever wild animal populations survive and come into contact with landscapes dominated by humans, they pose a threat by preying on livestock less commonly on people. In most parts of India, people are remarkably tolerant of wildlife damage compared with elsewhere in the world, but sometimes, in conflict situations, local antagonism against tigers often erupts into a serious problem.
What Causes Conflicts?
*Killing of Livestock
Tiger attack is an extreme form of human-wildlife conflict that occurs for various reasons and has claimed more human lives than attacks by any of the other big cats. The most comprehensive study of deaths due to tiger attacks estimates that at least 373,000 people died due to tiger attacks between 1800 and 2009, the majority of these attacks occurring in South and Southeast Asia.
Tigers readily kill domestic ungulates as they enter farmer land, government-owned forest in search of food and damage livestock in a larger margin
*Accidental killing of humans
In most places, tigers are wary of human beings and avoid encounters. Accidental mauling or killing of humans by tigers is rare and usually occurs when angry mobs surround tigers that enter human settlements to take livestock.
*Man-eating behavior
Although infrequent,
it has been historically documented in parts of India that individual tigers begin to view human beings as a 'prey species' and persistently stalk them. The ecological and social factors that lead to man-eating are not scientifically proven, but appear to be influenced by distinct factors. Man-eating behavior is exhibited in an unusually persistent form among the tigers of the Sundarban delta.
Tigers are afraid of bears, fire, electric fences and so on…
⦁ Afraid of FIRE
Tigers are naturally afraid of fire. This means that they are more afraid of being punished by their trainers than they are of the flames.
2. Afraid of bears:
Tigers are generally at the top of the food chain and classified as the apex predators, so they are not afraid of any other animal. One exception to this is the case of tigers living in the range of particular bear species, as they sometimes are killed by bears when competing for food or disputing a kill.
3.Electric fences killing tigers:
Homemade electrical fencing is used by some villages to preserve their crops from animals such as wild boar. Without the resources to purchase safety equipment, villagers strip wire of its protective plastic, creating a live wire that sends out dangerously high voltages. This has not only killed local wildlife but has also reportedly caused the death of local people.
4. Solar fencing: solar fencing includes mild current pass through connected body by completing entire circuit here in this scenario many animals are hurt as is this unscientific way of solving issue
5.Message Alert System:
When an object or animal touches the fence, the electric circuit is completed by connecting to the ground, resulting in a short electric shock, which passes through the object or animal. The solar fencing system is popular and sought a system for protecting premises for Agriculture, Security or High-security applications.
Whenever the tiger crosses through the sensory device that is placed on the farm. That device sends an alert message to the owner after which the owner will either arrive and secure his farm or move away from harm's place.
The above method can be used to deter away from the tiger from the agricultural land. However, most of them involve manual efforts that are invasive in nature. Apart from the above, we can use technological products for the tigers that can deter them away and noninvasive in nature.
Most Recent incident from Maharashtra: Click below.
https://zeenews.india.com/kannada/india/video-man-was-attacked-by-tiger-what-next-22794
Flashing of lights: Tigers have a structure at the back of the eye behind the retina called the tapetum lucid um that enables them to have better night vision. The tapes tum lucid um causes their eyes to glow at night when a light is shone on them.
Tigers have more rods (responsible for visual acuity for shapes) in their eyes than cones (responsible for color vision) to assist with their night vision. The increased number of rods allows them to detect movement of prey in darkness where color vision would not be useful. In general, cats require only about 1/6 the light humans do to see.
Parabraksh is one of a kind solar-powered autonomous flashing light system that is conceptualized and made in India. The product is environmentally friendly and it has a dual charging mechanism –solar and Micro-USB charging with an indicator LED lights.
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Doctors warn that rare-earth magnets can cause serious harm if swallowed
A popular holiday gift is landing children of all ages in emergency rooms across the country.
Rare-earth magnets are strong magnets that can kill if swallowed.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission restricted magnet sizes back in 2012. However, a federal court decision in 2016 vacated that decision.
Since then, the rate of ingestion has sharply increased.
"I can see the appeal. I just think that parents need to go into this with open eyes and understand that despite good intentions, these are toys that are really potentially very harmful," said Dr. Jackie Saito at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
Saito says once the magnets are swallowed, they try to connect — no matter where they are in the digestive system. With the strength of the magnets, they will eventually connect and can burrow holes in the intestines.
"What can happen is that there can be leakage of bacteria, so that's what contributes to abdominal pain and fever. But more importantly, there's a connection that's not supposed to be there and so that can cause a blockage in the intestine has the potential to make children quite ill," Saito said. "Fortunately, the children that we've seen at our hospital have eventually done OK, albeit with a major operation and in some cases, a couple of major operations."
The American Academy of Pediatrics says parents should keep the magnets in a locked container out of the reach of children.
Doctors say the patient needs to go to the emergency room immediately if the magnets are swallowed.