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Can design thinking reshape an esteemed institution?
Nicholas LaRusso
As chair of medicine at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Nicholas LaRusso started a small experiment to see whether teams of doctors and designers could redesign the way healthcare is experienced and delivered. After introducing the design world's rapid prototyping approach to test potential changes to waiting rooms or integration of technology, he found himself heading the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation promoting innovation throughout the institution.
Mayo Clinic is one of the most respected medical institutions in the world, providing some of the most advanced treatments available. But a recognition that the infrastructure of medicine—everything from the layout of buildings to the way appointments are conducted, at Mayo and elsewhere—hadn't changed significantly since the 1950s led LaRusso and others to question whether a better designed system could deliver better medical care.
Through questioning assumptions, observation, brainstorming, and experiments in care delivery, collaboration between medical staff and designers has led to many changes including a rethinking of the exam room, new options for patients to consult with doctors remotely via video link, and shifting of administrative responsibilities so care teams are spending more time practicing at the top of their competencies. Qn talked with Dr. Nicholas LaRusso, the medical director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation about what happens when design thinking is applied to medicine. A Yale SOM case study looks at the work in detail. Yale SOM's director of case research, Jaan Elias, conducted this interview.
Q: What were the challenges of bringing the Center for Innovation's design thinking approach to Mayo Clinic?
Initially within Mayo, when I mentioned that I was hiring designers, most people, whether they were physicians or administrators, thought that all designers did was make clothes and furniture. They were totally unfamiliar with how much attention design thinking is getting in other industries. They didn't understand how many areas of sub-specialization, just like in medicine, exist within the broad discipline of design.
Design thinking is an approach to problem framing and solving. It is a methodology. Physicians tend to be anxious to get to the "how" without spending a lot of time focusing on the "what." One challenge was to get members of the internal team, who were not designers, to understand what design thinking was about, and the value designers brought to rethinking the healthcare delivery process. Equally important was for the designers to recognize that non-designers can understand design thinking.
The Center for Innovation is only three years old, so, until recently, the major mechanism of education was participation. When people actually came to a brainstorming session, or would sit down and meet with our designers and saw the process in motion, which was the most effective form of education, but it also takes a long time and doesn't extend beyond a limited number of people.
We now have educational tools in place, but there is also much more interest than we have the capacity to easily accommodate. The rapidity with which we developed a significant degree of institutional credibility has been surprising to me. I think what we've done is create a fusion of the traditional scientific method with design thinking, by finding an intersection of hypothesis generation and testing. There's a lot more similarity and synergy in the two approaches than would be apparent at first glance.
Q: What does the CFI do within Mayo?
Increasingly, we're being seen as the go-to group to help accelerate the progress of an idea to a project. We're coming to be seen as an internal consulting group, available to the whole institution. People not only want access to us, they want access to our methodology, our curriculum, even our new space—because it's so unusual and so collaborative in the way it's organized.
Q: How is innovation introduced into an institution?
There are a number of ways that a formal innovation initiative can arise within an organization. When A.G. Lafley was the head of Proctor & Gamble, he said he wanted an innovation initiative and directed his team to figure out how to do it. A Steve Jobs model might be more along the lines of, "I don't need an initiative. I got plenty of innovative ideas. Just do what I tell you." A third way, the way it arose at Mayo, began in isolation for a while, following the Lockheed Martin "skunkworks" model.
When I initially got interested in this, I was the chair of the department of medicine; I had the resources to get things started. We kept it relatively small—sotto voce. When we had enough to talk about, then we engaged in a series of discussions with institutional leadership and the CEO decided to expand our innovation initiative beyond the department by putting it in the context of a center that would serve the whole organization. It's not necessarily bad to be isolated to begin with, but I don't think you're going to go anywhere within a large organization without senior leadership support.
Q: The Yale SOM Case Study on Mayo Clinic looks at a number of issues, but the dilemma at the end of the case is how to balance incremental and transformative innovation. How has the thinking changed within Mayo since the case came out?
First of all, if you believe Larry Keeley and other innovation gurus, then both types of innovation are equally important and equally valuable, although when you define them, sustaining innovation—I don't like the word "incremental," it has a mundane tone to it—so sustaining innovation, doing what you're doing, but doing it better, doesn't have as much panache as transformative or disruptive innovation, doing something totally new, but I think it's very important, and Larry will tell you, you need 85% of your resources devoted to sustaining innovation.
We've taken an approach within one of our platforms, which may be informative here. This is the Practice Redesign Platform, which currently is focusing on a new model for an outpatient delivery system. We have two components. One we acknowledge is sustaining, and it's got 17 individual projects. The other is Project Mars, which is the potentially disruptive arm. Its concept is, if we were going to Mars to start a totally new system and we had no constraints, what would it look like? Now the risk associated with this project is much higher. It would be foolish for us to just focus on that. But if Project Mars, whose goal is to reduce our expenses by 30% by the year 2014, were to be successful, that would be seen within Mayo as incredibly disruptive.
On the other hand, something could appear to be sustaining but evolve into disruptive. That relates to the philosophy we approach all of this with which is "think big, start small, move fast." Let me give you an example—last year we saw a million patients. If currently 95% of all Mayo Clinic care activity is "physically onsite" and 5% is "physically offsite," but if five years from now, we've pushed sustained changes that resulted in 25% is of our clinical activity being offsite through remote subspecialty consultations, the impact of this would be so substantial that it would be completely disruptive.
Disruptive, as I'm thinking about it, increasingly has to do with the impact of the implementation of an idea, as much as the novelty of the idea. I think that there is very little now going on in healthcare redesign that's novel. It's the ability to implement, scale, and diffuse where the opportunity really enters.
From a financial point of view, the impact of the change would be substantial, because even if the percentage of patients we see onsite has dropped from 95% to 75%, if the majority of those people coming in person were there for a major procedure—a new hip, a bone-marrow transplant, etc—these are high net operating income generating activities, that would be hugely beneficial to the institution.
Q: Speaking of implementation, that's typically where the designers hand off a project. What are the challenges you've come across with that?
We've had, from our perspective, highly successful projects. We've learned a lot. When we were still in the department of medicine, we did a project where, like at an airport, instead of having to interact with a person to check, in patients used a kiosk. It was hugely successful in the sense that the efficiency was greater than the face-to-face encounter. Patients liked it. The desk attendants liked it. But we lacked an implementation arm, so it never went anywhere.
What we learned from that is that the project is more likely to work if the concept is one of co-creation. That's easier when someone comes to you with an idea. But if it's going in the other direction, you really need to get somebody from the affected areas involved early on. For example, we think there's a huge opportunity for projects in pediatric medicine, so I need to bring in the new chair of pediatrics early. If we co-identify an area for change and co-brainstorm we make sure they're passionate and committed. Then if the project winds up appearing to be beneficial, they're in a position to run with it, because our job is to contribute what's unique and special about our skill set, and then turn over continued operation. I need to be able to retrieve my team and put them onto something else.
Director, Center for Innovation, Mayo Clinic
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The issue recently came to the forefront when Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin decided to renounce his US citizenship. He lives in Singapore currently, and some speculated that Saverin made the decision in order to avoid paying US income taxes while he lives abroad. In fact, for US citizens living abroad the only way to avoid filing income tax returns with the IRS is to renounce citizenship.
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Q: Intent is not getting passed to AppCompactActivity Am working on CordovaPlugin creation using Android.
But now am facing an issue where i need some one to address me.
Here is my java code:-
public class MoverMusclePlugin extends CordovaPlugin
{
    @Override
    public boolean execute(String action,final JSONArray args,final CallbackContext callbackContext) throws JSONException
    {
        try
        {
            if(action.equals("set"))
            {
                cordova.getActivity().runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
                    JSONObject obj = args.getJSONObject(0);
                    Context c = cordova.getActivity().getApplicationContext();
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        Intent in = new Intent(c,MoverMusclePage.class);
                        in.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
                        cordova.getActivity().startActivity(in);
                        callbackContext.success();
                    }
                });
                return true;
            }
            else
            {
                callbackContext.error("Invalid Argument");
                return false;
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            callbackContext.error(e.getMessage());
            return false;
        }
    }
}

Now what am doing here is , when every action is equal to 'set' Call the Activity Page using Intent.
But am getting error saying that:-
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.pixelmagnus.moveCheck/com.pixelmagnus.moveCheck.MoverMusclePage}: java.lang.IllegalStateException: You need to use a Theme.AppCompat theme (or descendant) with this activity.

This is my Activity Class
public class MoverMusclePage extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_mover_muscle_page);
    }
}

Please let me know what am doing wrong here.
UPDATE:-
Based on the Suggestions give i did change my AppCompactActivity Class to Activity. But then ToolBar is not working.
Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
            setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

setSupportActionBar does not applies to ActivityClass.

A: You need to specify an AppCompat theme to your app. Add android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light" (or another AppCompat theme) to your application node in your manifest.

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Victor Filinkov keeps gaining victories against prison apparatus
Submitted by Редакция on 25 August, 2022 - 00:01
The defendant in the "Network" case, political prisoner Victor Filinkov keeps gaining victories against prison apparatus.
Rupression reports that 16 August, the Sixth court of appeal in Samara examined the complaint of Orenburg's Colony No. 1 on the decision of Orenburg's regional court, which declared illegal Victor's appointment as "malicious violator", also his transfer to a hi-security prison (this was happening during autumn 2021). The court of appeal rejected the complaint, sealing that way Victor's victory.
Thanks to that victory, the colony withdrew its application over Filinkov's transfer to prison. Apart from that, the illegal appointment of the status "malicious" in October 2021 has led to the violation of his rights due to the disciplinary penalties it entailed. They are now also appealed in court, while some have already been canceled by the court.
In particular, on August 18 Orenburg regional court canceled the penalty of one month in EPKT (Unified Cell-Type Facility), appointed to victor on November 2021. Then, on his birthday and on 10th day of hunger strike, officers of the Penal Colony No.1 planted a razor blade, for which he received one month in EPKT in Novotroitsk. As a result, from November 2021 to January 2022 Filinkov was in transfers and held in the isolation ward of Novotroitsk's Penal Colony No. 5.
Examining Victor's case, the Central district court didn't found any violations of the law. But after that, on another hearing Filinkov managed the removal of "malicious violator" status, which means that they didn't had the right to place him in EPKT. At the same time, the judges raised the question why the Colony destroyed the razor and the blade, without investigating how could Victor remove the blade from the razor and not damaging it - that way, making it impossible to investigate in court.
Also on August 18 Orenburg District court removed from Victor two preventive supervision statuses: "Prone to systematic violations of internal regulations" and "Organizing group opposition to lawful orders of the prison administration", declaring their imposition also illegal.
According to his support group, all those aforementioned penalties, demonstrate colony administrations' bias towards Victor Filinkov, are gross and unlawful violations of political prisoner's rights, with the purpose to make his life in prison as difficult as possible. For the year spent in colony No. 1, Victor didn't have neither one phone call, short or long visitations, received only three parcels, and only 4 days he was among the general prison population. Meanwhile, 279 days of the year he spent in isolation wards, 209 of which - in solitary confinement.
Victor Filinkov and his lawyers Vitaly Cherkasov and Evgenia Kylakova will continue to seek the restoration of his rights, since violations continue: since 15th of August Victor is serving a month in PKT (Cell-type premises) .
As Victor mentioned earlier: "The repressive machine became mired. But it didn't stop. Its wheel came off, but now they will quickly screw it back". Colony's administration has already appointed the political prisoner as "malicious violator" and obviously prepares documents for his new transfer to prison.
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J.J. Abrams is officially making the Trek from the final frontier to a galaxy far far away. The man who revived the Star Trek franchise has been ask to do the same for the biggest film franchise in this galaxy, as the director of Star Wars Episode 7 which is slated to hit theaters Summer 2015.
When Disney first bought the Star Wars franchise from George Lucas last year, J.J. Abrams seemed more than happy to stay aboard the enterprise, taking to twitter to dis spell the rumor that he had any interest in directing Episode 7. Apparently that was as believable as the notion that Greedo shot first!
So what changed Abrams mind besides the boat load of cash he will inevitably be making? For one Abrams has never been shy of his love for the Star Wars franchise, much to the chagrin of Trekkie's everywhere. The other reason may have been the endorsement of Steven Spielberg. Rumors are the three names Disney courted hard for the gig were: Abrams, Ben Affleck,and Steven Spielberg. Spielberg was a logical choice considering his relationship with George Lucas over the years. Even though Spielberg turned down the job, but he kept insisting that Disney hire Abrams.
Which makes perfect sense, when you look at the incredible job Abrams did bringing the Star Trek franchise back to relevance. Combine that with his love for the Star Wars property, and Disney has to hope that Abrams can give Star Wars fans the same type of results that Joss Whedon gave comic book fans with the Avengers last summer. The Avengers proved that nothing works better than when you put a great director in charge of the characters they have adored since childhood. The result is something that speaks to the hearts of fan boys everywhere!
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In the Midwest, we are lucky enough to have basements. In some other parts of the country, they don't exist. Basements are usually where things like the water heater, furnace and sump pump are housed. However, it doesn't have to stay as just cold, dark, storage space. Depending on your home plan, when building you may even have the option of upgrading from a half basement to a full basement. Having a full basement will give you plenty of space for storage and living. We opted for the full basement.
However, when we moved into our home, one of the things we decided to wait on was finishing the basement. Why? If you have ever gotten a quote on finishing a basement you will know why! It is very expensive and adds a pretty penny to the bottom line of your home purchase price. Lots of homes are sold with unfinished basements because of this reason. However, if and when you do decide to get your basement finished, there are many things to think about.
When you walk down to your basement, you may be able to immediately visualize the space that you want. Or, you may struggle with figuring out where to break up rooms and put walls. You may wonder if you need a bathroom. Should it be a half bath or full bath? Where will it go? Do you already have a rough in?
Once you have an idea of what you want, reach out to a few contractors to get quotes on your project. Most good contractors will come out for free to access your project. Do your research. If you have friends that have created similar projects ask them for recommendations. Hit the web and look up reviews on the companies in your area. Pay attention to details. Were the contractors on time? Did they add any new fees after the project started? Were they respectful?
The contractor will come up with ideas based on what you chat about. They will walk you through the plans, and explain everything. And then they will likely give you a period of time to make a decision. Keep in mind that many of them will try to pressure you into making a choice that same day by offering a "sign today" incentive. Don't let that sway you if you need time to get other quotes.
Take time to compare the quotes and projects, and pick the one best for you.
Although you should be able to trust your contractor not damage your home, you should take precautions yourself. Finishing a basement after the rest of your home is done can be a huge deal. There will be tons of heavy materials like huge sheets of drywall, flooring, 2x4s and much more coming into your home. Accidents happen. The walls may get dinged, and some things may be dropped. If you have beautiful new hardwood floors like I do you will want to protect them with something like Trimaco flame retardant surface protection available at Grainger. And protect your walls with builders paper and painters tape.
One thing that we did not think about when we were building was that HVAC. We have central air and a furnace, but we did not think about the layout of the vents and returns. While chatting about our basement project we realized that we (and by we I mean the contractors) will have to run more vents and returns to some areas of the basement. The area where my husband's studio will be does not have a vent at all. This adds to the cost of the project. So, if you are building, and even if you are not getting the basement finished, you might want to think about making sure that the vents reach all corners of the basement.
This is huge to me. By default, a floor is just a sheet of plywood on top of studs, covered in whatever flooring material you choose. This is not sound proof. Sound carries both ways. If people walk around upstairs, you hear it in the basement. If a chair is moved in the kitchen, you hear it. If music blasts in the basement, you hear it upstairs.
My husband is going to need a music studio. When he blasts music it carries all the way up to the 2nd floor. The flooring holds out nothing! He is planning to pad the area above his studio with heavy duty soundproofing. This is a must! I hate that I have to ask him to keep his music so low while he is working. But, if he doesn't everyone else in the house is disturbed.
Our job has not even started yet, but I am gathering all kinds of decorating ideas. Check out my Pinterest board to see some of what caught my eye.
I'm not a contractor, so there is no way I can no everything that goes into planning a project like this. But, I am learning. Doing research and talking to contractors helps.
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In this tutorial, learn five essential audio repair, mixing, and mastering tips.
Geoff demonstrates how to identify and remove problematic issues hiding in a vocal take before moving on to further topline mixing. Using RX 6, you'll learn how to spot plosives in the spectrogram, and then remove them effortlessly with the De-plosive module. Taking care of problems early in the mixing process for the topline vocal will ensure they won't get unpleasantly highlighted when you add any dynamics processing further into the mixing process.
Geoff shows you how to experiment with Neutron's hi-pass EQ slopes and flexible sidechain system to untangle bass and kick in this hip hop session, all while keeping an eye on Tonal Balance Control's metering tools to confidently manage the track's overall low-end profile.
Geoff shows you how to instantly audition unique vocal harmony scenarios by controlling the panning, loudness and width for each vocal layer in Neutron 2's Visual Mixer.
Geoff uses a combination of Neutron 2, Nectar 2, Bomb Factory's BF76 and Ozone's Vintage Tape to quickly integrate a vocal into a busy mix.
Geoff uses Ozone 8 and Tonal Balance Control to pinpoint and tackle all too common frequency problems that would otherwise prevent a track from sounding great on all playback systems.


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Lebanon World
Egypt gets 2,250 Megawatts for 300 million $, Lebanon pays 1.2 Billion $ for 700 Megawatts
A friend of mine shared this link on Facebook, can anyone explain the huge price difference?
CAIRO, Sep 20, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — –GE-Led Consortium Wins Expansions at Giza North and Banha Power Plants, Projects Will Add 2,250 Megawatts
–These Contracts Constitute the Largest Power Generation Order Between GE and Egypt
GE has signed contracts totaling US$300 million to supply six gas turbines and associated services to the Egyptian Electricity Holding Company for two new combined-cycle power plants near Cairo that will support Egypt's rapidly growing energy needs.
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2011, Mubarak, Wikipedia, Google
We live in a world were we can watch events unfold in another country the moment they happen, we can get updates from people on the ground via twitter, facebook…
We got used to all this! Today I was amazed by the fact that wikipedia was updated and google had already cached the new page less then an hour after Mubarak resigned!
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Funny Lebanon Politics World
MTV is back!
MTV is finaly back!
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Tsar Stuff (or really huge stuff made by Russians)
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I am sure you know a lot of things about Russia, You know its Prime Minister/Judo teacher, The great Churches and Palaces of Moscow… But did you know about those four Items Russians created at some point in History?
Here's a List of 3+1 Tsar Stuff or in other words Huge Stuff created by Russians.
We'll start with the Tsar Cannon:
Tsar Pushka (Russian: Царь-пушка, literally "Tsar-cannon") is a huge cannon, commissioned in 1586 by Russian Tsar Feodor and cast by Andrey Chokhov. The cannon weighs nearly 38 metric tonnes and has a length of 5.34 meters (17.5 feet), a calibre of 890 mm (35 inches), and an external diameter of 1200 mm (41 inches). The Guinness Book of Records lists it as the largest howitzer ever made.
Now for the only non Military Item in our list, The Tsar Bell:
The Tsar Bell (Russian: Царь–колокол, Tsar-kolokol, "Tsar bell") is a huge bell on display on the grounds of the Moscow Kremlin. The bell was commissioned by Empress Anna, niece of Peter the Great.
The bell is currently the largest bell in the world,[1] weighing 216 tons, with a height of 6.14 m and diameter of 6.6 m. It was founded from bronze by masters Ivan Motorin and his son Mikhail in 1733–1735. Ornaments, portraits, and inscriptions were made by V. Kobelev, P. Galkin, P. Kokhtev, P. Serebryakov and P. Lukovnikov. The bell was never rung — during a fire in 1737, a huge slab (11.5 tonnes) cracked off while it was still in the casting pit.
For a time, the bell served as a chapel, with the broken area forming the door. There has apparently been some talk of recasting it.
Back to Military stuff with the Tsar Tank! This Tank is just a little weird, it doesn't look like any Tank you've seen:
The Tsar Tank, also known as the Netopyr' (Нетопырь, Pipistrellus bat) or Lebedenko Tank, was an unusual Russian armored vehicle developed in 1914–1915 by N.Lebedenko, Nikolai Zhukovsky, Boris Stechkin, and Alexander Mikulin. The project was scrapped after initial tests deemed the vehicle to be underpowered and vulnerable to artillery fire.
The tank was different from modern tanks in that it didn't use caterpillar tracks—rather, it used a tricycle design. The two front spoked wheels were nearly 9 metres (27 feet) in diameter; the back one was a smaller, only 1.5 metres (5 feet) high, triple wheel, to ensure maneuverability. The upper cannon turret reached nearly 8 metres high. The hull was 12 metres wide with two more cannon in the sponsons. Additional weapons were also planned under the belly.
This is the +1 of our list, +1 because the name of this Item was given to it by the west in the cold war, The Tsar Bomba:
Tsar Bomba (Царь-бомба), literally "king Bomb", is the Western name for the RDS-220 hydrogen bomb (codenamed "Иван" (Ivan) by its developers) — the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Developed by the Soviet Union, the bomb was originally designed to have a yield of about 100 megatons of TNT; however that was reduced by half in order to limit the amount of nuclear fallout that would result. Two bombs were built, a mock bomb and the real bomb, with the real bomb being tested on October 30, 1961, in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago.[1] Despite testing, the weapon never entered service; it was simply a demonstration of the capabilities of the Soviet Union's military technology at that time. The mock bomb was stored in the Russian Nuclear Weapons Museum in Sarov.
Source: Wikipedia 1,2,3,4
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Economy Politics World
The US Collapse and the USSR Collapse
This morning I found this article predicting a US Collapse in the near future, comparing it to the Soviet one 18 years ago and finaly comparing the aftermath of both collapses. The article is really interesting and you should read it if you have time! if you're in a hurry just read the slides in it and that will give you a good idea of what might happen in the US in the near future. The only thing the author forgot to talk about IMO is the effect of a US collapse on the rest of the world! It is no secret that everyone depends on the US in a lot of feilds (mainly technology Microsoft, Google, IBM , Intel … and the list is long) so what do you think will happen to the world if the US collapses? I am sure those companies will not be totally immune to a complete collapse of the United States Of America!
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People Weird World
Crazy Saudi Arabia
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Prosecutors in Saudi Arabia have begun investigating 57 young men who were arrested on Thursday for flirting with girls at shopping centres in Mecca.
For more info on the crime read the story on BBC!
Photography World
An Abandoned Russian City
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Check out those pictures of Promyshlennyi, a Russian city that was abandoned by its citizen after the fall of the soviet Union. Apparently the government was too busy with other thing so they just cut off everything from the city and the people just left when the supplies ended!
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A Cab driver accuses a customer of stealing his … Penis!!!
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I read a lot of weird news stories but this one must be the weirdest! The story is in French but here's a small translation by me:
Apparently a cab driver in a small town in Nigeria is accusing one of his customer of stealing his penis using a pigeon! The union of drivers is threatening to file a lawsuit if the penis isn't returned in the next 24 hours and the police are taking it seriously and are searching for the missing "object"!
Spot the Difference!
Try to spot the difference between these two photos taken from yesterday's BBC "In Pictures".
Picture 1:
In Lebanon, a protester holds up a piece of bread during a strike by agricultural and transport unions to protest against the rising cost of living.
French teaching unions hold protests in the town of Caen over government plans to slash 11,000 education sector jobs.


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Ben Swank '18
Wren Brady '20
Kelsie Harris '20
Dalia Izquierdo '20
Nathan Jones '20
Connor Licharz '20, '22
Giselle Martinez '20
Emari McClellan '20
Jacob Miner '20
Myeekay Notah '20
Terrence Perrier '20
Sabrina James '21 and Kamal Bilal '18
Being an Outdoor Programs trip leader has helped this Johnston student develop his leadership skills.
In his time at Redlands, Ben Swank has done a lot. He's been an ASUR senator, a member of the jazz band, a soccer club member; but his most beneficial role has been with Outdoor Programs.
As a trip leader, he organizes and leads other students on expeditions into the great outdoors. He's taken his fellow students hiking, backpacking, river rafting, rock climbing, mountain biking. "This last semester I think I went out to Joshua Tree National Park five or six times," Ben says. "Being near such varied environments is a special thing."
That's one of his favorite thing about the University—the location. Within an hour or two, you can be riding the Los Angeles subway, climbing stone monoliths in the desert, surfing at the beach or trudging through snow in the mountains.
Exploring these terrains has given Ben a lot of new skills. "I had moderate experience in outdoor endeavors, but since I've been here I've learned a broad range of skills specific to outdoor activities, like back-country medicine, cooking, navigation and risk analysis, as well as skills like group dynamic management, intentionality and expedition behavior that contribute to my overall education," he says.
There's no doubt Ben has a taste for adventure, and he has that same spirit whether he's in the woods or hanging out with friends on campus. "Students are spontaneous, and each day is different," he says. "It might include late night drives to star gaze in Joshua Tree, hanging with friends on and off campus or going out to local food joints to grab a snack."
He has a lot of fun, but he takes his studies seriously. Ben is a student in the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies where he focuses on sustainable development.
One of the reasons he chose University of Redlands is the personal attention he gets from his professors. "They're all so personable, very relaxed," he says. "I call all my professors by their first names. It's always easy to go into their offices and discuss a topic I need a little more work on or want to understand a little better."
Students are spontaneous, and each day is different. It might include late night drives to star gaze in Joshua Tree, hanging with friends on and off campus, or going out to local food joints to grab a snack."—Ben Swank '18


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Q: using a code instead of an action link URL in Email address verification Considering the new email verification templates & mechanism in V3
I have a single page javascript application. As such using an email verification link does not work well for me as I don't want the link from the user's email to open a separate page.
Is there a way for the verification email to instead of the https://domain.com/acctmgmt?mode=<action>&oobCode=<code> to contain simply the oobCode ?
I can then ask the user to paste this code from the email into my application. Basically what I need is something like a %oobCode% email parameter.
Or am I missing the point and there is a better way to do email verification in a single page javascript application ? will the sendEmailVerification resolve once applyActionCode was called in another page ? the docs are unclear about that.
is there any example of using sendEmailVerification and applyActionCode ? I don't understand the sequence of api calls needed
thx!

A: The code is usually quite long. It is possible the user could open the link on a different device too. Also there are multiple type of operations (reset password, verify email, etc). You will need to be able to differentiate them from each other. Copying and pasting may not be convenient. That said, you could specify your own landing page for the action code processing in the Firebase Console:
https://firebase.corp.google.com/project/$PROJECT_NAME/authentication/emails
In that page you can parse the code from the url and display it and tell the user to copy and paste it into your single page app.
Furthermore, documentation to help you build your own custom code handler page will be provided soon.


The properties include a 116-unit community in New York, a 192-unit community in Texas and an industrial property in Ohio.
Bellwether Enterprise has closed three financing deals totaling more than $62 million; a multifamily property in both New York and Texas, and an industrial property in Ohio.
On the multifamily side, the company closed a $37 million affordable housing loan for the Larkspur, an eight-story mixed-income and mixed-use property in the Central Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan. The building consists of 116 units and seven ground-floor commercial spaces.
Bellwether Enterprise found a competitive, fixed-rate MBS loan with a 12-year lending term through Fannie Mae. The terms of the financing ensure that no less than 20 percent of the units are reserved for low-income families or individuals. Jim Gillespie, senior vice president of Bellwether Enterprise in the New York office, arranged the loan for The Lemle & Wolff Companies.
In Carrolton, Texas, the company closed a $10.4 million acquisition loan for HLC Equity on the Toscana Apartments, a 192-unit, Class-B multifamily community in the Greater Dallas area. The building offers convenient access to the Dallas North Tollway and the President George Bush Turnpike. Bellwether Enterprise granted the loan under Fannie Mae's Green Financing program.
As part of the program, HLC Equity will renovate the property to enhance water and energy efficiency for its residents. Laurie Morfin, senior vice president of Bellwether Enterprise in the San Diego office, arranged the financing.
The company also arranged a $15.2 million refinance loan for the GOJO Manufacturing Facility, an industrial property located in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. The property currently serves as the main manufacturing facility for GOJO Industries Inc.
According to Effler, Bellwether Enterprise is mortgage banking company with a philanthropic bend to it.


Home Caufield & Shook Collection Kentucky Hotel bar, Louisville, Kentucky, 1937.
Kentucky Hotel bar, Louisville, Kentucky, 1937.
Title Kentucky Hotel bar, Louisville, Kentucky, 1937.
Description Address: Fifth and Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky. Three men stand behind the bar at the Kentucky Hotel. Each wears a white jacket and apron as well as a collared shirt and tie. The bar is shiny dark wood and has several dozen glasses sitting on it along with four silver containers. Behind the bar is another counter with several dozen glasses and a cash register. Above the back bar are signs reading, "Champagne Cocktail 50" and "Our bar scotch is 10 years old." Above that is a mural of people, each with a glass of beer in hand. Written on the bottom of the photograph is "Martin's VVO - Our bar scotch / Kentucky Hotel Bar - Louisville KY."
Source 8 x 10 in. b&w safety film negative. Item number ULPA CS 154275 in the Caufield & Shook Collection, University of Louisville Photographic Archives.
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Where Are the Body Counters?
So if you follow news from America you know that once again the Republicans have come back with a new healthcare bill to replace so called Obamacare. So far it is has passed the House, and Republicans are visibly ecstatic about it. It still has to get through the Senate, but naturally people are already freaking out due to some of the provisions in this new bill. One of the most alarming changes is the return of insurers' right to deny coverage for pre-existing conditions. What is worse is that things like childbirth via C-section, rape, and a history of domestic violence can apparently be considered pre-existing conditions under the new bill (as far as I know this is based on those parts of the bill which have been made public so far).
Suffice to say, millions of people are in danger of losing their coverage, and the inevitable result of a lack of access to medial care is either suffering and/or death. Prior to the Affordable Care Act, America's inability to implement a healthcare system on par with the civilized world was more than anything an embarrassment. Once America achieved one baby step in the right direction, i.e. Obamacare, the deliberate effort reverse that precious inch forward ought to be seen as something else. Murder.
Is it too hyperbolic to say that men like Paul Ryan or Donald Trump want to murder people? They are deliberately proposing policy which will literally result in preventable deaths. Seems a little familiar, doesn't it?
In The Black Book of Communism, the authors assert that 100 million people were killed by "Communism" in the 20th century. Needless to say, there are numerous problems with their methodology, but let us ignore those for a moment. The 100 million figure is largely based on two things- the Holodomor in Ukraine and the famine which occurred as a result of The Great Leap Forward in China. Both of these incidents entail millions of preventable deaths due to ideologically driven government policy. Is it right to compare the deliberate denial of healthcare to Soviet or Chinese collectivization policy? You're damned right it is- in all three cases people are denied something essential to live for ideological reasons.
Now before someone objects and cries whataboutism, let me shut that down by saying that I'm not using this example of healthcare as a justification for anything terrible that happened in the USSR or China. After all, the outrage we find in The Black Book stems from a genuine concern for human life and human rights, right? If a person can be "killed by Communism," then it stands to reason that they can be killed by free market capitalism. If not, there needs to be a coherent explanation as to why not. Otherwise the operative fallacy here is not whataboutism ("tu quoque"), but rather special pleading.
What we have here is a rather open and shut case- preventable deaths as a result of ideologically-driven policy and, in this case, the opportunity for a big tax cut for America's super-rich. Now we can add that to preventable deaths due to lack of healthcare plus malnutrition worldwide, stack that on top of capitalism's long legacy of colonialism and slavery, and voila! Capitalism's body count trounces even the Black Book's generous total for Communism.
Once again, this isn't about justifying those crimes committed in the name of Communism, because we are, of course, really just concerned about human rights and morality, just like the authors of The Black Book of Communism. Clearly the higher body count of "free market" capitalism compels us to abolish and replace this murderous dogma. Well at least it would, if professional body counters were actually concerned about human life and not scoring political points.
I'm sure that can't be the case.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged American politics, capitalism, Communism, healthcare on May 5, 2017 by Jim Kovpak.
Trumpapalooza
So today's one of those days when I get to satisfy the Kremlin-loving "Why don't you write about THE WEST?!" crowd. Yes, folks, America is in deep shit now, and it's probably going to get worse. What Russians on all points of the political spectrum need to understand is that while key differences between the current Russian system and American democracy have major impact on society and living standards, this in no way means the American system is vastly superior, nor is it invulnerable to decay and degeneration. No, you're not going to see me endorse the "America's gonna collapse" nonsense, but anyone living below the minimum democracy line needs to understand that Americans are walking a fine line themselves.
Alright then. Trump. What more can I say about him? I don't much feel like going into a long dialectical polemic and repeating what others have said on the matter. Instead I'd like to expose the reader to some of the best and worst I've seen on the topic. Why don't we start with the worst?
Is Trump a sleeper agent for Vladimir Putin? Short answer: No. Longer answer: No, what the hell is wrong with you? Slightly longer answer here if you're up for it.
Seriously, this is one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard. First of all, yes, I'm aware of the supposed "mutual admiration" between Trump and Putin. And yes, I'm aware that Kremlin ideologist (though he's been cast under the bus in recent years) Aleksandr Dugin recently said some kind words for Trump. All this shows, however, is how little the Kremlin understands American politics and American culture.
First of all, I hate to dismay the "neocons" out there, but the far right has been a part of American and European politics for decades. During the Cold War it was nurtured by NATO intelligence services, but that's another story entirely (and one worth reading). Putin himself embraced the far right when it was useful to him mainly because far right ideas were widespread in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. Far right admiration for Russia pre-dates Putin, and in some cases it actually pre-dates the fall of the Soviet Union. The only difference when it comes to Putin's regime is that it is actually conscious of the admiration far-rightists have for Russia, and it's willing to exploit this. These groups and organizations, for a myriad of different reasons, project their ideals onto Russia and the Kremlin is more than happy to let them do so.
So what about Trump and this fear that he will embrace Putin? Anyone living in America, inundated with news about Trump, ought to know better. This is a guy who lashes out at the slightest provocation. He's the type of guy who can be goaded into a fight by someone asking: "Hey are you gonna let them say that to you?!" With this in mind, imagine Trump in the White House (sorry for the cold chill in your spine) for a minute. Do you seriously think Putin and his foreign language media are going to stop shit-talking the United States at every turn? If you're not sure, ask yourself whether Russia's suddenly going to become a thriving economic powerhouse with rising living standards and an end to endemic corruption come 20 January 2017. Since the answer is obviously no, you can rest assured that the shit-talking will continue and all the anti-Obama rhetoric will inevitably be replaced by anti-Trump rhetoric. "Obama ChMO" will turn to "Tramp ChMO" (yes, in Russian Trump is spelled "Tramp" and that is a beautiful thing).
When you get one of these expat "immigrants" who get a career, official titles, and loads of attention by cheerleading for Putin, the kind of anti-American rhetoric you get from RT or Sputnik news doesn't matter. "Oh yes Ma'am, Miss Margarita! I'm an American dissident! I had to escape that place it was so bad! It's so much better here, and I know I have Mr. Putin to thank for that! I'll say anything you want Miss Margarita, if you just keep paying me 200,000 rubles a month to write about how terrible America is!"
Trump on the other hand doesn't owe shit to Putin, and like I said, he bristles with hatred at the slightest criticism. As such when the Kremlin does what it always does, he's going to lash out and it's going to be bad. I'm not saying he's going to launch World War III, but rest assured his response will not only make relations even worse, but it will also almost certainly involve long, stereotype-laden rants in which he insinuates that Russians are "Asiatic savages" with "Mongol blood." There might be something about the need for "living space" and the dangers of "blood poisoning" in a contiguous land empire.
So no, not only is Trump not Putin's "sleeper agent," but he would never get along with Putin for the same reason why Putin can't get along with Turkish president Erdoğan- all three are megalomaniacal dickheads. Trump's wannabe tough-guy base isn't going to stand for him knuckling under to Putin no matter how much they admire the Russian president.
Moving on, I want to highlight two must-read articles on the Trump phenomenon, both by former eXile writer Matt Taibbi. The first is about the motives of Trump's supporters, while the second is about the broader problem of unreality in American society. I'd like to give my take on both topics, but before doing so I should point out that Cracked.com has an article and a podcast that also provide some vital insight into Trump's political success.
First my take on Trump's popularity and the motives of his supporters. I do have some unique insight into conservative, even extreme right-wing politics because well, I was brought up in them. What regrets I have about that are offset by the advantage of having personal insight into the minds of right-wingers because I can see the world through their eyes. And while I can pontificate for hours about what motivates these people to support Trump, I'll leave that to Taibbi and say that it seems a lot of the GOP base got fed up with the bait and switch.
To explain what I mean, come with me back to the Clinton era. The Culture Wars were in full swing. In more "respectable" Republican circles, Clinton was an irresponsible "tax and spend" liberal. In the world I was growing up in, he was much worse. He was a drug kingpin with multiple murders attributed to his illicit side business while he was governor of Arkansas. His wife was a pagan who practiced witchcraft. In general the rhetoric might not have reached the furor that it did under the MUSLIM MARXIST FASCIST KENYAN ALINSKY-TRAINED COMMUNITY ORGANIZER/USURPER, better known as Barack Obama, but it could reach hysterical heights even in the mainstream. For example, Rush Limbaugh post 1992 started using the phrase "America held hostage," because you know, that's what happens when people vote in a free election for a party you don't like.
Yet all the folks who believed they were being held hostage by the socialist weed-smoking, ass-grabbing Marxist and his pagan, Gaia-worshiping wife were up for a disappointment in 1996. The Republicans nominated Bob Dole. Assuming you're American, after reading that you probably thought: "Oh yeah. Bob Dole. Whatever happened to that guy? Is he still alive?" The answer is yes, he is still alive, but when it comes to Dole most people will probably only recall that he had a tendency to refer to himself in the third person and that's about it. His presidential run will probably be remembered only for the Simpsons episode it was featured in.
Now let's skip forward to 2012. America isn't just being held hostage, it is on the precipice of the tribulation the conservative pundits had been warning us about for years. Any day Obama could hold the fateful meeting, whereby an executive order is handed down to go out and arrest Christian ministers, forcibly marry white Christian males to gay foreign men of questionable visa status, and of course, confiscate everyone's precious guns. There's just one chance to avert this disaster and steer America off of the path to a politically correct, Islamofascistomarxist dystopia- vote for a Tea Party Republican and pray Obama does't try to cling to office by unleashing his Acorn thugs (*wink*) and urban gangs (*WINK!* *WINK!*), thus causing a civil war.
And who did the Republicans get as their only shot in 2012? Mitt Romney, this stiff, obviously rich guy from Massachusetts, of all places. Not only that, but he was Mormon, and while they might not always come out and say it, evangelical Christian fundamentalists hate them some Mormons. Yes, I skipped 2008 and McCain, but remember that McCain was running before the MUSLIM KENYAN ANTI-COLONIAL ALINSKY-TRAINED USURPER had moved into the White House and wrecked America, according to the conservative talking heads. Even if you want to go that route, McCain was no favorite of the radical right-wingers, be they Christian fundamentalists, anti-immigration nativists, or people who believe Obama is an "Arab."
Oh you done fucked up there, son. What were you thinking, correcting a conservative woman's blatantly false belief. All opinions have merit!
Imagine for a moment how it must feel when you're one of these people whose blood is brought to the boiling point every day by talk radio show hosts, chain emails, and Fox News, and then when it comes time to exercise the one little thing you can do to stop this incessant onslaught of the Marxist Nazi Muslim Gay horde, you're offered this "moderate," this "Republican in Name Only," who drones on about "keeping America strong" and lowering taxes to help small businesses. Sure, conservative voters like these things, but what tax cut is going to liberate America from the Nazi death panels of Obamacare?! How can they be sure that Obama's not going to settle 50,000 military age Muslim males from Syria in their small Midwestern town? Sure, the military and war are awesome, but could Bush's war in Iraq have weakened the country so that it is unable to put up a good fight at the impending battle of Armageddon, as foretold in Revelation?
This is where Trump comes in. It's not just because he's a political outsider. It's because he's basically like a right-wing talk radio show host you can actually vote for. While run-of-the-mill GOP candidates talk about "immigration reform," Trump sounds like the local AM radio guy who says "build a wall!" These people don't want to see politicians acting respectable and having a gentlemanly campaign. They want to see attacks, and not the sneaky "Swift boat," plausibly deniable ones.
And here's the best part- conservative Republicans have no one to blame for this but themselves. For roughly two decades they've been playing the Culture Wars card. They went all in on a demographic that wasn't rational, and they massaged and nurtured that demographic so that their way of thinking became the norm. Now, to borrow a metaphor from Karl Marx, they are like a necromancer who has lost control of the spirits they have conjured into existence.
As Taibbi puts it, these people weren't really interested in "conservative values." There might have been some overlap, but many of these people got on board because the Republicans kept harping on some issue that resonated with them. Obsessed with guns? We'll protect your precious guns! Hate abortion! We do too! Now that we have your attention, safety regulations and environmental regulations are bad! In for a penny, in for a pound. Of course its the latter "values" that the Republican establishment really cares about, and it seems that after so many years of pulling this trick, they've lost the ability to see politics from their voters' point of view. Mr. and Mrs. Conservative voter really are more concerned about "terrurists" and "illegals," not the "dangers" of net neutrality. they might have been so soured on the idea of "handouts" that they're not too enthusiastic about subsidies for corn growers either. And by God they supported the troops, but Iraq's just such a mess today, ain't it?
If we were to compare this to Russia, Putin has a similar problem.For a long time he's often relied on a strategy whereby he is surrounded by supposedly more radical figures waiting in the wings. Whether to Western leaders or his own people the message is the same- "Sure, I might be bad, but there are others far worse than me, and only I can keep them in check!" Of course this creates a problem for Putin, because his regime needs to continuously generate these more radical movements and leaders. What is more, it must continually "betray" them in order to maintain the fiction that Putin is the moderate keeping the loonies at bay. It can't be lost on someone in the administration that had there been some kind of fair presidential election in Russia in 2014 or 2015, Putin might have lost to some more imperialistic figure who promised to finish off Ukraine once and for all.
But while we're making comparisons to Russia it's a good time to segue into my take on Taibbi's other article, about the rise of unreality in American society. In that article, he demonstrates how what seems to be a growing portion of Americans apparently have no concern as to whether their beliefs are in line with material reality. Taibbi points out how when journalists fact check and refute certain politicians' claims beyond all debate, the new normal reaction is to simply double down on the claim and attack the journalist. Trump's claims about Muslims in New Jersey dancing and celebrating the fall of the Twin Towers on 9/11.
This should be cause for great concern. All talk about the Russian propaganda machine is a waste of time if something isn't done to correct this trend in American politics and the media. This is how America transforms itself into Putin's Russia- when people stop caring whether things are real or not.
Just to give one example, I was recently attacked for pointing out that the old story about anti-Vietnam War protesters spitting on returning veterans at airports was a myth, essentially an urban legend that picked up popularity thanks to pop culture and a shitload of phony Vietnam vets. I pointed out that there are no documented cases of this happening anywhere, and the behavior goes against everything we know about the anti-war movement. My detractor claimed that just because something wasn't documented doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Sure, fair enough, that is very true. But the problem with history is that we base it mostly on what is documented, and the problem is that nobody ever seems able to nail down this story. It doesn't fit the documented ideology and behavior of anti-war protesters, nor are there any police reports describing an altercation where a returning vet got violent after being spit on by a dirty hippie (come on, what are the odds of a veteran marine in 1969 returning from a combat tour in Vietnam and then just calmly moving on after being spit on by hippies?). The problem with my opponent there is that he forgets that in situations like this, the default position should be disbelief.
I realize the solution isn't easy. I also realize that many people don't want that solution, because critical thinking tends to be harmful for certain economic theories favored by the ruling class, as well as historical narratives that justify them. But the alternative to teaching critical thinking at the youngest age possible is almost certainly going to be far worse. People have to be made aware that failing to properly understand skepticism and critical thinking is an existential threat. The more false things you believe, the lower your quality of life will be. You will waste money on things that don't help you, or even harm you. You will be angry upset about things that aren't even happening, while failing to do anything about real problems. No one I know of put this better than the skeptic extraordinaire James Randi, in responding a writer who suggested that belief in the paranormal and supernatural is nothing but harmless fun:
"That writer never saw the distraught faces of parents whose children were caught up in some stupid cult that promises miracles. He never faced a man whose life savings had gone down the drain because a curse had to be lifted. He never held the hand of a woman at a dark seance who expected her loved one to come back to her as promised by a swindler who fed on her belief in nonsense. "Nothing is funnier…?" Tell that to the academics who lost their credibility by accepting the nonsense about telepathy that came out of the Stanford Research Institute. "The machine gunning of butterflies?" Explain that to those who spent their time and money trying to float around in the air because a guru said they could. Are the "dangers of mass popular delusion" not "so menacing?" Mister, go dig up one of the 950 corpses of those who died in Guyana and shout in its face that Reverend Jim Jones was not dangerous. "What has happened to their funny-bones?" That deserves an answer. Our collective sense of humor has been dulled by the grief, frustration, and anger that comes of preaching in the wildnerness. The Star, apparently, would like that wilderness to continue to be empty of rational forces. I hope they enjoyed their big laugh."
"What's the harm" indeed, Mr. Randi. But while Randi would apply his skepticism to claims of the paranormal, supernatural, and pseudo-scientific, the fields of history and politics are largely ignored. As Taibbi points out, America seems to have reached a point where grown adults, people capable of owning guns, operating vehicles and computer technology, and paying off a mortgage, seem to have trouble remembering major historical events that happened in their lifetime, sometimes just a few years back.
This is a problem, a huge problem. Russia is a country which could have been a leading emerging market by this time had it not been for the widespread bullshit and acceptance of that bullshit by the populace. People bought into tales about Russian historical greatness without ever looking at the cautionary lessons each one contained. People acquiesced to supporting a group of cronies who rob them blind and piss away their nation's future all because they'd bought into the myth that NATO was surrounding and strangling their nation. This, while the US was actually removing troops from Europe and closing base after base. Young men went off to fight and kill in the Donbas because they saw stories about Ukrainian Nazis crucifying children. And what was the "journalist's" response when that story was debunked? That it was our responsibility to prove it didn't happen. I'm sorry but that's totally backwards, and as a result of this disdain for basic logic, thousands of people are dead with many more wounded and even more displaced inside and outside of Ukraine.
What does the future hold for America when people can't remember or even don't care whether the invasion of Iraq was a smashing success or an unmitigated disaster (Psst! It's the latter)? How is America going to remain competitive economically when the vast majority of its citizens not only have almost no understanding of basic science, but are seemingly proud of their ignorance? Could Americans vote for someone even worse than Trump so long as he tells them that he can bring back a Golden Age that never existed? It's times like these I feel like I'm writing to Americans from the future.
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A growing number of home, house and workplace owners are searching for ways to live green. The benefits not only improve the quality of the environment, but they also make for significant taxes deductions by the end of the year. As energy efficiency is becoming more frequent in household lighting and home light design is now more popular, it is no real surprise that LED lights are arriving at the forefront as a respected choice for lighting.
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August 28, 2018 • The rally had right-wing protesters, some thrusting Nazi salutes, as well as leftist counterprotesters. It was triggered by the arrest of a Syrian and Iraqi man in connection with a fatal stabbing.
August 15, 2018 • Despite laws guaranteeing access to health care, non-English speakers in the U.S. often rely on family and friends as ad hoc interpreters — and may misunderstand what doctors think they're conveying.


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2017 Russian Superfinal
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The mission of the Russian Chess Federation is to promote and popularize chess in the Russian Federation. The RCF was founded on 15 February 1992.
The State Museum of Political History of Russia in Saint Petersburg to Host Russian Championship Superfinals
The Superfinals of 70th Russian men's championship and 67th Russian women's championship will take place on December 2-15 at the State Museum of Political History of Russia (2-4, Kuybysheva St., Saint Petersburg).
The organizers are the Russian Chess Federation, Elena and Gennady Timchenko Charitable Foundation, the State Museum of Political History of Russia, Chess Federation of Saint Petersburg, and Physical Culture, and Sports Committee of Saint Petersburg. The competition is also supported by Renault Russia Company, Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System (FGC UES), and PhosAgro. Logistics partner of the Russian Chess Federation is Russian Post.
The tournament is a part of the Chess in Museums program, carried out by the RCF together with Timchenko Foundation since 2012. During this period, a number of high-level chess competitions were organized in museums: World Chess Championship 2012 took place in the Tretyakov Gallery, Alekhine Memorial – in Louvre (Paris) and Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), Russian Superfinals – in Rukavishnikov Estate (Nizhny Novgorod), State Art Museum of Tatarstan (Kazan), and the Novosibirsk State Museum of Local History, all-Russian Higher League competition – in Fort #5 (Kaliningrad), and the 10th Tal Memorial – in the Museum of Russian Impressionism.
Line-up, men:
Peter Svidler, Vladimir Fedoseev, Maxim Matlakov, Nikita Vitiugov, Evgeny Tomashevsky, Ernesto Inarkiev, Vladimir Malakhov, Daniil Dubov, Alexander Riazantsev, Sanan Sjugirov, Sergey Volkov, and Evgeny Romanov.
Line-up, women:
Olga Girya, Valentina Gunina, Aleksandra Goryachkina, Natalija Pogonina, Alina Kashlinskaya, Alisa Galliamova, Anastasia Bodnaruk, Marina Nechaeva, Ekaterina Kovalevskaya, Polina Shuvalova, Evgenija Ovod, and Oksana Gritsayeva.
Total prize fund is 9,000,000 roubles.
Besides, the winners of men's and women's tournaments will also receive a special prize – a four-wheel-drive crossover Renault Kaptur. On May 31, 2016, Renault Russia company signed a partnership deal with the RCF. The papers were signed by Andrey Pankov, General Director of Renault Russia, and RCF President, Head Coach of the Russia men's national chess team Andrey Filatov. According to the deal, Renault Kaptur became an official car of the Russian Chess Federation.
The tournaments are round-robin events with 11 rounds. Time control: 90 minutes for 40 moves + 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30 seconds increment for every move played starting from the move one. Chief arbiter is IA Igor Bolotinsky (Saint Petersburg).
Schedule. Opening ceremony: December 2. Playing days: December 3-7 and 9-14, rest day – December 8. Rounds start at 3 p.m., the last round begins at 1 p.m. Closing ceremony will start in 40 minutes after the end of the last game.
On December 8, the participants will give simuls to young chess players. All chess events running under Chess in Museums project feature a special social program for a rest day, which primarily aims at children. Master-classes and simultaneous displays give chess fans a chance to meet their heroes in person, test their own chess ability, and sometimes even defeat a renowned grandmaster.
Press accreditation: Press officer of the Russian Chess Federation Eteri Kublashvili, e-mail kublashvili@yandex.ru.


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Killed in Mexico drug Lord Comandante Bull
April 22, 2017 RR World
One of the most wanted drug lords of Mexico, the leader of a drug cartel "the Gulf" Julian Manuel of Salinas, Lois (Loisa Julián Manuel Salinas), nicknamed Comandante Bull killed during clashes between criminals and Federal security forces in Mexico. This was reported in the official Twitter-account of the government of the state of Tamaulipas.
"In Tamaulipas the Federal forces confirmed that after the collision with the criminals, the criminals killed the Bull and Pancho Carreon", — stated in the message.
Gobierno Tamaulipas (@gobtam)
Comandante Bull was one of the most wanted criminals in Tamaulipas. He was killed in Reynosa.
In other messages, the state government asked citizens to be careful, as the operation to capture the other members of the cartel continues.
The border with the US state of Tamaulipas is the scene of confrontation between two powerful Mexican cartel "Los Zetas" and the "Bay" in the control of drug distribution in the United States. According to Mexican authorities, Julian Manuel Laura Salinas was suspected of kidnapping, oil theft, arms trafficking and drugs.
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Messe M?nchen International and its subsidiary MMI South Africa introduce the inaugural food & drink technology Africa trade fair and conference, which premiers in Johannesburg on March 18 and 19, 2014 at Gallagher Convention Centre.
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Packaging Machinery Association of the VDMA (German Engineering Federation).
information such as travel and accommodation details can also be found online.
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Atlanta rookie Tre Young has been given the keys to the Hawks car this season, and everyone expects them to take their lumps this season, so the (0-2) start isn't a shocker. Ironically both of these teams have struggled with the same thing, second quarters. The Cavaliers surrendered (32 and 39 points) against their first two opponents, and as bad as Cleveland has been… the Hawks have been worse. Atlanta has allowed opponents to shoot over 60% in both games this season, in the Hawks first game of the season the Knicks put up 49 points.
Two teams searching for an identity in the first week of the NBA season, continue reading for key match-ups in tonight's game, as well what needs to happen in order for each team to get their first win.


The power unit for the M2200M/F can be portable or fixed, battery powered and radio controlled or mains powered with line or radio control.
The power unit itself is fitted within a tubular frame, which provides a stable platform.
In the portable mode a separate 12Vdc power pack is connected to the unit by means of a 'Quick Fit 'military connector.
In the Fixed mode the 12Vdc is supplied from a separate 220/240Vac to 12Vdc PSU.
Frame (with battery) A tubular frame makes it easy to carry and provides a positive location when in use.
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Construction The enclosure is manufactured from zinc coated sheet steel and finished in polyester powdered paint that is stoved to provide a hard and durable finish.


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Airman Dies Supporting Operation Enduring Freedom
MSgt. David L. Poirier, 52, of North Smithfield, R.I., died on Feb. 28 in a non-combat-related incident while deployed supporting US military operations in Afghanistan, announced the Pentagon on Monday. The cause of his death is under investigation, states the release. Poirier was a member of the New Hampshire Air National Guard's 157th Operations Support Squadron at Pease ANGB, N.H. San Diego's KPBS public broadcasting station reported that Poirier had arrived at al Udeid AB, Qatar, the day prior to his death.


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Die Mehrner Heilquelle ist eine artesische Quelle, die unterhalb der St. Bartholomäuskirche in Brixlegg, am Eingang des Alpbachtals in Tirol, entspringt. Aus dieser Quelle entspringt ein Heilwasser, das auch an einem öffentlichen Zugang für privaten Gebrauch abgefüllt werden kann und, das von der Mehrner Quelle GmbH unter dem Markennamen Mehrner Heilwasser vertrieben wird. 1863 wurde das Heilbad Mehrn erbaut, das bis heute besteht.

Geschichte
Die Mehrner Heilquelle ist seit mehreren hundert Jahren bekannt. Diese Mineralheilquelle, die heute dem Mehrner Heilwasser seine Berechtigung verleiht, wird wegen seines Ursprungs in enge Verbindung mit der St. Bartholomäuskirche im Ortsteil Mehrn in Brixlegg gebracht.

1267 wurde das Heilwasser erstmals schriftlich erwähnt. Eine Quelle, aus der klares, reichhaltiges, wohlschmeckendes Wasser mit besonderem Inhalt sprudelt.
Die über der Quelle erbaute Kirche wurde im Jahr 1357 erstmals urkundlich erwähnt. Im Jahre 1661 wurde sie auf Order des Salzburger Konsistoriums erweitert.

Die neuerbaute Kirche wurde 1698 zu Ehren des heiligen Bartholomäus geweiht, die 14 Nothelfer erlangen als Nebenpatrone eine große Verehrung, und die Quelle wird als "Vierzehn Nothelfer Wasser" bekannt.

Zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts wurde die Quelle, die sich hinter dem Altar befand, aufgrund der zahlreichen Wasserentnahme versenkt. Das Heilwasser verschaffte sich jedoch am Fuße des Kirchenhügels einen neuen Austritt. Um 1863 wurde die Quelle bei Grabungsarbeiten wieder neu entdeckt und das Wasser erfreute sich großer Beliebtheit als Gesundbrunnen.

Im Jahre 1863 entschloss man sich, dieses heilkräftige Wasser bewusst als Gesundbrunnen für Seele und Körper einzusetzen – Heilbad Mehrn wurde gegründet. 1869 wurde die erste Badeanstalt offiziell eröffnet. Sie ist im Tiroler Heilbäder- und Kurorteverzeichnis von 1900 und in den amtlichen Österr. Badebüchern von 1914 und 1928 enthalten. Aufgrund dieser langen Badetradition und der Untersuchungen der Heilquelle und Kureinrichtungen durch F. Scheminzky in den Jahren 1954, 1963 sowie 1966 wurde mit Bescheid der Tiroler Landesregierung vom 26. Juni 1966 die Quelle als kalte Calcium-Magnesium-Sulfat-Hydrogencarbonat-Mineralquelle, im Sinne des § 30 Abs. 2 des derzeitigen Tiroler Heilquellen- und Kurortegesetzes weiterhin anerkannt.

2002 wurde der Ausbau eines Tiefbrunnens für die Heilquelle und Ableitung des gewonnenen Wassers zu einer Flaschenabfüllanlage für den Vertrieb des Mehrner Heilwassers fertiggestellt.

Inhaltsstoffe
Das Mehrner Heilwasser ist ein Calcium-Magnesium-Sulfat-Hydrogencarbonat-Wasser und enthält hauptsächlich folgende
Inhaltsstoffe (natürliche Mineralstoffe und Spurenelemente) pro 1000 ml:

Anwendungsgebiete
Das Mehrner Heilwasser ist ein Calcium-Magnesium-Sulfat-Hydrogencarbonat-Wasser. Es kann zum unterstützenden Einsatz bei Therapien von chronischen und subchronischen Leber- sowie Bauchspeicheldrüsenerkrankungen, Gicht, Zuckerkrankheit, Harnsteinen und zur Vorbeugung bzw. unterstützenden Behandlung von Osteoporose, Muskelkrämpfen und Obstipation kommen.

Sulfatwässer regen die Darmtätigkeit an und fördern somit den Stoffwechsel.

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