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Q: Drupal rules php action I am experimenting with the Rules module for the first time and I am attempting to redirect my users with some simple php code as below:
drupal_set_message('testing');
drupal_goto('node/3');

The first line of code executes but the second, which should direct my users to node/3, does not have the desired effect.
How can I get this redirecting feature working?

A: It's most likely because you have ?destination=some/path in the page URL, these lines in drupal_goto() cause any path you pass to the function to be overwritten by whatever's in the URL:
if (isset($_GET['destination']) && !url_is_external($_GET['destination'])) {
  $destination = drupal_parse_url($_GET['destination']);
  $path = $destination['path'];
  // ...

You can probably get around it simply by changing your code to this:
if (isset($_GET['destination'])) {
  unset($_GET['destination']);
}
drupal_goto('node/3');

If that doesn't work try adding this line before drupal_goto:
drupal_static_reset('drupal_get_destination');

which will reset the static cache for the drupal_get_destination() function, which also gets involved in this process at some point (I think).
If all else fails, go old school:
$path = 'node/3';
$options = array('absolute' => TRUE);
$url = url($path, $options);
$http_response_code = 302;
header('Location: ' . $url, TRUE, $http_response_code);
drupal_exit($url);

That's pretty much nicked straight from the drupal_goto() function itself and will definitely work.

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Basques not genetically distinct from other Iberians
Human Genetics doi:10.1007/s00439-010-0798-3
A genome-wide survey does not show the genetic distinctiveness of Basques
Hafid Laayouni et al.
Basques are a cultural isolate, and, according to mainly allele frequencies of classical polymorphisms, also a genetic isolate. We investigated the differentiation of Spanish Basques from the rest of Iberian populations by means of a dense, genome-wide SNP array. We found that F ST distances between Spanish Basques and other populations were similar to those between pairs of non-Basque populations. The same result is found in a PCA of individuals, showing a general distinction between Iberians and other South Europeans independently of being Basques. Pathogen-mediated natural selection may be responsible for the high differentiation previously reported for Basques at very specific genes such as ABO, RH, and HLA. Thus, Basques cannot be considered a genetic outlier under a general genome scope and interpretations on their origin may have to be revised.
Labels Basques, Clusters, Ethnicity, Europe, Genomics, Iberia, Spain
This is a clear example of as Clothes doesn't make the monk and the language doesn't make the ethnos.
Heraus said...
The very notion of Basque culture being a cultural isolate is dubious. How can Basque culture be an "isolate" when it's the basis of vernacular cultures in NW Spain and SW France, from Burgos to Bordeaux, an area greater than Dutch-influenced Europe ? That the Basque language was preserved in Western Pyrenean valleys is a fantastic miracle but that doesn't make Basque culture different from its immediate romanicized Cantabrian, Aragonese and Gascon neighbours.
There is a trend in academic sectors to make Basque people some "good wild men". For instance, it now cannot be doubted that inscriptions in Veleia were believed to be forgeries because they did not suit some well-known researchers' conception of the Basque people.
visvakarman said...
The Veleia inscriptions were clearly forgeries, no matter what they suited.
Andrew Oh-Willeke said...
Basque country was one of the first industrial centers in Iberia. This doesn't necessarily make the case for it being a cultural isolate, but it does make the case for the Basque being culturally distinct in material ways in addition to language.
We also know from history that Basque culture assimilated less from the Romans, the Moors and the Fascists than other parts of Iberia. Thus, the case that what is distinctive about Basque culture derives from having less of its pre-Roman culture obliterated is strong, and the fact that Basque is not an Indo-European language supports the theory that it was also not influenced as much as much of the rest of Europe by a hypothetical pre-historic Indo-European wave of migration.
The fact that Iberia was a refugia for European populations of animals (like bears) during the LGM also suggests that it may have served a similar purpose for ancestors of the Europeans of 45kya to 18kya, which suggests that to the extent that distinctly Iberian pre-Moorish genetics can be parsed from Vandal, North African and Roman influences, that they it's reasonable to suppose that its inhabitants are closer to European ancestral genetic makeup than the rest of Europe.
The lack of Basque genetic distinctness despite its cultural uniqueness points to the power of even low levels of admixture over long periods of time acting on a small group immersed in a larger one.
Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:17:00 am
I've long believed that the Veleia inscriptions were fake ones (because I'm highly skeptical of some Basque sectors which might be keen to emphasize on Basque exceptionalism) but newer studies have just proven that linguistic analyzes were at least very biased. Gorrotxategi and the likes were quite dishonest when analyzing linguistic elements.
Franco-Galician linguist, Hector Iglesias will soon testify in court in defence of Veleia archeologists (a French interview) :
http://www.alaba.pirenifoto.info/iglesias-veleia.html
His paper :
http://artxiker.ccsd.cnrs.fr/docs/00/42/54/73/PDF/artxiker-Veleia.pdf
Another paper :
Thursday, February 18, 2010 1:00:00 am
Bad link :
http://iesusioshemarian.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/57_adjunto1.pdf
It's contradicted by Bauchet 2007, which found a Basque-specific cluster in a large European study at K=4 or K=5, where Basques were not oversampled. Spaniards/Iberians are also a distinct group from other Europeans/Mediterraneans.
It's difficult to evaluate the validity of just an abstract that talks only of Fst (a criticized measure) and of old kind of genetic research such as ABO, Rh and HLA. Also the researchers work for Spanish institutions, what may imply ideological bias.
aargiedude said...
If somebody can obtain the supplementary material, could you tell us which 10 populations were studied, samples per population, and FST distances (there should be a table somewhere).
Maju, can you tell me more about the criticisms regarding FST?
Structure said...
In my last STRUCTURE IntraEuropean analysis that uses HGDP samples and data from DEcodeme/23andme, Basque appear in their own cluster at k=3. But this cluster may represent a Iberian cluster as well.
http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/7403/structure247j.jpg
Basque group is 51 in mostly blue
Red are CentralNorthEuropeans
Green are SouthEasternEuropeans (Ashkenazims, SouthItalians, Turks...)
Structure, can you name the populations yuu used with reference to their test number and population size? Also I would be very grateful if you provided the whole STRCTURE analysis diagram with additional information about test methods and criteria.
Erratum: STRUCTURE analysis, not STRCTURE analysis
Kepler said...
I thought Maju was going to say all Northrern Spaniards are in reality Basques or Proto-Basques who lost their language :-)
Actually: couldn't this be the case?
Vascoiberismo? Iberian language was somehow related to Euskera?
It's contradicted by Bauchet 2007
Not really, since that study tested only a sample of 8 Basques and Spaniards only from Valencia
and of old kind of genetic research such as ABO, Rh and HLA
What they're saying is that the supposed distinctiveness of Basques in these individual traditional systems doesn't hold up when we look at dense microarray data (thousands of markers)
As others have alluded to, seems to me that the "Basque element" is simply largely spread throughout Iberia - and why shouldn't it be?
Thursday, February 18, 2010 1:29:00 pm
"Pools from the following 10 regions were prepared: Galicia, Cantabria and Asturias, Catalonia, Castilla-León, Castilla-la Mancha, Valencia, East Andalusia and Murcia, West Andalusia, Extremadura and Balearic Islands (see Figure S1). All pools were created using 30 individuals..."
F_STs seem to be largely between 0.013 and 0.017. There are a couple of 0.012 and 0.018, one 0.019 - all outside of the Basque comparison. Basque comparison to others is between 0.014 and 0.017 - that is, slightly closer than non-Basques among themselves.
"Maju, can you tell me more about the criticisms regarding FST?"
Not really, I'm just echoing previous criticisms appeared at comments at this blog in relation to other studies (not about Basques), which seemed reasonable to me when I read them. You will have to search them yourself.
"I thought Maju was going to say all Northrern Spaniards are in reality Basques or Proto-Basques who lost their language"...
It's possible in some cases but I just don't know or could back it with hard evidence.
Anyhow, I understand that the historical Basque core area is Aquitaine and hence comparing with Iberians is generally going to produce rather distinctive results. That's also why I'm interested in more extensive and detailed sampling of French, specially Occitans (South French).
"Vascoiberismo? Iberian language was somehow related to Euskera?"
As I was just mentioning in a private email conversation this relation is not well established and in any case should date to the Epipaleolithic/Neolithic period.
"Not really, since that study tested only a sample of 8 Basques and Spaniards only from Valencia".
I did not notice before that the Spaniards of that study are from Valencia but that doesn't make them least valid, specially as they show only limited relation with Greece in a secondary component and instead they make up their own distinctive cluster. Valencians even show some amount of "Pyrenean" R1b1b2a1a2c, which is almost null among Western Iberians.
Valencians are also the archetypal Iberians, not just in the historical Iberian sense but also in the Paleolithic, Epipaleolithic and Neolithic sense: all these phenomenons are centered around the Southern Valencian Country in the distinctive Iberian province (Iberian peninsula minus the Cantabrian strip, more related to Southern France instead, at least most of the time).
So I think that the difference stands, though maybe can be less clear cut if you take many samples from areas near the Basque Country/Pyrenees.
"What they're saying is that the supposed distinctiveness of Basques in these individual traditional systems doesn't hold up when we look at dense microarray data (thousands of markers)".
Well, a Basque-only autosomal cluster at K=5 in a pan-European study (Bauchet again: 10,000 autosomal SNPs) is a clear signal of distinctiveness to me. And even more as Basques were only 8 individuals (small sample, which can't bias the results).
Anyhow, I was looking at Tian 2009, who also uses Fst distances (and also fails to sample any French) and while the closest population to Basques by this measure are Spaniards (0.0060), Basques are not the closest population to Spaniards but Germans (0.0015), Tuscans (0.0023), East Europeans (0.0033), Irish (0.0037) and Swedes (0.0065).
So it looks like, in comparison, Basques are still somewhat apart.
Erratum: "... and Swedes (0.0065)" should read "... and Swedes (0.0055)".
Also, I notice that the second closest group to Basques are Germans (0.0079), not much more distant than Spaniards, reinforcing my impression that French, in particular SW Fench (Gascons and others) should be much closer than Iberians.
Actually, "closer" is not the right word: I should have said "more homogeneous distance" or something like that.
Extremadura has the largest F_STs tot he others, averaging about 0.017 (between 0.015 and 0.019).
onur said...
"Structure, can you name the populations you used with reference to their test number and population size?"
ID with population size in parenthesis
40 (61) Caucasians North Americans (non Ashkenazis)
41 (6) Finns
50 (30) French - HGDP
51 (24) Basques - HGDP
52 (4) South Italians
53 (9) Central Italians (Tuscans) - HGDP
54 (13) North Italians (Bergamese) - HGDP
55 (16) Orcadians - HGDP
56 (25) Russians - HGDP
57 (17) Adygei - HGDP
58 (4) Turks
60 (38) Ashkenazis
The SNPs used for this anaysis are the ones selected by Tian 2009 in his last study "European Population Genetic Substructure"
These 3519 Euro SNPs were selected by Tian because of their relatively large allele frequency differences between different European groups. They are currently the most accurate for Intra European analysis and much more effective than thousands of random SNPs used by previous European studies. They also appear to be almost as effective than 500.000 SNPs, but their bigest avantage is that we can use much larger samples in STRUCTURE.
Actually, I always thought I could recognize many Basques from other Spaniards, even Northern Spaniards: there is a certain nose form, eyes and eyebrows that tend to come up very frequently there unlike in Galicia or Asturias or even less in places as castilla or elsewhere.
Friday, February 19, 2010 11:03:00 am
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Thanks, Structure. Looking at the graph, if we assume that Basques are a good representative of whole Iberians, three major clusters appear in Europe: North European (red), West Mediterranean (blue) and East Mediterranean (green).
Iberians on one side and Turks (and probably also Greeks) on the other side constitute the opposite ends of the West Med and East Med spectrum respectively, being almost totally composed of their main clusters.
North and Central Italians are somewhere between West Meds and East Meds with a nonnegligible North European admixture. South Italians are almost indistinguishable from East Meds, confirming historical narratives of Greek colonialism there.
As to West and Central North Europeans, they are mainly North European with significant Med admixture (mainly West Med). Northeastern Europeans, on the other hand, having less means of access to Southern Europe than West and Central North Europeans, have very insignificant Med admixture, and as such, they represent the extreme end of the North European cluster.
Ashkenazis seem to preserve most of their original East Mediterranean (not exclusively Middle Eastern, they may have significant Northeastern Mediterranean roots (google Jewish proselytism in the Roman Empire (especially in the east) in pagan era)) genetic heritage, with a relatively small European admixture during their long stay in Northern Europe.
miz RAND BLOWTON said...
I never thought the Basques were different from many other authentic Spaniards,I just thought the Basques had wanted to maintain their own culture.And culture can make a person very different...depending on what it is you like to do or have been doing for many years,or choose to do.
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A mother said the Public Guardian had approved her address as suitable for her son, who faces charges of raping an underage girl. Contributed
Mental health mystery: Urine thrown at prison staff
by johnweekes
A YOUNG man with limited cognitive ability and a cocktail of substance abuse and mental health problems is accused of raping his underage girlfriend and breaching bail.
But despite multiple contacts with mental health services, a new Supreme Court judgment showed no major psychiatric disorder had ever been clearly diagnosed for the man.
The young man was also accused of throwing urine on two corrective services officers.
The man, named only as "WTD" in the judgment, has been hospitalised in Ipswich and Toowoomba in recent years.
Justice Peter Davis said the young man had "a prolonged unsettled period in custody during the early stages of his incarceration".
Medical records showed WTD seemed aware he had been charged with rape but failed to appreciate the seriousness of his alleged offences.
"He appeared to minimise the gravity of his legal circumstances and insisted that the alleged victim consented to a sexual relationship," a medical excerpt stated
WTD's alleged victim was under 16 years old.
The court heard WTD had "severe cognitive impairment" and "inability to inhibit his impulsive reactions".
He also had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and poly-substance abuse problems.
Justice Davis said the Crown correctly said WTD had a reoffending risk, especially of "reoffending against the complainant in the sexual charges".
But Justice Davis said that risk would be ameliorated to an acceptable level, given the support he will receive.
His mother said the Public Guardian had approved her Darling Downs address as suitable for the son.
WTD was released into the care of his mother.
- NewsRegional
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The bed was very comfortable, friendly land lady .
This B&B is pretty much perfect for me. Great cost/ comfort ratio. All I need from a place for a short stay. Friendly landlady, even friendlier Labrador who is uncomenly well behaved. Smart dining room come sitting room is pleasant . Breakfast is fine, lots of choice. No lift, so make them aware if you struggle with stairs. We liked it.
Located at the Hoe, about 5 mins walk to Smeaton's Tower lighthouse. A charming lady running the business and she is also preparing the breakfast for guests. I had a few nice chats with her about history of the city, life in Plymouth, etc. It is worth for the money you would spend. No WiFi for rooms, but it does not bother me as I was out most of the day time. No elevators, like to see improvement in cleanliness.


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Q: How to present Array Of addresses data from Web Api On GoogleMapView iOS Swift4 I am try to get an array of addresses that are coming from webApi and load them on the googleMapView. First I have to convert the address into coordinates and then I am doing that. So I don't know where I am doing.. I am fetching data and I am using model classes... I might be doing this very wrong...
I am beginner as an iOS developer...
Somebody please guide me through this...
Code Here:
import GoogleMaps
import GooglePlaces
import Alamofire

class HomeViewController: UIViewController,UICollectionViewDelegate,UICollectionViewDataSource,UICollectionViewDelegateFlowLayout,GMSMapViewDelegate,CLLocationManagerDelegate {

   var JSONData = [LocationData]()
   var serviceNames = [ServiceName]()

  override func viewDidLoad() {
            super.viewDidLoad()

       self.getProfessionalLocations()
}

 func getProfessionalLocations() {

        let url = "http://domailname.com/api/UsersAPI/GetLocationUsers"

        let parameters: NSDictionary = ["Address":""]

        Alamofire.request(url, method: .post, parameters: parameters as? [String:Any], encoding: JSONEncoding.default, headers: nil).responseJSON {
            response in
            switch response.result {
            case .success:
                print(response)

                self.proResponseArray = response.result.value as! NSArray

                for eachValue in self.proResponseArray {

                    let dataValue = eachValue as! [String : Any]
                    let professionalName = dataValue["userName"] as! String
                    let imagePath = "http://domailname.com/app/Users/ProfilePics/\(dataValue["profilePic"]!))"
                    let escapedAddress = imagePath.addingPercentEncoding(
                        withAllowedCharacters: CharacterSet.urlQueryAllowed)
//                    self.infoWindow.profile_Img.image = UIImage(url: URL(string: escapedAddress!))

// here I am getting the address from the api
                    let address = dataValue["searchAddress"] as! String

                    let services = dataValue["lstServiceProviders"] as! NSArray

                    for allServiceNames in services {

                        let names = allServiceNames as! [String : Any]
                        let serviceName = names["serviceName"] as! String

                        self.serviceNames.append(ServiceName(serviceName: serviceName))
                    }

                    let experience = dataValue["experience"] as! String

                    let rating = dataValue["rating"] as Any

                    self.JSONData.append(LocationData(serviceNames: self.serviceNames, proName: professionalName, proImage:  escapedAddress!, address: address, experience: experience, rating: rating))
                }

                for location in self.JSONData {

                    let marker = GMSMarker()
                    let geoCoder = CLGeocoder()
                    geoCoder.geocodeAddressString(location.address ) { (placemarks, error) in
                        guard
                            let placemarks = placemarks,
                            let addressLocation = placemarks.first?.location
                            else {
                                // handle no location found
                                return
                        }

                        marker.position = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(addressLocation.coordinate.latitude, addressLocation.coordinate.longitude)
                        marker.icon = UIImage(named:"beautycare")!
                        self.googleMapView.camera = GMSCameraPosition.camera(withLatitude:addressLocation.coordinate.latitude, longitude: addressLocation.coordinate.longitude, zoom: self.currentZoom)
                        marker.appearAnimation = GMSMarkerAnimation.pop
                        marker.map = self.googleMapView
                    }
                }

                break
            case .failure(let error):

                print(error)
            }
        }
    }
class ServiceName {

    var serviceName : String

    init(serviceName : String) {

        self.serviceName = serviceName
    }
}

class LocationData {

    var serviceNames : [ServiceName]
    var proName : String
    var proImage : String
    var address : String
    var experience : String
    var rating: Any

    init(serviceNames:[ServiceName], proName: String, proImage: String, address : String, experience: String, rating: Any) {

        self.serviceNames = serviceNames
        self.proName = proName
        self.proImage = proImage
        self.address = address
        self.experience = experience
        self.rating = rating
    }
}

A: Check my below code you need to get all address from all lat/long. fire Completion handler Once all Address collected.
Create Get Address List Function
typealias CompletionHandlerButton = (_ response:NSMutableArray) -> Void
func AllLocationDetected(lotLongArray: NSMutableArray,handler: @escaping CompletionHandlerButton)
{
    //Write your logic here to Get address from the Lat/long and also need to check all address list collected or not.
    handler(ListOfAddress) //Send back your List of address here
}

Fire Get All Adress List Function
AllLocationDetected { (LocationArray) in

    print(LocationArray)

}

Hope It will help you!


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How is the Bible all about Jesus?
Some people prefer the New Testament to the Old Testament because they wrongly believe that only the New Testament is about Jesus. However, Jesus himself taught that the Old Testament was primarily about him. While arguing with the theologians in his day, Jesus chastised them, saying, "You search the Scriptures [Old Testament] because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life" (John 5:39-40).
Following his resurrection, Jesus opened the Old Testament to teach others about himself: "beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself" (Luke 24:27). Likewise, in speaking to his disciples, Jesus said, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled" (Luke 24:44). We then read that he "opened their minds to understand the Scriptures" (Luke 24:45).


Sure, it felt like I had driven a long way from Seattle. But when I stepped out of the car in Leavenworth, about two hours east of The Sound on US-2, I could swear I had somehow ended up in Germany.
Now, I know that the Bavarian theme, on which the town has been constructed, is a gimmick, meant to draw tourists. But "gimmick" seems too harsh a word, because it's been done so well.
Leavenworth's Commercial Street begs to be walked at a leisurely pace. During my visit in August, plenty of people were taking advantage of the clear, warm weather — in a town that looks like the inside of a snow globe for most of the year. Once I finally found a parking spot, I strolled for a few minutes, determined to find a soft pretzel. I did, and it was authentic, not the kind you get at the mall.
In the middle of everything, there's a tall Maypole, which serves as the central figure for the town's many festivals, including Maifest in May. It gets decorated for the celebrations, but the rest of the year, it's a bilingual reminder of the town's faux German roots.
Leavenworth began its transition into a Bavarian town in 1962, four years after a local business owner couple visited Solvang, California — a similarly themed town.
The streets aren't only crowded with people, they're also filled with flowers. Maybe it was especially amazing to me, since flowers like this don't grow in my native Florida.
Unfortunately, I didn't have much time to explore the town. I had to finish my long loop through the Cascades, and get back to Seattle by dusk. US-2 provides a direct route, but in late afternoon the sun was in my eyes, blinding me to much of the beauty of this curvy route through one valley after another.


All of these complaints are those you would expect from somebody suffering from Plantar Fasciosis. You may have heard of this frustrating condition before – especially if you are a runner or work on your feet a lot.
In this weeks column, I hope to give you the correct and most up to date information on this condition and how to treat it.
Plantar Fasciosis is an overload injury of the Plantar Fascia. It is degeneration of your Plantar Fascia. This condition has historically been called Plantar Fasciitis because it was believed that Plantar Fascia inflammation was the principle underlying cause.
Plantar Fasciosis is a more accurate name for this condition because it involves degeneration of your Plantar Fascia, not inflammation.
It is very common in runners due to the repeated stress being placed on the fascia – can sometimes be linked to poor running technique but more often than not the process of doing too much too soon is enough to overload the fascia.
Plantar Fasciosis is very common among beginner runners who might go from doing no running at all straight into a 5km run.
This is too drastic of a change for the body to handle in such a small space of time and the plantar fascia isn't used to this amount of stress and becomes irritated and painful.
Before I go into detail about all the different treatment options available that don't work, let me tell you the ONE thing that has been proven to provide long-term relief of this frustrating condition.
Loading has to be gradual, as too much too soon can only aggravate things, I have attached a video below with some later stage exercises you can do at home to get long term relief from your heel pain.
Whilst steroid injections can provide symptom relief, this is usually only a short-term solution.
A 2012 study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine showed that steroid injections would give temporary relief to one out of three patients – and this relief is unlikely to last beyond 4 weeks.
Steroid injections can also be dangerous – they can lead to cell death and a potential rupture of the Plantar Fascia.
Shockwave therapy has been shown to have some promising results but has failed to show any consistent benefits.
It has not been proven to cure Plantar Fasciitis in the long term, and can often only provide short-term relief.
There are much cheaper, more effective treatment options available.
Orthotics can sometimes help with symptom relief and the off-the- shelf ones have been proven to be as effective as the expensive custom made ones.
Studies have shown that heel pads/gel inserts are just as effective, if not more so than expensive custom orthotics.
Studies have shown that those who stretch their Plantar Fascia and also their calf muscles have a greater decrease in pain over 8 weeks than those who don't.
However, stretching has been shown to only provide short-term relief.
Anti-inflammatory Drugs have been shown to provide relief in the initial stages of the condition – when there may be some inflammation present.
However we now know that after the early stages this is not an inflammatory condition – it is an overloading condition which can cause degenerative changes to the plantar fascia – which anti-inflammatory drugs will not help as there is no inflammation.
If you think that you're experiencing the early stages of Plantar Fasciosis, feel free to check out this blog post on Plantar Fasciosis that includes some video exercises that will alleviate your pain.
Hopefully this blog gave you some valuable information that you can use to start returning to the activities you love!
If you have any questions or concerns at all don't hesitate to get in contact with us here at Pain and Performance Clinic by calling us on 01 9079633.
Suffering from morning heel pain?
This can be a very sore, very frustrating condition usually affecting men in their 40s/50. No one treatment works really with this but a lot of little things need to be done. Pelvic control, core strengthening, loosening out calves and hamstrings, using a heel pad, correct foot-ware and losing some weight are all part of recovery.
One of the main causes of injury is sudden increases in training load. This is especially true if you are poorly conditioned. However it can also be true if you are doing way too much training. (Tim Gabbett has done a lot of research in this area).
Better known as Runners Knee, is one of the most common and frustrating running injuries. PFPS is a term used to describe pain experienced in or around the front part of the knee where the patella (kneecap) glides over the lower end of the femur bone.


Extra-curricular activities at NHCS are provided to enhance the student's school experience.
Any student in grades 7 & 8 may participate. Approximately eight matches are scheduled per year with two – four of those played at NHCS. A typical season runs from January to April. Quiz Bowl is coached by Mrs. Wassel and Mrs. Goodman.
Coed Cross Country is coached by parent volunteers and is open to any students grades 5th – 8th. Practices are held after school. Meets are scheduled with both public and private schools. Cross Country members are subject to academic eligibility which is assessed weekly. To participate you must have a 75% or above in all subjects. Failure to meet eligibility requirements three times may result in dismissal from the team.
Coed Basketball is coached by Jason Green and is open to any students grades 5th – 8th. Practices are held after school. Games are scheduled with both public and private schools. Basketball players are subject to academic eligibility which is assessed weekly. To participate you must have a 75% or above in all subjects. Failure to meet eligibility requirements three times may result in dismissal from the team.
Coed Pep Squad is coached by parent volunteers and is open to any students grades 5th – 8th. Practices are held after school. Games are scheduled with both public and private schools. Pep Squad members are subject to academic eligibility which is assessed weekly. To participate you must have a 75% or above in all subjects. Failure to meet eligibility requirements three times may result in dismissal from the team.
Our coed Track and Field program is coached by parent volunteers and is open to any students grades 5th – 8th. Practices are held after school. Meets are scheduled with both public and private schools. Pep Squad members are subject to academic eligibility which is assessed weekly. To participate you must have a 75% or above in all subjects. Failure to meet eligibility requirements three times may result in dismissal from the team.


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New Russian module docks with International Space Station
A Russian freight craft bring a new docking module has actually effectively linked with the International Space Station after a two-day space journey
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MOSCOW — A Russian freight craft bring a new docking module effectively linked with the International Space Station Friday after a two-day space journey.
The new round module, called Prichal (Pier), docked with the orbiting station at 6:19 p.m. Moscow time (1519 GMT). It has 6 docking ports and will permit possible future growth of the Russian sector of the station.
The module has actually moored to the docking port of the new Russian Nauka (Science) lab module.
On Wednesday, a Soyuz rocket removed from the Russian launch center in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, bring the Progress freight ship with Prichal connected to it. After going into space, the freight ship with the module went into orbit.
Progress is likewise providing 700 kilos of numerous freights to the spaceport station and is anticipated to undock from the station on Dec. 22.
The initially Soyuz spacecraft is anticipated to dock at the new module on March 18, 2022, with a team of 3 cosmonauts: Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergei Korsakov.
Earlier today, the Russian team on the station began training for the module's arrival, replicating making use of manual controls in case the automated docking system stopped working.
The space station is presently run by NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, Kayla Barron, and Mark Vande Hei; Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov; and Matthias Maurer of the European Space Agency.


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Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren (1927-2007)
Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren was a developmental biologist known for her work with embryology in the twentieth century. McLaren was the first researcher to grow mouse embryos outside of the womb. She experimented by culturing mouse eggs and successfully developing them into embryos, leading to advancements with in vitro fertilization.
Gavin Rylands de Beer (1899-1972)
Gavin de Beer was an English zoologist known for his contributions to evolution and embryology, in particular for showing the inadequacy of the germ layer theory as it was then proposed. He was born in London, England, on 1 November 1899, but was raised for his first thirteen years in France where his father worked for a telegraph company. He entered Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1917 but his studies were soon interrupted by World War I. After serving in the military, he returned to Oxford where he studied under Edwin Goodrich.
Joseph Needham (1900-1995)
Joseph Needham was an embryologist and biochemist who is most noted in science for his studies on induction in developing embryos. Needham worked with Conrad Hal Waddington to attempt to identify the compound responsible for the organizer's activity. Although he was not successful in discovering the chemical, he and Waddington learned much about the organizer. Needham was a meticulous writer, writing reviews and books about contemporary research.
St. George Jackson Mivart (1827-1900)
St. George Jackson Mivart studied animals and worked in England during the nineteenth century. He also proposed a theory of organismal development that he called individuation, and he critiqued Charles Darwin's argument for evolution by natural selection. His work on prosimians, a group of primates excluding apes and monkeys, helped scientists better investigate the Primate group.
Wilhelm His, Sr. (1831-1904)
Wilhelm His, Sr. was born on 9 July 1831 in Basel, Switzerland, to Katharina La Roche and Eduard His. He began his medical studies at Basel in 1849 and later transferred to the University of Bern during the winter semester of 1849-1850. A year later, His arrived at the University of Berlin, where he studied under Johannes Müller and Robert Remak. For his clinical training, His attended the University of Würzburg from 1852-1853.
Richard Doll (1912–2005)
Richard Doll was an epidemiologist and public figure in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Working primarily at the University of Oxford, in Oxford, England, Doll established a definitive correlation between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. Furthermore, Doll's work helped legitimize epidemiology as a scientific discipline. Doll's research also helped establish modern guidelines for oncological studies, as well as for contemporary and future research on the effect of smoking on pregnancy and fetal development.
Norman Haire (1892-1952)
Norman Haire was a physician who advocated for eugenics, which is the betterment of human population by promoting positive traits, and birth control rights in the twentieth century in both Australia and the UK. In the UK, Haire joined the Malthusian League, a contraception advocacy organization, and helped the League open the first physician-supervised birth control clinic, called Walworth Women's Welfare Centre in London, England.
Subject: People, Reproduction
Patrick Christopher Steptoe (1913-1988)
Patrick Christopher Steptoe was a British gynecologist responsible for major advances in gynecology and reproductive technology. Throughout his career Steptoe promoted laparoscopy, a minimally invasive surgical technique that allows a view inside the abdominal cavity, successfully advancing its usefulness in gynecology. After partnering with embryologist Robert Edwards in 1966, the pair performed the first in vitro fertilization in humans.
Marcello Malpighi (1646-1694)
Marcello Malpighi studied chick embryos with microscopes in Italy during the seventeenth century. Trained as a medical doctor, he was among the first scientists to use the microscope to examine embryos at very early stages. Malpighi described early structures in chick embryos, and later scientists used his descriptions to help develop the theory of preformationism.
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805-1861)
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire studied anatomy and congenital abnormalities in humans and other animals in nineteenth century France. Under the tutelage of his father, Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore compiled and built on his father's studies of individuals with developmental malformations, then called monstrosities.
Subject: People, Disorders
William Bateson (1861-1926)
At the turn of the twentieth century, William Bateson studied organismal variation and heredity of traits within the framework of evolutionary theory in England. Bateson applied Gregor Mendel's work to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and coined the term genetics for a new biological discipline. By studying variation and advocating Mendelian genetics, Bateson furthered the field of genetics, encouraged the use of experimental methodology to study heredity, and contributed to later theories of genetic inheritance.
Santiago Felipe Ramon y Cajal (1852-1934)
Santiago Felipe Ramon y Cajal investigated brains in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Spain. He identified and individuated many components of the brain, including the neuron and the axon. He used chick embryos instead of adult animals, then customary in brain research, to study the development and physiology of the cerebellum, spinal cord, and retina. Ramon y Cajal received the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1906, along with Camillo Golgi, for his work on the structure of the nervous system.
Edwin Stephen Goodrich (1868-1946)
Edwin Stephen Goodrich studied the structures of animals in England during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Goodrich studied how animals develop to identify their parts and to establish the evolutionary relationships between different species. Goodrich established that body structures can shift their positions relative to an organism's body during evolution, and he hypothesized that body structures can share ancestry (homology) between organisms of different species, even without identical body placement.
Oswald Theodore Avery (1877-1955)
Oswald Theodore Avery studied strains of pneumococcus of the genus Streptococcus in the US in the first half of the twentieth century. This bacterium causes pneumonia, a common cause of death at the turn of the twentieth century. In a 1944 paper, Avery demonstrated with colleagues Colin Munro MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty that deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, instead of protein, formed the material of heritable transformation in bacteria. Avery helped untangle some of the relationships between genes and developmental processes.
Muriel Wheldale Onslow (1880-1932)
Muriel Wheldale Onslow studied flowers in England with genetic and biochemical techniques in the early twentieth century. Working with geneticist William Bateson, Onslow used Mendelian principles and biochemical analysis together to understand the inheritance of flower colors at the beginning of the twentieth century. Onslow's study of snapdragons, or Antirrhinum majus, resulted in her description of epistasis, a phenomenon in which the phenotypic effect of one gene is influenced by one or more other genes. She discovered several biochemicals related to color formation.
Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948)
Known by many for his wide-reaching interests and keen thinking, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson was one of Britain's leading scientific academics in the first few decades of the twentieth century. A prodigious author, Thompson published some 300 papers, books, and articles in the biological sciences, classics, oceanography, and mathematics. He was a famous lecturer and conversationalist-a true "scholar-naturalist," as his daughter wrote in her biography of her father.
Andrew Francis Dixon (1868-1936)
Andrew Francis Dixon studied human anatomy and egg cells at the turn of the twentieth century in Ireland and Great Britain. Dixon studied the sensory and motor nervous system of the face, the cancellous bone tissue of the femur, supernumerary kidneys, and the urogenital system. In 1927 Dixon described a mature human ovarian follicle. This follicle, Dixon noted, contained an immature human egg cell (oocyte) with a visible first polar body and the beginnings of the second polar body.
John Bertrand Gurdon (1933- )
Sir John Bertrand Gurdon further developed nuclear transplantation, the technique used to clone organisms and to create stem cells, while working in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century. Gurdon's research built on the work of Thomas King and Robert Briggs in the United States, who in 1952 published findings that indicated that scientists could take a nucleus from an early embryonic cell and successfully transfer it into an unfertilized and enucleated egg cell.
Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916-2004)
Francis Harry Compton Crick, who co-discovered the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in 1953 in Cambridge, England, also developed The Central Dogma of Molecular Biology, and further clarified the relationship between nucleotides and protein synthesis. Crick received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine that he shared with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins in 1962 for their discovery of the molecular structure of DNA.
Leonard Colebrook (1883–1967)
Leonard Colebrook was a physician who researched bacteria and infections in England during the twentieth century. In 1936, Colebrook deployed the antibiotic Prontosil to treat puerperal fever, a disorder that results from bacterial infections in the uterine tracts of women after childbirth or abortions. Colebrook also advanced care for burn patients by advocating for the creation of burn units in hospitals and by using antisepsis medication for burn wound infections. Colebrook's work on treatments for puerperal fever reduced cases of puerperal fever throughout the world.
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was born in Delft, the Netherlands, on 24 October 1632 to Margriet Jacobsdochter van den Berch and Philips Thooniszoon, both of whom were middle-class artisans. He attended grammar school in Warmond, and then temporarily moved to Benthuizen to live with relatives. Eventually Leeuwenhoek left for Amsterdam to work as a cloth merchant's apprentice. Returning to Delft, he married Barbara de Mey on 29 July 1654, and worked as a shopkeeper. The marriage resulted in five children, only one of whom, Maria, outlived Leeuwenhoek.
Sir Graham Collingwood Liggins (1926-2010)
Sir Graham Collingwood Liggins devoted much of his professional life to obstetric research. Liggins demonstrated that hormones created by the fetus helped initiate labor, rather than hormones originating solely from the mother. Liggins also discovered that cortisol given to pregnant mothers helped delay premature labor, and that it increased the likelihood that premature infants would breathe normally after birth. Prior to cortisol treatment, premature infants often died of respiratory distress syndrome characterized by the inability to inflate immature lungs.
"Use of reproductive technology for sex selection for nonmedical reasons" (2015), by the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine
In June 2015, the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, or ASRM, published "Use of reproductive technology for sex selection for nonmedical reasons" in Fertility and Sterility. In the report, the Committee presents arguments for and against the use of reproductive technology for sex selection for any reason besides avoiding sex-linked disorders, or genetic disorders that only affect a particular sex.
Johannes Holtfreter (1901-1992)
Johannes Holtfreter made important discoveries about the properties of the organizer discovered by Hans Spemann. Although he spent much time away from the lab over many years, he was a productive researcher. His colleagues noted that the time he spent away helped revitalize his ideas. He is credited with the development of a balanced salt medium to allow embryos to develop; the discovery that dead organizer tissue retains inductive abilities; and the development of specification, competence, and distribution of fate maps in the developing frog embryo.


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Mind the (gender) gap: what the Shanghai Metro dress code tells us about Chinese attitudes towards women
Home /Culture and Society/Mind the (gender) gap: what the Shanghai Metro dress code tells us about Chinese attitudes towards women
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By Jackie Sheehan.
All Metro systems have their share of perverts, and some (I'm looking at you, Tokyo) have more than their share. One of the first words I learned when I moved to Japan was 'skebe', as those of us in the target demographic (foreigners, uniformed Japanese schoolgirls) were trained to grab the groper's arm (no mean feat in a rush-hour crush), hold it aloft, and loudly proclaim the owner's 'skebe' or pervert status to the whole carriage. My older and somewhat more cynical self wonders if some of the men didn't enjoy this public humiliation almost as much as the original groping, but still.
The Shanghai Metro has a different, much more conventional way of approaching the problem of perverts preying on women in flimsy summer clothes – urging the women to 'have some self-respect, ladies' and refrain from wearing see-through dresses, short skirts and the like. The photograph which accompanied the Metro's tweet – most news outlets haven't reprinted it, but you can always rely on the Daily Mail for a full-colour reproduction to demonstrate just how disgusting a picture is – must have got the commuting week off to a flying start for the perverts of Shanghai. Perhaps if they just sent out a different picture each day of a young woman displaying her underwear in a public place, the gropers could enjoy them at home and leave the city's female travellers in peace.
As foreign students in Taiwan in the late 1980s, we were similarly told by our well-meaning teachers that we should expect to be harassed in the street if we wore sleeveless tops. We were sceptical of this warning – bare arms? Really? – but we should have remembered our Lu Xun, who once remarked on the effect of short sleeves on the male Chinese observer: 'The sight of women's short sleeves at once makes them think of bare arms, of the naked body, the genitals, copulation, promiscuity, and bastards. This is the sole respect in which the Chinese have a lively imagination.'
Lu Xun was all too familiar with Chinese culture's double standards for male and female sexual behaviour, and his era's exaggerated expectations of female chastity haven't entirely gone away, not least among Chinese women themselves. A survey earlier this year found that acceptance of premarital sex had increased in China, but that twice as many women as men in the 20-39 age group still disapproved of it in all circumstances.
Remember, too, that given the growing gap between average onset of puberty and the minimum age for marriage in China (20 for women and 22 for men), growing acceptance of premarital sex between couples in long-term relationships doesn't mean Chinese society has finally relaxed about women's sexuality in general. Alongside a sex industry so obvious and public that first-time visitors often assume it is legal, Chinese society still harbours deeply conservative attitudes and misogynist myths such as 'a woman can successfully resist rape if she tries hard enough', a statement believed by a majority of female doctors in a recent survey in Hong Kong.
Of course, it's not only Chinese institutions which run repeated campaigns telling women how not to get harassed, assaulted or raped, apparently without ever thinking of trying the more direct approach of publicly reminding men not to harass, assault or rape; the west is just the same. Perhaps Shanghai could come up with a suitable slogan to pioneer the alternative approach: how about 'have some self-control, gentlemen'?
Jackie Sheehan is Senior Fellow of the China Policy Institute and Associate Professor of the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham.
Opinions expressed in the CPI blog do not represent the views of the China Policy Institute or the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham. They are the personal views of the bloggers/authors.
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A: I don't know if I should comment or answer, since I can't answer the whole question, but I can provide a partial answer. The reason it's saying your class has no initializer is because you have a non-optional var in your class. If you make that optional, that error will go away. I'm afraid I don't know what kBarChart is, so I can't help you there.
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I just noticed the initializer you use to initialize chart is of type NKBarChart, so maybe you were trying to have chart be of type NKBarChart rather than KBarChart. Also, you don't need to declare the type of the variable since the compiler can infer it in this situation.

A: Hopefully I can answer the other Part. There seems to be a typo in this line
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Mission Chinese Food's Moonwalk Cocktail photographed by Mikey Asanin.
The following feature appears in the May 2017 issue of NYLON.
It's a known fact: Black is always in fashion. And these days the color has transitioned from street-style staple to cocktail menu must-have courtesy of activated charcoal, the ingredient responsible for the spike in midnight-hued happy hour beverages on your Instagram feed.
You might recognize the activated-charcoal hype from the beauty world, as seen in the form of face masks, cleansers, and even toothpastes, since it's believed to absorb dirt and oil. A similar theory applies to ingesting it—once in your body, proponents say that activated charcoal binds to and eliminates toxins in your system. For this reason, it's also become a favorite of the supplement- and juice-shop set.
But now that activated charcoal seems to have officially crossed over from health fad to fun drink trend, a bevy of aesthetically on-point cocktails are cropping up that incorporate the ingredient to magical, moody effect.
Slowly Shirley's Perla Negra Cocktail photographed by Mikey Asanin.
Mission Chinese Food's Moonwalk cocktail, for instance, is made from mezcal, yuzu sake, kosho, citrus, and, of course, activated charcoal, and is sprinkled with "disco salt" (a combination of Maldon salt crystals and confectioners' luster dust). Slowly Shirley in New York's West Village has also created a showstopping drink dubbed the Perla Negra, a large-format, rum-punch cocktail served in a huge skull glass, topped with sorrel, and garnished with flowers and a burning candle.
Both Sam Anderson of Mission Chinese Food and Ray Sakover of Slowly Shirley acknowledge that the charcoal's primary function is to create a deep black tone, and that the ingredient doesn't really alter the flavor profile of drinks. That said, it definitely makes the cocktail experience more exciting. And while it's important to note that health professionals advise against consuming too much activated charcoal, indulging in the occasional cocktail only turned our tongues black.


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After reading the November traffic results from the major legacy airlines, one would've assumed that the month was a throwaway for all airlines. The timing of the Thanksgiving holiday pushed passenger return traffic into December. All of the major airlines reported declining load factors, with Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL ) and US Airways, now part of American Airlines Group (NASDAQ: AAL ) , blaming the late Thanksgiving and proclaiming that December will be strong.
But, along came Spirit Airlines (NASDAQ: SAVE ) with some surprisingly positive numbers. The company did note a small decline in load factor, but the other traffic totals suggest that November was a normal month to the airline.


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The United States was the first country to begin fracking for natural gas, a violent process in which millions of gallons of water laced with chemicals are injected deep into the ground to fracture the rock and allow natural gas to flow back up to the surface along with dirty flowback water. Some countries, such as the United Kingdom, Germany, and Poland have tried to jump on the fracking bandwagon; whereas others, like France, have outright banned this practice.
The United States is a fracker's paradise because it is geographically situated to contain the largest reserves of natural gas than anywhere else in the entire world. Unfortunately, the federal government is all too willing to tap this resource as quickly as possible, and with little regulation. This includes our public lands. The gas industry enjoys exemptions from parts of seven major environmental statutes and reporting programs, including the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act.
In Europe, the laws and issues are different, but we can learn about the dangers of fracking from the unique experiences of other countries.
In Germany, many brewers have warned Chancellor Angela Merkel that fracking could damage the country's beer industry. The Brauer-Bund beer association is concerned that fracking could pollute water that's used in the brewing process, breaking the reinheitsgebot, the 500-year-old industry rule that beer must be produced using only malt, hops, and pure water.
Germany's annual Oktoberfest in Munich, the largest folk festival in the world, which attracts 7 million visitors from around the world, could be threatened if Germany starts fracking. "The water has to be pure and more than half Germany's brewers have their own wells which are situated outside areas that could be protected under the government's current planned legislation on fracking," said a Brauer-Bund spokesman. "You cannot be sure that the water won't be polluted by chemicals so we have urged the government to carry out more research before it goes ahead with a fracking law," he added.
As the largest producer of beer in Europe and the third-largest per-capita consumer after the Czech Republic and Austria, it's no wonder that Germany is concerned about this industry. The country is home to more than 1,300 breweries producing about 5,000 varieties of beer, enough for someone to try a new beer every day for 13 and a half years!
Pressure is rising from the German industry to consider fracking. Meanwhile, Merkel's center-right party is beginning work on a law that would protect specific places from fracking. It's improbable that a law will be passed on fracking before an election in September due to the resistance from the brewing industry and other opposition, which could block the law in the upper house of parliament.
In the United Kingdom, particularly in England, fracking has become a hot topic because Prime Minister David Cameron has endorsed this method of shale gas extraction. However, many in the UK disagree with Cameron's opinion. According to a Opinium/Observer poll, when people were asked if they would like to see various alternative types of energy projects in their area, 60 percent said they would be happy to have wind farms or turbines, whereas only 23 percent wouldn't mind having fracking take place in their area. A poll by the Balcombe Parish Council found that among residents, 82 percent said they opposed fracking. Most people were concerned about the increase of heavy traffic through their towns and about the local water supply and environment.
This month, there have been many protests, most notable those have occurred in Balcombe, West Sussex, in the southeast part of England. Twenty-five anti-fracking protesters were arrested outside of the gates where energy company Cuadrilla had been drilling. Those arrested include the Green Party Member of Parliament Caroline Lucas. During the protests, Cuadrilla temporarily stopped their drilling operations in the area. However, according to The Guardian, the protests have died down while the police operations have been scaled down.
Poland was estimated to have more untapped natural gas reserves than any other country in the European Union. Because of this, country officials wanted to try to replicate the fracking boom that occurred in the United States.
Poland, which has largely supported fracking, was supposed to be the country to move forward with shale gas extraction despite some opposition. Because Poland is also dependant upon Russia for its energy, some promised that fracking would help them and the EU have more energy independence. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimated that Poland had 5.3 trillion cubic meters of gas, but geological studies conducted by Polish scientists found only a fraction of the potential. According to the EIA, the estimate reserves in Poland were cut from 44 trillion cubic feet in 2011 to 9 trillion last year.
Now, however, we know that the estimate of shale gas are lower than expected, and that several major energy companies -- including ExxonMobil -- have decided to pull out of the country. Poland's issues with shale gas extraction point to some of the major problems with this industry in Europe. For more information, check out this article or this one.
France and Bulgaria are the only countries that have a ban on fracking. In 2011, under former President Nicolas Sarkozy, France became the first country to ban fracking, citing environmenal concerns as the reason for the ban. Just last year, Sarkozy said that France will maintain its fracking ban until there is proof that shale gas exploration won't harm the environment or "massacre" the landscape. François Hollande, Sarkozy's successor, also supports the ban. France's Constitutional Court is reviewing the ban's constitutionality.
Bulgaria banned fracking in January 2012, thwarting Chevron Corporation's plans to drill in the country. The ban on fracking in Bulgaria began with grassroots opposition. Farmers and environmentalists realized that injecting water, sand and chemicals under high pressure to fracture the bedrock and release the gas involves a serious risk of groundwater contamination. Following large street protests by environmentalists, Bulgarian lawmakers voted overwhelmingly for a ban.
Many states and countries are in the midst of making decisions about what to do about fracking. It is important that, as we move forward, we consider whether it is really worth fracking up our landscape at the possible expense of damaging water supplies, decreasing air quality, and harming our communities. Let's encourage our leaders to move beyond natural gas toward renewables and join in helping the environmental movement around the world to promote clean, sustainable energy.


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Grievance, paranoia, and Ian Buruma
Many observers in the Dutch press had a hard time understanding the fall of Ian Buruma. My explanation was published in Dutch in Letter&Geest on September 29, 2018.
Ian Buruma is out. Our man in New York, the Dutchman who made his name in the English-speaking world with insightful books about Japan, his family history, and a murder in Amsterdam, winner of the Erasmus Prize, resigned under pressure last week as editor in chief of The New York Review of Books.
Buruma's offense was to publish an essay by Jian Ghomeshi, who wrote about losing his job and friends after several women accused him of sexual assault. The first-person account by the Canadian former radio host was meant to add nuance to the fierce debate around #MeToo. Yet Buruma was sharply criticized in the media and online. In an interview with Dutch monthly Vrij Nederland he called his resignation "a capitulation to social media and university presses," which had sided with #MeToo against freedom of opinion.
Only there was something fishy about Ghomeshi's soul-searching. If Buruma had Googled his name, he would have discovered that 'several' women was actually more than 20. Ghomeshi spoke of being charged with two counts of sexual assault, not seven; these included non-consensual hitting and choking during sex. He mentioned a settlement, but not that it was for a three-year-long campaign of sexual harassment of a colleague. Descriptions of more violent abuse, given by women outside the courtroom, he insinuated were baseless gossip.
When an interviewer pointed out the discrepancies, Buruma dug his hole deeper by stating that the facts of the case didn't matter. To him the piece was about Ghomeshi's humiliation and exclusion and whether he had now served his time. Besides, he added, Ghomeshi was acquitted. Nothing was proven. It was impossible to say what really happened, and to him it didn't matter. "The exact nature of his behavior…I have no idea, nor is it really my concern."
His indifference was his undoing.
After word of his resignation went around, I got into a conversation online with a few other American writers. Some were celebrating his fall. Some worried about the destructive power of #MeToo. Misogyny! Freedom!
The big words started to bother me. Why, I asked, should this be about anything more than poor editorial judgment? An editor is responsible for the facts and, in a personal essay, the emotional honesty of what he prints. Buruma hadn't done his job.
Another writer, friends with Buruma, said he was concerned nonetheless about the dampening effect on public discourse. Buruma had always had a strong ethical compass, he pointed out. If someone like him couldn't publish about #MeToo, then who was free to speak?
I agreed about his moral compass. Buruma was an ally who had worked at the NYRB to hold Trump to account. But did that mean we had to throw his case into the free-speech soup? I suspected he had been too eager to run the piece, had overridden others' warnings. (Later the publisher of the NYRB stated that Buruma had "had cast longstanding editorial practice aside and excluded all the magazine's female staff" from the reading process, showing the draft to only one other editor, a man.) A bad article is not the same as a risky stance. Couldn't we keep those separate?
We agreed that that was the question. We didn't have an answer.
Meanwhile it became clear how poorly Buruma understood the debate he'd entered. In Vrij Nederland he defended his decision: Ghomeshi, he emphasized, was not convicted. "It is absolutely not true that I do not have empathy for women who are mistreated or assaulted. But I also want to know: what happens when you are publicly pilloried on social media? That story had not been told."
Yet that story has been told over and over, by women, who very often find themselves subject to online insults, threats, and campaigns of intimidation. The Cambridge classicist Mary Beard, wrote an excellent book about it last year, Women and Power. Letter&Geest interviewed her on it, and I wrote about it here. The NYRB didn't run a review.
Buruma's first assertion is equally irrelevant. From the beginning the goal of #MeToo was to bring to light the actual events and lived experience of survivors of sexual abuse, in the face of men whose whole career as abusers was predicated on their being powerful and willing to lie. Unfortunately, acquittal in court often means little more than no witnesses and insufficient proof.
To see how an abuser works this to his advantage, just listen to America's current president. In 'Fear' Bob Woodward quotes his advice on the subject: "You've got to deny, deny, deny and push back on these women…. You've got to push back hard. You've got to deny anything that's said about you. Never admit."
It's almost impossible for someone in the Netherlands to understand the effect on the body politic of a president who swims in lies like a predatory fish in a muddy lake. America is awash in grievance and paranoia. Trump turns all the news into a matter of opinion, and freedom of expression into a sludge in which the press is slowly going under. As NRC critic Thomas de Veen commented, a personal essay like Ghomeshi's "is in practice almost a license to bend the facts to your own ends, because it's 'your story.'"
What America is suffering from is not a shortage of opinions, but a lack of solid ground.
Bad timing certainly abetted Buruma's fall. As a writer, he's known for being wary of strong emotions and extremist political positions. From such a reasonable point of view, though, it's hard to comprehend just what a powder keg America is right now. Rights, including women's rights, are under pressure. If women seem "hysterical" to you, it's because we're looking over your shoulder at everything that's coming at us.
That includes Brett Kavanaugh, whose youthful assholery is being aired in public because we aren't being told his judicial views, and because his apparent hostility to women's rights isn't enough by itself to keep the Senate from confirming him. Democrats are weaponizing #MeToo as a last defense against institutional sexism. It's risky, desperate, destructive, but I'm right there with them.
The American Left (young people, women) is out for blood. So is the Right (old people, men). Even my calm, level-headed 80-year-old mother is breathing feminist fire. This situation is distorting everyone's judgment, including mine. Including that of Buruma, who wanted to preach peace to the opposing armies and was left lying on the battlefield, a martyr to the ill-chosen free word.
No, I finally concluded, it's not possible to see Buruma's departure separately from larger questions of political anger and freedom of speech. But it's not a threat to free speech, either. On the contrary: free speech thrives not on self-serving half-truths but on integrity, transparency, and accuracy.
The Left's insistence on openness can seem dangerously Puritan. But in these days of Trumpian gaslighting, all I crave is the truth. And honestly? You can get lost with your fact-free contrary opinion.