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Oh man, ANOTHER horrific Stenger remodel…AND 727K???
100 percent agree on that…it hurts!
UGH, and look at the AC unit in the front. A total joke at 727k.
Why oh why did they have to ruin it? And what a ridiculous price for a home depot special remuddle!
is this place available for rental? if so please email me.
A purist, to my mind, is someone who would would only finish a place out with original materials, notwithstanding hazard or expense. What this bunch did is beyond non-purist — it's like balls-to-the-wall anti-purist. I don't understand why you'd seek out and buy such a unique, thoughtfully designed home, only to go about undoing it and outfitting it in prime suburban blandness. It's like someone buying a classic Gibson guitar and having it customized to look like a brand new Ibanez. The asking price says this is someone who just bought a place — any place — HELOC'd the upgrades and are now upside down in their bubble-era investment.
RENT: I don't know how you could rent this out and make a profit in lieu of selling at or near their crazy asking price. You'd be looking at about 4k in monthly rent.
I'm probably a contrarian here, but its a decent remodel on the inside – not particularly my style, but shows nice from the picture. As for the price, I really dont think its out of line with the neighborhood since its one of the largest lots in that desirable area. You're paying quite a bit for the .66 acres in 78704. The lot alone would set you back north of 500k in most of the better parts of 04.
I have to disagree with D: This listing is right at the top of $/sf for area 7 for both active and sold properties (over the past 12 months). The only comp is the MJ Neal/Stenger remodel on Rundell for roughly the same price (and presumably the benchmark for this listing).
I drove by the listing yesterday and was underwhelmed by the house and lot (granted, I didn't go inside).
I think there are a few MCM fans out there who can still afford to pay a premium for a well done period house but this doesn't appear to be one of those properties.
The house on Taylor Gaines would be a much better starting point and over the longer term, a better investment in percentage gain (but there's the issue of schools).
Sorry, but D, if you think this is "a decent remodel on the inside," you're on the wrong website, dear.
D: The nationwide credit bubble/housing bubble started to really ramp-up starting in '99. Austin did lag the curve, but even by '03, housing was already tracking significantly higher than inflation. There were literally caravans of speculators being flown in and shuttled around Austin to look at properties. Granted, the bubble may not have had the same momentous impact here as in the sand states, but by '03, the house-as-genius-investment mindset had already well gripped Austin home buyers.
I maintain this place is overpriced by easily 350K, and that's being quite conservative. Forget the 78704 propaganda for a second — do you know what 700K would have bought you in Austin ten years ago? Do you have any idea how far that kind of bread went in just about ANY city in any state?? Have incomes tracked this housing inflation? The BLS #s tells us quite the opposite. We're still in a forestalled housing correction, including here in Austin. I may revile this seller's taste, but they are at least wise in trying to bail before they find themselves any more upside down than they already are.
One more point to support the other comments: This house sold for $250k in late 2002 (went under contract same day it was listed).


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'Concierge' medicine gives patients the royal treatment. Still, the service has its price — and its critics
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Doctors haven't made house calls since they wore head mirrors. But Dr. John Blanchard will make residential visits. Not in every case, mind you. But it's part of his service as a so-called "concierge" doctor, an emerging practice model in the complicated chaos of American health care.
The Clarkston family practitioner prefers the term "innovative practice" and, in fact, he's founder of the Society for Innovative Medical Practice Design, but concierge seems to be the colloquial term for his practice model. It's a white flag of sorts in the rat race of corporate medicine, an opt-out that allows him to practice better medicine and his patients to get better care. It has a price, but for a certain sort of patient, it's one they're happy to pay.
The concierge model is this: Patients pay an annual fee — around $200 a month in Blanchard's practice, billed quarterly — for a higher level of care. Their appointments last longer. They spend more time in conversation with their doctors, discussing not only illness, but also its prevention. They never have to wait; in fact, Blanchard boasts that the offices of Premier Private Physicians don't even have waiting rooms, because patients arrive and are seen immediately. Patients have their doctor's cell-phone number, and are encouraged to call whenever they have a problem, 24 hours a day.
All office visits are covered by the retainer fee. Anything else — lab work, hospitalization, and specialist referrals — is billed to a patient's insurance, which they are required to have.
In return, Blanchard can treat his patients at a much slower pace. A typical concierge practice is limited to 300 patients. (A large-group private-practice physician might have 3,000.) He can really get to know them and their situations, the better to understand what might be affecting their health for good or ill. And he will make a lot more money than primary-care doctors in traditional practices.
Primary-care doctors — family practitioners, internists, and other general practitioners who are a patient's first call in case of illness — are the "paupers of the profession," Blanchard says. A good first-care doc has to know about everything from pediatrics to geriatrics, cardiology to orthopedics, but he or she will earn a fraction of what doctors do in most of those specialties. While no patient wants a doctor who's in it only for the money, the plain fact remains that medical students are choosing primary-care specialties at lower rates than the more lucrative sub-specialties, enough that the American Medical Association sees doctor shortages looming, and is studying the issue.
Blanchard says his average patient is over 50 and well-off. They may be self-employed and self-insured, but willing to pay extra not to cool their heels for 90 minutes in a waiting room while a backed-up schedule resolves itself: "They want a doctor who works for them."
Brian Joseph is typical. A funeral director in Warren, he has spent his career in a field that offers very specialized service at stressful times in people's lives, and expects the same in his own.
"When someone's mother has died at home in the middle of the night, we don't tell them we'll be there in the morning," he says. "We go out right away. That's what I want from my doctor."
Recently divorced, the 43-year-old Joseph found himself living alone for the first time in many years, and wondered what would happen if he became too sick to leave home. "I like knowing I can pick up my phone and have a quick response," he says. His time with Blanchard has been a revelation: "My first physical with him took four hours," he says. "He's explaining everything to me, laying everything out. The value you get for your money, it's just incredible."
Vernon Scholz agrees. A Warren engineer, he has a chronic medical condition that has so far been resistant to treatment, and, frustrated, he wanted "a medical quarterback, someone who could coordinate everything." Blanchard will accompany patients to consultations with specialists, and Scholz loves that. "You can call him when you have a question, when it's fresh in your mind, and he picks up the phone."
So concierge medicine is win-win? Not for everybody, says Dr. Susan Steigerwalt, a Detroit nephrologist with a large practice composed of far poorer patients. As past president of Physicians for a National Health Program, she emphasizes that she speaks only for herself. To her, concierge medicine only puts off what she sees as the only solution to the nation's health-care woes: a single-payer national health plan.
She's sympathetic to the problems that led Blanchard and his patients down that path. "But the bigger problem is 49 million uninsured — people skipping their meds because they can't afford them this month," she says. And as for that concierge service, Steigerwalt says: "My little old ladies with uncontrolled hypertension have my cell-phone number, too."
Derringer is a Grosse Pointe Woods-based freelancer. E-mail: editorial@hourdetroit.com.
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The Tampa Bay Rays have won a lot of baseball games lately.
Rarely, however have they clobbered an opponent like this.
The Rays clobbered a strong Washington Nationals team Monday night, winning an 11-0 game in a game that featured many stars.
— Blake Snell, who had a no-hitter going through the sixth inning and finished with his 10th win of the season. Snell struck out 10 in a commanding performance.
— Kevin Kiermaier gave the Rays a big lead early when he hit a grand slam in the second inning. It was Kiermaier's second career grand slam and his first home run of the year.
— Wilson Ramos, the leading vote-getter for catcher on the American League All-Star team, hit two home runs.
— And rookie Jake Bauers, a day after his home run beat the New York Yankees, went four-for-five in the game.
The Rays are 6-2 in their last eight games.
Cash said that Snell had "no-hit stuff." However, he said "Kyle (the pitching coach) probably would have choked me if I had let him go beyond a certain point."
Snell was pleased with his effort.
Snell said he wasn't thinking about the no-hitter.
Cash said he thought Ramos deserves to be an all-star.
Cash also hoped that the grand slam could get Kiermaier going again.
Said Kiermaier: "I keep telling people this game is a funny game. I go on my rehab assignment and I was barreling up so many balls and ever since I've been back in the big leagues, that hasn't been the case. Bases juiced right there I just wanted to put the ball in play and drive in a run whatever way I could.
"I was hoping to try and get under it where I could get a sac fly or a drive in the gap where I could run a little bit. My second grand slam felt great, but it felt good to barrel up a ball and take advantage of a pitch that I should hit. I worked myself to a 3-2 count so I was happy with that, happy with the result obviously. I've felt really good up there the past few days. Still a few things, I need to swing at a few more strikes and lay off a couple bad pitches."
The Rays play an afternoon game today at 12:10 p.m. Nathan Eovaldi will pitch against Max Scherzer.


Most of you are familiar with the concept of stockpiling when it comes to the grocery store, buying 3-6 months worth of products your family uses when it hits the lowest price in the sales cycle. The same idea can be applied to summertime produce, stockpiling when it is fresh and inexpensive. Having a plan is important, whether that is canning, freezing, eating, dehydrating, or baking.
Of course, stocking your pantry (or linen closet or garage shelves) and freezer does require an initial investment of time, money, and equipment. I think the results are more than worth it. By drying your own fruit, you can keep it simple. Just fruit, without any added sugar or preservatives. By canning and freezing your own produce, you can control the price, quality, and quantity.
Baking with fresh fruit is great, but I actually prefer to eat it fresh while we can and save the baking for those colder winter months. Frozen fruit can be substituted for fresh in most recipes. It is easier to chop and only slightly increases the baking time.
Kari wrote a great post on Tips for Freezing Fruit. Here are several additional ways to use the most common u-pick produce that is in season from June to October in the Pacific Northwest. Leave your ideas in the comments section!
Core, slice, and dry in a food dehydrator. Store in bags or containers in the freezer.
Pear Vanilla Jam – My favorite spread. It is so delicious with goat cheese & No-Knead Bread.
Pit, halve, and dry in a food dehydrator. Store in bags or containers in the freezer.
Tomato Jam – Takes the humble BLT Sandwich (and pretty much everything else) to a whole new level.
I own this Nesco 600-Watt Food Dehydrator. It is the best-selling dehydrator available on Amazon. While I would prefer a clear lid and a power button, it does a great job of drying evenly and I have been pleased with the results. I love being able to dry fruit, especially discounted seconds (slightly imperfect) or day-old fruit. The price on this dehydrator does drop, so if you are in the market for one be ready to grab it when it hits the $40-50 range.
Is it just me or are the prices alot higher this year or is it just my location? Any suggestions on getting a better price for produce? I even found the supermarket trucked produce is cheaper then local which seems really strange to me.
Bi-Mart has the 500 watt Nesco on sale every couple of weeks for $39.99. That is the one I recently purchased and love it ! I bought one for my oldest DD and one for a GD, too.
I have been making LOTS of kale chips (that Grandkids really like) with the abundance of kale in my garden.
That's where I got mine too. We should start to see some sales on Amazon too.
What about figs? Do you have any ideas on how to preserve them? I love eating them fresh, but I'd also like to know whether I can dehydrate them … or is it best to freeze … or neither? Thanks for any advice you can give!
I have really been wanting to get a dehydrator. Maybe I need to just go ahead and buy this. I need to dry this summers wonderful fruit. Anyone else have one that they love? Emily – what extras do you have? Should I buy extra racks now? With the trays that come with it about how many peaches can you do at a time and how long does one batch of peaches take? I think I would need the fruit rolls sheets for sure with two small children in my house.
I have the same one and I like it. I added 2 trays. I can't speak to peaches because I've never dried them but a batch of apple chips (I like mine crispy) takes about 7-8 hours on 135 degrees. Strawberry chips took me around 4. I have one fruit roll sheet that came with the dehydrator.
This post is exactly what I needed. Thanks for the ideas Emily! One other idea is to crush your berries, freeze them, and make jam on a cold winter day rather than right now.


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Navigation is travel or transportation over water. Many different kinds of boats and vessels are used on rivers to move people and products from one place to another.
Navigation was extremely important for foreign and domestic trade and travel in the early days of our country before cars, trucks, trains and airplanes were invented. In those days, rivers were used as "roads" to connect inland settlements to river and coastal ports. Communities established at these ports became important economic, cultural and social hubs in the development of our nation.
Today, navigable inland waterways provide a cost-effective, fuel efficient means for moving major bulk commodities, such as grain, coal and petroleum. Inland navigation is a key element of state and local government economic development and job-creation efforts, and is essential in maintaining economic competitiveness and national security. For more information, view our brochure Inland Waterway Navigation Value to the Nation (PDF).
Navigation activities in the United States take place at thousands of ports and terminals along more than 25,000 miles of waterways. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for facilitating safe, reliable and economically efficient movement of vessels, and it does so by constructing and maintaining navigation channels and harbors, and regulating water levels on inland waterways.
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Sedimentation in the channel is caused by the normal cycle of silt movement, erosion from high water or heavy rains and changes in river currents. To maintain the 9-foot navigation channel, material that settles in the channel area must be removed. Mechanical or hydraulic dredging are methods for the removal of that material. This material is placed in designated areas along the river. Some of these areas are beneficial use placement areas.
Beneficial use of dredged material is the productive use of the material by the public or private sectors. Examples of common beneficial uses of dredged material in the St. Paul District are upland habitat development, wetland creation, aquatic habitat enhancement, creation of areas for bird nesting, beach nourishment, winter road maintenance, levee repair and improvement, aggregate for concrete, lining fly ash pits, bank protection and general purpose fill. The district is responsible for maintaining 243.6 miles of navigation channel to a depth of at least 9 feet on the Mississippi River from Minneapolis at river mile 857.6 to Guttenberg, Iowa, at river mile 614.0, and 40.6 miles on three tributaries: the Minnesota, St. Croix and Black rivers.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. –The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, awarded a $7.475 million contract Sept. 24, 2018, to Dubuque Barge & Fleeting Services, Co., of Dubuque, Iowa, to carry-out a Corps Island Dredged Material Unloading project.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. –The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, recently awarded a $5.3 contract to Kaiyuh Services, LLC, of Anchorage, Alaska, to make repairs to the guidewalls at Locks and Dams 4 and 5A on the Mississippi River.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. –The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, awarded a $1,292,230 contract Aug. 31, to Kraemer North America, LLC, of Plain, Wisconsin, to make repairs to the Lock and Dam 6 navigation support system.
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Dredging Operations at Lock and Dam 2 in Hastings, Minnesota in 2011.
Maintenance at Lock and Dam 9
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Getting in on winter maintenance - Lock and Dam 9 undergoes guidewall repairs during the non-navigation season. The site, near Eastman, Wisconsin, is one of several of the district's critical facilities receiving millions in repairs and upgrades to ensure their serving the nation for years to come.The work includes divers ensuring the forms are properly placed and secured before concrete is pumped into voids within the guidewall structures, which serve as extensions of lock walls to guide vessels into the lock chamber and provide mooring for long tows.
Aerial photo of Lock and Dam 2
Aerial photo of Lock and Dam 2 in Hastings, Minnesota, Sept. 2007
Corps says farewell to 2019 navigation season
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The Motor Vessel Kelly Rae Erickson departed St. Paul, Minnesota, Nov. 28, marking the last tow of the 2019 navigation season on the Upper Mississippi River within the St. Paul District.
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HASTINGS, Minn. - Representative Angie Craig tours Lock and Dam 2 with Col. Jansen.
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Good navigation is the backbone of any website. How a user navigates your site can lead them to convert or to never return to your website again. Most websites have some sort of navigation to guide visitors through each page, however, some websites take an extra step and really add the WOW factor to their navigation. We have compiled five websites that break the mold when it comes to website navigation.
Timeline: Boligreisen
http://boligreisen.no/
Granted, unless you are Norwegian, you will have absolutely no idea what this website actually says, however the design and navigation is superb. The premise of the website design is to take the user through the journey of buying a house, from thinking about a new home all the way through to your new housewarming party. Users can scroll through the website via arrows or by simply scrolling down on the mouse. Users dive into a virtual world that begins inside a man's head, flies down into a paper world on the wing of a paper bird and continues through each step of buying a house. Each stage has links to useful resources and products offered by the company, and the simple timeline navigation at the top of the site allows users to go back and forth as much as they need.
Discreet: Sassi Holford
http://sassiholford.com/
One thing to note is that, even though navigation is very important to any website, a trend is developing where websites do not show the navigation upfront as you can see with this bridal website out of the UK. At first glance, the eye focuses on the beautiful image of the bride, not the logistics of how the site works. Users can then press on the familiar image of three horizontal lines, found mainly on mobile versions of websites, to reveal the navigation options. This is a great tactic for fashion or photography websites where the initial impact should be of a beautiful image to draw the user into the site.
Complex Simplicity: Commercial Bank of Dubai
https://www.cbd.ae/
The navigation on the Commercial Bank of Dubai's website is complex simplicity at its best. Users are faced with six options: Bank, Borrow, Protect, Invest, Discover, Budget and Track, which guide users to their destination efficiently. The navigation bar also follows users down the page as they scroll, meaning they don't have to go back to the top of the page to choose where they want to go next. This website is an inspiration to a company that has many things to offer all on one site. The Commercial Bank of Dubai website has clear call to action buttons designed to guide returning and unique users through the site competently, catering to many needs all in one space.
Innovation meets Traditional: Singapore Airlines
http://siapremiumeconomy.com/
The Singapore airline's website allows users to navigate the site in both a traditional and innovative way. Users typically look to the top of a page to find the navigation bar, something they can do on this website with four options and a call to action button for 'Flights'. The fun starts with the dots lining the right hand side the page that lead users to different pages on the site. Users can jump in between dots to explore different aspects of the airline and its offerings. By simply scrolling too, users will be taken through each page/dot in chronological order.
Eye Tracking and the Future: Armani Frames of Life
http://framesoflife.armani.com/the-campaign/en-us
Ever wanted to navigate through a site using your eyes? Well, it would seem that this reality is not far away. This website for Giorgio Armani glasses gives users a hint of the future using eye tracking software. Users are prompted to allow the website to use their webcam, and once this is enabled, users have to close their eyes for two seconds to signify to the website to play a video. Is the future of navigation going to be through signals from your eyes? Tell us your thoughts over on our Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn.
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Billy Ciancaglini, a criminal defense attorney from South Philadelphia, is running for mayor as a Republican. He said he switched parties when Democrats backed sanctuary cities, the soda tax and safe injection sites, all of which he'd do away with if elected.
Billy Ciancaglini, a criminal defense attorney from South Philadelphia who prefers blunt bravado to measured niceties, didn't initially seem all too keen on sitting down to talk about his quest to become the 100th mayor in city history.
Those words came at a time when the single 48-year-old man with no children was being branded as such by the Unicorn Riot independent-media website and a local activist that accuse him of meeting with members of a white-supremacist organization.
"Billy For Philly" just ordered the buffalo chicken tenders inside a raucous Chickie's and Pete's on Packer Avenue as the Auburn Tigers fended off the New Mexico State Aggies a couple hours into the first day of March Madness.
When it quiets to the point that he can be heard, Ciancaglini hearkened back to a "petition party" earlier this month.
The event came near the end of an ugly, heated intra-party battle for the GOP nomination that broke his way when the initial endorsed nominee, Daphne Goggins, dropped out because of a lack of signatures, among other issues.
Ciancaglini bit his tongue neither during nor after that battle with Goggins who, for a short time, was the city party's first-ever endorsed African-American woman candidate.
"That event was a great time. I was surrounded by 100 people from all walks of life. Everybody got along," he said, making the case that he's not racist, either. "I've spent the last 16 years representing clients, 80 percent of them black and Latino, for little money, sometimes for free. None of them ever called me racist.
Gwen Snyder, the activist who launched a social media campaign against Ciancaglini since the Unicorn Riot story appeared, held firm in her belief that people are listening to these people anyway.
"The Identity Evropa leaks showed that extremist white supremacist groups have successfully infiltrated the Pennsylvania Republican party," she said. "These white supremacists bragged specifically about meeting with Billy Ciancaglini, and about his active courting of their vote.
"They marched next to known white supremacists, including a uniformed Proud Boy. ... These men and the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Republican parties must denounce these hate groups by name and in no uncertain terms, and must condemn the white supremacist violence these groups support, including racist police violence like the shooting of Antwon Rose in 2018."
It's safe to say that Ciancaglini's correct in believing that he'll be painted as a Trumpian candidate once city Democrats decide his opposition in November's primary election.
Ciancaglini suspects the vote between Mayor Jim Kenney and challengers Alan Butkovitz and state Sen. Anthony Williams will break down 50 to 30 to 20 percent, respectively.
That's fine with him. Taking on Kenney is what he wants. The only time he gets as fiery as when denying white supremacist ties and racist accusations is when he talks about the incumbent, whose policies led him to switch parties last year.
"What's that old saying, 'the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing?'" he said. "That's why I'm running. Somebody had to. The sanctuary city has to end. The 'soda tax' has to go. No way we should have safe injection sites.
Ciancaglini's approach is aggressive, a product of what happens when a defense attorney's demeanor meets an angry and agitated political world. But will it work in a city that last elected a Republican as mayor when Harry Truman was president?
Intimating that that scenario may already be in the works, he claimed that the majority of Philadelphians are on his side when it comes to those issues, but their voices get drowned out.
"Once the Democratic Party changed from what I agree with – the sanctuary city, the soda tax, the safe injection sites – that was it for me," said Ciancaglini, who ran for a judicial position as a Democrat.
Soda tax: Even City Council is now "figuring out what they should've known along if they had their finger on the pulse of the people" in trying to reverse course.
He's fixated on those issues to the point that he already knows how he'd address them should he win.
When it comes to safe-injection sites, he spends a few minutes discussing a policy proposal he's developed that would prioritize offering rehabilitation, job training and short-term affordable housing instead.
That policy seems overly ambitious, but Ciancaglini said the services are already being offered in the city, just not in conjunction with one another.
He's asked about the Trump parallels which will likely surface should he take his brash approach into the campaign season, which he most assuredly will.
He chided Kenney's overwrought reaction before hearing the full story behind a black doll being found hanging with a noose around its neck in a South Philadelphia playground, and the lack of an apology after the reality of the situation became clear.
"He doubled down even after being proven 100 percent incorrect," he said. "He just can never say, 'I made a mistake, and I apologize.' That's shameful. If you're wrong, admit it. If I'm wrong, I admit it. A sincere apology makes the issue go away instantly.
He wonders aloud whether new details will emerge tying Kenney more deeply into the federal indictment recently filed against labor leader John Dougherty, City Councilman Bobby Henon and others. That would certainly help his efforts, he thinks.
He's asked about the Trump parallels to how he conducts himself.
For now, though, he has to bide his time waiting for the Democratic primary in May. He said he'll try to get invited to debates during the next two months, so he can share his ideas more widely.
"Could you imagine me on stage with Kenney? Do you think he'd actually do that?" he asked. "I hope so. That'll be fun."
Would it be fun? In a gaper-delay sense, sure, but whether it'll happen is an altogether different prospect as Kenney's campaign spokesman, Harrison Morgan, declined to comment on Ciancaglini's remarks in this story.
"This is a man who seeks the support of neo-Nazis and white supremacists," Morgan said Friday night. "We're not even going to engage with him."


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Southern's latest documentary, 'Borderless,' features a rare interview with a human trafficker who helps ferry migrants from Morocco to Spain. The man explained that each client pays between €2,000 ($2,248) and €4,000 ($4,495) for the trip – a business model which Southern described as incredibly lucrative.
The filmmaker revealed to RT that she was told "multiple times" by people on the ground that smugglers bribe members of the Moroccan Coast Guard in order to ensure that certain waterways remain unpatrolled. The sophisticated smuggling operation clashes with what is often portrayed as a purely humanitarian crisis, Southern argued.
While Southern casts doubt over whether most African migrants could be considered legitimate asylum seekers, she said that in some respects, they are still victims. Those who attempt the perilous journey to Spain are often fed false promises of European citizenship and a good job by opportunistic smugglers, she noted. To make matters worse, the smugglers encourage their clients to destroy their passports before arriving in Spain – making them essentially non-persons in the eyes of the EU, thus making proper integration virtually impossible.
"They are not looking to help people," Southern said of the smugglers. She added that she doesn't foresee the traffickers slowing down any time soon. In 2018 alone, nearly 60,000 migrants crossed into Spain by sea – a record year.
Southern, a Canadian-born filmmaker and journalist, has generated considerable controversy with her work and activism. Often labeled as far-right, her critics have accused her of Islamophobic fearmongering. She was barred from entering the UK last year after handing out flyers that read "Allah is gay" in a British town. The stunt resulted in a lifetime ban from entering the country, Southern has claimed.
She's had similar trouble while touring other parts of the world. An event she planned to host in New Zealand last August was canceled after the venue said it wasn't "comfortable" with her message. The activist has also been lampooned for several notable gaffes. During a trip to Australia, Southern claimed on camera that a Sydney suburb she was visiting had been completely stripped of its British culture – prompting her interviewer to point out an Irish pub across the road.


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Q: Apply function (quantile) to matrix rows and use result to modify row I have a matrix, A, filled with random values with shape 10x10. How can I perform a function on each row (finding the 75th quantile), and divide each element in that row of A by that result?
In the below attempt, I am getting a single value for q, but q should be at least 10 values (one for every row). At that point I should be able to do element-wise division with A/q.  What am I doing wrong?
A <- matrix(rnorm(10 * 10), 10, 10)
q <- c(quantile(A[1,], 0.75))
A/q

A: There's rowQuantiles from the matrixStats package:
library(matrixStats)
res <- A / rowQuantiles(A, probs=0.75)

Same result?
identical(apply(A, 1, quantile, probs=0.75), rowQuantiles(A, probs=0.75))
[1] TRUE

Is it faster?
library(microbenchmark)

    microbenchmark(apply=apply(A, 1, quantile, probs=0.75),
                   matStat=rowQuantiles(A, probs=0.75))
    Unit: microseconds
        expr     min       lq    mean   median      uq       max neval cld
       apply 788.298 808.9675 959.816 829.3515 855.154 13259.652   100   b
     matStat 246.611 267.2800 278.302 276.1180 284.386   362.075   100  a

On this matrix, definitely.
What about on a bigger matrix (1000 X 1000)?
A <- matrix(rnorm(1e6), 1000, 1000)

microbenchmark(apply=apply(A, 1, quantile, probs=0.75),
               matStat=rowQuantiles(A, probs=0.75))
Unit: milliseconds
    expr       min       lq     mean    median       uq      max neval cld
   apply 115.57328 123.4831 183.1455 139.82021 308.3715 353.1725   100   b
 matStat  74.22657  89.2162 136.1508  95.41482 113.0969 745.1526   100  a

Not as dramatic, but still yes (ignoring the max value).

A: Solved the issue by using apply, as below:
A <- matrix(rnorm(10 * 10), 10, 10)
q <- apply(A, 1, quantile, probs = c(0.75),  na.rm = TRUE)
A <- A/q

It technically answers the question, but a vectorized approach would be nice.

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Get ready for some cold weather fun as you gear up for the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival!
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The 2020 Saranac Lake Winter Carnival will run from Friday, January 31, 2020 to Sunday, February 9, 2020.
The Winter Carnival takes place at various locations throughout Saranac Lake, NY. The iconic Saranac Lake Ice Palace, shown below, can be found on the shores of Lake Flower at Pontiac Bay.
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Please note that the information below is preliminary. An asterisk (*) indicates an event not run by the Winter Carnival Committee, and the dollar sign ($) indicates a cost associated with an event.
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The Carnival is organized by a group of volunteers called the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival Committee.


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IIT Kanpur now has the distinction of being one of the two institutes from across the world to have its Integrated Circuit design simulation software approved as an industry standard model. After years of hard work and fierce competition, IITK emerged as the only institute, apart from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, to have achieved this distinction.
The design simulation is part of the work by a team lead by Prof. Yogesh Chauhan, Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur. It was chosen as an industry standard model by Compact Model Coalition (CMC), an R&D group formed by companies in the semiconductor industry to develop and standardize simulation programs for simulating Integrated Circuits. Prof. Chauhan's team, along with an Australian collaborator, worked on developing their model for close to 5 years and they have been awarded a grant of US$ 70,000 per year for further research and development by CMC.
An industry standard model is a resource shared by companies in a specific sector so as to reduce R&D and design costs and also to have some standardization across different platforms.
The team's developed model enables companies manufacturing GaN semiconductor devices to test their circuits before actual production. Since the cost of production of GaN devices is extremely high, this software will enable companies to test their circuits before production, hence cutting down on the cost significantly.
GaN semiconductors, when used in power devices, can conserve vast amounts of energy and also increase the efficiency. They also result in faster as well as smaller devices – our laptop chargers have the potential to be condensed to the size of a coin! Although silicon semiconductors are currently the most popular, GaN is slowly being seen as a strong substitute for it in many applications.
GaN devices are also used in power amplifiers which find applications in space exploration. Prof. Chauhan's team is currently also working with ISRO and DRDO to develop testing models as well as GaN devices which will be used in India's space exploration projects.
This software is a crucial step forward in the development of 5G technology as GaN devices are essential for the power amplifiers required in 5G devices. Another team from IIT Kanpur, led by Prof. KV Srivastava, is also currently working on designing antennas essential for 5G technology. This will eventually enable driverless cars, remote surgeries and futuristic appliances to become a reality.


Went out to a dark country road just outside of Rochelle, well not at first. First, on my mission to take in what is generally one of the more spectacular meteor showers, the journey led me down a dark road, one that stretched forever into seeming oblivion.
Two gravel roads stradling the border of DeKalb and Ogle counties, one, a straight shot into darkness and some terrifying horror movie cliche. The other, a pathway to apparent normality; looks, however, can be decieving.
The meteor shower itself was less than spectacular, at least for the Perseids. After about 15 or 20 minutes of craning skyward I counted 5 or 6 meteors. The moon, as predicted, played interference with all but the brightest. Have no fear, 2007 promises to be moon free.
Had I made an earlier arrival at my viewing spot, maybe nine or ten p.m., perhaps the skies before moonrise would have yielded more eye-pleasing results. Either way, any meteors makes for good viewing in my mind.
So, with the dud of a shower taking a backseat to, well, anything more interesting, the surroundings drew more attention than the sky did, eventually. The more innocuous road traveled was home to strange sounds of some unseen (and angry from the sounds it made) wild creature. Coyote? Bobcat? Maybe the rare but occassionally seen mountain lion? More likely a skunk or possum, don't know, didn't stick around to find out. The suggestion of immediate departure was welcomed gracefully from my skywatching cohort.
Fleeing the scene like teens pursued by a Satanic cult another road into darkness presented itself and we bit. The trip down this gravel laden road lasted but a moment when the creepy vibe of being surrounded by cornfields at night took over and another location needed to be found.
Seriously, have you ever been in, around or surrounded by cornfields in the middle of the night? It's disquieting to be sure.
Wild creatures, strange feelings and gravel roads led us to the edge of Rochelle where it was decided after too few meteors to leave the chilly night behind and return forth from whence we came.
If you are used to city lights & noises it's easy to feel disquieted by the deep dark & the songs of frogs. IMO coyotes can raise the hairs on most anybody's neck, though.
p.s. Thanks for the report. Hubby thought he'd somehow missed the meteor show until he read this, didn't spot a thing.


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Controversial e-book sales tactic banned in Canada
Shane DingmanReal Estate Reporter
Apple Inc., along with three other e-book publishers, joined a consent agreement to halt a controversial sales tactic.Jack Taylor/Getty Images
Apple Inc.'s long legal struggle over alleged anti-competitive e-book pricing took another turn on Friday as the company joined a consent agreement with Canada's Competition Bureau that will ban a controversial sales tactic for three years.
Three of Canada's four major book publishers – Hachette Book Group Inc., Macmillan (a subsidiary of Verlagsgruppe Georg Von Holtzbrinck GmbH) and Simon & Schuster Inc. – also agreed to halt a system known as most-favoured nation (MFN) pricing, which prevented competing retailers from selling e-books at a discount compared to Apple's minimum price. A Competition Bureau investigation had found that the MFN arrangement between Apple and the publishers led to higher prices for consumers.
There was no financial component to any of the agreements.
But a fourth major publisher – HarperCollins Publishers LLC – failed to reach an agreement, prompting the watchdog to refer the case to the Competition Tribunal, a separate body that adjudicates matters of business, economics and law.
"This case is about protecting Canadian consumers and ensuring a competitive and innovative digital economy," said John Pecman, Commissioner of Competition, in a statement on the Bureau's website. "I commend Apple, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster for entering into consent agreements that resolve my concerns related to their conduct. As no agreement was reached with HarperCollins, I am taking action today to address its ongoing restrictions on competition in Canada."
In the referral, the Competition Bureau suggests HarperCollins be barred from MFN pricing tactics for 10 years, as well as pay the court costs associated with the proceedings and "any such further relief that the Commissioner may request and the Tribunal deem appropriate."
Apple and Hachette declined to comment on the agreement, while Macmillan and Simon & Schuster Inc. did not respond to requests for comment. A statement from HarperCollins promised to fight the order.
"HarperCollins Canada is disappointed that despite repeated efforts to resolve the issues raised several years ago by the Canadian Competition Bureau regarding events which allegedly took place in the United States, the Commissioner of Competition has chosen to take action against the company. HarperCollins Canada is confident in its position that there is no violation of Canadian competition law and will vigorously defend itself against the allegations made by the Commissioner."
The agreements come after a similar case in the United States. In 2012, HarperCollins was one of three publishers that settled rather than fight an antitrust case against the alleged scheme filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, which alleged collusion among six major publishers aimed at undercutting Amazon's deep discounting practices.
HarperCollins' decision to settle, along with Hachette and Simon & Schuster, left Apple, Macmillan and Penguin to defend the case. Apple was found guilty on antitrust charges in 2013 and eventually settled with 30 states and the federal government to pay $450-million in direct consumer compensation plus fees.
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Q: Count Name list (mixed with Number) I'm trying to count the Customer's Name in my data.
For example, if there are ["Jacob Lee", "Jacob Lee 30220", "30220"] in the column, I want to count these cases as a same person. Because 30220 is Jacob Lee's account number.
I'm not sure how to code this function.
FYI: I'm using python 3.

A: Courtesy of @JohnGordon:
Use if val == 'Jacob Lee' or val.startswith('Jacob Lee ') or val == '30220' or val.startswith('30220 '):


Sorting frantically through the mess of lead line, purse line and web, I stood beneath the boat's power block and directly in the path of anything coming through the mechanized pulley hauling in the net. Then I broke the cardinal rule: I looked up.
A viscous clod of red stinging jellyfish shrapnel hit my forehead, slid down under my sunglasses into my left eye and down my shirt, searing all it touched. But a salmon seining operation does not stop for personal discomfort. I could still see out of one eye.
My dad counted it as a victory that I only had one eye swell shut from jellyfish stings on my first day. Thirty years prior on his first day commercial fishing – also in the Valdez Arm of Prince William Sound – he had been completely blinded. I'm just proud I didn't jump ship.
Dad toughed it out for weeks in Homer, Alaska, before landing a berth on a commercial fishing boat. He worked construction on a shrimp processing facility, surveyed land, played LPs of organ music for a two-member church, and played backup trumpet for an all-black Hawaiian band in a Swedish bar called the "Ya Sure Club." At last, a junior high school student he was teaching to play trumpet said his father had a deckhand opening.
The guy he replaced on the seiner had recently been the Alaska state champion heavyweight wrestler. The kid had washed out after just two weeks of seining, something I didn't fully grasp until my own first day.
Purse seining for salmon requires the concerted effort of four crewmembers: skipper, skiff driver, deckboss and deckhand. We spot schools of jumping, traveling pink salmon, and then stretch the quarter-mile-long net between the mothership and the skiff, parked on shore, to block the fish. After 20 minutes, the two vessels converge, wrapping the net in a circle.
Then we draw up on the bottom of the net like an upside-down coin purse, while the deckhand – me – plunges the surface at the gap with a long, cupped pole. When the fish are completely trapped, we haul the net on board over the power block, forming a bag of fish to roll into the hold. The deckboss stacks the cork line – the floating edge of the net – and the deckhand stacks the lead line and the purse line across the stern.
That first day was among the longest of my life. After 14 hours of seining we finally got to deliver our fish to the tender vessel, requiring me to crouch thigh deep in refrigerated seawater in the fish-hold, shoveling salmon toward the vacuum pump.
Lying damp in my skinny bunk down in the fo'c'sle that night was no comfort. I had two more months of this to endure. At age 21, that seemed like a lifetime.
In the following days, I found myself grumbling about the work. I woke every morning with numb hands from plunging and throwing lead line. Our 76-year-old captain said later he was sure I wouldn't return the next year.
After the initial 14 consecutive days of work, seining closed for a day to allow some of the fish to run up the rivers and spawn, so we ran into the Valdez Harbor for fuel and groceries. I bought some necessities, and then took a walk out of town to think. Sitting by a little creek green and purple with spawning dog salmon reminded me how lucky I was to be in Alaska. I promised myself I would finish out that summer.
Two years later, my third of four seasons, I left Alaska early to start graduate school. My dad – then age 55 – flew up from Whidbey Island, Washington to cover for me and relive a fond memory.
The weather was nasty the day our shifts overlapped, borderline un-fishable. To plunge, I had to brace myself on the gunwale against the sea swell. The net full of jellyfish billowed like a sail coming off the power block, wrapping around my lead and purse lines and everything else within reach. Diving to untangle one mess after another, all while trying to stay on the rolling boat, I caught myself war whooping.
Looking down into the choppy water, thousands of gleaming salmon recoiled in unison from one gray wall of their webbed prison to another. They clapped against each other as we hoisted the 10,000-pound bag on board and into the hold.
Strafing wind and rain rattled like a snare drum on my rubber jacket and bibs. Still, the deckboss and I were tossing chunks of kelp at each other and doing our signature salmon dance.
Glancing over at my dad, smiling and hauling away at the purse line, I understood what he had always tried to teach me. Toughness is more than survival. Toughness is finding joy in adversity.
This story was first published in the summer 2014 issue of Mountain Outlaw magazine.


we want to rest the max-cold-virtual-mta-msg for all cold vmtas.
we went through the forum and got to know it can be achieved by deleting the cold-vmtas.state file.
but want to know the content of cold-vmtas.state file.
here we can see the content .
can anyone please clarify below details?
I am not sure of the specifics as its not in the documentation, but I am under the impression based on how the cold vmta system works that the values are indicative of the queue timers and timers based on how much to send and when to send. If you are simply wanting to clear the cold state and have been instructed by support to simply delete the file, then you should be good. No point screwing with the file.
on the first line 3,2018-09-28 13:43:44.
3 does it mean 3rd day?
I'll have to go ask the dev team what the fields are for, as it's undocumented. The easiest thing to do would be to just stop PowerMTA, delete either the file, or the line for the queue in question, and then restart PowerMTA.


Tennis superstar Maria Sharapova has become Porsche's brand ambassador, signing an initial three-year deal.
Russian tennis superstar Maria Sharapova has been selected by Porsche to be their first ever global brand ambassador, with the four-time Grand Slam champion set to represent the German carmaker for the next three years. While choosing a woman for the role might raise some eyebrows given almost 90 percent of 911 buyers are men, Porsche is adamant the tennis champ is the perfect match, sharing similar attributes of elegance, power and charisma. Like a Porsche, she's also pretty hot to look at and known for making a mean grunt when at full tilt.
Last year, Sharapova won a white 911 Carrera S Cabrio at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, and she can now add Porsche to her impressive commercial portfolio that includes Nike, Tag Heuer, Tiffany & Co. and Samsung that brings her in a cool $30 million a year.
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Elon Musk authors the craziest celebrity baby name to date
The South African billionaire became a father to his sixth child, the first to be named without using an actual word
By Marcus Parekh 6 May 2020 • 2:01pm
Elon Musk poses with his newborn son X Æ A-12 Credit: Elon Musk/Twitter
Celebrities can't seem to help themselves when it comes to naming people after the most ridiculous things. Prince once went by Squiggle. Gwyneth Paltrow named her daughter Apple. Even Katie Hopkins is in on the act, with a girl named India. And who could forget Zowie Bowie?
However, billionaire Elon Musk and his partner Grimes have taken things to a new level of absurdity, announcing that they have decided to name their son "X Æ A-12", sparking immediate confusion and disbelief. Musk added to the bizarre situation by tweeting a picture of his new son with tattoos photoshopped onto his face.
The youngster's mother took to social media to explain what each of the characters in his name mean. "X [represents] the unknown variable. Æ is the Elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence)."
The final symbol in the name is a reference to the A-12 aircraft built for the CIA in the 1960s: "A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favorite aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent."
She added that A additionally stands for "Archangel", "her favorite song."
•X, the unknown variable ⚔
•Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence)
•A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favorite aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent 🤍
(A=Archangel, my favorite song)
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— ꧁ ༒ Gℜiꪔ⃕es ༒꧂ 🍓🐉🎀 小仙女 (@Grimezsz) May 6, 2020
This is not the first time Musk has become a father. He has five children from a previous marriage to Canadian author Justine Wilson. It is, however, the first time Musk has chosen to name one of his children without using an actual word. Neither of the boy's parents have clarified how his name should be pronounced.
It is believed that the birth took place in Los Angeles, where the couple live together. However, California law states that a child's name must consist of the 26 letters that make up the English alphabet, which would mean that X Æ A-12 would not be able to legally register his name. It remains unclear whether Musk is joking or not.
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Op-eds of the week: Young leaders, poll workers, tips for new lawmakers
The state of young leadership
Millennials and Generation Z together are the largest age group in the United States, but only hold one-fifth of all seats in state legislatures. But that hasn't stopped them from having a proud impact on the legislative process, writes Layla Zaidane, president and CEO of the Millennial Action Project.
Young legislators are responsible for authoring 32.9 percent of all bipartisan legislation that actually gets passed – busting any claim that young people in legislatures are more partisan or uncooperative than older generations. In my work at MAP, we have found that, while opinionated and outspoken, young legislators are able to strike a balance between bringing their full selves and opinions to the table and successfully collaborating across the aisle. While young people did not create the problems we're facing, it appears that we're idealistic enough to believe we can solve them and pragmatic enough to know that building coalitions is a necessary step to creating change.
Stories from the polls around the country
Debilyn Molineaux, co-publisher of The Fulcrum, volunteered to be an election worker for the first time this year. She wanted to share her experience – which was very positive – with our readers.
I worked the polls in Maryland for the first time. I am thrilled to know that the people I worked with, everyday Americans from all walks of life, stepped up to do what needed to be done in every moment. They felt personally responsible for ensuring the integrity of the election. It was a grueling 15-hour day. I am sore, I am tired. I am proud. My spirit is lifted by the in-person exchanges, by the many first-time voters and same-day registrants. The people were determined to vote. At one point, our lines were likely 60-90 minutes. I never saw anyone leave. Glad I voted absentee!
And she also invited others to share their experiences as well.
A step back from the edge of the cliff
Democrats retained control of the Senate and Republicans captured just enough seats to take power in the House of Representatives, defying both pundits and the former president. And that's a good thing for democracy, according to author Lawrence Goldstone.
For most Democrats and some Republicans, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, was certain to be a cataclysm. Trump was so confident that he planned to announce another presidential run on election eve, only at the last minute acceding to his advisors' entreaties to wait until the election was over. Then, America's would-be Vladimir Putin would triumphantly begin the process by which he would be swept into office.
But American voters did not cooperate.
Five things the congressional class of 2022 should do differently
Congress returned for its post-election legislative session last week, accompanied by new lawmakers who were in D.C. to attend orientation. But rather than picking up some of the less-productive habits displayed by their predecessors, the newcomers should rethink how they run their offices, writes Bradford Fitch.
One of the most common flaws the Congressional Management Foundation has observed in the past decade is that new members of Congress simply inherit the bad habits of their predecessors. The operational demands of remote work, the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, and the outstanding progress initiated by the House Chief Administrative Officer in recent years have certainly infused more creativity in congressional operations. Yet the first-term members of the 118th Congress have an opportunity to make additional innovations.
Bradford has five tips for organizing offices and handling working with constituents.
Reform in 2023: Leadership worth celebrating
Layla Zaidane
Two technology balancing acts
Reform in 2023: It's time for the civil rights community to embrace independent voters
Jeremy Gruber
Congress' fix to presidential votes lights the way for broader election reform
Democrats and Republicans want the status quo, but we need to move Forward
Christine Todd Whitman
Reform in 2023: Building a beacon of hope in Boston
Henry Santana
Jerren Chang
Special counsels, like those examining Biden's and Trump's handling of classified documents, are intended to be independent – but they aren't entirely
Joshua Holzer
Ask Joe: Combating extreme propaganda
Talking across the political aisle isn't a cure-all - but it does help reduce hostility
Dominik Stecuła
Matthew Levendusky
No one asked for a pro-corruption Congress
Sue Fothergill
Democratic Tools
Kevin Frazier
Podcast: Who stole the American dream?
Video: Want to fight polarization? Take a vacation!
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Video: Minnesota Gov. Walz asks fellow Democrats to 'Think Big' when it comes to fixing voting issues
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That SOAR is empowering Eastern Kentuckians to speak honestly and openly about their concerns is a noteworthy achievement in itself.
Stone reported the health committee's findings to an extraordinary gathering in Hazard that included SOAR's co-founder, U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Somerset; Dr. Thomas Friedan, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; University of Kentucky President Dr. Eli Capilouto; Dr. Mark Evers, head of UK's Markey Cancer Center, and Dr. Stephanie Mayfield, state health commissioner.
Asked by Herald-Leader reporter Bill Estep if he would support exploring the link between mining and health problems, Rogers, a longtime coal-industry loyalist, said "we need to know if there's anything to it, certainly."
Rogers and his partner in SOAR, Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear, should not wait for the final report later this year to seek a comprehensive study of the public-health effects of widespread surface mining.
Also, individuals who think they are being exposed to unsafe levels of silica, carcinogens and toxins released into the environment by surface mining should be able to find out. Utilities should broaden their water testing to include toxins associated with mining.
But we don't need studies to tell us to accelerate cleaning up the mountain coalfield or that the surest way to do that is to restore the forests that filter water and air but have been lost to mining. The many jobs that a reforestation program would create make it a double bonus.
Rogers, who has served in Congress 33 years, could seal his legacy by reforming distribution of a federal tax on the coal industry for repairing environmental damage.
Shifting more of the Abandoned Mine Lands fund from western states that have no backlogs of coal-related environmental damage or tapping its reserves to create jobs reforesting Appalachia would be a tough sell in Congress. But such reforms would have the advantage of economic and environmental justice on their side.
While earlier diagnosis and better access to medical care are critical in rural Kentucky, they can't substitute for reducing the environmental causes of disease.
The statistical evidence of mining-related cancer and birth defects, along with the public concern, should serve to remind us: If Eastern Kentucky is to have a future, the places where people live, work and recreate cannot be sacrificed to an industry on its way out of the region.
Kudos to Rogers and Beshear for creating a forum in which Kentuckians can say what's on their minds, even at the risk of offending a powerful lobby.
When a congressman and governor invite people to "listening sessions," there's an obligation to take what they say seriously.


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BACKGROUND: In response to the demand for therapists and changes in vocational practice, a needs assessment was conducted to update an occupational therapy educational program. METHOD: Employing focus groups, interviews and questionnaires, 66 therapists from a wide range of graduating institutions working in vocational practice were asked to: a) identify the essential knowledge, skills and professional behaviours required for vocational practice; b) determine to what extent training is preparing students for vocational practice; and c) make recommendations for curriculum revision and/or for additional curriculum development. Participants and their jobs were profiled together with the challenges and issues of vocational practice. RESULTS: There was strong agreement among participants regarding what is required to practice effectively but disparate views concerning the extent they were prepared for practice. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Recommendations were given for entry and postgraduate level curricula. Findings were compared to a past community practice survey. Implications for practicums, professional integrity and ethical issues were discussed.


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Move for a new dam defies logic
The clearance given to the Kerala government for carrying out an Environmental Impact Assessment Study for a new dam within a 10 km radius of the Mullaiperiyar Dam by the Union Environment and Forest Ministry defies logic and passes understanding.
Tamil Nadu owns the Mullaiperiyar dam under a 999-year lease
The Empowered Committee of the Supreme Court had found the 126-year-old dam hydrologically, structurally and seismically safe and that the water level could be raised to 142 feet. To nullify the Supreme Court order of 27 February 2006, the Kerala government amended its Irrigation and Water Conservation Act on 18 March 2006, prohibiting the raising of Mullaiperiyar Dam water level beyond 136 feet.
The legislation was struck down by the Supreme Court, which passed a fresh order on 7 May this year allowing Tamil Nadu to raise the water level to 142 feet. Dissatisfied with the order, Kerala government filed a review petition. A five-judge Constitution Bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu and Justices J Chelameswar, Madan B Lokur, MY Eqbal and C Nagappan, dismissing the review petition said, "We see no ground to interfere with our judgment dated 7 May 2014."
Having exhausted all legal avenues, Kerala, determined to thwart the Supreme Court orders, has turned to the National Green Tribunal alleging destruction of biodiversity of the Periyar Tiger Reserve surrounding the Mullaiperiyar Dam if the water level was raised. When the forest area was declared a Tiger Reserve in 1978, the storage level of Mullaiperiyar Dam remained at 152 feet. It was brought down to 136 feet in 1979 to assuage fears expressed by Kerala about the safety of the dam.
The dam is owned, operated and maintained by Tamil Nadu under a 999-year lease of 9,000 acres of land in the Idukki district of Kerala to irrigate and to supply drinking water to the five drought-prone districts of Theni, Dindigul, Madurai, Sivaganga and Ramanathapuram. Raising the water level to 142 feet is absolutely necessary to provide drinking water to the people of these five districts in Tamil Nadu and to irrigate about two lakh acres of land in this rain shadow region as it would yield an additional 1,548 million cubic feet of water.
The dam has been retrofitted and is as good as new. The fear of its bursting and taking the lives of more than four lakh people living downstream in Kerala is totally unfounded. In the unlikely event of the Mullaiperiyar Dam bursting, the entire water can be accommodated in the Idukii reservoir 40 km below having a storage capacity of 71 tmcft water.
The area between the two dams is mostly forest. Even if the the Mullaiperiyar Dam is decommissioned or destroyed, Tamil Nadu has the right to build another dam at the same site and draw waters because the 1886 agreement is still valid and cannot be repudiated. The good neighbor relationship between Kerala and Tamil Nadu should not be sacrificed at the altar of narrow political gains of the parties in power.
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