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Climate Colonialism: Why Was Occupied Western Sahara Excluded from COP26 U.N. Summit in Scotland?
Oubi Bouchraya Bachir
representative of the Polisario Front for Europe and the European Union.
Nick Brooks
climate change consultant.
Activists are criticizing the British government for excluding Western Sahara, occupied by Morocco since 1975, from the U.N. climate summit in Scotland. Meanwhile, Morocco is counting renewable energy developments in Western Sahara toward its own climate pledges. Sahrawi activists and the Sahrawi government in exile, known as SADR, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, have described this as climate colonialism. Negotiators from Western Sahara independently announced a plan to reduce carbon emissions outside COP26, as the climate crisis has brought extreme weather conditions, including drought, extreme heat and flooding, to the region. In an interview last week in Glasgow, Scotland, while COP26 was underway, Oubi Bouchraya Bachir, a representative of the Polisario Front for Europe and the European Union, estimated 30% of the solar energy produced by Morocco "will be produced from within the illegal context of occupation." We also spoke with climate change consultant Nick Brooks, who has traveled to Western Sahara for decades to carry out archaeological and palaeo-environmental fieldwork and helped release the Sahrawi climate plan adjacent to the COP26. "They have been completely and systematically excluded from international processes of climate governance and climate finance," Brooks said of the Sahrawi.
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AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I'm Amy Goodman, with Juan González.
The British government is facing widespread criticism for excluding critical voices from negotiations at the U.N. climate summit. One group excluded was climate negotiators from Western Sahara, which has been occupied by Morocco since 1975. Last week, Western Sahara publicly revealed its plan to reduce carbon emissions, but their announcement was not made inside the U.N. summit but at the People's Summit in Glasgow because its negotiators aren't accredited by the U.N. Meanwhile, Morocco is using renewable energy developments in Western Sahara to count towards its climate pledges.
Last week, we spoke with climate change consultant Nick Brooks and Oubi Bachir, the representative of the Polisario Front for Europe and the European Union. I began by asking Oubi Bachir why Western Sahara was not represented at the U.N. summit.
OUBI BOUCHRAYA BACHIR: Unfortunately, 'til now, the Sahrawi Republic is not yet a member of the United Nations. Of course, one day, certainly, it will join the rest of the nations of the world and gain its seat in the United Nations. But pending the end of the decolonization process and the independence of Western Sahara, we are not yet admitted as a full member in the U.N. And on the basis of that condition, the Sahrawi Republic could not, unfortunately, present its NDC, nationally determined contribution, to the international climate system. And that's why we are here in Glasgow.
Unfortunately, Morocco is undertaking a huge campaign to greenwash its ugly face of military occupation of our territory and embark on this propaganda campaign that it is friendly to the environment, using its military occupation to Western Sahara to pass through this message. We know that Morocco is now executing some project, especially on the renewable energy, on the wind energy, but also on the solar share, in the occupied part of Western Sahara, using also the assistance and the partnership with some international, multinational companies, such as the Italian Enel and also the Spanish Siemens Gamesa, who are now on a major project in Western Sahara.
Just to give you some sense of the statistics that we have, that maybe by 2030 the entire wind energy that will be produced in Western Sahara, around almost 50, 47% of it, it will be illegally produced from Western Sahara. On the solar energy, around 10%, and it may reach even until 30% of the global solar energy produced or announced to be produced by Morocco, it will be produced from within a context, an illegal context, of occupation.
And unfortunately, the international climate system, the U.N. Conference on Climate Change, is receiving those data that have been submitted by Morocco, and we think it is not the right thing to do. It is illegal because this energy has been produced in a context of violation of international law. The European Court of Justice, General Court of Justice, just issued this decision last month, on September — on the 29th of September, annulling two agreements that have been passed between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco, because there is no legal basis of that, because the consent of the people of Western Sahara was not achieved by the European Union and Morocco in this regard. And the abuses of human rights are largely and widely denounced by all international humanitarian organizations. So this is the real ugly face of the Moroccan occupation to our territory.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: I wanted to bring in Nick Brooks. You've been a climate consultant traveling to Western Sahara for about 20 years or so. Could you talk about the report that Oubi mentions? It notes that the World Bank puts the offshore wind power potential of Western Sahara at 169% greater than that of Morocco. And so, could you talk about the importance of Western Sahara in terms of renewable energy? And also, where is the African Union in all this? What's its stance in recent years on the continued occupation of the territory?
NICK BROOKS: OK. Thank you. I think, on the African Union question, I'll probably ultimately defer back to Oubi. He knows this issue much better than I do.
But on the importance of the report and the role of Western Sahara in combating climate change, certainly the potential for renewables is enormous there, and we're already seeing Morocco beginning to exploit that. And as Oubi mentioned, one of the key issues here is the issue of climate justice. What we're seeing is a lot of the principles that are embedded in the Paris Agreement on climate change actually being ignored or essentially abused. When we've got a situation where Morocco's performance against its own climate targets is going to be dependent on the exploitation of renewable energy from an occupied territory, then that is contrary to the Paris Agreement principles of transparency, of accuracy, of inclusion and of equity. So, that in itself is very important. So Western Sahara can play a role in combating climate change and producing clean energy, but at the moment that's happening through the mechanism of Moroccan occupation and colonialism.
So, one of the roles of the report is to try and highlight this issue and to try and amplify, give the Sahrawi a voice, because, as Oubi said, they have been completely and systematically excluded from international processes of climate governance and climate finance. If we take the finance, for example, we can look at the amount of finance going to neighboring countries in 2019. Just in terms of formal multilateral climate finance to Morocco, we're looking at about $300 million. If we look at Mauritania, it's about $17 million, a little less for Algeria — sorry, $75 million for Mauritania and about $17 million for Algeria. Western Sahara received nothing. So, this is public money from donor countries to climate funds, formal climate funds, that gets channeled to help developing countries address the impacts of climate change and develop low-carbon societies and economies.
So, again, Western Sahara is completely excluded from this, and so they're denied the resources with which they could adapt and with which they could — and I think we're emphasizing mitigation here, but — mitigation being reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and, you know, transitions to clean energy, but adaptation is also hugely important.
Most of the Sahrawi live as refugees in the Algerian desert, in the refugee camps, and these are areas that are already really, really harsh and will suffer some of the worst impacts of climate change. We're talking about a big increase in the number of days where the temperature exceeds 50 degrees Celsius, for example. That zone, in a recent report, was classified as being at the edge of a region of extreme risk from heat extremes with real consequences for sort of human welfare, human mortality and morbidity.
We talked about the floods, as well. The Sahrawi refugee camps, while we're looking at a general reduction in water availability and increased heat, what rainfall that is coming is coming in more intense and more extreme bursts, and so this is causing devastating floods. And one of the robust findings about the impacts of climate change is that we expect more of these intense rainfall events increasing flood risk.
OUBI BOUCHRAYA BACHIR: Let me respond to the question on the African Union. As you know, the Sahrawi Republic is a member of the Organization of the African Unity since 1984, and Morocco withdrew as a sign to — as a position to protest against our admission. But then Morocco tried from outside to influence on our position and failed because of the commitment of all African countries behind the cause of the Sahrawi people, the cause of the people that are struggling in what is known inside the African Union as Africa's last colony, which is Western Sahara.
And in 2017, Morocco decided to submit a petition to be admitted in the African Union and now is sitting side by side to the Sahrawi Republic. We thought that we are, by then, in 2017, in a similar scenario like the one that Morocco was doing with Mauritania by the end of the '60s and the beginning of the '70s, where it started contesting the membership of Mauritania in the Organization of the African Union but ended up accepting it. We thought that after the era of contestation, Morocco would have been now in the era of wisdom.
But, unfortunately, that was not the case, and Morocco is still in the same policy of not only occupying Western Sahara, military occupying, abusing the human rights of the people, plundering the natural resources of the territory, but at the same time defying any international attempt to decolonize the territory and to organize the referendum of self-determination that has been promised to the Sahrawi people and constitutes until now the only way to settle the conflict in conformity with the international law.
The African Union in March this year, after the resumption of the armed struggle in Western Sahara as a result of the Moroccan violation of the terms of the ceasefire — in November last year, the African Union, the Peace and Security, at the summit conference passed a resolution asking the two member states, the Sahrawi Republic and the Kingdom of Morocco, to engage in direct negotiations and maybe looking for a new ceasefire between them. But the settlement should be on the basis of the African Union charter, and especially the Article number 4, that insists on the necessity to fully respect the inherited boundaries from the colonial era, which means Morocco in its internationally recognized boundaries and Western Sahara on its own. The next day, the Moroccan government declared that it is not concerned with this and it will never accept it. So, the African Union is very clear. It's behind the Sahrawi Republic as a founding member of it. And now we are really expecting, within the U.N. system, within the Security Council, that the voice of the Africans will be heard. Now, on your question.
AMY GOODMAN: We only have a minute, Oubi Bachir.
OUBI BOUCHRAYA BACHIR: Of course, with this plan, the Sahrawi Republic has —
AMY GOODMAN: We only have a minute, Oubi Bachir, but just let me ask —
OUBI BOUCHRAYA BACHIR: Yeah.
AMY GOODMAN: Is the U.N. accepting the Moroccan climate commitments that include the occupied Western Sahara? And are you calling on these commitments, the U.N. to stop accepting these?
OUBI BOUCHRAYA BACHIR: Exactly. That is one of the major calls that we are making here, that the United Nations Conference on Climate Change should exclude and refuse to give credit to any data, any projects that are generated in Western Sahara, because they are generated within a context of a military occupation that the U.N. has refused to endorse. That's the position of the international community. That's the position of the U.N. And that is what the international legality is saying. So the international climate system shouldn't operate in a different way from the international system. Justice is indivisible. It goes for the political settlement of the conflict, but also it goes for the legal status of the territory. And we are asking for climate justice. Climate justice will involve that Western Sahara — the data on Western Sahara should be excluded from the Moroccan reports, because Western Sahara has never been part of Morocco. That's the U.N. stand.
AMY GOODMAN: That's Oubi Bachir, the Polisario Front's Europe representative, and climate change consultant Nick Brooks, who has worked with Western Sahara on its climate plan. We spoke to them at the U.N. climate summit last week.
That does it for our show. If you want to see our documentary Four Days in Occupied Western Sahara: A Rare Look Inside Africa's Last Colony, go to democracynow.org. I'm Amy Goodman, with Juan González.
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Die Federación Española de Deportes de Hielo (FEDH) (Spanischer Eissportverband) ist der nationale Sportverband Spaniens für Eishockey, Curling, Bobsport, Eisschnelllauf, Eiskunstlauf und Rennrodeln.

Geschichte
Der Vorgänger-Verband wurde bereits am 10. März 1923 in die Internationale Eishockey-Föderation aufgenommen. Der Verband gehört zu den IIHF-Vollmitgliedern. Aktueller Präsident ist Frank González.

Der Verband kümmert sich überwiegend um die Durchführung der Spiele der spanischen Eishockeynationalmannschaft sowie der Frauen-Nationalmannschaft und der Junioren-Mannschaften. Zudem organisiert der Verband den Spielbetrieb auf Vereinsebene, unter anderem in der Superliga.

Der Verband ist zudem Mitglied folgender Verbände:
 Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing
 World Curling Federation
 Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course
 Internationale Eislaufunion

Weblinks
 Offizielle Website (spanisch)
 Spanien auf der Webseite der IIHF (englisch)

Spanien
Eishockey (Spanien)
Nationaler Sportverband (Spanien)
Sportverband (Spanien)
Sport (Barcelona)
Gegründet 2007
Organisation (Barcelona)

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Transportation Vendors
Vehicle Inspection Standards and Safety
New York State Department of Transportation Inspection
All vehicles operated in school bus service under contract with the NYCDOE must pass inspection by the New York State Department of Transportation ("NYSDOT"). Vehicles that have not passed NYSDOT Inspection are considered to be unsafe for the transportation of children. The operation of these vehicles in school service is a serious violation of the Contract. Contractors must immediately notify OPT of any vehicle (regular or spare) which shall have failed an NYSDOT Inspection. Any such vehicle must be taken off the road until the vehicle shall have passed NYSDOT Inspection and a valid 6-month NYSDOT Inspection sticker shall have been affixed to the affected vehicle.
Contractors must maintain an OSS Out-of-Service percentage below 20 % for the duration of their contracts.
Office of Pupil Transportation Inspection
Except where indicated, inspection standards (guide section) apply to all buses for which the NYCDOE has contracted. When buses are inspected in the morning before their initial trip, the results of infractions are indicated in the column labeled "Result of Pre-Trip AM Infraction." When buses are inspected at other times, the results of infractions are indicated in the column labeled "Result of infractions at Other Times." When buses are inspected during the day (whether after their return from morning or afternoon duty), at school or field trip sites, at OPT, or elsewhere, the Contractor is NOT permitted to inspect the bus before being inspected by the OPT inspector. The bus is to be presented in the condition it is in for arrival at the inspection. In some cases, these standards require the subjective interpretation of OPT's Field Inspector. The judgment of Field Inspectors shall be definitive in the absence of evidence to the contrary.
Preventive maintenance programs and facilities are required both by NYSDOT regulations (17 N.Y.C.R.R §§ 720.1 and 721.2).The following preventive maintenance program is mandated by the Director and will be monitored by both OPT and the NYSDOT. Modifications to this program will be allowed only if specifically approved in advance by the Director.
Vehicle file
The Contractor must maintain a file for each vehicle (spare or regular) used under this Contract in the garage where the affected vehicle is stored. Each file must be made easily accessible to NYSDOT and OPT inspectors and Investigators when necessary.
The vehicle file must contain at least the following documents:
Preventive Maintenance Forms for the vehicle (Office of Pupil Transportation Form PM 1);
Driver's Daily Reports for the vehicle;
Quarterly maintenance records of Cost-Per–Mile; and,
All other appropriate documents or records concerning the vehicle including, but not limited to, repair and parts replacement records.
NYSDOT files on each vehicle must be maintained in a fire-proof cabinet, box, etc., for a period of not less than seven years.
Preventive Maintenance Procedures
Preventive Maintenance Inspection Procedures
The Preventive Maintenance Form serves as a guide for the mechanic to conduct and record the preventive maintenance inspections and actions.
Preventive Maintenance inspections shall be conducted every 1,500 miles or 6 weeks, whichever comes first. This requirement applies to spare vehicles as well as to active vehicles.
Manufacturer's manuals must be consulted for determining the correct tools, adjustments and replacement parts required for proper maintenance.
The Supervising Mechanic is required to sign each Preventive Maintenance Form upon completion of inspection and maintenance procedures.
Driver's Daily Report Procedure
The Driver completes the first two sections of the Driver's Daily Report Form for his/her vehicle prior to the beginning of each day's run.
The Driver checks off each item, indicating proper operation or functioning of each item at that specific time, but only after the item has been examined and found to be in satisfactory condition.
ALL defects MUST be reported as discovered. Use the appropriate section(s) to describe all defects.
ALL breakdowns and/or accidents are to be recorded on the Driver's Daily Report Form. Recording the incident on the form in no way alters existing OPT accident reporting procedures as expressed in the Contract.
Road Hazards (e.g., construction detours, potholes, etc.) encountered by the Driver must be reported on the Form and through the OPT delay system.
The Form must be filed in such a manner that it is readily available for NYSDOT and OPT inspectors.
The Contractor is responsible for duplicating the Driver's Daily Report Forms and for maintaining an adequate supply of these Forms.
Accident/Breakdown Report
Accidents must be reported by calling the OPT Customer Service within 15 minutes of occurrence.
Proper procedures must be followed to replace or repair the damaged vehicle.
Schools and parents must be notified within prescribed time limits, and a log of these calls must be kept showing the time calls were made, the numbers called, and the results of the calls including, but not limited to, the names of the persons reached and their roles at the school or relationship to the children.
Drivers must document the accident on their Daily Reports.
OPT may require the Contractor to submit proof that these steps were taken.
Any person employed as a driver who has on three occasions been the operator of a motor vehicle involved in an accident including any accident with another vehicle, object or person, which occurs in this State or elsewhere, in which any person is killed or injured, or in which damage to the property of any one person, including the operator, in excess of $1,500.00 is sustained, or in which damage in excess of two thousand five hundred dollars is sustained to any bus will be subject to reexamination including a road test. However, if such person is subject to a period of disqualification pursuant to State Vehicle and Traffic Law §§ 509-c or 509-cc, such reexamination shall occur not more than forty-five days prior to the completion of disqualification.
Breakdowns must be reported on the OPT web system within 15 minutes of occurrence.
Proper procedures must be followed to replace or repair the broken vehicle.
Schools and parents must be notified within prescribed time limits, and a log of these calls must be kept showing the time calls were made, the numbers called, and the results of the calls, including the name of the persons reached and their roles at the school or relationship to the children.
The Dispatcher will record pertinent information as it is received.
Reports are to be maintained in a separate binder or folder and must be made readily available for NYSDOT and OPT inspectors.
Safety Specialist
The Contractor shall provide a Safety Specialist to act as the Single Point of Contact ("SPOC") to the OPT Safety Director. Under this Contract, the Contractor's Safety Specialist must coordinate all aspects of transportation safety for OPT's school bus program. The SPOC Safety Specialist will be responsible to attend all safety meetings held with the NYCDOE Transportation Team.
Additional responsibilities of the SPOC Safety Specialist are the following:
Decrease the frequency, rate, and severity of, and potential for, accidents involving motor vehicles, pedestrians, and bicycles through the implementation of comprehensive safety programs;
Develop, document and submit to the Director for his or her approval said comprehensive safety programs which must include a discussion of intent and specification of procedures that will be used to retain safe drivers and retrain and/or dismiss drivers with unsatisfactory safety records;
Maintain a valid accident investigation certificate;
Investigate accidents according to the course guidelines;
Present findings to the OPT safety committee;
Provide procedures, training and awareness activities that foster safe work practices for Contractor and Subcontractor employees;
Plan, organize and supervise mandated training according to DMV, SED, and NYCDOE rules, regulations, contractual provisions and/or policies;
Conduct regular safety meetings to inform Contractor and Subcontractor staff of any changes in laws, regulations, policies and/or procedures;
Develop and implement safety related programs, safety workshops, and information systems for the purpose of evaluating driver safety performance; and,
Report at least quarterly using a format to be supplied by the Director on all safety related initiatives and their results and more frequently as specified by the Director in follow-up on individual issues and/or problem areas.
Vehicle Storage Locations
At least one week before the beginning of each School Year, the Contractor shall report to OPT all locations (garages, lots, driver's homes, etc.) from where vehicles are to be dispatched. Vehicles must be identified by Vehicle Identification Number ("VIN"), bus number, route number, vehicle type, company name and any other information required by the Director. (OPT shall have the discretion to require this information in electronic format.)
The storage location shall include route number, item number, address, customer service phone number, fax number and any other information required by the Director. (OPT shall have the discretion to require this information in electronic format.)
The Contractor shall report immediately to the OPT Contract Compliance Officer in a manner and form specified by the Director each change in vehicle storage location and the purchase, sale or disposal of any vehicle, with applicable information for each vehicle.
All drivers are to be instructed to be on the alert for rear axle assembly breakdown, the most common of which is a shifting of the rear axle and springs causing the bus body to be out of alignment.
If any driver notes any shifting while the bus is in service, the driver shall bring the vehicle to an immediate halt. If a visual inspection confirms that a shift has occurred, the vehicle must be brought to a complete stop immediately, and the passengers must be transferred to a spare vehicle. The defective vehicle may not be used for school service again until inspected and repaired.
Driver and Attendant Certification Process and Responsibilities
Violations Procedures and Assessment of Liquidated Damages
Investigations Procedures
Emergencies and Accidents or Other Delays
Routing and Scheduling System
Field Trip Procedures
Picking of Runs

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What is the best way to educate medical students? In this episode of Radiology Firing Line Podcast, I sit down with Richard B. Gunderman, MD and C. Matthew Hawkins, MD to discuss medical education.
Listen to our conversation on Radiology Firing Line Podcast here.
Saurabh Jha is an associate editor of THCB and host of Radiology Firing Line Podcast of the Journal of American College of Radiology, sponsored by Healthcare Administrative Partner.
USMLE Step 1: Leveling the Playing Field – or Perpetuating Disadvantage?
Let me show you some data.
I'm going to show you the Match rate and mean Step 1 score for three groups of residency applicants. These are real data, compiled from the National Resident Matching Program's (NRMP) Charting Outcomes in the Match reports.
Now. What do you conclude when you look at these numbers?
In the debate over the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination's (USMLE) score reporting policy, there's one objection that comes up time and time again: that graduates from less-prestigious medical schools (especially IMGs) need a scored USMLE Step 1 to compete in the match with applicants from "top tier" medical schools.
In fact, this concern was recently expressed by the president of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) in an article in Academic Medicine (quoted here, with my emphasis added).
The funny thing is, when I look at the data above, I'm not sure why we would conclude that IMGs are gaining advantage from a scored Step 1. In fact, we might conclude just the opposite – that a scored Step 1 is a key reason why IMGs have a lower match rate.
Medical education is dynamic and constantly adapting to the needs of society. With new technological advances, scientific discoveries, and healthcare policies arising each day, the amount of information medical students are required to learn increases exponentially. Many describe the early years of medical education as a vicious cycle of cramming and forgetting with block exams, shelf exams, and board exams. Long-term retention is rarely rewarded and the integration across topics is limited. On the contrary, medicine IS a life-long learning process that is heavily dependent on the ability to attain, integrate, and apply data.
Unfortunately, time is limited, and as a result, cramming often prevails as the method of choice for many students. As medical students, we constantly find ourselves re-learning large amounts of information time and time again, always preparing for the next exam or hurdle, rather than thinking years down the line when we will be taking care of patients. This is very inefficient.
In June, Duke medical students wrote an article entitled "Want to enhance medical education? Use Spaced Repetition". This article proposed a strategy that revolves around the cognitive technique known as spaced repetition. Spaced repetition takes advantage of time and reinforces one's knowledge the moment before one forgets it. This technique involves reviewing material according to a schedule determined by a temporal relationship known as the "spacing effect".
One of the most compelling medical stories in the country is unfolding within the sprawling landscape of inland Southern California. The story centers on the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine where G. Richard Olds, MD, the school's dean, is taking on one of the uber challenges in health care today: How to get doctors into areas significantly underserved by health care professionals.
Last year, about 43 million people around the globe were injured from the hospital care that was intended to help them; as a result, many died and millions suffered long-term disability. These seem like dramatic numbers – could they possibly be true?
If anything, they are almost surely an underestimate. These findings come from a paper we published last year funded and done in collaboration with the World Health Organization. We focused on a select group of "adverse events" and used conservative assumptions to model not only how often they occur, but also with what consequence to patients around the world.
Our WHO-funded study doesn't stand alone; others have estimated that harm from unsafe medical care is far greater than previously thought. A paper published last year in the Journal of Patient Safety estimated that medical errors might be the third leading cause of deaths among Americans, after heart disease and cancer.
While I find that number hard to believe, what is undoubtedly true is this: adverse events – injuries that happen due to medical care – are a major cause of morbidity and mortality, and these problems are global. In every country where people have looked (U.S., Canada, Australia, England, nations of the Middle East, Latin America, etc.), the story is the same.
Patient safety is a big problem – a major source of suffering, disability, and death for the world's population.The problem of inadequate health care, the global nature of this challenging problem, and the common set of causes that underlie it, motivated us to put together PH555X.
It's a HarvardX online MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) with a simple focus: health care quality and safety with a global perspective.
Earlier this month Shiv and Ryan published a piece in the Annals of Internal Medicine, entitled What Can Medical Education Learn from Facebook and Netflix? We chose the title because, as medical students, we realized the tools our classmates are using to socialize and watch TV use more sophisticated algorithms than the tools we use to learn medicine.
What if the same mechanisms that Facebook and Netflix use—such as machine learning-based recommender systems, crowdsourcing, and intuitive interfaces—could transform how we educate our health care professionals?
For example, just as Amazon recommends products based on other items that customers have bought, we believe that supplementary resources such as questions, videos, images, mnemonics, references, and even real-life patient cases could be automatically recommended based on what students and professionals are learning in the classroom or seeing in the clinic.
That is one of the premises behind Osmosis, the flagship educational platform of Knowledge Diffusion, Shiv's and Ryan's startup. Osmosis uses data analytics and machine learning to deliver the best medical content to those trying to learn it, as efficiently as possible for the learner.
Since its launch in August, Osmosis has delivered over two million questions to more than 10,000 medical students around the world using a novel push notification system that syncs to student curricular schedules.
Osmosis is aggregating medical school curricula and extracurricular resources as well as generating a tremendous amount of data on student performance. The program uses adaptive algorithms and an intuitive interface to provide the best, most useful customized content to those trying to learn.
Should Medical Schools Teach to the Boards?
In the 2012 National Residency Match Program Survey, which is sent out to residency program directors around the country by the NRMP, the factor that was ranked highest with regards to criteria considered for receiving an interview—higher than honors in clinical clerkships, higher than extracurricular experiences or AOA election, and even higher than evidence of professionalism, interpersonal skills, and humanistic qualities—was the USMLE Step 1 score.
When considering where to rank an interviewed applicant, the Step 1 score took a backseat to some of the aforementioned criteria that are perhaps more telling of what kind of person the interviewee is, although it was still one of the highest considered criteria for ranking applicants as well.
When a single exam is given this level of importance in determining a future physician's most critical period in career development—their residency—we have to look carefully at our system.
Two points of consideration come to mind. First, is it wise to weigh a test score so heavily? Many students and faculty could easily point out that student performance on exams by no means always reflects their clinical acumen and social skills when seeing patients.
Medicine is, after all, an art far more than a science.
Nonetheless, it would be foolish to assume that scores have no worth—a high score on an exam, particularly a behemoth such as the USMLE Step 1, points out many qualities in an individual: hard work, persistence, discipline, and frankly, an understanding of textbook medicine.
And thus, we are left somewhere in the middle—perhaps we should weigh scores less than we do, but when you have to sort through thousands of applications, the only standardized metric to quickly compare is, in the end, a number somewhere between 192 and 300.
Why should I be in the same room with these people?
That's one of the many smart questions participants posed at a Stanford Medical School meeting I attended last weekend. If I had been daydreaming (I'd never do that), I might have thought the question was for me. You see, the participants were a handpicked set of national medical education experts, folks nominally from the status quo medical-education-industrial complex—the very thing we're trying to change.
You might think that they embodied that dreaded status quo. I'm happy to report they did not—not even close. I'm also relieved to tell you that the question (in spite of my paranoia) wasn't for me. Instead, it was one of many challenges these thoughtful, passionate teachers tossed at each other.
"Why are we in the room?" was a challenge to each other. Why and when should teachers be in the same room with the learners?
When you think about it, that's actually a central question if you're attempting to use online education to flip the medical education experience. It's also a brave one if you're a teacher: justify the time you spend with your students.
Our comments regarding this interesting blog, and the comments to the blog, may seem tangential to the author's points.
The blog and comments point, we think, to a confusing set of principles being considered, perhaps, out of context?
Those comments range from: ACOs will lead to better figuring out what is best (impossible) – to mismatched information regarding a specific clinical case (reasonable). What is striking is that we have medical students worrying about costs of care.
Instead, shouldn't we be teaching them to understand the value of information for decision-making? Shouldn't we be teaching them the concepts of co-dependent testing leading to all tests being less useful than we think?
Shouldn't we be teaching students the concepts of decision-analysis, and thresholds, and patient's being involved in the decisions? Shouldn't we be teaching that it is better to know than to think we know? Shouldn't we be doing studies rather than scratching at the "tragedy of the commons" (so many physicians feasting on the grassy fields of a sick patient)?


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"Te Bourao II" was the only artwork from Paul Gauguin still in private hands and one of a series of nine paintings produced by the artist while working on a much larger project later titled "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?"
A man takes a picture of Paul Gaugin's "Te Bourao II" (The Purao Tree) painting (1897) at Artcurial's auction house in Paris, France, October 3, 2019. (Reuters Archive)
A painting by French post-impressionist artist Paul Gauguin fetched 9.5 million euros ($10.5 million) in a Paris auction on Tuesday.
"Te Bourao II", which depicts a stream with birds and flowers in a rich palette of blues and greens, was painted in 1897 when Gauguin was living on the Polynesian island of Tahiti.
The artwork was the only Gauguin still in private hands and one of a series of nine paintings produced by the artist while working on a much larger project later titled "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?"
Born in Paris in 1848, Gauguin was influential in the symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor and ceramist, and gained wider fame after his death in 1903.
He also influenced artists like Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.
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This is it darling. This is the culmination of season one, the philosophy behind the sandwiches and whatnot and a serious trick or two when it comes to how to pull off the perfect scrambled eggs.
Sit back, sip on your summertime cocktail and enjoy the epic rounding off of an epic first season.
As one flies through the summer months abruptly arriving in August I invite you to watch a fluorescent neoned up to the nines Far Eastern Fusion of miso soup and the all american classic the PB and J. Pull up a deckchair and a bowl of strawberries and cream and while away the next 4 or 5 minutes with a bowing and winking Scottish mime.


WASHINGTON (PAI) – In a move to put some teeth into federal occupational safety and health law, the Obama Administration Department of Justice (DOJ) has told the nation's federal prosecutors to jointly tackle workplace safety and health crimes at the same time they prosecute other anti-worker abuses – particularly environmental crimes – at those same companies.
The point, top DOJ officials say, is to make violations of job safety and health more costly to errant companies, hopefully deterring the firms from breaking the law in the first place.
The Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the DOJ's environmental crimes section worked out the details of the joint probes and prosecutions late last year. That DOJ section is also cross-training OSHA inspectors to spot other crimes. The new joint prosecution program started just after the new year began.
In her memo for U.S. attorneys, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates summarized the job safety and health law enforcement problem, which workers, unions and their allies have complained about for years.
"The Occupational Safety and Health Act provides criminal sanctions for three types of conduct affecting worker safety," Yates said. But those sanctions are "a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of no more than $10,000 and imprisonment of no more than six months.
"Perhaps because these penalties have never been increased" since the Occupational Safety and Health Act began in 1970, "there are only a handful of prosecutions each year – three in 2013," Yates added.
"Prosecutors can make enforcement meaningful by charging other serious offenses that often occur in conjunction with Occupational Safety and Health Act violations," Yates told the nation's 93 federal prosecutors and their offices.
Some of the crimes to which prosecutors could link corporate job safety and health act violations include obstruction of justice, making false statements, witness tampering, conspiracy and environmental crimes. Convictions in such cases carry hefty fines and 5- to 20-year prison terms, Yates said.
"These felony provisions provide additional important tools to deter and punish workplace safety crimes," she added.
Besides job safety crimes that companies commit under OSHA, the new program also covers company criminal conduct under the Mine Safety and Health Act, the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Act, and the Atomic Energy Act.
To make the new program more effective in prosecuting companies that break job safety laws, the DOJ is taking job safety enforcement out of its criminal fraud section and transferring it to the environmental crimes section.
Yates also told the U.S. attorneys to expect the Labor Department to appoint a designated Criminal Coordinator to work with them, and urged them to appoint one lead attorney in each of their offices to oversee such coordinated job safety crime-environmental crime cases.


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Compared with 2013, sales of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in 2014 increased by more than 50 %, continuing an upward trend since 2008. Nevertheless, electric vehicles (EVs) continue to constitute only a very small fraction of new vehicle registrations in the EU‑28 . According to the most recent estimates, the share of alternative fuel passenger cars in the total fleet has remained constantly around 5 % over the last five years, with liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cars playing a dominant role. The number of electric vehicles (EVs) has grown, but represents only a minor proportion (0.07 %) of total passenger car fleet numbers.
Compared with 2013, sales of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in 2014 increased by more than 50 %, continuing an upward trend since 2008. Nevertheless, electric vehicles (EVs) continue to constitute only a very small fraction of new vehicle registrations in the EU‑28.
According to the most recent estimates, the share of alternative fuel passenger cars in the total fleet has remained constantly around 5 % over the last five years, with liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cars playing a dominant role. The number of electric vehicles (EVs) has grown, but represents only a minor proportion (0.07 %) of total passenger car fleet numbers.
Are electric vehicles increasing as a proportion of the total vehicle fleet in Europe?
New registrations of alternative fuel passenger cars
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The number of electric cars in Europe is increasing due to factors such as financial incentives, increased public acceptability and market availability. The cars in question may be 'pure' battery EVs (BEVs), plug-in hybrid EVs (PHEVs) or EVs with range extender engines.
Sales of BEVs increased by more than 50 % in 2014, compared with 2013, continuing an upward trend since 2008. Sales were greatest in France where more than 10 000 BEVs were sold), followed by Germany with 8 500 sales. A large number of EU Member States (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom) offer financial incentives, such as tax reductions and exemptions, for electrically chargeable vehicles. Other measures include, for example, allowing EVs to use bus lanes. Nevertheless, EVs continue to constitute only a very small fraction of new registrations in the EU‑28 (0.3 %) compared with, for instance, liquefied petroleum gas (1.1 %). Hybrid vehicles are usually not distinguished from conventional petrol and diesel vehicles in official statistics, so their numbers can only be estimated. While in 2001 only two hybrid vehicle models were offered in the EU, and only about 2 000 were sold, more than 30 hybrid models available, and more than 130 000 are sold. However, hybrid vehicles still only make up some 0.5 % of new vehicle sales in the EU.
Among non-EU EEA countries, Norway is the leading market for EVs in terms of market share. Almost 14 % of new cars sold in Norway during the first half of 2014, were electric (including PHEVs and BEVs).
LPG cars dominate the alternative fuel passenger car fleet. The number of LPG passenger cars almost doubled between 2005 and 2014, reaching 10 million vehicles in 2014. Poland and Italy are the leading countries with 2.6 million and 2.4 million cars respectively. LPG cars account for about 4.2 % of the overall passenger car fleet in the EEA-33. This percentage has remained rather constant over the last five years. Registrations of new LPG passenger cars reached a peak in 2009, when a figure of 3.6 % of the total number of new registrations boosted the total percentage of new registrations of alternative fueled cars to 3.75% of the total number of new registrations. A major drop in new LPG car registrations was observed in 2011, when registrations dropped to 0.7 % of total new passenger car registrations due to changes in economic incentive schemes.
The number of natural gas (NG) passenger cars almost tripled between 2005 and 2014. At 1.2 %, they represent a small percentage of the total passenger car fleet. The number of NG passenger cars is only significant in Italy (about one million).
LPG has approximately 80 % of the energy content of petrol per litre, while for compressed or liquid natural gas, the volumetric energy content of NG ranges from 5 to 1.8 times less than petrol. Despite this reduced energy content, both alternatives are considered to be promising fuels for the future, mainly due to their widespread availability, alternative energy pathway to oil that they offer and the low CO2 yield per unit of energy delivered.
At about 1.6 % of the total fleet of Light Commercial Vehicles (LCVs) and 1.8 % of buses, the percentage of alternative fuel LCVs and buses is lower than that of passenger cars.
NG buses have shown an increasing trend over the years, although in 2014, they accounted for less than 1 % of the total bus fleet. The numbers of LPG and electric (mainly trolley) buses are much lower and have remained rather constant over the last 4-5 years. France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Turkey are the only countries with significant numbers (above 600) of NG buses.
Numbers of LPG LCVs are increasing, but they still only account for some 1 % of the total LCV fleet, whereas at about 0.5%, the number of NG LCVs is much smaller. Poland is the only country with a significant number of LPG LCVs (about 200 000), while Italy has the highest number of NG LCVs (about 91 000). The registration of new alternative fuel LCVs remains low, with figures slightly above 1.2 % between 2012 and 2014.
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This indicator measures electric vehicles as a proportion of the total vehicle fleet. Two types of elective vehicle are included in the indicator: battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). BEVs are powered solely by an electric motor, using electricity stored in an on-board battery. The battery must be regularly charged, typically by plugging the vehicle into a charging point connected to the local electricity grid. PHEVs are powered by an electric motor and an internal combustion engine designed to work either together or separately. The on-board battery can be charged from the grid and the combustion engine supports the electric motor when higher operating power is required or when battery charge is low.
The units used in this indicator are the total number and percentage of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles by alternative fuel type (BEV and PHEV).
Increasingly stringent regulations have resulted in the gradual introduction and promotion of more fuel-efficient, less polluting vehicles. New registrations of alternative-fuel vehicles are an indirect indication of the level of improvement in road-transport fuel efficiency and pollutant emissions. The overall objective of this specific indicator is to monitor the penetration of electric vehicles in the market and, hence, to be able to estimate progress towards environmental targets.
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A number of policies have been adopted that contribute to meeting targets set at EU level. This includes the 20-20-20 policy package, which came into force in 2009. This package sets two targets: an overarching 20 % cut in greenhouse gas emissions in Europe below 1990 levels by 2020; and a 60 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from transport below 1990 levels by 2050, as set out in the 2011 Transport White Paper.
The CO2 emission targets for new cars and vans contribute to meeting these two targets. Regulation No 443/2009 sets a CO2 'specific emission' target of 130 grams per kilometre (g/km) by 2015 for new passenger cars sold in the EU. A target of 95 g/km has been set for 2020. Specific targets for vans have also been introduced in Regulation No 510/2011. The first target level (175 g/km) has been phased in since 2014 and will be reached in 2017, and a second target level (147 g/km) should be reached in 2020.
In November 2017, the European Commission presented a new legislative proposal for new CO2 emission standards for passenger cars and vans in the EU for the period after 2020. It has been submitted to the European Parliament, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee, and the Committee of the Regions for further consideration under the ordinary legislative procedure.
Currently, there are no specific objectives or targets related to the number of different types of alternative fuel vehicle as a proportion of the total vehicle fleet. Policy objectives are rather set with respect to the environmental performance of newly registered passenger cars and vans.
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Regulation (ec) no 443/2009 of the European parliament and of the Council setting emission performance standards for new passenger cars as part of the community's integrated approach to reduce CO2 emissions from light-duty vehicles.
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REGULATION (EU) No 510/2011 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL setting emission performance standards for new light commercial vehicles as part of the Union's integrated approach to reduce CO 2 emissions from light-duty vehicles
The number of alternative-fuel vehicles (BEVs and PHEVS) as a proportion of the total vehicle fleet for each vehicle type (passenger cars, light commercial vehicles, buses) is calculated by dividing the number of alternative fuel vehicles by the total fleet for each vehicle type.
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2018 data are provisional.
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This article by Simon Saltzberg was published in U.S. 1 Newspaper on
March 18, 1998. All rights reserved.
I never read the reviews," says playwright Richard
Greenberg. So maybe it isn't cricket of me to mention either the many
raves or the wildly contrary responses Greenberg typically receives
from the critics following the opening of each new, eagerly-anticipated
Over the past 18 years, Greenberg says he has learned not to be undone
by others and their opinions. As a result, he has contributed the
kind of tantalizing and testy sort of dramatic literature that must
surely make many a dramatist green with envy.
A Greenberg play is full surprises, contradictions, enigmas, and mystery.
And Many a misguided, mean-spirited critic has turned red with embarrassment
when another one of Greenberg's ingeniously complex and enigmatic
plays perplexes him — yet manages to find its deserved public
approval. ("I hope you are right, I like those words," says
an amused Greenberg.) Undoubtedly a little biased, I am a fan and
tell Greenberg so. So much for a reporter's objectivity.
The playwright, whose work includes such lauded plays as "Eastern
Standard," "An American Plan," and "Three Days of
Rain" (which recently concluded an extended run at the Manhattan
Theater Club), has to know that he is bringing a particular honor
back to his alma mater, Princeton University. As the author of "Safe
as Houses," now having its world premiere at the McCarter Theater,
Greenberg, Class of 1980, becomes only the second Princeton graduate
to have a play premiere at McCarter. It was in 1950 that Princeton
graduate Joshua Logan (Class of '31) premiered his play "The Wisteria
Trees" here.
How could Greenberg have guessed how his sophomoric
remarks about McCarter Theater back when he graduated would come back
to haunt him? "It's so vast, you could never do `The Glass Menagerie'
here," he pronounced back then. Today, meeting in artistic director
Emily Mann's McCarter office, we laugh as we recall the success of
Mann's impressive staging of the Tennessee Williams masterpiece during
her inaugural season. "I'm calmer now," says Greenberg, noting
that it help to have Mann directing his intimate play.
Greenberg's self-described "unwieldy" script was put into
Mann's hands two and one-half years ago. "When she got to the
last page, she made an offer," says Greenberg. However it wasn't
the first time Greenberg had connected with Mann. They met on New
Year's Day, 1989, at a party given by Greenberg's lawyer. As fate
would have it, he turned out to be Mann's lawyer, too.
But this was not what made Greenberg decide to follow Mann back to
Princeton. "It wasn't anything she said, but rather the gestalt
of our meeting atop the Marriott Marquis that made me realize that
Emily was the right director for my play," he says.
While Greenberg's last three plays have been produced at the Manhattan
Theater Club, the playwright makes no bones about his dissatisfaction
with the subscription audiences there ("they're dead"), and
it being time for a change. And where would it be more welcoming than
the town of Princeton, where Greenberg recalls working for the Daily
Princetonian. "Life is phasing and it's time for a new phase,"
Greenberg says.
Raised in Mineola, Long Island, the 40-year-old Greenberg recalls
being theater struck from the age of five, even though not a single
member of his family is involved in the profession. He describes his
mother as a professional adult college student, and his father as
an executive for a movie theater chain. "Oh, yes, I write screenplays
that don't get made," adds Greenberg, surprising himself. Regrettably,
he has yet to be invited to write a screenplay treatment for one of
his own plays.
I submit to Greenberg that some of his plays, like "An American
Plan" and "The Extra Man," are products of a playwright
who might be a little too demanding of his audience. Some have criticized
these works for being uncompromisingly intelligent and even unconventionally
scary. "I don't think I'm demanding enough," Greenberg responds.
"My last play, `Three Days of Rain,' seems to have had the most
powerful effect on the audience. It is also the play that made audiences
work the hardest."
Greenberg says that it is his use of "dramatic irony" that
allows the audience to know more than the people onstage. Greenberg
is firm in his belief that audiences don't want to be condescended
to, nor do they want to be imposed upon by an author's intelligence.
"People get offended by gratuitous flashiness," he says.
Because he knows that it is difficult to target an audience, Greenberg
says he basically writes for himself and trusts that enough people
will share his interest.
With Greenberg's new play getting its start at McCarter, we could
assume that this marks an end to what Greenberg sees as his
"complacency"
at the Manhattan Theater Club. He is confident the McCarter experience
will be similar to those he has had working in Costa Mesa, California,
where, he says, "the audiences are quite good, smart, and generous."
An unconventional three-act play, "Safe as Houses" is a family
saga that spans from 1980 to 1995. When the play begins, the powerful
patriarch of an upper-class Jewish family has hopes, in his retirement,
that his dreams and values will be carried on by his son Scott. A
visit by Rob, Scott's college friend, becomes complicated when the
visitor inadvertently learns some unsettling things about his hosts.
This moment of overheard intimacy involves Rob in a spiral of family
secrets, personal betrayals, and the consequences of time's leveling
hand. In the words of McCarter's dramaturg Janice Paran: "Rob's
poignant, oddly dependent relationship with the family takes on more
importance as he witnesses their domestic turmoil and attempts to
provide ballast for each of them, and ultimately, for himself."
Greenberg agrees that his plays share recurring themes. Primary among
these is their dualism: characters who are both light and dark, different
on the interior than on the exterior, basically not who they appear
to be, but opposite and complementary personalities. Greenberg promises
a similar dialectic in "Safe as Houses."
"I love the cast," Greenberg submits as he makes special mention
of four-time Emmy Award-winner Michael Learned who, in addition to
her many stage credits, achieved national recognition as Olivia Walton
in the long-running hit television series "The Waltons" (see
accompanying story). Also in the cast of six are David Margulies (seen
most recently in his Off-Broadway one-man show "Bashevis: Tales
of I.B. Singer"), Leslie Ayvazian, Barbara Garrick, Gus Rogerson,
Fredrick Weller, and five-year-old Sam Blackman Boyles, of Princeton.
What is it that Greenberg wants the audience to experience? "I
want them to feel their thoughts, their entire lives, an entire history
of a house, a household," says Greenberg. Of course, that remains
to be seen, and also for the critics to tell us. While we can't guarantee
whether "Safe as Houses" will be Greenberg's best play yet,
we can be sure that he won't read the reviews.
— Simon Saltzman
Safe as Houses, McCarter Theater, 91 University
Place, 609-683-8000. Opening night is Friday, March 20, for the play that
continues to April 5.
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India Politics 01 May 2017 Had planned liquor ban in MP during my stint as CM: Uma Bharti
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Had planned liquor ban in MP during my stint as CM: Uma Bharti
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The Minister for Water Resources said that she had become CM at a time when the financial position of MP was not sound.
She also said that the present dispensation in Madhya Pradesh led by Shivraj Singh Chouhan seemed to be implementing the plan prepared during her time. (Photo: PTI)
Bhopal: Union minister Uma Bharti has said that during her stint as the Madhya Pradesh chief minister in 2003-04, a plan had been prepared to implement liquor ban in the state. She also said that the present dispensation in Madhya Pradesh led by Shivraj Singh Chouhan seemed to be implementing the plan prepared during her time.
"I had asked the officials to prepare a liquor prohibition plan when I was the chief minister of the state. I wanted to implement prohibition secretly. I think Shivraj Singh knows about that plan and he is now implementing the same," she told reporters at Sagar yesterday. She extended her support to the state government's liquor prohibition efforts.
The Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation said that she had become the chief minister at a time when the financial position of Madhya Pradesh was not sound.
"The state was in poor financial condition when I became the chief minister. I had asked the officials how it would affect the financial condition of the state, if the government implements the liquor prohibition. A plan was prepared in this regard," she added.
Earlier in the day, Bharti and Shivraj Singh Chouhan performed a puja of river Narmada at Kaneri village in Dindori district as part of the ongoing 'Namami Devi Narmade- Sewa Yatra' and also participated in Jan-Samvad (dialogue with public) programme.
"The irrigation area of the state has increased thanks to the completion of pending irrigation projects on priority basis. This has led to a jump in the state's growth rate. This initiative of Chouhan is a role model for the country," she said at the Jan-Samvad programme.
She said the union government has started a drive to complete 99 pending irrigation projects in the country within a definite time-frame and the decision will enhance the irrigated area by one crore hectares.
According to her, the Narmada Sewa Yatra that was launched to protect nature and environment with the active support of society, reveals the 'saint-like nature' of Chouhan. She said that Narmada water and cow milk will be the base of Madhya Pradesh's prosperity.
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Q: Transferring stuff from one computer to another I just got a new laptop and I'm wanting to transfer (preferably everything) from my old one to the new one. The old one is running Lubuntu 18.04 64 bit and the new one is running the exact same. I really want to avoid taking the laptops apart to get the drives out and then copying them so would anyone know a good free (as in price) drive copier that I could use?

A: Clonezilla
If the computers are similar enough, a cloned copy of the drive in the old computer will work in the new computer. Things to consider are graphics chip/card and wifi chip/card. Most things are probably working with built-in linux drivers.
I would take the the drive in the old computer out of the computer and put it into the new computer and test if/how it works. But that's me. I understand that you want another solution, and I suggest that you use Clonezilla to

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*make an image the whole drive of the old computer to an image in an external drive,

*restore from the image to the drive of the new computer,

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*the target drive (in the new computer) must be at least as big as the source drive (in the old computer), not one single byte smaller for this method to work.

Links
Clonezilla web site
use dd to back up transfer hard driver image
Fastest way to copy HDD
CloneZilla: HDD Cloning - Dual Boot (Windows + Linux)

A: If the laptops are in the same network, you can use rsync to copy files via ssh.
From the new laptop you can run something like this if the username is the same on both computers.
rsync -av -e ssh user@old_laptop:/home/user /home

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*replace user with the actual username

*replace old_laptop with the old laptops hostname (run hostname on your old laptop to see the hostname).

This will copy the whole user's home directory to your new laptop.
If you issue the same command again, it will only copy changes.

Note: This command will not copy and global settings made outside your home, e.g. in /etc. Also some programs might write to /var. You can of course change the command to include/use these directories. You will then need to run using sudo.

If you have different user name, use this:
rsync -av -e ssh old_user@old_laptop:/home/old_user/ /home/new_user

This will copy the contents of the user directory to your new laptop (note the trailing / behind old_user).

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*Add --delete to remove files on your new computer that are not on your old computer.

*Add -z to use compression if your network speed is slow, e.g. if you copy via internet.

Your old laptop needs openssh-server installed.

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Social Media: The War For Authenticity, Part 1
It's sort of a funny story
Several years ago, an up-and-coming stand-up comic working in California discovered the power of social networking in growing his fan base. He spent daylight hours telling his Myspace friends about each evening's performances, interacting directly with people who were already interested in his work. At night, before his sets, he'd meet these online friends lined up outside the clubs, or mingle with them in the audience. His reputation as a storytelling comedian grew, and as his fans shared clips with their friends, his friends list also grew, and he continued to interact personally with these new followers.
Soon he was headlining national tours and starring in movies. His appeal was mostly to teens and twenty-somethings, but while older demographics scratched their heads at his popularity, the comedian had found his audience, practically one person at a time.
A place for spam spam spam friends and spam
His story isn't unique, and it has been told of independent musicians and other content-producers as well. Myspace started out as "a place for friends," and hard-working audience-seekers used the platform's features to find their fans. At its best, Myspace was a new channel for content discovery. For fans, it was an eye-opening revelation: the traditional channels may have seemed fine all this time, but they were clearly flawed (or, less generously, they were small-minded) because they had failed to connect all these great artists with all these eager consumers.
As always happens, when these success stories were told, others jumped on. Some followed the newly established model, taking advantage of Myspace's capacity for authentic engagement. Others, of course, found shortcuts, turning features into increasingly annoying tools for spam. The problem grew until the Myspace experience was similar to the email experience before there were spam filters. We had to wade through too much unsolicited solicitation to find real engagement, so most of us gave up.
Bot-toming out
In the end, it wasn't Facebook who killed Myspace. It was Myspace who killed Myspace. What had been a joyful way to interact with people around the world, regular people like us and brilliant creators looking for regular people like us, became an awkward stumble into a multi-level marketers convention, or the Thanksgiving dinner where all the guests have special opportunities to make us healthy and let us buy new cars.
It's happened with Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter as well, but these platforms, after a bit of highly publicized stumbling involving American elections, are trying to correct the trend. Each has recently announced a crackdown on fake accounts, fake comments, fake likes, and monetary exploitation of social capital. The language in their press releases underlines the bigger, real-world motivations: social responsibility and meaningful avenues for advertisers. Far less discussed are the user experience and the very basic reasons social media as a concept became the virtual gathering places they could and should be.
The stand-up comedian's story can still be told today, but we've become cynical and wary, so the climb is steeper for both the discoverer and the discoverable. How might the social media platforms tap back into feelings of community, authenticity, and engagement while still making money? Instagram's recently announced revamping of its profile pages is a start. The redesign hasn't rolled out yet, but we'll take a look in part 2 of this series at what it might mean for how we think of ourselves and each other in these places for friends and whoever.
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