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Pacific Trade Deal "Backtracking" on Environment Safeguards
By Carey L. Biron	Reprint | | Print |
Illegally logged timber seized by the Ayun villagers in Pakistan's Chitral district. A ban on trade in illegally harvested timber, wildlife and fish is omitted from the current fast-track legislation in the U.S. Congress. Credit: Imran Schah/IPS
WASHINGTON, Jan 16 2014 (IPS) - An accord that would be the largest trade agreement ever negotiated appears to be rolling back environmental safeguards that have been a key part of U.S.-led trade deals for much of the past decade.
For four years, negotiators for 12 proposed Pacific-area member countries have been trying to come to agreement on a sweeping deal for what is being called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). While few details of the talks have been made public, WikiLeaks on Wednesday released a negotiating text for the environment chapter as well as a round-up of related country-level positions.
"We've been pushing for safeguards around three things – fish stocks, wildlife trafficking and illegal logging – and the current draft falls short." -- Jake Schmidt
The documents allow the public a first-time glimpse of where talks stand on green issues, and some of the details have worried civil society. WikiLeaks' publisher Julian Assange suggested Wednesday that the environment chapter is little more than a "toothless public relations exercise".
The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) "may be forced to back down from historic negotiating positions on environmental protections," Larry Cohen, president of Communications Workers of America, a trade association, told a Senate hearing on Thursday, referring to media analysis of the leaked documents.
"At this point in our history, we should be making improvements, not negotiating a retreat on global environmental issues."
Cohen appeared before the Senate Finance Committee to offer testimony on new legislation that would transfer significant power, known as "trade promotion" or "fast track" authorities, to President Barack Obama to move the TPP into its final stages. While such authorities have been a key component of past U.S. trade deals, critics say that they are undemocratic, barring the Congress from tweaking any eventual agreement.
On Thursday, Cohen told lawmakers that the new legislation would do nothing to ameliorate concerns about the TPP's weaknesses on environmental safeguards. (Thus far, almost all Democratic members of Congress have refused to formally support the new fast track authorities.)
"Key negotiating objectives that would help ensure that natural resources are protected, such as a ban on trade in illegally harvested timber, wildlife and fish, are completely omitted from the current legislation," he warned.
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"It also does nothing to protect our environmental and climate policies from attack by foreign corporations or to put less stress on our scarce natural resources. More must be done to ensure that trade agreements don't become a global race to the bottom on the environment."
Unenforceable
The newly leaked environment chapter likely dates to November, and so may have changed by this week. If not, however, it appears to fail to include strong enforcement provisions – in a way that could directly contravene U.S. law.
The issue goes back to a 2007 agreement between the Congress and then-President George W. Bush, which set out a series of minimum standards for future trade agreements, including for the environment.
Congress stipulated that countries signing trade agreements with the United States would need to fulfil any international treaties they had signed. It also moved to ensure that agreed-upon environmental safeguards were not afterthoughts, requiring that such obligations be fully legally enforceable.
Green groups and others saw the agreement as an important step, and these requirements have been in place in subsequent trade accords between the United States and Panama, Colombia, South Korea and Peru. Yet while this U.S. law has not changed since then, the leaked TPP environment chapter contains weak requirements that critics say would be unenforceable.
"We've been pushing for safeguards around three things – fish stocks, wildlife trafficking and illegal logging – and the current draft falls short on all of these principles," Jake Schmidt, international climate policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a watchdog group, told IPS.
"The current obligations for each of these give lots of wiggle room for countries not to enforce them. Effectively, there's a reporting requirement for countries to say that they're not enforcing these provisions, but no ability to actually apply trade sanctions. That's like say it's illegal to speed but then not funding any cops."
(On Wednesday, NRDC and two other environment groups released a full analysis of the leaked TPP chapter.)
The leaked chapter, for instance, stipulates that member countries "recognize the importance of taking measures aimed at the conservation and the sustainable management of fisheries". But governments are not required to do so.
Similarly, each country "shall seek to operate a fisheries management system … designed to prevent overfishing". But, again, members are not required to do so.
"If passed without the proper enforcement, the current draft would be a major step back form previous trade agreements, even those passed by George Bush," Schmidt says. "We know from lots of previous experience that if you have good laws on the books but no strong enforcement mechanisms, they don't have any meaning."
In fact, experience from the four trade agreements that have included the post-2007 environment safeguards has been mixed, as the USTR has never formally imposed sanctions on a country for failure to comply with environment-related provisions. Yet supporters note that the mere threat of trade repercussions has offered an important diplomatic tool in behind-the-scenes talks.
U.S. demands
As the TPP talks have progressed, the Obama administration has been roundly criticised by civil society groups who feel they have shut out of the negotiations, even as major multinational corporations have reportedly been given access to both the talks and certain negotiating texts.
On the environment chapter, however, the sense is that U.S. negotiators have indeed been working to ensure that the congressionally mandated safeguards are ultimately in place. In the aftermath of the leak, the office of the U.S. Trade Representative took the rare step of directly addressing the issue.
"The United States' position on the environment in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations is this," the USTR stated in the first sentence of a blog post released Wednesday, "environmental stewardship is a core American value, and we will insist on a robust, fully enforceable environment chapter in the TPP or we will not come to agreement."
Yet NRDC's Schmidt notes that the TPP remains a U.S.-driven agreement, and thus Washington negotiators have a key opportunity to insist on strong enforcement.
"They may be pushing hard," he says, "but we'll see if they now follow through and signal to other countries that this is a requirement that must be met before they can bring home any trade agreement."
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Home Politics "Would Censorship Have Stopped the Rise of the Nazis?"
"Would Censorship Have Stopped the Rise of the Nazis?"
Greg Lukianoff (President of FIRE) and Prof. Nadine Strossen (former President of the ACLU) have an excellent post on this subject; here's the beginning, though it's worth reading in its entirety:
Given the recent panic over what Elon Musk buying Twitter may mean for hate speech regulation on the platform, I thought it would be important to explain that arguments for hate speech codes are deeply flawed. As we have previously argued in this series, hate speech laws have proven to backfire in predictable and unpredictable ways. In this and the next entry, we'll be addressing oft-cited arguments that hate speech laws would have prevented historical atrocities.
Assertion: The rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany is an instructive example of why we should censor hateful and extremist speech.
Greg Lukianoff: Richard Delgado, an early champion of speech codes and now more famous as a founding scholar in the field of Critical Race Theory, cites the Rwandan genocide (more on this in the next entry), along with Weimar Germany, as cautionary tales against free-speech purism. The problem is that neither historical precedent supports the idea that speech restraints could have prevented a genocide.
As I explained in my review of Eric Berkowitz's excellent book, "Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News," Weimar Germany had laws banning hateful speech (particularly hateful speech directed at Jews), and top Nazis including Joseph Goebbels, Theodor Fritsch and Julius Streicher actually were sentenced to prison time for violating them. The efforts of the Weimar Republic to suppress the speech of the Nazis are so well known in academic circles that one professor has described the idea that speech restrictions would have stopped the Nazis as "the Weimar Fallacy."
A 1922 law passed in response to violent political agitators such as the Nazis permitted Weimar authorities to censor press criticism of the government and advocacy of violence. This was followed by a number of emergency decrees expanding the power to censor newspapers. The Weimar Republic not only shut down hundreds of Nazi newspapers — in a two-year period, they shut down 99 in Prussia alone — but they accelerated that crackdown on speech as the Nazis ascended to power. Hitler himself was banned from speaking in several German states from 1925 until 1927.
In this 1920s cartoon by Philipp Rupprecht, Hitler is depicted as having his mouth sealed with tape that reads "forbidden to speak." The text beneath this image reads, "He alone of two billion people on Earth may not speak in Germany."
Far from being an impediment to the spread of National Socialist ideology, Hitler and the Nazis used the attempts to suppress their speech as public relations coups. The party waved the ban like a bloody shirt to claim they were being targeted for exposing the international conspiracy to suppress "true" Germans. As one poster explained:
Why is Adolf Hitler not allowed to speak? Because he is ruthless in uncovering the rulers of the German economy, the international bank Jews and their lackeys, the Democrats, Marxists, Jesuits, and Free Masons! Because he wants to free the workers from the domination of big money!
Considering the Nazi movement's core ideology, as espoused by Hitler in "Mein Kampf," rested on an alleged conspiracy between Jews and their sympathizers in government to politically disempower Aryan Germans, it is not surprising that the Nazis were able to spin government censorship into propaganda victories and seeming confirmation of their claims that they were speaking truth to power, and that power was aligned against them.
Indeed, censorship that was employed ineffectively to stop the rise of the Nazis was a boon to the Nazis when it came to consolidating their power. The laws mentioned earlier that allowed Weimar authorities to shut down newspapers, and additional laws intended to limit the spread of Nazi ideology via the radio, had their reins turned over to the Nazi party when Hitler became chancellor. Predictably, the Nazis used these preexisting means of censorship to crush any political speech opposing them, allowing for an absolute grip on the country that would have been much more difficult or impossible with strong legal protections for press and speech….
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SHOCKING VIDEOS OF TODDLER GIVING NAZI SALUTE AND PLEDGING TO ISIS
By Patty McMurray | Aug 26, 2015
While we weren't looking an entire generation of kids are being abused and brainwashed to hate and kill.
Just last week their was a toddler using a stuffed teddy bear to demonstrate the correct way to behead someone:
TODDLER BEHEADING TEDDY BEAR:
Multiple videos have emerged of a toddler doing a Nazi salute while at the same time appearing to pledge allegiance to the Islamic State terror group.
During one of the video, the little blonde girl, wearing a Hello Kitty shirt, shouts "Sieg Heil" (hail victory), while brandishing a knife in her left hand and doing a Nazi salute with her right.
The girl, who is called Marina by the man behind the Camera, threatens to "cut Russians." Standing behind a Ukrainian flag, the girl says, "I am going to cut Russians! Gladly, replying to a man who asked: "What are you going to do?"
In a separate clip, she shouts, "Allahu Akbar!" while wearing a Keffiyeh and standing in front of a computer screen that displays an ISIS flag. After saluting the terror group, the girl starts dancing to Arabic music as an ISIS propaganda video plays in the background.
The same "Marina" appeared in a video that surfaced last month, in which she again promised to "cut Russians" while doing a Nazi salute.
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The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is founded on reef-building corals. Corals build their exoskeleton with aragonite, but ocean acidification is lowering the aragonite saturation state of seawater (Ωa). The downscaling of ocean acidification projections from global to GBR scales requires the set of regional drivers controlling Ωa to be resolved. Here we use a regional coupled circulation–biogeochemical model and observations to estimate the Ωa experienced by the 3,581 reefs of the GBR, and to apportion the contributions of the hydrological cycle, regional hydrodynamics and metabolism on Ωa variability. We find more detail, and a greater range (1.43), than previously compiled coarse maps of Ωa of the region (0.4), or in observations (1.0). Most of the variability in Ωa is due to processes upstream of the reef in question. As a result, future decline in Ωa is likely to be steeper on the GBR than currently projected by the IPCC assessment report.
This study was undertaken with the support of CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, and through resources made available through the eReefs project, the CSIRO Marine and Coastal Carbon Biogeochemistry Cluster, and the Australian Climate Change Science Program. The observations at Yongala were sourced as part of the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)—IMOS is supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy and the Super Science Initiative. We thank Sven Uthicke for making his observations publically available, Professorss Tom Trull and Sabina Belli for their constructive comments on the manuscript, Miles Furnas who willingly shared his knowledge of the region and provided observations and three anonymous reviewers.
Reversal of ocean acidification enhances net coral reef calcification.
Impact of seawater acidification on pH at the tissue-skeleton interface and calcification in reef corals.
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Q: How do you check in python whether a string contains only numbers? How do you check whether a string contains only numbers?
I've given it a go here. I'd like to see the simplest way to accomplish this.
import string

def main():
    isbn = input("Enter your 10 digit ISBN number: ")
    if len(isbn) == 10 and string.digits == True:
        print ("Works")
    else:
        print("Error, 10 digit number was not inputted and/or letters were inputted.")
        main()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
    input("Press enter to exit: ")

A: You can also use the regex,
import re

eg:-1) word = "3487954"
re.match('^[0-9]*$',word)

eg:-2) word = "3487.954"
re.match('^[0-9\.]*$',word)

eg:-3) word = "3487.954 328"
re.match('^[0-9\.\ ]*$',word)

As you can see all 3 eg means that there is only no in your string. So you can follow the respective solutions given with them.

A: Use str.isdigit:
>>> "12345".isdigit()
True
>>> "12345a".isdigit()
False
>>>

A: As pointed out in this comment How do you check in python whether a string contains only numbers? the isdigit() method is not totally accurate for this use case, because it returns True for some digit-like characters:
>>> "\u2070".isdigit() # unicode escaped 'superscript zero'
True

If this needs to be avoided, the following simple function checks, if all characters in a string are a digit between "0" and "9":
import string

def contains_only_digits(s):
    # True for "", "0", "123"
    # False for "1.2", "1,2", "-1", "a", "a1"
    for ch in s:
        if not ch in string.digits:
            return False
    return True

Used in the example from the question:
if len(isbn) == 10 and contains_only_digits(isbn):
    print ("Works")

A: What about of float numbers, negatives numbers, etc.. All the examples before will be wrong.
Until now I got something like this, but I think it could be a lot better:
'95.95'.replace('.','',1).isdigit()

will return true only if there is one or no '.' in the string of digits.
'9.5.9.5'.replace('.','',1).isdigit()

will return false

A: You'll want to use the isdigit method on your str object:
if len(isbn) == 10 and isbn.isdigit():

From the isdigit documentation:

str.isdigit()
Return True if all characters in the string are digits and there is at least one character, False otherwise. Digits include decimal characters and digits that need special handling, such as the compatibility superscript digits. This covers digits which cannot be used to form numbers in base 10, like the Kharosthi numbers. Formally, a digit is a character that has the property value Numeric_Type=Digit or Numeric_Type=Decimal.

A: As every time I encounter an issue with the check is because the str can be None sometimes, and if the str can be None, only use str.isdigit() is not enough as you will get an error

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'isdigit'

and then you need to first validate the str is None or not. To avoid a multi-if branch, a clear way to do this is:
if str and str.isdigit():

Hope this helps for people have the same issue like me.

A: Use string isdigit function:
>>> s = '12345'
>>> s.isdigit()
True
>>> s = '1abc'
>>> s.isdigit()
False

A: You can use try catch block here:
s="1234"
try:
    num=int(s)
    print "S contains only digits"
except:
    print "S doesn't contain digits ONLY"

A: There are 2 methods that I can think of to check whether a string has all digits of not
Method 1(Using the built-in isdigit() function in python):-
>>>st = '12345'
>>>st.isdigit()
True
>>>st = '1abcd'
>>>st.isdigit()
False

Method 2(Performing Exception Handling on top of the string):-
st="1abcd"
try:
    number=int(st)
    print("String has all digits in it")
except:
    print("String does not have all digits in it")

The output of the above code will be:
String does not have all digits in it

A: you can use str.isdigit() method or str.isnumeric() method

A: You can use this one too:
re.match(r'^[\d]*$' , YourString)

A: Solution:
def main():
    isbn = input("Enter your 10 digit ISBN number: ")
    try:
        int(isbn)
        is_digit = True
    except ValueError:
        is_digit = False
    if len(isbn) == 10 and is_digit:
        print ("Works")
    else:
        print("Error, 10 digit number was not inputted and/or letters were inputted.")
        main()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
    input("Press enter to exit: ")

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You may be well accustomed to protecting your skin from UV damage before heading outside every day, but what about the other environmental factors, like pollution, wind and rain, which can all wreak havoc on your face, hair and makeup? Read on to see which elements to look out for and ways to protect yourself from each of them.
It's not always obvious to see polluted air in Sydney as much as other cities like Beijing, but it doesn't mean that it's non-existent. In fact, it has been reported that 80 per cent of all signs of skin ageing are due to environmental aggressors such as pollution and smoke. The big culprit, however, are air pollutants called ambient particulate matter. These cause skin to generate excess free radicals, which can interfere with the skin's ability to produce collagen and elastin, and retain moisture. Here's how Elizabeth Arden's new PREVAGE® City Smart can help – it almost creates a barrier to protect your skin from pollution, and contains a special antioxidant blend of Idebenone, green tea and ferulic acid to neutralise free radical damage that can cause the appearance of lines, wrinkles and hyperpigmentation from forming. To use, pop on a light layer in the morning, with or without foundation, and go about your day as you normally would.
TOP TIP: This product contains tiny optical diffuser particles to fill in fine lines and a universal tint that suits all skin tones.
Even when it's cool outside, your face and lips are still susceptible to being burnt by the sun's UV rays. To counteract this, make sure to use face and body products with an SPF, and keep a lip balm with sunscreen close by (we like Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream Lip Protectant Stick Sunscreen SPF15), and continue to reapply every few hours or so.
Imagine the horror when your fresh blow-dry is mussed up after a strong gust of wind, and even worse, when it gets stuck to your lip balm or gloss. Instead of wearing your hair down on particularly windy days, try wrapping your ponytail into a loose chignon with a snagless hair tie (try Invisibobble Original) followed by a quick mist-over with hairspray, like Matrix Style Link Style Fixer Finishing Hairspray, to tame flyaways. Or, you can try one of these easy-to-copy up-dos.
A diagonal drizzle can ruin eye makeup in an instant, even if you're huddled under an umbrella. So when you see those sheets of rain outside, switch to a waterproof mascara, like Revlon Super Length Waterproof Mascara, that'll stay put when there's just moisture in the air.
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Q: Detect a knot from its fundamental group I'm studying the braid closure and I ended up with the knot $K= (\sigma_1\,\sigma_2\,\sigma_1\,\sigma_2\,\sigma_1)_*$, here the notation is according Murasugi but it does not really matter. By using a Snappy software, I know that the fundamental group of $K$ has the following presentation
$$
\pi_1(S^3 \setminus K) = \langle\, a,b \mid ab^2=b^2a \,\rangle,
$$
thus $K$ is not trivial. Snappy doesn't recognize $K$, which means that $K$ is a composite know (i.e. is not prime). My questions are:
Which knot is K? Can I find its prime factors (i.e K1#K2 = K)?

and
For a generic K, is there a way to detect K's name from its fundamental group?

A: Note: In the braid group on three strands, $\sigma_1 \, \sigma_2 \, \sigma_1 = \sigma_2 \, \sigma_1 \, \sigma_2$,
so your braid is equivalent to
$$
\sigma_1 \, (\sigma_1 \, \sigma_2 \, \sigma_1) \, \sigma_1
= \sigma_1^2 \, \sigma_2 \, \sigma_1^2.
$$
By Markov's theorem, you can cyclically permute the the braid word without changing the link closure, so
$$
\bigl( \sigma_1^2 \, \sigma_2 \, \sigma_1^2 \bigr)_*
= \bigl( \sigma_1^2 \, \sigma_1^2 \, \sigma_2 \bigr)_*
= \bigl( \sigma_1^4 \, \sigma_2 \bigr)_*.
$$
Using the other Markov move (stabilization), the closure of $\sigma_1^4 \, \sigma_2$ in $B_3$ is isotopic to the closure of $\sigma_1^4$ in $B_2 \cong \mathbb{Z}$ (just twists of two strands).
This particular $4$-twist link is sometimes called Solomon's knot despite not being a knot by mathematical definitions. (It's a two component link.)

A: Given the braid presentation, I drew the knot in Knotfolio:

It was recognized as the prime link L4a1, which the other answer points out is known as "Solomon's knot" (though in knot theory only one-component links are called "knots"). In particular, as an oriented link it is L4a1{1} and not L4a1{0}.
Supposing it's prime, this is the only 2-component link with up to 5 crossings with the same Jones polynomial and Alexander polynomial, so Knotfolio has correctly identified it. The diagram, through Seifert's algorithm, gives a Seifert surface of genus 1 ("can. genus" in Knotfolio) so the link is indeed prime.


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Samantha Tierney, MPH, Director, Measure Development Operation and Stephen Davidow, MBA-HCM, CPHQ, APR, Director Quality Improvement represented PCPI's Measurement Science & QI programs as presenters at the IAHQ Annual Conference May 8th in Naperville, IL. Ms. Tierney presented on "Developing and Using Clinical Quality Measures to Drive Improvement", where participants learned how clinical quality measures developed, the evidence base used, and what that means for care at the point of service. As president of the IAHQ, Mr. Davidow lead the development of this annual event focused on Advancing Knowledge, Improving Care.
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Seth Blumenthal, MBA, Director, Data and Innovation gave an update on the Registries on FHIR project at the April 24th Surgical Quality Alliance in Washington, DC. Registries on FHIR aims to increase the amount of registry data captured automatically from EHRs. The project team is developing a set of common clinical data elements, based on previous work as much as possible, and plans to test their use in registries and EHRs as part of a demonstration pilot effort. Initial research on how common clinical concepts are currently represented in registries is supported in part by the Duke Clinical Research Institute and the Pew Charitable Trusts.
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The American Medical Association (AMA) hosted their annual conference for the QCDR Steward Community to come together and share their concerns, learn from each other, and discuss the future of QCDRS in the CMS; Quality Payment Program (QPP) - both MIPS and advanced APMs on May 9th.
Stephen Davidow, MBA-HCM, CPHQ, APR, Director Quality Improvement served as a panelist along with Dr. Steven Epstein, American College of Emergency Physicians, and Heather Smith, American Physical Therapy Association, discussed the burden of quality measurement, informed feedback, and continuous improvement under the CMS Quality Payment Program. The session was facilitated by Dr. Robert Phillips, American Board of Family Medicine.
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The American Medical Association (AMA) convened a cross-specialty, multidisciplinary technical expert panel (TEP) to identify and define new quality measures for prediabetes. The draft measures proposed by this TEP represent the first measures in the U.S. intended to assist in the prevention of type 2 diabetes. The proposed measures address screening for prediabetes, providing intervention for those with prediabetes, and follow-up testing for those with prediabetes. PCPI's Measurement Science Team serves as consultants to the AMA in support of these efforts.
Currently, eighty-four million Americans have prediabetes and 9 out 10 of these individuals are unaware that they have this condition. CDC-recognized lifestyle change programs are included in the health benefit plans of many private health insurers and the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program will extend the program to Medicare beneficiaries in April 2018.
The 30-day comment period will close on Thursday, May 31st. All comments are welcome and will be compiled to be shared with the TEP for consideration.View or download the set of draft measures and submit your comments by clicking here.
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Beginning on May 7th, this draft paper is available for a 30-day peer review and public comment period. We invite measure stewards and developers to review our draft paper and provide feedback via this link, by June 6th.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted the Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQM) annual update for the 2019 reporting period for Eligible Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAH), and the 2019 performance period for Eligible Professionals and Eligible Clinicians. PCPI updated sixteen eCQMs included in the program for eligible professionals and eligible clinicians. PCPI's measurement science team has been actively involved in the annual update process and participated in the CQL pilot testing, including user acceptance testing of the tools (i.e., CMS Measure Authoring Tool (MAT) and Bonnie) used by the measure development community.
The eCQMs for 2019 reporting are expressed using the new CQL standard for logic expression and continue to use the Quality Data Model (QDM) as the conceptual model to express clinical concepts. The updated measure specifications are available on the eCQI Resource Center for Eligible Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals and Eligible Professionals and Eligible Clinicians under the 2019 Reporting/Performance Year. The eCQM value sets for 2019 Reporting/Performance Period are available for download through the National Library of Medicine's Value Set Authority Center (VSAC). Refer to the QDM v5.3 Annotated version and current version of the CQL standard to better understand how they work together to provide eCQMs that are human-readable and structured for electronic processing.
The new eCQM Reading Guide provides information on eCQMs such as file naming conventions, understanding an eCQM human-readable rendition, QDM data criteria, value sets, and more, to assist stakeholders in interpreting and understanding eCQMs.
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For more information or if you would like to join one of these groups, please contact either Chrystal Price, Program Manager, NQRN or Seth Blumenthal, Director of Data and Innovation for more details. We look forward to having you in the Work Groups!
At the 2018 IAHQ Annual Conference. PCPI had the opportunity to participate in the poster competition with a poster on "Closing the Referral Loop: Improving the Ambulatory Referral Management Process." We are proud to announce that PCPI was the recipient of the Committed to Quality Award. This award represents commitment to quality through an organization's project or program to improve quality and patient safety. The award highlights a project or program designed to address a specific quality or patient safety challenge. Learn more about the Closing the Referral Loop Project and access the full size PDF of this poster here.
Participants will learn cross-cutting lessons they may apply to their own improvement efforts from three highly successful national quality improvement programs.
The Dermatology event of the Summer!
The 2018 AAD Summer Meeting brings the brightest minds in dermatology together for an unforgettable educational experience.
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The ACEP's 2018 Leadership & Advocacy Conference (LAC) will celebrate emergency medicine's accomplishments and continue to work for a better political environment for our specialty and our patients. The LAC continues to get bigger and better and each year we send a stronger message to the United States Congress. We'll train first-timers to educate your Members of Congress while seasoned participants will build upon your already-valuable Congressional connections.
Patient-Entered Wellness Data and Healthy Lifestyles: Tailored Electronic Recommendations to Foster Preventive Care.
An enormous amount of data is generated in healthcare today, but is it the most meaningful? Patient-entered data and innovative approaches to healthy lifestyles could influence providers' orders, fostering more effective care. Join AMA and IHMI to discuss the patient's role in health data. Participation is open May 16-25, 2018. Find out more at the AMA Discussion.
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At the 9th Annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, June 14-15 in Chicago, Catalysis Healthcare Value Network members and healthcare leaders from around the world will share their learnings, discuss their cultural transformations and help you discover strategies to transform your healthcare organization, create value, reduce costs, and ultimately enhance quality and patient care. This Summit provides information and collaboration opportunities to be successful in your organization's journey. Learn more and register.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today posted the 2018 Quality Measure Development Plan (MDP) Annual Report, which describes progress in developing clinician quality measures to support the Quality Payment Program. The CMS Quality Measure Development Plan (MDP) is a focused framework to help develop and improve these measures, point out the known measurement and performance gaps, and recommend prioritized approaches to close those gaps. The 2018 MDP Annual Report supplements the MDP with additional information to support measure development and records progress since the first annual report in 2017. The 2018 MDP Annual Report describes efforts including identifying and developing meaningful outcome measures, partnering with patients in the measure development process, partnering with clinicians and professional societies, and funding new measure development.
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Q: How to find classloader leak with free tools? I'm investigating a memory leak in a Tomcat/Spring/Hibernate app which is causing the dreaded "out of permgen" error after a few redployments.  I've downloaded the free version of plumbr, which confirms that I have a classloader leak, but unfortunately I can't afford the $499 to get the detailed report.  Is there a free tool that can perform an equivalent analysis and tell me where to look for it?  Or some other common cause of such leaks that I can investigate?
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There is a screen cast that shows you how to do this.
Disclaimer: My company develops JProfiler.

A: I found that Eclipse's Memory Analysis Tools worked reasonably well.  I set my server to produce a heap dump and used MAT (roughly following the guide here) to find all the classloaders.  It seems the relevant one is org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader, and by listing their GC roots I was easily able to find out that my problem was being caused by java.util.logging.Level which was indirectly referenced through an org.jboss.logging.JDKLevel.
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Noel Rowe, poet and critic, was something of an enigma to me. It is hard to believe that he was still in his thirties (just) when I met him in 1990 at the University of Sydney, he a lecturer, I a postgraduate student. Noel seemed to have an enormous wealth of experience, though he was never showy with it. In 1990 he was still a member of the Catholic religious order the Marist Fathers. (He left in 1992.) He had grown up on a farm, and prior to becoming a priest he had intended to be an actor. He had travelled, and he seemed like a far more senior academic than his recently acquired associate lectureship now indicates. (Like most students, I was largely ignorant of the profoundly hierarchical nature of academia.) Despite the fullness of his life, Noel always seemed essentially young, if youth can be defined by an openness to experience. It seems too cruel that such a man should have died at the age of fifty-six, of cancer, in 2007.


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Our Morality Rulebook Gathers Dust in Today's Culture
Eden Collinsworth
On 4/2/17 at 8:20 AM EDT
An Occupy Wall Street activist stands at the foot of Wall Street in the financial district during the one-year anniversary of the movement in New York September 17, 2012. Reuters
Opinion Morality
Last month, thousands of people gathered in Raleigh, North Carolina, for a civil rights demonstration called a "Moral March." As someone who has spent this past year writing a book on modern morality, I was struck by the use of the word—it was in the service of a call to action.
The word "morality" is derived from the Latin mores. The Greek equivalent is ethos and is the basis of the term "ethics." Morality changes when a way of thinking disappears; and, while no single generation can claim a peerless contribution to moral behavior, in my parent's time morality was a rulebook. Some parts of that rulebook were enshrined as decent behavior and others were implicit. Sins were laid bare and bad behavior had far-reaching and lasting consequences.
What were clearly designated ethics have been blurred: in politics, with our leaders, for whom we have less and less respect but are willing, more and more, to accept that their bad deeds have mitigating factors; with the Wall-Street-take-all mentality in business, where it has become difficult to define cheating, lying and stealing; in popular entertainment, with morally prismatic antiheroes operating in a stylish gray zone; and in our daily lives, whose churning technology grants permission to act in ways we would not necessarily act without it.
So pervasive is bad behavior these days that we are rarely shocked by it; and, on the rare occasions we manage to find our disgust, it's upon discovering that it's not a single person, not even a few people, but an entire company (think Volkswagen) or an institution (choose any one of the banks that were fixing Libor) that has deceived us with its shamelessly unethical behavior.
If morality is what we expect of ourselves, ethics is what we expect of others. Ethics exist to bind people together by providing behavioral consistency and solidarity. Contrary to our self-affirming expectations, morality and ethics are dictated by a given society at a particular period of time, and that qualifier denies them a universal truth. My grown son's take on morality hasn't been instilled by me as his parent as much as it was dictated by the profound changes occurring during the course of his relatively young life—changes brought about by advancements in technology and science I don't fully understand and my own parents couldn't have imagined. My parents could not have imagined, for example, that the change agent for sex would be the Internet and a proliferation of its foot soldiers, mobile devices. Nor could I have predicted that the same technology would create a digital reality where prejudices are able to spread and take root to prevent facts from being facts.
Modern-day philosophers chart moral perspectives from a system of moral absolutism to one of moral relativism. The former is based on the belief that various principles ought never to be violated; the latter, that a given action does not depend solely on social custom or individual acceptance. My belief system resides with the former—the "that's the way it has to be" version of reality. This is to be expected: I am of a certain generation.
Until recently, a generation was measured in 20-year increments, but, now, generations are more typically defined by the impactful factors during shorter and shorter time periods. The age I am has placed me squarely in what Henry James called "the land of the lost freshness," and I am hardwired with the moral absolutes shaped during the course of my old-guard upbringing. Determined that I am not to be held back in the writing of my book by a self-preserving perspective, I enlisted a group of twentysomethings to discuss their views of morality.
This generation seems to possess the ability to recognize a flexible concept of morality that exists in the broader scope and consideration of people, current events and social power. Few hesitate to question the status quo of organized groups, be they religious, businesses or governments. They told me that the world today is one of less bad options. And then they told me something I was grateful to hear: that, despite the fact that America has showcased its worst self this past year, they still believe that our resourcefulness and our collective sense of decency—call it morality if you'd like—will prevail.
Eden Collinsworth is a former media executive and an author of a forthcoming book, Behaving Badly: The New Morality in Politics, Sex, and Business. She can be reached at edencollinsworth@gmail.com.
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DOF Subsea Bags APAC Contracts
Norway-based international subsea operating company DOF Subsea announced several contract-awards in the Asia Pacific region, securing 130 days vessel and resource utilization into the first quarter of 2020. The contracts, for undisclosed clients in New Zealand and South East Asia, will see Skandi Hercules commence operations in December 2019 for a major operator, said the company which provides integrated project managed and engineered subsea solutions to the global offshore oil and gas industry.Additionally, Skandi Singapore will commence construction operations in early January 2020 in South
WASSP Launches New Rapid Deployment Multibeam Sounder
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Woolpert, iXblue to Deliver Aerial Mapping Services
Woolpert Inc and iXblue Sea Operations division, part of iXblue Group based in France, have formed a strategic partnership to provide aerial mapping services to clients in Australia, New Zealand and across the South Pacific. Under this partnership, Woolpert and iXblue will collect, process and deliver airborne Digital Imagery, Topographic LiDAR and Bathymetric LiDAR operations from helicopter and fixed wing platforms to provide custom solutions to commercial and government clients.Woolpert has collected and processed hundreds of thousands of square miles in aerial, terrestrial and bathymetric
Ports of Auckland Buys Electric Tug
Ports of Auckland in New Zealand is purchasing an IMO Tier III ready all-electric ship-handling tug with 70 tonnes bollard pull from Netherlands company Damen Shipyards as part of the company's strategy of becoming zero-emissions by 2040. The new tug design, introduced last year, has power systems comprised of two high-redundancy-level 1,000 kW generator sets that enable it to operate at 40 tonnes bollard pull should its electrical system experience a failure and a 1.5 MW charger connected to the charging station by four cables enables the RSD-E Tug 2513 to be fully recharged in less than two
July: Earth's Hottest Month Ever Recorded
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World First: Saildrone Circumnavigates Antarctica
first unmanned system to circumnavigate Antarctica.The vehicle, known as SD 1020, was equipped with a suite of climate-grade sensors and collected data in previously unchartered waters, enabling new key insights into ocean and climate processes.The 196-day mission was launched from Southport in Bluff, New Zealand, on January 19, 2019, returning to the same port on August 3 after sailing over 22,000 km (13,670 miles) around Antarctica. During the mission, the vehicle survived freezing temperatures, 15-meter (50-foot) waves, 130 km/h (80 mph) winds, and collisions with giant icebergs.This mission was sponsored
iXblue Launches Aerial Mapping Operations
iXblue Pty Ltd, Brisbane, Australia, part of iXblue Group based in France, has diversified its Sea Operations division operational capability to include aerial mapping operations to clients across Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. With over 100,000 line miles surveyed worldwide, iXblue has been operating the Sea Operations division across the region since 2007 providing clients with detailed and precise surveys of the marine and littoral environment.The aerial mapping operations will include Digital Imagery, Topographic LiDAR and Bathymetric LiDAR operations from helicopter and fixed
Robotic Data Help Explain Mysterious Holes
, whales, and seals to pop up and breathe.This particular spot far from the Antarctic coast often has small openings and has seen large polynyas before. The biggest known polynyas at that location were in 1974, 1975, and 1976, just after the first satellites were launched, when an area the size of New Zealand remained ice-free through three consecutive Antarctic winters despite air temperatures far below freezing.The new study used observations from the Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling project, or SOCCOM, which has been deploying instruments since 2014 that drift with the
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Close Link Between Contraception And Abortion
Joe Scheidler May 2, 2005
At the Pro-Life Action League we have been discussing the need for a seminar on the relationship between abortion and contraception. Many pro-lifers see a direct connection between abortion and contraception, noting that a contraceptive mentality leads not only to an anti-child mentality, but the anti-child mentality leads to the abortion mentality.
"My contraception failed, and consequently I don't want this pregnancy and the alternative is abortion." Abortion becomes logical to this woman. Meanwhile, doctors who would not think of doing a surgical abortion are comfortable prescribing contraceptives, even abortifacients.
Contraception and Abortion
The question becomes critical to those fighting abortion. Can you be truly pro-life and support contraception? Fortunately, we believe many on both sides and in the middle of this controversy would be willing to be represented in such a seminar. They would be willing to discuss this dilemma.
We believe it should be soon, because we cannot continue any longer fighting the battle to end abortion with one arm tied behind our backs. We believe a number of outspoken opponents of abortion would, in a spirit of cooperation, discuss this issue without rancor or hatred in an effort to understand one another.
There would be representatives from all facets of the pro-life movement :anti-abortion organizations taking a neutral stand on contraception, anti-abortion representatives who are just as militantly anti-contraception (such as the League) even anti-abortion/anti-contraception groups who consider natural family planning a form of contraception.
We must gather a multi-mix of ever attitude held by the various pro-life groups who, though all against surgical abortion, are not all anti-contraception or not even opposed to chemical abortions.
We believe this issue must be addressed, and soon, because the militant pro-aborts are soon going to be proposing compromise, and it will appeal to pro-life to agree on contraception as a way to diminish abortion. We believe such a seminar is overdue.
Some pro-lifers we have consulted say it is unnecessary, and will change nobody's mind on their basic position. Some believe it would be counter-productive and cause factions, while others believe it could help clear the air and present much badly needed information.
The League believes the time has come for such an open discussion and is in the process of planning such an event. We have thought for years that pro-life is trying to fight abortion while ignoring the contraceptive mentality, thus fighting the battle with one are tied behind our backs. We are convinced that pro-life will never win the abortion battle until we fight contraceptives with the same ardor with which we fight surgical abortion.
Some former abortionists who have become pro-life still have no trouble at all prescribing chemical abortifacients. Others who would not prescribe direct abortifacients will have no trouble with condoms and mechanical device to prevent conception. As we say, we believe the time is come for this seminar. Stay tuned.
Catholic Docs and Moral Issues
A recent study shows that Catholic physicians overwhelmingly support birth control pills. 87% of Catholic physicians to 93% of all physicians.
In another area of moral turpitude, 49% of Catholic physicians support the statement "Do you feel homosexuality is morally acceptable as a lifestyle choice?" 45% of Protestants agreed with the statement and 10% of Baptists. 79% of Jewish physicians accept the statement.
On embryonic stem cell research 49% of all physicians support its morality. But in this case only 27% of Catholic doctors approve, 46% of Protestants do, 22% of Baptists support the morality while 75% of Jewish doctors support the practice.
It is a crazy world we are living in. God, the Almighty Father, Creator of the Universe and the future Judge of each of us, is 100 percent against each of these moral travesties against human behavior. Why doesn't it matter to great numbers of those blessed with the art of healing? Don't they realize we each must answer to Him in the end?


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Tamba delicata is a noctuoid moth in the family Erebidae first described by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1932.

Characteristics
The green patches on a variegated and fasciated grey ground distinguish this species from other congeners.

Distribution and habitat
It is found in Borneo, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, and Java in the lowlands and hill forests.

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Boletobiinae
Moths of Borneo
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Here are some examples of trends that relate to Boards of Directors and matters they consider picked up by Shaping Tomorrow's artificial intelligence online scanning bot.
The next generation of AIs will be capable of anticipating needs and wants.
Businesses intelligence sources will converge.
Boards will seek to add business-fluent tech talent-directors who can speak to the possibility of tech as well as cultivate tech acumen of board members.
Directors of boards are most worried about cyber security risk (70 percent).
$459bn in revenue is at risk from water scarcity for irrigation and animal consumption.
One recurring lens to convey the sense of urgency that comes with daunting climate threats and shifting markets for sustainability-related components of operations.
Boards of directors of global corporations will increasingly face strategic choices and capital allocation decisions framed by mounting geo-political risks.
Imagine a world where boards of directors and trustees are sued because they failed to incorporate long-term financial risk of climate change into their investment decisions.
Listed companies will be required to publish information on their remuneration policy and the pay of individual directors.
A directive stipulates that firms "will need to disclose information on policies, risks and results as regards environmental matters".
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These trends have been picked up by an artificial intelligence bot that scans literally millions of posts on the internet and extracts items that relate to a wide range of areas of interest. In this case, the extracts are those the bot picked up and allocated to the 'Boards and Directors' key words category. Some of the extracts are quite broad in nature, others quite specific. What is of potential interest to time-pressed directors is that a simple report compiling these extracts can be accessed free and simply by typing key words into the 'Forecasts' box on the front page of Shaping Tomorrow and then clicking on the 'GO' icon. The report will appear within a very short space of time – in this case less than 30 seconds. There are many categories Directors can enter to get a quick overview of what is happening in areas that are relevant to the business, organisation and matters at hand that they are required to deal with in their roles.


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Why Coeur Mining Inc.'s Shares Plunged 13% Today
A net second-quarter loss for the gold and silver miner didn't inspire much confidence among investors.
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Shares of Coeur Mining Inc. (NYSE:CDE) fell as much as 12.7% in trading Thursday after the precious metals extractor reported its second-quarter results. At 1:30 p.m. EDT, shares were still down 10.1% for the day.
Revenue fell 4.7% in the quarter to $173.4 million, and the gold and silver miner swung from net income of $14.5 million a year ago to a net loss of $11 million, or $0.06 per share. Its adjusted net loss of $0.01 per share met analysts' expectations, but there's concern that higher costs will its ability to return to profitability later in the year.
Management said they still expect full year production of between 6.5 million and 7 million ounces of silver, and between 110,000 and 120,000 ounces of gold. But it will need to ramp up production rapidly in the second half of the year to meet those goals.
The revenue decline and the financial loss were a little disappointing given the high goals Coeur Mining has for this year. Analysts had been forecasting $0.15 per share in earnings for the 2017, which now looks like more of a stretch. If the company can pull it off, the stock can recover, but for now, investors are taking a conservative view of the company's prospects on that score.
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Botswana and Austria established diplomatic relations almost immediately after Botswana's independence. The two countries have enjoyed cordial relations at both bilateral and international levels.
The Austrian Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, has been accredited to Botswana since 1967. It is currently supported by the Austrian Honorary Consul in Gaborone, Ms. Doreen Khama. The Botswana Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office in Geneva was accredited to Austria in 2002. Botswana's interests in Austria are represented by the Botswana Honorary Consul in Vienna, Prof. Dr Harald Meixner, since August 1990.
Botswana and Austria continue to cooperate in a number of areas. These include among others, Trade, Defence and Security, Transport, Tourism and Education. There is potential for further cooperation in a number of other areas.
Nationals of Austria do not need visa to visit Botswana. However, Batswana need visa to enter Austrian territory and they can get visa at the Austrian Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa.
The Permanent Mission of Botswana in Geneva also facilitates assistance to Batswana in the countries of accreditation. All Batswana living in Austria are required to complete the form below and send it to the Mission either by email to botgen@bluewin.ch, fax or post.
The Presidential Task Team (PTT) on the development of Vision 2036 was tasked among others to conduct diagnostic studies on four thematic areas of: economy and employment; social upliftment; sustainable environment and governance, peace and security.
As part of this, the PTT undertook international benchmarking in four selected countries; namely Austria, Chile, Malaysia and Rwanda. The main purpose for benchmarking was to learn from other countries as to how they have managed to perform well in certain aspects, as well as how their visions were formulated and implemented.
A delegation of twelve (12) members visited Vienna, Austria from 18 to 22 April 2016. The main reason for choosing Austria as a benchmark was because of its successes as a landlocked country and its transition from socialist to market-based economy. The Permanent Mission of Botswana to the UN in Geneva, also accredited to Austria facilitated and participated in the visit. The delegation held discussions with institutions including private sector companies as well as parastatal entities. In addition to the meetings and guided tours, the delegation was invited to radio station called Radio Afrika International (RAI), hosted by the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation. RAI is a privately owned radio station that seeks to promote Africa in Austria, address prejudice and present positive image of Africa. The delegation provided information about Botswana including the purpose of the visit. The radio interview also provided an opportunity for the delegation to market Botswana.


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Well, one things I've noticed about this year is that I've found it more difficult to read books and keep my focus. So I only have two completed books to report for November….
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, by V. E. Schwab (2020)
Like Belle in Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Adeline LaRue wants much more than her provincial life in a 17th c. French village. She's an artist and a dreamer, and doesn't want to marry a widower and raise his children. So she makes a deal with the god of darkness to live as long as she wants. He can have her soul when she's finished with it.
As with all deals, the devil (so to speak) is in the details, and Addie is cursed to be forgotten by everyone. As soon as she is out of sight, everyone forgets her. She can make no mark upon the world, no writing, drawing, nothing to make people remember her.
But Addie is determined to live, to explore the world, and to leave a mark in some way. If people cannot remember her, perhaps she can inspire them.
After 300 years, Addie meets someone who does remember her! But why? And how long will it last?
The premise is interesting and the story goes back and forth in time, chronicling Addie's 300 years of life. I was less interested in the story of the boy who remembers Addie, but this was still a fun story. It's got more about Addie's inner life and the loneliness of living (and she has a lot of one-night stands) than it does on details of magic and gods, more contemplative than adventure tale, so keep that in mind.
My Cousin Rachel, by Daphne du Maurier (1951)
This was for my 50 Classics list, so I'm giving it its own review post here.
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Written by Daphne du Maurier, published 1951.
It's not really fall without one slightly creepy book, is it? Du Maurier is probably best known for her book Rebecca, but My Cousin Rachel is another story with a young, somewhat naive narrator who is overshadowed by a mysterious woman.
Philip Ashley has grown up under the tutelage of his cousin Ambrose, a bachelor, on the Ashley estate in Cornwall, England. When Ambrose goes abroad for his health, Philip runs things at home and is surprised to read in letters that Ambrose has married a woman named Rachel. Ambrose soon becomes ill and then paranoid that Rachel and her Italian financial advisor, Rainaldi, are poisoning him. Eventually, Abrose dies in Italy.
Philip is convinced that Rachel is a murderess, but his godfather thinks it a symptom of a hereditary brain tumor.
Rachel comes to visit…and Philip is smitten. Being 24 and never even having a crush on a girl, he doesn't realize his unhealthy infatuation for a long time, though it's obvious to his friends.
Since the book is written exclusively from Philip's perspective, we are often left a little in doubt of others' motivations and are left with his interpretations of events. Is Rachel a gold-digging widow come to get money out of a young, impressionable heir? Is she a murderer? Is she an impulsive pretty woman with uncertain (read: not English Protestant) morals? How does she really feel about…anything?
Part of what's interesting about this story is that with the limited perspective, a lot is open to interpretation. I would love to read this with a group and hear multiple perspectives and theories about what really happened. Philip has his own views of what happened, but do they reflect reality?
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Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke (2020)
An atmosphere of melancholy pervades this book, mostly the journal entries of our narrator, Piranesi. He lives mostly alone in the World–or at least, in a large sprawling House of stone with statues and strange tides.
He visits twice a week with the Other, a man who comes to question Piranesi about the House and a secret knowledge which he's sure they can discover if they keep looking for it (and by "they," he means Piranesi).
It quickly becomes clear that Piranesi is an unreliable narrator (or maybe just a narrator with an extremely limited view) and that something is strange about the House with its innumerable halls, exquisite statues, and silence.
It's hard to say much about the plot as the story takes some turns that the reader discovers with Piranesi.
Clarke has said that she was inspired by C.S. Lewis's The Magician's Nephew, and I can certainly draw connections between that book and this (there are a couple of direct references to the Narnia series, though they in no way detract from the story).
While Clarke's first novel Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is large and sprawling, a nineteenth century work written in the twenty-first century, this is a tighter, more contained world, like a little spiral seashell (it's under 300 pages). Clarke's writing still has that sense of loneliness, her characters have an undertone of melancholy, and while Piranesi may evoke pity, he never gives in to despair. There's always a glimmer of hope.
This was a lovely meditation on loneliness, belonging, home, and safety.
Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling (1999)
After I listened to the first book in the Harry Potter series I thought it would be fun to continue…so I skipped to the third book. It's not that I don't like the second book, it's just that 2020 has been tough and this is my reading life and I think Rowling's writing took a big step up in book 3.
So. Harry and his friends are back at school, but this year's threat comes from a convict, Sirius Black, who escaped from the wizard prison of–you guessed it–Azkaban. He might be trying to hunt down Harry, so everyone is a little on edge.
There's a new professor, Remus Lupin, who bonds with Harry, which is a bright spot compared with the potions master, Snape, who is a terrible teacher as well as a garbage person. Lupin actually cares about his students and encourages them to learn. He pays special attention to some of the overlooked and bullied students (Neville), which I appreciated.
I know there are reasons Rowling wrote Snape as being so horrible, and part of it might be that as a kid things can feel more intense than they can feel to an adult, but there were definitely ways to write a character like Snape without making him quite so unforgivably terrible. He's abusive, prejudiced, and while he personally may be good at potions, he has no idea how to teach anyone else and there is no excuse for him behaving as he does to children! And now I'm angry at Dumbledore for allowing him to teach at his school.
Anyway, pedagogical difficulties aside, I enjoyed this entry into the series. It's got new characters and the world expands in new and interesting ways.
I listened to the audio book narrated by Stephen Fry, and he does a great job (note: the American audio version is read by Jim Dale, who probably also does a good job, but I'm sad Scholastic thought they needed to make a separate "translated" version for American).
It was nice to read some books lighter in tone during a year that is decidedly not light in tone.
The Magician's Nephew, by C. S. Lewis (1955)
Continuing the "read lighter books" theme, I went back to the source of Susanna Clarke's inspiration. I read this one a chapter or two right before bed, which was a great call.
Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer and neighbors who stumble into the study of Digory's Uncle Andrew and become experiments for his magical theories (Uncle Andrew's theories, not Digory's).
They discover a place that is a portal to many different worlds and explore two of them in the pages of the book. In the first, Charn, they accidentally wake a witch and in the second they arrive to see the creation of Narnia.
This is such a hopeful book. It's about magic and uncertainty, mistakes, forgiveness, and new beginnings. There are warnings about the dangers (or at least, unpredictability) of magic and also a warning to those who think they are above the rules.
I also love that Aslan doesn't just clap his paws together to solve all the problems. When Digory comes to ask for help for his dying mother, Aslan responds this way: "'My son, my son,' said Aslan. 'I know. Grief is great. Only you and I in this land know that yet. Let us be good to one another.'" He weeps with Digory and is present with him, and then he sends him on a quest to protect Narnia from the witch Digory introduced into the new land.
He does return to Digory's problem later. But he doesn't rush to solve it immediately, nor does he downplay or say that his mother's suffering is "for the best." This beautiful theme of presence stood out to me in this reading, and I appreciated Lewis's handling of it.


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CLS - 20 years working for science and the environment
Since 1986, CLS—a subsidiary of CNES and IFREMER—has been leveraging CNES's expertise in processing transmitter signals received by satellites and working to safeguard the planet. Today, it is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
Distributing applications of satellite-based location technologies
CLS (Collecte de Localisation Satellite) was formed in 1986 as a subsidiary of CNES and IFREMER1. It is a commercial entity tasked with developing and distributing applications of satellite-based location technologies implemented by CNES.
In its very 1st year in business, CLS provided an Argos transmitter—the company's emblematic product—for Jean-Louis Etienne's expedition to the North Pole.
These transmitters are also used in ocean yacht races, transmitting messages to satellites, which then relay them to ground processing centres to keep track of competitors.
While this partnership with the world of adventure catches by far the most media attention, it is only a tiny portion of what CLS does.
Today, most of the company's activities are devoted to protecting natural resources. For example, CLS systems continuously track more than 5,000 fishing vessels to help enforce fishing zones and catch quotas.
Looking to the future with confidence
But it is the scientific community that benefits most from the precious data delivered by CLS.
Variations in temperature, pressure and salinity are acquired by 5,000 drifting buoys, 1,500 floats and 300 moored buoys and fixed stations around the globe.
CLS has also tagged 3,500 animals of all species with transmitters to help biologists better understand the threats to endangered species.
And the list of applications doesn't end there. Other areas where CLS is active include:
tracking of hazardous materials on land and at sea,
combating oil pollution: completely tight Argos transmitters can be immersed in an oil slick to track it,
humanitarian aid: in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP), CLS location solutions are being used to help manage distribution of food aid.
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In 20 years, CLS has reduced the weight of its transmitters by a factor of 50 and increased its workforce fivefold.
Today, it has 210 employees in Toulouse, France, and generates €40 million in revenues.
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The Orphan Mother by Robert Hicks is a post-American Civil War story in divided Tennessee, where citizens and their families become wrapped up in a political war.
I am always skeptical of black narratives told by someone who is not of the African American ethnicity. When I learned of Robert Hicks' new story told from the perspective of a freed slave, I delved directly in to see if he could pull it off. What I expected was a narrative badly written in the African American vernacular that so many writers attempt with failure. Instead, The Orphan Mother intriguingly captures a tragedy that displays the distrust between races in a divided Southern town from two pain-filled voices.
In The Orphan Mother, former slave Mariah Reddick undertakes an investigation to find out who killed her son Theopolis, a burgeoning African American politician in their small town of Franklin, Tennessee. Mariah's new friend George Tole, a free man from New York and neighbor to Theopolis, wrestles with his past as he tries to combat the evils of the present.
According to Hicks during a discussion at the Louisiana Book Festival, he was able to find a connection to his characters by writing with empathy. He said that while he has never experienced a mother's pain when she loses a child, his "connection is being human."
Some writers know exactly how to make an emotional appeal to keep a reader hooked, but annoyance tugging on anger is never expected upon entrance into any story. This is what immediately sets The Orphan Mother apart from most others—and why it has been given amazing reviews thus far.
This was the world, the life, she had chosen. Perhaps once she could have had fine clothes and diamonds and a trip to Paris or London, but she had remained true to a world that had chosen her." – The Orphan Mother
While this story is told from two very different points of view—a freed slave and midwife from the Deep South and a born-free soldier from New York—a common idea seems to connect the protagonists within the first two chapters: a black person in America after the Civil War should accept their lot in life. Hicks' story begins with the narrative of Mariah accepting she will be remembered as "a penniless Negress," and of Tole who did not want to be known as a killer, but accepted that it was the only thing he was good at. While this is striking and daunting, it is not the essence of the message in The Orphan Mother.
Instead, Hicks shows how one woman, in a quest for justice, can gain the support of so many in a divided Tennessee town on the brink of a revolution. What connects the two characters is not what they accept of their lives, but the tragic fate of death, parenthood afterwards and the ability to lead progressive and influential lives in spite of such loss. Hicks said that he "wanted to write about these people that somehow through the worst of times lived powerful lives."
Linking the story to his New York Times bestseller The Widow of the South is Mariah—the slave of Carrie McGavock, the owner of a gravesite that holds the bodies of dozens of men slain during the Civil War. Carrie is a veteran to child loss and helps Mariah after Theopolis's killing.
Tole, while he dreadfully offends Mariah, attempts to atone for his mistakes by seeking vengeance for her, as his love and respect steadily blossoms. All the while, he is stuck in self-misery from the death of his son, which he believes he caused.
In a politically torn city trying to rebuild after the Civil War, Franklin frighteningly resembles modern day America, where personal lives of citizens are continually affected by the ambitions and agendas of politicians and businessmen.
The Orphan Mother is one of our fall/winter reads. View the full 2016 Fall/Winter Reading List here.
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The Real Amityville Horror: Unveiling the Terror Behind the Fiction | Documentary
"The Amityville case affected our personal lives more than any case we ever worked on." - Lorraine Warren
The Paranormal Scholar presents the truth behind the legendary Amityville Horror film franchise. There is more to this tale than meets the eye: the mystifying and chilling details of Ronald DeFeo Jr.'s crimes; the horrifying account of the subsequent haunting of the Lutz family; and new revelations by Daniel Lutz.
Prepare for the 2017 release of Amityville: The Awakening by discovering the real story behind Ed and Lorraine Warren's visit to 112 Ocean Avenue. Including testimonials, photos and interviews, analysed and explained.
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