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About Brad
You gotta like these kids.
Kelby Tomlinson #37 of the San Francisco Giants celebrates with his teammates Marlon Byrd #6, Buster Posey #28, and Brandon Belt #9 at home plate after hitting a grand slam home run against the Chicago Cubs in the bottom of the 8th inning during the game at AT&T Park on Thursday, August 27, 2015 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Brad Mangin)
In 1986 the San Francisco Giants were coming off a dismal 100-loss season. Under the new regime of general manager Al Rosen and skipper Roger Craig there was hope when spring training camp opened in Scottsdale that February. Rookies like Robbie Thompson and Will Clark would be in the starting lineup on opening night in Houston. Giants marketing genius Pat Gallagher came up with the club's marketing slogan that year: "You gotta like these kids." The fans embraced the slogan as the young ballplayers helped the team get off to a great start that led to a winning 83-79 season. The young nucleus went on to win the National League West in 1987.
Giants fans all over the Bay Area wore this shirt proudly in 1986.
Fast forward to the 2015 Giants, yesterday specifically, and you will find a team that is relying heavily on a hungry group of young kids to keep this M*A*S*H unit of a squad in the pennant race, 2.5 games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League West. Injuries to to many of starting position players and starting pitchers have ravaged the roster, but recent minor league call-up Kelby Tomlinson has done a fabulous job filling in at second base for the injured Joe Panik. Tomlinson's teammate and roomie last season in AA ball while playing for the Richmond Flying Squirrels, Giants starting third sacker Matt Duffy, proved how tough Long Beach State Dirtbags really are by starting yesterday's game at third base (his 44th straight start) after suffering a bad ankle sprain the night before. Duffy knew there was no one else on the bench who could play third, and he hates taking days off.
Kyle Schwarber #12 of the Chicago Cubs gets ready in the dugout before the game against the San Francisco Giants at AT&T Park on Thursday, August 27, 2015 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Brad Mangin)
Kris Bryant #17 of the Chicago Cubs gets ready in the dugout before the game against the San Francisco Giants at AT&T Park on Thursday, August 27, 2015 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Brad Mangin)
Madison Bumgarner #40 of the San Francisco Giants pitches against the Chicago Cubs during the game at AT&T Park on Thursday, August 27, 2015 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Brad Mangin)
Nori Aoki #23 of the San Francisco Giants is tagged out at home plate by Chicago Cubs catcher Kyle Schwarber #12 during the game at AT&T Park on Thursday, August 27, 2015 in San Francisco, California. Aoki was trying to stretch a triple into an inside-the-park home run. (Photo by Brad Mangin)
On a spectacular 80-degree day at AT&T Park the Giants were hosting the insanely hot Cubs in a 12:45 matinee. I had just seen the Cubs sweep the Giants in four straight games at Wrigley Field a few weeks ago. I know how loaded the Cubs are, especially with their great rookies Kyle Schwarber and Kris Bryant having monster freshman campaigns. I was excited to shoot the Cubs kids, especially since they were wearing their classic grey tops, as opposed to their awful dark blue jerseys they usually wear on the road. Luckily for the Giants and the sellout crowd it was the Giants kids, and a guy named Bumgarner on the hill who were the stars of the day.
Kelby Tomlinson #37 of the San Francisco Giants connects for a grand slam home run against the Chicago Cubs in the bottom of the 8th inning during the game at AT&T Park on Thursday, August 27, 2015 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Brad Mangin)
Matt Duffy #5 of the San Francisco Giants celebrates with his teammates after the game against the Chicago Cubs at AT&T Park on Thursday, August 27, 2015 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Brad Mangin)
Skeeter, a cat belonging to Matt Duffy #5 of the San Francisco Giants, appears on the scoreboard during the game against the Chicago Cubs at AT&T Park on Thursday, August 27, 2015 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Brad Mangin)
Not showing any signs of a limp, Duffy strode to the plate in the bottom of the third inning with a runner on third base and put the Giants ahead to stay 2-1 with a ground single up the middle for his 60th RBI of the season. As he rounded the bag at first his cat Skeeter made an appearance on the scoreboard, much to the delight of the cheering fans (see above).
When Tomlinson came to the plate with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 8th inning, the bespectacled kid from Oklahoma was already a crowd favorite. He is hitting .346 since he was called up on August 3, 2015 and is improving every day at second base, which is not his normal position. By the time he floated around the bases after belting his first big league home run, a grand slam no less, his name was etched forever in Giants lore. San Francisco Chronicle sports writer Ann Killion was a wrote a wonderful column about the Giants kids "Kelby Tomlinson makes grand contribution to cool, calm Giants" that is worth checking out for some great quotes from the post-game clubhouse after the 9-1 win.
The last five weeks of the season are going to be exciting. The Giants are lucky to have all these home-grown kids on the club. Without them they would look a lot more like the 1985 team, and that would not be pretty.
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Iraqi security forces fire teargas to disperse protesters outside U.S. embassy
Baghdad (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces fired teargas on Tuesday outside the U.S. embassy to disperse protesters who had gathered to condemn American air strikes in Iraq.
Only a small amount of teargas was used and militia forces, using loud speakers, urged the crowd to disperse, a Reuters witness said.
The U.S. ambassador to Iraq and other staff were earlier evacuated because of safety concerns.
Reporting By Ahmed Rasheed, Maher Nazeh, and Thaeir al-Sudani, writing by Maha El Dahan; editing by Mike Collett-White

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La rinitis no al·lèrgica és una inflamació de la part interna del nas que no és causada per una al·lèrgia. La rinitis no al·lèrgica implica símptomes que inclouen esternuts crònics o tenir un nas congestionat i gotejant sense una reacció al·lèrgica identificada. Altres termes comuns per a la rinitis no al·lèrgica són la rinitis vasomotora i la rinitis perenne. La prevalença de rinitis no al·lèrgica en otorrinolaringologia és del 40%. La rinitis al·lèrgica és més freqüent que la rinitis no al·lèrgica; no obstant això, ambdues condicions tenen una presentació, manifestació i tractament similars. La picor nasal i els esternuts paroxístics solen associar-se a la rinitis no al·lèrgica en comparació amb la rinitis al·lèrgica.

Tractament

Mèdic
És útil evitar factors d'incitació com ara canvis bruscos de temperatura, humitat o corrents d'aire o pols.

L'aplicació intranasal d'antihistamínics, glucocorticoides o anticolinèrgics també es pot utilitzar per a la rinitis vasomotora. El cromoglicat de sodi intranasal (no comercialitzat a Espanya) es pot utilitzar en pacients majors de dos anys. Una revisió Cochrane va concloure que no està clar si els glucocorticoides intranasals, en comparació amb un placebo, redueixen la gravetat de la malaltia informada pel pacient en persones amb rinitis no al·lèrgica/vasomotora a causa de la poca certesa de l'evidència disponible dels assaigs clínics. Tanmateix, els glucocorticoides intranasals probablement augmenten el risc d'hemorràgies nasals.

L'azelastina (comercialitzat a Espanya junt amb fluticasona: Dymista i Rinoduo) "està indicat per al tractament simptomàtic de la rinitis vasomotora, inclosa la rinorrea, la congestió nasal i el degoteig nasal posterior en adults i nens de 12 anys o més".

Referències

Malalties i trastorns del nas

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Former Jays outfielder Alex Rios gets booed loudly by Toronto crowd during Royals intros. Cueto raised hat to crowd during his heckles.
Time to whip out our big flag.
Devo goes right to the rubber, but his pitch to Mark Buehrle is high and off the plate.
Marcus Stroman takes the mound for the Blue Jays, who are trying to climb back from a two-game series deficit against Johnny Cueto and the Royals.
I never understand why they have such long ground-rules conversations before every game. As if they're playing at Bellwoods or something.


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Cassy smiled, blew them a kiss. 'See you in September,' she said. It was a throwaway line. Just words uttered casually by a young woman in a hurry. And then she'd gone.
It was supposed to be a short trip – a break in New Zealand before her best friend's wedding. But when Cassy waved goodbye to her parents, they never dreamed that it would be years before they'd see her again. Having broken up with her boyfriend, Cassy accepts an invitation to stay in an idyllic farming collective. Overcome by the peace and beauty of the valley and swept up in the charisma of Justin, the community's leader, Cassy becomes convinced that she has to stay.
As Cassy becomes more and more entrenched in the group's rituals and beliefs, her frantic parents fight to bring her home – before Justin's prophesied Last Day can come to pass.
A powerful story of family, faith and finding yourself, from this hugely compelling author.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Compelling
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 August 2020
I found this a compulsive and compelling read. Also rather uncomfortably close to home as I too found myself drawn, at a vulnerable time in my life, into a fledgling commune with a charismatic leader. And I too followed this leader to New Zealand and found myself, at a certain point, agreeing to sell my house in the UK to buy a commune house in NZ. A major family crisis drew me back to the UK at a critical time and I soon 'woke up' to what had really been happening in NZ. I realised I'd been brainwashed and it was only the support of family and friends that encouraged me to engage a lawyer to help me fight to get a very large sum of money back. This action was successful but, alone, I would have been too weak to fight back. I was terrified of the fall out and got a lot of hate mail from the commune. I have never returned to NZ. In the end it took years for me to finally free myself from the mental clutches of this leader. It was a harrowing experience but ultimately enlightening. All my questions about how intelligent adults get sucked into cults and brainwashed in this way were answered by my own experience. We all have our weak moments and this can happen to anyone. I am much wiser and more aware because of this experience.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The detail will not be forgotten here!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 September 2017
There are books you love, books you read again and books you know you will remember for a long time. But I don't always remember the detail. This one, I most definately will remember the detail. A great read and I would give it more than 5 stars if possible. Charity Norman does not shy from difficult or controversial subjects. Cassie is a bright, intelligent 20 year old law student. She flies to New Zealand with her boyfriend for some adventuring before continuing her law course. After an argument with the boyfriend, she walks away and at this point, she becomes vulnerable. Enter the white van full of friendly, happy, welcoming people who offer her a lift, kindness and love. Beginning of what you feel you would NEVER get drawn into. But Cassie is alone, wet, cold, on the other side of the world. Lots of emotions in this book. Not just for Cassie but her family back in England. I found myself, frustrated and angry, sad tense. By the time I got to the last two or three chapters, I was beginning to nail bite (and I don't!) A lot of names to absorb in this, but don't worry if you don't get them all of the time. A big thank you to Charikty Norman. It filled my mind the whole time I was reading it and it will be with me for a long time to come.
2.0 out of 5 stars Who are you?
I am only 30% through this book as I write this comment
I could say a lot about this book - it lacks character development, is predictable etc but for me, the annoying thing is the number of lesser characters all with place names that disguise their gender.
Now I know the commune did not want to make distinctions between the genders but that leads to great confusion for the reader. I have just read a longish passage in which Cassy is talking with 2 of the residents of Gethsemane. It was only at the very end of the passage that it becomes apparent that they are both female which had a bearing on how the conversation had progressed.
Whilst the idea of calling people by the names of beautiful places may be an interesting concept, it just succeeds in confusing the reader. Disappointing so far.
Amanda Sayer
4.0 out of 5 stars Powerful writing
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 March 2019
Cassy waved goodbye to her parents to go on a short trip to New Zealand with her boyfriend, however they had no idea that it would be years before they saw her again. Cassy her her boyfriend break up and one day she accepts a lift from a friendly group of people who invite her to stay in their community. She loves the peace and beauty of the valley and gets swept up in the charisma of Justin, the community's leader and becomes convinced she has to stay. As she becomes more entrenched in the rituals, her parents fight to bring her home - before Justin's last day comes to pass.
The book is told in both Cassy and her mum Diana's viewpoints. Cassy not returning home when she should have and cutting her family off affected them all and they would never be the same again.
A powerful story which gave me a good insight into the world of cults. The first book I have read by this Author too, I'm looking forward to reading many more!
lynneeb
5.0 out of 5 stars loved it - highly recommend
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 May 2017
Highly anticipated this newest book from one of my recent most favourite authors. It didn't disappoint. Totally gripping from the first page, absorbing and "up put downable to the end"
Another complex and potentially sensational story line covered with sensitivity, thought and kindness. I particular like how the story line unfolds from different people's perspectives, all of whom have a different and authentic voice, enabling a picture to emerge with often contradictory view points from characters who develop and change as the novel progresses.
Again, as with other novels - you get a real sense of place, time and personality
a real treat


A lot of countries around the world have started using the UN globally harmonized system for classifying and labeling chemicals. This is done to attain some objectives.
This mainly protects the employees who store, process and transports the chemicals. Another aim of this is to safeguard the environment. A unified classification system enhances trace across borders and the proper identification of hazardous levels of different chemicals. Initially, some countries had no methods of classification. Other countries on the other had different methods of chemical classification. As a result, this led to a lot of confusion in handling chemicals and imposing risky situations.
GHS safety data sheets confined space permits were developed based on an extensive study. The main aim of the study was to address the impartialities in classification. It aimed at unifying the classification an as well as the categorization while ensuring that the protection levels were still high.
The classification takes into account the intrinsically hazardous properties of individual chemicals and their formulation. It also takes into account the reactivity of the chemical with other chemicals, air, and water. GHS SDS were therefore developed in a way to protect those in the processing sector, storage, transportation as well as the end user. GHS went through various revisions over years. According to GHS rules, the content of the hazard should be properly disclosed without caring whether the confidential, as well as proprietary formulations, are exposed. This is a key feature in training employees in the use of SDS and the right procedures relating to the chemicals handled and included in the safety data sheets as well as safety labels. To read more on the significance of SDS, visit http://www.ehow.com/about_5836632_health-assessment-tools-work-place.html.
An importer or distributor who receives a sealed chemical container ought to ensure that the labels stay intact. In case the container is open, a manufacturer should ensure that the safety data sheets are easily available to the employers handling the chemical.
GHS does not have a uniform testing method. it relies on the tests that are conducted by internationally accepted agencies. They include OECD and WHO. The tests contain information on environmental as well as health hazards. UNSCETDG tests are used for flammability, explosives, and other physical hazards. GHS relies on available data. When new data comes in place, it also uses it. Therefore, distributors and manufacturers should keep these changes in mind. Some chemicals do not need to be labelled. These include rodenticides, fungicides and other pesticides.
As it is evident above, GHSD has a lot of benefits in chemical classification and categorization. It is also widely complex with exceptions and anomalies. With this, it is required that it is experts who should prepare GHS and SDS labels that are fully compliant. The experts also guard thee proprietary formulations when taking care of the exceptions.


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namespace Webgrf\UserBundle\DataFixtures\ORM;

use Doctrine\Common\DataFixtures\AbstractFixture;
use Doctrine\Common\DataFixtures\OrderedFixtureInterface;
use Doctrine\Common\Persistence\ObjectManager;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerAwareInterface;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface;

use Webgrf\UserBundle\Entity\Category;

/**
 * Fixtures de la entidad Usuario.
 * Crea 500 usuarios de prueba con información muy realista.
 */
class Categories extends AbstractFixture implements OrderedFixtureInterface, ContainerAwareInterface {

    public function getOrder() {
        return 10;
    }

    private $container;

    public function setContainer(ContainerInterface $container = null) {
        $this->container = $container;
    }

    public function load(ObjectManager $manager) {
        $category = new Category();
        $category->setTitle("Headline");
        $category->setLocale("en");
        $manager->persist($category);
        $manager->flush();

        $category->setTitle("Titular");
        $category->setLocale("es");
        $manager->persist($category);
        $manager->flush();

        $category = new Category();
        $category->setTitle("Becario de Doctorado.en");
        $category->setLocale("en");
        $manager->persist($category);
        $manager->flush();

        $category->setTitle("Becario de Doctorado");
        $category->setLocale("es");
        $manager->persist($category);
        $manager->flush();

        $category = new Category();
        $category->setTitle("Becario de Grado.en");
        $category->setLocale("en");
        $manager->persist($category);
        $manager->flush();

        $category->setTitle("Becario de Grado");
        $category->setLocale("es");
        $manager->persist($category);
        $manager->flush();

        /*$category = new Category();
        $category->setTitle("Headline");
        $category->setLocale("en");
        $manager->persist($category);

        $category = new Category();
        $category->setTitle("Titular");
        $category->setLocale("es");
        $manager->persist($category);
        */

        /*
        // Obtener todas las ciudades de la base de datos
        $ciudades = $manager->getRepository('UsersBundle:Ciudad')->findAll();

        for ($i=1; $i<=500; $i++) {
            $usuario = new Usuario();

            $usuario->setNombre($this->getNombre());
            $usuario->setApellidos($this->getApellidos());
            $usuario->setEmail('usuario'.$i.'@localhost');

            $usuario->setSalt(md5(time()));

            $passwordEnClaro = 'usuario'.$i;
            $encoder = $this->container->get('security.encoder_factory')->getEncoder($usuario);
            $passwordCodificado = $encoder->encodePassword($passwordEnClaro, $usuario->getSalt());
            $usuario->setPassword($passwordCodificado);

            $usuario->setDireccion('Gran Vía, '.rand(1, 250));
            // El 60% de los usuarios permite email
            $usuario->setPermiteEmail((rand(1, 1000) % 10) < 6);
            $usuario->setFechaAlta(new \DateTime('now - '.rand(1, 150).' days'));
            $usuario->setFechaNacimiento(new \DateTime('now - '.rand(7000, 20000).' days'));

            $dni = substr(rand(), 0, 8);
            $usuario->setDni($dni.substr("TRWAGMYFPDXBNJZSQVHLCKE", strtr($dni, "XYZ", "012")%23, 1));

            $usuario->setNumeroTarjeta('1234567890123456');
            $usuario->setCiudad($ciudades[array_rand($ciudades)]);

            $manager->persist($usuario);
        }

        $manager->flush();*/
    }

    /**
     * Generador aleatorio de nombres de personas
     * Aproximadamente genera un 50% de hombres y un 50% de mujeres
     */
    private function getNombre()
    {
        // Los nombres más populares en España según el INE
        // Fuente: http://www.ine.es/daco/daco42/nombyapel/nombyapel.htm

        $hombres = array('Antonio', 'José', 'Manuel', 'Francisco', 'Juan', 'David', 'José Antonio', 'José Luis', 'Jesús', 'Javier', 'Francisco Javier', 'Carlos', 'Daniel', 'Miguel', 'Rafael', 'Pedro', 'José Manuel', 'Ángel', 'Alejandro', 'Miguel Ángel', 'José María', 'Fernando', 'Luis', 'Sergio', 'Pablo', 'Jorge', 'Alberto');
        $mujeres = array('María Carmen', 'María', 'Carmen', 'Josefa', 'Isabel', 'Ana María', 'María Dolores', 'María Pilar', 'María Teresa', 'Ana', 'Francisca', 'Laura', 'Antonia', 'Dolores', 'María Angeles', 'Cristina', 'Marta', 'María José', 'María Isabel', 'Pilar', 'María Luisa', 'Concepción', 'Lucía', 'Mercedes', 'Manuela', 'Elena', 'Rosa María');

        if (rand() % 2) {
            return $hombres[array_rand($hombres)];
        }
        else {
            return $mujeres[array_rand($mujeres)];
        }
    }

    /**
     * Generador aleatorio de apellidos de personas
     */
    private function getApellidos()
    {
        // Los apellidos más populares en España según el INE
        // Fuente: http://www.ine.es/daco/daco42/nombyapel/nombyapel.htm

        $apellidos = array('García', 'González', 'Rodríguez', 'Fernández', 'López', 'Martínez', 'Sánchez', 'Pérez', 'Gómez', 'Martín', 'Jiménez', 'Ruiz', 'Hernández', 'Díaz', 'Moreno', 'Álvarez', 'Muñoz', 'Romero', 'Alonso', 'Gutiérrez', 'Navarro', 'Torres', 'Domínguez', 'Vázquez', 'Ramos', 'Gil', 'Ramírez', 'Serrano', 'Blanco', 'Suárez', 'Molina', 'Morales', 'Ortega', 'Delgado', 'Castro', 'Ortíz', 'Rubio', 'Marín', 'Sanz', 'Iglesias', 'Nuñez', 'Medina', 'Garrido');

        return $apellidos[array_rand($apellidos)].' '.$apellidos[array_rand($apellidos)];
    }
}

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Are you thinking of planning a great night out with your friends and want exclusive bars, clubs and pubs for a good time? Party night in Bristol are a 24/7 celebration of non-stop partying, dancing until dawn and bar hopping until you drop! Bristol lies on the River Avon, next to the motorway and a short drive from Bristol Airport, so no matter where you live, it's an easily accessible meeting point for friends. Bristol has hundreds of bars, pubs, karaoke bars, cocktail bars, sports bars, nightclubs and strip clubs so there's a huge range of choice when you want a rip-roaring night out. Some of the bars and clubs are even located on converted boats or yachts in the docks, so if you want something a bit out of the ordinary, you won't be disappointed.
Some of the most popular bars include Pranj's Bar, Toto's Wine Bar, the Bristol Bear Bar and Lloyds Bar. There's a few good comedy clubs around town too so if you fancy a giggle with your mates, get some drinks in and prepare to be mocked! A party night in Bristol wouldn't be complete without dropping in to at least one fantastic nightclub. Get your dancing shoes on and prepare to dance until dawn at some of the UK's best clubs in Bristol. SWX Club, Motion Nightclub and Basement 45 are just some of the greatest clubs in the city but there's many to choose from. Prepare to party hard, hear some amazing dance tunes and disco bop until you stop!


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Alaska's Energy Desk | Fisheries | Oceans
Bioengineered salmon available for the the first time in US
June 8, 2021 by Sabine Poux, Alaska's Energy Desk - Kenai
A genetically modified salmon dwarfs a non-modified salmon of the same age in an undated handout photo distributed in 2010. (Photo via AquaBounty Technologies)
A Massachusetts company is sending genetically modified salmon to dinner tables in the U.S. for the first time. AquaBounty Technologies said it's shipping five tons of bioengineered salmon to distributors this month.
It's marketed as a sustainable alternative to other kinds of salmon. But AquaBounty's fish hasn't received the warmest reception in Alaska, where it's often called "Frankenfish."
Tim Bristol of Homer is the director of Salmon State, an Alaska organization defending wild salmon populations.
"It's going to be a real challenge for us moving forward to make sure we do everything we possibly can to educate the American and the international consumer that if you want the salmon that's best for you and supports communities and small family businesses, you need to choose wild Alaska salmon," he said.
AquaBounty's salmon is a genetic mixture of three different fish — Atlantic salmon, chinook salmon and the eel-like ocean pout. It grows twice as fast as its non-engineered counterparts, reaching full market size in 18 months.
This is the first time a company has sold genetically engineered salmon in the U.S.
Federal regulators ruled the salmon safe to eat and sell in 2015. But for a while, AquaBounty still didn't have permission to grow its salmon in the U.S. Instead, it was working out of facilities in Canada and Panama.
That was until 2019. The latest batch of salmon headed to market in the U.S. comes from a facility in Albany, Indiana.
The Food and Drug Administration said AquaBounty's fish are similar nutritionally to non-engineered, farm-raised Atlantic salmon. AquaBounty says their fish could help mitigate overfishing and create less pollution than farmed fish.
Not everyone's convinced.
"It's just a faster way of doing business and making money," said Sara Erickson, who owns AlaSkins in Soldotna. She's a vocal opponent of fish farming and a former commercial fisherman.
"They have a picture of a regular farmed salmon and their farmed salmon. And it looks just like a giant. I mean, what's the point of that?" she said.
A big concern for environmental groups has been whether fish can escape from the facility and mate with wild salmon. Late last year, a federal judge ordered the FDA to look into what would happen if that occurred.
AquaBounty said there's no risk of that happening, since it grows sterile salmon in inland-based tanks, with multiple barriers to prevent fish and eggs from escaping.
Erickson said that's one good thing that sets AquaBounty's salmon apart from other farmed salmon.
"And I appreciate that. In fact, all fish farming should really go to that place. But it's a lot more expensive to do," she said.
Erickson said salmon should be clearly labeled in stores so people know what they're buying.
Federal law currently requires GMOs to be labeled as such. But that doesn't just have to be through wording — a QR code, scanned with a smartphone, also suffices.
There are some exceptions to the Department of Agriculture's current labeling law. Food served in restaurants, for example, doesn't have to be labeled.
Labeling is voluntary in Canada, where AquaBounty previously sold its salmon.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski has been a vocal opponent of genetically engineered salmon. Legislation she introduced this month would require the words "genetically engineered" to appear on bioengineered salmon in stores.
It's called the Genetically Engineered Salmon Labeling Act. Sen. Dan Sullivan is a co-sponsor.
"It would be a level of consumer awareness," Murkowski told KDLG Friday. "Because it is only when we are aware of what is being sold, what is being put in front of us, that we can say firmly and clearly, 'Nope. Don't want this on my table.'"
A spokesperson from AquaBounty said the company will use the phrase "genetically engineered" on grocery store packaging.
Several grocery chains have pledged not to sell genetically modified salmon, including Safeway and Kroger, which owns Fred Meyer.
Bristol said he hasn't heard of any Alaska businesses interested in buying the product.
"We have seen Alaskan stores carry farm-raised Atlantic salmon in the past, and usually the blowback is pretty significant and comes pretty quickly," he said.
An AquaBounty spokesperson said the company isn't shipping any salmon to Alaska yet.
Izzy Ross in Dillingham contributed reporting to this story.
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April 23 — The IRS proposed rules (REG-108214-15, RIN 1545-BM69) intended to prevent offshore hedge funds from operating as insurance companies to avoid taxes—regulations that won't shut down targeted structures immediately, but have a broad reach nonetheless.
The rules are aimed at stopping situations where a hedge fund establishes a "purported" foreign reinsurance company to avoid the tax the fund would otherwise owe on investment income. They make it more likely that these companies will be treated as passive foreign investment companies—subject to a harsh tax regime—by making it tougher for them to be considered as active insurance businesses.
The action drew praise and a promise of more work from Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the Finance Committee's ranking member. He called the rules "an important first step down the path toward better enforcement," but left legislative action on the table.


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Q: Dart Streams - Is it possible to map to a new async stream? I might be getting confused with dart streams and RX related frameworks here.
But just wanted to check, is it possible to map to a new async stream?
For example
apiService.signInStream returns Stream<signinResponse>
apiService.getUserDetailsStream returns Stream<userResponse>
So I want to make the sign in call, take the user id from it to get the user details.
I tried something like this...
apiService.signInStream(requestSignIn).asyncMap((event) => apiService.getUserDetailsStream(event.userId));
But that returns...
Stream<Stream<userResponse>>
I'd like it to return <Stream<userResponse>
Do I have to listen within the map somehow?
Thanks

A: You should listen:
apiService.signInStream(requestSignIn).listen((event) {
  apiService.getUserDetailsStream(event.userId)).listen((details) {
    // use event and details here
  });
});

A: There are many approaches and I cannot say which one you may use because I have no context of your project, all I have here are simply Streams.
Lets begin:

But that returns... Stream<Stream<userResponse>>

This is what return because this is what it is, you are iterating over a stream and returning another stream, streams are like lists, but asynchronous. Why do you want to ignore the userResponse stream? is this really a Stream? Why do not use a simply Future instead if you want just the returned data?
And since you're mapping the signInStream, I'll consider you:

*

*Wanna map each signInStream event

*Want just the first element of the getUserDetailsStream.

Run on DartPad: https://dartpad.dev/?id=17e2720be36c2bbde3da7d5a6381776d.
// What you have right now is:
final itIsWhatYouAreDoing = signInStream().asyncMap((event) => getUserDetailsStream());

// What you are saying you want to achieve:
final userDetailsStream = signInStream().asyncMap((event) async => await getUserDetailsStream().first);

print(itIsWhatYouAreDoing); // Stream<Stream<int>>
print(userDetailsStream); // Stream<int>

But this has some cons: you lose any other post-event emitted by all [getUserDetailsStream] Streams.
You didn't provide any detail about this, so I'll assuming they are irrelevant?!?

A: You can try this
apiService.signInStream(requestSignIn).asyncExpand((event) =>
    apiService.getUserDetailsStream(event.userId));

Remember to cancel the getUserDetailsStream otherwise your stream will be stuck waiting for getUserDetailsStream.
You can make use of takeWhile or take in dart to automatically kill the stream.

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Books Quiz - Author - Michael Crichton (Questions)
John Michael Crichton was born in 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. He went to Harvard Medical School and had his first novels published while he was still a student there. His breakthrough came with the publication of his first best seller The Andromeda Strain in 1969.
During his career Crichton wrote a total of 27 novels, most notably Jurassic Park which was made into a film by Steven Spielberg. He also wrote 4 works of non-fiction and several short stories. In addition he worked as a film director, with Westworld perhaps his most famous work and as a producer, on the TV series ER and the film Twister. He died in 2008 at the age of 66.
Did you know that Michael Crichton's first novels were published under the pen name John Lange? Or that he appeared in as 'the Bearded Surgeon' in the film version of his novel The Andromeda Strain? What else do you know about the life and works of Michael Crichton? Test yourself in this quiz.
1. Who played the malfunctioning robot in the 1973 film Westworld written and directed by Crichton and set in a futuristic theme park?
[ ] Richard Benjamin
[ ] James Brolin
[ ] Charles Bronson
[ ] Yul Brynner
2. What is the title of Crichton's 1969 novel about a team of scientists investigating a deadly extraterrestrial disease?
[ ] The Adonis Strain
[ ] The Androcles Strain
[ ] The Andromeda Strain
[ ] The Anthrax Strain
3. In which 1996 novel does Casey Singleton investigate an in-flight aircraft accident?
[ ] Airbus
[ ] Airframe
[ ] Airport
[ ] Airstrike
4. The 1990 novel Jurassic Park is set on an island off the coast of which country?
[ ] Costa Rica
[ ] Cuba
[ ] El Salvador
[ ] Honduras
5. In which 1994 novel does high-tech company executive Tom Sanders battle against unfounded allegations of sexual harassment?
[ ] Exposure
[ ] Expulsion
[ ] Disclosure
[ ] Dismissal
6. What is the title of Crichton's 1983 non-fiction book about personal computers?
[ ] Cyberlife
[ ] Electronic Life
[ ] Future Life
[ ] Get a Life
7. What is the title of the 1980 novel that features a strange race of gorillas?
[ ] Congo
[ ] Drongo
[ ] Mongo
[ ] Wongo
8. As an undergraduate, Crichton admits to having plagiarised which writer?
[ ] Isaac Asimov
[ ] George Orwell
[ ] Jules Verne
[ ] H G Wells
9. What is the title of Crichton's 1995 novel, the sequel to Jurassic Park?
[ ] Dinosaur World
[ ] Jurassic Park Revisited
[ ] Return to Jurassic Park
[ ] The Lost World
10. Who played mathematician Dr Ian Malcolm in the 1993 film Jurassic Park?
[ ] Jeff Goldblum
[ ] Samuel L Jackson
[ ] Sam Neill
[ ] Bob Peck
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Books Quiz - Author - Michael Crichton (Answers)
[x] Yul Brynner
Westworld has a similar theme to Crichton's later work Jurassic Park. In both a theme park goes horribly wrong
[x] The Andromeda Strain
The Andromeda Strain was Crichton's sixth novel to be published, but the first published under his own name
[x] Airframe
A disaster is caused by a combination of faulty parts and human error
[x] Costa Rica
The book was a bestseller and is probably Michael Crichton's best known novel - even more so after the film version was made 3 years later
[x] Disclosure
That same year a film version of Disclosure was made starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore
[x] Electronic Life
Electronic Life was one of four non-fiction works by Crichton. He also wrote Five Patients (a description of patients' experiences in hospital), Jasper Johns (about the eponymous artist) and Travels (an autobiogrophy)
[x] Congo
The gorillas are guarding diamond mines
[x] George Orwell
He did it as an experiment. He got a B- grade!
[x] The Lost World
The book shares its name with the novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle which also features dinosaurs
[x] Jeff Goldblum
Dr Malcolm is declared dead at the end of the novel Jurassic Park, but he appears in the sequel, explaining that "the declaration was premature"


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Q: Run vb-code for every sheet in workbook I would like to tweak this code, so that it:
 - REPLACES all images with their AlternativeText
 - Runs for all worksheets in the workbook
    Dim Pic As Picture
    Dim Cell As Range
    For Each Pic In ActiveSheet.Pictures
        Set Cell = Pic.TopLeftCell.Offset(, -1)
        Do
            If Cell.Value = "" Then
                Cell.Value = Pic.ShapeRange.AlternativeText
                Exit Do
            Else
                Set Cell = Cell.Offset(1)
            End If
        Loop
    Next Pic
End Sub

Can you please think with me on this one? Thank you very much in advance!

A: To loop through all sheets in a workbook use:
For s = 1 to ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets.Count
    Sheets(s).Activate

    'Enter code to be run on each worksheet here

Next s


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Supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric Seiberg-like dualities for gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten theories, realised on branes
E. Ireson
Physics and Astronomy (Twin Cities)
In this work we extend the results of previous derivations of Seiberg-like dualities (level-rank duality) between gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten theories. The arguments in use to identify a potential dual for the supersymmetric WZW theory based on the coset U(N+M)k/U(N)k can be extended to be applied to a wider variety of gauge groups, notably USp(2N+2M)2k/USp(2N)2k and SO(2N+2M)2kSO(2N)2k, which will be dealt with briefly. Most interestingly, non-supersymmetric versions of the latter theories can also be shown to have duals in a similar fashion. These results are supported by several pieces of evidence, string phenomenological interpretations of Seiberg duality, even in non-supersymmetric backgrounds, are helpful to justify the formulation, then, from field theory, quantities such as central charges or Witten indices are shown to match exactly. The stability of these non-supersymmetric models is also discussed and shown to be consistent.
Nuclear Physics B
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2015.10.023
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2015.10.023
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Ireson, E. (2016). Supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric Seiberg-like dualities for gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten theories, realised on branes. Nuclear Physics B, 902, 124-141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2015.10.023
Supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric Seiberg-like dualities for gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten theories, realised on branes. / Ireson, E.
In: Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 902, 01.01.2016, p. 124-141.
Ireson, E 2016, 'Supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric Seiberg-like dualities for gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten theories, realised on branes', Nuclear Physics B, vol. 902, pp. 124-141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2015.10.023
Ireson E. Supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric Seiberg-like dualities for gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten theories, realised on branes. Nuclear Physics B. 2016 Jan 1;902:124-141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2015.10.023
Ireson, E. / Supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric Seiberg-like dualities for gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten theories, realised on branes. In: Nuclear Physics B. 2016 ; Vol. 902. pp. 124-141.
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A new initiative to help smokers quit the habit was launched on No Smoking Day back in 1989. Do you remember the event or recognise anyone pictured? If so, please get in touch and let us know who they are.
This motley crew were pictured at Druridge Bay back in 1989. Do you know what the occasion was or do you recognise any of the youngsters in the photograph? If so, we would love to hear from you so please do get in touch.
These students at Morpeth's King Edward VI School seemed happy about something back in February 1989, but what was going on? If you recognise anyone or can shed any light on the photograph, please do get in touch.
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This week's nostalgia picture takes us to Hepscott in 1989 where it looks like some sort of tea was taking place, although the plates are empty! If you recognise anyone or can tell us what was going on, please let us know.
This picture from the past was taken in Morpeth back in 1989 and we think it shows members of Morpeth Inner Wheel club at the time. If you recognise anyone, please get in touch and tell us the story behind the photograph.
We do step back in time in this column, but readers may be forgiven we've gone a little further back than usual with this photograph from Stannington. However, it was taken just 30 years ago. Do you know what is going on?
Local police officers seemed to be taking interviewing technique to a new level in this picture from our archives from 1989. Do you recognise anyone, or have any information about what's going on? If so, do get in touch.
Bringing back memories of school days?
This looks to be a group of students outside Morpeth's King Edward VI School. It was taken in 1988, but we don't know any more than that. If you can remember it or recognise any of those pictured, please get in touch.
Fighting to preserve the beautiful Druridge Bay is nothing new in this community, as this photograph from 1988 shows. Do you recognise any of the people pictured? If so, we would love to hear from you.


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COLLIN COUNTY (CBSDFW.COM) – A young woman went blind in one eye within 24 hours after catching a flesh-eating bacteria during a mud run in Dallas this month.
A mother with two jobs, Williams spent a week in the hospital. Her medical bills are $100,000 and she doesn't have health insurance.
"I've had health insurance before and I never used it. I never went to the doctor and I just spent lots of money for nothing. So I didn't see the point at the time when we couldn't afford it," said Williams.
Her family is raising money through a GoFundMe account for treatment to prevent the bacteria from spreading throughout Williams' body.
"You don't think you're going to go to the doctor and someone's gonna say you owe $3,000 for eye drops," said Williams, who compared her experience to a horror movie.
Despite her painful, gruesome ordeal, Williams has remained optimistic.
"Even though people go through horrible things, I make the best of it. Because there's no point in sitting and sulking, because it's just going to make the rest of my days miserable," she said.
There's a chance Williams' will eventually regain her vision with surgery. Several local doctors however have denied her treatment since she lacks insurance.


Indian Women Ice Hockey team will play their first match against UAE at the Ice Hockey Women's Challenge cup of Asia Division 1 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia today.
All the players of the Indian team are from Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir.
This is the third international participation by Indian side at the tournament.
Four Asian countries- host country Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Philippines and India are participating in the tournament.


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Hays County Assistant District Attorney Lynn Peach, the whistleblower whose allegations of misconduct recently caused the District Attorney's Office to recuse itself from the retrial of Shawn Nathan Shipman, tendered her resignation Monday.
It's nice to know that there are still attorneys that believe in ethics and have moral principles they stand by. It's unfortunate however that they find the need to go into private practice, leaving those less fortunate to deal with whose left in the county. Either way, congratulations on your decision Ms. Peach and good luck.


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Q: Upsampling a sequence How can an a RX sequence be upsampled,  ie make it trigger more frequently?
The .Sample operator only allows downsampling:
IObservable<long> source = Observable.Interval(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(5000));
IObservable<long> trigger = Observable.Interval(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(1000));

//var triggeredSource = source.Sample(trigger);
var triggeredSource = source.Sample(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(1000));

source.Subscribe(Console.WriteLine);
triggeredSource.Subscribe(Console.WriteLine);

Here triggeredSource fires only  every 5000ms and not 1000ms. We want:
source:  ----a----b----c----d------
trigger: -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o
result:  ----aa-a-b-b-bcc-c-d-d-d-d

How can this be done?

A: You can get the behavior you want using CombineLatest - conceptually, it's a Get Last Value plus a Merge:
[edit: only realized after posting you mention this in a comment - it's likely the most 'efficient' way you'll get]
IObservable<long> source = Observable.Interval(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(500));
IObservable<long> trigger = Observable.Interval(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100));

var triggeredSource = source.CombineLatest(trigger, (src, trig) => src);

using(triggeredSource.Subscribe(Console.WriteLine))
{
    Console.ReadLine();
}


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Polemics and Fiction
One idea George Saunders brings up in A Swim In A Pond in the Rain is the notion that fiction is a damned poor vehicle for an author to make philosophical or political arguments. While certainly an author's ideas and tastes and Utopias will spill into creative work, the characters have to drive the abstractions into the story, not the other way around.
So, in the Tolstoy presented by Saunders, the idea of the saintly serf shows up twice — this is a Tolstoy trope. The servant is depicted as humble, ready to please, and beatific. But also, as Saunders remarks, there's an element of the idiot here, that the serf is a sucker. Tolstoy doesn't try to write around that. It's just there for the reader to decide.
It takes a lot of humility to write that way and it also calls into question the purpose of fiction which is not, as some suspect, to teach the reader how to live a good, moral, productive or even happy life. Around the time I read the Saunders book I also read Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York by art historian Alexander Nemerov. I can't find the exact quote but in it, the purpose of art is described as depicting what it's like to be alive at a certain place and time. I suppose this would be the artist's place and time, even if they paint something from the past or future, just as we view historic or science fiction as representative of the time it was created, rather than its fictional setting.
Either way, the accurate depiction of life in a time and place is just too complicated for polemic and if artists forever have to struggle with their most honest work existing in tension with their most fervent ideas.
Fiction/Literature/On Writing
Alexander Nemerov/George Saunders/Helen Frankenthaler/Tolstoy
Saunders & Gogol
I'm reading George Saunders' A Swim in the Pond in The Rain where the celebrated author and fiction writing teacher takes us through stories by Chekhov, Tugenev, Tolstoy and Gogol and I have to admit that for days I've been dying to get to his discussion of Gogol's story "The Nose" because Saunders' fiction — inventive and absurd, reminds me much more of Gogol than the other writers. I almost wish he'd included Dosoevski's "The Double" in the mix, for the same reasons.
One thing that occurs is that the master missed a slight detail in his discussion of "The Nose." In the story, a social-climbing collegiate assessor named Kovalyov wakes to find that his nose has left his face in the night. The Nose then gallivants around the city, earning itself professional and social promotions until it is eventually caught by the police and returned to its owner, where it only reluctantly and after some time, rejoins his face. We're left to imagine how the nose accomplished this. It seems, as times, to have arms, legs and a face and to be human sized and at other times it's an ordinary nose. There's a dreamlike quality to the narrative but an insistence by the narrator that though the story is strange and, well, doesn't pass the smell test, that things like this happen to people all the time.
This is part of Saunders' thesis as well — that the state of confusion and absurdity Gogol describes is really closer to the psychological state of our individual interactions with reality than the more objective renderings of Gogol's contemporaries. We also get this sense readifn Kafka or (some of) Phillip Roth and of reading Saunders.
So, here's the tiny thing I think Saunders missed: Kovayov goes to the newspaper to take out an advertisement offering a reward for the return of his proboscis. The newspaper clerk refuses on the grounds that such an odd notice might ruin the reputaton of the paper. The clerk also explains:
"A civil servant came in, just as you have, bringing a note, was billed two rubles seventy-three kopecks, and all the advertisement consisted of was that a black-coated poodle had run away. Doesn't seem to amount to much, does it now? But it turned out to be a libel. This so-called poodle was treasurer of I don't recall what institution."
It's just a bit of internal logic in Gogol that Saunders didn't remark on but that I think backs up the contention of Gogol's narrator — strange things happen.
This is a fabulous book. It really gets you reading the stories closely.
Fiction/Lit Crit/Short Fiction/Writers
Chekhov/George Saunders/Gogol/Russian Literature/The Nose/Tolstoy/Turgenev
The Rise of Amazon and Regional Inequality
Today I wrote a review of Fulfillment for the Washington Independent Review of Books. It's a meticulously reported story about how Amazon grew to behemoth proportions, taking advantage of the concentrations of wealth within specific American regions over the last two decades.
I'll leave the review to the review and will instead wonder here what it means for a book like this to be published in an age where it will depend on Amazon for its distribution and success.
When I was writing this review, I went back into my Amazon history to find the first book I'd ordered from the service, which was back in 2000. It was a small press book written by my friend, true crime author and memoirist John Gilmore. I ordered from of Amazon because it was not readily available at the book stores I frequented at the time in Albuquerque.
It was a big change for me to order a book that way. In those days, if a book I wanted wasn't in stock, I asked the store to order it for me and would generally receive it within a week, unless the book were rare or part of a a very small press run, which would take longer. Well, Amazon ended that relationship with book shops for me.
Years later I would go to Amazon, not a book shop, to pre-order Hapworth 16, the legendary JD Salinger story that was set to be published by a boutique press. I waited and waited but ther book never emerged, Salinger had canceled its publication.
Funny thing, though, the story had been available online at The New Yorker's archives and that's how I eventually read it. I do wish I had the nice, promised edition, but I did get the story.
Back when I was learning to shop the Amazon way, I was concerned about the Barnes & Noble behemoth smothering small book shops with character and community ties out of business. Now, we worry about Barnes & Noble's surival.
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Amazon/Barnes and Noble/Book Stores/Fulfillment
The Reading Writing Update
And, somehow a week's gone by since my last post. I realize this website is shouting into the wind. Maybe it's shouting at a wind that's going the other way. I haven't earned much of an audience, I guess. It's difficult. There are many voices out there. Too many that I want to follow that aren't my own, so I sympathize.
I picked up Drew Magary's The Postmortal as a Bookbub bargain. I'm a bit over halfway through. It moves quickly, is funny and thoughtful, just like Magary's journalism. I'll write about it when I finished but can easily recommend it now.
I'm also slowly (pacing myself on purposes) reading a book I'll be reviewing for a literary magazine. It's experimental and very good.
The stacks in my office and by the bed include: Mimesis, Bullfinch's Mythology, The Age of Innocence, Venus on the Half-Shell, Goblin Market and Cutting for Stone. All are in various states of progress, some are rereads, some I'm leafing through for ideas.
The Killers (Hemingway)
I popped open a collection of Hemingway short stories today for the oddest of reasons. Something about the name of retire pro wrestler Ole Anderson was bothering me and there it was, in "The Killers," a Nick Adams story about two hitmen who are lying in wait to kill a former prizefighter who had, it's suggested, double-crossed some one influential in Chicago.
The fight's name? Ole Andreson, described as a "big swede." I can't help but wonder if the professional wrestler, whose given name is Alan Robert Rogowski, took the name Ole Anderson from this story, when he became part of wrestling's worked "Anderson Family" alongside Arn and Gene Anderson as the "Minnesota Wrecking Crew" and later as a member of Ric Flair's "Four Horsemen" stable.
But Ole looks a lot like I expect Hemingway's character did:
Inspired by Hemingway?
It's a good story, too. Holds up well after all these years and reads a bit like a David Mamet script or a pugilistic Waiting for Godot.
Literature/Short Fiction/Writers
Ernest Hemingway/Ole Anderson/Pro Wrestling/The Killers
Reread: Slaughterhouse Five
It's true, Bookbub, that you can reliably derail my reading plans by offering me Kurt Vonnegut novels from any era of his career for any price under $3. Were I to stumble upon a remainder bin of Vonnegut paperbacks, I'd probably buy the whole lot. In recent years I've revisited Galapagos, Bluebeard, Deadeye Dick, Hocus Pocus and now Slaughterhouse. I'm tempted to give Kilgore Trout's Venus on the Halfshell another whirl, though I just learned while linking that it was written by Phillip Jose Farmer and not Vonnegut.
So it goes!
Last winter I read this essay about men on dating sites like Tinder citing Vonnegut as proof of worldliness and wordiness. As has happened with David Foster Wallace, the bros who professsor to love the writer have done the writer few favors in this day and age. Slaughterhouse Five emerges from this essay as the only Vonnegut a person "needs" to read, if any of us "need" to read Vonnegut at all.
That's unfortunate. I doubt Vonnegut would have written so many books unnecessarily. He was a funny, intelligent and compassionate man. Had he nothing to say, I'm confident he wouldn't have put so much down on paper.
from vonnegutdocumentary.com
Rather than regale you with my thoughts about poor Billy Pilgrim, send unwillingly to war, bouncing around time in the hopes of finding more moments of pleasure than trauma, I'll tell you what I've learned from Vonnegut overall:
The indifference of the universe should not be mistaken for hostility.
The absence of the universe's hostility should not make you think the universe likes you.
Time is sometimes linear but that doesn't mean that it should be understood that way.
Stories are sometimes linear, but that doesn't mean they should be told that way.
There's a Vonnegut-a-verse and all his books and stories share it.
Vonnegut is more like Mark Twain and more like Tom Robbins than he is like his pure contemporaries: John Updike, John Cheever, Philip Roth and the like.
His books are full of big ideas but they read easily. This is partly because of the jokes and line drawings, but largeky because the storytelling voice is conversational. It's like Kurt has sat you down to tell you something and he wants you to understand.
He's really among out very best. I'm also delighted to have learned that Robert M. Weide, one of the creators if HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm wrote the screenplay for the 1996 film adaptation of Mother Night and that he befriended the writer and made this documentary about him, which will be in theatres this summer, when it will be safe for us to go and see it.
Fiction/Literature/Movies/Novels/Writers
Kurt Vonnegut/Robert M. Weide/Slaughterhouse Five
Reading Update, March 1
It's hard to populate this site because I want it to include observations about what I'm reading and seeing. Both take time and with reading I somtimes get into something but then put it away and circle back later. It's all very whim-driven.
My shelf right now is:
A reread of Slaughterhouse Five, a story I last visitied by reading a theatrical adapation created by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. I'll have a lot to say about it when I'm finished. It's aged remarkably well.
I've also unearthed a compendium called "Masters of Modern Drama," put together by RandomHouse in 1962. I plan to work my way through each script, though it's an odd compendium, certainly not as inclusive as you'd get in a book like this today.
The novel that next seems to be calling from my shelf is Ling Ma's Severance, and also the latest from George Saunders. The book that I don't own that's calling to me is that new biography of Tom Stoppard.
The nonfiction book I'd like most to write about is Millennium by Jacques Attali. It was published in the early 1990s but very accurately predicted the thirty years that followed.
I'm working on a new novel. It's called Unique, New York.
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George Saunders/Jacques Attali/Kurt Vonnegut/Tom Stoppard
Wolf's Credo
Missing Cafe Loup.
Respect the elders
Teach the young
Cooperate with the pack
Play when you can
Hunt when you must
Rest in between
Share your affections
Voice your feelings
Leave your mark.
Literary New York/Poetry/Writers
Cafe Loup
Women at War
Global citizen, actor, writer and spoken word artist Lanna Joffrey first encountered Valiant Women in War and Exile by Sally Hayton-Keeva in the 1990s. The book has stuck with her ever since as she's developed it into an ensemble play for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the New York International Fringe Festival, among other venues. Joffrey's script was recently published by NoPassport Press and I was glad to have read it over the weekend. It's a stunner.
Reminiscences of war, whether by men or women, can easily become victim narratives (and in many cases, they should be). But these are tales of warriors, witting and unwitting from throughout the 20th century. Because the official combat armies of the time have been largely male, "War speaks in a male voice to all of us," as Joffrey quotes Keeva in the early pages. But war is a human cruelty and we risk misunderstanding it by ignoring the perspectives of women or by relegating their voices to those of observers of war rather than as participants, perpetrators, rebels and activists. These characters have impressive and infectious agency that pull the reader through these vivid and compelling stories.
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Through the show we meet survivors of Turkey's genocide against Armenia experience how the lack of consequences for it led to Nazi Germany. We meet Catholic and Protestant women furing Ireland's "troubles," as well as interned Japanese Americans, surivivors of Hiroshima, a flight attendant who brought U.S. soldiers to Viet Nam and a Moscow woman who became a sniper to avenge herself against the Nazis.
I'm mixing up the chronology, but that's sort of the point — these voices from a century of war remind us of the sheer senselessness of it all. We're pscyhologically compelled to divide wars into good and bad, just or unjust, but the experience of taking all of this history in together washes away all rationalizations. It's not just that war is cruel (we know that) or that the innocent suffer greatly (we know that too) but that people are forever changed by these experiences and we've found no way to offer them any remediation other than to listen.
The script moves at a rapid pace. Based on real interviews conducted by Hayton-Keeva and expertly dramatized by Joffrey, Valiant reminds me a bit of Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf because the effect of the work is built on a chorus of strong voices.
Playwrights/Politics/Theater/Theatre/Writers
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A Triumphant View of the Internet
There's no shortage of takes about how Internet culture is ruining real world culture. I'm sure I've written my share. The Game: A Digital Turning Point by Alessandro Baricco (translated from Italian by Clarisssa Botsford) takes a strong opposing view and it convinces. I can never go back to my skeptical and lazy quick takes, having read this argument by an Italian novelist, sreenwriter, playwright, essayist and creative writing instructor. Everything about Baricco would lead you to assume he'd harshly critique online culture and yet, he sees salvation in it.
Your Professor, Alessandro Baricco
It's nostalgia for the twentieth century, not online culture, he argues, that is truly dangerous for humanity. He makes this argument as gently as he can:
"I hope people who feel nostalgic don't get me wrong. The twentieth century was many things, but over and above everything else, it was one of the most horrific hundred years in the history of humankind, perhaps the most horrific. What made it unspeakably devastating was the fact that it wasn't the result of a failure of civilization or even an expression of brutality: it was the algebraic result of a refined, mature, and wealthy civilization."
To hammer the point home, he recaps:
"A country that had been the cradle of our ideas of freedom and democracy constructed a weapon so lethal that, for the first time in their history, human beings possessed something they could use to destroy themselves. Finding themselves in a position to use it, they did so without hesitation. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Iron Curtain, the evil fruits of revolutions, by means of which the twentieth century had dared to dream of better worlds, led to immense suffering, unprecedented acts of violence, and terrifying dictatorships. Is it clear now why the twentieth century is not only the century of Proust but also our nightmare?"
Baricco traces the digital revolution from its origins in the video game Spacewar! (play it here) through the development of the first web pages, online commerce, social mediaand the epoch of big data and artficial intelligence we're entering now. He structures his book as a topography of this new world — a sister to physical reality where some old elites have been replaced by new elites and some old elites have seen their power distributed among the masses.
Admittedly, some of this argument rhymes with the tech triumphalism of the 1990s, when we some believed the internet would be a great democratizing force. If Wal-Mart was culture's bogeyman then, Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple are now.
Baricco is no Utopian. He describes a new world, better by comparison to the blood-soaked one it replaced, though not perfect by any means, or even fair. The digital world is, as Baricco describes, a game with myriad, complex and changing rules. Games have winners and losers. Well-made games do not have obvious and surefire strategies for success. It's like the stock market — if a strategy existed for producing steady gains with no losses, everybody would utilize it. Well-meaning, well-qualified and hard working people can lose this game, just as they frequently lost all of the games we played before.
A trap for the nostalgic is to insist that pre-digital experiences like seeing a play or symphony in person or reading a physical book or visiting a museum are somehow more real than their digital counterparts. "Listening to the Vienna Philharmonic live at the Musikverein is not the same as watching it online, but for most of humanity it is a choice between nothing and something really quite exciting. It's not hard to choose," he writes.
Those of us, and I include myself in this, who feel dislocated from their pre-digital dreams and ambitions would do well to remember that, though it may be harder to publish a book or to produce a play these days, "In its way, the Game showed far greater promise: it opened up all the gates and widened access to theaters, museums, and bookstores. A significant number of new faces started to circulate in places where they had never been seen before."
Baricco stresses the benefits of open-mindedness and to recognize the futility of stubbornly insisting on old ways of doing things — there is no bulwark against what's happened, what's happening or what's to come. Society will not consent to going back and for good reason. To survive, practitioners of arts and humanities will have to succeed in a game where skills can only be learned by playing.
Interestingly, he recommends that education, which has been sloweest to adapt, needs to change the most. This change, which had been resisted as Baricco wrote, has been forced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our son, 10 years old, grew up digital. As Baricco recalls his own child trying to interact with a photograph in a newspaper as if it were a touchscreen, we remember our son, around 3 years old, try to swipe the television to another channel and showing visible disgust at a screen so stupid as to ignore a users touch. He has been remote learning entirely since the Pandemic broke in March 2020 and while this arrangement isn't for everybody, he has thrived.
Of course, he wants to go back to a physical classroom but as I've watched him succeed at computer-enabled scholarship, I realize that we can't, and shouldn't ever go back to education as it was. Remote learning is a skill and our son's practice of it means that he can now access the best teachers in any discipline, no matter where he lives and where they do, if they have an online practice. Why settle for the best guitar teacher in town if the best in the country or world is available?
Further, as I watch friends and family in their 40s and 50s earn professional certificates and degrees online, I think that what our remote students are going through now might pay off massively later in life. In March, Google will launch its first low cost, online professional certifications. For a lot of adults, online learning isn't natural. I dipped my toe in only recently, because of a professor friend posted a lecture series about Kafka's The Trial to Udemy. I suspect that many seeking the Google certifications will feel some anxiety about it. Today's remote learners won't. For them, an online course will have no more or less value than a book does to me when I read it between covers or on the Kindle app.
The Game is a fascinating study, has a refreshing take and I highly recommend it. I can't do it justice here but hope I caught its flavor.
Essayists/Games/History/Internet/Philosophy/Politics
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The programme for the 2016 Tikitapu Pest Control has proceeded as planned, with the Pindone and Feratox ® (cyanide) baits put out into the bait stations on the 5th and 6th August. Stations were topped up two weeks later and it is intended to clear the stations of any remaining bait on September 18th and 19th.
At this stage we have found 58 possum and 2 wallaby carcasses and expect to find more when the stations are cleared. Post bait monitoring will then be carried out to see how successful the baiting has been in reducing rat and possum numbers.
The presence of Warning signs indicates that pesticide residues may still bepresent in baits or animals. The removal of signs will tell you that you can resume normal activities in the area. If in doubt, check with DOC.
The Department of Conservation has recently carried out a mistletoe count in the Okareka end of the reserve and are delighted with the increased number of plants found, and the way they are spreading towards the Tikitapu end. It is due to the presence of the two endangered species of mistletoe found in the reserve that DOC, the Bay of Plenty Regional Council and Forest and Bird (Rotorua Branch) combined resources to commence the Pest Control Project in 2003.
The Rotorua Botanical Society control pest weeds and also plant new mistletoe host plants. Okareka residents have benefitted from this with not only the increased presence of mistletoe, but also healthier bush, more birds and less rats and possums, both in the reserve and the village.
Bird counts will be repeated in November.
A small number of plants left over from the planting working bee around the Tarawera Road refuse transfer station will be used to infill a few gaps in the reserve. Otherwise there has been no planting programme required.
I would like to sincerely thank everyone who has helped at the working bees. I am always delighted to have new people to add to the volunteer list. Please contact me if you would like more information or to be added to the list.
Frances Blakely
jandfblakely@gmail.com
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As with the Synod, so with the Parliamentary debate about tax credits: they are both giving rise to a great deal of politicized prayer. By that I mean someone decides, quite sincerely, what they think the 'right' outcome should be and prays earnestly for it to come about, often solliciting the help of others. I can't tell you how many requests for prayer have come to the monastery, urging us to pray that this view or the other may triumph (significant word) at the Synod, or that 'the evil Tories' may be foiled in their 'plot against the poor' or, alternatively, that all opposition may be wiped from the face of the earth. As you may have gathered, I have no intention of saying anything much about the Synod until it is over, and I won't be drawn into party politics, so you may be wondering how we cope with such requests. How do we pray in response?
The answer is as simple as it is disappointing to many. We ask God to ensure that what he wills comes about. That isn't as easy as it sounds, because we all have opinions, but it is the only honest way of praying when our knowledge is imperfect and our view of any situation partial. If someone who hasn't done a stroke of work all term asks us to pray for good exam results, I trust an open-ended prayer of the kind I have described may lead to a realisation that some effort of one's own has to be put in. We are asked to to pray for a specific result, but what God chooses to give may, ultimately, prove much better. So, too, with the Synod: those sure that the Church 'needs' such and such may be surprised to find that the Holy Spirit doesn't necessarily agree. Similarly, the policies advocated by a political party may have good or bad points, but we don't have to ask God to take sides.
What I think is important, though, is that we bring to our prayer a sense of reverence, not just for God but also for the people and situations we are praying about. One of the sad aspects of the media debate surrounding the Synod, for example, has been the name-calling and bitterness that goes with the polarisation of views and demonisation of those who hold different opinions. It is much the same with party politics. A prayer request that refers to someone as 'evil' or 'hardline' is not one I want to take before the Throne of Grace. That isn't just middle-class niceness asserting itself, or a wimpish desire to avoid conflict: the fundamental disposition of prayer must always be profound humility and reverence. Anything less, whatever else it is, isn't prayer. In fact, it is a hindrance to prayer because it fills us with our own noise and deafens us to the quiet voice of the Holy Spirit. At least, that has been my experience, born of innumerable failures to pray as I ought. On that basis, I think I can safely say, learn from my mistakes.


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Q: Eigenvectors and proving cyclic vectors
I am looking for help with these 2 questions. I thought (a) would be easy but its not working for me.
I thought that if its linearly independent, I should be able to come up with something like $Ax - kx = 0$ then $Ax = kx$ and then magically its an eigenvector.
For part (b), I'm not really sure but do I have to use linear independence again? ie $v + T(v) + T^2(v) + ... = 0$
EDIT: for (b), I am thinking to use the contrapositive to prove the reverse (if $x=0$)


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i was just listening to the new podcast on the healthy skeptic with kurt harris and he gave a pretty lengthy answer concerning his views on vitamin D supplementation. during his answer he touched on the differences in sunlight needed for vitamin D levels to be equal in light-skinned vs dark-skinned people. it's a subject that i've been wondering about for awhile in that being that, from a study i read recently, 97% of african americans are vitamin D deficient as opposed to 60-70% of white americans. i'm assuming that this is because it the uptake of vitamin d is much quicker in white americans- i believe 15-45 minutes of midday sun is needed- whereas african americans need somewhere in the range of 2-3 hours. being that on the east coast, it's pretty impossible for me to get anywhere near adequate sunlight during the winter so i supplement 2-3000iu a day on average. my question is, being that the uptake of sunlight is drastically different from lighter-skinned people, should the darker of us supplement more D than is generally recommended?
Edit: I've been supplementing with D3 since november and this is the first winter for as far back as i can remember that i haven't been anywhere near sick, even though seemingly everyone around me has gotten sick multiple times during the winter.
black folks have lower Vitamin D levels and to compensate they endogenously make more cholesterol to offset the loss to raise the D to protect themselves. Rarely have I seen a dark person above 35 on a D test. To answer your question it would require what your current D is and why your are seeing me. Then I could answer it in context. Generally the number for a young healthy paleo ranges from 40-100 depending upon who you ask. My personal bias is 70-100 based upon the newer oncologic finding for D levels. See my Paleo is not PaNu at all. I want longevity with health.
what is the question? I dont see one there to answer?
when i initially started i used 10kiu for a couple of weeks then backed off to 5k. recently i've backed off to 5k every other day. that feels about right.
I'm saying it would take longer to ramp up from sunning. It wouldn't last longer, though. I would guess that 10000 IU could be excessive for you, black or not, especially if you are no longer deficient. Like, let's say you get up to 65ng/dl or whatever you want it to be this year and maintain that level more or less through the summer, next winter you won't need 10000, you'll need 5000 or something. The initial high doses are only so people can "come up to speed" so to speak.
thanks, travis. so are u saying that my vitamin d levels might take longer to ramp up but also will last longer than a lighter person? that is fascining. by what mechanism(s)?
point to to prove one point or another but i've seen other people just as credentialed reach different conclusions from the same studies. so being that this is an exciting time in paleo with lots of new theories and studies being implemented and dissected, i'm content staying on the sidelines and taking a relative conservative approach that has suited me well up until this point. as always, i definitely appreciate your answer on this question.
Dr. K...I'm black...I'm trying to get 10,000 IU of vitamin D3 per day..is that enough? Also I've never supplemented with K2...what is a good source of K2? if I take it in pill form how much should I get?
Lucky I have seen not one patient do it that way as yet in 6 yrs. Not saying its possible but pretty rare. I used Vit D 3 to get them up in two to three months, while many docs struggle with the 50K of D2 or D3 a week.......which rarely works.
K2 carboxylates osteocalcin and it raises the vitamin D level even faster. We use this when someone comes in with osteopenia or porosis and their levels are low. My personal target is 70-100 for vitamin D.
hey doc. i pretty much hit everything with pastured butter(organic valley) and i eat 8-16 oz of liver a week. is this enough?
At certain latitudes, for certain stretches of time, both whites and blacks get basically negligible amounts of D3 from the environment. There's less UVB, it's cloudier, we're outside less, we have only parts of our faces uncovered etc. For those periods of time, both blacks and whites, assuming all individual factors are the same, have the same requirements for vitamin D. As we near summer and more UVB is available and we are more willing and able to utilize it, the dietary need for vitamin D decreases for a white person at a much faster rate, so long as they're making an effort to get sun.
Controlling for differences in size etc., we can safely assume that any member of our species has the same biological need for vitamin D from all sources as any other.
The only way to make that determination is by getting tested a few times in a year and making the necessary adjustments.
Personally, this past spring/summer I took no vitamin d and made sure that I got 20-30 minutes of shirtless sun at or around solar noon every day. For the rest of the time I took 5000IU of D3. This resulted in a 25OHD level of 85ng/dl. I decided that this might be a bit high and adjusted downward to 4000IU currently. If I were identical in dimensions, diet, etc. but were black, I would have received less from the sunning, stored less in my fat and thus would have required more dietary vitamin d to reach that same level. It's also possible that storage was largely irrelevant and that 5000IU produces 85ng/dl in a person of my size due to the body's processing/breakdown of D. This would mean that there would be a racial difference for a short period of time, followed by a prolonged level of 85 or so.
One thing about vitamin D that I think isn't spoken of enough is that it's likely toxic if not consumed with the other fat solubles, especially where calcium is concerned. I think a person eating the SAD and taking 10000IU could accelerate the calcification of their arteries if they are deficient in K2 and A. If you eat a quarter pound of liver every week and butter, you're good though.
KGH is a radiologist. Radiologist dont treat people.......they read films and papers. That disclaimer should HAVE been made during the podcast. The recent trends in Vitamin D are being done by clinicians in the field. The clinical results are being published daily as are research protocols. Right now there really is no optimal range as far as I know but is based upon the diseases we are treating patients for. I personally see a ton of metabolic bone disease as a surgeon and therefore I treat it as I see fit based upon my experience and the best clinical data we have for my clinical practice. Kurt can see the effects of the treatment on the films. He can see the effects of clinicians who dont. Often he has no clue what context the patient or films are in because radiologists are not given a patients chart when they have a study. He does have good insights and he reads a lot more than most docs which is admirable. But I think you need to understand the biases before you generalize about any doc including moi. Always understand the context things are done in before you jump to a CONCLUSION.
Dark skinned usually need more and they need K2 to up the D to ranges we want them at. Get it checked.
"However, we do not know all of its effects and how they may differ between the races. The bottom line is that racial differences in calcium handling are seen and black and white patients have differing risk for bone and heart disease. We should more clearly determine the effects of supplementing vitamin D in black patients with low levels based on existing criteria and should not assume that the effects of supplementation will be the same between the races."
You can also find a study on Pubmed Central (not confined to blacks) that shows benefit on outcomes when raising levels above the lowest quartile, but then benefit diminishes somewhat when raising to the highest quartile. IOW, don't take too much.
If it were me, I wouldn't take high doses because some guy on the internet says so. Good luck. From what I've seen, Harris regularly claims that he knows the truth of all nutrition. No one does.


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