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4 observations from Bills-Texans and Week 6 in the NFL
Bills Insider/One Bills Live co-host
1 – The vets still have it
They might be the two oldest players on the roster, but Lorenzo Alexander and Kyle Williams were critical components in what was a dominant defensive effort up front.
Lorenzo Alexander had four tackles, one and a half sacks, two quarterback hits, a tackle for loss and a tipped pass for an interception.
Kyle Williams produced three tackles, two sacks, three quarterback hits, a tackle for loss and a forced fumble.
Alexander's interception led to a Stephen Hauschka field goal that cut the Texans lead to 10-3 early in the third quarter as the play swung momentum back to the Bills.
As big an impact as the two veteran captains had in the defensive effort, they were disappointed they could not do more.
"We've got to go out there and put our team in position to win games regardless of what's going on on the other side of the ball," said Alexander. "I've said this all year, we're supposed to be the leaders and lead the way. If that means only allowing three points every week, and that's what it takes to win, then we expect ourselves to do it.
"From the outside looking in, that may not seem realistic but that's the mindset that we have defensively that we have to come out and lead the way and give ourselves a chance and we did that. We just didn't finish the game like we expected to."
2 – Numbers to know
58 – Offensive plays for Buffalo
57 – Offensive plays for Houston
2 – Interceptions for Buffalo
2 – Interceptions for Houston
19 – Total hits on QB for Bills defense (7 sacks, 12 QB hits)
6 – Total hits on QB for Texans defense (2 sacks, 4 QB hits)
12 – Penalties for Bills
6 – Penalties for Texans
104 – Penalty yards for Bills
50 – Penalty yards for Texans
71.7 – Passer rating for Josh Allen
61.6 – Passer rating for DeShaun Watson
What they're saying: Bills stronger up front but need to continue to develop to win close games
Top 3 things we learned from Bills-Texans
GAME RECAP: Late score pushes Texans past Bills
.@nyjets K Jason Myers (@JayMy_31) converted all 7 of his FG attempts and all 3 of his PATs in the Jets' Week 6 win.
Myers' 24 points scored are the second-most by a player in a single game who did not score a touchdown in @NFL history. pic.twitter.com/lw1GDLXoQ5
— NFL345 (@NFL345) October 14, 2018
3 – Around the AFC East
The Jets got seven field goals from Jason Myers and Sam Darnold threw for 280 yards and a pair of touchdowns in New York's 42-34 shootout win over Indianapolis. With the victory the Jets raised their record to 3-3.
The Dolphins improved to 4-2 on the season with a 31-28 win over the Bears without Ryan Tannehill, who missed the game with a throwing shoulder injury. Backup QB Brock Osweiler went 28-44 passing for 380 yards with three touchdowns and two interceptions in the victory as Miami outscored Chicago 18-7 in the second half to win by three.
The Patriots took a barn burner against the previously undefeated Chiefs, winning 43-40 on a game-winning 28-yard field goal by Stephen Gostkowski on the last play in regulation to improve to 4-2 on the season.
FINAL: The @MiamiDolphins WIN in overtime! #FinsUp #CHIvsMIA pic.twitter.com/x96itke3V5
— NFL (@NFL) October 14, 2018
4 – They said it
"Unfortunately, it was a similar formula this week (in the loss). It was too many mistakes early. We started that game with too many mistakes on offense. Penalties, drops and turnovers and that led to a slow start. I believe in what we're doing, and I believe in our guys, but we've just got play better football."
--Colts head coach Frank Reich
"We knew it was going to be a 60-minute game. We knew it was going to be tough. I think guys did a great job fighting. Things didn't go our way the entire game, but guys kept fighting until the end and we just happened to come out with the win."
--Patriots RB James White
Josh Allen's rushing prowess set these NFL milestones plus 4 observations from Week 17
Josh Allen was known for his strong arm coming into the 2018 season, but it was his rushing accomplishments that will be remembered the most from his rookie season.
Some hard lessons for Bills rookies vs. Pats plus 4 observations from Week 16 in the NFL
Bills rookies hope the lessons they learned on Sunday will only help the team grow in the future.
How Josh Allen and Robert Foster built a connection based on trust plus 4 observations on Week 15
Chris Brown takes a look at the chemistry between Josh Allen and Robert Foster and how it helped produce the biggest plays in Sunday's win over Detroit.
Where Buffalo's offensive efficiency needs to improve plus 4 observations from Week 14
Head coach Sean McDermott acknowledged that the Buffalo's offensive performance has room for improvement and it starts up front.
Why Josh Allen is already in rare company plus 4 observations from Week 13 in the NFL
Josh Allen set a franchise record with 135 rushing yards and added two passing touchdowns in Sunday's loss in Miami.
This Bills defender is producing game-changing plays plus 4 observations on Week 12 in the NFL
Second-year linebacker Matt Milano is establishing himself as one of the top play-making linebackers in the NFL in 2018.
How Zay Jones played a pivotal role in the Bills offense plus 4 final observations on Week 10 in the NFL
Chris Brown takes a look at how the Zay Jones-Matt Barkley connection sparked Buffalo's best offensive performance of the season plus other news and notes on the Bills and the NFL from Sunday's action.
4 observations on the Bills and Week 9 in the NFL
Chris Brown looks at the Bills and the Jets as both teams are anxious to get back on the winning track after tough losses in Week 9.
4 Observations from Bills-Colts and Week 7 of the NFL
Take a closer look at Sunday's game against the Colts. Plus find out where things stand in the AFC East and what happened in Week 7 with Buffalo's next two opponents - New England and Chicago.
4 observations from Bills-Titans and Week 5 in the NFL
Kicker Stephen Hauschka pulled off a clutch game-winning field goal. Plus find out where things stand in the AFC East and what happened in Week 5 with Buffalo's next two opponents - Houston and Indianapolis.
4 observations from Bills-Packers and Week 4 in the NFL
Rookie defenders LB Tremaine Edmunds, CB Taron Johnson and S Siran Neal showed promise with big plays on Sunday. Plus find out where things stand in the AFC East and what happened in week 4 with Buffalo's next two opponents - Tennessee and Houston.


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Right now! Sorry for the delay. Hope you like it!


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Q: platform independent document management system for private usage I want to switch my private red tape towards a document management system.
The system should be platform independent. The data should stay in my hands(no Google or M$).
 OCR and search index would be nice.
Also i require some kind of encrypted backup.

A: There is a software you might want to try DocStorage. There is OCR coming with it and you can search through your documents database basing on documents content.
I'm not sure if you can get it for free though...
You would probably need to obtain encrypted backups functionality with some other vendor.

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On Monday morning, Moto 360 owners couldn't help but take to the internet to talk about the "dramatic" increases they were now seeing with their smartwatches thanks to an update that rolled out to the masses on Friday. Even Tim pinged me that morning to mention that the 360 was a "bossy little watch now" because of the battery life he had witnessed over the weekend. After posting about the potentially amazing news, our comments filled up with others who were experiencing similarly extended single-life charges. Some were even considering switching Ambient Mode back on. Seriously.
With that thought in mind, we decided to test the Moto 360 for a couple of days with Ambient Mode on, because well, Ambient Mode is just that much cooler. While there isn't much of a reason to leave your watch's display on at all times other than to no longer have to rely on the watch recognizing that you want to see it with wrist movement, the thought of being able to run the watch with it's display on at all times and have it last a day, something that wasn't previously possible, is kind of exciting.
So what did we find? In two days of testing with Ambient Mode turned "on," I was able to take my Moto 360 off the charger in the morning and carry on for a full 13 hours before it warned me about an impending battery death. And keep in mind that I was trying to use the 360 as much as possible, to really put it through its paces. I was pushing notifications left and right, responding to Hangouts messages with my voice every chance I could get, and making sure I looked at as many cards as possible before swiping them away. On day 2, I even put the 360 through a factory reset mid-day because I needed to attach it to a new phone.
As you can see in the two photos below, which are both after around 13 hours of use, I still had enough juice left that I could have potentially gone for another hour or two. So we are talking 13-15 hours of use with Ambient Mode on after the update, whereas we were only seeing 10-12 before.
Tim saw similar results in his tests. Over the weekend, with Ambient Mode still "off," he went two days without having to charge his Moto 360. On Monday night, with Ambient Mode "on," he ran his Moto 360 from 9AM to 11PM and had 5% battery remaining.
While I haven't had a chance to test with Ambient Mode "off," many are reporting two-day battery life. Many.
This update appears to be a massive success. Hopefully, you were able to get in on yesterday's Moto 360 re-stock.


Twenty years ago painter Armando Cairo started playing tenor-saxophone because he loved jazz and to chase away his loneliness. That is one of the characteristics the tenor-saxophonist. Eddie Lockjaw Davis discovered the same, forty years earlier.
Tenor-saxophonists are also the ones who attract all the beautiful women. Looking at the inlay photograph of Tenor Brutality, Armando Cairo reached this goal; he is surrounded by ten women in exciting dresses (one of them unrecognizably the ever young Saskia Laroo). Armando Cairo stands in front of them, taking all the adoration for granted.
Amongst his favorites are heavy tenors like Sonny Rollins and Gene Ammons. The force of his macho-sound is so strong, it somewhat inhibits his movements. It looks like he trailing behind the rhythm-section. But he is at his best ith the support of some handy themes and an understanding rhythm-section. On this record – that sounds a lot less brutal than the title suggests, that indeed is the case. The repertoire varies from comfortable own work to Monk's acrobatic "Tour in one".
The tempi are not initiated too fast by the trio, consisting of American bop-veteran Becton, the always impeccably accompanying pianist Whitmer and finally Barkman: a former multi-instrumentalist, who – to every ones satisfaction – has found his destination onm bass.
To quote critic Richard Palmer: "The right record to play when you've had enough og 'muesli-jazz' and fancy a bit of honest protein".


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$8 Billion: BitMEX Trades Record 1 Million BTC in 24 Hours
Omar Faridi
- BitMEX traded nearly a record 1 million XBT (or BTC) in 24 hours, which equates to over $8 billion.
- The record was set shortly after its CEO Arthur Hayes said he's sticking to his $50,000 Bitcoin price prediction.
The Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange (BitMEX), based in the Seychelles with offices in Hong Kong, has reportedly traded a record 1 million in Bitcoin (BTC/XBT) during the last 24-hour period, an amount worth over $8 billion.
The cryptocurrency exchange is considered to be among the most established and secure platforms in the crypto industry. It offers traders both perpetual contracts and contracts with set expiration dates, along with up to 100x leverage on bitcoin trades.
A new BitMEX (and industry) record: 1,000,000 XBT (> $8BN) traded in the last 24 hours!
— BitMEX (@BitMEXdotcom) July 25, 2018
BitMEX's new trading record was set nearly a month after its CEO Arthur Hayes said he was sticking to a $50,000 Bitcoin price prediction by the end of this year. The Wharton School graduate had also said that the cryptocurrency market would be experiencing "a very strong [short-term] rally on good volume and we definitely could see $8,000 [bitcoin price] … $9,000 … and maybe just shy of $10,000."
The cryptocurrency exchange has, earlier this year, added Tron (TRX) and EOS futures contracts to its platform. Trading these futures contracts, traders can't enter 100x leveraged positions, although they're still able to leverage their shorts or longs.
Crypto Markets Surging
Earlier this month, various analysts pointed out that a short squeeze on BitMEX was likely behind Bitcoin's bullish performance, as short sellers lost over $180 million in 20 minutes on its platform when BTC added $600 in an hour. Hayes commented on the theory, noting that "for every long there's a short."
Bitcoin, the flagship cryptocurrency, is currently trading just above $8,150, according to data from CryptoCompare. The recent surge in cryptocurrency prices comes as two institutional traders reportedly swapped a position in Chicago Mercantile Exchange's (CME) BTC futures markets for an amount that was the equivalent of the actual "physical" asset.
The first of its kind exchange for physical (EFP) swap with bitcoin futures was handled by E D F & Man Capital Markets, a global financial brokerage firm, and itBit, a digital asset exchange focused on institutional investors.
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Women Warriors Podcast Season Two
Why I Dedicated the Second Season of the Women Warriors Podcast to Healing.
The first time I heard a residential school survivor speak was March of 2009 in my class at the University of Alberta Native Studies 380/Women Studies 494: Challenging Racism and Stereotypes. It is a vivid memory because I was pregnant with my first child, and I had just learned at my 20-week ultrasound that I was having a girl.
It was the first time she shared her story in public. Our instructor must have guaranteed a safe space with compassionate ears since our whole class, 12 of us were Indigenous women.
She was removed from her home at the age of 8 where she remained until graduation at age 16. She married a non-Indigenous man at age 18 and immediately became pregnant. I will never forget what she said next, and I paraphrase, "I did not know how to love. I did not know how to show intimacy to my baby girl. I had not been hugged or kissed as a child, except when I was sexually abused, and I did not know what love felt or looked like." She never bonded with her children and her husband never understood why she was a "bad" mother. She never told her husband the truth of residential school and what had been taken from her.
It was only when I gave birth to my daughter five months later that I understood the impact of her loss. I also started to understand how intergenerational trauma is carried from parent to child. In this academic article, Intergenerational Trauma: Convergence of Multiple Processes among First Nations people in Canada, p.16 figure 1 shows how adverse childhood experiences are passed from one generation to the next. Furthermore, the field of epigenetics has proven trauma can be passed through our DNA. The article 'Trauma May be Woven Into DNA of Native Americans' makes the connection between trauma and physical illness:
"it suggests that our genes can carry memories of trauma experienced by our ancestors and can influence how we react to trauma and stress. The Academy of Pediatrics reports that the way genes work in our bodies determines neuroendocrine structure and is strongly influenced by experience. [Neuroendocrine cells help the nervous and endocrine (hormonal) system work together to produce substances such as adrenaline (the hormone associated with the fight or flight response.] Trauma experienced by earlier generations can influence the structure of our genes, making them more likely to "switch on" negative responses to stress and trauma.
Also, Indigenous peoples health disparities can be linked to colonization:
"According to researchers, high rates of addiction, suicide, mental illness, sexual violence and other ills among Native peoples might be, at least in part, influenced by historical trauma. Bonnie Duran, associate professor in the Department of Health Services at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Director for Indigenous Health Research at the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute says, "Many present-day health disparities can be traced back through epigenetics to a "colonial health deficit," the result of colonization and its aftermath."
In that same course, we were presented with an academic article, The Embodiment of Inequity: Health Disparities in Aboriginal Canada where research showed that Indigenous peoples had a "disproportionate burden of ill health and social suffering." I wish I could say that since that article, March/April 2005, we have made significant progress in closing the gaps in Indigenous health, but they have increased.
What makes that article memorable to me is my fellow classmates reaction to it. She was Inuit from the Northwest Territories taking her Bachelor of Arts degree in Native Studies. As the professor went around our circle of desk asking us what we thought of the article, she started to cry. She stated that she had tried to read the whole article the night before but quit three pages in when she read this stat, "As of 1990, Inuit men (57.6) and men living on-reserve (62) have the lowest life expectancy of all the Aboriginal populations." (S49).
It was a reality check for me that research on Indigenous peoples in the form of charts, stats, data in general compiled in Western ways of thinking – cold, hard facts was not helping us.
The most important concept in this article was, "We must come to understand that conventional clinical approached may not fit well with traditional Indigenous values or with the realities of contemporary settlement or urban life." Also, "we need to rethink the applicability of different models of intervention from the perspective of local community values and aspirations. Indeed, if we are to understand "healing as the rebuilding of nations" and as a process of de-colonization, then we must find ways by which health can be effectively articulated at the levels of individual, family, community and nation."
Grassroots healing. We hear it from Indigenous communities all the time – they know what they need in order to heal. This CBC article, "These are our children': Sexual abuse and suicide rate among Indigenous youth" is one of the many examples of Indigenous peoples stating that "it's about healing these communities and giving them the opportunity to do that work together. And that means putting the resources in the right places."
When I started my first Women Warriors program in June of 2015 I wanted to create a healing space for Indigenous women. I literally said it in the first video I made about our program on our Youtube channel.
Two years later, 8 programs completed, over 100 hundred graduates here are my lessons:
*Disclaimer – I am not a professionally trained researcher or mental health therapist.
The western, colonial medical system is failing Indigenous people.
Racism is everywhere including the medical system, and it's preventing Indigenous people from getting quality medical care.
The western medical system fails to treat trauma.
Our communities are suffering from unresolved grief and intergenerational trauma.
There needs to be a baseline understanding of the effects of colonization for everyone.
There is a lack of culturally appropriate services including mental health supports.
Women need help connecting with existing health resources.
Women need help learning to be their own best advocates in the health system.
There is a migration of Indigenous peoples from reserves to urban centers, and they cannot access traditional or on the land cultural practices for healing.
There needs to be more emphasis on mind/body/spirit connection and healing.
Indigenous healing must be community driven. There is not a one-size fits all plan.
These lessons have led me to researching Indigenous ways of healing. I like this CBC interview with Don Burnstick, a popular Indigenous comedian in which he states, "There are four really important parts to the healing process, based on what the elders have told me. There's prayer, sharing, crying, and laughing. If you do those four things, you will heal over hardship, loss, and grief."
I have invited 8 amazing Indigenous women from across Canada to the second season of the Women Warriors podcast to tell their stories. There will be prayer, sharing, crying, and laughter.
Release date set for October 4th, 2017. Please listen to Season 1 on iTunes or our website.
July 2015 – The end of program celebration for the first 8 Weeks to Healthy Living Program.
The second program October 2015.
Krav Maga self-defence class 2016.
Revkor Class April 2017
Women Warriors March 2017
University of Calgary researchers for the Women Warriors program, Dr. Lindsay Crowshoe & Dr. Rita Henderson. GRIP Research Forum May 2017.
Co-founder of Women Warriors, Dr. Sonja Wicklum. Accelerating Primary Care Conference November 2016.
The next session of the Women Warriors 8 Weeks to Healthy Living Program starts Monday, October 2nd. Please contact Shelley to register: Shelley@womenwarriors.club.
If you have any questions or would like to comment on the Women Warrior newsletter please email me or click on the social media links below.
FYI: I'm taking a summer vacation with my family August 16th to 24th and will not release a newsletter that week. Also, I'm starting podcast interviews August 25th-September 8th and may not find time to write an extensively as I have these past five newsletters.
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Citizen of the Year: To be eligible, the person must be an Australian Citizen.
Young Citizen of the Year: To be eligible, the person must be an Australian Citizen under 30 years of age on January 26, 2019.
Community Event of the Year: This is presented to the person/group who has staged the most outstanding community event during the past year.
Each local Council in South Australia seeks nominations in their local Council area, with the award recipients typically announced at the Council's Australia Day celebrations. Councils can forward the details of their Award recipients to the Australia Day Council of SA to go in the running for the State Awards, presented by the Governor of South Australia.
The Citizen of the Year Awards are proudly presented by the Australia Day Council of South Australia, sponsored by Channel 9.
The Citizen of the Year Awards are administered by local Councils across SA.
The Awards reward and recognise individuals and organisations that have made a noteworthy contribution during the current year,and/or given outstanding service over a number of years, to a local community over and above normal employment duties.
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Q: chrome.downloads.download ignoring parameters after 'url' I am trying to write a simple extension that will automatically download an image from our company website to a directory.  The problem is that chrome.downloads.download seems to ignore every parameter after 'url'.
It downloads the file.  But keeps the original name, and ignores sub-directories.  It will append a (#) if the file already exits instead of overwriting as specified in the code.
I have tried various ways of implementing the object passed to chrome.downloads.download, including creating a object with all the parameters and passing that object.  I've tried using quotes even where it didn't make sense.
I have tried reformatting the filename parameter, even giving it a fixed value of "foo.jpg".  I have tried doing this in both the content.js and bs.js.
I have confirmed that the filename is passed to the background script and the value is accessible by displaying it with an alert() in the background script
//Manifest.js (important parts)
"permissions": ["downloads","webNavigation"],
"background": {
    "scripts": ["bs.js"],
    "Persistent": false
    },
"content_scripts": [
    {
        "matches": ["<all_urls>"],
        "js": ["jquery-3.4.1.min.js"]
    },
    {
        "matches": ["https://mycompany.com/*"],
        "js": ["content.js"]
    }

    ]

//Content.js (important parts)
var $imgs = $('#spec_jpg img');
var url = "https:" + $imgs.attr('src');
var filename ="specificationArchive/" +  url.substring(url.lastIndexOf('/')+1); //edited
chrome.runtime.sendMessage({url: url, filename: filename});

//bs.js (whole thing)
chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener(
    function(request, sender){
      chrome.downloads.download ( { url: request.url,
      filename: request.filename,
      conflictAction: "overwrite",
      saveAs: false }
      )
    }
);

The extension does download the file, but I expected it to save it into a sub-directorycalled specificationArchive.  I also expected it to overwrite an existing file instead of appending a (#) to the end of the name.  Even when passing an absolute string for the filename, I get the file's original name

A: The solution provided by wOxxOm is to add an additional listener.  Here's the code that was added to bs.js
//bs.js
chrome.downloads.onDeterminingFilename.addListener(function(item, suggest) {
suggest({filename: "specificationArchive/" + item.filename, conflictAction: 'overwrite'});
});

Once this was included it saved to the directory listed.
Thanks again.


A memorial was held on July 7, in remembrance of Captain Henry Pedris, a national hero who sacrificed his life for the independence of the nation.Henry Pedris was born on August 16, 1888 in Galle and received his primary education at Royal College Colombo and S. Thomas' College Mount Lavinia.
Pedris joined the military soon after his higher education and went on to become a captain of the Colombo Town Guard at the time.
Captain Henry Pedris was executed by British officials on July 07, 1915 for acting against the crown.
The execution of Henry Pedris, who asked for his blindfold to be removed at the time he was execute, was viewed as extremely unjust by most Sri Lankans, hastening the movement towards independence.
The charges that were made against him were later proved to be false.
The parents of Henry Pedris constructed the Isipathanaramaya in Havelock Town, Colombo after the demise of their son and in the year 1971. A first day cover and a stamp was also issued on his behalf.
An alms-giving was held today at the Isipathanaramaya reminiscing late Captain Henry Pedris.
The 101st memorial was held opposite the statue of Henry Pedris in Havelock town.A group of family members of Henry Pedris also attended the event.


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The 10 Worst Neighborhoods In San Jose For 2021
We used data and science to identify the neighborhoods in San Jose that are the real pits.
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Editor's Note: This article is an opinion based on facts and is meant as infotainment. Don't freak out we updated this article for 2021. This is our fifth time ranking the worst neighborhoods to live in San Jose.
Source: Wikipedia User Sanjosecalifornia, Eugene | CC BY-SA 3.0
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Worst Neighborhoods In San Jose For 2021
Details On The Worst Neighborhoods
How We Calculated The Ranking
Table Breakdown By Neighborhood
San Jose's neighborhoods conjure up too many stereotypes to count. You've got hipster areas, preppy places, neighborhoods where college kids thrive, and of course, ghettos.
It seems as if there's a neighborhood for everyone in San Jose.
And while the city consistently ranks as one of the best places to live in the country thanks in part to a strong economy and tons of entertainment, it's not all rainbows and sunshine in San Jose. Some neighborhoods aren't as great as others.
So the question arises, which San Jose neighborhoods are the worst, and which are the best?
Today, we'll use science and data to determine which San Jose hoods need a little tender loving care - the sore thumbs of the San Jose area if you will. Realistically, you can't expect all the neighborhoods to be amazing, although West San Jose ranks way above the rest.
We examined 18 of San Jose's neighborhoods to find out the worst places to live. These places don't quite measure up to San Jose's reputation.
The Worst Neighborhoods In San Jose For 2021
Alum Rock-East Foothills
Edenvale-Seven Trees
So what's the worst neighborhood to live in San Jose for 2021? According to the most recent census data, Buena Vista looks to be the worst neighborhood in San Jose.
Read on to see how we determined the places around San Jose that need a pick-me-up. And remember, don't blame the messenger.
Once you're done, you can look at the bottom of the story for a complete chart of every neighborhood we looked at from worst to best. Looking for places to avoid outside of the city? You can also check out the worst suburbs of San Jose.
For more California reading, check out:
Cheapest Places To Live In California
Most Dangerous Cities In California
1. Buena Vista
Overall SnackAbility
Rank Last Year: 2 (No Change)
Median Home Value: $409,460 (2nd worst)
Median Income: $56,502 (2nd worst)
More on Fairgrounds: Data
3. East San Jose
Source: Wikipedia User | CC BY 2.0
Median Home Value: $349,464 (worst)
Median Income: $104,535 (12th worst)
More on North San Jose: Data
The North San Jose Innovation District is a northern district of San Jose, California. The area is home to numerous headquarters and campuses of high tech companies and an important innovation hub for Silicon Valley.
5. Downtown
Median Home Value: $497,323 (7th worst)
Median Income: $77,166 (7th worst)
More on Alum Rock-East Foothills: Data
7. Burbank
More on Edenvale-Seven Trees: Data
9. North Valley
Rank Last Year: 10 (No Change)
Median Home Value: $728,821 (13th worst)
More on Rose Garden: Data
Rose Garden, also known as Rosegarden, is a historic residential and cultural neighborhood in San Jose, California, near Downtown San Jose.
How we determined the worst San Jose hoods in 2021
To figure out how bad a place is to live in, we only needed to know what kinds of things people like and then decide what places have the least amount of those things. We threw the following criteria into this analysis in order to get the best, most complete results possible. We used this set of criteria for each neighborhood in San Jose:
High unemployment (Less jobs)
Low median income (Less pay)
Low population density (No things to do)
Low home values (No one's willing to pay to live here)
High crime (Estimated)
Then, we ranked each neighborhood in San Jose, California for each of these criteria from worst to best.
Next, we averaged the individual rankings for each criteria into a "Worst Score".
The neighborhood with the lowest "Worst Score" ranks as the worst neighborhood of San Jose.
Read on below to learn more about these terrible places around San Jose to live. Or skip to the end to see the list of all 18 neighborhoods ranked from worst to best.
This list is a scientific analysis based on real data and is completely unbiased. Hold on to your pants.
The 'hoods around San Jose that are really hoods
Well there you have it -- the worst of the neighborhoods in San Jose with Buena Vista landing at the bottom of the pack.
As we mentioned earlier, the neighborhoods in San Jose aren't all bad. West San Jose takes the cake as the best place to live in San Jose.
We ranked the neighborhoods from worst to best in the chart below.
Richest Cities In California
Safest Places In California
Worst Places To Live In California
Where Are The Worst Neighborhoods To Live In San Jose For 2021?
1 Buena Vista 1,423 $420,833 $44,822
2 Fairgrounds 55,586 $409,460 $56,502
3 East San Jose 114,567 $447,349 $73,521
4 North San Jose 25,144 $349,464 $104,535
5 Downtown 87,113 $477,611 $71,036
6 Alum Rock-East Foothills 38,948 $497,323 $77,166
7 Burbank 5,274 $556,183 $57,932
8 Edenvale-Seven Trees 41,443 $469,583 $73,072
9 North Valley 78,071 $499,085 $78,557
10 Rose Garden 13,514 $728,821 $95,382
11 Santa Teresa 55,095 $620,835 $115,527
12 Evergreen 76,963 $758,112 $128,820
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Status reports in preparation
Candidate wildlife species
Preparing COSEWIC status reports
Required contacts
Search for species already assessed
Assessment process
COSEWIC members
Applications for Wildlife Species Assessment
Applications for wildlife species assessment and unsolicited wildlife species status reports
Application Form "Request for Wildlife Species Assessment"
Annex I: Declaration of Conflict of Interest (To accompany all applications)
Annex II: Permission To Use Wildlife Species Status Report (To accompany submission of a status report)
Annex III: Waiver of Moral Rights (To accompany submission of a status report)
Approved by Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) in November 2015 and 2018
All of COSEWIC's actions are directed towards assessing the biological status of native wildlife species suspected of being at risk of extinction or extirpation across their range in Canada. COSEWIC uses the best available information relevant to assessing a wildlife species' risk of extinction or extirpation, which it may obtain from credible sources of knowledge of the wildlife species and its habitat. The evaluation process is independent and transparent, and the results are reported to the Canadian Endangered Species Conservation Council (CESCC) and the Canadian public. COSEWIC is established under Section 14(1) of the federal Species at Risk Act (SARA) and its assessments form the foundation for the List of Wildlife Species at Risk under that legislation. Sections 21, 22 and 28 of SARA direct that COSEWIC will consider applications for the assessment of wildlife species and wildlife species status reports accompanied by applications for the assessment of wildlife species, subject to regulations. Any such application constitutes a request for assessment.
COSEWIC maintains and continually updates a Candidate List of wildlife species for commissioning Status Reports. Before preparing a request for assessment, potential applicants are asked to contact, via the COSEWIC Secretariat, the appropriate COSEWIC Species Specialist Subcommittee (SSC) or, in the case of a wildlife species not covered by any of COSEWIC's ten SSCs, the Chair of COSEWIC. Potential applicants will be advised concerning the estimation of threats to the wildlife species in question, the imminence of the threats, the wildlife species' current standing on COSEWIC's Candidate List for assessment, valuable sources of information, and other advice concerning the preparation of a request for assessment and/or status report.
Requests for assessment
Scope of applications
Applications to COSEWIC may consist either of:
a request to COSEWIC to consider a particular wildlife species for assessment, or;
a request to COSEWIC to consider a particular wildlife species for assessment accompanied by Wildlife Species Status Report that has not been solicited by COSEWIC.
COSEWIC's usual approach to assigning status is, first, to examine a species as a whole. In these cases, the species itself is one Designatable Unit. If deemed appropriate in cases where a single status designation for a wildlife species is not sufficient to accurately portray probabilities of extinction within the wildlife species COSEWIC will examine the status of entities below the level of species, be they subspecies, varieties, or geographically or genetically distinct populations (i.e., Designatable Units).
Designatable Units should be discrete and evolutionarily significant units of the taxonomic species, where "significant" means that the unit is important to the evolutionary legacy of the species as a whole and if lost would likely not be replaced through natural dispersion. Further guidance is provided in the Guidelines for Recognizing Designatable Units.
Requests for Assessment: A Request for Assessment application may propose an eligible wildlife species for assessment. A request for assessment of a subspecies, variety, or geographically or genetically distinct population must contain a clear explanation of the validity of the Designatable Unit(s).
Wildlife Species Status Reports: A Wildlife Species Status Report must normally consider the whole of a species' occurrence within Canada. Should a Wildlife Species Status Report propose separate status designations for putative Designatable Units within the wildlife species in question, the report must contain clear explanations of the validity of the Designatable Units.
Wildlife species' eligibility
To be eligible for assessment, a wildlife species must meet certain criteria regarding taxonomic validity, native origin, regularity of occurrence, and dependence on Canadian habitat. COSEWIC normally only considers wildlife species and subspecies or varieties that have been established as taxonomically valid. They must be native to Canada, occur regularly in Canada (thus excluding vagrants), and require habitat in Canada for at least one key life history stage. Any case that is an exception to these rules must be justified with supporting information; this should normally be reviewed and agreed to by COSEWIC before a status report is prepared. Ineligible wildlife species (for example domestic, feral, or artificially introduced wildlife species of animals and plants, or bacteria and viruses which are specifically excluded by SARA) cannot be assessed by COSEWIC.
Imminence of threat
Wildlife species for which the threat of extinction or extirpation is extreme (e.g., greater than 50% probability of loss within 10 years) and for which immediate action is required if the wildlife species is to survive may be subject to emergency assessment. If an emergency assessment is requested, a full justification for considering the threat to be extreme must be provided. A status report is not required to accompany a request for an emergency assessment but is recommended. Applicants who wish to request an emergency assessment are strongly urged to contact COSEWIC and the appropriate SSC Co-Chair beforehand to determine if the emergency assessment is warranted.
Justification for the request and sources of information
An explanation of why the wildlife species might be considered to be at risk is required. If the species has already been assessed by COSEWIC, strong evidence demonstrating a likely change in status since the last assessment must be provided. This should indicate the nature of the particular threats to the wildlife species, population and distribution trends of the wildlife species, evidence of decline, and other estimations of its status in Canada including General Status of Species in Canada rankings and provincial or territorial rankings, etc. If there is more information than can be contained in three pages of text, a wildlife species status report should be prepared. Sources for the information contained in the justification for the request, be they published literature, unpublished reports, personal observations, or the observations of others, must be listed.
Applicants for Wildlife Species Status Assessment and suppliers of Wildlife Species Status Reports for COSEWIC must declare any conflicts of interest pertaining to the application for assessment and its possible outcome (Annex I). Failure to do so may cause applications and reports to be returned unreceived by COSEWIC.
Wildlife Species Status Reports
A Wildlife Species Status Report for COSEWIC is a comprehensive, fully documented technical compilation and analysis of the best available information on a wildlife species' status in Canada that indicates the threats to that wildlife species. A Wildlife Species Status Report for COSEWIC must conform to the guidelines for preparation of Status Reports.
Waiver of moral rights and permission to use Wildlife Species Status Report
Writers and owners of Wildlife Species Status Reports as well as any report and information provided in support of a application must grant permission to COSEWIC and to Environment and Climate Change Canada to use, edit, reformat, reproduce, modify, distribute, and share the Wildlife Species Status Report and other reports and information supplied and any subsequent revisions to the Wildlife Species Status Report by the author. Writers furthermore must provide Environment and Climate Change Canada with a waiver of their moral rights to the Wildlife Species Status Report. A separate waiver is required from each contributing writer. The permission to use the Wildlife Species Status Report and the waiver of moral rights enable COSEWIC and Environment and Climate Change Canada to treat the final COSEWIC Assessment and Status Report as a living document subject to periodic updates as may be required without having to specifically name the writer of the original Wildlife Species Status Report.
Accordingly, legal owners of a Wildlife Species Status Report and other reports and information supplied must sign a copy of Annex II (Permission To Use Wildlife Species Status Report) and each writer of a report must sign a copy of Annex III (Waiver of Moral Rights). Failure to include signed copies of Annexes II and III with a Wildlife Species Status Report that accompanies an Application for Assessment may cause the report to be returned unreceived by COSEWIC. Failure to sign and return Annex II for reports, other than Wildlife Species Status report, and information provided with the application will delay the treatment of the application by COSEWIC until such time as this formality is fulfilled.
Employees of the Government of Canada who prepare Wildlife Species Status Reports are not required to tender the permission in Annex II as the report is automatically the property of the Crown. Employees of a province or territory who prepare Wildlife Species Status Reports may or may not be required to provide Annex II and should contact the COSEWIC Secretariat (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Report writer(s) who are government employees are, however, still required to sign the waiver in Annex III.
Completeness of applications
An Application for Assessment that is incomplete cannot be considered by COSEWIC and will be returned. An application must contain:
A completed application form "Request for Assessment", signed and dated, that includes a justification for why the wildlife species may be at risk of extinction or demonstrating why the species' status has changed since the last COSEWIC assessment.
Annex I (Conflict of Interest), completed and signed separately by all applicants
If the Application also includes a Wildlife Species Status Report, it must also include:
A Copy of Annex II (Permission To Use Wildlife Species Status Report), signed by all copyright owners (ordinarily the authors) with regards to the Status Report
Copies of Annex III (Waiver of Moral Rights) signed by each of the authors of the Status Report
An Application for Assessment that is complete but is accompanied by a Wildlife Species Status Report that is not acceptable may be considered by COSEWIC only on its merits as a request for assessment of a particular wildlife species.
Submission of Applications
Applications for Assessment should be mailed to:
COSEWIC Secretariat
c/o Canadian Wildlife Service
Environment and Climate Change Canada
Ottawa ON K1A 0H3
attn: the Chair of COSEWIC or the appropriate Species Specialist Subcommittee Co-chairs, with a cc to the Chair of COSEWIC
(courier address: Vincent Massey Bldg., 16th floor - 351 St. Joseph blvd, Gatineau, Quebec, J8Y 3Z5)
Process for Non-emergency Applications for Assessment
Applications for Assessment, including Applications that are either accompanied by an unsolicited Wildlife Species Status Report or not accompanied by an unsolicited Wildlfie Status Report, will initially be considered by the appropriate SSC or, in the case of a wildlife species not covered by one of COSEWIC's 10 SSCs, an ad hoc subcommittee struck by the Chair of COSEWIC.
If the application relates to a species not yet assessed by COSEWIC and is unaccompanied by an unsolicited Wildlife Status Report, upon recommendation by the appropriate SSC or ad hoc SSC, the application will be referred to COSEWIC for consideration of placement on the COSEWIC Candidate List and assigned a priority level for commissioning a Status Report.
A Wildlife Species Status Report for a species not yet assessed by COSEWIC that accompanies an Application for Assessment is first evaluated by the appropriate SSC or ad hoc subcommittee. A Status Report that is complete and in conformity to the guidelines for completion of Status Reports, as judged by the SSC or ad hoc subcommittee, will be subjected to review in compliance with normal COSEWIC procedure for all status reports. A valid Status Report will be forwarded to the relevant jurisdictions (including, as necessary, any relevant Wildlife Management Boards) and the COSEWIC ATK Subcommittee for review during the draft and interim report stages. The report will be distributed to all members of COSEWIC two months prior to a Wildlife Species Assessment Meeting accompanied by a copy of the Application, a Technical Summary prepared by the SSC or ad hoc subcommittee, and a recommendation from the SSC or ad hoc subcommittee. Throughout this review process, the writer(s) of the unsolicited Wildlife Species Status Report may be asked to make editorial changes, add available information, and/or delete inapplicable sections of the report. Failure to comply with such requests may result in a report being deemed unacceptable.
An Application for Assessment that is complete but is accompanied by an unsolicited Wildlife Species Status Report that is incomplete or not in conformity to the guidelines for completion of status reports as judged by the SSC or ad hoc subcommittee, or is unaccompanied by a waiver of moral rights and a grant of permission to use the Wildlife Species Status Report may be considered by COSEWIC as though only a Request for Assessment without a status report. In this case, the Wildlife Species Status Report will be returned unreceived by COSEWIC. The Applicant will have the option either to proceed with the Request for Assessment without the Status Report or withdraw the Application in order to revise the report.
If the application relates to a species already assessed by COSEWIC and is either accompanied or unaccompanied by an unsolicited Wildlife Status Report, it too is first evaluated by the appropriate SSC. If the application is accompanied by an unsolicited Wildlife Status Report that is determined to be complete and conforms to the guidelines for status reports, the SSC in consultation with the Chair of COSEWIC will, based on the application, the unsolicited Wildife Status Report, and other readily available information, decide that either a change in status is very unlikely and to only review the species' classification when the terms of SARA section 24 are met or elseto update the status report for reassessment at a Wildlife Species Assessment Meeting once the report is deemed acceptable. In this case the updated unsolicited report would be circulated for review at the six-month stage.
COSEWIC will be informed of these decisions at a Wildlife Species Assessment Meeting.
Process for Emergency Applications of Assessment
An Application for Assessment that requests an emergency assessment is first examined by the Chair of COSEWIC in consultation with others including the relevant SSC and ATK Co-chairs, COSEWIC members from the appropriate jurisdictions, and outside experts. If there is unanimous agreement that there is insufficient evidence that emergency conditions exist or that the Application is otherwise unsuitable, then the application is declined. If the application is acceptable, the Chair notifies the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change, CESCC, and COSEWIC members that an emergency assessment is being undertaken. The Chair then establishes an ad hoc Emergency Assessment Subcommittee consisting of the Chair of COSEWIC, the appropriate Subcommittee Co-chair(s), the relevant jurisdictional member(s) of COSEWIC, and other member(s) of COSEWIC at the Chair's discretion. Representatives from relevant Wildlife Management Boards, the SSC, and external experts may sit on the subcommittee as non-voting members. The Emergency Assessment Subcommittee will consider the imminence of the threats to the wildlife species and whether a status listing on an emergency basis is warranted. If the emergency listing is warranted, the Emergency Assessment Subcommittee will forward its recommendation to the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change and advise COSEWIC.
Decisions are made by the Emergency Assessment Subcommittee by consensus, or if necessary, by two-thirds majority vote. Voting procedures for an Emergency Assessment Subcommittee will follow those as outlined for a Wildlife Species Assessment Meeting (Appendix B3) with the following exceptions: electronic voting can be used and quorum for the Emergency Assessment Subcommittee business is two thirds of voting Emergency Assessment Subcommittee members. If no individual has been appointed as member for a given voting position, that voting position is not counted in the determination of the quorum. If the emergency listing is not warranted, the Application will be considered in the same manner as a regular request for assessment.
An Application for Assessment that is not accompanied by a Wildlife Species Status Report or is accompanied by a Wildlife Species Status Report that has been rejected (see 2 below) will either:
be accepted by COSEWIC and result in the wildlife species in question being considered for placement on the Candidate List and assigned a priority level for commissioning a Wildlife Species Status Report. Priority level will be determined by COSEWIC on advice from the appropriate SSC or ad hoc subcommittee using the process outlined in Species Prioritization, or;
be accepted by COSEWIC and result in the wildlife species in question being assigned a new level of priority for commissioning a wildlife species status report, or;
in the case of species reassessment, be accepted by COSEWIC and result in the commissioning of an updated wildlife species status report; or;
be rejected by COSEWIC either:
through a subcommittee of COSEWIC consisting of the Chair of COSEWIC and the members of the appropriate SSC following unanimous agreement that the application is unsuitable, or;
at a Wildlife Species Assessment Meeting.
An unsolicited Wildlife Species Status Report that accompanies an Application for Assessment will either:
be accepted by COSEWIC and result in the wildlife species in question being assessed by COSEWIC at a Wildlife Species Assessment Meeting, or;
An Application for Assessment that requests an emergency assessment may either:
be rejected by COSEWIC through a subcommittee of COSEWIC consisting of the Chair of COSEWIC and others including members of the appropriate SSC and COSEWIC members from the appropriate jurisdictions, following unanimous agreement that the application is unsuitable, or;
be accepted by the ad hoc Emergency Assessment Subcommittee and forwarded to the Minister of Environment with a recommendation, or;
be rejected by the ad hoc Emergency Assessment Subcommittee and considered in the same terms as any other request for assessment.
Applicants will be informed of the decision(s) made through the Chair of COSEWIC. For Applications resulting in an assessment or emergency assessment, COSEWIC will notify the applicant of the assessment and the reasons. For all rejected Applications, the reason for the rejection will be given. In these matters, the decision(s) as communicated by the Chair will be final for any particular Application.
Additional Information on the COSEWIC Website:
COSEWIC Assessment Process, Categories and Guidelines (PDF 547 KB)
Guidelines for Recognizing Designatable Units
Instructions for the Preparation of COSEWIC Status Reports (PDF 681 KB)
The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) is an independent advisory panel to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada that meets twice a year to assess the status of wildlife species at risk of extinction. Members are wildlife biology experts from academia, government, non-governmental organizations and the private sector responsible for designating wildlife species in danger of disappearing from Canada.
Canadian Wildlife Service
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Email: ec.cosepac-cosewic.ec@canada.ca
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How I Learned To Love Compliance
A panel at BAI Retail Delivery focused on "turning lemons into lemonade" with a culture shift that makes compliance a customer service imperative.
Amid the drumroll of despair about the regulatory burden, here's an idea: Capitalize on it.
A panel of speakers at BAI Retail Delivery this week in Las Vegas drilled down into that potential paradigm shift in a session titled Turning Lemons Into Lemonade; Capitalizing on Compliance to Enhance Business & the Customer Experience.
That's what's happening at U.S. Bank, says Ed Dwyer, chief risk officer, community banking and branch delivery, at the Minnesota-based big bank. Now we hear, The audit guys seem to love you,' he says. That's because we've built a collaborative relationship.
That relationship is built around the idea that compliance concern on the retail side stems from customer complaints, and improving whatever is causing those complaints will have the palliative effect of satisfying both internal and external examiners.
The CFPB has more than 700,000 consumer complaints on file about credit cards, student loans, credit reports, you name it and those complaints are often the same thing you hear from your voice of the customer programs, tellers, and out in the community, says Steven Ramirez, CEO of Beyond the Arc, a customer experience consultancy that analyzes that data.
The result of all that griping is that regulators are taking notice.
A growing doctrine in the regulators' framework at the CFPB, OCC, and beyond is assessing UDAP [unfair, deceptive or abusive acts and practices] at financial institutions, Ramirez says. So, are you being clear with your customers and members? Are you lowering opportunities for them to be misled? Consider these complaints an early warning sign.
Turning Warnings Into Action. The panelists at the Wednesday session compared turning compliance into a driver of organizational change to both medical and psychological processes. Along with healing the body treating compliance as an ailment and the internal cultural change as a cure you have to heal the mind, they say.
To that point, the third panelist Karl Dahlgren, managing director, learning and development at BAI says the industry's organizational reaction to the regulatory burden is going through stages of denial, then anger, then bargaining, then depression, and finally acceptance.
We're now in the depression and acceptance stages, he says. But, ultimately, that sets the stage for using compliance as a driver of organizational change.
At U.S. Bank, Dwyer says he spent 23 years on the revenue side and the past two years building out teams that represent a cross pollination of risk and compliance on one side and business on the other.
We've added 50 people in the past 18 months in areas like AML and fair and responsible lending, he says. But our vice chair, who I report to, says while it might feel like it's killing you to add non-revenue people, keep in mind what you're taking off the plate of the people who are revenue producing.
Dwyer says that such an atmosphere liberates front-line employees to serve customers without being distracted by such things as sales campaigns that tempt branch managers and other supervisors to urge their charges to cross compliance lines about how to sell mortgage refinances, for instance.
He also pointed to an example in the big bank's auto lending business. There were so many exceptions being made in one market that it was rising to the board level as a potential risk problem.
We know that market and we knew those lines were fine, Dwyer says.
Meanwhile, in another market across the country, exceptions were almost nil.
Risk and business people got together, revised the policy in the first market, and the exceptions dropped there, too.
That's a perfect example of working together to lower our risk profile while adding loan volume and revenue, the U.S. Bank executive says.
Dahlgren, the BAI training director, says a positive compliance culture can positively impact ROI in the following ways:
Reducing complaints
Reducing fines
Reducing attrition
Building brand
Training is a key element in building a compliance culture. That's a key first step in making the compliance officers more than a department of no, Ramirez says. Instead, that's the beginning of making compliance a part of customer service.
Who's In Charge Here? Changing the culture to improve profitability also was the topic in another session Wednesday, this one led by Jaime Hernandez, vice president and regional manager for Vantage West Credit Union ($1.50B, Tucson, AZ).
Hernandez says she worked for Chase for 36 years and then five years ago made the move to the Arizona credit union.
Soon after, we began what I call our company journey, to define our company culture and who we are as a company, she says.
The results were brainstorming sessions that led to new levels of employee engagement and cross-departmental cooperation, fostered through the freedom to speak up, an emphasis on acting on fact and buy-in from the landscaper to the chairman of the board, Hernandez says.
Training also played a big role in the creation of a working environment in which everyone understands everything they do impacts the bottom line. Hernandez illustrated that with a PowerPoint slide that showed percentage gains of a couple points in various metrics, advancements that began taking place in the months immediately following the beginning of the company journey.
Either you manage the culture or the culture manages you, she says.
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Because winter was mild, the rains have been plentiful and the weather is starting to get hot, mosquitos are out in full force. This means it is likely that we will see more than a handful of West Nile cases this year, which is why it's important that you know what to look for.
West Nile virus is a potentially fatal bloodborne virus that is typically transmitted through infected mosquitoes.
Symptoms can show up between two and 14 days after the initial mosquito bite. The virus can cause fever, headache, body aches, joint pains, vomiting, diarrhea, rash and, in rarer cases, neurological problems such as encephalitis or meningitis. The neurological problems can in turn cause headaches, high fevers, neck stiffness, disorientation, coma, tremors, seizures or paralysis.
It's important to remember that while these symptoms can be frightening, very few people, typically less than 1 percent, ever experience these serious symptoms. In fact, 70-80 percent of people who become infected with West Nile never develop symptoms. One-in-5 people can develop less severe symptoms, and these patients usually recover completely.
If you have any of the above symptoms, make an appointment to see your physician as soon as possible.
West Nile virus can affect anyone, but more serious cases of the disease tend to happen in those with compromised or under-developed immune systems. This means children, the elderly and patients with cancer, diabetes or kidney disease are at a greater risk. Special precautions should be taken with people who fall into any of these categories to prevent a potential West Nile case.
While mosquitoes are active all day, they become more active at dusk and that activity continues through the night. Try to avoid being outside from dusk and beyond.
Use an insect repellent that contains DEET, picaridin, or IR3535. These ingredients have been found to provide better, longer-lasting protection. Repellants with oils of lemon or eucalyptus have also been found to be effective, but they should also contain DEET.
Wear long sleeves and pants at night.
Don't give them a breeding ground! Eliminate standing water from your yard, flowerpots, buckets, dog bowls, bird baths and anything else where water can collect.
Linda Ly, M.D., is a Family Medicine physician who cares for patients at Meyerland Plaza Clinic. Her clinical interests include preventative medicine, hypertension and diabetes.


The triumph of Western science led most of my professors to believe that progress was inevitable. While the bargain between science and political culture was at times challenged -- the nuclear power debate of the 1970s, for example -- the battles were fought using scientific evidence. Manufacturing doubt remained firmly off-limits.
Today, however, it is politically effective, and socially acceptable, to deny scientific fact. Narrowly defined, "creationism" was a minor current in American thinking for much of the 20th century. But in the years since I was a student, a well-funded effort has skillfully rebranded that ideology as "creation science" and pushed it into classrooms across the country. Though transparently unscientific, denying evolution has become a litmus test for some conservative politicians, even at the highest levels.
Meanwhile, climate deniers, taking pages from the creationists' PR playbook, have manufactured doubt about fundamental issues in climate science that were decided scientifically decades ago.
Sorry, Professor Frank, but you just illustrated why the tactic of denying "scientific fact" has become politically effective and socially acceptable: scientists themselves have misrepresented what is "scientific fact", using that term not just in reference to fields like evolution that have massive supporting data and a comprehensive theory to back them up, but to fields like climate science that simply are not in the same category, but which happen to fit the scientist's personal ideology.
For example: what, exactly, are these "fundamental issues in climate science that were decided scientifically decades ago"? The fact that CO2 absorbs infrared radiation? No reputable scientist denies this, and even climate scientists who do not support the so-called "consensus" around climate change alarmism, such as Richard Lindzen of MIT, will tell you that media hacks who claim that CO2 is not a greenhouse gas are just that, media hacks.
But by juxtaposing climate science with evolution, Professor Frank is inviting us to believe that climate change alarmism itself is based on "fundamental issues in climate science that were decided scientifically decades ago": that the climate science in, say, the IPCC's WG 1 Report in the AR5 draft has the same level of confidence and support behind it as the theory of evolution. And that is, how can I put this delicately, wrong. I don't want to make this a book-length post (though I will probably have more to come on this subject in the near future), and the work of showing how the so-called "consensus" trumpeted by the IPCC is, to put it bluntly, bogus, has already been done, most recently by the NIPCC, a group of scientists who want to make clear that they are not part of the "consensus" and are willing to do the grunt work of refuting it point by point. But I'll take a brief detour to give just one illustration of what I'm talking about.
But that's cubic kilometers; each cubic kilometer is a billion cubic meters, so we're talking about 480 million billion (4.8 x 1017) cubic meters. Water weighs about 1000 kilograms per cubic meter (seawater is actually somewhat heavier, but we're being conservative in our numbers), so that's 4.8 x 1020 kilograms of water.
How much will 17 x 1022 Joules raise the temperature of 4.8 x 1020 kilograms of water? Water has a specific heat of 4180 Joules per kilogram per degree Celsius, so it takes 4.8 x 1020 x 4180 = 2.0 x 1024 Joules to heat up the top 2000 meters of the ocean by 1 degree C. That means the temperature rise over the last 30 years is 17 x 1022 divided by 2.0 x 1024, which comes out to: 0.085 degrees Celsius.
You may be fidgeting in your seat about now, thinking that I have pulled a fast one. Surely the important quantity is heat, not temperature, right? And that same 17 x 1022 Joules can raise the temperature of the atmosphere a lot more than the temperature of the oceans, right?
These statements are not false, but they are also not telling the whole story. The first, obvious point left out is that direct heat transfer only occurs if there is a temperature difference. So the heat will stay in the ocean unless the ocean is warmer than the air above it; and if the ocean's temperature has only changed by 0.085 degrees C, it can't raise the temperature of the atmosphere by direct heat transfer more than that.
The second point arises from a question you might have after reading the last paragraph: what about evaporation? Even a small difference in ocean temperature will increase the evaporation rate; and evaporation transfers heat from the ocean to the atmosphere, right? Yes, that's right: but what that statement leaves out is how the heat gets transferred. Evaporation is part of the hydrologic cycle: heat gets carried by water vapor from the surface to high altitudes, where the water vapor condenses to form clouds or precipitation. When it condenses, the latent heat it was carrying gets deposited in the atmosphere; but because that is happening at altitude, it's easier for that heat to escape to space.
If you read through the NIPCC's report that I linked to above and compare it with the IPCC WG1 report (or if you have been following this issue for any significant amount of time), you will see that every specific issue you dig into suffers from the same disease: the actual science doesn't say what the IPCC "summary" says it says, and it certainly doesn't say what the hysterical rhetoric in the popular media says it says. Scientific theories that deserve the confidence Mr. Frank wants us all to give to science are not like that. There may be polemics on both sides; indeed, there are scientists, for example Richard Dawkins, who are just as vituperative, if you just look at the surface rhetoric, when defending the theory of evolution as climate change alarmists are at defending their so-called "consensus". But when you look at the actual substance behind the rhetoric, with theories like evolution, you find that the main claims that the rhetoric makes are justified. All living organisms on Earth are descended from a common ancestor. Natural selection does cause changes in the gene pools of populations of organisms.
Also, scientists in the field of evolution are quite willing to say just where the limits of knowledge are; evolutionary biologists will readily admit that many of our current beliefs about how specific species or specific structures or traits evolved are tentative, and may well turn out to be wrong when we learn more. And when biologists recommend policies to the public that have huge consequences, they can back those recommendations up, and they can demonstrate specific consequences that will happen if the recommendations are not followed. For example, biologists predicted that overuse of antibiotics would lead to the evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and sure enough, it did.
In short, a well-supported scientific theory like evolution looks very different, when you take the time to check into it, than climate science does. Yet Professor Frank likens climate science to the theory of evolution; so either he hasn't bothered to check into it, or he has decided that the difference doesn't matter. Either way, he has demonstrated why ordinary people don't trust science the way they used to: how can they, when scientists themselves are either sloppy or disingenuous when talking to the public?
Please note, by the way, that I said "scientists" just now, not "climate scientists". Adam Frank is a physicist and astronomer; his scientific work is far removed from climate science. I'm not saying that every scientist in every field has to take the time to check up on every other field; we all have plenty of demands on our time, I understand that. But a scientist does have the responsibility, when talking to the public, to not misrepresent science, in any field, not just his own. If he hasn't checked up, he should say so, and should not present what he says about the other field as fact. Being a scientist doesn't relieve you of the need to have an informed opinion if you're going to have an opinion at all; indeed, scientists are supposed to be better than the average person at recognizing that need and taking action appropriately.
For myself I remain fully and firmly agnostic on the question. If ever there was a place where firm convictions seem misplaced this is it. There simply is no controlled, experimental verifiable information to support either the "you rot" vs. "you go on" positions.
In the absence of said information we are all free to believe as we like but, I would argue, it behooves us to remember that truly "public" knowledge on the subject - the kind science exemplifies - remains in short supply.
Just to be clear: I am not saying that science can never give us reliable knowledge, the kind of knowledge that does justify branding those who refuse to accept it as "deniers". We have scientific theories, such as relativity and quantum mechanics, that have been experimentally verified to extremely high accuracy. We have others, such as the theory of evolution, that, while their subject matter prevents them from being verified experimentally to the same degree, still have a mountain of evidence in their favor, with more coming in every day, and a comprehensive theoretical structure that explains the evidence and makes correct predictions. But we also have plenty of areas of science where we do not have that same level of understanding: and the real disservice to science is to fail to be honest with the public about which is which. That is what needs to be fixed if scientists like Frank want "science denial" to stop.


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Tencent Holdings has stopped the income of its NFT platform to the public, the corporation stated on Tuesday.
Haunted was as soon as formally launched via the capacity of the Chinese Internet Giant in August 2021. However, due to a shift in enterprise strategy, Tencent will be shutting down the service. Based on the company's consideration to middle attention on its core strategy, Huanhe is making adjustments to its business, Tencent Holdings stated in a statement.
🇨🇳 Chinese tech giant Tencent has suspended #NFT sales on its platform, citing increased regulatory scrutiny in the country.
— CoinWist (@CoinWist) August 17, 2022
Fortunately for modern holders in Huanhe, the employer says that proprietors of present collectibles will however be in a position to hold, exhibit or request a refund for their possessions. However, the merchandising of the NFTs will stop establishing today.
Huan grew to be one of the biggest NFT systems in China upon its launch ultimate year. However, regulators in China have ended up with a growing wide variety of strict over NFTs, over their similarities to already banned cryptocurrency. Tencent Holdings is no longer complex about closing the NFT earnings service.
Source: watcher.guru/news
Tencent and Ant Group signed a pact in June to supply up the secondary buying and selling of digital collectibles and self-regulate their things to do in the market. The rumors of Huan shutting down had been quick to comply with in Chinese media in July. Users even use the phrase NFT with the greater warning in the country, commonly opting to describe them as digital collectibles.
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Ann Ishimaru, associate professor of Educational Foundations, Leadership & Policy, had an opinion piece published in Education Week titled "Female Equity Leaders of Color Are Undervalued and Undercut." Ann discusses and expands on three ways school districts can begin to better set Black women and other women of color up for success in their district equity leadership: provide substantive organizational resources, trust their expertise and build professional supports and networks.
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Rashida Love, director of the Sisterhood Initiative, and Joe Lott, associate professor of Educational Foundations, Leadership & Policy and founding director of the Brotherhood Initiative, as well as the Sisterhood Initiative and Brotherhood Initiative programs, are highlighted in an article by UW News titled "'Everything that you need is already in you': Supporting young women of color through the Sisterhood Initiative." The article highlights how this year is the first year of the Sisterhood Initiative, which is a cohort-based program of weekly seminars, regular support groups, guest speakers and activities and is designed to support 30 to 40 young women a year, allowing each class to become mentors to the one entering after it. It also highlights how the success of the Brotherhood Initiative helped lead to the created of the Sisterhood Initiative.
With new addition, Imagine Children's Museum doubles in size
Lakeya Omogun, assistant professor of language, literacy and culture in Teaching, Learning & Curriculum, is quoted in an article by the HeraldNet titled "With new addition, Imagine Children's Museum doubles in size." She discusses how the arts are healing and how music, art, dance and play can help students overcome anxiety and depression. A museum visit can offer a window into other cultures and can inspire creativity, foster cooperation and banish feelings of isolation, she said.
Improving the Preparation Pipeline for Black Teachers: 5 Ideas From Experts
Niral Shah, associate professor of Learning Sciences & Human Development and affiliate faculty in the Banks Center for Educational Justice, wrote an opinion piece for an EducationWeek article titled "Improving the Preparation Pipeline for Black Teachers: 5 Ideas From Experts." The author of the article asked five experts to suggest in 250 words or less how the nation's teacher preparation pipeline can be overhauled to work better for candidates of color, especially Black educators. Niral writes about how a healthy, effective preparation pipeline would provide race-focused education that is rooted in practice.
A New Teacher at 50: Inside the Struggle to Rebuild America's Black Teaching Workforce
Niral Shah, associate professor of Learning Sciences & Human Development and affiliate faculty in the Banks Center for Educational Justice, was featured in an EducationWeek article titled "A New Teacher at 50: Inside the Struggle to Rebuild America's Black Teaching Workforce." Shah is quoted in the article which discusses an anti-racist teacher residency program in Evanston, IL. He also talks about how the K-12 effort to try and change white educators' racial attitudes and biases failed, as indicated by research. His whitepaper "Racial Equity and Justice in Teaching and Teacher Education: Progress, Tensions and Open Questions" was also cited in the article.
Traumatized by boarding schools, WA tribes chart new path for Native kids
Anthony Craig, professor of Education Policy, Organizations and Leadership and director of Leadership for Learning (L4L) and Chelsea Craig, current Ed.D. student in the L4L program, Danforth Educational Leadership Program instructor and assistant principal at Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary School are featured in an article by The Seattle Times titled "Traumatized by boarding schools, WA tribes chart new path for Native kids." The article highlights Indigenous' Peoples' Day, observed on Monday, October 10, and how tribe members say the growing recognition of their communities — past and present — is a first step toward healing from the suffering of the past. Anthony and Chelsea also discuss how current education systems can change to better meet the needs of tribal communities and students.
Students are ready to talk about climate change — are you?
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Bernard Malamud's 1966 novel The Fixer is a stunning meditation on persecution, fear, imprisonment, and guilt. It won Malamud both the Pulitzer Prize and his second National Book Award. What's startling now is how starkly relevant the novel is to contemporary society. The parallels it draws may not have been those that Malamud intended. Still, the book's strength clearly lies in its openness to interpretation. It isn't that the book can mean anything we'd like it to. Rather, the book seems to resonate at different social and cultural frequencies depending on the context in which it's read.
Yakov Bok is the focus of the novel, for it's his imprisonment that the novel details. Bok is a "fixer," or handyman, a Jew from a small, poor shtetl outside Kiev. It is 1911. After his wife leaves him for another man, Bok decides to make a change: he heads for the larger world. He hasn't been long in Kiev before he finds himself working for Nikolai Lebedev, a wealthy merchant and member of the anti-Semitic Black Hundreds Society.
Shortly thereafter a Russian boy is found dead, and Bok's life begins to unravel. Bok has been working and living at a brickyard in a section of town in which Jews are not permitted to live. He has hidden his background from his employer, but he hasn't escaped the suspicion of some brutish brickyard laborers. When the boy's body is found in a cave near the brickyard, Bok is accused of draining his blood for use in a religious ceremony. He is then arrested, imprisoned, and held in mostly solitary confinement.
Most of the book deals with Bok's confinement: he is held in execrable conditions. He freezes, starves, hallucinates. He is alone most of the time. Several years pass. His days are punctuated by bodily searches: the guards order him to strip, open his mouth, bend over, and so on. He is occasionally beaten.
Natalia Holtzman's work has appeared in DIAGRAM, Hobart, Redivider, B O D Y, and elsewhere. She previously reviewed Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet for Fig Tree Books. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and can be reached on Twitter via @NataliaHoltzman.


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The fourth resume roundtable event attracted a large crowd of 1L and 2L students, as well as IP attorneys from across the state.
Eleven students participated in the event, each of them participating in at least three one-on-one interviews. The short interviews required students to be quick on their feet, but gave them opportunities to develop or maintain valuable connections to IP attorneys across the state with a variety of backgrounds and practice areas, including: electrical engineering, chemical engineering, biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, and health sciences; and patents, trademarks, or copyrights.
Though the interviews were brief, students and attorneys were able to further their conversations over hors d'oeurvres and beverages during a social hour that followed the event.
Thank you to each of the attorneys who participated in this event and made it a great experience for our students: Jonathan Anderson, Brad Maurer, Chelsey McCory, Kapil Banaker, Jessica Van Dalen, Ryan Barker, and Norm Hedges.
A special thank you is owed to Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP, who sponsored this event and made it possible.