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I just did a video on cleaning the coils for the Joyetech eGo AIO. Since I don't have the devices our guest uses, this guest post will help you make your vape coils last just a little bit longer!
Whether you call it "coil gunk," "coil crust" or just "gross," the dark stuff that collects on an atomizer coil after a day or two of vaping is a problem everyone grapples with when using sub-ohm vaping equipment. Sweetened e-liquids are the worst offenders when it comes to coil gunk.
Unless you prefer unflavored e-liquids, though, whatever e-liquid you use is going to leave some residue on your coils – and the more e-liquid you use, the faster the residue will collect.
When that terrible burned taste begins to creep in, the fastest way to fix the issue is to replace the coil. If you're using a sub-ohm tank, though, you're spending about $2-4 for each coil – and if you use an RDA, you're spending several minutes of your time. Daily coil replacements add up to hundreds of dollars – or many wasted hours – each year.
What if you could extend the life of a coil by just a day?
Making your atomizer coils last a little longer can potentially save you a bundle of money or time. In this article, that's exactly what we're going to help you do. We're going to share some methods for cleaning your vape coils to remove the gunk from your atomizer.
A nice bath can do wonders for a used sub-ohm tank coil. Fill a bowl with hot water – some people prefer to use vodka instead – and swish the coil around in the bowl.
After leaving the coil in the bowl overnight, swish it around again before removing it. You should find that the coil is significantly brighter.
Allow the coil to dry completely – this usually takes about a day – before using it again. If you used vodka to clean the coil, rinse it thoroughly with water before leaving it out to dry.
Some people recommend cleaning atomizer coil heads in ultrasonic jewelry cleaners. The gentle agitation helps to dislodge stubborn residue.
Pro Tip: Did you know that it is actually possible to replace the wick in many pre-built coil heads?
At the bottom of the coil head, you'll usually find a removable cap. When you pry the cap off, you'll find the positive and negative wire leads along with a rubber insulator separating the two.
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Remove the insulator and push the coil out through the top of the metal casing. Remove the existing wick and replace it with fresh cotton. Make sure that you return the leads to their original positions – separated by the rubber insulator – when reassembling the coil head.
If you have an RDA, you can use the water or alcohol soaking method described above for cleaning your vape coils. If you want to clean your coils really quickly, though, the dry burn method is a perfect alternative. We recommend doing this outdoors to avoid inhalation of fumes.
To clean an RDA with the dry burning method, begin by removing the cotton from your RDA. Discard the cotton. Lower your device's wattage to a moderate level and begin pushing the fire button in short bursts until the coil glows. You should start to see smoke rising from the coil. All of the coil gunk is burning away.
When the coil starts to glow more brightly, the gunk is gone. Allow the coil to cool. The coil should now have returned to its original silver color. It may not be quite as bright as a new coil, but it should be close. Replace the cotton, wet the coil thoroughly and resume vaping.
Pro Tip: Some people advocate dipping an RDA in water during the dry burn process. If you try this, you must be very careful not to wet the electronic components of your vaping device.
While your coil is glowing, release your device's fire button and dip the coil in shallow water. Any water that touches the coil immediately boils, creating intense agitation that helps to dislodge the gunk.
Does a cleaned atomizer coil produce the same pure flavor as a new coil? Unfortunately, it doesn't. You'll find, though, that a cleaned coil is significantly better than a gunky one.
Cleaning your vape coils is an easy way to extend their life and put off buying or building replacements. You can even clean the same coil multiple times – and every time you extend a coil's life by a day, you're reducing an expense – either money or your time – and making the vaping experience more enjoyable.
Gary Sharma is the owner of Euro Vape. Euro Vape offers a growing selection of eGo starter kits, accessories and spare parts. Offering free shipping within the UK and a 14-day money-back guarantee on all starter kits, Euro Vape strives to build a loyal customer base with its consumer-centric policies.


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Texas' controversial fetal heartbeat bill becomes a law blocking most abortions
By Shannon Murray and Alex Boyer
A Texas law banning most abortions is in effect after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to intervene.
DALLAS - A Texas law banning most abortions is in effect after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to intervene.
The controversial 'Heartbeat Bill' became a law at midnight. Senate Bill 8 bans abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which is usually around six weeks. Opponents argue it violates decades of precedent.
RELATED: 666 new Texas laws go into effect Sept. 1. Here are some that might affect you
It's the most dramatic restriction on abortion rights in the United States since the landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion across the country in 1973.
Abortion providers asked the Supreme Court to step in, saying the new law will rule out 85% of abortions in Texas and could force many clinics to close.
RELATED: Clinics ask Supreme Court to block Texas 6-week abortion ban
Outside the Texas Capitol, abortion rights advocates protested the implementation of Senate Bill 8.
Marva Sadler is with Whole Woman's Health. The clinic is one of the plaintiffs suing for emergency relief from the U.S. Supreme Court.
On Tuesday, Sadler says their Fort Worth location performed 67 abortions leading up to the midnight deadline. As of Wednesday, she says they're begrudgingly obeying the new law.
"We came in at 7:30 yesterday morning and made a commitment that we were going to see every patient we could possibly see yesterday," she said.
Planned Parenthood says it will also comply with SB 8, explaining that it already faced an effective ban on abortions last year when Gov. Greg Abbott ordered all non-essential medical services to be postponed because of COVID.
Officials will not be the ones enforcing the new law. Instead, any private citizen can file a lawsuit against a provider or a person who helps a woman get an abortion after a fetal heartbeat is present.
"We don't believe that elective abortion is ethical. We believe elective abortion represents an act of violence, an act of injustice," said John Seago, legislative director for Texas Right to Life.
In a statement, President Joe Biden said the Texas law "blatantly violates" constitutional protections for abortion procedures.
Supreme Court allows 6-week abortion ban in Texas to take effect
There are hundreds of new laws in effect today in Texas, including on that restricts most abortions.
David Coale is an appellate attorney not involved in this case.
"The substance of it is a significant limitation of Roe vs. Wade. There's just no way around that," he said.
Coale says it's anyone's guess if and when the U.S. Supreme Court will take action.
"The Supreme Court appears to be struggling with it," he said. "And now, the law has taken effect and is going to encourage litigation to proceed in state court about these issues."
Plaintiffs in any lawsuits would not need to show a connection to the abortion service or any injury from it, but they would be entitled to $10,000 and their legal fees recovered if they win.
"It's very loose about where you could bring the lawsuits. Certain penalties are mandatory if you establish liability," Coale said.
The Supreme Court has yet to act on an emergency appeal to put the law on hold but could still do so at any time.
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Since 1992, Dominique Petitgand has been composing and producing sound pieces, where voices, noises, musical atmospheres and silences construct, through montage, micro-universes where ambiguity permanently remains between a reality principle ( the recording of people's words to each other) and a projection into a dreamlike fiction. He defines his works as "narratives and mental landscapes" He inventes in an almost obsessive way, and always borrows musicality, voices, gestures, moods to take note of a word, an act or a lack. Thus, the exclusive use of sound places him in a singular and moving territory that concerns different artistic disciplines: he broadcasts his works during listening sessions that are similar to concerts in the dark, on records but also during exhibitions, in the form of a sound installation in which the sound diffusion device, adapted both to the particularity of the space invested and to the story itself, offers each listener a plural and open experience.
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Engine start and stop at the touch of a button.
Start the engine quite simply at the touch of a button: the KEYLESS START drive authorisation system allows the engine to be started simply by pressing the start/stop button and depressing the clutch or brake pedal. All that is required for this is the presence of the electronic key, in which the information for drive authorisation is stored. Particularly when regularly getting in and out this function relieves the driver, as they do not have to take the key each time and insert it into the ignition lock.


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A: The site contains most of the current Archbishop of York's recorded public statements, articles, interviews, speeches and sermons although it is not exhaustive. Please look at the Priorities and Concerns sections of this website for the Archbishop's views on a number of topical issues. The search facility can also be used for specific keywords.
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I have bought many tires from this company until recently when they screwed me out of 2 tires that they sold me that were no good. I bring them back to them and they said they will not warranty them for some reason. You would think my repeat business means more to them than a bad tire they sold me but I guess not. If you buy from this company, they will not WARRANTY anything no matter what they tell you. There are some immature younger guys that work there who try to be smart asses about everything but who are they???? Just some grandchildren of the owners..... They will always turn the blame around on you no matter what the issue is. I recommend using antoher company! I have even heard that they selling illegal drugs out of their shop. BEWARE!!!!
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Opinion Will Israel Ever Recover Its Standing in a post-Trump America?
Netanyahu's sycophancy towards Trump has squandered much of what remains of bipartisan support for Israel. But with the president sinking, will Israel sink with him?


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Rasmus Søes (født 8. april 1983) er en dansk orienteringsløber, der stiller op for Farum OK og tilhører den danske elite. Han fik sit gennembrud i 2003, da han vandt to danske mesterskaber, og siden har han vundet yderligere to DM-titler.

I international sammenhæng er hans hidtil bedste resultat en samlet førsteplads i Portugal "O" Meeting i 2009.

Hans tvillingesøster, Signe Søes, tilhører ligeledes eliten i orienteringsløb.

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Щетинино — деревня в Вологодском районе Вологодской области.

Входит в состав Новленского сельского поселения (с 1 января 2006 года по 8 апреля 2009 года входила в Нефедовское сельское поселение), с точки зрения административно-территориального деления — в Нефедовский сельсовет.

Расстояние до районного центра Вологды по автодороге — 87 км, до центра муниципального образования Новленского по прямой — 18 км. Ближайшие населённые пункты — Минино, Селища, Дуплино, Степаново, Рословское, Грозилово.

По переписи 2002 года население — 5 человек.

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Virtualisation is widely used in data centres, but many administrators still find the challenges of the resulting complexity daunting.
Segregate virtual networks. Configure each part of the network for maximum security, ensuring that each network components are only visible as necessary.
Manage virtual network cards carefully. Network cards can be a backdoor into the system.
Only open firewall ports as needed. Leaving them open is risky.
Grant user privileges according to role. One-quarter of breaches are traceable to administrators having too many privileges.
Ensure virtual machines are kept current with all patches and updates. Don't forget dormant machines, and make it a practice to scan a virtual machine before bringing it up. In addition, like physical machines, virtual machines need to be protected by anti-virus software.
Physical security should take the virtual environment into account. Physical environments need to be segregated along the same lines as the virtual ones, and firewalls should be used to protect applications that have to break out of the network.
Use monitoring tools. Good technology now exists to detect malware and intrusion in the virtual environment.
Use vendor-developed APIs and virtual appliances. Don't develop your own unless absolutely necessary—the vendor's solution will have security built into it.
Overall, it makes sense for the change and life cycle management of the virtual environment to be integrated into the overall security administration. It's a good idea to collaborate with colleagues in the risk management and compliance departments, in order to gain the benefit of their experience and knowledge, and also to ensure that auditors understand the measures taken to secure the virtualisation environment.
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Lumpiang Shanghai recipe is practically a seasoned ground pork wrapped in a spring roll then fried.
I'm a proud PUPian (PUP Sta. Mesa) and I'll always will. I even used to recommend this school to the graduating high school students I know. From private to public, I was shocked by the culture of hardships. However, those were also the moments when my eyes opened to reality.
During my times, the tuition for one semester will range from P400 to P500. Quite cheap, isn't it? However, I knew people who still can't afford that amount.
Another hardship that unleashed my frugal self is my allowance. Though I never had problems with my tuition, my allowance is small because we are not rich. A larger percentage of my everyday money will only go to my fare and will only be left with a few pesos for my food.
That's why lumpiang shanghai is a nostalgic food for me. It's my lifesaver. As far as I can remember, me and poor friends used to eat in a stall offering budget meals, which also includes shangsilog (shanghai-sinangag-itlog).
This post is about lumpiang shanghai recipe.
In a bowl, put all the ingredients (except the wrapper, of course) and mix well.
Grab about two tablespoons of the mixture and wrapped it in the spring roll.
Me, I used to cook a little of the mixture so I can taste it. Then, I'll just adjust. If it's salty, it's better to add more ground pork.
Adding water will result in a lapsed wrapper. So, avoid doing that.


What speed can the 40ft diver be trolled at and still run true? Any guess as to how many #s of drag need to be applied at that speed to keep line from pulling out?
*The 165mm DTX minnow can be trolled at up to 9kn, and dives to 10m+ when trolled at 6-8kn.
*The DTX 200mm minnow can be trolled at up to 11kn and dives to 12m+ when trolled at 6-8kn.
I made an order a couple of days ago I got 200 and 165 but you were sold out on most 165. Please pm me or post when you more coming in.
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Supply and Demand Is Racing Into the Silver Market
Apr 20, 2019 | Steve St. Angelo |
Written by Steve St. Angelo via SRSrocco Report
With the latest release by the USGS, silver production in the U.S. is now the lowest in more than 70 years. We have to go all the way back until the year after World War II ended to see U.S. silver production less than it was in 2018. While many reasons can be attributed to the decline, the main factors are falling ore grades and mine economics.
Unfortunately, there just aren't too many economic silver deposits in the United States, especially with the high level of environmental and governmental regulations. Instead of dealing with all the bureaucracy, companies are looking to Mexico and South America to open new silver projects.
Regardless, U.S. silver production declined by more than 100 metric tons last year, or 10% in 2018, mainly due to the ongoing closure of the Lucky Friday Mine in Idaho. The Lucky Friday Mine has been shut down ever since the United Steelworkers went on strike on March 13, 2017. However, the dropoff in silver mine supply can't all be blamed on the Lucky Friday Mine. Domestic silver production has been trending lower for the past two decades:
In 2000, the U.S. produced 63.7 million oz (1,980 metric tons) of silver compared to just 29.7 million oz (923 metric tons) last year. Thus, U.S. silver production has fallen by more than 50% in less than two decades. Silver production in the U.S. ramped up significantly during the 1990s due to the McCoy-Cove Silver Mine in Nevada. At its peak, the McCoy-Cove Mine supplied 20% of the total U.S. silver production:
I don't have a chart of U.S. silver mine supply over the past 100 years, but I checked the USGS data, and in 1946, the country produced only 713 metric tons (mt) of silver. Interestingly, while silver production had declined due to the war focusing its efforts on other strategic metal mining (2,090 mt in 1941 to 903 mt by 1945), the significant drop off in 1946 was also due to mine strikes at base metal mines and smelters. Because most of the silver is a by-product of base metal mining, the strikes had a profound impact on overall production.
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There are a variety of mortgage credit options available to ensure the right fit for you and your family. This is our selection of the best refinancing companies for student loans. Look at the comparison of credible student loans.
Most of the debts in the US are owed to the 2016 graduate school. Over 41 million Americans owe more than $1. 2 trillion in students indebtedness. What is even more serious is that over a fourth of the study credits are overdue. The state of students' indebtedness is bleak. What can you do to help your students get better credit?
Savings of tens of thousands can be made by re-financing your students' debts for a new loan with lower interest and better conditions. So we keep things easy. In creating our top pick for the best students loan refinance companies, we have concentrated on the following features: The LendKey is an on-line market place with over 300 creditors.
The creditors, however, are solely cooperative societies and joint stock cooperatives. Often, these smaller financial intermediaries offer lower interest and more borrowersriendly conditions than their bigger equivalents. That is why this is a good choice if you are looking to refinance or consolidate your students loan. Find out more about CommonBond and what tariffs you can get.
The College Ave was founded in 2014 with the aim of making personal tuition credits easy and accessible. This allows on-line apps that last about three minute and can even be run from a smart phone. The application does not harm your credibility, so you can find out whether to refinance or consolidate with this business will help you safe your cash.
Earnest is another serious on-line financier that can help learners conserve cash by funding their college loan. Provides cutting edge technologies, a simple job interview procedure and immediate decision-making without affecting your loan. If you are authorized to lend from this creditor, you will get more than just a loan. It may, however, be more difficult to be authorised by SoFi than other creditors because they attract borrower with high ratings and high incomes.
When you get authorized, you can look forward to competing interest rates higher as SoFiclaims they store members an average of $22,359 in re-financing their students' loans. What's more, they are able to keep their members' interest rate at the same level. Just like the other on-line creditors, you can make an easy application on-line without compromising your credibility. Whom should refinance their study credits? Borrower tied to high-yield loan should consider funding.
Suppose you have a $100,000 10-year loan with an annual percentage rate of charge of 6%. When you refinance it for a 3% APR loan, you would be saving $17,352 ($144, 6 per month) over the duration of the loan. Looking at the hook, only those borrower who have good credibility, steady income, profitable career or co-signature will get qualified for the best interest rate.
Look around, browse, match and bargain to find the best offers available.


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Q: python: how can I double left click to get a point in python I have a map ,and now I want to double left click to zoom-in the map and left click to get a point.How should I do? I know 'ginput' command but it seems can't work with double-left-click.
latsize=[39,45]
lonsize=[-72.,-66]
plt.figure(figsize=(7,6))
m = Basemap(projection='cyl',llcrnrlat=min(latsize)-0.01,urcrnrlat=max(latsize)+0.01,\
            llcrnrlon=min(lonsize)-0.01,urcrnrlon=max(lonsize)+0.01,resolution='h')#,fix_aspect=False)
m.drawparallels(np.arange(int(min(latsize)),int(max(latsize))+1,1),labels=[1,0,0,0])
m.drawmeridians(np.arange(int(min(lonsize)),int(max(lonsize))+1,1),labels=[0,0,0,1])
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A: I'm assuming you're using matplotlib? You have to register an event handler for mouse events. All the information you need can be found here:

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*Event handling and picking
Look at handling button_press_event or button_release_event. If you follow the link for the MouseEvent class, you'll see it has a boolean double click indicator dblclick.

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Here is a bare-bones example:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

def handle_mouse_press( event ):
    if event.dblclick:
        print "Can haz dblclikz???"

fig = plt.figure()
fig.add_subplot(111)
fig.canvas.mpl_connect('button_press_event', handle_mouse_press)

plt.show()

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Ramp meters were recently installed on the Interstate 10 on-ramps at Jefferson Street. They will be fully activated April 11.
The lights may be green for now, but they'll soon switch between that and red.
Caltrans recently installed ramp meters on the Interstate 10 on-ramps at Jefferson Street, but they're still set to green.
They'll remain that way through April 10 to help drivers get used to having them around. But come April 11, they will be fully activated and drivers will need to start coming to complete stops before getting onto the freeway.
For those unaware, meter lights prevent an excessive number of vehicles getting onto a freeway in order to avoid congestion. Lights switch between green and red to control vehicles merging onto the freeway.
Depending on where you live, meter lights are activated 24 hours a day or only during rush hour. In this case, Caltrans hasn't specified when they'll be in use.
Regardless, once the meters are fully activated, drivers will need to get used to coming to complete stops before getting onto the freeway.
It doesn't seem like everyone knows what to do when a school bus comes to a stop in front of them.
Multiple drivers were recently cited when the California Highway Patrol conducted an enforcement operation in Thermal. Officers had their eyes out for drivers who failed to stop for a bus while its flashing red lights were activated and a stop arm was extended.
The operation took place March 22, but results were released late last week. They showed seven people were cited, one received a warning and "an untold number of motorists, parents and students were educated on the importance of school bus pedestrian safety."
Drivers are required to stop—regardless of the direction—whenever they see a school bus with flashing red lights since children are entering or exiting the bus and may cross the street.
Once the red lights stop flashing, you may proceed.
Arrive at bus stops at least five minutes early and stand 10 feet away from the road.
Discourage children from playing running games or pushing or shoving each other at the bus stop.
If your child drops something near the bus, tell them to ask the bus driver and wait for assistance to pick-up the dropped object. If a child bends over to pick up the object, they might not be seen by the bus driver and could be hurt.
Thanks to refinery maintenance and a drop in production, Southern California gasoline prices are once again expected to rise, according to the Automobile Club of Southern California.
"Drivers haven't seen gas price averages this high since August of 2015," Auto Club spokesman Jeffrey Spring said.
As of Sunday, local drivers paid as little as $3.17 for a gallon of regular unleaded fuel, according to gasbuddy.com. That was available at an Indio Arco station on Jackson Street.
In Riverside and San Bernardino, drivers paid an average of $3.49 per gallon. That's up more than a dime from about two weeks ago.
Los Angeles' average price was $3.57 per gallon, and San Diego's average was $3.53 per gallon. Both also are up more than 10 cents from about two weeks ago.
The Road Warrior column runs every Monday in The Desert Sun. Reach the author at colin.atagi@desertsun.com and @tdscolinatagi on Twitter.


The Crustal Evolution Education Project's 33 lab activities, developed by the National Association of Geology Teachers, has long been the definitive set of investigations to effectively teach students about plate tectonics. Now WARD'S has collected the teacher's guides and student worksheets for each of these exceptional lab activities on four CD-ROMs, available individually or as a complete set. Nothing could be easier; simply print the lab activity you want, and duplicate as many as you need. Each CD focuses on one subtopic: plate tectonic theory, earthquakes, climate, and sea floor spreading, and contains both teacher and student versions of the activities, as well as a comprehensive list of materials required for each investigation.
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Our inaugural Team Kopacz golf tournament was our means of communicating that I was diagnosed with Young Onset Parkinson's and that we are ready to join the fight for a cure. The support we received in our 'rookie' year advocating for Parkinson's research is very humbling but also extremely motivating. Our sophomore campaign is schedule for July 19th, 2019 at Rum River Hills.
In 2019 we will be supporting the Michael J Fox Foundation and the University of MN Foundation with our 2nd Annual Team Kopacz golf tournament. Both foundations have supported us as we worked through the uncertainty of a young onset PD diagnosis but more importantly we share the common goal of curing PD. Our goals for Team Kopacz haven't changed much in the last year but our expectations have grown exponentially!
We fight every day to make sure #PDdidnotwintoday!
As you can probably tell I am a big goal kind of guy!
Why are we partnering with two foundations?
The Fox Foundation has introduced us to other people that share a diagnosis of PD but also are pushing every day for a cure. On our website I put together a running challenge to get me through the year, see 500 mile page. I am planning on running at least 500 miles in preparation for the 2020 runDisney Dopey Challenge. If you are not a golfer, this is another way to support out mission.
The University of MN Foundation approached us to share our story at the Diamond Awards we knew this was an opportunity to support the Neurology team that took us step by step through a tough diagnosis, but we never expected that our story would impact so my people! Since the Diamond Awards we have been working with the foundation to schedule a meeting to discuss future research and funding needed.
Building meaningful relationships is critical to our mission. It truly takes a 'Team' to achieve the goal of finding a cure for Parkinson's Disease. Your support motivates Jason more than he can express! We look forward to strengthening current and building new relationships that are motivated by our efforts to slow the disease and bring awareness to the daily grind of having PD. The 2019 sponsorship levels can be found on our partners page of our website.


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Commitment to Development Index 2018: Europe Leads the Way
Today, we published the Commitment to Development Index (CDI) 2018, which ranks 27 of the world's richest countries on how well their policies help the more than five billion people living in poorer countries. European countries dominate this year's CDI, occupying the top 12 positions in the Index and with Sweden claiming the #1 spot. Here, we look at what these countries are doing particularly well in the past year to support the world's poor, and where European leaders can still learn from others.
Anita Käppeli and Lee Robinson
Where Does Your Country Rank on Development? – CDI Podcast with Ian Mitchell and Anita Käppeli
How well do your country's policies make a positive difference for people in developing nations? That's the question CGD seeks to answer each year in our Commitment to Development Index (CDI). The team behind the CDI, deputy director of CGD Europe Ian Mitchell and policy analyst Anita Käppeli, join me to discuss why these rankings matter, how countries stack up, and how their scores may be impacted by the shifting political environment.
Commitment to Development Index 2017: Four Messages for Political Leaders
Today, we published this year's Commitment to Development Index (CDI), which ranks 27 of the world's richest countries in how well their policies help to spread global prosperity to the developing world.
Anita Käppeli and Ian Mitchell
Commitment to Development Index 2016: How Development-Friendly Are Your Country's Policies? – Podcast with Owen Barder
Kudos to Finland in 2016 for ascending to the top spot in CGD's annual Commitment to Development Index, our ranking of how a country's policies help or hinder development. Other countries of note this year include France, New Zealand and Austria. We just published the latest rankings, and I discuss them, their implications, and the political landscape that could affect them in our latest CGD Podcast with Owen Barder, senior fellow and director of CGD Europe, which produces the Index.
2016 Commitment to Development Index Rankings: How All Countries Can Do More to Protect Global Progress
Global policymaking is at risk, threatening the international liberal order which has, for all its faults and lacunae, served the world well since the second world war. There has never been a period of such rapid progress in the human condition. The policies and international cooperation that have brought all this about are not always easy. Our Commitment to Development Index, the 14th annual edition of which is published today, measures the progress of the world's industrialised economies towards policies that contribute to make this world better for everyone.
Owen Barder and Anita Käppeli
CDI 2015: How Do Rich Countries' Policies Affect Development? – Podcast with Owen Barder
How much do rich countries' policies help or hinder the world's poorest people? That's what CGD's Commitment to Development Index (CDI) measures.
A Global Prosperity Agenda for the 2016 Election – The White House and the World
What does the 2016 election mean for America's future position in the world? It's likely too early to tell at this stage of the campaign cycle. Many of the early Republican contenders — such as Jeb Bush and Scott Walker — have been relatively quiet on foreign policy issues or have focused almost exclusively on Iran, Israel, and Russia. That's to be expected at this point. Yet, other candidates — like Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham — are already outlining a more comprehensive vision for advancing American interests.
Ben Leo
Benchmarking America: The 2009 Commitment to Development Index
Congratulations to Sweden for ranking first in CGD's 2009 Commitment to Development Index (CDI) for the first time since the creation of the Index in 2003. The United States, meanwhile, manages only a meager 17th place among the 22 wealthy countries ranked.


A software consulting agreement is one in which the recruiter takes software services form a company or an individual based over a contract. This agreement mentions the length of the contract as well as all the monetary considerations.
This agreement is made between CUSTOMER and the SERVICE PROVIDER.
The services required by the customer are related to the software used in the project of his company.
The service provider agrees to complete the software work on the project within the period specified and on the budget predefined.
The customer agrees to pay a sum of $200 in advance and $300 after the expiry of the agreement.
The customer agrees to provide the necessary help needed by the service provider during the length of the contract.
Any violation of the terms of the contract may lead to legal actions taken against the party at fault.


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Tag: Phogg Three Shirts
New Audio by William Ruben Helms Nov 20, 202001:50 November 19, 2020
With the release of 2018's full-length debut Slices, the Stockholm-based psych act Phogg quickly established a buzz-worthy sound that critics across Scandinavia and elsewhere compared to Ariel Pink and Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Building upon a growing profile, last year's sophomore album Mofeto: Mashine Adamkosh, an album about "robots that take over the world," featured two attention grabbing singles:
"Three Shirts:" a motorik-groove driven single that to my ears brings TOY's Join the Dots and Primal Scream's Evil Heat to mind.
"Pearls:" an expansive and lysergic track that's one part explosive psych rock freak out ripper and one part melodic and jangling guitar pop held together by a sinuous and propulsive groove.
Much like everyone else, 2020 has been a difficult year for the members of Phogg. Riding high from the critical reception of their sophomore album, the band began the ambitious challenge of working on two different albums simultaneously with the goal of working on each album in parallel — and then releasing them at the same time. But as the old saying goes: "The best laid plans of mice and men go awry." Recording two different albums at the same time, wound up being a terrible decision with the band experiencing burn out and fatigue. And for a period of time, the band sort of floated around with no direction and no goal, waiting until their creative instincts returned.
During that the period, the band had deep-seated philosophical questions that tied into their own creative process. "What does it really mean to be a rock band these days? Does anything even matter? The legendary days of rock have faded into the ruthless fart of the pandemic era. It's not fun to make songs about the end times when you are in the middle of it."
Phogg's forthcoming third album The Sharkness is informed by and influenced by the harrowing events and emotions of the pandemic, an existential crisis and a recent heartbreak. The Sharkness' latest single "Corme (Rental Palace)" is a brooding yet meditative instrumental jam centered around shimmering guitars, atmospheric and twinkling keys, a propulsive rhythm section before turning into a gallop towards the song's last half. Some dexterous guitar work darts in and out of the song's propulsive rhythm, giving the song a subtle surf rock air. Interestingly, the track may be among the most brooding yet heartfelt tracks of their growing catalog.
New Audio by William Ruben Helms Aug 19, 201900:15 August 18, 2019
Stockholm, Sweden-based indie act Phogg quickly emerged into the Swedish psych rock scene with the release of last year's full-length debut Slices, which helped the band establish a sound that's been compared to Ariel Pink and Unknown Mortal Orchestra. And in their native Sweden, they've received airplay on Sweden's P3, and praise from the likes of HYMN, Nordik Simit and Born Music Online among others.
Now, as you may recall, the Stockholm-based psych rock act's sophomore album Mofeto: Mashine Adamkosh is slated for a fall release through Ouyee Bayou Reckords, and the album's first single was the motorik groove-driven "Three Shirts." The album's second and latest single is "Pearls," a mind altering and expansive track that's one part explosive psych rock freak out and one part melodic and jangling guitar pop held together by a sinuous and propulsive groove. And unlike its predecessor, it may arguably be the most lysergic of their growing catalog to date.
Video by William Ruben Helms May 16, 201920:20 May 16, 2019
New Video: Up-and-Coming Swedish Psych Rock Act Phogg Releases a Surreal and Post Apocalyptic Visual for "Three Shirts"
With the release of last year's full-length debut Slices, the Stockholm, Sweden-based indie act Phogg quickly emerged into the Swedish psych rock scene with a sound that's been compared to the likes of Ariel Pink and Unknown Mortal Orchestra — and as a result. they've received airplay on Sweden's P3, and praise from the likes of HYMN, Nordik Simit and Born Music Online among others.
Building upon a growing national profile, the up-and-coming Swedish psych rock act's sophomore album Mofeto: Mashine Adamkosh is slated for a fall release through Ouyee Bayou Records. Mofeto: Mashine Adamkosh's trippy, first single "Three Shirts" is centered around a motorik groove reminiscent of Join the Dots-era TOY, Evil Heat-era Primal Scream and Flamingods' forthcoming Levitation paired with jangling guitars, blasts of shimmering synths, a rousingly anthemic hook and some blazing guitar solos. Interestingly, the recently released video for "Three Shirts" is a surrealistic romp that owes a debt to 60s and 70s promotional videos, as it features the members the band in a post-apocalyptic quarry. It begins with the lead singer, showing up to an old computer with a cup of coffee, as though he's going to work. We see the other bandmates riding around on motorcycles; at points his bandmates interrupt the frame or do some other odd thing to disrupt the goings on. There's no rhyme or reason for anything — and yet it's trippy and pretty hilarious.


This month a new prenatal blood test for Down syndrome created by biotech business LifeCodexx was launched in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Lichtenstein, and it very possibly may lead to the repeat of mainstream eugenics in German-speaking Europe. The new Prenatal Test is "targeted exclusively toward women in their 12th week of pregnancy and beyond who are at an increased risk" of having a child born with Down syndrome, and the reality of this test is that it places unborn children with Down syndrome at a higher risk of abortion.
Eugenic history in German-speaking Europe is recent and very well archived, and there are survivors who can recount the dark horrors of this movement. During that sinister period of world history the incalculable value of human life was not acknowledged, and this led to the slaughter of millions. Current statistics indicate that 90%+ of children diagnosed prenatally with Down syndrome are indentified, targeted and terminated. This new prenatal test will only make it easier to select abortion over life, and it may lead to the extinction of all human being deemed defective by a culture of death.
My beautiful daughter Chloe was born with Down syndrome in 2003, and in 9 years she has lived a life more worthy, productive and positive than the majority of people do in an 80 or 90 year life span. I speak whenever asked to any groups I can about what a priceless Blessing children like Chloe are and how they shine a light brighter than anything I have ever witnessed. We had no prenatal tests during my wife's pregnancy, and the only "increased risk" we had after Chloe's birth and Down syndrome diagnosis was the ability to see each day God's true meaning of unconditional love, purity, and unsoiled goodness.
I truly don't know what I did to deserve this priceless gift! If the culture of death wants to begin eliminating people based on perceived "imperfections" or "defects" then they should begin with me, and I challenge everyone to look into the mirror and make a list of their defects.
Under the secret T-4 program in Germany in the 1930's, individuals with disabilities were labeled "life unworthy of life" and "useless eaters." The Nazi medical community would identify, target, and then terminate the "unfit" members of society, which included those with mental and physical disabilities, and gas chambers and lethal injections were two of the methods employed to rid society of these imperfect members. The first people they came for were the "disabled," and soon thereafter anyone who did not agree and blindly follow this demonic culture of death.
Edmund Burke stated that "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." It is very frightening to me how minuscule and nonexistent the coverage is on this silent eugenic movement, and there is a small group of Voices worldwide sounding the alarm hopefully before it is too late. New Zealand has one of the strongest global Voices, and please share their site with anyone who treasures life http://www.savingdowns.com/ . We need your help in relaying the facts and truth, and we are rapidly passing a point of no return on the slippery slope of a godless world that is on a fast track to repeat the past!


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Assessing Professional Knowledge: Connecticut
The state should use a licensing test to verify that all new teachers meet its professional standards.
Meets in part
National Council on Teacher Quality. (2013). Assessing Professional Knowledge: Connecticut results. State Teacher Policy Database. [Data set].
Retrieved from: https://www.nctq.org/yearbook/state/CT-Assessing-Professional-Knowledge-20
Analysis of Connecticut's policies
Connecticut only requires all new elementary teachers to pass a popular pedagogy test from the Praxis series in order to attain licensure.
Connecticut is a part of the Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA) consortium.
http://www.ets.org/praxis/ct/ http://edtpa.aacte.org/about-edtpa
Recommendations for Connecticut
Require that all new teachers pass a pedagogy test to verify that they meet professional standards.
Connecticut should expand the requirement for a pedagogy test to new secondary teachers.
Verify that commercially available tests of pedagogy actually align with state standards.
Connecticut should ensure that its selected test of professional knowledge measures the knowledge and skills the state expects new teachers to have.
Ensure that performance assessments provide a meaningful measure of new teachers' knowledge and skills.
While Connecticut is commended for considering the use of a performance-based assessment, the state should proceed with caution until additional data are available on the Teacher Performance Assessment. Additional research is needed to determine how the edTPA compares to other teacher tests as well as whether the test's scores are predictive of student achievement. The track record on similar assessments is mixed at best. The two states that currently require the Praxis III performance-based assessment report pass rates of about 99 percent. Given that it takes significant resources to administer a performance-based assessment, a test that nearly every teacher passes is of questionable value.
Connecticut clarified that it is not an official member of the edTPA consortium; however, one of its higher education institutions may be participating in the pilot of edTPA. In addition, the Educator Preparation Advisory Council (EPAC) is considering the need for a performance- based assessment prior to graduation from a teacher preparation program. EdTPA will be one of the performance-based assessments that will be considered as EPAC designs its specific recommendations to the State Board of Education.
A good pedagogy test puts teeth in states' professional standards.
In order to ensure that the state is licensing only teachers who meet its expectations, all standards must be testable. State standards that cannot be assessed in a practical and cost-effective manner have no value. Examples of knowledge that can be tested include the basic elements of good instruction, how to communicate effectively with children, how to use class time efficiently, effective questioning techniques, establishing smooth classroom routines, the importance of feedback, engaging parents, the best methods for teaching reading as well as other subjects, appropriate use of technology, knowledge of testing and the fundamentals of addressing individual learning challenges.
States use too many tests to measure new teachers' professional knowledge that utterly fail to do so, either because the passing score is set so low that anyone—even those who have not had professional preparation—can pass or because one can discern the "right" answer on an item simply by the way it is written.
Performance assessments are an important step in the right direction.
Many states are considering—and a few now require—performance assessments to evaluate teacher candidates' pedagogy before an initial license is granted. A performance assessment can be of much more value than a traditional multiple choice test. However, states need to make sure that such tests are technically sound, especially given the significant resources that it takes to administer and score performance assessments. The past track record on similar assessments is mixed at best. The two states that required the Praxis III performance-based assessment reported pass rates of about 99 percent. a test that nearly every teacher passes is of questionable value. Additional research is needed to determine how the next generation of performance assessments, including the edTPA, compares to other teacher tests as well as whether the test's scores are predictive of student achievement.
Assessing Professional Knowledge: Supporting Research
For evidence of the importance of pedagogy tests in improving student achievement, see C. Clotfelter, H.Ladd and J.Vigdor, "How and Why Do Teacher Credentials Matter for Student Achievement?" Working Paper 2, Calder Institute (2007).
For further information regarding the use of performance assessments and the Teacher Performance Assessment Consortium (TPAC) in California and other states see L. Darling-Hammond, "Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness: How Teacher Performance Assessments Can Measure and Improve Teaching" Center for American Progress, (October 2010).
For a perspectives on the issues with teaching dispositions, see W. Damon, "Personality Test: The dispositional dispute in teacher preparation today, and what to do about it" in Arresting Insights in Education, Volume 2, No. 3, September 8, 2005; J. Gershman, "'Disposition' Emerges as Issue at Brooklyn College," New York Sun, May 31,2005.
For evidence on the low passing scores required by states on pedagogy tests, see the U.S. Department of Education's The Secretary's Seventh Annual Report on Teacher Quality: A Highly Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom. (2010). Also see K. Walsh, "A Candidate-Centered Model for Teacher Preparation and Licensure," A Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom?: Appraising Old Answers and New Ideas, eds. F. Hess, A. Rotherham, and K. Walsh (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2004), pp. 223-253.


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Q: Ruby on Rails: Validating and changing a phone number I have a simple phone form <%= f.text_field :phone %> right now. :phone is an integer type, so this requires that whatever the user enters into the form must be something like 5551234 instead of the more standard way of 555-1234 How can I allow the user to enter in a USA phone number like their accustomed to? I understand that I can use validates_format_of to validate it, but once I validate it, how can I format the number and insert the phone number into the DB as an integer?

A: ActiveRecord automatically typecasts input based on the databases column type. When Ruby casts a string to an integer it drops everything after the first non-numeric character, 123-456-7890 will become 123. This is done before the field is available in the model so the solutions given so far will not work. You need to overwrite the default write accessor!
The ActiveRecord::Base docs mentions two ways to overwrite the default write accessor (field_name)= in the model so you can process the input removing the non-digits before it needs to be typecast. There are at least three variations:
(1) Overwrite the accessor and use write_attribute to store the result in the database:
def phone=(value)
  value.gsub!(/\D/, '') if value.is_a?(String)
  write_attribute(:phone, value.to_i)
end

(2) Or use the hash notation:
def phone=(num)
  num.gsub!(/\D/, '') if num.is_a?(String)
  self[:phone] = num.to_i
end

(3) Or (in the latest versions of ActiveRecord) just call super as if it were a normal (non-dynamic) method (not shown in docs but works):
def phone=(num)
  num.gsub!(/\D/, '') if num.is_a?(String)
  super(num)
end

This is useful in a number of situations such as numbers with commas and works great with forms that supply a formatted version of the previous field value such as in an edit form or after an error in a new/create form:
<%= f.text_field :phone, number_to_phone(@model_data.phone) %>

This way you can show the user formatted data (i.e. as String) but still store an integer in the database.
One last tip on MySQL: You need to use a BigInt to store a phone number otherwise you will see a lot of (214) 748-3647 phone numbers in your database as 2,147,483,647 is the max value of a normal MySQL integer - int(11) - obtained form :integer in a migration. A BigInt in MySQL is obtained by setting :limit to 8 as in this migration line:
change_column :model_name, :phone, :integer, :limit => 8

This will give you a bigint(20) in your table which can handle numbers up to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 which should be sufficient for any phone number.

A: phone.gsub(/\D/, '')

should do the trick. It removes non-digit chars.

A: "1-2-3-4".gsub('-','').to_i
# => 1234

You can also use Regular Expressions if you want to get more fancy, but you should be able to get away with just this.
You probably want to validate what you're storing it in the DB as, since Rails checks validations before saving. However, you can do a before_validation that modifies the number first. Something like this:
before_validation do
  phone = phone.to_s.gsub('-','').to_i
end

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Callbacks.html#M001378

A: Not sure if you got this figured out yet, but I ran into the same problem as Reti did with Mark's code.
It seems that specific self.phone = self.phone.gsub(/\D/, '') did the trick.
Maybe it's because at that point phone isn't initialized yet? I'm not sure, still a newbie here...


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Why can't you take the gift we offer?
Yesterday, quite by chance, I happened on Ellen Fanning interviewing Wesley Enoch, Director of the Sydney Festival. She began by questioning him about the ALWAYS vigil installation at Barangaroo for the Sydney Festival, and whether it was making people uncomfortable in relation to the 'Change the Date' campaign about Australia Day on 26 January, the date that marks when the British took possession of Australia and claimed terra nullius, denying Aboriginal occupation of the Australian continent.
Enoch's father was Aboriginal, from Stradbroke Island. His mother was non Aboriginal. He talked about his own rage-filled youth as he tried to come to terms with racism, and straddling the two worlds of Aboriginal and White Australia, while at the same time grappling with his own sexual identity. Luckily for Wesley Enoch, he found a pathway through theatre and the creative arts, becoming one of Australia's leading playwrights and directors. He explained the role of Aboriginal dark humour, where 'deadly' means fantastic. He suggested that the ALWAYS vigil (always was, always will be) celebrates the extraordinary survival of Aboriginal people and their culture in the face of almost overwhelming terror from relentless and pervasive racism, dispossession of their lands, and attempts to annihilate their culture.
It is no accident that many Australia's First Nations peoples have found their voice and identity through the Arts—painting, sculpture, music, dance, theatre—for it is through the Ceremony involving singing, dancing, story telling and painting that Aboriginal people curated the landscape of Australia for over 60,000 years, along the Songlines that criss cross Australia. Wesley Enoch talked about the way theatre had provided him with a way into the heart, sinew, flesh and blood of what it means to Australian. He reflected on the absurdity of the words of the Australian national anthem, 'Advance Australia Fair'. Two stanzas of the lyric stand out for their ridiculous claim: "Australians let us rejoice for we are young and free", and "For those who've come across the seas, We've boundless plains to share". Both deny our Aboriginal heritage. How can Australia be 'young', when its uninterrupted human history stretches back 60,000+ years, making it the oldest living culture on Earth? While we talk about sharing the boundless plains with those who've come across the seas, there is absolutely no acknowledgement of Aboriginal presence, whose rights to the freedom of citizenship was only granted in 1967.
The 'Change the Date' campaign is gathering more and more force as many Australians, including non Indigenous Australians, recognise that we cannot celebrate National Day on the very day that the arrival of Captain Cook's fleet marked the dispossession of Australia's First Nations peoples. In the same fashion, the present lyrics for Advance Australia Fair cannot be our national anthem. Both are a nonsense, that no amount of anguish by Whites who feel uncomfortable with the truth telling of our history can turn into political cultural warring. It is why the "I am Australian" lyrics first sung by the Seekers is increasingly becoming the defacto Australian National Anthem.
Wesley Enoch talked about the role of the contemporary artist in our community. It is to create experiences that push us out of our comfort zone and stimulate us to ask questions. That is the role of the ALWAYS installation. It provides an opportunity for contemplation about our history, as we sit by the harbour, around the 'campfire' and come to terms with our real history. It is an opportunity for all of us to embrace our 60,0000+ year history as the oldest living culture on Earth—one which stretches from the last Ice Age, through the arrival of the British to establish penal colonies for prisoners, to its evolution into a society based on citizenship, to its post war embrace of multiculturalism as wave after wave of immigrants have come to Australia to make it their home. It stretches through the inclusion of First Nations peoples since the granting of their citizenship and abolition of the whole Native Protection regime. It stretches to our contemporary issues of reconciliation with First Nations peoples through Keating's Redfern speech, the Mabo Decision that gave First Nations peoples land rights, the Apology, and now our response to the refugee crisis engulfing the world as a result of the conflict in the Middle East, and the cultural challenges of a multicultural nation of many religious faiths within a framework of shared secular law. Finally it stretches to the current challenge as we try to find a way to respond to the Uluru Statement from the Heart and changes required to the Australian Constitution to give First Nations peoples a Voice to Parliament.
As Welsey Enoch says: WHY AREN'T YOU TAKING THE GIFT WE OFFER?
What is this gift? As we stand on the precipice of an existential crisis for human settlement on Planet Earth, in the face of the inexorable warming of our planet from human activity and environmental degradation, particularly since the 19th century Industrial Revolution and through European colonialism, the exporting of the materialism of its worldview to the rest of societies across the planet, we need to embrace a completely different worldview. We will not find this worldview from Western Civilisation, despite despite the attempts of Tony Abbott and John Howard to seduce a university to offer a course that glorifies Western Civilisation, as they attempt to hold back the tide of history. We will not find it among the world business leaders and intellectual glitterati who attend DAVOS. Instead we will find it among the world's First Nations peoples and the networks they have been building to protect their cultures and values enshrined in their very different worldview. This is a worldview that is intrinsically eco-centric. It is a worldview that the Vietnamese Zen Buddhist master calls Interbeing. What western social scientists call animism. What some psychologists call 'participation mystique'. It is a worldview that viscerally experiences a sense of kinship with the more than human world—with its animals, insects, birds, fish, rivers, mountains, grasslands, forests, snowfields, oceans and deserts. It permeates the cultures of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander peoples of Australia. It pervades that of the Maori people of New Zealand, the island peoples of the Pacific, the Indigenous Indian peoples of the Americas, the Inuit and Sami peoples of the Arctic, the Bushman of the Kalahari.
While we grapple with all the practical policies of energy transition beyond coal, to a world economic system that no longer shifts all the wealth to the 1% and drives right wing populism to dangerous levels of violent blame shifting on vulnerable people, and resulting backlash, the most important task that faces all of us is to learn from First Nations peoples and TAKE THE GIFT WE OFFER. It will require a cultural humility that is foreign to our diet of the dream of technological progress built on the might of European culture and its demonstrated superiority as shown by the material standard of living that marks the wealthy OECD nations. That very story has brought us to our current crisis.
It will require us to forget economics as the dominant discourse of our times, and turn our eyes and ears toward the arts so that once again we can learn from First Nations peoples how to engage in the arts as 'ceremony' to curate the Earth and keep alive its fecundity for all life forms.
This brings us back to the importance of the ALWAYS Vigil—part of "the gift we offer".
We are a group of people in the Blue Mountains using the arts to explore and celebrate the 'wild' and our interconnected relationship with nature and one another, to engage with a philosophy of regenerative living, an attitude of inter-being with all things.


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"The unusual vertical mass distribution of NGC 4013 seen through the Sp" by Sebastien Comeron, Bruce G. Elmegreen et al.
The unusual vertical mass distribution of NGC 4013 seen through the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G).
NGC 4013 is a nearby Sb edge-on galaxy known for its "prodigious" H i warp and its "giant" tidal stream. Previous work on this unusual object shows that it cannot be fitted satisfactorily by a canonical thin+thick disk structure. We have produced a new decomposition of NGC 4013, considering three stellar flattened components (thin+thick disk plus an extra and more extended component) and one gaseous disk. All four components are considered to be gravitationally coupled and isothermal. To do so, we have used the 3.6μm images from the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies. We find evidence for NGC 4013 indeed having a thin and a thick disk and an extra flattened component. This smooth and extended component (scale height zEC ∼ 3 kpc) could be interpreted as a thick disk or as a squashed ellipsoidal halo and contains ∼20% of the total mass of all three stellar components. We argue it is unlikely to be related to the ongoing merger or due to the off-plane stars from a warp in the other two disk components. Instead, we favor a scenario in which the thick disk and the extended component were formed in a two-stage process, in which an initially thick disk has been dynamically heated by a merger soon enough in the galaxy history to have a new thick disk formed within it.
Comeron, Sebastien, et al. "The Unusual Vertical Mass Distribution of NGC 4013 seen through the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G)." 2011. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 738(2): 6 pp.
Comeron, Sebastien; Elmegreen, Bruce G.; Knapen, Johan H.; Sheth, Kartik; Hinz, Joannah L.; Regan, Michael W.; Gil de Paz, Armando; Munoz-Mateos, Juan Carlos; Menendez-Delmestre, Karin; Seibert, Mark; Kim, Taehyun; Mizusawa, Trisha; Laurikainen, Eija; Salo, Heikki; Laine, Jarkko; Athanassoula, E.; Bosma, Albert; Buta, Ronald J.; Gadotti, Dimitri A.; Ho, Luis C.; Holwerda, Benne W.; Schinnerer, Eva; and Zaritsky, Dennis, "The unusual vertical mass distribution of NGC 4013 seen through the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G)." (2011). Faculty Scholarship. 244.


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Banking on Green
A Green, Resilient Recovery Needs National Green Investment Banks
By Carolina Herrera, Angela Whitney
In a pivotal year for sustainable development and climate action, world leaders would do well to turn to the proven solutions of the green bank model. The climate crisis may be felt more slowly than the overwhelming immediacy of the COVID crisis, but it involves similar challenges and potentially graver consequences if we fail to address the crisis with the urgency it demands.
This past month, Lord Nicholas Stern opened the second Global Green Bank Design Summit noting we are at a crucial moment in history with the twin crises of COVID and climate. He asked, "How do we recover? How do we drive forward in a different way?" Countries are grappling with how to revitalize their economies to spur long-lasting COVID recoveries. Fortunately, a growing number recognize that national green investment banks can help them build back stronger while advancing climate action and social inclusion goals.
National green investment banks can help countries build back stronger while advancing climate action and social inclusion goals.
Coming out of the Group of Seven (G7) Summit and looking ahead to COP26, global leaders are setting general commitments to scale up investment. It is time now for them to support specific country solutions that are up to the task of channeling investments into the most critical climate and recovery projects.
As Lord Stern went on to say, "We have to [proceed with] strong investment of the right kind and innovation of the right kind. The right kind is sustainable and green that allows us to develop strongly over the future decades." He described the "special role" of green banks in charting the way for whole system change, and concluded that, "we should see the green investment banks not only as in the vanguard, but the vanguard of a whole system change."
As evidenced by the participation in June's Design Summit, the interest in the green bank model is steadily growing around the world. Green finance practitioners and experts joined over 300 participants from 54 countries during the Summit organized by the Green Finance Institute (GFI), RMI, and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). During the four-day virtual summit, participants discussed the transformative role that green banks can play in scaling up green investments, accelerating climate finance flows, and addressing local market needs.
So just what can green banks provide?
Green Banks Can Scale Climate Solutions
Investments in clean energy and transportation, resilient urban infrastructure, and sustainable agriculture and land use will be critical for creating new jobs, improving air and water quality, and helping to reduce the inequalities that the pandemic laid bare. Yet we are nowhere near the pace and scale of green investments necessary to ensure a green recovery. The OECD and a number of other countries have allocated a total of US$336 billion in COVID recovery funds to environmentally aligned measures—only 17 percent of their total allocations. Meanwhile, regions like Latin America have only allocated 2.2 percent of stimulus funds to environmental projects.
The gap is striking, but it doesn't have to exist. Green banks can provide much needed capacity. "[The] Green Bank model can be a pivotal actor within a national ecosystem," said Amal-Lee Amin, Director of the CDC Group and another featured speaker at the Summit. She identified three main areas in which a green bank can be an asset to a resilient, climate-aligned economy: As a bridge between policymakers and investors to ensure that policy will attract private sector investment; as a means of deploying technical assistance and blended finance in a targeted way to overcome specific barriers; and as a financer of businesses that step up to manage climate risk.
Green Banks Can Accelerate the Flow and Impact of International Climate Finance
Collectively, the world needs to invest trillions of dollars over the next 15 years to meet climate targets. Much of this investment is needed in emerging and developing countries.
At the G7 Summit, the leaders of the world's seven wealthiest democracies rightly placed climate change high on the agenda. As observers point out, however, the leaders' renewed pledge to mobilize US$100 billion in international climate finance does not go nearly far enough. And details are scarce on what G7 countries will do in practice to accelerate North-South climate finance flows (or, increase access to it).
As we head into COP26 later this year, it is crucial for developed countries to meet and increase their climate pledges, while at the same time ensuring that those dollars have the greatest impact possible. Nigel Topping, the UN High Level Climate Action Champion for COP26, said at the Green Bank Summit,
I think that the case for locally driven green investment banks, helping to quickly and efficiently channel international climate funds and mobilize private capital into local solutions that strengthen vulnerable communities and help reduce inequalities has been well made. Solutions like resilient climate infrastructure in cities, clean energy access, sustainable agriculture and the development of new green sectors that can create jobs for younger generations…. By fostering the financial innovation that will help accelerate the maturity of local green markets, green banks can support green recoveries that are aligned with the Paris Agreement and can even help raise further climate ambition.
Green Banks Offer Tailor-Made, Local Solutions
No two green bank journeys are alike. Green banks are purpose-built institutions or facilities that respond to local financial, political, and institutional contexts and specific market challenges. Some countries may choose to establish a new standalone institution like Mongolia's Green Finance Corporation. Others may establish green facilities as part of existing institutions like the Development Bank of Southern Africa's Climate Finance Facility. In some countries, existing institutions may initiate processes to "green" their operations by establishing environmental and social risk management systems and creating new green products such as green loans and green or social bonds. This is the case with several national development banks in Latin America working with the Interamerican Development Bank.
Despite their differing approaches, green banks share the common purpose of using public funds to stimulate private investment in underinvested low-carbon sectors. As Bryan Garcia from the Connecticut Green Bank stated, "You should always think of this main objective: how are you going to use a limited amount of public resources to attract and mobilize multiples of private investment in your green economy? This the foundation to green banks."
By demonstrating that climate solutions are indeed possible, replicable, and scalable, green banks can help governments aspire to even greater climate ambition.
Accelerating Climate Action through Green Bank Development
Because every green bank pathway is unique, countries may encounter numerous obstacles to establish, capitalize, and launch a green bank. The Green Bank Design Platform was established by GFI, RMI and NRDC to help countries navigate the process. It helps countries connect to experts that can help them develop capacities and build opportunities—such as the Summit—to create a community of practice that shares experiences and key learnings with peers. As one country practitioner explained, "[one is] not quite sure where to get support. But a Platform like this, now I know where to go for help. It's comforting and gives me confidence to be a [green bank] champion."
The Summit demonstrated that countries have an interest and willingness to establish green banks and facilities. The onus is now on the international climate finance community to work with these first mover countries as they embark on their green bank journeys.


Have you ever picked up a book outside your typical reading genre for quite a few unconnected reasons? I do not, typically, but one of my latest reads, The Exiled*, was just such a case.
Although these reasons have very little actual reasoning behind them, they were enough to make me pick up the book. It's a good thing, because I really enjoyed it.
The Exiled is set in rural New Mexico, the home of Wes Raney, a former homicide cop who made one too many bad choices while working undercover in New York. Choices that cost him his job and his family. As punishment, he is exiled to a two-hundred-mile stretch of southwestern desert. Solitude suits him, but he's thrown right back into his old mindset when a grisly murder scene is discovered in an underground bunker.
I'm supposed to be reading books for the New England Challenge, which I am woefully failing at. Instead, I'm picking up a book to match my travel. Not a bad idea, but I am missing my planned goals for myself. It's a a fine line to walk – reading to challenge myself, reading for review, and reading for pleasure. I'm still working on finding my balance. Any advice? I didn't join Andi's Read My Own Damn Books Challenge, but I definitely should've… She's hosting a May "Smash Your Stack" event that looks intriguing.
*I received my copy of the book in exchange for my honest opinion.


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The U.S. After Boston
My country has real problems, but we're too conspiracy-crazed to see them
by Paul Constant
You guys, it's getting weird down here.
Don't get me wrong. Life in the United States is often weird, because we're petrified of being bored. There's always some actor who says something outrageous for us to swoon and bleat over, or some bored office worker who scrabbles together a perfect stop-motion Lego copy of the original Star Wars trailer. None of it is particularly meaningful, but there's always more of it, at least; there's always something new to gawp at. We've always been relentlessly weird.
Right now, we're recovering from a week. Check that. Capitalize it. We're recovering from A Week. A Terrible Week. The kind of Week that can change the trajectory of an entire nation. When those first images of the bombing at the Boston Marathon came careening across Twitter, I summoned them up onto my computer and just stared at them. Other reporters in my office — I work at an alternative weekly in Seattle called The Stranger — wandered over to my computer and just stared at them, too. As often happens when you find something on Twitter, there was disbelief. "Is that real?" one of my coworkers said, eyeing the picture of a fireball blossoming out, with a few runners heading straight into it. "I don't think that's a real picture." And then I clicked back to the first photo I found, a patch of sidewalk instantaneously brushed clear of all trace of humanity save for several very large puddles of blood.
This was not Photoshop. This was not a false alarm.
The first reporting out of Boston consisted of a ghoulish accounting: at least a dozen hurt. Then dozens hurt, with at least one killed. The numbers rose like that for days, until it finally settled on three dead, with over 260 injuries.
The week — sorry, the Week — that followed was so bizarre as to be unbelievable. From noon on Monday, the Boston Marathon bombings turned into a city-paralyzing manhunt that stretched until almost exactly quitting time Friday evening, like a sweeps-week TV miniseries, with several loud and dangerous firefights breaking out along the way.
And the Week was littered with other unbelievable incidents, too. Someone mailed deadly ricin to a United States Senator and to President Obama. An Elvis impersonator was arrested for the crime, then exonerated (at his post-release press conference, the innocent man reportedly said that he had no idea what ricin was; he believed he was wrongfully under arrest for sending some sort of rice dish to public officials).
Meanwhile, in a central Texas town with the confusing name of West, a fertilizer plant exploded and killed many more people than were killed in Boston — at last count, 15 had died and at least 200 were injured. That plant seems to have blown up because it was owned by a business that had not been visited by government safety inspectors in something like two decades' time. This is a direct result of America's terrible, creeping austerity that has metastasized over most of my lifetime, through conservative and liberal presidencies alike. Those deaths are a product of the unfettered market that failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney could not shut up about last year.
But if there is outrage in the United States about this utterly preventable tragedy, it only exists on left-wing blogs, safe from the eyes of the average American. Instead, the media is obsessed with figuring out the motivation behind bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The news channels can't stop talking about Dzhokhar in the same breathless way they discuss an unpopular celebrity — say, Michael Jackson before he died. As though a single-sentence mission statement plucked from the brain of this 19-year-old is going to somehow unlock the secrets of human evil. As though there will ever be a satisfactory answer to the question, "why?"
Our response to the bombing has been disappointingly familiar to anyone familiar with modern U.S. history. News organizations eagerly disseminated wrong "facts" culled from Twitter in the hopes of getting something right before everyone else. Conservatives are trying to strip Tsarnaev of his rights as an American citizen to a fair criminal trial by labeling this attack as foreign Islamic terrorism. Those same conservatives are at the same time fighting valiantly to ensure that every man, woman, and child in the United States has a right to carry a very large gun wherever and whenever they want. Liberals and conservatives alike are falling over themselves celebrating the ubiquitous cameras of the surveillance state that identified the suspects. Politicians are earnestly discussing flying drones over American cities as a matter of course, to make us feel "safe".
Don't get me wrong; the United States has not gone nearly as batshit in the last week as we did after 9/11 on the torture-and-stripping-civil-liberties front (and we haven't declared war on the Tsarnaevs' native Chechnya — or, worse, mistakenly declared war on the Czech Republic — which, after the Bush Administration, feels like a laudable bit of restraint on our part). But maybe we haven't gone as crazy as before because, after Bush-era wiretapping laws and Guantanamo and too many other terrible policies that President Obama has failed to defuse, we just don't have that many rights left to chuck into the fire.
I was happy to see that Canada successfully avoided a Week of its own, when police and intelligence agencies thwarted an Al Qaeda plot to destroy a Toronto passenger train. If I may be so presumptuous as to offer some advice: don't listen to the fearful. There will be cowards who, when faced with the prospect of this narrowly averted tragedy, will be eager to give up some rights in the hopes that a modicum of additional security might be obtained.
That's a trade we in the United States decided to make years ago, and now it's not even a topic for discussion anymore, the same way we can't even be bothered to talk about the fact that some fertilizer company in Texas blew up a whole town because its executives didn't feel like paying a little extra to provide a safe working environment. It's the same way we can't discuss how our Senate failed to pass a gun control measure — a background check bill that 90 per cent of all Americans support — sometime during The Week while we were all nervously checking our mail for poison and keeping an eye on CNN for the latest in faulty news tips. This commonsense measure failed because our politicians are in the sway of an enormously wealthy lobbying organization funded by gun and ammunition manufacturers. I could go on, but why bother? Nobody's talking about it.
But there are plenty of things Americans are willing to talk about.
In the days since the bombs first exploded in Boston, we at The Stranger, and our counterparts at news organizations around the country, have been deluged with e-mails decrying the Boston Marathon bombings as the beginning of some enormous conspiracy perpetrated on the American people by the Obama Administration.
A far-right radio show host named Alex Jones has suddenly been embraced by the conservative right of the United States. Jones specializes in peddling outrageous conspiracies about a spooky One World Government run by the Illuminati and, depending on who you ask, the Elders of Zion. I've interviewed many of his followers, some of whom believe that the World Trade Center was not struck by airplanes on 9/11, but rather that the "planes" were highly sophisticated holograms.
You've probably gaped in awe at our conservative politicians in the past. Last year alone, several of them made some outrageous claims about rape that I refuse to repeat here. All that stuff is child's play compared to what I think is coming now. In certain mainstream right-wing channels, it's now acceptable to say that President Obama probably colluded with Al Qaeda to commit the Marathon bombings, with little more "proof" than some misinformation that was accidentally disseminated by the media and the fact that our President's middle name is Hussein.
These conspiracy theorists — almost all of them white, almost all of them male — have watched years of Fox News theories about President Obama's birth certificate and his secret alliances intended to disenfranchise the American white man in favor of radical feminists and dirty, job-stealing immigrants from non-white countries. These same people are now digging through online photographs of the bombings as giddy armchair detectives, in the hopes of unraveling the official government story about Boston. In just a few days, they have constructed an alternate universe as intricate and as absurd as the storyline that JFK assassination nuts took decades to assemble. The internet works miracles, I guess. To hear them tell it, every major incident of violence on American soil — the Boston bombings, 9/11, the Newtown massacre, the Colorado movie theater shootings — was committed by the United States government in order to steal the "freedoms" of its own citizenry.
These people are not going away. There are more of them every day. And I believe that they may represent the future of the Republican Party as it prepares for the 2014 legislative and the 2016 presidential elections. Now that George W. Bush's post-9/11 bargain — you give up your rights, and we'll keep you safe — and Ronald Reagan's anti-government, pro-unchained-business principles both met their explosive ends in one terrible week, all the right wing has to sustain themselves are unhinged fairy tales.
I have a feeling that we're about to get a whole lot weirder down here.
Paul Constant is an American reporter who also happens to be an atheist, which means he can't even ask you to pray for him.
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