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What Went Wrong, America? 2/2
The West Virginia Coal Wars
The West Virginia Mine Wars are a dramatic and often overlooked chapter of American history. In the early 1900s in the coalfields of Southern WV, miners faced desperate circumstances. Below ground they withstood some of the worst working conditions in America. Above ground they dealt with brutal mine guards and a mine guard system that controlled the politics and economy of the region.
In 1921 mountaineer families from the nearby hollows, African Americans from the Deep South, and immigrants from places like Hungary and Italy all came together to fight for the right to unionize and basic constitutional rights. From August 20 of that year, miners began rallying at Lens Creek , approximately ten miles south of West Virginia state capital of Charleston. Estimates of total numbers vary, but on August 24, between 5,000 and 20,000 miners began marching from Lens Creek into Logan County. Many of the miners were armed.
Logan County Sheriff Don Chafin had assembled a fighting force of approximately 2,000 county police, state police, state militia, and Baldwin-Felts agents to stop the approaching miners in the mountain range surrounding Logan County. (The brutal, strike-breaking Baldwin-Felts crew were well known. Almost a decade earlier they had played a role in the violent confrontation known as the Ludlow Massacre when the Colorado National Guard used machine guns to kill 21 people, including miners' wives and children.)
On August 25, 1921, the West Virginia miners began arriving in the steep countryside surrounding Logan, and fighting began. On August 30, 1921, President Warren G. Harding declared martial law for the entire state of West Virginia and 2,500 federal troops arrived on September 2, bringing with them machine guns and military aircraft armed with surplus explosive and gas bombs from the recently concluded World War I. Facing such a large and well equipped fighting force, the miners were forced to stand down. (Source: The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum website)
Though West Virginia remains one of the most backward states in the Union, to a large extent it was their coal that powered the American industrial revolution that gave rise to great fortunes. Unfortunately, not much of that money benefitted the West Virginia miners. According to US Census Bureau's most recent figures (2017), West Virginia narrowly edged out Mississippi as the state with the lowest median household income in America.
For Me to Have More, You Must Have Less
This observation on the subject of "Zero-Sum USA" is from London-based Umair Haque, one of the sanest and most insightful observers of today's United States who, incidentally, was at one point in his career the most popular writer at the Harvard Business Review:
Their logic is as brutal as it is backward. My goal in life is to maximize my own money, power, and control. And if that means taking away your happiness, purpose, worth, value, security — very well, so be it. In fact, all the better that way — me preying on you — because it proves how worthy I really am.
Why are Harvard grads stealing people's life savings in broad daylight — and being celebrated for it? Because precisely the same moral illogic is at work. For me to have more, you must have less. You must have less than me — in every regard, power, money, worth, value — for me to have more. We cannot both have more — only one of us can win. And the one of us that is the strongest, the cruellest, the most abusive — he should be applauded, cheered, and adulated.)
Haque comes to the logical conclusion:
The rest of the rich world has learned the great lesson of history. That cooperative nonviolence is the hand of progress. Social democracy is based on that principle. And it's not a coincidence that social democracies are all forging ahead, whether Sweden or Canada, even in troubled times — while us Anglos are collapsing into the abyss. The abyss of what supremacy must lead to. Extremism, fascism, authoritarianism.
Are Americans Victims or Perpetrators? Both, Actually
Victims of what?
Twisted, inhumane values that have been cynically dialed into your ideological DNA
A questionable-at-best national political philosophy based on so-called rugged individualism, greed, opportunism, racism, primitive social Darwinism and, inevitably, massive doses of hypocrisy
A grotesquely slanted self-perception and condescending world view that leads to grave consequences at home and abroad
We are the greatest.
We have a special entitlement that is valid around the world and includes a license to kill.
Our democracy is a model for human life on this planet and we have a sacred duty and implacable right to implant it wherever we choose.
Our uniqueness and privilege is God-given and irrevocable.
The universal concepts of humanitarianism, common decency and the sacredness of human life do not apply to us.
Tolerance for the intolerable: racism, white-supremacy, imperialist brutality, pro-active ignorance and arrogance
Intolerance for the deserving: the poor, the handicapped, immigrants, minorities, intellectuals, small countries with big natural resources or strategic geographic positions…
A bloated and predatory patriotism
A feral, knee-jerk anti-communism and anti-anything-else that smacks of collective solutions
A penchant for permanent war as the only way to "make America great again." But is this a viable strategy to assure greatness–or even survival? History suggests it may not be. Despite the pilfering of the country's national treasure for "natural security" the amassing of high-tech arms caches may not get the job done. Do you remember the results of Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq? All of these wars had one thing in common: the Americans, riding the usual tsunami of overconfidence and exceptionalism, underestimated their opponents. Are you prepared to affirm that won't happen again?
Perpetrators of what?
Intolerance of "the other" which manifests itself as blatant racism both at home and around the world
Massive miracle religions in their most fundamentalist guises
Baseless, counter-productive, expensive militarism
A murderous gun-based civil society
A relentless counter-productive foreign policy
A tragically unequal and biased society at home
A flawed self-perpetuating political system based on unscrupulous big-money interests such as the military-industrial-congressional complex, big banks, big pharma and know-nothing billionaire magnates,
Hypocritical and inhumane persecution of America's truth-tellers, particularly those who have revealed to the world's media the most egregious abuses of the United States government. None of these whistleblowers has ever been shown to be motivated by money or power. Their motives have always been common decency and the preservation of America's stated values, often at great risk to themselves.But instead of being celebrated as heroes they are denigrated as traitors in a cynical campaign of right-wing black propaganda. When US soldier Bradley Manning released video footage of a US military attack on Iraqi civilians in Baghdad to Julian Assange's WikiLeaks news agency in 2007 both were promptly converted into international political pariahs by the American government and mainstream media. Though the Pentagon has verified the footage in which 12 civilians were killed in that Baghdad incident there was no relief for Manning or Assange. The former was recluded in federal prison until granted a presidential pardon by President Obama, and Assange spent seven years as a refugee in the Bolivian embassy in London until April 11, 2019, when he was dragged out by British police and deposited in Belmarsh Prison, located in southeast London and known as "Britain's Guantanamo Bay, where he remains a prisoner today."
The gleeful perpetrators of this targeted mass killing from a helicopter were never prosecuted, neither by military nor civilian courts.
Stacking the Deck
We are always hearing veiled suggestions that powerful economic institutions are influencing America's democratic institutions to legislate in their favor. But they never make quite clear which powerful interests, nor what institutions, nor when nor where nor how nor by whom. Not that it's a secret, at least since 1992 when Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele, veteran Pulitzer-Prize-winning investigative reporters for the Philadelphia Enquirer published their book, America: What Went Wrong? In a book that should be required reading in all US schools, Bartlett and Steele revealed, naming names, dates and places, the nuts and bolts of how big-money interests from the American Who's Who of predatory capitalism dismantled the American middle class along with the conditions that gave rise to it.
The blurb on the back of the book declares:
America: What Went Wrong? is a solid indictment of how the rulemakers in Washington and the dealmakers on Wall Street have changed the rules of the game to favor the privileged, the powerful and the influential–at the expense of everyone else… Bartlett and Steele have managed to tell the story we all suspected in language so clear–and graphics so dramatic–that every reader will see how the lives of all of us have been touched by public acts and private greed.
The authors make amply clear that the sea change to massive inequality that has installed itself in America since the nineteen-seventies was not a result of accident or coincidence. It was a carefully-engineered network of scams designed to transfer the country's wealth from the hands of the many to the coffers of the few. It started with a series of false "tax reforms" that benefitted the richest taxpayers, including the egregious case of Ted Arison, the Israeli-born cruise-ship magnate and major stockholder in Carnival Cruise Lines who became, in 1991, according to Forbes magazine, "one of the fifteen richest people in the United States with wealth estimated at $2.3 billion."
How did he do it? According to Bartlett and Steele, it was simple. In order to evade some $200 million dollars of federal tax he simply claimed his right as an American businessman not to pay taxes as his "shipping Company" was incorporated in a foreign country, Panama. And its subsidiaries are organized in Liberia, the Bahamas, the British Virgin Islands and the Netherlands Antilles. So his tax bill between 1985 and 1988 was zero. And this is the result of only one of the revisions of the Internal Revenue Code that "friendly" US legislators refer to as "tax reform." Arison is not alone. Hundreds of American corporations have benefitted—and continue to benefit–from similar special-interest tax laws. American taxpayers, meanwhile, are obliged to make up the lost tax revenue.
Is There a Solution?
Based on recent history there may be precedents for a solution to the problem of Uncle Sam going seriously off the rails. In the 1930s the citizens of two countries with high levels of civilization lost their collective minds and turned into gratuitous invaders and mass murderers on opposite sides of the world. Both were guided through their own labyrinths of racial superiority, manifest destiny and historical inevitability by skilfull pathological maniacs. I refer, of course, to Germany and Japan.
They were defeated by the Allies—notably Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States–in the Second World War and, though everybody involved in that conflict suffered, it was Germany and Japan that were obliterated by carpet bombing, the latter with the enhancement of two American nuclear warheads. Flash forward a historically-brief three generations and what do we find? Today Germany and Japan are two of the most advanced, most civilized countries in the world. Their remarkable success is based on intelligent leadership and the collaboration of their whole societies in recasting and rebuilding their countries. The fact that neither country supported any military spending during this time was also a factor. Both defeated "superpowers" of their time rallied the collective work and willpower of their entire populations to create new societies based on solidarity, equality, and the universal wellbeing of their citizens and those of the rest of the world. That is to say, they rose heroically from the ashes, not in military terms but in other much more important ways.
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Many in the Episcopal blogosphere are familiar with Crusty Old Dean aka Tom Ferguson, who inter alia formerly served on the staff of the presiding bishop. His blog, Crusty Old Dean, is an erudite and humorous perspective on issues in TEC.
One of his best pieces, "The Collapse is Here," discusses the fact that Tom has been warning that TEC is lurching towards collapse, and doing so for years. He explores the reasons for that collapse, including the fact that many in the church simply embrace the fact that the church as we know it is dying. On that score, Tom says he's settled into resignation — there are some who are prepared to knowingly make decisions that will result in that outcome, and there's nothing to be done about it.
Tom goes on to say that these challenges are compounded by a variety of factors, including the perception by the unchurched that Christians are hypocritical and judgmental. In that regard, I'd add that there are those of who are previously "churched" who would fully agree with that assessment
I'll leave readers to explore the details on their own, but the article raises several good questions for Grace Episcopal Alexandria:
Is the church making decisions, both at the vestry level and in day-to-day life, that lead to life? Or is the church killing itself due to its own rot? I submit that any church in which it's okay for the rector to lie under oath, to try to drag a dying woman into court, to try to push people out of the church and more has made the decision to die.
Is the church willing to admit that, as things stand, it is dying? With revenue plunging, attendance consistently down, and no "real" new members (versus ones who show up to get married, never to be seen again), the church is living on the bequests of lifelong members. This simply is not sustainable.
Is the church prepared to stop minimizing its issues? Folks like to brush off negative assessments of the parish, claim they are being harassed, and all their other childish responses, all the while thinking it's okay to flip off protesters. And for the record, there is plenty more protesting to come.
Does the fact that those who have had negative experiences with the church wind up having to go to court to resolve their concerns tell members anything? If you're like Lisa Medley, Sugarland Chiow, Alison Campbell, Kelly Motormouth Gable, or others, you try to brush this aside with ad hominem attacks, claims of mental illness, and more. But to an outsider, the fact that the parish is in litigation five years later speaks volumes about the parish, and what it says is not good at all. As Tom would put it, "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, cats and dogs living together" bad. (Wow, did Tom just make a terroristic threat? Someone call Sugarland, pronto!)
Is the church prepared to do the work needed to survive? As far as I can tell, the answer is no. People would much rather go back to having coffee hour and drunken blowouts at Shrine Mont versus actually reaching out to the unchurched. Or fixing the church's problems.
Will Anne Turner make a difference? The answer is, it depends. It depends on the extent to which the church is willing to acknowledge that it will die if it doesn't change. From there, the answer depends on the church's ability to embrace change, to grow, and to evolve.
As things stand now, the church is a very costly stage for poorly done videos of Mass, and an expensive platform for a school that largely serves the wealthy of the area, many of whom have little, if any, connection with the church or its faith going forward. And while the church may relieved to have put the debacle of the HVAC system behind it, it still has no concept of the capital expenditures coming down the road, including the replacement, due soon, for the amateur-hour reroofing of Merrow Hall, the repaving of the parking lot and circle, the replacement of the energy-gobbling HID lights around the complex, the refurbishment of the original elevator, and more. Yes, the property committee draws up lists and recommendations, but these are no substitute for the replacement reserve study that David Adams recommended back in 2014. And $20 says the church still hasn't been bothered to do one, so it continues to have no meaningful sense of its cash flow needs in the coming years.
Plus, having had to borrow to cover much of the cost of the HVAC should tell the church something. As in, it's not saving enough.
I've said this many times before, but I am going to say it yet again: The church needs to save for the future if it wants to stay in its current building.
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I love summer and am usually fine with the switch from Standard time and daylight time. This year it's throwing me off guard for some reason. Here's what I'm thinking about the solstice so far.
Ugh, the evenings are gonna get so much longer.
Personally I love having longer evenings. Gives me more outside time. I rarely go outside in the winter unless necessary. Funny thing, I grew up in the snow belt and moved to the 'bible belt' and have stayed in the south ever since. I believe that any temp below 55 degrees should be a negative number! I miss my summer kitchen! I'm the grill master and do most of my cooking in the summer outside. Bring it on DST!
I get up at 4 AM so not a fan of Spring Forward. l am HUGE FAN of Spring!
Dont know where to put this pic so Ill put it here. !! Finally have the mates of the socks that keep missing.
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Protesters in Dakar set tyres on fire and threw stones at security forces on Wednesday night during protests against a nationwide dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed almost three months ago because of the coronavirus pandemic. … Senegal's government has not faced major opposition to its handling of the pandemic, but the economy has been hit hard by measures including the overnight curfew and a ban on inter-regional travel. Senegal has confirmed almost 4,000 cases of COVID-19, including 45 deaths. Dakar and Touba, which is both a trading hub and major pilgrimage destination, have been hardest hit. The unrest in Dakar and Touba highlights a dilemma for many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, where measures to protect citizens' health are also damaging the livelihoods of millions who work in the informal sector, stirring up tensions. Unable to shuttle passengers between Touba and Dakar, taxi driver Same Diop has started begging in the street alongside dozens of other drivers struggling to support their families. Al Jazeera
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A scuffle broke out between protesters and police in Madagascar Wednesday as citizens took to the street to denounce anti-lockdown measures to contain COVID-19. Tensions heightened after a police officer allegedly beat a street vendor, accused of violating an afternoon ban on commercial activities. Images of the victim were shared on social media, sparking fury among residents of Toamasina in eastern Madagascar. "People must respect the measures taken by the state and things will work out. But the police are severe and they scare people, that's why people are extremely angry with them, and that's why the situation in Tamatave is tense," an eyewitness said. A vendor told AFP that she was afraid of how the police operates during this lockdown. "I am very afraid of the police but faced with the lack of money, we act as if we were not afraid," she said. AFP
'Crippling': ICRC Says Support Vital as Coronavirus Hits Incomes
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has called for concerted action to protect livelihoods during the coronavirus pandemic, warning that failure to do so may foster a boom in aid-dependency in countries at conflict. Citing new survey data from Nigeria, Libya, Iraq and Ukraine, the Red Cross said on Thursday the economic and food security impact of COVID-19 was massive and appeared likely to worsen over time. "In countries at conflict, millions already live with little or no healthcare, food, water and electricity, as well as volatile prices and destroyed infrastructure. COVID-19's impact could set in motion a vicious cycle of lost income, deepening poverty and hunger," it said in a statement. In Nigeria, 95 percent of people in a 313-person survey said their sources of income had suffered due to the pandemic. Al Jazeera
Celine Fariala Mangaza, Congolese Heroine of Disabled People, Dies at 52
A low murmur seeped from a packed room at the back of a school in the Democratic Republic of Congo one rain-soaked January afternoon. Hand-cranked Singer sewing machines thrummed while more than a dozen women worked, chatting quietly, the wood or metal crutches they relied on within easy reach. Children wove between them. Mama Leki, a woman with a tremendous, gaptoothed smile who easily broke into raucous laughter, sat in the middle of the group she had created in 2006 for women disabled mainly as a result of polio or meningitis. Mama Leki had been tired of the stories of women sexually assaulted or beaten while home alone or forced to beg on the street, more vulnerable because of their condition. Isolation, poverty and loneliness were part of their everyday existence until she brought them together to earn a little money by sewing brightly colored dolls, bags and dresses. The New York Times
In Pictures: Khartoum Protesters Mark 1 Year after Bloody Raid
Protesters have taken to the streets of the Sudanese capital to demand justice for pro-democracy demonstrators killed a year ago in a violent crackdown by security forces. Early on June 3, 2019, gunmen in military fatigues had stormed a sit-in outside the military headquarters in Khartoum, the focal point of months-long protests that led to the removal of President Omar al-Bashir in April 2019. … At least 128 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in the attack that ended the sit-in, according to doctors affiliated with the protest movement. Official figures put the death toll to at least 87. … At the rally on Wednesday, a mask-clad woman held a banner reading, "We won't forget and we won't forgive" as many other protesters rallied and smoke billowed from burning tyres. In a televised statement marking the anniversary, Abdalla Hamdok, the new prime minister under a civilian-military transition authority, promised justice. Al Jazeera
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The Bellingham Herald reports mother and grandmother L47, or Marina as she was also known, was missing from the center's 2021 census, and she hasn't been spotted since Feb. 27.
Southern resident orca born last year confirmed as female
A small barrel roll gave Washington whale watchers a gender reveal over the weekend and reason to be hopeful about a pod of endangered southern resident orcas that frequent Puget Sound.
Shell pays $191K fine for 2015 Puget Sound refinery incident
Shell Oil Products U.S. has paid a $191,000 fine for the release of pollutants from its Shell Puget Sound Refinery north of Seattle.
COVID-19 hasn't interrupted Alaska's resupply lifeline from Pacific NW, yet
The coronavirus pandemic has served to remind many of us how much we count on strangers staying healthy so we can restock our cupboards and go about daily life. That's especially true for Alaskans who depend on a marine cargo lifeline from the Pacific Northwest for the majority of their goods.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee slams Navy testing's impact on orcas, other marine mammals
The governor of Washington state and other state officials have criticized a Navy military testing program that would potentially harm endangered orcas if approved
This Orca Was Stolen From Puget Sound. The Lummi Nation Want Her Back
In the 1960s and '70s, catchers captured nearly 50 orcas from Puget Sound. Only one is still alive and the Lummi Nation want her back.
A Butterfly Only Found In The Northwest Is Headed For Endangered Species List
The island marble butterfly can only be found on a small patch of land in Washington's Puget Sound. The federal government wants to add it to the Endangered Species List.
Washington's Fish Farms Are Governed By Decades-Old Guidelines
The guidelines have been on the books since 1986. Critics of fish farming in Puget Sound say last month's farmed salmon escape underscores the need for better standards and enforcement.
Q&A: So Why Are Atlantic Salmon In The Northwest?
Last weekend a net pen holding 305,000 Atlantic salmon broke apart near Washington's Bellingham Bay. The situation has raised a few basic questions about Atlantic salmon and fish farming.
Using Whale Breath To Find Out What's Ailing Orcas
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Iowa's jobless rate climbed to a 22-year high in the month of May. Kerry Koonce, a spokesperson for Iowa Workforce Development, says Iowa's umployment rate rose to 5.8% in May, up from 5.1% in April and 4% one year ago.
The U.S. jobless rate hit 9.4% in May, up from 8.9% in April. Iowa's increase is blamed in part on recent college graduates. "(In) May, you have a lot of college grads that are entering the workforce and if they haven't found a job, then they become counted among the unemployed," Koonce said.
The number of Iowans without a job climbed to an estimated 96,900. Koonce says Iowa lost 3,400 jobs between April and May. She doesn't expected the state's jobless numbers to improve anytime too soon.
"Even when the recession comes to an end and we start to see the economy rebound, it'll take a few more months for jobs to really start to rebound," Koonce said. The total number of working Iowans dropped to 1,583,100 in May from 1,589,900 in April. Total employment was 25,400 higher in May 2008 at 1,608,500.


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Q: Looking for a Title: Post-Apocalypse Dystopian Utah I recall reading it in the 1980's.  It was set in post-apocalypse Utah and revolved around a character who was an assassin operating under the cover of a search and rescue specialist. Any idea on the author/title?

A: I think you're talking about a trilogy by Dean Ing: Systemic Shock, Single Combat and Wild Country. The stories are set after a war that splintered the U.S. into various more-or-less independent countries. Utah is recovering faster than some of the other territories because of Mormon practices of self-sufficiency.
We see the protagonist, Ted Quantrill, growing from a teenager to a young man. Particularly in Systemic Shock we're introduced to the Search and Rescue team that doubles as a death squad, and a lot of the plot revolves around Quantrill's rebellion. Here's a link to a useful description from James Nicoll, which may provide additional supporting detail: "one of my tinfoil hat theories"

Streamlined America is Mormon-dominated. Not only was living where the bombs didn't fall the key to survival, but the Mormon practice of keeping a year's worth of supplies gave them an edge. Many Gentiles converted after being saved by those supplies. President Young foresees a glorious future in which American policy is guided by the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, led by none other than Young himself.
The fact that this violates constitutional law does not bother Young, nor does the fact that most Mormons would object to his plan. Dubiously sane Young sees himself as a messianic figure. Fate has handed him the tools he needs: a battered America willing to set aside certain civil liberties during reconstruction, control of national media, and best of all, Section T, America's own death squad.
Section T's assassins are loyal to the death. Literally: every killer carries a remote-controlled bomb in their head. Defection is a death sentence. The assassins of Section T are a bright, highly motivated group of survivors. None are brighter or more competent than Ted Quantrill. As Young will learn to his cost….

A: Long shot, but is it possible you're thinking of Prayers for the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno?

The book starts off during the second American Civil War with a Muslim soldier dying in 2017, at the battle of Newark. Flash forward to the Super Bowl in 2042 in Seattle, the capital of the new Islamic Republic, the majority of whose inhabitants have converted to Islam. The nation's culture is a fusion of traditional American and Islamic: the Super Bowl is still played, but the cheerleaders are sword-wielding men and the participants break at half-time for afternoon prayers.
As the story opens, the country is facing a crisis, with competing political and religious factions threatening to destroy the fragile peace that exists within the Islamic States of America. At the same time, behind the scenes, a messianic figure known as the Wise Old One contrives to seize power for himself, and fulfill the ancient prophecy of the restoration of the Caliphate.
The story's protagonist is Rakkim Epps, a Muslim and ex-Fedayeen shadow warrior. Epps must risk everything to save the life of Sarah Dougan, the young historian he loves.
It becomes known that it was in fact Muslim extremists who launched the attacks, including the dirty bomb in Mecca. A fourth, more powerful bomb (later found in China) was scheduled for detonation but the small group of Muslim extremists assigned the task succumbed to radiation poisoning before it could be put into play.
Once the truth was exposed, the parties stepped back from the brink and sought to find a common ground from which to start a more trusting, more open-minded dialog. Thomas "Redbeard" Dougan, Sarah's uncle, dies in the aftermath.
At the epilogue, Rakkim is in a mosque, performing his salat, or ritual prayer. There is a final showdown between Darwin, the "evil" assassin and Rakkim, with both of them almost dying. Rakkim finishes the showdown by killing Darwin with a knife throw to the face, but the rest of the ending sets up the conditions for the sequel.

Parts of the story are apparently set in Utah, which is part of the Mormon territories. However, it wasn't published until 2006.

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Apple Watch Series - Discuss Differences And Features Of Apple Watch Series 1-4. Which Apple Watch model should I get?
Apple just launched the new Apple Watch weeks ago and Apple fans can't wait to explore the new design and updated features of Apple's another watch invention. Throughout these years, Apple has introduced 4 Apple Watch models to the market: Apple Watch Series 1, Apple Watch Series 2, Apple Watch Series 3 and now Apple Watch Series 4. In this article, we will guide you through the features and differences between these four Apple Watch models, so that it will be easier for you to get the best choice out there!
When the Apple Watch was released in April 2015, it offered only one set of internal features — call it "Series 0". In September 2016, Apple announced two new feature variations, called Series 1 and Series 2, respectively. In September 2017, there are three distinct Series options available for users: the existing Series 1, Series 3 GPS-only, and Series 3 GPS + Cellular.
Until Apple Watch 4, the watch series has been very similar in terms of design, Apple watch 4 marks the first 40mm or 44mm size variants. This allows for a slightly larger screen and the digital crown.
Little reminder: Only Apple Watch 2 and Apple Watch 3 are waterproof, so do not wear the latest Apple Watch 4 to the swimming pool! Apple Watch Series 1 is only splash-resistant while Apple Watch Series 3 options are water-resistant up to 50 meters, so you can take them swimming or wear them in the shower.
Performance - Features
All versions of Apple Watch features a heart rate monitor, accelerometer, gyroscope and ambient light sensor. The Apple Watch 3 was the first that supported an Altimeter while the new Apple Watch 4 has ECG features for the first time. Comparing to Apple Watch 3, the new ECG feature is mostly likely the major upgrade of Apple Watch 4.
Each watch has featured 512MB of RAM, apart from Apple Watch 3 which features 768MB. The official details of Apple Watch 4 have not yet been released by Apple. I guess the most obvious difference must be the screen size and display.
Comparing to Apple Watch 1 and 2, Apple Watch Series 3 reached the upgrade milestone: It is enhanced with swim-proofing and a direct-fire speaker, GPS and run-tracking, a twice-as-bright Retina display, along with a new S3 dual-core processor that's 1.7x faster than the Series 1's S1P. It is also equipped with an altimeter for elevation tracking, audible Siri response, and Apple's W2 wireless chip for easy pairing to your iPhone and wireless accessories.
Performance - Screen Display
The Apple Watch Series 4 has a much larger display with rounded edges, making full use of the space available and resulting in a bolder design. The 40mm Series 4 offers a 759sqmm display area compared to the 563sqmm on the 38mm Series 3.
The Apple Watch Series 4 offers a much bigger display that makes better use of the case size, an improved accelerometer, fall detection, Bluetooth 5.0 and an electrical heart sensor, which will eventually allow users to measure their own ECG (US/UK/Europe-only for now).
Performance - Speed
The big spec upgrade on the Apple Watch 2 is the S2 dual-core processor inside. For Apple Watch 3, we were still subjected to a spinning icon when trying to enter some apps although Apple said they already upgraded the processor.
The Apple Watch Series 4 has an upgraded processor that is claimed to be two times faster than the S3, called the S4. It also has the next generation wireless chip called the W3. Many of the hardware features are the same as Series 3, including the barometric altimeter, built-in GPS and the optical heart rate sensor, but the Series 4 does add a few extras.
As you can see from this comparison table for Apple Watch specifications, the latest Apple Watch 4 is the most upgraded version in the whole series. The display screen is larger so as the weight also increases. The internal memory is double the amount, from Apple Watch series 1-3 8GB to 16GB. The operating system is also upgraded to Version 5, which supports more advanced heart rate functions and other mentioned features.
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Macau spa treatments to relax and revive, from head to toe.
Specially created by The Spa at Grand Lapa, Macau, the Macanese Sangria Ritual is an indulgent three-part experience incorporating grape seeds, extracts, and essential oils. It starts with a sensual body scrub using fresh grapes and crushed rice with a mixture of grape seed oil, rosemary and essential oil. The next stage is a revitalizing sangria bath in the outdoor whirlpool bath of your private spa garden, accompanied by a glass of specially made sangria for drinking. Made from red wine and grape seed extracts, the sangria bath stimulates the circulatory system and moisturizes the skin. The journey ends with an 80-minute grape seed oil massage.
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A soothing and sensual ritual that begins with a full body exfoliation using certified organic seaweed oil. Your body is then covered with finely ground wet seaweed and muslin sheeting. Immerse in a bath of organic seaweed, hand-harvested from the unspoilt Atlantic coast of Ireland, followed by a full hour of essential body massage and a mini-facial. The journey will relax tired aching muscles, deeply moisturise and detoxify your body and increase blood circulation.
This organic spa-journey revitalises skin condition, relaxes tired and lethargic muscles and relieves stress and fatigue. Beginning with an indulgent full body wrap to help you detoxify and relax, the treatment is followed by a soothing seaweed bath. Feel completely revived with a full body seaweed-leaf hot stone massage and a mini-facial. A perfect treatment after a long journey.
Begin your journey with full body exfoliation using organic peppermint leaves, seaweed and sugar then relax in an aromatic bath complemented with Organic sea salts for ultimate relaxation. The treatment is completed with a full body massage.
This treatment detoxifies, firms and softens the skin and is great for weight loss programmes. You will also receive a relaxing head massage during this ultimate spa experience. Only the finest seaweed, harvested by hand from the ocean, is used to ensure that the highest content of bio-actives is preserved.
Refresh and revitalise your skin with an organic seaweed body buff and seaweed infused mud wrap. This treatment begins by scrubbing you from head to toe with VOYA Time To Shine organic body buff, followed by a full body mineral and anti- oxidant rich mud wrap. During the wrap, your head is massaged and your face is pampered with VOYA certified organic products. This treatment offers immediate and noticeable effects for the skin, including firming and toning. This is a serious detoxifier, metabolism stimulator and a natural anti-aging boost.
Our Aromaessence Massage consists of a relaxing, hands-on-body massage that combines the powerful effects of an Oriental meridian massage with the therapeutic benefits of custom-blended essential oils by Aromatherapy Associates. To smooth and rejuvenate dry or tired skin, a ginger,mandarin and frankincense scrub can also be added to your treatment.
A delightfully different deep- tissue treatment that uses organic essential oils and heated stones. The heat soothes muscles whilst releasing the precious extracts underneath.
A massage that manipulates soft tissue by blending massage strokes with effective deep-penetrating techniques. Helps reduce muscle fatigue and aids in the recovery of damaged tissue. The treatment is best suited for guests experienced in massage.
This massage dates back 2,500 years and concentrates on major energy meridians in the body. It combines stretching and pressing techniques to increase flexibility and harmonize the body.
A tailor-made facial specifically to your skin's unique needs. This incredible skin specific organic facial is deeply detoxifying, revitalizing and increase clarity. This facial incorporates a relaxing facial massage that releases any build-ups of toxins, to improve radiance and restore a glowing complexion.
A firming and hydrating eye treatment uses specific products rich in seaweed extract, green tea and vitamin C, to help reduce the appearance of fine lines and decongest the eye area. Combining both relaxing and lymphatic massage movements to banish puffiness and dark shadows.
Our dual action lathering body buff exfoliates with finely ground walnut shells and nourishes your skin with a blend of almond oil seaweed and ginger extracts. Our gentle but effective formula removes rough and listless looking skin, to reveal vividly refined softer, silky smooth skin.
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Once painfully uncompetitive, the U.S.-made automobile is clawing its way back with good-looking designs, attention to detail, and even respectable fuel economy. At GM, an unlikely hero named Bob Lutz gets at least some of the credit.
December 8, 2011, 12:11 p.m.
My test car, a 2012 Buick LaCrosse with eAssist (making it a mild hybrid), is as good a place as any to gut-check the mettle of that much-maligned entity, the American automobile. Let's go back 20 years. Taken together, it was indeed pretty dispiriting: the rusting hulk of de-industrializing Detroit, the clueless and increasingly bankrupt automakers, and their sub-standard, built-by-bean-counters gas guzzlers, trumped in every possible category by Japan and Germany.
But that was then. Like the prospect of being shot in the morning, bankruptcy court is a great way to concentrate the mind. Even before that—starting in the mid-1990s—the Detroit automakers were starting to build good automobiles again, but it took reformers like Alan Mulally and Bob Lutz to go through the entire product lines.
I know Lutz is the quintessential auto insider, who never met a muscle car or SUV he didn't like. And his views on the environment would win him pride of place at a Fox News picnic. But he contains paradoxes—he's also known as the father of the Chevy Volt (at left). And he's got a thing about quality that stood him well during his most recent stint at GM, as vice chairman. His book Car Guys vs. Bean Counters hammers the point relentlessly—he spent as much time as possible in the trenches, confronting the "good enough" mindset and pointing out how Lexus and Audi get it right with panel gaps and quality materials. And he proved it was cost effective.
Indeed it did. The four-cylinder LaCrosse I'm driving just feels right, from the high-quality materials in the interior to the narrow, evenly spaced panel gaps (see photo at right, Lutz was a stickler for gaps). Despite the absence of a V-8, there's plenty of creamy power when you need it, and the car is as quiet as Herman Cain's campaign headquarters.
The good news is that eAssist is standard in the LaCrosse—you don't have to buy "the hybrid version." This car is part of the belated recognition by Detroit that Americans care about fuel economy. This is a big luxury sedan with lots of room for six-footers, but it gets 25 mpg in the city and 36 on the highway. The LaCrosse with eAssist, which went on sale in August, does its magic with an on-board lithium-ion battery pack (pioneered by GM for the Volt), a motor generator that provides up to 15 horsepower of electric boost, and start-stop technology so it saves fuel at traffic lights. And don't forget the six-speed transmission.
Plus, the LaCrosse looks like the Lexus that Toyota never built. Styling for the most conservative citizen of Oshkosh is out. But there's lots more that GM can do. At 3,835 pounds, the LaCrosse is no lightweight, and the company should take a page from the BMW playbook and find ways to use composites so its hybrid and electric drivetrains don't have so much poundage to push around. It's also pretty pricey, considering it's not a full hybrid--$36,685 as tested, including a $1,345 audio system (which should be standard). I can buy a nice 50-mpg Prius starting around $23,000.
I sat in the LaCrosse's cockpit and tried to pretend I was Bob Lutz. I think he'd like the even stitching on the leather-wrapped steering wheel, and the natural way that the padded dash is integrated into the dashboard. None of it looks cheap. He'd probably want to narrow the door-to-interior gaps, though. And he'd nod with approval at the way the auto-stop feature works—not nearly as clunky as on early GM vehicles (such as the Silverado Hybrid).
Would I buy one? Not for $36,000. My little Honda has great panel fit, too, and it cost $15,000, with even better fuel economy. But then I'm not a candidate for a big luxury car. Within the category, it's far more competitive than they'd like to admit in Stuttgart, Seoul and Tokyo. We can thank Bob Lutz—the guy who said that global warming is @*$%*@—for that. Let's hope he enjoys watching his swans in country squire retirement. Did I hear that he's consulting with an electric car company?


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Jenny O'Grady May 14, 2018 Discovery
UMBC graduate programs are among the best nationwide, according to the 2019 U.S. News Best Graduate Schools rankings, which makes a new scholarship announced this March an even sweeter deal for alumni considering a return to school.
For the fall 2018 semester, all alumni starting a new master's or certificate program at UMBC will qualify for a one-time $1,000 scholarship, which can be applied to any of the university's 62 programs. New applicants can also receive a code to waive application fees.
"We want to thank our Retriever Nation for making us so proud, and celebrate our alumni so they can claim their future," said Christopher Steele, Vice Provost, Division of Professional Studies.
The U.S. News rankings recognize a dozen UMBC master's and Ph.D. programs including nine top-100 programs from a broad range of fields, with all three UMBC colleges represented. They are based on a survey of more than 20,500 academics and professionals, plus data on over 2,000 programs, indicating the quality of each school's faculty, research, and students.
UMBC has recently launched several new programs at both the Catonsville and Shady Grove (Rockville) campuses, including master's degrees in data science and technical management. The scholarship applies to all master's degrees, which span the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
"We want our alumni to think of UMBC as their destination for applied master's and certificate programs no matter where they are in their careers," said Janet Rutledge, Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School. "Our programs are built to take students to the next level."
For more information about the scholarship, programs, and deadlines, visit gradschool.umbc. edu/retrievernation.
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package org.apache.shindig.social.opensocial.model;

/**
 * public java.lang.Enum for opensocial.Enum.NetworkPresence.
 */
public enum NetworkPresence implements org.apache.shindig.protocol.model.Enum.EnumKey {
  /** Currently Online. */
  ONLINE("ONLINE", "Online"),
  /** Currently Offline. */
  OFFLINE("OFFLINE", "Offline"),
  /** Currently online but away. */
  AWAY("AWAY", "Away"),
  /** In a chat or available to chat. */
  CHAT("CHAT", "Chat"),
  /** Online, but don't disturb. */
  DND("DND", "Do Not Disturb"),
  /** Gone away for a longer period of time. */
  XA("XA", "Extended Away");

  /**
   * The Json representation of the value.
   */
  private final String jsonString;

  /**
   * The value used for display purposes.
   */
  private final String displayValue;

  /**
   * Create a network presence enum.
   * @param jsonString the json value.
   * @param displayValue the display value.
   */
  private NetworkPresence(String jsonString, String displayValue) {
    this.jsonString = jsonString;
    this.displayValue = displayValue;
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   * @see java.lang.Enum#toString()
   */
  @Override
  public String toString() {
    return this.jsonString;
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   * @see org.apache.shindig.protocol.model.Enum.EnumKey#getDisplayValue()
   */
  public String getDisplayValue() {
    return displayValue;
  }
}


Due to the extreme weather conditions affecting our area we advise that the zoo will be closed until conditions are safer for travelling to the zoo and for moving around within the zoo.
We will definitely be closed for all of Friday 31 March 2017 but hope to be able to open for the weekend.
Please visit the website, our Facebook page, email us or phone 07 4696 4107 between 9am and 3pm for updates.
Stay safe everyone and remember - IF IT'S FLOODED. FORGET IT!


Support for PDF output (via pdflatex) was added to MOOSEDocs, this capability includes support for latex output to all MOOSEDocs extensions. This capability is still in the early stages of development, but if you are ambitious and would like to test out the capability the following will demonstrate the tool.
Support was added to the automatic differentiation system in support of coupling to vector variables via the adCoupledVectorValue and adCoupledVectorGradient functions within the ADKernel objects.
Tensor mechanics stress divergence kernels for all coordinate systems were converted over to the automatic differentiation system. In addition, AD versions for strain calculators for all coordinate systems and all supported strain types (small, incremental small, and finite) were added (new object name prefixed with AD). Initial AD support for inelastic models has been added, such as power law creep. Creep and plasticity models with internal newton solves have particularly difficult to implement Jacobians (which are currently often approximated by the elastic stiffness). AD improves these models considerably by providing perfect Jacobians. In support of the AD Tensor Mechanics additions, framework level calculation of the dependence of quadrature point locations on mesh displacements was added. This is particularly important for calculations in non-Cartesian geometries.
Users of the fluid_properties module now have a utility for sampling thermodynamic properties at a specified state. This utility is valid for all fluid properties classes that derive from SinglePhaseFluidProperties and TwoPhaseFluidProperties. A syntax is provided for specifying the thermodynamic state at which to sample, and a number of properties are printed to the console at this state. See the documentation of FluidPropertiesInterrogator for details.
Several enhancements have been made to mesh dimension capability so that the correct dimension is detected for several possible edge cases (such has a 2D mesh sitting in the xz-plane). Additionally, the –mesh-only command will also properly and consistently check and write out the proper mesh dimension for your simulation regardless of how your mesh is created/generated.
MOOSE contains a very useful PointSampler utility that can be used to output the solution based on several points. This capability is wrapped up in several useful classes in MOOSE such as the LineValueSampler, SideValueSampler, and PointValueSampler. Each of these classes request sampling of a set of useful points in some area of the domain (such as along a sideset or through the middle of the simulation). A recent addition to this class is the ability to change the set of sampled points at each invocation of the object. This allows the user to do several things such as follow a piece of physics or possibly capture high resolution solution information as the simulation evolves.
OK - so this is more of an internal API, but anybody who has touched a MooseArray knows how easy it can be to forgot to clean up memory allocations. We have finally fixed this after a decade of MOOSE without performance impacts.
The AD capability is added to DGKernels now. DG users do not have to compute Jacobian derivatives any more.
Before a mesh presplitting starts, the mesh is reset as a single partition that stops us from using the parallel PETSc partitioning capability. We added a fix for this by doing a linear partitioner before we call the PETSc partitioner so that a distributed graph is constructed and the partitioning process runs in parallel.
MooseArray no longer leaks !


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Home / Geography / External Processes of Landform Development / Action of Running Water / Action of Running Water
Running water is in fact the most prominent agent in the sculpturing of the earth's surface except in the arid or frozen lands. A river is running water, and refers to a mass of water flowing over the land surface from its source and empties usually into the seas, lakes, swamps or depressions. Whenever rain falls, it is drained from the land surface into rivers and lakes, apart from that evaporated. A drainage basin is formed by this arrangement. An area which drains all the water that falls on it, not including that removed by evaporation, into a river or stream and finally to the sea or lake is termed a drainage basin. The water in a river is an energy system. Its energy depends mainly upon the volume and velocity, and together make up the term, discharge. Discharge is expressed in cubic metres per second (m'/sec). It is used by the river for erosion and the transportation of its own eroded materials and those brought into it by rain. As the discharge of a river increases, usually during flood, its ability to carry load increases at a greater rate than the discharge, but with very minute increase in the friction with the bottom and sides of the river. This results in more energy being left for transport. A rapid flowing river can carry more material and fragments of larger size than a slow one. The measure of the ability of a river to carry a load is called its competence. Erosion is accomplished through four processes, namely:
i. Hydraulic action
ii. Corrasion
iii. Attrition
iv. Solution
Hydraulic action
A river can carry loose materials and can break up solid rock when it enters into its cracks. Its turbulence and eddying, result in the undercutting of the banks on a curve termed bank caving. If bubbles of air or water vapour in a fast flowing river burst, shock waves are formed and help in eroding the banks, termed cavitations.
Corrasion
The river uses its load as the grinding tool for wearing away banks and beds. Corrasion may be vertical or lateral. It is vertical when the bed of the river is made deeper and lateral when the banks are made wider.
The fragments of rocks that a river carries are constantly colliding not only with the bed but also with each other thereby wearing themselves down. This action is known as attrition. The reduction in the size of the materials makes the transportation by the river easier.
This refers to chemical erosion and involves the solvent work of water as it flows over such rocks as limestone. The solid material in solution, carried by a river is termed:
i. Suspension
ii. Saltation
iii. Traction
Suspension: The very small particles carried by a river is done by suspension. The particles are swirled along by the river.
Saltation: Larger particles being transported by a river touch the bed at intervals in a series of hops. This is termed saltation.
Traction: For the very large particles such as pebbles, they are rolled along the river bed by gravity and the pushing power of the river. The big stones and boulders are moved mainly during flood.
Solution: Although the load transported in solution cannot be seen by the eyes, some good quantity is done so.
A river with materials in solution, suspension and the traction load
The erosional and depositional features of a river are best studied and understood through the study and the understanding of its course. The profile of a river is graded from source to mouth and divided into three pronounced sections. These are the upper course, middle course and the lower course.
The Upper or Mountain Course
The upper valley or course of a river is mainly by vertical corrosion and very little of lateral corrosion. By so doing, a steep-sided V-shaped valley is cut. The river here follows a winding course because of obstacles formed by various resistant rocks. Ordinarily, rivers follow the line of less resistant interlocking spurs.
River Gorges: These are commonly associated with the upper course of a river. They are relatively deep, elongated, steep-sided and hollow. They are usually found where vertical erosion by running water is more rapid than the forces of weathering can wear back and open up the sides. Examples include the Shiroro Gorge along River Kaduna (Nigeria), Indus Gorge in Kashmir and Aar Gorge near Meiringen in Switzerland. Gorges are sometimes formed in the desert climates by a river from another area whose volume is dependent on snow-melt on mountains away from the desert. Such gorges are called canyons in America. Examples include the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, and those found on the Snake and the Yellow Stone River.
River Capture: This is one of the features found in the upper course of a river. it is sometimes called river piracy or river beheading. It takes place if the erosion power of a river is far greater than that of another river on the other side of a divide (watershed). With this, the stronger river expands its basin at the expense of the weaker one through back cutting or headward erosion. Where the divide is broken through, the weaker stream loses its head waters to the stronger one. Examples can be found in Ghana, which include the beheading of the Rivers Amisa Ochi and Nakwa by River Pra; and the capture of the Mansl by the Ofin. Other examples are the capture of the Upper Sittang by the Irrawaddy in Burma, and the beheading of the Blyth and Wanshock by the North Tynet in Northumberland, England.
Rapids, Cataracts and Waterfalls: These are also common features of the upper course even though they may be found all through the course of the river. Rapids are those outcrops of very resistant rocks on the beds of rivers. Since they do not make for a free flow of the river, navigation is usually difficult. Examples are the Bussa rapids and Awuru rapids in River Niger. Cataracts are rapids of greater dimensions while waterfalls refer to points along the course of a river where there is a plunging down from a reasonable height.
The Middle Course
Here, unlike in the upper course, lateral corrosion is in greater action. The valley becomes wider as a result and with greater volume of water that permits some deposition. The deposition slows down the river so that any swing in the river may turn out a meander.
The formation of an ox-bow lake – typical feature of a flood plain
With the formation of a meander, a cliff is created overhanging the river bank. Such a cliff is known as a river cliff Also, a sloping spur projecting from the opposite side is formed called a slip-off slope.
The Lower or Flood Plain Course
At this stage, deposition predominates the work of the river thereby having a series of sweeping meanders over a broad almost level valley. This is as a result of the near absence of vertical corrasion while lateral corrosion continues to erode the banks. Flood plains are the most common features here. They are formed when rivers in flood deposit their load on the adjoining low-lying areas. Flood plains are usually very thick and made up of finely divided silt. On the other hand, most mud is often deposited at the edge of the channel where the current is less active to form a natural embankment. Where the floods subside this embankment is known as a levee. Examples can be found in Mississippi.
Ox-bow lakes or cut-offs are also important features of the lower course. They are simply relics of former meanders. Often, such lakes end up as swamps through sitting during floods.
As a river enters the sea, it drops the remaining load in a fan shape. This forms the delta made up of alluvial deposits that make the river discharge through smaller channels known as tributaries. Examples are the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria and the Ganges Delta in west Malaysia.
Sometimes, after reaching its lowest course, a river may rejuvenate i.e. become young through renewed erosion, thereby developing fresh features. This action is termed rejuvenation. It produces terraces on either side of the channel by both vertical and lateral corrasion. Also produced here is the deep cutting of the channel into the surface with the plan of the original meanders maintained.
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Weiguo Fan
Postdoctoral Scholar, Gastroenterology
BioMy research focuses on liver diseases. I got my Ph.D. degree in virology and immune response at Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The two main projects during my Ph.D. program are: 1) explore the relationship between the immune response in Hepatitis C virus infection and Interferon treatment; and 2) investigate the function of ECM1 in liver fibrosis. As a postdoc in Stanford, I will try to integrate basic and translational liver research and focus on: 1) investigate molecular functions of liver immune cells in liver disease; 2) explore key factors determining the change of liver microenvironment that cause liver diseases; 3) use new techniques, such as next-generation sequencing, RNAseq or signal cell sequencing, to explore key factors affecting liver disease and treatment in patients.
wfan90@stanford.edu
Alessia Felici
Postdoctoral Scholar, Oncology
afelici@stanford.edu
Ruibin Feng
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular Medicine
Basic Life Res Scientist, Medicine - Med/Cardiovascular Medicine
ruibin@stanford.edu
Priya Fielding-Singh
Postdoctoral Scholar, SCRDP/ Heart Disease Prevention
BioI am a Sociologist and Postdoctoral Fellow in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at the Stanford Prevention Research Center. My research examines health, gender, and social inequality.
My primary research agenda investigates health disparities across class, race, and gender in the United States. I draw on both qualitative and quantitative methods to understand how neighborhoods, schools, and families shape our health behaviors and outcomes. My work has been published in journals such as Social Science & Medicine, Obesity, Sociological Science, and the Journal of Adolescent Health.
I hold a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University, a M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Bremen, and a B.S. in Education and Social Policy from Northwestern University.
priyafs@stanford.edu
Shawna Follis
BioShawna Follis, PhD, MS, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Stanford Prevention Research Center. Dr. Follis is a social epidemiologist researching social determinants of health, race/ethnic health disparities, body composition, and aging.
Sajjad Fouladvand, PhD, MSc
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biomedical Informatics
BioSajjad Fouladvand, PhD, MSc is a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research. Dr. Fouladvand's research career thus far has been focused on developing and applying artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to solve real-world healthcare problems. Prior to Stanford, he worked at the Institute for Biomedical Informatics at the University of Kentucky (UK) while completing his PhD in Computer Science. During this time, he also received training at Mayo Clinic's Department of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics as an intern.
While at UK as a PhD candidate, he developed a deep learning model based on transformer and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) models to analyze multi-stream healthcare data for prediction of opioid use disorder (OUD). While at Mayo Clinic as an intern, he created a LSTM based framework to predict progression from cognitively unimpaired to mild cognitive impairment in an aging population. In his new role at Stanford, Dr. Fouladvand is involved in conducting AI and healthcare data science research in close collaboration with clinicians, scientists, and healthcare systems with access to deep clinical data warehouses and broad population health data sources.
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Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Nephrology
Masters Student in Epidemiology and Clinical Research, admitted Autumn 2021
BioDr. Mario Funes Hernandez is a clinical research nephrology fellow at Stanford University. He obtained his medical degree at the National Autonomous University of Honduras. His Internal Medicine residency was at Saint Peter's University Hospital/Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, serving as assistant chief resident and was a recipient of the Sister Marie de Pazzi award as best resident of the Internal Medicine Class of 2020. He's the current Nephrology Chief Fellow, a Heart Health Tech Fellow at the Stanford Center of Digital Health and a student in the Master of Science of Epidemiology and Clinical Research. Dr. Funes Hernandez has an American Heart Association Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Science award to assist in the development of digital health technology tools in the management of hypertension in patients with chronic kidney disease and resistant hypertension.
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L'aérodrome d'Hounslow (en  ou ) est un terrain d'aviation herbeux opérationnel entre 1914 et 1920 à Hounslow dans la banlieue ouest de Londres.

Historique
Le , quelques jours après le début de la Première Guerre mondiale, le Royal Flying Corps prend possession du terrain le transformant au cours des mois en base aérienne. La Royal Air Force (créée en ) abandonne le terrain à une activité civile en 1919 et, cette même année, Hounslow accueille la première liaison internationale quotidienne desservant l'aéroport parisien du Bourget.

Source

Aéroport à Londres
Base de la Royal Air Force en Angleterre
Histoire de Londres


text:
Sheriff Nyaling Sanneh war Seyfo (auch die engl. Bezeichnung Chief ist geläufig) für den gambischen Distrikt Kiang East.

Leben und Wirken
Sanneh wurde 1964 zum Seyfo ernannt. Im April 1994 wurde er vom Jawara-Regime wegen eines angeblichen Reisdiebstahls entlassen, 1995 jedoch von der AFPRC-Regierung wieder eingesetzt.

Mit Wirkung zum 19. September 2001 wurde Ansumana Sanneh zum neuen Seyfo des Distrikts Kiang East bestimmt. Er trat die Nachfolge von Sheriff Nyaling Sanneh an, der ohne Angaben von Gründen abgesetzt worden war. Bis zu seiner Absetzung war Sheriff Nyaling Sanneh einer der am längsten amtierenden Seyfolu.

Familie
2001 kam es zu einem Zwischenfall, bei der die Schwester von Sanneh, Awa Sanneh, zwischen die Fronten der Anhänger von United Democratic Party (UDP) und Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) geriet.

Einzelnachweise

Seyfo (Lower River Region)
Gambier
Geboren im 20. Jahrhundert
Mann


text:
Пота́шня — село в Україні, у Черкаському районі Черкаської області, підпорядковане Степанецькій сільській громаді.

Історія
Ще у люстрації Київського воєводства за 1622 рік є згадка про сільце Поташню, у якій говориться: «В том же старостве есть Буда — Поташняя, у которой еще несколько лет может изготовляться поташ. После того, как лес будет срублен, которого уже мало осталось, она должна будет снесена. В год приносит 950 флоринов». Хоча з часом добування поташу було припинено, та сільце, те що було засновано поблизу виробництва, залишилося, успадкувавши назву.

У 1790 році Поташня налічувала 48 дворів. Тут у 1846 році власником села Йосипом Гнатовичем Понятовським засновано цукровий завод з паровим обладнанням, що виготовляв до 7000 пудів цукру із 25000 берковців буряку.

За часи існування радянської влади на селі центральний корпус заводу був розібраний мешканцями села для будівництва льохів, Залишилися вцілілими лише деякі склади — комори та замулений ставок, що й досі має назву «Заводський».

Пам'ятки
 Гайдамацьке — заповідне урочище місцевого значення.
 Кратове — заповідне урочище місцевого значення.
 Перегонівка — заповідне урочище місцевого значення.

Джерело
 Канівська районна державна адміністрація Черкаської області

Села Черкаської області