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Thomas Hart Benton was born in Neosho, Missouri in 1889 into a family of prominent politicians committed to political republicanism and populism. His father was a congressman, and his great-uncle, for whom he was named, was an important US senator. Benton later recalled that, "Politics was the core of our family life." Through his art, specifically his murals, Benton sought to continue his family's support of nineteenth-century political republicanism, upholding the producers of society, and scornful of big business and big banks. Expected to follow his family's well-trodden path, instead, with his mother's encouragement he chose to study art. Starting at age seventeen he worked as a cartoonist for a local paper. Escaping the confines of small town life and rebelling against the stifling expectations of his family, Benton moved to Chicago where he enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago in 1907, studying under Frederick Oswald.
After two years at the Art Institute, in 1909, he chose the familiar path traveled by numerous other American artists and relocated to Paris to study at the famed Academie Julian. While in Paris, he became acquainted with the great Mexican artist, Diego Rivera, and, was greatly inspired by the American painter Stanton Macdonald-Wright, the founder of Synchromism. Benton settled in New York City upon his return in 1913, the same year as the famed Armory Show. In the 1910s, he experimented with several modern styles including Synchromism, which stressed the musical qualities of color. He was greatly influenced by the compositional strategies of Cezanne. A fire that broke out in his studio destroyed much of his early experimentations and work.
During World War I, Benton was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, where he served as an architectural draftsman and painted camouflage for the Navy. In his free time he read American history and sketched local scenes of shipyard life. The Navy's requirement for artistic realism and documentation strongly impacted on his later style. Up until this time he had struggled to find an artistic identity. It was his turn to depictions of everyday life of American and its people in a representational style that announced Benton's emergence as a mature artist. Because of his interest in American history and his family's deep roots in Missouri, Benton soon chose the American Historical Epic as a theme; his elongated figuration showing the influence of El Greco.
Upon his return to New York in the early 1920s, he unabashedly announced himself to be an "enemy of modernism," while simultaneously incorporating modernist aesthetics into his work. Like many artists during the 1920s and 30s, Benton was involved with the political left and leftist artists' groups such as the John Reed Club. His early work as a muralist capitulated Benton into the public eye. In 1930, New York's famed New School of Social Research commissioned Benton to paint a suite of murals entitled "American Today"; these now hang at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, Benton was heralded as one of the leaders of the Regionalist movement. The Regionalists were championed by Thomas Craven, a nativist and rabid anti-Semite, whose own bigoted views worked against the Regionalists. Despite his popularity, some critics downplayed Benton's artistic talents, disapproving of his allegedly provincial aesthetics and subject matter and his unabashed rejection of abstraction.
Benton was one of the first American artists to combine modern aesthetic principles with long held academic constructs. Working as a Regionalist, he embraced the Midwest and its people as currency for his art work. His mural commissions predate the start of the New Deal Arts Program, and so, were influential to nascent muralists who likewise looked to the American scene and its people. Benton never worked for the federal projects thanks to his many mural commissions, and for his numerous illustrations for industry, publishing, and advertisements.

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Kentucky's Top Typicals From Last Season
Get a load of these trophy bucks, from Dale Mustard's Lewis County brute to Kevin Lamar's Hancock County head-turner, plus two other fine whitetails! (Dec 2006)
Well before dawn during the second weekend of Kentucky's gun season, Dale Mustard arose at his Tollesboro home to begin preparing for the day's hunt. From a locked cabinet, he selected a gun and ammunition and placed them near the doorway to be picked up on his way out to the truck.
Following coffee and a quick breakfast, the hunter gathered his gear. Just before starting out the door, Dale walked over to the cabinet and exchanged the single-shot rifle he had selected for a CZ bolt-action rifle.
"Simply a gut feeling, nothing more," Mustard remarked. "I have deer-hunted a number of times with each gun, as well as a pistol. In fact, I hunted with a pistol the previous weekend and missed an 8-pointer on opening morning. The CZ just happens to be one of the most consistently accurate rifles I have ever shot, so naturally that gives me a great deal of confidence when I hunt with it."
Around daybreak, after parking his four-wheeler near the junction of two high Lewis County ridgetops, he began to slowly still-hunt along the crest of the ridge. Whenever he reached a good vantage point, he paused to do some rattling. After several hundred yards without seeing any sign of deer activity, he decided to retrace his path along the ridge.
"I had walked about 100 yards when I noticed sunlight reflecting off something through the trees on the opposite ridge," he related. "The distance across the hollow was pushing 300 yards. And unfortunately, I had left my binoculars in the four-wheeler. After turning the variable scope on my rifle up to 6-power, I leaned against a tree to steady the gun as I attempted to determine what the object was."
Eventually, the hunter realized the bright sunlight was shining on a deer standing motionless in a small opening on the hillside. Because of the distance involved, Mustard had a difficult time determining much detail through the scope.
"As I was watching, the deer suddenly turned its head, enabling me to see a giant set of antlers," he said. "In spite of the distance, it was obvious that the rack extended well out beyond the deer's head and body. I remember thinking, 'My gosh, what a buck!' I simply couldn't believe the deer's size."
Hurriedly maneuvering into a shooting position where there was a solid rest for the rifle, the hunter carefully aimed and squeezed the trigger.
At the shot, the buck bolted forward, running up the hillside. Quickly working the rifle's bolt, Mustard managed two more shots before the deer disappeared over the ridge.
Later, after crossing the hollow and climbing to the top of the hill, the hunter arrived at the approximate spot where he'd last seen the big deer. He scanned the ground, hoping to find some sign that he had hit the buck. After several minutes, he discovered one small splotch of blood in the leaves.
"Finding that blood was really important because I then knew for sure in which direction to continue the search. That particular ridgetop was rather narrow, and as I started down the other hillside, I spotted antler tines sticking up in the air next to an old blown down tree. Apparently, the buck had flipped in the air as it was falling and its body had slid under the trunk of the tree until the rack hung and stopped it."
A quick examination revealed that all three of his shots had hit the deer, although one struck only a leg.
Did his last-minute swap of hunting rifles make the difference between taking the buck or not? It's impossible to say, but one thing's for sure: Without the switch, he'd have been limited to only one shot.
From an appearance standpoint, the buck's rack is truly awesome, exhibiting a great combination of spread, tine length and antler mass. Most hunters would consider any buck with 9-inch G-2s to be a respectable trophy; amazingly, this measurement represents the Lewis County's buck G-4s! The G-3 tines measure 13 4/8 and 12 2/8 inches, and the G-2s tape out at 15 1/8 and 11 6/8 inches. Also, the 12-point frame has long main beams of 28 3/8 and 27 3/8 inches, and an antler spread of 23 0/8 inches outside and 20 3/8 inches inside.
The rack grosses an amazing figure of 199 7/8. Unfortunately, a number of side-to-side asymmetry deductions, plus one 3-inch abnormal point, drops the final typical Boone and Crockett (B&C) score to 187 3/8. Nevertheless, this is still a tremendous score, ranking the deer as the No. 1 typical for the 2005-06 season, and occupying the 11th slot on the state's all-time B&C list of typical whitetails.
Surprisingly, Lewis is one of only two counties in the entire state where a buck of this size ranks no higher than third place. The other two giant typicals include Jim Cooper's state- record blackpowder buck scoring 189 3/8, taken in 1999, and Ben Johnson's huge 12-pointer, scoring 188 5/8, taken in 1993.
Interestingly, of the seven typical bucks taken last season that scored over 170, four were taken by bow, including the year's No. 2 buck, an impressive 11-pointer that scores 179 0/8, taken in Shelby County by Cliff Willoughby. For the hunt story and photos of this big deer, plus the additional three giant typical bow kills, please see the issues of Kentucky Game & Fish for August '06, September '06, and January '07.
THE DARREL SCRUGGS BUCK
The No. 3 typical buck of 2005 scores 178 0/8 and was taken in Pulaski County by Darrell Scruggs of Somerset. He's been hunting deer for a number of years, but the conditions surrounding the taking of this huge whitetail were a little different than on any other trip he had experienced.
"A strong weather front had moved through the state, and there were high winds all night long," Scruggs said. "The following morning before daybreak, I drove to the farm where I planned to hunt. But the wind was so strong, I sat in the truck until daylight. After finally realizing there was going to be no possibility of hunting from a stand, I grabbed my rifle and binoculars and decided to do some walking, knowing there was no chance of a deer hearing me."
After circling through several acres of woods without encountering any deer, the hunter decided to check several alfalfa fields before heading back to the truck. After seeing nothing in the alfalfa, Scruggs was following a woods line across an open bottom when he spotted two deer standing in a distant strip of winter wheat.
"I estimated the distance at nearly 400 yards. But even so, the buck looked extremely big, even without my using the binoculars," he said. "I dropp
ed to the ground and used the embankment of an old field road as a solid rest for the rifle."
The hunter's first shot was a clean miss. But when he fired again, the big deer reared up on its hind legs, whirled sideways and fell. Seeing that the buck was struggling to get back up, Scruggs hurried closer and finished the deer with an additional shot.
The hunter's initial analysis of the buck's size certainly proved to be correct. The 6x5 typical frame includes a 19 2/8-inch inside spread, main beams that average 25 inches, and impressive tine length. For example, 7 1/2-inch brows (G-1s) are followed by paired G-2s and G-3s, all of which tape between 13 0/8 and 11 2/8 inches.
Darrell Scruggs' great buck is the eighth whitetail from Pulaski County to qualify for B&C's All-Time record book. By contrast, last season's No. 4 typical, a massive 10-pointer scoring 177 1/8, becomes the first B&C whitetail ever recorded from Hancock County. Kevin Lamar, of Hawesville, took the huge buck in a tract of hardwoods he has been hunting since he was a boy.
THE KEVIN LAMAR BUCK
"I was located in a flat of timber along a creek bottom, situated between two high ridges," Lamar noted. "Basically, that particular area acts as a bottleneck for deer moving from woodlands beyond the ridges to agricultural fields within a few hundred yards of the creek bottom. For several years, I hunted the woods line along the field's edge. But after continually seeing only does and small bucks, it finally dawned on me that the bigger deer were staying back in the timber until it was dark.
"After relocating my stands well back in the wooded bottom, I have taken a couple of trophy-class bucks."
During the first few days of gun season, Lamar hunted the area with a bow, nearly taking a big 8-pointer before finally deciding at the last minute to pass on the buck. At the time, he hunter had no way of knowing that decision would prove to be one of the most important of his hunting career.
Around midweek, a severe weather front that included several tornadoes moved through western Kentucky. The much cooler temperatures that followed greatly improved hunting conditions, prompting Lamar to try a late-afternoon hunt in the bottom. Because of the bulkier cold-weather clothing, he decided to swap his bow for a rifle.
"The wind direction that day was totally wrong for me to use my regular stand, so I carried a portable climber in and positioned it on the opposite side of the creek bottom," he explained. "One factor that makes this particular area so good is that it always seems to hold a significant congregation of does. And that afternoon, an hour after climbing into position, six of them walked out of a nearby thicket."
As the hunter watched the does milling about, browsing on honeysuckle, he suddenly heard a buck grunt. Taking out his grunt tube, Lamar responded. Within seconds, a large spike appeared and began chasing the does. Eventually, all of the deer moved out of sight. However, he could still hear the chasing going on farther back in the thicket.
"I continued to do some grunting from time to time, but the sounds of the deer got farther and farther away. While I was sitting and listening, I suddenly heard a noise from a cane thicket directly behind me. Just as I glanced around to take a look, a very big buck walked into view about 100 yards away."
Turned completely in the wrong direction, but afraid to move, Lamar waited until the deer walked behind a large tree before quickly rising to his feet and maneuvering into a shooting position. About the same time, he again heard the group of deer behind him moving about and running through the thicket. The buck, also aware of the other deer, quickened its pace while continuing in the general direction of both the deer and the concealed hunter.
"I really never considered a deer coming from where the buck was now approaching and I was a little worried about the wind. At approximately 50 yards, the buck entered a somewhat open area in the undergrowth, and I pulled the trigger," he said.
The deer immediately broke into a dead run. Lamar bolted another shell into the chamber and began tracking the moving buck. But just before he was about to shoot, the big whitetail crashed to the ground.
"To say I was excited would be an understatement," Lamar said. "However, after climbing down and walking to where the buck was lying, I was really overwhelmed to see the size of the rack. It was much larger and a great deal more massive than I had realized."
One look at the giant 10-point rack's official measurement statistics, and Lamar's comment becomes quite understandable. Three of the eight circumference measurements top 5 inches, with the smallest taping 4 3/8 inches. Also, the main beams exceed 27 inches, and four tines measure between 12 3/8 and 9 6/8 inches.
"It was extremely fortunate that the wind direction was wrong that afternoon," Lamar noted. "Otherwise, I would have been in my regular stand on the opposite side of the bottom and might never have seen the big deer. That's the thing about deer hunting -- you never know what's going to happen."
THE BRETT WILSON BUCK
A buck taken near the end of the 2004 season, but officially measured only recently, deserves special recognition. Barlow hunter Brett Wilson, who manages Deer Haven, a commercial hunting operation in Ballard County, took the deer. Unfortunately, Wilson has a genetic sight degenerative malady called optic atrophy. This recently forced him to give up regular bow hunting. But a small telescopic sight lets him use a crossbow.
In late December, while positioned near a wildlife opening, he arrowed a huge buck as it approached to within 25 yards. Despite having broken off the end of the right main beam, the 12-pointer grossed 172 2/8 and nets a final B&C score of 161 1/8. In addition to qualifying for B&C's Awards record book, the buck stands as the state's top all-time typical whitetail taken by crossbow.
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U.S. Imposes Fresh Iran-Related Sanctions on Two People, Six Companies
WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday said it blacklisted two companies based in Hong Kong, one in Shanghai and one in Dubai for helping Iran's state-owned National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) export millions of dollars of goods in violation of U.S. sanctions.
The U.S. Treasury Department said it imposed sanctions on the Hong Kong-based Triliance Petrochemical Co. Ltd and Sage Energy HK Limited, China-based Peakview Industry Co Ltd and United Arab Emirates-based Beneathco DMCC.
The sanctions would freeze all assets held by the companies that fall under U.S. jurisdiction, generally bar U.S. companies and individuals from dealing with them, and potentially subject non-U.S. financial institutions that knowingly facilitate "significant transactions" for them to U.S. sanctions.
In addition, the U.S. government-imposed sanctions on two other companies, Jiaxiang Industry Hong Kong Limited and Shandong Oiwangwa Petrochemical Co Ltd, and two individuals, Ali Bayandrian, who is linked to Triliance Petroleum, and Zhiqing Wang, a Chinese national linked to Shandong Oiwangwa.
The announcements are the latest step in the U.S. "maximum pressure" campaign designed to squeeze the Iranian economy to try to force Iran to accept greater constraints on its nuclear program, regional activities and pursuit of ballistic missiles.
U.S.-Iranian tensions have risen since the U.S. decision to abandon the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, its subsequent re-imposition of U.S. sanctions on the Islamic Republic, attacks on Saudi oil facilities blamed on Iran and the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in early January.
(Reporting by Makini Brice and Arshad Mohammed; Writing by Arshad Mohammed; Editing by Tim Ahmann and David Gregorio)
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The playing numbers of a cricket darts game are 15 to 20 and the bull's eye.The object of opening a number is by scoring it three times in whichever way you prefer in one turn or more. Throwing in the triple of the number scores it at one go. A double will open the number with two throws. While in singles you have to throw three times.
The scoring numbers are 15 to 20 and the bull's eye. None of any other numbers on the board count. Hitting those different numbers will be counted as a miss. Therefore, it is very crucial to aim at only these few selected numbers not to lose a throw.
The selected numbers will be open until the team hits them three times. Once a team hits a number three times, it closes it and is free to move to the next one. However, as mentioned earlier, hitting a triple can close the number at one go. While hitting the double is considered a two-time hit.
The team that closes the number can gain points from hitting any section of the number. For example; if the number closed is 20, then if the player hits triple 20 he gains 60 points or the double will score 40 points. The game will continue until the opponent player hits that particular number three times or as specified. Then the number will be out of play. The inner bull's eye scores 50 points while the outer bull's eye scores 25 points.
When a player scores, it must be recorded immediately, otherwise the record will be invalid if recorded when the opponent goes to play.
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How did corn become the most produced crop in the world?
This article has corn listed as the most important crop produced in the world. For some reason I feel like rice, or wheat is the more logical choice. So what were the conditions, and events, that led to the widespread production of corn?
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There is one fatal flaw in the basic assumptions here: world wide production for maize: 1037.8 mill t; sugarcane: 1890.7 mill t. People and animals may eat maize as is. In the other case it's just for sweets. Just in case anyone should ask for causes of diabetes epidemic ever again. – LаngLаngС Nov 22 '18 at 10:31
The big difference is geographic diversity. Wheat doesn't do very well in the tropics. Rice requires tropical and semi-tropical areas where lots and lots of water are available. However, corn can be grown nearly anywhere.
Corn kind of had a tough row to hoe (pardon the pun) in the Americas. It was first domesticated from the grass Teosinte in tropical areas of Mexico. However, the geographic axis in that part of the Americas is north-south rather than east-west like in Eurasia. This means that, unlike Eurasian crops, in order to spread to new areas of cultivation, corn had to be bred for new varieties capable of thriving in different latitudes than it was originally domesticated in.
This process took 8 millennia (more if you count in the original Teosinte domestication) to reach up to the lower Mississippi valley. However, once it was completed, Corn became one of the world's only staple grains that can be cultivated both in temperate and tropical climates.
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The 1977 sugar tariff and government subsidies for corn also substantially increased corn production for sweetener use in the United States. Conversely, Europe places limits on how much corn sugar may be produced. How much of an effect that has had on the global acreage of corn isn't obvious without research, but it's an interesting historical footnote. – SevenSidedDie Sep 8 '12 at 20:28
Maize is terrible in many regions where it is grown now, depleting the soil, requiring fertilizer & pesticides. The biggest point vs wheat is yield and C3 vs C4 carbon fixation – LаngLаngС Nov 22 '18 at 10:33
Corn is the most versatile of crops.
Rice needs a nearly tropical climate in which to grow, and also lots of water for paddies. These conditions are present mostly in Southeast Asia.
Wheat is a northern crop that does better in dry land. It grows best in Kansas, and areas to the north, and areas to the west of that state.
Corn can be grown in "subtropical" areas such as parts of Mexico, but without needing as much water as rice, and grows well fairly far north, up to parts of Nebraska and basically the Great Lakes region as long as there is enough water (more than is needed for wheat). Thus, it is the crop that is most representative of "growing" climates.
You can also find Corn grown in Canada, driving from Vermont up to Montreal for the first hour you see a lot of corn. – MichaelF May 9 '12 at 12:17
Wheat and rice are food that humans eat but humans also eat chicken, pork, beef, turkey, eggs, cheese, milk and many other animal products. So what do you think animals in cages and feedlots eat? Corn and more corn. Animals like cattle eat the whole corn plant. Also, the yield of corn plants is much higher and has more nutrients than wheat and rice.
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Is that as prevalent internationally as it is in the USA? In the US there are price supports, (arguably) resulting in so much getting grown that corn gets put in damn near everything. Its listed in the ingredients in a bag of peanuts at my vending machine here. However, I understand soybeans are often used for livestock feed elsewhere. – T.E.D.♦ Feb 21 '17 at 16:04
For centuries animals were fed with grass, wheat, soy and other plants, so this answer isn't sufficient to explain why corn overtook other cereals. There is still a lead to follow in it, since beef, for instance, is often fed with corn with the purpose of making the meat softer and sweeter, which suit the market better today, at least in America. – Evargalo Nov 22 '18 at 12:53
@Evargalo Cattle for example is evolved to eat and has been fed for millennia with grass. Feeding beans or grains is animal abuse (especially in the UK they made them even carnivorous cannibals [BSE]). This increases the fat content ("sweet") faster and shifts the fatty acid balance into the less than ideal range. What a wrong track altogether. – LаngLаngС Nov 22 '18 at 15:39
Summary: It's not.
First of all, there is one fatal flaw in the basic assumptions here. Maize is just not the most important crop. It is as of 2016 the biggest grain producer, starch plant and indeed very important. But it is dwarfed by another crop, which is produced at nearly double the weight harvested and used. Rice is eaten by people, maize is eaten mainly by animals. Maize has a few advantages going for it but also a lot of disadvantages. And despite from the correct but too simple: "maize makes more money", it has to be taken into account since when does maize play the role it does.
World wide production for crops in million tons
Sugar beet: 277.23
Wheat: 720
Rice: 741.0
Maize: 1037.8
Sugarcane: 1890.7
People and animals may eat maize as is. In the other case of cane it's almost exclusively for highly processes 'food' like sweets? Just in case anyone should ask for causes of the diabetes epidemic ever again. To be fair, the system is by now unfair enough to put varying percentages of all of the above crops into aggro-fuel. (The double g is no typo.)
Just looking at how did maize do as well as it did, compared to wheat and rice, this has to be split up into different classes of factors:
Plant inherent factors
Rice and wheat are C3 carbon fixing plants:
High crop yields are pretty important—for keeping people fed, and also for keeping economies running. If you heard there was a single factor that reduced the yield of wheat by 20% and the yield of soybeans by 36% in the United States, for instance, you might be curious to know what it was.
As it turns out, the factor behind those (real-life) numbers is photorespiration. This wasteful metabolic pathway begins when rubisco, the carbon-fixing enzyme of the Calvin cycle, grabs O2 rather than CO2.
It uses up fixed carbon, wastes energy, and tends to happen when plants close their stomata (leaf pores) to reduce water loss. High temperatures make it even worse.
Some plants, unlike wheat and soybean, can escape the worst effects of photorespiration. The C4 and CAM pathways are two adaptations—beneficial features arising by natural selection—that allow certain species to minimize photorespiration. These pathways work by ensuring that Rubisco always encounters high concentrations of CO2 , making it unlikely to bind to O2 (C3, C4, and CAM plants)
Maize is C4. Maize is also quite easy to breed into new varieties, even without genetic engineering. A fact demonstrated by how closely looking wild wheat species are, compared to really puny teosinte from which the native Americans managed to breed maize.
Geographical factors
(WP: List of domesticated plants)
As we know, Eurasia can be seen as oriented East-West, while the Americas can be described as North-South. As soon as a plant is deemed good enough to be cultivated, it spreads geographically. Leaving its natural habitat, those plants need to be bred to adaption. In Eurasia that means mostly for wheat to spread more 'horizontally' on the map than 'vertically'.
Origin and spread of rice
Fabio Silva et al.: "Modelling the Geographical Origin of Rice Cultivation in Asia Using the Rice Archaeological Database", PLoS ONE 10(9): e0137024. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0137024
Current distribution:
Origin and spread of wheat
Spread into Europe:
(src WP)
As can be seen, wheat was also brought into much higher latitudes early on. That alone cannot fully explain the current distribution between wheat and maize.
Current Wheat cultivation:
Origin and spread of maize
(Claudia A. Bedoya: "Genetic diversity and population structure of native maize populations in Latin America and the Caribbean", 2017. DOI)
Farming factors
Wheat and maize can only be cultivated on dry land. Rice can also be grown on wet fields. Wheat is good for mechanical harvesting, maize is excellent, rice problematic, depending on method.
Historical coincidences
In Europe, white potatoes and maize caught on more slowly, but the effect was remarkably similar. Old World wheat gave back only 5 grains for every 1 planted, whereas maize returned 25 to 100 (a single ear of modern maize yields about 1,000 grains) and, by the middle of the seventeenth century, had become a staple of the peasants of northern Spain, Italy, and to a lesser extent, southern France. From there maize moved into much of the rest of Europe, and by the end of the eighteenth century, such cornmeal mushes (polenta in Italy) had spread via the Ottoman Empire into the Balkans and southern Russia.
From there, the plant spread toward the Ural Mountains, where rye had long been the only staple that would ripen during the short, often rainy summers. Potatoes not only did well under such conditions, they provided some four times as many calories per acre as rye and, by the first decades of the nineteenth century, were a crucial dietary element in the survival of large numbers of northern Europeans, just as maize had become indispensable to humans in some of the more southerly regions. (Kiple, p3)
Why is this headed coincidence?
Not only was the Columbian exchange necessary. As one of the reasons for slow adoption of maize was found that simply switching a wheat based diet to maize produced in the old world a very vitamin deficient outcome:
[By] the time of Columbus, maize had already become the staff of life in the New World. It was distributed throughout both hemispheres from Argentina and Chile northward to Canada and from sea level to high in the Andes, from swampland to arid conditions and from short to long day lengths. In becoming so widespread, it evolved hundreds of races, each with special adaptations for the environment including special utilities for man.
As maize took root in Europe and Africa as well as in the U.S. South, its new consumers failed to treat it with lime before eating – as the Native Americans, presumably through long experience, had learned to do. The result of maize in inexperienced hands, especially when there was little in the diet to supplement it, was niacin deficiency and the four Ds of pellagra: dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia, and death.
maize is deficient in a number of important nutrients. Zein – the protein in maize – is deficient in lysine, isoleucine, and tryptophan (FAO 1970), and if maize consumers do not supplement their diets with foods containing these amino acids, such as beans, significant growth retardation is an outcome. Moreover, maize, although not deficient in niacin (vitamin B3), contains it in a chemically bound form that, untreated, will withhold the vitamin from the consumer. Consequently, human populations consuming untreated maize frequently develop pellagra, a deficiency disease characterized by a number of symptoms, including rough and irritated skin, mental symptoms, and diarrhea (Roe 1973).
"Market incentives"
As can be seen from the maps above, all three crops can be grown almost around the world. But not ever climate, soil or other conditions make these crop really suited for all regions, even when selecting the most adapted cultivar. One problem yet not discussed is that rice is mostly eaten as is. Wheat is made into flakes, bread and pasta. Wheat is also fed to animals. But maize is eaten by humans, fed to livestock, made into aggro-fuel and turned into maize-oil and corn-syrup as well. Despite being really bad for bread making, maize is indeed more versatile in application.
The story of wheat. Ears of plenty. The story of man's staple food. Economist 2005
But that is only one way to look at it.
More of the earth's surface is covered by wheat than by any other food crop. Wheat production is the third largest cereal production in the world, after maize and rice. In terms of dietary intake, however, wheat comes second to rice as a main food crop, given the more extensive use of maize as animal feed. Wheat is a hardy crop that can grow in a wide range of environmental conditions and that permits large-scale cultivation and long-term storage, making it key to the emergence of urban societies for millennia. Currently, about 65 percent of the wheat crop is used for food, 17 percent for animal feed, and 12 percent in industrial applications, including biofuels. (Feeding the World) Statistical Yearbook of the Food And Agricultural Organization FAO (PDF)
Even if grown in places where wheat would be a much better choice, suited to the conditions, maize can give a much greater yield, if 'properly' taken care for. In terms of ecology or organic farming this 'proper care' is of course quite disastrous. Large fields of maize monoculture need insane amounts of fertilizer, herbicides and pesticides; and it still depletes the soil on its own, not to mention the mechanised farming effects and erosion. While most of these factors were historically unavailable, and will be unavailable again, due to their unsustainability, they are the most important reason for the unprecedented expansion of maize cultivation.
Bob Nielsen: "Historical Corn Grain Yields for the U.S.", 2017.
This is historically a relatively recent trend, but it continues:
Despite the limitations, we believe that this dataset offers a tremendous opportunity for investigating the impacts of climate variability and change on yields and the influences of agriculture on climate, carbon and nitrogen cycles, water resources, land-use changes and biodiversity, as well as testing the reliability of crop simulations at the global scale.
Analyses of our dataset showed that crop yields became higher and more stable at the global level and the global yields of the three cereal crops (maize, rice and wheat) never stagnated between 1994 and 2006. However, a different picture emerged at the latitudinal-mean level. Our results corroborate the yield stagnation and collapses in some regions that were previously reported and revealed that regions in the low and mid latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere, where many developing countries are located, faced increased year-to-year yield variation in the recent period. Because these regions achieved limited increases in mean yields in the recent period, the increases in year-to-year yield variation were likely to be responsible, at least in part, for the yield stagnation and collapses. Further research is needed to elucidate the mechanisms underlying the linkages between the increased year-to-year yield variation and yield stagnation or collapse.
Toshichika Iizumi et al.: "Historical changes in global yields: major cereal and legume crops from 1982 to 2006", Global Ecology and Biogeography, (Global Ecol. Biogeogr.) (2014) 23, 346–357. (PDF)
Global source for this answer: Kenneth F. Kiple & Kriemhild Coneè Ornelas: "The Cambridge World History of Food", Cambridge University Press, 2000.
The global trend 1961–2016, in tonnes harvested, data source FAO stat, two views, compared to global harvest of 186 most important crops in 1961 and 2016:
So the outright explosive growth of maize and its dominating role compared to other food grains came very recently. It was already well adapted to large climatic regions, is inhrently efficient in using CO2, is easy to breed, very suitable for industrial agriculture, mechanised harvesting, fertilizer, pesticides and herbicides became available and cheap and the market demanded ever increasing quantities for a wide range of applications, not the least fattening livestock, people and cars. Add to that government subsidies in many countries that further distort the picture. Some really want their farmers to plant so much maize that reliance on ideal market factors seem to be insufficient, and therefore this also negates many of the inherent qualities of the plant itself.
Corn was the top crop for subsidy payments prior to 2011. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 mandated that billions of gallons of ethanol be blended into vehicle fuel each year, guaranteeing demand, but US corn ethanol subsidies were between $5.5 billion and $7.3 billion per year. Producers also benefited from a federal subsidy of 51 cents per gallon, additional state subsidies, and federal crop subsidies that had brought the total to 85 cents per gallon or more. However, the federal ethanol subsidy expired December 31, 2011. (US corn-ethanol producers were shielded from competition from cheaper Brazilian sugarcane-ethanol by a 54-cent-per-gallon tariff; however, that tariff also expired December 31, 2011.)
WP: Agricultural subsidy
Without capitalism, government intervention, industrial agriculture, maize would be much less important. But it's always trumped by other crops. Now it's sugarcane.
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A local entrepreneurial guru tells all
Kelli Korducki | Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Digital, Research and Innovation, Small Businesses
Hamid Arabzadeh is what you might call a restless entrepreneur. After 15 years developing companies in Germany, Mexico, California, and the UK, he returned to Toronto in 2010 to launch Spoke Technologies Inc., a startup incubator headquartered at Dupont and Spadina that provides assistance and talent in research and development, marketing, operations and finance, and seed financing. It's under Spoke's umbrella that he's launched his own company, Ranovus, and invested in two others: Impressed and Identos.
Arabzadeh spoke with Yonge Street about the local startup scene and what it takes to make businesses run.
Yonge Street: After so many years abroad, what brought you back to Toronto?
Hamid Arabzadeh: Apart from being a great place to raise your family, Canada has all the right elements to invest in new technologies. We have excellent universities here, and I knew of the research facilities here and the big companies that have been here. The talent here isn't as mobile as in California or other parts of the US, where people move from one company to another without even having to change their childrens' schools. People here are very committed, and aren't easily poached.
What made you decide to launch a tech incubator here in Toronto?
Financing can be hard to come by in Canada. So what we do is invest in startups, and provide them with resources to grow their teams. Usually what startups lack the most at first is the ability to put the right team together, to get their product together and out to the market.
What about Impressed and Identos made them ideal picks for your incubator to invest in?
Our approach is looking at companies where there's an investor from the other side as well. It's been a great marriage, to get involved with something as it hits the ground.
How does Impressed work?
Impressed is [responding to] a very interesting phenomenon happening in the world right now around Instagram. There are many people in the Instagram community with a very good eye, who self-express through their photos, and maybe they have 25,000-30,000 followers who really like their style. So what Impressed does is bring this online self-expression into the physical world. You can have photobooks printed for your coffee tables, or prints made for your house.
Earlier this month, Impressed launched a showcase at Pikto, a high-end photo gallery in the Distillery District, and with washi tape they drew a map of Toronto on a 200 square foot wall, and superimposed on top of it photos by Toronto-based Instagrammers of the places where they like to go. It almost looks like a guide to Toronto from the eyes of very popular Instagrammers and merchants who wanted to showcase themselves. That exhibit is up until the end of the month. They also have an app, which you can download for free.
And what does Identos do?
Identos provides a platform for app developers to be able to provide encrypted infrastructures so that nobody can access your data unless they have your permission. It's a unique approach to democratizing security. Right now, if somebody taps into your phone, all your data is available for them to look at. If they tap into Dropbox, they can go into all your content—almost nothing is encrypted. So, Identos allows app developers to write their code without having to worry about being security experts. Their data will be protected. The software development team is here in Toronto, and the hardware team is in Munich. Right now they're targeting [the product at] the healthcare industry, where privacy is so critical. They launched in June of this year.
Yonge Street just ran an article about how Toronto has become a major startup hub. Is this something you've noticed yourself?
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(This interview has been edited and condensed.)
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Historically Black University Vandalized After Institution's President Met With Trump
Posted by Cassandra Fairbanks | Mar 3, 2017 |
Howard University was vandalized after the institution's president met with Donald Trump, and other leaders of historically black colleges and universities, on Monday.
Following Howard University President Wayne A.I. Frederick attending the meeting with President Trump, a message spray painted on the sidewalk accused him of being the "overseer" of the "Trump plantation."
In today's episode of Howard University Shenanigans pic.twitter.com/W6aEMrc98H
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"Make Howard Black Again," a message spray-painted on a building read.
On today's episode of Only @ Howard …??? pic.twitter.com/pqkui0zHKh
— Kiara Nelson (@KiaraLynne__) February 28, 2017
The vandals also took a cue from Kanye West, scrawling with chalk that "Wayne A.I. Frederick doesn't care about black people."
One day after Trump's meeting with the leaders of HBCUs, he signed an executive order to help strengthen the institutions — a move which many lobbied the Obama Administration to undertake, though he never responded.
The order moves the Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities from the Department of Education into the executive office of the White House so that they will be prioritized in the federal budget and critical jobs initiatives.
Despite the positive outcome of the meeting, many students remain outraged despite the benefit to their own place of learning.
In response to the vandalism on Howard's campus from President Frederick. pic.twitter.com/AzF8oypoNT
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In a statement about the vandalism, Frederick wrote:
"Freedom of expression is embedded in our founding principles. As a campus administration, we have honored this principle by defending the right of community members who often express a wide range of often conflicting points of view. Howard University has long been a safe haven for such discourse, welcoming opposing views and providing a platform for stimulating dialog among students, faculty, staff, and alumni alike. Moreover, we are choosing to defend the right to free expression at a historic moment for our nation, when this right is once again of insurmountable importance," the statement read. "While I respect freedom of expression, I strongly oppose vandalism as a form of expression."
Frederick has also faced backlash after the university was visited by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.
"Howard University is pleased that Betsy DeVos, the new Secretary of Education, chose to visit our institution as her first official campus visit," Frederick said in a statement at the time. "We have a longstanding, successful relationship with the Department of Education, and I look forward to advancing this relationship under the Secretary's leadership."
A radical left group on the campus, calling themselves HUResist, issued a series of demands that the university now reject federal funding in protest of Trump. It is unclear if they volunteered to pay for the lost funding from their own wallets. Howard received roughly $222 million in federal funding for the university and hospital in 2016, according to a report from The Washington Post.
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HomeIngredientsSpecialty NutrientsAker BioMarine Supports Earth Hour
Aker BioMarine Supports Earth Hour

Aker BioMarine Antarctic joined the global Earth Hour movement on March 29 by turning off the lights on its three vessels in the Southern  Ocean for one hour to further its sustainability efforts.

Aker BioMarine Antarctic joined the global Earth Hour movement on March 29 by turning off the lights on its three vessels in the Southern Ocean for one hour. Aker is an integrated biotechnology company that develops krill-derived biotech products and is dedicated to the sustainable harvest of krill.
"We have always been committed to the environment and frequently go beyond traditional approaches in our business," said Matts Johansen, chief operating officer, Aker BioMarine Antarctic. "This is why we jumped at the opportunity to be a part of this important and unique event."
Aker BioMarine also collaborates with environmental organization around the world, including the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF-Norway) since 2006 to develop and apply best practices in its fishing operations in Antarctica.
Other sustainability efforts by Aker BioMarine include:
Addressing sustainability on several fronts, including third party research and environmental partnerships.
Producing its products through a completely transparent supply chain, using on-board GPS tracking to allow fishing vessels to record the exact location of each krill catch.
Sharing best practices with the industry and collaborating with several environmental authorities.
Earth Hour is a movement, organized by WWF, for people around the world to celebrate their commitment to the planet by turning off all non-essential lights for one hour. It was established in 2007 in Sydney and has grown to more than 7,000 participating cities and towns worldwide.
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Getting ahead for those with rare diseases – The UK Strategy for Rare Diseases
After a great deal of hard work by many the UK has now released it's Strategy for Rare Diseases. The Strategy was needed to fulfill European Commission requirements but it's by no means a box ticking exercise: it provides a walk through some of the issues that have been affecting patients and their carers for years and it sets out a starting point for a great deal more work to deliver on it's 51 commitments from now until 2020.
The Strategy covers the whole piece: from education and training for health professionals so that they can spot rare diseases, working collaboratively in research, empowering patients all the way through to how decisions are made about access to treatments. Speed is highlighted too: from speeding up diagnosis to faster health and social care support and faster sign up to trials.
The research side is of particular interest as this is a where there is one of the biggest challenges for rare diseases: getting enough knowledge in one place to focus efforts and be confident in the results of trials. The Strategy highlights the importance of research and champions the involvement of patients and families in all types of research. It also recognises that there is a need to streamline processes such as research approval. It sets out the potential for much greater use of online tools: to find out about research, to take part and to share with others. Some key commitments include:
• support patients to register on databases, where these exist;
• help patients to contribute to research and other activity related to rare diseases;
• examine how they can encourage service providers to involve patients in research and to ensure appropriate funding for excess treatment costs for research in rare diseases
• use portals to connect patients and relatives to enhance research participation and, where appropriate, promote self-enrolment to approved research studies with online consenting, self-reporting and use of social media
• explore the feasibility of the UK Clinical Trials Gateway including experimental medicine trials for rare diseases to provide information for patients and their families about research trials
Now each nation in the UK needs to draw up their implementation plans to deliver on the 51 commitments. And not all of these will be easy to meet; some will probably only be in the eye of the beholder (for example, 'appropriate' procedures for evaluating the costs and benefits of treatments for patients as what is appropriate could be different depending on whether you're the producer of the treatment, the NHS or the patient).
The opportunity now is instead of focusing on not leaving those with a rare disease behind, to get ahead for those with rare diseases.
Leela Barham is an independent health economist


RSS reader Feedly is planning to launch a paid pro service and beef up its existing service with premium features.
Feedly Pro will cost $5 per month for new services like article search, save-to-Evernote integration, premium support and more secure browsing via "https" protocol.
Feedly launched a limited edition of the updated membership on Monday to raise "funds to buy the hardware necessary to launch Feedly Pro in a few weeks," according to the FAQ section of its site. As of Monday afternoon, the limited edition was sold out.
For now, the pro version only will work on Feedly's desktop site, but expect it to be available on mobile and cloud apps "shortly." Moving forward, Feedly also said it will regularly introduce new features to Feedly Pro that users can to vote on.
RSS users are increasingly switching over to platforms like Feedly — along with competitors like Digg Reader and AOL Reader — after Google pulled the plug on its popular Reader service on July 1.
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Google To Cut 200 Sales & Marketing Staffers
Google has just announced plans to cut almost 200 people from the sales and marketing teams around the world. According to the announcement, the affected employees will be given time to find new positions at Google and/or help in locating a job elsewhere. They'll also give severance packages to those who leave the company. Says […]
Matt McGee on March 26, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Google has just announced plans to cut almost 200 people from the sales and marketing teams around the world.
According to the announcement, the affected employees will be given time to find new positions at Google and/or help in locating a job elsewhere. They'll also give severance packages to those who leave the company.
Says Omid Kordestani, Google's senior VP for sales and business development:
"Google has grown very quickly in a very short period of time. When companies grow that quickly it's almost impossible to get everything right—and we certainly didn't. In some areas we've created overlapping organizations which not only duplicate effort but also complicate the decision-making process. That makes our teams less effective and efficient than they should be. In addition, we over-invested in some areas in preparation for the growth trends we were experiencing at the time."
Earlier this year, Google confirmed the layoffs of contract employees as a cost-cutting move.
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My research interests include validating and analyzing data from satellite-based instruments and developing reference global aerosol and trace-gas climatologies and time series analysis with a special emphasis on trend detection and climate change. My doctoral thesis involved the retrieval of microphysical properties such as size distribution, surface area concentrations, volume concentrations and effective radius from the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) II measurements with a special emphasis on Mt. Pinatubo aerosol properties. I joined the Center for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS) staff as a post-doctoral research fellow in May of 1998.
I have previously merged trace-gas records measured by the SAGE II, Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS), Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier Transform Spectrometer (ACE-FTS), and the Halogen Occultation Experiment (HALOE) instruments as part of the NASA MEaSUREs Global OZone Chemistry And Related trace gas Data records for the Stratosphere (GOZCARDS) project [see Froidevaux et. al (2016) for details]. The purpose of the project was to create composite data records of trace gases important in stratospheric ozone chemistry. Composite data records are useful in principle due to the fact that they are sufficiently long enough to exhibit changes (such as ozone recovery) over decadal time scales, provide boundary conditions for Global Climate Model (GCM) simulations, and they are a vital tool in validating Chemistry Climate Model (CCM) simulations. The GOZCARDS project spanning from 1978 through the present created one such composite ozone record. The GOZCARDS composite ozone record is constructed of measurements from SAGE I, SAGE II, HALogen Occultation Experiment (HALOE), ACE-FTS, MLS on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) and Aura. The GOZCARDS team also developed a Hydrogen Chloride (HCl) composite data record constructed from HALOE, ACE-FTS, and Aura MLS measurements. This record has proven to be useful in corroborating northern hemisphere HCl increases due to atmospheric circulation changes as measured by column-based Fourier Transform Thermal Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) measurements made at various NDACC locations and SLIMCAT model results (Mahieu et al., 2014). Furthermore, GOZCARDS ozone data were used in a study by Ball et. Al (2018) that showed surprising decreases in lower stratospheric ozone since 1998.
I have participated in the SPARC Data Initiative where trace-gas and aerosol climatologies from HALOE were constructed for comparison with other satellite data sets. I am also the Deputy Campus PI on the NOAA EPP Cooperative Science Center for Earth System Science Remote Sensing Technology (CREST).
Nedoluha, G. E., Kiefer, M., Lossow, S., Gomez, R. M., Kämpfer, N., Lainer, M., Forkman, P., Christensen, O. M., Oh, J. J., Hartogh, P., Anderson, J., Bramstedt, K., Dinelli, B. M., Garcia-Comas, M., Hervig, M., Murtagh, D., Raspollini, P., Read, W. G., Rosenlof, K., Stiller, G. P., and Walker, K. A.: The SPARC water vapor assessment II: intercomparison of satellite and ground-based microwave measurements, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 14543-14558, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-14543-2017, 2017.
Steinbrecht, W., Froidevaux, L., Fuller, R., Wang, R., Anderson, J., Roth, C., Bourassa, A., Degenstein, D., Damadeo, R., Zawodny, J., Frith, S., McPeters, R., Bhartia, P., Wild, J., Long, C., Davis, S., Rosenlof, K., Sofieva, V., Walker, K., Rahpoe, N., Rozanov, A., Weber, M., Laeng, A., von Clarmann, T., Stiller, G., Kramarova, N., Godin-Beekmann, S., Leblanc, T., Querel, R., Swart, D., Boyd, I., Hocke, K., Kämpfer, N., Maillard Barras, E., Moreira, L., Nedoluha, G., Vigouroux, C., Blumenstock, T., Schneider, M., García, O., Jones, N., Mahieu, E., Smale, D., Kotkamp, M., Robinson, J., Petropavlovskikh, I., Harris, N., Hassler, B., Hubert, D., and Tummon, F.: An update on ozone profile trends for the period 2000 to 2016, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 10675-10690, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-10675-2017, 2017.
Tegtmeier, S., Hegglin, M. I., Anderson, J., Funke, B., Gille, J., Jones, A., Smith, L., von Clarmann, T., and Walker, K. A.: The SPARC Data Initiative: comparisons of CFC-11, CFC-12, HF and SF6 climatologies from international satellite limb sounders, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 8, 61-78, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-61-2016, 2016.
Harrison, J. J., Chipperfield, M. P., Boone, C. D., Dhomse, S. S., Bernath, P. F., Froidevaux, L., Anderson, J., and Russell III, J.: Satellite observations of stratospheric hydrogen fluoride and comparisons with SLIMCAT calculations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 10501-10519, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-10501-2016, 2016.
Nair, P. J., L. Froidevaux, J. Kuttippurath, J. M. Zawodny, J. M. RussellIII, W. Steinbrecht, H. Claude, T. Leblanc, J. A. E.van Gijsel, B. Johnson, D. P. J. Swart, A. Thomas, R. Querel, R. Wang, and J. Anderson, Subtropical and midlatitude ozone trends in the stratosphere: Implications for recovery. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 120, 7247–7257. doi: 10.1002/2014JD022371, 2015.
Harris, N. R. P., Hassler, B., Tummon, F., Bodeker, G. E., Hubert, D., Petropavlovskikh, I., Steinbrecht, W., Anderson, J., Bhartia, P. K., Boone, C. D., Bourassa, A., Davis, S. M., Degenstein, D., Delcloo, A., Frith, S. M., Froidevaux, L., Godin-Beekmann, S., Jones, N., Kurylo, M. J., Kyrölä, E., Laine, M., Leblanc, S. T., Lambert, J.-C., Liley, B., Mahieu, E., Maycock, A., de Mazière, M., Parrish, A., Querel, R., Rosenlof, K. H., Roth, C., Sioris, C., Staehelin, J., Stolarski, R. S., Stübi, R., Tamminen, J., Vigouroux, C., Walker, K. A., Wang, H. J., Wild, J., and Zawodny, J. M.: Past changes in the vertical distribution of ozone – Part 3: Analysis and interpretation of trends, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 9965-9982, doi:10.5194/acp-15-9965-2015, 2015.
Froidevaux, L., Anderson, J., Wang, H.-J., Fuller, R. A., Schwartz, M. J., Santee, M. L., Livesey, N. J., Pumphrey, H. C., Bernath, P. F., Russell III, J. M., and McCormick, M. P.: Global OZone Chemistry And Related trace gas Data records for the Stratosphere (GOZCARDS): methodology and sample results with a focus on HCl, H2O, and O3, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 10471-10507, doi:10.5194/acp-15-10471-2015, 2015.
Mahieu, E., Chipperfield, M. P., Notholt, J., Reddmann, T., Anderson, J., Bernath, P. F., Blumenstock, T., Coffey, M. T., Dhomse, S., Feng, W., Franco, B., Froidevaux, L., Griffith, D.W.T., Hannigan, J., Hase, F., Hossaini, R., Jones, N. B., Morino, I., Murata, I., Nakajima, H., Palm, M., Paton-Walsh, C., Russell III, J. M., Schneider, M., Servais, C., Smale, D., and Walker, K. A.: Recent northern hemisphere hydrogen chloride increase due to atmospheric circulation change , Nature, 515, 104-107, 2014,doi:10.1038/nature13857.
Hegglin, M. I., D. A. Plummer, T. G. Shepherd, J. F. Scinocca, J. Anderson, L. Froidevaux, B. Funke, D. Hurst, A. Rozanov, J. Urban, T. von Clarmann, K. A. Walker, H.J. Wang, S. Tegtmeier, and K. Weigel, Vertical structure of stratospheric water vapour trends derived from merged satellite data , Nature Geoscience, 7, 768–776, 2014,doi:10.1038/ngeo2236.
Tummon, F., Hassler, B., Harris, N. R. P., Staehelin, J., Steinbrecht, W., Anderson, J., Bodeker, G. E., Bourassa, A., Davis, S. M., Degenstein, D., Frith, S. M., Froidevaux, L., Kyrölä, E., Laine, M., Long, C., Penckwitt, A. A., Sioris, C. E., Rosenlof, K. H., Roth, C., Wang, H.-J., and Wild, J.: Intercomparison of vertically resolved merged satellite ozone data sets: interannual variability and long-term trends, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 3021-3043, doi:10.5194/acp-15-3021-2015, 2015.
Hegglin, M.I., S. Tegtmeier, J. Anderson, L. Froidevaux, R. Fuller, B. Funke, A. Jones, G. Lingenfelser, J. Lumpe, D. Pendlebury, E. Remsberg, A. Rozanov, M. Toohey, J. Urban, T. von Clarmann, K.A. Walker, R. Wang, and K. Weigel, 'SPARC Data Initiative: Comparison of water vapor climatologies from international satellite limb sounders', J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 11,824–11,846, DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50752, 2013.
Tegtmeier, S., M.I. Hegglin, J. Anderson, A. Bourassa, S. Brohede, D. Degenstein, L. Froidevaux, R. Fuller, B. Funke, J. Gille, A. Jones, Y. Kasai, K. Krüger, E. Kyrölä, G. Lingenfelser, J. Lumpe, B. Nardi, J. Neu, D. Pendlebury, E. Remsberg, A. Rozanov, L. Smith, M. Toohey, J. Urban, T. von Clarmann, K.A. Walker, and H.J. Wang, 'The SPARC Data Initiative: A comparison of ozone climatologies from international satellite limb sounders', J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 12,229–12,247, DOI: 10.1002/2013JD019877, 2013.
Toohey, M., M.I. Hegglin, S. Tegtmeier, J. Anderson, J.A. Añel, A. Bourassa, S. Brohede, D. Degenstein, L. Froidevaux, R. Fuller, B. Funke, J. Gille, A. Jones, Y. Kasai, K. Krüger, E. Kyrölä, J.L.Neu, A. Rozanov, L. Smith, J. Urban, T. von Clarmann, K. A. Walker, and R.Wang, 'Characterizing sampling bias in the trace gas climatologies of the SPARC Data Initiative', J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 11,847–11,862, DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.5087, 2013.
Nair, P. J., Godin-Beekmann, S., Kuttippurath, J., Ancellet, G., Goutail, F., Pazmiño, A., Froidevaux, L., Zawodny, J. M., Evans, R. D., Wang, H. J., Anderson, J., and Pastel, M.: Ozone trends derived from the total column and vertical profiles at a northern mid-latitude station, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 10373-10384, doi:10.5194/acp-13-10373-2013, 2013.
Clerbaux, C., and D.M. Cunnold (Lead Authors), J. Anderson, A. Engel, P.J. Fraser, E. Mahieu, A. Manning, J. Miller, S.A. Montzka, R. Nassar, R. Prinn, S. Reimann, C.P. Rinsland, P. Simmonds, D. Verdonik, R. Weiss, D. Wuebbles, Y. Yokouchi, Long-Lived Compounds, Chapter 1 in Scientific Assessment of ozone depletion: 2006, Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project-Report No. 50, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2006.
Jackman, C.J., M.T. DeLand, G.J. Labow, E.L. Fleming, D.K. Weisenstein, M.K.W. Ko, M. Sinnhuber, J. Anderson, and J.M. Russell III, The influence of the several very large solar proton events in years 2000-2003 on the neutral middle atmosphere, Adv. Space Res., 35, #3, 445-450, 2005.
Thomason, L.W., S.P. Burton, N. Iyer, J.M. Zawodny, and J. Anderson, A revised water vapor product for the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) II version 6.2 data set, J. Geophys. Res., 109,6312 10.1029/2003JD004465, 2004.
Rinsland, C.P., E. Mahieu, R. Zander, N.B. Jones, M. Chipperfield, A. Goldman, J. Anderson,J.M. Russell III, P. Demoulin, J. Notholt, G.C. Toon, J.-F. Blavier, B. Sen, R. Sussmann, S.W. Wood, A. Meier, D.W.T. Griffith, L.S. Chiou, F.J. Murcray, T.M. Stephen,and A. Schultz, Long-Term Trends of Total Inorganic Chlorine from Ground-Based Infrared Solar Spectra: Past Increases and Evidence for Stabilization, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D8), 4254, doi:10.1029/2002JD003001, 2003.
Anderson, J., J.M. Russell III, S. Solomon, and L.E. Deaver, HALOE confirmation of stratospheric chlorine decreases in accordance with the Montreal Protocol, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 4483-4490, 2000.
Anderson, J. , C. Brogniez, L. Cazier, V.K. Saxena, J. Lenoble, and M.P. McCormick, The characterization of aerosols from simulated SAGE III measurements applying two retrieval techniques, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 2013-2027, 2000.
Saxena, V.K., S. Yu, and J. Anderson, Impact of stratospheric volcanic aerosols on climate: Evidence of radiative forcing in Southeastern US, Atmos. Environ., 31, 4211-4221, 1997.
Yue, G. K., J. Lu, V. A. Mohnen, P.-H. Wang, V. K. Saxena, and J. Anderson, Retrieving aerosol optical properties from moments of the particle size distribution, Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 651-654, 1997.
Anderson, J. and V.K. Saxena, Temporal changes of the Mt. Pinatubo aerosol characteristics over northern mid-latitudes derived from SAGE II extinction measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 19455-19463, 1996.
Anderson, J. and V.K. Saxena, Evolution of Mt. Pinatubo aerosol over Antarctica inferred from SAGE II extinction measurements, Atmos. Environ., 30, 1797-1804, 1996.
Saxena, V.K., P.A. Durkee, S. Menon, J. Anderson, K.L. Burns, and K.E. Nielsen, Physico-chemical measurements to investigate cloud-climate feedback mechanisms. Atmos. Environ., 30, 1573-1579, 1996.
Saxena, V.K., J. Anderson and N.-H. Lin, Changes in antarctic stratospheric aerosol characteristics due to volcanic eruptions as monitored by SAGE II satellite. J. Geophys. Res., 100, 16735-16751, 1995.
Froidevaux, L., J. Anderson, R. A. Fuller, P. F. Bernath, N. J. Livesey, J. M. Russell III, and K. A. Walker (2013-05-02) , GOZCARDS Source Data for Hydrogen Chloride Monthly Zonal Means on a Geodetic Latitude and Pressure Grid V1.01 (GozSmlpHCl) at GES DISC , version 1.01 , Greenbelt, MD, USA , NASA Goddard Earth Science Data and Information Services Center , Accessible at doi:10.5067/MEASURES/GOZCARDS/DATA3001.
Froidevaux, L., J. Anderson, R. A. Fuller, P. F. Bernath, N. J. Livesey, J. M. Russell III, and K. A. Walker (2013-05-02) , GOZCARDS Merged Data for Hydrogen Chloride Monthly Zonal Means on a Geodetic Latitude and Pressure Grid V1.01 (GozMmlpHCl) at GES DISC , version 1.01 , Greenbelt, MD, USA , NASA Goddard Earth Science Data and Information Services Center , Accessible at doi:10.5067/MEASURES/GOZCARDS/DATA3002.
Anderson, J., L. Froidevaux, R. A. Fuller, P. F. Bernath, N. J. Livesey, H. C. Pumphrey, W. G. Read, J. M. Russell III, and K. A. Walker (2013-05-02) , GOZCARDS Source Data for Water Vapor Monthly Zonal Means on a Geodetic Latitude and Pressure Grid V1.01 (GozSmlpH2O) at GES DISC , version 1.01, Greenbelt, MD, USA , NASA Goddard Earth Science Data and Information Services Center , Accessible at doi:10.5067/MEASURES/GOZCARDS/DATA3003.
Anderson, J., L. Froidevaux, R. A. Fuller, P. F. Bernath, N. J. Livesey, H. C. Pumphrey, W. G. Read, J. M. Russell III, and K. A. Walker (2013-05-02) , GOZCARDS Merged Data for Water Vapor Monthly Zonal Means on a Geodetic Latitude and Pressure Grid V1.01 (GozMmlpH2O) at GES DISC , version 1.01 , Greenbelt, MD, USA , NASA Goddard Earth Science Data and Information Services Center , Accessible at doi:10.5067/MEASURES/GOZCARDS/DATA3004.
Froidevaux, L., R. Wang, J. Anderson, R. A. Fuller, P. F. Bernath, M. P. McCormick, N. J. Livesey, J. M. Russell III, K. A. Walker, and J. M. Zawodny (2013-05-02) , GOZCARDS Source Data for Ozone Monthly Zonal Means on a Geodetic Latitude and Pressure Grid V1.01 (GozSmlpO3) at GES DISC , version 1.01 , Greenbelt, MD, USA , NASA Goddard Earth Science Data and Information Services Center , Accessible at doi:10.5067/MEASURES/GOZCARDS/DATA3005.
Wang, R., L. Froidevaux, J. Anderson, R. A. Fuller, P. F. Bernath, M. P. McCormick, N. J. Livesey, J. M. Russell III, K. A. Walker, and J. M. Zawodny (2013-05-02) , GOZCARDS Merged Data for Ozone Monthly Zonal Means on a Geodetic Latitude and Pressure Grid V1.01 (GozMmlpO3) at GES DISC , version 1.01 , Greenbelt, MD, USA , NASA Goddard Earth Science Data and Information Services Center , Accessible at doi:10.5067/MEASURES/GOZCARDS/DATA3006.


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Q: Rails 3.2 + Ruby 1.9 + block variables What's standard practice for Rails now? Before Ruby 1.9 I could do this...
<% @records.each do |@record| %>
  <%= form_tag "/do/something" do %>
    <%= text_field 'record', 'text' %>
  <% end %>
  <%= a_display_record_helper %>
  <%= render :partial => "record_partial" %>
<% end %>

But now we can't use instance variables in blocks. So what are standard practices for blocks containing forms, view helpers and partials?

A: In ruby 1.9 the block variable name cannot start with @:
<% @records.each do |record| %>
  <%= form_tag "/do/something" do %>
    <%= text_field 'record', 'text' %>
  <% end %>
  <%= a_display_record_helper %>
  <%= render :partial => "record_partial" %>
<% end %>

A: You can still pass the record variable to the helper as a parameter and for the partial too. It is easier to understand what is going on if you do that, anyway.


Fellow humans, we're beautiful. But we're not always logical.
We should take pride in that. It explains some things, too. Like, why we're all getting upset over taxes right now — really as a result of something the Trump administration apparently did a full year ago, and that almost nobody really noticed at the time.
Let's back up a second. You've probably heard that millions of Americans are surprised to find they have a higher tax bill this year than last year. Or maybe they're getting a refund, but it's smaller than in 2018.
This is despite the fact that 2018 was supposed to be the year of the great big tax cut. The IRS says the average refund check is down $ 170 so far, which is about eight percent smaller than last year.
Now, you might be quick to point out that many Americans already got their tax cut, parceled out bit by bit with each paycheck in 2018. If they didn't adjust their withholding in a way to cover all the taxes they owed; well, that's on them.
A bevy of middle-class Americans, some of whom say they voted for Trump, complaining that their tax refunds are tiny or they actually owe taxes this year after never owing before.
And, an equally sized group calling them out for supposedly not understanding how withholding works — and pointing out that owing taxes ultimately means they should feel happy for not having given the government an interest-free loan.
There's just one little issue. And it's that if you looking into the archives, you can see that citizens withholding too little money from their taxes during 2018 wasn't a mistake. It was more like a plan.
Take a look at what Brian Faler, senior tax reporter at Politico was writing about in January 2018.
The president had just signed the 2017 tax law, literally on the Friday afternoon before Christmas. And moving quickly, the IRS had to figure out how to readjust tax tables to tell businesses how much to withhold from employees' checks.
Next year is now, of course. Many of the 80 percent of Americans who supposedly got a tax cut have already seen its entire benefit. It just dripped out in small enough pieces that they hardly noticed.
But, if your business relies them spending their tax refunds in February and March, you'll notice for sure.


2. The prepayment amount for group bookings can be refunded in case of reservation changes or cancellation more than 7 days prior to arrival. In other cases, the prepayment cannot be refunded. Please note that any bank charges applied to the transaction should be deducted from the prepayment amount.
1. The hostel reserves the right to withdraw immediately a prepayment from the credit card provided upon the reservation. Prepayment should be calculated as 50% of the total amount, but not less than the 1st night reservation fee.
2. In case the prepayment is not paid immediately upon the reservation, it is to be paid within 7 days of reservation.
3. Total amount is to be paid no later than 7 days prior to arrival.
Please note that for the group bookings for more than 6 people or on the total reservation amount more than 3000 UAH, different prepayment policies may apply. Please note that if the reservations are made for 6 guests, the hostel has a right to charge the prepayment from the card. Large groups (more than 30 people) is a subject to availability. The Hostel Manager reserves the right not to accept large groups, depending on the individual situation (availability, number of nights etc) or to charge the prepayment. Please contact the property directly for the group reservation details.
DREAM Hostel Lviv is an inspiring place in the heart of the old town, where you will find everything for the perfect stay: warm friendly atmosphere, awesome people to meet, secure rooms and clean comfortable beds. Our Hostel is located only few steps from the Rynok square (main square of Lviv), so you can easily access all of the main tourist attractions by foot.
DREAM Hostel Lviv is the biggest modern hostel in Lviv that combines high standards of hotel and cozy atmosphere of hostel. It's the only hostel in Lviv with its own Café & Bar DRUZI where you can order breakfast or spend a wonderful evening.
You are more than welcome to spend some time with other dreamers in our common areas: the whole floor with common kitchen, big common space and cozy courtyard is at your disposal! Also, our "hosts" organizes events 3 times a week. Don't hesitate to join us for cooking classes of local food, learning Ukrainian language or for some drinks at bar-crawls!
Sounds good for you? So, come and explore the city with us ;) We can't wait meeting You at DREAM Hostel Lviv!
Standard Cancellation policy: 48h before arrival (may vary for different types of rates and for special events).
For early check-in from 8.00 AM (from 6:00 AM for private rooms) till 14.00 AM additional payment is 50% of price. For late check-out from 11.00 AM till 3:00 PM additional payment is 50% of price. Late check-out after 3:00 PM should be paid in amount of 100% of the room rate, according to the pricing policy.
Auberge parfaite sur tous les niveaux!