...but omits to mention that this will not actually happen.
The Left are now pouring scorn on her statement about the cat, claiming it wasn't true. They're nit-picking about micro-details. On the substance, she was correct, as these quotes from the Guardian make clear.
The immigration judge said: "The evidence concerning the joint acquisition of Maya (the cat) by the appellant and his partner reinforces my conclusion on the strength and quality of the family life that appellant and his partner enjoy."
The judge added: "Canadian courts have moved away from the legal view that animals are merely chattels, to a recognition that they play an important role in the lives of their owners and that the loss of a pet has a significant emotional impact on its owner."
UPDATE: changed video to BBC discussion of her remark about the cat because the original video is no longer working for some reason.


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Three New Books
29 May 2018 | cities, cold war, Japan, photography, Reviewing, Science, scientists, Tokyo | Post a comment
Sue Black has one of the most extraordinary and – it has to be said – unenviable jobs. She's a professor of anatomy and forensic anthropology. The task of the forensic anthropologist is to read the narrative written into the body or skeleton in order to reconstruct "the story of the life lived". Her work takes her to war zones and to the aftermath of disasters. She also helps the police identify bodies. It goes without saying that what she has to witness is traumatic and Black admits she has seen colleagues "haunted" by their experiences: "it has destroyed lives, relationships and careers".
At the scene of a massacre in Kosovo, where she was assisting in the identification of bodies and the collection of evidence of war crimes, a policeman broke down at the sight of a two-year-old girl who had been shot in cold blood. Professor Black – "the mother on the team" – hugged him: "having chinks in your armour isn't always a sign of weakness. It is often a sign of humanity."
Black is often asked how she copes with the appalling things she has to witness. "I have never been spooked by the dead," she replies. "It is the living who terrify me." She says she's "hard as nails" and I believe her, although she does admit to being scared of rats. But despite its often grim content, Black's remarkable and utterly gripping account of her life and work – All That Remains: A Life in Death – manages to be surprisingly life-affirming.
It is also a thoughtful yet down-to-earth meditation on our attitudes to death in the modern world. Unlike most of us, Black doesn't fear death: "thanks to her, I have enjoyed a long, productive and interesting career". In fact she regards her own death as a "final adventure", one she wants to experience and understand "as completely as is humanly possible".
Unsurprisingly, she intends to bequeath her body to a Scottish anatomy department, like the one in which she herself has spent her working life, and she writes with real passion about "the mesmerising beauty of human anatomy". She even hopes to end up as an articulated teaching skeleton: "as bones have a very long shelf life, I could be hanging around for centuries, whether my students like it or not."
In The Lost Boys, Gina Perry explores what the sociologist of science Bruno Latour calls the "Janus face" of science: the contrast between the shiny public relations image of white coats and hard facts, and the behind-the-scenes details of how science is made which, as Perry says, is "messier, sometimes ugly, but always more interesting".
Her subject is the social psychological experiments which Muzafer Sherif conducted in American summer camps during the Cold War, using groups of eleven-year-old boys. Although they were the "cream of the crop" in their communities, Sherif showed in his 1954 experiment at Robbers Cave State Park, Oklahoma, how quickly these boys could degenerate into "disturbed, vicious…wicked youngsters".
Sherif spent his career studying the role of groups in directing our behaviour. He was fascinated by "the power of tribal loyalty, in-groups and out-groups, to shape our worlds". Unlike earlier attempts, his now-classic 1954 experiment ran according to plan, with the two groups behaving like warring nation states and then being brought together to face a common threat when the camp's water supply was cut off by a rock fall. Perry shows how everything was carefully stage-managed by Sherif and his team, with observers secretly recording the boys, photographing them and taking handwritten notes of their behaviour, like some early version of TV's Big Brother.
Perry has previously written a study of Stanley Milgram's controversial obedience experiments and sees in Sherif's work a similar lack of interest in the potential harm inflicted on his experimental subjects. The way the boys' emotions and behaviour was manipulated by the adults is undoubtedly disturbing.
She contrasts the published results of the experiment at Robbers Cave with the raw data collected at the three summer camps used by Sherif and his teams. She also tracks down some of the participants – "the lost boys" – who had no idea of the important role they played in the history of social psychology. Today some of the subjects feel used. "It was a crazy situation run by crazy people," says one. But Sherif's assistant remains idealistic: "We were fighting prejudice." Sherif later boasted of "laboratory-like" conditions. But Perry's account amounts to a devastating critique of this seminal experiment, casting doubt on how it was conducted and the objectivity of the researchers.
In the end, however, she offers a sympathetic portrait of Sherif – a driven, temperamental man – finding answers to his "lack of compassion" for the boys in his own troubled youth in Turkey. Flawed though it may be, Perry finds in his research an admirable desire to create a world in which "wounds were healed and what was lost was restored", at a time when the only future was one of war and conflict.
The writer and editor of the New York Review of Books, Ian Buruma, "grew up with two cultures". His father was a lapsed Dutch Protestant and his mother British, from an Anglo-German-Jewish family: "My destiny was to be half in, half out – of almost anything." He always dreamed of escaping from the safe and dull cocoon of his upper-middle-class childhood in The Hague, "a world of garden sprinklers, club ties, bridge parties and the sound of tennis balls in summer".
The opportunity to study in Tokyo on a scholarship at the film department of Nihon University College of Art provided the perfect way out, though Buruma admits that "Asia meant very little" to him beyond falling in love with the Japanese character Kyoko in Truffaut's film Bed and Board (Domicile Conjugal).
Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, aged 23. Although he quickly tired of his film course, Buruma immersed himself in the Japanese imagination and in this memoir of his six years in Japan he writes with real passion for both Japanese movies and the avant-garde theatre of the time. A Tokyo Romance is a wonderfully evocative account of cultural life in Tokyo in the 1970s, rich with anecdotes about the people he met and illustrated with his own striking photography, "the perfect art for a voyeur dancing he explores the around the fringes". In particular, he explores the flight of his younger self from bourgeois respectability to the mysterious Other of Japanese culture with dry humour and real insight.
After six years in the country, Buruma was forced to acknowledge that even though he spoke the language and followed the local customs, he would always be an outsider, or gaijin (literally, an "outside person"): "every gaijin in Japan must realize that a gaijin he or she will always remain". Some people, who had grown to love the country, found this difficult to accept. But Buruma – who grew up with a sense of being caught between worlds – found it liberating: as a stranger in a strange land, he no longer felt the need to conform or even belong. When he eventually returned to Europe, he brought this "radical autonomy" with him and he realises now that "Japan shaped me".
I particularly enjoyed Buruma's memorable study and it made me want to immediately book a flight to Tokyo, a city I fell in love with when I visited a few years ago. The details of all three books, which I strongly recommend, are below, together with links to my reviews in the Guardian.
All That Remains: A Life in Death, by Sue Black (Doubleday, £16.99) - Guardian review
The Lost Boys: Inside Muzafer Sherif's Robbers Cave Experiment, by Gina Perry (Scribe, £14.99) - Guardian review
A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir, by Ian Buruma (Atlantic, £16.99) - Guardian review

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The Institute day is organized to encourage the students who excelled in their academic performance in the SBV Examinations and also to motivate the present students for their academic excellence.
This year the Institute day is scheduled on March 21st, 2019 from 2.30 pm onwards atSarvepalliRadhakrishnan Hall, MGMCRI College block, in SBV campus. The esteemed chief guest of the day is PROF. MURUGESAN VELAYUTHAM, Honorable Vice-Chancellor, Annamalai University, Chidambaram.
A total of 117 students (out of which 103 are from MGMCRI and 14 students from Faculty of AHS )will be receiving the awards. The awards will be given to the first 3 toppers in the university examinations with gold, silver, bronze medals respectively. The students from the batch of 2012 to 2017 will be awarded during this day. And for the grand finale, a touch of academic excellence will be conducted by honoring the "Best outgoing students" of the batch of 2012, 2013&2014.
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Q: python(numpy) -- create array and how to implement an expression i have this :
npoints=10

vectorpoint=random.uniform(-1,1,[1,2])
experiment=random.uniform(-1,1,[npoints,2])

and now i want to create an array  with dimensions [1,npoints].
I can't think how to do this.
For example table=[1,npoints]
Also, i want to evaluate this:
for i in range(1,npoints):
    if experiment[i,0]**2+experiment[i,1]**2 >1:
        table[i]=0
    else:
        table[i]=1

I am trying to evaluate the experiment[:,0]**2+experiment[:,1]**2 and if it is >1 then an element in table becomes 0 else becomes 1.
The table must give me sth like [1,1,1,1,0,1,0,1,1,0].
I can't try it because i can't create the array "table".
Also,if there is a better way (with list comprehensions) to produce this..
Thanks!

A: Try:
table = (experiment[:,0]**2 + experiment[:,1]**2 <= 1).astype(int)

You can leave off the astype(int) call if you're happy with an array of booleans rather than an array of integers.  As Joe Kington points out, this can be simplified to:
table = 1 - (experiment**2).sum(axis=1).astype(int)

If you really need to create the table array up front, you could do:
table = zeros(npoints, dtype=int)

(assuming that you've already import zeros from numpy).  Then your for loop should work as written.
Aside:  I suspect that you want range(npoints) rather than range(1, npoints) in your for statement.
Edit:  just noticed that I had the 1s and 0s backwards.  Now fixed.

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Thomas S. Rowlett Jr., 92, died December 22, 2016 in Spokane with family by his side.
Tom grew up near West Seattle's Alki Beach and made frequent family visits to relatives in North Bend. His beach and mountain childhood gave him a lifelong love for Puget Sound and the outdoors. He worked in manufacturing, construction, and service industries. He found great satisfaction in his personal life organizing, tinkering, and finding the most efficient way to do things. He laughed often and told great stories.
He served in WWII in the South Pacific with the army. After the war, he returned to Seattle and earned a degree in Industrial Management from the UW. While at school, he met and married Mary Jean Schairer of Bremerton, WA. Together they raised two sons and a daughter.
Later in life, he met Betty J. Anderson of Portland who was his partner for his remaining years. They lived in Portland; Lopez Island; and Danville, CA. After Betty's death in Danville in early 2016, Tom moved to Spokane to be close to his oldest son, Steve. In June 2016, Tom and Steve joined other WWII veterans in an Honor Flight trip to Washington D.C. to visit war memorials. This trip was a very meaningful and poignant experience for Tom.
Tom is survived by his three children: Steve (Sally) Rowlett of Spokane and their two children; Greg (Leann) Rowlett of Portland and their five children and two grandchildren; and Nancy (Wayne) Sencenbaugh of Edgewood, WA. Betty's children also survive him: Rhonda (Jeff) Fazio of Danville, CA and their three children; Paula Anderson of Walnut Creek, CA; and Curtis Anderson (Mary) of Portland and their two children.
At age 92, Tom made the significant decision to give his life to Jesus Christ and felt an unprecedented personal peace with God. During his remaining months, his spiritual story touched others. To God be the glory for a life finished well. A private service will be held in Seattle at a later date.


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AbstractMappingMessageRouter Base class for all Message Routers that support mapping from arbitrary String values to Message Channel names.
AbstractMessageRouter Base class for all Message Routers.
ErrorMessageExceptionTypeRouter A Message Router that resolves the target MessageChannel for messages whose payload is an Exception.
ExpressionEvaluatingRouter A Message Router implementation that evaluates the specified SpEL expression.
HeaderValueRouter A Message Router that resolves the MessageChannel from a header value.
MethodInvokingRouter A Message Router that invokes the specified method on the given object.
PayloadTypeRouter A Message Router that resolves the MessageChannel based on the Message's payload type.


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Doha, Qatar Full time 2019393 Opening in 2004, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar is part of a reciprocal effort with the Qatar Foundation to bring excellent American educational undergraduate programs to the Middle East. The foundation of CMU Qatar's success is the extraordinary faculty and staff who work here. By bringing together a diverse group of people, we have benefited from the differing skill sets, experiences, and perspectives that each person brings. We are seeking part time Research Associate for Arts and Sciences in our Qatar Campus. Core responsibilities include : Manage educational and other social science research projects including such tasks as literature searches and reviews, study design, data collection and analysis (interviews, focus group, surveys using Qualtrics, etc.), report writing, and dissemination of findings through conference presentations and articles. Manage the IRB application process for projects....
Doha, Qatar Part time 2019392 Opening in 2004, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar is part of a reciprocal effort with the Qatar Foundation to bring excellent American educational undergraduate programs to the Middle East. The foundation of CMU Qatar's success is the extraordinary faculty and staff who work here. By bringing together a diverse group of people, we have benefited from the differing skill sets, experiences, and perspectives that each person brings. We are seeking a research Assistant in Information Systems in our Qatar Campus. This is a part -time research assistant position (17 hours per week) and the candidate should be based in Qatar and should know Arabic very well. The position is initially until end of May 2023 with the possibility of an extension. We are looking for candidates with background in computer science or information systems or computer linguistics to work on the QNRF funded project entitled " Resources and Applications...
Pittsburgh, PA Full time 2019381 Carnegie Mellon University is a private, global research university that stands among the world's most renowned education institutions. With ground-breaking brain science, path-breaking performances, creative start-ups, big data, big ambitions, hands-on learning, and a whole lot of robots, CMU doesn't imagine the future, we invent it. If you're passionate about joining a community that challenges the curious to deliver work that matters, your journey starts here! The Language Technologies Institute (LTI) is one of the academic departments at the School of Computer Science. The Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon educates the leaders of tomorrow and performs groundbreaking research in the areas of Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Information Extraction, Summarization & Question Answering, Information Retrieval, Text Mining & Analytics, Knowledge Representation, Reasoning...
COLLABORATION AND CONFLICT RESEARCH LAB POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP
Description The Organizational Behavior and Theory area at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business is looking to fill a two year post-doctoral fellowship on the topics of collaboration and conflict for newly graduating PhDs in organizational behavior, psychology, communication, sociology, or other closely-related fields. The postdoc would be primarily supervised by Dr. Laurie R. Weingart . The postdoc will be expected to work on research projects in the areas of conflict and collaboration within the Collaboration and Conflict Research Lab, and will have the opportunity to work with other Carnegie Mellon University faculty and graduate students while also making progress toward publication of their ongoing research. Qualifications The two-year fellowship will begin in August of 2023. During the period of the fellowship, postdocs are expected to be in residence, work with faculty as coauthors...
FACULTY POSITION in Chemistry
Description Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMUQ) is seeking a teaching-track faculty at the assistant teaching professor level. The preferred starting date in Qatar is August 2023. The responsibilities are primarily related to teaching, with an expectation of engagement in curriculum development and service-related activities, and in research, principally with undergraduate students in biological sciences. Teaching responsibilities involve introductory courses in general and organic chemistry sequences for students majoring in biological sciences. These are in the form of lecture and lab courses. There is also the possibility of developing courses that might be of special interest to non-science students and upper-level courses for biology students, depending upon the candidate's area of expertise. We are interested in finding a candidate who is collegial and collaborative and would feel comfortable sharing roles and...
FACULTY POSITION in ECONOMICS AND ANALYTICS
Description Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar seeks applicants for a Teaching track position at the Assistant Professor level in Economics and Analytics beginning in Fall Semester, 2023. This is a career-oriented appointment with primary responsibility for teaching and contributions to the educational mission of the undergraduate Business Administration program in Doha, Qatar. The position also provides support for the pursuit of research interests. Carnegie Mellon's undergraduate Business Administration program has earned global recognition for its approach to the study of business management as a science. The program emphasizes a quantitative, analytical approach, training students in the foundations of business. We seek an engaging colleague, passionate about teaching, whose primary responsibility will be to deliver undergraduate core and elective courses in economics, data analytics and data science to business administration students....
Faculty Position in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Al Luqta Street, Ar-Rayyan, Qatar
Description Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Qatar invites applications for a CMU teaching-track faculty position at the assistant level in the field of Computer Science to begin in Fall 2023. Candidates interested in visiting appointments will also be considered. The position involves a reasonable teaching load, which allows conducting research and engaging in various academic activities, including outreach, advising, and curriculum development, among others. Funds are available to support research agendas and candidates are encouraged to contribute with high-quality research projects. The position is based at our branch campus in Doha, Qatar (CMUQ) and offers competitive salary, attractive professional development support, excellent international health care coverage, and allowances for housing, travel, and schooling, if eligible, alongside other benefits. About CMU in Qatar Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar operates in concert with several...
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Full time 2019312 The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ranks among the best in the country. Our research programs are at the forefront of the technologies that have changed the world we live in. Our interdisciplinary approach to education and research allows faculty and student across the university and beyond to collaborate on problems that have a significant impact on the world around us. We are currently searching for multiple Postdoctoral Research Associates for leading cross-disciplinary research projects in all areas of our Electrical and Computer Engineering department. In this role, you will lead, and assist with, research related to projects that span multiple research groups. You will carry out advanced independent and/or directed research to achieve the objectives of the research projects. This position will require both in-depth knowledge of specific fields and an interest in exploring new research topics. This may involve coordinating and...
Postdoctoral Research Associate - Chevron Project
Full time 2019295 The Engineering Research Accelerator, a part of the Dean's Office in the College of Engineering, provides an integrated, coordinated, and college-wide set of services for research incubation, acceleration, and support. We are currently searching for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the Engineering Research Accelerator at Carnegie Mellon University. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who thrives in an interesting and challenging work environment. You will contribute to the department by developing tools and methodology based on category theory to model, display, modify, share and collaborate on mathematical models for organizational management processes. The research will be conducted as part of a joint project including participants from Carnegie Mellon, the US National Institute for Standards and Technology, the non-profit Topos Institute, and Chevron, Inc. The position will be based at NIST's Gaithersburg, MD campus near...
Full time 2019291 The Carnegie Mellon Biomedical Engineering department seeks to transform healthcare worldwide through interdisciplinary engineering innovation and to train future leaders and innovators in biomedical engineering. Carnegie Mellon University's department of Biomedical Engineering is searching for a Research Assistant. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who thrives in an interesting and challenging work environment. You will contribute to the department by working on multimodal (electric, optic) approaches for high resolution detection of neurochemicals in brain tissues, and other such tasks as assigned to you. Your core responsibilities will include: Following research plans in order to collect, record, and manipulate research data, maintaining accurate and detailed research records and files. Testing software prototypes. May interact with research subjects in order to perform job functions. Performs basic data analysis to...
Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow - School of Computer Science
Full time 2019272 Carnegie Mellon University is a private, global research university that stands among the world's most renowned education institutions. With ground-breaking brain science, path-breaking performances, creative start-ups, big data, big ambitions, hands-on learning, and a whole lot of robots, CMU doesn't imagine the future, we invent it. If you're passionate about joining a community that challenges the curious to deliver work that matters, your journey starts here! The Software and Societal Systems Department at Carnegie Mellon University is searching for a Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow to join the team! We seek computer science researchers who are enthusiastic about collaborating with nonprofit organizations, and who have a demonstrated interest in connecting their research agenda with societal issues. The initial term is until July 31, 2023. Areas of specific research interest include artificial intelligence for wildlife...
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Eleusis Benefit Corp: Taking the "Psychedelic" Out of Psychedelics
By David Nickles|February 11, 2020
Shlomi Raz, CEO of Eleusis Benefit Corporation, made false claims about psychedelics. We asked multiple ethnobotanists, a medical anthropologist, and a chemist if they could help us set the record straight.
As debates about the future of psychedelic legalization begin to appear in mainstream publications, the core message of would-be psychedelic profiteers is crystalizing into an all-too-Trumpian slogan, "Make psychedelics boring again." The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is attempting to develop psychedelic analogues without "significant side effects" (e.g. "the trip"), while unethical entrepreneurs hype microdosing schemes through the BBC. Perhaps it's unsurprising that corporate actors and military strategists are seeking to strip out the visionary (read: psychedelic) components of psychedelic experiences. After all, psychedelics have long been hailed as potential catalysts of revolutionary, countercultural change; hardly the ideal marketing narrative for consumer products intended to perpetuate industrial capitalism, or the status quo of US militarism.
The rebranding of psychedelics from "psychedelics"—literally, "mind-manifesting" visionary compounds, capable of catalyzing insight and resistance to dominant culture—into sub-perceptible "microdoses" marks a clear attempt at mainstream recuperation of these potent countercultural tools. As author and media theorist, Douglas Rushkoff, observed nearly 20 years ago, "Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture…they'll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall." As proponents of psychedelic mainstreaming and medicalization disseminate revisionist histories to justify their approaches, we are observing the transformation of psychedelics into market commodities in real time.
Enter Shlomi Raz, CEO of Eleusis Holdings Limited (also known as Eleusis Benefit Corporation), a for-profit pharmaceutical company focused on, "Unlocking the anti-inflammatory potential of psychedelics." In a recent opinion piece for STAT, Raz attempts to extend the "micro-washing" of psychedelics beyond the current fad of self-improvement supplementation and bring it into a fully-medicalized, pharmaceutical context. To this end, Raz concocts an all-encompassing, neocolonial narrative of "traditional" microdosing; a creation myth that sets the stage for Eleusis to pretend that it's part of some long-standing psychedelic lineage of microdosing. In reality, Eleusis is just a pharmaceutical company looking to market a variety of low-dose psychedelic medicines, including LSD and 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine (DOI), a psychedelic phenethylamine first synthesized by Dr. Alexander Shulgin, and later Dr. David Nichols.
Raz briefly discusses scientific studies of higher-dose psilocybin, LSD, and ayahuasca experiences before casually stating that, "These high-profile research findings have obscured the primary traditional use of these medicines — as imperceptible anti-inflammatory agents." Raz makes no attempt to identify any specific cultures or substances here; implicitly lumping all "traditional" practices with all psychedelics into a monolithic notion of "primary traditional use." He then takes this neocolonial homogenization one step further by asserting (without evidence) that this, "primary traditional use," was, "as imperceptible anti-inflammatory agents."
Required reading for the ethnobotanically-inclined
Given the varied ritual and medical ethnobotanical applications across cultures that ingest similar psychedelic preparations—to say nothing of the widely-varied traditions between cultures that use different psychedelic preparations—Raz's assertion of a singular "primary traditional use" of psychedelics fails even the most preliminary sniff test. One need only skim through ethnobotanical reference works, such as Garden of Eden, by Snu Voogelbreinder, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants, by Christian Rätsch, or Plants of the Gods, by Richard Evans Schultes and Albert Hofmann, to understand how nonsensical this claim is.
That's not to say that the research side of Eleusis is entirely without merit. The investigation of LSD for Alzheimer's disease is certainly intriguing. Furthermore, exploring the potent psychedelic, DOI, for use as an anti-inflammatory agent is absolutely fascinating. In 2012, Dr. David Nichols shared the story of how his son, Dr. Charles Nichols (now employed as Eleusis' lead scientist), discovered the surprising anti-inflammatory potential of DOI. The story of this discovery appears to present yet another case of psychedelic serendipity, and the science behind the treatment itself may be truly revolutionary. However, there's an incredibly important distinction to make between finding anti-inflammatory applications for substituted phenethylamines and fabricating wholesale narratives about "the traditional use" of psychedelics.
When reached for comment as to Raz's claims, Dr. David Nichols replied:
"I don't believe that the 'primary traditional use' of psychedelics was as 'imperceptible anti-inflammatory agents.' Nevertheless, it is true that all the claims for antidepressant, anxiolytic, and anti-addictive properties for psychedelics have relegated the anti-inflammatory properties of psychedelics to the shadows; almost no one is aware that they are potent anti-inflammatories."
To be clear, there are bodies of folk knowledge and peer-reviewed papers documenting anti-inflammatory applications of psychedelics. However, Raz didn't merely lament a lack of public awareness regarding the anti-inflammatory potential of psychedelics; he asserted that "imperceptible anti-inflammatory" applications were the "primary traditional use" of psychedelics. In light of the readily available ethnobotanical information—or the fact that he could have simply consulted the father of his lead scientist—it's hard to overstate the absurdity of Raz's generalized, sweeping assertion.
"This subject merits some actual study rather than trying to somehow force fit it with microdosing."
Even the paper that Raz cites in his STAT article, The Appeal of Peyote (Lophophora Williamsii) as a Medicine, doesn't contend that peyote's main application was as an "imperceptible anti-inflammatory agent." Additionally, Raz misrepresents his source, claiming:
"Eighty years ago, the renowned Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes wrote that the use of low-dose peyote was 'centered around the therapeutic and stimulating properties of the plant and not around its vision-producing properties…Some of the ills listed as responding to peyote were tuberculosis, pneumonia, scarlet fever, intestinal ills, diabetes, rheumatic pains, colds, grippe, fevers, and venereal diseases…It is used as a white man uses aspirin.'"
This quote is disingenuous on several levels and comprised of sentence fragments pulled from two separate sections of the paper in question. Most significantly, none of the sentences that Raz has spliced together offer comment on "low-dose peyote." Furthermore, the list of ills is in the context of groups who, "rely on the cactus as a panacea," and for whom, "there is hardly a disease which is not believed to be curable with peyote."
That said, the paper does discuss observations of indigenous people eating, "one [button] between meals as a sort of appetizer," and the fact that, "Several mescal buttons are given three times during childbirth among the Kiowa, Kickapoo, Shawnee, and probably other Plains tribes." While the paper discusses "therapeutic," "pseudo-therapeutic," "medical," "medico-religious," and "superstitious" applications of peyote, at no point does it discuss "imperceptible anti-inflammatory" peyote regimens as "the primary traditional use." In other words, the only work Raz actually cites for his claim simply doesn't support it.
Psymposia reached out to a number of experts for comment on Raz's article. We received replies from six ethnobotanists, all of whom expressed skepticism about Raz's claim. Two of them declined to comment publicly. However the other four offered the following remarks.
Keeper Trout, noted cactus expert, ethnobotanist, and independent researcher, said:
"As for the long-time use of peyote as an analgesic and anti-inflammatory this was, and still is, something involving its topical application and is doubtful that it is related to the low level of mescaline. Ariocarpus fissuratus and A. kotschoubeyanus are both used similarly to peyote as a topical liniment for rheumatism, joint pain or pain resulting from blows or bruises. As far as I am aware, mescaline is the only psychedelic in the peyote plant and it does not occur in Ariocarpus species. This subject merits some actual study rather than trying to somehow force fit it with microdosing. Most medicinal applications of peyote involving ingestion for treating illnesses, such as Schultes mentioned, are at fully active dosage levels. It is also noteworthy Schultes was simply summarizing what he had come across and did not vouch for peyote's efficacy in those applications."
Snu Voogelbreinder, ethnobotanist and author of the aforementioned, Garden of Eden, one of the most comprehensive ethnobotanical reference books available, stated:
"That is indeed an odd thing for Raz to say…it appears he has applied some therapeutic uses of peyote as though all psychedelic plants have those common uses – and I'd say those uses for peyote are not as common as suggested, because it is not plentiful enough in the wild. Maybe a long time ago there was enough of it growing that people would use it for all those minor ailments and still be sustainable harvesters, but I think numerous other medicinal plants would be used for such minor complaints in most cases. Without doubt, peyote's spiritual uses have far greater cultural importance, as would be the case for any other visionary plant. Any other medicinal properties are a bonus – there are plenty of non-visionary plants that have such therapeutic effects…"
Dr. Glenn Shepard, ethnobotanist, medical anthropologist, and Emmy-Award-winning documentarian, commented:
"It is indeed true that visionary plants often have myriad other cultural uses and physiological effects, sometimes confirmed in bioassays, that are incorporated into holistic concepts of healing in indigenous medical systems. The Western obsession with psychoactive experiences has often eclipsed our understandings of such nuanced and multifaceted uses of plant medicines. However to assert, in broad terms, that a specific property (in this case, low dose anti-inflammatory response) is the primary use of 'psychedelic medicines' is to take such a corrective gesture to the opposite extreme, once again doing disservice to complex and holistic indigenous notions of health, healing and medicine."
Dr. Constantino Manuel Torres, ethnobotanist and archeologist known for his extensive research into the Taino use of Anadenanthera snuffs, replied:
"To state that 'the primary traditional use of [psychedelic] medicines — as imperceptible anti-inflammatory agents,' is not correct. The statement is contradictory in itself: a primary use that is imperceptible(?)."
These replies offer significant evidence as to Raz's lack of ethnobotanical credibility. But what about the other substances he discusses, such as LSD? Whether we situate "traditional" North American LSD use within the context of MK-ULTRA, The Diggers, The Merry Pranksters, The Grateful Dead Family, or any of the more discrete cultural movements associated with it, nowhere do we see a, "primary traditional use," of LSD as an, "imperceptible anti-inflammatory agent," quite the contrary.
"Hey Nick, how many microdoses are there in 2.8 kilos of ergotamine tartrate, again?"
Ken Kesey inquired, "Can you pass the acid test?" Jimi Hendrix asked, "Are you experienced?" Nick Sand heard a voice tell him, "Your job on this planet is to make psychedelics and turn on the world." None of them were referring to "imperceptible anti-inflammatory" doses of LSD, not even close. Kesey—hardly alone in his assessment of LSD as being an incredibly powerful catalyst for personal and societal change—observed:
"I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts in your mind. Why is it that people think it's so evil? What is it about it that scares people so deeply, even the guy that invented it, what is it? Because they're afraid that there's more to reality than they have ever confronted. That there are doors that they're afraid to go in, and they don't want us to go in there either, because if we go in, we might learn something that they don't know. And that makes us a little out of their control."
"In this role Shlomi helped pioneer the use of derivatives, both as weapons of mass financial destruction, as well as for the betterment of mankind."
In discussing Raz, it's worth examining how he presents himself. His biography, as published alongside a (now-deleted flickr page for a) talk he gave at the President Street Forum, entitled, "Game Theory and Brain Washing – A Practitioner's Guide," read:
Rich Uncle Pennybags: Just another "soldier of fortune."
"…In 2003 he left JPMorgan and joined Goldman Sachs, rising to Managing Director responsible for Structured Product marketing. In this role Shlomi helped pioneer the use of derivatives, both as weapons of mass financial destruction, as well as for the betterment of mankind. In December 2008, Shlomi received notice that he was the target (amongst many others) of a Department of Justice investigation into Anti-Trust practices relating to work at JPMorgan…and like the A-Team, has gone underground, surviving as a soldier of fortune." [hyperlink added for reference]
As such, we should understand Raz to be intimately acquainted with and fluent in the structures and systems of speculative capitalism. So, why has this self-professed mercenary taken such an interest in psychedelic pharmaceuticals? If we consider his bankster background, the current speculative investing in psychedelic medicines, and the fact that his company stands to benefit financially from his (false) narrative about "traditional use," the answer seems clear: it's a cash grab. Micro-washing the ethnobotanical record in order to create new markets for Eleusis' products appears to be a ploy to enrich both Raz and his company.
Psymposia reached out to Raz multiple times for comment, but received no reply.
Regardless of industry, personal resumes matter: they offer insight into professional competence, ethics, and in many cases, philosophy. Just as with former Eleusis collaborator and COMPASS Pathways founder, George Goldsmith—whose past work at McKinsey & Co should raise eyebrows—Raz's gloating about his role in creating, "weapons of mass financial destruction," should give even a casual observer pause. It's not that financial players have never been part of the modern psychedelic scene; quite the contrary. It's that these capitalists—going back at least as far as JP Morgan executive and amateur mycologist, Gordon Wasson—have been demonstrably ruinous to psychedelic cultures, whether indigenous or industrial. Furthermore, in his STAT article, Raz has demonstrated a clear lack of credibility through his self-serving, mythical narrative.
Snu Voogelbreinder elaborated:
"Some people may need a human therapist to assist with [visionary psychedelic experiences], others may not, but I believe it's a mistake to see these compounds as drugs that must be made 'safe' to use by the standards of societies that fear them. Rather, societies need to adapt themselves to embrace and understand these substances and the states they induce, so that we can get the most out of them, healing not privileged individuals who can afford treatment, but anyone who needs them. Psychedelics can help us with so much more than mere depression and inflammation-related illness. Raz and company wish to make psychedelics 'mainstream and boring again,' as if they were ever that to begin with. Psychedelics might become mainstream, but never boring, even if some researchers choose to ignore their full import."
As Shlomi Raz, Paul Austin, and even researchers such as Dr. Charles Nichols cry out to, "Make psychedelics boring again," we must recognize that these reactionary impulses stem from a self-interested, capitalist logic of personal profit. Commodification requires such mass-marketing ploys to depoliticize substances long-hailed for inciting recognition of our fundamental interconnectedness.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaay, boredom!
The greatest good psychedelics can offer may reside in catalyzing visionary insight into alternative sociopolitical systems and inspiring collective action, not enriching shareholders through peddling pharmaceuticals aimed at treating the symptomatic fallout of our increasingly toxic environments. This potential requires coherent historical and sociopolitical analyses through which to apply psychedelic insight, rather than simplified narratives aimed at mainstreaming.
Micro-washing psychedelics to render them palatable, profitable, and impotent for anything beyond individually-focused therapies obscures an invaluable lens for confronting the realities of skyrocketing socioeconomic inequality, government-sanctioned ecocide, and a doomsday clock creeping ever-closer to midnight.
Despite a few dealers, psychedelics have never been about profiteering. Despite their long-standing integration into some cultures, psychedelics have never been boring.
Perhaps instead of Humphrey Osmond's, "To fathom Hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic," Shlomi Raz would propose, To keep humanity asleep and snoring, make psychedelics plain and boring.
David Nickles
@D_Nickles
David Nickles is Managing Editor of Psymposia, underground researcher, and harm reduction advocate. He has presented social critiques and commentary on psychedelic culture and radical politics, as well as novel phytochemical data from the DMT-Nexus, at venues around the world.
David's work focuses on the social and cultural implications of psychoactive substances, utilizing critical theory and structural analysis to examine the intersections of drugs and society. He is a vocal opponent of the mainstreaming and commodification of psychedelic compounds and rituals, believing that such approaches inherently obscure the liberatory potential of psychedelic experiences.


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Richard H Linton
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Administration
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Inactivation kinetics and mechanism of a human norovirus surrogate on stainless steel coupons via chlorine dioxide gas
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82(1), 116–123.
By: J. Yeap, S. Kaur, F. Lou, E. DiCaprio, M. Morgan, R. Linton, J. Li
10.1128/aem.02489-15
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The application of high-concentration short-time chlorine dioxide treatment for selected specialty crops including Roma tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum), cantaloupes (Cucumis melo ssp melo var. cantaloupensis) and strawberries (Fragaria x ananassa)
Food Microbiology, 34(2), 296–302.
By: V. Trinetta, R. Linton & M. Morgan
10.1016/j.fm.2012.12.010
Use of chlorine dioxide gas for the postharvest control of Alternaria alternata and Stemphylium vesicarium on Roma tomatoes
Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 93(13), 3330–3333.
10.1002/jsfa.6180
Inactivation of Listeria monocytogenes on ready-to-eat food processing equipment by chlorine dioxide gas
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By: V. Trinetta, R. Vaid, Q. Xu, R. Linton & M. Morgan
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Comparison of inactivation of Listeria monocytogenes within a biofilm matrix using chlorine dioxide gas, aqueous chlorine dioxide and sodium hypochlorite treatments
By: R. Vaid, R. Linton & M. Morgan
Inactivation of Escherichia coli O157:H7, Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella enterica and Shigella flexneri on spinach leaves by X-ray
Food Microbiology, 27(1), 24–28.
By: B. Mahmoud, G. Bachman & R. Linton
Use of high-concentration-short-time chlorine dioxide gas treatments for the inactivation of Salmonella enterica spp. inoculated onto Roma tomatoes
Food Microbiology, 27(8), 1009–1015.
By: V. Trinetta, M. Morgan & R. Linton
Identification of a non-pathogenic surrogate organism for chlorine dioxide (ClO2) gas treatment
By: J. Kim & R. Linton
Inactivation kinetics of inoculated Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella enterica on lettuce by chlorine dioxide gas☆
By: B. Mahmoud & R. Linton
Inactivation kinetics of inoculated Escherichia coli O157:H7, Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella Poona on whole cantaloupe by chlorine dioxide gas
By: B. Mahmoud, N. Vaidya, C. Corvalan & R. Linton
Effect of preinoculation growth media and fat levels on thermal inactivation of a serotype 4b strain of Listeria monocytogenes in frankfurter slurries
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On October 12, 2017, a Skyjet flight was struck by a drone while inbound to Jean Lesage International Airport in Québec City.
This is the first time a drone has hit a commercial aircraft in Canada.
The Beechcraft A100 King Air only sustained minor damage and was able to land safely.
Transport Canada is monitoring the situation and is in contact with its transportation partners including Skyjet, the Jean Lesage International Airport and NAV CANADA.


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ISLAMABAD: Families of the victims of Pakistan International Airline (PIA) flight PK-661 crash, which claimed 47 lives, on Monday made three demands from the federal government.
Holding a candlelight vigil and a daylong recitation of the Holy Quran gathering to express solidarity and pray for departed souls of tragic plane crash, at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad and put forth a charter of demand on behalf of all the victim families of plane crash.
Family members of the victims and scores of civil society activists including prominent community members, religious leaders and representatives of political parties were also present on this occasion.
The participants, who were carrying pictures of the departed souls and placards inscribed with Quranic verses "We surely belong to Allah and to Him we shall return", recited Holy Quran, offered Fateha (prayers) and then participated in the candlelight vigil.
Gul Nawaz, a relative of the plane crash victim, said the inquiry should be concluded as soon as possible as it is vital that the actual facts should be brought out and shared with the masses of the country.
"Although the prime minster has ordered a detailed, independent and transparent inquiry into the unfortunate PK 661 plane but I am not very optimistic about the transparency and authenticity of the findings," said Gul Nawaz.


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Fire Claims Two Lives in Sayre
Two people are dead in a house fire in Bradford County, Pennsylvania that was reported in the early morning hours of Sunday, November 6.
Endicott Firefighters Find Woman's Body in Burning House
Authorities are investigating the death of a woman whose body was discovered after a fire erupted in an Endicott home.
Woman Dies in Kirkwood House Fire
An elderly Kirkwood woman is dead following a late-morning house fire Saturday, March 26.
Fatal Fires Investigated in Otsego and Bradford Counties
Two separate fatal fires are under investigation in the Twin Tiers this week.
Police Release Names of Man, Woman Found Dead After Kirkwood Fire
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Brown Algae in Aquarium: What to Do
By Staff Writer May 7, 2018 No Comments
By James St. John (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 licence)
When your fish tank begins to look dingy, coated with a brown substance on the glass and decorations, you can wonder – what kind of algae is this?
Is it harmful? Are there ways to slow its progress in addition to a rigorous cleaning schedule?
Worry not. As the name suggests, you're dealing with brown algae – and we're here to ensure you'll be well informed on how to handle it.
1 What is Brown Algae?
2 Causes of Brown Algae
3 How to Prevent Brown Algae in Fish Tank
4 How to Cure Brown Algae
5 Brown Algae in a Saltwater Tank
What is Brown Algae?
Starting as brown splotches on gravel or glass, brown algae is a variety known as gravel algae or silica algae.
These photosynthesize and obtain chemical forms of sustenance, allowing them to survive in dark places as long as there are appropriate food sources available such as silicate, phosphorus, and nitrates.
This algae grows wherever there is low light and little in the way of green algae or other such plant growth.
Once established, it rapidly covers a majority of the aquarium with a thin, dark brown coating. Some rocks contain the elements that help with the growth of the algae.
Although it is not toxic for fish, it is rather ugly to look at and can be harmful to your plants or corals, as it keeps them from getting the necessary sunlight and nutrients.
As the algae dies, it can result in pollution issues and is often a sign that the chemistry of the tank is not at its best. It's best to get rid of the stuff as soon as it begins to grow.
Causes of Brown Algae
The primary source of brown algae is the silicates and nitrates often found in rocks and gravel.
The algae feeds off of those nutrients and uses them to grow. If the water is high in silicic acid, it begins to build these nutrients up and will proceed to feed the algae.
These nutrients can also stem from uneaten food, dead material, or an overstocked environment.
There's also the matter of lighting. Brown algae thrives in dim lighting and will rapidly grow.
Finally, low oxygen levels will assist the algae as it inhibits the plants from thriving.
By taking care of these problems, you'll be able to easily find the cause of brown algae, and apply methods to prevent and cure it.
How to Prevent Brown Algae in Fish Tank
Starting off, the best approach is preventing the brown algae from ever growing in the first place.
Start with the plants. Brown algae grows most easily where it can steal nutrients, so faster-growing plants will be able to outperform the algae, making it impossible for it to grow.
There's also the matter of your fish. Keeping an algae eater is always recommended, but more importantly, do not overfeed your fish.
Their fecal matter will act as fuel for the algae to grow, as well as their dead bodies should they die from the excess feeding.
Third, you should be sure that you cycle out your aquarium's water regularly, in order to prevent the algae from ever taking hold.
Freshwater is less likely to have the nutrients which feed algae, so it's best to change out the water once a month.
How to Cure Brown Algae
If brown algae has already taken hold of your tank, don't worry. Curing your aquarium is rather simple.
Start by removing any rocks and vacuuming out any gravel that you suspect is already infected with the brown substance, taking care to wipe down the larger pieces to remove as much algae as possible.
You will also need to cleanse the water itself by purchasing a silicate/phosphorus absorbing filter. This will starve the algae, preventing it from expanding further.
Then, simply scrape off the remaining algae from the glass or other decorations, removing the substance from the tank altogether.
This is crucial, as remnants will pollute the new water or re-attach elsewhere.
Next, light up the tank and make it brighter. Brown algae will not survive in light, so a new bulb will certainly help you to kill it.
Finally, the simplest fix is to add an algae-eating fish to your tank. This variety, as the name entails, will eat any remnants.
It's completely harmless to them and is actually beneficial, providing their body with much-needed nutrients and nourishment!
Brown Algae in a Saltwater Tank
If the brown algae is occurring in salt water, you may want to check the mix for possible silicates that could assist in the algae's growth.
If that is the case, you should empty the tank of all saltwater and try reverse osmosis water rather than tap water in order to remove all silicates.
Next, clean the corals in your water as regularly as possible, so as to ensure more of the algae doesn't grow.
Finally, check the filter. It's crucial to make sure there's a phosphate/silicate-absorbing material to further prevent the algae from getting the nutrients it needs.
Here's a video showing how to clean an entire tank with brown algae.
Do you have any tips for dealing with brown algae in aquariums?
May 7, 2018 Staff Writer


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Diversity, recovery and innovation: Energy Trust's 2021 budget lays the groundwork for a big year
Energy Trust's 2021 budget, which was approved by its board of directors last week, lays the groundwork for an exciting 2021. As always, it calls for helping Oregonians save energy and generate renewable energy to help lower their energy bills and reduce the state's greenhouse gas emissions. It also calls for providing $115 million in cash incentives to help utility customers invest in upgrades delivered by local contractors and businesses.
Here are some of Energy Trust's priorities for 2021.
Creating more access for diverse and rural communities
It's critical that Energy Trust programs be accessible to all customers, and reaching previously underserved groups will be essential to achieving energy savings in 2021 and beyond. Energy Trust's budget calls for significant investments to ensure communities of color, rural customers and customers with lower incomes can access Energy Trust programs.
That includes offering Community Partner Funding—higher incentives for residential customers delivered through community-based organizations—and incentives and outreach to support energy-saving upgrades in rental housing.
Energy Trust will also continue co-funding projects that support energy-efficient affordable housing with community action agencies and start offering higher solar incentives for nonprofits and affordable multifamily buildings.
And it will hire two outreach staff to develop and deepen relationships with underserved communities and two fellows with the RAY Diversity Fellowship Program, which is dedicated to increasing diversity in the energy industry.
The result? More equitable offers, more benefits and more savings for people with the most to gain.
Supporting pandemic and wildfire recovery
The impacts of COVID-19 are far from over, so one of Energy Trust's goals in 2021 will be supporting customers during the economic and social recovery. That means setting incentives levels to make upgrades more affordable and designing offers for customers still dealing with lots of uncertainty.
To support communities recovering from this summer's devastating wildfires, Energy Trust will look to support the design and building of affordable energy-efficient homes that are safer and more resilient in the face of natural disasters.
Energy Trust has already signed on with the Housing Authority of Jackson County to help hire a staff member focused on property acquisition and redevelopment to secure and preserve affordable housing.
Innovating to create future opportunities
If 2020 taught us anything, it's that we have to be ready for everything.
Energy Trust acted quickly to adjust incentives and roll out new offers and delivery models to help customers through social distancing requirements and economic uncertainty. (Good news: It worked!)
Responding to future challenges and meeting different customers' needs means Energy Trust will have to flex its innovation muscles. In 2021, it will accelerate the use of digital platforms to speed up customer service, expand intercultural awareness and inclusion in staff training, and look at ways to create a more efficient organizational structure.
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Rain increases water capacity of Spanish reservoirs to almost 48%
by Lorraine Williamson January 11, 2023
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The recent rains have partly mitigated the significant shortage of water resources in Spain. At the moment, the Spanish reservoirs are at 47.6% of their maximum capacity. Less than a month ago, this was still 35.7%.
In the past month, water reserves in Spain have increased by 724 cubic hectometres (hm3). At the moment, Spain has 26,701 (hm3) of water reserve, which means that the Spanish reservoirs are currently at 47.6% of their maximum capacity.
Spain exceeds 2022 water capacity
The Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (Miteco) published this week the figures of water resources in Spain. The good news is that Spain has surpassed last year's water reserves for around this time. However, the fact remains that it is still far from the total capacity of 56,108 hm3.
Increases and decreases in capacity of Spanish reservoirs
The Ministry says that water resources have increased capacity compared to a year ago in the following areas;
The west coast of Cantabria (from 77.3% to 78.8%)
Miño-Sil (75.5% to 78.8%)
Duero (50.8% to 55.5%)
Tagus (62.4% to 63.7%)
Guadiana (33, 0% to 33.4%)
Ebro (43.6% to 44.4%)
The reservoirs at Guadalete Barbate (29.6 to 29.7%), Guadalquivir (24.2 to 24.4%) Mediterránea Andaluza (37.9 to 38.1%) and Júcar (57.1 to 57.6 %) show a slight increase.
However, the capacity of all reservoirs in Spain has not increased compared to a year ago. For example, capacity fell in eastern Cantabria (67.1 to 65.8%), the coast of Galicia (92.1 to 92%), Tinto, Odiel and Piedras (83.8 to 83.4%) and the internal basins of Catalonia (31.3 to 31%).
Big differences in Spain
According to Miteco, more rain has fallen on the Atlantic side this year (capacity went from 17,287 hm3 in 2022 to 20,486 hm3 this year). In the past week alone, 110.4 litres per square metre fell in Pontevedra. And in the past year, the Mediterranean side suffered a significant loss of water resources. The total capacity on this side of Spain went from 7,624 hm3 to 6,215 hm3.
Rain does not solve all problems in Spain
Although the large amount of rain is certainly helping, it will not solve the major problem of an increasingly drier Spain. The Spanish government, regional authorities and environmental authorities must join forces and come up with a joint plan to ensure that Spain does not dry out.
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Once a plane landed in Venezuela from of the past
02.10.2019 Category: Abnormal places
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In 1992, at the airport of Venezuelan Caracas Airport landed an American charter plane "Douglas DC-4", on whose board were 57 passengers. the most amazing lies in the fact that in 1955 this airliner is mysterious vanished while flying from New York to Miami.
And then he reappeared in our world – after 37 years. It would seem that – sensation! However, it took only a few minutes after it touchdowns like a ghost plane from the past soared into heaven to disappear again without a trace …
In support of this fantastic case, there is evidence several witnesses, as well as a taped conversation by radio communication between the pilot of the aircraft and the dispatcher. Airport control officers who were then present at landing a phantom plane, all as one, argue that the way it is and it was, while their testimony is very similar. Ramon Estovar – Deputy Head of the Venezuelan Ministry of Civil aviation – also confirms that the pilot then dropped on the take-off track a small calendar of 1955 – a real artifact from of the past.
Dispatcher Juan de la Corte says the following: "I am my I saw this plane with my eyes and heard the voice of its pilot. I still I can not believe it. We gave permission to land, although not could understand how a plane flying in Miami could find itself in 1800 kilometers to your destination. We were even more amazed were even shocked when the landing strip landed propeller plane, which is the place in the museum of aircraft, but not in modern airspace. At the same time, radars do not even spotted him. When I informed the pilot that now is 1992 (he me asked about it, because he couldn't understand much), he began talk to me like crazy, but I probably did that same in relation to him. God alone knows where these people were all it's time and where are they now. "
It is possible that the plane flew into the more distant future.
Apparently, as experts studying such supernatural phenomena, the aircraft got lost as in space and time. When the "Douglas DC-4" landed in airport, the pilots in his cockpit immediately glared at the standing jet planes nearby, as if they saw on the runway spaceships. It was worth getting closer to the propeller airplane tankers and ground service personnel, like pilots from the past scaredly reported on the walkie-talkie, so that they would not be approached, they launched engines and … flew away. Perhaps this time forever …
In their own way, they, of course, are very sorry, especially passengers, which, as Juan de la Corte recalls, at the time of the take-off, clung to the windows, and on their faces could be read real horror. And yet – a cry for help. But who and how could he moment to help …
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"The end of the world as we know it," is how Michael T. Klare, an American professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College in Massachusetts, describes our presently crisis-hobbled home planet. His new book, Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy, is disturbing but highly recommended reading for realists.
The first hard fact in this big picture is that the era of relatively abundant oil supply is over. The global economic expansion it literally fuelled over the past six decades post-WW II is in fact what created the First World club composed of the United States and its allies in Europe, Asia and the Pacific. That status quo is changing as fast as oil prices are continuing to climb to "peak oil" – over $110 a barrel at this writing, with $20 to $30 a barrel last seen in 2003 receding to the realm of legend.
Part of Michael Klare's thesis is that the reality of dwindling global oil supply supersedes ideology in ways that capitalist versus communist ideologues could not have imagined 20 years ago. Profound changes are underway in the present economic and political world order, he writes, and everyone, rich and poor, had best be ready for them.
At this point of world history, when more people in the world have learned to want it all, putting on farmers' eyes would help everyone think over a second hard fact: the close interconnection between producing our suddenly shockingly expensive food and the now severely threatened conditions for producing and bringing it to our dining tables. And nowhere is the impact of global warming and climate change on agriculture more dramatically illustrated than in the recent closing of what was once the largest rice mill in the Southern Hemisphere.
That mill in Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia was processing enough rice for 20 million people worldwide, reports the New York Times, until the last six years of drought reduced Australia's rice crop by a staggering 98 percent, causing the collapse of the country's rice production and the closure of the Deniliquin mill last December. That was one of the major factors in the doubling of world rice prices over the past three months, it turns out.
The IPCC scientists in fact "predicted that even slight warming would lower agricultural output in the tropics and subtropics." That's not even taking into account "newer findings that global warming could reduce rainfall and make it more variable." The prospects could be worse, in other words, given the increasing incidence of freak weather worldwide.
That means the majority of us, dear readers, so read the rest of Michael Klare's article summarizing his book and its exposition of conflicting global urgencies – and think of the delicate balances everyone of goodwill needs to strike in their lives, beginning right now.
This is not cheerful Sunday reading, but the best reason to stay with this is that everyone's little bit would help alleviate the crisis – if not by starting to raise what food one can in one's own backyard, then by finally making lifestyle decisions to become part of the solution, starting with drastically cutting down on the use of fuel and gasoline. It's taken 30 years for everyone to feel the urgency of the ecologists' motto to "live lightly on the earth," but now we find ourselves standing together under a merciless sun beating down in high noon.
There's a sound bite from Achim Steiner, president of the United Nations Program for the Environment, in his opening speech to the international gathering on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in Johannesburg this week, that's well worth pondering on Earth Day: "We need everyone's perspective…there is no simple answer to the challenges of twenty-first century agriculture."
That applies to the rest of a survival mode in the early 21st century. There is, however, some comfort to be drawn from the human creativity already at work on new solutions to address our multi-dimensional crisis, from food to energy. The ignorance, greed and heedlessness that brought us to this point are part of human nature, but so is the creativity coming up with solutions to ease a path of radical change from which there's no turning back. May they catch up with the speed of crisis.


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The Bizarre Reason We Never Got A Legend Of Zelda: Wind Waker 2
Ryan Winslett
A lot of people are still holding out hope that Nintendo will one day announce a follow-up to The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. According to the developers, though, that's probably never going to happen. And their reason for that is actually kind of surprising.
If you want to blame something for the lack of a Wind Waker sequel, apparently you should be pointing a finger at the original game's art style. That, and the beloved four-legged companion, Epona. According to a recent report from Nintendo Everything, those are the reasons we never got to see Toon Link in a second game. This, according to artist Satoru Takizawa.
Wind Waker 2 would have taken place in a more land-based setting, rather than on the sea, so that we could have Link gallop across the land on a horse. But Link's proportions in Wind Waker weren't very well suited for riding on horseback, he was too short, and an adult version of Toon Link did not seem appropriate either.
Instead of making a follow-up to Wind Waker, the team instead focused their efforts on a game that would eventually become Twilight Princess. Not only does Link ride around on a horse in that game, but he also has the ability to turn into a wolf. And, yes, his proportions were much more realistic.
Still, we can't help but feel like the team took the long way around to deciding not to make a new Wind Waker game. I mean, if they really wanted to do a Wind Waker 2, why couldn't it just be set at sea again? If they just really, really wanted to have Link riding around on a horse, fine, but that seems like a pretty specific, arguably small reason to scrap a project and move in a completely different direction.
Then again, the desire to have Link riding a horse led to the creation of one of my favorite games in the series, Twilight Princess, so I'm not complaining.
This info originates in The Legend of Zelda: Art & Artifacts, a book highlighting the visual styles of the Zelda series that's due out in Japan early next year. In this particular section, it explains that, along with the art style of Wind Waker causing some issues for the possible sequel, Nintendo saw a growing demand for a more realistic take on the classic hero and, back in the early 2000's, big fantasy movies were all the rage.
We'd definitely be interested in how this news strikes our readers. For you Zelda fans in the audience, are you folks happy with Nintendo's decision to go in a more realistic direction and add horseback riding, or would you have preferred to see a sequel to Wind Waker? Let us know in the comments below.
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