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Corey Taylor: 'We've Forgotten How to Have a Conversation'
Chad Childers Published: September 3, 2020
Corey Taylor stepped away from social media last year, now choosing to use an intermediary if he wants to post something, and during a chat with Philadelphia's 93.3 WMMR, the Slipknot vocalist spoke about some of the negative behaviors he's seen come from social media's interaction.
"I think it's one of the reasons why nobody talks to each other anymore — because they're so used to just exploding with no chance for a rebuttal that we've forgotten how to have a conversation," states Taylor.
"I'm gonna call it right now," he adds. "There will soon be classes in college that teach people how to have conversations again. You watch. I'm telling you. It's that type of retrograde destruction of the way we communicate that is forcing people into these places where they feel like they have no room but what they believe and they're constantly just doing this [presses fists against each other]."
He explains, "In the past, we could have differences of opinion, but depending on what your mindset, your mentality, just who you were as a person, that would kind of create how you were in a conversation. You could have a conversation and a difference of opinion, and people wouldn't pile on you, people wouldn't troll on you, people wouldn't get violent, people wouldn't get just destructive. And that, to me, I think that's the thing that social media has killed. For something called social media, it's not really social, is it? It's a dumpster fire."
During the chat, Taylor says that he hasn't been tempted to rejoin social media over the past year, even with the pandemic. "If anything, it's reinforced me staying off of it. Honestly, I don't even have the passwords anymore. I have somebody who I use to run my sites. Every once in a while, I'll tell them something to post on there. But the interaction is such garbage on there."
With Slipknot currently on a break from touring due to the pandemic, Taylor has pushed forward his debut solo album. CMFT is due Oct. 2 via Roadrunner Records.
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Q: Writing/Reading the contents in a Memory Stream instead of File Stream in C++ I want to write and read the contents to a memory stream instead of any file stream like fstream, ifstream or ofstream. So that all the contents which should be written in a file should be there in the Memory so that it can be transferred easily with fast access.
How should I do this implementation in C++?
Here what I meant to say:-
I will open the ofstream and start writing the content in the file before it saves and closed, I want to read all the content till added in fout in the StringStream, like the below.
And finally I all the content are in my String Stream and file wouldn't be created as I will not use the fout.close().
ofstream fout(FileWritePath, ios_base::out);

fout << "Blahh Blahh.....\n\n";
fout << "Name: Abhishek\n";
fout << "Age: 43";

stringstream Readbuffer;
Readbuffer << fout.rdbuf();

string ReadFullstring = Readbuffer.str();
cout << ReadFullstring << endl;

A: You answered your own question:
If you want to store the values in some data structure that behaves like a filestream, use a stringstream (from the sstream-package):
std::ostringstream buf;

buf << "Blahh Blahh.....\n\n";
buf << "Name: Abhishek\n";
buf << "Age: 43";

std::cout << buf.str() << std::endl;

will then yield, as expected, to:
Blahh Blahh.....

Name: Abhishek
Age: 43

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Dr Harsh Vardhan Launches 'COVID Katha', a Multimedia Guide on COVID-19
Chander Mohan Updated 15 April, 2021 11:16 AM IST
Dr Harsh Vardhan Launches 'COVID Katha
Union Minister of Science & Technology, Health & Family Welfare and Earth Sciences, Dr. Harsh Vardhan interacted with Heads of all Autonomous Institutions (AIs) and Subordinate offices of Department of Science & Technology (DST) via Video Conferencing on the occasion of 50th DST Foundation Day about their S&T initiatives, particularly in relation to their endeavors for combating the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Minister also launched "COVID KATHA", a multimedia guide on COVID-19 on the occasion.
As DST enters 50 years of serving the nation through Science & Technology, the Golden Jubilee Celebrations were also launched, initiating myriad activities in different parts of the country throughout the year. Secretary (DST), Professor Ashutosh Sharma highlighted the major initiatives of DST, its vision for next five years and the steps DST is taking to identify and map technologies from R&D labs, academic institutions, start-ups, and MSMEs to fund nearly market-ready solutions for diagnostics, testing, health care delivery, equipment and supplies to combat COVID-19.
Senior scientists and officials from National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), Science for Equity, Empowerment & Development (SEED) and from Statutory Bodies like Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Technology Development Board (TDB) and the Survey of India (SoI) spoke about the different initiatives being taken to tackle the outbreak. Similarly, Directors of Autonomous Institutions like the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Thiruvananthapuram, International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI), Hyderabad, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) and Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS), Bengaluru, National Innovation Foundation (NIF), Ahmedabad and S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (SNBNCBS), Kolkata spoke about the preparations they have made to brace for the crisis.
During the interaction, Dr Harsh Vardhan congratulated DST on the occasion of 50th Foundation Day, and said, "DST and its autonomous institutions have elevated Science & Technology in India to international levels and benefitted people across communities in myriad ways. DST provides the largest extramural research and development support in our country to strengthen national S&T capacity and capability through a competitive mode to scientists cutting across institutions and disciplines. DST's efforts have helped India attaining 3rd position globally after China and US in terms of number of publications in science citation index journals."
Dr. Vardhan said, "DST has contributed immensely to the S&T innovation space in our country over these 49 years. It has grown considerably with number of incubators and Start-Ups increasing significantly". He highlighted some significant initiatives of the DST and enumerated, "Schemes such as Augmenting Writing Skills through Articulating Research (AWSAR) launched to encourage young scientists to write popular science articles on their research pursuits; programme called National Initiative for Developing & Harnessing Innovations (NIDHI) to boost innovation and start-up activity, Million Minds Augmenting National Aspirations and Knowledge (MANAK) to encourage young students to think innovatively, a National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems, new international S&T collaborations to connect with the best global science projects abroad such as participation in Thirty Meter Telescope Project; and India-Israel Industrial R&D and Technological Innovation Fund of USD 40 million have uplifted India's science and technology efforts".
Making a special mention about the National Mission on Quantum Technology and Application (NM-QTA) announced by the Finance Minister during budget this year at a cost of Rs. 8,000 Crores, Union Science & Technology Minister said, "Launch of NM-QTA is a leap into the future to promote and foster R&D in Quantum Technologies and related areas like quantum computing, quantum cryptography, quantum communication, quantum metrology and sensing, quantum enhanced imaging etc. I am sure DST will make the country proud by bringing the fruits of this cutting-edge technology for the benefit of common people."
Concluding his remarks, Dr. Vardhan said, "The National policy on Scientific Social Responsibility which is being worked out by DST should be an embodiment of the principles of responsible innovation and social entrepreneurship which DST has imbibed over its 49-year journey. I am sure the document will inspire all the grantees of projects to reach out to stakeholders of Science and Society at large with all the tools, knowledge, manpower and infrastructure of S&T in the academia and R&D labs by choosing of one or more activities: scientific infrastructure sharing; mentoring/training of college/ university faculty; training on high end scientific skills and research; student internships; fostering research culture and many more."
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80 CMS students were selected in IIT-JEE in 2017, an unparalleled achievement. Lakshay Sharma of CMS Gomti Nagar Campus I secured All India Rank 10; all three Lucknow Toppers were from CMS - Aman Tiwari (1st), Rohan Gupta (2nd) and Sajal Chaurasia (3rd).
Samridh Joshi of CMS Gomti Nagar (Campus I) came top in Lucknow in the prestigious JEE Main Exam 2016 with 308 marks. Besides, he also secured first position in the State Entrance Examination (SEE- B.Tech), making the CMS family proud. This outstanding student of CMS secured 580 marks out of 600 in the SEE 2016, an unbelievable accomplishment. Samridh Joshi secured 97.75% marks in the ISC (Class XII) board examination this year.
69 CMS students cracked IIT-JEE in 2015, an unparalleled achievement. CMS students secured the top 8 positions in Lucknow.
Shivam of Kanpur Road Campus secured the 1stposition in Lucknow and 6th in Uttar Pradesh in the CPMT Entrance Examination. Shivam secured 96.25% marks in ISC Board this year and had secured 95.60% marks in ICSE (Class X) Board Examination in 2013.
CMS students raised the school flag high with 11 selections in National Talent Search (NTS) Scholarship Examination out of total 20 from Lucknow. This is the maximum number selected from any single institution and indicates excellence in teaching in CMS. The remaining students belong to other institutions combined. The 11 CMS students selected for this most prestigious Scholarship are Abhishek Giri, Aman Tiwari, Aterek Kumar, Jai Vinayak Singh, Kshitij Patel, Lakshay Sharma, Nidish Shanker, Yash Kumar, Om Jaiswal, Sankalp Gautam and Skand Rajmeet Upadhyay.


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Remove the seeds (optional): Remove the small green stalk from each tomato, if there is one. Cut a cross in the top of each tomato. With a paring knife, remove the hard, green core of the tomatoes.
Peel tomato skins: Put tomatoes in boiling water for about half minute, then move them immediately into cold water. You should see tomato skins start to peel off. Just gentlely peel off them all.


Take a rollicking ride through the Wild West with the original cowboy, Pecos Bill. Raised by coyotes to brave the great frontier, Pecos rides his wild mustang Widow Maker and invents the first rough-and-tumble cattle drive. Then he mounts a runaway cyclone like a buckin' bronco to create the Great Salt Lake. Rich in language, imagery, and sheer nonsensical fun, Pecos Bill is a fast and furious fantasy your family is sure to enjoy.


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Each year the OAS Secretary General publishes a proposed Program-Budget for the coming calendar year. The OAS General Assembly meets in a Special Session to approve the Program-Budget. Find these documents from 1998-2013 here.
Each year in April, the OAS Board of External Auditors publishes a report covering the previous calendar year's financial results. Reports covering 1996-2016 may be found here.
Approximately six weeks after the end of each semester, the OAS publishes a Semiannual Management and Performance Report, which since 2013 includes reporting on programmatic results. The full texts may be found here.
Here you will find data on the Human Resources of the OAS, including its organizational structure, each organizational unit's staffing, vacant posts, and performance contracts.
The OAS executes a variety of projects funded by donors. Evaluation reports are commissioned by donors. Reports of these evaluations may be found here.
The Inspector General provides the Secretary General with reports on the audits, investigations, and inspections conducted. These reports are made available to the Permanent Council. More information may be found here.
The OAS has discussed for several years the real estate issue, the funding required for maintenance and repairs, as well as the deferred maintenance of its historic buildings. The General Secretariat has provided a series of options for funding it. The most recent document, reflecting the current status of the Strategy, is CP/CAAP-3211/13 rev. 4.
Here you will find information related to the GS/OAS Procurement Operations, including a list of procurement notices for formal bids, links to the performance contract and travel control measure reports, the applicable procurement rules and regulations, and the training and qualifications of its staff.
The OAS Treasurer certifies the financial statements of all funds managed or administered by the GS/OAS. Here you will find the latest general purpose financial reports for the main OAS funds, as well as OAS Quarterly Financial Reports (QFRs).
Every year the GS/OAS publishes the annual operating plans for all areas of the Organization, used to aid in the formulation of the annual budget and as a way to provide follow-up on institutional mandates.
Here you will find information related to the OAS Strategic Plan 2016-2020, including its design, preparation and approval.
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OAS Secretary General Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, today expressed his full support for the call of the United Nations, following the proposal of Egypt for a ceasefire and humanitarian pause in Gaza, and condemned the Israeli military attacks that have claimed more than 230 lives. The Secretary General also questioned the Hamas armed action against Israeli territory and urged both parties to cooperate with the Egyptian initiative.
The OAS leader said that "once again violence only brings death and no solutions" and lamented that "the truce has not been fully respected by the opposing sides, which hinders the possibility of saving lives and ending the fighting."
The Secretary General called on world leaders and international organizations to search for solutions "to a dramatic situation that not only has its origins in political and religious differences, but also in the living conditions of nearly 1.8 million people living in 336 sq kilometers, with no possibility of development, restricted in their access to health and education."
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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Trust Me, You Don't Want Cyberpunk 2077 in Third-Person
Published on June 28, 2018 Alex Gibson
Home » Features » Trust Me, You Don't Want Cyberpunk 2077 in Third-Person
It's ironic that the biggest splash made at E3 was by a game that didn't actually showcase one iota of gameplay… well, not to the public at least. Whether it was because CD Projekt Red wanted insurance against potential future downgrades or whether it was a clever tactic to build even more suspense for Cyberpunk 2077, it worked: not a single person I saw who walked away from the behind-closed-doors demo didn't have a big smile on their face and an exciting story to tell. And I was in exactly the same camp, because there really was that much to talk about and that many surprises to unpack.
Arguably the biggest, of course, was the revelation that Cyberpunk 2077 is to be a first-person RPG, a complete departure from the third-person perspective that CDPR has forged its prestige on with the critically acclaimed Witcher series. It confirmed that the developer was intent on not only scrapping the thematic setting of a beloved franchise but that it was also readily throwing out the window a gameplay design in a title that has been hailed as a masterpiece and a game of the generation. Shock, horror. The internet wasn't just unamused, it was downright furious. For many, apparently, CDPR is making a ruinous mistake that has spoiled what might potentially be a new masterpiece.
Few, if any, of course, have actually seen the game in action. So I'm here to allay those concerns and tell you why Cyberpunk 2077 is better off embracing a new perspective. And, for the record, I typically prefer third-person games.
You've got to appreciate that Night City, Cyberpunk's dystopian urban environment, isn't like any open world you might have seen before. Seriously, that's not just PR speak. This is an incredibly dense, up-in-your-face metropolis where billboards hurl bright neon lights in your eyes, cables hang low like makeshift ceilings in cramped alleyways, and punks lurking on street corners intimidate you for fun. It's claustrophobic in a way that wide open fields of yellow maize and the expanses of swaying forests in The Witcher 3 never were.
Mike Pondsmith, the mind behind the Cyberpunk 2020 tabletop RPG on which CDPR's latest project spoke of it in a recent interview:
"In an incredibly urban environment, stuff happens around your perception all the time. And if you're above and out of it and you're just driving a puppet around, you don't get that same feeling you get of being in the place and picking up data, looking at opportunities – when you are in it, stuff impacts you."
He's got a point. As much as I love watching my avatar move through an environment, vanquish enemies with a badass sword swipe, and play around with its attire, it's not immersive in the same way as a first-person experience is. There's not that same level of interaction with the environment because everything is being observed from an unnatural perspective. And believe me, you want to soak up every ounce of Night City from eye level.
Not to mention, you almost certainly want to be shooting from a first-person perspective, too. In my preview of the game, I spoke of how stunned I was at how sublime the shooting appeared to handle. It's hard to speak of fidelity without having actually played the game hands-on, but what we saw was a showcase that looked far beyond conventional gunplay. Shooting a bad guy in the legs, having him stumble forward, and then blowing his head off; highlighting an enemy's outline and then shooting through the table in front of you to take him out: it's the sort of visceral combat that actually wouldn't be possible in third-person.
In fact, that's actually the biggest takeaway for me. I could try to argue to you the merit of one perspective over another until the cows come home, but you'll have your opinions and I won't necessarily have any success in changing them in this article. What I can urge you to consider, though, is the value of just how brave a move it is that CDPR is walking away from everything it's done up until this point and creating something entirely new. Not just a reskin, not just a CC of what has worked in the past, reclad to look like something new: this is a bold new direction in every sense of the word. It's the sort of effect that can never be achieved by keeping the same mechanics and using the same perspective across two different franchises. Think Dragon Age Inquisition to Mass Effect Andromeda, or Assassin's Creed to Watch Dogs – nothing good comes from rebranding assets and trying to capture the same audience while simultaneously winning over a new one.
I couldn't think of anything I'd want to see less than a Cyberpunk 2077 that reminded me of The Witcher 3. And that's exactly what would have ended up happening if CDPR had stuck with third-person; different setting, different story, but that sense of familiarity that you'd experienced it all somewhere before. But that's not in any danger of happening, thank goodness. Cyberpunk 2077 might as well have been made on a different planet. It's fresh, different, challenging, and far more exciting because its developer has taken a risk.
Ultimately, there's precious little audacity in AAA gaming, so shouldn't we all be celebrating the intent and embracing the change rather than lamenting it because of a petty grievance?
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'FBI: International': The Team Heads to Northern Ireland to Solve a Case in Upcoming Episode
by Taylor Cunningham January 5, 2022
written by Taylor Cunningham January 5, 2022
FBI: International returns with an all-new episode next week! And it looks like Special Agent Jamie Kellett will be the star of the show.
On January 4th, the Fly Team came back from its month-long hiatus to save an auditorium full of students in Bulgaria after a group of terrorists took them hostage. In the episode, Forrester ended up saving the day with remarkably quick thinking.
Next week, the attention will shift away from Forrester and onto Kellet as she helps one of her informants get out of a European bind.
According to the official synopsis, "Kellett and the Fly Team reluctantly join an investigation in Northern Ireland, when one of Kellett's shifty yet valuable informants who's arrested for his connection to a robbery and murder, calls her to help clear his name."
During the episode—titled Close to the Sun—we're also expecting to get some insight into who Kellet is as both a person and an FBI agent. And of course, since the series largely surrounds individual cases instead of the agents' personal stories, it will be interesting to get to know the characters on a deeper level.
Watch Close to the Sun Tuesday, January 11th at 10/9 p.m. C on CBS.
'FBI: International' Creator Explains Why Forrester and Kellett Began their Relationship Off-Screen
Jamie Kellet and Scott Forrester make up the star romance in FBI: International. But unlike most series, the two didn't court on-screen. Instead, the series premiere opened with the two already heavily involved.
During a sit-down with TV Insider, showrunner Derek Hass explained that he chose to skip the typical will-they-wont-they drama so he could showcase a real FBI relationship.
As Haas shared, agents often date marry each other "with surprising frequency, perhaps due in part to the unique demands of their jobs." And he wanted to showcase the tension that goes along with those romances.
"We thought that was an interesting way to do it," Haas said. "We had been reading about how many FBI agents marry other FBI agents. What were the dynamics that would cause that? To us, it was, well, the only people that can really understand what you do on the job are the people that are on the job. And so that makes really powerful relationships."
Throughout the series, Haas will explore how the dangerous and often disturbing career can affect an FBI romance. So we can expect to see a lot of conflict within the Kellet-Forrester duo.
"Just to be different, we thought, what if they got together right before our series started? And what complications would that bring about?" he added. "That's what we've been exploring."


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Q: How to make a servlet output several messages progressively I'm using JSP and Servlets to write a Web application. The goal of the app is to provide a simple form in the jsp page, which is used to feed parameters to execute a java program (in the servlet). The output of the program should appear at the bottom of the same jsp page. A lot of sites explain how to to this, however my main issue is that my java program takes several minutes to run, and it prints out a lot of messages before completing. If I simply append those messages to the servlet's HttpServletResponse, then it will wait several minutes before showing all the messages at once. Is there a way to progressively print out the messages on the original jsp page as if it was a java console?

A: You can make this by using ajax.
In ajax call the servlet,then take the necessary informations from the servlet and print it in ajax success part.
This may help you.


The Singapore-based shipping and logistics company Rocktree offers logistics solutions to dry bulk commodity producers, end users and international trading companies in the natural and mineral resources sectors. Through its fleet of offshore floating terminals (OFTs), Rocktree is able to provide transshipment services, storage, cargo blending and ship management services to clients in emerging markets, greatly simplifying the supply chain process.
In commodity-producing regions around the world, the need for sophisticated and reliable supply chain solutions is essential. For Rocktree, the company's goal is to offer modern, highly customized logistics solutions for their clients dealing in the transport of dry bulk commodities, specifically coal. Rocktree's fleet supports coal companies throughout the supply chain, offering solutions to producers, end-users, and logistics providers.
Rocktree's OFT vessels provide the standard transshipment services that many service providers offer clients in such markets; it also provides storage, which is not standard. However, according to Pratolongo, Rocktree offers another key differentiating service.
This specific service is the centrepiece of Rocktree's strategy to offer unconventional solutions to players in the coal industry.
Rocktree has three assets for such operations, Zeus, Mara and Apollo. The Apollo has recently been commissioned, and started operations in July this year. She is designed in order to achieve loading rates over 40,000 metric tonnes/day with latest technologies available for homogeneous blending and automatic mechanical sampling services. Apollo also has a buffer storage of about 3,000 metric tonnes.
Apollo was built according to stringent environmental requirements and has been awarded with the Green Star 3 Design additional Class notation, the first time such a recognition has been granted to this type of floating terminals, highlighting Rocktree's commitment to the environment.
Designed to withstand higher loading volumes, these vessels enable clients to load greater quantities of cargo on board in a time-effective manner, significantly reducing daily operating costs and time spent at sea.


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MBA, Drucker School of Management, Claremont Graduate University
PhD, Business Administration, Columbia University
Applied economics and sources of economic growth, Entrepreneurship, Business and corporate strategy, Applying Peter Drucker's concepts and techniques to today's world
Jorge Sá is an expert on Peter Drucker and Philip Kotler, founders of modern management and modern marketing, respectively (with whom he studied) and a former professor at AESE associated IESE, where he remains a visiting professor.
He was awarded the Jean Monnet Chair—the highest European academic award—by the Jean Monnet Foundation in Brussels. In addition, he has earned several distinctions, including Fulbright, Beta, Gamma, and Sigma fellowships.
Sá has published 25 books in 12 languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish, Mandarin, Russian, Ukrainian, German, Lithuanian, Thai, Korean, Norwegian and Iranian. He speaks English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. Along with his academic work, he has served as private consultant, non-executive director, or taught in the executive programs of numerous multinational companies, including Coca-Cola, Shell, Unisys, IBM, Price Waterhouse, KPMG, Dun & Bradstreet, Accenture, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Volkswagen Group, McDonald's, and Merck.
His hobbies include history—he wrote several books on the lessons of military campaigns for management—and soccer. (He holds a degree as a professional soccer coach.)
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25 Jan, 2020 – NBC – The B- Biological Warfare – China creates virus' to create a VACCINE / WAR- update video -dead in hospital
Posted bytxlady7061 January 25, 2020 January 25, 2020 Posted inBiological, China, coronavirus, epidemic, germ weapons, Israel, NBC, SARS, Uncategorized, Vaccine, Vaccines, virus, WuhanTags:2019-nCoV, anthrax, China, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, coronavirus, Dany Shoham, dengue, Dr. Richard Ebright, epidemic, Gao Fu, germ, germ weapons, H5N1 influenza virus, Hunan Seaford Market, Israeli, Japanese encephalitis, microbiologist, NBC, pneumonia-like, Rutgers University, SARS, seafood, Vaccine, virus, Wuhan, Xinhua, Zhongnan
Man this is like scenes from The Walking Dead! Dead Bodies just laying in the Isle of the hospital. This is not going to turn out well for the World! pic.twitter.com/wH1wwC3zYX
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Hunan Seafood Market – located very close to the lab. Could it not be conceivable that they KNEW where the seafood would be going and theretofore contaminated the people handling it? For the PURPOSE of spreading it to the WEST?
So, why has the WHO or CDC not shut down the ports? They get money and kickbacks from China
Many DINO's are in bed with the CHINESE, but don't be mistaken, some are also RINO's and some that you may least suspect.
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Virus-hit Wuhan has two laboratories linked to Chinese bio-warfare program
Virology institute there has China's only secure lab for studying deadly viruse
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a medical worker writes their colleague's name on a protective suit to aid in identification as they work at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, … more >
By Bill Gertz – The Washington Times – Friday, January 24, 2020
The deadly animal virus epidemic spreading globally may have originated in a Wuhan laboratory linked to China's covert biological weapons program, according to an Israeli biological warfare expert.
Radio Free Asia this week rebroadcast a local Wuhan television report from 2015 showing China's most advanced virus research laboratory known the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Radio Free Asia reported.
The laboratory is the only declared site in China capable of working with deadly viruses.
Dany Shoham, a former Israeli military intelligence officer who has studied Chinese bio warfare, said the institute is linked to Beijing's covert biological weapons program.
"Certain laboratories in the institute have probably been engaged, in terms of research and development, in Chinese [biological weapons], at least collaterally, yet not as a principal facility of the Chinese BW alignment," Mr. Shoham told The Washington Times.
Work on biological weapons is conducted as part of a dual civilian-military research and is "definitely covert," he said in an email.
Mr. Shoham holds a doctorate in medical microbiology. From 1970 to 1991 he was a senior analyst with Israeli military intelligence for biological and chemical warfare in the Middle East and worldwide, holding the rank of lieutenant colonel.
China in the past has denied having any offensive biological weapons. The State Department, in a report last year, said it suspects China has engaged in covert biological warfare work.
A Chinese Embassy spokesman did not return an email seeking comment.
Chinese authorities so far have said the origin of the coronavirus that has killed scores and infected hundreds in in central Hubei Province is not known.
Gao Fu, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told state-controlled media initial signs as of Thursday indicated the virus originated from wild animals sold at a seafood market in Wuhan.
One ominous sign, said a U.S. official, is the that false rumors since the outbreak began several weeks ago have begun circulating on the Chinese Internet claiming the virus is part of a U.S. conspiracy to spread germ weapons.
That could indicate China is preparing propaganda outlets to counter future charges the new virus escaped from one of Wuhan's civilian or defense research laboratories.
The World Health Organization is calling the microbe novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV. At a meeting in Geneva Thursday, the organization stopped short of declaring a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
The virus outbreak causes pneumonia-like symptoms and prompted China to deploy military forces to Wuhan this week in a bid to halt the spread. All travel out of the city of 11 million people was halted.
The Wuhan institute has studied coronaviruses in the past, including the including the strain that causes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, H5N1 influenza virus, Japanese encephalitis, and dengue. Researchers at the institute also studied the germ that causes anthrax – a biological agent once developed in Russia.
"Coronaviruses (particularly SARS) have been studied in the institute and are probably held therein," he said. "SARS is included within the Chinese BW program, at large, and is dealt with in several pertinent facilities."
It is not known if the institute's array of coronaviruses are specifically included in biological weapons program but it is possible, he said.
Asked if the new coronavirus may have leaked, Mr. Shoham said: "In principle, outward virus infiltration might take place either as leakage or as an indoor unnoticed infection of a person that normally went out of the concerned facility. This could have been the case with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but so far there isn't evidence or indication for such incident."
After researchers sequence of the genome of the new coronavirus it might be possible to determine or suggest its origin or source.
Mr. Shoham, now with the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar Ilan University in Israel, said the virology institute is the only declared site in China known as P4 for Pathogen Level 4, a status indicating it uses the strictest safety standards to prevent the spread of the most dangerous and exotic microbes being studied.
The former Israeli military intelligence doctor also said suspicions were raised about the Wuhan Institute of Virology when a group of Chinese virologists working in Canada improperly sent samples to China of what he said were some of the deadliest viruses on earth, including the Ebola virus.
In a July article in the journal Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, Mr. Shoham said the Wuhan institute was one of four Chinese laboratories engaged in some aspects of the biological weapons development.
He identified the secure Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory at the institute as engaged in research on the Ebola, Nipah, and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever viruses.
The Wuhan virology institute is under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. But certain laboratories within it "have linkage with the PLA or BW-related elements within the Chinese defense establishment," he said.
In 1993, China declared a second facility, the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products, as one of eight biological warfare research facilities covered by the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) which China joined in 1985.
The Wuhan Institute of Biological Products is a civilian facility but is linked to the Chinese defense establishment, and has been regarded to be involved in the Chinese BW program, Mr. Shoham said.
China's vaccine against SARS is probably produced there.
"This means the SARS virus is held and propagated there, but it is not a new coronavirus, unless the wild type has been modified, which is not known and cannot be speculated at the moment," he said.
The annual State Department report on arms treaty compliance stated last year that China engaged in activities that could support biological warfare.
"Information indicates that the People's Republic of China engaged during the reporting period in biological activities with potential dual-use applications, which raises concerns regarding its compliance with the BWC," the report said, adding that the United States suspects China failed to eliminate its biological warfare program as required by the treaty.
"The United States has compliance concerns with respect to Chinese military medical institutions' toxin research and development because of the potential dual-use applications and their potential as a biological threat," the report added.
The biosafety lab is located about 20 miles from the Hunan Seaford Market that reports from China say may have been origin point of the virus.
Rutgers University microbiologist Dr. Richard Ebright told London's Daily Mail that "at this point there's no reason to harbor suspicions" the lab may be linked to the virus outbreak.
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Ferndale garners its roots from the Lummi Tribe who called the land "Te-tas-um," which meant, "the crossing place above Lummi." The native culture is still alive today as seen throughout Ferndale, with displays of Story poles, weaved baskets and more. Many from the Lummi Nation continue to fish and harvest shell fish just as their ancestors did generation after generation.
The city of Ferndale was founded in the 1800's with the name, "Jam." This was in reference to the nearby two-mile log jam on the Nooksack River.
Alice Eldridge, the first school teacher, was the first to call the town Ferndale. She admired the lush green ferns that surrounded the schoolhouse. This was characteristic of the Indian culture where names of sites and areas oftentimes described the site itself. As people moved to the area the name stuck.
The first pioneer family to settle in Ferndale was a Texan named Billy Clark, and his Native American wife Cecilia Chanique. In 1873, they built a cabin near the Nooksack River and lived there for more than 10 years. Because Clark had to give up his citizenship in order to work for the Hudson Bay Company in Canada, he was not the first legal owner of any property in Ferndale.
Darius Rogers, Clark's old friend, filed claim to 174 acres. Along with his brother, Rogers opened the first business in Ferndale. This included a hotel and later a store. After a steamboat enterprise failed he moved to the west side of the river. The post office, which was a cedar log building that Rogers built, along with some residents and merchants, also moved to the west side.
By 1882, Ferndale was the third largest town in Whatcom County and had two stores, a hotel, two saloons and a post office.
Custer is located near Ferndale and has an elementary school, post office and several downtown businesses. Custer's boundaries merge with Ferndale's boundaries. Custer is a quaint area where farmland is prevalent. Originally, the town was located at the intersection of the current Valley View and Bay roads, but in 1890-1892 the town moved to accommodate the railroad. The railroad continues to run through the town today. Custer was named after its first postmaster, Albert W. Custer.
The Lummi Nation traditionally lived near the sea and in the mountain areas that surrounded Ferndale, and spoke the Salishan language. The tribe smoke-dried seafood, camas bulbs and sun-dried berries, and ate all species of shell fish, crab, salmon, trout, elk, deer and other land and sea mammals. They expressed their language, family heritage and religious traditions through their totem pole carvings.
The reservation is a 5-mile long peninsula which is surrounded by Lummi Bay on the west, Bellingham Bay on the east, the smaller peninsula of Sandy Point, Portage Island and the associated tidelands.
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The various Indian immigrant Christian denominations in Philadelphia share close bonds of love and mutual respect with each other and, under the banner of EFICP have always come together to work for the good of the whole community. This congenial atmosphere is a true blessing from God.
The ecumenical friendship of Indian Christians in Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, traces its roots back much before any Church of any denomination of Indian Christians was originated. In fact, until October 1976, there was no denominational congregation in Philadelphia except for an ecumenical Christian group. Now for all the Christian denominations of Kerala origin, there are many Churches and believers in all of them also increased many fold.
The 'Ecumenical Movement' is the effort, under God, to bring the whole Christian world visibly and convincingly into one community, one Church. The ecumenical movement understands the unity of the church as a gift from God that we seek to manifest more fully and faithfully, not as something we humanly create. As per the current religious and Christian atmosphere of the world, the first aim of ecumenism should be targeted for a mutual respect and co-operation among the denominations, than any Himalayan task of uniting the churches.
The first Malayalam service for the very few Kerala Christians in Philadelphia was conducted by Fr. K. M. Simon of the Knanaya Church in the living room of Dr. T. V. Philip's apartment at 4900 Pine Street in July 1962, with Dr. Philip as the altar boy. From August 1962 and onwards regular service was conducted on the first Sunday of every month by Fr. K. M. Simon, at Ashbury Methodist Church chapel on the Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. The attendees were an ecumenical group consisted of Orthodox, Marthoma and CSI denominations. Occasionally, Fr. A.T. Abraham of the Knanaya Church, and Fr. K. C. Abraham of CSI Church who were theological students at the Princeton University also conducted services. His grace Mor Kurilos (who later became Catholicos of the East) has also conducted services when he was a student at the General Theological Seminary. Any priest or bishop from the Marthoma, CSI and Orthodox denominations visiting Philadelphia has conducted service as requested by the ecumenical group.
Though the number of believers in all denominations increased many fold, all denominations in Philadelphia uphold the very same old love and unity across all denominations. All the ecumenical activities are arranged by an ecumenical body comprised of elected representatives from all Indian churches in Philadelphia.
21 parishes from Orthodox, Jacobite, Catholic, Marthoma and CSI Churches are participating in the Philadelphia Ecumenical Fellowship. Spread across the above nineteen Parishes, there are more than 4,000 members living in and around Philadelphia involved with this Fellowship.
1. Ascension Mar Thoma Church (215 677 7322)
2. Bethel Mar Thoma Church (215 725 9774)
3. Christos Mar Thoma Church (215 808 7410)
4. CSI Christ Church in Pennsylvania (267 600 9187)
5. Emmanuel CSI Church (215 677 3707)
6. Indian Latin Catholic Community (267 243 4291)
7. Mar Thoma Church Philadelphia (215 510 1601)
8. St. Gregorios Malankara Orthodox Church (312 927 7045)
9. St. George Malankara Orthodox Church (215 547 1474)
10. St. John's Indian Orthodox Church (484 461 6898)
11. St. John Neumann Knanaya Catholic Mission of Philadelphia (215 421 5737)
12. St. Jude Syro Malankara Catholic Church (267 297 9952)
13. St. Mary's Knanaya Church (215 620 6476)
14. St. Mary's Orthodox Cathedral (215 289 4822)
15. St. Mary's Orthodox Church of Philadelphia (215 552 9115)
16. St. St. Paul's Syrian Orthodox Church (610 357 4883)
17. St. Peter's Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church (215 856 7305)
18. St. Thomas Indian Orthodox Church (201 681 1078)
19. St. Thomas Malankara Orthodox Church (215 904 7398)
20. St. Thomas Mar Thoma Church of Delaware Valley (610 644 3044)
21. St. Thomas Syro Malabar Catholic Church (215 464 4008)
EFICP Event Dates for Year 2018-19
Game Day:
Location: George Washington High School
Gospel Choir Festival:
Date: October 14, 2018 (3 PM - 7 PM)
Location: CSI Christ Church in PA
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Location: St. Gregorious Malankara Orthodox Church
01. Ascension Mar Thoma Church
02. Bethel Mar Thoma Church
03. Christos Mar Thoma Church
04. CSI Christ Church in Pennsylvania
05. Emmanuel CSI Church
06. Indian Latin Catholic Community
07. Mar Thoma Church of Philadelphia
08. St. Gregorios Malankara Orthodox Church
09. St. George Malankara Orthodox Church
10. St. John's Indian Orthodox Church
11. St. John Neumann Knanaya Catholic Mission
12. St. Jude Syro Malankara Church
13. St. Mary's Knanaya Church
14. St. Mary's Orthodox Cathedral
15. St. Mary's Orthodox Church of Philadelphia
16. St. Paul's Syrian Orthodox Church
17. St. Peter's Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church
18. St. Thomas Indian Orthodox Church
19. St. Thomas Malankara Orthodox Church
20. St. Thomas Mar Thoma Church of Delaware Valley
21. St. Thomas Syro Malabar Catholic Church
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Hello and welcome to Hellerup fencing club!
Here you can find out all the practical details about the club, venue, people involved and training schedules as well as keep an eye on all the up-to-date news. If you are a first time visitor looking to get involved in a club in Copenhagen then you have come to the right place. We welcome new faces and are proud to introduce them to the unique and all-embracing atmosphere at HFK. We know that fencing can seem intimidating at first glance but rest assured that everyone at the club is committed to making sure that new members feel as comfortable as possible and a part of the club from their very first step onto the piste.
One of the big contributing factors to the special atmosphere here at HFK is the number of international members we have. A lot young members are pupils at the International School. There are fencers from all over Scandinavia, Europe and even further afield, and if you are an experienced fencer looking for somewhere to continue the sport you love then we even have a handful of world class medallists. Fencing is a world-wide sport and there is so much to gain from welcoming every nationality into one place to experience and interact through a shared passion.


This is my mom holding my first son a few Octobers ago. Going to the Pumpkin Patch is part of our family tradition. We pick carving pumpkins and dream up ideas for funny faces for them. We pet all the farm animals and walk the corn mazes; we leave itchy from crawling over hay bales, and we always feel the need for apple cider after our exploration. These are sweet memories made.
Sometimes we have been known to paint the pumpkins we bring home! What a colorful mess we make! But it's worth it; the joy and laughter is completely contagious. We add feathers and glitter and the whole nine yards!
The week of Halloween, we make a pot of soup, invite grandparents over, and carve pumpkins together. The seeds get washed, seasoned, and cooked for snacking during the process. We fill our tummies and our hearts in the crisp air that usually has just begun to chill our evenings. We bust out carving knives and power drills for our pumpkins! The imaginations take flight as we all carve.
Ever since I have any memory, my extended family has gotten together for a Halloween supper and trick or treating together. We always have chili and fritos, and EVERYone must show up in costume; no exceptions. We have years and years of pictures of children, grandparents, friends,( pets even!) dressed in silliness. We are all in, and it is so much fun!It is always pure joy to just play for the evening. A Tradition that's in its third generation currently.
Let the kids spread out their loot at the end of the evening. Give them permission to wallow in it for the moment…when else is it ever appropriate? Pure Bliss is in those memories. Treasures that go WAY beyond their sweet tooth.
One of my sons is a collector of nature. I am forever being gifted dandelions, and rocks, sticks and walnut shells that have hearts carved in them by our Magnificent God. I cherish the pictures I have taken of these perishable treasures. It is a glimpse through the eyes of a child; pure and unencumbered. And the Nature Walks!! These are requested as early as August by my crew. We make them wait till the leaves start falling. But the anticipation wraps our beautiful memories made in the Scavenger Hunts we take out on each Fall with walking sticks, paper bags, snacks and all!


Pakistan is paying accolades to its minorities today on National Minority Day, to bring to light the ample services and sacrifices that often go unnoticed to the marginalized group in the country.
Throughout the day numerous events are taking place around the country to laud the minorities for their services with the public stepping forward to share encouraging and appreciatory words for the group.
Several social media users have also expressed their gratitude to the group preaching coexistence in the country and hoping for a more tolerant and respectful Pakistan in the future for people of all faiths.


Replace the system fan, any 3 or 4 pin 120 by 120 mm fan will do, the old system fan started to make noise and also, the PC was collecting dust. All dust (it was the size of a fist almost) removed with compressed air and a dust devil.
Replace the 4Gb DDR by 16Gb DDR (please read the motherboard documentation on what this board can handle and what they recommend) This gives a significant boost to Windows 7, the 4Gb was ok in 2011 but nowadays I do things with SDR software that make it slower, the 16 Gb prevents that the pagefile is used, probably 8 Gb DDR 3 would have been sufficient already.
Add a 256 Gb solid state drive (SSD) to the motherboard, you need a 3,5 inch bracket, a free power plug, a SATA cable and some tie wraps. Also here, 128 Gb may have been sufficient. My tendency is to buy things somewhat larger than that you really need them. Need them means need now, and in 5 years you need more because all applications and operating systems get taller.
Please ground the PC and wear a electrostatic wrist band when you do all this, most components have an ECC protection but I wasn't planning to challenge it. Especially the DDR3 ram boards are delicate.
Tell Microsoft ReadyBoost to use the SSD, and wow, what a difference! It would be good to put the original C disk on the SSD, but that would require some more planning.
Configure the virtual memory to use the SSD, so the pagefile goes to the SSD, google for it how to do this.
Move the google chrome cache directory to the SSD, google for it how to do this.
Check the Windows 7 updates and run a microsoft tool to repair the database, google for it how to do this.
Run CCleaner, only remove files you can delete for now. CCleaner is free and mostly safe, ignore all the ads until you find it. (Some call it bloatware, could be because if you don't watch what you are doing you suddenly get avast as well, I didn't ask for this guys).
Move the search index location to the SSD, rebuild the search index overnight.
Software updates and disk defragmentation (and more) is already running every week.
After this treatment the PC runs significantly faster than before, you spend roughly 200 euros and you avoid buying a new PC, so all together it is a low budget solution.
You should be aware that upgrading an 8 year old PC is not without risk, my last thought was, let me replace the CMOS battery, it is old so maybe it should be replaced, this turned out to be a bad idea, because after I replaced it windows 7 startup crashed on the infamous "blue screen of death". Someone from Microsoft with a blue screen of death on the background, all news crews where there, good for a few million hits on youtube and some cheers and boos. What happens is that the startup procedure does not recognize some hardware change. And these bugs are very hard to find, my recommendation is, have the video on standby and look why it crashed. If it is a hidclass.sys crash then you may be lucky because either the keyboard or mouse could have caused it.
Yes you read that right, a wireless Logitech mouse which was causing the problem because the original Windows 7 developers had no driver for it. Replace this by the oldest mouse there is (like a PS2 mouse or a wired USB mouse), and the blue screen of death suddenly disappears.
At this point I'm dealing with a smoothly running windows 7 PC with almost 200 updates installed. Once that stops you have a windows.old directory with all user files from the previous installation, a backup disk (I hope), and a NAS. A new installation is also (once in a while) a healthy idea. Everything runs faster, ditch a bootleg office version and replace it by OpenOffice which also works and migrate the user files from windows.old back to the new user desktops and document libraries. If necessary restore from your backup disk. (Buy them as large as you get them, the 3 to 4 Tb disks are reasonably priced).
Forget all suggestions like, maybe you should have done this, you should have done that, because all many of those suggestions are probably not an option for you. Install windows 10? NO! Why no? Because I already know that this motherboard and graphics card / disk / memory configuration will probably not pass the tests that you have to run before you install Windows 10. If we talk about windows 10, then we talk about a new motherboard, a new graphics card, and god may know what else. You talk about a new PC in my opinion. Maybe the consideration to go to Windows 10 could come when there are no more security updates for this operating system., and, when the environment you live in does not allow you to run an insecure OS. Reality is that your router/switch/modem/access point is keeping the banalities of internet out of your LAN, behind the router there are different rules.
At some point you reach the final verdict, which is when I update my blog. The PC now runs backup, a boinc project in the background, listens to SDRconsole, and that all without memory starvation which was clearly the cause for slowness in the old situation. I thought it was worth the investment, just saved 6 to 800 Euro by not buying new PC which would have been the kneejerk reaction after blue screens of death when you return the installation disk.
Finally you restore the windows.old directory into the new location for all users, install the required software again, and made a backup. Make sure that the name of the new computer differs from what you had, so that the backup does not run into a conflict. After you moved things into the new location you can clean up whatever what was left from the old windows installation. Start making backups and a recovery disk as soon as possible. Altogether it takes almost one weekend to revamp and recover.
Would it make any difference to install windows 10? Just a tought.
Actually, no, windows 10 is probably not an option here.


VOICE is an Evansville community organization giving residents an opportunity to express their vision of the city's future.
On Tuesday, the group announced a series of three "big action meetings." The first to be held on October 3 to present the compiled data from the VOICE sessions and announce the top three themes.
Then there will then be three meetings to discuss each of the topics in depth.
"We believe that if people get to be a part of creating what we're going to do, they're going to support it better. We also might be able to come up with better ways to make it more sustainable and get the money and different kinds of support that we need," said Lynn Miller Pease, the Executive Director of Leadership Evansville.
All the meetings will take place over the next two months.
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Q: Should const string: *const [_:0]u8 = "infer size"; be compilable in zig? While experimenting with the zig syntax, I noticed the type expression of string literals is omitted in all examples. Which is totally fine, I'm not saying it shouldn't be.
const zig_string = "I am a string"; //it looks nice enough for sure and compiles fine ofcourse

However, because this type omission is a bit inconsistent* with other type declarations in zig, it can lead to beginners (like me) misinterpreting the actual type of string literals (which is fact quite rightfully complicated and 'different'). Anyway, after reading about the type of string literals being 'pointers to (utf-8 encoded) immutable (const), sentinel terminated arrays of u8 bytes' (yes?), with next to the hard coded length field, a terminator field like so: [<length>:0]. To check my own understanding, I thought it reasonable to try adding this type expression to the declaration, similar to how other arrays are conveniently declared, so with an underscore to infer the length, because who likes counting characters?
const string: *const [_:0]u8 = "jolly good"; //doesn't compile: unable to infer array size

But it didn't compile :(.
After dutifully counting characters and now specifying the length of my string however, it proudly compiled :)!
const string: *const [10:0]u8 = "jolly good"; //happily compiles

Which led me to my question:

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*Why is this length specification needed for string literals and not for other literals/arrays? - (And should this be so?)

*Please correct my type description of string literals if I missed an important nuance.

I'd like to know to further deepen my understanding of the way strings are handled in zig.
*although there are more cases where the zig compiler can infer the type without it

A: Types never have _ in them.
"jolly good" is a string literal. *const [10:0]u8 is the type.
For "other literals/arrays":
const a = [_]u8{ 1, 2, 3 };

[_]u8{ 1, 2, 3 } is an array literal. The type is [3]u8 and it cannot be specified as [_]u8.
Look into slices. They offer a very convenient way to use strings and arrays.


With the emergence of cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), businesses need to accelerate the design and implementation of ITSM processes and capabilities to manage their cloud infrastructure, maintain efficient services delivery, and align both development and operations.
As a cloud continues to grow, the complexity and costs of data migration and cloud integration often outweigh the benefits. Through successful cloud IT Service Management, IT professionals can ensure their cloud services—whether they are private, public or hybrid—operate with well-defined processes, best-practice management and guaranteed SLAs. This not only protects the performance, efficiency and reliability of cloud-based services, but also helps to lower the associated security risks and TCO.


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by Swami Shraddhananda | Mar/Apr Columnists 2016
When we practice yoga, we engage the whole community of body, mind, and spirit. Each of the trillions of cells in the body helps to build a system, or community of cells. Each system of the body then connects with other systems—nervous, skeletal, muscles, endocrine, respiratory, circulatory, digestive, etc. The healthy functioning of these systems helps us attain a settled mind and a higher spiritual consciousness through meditation.
So it is similar in life. Each human being connects with other human beings in various communities. We can build community in families, workplaces, schools, neighborhoods, regions, and through the Internet with virtual communities. Along with our human community, we all also connect with other systems like plants, animals, rivers, lakes, etc. within our planet's ecology. We are truly part of the Earth community.
One important event in the building of our Earth community consciousness happened at the historic UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in December 2015 when representatives from 196 countries agreed on ways to lower greenhouse gases and stop the warming of our planet. There were about 50,000 people in attendance addressing the human community's need to make real change to avoid climate catastrophe. While there are many criticisms that the agreement did not go far enough, it was still a step forward. Continued efforts by indigenous peoples throughout the world, environmental groups, and community organizations using nonviolent actions are highlighting the need to change from fossil fuels to renewable resources to slow global warming.
At the recent Sundance Film Festival in Utah, Josh Fox showed his highly acclaimed new documentary, How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change. Fox, known for his previous work, Gasland, was instrumental in educating people about the dangers of fracking, which is the process of injecting liquid at high pressure into subterranean rocks, boreholes, etc. so as to force open existing fissures and extract oil or gas. It was a great victory that education and organizing led to New York State outlawing fracking and preventing the pollution of water for 16 million people in that state. Fox, interviewed on Democracy Now, spoke to the present climate change issue:
"So, looking at this from the perspective, it's already so late in the game—many would say too late to avoid some of the most destructive aspects of climate change—that sent me out on the road from this place of really deep despair to find all the things climate can't change. And what those are, are civic virtues, courage, democracy, love, human rights, resilience, creativity, innovation. And so that led me all across the world to six continents, 12 countries, and places like the Amazon with indigenous environmental monitors, or the Pacific Climate Warriors who are blockading the coal ports in Australia to stop their islands from being submerged by sea level rise, people speaking out in China for human rights and against climate change, at peril of being imprisoned. These were the things that are incredibly emotional, in some cases spiritual, ethical examples of people…."
Just as Fox found hope in the many communities of people working for peace and justice across the world, we can also be on the lookout for building community wherever we are. We can work on developing those civic virtues of courage, democracy, love, human rights, resilience, creativity, and innovation whenever we help to construct or maintain community.
Recently, there was an outpouring of concern for the people of Flint, Michigan who suffered horrible lead poisoning from their water system. Medical experts and community groups showed courage in exposing the truth behind this health crisis and exposed government corruption regarding the switching of the water system to a polluted source in order to save money. Communities started sending fresh water to the residents there to ease the suffering.
We don't have to wait until a crisis hits in order to build community. Even though the trend toward individualism is very strong in our society, there is also the solid need for unity and cooperation in all spheres of life.
Lately, for instance, many people are showing interest in making use of more cooperatives as a community-building tool, a way to ease economic hardships, and to help in sustaining our Earth environment. There are housing, food, farm, and workplace cooperatives gaining in strength throughout the world. In my neighborhood, the Dill Pickle food coop is expanding and will open a new store in Logan Square this summer. The housing coop I belong to is celebrating its 15th year, and we periodically meet with groups who want to know how to form a housing cooperative. To find out more about coops, here are some website resources: The International Cooperative Alliance (ica.coop/); National Cooperative Business Association (ncba.coop/international); University of Wisconsin Cooperatives Center (uwcc.wisc.edu/); National Association of Housing Cooperatives (coophousing.org/); and Intentional Communities magazine (ic.org/communities-magazine-home/).
Let us resolve this year to help build community whether it is in our yoga class, our neighborhood, or on the many issues facing us as planetary citizens.
Swami Shraddhananda (Maureen Dolan, PhD) is a priest in the Kriya yoga tradition. She teaches peace studies courses, yoga, and meditation at DePaul University. She served as Adjunct Interfaith Chaplain for nearly 10 years at the university. Swami Shraddhananda has been active in housing cooperatives as well as other initiatives to build community and consciousness. She may be reached at mdolan1149@aol.com.
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Which Shall It Be?
Published by Scot Noel on July 11, 2020
The world has been coming to an end for a long time, for centuries if not for millennia. While the doomsayers wring their hands and point to evidence of moral decay and economic collapse, the reality is – cities grow larger, nations grow richer, and the population of humankind is approaching 7.7 billion people. (It was less than 3 billion at the beginning of the space age in 1957.)
Science, technology, and knowledge itself are advancing so quickly, their growth rate is becoming exponential. Only 476 years ago, Nicholas Copernicus published a blasphemous theory that the earth and planets revolved around the sun. Today, we have charted the shape of the universe itself, and in another 500 years we, as a species, are likely to command godlike powers that any human who has ever lived, including those of us around today, would consider the province of the divine.
Why does it all seem so terrible and doomed to destruction? Are we like Icarus, son of Daedalus, daring to fly too close to the sun?
We are indeed like Icarus and the ancient Greeks, and like our Cro-Magnon ancestors of 35,000 years past: we are human. We are built for an enemy and predator-filled world where spreading bad news and taking violent action were essential to survival. Fierce tribal loyalties and a win-at-all-costs attitude have been our go-to kit since before civilization was conceived.
Times are changing. We are a young species with short memories and a dull sense of what the future really means. A thousand years, ten thousand, a hundred thousand and we will not yet be middle-aged, and by then the stars will be ours. Literally. What will we do with them, I wonder? Before that day arrives, we must mature, and the very forces of our increase will pressure us to do so.
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\section{Introduction}
In lattice QCD with a mixed action (MAQCD), the discretization of the Dirac operator in the
sea sector ({\it i.e.}, the operator from which the fermion determinant is constructed)
is chosen to be different from the discretization of the Dirac operator in the valence
sector ({\it i.e.}, the operator which is inverted to obtain quark propagators attached to external lines).

The continuum limit of a mixed-action theory is a partially quenched theory \cite{BGPQ},
because even in the continuum limit the valence and sea quark masses
$m_v$ and $m_s$ for each
flavor do not have to be equal.  This breaks unitarity already in the continuum limit,
but when the lattice spacing $a\ne 0$, it is not even possible to define equality of
$m_v$ and $m_s$ in a universal way \cite{BRS2}.   This implies, of course, that unitarity
is always broken at $a\ne 0$ in a mixed-action theory.

It is relatively straightforward to check the validity of the mixed-action approach in
weak-coupling perturbation theory.   More non-trivial, non-perturbative information about the validity is obtained by constructing the low-energy effective field theory (EFT) for MAQCD,
mixed-action chiral perturbation theory (MAChPT) \cite{BRS2,BRS1,GIS}.   Chiral perturbation theory (ChPT)
gives access to the phase diagram of the lattice theory, and, as we will see, this
allows for a non-trivial check of the field-theoretical definition of MAQCD and the
validity of MAChPT.
Here, we investigate the phase structure of MAQCD with two chiral
(Ginsparg--Wilson \cite{GW}) valence quarks,
and two Wilson
sea quarks.  For a more detailed account which includes technicalities, we refer to Ref.~\cite{BGS}.

\section{MAChPT}
Field-theoretically, MAQCD with two (Wilson)
sea and two (chiral) valence flavors is a theory with
six quarks: the two sea quarks, the two valence quarks, and two more ``ghost''
quarks with a Dirac operator identical to that of the valence quarks, but with
opposite statistics, such as to effect a cancellation between valence and ghost
determinants, thus removing both valence and ghost quarks from the sea.

This implies that the non-linear field $\Sigma$ representing the pions in the
EFT is a $6\times 6$ graded matrix
\begin{equation}
\label{Sigma}
\Sigma=\pmatrix{{\rm exp}\left(\frac{2i}{f}\,\phi\right)&{\overline\omega}\cr
\omega&{\rm exp}\left(\frac{2}{f}\,\hat\phi\right)}\ ,
\end{equation}
with $\phi$ and $\hat\phi$ hermitian matrices of size $4\times 4$ and $2\times 2$,
respectively, and $\omega$ and $\overline\omega$ rectangular, Grassmann-values
matrices.  The matrix $\phi$ describes the pions in the sea and valence sectors,
the matrix $\hat\phi$ those made of ghost quarks, while the Grassmann valued
components describe fermionic pions made out of one ghost, and one sea or valence
quark.  $f$ is the pion decay constant in the chiral
limit.   For an overview of the precise symmetry structure of the theory, which leads
to the unfamiliar way in which $\hat\phi$ appears in the non-linear field $\Sigma$,
see for instance Ref.~\cite{MGLH}.

Since we are only interested in the phase diagram of the theory here, it suffices
to consider the chiral potential, which, in simplified form, and rescaled by the
combination of low-energy constants (LECs) $B_0f^2/4$,
is given by \cite{BRS2}
\begin{equation}
\label{potential}
V=-{\rm str}\left(M(\Sigma+\Sigma^{-1})\right)-\frac{c_1}{4}\,{\rm str}\left(P_s\Sigma P_s
\Sigma^{-1}\right)-c_2\,{\rm str}\left(P_s\Sigma^{-1}P_s\Sigma^{-1}+P_s\Sigma P_s\Sigma
\right)\ ,
\end{equation}
in which $P_s={\rm diag}(1,1,0,0,0,0)$ projects on the sea sector, and $M$ is the quark mass matrix
\begin{equation}
\label{mass}
M={\rm diag}\left(m_s,m_s,m_v,m_v,m_v,m_v\right)\ ,
\end{equation}
where the first two $m_v$ entries correspond to the valence quarks,
and the last two to the ghost quarks.
We consider the ``large cutoff effects'' regime, in which the chiral power counting
is such that $m_s\sim m_v\sim a^2$.   This implies that if we consider terms in the
potential to linear order in the quark masses, we should also consider all terms of
order $a^2$, and the terms proportional to $c_1$ and $c_2$ are such terms.\footnote{Terms linear in $a$ can be absorbed into the quark masses \cite{ShSi}.}
The constant $c_2$ is a LEC special to Wilson
fermions and arises because of chiral symmetry breaking.  Thus, it appears only in the sea sector.   The LEC $c_1$
is special to the mixed-action case, as can be seen from the fact that it disappears
from $V$ when we replace $P_s$ by the unit matrix.  Both $c_1$ and $c_2$ are
lattice artifacts, containing a factor $a^2$.   There are several more terms in the chiral
potential $V$, but those do not affect the discussion of the phase diagram we are
interested in here,
and we therefore omit them in this talk.

Since we will always keep $m_v> 0$ in our discussion below, all the chiral symmetries are explicitly broken (softly in the valence sector), and the full symmetry group $G$ is a generalization of isospin,
\begin{equation}
\label{group}
G=U(2)_{sea}\times U(2|2)_{valence}\ .
\end{equation}
At non-zero lattice spacing there are no symmetries relating the sea and the
valence-ghost sectors, because of the different choices for the sea and valence
Dirac operators \cite{BRS1}.  Within each sector we will always maintain isospin symmetry,
taking the up and down quarks degenerate in each sector.

\section{A puzzle}
Let us expand $V$ around the trivial vacuum in order to obtain the pion masses
at leading order in ChPT (taking $m_{s,v}>0$):
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{pionmasses}
M_{ss}^2&=&2B_0(m_s+4c_2)\ ,\\
M_{vv}^2&=&2B_0m_v\ ,\nonumber\\
M_{sv}^2&=&B_0(m_s+m_v+4c_1+2c_2)\ ,\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}
with $M_{ss}$ the mass of a pion made out of two sea quarks, $M_{vv}$ the
mass of a pion made out of two valence quarks, and the mixed-pion mass
$M_{sv}$ of a pion made out of a sea and a valence quark.

The third line of Eq.~(\ref{pionmasses}) suggests that spontaneous symmetry
breaking (SSB) can take place if $2c_1+c_2<0$, because in that case
decreasing the sum $m_s+m_v$ makes $M_{sv}^2$ negative.   This would
drive the theory into a ``mixed phase,'' with a condensate
$\langle{\overline q}_s\gamma_5 q_v\rangle\ne 0$.  Indeed, if we choose $c_2>0$
(to avoid the complications of an Aoki phase \cite{Aoki} in the sea sector \cite{ShSi}),
but $2c_1+c_2<0$, minimization of the potential $V$ leads to the conclusion
that for $m_s+m_v+4c_1+2c_2<0$ the theory enters a mixed phase.

The mixed condensate would break the symmetry group $G$ down to a diagonal group
in which the remaining sea and valence quark symmetry transformations are the same.  Sea and
valence sectors mix, and this has consequences for the spectrum of the theory.
An interesting example is the two-point function $\langle\pi_{ss}^+(0)\pi_{ss}^-(t)\rangle$,
which is made out of sea pions only, but which in the mixed phase becomes dependent
not only on $m_s$, but also on $m_v$.\footnote{As can be demonstrated explicitly
by a somewhat tedious but straightforward calculation.}

This, however, creates a paradox: by the very construction of MAQCD, this can
never happen!   In an actual simulation, gauge-field configuration depend only
on $m_s$, or, in other words, the dynamics of the theory can only
depend on $m_s$.   In particular, if one considers a correlation function that depends only on sea fields, such as
$\langle\pi_{ss}^+(0)\pi_{ss}^-(t)\rangle$, one performs a simulation in the theory
with only sea quarks; no valence quarks are present anywhere in such a
computation!\footnote{The paradox persists in finite volume, because
$\langle\pi_{ss}^+(0)\pi_{ss}^-(t)\rangle$ is invariant under integration over
the orientation of $\langle{\overline q}_s\gamma_5 q_v\rangle$ in the mixed phase.}

If this were a true paradox, this would imply that the field-theoretical description
of MAQCD is fatally flawed, and, as a consequence, that standard EFT
techniques cannot be used to interpret results obtained in a mixed-action
simulation.   This state of affairs leads to the following important questions:
\begin{itemize}
\item[1.]  Does MAQCD, in its field-theoretical definition, indeed
have a mixed phase, {\it i.e.}, a phase with
$\langle{\overline q}_s\gamma_5 q_v\rangle\ne 0$ (as appears to be predicted by
MAChPT)?
\item[2.]  If not, does MAChPT get it wrong?
\end{itemize}
In the following section we will see that in fact this dangerous scenario cannot
occur, and that MAChPT is forced, by the underlying theory, to get it right.

\section{Resolving the puzzle}
We begin with a theorem that holds in the underlying theory, MAQCD with
two sea quarks and two valence quarks, invariant under the isospin group
$G$ of Eq.~(\ref{group}).\footnote{In fact, this theorem holds for any
number of valence quarks.}
  The theorem states that no spontaneous
isospin breaking can occur in the valence sector.  This is an almost direct
consequence of the well-known Vafa--Witten \cite{VW} theorem, that forbids breaking
of vectorlike symmetries in the continuum.  The theorem extends to the valence
sector because even in the lattice theory the valence quarks are chiral; the
Vafa-Witten theorem applies to any type of Ginsparg--Wilson quarks.\footnote{
It can also be shown that the theorem extends to the ghost sector, and,
in particular, that no Grassmann-valued condensates can occur \cite{BGS}.}

An immediate consequence is that a mixed phase cannot occur, because such a phase would
break $U(2)_{sea}\times U(2)_{valence}\to U(2)_{diagonal}$, and thus a
non-zero value of
$\langle{\overline q}_s\gamma_5 q_v\rangle$ would break $U(2)_{valence}$, in
contradiction with the Vafa--Witten theorem.

This answers the first of the two questions raised in the previous section:
MAQCD cannot have a mixed phase, and the paradox cannot occur.
But, this still leaves open the second question: what about MAChPT?

\section{A mass inequality}
By choosing $m_s>0$ and $m_v>0$ large, we can arrange  that
$M_{ss}^2$, $M_{vv}^2$, and $M_{sv}^2$ are all strictly
positive, so that
no isospin breaking takes place in the EFT.   Then, from the identity
\begin{equation}
\label{start}
{\rm tr}\left\langle\left(S_{sd}(x,y)-S_{vd}(x,y)\right)^\dagger
\left(S_{sd}(x,y)-S_{vd}(x,y)\right)\right\rangle\ge 0
\end{equation}
in the underlying theory,
where $S_{si}$ ($S_{vi}$) is the sea (valence) quark propagator for flavor
$i=u,\ d$, and $S_d^\dagger(x,y)=\gamma_5 S_u(x,y)\gamma_5$ for both
sea and valence propagators, it follows that
\begin{equation}
\label{pionineq}
\langle\pi_{ss}^+(x)\pi_{ss}^-(y)\rangle+\langle\pi_{vv}^+(x)\pi_{vv}^-(y)\rangle\ge
\langle\pi_{sv}^+(x)\pi_{vs}^-(y)\rangle+\langle\pi_{vs}^+(x)\pi_{sv}^-(y)\rangle\ .
\end{equation}
Translating this to ChPT, this inequality implies that
\begin{equation}
\label{massineq}
M_{sv}\ge {\rm min}(M_{ss},M_{vv})\ .
\end{equation}
Let us now argue that this inequality restores the validity of MAChPT.  {}From Eq.~(\ref{pionmasses}),
we have that
\begin{equation}
\label{massrelation}
M_{sv}^2=\frac{1}{2}(M_{ss}^2+M_{vv}^2)+2(2c_1-c_2)\ .
\end{equation}
Choosing quark masses such that $M_{ss}=M_{vv}$, the inequality~(\ref{massineq})
implies that $M_{sv}\ge M_{ss}=M_{vv}$, and thus, using Eq.~(\ref{massrelation}),
that
\begin{equation}
\label{LECineq}
2c_1+c_2\ge 2c_1-c_2\ge 0
\end{equation}
(recall that we chose $c_2>0$).  But, now we can turn this around, using the
fact that the LECs $c_1$ and $c_2$ are {\it independent} of the quark masses
$m_s$ and $m_v$, so that inequality~(\ref{LECineq}), together with the third
equation in Eq.~(\ref{pionmasses}), implies that always,
irrespective of the value of the quark masses, $M_{sv}^2\ge 0$, and no SSB
to a mixed phase can occur, also in MAChPT.   In words, the mass inequality~(\ref{massineq}) restricts the values of the LECs in the EFT such that the EFT is
forced to faithfully reproduce the phase structure of the underlying theory.
While we demonstrated this here for the simplified potential of Eq.~(\ref{potential}),
and for the case $c_2>0$, it is clear that, in general, the parameters of MAChPT
are restricted such that regions in the phase diagram with a mixed condensate
are excluded, because of the fact that a mixed phase cannot occur in the
underlying theory.

To summarize the situation, the Vafa--Witten theorem restricts the vacuum
expectation value of the non-linear field to the form
\begin{equation}
\label{vev}
\Sigma_{vacuum}=\pmatrix{\Sigma_{ss}&{\bf 0}&{\bf 0}\cr
{\bf 0}&{\bf 1}&{\bf 0}&\cr {\bf 0}&{\bf 0}&{\bf 1}}\ ,
\end{equation}
where $\Sigma_{ss}$ is the $2\times 2$ unitary matrix describing the vacuum
in the sea sector, ${\bf 0}$ is the $2\times 2$ null matrix, and ${\bf 1}$ is the
$2\times 2$ unit matrix.
Substituting this form into $V$, the potential reduces to
\begin{equation}
\label{Vsea}
V=-m_s\,{\rm tr}\left(\Sigma_{ss}+\Sigma_{ss}^\dagger\right)
-\frac{1}{2}c_2\left({\rm tr}\left(\Sigma_{ss}+\Sigma_{ss}^\dagger\right)\right)^2\ .
\end{equation}
This is precisely the Sharpe--Singleton potential for the sea sector, which predicts
the Aoki phase for $c_2<0$.  No other non-trivial phase can occur.

\section{Conclusion}
Referring back to the two questions raised toward the end of Sec.~3, the answer to
the first question is no, MAQCD cannot have a mixed phase.  Because the valence
quarks are not part of the dynamics, the phase structure is restricted to that of the
sea sector alone.  In our case, this implies that the only possible non-trivial phase
is an Aoki phase.   The answer to the second question is also no.  In other words,
MAChPT gets it right.  As we have seen, mass inequalities in the underlying theory
restrict the values of LECs in the EFT such as to make regions in the phase diagram
with a mixed phase inaccessible.  We gave an example of such a restriction, and
it is possible that more such constraints on the LECs exist.  These would be uncovered
by a study of the full chiral effective potential for arbitrary $\Sigma_{vacuum}$ by
imposing restrictions following from the Vafa--Witten theorem in the underlying theory.

One might ask whether a similar argument could lead to a restriction on the value
of $c_2$, which, for negative values leads to the existence of the Aoki phase \cite{ShSi}.
The answer is negative, because the argument would have to involve the
neutral pion, and thus (quark-)disconnected diagrams not captured by the
expression in Eq.~(\ref{start}).   Finally, we note that our conclusions presumably
generalize to other mixed-action theories, such as those with a staggered sea
sector and a chiral valence sector \cite{BBRS}.\\

\leftline{\bf Acknowledgements}
MG thanks the Department of Physics of Humboldt Universit\"at zu Berlin, and YS
thanks the Department of Physics and Astronomy
of San Francisco State University for hospitality.
OB is supported in part by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB/TR 09), MG
is supported in part by the US Department of Energy, and YS is supported by the
Israel Science Foundation under grant no. 423/09.

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