Godairikison ninno'e, as known as "Godairiki-san" and the largest event in Daigoji, is held on February 23rd every year.
Monks are empowered by Godai Myo'o (5 great powers) including Fudo Myo'o and pray for peace, health and happiness of the country and people.
This origin goes back to 907, Emperor Daigo's time.
Prior to the festival, more than 1000 monks from all the mountains in Daigoji gather and stay in a hall for a week up until the day of the festival to thoroughly pray with paper charms called Mie. This pre-event ceremony is open to visitors.
On the day of the festival, more than 100,000 visitors join the ceremony and get the paper charms which can later be spotted everywhere in Kyoto especially at entrances of old stores and houses.
In recent years, "Mochi age riki hono" (dedication of power by lifting a rice cake) has been famous. In this event, male participants try to lift a 150 kg piece of rice cake and female visitors try 90 kg to dedicate power and pray for their health and happiness.
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2.5.3 Value Symmetries
Advanced Modeling for Discrete Optimization
墨尔本大学
Optimization is a common form of decision making, and is ubiquitous in our society. Its applications range from solving Sudoku puzzles to arranging seating in a wedding banquet. The same technology can schedule planes and their crews, coordinate the production of steel, and organize the transportation of iron ore from the mines to the ports. Good decisions in manpower and material resources management also allow corporations to improve profit by millions of dollars. Similar problems also underpin much of our daily lives and are part of determining daily delivery routes for packages, making school timetables, and delivering power to our homes. Despite their fundamental importance, all of these problems are a nightmare to solve using traditional undergraduate computer science methods. This course is intended for students who have completed Basic Modelling for Discrete Optimization. In this course you will learn much more about solving challenging discrete optimization problems by stating the problem in a state-of-the-art high level modeling language, and letting library constraint solving software do the rest. This course will focus on debugging and improving models, encapsulating parts of models in predicates, and tackling advanced scheduling and packing problems. As you master this advanced technology, you will be able to tackle problems that were inconceivable to solve previously. Watch the course promotional video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc3cBvtrem0&t=8s
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Symmetry and Dominance
This final module looks at the various forms of symmetries that can appear in discrete optimization problems. You will learn various methods and special constraints to break such symmetries so as to increase solving efficiency. You will also learn the notion of dominance, which is a generalization of symmetries, and also dominance breaking techniques.
2.5.1 Symmetries and LexLeader14:25
2.5.2 Matrix Model Symmetries11:41
2.5.3 Value Symmetries13:52
2.5.4 Dominance10:27
2.5.5 Module 4 & 5 Summary5:30
Prof. Jimmy Ho Man Lee
Prof. Peter James Stuckey
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After stopping the rain Zhuge Liang needed to satisfy one final requirement for launching a successful fire attack. He needed a strong wind to blow towards Cao Cao's army. In Xubi the wind was currently blowing in Cao Cao's direction towards Eastern Wu. [MUSIC] Zhuge Liang adopted a method from the tower of peace, involving an alter with a tribute, to call for a strong wind to blow in the opposite direction. The altar was three levels high, each level in the shape of a hexagon. Different tributes are put on the vertices of these hexagons and they were of different ranks. [MUSIC] Magic coins are placed on the edges connecting the three levels of the altar, the number of which was determined by the difference in rank between the tributes. According to the book, the calling power was stronger when more magic coins are put in position. [MUSIC] To ensure strong wind, Zhuge Liang wanted to put as many magic coins as possible and he pulled out the tablet to figure out how. [SOUND] >> So as Zhuge Liang has managed to stop the rain but now the wind is blowing in the wrong direction. So, consulting with Dao, Phi sees that by decorating in an altar in a particular way, he can actually hopefully change the wind to be what he wants. So he's going to decorate an altar like this with various tributes. So if we look at it from above, we're going to have these tributes and each of the tributes is of a different rank. We have a number of tributes of each different possible rank. And what he has to do is put down magical coins in between each two tributes, and the number of magical coins between two tributes is their difference in rank. Here, this is rank one and rank five, the difference is four, he needs to put for magical coins in there. With these two, is rank six and rank four, the difference is two and notice it doesn't matter which order. It's the absolute value of the difference that we're worried about and of course if we have two of the same rank then we put no coins. And towards the divine arrangement to get the Gods to answer his prayer for the wind. Then he wants to put them down to maximize the number of coins, so here's an example where there are 27 magic coins placed in the array. And he's trying to get the most possible to make the prayer as strong as possible. So here's our problem, we've got an m level altar containing m concentric regular n-sided polygons. And basically a different tribute has to placed on each of the vertex's of these polygons. And there's these tributes and each of them are divided into m groups, each with a given rank. And between any two corresponding vertices we have to play k magic coins where that's the difference in the ranks of the tributes almost two vertices. So here's the data and decisions basically we've got one variable per vertex to denote which tribute being placed there. So here's a set of vertex n, the rank which is also the same n and number of polygons m and then we have our enumerator type of tributes and they're going to be ordered in rank order. So we're going to have all the ranks ones, then the rank twos, then the ranks threes, and that's what this rank array is giving us. Basically building an array for each tribute what it's rank is and then our critical decisions here, for each polygon on each vertex of the polygon which tribute goes at that position. So our data file we had a six gon and three levels of hexagon and then here is attributes in rank order. So all of the rank one tribute at first and the rank two ones, rank three, etc. All right, we're going to think about constraints, obviously we're going to place a different tribute at each vertex. So, we're just going to use an all_different constraint and we're just going to take this 2D array and coerce it to a 1D array because that's what all_different expects. We're going to want to count the number of coins that we need and so we're basically building up this in coins array. Between adjacent levels and we're going to set it basically as the absolute value of the tributes in polygon I and the tributes in polygon I plus one at that position J. For the different vertex positions around the polygon and what we're trying to do is maximize the total number of coins so we can sum them up and then that's what we're trying to maximize. All right, now we've got to worry about symmetries. This is in the symmetry part of the course and you should see clearly that there's some clear symmetries here. So if we take the three vertices in a line and another three vertices in a line. And we could swap them and we'd still get the solution, right? Because the tributes are designed about what happens in between these two things, if we swap them over here, the same set of tributes apply. So this is a symmetry. We can swap any two of these lines around the polygon and we'll get another symmetric solution and we can do another thing which is we can reverse all of the lines. So, if we reverse this line, so we take the blue in the middle and the purple and change it to the blue on the inside and the purple on the outside, the same thing in the middle. Obviously, you can see that nothing's changed in terms of a number of coins all right. So swapping the inside and outside polygon, for three, is the same as reversing all of these lines. If we had more polygons then the reverse law is a bit more complicated and that's another variable symmetry. So we're going to add some lex leader constraints to do this. So again, there's, we're going to just force that, this each line is lexicographically less than the one after it, all right? So here we're looking at line j and line j plus one and basically requiring this lex less than equal to constraint. So for our example here it's basically the same that this line here is lexicographically less than this line here in terms of the tributes that are placed there. But we should think about this a little bit more because we know something about all of these tributes, they're all different. Which means that the lexicographic constraint only remember looks of the second pair if the first two are equal. Well, they can't be equal, so really this constraint is exactly the same, it's just requiring that the first one here is less than or equal to the first one there. But they can't be equal, so it's just less than. So we can replace this complex less than or equal to lex_lesseq constraints by just simple less thans. We haven't changed the problem because we're making use of the fact that all the tributes are different. And we have to swap the order of the lines and basically the way to do that with a lex least is to take the first half of the line and the second half of the line in reverse order. And we make sure that the first half of the line is lexicographically less than the second half in reverse order. You can see it's in reverse order because we're iterating through this order, the opposite way. So that's really just a simplification of saying that the order if I take it the whole thing and flip it will be the same. And what we've talked about in the previous lecture how we can simplify lex less than or equal tos. So for look at that example here we're basically looking at the inside row to be before the outside row. But again because we now they're all different then simplifies in fact just to a single less than constraint that the first thing in the first row is less than the first thing in the m-th row. We know the difference so that any other comparison will never happen. Right, so we solve this model and we managed to find a solution with 12 coins after 10 minutes of solving. We find a solution with 23 coins after 20 minutes of solving. So, things aren't going that well even though we've done a lot of symmetry breaking, so what's missing? Well, we're missing a whole class of other symmetries. So up to know we've been talking about variable symmetries, where we had to bijection on the variables that present solutions. We also want to think about value symmetries, so know, if we take a solution, we're going to permute where the values go. In a consistent way and this will also give a solution. Now, we've seen examples of value symmetry all ready in the catapult problem, the names of the clusters were irrelevant. So they were basically all symmetric, and in the table setting problem, the numbers of the table were irrelevant. So, we've all ready seen a bit of value symmetry breaking but we'll see the different way here. So the value symmetry is now problem arise because all the tributes with the same ranks are interchangeable, if I tribute of rank three, and replace it with another one in rank three. Obviously the number of coins doesn't change because it only depends on the rank and still a solution because we just swapped to old different. So now we have to step back a little and think, so when we break symmetries, multiple symmetries we have to be careful. That we live at least one solution of it's symmetry class behind. So when were using lex leader what we're trying to do there is always leave the lex least solution behind. And if we do that, we're going to make sure that at least one solution in each symmetry class is left, so that's what we've done so far. Note that if we changed the way we solve the reversal symmetry of the polygons to this one, right? So, we just said that the tribute one in polygon one is greater than tribute one polygon in. Then we wouldn't leave the lex least solution behind and maybe we could remove all possible solutions. So we have to be very careful when breaking symmetries. It's going to be even more problematic when we're combining variable symmetries and very symmetries as we're about to do. So, value symmetries we can actually map to variable symmetries in the case that we have a permutation problem like we do here. So, tribute placement is a permutation of the numbers one and end by n by m, so that's where it should be placed. So another view on this is to think about, for each tribute, where does it go, so rather than for each position, what tribute goes in it. And we're already seeing this kind of permutations problems before and we know that if we're going to have these two viewpoints on the solution then we need to make them agree. By adding this inverse constraints, so basically saying that tribute position and the position arrays are inversely to each other. We can do that with the global inverse straightforwardly. Once we've done that, we can now think about symmetries, variable symmetries on these position variables. So position i and j are interchangeable if the tributes that are in those that we're talking about, i and j are of the same rank. So if we think of these three positions, which all have rank six and they're at positions 5, 11, and 8. Then we can swap any of these values, 5, 11, 8, around, and we'll still get a solution which is exactly the same. So we've now changed, basically are using these position variables, we can use LexLeader symmetry breaking to solve this value symmetry problem. So the value symmetries and the original viewpoint become variable symmetries in this second viewpoint, the inverse viewpoint. So, we're going to add LexLeader constraints to make sure that interchangeable variables can be simplified. So basically for each rank, all right? We're looking at the first, the position of the first thing of that rank is less than the position of the second thing. The position of the second thing of that rank is less then in equal position to the third thing. And generalized for when we have more than three polygons or more than three in a rank. All right but again so we've now run this and now we actually get a solution. And indeed we get an optimal solution of 42, much bigger than the solution we found without having the value symmetry taken into account. But we could of course go back and use another way of removing value symmetries in the original model. So we already introduced the value precede chain global, which is a global to remove value symmetries directly. And all we need to say is for every rank the we add this value precede chain over the values which are the tributes of that rank. Right and we make sure basically that this is going to do exactly the same constraint solving as the previous example. But here we're just talking about it in the original variable space, and if we solve with this version instead we're going to solve solution much quicker. Basically, the value precedence chain is quite strong and we get the same solution, so value symmetries arise commonly in discrete optimization. In fact, we saw them before we talked about variable symmetries. But one thing we have to be very careful about is once we have multiple symmetries, that they are all compatible. That in every symmetry class, at least one solution is left and the usual way we do that is make sure that the lexicographically least solution is left over. So we have to be careful when we're doing a value symmetries to make sure that the lexicographically least solution was left over which in fact we did. And indeed for permutation problems, value symmetries are variable symmetries just from different viewpoints.

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This time of year we start seeing lists, lists of top tens.
The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, just released their annual list of the ten most downloaded publications plus the next ten.
There were 323 releases in 2017. Each entry includes an image of the cover and a short description.
The topics are wide ranging and represent familiar and important scientific and educational issues.
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Are you straining your brain trying to come up with services you can perform that your competitors aren't offering? Well here is a list from a discussion on the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum that should help you out. It's amazing how some of these ideas are so simple yet so important. Sometimes the key factor is not that you offer a 1,000 services, but that you do a handful of them really well and you are reliable at performing them.
One lawn care business owner wondered "I am really planning on building up my lawn care business next year and am preparing through out winter. I want to learn as much as possible and offer everything there is to do in a yard for my 3rd year of business in hopes of making more money and increasing my client list.
Besides mowing, fixing sprinklers, and clean ups, I have not done aerating, sprinkler start ups, complete sprinkler installations, etc.
I am hoping to just get a list of what services you guys offer and what equipment you use / might need or want for next year / what do you offer over your competitors and what you might start doing next year that you haven't in the past?
A third suggested "I do just about anything for my lawn care customers. I have repaired hot tubs, swimming pool pumps, liner replacements and repair, pool heater work, slide repair, salt chlorinator installs, not to mention pool installs, roofing, shed construction, windows, doors, siding, satellite dish installs, fences, lockstone driveway repairs and installs, garage door repairs and installs, wheelchair ramps, playground installs, decks, docks, and not to mention I have repaired many of their vehicles as well. I also forgot to mention that I have even completely stripped to the studs and cleaned out 4 crack houses.
I did everything on the above list this summer and actually, this summer I hardly mowed anything at all. My son and daughter took care of that for me.
I have found that the same people who pay for lawn service generally are not able or interested in doing any other home maintenance and repair themselves, so it's very easy to get these jobs especially when they know and trust you and your capabilities.
A third shared "what do I do differently from my competition? I show up. Think I am kidding about that? All summer long I've heard comments that blow my mind from my new customers.
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Students surprised to see Cumberbatch entering Marvel universe
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Calendula Cheng, Staff Writer
OXFORD – Who would have thought that Benedict Cumberbatch, on-screen detective, dragon, cryptanalyst and much more, would enter the Marvel universe?
Yesterday, Marvel released a teaser trailer for their upcoming movie "Doctor Strange." As the images rolled, the one assuming the role of earth's protector from magical threats was revealed to be none other than television's notorious Sherlock Holmes.
"Is this photoshopped?" said Oxford High sophomore Charli Kendricks. "I was in disbelief."
Said fellow OHS sophomore Taylor Ross, "I mostly see Cumberbatch acting in mystery genres."
Benedict Cumberbatch's first performances took place in 2001 at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in Westminster, London, where he acted in Shakespearean productions. His first film appearance was in to "Kill a King" in 2003. Cumberbatch's recent film and television appearances include the Sherlock series, "The Imitation Game" and "The Hobbit" trilogy.
"I wouldn't see him to be the first person to be put into a sci-fi movie," OHS senior Victoria Colbert said.
The character of Doctor Steven Vincent Strange is a former neurosurgeon who gains skills in magic and takes up the title of Sorcerer Supreme. When put next to the cinematic "Avengers" and "Guardians of the Galaxy," the Sorcerer Supreme does not get a lot of the spotlight. While it is unknown how closely the movie will follow the comic book plot, introducing Doctor Strange into Marvel cinema will definitely bring him out.
"I don't really know much about the character Doctor Strange," Kendricks said, "so as long as the writers write the script in the movie really well, I think it will be fine."
The next question is how well will television's Sherlock portray this mystical superhero. Will Cumberbatch live up to Marvel actors like Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Pratt?
Kendricks said she is feeling "reluctant with a little bit of intrigue.
She added, "I think he'll do fine but it's also kind of weird."
Ross said Cumberbatch has been "really good in all of the roles he's ever played so I think he'll do fine."
Although there are many different responses to Cumberbatch's entrance into Marvel, a lot of things can only be found out once the movie is released. "Doctor Strange" is scheduled to come out in theaters in November.
"It will be interesting," Colbert said.


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David Icke makes false claim that vaccines are 'gene treatment'
By Paul Last updated Jun 15, 2021
A video interview of conspiracy theorist David Icke, posted on Facebook, makes a number of misleading and dangerous claims about Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers, gene therapy and asymptomatic cases of the virus.
Asymptomatic transmission is real
During the video, Mr Icke claims the transmission of Covid-19 through those with asymptomatic cases of the virus is a "hoax" and brands asymptomatic Covid-19 a "load of nonsense".
There is a large amount of evidence that asymptomatic cases not only exist but may have accounted for a huge proportion of total Covid-19 cases.
One analysis published in the Lancet in January states that asymptomatic Covid-19 patients are infectious (although may be less so than symptomatic patients). It concluded that "where resources permit, contact tracing should proactively seek people with asymptomatic COVID-19 because they can transmit disease and will need to be contained if a national policy objective is to minimise cases and transmission."
Other analysis has been more forthright – a meta-analysis of eight Chinese studies, published in the Journal of the American Medicine Association, says that transmission from asymptomatic individuals was estimated in some cases to have accounted for more than half of all Covid-19 transmissions.
The founder of the World Economic Forum did not suggest Covid-19 was a conspiracy to promote climate change agendas
Mr Icke also claims that Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum said Covid-19 was "an opportunity for a great reset to save the world from human caused climate change" and later states that Covid-19 and climate change are "two hoaxes perpetuated by the same force".
The basis for this, he says, was a book by Mr Schwab and author Theirry Mallaret called "The Great Reset". Since its publication in 2020 it has drawn the attention of conspiracy theorists.
The Great Reset (very broadly summarised) discusses how the world's political, business and social institutions may wish to address pre-existing geo-political concerns, such as global warming, in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the book Mr Schwab suggests the possibility of creating "long-lasting and wider environmental changes" through changes in behaviours and new activism as society readapts to a world in which it must co-exist with Covid-19. He also provides some evidence of some of the efforts being made by big business and others to achieve this.
However, Mr Schwab also states the pandemic has created significant risk that the climate change agenda could be deprioritised as nations attempt to deal with other pressures caused by the virus.
Mr Schwab states that some economies may even "put aside" concerns about global warming to concentrate on their recovery following Covid-19, which may well include subsidising "fossil-fuel heavy and carbon emitting industries".
So while Mr Schwab did talk about climate change policy and action in respect of the global recovery from Covid-19, there is nothing to suggest the pandemic was engineered to promote this agenda.
Covid-19 vaccines reduce transmission
Mr Icke also suggests that none of the manufacturers of Covid-19 vaccines are "claiming to stop transmission".
Evidence shows vaccines reduce the risk of infection for those who have been vaccinated, and the risk of people who have been vaccinated from passing on the virus.
While manufacturers of Covid-19 vaccines have not claimed they prevent 100% of transmission, as they do not, evidence suggests the vaccines significantly reduce the risk.
Evidence from Public Health England showed that the vaccine reduces the risk of infection by more than 70% which rises to 85% after two weeks. Other studies have shown recipients of the Pfizer vaccine were 95% less likely to contract Covid-19. For the Moderna vaccine that was 94% and for AstraZeneca it was 76%.
Initial research, covering over a million contacts in the UK, has found that people who became infected three weeks after their first vaccination were between 38% and 49% less likely to pass the virus onto household contacts. This protection appeared from around two weeks after the vaccination, and was regardless of age.
We also have repeatedly written about the links between transmission of Covid-19 and vaccines.
Vaccines are not gene therapy
Mr Icke says plainly at one point that none of the Covid-19 vaccines fulfill the definition of a vaccine but that "they are a gene therapy". Gene therapy is a technique to treat illnesses by modifying an individuals' genes, for example by replacing a faulty gene with a healthy one.
As we have stated before, some of the Covid-19 vaccines contain messenger RNA (mRNA) that codes a protein specific to a pathogen's surface. This mRNA provides instructions to make the proteins usually found on the surface of the Covid-19 virus. This in turn prompts the body to make Covid-19 antibodies.
However, introduction of mRNA into human cells does not change the DNA of the human cells and if these cells replicate, the mRNA would not be incorporated into the new cells' genetic information.
David Icke's other claims
There are a number of other claims within the video which we've already debunked including false claims that that the inventor of PCR said it couldn't be used to detect infectious diseases, that vaccines make you infertile and that the current Covid-19 vaccines don't fulfil the definition of what a vaccine is.
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If someone had told me I would go as far as Cambodia to take a pottery class I wouldn't have believed it ! Having had ceramics in our shop for a year now and not being the least bit interested in them I kind of was very surprised to genuinely show an interest in the Khmer ceramics I saw in Siem Reap.
We went to the Khmer Ceramic center for Rose to have an hour of fun and play with clay.
There were already an American girl in her twenties and a guy in his forties visibly absorbed in their crafting.
We toured the shop and you can't imagine the quality of the arts.
From simple bowls, plates, mugs, cups to more complex tea pots, statues, jewellery etc… every single piece is stunning, every collection most tasteful and I was very impressed.
Most of the work is done by deaf people who also guide people in the workshops.
The pictures kind of speak for themselves.


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Six Collection
A rare tour of an aristocrat's private home reveals valuable 17th-century paintings from artists like Rembrandt.
Portrait of Jan Six (1618-1700). Rembrandt (Public Domain)
Portrait of a young Man. Rembrandt (Public Domain)
Jan Six with a Dog. Rembrandt (Public Domain)
The home of the Six Collection. Sandra Fauconnier (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Amsterdam is not want for art museums or valuable collections. Sure, you can visit renowned sites like Rembrandt's House, Our Lord in the Attic, or the Rijksmuseum. But the Six Collection has something these other popular spots lack: Its rare paintings are held within a house with real people still living in it.
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During the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century, collecting art became a fashionable activity. Famous artists like Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Steen flourished during this era, and their masterpieces were hot commodities.
It was during this time that Jan Six, a member of a particularly wealthy Amsterdam family, began amassing a collection of valuable work still coveted to this day. His stock of paintings, drawings, and other artistic artifacts was passed down throughout the generations, eventually growing to become the Six Collection as it appears today.
To get an idea of the magnitude of the family's wealth and influence, you have to keep in mind that some of the paintings are portraits of the Six family done by Rembrandt himself. But apparently, the family wasn't sitting atop an unlimited fortune. Due to the increasing costs of maintaining their enormous collection, the Six family eventually had to ask for financial help from the Dutch government. In exchange for the subsidy they were granted, the family was asked to open their lavish home to visitors who wanted to see the artwork.
Visiting the collection is a bit of a strange experience. As it's still held within a private home, it's possible to bump into a resident—typically a descendant of Jan Six himself—in the middle of their breakfast or just after they've woken up. Entering the house to view the artwork offers a fascinating glimpse of how the Netherlands' wealthy, aristocratic families live. Snagging a reservation to visit is a rare treat, making this collection one of the city's best-guarded treasures.
Remember to book several months in advance. It is only possible to visit the house during weekdays in the morning. Even if you can't snag a spot, you can try to see some of the most famous pieces during the months they're lent to the Rijksmuseum.
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Amway Corp.'s Buena Park facilities will see an unknown number of layoffs this week, according to a local news report in Ada, Michigan, where the parent company is based.
Amway said it would let go 90 workers between Ada and Buena Park, the latter of which houses some of the direct-selling giant's Nutrilite Products Inc. division.
The company hadn't as of April 24 filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification with the state Employment Development Department, which suggests the local cuts will be less than 50 workers.
Amway's annual sales have declined in each of the last three years, from $11.8 billion in 2013 to $8.8 billion in 2016, largely on weakness in China.
Nutritional supplements are its largest single product category with a 49% share of annual sales. It also sells beauty, personal care, and home care products.
It said in 2014 it would invest $42 million in new research and manufacturing facilities in Buena Park, where it then-employed about 680 at a 22-acre campus on Beach Boulevard, about a mile north of Interstate 5.
Amway in January 2015 bought Laguna Beach-based energy drink maker XS Worldwide Inc., with about $150 million in annual sales at the time, on undisclosed terms.
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Injury news: Lewis Cook closer to return
AFC Bournemouth midfielder Lewis Cook is in the final stages of his rehabilitation, manager Eddie Howe has revealed.
Cook suffered his knee injury against Huddersfield Town at Vitality Stadium last year, but has made good progress over the summer.
The midfielder hasn't been put back in full training with the squad, but has taken part in smaller sections of training.
Ahead of the clash with Aston Villa at Villa Park, boss Howe also gave fitness updates on his new signings and whether they will in the Premier League at the weekend.
READ NATHAN AKE'S THOUGHTS AHEAD OF THE TEAM'S FIRST AWAY GAME OF THE SEASON.
"We'll have to assess some of our injuries," he said.
"We're waiting to see the extent of Arnaut Danjuma's injury, which was unfortunate.
"Lloyd Kelly won't be too long hopefully, but both him and Arnaut will miss this game.
"Andrew Surman is fit as is Harry Wilson, and Dan Gosling is still working back from his operation.
"Lewis Cook is out working in America with a specialist and it's going really well.
"It's good news and he's in the last stages before he can return to full training with the team."
/ Lewis Cook
/ Aston Villa
Defender Ake targets Villa Park clean sheet
Defender Nathan Ake insists the Cherries must prioritise keeping a clean sheet as they attempt to spoil the Aston Villa party. Read more
Gallery: Wet and windy session ahead of Villa
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Media View: Expert insight on Aston Villa
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False Sharing and Spatial Locality in Multiprocessor Caches
Josep Torrellas, Monica S. Lam, John L. Hennessy
Information Trust Institute
Coordinated Science Lab
The performance of the data cache in shared- memory multiprocessors has been shown to be different from that in uniprocessors. In particular, cache miss rates in multiprocessors do not show the sharp drop typical of uniprocessors when the size of the cache block increases. The resulting high cache miss rate is a cause of concern, since it can significantly limit the performance of multiprocessors. Some researchers have speculated that this effect is due to false sharing, the coherence transactions that result when different processors update different words of the same cache block in an interleaved fashion. While the analysis of six applications in this paper confirms that false sharing has a significant impact on the miss rate, the measurements also show that poor spatial locality among accesses to shared data has an even larger impact. To mitigate false sharing and to enhance spatial locality, we optimize the layout of shared data in cache blocks in a programmer-transparent manner. We show that this approach can reduce the number of misses on shared data by about 10% on average.
IEEE Transactions on Computers
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Torrellas, J., Lam, M. S., & Hennessy, J. L. (1994). False Sharing and Spatial Locality in Multiprocessor Caches. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 43(6), 651-663. https://doi.org/10.1109/12.286299
False Sharing and Spatial Locality in Multiprocessor Caches. / Torrellas, Josep; Lam, Monica S.; Hennessy, John L.
In: IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 43, No. 6, 06.1994, p. 651-663.
Torrellas, J, Lam, MS & Hennessy, JL 1994, 'False Sharing and Spatial Locality in Multiprocessor Caches', IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 651-663. https://doi.org/10.1109/12.286299
Torrellas J, Lam MS, Hennessy JL. False Sharing and Spatial Locality in Multiprocessor Caches. IEEE Transactions on Computers. 1994 Jun;43(6):651-663. doi: 10.1109/12.286299
Torrellas, Josep ; Lam, Monica S. ; Hennessy, John L. / False Sharing and Spatial Locality in Multiprocessor Caches. In: IEEE Transactions on Computers. 1994 ; Vol. 43, No. 6. pp. 651-663.
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What Does The Name Irene Mean?
Will Martin answered
Irene comes from the ancient Greek eirene or "peace" and in mythology was the name of a goddess whose name was associated with peace. As a Greek name it has always been popular (the modern Greek equivalent is Rena.)
Because of these associations with the classical world, the name was always known in the English-speaking world, but was rarely given to girls until the 19th century. At that time it was usually given its classical pronunciation, eye-REE-nee. In the early 20th century the name became much ore popular, probably due to the fame of John Galsworthy's series of novels, the Forsyte Saga. One of its chief characters is Irene, the beautiful, unhappy wife of wealthy Soames Forsyte. She has an affair and, when he ill-treats her, leaves him. At the time such actions were highly controversial even in a fictional character, and both the book an the character were much discussed. As the name Irene became more widespread, its typical pronunciation changed; now it is usually pronounced EYE-reen.
Emma Frescher answered
Irene is a girl's name that has it's origin in Greece. Its meaning is " PEACE".
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Irene means Peace. It is derived from Greek. An alternate spelling is:
Anonymous answered
Irene is a name of greek origin meaning Peace.
(Greek) peaceful
Well it means peace
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Archive for Militarism
2 New Poems: Patriotic Amnesia and Dying In The Land Of The Free
May 28, 2018 / Lucinda / Comments Off on 2 New Poems: Patriotic Amnesia and Dying In The Land Of The Free
I'm very pleased to have two new poems published in Tuck Magazine. Both poems, Patriotic Amnesia, and Dying In The Land Of The Free, address the deeply flawed narrative of American patriotism and its celebration of militarism.
New Poem–Beautiful Children
May 3, 2017 / Lucinda / Comments Off on New Poem–Beautiful Children
Many thanks to Indolent Books for publishing my poem, Beautiful Children as part of their What Rough Beasts series. The poem was written in response to our fearless leader's statement that he bombed Syria because of the alleged chemical weapons attacks on "beautiful children". If saving beautiful children is our litmus test for bombing attacks, we might want to start at home. Read the poem.
The Killing Fields Of Home
July 17, 2016 / Lucinda / Comments Off on The Killing Fields Of Home
It is a most difficult task to make sense of violence, particularly when it often seems unceasing. There have been numerous horrific acts of murder recently, and in trying to write about them, it feels important to see these events not only as individual incidents but to also make the connections between them, both in why they happen and how we process them. The following is a poem I wrote in response to the bloody and heartbreaking first week in July, 2016.
On July 4th,
when I was trying to make sense
of the bombings in Medina and Baghdad
on the very same day that the not so United States of America
was ritually celebrating what we call independence,
with colorful bombs bursting in air,
it seemed really important to remember that
the children who saw real bombs were shouting not with glee
but with fear before bleeding to death,
so I wrote haikus about that,
little poems like the children who died–
one for Medina,
Bombs bursting in air,
bodies explode, people die–
no celebration
and one for Baghdad,
Car bomb in Baghdad,
the twenty five kids who died
did not like fireworks
and I thought I had done my duty as a poet,
but then I read that dozens of people were shot
in Chicago over the holiday weekend
for who knows what reasons and they were bleeding too
and we haven't even caught our breath since Orlando
and it occurred to me that maybe I needed to write a longer poem,
then Alton Sterling and Philando Castile
were gunned down by the police
because the color of their skin was a crime
and Melissa Harris-Perry wrote about how that feels
as a suicide note that I can't stop reading
on the heels of the Chilcot Inquiry that minces no words
blaming Tony Blair for lying to his country about the Iraq war
while in this country we turn endless battle into
an anthem and Bush and Cheney just smirk
as a veteran of war, taught to kill in defense of our country,
shoots at the police in Dallas and more blood is spilt
and they send in a robot to take him out
which prompts Donald Trump to want a photo op with the NYPD
and I'm wondering if a sonnet is adequate
when my morning paper tells me that there have been
ten gang killings in ten months in the county where I live
and they have a column too about the child
of a woman who was killed by her boyfriend
and someone says we should all remember that
sometimes the police help and he tells a story
about a police officer who helped a lady repair her mailbox
and that was mighty nice of her, and I mean that sincerely,
but I'm thinking that sounds like a bandaid story
when we need a tourniquet because
a GOP Congressman says there are a lot more steps to be taken
before they will vote on gun control legislation
and I'm wondering how many steps there could really be
from his office to the floor to take a vote and when are we going to
quit playing six degrees of separation and take action
and in the time I have been writing this,
more people have been killed,
and I cannot type fast enough to keep up,
or even pause long enough
to pretty up this poem that cannot find its end.
–Lucinda Marshall, © 2016
"When It Comes To Peace…"
January 16, 2016 / Lucinda / Comments Off on "When It Comes To Peace…"
Deeply grateful for this quote from the Washington Nuclear Museum and Educational Center (although I'm not quite sure where they got the birthdate, but close enough :-).
May 23, 2014 / Lucinda / Comments Off on Memorial Day
I am not a big fan of patriotism or the holidays that glorify it (although admittedly I'm a sucker for marching band music). I've never quite understood the sense of arbitrary national boundaries which then seem to need to be defended just because they are there. Neither am I a fan of wars fought in the name of those boundaries because when you strip away the rhetoric, they essentially boil down to exercises in asserting dominion and power over a perceived adversary that cost a lot of money, do a lot of damage, and ruin a lot of lives.
But yet we insist on glorifying war and honoring those that fight while at the same time doing everything we can to minimize the carnage of those battles in our histories and memories.
A few months ago, I started taking a Tai Chi class which is taught by a nice woman named Nancy. For those of you not familiar with Tai Chi, it involves moving through a series of movements in a very prescribed manner. It is both an exercise and a meditation. Nancy tells us during class that if we practice enough, we will develop what she calls muscle memory, that the time will come when we will not need to be told how to move through the movements, at some point, we will just remember.
Unfortunately, the same can be said for war–we've gone there so many times that it has become politically reflexive. When it comes to peace, however, we've had far too little practice.
In my Tai Chi class, we are learning what is called 24 form Tai Chi, which means that there are 24 movements to learn. There are other versions of Tai Chi that have more than 100 movements, obviously it takes a great deal longer to learn and develop the muscle memory of the longer form.
When it comes to talking about war, our politicians and media are quite adept at simplifying the talking points they want us to remember. They would never think of pitching 100 talking points, we would never learn that. But their simplified narrative is all too easy to remember and accept. Unlike Tai Chi however, where a simplified version of the practice can be done without sacrificing the benefit, when we talk about war and leave out a significant part of the story, it is very damaging. And if we are ever to practice peace, we need to tell the full narrative of war.
In memory,
not of the soldiers of war
who bear the false flag of patriotism,
the defenders of empire's entitlement,
but of the ones
our narrative wants to forget,
the collateral damage of battle
for whom there is no holiday,
no brass band,
no wreaths solemnly laid,
these are the ones we must remember.
Only then will we understand
that we must not to go to war.
Sunday Morning Talk Show Fantasy Guest Lineup, Women Talking About Syria Edition
September 7, 2013 / Lucinda / Comments Off on Sunday Morning Talk Show Fantasy Guest Lineup, Women Talking About Syria Edition
Some people have fantasy football teams. I have fantasy Sunday morning talk show guest panels that are made up entirely of women. These are my picks for my fantasy panel, Syria edition.
As U.S. posturing on Syria has escalated, the media has trotted out old white guy after old white guy as "experts", never mind many of them are the same men who lied to us about chemical weapons in Iraq and then commenced to bomb the Iraqis with all manner of chemical weapons which left a horrifying epidemic of cancer, birth defects and death in that country and have backed U.S. policies that have contributed to the current situation in Syria and Middle East unrest in general.
I think most of us are supremely tired of listening to these guys and of a media that simply parrots the talking points of U.S. military domination.
Imagine if instead they presented a balanced view that brought in people who articulate alternative visions and oh what the heck, how about we just kick all the men out and listen to women for a change.
So for the benefit of the media, here are some voices you ought to be including as commentators in your coverage of Syria:
1. Sarah Van Gelder writes in Yes! Magazine that, "there are at least six strategies that could hold wrongdoers to account, deter war crimes of all sorts, and build peace":
Bring those guilty of atrocities to justice
Call for a United Nations embargo on arms, military supplies, and logistical support for both Damascus and opposition forces
The U.N. Security Council should hold an international peace conference
Offer aid and support to the nonviolent movements within Syria
Provide the humanitarian aid desperately needed by the millions of displaced people
Force the hand of Russia and China in the Security Council
2. The women's human rights organization MADRE similarly calls for the Obama Administration to:
Stop the flow of weapons into Syria
Renew focus on diplomacy to end the conflict
Increase humanitarian aid to the region
3. The Nobel Women's Initiative (who unlike President Obama, are using their status as Nobel Peace Prize winners to promote peaceful solutions) has put out a statement that reads:
The use of chemical weapons in Syria is a crime that cannot be ignored but bombing Syria is not the answer. Military intervention in Syria can only lead to more death and destruction, and further fuel the volatile situation in the region.
We applaud the vote of the UK's Parliament against endorsing British involvement in attacks on Syria, and call upon the United States to step back from the brink of attacking yet another country in the Middle East/North Africa region. Such a move can only result in more hatred, more violence and more retaliation.
We call upon the UN Security Council to accept its responsibility to act in response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria instead of the ongoing posturing of its members based on their own self-interest instead of concern about the people of Syria.
We urge the Security Council to ensure the nonviolent resolution of this crisis within the ongoing crisis of the civil war in Syria. We call upon the Security Council to refer the matter to the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC).
We also call on the International Community to urgently convene the Syria Peace Conference, known as Geneva II, and to ensure women meaningfully participate. (emphasis mine)
4. Sonali Kolhatkar of KPKF's Uprising radio program and Co-Director of the Afghan Women's Mission writes,
Students of American imperial history do not have to look too far back to see the disastrous consequences of bombing dictatorial governments. As the debate over a US military strike on Syria heats up in Congress, American antiwar activists are clear in their opposition to the push for war. And they are correct to oppose any sort of military strikes if the long arc of destructive US foreign policy is to be trusted to remain the same.
5. Medea Benjamin points out that most Americans do not support the idea of bombing Syria.
6. Amnesty International looks at the problems of sexual harassment and forced marriages faced by Syrian women refugees.
7. The Women's Media Center's Women Under Siege has run a number of pieces about women in Syria.
The U.S. media owes its audience a fair and balanced representation of the issues, not just pro-war talking points and they need to include women's voices and concerns as part of that discussion.
Postscript–As several readers have pointed out, I left out the crucial voice of Phyllis Benis.
Patriotism Reconsidered
June 30, 2013 / Lucinda / Comments Off on Patriotism Reconsidered
As the flags are waved and the parades marched this 4th of July, we would do well to consider the freedom and independence we claim to cherish and defend. In decidedly different ways, Edward Snowden's leaking of NSA documents and Texas State Senator Wendy Davis' filibuster have challenged us to think about what it means to stand up for what we believe in, in ways that don't involve spending billions of dollars fortifying our borders, stopping and frisking without cause, arresting people for expressing their First Amendment rights in washable chalk, perpetually attacking other countries, the highest rate of incarceration in the world, and the highest per capita rate of gun ownership.
Bill Moyers reports that,
In just the six months since the Newtown killings there have been more Americans murdered by guns than the 4,409 United States armed forces killed in the Iraq war.
Aside from the fact that fighting spurious wars against other nations most decidedly makes us more vulnerable rather than safe, on our own streets and in our own homes, every day, we are waging war against ourselves.
Our military meanwhile censors news in defense of free speech and insists that maintaining the chain of command and good order trump legitimate prosecution of sexual assaults within the ranks, completely missing the point that the epidemic of personal violence being perpetrated by those who have sworn to protect us completely belies any semblance of a functional chain of command or good order.
At the same time, we have ignored both our own complicity in and the consequences of global warming. How is it that the President just got around to making a major speech on that subject?
Last week there was an insert in my PEPCO bill that informed me that 41% of my power came from coal, 18.6% came from gas, 34% came from nuclear and only 5.7% came from renewable sources. Meanwhile we are told that we must frack, never mind that it causes water to catch on fire and earthquakes, and we still don't have a clue how to store nuclear waste (because the truth is it can't be safely done) and we build tar sands pipelines through our farmland, wilderness and suburbs, and commit mountaintop mastectomies. Our air and land and water are polluted, wildfires rage and entire cities flood.
And too, we cut education spending, close schools and fire teachers, and saddle our college students with impossible debt. Even with "Obamacare" there will still be those who do not have insurance. In our legislatures and in Congress, a war is being waged against women's reproductive rights. And retirement? Don't even go there. And Wall Steet? Well it's doing just fine.
That is the nitty gritty of the democracy for which we wave our flags. As Team America put it so eloquently, America, fuck yeah.
Josh Marshall (no relation) of Talking Points Memo makes the point that American democracy is dependent on secrecy as an integral part of its defense and questions whether breaking that secrecy (even when it exposes the abuse of that mandate) is acceptable,
Let me put my cards on the table. At the end of the day, for all its faults, the US military is the armed force of a political community I identify with and a government I support. I'm not a bystander to it. I'm implicated in what it does and I feel I have a responsibility and a right to a say, albeit just a minuscule one, in what it does. I think a military force requires a substantial amount of secrecy to operate in any reasonable way. (emphasis mine) So when someone on the inside breaks those rules, I need to see a really, really good reason. And even then I'm not sure that means you get off scott free. It may just mean you did the right thing…
…And I'm very skeptical of the notion that what Snowden did is awesome just because leaking state secrets is always a heroic act.
No question, America does indeed depend on secrecy. But as The New Yorker points out,
Snowden took classified documents from his employer, which surely broke the law. But his real crime was confirming that the intelligence agencies, despite their strenuous public denials, have been accumulating vast amounts of personal data from the American public.
Yes, precisely. And ask yourself this–Can you defend democracy with secrecy and spying or do those acts in fact completely undermine what you claim to hold dear?
Patriotism is a dangerous notion. It assumes the supremacy of the state that requires the constant exertion of 'power over' to maintain and the sanctity of borders that imply a damaging assumption of dominion and ownership which destroy any possibility of real freedom or democracy.
It's time, past time, to reconsider what that flag we so proudly wave really represents and to stand up for the values that we hold dear.
A Culture That Condones The Killing Of Children And Teaches Children To Kill
December 14, 2012 / Lucinda / Comments Off on A Culture That Condones The Killing Of Children And Teaches Children To Kill
The Sandy Hook massacre isn't just about the need for gun control laws, it is about a culture that condones the killing of children and teaches children that killing is okay.
It is about a country addicted to violence on television and movie screens.
It is about cuts in education spending.
It is about giving the military free access to our schools where they regale our children with romanticized delusions of military righteousness.
It is about environmental and health policies that expose our children to all manner of toxins in the air, land and water.
It is about thinking we have the right to kill children with drones or by dropping toxic munitions on their countries that cause birth defects and miscarriages.
It is about saddling our children with crippling education debt and no prospect for jobs.
It is about telling boys (and men) they have to be tough and to fight and kill for what they want or think is right.
It is about a national policy that denies children basic rights and systemically teaches them that violence is okay.
And it is about a media so insensitive that it thinks it is okay to shove a microphone in the face of young victims in the name of sensationalized 24/7 cable "news" while under-reporting the root causes of this tragedy.
Sandy Hook did not happen because of a lone, disturbed young man and it is not an isolated incident. It is an epidemic and we are all to blame. And today (and tomorrow and every day after that) is the time to confront this self-inflicted tragedy.
Will We Drown In Denial Or Face The Sea Change of Climate Reality
November 1, 2012 / Lucinda / Comments Off on Will We Drown In Denial Or Face The Sea Change of Climate Reality
Of all the searing images in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the one that I find most disturbing is this picture of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier which remained throughout the storm at great personal danger. That we must honor our military dead even at the risk of completely unnecessary loss of life speaks volumes about our priorities in this country.
I rarely watch cable news, but I found myself obsessively switching between a local news channel, CNN and The Weather Channel for much of the storm. There was much valuable and urgent information shared although much of it looked like a contest between reporters to see who could report while standing in the deepest water and stay standing (and I absolutely need to say that throughout the storm, I consistently found critical information being disseminated on Twitter well before I saw it on television). But not once did I hear any mention of the many nuclear power plants in the storm's path, or a discussion of what to do if your house is flooded with toxic waste or the lack of plans to protect oil and gas facilities. No analysis of what climate change denial and inaction has cost us.
Nor was there mention of the fact that we've known that storms like this have been an event waiting to happen. Instead, as I pointed out a few days ago, we have continued to beat the drum in the fight against "terrorism", pouring billions of dollars into destroying other countries, killing innocent civilians and creating conditions in which terrorism ferments and while we're at it doing an ace job of brainwashing ourselves into being perpetually paranoid and terrified while at the same time allowing the infrastructure of our own country to go to hell.
As Chris Mooney pointed out in Grist, NASA warned about an event like Sandy in 2006:
Scientists at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York have been studying that city's vulnerability to hurricane impacts in a changing world, and calculated that with 1.5 feet of sea level rise, a worst-case-scenario Category 3 hurricane could submerge "the Rockaways, Coney Island, much of southern Brooklyn and Queens, portions of Long Island City, Astoria, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, lower Manhattan, and eastern Staten Island from Great Kills Harbor north to the Verrazano Bridge.
And of course, that wasn't the only warning. WE KNEW IT COULD HAPPEN. And we did nothing. As a result we are now contending with this:
Consider what Kathy Waters, American Public Transportation Association vice president for member services had to say about the New York subway system,
The New York system, although there are some components that have been upgraded over the years, has a lot of antique components where the vendor has been out of business for 50 years. (emphasis mine)
And then there is this from NRDC's Amy Mall:
Under the Clean Water Act, there is something called the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule which includes requirements for oil spill prevention, preparedness, and response to prevent oil discharges to navigable waters and adjoining shorelines…Sounds like a no-brainer. But in Fiscal Year 2011, EPA officials visited 120 sites oil and gas development sites and found 105 were out of compliance– 87.5%…Almost every single oil and gas site inspected lacked a mandatory spill prevention plan meant to protect our rivers and streams. (emphasis mine)
Internet, cable and phone services were also significantly disrupted and yet two days later with thousands of people still without access, I heard a report of a FEMA official telling people to file claims on the internet. And he expects people who are stranded in flooded buildings to do that how?
Raw sewage, industrial chemicals and floating debris filled flooded waterways around New York City on Tuesday…
…The best officials could do was urge residents to steer clear of the contaminated waters.
Incidentally, they sent that warning out by email. To people who obviously were going to have trouble accessing their email.
The storm also precipitated numerous problems at various nuclear power plants, all of which are aging quickly past the lifespans they were designed for and some of which are the same design as the Fukushima facility in Japan,
Storm-related complications were blamed this week for forcing three nuclear reactors offline – Nine Mile Point Unit 1 northwest of Syracuse, N.Y., Indian Point Unit 3 about 25 miles north of New York City and the Salem plant's Unit 1 on the Delaware River in New Jersey.
Meanwhile, rising waters along the Barnegat Bay prompted officials to declare an "alert," the second-lowest in a four-tiered warning system, at Oyster Creek in New Jersey…
…NRC officials reported that other plants continued operating but reduced their electrical output as a precaution, including the Millstone plant's Unit 3 reactor in Waterford, Conn., Vermont Yankee south of Brattleboro, Vt., and both reactors at the Limerick nuclear plant about 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia. The storm also appeared to knock out emergency sirens used to notify residents who live near the Oyster Creek and Peach Bottom plants in Pennsylvania, according to NRC reports. (emphasis mine)
These are the kinds of issues we need to confront if we are to stand a prayer of survival. They aren't theoretical or in the future. They are real and they are right now. We need to see this as literally the moment for a sea-change in attitude. It is not acceptable for the media to continue to ignore climate change,
Last year at least 7,140 journalists and opinion writers published some 19,000 stories on climate change, compared to more than 11,100 reporters who filed 32,400 stories in 2009, according to DailyClimate.org…
…Particularly noticeable was the silence from the nation's editorial boards: In 2009, newspapers published 1,229 editorials on the topic. Last year, they published less than 580 – half as many, according to DailyClimate.org's archives.
And it is not acceptable for our politicians to continue to chest thump the drums of war while maintaining a deafening silence on climate change. Protecting symbols of military prowess while our cities drown isn't honorable, it is an act of national suicide.
The Day Before The Day After Tomorrow–Meditations On A Storm And A Young Friend Who Wants To Serve His Country
October 28, 2012 / Lucinda / Comments Off on The Day Before The Day After Tomorrow–Meditations On A Storm And A Young Friend Who Wants To Serve His Country
In the pre-hurricane calm before Sandy hits, I am sitting by a window (where I probably don't want to sit tomorrow), watching the skies darken and thinking of a young man that I've known since he was in diapers. After high school, he joined the army and last week, he left to serve in a war zone. All we can do now is pray that he comes back alive, hopefully without his body or mind broken.
They are now saying that 10 million people could lose power from Hurricane Sandy. One of the reasons that may happen is that for decades now, we have done far less than we should to protect our utility grids. Water may be compromised and communications systems too. Some of that would be inevitable with a storm this size, but proper upgrading and maintenance along the way might well have mitigated that.
What few are talking about and which may be a far larger worry is the potential danger to the 16 nuclear power plants that are in harms way. After Fukushima, we should have no illusions that these plants can withstand catastrophic weather. And we should be mindful of the massive amounts of toxic materials that may blow into our water and onto our shores as the storm blows through.
I began by mentioned the young family friend now serving in the military, in a continuing war that serves only to continue to destabilize the world. Yes, there will always be a few that will want to bomb and destroy us, and perhaps they will get away with killing some of us. But no terrorist can ever hope to accomplish what climate changed weather has and most certainly will continue to do when it comes to wreaking havoc and destruction.
Yet throughout this presidential campaign, it has been business as usual with the war talk–why we must use drones and must fight terrorists without even a peep about climate change or the environment.
My young friend is a patriot. He wants to defend the country. Imagine if instead of fighting wars of empire that serve only to destroy and bankrupt, we brought our soldiers home and asked them to help secure our aging and dangerous nuclear plants as best we can? What if we asked them to install solar and wind installations? What if we asked them to help trim trees off power lines and replace aging water pipes and roads. What if we put the formidable force that is the U.S. military to work doing things that would actually protect the country? And if we still wanted to send some of our troops overseas, we could help other nations do the same, making them safer and less likely to hate us.
It is too late for this storm, but how many more times does this need to happen before we finally say no more to business as usual and start using our resources to address the real needs of climate change and stop the destructive foreign policy that drains us of our economic resources, destroys other countries and puts our troops in harms way?


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2021+ Ford Mustang Mach-E Forum
The Ford Mach E will be built in Mexico
Cowherd.J
It looks like the Mach E will be produced in Ford's plant in Cuautitlan, Mexico rather than in Michigan. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a26884738/ford-mustang-hybrid-electric-suv-production/
Michigan auto workers will not build Ford's all-electric SUV as former CEO Mark Fields promised in 2017. Instead, auto workers at Ford's Cuautitlan, Mexico, plant who currently assemble the Fiesta will finish the Blue Oval's first ground-up EV, effectively axing the plan for the company's Flat Rock, Michigan, plant to produce all of its "long range" electric cars.
The Flat Rock plant, which currently builds the Mustang and the Lincoln Continental, will build the next-gen Mustang hybrid. Both the unnamed EV (pictured below) and the gas-electric Mustang (pictured above) are still scheduled to debut in 2020, most likely as 2021 models, and are part of an $11.1 billion push to sell 16 battery-electric and 24 hybrid models worldwide by 2022.
The EV's production move coincides with the next-gen Transit Connect van, currently built in Valencia, Spain, that will also move to Mexico and replace the Ford Fusion and Lincoln MKZ assembly line in Hermosillo. It's unclear what these moves mean for the future of the Continental and MKZ, as Lincoln has not yet made any announcements about dropping its sedan offerings as Ford has.
These announcements underscore company pressure to comply with the USCMA, which requires stricter compliance on labor and parts manufacturing for vehicles to qualify for zero-duty trade among the three nations. Otherwise, Ford would continue to pay 25 percent tariffs for imported vans; like the rest of the auto industry, the company is worried about threats by the Trump administration to instate such a tariff on all imported vehicles.
Despite retooling in Mexico, Ford is adding more jobs to the Flat Rock plant than the 700 jobs Fields had targeted when he announced it would also build autonomous vehicles for ride hailing and ride sharing. The automaker says it will add a second shift and create up to 900 new jobs at Flat Rock by 2023, which will include a dedicated center to convert existing hybrids into "purpose-built, commercial-grade" vehicles with "unique interiors" and at least Level 4 self-driving capability. These will be available in 2021. We suspect this will comprise a small fleet of automated Transit Connect vans that enterprising tech companies will use to ship packages and ferry passengers in very specific areas of the country.
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