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@ Heathrow
"I'll sit anywhere," she told the airline attendant behind the counter whose name tag read Patrick. It was 3 o'clock in the morning, London time, and Heather was surviving on fumes by that point, in a race against time trying to make her way back to Chicago.
"Listen, I missed my flight, but it wasn't my fault," pleaded the desperate woman.
Patrick looked up from the monitor embedded just below the surface of the counter as Heather strained to look down at the plane schedules he had pulled up. He had frosted tips, the type that she would have laughed out loud at if he were one of her closest friends, but at that moment he was her best hope so she stayed silent.
"Ma'am," he said, in an impeccable British accent. "I don't doubt that, but we have no flights available until 6:30, and that would be standby."
"But I need to be in Chicago, like, yesterday," she begged, stopping just short of getting on her knees. She adjusted her cleavage, hoping that might change things, but his eyes were on her own. It figured.
"Then might I suggest calling whomever you're supposed to be meeting there and letting them know you will be a tad late," said the ever helpful Patrick, smiling sardonically at her.
"It's not like that," Heather said, all pretense of begging gone. She was an executive, and used to getting her way. She wasn't going to let some, some pencil pusher tell her she couldn't get it done. "Look, I'll pay you for whatever you can get done for me."
"We don't accept tit for tat," said Patrick with a straight face, indicating with his index finger the security cameras trained on them. "It's strictly against the law. But I can place you standby for the 6:30 and you can keep your fingers crossed."
She walked away after giving him her name and cell phone number, feeling like an ironic mirror of herself, a meek version of who she hoped she would never be. But it was so much more than that, she finally admitted to herself, knowing that if she couldn't tell herself the truth she would never be able to trust anyone else with it. She felt like a total failure not just because she missed her flight, but because she wouldn't make it to such a significant event — again.
Jordan had called her on Monday and made her promise she would come, that she would be there for the most important day in his life, knowing how crazy her own life was and what it would mean if she said yes. But she had said yes anyway, because she was weaker than the facade she put on every single day, and for the simple fact that it was him asking. She had never gotten over Jordan, even with an entire ocean and five years between them. Yet she said yes, as if he were asking her to coffee to catch up, not to his impending nuptials.
"I can't imagine my special day without you there," he'd said, not knowing how it made her catch her breath, not realizing it tore her up inside. Still.
"But won't it be awkward, Jordan?" she replied through slightly gritted teeth. "I mean, we almost got married."
"Which was ages ago, and you're still my best friend," he had said, dismissing her fears like so much garbage. "You are my best friend, right?"
"Shouldn't your fiance be your best friend, Jordan?" she asked, knowing his answer before the pause, before the exhale, even before she asked the question.
"You know it's always been different with us," he'd said. "And Shae understands that. She's the one who asked me to invite you, that it wouldn't be the same without you."
And Heather had sighed then because he knew he wasn't lying, that Shae had such a pure heart that she would want whatever Jordan wanted. But they were both such idiots, really, that they couldn't see what was right in front of their faces, what was between them as surely as a hedge separating private lawns. Because she was balanced on that hedge, ready to spring onto the green grass on the other side, regardless of who it hurt.
"Okay," she had said, half expecting cheers from the other end of the connection, but he just gave her the details and signed off, as if it had been a foregone conclusion the whole time, like the call had been a matter of course. She felt bruised in that moment, a peach that wasn't quite ripe enough to taste good in the peeling, but at the same time she felt a rush of elation. She was going to see Jordan again, after five years of phone calls and dodging his requests to visit.
But she sighed again as she wheeled her carry-on across the tiled walkway of Heathrow, Terminal B. Even if she managed to get on the 6:30 flight there was no way she could make it to the reception hall to catch the ceremony, and only a thin wisp of a chance she could get to the reception. And if she missed that flight she would arrive too late for any of it. She knew she should call Jordan, that she should let him know she would indeed miss his special day, but she was too afraid to dial his number.
She imagined he would sound magnanimous, that he would say it wouldn't be the same without her, that he would be sad over the situation. In that way the phone call would only serve to make her feel better, but she knew she deserved to feel as bad as she possibly could, because of the reason she had been late. The night before she had taken out all of their pictures, all of the photos that had chronicled their friendship since high school, every album she had created in secret, knowing how it would look to others. And she had allowed herself to cry the tears she had held in since her move to London.
Soon the vodka had come out, and then all pretense was lost as she drank her sorrows away, tears fat and heavy, falling onto the photos she had fought so hard to preserve. But she hadn't been able to stop herself, because his marrying Shae was the final nail in the coffin of what could have been for the two of them, one last arrow to her heart from the man who said he would love her forever. It just wasn't the kind of love she wanted from him, which made all the difference.
"Now boarding — 3:40. Flight 269 to New York City. Terminal C," came the smooth voice over the intercom, breaking up the sound of the muzak that had been the soundtrack for Heather's melancholy mood. She sat down on one of the unyielding black plastic chairs across from the news stand that somehow seemed to her melancholy as well, deciding whether staying would accomplish anything of merit.
"Now boarding — 3:40. Flight 269 to New York City. Terminal C," said the voice again, and something tumbled around in her mind, finally settling into place with a snap, breaking her from her self-imposed torture. It was time to really move on. There was a reason she had missed her flight, and it had nothing to do with Jordan. It had everything to do with her, with her own opinions of herself, how she had said she wanted to move on, but had done nothing besides avoid the situation. It had changed nothing. London had changed absolutely nothing.
So she got up out of her seat, even though she had just sat down, and headed for Terminal C as fast as her legs could carry her, Patrick's eyes on her the whole way until she turned the corner and joined with the crowd of people in the tunnel between terminals, hustling from one place to another just as she was. A smile crept its way onto her face as she realized what she had to do to change her life for the better, and sitting in an uncomfortable chair at Heathrow wasn't the answer.
The loudspeaker came on once more, but she had stopped listening by that point, on her way past Terminal C to the exit, to the double doors that led to a freedom she hadn't recognized was owed her. It was time to get rid of those pictures for good, she thought to herself, her mind racing, to block his number from her phone, to make a clean break once and for all. It wasn't healthy for him, for Shae, and most definitely not for her at all, and she had to be the one who was strong, who severed the rotting limb before it took over everything.
Heather easily melted into the group of newly arrived passengers heading out into the rising sun of what had the potential to be a brilliant London day, and she smiled for the first time in a long time. Chicago could wait. Forever.
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ALBANY — Democratic congressional candidate Antonio Delgado beat freshman Republican U.S. Rep. John Faso on Tuesday in one of the most closely watched and expensive congressional races in the nation.
The victory for Delgado in the Hudson Valley's 19th Congressional District — along with Democratic victories in two other congressional districts in New York — helped Democrats seize control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
The fierce battle between Faso and Delgado galvanized voters in the geographically sprawling district, with early polling showing Faso with a slight lead, and later polling locking the candidates in a statistical tie. The contest drew national attention as Democrats fought to wrest control of the House from the GOP.
About 25,000 absentee ballots were issued as of Friday.
Democrats have a slight enrollment advantage over Republicans.
Includes Columbia, Delaware, Greene, Otsego, Schoharie, Sullivan, and Ulster counties, and parts of Broome, Dutchess, Montgomery, and Rensselaer.
In a tearful speech late Tuesday, Delgado thanked his family and his supporters, and called for unity following a contentious fight for the seat.
"This is a new day for NY-19," he said. "It is a new day built upon our shared values. Values I was raised with in upstate New York. Values that I learned when was raised in Schenectady, values I came across all across this district."
While Democrats gained a slim majority in the house, the gains were not achieved through the forceful Democratic wave in response to the election President Donald J. Trump that some pundits had predicted. As the night wore on, it was not immediately clear that Democrats would gain the 23 seats needed to retake the chamber. Republicans soundly retained their control of the U.S. Senate.
In the Capital Region's 20th Congressional District, U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko, D-Amsterdam, easily fended off his Republican challenger Joe Vitollo for the second time. Tonko, a former state assemblyman and engineer, serves on the House Energy Committee and has held the post since 2009.
The 21st Congressional District, situated to the north of Albany, remained safely in Republican control, with incumbent U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik handily defeating her Democratic opponent Tedra Cobb, with 56 percent of the vote to Cobb's 41.
Faso, a former state assemblyman and lobbyist who was elected to Congress in 2016, was seen as especially vulnerable, and faced heat for his party-line vote to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act — though the measure did not pass the U.S. Senate — and for his support of more stringent food-stamp requirements in the U.S. House Farm Bill. He was also also criticized for making few appearances in the district in his first term.
Delgado, a Rhodes scholar and corporate lawyer from Rhinebeck, prevailed despite attempts by opponents to paint him as an outsider who does not share the values of the district, including citing lyrics from a rap album he recorded in 2007. Though he grew up in Schenectady, just outside the NY-19, and his wife is from Woodstock, he was criticized for moving to the district from New York City in 2016 to run for office.
Both candidates raised and spent millions of dollars, with Delgado outpacing Faso by $3.6 million. Faso's campaign was aided by the National Republican Campaign Committee and the Congressional Leadership Fund, a GOP super PAC, which spent millions on anti-Delgado ads.
While he refused during the campaign to denounce the controversial ads sponsored by outside groups that some perceived as a racial dog whistle, Faso struck a conciliatory note calling for healing in his concession speech.
"Remember that through 242 years of this great republic, we've had many times when Americans were polarized and divided and campaigns were fought vigorously. At the same time we have to recognize .. that America is great because the American people are good," he said just after 11 p.m.
County boards of elections across the state reported "presidential" voter turnout levels on Tuesday and least 25,000 absentee ballots from within 19th Congressional District are yet to be counted.
Other too-close-to-call races in upstate New York had mixed results. In the 22nd Congressional District, incumbent Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney was defeated by her Democratic challenger, Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi.
U.S. Rep. Chris Collins, who represents the most Republican district in the state, was the first member of Congress to endorse Trump and has since aligned himself with the president 99 percent of the time. He beat Nate McMurray by a smaller margin than initially anticipated, in part, due to his indictment on federal insider trading charges.
The contest between U.S. Rep. John Katko and Dana Balter in Syracuse's 24th Congressional District seemed like a toss-up in the polls leading up to Tuesday's midterm election. But Katko kept his seat with 51 percent of the vote, according to late results.
Democrats were laser-focused on reclaiming several House seats in the increasingly Democratic suburbs of New York City, though Tuesday's results allowed Republicans to maintain control in two longtime GOP strongholds.
Staten Island's 11th Congressional District saw a major upset, as second-term Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Donovan was unseated by Democratic contender Max Rose, an Army veteran and former healthcare executive, who drew 52 percent of the vote.


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Epigenetics as an Ethical Area of Study: A Survey of Recent Studies
| March 27, 2019
This blog post by Ada S. Jaarsma originally appeared on the Alberta Epigenetics Network website on 2 October, 2018
Ada Jaarsma is an Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Humanities at Mount Royal University. Her book Kierkegaard After the Genome: Science, Existence and Belief in this World (Palgrave Macmillan 2017) makes the case for the existential import of placebos, epigenetics and science studies. She is currently writing about epigenetics, nocebos and critical race theory.
As I write in an earlier blog post for the Alberta Epigenetics Network, scholars in the social sciences are looking to epigenetics research for insights into pressing ethical questions. New books like Political Biology: Science and Social Values in Human Heredity from Eugenics to Epigenetics by Maurizio Meloni describe epigenetic phenomena as reflecting a kind of "political biology," in which there is no clear dividing line between what counts as cultural or social values and what counts as biology. Epigenetics is a key exemplar in such arguments because of the pressure that epigenetic findings put onto long-standing presumptions about the nature of heredity. Wide-ranging research into the contributions of environmental and experiential factors in epigenetic processes suggest that heredity should no longer be understood as hard-wired or solely determined by genes. In the terms of two leading anthropologists who study the work of epigenetic researchers, Margaret Lock and Jörg Niewohner, biological processes like heredity should be understood so entangled with the local that "biology" could be better described as "situated local biologies" than as something universal.
The ethical ramifications of this social scientific research are quite tremendous. If there is no universal human biology that transcends the particulars of environmental locale, then it becomes vital for scientists across the natural and social sciences to find ways to collaborate on ethical questions. For example, one area of ethics that is especially pressing concerns the relations between genomes and race. In a new book on race and science, anthropologist Jonathan Marks argues that scientific research into biological/cultural relations is crucial for undermining what social scientists often call "scientific racism": the misplaced and unscientific arguments about race that bear the veneer of scientific validity. One way to subvert prejudicial presumptions about race, Marks explains, is to look to scientific research into biocultural differences, and this is where epigenetics is an especially fruitful research area. As Nathaniel Comfort writes in a recent review essay in Nature, when scholarship on epigenetics is ignored, discussions about human diversity sacrifice ethical concerns for deterministic (and scientifically problematic) presumptions about biology.
Indeed, epigenetics holds such promise for contributing to key ethical debates that two bioethicists from McGill, Charles Dupras and Vardit Ravitky, make the case for varying types of "epigenetic responsibility". They argue that while nuances of epigenetic findings are often overlooked in ethical discussions, it is valuable for bioethics to take into account the variability of plasticity, reversibility and heritability of environmental and experiential factors. This argument is shared by contributors to a new anthology, Beyond Bioethics: Toward a New Biopolitics, co-edited by Osagie K. Obasogie and Marcy Darnosky. This edited collection is a comprehensive set of essays that explores the ethical significance of research like epigenetics—and the dangers of reductionist approaches to genomics. As I explore in a chapter in my book, "The Existential Stakes of Epigenetics," the kinds of questions raised by epigenetic research extend to the very ways in which we take up and engage with ethical matters: what even matters or counts as ethical and in need of ethical inquiry. In this way, epigenetics is a realm of research in which scholars from across the academic disciplines can and should engage in transdisciplinary conversations and collaborations.

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So we got up to Erie on Friday and watched the Pro weigh in. Then we went back to setup are rods for drop shoting and tubing in the Lake. When we showed up for the pre-tournament at 5am we were notified that we would not be allowed into the lake do to 6-10 ft waves. We were only allowed to fish Presquile Isle Bay which is where we launched from. The lake would be off limits. Our only spots were out on the lake for smallies so the game planned changed. We drove around and then would basically just run the trolling motor around spots trying to find drop offs. We found a few that did not produce. We found a spot that was basically flat with a slight decline that had a rock in the middle. I caught a bass that was short of the 15" minimum but through a marker buoy out. I then caught another that was 15" so into the livewell it went. After I caught 2 Derek my teammate switched from his Jig to the smoke purple tube I was throwing and dragging on the bottom. He caught 2 that didn't get to the minimum and then I caught one more that wasn't big enough. During this thirty minute period of catching fish here UNC Charlotte decide they wanted to fish right next to us cast at our buoy so since I was on the trolling motor I just kept cutting them off and we caught a fish in their face that was short, bc they didn't know our spot was actually 15ft away from the buoy. I thought this was bad sportsmanship and I am pretty sure there is a rule against it but I did not care that much, I just cared about getting 5 more fish in the livewell. The spot stopped producing so we fished some rock ledges and the channel with nothing. We tried the spot we caught all our fish off of for 30 min before the weigh in but nothing. We only had one fish over the 15" minimum that I caught the rest were above 13" but just wouldn't cut it. The minimum was created bc of the huge smallmouth but we couldn't fish for them so It was tough. We weighed in the fish and later found out we finished 20 of 40 which wasn't bad for not being able to prefish or hit our spots in the main lake but we were both pretty angry about it and cant wait til the tournament there next year. No limits were caught and winner had 8lbs.
We have one team already qualified for regionals unfortunately me and Derek could not qualify at Erie which was our only chance this year. Me and him will be fishing most the college tournaments next year including our home water, the Potomac, so hopefully we can qualify.
Good experience....makes you hungrier for the next one!
Lake Erie is so shallow, it can get very very rough in a short time and the waves are very close together. I have been out there in 4-6 foot waves and could not wait to get back to land.
They were smart to not let people go out there.


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Velar vs Velar: what difference does 50 years make?
Taking a ride in Range Rover's newest and most important car, and the little-known prototype that foreshadowed it five decades ago
by Matt Saunders
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"A gentleman is never exact," or so I've heard it said.
Perhaps that means his car needn't be either. This speedometer certainly isn't. Having accelerated in unhurried but generous style away from the car park of an English country pub and up through its four manually selected gears, the 'classic' Range Rover Velar prototype I'm driving can't decide if I'm doing 49mph, 55, or something in between.
We've now driven the Range Rover Velar - read our first impression here
Before the introduction of the latest addition to the Range Rover family, I'd doubt if more than a handful of people in the world remembered there ever was a Velar. The model identity was a ruse: an invention of Rover's development engineers of the 1960s, who wanted to disguise the origins of their prototypes for the very first Range Rover, and who hit upon the direct Latin translation of 'I hide' – which it just happened to be possible to spell using letters already used on the front of a Land Rover.
Opinions differ on how many Velar prototypes were built between 1967 and 1970, but our Land Rover source reckons that only nine are still in existence. And yet, however rare and little-known, the Velar fathered the original Range Rover, which has since fathered the Range Rover brand, and so using that moniker as an anchor for an entirely new product with no direct antecedent is a clever way to borrow a bit of historical authenticity.
And, a cynic might argue, a new Range Rover product whose mechanical basis is fairly widely know to have been found within sister brand Jaguar's technical armoury could certainly do with every bit of added authenticity it can get, couldn't it?
Fourth Range Rover model has abundant style but how much breadth of ability does the Velar really have?
So, can the Velar connection be anything other than superfluous? Perhaps. Remember that the Range Rover sprung out of an earlier project to develop a 'Road Rover'; and that the new Velar is defined as the most road-focussed modern Range Rover model of them all.
The original one is from a time before the ever was a Range Rover. The defining SUV type it was translating was the Land Rover's. And it's certainly much easier to drive, and more manageable on the road, than the car that came to be known as the Land Rover Defender.
To a modern perspective, it's the luxury and refinement we associate with a Range Rover that's most obviously missing. The Velar has a medium-heavy clutch pedal and a long-levered and pretty stubborn four-speed manual gearbox, and neither likes to be rushed.
Coming from the days before the Range Rover's 3.5-litre V8 was even fuel-injected, never mind enlarged, the Velar's engine produces a pretty modest 130bhp – but because the car's gearing is chosen to make that enough off-road as well as on it, it rarely seems to labour. There's easily enough torque to leave the car in top gear and let it pick up from low revs and town speeds, which it'll do willingly and smoothly – but slowly.
The steering is slow: lighter and more manageable than an old Land Rover's (it must have felt like being spoiled at the time) and surprisingly easygoing at parking speeds. It's undeniably vague around the dead-ahead at road speeds, though, and requiring plenty of input for cornering.
Body roll's pronounced, but there's a decent underlying grip level, creditable handling and good road speed stability. A much more supple and sophisticated ride than you'd have found on a contemporary Land Rover, too.
And what of the new Velar? We won't drive it for another few weeks – but Land Rover has just been good enough to let me ride passenger in the car at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. To suggest it seems in any meaningful way similar to the original would be a convenient but transparent fib. Obviously, Land Rover wouldn't be daft enough to introduce a modern car that was anything like a fifty-year-old car to drive, and nor should it.
But you could certainly call these cars answers to the same question posed twice – once half a century after the other. The new Velar plainly has excellent, modern Range Rover level refinement, an isolated and serene ride, an interior design that can be considered absolutely cutting-edge, and handling dynamism made possible by material and suspension technology unthought-of in 1967.
But there's a flavour of the same imperious view down the road in the new car as the old one has. And in the old one, you can sense the genesis of that filtered, isolating, low-altitude but still intimate relationship with the Tarmac that Range Rovers have always had – and that the new Velar looks set to develop in very interesting ways.
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Which one sounds better?
No contest.
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God, JLR really needs to sack
God, JLR really needs to sack its stylists and get some decent ones in, this thing looks rubbish, so bland, so boring, characterless.
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So you've seen it.
To make such an assertion typos 1, you've obviously seen it! When and where?
Think you are being a bit
Think you are being a bit hard on JLR, though I agree the LRs all look too similar now.


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Phaeochoraceae is a family of sac fungi in the order Phyllachorales.

Genera
(with amount of species per genera)
Cocoicola  (5)
Phaeochora  (4)
Phaeochoropsis  (4)
Serenomyces  (4)

References

External links

Phyllachorales
Taxa named by Margaret Elizabeth Barr-Bigelow
Taxa described in 1997

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Q: Salvar dados de uma pesquisa em uma página Galera, tenho a seguinte situação: tem uma página simples em PHP onde tenho um filtro de pesquisa que me permite pesquisar por Status, CPF/CNPJ, Razão Social/Nome Completo, Data Inicial e Data Final. Após executar a pesquisa, o sistema me trás no datatable os dados do banco. Até aí tudo bem, o problema está no seguinte: se eu edito ou excluo alguma informação desta tabela, quando retorno para esta mesma página, eu perco as informações de pesquisa e consequentemente é necessário digitar tudo novamente para que eu possa ter novamente aqueles dados. Gostaria de saber se alguém conhece alguma forma de salvar os dados desta pesquisa? Pensei na possibilidade de salvar estes dados de pesquisa dentro de sessions, seria a melhor saída? Se sim, teria como executar o action do form de pesquisa dentro desta mesma página ou teria que sair dela também, chamar uma nova página para gravar os dados na session?

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When you look at a lighthouse, what do you see? Perhaps to you, lighthouses spark memories of a family vacation to the shore or elicit seafaring imagery ripped from the pages of a Melville novel. While lighthouses are still utilized in many capes and inlets across the world, they have turned into somewhat of a novelty for many - a relic of days past. But, as is often true with historical structures, these lighthouses hold within them more than steel, brick and glass. Each flame that flickered through the thick windows broke through the panoptic blanket of night and signalled something different to everyone who saw it. Safe passage into harbor. A new beginning. The end of a journey. Home.
Each of the 191 stairs of Virginia Beach's Cape Henry Lighthouse, at the place where the Chesapeake Bay flows in the Atlantic Ocean, leads to a story of its own. This story begins, surprisingly enough, not on the shores of Cape Henry, but in New York City's Federal Hall, in 1789. The newly formed United States of America, still recovering from the destruction of revolution, was holding its first session of the First United States Congress, which is still regarded as the most important meeting of the Senate and the House of Representatives ever held. It was at this session that the US Treasury was formed, the rules of the House, Senate and officers were established, and George Washington was inaugurated as the nation's first President.
It was also during this historic session that Jacob Wray, the collector of customs at Hampton, made a plea to the newly-appointed Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, that the unlit shores of Cape Henry, which had claimed 57 maritime vessels, needed to be promptly addressed. With many Congressional leaders feeling a pressing need to answer the public's demand for safe and navigable waterways, Hamilton turned to renowned architect, John McComb, Jr.
Using the Aquia stone that remained on-site from a failed attempt to build a lighthouse during the war, as well as Rappahannock freestone, McComb's plans called for an octagonal structure with three windows in the east and four in the west, that would stand 90 feet above the water table, and cost $17,700, roughly $435,000 in today's money. As the tower neared completion, President Washington requested a list of applications for the new lighthouse keeper to be selected by him personally. In late October, 1792, Laban Goffigan, of Norfolk, lit the fish oil-burning lamps of the new Cape Henry Lighthouse for the first time.
The completion of the Cape Henry Lighthouse marked the first federal work project of the new United States government to be fulfilled and it quickly became an important fixture for our region's maritime enterprises and military. Though a new lighthouse, which is still in use, was built adjacent to it in 1881, the old Cape Henry Lighthouse still stands as a reminder of Virginia Beach's historic past.
The original structure was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964, and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 2002. The original and newer lighthouses were each placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966 and 2002, respectively. Today, you can gain access to the old lighthouse, which sits on the active Fort Story Military Base, and climb the winding metal staircase all the way to the top, adding to the revered legend's story one step at a time.


As a switch from the Rolex Submariner – James Bond's default choice since Dr No bar a few dubious meanderings into digital Seikos in the seventies – Hemming's choice of the Omega Seamaster 300 was perfect in every way. "Beautiful," even, according to Vesper Lynd during the dining-car scene in Casino Royale, by comparison to the watch she blithely assumes 007's type would wear (Rolex, obviously).
It's not just the blue though, Lindy. As perfect as Omega's professional-spec diving watch suited Mr Brosnan's twinkling eyes and deck uniform when she first dressed him for Goldeneye all the way back in 1995, the Seamaster really is the default choice for Britain's finest seamen, albeit those whose operational bonuses can afford it. For everyone else, here's everything you need to know about the Seamaster 300, from its heritage to the most sought after models today.
Today, the Royal Navy's Special Boat Service – notoriously harder than their landlubber SAS contemporaries are almost entirely kitted out with specially engraved, proudly war-torn Seamaster 300 Professionals. But the Swiss brand's service roots extend back much further. Rugged, legible, highly water-resistant, chronometer-level precision Omega timepieces were kitted-out to British servicemen and pilots almost exclusively during World War II. See the wrist of Tom Hardy's Spitfire pilot in Dunkirk for further cinematic proof of that particular pedigree.
War, after all, accelerates technological innovation, as this year's 70th-anniversary Seamaster reissues remind us. Between 1940 and 1945, Omega delivered more than 110,000 timepieces to the British Ministry of Defence. After the war, as we steadily progressed through the jet age toward the nuclear age and finally the space race, this breathless period of innovation found Omega at the height of its engineering creativity.
It responded to the demand for a timepiece with the same robust technology and reliable conception as its military efforts, but more aesthetically suited to a more academic existence. Not to mention the burgeoning craze for SCUBA diving, heightened by the garlanded cinematic exploits of Jacques Cousteau.
Launched in 1948, the Seamaster line was Omega's first official 'family' of watches. Modelled on the 'Watch. Wrist. Waterproof.' military-spec pieces made for the MoD, these more classically designed timepieces boasted greater water-resistance than their military counterparts thanks to the novel use of O-ring gasket technology. Previously, water-resistant watches relied on lead or shellac gaskets, which were easily affected by a temperature change – something, that tends to happen when you dive deeper and deeper.
Omega turned to the hatches on submarines used during the war for inspiration and came up with a resilient rubber seal in the Seamaster's final case design. This remained intact at depths of up to 60 meters and temperature ranges between –40 degrees and 50 degrees Celsius. In short, it worked.
That all said, with due respect to Bond's original choice of wristwear, the Rolex Submariner was quick to blow Omega completely out of the water as soon as 1953. The immortal, legendary and quite-simply peerless diving watch had the whole package from the outset: screw-down crown, unidirectional rotating dive-time bezel, 300-metre water resistance… Bar the modern Tudor Pelagos and the Sub's early rival, Blancpain's Fifty Fathoms, there was and would be little contest. Sure enough, the souped-up Rolex 'Mil-Sub' got in early as first choice for the British Navy's crack frogmen during the fifties and seventies.
By 1957, however, Omega got back in the game with not one but three new 'Master' watches, fit for land, sea and air. Alongside the Speedmaster (the only watch that's been on the Moon) and the Railmaster was an overdue, fully accomplished thinking-man's alternative to the Sub': the Seamaster 300, complete with all the above and still-standard diving-watch requisites. A broad-arrow hours hand was neatly counterbalanced by its luminous arrow-shaped hour indexes. The following year, inspired by the historical markings on gondolas in Venice, the Seahorse became the symbol of the Seamaster, engraved on its caseback and still featured today on a selection of 'Professional' models.
It's now been 25 years since the blue-bezelled iteration we all know best was launched – the one that Lindy Hemming matched so perfectly to Brosnan's perfect nineties Bond. Since 1993, the Seamaster Professional Diver 300M has become so much of an embedded, modern classic that one particular example is to be seen permanently peeping from the wrist of a certain Duke of Cambridge now and again. Wills even wore it to his brother's wedding – which is arguably a bit of a sartorial no-no, but who are we to argue with His Royal Highness? Let's not forget his own naval experience, after all.
Loved for its colourful design and oceangoing technology, the original 300M Professional signalled Omega's triumphant return to the world of diving watches after a dry-docked eighties and singlehandedly ignited the ongoing partnership with Her Majesty's Secret Service. Of course, there have been many variations on the Seamaster over the years, with the Aqua Terra and Planet Ocean ranges being particular highlights – the latter of which turns things up 300 more notches, to 600 metres' water resistance – but the Professional remains the flagship.
For 2018 Omega celebrates 25 years since its modern reboot, introducing a bold new Professional Diver 300M collection with a total facelift numbering 14 different models, including six in stainless steel and eight in a blend of stainless steel and gold (the bi-metal watch trend is back, if you hadn't noticed, eighties fans).
Now sized up from 41mm to a slightly more contemporary 42 mm, keeping the skeletonised hands and wavy dial pattern so popular in the 1993 original, the real Bond-worthy gadgetry is whirring away inside. And it's all down to innovation that'll protect the delicate mechanics from the sort of ultra-magnetism knocking about your average Bond villain's lair.
The in-house-manufactured Master Chronometer Calibre 8800 movement instantly accelerates things into unprecedented realms of precision, performance and magnetic resistance. Seamaster devotees will know that the range has been host to several movements over the years, including the ETA-based Omega Caliber 1120 and, most recently, the 2500, which is essentially based on the same original movement though considerably modified by Omega to include its lubricant-free Co-Axial escapement.
With the new Seamaster 300M employing the Master Chronometer 8800, Omega is continuing its brand-wide programme phasing-out older movements in favour of its more cutting-edge in-house hardware, repositioning itself as a genuine, evenly equipped rival to Rolex, as it once was back in the day.
So what's so cutting-edge about the 8800? Well, with the humble mechanical watch, magnetic fields are still Public Enemy No. 1 to the ferrous components ticking inside, sticking them together or sending them out of whack. According to international standard ISO 764, watches must resist exposition to a direct current magnetic field of 4,800 Amperes per metre – about the strength of the magnet in your fridge door.
The equivalent to 4,800 A/m is about 60 Gauss, which makes Omega's ticking cocktail of clever alloys and silicon extraordinarily overqualified: its new certification by the Swiss metrology institute, METAS demands a resistance up from 60 to 15,000 (yes, 15,000) Gauss – enough to resist the influence of a neodymium magnet, the strongest permanent magnet commercially available, found everywhere from hard disks to MRI scanners. And laser-beam torture devices, presumably.
Dive in, chaps. The Seamaster has never felt finer.
Launched in 2017, this 60th anniversary piece pays very respectful tribute to a fifties model, but under the surface is all the technical diving tech that Omega has honed in the decades since. A certified chronometer with a screw-in crown, this is form and function in near-perfect harmony.
This version, on a leather strap, is another vintage-looking Seamaster, the sand-blasted blue dial deep enough to want to dive right in. As with the other models in the family, it has a ceramic rotating bezel to help track your time underwater.
Bimetal watches are something of a Marmite style but they're definitely trending. Here, the handsome rose gold brings the sober stainless steel to life, while under all the glitz and glamour sits the same hard-working movement as you'll find across the Seamaster range.


While biogas stands a greater chance in substituting fossils fuels and contributing to the reduction of GHG emissions, its major setbacks still rely on its effective price compared to that of fossil fuels in the world market. Its production efficiency and related operational cost can give it a true competitive meaning to fossil fuels regarding upgrading and logistic cost of handling digestate. This study was aimed at investigating the possibility and the extent to which biochar could be used in optimising biogas production with biochar as a pyrolysis product. Two separate experiments were conducted during which the additions of varied quantities of low temperature (500°C), wood-based-biochar were added to anaerobic digestion of lignocellulose biomass (Phragmites australis) at the same inoculum to substrate ratio. It was observed that biochar additions at ratios of 1:1, 1:2, and 1:3 [inoculum: biochar] l/g had a positive effect in stimulating microbial activity which increased biogas production and methane concentrations. The additions were found to improve specific methane yields compared to normal feedstock mixed with inoculum. Furthermore, the biochar addition with the highest effectiveness was 0.5g (1:1) while the dose of 2g and 4g generally limited production of biogas with 4g resulting in a higher inhibition compared to 2g additions of biochar. It was concluded that biochar could play an effective role as a microbial growth stimulating agent (MGSA) in anaerobic digestion. It was also proposed that reusing biodigestate in biochar-based pyrolytic systems to enhance post biochar products could offer solutions to logistic and storage costs of biodigestate to add value in commercialisation of digestate.


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Q: Dynamic templateURL with Angular 2 version of the Angular UI Bootstrap library I am creating a dynamic template URL using the following code  How to use variable to define templateUrl in Angular2, but I need to use a datepicker in the template and I had problems to add the Angular UI Bootstrap library (Angular 2 version). The error is
"No provider for NgbDateParserFormatter"
I added NgbModule and FormsModule to the section imports
@NgModule({
    imports: [CommonModule, NgbModule.forRoot(), FormsModule ],
    declarations: [DynamicHtmlComponent]
})

class DynamicHtmlModule {}

I created a plunker version https://plnkr.co/edit/kWoSTi?p=preview
If the field date in the file src/articles/first.html is uncommented the application doesn´t work.

A: I would leverage the following way to do it working :
this.compiler.compileModuleAndAllComponentsAsync(DynamicHtmlModule)
  .then(factory => {
     const moduleRef = factory.ngModuleFactory.create(this.vcRef.parentInjector);

     const compFactory = factory.componentFactories
        .find(x => x.componentType === DynamicHtmlComponent);

     const cmpRef = this.vcRef.createComponent(compFactory, 0, moduleRef.injector);
});

Plunker Example

One note: you can use NgbDatepickerModule instead of NgbModule. It
  will improve performance Plunker

A: You can import NgbDatepickerModule this way:
@NgModule({
imports: [
    ...
    NgbDatepickerModule.forRoot()
],

This should fix the "No provider for NgbDateParserFormatter"


The purpose of the Mobile Clinic is providing medical and nursing care to people who lack the means and the ability to reach the center of HEALTH-AID.
Volunteers, accompanied by local staff members, reached by the pick-up or motorcycles the villages that are located between 5 and 50 km from Saboba. Upon arrival in the village, after being greeted and presented to the village chief and elders, volunteers make real visits, formulate diagnoses and provide the necessary therapy; in severe cases, patients can not be treated on site are routed to the nearest hospital.
During Actions, the Mobile Clinic, about 30 villages and visited 400 patients are achieved.


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IEF Statements for CSD 14 (2006)
STATEMENTS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT FORUM
for the 14th session of the
COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(New York, 1-12 May 2006)
ETHICS AND THE ENERGY CHALLENGE
Statement prepared for the 14th session of the
by the International Environment Forum
Energy is essential for life, for the functioning of the biosphere, and for human civilization. With anything so fundamental as energy, there are inevitably moral and ethical issues surrounding its distribution and use.
There are four main sources of energy on this planet: solar energy radiated to us from the sun; the energy of radioactive decay, including all the heat escaping from the earth's interior; tidal energy from the gravitational interaction of the earth and the moon; and the solar energy captured by life in the past and stored as fossil fuels.
Our present material, industrial and technological civilization discovered, exploited and is driven by the energy from fossil fuels, a limited capital stock inherited from the past. This short-term source of cheap and concentrated energy has distorted the material development of our economy, agriculture, technologies, trade, habitat and consumer lifestyle, creating a dependence on high energy consumption that cannot be maintained with long-term sustainable alternatives. The human population itself has been able to undergo a remarkable expansion because historically cheap energy allowed us to overcome many of the barriers to planetary carrying capacity in the short term.
Today, while energy consumption is still accelerating, we are approaching the limits of exploitable fossil fuels, producing an inevitable rise in the costs of extraction. At the same time, the release of greenhouse gases linked to fossil fuel use is triggering climate change, imposing massive costs on the economy and putting millions of vulnerable people at risk. We are addicted to cheap energy, but the end of cheap fossil based energy is in sight. Like the thoughtless heir to a fortune, we are spending recklessly until there will be nothing left.
The ethical dimensions of this dilemma are frightening. The wealthy fraction of the world's population has been and is benefiting most from access to this cheap energy source, while the poor are most vulnerable to the consequences of both climate change and the growing instabilities of an economy and society under stress. As we reach both planetary and energy limits, the risks of major disruptions to societies are increasing .
It is urgent to begin phasing out the use of fossil fuels and to moderate our dependence on energy by becoming more efficient in its use. There are many potential technologies and alternative systems that can tap into the flows of renewable energy, which alone can assure long-term sustainability. Future civilization will need to develop all the available sources of energy on the surface of the planet, but these diffuse sources will support very different technologies and lifestyles from those encouraged by the concentrated energy supplies of today.
The transition will be difficult and challenging. It threatens fundamental national interests, political and economic structures, agricultural and industrial systems, and the infrastructure reflected in our present use of space and resources. More fundamentally, it removes our ability to use cheap energy to compensate for our excessive use of other resources like water and soil fertility, and to redistribute goods and services around the planet. With so many powerful and vested interests involved, the potential for conflict is considerable.
The only solution is to unite in the search for just and equitable solutions to the energy challenge, ensuring that the costs and benefits are fairly distributed at the planetary level and across all segments of the world population, with special attention to the most vulnerable. New global institutions and systems of governance will be necessary to prevent conflict in the sharing of increasingly scarce energy resources. New technologies, transport systems and patterns of human settlements will be required to adapt to alternative sustainable sources of energy.
More generally, sustainability requires that we redefine the goals of development away from an excessive energy-subsidized material civilization towards a more knowledge-based social, cultural, scientific and spiritual civilization where the energy that counts the most is that of human creativity, exchange and innovation. The challenges of such a rapid and fundamental transformation of our society can only be met with unity of thought and action.
AIR POLLUTION - A BROADER PERSPECTIVE
We cannot live more than a few minutes without air. We must breathe whatever air is available around us, regardless of its quality. The fragile inner surface of the lungs where oxygen passes into the bloodstream and carbon dioxide is given off is particularly sensitive to toxins and irritants. Air pollution is thus of immediate concern to every human being.
Apart from those who voluntarily pollute their own air through smoking, most air pollution is inflicted by others, usually without recourse or compensation. It therefore goes against such universal moral precepts as the golden rule to do unto others as you would have others do unto you, and in theory should be punishable by law in most states if the guilty source could be identified. However since air quality usually reflects the sum of many diffuse sources, identifying the responsible party is difficult, and since almost everyone undertakes activities that release pollutants, we are all collectively responsible as well.
Different types of air pollutants reflect distinct ethical challenges. Air pollution from industrial sources is a significant problem in most countries. Since these are usually identifiable point sources, they are relatively easy to regulate. Several approaches are available to industry: pollution prevention through changes in operating practices, improved and preventive maintenance, or changes in raw materials; building good air pollution control systems into new or modified production processes; improving or replacing air pollution control systems in existing facilities; and reducing air pollution and improving energy efficiency through process change. The industry must weigh the cost of these measures, reflected directly in its balance sheet, against the benefits to the public for which it receives no return apart from the temporary good will that comes when a nuisance has been abated. While a responsible business will implement all reasonable measures to avoid harm to others, unscrupulous operators will simply hope that their emissions are unnoticed or untraceable.
Government experience in the development and implementation of air pollution prevention or reduction suggests that the multi-stakeholder cooperative approach has long range benefits, with government, industry, and NGOs agreeing on requirements with support and advice from technical and health experts, adopting an implementation time line, and undertaking periodic reviews and assessments of implementation progress. Where the government is honest and efficient, the businesses trustworthy, and the NGOs altruistic in their representation of the public interest, this works well.
The air pollution created by multiple small sources, whether motor vehicle exhausts, home and building heating systems, or agricultural wastes, can only be controlled by changes in consumer behaviour and in product technologies. There is often a circular debate whether consumer demand should lead to new products, or whether business should develop less polluting products and educate the consumers in their desirability. This usually reflects the morally questionable desire to pass the responsibility for change off to someone else while profiting from the status quo. Reinforcing ethical behaviour and strengthening corporate responsibility can thus strengthen action to reduce air pollution.
Another and quite different air pollution challenge is the indoor air pollution of the poor. Over half of people in developing countries still rely on biofuels, including wood, dung and agricultural wastes, for cooking and heating, most of which is burnt indoors. Between 10 per cent and 20 per cent of the fuel used is not fully burnt, releasing a wide range of harmful air-borne pollutants at concentrations one or two orders of magnitude above safe limits. Globally, indoor air pollution of fine particles from fuels like charcoal is ranked in the top ten causes of mortality, causing up to 2.4 million premature deaths a year from respiratory problems and heart attacks (GEO Year Book 2006 http://www.unep.org/geo/yearbook/). Ethically this is a problem of poverty and should be addressed as part of any poverty reduction strategy. In the short term, simple improvements in clean-burning stove technology and household ventilation can help. Making clean and affordable energy available to every family should be a high priority.
Today, air pollution, whether the debilitating smog of urban areas, the "brown cloud" over Asia that is blocking so much sunlight as to affect agriculture, or the smoke people are obliged to breathe in their own homes, symbolizes the general failure of the major actors in society, including every individual, to take responsibility for the environmental and human health effects of their actions, often imposed far away. Any action strategy for air pollution control should therefore include a public education component. The freedom to breathe clean air should be seen as an inalienable human right and be defended accordingly.
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Colocation Company ViaWest To Be Acquired by Shaw Communications for $1.2 Billion
Editor Hosting Journalist
ViaWest, one of the largest colocation providers in North America, has agreed to be acquired by Shaw Communications, a telecom company traded on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges. Under the agreement, Shaw will acquire a 100% interest in ViaWest from Oak Hill Capital Partners and other shareholders for $1.2 billion.
Based in Denver, ViaWest provides colocation services, cloud technology and managed IT solutions. The company employs over 350 people and serves more than 1,300 customers across seven states.
The acquisition is expected to close in September 2014 and is subject to U.S. regulatory approval. The purchase price of $1.2 billion represents a multiple of approximately 13X adjusted EBITDA annualized for the three months ended June 30, 2014. Under the terms of the agreement, majority investor Oak Hill, along with GI Partners and the Company's other current shareholders, will sell their interests in ViaWest to Shaw.
Growth perspective
ViaWest has a strong record of financial growth with a 15 percent compounded annual growth rate ("CAGR") of revenue and EBITDA between 2010 and 2013 generated mainly by recurring revenue from long-term contracts and customer retention.
Over the last decade, ViaWest has grown from five data centers in two markets to 27 data centers (with over 630,000 square feet of usable raised floor space) in eight key Western U.S. markets, including Denver, Dallas, Austin, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Portland, Minneapolis and Phoenix.The company has significant growth prospects, according to an official statement by Shaw and ViaWest, with 70% utilization in ViaWest's existing colocation facilities and substantial expansion capacity at its new Denver, Las Vegas and Minneapolis data center properties.
ViaWest's recently launched colocation facility in Minneapolis a $60 million investment.
"We identified the data center sector as an attractive opportunity adjacent to our core business and with the acquisition of ViaWest, Shaw gains significant capabilities, scale and immediate expertise in the growing marketplace for enterprise data services," said Chief Executive Officer, Brad Shaw. "We plan to leverage the ViaWest management team's experience to accelerate the development of our Canadian data center platform so that over time our Western Canadian customers will gain access to this industry-leading expertise for their own data management needs and scalable cloud hosting solutions."
Stand-alone subsidiary
The current management team, led by Co-Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer Nancy Phillips, will continue to operate ViaWest from its Denver headquarters as a stand-alone wholly-owned subsidiary of Shaw.
"This is an excellent strategic development for ViaWest, our employees and our customers," said Ms. Phillips. "With Shaw Communications' long-term commitment, we will have the stability and shared entrepreneurial culture to enter into a new phase of growth and meet the expanding technology needs of mid-market enterprises, while maintaining our commitment to exceptional customer service."
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Europe's Options on the Sidelines of the North Korea Crisis
Janka Oertel
Photo Credit: Lee von Gynz-Guethle / Shutterstock
Summary: The latest developments in the North Korean nuclear crisis have stoked fears in Europe about a potential military escalation. There is a great degree of international consensus about the growing threat Kim Jong-un's regime poses. By putting all options — including military options — on the table, the Trump administration has raised the stakes of the conflict for European allies.
While a U.S. military strike remains very unlikely, Europe has serious contributions to make and levers to use to support a diplomatic solution.
President Trump's rhetoric has affected the political debate, especially in Germany, which is headed for a national election in September. Despite transatlantic dissonance on other issues, the imminence of the North Korean threat to global security calls for a proactive and unified response. While a U.S. military strike remains very unlikely, Europe has serious contributions to make and levers to use to support a diplomatic solution. Transatlantic interest on a peaceful transformation of the crisis is closely aligned. The seriousness of the conflict warrants level-headed diplomacy — on both sides of the Atlantic.
For a moment, we seemed to be at the brink of nuclear escalation of the long simmering North Korea conflict. It is hard to say whether the "fire and fury" rhetoric from U.S. President Trump impressed North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. It did, however, terrify Europeans.
For decades, as Henry Kissinger put it in the Wall Street Journal, "the international community has combined condemnation with procrastination" when it comes to North Korea.[1] The conflict is named among the top threats to international security, at least since the regime had conducted the first nuclear test in 2006. But from a European point of view, the conflict has always been far away, and many other crises have seemed much more imminent and daunting. This has changed. The last few weeks have demonstrated how immediate the risk of a military escalation with North Korea could become and how unpredictable the U.S. government currently is to European allies. But rather than allowing the conflict to drive a wedge in the transatlantic alliance, the recent developments call for more, not less transatlantic cooperation. Europe can make a meaningful contribution in various areas to support a peaceful transformation of the North Korea crisis.
The United States government has been consistent in its strong preference for a diplomatic solution to the conflict; previous Republican and Democratic administrations have employed different variations of a carrot and stick policy. The effect has so far been limited. Since President Trump took office, he has been confronted with a significant increase in the North Korean regime's (successful) missile testing. The latest of which demonstrated North Korea's ability to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching U.S. territory. Combined with progress on miniaturized nuclear warheads, this has raised the threat level for the United States. 75 percent of Americans now view North Korea as a critical threat to the United States; 40 percent are in favor of targeted airstrikes against Pyongyang's nuclear facilities.[2]
In response to the recent dynamic, President Trump has underlined that all options — including military — are on the table. While the U.S. administration is strongly in favor of a diplomatic solution and a preventive strike on Pyongyang is still very unlikely, President Trump's remarks have rattled the policy community, especially in Germany and have impacted discussions about defense policy in the German national election campaign.[3]
German Debate
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel from the Social Democratic Party was remarkably outspoken in assessing the developments as a global crisis with significant impact on Europe. Openly criticizing President Trump, he warned of a potential nuclear war and underlined the impact of the current development on the non proliferation regime in particular, and the erosion of the international legal order in general.[4] Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Christian Democratic front runner, has displayed her usual rhetorical reticence, urging all parties to the conflict to refrain from escalatory language while adhering to the standard European line that there is no military solution to the conflict.
In the German pre-election debate, the Kim versus Trump episode has renewed discussion of whether it is a good idea to double down on military spending, a policy that chancellor Merkel has recommitted to after Trump called on Europe to pay more for its own defense. The Social Democrats argue that it would be unwise to bow to the requests of a U.S. president who might hit the red button on North Korea in a fit of pique.
European Options
Europe remains dependent on transatlantic security cooperation and U.S. security guarantees for the foreseeable future. But the recent escalation in the North Korean nuclear crisis serves as a reminder of why a joint European stance and a distinguishable European voice in international affairs are worth investing in.
Rather than allowing the conflict to drive a wedge in the transatlantic alliance, the recent developments call for more, not less transatlantic cooperation.
Even if they lack decisive power on the North Korea issue, European governments have many good reasons to engage, such as the safeguarding of the international legal order and the threat posed by North Korean cybercrime. If these dangers seem too abstract to pursue a robust containment and deterrence strategy, there are the troubling consequences of Pyongyang's potential nuclear proliferation to non-state actors and rogue regimes. And if yet more convincing is needed, the economic dimension should serve as an indicator of why stability in Northeast Asia matters to Europe. The United States and China are the EU's largest trading partners. Russia, Japan, and South Korea follow closely among the top ten. The total volume of EU trade with the countries directly involved in a North Korean crisis equals more than 1,500 billion euro — or roughly 45 percent — of the EU's overall international trade. Any disruption of trade flows would have a devastating impact on European prosperity. Financial markets would immediately react; production chains would be broken in pieces.
There is international consensus that the situation in North Korea is a threat to international security; it is one of the few items on the agenda of a highly polarized Security Council, where tangible results in the form of unanimous sanctions could be achieved. But there is significant disagreement among the members of the international community on how to dissolve tensions. Europe is interested in a diplomatic solution. In light of the current escalation, what meaningful contributions can Europe make to international efforts to transform the North Korea conflict considering its limited presence in the arena?
Support South Korea
A joint statement of all 28 EU heads of state and government condemning any form of further escalation and calling for a diplomatic initiative would be a helpful start. It is a mainly symbolic gesture, but one that provides prominent public and welcome support to the South Korean government in its current efforts to tone down escalatory rhetoric and open a path to talks.
Implement Sanctions
All European member states need to comprehensively implement existing UN sanctions. On an EU level the frameworks for implementation have been set. Members need to act upon the provisions and track violations. North Korean diplomats have been involved in illicit activities to generate income for the regime around the world.[5] This has included, for example, a network of North Korean intelligence agents operating from Paris and Rome, engaged in money laundering and the purchase of military assets for Pyongyang.[6] North Korea has also continued to make use of its embassies around Europe to illegally obtain foreign currency by leasing parts of its embassy property to private parties.[7]
Germany, too, has been struggling to fully conform with UN sanctions in this regard. An often cited example is a hostel on North Korean embassy property the North Korean government rented out to a German investor, which has generated almost 40,000 euro of income each month for Pyongyang. Berlin has committed to ending this economic activity earlier this year, but the process is not simple.[8] Responsibilities derived from the sanctions regime must align with German legal provisions protecting a commercial tenant. Additionally, any harsh move against the North Korean Embassy in Berlin could incite retaliation. Kim could, for instance, expel German diplomats from the embassy in Pyongyang, which serves as an important diplomatic and political link to North Korea. For those convinced that societal and political change in North Korea is possible, a direct connection to the country is vital. In some European capitals, however, it is not diplomatic considerations or legal processes that stall the translation of the sanctions regime into action, but a lack of commitment. While maximum efforts, and perhaps some creativity, should be employed to maintain links and connections, absolute implementation of sanctions is a necessity and must happen immediately.
Use Diplomatic Influence
Europe has been involved on the Korean peninsula since the Korean War. More than 18,000 soldiers from Europe fought alongside U.S. and South Korean troops.[9] Sweden and Switzerland continue to supervise the armistice negotiated in 1953. The Swedish government has traditionally been strongly engaged on the North Korea issue. The United States makes use of the Swedish embassy, which officially carries out consular and other diplomatic work on behalf of Washington. But the ties go beyond Sweden. The EU formally established diplomatic relations with North Korea in 2001. Since then, more than a dozen political dialogues have occurred — with a delegation of the European External Action Service travelling to Pyongyang as recently as 2015. Dialogue has traditionally focused on the human rights situation. Since the North Korean famine in the 1990s, the EU has provided more than 130 million euro in humanitarian assistance to North Korea and has been willing to support emergency relief efforts on a regular basis.[10] Diplomatic influence in humanitarian and human rights questions is one of Europe's core strengths and levers.
Establish Position on Military Maneuvers
China and Russia have again jointly proposed a freeze of United States and South Korea military maneuvers in exchange for a North Korean freeze on nuclear and missile testing ("freeze for freeze"). The idea has found prominent supporters in Europe as well. Wolfgang Ischinger, former ambassador of Germany to the United States and an influential voice in the German foreign policy community, suggested that the EU would do itself and the world a favor if it were to jointly express its support for "freeze for freeze" as a first step.[11] But "freeze for freeze" is too simplistic. The United States and the Republic of Korea carry out regular maneuvers with international participation, including from Europe, and in accordance with the Armistice Agreement of 1953. This year, Denmark, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom are taking part in the exercise, albeit with very modest contributions.[12] Despite the fact that the large scale annual maneuvers anger the leadership in Pyongyang, these activities cannot be equated with the illegal missile testing of the North Korean regime, which is what the Russian-Chinese proposal essentially does. But there is still room to find agreement. It is possible to talk about scale, postpone maneuvers, or even suspend them for a clearly defined amount of time to prepare the ground for "talks about talks." It is also thinkable that certain elements that are deemed critical for combat readiness between the U.S. and Korean Forces could be carried out in other — less controversial — locations. European allies could use diplomatic channels to quietly advocate a down-scaling of maneuvers to invigorate talks. There is also room to agree on joint monitoring of what is left behind by military exercises: additional U.S. troops on the Korean peninsula would increase the current tension. The EU could, for example, assist in guaranteeing the supervision of a full return to the status quo ante after the end of a maneuver.
Invest in Defense Cooperation
North Korea is not an issue on which to score campaign points on either side of the Atlantic.
European countries do not have the means to offer significant military contributions in the region. However, existing defense cooperation between South Korea and European member states could be increased, tailored to the needs of the South Korean government in order to be most effective. German submarines and cruise missiles, for example, already support South Korea's deterrent capabilities. Paris and Seoul reinstated bilateral defense talks earlier this year. A strong deterrence has so far prevented Pyongyang from attacks on the South. Supporting the newly elected South Korean government, which is an outspoken proponent of a diplomatic solution, with credible defense can contribute to stability on the peninsula.
Address the Cyber Threat
While less obviously connected to recent escalations, the cyber threat should not be ignored. Pyongyang's sophisticated hacker squads have already identified Europe as prime mark for cyber-crime. Last year attempts to manipulate computers to steal money from bank customers in Poland were traced to North Korea, for example.[13] Close transatlantic cooperation is necessary to address this new threat, political disagreements between Washington and Europe should not hamper coordination on the working level between security agencies.
Assess Lessons from Iran Negotiations
Despite the significant differences between the two cases, all lessons learned from the Iran negotiations should be re-evaluated and tested for their applicability on the Korean peninsula. Defending the Iran agreement, also against pressure from the United States, supports the European narrative that a diplomatic solution can lead to a sustainable and mutually acceptable result. A disbanding of the agreement would be just another reason for Pyongyang to mistrust political processes. Creative diplomatic initiatives can be discussed. One option would be to work more closely on positive scenarios and financial incentives for Pyongyang: investments for a freeze of nuclear and missile testing, financial guarantees, and increased humanitarian assistance. Europe should be straightforward in its willingness to financially support agreements reached. Albeit being a very long-term scenario, even a very limited opening up of the country would be economically beneficial to the entire region, with China, Russia, and South Korea benefiting most. A positive development does not seem very likely right now. However, as with Iran, the economic prospects of a North Korea integrated in the global economy are significant: North Korea is strategically located for the integration of North East Asia and possesses a relative wealth in natural resources.
Invest in Transatlantic Dialogue
President Trump has irritated policymakers around the world, including his major European allies. His inflammatory and seemingly impulsive rhetoric casts doubt over everything that used to be taken for granted. But European policymakers should not allow rhetoric to affect reasonable policy choices. Europe can and should work closely with the U.S. administration toward a diplomatic solution. It makes sense for Europe to invest in dialogue on all levels on the issue to support those that are committed to preventing military escalation.
North Korea is not an issue on which to score campaign points on either side of the Atlantic. Instead it calls for unrelenting level-headed diplomacy. The imminence of North Korea's nuclear threat warrants close transatlantic cooperation, even if coordination proves more challenging than in the past.
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[1] Henry A. Kissinger, "How to Resolve the North Korea Crisis," Wall Street Journal, August 11, 2017.
[2] "Poll: North Korea Seen as Top Threat to the United States," The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, August 7, 2017.
[3] Germany is scheduled to hold national elections on 24 September 2017.
[4] German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, "Weapons Do Not Create Security," August 16, 2017
[5] Panel of Experts Report UN Doc. S/2017/150 of 27 February 2017 "Diplomats, missions and trade representatives of the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea systematically play key roles in prohibited sales, procurement, finance and logistics."
[6] Di Piero Messina, "Spie Coreane, Missione Roma," La Republica, February, 21, 2017.
[7] Yonhap, "Poland Calls on N. Korean Embassy to Stop Rental Business, " Korean Herald, July 7, 2017.
[8] Alison Smale, "That Popular Hostel in Berlin? It's North Korean, and It's Closing," New York Times, May 10, 2017.
[9] Belgium, France, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, United Kingdom – Source: http:// www.usfk.mil/About/United-Nations-Command/.
[10] "ECHO Factsheet – North Korea (DPRK)," European Commission, May 2017.
[11] Interview with Wolfgang Ischinger, North Korean Conflict, Deutschland Funk, August 14, 2017, http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/nordkorea-konflikt-ohne-militaerischendruc....
[12] Exercise Ulchi Freedom Guardian 2017, Release No: NR-296-17, U.S. Department of Defense, August 18, 2017.; Two Danish air force officers, and roughly 30 British serviceman and women.
[13] Paul Mozur and Chloe Sang-Hun, "North Korea's Rising Ambition Seen in Bid to Breach Global Banks," The New York Times, March 25, 2017.
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Anatomy of a Boyfriend
Anatomy of a Single Girl
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Photo by Michelle Snadowsky
Note: Originally printed in the first edition paperback of Anatomy of a Boyfriend.
What inspired you to write Anatomy of a Boyfriend ?
Every year thousands of high school seniors face the painful decision of whether to continue dating their home-town sweethearts following graduation, so I wanted to tell a story that focuses on that precarious time in a girl's life when she's both excited about going off to college and terrified about how it will shake up her world.
How do people react to your realistic sex scenes in the book?
Thankfully, most people respond very positively to the sex scenes precisely because of their realism. Anatomy of a Boyfriend doesn't glorify or in any way promote premarital sex; it merely demystifies what the experience can be like physically and emotionally, good and bad.
Were you embarrassed to show this book to your family because of the sex scenes?
Of course not! Well, maybe a little bit…Okay, fine. Yes, I was! I was so embarrassed, in fact, that I never let anyone in my family read the book until after the publisher had bought it and I knew I couldn't hide it any longer. I wasn't ashamed of having written any of these things, but Anatomy of a Boyfriend does represent a side of me I don't reveal to my family, for obvious reasons. It goes both ways—I certainly don't want to know anything about my relatives' sex lives, either! Luckily, though, the Snadowsky clan could not have been more supportive.
Who are your favorite authors and why?
I dedicated Anatomy of a Boyfriend to my two favorite authors, Dr. Dorothy Tennov and Judy Blume.
Dorothy Tennov, a friend and psychology professor whose work I studied in college, is the author of the groundbreaking Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love. Limerence is a word Tennov coined to refer to that crazy, roller coaster–ish kind of romantic love when we feel infatuated with someone and our mood depends solely on whether that someone reciprocates our affections. One of my goals in writing Anatomy of a Boyfriend was to illustrate limerence from a teenage perspective, and Tennov helped guide me through this process. Sadly, she passed away less than a month after Anatomy of a Boyfriend's hardcover release. I'm so lucky to have known her, and I remain in awe of her legacy.
As for Judy Blume, I was ten when I discovered Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret., which shook me to the core because it felt so real. (I first read Margaret while on vacation with my family on Captiva Island, Florida, which is why I chose to set much of Anatomy of a Boyfriend there.) Blume transformed me again at age twelve when I tore through Forever…, which showed me that it's possible to write explicitly about sex without its being gratuitous or sensationalized. I don't know Blume personally, but she did receive the manuscript and she e-mailed me that she thought it was "so good" and she "had trouble putting it down." Since then she's even blogged about the book and compared it to Forever…. Talk about a dream come true!
How did you choose the title? Is there any significance behind the characters' names?
It took forever to come up with a title that worked! For months my editor and I e-mailed each other possible contenders such as The Crazy Kind of Love and Love in the Time of Instant Messenger. Finally, when we were throwing around the Anatomy of a Boyfriend idea, I knew I loved the ring of it but didn't believe the title related enough to the story itself. I e-mailed my editor that Anatomy of a Boyfriend would make sense only if Dominique were an aspiring doctor or biologist. He wrote back, "Great! Run with that!" So, rather late in the revision process, I worked the premed thread throughout the plot.
The name Dominique was inspired by the heroine, Dominique Francon, in Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead—both Dominiques start off as self-assured, goal-oriented women, only to have their priorities turned upside down by love. I decided on Dominique's last name, Baylor, while I was in law school and we were learning about bailors and bailees in property class. (The classic example of a bailor is someone who brings his watch to a pawnshop; the bailee at the pawnshop has a duty to safeguard that watch until the bailor reclaims it.) I reasoned that when we fall in love, we become bailors of our hearts, and we can only hope our chosen bailees won't break them.
I named Wes after Westley in The Princess Bride because Westley stands for the archetypal hero/rescuer/perfect man that many girls, Dominique included, expect their boyfriends to emulate. Calvin Brandon, a boy who likes Dominique during the last half of the book, gets his name from Colonel Brandon in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. Like Colonel Brandon, Calvin is very chivalrous but under-appreciated.
I thought it'd be cute for Wes to drive an Explorer, since Wes and Dominique explore each other in its backseat during one of their "dates." Dominique attends Shorr Academy because she is very sure of herself and her future prior to meeting Wes, but she's no longer as sure after she falls in love and graduates from Shorr. I once received a MySpace message asking if all the characters with C names (Caitlin, Chapin, and Calvin) are Christ figures. Interesting reader analysis, but no.
What has been the most surprising thing about your book-publishing experience?
That boys love the book, too! They really empathize with Wes and appreciate that he's not portrayed as a popular, suave womanizer or a bad-boy social outcast or any other stereotypical love interest; he's just an ordinary high school guy—decent and well-meaning but clueless about women. Most surprising are the e-mails I receive from boys who identify with Dominique. Just goes to show you that both sexes can fall into the throes of obsessive love (or limerence) equally intensely.
© 2019 Daria Snadowsky. All rights reserved.
Anatomy cover art designed by Angela Carlino.


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Hitler's Secret Sex Life peels back the facade built around the 20th century's most notorious man to reveal a leader wracked by health issues, insecurities, incest, sexual hang-ups, fetishes, and drug addiction. Here was a man leading the world to war and responsible for the most heinous atrocities while, at the same time, consuming methamphetamines, cocaine, and a pick-me-up cocktail containing bull semen. His relationships were fractured: At least one of his lovers committed suicide, and the only woman he ever professed love for, his half-sister's daughter, also committed suicide. He was a chronic masturbator, farted uncontrollably,…
Hitler's Secret Sex Life peels back the facade built around the 20th century's most notorious man to reveal a leader wracked by health issues, insecurities, incest, sexual hang-ups, fetishes, and drug addiction. Here was a man leading the world to war and responsible for the most heinous atrocities while, at the same time, consuming methamphetamines, cocaine, and a pick-me-up cocktail containing bull semen. His relationships were fractured: At least one of his lovers committed suicide, and the only woman he ever professed love for, his half-sister's daughter, also committed suicide. He was a chronic masturbator, farted uncontrollably, enjoyed sexual fetishes, and the schoolboy-era taunt that he only had one testicle appears likely to be true.
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