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Carol Skaggs
Born: Thu., Mar. 12, 1925
Died: Tue., Jul. 9, 2019
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Carol Mae Skaggs, 94, passed away of natural causes at Caring Hearts Assisted Living. She was born in her family farmhouse near Brownell, Kansas; and throughout her life, she remained proud of her western Kansas roots. Carol was a child of the Great Depression, and she never forgot the harsh realities of farm life on the prairie with its lack of modern conveniences: no electricity, no running water, a wooden outhouse, and wood stoves for cooking and heating. From an early age, she was responsible for numerous daily chores, along with the care of her younger siblings. Despite these deprivations and hardships, she had fond memories of her childhood. Carol's basic values were shaped by hard work, personal responsibility, and the necessity of living within your means.
Carol and 11 other students graduated from Brownell High School, Class of 1942, and was one of two surviving members. In school, she and her younger sister, Yvonne, were part of the Brownell High School girls' basketball team that won the WKEA Western Division Championship. Carol always loved basketball and avidly watched both men's and women's games on TV, especially the Kansas State and University of Kansas teams.
Following one year at Fort Hays State Teacher's College, at just 18 years of age, Carol taught eight students at a rural, one-room school north of Bazine, Kansas in 1943. She was paid $110 per month, out of which $50 was deducted for her room and board with a local family. Her small room was unheated, and she remembers snow piling up on the inside windowsill during winter storms. The next year she moved to Topeka, Kansas, and worked for the Santé Fe Railroad Company as a clerk, before attending Kansas State College in Manhattan. Carol often talked about the hardships of gas rationing, and food shortages while living in Topeka and Manhattan during WWII.
Carol married her high school sweetheart, William T. "Billy" Skaggs, in 1946, just a few months after he returned home from serving three years in the 14th Armored Division of the U.S. Army during the fight to liberate Europe from Hitler. After a year of marriage, Bill surprised Carol one day by suddenly announcing that he was going to use the GI Bill to attend the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Following his college graduation, Bill and Carol – along with their three young children – headed to Owensboro, KY, for his first job as an electrical engineer. In 1960, Bill was offered a job with the Thiokol Corporation in Utah, and he moved the family out west. Carol was always conflicted about leaving her beloved Kansas, but she enthusiastically embraced and totally enjoyed living in Utah. In 1965, Bill took a position with the J.R. Simplot Co. in Pocatello, where he worked until his 1985 retirement. Carol and Bill loved to ski, camp, and hike while living in Utah and Idaho; they especially loved living in the home they built themselves on Buckskin Road in the foothills of Pocatello. Carol became an accomplished woodworker; she crafted the cabinets, installed sheetrock, pine-paneling, built a lava rock fireplace, and mortared the lava rock exterior on their dream house.
In 1982, Carol realized a life-long goal by graduating from Idaho State University with a BS degree in Education, Consumer Economics. Her 84-year-old mother, Nellie Wyman, attended Carol's 1982 ISU graduation ceremony. Immediately after, they drove to Kansas, where Carol attended her 40th reunion at Brownell High School. Carol was an ambitious, goal-oriented person who always liked having a "project" to work on. Among her many talents, she was an accomplished seamstress, quilter, fine-art painter, mason, woodworker, gardener and homemaker. In retirement, Bill and Carol became frequent travelers who visited most of the lower 48 states, as well as Alaska, in their RV. In recent years, Carol used her personal computer to compile extensive and thoroughly researched family histories. She also wrote two personal memoirs that she had printed and bound into hard-cover books.
Carol was a life-long member of Eastern Star. For many years, she volunteered at voting stations during elections. She funded a scholarship in the College of Education Consumer Science Department at Idaho State University.
Carol is survived by her younger sister, Laura Turner, of Ransom, Kansas; her daughter Kay (Dan) Durman of Pocatello, Idaho; and her son Bob (Jackie) Skaggs of Jackson, Wyoming; three grandchildren: Angela Skaggs, John (Giovanna) Durman, and Jesse Durman; and three great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her brother, LaVerne Wyman; sister Yvonne Diekman; her eldest son, Tom Skaggs; and her husband of 61 years, Bill.
In lieu of flowers, donations in Carol's memory may be made to the Wyman-Skaggs Home Economic Scholarship at the ISU Foundation; 921 S. 8th Ave., Stop 8050; Pocatello, ID 83209.
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Home Article It's Torture, Not The Law, Ctd.
It's Torture, Not The Law, Ctd.
by Adam Serwer
Dafna Linzer does some fantastic reporting on how the government's case against Noor Uthman Mohammed Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman, is premised on the testimony of two witnesses, Sharqawi Abdul Ali al Hajj, and Sanad Yislam al Kazimi, who were tortured:
Kazimi was captured in the United Arab Emirates in January 2003. He spent time in five prisons in three countries. In Dubai, he was held secretly for eight months where, he has claimed, he was beaten, shackled naked, exposed to extreme temperatures and simulated drowning, threatened with rape and sexually assaulted.
Hajj was captured in a major raid in Karachi, Pakistan, in early 2002, and then transferred to Jordan, where he was held in two different facilities for 19 months. Human Rights Watch substantiated his claims of torture while in custody there. He was then transferred to the same CIA prison that housed Kazimi outside Kabul, moved later to Bagram Air Base and eventually to Guantánamo with Kazimi.
These men are apparently also witnesses in the case against alleged USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who was himself subject to torture. At the time, conservatives accused the administration of "playing politics," but if they're worried about using Kazimi's and Hajj's statements against Uthman, delaying the case against al-Nashiri makes sense.
Folks like Andy McCarthy have been writing that the government's case against alleged Tanzanian embassy bomber Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, which was set back by a judge's recent ruling that the testimony of a key witness was inadmissible because his identity was gleaned through torture, is one of the reasons not to use civilian courts. As with Ghailani, the statements the government is relying on in the Mohammed case were taken by FBI interrogators who questioned both men after they had been mistreated.
But both Mohammed and al-Nashiri are being tried in the military commissions McCarthy and most Republicans support, and as a result of the Bush administration's policies of torture and extraordinary rendition, the government is still having trouble making its case, even in a forum where the rules are stacked in their favor. The law isn't the problem; torture is the problem.
UPDATE: I was mistaken, Mohammed is designated for indefinite detention, not trial.
Adam Serwer is a writing fellow at The American Prospect and a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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In 2005, we spoke with a number of players in the private equity real estate industry for our "Blueprint" profiles. Here are brief excerpts of what they said.
"It was like private equity had been a decade before, a relatively unsophisticated marketplace full of opportunities for cheap off- market deals."- Peter Cluff, co-founder and principal of Europa Capital, on the European private equity real estate market in the late 1990s
"REITs are designed to hold property. Private equity is designed to harvest value."- Robert Stuckey, managing director of The Carlyle Group, discussing his preference for the private equity asset class
"When I looked at various possible investments I became convinced that the best opportunities I saw out there resided right in the hotel industry I'd come from."- Fred Malek, co-chairman and founder of Thayer Lodging Group, on the rationale for his focus on the hospitality sector
"A lot of property fund and property companies call themselves private equity real estate firms, but all they really do is buy real estate assets. We really do bridge the gap between private equity and real estate."- Keith Breslauer, managing director and senior partner of Patron Capital
"It's easier to manage [our business] from London… It means I can talk to Asia in the morning, Europe in the middle of the day and the US in the evening."- David Brush, managing director of DB Real Estate Opportunities Group
"When we see a transaction, it's not a transaction. It's a thought. And it has to be forged into a transaction."- Tom Darden, founder and chief executive officer of Cherokee Investment Partners, on his approach to investing in brownfields
"We want really good riskadjusted yields and we want to buy assets where people aren't seeing something. [That's] really hard to do."- Scott Lawlor, founder and chief executive officer of Broadway Real Estate Partners
"Nobody wanted them. I met with several billionaires who asked me what I knew about hotels — 'You just know about apartments,' they said. I told them I didn't know anything about apartments either."- Barry Sternlicht, chairman and chief executive officer of Starwood Capital, on his decision to enter the hospitality business in 1993


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How data improves our lives? Let us count the ways
When asked about data, our first thought will usually jump to the Internet, mobile phones, computers and to the endless possibilities these technologies bring about. But we rarely spare a thought for other kinds of data, which accompany us throughout our lives and which we often take for granted. So much so that they have almost become invisible. From life-saving healthcare, to education, poverty and gender equality, data underpins every aspect of a modern human existence.
Over seven decades and 50 sessions, the UN Statistical Commission has been guiding the world's data and statistical production. As the Commission holds its 50th session this month, we explore how data can improve, and sometimes even save the lives of people.
In public health, accurate data can literally mean the difference between life and death. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 303,000 mothers die during childbirth every year and 2.7 million babies die during their first 28 days of life. We know how to prevent the majority of these maternal deaths and up to 75 per cent of newborn deaths. But we can only prevent them, if we know where, when and to whom they are happening. In short, better data has the power to save millions of lives.
When it comes to education, better data helps us understand that improving school enrolment is just half the battle. The other challenge is to ensure that every child attending a classroom actually develops the skills they need to thrive.
A 2017 study by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics found that 617 million children and adolescents – six out of every 10 – are not reaching minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics. What is even more worrying, roughly two thirds of the 617 million children who are not learning enough, are attending school.
The global learning crisis has been revealed thanks to better data and it is with better data that we should start fixing it. Today, 80 per cent of countries assess the quality of learning, but the results they produce cannot be compared. Better tools are needed to monitor and improve learning worldwide and ensure that no one is left behind.
Achieving better education and health are just two of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that the world has set itself for the year 2030. Measuring humanity's progress towards achieving these 17 Goals and 169 targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a titanic task that includes compiling and analyzing data on 232 indicators for every country in the world. Such a feat can only be achieved with a substantial increase in funding and capacity-building for national statistical systems.
However, investing in statistical capacity is rarely high on the priority list, especially in least developed countries or countries in situation of conflict. Consequently, people in those countries face a higher risk of falling behind, as they often remain invisible to official statistics and policy analyses.
Tracking SDGs progress also requires innovation, such as the use of geospatial and big data analysis tools and tapping new data sources like satellite imagery and mobile data. These new sources, coupled with strengthened partnerships for better data, can complement the traditional data sources – such as that gathered in population censuses, household surveys and administrative registers – and ensure that quality data and statistics are at the center of development policies.
While certainly a tremendous challenge, the gigantic surge in demand for data started by the SDGs, has also helped us realize the gaps in our understanding of the world. The 2030 Agenda motivates countries around the world to begin or to improve monitoring everything from air and water quality to the prevalence of discrimination, to electricity access.
To deliver on the 2030 Agenda's central promise of leaving no one behind, we must first ensure everyone is counted and accounted for. That is why more and better data is fundamental for making our world a better place by 2030.
Leading up to the opening of the 50th Session of the UN Statistical Commission, UN DESA will organize a Seminar on the Future of Economic Statistics. It will be a unique opportunity to interact, exchange and learn from leading economists, statisticians and academics, including the Nobel laureate, Professor Joseph Stiglitz. Follow it live on webtv.un.org.
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Al Gore's New "Resign Trump" Video Promotes Veganism
A new viral video interview with the eco-warrior politician promotes consuming a plant-based diet to fight climate change.
In a viral video released by media outlet LAD Bible last week, environmentalist and former United States Vice President Al Gore offered his advice on halting climate change. In the video, Gore speaks about the impending dangers of climate change and his new film An Inconvenient Truth Sequel—which did not give much air time to the concept of plant-based diets helping to curb climate change. "The large carbon polluters have put more than a billion dollars into an effort to try to deceive people into thinking [climate change] is not real" Gore said, relating the current climate of what he calls "climate change deniers" to the unethical tactics used by the tobacco industry in recent history to convince the public smoking was not dangerous. "Diet is personal choice, but I have been a vegan for five years now," Gore said. "We have to walk before we can run, and I concentrate on the solutions to the climate crisis that I think can be advanced quickly," Gore said when advocating for a plant-based diet to fight climate change. "I know how passionately people feel about cheeseburgers and steaks, the various things that I used to eat." In the same video, when asked, "If you had to give Trump once piece of advice, what would it be?" Gore emphatically responded with "resign." The Trump administration has continually denied the existence of climate change and implemented policies—such as Trump's recent decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, a worldwide climate change accountability contract—that promote the continual degradation of the environment.
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SNL Responds to COP26 Copout with Mother Earth Skit About Ditching Meat and Coal
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Mr. Brian Lee is a Co-Founder & serves as Managing Director at BAM Ventures. He also co-founded and served as Board Member at The Honest Company. He served as Chairman at Hollar. He served as an Advisor, Circle member at Founders Circle Capital. He is a Co-Founder of Raw Green Organics and serves as its Business Advisor. He also serves as Advisor at Compound. Prior to starting The Honest Company, He co-founded ShoeDazzle.com, and before that, the Co-Founder of LegalZoom.com. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from UCLA with a degree in Business Economics and went on to graduate from UCLA School of Law. He began his career as a tax attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, and then as a tax consultant at Deloitte. When not running companies, He is involved in community efforts. He sits on the board of the Lowell Milken Institute of Business Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law, and is also on the board of Los Angeles Youth Network, which provides shelter and counseling to homeless children. He also co-founded Teeology.
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This article, the first in a two part series, seeks to raise awareness of a rare disease affecting children known as eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE or Eos for short), a chronic disease that causes inflammation in the esophagus. Part two examines how a rare disease like Eos Disorders is either not covered or poorly covered by medical insurance, and recent legislation to address this problem for EoE. A big thank you to our new science and environment intern Chelsea Mann for research and drafting this article.
Inflammation is a term regularly associated with common health complications. It is the most likely reason you experience joint pain after a morning run and the reason you miss work after developing bronchitis. While such complications may temporarily interfere with our daily lives, treatment options for inflammation are usually easily accessible and efficient. But for some people—especially children—inflammation can be a serious condition, particularly when this immune response prevents them from eating regular foods to obtain their basic nutrition.
Imagine an inflammatory disease that closes your throat, prohibits the consumption of food, and cannot be treated with simple medications. This type of inflammation is caused by eosinophils (white blood cells) in response to allergies. White blood cells are typically helpful, but high quantities of white blood cells in areas other than the blood and intestinal tract can cause major issues. While we often take it for granted, the esophagus is a critical organ. It is the body's digestive highway and transports food from the mouth and throat to your stomach. The inflammatory response that is triggered by an elevation of white blood cells in people with Eos disorders creates a roadblock on this digestive highway, disrupting crucial function and making it near impossible to safely consume and digest food.
Eosinophilic esophagitis largely affects infants and children. According to most medical descriptions of EoE, the symptoms include nausea, regurgitation, vomiting, abdominal pain and reflux. While rare, eosinophilic esophagitis is one of the most prevalent esophageal diseases and causes of dysphagia or difficulty swallowing, and food being impacted in the esophagus. It is a parent's worst nightmare to have a child with the potential to choke every time he or she eats, while also being deprived of the basic nutrients he or she needs to live and thrive. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's webpage on the disease provides more detailed information about the signs and symptoms of eosinophilic esophagitis in infants and children.
Whether we are charging cellphones or heating homes, society depends on energy in almost every aspect of our lives. The United States ranks second in the world in energy consumption, and as energy usage grows, it becomes increasingly necessary to ensure that our energy usage is sustainable, efficient, and secure.
By incorporating "microgrids", New Jersey is seeking to be a leader in paving the way for the United States' energy future. Microgrids are localized electrical grids. Just like larger electrical grids (macrogrids), microgrids can deliver electricity from power plants to consumers, except microgrids cover smaller regions. However, microgrids differ from traditional electrical grids, because they can also produce and store their own energy combined with using resources like solar panels or steam turbines.
Because microgrids can both produce and deliver energy, they can operate independently of the electrical grid. Although some microgrids, like many in Alaska, operate completely independently like islands, most microgrids in the Northeast are normally connected with the electrical grid but have the ability to disconnect from the grid during an outage or disruption.
A new bill (A2756 / S881), sponsored by Assemblyman Tim Eustace and Assemblyman Daniel Benson, seeks to extend the success of microgrids beyond Princeton University throughout New Jersey. The bill would allow municipalities to apply to establish a three-year microgrid pilot program. The program focuses on enabling public and private facilities that have been declared as critical to maintain normal operation during disasters and emergencies like Superstorm Sandy. By participating in the microgrid pilot program, municipalities will be able to become more prepared for emergencies and contribute to a more sustainable energy future.
You or maybe a neighbor in town has installed solar, and you've seen or heard about how the power company's meter "runs backward" when the solar panels are powering the home. That means that the homeowner is receiving a retail rate for the power they are generating, making the payback for solar much quicker for the homeowner. The technical term for this is "Net Metering."
Net metering is the system that allows people who generate their own electricity using solar panels to feed excess energy back into the grid, sometimes referred to as "nega-watt" energy. Net metering encourages residential and commercial solar growth and may allow a utility company to avoid costly investments in new transmission and distribution of grid electricity.
Under the current New Jersey law, utilities do not have to offer net metering when generating capacity by net-metered customers equals 2.5% of the state's peak demand for electricity, and as NJ Spotlight reports, a threshold we are already above. But on August 10th, the governor signed legislation (A-3838/S-2420) sponsored by Assemblymen John F. McKeon, Tim Eustace, Reed Gusciora and myself. The new law expands the state's net-metering capacity threshold to 2.9% of total annual kilowatt-hours sold in state. More importantly, this means that the crucial pro-consumer pro-environment and pro-renewable energy job policy of net metering will continue unabated as solar continues its growth in the Garden State.
This week's column is a collection of interesting articles from across various science and technology policy spectrums, from state-wide energy system changes to environmental sustainability designs and more! Stay informed and let us know what topics you'd like us to cover in our next few columns. Perhaps you'd like to hear about autonomous vehicles, bio pharmaceuticals, climate change adaptation along the Jersey Shore? Let us know and have a great weekend!
PJM moves to strengthen the reliability of southern NJ's energy system with a project assigned to PSE&G, Pepco Holdings, Inc. and LS Power.
A new crowd-funding bill has bipartisan support and will help New Jersey's innovators seek private capital from the investing public to develop their products or services.
The Steven's Institute of Technology in Jersey City designed and constructed a sustainable, net zero, hurricane-resilient home in a national academic competition, known as the biennial Solar Decathlon.
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Energy touches the lives of every New Jersey resident - every day. Our quality of life, our security, our prosperity, the land and water around us, and how we work and play all depend on energy. Energy master planning is an important aspect of proactive facilities management, providing an expertly defined and practical road-map to a sustainable future environment.
New Jersey's Board of Public Utilities Office of Clean Energy will be holding hearingsthis month to update the state's Energy Master Plan.
Adding to the Energy Master Plan's importance is its relationship to the federal Clean Power Plan announced this week by President Obama. The EPA is giving each state an individual goal for cutting power plant emissions. States can then decide for themselves how to get there.
This is the first in a monthly column highlighting women leaders in the STEM field, from students to professionals in their fields. Thanks go to my Environmental intern Arcadia Lee for identifying the subject of our first Spotlight.
My name is Veronica Gerlach Viramontes and I am 21 years old. In the fall I will be a 4th year student at Rutgers, The State University of NJ. Before attending college, I lived in Ewing, NJ for 8 years. I previously lived in St. Louis, MO and Danbury, CT, where I was born. From a young age I found myself very interested in science. By the age of 10, I decided that I wanted to be a cardiothoracic surgeon after my father had open heart surgery for an aortic valve replacement. Even though I was told that I would probably change my mind when I was older, I still continue to have the passion and drive to become a cardiothoracic surgeon as a third year college student.
Aside from academics, I am passionate about women's rights and social justice for those experiencing poverty. To advocate for less privileged populations, I helped start a ONE campus chapter at Rutgers with a group of 5 other women. ONE is a program started by Bono and the Bill Gates Foundation to help raise public awareness about poverty in Africa and to encourage US citizens to advocate for bills that help people in African countries, particularly women who suffer more from poverty than men.
Along with being a college student, I am a spouse to an airman, who was recently deployed to the Middle-East. I have also been a mother since June of last year. I hope to prove to women that it is possible to balance having a healthy family and a successful career. I plan on graduating in 2017 and will be the first in my family to have a BS in Engineering, as well as, the first to go on to medical school.
Last week, I discussed my legislation (A-1039/S-2310) that sets standards for law enforcement and other government agency use of drones. This week, I'm highlighting legislation (A-4344) sponsored by Assembly Homeland Security Chair Annette Quijano and myself that seeks to protect infrastructure from drone surveillance and requires certain drones to be registered and insured.
There have been a few instances to date where a policy like this would have come in handy. Over the summer, a woman was knocked unconscious when she was struck by a small drone during the Pride parade in downtown Seattle. In New York, a businessman was almost hit by a drone after colliding with a building. Also this summer, in Florida, a small UAV sat hovered near a woman sitting at an outdoor table at a bar in Tampa, Florida and when the drone was made to follow her as she left, it crashed into her car's roof. California is still trying to track down the owners of drones that interfered with firefighting during recent wildfires.
A-4344 starts an important conversation on what type of reasonable restrictions and penalties should be imposed on those that take on the responsibility of operating a drone.
Drones seem to be everywhere in the news. We may have seen the latest cool uses like The Lily Camera and Amazon's package delivering drones. Or read about concerns over safety and privacy, whether from amateur operators getting in the way of California firefighters or fears of government abuse of information gathering.
For New Jersey policymakers, safety has to be the primary focus as our state considers how best to assess and manage the risks associated with governmental, commercial and civilian use of drones within our borders. I along with colleagues in the Assembly and Senate have introduced two timely bills that provide needed rules of unmanned aerial vehicles, otherwise known as UAVs or drones, so that the promise of new technology can be realized without the inherent dangers to privacy and safety. In addition Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman has passed Legislation in the House of Representatives regarding drones and their threat to security.
This first article focuses on NJ's potential governmental use of drones and creating an important framework that balances privacy with the promise of enhanced capabilities by public safety. The bill (A-1039/S-2310) sponsored with Speaker Prieto and Senator Sacco, sets forth certain standards to be followed by law enforcement agencies and fire departments when utilizing drones.


On behalf of the entire Concrete Lodge Skate Crew, thank you to everyone in the community for supporting the skate shop. Supporting a local skate shop means we get to keep injecting time and energy to our local skate scene. Providing a place for young kids to hang out and for the seasoned vets to share their knowledge. It's not just about sales it's about building and strengthening each other through skateboarding and friendship.


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Unheard of until recently, this vibrant demographic came out to party last week, confirming their place in Moscow's Jewish community. Hundreds celebrated the 10-year milestone of their expat community that has grown in leaps instead of increments: only a paltry handful several years ago, there are now thousands, and, increasingly, they want to belong, identify and celebrate as Israelis living in the Russian diaspora.
"Just six years ago we barely had a minyan on Shabbos and our Purim party consisted of 15 people," said Dovi Weintraub, one of the original founding members of the community. "Today there are more than 300 people gathered here!" And there would be more—many remained on the waiting list because of the hall's limited capacity.
Israeli classics like Am Yisrael Chai played in the background as guests in elegant attire arrived at the Metropol, one of Moscow's luxury hotels. Working the room greeting diplomats—among them Dorit Golander, Israel's ambassador to the Russian Federation, business people and professionals was Chabad representative Rabbi Yaakov Fridman, the man behind the whole affair. "Yanky," as he is affectionately called, made connections among hundreds of Israelis who live locally, cultivating a niche Chabad community in Moscow.
Many who came to Israel from the former USSR during the large wave of immigration of the mid-1990s have moved back to Moscow. Most of them were born in the 1970s and early 1980s and returned to their former stomping ground in the hopes of developing careers and earning high salaries. The Israeli academic degrees and experience in Western-style companies they gained in Israel now make them highly sought after employees in Moscow.
Noticing this distinct trend led Rabbi Berel Lazar, Chief Rabbi of Russia who joined the celebration, to bring Rabbi Fridman out to Moscow to consolidate this unique demographic and address their Jewish needs. His success in doing just that has proven extraordinary.
Israelis warmed quickly to Fridman, himself an Israeli, especially to his energy and warmth. He began by extending invitations to Shabbat dinners, hoping to bring together like-minded individuals who were possibly feeling a bit displaced as they returned to the Russian diaspora. Today, the popular Shabbat dinners he leads at the Marina Roscha which regularly draw over 150 guests, are well known, and have become a destination for visiting Israelis.
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Rabbi Alexander Boroda, Chairman of the Board of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia offered greetings. "The Israeli community, and the Israel connection, play a critical role in maintaining a sense of Jewish identity in Russia in general, and specifically in Moscow. 25 years ago many Jews had difficulty celebrating holidays and today, thanks to the work of the community, every Israeli is invited to participate in grand holiday celebrations.
Indeed, among the happy guests were former skeptics once uninterested in identifying with their Jewish heritage. Won over by Fridman's sincerity and devotion, they've become actively engaged in Jewish life, connecting to their heritage through Torah study classes, Jewish observance and a colorful Jewish social scene.
Ron Yavnai, a radio DJ for the IDF, described the way Chabad took care of each member of the community's needs no matter how big or small. "There is no other community like this in the world," he said to resounding applause.


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The entry Anton, Ludwig – 84 words, last updated on 31 August 2018 – is signed [JC].
John Clute. "Anton, Ludwig". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction edited by John Clute, David Langford, Peter Nicholls and Graham Sleight. London: Gollancz, updated 31 August 2018. Web. Accessed 23 April 2019. <http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/anton_ludwig>.
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#CarlJung, #The Black Books, Emma Jung, Fanny Bowditch Katz, Maria Moltzer
Moltzer, Jung told Lang, claimed that Jung had an unresolved transference to her.
Date: August 15, 2021Author: Mr. Purrington
Maria Moltzer
On July 30, 1917, Fanny Bowditch Katz, who had analysis both with Jung and Moltzer, wrote notes of her discussion with Moltzer in which she spoke candidly of how Moltzer saw her relationship with Jung and their struggle, and how she had been to visit him in Chateau d'Oex during this period:
Fanny Bowditch Katz
Of this hour it's hard to write-I had perfect rapport and stayed 134 hours with her- at the end of the time I felt lifted into another world and almost as if I had been in a divine presence. She spoke wonderfully, as if inspired, and I saw more clearly than ever before what she is working for- what her struggle with Dr. Jung means.
How wonderfully she spoke of the work she felt she and Dr. J. were to do together, for which they are only the instruments.
Small atoms in the great universe- of our duty to life – of the subjection of self for the benefit of all- all these feelings are coming to me now as never before.
She spoke of the great struggle going on now in the world, the great agony, which is the collective expression of the individual struggle . . .
She spoke of Isis – whose son took her crown from her head and threw it on the ground- after which a new crown appeared on her head, a cow with the sun and moon between her horns- is this not what is happening to her through Dr. Jung's treatment …. The next day we talked for almost an hour in the dining room.
She in her pink kimono perched on the table. Shall I ever forget it? She spoke of going to Chateau d'Oex to tell Dr. J. of his injustice to her- on one side he is so fine and on the other almost a charlatan playing to the gallery. / His attitude toward their differences is the attitude of the intellectual man- the historical man ….
Then she said- and oh how she said it-with that wonderful fat away look in her eyes, that she felt that somewhere way down deep there must be an affinity between her and me and that it is meant that I should do for R. what she is doing for Dr. J .! . ..
she evidently feels that R. has a great value which I can bring out.- and she spoke of her overcoming the personal in order to do this- she certainly has with Dr. Jung! ~The Black Books, Vol. I, Page 63-64
By early 1918, the difficulties between Moltzer and Jung had intensified.
On April 14, 1918, Jung wrote to Josef Lang regarding a letter he had received from Moltzer in which she had accused him of trying to destroy her relationship with Lang in a "thirst for revenge."
Jung asked Lang to indicate to Moltzer that he had not analyzed Lang's relation to her and didn't know or care about it.
He said that he had no desire for revenge, and that Moltzer simply couldn't accept what he said. He told Lang that he regretted that someone as valuable as Moltzer had such idiotic fantasies and had been projecting rubbish onto him.
He said he had broken off relations with her months ago.
This indicated to Jung that she was paranoid.
He said that she also maintained that he couldn't recognize her independence. Jung considered that the problem was that she held a "deeply degrading" conception of human nature, and always imputed the basest motive-that was why he had drawn back from her.
Despite everything, she still wanted his friendship.
While Moltzer claimed that Jung was projecting onto her, Jung maintained that the opposite was the case: he had left her in peace, while she bombarded him with insults.
Soon after, Moltzer resigned from the Club.
This caused consternation and lengthy debate at a meeting on June 1.
On receiving her letter of resignation, Emma Jung, the Club's president, had tried to persuade her to remain, to no avail. So had Adolf Keller.
Emma Jung noted that Moltzer had been critical of the Club for some six to eight weeks, an antipathy that actually dated from the previous summer.
Moltzer's letter criticized the intellectualism of the Club, and the fact that it had been taken over by conflict over the question of types.
While regretting her departure, Emma Jung did not feel that the reasons Moltzer offered for leaving were the real ones.
Martha Sigg suggested that Moltzer had been influenced by her patients against the Club, which Jung thought was probable.
Some members thought that the reason for her withdrawal was the deficiency of her collective function.
Sarah Barker, one of her analysands, suggested that the fact that Moltzer found the Club "so unanalytical that she could no longer give it her sanction and support" was a serious matter.
She argued that it was a mistake to believe, as had been asserted, that "her attitude had been influenced by countless resistances brought about by her patients."
Barker noted that from the outset, Moltzer had maintained that "the Club was not founded or conducted in accordance with analytical principles."
In a letter of August l , 1918, Moltzer wrote to Bowditch Katz:
Yes, I resigned from the Club. I could not live any longer in that atmosphere.
I am glad I did.
I think, that in time, when the Club really shall become something, the Club shall be thankful I did.
My resignation has its silent effects.
Silent, for it seems that it belongs to my path, that I openly don't get the recognition or the appreciation for what I do for the development of the whole analytic movement.
I always work in the dark and alone.
This is my fate and must be expected.
On October 19, Jung informed Lang that he had fired Moltzer as his assistant and broken off all connection with her.
She had accused him of exploiting her and not recognizing her independence.
On his side, he felt that she was not capable of treating him as someone of equal standing and instead always regarded him as a little boy.
He had evidently followed the advice of his soul regarding the white one Jung's break with Moltzer was a significant turning point.
He later recalled to Aniela Jaffe: "I can say the air cleared when I showed the door to the Dutch woman who wanted to suggest to me that what I was making was art, and secondly when I started to understand the mandala drawings." ~The Black Books, Vol. I, Page 64 -66
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WEC Energy Group reports third-quarter results
November 03 2020 - 07:00AM
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MILWAUKEE, Nov. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- WEC Energy Group (NYSE: WEC) today reported net income of $266.8 million, or 84 cents per share, for the third quarter of 2020 — up from $234.3 million, or 74 cents per share, for last year's third quarter.
For the first nine months of 2020, the company recorded net income of $960.9 million, or $3.04 per share — up from $890.1 million, or $2.81 per share, in the corresponding period a year ago.
Consolidated revenues totaled $1.7 billion for the third quarter of 2020 and $5.3 billion for the first nine months. Third-quarter revenues were up $43.0 million compared to the same quarter in 2019, while year-to-date revenues were down $267.3 million compared to the prior year.
"A rebound in economic activity, warmer summer weather and efficiency gains throughout our operations were the major factors shaping another strong quarter," said Gale Klappa, executive chairman. "Our management team is resilient and focused on delivering value as we head into the closing months of a challenging year."
Retail deliveries of electricity — excluding the iron ore mine in Michigan's Upper Peninsula — were down by 0.3 percent in the third quarter of 2020, compared to the third quarter of 2019.
Residential electricity use rose by 7.1 percent.
Electricity consumption by small commercial and industrial customers declined by 2.5 percent. Electricity use by large commercial and industrial customers — excluding the iron ore mine — dropped by 5.4 percent during the third quarter of 2020.
On a weather-normal basis, retail deliveries of electricity during the third quarter of this year – excluding the iron ore mine — decreased by 1.5 percent.
At the end of September, the company was serving approximately 11,000 more electric customers and 32,000 more natural gas customers than at the same time a year ago.
In light of its strong performance, the company is narrowing and raising its earnings guidance for 2020 to a range of $3.74 to $3.76 per share with an expectation of reaching the top end of the range. This assumes normal weather for the remainder of the year. Previous guidance was in the range of $3.71 to $3.75 per share.
Earnings per share listed in this news release are on a fully diluted basis.
A conference call is scheduled for 1 p.m. Central time, Tuesday, Nov. 3. The call will review 2020 third-quarter earnings and the company's outlook for the future.
All interested parties, including stockholders, news media and the general public, are invited to listen. Access the call at 877-683-2228 up to 15 minutes before it begins. The number for international callers is 647-689-5446. The conference ID is 4494487.
Conference call access also is available at wecenergygroup.com. Under 'Webcasts,' select 'Q3 Earnings.' In conjunction with this earnings announcement, WEC Energy Group will post on its website a package of detailed financial information on its third-quarter performance. The materials will be available at 6:30 a.m. Central time, Tuesday, Nov. 3.
A replay will be available on the website and by phone. Access to the webcast replay will be available on the website about two hours after the call. Access to a phone replay also will be available approximately two hours after the call and remain accessible through Nov. 17, 2020. Domestic callers should dial 800-585-8367. International callers should dial 416-621-4642. The replay conference ID is 4494487.
WEC Energy Group (NYSE: WEC), based in Milwaukee, is one of the nation's premier energy companies, serving 4.5 million customers in Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota.
The company's principal utilities are We Energies, Wisconsin Public Service, Peoples Gas, North Shore Gas, Michigan Gas Utilities, Minnesota Energy Resources and Upper Michigan Energy Resources. Another major subsidiary, We Power, designs, builds and owns electric generating plants. In addition, WEC Infrastructure LLC owns a growing fleet of renewable generation facilities in the Midwest.
WEC Energy Group (wecenergygroup.com) is a Fortune 500 company and a component of the S&P 500. The company has approximately 45,000 stockholders of record, 7,500 employees and $35 billion of assets.
Certain statements contained in this press release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are based upon management's current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those contemplated in the statements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these statements. Forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements concerning management's expectations and projections regarding earnings and future results. In some cases, forward-looking statements may be identified by reference to a future period or periods or by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "expects," "forecasts," "guidance," "intends," "may," "objectives," "plans," "possible," "potential," "projects," "should," "targets," "will" or similar terms or variations of these terms.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated in any forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: general economic conditions, including business and competitive conditions in the company's service territories; the extent, duration and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; timing, resolution and impact of rate cases and other regulatory decisions; the company's ability to continue to successfully integrate the operations of its subsidiaries; availability of the company's generating facilities and/or distribution systems; unanticipated changes in fuel and purchased power costs; key personnel changes; varying weather conditions; continued industry restructuring and consolidation; continued advances in, and adoption of, new technologies that produce power or reduce power consumption; energy and environmental conservation efforts; the company's ability to successfully acquire and/or dispose of assets and projects; cybersecurity threats and data security breaches; construction risks; equity and bond market fluctuations; changes in the company's and its subsidiaries' ability to access the capital markets; the impact of tax reform and any other legislative and regulatory changes, including changes to environmental standards; political developments; current and future litigation and regulatory investigations, proceedings or inquiries; changes in accounting standards; the financial performance of American Transmission Company as well as projects in which the company's energy infrastructure business invests; the ability of the company to obtain additional generating capacity at competitive prices; goodwill and its possible impairment; and other factors described under the heading "Factors Affecting Results, Liquidity and Capital Resources" in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and under the headings "Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information" and "Risk Factors" contained in the company's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, and in subsequent reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company expressly disclaims any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking information.
Although we have estimated the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business and have factored such impacts into our projections, the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic may affect us depends on factors beyond our knowledge or control. Therefore, the ultimate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business plans and operations, liquidity, financial condition and results of operations could vary from our current projections.
Tables follow
WEC ENERGY GROUP, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENTS (Unaudited)
(in millions, except per share amounts)
Operating revenues
Other operation and maintenance
Property and revenue taxes
Equity in earnings of transmission affiliates
Other income, net
Preferred stock dividends of subsidiary
Net loss attributed to noncontrolling interests
Net income attributed to common shareholders
Dividends per share of common stock
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (Unaudited)
(in millions, except share and per share amounts)
Accounts receivable and unbilled revenues, net of reserves of $173.3 and $140.0, respectively
Materials, supplies, and inventories
Long-term assets
Property, plant, and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation and amortization of $9,308.6 and $8,878.7, respectively
Regulatory assets
Equity investment in transmission affiliates
Accrued payroll and benefits
Long-term liabilities
Deferred income taxes
Deferred revenue, net
Regulatory liabilities
Environmental remediation liabilities
Pension and OPEB obligations
Common shareholders' equity
Common stock – $0.01 par value; 325,000,000 shares authorized; 315,434,531 shares outstanding
Additional paid in capital
Accumulated other comprehensive loss
Preferred stock of subsidiary
Noncontrolling interests
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (Unaudited)
(in millions)
Operating activities
Reconciliation to cash provided by operating activities
Deferred income taxes and investment tax credits, net
Contributions and payments related to pension and OPEB plans
Equity income in transmission affiliates, net of distributions
Change in –
Accounts receivable and unbilled revenues, net
Other current liabilities
Other, net
Investing activities
Capital expenditures
(1,618.7)
Acquisition of Upstream Wind Energy LLC, net of cash and restricted cash acquired of $9.2
Capital contributions to transmission affiliates
Proceeds from the sale of assets and businesses
Proceeds from the sale of investments held in rabbi trust
Reimbursement for ATC's construction costs
Insurance proceeds received for property damage
Proceeds from cash surrender value of life insurance
Financing activities
Exercise of stock options
Purchase of common stock
Dividends paid on common stock
Issuance of long-term debt
Retirement of long-term debt
Issuance of short-term loan
Change in other short-term debt
Purchase of additional ownership interest in Upstream Wind Energy LLC from noncontrolling interest
Net cash used in financing activities
Net change in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at beginning of period
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at end of period
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The Health Foundation is concerned that allowing the billion-dollar commercial marijuana industry to promote and sell its products would negatively impact public health. Pot edibles which include highly potent products like candy, chocolates, cookies, and sodas would be allowed. These products are particularly attractive to kids and look like popular sweets. They account for 50% of the sales in Colorado.
Question 4 sets no limits on the number of pot shops statewide. In Colorado, that has resulted in more pot shops than McDonalds and Starbucks combined.
"The leadership of the Health Foundation of Central MA is exemplary of what all organizations, groups, associations and residents need to do in order to keep the Commonwealth from being snowed by the marijuana industry who wrote the law that completely protects their big profit interests," said Heidi Heilman of Massachusetts Prevention Alliance. "The law was written by the industry for the industry. If it passes it'll be the tax-payers who'll be burdened with the shovel-up costs from all the negative outcomes," she concluded.
The Commonwealth could lead the country into smart drug policy. A strong bipartisan team of leaders is working to shut the door on promoting drug dependency and addiction for profit.
The Foundation joins a bi-partisan coalition of elected leaders as well as health care, public safety, business, anti-addiction, and child protection advocates who are opposing Question 4. Governor Charlie Baker, Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, Speaker Robert DeLeo, Attorney General Maura Healey, Sheriff Steve Tompkins, 120 legislators and many other elected leaders have come out in opposition to Question 4.
In fact, Governor Baker, Attorney General Healey, Mayor Walsh and Speaker DeLeo have been exemplary leaders in their ability to study all aspects of the issue, educate the voters and work across the aisle. A group of legislators went to Colorado to study legalization and see if it legal pot could be implemented safely.
A citizens group of 20 claimed that Question 4 doesn't have a definitive standard for testing drivers and that it lacks transparency while leaving policy specifics unsettled until after the vote.
Fang's investigation provides excellent insight into the marijuana industry — which suspects that everyone must have a profit motive. Much of the giving to marijuana ballots comes directly from the pot industry. Three of the largest donations to marijuana legalization in Massachusetts come from marijuana businesses, including one in Colorado looking to expand.
The NAMI chapter in Maine will also be coming out against legalization in that state, a clear indication that marijuana is toxic for those diagnosed with mental illnesses.
Only in the instance of law enforcement have investigative journalists been correct in predicting opposition to legalization. Police unions oppose legalization, but The Nation article doesn't probe the deeper reason for their opposition.
"In addition, the Foundation is concerned that sanctioning marijuana as a legal substance will likely normalize its use and create a commercial industry intent on spreading the use, like the tobacco industry." The Nation's 2014 article could have looked into why health organizations, hospitals, educators and doctors' groups oppose marijuana legalization instead of promoting a preordained agenda set by financiers.
Health organizations have insights that a biased media does not have. Evidence-based solutions don't support pot legalization.
Massachusetts is leading the country in wise drug polices. New England may be ahead of the rest of the country. Vermont and Maine rejected legalization through their state legislators. These states realize that marijuana is not a solution to the opioid abuse that is rampant today. Replacing one addiction with another addiction is a bad idea, and actually encourages multi-addiction, making recovery more difficult. Please donate and vote against the addiction-for-profit industry in Massachusetts or in your state.
Last week a House bill to tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol was soundly defeated in the state of New Hampshire. Opponents questioned the wisdom of making another addictive drug legal during a time of drug overdoses and deaths.
The New Mexico legislature also killed a marijuana legalization measure on February 14.
Last week in Wyoming, a bill to decriminalize marijuana was soundly defeated. It was the third year in a row that marijuana advocates tried to to pass a decriminalization bill which would have lessened the fine for pot possession.
In Montana, a petition to put legalization of recreational marijuana on the November ballot is counterbalanced by the Safe Montana petition to keep recreational marijuana illegal.
Marijuana lobbyists and policy groups are making strong efforts to legalize or decriminalize marijuana in western and northeastern states. Vermont, a bill to legalize marijuana has passed the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Finance Committee.
Vermont gubernatorial candidate Bruce Lisman issued a statement critical of the governor and legislature for acting too quickly. Six Vermont physician groups come out in opposition to legalizing marijuana for recreational use in their state. The state's health department wrote a scathing attack against legalization.
If Justin Trudeau pushes the legalization effort in Canada, he will into trouble with international treaties, and possibly in the province government of Quebec. The Finance Minister of Quebec warned that it will be hard to push them to sell marijuana.


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package dotty
package tools

import scala.language.unsafeNulls

import vulpix.TestConfiguration

import dotc.core._
import dotc.core.Comments.{ContextDoc, ContextDocstrings}
import dotc.core.Contexts._
import dotc.core.Symbols._
import Types._, Symbols._, Decorators._
import dotc.core.Decorators._
import dotc.ast.tpd
import dotc.Compiler

import dotc.core.Phases.Phase

trait DottyTest extends ContextEscapeDetection {

  dotc.parsing.Scanners // initialize keywords

  implicit var ctx: Context = initialCtx

  protected def initialCtx: FreshContext = {
    val base = new ContextBase {}
    val ctx = base.initialCtx.fresh
    initializeCtx(ctx)
    // when classpath is changed in ctx, we need to re-initialize to get the
    // correct classpath from PathResolver
    base.initialize()(using ctx)
    ctx
  }

  override def getCtx: Context = ctx
  override def clearCtx() = {
    ctx = null
  }

  protected def initializeCtx(fc: FreshContext): Unit = {
    fc.setSetting(fc.settings.encoding, "UTF8")
    fc.setSetting(fc.settings.classpath, TestConfiguration.basicClasspath)
    fc.setSetting(fc.settings.language, List("experimental.erasedDefinitions"))
    fc.setProperty(ContextDoc, new ContextDocstrings)
  }

  private def compilerWithChecker(phase: String)(assertion: (tpd.Tree, Context) => Unit) = new Compiler {
    override def phases = {
      val allPhases = super.phases
      val targetPhase = allPhases.flatten.find(p => p.phaseName == phase).get
      val groupsBefore = allPhases.takeWhile(x => !x.contains(targetPhase))
      val lastGroup = allPhases.find(x => x.contains(targetPhase)).get.takeWhile(x => !(x eq targetPhase))
      val checker = new Phase {
        def phaseName = "assertionChecker"
        override def run(using ctx: Context): Unit = assertion(ctx.compilationUnit.tpdTree, ctx)
      }
      val lastGroupAppended = List(lastGroup ::: targetPhase :: Nil)

      groupsBefore ::: lastGroupAppended ::: List(List(checker))
    }
  }

  def checkCompile(checkAfterPhase: String, source: String)(assertion: (tpd.Tree, Context) => Unit): Context = {
    val c = compilerWithChecker(checkAfterPhase)(assertion)
    val run = c.newRun
    run.compileFromStrings(List(source))
    run.runContext
  }

  def checkTypes(source: String, typeStrings: String*)(assertion: (List[Type], Context) => Unit): Unit =
    checkTypes(source, List(typeStrings.toList)) { (tpess, ctx) => (tpess: @unchecked) match {
      case List(tpes) => assertion(tpes, ctx)
    }}

  def checkTypes(source: String, typeStringss: List[List[String]])(assertion: (List[List[Type]], Context) => Unit): Unit = {
    val dummyName = "x_x_x"
    val vals = typeStringss.flatten.zipWithIndex.map{case (s, x)=> s"val ${dummyName}$x: $s = ???"}.mkString("\n")
    val gatheredSource = s"${source}\nobject A$dummyName {$vals}"
    checkCompile("typer", gatheredSource) {
      (tree, context) =>
        given Context = context
        val findValDef: (List[tpd.ValDef], tpd.Tree) => List[tpd.ValDef] =
          (acc , tree) =>  {
            tree match {
              case t: tpd.ValDef if t.name.startsWith(dummyName) => t :: acc
              case _ => acc
            }
          }
        val d = new tpd.DeepFolder[List[tpd.ValDef]](findValDef).foldOver(Nil, tree)
        val tpes = d.map(_.tpe.widen).reverse
        val tpess = typeStringss.foldLeft[(List[Type], List[List[Type]])]((tpes, Nil)) {
          case ((rest, result), typeStrings) =>
            val (prefix, suffix) = rest.splitAt(typeStrings.length)
            (suffix, prefix :: result)
        }._2.reverse
        assertion(tpess, context)
    }
  }

  def methType(names: String*)(paramTypes: Type*)(resultType: Type = defn.UnitType) =
    MethodType(names.toList map (_.toTermName), paramTypes.toList, resultType)
}


One in three employed Canadians will be off work for 90 days or longer at some point during their career due to disability.
View this article in the digital flipbook edition.
Many HR professionals are all too aware of the negative impact long-term disability (LTD) claims can have for employees and businesses alike. Employees must deal with the discomfort of the medical condition itself, along with the significant emotional and financial stress of being off. And business owners, especially of smaller operations or departments where the employee fills a critical role, will feel the loss more keenly if it happens at a time when the economy – and business – is booming.
It turns out that this is exactly the time when most LTD claims occur – when the economy is on an upswing, as RBC Insurance discovered following years of research.
There has long been an awareness of seasonal disability trends, with new claims tending to peak in the spring and fall months, and dropping during the summer. However, by using data from over 300,000 group benefits clients since 2009, a direct link was discovered between LTD incidence rates and the rise and fall of GDP.
Through extensive analysis and the development of a proprietary algorithm, the RBC Insurance Group LTD Forecast can now predict LTD incidence rates up to two years in the future when using RBC Economic forecasts or six months into the future when using current GDP values – a helpful tool for businesses of any size.
It may seem strange at first glance and even contrary to reason that claims increase when times are good. But the belief is that it's similar to a prolonged adrenaline rush that puts stress on the body. When employees are worried about job security and performance during challenging or uncertain economic times, it creates significant mental and/or physiological stress. Once the stress diminishes, thanks to a brighter economic outlook and rising GDP, they begin to feel more secure again.
If employers can predict the incidence of LTD claims, they can also plan to mitigate those risks and help keep their operations running smoothly during critical periods. However, that pent-up stress and anxiety takes its toll, which results in them falling ill and taking a leave from work to recoup. This aligns very well with the fact that the majority of LTD claims are stress-induced, from mental or nervous system disorders, such as depression or anxiety, to circulatory diseases such as heart attacks, according to an RBC Insurance survey.
The groundbreaking findings of this research can provide a range of benefits for the workplace, along with real cost-savings potential. According to a 2016 report from the Fraser Group, businesses spent almost $7 billion for LTD coverage in 2015, which is the third largest cost to a group benefits plan (after health and dental). By using this predictive insight and understanding the correlation between GDP and LTD claims, businesses can better anticipate and manage costs related to claims; prevent some from happening altogether; or even reduce their duration.
This can be achieved through proactive measures such as implementing or increasing focus on employee assistance programs (EAPs) and putting in place contingency plans to support employees when they need it the most to get back on their feet quickly after an illness.
As Benjamin Franklin once said, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." If employers can predict the incidence of LTD claims, they can also plan to mitigate those risks and help keep their operations running smoothly during critical periods. Coupling the right information on a timely basis with a proactive approach to supporting staff will ultimately result in productivity gains through a healthier, happier and more engaged workforce.
John Carinci is vice president, Group and Business Markets at RBC Insurance.


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An excellent new addition to Netflix's lineup of original animation.
Review by Jesse Schedeen
Trollhunters: Season 1
Reviewed on / Jan. 1, 2017
Trollhunters: Season 1 Review
Guillermo del Toro spearheads an excellent new addition to Netflix's lineup of original animation.
Note: this is a spoiler-free review of Trollhunters' entire 26-episode first season, now available on Netflix. I'll discuss basic plot and character details but avoid getting too much into story specifics.
We're at the point where it's worth maintaining a Netflix subscription solely for their lineup of original content. Sure, being able to stream Captain America: Civil War and all the CW superhero shows is nice, but not as nice as having shows like Luke Cage, BoJack Horseman and Orange Is the New Black at your fingertips. And it's not just older viewers that these original projects cater towards. Trollhunters is may be geared towards a more all-ages audience, but it also happens to be one of the best new additions to the Netflix library in quite some time.
As with last year's Dawn of the Croods, Trollhunters is a partnership between Netflix and Dreamworks Animation that premiered just in time to take advantage of the holiday break. Trollhunters is quite a bit more ambitious than its predecessor, however. It's based on a fantasy book created by director Guillermo del Toro and writer Daniel Klaus and features robust CG animation rather than the 2D approach of Dawn of the Croods. Throw How to Train Your Dragon and Pan's Labyrinth in a blender, sprinkle in a dash of Spider-Man and you have Trollhunters.
Trollhunters is also notable, sadly, for featuring one of the final performances from the late Anton Yelchin (Star Trek). Yelchin voices Jim Lake, a plucky teenager whose life is complicated and busy enough even before he finds himself bonded with a mystical suit of armor and tasked with defending a secret city of trolls from a dark enemy. The series' name is a bit misleading in that sense, as Jim isn't hunting all trolls, just a particularly vicious and nasty sub-group bent on world domination. Other major players in the series include Jim's bumbling best friend, Toby (Betas' Charlie Saxton), his high school crush, Claire (Modern Family's Lexi Medrano), his troll mentor, Blinky (Frasier's Kelsey Grammer), Blinky's loyal, monosyllabic partner, AAARRGGHH! (Avengers Assemble's Fred Tatasciore) and Mr. Strickler (The Strain's Jonathan Hyde), a seemingly benevolent teacher with his own ties to the troll underworld.
Trollhunters was originally conceived as a film rather than a TV series, and that shift really does seem to have been for the best. On paper, Trollhunters seems like pretty standard animated fantasy fare, and even the first handful of episodes don't do much break that mold. Jim is your typical teen hero with a heart of gold whom fate morphs from social outcast to heroic adventurer. Toby is the obligatory overweight comic relief. Claire initially comes across as another textbook, doe-eyed love interest. Had Trollhunters been framed as a 90-minute film rather than a 26-episode TV season, it would probably never have the chance to escape those tropes and become something more.
Luckily, Trollhunters does have that extra room to play with, and it's not long before it moves past "How to Train Your Troll" territory into more interesting and less predictable territory. The characters, both heroes and villains, take on a great deal of depth over the course of the series. Jim is nothing if not a compelling protagonist. Like Peter Parker, he struggles with the "with great power must also come great responsibility" idea and the need to balance the ordinary trials of high school and puberty with the pressures of training to defend troll-kind from its greatest enemy. Jim is forced to make a number of difficult choices over the course of the season, and he doesn't always make the right ones. He's constantly forced to choose between keeping his loved ones safe or being honest with them. The finale in particular puts Jim through a physical and emotional wringer, leaving him in an unexpected place by the end. That alone justifies the need for a Season 2, though how Yelchin's passing will impact the future of the show remains to be seen. It should be noted that Yelchin's voice work is instrumental in making the character work as much as he does. Despite having been in his mid-20's while working on the show, Yelchin expertly captures the voice of an awkward, puberty-stricken teenager on the verge of becoming a man.
The show is called "Trollhunters," not "Trollhunter," and the supporting cast becomes increasingly important over time, particularly in the latter half of the season. Toby gradually evolves from simple comic relief to a fully realized character in his own right. He battles his own set of inadequacies and the trauma of being an orphan child raised by his senile, half-blind grandmother. Some of the most charming and emotionally affecting scenes involve the bond between Toby and his "wingman," AAARRGGHH! As for Claire, she becomes a much stronger character in the second half of the season as she takes a more active role in Jim's quest. She's one of several characters that grows as she learns there's much more to the world than the shallow reality of high school.
The long-from approach benefits the villains as much as anyone else. It's very much to the show's credit that several characters who could be classified as villains early on no longer fit the description by the end of the season. This applies to Mr. Strickler as much as anyone. Hyde excels in the role, bringing the same dignified charm and latent menace to the character he does to Eldritch Palmer in The Strain. Strickler is very much cut from the same cloth as Palmer. He's supremely self-serving, but increasingly burdened by guilt over his role in bringing about a world-ending apocalypse and by the connections he forms with both Jim and his mother (Transparent's Amy Landecker). Then there's Draal (Final Fantasy XV's Matthew Waterson), a battle-hardened troll who greatly resents what he sees as his birthright being usurped by a puny human. But over the course of the season, the two characters evolve from bitter rivals to stalwart allies. Even the two primary troll villains, Bular (Hellboy's Ron Perlman) and Angor Rot (Quantum of Solace's Ike Amadi) have deep shades of gray.
In general, strong writing helps the show thrive as much as anything else. Trollhunters may be all-ages in focus, but it never dumbs itself down for younger viewers. There are some fairly dark themes at play. There's plenty of suffering invovled for every character. There's also a lot of bathroom humor and slapstick. It's an eclectic blend, made all the more unusual by the presence of trolls, goblins, gnomes, pixies and various other fantasy creatures. Each race is unique and brings its own flavor to the table. Were this a movie, it's easy to picture the gnomes becoming the breakout stars a la the Minions from Despicable Me. The show avoids being too campy or too dark, and like many Pixar films, manages to appeal to a wide audience.
Trollhunters sticks to a serialized structure throughout all 26 episodes. While each chapter more or less stands on its own, it also adds to the larger narrative as Jim moves closer to his destiny. The season really breaks down into two smaller arcs, one focused on Bular and the other on Angor Rot. Both arcs could have stood to be tightened up a little bit in terms of pacing, as they tend to drag slightly in the middle and then wade through a sea of plot twists toward the end. Maybe a slightly lower episode count would have helped. I don't know that the series really needed an entire episode devoted to Claire breaking up a troll house party. But even so, these 26 episodes tell a clear, engaging hero's journey that wraps up nicely by the end while leaving plenty of room for a potential Season 2.
While the writing and voice work are Trollhunter's strongest elements, the animation doesn't disappoint either. The show is rendered in a familiar style that evokes films of the past decade like How to Train Your Dragon and Hotel Transylvania (with Claire looking like she could be the younger sister of Mavis Dracula). But the fact that a TV series looks nearly as good as either of those big-screen franchises is pretty darned impressive. Compared to the sometimes rigid figures and sterile environments of a show like Star Wars Rebels, Trollhunters oozes detail and personality. The colorful environments and varied character designs give Trollhunters a strong sense of personality. And the action scenes never disappoint, whether Jim and friends are exploring the bowels of a giant troll or trading blows with monsters composed of hundreds of crystal shards. Del Toro's unique visual sensibilities remain apparent every step of the way.
Netflix's latest addition to its lineup of original animated content might also be its best. Trollhunters combines the fun and adventure of Dreamworks' animated films with the unique charm and stylistic sensibilities of Guillermo del Toro. It makes for a winning combination, and one that's able to realize its full potential thanks to the meaty 26-episode format. There are far worse ways to spend your holiday break than binging this entertaining and smartly crafted fantasy adventure.
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With Guillermo del Toro at the helm, Trollhunters weaves an epic and engrossing fantasy adventure.RT
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Q: How can I display in UI a list of predictions (from my backend code when 'Text_Changed' in the user's entry? Xamarin Forms my backend code with places autosuggestion works well (I can see it reads the locations from the list in my backend)
Now I want to show that list to users when he/she starts to type something in entry by using Text_Changed option.
Below is my Text_Changed method ("locationText_Changed"). Now how to show the Prediction list to a user in UI when he/she starts to type some text?
Backend code:
private async void locationText_Changed(object sender, TextChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (location == null)
        {
            await GetLocation();
        }
        string formattedLocation = string.Format("{0}%2C{1}", location.Latitude, location.Longitude);
        List<Prediction> predictionList = await VenueLogic1.GetVenues1(e.NewTextValue, formattedLocation);

And my UI:
<StackLayout BackgroundColor="BlanchedAlmond" >
                <Entry x:Name="locationEntry"
                   TextChanged="locationText_Changed"
                   Placeholder="Enter Address"/>
            </StackLayout>

A: First: To you show this list you need to use a ListView (it's better in questions of performance);
Second: The entry could be a SearchBar.
So, what you can do:

*

*Create a searchBar, the user will input some data on it.

*While the user is typing, your code will filtering the list and only will appear what matches with the input (as you mentioned).

In this link it shows step by step of how to achieve it. So maybe you will change something in your code, but the result is professional.
PS: Try to do it only following this link. If has any doubt, please, update your question with what you did and we will help you. Have fun.

A: You can use databinding and collectionview/listview, set the ItemsSource as your predictionList, then change the itemsSourece in locationText_Changed method.like:
    private async void locationText_Changed(object sender, TextChangedEventArgs e)
        {
            if (location == null)
            {
                await GetLocation();
            }
            string formattedLocation = string.Format("{0}%2C{1}", location.Latitude, location.Longitude);
            List<Prediction> predictionList = await VenueLogic1.GetVenues1(e.NewTextValue, formattedLocation);
var newlist=from n in predictionList where n.contains(text)
select n;
mycollectionlist.ItemsSource=newlist;}

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This report focuses on the Differential Pressure Sensors in North America market, especially in United States, Canada and Mexico. This report categorizes the market based on manufacturers, countries, type and application.
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Growth in Mexican pension funds outpaced those of other countries and has driven gains in the country's stock market. Mexican pension funds are the stars of the latest ranking of Latin America's Top Pension Funds ...
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Colombian pension funds gain speed. Eleven out of the top 15 funds decreased their assets under management. The number of affiliates to the pension system increased to 74.4 million. There are 60 Brazilian funds among ...
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Brazil's Previ widens its lead over Chile's Provida on pension rank. BY LBC STAFFLatin America's biggest pension fund got even bigger in 2010, widening its lead over rivals, according to an analysis of the region's ...