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Q: Query historized data To describe my query problem, the following data is helpful:

A single table contains the columns ID (int), VAL (varchar) and ORD (int)
The values of VAL may change over time by which older items identified by ID won't get updated but appended. The last valid item for ID is identified by the highest ORD value (increases over time).
T0, T1 and T2 are points in time where data got entered.

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*How do I get in an efficient manner to the Result set?

A solution must not involve materialized views etc. but should be expressible in a single SQL-query. Using Postgresql 9.3.

A: The correct way to select groupwise maximum in postgres is using DISTINCT ON
SELECT DISTINCT ON (id) sysid, id, val, ord
FROM my_table
ORDER BY id,ord DESC;

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A: You want all records for which no newer record exists:
select *
from mytable
where not exists
(
  select *
  from mytable newer
  where newer.id = mytable.id
  and newer.ord > mytable.ord
)
order by id;

You can do the same with row numbers. Give the latest entry per ID the number 1 and keep these:
select sysid, id, val, ord
from
(
  select
    sysid, id, val, ord,
    row_number() over (partition by id order by ord desc) as rn
  from mytable
)
where rn = 1
order by id;

A: Left join the table (A) against itself (B) on the condition that B is more recent than A. Pick only the rows where B does not exist (i.e. A is the most recent row).
SELECT last_value.*
FROM my_table AS last_value
  LEFT JOIN my_table
    ON my_table.id = last_value.id
    AND my_table.ord > last_value.ord
WHERE my_table.id IS NULL;

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2 Growing & processing of chlorella
2.1 – Location
2.2 – How chlorella is grown
2.3 – Processing & preparing chlorella
3 Nutrition in chlorella
3.1 – Macro-nutrients
3.1.1 – – Fats (2.3g per 100g)
3.1.2 – – Protein (60.7g per 100g)
3.1.3 – – Carbohydrates (13.8g per 100g)
3.2 – Micro-nutrients in chlorella
3.2.1 – – Beta-carotene
3.2.2 – – B Vitamins
3.2.3 – – Phosphorus
3.2.4 – – Iron
3.2.5 – – Iodine
Chlorella belongs to a group of blue-green algae called chlorophyta, which are single cell organisms. In recent years chlorella has become increasingly popular as a dietary supplement because of its broad spectrum of nutrients. Unlike other supplements which may focus on a specific nutrient (such as vitamin C) to treat a specific ailment (such as vitamin C deficiency, or protect against cancer), chlorella contains a broad spectrum of nutrients, and is often consumed with the interest of promoting overall health and general nutrition, not to treat a specific ailment. It is because of this reason that there are very few clinical trials involving chlorella; because clinical trials investigate the effectiveness of product X on treating illness Y, which is not the purpose of consuming chlorella. This paper will explain the best growing and processing practices for chlorella, identify the most abundant nutrients found in chlorella and speculate (with reference to scientific journal publications) how these may benefit the body.
Growing & processing of chlorella
– Location
Chlorealla thrives in tropical climates and can grown both in fresh water and salt water. Geco chlorella is grown on a small island off the coast of China, which is isolated from farming and industrialised areas. This eliminates the possibility that harmful contaminates from these industries will be found in the growing ponds of chlorella and final product – ensuring an organic product. Growing chlorella here is much more preferable to growing in Japan since the relatively recent Fukoshima nuclear disaster, which has caused much of the water in that region to become contaminated with radiation. This level of radiation will not only inhibit the chlorella growing, but will also be found in any chlorella produced from this region, which can damage the consumer. Although a product can still be considered 'organic' if it is grown in a higher than normal radiation, but this is not desirable for the consumer or for us as a producer.
– How chlorella is grown
Our chlorella is grown in ponds which are filled with deep ground fresh water, which is carefully filtered before use to ensure it is completely pure and free from contaminates. When growing our chlorella we ensure that no pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers are used. This is because common herbicides used to grow some chlorella have been shown to impact the nutritional profile of the chlorella itself, particularly the chlorophyll and beta-carotene content (Karunyal Samuel, 1987), and there is speculation that these herbicides can also be damaging for our health. Only by avoiding the use of herbicides can you ensure that the nutritional profile of chlorella is as high as possible, and that it poses no threat to the health of the consumer. Pesticides are not used for growing our chlorella, because many common pesticides such as malathion have been shown to cause liver damage, even at low concentrations (Rozenn Josse et al, 2014). Although chlorella is washed to try and remove as much of the pesticides used as possible, there is inevitably residues on the final product, which can still cause damage to the liver of consumers. It is because of this that no pesticides are used in the production of our chlorella. In addition to the negative health implications of pesticides/ herbicides, they also can have a negative impact on the environment, and can disrupt food chains and cause eutrophication (Yann Hautier et al, 2009), which we want to avoid.
– Processing & preparing chlorella
In these natural optimal conditions chlorella will be ready to harvest after about one and a half months, and then it is ready to be processing into a fine powder. This is done by sieving the water with a fine mesh to capture the small cells of chlorella, and then rapidly drying. It is important to dry the chlorella as quickly as possible after harvest, because as soon as the product is harvested the nutrient profile will begin to decrease, which is true for all foods (Zdravko Šumić et al 2013). Once the chlorella is dried it must be milled, to break down the tough cellulose cell wall. This is a key aspect of the processing, because humans lack the cellulase enzyme (Agam Nangul et al, 2013), and so we are unable to break down the cell wall ourselves. Breaking down this cell wall makes all the nutrients in the chlorella bio-available – allowing the nutrients to be absorbed.
Nutrition in chlorella
– Macro-nutrients
Nutrition of chlorella can vary depending on growing conditions, including temperature, salinity, pH and nutrients available (Rekha Sharma et al, 2012) so quantity of nutrients can very in different growing conditions. The nutrition of Geco chlorella is as follows:
– – Fats (2.3g per 100g)
Chlorella is quite low in fat, which is typical of plant based foods. There are a variety of fats found in chlorella, but the most abundant are oleic acid (18% of total fat), alpha-linoleic acid (16% of total fat) and linoleic acid (12% of total fat) (Semih Otles et al, 2001).
Oleic acid (18%) belongs to the omega-9 group of fatty acids. Oleic acid is associated with cardio-protective effects, and can help lower circulating levels of LDL (Eduardo Lopez-Huertas, 2010). There is also speculation that this fatty acid can increase levels of HDL, although more research is needed to confirm this. Alpha-linoleic acid (ALA) (16%) is the omega-3 fat which is most common in plants. ALA is essential for nerve health, and can be converted by the body into eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) which are the omega-3 fatty acids found in fish. These omega-3 fatty acids are associated with reducing inflammation, promoting brain health, protecting the cardiovascular system and maintaining healthy joints (Danielle Swanson et al, 2012). Alpha-linoleic acid is considered the only essential omega-3 fatty acids, as our body is unable to synthesise it ourselves. Linoleic acid (12%) is an omega-6 fatty acids which is also abundant in many seed oils. It is associated with many health benefits from promoting wound healing to normal cell function, and is used in a variety of biological functions, but is already relatively abundant in modern diets.
Although only a small percentage of chlorella is made up fats, the fatty acid profile of chlorella is beneficial. The amount that you will receive per serving is unlikely to significantly impact your health, but will mildly increase the amount of beneficial fats in your diet. It is unlikely that you will consume chlorella for its fat content.
– – Protein (60.7g per 100g)
For a plant source, chlorella is extremely high in protein, with most plant source containing between 3g-30g per 100g. Even compared to animal sources 60.7g of protein per 100g is extremely high, and a 100g of beef steak will contain approximately 25g of protein, which is less than half that of chlorella. As all plant based protein, the protein in chlorella is an alkaline protein, which many people see as an advantage. Although clinical evidence for the benefits of an alkaline diet is lacking for most claims, there is much anecdotal evidence for health benefits of alkaline foods. The only clinically confirmed benefit of vegetable protein over animal protein is the protective effects against kidney stones (Neil A Breslau et al, 1988) (Shanlini et al, 2002), and it seems that animal protein does increase the acidic of urine.
A table of the amino acid profile of chlorella protein is displayed below.
Amount per 100g
Amount per 2 teaspoon serving (aprox 5g)
Amount per 4 teaspoon serving (aprox 10g)
Alanine 3.37g 0.51g 1.02g
Arginine 4.22g 0.63g 1.26g
Aspartic acid 3.53g 0.53g 1.06g
Glutamic acid 6.6g 1g 2g
Glycine 3.34g 0.5g 1g
Histidie 1.17g 0.18g 0.36g
Isoleicine 2.98g 0.45g 0.9g
Leucine 5.27g 0.79g 1.58g
Methionine 0.89g 0.13g 0.26g
Proline 2.76g 0.41g 0.82g
Serine 2.38 0.36g 0.72g
Theronline 3.12g 0.46g 0.92g
Tryptophan 2.82g 0.42g 0.84g
Tyrosine 2.75g 0.41 0.82g
Valine 2.59g 0.39g 0.78g
– – Carbohydrates (13.8g per 100g)
Of the 13.8g of carbohydrates found in chlorella, 12.4g are fibre, which is a combination of digestible and indigestible complex carbohydrates. The digestible fibre will slowly be broken down by the digestive enzymes in the body, which will provide the body with a slow supply of energy. This type of energy is much more preferable to simple carbohydrates, as it will not cause energy fluctuations or stimulate significant insulin production which is associated with an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes (J Salas-Savado, 2011). The indigestible fibre will not be converted into energy, but will stay in the digestive system and form the stool. This kind of fibre is associated with helping to normalize circulating LDL levels (Thomas M.S Wolevera et al, 2003) (which in turn will lower the risk of developing cardiovascular disease), protects the digestive system from radicals found in food, and helps to regulate the bowel.
– Micro-nutrients in chlorella
Although the macro-nutrient profile of chlorella is impressive, due to the small amounts that are typically consumed, they are unlikely to have a major impact on consumers health. The primary benefit of chlorella is in the micro-nutrient content, and below is a table of the most significant micro-nutrients found in 100g of chlorella, how much is in a 2 teaspoon serving and how this compares to your RDA.
percent RDA in 2 teaspoons (aprox 5g)
Beta-carotene 135mg 6.75mg 562.5%
Vitamin B1 (thiamine) 1.29 0.0065mg 6.45%
Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) 3.1mg 0.16mg 14.09%
Vitamin B3 (niacin) 59mg 2.95mg 22.69%
Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) 0.96mcg 0.048mcg 4%
Vitamin B7 (biotin) 10omcg 5mcg n/a
Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) 0.5mg 0.025mg 1666.6%
Vitamin C 2.6mg 0.13mg 0.33%
Calcium 48.5mg 2.43mg 0.35%
Phosphorous 1200mg 60mg 6.67%
Iron 101mg 5.05mg 33.67%
Iodine 1mg 0.05mg 10%
Magnesium 10.4mg 0.52mg 0.19%
Zinc 2.2mg 0.11mg 2.2%
– – Beta-carotene
Chlorella is extremely high in beta-carotene, with one serving providing 6.75mg. To put this into perspective, a medium carrot (approximately 10g) provides 0.64mg of beta-carotene. Beta-carotene itself is a powerful antioxidant (P. Zhang et al, 2001), and so can help to protect the body against oxidative stress. Beta-carotene can also be converted into vitamin A in a 2:1 ratio (Guagwen Tang, 2010), which is a vital nutrient for the immune system and is associated with protecting against heart disease (Vince P Palace et al, 1999). With one serving of chlorella providing an abundance of beta-carotene (which can be converted into vitamin A) it is likely to significantly promote the immune system, protect the cardiovascular systems and help protect the body against oxidative stress. It is important to be aware that these biological systems are extremely complex, and rely on more nutrients than just beta–carotene/ vitamin A. This means that a deficiency of other nutrients may impact how beneficial the beta-carotene obtained from chlorella will be.
– – B Vitamins
Chlorella is abundant in B vitamins and contains 6 of the 8 types of B vitamins in significant quantities. B vitamins fulfil a vast range of roles in the body, and are vital for normal cell function, reproduction, hormone production and metabolism of fats/ carbohydrates (Flore Depeint et al, 2006). This makes them important in maintaining a healthy body, especially if you are particularly active. Uniquely, chlorella contains a biologically active form vitamin B12, which is extremely rare in to find in plant based foods. Not only does it contain vitamin B12, but one serving will provide the body with 1666% of your RDA, which makes chlorella an extremely valuable food for vegans, as vitamin B12 is only abundant in animal sourced foods.
– – Phosphorus
One serving of chlorella will provide the body will approximately 6.7% the amount required which is a significant amount, but means that phosphous will still need to be consumed from the rest of the diet in order to maintain a healthy body. Phosphorus is a major component of bone along with calcium (Igor Pravst, 2011), and so is needed to maintain bone strength and structure. Phosphorus is also needed for normal cell metabolism and structure, meaning it is a very important nutrient.
– – Iron
Chlorella contains a significant amount of iron, with one serving providing 33% of your RDA. The main function of iron in the body is to form haemoglobin, which allows the transport of oxygen throughout the body. (M.J. Semmelrock et al, 2012)
– – Iodine
Many sea plants are high in iodine, and chlorella is no exception, with one serving providing 10% of your RDA. Iodine is extremely important in the production of thyroid hormones (Peter Laurberg et al, 2010), and has also recently been associated with protective effects against cancer. A mild deficiency of iodine is quite common in people who follow typical western diets (Cunnane SC, 2005) which can lead to problems producing certain hormones. A sever deficiency of iodine has been shown to cause brain damage (Cunnane SC, 2005).
Chlorella is considered to be a complete food because it is incredibly nutrient dense. The macro-nutrient profile of chlorella is extremely beneficial for the body, with a variety of healthy fatty acids, an extremely high protein content, and the carbohydrate content being made up almost entirely made up of beneficial fibre. However, due to the small amounts which chlorella is consumed in, you are unlikely to experience any significant benefit from the fatty acids chlorella contains, and the protein/ carbohydrates impact on consumers healthy will be minimal.
Chlorella is also a valuable source of a number of vitamins and minerals, the most abundant of which are beta-carotene, B vitamins (including vitamin B12), phosphorus, iron and iodine. The combination of these micro-nutrients will undoubtedly help support a range of biological systems, protect against a number of ailments and promote overall health. However, chlorella alone is not enough to ensure a healthy body, and will only be effective in supporting a healthy diet.
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Oleg Deripaska became homeless in the USA
Oleg Deripaska's assets, including his luxury real estate, have been frozen in the United States.
The US government froze the assets of businessman Oleg Deripaska, including mansions in New York and Washington, writes the New York Post, citing officials of the US Treasury.
According to the newspaper, in New York, the businessman owns a mansion located on 64th Street on the East Side of Manhattan, next to Central Park. Nearby is the mansion of Leonard Blavatnik, a British-American businessman of Soviet descent.
The newspaper's interlocutors also said that the US authorities are negotiating with Deripaska about the abandonment of assets in Europe, which may also be subject to sanctions.
The representative of Deripaska RBC declined to comment.
Despite the arrest of assets, the businessman agreed with the US authorities to have children and the former wife of another oligarch, Roman Abramovich, living in his buildings, the newspaper writes. In September, the newspaper reported that the latter had transferred to his ex-wife Darya Zhukova assets in this area of Manhattan for more than $ 90 million. The publication indicates that 11 East 64th St. indicated that Zhukova was the home address. - The asset at this address has been frozen.
Real estate in New York - a five-story townhouse, which was previously owned by art dealer Alec Wildenstein - Deripaska bought in 2008 for $ 42.5 million, the newspaper refers to real estate registry data. Blavatnik bought his house at the beginning of this year for $ 90 million, also notes NYP.
Built in 1899, the mansion, which the NY Post attributes to Deripaska, was sold in 2008 to Vesta International, registered in Delaware, for $ 42.5 million, follows from an extract from the New York real estate registry (RBC has it). In open access, RBC was unable to detect links between Deripaska and Vesta International, but Kharon, a provider of information about the sub-authorized persons, claims that Oleg Deripaska created a trust in the British Virgin Islands in 2006 that owns American Vesta International. According to appraisers of the New York Department of Finance, the current market value of the mansion is $ 33 million, until October 1, the owner had to pay a quarterly tax of $ 138.6 thousand.
Zhukova is friends with the daughter of US President Ivanka Trump, together with Abramovich they often spent time with Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, the article says.
The sanctions against Deripaska and his company UC Rusal and the group En +, as well as against two dozen Russian officials and businessmen, were imposed in early April. US citizens are prohibited from doing business with them, the assets of those listed in the US must be frozen.
Later, the US Treasury said that restrictions on companies could be lifted if Deripaska gives up control of them, that is, leaves the board of directors together with associates and reduces its stake to less than 50%.
At the end of September, the US authorities extended until November 12 the period during which American investors should get rid of the assets associated with En + and UC Rusal. The media also wrote that En + had made "substantial progress" with the US authorities on the issue of lifting the sanctions.
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Many businesses lack the tools for effective online communication. Emails are inadequate as important information winds up in users' inboxes and never leaves. It is difficult for them to track if they have the most current version of the document. In addition, many older collaboration tools are not up to serving a mobile workforce that is not working in standard office locations. Centralized cloud services like online document management systems are now a major aspect of developing effective collaboration processes. Recent advances in document management systems have provided the means for us to collaborate and work collectively without sacrificing efficiency.
When you keep your documents in a central location that all employees can access, they can work without having to send updated versions to team members via email. With the older generation of collaboration tools, employees ran into the issue of being locked out of a document or working on the wrong version of a document, and this often led to multiple errors within the overall project. This is not a concern when there is only one version of a document, with up-to-the-second updates. Built in revision control and access logging features found today in document management systems also helps to overcome these issues.
When you store your documents online, employees will not be left out of the loop. If you make it easy to access documents, employees will be more driven to work on projects knowing they will have access to the most current versions of project and process documents. With online document management, not only do all employees get the ability to provide their input, they can contribute from wherever they are at any time of day.
One of the many drawbacks of email is the limitations on file size; many email servers are unable to handle files larger than a few megabytes at a time. With online document management, you simply provide access to the servers where the large files reside so that there is no need to send them.
Given that updates occur in real time, multiple members of a team can work on the same project without having to create multiple paper copies or to be in the same room. Everyone has access to the most current version, which appears with any changes that are made to the online document. In addition, there is no confusion about which version of a document is the most recent when you are using online document storage to collaborate.
Whether you store documents electronically within your own document management system or in the Cloud, instant access to the current version of documents improves morale and efficiency. One of the big benefits of the Cloud is flexibility; you can scale up or down according to need. In either case, online document management enables you to add resources to account for the number of collaborators and the volume of their contributions.
The ability of online document management systems to make you better organized and to enable increased employee participation make it a far superior option when compared to paper copies, email and other older collaboration tools.


For Sandy and many students with disabilities who attend school communities, the holidays can be a time of stress and depression, especially during scheduled and unscheduled school closures. When schools are closed due to the weather conditions or an emergency situation, that time of separation can be an especially tumultuous time for students with special needs who are conditioned to structured learning environments and instructional accommodations governed by IEPs (Individualized Education Plans).
In Sandy's situation, his IEP includes additional accommodations like physical therapy (PT) three times a week and weekly visits with a speech pathologist to work on verbal diagnostic issues, so he especially misses the structure of PT and working on his language and speech skills. After two days of school closure due to an unexpected winter snowfall, Sandy is feeling bluer than the coldest biting wind whipping up the flaky snow, and covering everything in Sandy's neighborhood and the city, including his favorite elementary school.
Sandy is a precocious 10 year old fifth grader, who loves to cut wheelies in his wheelchair out on the playground when he's not playing dodge-ball or basketball with his classmates. In Ms. Crowder's fifth grade class, Sandy is vivacious and incredibly engaging in class. He is a definitely a leader in exhibiting outstanding academic and social skills in his individual and group presentations. With his slight speech impediment, he is still able to verbalize his needs and wants in the class and students are so attuned to his voice, that they at times don't hear his mispronunciation of certain words like "cuq" instead of "cue." What Ms. Crowder has noted is that the other students listen attentively when Sandy presents because he is their valued classmate and friend.
For Ms. Crowder, Sandy is an ideal student academically and socially, but lately she's noticed with the impending holiday break that Sandy is out of sorts. He seems withdrawn and irritable which are a definite contrast to his usually sunny disposition. Sandy keeps asking to go online to see the weather report for the week which Ms. Crowder obliges initially. In speaking with Sandy's mother, Ms. Crowder learns that Sandy isn't sleeping through the night and he is constantly asking her about the weather and when will school start again. Sandy's mother thinks that her son appears to be coming down with a case of the "Holiday Blues," so she works with Ms. Crowder to figure out ways to help her son transition from the structure of daily school to the closure of school for the winter break.
In many school communities, Sandy and other special needs students see school closure and especially abrupt school closure as a breakdown in the consistency of a much needed and adhered to structured learning environment. Try using the following tips below to help students like Sandy see that school closure can become extended learning time to develop their favorite things to do beyond the classroom.
Anticipate school closures and prepare for expected school closures. Winter break, Thanksgiving, Mid-Winter break, holidays, and teacher professional days are a given on the school calendar. Help students with disabilities prepare for school closures by providing them with a school calender and using the calendar daily to mark down the days to the first and last school closures.
Have a larger sized school calendar visible in the classroom. Allow special education students to use a marker to put a check or x-mark on each day leading to holiday closures. Talk about what the holidays mean and how sometimes schools can close unexpectedly due to weather, emergencies such as a flood in the science lab or a medical outbreak like the flu.
Create projects around holiday closures that can extend into the holiday season or the school closure. For students with special needs, this will extend the learning objective and keep them preoccupied during the school closures.
Meet with student and parent prior to school closures and develop a game plan on school lessons, activities and special interest projects that students can engage in during their time off. Make sure that PT and speech pathologist schedules have built in make-up days during the school year.
In a week, Sandy and the other students at Airedale Elementary School will be out of school for two weeks during winter break. As Sandy silently watches his nondisabled peers screaming excitedly in the classroom on day one of the weekly countdown, he feels himself shrinking inwardly and disconnecting from his peers and the learning in the classroom. As the week proceeds quickly to the last two days before school closure, ten year old Sandy, is not his precocious outgoing self and his fifth grade classmates are not sure how to act in the classroom around him.
Ms. Crowder, Sandy's teacher is not sure how to act either, so she meets with Sandy's IEP (Individualized Education Plan) resource teacher, Mr. Paul to figure out how to intervene and get the exuberant and precocious Sandy back before school closes in two days. Mr. Paul points out that Sandy is a student with disabilities confined to a wheelchair who will not have his three times a week physical therapy sessions nor will he have the pull-out opportunities to work on his reading deficiency and writing skills that happen twice a week. The consistent structure that now defines Sandy's learning environment will change dramatically for a 10 year old who arrives daily on the special bus with its wheelchair lift and grabs the day with an exuberance and joy that creates a classroom atmosphere that is engaging for other students.
After talking with Mr. Paul, it is apparent to Ms. Crowder that Sandy needs an intervention of strategies that will help him deal with school closures and the "Holiday Blues." In designing the intervention strategies for Sandy, Ms. Crowder is hopeful that other students with special needs will find them helpful and constructive as well.
Figure out a way to have the student's physical therapy or other resource services maintained during the time off.
There are many strategies that can be used to help students with disabilities like Sandy deal with the "Holiday Blues." Teachers should remember that the holidays and school closures may have different meaning for students with special needs in the classroom.


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Some almonds (to make almond milk), polenta (I'm going to go through a LOT of that), garlic, ginger, a few veges, some tinned tomatoes, some butter (I'm making a bunch of kaanga waru – steamed corn and kumara pudding – for friends and family). Some olive oil, some free-range eggs, some lentils, some cumin seeds, and a jar of the BEST PEANUT BUTTER OUT. Pics Really Good Peanut Butter (drooooool).
Came to roughly about $40 and I'll probably pick up a few more veges from the vege truck later on in the week but this, plus my current stock, will do me for this week. Of course all of the plastic (and the olive oil bottle) was taken by myself to Bin Inn to fill up. I'm quite happy with what I got for the expense, actually – although it was dang heavy to bike back in the heat of the middle of the day. I'm also really enjoying reducing my use of centralized providers (i.e. PaknSave and Countdown) BUT… doing my shopping is now a day-long event, especially seeing as I bike everywhere.
Will just have to strategise a little better.
Gorgeous isn't she. Yes, she thinks so, too.
I had considered going to a butcher to get some meat for Ella, and had read online about other non-plastic folk who had been able to take their own containers down to the butchers and get some meat. I did a quick ring around today, and so far was only able to reach Village Butchery who was adamant that it is not possible to use anyone else's containers for their meat as it is a health and safety issue (one which apparently quite a few others seem to be able to get around) and they have to protect themselves from customers who come back and complain about contaminated meat, when the contamination actually came from the container. I did try pointing out that there are other providers who try more environmentally friendly approaches successfully but couldn't seem to be able to finish my sentences without being told it's simply not possible. So I thanked them for their time and carried on… I'll keep calling around the other meat providers in Gisborne to see if anyone can sort Ella out with some fresh meat but til then we'll go with the paper bagged dry biscuits (some of which I'll rehydrate and add oil, veges, and rice).
SO, yes… my first non-plastic shop. I've noticed before that there is a BUNCH of plastic at the supermarket (of course, it's one of the reasons I've embarked upon this project) – but you know, it's one of those things… when the necessity is placed upon you that you CANNOT purchase plastic , you can't help but get away from the fact that a supermarket is an OCEAN of plastic. Aisle after aisle after aisle of plastic. Either completely packaged, or windowed, or lined (those sneaky tins with plastic lining grrrr they undermine my confidence in tinned food) or cardboard boxes with plastic bags INSIDE (double grrr ohhh the sneaky sneakiness).
I'm not THAT much of a sweet tooth and in any case I can make my own sweets if I really want to. What was REALLY going to break my heart was crackers – I don't really do bread… but I DO do crackers – I'm a snacker, most especially because it's the type of food I can eat while typing/reading/marking/planning etc.
THAT WAS UNTIL…. I had a fortunate mishap with my polenta – put it in the sandwich grill with the intention of crisping it up a little bit, forgot about it, and came back a few minutes later to a perfect little flat crispy corn tortilla it was omggggosssh yummy! Kinda tasted like cheezels – YES CHEEZELS – cheesy, starchy, additive/preservative laden guilt fodder. And seriously all it was, was polenta, vege stock, and some butter (I don't normally do butter but had some in the fridge from a kaanga waru frenzy over the holidays). I'm about to try an olive oil version and will post the recipe and pics up.
Like the girl at the sushi shop who simply cocked her head when I asked for my vegetarian sushi to be put straight into the paper bag (I had decided to use my lunch container to buy some brown rice but only felt like a couple of pieces of inari anyway).
Really… the ceiling won't collapse if you put the damn sushi straight into the bag. Of course she's very sweet so I just smiled and waited for her to come to terms with what was required of her.
Eventually she did, and then tried to add a little plastic soy bottle (which I caught in time, saying "no plastic")… then she smiled and tried to seal the paper bag with cellotape (which I caught in time and repeated, again "no plastic") and THEN… yes… she tried to put the paper bag in a plastic bag for me to take away. Yeah. She did. I caught her again and, one last time, said "No plastic". By now she looked like she was about to freak out so I smiled as genuinely as I could to her as I paid and left. She was very sweet, and VERY unsettled with the whole experience. The next time I will be taking my own container for her to put it into which I'm sure will be a lot easier on her senses but it was still interesting watching her struggle with the break from her norm.
You know… here's the thing that, in light of that experience and the phone call to Village Butchers, has occurred to me. We're not just addicted to plastic – we've psychologically equated plastic to cleanliness and order. We've equated single use to hygiene and consequently to better health. It's a perverse notion that is in conflict with indigenous models of wellbeing (where environmental health sits alongside physical, emotional, spiritual and communal health). It's also a notion that is reinforced by the wasteful, lazy market within which we reside. Of course there are alternatives but if they are not supported or promoted then the default of plastic will continue to reassert itself in our psyche as the best, or only, option.
Storytelling as a means of social control is not a new discussion – BUT I like how she breaks down the psychological building blocks of our tendency to imitate based NOT ONLY on observed behavior, but also on the traces of behavior that we see around us, and the stories that we are told.
I guess that's another important aspect of this project – the more of us take up this challenge, the less of an accepted norm plastic addiction is. The more pressure there will be on suppliers to diversify to non-plastic alternatives, and the greater a market there will be for non-plastic alternatives.
I'll try to update every week – or sooner if something occurs to me. Hey if anyone knows of a butcher in Gisborne that will allow me to bring my own container, for Ella's meat, please drop me a message.


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Custom-built molecules enable editing of genes previously obscured by DNA's innately protective structure
DNA is obscured by closed chromatin, an innately protective structure made up of proteins that interact with each other and with DNA. New activation associated proteins (AAPs) can be custom-built to bind near and open up chromatin so that DNA is made more accessible to gene-editing molecules like CRISPR. Credit: Karmella Haynes
Protein editorial assistants are clearing the way for cut-and-paste DNA editors, like CRISPR, to access previously inaccessible genes of interest. Opening up these areas of the genetic code is critical to improving CRISPR efficiency and moving toward futuristic, genetic-based assaults on disease.
The DNA-binding editorial assistants were devised by a U.S.-based team of bioengineers, who describe their design in APL Bioengineering.
"The innovation in this paper is having another protein co-delivered with the CRISPR DNA editor, moving chromatin packaging out of the way, so CRISPR has greater access to the DNA," said lead author Karmella Haynes, from Arizona State University and Emory University.
DNA doesn't usually sit inside cells as a freely accessible double helix. It's heavily wrapped up in a protective package called chromatin, which controls what genes are activated or silenced by a cell at any moment in time. Unfortunately, this packaging prevents scientists, who are accessing DNA, from correcting disease-causing mutations.
Haynes describes chromatin blocking as "the elephant in the room" in CRISPR discussions, but it wasn't directly proved until 2016, when Haynes' team conducted some clever experiments capturing the effect. Her team is trying to fix the problem by investigating different methods of chromatin disruption.
They used a well-established artificial system, where chromatin packaging can be turned on or off for one gene—luciferase—which codes for an easily detected luminous protein. When examining the chromatin-packed state, the team found several editorial assistants, which are called DNA-binding transiently expressed activation-associated proteins (AAPs), disrupted the chromatin and enabled CRISPR to successfully edit the luciferase gene.
"The idea is that if CRISPR needs to bind in the middle of a gene but can't bind close enough to edit the mutation, you could send in our chromatin-opening protein to right outside that hard-to-bind region, rearrange the chromatin, and make the DNA across that gene more accessible for CRISPR to edit the gene," explained Haynes, who is keen for others to use her system to improve CRISPR efficiency. She pointed out the AAPs can be adapted to target different genes, simply by switching the DNA-binding regions.
"It'd be interesting to find out whether one type of AAP is more effective at disrupting chromatin at some genes versus others. Or whether combining proteins together might further enhance CRISPR editing," said Haynes. "I envision there being a whole catalog of CRISPR cofactors that can be used to enhance CRISPR activity."
More information: "Site-directed targeting of transcriptional activation-associated proteins to repressed chromatin restores CRISPR activity," APL Bioengineering, DOI: 10.1063/1.5127302
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Sean P. Sullivan, Vice Provost for Academic Planning, has informed me of his plan to retire from the University at Buffalo, effective October 1, 2018.
In his nearly four decades at the university, Sean has held a variety of administrative positions, all of which have capitalized on his significant institutional knowledge, creativity and remarkable strategic planning capability. Sean joined UB in 1979 in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and served on the staff of President Steven Sample before joining Provost William Greiner's office in 1986 as Assistant to the Provost for Facilities and Budget Management. He has had the distinction of serving under all of UB's provosts in roles that have included Vice Provost for Academic Planning and Budget, Vice Provost for Enrollment and Planning, and Vice Provost for Academic Information and Planning. Since 2016, Sean has served as Vice Provost for Academic Planning.
Throughout his career, Sean has been an exemplary UB citizen whose knowledge and skillset combined with personal integrity and a strong work ethic have been critical to the success of ten provosts, the Office of the Provost and the university.
In particular the university and its provosts have relied on Sean's significant strategic and academic planning abilities and creative approach to problem solving. He is a visionary optimist who has a gift for bringing people together to set ambitious goals, identifying imaginative opportunities that lead to substantial programs, and establishing effective assessment measures. Over the years, he has played a critical role in the creation of strategic plans that have significantly impacted our university, among them, the landmark NYSUNY 2020 legislation, UB 2020, Building UB: Physical Plan, and Realizing UB 2020. In the early 2000s, his planning efforts focused on enrollment, and as a result, the university grew by nearly 3,000 students, while at the same time the quality and diversity of incoming students was enhanced.
Under previous provosts' administrations, Sean created a budget model that integrated enrollment and financial planning, aligned campus resources with strategic goals, incentivized excellence across the university, and enabled UB's advancement and success despite significant state budget reductions. Based on the success of UB's budget model, SUNY turned to Sean to collaborate with system leadership to develop a resource allocation model for the entire SUNY system. Sean also was critical to the development of numerous important capital projects across all three of UB's campuses including Davis Hall, Greiner Hall, the Clinical and Translational Research Center, and the UB Gateway Building.
More recently, Sean has been key to the creation, implementation and facilitation of innovative initiatives that have established UB as a higher education leader and advanced the university. To name just a few, these include the UB Curriculum, Communities of Excellence and UB RENEW, Strategic Strengths, Student Response Center, and UBThisSummer. In an earlier role, Sean worked with IT staff and deans to significantly increase technology and computing capacity across the university, placing UB at the forefront of using advanced computing in our education and scholarship.
For years, Sean has served as a critical resource for UB's deans, providing academic planning support and counsel. This is especially true in his current role as Vice Provost for Academic Planning, in which Sean has focused his creativity and outstanding planning and coordinating abilities on UB's academic programs. Through his leadership of the Educational Collaborations Committee and Task Force on Educational Entrepreneurship, in collaboration with university faculty and senior leaders, Sean has been crucial in planning and facilitating new and emerging academic projects that cut across departments and schools. His efforts have established a model for creating innovative and interdisciplinary degrees, resulting in exciting new programs, including a number of new dual degree programs and several interdisciplinary degrees in areas such as Sustainability, Genetic Counseling, and Computational Data-Enabled Sciences. In recognition of his significant contributions and accomplishments, Sean received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service.
A lifelong learner who is deeply committed to higher education, Sean is nearing completion of his doctorate in History at UB. He holds a BA in English and History with honors from Canisius College.
Colleagues, please join me in thanking Sean for his nearly four decades of dedicated service to the university. His contributions have helped transform UB into the world-class university we are today. We wish Sean much continued success and enjoyment in his well-earned retirement.


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(1869-1902). Pioneer Seventh-day Adventist evangelistic and medical missionary in Central America. He was brought into the Seventh-day Adventist Church at an early age as the result of tent meetings in California and studied for the ministry at Healdsburg and Battle Creek colleges. Soon after graduation he was offered ministerial work in Oregon, but he chose to take a medical course at the University of Michigan instead. However, a few weeks after matriculation he accepted an appointment to the Bay Islands in Central America, where he and his wife pioneered SDA work in 1891. On his advice, the General Conference built a small schooner, the Herald, with which mission work could be carried on more expeditiously among the islands of that area, and this served as the mission home for several y...
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P/1937 D1 Wilk è una cometa periodica appartenente alla Famiglia delle comete halleidi. La cometa è considerata, a causa del suo relativamente piccolo arco osservativo, sia come una cometa perduta, sia come una cometa non periodica sia come una cometa periodica, quest'ultima definizione è considerata più probabile delle altre, un suo eventuale nuovo passaggio al perielio permetterebbe di stabilire definitivamente il tipo di orbita seguita dalla cometa.

Scoperta

La cometa è stata scoperta il 27 febbraio 1937 dall'astronomo polacco Antoni Wilk: per un certo periodo subito dopo la scoperta, poiché l'astrofilo statunitense Leslie Copus Peltier aveva osservato la cometa poche ore dopo la scoperta di Wilk, la cometa è stata chiamata 1937c Wilk-Peltier, in seguito l'osservazione di Peltier è stata considerata una scoperta indipendente e quindi alla cometa è stato dato il solo nome di Wilk.

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HomeWorld SportWatching 'Free Solo' star climb without ropes
Watching 'Free Solo' star climb without ropes
Honnold is the star of a new two-part virtual reality (VR) series which follows him as he demonstrates his skills on unforgiving mountains in the Dolomites, Italy, and in his familiar stomping ground of the US.
Audiences, who require a Meta headset to watch the series, get to see Honnold shimmy up rock faces using just his hands and feet. Look down, and viewers get a very real sense of just how far he is off the ground.
"I'd never done anything in VR, so it seemed like an opportunity to do something new and interesting," Honnold told CNN Sport, speaking about the making of the 'Alex Honnold: The Soloist VR.'
Honnold was joined on the adventure by a number climbers, as well as series producer Jonathan Griffith.
Griffith had already demonstrated the art of VR in a stunning project focused on Mount Everest, but the opportunity to work with the world-renowned Honnold was an exciting prospect.
'You never panic'
Griffith had worked with plenty of professional climbers but was impressed with how methodical Honnold was, which helped the producer feel more comfortable filming the sometimes death defying routes.
On occasion, Honnold is hanging on to the rock face with one hand, at other times he's seen hanging upside down with nothing between him and the ground.
While viewers can enjoy watching stunning sunsets and the beautiful orange light they throw across towering mountains, the series also shows Honnold climbing in the mist and cloud.
At one point, viewers are seemingly standing in the clouds as mist rolls in with Honnold climbing in an almost dream-like setting.
The show allows for a new appreciation of the strength, flexibility and mental fortitude which has made Honnold such a name.
"They're very thoughtful human beings," Griffith told CNN Sport when asked what it was like working with free soloists — those who climb without ropes.
"And when they go and solo something, they don't just turn up and go crazy on it. There's an awful lot of planning and training and everything else that's gone in before they even set foot on the solo.
"So when you watch people like Alex solo, he's always in control. He's never panicking and terrified. I mean, that really would be terrifying to watch. But he's so calm on the rock when he's soloing.
"He just exudes confidence and chill when he's soloing, so you never panic."
'Sharing with my family is the most important thing'
Griffith had his work cut out trying to capture Honnold and world-class alpinist Nicolas Hojac — who helped guide the team through the Dolomites.
The equipment needed to shoot in virtual reality isn't light and was hauled up and down the rock faces wherever they went. The crew would then hide behind corners or rocks so viewers are left with an unspoilt view of Honnold climbing in these astonishing settings.
The camera itself, which weighs around 5.5 kilos, is actually made up of eight different cameras, allowing Griffith to shoot in 3D.
Then comes the rigging system which aims to get the camera as far away from the rock face as possible while still keeping the very expensive equipment safe and secure.
Griffith said it took the team over a year to mastermind the complex rigging system which can be set up while hanging off the side of a mountain.
But the outcome, Honnold says, was worth the extra effort.
"I'm not normally that impressed by soloing footage because, in general, the memory of the experience of something is more powerful than watching it on film," he says.
"But the VR experience is pretty close.
"Sharing with my family is the most important thing, having people close to me actually understand what we're doing and where we are and what it feels like.
"My mother-in-law has been watching the film five minutes at a time. She will watch five minutes and get all stressed out and put it away. And then the next day she will watch five more minutes."
Given his standing, Honnold is asked to feature in numerous projects around the world but, it seems, working in VR with Griffith has captured his imagination.
The pair both seem excited about collaborating again and Honnold, named as a producer in the series, has ideas about what could come next.
"I've already floated some ideas to Jonathan," he laughed.
"I'm very proud of the final result. I think it's great. You know, honestly, if anybody would have us, I would happily do it again.
"The whole experience was great and I got to do a month of great climbing. I'm very, very pleased with the whole thing and I would happily do more of it."
Griffith, who spent hours painstakingly going through the footage in post-production, said he'd also be keen after taking a break from such an intense and time consuming project.
"I feel like it'd be really hard now to better it because my brain is just like tons of sponge cake after that project," Griffith said.
"But I know, in about two months' time, I'll look back on it and I'll think 'we should have done that better and that could have been better' and I'll get totally psyched to do another one."
Alex Honnold: 'Free Solo' star in new virtual reality series - CNN
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Immunoglobulin A (IgA) is an antibody that can play a crucial role in your immune function. Antibodies are proteins produced innately in response to substances that your body believes to be foreign, like bacteria and viruses.
IgA is located within your mucosal membranes (ex: saliva, respiratory and digestive tract) and blood. IgA interacts with foreign substances to create a neutralization of the pathogen.
Adequate levels of IgA can be correlated with adequate immune function: the more IgA you have, the more effective your immune system is.
Your IgA levels are part of your immune system which is a network of cells, tissues and organs that work together to attack foreign substances that try to invade your body. Your immune system is regulated by your neurological system through the brain sending messages down your spinal column to the appropriate cells, tissues and organs that produce the chemical production of your immunoglobulins, like IgA.
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Ten games and two goals into the season and Osama Rashid, 23, is already making waves across the Portuguese Segunda Liga. The midfielder has settled in well at Sporting Clube Farense following his departure from Dutch side Alphense Boys last summer. As is the case with many Iraqi expat players, his story is a long and arduous one. Born in Kirkuk and raised in Holland before his move to Portugal, Osama offered a rare insight into his journey as we spoke. His humility and laidback demeanour were noticeably contrasting with his explosiveness on the pitch. Although shy and polite, the Iraqi international held nothing back in this exclusive interview.
You've made a very promising start to your SC Farense career. How happy have you been with your form?
"My form is getting better. At the start, it was obviously difficult due to the intensity of the league being a lot higher than Holland. It's very physical here but I feel better now and I'm learning to adapt my game. I've been working hard at the gym too. More importantly, I'm actually playing matches. The more you play, the fitter and sharper you become, which is helping me get used to the standard of football here. The first four matches were a little bit difficult but it's getting better. I have a good feeling about the way things are going so far.
How are you finding life in Portugal?
"I'm currently living with my Saudi teammate (Saeed Al Mowalad). The club have provided us with a really good apartment here in Faro. It's going pretty well. I'm learning to cook for myself. Recently it was international break and we never had a club match, so I was able to go back to Holland and visit my family. I was so happy to eat Iraqi food again. I miss everything – all the foods! Fassoolia, bamya and dolma especially.
Life here is very good – the weather is good. It's going well. Most of the players here speak English so that's helped me settle in a lot. Luckily, I speak a little bit of Spanish too, which is not too dissimilar to Portuguese.
Did you receive any other offers in the summer, and what attracted you to SC Farense?
What did you make of Iraq's chances for World Cup qualification after their performances against Chinese Taipei and Thailand?
"I think we can make it. The performance against Chinese Taipei was good but the game against Thailand was less so. We threw it away in the last ten minutes. When I turned up to training, everyone was asking me how we managed to throw away the game after leading 2-0. I only managed to see the goals and not the full match because I had training.
There were some complications in your recent call up to the Iraq squad. What happened?
The national team did exceptionally well under Radhi Shenaishil at the last Asian Cup. What did he excel at?
"Honestly, previously I always felt some tension between expats and the local players but when Radhi came in, it was different. From the first day, he sat us down and explained to everybody that there was no differences between us and that we were one. He made it clear that nobody was allowed to use the words 'mughtarifeen' (expat) anymore either – we were all the same.
He was very respectful to everybody there and everyone respected him too. The way he worked, but also as a person. For example, in the Asian Cup, the players had received bonuses after reaching the semis. He made sure all the other staff received their fair share too, such as those in charge of equipment, etc.
Gonzalo Rodriguez seems to have a very positive relationship with a lot of the players. How did you find working with him?
"He's brilliant at what he does. He knows his stuff and has worked for enormous clubs like Liverpool and Valladolid. Fitness coaches … Very few footballers like them! But with him, it was really good. He makes it fun. He always tries being creative with his exercises so you're never thinking: "I don't want to do this again". He's very experienced, and polite.
How important are expat players to the future of Iraqi football?
"They're the future of Iraq. I say this with respect to all the local players, who are of course fantastic too. It's a sensitive topic to discuss sadly, as I don't want this to come across as an attack on local players. Regardless, the expat players hold an important position in the future of Iraqi football. I hope the local players also make moves towards Europe and follow in the footsteps of Ali Adnan and Dhurgham Ismail.
It's a tough challenge for local players to move to Europe for various reasons. The difference in cultures and lifestyle make it difficult. Aspects like dietary changes and discipline, intensity of training and leaving families behind all have a massive impact. The Iraqi league finishing so late into the European transfer window causes problems too as players are expected to jump straight into their new sides without resting. I can see more players moving to Turkey before taking a step elsewhere.
Before you became a familiar face in Iraqi football, did it come as a shock to you just how big football is to Iraqis?
"The first time it really hit me was when we arrived in Sweden for our friendly match against Brazil. I must've been 19 or something. We arrived in the airport and it was completely full. The police were trying to control the fans but there were just too many Iraqis who had turned up to greet the players. The fans eventually forced their way into the baggage handling area. This one man, he must've been around fifty, he started hugging and kissing me. I was shocked and didn't know what to do, or what was happening. I had goosebumps. It was the first time where I really appreciated just how big football was to Iraqi fans.
Iraqi fans are always messaging me on social media too. They're very nice – at least I think they are. They always write to me in Arabic and I don't read Arabic that well. Sometimes its better to just pretend they're all saying nice stuff!
Away from the football pitch, what's been your best experience so far with the Iraqi national team?
Do you have any memories of Iraq's Asian Cup win in 2007?
Captain Younis Mahmoud Lifts The Asian Cup In The Final After Scoring The Winner vs. Saudi Arabia, 2007.
What was it like featuring in arguably the greatest Asian Cup match ever against Iran in 2015?
"I think I almost had a heart attack! It was unbelievable. I didn't play in that match so I was watching from the bench. It was very hard to watch – we were losing initially 1-0, then 1-1, then 2-1 for us, and it was in the last second they equalised for 3-3. After they scored, I couldn't believe it. I remember thinking "this can't be happening".
Afterwards, it went to penalties, which is different. Our player advantage didn't matter and it was 50:50 again. After we won it on penalties, I remember the entire stadium exploding – loads of fans bursting into tears. It was amazing. We had a small party with the fans afterwards too. It's the craziest match I've ever been part of.
On the pitch, where does the Iraq team need to improve?
Do you have any childhood memories of living in Iraq?
"When I was three years old, there was an ice-cream truck driving around our area. I wanted to buy some and I asked my dad for money. I started running after the truck but I ran out barefoot, without my ni3al (sandles). There was some glass all over the floor, which I didn't see. I ran over it and my feet were bleeding badly. I'm okay now though!
Growing up, did you have any footballing role models, or players that you tried to base your game on?
Who is the best player you've played against and which famous players have you swapped shirts with?
"The Ramires shirt is my favourite, maybe. No! It's my Mario Götze shirt from the European Champion U17 (representing Holland as a youth player). I also have a Jack Wilshire shirt. The Götze shirt is my favourite though.
If you can change anything in your career, what would it be?
Do you have any pre-game rituals or superstitions?
On the pitch, how are your skills best utilised?
What do you think the next step in your career will be?
If you weren't a footballer, what would you be doing for a living now?
Finally, is there anything you'd like to tell the Iraqi jumhoor?
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Osama Rashid for taking time out to discuss all these topics so thoroughly and honestly with me. You can find him on Twitter @OsamaRashid92 and on Instagram @OsamaRashid8. Find me on Twitter too @Nashat_Hassan. Thanks for reading.
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Ronald Reagan ran in 1980 with a strong and clear message the world was a hostile place and closing in on America. Russian troops were in Afghanistan, Sandinistas were in Nicaragua, and Americans were being held hostage in Iran. President Reagan wanted to reinvigorate the CIA. To run it, he chose a tough director, his campaign manager, William Casey.
They were ideological soulmates, true Cold Warriors on the offensive. In seven years Reagan approved over 50 major covert operations, more than any president since John F. Kennedy. Reagan and Casey set the agenda, but it was Oliver North's job to carry it out. In North, they had their 007.
Were there contras who relied on the profits of narcotics in order to buy arms and to survive? Yes. I'm convinced of that. Once you open up a clandestine network which has the ability to deliver weapons or other goods from this country, leaving airfields secretly under the sanction of a "covert operation," with public officials, DEA, Customs, law enforcement, whatever, pulled back because of the covert sanctioning, you've opened the pipeline for nefarious types who are often involved in these kinds of activities to become the people who bring things back in.
North had been told the airlift was using questionable characters. Robert Owen, his contact man with the contras, wrote from the field that some of the leaders were running drugs. In February 1986, Owen advised North that a resupply plane had been used for shipping drugs. In Owen's words, "Part of the crew had criminal records."
The second sentence says, "Nice group the boys choose." Who are the boys?
So what happens? I asked Senator Kerry: "In effect, does the president of the United States say, 'This is the national security, you must step back and let these people do their job,' and therefore a lot of smugglers, drug traffickers, others, go through the back door?"
I don't think the president of the United States said specifically, "Look the other way to these things." I don't think the president of the United States knew these things were going on. But the president of the United States did encourage to such a degree the continuation of aid to the contras, and it was so clear, through Casey and Poindexter, etc., that this was going to please the president if it happened. It's clear that there were those who turned their heads and looked the other way because they knew that this major goal was out there and it was part of it, and if there happened to be these minor aberrations, as people referred to them, that was the price you were paying in the effort to accomplish the larger goal. Which larger goal, obviously, was against the law and against the wishes of the Congress and against the American people.
How does it happen that to be anticommunist we become undemocratic, as if we have to subvert our society in order to save it? Because the powers claimed by presidents in national security have become the controlling wheel of government, driving everything else. Secrecy then makes it possible for the president to pose as the sole competent judge of what will best protect our security. Secrecy permits the White House to control what others know. How many times have we heard a president say, "If you only knew what I know, you would understand why I'm doing what I'm doing." But it's a self-defeating situation. As Lord Acton said, "Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice." So in the bunker of the White House, the men who serve the president put loyalty above analysis. Judgment yields to obedience. Just salute and follow orders.
This lieutenant colonel is not going to challenge a decision of the commander in chief, for whom I still work, and I am proud to work for that commander in chief. And if the commander in chief tells this lieutenant colonel to go stand in the corner and sit on his head, I will do so.
That notion troubled Inouye, a combat hero of World War II. He reminded North of the military code, of a soldier's duty.
Mr. Chairman, may I please register an objection?
May I continue my statement?
I find this offensive. I find you're engaging in a personal attack on Colonel North, and you're far removed from the issues of this case.
North's lawyer deflected Inouye, but some of North's fellow officers watching on television took issue with the colonel.
I'm two years senior to Oliver North out of the Naval Academy, and the only thing he's got on me is a Silver Star and six more years in the Corps. And when Oliver North started to say the things he started to say, I literally wanted to throw things at my TV set. I seriously considered mailing my Naval Academy ring back to the Naval Academy and denying ever having gone there. I was so embarrassed and humiliated that a professional military officer would stoop to the dishonor and disgrace and warmongering that Oliver North and Poindexter and McFarlane and the rest of the crew did. Selling arms to the Iranians after they blew up the Beirut barracks, after they blew up the Beirut embassy, is the most immoral thing- that's like selling Zyklon-B to the Germans after you've found out the Holocaust is under way.
One of my drill instructors in the Marine Corps - [it was at a time when] there were a of protests in Washington, D.C., and somebody said, well, those commie lovers, or whatever - and the drill instructor told us something as we were about to graduate. He said, "What you're fighting for might be wrong or right, nobody really knows. But,"(he said) "there's a Constitution that allows those people to be out on the streets protesting." (He said) "That's what's worth fighting for. That's what the Constitution is." He said, "That's what you took an oath to, and when you put those bars on as a second lieutenant, you better remember that." I don't think Oliver North had that drill instructor.
It was career military men who managed the Iran-contra debacle under Reagan and Casey; North, Poindexter, McFarlane, Secord, and Singlaub were trained to fight wars, not run foreign policy. In war, the aim is absolute and simple: destroy the enemy, no matter what. They had little understanding of politics in Iran, in Nicaragua, and, most important, in Washington. Yet our foreign policy has increasingly become a military policy. Reagan has doubled the number of military men on the staff of the National Security Council. What was created in 1947 as a civilian advisory group to the president has become a command post for covert operations run by the military. Far removed from public view and congressional oversight, they are accountable only to the one man they serve. The framers of the Constitution feared this permanent state of war, with the commander in chief served by an elite private corps that put the claims of the sovereign above the Constitution.
This is the first page of an order signed and approved by President Reagan.
You have testified that, as a member of the National Security Council staff, you conducted a covert operation, and my question is, did the president specifically designate the National Security Council staff for that purpose?
I think what I have said consistently is that I believe that the president has the authority to do what he wants with his own staff, that I was a member of his staff, that Mr. McFarlane was, and that Admiral Poindexter was, and in pursuing the president's foreign policy goals of support for the Nicaraguan resistance, he was fully within his rights to send us off to talk to foreign heads of state, to seek the assistance of those foreign heads of state to use other than U.S. government moneys, and to do so without a finding.
"Without a finding." The law requires presidents to make a finding that the national interests will be served by a covert action and to report it to Congress in a timely fashion. The idea is to make sure that both Congress and the executive, each elected independently by the people, are accountable for what is done in our name. But Reagan gave himself permission to ignore the requirements of the law: when he sold arms to our avowed enemy in Iran, he signed the finding after the fact and then ordered that it not be reported to Congress. The president becomes his own arbiter of the law in matters of national security. Or, in Richard Nixon's words, "When the president does it, that means it is not illegal."
I think it is very important for the American people to understand that this is a dangerous world, that we live at risk, and that this nation is at risk in a dangerous world.
The issue here is not whether we should pursue a foreign policy that guards against the Soviet Union. That's not the issue, because obviously in significant ways the Soviet Union represents a threat to our interests around the world and to our values. The problem is the excessive American perception of that threat, the pathological ways we construe that threat, and what it leads us to do. Because in addition to distorting our domestic priorities, to undermining our democratic civil liberties at home, in the end, arguably, it actually does damage to our national security.
There is, I reminded Professor Firmage, a doctrine called "the reason of state," which holds that whatever is necessary to defend the state's survival must be done by the individuals responsible for it. "Doesn't that," I asked, take precedence over this 18th-century set of values?"
I think the survival of the state is what the Constitution is about. The reason of state argument is a very slippery thing, and at heart, at best amoral.
Oh, you bet. I would say it ranges from amoral on the good side, to just basically immoral.
Assume I'm president, and I'm going to say, Professor Firmage, that's all wonderful, but I deal in an ugly world. The United States is a wonderful place, relatively, because of this document, because of the values the founders inculcated in us, but the world beyond these borders is a pretty ugly world. People don't like us, people don't share those values, people are out to get us. And if I don't do the ugly things that are necessary to protect us from an ugly world, you won't be able to exercise the right of free speech out at that university."
I would say poppycock, Mr. President. That is simply nonsense. The whole fight is over means, not ends. Every president with every good intention, and every tyrant, with whatever his intention, has used precisely the same argument. That is, don't constrain me by means, and I will get you there safely and well. And I think any time we accept a reason of state argument to justify means that are totally incongruent with the values of our state, we're on the high road to tyranny and we deserve to be there.
Our nation was born in rebellion against tyranny. We are the fortunate heirs of those who fought for America's freedom and then drew up a remarkable charter to protect it against arbitrary power. The Constitution begins with the words, "We the people." The government gathers its authority from the people, and the governors are as obligated to uphold the law as the governed. That was revolutionary. Listen now to the voices of some people who believe the fight for freedom isn't over.
I am a citizen of this country. That's the highest thing you can be, and you'd better tell me the truth because we don't run a secret country, and we don't run a secret government.
Roger Wilkins and his family have long battled for a more just America.
And if we continue these policies, to rob ourselves in order to feed this national security monster, we are going to continue to degrade American life. That's not real national security. National security for the United States is making the United States a good place to live, where people want to be active, intelligent, involved citizens. For people at the top to say, "This world is so complicated and so dangerous, just a few of us need to govern it and hold the secrets in and we will tell you what's good for you," that is moving down the road to dictatorship.
The national security argument now interferes with every American's right ( to understand its government. That's what secrecy's all about these days.
Scott Armstrong is director of the National Security Archive, a public interest group devoted to a more open government. He has pored over the Iran-contra evidence and believes Congress has failed to deal with the fundamental constitutional issues.
The Founding Fathers never intended for George Washington to be able to go to George III and say, "I don't like what Congress has done here. Give me some money, I'll hire some mercenaries, and we'll call it American foreign policy." That would have been treason.
Gail Jensen, Marylee Fithian, and Nancy Jones live in Minneapolis. Last summer they organized citizens around the state to monitor the Iran-contra hearings as a way of increasing public awareness.
The church I go to, we have a hymn and the words go something like, "I wish that my eyes had never been opened." Because if they'd been opened, I'd have to do something about it, an I think that that's a problem with a lot of people in this country:(they) don't want their eyes to be opened because they're very comfortable, very secure; and if their eyes are opened, they're going to have to do something.
The people that we're talking to have quite-they recognize that we're only talking about subverting the Constitution, that's all.
The American people are part of the checks and balances. It's not just the executive branch and the Congress and the judicial branch; the people have a role too.
I grew up just feeling. . .the system out here's pretty hunky-dory; all you have to do is admire it and respect it and let it keep operating. We'll always have freedom, we'll always have democracy, we'll always have free elections. [Now] I've got to question. . . [if] that's going to continue-unless I decide to go for it and keep on effecting change.
Pete Edstrom, a dairy farmer in Wisconsin, is a believer in the American way. With his pastor and other farmers, he started a newspaper to rally their neighbors to community action.
If there's anything I want my children to understand, it's the concept of the old town meeting type of politics where people do it, people are involved, people are informed. I think that probably the problems this country are in right now-the [Iran-contra] hearings are a classic example-are clearly a case of an American people not having been involved.
Walter Chilsen is a Republican state senator in Wisconsin, a popular conservative who says the hearings this summer forced him to reconsider his support for U.S. policy in Central America.
When you've been a Republican for 20 years, and you like to say that the Republicans are the best guys, the guys in the white hats,-the recognition that indeed in this very important situation, that wasn't the case, that the policy was dead wrong, [makes me feel] an obligation to speak out.
Senator Chilsen's change of heart was personal and political. At the urging of their daughter, Liz, Senator Chilsen and his wife went to Central America to see for themselves. When they returned, he was still critical of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, but he was also convinced that an American-backed war on peasants was not the way to stop communism.
There's a great danger that in this country we would accept automatically things that are said to us in a doctrinaire fashion-you know, that we've got to be fighting communism- That can be the whitewash that can cover up a multitude of sins.... We can't be fighting for democracy in Central America and-seeing it shredded back here at home.
President Reagan's men did learn one thing from Watergate. Richard Nixon said it only last year: "Just destroy all the tapes."
The memoranda that you sent up to Admiral Poindexter, seeking the president's approval.
Well, that was going to be my very next question, Colonel North. Isn't it true that you shredded them?
It doesn't have to be. The people who wrote this Constitution lived in a world more dangerous than ours. They were surrounded by territory controlled by hostile powers, on the edge of a vast wilderness. Yet they understood that even in perilous times, the strength of self-government was public debate and public consensus. They knew too that men are fallible, themselves included, and prone to abuse great office. They left us safeguards against men whose appetites for power might exceed their moral wisdom.
To forget this-to ignore the safeguards, to put aside our basic values out of fear, to imitate the foe in order to defeat him- is to shred the distinction that makes us different. For, in the end, not only our values but our methods separate us from the enemies of freedom. The decisions we make are inherent in the methods that produce them. An open society cannot survive a secret government. Constitutional democracy is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.
Citizens have a moral responsibility for the decisions made by their government that lead to the death of other people.
A theoretician of low-intensity warfare, who has been a consultant to the Reagan administration, warns that the United States cannot successfully wage little wars around the world unless the media and Congress cooperate.


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