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THE ENTERPRISE--SPECIAL EDITION--CLIMATE CHANGE—THE FLEECING OF AMERICA VIA WIDESPREAD MYTH & MISINFORMATION
Why do countless scientists and journalists and political figures continue to distort and manipulate climate reports for decades? The answer is the phrase from the movie Jerry Maguire: "Show me the money!" Scientists depend on grants. Journalists depend on readers/viewers. Politicians are known to distort information (or lies) so they can win elections.
A headline, "Everything in Climate Change is OK—Not much different than it's ever been" would not encourage grants, attract audiences or stir the emotions of voters.
IF IT BLEEDS, IT LEADS, NO MATTER WHOSE BLOOD IT IS. —William Randolph Hearst, 1898. News paper publisher.
The opinions I have formed on this topic of Climate Change are drawn from multiple sources, and several people whose expertise far exceeds mine. A couple of important distinctions, actually definitions—to begin with. Weather and Climate are often confused as being interchangeable terms. They are NOT. According to NOAA: "Whereas 'weather' refers to short-term changes in the atmosphere, 'climate' describes what the 'weather' is like over a long period of time in a specific area. Different regions can have different climates…"
Here's just one of many typical FALSE statements carried widely by news media attempting to sensationalize Climate Change:
President Joe Biden often says: "Climate change is 'the existential threat of our time" is simply wrong.
(It's actually unfair to blame Biden's ignorance—or cognitive impairment—for the inaccuracy of this statement. His speechwriters write nearly everything he says/reads.) When anyone, including President Biden talks about "the science [about climate change] being settled"—they are also simply wrong.
Whoever claims that may be simply misinformed, mistaken, lying, distorting the facts or all of these things, usually to to support what they want us all to believe about "Climate Change" or that The Science is settled. The Science is "not settled." Maybe it never will be!
I capitalized The Science, as did author Steven Kooniin (former science advisor for the Obama administration) in his excellent recent book "Unsettled —What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters.
This is necessary to differentiate what so many politicians, scientists, reporters and journalists are claiming is "settled" —when it fact, it is far from settled—and probably cannot be "settled."
Rather than duplicate a fine piece from the WSJ, I am posting it here. It explains far better and more succinctly than I could.
Climate Change Brings a Flood of Hyperbole
Despite constant warnings of catastrophe, things aren't anywhere near as dire as the media say.
By Steven E. Koonin Aug. 10, 2021 6:33 pm ET ©Wall Street Journal
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued its latest report assessing the state of the climate and projecting its future. As usual, the media and politicians are exaggerating and distorting the evidence in the report. They lament an allegedly broken climate and proclaim, yet again, that we are facing the "last, best chance" to save the planet from a hellish future. In fact, things aren't—and won't be—anywhere near as dire.
The new report, titled AR6, is almost 4,000 pages, written by several hundred government-nominated scientists over the past four years. It should command our attention, especially because this report will be a crucial element of the coming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. Leaders from 196 countries will come together there in November, likely to adopt more-aggressive nonbinding pledges to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
Previous climate-assessment reports have misrepresented scientific research in the "conclusions" presented to policy makers and the media. The summary of the most recent U.S. government climate report, for instance, said heat waves across the U.S. have become more frequent since 1960, but neglected to mention that the body of the report shows they are no more common today than they were in 1900. Knowledgeable independent scientists need to scrutinize the latest U.N. report because of the major societal and economic disruptions that would take place on the way to a "net zero" world, including the elimination of fossil-fueled electricity, transportation and heat, as well as complete transformation of agricultural methods.
It is already easy to see things in this report that you almost certainly won't learn from the general media coverage. Most important, the model muddle continues. We are repeatedly told "the models say." But the complicated computer models used to project future temperature, rainfall and so on remain deficient. Some models are far more sensitive to greenhouse gases than others. Many also disagree on the baseline temperature for the Earth's surface.
The latest models also don't reproduce the global climate of the past. The models fail to explain why rapid global warming occurred from 1910 to 1940, when human influences on the climate were less significant. The report also presents an extensive "atlas" of future regional climates based on the models. Sounds authoritative. But two experts, Tim Palmer and Bjorn Stevens, write in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the lack of detail in current modeling approaches makes them "not fit" to describe regional climate. The atlas is mainly meant to scare people.
As is now customary, the report emphasizes climate change in recent decades but obscures, or fails to mention, historical precedents that weaken the case that humanity's influence on the climate has been catastrophic. The Summary for Policy Makers section says the rate of global sea-level rise has been increasing over the past 50 years. It doesn't mention that it was increasing almost as rapidly 90 years ago before decreasing strongly for 40 years.
Extreme weather events are invoked as proof of impending disaster. But the floods in Europe and China and record temperatures across regions of the U.S. are weather, not climate—singular events, not decades long trends. Both Europe and China have experienced equally devastating floods in past centuries, but these are forgotten or deliberately ignored. The drought and wildfires in the Western U.S. are part of a trend going back a few decades, but forest management and expanding human presence in the forests are perhaps more important than climate change in causing these events.
The report expresses low confidence in most reported hurricane trends over the next century, and it remains uncertain whether there's any trend beyond natural variability in Atlantic hurricanes. In other words, we have no scientific proof that humans have made hurricanes worse, despite what many say.
Refreshingly, the report deems its highest-emissions scenarios of the future unlikely, even though those are the ones you're mostly likely to hear about in media reports. The more plausible scenarios have an average global temperature in 2100 about 2.5 degrees celsius warmer than the late 1800s. The globe has already warmed 1 degree since that time, and the parties of the Paris Accord arbitrarily agreed to limit further warming to another degree. But since humanity's well-being has improved spectacularly, even as the globe warmed during the 20th century, it is absurd to suggest that an additional degree of warming over the next century will be catastrophic. In fact, the AR5 report from 2014 says even 1.5 degrees of additional warming by 2100 will have minimal net economic impact.
Good science is characterized by detail, data, proven models and reasoned debate. That takes time. Meanwhile, we should be wary of the torrent of hyperbole that is sweeping the globe.
Mr. Koonin, a professor at New York University, is author of "Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters."
THE YEAR 2010—WAS WHEN I CONCLUDED THAT CLIMATE CHANGE HYSTERIA HAD SOMETHING PHONY ABOUT IT
I found a 2009 book— HEAVEN AND EARTH global warming the missing science, by Ian Plimer, Australia's best known geologist, and part of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Adelaide. I read Plimer's book shortly after it was published and a correspondent (reader of THE ENTERPRISE) told me about it. I will quote just a few of his most convincing statements. He takes almost 500 pages of scientific information to support his premises. (Confession: I didn't actually read all 494 pages. NOTE: I read the material that follows from Plimer in the year 2010—a full decade ago.
Plimer's Introduction p.11 says, "To reduce modern climate change to one variable, CO2 or more correctly, a small portion of one variable human (human produced CO2) is not science, especially as it requires abandoning all we know about planet Earth, the sun, and the cosmos. Such models fail.(He adds a graph of temperature increase from 1990 to 2008 that shows this.)
He adds two other simple sentences in the next few paragraphs. "If we humans in a fit of ego, think we can change the normal planetary processes then we need stronger medicine." He goes on to say, "To argue that we humans can differentiate between human induced climate change and natural climate change is naïve." But as he later explains, "Humans can change the weather."
As for models and projections, Plimer writes, "A phenomenon is not scientifically proven because various authorities and some scientists Say so. Evidence now no longer matters". … Models with simulations, projections and predictions prove nothing. All a model shows is something about the model itself and the modelers, normally their limitations. As the Talmud states, ' We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.' "
Once again, Plimer strikes out at the naivete of the modelers. "...to try to predict the future based on just one variable, (CO2) in extraordinarily complex natural systems is folly." (Remember Al Gore and his later debunked movie, An Inconvenient Truth?)
As far back as 1996, the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which was formed in 1988) was the source of what is called The Science" and ever since then, it has been altering its reports to support conclusions reported in the media, all of which were proven to be either wrong or misstated and exaggerated.
Way back on June 11, 1996 the Wall Street Journal exposed this in an article entitled Coverup in the Greenhouse, followed by similar article by the former president of the National Academy of Sciences, entitled Major Deception on Global Warming. In the IPCC'S report, the authors/editors simply decided to add "discernible human effect" and deleted passages, one of which said, "No study to date has positively attributed all or part (of the climate change observed) to (man-made) causes." The final phrase deleted was "We do not know."
RECENT NEWS RELEASES REVEAL THAT THE WIDELY TOUTED "PARIS ACCORD" IS ALREADY FALLING FAR BEHIND ITS GOALS AND PROJECTIONS. The solution, I'm sure will be "to throw more money at solving a problem that is falsely created."
THE ODDS ARE HIGH THAT IF YOU READ AN ARTICLE IN MASS MEDIA USING THE PHRASE "CLIMATE CHANGE" IT IS FULL OF LIES, MISREPRESENTATIONS AND MISLEADING STATEMENTS TO SENSATIONALIZE WHAT WAS ESSENTIALLY WRONG!
NOTE: NOTHING IS CHANGING THAT HASN'T BEEN CHANGING FOR CENTURIES, AND YES, HUMANS CAN EFFECT WEATHER, BUT HUMANS HAVE A VERY SMALL EFFECT ON THE CLIMATE OVER THE LONG TERM, THUS EFFORTS TO "FIX THAT" WILL KEEP ON FAILING!!
I titled this newsletter "Telling it Like it Is" a long time ago. THAT'S WHAT I'VE DONE HERE.
To disagree is your prerogative. Gather your own data, but you might want to read on…before deciding...
THERE ARE MORE ARTICLES POSTED HERE WITH SNIPPETS OF EACH, FOR THOSE WHOSE WANT MORE INFO.
Download Same Climate Report Different Day - WSJ
CLICK ON THE PDF TO READ ALL OF THIS...The solar panels Americans are being subsidized to install, the Wall Street Journal recently noted, are produced in "carbon-dioxide- belching, coal-burning plants in China." Your subsidy to buy an electric car is the manufacturer's subsidy to consume fossil energy in mining the lithium and rare metals needed to make it. Your subsidy to get a Tesla is the electric company's subsidy to burn more fossil fuels to keep it charged….
...A carbon tax, because it reduces the incentive to consume fossil fuels across the board, is the way to lower emissions meaningfully. But a carbon tax would be unpopular and never pass, exclaimed President Obama as he abandoned his climate promises the moment he took office. …
...This week the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a draft of its long-awaited sixth assessment report coupled with an unscientific and fatuous preamble that said "no one is safe" from a warming planet. Yes, and no one is safe from iced tea and Kylie Minogue either, since both also involve costs and benefits just like humanity's habit of using the atmosphere as a CO2 dump….
...Of interest to the nonfatuous was the track of real-world temperature changes. The IPCC estimates a rise of 1.1 degrees celsius in the past 150 years. This information, which it highlighted in bold print, led the IPCC in much finer print to lop 0.5 degree Celsius off its likely worst-case impact of a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide. In other words, real-world warming, the IPCC finally acknowledges, has been less than that expected from its climate models. ...
Download Climate Change Has Consumed Journalistic Standards - WSJ
CLICK ON THE PDF TO READ THE FIRST PART OF THIS...It's extremely hot: Climate change. It's extremely cold: Climate change. It's raining a little: Climate change.
With the definitive affirmation comes the lurid panic followed by the stern lecture: The Earth is going to combust (or drown, or freeze, or starve—the science isn't fully settled on that yet). And it's all our fault. Specifically, it's all Americans' fault for driving SUVs, cranking up the air conditioning and refusing to become vegetarian. How can we expect the Chinese to stop building 50 coal-fired power stations a month if those Republican-voting rubes in Missouri insist on eating hamburgers?
Be ready for much more of this in the coming weeks after the publication Monday of the update by the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change in advance of the so-called COP 26 meeting in the U.K. in November. You will scarcely hear a dissenting voice as the monolithic media faithful echoes every frightening forecast from the scientists whose livelihoods depend on maintaining the highest level of alarm.
My beef here isn't mainly with climate extremism itself. I'm no climate scientist: I'm confident the planet is warming and that evasive action would be smart. I'm less confident that a spate of historically familiar extreme weather events constitutes proof that we're all going to burn in the next decade or that the answer lies only in the most drastic government-mandated responses, which the media will insist we must immediately adopt. Better-informed writers on these pages have put the case for a more measured judgment and approach. "Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters," a recent book by Steven E. Koonin, a scientist and former Obama administration official, provides an elegant rebuttal to much of the extremism.
Download Media Can't Handle the Climate Truth - WSJ
CLICK ON THE PDF TO READ THE FIRST PART OF THIS...Imagine the news industry was still able to discern news. If the latest in a 40-year succession of climate forecasts differs from its predecessors in finding temperature change and emissions not as bad as previously projected, this would qualify as news. That is, to a media not wedded to the senseless assumption that climate science can only produce a succession of ever more dire discoveries.
Our climate fluctuates under many influences, but one factor that overwhelms all others is the increase in human beings and their valuable property placed in the path of extreme weather, behavior encouraged by politicians. Even so, human preparedness has advanced faster than climate change or even human building propensities. As University of Colorado Boulder's Roger Pielke Jr. has patiently pointed out, your odds of dying from extreme weather have been declining drastically all through the period of growing human climate impact.
This progress had been made, so far at least, without help from climate policy, unless you consider fracking, which has led to a decline in total U.S. emissions, to be climate policy. Since mankind demonstrably is not going to arrest climate change by banning fossil fuels, and quite likely would leave itself on balance worse off if it did, let this be your good- news story of the day.
Download Doctors Join the Climate Lobby - WSJ
Medical journals are supposed to be forums for doctors to publish research and debate ideas. But like traditional media outlets, many are finding it harder to control their political bias. Now some 200 journal editors are showing their political hand on climate change in an apocalyptic and misleading joint editorial this week ….CLICK ON PDF TO READ MORE
GEOLOGISTS HAVE LONG CONTENDED "THE ROCKS DON'T LIE"
The history of the earth and its climate is contained in the rocks (and in the ice, if you want to watch the video below.
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This four-minute recent video example—proves that climate temperatures now are only warmer than the coldest time in 10,000 years—starting to warm just 140 years ago!
PEOPLE CAN INFLUENCE WEATHER, AND IF THEY CHOOSE TO BUILD IN WEATHER PRONE AREAS, THEY CAN ALSO CAUSE MUCH GREATER DAMAGE AND LOSS OF LIFE.
Thus much of the media hype about Climate Change causing loss of property and life are directly linked to human behavior—not the Climate Change itself. Weather is different from Climate. Humans can effect weather, and be effected by Weather. READ THE TWO PDF FILES ATTACHED BELOW TO LEARN MORE...
Download UN: Weather Disasters Soar in Numbers Cost but Deaths Fall | World News | US News
Download Report: Climate change could see 200 million move by 2050
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THE ENTERPRISE--THE END OF AN ERA, AND SEARCHING FOR A VERY DIFFERENT "NEW NORMAL" FUTURE
SEARCHING FOR THE "NEW NORMAL" FUTURE
First the column I wrote 7+ years ago:
WHAT'S A RETAIL STORE, GRAMPS? By John Mariotti, ©2014
The time is only a decade or more in the future. Little 4-1/2 year old Susie just finished her Christmas—whoops—"Year End Annual Holiday" (YEAH) wish list using her latest 3D tablet. The list was instantly posted electronically to Gramps' and Gran's tablets.
They reply with a question. "Would you like to go to a retail store to shop for your YEAH gifts? The answer nearly floors them. "What's a retail store, Gramps? And how do you 'shop' in one? What does 'shop' mean? How will I find what I want? Is there a way to 'search' for what I want? And then can we buy it and do we carry it home with us?"
If you think this is a far-fetched scenario, think again. Imagine the inefficiency of the entire retailing process. First someone must 'guess' at what consumers might want to buy. They are inevitably wrong, to varying degrees. Then the merchandise they 'guess' is needed must be ordered and transported either from the producer, or from a distribution center, to numerous stores spread all over population centers.
Then people must drive their electric or hybrid vehicles from store to store, wasting energy and creating traffic jams, consuming huge amounts of time, just to see IF the desired items are there, and in the desired shape, size, color, spec or whatever. Often they are not, so it is on to yet another "store" (even the name implies accumulation and storage of goods) where the hunt continues...often fruitlessly.)
The signs are clear that traditional "bricks and mortar" (BAM) retailing is in decline. America has been "over-stored" for decades, so a natural selection process continues to winnow the number of retail outlets, forcing losers to close and winners to adapt to an entirely new landscape of "shopping and buying."
Regional discounters were wiped out by Walmart and Target's growth, which devastated dozens (too many to list here) of less efficient discounters who no longer exist. The hulks of their stores still litter the urban landscape, unused or being torn down and/or repurposed. Big box stores fell next. Circuit City, Linens 'N Things, Borders, and more, are simply gone. Consolidation further narrowed the field as new retailing concepts emerged, spread, then consolidated all within a few decades. Wholesale/warehouse clubs are a prime example of this...as are video rental stores, and recently, office products superstores.
The explosion of e-commerce, on-line shopping, behemoths like amazon.com, and next day delivery is eating away at conventional BAM retailers faster and faster. Sears Holdings (Kmart) has been slowly sinking into oblivion, kept alive only by cash from real estate holdings. JC Penney is reeling after a failed makeover attempt. Office product superstores, spawned only 3 decades ago continue to consolidate and shrink. Office Depot & Office Max are merging, and Staples is closing 225 stores and shrinking the footprint of the remainder. Radio Shack, once ubiquitous, is disappearing before our very eyes.
Considering that the life cycle of both wholesale/warehouse club and office product superstore evolution was only 3 decades (early 1980's to date), and that the rate of change in how goods are sold is accelerating, then Susie's question is only a decade or two away from being realistic. Even behemoth Walmart at nearly $500 Billion in annual sales is wondering and reconsidering what its "stores" should evolve to look like in a decade or two. It is an enormous question for all retailers. Their very future existence depends on how well they answer it.
So, what's a retail store, Gramps? Little Susie's question is a harbinger of a future where a retail store is more of a "presence" than a "store." Retail stores of the future are more like physical "samplers" where "shoppers" want to see, feel, touch and investigate potential purchases--but not necessarily buy them. Ask Best Buy how this feels. Not so good, unless there is a newer, better revenue and profit model developed for BAM locations.
If this future of retailing were completely clear, everyone would be charging toward it, but it's not. What's clear is that just as hybrid autos are bridging the gap between gasoline/diesel vehicles and fully electric ones, and streaming audio and video are eating into sales of CDs and DVDs, there is a big transition coming. How soon no one knows, nor exactly what it will be, thus Susie's question might still be very appropriate: "what's a retail store, Gramps?"
LESS THAN A DECADE AGO...
Unlike many of my older columns and articles, this one is less than a decade old. It was also written before Covid even existed in anyone's imagination—except maybe a few futuristic (apocalyptic) authors. As you read this, I suspect you will realize how impractical the way mass shopping is done, and why it is rapidly falling prey to better ways to choose—and actually find—find what to buy.
The naïveté of a child seemed a good way to illustrate the impossible shopping of today's (yesterday's) mass retail, especially department stores and even large discounters like Walmart & Target (who survived the demise of Kmart, Sears and a huge list of discounters who have disappeared in the last few decades. Some of those stores sales moved to "big box" specialty stores in electronics (Best Buy), sporting goods (Dicks), housewares (Bed Bath & Beyond), toys, (Toys R Us), etc. Those also are struggling, suffering and some have already disappeared
Home improvement stores like Lowe's and HomeDepot are currently thriving, because they offer both the abiliy to find and buy exactly what is wanted—with a degree of confidence in what need it fulfills. Departments stores are disappearing faster than the 17 year Cicadas. To survive, many are shrinking their formats, in hopes of finding a new "shopping experience" that is economically viable.
I once had a theory that a good indicator of retail financial success might yield a Surivial Index considering inventory turns and gross margins. It seemed that multiplying the inventory turns by the gross margin, might yield a number that was a Survival Index. For example, a IF big discounter like Walmart or Target had a gross margin of 25+%, and inventory turns of 5-6, that Survival Index would be 125-150. The same test for Macy's might show its problems. Even at a gross margin of 33%, it would need 4-5 inventory turns to reach a Survival Index of 130-160, and to get the turns needed, discounting would drop the gross margin, thus reaching one factor in the Survival Index caused a decline in the other.
Shoe stores (e.g.,Payless—now gone) with a large number of styles and sizes have a bigger problem. Housewares, like Bed, Bath, similarly have problems with styles, fashions, sizes, and trying to offer multiple price/value choices in too many product categories. Sporting Goods are both seasonal and regional. Fishing in coastal (salt water) areas is far different from fishing in lakes (fresh water). Boating needs in warm climates and cold climates differ widely, as do sporting apparel (sizes, styles, colors, etc.). And they also carry shoes for many sports, in a range of sizes, styles, prices, etc. It's hard to see how big box Sporting good stores can make the Survival Index.
The bottom line is that on-line pre-shopping is far more efficient, and thus it has grown rapidly. Shopping as a "recreation" is the only salvation of too many retailer stores/chains. Assemblages of stores whether Malls or strip malls, or Lifestyle Centers survive as destinations for "Recreational Shopping" where there are also resting, dining and beverage spots (Starbucks!).
However Covid is resolved—hopefully making gatherings possible via vaccines and seasonal boosters—recreational shopping can only save a fraction of America's "over-stored" retail environment. Just as many restaurants are pre-order and either pickup or delivery, so too will the new normal mean pre-shopping on line then deciding whether to do pickup, have the goods delivered, or go for the old fashioned "treasure hunt" for "good deals" among way too many choices.
Putting other recreational options where recreational shopping concentrates, will define many of the new "centers." The malls of yesteryear and the huge "anchor" stores, are dinosaurs just waiting to become extinct. Plan to survive by capitalizing on a very different "New Normal" future, or join the many who are going or gone extinct.
Which retailers will survive? And why?
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I, the undersigned [Solo Caroli] – Rom* – am the subject of a matter you are dealing with. With this petition, I have the honour of bringing to your attention the following: already in my earlier query I had depicted to you the importance of my current sad case, in particular in relation to my wife, who has been mercilessly abandoned to her fate and has plunged into an awful misery.
I would therefore like to draw your attention to how my presence is extremely necessary for my wife and my children, so that I can provide for their basic needs.
My wife gave birth recently and is constantly ill as a result. Given these circumstances, I would like to request that you have the profoundest human kindness to release me as quickly as possible because the situation is unbearable for me and will become only more unbearable, because I have been interned here for more than five months now and almost all of my Romani* comrades were released after a period of three months.
And because I have never been convicted anywhere, I do not deserve such a fate, moreover because my current sentence is only one month in prison.
Therefore, I request of you, I call upon you and I plead with all my might that you make this human gesture in my favour, on which I, in my despair, am counting. In the hope that you will meet my request, I thank you in advance and beg you to accept the expression of my deepest respect.
déjà dans ma requête précédente, je vous formulais l'importance de mon triste cas actuel, notamment en ce qui concerne ma femme, laquelle abandonnée impitoyablement à son triste sort, est plongée dans une misère inouïe.
C'est pourquoi je tiens à attirer votre bienveillante attention sur ce que ma femme et mes enfants éprouvent le besoin extrême en ma présence près d'eux, afin que je puisse subvenir à leurs besoins élémentaires.
En ce qui concerne ma femme, cette dernière vient d'accoucher récemment à la suite de quoi elle est constamment souffrante.
Dans ces conditions je vous prierais d'avoir la plus profonde bonté humaine de me faire libérer au plus tôt possible, car cette situation devient pour moi insupportable, de plus en plus insupportable vu que je suis interné ici depuis plus de 5 mois déjà et que tous mes camarades nomades sont quasi tous libérés après avoir passé trois mois le terme.
Et comme je n'ai jamais été condamné nulle part, je ne mérite pas un pareil sort car ma condamnation récente n'était que d'un mois d'emprisonnement.
En conséquence je vous prie, vous supplie et vous implore de toutes mes forces de faire en ma faveur ce geste humain sur lequel je compte désespérément. Confiant que vous voudrez bien me donner satisfaction voulue vous en remerciant d'avance, veuillez agréer l'assurance de mon profond respect.
Ich, der unterzeichnende [Solo Caroli] Rom* –, bin Gegenstand einer Angelegenheit, mit der Sie befasst sind. Ich habe die Ehre, an Sie mit dieser Bittschrift folgendes heranzutragen: Bereits in meiner früheren Anfrage hatte ich Ihnen die Wichtigkeit meines aktuell traurigen Falles, vor allem in Bezug auf meine Frau, dargestellt, die erbarmungslos ihrem Schicksal ausgesetzt und in ein außerordentliches Elend gestürzt ist.
Deshalb möchte ich Ihre Aufmerksamkeit darauf lenken, dass meine Gegenwart für meine Frau und meine Kinder extrem notwendig ist, damit ich ihre Grundversorgung gewährleisten kann.
Vor Kurzem hat meine Frau entbunden und infolgedessen ist sie ständig krank. Unter diesen Umständen möchte ich Sie bitten, die tiefste menschliche Güte zu haben, mich so schnell wie möglich freizulassen, weil die Situation für mich unerträglich wird, immer unerträglicher auch angesichts dessen, dass ich schon seit mehr als fünf Monaten hier eingesperrt bin und dass fast alle meine Roma*-Kameraden nach einer Frist von drei Monaten entlassen worden sind.
Und da ich noch nie irgendwo verurteilt wurde, habe ich ein solches Schicksal nicht verdient, zumal mein derzeitiges Strafmaß nur einen Monat Gefängnis umfasst.
Deshalb bitte ich Sie, ich rufe Sie und flehe Sie aus Leibeskräften an, zu meinen Gunsten diese menschliche Geste zu tun, auf die ich in meiner Verzweiflung zähle. In der Hoffnung, dass Sie mir Genugtuung geben werden, danke ich Ihnen im Voraus und bitte Sie, den Ausdruck meines tiefen Respekts zu akzeptieren.
Me, tele skrinisardo Solo [Caroli] – Rrom* – sem jekh tema, kolasa so Tumen len sama pe mande. Akale rodipaske lilesa, barikano sem te lav Tumari sama pe akava: angleder ko miro phučhibem me mothodem tumenge o bibaxtalo pecipe so si phanglo mire rromnjasa savi si mukli bimanušnikanes korkori pe peste, thaj si čhuvdi ko baro čorolipe.
Kodoleske mangav tumari sama te dav pe kodo, sar miri akanutni situacija si but vasno mire rromnjake thaj mire čhavorenge, te šaj olenge dživdipaske trubuimata anav.
Miri rromni angla skurto vrama bijandas, thaj sebet kodo si savaxt nasvali. Kodoleske rodav tumendar te ovel tumen baro manušnikanipe te muken man avri pe slobodija kozom so šaj majsigate, soske i situacija mange phari ka ovel, sa maj phari, thaj vi sebet kodo, soske sem phanglo akate majbut kotar e 5 čhona thaj sa mire amala Rroma* sas mukle avri pala trin čhona.
Thaj soske me nikana naj semas krisome, gasavo trajo či lindo si mange, soske miro vakerdo krisope numa jekh čhon sas.
Kodolestar me rodav Tumendar, akharav Tumen thaj rugiv Tumen kozom so šaj te keren akava manušnikano gesto vaš miro lačhipe savo me ko mo pharipe ni ka bistrav. Paćavindos kaj ka ažutin man thaj mo rodipe, angleder palikerav thaj rugiv tumen te len kotar miro vakaripe respekto mandar.
Zolo Karoli, born in Oslo on 5 March 1921, was a member of a Romani family that was turned away at the Norwegian border following a decision taken by the Norwegian government in 1934. Numbering almost 60 persons, the group was stranded therefore in Belgium during the Second World War.
During the police disbanding of an encampment, which the involved Roma resisted, Zolo Karoli was sentenced on 6 October 1942 to one month in prison by the Hasselt Criminal Court on the charge of 'gang rebellion'. On 19 October 1942, he was imprisoned in a former psychiatric clinic in Rekem (Limburg) that had been converted into an internment camp,used by the immigration police in Brussels from 1942 onwards.
After Zolo Karoli had sent at least six petitions to Robert Standaert, the director of the immigration police, he was released on 30 April 1943. In his letters, Karoli had continually pointed out the poor health of his wife Clara Cal, who as a result of his imprisonment was completely destitute and had to care for two children, born in 1941 and 1943 respectively. In November 1943 the family was arrested in Tournai and deported via the Mechlin (Malines) transit camp to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Zolo Karoli and the two children died there; only Clara Cal survived.


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Q: Charged Particle Trajectories in Magnetic Fields I've been trying to plot the trajectories of charged particles in the field of a magnetic dipole in an attempt to give a rough pictorial representation of the northern lights.  While the spiraling appears to be what I would have expected, it looks as though the spirals start out tight and get wider, as if the particles are somehow gaining energy.  I'm not sure what the issue is in the code, and I would appreciate any pointers!
Shown below are the contents of the main loop (initial conditions and all were set outside).
# polar to cartesian
r = np.sqrt(X*X+Y*Y+Z*Z)
theta = np.arccos(Z/r)
phi = np.arctan(Y/X)

# magnetic field/mass
Bx = K*(1/(r**(3)))*(2*np.cos(theta)*np.sin(theta)*np.cos(phi)+np.sin(theta)*np.cos(theta)*np.cos(phi))
By = K*(1/(r**(3)))*(2*np.cos(theta)*np.sin(theta)*np.sin(phi)+np.sin(theta)*np.cos(theta)*np.sin(phi))
Bz = K*(1/(r**(3)))*(2*np.cos(theta)*np.cos(theta)-np.sin(theta)*np.sin(theta))

# acceleration components
ax = (1.6*10**(-19))*(vy*Bz - vz*By)
ay = (1.6*10**(-19))*(vz*Bx - vx*Bz)
az = (1.6*10**(-19))*(vx*By - vy*Bx)

# velocity components
vx = vx + ax*dt
vy = vy + ay*dt
vz = vz + az*dt

# position components
X = X + vx*dt + 0.5*ax*dt*dt
Y = Y + vy*dt + 0.5*ay*dt*dt
Z = Z + vz*dt + 0.5*az*dt*dt

# add position values to position vectors
x1.append(X)
y1.append(Y)
z1.append(Z)

And a figure of what the current trajectories look like (the particles are starting out at the top in tighter spirals before gradually increasing their radii):
figure
(I'm using Python 3.6 for this project)

A: Turns out it was just a matter of the timestep being too large.  After decreasing the time step size, the trajectories are much more reasonable.

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MetOcean Solutions has recently operationalised a high resolution hydrodynamic model for Tasman and Golden Bay, New Zealand.
The underlying forecast data is produced by a state-of-the-art unstructured hydrodynamic model (SCHISM), with offshore 3D boundary conditions sourced from a 3-km ROMS implementation of the central NZ region. This new capability was developed as part of the Sustainable Seas Project together with the Cawthron Institute and NIWA and will provide valuable information necessary to manage contamination risk in the aquaculture industry and beach water quality forecasts relevant to regional councils and recreational beach users.
General Manager MetOcean Solutions Dr Brett Beamsley says MetOcean Solutions' science team has many years of experience with the SCHISM model (previously SELFE); applied primarily in high value consultancy services or research projects, with the unstructured domain capability key to representing complex nearshore bathymetries in a computationally efficient manner.
"SCHISM is a valuable addition to our operational hydrodynamic forecast system," says MetOcean Solutions' physical oceanographer Phellipe Couto. "It allows our model applications to account for an even better representation of topographic features (e.g. islands, embayments, navigation channels and tidal inlets) and engineering structures (e.g. ports and breakwaters) that pose critical aspects in the modulation of the hydrodynamic regime surrounding nearshore and coastal waters.
"In practical terms, this enable us to resolve multi-scale geophysical processes such as tides, river plume dispersion and storm surge with an extra degree of accuracy and therefore provide better forecast solutions to the end user.
"The impact of storm surges on coastal areas has become highly topical particularly in the last year and the rapid deployment of this type of operational modelling infrastructure has the potential to more accurately predict coastal nearshore water levels.
SCHISM model grid resolution from approximately 10 m nearshore to 1.5 km offshore.
The project 'Near real-time forecasting using operational oceanographic forecasting of contamination risk to reduce commercial shellfish harvest and beach closures' is a collaborative effort of experts from the Cawthron Institute, NIWA and MetOcean Solutions. A project to build connected land-river-sea models and provide a timely risk assessment of contamination to beaches and shellfish growing areas. For more information on Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge click here.
The SCHISM model for Tasman and Golden Bay is freely available at MetOceanView.
Map layer of SCHISM surface current forecast. Image from MetOceanView.
Map layer of SCHISM surface salinity forecast. Image from MetOceanView.
MetOcean Solutions recently completed the development of high-resolution wave and hydrodynamic hindcast models offshore Senegal and Mauritania, West Africa.
The Simulating WAves Nearshore (SWAN) model was used to resolve the wave climate and the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) was applied to simulate the hydrodynamic circulation. The technique implemented is known as 'dynamical downscaling', using information from large scale global models to drive regional/nearshore models at much higher resolution. All models were carefully calibrated with measured data from several current meters and wave buoys that were made available.
The SWAN model simulates the growth, refraction and decay of each frequency-direction component of the complete sea state, providing a realistic description of the wave field as it changes in time and space.
Full spectral boundaries were prescribe from the MetOcean Solutions' global wave model to the 5-km SWAN domain. The latter was used to force the boundaries of the 1-km SWAN domain, which in turn was applied to the boundaries of the high-resolution 100-m SWAN domain (Figure 1). All model nests were simulated in series over 39 years (1979 to 2017).
Figure 1: Snapshot of modelled significant wave height from the 5-km resolution SWAN parent nest off the Senegal/Mauritania coasts, delimited by the outer rectangle on (a). Extents of the 1-km resolution child nest are represented by the outer and inner rectangles on (a) and (b), respectively. Extents of the 100-m resolution child nest are represented by the inner rectangle on (b).
This ROMS model is an open source state of the art ocean model which has been used widely in the scientific community and industry for a range of ocean basin, regional and coastal scales. ROMS has a curvilinear horizontal coordinate system and solves the hydrostatic, primitive equations subject to a free-surface condition. Its terrain-following vertical coordinate system results in accurate modelling of areas of variable bathymetry, allowing the vertical resolution to be inversely proportional to the local depth. Two ROMS nests were defined with horizontal resolutions of approximately 6 km and 2 km for the regional and local model grid domains, respectively, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: ROMS (a) regional (6 km) and (b) local (2km) computational model grids. The red lines illustrate the transect corresponding to the vertical sigma grid structures provided in the following figure. Note the bathymetry is represented with distinct colorbars in (a) and (b).
The terrain-following grid configuration consisted of 30 and 23 vertical levels with increased resolution at surface and near-bottom to better represent the boundary layers (Figure 3). The model was produced over 25 years (1993 to 2017), delivering 3-dimensional current, water temperature and salinity and sea surface elevation data.
Figure 3: Representation of the 30 vertical sigma levels of the regional grid domain over a cross-shelf transect along the latitude of 16.064०N.
Hindcast datasets offer key baseline information for project scoping, offshore and coastal design, project planning and environmental impact assessments.
For further information about MetOcean Solutions hindcast datasets, please contact hindcast@metocean.co.nz.
MetOcean Solutions recently completed a 26-year hindcast detailing currents and water elevation of the Hauraki Gulf. The hindcast was created using a 2-dimensional Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) model run at 250 m resolution, delivering detailed depth-averaged currents and water elevation data from 1989 to 2016.
Oceanographer Phellipe Couto carried out the modelling. He explains: "The model resolves barotropic tides - the depth-averaged velocity component of the tide - as well as water levels. The Hauraki Gulf is subject to storm surges, which are driven by wind setup and atmospheric pressure. Low-pressure systems sweeping across New Zealand result in surge, which can act to amplify the tides, causing very low or high water levels."
Snapshots of modelled atmospheric and oceanic fields during a meteorological event. Upper panels show mean sea level pressure contours and non-tidal sea surface elevation provided by the New Zealand-wide grid. The animation at the bottom illustrates the depth-averaged current flow field inside the Hauraki Gulf reproduced in the high-resolution grid.
The hindcast data was validated against water elevation data from a tide gauge at Tiritiri Matangi Island.
For further information about the Hauraki Gulf ROMS hindcast, please contact enquiries@metocean.co.nz.
Hindcast wave model data are now available for the Kaikoura region. The data, which includes two high-resolution nested domains around the Kaikoura Peninsula and Clarence (regions where active coastal construction is taking place) were generated by dynamically downscaling waves from MetOcean Solutions' global wave model using a series of Simulating WAves Nearshore (SWAN) model nests.
Snapshot of significant wave height (Hs) and peak wave directions for the SWAN domains defined for Kaikoura. Inserts show the Clarence (right) and Kaikoura Peninsula (bottom) nests.
"Much of the rail and SH1 roading network north of of Kaikoura historically went very close to the sea and as a result were often closed due to waves washing over the narrow foreshore. Design tolerances for reconstruction of these networks will require an understanding of the likely impacts of large waves, including storm return periods and maximum expected wave heights. In the absence of measured data, this understanding can only be achieved through long period hindcasts.
Understanding the dynamics of estuaries is important when setting minimum flow levels for the rivers flowing into them.
Model domain showing depth relative to mean sea level in metres.
When Otago Regional Council consulted with local communities about possible minimum flows for the Waikouaiti River, interest groups voiced concern about what potential changes in freshwater inflow would do to the health of the estuary. So Rachel Ozanne, the Council water quality scientist, contracted MetOcean Solutions to investigate the natural variations in freshwater input to help council explore the potential impacts of flow reduction on estuary processes and ecology.
The council was particularly interested in assessing the difference that the minimum flow levels would make to the summer flows, when the natural riverine input into the estuary is at its lowest.
The first step in setting up a hydrodynamic model is to get accurate bathymetry. A survey was carried out by Hunter Hydrographics and the data were combined with council LiDAR and chart data from LINZ.
A finite-element (triangular mesh) numerical model domain was set up, with 5 m resolution inside the estuary, reducing to 200 m offshore. The SCHISM model was established and validated with measurements of water properties, water levels and currents made during a targeted field campaign undertaken by the Cawthron Institute.
Rachel feels that the modelling confirmed council suspicion that the natural variability in the area exceeds potential changes caused by varying the freshwater input.
A eulerian tracer method was used to examine the dilution of fresh water within the estuary, and these simulations clearly showed that the rate of flushing varies for specific areas.
Which areas are prone to siltation?
The model was also used to examine sediment transport potential within the estuary.
"When current flows exceed a threshold value, the sediments are mobilised and transported along in suspension," adds Brett. "The sediments settle out when the current velocity drops. The modelling showed that even the smaller channels within Waikouaiti Estuary have flows that can entrain silts and sands for considerable periods of time on each tide. However some of the adjacent shallow intertidal flats do not, so these areas are susceptible to siltation.
The number of hours the estuary bed is wetted over the tidal cycle.
Another aspect that the council was interested in was assessing how large the intertidal area is at different stages of the tide, and at the spring and neap tides.
"Exposure to air is a critical component determining which species live where in the estuary, and which species prey on them" states Rachel. "Areas that are rarely inundated are susceptible to sedimentation, and maps like these help us understand the ecology and potential future changes that might affect the biological communities.
Making the data and model freely available was important to Otago Regional Council.
For further information on Otago Regional Council, see their website.
For more information on MetOcean Solutions' coastal service, click here or view a pdf here.
Cartridges released from the Waitara River potentially spread far.
An unusual query from Taranaki Regional Council resulted in an interesting unravelling of the fate of plastic waste washing into the sea.
In August 2016, Dr Emily Roberts, Taranaki Regional Council's Marine Ecologist, approached MetOcean Solutions to ask for help with some marine detective work. Emily is involved with Project Hotspot, a Taranaki based pilot project that is using citizen science to support the conservation of threatened and iconic species. As part of the project, Council worked with Oakura School and Highlands Intermediate to clean up Taranaki beaches. The children were puzzled to find dozens of plastic wads from shotgun cartridges washing up on beaches around Taranaki, including within the environmentally sensitive Tapuae Marine Reserve. They wanted help determining likely sources of the cartridges, and who better to answer this than New Plymouth's resident oceanographers.
Emily discussed the case with Allen Stancliff, the Taranaki Fish & Game Council Field Officer. He suspected that the plastic wads came from the Manganui River (which flows into the Waitara River), where an annual club clay bird shoot event is held. The shoot has grown in popularity over the years, attracting about 200 shooters in recent years. As some of the traps are located on the riverbank, the plastic wads could easily have ended up in the river. Newer ammunition uses fibre wads, but up until 2014 the ammunition used had plastic wads. If Allen was right, thousands of plastic wads could have been washed down the Waitara River over the years. Allen also thought that some plastic wads may originate from gamebird hunters shooting ducks along streams and rivers throughout Taranaki. These hunters are required to use steel shot (rather than lead, which is toxic) and at present the only suitable wads are plastic, but he doubted that this was a significant source.
Some of the plastic wads found by Oakura School and Highlands Intermediate.
Emily asked MetOcean Solutions to help trace the likely source of the plastic wads.
"There's a number of reasons why stuff washes ashore in certain places," says Mariana Horigome, the oceanographer working on the project. "The wind and currents are the drivers, but the coastal aspect and shoreline profile also has to be right for objects such as the plastic wads to beach and not get refloated on the next tide."
Mariana met up with Emily who pinpointed the locations where the higher concentrations of cartridges were noticed, and with Allen who explained the potential sources. To investigate whether the Waitara River could be the source of the shotgun cartridges, Mariana ran the MetOceanTrack modelling tool, a marine particle tracing software developed by MetOcean Solutions. When the model was set to release particles from the Waitara River they spread widely to locations both north and south of New Plymouth, nicely replicating where the wads had been found.
Emily was also keen to determine the source of plastic parking tickets that had been found at the beach cleanup. A MetOceanTrack run showed that the location of the tickets recovered was consistent with them entering the water in New Plymouth City, thus making local beach-goers the likely culprits. The model runs indicated that over time both the cartridges and the parking tickets could potentially spread very far from the source, with some particles ending up north of Mokau.
"It was great to get some help determining where the plastic came from," says Emily. "The modelling confirmed our suspicions and we can now take action to minimise the waste entering rivers and the marine environment."
For more information about the findings of project Hotspot, click here.
At the upcoming New Zealand Coastal Society Conference in Dunedin Dr Brett Beamsley will present recent work from a project with Tasman District Council.
The project was designed to help the council assess coastal hazard risks due to inundation and coastal flooding over the coming 100 years. Normally, coastal flooding risks are calculated using a combination of predicted storm tide and sea level rise. However, this technique produces overly conservative estimates in estuarine environments where the non-linear nature of tidal propagation affects inundation levels.
The study quantified the likely inundation within the Moturere Estuary, a complex inlet which includes a barrier spit. A numerical model was set up for the site and a combination of 'worst-case' water levels were run over several tidal cycles to examine the non-linear propagation of the open coast water levels into the inlet, their effect on inundation levels, and the effect of sequential high-stands on water levels. The findings suggest that because of the tidal wave lag within estuaries the actual inundation extents will likely be significantly different than those predicted if simplistically assuming that land lower than or equal to the storm surge level will become inundated. If the storm surge event spans multiple tidal cycles, or multiple storm surge events are predicted to occur in quick succession, inundation extents are likely to increase significantly.
Inundation levels for a 3.5 m combined Sea Level Rise + Storm Tide + Mean High Water Springs for the first high-tide stand (left), a high-tide stand 6-days later (centre) and assuming all land sub 3.5 m becomes inundated (right).
The conference is held in Dunedin 16-18 November and has as its theme 'He waka eke noa - Linking science, engineering, management and community'. 'He waka eke noa' is a Maori proverb which means 'We are all in this boat together'.
MetOcean Solutions, the Cawthron Institute and NIWA join forces in a project to map and forecast water quality. The project, which is funded as part of the Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge, aims to use oceanographic forecasting to produce forecast charts of expected water quality levels in Tasman and Golden bays, New Zealand.
"The idea is to create forecast charts and site specific forecasts that councils, boaties and marine farmers can check, similar to a weather map," explains MetOcean Solutions Project Director Dr Brett Beamsley. "It will show the expected distribution patterns of river plumes formed after heavy rainfall, highlighting their paths once they enter the coastal marine area and become influenced by coastal circulation caused by wind and tides."
Rivers often carry contaminants such as sediments and faecal coliforms and the tool will include information about the predicted risk of bacterial contamination in the coastal receiving environment. "The maps will provide helpful information for stakeholders interested in coastal water quality, such as councils tasked with managing beach closures and the shellfish aquaculture industry who cannot harvest until the water quality is sufficiently good," says Dr Beamsley.
Currently, water quality in the bays is estimated through the monitoring of river flow rates only. It is hoped that the research will provide higher resolution data on the exact flow patterns of river plumes in the coastal environment, thus allowing more accurate and responsive management of activities sensitive to water quality.
The project is one of the eight scientific research projects that have recently received funding as part of the Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge. The challenge aims to enhance the use of New Zealand's vast marine resources, while ensuring the environment is used wisely for future sustainability.
The water quality maps will help shellfish farmers establish when water quality is good enough to harvest stock.
Taranaki Regional Council has proposed a national surfing reserve for the Taranaki coastline in their draft coastal plan. The proposal covers the coastline from Cape Egmont to Okato and aims to protect the region's renowned surf breaks from anything that might adversely impact the waves.
The proposed reserve, the first of its kind in New Zealand, was proposed to the council in May by Dr Peter McComb during the presentation of a regional surf assessment report prepared by MetOcean Solutions. "It's great to see our council showing leadership. Surfing is important for the local communities and economy, and establishing a reserve will afford this unique density of quality surf breaks the protection they deserve," he says.
The proposed coastal plan will be going through consultation for the next year. Taranaki Region already has four nationally significant surf breaks (Waiwhakaiho, Stent Road, Backdoor Stent and Farmhouse Stent), and the proposed reserve will ensure that the wider coastline is considered as important as those breaks.
For further information about the proposed reserve, see a recent article on stuff.co.nz or view the draft Taranaki Regional Coastal Plan.
The proposed reserve will protect the Taranaki Region's surf breaks.


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package org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.condition;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Iterator;

/**
 * A base class for {@link RequestCondition} types providing implementations of
 * {@link #equals(Object)}, {@link #hashCode()}, and {@link #toString()}.
 *
 * @author Rossen Stoyanchev
 * @since 3.1
 */
public abstract class AbstractRequestCondition<T extends AbstractRequestCondition<T>> implements RequestCondition<T> {

	@Override
	public boolean equals(Object obj) {
		if (this == obj) {
			return true;
		}
		if (obj != null && getClass().equals(obj.getClass())) {
			AbstractRequestCondition<?> other = (AbstractRequestCondition<?>) obj;
			return getContent().equals(other.getContent());
		}
		return false;
	}

	@Override
	public int hashCode() {
		return getContent().hashCode();
	}

	@Override
	public String toString() {
		StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder("[");
		for (Iterator<?> iterator = getContent().iterator(); iterator.hasNext();) {
			Object expression = iterator.next();
			builder.append(expression.toString());
			if (iterator.hasNext()) {
				builder.append(getToStringInfix());
			}
		}
		builder.append("]");
		return builder.toString();
	}

	/**
	 * Return the discrete items a request condition is composed of.
	 * For example URL patterns, HTTP request methods, param expressions, etc.
	 * @return a collection of objects, never {@code null}
	 */
	protected abstract Collection<?> getContent();

	/**
	 * The notation to use when printing discrete items of content.
	 * For example " || " for URL patterns or " && " for param expressions.
	 */
	protected abstract String getToStringInfix();

}

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The Book Tower and Building rises above Downtown Detroit as seen from Cass Avenue. To its left is the Trolley Plaza Apartment Building. In the foreground, construction fences have been erected around the future Rosa Parks transit center. Beyond that a People Mover train passes by the People Mover service center.
Below: Embellished Elevators of the Book Building.


"A woman died of the H1N1 virus this morning. That raises the death toll from this strain of influenza to 13," Burma's Ministry of Health and Sports announced yesterday.
Today, it was reported that Daw Sein Sein, the head of Pyapon General Hospital in Irrawaddy Division, was diagnosed with the virus, though public health department officials said it was not contracted from a patient.
"She was infected with the H1N1 virus not because she was exposed to patients, but because she was very tired and her immune system was weak," Dr. Than Htun Win told DVB.
Sein Sein was taken to Waybargi Hospital where her condition is reported to be "not critical".
Also today, a 45-year-old man and a 16-year-old girl in Pegu were diagnosed with H1N1 and admitted to the local hospital for treatment.
Despite the rising number of casualties, Dr.Than Htun Aung, the deputy director of the Department of Infectious Diseases, told a press conference in Rangoon on Sunday that the government had no intention of declaring a state of emergency. Health officials in Burma have sought to calm fears among the public over the outbreak of H1N1, also known as swine flu.
Also on Sunday, the annual Taung Pyone festival in Mandalay was called off due to fears of spreading the virus.
Burma's livestock ministry has also reported an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in the south of the country. More than 1,800 chickens were culled after the virus was detected last month at a farm in Dawei, 370 kilometres (230 miles) southeast of Rangoon.
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Given a number, find the sum of all the unique multiples of particular numbers up to but not including that number.
If we list all the natural numbers below 20 that are multiples of 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 15, and 18.
The sum of these multiples is 78.
Make sure you have read the C page on the Exercism site. This covers the basic information on setting up the development environment expected by the exercises.


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So it's been three months since my last post and in the meanwhile I was totally and unequivocally involved in the I-got-a-house-and-was-making-it-liveable-again topic.
Long story short, I'm not even done with the house (and I'm living in a suitcase) but along this journey I made some mistakes, good decisions, but most important I learnt a couple of things that might be worth sharing and for others worth reading and taking into consideration when redoing an apartment.
I don't really know how it is in other countries, but i'm sure I'm not the only one facing challenges.
Things will not go as planned just because you've highlighted a timeline. Someone or something will go not-necessarily-wrong-but-different than planned and this will have a domino effect. We were certain this will not happen to us – and go figure, it happened! A lot of things that you might think you are able to influence you actually can't; so, if you are like me and consume yourself with resolving a problem, please just accept the fact that things will get delayed. And yes, you can email, text, call and make sure everyone knows the timeline and their influence but, that is about it, you can't really do much else. Accept. That's the most difficult part (or at least it was and is for me).
The only reason money was not the no 1 challenge is because money can't buy everything – and time is one of those things. Yes, money will get you better furniture, decorations and generally, great service. But since the people factor is involved in personalising in-house-things, expect for .. delays. Again. For custom made furniture for example, upon checking the quality & craftsmanship, you may see defects in execution or montage and things will need replacement. And that takes time; time to check, communicate, wait and check again. Maybe if you are a billionaire this won't be an issue, then again I guess you won't be reading this. So for the rest of the mortals out there this is something to mind.
Or communicating with them. Paying in advance, paying a little or a lot, communication should be the same. If something is delayed, if there's a difference in terms and conditions, in deliveries or any other fact that is unknown, it should be said. Suppliers are still unaware that communication is 90% of their job and will disappear in the mist. They are adverse to accepting responsibility, especially if you question them. And again, money can't necessarily buy great service. Not even collaborating with reputable suppliers based on people's reviews. It's a lottery, really. Of course we had great experiences, when people were professional in their walk, talk, writing, dress code and overall attitude. But some people will talk to you like you are their 2nd degree little cousin and play jokes on you. Sometimes I'm so amazed and I wonder how aren't they ashamed cause I would be acting like them.
Yes, these three challenges are not rocket-science-never-seen-never-heard-of. However, one would consider that with sufficient planning and research on what it means to redo and refurbish an entire apartment that things should go smooth. And it may work great for some of us. And it might go like it did for us, which is less than great and it's an immense resource draining activity. Be prepared for the worst and hope for the best. Or just get a place totally made up by the time you actually buy it and skip the whole I-can-do-this situation.
I am planning to write another article with recommendations and what to avoid, with specific names for suppliers, for reference. It would probably be of use only locally or nationally and not so much internationally. Just keep an eye on the page.


In honor of Autism Awareness Month, we are hosting a sensory-friendly family clay workshops. The price of $20 includes one project for the participant and a seat (but no project) for their aide or parent. If the aide/parent would also like to create a project, register for two & let us know so we can plan ahead.
We are creating boxes out of slabs of clay. Short tours & material samples beforehand will help guests know what to expect & smaller class sizes reduce sensory stimulus.


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Old-style Charlie Chaplin mask
June 10, 2019 / 1 Comment
Q: Hi, I got this mask on a yard sale, I've never seen something like it, and am asking for an opinion. Ericka, 1577
A: At the age of 82, I have seen images of Charlie Chaplin hundreds of times. But for millennials he could be ancient history. Several years ago I posted a very similar mask. The copy said…
Halloween Charlie Chaplin Mask. Dresden, Germany. Painted papier mache. Hand-painted and constructed of heavy papier mache, this mask probably was made for Fasching. Germans call the pre-Lenten Carnival Fasching or Fastnacht, Americans call it Marti Gras.
Here is what Wikipedia says today…
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, "The Tramp", and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy.
Help! Can anyone identify the signature on the back of Ericka's mask? Or just spell it? The best I can do is "D'Losantos."
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Home Features Peering inside the 2003-2004 Spectrum
Peering inside the 2003-2004 Spectrum
written by Stephanie Healy April 2, 2004
After much debate and decision, the Spectrum editorial staff has finally determined the contents for this year's publication, announcing the names of the winners whose pieces have earned a coveted place on the magazine's pages.
The Spectrum is an annually published campus literary magazine composed of student writings. While all students are allowed the opportunity to submit pieces to the publication, only a few of these students achieve the reward of getting their work published.
After students have submitted their work, the Spectrum's staff and student readers spend hours sifting through pages of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, selecting pieces to publish by ranking them and deciding a cut-off point based on their numerical score.
"Then," said staff member Dr. Joonna Trapp, "We argue for and against pieces. We often disagree. At the end, we do try and come to consensus about what [pieces] to publish." Trapp said, "One of the benefits is that all of us, teachers and students alike, come to understand writing a great deal better by the end of the process."
"It's hard when one reader ranks a story at the lowest level and another ranks it at the highest level," said Trapp. "What we appreciate in art can be so different! That's why we have many readers—to help level this out."
Spectrum staff member, senior Jeannine Lovas agreed, "[Making selections] is a subjective process . . . I looked for believable dialogue in fiction, and a good structure. With poetry, I looked for fresh phrases and avoided clichés. What it boils down to is a good story."
As an added attempt toward objectivity, the final winning selections were chosen by an off-campus judge, author Jim Heynen.
In the fiction category, Heynen awarded senior Erica Romkema first place for her story "Mud People," and selected senior Nicholas Driscoll's "Patriarchy" for second place. Both stories were products of the Reading and Writing Short Fiction course taught by Dr. Carl Vandermeulen last semester.
"I wrote "Mud People" from an unusual writing trigger," said Romkema. "The assignment was to pick a common phrase or cliché and to make it interesting by turning it into a story. I kept thinking of the phrase 'Your name will be mud' (probably because I heard it plenty as a child) and just saw this little boy playing by a riverbank. I wanted to create him. In the end the story had very little to do with the phrase, but it's neat to see how a trigger can get you started." The story is also imitative of Heynan's writing style and the themes he deals with, since the fiction class had been reading a lot of his work as part of the curriculum.
"I was incredibly surprised about winning," said Romkema. "We have so many good writers at NW, and there are a lot of pieces that I think would have deserved a place or honorable mention. I'm pleased, of course . . . but still just very surprised, and even a little shy about the whole thing!"
Driscoll's story, "Patriarchy," was initially written as an imitation of the author Julie Schumacher. "Schumacher's stories were almost without fail centered around young female protagonists, and for that reason I resisted imitating her," said Driscoll. "When I finally decided to do so, I couldn't get the idea for 'Patriarchy' out of my head-no matter how hard I tried! I did not want to write 'Patriarchy.'" Writing the story was a struggle because of the dark, controversial subject matter it deals with, and Driscoll was worried about the piece on a number of levels. "But the story gripped me round about like an overly affectionate squid. I had to write it, even though it hurt to do so," he said.
In the Spectrum's poetry selection, junior Benjamin Brownson was awarded first place for his piece, "Burning Time," and Romkema received second place for her poem "Autumn Reflections."
"Burning Time" has its roots in a rumor that had originated in a story by Mark Twain claiming that Egyptians used to burn mummies as fuel. "Something about that idea fascinated me, and I thought there might be a poem in it," said Brownson. "I consider winning a great honor, and feel very blessed and affirmed by it. Writer's always like to know that others appreciate and enjoy their writing, and that is all I consider the award to be—an acknowledgment that Jim Heynen and the other student and faculty readers appreciate and enjoy something I wrote."
Romkema's poem is the result of a poetry class assignment. Romkema said she was instructed to write a sestina, but "didn't like the idea very much." She explained the writing process: "I sat down and picked out some words (you have to end the lines with the same words, but in a sort of pattern—you can figure it out if you go through and look). So I picked out these words and sat and thought until I could imagine a poem around them. And it happened, but not easily!"
Senior Heidi Friesen won first place in the Spectrum's Nonfiction category for her piece "Impossible Saint," and Driscoll received a second place for his work "Filthy Raccoon."
Like many of the winning selections, Friesen's piece was inspired by a class assignment. Friesen said, "For Art of the Essay we were asked to write a piece that imitated one of the writers we had read during class. We read an essay by Loren Eiseley called 'The Running Man' that intrigued me because of its depth and complexity. In it, Eiseley uses a seemingly disjointed combination of stories and thought-wanderings to explore the origins of his personality. I have thought about honesty and perfection a lot this year, and how they relate to identity and relationships. My quest to be honest with myself seemed to mirror a great deal in Eiseley's struggle to figure out why he has spent his life 'running,' so I challenged myself to write about it . . . . The work that resulted was a pretty accurate, honest picture of me."
"I am pleased with what I wrote," Friesen said, "And it's affirming to see that other people are too. The fact that my essay won will probably make people want to read it, and then maybe they will discover something about themselves in my words. That would be really cool. "
Driscoll said his piece "Filthy Raccoon" came as "my imitation project for Art of the Essay, in imitation of Annie Dillard. 'Raccoon' was very hard to write because I imitated Dillard's structure and some of her stylistic cues so closely. I felt that I had imitated her style too closely, and that's why it has the subtitle 'With apologies to Annie Dillard.'" It should perhaps be noted that the finalized "Filthy Raccoon" that appears in the Spectrum is an edited-down version from the one that was judged worthy of being second place. "I cut out 500 words for space reasons," said Driscoll.
After the Spectrum is published later this month, there will be an opportunity for students to attend a reading session in which winners will share their pieces by reading them aloud.
Peering inside the 2003-2004 Spectrum was last modified: April 2nd, 2004 by Stephanie Healy
Fall '04 ushers in pallette of new courses
Wielenga and Bogenrief to present recital


Recently I was lecturing a group of high-level Chinese executives, when one asked me: "What do you think of plagiaristic innovation?" Before I could answer, he went on to explain that for China to "catch up," he felt it needs to have innovation of any kind – even what he called "plagiaristic" innovation.
Don't worry. I'm not about to rehearse the well-worn arguments about the protection of intellectual property: incentives for continued innovation, just rewards for investors who back authentic creativity, quality guarantees for consumers of branded products, and the like. Nor am I going down the "information must be free" path – indignantly advocating "free as in free speech (not free beer)," "stick it to the man" (the artist is not getting the payments anyway), or the "hackers' code of ethics." No, here I'm talking about something else.
Innovation is not about fighting over the pie; it is about baking a new pie.
For example, hybrid vehicles hit the worldwide market starting in 1999 and 2000, and within a few years an echo of patent litigation followed – escalating in 2003. The big car makers battled over who invented what, sometimes with each other and sometimes with small firms, everyone claiming a piece of the pie. Meanwhile, also in 2003 but with far less fanfare, Elon Musk and his team of co-founders created Tesla, the forward-looking innovator that has changed the game in the automobile industry. The noisy pie fights in 2003 were over hybrids; the profound innovations of 2003 were quietly happening at Tesla.
Pie fights extend to all walks of business life, not just battles over intellectual property. For instance, the so-called "browser wars" between Netscape and Microsoft were at their peak in 1998, following Microsoft's integration of its Internet Explorer browser into its ubiquitous operating system. Advocates of competition howled, and defenders of Microsoft replied with talk of "seamless technology" and "complementarities". Also in 1998, but unknown to most people at the time, PhD students Larry Page and Sergey Brin created Google – the company that would change the game so thoroughly that we would soon forget about those early browser wars. The noisy pie fights of 1998 were the browser wars; the great innovation of 1998 was quietly taking shape at the newborn Google.
"Wait," you are saying. "After innovating, innovators need to defend their creation." Of course. Take QualComm, for example. That company has an unparalleled track record of continued innovation in wireless technology. As a result, its intellectual property has turned out to be extremely valuable. It has of course defended that property against plagiarists; it owes that to its shareholders. But QualComm transformed its industry by innovating - never mistaking defending IP for creating new, valuable technologies.
All around us, we see real innovators at the cutting edge of knowledge. Have a conversation with my son Burton Barnett, pictured here doing science, and you won't hear about pie fights; you'll hear about amazing new developments in immunology. And similar developments are happening worldwide - in China, Europe, India, the Americas - everywhere forward-looking people are creating new knowledge. This process of innovation is key to our collective future, and it has little to do with plagiarism or pie fighting.
The lesson to innovators: Pie fights are important; we all deserve our piece of the pie. And of course even true innovators often must fight off plagiarists. But being good at pie fighting does not make you good at innovating. Innovation means baking a new pie.
The lesson to plagiarists: Want to create something useful? Leave the other guy's pie alone and learn to bake.
Research on the uniqueness of innovators appears in the work of Lee Fleming and Olav Sorenson, among others.


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This may be a perfect time!
As we race toward the festive season .. the children coming home from school, the events and celebratory occasions, and all the shopping … everyone can benefit from having a few extra wellness tools in their life toolbox.
There is no Facebook group, no flood of emails, no stressful calls to action. Instead, there is a gentle daily email with a guided meditative exercise and some suggestions on what you can do from there.
Let's make this as stress-free as possible.
I know that STRESS is consistently the most common reason I hear from students on why they have joined up for my meditation class.
Not the good stress, and yes there is good stress .. the excitement that gets us out of bed in the morning, the heart racing flush of thrill that occurs when we say yes to riding the roller coaster or taking the big surf break, or what inspires us to go for that promotion or try online dating! Good stress makes us feel alive and prods us to take the leap.
Ongoing, unmanageable, chronic stress is what can seriously and negatively impact our health and wellbeing. Stress that feels heavy and unrelenting .. that causes us to overreact to situations, that finds us easily triggered in our reactions, make poor decisions or miss valuable cues and opportunities .. it messes with our sleep patterns and when chronic – can lead to illness and dis-ease.
A regular meditation practice can not only support our sense of wellbeing and give us a tool to de-stress .. it can also transform us and our relationship with the world (and family) around us!
I have found that sharing Meditative Exercises is possibly the quickest and most effective way for those new to meditation to achieve two significant goals : *to de-stress and *to start understanding (and practicing) the fundamentals of meditation.
Meditative Exercises work because they are easy to learn, can be done in the moment, and have an almost immediate positive impact on stress levels and sense of wellbeing. These simple, practical and short exercises literally circuit-break the stress cycle and freshen mind, body, and spirit. Small, engaging and enjoyable steps towards starting a meditation practice.
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The Powerlevel and Ki system is your best friend. It tells you how strong you are and how close you are to death. How you use your Powerlevel and is up to no one other than yourself. Although if you decide not to use it, you may lose it. The system of using your Powerlevel is quite simple as long as you remember some cardinal rules.
1. Just because your Powerlevel is lower than someone else, does not mean you will lose. There are skills and items that will help you in the course of a battle.
2. Just because your Powerlevel is higher than someone else, does not mean you will win. There are many skill and items that will make fighting a person hell.
3. Calculating is an important part of the battle. Make sure to think out your move before you act. For example: If Frieza is fighting Goku and Goku has 50,000 Powerlevel, where as Frieza has 45,000, throwing all 50,000 could be a big mistake.
Another helpful tip would be that just because you are close to defeating an opponent does not mean to get cocky. If you throw a punch that has too much power, they will use it against you.
You must update you Powerlevel on your profile page every time you get a Powerlevel gain. If you do not, then your Powerlevel will stay at the same number. I will be monitoring Powerlevels. If I feel the need to edit it I will. Do not try and get away with an increase, if you are caught you will be banned.
Frieza jumps in the air firing Ki blasts wildly at his combatant below.
Goku jumps to the side dodging as many Ki blasts as possible but is pounded is the back by a few stray blasts. He quickly retaliates by jumping in the air grabbing Frieza by the tail and throwing him downwards to the ground with great might.
You do not have to use Ki when using close combat, though some enjoy. It may not seem like Ki goes into a punch but if you want that punch to be extra strong, put Ki into it. The system pretty much goes by a subtraction basis. If you throw a blast at someone you subtract the number you feel comfortable with. The more you put into the blast the more Ki you lose.
On the flip side, if your opponent throws a blast at you, you do not choose how much Ki you lose. You lose the amount unless you have an item or skill that says differently.
1. You may not turn on God Mode. In more simple words, you cannot say that you win automatically. Example: Frieza shots a beem. He am winnar of the univarce!1111eleven. There will be no destroying of entire races and planets just because you say it in a sentence. You must start a battle telling someone your action, how much Ki used and how much left.
2. You cannot dodge out of nowhere. If I throw a beam with over 9000 Ki at you and you say: I jumps outs oph tha waye and wins, the battle will be ended and there shall be punishment. There will be items that let you dodge, but unless you have them no John Mclane, epic jumping out of an exploding building moves.
3. Be nice and have fun. If you have any questions please feel free to PM administrators.


02/07/19: Keeping your own counsel.
As promised, The Hermit has arrived.
If you have been following the week's theme of Six of Swords, this arrival is no surprise; choosing your own path, your own way, will lead you to stick to your own counsel. You know what you need to do, no substitutions, no exchanges.
When there is nothing to it but to do it, it is easy to get distracted if only by your own thoughts. The great strength of The Hermit is comfort with time alone. This is ideal for meditation, making plans as well as decisions, and processing one's own thoughts in peace and quiet.
This time is invaluable – do what you can to make the most of it.
< 02/06/19: Do NOT get distracted!


Fish tacos with grilled mahi-mahi in a flour tortilla are on the menu at Hooked in Montauk.
This is a fish story. Actually, three of them.
The big catch of 2018 seafood restaurants has started with newcomers docking in Woodbury, Huntington and Montauk. Their styles are different, but their goals are the same: fresh fish and shellfish in a casual setting. Here's a taste of the three.
Oniro Taverna has opened at the Jericho Turnpike address next to the Crest Hollow Country Club, whose owner also owns this site.
Most recently, it was occupied by a couple of short-timers, the California-themed Honig Grill and a franchise of P.J. Clarke's. But the restaurant most associated with the space is Majors, a casual steakhouse that lasted many years before its lease ended in 2014.
Oniro Taverna is the offspring of Limani, the very expensive, high-end Roslyn Greek restaurant that has consistently ranked among Long Island's best spots for seafood on Newsday's annual list of Long Island's top 100 restaurants. Two of the partners in Limani are behind Oniro Taverna.
"We are a seafood-format taverna," with lower prices than Limani, said general manager Chris Giorgou. As at Limani, the fresh seafood of the day is displayed on ice. Unlike Limani, it's not sold by the pound but for a flat price. The regular menu includes whole red snapper for $30, Dover sole for $39, branzino for $30, and orate for $29. The choices aren't exclusively seafood. Steaks start at $38; roast chicken with mushrooms is $25.
"It's a mix of the traditional and the contemporary," said Giorgou, a former owner of the departed Trata seafood restaurants in Roslyn and East Hampton. The more modern fare includes smoked mackerel with red quinoa and caper leaves, and grilled salmon on a truffled cauliflower puree.
The news in Huntington is the transformation of the New Orleans-cuisine eatery Storyville American Table into Finley's Seafood. Finley's on Green Street remains the bar side.
Michael Meehan, whose current Huntington restaurants include the gastropub Vauxhall and a Southern barbecue bistro, Radio/Radio, built his reputation with seafood at now-gone establishments such as Clearwater in Massapequa and Tupelo Honey in Sea Cliff.
Finley's now is "a contemporary version of a New England seafood restaurant" that focuses on sustainable seafood, Meehan said.
His selections include Gulf red snapper with fried plantains, cara cara orange, and vanilla rum butter; North Atlantic fish and chips and fish tacos made with hake; crabcake sandwich on a pretzel bun; and local John Dory paired with Yellow Finn potatoes and edamame in tomato broth. Appetizers are $9 to $16; main courses, $19 to $28.
Finley's Seafood, 43 Green St., Huntington, 631-351-3446.
Hooked, which takes over the South Etna Avenue address where Red Hook Lobster Pound specialized in lobster rolls, is owned by longtime local residents Brian and Gillian Mooney. His experience includes 24 years at Clam Bar on the Napeague stretch in Amagansett; hers, as a former owner of Herb's Market in Montauk.
"We're year-rounders and have had a huge amount of local support," said Brian Mooney, who's a member of the local fire department. Hooked is primarily a takeout spot, but there is some outdoor seating available. Prices range from $5 to $25.
His specialties range from lobster roll and fish taco to clams and oysters on the half-shell and a tuna poke atop soba noodles.
Who actually catches the local catch? Newsday's FeedMeTV digital video series traveled Long Island Sound to pull up porgy, sea bass and fluke, then followed the catch back to the Southold Fish Market before it was served at the Shelter Island restaurant 18 Bay.
Go to season 1 at newsday.com/feedmetv or find the series on AppleTV and Roku.
LI's best seafood restaurantsNewsday's picks for the top seafood restaurants of the year. Recent LI restaurant openingsThe latest restaurants to open on Long Island.