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Dr. Carol Look gives us an up close look at two intense anxiety cases.
by Dr. Carol Look
I treated a woman who was in the middle of a custody battle over her four year old daughter. Her husband was a wealthy cocaine addict who hired the most famous and most expensive lawyer in Manhattan. She complained of being so upset during the court proceedings that she felt chronically nauseous and shook from anxiety. I taught her the tapping in the session and reduced her anxiety when she thought about her husband winning custody, yelling at her, and manipulating her the way he had in their marriage.
"Even though I feel anxious about my husband...""Even though I feel anxious when the lawyer talks...""Even though going to court makes me feel sick to my stomach...""Even though the thought of my husband winning makes me sick with anxiety..."
She called me the next day to say she tapped in court using the imagery/visualization method (didn't want to look wacky in front of the judge...) and felt completely free of anxiety. She said she no longer felt like vomiting, could face her husband despite his courtroom antics, and felt more confident that she could handle the whole problem.. She was truly in disbelief and thanked me over and over again for a technique that "saved her sanity."
Another anxiety case involved a phone session with a woman who was having heart palpitations, sweaty palms, shortness of breath and overall anxiety because she was about to make a call to prospective employers. She was embarrassed to say how anxious she felt, but said she couldn't even pick up the phone to make one of these calls. Her voice was racey and she was spiraling in her negative thoughts as we talked. She had never seen the spots or tapped before, so I had to describe them to her over the phone.
We tapped as follows:
"Even though the thought of making these calls makes me feel sick...""Even though picking up the phone to call X makes me feel anxious...""Even though my heart is thumping and I feel out of control...""Even though I have no confidence in myself as an employee..."
In a very short period of time, she felt completely better, actually anxiety free and found it hard to believe that it was the tapping. She said it was too strange, and like voodoo. (Thank you APEX...) Anyway, she felt calm enough and confident enough to make the calls.
The final anxiety case involves an actress who became paralyzed when she had to audition for or act in a play. We began tapping on general anxiety:
"Even though I get anxious about auditions..."
Her face would turn red and she could feel her heart pounding when she described what would happen to her. The tapping was not working very well so we got more specific, and of course, as it turned out, there were multiple aspects...
"Even though I'm afraid to leave my house when I have an audition...""Even though I feel anxious on the subway going to an audition "travel anxiety"...""Even though I feel nervous when the director gives the "10 minute call"...""Even though I feel nervous when the director gives the "5 minute call"..."
The referring therapist told me that the client felt much better but was afraid to do more tapping on her own because she didn't want to think about the anxiety. Within a few weeks she got over that and began doing the tapping on her own.
Hope these help...
Love, Carol
More articles on Panic Relief and Anxiety Relief


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Q: ReportAvOnComRelease was detected Sorry for the inconvenience, I have a question again.
I'm having a very not common error in VB.NET (see error below).
I think it is all about COM problems, but i'm not aware of it.
This is happened while i'm at the winsock_dataArrival function.
Please help and respect, i'm just a .NET beginner.
I also attached picture below.

ReportAvOnComRelease was detected

Message: An exception was caught but handled while releasing a COM interface pointer through Marshal.Release or Marshal.ReleaseComObject or implicitly after the corresponding RuntimeCallableWrapper was garbage collected. This is the result of a user refcount error or other problem with a COM object's Release. Make sure refcounts are managed properly.  The COM interface pointer's original vtable pointer was 0x27582bb8. While these types of exceptions are caught by the CLR, they can still lead to corruption and data loss so if possible the issue causing the exception should be addressed

Code:
Private Sub Winsock1_DataArrival(ByVal eventSender As System.Object, ByVal eventArgs As AxMSWinsockLib.DMSWinsockControlEvents_DataArrivalEvent) Handles Winsock1.DataArrival

        Dim strData As String = ""
        Dim msg As String
        Dim i As Integer
        Static bmsg As Boolean

        On Error Resume Next
        peer.GetData(strData)
        peer.RemoteHost = HOST

        If checkMSG(i) Then
            If b_QALoad Then
                dlgQA.setMSG()
            Else
                If MsgBox("You have " & i & " unread message(s)." & vbCrLf & "Do you want to read it now?", MsgBoxStyle.YesNo + MsgBoxStyle.Information, MYPS_ABR) = MsgBoxResult.Yes Then
                    dlgQA.ShowDialog()
                End If
            End If
        End If
    End Sub

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A: When the code triggered below, lets say it is in the module1..
"frmdlg.closeform()"
It calls this procedure..
Code:
Public Sub closeform()
        Me.Close()
    End Sub

Then after, I exited in that module1 then i am now at the module2. I noticed some codes.
There is also "Me.Close", i'm wondering It is already closed but the program calls it again.
Then, I turned it into comment for the meantime..
Then, VIOLA! No more error occurred. ^^

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Q: How to set a start value of the temperature for the simulation of a cooling circuit in Modelica? I am currently simulating a cooling circuit in OpenModelica. I want to give the simulation a starting value of the temperature. To do this, I insert the model of the medium into the circuit and specify an initial value with 'initial equation'.
The temperature specification should only be used for the start. Since the circuit is closed, the temperatures for the next loop should calculate themselves through the heat flows in the circuit.
Unfortunately, the code does not work as expected.
Does anyone know how I can give the medium a start value without needing any further input afterwards?
model Glysantin_FC_G20 "properties of Glysantin FC G20"
  // Parameter
  parameter SpecificHeatCapacity cp = 3560;
  parameter Density rho = 1042;
  parameter Temperature T = 338.15;

Interfaces.FluidPort_a inflow annotation(...);
Interfaces.FluidPort_b outflow annotation(...);

initial equation
  outflow.T = T;
  outflow.m_flow = -inflow.m_flow;
  outflow.V_flow = -inflow.V_flow;
  inflow.p = outflow.p;

equation
  outflow.T = inflow.T;
  outflow.m_flow = -inflow.m_flow;
  outflow.V_flow = -inflow.V_flow;
  inflow.p = outflow.p;

annotation(...);
end Glysantin_FC_G20;

A: It's a bit difficult to fully answer without the full model and error message.
However, the initial equations are combined with the normal equations so they should not be duplicated giving just:
initial equation
  outflow.T = T;

Alternatively you can remove all initial equation and write it as:
Interfaces.FluidPort_b outflow(T(start=T),fixed=true) annotation(...);

or possibly even without the fixed=true.


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Q: In magento admin url, the word "admin" occurs twice. how to remove the second one? I have a situation where my client's admin url is something like this;
http://www.example.com/index.php/admin/admin/dashboard/index/key/0981a6bd2f5a06fec85d3c9e297849a0/

the word admin occurs twice, how to remove one. i checked app/etc/local.xml and in magento admin->system->configuration->admin, there was no changes in the default setting.
Note: I asked the same question on stackoverflow.com but didn't get any answer in 3 days, that's why i reposted it here.

A: Try this:
Check the values in /magentofolder/app/etc/local.xml and ensure all is good.
Log in and check the values at System > configuration > Web > Unsecure URL (and Secure URL) - make sure they are good (they should be, otherwise you'd not be able to log in very easily.
Go to System > configuration > Advanced > Admin and set the value of 'use custom admin url' to 'No' and remove any values, if any, in the URL box underneath it. Then save config.
If all these settings are correct, and you're seeing admin/admin, then check:

System > Configuration > General > Web > URL options > Add store code to URL
There you must have set its value 'Yes'.
What this does is on the front end it includes the store code (actually store view code) to the URL for mutli-store setups, so that you can access a store like this : http://xyz.com/index.php/storecode1/ or http://xyz.com/index.php/storecode2/ ... etc.
But unfortunately it also does it for the admin (which has store code admin) - therefore, the path to your admin is now admin/admin - the first being the store code, the second being the path to serve the application. And so, some extensions that don't use dynamic admin URL path won't work - probably you'll get a 404 where you expect your content to be in the main body of the page.
Enabling the second option in that admin (System > configuration > General > Web > URL options), i.e. "Redirect to Base URL if requested URL doesn't match it" should fix all the problem.
If it still does not fix your problem then the last option to fix it to turn 'No' for 'Add Store Code to URLs'  option.

A: The admin appears twice in the url when you have the flag Use Store Codes in URL set to Yes.
Since the admin section is a actually a store view from Magento's point of view, its code (admin) is shown in the url.
The second time it appears it's because admin is the route key for the adminhtml controllers.
For example, if you change the admin url key to backend from System->Configuration->Admin->Admin Base URL->Custom Admin Path, the url will look like http://example.com/admin/backend/controller/action/.
As for the extensions that are not working properly if you have the store codes in urls, it means they are badly written extensions. The extension behavior should work in both cases. Most probably they have hard-coded urls somewhere in the code.


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extern "C" {
#endif

typedef enum {	pi_cryptheader,
				pi_fixedheader,
				pi_keylist,
				pi_uniquevaluelist,
				pi_servers,
				pi_finished } SBListParseState;

typedef enum {sl_lanbrowse, sl_disconnected, sl_connected, sl_mainlist} SBServerListState;

//master server query port
#define MSPORT2 28910

//number of master servers
#define NUM_MASTER_SERVERS 20

//max length of field list to master server
#define MAX_FIELD_LIST_LEN 256

//max number of values in a popular value list
#define MAX_POPULAR_VALUES 255

//max number of maps to track in a map loop
#define MAX_MAPLOOP_LENGTH 16

// max number of bytes that can be received from a single recvfrom call
// This must not be higher than 2048 for PS2 insock compatability
#define MAX_RECVFROM_SIZE 2048

//states for SBServer->state
#define STATE_BASICKEYS			(1 << 0)
#define STATE_FULLKEYS			(1 << 1)
#define STATE_PENDINGBASICQUERY	(1 << 2)
#define STATE_PENDINGFULLQUERY	(1 << 3)
#define STATE_QUERYFAILED		(1 << 4)
#define STATE_PENDINGICMPQUERY	(1 << 5)
#define STATE_VALIDPING	        (1 << 6)
#define STATE_PENDINGQUERYCHALLENGE (1 << 7)

//how long before a server query times out
#define MAX_QUERY_MSEC 2500

//game server flags
#define UNSOLICITED_UDP_FLAG	1
#define PRIVATE_IP_FLAG			2
#define CONNECT_NEGOTIATE_FLAG	4
#define ICMP_IP_FLAG			8
#define NONSTANDARD_PORT_FLAG	16
#define NONSTANDARD_PRIVATE_PORT_FLAG	32
#define HAS_KEYS_FLAG					64
#define HAS_FULL_RULES_FLAG				128

//backend query flags (set in hbmaster, don't change)
#define QR2_USE_QUERY_CHALLENGE 128

//key types for the key type list
#define KEYTYPE_STRING	0
#define KEYTYPE_BYTE	1
#define KEYTYPE_SHORT	2

//how long to make the outgoing challenge
#define LIST_CHALLENGE_LEN 8

//protocol versions
#define LIST_PROTOCOL_VERSION 1
#define LIST_ENCODING_VERSION 3

//message types for outgoing requests
#define SERVER_LIST_REQUEST		0
#define SERVER_INFO_REQUEST		1
#define SEND_MESSAGE_REQUEST	2
#define KEEPALIVE_REPLY			3
#define MAPLOOP_REQUEST			4
#define PLAYERSEARCH_REQUEST	5

//message types for incoming requests
#define PUSH_KEYS_MESSAGE		1
#define PUSH_SERVER_MESSAGE		2
#define KEEPALIVE_MESSAGE		3
#define DELETE_SERVER_MESSAGE	4
#define MAPLOOP_MESSAGE			5
#define PLAYERSEARCH_MESSAGE	6

//server list update options
#define SEND_FIELDS_FOR_ALL		1
#define NO_SERVER_LIST			2
#define PUSH_UPDATES			4
#define SEND_GROUPS				32
#define NO_LIST_CACHE			64
#define LIMIT_RESULT_COUNT		128

//player search options
#define SEARCH_ALL_GAMES		1
#define SEARCH_LEFT_SUBSTRING	2
#define SEARCH_RIGHT_SUBSTRING	4
#define SEARCH_ANY_SUBSTRING	8

//max number of keys for the basic key list
#define MAX_QUERY_KEYS 20

//how long to search on the LAN
#define SL_LAN_SEARCH_TIME 2000

//MAGIC bytes for the QR2 queries
#define QR2_MAGIC_1 0xFE
#define QR2_MAGIC_2 0xFD

//magic bytes for nat negotiation message
#define NATNEG_MAGIC_LEN 6
#define NN_MAGIC_0 0xFD
#define NN_MAGIC_1 0xFC
#define NN_MAGIC_2 0x1E
#define NN_MAGIC_3 0x66
#define NN_MAGIC_4 0x6A
#define NN_MAGIC_5 0xB2

//query types
#define QTYPE_BASIC 0
#define QTYPE_FULL  1
#define QTYPE_ICMP  2

//query strings for old-style servers
#define BASIC_GOA_QUERY "\\basic\\\\info\\"
#define BASIC_GOA_QUERY_LEN 13
#define FULL_GOA_QUERY "\\status\\"
#define FULL_GOA_QUERY_LEN 8

//maximum length of a sortkey string
#define SORTKEY_LENGTH 255

//a key/value pair
typedef struct _SBKeyValuePair
{
	const char *key;
	const char *value;
} SBKeyValuePair;

//a ref-counted string
typedef struct _SBRefString
{
	const char *str;
#ifdef GSI_UNICODE
	const unsigned short *str_W;
#endif
	int refcount;
} SBRefString;

typedef struct _SBServerList *SBServerListPtr;
typedef struct _SBQueryEngine *SBQueryEnginePtr;

//callback types for server lists
typedef enum {slc_serveradded, slc_serverupdated, slc_serverdeleted, slc_initiallistcomplete, slc_disconnected, slc_queryerror, slc_publicipdetermined, slc_serverchallengereceived} SBListCallbackReason;
//callback types for query engine
typedef enum {qe_updatesuccess, qe_updatefailed, qe_engineidle, qe_challengereceived} SBQueryEngineCallbackReason;

//callback function prototypes
typedef void (*SBListCallBackFn)(SBServerListPtr serverlist, SBListCallbackReason reason, SBServer server, void *instance);
typedef void (*SBEngineCallbackFn)(SBQueryEnginePtr engine, SBQueryEngineCallbackReason reason, SBServer server, void *instance);
typedef void (*SBMaploopCallbackFn)(SBServerListPtr serverlist, SBServer server, time_t mapChangeTime, int numMaps, char *mapList[], void *instance);
typedef void (*SBPlayerSearchCallbackFn)(SBServerListPtr serverlist, char *nick, goa_uint32 serverIP, unsigned short serverPort, time_t lastSeenTime, char *gamename, void *instance);

//key information structure
typedef struct _KeyInfo
{
	const char *keyName;
	int keyType;
} KeyInfo;

typedef struct _SBServerList SBServerList;

#ifdef VENGINE_SUPPORT
	#define FTABLE_TYPES
	#include "../VEngine/ve_gm3ftable.h"
#endif

//keeps track of previous and current sorting information
typedef struct _SortInfo
{
	gsi_char sortkey[SORTKEY_LENGTH];
	SBCompareMode comparemode;
} SortInfo;

struct _SBServerList
{
	SBServerListState state;
	DArray servers;
	DArray keylist;
	char queryforgamename[36];
	char queryfromgamename[36];
	char queryfromkey[32];
	char mychallenge[LIST_CHALLENGE_LEN];
	char *inbuffer;
	int inbufferlen;
	const char *popularvalues[MAX_POPULAR_VALUES];
	int numpopularvalues;
	int expectedelements;

	SBListCallBackFn ListCallback;
	SBMaploopCallbackFn MaploopCallback;
	SBPlayerSearchCallbackFn PlayerSearchCallback;
	void *instance;

	SortInfo currsortinfo;
	SortInfo prevsortinfo;

	SBBool sortascending;
	goa_uint32 mypublicip;
	goa_uint32 srcip;
	unsigned short defaultport;

	char *lasterror;
#ifdef GSI_UNICODE
	unsigned short *lasterror_W;
#endif

	SOCKET slsocket;
	gsi_time lanstarttime;
	int fromgamever;
	GOACryptState cryptkey;
	int queryoptions;
	SBListParseState pstate;
	gsi_u16 backendgameflags;

	const char* mLanAdapterOverride;

	SBServer deadlist;

#ifdef VENGINE_SUPPORT
	#define FTABLE_IMPLEMENT
	#include "../VEngine/ve_gm3ftable.h"
#endif

};

//server object

#ifndef SB_SERVER_DECLARED
#define SB_SERVER_DECLARED

struct _SBServer
{
	goa_uint32 publicip;
	unsigned short publicport;
	goa_uint32 privateip;
	unsigned short privateport;
	goa_uint32 icmpip;
	unsigned char state;
	unsigned char flags;
	HashTable keyvals;
	gsi_time updatetime;
	gsi_u32 querychallenge;
	struct _SBServer *next;
	gsi_u8 splitResponseBitmap;
};

#endif

typedef struct _SBServerFIFO
{
	SBServer first;
	SBServer last;
	int count;
} SBServerFIFO;

typedef struct _SBQueryEngine
{
	int queryversion;
	int maxupdates;
	SBServerFIFO querylist;
	SBServerFIFO pendinglist;
	SOCKET querysock;
	#if !defined(SN_SYSTEMS)
	SOCKET icmpsock;
	#endif
	goa_uint32 mypublicip;
	unsigned char serverkeys[MAX_QUERY_KEYS];
	int numserverkeys;
	SBEngineCallbackFn ListCallback;
	void *instance;
} SBQueryEngine;

struct _ServerBrowser
{
	SBQueryEngine engine;
	SBServerList list;
	SBBool disconnectFlag;
	SBBool dontUpdate;
	goa_uint32 triggerIP;
	unsigned short triggerPort;
	ServerBrowserCallback BrowserCallback;
	void *instance;
};

#define SB_ICMP_ECHO 8
#define SB_ICMP_ECHO_REPLY	0

typedef struct _IPHeader {
	gsi_u8	ip_hl_ver;
	gsi_u8  ip_tos;
	gsi_i16   ip_len;
	gsi_u16 ip_id;
	gsi_i16   ip_off;
	gsi_u8  ip_ttl;
	gsi_u8  ip_p;
	gsi_u16 ip_sum;
	struct  in_addr ip_src,ip_dst;
} SBIPHeader;

typedef struct _ICMPHeader
{
	gsi_u8		type;
	gsi_u8		code;
	gsi_u16	cksum;
	union {
		struct {
			gsi_u16 id;
			gsi_u16 sequence;
		} echo;
		gsi_u32 idseq;
		gsi_u16 gateway;
		struct {
			gsi_u16 __notused;
			gsi_u16 mtu;
		} frag;
	} un;
} SBICMPHeader;

//server list functions
void SBServerListInit(SBServerList *slist, const char *queryForGamename, const char *queryFromGamename, const char *queryFromKey, int queryFromVersion, SBBool lanBrowse, SBListCallBackFn callback, void *instance);
SBError SBServerListConnectAndQuery(SBServerList *slist, const char *fieldList, const char *serverFilter, int options, int maxServers);
SBError SBServerListGetLANList(SBServerList *slist, unsigned short startport, unsigned short endport, int queryversion);
void SBServerListDisconnect(SBServerList *slist);
void SBServerListCleanup(SBServerList *slist);
void SBServerListClear(SBServerList *slist);
SBError SBGetServerRulesFromMaster(SBServerList *slist, goa_uint32 ip, unsigned short port);
SBError SBSendMessageToServer(SBServerList *slist, goa_uint32 ip, unsigned short port, const char *data, int len);
SBError SBSendNatNegotiateCookieToServer(SBServerList *slist, goa_uint32 ip, unsigned short port, int cookie);
SBError SBSendMaploopRequest(SBServerList *slist, SBServer server, SBMaploopCallbackFn callback);
SBError SBSendPlayerSearchRequest(SBServerList *slist, char *searchName, int searchOptions, int maxResults, SBPlayerSearchCallbackFn callback);
int SBServerListFindServerByIP(SBServerList *slist, goa_uint32 ip, unsigned short port);
int SBServerListFindServer(SBServerList *slist, SBServer findserver);
void SBServerListRemoveAt(SBServerList *slist, int index);
void SBServerListAppendServer(SBServerList *slist, SBServer server);
void SBServerListSort(SBServerList *slist, SBBool ascending, SortInfo sortinfo);
int SBServerListCount(SBServerList *slist);
SBServer SBServerListNth(SBServerList *slist, int i);
SBError SBListThink(SBServerList *slist);
const char *SBLastListErrorA(SBServerList *slist);
const unsigned short *SBLastListErrorW(SBServerList *slist);
void SBSetLastListErrorPtr(SBServerList *slist, char* theError);
void SBFreeDeadList(SBServerList *slist);
void SBAllocateServerList(SBServerList *slist);

//sbserver functions
SBServer SBAllocServer(SBServerList *slist, goa_uint32 publicip, unsigned short publicport);
void SBServerFree(void *elem);
void SBServerAddKeyValue(SBServer server, const char *keyname, const char *value);
void SBServerAddIntKeyValue(SBServer server, const char *keyname, int value);
void SBServerParseKeyVals(SBServer server, char *keyvals);
void SBServerParseQR2FullKeysSingle(SBServer server, char *data, int len);
void SBServerParseQR2FullKeysSplit(SBServer server, char *data, int len);
void SBServerSetFlags(SBServer server, unsigned char flags);
void SBServerSetPublicAddr(SBServer server, goa_uint32 ip, unsigned short port);
void SBServerSetPrivateAddr(SBServer server, goa_uint32 ip, unsigned short port);
void SBServerSetICMPIP(SBServer server, goa_uint32 icmpip);
void SBServerSetState(SBServer server, unsigned char state);
void SBServerSetNext(SBServer server, SBServer next);
SBServer SBServerGetNext(SBServer server);
unsigned char SBServerGetState(SBServer server);
unsigned char SBServerGetFlags(SBServer server);
unsigned short SBServerGetPublicQueryPortNBO(SBServer server);
int SBIsNullServer(SBServer server);
extern SBServer SBNullServer;

//ref-str functions
const char *SBRefStr(SBServerList *slist,const char *str);
void SBReleaseStr(SBServerList *slist,const char *str);
HashTable SBRefStrHash(SBServerList *slist);
void SBRefStrHashCleanup(SBServerList *slist);

extern char *SBOverrideMasterServer;

//query engine functions
void SBQueryEngineInit(SBQueryEngine *engine, int maxupdates, int queryversion, SBBool lanBrowse, SBEngineCallbackFn callback, void *instance);
void SBQueryEngineUpdateServer(SBQueryEngine *engine, SBServer server, int addfront, int querytype, SBBool usequerychallenge);
void SBQueryEngineSetPublicIP(SBQueryEngine *engine, goa_uint32 mypublicip);
SBServer SBQueryEngineUpdateServerByIP(SBQueryEngine *engine, const char *ip, unsigned short queryport, int addfront, int querytype, SBBool usequerychallenge);
void SBQueryEngineThink(SBQueryEngine *engine);
void SBQueryEngineAddQueryKey(SBQueryEngine *engine, unsigned char keyid);
void SBEngineCleanup(SBQueryEngine *engine);
void SBQueryEngineRemoveServerFromFIFOs(SBQueryEngine *engine, SBServer server);
int NTSLengthSB(char *buf, int len);
void SBEngineHaltUpdates(SBQueryEngine *engine);

//server browser internal function
SBError ServerBrowserBeginUpdate2(ServerBrowser sb, SBBool async, SBBool disconnectOnComplete, const unsigned char *basicFields, int numBasicFields, const char *serverFilter, int updateOptions, int maxServers);

// Ascii versions of functions that should still be available in GSI_UNICODE mode
#ifdef GSI_UNICODE
const char *SBServerGetStringValueA(SBServer server, const char *keyname, const char *def); // for peer SDK
int SBServerGetIntValueA(SBServer server, const char *key, int idefault);
#endif

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif

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Indian Parliament lay paralysed for the 7th day today since demonetization as both houses were adjourned after noisy scenes with opposition including Congress, TMC, RJD and others demanding PM apologise for his remarks against them. They charged that the PM had accused them at a function earlier in the day of holding black money.
In the Rajya Sabha, as soon as the House met for the day and mourned the death of its former member Dipen Ghosh, BSP leader Mayawati was on her feet saying the Prime Minister had this morning "wrongly accused opposition of holding black money" and demanded that he should apologize for his remarks.
Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad asked how Modi could allege when former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and others clearly said opposition was against black money. Opposition said the PM was making allegations that opposition was against demonetization outside the house but did not have the courage to do so inside.
Lok Sabha speaker sumitra mahajan had to adjourn the house twice following noisy scenes with opposition members trooping into the well. The same scene prevailed in the rajya sabha which saw repeated adjournments.
The opposition has been demanding PM's presence in the house besides admission of adjournment motions with voting to discuss demonetization with ruling party rejecting the same.
On day 16 of demonetization as government stopped exchange of old 500 and 1000 rupee notes across the counter at banks, the government hinted at introduction of amendments to IT act in parliament that would allow people still to deposit their unaccounted wealth with banks with the proviso of paying 50% of it as penalty and locking the funds for five years without being able to use it. This was reportedly decided at the cabinet meeting last evening.
Meanwhile reputed rating agency FITCH said demonetisation would have a negative impact on on India's GDP growth in the short run but on the positive side it may improve the fiscal position.
Thomas Rookmaaker, Director in Fitch's Asia-Pacific Sovereigns Group, said macroeconomic effects of cash crunch due to demonetisation include a temporary delay of consumption and investment, disrupted supply chains, farmers being unable to buy inputs, and some loss in productivity due to time lost to deal with cash issues, according to media reports quoting him.
"There are many elements to demonetisation, which make it difficult to quantify the impact on real GDP growth and explains the wide range of forecasts by different analysts " , he was quoted as saying.
Fitch felt impact on GDP growth clearly depended to a large extent on how long the cash crunch is going to take to ease. A significant decline in growth number for this quarter is highly likely, but for the fiscal year as a whole the decline may still be relatively moderate.
Despite demonetisation, Fitch still expects India's GDP growth to trend higher than China's in the medium term. In India it expects GDP growth to accelerate in FY2018 on the back of reform implementation, monetary easing of the past year and infrastructure spending, while in China a continued increase in leverage in the broader economy is more and more becoming a burden for growth.
The rating agency said beyond the immediate policy issues of managing the cash crunch as best as possible and trying to mitigate the worst side-effects, it would be interesting to see what further steps the government will take to formalize the economy and structurally generate higher government revenues, media reports said.


A new authoritative market report by a team of academic experts and business leaders from Critical Future reveals that blockchain will have a USD $120 billion economic impact by 2024.
The "Future of Blockchain Market" report details how blockchain is set to transform 44 different industries, including the Banking, Logistics, Charity, Education, Healthcare, Human Resources, Public Sector, Music, Sports, Social Media, etc.
In addition, an original survey of 1800 business people, found that 8 out of 10 business people believe blockchain is moving mainstream.
Blockchain is a decentralised public ledger, which records transactions between users in a permanent, secure and verifiable way. Blockchain can be programmed to record not only financial transactions, but anything of value.
Blockchain is the technology that powers the cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. But blockchain is not limited to cryptocurrency. Rather Bitcoin is the first manifestation of blockchain, but it will also soon be pervasive in 44 other industries.
Blockchain will do for exchanging value, what the internet did for exchanging information. This will certainly transform finance, as the Harvard Business Review put it "the blockchain will do to the financial system what the internet did to media." But those effects will go much further than finance and impact almost every other major industry.
Who is investing in blockchain?
How fast is the blockchain market growing?
The report has found staggering growth rates. The research reveals that the global blockchain market size will grow from USD $548.2 million in 2018 to USD $10.1 billion by 2024, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 62.61% during the forecast period. This offers enormous potential for entrepreneurs, investors, consultancies and also more established companies.
But the market size is only half the picture, as blockchain's real impact is removing costs and driving efficiencies in an industry. This "Economic Impact" has been calculated for the first time in this report, using academically robust econometrics model. The results are staggering with $120 billion economic impacts estimated by 2024, as blockchain carves out cost in major sectors. Resultantly, companies that effectively deploy blockchain will have a major competitive advantage. These blockchain pioneers will be able to operate at a cost and efficiency level unattainable to their peers. Hence the investment of so many enterprise level companies in blockchain, as business leaders see this technology as a critical future differentiator. Just as digital disruption sent giants such as Kodak and Blockbuster Video crashing into redundancy, blockchain transformation will be equally unforgiving to outdated business models.


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Notre Dame's Main Structure 'Saved and Preserved': Paris Fire Official
Mon, 15 Apr 2019 21:13 GMT
The main structure of Notre Dame cathedral in central Paris has been saved after hours of fire-fighting to put out a devastating blaze, the city's top fire official quoted by AFP late Monday April 15th.
"We can consider that the main structure of Notre Dame has been saved and preserved," Paris fire brigade chief Jean-Claude Gallet told reporters outside the cathedral, adding it appeared that the two main towers of the building had now been saved.
Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral on Fire: Firefighters
Vatican Expresses 'Incredulity' over Notre Dame Blaze
Fire Services Strive to Save Northern Tower, Artworks of Notre Dame
UNESCO Says 'at France's Side to Save and Restore' Notre Dame

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Centers of Light will present the class "Introduction to Meditation and Christian Mysticism" beginning at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Durango.
The six-week course will include teachings on the inner spiritual path, meditation, soul, light, prayer and blessing. Participants will also learn the principles of meditation.
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The Iowa Caucus Debacle Is A Case of Poor Tech Adoption
The Iowa Caucus App didn't work as intended, but it's a not another election conspiracy — it's just a case of poor tech adoption.
So, which Democratic candidate actually won the Iowa caucuses?
Well, more than 24 hours after Monday night's early look into the Democratic primaries, and we still don't' really know.
According to the New York Times, only 71% of precincts were reporting results as of Wednesday morning. So why is it taking this long? Surely it's a conspiracy, right?
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Iowa's Democratic Party decided to do something new this year and use a new smartphone app that was supposed to collect the results and get them out to the public more quickly.
Shadow, Inc., the tech firm that developed the app, said Tuesday in a series of tweets the app performed its data and collection process correctly, but the process to transmit the caucus results and data generated from the app to the Iowa Democratic Party did not.
The party then entered the data manually, but that took much longer than expected.
According to NPR, the implementation of new technology in the Iowa caucuses was anything but smooth and orderly.
Caucus chairs were attempting to download and install the app on the phones the night of the caucus, and some rural parts of Iowa were slow to adopt the new technology.
Others told NPR that they were only given access to the app late last week:
Holly Christine Brown, the Asian/Pacific Islander caucus chair for the Iowa Democratic Party, said she was only appointed precinct chair last week and first saw the app on Friday evening.
"We were just given access to the app and told, 'Play around in there a little bit,' and that was about as much training as we got," Brown told NPR's Rachel Martin. "We were able to call in and ask questions, but there was no real training on the app."
Brown said the problems with Monday's caucuses will "absolutely" increase calls to change Iowa's system. "People are very upset about how this happened and how this played out," she said.
Elesha Gayman, the Scott County Democratic chair, said the app was difficult to use for older and younger people alike.
"It was unique; it's not something you can download in the app store," she said. "You actually had to fill out a form. In addition to that, you got a series of PIN numbers. And so, yeah, there was a lot of layers and I think that absolutely mucked it up. Anecdotally, a few of the people I do know who used the app successfully were younger people. But I do know some young people that also had troubles, just so many layers."
This is just a case of poor planning and an even worse technology adoption method.
Brad Souda, chief technology officer at AVI Systems, lays out nine steps to successful adoption across generations in this article:
Align expectation with reality
Measure success not by failure but by utilization
Adoption leads to ROI
The multigenerational difference
Adoption requires a strong focus
Take employee input into account
Set expectations for multigenerational training and adoption
Accelerate adoption to boost ROI
Fit adoption into technical work flow
Based on those steps, what we know about Shadow's app and Monday's night debacle, we think the Iowa Democratic Party needs to go back to the drawing board and rethink its tech strategy.
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We're just about three weeks away from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding!
The couple is set to tie the knot on Saturday, May 19 at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. As the special date approaches, a source is telling E! News about the duo's pre-wedding celebrations.
According to the insider, Harry already had his stag do "some time ago," which took place in the U.K. at a private residence.
As for Meghan, she's already had her bridal shower. And, according to a source, her bachelorette party will take place "in some form" just before the royal wedding in May.
As is with many bachelorette parties, it can be hard to get a group of pals together for the event. But having the celebration shortly before the wedding will make it easier for everyone who is already planning on being in the U.K. for the special day.
"That week of the wedding is the perfect time for all her friends to get together for a co-ed bachelorette dinner," the insider tells E! News.
Two nights before the wedding, the couple will have a rehearsal dinner. And, according to the source, Meghan's bachelorette could even be rolled into the rehearsal dinner.
Meghan and Harry are marrying American and British customs with their pre-wedding celebrations, like their rehearsal dinner, which is not typical for a wedding in the U.K.
A bridal shower, while very common in the United states, it's also not typically included in the pre-wedding celebrations in England.
In early March, a source confirmed to E! News that Meghan had been treated to a bridal shower at Soho Farmhouse in Oxfordshire.
"Markus Anderson has helped throw the shower for Meghan and a small group of mostly her London friends," the insider shared with us at the time. "It's just a relaxing day of good food and pampering."
Bachelorette parties or hen parties are common both in the U.S. and in the U.K., as are bachelor parties or stag parties.


A phase I/II study of dendritic cell vaccination with NY-ESO-1 and alpha-galactosylceramide in patients with metastatic melanoma.
The intervention arm will receive Dendritic Cell Vaccine + alpha-galactosylceramide (DCV+alpha-GalCer) - a 50:50 mixture of autologous dendritic cells loaded with NY-ESO1 peptides and alpha-galactosylceramide, and autologous dendritic cells loaded with influenza peptides and alpha-galactosylceramide.
Vaccines are administered intravenously on Day One of cycles one and two. Participants are then randomised to either recieve two further vaccines or for observation. If randomised to the vaccine arm, vaccines are given on day one of cycles three and four.
Vaccines have a dose of 10 x 10^6 cells (2ml volume). Each cycle is 28 days.
The comparator arm will receive Dendritic Cell Vaccine (DCV) - a 50:50 mixture of autologous dendritic cells loaded with NY-ESO1 peptides, and autologous dendritic cells loaded with influenza peptides. This will be given on day 1 of cycles 1 and 2. This group will go on to receive 2 further vaccinations with DCV+ alpha-GalCer on day 1 of cycles 3 and 4.
Vaccines are given intravenously with a dose of 10 x 10^6 cells (2ml volume). Each cycle is 28 days.
Counts of NY-ESO-1 peptide-specific T-cells.
These are measured by blood sampling at baseline, 14 days and 28 days after each vaccination. Enumeration of the antigen-specific T-cells will be measured by IFN-gamma ELISpot.
Counts of influenza peptide-specific T-cells.
Activation of Natural Killer T cells.
These will be measured by blood sampling at baseline, 6 hours and 24 hours after each vaccination. Blood sampling will enable measuring of cytokine release into serum.
Counts of Natural Killer T cells in the blood.
These will be measured by blood sampling at baseline, 24 hours, 14 days and 28 days after each vaccination. Enumeration of NKT-cells in the blood will be done using flow cytometry with NKT cell-specific antibody.
Measurement of NY-ESO-1 peptide-specific T-cell response following in vitro restimulation of blood samples taken from participants at baseline, Day 14 and Day 28 post vaccination.
Bloods will be taken from participants at baseline, Day 14 and Day 28 post vaccination. Measurement will be done by intracellular cytokine analysis.
Measurement of influenza peptide-specific T-cell response following in vitro restimulation of blood samples taken from participants at baseline, Day 14 and Day 28 post vaccination.
Adverse events will be assessed and reported according to the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) Version 4.0 from the date of consent until 30 days after the last dose of study treatment or scheduled visit at Cycle 4 for the control arm. Any protocol related toxicities will be followed up untill resolution to grade 1 or less.
Common side effects related to dendritic cell vaccination include flu like symptoms (fever, chills, headache), malaise, rigors and lethargy.
1. Able to give written informed consent and aged 18 years or over.
2. Histologically proven, fully resected American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Stage II, III, IV malignant cutaneous melanoma.
3. Full recovery from surgery (a minimum of 2 weeks should have elapsed since most recent surgery).
4. The patient must have been rendered disease free for no more than 12 months from surgery before study treatment.
5. ECOG performance status less than or equal to 2.
6. Geographically accessible to the Wellington Blood and Cancer Centre (WBCC) or prepared to travel regularly to Wellington for treatment and follow-up for the duration of the study.
1. Mucosal or ocular melanoma.
2. Prior chemotherapy or radiotherapy for advanced melanoma within 6 weeks of randomisation to the study.
3. Received any prior immune therapy.
4. Pregnant or breastfeeding women.
5. Diagnosis of any other previous cancer in the past 5 years (except non-melanoma skin cancer or in situ cancer of the cervix).
8. Previous use of long-term immunosuppressive therapy in recent months. Must have three months off steroids before entry into the study.
9. Patients with co-morbid conditions that would require long term use (> 1 month) of systemic corticosteroids during study treatment (e.g. chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [COPD]). Steroid use less than or equal to 1 month is permissible.
10. Concurrent major organ dysfunction or unstable medical condition.
11. Unable to comply with study requirements as judged by the investigator.
Each patient who signs the consent form and enters into screening will be assigned a unique 5-digit identification number. The Registration Number will be automatically assigned online by the Clinical Trials Centre at Cancer Trials New Zealand (CTNZ).
Once randomised, the Registration Number will be used to identify the patient through-out the trial.
The CTNZ database will automatically randomise the patient by selecting the next treatment allocation from a pre-determined randomisation sequence and assign a blinded 3-digit Allocation Code; this blinded Allocation Code will be provided to the site online.
Randomisation will be carried out centrally by the Clinical Trials Centre at Cancer Trials New Zealand (CTNZ).
Random block sizes will be used to provide maximum concealment of allocation. The CTNZ database will automatically randomise the patient by selecting the next treatment allocation from a pre-determined randomisation sequence and assign a blinded 3-digit Allocation Code; this blinded Allocation Code will be provided to the site online.
- At the first randomisation, patients will be randomly allocated on a 1:1 ratio to DCV (Arm 1) or DCV+ alpha-GalCer (Arm 2) for two cycles of blinded treatment.
- At the second randomisation, patients in Arm 2 will be further randomised on a 1:1 ratio to receive two further cycles of open-label DCV+alpha-GalCer or control arm (observation).
- Having received two cycles of DCV, patients in Arm 1 will go on to receive two cycles of DCV+alpha-GalCer.
Dendritic cells are cells that stimulate strong immune responses in the body. This study is looking at using dendritic cells to stimulate an immune response to a protein called NY-ESO-1 which is found in melanoma, and also to proteins found in influenza. The main purpose of the study is to see if adding an agent called alpha-galactosylceramide will improve the immune responses generated.
This is a randomised study (allocation to a treatment is random), where by chance the study participant is allocated to one of two treatment groups. Neither the participant or the treating health professionals will know which treatment arm the person is on.
Group 1 will receive a dendritic cell vaccine which contains fragments of NY-ESO-1 and influenza proteins. Two doses will be given 28 days apart.
Group 2 will receive a dendritic cell vaccine which contains fragments from NY-ESO-1, influenza proteins and alpha-Galactosylceramide. Two doses will be given 28 days apart.
Group1 will then receive 2 further vaccine treatments. This time they will receive the dendritic cell vaccine which contains the fragments of NY-ESO-1, influenza proteins and alpha-galactosylceramide.
Group 2 will be randomised again. They will either complete 2 further courses of their vaccine schedule or they will be observed only.
Blood samples wil be taken from participants regularly to measure the size of the immune responses generated.


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Natural Food, Unnatural Prices
Roaming the parking lot of a San Antonio shopping center last month, my wife Priti and I came upon a Whole Foods Market. I couldn't resist hitting the brakes. For years, from our home in Kansas, we'd been reading and hearing about this king-of-the-hill among natural food retailers, and we wanted to see what all the fuss was about.
I found a parking spot between an Outback and a Prius. In moments, we had left the land of steel and asphalt behind and stepped into a world of biological wonders. The robust-looking bread, in all the right shades of toasty brown, was clearly far more than an inert sandwich-support medium; even the few lonely white-bread specimens looked good. The fruits and vegetables actually looked and smelled like fruits and vegetables. The bulk bins formed a solid base for the best of food pyramids. In the deli and packaged-food sections, it was an invigorating experience simply to read the labels.
The work day was just starting, and the employees, most of them anyway, were genuinely friendly and seemingly delighted with their lot in life -- to be young, healthy and working at Whole Foods. These "team members," as they're known in company lingo, have signed on with a major-league powerhouse. With 180 stores in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, annual sales of $4.6 billion and profits of $160 million, Whole Foods recently moved into the Fortune 500.
But then we started looking around for something to buy. As we stared bug-eyed at the lofty price tags, I wondered aloud what sort of income it would take to become a regular Whole Foods shopper. Priti had an idea: Why not give Whole Foods the Wal-Mart test?
Return of the cashier-shopper
Priti was referring to a June 2003 AlterNet article in which I asked this seemingly simple question: In view of Wal-Mart's vast range of merchandise and "Always Low Prices," could a family whose breadwinner worked at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Salina, Kan., afford to supply its minimum needs by shopping there?
I'd relied on published studies that computed the cost of an "adequate but austere" life for a family with one adult and two children in Salina. The budget included only the basics: shelter, transportation, food, routine toiletries and medicines, and not much more. Housing and transportation can't be bought at Wal-Mart (yet), but almost all other necessities can be.
The bottom line: Our Wal-Mart cashier could not satisfy such a bare-survival budget even if she worked 40 hours per week, more hours than a typical Wal-Mart workweek. And as you might expect, in trying to keep the family within such a budget, I condemned them to an array of foods that were boring, unappealing, and not very nutritious -- and produced in ways that most customers would prefer not to know about.
But is that inevitable? Or is the nation's corporate food system capable of supplying people at all income levels with products of the quality we saw at Whole Foods?
Salina to San Antonio
I took Priti up on her suggestion, moving the hypothetical family from Salina to San Antonio, and having my cashier work and buy groceries at Whole Foods. I used the same list of foods -- a minimal, USDA-recommended "low-cost food plan" -- that I'd used at the Salina Wal-Mart.
Back at Whole Foods, we followed the same simulated-shopping rules, selecting the cheapest food in each food category and the cheapest brand of that type. Using those prices, I computed the monthly cost of feeding an adult female, a 12-year-old boy and a 4-year-old child.
At Salina's Wal-Mart, the bill had been $232, plus sales tax. At Whole Foods, the same basket of food cost $564. Texas has no sales tax on food, and Whole Foods employees get a 20 percent discount, bringing the cost for the San Antonio cashier all the way down to $451. That monthly price tag includes only the cheapest foods in each category, and none of the store's popular luxury items.
The starting wage for a cashier at Salina's Wal-Mart in 2003 was $6.25, which fell $146 per month short of meeting her family's survival budget. Whole Foods employees in three states told me that a starting cashier's wages tend to be between $7 and $8, but according to Whole Foods spokesperson Ashley Hawkins, a poll of all company regions showed a starting wage of $8 to $10.
Let's assume that the cost of nonfood necessities in present-day San Antonio is similar to Salina circa 2003 (although it's undoubtedly higher, and the San Antonio cashier might not have access to the full day-care subsidy that low-income Kansas workers get). A $10-per-hour employee determined to shop at Whole Foods could manage to do so. An $8-per-hour employee could meet the bare-survival food budget, but with nothing left over. At $7, she would miss the mark by more than the Wal-Mart cashier-shopper. The situation would be worse in a state like Kansas that taxes food sales.
Hawkins says Whole Foods' full-time turnover rate is 24.7 percent, so the above wages would apply to approximately one-fourth of employees. She says the companywide average wage is $15, and that health care, 401(k), stock option and stock purchase plans (after about 10-12 months' employment) have helped earn Whole Foods a place on Fortune magazine's list of the "100 best companies to work for" for the past nine years.
Blinded by uniqueness
But not all employees agree with Fortune's assessment. Jeremy Plague was among the Madison, Wis., Whole Foods employees who managed to form a union (the only one in the company's history) for a period between 2002 and 2004, eventually succumbing to Whole Foods' fierce anti-union policies.
Says Plague, "In my experience, most people really liked working at Whole Foods for the first few months, blinded by the uniqueness of the store and by their hippie rhetoric of how we all mattered. But then people hit the six-month wall where they realize that it's all a bunch of BS, and Whole Foods is just like every other money-hungry corporation … It's all a great, worker- and environment-friendly system until you get to the actual people working in the stores, stocking the shelves and ringing you up at the register."
A website created by the Madison organizing effort, wholeworkersunite.org, remains active as a gathering place for current and former Whole Foods employees critical of company policies.
Critics of my cashier-shopper analysis argue that jobs with retailers like Whole Foods or Wal-Mart aren't meant to support families. But to the extent that that's true, neither employer can be viewed as a model for the economy at large. And given the wage and price policies of the two companies, one thing is clear: Customers who frequent Whole Foods are unlikely to be Wal-Mart cashiers or other low-income earners.
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey is frank about that. He recently told The Independent (UK), "You can't have it both ways. If you want the highest quality, it costs more. It's like complaining that a BMW is more expensive than a Hyundai. Yes, but you're getting a better car."
And few Whole Foods Markets are situated in economy-car country. Of the 170 stores in the U.S., none are located in zip codes with average 2003 household incomes at or below $31,000 -- the approximate income earned by a full-time employee earning the average Whole Foods wage.
Only nine of the 170 stores are in zip codes with incomes of $43,300 or lower. That was the median income in the United States that year (that is, half of U.S. households had incomes lower, and half of them higher, than $43,300).
Half of the zip codes with Whole Foods stores lie above $72,000 in average income. A fourth of them exceed $100,000.
Mackey's defense of high prices is mirrored in Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott's defense of his company's low wages, which he summed up in an address to employees last October: "I ask anyone to do the math. Even slight overall adjustments to wages eliminate our thin profit margin." And, said Scott, price increases are out of the question because even as it is, "our customers simply don't have the money to buy necessities between paychecks."
Is it possible for a corporation that sells everyday, necessary products like food to do three things at once: (1) pay a living wage, (2) charge prices that most people can afford and (3) provide an acceptable return to its shareholders?
Clearly, Wal-Mart gives top priority to shareholders. Then come customers and, bringing up the rear, workers. As expected, its degrees of success follow in that same order, with workers sacrificed to satisfy the first two priorities. But what would happen to its wages and prices if Wal-Mart, notorious for putting the price squeeze on its suppliers, were to commit itself to marketing only sustainably produced, high-quality goods?
And, returning to Whole Foods, the same question can be put another way: Does it manage to make the list of "best companies to work for" only because of the premium prices paid by its customers? How would Whole Foods' merchandise quality, pay and benefits look if it tried to match Wal-Mart's customer base, maybe not in size but in socioeconomic diversity?
Whole-food, nonmarket solutions
Many academics and grassroots activists in the sustainable-agriculture movement are asking those kinds of questions, doing some hard thinking about how society can pay farmers (preferably noncorporate farmers) adequately to raise nutritious food in less ecologically destructive ways while keeping the end products affordable for all.
Clearly, our hypothetical cashiers, wherever they work, would benefit from having their own vegetable garden. But unless, against all odds, they also managed to raise a lot of staple foods on their own -- wheat, dry beans, maybe some chickens or dairy animals -- or had plenty of time for fishing, they would still be largely reliant on purchased food of some kind.
Like many in her profession, Rhonda Janke, associate professor of horticulture and a sustainable cropping systems specialist at Kansas State University, is a big advocate of locally produced food, farmers' markets and community supported agriculture, or CSA. (In a typical CSA arrangement, consumers contract with a farmer in their area to deliver a certain quantity of food on an agreed schedule during the growing season. The kinds of foods delivered depends on what's in season.)
As for making good, locally produced food affordable, Janke notes that "many CSAs have provisions for 'work shares' and reduced cost shares for low-income families, and that can be part of a 'local safety net'. But that doesn't eliminate the need for the grower to get full price from a minimum number of full-paying customers."
Janke asks, "What do you consider a living wage for a farmer, and does that make the price of food go up? If all farmers got $10 per hour, not counting [federal subsidies], what would food cost? Would the price at Wal-Mart go up? Whole Foods?"
She believes that leaving it up to the big retailers would put food out of reach for a lot of people: "I think the only conclusion one can logically come to is that market forces alone are not going to provide enough healthy food to everyone in our society."
In that spirit, a growing number of pioneering nonprofit organizations are working to put good food within economic reach of their local communities. One of them is People's Grocery in Oakland, Calif. The nonprofit, community-based organization sells fresh produce and staples through its store and Mobile Market -- a "grocery store on wheels" that travels through West Oakland making regular stops. The organization also has extensive educational programs and has helped establish a growing network of community gardens that currently provide 25 percent of the produce it sells.
I asked co-founder Brahm Ahmadi what makes it possible for People's Grocery to sell good, natural food that low-income families can afford, while Whole Foods can't. He said the fundamental difference is that "they're pursuing profit and we aren't."
Ahmadi says good food doesn't have to be expensive. "Because of its huge size, Whole Foods receives a deeper discount from its suppliers than any other natural-food retailer. Yet the prices in its stores are among the most expensive. They are purely profit-driven, so they do not allow that cost benefit to go to the customer."
Once, says Ahmadi, a Whole Foods executive told him, "We could not market food the way you do, because our shareholders simply wouldn't allow it."
People's Grocery subsidizes its efforts through charitable funding, with the understanding that the donated money will go to hold prices down. But as the low-income market strengthens, says Ahmadi, People's Grocery will try to reduce its dependency on contributions by marketing food that it obtains directly from producers, cutting out as many steps of the expensive supply chain as possible.
The growth of the natural-food industry may have been phenomenal in recent years, but Ahmadi predicts that its relatively affluent target market cannot avoid saturation: "Companies will have to project what new markets they can turn to. And there's substantial growth potential among low-income shoppers. They account for almost half of food retail in the U.S. -- that's $85 billion."
Indirectly echoing Rhonda Janke's conclusion that "market forces alone are not enough," Ahmadi says, "We need to build demand that can thrive and grow on its own," but in low-income areas "it has to be done differently. It requires a grassroots approach with community organizations that have track records."
And community organizations working in not-so-posh urban zip codes from coast to coast are establishing just such track records. They include, among others, Garden-Raised Bounty in Olympia, Wash., Growing Power in Milwaukee and Added Value in Brooklyn, N.Y.
But a more thoroughgoing overhaul of the nation's food systems may be needed to reach the majority of city dwellers, as well as vast, less densely populated rural regions between the coasts. Of the 500 poorest counties in the United States, more than 450 are rural. Ironically, it is in highly productive, ecologically threatened agricultural regions that sustainably produced, nutritious food is least widely available.
To organizations like People's Grocery, it's unacceptable that such food is accessible to some families and not to others simply on the basis of where they live or how much they earn. As Brahm Ahmadi puts it, "We're not talking about a luxury item here. Good food is a basic need."


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Earlier in 2016, I posted a transportation data specifications & gaps roundup on the Trillium blog. Our increasingly complicated and powerful multimodal transportation network is missing important pieces because there are not standardized agreed on data formats to describe various modes (like demand-responsive transportation) and to support various functions (like fare payment).
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is a national non-profit that is also working to fill some of these gaps and support the transformation of transportation — now, in collaboration with Trillium. RMI is a global non-profit facilitating market-driven shifts away from climate-change intensive practices. The Institute originally focused on electricity, and, recognizing the significant opportunities and impacts in transportation, has developed a Mobility Transformation program.
Earlier this month, Rocky Mountain Institute published "A Consortium Approach to Transit Data Interoperability" by Jackson Crane and Greg Rucks. The report outlines needs and opportunities for industry consortia to develop and maintain common data specifications and APIs that enable travelers to easily discover, utilize, and pay for transportation services, and for planners to manage and understand a multimodal transportation network.
Download the paper here. RMI authors and I welcome your comments on this topic.


Manages technology programmes in various areas to develop and maintain capabilities in South Africa, which would support the new and changing demands of the South African National Defence Force.
Electronics Technology • provides ready technology base in order to provide scientific and engineering advice and technological solutions.
Aerospace Technology • develops an All Weather Air Defence Missile (AWADM) demonstrator to expand and prove the technology capabilities.
Maritime Technology • provides SA Navy with scientific and engineering support services.
Support Technology • develops and maintains sustainable capability for the provision of technomilitary expertise.
Landwards Technology • provides the SANDF with scientific and engineering advice and technological solutions aimed at providing engineering knowledge to improve weapon systems.
The TMA division is responsible for Technology Management and Analysis, and therefore it manages technology programmes in various areas to develop and maintain capabilities in the RSA, which would support the new and changing demands of the SANDF. These programmes are conducted in South African defence industries and institutes, at defence evaluation research institutes (DERI), and at tertiary education institutes (universities).
A facility has been developed as part of the radar research at the CSIR into non co-operative target classification.
A system has been developed which allows for wide angle surveillance in the visual and infra-red band.
TMA has embarked on a demonstrator program with Denel Dynamics to develop the technology building blocks and to reduce technical risk for the development of an all-weather air defense missile.landwards and maritime applications.
FORT – Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave Optronics/Radar Tracker: The FORT is a FMCW based, low cost, light weight, LPI tracker and is depicted in Figure above.
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Blast characterisation and blast loading tests using SIIMA and VLIP tests in support of blast loading and protection research and computational model development and validation.


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Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist Alejandro Gutierrez-Li was recently quoted by NBC News in "Farmers push for immigration reform to counter labor shortages and rising food prices."
Alejandro Gutierrez-Li, a professor in the department of agricultural and resource economics at North Carolina State University, said although it may not be a perfect piece of legislation it does tackle some of the most exigent issues facing agriculture and despite there being some "touchy" points, the bill has garnered more support among the farming community than other immigration reforms.
"It is very important to really pass something because labor shortages in agriculture are getting worse every year," he said. "It's very hard to know what exactly is going to happen but at least in terms of the number of workers you have every year it would eliminate some of the most pressing issues like the fact that workers can stay here all year-round so that's kind of helpful."
From 2014 to 2016 about half of the more than 3 million farmworkers lacked legal immigration status, according to a survey conducted by the the Agriculture Department — which conceded in its report that the number is likely not comprehensive because of the fear around reporting immigration status.
Gutierrez-Li said this will open up the program to many undocumented immigrants who will now have the ability to gain legal status through their work.
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Did you know there is an easy to use desktop GIS viewer that is free, and supported by the federal government? It is called MARPLOT and your local HAZMAT responders know how to use it. A product by NOAA, EPA, USGS, the Census Bureau, it was intended for first responders to plot downwind plumes at chemical spill sites. However, it can be used for many general GIS purposes as well. This webinar will show you how to get it and a few examples of what it can do. Only a general knowledge of GIS files (shapefiles, KMLs, etc.) is needed.
The webinar will be presented by Mike Callahan of the National Weather Service with support from Kentucky State University's Jeremy Sandifer.