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Posted on June 29, 2013	by stevengoddard
In July, 1989, I drove my German Shepherd from Flagstaff to Newport Beach in my Honda Civic with no a/c. It was 122F in Needles and I brought a few gallons of water to pour on the dog and keep her cool. Temperature was 68F in LA when we arrived that evening.
In July 2006 I drove with one of my kids from Cupertino to Fort Collins in a different car with no a/c. It was 115F in Sacramento. At Donner Summit it was cold.
Hot temperatures like this happen all the time in California and Arizona. No one used to think anything of it, until McKibben et al drove everybody looney.
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DarrylB says:
Flew into Phoenix about 1990. Hot, hot, hot. Drove to Flagstaff. Our speed was about six degrees per hour! Really liked the Flagstaff and Sedona areas. The Cardinals can have Phoenix.
Pathway says:
You and your dog adapted to a temperature swing of 54 degree in one day yet these bed wetters think humans can't adapt to a couple of degrees of global warming. What a bunch of maroons.
F. Guimaraes says:
Worse than that is to know that the "globe" has been actually cooling for at least 15-16 years now, and the trend has intensified slightly after 2008.
That is one point the physicist Lubos Motl has repeatedly made, that even if the predicted temperature changes came to pass, they are far smaller than the temperature swings endured with time and place every year.
German Shepherds are the best dogs, I've had 6 of them.
Yeah Steve, 122f is hot. Over 50c.
I experienced it one day in the Sturt's Stony Desert in Australia and had to keep working but I survived.
That was in 1957 and it's the only time I saw a bird die in flight from heat stress.
How hot must it have been when Governor Arthur Philip reported in the first fleet journals 20,000 dead birds per mile during a heat wave in 1791?
Do you have a reference for that?
Nor will this surprise, if the genial influence of the climate be considered. Placed in a latitude where the beams of the sun in the dreariest season are sufficiently powerful for many hours of the day to dispense warmth and nutrition, the progress of vegetation never is at a stand. The different temperatures of Rose Hill and Sydney in winter, though only twelve miles apart, afford, however, curious matter of speculation. Of a well attested instance of ice being seen at the latter place, I never heard. At the former place its production is common, and once a few flakes of snow fell. The difference can be accounted for only by supposing that the woods stop the warm vapours of the sea from reaching Rose Hill, which is at the distance of sixteen miles inland; whereas Sydney is but four.* Again, the heats of summer are more violent at the former place than at the latter, and the variations incomparably quicker. The thermometer has been known to alter at Rose Hill, in the course of nine hours, more than 50 degrees; standing a little before sunrise at 50 degrees, and between one and two at more than 100 degrees. To convey an idea of the climate in summer, I shall transcribe from my meteorological journal, accounts of two particular days which were the hottest we ever suffered under at Sydney.
[*Look at the journal which describes the expedition in search of the river, said to exist to the southward of Rose Hill. At the time we felt that extraordinary degree of cold were not more than six miles south west of Rose Hill, and about nineteen miles from the the sea coast. When I mentioned this circumstance to colonel Gordon, at the Cape of Good Hope, he wondered at it; and owned, that, in his excursions into the interior parts of Africa, he had never experienced anything to match it: he attributed its production to large beds of nitre, which he said must exist in the neighbourhood.]
December 27th 1790. Wind NNW; it felt like the blast of a heated oven, and in proportion as it increased the heat was found to be more intense, the sky hazy, the sun gleaming through at intervals.
At 9 a.m. 85 degrees At noon 104 Half past twelve 107 1/2 From one p.m. until 20 minutes past two 108 1/2 At 20 minutes past two 109 At Sunset 89 At 11 p.m. 78 1/2
[By a large Thermometer made by Ramsden, and graduated on Fahrenheit's scale.]
December 28th.
At 8 a.m. 86 10 a.m. 93 11 a.m. 101 At noon 103 1/2 Half an hour past noon 104 1/2 At one p.m. 102 At 5 p.m. 73 At sunset 69 1/2
[At a quarter past one, it stood at only 89 degrees, having, from a sudden shift of wind, fallen 13 degrees in 15 minutes.]
My observations on this extreme heat, succeeded by so rapid a change, were that of all animals, man seemed to bear it best. Our dogs, pigs and fowls, lay panting in the shade, or were rushing into the water. I remarked that a hen belonging to me, which had sat for a fortnight, frequently quitted her eggs, and shewed great uneasiness, but never remained from them many minutes at one absence; taught by instinct that the wonderful power in the animal body of generating cold in air heated beyond a certain degree, was best calculated for the production of her young. The gardens suffered considerably. All the plants which had not taken deep root were withered by the power of the sun. No lasting ill effects, however, arose to the human constitution. A temporary sickness at the stomach, accompanied with lassitude and headache, attacked many, but they were removed generally in twenty-four hours by an emetic, followed by an anodyne. During the time it lasted, we invariably found that the house was cooler than the open air, and that in proportion as the wind was excluded, was comfort augmented.
But even this heat was judged to be far exceeded in the latter end of the following February, when the north-west wind again set in, and blew with great violence for three days. At Sydney, it fell short by one degree of what I have just recorded: but at Rose Hill, it was allowed, by every person, to surpass all that they had before felt, either there or in any other part of the world. Unluckily they had no thermometer to ascertain its precise height. It must, however, have been intense, from the effects it produced. An immense flight of bats driven before the wind, covered all the trees around the settlement, whence they every moment dropped dead or in a dying state, unable longer to endure the burning state of the atmosphere. Nor did the 'perroquettes', though tropical birds, bear it better. The ground was strewn with them in the same condition as the bats.
Were I asked the cause of this intolerable heat, I should not hesitate to pronounce that it was occasioned by the wind blowing over immense deserts, which, I doubt not, exist in a north-west direction from Port Jackson, and not from fires kindled by the natives. This remark I feel necessary, as there were methods used by some persons in the colony, both for estimating the degree of heat and for ascertaining the cause of its production, which I deem equally unfair and unphilosophical. The thermometer, whence my observations were constantly made, was hung in the open air in a southern aspect, never reached by the rays of the sun, at the distance of several feet above the ground.
From: The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Complete Account of the Settlement at
Port Jackson, by Watkin Tench
http://ia600301.us.archive.org/2/items/acompleteaccount03534gut/3534-h/3534-h.htm
Steve, Watkin Tench reported on that and WUWT mentioned it here:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/01/14/global-warming-it-was-warmer-in-sydney-in-1790/
I don't have the link to Tench's actual report although I did read it years ago:
Tench also recorded the effects of the extreme heat of Feb 1791;
"but at Rose Hill, [modern day Parramatta] it was allowed, by every person, to surpass all that they had before felt, either there, or in any other part of the world. Unluckily they had no thermometer to ascertain its precise height."
"An immense flight of bats, driven before the wind, covered all the trees around the settlement, whence they every moment dropped dead, or in a dying state, unable longer to endure the burning state of the atmosphere. Nor did the perroquettes, [parrots] though tropical birds, bear it better; the ground was strewed with them in the same condition as the bats."
And even Governor Arthur Philip noted the effects of the extreme heat of the summer of 1790/91;
"from the numbers [of dead bats] that fell into the brook at Rose Hill [Parramatta], the water was tainted for several days, and it was supposed that more than twenty thousand of them were seen within the space of one mile."
Google books has it: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uYxNAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA167&lpg=PA167&dq=%22surpass+all+that+they+had+before+felt%22&source=bl&ots=OXqbhgpHkE&sig=PcMqUnV8PtotZz5jnGXT7yw4Xt4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=r_fPUfjiBOTP4QTnsoDICA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22surpass%20all%20that%20they%20had%20before%20felt%22&f=false
bit.ly/157HOY5
Ooops – should've read the posts below before posting!
http://books.google.com/books?id=CX6eH4o451AC&lpg=PA273&dq=%22dead%20birds%22%20heat%20%22arthur%20phillip%22&pg=PA273#v=snippet&q=birds&f=false


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Film: East side of the 1600 block of Vine Street
Born Feb. 1, 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio
Died Nov. 16, 1960 of heart attack in Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, CA
Clark Gable was, for a long time, the undisputed king of Hollywood and one of its highest-paid stars.
He broke into the movies after a fling as a roustabout in the Texas and Oklahoma oil fields.
Under the tutelage of his first wife, Josephine Dillon, who operated an acting clinic in Hollywood coaching stage actors for the movies, Gable acquired acting polish that soon shot him to stardom.
Gable's film career included an Academy Award-winning performance in "It Happened One Night" (1934). He was nominated for Oscars for his performances in "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935) and "Gone With the Wind" (1939).
Other well-known films of his are "Hell Divers" (1931), "Strange Interlude" (1932), "Call of the Wild" (1935), "The Hucksters" (1947), "Command Decision" (1948), "Teacher's Pet" (1958) and "Too Hot to Handle" (1938).
Gable was known in Hollywood circles as a "loner" despite his brash movie roles and rugged, he-man appearance. On the screen, he made women swoon and said he had received 5,000 marriage proposals by mail. He was married five times.
At the time of his unexpected death — which came shortly after he finished filming the final scenes for "The Misfits" with Marilyn Monroe — his wife Kay was pregnant.
— The Los Angeles Times Nov, 17, 1960
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11 thoughts about Clark Gable
What about the love of his life Carole Lombard?? No mention of her. You can't talk about Clark without mentioning Carole. And OMG YES Clark certainly deserves his 'Hollywood Walk of Fame'
" — Danita, March 17, 2010 at 12:21 p.m.
I never met Clark Gable but I lived in San Gabriel where Clark Gable and wife lived in about two acres of land. The acreage is gone but the house is still there and has visiting hours. I was in grammer school and passed by there everyday. It seemed like a big jungle to me with all the trees and bushes.
" — Walt Cobos, December 5, 2010 at 8:27 a.m.
Of course Clark Gable deserves this star on the Walk of Fame. If he doesn't, I don't know who does!
" — Rich Gordon, January 19, 2011 at 2:16 p.m.
Clark Gable will always be known as one of the gods of old Hollywood, along with the likes of Humphry Bogart and Gary Cooper. If he didn't have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame than nobody should. Gable is the quintessential movie star.
" — Dan Ehle, May 22, 2011 at 2:34 a.m.
I never met Clark Gable but one of my fondest teen-age memories is when we passed each other on the escalator at the old Broadway Hollywood Department Store at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street. He was 57 or 58 at the time and yes, he really was that good looking even at that time of his life. Never spoke a word to him but seeing him that one time has provided a memory that has lasted over half a century.
Other people with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame connected to Gable? Just about anybody who worked at the same time. Carole Lombard, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Bette Davis, Norma Shearer, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly and Marilyn Monroe, just to mention a few.
Another place that was important to Gable outside of Hollywood was the ranch that he and Lombard owned in Encino in the San Fernando Valley, about twenty miles from Hollywood. They are not to be considered as "Valley Gentry". They actually worked the ranch as much as they made movies. The house is still there.
Does Gable deserve a star on the Walk of Fame? Does that question need to be asked?
" — David Swan, September 23, 2011 at 9:24 a.m.
Clark Gable makes my heart skip a beat today even though he died forty five years before I was born. I could watch anything with him in it; he lights up the screen. He deserves a thousand stars!
" — Helen, May 28, 2012 at 3:13 p.m.
I think Clark Gable is the most glamorous husband in the world. He has such charm, cool and masculinity that really shocks the audience.
" — Brigid Park, June 18, 2013 at 10:13 p.m.
I think Clark Gable is a legendary movie star with a good look and lots of grace!!
" — Brigid, June 20, 2013 at 2:28 a.m.
he was good actor loved his movies he should have been born later and lived longer
" — Honey lalumondiere, November 17, 2014 at 12:28 a.m.
I never met him but I would loved to have been in his presence once. All of the other stars should have some connection with him. They could have learned something. All of the world should be important to him. He was important and admired by all who saw him. He should have the biggest star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
" — BettyS, January 2, 2015 at 10:37 a.m.
They don't make them like Clark any more. Those were the golden years
" — Sherry Clark, January 2, 2015 at 11:33 a.m.
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NIA Files Chargesheet Against Five Maoists
National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a charge-sheet against five Maoist Cadres in Kolkata NIA Special Court. The NIA took over the investigation of the Case No. 138/2012 of Jorasanko PS, Kolkata, West Bengal and re-registered as Regular Case No.01/2012/NIA/New Delhi under Sections 120B, 121, 121A, 122 of the IPC, Section 25 1(A) of the Arms Act 1959, Section - 5 of the Explosive Substances Act, 1908 and Sections 18,20,40 (1) (b) (c) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 as amended by Act 35 of 2008, against the accused persons 1.Sadula Ramakrishna 2. Dipak Kumar 3. Sukumar Mondal 4. Sambhu Charan Pal and 5. Bapi Mudi and others for entering into a criminal conspiracy to
wage war against the Government of India, being members of the banned terrorist organisation CPI (Maoist). In furtherance of their conspiracy, they collected explosive substances, prohibited ammunition, huge amount of money and made efforts to manufacture area weapons etc. in a concealed manner.
Several incriminating items recovered from the accused which included Cash of Rs. 96,66,755/- as the Proceeds of Terrorism, Prohibited Ammunition, Explosive Materials, Maoist Literatures, Several Diagrams and Literature on Rocket Launchers and on other area Weapons, Documents connected with the transport of components and assembly tools and materials to Raipur, Chhattisgarh from Kolkata and Mumbai, and several finished components of Rocket Launchers and other area weapons including sixty nine wooden crates at a godown in Raipur and the recoveries from a workshop established by the accused in Kolkata.
During the investigation, it was revealed that a conspiracy was hatched by the CPI (Maoist) (then known as the CPI(ML) PW which is also banned under the UA(P) Act) in or around early 1990's to develop sophisticated arms and ammunition including area weapons like Rocket Launchers and others for use by its armed cadres against the armed forces of the State, to intensify the war against the Government of India. Initially a Technical Development Committee (TDC) of Regional Committee status was formed by the CPI(ML) PW in 1994 to coordinate the technical units producing light articles outside the field/combat zone. The accused Sadula Ramakrishna was instrumental in formation of Technical Development Committee (TDC).
Investigation revealed that in pursuance of the said conspiracy, after the formation of the Central Technical Committee (CTC), from 2002 to 2006 technical units were established at several places like Pune, Rourkela, Indore, Bhopal and Bhubaneswar in the close supervision and guidance of accused Sadula. Recoveries and arrest of CTC members had been made from Bhopal and Rourkela in January, 2007.
From 2008 onwards Sadula using a false name Swagat Kasturi established CTC teams in Kolkata and in Thane near Mumbai, Maharashtra, and, with the assistance of team members, started procuring raw materials and finished components of weapons. Some of the components were processed in local workshop established for that purpose by the team members, while others were processed in local workshops by mechanics and workmen who were provided with designs and detailed diagrams or samples of certain parts. The finished products, assembly tools and related items were being regularly sent to Raipur, Chhattisgarh. From Raipur, Chhattisgarh they were being further transported to the forests of Dandakaranya / Abhujmaad where they were reportedly assembled into complete arms by the mobile assembly units of the CPI(Maoist).
Investigation has established that the accused Sadula and Deepak Kumar were operating under false/fake names in Kolkata and Mumbai and had also made certain documents in fake names to establish their fake identities. Both were found to be staying in a Flat purchased by them at Ayodhyanagar, Birati, Kolkata.
The assistance of the Kolkata Police, Maharashtra Police, Chhattisgarh Police, Andhra Pradesh Police was taken during the investigation. The investigation regarding others who are part of the conspiracy would continue.


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Alfredo Francisco Arola Blanquet (24 July 1948, Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).

Arola entered politics in 1983 when he was elected to the Aragonese Corts representing Zargoza Province. He was re-elected in 1987 and 1991 and served as Minister for Public Health, Welfare and Employment in the Aragonese regional administration.

In 2000 he entered national politics when he was elected to the Spanish national parliament as a deputy for Zaragoza province. He was re-elected in 2004 and 2008 as the third placed candidate on the PSOE list.

References

External links
Biography at Spanish Congress site

1948 births
Living people
Politicians from Barcelona
Members of the 7th Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Members of the 8th Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Members of the 9th Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politicians
Members of the Cortes of Aragon

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Spatial Reserves
A guide to public domain spatial data
Exercises and data for the book
Accessing the data on ArcGIS Online
Possible Changes to NAIP Imagery Licensing Model
November 27, 2017 josephkerski	Leave a comment
As this blog and our book make clear, the world of geospatial data is in a continual state of change. Much of this change has been toward more data in the public domain, but sometimes, the change may move in the opposite direction. The National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) has been a source for aerial imagery in the USA since 2003 and has been in the public domain, available here. But recently, the Farm Services Agency (FSA) has proposed to move the data model from the public domain to a licensing model. The collection of this imagery has been under an innovative model wherein state governments and the federal government share the costs.
One reason for the proposed change is that the states have been $3.1 million short over the past several years, and FSA cannot continue "picking up the tab." Furthermore, delays in releasing funding from cost-share partners forces contract awards past "peak agriculture growth" season, which thwarts one key reason why the imagery is collected in the first place–to assess agricultural health and practices. We have discussed this aspect of geospatial data frequently in this blog–that geospatial data comes at a cost. Someone has to pay, and sometimes, those payment models need to be re-considered with changing funding and priorities. In this case, agencies and data analysts that rely on NAIP imagery would suffer adverse consequences, but with the expansion of the types and means by which imagery can be acquired nowadays, perhaps these developments will enable those other sources to be explored more fully. And, possibly, the model could be adjusted so that the data could be paid for and that all could benefit from it.
For more information, see the report by our colleagues at GIS Lounge, and the presentation housed on the FGDC site, here.
Two samples of NAIP imagery, for Texas, left, and North Dakota, right.
Categories: Public Domain Data Tags: cost-share, imagery, land cover, licensing, Open Data
Potential Harm to Rare Species from Location-Tagged Data
November 20, 2017 josephkerski	2 comments
In a new study from Yale University entitled "Unnatural Surveillance: How Online Data Is Putting Species at Risk," author Adam Welz sounds an alarm about harm that can come from the fact that location information is increasingly tied to data. In the case of rare and endangered plants and animals, Welz points out that "poachers can use computers and smartphones to pinpoint the locations of rare and endangered species and then go nab them." The case highlighted in the article is one of a couple who had been illegally gathering rare African succulent plants after doing research on the location of the plants, and then illegally selling the plants through their own website. In the past it may have taken perhaps an entire botanical career to gather information on this level of specificity, but "in 2015, a pair of poachers could acquire it in a short time from a desk on another continent." Unfortunately, this is not an isolated case, and Welz should know: He has long focused on writing about and has extensive experience in international and African wildlife issues.
The author thoughtfully raises other ways, trends, and technologies that expose the location of protected species to those with other motives, such as the increased publishing of scientific research in open access journals, VHF radio signals from animal collars, the rise of citizen science, and even geotagged social media posts from tourists who photograph wildlife. Welz recognizes the positive impact that the growth of data has had on research and on conservation in particular, but raises awareness of the real danger that location-tagged data can pose to the very things that many seek to study and protect. As a member of the academic community, I have been working with open access journals for years, and I had not considered the potential misuse of this new publication avenue.
As a long-time member of another community–that of caving, I have for decades been sensitive to the related issue of publishing of cave locations, and the resulting harm that can and has come from those entering caves without a permit and/or those who would seek to vandalize a cave. I would love to see a researcher conduct further research on the geospatial implications of the points that Welz raises. Lacking that, Welz' article still provides an affirmation of one of our themes of this blog and our book: What is important is what people do with the data. Data can be used for good and for ill. It is my hope that articles such as this raise awareness so that data and tool providers build safeguards that make it difficult for people who seek to use data for ill to access that data, while still moving toward the goals of open data access for enabling smart decisions.
A review of an article wherein Adam Welz sounds an alarm about harm that can come from the fact that location information is increasingly tied to data.
Categories: Public Domain Data Tags: endangered species, location privacy, open access journals, protection
The ArcGIS Solutions Templates as a Data Source
November 6, 2017 josephkerski	Leave a comment
"ArcGIS solution templates" located here are ready-to-use maps and apps targeted for specific industries. They are grouped into categories according to GIS industry sectors–local government, state government, emergency management, water, electric, gas, defense, telecommunication, and parks and gardens. These solution templates cover a wide variety of themes and scales. Under each categories are subcategories, such as land records and water utilities under local government, and transportation and fish and wildlife under state government, and so on. Another convenient way to browse for the solutions of interest to you is to visit the gallery. The gallery allows for searching on keywords, industries, products, and implementation patterns (such as field mobility and operational awareness).
Why include these solution templates in our blog as a data source? Particularly for professors of GIS in universities, and those who conduct GIS training for a wide variety of persons, these templates include sample data. For example, the electric facility templates include a sample geodatabase with an electric utility network, and a map document used to publish the service territory service. The Tree Assessor template includes a living plant collection dataset, a map document with defined cartography, a toolbox containing analysis tools, and detailed documentation with details of the map properties.
Admittedly, the primary purpose of these templates is not data, per se, but to help avoid the age-old problem in GIS of requiring each organization to create everything they need from scratch. The solutions templates provide a practical framework, including maps, graphics, workflows, apps, and much more–for an organization to get started, or if they've already started with GIS, to follow some best practices. But the fact that the templates include data and tools make them an excellent source of data particularly for the GIS instructor. And, many of the data sets, such as water, parcels, and utilities, are those that typically are difficult to obtain, chiefly because they are not distributed by most data portals. The solutions templates can also, of course, be used with other data sets that can be found via this blog or via other sources.
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SumOfUs Slams Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's 'Non-Apology' Today after London Transport Authority Revokes the Company's License to Operate in the City
Contact: Yasmina Dardariyasmina@unbendablemedia.com+1 407.922.8149
Consumer Group Applauds London Mayor Sadiq Khan for 'Keeping Uber Accountable'
Following the decision on Friday by London's transport authority not to renew Uber's license to operate in the city, new Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has published a letter in the Evening Standard today apologising for the company's 'mistakes.' In the letter, Khosrowshahi writes: "While Uber has revolutionised the way people move in cities around the world, it's equally true that we've got things wrong along the way. On behalf of everyone at Uber globally, I apologise for the mistakes we've made."
London mayor Sadiq Khan told the BBC today that he welcomes Khosrowshahi's apology, but said that Uber had brought "unfair pressure" on TfL, employing an "army" of PR experts and lawyers." The mayor said: "I want companies that abide by the rules, I want companies that innovate, harbour new technologies, I want disruptive technology coming to London but you've got to play by the rules."
On Friday, Transport for London (TfL) announced that Uber's application for a new operation license has been rejected on the basis that the company is not a "fit and proper" operator.
In reaction to the news, Eoin Dubsky campaigner at SumOfUs, a global consumer watchdog, released the following statement:
"Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's 'apology' today is a weak attempt to clean up the company's dirty act after the city of London made it clear that it can no longer operate above the law. There is no way to sugarcoat Uber's 'mistakes': They are egregious in scale and represent systematic, predatory corporate practices that have for too long trampled on the rights of its drivers and users. From raking in massive profits from the labor of their drivers while denying them basic workers' rights, to its lack of corporate responsibility, Uber must do more than simply apologise to win back London's trust.
"We applaud London mayor Sadiq Khan for keeping Uber accountable by telling the company in no uncertain terms that it cannot go on behaving as if it is above the law forever. If Uber wants to truly make amends, it must ensure that drivers' rights and public safety are included in any future license."
On Monday, September 18th, GMB joined forces with SumOfUs to hand in a 106,000-signature petition to London City Hall. GMB and SumofUs have gathered more than 106,000 public signatures asking TfL not to renew the license unless Uber guarantees safe working practices and basic employment rights to its drivers.
View the petition here: https://actions.sumofus.org/a/london-uber-workers-rights
72% of Londoners, and 73% of Uber users believe that Transport for London (TfL) should require Uber to guarantee safeguards such as minimum wage and paid holidays for their drivers, according to a poll of adults in London conducted by YouGov on behalf of consumer watchdog SumOfUs. [1]
In April, SumOfUs launched a website (http://www.whyeveryonehatesuber.com) documenting Uber's global pattern of driver mistreatment, corporate bullying, and legal transgressions. The website employs an interactive map, organising Uber's many issues around the world by country, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, the United Kingdom, Denmark, France, India, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, China, Japan, and more.
SumOfUs is a global consumer group that campaigns to hold big corporations accountable. Over 10 million people have taken over 50 million actions worldwide with SumOfUs since it launched.
Note to editors:\ [1] Poll: 72% figure is from YouGov Plc. Total sample size was 1,045 adults. Fieldwork was undertaken between 12th - 14th September 2017. The survey was carried out online. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all London adults (aged 18+). Asked "Do you believe Transport for London (TfL) should or should not require Uber to guarantee certain safeguards for Uber drivers such as minimum wage, holiday/ sick pay etc.?", 72% responded "TfL should require these safeguards", 16% responded "TfL should not require these safeguards", and 12% responded "Don't know".


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Could Artificial Sweeteners Be Contributing To The Obesity Epidemic?
Alice G. WaltonSenior Contributor
It's been unclear whether artificial sweeteners actually help the obesity crisis – some evidence has shown that they may do just the opposite. One reason is that already overweight people may be more likely to use artificial sweeteners. Or it could be that artificially sweetened drinks give us the green light to consume more food in general, since we're "saving" so many calories in our drinks. But now, a new study in Nature adds a compelling piece to puzzle: Artificial sweeteners appear to lead to higher blood sugar, in both mice and men. And this isn't because the chemicals interfere with the function of any of our organs: They seem to interfere with the friendly bacteria in our gut.
Here's how they arrived at this. In one of the studies, the team had mice drink water with one of three sweeteners – saccharin, sucralose and aspartame – and found their blood sugar levels rose significantly, in comparison to those who drank either plain water or sugar water. Even more telling was when the researchers transplanted the gut bacteria of the mice who'd consumed these sweeteners into mice who were bred to have no gut bacteria at all. Amazingly, the recipient mice also developed glucose intolerance. When the researchers analyzed the distribution of the bacteria, they found abundances of bacteria that have known links to obesity and diabetes.
But if you're not convinced, because, after all, these were mice, read on. The researchers also looked at human subjects – regular consumers of artificial sweeteners had measurably different gut bacteria than non-consumers. To push into this, the team had the people who rarely or never consumed artificial sweeteners do exactly this for a week. Within that period, half of the human participants developed some glucose intolerance, and had proliferations in certain gut microbes linked to glucose intolerance.
The mechanisms behind all this aren't totally clear, but the authors suggest that inflammation may be the missing link. Altered populations of gut bacteria trigger an inflammatory response, which sets into motion changes in glucose metabolism. Artificial sweeteners aren't absorbed by the body so they pass through the intestines, and come into contact with the trillions of beneficial bacteria down there.
So is diet soda destroying your metabolism? Probably not – there are after all many factors that contribute to the metabolism. But if you're one of the people who's susceptible to it, artificially sweetened products may play some role, along with the other factors. It's worth reiterating that not all of the human subjects had the changes in their gut bacteria, only some did. It may be that certain people – or their gut microbes – are more susceptible to the effects of artificial sweeteners, while others are more resistant.
And again, this is not a direct connection. "This is an indirect effect," says David L. Katz, Founding Director Yale University Prevention Research Center. "Artificial sweeteners are, obviously, not putting sugar directly into the bloodstream. Rather, they figure in the adulterations of diet that may alter the microbiome – and that, in turn, alters metabolic processing as described." There are certainly ways to counteract the effect and push your gut microbes in a better direction – eating yogurt and other fermented products, and lots of fruits and vegetables are known to do this.
Artificial sweeteners may also have effects on other body parts besides the gut – like the brain. Katz points out that the new study "ignores another potential adversity of non-caloric artificial sweeteners: they are, in general, intensely sweet, and propagate a 'sweet tooth.' By doing that, they may cause people to favor added sugar in a wide variety of foods, and that increased glycemic load of diet may, in turn, contribute to glucose intolerance." In other words, your brain reacts to the extreme sweetness of the compounds as if they were sugar. It's very possible that sugar substitutes might alter the complicated cascades behind how the brain perceives hunger and satiety, perhaps even altering the kinds of food we crave.
Still, the authors are confident that their studies provide strong evidence that gut bacteria are the connection between artificial sweeteners have their ironic effect on weight.
"Our relationship with our own individual mix of gut bacteria is a huge factor in determining how the food we eat affects us," said study author Eran Elinav of the Weizmann Institute. Especially intriguing is the link between use of artificial sweeteners – through the bacteria in our guts – to a tendency to develop the very disorders they were designed to prevent; this calls for reassessment of today's massive, unsupervised consumption of these substances."
Whether or not the study will change regulations or recommendations on artificial sweeteners is unclear. Probably not until a lot more research is done. In the meantime, you may want to opt for tea or water instead of a diet soda. Your gut bacteria will thank you.
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Alice G. Walton
I fell into writing about health shortly after grad school, where I realized I didn't want to work in a lab for the rest of my life! My main areas of interest are the…
I fell into writing about health shortly after grad school, where I realized I didn't want to work in a lab for the rest of my life! My main areas of interest are the brain and behavior, as well as what influences the decisions we make about our health, and how we can change it over time. As an undergraduate, I studied English Literature and Biopsychology at Vassar College, and got my PhD in Biopsychology and Behavioral Neuroscience at CUNY's Graduate Center in New York City, where I grew up and live now. My work appears in other publications, including the magazine of the University of Chicago's Business School, YogaGlo.com, TheAtlantic.com, and the American Psychological Association. Please email me at alicegwalton [at] gmail [dot] com or visit my website www.alicegwalton.com


VICTORVILLE:(VVNG.com)- On Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at approximately 11:30 P.M., a San Bernardino County Sheriff's Deputy reported a failure to yield in progress.
The pursuit initiated in the area of Rodeo Drive and Green Tree Blvd. in Victorville after the vehicle, a green four-door Honda Civic failed to yield.
Per scanner traffic, the driver, described as a Hispanic Male Adult, averaged speeds of 60-95 MPH as he drove recklessly through city streets. He entered onto the southbound 15 freeway and exited on Main Street in Hesperia and eventually headed back towards Victorville. The driver continued to blow through stop signs, run red lights, and drive on the opposite side of the roadway.
Authorities decided to set up a spike strip near Nisqualli Road and 11th Avenue. As the driver approached Nisqualli and Cypress, near the Golden Sands Apartments he lost control of the vehicle and spun out. That's when deputies surrounded the vehicle and the driver was taken into custody.
At this time the cause of the initial pursuit is unknown. No injuries have been reported as a result of the pursuit.
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echo "*********************************************************************"
echo "Begin DevStack Exercise: $0"
echo "*********************************************************************"

# This script exits on an error so that errors don't compound and you see
# only the first error that occurred.

set -o errtrace

# Print the commands being run so that we can see the command that triggers
# an error.  It is also useful for following allowing as the install occurs.
set -o xtrace

# Environment
# -----------

# Keep track of the current directory
EXERCISE_DIR=$(cd $(dirname "$0") && pwd)
TOP_DIR=$(cd $EXERCISE_DIR/..; pwd)

# Import common functions
source $TOP_DIR/functions

# Import configuration
source $TOP_DIR/openrc

# Import neutron functions
source $TOP_DIR/lib/neutron-legacy

# If neutron is not enabled we exit with exitcode 55, which means exercise is skipped.
neutron_plugin_check_adv_test_requirements || exit 55

# Import exercise configuration
source $TOP_DIR/exerciserc

# Neutron Settings
# ----------------

TENANTS="DEMO1"
# TODO (nati)_Test public network
#TENANTS="DEMO1,DEMO2"

PUBLIC_NAME="admin"
DEMO1_NAME="demo1"
DEMO2_NAME="demo2"

PUBLIC_NUM_NET=1
DEMO1_NUM_NET=1
DEMO2_NUM_NET=2

PUBLIC_NET1_CIDR="200.0.0.0/24"
DEMO1_NET1_CIDR="10.10.0.0/24"
DEMO2_NET1_CIDR="10.20.0.0/24"
DEMO2_NET2_CIDR="10.20.1.0/24"

PUBLIC_NET1_GATEWAY="200.0.0.1"
DEMO1_NET1_GATEWAY="10.10.0.1"
DEMO2_NET1_GATEWAY="10.20.0.1"
DEMO2_NET2_GATEWAY="10.20.1.1"

PUBLIC_NUM_VM=1
DEMO1_NUM_VM=1
DEMO2_NUM_VM=2

PUBLIC_VM1_NET='admin-net1'
DEMO1_VM1_NET='demo1-net1'
# Multinic settings. But this is fail without nic setting in OS image
DEMO2_VM1_NET='demo2-net1'
DEMO2_VM2_NET='demo2-net2'

PUBLIC_NUM_ROUTER=1
DEMO1_NUM_ROUTER=1
DEMO2_NUM_ROUTER=1

PUBLIC_ROUTER1_NET="admin-net1"
DEMO1_ROUTER1_NET="demo1-net1"
DEMO2_ROUTER1_NET="demo2-net1"

# Various functions
# -----------------

function foreach_tenant {
    COMMAND=$1
    for TENANT in ${TENANTS//,/ };do
        eval ${COMMAND//%TENANT%/$TENANT}
    done
}

function foreach_tenant_resource {
    COMMAND=$1
    RESOURCE=$2
    for TENANT in ${TENANTS//,/ };do
        eval 'NUM=$'"${TENANT}_NUM_$RESOURCE"
        for i in `seq $NUM`;do
            local COMMAND_LOCAL=${COMMAND//%TENANT%/$TENANT}
            COMMAND_LOCAL=${COMMAND_LOCAL//%NUM%/$i}
            eval $COMMAND_LOCAL
        done
    done
}

function foreach_tenant_vm {
    COMMAND=$1
    foreach_tenant_resource "$COMMAND" 'VM'
}

function foreach_tenant_net {
    COMMAND=$1
    foreach_tenant_resource "$COMMAND" 'NET'
}

function get_image_id {
    local IMAGE_ID
    IMAGE_ID=$(openstack image list | egrep " $DEFAULT_IMAGE_NAME " | get_field 1)
    die_if_not_set $LINENO IMAGE_ID "Failure retrieving IMAGE_ID"
    echo "$IMAGE_ID"
}

function get_tenant_id {
    local TENANT_NAME=$1
    local TENANT_ID
    TENANT_ID=`openstack project list | grep " $TENANT_NAME " | head -n 1 | get_field 1`
    die_if_not_set $LINENO TENANT_ID "Failure retrieving TENANT_ID for $TENANT_NAME"
    echo "$TENANT_ID"
}

function get_user_id {
    local USER_NAME=$1
    local USER_ID
    USER_ID=`openstack user list | grep $USER_NAME | awk '{print $2}'`
    die_if_not_set $LINENO USER_ID "Failure retrieving USER_ID for $USER_NAME"
    echo "$USER_ID"
}

function get_role_id {
    local ROLE_NAME=$1
    local ROLE_ID
    ROLE_ID=`openstack role list | grep $ROLE_NAME | awk '{print $2}'`
    die_if_not_set $LINENO ROLE_ID "Failure retrieving ROLE_ID for $ROLE_NAME"
    echo "$ROLE_ID"
}

function get_network_id {
    local NETWORK_NAME="$1"
    local NETWORK_ID
    NETWORK_ID=`neutron net-list -F id  -- --name=$NETWORK_NAME | awk "NR==4" | awk '{print $2}'`
    echo $NETWORK_ID
}

function get_flavor_id {
    local INSTANCE_TYPE=$1
    local FLAVOR_ID
    FLAVOR_ID=`nova flavor-list | grep $INSTANCE_TYPE | awk '{print $2}'`
    die_if_not_set $LINENO FLAVOR_ID "Failure retrieving FLAVOR_ID for $INSTANCE_TYPE"
    echo "$FLAVOR_ID"
}

function confirm_server_active {
    local VM_UUID=$1
    if ! timeout $ACTIVE_TIMEOUT sh -c "while ! nova show $VM_UUID | grep status | grep -q ACTIVE; do sleep 1; done"; then
        echo "server '$VM_UUID' did not become active!"
        false
    fi
}

function neutron_debug_admin {
    local os_username=$OS_USERNAME
    local os_tenant_id=$OS_TENANT_ID
    source $TOP_DIR/openrc admin admin
    neutron-debug $@
    source $TOP_DIR/openrc $os_username $os_tenant_id
}

function add_tenant {
    openstack project create $1
    openstack user create $2 --password ${ADMIN_PASSWORD} --project $1
    openstack role add Member --project $1 --user $2
}

function remove_tenant {
    local TENANT=$1
    local TENANT_ID
    TENANT_ID=$(get_tenant_id $TENANT)
    openstack project delete $TENANT_ID
}

function remove_user {
    local USER=$1
    local USER_ID
    USER_ID=$(get_user_id $USER)
    openstack user delete $USER_ID
}

function create_tenants {
    source $TOP_DIR/openrc admin admin
    add_tenant demo1 demo1 demo1
    add_tenant demo2 demo2 demo2
    source $TOP_DIR/openrc demo demo
}

function delete_tenants_and_users {
    source $TOP_DIR/openrc admin admin
    remove_user demo1
    remove_tenant demo1
    remove_user demo2
    remove_tenant demo2
    echo "removed all tenants"
    source $TOP_DIR/openrc demo demo
}

function create_network {
    local TENANT=$1
    local GATEWAY=$2
    local CIDR=$3
    local NUM=$4
    local EXTRA=$5
    local NET_NAME="${TENANT}-net$NUM"
    local ROUTER_NAME="${TENANT}-router${NUM}"
    source $TOP_DIR/openrc admin admin
    local TENANT_ID
    TENANT_ID=$(get_tenant_id $TENANT)
    source $TOP_DIR/openrc $TENANT $TENANT
    local NET_ID
    NET_ID=$(neutron net-create --tenant-id $TENANT_ID $NET_NAME $EXTRA| grep ' id ' | awk '{print $4}' )
    die_if_not_set $LINENO NET_ID "Failure creating NET_ID for $TENANT_ID $NET_NAME $EXTRA"
    neutron subnet-create --ip-version 4 --tenant-id $TENANT_ID --gateway $GATEWAY --subnetpool None $NET_ID $CIDR
    neutron_debug_admin probe-create --device-owner compute $NET_ID
    source $TOP_DIR/openrc demo demo
}

function create_networks {
    foreach_tenant_net 'create_network ${%TENANT%_NAME} ${%TENANT%_NET%NUM%_GATEWAY} ${%TENANT%_NET%NUM%_CIDR} %NUM% ${%TENANT%_NET%NUM%_EXTRA}'
    #TODO(nati) test security group function
    # allow ICMP for both tenant's security groups
    #source $TOP_DIR/openrc demo1 demo1
    #$NOVA secgroup-add-rule default icmp -1 -1 0.0.0.0/0
    #source $TOP_DIR/openrc demo2 demo2
    #$NOVA secgroup-add-rule default icmp -1 -1 0.0.0.0/0
}

function create_vm {
    local TENANT=$1
    local NUM=$2
    local NET_NAMES=$3
    source $TOP_DIR/openrc $TENANT $TENANT
    local NIC=""
    for NET_NAME in ${NET_NAMES//,/ };do
        NIC="$NIC --nic net-id="`get_network_id $NET_NAME`
    done
    #TODO (nati) Add multi-nic test
    #TODO (nati) Add public-net test
    local VM_UUID
    VM_UUID=`nova boot --flavor $(get_flavor_id m1.tiny) \
        --image $(get_image_id) \
        $NIC \
        $TENANT-server$NUM | grep ' id ' | cut -d"|" -f3 | sed 's/ //g'`
    die_if_not_set $LINENO VM_UUID "Failure launching $TENANT-server$NUM"
    confirm_server_active $VM_UUID
}

function create_vms {
    foreach_tenant_vm 'create_vm ${%TENANT%_NAME} %NUM% ${%TENANT%_VM%NUM%_NET}'
}

function ping_ip {
    # Test agent connection.  Assumes namespaces are disabled, and
    # that DHCP is in use, but not L3
    local VM_NAME=$1
    local NET_NAME=$2
    IP=$(get_instance_ip $VM_NAME $NET_NAME)
    ping_check $IP $BOOT_TIMEOUT $NET_NAME
}

function check_vm {
    local TENANT=$1
    local NUM=$2
    local VM_NAME="$TENANT-server$NUM"
    local NET_NAME=$3
    source $TOP_DIR/openrc $TENANT $TENANT
    ping_ip $VM_NAME $NET_NAME
    # TODO (nati) test ssh connection
    # TODO (nati) test inter connection between vm
    # TODO (nati) test dhcp host routes
    # TODO (nati) test multi-nic
}

function check_vms {
    foreach_tenant_vm 'check_vm ${%TENANT%_NAME} %NUM% ${%TENANT%_VM%NUM%_NET}'
}

function shutdown_vm {
    local TENANT=$1
    local NUM=$2
    source $TOP_DIR/openrc $TENANT $TENANT
    VM_NAME=${TENANT}-server$NUM
    nova delete $VM_NAME
}

function shutdown_vms {
    foreach_tenant_vm 'shutdown_vm ${%TENANT%_NAME} %NUM%'
    if ! timeout $TERMINATE_TIMEOUT sh -c "while nova list | grep -q ACTIVE; do sleep 1; done"; then
        die $LINENO "Some VMs failed to shutdown"
    fi
}

function delete_network {
    local TENANT=$1
    local NUM=$2
    local NET_NAME="${TENANT}-net$NUM"
    source $TOP_DIR/openrc admin admin
    local TENANT_ID
    TENANT_ID=$(get_tenant_id $TENANT)
    #TODO(nati) comment out until l3-agent merged
    #for res in port subnet net router;do
    for net_id in `neutron net-list -c id -c name | grep $NET_NAME | awk '{print $2}'`;do
        delete_probe $net_id
        neutron subnet-list | grep $net_id | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -I% neutron subnet-delete %
        neutron net-delete $net_id
    done
    source $TOP_DIR/openrc demo demo
}

function delete_networks {
    foreach_tenant_net 'delete_network ${%TENANT%_NAME} %NUM%'
    # TODO(nati) add secuirty group check after it is implemented
    # source $TOP_DIR/openrc demo1 demo1
    # nova secgroup-delete-rule default icmp -1 -1 0.0.0.0/0
    # source $TOP_DIR/openrc demo2 demo2
    # nova secgroup-delete-rule default icmp -1 -1 0.0.0.0/0
}

function create_all {
    create_tenants
    create_networks
    create_vms
}

function delete_all {
    shutdown_vms
    delete_networks
    delete_tenants_and_users
}

function all {
    create_all
    check_vms
    delete_all
}

# Test functions
# --------------

function test_functions {
    IMAGE=$(get_image_id)
    echo $IMAGE

    TENANT_ID=$(get_tenant_id demo)
    echo $TENANT_ID

    FLAVOR_ID=$(get_flavor_id m1.tiny)
    echo $FLAVOR_ID

    NETWORK_ID=$(get_network_id admin)
    echo $NETWORK_ID
}

# Usage and main
# --------------

function usage {
    echo "$0: [-h]"
    echo "  -h, --help              Display help message"
    echo "  -t, --tenant            Create tenants"
    echo "  -n, --net               Create networks"
    echo "  -v, --vm                Create vms"
    echo "  -c, --check             Check connection"
    echo "  -x, --delete-tenants    Delete tenants"
    echo "  -y, --delete-nets       Delete networks"
    echo "  -z, --delete-vms        Delete vms"
    echo "  -T, --test              Test functions"
}

function main {

    echo Description

    if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then
        # if no args are provided, run all tests
        all
    else

        while [ "$1" != "" ]; do
            case $1 in
                -h | --help )   usage
                                exit
                                ;;
                -n | --net )    create_networks
                                exit
                                ;;
                -v | --vm )     create_vms
                                exit
                                ;;
                -t | --tenant ) create_tenants
                                exit
                                ;;
                -c | --check )   check_vms
                                exit
                                ;;
                -T | --test )   test_functions
                                exit
                                ;;
                -x | --delete-tenants ) delete_tenants_and_users
                                exit
                                ;;
                -y | --delete-nets ) delete_networks
                                exit
                                ;;
                -z | --delete-vms ) shutdown_vms
                                exit
                                ;;
                -a | --all )    all
                                exit
                                ;;
                * )             usage
                                exit 1
            esac
            shift
        done
    fi
}

trap failed ERR
function failed {
    local r=$?
    set +o errtrace
    set +o xtrace
    echo "Failed to execute"
    echo "Starting cleanup..."
    delete_all
    echo "Finished cleanup"
    exit $r
}

# Kick off script
# ---------------

echo $*
main $*

set +o xtrace
echo "*********************************************************************"
echo "SUCCESS: End DevStack Exercise: $0"
echo "*********************************************************************"

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Just a heads up to everyone. This month is going to be a tad bit crazy. I'm participating in NaNoWriMo, I think it will help me with my creative writing skills and help me in the long run with writing in general. Oh and I'll be on vacation later this week! So if the blog posts are a tad late or the occasional one is missing ;) please forgive me. Drea is awesome and will be helping me out, but I don't want to get both of us super stressed.
I appreciate each and every one of you. In thanks, I will be hosting a giveaway later this month when things settle down.
Give us updates on your writing, we're here to "inspire" (or distract) you. Good luck, babe!


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I have been asked to pray for a lot of people in this past week. People grieving loss. People dealing with serious illness. People facing paralyzing fears that come with major life transitions. People who are scared, overwhelmed, in pain, and fresh out of hope.
Then there have been names like Irma and Maria.
How do you hold all of it? How do you pray for all of it?
As spiritual directors, we encourage our directees to seek out forms of prayer that call them into a more intimate relationship with God. Usually these are not the prayers found in a prayer book. Oftentimes we talk about body prayer. The labyrinth is one such form of body prayer.
This morning I attended a business networking function to promote my acupuncture practice. I don't even think about the hat I wear as a Spiritual Director at these meetings.
And then a spirited woman sat across from me. We had a conversation about our respective professions. She complimented me on the Brigid's cross that I wear. It opened a conversation and we talked about church, community, and serving others in need. She, like me, was an Episcopalian, and a former Roman Catholic. The odds of sitting across from this woman and having this conversation in this moment at a professional networking group were slim. And I suspected the movement of God was involved.
I am not a natural at networking events. I can do them. But I am an introvert. And after such extroverted activity, I find myself wanting to decompress, usually alone and in nature. But I had things to do at the office, and other appointments to get to later on.
On the way to my office though, I took a wrong turn. And I passed the Unity Church that is less than a quarter mile from my clinic. It houses a breathtaking labyrinth that I promised myself I'd visit once the triple digit summer temperatures dropped. I turned into the parking lot, expecting to spend maybe ten minutes there. The word "turn, " by the way, is significant.
I spent a half hour there.
That half hour held the power of a weekend retreat. Alone, against the backdrop of an Autumn desert blue sky, with the warm sun on my back, I was in awe of the hummingbirds, butterflies, and honey bees at work all around me. I stood at the entrance to the labyrinth and thanked these creatures for allowing me to share this holy space with them. Desert flowers of orange, yellow, fuchsia and purple, framed in shades of sage green, framed the circular path. The sound of water from the large fountain behind me filled the space.
I began to walk. I usually walk a labyrinth at a medium pace. I like an even rhythm. On a walk. And in life.
The turns were hard today though. They seemed narrow. I was wearing a low heel. My balance felt off. The long spans were easy. But the turns threw it all off. I slowed my pace.
Slowing down was not enough though. I still bobbled at the turns.
I don't like to bobble and I was uncomfortable.
On the next long pass, I knew I had to navigate the approaching turn differently. I stepped. And paused.
I waited longer. And I listened. To the sounds of the fountain, the honey bees, the birds. Even the train whistling in the distance.
And then I pivoted slowly to continue in the other direction.
I stepped again, two feet landing side by side. I paused again.
I still did not bobble.
And then slowly and mindfully, I continued on in this way.
The labyrinth is a metaphor for life. I like predictability. When I strike a pace, on the physical path, or the spiritual path, I like to keep that pace. I appreciate patterns and rhythms. They comfort me. And they have always been where I've found God. But nothing about these past weeks has been predictable. Or comforting. And I've felt a little disconnected from God.
In moments like these, when the old ways no longer work, you can either keep walking as you always have, or you can seek a new way.
I have not been able to pray easily this week because of the monumental sorrow of so many people around me. As I prayed for these people as I walked today, the labyrinth taught me a new way to be with sorrow, and how to make space for hope and the movement of God in what might feel like hopeless and spiritually vacant times.
When I became an Episcopalian, the Bishop spoke of the importance of turning. Turning away from the things that were not in alignment with the flow of God. The questions beg: what do we turn away from? What do we turn toward? How do we navigate those turns? How mindful are we in making those turns? How slow? How fast? How willing? How unwilling? How patient?
In my walk today and in the hours that followed, I thought about the Bishop's words and how significant the idea of turning really is on the spiritual path.
We are living in new times. We are all figuring things out, day by day, and often hour by hour. If your usual ways of prayer feel limiting, try a form of body prayer. While moving and praying, listen. Listen with your feet. Listen with your legs. Listen with your lungs. Listen with your heart. Listen for the voice on the wind. Stand there as long as it takes. Take off your shoes. Wait a few seconds. Maybe a minute, or ten. Then wait a little longer still. Step again. Pivot, with your feet, with your mind, with your heart. God is working in all those movements, in the stepping, in the standing, in the turning.
This entry was posted in Blog Post, Celtic Spirituality, God, Grief and loss, Healing, Labyrinth, Meditation, Patience, Prayer, spirituality.


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Haitong Securities  est une banque d'investissement et une maison de courtage chinoise. Elle est cotée à la bourse de Shanghai et de Hong Kong.

Références

Entreprise ayant son siège à Shanghai
Entreprise fondée en 1988
Société cotée au SSE
Société cotée au HKEX
Entreprise du SSE 50
Entreprise publique en Chine
Entreprise du secteur financier ayant son siège en Chine


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"""Helper methods for creating & verifying XSRF tokens."""

__authors__ = [
    '"Doug Coker" <dcoker@google.com>',
    '"Joe Gregorio" <jcgregorio@google.com>',
]

import base64
import hmac
import time

import six
from oauth2client import util

# Delimiter character
DELIMITER = b':'

# 1 hour in seconds
DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_SECS = 1 * 60 * 60

def _force_bytes(s):
    if isinstance(s, bytes):
        return s
    s = str(s)
    if isinstance(s, six.text_type):
        return s.encode('utf-8')
    return s

@util.positional(2)
def generate_token(key, user_id, action_id="", when=None):
    """Generates a URL-safe token for the given user, action, time tuple.

    Args:
      key: secret key to use.
      user_id: the user ID of the authenticated user.
      action_id: a string identifier of the action they requested
        authorization for.
      when: the time in seconds since the epoch at which the user was
        authorized for this action. If not set the current time is used.

    Returns:
      A string XSRF protection token.
    """
    when = _force_bytes(when or int(time.time()))
    digester = hmac.new(_force_bytes(key))
    digester.update(_force_bytes(user_id))
    digester.update(DELIMITER)
    digester.update(_force_bytes(action_id))
    digester.update(DELIMITER)
    digester.update(when)
    digest = digester.digest()

    token = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(digest + DELIMITER + when)
    return token

@util.positional(3)
def validate_token(key, token, user_id, action_id="", current_time=None):
    """Validates that the given token authorizes the user for the action.

    Tokens are invalid if the time of issue is too old or if the token
    does not match what generateToken outputs (i.e. the token was forged).

    Args:
      key: secret key to use.
      token: a string of the token generated by generateToken.
      user_id: the user ID of the authenticated user.
      action_id: a string identifier of the action they requested
        authorization for.

    Returns:
      A boolean - True if the user is authorized for the action, False
      otherwise.
    """
    if not token:
        return False
    try:
        decoded = base64.urlsafe_b64decode(token)
        token_time = int(decoded.split(DELIMITER)[-1])
    except (TypeError, ValueError):
        return False
    if current_time is None:
        current_time = time.time()
    # If the token is too old it's not valid.
    if current_time - token_time > DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_SECS:
        return False

    # The given token should match the generated one with the same time.
    expected_token = generate_token(key, user_id, action_id=action_id,
                                    when=token_time)
    if len(token) != len(expected_token):
        return False

    # Perform constant time comparison to avoid timing attacks
    different = 0
    for x, y in zip(bytearray(token), bytearray(expected_token)):
        different |= x ^ y
    return not different


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B Vitamins and Weight Loss
Does Vitamin D Interfere With Vitamin C & Vitamin B Absorption?
Nutrients That Are Precursors to Vitamins
What Vitamins Do You Get From Figs?
What Are the Tolerable Upper Limits of Vitamins?
By Adam Cloe
Vitamins are small molecules that the body uses to help speed chemical reactions that are needed to produce energy, new cells and tissues and to repair damaged parts of the body. Although it's critical to get a certain amount of vitamins from your diet, if you ingest abnormally high quantities of vitamins they can actually be toxic. The maximum dose of vitamins is called the tolerable upper limit, or TUL and it represents the highest dose which is unlikely to cause any dangerous side effects.
Vitamin A is important for bone growth, vision, reproduction, the health of the immune system and cell differentiation, the Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health explains. For children under the age of three, the tolerable upper limit for vitamin A is 600 mcg. The tolerable upper limit for children between the ages of four and eight is 900 mcg, and for children between the ages of nine and 13 the TUL is 1,700 mcg. The TUL for ages 14 through 18 is 2,800 mcg, and for adults the tolerable upper limit is 3,000 mcg.
The B vitamins are a group of vitamins which are important for turning carbohydrates, proteins and fats into energy, as well as for making new proteins and DNA. There is no reported tolerable upper limit for many of the B vitamins, including thiamine, riboflavin and vitamin B12. However, the TUL for niacin, a member of the B vitamins which can be used to improve cholesterol levels, is 35 mg per day, the Merck Manual explains. For vitamin B6 the TUL is 100 mg for adults, 80 mg for children between ages 14 through 18, 60 mg for children aged nine through 13, 40 mg for children ages four through eight and 30 mg per day for children age three and younger, VitaminManual notes.
Vitamin C is an important vitamin which is needed for the strength of connective tissue and for the health of the immune system. In adults, the tolerable upper limit of vitamin C is 2,000 mg per day. Children ages 14 through 18 should only take 1,800 mg of vitamin C per day, whereas the TUL is 1,200 mg per day for children aged nine through 13. The tolerable upper limit for children ages four through eight is 650 mg, and children three and younger should consume a maximum of 400 mg of vitamin C per day, according to the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University.
The TUL for vitamin D, which is needed to absorb calcium in the diet, is 2,000 IU, or international unit. The TUL of vitamin E is 1,000 mg, the Merck Manual notes.
Merck Manual: Vitamins
VitaminManual: Vitamin Limits
University of Maryland Medical Center: Vitamins
Office of Dietary Supplements: Vitamin A
Linus Pauling Institute: Oregon State University: Vitamin C
Adam Cloe has been published in various scientific journals, including the "Journal of Biochemistry." He is currently a pathology resident at the University of Chicago. Cloe holds a Bachelor of Arts in biochemistry from Boston University, a M.D. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in pathology from the University of Chicago.
Vitamins With Lysine
Supplements for DNA Repair
What Happens to Pyruvate Carbons in a Citric Acid Cycle?
Nutritional Values of Kumquats
The Top Four Roles of Nutrients
List of Lipids


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Government of Turkey
US officials wonder: Did Turkish leader's coup memories drive Russia arms deal?
For some US officials, the Trump administration's failure to persuade Turkey not to buy a Russian air defense system may have its roots in a coup attempt against President Tayyip Erdogan three years ago this week.
Read more about US officials wonder: Did Turkish leader's coup memories drive Russia arms deal?
Published by Hurriyet on Thu, 07/18/2019 - 12:55
Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on July 18 had a phone call with his German counterpart, according to the former's diplomatic source.
Read more about Turkish, German top diplomats discuss E Mediterranean
Turkey appoints new police chief
Turkey has appointed the governor of Şırnak province as the head of the country's Security General Directorate after removing Celal Uzunkaya from the post, the Interior Ministry said on July 17.
Read more about Turkey appoints new police chief
No time for mixed signals
Published by Kathimerini on Wed, 07/17/2019 - 20:15
We are entering a very thorny patch in Greek-Turkish relations. Turkey's activities within Cyprus' exclusive economic zone (EEZ), combined with the standoff with the United States over Ankara's acquisition of the Russian S-400 missile defense system are increasing the tension further in Greece's wider region.
Read more about No time for mixed signals
Editorial: The sanctions against Turkey and us
Published by To Vima on Tue, 07/16/2019 - 19:58
It is reasonable for the Greek government to express its satisfaction with the sanctions that the EU decided to impose on Turkey in response to its attempted illegal gas and oil drilling in the Exclusive Economic Zone of the Republic of Cyprus.
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Main opposition leader slams EU sanctions decision over drilling activities
Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on July 16 slammed the European Council's decision to impose sanctions on Ankara over its drilling activities in the eastern Mediterranean.
Read more about Main opposition leader slams EU sanctions decision over drilling activities
Turkey to send fourth ship to East Med, despite EU sanctions decision
Turkey will send a fourth ship to Eastern Mediterranean as part of its hydrocarbon drilling activities, despite a decision by the European Council to impose sanctions on Ankara, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on July 16.
Read more about Turkey to send fourth ship to East Med, despite EU sanctions decision
No network of traitors will disrupt unity in Turkey: Erdoğan
No network of traitors or terrorist organizations can disrupt the unity, solidarity and brotherhood in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said July 15 on the third anniversary of the July 15 failed coup attempt.
Read more about No network of traitors will disrupt unity in Turkey: Erdoğan
Turkey slapped with EU sanctions over Cyprus
The European Union's foreign ministers decided Monday to impose sanctions on Turkey over its illegal drilling activities within the territorial waters of member state Cyprus.
Read more about Turkey slapped with EU sanctions over Cyprus
Erdogan: Turkey hopes to co-produce weaponry systems with Russia
Turkey hopes to co-produce high-tech weaponry systems with Russia in the future, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, further defying its NATO ally the United States, which has warned the country of possible sanctions over its purchase of a Russian-made missile defense system.
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COMMODORE SETS 68020 AMIGA-UX LAUNCH FOR SEPTEMBER
Commodore International Ltd of Westchester, Pennsylvania, has chosen to launch a new Unix-based version of its Amiga home computer into Europe ahead of its US introduction, and is previewing the thing at shows all over Europe. The Amiga 2500 UX will run AmigaDOS if you boot up ordinarily, but full Unix Syste V.3 if you simply boot up whilst holding the mouse button down. The system is 68020-based and comes with 4Mb memory and up to 100Mb hard disk, with optional tape streamer for back-ups. It will be targeted towards business users and the education markets in Europe when it becomes available in September, but in the US, where a launch date has yet to be set, the machine will be pushed more towards the general workstation market. Software includes support for X Window, but company spokeswoman Gail Wellington said that a very fast and more flexible proprietary windowing system would also be offered. Unix users can also take advantage of the Amiga's graphics chip set to produce faster lines and fills. Also available for Europeans in September will be an add on card with 68020, memory management unit, and Unix for existing Amiga users to upgrade their machines. Prices have not yet been set. Ms Wellington said that the company was also working on a 68030-based line for release next year, bringing them in line with arch rival Atari Corp, which is planning to launch its own 68030 ST systems by the end of the year.