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Q: Find a point within a polygon Is there a way to find a point in a polygon? I don't want to find whether a point is in a polygon but want to find the inside point itself. I tried to use the average of x co-ordinates and the average of y co-ordinates to obtain the centroid of a polygon, but this does not apply in the case of certain polygons, such as the following, where the centroid is outside.

A: There may be more efficient ways. But one method to solve the problem is to decompose it into to parts:

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*Triangulate the polygon into a set of triangles. This is always possible. See for example de Burg's "Computational Geometry" book (2nd ed. ch 3).

In your example, the polygon can be obviously decomposed into two triangles.

*Pick the incenter of any of the component triangles. The incenter of a triangle is inside the triangle itself, and is therefore inside the original polygon.

A: Assuming you have a polygon with n Vertices where V_n = (x_n,y_n), you could do this:

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*Compute points A = (max(x_n),max(y_n)) and B = (min(x_n),min(y_n)). Check if both points are actually vertices, if not proceed to the next step, but if both points are vertices, take the points C = (max(x_n),min(y_n)) and D = (min(x_n),max(y_n)) instead.

*Intersect the line AB (or CD) with the polygon (i.e. intersect it with every edge and test every vertex wether it lies on that line).

*For all points you got in the previous step, compute their distance to A (or C respectively), order them by increasing distance to A.

*Starting with the point closest to A (which is A itself if A is a vertex), pick a point between that point and the next closest. Test if that point is inside the polygon. If it is you're done, if it is not, repeat this step with the next point (which is the second point of your last iteration).

Explanation
The rectangle ACBD is the axis aligned bounding box of your polygon, so every point that's inside the polygon will also be inside that rectangle. AB and CD are the diagonals of that rectangle.
In step 1 we check if both points A and B are vertices, this is important. If one of them is not, we can be sure that at least one vertex of the polygon is "above" the diagonal and at least one vertex is "below", so the diagonal will intersect the polygon.
If both points are vertices, we could be dealing with a triangle where the diagonal is actually an edge or a concave polygon that is completely on one side of the diagonal, therefore we just switch the diagonal and are guaranteed that the other diagonal will intersect the polygon.
Since we know that our diagonal intersects the polygon, we can just iterate through all line-segments and pick a point from each to see if it is inside, one of them has to be. Usually it will be the first line segment that you test, but there are special cases that may cause this segment to be outside of the polygon (again: concave polygon and your first intersection is a vertex rather than an edge), but at least one segment has to be inside.
I assume this could be done more efficiently, but if n is small enough and you don't need to do that for a large number of polygons, there should be no problem.

A: To find any non-specific point that is inside the polygon is quite easy. You need to know the winding order of the polygon (clockwise or anti-clockwise) - this determines which is the inside and which is the outside of the polygon. Here's how:

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*Use the ear-clipping method to find a single triangle ("ear").

*Find the mid-point of that triangle.

I could reproduce exactly how that works here, but it's well documented already, just use the Wikipedia link and search for further info on ear clipping for polygon triangulation.

A: Short of a full blown algorithm you can do the following:
Say I have a polygon which I have added to the points in clockwise order:
    p.addPoint(100, 200);
    p.addPoint(200, 100);
    p.addPoint(160, 200);
    p.addPoint(200, 300);
    for(i=0; i<p.npoints; i++) {
      int[] p0={p.xpoints[i], h-1-p.ypoints[i]}, p1={p.xpoints[(i+1)%p.npoints], h-1-p.ypoints[(i+1)%p.npoints]}, p2={p.xpoints[(i+2)%p.npoints], h-1-p.ypoints[(i+2)%p.npoints]};
      System.out.println(" angle "+angle(p0, p1, p2));
    }

That is take three consequtive points and determine the angle p0, p1, p2 (in this order p1 is the corner of the angle) as the side p2-p1 turns around to meet side p0-p2 in clockwise order): if it is less than 180 degrees its a convex angle and you can get some point inside it (e.g. take the middle points of the two sides and find the middle point of their connecting line etc.)
If it is more than 180 continue.
angle() is a method to find the angle.
h-1-p[] is needed if you want to convert coordinates to the usual geometrical system (h is the height of the window); otherwise dont use it.
In sum: find a convex corner, whether with the angle approach or some other approach.

A: Arriving at this question quite late but there is an approach documented here

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*Identify a convex vertex v; let its adjacent vertices be a and b.

*For each other vertex q do:
  2a. If q is inside avb, compute distance to v (orthogonal to ab).
  2b. Save point q if distance is a new min.

*If no point is inside, return midpoint of ab, or centroid of avb.

*Else if some point inside, qv is internal: return its midpoint.

I have coded up a javascript version here
Hope it helps!

A: I believe this can be done using only elementary geometry (no triangulation, ear-clipping, etc.) and in $O(n)$ time, at least when the polygon is simple.
Pick any three consecutive vertices $A$, $B$, $C$ of your polygon, and look at the corner at $B$. This corner (assuming $B$ is a simple vertex) delimitates the inside from the outside of the polygon, and if you know the orientation of the polygon (if you don't, it is quite easy to compute) you know which side is which.
The bisector of this angle is supported by a vector perpendicular to $(C-A)$; if your polygon is counter-clockwise, then the vector $i(C-A)$ points inside the polygon, otherwise $-i(C-A)$ points inside (using complex numbers here for simplicity). This means that, for any ε small enough, $P = B+ε i(C-A)$ lies inside the polygon.
Here, "small enough" just means that the segment $BP$ does not cross any other side of the polygon, so just choose ε smaller than the smallest distance between $B$ and any other side of the polygon (that is, other than $AB$ and $BC$), divided by the norm of $AC$. (This is the $O(n)$ part of the algorithm).


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Q: Can matplotlib.animation display frames while saving those into a file? When I execute animator.save(), plt.show() does not show the plot until the save process is finished. I have a Python code that uses the animation library to display data received over network, and I would like to record the data that has been displayed. Is there any way to achieve this behavior?

A: You could save the figure directly in the update function:
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
l, = ax.plot(range(10),[0]*10,'r-')
ax.set_ylim(0,1)

def animate(i):
    y = np.random.random(size=(10,))
    l.set_ydata(y)
    fig.savefig(f'test_{i}.png')
    return l,

ani = animation.FuncAnimation(fig, animate, frames=10)

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Donal Fagen's "The Nightfly" was his first solo effort after his partnership with Walter Becker went into mothballs and Steely Dan was no longer a recording option.
In it we can see many Steely Dan themes, such as the alienation of the suburban baby boomer in the Lux commercial suburbs of the '60s. However "The Nightfly" is not, nor would I think it was ever meant to be, a follow up to "Gaucho" or any of the previous Steely Dan records. It is definitely a Donald Fagen solo record where he is working through some of his own personal loves and demons. Many of the production values of Steely Dan alumni Gary Katz and Roger Nichols, are present - giving some credence to the view that it's just another Steely Dan record but without Walter Becker - but there are a lot of other reasons which make such a conclusion impossible.
First of all it's a concept record. A good one, admittedly, but in my opinion that doesn't make the concept of a concept album any better. It's just a bad concept. Maybe I'm old fashioned but I say if you want to tell a story, write a book. Part of the way we listen to music is public - it comes in random slices through the airwaves. Albums should and mostly do have some overall cohesiveness, sure, but let's face it -- they're just a collection of songs. Anything that requires a private one-on-one experience to give you the full breadth of meaning is in my opinion overloading the artform with a weight it shouldn't have to bear.
Also, the lyrics on the "Nightfly" are , in comparioson with the cryptic beat brilliance of Steely Dan output, simply too easy to understand. They make sense, and make clear, very personal pictures, and that leaves little room for my imagination to weave one's life through the stories, which was always a characteristic I enjoyed when Donald and Walter wrote together.
I was working in Europe when I first heard the songs from "The Nightfly". I was away from my record collection and not staying long enough to set up another one. The first song I heard was "New Frontier". If all the songs on "The Nightfly" were as good as this, then it would be one of the all-time best records ever made. I heard it sometimes on the Blue Danube Radio being broadcast in English out of Vienna, more often from the "soft rock" station in Munich. I managed to get "New Frontier" and "IGY" (almost as good a song, I thought then) down on tape (mono) and had them in my collection of radio pot-luck singles with me for a couple of years before I finally got the record.
The remaining songs weren't, in my view, up to that standard. "IGY", as noted, has the hallmarks of greatness and is a standout track, just as "Tomorrow's Girls" is on "Kamakiriad". And Donald is really singing on this one, whereas on many of the other tracks he seems to be just talking his way through the verses and only starts singing in the choruses. The lyrics have a great balance of cheerful irony and bittersweet scorn, but they lack the menace and mystery of some of Steely Dan's stranger offerings."IGY" made its way rapidly onto the middle-aged play lists of AM radio and has stayed there ever since but I don't have that same sense of sharing a delicious, but acrid private joke as I do when hearing "Babylon Sisters" in a lift.
There's a nice guitar sound on "Greenflower Street" and it is admirably tight although to my ears the bridge goes just where you'd expect it and somehow I always expected more from the Steely Dan stable. The contrived ending is pure corn and just too "bracket -break" to be believed.
"Ruby Baby" is clearly hommage -- but to what? Schmaltz? "AJA" gave Steely Dan an audience of five million who would buy their records and most of them would have gone out and got "The Nightfly" especially after the eight years of silence, during which their back catalogue was doing great business. I wonder how many got to "Ruby Baby" and went: "What the ...!!"
OK "Ruby Baby" was a good time Lieber-and-Stoller tune. Let's not get too heavy here - it's just music.
"Ruby Baby" segues into "Maxine" - a Donald Fagen tune in more or less the same vein as "Ruby Baby". While it has some great moments of Donald's twisted vocal inflection, it's a bit plodding and a bit of a surprise coming from one of the writing team that gave us the ineffable "Razor Boy".
"New Frontier", as mentioned earlier, is a classic. The years have been harder on it for me than "IGY", but it still stands up.
The title track is central to the concept of this concept album but to me it's a weak song with pedestrian lyrics, hesitant singing, and flabby arrangement. Before I get char-grilled for that -- let me just say that these comments, like all those in this piece, are from a comparative perspective in relation to the body of work of Steely Dan and its principals, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. And since these two people are the finest musical combination of the late 20th century their stature and my acknowledgement of that should be noted. I can understand personal attachment to "The Nightfly" and I can understand that attachment could be very powerful. Its scope is narrower and therefore more concentrated than other Steely Dan records, and therefore if you like the musical style that Donald was working in, and his subject matter means something to you, it stands to reason that you will be more strongly attached to this than others in their body of work, which are a somewhat more disparate and eclectic collections of songs. There are some great moments in the song "The Nighfly" especially the way Fagen sings "at the foot of Mt Belzoni" and the chorus hook "an independent station WJAZ" is sublime. But the verses get a bit wandering and the line "late line till the sun comes through the skylight" just about wanders right off the record. The bridge "You'd never believe it" is succinct and is reminiscent of some of his best, the solo is great and the chorus comes back with a vengenace. So what's wrong with the song? Maybe it's just that weak entry and the weak verse, "I've got plenty of java" and that corny Patton's Kiss-and-Tell stuff - as though Donald was getting a bit tired or unsure about the metaphor he was using, or perhaps didn't quite know how to fit it. The cyncial DJ turning soppy when the sun comes though the skylight just doesn't do it for me.
The bouncy latin rhythms of "The Goodby Look" are neatly appropriate but this semi-parody of tin-pan alley doesn't rise much above it. I can understand the attraction of the musical genre here, and in "Walk between the Raindrops" but the bubbly electric piano in "The Goodbye Look" annoys the crap out of me and the organ in "Walk between the Raindrops" even more so, as does that cool-jazz dance-music feel.
I observe that the songs I like least are the ones where Fagen himself is playing keyboards - and are distinguished by their nostalgia in musical style, rather than lyrically, which is often their saving grace. It seems to me that Donald might have been too long alone and rather too introspective to produce something I would have expected from Steely Dan. As they say, "a hard act to follow".
But what would I know? Nightfly outsold Gaucho. Or so they tell me.


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Exodus 7: The Conflict Begins
Ancient Egyptian Art Depicting Apep battling a Diety from the tomb of Inher-kha, Thebes
Exodus 7: 1-13 The Initial Challenge
The LORD said to Moses, "See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. 2 You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his land. 3 But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and I will multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt. 4 When Pharaoh does not listen to you, I will lay my hand upon Egypt and bring my people the Israelites, company by company, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment. 5 The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them." 6 Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the LORD commanded them. 7 Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
8 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, 9 "When Pharaoh says to you, 'Perform a wonder,' then you shall say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a snake.'" 10 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did as the LORD had commanded; Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake. 11 Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers; and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same by their secret arts. 12 Each one threw down his staff, and they became snakes; but Aaron's staff swallowed up theirs. 13 Still Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.
The liberation of the people of Israel from their servitude to the Egyptians in not just a conflict between peoples, at its root it is a conflict between the LORD the God of Israel and the Egyptian gods. Moses becomes the vessel of the LORD's work against the Egyptians and Pharaoh and the 'wise men, the sorcerers and the magicians of Egypt' line up on the other side. The central two characters, Moses and Pharaoh, both become representative or avatars of the divine power behind them. Moses here will be 'like a God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.' Pharaoh derives his authority from a divine claim that the Pharaoh is a 'son of Ra' the chief god of the Egyptian pantheon. Two conflicting views of creation (Ra is the chief god of not only the sun but creation for Egypt) and two conflicting views of the way that world should be structured are in play. Within Egypt, the superpower of that era, Pharaoh is all powerful and yet in this narrative Pharaoh plays a tragic character. Pharaoh will not listen to Aaron and Moses initially, but the conflict between competing sources of divine power will be seen not only by the individual players but also by both peoples (the Egyptians and the Hebrews). The end is that even the Egyptians will 'know that I am the LORD,' as the coming ecological disasters will testify to the power of the LORD over creation and the inability of Ra and those loyal to him to prevent this upheaval.
One of the places where translations don't quite do justice to the original language is here with the language about the snakes that come from Aaron's and what comes out of the Egyptians staffs. The word here in Hebrew is Tannin which is not the typical word for snake but rather for the serpent like chaos monster or dragon. Both sets of Tannin, from Aaron's staff and the Egyptian magicians, are forces of war and destruction and chaos. Here chaos is unleashed symbolically in a struggle between the LORD of Israel and the lords of Egypt. Interestingly, to me at least, in Egyptian mythology the nightly struggle of Ra is against Apep (or Apophis) the snake like force of evil and chaos but now in matching the display of power by the LORD unleashing the forces of chaos even the emissaries of Pharaoh, son of Ra, must unleash their own forces of chaos. Ultimately it is the tannin released by Aaron which swallows the tannin released by the wise men of Egypt and this initial conflict foreshadows the chaos unleashed on creation that is to come. One of the things that begins here is the inability of the Egyptian wise men, sorcerers and magicians to undo what has been unleashed through Moses and Aaron. They may initially replicate what Moses and Aaron do but they cannot undo it. They can only add to the chaos which threatens to consume all of Egypt.
One of the aspects of this and the following passage to consider is the 'hardening of Pharaoh's heart.' There are certain passages where Pharaoh himself is the one who hardens his heart and others where the heart of Pharaoh is hardened by God. For those looking for a definitive answer to the tricky question of divine determinism I am afraid you are likely to be disappointed. Many interpreters see within this, and each interpreter makes theological choices based on their understanding of God, for Pharaoh's free will remaining intact and the responsibility for the choices remaining entirely on Pharaoh's shoulders. Others take serious this hardening of Pharaoh's heart by the LORD and see the enslaver losing his own free will and becoming the tool that once the enslaved Hebrew people were. The truth is probably subtler as the ancient writers of the Bible were not dogmatically rigid. Divine determinism and free will could coexist without any perceived conflict. Perhaps, as Rabbi Jonathan Sacks can state:
Pharaoh is in fact…a tragic figure like Lady Macbeth, or like Captain Ahab in Melville's Moby Dick, trapped in an obsession which may have had rational beginnings, right or wrong, but which has taken hold of him, bringing not only him but those around him to ruin. (Sacks, 2010, p. 49)
Perhaps Pharaoh is merely trapped within a worldview that cannot imagine letting the Hebrew slaves go. Perhaps Pharaoh's heart and mind receive some divine nudge to harden his resolve and will as the chaos unfolds around him and his people. Perhaps Pharaoh, who views himself as the king on the chess board is merely a pawn being played. Regardless Pharaoh, the son of Ra, will be unable to avoid being swallowed up by the chaos unleashed as he struggles against the LORD. The gauntlet has been thrown, the challenge has begun for the lives of both peoples. Warnings are unheeded, hearts are hardened and next the heart of Egypt will bleed.
The Roman Kiosk of Trajan (left) on Agilkia island in the Nile River, near Aswān, Egypt
Exodus 7: 14-25 The Bleeding Heart of Egypt
14 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go. 15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water; stand by at the river bank to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was turned into a snake. 16 Say to him, 'The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you to say, "Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the wilderness." But until now you have not listened.' 17 Thus says the LORD, "By this you shall know that I am the LORD." See, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall be turned to blood. 18 The fish in the river shall die, the river itself shall stink, and the Egyptians shall be unable to drink water from the Nile.'" 19 The LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt– over its rivers, its canals, and its ponds, and all its pools of water– so that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout the whole land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'"
20 Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD commanded. In the sight of Pharaoh and of his officials he lifted up the staff and struck the water in the river, and all the water in the river was turned into blood, 21 and the fish in the river died. The river stank so that the Egyptians could not drink its water, and there was blood throughout the whole land of Egypt. 22 But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts; so Pharaoh's heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them; as the LORD had said. 23 Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this to heart. 24 And all the Egyptians had to dig along the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the river.
25 Seven days passed after the LORD had struck the Nile.
The Nile River, or to the ancient Egyptians simply the river, is the heart of the Egyptian empire. Egypt was shielded from other early civilizations by deserts on both sides and the Nile river delta provided for an agricultural abundance that allowed the people to focus on the construction of large public projects like the pyramids. The river is a source of food, transportation, and ultimately life. Without the Nile River, there is no Egyptian empire and even though the Nile never becomes a significant source of worship for the Egyptians, it is simply an assumed part of life. Yet, it is here that the LORD instructs Moses and Aaron to strike first. The heart of the Egyptian empire bleeds, life begins to end and an ecological disaster begins to unfold.
This begins a highly-structured telling of the signs and wonders that bring the people out of Egypt. In the three sets of three where the first in each set Moses speaks to Pharaoh outside in the morning, the second Moses speaks to Pharaoh inside in the palace and the third comes abruptly without a warning. Some would argue ecologically that one plague would naturally follow the others because of the ecological devastation, and while that may be true the narrative moves where the LORD is in control of each sign and wonder unfolding.
In Genesis 3, the end of the story of Adam and Eve, the disobedience by Adam and Eve which is supposed to result in their own deaths is ultimately born by the earth (see Genesis 3: 17). Here also it is the earth which bears the consequences of the disobedience of Pharaoh. Of the first nine signs, only the hail is fatal to humans and even then, Pharaoh and his people are warned to bring their people and animals into a secure place with a twenty-four-hour warning. Each sign seems designed to make the Egyptians aware that it is the LORD who is the God who has power over the creation and here the waters of Egypt are the first to bear the consequence of the refusal of Pharaoh to let the people go to worship the LORD.
Again, the magicians of Egypt, by their secret arts, are able to replicate this chaos with some of the uncontaminated water and yet they are unable to reverse or limit the effects. They can only contribute to the chaos. The river turns to blood, the fish die and the waters stink and are unable to drink. The lifeblood of Egypt is now biological waste and yet the people continue to find a way. Even though the river will be contaminated people are still able to dig for freshwater along the banks of the river. The ecological disaster forces the people to change their patterns and yet the Egyptians continue to find the water they need for life to continue. Pharaoh's heart remains hardened and his will is resolved since his priests can apparently in some way replicate what the LORD is doing through Moses and Aaron. Perhaps, he is also shielded from the immediate effects since he would not dig for his own water, ultimately slaves or servants would do that for him. He retreats to his house without taking to heart the bleeding heart of his empire. He closes his eyes and his doors to the disaster beginning to unfold around him.
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The bad news? We all have a two-million-year-old brain that keeps us constantly anxious and self-critical. The good news? It doesn't have to define who we are. In this video clip from his interview with Networker Editor Rich Simon, life strategist and 2018 Symposium presenter Tony Robbins explains how a coaching edge can help your clients find happiness and success.
What's His Message for Therapists?
By Rich Simon - Most therapists are only vaguely aware of Tony Robbins and his take on personal change. But if you attract millions of people from a staggering range of backgrounds, it's a good bet you have something to offer. So what's that elusive "something" that he transmits to people? And can therapists learn anything useful from him? In a recent interview, Networker editor Rich Simon sat down with him to find out.
According to life strategist and bestselling author Tony Robbins, there may be more that therapists can do to help clients create the life they want, rather than simply manage the one they have. In this clip from his recent interview with Networker editor Rich Simon, he explains his view on overcoming limitations.
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Choosing the right words to open and close therapy sessions is one of the most important skills a clinician can master. But very few of us were taught how to do it. In this video clip, Bill Doherty explains how to jump start therapy from the very first minute of the very first session.
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Home World Russia: The US just 'invaded' an island in the South China...
Russia: The US just 'invaded' an island in the South China Sea & no one noticed
Darius Shahtahmasebi is a New Zealand-based legal and political analyst, currently specializing in immigration, refugee and humanitarian law.
Russia Today/Moscow: Just recently, the US military launched a full-on invasion of an island in the South China Sea to send a strong message to China, and yet barely any mainstream media outlet has covered the story or its massive implications.
Last week, US marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit invaded a tiny island in Japan's Okinawa archipelago, known as Ie Shima. Ie Shima is approximately 23 sq km, holds an airstrip, a fishing port and a local population of about 4,500 inhabitants.
Colonel Robert Brodie announced the planned operations in a Marine Corps statement last week. According to Colonel Brodie, because the Indo-Pacific region is "incredibly dynamic" the US Marines are preparing and training daily for "real world crises" coming about as a result.
The crises he is referring to is the loss of the Indo-Pacific region to an adversarial state, being China.
Island-snatching will be "critical for us to be able to project power in the context of China," Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also said at the beginning of March to a Senate Armed Services Committee.
"In the South China Sea and elsewhere in the region, we also fly bomber missions, demonstrating a resilient global strike capability that checks Chinese ambition and assures our regional Allies and partners. Throughout the Pacific, our troops exercise and engage with partners to signal our commitment and counterbalance China's challenges to the rules-based order," he added.
World War II nostalgia
The remnants of World War II was fought and won in the Pacific, a challenging feat which came with an enormously costly death toll. US soldiers ventured from island to island, fighting lengthy and deadly battles against the Japanese forces. For example, Okinawa lost at least one third of its population during the final battles of World War II. The horror and difficulty in fighting such a war still weighs heavy on the mind of the US military, who now appear to be attempting to practice for such an island-battle scenario in the future (which is officially known as the Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations concept).
According to a US Marine release, the invasion began with troops dropping at free-fall from a high-altitude, who then quickly moved themselves into positions where they could begin attacking defenses. The free-fall technique had already been practised in Okinawa by US marines in August last year, meaning the US has been actively preparing for these scenarios for a while. Maybe now when I sound the alarm that the US is cultivating a showdown with China in the Pacific region, people can start taking me seriously.
In fact, this strategy appears to be part and parcel of an overall US capability which is giving Washington the edge over the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China, according to Meia Nouwens, a Chinese military expert with the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
"The greatest advantage that the US has at the moment over the PLA," Nouwens said, "is that the US has been working on doctrine, training, professionalization for a lot longer than the PLA, with actual experience to back it up."
After taking control of the island's airfield, US troops set up a Forward Arming and Refuelling Point. Accompanying the invasion were low-flying MV-22 Ospreys (the same aircraft terrorising the local Okinawan population) and F-35B stealth fighters and C-130J Super Hercules.
No one will come right out and say it, but it certainly seems as though the US military is actively preparing for a third world war. If this media blackout on the implications of these recent developments wasn't bad enough; even more bizarre is the complete silence from the media on the enormous geopolitical activity itself.
A brief search of Google News reveals that only a handful of media outlets even covered the event, many of which are not typically regarded as internationally mainstream sources. A ProQuest search for media coverage of the story in fact returned zero results. The most prominent western outlet that covered the story is Business Insider, as well as a number of military sites.
I cannot find any mention of this story on any of the major news sites, whether it's CNN, MSNBC, the Guardian, BBC, the New York Times – take your pick. Remember that the adversarial, independent and free media who is entrusted with informing you and keeping you up to date barely even mentions geopolitical manoeuvres that could lead to a global conflict.
The build-up to war with China
In other news, the Trump administration has also given "tacit approval" to a request from Taiwan for 60 new F-16 fighter jets, a move that is already making China furious in response, who demanded that the US sever its military ties with what Beijing views as a breakaway, renegade province.
Instead of heeding these warnings, the US is also considering selling Taiwan Lockheed Martin's newest stealth fighter jet, the F-35. The US is also hoping to expand its arms sales to other countries within the region, particularly those that rely on Russia and China for its military equipment.
At the same time, the Pentagon confirmed this week that it had carried out an intercept of an unarmed missile making its way across the Pacific, using interceptor missiles launched out of southern California.
Approximately a day ago, Japanese jets intercepted a Chinese anti-submarine aircraft equipped with electronic warfare and a variety of electronic and signals intelligence gathering platforms over the East China Sea, the first such encounter of its kind.
Earlier this week, the US navy also sailed right between China and Taiwan passing through the Taiwan Strait into the South China Sea, accompanied by Coast Guard ships. Unsurprisingly, this move also irked China, who again urged the US to recognise its one-China policy, which appears to be completely eroding under the watch of the Trump administration.
Regardless of whether or not China's outrage to the Taiwan question is reasonable, the stakes of this provocation are much higher than we seem to give them credit for. Even US defense officials are warning that China and the US could eventually reach a showdown, particularly over the Taiwan question. Chinese President Xi Jinping already declared early this year that any attempt from Taipei to assert its independence will be met by an armed response.
Funnily enough, these same US military officials warn against the rise of a World War III scenario with Beijing, yet they maintain that by arming Taiwan and beefing up its defenses, the US could avoid such a scenario. There seems to be no sane and sound voice at all who is given airtime on this topic to voice the other alternative: that if the US were not to incessantly pushback on China and mind its own business, a major conflict could in fact potentially be avoided in the long run.
US will counter China wherever possible
So, to summarise: the US has invaded approximately half of the Middle East, has troops deployed all over the African region, is vying to invade Iran, Venezuela, and demolish North Korea, and at the same time, sees fit to invade a helpless island in the Pacific region. And yet – China, currently invading no one, is still the largest overarching threat to the US military and its interests.
For example, an internal cybersecurity review recently concluded that the US Navy are "under cyber siege" prompting the Navy to keep high-level promotions a secret for fear of Chinese hacking. According to Defense News, a recent Air Force wish list includes, among other things, that it would like more money for advanced technology to confuse Russia and China. Any talk of military expenditure or military capabilities from Washington almost always fixates on China, and what the US needs in order to counter China's expanding influence and military presence in the region.
But not to fret – the US has been seeking areas to cooperate with China where possible, but when it isn't possible, the US is "prepared to certainly protect both US and allies interest in the region," as Marine Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie said at the Pentagon last year. According to McKenzie, the US military "has had a lot of experience in the Western Pacific taking down small islands."
"We had a lot of experience in the Second World War taking down small islands that are isolated, so that's a core competency of the US military that we've done before," he explained.
Perhaps the rest of the world can start to wake up to this looming disaster; but unfortunately, not if most mainstream media outlets refuse to even cover these developments as and when they arise. Thankfully, they're busy scrambling after spending two years on what can only be described as one of the greatest conspiracy theories of our age.
A Republican senator has accused China of preparing for World War III. Like most of Washington's statements concerning China, the lawmaker has completely ignored the US' role in creating such a scenario in the first place.
Just last week, Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma made the allegation that China's military was preparing for World War III.
"It's like you're preparing for World War III," he said during a Senate hearing focused on the so-called challenges presented by Russia and China. "You're talking to our allies over there and you wonder whose side they're going to be on."
According to Inhofe, the US has sat back and watched as China has built its military presence in the South China Sea, turning artificial islands into potential launch pads for its military.
The idea that the US has sat back and watched anything, ever, in the history of the world, is somewhat laughable. Even under the Obama administration, the president had an explicit containment strategy which was supposed to enclose and encircle China from all angles. The so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) was also designed for this purpose (yet for some reason Donald Trump, who is overtly anti-Chinese, thought the agreement was a bad idea).
Inhofe also said he was "concerned" that "our message" was "not getting across.
China getting the "message" loud and clear
I don't mean to be base, but perhaps the problem in the China-US relationship is that the message is getting across – loud and clear. The US has pushed the expansion of NATO up to and around Russia's borders. It has invaded and bombed Iraq, Syria (miraculously occupying one-third of Syrian territory, including its most oil-rich region), Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and even the Philippines.
On top of it, this superpower has also threatened war with Iran, North Korea and Venezuela, all of whom share a cosy relationship with China. Washington supplies lethal arms to and backs known neo-Nazi elements in Ukraine; and a leaked phone call even saw then-secretary of state Victoria Nuland discuss who she proposed putting inside Ukraine's government after Viktor Yanukovych was successfully ousted from power.
Under Trump, the US has started a potentially disastrous trade war with China and has openly flirted with the idea of dropping its support for the One-China policy (not to mention weighing up substantive support for Taiwan).
READ MORE: Chinese & Taiwanese militaries exchange saber-rattling VIDEOS on Lunar New Year
Come on, the message is getting across. If you are a lesser nation without a nuclear supply or the backing of a major nuclear power, you will find the US military right on your doorstep. If you are more of a handful and require a less upfront approach, you will find the US military right next door, peering in the window, all the while American sanctions wreak havoc on your economy.
In that context, if China was indeed preparing for World War III, we really shouldn't be all that surprised. There has to be a reason that, at the beginning of the year, Chinese President Xi Jinping's first order to his country's military was to prepare for battle (aka a "comprehensive military struggle from a new starting point"), stating further that "all military units must correctly understand major national security and development trends, and strengthen their sense of unexpected hardship, crisis and battle."
Furthermore, joining Inhofe at the Senate hearing was the director of studies at the think-tank Center for a New American Security (CNAS), Ely Ratner. Approximately a year ago, our good friend Victoria Nuland (mentioned above regarding regime change and support for neo-nazism archives) was named as the new CEO of the CNAS. It also has the support of the drone-king himself, General David Petraeus, and its experts have helped contribute their opinions to foreign policy, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Fox News, CNN, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), and NPR. It openly warns against the withdrawal of US troops from Syria, for example, because such a move would embolden Iran.
I think it's fair to say then, that when it comes to a discussion on China, CNAS must be a top-notch source. The company that Inhofe keeps is evidently therefore a reliable one.
China as the scapegoat for US failures
In all fairness, the US has been sounding the alarm on China for some time now.
In November last year, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave China a direct and clear warning that it must behave like a "normal nation" (on commerce) and "with respect to the rules of international law."
If the charges against China are that it does not act like a normal nation and is acting in contravention of international law, it sounds like the US and China would have a lot in common. This would be true even under the Bush, Clinton and Obama administrations, but the US under Trump is openly disregarding international law and eroding confidence in any of the existing UN institutions that are left, making even the slightest mention of international law hypocritical and nonsensical.
Just days ago, US intelligence agencies were warning that China was using student spies to steal secrets from the US. At the end of last year, a bipartisan group of 12 senators wrote a letter to senior members of the Trump administration, urgingthem to counter covert Chinese interference in "democracies" around the world.
US considers early-warning radar in Japan after China unveils 'Guam Killer' missile – report
In October last year, retired Lt. General Ben Hodges warned that an all-out war between the United States and China was highly likely within the next 15 years. While the warning is one that should be heeded, the blame again, according to mainstream pundits, seems to wholly lay at China's feet, with the retired general stating that the US "does not have the capacity to do everything it has to do in Europe and in the Pacific to deal with the 'Chinese threat.'"
Even if Washington's and its allies' fear of China were justified, it pays to remind that, officially, Beijing has one overseas military base which is located in Djibouti in the horn of Africa. The corporate media is now even catching on to the fact that, when it comes to Africa, the US has itstroops scattered across the entire continent. In total, the US hasabout 800 bases located all over the planet, and it shows no signs ofdownsizing its military or its nuclear supply.
You would have to have an immense insecurity complex to preside over 800 military bases, yet fear a nation that only boasts one.
Furthermore, last month, Donald Trump revealed a revised US missile-defense strategy which was more-or-less obsessed with China. The man is basically preparing for a space war with China and Russia, developing space-based sensors to detect incoming enemy missiles, as well as exploring space-based weapons to shoot down missiles fired at the American homeland (again, from Russia and/or China).
Perhaps China really is preparing for World War III in the South China Sea, but at the end of the day, the body of water is just that – the South China Sea. If the US refuses to accept Beijing's claim to its island-building project in the sea and fear the potential for China to project its military prowess into the ocean, then it must equally reject its own claim over the waterways of most of the planet and send its military bases packing back to where they came from.
Everything else is just blatant hypocrisy (something we are all starting to get used to).
Addendum II
China races to equal US military might with 4 nuclear aircraft carriers by 2035 – experts
New nuclear aircraft carriers and state-of-the-art carrier-borne fighter jets will join China's revamped navy by 2035, local military experts say. It's part of an ambitious push to modernize and overtake the US in the Pacific.
The drive will see Beijing build at least six aircraft battlegroups that will be available for missions on the high seas by 2035. Four of these will be nuclear-powered, Chinese specialists familiar with the program told the South China Morning Post.
" /> Chinese & Taiwanese militaries exchange saber-rattling VIDEOS on Lunar New Year
The experts added that the carriers will also come equipped with electromagnetic catapults similar to the EMALS system used on their US counterparts. This will allow fighters to be launched faster than they were on older diesel-powered vessels.
At present, the Chinese Navy operates only one diesel-powered aircraft carrier, the 'Liaoning.' Commissioned in 2012, this was originally purchased half-built from Ukraine following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Currently serving as a training vessel for aircraft carrier crew, it's been reported that the 'Liaoning' will be resold to Pakistan after a "large-scale upgrade." It aims to help Pakistan "compete" with India's own carrier buildup.
China's first domestically built aircraft carrier, the Type 001A, is still undergoing sea trials, but is expected to enter service in April ahead of the Navy's 70th anniversary in October.
The US Navy, by comparison, boasts 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, and has nine other amphibious ships that could be utilized as carrier vessels in a time of war.
However, Chinese military planners are eagerly racing to close the gap and money is seemingly no object, even as the ongoing trade war with the US is hurting both economies.
ALSO ON RT.COMPakistan relying less and less on US, turning to China, Saudi Arabia & UAEWang Yunfei, a former officer and naval warfare expert, told the SCMP that Beijing "needs to keep developing until it is at the same level" as the US.
"Even if the economic downturn has an effect, we can adjust proportions in total military expenditure to make sure naval modernization keeps going," he added, suggesting cutbacks could be made to the number of new tanks produced.
READ MORE: Bad aim & short life: New Pentagon report reveals MORE problems with trillion-dollar F-35 jet
Cash is also being poured into designs for a new carrier-borne stealth fighter, the fighting capability of which Wang believes may only be "a little bit behind" that of the costly US F-35.
Song Zhongping, a Hong Kong-based military commentator, said Chinese technology would soon be on par with US fighters and carriers, but warned that superior hardware was only "part of the picture."
ALSO ON RT.COMUS considers early-warning radar in Japan after China unveils 'Guam Killer' missile – reportHe explained that crew training and damage-control readiness have been lacking in the past because Chinese troops have not "had as much real combat experience as the Americans."
The report comes as tensions between the US and Beijing continue to simmer over influence in the South China Sea. In January, the US Navy sent two warships through the Taiwan Strait on what it called a freedom of navigation exercise.
China later upped the ante by unveiling a new intermediate-range ballistic missile. Known as the 'Guam Killer,' the missile is capable of striking the US island territory or any US warship in the Pacific Ocean or South China Sea.
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Cold Wind March 29, 2019 at 1:41 pm
Its been a while, but maybe it time people, especially people at the Pentagon, have another look at the movie "On the Beach" with Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and Fred Astaire. Sobering, even frightening. Nuclear war doen't look so hot now, does it?.
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lame uncle Sam is traditionally trying to impose a vision of true democracy…. God Bless old good America!


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Margaret Thatcher study: Power changes the way people speak
The former Prime Minister was coached to make her voice appear less shrill and more authoritative
By Bill Gardner 25 November 2014 • 06:00 am
Margaret Thatcher Credit: Photo: REX
Power can change the way people speak, according to a study inspired by Margaret Thatcher.
The acoustics of a person's voice alter to come across more powerfully, showing others who is really in charge, the study suggests.
The American researchers who undertook the study were influenced by Baroness Thatcher, whose adviser, Gordon Reece, hired a voice coach from the National Theatre to teach her to speak more slowly and develop a calm, more authoritative tone.
Lady Thatcher lowered her voice to make it softer and more intimate, countering the attacks of her opponents that she was too shrill.
The study's lead researcher, Prof Sei Jin Ko of San Diego State University, said: "Our findings suggest that whether it's parents attempting to assert authority over unruly children, haggling between a car salesman and customer or negotiations between heads of states, the sound of the voices involved may profoundly determine the outcome of those interactions."
He added: "It was quite well known that Thatcher had gone through extensive voice coaching to exude a more authoritative, powerful persona.
"We wanted to explore how something so fundamental as power might elicit changes in the way a voice sounds and how these situational vocal changes impact on the way listeners perceive and behave toward the speakers."
The researchers set out two trials to examine acoustic cues.
The first experiment consisted of 161 students who were recorded reading a passage aloud, capturing the underlying acoustics.
The participants were randomly assigned to play a specific role, either a high-rank persona or a lower-rank role. After the selection, all the students read a second passage aloud, letting the researchers examine acoustics while all participants were dictating the same speech.
After comparing the first and second recordings, the researchers found that the voices of students assigned to high-power roles tended to go up in pitch — in contrast to the deeper voice that Lady Thatcher adopted — become more monotone and vary more in loudness than the voices of students assigned to low-power roles.
The second experiment, with a separate group of college students, found that listeners who had no knowledge of the first investigation were able to pick up on these power-related vocal cues to determine which students had and did not have power.
In line with the vocal changes observed in the first experiments, listeners tended to associate higher pitch and voices that varied in loudness with high-power behaviours, while also associating louder voices with higher power.
One researcher, Dr Adam Galinsky of Columbia Business School in New York, said: "These findings suggest that listeners are quite perceptive to these subtle variations in vocal cues and they use these cues to decide who is in charge."


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10 Things You Didn't Know about Emma Kenney
Emma Kenney is best-known for her role as Debbie Gallagher on the popular series, Shameless. In 2018, she gained even more popularity when she was cast as Harris on the sitcom, The Connors. Although she isn't even 21 yet, she isn't new to the acting world. Through her work, Kenney has proven that she has the talent and maturity to really transform herself into the characters she plays. However, like many other stars who found fame during their childhood, Kenney has also had to deal with her fair share of obstacles. There are lots of interesting layers under her celebrity surface. Let's get into 10 things you didn't know about Emma Kenney.
1. She's From New York City
Emma Kenney was born in raised in New York City. Her mother is a criminal defense attorney and her father, Keven Kenney, once wrote for the New York Post. The family eventually relocated to the west coast and Emma attended Oak Park High School in California. Fellow actress, Sophie Reynolds, also graduated from Oak Park High alonside Emma Kenney in 2017.
2. She's Loved Acting Since Childhood
Emma Kenney's love for acting isn't anything new. She's enjoyed performing since a young age and an agent recognized her talent when she was in elementary school. She began her professional acting career in commercials, but eventually started landing TV roles. She earned her role as Debbie Gallagher on Shameless when she was just 12-years-old.
3. She Wants To Run An Animal Shelter
Acting isn't the only thing Emma Kenney is passionate about. She also has a deep love and respect for animals. Throughout her career she has been very vocal about animal rights. She is a big proponent of people adopting pets from shelters and hopes to eventually open up an animal shelter of her own.
4. She's A Spokesperson for PETA
She may not be ready to start her animal shelter yet, but that hasn't stopped Emma Kenney from speaking out against animal cruelty. Kenney is no stranger to sharing her opinions, especially when it comes to issues that impact animals. She has worked with PETA to share messages about fair treatment for animals.
5. She Doesn't Know How Much She Weighs
Hollywood is no stranger to vanity. Celebrities are constantly judged on their appearances and often forced to maintain a certain look. Emma Kenney refuses to let the industry force her to obsess over her physical appearance. Emma believes in body positivity and doesn't even own a scale so she doesn't keep track of how much she weighs.
6. She Loves Spreading Positivity
Emma Kenney's job may be to entertain people, but that doesn't mean she can't make them feel better about themselves too. Kenney told Authentic Magazine, "I think if I can spread positivity and realness to even one person, I'd feel good! I like to promote realness and I love being on such real shows…"
7. She Suffers From Anemia
Emma Kenney suffers from extreme anemia which means her iron levels are very low. In an interview with Galore Magazine, Kenney shared that she bruises and bleeds incredibly easily. She has been very open about her struggles with anemia and also encourages other people who struggle with the disease to make sure they're taking iron pills if necessary.
8. She's A Pescatarian
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9. She Is A Writer and Director
In addition to her work as an actress, Emma Kenney also has writing and directing experience. She has three director credits to her name, all for on screen shorts in 2009. She also has a writing credit from the 2009 short, The New Girl in Town, which she also directed. Her work on The New Girl in Town also made her the youngest person to ever compete in the New Jersey International Film Festival.
10.She's Struggled With Depression and Anxiety
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TIPP CITY — Saturday, March 16, the Northmont Academic Challenge team defeated Beavercreek 310-80 to win the Frosh/Soph History Bowl State Championship at Tippecanoe High School.
This is Northmont's 2nd straight History Bowl state title and its 5th History state title since 2011 (13th state championship overall).
The team of Sean Scranton, Samantha Street, Zach Weeks and Seth Eggleston have not lost a history bowl event to another team in their age group all season.
"We will be seeded in the top 10 at the national event next month when we will shoot for our 3rd history bowl national championship," said coach David Jones.
In 2018 Northmont won the state championship competition of the National History Bowl at Tippecanoe High School.
Northmont defeated Beavercreek in the championship game to advance to the History Bowl National Championship competition in Washington D.C.
This year the team will take a spring break trip to Georgia to compete in another tournament before going to Washington, D.C. for the national competition in April.
The Northmont Academic Challenge Team is one of the most successful teams in the West Central region of Ohio.
The team was founded in 1991 by Carol Roberts, who led the team to six consecutive regional appearances and 4 consecutive league titles. After Mrs. Roberts retirement from coaching in 2004, Bill Patrizio led the team for 2 years.
David Jones took over the Northmont program midseason in 2005, competing only in GWOC league competition (4th place) and the UC Bearcat Buzzerbowl. The team reappeared on the state scene in 2006-2007, with captain Anna Henry leading the T-Bolts to a regionals appearance and a High-Q Final Four appearance.
In 2012 and 2013, Sam Blizzard led Northmont to back-to-back National History Bowl Junior Varsity National Championships in Washington D.C., marking Northmont's first ever national championship in any activity. In 2014, coach David Jones was named National History Bowl National Coach of the Year.


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\r\nNamed \"Best Ethnic American Columnist\" in Nov. 2006 by the New America Media and winner of the 2009 Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award , Hanania covered Chicago City Hall from 1976 until 1992. He is one of only a few professional Palestinian Arab American journalists. He received the Sigma Delta Chi award for column writing from the Society of Professional Journalists in November 2010, and is the recipient of four Peter Lisagor Awards for column writing from the SPJ's largest Chapter, the Chicago Headline Club.
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Ray Hanania is a Palestinian American Columnist with Creators Syndicate. His columns on the Middle East appear every Wednesday in the Jerusalem Post and regularly at PalestineNote.com. His political columns appear every week in Chicago in the Southwest News-Herald Newspaper and the Lawndale News Newspaper.
An award winning former Chicago journalist, Hanania is the host of the American Arab syndicated radio show Radio Baladi broadcast in Chicagoland and Dearborn Michigan every Friday (7-8 am, Central) on WJJG AM 1530 and WNZK AM 690 radio.
Named "Best Ethnic American Columnist" in Nov. 2006 by the New America Media and winner of the 2009 Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award , Hanania covered Chicago City Hall from 1976 until 1992. He is one of only a few professional Palestinian Arab American journalists. He received the Sigma Delta Chi award for column writing from the Society of Professional Journalists in November 2010, and is the recipient of four Peter Lisagor Awards for column writing from the SPJ's largest Chapter, the Chicago Headline Club.
Hanania is the national coordinator of the National Arab American Journalists Association (NAAJA).
After Sept. 11, 2001, Hanania expanded his communication entering standup comedy, using humor to bridge anti-Arab animosities. Internationally acclaimed, Hanania is co-founder of the Israeli-Palestinian Standup Comedy Tour.
Hanania is also the author of the humor book I'm Glad I Look Like a Terrorist: Growing up Arab in America (1996) and Arabs of Chicagoland, (2005) a history of Chicago's Arab settlement.
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ISO/PC 283, the committee overseeing the development of the much-anticipated ISO 45001 standard on occupational health and safety management systems, met on two recent occasions, June 29-July 3, 2015, in Dublin, Ireland, and Sept. 21-25, 2015, in Geneva, Switzerland. The two meetings were designed to meet in task groups to address 2,400 comments on the second committee draft before meeting as one group to address major issues.
Vic Toy, CSP, CIH, chair of the U.S. TAG to ISO/PC 283, reports that 109 delegates, representing 33 countries and 7 liaison organizations registered for the working group meeting in Geneva. Overall, Toy and the rest of the TAG delegation, which included Kathy A. Seabrook, CSP, CFIOSH, EurOSHM, Vice Chair, Thea Dunmire, JD, CSP, CIH, subject-matter expert/representative, and James Howe, CSP, TAG Membership Subgroup Chair, say the U.S. was successful in addressing many issues of concern to the U.S. "The U.S. delegation had many wins during the Geneva and Dublin meetings, which will be reflected in the soon-to-be-published DIS," Seabrook says.
However, as with any standards development project in process, some significant issues remain for the committee and key stakeholders to tackle. "There continues to be significant issues of concern to the U.S., including the prescriptive nature of the draft when compared with ANSI Z10. This may impact the appeal and potential uptake in the U.S. for adopting 45001," Toy explains. He also notes that some U.S. users and auditors may find the standard confusing due to what they view as redundant requirements and inconsistencies. "We are hopeful, however, that the editing conducted by the secretariat and ISO will improve readability and understanding of the requirements," he adds.
use of the term non managerial worker as those with no supervisory responsibility.
In addition, the group indicates that ISO's Annex SL and the ongoing harmonization effort will require coordination with other U.S. management system standard developers such as TC 207 (environmental), TC 262 (risk management) and TC 176 (quality). However, the harmonization effort is valuable and a vehicle does exist within ANSI for doing this.
Among several new developments, a resolution was adopted, with U.S. agreement, to submit a new work item proposing development of a new part to ISO/IEC 17021: Conformity Assessment: Requirements for Bodies Providing Audit and Certification of Management Systems--Competence Requirements for Auditing and Certification of OH&S Management Systems.
The TAG will now begin to meet remotely to address the issues of concern and to work on U.S. comments once the DIS is released during the 2-month translation periods. The release of this draft for public comment is expected sometime in January/February 2016. Planning is also underway for a face-to-face TAG meeting in February.
The TAG leadership is also hopeful that ANSI will work to further promote integration of management systems among U.S. stakeholders. "With the release of the revised management systems standards, ISO 14001 (environmental) and 9001 (quality) based on standardized harmonization language, ANSI should consider forums to aid organizations looking to take an integrated approach to implementing these standards along with ISO 45001 and ISO 31000 (risk management)," Toy advises.
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Here I am with another recipe for personal food, my FAVE! Creamy walnut tartlets are sweet, crunchy, creamy. They are perfection in a nutshell, excuse the pun!
These beauties are a take on a recipe I found in a French cookbook that belonged to my late father. This past summer when I went home for a visit I asked my mother if I could have it. She readily agreed. I spent countless hours looking through this lovely book, full of regional recipes, and stunning photography. I drool by just thinking about it.
The recipe makes six creamy walnut tartlets, so it is perfect for a small dinner party, or for celebrating a special occasion at home. You could say that this dessert is the French cousin of an American southern favorite: pecan pie, which I happen to love dearly. I am excited to be making it! I am also thrilled that I can use my tartlet set yet again which I bought many years ago, way before I started blogging.
Walnuts are said to have originated in Persia (modern day Iran) roughly 7,000 years ago, and are considered one fo the oldest foods. The Romans loved their walnuts, and called them Juglans regia, which roughly means Jupiter's royal acorn. Walnuts were traded along the Silk Road, the famous trade route between Asia and the Middle East. Walnuts are super healthy, they are rich in omega 3, and vitamin E also.
I think you will love this recipe! Share it with your friends and family. The best thing about this recipe? Everyone can have their own dessert, no sharing!
Here are some of my baking picks from Amazon. Some really nice tartlet pans, a thickness rolling pin, pastry mat with measurements and a really cool book on French pastry!
You will love these Tartelettes au Noix! French walnut tartlets are crunchy with a creamy caramelized filling with a hint of orange and similar to pecan pie.
To prepare the dough place flour , sugar and salt in the food processor and pulse a few times. Add the butter and pulse a few times. Pour in the egg and milk mixture and keep pulsing until the mixture comes together.
Turn onto a floured surface, and shape into a 12" cylinder. Cut into 6 equal 2" pieces. Roll out each individual piece to fit into a tartlet pan. Place a piece of parchment paper on top of each tarlet pan, and cover with pie weights. Place in the freezer for 45 minutes.
Bake for about 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow the shells to cool slightly.
While the dough is in the freezer prepare the filling: in a saucepan heat milk, half and half, and sugar on medium heat until it starts to boil. Remove from heat and stir in the walnuts, vanilla, and orange peel.
Fill the individual tartlets, then bake on oven rack for 20-25 minutes or until the filling has set.
My dear friend, these look SPECTACULAR!!!! I seriously am almost drooling thinking about these.
These are fabulous Analida! I have little tartlet pans from before I started blogging too. I got a huge set brand new at a yard sale and love using them for decadent little desserts such as these. Great recipe!
Oh how cool!!! I love pomegranates as well as pistachios. I've recently just started drinking pomegranate juice. I am hooked. I will check out your post. Yes it is so nice to now have that book. I am holding out for one on Thai cooking which was also his. I hope my mom is also willing to part with it.
What adorable tartlets!! I like the idea of individual treats they look fancier on the plate. It's wonderful that you have that old French cookbook. Sometimes the old recipes are the best. From the looks of you tarts, you did a magnificent job.
This is the perfect choice for a dinner party. I like the crunchy appearance and the good mix of ingredients that produces that appearance.
Thanks Tom. These creamy walnut tarts are awesome. They are not too hard to make either. Thank you for the 5 star rating.


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I've never been to Nepal, but judging from "Raiders of the Lost Ark," the bars could be pretty exciting there. So it could be an interesting trip.
If I'm lucky enough, I might get to visit the factory where they're going to build the hydropower turbines.
Nepal has its eye on developing what it sees as a vast potential for hydroelectric power. It is a mountainous country full of rivers. The Independent Power Producers' Association, Nepal, estimates that the country has the potential for 40,000 MW of hydropower. Right now, it has developed about 600 MW.
Hydroelectricity represents about 1 percent of the country's total energy consumption, and just about all of its electricity.
I came across all this because the Global Window department in the October issue of Mechanical Engineering includes a story about a new venture that is going to set up that turbine factory. A Nepali power company, Glow Tech Solutions, ordered some turbines designed to work in river and tidal currents from a Dutch manufacturer, Tocardo B.V International. Now they are in a partnership to make turbines in Nepal.
But later on, just a few days ago, I read about something closer to home. Another manufacturer, Verdant Power, is testing hydroturbines in the East River, near New York City's Roosevelt Island. I knew that this kind of turbine, designed to be rotated by natural currents, has been in the river for a while. But it seems they have a history of breaking down in the river's current.
According to a story in the last week's New York Times, the company has tested a turbine for 10 days, and has retrieved it unscathed.
According to the newspaper, "After 10 days in the river, the blades gleamed in the September sunlight, showing no obvious signs of wear or damage. The turbine's pristine appearance brought smiles to the faces of Mr. Corren [Dean Corren, Verdant's director of technology] and his colleagues. Dean Whatmoor, a logistics manager, who had been monitoring the test from a converted cargo container filled with computer screens and gauges, admitted that he was a little sad to see the test end.
"In about five years, the company hopes to have 30 turbines arrayed in the river, each capable of producing 35 kilowatts of electricity. All told, the project would produce about as much power as one wind turbine, enough to power a few hundred homes."
That comes to a little more than a megawatt, modest for a power plant in the U.S., and certainly a tiny fraction of what the region uses. But there are places in the world where a contribution like that could make a big difference for a great many people—places like Nepal, for instance.
I'm glad to see they're working on it.
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David trained at Sylvia Young Theatre School and at Mountview Drama School, where he gained a BA in Musical Theatre. He has worked extensively in theatre, radio and television. As a child he played Kurt in "The Sound of Music" at Saddlers Wells theatre, Gavroche in "Les Miserables", and was in the original cast of "Metropolis" at The Piccadilly Theatre, London. He also played Zac in the original musical version of "Goodnight Mr. Tom". David also worked with the English National Opera in "The Magic Flute" at London and Glyndebourne and with The Welsh National Opera in Paris. He is featured on the London cast recording of "Metropolis" and also on "Hey Mr. Producer". David starred in "Earthwarp" for the BBC, as well as appearing in numerous other TV and radio programmes. He was excited to sing for the queen as Oliver in a Royal Variety Show.
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Hudiesaurus redux
A while back, Matt speculated on the size of the allegedly giant mamenchisaurid Hudiesaurus. At the time, all he had to go on was Glut's (2000) reproduction of half of Dong (1997:fig. 3), and a scalebar whose length was given incorrectly. The comments on that article gave some more measurements, but we never got around to showing you the figures of the vertebra in question, so here it is:
Hudiesaurus sinojapanorum IVPP V. 11120 holotype "first dorsal" vertebra, composite of Dong (1997:figs. 1, 3a)
The measurements of this vertebra given in the paper are:
Height of vertebra 76
Length of centrum 55
Width of centrum anteriorly 42
Width of centrum posteriorly 39
Height of neural spine 41
Width of top of neural spine 27
Dong said (p. 109) that "The mounted type skeleton of Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis, which was the largest sauropod known in China at the time it was described, measures 22 m in length (Young and Chao, 1972). The centrum of the first dorsal in the type of Hudiesaurus sinojapanorum is 1.5 times longer than the type of M. hochuanensis, leading to an estimated skeleton length of 30 m." This is odd because 1.5 times 22 m is 33 m, not 30 m. But it's also odd because Young and Zhao (1972:table 1) actually gave the centrum length of D1 as 250 mm — so the alleged 55 cm long centrum of the Hudiesaurus D1 is actually 2.2 times as long, which would yield a length estimate of *gulp* 2.2 x 22 m = 48.4 m. Which would be right up in Amphicoelias fragillimus territory. And that is clearly nonsense for a dorsal vertebra that's only 76 cm high.
The height:length ratio of the Hudiesaurus vertebra is 76/55 = 1.38. That of the first dorsal of M. hochuanensis is (using Young and Zhao's measurements) 640/250 = 2.56 — nearly twice as tall. In M. hoch., C19 (the last cervical) has a height ratio of 660/325 = 2.03 — better, but still not very close. C18 has 660/400 = 1.65, C17 has 630/550 = 1.15. So based on proportions, it looks like the Hudiesaurus "dorsal" is not a dorsal but a cervical — furthermore, not even the last dorsal, but the penultimate or antepenultimate cervical. If it is homologous with C17 of M. hoch., then its 55 cm length is exactly the same as that M. hoch.'s C17, which would suggest that Hudiesaurus was the same length (22 m); if it's homologous with C18. then its 55 cm length is 1.38 times greater than that of M. hoch., suggesting a total length of 30 m. It's interesting that this last figure is the very one proposed by Dong — could it be that after writing the paper, he reconsidered the serial position of the vertebra and recalculated the total length on the basis of an assignment as the penultimate cervical, while neglecting to update the text? It seems a bit far-fetched, but maybe it's a possibility.
Finally: is the vertebral morphology consistent with an identity as a cervical? I think so. The strong opisthocoely is a point in favour, as are the lateral fossae. (The dorsals of Mamenchisaurus lack fossae and foramina.) On the other hand, Dong claims that the vertebra has a hyposphene, which is unknown in cervicals — but I see no hyposphene in the photo above. Dong doesn't really say why he thinks the vertebra is a dorsal, but my guess is that it may be due to lack of a fused cervical rib, and the assumption that there was a free dorsal rib associated with it. But Young and Zhao (1972) say of M. hoch. that "The last cervical and first dorsal vertebrae are generally distinguished by rib morphology. However, a difficulty is posed here by the last cervical's absence of articulated ribs." And my own observation of casts of this specimen show that actually the last few cervical ribs are not fused.
In conclusion, it seems to me that Hudiesaurus is probably based on a posterior cervical rather than an anterior dorsal. BUT let me clear that I have never seen the material, and everything I've written here is based only on what's in the literature. I may well have made a dumb mistake, and no-one should take my thoughts on this too seriously. If I was certain, I'd put it in a paper instead of on a blog.
Dong, Z. 1997. A gigantic sauropod (Hudiesaurus sinojapanorum gen. et sp. nov.) from the Turpan Basin, China; pp. 102-110 in Dong, Z. (ed.), Sino-Japanese Silk Road Dinosaur Expedition. China Ocean Press, Beijing.
Glut, D.F. 2000. Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia, Supplement 1. McFarland & Company, Inc. Jefferson, North Carolina. 442 pp.
Young, C.C., and Zhao, X.-J. 1972. Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis sp. nov. Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology Monographs, A, 8:1-30.
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Nick Gardner Says:
What do you all think about the two new titanosauriforms published this year: _Ruyangosaurus_ and _Baotianmansaurus_?
I know I'm not a vocal sauropodomorph fan, but I do find them interesting. ;-)
Steve o'c Says:
I'm looking the 'Mamenchisaurus youngi' cervical series on Kent Stevens Dinomorph site.
The Hudiesaurus vertebra looks a bit like C19 in M. youngi (it's one of the few 'photographed' vertebra in the sequence and isn't great quality).
Interesting, Steve. According to Ouyang and Ye's (2002) monograph on M. youngi, this species has only 18 cervicals and 12 dorsals (see tables on pp. 30 and 40), so what you're looking at is in fact D1 … although as we're learning, the cervicodorsal transition isn't always as neat as we'd like.
Anyway, remember that in the Hudiesaurus vert, height/length = 76/55 = 1.38. In M. youngi, it's 413/260 = 1.58 in C18, 400/316 = 1.27 in C17 and 374/265 = 1.02 in C16. In the dorsals, it's 432/200 = 2.16 even in the first, which is way taller than the Hudiesaurus vert. So that seems to support the idea that the latter really is a late cervical rather than a dorsal.
William Miller Says:
What parts of this dinosaur are known? I thought it was just 1 vertebra, but the quote says 'the first dorsal in the type of Hudiesaurus', so are there other vertebrae?
Only that one vertebra is known.
OK, thanks.
Graham King Says:
Mike, I maybe don't follow all of this but I think I see in essence what you are trying to do here, which appeals to my sense of reason and natural justice. I am glad to see logic (Sherlock Holmes-style deduction) applied: someone caring enuf to be picking up on such details!
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