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Q: Where did the "ue" in "tongue" come from? How I remember being told over and over how to spell tongue!  I didn't understand it then; I don't understand it now.  What evolution might put a silent "ue" at the end of a word?

A: The spelling comes from the French, and indicates that the g was once pronounced -- in other words, it wasn't always just an engma (ŋ). However, the word tongue doesn't come to us from French; the Old English and some Middle English used tunge. It appears that the French style of spelling won out somewhere in the 14th century, but since that time the pronunciation has changed. For that matter, the sorts of French words, like langue, that influenced the English spelling have also (mostly) lost the g sound over time.

A: Old English
In Old English, a language from the West Germanic family, the standard spelling was tunge (wiktionary) and the corresponding pronunciation was /ˈtʊnɡe/ "tun-ghe" (/ʊ/ as in foot). In other words, the final "e" was not mute but clearly pronounced.  For instance in present-day German, you would say "Die Zunge" /ˈtsʊŋə/ (tsung-e).  In both cases the final unstressed e is actually already a reduction of an older final a still present in many other cognates.
Middle English
The spelling of Middle English is strongly influenced by that of Old French in which the un sequence is uncommon.  It was thenceforth often replaced by on which led to such spellings as tonge or tounge ('ou' being the French spelling of /u/ and /ʊ/) .  Which can be compared to contemporary alternative spellings longe and lounge for the word long.
Modern English
With the evolution of the pronunciation of long vowels in Modern English, these spellings became highly misleading. "Tounge" for instance could be read /taʊndʒ/ (as in lounge).  As a result, such spellings as tonghe or tongue were preferred.  The fact that the simpler spelling tong was not preferred (in spite of the existence of such words as long) is probably a sign that the final e was not completely muted yet.
Finally, the tongue variant probably overtook the tonghe option as a result of an analogy with such words as L. lingua or languages.
Dutch
Also note that on the other side of the English Channel, the Dutch word followed a very similar path.  From Old Dutch tunga it successively evolved as Middle Dutch tunge, tonghe and present-day Dutch tong.
Reference
This is the explanation offered by the OED regarding the spelling and the etymology of the word tongue.

[OE. and ME. tunge wk. f. = OFris.
tunge, OS. tunga (MLG., LG. tunge,
MDu. tonghe, Du. tong), OHG. zunga,
zunka (MHG., Ger. zunge), ON. tunga
(Da., Norw. tunge, Sw. tunga), Goth.
tuggô:—OTeut. *tungôn-, held to be
cogn. with L. lingua tongue, for older
*dingua (as lacrima:—dacrima: see tear n.1).
The natural mod.Eng. repr.
of OE. tunge would be tung, as in
lung, rung, sung (and as the word is
actually pronounced); but the ME.
device of writing on for un brought in
the alternative tonge with variants
tounge, townge; app. the effort to
show that the pronunciation was not
(tundʒ(ə) led to the later tounghe,
toungue, tongue, although it is true
that these hardly appeared before
final e was becoming mute, so that its
simple omission would have been
equally effective. The spelling tongue
is thus neither etymological nor
phonetic, and is only in a very small
degree historical.]

A: A case of pronouncing the word the way it originally was, even when the spelling changed.
Interesting to note that this word was originally spelt "tounge":

1380, John Wyclif, English works (1880 edition by the Early English Text Society)
  He schal make his tounge cleue faste to þe roof of his mouþ.
1536, Register of Riches, in Edward Ledwich, Antiquitates Sarisburienses; or, the history and antiquities of old and new Sarum (1771)
  Having ... two white Leopards and two dragons facing them as going to engage, their tounges are done in curiousest wyse.

The "e" was always silent, and I suppose they just moved the "u" to the back when they standardized spelling. This doesn't mean that all "-ue" endings are silent. It was spelt "tongue", but it is pronounced "tunge", because it came from "tunge":

O.E. tunge "organ of speech, speech, language,"

This doesn't mean that all "-ue" endings are silent, it's just that in this special case, it is pronounced the way it was originally spelt, even when the spelling changed.
One case of "-ue" being pronounced is "Montague", pronounced:

[mon-tuh-gyoo]

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Q: Media button Thickbox content doesn't work everywhere Please, understand that I'm new to wordpress and php.
I added a media button to my media buttons in the admin by adding the following code to functions.php file:
function add_custom_media_button() {
    echo 'Add custom media';
}
add_action('media_buttons', 'add_custom_media_button', 15);

add_action( 'admin_footer',  'add_inline_popup_content' );
function add_inline_popup_content() {
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Now, this is working on Create Post page, but is not anywhere else.
I can see my button in Edit post, Create page and Edit page, but there's nothing inside the thickbox.

A: I ended up solving this by changing my two functions to only one, and setting the "button" to show the iframe directly, like this:
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French actor Michel Piccoli, arthouse star, is dead at 94
by: THOMAS ADAMSON, Associated Press
FILE – In this May 20, 1974 file photo, French actor Michel Piccoli talks with Swedish actress Liv Ullmann at the Cannes Film Festival, southern France. Michel Piccoli, a prolific screen star whose served as muse to filmmaker Luis Bunuel and was a leading man for Jean-Luc Godard, has died. He was 94. (AP Photo/Jean-Jacques Levy, File)
PARIS (AP) — French actor Michel Piccoli, a prolific screen star who appeared in landmark films by directors such as Luis Bunuel – including in his Academy Award winning "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" —and Jean-Luc Godard, has died. He was 94.
His family confirmed to French media Monday that he died last week, but they did not give a cause of death.
Though less famous in the English-speaking world, in continental Europe and his native France Paris-born Piccoli was a stalwart of art house cinema.
Beginning his career in the 1940s, he went on to make over 170 movies, working into his late eighties.
His most memorable appearance came arguably during the French New Wave – starring opposite Brigitte Bardot in Godard's 1963 masterpiece "Contempt," with his dark hat and signature bushy eyebrows.
But Piccoli's performances for Europe's most iconic directors will also be remembered, including for France's Jean Renoir, Jacques Rivette and Jean-Pierre Melville, Britain's Alfred Hitchcock and Spain's Bunuel. For the Spanish director, Piccioli starred alongside Catherine Deneuve in the 1967 masterpiece "Belle de Jour" and in 1972's "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie," which won the Best Foreign Film award at the Oscars in 1973.
Despite starring in Hitchcock's 1969 English-language espionage thriller "Topaz," Piccoli's career in Hollywood didn't take off.
In Europe, Piccoli won a host of accolades, including Best Actor in Cannes in 1980 for "A Leap In The Dark" by Marco Bellochio and a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1982 for "Strange Affair" by Pierre Granier-Deferre.
The actor's last major role was in 2011's Nanni Moretti's "We Have a Pope," which premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
Piccoli was married three times, to Éléonore Hirt, the singer Juliette Greco and finally to Ludivine Clerc. He had one daughter from his first marriage, Anne-Cordélia. Piccoli stayed with Clerc, whom he married in 1978, until his death.
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I promise that's my only reference to Cool Runnings in this post. But I had to, you see, as right on Portobello Road, and a short walk from Ladbroke Grove tube station is Jamaican burger joint Boom Burger.
I'd been invited down by Boom Burger to try out the menu, which I was pretty excited about. Walking from the tube, past Flyover, a bar pumping out Jamaican tunes with a clientele who were already leaping around at 6.15 on a Tuesday evening, I had a pang of nostalgia for the colourful, unconventional feel of an area I'd spent a fair bit of time in the early 2000s.
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A chance encounter in a fish-'n'-chip shop set Brendan James Murray on the trail of a mystery. Had a gay man been secretly murdered on HMAS Australia during the Second World War?
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But was the story true? If so, who was the dead man? And why was it so hard to find out?
The Drowned Man is a search for the answer, almost stymied by cover-up and silence. In the end, it brings us to the lies that have shrouded our understanding of war, and especially of war at sea.
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What Is a Product Specialization Strategy?
by Barbara Bean-Mellinger; Updated December 05, 2018
Mall-based retail shops often use a product specialization strategy.
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2 Importance of Symbols in Branding
3 What Is Flattery Advertising?
4 What Is the Difference in a Trademark & Brand Monopoly?
Yankee Candles. Macintosh computers. Orville Redenbacher popcorn. All three companies have something in common: They are all known for a specific product. Sure, they offer variations on that product. Yankee Candles offers variety of scents and candle sizes. Apple offers desktop and laptop computers. Orville Redenbacher offers buttered popcorn, salted popcorn, and he also offers fabulous sweet-and-salty kettle corn. But all three are so well-known for one product line that you can instantly call to mind what they sell just by saying the name. That's the beauty of selective specialization - a marketing technique that focuses on the benefits and quality of a product.
Quality Is Key
Companies that focus their marketing efforts on a product, focus heavily on its quality. They aren't known for affordability. Their customers don't buy their products for price; in fact, they often pay higher prices for these products than they would pay with a competitor. The companies have done such a good job of touting quality that many people will pay the higher price to have it. Of course, if you're going to market your product's quality, you'd better back it up with a high-quality product. That doesn't necessarily mean every aspect of the product is top quality. It means that the company focuses its marketing efforts on the aspects that are high quality.
Finding a Market Specialization
Companies that practice product specialization find a target market for their product and focus on selling to that market rather than to the mass public. They seek buyers that are likely to want the features of this product and target their marketing efforts directly to them.
Yankee Candles are known to have longer burn times and stronger, longer lasting scents than other mainstream candles. There are many high-end, much higher priced candles with additional features, but also many cheaper, inferior candles whose scents don't last. Yankee created itself a niche with candles that command higher prices for their quality, but at a price nearly everyone can afford. Their market specialization are candle-lovers who aren't interested in fancy Parisian candles, but who don't insist on buying the lowest-price candles either. Rather, they want a lot for their money: Namely, quality that isn't out of their price reach.
Apple markets its Macintosh computers to users who want great graphic capabilities and are willing to pay more to get them. They're more likely to be artists, designers and publishers than writers or office types who churn out lots of correspondence. Instead of having the boxy PC shape, Macs even look artsy, thus appealing even more to creative types. In their famed Mac vs. PC ads, Macs were positioned as the latest, cutting edge yet friendly and laid-back technology versus the old-fashioned, boxy, nerdy, inept PCs. Sleek vs. Geek.
Orville Redenbacher markets its popcorn to those popcorn-lovers who will pay more for higher quality popcorn. These popcorn-lovers have tried the cheaper brands but became frustrated when many of the kernels don't fully pop or pop at all. They appreciate the light, fluffy, fully popped "gourmet" popcorn that's seasoned with real butter, and the consistency they know that Orville will deliver. And they're willing to pay more for that quality.
What Is Selective Specialization?
When a company uses product specialization but markets to two or more selected target markets, it's called selective specialization. They have more than one type of customer - maybe even for the exact same product - but they're still not marketing to the masses. Even though the Mac vs. PC ads were placed on national TV and enjoyed by nearly everyone who saw them, most still didn't switch to Macs, nor did Apple expect them to. One reason is price. From its introduction, Apple intentionally put high price tags on Macs to appeal to people who believe a higher price equates to higher quality. Another reason is that Macs appeal to a second target market: Users in creative, primarily visual work that need and appreciate superior graphics capabilities.
Product Specialization Pros and Cons
Product specialization is, in a way, an all-or-nothing strategy. If you find a group of customers who like your product, then that's great. You may become viewed as an expert authority in that industry. But if your product doesn't catch on, you're out of business. If you're banking all of your success on one product, it had better sell well to a target market. A hot product also carries the risk of running its course, becoming outdated, obsolete or out of fashion. To stay in business, one-product companies need to have another product to introduce.
The opposite of product specialization is generalization. You sell several different products or you sell a large variety of products, instead of focusing on one. Product diversity means that you have more products to potentially appeal to a more diverse variety of people. The disadvantage of that, though, is that your company isn't generally known for a product. Chances are, is that there isn't a product that people could name that would make people instantly think of your company.
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Q: interior and closure strictly from definitions. Let $X$ be a topological space and $A \subset X$.
Let int$A$ (interior of $A$ in $X$) be the union of all open sets contained in $A$. That is,
int$A= \bigcup_{B \in \tau_A} B$.
Let cl$A$ (closure of $A$ in $X$) be the intersection of every closed set containing $A$.
I need to show that the boundary of $A$, which is the set difference of the two defined above, contains every limit point of $A$.
Attempt:
Let $x$ be a limit point of $A$, then every neighborhood of $x$, say $U$ intersects $A$ nontrivially, that is, there exists a $y \neq x$ such that $y \in U \cap A$.
I need to show $x \in$ every closed set containing $A$ and that it is not in any open set contained in $A$. really stuck.

A: You cannot prove it, since it is false. If, say, $X=\Bbb R$, endowed with its usual topology, and if $A=(-1,1)$, then the boundary of $A$ is $\{1,-1\}$.  But the set of limit points of $A$ is $[-1,1]$, and $[-1,1]\not\subset\{1,-1\}$.


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BOXING It's all Grover
James DeGale reckons he would happily take on Georgie Groves for his middleweight debut in the professional ring - but claims his former Dale Youth Club mate wouldn't fancy a four-round pasting!
Olympic champion DeGale came full circle to promoter Frank Warren this week for a three-year deal worth more than £1.6m after three months of courting by the best of the fight game's wheeler-dealers.
One of whom was David Haye who looks after Hammersmith ABA champion Groves, himself a pro first timer on the under-card of his manager's heavyweight tussle at the O2 Arena a couple of weeks ago.
Degale didn't fancy Haye's overture back in September, which sparked some tasty tabloid name-calling between the two.
But now DeGale is certain that if his expected February debut was against old stablemate Groves from Dale's gym, there would be certain revenge for the infamous ABA area fight that saw the latter controversially outpoint DeGale nearly two years ago.
Although Groves went on to win the ABA title, it was DeGale who quickly recovered to score a fabulous gold in Beijing.
"They're not likely to put me in with Georgie," said DeGale. "But if they did, he would be lucky to last four rounds.
"I've heard all the names I've been called about not being tough enough for the professional ring - but you don't win an Olympic gold unless you have a heap of skills.
"I've got a lot of time for Georgie, although it's been a bit different lately. But it would be more of a bonus to his career if I was to fight him - not that I'm sure he would want it."
DeGale admitted Warren had offered him more money than the likes of legend Oscar De La Hoya, but added the English promoter would also do more for his new career.
He said: "Frank's looked after Joe Calzaghe, Ricky Hatton and Amir Khan.
"I mean, the man's done it at the very top, and in the end, staying in England and building up a fan base was what I really wanted."
**ASHLEY THEOPHANE couldn't make up his mind if the cup was half-empty or half-full this week.
The Paddington fighter was still seething after his proposed bout with Zab Judah at New York's legendary Madison Square Garden went down the tubes.
Theophane reckoned the former world champion was running scared because of the west Londoner's growing reputation Stateside.
In July, Theophane added another former world champ, DeMarcus 'Chop Chop' Corley to his list of victims, and the 28-year-old light welterweight believes word of the performance in Rochester, New York, got around.
Theophane said: "I should be nicknaming him Zab 'No Balls' Judah after he pulled out like that. I think his people thought a comeback fight for him against me was far too risky."
Instead, the man they call 'Treasure' has been signed up for a return to York Hall, Bethnal Green, on Saturday.
He fights Alexandrs Spitko from Mansfield, via Latvia, who's been on the losing side five fights in a row. York Hall was also the scene where Theophane comprehensively dispatched African champion Geoffrey Munika in June.
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Study: Continuous Security Testing On the Rise
Security testing is becoming part of an organization's everyday routine rather than a once annual event focused only on compliance, Synack research says.
by D. Howard Kass • Dec 31, 2019
Security testing is becoming part of an organization's normal, everyday routine rather than a once annual event focused only on compliance, a new report said.
Nearly half (44 percent) of 300 organizations surveyed in Synack's 2020 State of Compliance and Security Testing Report indicated they are performing security tests on a monthly or weekly basis. That trend line suggests a move toward a more effective continuous model, the crowdsourced security platform provider, said.
"The rapid embrace of crowdsourced security testing has happened because it is proven to work better than traditional security testing methods and addresses the ever growing talent gap within organizations," said Dr. Mark Kuhr, Synack's chief technology officer.
According to Kuhr, two major trends have influenced crowdsourced security testing's growth: rapid product development cycles requiring a continuous approach to security testing; and, organizations are looking to crowdsourced security owing to pressure from boards and regulators to remain compliant and secure. Synack projects the adoption rate for crowdsourced security testing will increase four-fold in 2020.
"Although we are seeing a move toward a 24/7, 365 security culture at organizations in a wide variety of industries and geographies, there is still ample room for improvement," said Aisling MacRunnels, Synack's chief marketing officer. "Our survey found that on average, most security tests are lasting just 20 hours. As the number of cyber incidents continues to increase, it will be imperative for decision makers to implement security testing solutions on a continuous basis with 1500-2000 hours of testing a year."
Here are some of the study's key findings:
63% of organizations said that the most common use case for external vendors is to identify and reduce vulnerabilities, which is encouraged by different compliance frameworks and best practice standards.
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Being the creature of habit that I am, my run routes vary little day-to-day. Typically, the first 2.25 miles are the same. After that, I can turn right for a 4-miler, go straight and make subsequent right turns at other points for 5, 6, 7, or 8-mile loops, or not turn for 10 to 20-mile out and backs. I love it!
My weed is gone! All nearby weeds were gone!
Apparently, the city removed weeds from that section of road yesterday after 2+ years of their being an integral part of my morning run! How dare they!
Comments: I did 5.13 at a 10:04 min/mi pace using a 4:1 run-walk ratio. Knee status: meh… At 4.75 miles, it was bugging me so I switched to a 2m:30sec ratio for the final stretch.
I've been experimenting with KT Tape the last two days. Actually, only this morning, since the stuff didn't stick for my run yesterday. We'll see if that provides any help/relief. I really do hope the knee returns to its old self at some point…soon.


You may not be aware, but there are USDA inspection procedures for mushrooms. Personally, I have performed a few official USDA inspections on mushrooms. The USDA has issued a U.S. Grade Standard for Mushrooms, unfortunately it hasn't been updated since 1966.
The grade standard was established for the inspection of white mushrooms, although the brown crimini can also be inspected using this standard. The USDA inspection instructions also include inspection procedures for all varieties of mushrooms, portabellas, shiitakes, etc.
When inspecting mushrooms, the defect tolerance are based on a weight basis. You would have to weigh out a sample of mushrooms, separate the defects, and divide the defects by the total weight of the sample to determine your percentage of defects. In the image above, you would your sample would be the entire consumer container.
But what would you do if you were inspecting a bulk carton of mushrooms, such as this 10lbs. container pictured above? You would not have to sample the entire container, but you would simply weigh out 1 pound of mushrooms, and this would be one of your samples. The USDA requires all their inspectors to base their samples on a weight basis, but many industry inspectors in their warehouses will simply count out 50 mushrooms and base their sample on a count basis. If they found 4 mushrooms damaged by discoloration, based on a 50 count sample, they would record 8% damage by discoloration.
How can one identify discoloration? The guide is so vague. Also is there a mushroom standard for maitake, shiitake, oyster, enoki?
What causes the yellowing on caps of oysters and is that discoloration a?
what is defined as discoloration? the standard is so vague?
USDA guide references "Total defects, including 5%" but other tolerances like Open Veils is 10%. So does 5 % of anything not an open veil or sizing or decay fail to grade?
Discoloration is a subjective defect. It will be darker in color, due to dehydration from age, or from bruising or abrasions from rough handling. Score as a defect when materially affecting the appearance. If you find more than 10% with open veils the mushrooms fail to grade. Any other defects, including decay, when exceeding 5% will fail to grade.


People with diabetes can have up to a 25% lifetime risk of developing a DFU, largely because of diabetes related peripheral neuropathy and arterial disease, or both. Unless quickly diagnosed and treated, these diabetic foot ulcer infections can lead to substantial morbidity, including amputation; patients with a DFU that is infected have a 55-fold increased risk of hospitalisation, and a 154-fold increase in lower extremity amputation when compared to those with an uninfected DFU. Thus, any patient with a DFU has an assessment for symptoms or signs of infection at initial presentation and as well as at each subsequent visit.
Current best practice recommends that this assessment includes a thorough history and physical examination to detect (or monitor) pain, tenderness, fever, purulent exudate, redness, warmth, induration, foul odour and visible or palpable bone. When infection of a DFU is suspected, practitioners take three actions: 1) obtain specimens from the ulcer for microbiological tests; 2) initiate protocol-based (usually broad-spectrum) empiric antibiotic therapy; and, 3) reassess the antibiotic regimen, and change if necessary, when the culture and susceptibility results are available. Previous systematic review of the performance of clinical assessment for the identification of infection did not confirm the power of individual clinical signs (in the diabetic foot ulcer population), and found no clear evidence regarding the optimal method for ulcer sampling, prompting research in this area.
This presentation will describe the journey from questioning the methods of 'identifying infection' in diabetic foot ulcers by systematic review of the evidence base, through a large, HTA funded study of the agreement between ulcer sampling using tissue swabs and tissue samples, and describe planned work to test, for the first time, the impact of sampling methods upon clinical management and clinical outcomes in a large randomised trial. It will also describe the way in which research is assessing both potential benefits and pitfalls associated with molecular testing techniques, which use genetic fingerprints of bacterial DNA, rather than growing bacteria in the laboratory / on a Petri dish, to determine the bacterial growth in an ulcer.
This work is intended to ultimately provide clinicians with better information to tailor the antibiotics prescribed (and their duration) using different sampling or processing techniques, whilst avoiding both under treatment with potential impact on ulcer healing, and over-treatment, with associated increase in antimicrobial resistance in bacteria – a catastrophic threat to health.
1.	1 in 4 people with diabetes will develop a foot ulcer, most of which are infected. This infection may delay healing and cause more damage to the foot, and spread further. It is important to balance between the risks of over-treatment and under-treatment with antibiotics, to ensure antibiotic resistance doesn't increase. The ways we assess foot ulcer for infection haven't previously been tested in large, reliable studies to see if the signs of infection are fool-proof.
2.	Until recently we haven't had robust evidence to guide clinicians in how to collect samples for the microbiology laboratory, for example tissue swab, or piece of ulcer tissue. Research performed by our team has established the differences between tissue sampling and swabbing foot ulcers for microbiology, demonstrating the increased information obtained from tissue samples over swabs.
3.	We are now planning to investigate whether increased information on the bacteria in a wound makes any impact on management and clinical outcomes. We are also looking at the potential for genetic fingerprinting of bacteria to replace traditional culture techniques, using virtual clinics and qualitative methods.


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Craig Settles and Sean Gonsalves: Telehealth For All is a 'Stroke of Genius'
Without access to a secure broadband connection, the co-author of this Expert Opinion would have died.
Craig Settles (left) and Sean Gonsalves are the authors of this Expert Opinion.
My colleague Craig Settles likes to say he had a "stroke of genius" when writing his last book about building the gigabit city. "I literally had an ischemic stroke at 10:30 p.m. on a Saturday night," he recalls. "If I had been in a low-income urban community with poor communication infrastructure, or in a rural area with bad broadband, I'd probably be dead."
The "genius" part was realizing broadband is magic that directly or indirectly enables us to perform minor and major miracles that we could not do before, but faster and easier.
When Craig moved to Alameda, California, situated less than five miles from the heart of Silicon Valley, he could not get cell service without a signal booster, and even then it was sketchy. Several years later the service was better, which allowed him to speed-dial his best friend who called 9-1-1.
The neurologist who set up the stroke center in Alameda Hospital had mirrored much of its technology and servers in her home so she could see everything the ER staff was seeing as they administered life-saving procedures within 25 minutes of Craig's gurney hitting the ER door.
While Craig counts his blessings, over 14 million urban households do not have broadband in their home – 75 percent of whom are African American and other people of color. Millions more technically have home Internet service but don't have the connection speeds and capacity to use the applications needed for remote work and school, or telehealth.
And don't forget the 4 million rural homes that do not have broadband subscriptions.
Broadband as Social Determinant of Health
The essential nature of broadband came to the fore with the onset of the pandemic. And it compelled states and local communities across the nation to take the connectivity crisis far more seriously, especially with the influx of federal funds from the American Rescue Plan Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
Although advocates commonly, and understandably, tout the importance of broadband access in the context of remote work and schooling, what often gets overlooked are the transformative powers of telehealth and its potential to drive broadband adoption.
It's no exaggeration to say that broadband is a major social determinant of individual health as it enables access to virtual healthcare and facilitates a host of other things critical to health, such as education, employment, housing, and social services, all of which require broadband, most especially for telehealth applications.
More than video chats with your doctor, telehealth uses high-speed Internet connectivity to observe, diagnose, initiate or otherwise medically intervene, administer, monitor, record, and/or report on the continuum of care. Public health, in particular, can leverage telehealth to a great advantage.
Yes, healthcare providers are increasingly integrating telehealth into the delivery of care. But, if the patients most in need of better access to healthcare do not have access to broadband, as well as computing devices and digital skills, tremendous healthcare benefits and cost-savings will be needlessly missed.
This suggests that "fiscally conservative" elected officials, many of whom claim to support universal access to broadband while lamenting the high cost of healthcare, have been thinking about this whole thing backwards. Instead of wailing about the cost of building universal robust broadband infrastructure that could be used for telehealth, why not flip the script?
Achieving universal broadband infrastructure that would last a lifetime would cost on the order of $100 billion, which is just two and a half percent of what we spend on healthcare in this country every single year. Hundreds of academic and industry studies say that even the most conservative telehealth initiatives save more than two and a half percent of system costs.
Talk about a return-on-investment! A hint of this can be seen in a study done by the National Center for Biotechnology Information which found there were as many as 3.5 million potential preventable adult inpatient hospital stays in 2017 alone. That amounted to $33.7 billion in health care costs just for that year.
Telehealth can eliminate many of those stays. And in terms of improving health outcomes, the study further found that the elderly, men, Black communities, and those insured with Medicaid would reap the biggest benefits.
So why not exploit the math, and pay for broadband using healthcare savings? Let's connect every home, hospital, and community anchor institution in the country to robust broadband, and transform healthcare while bringing it into the 21st century. The municipal broadband model in which local communities build and own the infrastructure is ideal.
Telehealth Can Drive Broadband Adoption
Looking at it this way, universal access to telehealth has the potential to simultaneously solve the connectivity crisis and ensure that millions of families can lead healthier lives.
Here are six tactical ways of using telehealth to maximize public health in a community along with increasing broadband adoption.
Re-inventing the doctor's office visit for a variety of healthcare practices
Understanding telehealth, all you need are four walls, an Internet connection, a computer, a healthcare partner, and a healthy imagination to create a range of practical telehealth solutions.
Transform barbershops and hair salons into Covid vaccination and hypertension screening centers. The school nurse's office can now become school telehealth centers. Libraries are starting to add telehealth kiosks.
Libraries Without Borders uses interactive Web health content, laptops, and wireless gear to outfit intercity laundromats on Saturdays. Tucson used ARPA funds to build out a wireless network on top of the city's fiber infrastructure and gave 5,000 low-income homes the ability to have telehealth resources.
Telehealth can marry chronic healthcare, home care, and public health
Frederick Memorial now distributes hundreds of tablet computers for remote patient monitoring in patients homes to check their vital signs, changing medical conditions and treatments, with data that goes to the hospital daily.
Urban hospitals should partner with ISPs to leverage the FCC's Affordable Connectivity Program subsidy of up to $30 per month for Internet service and up to $75/month for households on Tribal lands. ACP also offers a $100 discount on computing devices.
Enhance the emergency response and Emergency Department to save more lives and money.
African Americans and other populations of color have the highest rates of strokes, heart attacks, and other medical trauma. We could reverse the trend of hospitals that abandon poor urban communities and replace them with city telestroke or telehealth critical care "broadband subnetworks" that are hosted by major hospitals and linked to Federally Qualified Health Center, clinics, and other facilities.
Expand efficiency of mental healthcare delivery
Mental health professionals getting to see patients in their homes and therefore providing an alternative to needing to go to a therapist's office can not only eliminate no-show appointments but can provide those most in need of therapy with broader access to a variety of specialists.
Leveraging telehealth can be especially empowering for underserved communities in which approximately 30% of African American adults with mental illness receive treatment each year, compared to the U.S. average of 43%, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
But as Carly McCord, Director of Clinical Services at the Texas A&M Telehealth Counseling Clinic, rightly points out: "Often we're talking about intensive therapy, like treating PTSD, which you can't do with crappy Internet connections. When your patient's disclosing a trauma and your connection glitches, or you miss a word and have to say, 'I'm sorry. Can you repeat that? 'This is a huge problem."
Improving senior care and facilitating aging in place for our nearly 60 million seniors
Three-in-four older Americans want to stay in their homes and age in place, according to a AARP survey. And, if offered a choice, about 53 percent of respondents say they would prefer to have their health care needs managed by a mix of medical staff and healthcare technology.
A key broadband element in this telehealth equation is "smart home" technologies that include wirelessly-controlled sensors. Some sensors now can determine whether a person sat up in bed or actually fell on the floor, if patients are eating regularly, or if they are taking their medications on time.
Re-imagining what hospital care can be
In areas prone to natural disasters, make prior arrangements with hotels, college dorms, warehouses, and other facilities where you can bring in generators, computers, telehealth equipment, and wireless intranets.
Use these buildings for seniors with health conditions who have been displaced: people with chronic illnesses and patients with non-serious injuries from the disaster should those people not have easy access to other residential or healthcare facilities.
Building and subsidizing access to robust community-owned broadband networks is a wise investment because it will improve health outcomes and return significant community savings for decades to come.
And with a flood of federal funds available to build broadband infrastructure and advance digital equity, we have a once-in-a-life opportunity to stitch this all together and deliver telehealth for all.
Sean Gonsalves is a Senior Reporter, Editor and Communication Team Lead for the Institute for Local Self Reliance's Community Broadband Networks Initiative. Saved from a stroke by telehealth, Craig Settles pays it forward by uniting community broadband teams and healthcare stakeholders through telehealth-broadband integration initiatives. This piece is exclusive to Broadband Breakfast.
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Cancer remains the leading cause of death by disease among children in the United States.
raising awareness and funds is critical!
The gold ribbon is a symbol of childhood cancer awareness.
When will it be as universally recognized as the pink ribbon.
The National Cancer Institute's (NCI) federal budget was $4.6 billion.
all 12 major groups of pediatric cancers combined received less than 3%.
I express honest gratefulness for your unfailing assitance, nevertheless more significantly, for our alliance.
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Wolverhampton Wanderers manager Nuno Espirito Santo. Photo by Michael Regan/Getty Images.
Wolves are enjoying a fantastic campaign.
Not only are the side from the Midlands currently seventh place in the Premier League table after only winning promotion last season, but they are also in the FA Cup semi-finals this weekend.
Nuno Espirito Santo's side faces Watford at Wembley on Sunday afternoon for the chance to make it to the FA Cup final.
Nuno Espirito Santo during his time coaching Valencia was regarded as one of the best young tactical coaches in the Spanish top-flight. However, a poor run of results saw the Mozambique-born coach exit Los Ches.
A move to a second-tier team in England did not seem an obvious one. However, in Wolves, he found an infrastructure where he could thrive. The club's hierarchy were and are fiercely ambitious and backed the team's boss heavily in the transfer market.
A mixture of his tactical nous and clever recruitment has seen Wolves become an exciting team to watch. The permanent signing of loan star Raul Jimenez for a club record fee of around £30million on Thursday once again showed the clubs determination to become a real force once again.
Wolves recruitment has been the key to their success in recent seasons. The club from the Midlands has recruited players with not just talent, but the right sort character. These players have fitted in with Espirito Santo's football philosophy perfectly.
Making the FA Cup final would be a bonus this season. The real sign of improvement has however been their performances in the top-flight. If the team from the Midlands finish in seventh place or even the top half of the table, they have built solid foundations to move forward in future campaigns.
This season will only get better if Wolves win the FA Cup. Even without a trophy, everybody connected with their team could not have wished for a better campaign.
Will Wolves be a threat to the Premier League top six next season?


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The NY Times published this ad?
Posted on March 20, 2016 by Andrei Martyanov
"Today the New York Times printed a full-page ad telling Hillary Clinton she has to reject her adviser Sidney Blumenthal and his allegedly anti-semitic son Max, because of Max Blumenthal's tremendous book on Israel's militant rightwing political culture, Goliath. The ad on page A7 was paid for by Shmuley Boteach, who has gotten tons of money from Sheldon Adelson. It concludes that Clinton is asking friends of Israel to count on her support for the always-vulnerable Jewish State. If she won't dissociate herself from her discredited advisor Sid Blumenthal and his rabid, Israel-hating son Max how can we?" Mondoweiss
Here you have a perfect example of the efforts of Revisionist Zionist Jabotinskyites to suppress dissent from their extremist views and control the narrative of the larger world's discussion of Israeli policies and politics.
In the interest of full disclosure – I wrote a jacket blurb for "Goliath." It is a fine book. I recommend it highly.
Tell me, pilgrims, how is it that Sidney Blumenthal has been "discredited?" He is discredited for having given his friend HC advice? Was he responsible for the way she and her staff chose to disseminate that advice? He did not work at the State Department. They did. pl
http://mondoweiss.net/2016/03/nyt-finally-mentions-goliath-in-rightwing-ad-smearing-max-blumenthal/
http://www.amazon.com/Goliath-Life-Loathing-Greater-Israel/dp/1568589514
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisionist_Zionism
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40 Responses to The NY Times published this ad?
oofda says:
Boteach is a piece of work indeed- this isn't the first time he has put an ad in the NYT criticizing those he deems unhelpful to Israel and the settlements- previously against Susan Rice. He once ran for Congress aas an R from NJ- and lost. He also was the 'spiritual adviser' to Michael Jackson- whatever that meant. He was given a lifetime ban by the Lubavitchers for his book "Kosher Jesus." A celebrity clergyman, so not sure what weight his ad will carry.
Again a sign of what the "newspaper of record" has become.
Robert C says:
Sheesh..I'd actually consider donating to HRC if I thought Max was an advisor. Sigh.
Robert C
alba etie says:
The Grey Lady has truly become Pravada on the Hudson . Adelsen with all of his Macau gambling money is a clear and present danger to the These Umited Styates and our Way of Life. A pox on all of those geniuses that say Corporations are people & that Citizen's United is a good decision from SCOTUS .
alba etie
Probably ought get my bifocals checked meant "These United States "
alba etie,
if I may pick this apart:
"A pox on all of those geniuses that say Corporations are people …"
Over here, to the extend I am familiar with law, it seems to make sense, at least in the larger legal structure framework. Someone has to be responsible? There are related paragraphs. Admittedly I have no idea about the history neither here in Germany or on a comparative level. But I would assume matters are related on that level.
The question is, to what extend the respective corporation's" ultimate deciders, considered legally, have to pay the price, is a different matter versus the ordinary employees.
I would like to disentangle this from "Citizen United" versus the US. Legally you take what you can, to make your political point. Citizen united is not a ordinary corporation, but a "conservative non-profit organization". A non-profit is only one item in the larger legal structure, no doubt not only over here.
But yes, as you know, I am only a curious nitwit. 😉
William R. Cumming says:
Just so you know in the United States itis the State governments that authoriz3e the creation of corporations, not the federal government. The real party at interest in forming the corporation never required to be disclosed. And the "citizens" have one accounting system for securities regulation and stock list and another for tax purposes. Never the Twain Shall Meet.
Disclosure: My Vacation Lane Group, Inc. created under a little known provision of Virginia law and a non-profit, but not exempt for any purposes from federal, state, or local taxes.
But a huge portion of the U.S. GDP protected from taxes by formal tax exempt status including political super-PACs.
The add is a clever ploy to increase Hillary's support within the opposition to Israeli firsters circle of voters and the US population at large, who are less familiar with detailed MENA matters….
Yes, there few businesses as profitable to the managers as "not for profit" businesses. Ask the two men who were just fired as CEO and COO of Wounded Warrior. And in Virginia the officers of a non-profit can not be held liable unless malfeasance can be proved. pl
I don't believe that for a minute. It is what it seems. pl
"He was given a lifetime ban by the Lubavitchers for his book "Kosher Jesus.""
That is good to know. A Sephardi friend from Jerusalem said of all the chasidim he respected the Lubavitchers because they had day jobs.
Leander,
He is also a best buddy of Ihor Kolomoyskyi who happened to be the civil aviation authority when a commercial airliner was tragically lost over a country's conflict zone. Also threw a celebration dinner when Fawning Entourage Fangirl Sammy was coronated … err confirmed to her UN post. Pieces to a dark puzzle seem to be coming together.
There is nothing more eye opening to westerners than reading an Israeli paper for the first time. I imagine it would be even more so for Americans considering how badly Israelis despise Americans.
Israel's problem these days is picking the right horse. And their inability to pick the right horse comes from their incredible stupidity in discovering their best interest. Why?
In part it may arise from the fact that Israel is a theocracy. There was an "extremely heart wrenching" story in the Times recently about a gay Iranian man who fled to Israel on account of his sexual orientation, an article that was undoubtedly written and published on account of its propaganda value. Well, this individual must also have been a stupid, gay Iranian man, because gays have essentially no rights whatsoever in Israel. They are openly condemned by the the leadership of Likud, and do not stand a chance of having equal protection under the law.
There is no separation of church and state in Israel, and that simply is not compatible with the traditions and laws of the United States, no matter what Cruz and Rubio say.
David Habakkuk says:
If I may 'come out' with an old-fashioned British prejudice. Sometimes we were inclined to think that Americans took over from the Germans a propensity to be unduly impressed by PhDs – and also were excessively inclined to think that an ability to make money was normally correlated with other aptitudes.
(Almost all of this is in the past now – these days we are just as impressed by imbecile billionaires as you are.)
However, the sheer stupidity of American Zionists still baffles me.
The suggestion that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism has to entail one of two assertions.
It can be taken to mean that all or most of those who criticise Israel do so because they hate Jews. As applied to Britain, this is quite palpable nonsense. Actually, a lot of the people of regard Netanyahu as appalling are the children of those who were appalled by Kristallnacht. This is metaphorically so in some cases, literally so in mine.
The only possible alternative interpretation is that the statement is definitionally true. What this implies is that – as Michael Oren among so many others contends – that Jews are a 'people' having a common 'destiny' and 'story'.
But if this is the case, then some of the things said by old-fashioned British anti-Semites were right. Clearly, nobody who is a Jew in Oren's sense can expect to be seen as unequivocally loyal to any other country.
In this sense, of course, the true, authentic, Jews are the likes of Netanyahu, Sheldon Adelson, Haim Saban, Robert Kagan, Jeffrey Goldberg, David Brooks … or indeed Rabbi Boteach.
How can any rational 'goy' not think that such people have far too much power, and abuse it?
Fanatics all look alike. Hard to tell them apart.
There is a useful parallel with the Irish. When my grandfather was growing up, the Irish were referred to as "Turks" and actively discriminated against. When Al Smith lost to Herbert Hoover in 1928, the joke was that he sent a telegram to the Pope, "Unpack".
Of course, that changed. My grandfather voted for JFK. I believe it still helps to be Irish in many walks of life, walks of life in which the Irish may very well have too much power.
And the parallel runs deeper. American Irish took up the cause of the IRA. Collected money for them, etc. The twenty-six counties were Israel, and the six counties the Arab world. All on account of religion.
I don't begrudge the Irish their success in the United States, but supporting murderers and despots overseas on religious grounds is well beyond the pale. The difference between the Irish and the Jews is the extent to which Israel seems to believe that it should control American Foreign Policy.
There is an AIPAC Policy conference going on in DC at the Convention center this Sunday until Tuesday
All the usual suspects will be attending or speaking:
http://www.aipac.org/
I understand the presence of some canucks, especially John Baird who is more loyal to Israel than Canada , that of Tony Clement for Conservative leadership bid as well as Helen Lariviere who may want to replace Mulclair if he gets booted out in Edmonton in a few weeks, but I am surprised to see some Europeans, Australians even Africans . The Web is really expanding.
Until jews in America start repudiating the Likudniks they will continue to have the lock on the perception that they truly represent the Jewish cause whatever that may be.
For some time the Likudniks through AIPAC and other organizations as well as the big money from folks like Sheldon Adelson and others have controlled the narrative in our media and politics. The fact that Netanyahu could thumb his nose at the President and given a rapturous welcome by Congress says it all.
Now, we have Trump going to address the AIPAC conference. Let's see what he says. Would he reinforce what he said at the last debate or fawn all over them? We know what Rubio and Cruz and Hillary have said. You know its a given that any successful mainstream American politician must swear fealty to Israel to be considered a serious candidate. That shows how deep the capture is. To Bernie's credit he will not speak at the AIPAC conference. But….he will get a pass since he's not expected to win the Democrat nomination.
The Blumenthals have done everything they could to repudiate the Likudniks… pl
robt willmann says:
During the last few days, I have started to think that the Department of Justice will not seek a criminal charge against Hillary Clinton for her e-mail activity, regardless of whether some Zionists would like to stop her campaign. The main reason is that president Obama has recently been asking political donors to contribute to her race for the nomination of the Democratic Party–
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/03/obama-bernie-sanders-clinton-private-donors
Obama is a person who, with a somewhat murky background, was promoted and brought along by political operators and donors, and fairly quickly became the president. During the 2008 election campaign in the fall, when the financial system's problems blew up, Obama openly said about the awful TARP bailout legislation, "This bill must pass". Despite obvious criminal fraud all over the place, not one executive of a large bank or financial company has been charged with a crime by the Obama administration since it began in 2009. I expect that none will be. Financial companies are large contributors to Hillary's campaign.
It is my opinion that when it comes to Democratic Party politics, Obama will do what he is told to do. Since Bill Clinton signed into law the legal changes that allowed financial and media company mergers, and repealed the Glass-Steagall Act, the repeal of which allowed a lot of money-making misconduct to occur, the financial operators will want Hillary to remain in the presidential race. Obama has not disappointed the bank and financial frauders, and their desires will override those of any persons opposing Hillary because of her suspected attitudes about Israel–
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/08/dodd-frank-versus-glass-steagall-how-do-they-compare/
"A curious nit-wit…"
Seen so many times you make this statement.
My conclusion: You think that we are intellectually inferior to you.
Mussolini actually tried to create a parliamentary system in which "corporations could be heard. It failed miserably.
Until Protestant Christians are truly and thoroughly are disabused of their funny notions about Ancient Israel and their own relationship with it nothing will change.
We are not, in my opinion, not even at the beginning of that beginning.
In the meantime, there is a multi-religious war that is being waged.
It is not just the Likdudniks – a new phenomenon in any case – but the bulk of Jews who intensely and emotionally identify with the State of Israel.
Alfred Lilienthal was opposing that crowd long before the Likud – starting in 1950.
But this – however new – religion of Shoah cannot be combatted by any rational or emotional argument.
Like the Jihadists of ISIS, its failure would have to be established on the field of battle; in my opinion.
gemini33 says:
Max is at an AIPAC protest today and he put out a lot of info, videos, etc. on Twitter and also at the Real News website.
http://therealnews.com
https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal
Nit pick away from afar if you must – corporations are not people & campaign funding from unregulated sources for unlimited amount is a clear & present danger to our elections in These United States ..
This is the other side of the coin. It would be possible to believe that just as the anti-Syrian alliance (because that's what they are, a group that wants Syria to cease to exist) is going down to defeat, that the "leadership" of the Republican Party is going down to defeat as well. Symmetry.
"Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh bucked the GOP establishment Sunday and declared there is "a much bigger upside than downside" to Donald Trump winning the Republican presidential nomination.
"I think with the case of Trump, there's a much bigger upside than downside," Mr. Limbaugh said in an interview on "Fox News Sunday."
The praise from the king of conservative talk radio came as the Republican establishment launched a massive offensive to derail the front-runner, including a scathing denouncement of Mr. Trump last week from 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
Mr. Limbaugh said that despite the outrage GOP leaders have directed at Mr. Trump, the billionaire businessman and reality TV star had assembled the broad coalition of voters that the Republican establishment has long sought.
"There is something remarkable happening here," Mr. Limbaugh said. "For the longest time the Republican Party has told us that they can't win with just Republican votes. And that's why they support amnesty, that's why they support Democrats on many of their issues to go out and get Hispanics or other minorities. And guess who's doing it? Donald Trump is doing it."
"He has put together a coalition that is exactly what the Republican Party says it needs to win. And yet, look what they are doing, they are trying to get Trump out of the race because they are not in charge of it," he said."
Jackrabbit says:
"… he will get a pass since he's not expected to win the Democrat nomination."
Or maybe he gets a pass because he is jewish and lived on a Kibbutz when he was young. They already know where his loyalty lies.
Or maybe doesn't feel that it's necessary since he doesn't WANT to win. Maybe he is a 'sheepdog' as described by Black Agenda Report soon after he announced his candidacy – leading young idealists into the Democratic Party and away from a third party.
Sanders SAYS that the race is close if you count delegates won by voting but the media don't cover him anymore because they count total delegates (including Super-delegates). This greatly advantages Hillary. So where are the protests against MSM? Instead, protesters direct their rage against Trump.
And how is it that 'populist' Sanders allows Hillary to paint herself as the 'fighter' ("I've been fighting for >insert demographic/cause< my whole life", she says)? Sanders talks about his differences with Hillary but he never makes her character an issue. As a Democratic Party partisan and "friend to many of the top Democrats (Obama, Hillary, Schumer, etc.), he just won't go there. The contrast with Trump is striking (not to say that Sanders should be as caustic).
jackrabbit
"They already know where his loyalty lies." I suppose you explain his abstention from an AIPAC convention speech as part of the plot? pl
Thanks for pointing that out. The "corporations aren't people" meme has great superficial appeal, but there are very serious implications of limiting constitutional protections to individuals. It would essentially mean that such protections are surrendered whenever there is a group that gathers for any chartered purpose, be it economic, service, or political. If somebody wanted to use government power against political opponents or business competitors, there would be very little recourse.
For a different point of view than kowtowing at AIPAC, the real news network hosts video of a conference on Israel's Influence, the following link is to Larry Wilkerson's talk, but there are about a dozen talks.
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=15925
Ulenspiegel says:
"Sometimes we were inclined to think that Americans took over from the Germans a propensity to be unduly impressed by PhDs"
That is an incorrect observation. In many German regions it was considered braggy to have a Dr. before your name in the telephone book. 🙂
If you really want to get the most prestige out of a PhD visit Austria. 🙂
pantaraxia says:
"The suggestion that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism has to entail one of two assertions"
Irrespective of these assertions, this conflation has proven to be quite effective on a tactical level as a tool for harassing and silencing those who dare to counter the narrative the Zionists have carefully crafted in MSM. The coordinated assault on the BDS movement is but the latest example. The utilization of this false equivalency has been used as justification by most western governments to pass legislation severely restricting or, as in the case of France, actually criminalizing the BDS movement.
In the U.S. this suppression is especially intense at the university level and has reached levels that can only be described as hysterical.. Recently "the New York State Senate has voted to slash $485 million in funding to senior colleges in the City University of New York system to "send a message" that not done enough to fight campus anti-Semitism.". On the west coast Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her husband have been putting intense pressure on the University of California to formally ban various forms of Israel criticism and anti-Israel activism. as a way of fighting anti-semitism.
( Just out of curiosity, how would you characterize Feinstein in light of this action. She does not seem to be overtly Zionist, yet if her actions are representative of Jewish-Americans then the whole Zionism/jewish equivalency is quite murky indeed.)
By the way what is happening on your side of the pond. Over the weekend the Guardian has published numerous articles regarding anti-Semitism, from Blair's benefactor, Lord Levy to op-eds by Freeland and Cohen (who actually titled his article: "Why I'm becoming a Jew and why you should, too"). Is this simply an all-out assault on Corbyn or is this part of some wider strategy involving the anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism theme.
Well, that is how it is with prejudices, Ulenspiegel. No?
Austria seemed a bit extreme with titles, I have to admit, from our own limited perspective. On the other hand I have no idea about it today. I always wondered how it could have been related to the: "Wiener Schmäh"… to not follow other meanderings …
For whatever reason, it reminds me of a former neighbor, an elder lady apparently suffering from Alzheimer in her latest days around here. Before I took care something happened, admittedly. Everyone addressed her with "Dr.", Phd, for non Germans, although strictly it was only her husband who had been the local dentist around here long before I moved in. 😉
Concerning our dear David, I never like Oxfordian English. 😉
"That's why I believe we must take our alliance to the next level. I hope a new 10-year defense memorandum of understanding is concluded as soon as possible to meet Israel's security needs far into the future.
CLINTON: That will also send a clear message to Israel's enemies that the United States and Israel stand together united.
It's also why, as president, I will make a firm commitment to ensure Israel maintains its qualitative military edge."
SoS Clinton at AIPAC:
http://time.com/4265947/hillary-clinton-aipac-speech-transcript/
Thanks for the laugh.
The triumphal march at AIPAC today as Trump, Clinton, Ryan, and Trump fawn and kiss the Zionist ring clearly proves there will never be peace in the Middle East and that the U.S. will be forever attacked and hated as the blood enemy of the great majority of those who inhabit the region. The clear consensus of all who will be in power in the U.S. for years to come sends a clear message to Israel's enemies that the United States and Israel stand together united in the destruction of those who follow Islam. The dedication of Jerusalem as the "eternal" capitol of the "Jewish State" confirms that the U.S. will never support peace, only extermination and exile of the Palestinians to expand a Jewish State without bounds. In their boundless enthusiasm to court the Zionists, our candidates in both parties have declared war eternal. It is completely ironic that those who suffered the Holocaust would blindly seek to impose another extermination on the Palestinian people in their midst and that the American People would cheer in approval. Unless it can figure out how it can grant some grace and justice to its minority within its polity and make accommodation with its neighbors, Israel is simply doomed in the long run.
None of this will end well.
pantaraxia
It is quite difficult to get a 'handle' on what precisely is happening, because key attitudes – and in particular key changes in attitudes – are commonly only very imperfectly articulated.
But, to take a 'sighting shot'.
1. The responses of Jonathan Freedland, Nick Cohen, and Lord Levy illustrate to my mind an element of panic. In part, this arises out of a realisation that the 'secular cult of the Shoah' – to use Babak Makkinejad's phrase – is, as it were, becoming 'Sovietised'. (When Commissar Foxman denounces you, you quake in your shoes because your job prospects, hopes of a political career etc, may suffer – the moral force of the accusation has largely been dissipated by its promiscuous overuse.)
2. As has become clear to me, the sense is deeply ingrained in many Zionists that there is some deep well of utterly irrational Judeophobia in the 'goyim', waiting to re-emerge. Clearly, in some of the nastier sections of the Left – and elsewhere – anti-Zionism can tip over into very unpleasant forms of traditional anti-Semitism. So in part the weakening force of the 'cult of the Shoah' does simply allow 'skeletons in the cupboard' to reappear.
3. However, in thinking this is the most significant change, Zionists are choosing to live in a fool's paradise. Last month, a piece entitled 'The left's problem with Jews has a long and miserable history' by the historian Simon Schama was published in the FT.
An extract:
'Growing up in London in the shadow of world war two my pals and I talked about who might be the bad guys, should evil come our way. We agreed the Jew-haters would not wear brown shirts and jackboots but would probably be like people on the bus. It is not the golf club nose-holders we have to worry about now; it is those who, in their indignation at the sufferings visited on the Palestinians, and their indifference to almost-daily stabbings in the streets of Israel, have discovered the excitement of saying the unspeakable, making hay with history, so Israel is the new reich, and a military attack on Gaza indistinguishable from the industrially processed incineration of millions.'
(See https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/4791ez/the_lefts_problem_with_jews_has_a_long_and/ .)
4. Actually, in Britain in the 'Fifties and 'Sixties practically everybody travelled 'on the bus' – I still do very frequently. So what Schama has actually told me is that he and his 'pals' went around assuming that normal 'goys' like myself could not really be trusted, but might at some point rediscover their inner Nazi and come for them.
But if this is what he and Jews like him really think about the 'people on the bus', then these would be rather naïve to trust them, would they not?
5. So Schama has actually characterised himself as suffering from what a very different kind of Jew, Gilad Atzmon, calls 'Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder'. In his account, the Book of Esther is a representative text. In Schama's terms, it is a story of how anticipations that 'evil' will come from 'Jew-haters' cause Jews to seek to manipulate those 'goyim' who hold power in Jewish interests.
(See http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/purim-special-from-esther-to-aipac-by-gilad-atzmon.html .)
Put simply, Atzmon – who is Israeli by birth – argues that such a conception of Jewish identify of its nature could never provide the basis for a viable Israeli identity, and is inherently likely to turn its fears of anti-Semitism into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
6. For most of my life, I would have regarded the kind of views expressed by Atzmon as delusional. However, events since the turn of the century have been progressively changing my view.
I think it was 'Croesus' who linked to an essay published last month in 'Commentary' magazine by the Israeli scholar Yoram Hazony on the Book of Esther, which was entitled 'Mordecai's Challenge: An Essay on War, Leadership, and Purim'.
Its analysis of text concludes:
'Men are killed because they had been planning to murder the Jews, and as a preemption against future threats. The fact that this is understood by the Jews to be the sole motive raises their warfare to a level of purity much higher than that of Haman, and higher too than that which had been practiced by their forebears in the time of Saul.
'It is for this reason that rabbinic tradition refers to Mordecai as "the righteous": because in successfully raising Jewish military action to a higher level of purity relative to the fearsome acts required by the politics and warfare of his place and time, he provided the kind of political leadership for which the Jews should hope in every generation.'
(See https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/mordecais-challenge-essay-war-leadership-purim/ .)
7. I think by this point, Atzmon might well be inclined to say – 'I rest my case.'
Indeed, I do not think I have seen another text which brings out so well the undertones of a deeply corrupt – indeed antinomian – crusade in what Zionism has become. It is also a profoundly stupid text, in that the kind of graduate-school Machiavellianism it expounds quite patently will not provide a secure basis for the long-term survival of a Jewish settler state in the Middle East.
(Whether anything could is, of course, a relevant question. But that is one of the dangers: the apocalyptic mentality not uncommonly found in Zionists may reflect an underlying awareness that their enterprise is doomed to fail.)
8. A problem with Machiavellianism is that it can end up making one the object of distrust, and even on occasion excessive or unjustified distrust – as indeed that great devotee of 'The Prince', Joseph Stalin, found.
Obviously, the 'people on the bus' in Britain do not read 'Commentary'. But a real problem which people like Jonathan Freedland, Nick Cohen, Lord Levy, and Simon Schama face is that – after the foreign policy catastrophes of the past years – people have been beginning to look at them and ask whether they belong to a 'people' whose interests and concerns are different from that of the British 'people'.
9. And this need have nothing at all to do with any kind of traditional anti-Semitism. Indeed, it can not uncommonly be found among people – like myself – who have had close Jewish friends and colleagues all our lives, and are intensely aware of the immense debt which British society owes to Jewish refugees from the disasters of twentieth-century history.
No, Babak.
"A pox on all of those geniuses that say Corporations are people & that Citizen's United is a good decision from SCOTUS."
First, I agree with Alba Etie on Citizen United. Does it help to say: sorry, alba?
But it also reminds me of a series of matters I have no clue about, (but still babble?) but should strictly know more about to form a solid judgement.
And yes, there is much more, I miss knowledge to form a solid judgment on, then matters I actually may be able to within limits. Among them is: limited knowledge in economics, limited knowledge in law. Both ours, the EU's and others, e.g. US law. No doubt interest though. Thus: curious nitwit. 😉
In a nutshell, top-of-head-wise:
International: NGO's seem to come under attack as potential government agents recently, mainly maybe in countries that have some type of political troubles with the NGO's "national" home. They may well partly be. On the other hand the basic idea of an NGO seems to be some type of civilian interest articulation and its articulation in matters concerning the supporting group.
National: the basically rather unbiased legal structure, no doubt allows groups to change politics to your own advantage.
Again, I am no lawyer, how are you gonna handle this both nationally and on an international level.
Should we start to all monitor NGO's or should there be some type of basic framework we can agree on, e.g. on the UN level?
http://www.ngo-monitor.org/
NGO's and Russia? Restrictions in the Iran? Existing?
I agree, this special group shows it on national ground versus the usual international ground where it so far caught my attention.
See my comment to Babak.
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Author: Rainbow Rowell
Anka, Kris (2)
Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults (3)
Teens' Top Ten (3)
Rainbow Book List - Graphic Novels (2)
Rainbow Book List - Young Adult Fiction (1)
Michael L. Printz Award (1)
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By Rainbow Rowell
Simon Snow, the Chosen One, is supposed to be saving the world, but is instead aimlessly leaking magic and obsessing over his possibly murderous roommate, Baz. Morton captures the nuances of each character's speech with superb timing that accentuates this book's laugh aloud humor and tender pathos.
Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults 2016
Simon Snow just wants to have a normal(ish) last year at his magickal school, Watford, with his girlfriend Agatha and his best friend Penny. However, the Insidious Humdrum has other plans. On top of that, Simon's discovery that his probably-vampire roommate and definite nemesis, Baz, has gone missing is far more distracting than he would have expected.
Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016, Rainbow Book List - Young Adult Fiction 2016
Eleanor & Park
Two outsiders--awkward, redheaded Eleanor and quiet, half-Korean Park--fall in love in 1986 Omaha, reading comics, sharing mix tapes, and braving the wrath of Eleanor's terrifying stepfather. Lowman and Malhotra's tender narration captures the emotional highs and lows of this sophisticated tale of first love.
The year is 1986 when Eleanor arrives in town to live with her family and abusive step- father. It's been a year since the last time she lived with them, and she doesn't expect life to be any better. Park's life, on the other hand, is going steady. He's got a spot in the popular crowd and he's about to get his driver's license. But when the two meet on the bus, things change drastically. Even though they both know high school romances never last, they're going to try everything they've got to make it work. But in end, will everything they have be enough?
Best Fiction for Young Adults 2014, Michael L. Printz Award 2014, Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production 2014, Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2014, Teens' Top Ten 2014
Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits-smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.
Teens' Top Ten 2014
Writing fanfiction eases Cath's rocky transition to college life. Lowman's genuine characterization of anxiety-ridden Cath is complemented by Caulfield's magical narration of the story within the story.
As a college freshman, Cath struggles to find her place as she tries to balance her chaotic home life, her fan-fiction writing, and school, while discovering what life is like without her twin sister.
Best Fiction for Young Adults 2014, Outstanding Books for the College Bound and Lifelong Learners 2014
Runaways, Vol. 1: Find Your Way Home
By Rainbow Rowell, Kris Anka (Illustrator)
GET READY TO RUN! The "IT" book of the early 2000s with the original cast is back--Nico! Karolina! Molly! Chase! Old Lace! And, could it be...GERT?! The heart of the Runaways died years ago, but you won't believe how she returns! Superstar author Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor & Park, Carry On) makes her Marvel debut with fan-favorite artist Kris Anka (ALL-NEW X-MEN, CAPTAIN MARVEL) in the series that will shock you and break your heart! Did Chase and Gert's love survive their time apart? Have Karolina and Nico's feelings made their friendship impossible? What emotional landmines lie in wait to DESTROY the Runaways?!
Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2019, Rainbow Book List - Graphic Novels 2019
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Wayward Son (Simon Snow, #2)
Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after… So why can't Simon Snow get off the couch? What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of scenery. He just needs to see himself in a new light…That's how Simon, Penny, and Baz end up in a vintage convertible, tearing across the American West.


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Q: routes between components in react.js Hi I have react component like this with routes. When i go to localhost:8000 it loads the A component correctly but when i try localhost:8080/broute then its not working.
How can i make it working?
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One injury in Friday's car-tanker collision on West 26
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A tow-truck driver and four Wyoming State Troopers were at the scene of Friday's crash near Diversion Dam on Highway 26. The driver was injured and taken to a hospital for treatment. Photos by Ernie Over
A Dubois woman was injured after her late model Buick slammed into the pup trailer of a gasoline tanker Friday afternoon. The crash was reported on Highway 26 just east of the Diversion Dam Road west of Morton.
According to Wyoming Highway Patrol State Troopers on the scene, the weather was clear and the road was dry at the time of the crash. The highway was closed from its intersection with Highway 287 on the West and just west of Kinnear on the East, creating a lengthy detour around the site.
The truck driver was not injured. With a full load, the driver had to return to town to unload, and then return to pump the fuel from the damaged pup trailer. There was a minor leak of fuel following the crash, but no fire.
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Warner Bros. Smacked for Deceptive Video Game Promotions
Ryan Barber
The FTC reached a settlement with Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Inc. over allegations the company failed to clearly disclose that it paid online "influencers"—including the popular PewDiePie—for videos promoting "Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor," a video game loosely based on The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
As part of the late-2014 digital marketing campaign, Warner Bros. instructed the influencers to include a disclosure in the description box below the videos. But the disclosure was buried "below the fold" in the description box and only visible if viewers clicked the "show more" button, according to the FTC complaint. On social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, where the influencers were told to promote their YouTube videos, the posts did not include the "show more" button, according to the FTC.
"Consumers have the right to know if reviewers are providing their own opinions or paid sales pitches," said Jessica Rich, director of the FTC's consumer protection bureau. "Companies like Warner Brothers need to be straight with consumers in their online ad campaigns."
Read more: http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202762242943/Warner-Bros-Smacked-for-Deceptive-Video-Game-Promotions?slreturn=20160618113602