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Q: Spring data dynamic @Query based on params possible? I recently switched from JEE to Spring Boot and I'm loving it so far.
But I have run into a little issue. I have this method that fetches lazy references that used to look something like this:
public Foo getParentWithChildren(long id, boolean isFetchChild, boolean isFetchPets) {
    StringBuilder sql = new StringBuilder();
    sql.append("select DISTINCT(p) from Parent p");
    if(isFetchChild) {
        sql.append(" left join p.child c");
    } if(isFetchPets) {
        sql.append(" left join p.pets pts");
    }

    sql.append(" where p.id=:id");

    TypedQuery<Foo> query = em.createQuery(sql.toString(), Foo.class);
    query.setParameter("id", id);
    return query.getSingleResult();
}

Now with spring data and their awesome interfaces I would like to do something simlar using the @Query annotation on the interface instead of having to write a custom implementation. But is it possible to do something similar using only the interface.
The example below will obviously not work but I hope you understand what I am trying to acchieve
@Query("select distinct(p) from Parent p " +
        (fetchChild ? " left join p.child c" : "") +
        (fetchPets ? " left join p.pets pts" : "") +
        " where p.id=:id")
Foo getParentWithChildren(@Param("id") long id, @Param("fetchChild") boolean isFetchChild, @Param("fetchPets") boolean isFetchPets);

I something similar possible?

A: You can create multiple methods in your interface and use the EntityGraph functionality introduced in JPA 2.1 which Spring Data JPA supports in various ways:
http://docs.spring.io/spring-data/jpa/docs/1.11.0.RELEASE/reference/html/#jpa.entity-graph
public interface FooRepository extends JpaRepository<Foo, Long>{

    @EntityGraph(attributePaths = { "children" })
    @Query("select f from Foo f where f.id = :id")
    Foo getFooWithChildren(@Param("id") long id);

    @EntityGraph(attributePaths = { "pets" })
    @Query("select f from Foo f where f.id = :id")
    Foo getFooWithPets(@Param("id") long id);

    @EntityGraph(attributePaths = { "children", "pets" })
    @Query("select f from Foo f where f.id = :id")
    Foo getFooWithChildrenAndPets(@Param("id") long id);
}

One issue with this is you need to repeat the Query for each method. Being able to pass in the entity graphs as parameters to a query method would seem to be useful functionality missing from the Spring Data JPA module.
I raised at ticket for this some time ago but no update yet:
https://jira.spring.io/browse/DATAJPA-645?filter=-2
A link in an answer to this question Spring Data JPA And NamedEntityGraphs however suggests an extension at the below which allows us to do exactly this:
https://github.com/Cosium/spring-data-jpa-entity-graph
With this extension the code is simplified to:
public interface FooRepository extends JpaEntityGraphRepository<Foo, Long>{

}

and call it as:
Foo foo = fooRepository.findOne(1L,
               new DynamicEntityGraph(Arrays.asList({"children");

Foo foo = fooRepository.findOne(1L,
               new DynamicEntityGraph(Arrays.asList({"children", "pets"});


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Tirade vs UN exec has 'chilling effect' | Inquirer News
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Tirade vs UN exec has 'chilling effect'
By: Jaymee T. Gamil - Reporter / @jgamilINQ
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 07:10 AM September 02, 2017
UN Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard. INQUIRER file photo
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has warned that President Duterte's latest expletive-laden tirade against United Nations special rapporteur on summary executions Agnes Callamard may cause a "chilling effect" among human rights activists.
"The recent statement from the highest official of the land sends a chilling effect not only to Callamard, but also to human rights defenders who are just expressing their concerns over human rights violations related to the government's campaign against illegal drugs," the CHR said in a statement on Friday.
Duterte's tirades against Callamard, a staunch critic of the administration's war on drugs, was triggered by Callamard's social media posts condemning and seeking justice for the police-perpetrated killing of 17-year-old Kian delos Santos in Caloocan City.
In a series of tweets, Callamard said the National Bureau of Investigation's assessment that Delos Santos was summarily "executed" and "murdered" showed the "latest symbol of a massive, government-led, human rights crisis."
Callamard demanded that Delos Santos' death be the last in the bloody campaign.
During a press conference, an agitated Mr. Duterte responded: "Son of a bitch, tell her. Don't try to scare me. She's a fool."
CHR Commissioner Gwendolyn Pimentel-Gana explained that Callamard only wanted to remind the government "to ensure that these extrajudicial killings must stop."
"There is no reason to take it in a negative way," she said.
Pointing out that Callamard was French, Mr. Duterte had claimed—mistakenly—that in France, people are assumed guilty until proven innocent. The French Embassy, however, has corrected this. "As in the Philippines, the presumption of innocence until proven guilty is at the core of the French judicial system," the embassy said in a statement.
"The CHR reiterates that it supports the government's desire to end drug addiction and alleged drug-related activities in the Philippines, but it condemns the methods that the government is currently employing, such as illegal arrests and extrajudicial killings," the commission said in its statement.
Calling itself "the conscience of the government and the people," the CHR reiterated that the campaign against drugs is best addressed by addressing its root causes, "the social ills forcing people to drug abuse and drug addiction."
Meanwhile, Callamard, in a series of tweets on Wednesday, replied to Mr. Duterte's challenge for her to come to the Philippines by saying, "An official visit is not a vehicle for entertainment, theatrics or politicking."
"An official visit without respect for the victims, respect for the law, respect for due process would be unacceptable," Callamard said, reposting her statement in December, in which she rejected Mr. Duterte's conditions for her to be allowed to hold a fact-finding mission on the war on drugs, which included a public debate with the President.
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I tend to relate to a lot of people who fall under the "progressive" Christian category, probably moreso that most other categories in current use. I'm definitely not a fundamentalist, and am not a good fit in the contemporary evangelical category either (something which will be the subject of another post). I'm too conservative to be liberal, and too liberal to be conservative. And "moderate" is just too lukewarm-ish. Like I said, I tend to relate the most to people who fall into the progressive category, but unfortunately I don't belong there either.
The term "progressive" obviously comes from the root "progress," and I guess that's my issue. I simply reject the enlightenment notion of progress. A wise man once wrote, "There is nothing new under the sun." I tend to believe that assessment. While progressives may be moving on from the status quo (which is usually the remnants of the last progressive movement), I don't believe they are actually "progressing." Moving is not necessarily going forward, and not all evolution is a step forward.
Progressing implies improvement, or leveling-up, if you will. Each generations progressive movement has moved away from the status quo of its day, but it's debatable whether any such movement has actually moved forward, or if Christianity has actually gotten any better because of it. Luther's Evangelical movement (which I do identify with) did not claim to be progressing, but the goal was to actually regress (i.e. reform) to the gospel evident in the New Testament that had been lost in years of Western nonsense. As the Lewis quote above indicates, moving backwards can be progress from a certain point of view. But, nothing that Luther taught was new, at least intentionally. If a movement does, in fact, come up with something new and different, I would argue that it's not progressive, it's just possibly heretical.
There are some contemporary progressives which I think may be borderline heretics, having thrown out too many things with the bath water. Perhaps more importantly, I think there are more than a few non-progressive evangelicals who are possible heretics as well–at the very least, they are terribly mistaken about a number of things. Conservatives, for the most part, are those who hold on to yesterday's progressivism. The thing I like the most about those under the current progressive banner is that they are willing to toss out the heresies of the status quo evangelicals, and in the process discover some of the attitudes and truths that were expressed by Jesus and the early church. But as far as becoming "a new kind of Christian," that simply isn't happening.
Jesus, and Paul, perhaps, were the only true progressives in that the revelation of Jesus was a new understanding of something old. The Gospels, especially, are very progressive books, from Jesus' interpretations of the Old Testament to how he viewed people. Referring to the Law of Moses as "you have heard it said?" Refusing to judge sinners? Forgive, turn the other cheek? A Samaritan is your neighbor? Then, of course, there's Paul, breaking down racial, cultural and sexual barriers even further, and declaring the Law, for all practical purposes, dead. I suppose, in that sense, anyone who follows this radical gospel of grace and reconciliation is a progressive, in that Christianity is itself the only true progressive movement. Humanity has always been going to hell in a hand basket, and we're not any better or worse than at any prior age. However the New Covenant is the progression from the old, and sets the only way of true progress: redemption of creation and the full revelation of the Kingdom of Heaven. This is the only way of true progress. Apart from this, mankind has not progressed at all, in spite of science, technology and knowledge.
I really dislike labels, but understand why they are necessary, or at least convenient. "Postmodern" was a very unfortunate term, and "emerging" was even more so. Postmodernism was post-nothing, and you can only be emerging for a moment before you become the past. As hard as people try, we can't escape the past, or we risk following the flight path of Icarus. "Progressive" is somewhat unfortunate as it is a relative term; the challenge, it seems, is not defining "progressive," but rather to define what it is you're progressing from, and what you think you are progressing to.
I can't claim to be a progressive, because I am not sure that I am in fact progressing. I've thought I was many times in my past, and I've spent a great deal of time doubling-back to venture out in a new direction, hopefully just a tad bit wiser. But, the only thing I can be really sure of is that I'm probably wrong about a great many things.
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Conservationists ask, 'Is nuclear the way to go?'
by Anna Ikarashi on 23 January 2015
Scientists call for a 'non-prejudiced' judgment on nuclear power
Nuclear power at times faces antagonism from the environmental community, with opponents arguing that it produces harmful radioactive waste, leads to the proliferation of nuclear arms, and brings forth lethal disasters. Scientists from Australia say it's time to get past myths about nuclear; they suggest in a paper published in Conservation Biology that implementing nuclear power at a larger scale is a positive compromise for fulfilling both energy supply and conservation needs.
The average person in developed countries uses energy worth 3,200 tons of coal over their lifetimes, a mass equivalent to 800 elephants. Meeting the energy demands of modern standards of living and conserving biodiversity is a struggle because energy production involves carbon emissions, pollution, and land use change. These trigger the degradation and loss of habitat, which are two of the most prominent drivers of species loss.
Renewable energy is a "green" alternative to fossil fuels, but its installation can disturb habitat. For instance, hydroelectric plants alter aquatic systems, wind turbines require large land masses, and biofuels can be produced from agrarian areas cultivated at the expense of pristine forests.
"For the least direct harm to biodiversity, the best energy options are those that use the least amount of land and fresh water (in production or mining), minimize pollution (e.g., carbon dioxide, aerosols, heavy metals, and toxic chemicals), restrict habitat fragmentation, and have a low risk of accidents that have large and lasting regional impacts on natural areas," write authors Barry Brook and Corey Bradshaw. "Conservation-friendly energy sources must also be cost-effective, reliable, and accessible relative to more environmentally damaging methods if they are to displace them."
Nuclear power excels in fulfilling these requirements, the authors argue.
Nuclear plant in Cattenom, France. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
In the study, the authors compared the economic and safety costs and environmental benefits of coal, natural gas, nuclear, biomass, hydro, wind, and solar energy. Nuclear power, in comparison to coal, saves 2.4 billion tons of carbon emissions each year, and restricts the release of harmful substances such as heavy metals, chemicals, and aerosols. Nuclear power is also a favorable alternative to fossil fuels because of its energy density; a single clump of uranium the size of a golf ball could provide enough energy for a person's lifetime worth of energy, unlike the 800 elephants-worth of coal, which would release 12,000 tons of CO2, say Bradshaw and colleagues.
They also compared three types of energy mixes: a fossil fuel-dependent mix that is common today, a mostly renewable energy mix excluding nuclear power, and a majority-nuclear power mix that also utilizes other energy types such as renewable, fossil fuel, and carbon capture technology. The researchers found the majority-nuclear power mix was superior to the other mixes both in terms of minimizing carbon emissions and land use.
Furthermore, the implementation of next-generation nuclear power technologies that recycle fuel would use uranium 150 times more efficiently and would shorten the radioactive lifespan of the waste from a scale of millennia to a few centuries, thereby improving sustainability and reducing environmental impact, asserts the paper.
Nuclear power faces strong negative sentiments regarding its safety, especially following the disaster at Fukushima, Japan in 2011. The authors, however, point out that no energy technology is absolutely safe from accidents – the reactors in Fukushima were made in the 1960s to start with – and that nuclear power has less fatalities per unit of energy generated relative to any of the other energy sources in the analysis.
Another concern regarding nuclear power is its potential for nuclear arms proliferation. The authors explain that 90 percent of the world's nations already possess a degree of nuclear knowledge already, which they assert means that the implementation of nuclear energy is unlikely to lead to a further increase in nuclear arms use.
"Given the urgency of the global environmental challenges we must deal with in the coming decades, closing off our option on nuclear energy may be dangerously shortsighted," the authors write. "Foregoing nuclear power therefore means overlooking an already large global contributor to low-carbon electricity, especially given its use as a direct substitute for coal."
Is renewable energy useless?
Although the implementation of renewable energy still faces obstacles such as energy efficacy and use of land, renewable energy can still play a role in minimizing impact on biodiversity.
Windfarm in the Pedernales Peninsula, Dominican Republic. Photo by Tiffany Roufs.
"Making a case for a major role for nuclear fission in a future sustainable energy mix does not mean arguing against energy efficiency and renewable options. Under the right circumstances, these alternatives might also make important contributions," the authors write. The key, the authors say, is to use a maximally beneficial mix of technologies that is tailored to the environmental characteristics and restraints of each region.
Nuclear power does have faults, and it will continue to have them even with technological advancement. Safer and smaller amounts of nuclear waste do not mean that nuclear waste will be completely harmless or that it will disappear for good. Nor does the reduced likelihood of accidents mean that no one will suffer great loss when accidents do occur.
But faults are inherent in any technology, not just nuclear power. Many other scientists side with the authors that, in order to balance energy supply with biodiversity conservation, conservationists need to look at the pros and cons of each energy source without preconceptions before they dismiss or praise one technology over another.
"As the urgency of climate-change mitigation and land sparing mounts and requirements for sustainable growth in developing economies and replacement of ageing infrastructure in the developed world come to the fore, pragmatic decisions on the viability of all types of nonfossil-fuel energy technologies will have to be made on a nonprejudicial basis," the authors write.
Brook, B.W., Bradshaw, C. J. A. (2014). Key role for nuclear energy in global biodiversity conservation. Conservation Biology, 00(0), 1-11.
Brook, B.W., Bradshaw, C.J. (2014, Dec 15). An Open Letter to Environmentalists on Nuclear Energy.
Nobel prize winner debates future of nuclear power
(06/07/2007) Two renowned energy experts sparred in a debate over nuclear energy Wednesday afternoon at Stanford University. Amory Lovins, Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, an energy think tank, argued that energy efficiency and alternative energy sources will send nuclear power the way of the dinosaurs in the near future. Dr. Burton Richter, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in physics, said that nuclear would play an important part of the future energy portfolio needed to cut carbon emissions to fight global warming.
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(04/04/2007) Nuclear power plants are risky investments given rapidly rising costs of construction of nuclear fuel, reports a new study by researchers from Georgetown University, Stanford University and UC Berkeley.
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Pathogens « Global Market Insights, Inc.
Increasing threats over food consumption have stimulated global food safety testing market and generated demand for effective test products that can ensure food safety. Food supply worldwide is facing a range of risks from environmental toxins, bacteria, and food allergens. Food safety testing industry size has been growing substantially, owing to the increasing threat of foodborne illness, and stringent food safety regulations. Moreover, expansion of import and export business of food supply across the globe is expected to further boost the demand for food safety testing market. According to Global Market Insights, Inc., "Food Safety Testing Market size worth USD 9 billion in 2015, is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 7% over the period of 2016-2024." The food safety testing industry growth will also be influenced by the expansion of global processed food industry which is anticipated to surpass USD 7 trillion by 2024.
The most common source for contamination of food is pathogens. These pathogens can cause various gastrointestinal disorders such as abdominal cramps, vomiting, diarrhea and nausea leading to increase in illness and death of around 2 million people every year. Growing food epidemic has mandated the laboratory testing for Salmonella, Listeria, E. Coli, Campylobacter types of pathogens, in turn making food pathogen testing market to be a major revenue pocket accounting for 30% of the global demand. Pesticide is another type of contaminant causing health disorders. The pesticide food safety testing market worth USD 800 million in 2015, will witness substantial growth, owing to regulatory norms in using of certified and organic pesticides.
Contaminated food is a very serious issue which may result into demise. As per WHO's statistical report in 2014, over 2.5 million people died due to diarrheal diseases. Moreover, U.S is facing an alarming rate of increase in foodborne illness resulting into nearly 5 thousand deaths and more than 325 thousand hospitalizations every year. This has generated the need to implement quality and safety checks, where consumers have the authority to trace their ready to eat meals, processed products, bakery, preserved & canned products. In this regard the EU and FDA have given conformities with consumers' rights to track food through all production and distribution stages, in turn driving the food safety testing industry. In addition, major food regulatory bodies and authorities such as Good Hygiene Practices (GHP), Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP), and Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) are extending extensive support in ensuring food authenticity, thereby, propelling the food safety testing market growth.
The food safety testing technology market has witnessed a noticeable shift towards rapid food safety testing technology market from the time consuming traditional food safety testing industry. Increase adoption in biosensors, ELISA, rapid culture detection, and PCR-based techniques are widely adopted technologies used to examine the count, metabolites, and type of micro-organisms.
The growth in food safety testing market is also poised to benefit from increasing consumption of meat, poultry, and dairy products. Unhygienic condition while skinning and handling animals in slaughter house is the key responsible factor favoring the meat and poultry food safety testing market. Similarly, dairy products can also get easily contaminated through infected animals. Regulatory bodies such as the FSIS and HACCP are taking major steps in preventing meat & poultry product contamination and implementing adequate pasteurization of dairy products stimulating the food safety testing industry share.
Europe food safety testing market valued over USD 2.5 billion in 2015, with U.K and Germany leading the regional demand. Increasing consumer awareness and stringent food safety regulations will boost the demand for Europe food safety testing market over the coming years. Asia Pacific food safety testing industry will emerge rapidly due to rising population, growing demand for food products, and increasing stringent regulations for food safety. China being the major export trade market is anticipated to witness annual growth rate of 11% over the period of 2016-2024.
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The Best and Worst States for Physical Therapist Pay
There were just over 225,000 physical therapists (PTs) working in the U.S. as of May 2021 according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Physical therapists work in varied healthcare settings, including offices of non-physician practitioners, hospitals, home health care agencies, skilled nursing facilities, and physician offices. Like many other healthcare professionals with advanced technical skills and training, PTs generally earn more money than most occupations. According to BLS estimates, as of May 2021, the national mean wage for physical therapists was $92,920 per year. That said, there is a significant disparity from state to state in the average annual wages earned by PTs. A more extensive examination of BLS data reveals that, as of May 2021, the following were the ten best and worst states for physical therapist pay.
NV 1,860 $104,210 1st
CA 23,840 $103,510 2nd
CT 3,410 $101,180 3rd
DE 870 $100,490 4th
NJ 7,400 $99,530 5th
TX 14,040 $98,340 6th
RI 920 $97,580 7th
WA 4,750 $97,420 8th
NM 1,370 $97,190 9th
AK 680 $96,980 10th
NC 6,910 $85,750 42nd
ME 1,420 $85,620 43rd
SD 810 $83,820 47th
SC 3,520 $83,270 48th
ND 720 $81,480 51st
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OES. Data extracted on August 3, 2022
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Even though most people will try again and again to lose weight by eating less hunger will be a consistent roadblock throughout this whole process. This is a common problem shared by most people that are trying to start an intermittent fasting plan in which they have to spend a portion of the day not eating anything at all. Instead of focusing on forcing ourselves to eat less and creating an infinite battle between our willpower and our bodies natural hunger signals what if there was a way to override these signals? Well in today's video I'm going to give you my top tips to lower your hunger in order to make losing weight not feel so difficult. First, let's start with the basic fact that when we're trying to burn fat and lose weight we're going to have to consume less food then what we normally would consume to maintain our weight. Your body has no idea that you're trying to lose weight and when you're body experiences a caloric deficit it'll take steps to make sure that you don't starve to death. One of these very first steps is to increase your appetite and hunger. There is no such thing as burning fat without feeling at least a little bit of hunger. This is something that you must understand. When you're trying to put on muscle chances are very high that you're going to have to eat enough food to feel stuffed. This is the opposite of hunger. It's the same thing in Reverse when you're trying to burn body fat when you're trying to get your body to use its own stored fat for energy instead of using calories coming from your diet for the energy you're going to feel hungry no matter what anybody else tells you. This is because your body does not want to use stored body fat for energy. That stored fat is there for an emergency situation. And when you cut back on calories coming in from your diet your body thinks that it's an emergency and certain hormonal changes will cause an increase in hunger. So you have to expect at least a little bit of hunger when you're trying to burn fat but there are ways to lower the hunger response and make it more manageable.
There are two hormones that are primarily responsible for this hunger response. Leptin and ghrelin. Leptin signals to your body that you're full and when enough leptin is released you won't be feeling very hungry at all. While ghrelin will signal the opposite, ghrelin is your hunger hormone. These hormones are released at certain times of the day usually based on your regular eating schedule. They are adaptive so if you're used to eating 6 meals a day and you miss just one meal you may experience hunger due to the schedule that your body has yet to release these hormones. So going from eating 6 meals a day to fasting for a large portion of the day can increase your hunger a lot. To clearly see this all we have to do is look at dogs. No matter what at 8 o'clock at night on the DOT my dog will come up to me and start begging me for food. It's not like she has a watch that signals oh it's 8 o'clock it's time to eat. It's just her regular feeding schedule. The good news is that your body adapts to new feeding schedules. The bad news is that when you first go on a fasting plan it's going to take some time to naturally lower your hunger response. So you have to expect this when you start an intermittent fasting plan and understand that it'll become easier with time. Your body has an internal feeding clock and the best way to change that clock is by taking small steps. Don't try to start intermittent fasting with a protocol like The Warrior Diet in which you eat only once a day. Small baby steps are best. First, try to eat breakfast a little later. Next, try to eliminate breakfast altogether. Next, try to eat lunch a little later. And then try to eliminate lunch altogether if you want to create a longer fasting window. Eventually, you can get to eating one meal a day without feeling like you're starving to death.
So that's the main thing you have to know.. you have to know that you have an internal feeding clock. There are other ways to lower your hunger as well. For example, it's a very common known fact that having some coffee first thing in the morning can help lower your appetite. But some people don't like having coffee on an empty stomach. Luckily there are also other ways to decrease hunger.


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At what age can I give my child peanuts?
Researchers have been looking into lowering the recommended age for giving children peanuts
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The recommended age for giving children peanuts could be lowered to as young as four months.
Nutritionists in the UK are currently reviewing the guidance after researchers found that early introduction of the food to infants was 'associated with a reduced risk' of developing a peanut allergy.
The same was found with egg.
Current guidance for introducing peanuts is from six months, as long as they're crushed or ground into peanut butter. The age was lowered from three to five years back in 2009.
However, if your child already has an allergy - such as eczema or a diagnosed food allergy - or there's a family history of allergy, you should get medical advice before giving them for the first time.
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If it did change, it would go against advice that exclusive breastfeeding is recommended until six months.
In their conclusion, authors of the report, said: "In this systematic review, early introduction of egg or peanut to the infant diet was associated with lower risk of developing egg or peanut allergy.
"These findings must be considered in the context of the limitation in the primary studies."
Health chiefs in the US have already used the research to change their recommended age to four months.
But a spokesman for Public Health England north west said any change in the UK would only be made if the committee looking at the research decided the evidence was 'overwhelmingly in support'.
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Dr Alison Tedstone, chief nutritionist at PHE, said: "The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) is currently reviewing the guidance on feeding infants under one, so it takes into account the latest, robust evidence.
"In the meantime, parents should follow our existing guidelines: we recommend babies are breast fed exclusively for around the first six months, after which a wide range of solid foods should be introduced alongside continued breastfeeding or infant formula feeding."
Dr Lucy Chambers, senior scientist at the British Nutrition Foundation, said: "The official advice in the UK about introducing peanuts during complementary feeding has not changed.
"However, new research in this area is being considered by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) in its review of UK infant feeding guidelines, the results of which are anticipated this year."
SACN will publish a draft report when its review is complete. Following a consultation, a final report will be presented to the government.
More information on first foods for babies can be found at the Start4Life website www.nhs.uk/start4life/first-foods.
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Current advice states:
From six months, babies should be introduced to a wide range of solid foods, including vegetables and fruit, starchy foods, protein foods (including nuts and well-cooked eggs) and dairy foods, alongside continued breastfeeding (or infant formula feeding).
It's important to wait until your baby is six months old before you introduce cows' milk, well-cooked eggs, foods containing wheat or gluten, nuts, peanuts, peanut products, seeds, fish and shellfish. When you start offering your baby solids, introduce these foods one at a time in very small amounts and watch carefully for any signs of an allergic reaction.
When introducing nuts, children should not be given whole nuts before they are five years old as they may cause choking.
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Students at Holy Family School, Syracuse, recently enthroned The Sacred Heart of Jesus, publicly proclaiming Him as the King of the school. Following morning Mass, each class marched out of the church and paraded back to the school to honor the shrine set up in the main lobby. The shrine will stay in place all year, and each classroom has a similar one in place. The enthroned image of the Sacred Heart reminds everyone at Holy Family that Jesus is among them during each school day.
The Strings Off and Running (SOAR) program at St. Mary's School, Cortland, is a unique opportunity for its students. The program is run by Ithaca College and staffed by music education majors. Each of the 40 enrolled students in Pre-K through grade six receives a 30 minute small group lesson with the option for private instruction. Students are also involved in a small, ability-grouped ensemble focusing on working together as a group and providing additional performance opportunities. Students perform at an annual Christmas concert and also have the chance to participate in the New York State School Music Association Solo Festival.
For the past seven years, math teacher Anu Rai has offered sixth graders at St. John the Evangelist School the opportunity to participate in Mathalon, sponsored by BAE and the Coalition for Broome County Schools. The students meet weekly to prepare to compete against other schools in Broome County and demonstrate their outstanding mathematical knowledge. While competing against much larger schools in the area, St. John's team has consistently placed in the top three.
For the third year, Immaculate Conception School has offered its sixth graders a Robotics Club to spark an interest in science for both boys and girls.
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Turkey with all the fixings was on the menu as 450 students, parents and grandparents attended Trinity Catholic School's Harvest Feast this fall in St. Paul's Church hall. The kindergarten class had the honor of saying grace before the meal and pre-schoolers provided musical entertainment. Later, families traveled to the school for dessert and an open house.
Eighth grade students have created a business called "A Slice of Heaven," centered around the production of whoopee pies. Students are producing the delicious products and learning the ups and downs of the business cycle — from planning to delivery. The students have also added a Christian service component by donating whoopee pies to the PTO as a dessert for Lenten fish fries.


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Horgan: Does the Lullaby Lane ghost still linger in San Bruno?
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In this 2007 photo, Lullaby Lane owner Rosalie Gevertz, right, talks with her daughter Debbie Gevertz-Licolli at the San Bruno store.
By John Horgan |
PUBLISHED: August 10, 2018 at 6:13 am | UPDATED: August 10, 2018 at 6:18 am
Special events involved in the San Mateo County Historical Association's 2018 version of Victorian Days are underway.
This week, another one is scheduled. It's a guided walk through downtown San Bruno slated for Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon, beginning at the southern end of San Mateo Avenue at El Camino Real.
One relatively under-appreciated stop should be at the site of the former Lullaby Lane, a children's store that no longer exists on the 500-block of that retail street. Why? Because, at one time, it was thought to be haunted by an ex-employee, Jean Brown, who passed away in 1980.
For some time after her death, there were reports of strange goings-on within those walls, and the ghostly legend grew as the years rolled by. When Lullaby Lane ceased operations, a similar outfit, Baby World, took over the sprawling address. That's now gone as well.
Today, several small, independent businesses are up and running in that same location; the one-time kids' store's digs have been divided up into several separate business entities.
Perhaps the association's tour can determine if the so-called Lullaby Lane ghost still raises hackles in that immediate area. Can you say, "Sidewalk seance?"
Caltrain analysis
Last month's San Mateo County Civil Grand Jury report dealing with Caltrain's ambitious electrification project (and a hoped-for hookup with high-speed rail in the future) was a mixed bag of findings.
On the one hand, the analysis allowed that adequate administrative protections and mechanisms now appear to be in place to support the huge transit undertaking.
However, the report also noted that, unfortunately, an actual audit of the Caltrain effort was impossible due to the complex and opaque nature of the improvement program's financial data.
Precise conclusions about how Caltrain authorities, who are embroiled in costly lawsuits with a former contracting firm, are spending public dollars on their project were therefore unavailable.
The grand jury's effort comes about three months before local voters will be asked to back another sales tax increase to support county public transit efforts, including those of Caltrain.
For those casting ballots in November, a solid look at the rail agency's books would have provided some much-needed perspective.
Makeover underway
Back in the bailiwick of the San Mateo County Historical Association, portions of the Old County Courthouse in downtown Redwood City are getting a much-needed touch-up to the tune of $1 million.
Parts of the building's exterior require significant repair work. The renovations have already begun. Roofing improvements may be next on the agenda, assuming funding can be found.
The basic structure was opened for government business in 1910 after the 1906 earthquake had destroyed most of a previous structure.
The building currently houses the association's activities and its History Museum. County courts and other government offices are located in separate buildings.
Nini's hits 50
Here's a brief shoutout to one of the best breakfast/lunch options off the beaten path along the mid-Peninsula.
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Nini's Coffee Shop, tucked away unobtrusively on the Burlingame/San Mateo border on North Idaho Street not far from the Highway 101/Peninsula Avenue overpass, turned 50 this year.
It's extensive menu hasn't changed much through the decades, and the loyal customer lunch hour line continues to validate its ongoing popularity. Bring your appetite.
John Horgan's column in the Mercury News appears weekly. He can be contacted by email at johnhorganmedia@gmail.com or by regular snail mail at P.O. Box 117083, Burlingame, CA 94011.
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## Introdução

Há um canal no youtube pelo qual eu sou apaixonado, o [Kurzgesagt](https://www.youtube.com/user/Kurzgesagt). Nele são explicados conceitos muito interessantes que vão desde física quântica à sociologia.

Em um desses vídeos, esse [aqui](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvskMHn0sqQ), eles explicam por que é bom pra **você** que o mundo seja um lugar melhor. A idéia desse artigo é transpor essa base de argumentação para a realidade do mercado de programação. Ou seja, por que é bom pra **você** que seus amigos aprendam e se desenvolvam como programadores.

## Do egoísmo, posse de terras e geração de comida e recursos.

![Agricultura](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTGx_AakxQwP32bqZYHLTx4zkvL0QpHuoSlejx8KYF5mQ5BL_pM)

Nossos ancestrais, depois que a agricultura virou modinha, só conseguiam gerar a quantidade de comida equivalente a quantidade de terra disponível. Por isso era interessante que você tivesse sempre mais terra. Com mais terra você poderia gerar mais comida e garantiria o futuro dos pimpolhos.

E dos pimpolhos dos seus servos e escravos, claro.

Por isso guerras por terra eram tão comuns. A quantidade de terreno pra plantio disponível era diretamente relacionada a sua própria sobrevivência. Por isso tínhamos desculpa pro egoísmo.

Bom, hoje em dia não é mais o caso.

Com nossas modernas técnicas de plantio, conseguimos gerar muito mais comida no mesmo terreno que os nossos ancetrais, então entre enormes aspas, "a comida sobra". Vivemos tempos de fartura. Todo mundo tem acesso a uma fatia muito maior do bolo.

Pelo menos nos países desenvolvidos.

## Desenvolvimento e a África

Nos países subdesenvolvidos essa não é exatamente a realidade. Mas por que isso é importante pra você? Por que você millennial/gen-z ia querer dividir a sua fatia de desenvolvimento com a áfrica?

Imagine que você tem um Brasileiro pesquisando a cura do câncer. Ele só consegue realizar uma quantidade de horas de pesquisa, uma quantidade de testes. Agora imagine se forem um Brasileiro e um Angolano trabalhando ao mesmo tempo em laboratórios diferentes? As chances são muito maiores, mesmo que eles só disponham de tentativa e erro.

Os avanços que conseguimos alcançar juntos são maiores do que o que conseguimos alcançar sozinhos. Sabe aquela coisa de duas cabeças pensam melhor do que uma? É por ai.

Então, basicamente, se você quer que coisas como a colonização de marte ou a cura do câncer aconteçam, comece a se mover pra ajudar no desenvolvimento da áfrica. Nós temos fatias de bolo pra todo mundo.

## Tá bom Karl Marx, e a programação?

![Our Software](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTLI0z9v6SACEUzCtM3VMPZVlkbuFwriDQ1xNysA-4sOIAs_uqr)

No mercado de programação não é muito diferente(Na verdade, até faz parte). O bolo aqui é IMENSO. Temos recursos e espaço pra todo mundo. Tem sempre muito trabalho a ser feito em TI. Precisamos de front-ends, back-ends e de mais gente pra cuidar da infra. Até de devs COBOL precisamos (* *insira piada de dinossauro aqui* *).

Você ganha com a entrada do Cleitinho, seu amigo, uma mão extra pra ajudar alguma equipe em necessidade e de quebra um contribuidor para aquele projeto open source que você usa na sua aplicação em produção e não quer que tenha bugs/seja descontinuado.

Fora que esse cara que aprende hoje com você, pode estar contigo numa startup fundada por vocês que pode torna-los milionários. Como eu disse, o bolo é imenso.

## Conclusão

Ajude o Cleitinho a aprender a programar. Você não precisa virar um professor. Dê a ele material, dicas. Se puder, compre livros pra ele. Indique cursos. Diga pra ele criar um LinkedIn. Isso vai fazer diferença na vida dele, e na sua também.

## Links úteis

[https://www.freecodecamp.org/](https://www.freecodecamp.org/)
[https://roadmap.sh/roadmaps](https://roadmap.sh/roadmaps)
[https://woliveiras.com.br/posts/como-ser-o-programador-junior-que-toda-empresa-quer-contratar/](https://woliveiras.com.br/posts/como-ser-o-programador-junior-que-toda-empresa-quer-contratar/)

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I am curious if there is any good will for these new partners?
No ... Relegation will do them good, and serve the owners right for a dreadful decision made before Christmas.
As for Harry, I've always thought the myth and the newspaper hyperbole far outweighed the fact.
They deserve each other - feel sorry for the fans though. After all we've been there already.
I loathe Redknapp, don't care for their owners and apart from not being Villa don't care much for Birmingham city. I'd love to see them get relegated, the only hesitation is we seem to do quite well at St Andrews.
I really wish we'd been the ones to benefit from their ridiculous decision to fire Rowett.
Exactly John. Staying up and Redknapp falling on his face. What's not to like ?
It can't be him. By his own admission, he can't work one of those computers that they have now.
Must be Bondy. Or Rosie.
They might not be shiny and polished like modern day managers, they might not have the cutting edge information when it comes to the latetst trends in football but managers like Warnock and Harry can get your lower league club motivated, organized and promoted. I think these managers are vastly under rated. Too many people look at their character traits and not at what they can achieve for a club.
I don't care a bit for Birmingham but wish Harry well there.
Sorry, you think Harry Redknapp is underrated? He was a joke for us. I can see why opinions vary on the majority of topics on here. I can't believe anyone would defend Redknapp.
But it's not about caring --- It's about being blindly judgemental basing opinions on emotions and bigotry and not ever logic or facts.
And those left on here as the number of posters seemingly decrease are the ones getting ever better (and louder) at it. Could there be a link??
Something many, bright, upcoming, intelligent, wordly, sophisticated managers with or without cash to spend under various types of regimes in different periods of time have failed to do for us. If you call a manager who gets a small, mediocre club like QPR promoted a joke, then the other managers must have all been far, far worse.
I'm with you mate: he was poor in the Premiership but did a good job getting us promoted, albeit the hard way with that amazing day at Wembley. If people want to remain bitter about him that's up to them.


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Nazis, shoddy science, and the climate contrarian credibility gap
Climate contrarian reputations seem invincible; will Nazi comparisons undermine Roy Spencer's credibility?
A German police officers shows a Nazi flag confiscated from the far-right group Besseres Hannover. Contrarian climate scientist and conservative media favorite Roy Spencer posted a rant on his blog against those he calls "global warming Nazis." Photograph: Alexander Koerner/AP
Fri 21 Feb 2014 09.00 EST
Because the pool of climate experts who dispute that humans are the primary cause of global warming is so small, representing just 2 to 4 percent of climate scientists, climate contrarians often reference the same few contrarian scientists. Two such examples are Roy Spencer and John Christy of the University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH), both of whom have testified before US Congress several times, and are often interviewed and quoted in the conservative media.
And because that pool of contrarian climate experts is so small, their credibility often seems indestructible. For example, Richard Lindzen has been wrong on essentially every position he's taken on major climate science issues over the past quarter century, and yet the conservative media continue to treat him as a foremost climate expert. Therefore, it's important to remind ourselves what these few climate scientist contrarians really believe, and whether their arguments have any scientific validity.
Yesterday, Roy Spencer took to his blog, writing a post entitled "Time to push back against the global warming Nazis". The ensuing Godwinian rant was apparently triggered by somebody calling contrarians like Spencer "deniers." Personally I tend to avoid use of the term, simply because it inevitably causes the ensuing discussion to degenerate into an argument about whether "denier" refers to Holocaust denial. Obviously that misinterpretation of the term is exactly what "pushed [Spencer's] button," as he put it.
However, this misinterpretation has no basis in reality. The term "denier" merely refers to "a person who denies" something, and originated some 600 years ago, long before the Holocaust occurred. Moreover, as the National Center for Science Education and Peter Gleick at Forbes have documented, many climate contrarians (including the aforementioned Richard Lindzen) prefer to be called "deniers."
"I actually like 'denier.' That's closer than skeptic," says MIT's Richard Lindzen, one of the most prominent deniers. Steve Milloy, the operator of the climate change denial website JunkScience.com, told Popular Science, "Me, I just stick with denier ... I'm happy to be a denier." Minnesotans for Global Warming and other major denier groups go so far as to sing, "I'm a Denier!".
Spencer is also on the advisory board of the Cornwall Alliance, a group with 'An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming' claiming that "Earth and its ecosystems—created by God's intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence —are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting, admirably suited for human flourishing, and displaying His glory." The declaration also has a section on "What We Deny," and Spencer recently wrote in The Christian Post,
...we deny "that most [current climate change] is human-caused, and that it is a threat to future generations that must be addressed by the global community."
Thus it's rather hypocritical of Spencer to complain about the use of a word meaning "a person who denies" when he has expressly admitted to denying these climate positions.
In his blog post, Spencer also wrote of those he calls "global warming Nazis,"
"Like the Nazis, they advocate the supreme authority of the state (fascism), which in turn supports their scientific research to support their cause (in the 1930s, it was superiority of the white race)."
Aside from being incredibly offensive, these comments are extremely hypocritical coming from Roy Spencer, who previously described his job as a UAH climate scientist as follows.
"I view my job a little like a legislator, supported by the taxpayer, to protect the interests of the taxpayer and to minimize the role of government."
The day before Spencer's blog post, John Christy along with another UAH colleague Richard McNider, published an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal. Their piece was in response to comments by US Secretary of State John Kerry, who said,
"We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific fact,"
Christy and McNider believe it's climate contrarians like themselves who 'embrace the facts.' To support this claim, they tried to argue that mainstream climate scientists are in denial about the accuracy of climate models.
"We might forgive these modelers if their forecasts had not been so consistently and spectacularly wrong. From the beginning of climate modeling in the 1980s, these forecasts have, on average, always overstated the degree to which the Earth is warming compared with what we see in the real climate."
First of all, modern climate modeling began in the 1970s. It's also wrong to claim that their forecasts have always overstated global warming. Just as one example, NASA's James Hansen published a paper in 1981 with a model that slightly underestimated the ensuing global warming.
Hansen et al. (1981) global warming projections under a scenario of high energy growth (red) and slow energy growth (blue) vs. observations (black). Actual energy growth has been between the two Hansen scenarios.
Climate model global warming projections have also far outperformed predictions made by climate contrarians, and have performed fairly well overall (including current climate models).
IPCC AR5 Figure 1.4. Solid lines and squares represent measured average global surface temperature changes by NASA (blue), NOAA (yellow), and the UK Hadley Centre (green). The colored shading shows the projected range of surface warming in the IPCC First Assessment Report (FAR; yellow), Second (SAR; green), Third (TAR; blue), and Fourth (AR4; red).
On the other hand, Christy and Spencer's estimates of the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere have consistently underestimated global warming. In the 1990s, they initially claimed the lower atmosphere was cooling, and had to make several warming adjustments when other groups identified errors and biases in their data set.
Changes in UAH lower atmosphere temperature trend estimates, growing consistently warmer over time as cool biases are removed. Created by John Abraham.
In their opinion piece, Christy and McNider present a graph that's supposed to prove their argument that climate models have overestimated global warming. However, rather than compare models and observations of global surface temperature, which are of the greatest importance for those of us living on the Earth's surface, they instead show temperature data from higher up in the atmosphere, the temperature of the mid-troposphere (TMT).
The figure in the Wall Street Journal piece suffers from several problems. First, it improperly averages the data (also known as "baselining") in a way that results in shifting the observational data downwards with respect to the model data, visually exaggerating the discrepancy. Second, it doesn't show any error bars or uncertainty ranges, and the error bars on the TMT data are large. Third, it simply averages together two satellite TMT data sets (presumably from UAH and Remote Sensing Systems), ignoring the fact that there is a large difference in the estimated warming trends from these two data sets, and that other TMT data sets that Christy and McNider excluded show even greater TMT warming, more in line with model projections.
The other problem is that Christy and McNider assume that the observational data are perfect, and thus that any discrepancy must mean the models are wrong. However, a U.S. Climate Change Science Program report co-authored by Christy concluded that the difference between satellite estimates and model projections of atmospheric warming is probably mostly due to errors in the observations.
"This difference between models and observations may arise from errors that are common to all models, from errors in the observational data sets, or from a combination of these factors. The second explanation is favored, but the issue is still open."
For more details, see Climate Science Watch. Christy and McNider's 'skepticism' now only seems to apply to the models and not to the observations, despite their long history of needing to make large adjustments to correct for cool biases in their own observational data. As climate scientist Andrew Dessler said,
"As far as the data go, I don't really trust the satellite data. While satellites clearly have some advantages over the surface thermometer record, such as better sampling, measuring temperature from a satellite is actually an incredibly difficult problem. That's why, every few years, another big problem in the UAH temperature calculation is discovered."
Spencer, Christy, and McNider offer perfect examples of what John Kerry was criticizing – shoddy, biased science being treated on equal footing with solid mainstream science. In reality, there should be an immense credibility gap between the climate contrarians who have been consistently wrong and who deny the inconvenient data, and the mainstream climate scientists whose positions are supported by the full body of scientific evidence.
When a fringe 2 to 4 percent minority - who consistently produce shoddy analysis and compare those with whom they disagree to Nazis - are given equal credibility by the media and policymakers as the 97 percent of scientific experts, we have a problem.
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My kids are crafters. In fact that's why I originally signed my older daughter up for preschool many years ago. I couldn't keep up with her need to craft. It was constant. She still loves to craft and little daughter has followed in her footsteps. So, I always know when it is birthday time, or Christmas, a great craft kit will be appreciated almost more than any other item or toy. Beados arrived here on a day when Payton came home from school because she had been feeling sick. Beados is now one of my new favourite craft gifts for school aged children. Payton also made a Youtube video here for you to watch and discover how to use Beados.
Beados are meant for ages five and up. They are super cute and I spent some time playing with these as well. There is something slightly magical about how they stick together just with water. Beados sets make great craft gifts for school age children. They are a perfect gift for crafty girls, five and up. Not meant for over 13 in my opinion. But, that said, I had fun playing with these too.
If you buy these you might as well go ahead and get the refill kit because they will use up the beads quickly.
And there are several cute refill kit and theme packs. Adding these so that you have options this Christmas.
Disclosure: I was not compensated for this review. I received two sets of Beados.
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We retain memories very selectively.
When reflecting on the past, it is obvious that many names and events fade into the grey unconscious, while we vividly remember small moments and seemingly insignificant events and things that were said.
I think that we remember certain events from our own perspective, and retain fragments of things that were said to us, because of the healing that we still need to do inside.
But this thought about the nature of memories is apart from what I wish to share.
While living in the USA, I have noticed that often the national news is filled with reports of horrific police brutality.
Once, while reflecting on the subject, a remote memory from my own childhood surfaced from the past.
It was a summer holiday, and I was reading in my room on the second floor of our house in Raanana, Israel.
I heard people screaming, right below my sister's bedroom window, which faced the quiet streets of our neighborhood.
I saw a policeman, a police car with its flashing lights and doors wide open, two of my friends and my mother, all making a cacophony of screams, yells, blood and tears.
I ran downstairs and into the street.
Our neighborhood was a quiet cul-de-sac with nice houses and small but manicured gardens.
An event like this was most definitely NOT a common occurrence.
By the time I joined the commotion, my mother was hanging on the back of the tall policeman, trying to restrain him from beating one of my friends.
"What in Heaven's name is going on here?," I yelled in desperation above the commotion.
Each person yelled his answer back, their voices ricocheting like bullets, above each other.
My mother said: "This policeman is brutally beating your friend Rami.
Can't he see that he is just a boy?
I can't allow him to do that!
"Get your mother off my back!
This boy is a thief.
He stole our chief of police's private car, and I am NOT going to let him get away with it!
This stupid little punk had it coming!
"I am NOT a thief!
I did NOT steal the car!
It is my father's car!
My father IS the chief of police in Kfar Saba!" (the town bordering our town).
The policeman did not believe Rami, and after my mother climbed down from his back, he radioed the station and verified that Rami was indeed the son of the Chief of Police, and was driving his father's car with his permission.
The policeman left mumbling some apologies, and my mother proceeded to clean and dress Rami's wounds.
Now, my mother did not particularly like Rami, who was no thief, but like most teenagers, did look like a little punk.
She did not even wish for me to be friends with him, and she actively disliked my boyfriend, who was Rami's best friend.
But she was able to put all of her personal feelings aside, and stand up for justice and righteousness.
When I told that story to my husband, Jules, many years later, we were watching a story about police brutality on the news.
Jules told me that if my family had been living in the USA, my mother would have been shot way before she would have been able to jump on the back of a policeman to restrain him.
While sadly admitting that this is true, I still have hope for improving our societies.
I do agree that growing up in Israel in the 60's was very different from today's paranoia and gung-ho environment in the USA.
At the time, Israel was a young country, and we all felt like we were building something new and better.
We believed that we could turn that melting pot of cultural and racial differences into an upscale society filled with social justice and social consideration.
It still shocks me every time I hear people in the USA talk about "socialism" as if it were a dirty word.
To be a socialist simply means that you care about your society.
It means that you understand that you are an integral part of society, and that whatever is good for YOUR society, is good for YOU.
Back then in Israel, the Kibbutzim were forming a new and much more successful vision of communities, unashamedly calling themselves "communists," knowing full well that they were NOT following the failed model of Russia and China, but the simple idea of communal SHARING.
They all worked to better their communities and to provide for their people, help the young and old, the weak and infirm and benefit from their collective strengths.
Even those of us who did not belong to a Kibbutz, felt like pioneers starting a new civilization, or more accurately, we felt like the invincible Phoenix rising up from the ashes of despair.
This sums up the feelings of the new Israelites at that time.
The Jewish people, who had survived the pogroms in Eastern Europe, the Nazi Ghettos in Europe and countless killings and unjust prosecutions all over the Middle East and the Arab world, escaped and found shelter in Israel.
The Nazis and the antisemites gave it their best shot.
They tried to destroy, gas, burn and sterilize us, but like the Phoenix rising from the ashes, we rose again, with superhuman wings and claws, we rose to became stronger than before, for we have been to hell and back.
Anyway, I believe that we are ALL responsible for the shape of our society, police brutality included.
I believe that the way to heal the problem of police brutality, is NOT to allow the police to terrorize us.
I now understand that if MORE people were to do what my mother did, the police would not behave this way.
What we need are more citizens who demand that the police behave with dignity.
The policemen and women are just human beings like us, and often misjudge situations like we all do.
But if the society's code of honor demands that we all behave in much more humane and dignified ways, we would all become better people.
We, as citizens, need to demand that those who are supposed to protect us not be so fast in pulling the trigger or beating innocent black kids, but first make sure there is a real crime and a real danger in the situation.
Now I see my mother as behaving very bravely, willing to face danger and overlooking her own interests, to protect the weak.
This is not the only time I have seen my mother behave this way.
Once when I accompanied her to a shopping mall in Florida, we went into the mall's bathrooms.
We saw a mother brutally beating a tiny little girl, who was screaming at the top of her tiny lungs.
"What do you think you are doing?
WHATEVER she did to upset you, it does not deserve this level of violence!," said my mother, as she placed herself between the mother and the girl, who seemed to be about four years young.
"You watch your own damn business!," barked the woman back.
"This IS MY BUSINESS!," said my mother.
Maybe I wish I could be less timid and a bit more like my mother…..
Maybe now I see how her behavior, should we all have adopted more of it, could have prevented much brutality that has become so common through the years….
In my current life, while living in remote rural places, I do not see any violence or brutality, to which I could step in and help.
But in my travels, I do see situations and often admire the strong person who demands better behavior from their fellow humans.
Recently, while sitting in an Internet cafe in Ladakh India, two young men entered.
One sat by the computer while his friend sat on the sofa.
They chatted nonchalantly over the room, completely unaware that they were acting rudely.
"Your conversation is too loud!
I was nearly expecting that they will answer her something rude, but to my amazement they expressed their apologies, sat closer and whispered.
I was full of admiration towards her.
And then there was another time in India, while we were waiting in line in Chandigarh Gardens in the Punjab.
The line to pay the entrance fee was long, and a man who looked very scary, tried to cut the line and went straight to the counter.
To my amazement, the man who looked like he could easily get the role of the scary villain in a Bollywood movie with a pockmarked face and a huge scar running down his face, got to the back of the line….
While we were in Fukuoka, Japan, I noticed how gentle and polite the policemen and women behave, and how many people "police" one another in the same way.
In the evening, while walking home through a shady part of town, I saw elderly men and women wearing orange vests.
They were volunteers patrolling the streets, helping drunk people to get home, preventing crimes by their very presence.
I also saw how when somebody does something wrong, within moments a person comes by and points out that they were in error.
Perhaps they give him back a piece of litter that he just threw on the ground, as if it were something that he dropped by accident, or they will point to a sign asking people not to talk on the phone on the train, etc.
I believe that we should be brave enough to stand up to injustices, to point out bad behavior to one another, to help the weak, and to hold higher standards of what is socially acceptable to do and what is not.
Instead of looking at it as if we "police" each other, a better way is to look at it is as if we are all one big family, and by correcting bad behavior, we are mothering, fathering or offering a brotherly and sisterly advice to others.
After all, so many people grow up with no positive role models and no knowledge of what an ethical behavior looks like.
When all of us behave in a more dignified manner, there is less need for the police.
Anyway, these are just a few thoughts about our social responsibilities to each other, and how we can create gentler societies by holding one another accountable for our own actions.
Memories… memories…. we have so many….
I am adding to this post photos of a unique "Sphinx hummingbird Moth" that came to our garden yesterday.


When you click on whatever and get pulled down the rabbit hole…you have made a choice to let someone else's creation sway your brain cells.
In other words, they win.
How do you win instead?
Create more than you consume.
Whether it's writing, building, volunteering or starting a vegetable garden or a new project… anything that you produce yourself as a creative outlet is a win for you.
If nobody else consumes it, big deal. It's your creation, create it for you and let the chips fall where they may.
Just know this…searching for "the juice" on your smartphone or on social media will have the opposite result: you will be drained.
The only way to get that "juice"…is from you. Now go do it and see how it feels.
What's the best book on writing out there…?


August typically brings with it some of the most brutal summer conditions. With temperatures that soar beyond 100 F, and night temperatures that don't always cool off, landscape plants can struggle to perform. However, there are key things you can do to help your landscape plants weather the heat until the return of gentler fall temperatures. With a little additional attention this month to clean up, watering, deadheading spent blooms and pests and diseases, you can give your garden a boost for fall.
Water smart: Irrigation systems can waste a lot of water if they aren't designed correctly and maintained for peak performance. August is a good time to have your system audited, if you haven't already, to make sure you don't have broken irrigation heads, leaks, or pressure problems that could result in water loss to runoff and evaporation. If you live in an area of drought with tight water restrictions, be sure you understand your city's watering ordinance.
Replace Plants: Losing plants from summer heat? Now is a good time to pay attention to which plants aren't performing in your summer climate. It may be time to remove them and consider replacing them with more water-wise specimens come fall. Two plants we love that need very little water once established include Cassia Nemophila, Desert Cassia and Euphorbia rigida, Gopher Spurge. Cassia produces a showy spray of yellow flowers in winter and silvery green foliage year-round. Gopher spurge features upright stems with spirals of slender, blue-green leaves. As their chartreuse flowers expire in fall, they turn a coppery color, giving you another season of interest.
Pests: Summer pests will make a beeline for plants weakened from heat and drought. Choosing the right plants for the right place can help prevent pest infestations naturally. Making sure that each type of plant gets the water and nutrients it needs to stay vigorous will also keep pests at bay. Pests that tend to emerge during the heat of summer include mealybugs, spider mites, leafhoppers and many types of beetles.Keep an eye out for signs of stress on your plants to head off pest infestations.
Fire Protection: Live in a dry area? Dry landscapes and high winds could be a dangerous combination if you live in an area prone to fires. Be sure to keep dead tree limbs, leaves and woody vegetation cleaned up around the landscape, especially near the home. Cut tall grasses, remove weeds and keep gutters clear of debris.


Step one is always to make use of a corer that will equally cores and pieces the apple equally. Discard the cores and place the apple slices in the fermenter immediately. Brew this for FORTY EIGHT hrs, after that take out the actual slices, mash all of them yourself and put them once again into the fermenter. It a very good idea to put all of them into a filter bag so that the pulp could be taken off without difficulty.
If you want to make use of a juicer, then make certain that it can get rid of all of the pulp as it works. The actual motor ought to be a fantastic one so that you wont have any problem while placing the apples. This means that the whole apple juicer really should have wide retailers and inlets that lets you put in your apples without needing to reduce them up.
Home brew cider produced the regular technique of press and pulp is one of the greatest especially if the amount is significant. Pulp the apples first by both hiting these up with a sort or by using the pulper. Once you do this after that you must place the pulp in a press so that you can squeeze the juice out. The number of juice may without doubt depend on the volume of apples you utilize.
Home brew cider made out of a variety of a variety of apples is the finest type. The ones that are well-known and picked time and time again by home brewers are generally small sour, non-keepers or even windfall together with crab-apples. Apples that are selected should be great and never decaying, even though an odd spoilt one would not really make a difference.
Home brew cider that is stored inside a wooden ex-brandy cask (30 gallons is ideal) could keep properly. When you have a plastic cask, it will do as long as it's large ample make it possible for great fermentation of a great quantity of juice. This will likely provide it a greater content of alcohol. Note that the particular cask should stand on its end or side, inside a cool darkish place. Apple juice will begin to ferment following FORTY EIGHT hrs and will carry on to do so for about 3 2 or 3 weeks till it stops. This is whenever TWO to FOUR pounds of sugar per gallon needs to be put into the quantity of veggie juice you have removed from the cask. Add this sweetened liquid slowly and gradually in the cask. After the liquid stops bubbling in the cask could be bunged up tightly with wood or perhaps cork and left for 8 weeks to 2 years.
Home brew cider is mostly produced in the months of Oct or Nov and when it's all set, it must be bottled after due thought. It's a good idea when produced in large/huge amounts.


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Heartland Tech Weekly: Midwest insurance tech startups show promise
Anna Hensel@ahhensel	 August 29, 2018 6:12 PM
Last week, Columbus, Ohio car insurance provider Root Insurance became the latest startup to hit a $1 billion valuation — still a rare feat for any startup, and even rarer for those outside of Silicon Valley.
Root's rapid ascent — it took the company just three years to reach unicorn status — is also indicative of the potential in the Midwest for one promising industry: insurance tech.
Some insurance tech startups underwrite claims and serve as an insurance broker themselves. Others sell data to insurance companies. Regardless, they are using advanced technology, from artificial intelligence to sensor data, to improve some part of the insurance process.
Home to some of the largest insurance companies in the U.S., such as Berkshire Hathaway (Omaha), Nationwide (Columbus), Northwestern Mutual (Milwaukee), State Farm (Illinois) and American Family Insurance (Madison), the Midwest has cultivated plenty of domain experts who understand which legacy insurance processes are ripe for disruption. Root Insurance CEO Alex Timm was formerly a consultant for Nationwide, and Kyle Nakatsuji, the CEO of Clearcover, another venture-backed car insurance startup in the Midwest, used to be a VC with American Family Insurance.
When it comes to hubs for insurance tech startups in the Midwest, Chicago naturally seems to have the most startups tackling insurance. This guest post from last year details a handful of promising insurance tech startups in Chicago, such as Snapsheet and DataCubes, which sell their offerings to insurance companies, and Clearcover and Kin, which act as insurance brokers.
Columbus is also making waves in insurance tech with fast-growing startups that are attracting above-average interest from coastal VCs — both with Root Insurance and Beam Dental, which recently raised a $22 million round led by Kleiner Perkins.
In Madison, Understory is using a mix of hardware and data analytics to aid the insurance industry — the company installs sensors to predict when hail, tornadoes, and other extreme weather will damage a town, so that insurance companies can have a better idea of how many claims adjusters they'll need to send. The company has raised $9.5 million total in VC funding.
None of this accounts for the activity insurance firms themselves have undertaken to fund or create their own quasi-startups, like Northwestern Mutual, which has created a few of its own VC funds to invest in insurance tech startups (including a new fund detailed in this week's "From the Heartland Tech channel" section).
Are there any other promising insurance tech startups in the Midwest that I'm missing? If so, send me an email.
You can sign up here for VentureBeat's Heartland Tech newsletter to get this column in your inbox weekly, and as always, thanks for reading.
Anna Hensel
Heartland Tech Reporter
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Talent will determine the world's next tech investment hubs
GUEST: For years, Silicon Valley wasn't the main place many venture capitalists looked for deals — it was the only place. But the Bay Area is beginning to lose its once vice-like grip on talented workers, and its startup investment market is looking dangerously overheated. Now VCs are lifting their gaze from California and scouting for […]
Foxconn joins with 3 other companies to form $100 million 'Wisconn Valley' venture fund
Four companies with Wisconsin operations announced a $100 million corporate VC fund. Apple supplier Foxconn, insurance company Northwestern Mutual, health care provider Advocate Aurora Health, and building materials supplier Johnson Controls are each investing $25 million in the Wisconn Valley Venture Fund.
Columbus' Root now valued at $1 billion for its mobile data-driven car insurance
Columbus, Ohio car insurance startup Root Insurance announced today that it has raised a $100 million series D round. That's a larger-than-usual raise for many Midwestern startups, but today's raise was made even more notable by the fact that it now values the company at $1 billion.
Beyond VB
Out of the Amazon jobs race, cities talk education, talent
We've all been on a bad blind date. Your aunt swore that you had something in common, but you show up holding your dog-eared copy of "The Hobbit" and she's toting Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code." You just know you're in for two hours of awkward pauses and forced small talk. Even worse: You connect with someone and think there's a spark, but the interest isn't mutual. Your texts are met with stony silence, and you're left to wonder if it was you, not her. (via Medium)
What headlines aren't saying about raising capital in the Midwest
If you start a tech company in the Midwest, you're at a disadvantage for raising capital. That may sound harsh, especially when compared to recent headlines. (via LinkedIn)
Y Combinator learns basic income is not so basic after all
The insecure nature of work is a result of decisions by corporations and policymakers. When we learn about the Industrial Revolution in school, we hear a lot about factories, steam engines, maybe the power loom. We are taught that technological innovation drove social change and radically reshaped the world of work. Likewise, when we talk about today's economy, we focus on smartphones, artificial intelligence, apps. (via Wired)
Startups Move to The Bay Area for Good Reason, but That Advantage May Be Waning
We've heard it in startup communities everywhere — while it's become increasingly likely for high-potential companies to get started but the best ones often leave for Silicon Valley. One of the most commonly-cited reasons is that Valley investors require companies to move. That may be true, but perhaps it's for a much bigger reason — because doing so is beneficial for these companies. But, what do the data say? Jorge Guzman of Columbia University attempted to answer this question. (via Startup Revolution)


Wanna have some Iced Coffee?
Today I'll introduce how you can make Japanese Iced Coffee otherwise known as the Direct Cooling Method.
There apparently wasn't too much of a culture in Europe where the coffee was served cold. Perhaps it started in Japan, I'm not exactly sure but some people experimented with their coffee by cooling it. What they found shifted their world 180 degrees. The coffee was smoother, richer and had flavor profiles absent in the normal hot coffee.
Instead of waiting until the coffee cooled and then put it in the fridge, they decided to cool the coffee directly by using ice directly.
And that's how the Japanese Iced Coffee or Directly Cooled Iced Coffee came from. That's the story I may use when people ask about the origins of Iced Coffee.
Keep two of these pivot points the same and then change one. Keep adjusting until you've found the right balance.
We'll first place the ice in a beaker or a container where we'll be extracting the coffee. The beaker I usually go with is the Hario V60 beaker. It's been handy and useful whenever I make pour over coffee since most drippers fit well on the beaker.
Next we'll grind the coffee beans. The coffee grinder I'm using is called Kalita Next G, very suitable and professional for home-use. I'm going with a grind that's pretty ideal for a pour over.
Here I've set up the Hario V60 dripper and placed a filter paper over it. The grinds go in and we're ready to get extracting. Make sure to level the coffee grinds so they extract evenly.
I usually don't use a scale, since my beaker has measurement lines but this time I will since the ice makes it difficult to know how much I'm actually extracting. I'm using a Tanita kitchen scale but if you want something that's even more equipped for a pout over, the Hario V60 scale might be something you'll like.
I first pour slowly and take some time in my first half achieving a good extraction. I speed up the process in the latter half as most of the umami in the coffee has been extracted and all that's left is to even out the concentration of the coffee.
It's nice to listen to the melting ice, giving that click sound as it melts away.
Once you're done extracting, transfer the iced coffee to a cup. Here I'm pouring the iced coffee into a Riedel Wine Glass. I really like to sip iced coffee using a wine glass or some sort of cup that traps the aroma and brings it to your nostrils.
You can take out the ice if you don't want the coffee becoming less concentrated.


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Max Contag (* 4. Juni 1852 in Numeiten (Ostpreußen); † 15. Juni 1930 in Berlin) war ein deutscher Bauingenieur.

Leben
In Ostpreußen geboren, siedelte Contag bereits in jungen Jahren nach Berlin über. Hier besuchte er das Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster (Abitur 1870) und anschließend die Bauakademie, wo er im Akademischen Verein Motiv aktiv wurde. Nach erfolgreicher staatlicher Prüfung zum Regierungsbaumeister im Jahr 1878 war er zuerst im Staatsdienst im preußischen Wasserbaudienst an der Netze tätig. Am 8. Oktober 1882 gründete er zusammen mit seinem Studienfreund und Bundesbruder Christian Havestadt die Ingenieurfirma Havestadt & Contag, die sich auf die Bearbeitung und Bauleitung von Ingenieurbauten spezialisierte. Als bedeutendstes Werk der sehr erfolgreichen Firma gilt der Teltowkanal, der unter der Bauleitung von Havestadt & Contag errichtet wurde. 1920 zog er sich aus der Firma zurück, blieb aber weiter als Fachautor und Gutachter aktiv.

In der Stadtgemeinde Berlin-Wilmersdorf war Contag Stadtverordneter.

Contags Grab befindet sich auf dem Friedhof Wilmersdorf.

Ehrungen
 1896: Ernennung zum Königlichen Baurat
 1904: Großer Preis auf der Weltausstellung in St. Louis
 1917: Verleihung des Titels Geheimer Baurat
 1919: Wahl in die Preußische Akademie des Bauwesens.
 Ehrenmitglied des Akademischen Vereins Motiv

Literatur
 Max Contag †. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, 50. Jahrgang, Nr. 27 (9. Juli 1930), S. 494.
 Max Contag †. In: Die Bautechnik, 8. Jahrgang, Heft 30 (11. Juli 1930), S. 473.

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