Crowds gathered in excess outside the Skylight at Moynihan Station in New York City on a balmy Monday night to see the return of Anniesa Hasibuan to New York Fashion Week. The Jakarta-based designer is known for her unique women's evening wear, which combines classic techniques, Indonesian inspiration, with a distinct Muslim tradition. Updating the Hijab with crystal-crusted eyewear, pajama pants and chic layering, Anniesa took the headscarf and made it a high-fashion runway mainstay.
A vast expanse of muted pastels was the base for the collection. Dusty pinks, moss, and lilac silks were prevalent as the primary hues for her designs, and then diversified with rich metallics. Embellishments of crystal, pearl, gold, and silver made each piece sparkle with light. Intricate beadwork on capes and skirts yielded a weighted texture to the otherwise light and flowy garments.
Silk caftans and robes were layered in many ensembles, several of which had extended trains that caught the air with stunning movement and draping. Silk pajama pants paired with heels modernised the otherwise customary aesthetics. An intricately beaded white leather jacket was almost blindingly luminescent while tailored silk taffeta blazers brought an updated and more linear feel to the collection. A standout piece was an impeccably tailored cropped seafoam satin jacket with an almost gravity-defying peplum bustle.
The show completed its circulation with a number of multi-layered jewel-laden pieces in an brighter array of colours than previously showed, and lights dimmed. The shaded figure of the model in Anniesa's final look made her way to the centre of the top of the runway in silhouette, two assistants in tow to fan out her train. The light came back up to the audible excitement of the spectators. The model walked forward, arms outstretched to greet her adoring public in an elaborate, gold-trimmed white gown complete with pearl studded veil. Her extended walk effused the true wealth and expanse of the collection. An assistant was spotted backstage crying with relief.
The visual impact of Anniesa's show was truly felt as she made her way down the length of the runway. The collection truly worthy of the crowds extended cheering. Making the headscarf an accessible and wearable feature in this collection brought together what was once perceived as two different worlds. Western glamour blended with Muslim tradition and Indonesian ethnic flair truly made worlds come together, complete with pearls, silk and gold.
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Off the shoulder tops are a must have this season. As simple as they may be, they give a sophisticated touch to a look of your choice. They are most definitely a comfortable slip-on and very easy to pair up; be it with shorts, jeans or even a long skirt.
Whatever the occasion, get yourself an off-the-shoulder top to put you in the right mood. They are also what I call accessory highlighters – they complement whatever accessory you choose to put on. I don't see why you should spend hours deciding on what to wear when LEGiT has a variety of off the shoulder tops fit for any get-together.


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Two local restaurants are now serving the leading brands in sustainable, beef-like patties
The Impossible Burger is made from plants, but tastes like beef.
Though humans haven't yet perfected lab-grown meat, food scientists have finally mastered the art of the meat-like, all-plant patty. Leading the charge — and the buzz — is the Silicon Valley-developed IMPOSSIBLE BURGER, an all-natural patty made from wheat, potatoes, coconut oil and heme, an iron-based compound abundant in red meats. The heme helps the product sizzle, "bleed" and purportedly smell as close to beef as a lab-made burger can get, sans steer. Acclaimed chefs and food critics both are in awe of the Impossible Burger; some even saying it's difficult to distinguish its traits from actual ground beef.
In the past year and a half, the Impossible Burger has gradually expanded its reach across the U.S., though it's only served in select restaurants. Until very recently, the nearest you could find it was in Seattle and Portland, but one Spokane spot (so far) is offering the Impossible on its menu: CASCADIA PUBLIC HOUSE. There, the plant patty is topped with butter lettuce, tomato, red onion, house fry sauce and the option of cheese, albeit for a bit steeper a price ($16, comes with a side) than its all-beef competitors because of the product's higher wholesale price.
"We have a lot of vegans and vegetarians coming in who are excited about it, but there's even a level of intrigue from non-vegans who've wanted to try it and see if they could tell the difference," says Cascadia co-owner Jordan Smith.
It's even duped practicing vegans who thought the kitchen accidentally made them beef, he adds.
But what's so great about making a plant-made patty taste, look and feel like meat, when vegetarians and vegans have plenty of delicious options already? Environmental impact: "Compared to cows, the Impossible Burger uses 95 percent less land, 74 percent less water, and creates 87 percent less greenhouse gas emissions," the brand's website claims.
Inlander hot take: I, too, was stunned at how eerily close to the texture, flavor and look of ground beef the Impossible Burger truly is. If you put one side-by-side with, say, a standard drive-thru hamburger, I truly believe many tasters would be hard-pressed to determine a difference.
Another meat-like burger currently being served on at least one other local menu (it's also found at some area grocers, in the meat aisle) is the BEYOND BURGER. It's slightly less meaty-tasting than its aforementioned competitor, but still stands out from other faux meats on the market, and is thus worth trying.
Made by Beyond Meat from pea protein isolate, canola and coconut oils and beets, the Beyond Burger is also soy- and gluten-free. Now that it's being distributed locally by food services company Sysco, area restaurants can offer their own creative takes on the innovative beef-subbing patty. THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE in the South Perry District is the first known restaurant to do so, offering the Beyond Burger as its January burger special ($14, with a side), and potentially as a menu mainstay if it sells well, says Lantern kitchen manager Alexandria Fisher. She and her team are topping the Beyond with an ale mustard, arugula, red onions, smashed garlic and a Sriracha drizzle.
"It's a really good option for people who used to eat meat, or just don't like meat and want to have a burger," Fisher says. "We think it tastes great and want people to come try it even if they aren't vegetarian and they do like hamburgers."
Inlander hot take: While I personally prefer the Impossible over the Beyond as a beef burger replacement, I've also made this one at home and think the Lantern's prep is far better. (The spicy arugula and mustard perfectly complement the savory and slightly sweet patty.) The Beyond Burger's texture and flavor, however, still far outpace other mainstream veggie burger brands' products, like Boca and Morning Star. ♦
The original print version of this article was headlined "Beyond Impossible"
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Q: why sometimes touching old flickering tube lights starts them properly In my old house there are two old tube lights. Some times they don't start properly, (specially at evening time, may be it is because of low voltage), they starts flickering i.e. on and off continuously. And when my elder brother touches them, mostly at center they just goes on. Even i have tried many times, the touching works, and even after removing the hand, once it is on(working properly), doesn't stop them, and they remains on.
So why and how touching them works.
Sorry for my bad English.
Thanks in advance.

A: I've found this to be the case, too. Generally, my shop lights will flicker when turning on, especially when it is colder outside  .
There are two basic phases to this kind of light bulb: a start-up phase, and an operating phase. The start-up requires more voltage, because you are initiating the plasma stream between the terminals of the bulb.
So, these bulbs are filled with gas, generally mercury vapor. When you turn it on, you're really creating an electrical arc at the end of the bulb. This arc ionizes the gas, and that is the flickering you see. Eventually, the entire length of the bulb can arc, and a plasma stream is created (plasma is just a gas of free-moving ions and electrons).
When it is cold, or if the starter arcs are wearing out (and can't produce sufficient voltage), then the flickering lasts longer. By touching the bulb, you actually provide a shorter path for the plasma stream! In effect, you get two short plasma streams, each terminating at your touch point. Then, once the plasma streams interact, and since the voltage required to maintain the stream is less than the voltage needed to establish it, the streams merge into one and the lamp will light.
This is similar to some "glowing orbs" you see in gift shops or museums... a glowing plasma (looks like lightning inside a clear spherical shell) will arc and bend toward your touch, since you are providing your own set of electric and magnetic fields.

A: I'll throw this into the mix. If I plug in one end of my guitar cable to my amp, turn the amp on, bring up the volume a little, and touch only the center contact on the other end of the cable, I get a loud 60 Hertz buzz from my amp. I believe this is because my body is acting as an antenna - picking up some radiation from the house wiring, which is typically unshielded.
Could this "antenna effect" also play a part in triggering the fluorescent lamps to light when they are touched?
I also know that if you take a fluorescent tube and go stand under a high voltage line, it will glow because of the very high E-field levels.

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I've just receieved this from "Jean the Organiser" otf the Model Boat Convention.
Any one in the area want to display your Type VII?!
Should your Club wish to be part of this display we would ask that you advise us as soon as possible but no later than the 30th November of the boats you would wish to display. Priority will be given to naval and merchant vessels, particularly those involved in the Battle of the Atlantic. The other theme is "the sea past, current and future" which can incorporate tugs, cruisers, merchant vessels, pilot boats, ferries etc. Lifeboats may also be included. Obviously space will be limited and we will need the displays to conform with the theme and give as wide a representation of the vessels involved as possible.
Obviously this will necessitate a considerable amount of organisation in conjuntion with Liverpool Council. In order to allocate space etc., we would ask you to provide the names of the boats and their dimensions.
The display will be billed as the Model Boat Convention displaying at the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic in Liverpool and because of this the Convention Committee reserve the right to accept or reject any submission for display.
Nearby parking will be provided for exhibitors.
We do hope that you will feel able to support the Convention Committee in their efforts to support such a prestigious event.


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Home Earthquake Underwater telecom cables make superb seismic network
Underwater telecom cables make superb seismic network
Researchers employed 20 kilometers (pink) of a 51-kilometer undersea fiber-optic cable, normally used to communicate with an off-shore science node (MARS, Monterey Accelerated Research System), as a seismic array to study the fault zones under Monterey Bay. During the four-day test, the scientists detected a magnitude 3.5 earthquake 45 kilometers away in Gilroy, and mapped previously uncharted fault zones (yellow circle). Credit: Nate Lindsey, UC Berkeley
Fiber-optic cables that constitute a global undersea telecommunications network could one day help scientists study offshore earthquakes and the geologic structures hidden deep beneath the ocean surface.
In a paper appearing this week in the journal Science, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and Rice University describe an experiment that turned 20 kilometers of undersea fiber-optic cable into the equivalent of 10,000 seismic stations along the ocean floor. During their four-day experiment in Monterey Bay, they recorded a 3.5 magnitude quake and seismic scattering from underwater fault zones.
Their technique, which they had previously tested with fiber-optic cables on land, could provide much-needed data on quakes that occur under the sea, where few seismic stations exist, leaving 70% of Earth's surface without earthquake detectors.
"There is a huge need for seafloor seismology. Any instrumentation you get out into the ocean, even if it is only for the first 50 kilometers from shore, will be very useful," said Nate Lindsey, a UC Berkeley graduate student and lead author of the paper.
Lindsey and Jonathan Ajo-Franklin, a geophysics professor at Rice University in Houston and a visiting faculty scientist at Berkeley Lab, led the experiment with the assistance of Craig Dawe of MBARI, which owns the fiber-optic cable. The cable stretches 52 kilometers offshore to the first seismic station ever placed on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, put there 17 years ago by MBARI and Barbara Romanowicz, a UC Berkeley Professor of the Graduate School in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science. A permanent cable to the Monterey Accelerated Research System (MARS) node was laid in 2009, 20 kilometers of which were used in this test while off-line for yearly maintenance in March 2018.
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"This is really a study on the frontier of seismology, the first time anyone has used offshore fiber-optic cables for looking at these types of oceanographic signals or for imaging fault structures," said Ajo-Franklin. "One of the blank spots in the seismographic network worldwide is in the oceans."
The ultimate goal of the researchers' efforts, he said, is to use the dense fiber-optic networks around the world—probably more than 10 million kilometers in all, on both land and under the sea—as sensitive measures of Earth's movement, allowing earthquake monitoring in regions that don't have expensive ground stations like those that dot much of earthquake-prone California and the Pacific Coast.
"The existing seismic network tends to have high-precision instruments, but is relatively sparse, whereas this gives you access to a much denser array," said Ajo-Franklin.
Photonic seismology
The technique the researchers use is Distributed Acoustic Sensing, which employs a photonic device that sends short pulses of laser light down the cable and detects the backscattering created by strain in the cable that is caused by stretching. With interferometry, they can measure the backscatter every 2 meters (6 feet), effectively turning a 20-kilometer cable into 10,000 individual motion sensors.
"These systems are sensitive to changes of nanometers to hundreds of picometers for every meter of length," Ajo-Franklin said. "That is a one-part-in-a-billion change."
Earlier this year, they reported the results of a six-month trial on land using 22 kilometers of cable near Sacramento emplaced by the Department of Energy as part of its 13,000-mile ESnet Dark Fiber Testbed. Dark fiber refers to optical cables laid underground, but unused or leased out for short-term use, in contrast to the actively used "lit" internet. The researchers were able to monitor seismic activity and environmental noise and obtain subsurface images at a higher resolution and larger scale than would have been possible with a traditional sensor network.
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"The beauty of fiber-optic seismology is that you can use existing telecommunications cables without having to put out 10,000 seismometers," Lindsey said. "You just walk out to the site and connect the instrument to the end of the fiber."
During the underwater test, they were able to measure a broad range of frequencies of seismic waves from a magnitude 3.4 earthquake that occurred 45 kilometers inland near Gilroy, California, and map multiple known and previously unmapped submarine fault zones, part of the San Gregorio Fault system. They also were able to detect steady-state ocean waves—so-called ocean microseisms—as well as storm waves, all of which matched buoy and land seismic measurements.
"We have huge knowledge gaps about processes on the ocean floor and the structure of the oceanic crust because it is challenging to put instruments like seismometers at the bottom of the sea," said Michael Manga, a UC Berkeley professor of earth and planetary science. "This research shows the promise of using existing fiber-optic cables as arrays of sensors to image in new ways. Here, they've identified previously hypothesized waves that had not been detected before."
According to Lindsey, there's rising interest among seismologists to record Earth's ambient noise field caused by interactions between the ocean and the continental land: essentially, waves sloshing around near coastlines.
"By using these coastal fiber optic cables, we can basically watch the waves we are used to seeing from shore mapped onto the seafloor, and the way these ocean waves couple into the Earth to create seismic waves," he said.
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To make use of the world's lit fiber-optic cables, Lindsey and Ajo-Franklin need to show that they can ping laser pulses through one channel without interfering with other channels in the fiber that carry independent data packets. They're conducting experiments now with lit fibers, while also planning fiber-optic monitoring of seismic events in a geothermal area south of Southern California's Salton Sea, in the Brawley seismic zone.
N.J. Lindsey at University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, CA el al., "Illuminating seafloor faults and ocean dynamics with dark fiber distributed acoustic sensing," Science (2019). science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi … 1126/science.aay5881
Note: The above post is reprinted from materials provided by University of California – Berkeley.
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I believe that if insurers are able to harness wearables data and a whole lot of other engagement platforms together, they can not only have a real time view of how the consumers are performing, but they can also make tweaks into behaviors which eventually reduce the risk and of course make the insurance companies more profitable.
The future of wellness in the insurance industry is going to be all about empowering the consumer to take charge of their own life. It is about making healthy choices, helping them change their behavior and motivating them to make those changes so that they can actively remain healthy rather than become sick and then figure out how to manage a sickness.
Wearables enable you to suddenly unlock a whole set of data around your daily health and lifestyle. And this data is now going to help motivate you to make changes which will help you live a better lifestyle.
While everybody wants to remain healthy and make healthier choices, most people lack the motivation to do that. Unfortunately, since we are humans, we can't be accountable to bots or notifications. Accountability works when a real human is on the other end. Wearable combined with data, combined with a health coach and combined with various aspects of an ecosystem can make the behavior changes, which is why we believe the future of insurance will be a combination of man and machine where together will make the world healthier and a better place."


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Shimla runs out of water; residents, tourists sweat
All water channels in Shimla and its suburbs have dried up this summer owing to less snowfall in the past winter and less rains thereafter.
india Updated: May 29, 2018 08:46 IST
Gaurav Bisht
Gaurav Bisht, Hindustan Times, Shimla
Residents queue up to collect drinking water from a tanker in Shimla. (PTI Photo)
Shimla is witnessing a major water crisis during peak tourist season with taps running dry for the eighth day in most parts of the city, forcing people to buy water at exorbitant prices and smaller hotels to cancel bookings even as drinking water supply in the Queen of Hills fell to less than 50% of requirements, courtesy a dry winter.
On Sunday night, about 100 people staged a midnight sit-in protest outside the waterworks office on the main Mall Road and the police stopped them from heading towards the residence of chief minister Jai Ram Thakur, who on Monday constituted a committee headed by chief secretary Vineet Chowdhary to monitor daily water supply.
The Himachal high court on Monday took suo moto cognizance of the crisis, after the local bar association stopped work citing the water problem.
The court asked municipal commissioner Rohit Jamwal and other municipal officials to appear in person on Tuesday to explain the reasons for the acute water shortage.
Brij Mohan Chauhan, president of Himachal Bar Association, said: "We haven't seen such a situation in the last 20 years. The government has failed to provide even drinking water to people." Jamwal termed the situation unusual, but seemed to suggest that the crisis has been in the making for some time. He said over the past three summers, water availability had plunged to 29 or 30 million litres per day (MLD). "This year we are able to supply only about 20 MLD. That makes it tough to match demand," he said. The water demand in Shimla during peak tourist season is around 45 MLD.
The water crunch had forced locals to spend several hours in queues to get a bucket of water, buy from private water suppliers at double the normal rates, or even, for those who can afford to do it, leave Shimla for the comfort of their villages. "There is no water in the area for the last one week. The residents were told that supply would be restored on Sunday but nothing happened. The people are agitated about the (government) inaction. Most of the traders kept waiting for water the entire say," said Congress councilor Sushma Kuthiala.
However, places like Kasumpti haven't had supply for 11 days. "Some areas are inaccessible as even tankers cannot supply water there," says Narender Thakur, a former councillor.
The water shortage has hit hotels hard. "Many bookings have been cancelled in the last two to three days. When the government cannot provide water then it should stop promoting Shimla as tourist destination," says Suresh Dogra, a travel agent on the Mall Road. A majority of hoteliers in Shimla have engaged private tankers to make up for the shortage but the supply is not enough to meet demand. "I cancelled my booking in Shimla after a local hotelier told me that he could not assure adequate water," said Noida resident Raman Singh.
Gumma, the main source of water to the city, draws water from Shimla catchment sanctuary which is fed by nine streams. The British built a large storage tank for supply to the main town. Other sources are Chairh, Giri and Churat. Supply from Ashwani Khad was suspended two years ago after sewage contamination led to a jaundice outbreak.
First Published: May 29, 2018 08:26 IST
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De Raptu Proserpinae Bk. II, line 302 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/De_Raptu_Proserpinae/2*.html#302. Variant translation: Death makes all things equal.
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It is an agonising time for Ericsson 3 as Magnus OLSSON watches the rest of the fleet catching him as his team fights yet another high-pressure area, which sits between them and the finish of leg five in Rio de Janeiro.
Over the past 24 hours, second-placed Ericsson 4 has closed the gap to 57nm, gaining 29 miles. PUMA too has knocked a dent in the deficit and is now just 116nm behind Ericsson 3, a gain of 89nm in 24 hours. These three yachts are now 400nm of the coast of Uruguay, roughly parallel to Cabo Palinio.
"Fighting against a front and staying in it has been on the agenda many times in this leg. You may win a lot of miles by doing so, but if you fall short, the wind will back and you start to lose," says Ericsson 3's watch captain Thomas JOHANSSON (FIN). "We are humans and not robots, so we too start to feel tired and are especially fed up with these fights," he added.
Green Dragon is still closer inshore, 210nm off Mar del Plata in Argentina, which was a stopover in the 1981-82 Whitbread Race. Their inshore move, while looking disastrous yesterday, has gained the team 78nm, just as navigator Wouter VERBRAAK (NED) hoped it would.
With just 771 miles still to run for Ericsson 3 before crossing the finish line in Rio and the safe haven of Marina Da Gloria where hot showers, cool beers and famous Brazilian food await, boat speeds are down to under 10 knots and yet the distance is tantalisingly close.
The only boat achieving a reasonable speed is Telefónica Blue, but she still languishes at the tail end of the fleet, some 586 miles behind the leaders.
Current predictions are for a finish for Ericsson 3, provided she can hold off the advances of Ericsson 4, on Wednesday morning, with the other two podium places being decided later in the day. Green Dragon is forecast to finish a day behind, in the afternoon of 26 March, while Telefónica Blue still has just over 1,300nm still to run.


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WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has paid for another Institute of Medicine (IOM) meeting on August 23rd to do its dirty work in hiding the vaccine-autism link.
This time they want to deny access to the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) containing data that could further confirm the link between thimerosal, the mercury-based preservative found in vaccines and flu shots, to neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and ADHD. The VSD, housed at the CDC, is an epidemiological gold mine recording millions of doses of vaccines and has cost taxpayers $11 million a year for 14 years.
In Oct. 2003, at the behest of Congress, two independent researchers were the first to gain access to the database. They found shocking evidence that the link between autism and thimerosal was real. Data prove that children are 27 times more likely to develop autism after exposure to three TCVs, than those who receive thimerosal-free versions. (Symptoms of autism and mercury poisoning are almost identical.) The relative risk of 27 is higher than that between lung cancer and smoking, which according to the American Cancer Society is only 22 for men and 11 for women.
Soon after, the CDC denied further access to these investigators. Congressman Dave Weldon (R-FL) and others got involved to help but with no success. Now, 10 months later, the CDC wants to close the VSD forever to those who seek the truth. CDC officials say it's to protect patient privacy.
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At present, there are two little words left dangling off the title of a free-trade agreement that the U.S. has been involved with negotiating since 2009. The Trans-Pacific "Strategic Economic" Partnership Agreement, or what we generally call the TPP, has been mostly framed as a secret free-trade agreement that is being advised by 600 of the largest corporations undermining government regulations on the environment, labor, finance and other regulatory industries; a 21st-century neoliberal assault that aims to streamline the global supply chain and undermine the sovereign integrity of states.
What has received less attention is that this strategic economic partnership has in large part, taken the form of a policy initiative called the Pacific Pivot, a shifting of military resources into the Pacific.
For context, agreements to enter TPP talks occurred before the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in mid-September of 2008 ignited the economic collapse of our financial sector. Within days, CEOs of many of the top U.S. corporations who lost their short-term investments with Lehman's collapse threatened Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson of walking away from their posts unless the federal government bailed them out. A walk-out by the CEOs of the top fast-food and retail business chains would threaten the government of having to react to unprecedented unemployment. It was clear that if CEOs did not receive a bail out, a large percentage of the 99% who live off their service-sector jobs would suddenly stop receiving paychecks. On Oct. 1st, President Bush signed the $700 billion dollars Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). By March of 2009, within months of Obama's presidency, the Federal Reserve committed $7.77 trillion dollars to rescue the financial system. When Obama won the presidency he not only inherited the financial collapse, but the TPP as well. Let that sink in for a minute.
By 2011, the Trans Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership had expanded to nine countries, and at the APEC meeting in Hawaii, it was announced that Canada and Mexico were joining and most suspected that it was just a matter of time before Japan would join talks.
Today, with it's current 12-nation membership, the combined GDP of TPP countries is more that $26 trillion dollars, representing over a third of global GDP.
During APEC 2011, Obama unveiled his Pacific Pivot, a shifting of 60% of U.S. military resources from Iraq and Afghanistan, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The policy was addressed by Hillary Clinton in a Foreign Policy op-ed a month earlier, called "America's Pacific Century," in which she outlined a six-point plan. These include: 1) strengthening bilateral security alliances; 2) deepening our working relationship with emerging powers; 3) engaging with regional multilateral institutions; 4) expanding trade and investment; 5) forging a broad-based military presence; and 6) advancing democracy and human rights.
Further, Clinton described the progress of the TPP as bringing coherence to the U.S. regulatory system and the "efiiciency of supply chains," and hopes that the TPP agreement will eventually form the regional interaction of an FTAAP.
As an FTAAP, the TPP was meant to be a potentially APEC-wide free-trade agreement. APEC, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation has often been described as "four adjectives in search of a noun." However, the term "economic cooperation," much like "strategic" has a very precise meaning, too. The 1948 Economic Cooperation Act (ECA), aka the "Marshall Plan" was as much a military and strategic international agreement as it was a development/aid and investment strategy. The ECA provided development and aid to war torn Europe in exchange for its commitment to US-free market trade rules, which is arguably the rod that pulled the Iron Curtain of the Cold War. The USSR was working off an entirely different development and economic stabilization model that was "inter-dependent" of states trading resources to build their own infrastructure and labor programs towards full-employment.
"Economic Cooperation" became the moniker in International Organization-speak for a post-war U.S. economic strategy that aimed to centralize free-market development and trade among cooperating countries and their territories. The Economic Cooperation Act harmonized branches of the State Department, the various bureaus within the Departments of Labor, Commerce, and Agriculture, the Treasury, the Washington Import-Export Bank, and created an entirely new international union called the International Confederation of Free-Trade Unions. The stated purpose of harmonizing these departments were to conform to changes motivated by the creation of the United Nations while protecting commercial interests. In terms of development and aid, this meant rebuilding Europe's infrastructure with a sizable quota of U.S. labor, while providing participating countries with development funds for small and medium-sized businesses. This aid was provided in exchange for cooperating with a list of fundamental reforms in currency, trade, shipping and banking rules. Additionally, these reforms also included more open access to the commodity resources of the economic cooperation's old territories (most of which were listed as non-self-governing territories in accordance with Chapter 11 of the UN Charter).
Russia, after rejecting economic cooperation in 1948, joined APEC in 1998, seven years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
The TPP is a strategic agreement between the United States, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Canada, Australia, NZ, and Japan. There is no Soviet threat, and no Russian participation in the TPP. Also missing from the TPP is China, the second largest economy in the world, and it's absence reflects the TPP's move away from its originally designed FTAAP. For the US, China's rise is perceived as a threat to its global economic hegemony, and unless the US is able to contain China's economy, the TPP serves as a kind of China containment strategy.
Despite rising tensions over disputed maritime boundaries in what is conventionally considered the South China Sea, the catalyst for this threat over Chinese military aggression is, rather, the Chinese investment process. China's system of State-owned investment (SOI) has won them favor in the Africa, Middle East, Pacific, Caribbean, and Central/South America regions, in many of the same resource-rich countries that the U.S. and its allies struggled to control during the post-war years.
Currently, neither the US nor the EU have the regulatory means or authority to stop competing Chinese investment protocols, however, the new EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) may try to develop new investment and trade rules allowing for a greater capacity to compete with China over the investment of the commodity resources in developing countries.
One of the result's of China's economic success in negotiating regional and global trade is that China has the economic clout to partner with other ex-colonial or non-ECA partners, Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa to potentially give rise to a new currency reserve based on what Goldman Sachs termed BRICS.
A reserve currency stabilizes currencies in participating markets and provides greater access for trade. Without a stabilizing currency, trade in the global market would be extremely slow and cumbersome, particularly since every currency and commodity trade has to be valued against the perpetual fluctuations of a basket of unstable markets.
The standard economic indicator that is used to measure the strength of our national economies for trade is GDP, a national accounting system that was defined by the U.S. in 1953 and has been revised via the UN System of National Accounts in 1993 and in 2008. How we account for GDP is the index through which we measure national economies and the value of our currencies in trade.
The rise of the BRICS as a competing reserve currency is technically what the IMF calls, Special Drawing Rights (SDR) and the role of a BRICS SDR would be to stabilize fluctuating currencies among the emerging or developing trade partners. From the perspective of the dominant US and the EU economies, the rise of BRICS is both in direct competition and symbiotic to the reserve currency held by the US Treasury, which not coincidentally, was also a process that resulted from the Economic Cooperation Act.
What the move towards BRICS means for developing economies is that it is a viable alternative to the World Bank, the Asia Development Bank, and other global financial institutions that demand structured repayment of their loans and investments for the development of infrastructure services facilitating, for example, resource acquisition and extraction industries. As is evident, the turnaround time for the development of infrastructure projects don't often fall into the time frame or profit margins demanded by investment banks, and China and the state-owned investment banks are able to restructure debt payments in a way that doesn't criminalize governments and peoples, as it did with Greece, which perhaps coincidentally, was the first country to receive post-war security and development assistance. The 1947 "Bill to provide assistance to Greece and Turkey Act," was the direct precursor to the establishment of the 1948 Economic Cooperation Act.
In July of 2012, the World Bank launched a program to raise $400 billion dollars to finance development needs through a global tax reform. Primarily targeting the top transnational corporations, it appears that this global tax reform is being harmonized in coordination with a wide range of global governance reforms and new international programs that reaches towards meeting the 2015 UN Millennium Development Goals, addressing economic and environmental reform, poverty reduction and other development needs. If there is an agenda to harmonize these global governance reforms, then arguably, the rush to conclude the TPP/TTIP at its present timetable seeks to use the combined economic weight of the U.S. cooperation as leverage to assert its influence and role in reforming global markets.
To be clear, I don't want to suggest that these global governance reforms are directed towards containing China or BRICS, but I do think that the interests of the large transnationals and extractive industries are lobbying for governments to ensure that any new revision to global governance is designed to meet the demands of industries.
As recently as last September for example, the final declaration from the G20 summit reaffirmed their support for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a tax and trade initiative comprised of the industrial mining and mineral sector.
Although many rightfully take issue with calling China a containment strategy in the way we might talk about containing North Korea, I'd suggest that what we are actually seeing is more of a containerment strategy. For one thing, as long as China's relationships with their trade partners remain productive, China is beyond being contained and any attempt at containing China would likely be seen as a deluded conceit.
There are, however, other strategies that could be employed that can impede China's transport of materials, resources and manufactured goods, and one of those is controlling the shipping lanes. As long as the US maintains the transpacific partnerships, the US will continue patrolling and assisting to militarize the shipping lanes. As the image to the left shows, China's container traffic (in yellow) measures 5000+ transits a year exceeding 10,000 gross tonnage per ship, or 13+ transits a day.
As BRICS economies become the favored trade partner with many of the developing resource-rich countries, and with China being the manufacturing powerhouse that it is, how does the US and EU maintain their influence when their investment procedures have become outmoded? BRICS has a procedural, if not fraternal advantage over the US/EU, and the rise of the BRICS economies will likely attract further partnerships among the developing countries.
Revisiting the old colonial power's administrative strategy which has been employed for centuries, the U.S. appears to be further militarizing the shipping lanes in accordance with today's customary international maritime law. Of course innocent passage through territorial seas is a right of nations, however, there are a wide range of U.S. laws and new treaty obligations pertaining to fisheries, wildlife, customs, immigration, environmental protection, marine safety that are enforced by regional or national agencies and could be used to involve the Department of Defense, not to mention the transport of illegal substances and weapons, which would directly involve the military.
In preparation for the writing of this article, I read through the Annotated Supplement to the Commander's Handbook on the Law of Naval Operations, Oceans Law and Policy to get a sense of the procedures with which ships could be detained in the territorial waters of cooperating countries. Without overreaching, the U.S could– within the reach of international law– control the passage of ships through territorial waters while employing a program of peaceful transit passage. This is equivalent to putting up stoplights on freeways or highways and allowing the police to randomly search your vehicle.
What was strange was that the timing of this seizure occurred just days after Nicaragua announced that it had signed that investment deal by a Chinese billionaire, to build a Nicaraguan canal that would essentially open the Asia-Pacific with the Caribbean and its Atlantic-American trade partners, via Nicaragua's maritime boundaries and outside the jurisdiction of the U.S. military. It has been put forward by some reports that the Chinese government is behind this investment deal.
Regional free-trade agreements and other bilateral trade agreements are pathways through which we could impose our strategic economic influence and destabilization policies, encouraging public consent of US maritime security in the region.
If we map out China's main transport route for importing resources from Africa, the Middle East, Russia, and the Pacific, and we impose the militarized areas of multi-laterel or bilateral FTA or Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) countries, the first thing that we notice is that these are mostly militarized choke points that have become unstable since the signing of these agreements.
• The Strait of Malacca which is part of Malaysia/Singapore and the access route for China to the Middle East and Africa already had a strong presence via COMLOG WESTPAC; and was established at the Port of Singapore Authority after it relocated from Subic Bay, Philippines, when the base was closed in 1992.
• The Spratly Islands are 45 islands occupied by military forces of China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Brunei. Besides China, all of the countries with a claim in the Spratly Islands are TPP countries, or have, in the case of the Philippines a TIFA with the U.S. Despite these overlapping territorial claims, the Association of Southeast Asian Countries (ASEAN) have been at the forefront negotiating a resolve over these long-held historical disputes.
ASEAN is also a regional forum of which the U.S. attends but is not a member and China and ASEAN members have begun negotiations over what can be seen as a competing trade alignment to the TPP, the China-led Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). Whichever agreement concludes first will establish the rules of trade in the region, and just as China will be free to join the TPP if it adopts and conforms to US-led rules, the U.S. too will be free to join the expanded ASEAN+, if the RCEP should conclude first. Neither China nor the US will be excluded from the TPP or the RCEP once concluded. At the moment, I'd argue, the race is over investment and trade rules.
• Jeju, aka "Peace Island" is a pristine island belonging to South Korea and is at the nose of the Korea strait leading from the South China Sea to the East Sea or the Sea of Japan. The militarization of Jeju by the ROK in 2011 has been controversial because it is a multiple UNESCO World Heritage Site, a major tourist attraction and has been a symbol of Peace following the slaughter of up to 80,000 civilians by ROK troops during a democratic uprising in 1948. It should not be thought of as merely coincidence that the militarization of Jeju was announced after the KORUS FTA was signed in 2007, and just after the conclusion of new agreements in 2010.
On March 26, 2010, forty-six South Korean sailors were killed in an explosion that sank the Cheonan, a South Korean Pohang-class corvette of the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN). An international team of investigators, which excluded both China and Russia, concluded that the fragments of the torpedo which was said to have sank the Cheonan was North Korean. At the time of this sinking, the US and the ROKN were in the midst of one of the largest and longest running wargames, Key Resolve-Foal Eagle. The controversy over who sank the Cheonan has not been resolved, particularly since accusations of a North Korean sub infiltrating South Korean waters during these war games and escaping have been largely dismissed by critics and independent observers. However, the effect of this tragedy was enough for President Lee to stir Koreans into supporting further militarization.
How Jeju conforms to the China "containerment" theory, is that commodity resources are also being shipped from Vladivostok, and a new port on the North Korean side of the Tumen river where China, Russia and North Korea share borders. China and Russia have just signed leases allowing them access to the new North Korean harbor which is said to be a very deep and fast port, and unlike Vladivostok, it is open year round and not susceptible to closures because of ice.
Following this action, nationalist protests erupted in both Japan and China. Discussions about expanding the role of Japan's SDF, including the redrafting of Article 9, which prohibits Japan from possessing military power were held, and as of October 3, 2013, Japan and the U.S. concluded a joint statement implementing military cooperation meeting Japan's regional military objectives.
Japan had been teetering on the TPP fence, since the U.S. announced it was joining talks. Japan's powerful agriculture lobby was adamantly opposed to Japan joining the TPP, understanding that any agreement would threaten government protections of rice and small family rice farmers, the backbone of Japanese agriculture. However, the TPP had very wide support among the business and commerce, manufacturing and automobile sectors and this was reflected by the conservative Liberal Democratic Party win of both the Upper and Lower house of the Japanese Diet.
Despite the shroud of secrecy that continues to enfold TPP negotiations, when it came to Japan, every nuance had been magnified. For many following the TPP as closely as we've been able to over the last few years, the question of whether Japan would join or not would unfold how the TPP would conclude, if at all.
Because of the size and influence of the Japanese economy, some thought that Japan joining would end up stalling the negotiations, others thought Japan joining would ensure quick conclusion, either way, it was anticipated that with Japan's entry, new concessions and demands would have to be met, and this would include US-Japan Defense Cooperation.
When the Oct. 3rd high-level US-Japan Security Consultative Committee met in Tokyo, new bilateral planning over the sharing of defense technology and facilities were established, strengthening Japan's SDF, integrating Japan in "multilateral cooperation" in trade, maritime security, disaster relief and trilateral cooperation between Australia and the ROK, and realigning U.S. forces in Japan.
Two years later, Hung's analysis appears to have rung true. On March 16th, 2013, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, formally announce that Japan would join the TPP. What followed is that in May, two months later, China's alternative to the TPP, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) held it's first meeting in Brunei with ASEAN+6 members (which include Australia, Japan, South Korea, India and New Zealand). In June, Hong Kong billionaire, Wang Jing, signed the inter-oceanic Nicaragua canal investment deal with Nicaragua president Daniel Ortega to develop a $40 billion project in the U.S. hemisphere. And on July 23rd, Japan officially became the 12th member of the TPP.
Now I don't want to over-determine the narrative of these events, because history never really unfolds this neatly. I do however, want to assert that Japan has been a lynchpin to US-China relations and much of what happens now between the US and China across the Asia-Pacific region will result from Japan having joined the TPP. If the dots were not already connected, this US-Japan security alliance was predicated on Japan joining the TPP (or vice-versa).
So as part of the justification for this Pacific Pivot, could it be that the US has been quietly emboldening our Trans Pacific Partners and other FTA or TIFA allies into manufacturing tensions? In looking at the timeline of events, it would be difficult to disassociate the U.S. backed militarization of the Pacific Pivot from being distinctly separate from the policy of economic cooperation.
These manufactured events, as Noam Chomsky describes in Manufacturing Consent, are "related to the understanding that indoctrination is the essence of propaganda. In a "democratic" society indoctrination occurs when the techniques of control of a propaganda model are imposed — which means imposing Necessary Illusions." In this case the necessary illusion is economic cooperation.
We cannot, should not separate the TPP from its military component. It's disingenuous to call for an end to these free-trade agreements without simultaneously calling for an end to militarization.


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Lovely meal served by friendly and knowledgable waiters in a beautiful setting. We had the seven course dining menu and we enjoyed all the courses particularly the fresh pasta course, one of their signature dishes a real taste explosion in the mouth.
With views stretching over the Algarve, Gusto by Heinz Beck offers authentic Mediterranean cuisine in modish surroundings. Melting steaks and freshly-caught seafood dominates the menu, and is cooked in plain view in an open-show kitchen. A resident DJ offers late night entertainment, while the sprawling cigar terrace is ideal for post-dinner drinks. Inside, the decor is moody and modern, with statement globe lighting and plush leather banquettes littering the dining room.
Overall a good experience. We had the seven course tasting menu. The level of service was excellent as were the wine pairings. However some of the dishes lacked flavour and only 4 of the 7 were of a really good standard. They were all presented beautifully but were either under or over seasoned or quite bland. Our favourites were the Amberjack tartare, the Saccottini a bras, the veal with summer truffle and the Apricot soup and yoghurt ice cream. The bar and restaurant are beautiful and it is interesting to watch the chefs at work. Presentation of dishes and level of service of Michelin standards, but unfortunately taste of dishes not quite there.
Waiting 20 mins for aperitifs is not acceptable but after that hiccup we had a lovely meal. Definitely recommend the wine flight with tasting.
What a wonderful experience! We had the seven course tasting menu which was absolutely delicious - every element on the plate was extrodinary and the combinations of flavours were fantastic. I loved every part of my dining experience from the extremely professional and friendly waiting staff, the dinning room itself, the cocktails and the food. I will definitely be back and I can't speak more highly of this place!
This superb restaurants was one of the reasons we booked to stay at Conrad Algarve. We were not disappointed! The food was sensational with several of the plates being works of art. Textures of the food were something special with interesting mixtures of cold ingredients working well on the plate. We went for the 7 course tasting menu with matched wines and the sommelier was one if the most knowledgable we have come across. Wines ranged from Marsala with the starter some interesting reds and whites from various parts if Portugal. Also a lovely sparkling wine and finishing with a very pleasant glass of port(of course!). The stand out dish for me was the Japanese garden which Heinz beck has created especially for his new restaurant in japan. This was a feast fir the eyes and the palate with green tapioca over carpaccio of langoustine. My partner raved about his broccoli ravioli - it really was amazing with pasta that just melted.
Now admittedly you have to travel a long way to experience Gusto but the hotel is also amazing - one of the best we have ever stayed at and true five star so you could combine the two. If you are not inclined to travel to Conrad algarve then "The pass" restaurant near Crawley is of similar quality.


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Why gay rights groups care about a Supreme Court birth control case
Access to hormonal birth control hasn't typically been a goal of the gay rights movement. But after a near miss on an anti-gay bill in Arizona last week, LGBT advocacy groups are rallying around a Supreme Court birth control case, arguing that gay people's rights will be collateral damage if the court rules that for-profit businesses do not have to provide contraceptives to female employees.
On March 25, the Supreme Court will hear arguments from the Oklahoma-based crafts store chain Hobby Lobby that the federal health care law is infringing on its religious liberty by forcing the company to provide contraceptive coverage in its health plan. The case is unusual because the family owned company is arguing that for-profit corporations — not just individuals and religiously affiliated nonprofits — have religious beliefs that should be protected under the Constitution and the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Most of the dozens of "friend of the court" briefs in the case, filed in January, are from religious and anti-abortion individuals and organizations on the Hobby Lobby side, and reproductive rights groups on the government's side. Only two gay rights organizations filed amicus briefs laying out the potential implications the case could have on gay and lesbian people. (The briefs favored Hobby Lobby's side by a 3 to 4 ratio.)
But on Monday, just a few days after Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed a law that would have allowed businesses with religious objections to refuse service to gay people, more than 30 LGBT groups signed on to a statement that says the birth control case is "cut from the same cloth" as the recently vetoed Arizona law.
If the conservative-leaning court rules that companies may deny contraceptives based on the religious beliefs of their owners, corporations would have more latitude to argue that serving gays and lesbians violates their religious beliefs, the groups argue.
"People from all across the country would face very real harm if corporations get a license to discriminate under the guise of religious liberty," the statement says. The groups say the case could allow businesses to deny health care to employees with AIDS or HIV, or for hotels or restaurants to refuse to serve LGBT people.
"The case is directly about women's access to reproductive health care and we don't mean to suggest that that's not the core issue there, but it is important to expand the lens," said Jenny Pizer, general counsel for Lambda Legal, the gay rights groups that filed an amicus brief in the case.
The Arizona law served as a wake-up call for the general public and the gay rights community that a case about religious objections to birth control could have a big impact on gays.
"We've come to see the Hobby Lobby case as the biggest Supreme Court case that nobody's heard about," said Eric Ferrero, spokesman for Planned Parenthood. "What really happened with Arizona is it brought to life in very real terms what this agenda looks like."
Interestingly, many of the nightmare scenarios the groups lay out of businesses turning away gays en masse are actually legal under existing law. There are few existing federal protections for discrimination against employees or customers based on sexual orientation, but advocates hope that Congress and states will move to adopt them soon. (Some gay discrimination cases can be brought as gender discrimination, but courts are split on the claims.) If Hobby Lobby prevails, businesses will have an argument in their back pocket going forward that religious objections to serving gays supersede any future anti-discrimination laws.
"Likely in the future we will have anti-discrimination laws that protect gay people so [this case] is attempting to get pre-emptive religious exemption from that," said Doug NeJaime, a law professor specializing in gay rights at the University of California, Irvine.
More immediately, a ruling in favor of Hobby Lobby could also serve as a shield for businesses based in the 21 states that prohibit businesses from turning away customers based on their sexual orientation.
Hobby Lobby supporters argue that it's far from clear that a ruling in the company's favor would help a business owner who believes homosexuality is a sin and does not want to provide certain services to gay people.
"I know of no American religious group that teaches discrimination against gays as such, and few judges would be persuaded of the sincerity of such a claim," writes Doug Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia.
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from __future__ import division
from __future__ import print_function
from __future__ import unicode_literals

import numpy as np
import abel
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Dribinski sample image
IM = abel.tools.analytical.sample_image(n=501)

# split into quadrants
origQ = abel.tools.symmetry.get_image_quadrants(IM)

# speed distribution
orig_speed = abel.tools.vmi.angular_integration(origQ[0], origin=(0,0))

# forward Abel projection
fIM = abel.Transform(IM, direction="forward", method="hansenlaw").transform

# split projected image into quadrants
Q = abel.tools.symmetry.get_image_quadrants(fIM)
Q0 = Q[0].copy()

# onion_bordas inverse Abel transform
borQ0 = abel.onion_bordas.onion_bordas_transform(Q0)
# speed distribution
bor_speed = abel.tools.vmi.angular_integration(borQ0, origin=(0,0))

plt.plot(*orig_speed, linestyle='dashed', label="Dribinski sample")
plt.plot(bor_speed[0], bor_speed[1], label="onion_bordas")
plt.axis(ymin=-0.1)
plt.legend(loc=0)
plt.savefig("plot_example_onion_bordas.png",dpi=100)
plt.show()

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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The legal concerns and questions do not end when you adopt a child. Having an experienced New Jersey adoption attorney at your side for the duration of this process can help to minimize your confusion and prepare you for what to expect. Adoptive parents need to file a court petition, which is referred to as a complaint for adoption.
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Our Children's Ministry is designed to lay the foundation for a lifetime of following Christ by teaching biblical truths and helping our children connect these truths to their lives. Many dedicated teachers and volunteers ensure that our children's worship, Bible classes and activities are Bible-based, fun, safe and developmentally appropriate.
Each Sunday we offer special worship services designed for children - toddler/2's and age 3 through 5th Grade. Children are dismissed from the family worship service to attend children's worship which includes a capella music, prayer, storytelling, and scripture. Following children's worship; children are dismissed to age-appropriate Bible classes.
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