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BEWARE: AC MILAN IS COMING
October 29, 2018 Soccer Chatterbox 0 Comment AC Milan, Gattuso, Italy, Serie A
Even with their game in hand, AC Milan may not be looking like a side threatening to break above their 7th-place station. A million miles off the top, especially behind Inter Milan, the Rosseneri look like a mid-table club…on paper at least. In reality, they are proving to be more than that.
After a thrilling game last night against Sampdoria, AC Milan recorded another win in a league run that has seen them lose just twice after 10 games. It doesn't really look impressive but they've already played AS Roma, Napoli, and Inter Milan…teams that they would usually have issues winning against. That leaves just Juventus, which means AC Milan have a golden opportunity to scrap points and catch up.
Why am I suddenly optimistic about them? Well…for many seasons, AC Milan have been shite. At a point, they became the dumping for much of Europe's elite; having the likes of Essien and Torres (burnt-out footballers) within their ranks at some point. The new ownership has changed that, with the club now spending big to bring real talent to the club once again.
Calhanoglu sticks out for me in the group. The Turkish playmaker has proven his quality in patches since he came but I would put that down to the inconsistency of the whole squad. Once that is sorted out, I'm 100% certain that he will make himself an AC Milan great in the nearest future. His skill on the ball, especially as regards striking it with his foot, is amazing. Expect a few more worldies once he settles back into the side.
A stable backline has been key as well. The center-back pairing of Musacchio and Romagnoli has been the preferred choice of coach Gattuso. Calabria and Rodriguez have done decent jobs as full-backs so there's a consistency about that area. It's fair to note that while clean sheets are hard to come back (you can always bet for a goal against them) but they've only conceded more than once, in a league game, TWICE this season. Soon, they'll start having clean sheets.
Adding Higuain to the line-up is a genius move. The Argentine is a proven goalscorer in Serie A and he will have Juventus on his mind everytime he takes to the pitch. How dare they let him go for Ronaldo? They thought Mandzukic was better? Bruh!
Finally, there's Suso. That guy is a genius! If you need any confirmation of what I just said, take a look at AC Milan's 3rd goal yesterday. Pure magic. Imagine Coutinho was left-footed…that's Suso. The little Spaniard has been AC Milan's bright spark for some time now and he keeps getting better and better. If he keeps this up. He could be Serie A's best player at the end of the season (even though I'm rooting for CR7 on that one).
Credit has to go to the owners for sticking with Gattuso. The fiery Italian is the latest of a long line of Milan legends (Inzaghi, Seedorf…) that have failed to handle the Rosseneri dugout. Last season was shaky for him but it looks like he has a handle on the team now. Players are looking to perform for him and that's good.
Watching AC Milan, you get the sense that there's more to come and I believe that there IS more to come. With that in mind, I'm excited at what's possible with this group of players. Let's hop I'm not wrong.
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This Day in History 8/4: Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)
True entertainers are gifts from above.
The best of them have dedicated their lives to their fans, to help spread joy to millions worldwide, and to make us feel, at least for a moment, just a little bit better.
Thus is truly the case with today's subject. August 4, 1901 marks the recorded birthday of Louis Armstrong, arguably the single most important artist in the history of American music. The New Orleans-borne trumpeter—who grew up in an area so violent it was nicknamed "the Battlefield"—became the emblem for America's musical genius, spreading his influence to almost every genre of our popular music.
Starting with King Oliver's Band and then to his own ensembles, Armstrong took a local musical form, jazz, into an international phenomenon, introducing new methods of improvisation, phrasing, arrangement and vocal technique. His "scat" vocals, which intermingled jazz lyrics and improvised rhythmic sounds, became the basis for almost all vocal popular music today, from country to hip-hop.
Then there was his trumpet. I can hear Armstrong's loud, direct, brassy trumpet anywhere and know it was his. Every time I hear it, I weep. Every time I hear his vocal recording, I'm in tears. No other artist has that effect on me.
I am not alone. Up until just before his death in 1971, Armstrong, known as "Satchmo", "Satch" or "Pops" to his fans, entertained millions of people around the world. He was adored, often worshipped, as the jolly, magnanimous ambassador of America to places as far as Asia and Africa. His popularity was evident even as late as 1964, when Armstrong's recording of "Hello Dolly" dethroned the Beatles from the # 1 spot on the Billboard pop music charts.
Yet he did not forget who he was, and the struggles that people of color faced. Many blacks in his era criticized Armstrong for being too "cozy" with white audiences, with being too complimentary to white sensibilities. Yet if you listen to Fats Waller's lyrics from his famous 1929 tune "Black and Blue", you may think otherwise:
"Cold empty bed…springs hurt my head.
Feels like ole Ned…wished I was dead.
What did I do…to be so black and blue?
Even the mouse…ran from my house.
They laugh at you..and all that you do.
I'm white…inside…but that don't help my case.
That's life…can't hide…what is in my face.
How would it end…ain't got a friend.
My only sin…is in my skin.
In 1957, as the Little Rock Nine endured torrents of abuse in integrating Little Rock High School, Pops reportedly wired President Eisenhower the following: "If you decide to walk into the schools with the little colored kids, take me along, Daddy."
Many today would argue that Michael Jackson was more influential, more important to music. With all due respect to Michael, there would be no King of Pop without "Pops." Jazz, rock, rap, hip-hop, country, popular vocals, Latin music—there isn't a single planet that wasn't within Armstrong's orbit.
Bing Crosby said of him, "He was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone."
Fellow musical titan Duke Ellington: "He was born poor, died rich, and never hurt anyone along the way."
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns: "Armstrong is to music what Einstein is to physics and the Wright Brothers are to travel."
Miles Davis was more frank: "No him, no me."
I wanted to include some recordings, some MP3s of Armstrong's music, but many tracks are not as of yet in the public domain. If anyone in the Neighborhood has any links to free downloads of Armstrong's recordings, please let me know.
In the meantime, here's a video of Armstrong's 1933 Copenhagen recording of "Dinah", followed by Pops' performance of "Hello Dolly" later in his career.
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Friedrich Aichstetter (* unbekannt; † 5. Mai 1463), auch Friedrich der Aichstätter, Fridericus Aichstätter, Friedrich Eichstätter oder Friedrich von Aychsteter, war ein bayerischer Ministerialer, der seit 1421 in der Kanzlei der bayerischen Herzöge tätig war. Eine wichtige Rolle spielte er, als ihn Herzog Ernst von Bayern-München nach dem Tod Agnes Bernauers zu Kaiser Sigismund von Luxemburg schickte, damit dieser Herzog Albrecht III besänftige. Überdies erwarb er sich große Verdienste um die Entwicklung des Ortes Sauerlach in Oberbayern.

Herkunft des Geschlechts
Der Aufstieg des Geschlechts der Aichstetter geht mit einem generellen Einflussgewinn des niederen Adels in der zweiten Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts einher. Die damaligen Vehikel für sozialen Aufstieg waren primär militärische Funktionen und der Beamtendienst. Zumindest letzterer ermöglichte es auch Familien des niederen Adels, wie den Aichstettern, ihr Einkommen aufzubessern, ihren adligen Status darzustellen und ihn zu stabilisieren.

Die genaue Herkunft der Aichstetter ist jedoch unbekannt. Belegt ist, dass ein Dietrich Aichstetter 1393 als Richter in Vohburg an der Donau tätig war. Überdies erwarb ein Friedrich Eichstätter († 1412) ab etwa 1396 kontinuierlich Grundbesitz in der Gegend um Parsberg, so etwa die jetzige Einöde Kellerhof. Außerdem errichtete er in Herrnried das gleichnamige Schloss. 1434 bezeugt ein Achatz Aichstetter einen Brief von Heinrich von Freyberg. Jener Achatz ist 4 Jahre später als Umgelter in Bad Aibling tätig.

Wirken

Sowohl Geburtsort wie auch Geburtsdatum von Friedrich Aichstetter sind nicht bekannt. Auch wenn es nicht zu belegen ist, ist bei den höheren Schreibern der bayerischen Herzogskanzlei in der Regel eine universitäre Bildung vorauszusetzen.

Diplomatische Verbindungen zum Kaiserhof
Aichstetter verfügte über gute diplomatische Verbindungen an den Hof des römisch-deutschen Königs und späteren Kaisers Sigismunds von Luxemburg. Dafür spricht, dass ihm Sigismund auf dem Konzil zu Basel ein Wappen verlieh: Zwei Eicheln mit einem Eichenblatt – gelb – in schwarzem Feld auf roten Halbrund stehend.

Überdies wurde ihm am 29. September 1431 die Espanmühle nahe der freien Reichsstadt Kaufbeuren als Reichslehen verliehen, die durch den kinderlosen Tod des Ritters Bartholomäus Fraß an das Reich heimgefallen war. Doch der Rat der Stadt Kaufbeuren erhob Ansprüche auf die Mühle, so dass der schwäbische Landvogt Jakob I. Truchsess zu Waldburg-Trauchburg als Vermittler angerufen werden musste. Anscheinend widersetzte sich der Rat von Kaufbeuren dem Vermittlungsversuch zunächst, denn am 8. Oktober 1431 gebot Kaiser Sigismund der freien Reichsstadt ausdrücklich, auf dem angesetzten Gerichtstag zu erscheinen. Mit Erfolg, denn im April des Jahres 1432 einigte man sich schließlich darauf, dass Aichstetter die ihm verliehene Mühle auf dem Espan als Reichslehen an die Stadt Kaufbeuren verkaufte.

Mutmaßlich mit dem Erlös dieses Verkaufs erwarb Friedrich Aichstetter ein Jahr später von der Benediktinerabtei St. Blasius zu Admont einige Güter in Sauerlach, die er im Folgenden durch weitere Erwerbungen von der Benediktinerabtei Tegernsee in Unterhaching (Haching), Pullach (Puelach) und Oberbiberg (Piburg) abrundete. 1434 wurde er von Herzog Ernst mit dem Tafernrecht in Sauerlach belehnt. Überdies pflegte Aichstetter gute Beziehungen zu den umliegenden Klöstern, bei deren Urkunden er häufig als Siegler auftrat.

Vermittlung im Falle Agnes Bernauer

Friedrich Aichstetter war seit etwa 1421 als Geheimschreiber in der Kanzlei der Münchner Herzöge tätig. Aichstetters Stellung war derjenigen des Kanzlers Willhems III. sehr nahe; 1433 wird er wie dieser als herzoglicher Sekretär bezeichnet, anschließend sogar einmal als Kanzler. Vermutlich war seine spezielle Aufgabe diejenige des Archivars.

Nach dem Tod Herzog Wilhelms III. war Aichstetter eine wichtige Verbindung zu Kaiser Sigismund: Bereits im Oktober 1435 war er über drei Wochen lang in einer Mission Herzog Ernsts beim Kaiser. Er sollte dort um Unterstützung gegen den Sohn Ernsts Herzog Albrecht III. bitten. Bei dieser Gelegenheit sollte Aichstetter den zuvor erfolgten politischen Mord an Agnes Bernauer in für Herzog Ernst günstiger Weise darstellen. So heißt es in der damaligen Instruktion für Aichstetter: "Item wie sie sich mit Herbigkeit gen den Sohn und umb das Gloz Straubingen gehalten hat, weiß Aichstetter wohl zu sagen...Das Weib war so in Poshait verhartet, dass sie den Herzog Ernst nit als ihren Richter und Herrn halten wollt, da sie selbst Herzogin zu sein angab. Und das erboste Herzog Ernsten wider so, dass er das Weib und das sie seinem Sun so hart und streng gewesen, dass mit wenigen Worten nit aussprechen konnt, es sei auch sein Sun in dreien oder vier Jahren nie recht fröhlich gewesen, er hab auch seines Suns Leben vor ihr besorget, dazu was ihm auch wahre Kundschaft kömen, dass sie ihm auch den älteren Sun seines Bruders wollt vergeben haben. Und da sich die Sach also in Poshait verlängert und darin kein Ablassen verstunden und je langer, je mehr Übels daraus ging, hat er dasselbig Weib ertränken lassen."Aichstetters Fürsprache bei Kaiser Sigismund war erfolgreich. Dieser konnte Herzog Albrecht III. überzeugen, als reuiger Sohn in die Arme seines Vaters zurückzukehren, nachdem die Stadt München ihm einen sicheren Geleitbrief ausgestellt hat.

Weitere Karriere in der Kanzlei der Bayerischen Herzöge
Aichstetters Kanzleilaufbahn war damit jedoch noch nicht beendet, denn im Jahre 1437 siegelte er als vice cancellarius eine Urkunde der Herzoginwitwe Margarete von Kleve. Vereinzelt wird Aichstetter in dieser Zeit auch als Kanzler genannt. Man wird der Wahrheit wohl ziemlich nahe sein, wenn man an eine Aufteilung der Geschäfte zwischen Herzog Ernsts Kanzler Oswald Tuchsenhauser und Aichstätter in der Form denkt, dass Tuchsenhauser die inneren, Aichstätter die äußeren Geschäfte führte. Das würde den Titel des Vizekanzlers erklären, der in der Geschichte der Münchner Herzogskanzlei sonst nicht üblich war.

Nach dem Tod Herzog Ernsts wirkt Friedrich Aichstätter von 1439 bis 1441 als Landrichter in Burghausen und Wolfratshausen, wo er auch Gericht über Herzog Ludwig VII. sprach. Ab 1442 war er als Landschreiber Albrechts III. in Oberbayern tätig. Zwischen 1443 und 1460 wurde er schließlich zum Herzoglichen Rat ernannt. Aus dem aktiven Ratsdienst schied er jedoch Ende August 1458 aufgrund "Leibsblödigkeit" – also wegen Magenbeschwerden – aus. Er bezog jedoch weiterhin seinen Jahressold und stand in Einzelfällen beratend zur Seite. Von dieser Möglichkeit machten im Jahr 1460 noch die Herzöge Johann und Sigismund Gebrauch und zogen Aichstätter jeweils zu Hofgerichtssitzungen heran.

In der Klosterkirche zu Tegernsee stiftete Friedrich Aichstetter in den Jahren 1459 und 1461 je ein Glasfenster, die die Wappen der Aichstetter trugen. Friedrich Aichstetter hatte seinen Edelsitz an Stelle des Alten Sedlmairhofs (abgebrochen im Jahr 1922) in Sauerlach, wo er seit 1452 "aus Gnaden" auch das Dorfgericht innehatte. Ursprünglich hatte ihm Kaiser Sigismund auch die Hofmarksrechte zu Sauerlach verliehen, dies wurde von den bayerischen Herzögen jedoch nicht bestätigt. Darüber hinaus verdankt Sauerlach den Aichstettern u. a. die Ausmauerung eines etwa 40 Meter tiefen Dorfbrunnens, der 1465 vollendet wurde, sowie die Schenkung von Wald- und Ackerflächen.

Friedrich Aichstetter verstarb am 5. Mai 1463 und wurde wohl im Franziskanerkloster in München begraben.

Privates und Stammfolge
Friedrich Aichstetter war mit Catharina Türndl zu Schaltdorf verheiratet. Mit ihr hatte er zwei Kinder:

 Magdalena († 1473) ⚭ Hans Widerspacher aus Finsing
 Hans I. († 1483) ⚭ Margaretha Pfäffinger aus Isen; bzw. in zweiter Ehe: ⚭ Barbara Stöckl aus Tegernsee
 Jörg
 Anna
 Sigmund († 1512) ⚭ Susanne Widerspacher aus Finsing
 Hans II. († 1528) ⚭ Christine von Pienzenau aus der Umgebung von Weyarn († wohl um 1534)
 Amaley ⚭ Augustin Fürrer zu Aschbach
 Konrad
 Christoph

Nachwirkungen

Ein weiterer bedeutender Aichstetter war Sigmund Aichstetter. Er heiratete im Jahr 1490 Susanna Widerspacher aus Finsing. 1495 erhielt dieser von Herzog Albrecht IV. das Umgelt zu Sauerlach. Im Jahre 1505 war Sigmund Aichstetter Teilnehmer der Landschaftsversammlung anlässlich des Reichstags, der mit dem Kölner Schiedsspruch den Landshuter Erbfolgekrieg beendete. Überdies war Sigmund von 1496 bis 1512 für das Kloster Tegernsee Richter zu Holzkirchen und von 1501 bis 1512 Landrichter in Wolfratshausen. Die herausragende Stellung Sigmund Aichstetters beweist seine Teilnahme an einem Schiedsgericht im Jahre 1506, das den Konflikt lösen sollte zwischen dem gemeinen Adel und dem höheren – dem Turnieradel, der um seine Privilegien fürchtete. Nach dem Absterben der Eglinger erhielt er im Jahre 1511 das Erbschenkenamt der Fürstabtei Tegernsee. Sigmund Aichstetter verstarb wahrscheinlich um das Jahr 1512. Mit dem Tod seines Sohnes Hans II., selbst Landrichter zu Bad Tölz, verliert sich die Spur der Aichstetter um das Jahr 1534, als Christine von Pienzenau, die Witwe von Hans II., die verbliebenen Besitztümer an Herzog Wilhelm IV. verkaufte:

Widmung
Aufgrund der Verdienste für den Ort Sauerlach trägt die Grundschule den Namen Friedrich-von-Aychsteter-Grundschule Sauerlach. Überdies ist in der Gemeinde eine Straße nach den Aichstettern benannt.

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NICK'S BEER GARDEN started on the corner of Halsted and Armitage in 1977 and moved to Wicker Park in 1994. It quickly became an anchor to an up and coming nightlife district. Th e Wicker Park area is well know for it's bars, restaurants, arts and entertainment.
Whether it's our jukebox, live bands, pool or shuffleboard, Nick's has always been known for great music, a great crowd, and a lively, friendly atmosphere. We have an excellent selection of bottled and canned beers and a great variety of draft beers, including local, regional and national craft beers, as well as imported favorites and classic standbys.
Relax with a drink after work, or come out and be a part of the late night excitement. The bar opens at 4pm daily and stays open late… 4am Sunday through Friday and 5am on Saturday. We feature live music every weekend and there's never a cover! If you know who Peaches is or why the surfboard is on the wall, then you're a regular. If you don't, then ask your bartender.
Shoot some pool, watch the game, lounge in the beer garden or just hang out at Wicker Park's favorite neighborhood tavern!


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Zadné Meďodoly je údolí ve slovenských Tatrách, mezi Vysokými Tatrami a Belianskými Tatrami.

Odbočuje z Javorové doliny.

Protéká jím Meďodolský potok. Vede přes něj modře značený turistický chodník z Tatranské Javoriny přes Kopské sedlo (1749 m n. m.) do Tatranských Matliarov.

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The Big Apple is big on cycling. Cycling is one of the recommended ways to explore the beautiful city. There are Citi Bike depots all over the city which allow you to pick and drop off bikes at different spots. There are many scenic routes one can take when cycling. We picked out eight of the best scenic routes for bike riding in New York City.
1. Ocean Parkway Bike Path
Top of the list is the Ocean Parkway Bike Path which starts at Prospect Park and ends at Coney Island. It spans a length of 4.8 miles and should take about thirty minutes of cycling time. It was the first bike path in America, constructed in 1894. The highlight of this path is the quiet scenery of Brooklyn and the beach. [Source: Trail link]
2. Hudson River Greenway
This is an 11-mile bike route which features a scenic landscape over the Hudson River. The trail has a designated bike path which makes it a popular spot for beginner riders. Riverside Park, the highlight of this path, is one of the most noteworthy waterfront parks. [Source: Spinlister]
3. Governor's Island
The island is a car-free place to go bike riding. It boasts a number of historic buildings and views of Lower Manhattan and the Lady of Liberty. It is a seven-mile loop of tree-lined paths around the island. The island is bike-friendly and has kiosks that allow you to rent a bike, even a quadricycle! [Source: NBC News]
This route provides riders with three different paths of 1.7 miles, 5.2 miles and 6.1 miles. The route is car-free during the weekends. On the 6 mile path, you will pass by the Reservoir, Sheep's Meadow where you can stop to enjoy the city's landscape and the Great Lawn. You can book a bike tour through Central Park's official site. [Source: Central Park]
5. Bronx River Pathway
This route spans a total of 9.6 miles. It begins at Oak Street, leads to a 3.6-mile ride through Bronxville and ends with a 5-mile ride from Hartsdale to the Kensico Dam. The Kensico Dam Plaza is a site of interest on this route including the Greenburgh Nature Center. [Source: Bronx River Alliance]
6. Prospect Park
The park has a 3.3-mile loop available for cyclists. It offers a relaxing and scenic ride for cyclists. It also hosts a series of cycling events throughout the year. Bike rentals can be found at the park. [Source: New York Cliches]
7. The Rockaway Beach Boardwalk
This particular route offers a full view of the spectacular Rockaway Beach. There are bike paths all the way out to the boardwalk which makes it easier for cyclists. This 5.5-mile path allows cyclists all year long except on Labor Day. [Source: Metro US]
8. Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway
This is an 18 mile landscaped route for cyclists along the Brooklyn Waterfront. The route includes part of the Brooklyn Bridge Park and Bay Ridge. It is currently under construction to be extended to a 26-mile route with more fun spots to be built. [Source: S7]


This analysis has been written by Patrick Criqui member of Enerdata's Expert Panel and Senior Researcher at CNRS. Oil less than 30 dollars per barrel ($/bl)! No market observer would have thought this possible after only one year. Just as in 1998, it was thought that oil (then $20/bl) wouldn't exceed $30: 10 years later, it was more than $110 on annual average after peaking at $147 following the economic crisis in 2008! Because changes in oil prices systematically differ from forecasts, the big temptation is to consider them as irrational or purely subject to geopolitical risks or even the result of more financial considerations in oil markets. All of this is true, but only in a very small part. Looking back, it seems that these changes, which will always remain unpredictable, can nevertheless be explained by market fundamentals and by several characteristics of the economy of natural resources. To do this, we must first refer to a very simple equation linking global oil demand and two major product categories: OPEC production and non OPEC production. We must then study the dynamics of these variables over a sufficiently long period of time, say 50 years. We will then be able to describe the imbalances, cyclical effects, adjustments and discrepancies that allow, in the given geopolitical context, the price of such a strategic raw material for the global economy to vary sharply in significant proportions.
Production of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is equal to the global demand, less the non-OPEC production: this apparent truism reflects the dominant mode of operation of the oil market. Because OPEC represents more than two thirds of conventional oil reserves, it is the "peak producer" of the market, one that adjusts its production to meet the combined changes in demand and evolutionary trends of other producers. These indeed produce at full capacity, which evolve over the medium-term based on the depletion of reserves and investments. But contrary to the theory of Hotelling, producers do not deploy a strategy to optimize their long-term gains. As noted by economist and oil specialist at MIT Morris Adelman, the logic of producers is usually that of Take the Money and Run. OPEC, since its creation and apart from its rare moments of geopolitical crisis, therefore ensures the arbitrage of the market and the compatibility between supply and demand. This permanent adjustment would stabilize the market and lead to regular price developments, continuously reflecting the relative dynamics of supply and demand. However, this is not the actual case and it appears that prices vary little over the course of five-to-ten years during which tension accumulates before suddenly adjusting to oil price shocks and counter shocks.
The best way to describe this phenomenon as shown by oil specialist Dermot Gately is to observe oil price dynamics in function production levels of OPEC countries beginning in the 1980s. We can see a "phenomenological" approach to these changes, an approach which must be supported by economic analysis, taking into account historical and geopolitical elements. The cycles described in the "snail" diagram below clearly show the alternating periods of over and underestimation of oil prices.
Source: OPEC Oil monthly oil report 2016 • 1965-1998: the beginning of OPEC and the oil shocks at the end of the first cycle OPEC, created in 1960 at the instigation of Kuwait and Venezuela, fights in its early years not on price, but to reinforce the tax imposed on foreign companies. In 1965 it produced 13 million barrels per day (bdp) for a price of $15 ($2 at the time). Until 1973 the price was blocked by international companies and production growth was accelerated to meet global demand, reaching 30 bpd on the eve of the first oil shock eight years later. With the detonator of the Yom Kippur War this brings the price to $55 and stops increases in quantities. The second oil shock in 1979 is no longer triggered by OPEC, but by panic on the market following the Islamic revolution in Iran: the price settles above $100/bbl. Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian Minister of Petroleum, is aware of the risks and does not endorse this increase without resistance. In the following six years, OPEC – for the first and maybe the last time – acted as a real cartel and reduced its production to defend price levels. In a plunging decrease to its production level, Saudi Arabia produces no more than 3 bpd in 1985, just barely as much as the United Kingdom. Zaki Yamani triggers the first price war against Margaret Thatcher and her offshore fields in the North Sea. After this counter-shock and with new levels of around $30/bl, the recapture of the market begins, barely disrupted by the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq in 1990. In a full blown geopolitical crisis, Sadek Boussena, Algerian Oil Minister, then president of OPEC, said, "OPEC has no intention of triggering an oil shock." The first cycle ends in 1998, the year in which even good observers believed that prices wouldn't exceed more than $20, while the Economist titled it as, "Drowning in Oil!" The review of the snail diagram should have been more cautious by signaling market conditions dangerously close to those of 1973. End of a cycle. • 1998-2008-2014: from the beginning of the "raw material super cycle" to the "economic megacrisis" Michel Aglietta identifies the years 1997-1998 as a turning point for the global economy. It's the end of the financial crises in the South and marks the beginning of a decade of accelerated growth. Just until the other financial crisis, that in the North in 2008, the world experienced unprecedented growth of more than 5% on annual average and the super cycle of raw materials begins. During this time, all routes, including ocean freight, disappear due to Chinese demand exacerbated by the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Oil is no exception and the arrival of speculative market capital adds to this instability. They say it's for a Guinness Record that a trader passes the first oil contract of more than $100 in the summer of 2007. The financial crisis has a significant impact on the oil market and the price falls again to $70 in 2009. But the effect is only temporary; if the economies in industrialized countries suffer, those of emerging countries remain dynamic: the demand is not at all weakened as after the second oil shock (1979). It rises again in 2010 and is once again on the linear trend of the last thirty years, bringing the price above $100 until 2014.
Source: OPEC Oil Monthly Oil Report 2016 • Ryiad against Washington: the second price war So what happens? As with the shocks in the 1970s, when a barrel already reached $100, Saudi Arabia once again triggered a price war in which the goal was to curb shale oil development. Since the mid-2000s, the combination of technological progress in the US and very high price levels makes production of shale gas more affordable (obtained by hydraulic fracturing) than shale oil. US production, down to 6.8 bpd in 2006, remounts reaching 11.6 bpd in 2014. Who would have thought that five years before the United States would become the world's top producer besting Saudi Arabia (11.5 bpd) and Russia (10.8 bpd)? Broadly speaking, a price above $100 pays for a set of unconventional resources or those difficult to access (in "deep offshore"). They now enter in competition with OPEC production at this time when, in the midst of it, Iraq increases its capacities and we expect a massive return of Iran after lifting economic sanctions aimed at Tehran for thirty years; at the same time, doubts are emerging on Chinese growth. In this context, Saudi Arabia chooses to drop the price and not resist the increase using cartel behaviour, in contrast to the 1980-1985 period. This is the second price war. As for the first, in 1986, one wonders if this war is primarily "exterior" or "civil" within OPEC. It still occurs in a particularly explosive geopolitical context in the Middle East, with the Syrian crisis and antagonisms between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Hence radical uncertainties trigger the rise in prices.


We are on a roll!!!
G'day, eh? We have a guest in the studio again! Throw on the back bacon — it's Katie Bryski!
Things you shouldn't do after the Smoky Writers: Have your liver tested.
Since the Smoky Writers events, what have Tee & Pip been up to?
The Silver Pharaoh is submitted to Laurie.
Wolf in the Fold is also submitted to Laurie.
Audio recording for Ministry Protocol is underway.
Tee's still job hunting, still working on Wolf in the Fold, and also working on something for Valentine's Day.
What Katie has been up to since Stonecoast?
She's our intern for February!
Katie is still working on a book that is formally known as formerly known as Styx.
In Season Three of Tales from the Archives, things get very Canadian!
The first challenge of Stonecoast: Get to the right Portland!
Tee's mic problems and Pip's odd need for editing…eh, just go with it!
This isn't NaNoWriMo or a writers' retreat, folks. This is graduate school. For writers.
And there is Tee, just being far too 'Murican.
Pip asks who would Tee want to have as his Writing Mentor…and Pip makes an uber-#SteampunkFAIL.
But Katie is a published author already…so why does Katie need a Masters Degree in Writing?
Katie looks at the goals of Stonecoast she's looking to accomplish through this program.
Tee and Pip are a touch green with envy over Katie's journey with Stonecoast.
For someone who hates drop-in's, Pip's asking a lot from Tee in this episode.
Does Stonecoast have business angles covered?
It's kind of important before you go into a blog tour to know what to do when you're on a blog tour.
Copy-Paste-Here's-Your-Blogpost….no, that's not what you do.
There are bigger problems afoot if you don't have evergreen blog content to offer a blog tour.
So excited that we have Katie for a little more time!
Katie is gathering a lot of dirt on it.
And she's a good intern 'cause she's getting Tee coffee!
Weather Child now has a cover.
Tee & Pip head down to Richmond for The Writers' Show!
Dawn's Early Light hits the shelves at the end of March!
Something special coming up in February….
Oh yeah, RavenCon as well!
Sweet as! Katie is coming to Balticon!!! And she's talking about beer!!!


The Waynedale Athletic Booster Club is offering for the first time during the 2018-19 athletic season an on-line donation link that will enable "Bear Backers" to donate to the W.A.B.C. via Pay Pal. Please click on the link above to donate. Thank you for your generous support of Golden Bear athletics.


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Sohm
The Jersey Start
All Above Board
Local Ownership
Schools Report
Lower Basic School
Improving Science Education
More Sponsorship
Electricity in the Schools
Classroom Repair and Maintenance
Laptop Donations
Topping Up Funds
Improved Teacher Training Support
2nd July 2019 - a red letter day for Sohm
Tuesday 2 July 2019 was a great day for Sohm, although few in the village would have known it, at the time.
It was on that day that the last piece of funding fell into place and we were able to sign off the cost schedule and timeline for building the new hall and kitchen for the Lower Basic school. This was a project that we had labelled Sohm 2020, two years ago, as we set about raising £20,000 by 2020 for the project.
We are ahead of schedule and hope to be present for the opening of the new facility in January next year!
Architect's plans for the new hall -
to be complete by the end of this year!
The building will be our most significant contribution to the village of Sohm - by some distance - since we established the charity eight years ago. It will replace an old school dining hall, which had to be demolished, because it was dangerous two years ago, with a brand new facility. The previous building - over 35 years old - was inflexible. Its "furniture" consisted of immovable concrete blocks, which children perched on to eat from other concrete blocks. The school kitchen had no modern equipment.
Village elders and school governors,
after a session planning the layout and
location of the new school hall, in January 2019
The new building - 30 metres long - will be multi-functional. In addition to being a dining hall - , because we are acquiring flexible, portable furniture - it can also be used as a gym, an assembly hall, a prayer room, and the village's first community village hall. Village leaders have played a significant role in helping to design and decide the location for the hall, as shown by the photographs. They have been overwhelmed with gratitude at the generosity of our supporters.
Above: the decrepit (and now demolished)
building the new school hall will replace. Below: its
roof, that was in danger of collapse
Our charity has been assisted by a number of individual donors, whose efforts have helped us reach our funding targets so rapidly. We thank them all - you know who you are!
In addition, we have received huge support and assistance from two major organisational donors: Beech Hill community primary school, in Luton and Redbridge Rotary club. Sohm Lower Basic school has shown its recognition of their efforts on the freshly painted walls (funded by these donors!) in the main teaching block (see photo).
Redbridge Rotary and Beech Hill's logos,
outside Sohm LBS head's office, by way of
appreciation for their fund-raising efforts.
We have covered the activities of Beech Hill school in a number of posts (see above) notably for their splendid and highly successful Gambia Days.
Tuesday 2 July, however, was - in addition to our signing off the contract for the new build - a big day in our relationship with Redbridge Rotary Club. It was the hand-over day from one president to another.
Outgoing president, and friend of our charity, Tony Betts, presented two awards to SSS in his farewell address. One was a cheque of £1,000 to us - as one of his nominated charities for the year. The second was a prestigious Certificate of Appreciation from Rotary International for charitable work we undertake in The Gambia, putting some of the funds that they have raised to such good purposes. We were greatly humbled by both awards.
John and Sandra (centre) from SSS, receiving the
Rotary International Certificate of Appreciation
from Tony Betts (left), immediate past president,
and Mike Bell, incoming president of Redbridge Rotary
The Rotary International Certificate of Appreciation
We would, very publicly, like to put on record our immense gratitude to Redbridge Rotary for its generous support to us over each of the last four years - and we look forward to its continuation.
We promised the club, in return for their support, to return next February with a short video of the opening of the new hall, for which they have contributed so much, to support.
The old kitchen's cooking stoves
"Furniture" in the old building, which
made it unfit for multi-purpose use.
They, like Beech Hill, and all of our generous sponsors really have helped transform young African lives, in ways in which it is difficult to appreciate from the comfort of our homes in the UK.
Thanks, one and all - onward to 2020 and the opening of the new hall!
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Former Wyoming quarterback made his Super Bowl predicition for the Buffalo News. And his projected Champion is. ... Bills quarterback Josh Allen sees the top seeds winning the conference championship games this weekend to advance to the Super Bowl. Allen will be in Los Angeles on Saturday for the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl, where he will be offering advice to NFL hopefuls about life in the pros. Asked for his thoughts on the AFC and NFC title games, Allen picked the Chiefs to beat the Patriots and the Saints to beat the Rams. "I obviously don't want the Patriots to win again, being in Buffalo, but it's hard to go against Tom (Brady), what he's been able to do in the last eight years," Allen said. "I won't be watching as a fan, but I will be watching as a football enthusiast for sure." The Patriots are playing in their eighth consecutive conference championship game, and Allen grew up as a Brady fan, but he knows the right things to say now that he's in Buffalo. If you're interested in putting Allen's picks to the test, a $10 parlay on the Chiefs and Saints to win straight up pays $14.11 at FanDuel Sportsbook, or if you like them both to cover the spread, the parlay pays $27.39. The Patriots are 3-point underdogs against the Chiefs (marking the first time they haven't been the favorite with Brady at QB since September 2015) while the Saints are favored by 3.5.


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T shirt sizing is an estimation technique which can be employed as a high level estimation technique. This can be employed with a cut off list of requirements (which we may call a approved final list of requirements) to determine which requirements or stories will be considered for the project.
In normal life , T shirts are sized as Extra extra-large (XXL) , Extra-large (XL) , Large (L) , Medium (M), Small(S) .
While estimating via T (Tee) shirt sizing technique , a meeting is called with key persons who form the group of estimators. They are all handed over 5 pieces of papers having XXL, XL, L, M, S marked on them. As the Fibonacci number series is 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144 , this is how the T shirt sizes are matched up with the Fibonacci series( see left table) .
Once the coordinator explains the story to the estimating team , each person thinks over it and holds up the card that he thinks matches the story in terms of story points. This helps in initial estimation and deciding the number of stories which will be picked for the project. How?


This streamlined sofa from the custom Tara Shaw Maison collection has height-enhancing proportions on a forged iron base and stretcher. Includes pair of upholstered Belgian linen bolsters. Handcrafted in New Orleans. Standard sofa upholstered in an off-white heavyweight Belgian linen.


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Talking Community with Courtney Dauwalter
Sports, entertainers, and hobbies alike have several passionate supporters all naturally forming a sense of camaraderie, but nothing quite compares to that of the running community.
The sport entails a solo performer and yet, more often than not, there are a select few that stand behind a racer to help them reach the finish line. From pacing to filling water bottles, to cheering from the aid station, those people are what make putting one foot in front of the other a little bit easier. Although top performers in ultra running seem invincible at times, they rely on their crew just as much as anyone else. Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking to Tanri athlete, Courtney Dauwalter, about her crew and thoughts on the running community.
As expected, Courtney jumped onto the zoom call smiling ear to ear, with infectiously vibrant energy to her. Unexpectedly for me, I became completely star-struck and forgot my name. Nerves aside, we discussed this refreshing sense of unity in the sport and she looked back to her first 50-mile race,
"It was in the Colorado mountains. It was hailing, awful weather, really windy, basically a scenario where we really should just be hating life, but everyone was making the best of it just hoopin' and hollerin' down the trail! One guy ran back for me after I had tripped and fallen in a mud puddle. He must have heard me squawk or something but he turned around and helped me, and then we kept running together. I thought to myself, in what sport does someone go out of their way to come backward to help you? This community is really what hooked me to the sport."
A key difference between this space and others has a lot to do with empathy. There's this level of respect that is naturally in the air, everyone can understand the mental and physical endurance that takes place when running long distances. We agreed that the whole experience feels similar to being at a summer camp or a family reunion. Whether you've raced previously or not it always feels like you're walking onto new territory. You're not really sure how it's all going to go, but you quickly realize you're engulfed within such a supportive community that will cheer you on no matter the circumstances.
"The finish line feel is always the same. Everyone is cheering for everyone no matter what place, or what time, or what obstacles they had to face to get to the finish, they're being greeted by people who root for them. Then people share stories of their adventure out there. Sitting by the cooler, not really knowing each other at the start but leaving as friends for life."
As if inspiriting was in short supply, crews make the entire experience even more special. Courtney's crew includes her dad, husband, and two friends, and she gives them every bit of credit for helping her get to the finish. Although being a part of Courtney's team must be every bit as normal as any other crew, how does someone possibly pace a record holder?! Well, having a pacer is just as much for motivation as it is for the time spent together for Courtney.
"For me, it's all about shared moments with people, and so a pacer joining you for a race is this really cool opportunity to make this memory together. You have this really good friend who joins you to run 20 miles with you during a 100-mile race, and you'll have those 20 miles together forever. That's a huge part of it for me, to get these friends and family members to come out and run with me, and we can laugh about it afterward and have that memory together. It's a whole team effort, and the people that join you are super important and so wonderful."
This heartwarming sense of commonality in the trail/ultra/running space can ring true for the majority, but the reasoning behind racing is unique to the individual. Many have a single purpose or life-changing event that led them to run, but Courtney shared that her reasons for racing have a lot to do with curiosity. How much is the body able to take? How hard can one push? And the beauty of seeing just how much you're capable of if you continue to raise the bar.
Having recently taken 1st place in France's Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc, it's pretty clear that her bar isn't going to stop climbing anytime soon.
Follow Courtney's racing journey on Facebook or Instagram @courtneydauwalter


To help us all understand the local context, the Community Food Assessment recently released its Environmental Scan; an extensive document that gives a snapshot of the food system in Regina. (The full scan can be found at www.foodregina). I'll share some fascinating tidbits with you over the next few posts.
If we peeked into the average Reginan's fridge and pantry, we'd probably be unsurprised at the variety of food it held. After all, our grocery stores are a dazzling array of food from all over the world; and that's just one way we source our food. How would this compare to fridges and pantries fifty years ago? Isn't that an interesting question?
Of course Statistics Canada has the answer for all of us.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Canadians eat more fresh vegetables than we did 50 years ago: we eat more fresh carrots, cucumbers and lettuce, for example. The average consumption of fresh cucumbers has increased 227%! We eat less potatoes. And we LOVE our apple juice: we drink an average of 5.7 L per person per year; an increase of 203% from 1963.
Another thing we love is rice. While it wasn't that common in Canadian diets fifty years ago, we now eat an average of 4.8 kgs/person/year: that's an increase of 316%.
Yogurt, which was virtually unknown to Canadian diets in 1963, we currently eat at the astounding rate of 5.8 L/person/year – that's an increase of nearly 15,000%. In fact, we eat it more than ice cream, ice milk or sherbet (although we eat a fair bit of that too).
We now eat more chicken than we do beef or eggs, and our consumption of salad oils and margarine has left butter in the dust. Wheat flour, on the other hand, has been holding its own in all of our dietary changes: we still consume just over 40 kg/person/year, which has only changed 5% in the past 50 years.
Doesn't that make you wonder where we'll be in another 50 years?


SJCC is the designated local arts agency for St. Johns County and is a clearinghouse of information for artists, organizations, businesses, and the general public. SJCC provides advocacy for the arts on city, county, and state levels, as well as for our schools.
STArt Now is the non-profit created by Sway DiFeo to serve the local musicians and artist of St Augustine and work jointly with the Cultural Council. STArt Now is meant to Facilitate and assist artists of all genres, types, and mediums with obtaining the necessary resources, tools, information, and education to produce their art form.
All of the proceeds from the 2016 Gatsby were given to the St. Johns Cultural Council to help make our community even better!
The presentation of the funds raised from the 2015 event to the board members of the St. Johns Cultural Council and the St. Augustine Community School of Performing Arts.
Board members from the St. Augustine Community School of Performing Arts, a beneficiary from the 2014 Gatsby Affair event.


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kim sargent-wishart
the circulation project
Body-Mind Centering®
Ground, Path and Fruition
To help introduce the notion of Ground, Path and Fruition as I use it in The Circulation Project, here's a short excerpt from my book chapter 'Cast: Embodying ground, path and fruition in early embryology' from Harrison Blum's Dancing with the Dharma: Essays on Movement and Dance in Western Buddhism (McFarland, 2016).
…Tibetan Buddhist master Chogyam Trungpa…[explained]…this "threefold logic" as the dynamics of "the background of manifestation, the potential of manifestation, and finally manifestation altogether."[i] These three aspects of ground, path, and fruition are, of course, inseparable; the "manifestation" of form is none other than the "background" of emptiness, the immeasurable and undifferentiated potential out of which and as which all form arises. However, despite being ultimately inseparable, the distinct articulation of these three aspects highlights the process dynamics of appearances, which is very useful when investigating embryology and art-making – two disciplines concerned with how things come to presence. The threefold perspective helps us to remember, when we view something like a work of art or a human body, that that we are viewing a process of appearance (of presencing) rather than a independent, fixed form.
Within the Shambhala dharma art teachings, Trungpa Rinpoche described this threefold logic as "a way of presenting a complete world"[ii] – an arts practice that is responsive to the ground of making as much as to the thing being made. Dharma art practices, like somatic approaches to dance and movement, attune the senses, beginning with a basic sense of existence, of ground, then developing "slowly through the threefold process of perception: the sense of being, the sense of doing, and the sense of linking together."[iii]
Many artists would recognize the experience of being with the pure potential of the unknown (ground), noticing a flash of insight or moment of perception (path), and the manifestation of this into form (fruition). Some have expressed this directly, such as the poet Allen Ginsberg, who organized his Mind Writing Slogans into the three categories of: 1) Background as "Situation, or Primary Perception", 2) Path as "Method, or Recognition," and 3) Fruition as "Result, or Appreciation."[iv] The painter Agnes Martin suggested a similar threefold dynamic in the work of self-expression, dependent on a developing awareness: "Behind and before self-expression is a developing awareness in the mind that expresses the work. This developing awareness I will also call 'the work'. It is a most important part of the work. There is the work in our minds, the work in our hands, and the work as a result."[v]
The groundbreaking experimental composer John Cage, deeply influenced by his studies of Zen Buddhism, used the characteristically playful terms of nothing, making, and something, encouraging artists "…not to make a thing but rather to make nothing…. by making something which then goes in and reminds us of nothing."[vi] Cage, like Ginsberg, understood the artist's path of action to be one of beneficial activity, through which the fruition (the something) aims to lead the perceiver back to the ground (the nothing). From a Buddhist perspective, one function of arts practice and production is to foster awareness of the emptiness and interdependence of all things. As Ginsberg claimed, "the only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does."[vii]
[i] Chogyam Trungpa, True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2008), 128.
[ii] Trungpa, True Perception, 127.
[iii] Trungpa, True Perception, 76.
[iv] Allen Ginsberg, "Mind Writing Slogans." In What Book: Buddha Poems From Beat to Hiphop, edited by Gary Gach (Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1998), 197-201.
[v] Agnes Martin, Writings, Edited by Dieter Schwarz (Hatje Cantz, 2005), 67.
[vi] John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1961), 129.
[vii] Allen Ginsberg in Mark Olmsted, "Genius All the Time: The Beats, Spontaneous Presence, and the Primordial Ground." In The Philosophy of the Beats, edited by Sharin Elkholy (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2012), 191.
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Our Cataract Canyon through Canyonlands National Park is one of the most ideal kids family vacations because it offers the perfect balance of adventure, discovery and relaxation in an unbeatable setting. However, it's only 4 days so the kids will find adventure and fun in every second of the trip.
On days 1 & 2, you'll hike through Cataract Canyon and experience the wonders of the geographic formations of this ancient land. You also experience the calmness of the mighty Colorado River until Day 3 and 4 where you will experience true Colorado River whitewater rafting.
At the end of Day 4, you'll fly back to Moab on a plane where you can experience the beauty of the land from a bird's eye view.


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On another hot and sunny Sunday afternoon , SACC won the toss and opted to bat first against the local side from Alicante.
Johnson and Robinson opened the innings for SACC , and both looked in fine form cutting and driving their way to a 50 run stand before a loose pull shot from Johnson sent him back to the changing rooms for 23.
MacInnes came to the crease with plenty of chirp from his old club , and left within 6 balls , shortly followed by Robinson for 33. Mariner was joined by new member Joe, and both players looked in good touch, scoring boundaries around the ground before the introduction of Khaliq swayed the game back in the Intellectuals favour.
He took 2 quick wickets to leave SACC struggling at 126-6 with only 10 overs to go in a match that was reduced in overs. The Alfas debutant Joe carried on punishing any bad bowling and reached his maiden half century for the club,and indeed, the first in his life. His composed innings took the SACC total to a respectable 186 for 7 and for the Intellectuals CC Khaliq was the oustanding bowler finishing on 2-23. He was ably assisted by Naveed who also carded the respectable figures of 2-31.
The Intellectuals chase started well , with Khalid and Stanford both hitting any bad bowling to the boundary before the introduction of Mariner (1-45) got the extra bounce from his spin bowling to dismiss Stanford when he was on 20.
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Senior pro Bellis was brought into the bowling attack and he accounted for 2 quick wickets, to keep the game alive but realistically the Alfas total was 30 runs short on the fast outfield.
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Complementary DNAs encoding homologs of the mammalian aqua-glyceroporins (termed AQPe) and aquaporin-1 isoforms (termed AQP1) were isolated from the European eel. The AQP amino acid sequences share 35 - 54% identity with other known human AQPs. Although AQPe mRNA expression was approximately equivalent along the entire length of the gut, AQP1 expression was the highest in the posterior/rectal segment. Seawater ( SW) acclimation increased AQP1 mRNA abundance by 5- and 17-fold in the anterior, 14- and 23-fold in the mid-, and 9- and 17-fold in the posterior/ rectal gut regions of yellow and silver eels, respectively. SW acclimation had an effect on AQPe mRNA expression only in the midintestine of silver eels, where a small but significant 1.7-fold increase in abundance was measured. Western blots using an eel AQP1-specific antibody identified the presence of a major immunoreactive 28-kDa protein, primarily within the posterior/ rectal segment. A 3-wk SW transfer induced an increase in AQP1 protein abundance in all intestinal segments, with the posterior/ rectal region still expressing protein levels ∼ 40- and 8-fold higher than the anterior and midsegments, respectively. Strong AQP1 immunofluorescence was detected within the vascular endothelium in both freshwater (FW)- and SW-acclimated eels and in the epithelial apical brush border in the posterior/ rectal gut regions of SW-acclimated eels. Cortisol infusion into FW eels had no effect on intestinal AQPe mRNA expression but induced increases in AQP1 mRNA and protein levels. These results provide evidence for the presence of a SW-induced and steroid-regulated AQP water channel pathway within the intestine of the European eel.


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'Vaccine Hesitancy' Now Listed with Ebola as a Top Health Threat for 2019
Written by Roz Plater on January 22, 2019
The World Health Organization says the refusal to get vaccinated threatens to disrupt progress made against deadly diseases.
A measles outbreak in the Portland, Oregon area is being linked to unvaccinated people. Getty Images
You might expect the deadly Ebola virus to make the World Health Organization's list of "Ten Threats to Global Health in 2019."
But "vaccine hesitancy"? That one's raising a few eyebrows.
On its website, officials at the World Health Organization (WHO) define vaccine hesitancy as "the reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite the availability of vaccines."
The agency says the phenomenon threatens to reverse the progress we've made in tackling vaccine-preventable diseases.
"I was impressed, somewhat surprised, but also gratified that vaccine hesitancy made the top ten list from the WHO," Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Tennessee, told Healthline.
"It means that this is an issue that's embedded now around the world," he added. "We knew it was not just located here in the United States."
The WHO announcement comes during a week in which a measles outbreak in the western United States has brought the anti-vaccination campaign into the spotlight once again.
Health officials in Clark County, Washington, have declared a public health emergency because of a "hot spot" of measles in the nearby Portland, Oregon, area.
Health officials said at least 20 of the people who contracted the disease were not vaccinated.
Schaffner says part of the problem is that vaccines have been so successful in stamping out diseases. The means people don't see anyone suffering from these diseases and therefore don't see the need for a vaccine.
"Before we had vaccines in the U.S., 400 to 500 people a year died due to measles and its complications," Schaffner explained. "The current generation of parents has no personal experience. The grandmother of a newborn may not have seen measles either and has only a vague notion of what diphtheria is."
"The more successful we are with the vaccines," Schaffner added, "the more vaccine hesitancy we create because the diseases are eliminated."
The anti-vaccination point of view
Attorney, activist, and environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is the chairman of Children's Health Defense, formerly known as the World Mercury Project. His group is known for its anti-vaccine positions.
He has a different take on how "vaccine hesitancy" made it onto the WHO list of top ten global health threats and he doesn't mince words.
"I'm not surprised because the WHO has devolved from a sterling public health agency to a subsidiary of the pharmaceutical industry" Kennedy told Healthline.
"We're seeing more and more orchestrated efforts by the industry to not only co-opt health officials but to control international health policies," he added.
Kennedy says the agency ignores research, such as a 2017 study by Scandinavian scientists that he says shows the sometimes deadly risks associated with vaccines.
He also accuses the WHO of pushing vaccines that haven't been properly vetted using its own gold standard safety testing methods.
"Parents have an obligation to be skeptical. They have an obligation to protect their children" Kennedy said.
The view from vaccine proponents
Supporters of vaccines see the criticism of the WHO announcement in a different light.
"It doesn't matter what we try and defend with. Those who are advocating against vaccines will always come up with some reason it's not a good thing," Cynthia Leifer, PhD, an associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Cornell University in New York, told Healthline.
Leifer says she also doesn't buy the argument that listing vaccine hesitancy as a health threat is about Big Pharma making money.
"Vaccines are not a particularly large money maker for pharmaceutical companies. They give them away for pennies on the dollar to other countries," Leifer noted.
Why does she think vaccine hesitancy made the list?
"The fewer children that are getting vaccines, the more likely it is that diseases we haven't seen in years will spread" Leifer said. "There's a critical threshold of individuals that need to be vaccinated to keep these diseases under control. Once we drop below that critical threshold, there's going to be a rapid spread of these diseases we really haven't seen in the U.S."
" I think we're teetering on the edge of that" she added. "There's also a big anti-vax group in Europe and they've had some disease resurgence, too."
She says people who aren't vaccinated can be the "back door" for those illnesses.
"I always say measles, even polio, is still endemic in a few countries and is just a plane ride away. In our global society, all you need is somebody traveling somewhere to pick something up and bring it back" Leifer said.
"If we take the brakes off of the pressure, we're going to end up with children that are blind and sterile or possibly even dying from these diseases that are completely preventable" she added.
"My hope would be that this will make people pay attention if the World Health Organization is saying this is really, really important" Leifer said. "I hope people will think twice about delaying vaccines or choosing not to immunize their children."
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Russell's View on World Government in his Essay The Future of Mankind
bySomnath Sarkar - May 29, 2020
Bertrand Russell surely disproves the common established notion about philosophers, that, they are absent-minded and always engage their heads in making speculations, when he meditates on the possibilities regarding "The Future of Mankind". He has done so, because of his high sensitivity and deep concern towards human beings. He was called as a traitor to his country because of his anti-war stand during the First World War. But his only concern was towards 'humanity'. Later he was awarded a Noble Prize for contribution towards peace. In the words of Erich From:
"Bertrand Russell fights against threatening slaughter. because he is a who loves life."
Russell discuses three possibilities about "The Future of Mankind." According to him, one is the com extinction of human life on earth, the second is that human life will be reduced to barbarism and the final is that there will be a world government that will control all nations and countries. Among these the first possibility, describes, is the complete extinction of all human beings. This might happen after the Second World War in atomic weapons will be used. Russell deals it logically, for he says, if still there will be some life after the end of that war, there would soon be another war, for there would such "die-hard" in the super powers, who would prefer the extermination of life, than surrendering to the victory of the other power.
And if any man would miraculously be able to escape from death, he may consider himself to be the emperor of the whole world, but his reign would not be long and his subjects would be only dead bodies and Russell says:
"With his death the uneasy episode of life will end, and the peaceful rocks will revolve unchanged, until the sun explodes."
The second possibility, which Russell discusses, is the reversal of civilization to its primitive conditions. Russell suggests if the Second World War fails to eliminate all signs of life, still that destruction would take world to the age of "barbarism". For in the war, the major cities and industrial areas would be destroyed and the bacteriological warfare would destroy crops and cause famine. Russell says there may be a few libraries and laboratories and scientists. But the people, might kill the remaining few scientists, in hope of some "Golden Age", for:
"Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery and in such a world hopes could only be irrational."
The third possibility, according to Russell, is the establishment of a universal government all over the world. He discusses this idea in more than one ways in which it could occur. The one is the victory of America, in the Second World War. Other is the victory of Russia, or the world government, would emerge as a result of mutual agreement. The best among these ways is the idea of mutual agreement.
Russell's view of the world government has been criticized greatly. People have raised arguments considering it as a "Utopian ideal". Most of the people think that such an alliance cannot be brought peacefully, for no nation would surrender her liberty. Russell also admits that the chances of government in a formal ways are extremely remote. He thinks that a world government, would not be for voluntarily, but it would have to be brought about by force.
Russell prefers America to control the government and he has given many reasons for his preference to America but his preference has no political and ideological basis, but it totally depends on the probable condition of people under these states. The major reason to prefer America is that, she respects the values of civilized life like freedom of thought, freedom of inquiry and humanness. But on the other hand, in communistic countries like Russia there is not liberty for individuals and the government has a strict hold on the common masses.
Moreover, there is considerably less orthodoxy in America than in Russia. There, scientist, authors and philosophers can choose any subject regardless of state interest. While in Russia such things are also influenced by official views.
Russell suggests yet another way to prevent a horrible war. In his opinion, America would make an alliance with the British common wealth nations and with other European nations who want to join them. All the military power, of these countries, and weapons should be united and then they should declare war on the nation. In this way Russia might also be agreed to join the alliance just by the threat of war. But still he does not leave the possibility of Russian refusal.
In such an alliance, there should also be a legal check on the power of the leader, by other nations, so there would not be a "chance of corruption".
Among the many advantages, of a single world government, is that the defense expenditures of every nation a diminish and by this way human beings would be more happy than before.
But a little earlier than this, Russell's suggestions did not seem to be implemented to the world. For, China has emerged as a world power with nuclear weapons and it would certainly not like America as the only dominant on to control both, East and West.
However, Russell's chief concern in all this discussion was his good will and sincere concern towards peace and survival of mankind. We can surely conclude that he was a true optimist, pacifist and humanist.
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Q: Logging out of react app results in nullpointer in homescreen I'm working on a react application with a login page. When the user logs in successfully, the backend returns a user-object (JSON), containing some user properties (id, username, ...) aswel as JWT token. The user-object gets stored in AsyncStorage (so the user only has to log in once).
try {
   await AsyncStorage.setItem('authUser', JSON.stringify(data));
} catch (e) {
   console.log(e.message);
}

dispatch({ type: 'SIGN_IN', authUser:data});

The state :
const [state, dispatch] = React.useReducer(

        (prevState, action) => {
          switch (action.type) {
            case 'RESTORE_TOKEN':
              return {
                ...prevState,
                authUser: action.authUser,
                isLoading: false,
              };
            case 'SIGN_IN':
              return {
                ...prevState,
                isSignout: false,
                authUser: action.authUser,
              };
            case 'SIGN_OUT':
              return {
                ...prevState,
                isSignout: true,
                authUser: null,
              };
          }
        },
        {
          isLoading: true,
          isSignout: false,
          authUser: "",
        }
    );

The second time i retrieve the user-object from the AsyncStorage and pass it to the state.
try {
   authUser = await AsyncStorage.getItem('authUser');
} catch (e) {
   console.log(e.message);
}
dispatch({ type: 'RESTORE_TOKEN', authUser: JSON.parse(authUser) });

I use a UserContext to pass the authUser to my welcome screen :
<AuthContext.Provider value={authContext}>
   <UserContext.Provider value={{authUser: state.authUser }}>
      <NavigationContainer>
         <RootStack.Navigator mode="modal" headerMode="none">
            {state.isLoading ? (
               <RootStack.Screen name="Splash" component={SplashScreen} />
            ) : state.authUser == null ? (
               <RootStack.Screen name="Login" component={AuthenticationStackScreen} />
            ) : (
               <RootStack.Screen name="Home" component={HomeScreen} />
            )}
         </RootStack.Navigator>
      </NavigationContainer>
   </UserContext.Provider>
</AuthContext.Provider>

In my homescreen I print a welcome message containing the username and a signOut button :
function HomeScreen(props) {

    const { signOut } = React.useContext(AuthContext);
    const { authUser } = React.useContext(UserContext);

    return (

        <View style={{ flex:1, alignItems: 'center', justifyContent: 'center', backgroundColor:'cyan' }}>

        <Text>Hallo {authUser.username}</Text>
            <Button title="Log out" onPress={signOut} />
            <Text>HomeScreen </Text>
        </View>

    );
}

When a user logs in or was already logged in, the Homescreen is shown correctly with the correct username. The problem appears when the logout button is clicked. The signOut method in the authContext gets called, which logs out the user and removes the object from the AsyncStorage :
signOut: async () => {

   try {
      await AsyncStorage.removeItem('authUser');
   } catch (e) {
      console.log(e.message);
   }
   dispatch({ type: 'SIGN_OUT' })
}

The problem :
The state changes to SIGN_OUT which brings me back to the login page. But since i've cleared the user-object, the welcome notification throws an error because {authUser.username} is null:
TypeError: null is not an object (evaluating 'authUser.username')

I didn't expect the WelcomeScreen to be re-rendered when clicking the sign-out button. Did i mess up the structure of my application, or why is this? Any help on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

A: According to React documentation useContext will always re-render when the context value changes, so that's why HomeScreen is been called again.
Another thing you need to fix is the authUser initial state to be equal to authUser signOut state:
const [state, dispatch] = React.useReducer(

        (prevState, action) => {
          switch (action.type) {
            case 'RESTORE_TOKEN':
              return {
                ...prevState,
                authUser: action.authUser,
                isLoading: false,
              };
            case 'SIGN_IN':
              return {
                ...prevState,
                isSignout: false,
                authUser: action.authUser,
              };
            case 'SIGN_OUT':
              return {
                ...prevState,
                isSignout: true,
                authUser: null,
              };
          }
        },
        {
          isLoading: true,
          isSignout: false,
          authUser: "", //MAKE THIS THE SAME AS SIGN_OUT (null)
        }
    );

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Exclusive: Fighting Tyson Fury is like facing ten different fighters, says Ben Davison
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Tyson Fury's coach Ben Davison has compared sharing the ring with the lineal heavyweight champion to dealing with the skills of ten different fighters simultaneously.
As Fury continues preparations for an imminent spring return with Davison overseeing his camp, the new trainer took the opportunity to send out a warning to anyone who accepts the challenge of facing the 29 year-old former king.
"Tyson can adapt, he can do everything. If it means him boxing southpaw for the whole fight, then he will fight southpaw for the whole fight. If it means he has to box on the back foot for the whole fight, then he'll box on the back foot for the whole fight. If it means he has to come forward and be the one to set the tempo then he can do it. Or if he has to go head to head with Joshua then he can. Anything that has to be done to win, Tyson can do. He has all the capabilities to do it," Davison exclusively told World Boxing News.
"He has absolutely everything. Anybody who gets in the ring with Tyson, you have to try and deal with the attributes of ten different fighters because he can box in such a variety of different ways which makes it very hard.
"People underestimate Tyson's punching power because he can box so cleanly, not get caught with much and make things easy for himself. You don't really see him blasting people out as often as you did in his early part of career but that's his choice.
"If he wants to stand and trade, he can and that's a big shock for people who get in the ring with him."
He continued: "All the other fighters know that Tyson is the biggest threat for all of the fighters (world champions). You've heard Anthony Joshua say it. And when a man has so many attributes, he's not just a puncher, he's not just a boxer – he can do everything. He's got size, he's got reach, speed, power, boxing ability, can fight, good chin, plenty of heart, everything that all the other fighters, he brings that and plus three or four different styles he can do it in."
Shannon Briggs has been strongly linked to being the first man to trade with Fury since the Wladimir Klitschko fight in 2015, although nothing has yet been finalized for a possible April/May outing.
Joe Hewlett is lead writer for World Boxing News. Follow Joe on Twitter @Hewlett95