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Chris Wiley Cornell University Department of Neurobiology and Behavior Climate change, breeding date and nestling diet: How temperature differentially affects seasonal changes in pied flycatcher diet depending on habitat variation
Clayton A. Wiley 0000-0002-2697-7691 University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Department of Pathology Key role of T cell defects in age-related vulnerability to West Nile virus
Matthew W. Wiley University of Washington Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Projected impacts of climate change on salmon habitat restoration
Michael R. Wiley 0000-0001-6688-007X University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases Genomic epidemiology reveals multiple introductions of Zika virus into the United States
Holly Wilhalme University of California, Los Angeles Department of Medicine Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research Heat death Associations with the built environment, social vulnerability and their interactions with rising temperature
John L. Wilhelm Chicago Department of Public Health Heat-Related Deaths during the July 1995 Heat Wave in Chicago Heat-related mortality during a 1999 heat wave in Chicago
Wallace W. Wilhelm University of Nebraska-Lincoln U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service AGRICULTURE: Sustainable Biofuels Redux
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Sunhild Wilhelms Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany Hypoxia is increasing in the coastal zone of the Baltic Sea
George F. Wilhere Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Incorporating climate change into culvert design in Washington State, USA
Donald A. Wilhite University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Natural Resources Drought and Water Crises: Inte...
Bettina Wilk Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development Environmental Governance Group Mainstreaming climate adaptation: Taking stock about "what works" from empirical research worldwide
Jason A. Wilken California Department of Public Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response Career Epidemiology Field Officer Program Physical, mental, and financial impacts from drought in two California counties, 2015
Dean Wilkerson American College of Emergency Physicians ACEP America's emergency care environment, a state-by-state report card
Graham Wilkes Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Coherence among different microbial source tracking markers in a small agricultural stream with or without livestock exclusion practices
David Wilkie Wildlife Conservation Society A standard lexicon for biodiversity conservation: Unified classifications of threats and actions
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Robert Wilkinson University of California, Santa Barbara Bren School of Environmental Science and Management Planning for climate change in the Inland Empire: Southern California
Tim Wilkinson 0000-0002-4080-4164 Repatriation General Hospital The effete in the heat: Heat-related hospital presentations during a ten day heat wave
Daniel S. Wilks Cornell University Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Performance of Alternative "Normals" for Tracking Climate Changes, Using Homogenized and Nonhomogenized Seasonal U.S. Surface Temperatures
R.E. Will The University of Georgia Daniel B. Warnell School of Forest Resources Effect of complete competition control and annual fertilization on stem growth and canopy relations for a chronosequence of loblolly pine plantations in the lower coastal plain of Georgia
Rodney E. Will Oklahoma State University Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management Increased vapor pressure deficit due to higher temperature leads to greater transpiration and faster mortality during drought for tree seedlings common to the forest–grassland ecotone
Daniel Willard Environmental Defense Fund The impact of climate change on marine recreational fishing with implications for the social cost of carbon
Debra A. Willard 0000-0003-4878-0942 U.S. Geological Survey The impact of anthropogenic land-cover change on the Florida peninsula sea breezes and warm season sensible weather
Rosemary Willatt Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling University College London Department of Earth Sciences CryoSat-2 estimates of Arctic sea ice thickness and volume
Louisa Willcox Whitebark pine vulnerability to climate-driven mountain pine beetle disturbance in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Patrick Willems Catholic University of Leuven Hydraulics and Geotechnics Division Impacts of climate change on rainfall extremes and urban drainage systems: A review
Dirk Willenbockel 0000-0002-6840-0954 University of Sussex Institute of Development Studies Agriculture and climate change in global scenarios: Why don't the models agree Climate change effects on agriculture: Economic responses to biophysical shocks
Katharine M. Willett Met Office Hadley Centre University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit Yale University Department of Geology and Geophysics Recent Changes in Surface Humidity: Development of the HadCRUH Dataset Attribution of observed surface humidity changes to human influence Low-frequency variations in surface atmospheric humidity, temperature, and precipitation: Inferences from reanalyses and monthly gridded observational data sets Implications of climate change for agricultural productivity in the early twenty-first century A comparison of large scale changes in surface humidity over land in observations and CMIP3 general circulation models
Walter Willett Brigham and Women's Hospital Channing Laboratory Harvard School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology Harvard School of Public Health Department of Nutrition Magnesium intake and risk of type 2 diabetes in men and women Red Meat Consumption and Mortality
Jeff B. Willey Health Canada Air Health Effects Research Section Air pollution and emergency department visits for suicide attempts in Vancouver, Canada
A. Williams University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign A preliminary synthesis of modeled climate change impacts on U.S. regional ozone concentrations
Arthur R. Williams New York University New York University School of Medicine Department of Population Health New York University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry Outcomes among buprenorphine-naloxone primary care patients after Hurricane Sandy Psychiatric comorbidity, red flag behaviors, and associated outcomes among office-based buprenorphine patients following Hurricane Sandy
Benjamin C. Williams Alaska Department of Fish and Game Division of Commercial Fisheries University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences Benefits and risks of diversification for individual fishers
B. Ken Williams The Wildlife Society nca3 chapter 26 : Decision Support: Connecting Science, Risk Perception, and Decisions
Branwen Williams 0000-0001-6378-9828 Scripps College The Geological Record of Ocean Acidification
Byron K. Williams Adaptive Management Working Group U.S. Geological Survey The Wildlife Society Species recovery in the United States: Increasing the effectiveness of the Endangered Species Act Adaptive Management: The US De... Adaptive resource management and the value of information
Candiss O. Williams Charles E. Kellogg National Soil Survey Laboratory Nitrogen-climate interactions in US agriculture
Caroline M. Williams 0000-0003-3112-0286 University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Department of Entomology and Nematology Cold truths: How winter drives responses of terrestrial organisms to climate change
Christopher A. Williams Clark University Clark University Graduate School of Geography The increasing importance of atmospheric demand for ecosystem water and carbon fluxes Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2): A Sustained Assessment Report Carbon consequences of forest disturbance and recovery across the conterminous United States second-state-carbon-cycle-report-soccr2-sustained-assessment-report chapter 9 : Forests Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate Large carbon release legacy from bark beetle outbreaks across Western United States Disturbance and the carbon balance of US forests: A quantitative review of impacts from harvests, fires, insects, and droughts Reduction in carbon uptake during turn of the century drought in western North America 9.2: Flow Diagram of Active Carbon Exchanges and Stores Between the Atmosphere and the Forest Sector 9.3: Satellite-Derived Distribution of Major Forest Disturbances by Type for Canada (a) and the United States (b). 9.4: Teragrams (Tg) of Carbon in Western U.S. Trees Killed by Disturbances
Christopher Alan Williams 0000-0002-5047-0639
Christopher D. Williams GreenWater Laboratories Recreational exposure to microcystins during algal blooms in two California lakes
Claude N. Williams National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Centers for Environmental Information NCEI National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Climatic Data Center Deriving historical temperature and precipitation time series for Alaska climate divisions via climatologically aided interpolation Homogenization of Temperature Series via Pairwise Comparisons An intercomparison of temperature trends in the U.S. Historical Climatology Network and recent atmospheric reanalyses The U.S. Historical Climatology Network Monthly Temperature Data, Version 2 On the reliability of the U.S. surface temperature record An overview of the Global Historical Climatology Network monthly mean temperature data set, version 3 Quantifying the effect of urbanization on U.S. Historical Climatology Network temperature records Improved Historical Temperature and Precipitation Time Series for U.S. Climate Divisions A Model to Estimate the Time of Observation Bias Associated with Monthly Mean Maximum, Minimum and Mean Temperatures for the United States NOAA's Merged Land–Ocean Surface Temperature Analysis Benchmarking the performance of pairwise homogenization of surface temperatures in the United States
David Williams U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Addressing Climate Change in Long-Term Water Resources Planning and Management: User Needs for Improving Tools and Information
David G. Williams 0000-0003-3627-5260 University of Wyoming Department of Botany University of Wyoming Department of Ecosystem Science And Management University of Wyoming Department of Renewable Resources University of Wyoming Program in Ecology Invasive forb benefits from water savings by native plants and carbon fertilization under elevated CO2 and warming Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought? C4 grasses prosper as carbon dioxide eliminates desiccation in warmed semi-arid grassland Impacts of warming and elevated CO2 on a semi-arid grassland are non-additive, shift with precipitation, and reverse over time
David R. Williams Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health University of Michigan Institute for Social Research The social determinants of health: coming of age
Erik H. Williams National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Southeast Fisheries Science Center Forecasting the dynamics of a coastal fishery species using a coupled climate–population model
Ernest H. Williams 0000-0003-0913-3013 University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez Department of Biology Caribbean Corals in Crisis: Record Thermal Stress, Bleaching, and Mortality in 2005


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Keeping up with its "several games a month" policy, online gambling developer Microgaming announced the release of new games onto its Viper and Flash platforms in November.
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2022 Pop Culture References Tournament – Final Four
Come cast your vote for the fifth round of our tournament of the best TV series finale episodes of all-time!
Today, it is our first annual Pop Culture References Tournament! This year, the tournament is "Best Series Finale!"
I've been doing these on Comics Should Be Good for over a decade (skipped it in 2020 since there was no March Madness that year), but now it's Pop Culture References' turn (although my recast tournament last year is really sort of an unofficial Pop Culture References event, honestly).
Okay, this time, you're choosing what you think was the best series finale of all-time of a series that had at least three initial seasons (so no Twin Peaks, for instance). I poured over various lists of best finales and also factored the IMDB rating in a lot, but I also made various adjustments when I felt it prudent (M*A*S*H, for instance, was ranked waaaaaaaaay too low). If you have a problem with a finale's seed, well, just vote for that show and if it is is seeded too low it should still do well, ya know? If a #12 seed makes it to the Final Four, then so be it! Note that show's didn't really even START doing series finales on a regular basis until the 1980s.
We'll continue with the first final four.
Which had a better series finale? 2. Breaking Bad vs. 4. Star Trek: The Next Generation
— Pop Culture References (@pop_culture_ref) April 3, 2022
Which had the better series finale? 1. The Good Place vs. 3. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Check back on Monday for the Finals!
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To Dog With Love: Twitter Party Alert from Fido's Freebie Friday!
Twitter Party Alert from Fido's Freebie Friday!
Rocco gives the Twitter Party prizes a high paw!
We're busy behind the scenes with Event Barkers working on our next Twitter Party… one that will be packed with fun and great prizes! We can't unveil the sponsor and details yet, but come back on Monday, Sept. 1 and you'll find all the details here and on DogTipper and All Things Dog Blog.
It'll be another Twitter Party not to miss! Rocco's been testing out the goodies and he gives them a hearty paws up! On Monday, you can enter for a chance to win one of three prizes even before the party begins!


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Justice by disaster
A Reuters news agency story dated February 10, 2009 reports that Federal judges have tentatively ordered the release of up to one-third the prison population is the state of California. If implemented, this could result in the release of as many as 57,000 prisoners. The immediate reason for the possible release is that California's prisons are dangerously overcrowded; moreover, the severe budget crisis that has emerged in the early months of this year has led to doubts as to whether the state can continue to pay the high cost of imprisoning approximately 170,000 inmates.
Part of the reason for the severe overcrowding in California's prisons is the policy of giving very long sentences—often life sentences—to repeat offenders. Although some prisons in California have educational and rehabilitational programs for inmates, the number of inmates seeking such programs far exceeds the numbers who can be accommodated. As a result many inmates receive little or no rehabilitative help while in prison. Once released, many prisoners lack the resources to become re-established with honest gainful employment on the outside. As a result California has the highest recidivism rate in the United States; according to a California government fact sheet, 70% of men and 40% of women return to prison after being released. When the state lacks the policy to ensure that all inmates have an opportunity for education or job training, it is almost inevitable to released prisoners will commit further crimes; when the state has a policy of giving very long sentences to repeat offenders, the prisons are sure to become overcrowded and expensive. The entire system is in serious need of reform.
While the situation is worst in California, the difference from other states are only a matter of degree. The United States as a whole leads the world in the percentage of its citizens who are in prison. I have written about this before. It is not only California but all the other states, and indeed the federal government, that must take a serious look at its policies in imprisoning those who have broken laws.
There is no doubt that the economic crisis the world is facing will have terrible consequences for many people—it is probably not exaggeration to say that nearly everyone alive will suffer at least some negative consequences. But not all the consequences of the economic disaster will be bad; some will lead, in odd and unexpected ways, to improvements in human society. Wasteful habits of producing and consuming goods and services are likely to be revised, perhaps helping to heal some of the deep wounds the human race has inflicted on the planet's ecological systems. Another unexpected consequence of the economic downturn could be a return to a more sane and humane set of policies of justice. The overcrowding of California's prisons, and those in most other states, is surely an injustice. The release of prisoners for whatever reason is a correction, even if an unintended correction, to that injustice. And for that we can all rejoice.
Labels: Prisons
Provoked by Mozi
Mozi said: In ancient times, when mankind was first born and before there were any laws or government, it may be said that every man's views of things was different. One man had one view, two men had two views, ten men had ten views—the more men, the more views. Moreover, each man believed that his own views were correct and disapproved those of others, so that people spent their time condemning one another.... Those with strength to spare refused to help out others, those with surplus wealth would let it rot before they would share it, and those with beneficial doctrines to teach would keep them secret and refuse to impart them.
Mozi wrote his essays sometime after the time of Confucius and before the time of Mencius, so sometime during the fifth century BCE. His essays have always intrigued me, because I agree so profoundly with much of what he says and at the same time shrink bank in horror at the implications of the life he advocates.
Mozi is best remembered for advocating a doctrine of universal love. Nothing but harm, he argued, comes of letting one's love be limited to one's own family, or to one's circle of friends, or to one's own country or to people who share one's beliefs and convictions. If one loves one's own nation, he said, then let one love all nations. To do anything less is to fail to be fully human, and to fail to be fully human is to fail to be satisfactory in the eyes of Heaven. The doctrine of universal love was intimately connected in Mozi's thought to his condemnation of aggressive warfare. When strong nations attack weaker nations for the sake of gaining more land, more population, or better markets, they rarely achieve what they seek and instead reap a harvest of bitterness that no sane person would want: death, destruction of property, wasted resources, and a general disruption of trust and confidence that results in an atmosphere of fear and resentment. Of all the unrighteous things a man can do, says Mozi, none is more unrighteous than beginning a war. Of all the incompetent actions a government can perform, none is more incompetent and counterproductive than beginning a war. With all these sentiments I have always found myself in full agreement.
Where Mozi begins to leave me feeling less sympathetic is in his uncompromising condemnation of music and the arts, and ornamented clothing and fancy houses and splendid carriages. My lack of sympathy here is not without complexity. Having been brought up by parents who had a disdain for all manner of luxury and who wore plain and functional clothing and avoided jewelry and drove practical and efficient automobiles and favored modest housing, I find that my own tastes are basically in accord with those of Mozi. Where I feel uncomfortable is in the stridency of his condemnation of all enterprises that are carried our purely for pleasure and enjoyment rather than for more obviously utilitarian and commercial purposes. The denial of the legitimacy of the pursuit of pleasure strikes me as founded on an unnecessarily narrow understanding of human nature. I keep wanting to argue that people do not thrive when they deny themselves aesthetic pursuits, or when they disdain doing things just for fun.
For most of my adult life, I have been attracted to disciplined ways of living that have little room for pursuits deemed frivolous. The spare lifestyle of the Buddhist monk has always been a source of inspiration to me, and I have always admired those who pursue it (especially since I myself have never been able to pursue it). The idea of having just one set of robes, one bowl out of which one eats one meal per day, and no hair or beard to trim and maintain has always struck me as the noblest way of living in the world. Having no reason to look at oneself in the mirror to see how one might appear to others, one could devote all one's time and energy to undistracted pursuit of wisdom and service to others.
While the Buddhist monk has always been at the top of my list of people to admire, a close second place is held by what Max Weber called secular ascetics, that is, people who earn a livelihood by the sweat of their brow and get married and have a family but who studiously avoid all luxuries so that they can devote all their spare time to undistracted pursuit of wisdom and service to others. Quakers, Shakers, Mennonites, Hutterites, and the Amish have always seemed the very noblest of Christians, the closest to succeeding in living a life that Christ (and the Buddha) would surely approve in full. Among these people there is not much music to be found, not much in the way of ornamented clothing (aside from some pretty amazing quiltwork) or luxurious housing and furnishing (except for some of the most beautiful furniture and carpentry that has ever been produced with simple tools and bare hands).
And yet, despite all my admiration for the plain and disciplined life of monks and so-called primitive Quakers, I cannot suppress my own hedonistic appreciation of music well performed, theater skillfully produced, painting and sculpture beautifully executed, clothing attractively sewn and dyed, and buildings well designed and carefully constructed. Even if I would probably not spend my own money to support the production of such things, I cannot deny being deeply grateful to those who do. Unlike Mozi (and quite a few of my fellow Buddhists and Quakers), I cannot regard the pursuit of beauty wasteful and frivolous. When Mozi rails against such things, I shudder.
I find myself wondering whether my love of discipline on the one hand and my love of beauty on the other is just another one of the many unresolved contradictions in my character. Can one condemn war and partiality and frivolity and praise discipline and wisdom and service but still have time for pleasure and fun without falling into self-contradiction and delusion? I think one can. But I may very well be deluded in this (as in so many other things).
Labels: Simplicity testimony
Remembering to make sense
When I was younger, I think I had the belief that remembering something was a matter of going into some kind of archive and retrieving information about something from the past. So if I wanted to know what my grandfather said right after the car we were in was hit in an intersection on Silver Avenue as we were on our way to see a baseball game, all I had to do was check the archives and pull that record out and examine it. I'm not sure I actually believed that, but I seem to remember believing something of that kind.
About twenty years ago or so, I witnessed an animated discussion among members of my extended family. They were trying to recall something like who lived in which room of the house they had lived in together in 1935. Each party in the discussion examined the archives, and each pulled out a different record. There was no way of settling the dispute, since no one had access to anything except someone human being's memory. The more the original disputants drew others into the discussion, the more inconsistent memories there were. All avenues to finding a solution were closed. Tempers flared. Voices spoke ever more loudly. Unpleasant expressions began to appear on faces. Whether my memory of the dispute is accurate, my account of it illustrates how conversations tend to go when different people remember things differently and there is no reliable authority to consult to settle whose memory is accurate and whose is at fault.
The dispute accounted above, and dozens of others like it, have inclined me to think of memory not as a passive mental activity of simply receiving images of the past somehow, but rather as an active act of telling stories that make sense of our present experiences. This is not to say that remembering something is deliberating concocting a pure fiction (if there is such a thing as as story that is purely fictitious). It is not like telling a deliberate lie. Rather, it is more like adding a few embellishments and removing a few apparently irrelevant details from a dim and nebulous and mostly incoherent hodgepodge of impressions. It is perhaps a little like solving a jigsaw puzzle. It is more like putting forward a possible solution to a mystery. Telling a story to oneself about the past is not done to deceive anyone, but to make private sense of things that have taken place more recently than the event being recollected. Perhaps instead of saying that I remember something it would be better to say I am making up a story about something in the past that is compatible with the beliefs I hold today.
For the past several months I have been reading the journal of George Fox, the man who is given credit for having founded the movement called the Children of Light, later called the Society of Friends and derisively called the Quakers. Fox's journal was not written as events unfolded. He did not write down his memories of each day at the end of the day. Rather, he dictated his memories of events in his life years after those events had taken place. It is fairly clear to a reader of the journal that Fox, in dictating his journal, was trying to make sense of how the Quaker movement had evolved. He was also trying, perhaps unconsciously, to give legitimacy to a religious movement that had been at the center of a great deal of controversy. Given the large number of quotations of and allusions to biblical passages, it is also obvious that Fox was showing that his story of the Quakers was a continuation of the story of Jesus Christ as told in the gospels and the letters of Paul and other apostles. The stories (for there are more than one version) told in the Bible of the life and teaching and death of Jesus are themselves recorded memories of events that had taken place decades before the memories were written down, and it is pretty clear that they are attempts to show that the story of Israel was still unfolding in a particular way that involved the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth. They are making sense of what might otherwise seem a meaningless and pointlessly brutal death.
George Fox and the authors of the Gospels may have been innocent of the extent to which they were making up stories to make sense of present realities. They may have been naive. They may also have been, to at least some extent, calculating and crafty. Whatever the case may be, taking the stories they told at face value, without taking into account the story-telling nature of what we call memory, would be to participate in a naivety that verges on being inexcusably careless. There is only one way to read memories: carefully, critically and skeptically.
My skepticism about memory (my own and everyone else's) may account for why I prefer to avoid religious doctrines that are based mostly on historical narratives. They feel too much as if someone is trying to sell a particular story and to preclude other accounts. Making one's own story legitimate almost always entails making someone else's story illegitimate. And that usually leads to tempers flaring, voices speaking ever more loudly, and unpleasant expressions beginning to appear on faces. Such things make life unpleasant. Or so it seems to me.
Labels: Scriptural meditations
Telling stories about telling stories
"No one has ever been angry at another human being—we're only angry at our story of them."—Byron Katie
There are things that some people do that tend to make me angry. The list is fairly long—embarrassingly long, in fact. Close to the top of the list is having someone—anyone—try to explain why I do the things I do, why I believe the things I believe, or why I have the attitudes I have. So, for example, if someone were to come along and say "The reason you tend to get angry when people explain what you do is because you have unresolved issues with your mother, who had a tendency to try to explain your behavior," or "It's not at all surprising that you get angry when someone tries to explain your behavior, given that you have carelessly let yourself become a victim of overweaning pride and thus have the arrogant view of yourself that no one but you can possibly understand how your think." It is not only relatively unflattering stories that annoy me. Nor is it only stories about me that annoy me. I just don't like it much when people make up stories, even pretty good and probably true stories, about other people's deliberate and unwitting behavior.
Stories, it has to be admitted at the outset, make the world go around. (That is a figure of speech, not intended as a scientific explanation of why the earth moves around the sun or spins on its own axis.) Countries go to war because of stories they make up and then believe. The United States invaded Mexico because of a story that President Polk told about the treacherous intentions of the neighbor to the south. More recently, the United States invaded Iraq because of a story that the Bush administration told about the treacherous intentions of Saddam Hussein. I spent the better part of my childhood, adolescence and young adulthood hearing stories about what a danger Communism posed to American freedom—American freedom itself being a major plot in yet another story that Americans have loved to tell themselves. Economies fall because of stories that people tell and then believe. Economies also recover because of stories that people tell and then believe. Some people prepare for the end of civilization as we know it because of stories they tell.
On a more individual level, people not only get angry at the stories they tell of other people. People also fall in love with the stories they tell of other people. (Narcissists, of course, fall in love with stories they tell about themselves.) People get married, and then divorced, as a result of stories they tell and then believe about other people in their lives. People are hired and fired because of stories that others tell about them. Children are disinherited because of stories their parents believe about them. People are sent to prison because of stories that judges and juries tell themselves about the accused. People are put to death because of stories that people believe about them.
Whether stories are true makes very little difference. What makes things happen is that stories are believed. Stories come true because people tell them and act as if they are true. Good things happen because of stories people believe, and horrible things happen because of stories people believe. Stories do not care what comes of them; stories only demand to be told.
In Buddhist teaching there is a word for the stories people tell to account for what they are experiencing. Buddhists call these stories prapañca. According to Buddhist psychology almost all of us have an obsessive tendency to want to understand what we are experiencing. Rather than simply noticing, for example, that there is an expectation to find a jar of peanut butter in the pantry, followed by a failure to see a jar of peanut butter in the pantry, one makes up a story to explain the mystery of the missing peanut butter. Someone took some peanut butter and then failed to put the peanut butter container back in the pantry; it was probably left open on the countertop and is now filled with ants. Someone used the last of the peanut butter without making sure to add peanut butter to the shopping list. Someone raided the pantry and stole the peanut butter. A team of very clever cockroaches carried the peanut butter jar outside and ate it, glass and all. An errant black hole came through the house and sucked the peanut butter into it. There never was a jar of peanut butter in the pantry, and my delusional belief that there was could very well be an early warning sign of Alzheimer's disease.
A key teaching of Buddhism is that a great deal of the pain, frustration, anger, envy, jealousy, anxiety, depression and expectation we human beings experience is a result of prapañca. We tell stories about nearly everything we experience, and about things we do not experience, and then we suffer because of the stories we have told. The obsessive need to come up with a story is a kind of addiction. Or so the Buddhist story goes. As is the case with most stories, it might have been better had that story never been told.
What would it be like to go through a day without telling any stories? What would it be like just to see sights, hear sounds, smell odors, taste tastes and feel corporeal sensations and stop there, without giving any account of them? What would it be like to hear the stories that others tell and simply observe them, without telling stories about why others tell the stories they tell? It might be interesting to experiment with living a day, or even a few hours of a day, in a narrative-free state of simple observance of sights, sounds, smells, tastes and bodily sensations. It might be interesting to cultivate a habit of catching oneself in the act of telling a story and then to refuse to finish telling the story.
Whether it would be interesting to live without telling stories is something one can never know without trying it. Do you feel like trying it? If so, go ahead and do it. I promise not to tell a story explaining why you decided to try it out—or why you decided that trying it out would be a waste of time.
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Found growing in the western Yunnan, Yijia Wang is propagating this lily at his nursery in China. Being grown now in a sandy soil with little organic material, Mr. Wang reports that the bulbs are at their largest about 1 inch across but feels they would grow larger, quicker in a richer soil. This is a very short alpine only reaching about 12 inches at maturity. It is different than both L. wardii and L. lankongense and could possible be a natural hybrid, but only time will tell.
Yijia Wang offers seed of several Chinese Alpines at his nursery at www.canursery.com though as of this writing in January of 2019, no seed was being offered of this particular selection.
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Srđan Mrvaljević returned from the World Championship where he won silver medal
MONTENEGRO THANKED EXCELLENT JUDOKA – SRĐAN MRVALJEVIĆ RETURNED FROM THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WHERE HE WON SILVER MEDAL
This medal is for the people
To win a medal at any great sport event is true satisfaction for every country, but for Montenegro is is real award. Three days ago in Paris, our judoka Srđan Mrvaljević won silver medal at the World Championship in judo (category up to 82 kg), and in that occasion on Golubovci Airport yesterday was organized welcome for one of the best Montenegrin athletes in its history.
At the tatami in the "City of lights" it was so "narrow" for judokas from the Great Britain, South Korea, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Brazil, but in the finals one of the best judoka of the present, Korean Kim was better than Mrvaljević so he managed to win silver medal that enabled him to participate at the Olympic Games in London.
– I have to thank all of those who are responsible of this success: my family, my closest, selector and all Association because they believed in me the most. At the first place, I think about the selector Rajko Mrvaljević who gave me optimism, fed me with positive energy and believed in me even more than myself – said great judoka at the beginning of his address. – I must mention people who believed and supported this project, state institutions – Ministry of Sport and the Olympic Committee and its president Dušan Simonović.
This is the medal of all Montenegrins, because of them I returned to judo, they supported me when it was most difficult for me so their contribution is priceless.
Achieved almost impossible
At one great sport even such as WC in Paris participated 136 countries and only 12 of them won medals – one of those is Montenegro. About that success spoke the selector of our judo national team, Rajko Mrvaljević.
– He almost achieved unrealistic success, defeated great fighters and in competition among 87 fighters he managed to be the second. I have to say that for those who don't know him and are not aware how much he can achieve in this sport it is strange, but for us it is normal.
After excellent result Srđan achieved, he also mentioned participation of Marko Radulović and Nikola Vulević (in categories up to 100 kg and +100 kg), who were stopped at the very beginning.
– Nikola is our future, he is our great hope for the European Championship up to 23 years, I hope he will bring medals to Montenegro in the future. As for Marko, he is extraordinary fighter who didn't have luck during the draw and not having good preparations, to be realistic, he couldn't achieve more – explains selector Mrvaljević.
Stijepović: Impressive
At the welcome were present important sport workers in Montenegro. Minister of Education and Sport, Slavoljub Stijepović addressed the press.
– This is impressive result for our country. This feeling is indescribable because such successes are very rare having in mind that we are one small country. First of all, I would like to congratulate the selector, the club and the Association because for such great achievements it is necessary to work hard and systematically. This is not only success of sport, but the whole State, this is promotion of one nation, because we showed when we are united, when we train and work hard we can succeed – says Stijepović. – We will try to do whatever we can in order to provide right conditions for Srđan in order to return him for such result.
Simonović: Result of hard work
The Olympic Games in London are getting closer and so far Montenegro has one guaranteed place at the biggest sport event. Best interlocutor for the story on success of our judoka is, for sure, president of MOC, Dušan Simonović.
– This is great feeling, and I am especially glad for such a result that needs to be valued in right way. Srđan is winner of two World Cups and with this he crowned it in best possible way, and what is important, he managed to provide himself place for the Olympic Games – says Simonović. – I hope that this will be additional stimulus for all Montenegrin athletes who will try to get to the Olympic Games in London.
We will celebrate many more times
When he thought about leaving judo, Montenegrin supporters knew to recognize those difficult moments, to give him immense support and he returned them. – Tomorrow I continue with trainings, because I am not such a person to only talk about the result and satisfy with this medal only. I will give my best to make my people happy many more times in the future – said Mrvaljević. – My heart is full, I am very happy I made my country proud, and I hope in the future we will give our best in order to use all potentials this country has to offer.
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Tchami Heads to Atlanta on North American Prophecy Tour
By Evan Maag February 6, 2017
Tchami is bringing the religion of house back to the North America with his 32-date North American Prophecy tour, and the French jock is headed to Atlanta on Tuesday, February 7 for a night of hard-hitting bass.
The Future House pioneer is back with a reboot of his cathedral stage set from his Coachella performance, and one of the first stops is to a sold out Terminal West in Atlanta, GA. In case you don't know who he is, Tchami's style is all about pushing house music into a space in between house and hard hitting EDM-style tunes but while brilliantly preserving the soul of house music.
Additionally, Tchami has taken the wraps off the melodic "Adieu" to commemorate the tour. The track was first previewed in his 2016 recap video as a mystery ID, but fans can listen to the final version of the song below.
For more information, go to Tchami-Prophecy.com
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Is GOP God's Own Party?
Oct 5, 2015, 4:25 AM
The Supreme Court convenes this week — the first Monday in October —for a new session that will reverberate over the next 13 months until the first Tuesday in November 2016 when American voters will make their own decisions that could determine the makeup of the Court for a generation.
Over the past year the Court has made some of its most controversial decisions that already are major issues in the presidential campaign, most notably upholding Obamacare and same-sex marriage.
All the Republican contenders for president have made clear that they want to reverse both decisions, and several want to take steps to significantly weaken the Court's authority. Most would apply stiff litmus tests to any nominee, particularly demanding a rigid opposition to abortion and gay marriage. In defense of "religious liberty" they are ready to tear down the wall of separation between church and state that has been particularly important to Jews, who want to see it fortified.
Three presidential wannabes leading the wrecking crew that wants to see that wall breeched, if not removed altogether: Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum. Listen to them and you get the impression they think GOP stands for God's Own Party. All the candidates staunchly and repeatedly assert their Christian identity.
"Sadly, under the Obama Administration, we are seeing the greatest assault on faith in our nation's history. The persecution of religious liberty must end," Cruz states on his campaign web page and on the stump.
"There is a war on faith in America today," he declared, and he apparently sees himself as the holy warrior sent to battle the forces of evil. He has indicated that if elected his interpretation of the Bible would take precedence over the Constitution or the courts.
Republicans seem intent on locking up the homophobe vote and not just with their opposition to same-sex marriage. Huckabee accused Obama of being "more interested in appeasing America's homosexuals than honoring America's heroes" because he intends to nominate a gay man to be secretary of the army.
Huckabee called the Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling "unconstitutional" and said he would not feel bound to obey it. "As President I will never bow down to the false gods of judicial supremacy," the Baptist preacher declared. "The Supreme Court … cannot "repeal the laws of nature and nature's God on marriage."
This election takes on greater historic importance when you consider that three justices — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy — will be 80 or older when the next president is sworn in. Their successors could significantly change the make-up of the Court.
Ginsburg has been an anchor on the left, Scalia on the right and Kennedy, a center-right swing vote that has made the difference in most 5-4 decisions. Ronald Reagan nominated both men 29 years ago; Ginsburg was named by Bill Clinton in 1993.
Voters must understand that they are electing more than a president but also shaping the nation's judiciary for a generation to come. Jewish voters are almost certain to reject in wholesale numbers this GOP tilt to the extreme religious right.


So how close did Michael Collins come to immigrating to the Windy City?
What we do know is that Patrick Collins arrived in Chicago at the turn-of-the-century and eventually joined the Chicago Police Force. According to Chrissy Osborne, author of "Michael Collins: A Life in Pictures" (Mercier Press), Patrick rose to the rank of captain. Her book contains a picture of the splendid Patrick dressed in his police uniform.
In 1915 Collins was an itchy revolutionary-wanna-be working in London at a dead-end job. He was also in danger of being conscripted into the British army as WWI began to go from bad to worse, forcing the British to seek more fodder for the trenches. They looked to Ireland for this fodder.
Who better to turn to but Michael Collins himself for his version of the story? In "Michael Collins Own Story" by Hayden Talbot (Forgotten Books) he gives a story that seems to rhyme with his brother's account. Talbot's book was supposed to be Collins' autobiography, but he was killed before it was finished. However, much of the book is written by Collins in the first person and is a remarkable document in itself.
Collins goes on to state, "Before the summer of 1915 was ended, however, I got the summons and hurried to Dublin." This account is backed up by Geraldine Plunkett Dillon in her family history, "All in the Blood" (A&A Farmar). According to Plunkett Dillon, "Mick came to Ireland at this time in order to avoid having to register for national service, the first step to conscription…Joe [Plunkett] put Mick on his staff after only a few days; they got on very well together and Mick sometimes acted as Joe's bodyguard, becoming deeply attached to him." Collins went on to become Plunkett's aide-de-camp and cared for the critically ill Plunkett in the GPO during Easter Week. Plunkett would be shot by the British for his part in the insurrection.
So, the Collins-to-Chicago scenario seems to all tie together. Offered a great opportunity by his brother Patrick, he got an even better offer from Tom Clarke, the architect of the Easter Rising. Collins went on to fight in the GPO and after serving time at the Frongoch prison camp in Wales returned to Dublin and masterminded the guerrilla war that eventually defeated the British.
What would have happened if Collins had gone to Chicago? Was Chicago big enough for Michael Collins, Al Capone and Prohibition? The scenarios run wild. But I would not be surprised at all if on Election Night 1960 John F. Kennedy would have been calling Mayor Michael Collins, not Mayor Richard Daley, about how the vote was going in Illinois. Ireland's gain was Chicago's loss.
Dermot McEvoy is the author of the "The 13th Apostle: A Novel of Michael Collins and the Irish Uprising" and "Our Lady of Greenwich Village," both now available in paperback, Kindle and Audio from Skyhorse Publishing. He may be reached at dermotmcevoy50@gmail.com. Follow him at www.dermotmcevoy.com. Follow The 13th Apostle on Facebook.


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Let's face it, we are all in a relative state of distress. We feel sad, anxious, dissatisfied. We yearn for a happier and an easier life, but often look in the wrong places and end up disappointed because we don't understand our real needs. We want to feel 'right' and for things to 'make sense', yet most of the time we don't realise what we are yearning for is our true core self.
We can think of our core as our authentic state of being before the impact of our life experiences and childhood conditioning took us away from it. It is the truth of who we are. Place of oneness with all that is, a place of unconditional love, compassion, wisdom, joy, peace, contentment and healing.
We first experience a painful separation from our core as babies when we realise we are separate from unconditional love. We experience the imperfection of our parents, who can't give us unconditional love. But felt even more deeply is the separation of from the unconditional love of the divine. The source from which we came. Before we had the words to name it, or the reasoning to understand it, we suffered this most cataclysmic experience. This is called our core wound.
Connecting with your core taps into a well of spiritual energy which will nourish and enhance all parts of your life. Every resource we might ever need is found there, already within us. Take a second to let that sink in. How could that realisation transform your life?
When connected to your core, life flows effortlessly. You feel more comfortable in your own skin. You begin to love and trust yourself and to perceive the world as a more supportive, enjoyable place. Regular contact with your core creates a gradual shift to higher level of consciousness.
Our greatest and deepest longing is to return to a place of wholeness, to return to our core.
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Our Chakras absorb energy from the environment, our thoughts and our feelings. Negative energy over time can affect the Chakras which in turn can affect our health.
It is important to keep our Chakras balanced to help deal with the negative influences in our lives which may sometimes be hard to avoid. However changing our feelings from negative to positive can help protect ourselves from negative energy in the environment.
Chakras are both complex and fascinating. The root chakra is often thought of as providing energy to other chakras, so if it's blocked or unbalanced, your other chakras are likely to be as well. Just like a building, making sure that your chakras have a firm foundation—with a balanced root chakra—is crucial to having a healthy, open chakra system. Begin to feel confident, stable and physically alive as you tap into your own renewable energy via a balanced root chakra.
Although there are hundreds of chakras spinning ideally in a clockwise direction, there are seven major ones, attracting healthy energy for us to absorb, while at the same time, throwing off negative energy we no longer need. The healthier the chakra, the more energy we attract. The more energy we attract and hold on to, the healthier and stronger and happier we can be. A healthy chakra is one that is spinning rapidly in a clockwise direction, with no blocks to stop the flow of the Chi or Prana (Universal Energy or Life Force) that we need to live. Chakras, however are not always healthy, and for the most part are forever changing. The state of the chakras depends on many different factors, such as lifestyle, thought patterns, emotional history and past life history as well. As one moves through life and its experiences, the chakras are absorbing the effects.
Chakra balancing addresses both the body and spirit. On a physical level, clearing the chakras heal the physical body by releasing stored blocks accumulated through a lifetime of traumas and negative experiences. Once these blocks are gone, the body can return to its original natural state of perfect health and the results will be readily noticed.
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Soul Essence runs a monthly meditation group on the first Wednesday of the month. There was no event first week of January and there will be no event February. Our next event is 4th March 2015 Space is limited; please contact me if you are interested in joining us. For more information read the article below.
Any body can learn to meditate. All it takes is patience and perseverance. You don't have to be religious or into any new age philosophy. When you decide to give it a go, you need to create the right conditions.
It would be ideal to set aside a room which is kept for meditation only, so the spiritual energy you generate can build up and cleanse the room. However, this is the ideal and if you are unable to have the luxury of a separate meditation room choose a space perhaps in the corner of your bedroom, where you can sit and meditate without being disturbed. The area ideally will be simply furnished; all you need is an upright chair (not an armchair or comfy chair) and a table. Keep the space/room neat and tidy; open the window frequently to let fresh air circulate to cleanse it. Decorate with uplifting pictures, perhaps some crystals, candles, fresh flowers and some relaxing music in the background. This is your special place, your sanctuary.
Try to make time to meditate for 15 minutes morning or evening to start, increasing to 30 minutes or more when you become more experienced. The quality of the meditation is far more important than the quantity. Early morning is generally considered the best time for meditation, before you become absorbed in the business of the day. Choose a time which suits you and stick to it. Regular practise helps to condition and train the brain/mind. The more you meditate the easier it becomes.
There are different levels of the mind, caused by the different brainwaves explained below.
Beta is associated with our waking activity. During a day we experience all the brainwave patterns with a predominance of Beta.
The first pattern discovered in 1908 by an Austrian Psychiatrist named Hans Berger. Alpha pattern appears when in wakefulness where there is a relaxed and effortless alertness. Light meditation and day dreaming. It is recommended practicing your creative visualization and auto-suggestion technique in alpha state.
Associated with creativity, dreams and Extra-sensory perception for the student the theta state is something to learn to go at will.
To obtain these different levels you have to quiet the mind by concentrating on a mantra or your breathing. The times you feel most resistant to meditating is the time your body will need it the most. Meditation puts you in contact with the things that are buried in the unconscious mind. The reason we bring our subconscious painful memories to the surface is because they are affecting our lives today. Just because we do not remember them does not mean they are not influencing our lives. Many of the beliefs upon which we run our lives rest on decisions we made as a child. Meditation can help you work through and overcome fears that stop us being our true selves. Meditation also helps you find that place within where you feel calm and peaceful at all times, even when life is tough. You will feel happier, be able to make changes when you want to, accept and be in the present and plan for you future.
A study of health insurance statistics of 2000 people practising meditation consistently over a five year period revealed that their rate of hospitalisation was less than half of the other groups with comparable age, gender, profession, and insurance terms. Meditators also had fewer incidents of illness in 17 medical treatment categories. Some of the results were quite outstanding; 87% less admissions for cardiovascular disease, 55% less cancer, 87% less for diseases of the nervous system, 73% less for nose throat and lung problems. Psychosomatic Medicine 1987.
At the Harvard Medical School Dr. Herbert Benson found that meditators develop what he calls the "relaxation response" to difficult or dangerous situations. This is a much healthier response than the very common "fight or flight" reaction. He also observed that during meditation the heart rate decreases on average by three beats a minute, and that the rate of breathing also decreases. The blood pressure of those who have high blood pressure is reduced during meditation. Dr.Benson found that all the traditional methods of meditation evoke this response. He also found that four basic elements are needed. They are a quiet environment, an object for the attention to dwell on, a comfortable posture and, above all a non-discriminatory attitude towards meditation. This is exactly what the Buddha taught two thousand five hundred years ago.
A study group of long-term meditators (practising meditation for five years or more) were physiologically twelve years younger than their chronological age, as measured by reduction of blood pressure, and better near-point vision and auditory discrimination. Short-term meditators were physiologically five years younger than their chronological age. The study controlled for the effects of diet and exercise. International Journal of Neuroscience 1982.
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…that every day is a New Beginning.
A new cycle begins this day, yet a new cycle begins every day. Indeed, every moment. So if you recognise anything on this day, recognise what it symbolises: The miracle of the endlessly continuing Cycle of Life.
What a grand day! What a time for celebration! We begin again today! We turn the page! And so, let go of all that you do not wish to carry with you any further.
Any fear, any sadness, any anger, any resentment, any disappointment, any lament…let it all go. And now, using the specialness of this day as a springboard, let's get on with Life!
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….that it's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our friends — they help us to grow.
Actually, it is impossible to make a 'mistake' in real terms, since everything that we call a 'mistake' actually brings us benefit.
Rather, worry about being afraid not to make any.


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The Buffalo Stampede were a Roller Hockey International team based in Buffalo, New York that was founded in the second season of the RHI in '94. The team played at the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium from '94 to '95. On September 2, 1994, Coach Chris McSorley led the Stampede to triumph in the Murphy Cup in their inaugural season with an 8-7 win against the Portland Rage in front of a record-setting 14,175 hometown fans at the Memorial Auditorium. Despite having star athletes Norm Bazin and Paul Beraldo leading the squad, the team was unable to stay afloat and folded after the 1995 season when the Phoenix Cobras moved to the Albany area and assumed all of the Stampede's player contracts. They then changed their name to the Empire State Cobras and split their games between Albany and Glens Falls, NY. The team was purchased and relocated to Buffalo where it played three more seasons as the Buffalo Wings.
he Sabres were part of a small NHL expansion in 1970, coming into the league with the Vancouver Canucks.
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TAUNTON, Mass. – One of the biggest challenges that all teams have faced so far this Spring has simply been getting outside and playing on an actual softball field.
Taunton entered Friday's showdown with top-ranked Milford with two games under its belt. Meanwhile, this was the Hawks first game of the season.
That experience paid off the Tigers, overcoming a one-run deficit with four unanswered runs between the fifth and sixth innings to beat the Scarlet Hawks, 4-1.
The Scarlet Hawks were the home team despite playing at Jack Tripp Field on the campus of Taunton High School. After senior Ali Atherton retired the side in order in the top half of the first, Milford's offense looked like it was going to get off to a big start in its first at-bats of the season.
Emily Piergustavo and Jess Tomaso earned back to back one out walks and Maggie Farrell reached on an infield error to load the bases with one out. But Taunton's Courtney Fisher (CG, 2 hits, 7 strikeouts) settled in, inducing a grounder to third for the force out at home.
Fisher then got a three pitch strikeout to escape the situation unscathed.
Both Atherton and Fisher continued to deal through the second and third innings. Only Milford's Kate Irwin was able to get a hit in either inning, beating out a throw for an infield single.
The Scarlet Hawks finally cashed in in the bottom of the fourth inning when junior Maddy Bonvino launched a 2-0 pitch just over the fence in left center field to give Milford a 1-0 lead.
While the Hawks grabbed the lead, the Tigers seemed to wake up at the plate themselves.
MacKenzie Handrahan led off the top of the fifth with a line drive single and two batters later, Katie Van Zandt hit one up the middle just over the head of Piergustavo at short to push pinch runner Kelsey White to second.
A passed ball pushed both runners up a base and on the next pitch, Rebekah Lajoie hit a fly ball to right field. White came in to score on the sac fly and Van Zandt moved to third, but the throw to home to try and get white got past the catcher and out of play, allowing Van Zandt to come home to give Taunton a 2-1 lead.
Fisher capitalized on the momentum, retiring the Hawks in order in the bottom of the fifth.
Taunton's bats continued to produce in the top of the sixth. Sophomore Jaime Brown, in her third year starting at third for the Tigers, roped a 0-1 pitch into left field. Brown originally stopped at third as the ball sat at the base of the fence, causing the umps to halt play. But after a quick check, the ball was deemed to have cleared the fence, giving Brown her first ever home run – at any level of softball.
Liana Duarte followed with a four pitch walk and two batters later, Handrahan doubled in the run to give Taunton a 4-1 lead.
Fisher retired the order in both the sixth and seventh to finish the game. Eighth grader Hannah Aldrich made an impressive back handed play at short to get the first out in the sixth.
For Milford, expectations are still high for a club with plenty of experience. The fact is, the Hawks still have an entire season to go.
"First game, tough opponent, tough place to play, they're a great team that's well coached," said head coach Steve DiVitto. "It was a battle of the pitchers early on. Atherton and Fisher were spectacular early. We were able to go up on that home run and it almost seemed to wake them up a little bit. We had some opportunities early in the game, especially in the first inning. As the year goes on you hope you're going to capitalize on those. But its the first game, you're not going to win anything game one, you're not going to lose anything game one.
Taunton softball (3-0, 3-0) will travel to Mansfield on Monday to open up its Kelley-Rex schedule while Milford (0-1, 0-1) will host Stoughton in both teams' Davenport opener.


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U.S. Session Recap: Pound Jumps on Brexit Bill Rumors, Loonie Weaker on Cautious BOC
November 29, 2017 12:59 AM UTC in News
Asian Session Recap: NZD Jumps on Short-Covering, JPY (Briefly) Dips on Stimulus Remarks about 3 years ago
London Session Recap: AUD Triumphs, GBP Falls, CHF Demand Notable Despite Risk-On Vibes about 3 years ago
U.S. Session Recap: Pound Jumps on Brexit Bill Rumors, Loonie Weaker on Cautious BOC about 3 years ago
The U.S. dollar reasserted its dominance against most of its major counterparts as tax reform came back in the spotlight and data came in stronger than expected. However, the currency stalled from its climb when North Korea conducted another missile test.
Meanwhile, the pound gained further traction on its rise when it was reported that the U.K. and E.U. have agreed on a Brexit bill. The Loonie, on the other hand, was dragged down by a more cautious BOC tone.
Richmond manufacturing index up from 12 to 30 vs. consensus at 14
U.S. CB consumer confidence index rose from 126.2 to 129.5 vs. 123.9 forecast
Canadian raw materials price index up 3.8% vs. previous 0.2% dip
Canadian industrial product price index recovered by 1.0% from previous 0.3% fall
North Korea launched another ICBM test near Japan
The Telegraph: Britain and EU reach an agreement on Brexit bill
BOC Financial System Review: Canadian financial sector is resilient
BOC head Poloz: A little too soon to gauge how hikes affected economy
Brexit bill within reach?
Just when it seemed that Brexit issues would continue to keep a lid on sterling's gains, The Telegraph reported that the U.K. and E.U. are coming to terms in drafting a Brexit bill.
Word through the grapevine is that an agreement-in-principle has been reached on the 60 billion EUR fee that the E.U. is charging to move things along. However, the final figure is still subject to change.
As of this writing, the latest issue on the table is that of Ireland's border, but the hope of having the negotiating parties see eye to eye has been reassuring for pound bulls.
Senate Republicans to push for tax vote
By the looks of it, Senate Republicans are keen on voting on the tax reform bill by Thursday even as some details still need to be ironed out.
Without even having any discussions, the Senate Budget Committee rushed to approve legislation for a 12-11 party-line vote that left Democrats disgruntled.
Recall that the House previously approved a measure eliminating the need to secure a super majority to get the bill through in Congress. This means that, should the Senate version pass, the next step would be to reconcile it with the House version then sent to Trump for his signature.
This might be easier said than done, though, as a couple of Republicans (Johnson and Corker) have threatened to vote against the Senate tax bill unless their individual concerns are addressed.
For now, U.S. markets seem pleased with the latest developments as equity indices closed in the green:
Dow 30 index is up 255.93 points to 23,836.71 (+1.09%)
S&P 500 index is up 25.62 points to 2,627.04 (+0.98%)
U.S. bonds, however, are slightly in the red:
U.S. 10-year yield is down to 2.331% (-0.25%)
U.S. 5-year yield is down to 2.064% (-0.08%)
BOC Financial System Review
In the Bank of Canada's Financial System Review, the central bank noted that the sector remains resilient and that stabilization in Toronto's housing market is underway.
This marked a more upbeat tone than their review six months ago as they mentioned that sustained supply and demand could prop prices up while higher interest rates could keep investment activity in check.
However, in a press conference that followed the release of the report, head honcho Poloz sounded a bit more cautious than usual.
"The risks are essentially unchanged. However, the policy changes affecting housing finance are clearly a step in the right direction."
When asked about how the lower risks in the housing market could impact monetary policy, Poloz said that the factors are coming together and that there is no fundamental inconsistency.
For now, Poloz refrained from giving more hints on future hikes as he admitted that it's still too soon to gauge how the recent tightening moves have impacted the housing market and overall economic performance.
Return of North Korean jitters
Toward the end of the U.S. session, news broke out that North Korea has once again launched an intercontinental ballistic missile that landed off the coast of Japan.
According to U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis, this particular missile flew higher than any previous test. Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said that the ICBM may have reached an altitude of around 2,500 miles while the Pentagon noted that it traveled about 1,000 kilometers before landing in Japan's exclusive economic zone.
Furthermore, the Pentagon said:
"Our commitment to the defense of our allies, including the Republic of Korea and Japan, in the face of these threats, remains ironclad. We remain prepared to defend ourselves and our allies from any attack or provocation."
This test capped off a two-month pause in Pyongyang's missile launch activity and comes just after Trump's visit to the Asian region and decision to put North Korea in the list of countries with state-sponsored terrorism.
Volatility for pound pairs jumped when news of a Brexit bill broke out, followed by a bit of denial from the U.K. government.
GBP/USD shot up to a high of 1.3388 then dipped back to 1.3336, GBP/JPY rallied from a low of 146.98 to a high of 149.28 then retreated to 148.64, EUR/GBP is down to .8886, and GBP/AUD eventually landed back at 1.7600.
The Greenback rallied on the heels of upbeat data, Powell's confirmation speech, and the Senate Republicans' push for tax reform progress but took a quick pause on reports of North Korea's ICBM launch.
USD/JPY climbed to a high of 111.64 then retreated to 111.34, EUR/USD hit a low of 1.1826 then pulled up to 1.1850, USD/CHF retraced to a high of .9847, and AUD/USD is down to the .7600 handle.
The Loonie was once again behind the pack as crude oil continued to pull back from its previous rally while the BOC's more cautious tone overshadowed upbeat data.
USD/CAD busted through the 1.2800 barrier to a high of 1.2825, CAD/JPY is down to 87.00, and GBP/CAD popped up to a high of 1.7154.
11:50 pm GMT: Japanese retail sales y/y (0.2% expected, 2.3% previous)
12:00 am GMT: RBNZ Governor Grant Spencer's testimony
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Rhenus Logistics S.A. has leased 41,000 sq m of warehouse space in Błonie near Warsaw. Experts from JLL advised Rhenus on selecting the location and negotiation of lease terms.
Rhenus Group is a supplier of comprehensive logistic services of global range and annual turnover of 4.8 billion EUR. Rhenus has more than 610 locations all over the world, employs over 29,000 employees, and manages complex supply chains. Rhenus Logistics S.A. in Poland provides services within the range of warehouse logistics, freight logistics, customs services, sea and air transport.
The logistics operator's requirements for warehouse space are in fact derived from the expectations of the operated customers and result from the specifics of the goods, industry and sales channel. For years, Rhenus has been designing and implementing storage solutions for large e-commerce projects. Due to the dynamic development of this sector, we decided to launch another warehouse location in Błonie. In signing the lease agreement with the developer we were supported by JLL, whose professionalism we appreciate, - comments Sławomir Kossakowski, Board Member, Rhenus Logistics S.A.
Park Błonie is a distribution hub offering state of the art warehouse and office space. The park is located 20 minutes driving time west from Warsaw's city center, which enables distribution of goods through Warsaw city, the entire metropolitan area as well as (inter)national logistics.
Our client was looking for a warehouse park which would offer modern space in the vicinity of Warsaw. While searching for the right place, we attached a great deal of importance to the presence of the latest safety systems being present on site, generous maneuvering and parking space as well as outstanding connectivity, - comments Paulina Dziubińska, Director, Industrial, JLL.


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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Director: Michael Herbig
Actors: Alicia von Rittberg, David Kross, Friedrich Mücke, Jonas Holdenrieder, Karoline Schuch, Thomas Kretschmann, Tilman Döbler
An ex-cop finds himself caught up in a battle between Japanese mobsters and local gangland thugs and discovers that he was framed for wrong-doings by a corrupt cop.
Genre: Action, Drama, TV Movie
A Tale of Springtime
Conte de printemps (A Tale In Springtime) is the story of an introverted young girl just reaching adulthood who takes a liking to an older woman she meets at a…
The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant any wish, in return…
Promise at Dawn
From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this…
City of Joy
Max Lowe is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a patient on the operating table, Max impulsively decides to leave…
When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and…
A World Without Thieves
Two grifters, Wang Bo and Wang Li, a couple who've been arguing, board a train in rural China. He wants to fleece a peasant, nicknamed Dumbo for his naiveté, who's…
Justinian's Human Torches
During an orgy, Emperor Justinian orders three people to be torched alive.
Genre: Drama, History
What Dreams May Come
Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife,…
Country: USA, New Zealand
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game
Dr. Abe Mandelbaum has just moved into a retirement home. After forming an unlikely friendship with a womanizing gambler, their relationship is tested when they each try to convince a…
An Impossible Love
Spans the period from 1958 to the present day and tells the story of an unconditional love between a mother and her daughter which is endangered by an unsteady and…
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Global Compact for Early Childhood Development
The first 1,000 days of life form the pivotal foundation of every human being's emotional, mental and physical well-being. An extensive and growing body of research has demonstrated conclusively that poverty, poor nutrition, lack of stimulation, stress and other factors disrupt normal early childhood development (ECD) — putting children at a lifelong disadvantage.
By 2050, 70 percent of the world's population will be living in cities. In this increasingly urbanized world, cities play a major role in helping all children achieve their full potential. Some cities are now working to strengthen their maternal health, nutrition and parenting programs, to create family centers, and to increase the child-friendliness of their social services, justice systems and public spaces.
The New York Academy of Sciences has created the Global Compact for Early Childhood Development as a platform to support civic leaders in this effort. This initiative is unique in its international scope and focus on improving the lives of urban children from gestation up to three years of age ("under-3 ECD"). Details can be found here.
Our goal is to build a global collaborative network of cities that are committed to developing innovative, evidence-based, effective, and scalable programs for young children. We are guided by the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, as they relate to children, and by the 2016 Lancet series on ECD.
By convening civic leaders, policymakers, practitioners and researchers, the Academy hopes to foster an exchange of ideas and information among cities and across disciplines. This growing network is designed to help cities compare best practices and learn from one another. Participation in this effort will help Mayors and other civic leaders around the world improve "under-3 ECD" in their own unique contexts.
First meeting of Early Adopter Cities
On November 30 and December 1, 2016, 41 civic officials from 13 cities, and more than 25 internationally recognized ECD experts, convened at the New York Academy of Sciences, to share experiences in the development of urban ECD programs. The cities included four from the US, four from the UK, and one-each from Brazil, Colombia, Philippines, Lithuania and Slovenia.
This was an intentionally diverse group of "early adopter cities" at different stages in the development of their ECD programs. The mayors of each city have confirmed their commitment to such programs, and their desire to learn "what works" from other cities and from ECD experts. The Academy's intention is to expand this network to include many more cities over time.


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Q: Unable to close file after writing it with data stream from Com port using python I am trying to open a serial port via Python, write the incoming data stream into a file and close the file when the data stream stops.
My program is unable to detect that the port is no longer receiving any data. So the file remains open. What do I do?
import serial
ser = serial.Serial(port='COM8', baudrate=9600, bytesize=8, parity='N',  stopbits=1, timeout=None, xonxoff=0, rtscts=0)
print("Connected to Audio(COM8) port")
try:
   f = open('C:\Users\user\Desktop\final.raw', 'w')
   while 1:
    ser_bytes = ser.readline()
    if ser_bytes:
        f.write(ser_bytes)
    else:
        break
finally:
    f.close()
    print("output file closed")
    ser.close()

A: Specify timeout while using ser.readline()


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package ainterface

import akka.actor.ActorLogging
import akka.ainterface.ErlProcessActor
import akka.ainterface.datatype.interpolation.atom
import akka.ainterface.datatype.{ErlAtom, ErlPid, ErlTuple}

class MonitorActor extends SampleActor with ErlProcessActor with ActorLogging {
  override def preStart(): Unit = {
    log.debug("MonitorActor starts. pid = {}", process.self)
    process.register(atom"monitor", process.self)
  }

  override def receive: Receive = {
    case ErlTuple(ErlAtom("monitor"), pid: ErlPid) =>
      log.info("Monitors {}.", pid)
      process.monitor(pid)
  }
}

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ENTERTAINMENT: Are Niall Horan and Hailee Steinfeld Dating?
Seems like we have a new couple to follow.
If what we've gathered is true, then there might be a huge chance Niall Horan and Hailee Steinfeld are dating.
"It's true that Hailee and Niall are dating, but at this point it's still pretty casual," a source told entertainment and celebrity news site, E! News.
Previously on Twitter, Steinfeld shared a picture of her wearing a Niall Horan t-shirt, which sparked the dating rumors. Check out the photo below.
Prior to that, the former One Direction member posted a birthday greeting for the actress and singer on Instagram last year, calling her one of his "best friends" with a "love ya hails" at the end of the caption. Below is the post.
Back in February this year, the two also reportedly went to a Backstreet Boys concert and hit up a club with friends after. They haven't gone official yet, but it appears that they do have a special relationship.
Horan is expected to go on a tour with Maren Morris to promote his solo album "Flicker" in July, while Steinfeld is said to be currently working on new music and getting ready for a tour with Charlie Puth.
Do you think they're actually dating? Share your thoughts with us!
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LOOK: A sneak peak of a scene in the live Lion King movie!


It's one of those films that creep its way from beginning to end. The images and plot seem very biblical but there's evidently something more.
Пётр Мамонов (Pyotr Mamonov) is the frontman.
I was the only non-actor in the program and had made the mistake, as we went around the circle on the first day, of telling everyone that I was a psychoanalyst writing a book about laughter. As part of my research, I explained, I'd frequented comedy clubs and noticed how each performance, had it been delivered in a different tone of voice and context, could have been the text of a therapy session. Audience members, I told them, laughed less because a performer was funny than because they were honest. Of course that's not how all laughter operates, but the kind of laughter I'm interested in (spontaneous outbursts) seems to function that way, and clown pushes that dynamic to its extreme – which is why I decided to enroll in clown school, and how I earned the grating nickname 'smarty pants'.
But if I dropped out, I'd lose my tuition money. So I decided to stay, and, by staying, was provoked, unsettled, changed.
There's a knee-jerk tendency to perceive provocation as negative – like how in writing workshops participants often call for the most striking part of a work to be cut. When we are struck, there's a brief pause during which the internal dust is kicked up – we lose our habitual bearings, and an opening is created for something unexpected to slip in. Habit protects us from anything we don't have a set way of handling. As it's when we're off-guard that we're least automatous, it's then that we're most likely to come up with spontaneous, uncurated responses.
It turned out the perpetually-smiling woman was sad, the hipster (who didn't even do drugs) acted high as a way of muting the parts of his personality he was afraid we would judge, and I found it easier to hide behind my intellect than expose myself as a flawed and flailing human being. Each role, in other words, offered a form of protection: by giving off recognizable signals to indicate a character type, we accessed a kind of invisibility. We cued people to look through us to the prototypes we were referencing. When the instructor satirized those roles, he defamiliarized them so that the habitual suddenly became visible. His provocations knocked the lids off the prototypes we were hiding inside of, in a similar way to how many psychoanalysts, in the attempt to understand a person's conflicts, begin by analyzing their defenses – what is being used as cover – before moving on to what is being covered up and why.
The background music is Pace, pace mio Dio! from Verdi's La forza del destino, the aria itself a masterpiece.
Photographs of Milanese churches and confessionals in northern Italy by Stefan Giftthaler and Michael Kenna, respectively.