A new investor report from J.P. Morgan on Wednesday indicates that Apple's competitors in the tablet market have reduced their build plans after receiving an "early dose of reality" in the form of lackluster sales.
According to analyst Mark Moskowitz aggregate tablet build plans have declined by roughly 10 percent since early March. Moskowitz took the reduction to mean that "non-Apple tablet hopefuls have adjusted to the weak showing so far."
Describing the trend as an "early dose of reality," the analyst noted that the market has yet to see a high-volume tablet competitor to the iPad. Moskowitz cited Asustek's Eee Pad Transformer, Motorola's XOOM, RIM's PlayBook, and Samsung's Galaxy Tab as examples of tablets that have failed to gain traction and whose makers have consequently reduced build plans.
In early March, Moskowitz warned of "increasing risk of a bubble burst" to the tablet market in the second half of 2011 because of exaggerated build plans from tablet makers. Moskowitz saw Apple's iPad 2 as making it tougher for rival first-generation tablets "to play catch-up," which would result in poor sales. The recent reduction in production volumes has allayed some of the firm's fears of a tablet bubble.
Moskowitz acknowledged that extrapolating trends from build plans can be problematic, noting that the firm applies discounts to adjust for limitations. J.P. Morgan now projects 2011 build activity for the tablet market to come in at 63 million after a discount of 14 percent. The firm had previously applied a 20 percent discount to arrive at a 65 million unit estimate, but reduced the rate after tracking "widespread reductions in build activity" in recent months.
According to the analyst, the "nascent tablet market stands to become big enough to create a ripple effect in the broader tech food chain" in 2011. Total tablet shipments in 2011 will reach just 3 percent and 11 percent of total handset and smartphone units, respectively. However, when compared against desktop and notebook PC units, tablet shipments will reach 32 percent and 21 percent respectively. Thus, "tablets stand to be big enough to have positive (or negative) spillover effects" in the broader market, Moskowitz said.
Moskowitz sees "limited upward pressure" in build activity occurring throughout the summer, adding that any increase will likely come from Apple. Some tablet makers are waiting to "see how the back-to-school reception is," while others are waiting to roll out 4G LTE tablets, he said.


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Q: extJS Combobox autocomplete not working I have a custom combobox and the autocomplete is not working. It is always displaying all results from the store
Ext.define('PMTool.view.calendar.ComboBox', {
        extend: 'Ext.form.ComboBox',
        alias: 'widget.calendar.combobox',
        store: 'Projects',
        queryMode: 'local',
        tpl: Ext.create('Ext.XTemplate',
        '<tpl for=".">',
            '
',
                                '{projectInitials} {projectName}',
                        '
',
        '</tpl>'
    ),
        displayTpl: Ext.create('Ext.XTemplate',
                '<tpl  if="projectInitials.length != 0" for=".">',
                        '{projectInitials} {projectName}',
                '</tpl>',
                '<tpl else for=".">',
                        '',
                '</tpl>'
        )
});

A: Even with custom templates, you still need the displayField for the combo queries to work. You'll probably also want to set the valueField:
Ext.define('PMTool.view.calendar.ComboBox', {
    // ...
    displayField: 'projectName',
    valueField: 'id'
});

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Plan to secure £550,000 of new investment for Shirley
An ambitious five-year Business Plan to help bring £550,000 of investment into Shirley town centre has been unveiled.
The document has been drawn up by the proposed Business Improvement District (BID) for the Stratford Road corridor and developed through a year-long consultation process with more than 250 local businesses.
A BID is a defined geographical area within which local businesses collaborate to invest in initiatives that improve the environment in which they work.
BIDs deliver additional services to those provided by the local authority and the police. Local businesses will get the opportunity to vote for the implementation of the Shirley BID in May 2018.
The Business Plan encompasses those projects which have the greatest potential for improving trade and vibrancy in the town centre and forms the cornerstone of the Shirley BID's first term between 2018 and 2023.
According to the Shirley BID Shadow Board, the town centre is not currently performing as well as required in economic terms and needs to ensure it competes more effectively with surrounding centres.
Many neighbouring areas already have BIDs and the proposed Shirley BID has the backing of Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council.
The Shirley BID would be funded by a 1.5 per cent levy on the current rateable value of eligible businesses in the proposed BID area, with small businesses under a rateable value of £7,500 exempt.
It has been calculated that for the average business, the cost of the BID levy would be less than £1.35 per day.
Proposals in the five-year Business Plan for 2018-2023 include:
Employ a BID warden to react quickly to problem issues, such as litter or graffiti
• Work with partners to deliver improved visitor WiFi
• Develop at least two major new town centre events
• Introduce an annual calendar of street markets
• Make ongoing investments to improve the Christmas light displays
• Promotional campaigns to highlight independent businesses
• Introduce activities to create pop-up shops
• Lobby for improvements to existing car park facilities and the introduction of parking meters where required
• Work with partner organisations to improve street paving maintenance
The effectiveness of the Shirley BID Business Plan would be measured by regular surveys, analysis of footfall and sales performance data, plus tracking of vacant unit levels.
Sandra Grice, Community Life Champion at ASDA Shirley and chair of the Shirley BID Shadow Board, said: "Shirley town centre has many strengths, which include its varied retail mix, its leisure offer and the fact that it is a great location, although, as with many other towns, Shirley has suffered at the hands of the economic conditions and the growth of online shopping.
"In recent years, we have seen the creation of BIDs in locations such as Acocks Green, Harborne, Kings Heath, Solihull and Sutton Coldfield and these have resulted in significant investment in those areas.
"A BID for Shirley would see the town centre making similar gains and it is therefore something which the local business community has expressed a strong support for.
"The BID would be business-led and business funded to improve the area.
"The creation of a BID in Shirley would give businesses the power and funding to take action to make significant, targeted and sustained improvements to our town.
"Local businesses have decided what those improvements should be and, through the creation of a BID, would be responsible for ensuring they happen.
"As well as major direct improvements, a BID would also provide access to grantmaking bodies and extra funding opportunities from organisations, such as the council, the chamber of commerce, the Local Enterprise Partnership and the West Midlands Combined Authority."
To download or read the Shirley BID Business Plan click here.
Pictured: Stores on Stratford Road Shirley

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Classic Cinema From Around the World will present The Three Musketeers at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29, at Courtyard Gallery, 9 Walnut St., in downtown Asheville. Info: 273-3332.
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Genre: Swashbuckling Comedy/Adventure
Director: Richard Lester
Starring: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay, Michael York, Faye Dunaway, Spike Milligan
After the box-office fiasco of The Bed-Sitting Room (1969), Richard Lester wasn't the most bankable of directors, so he dusted off a project he'd once thought of for a Beatles movie, The Three Musketeers, and made a spectacular comeback in 1973. Even without the Beatles, it proved to be his most popular film since Help!—and with good reason. This isn't to say that it—or its companion film The Four Musketeers—is in any way Lester's best film, merely that it (they) had the perfect recipe for being popular entertainments in a way that such bolder works as How I Won the War (1967), Petulia (1968) and The Bed-Sitting Room did not.
The Three Musketeers most resembles A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)—minus the musical numbers. In fact, it's not hard to see Michael Crawford's Hero from Forum as the template for Michael York's D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers—and to a lesser extent, Roy Kinnear's Planchet isn't all that removed from the Zero Mostel character in Forum. What's interesting is how well this works. But then again, it's not that surprising, since The Three Musketeers lends itself quite well to Lester's comedic sensibility—especially since Lester was canny enough to make the swashbuckling aspects of the story central to the proceedings, even while edging them toward comedy.
It is also—taken with The Four Musketeers—Lester's most visually sumptuous film, even if its general physical beauty is balanced with an eye for the poverty and filth of the era in which it takes place. (The distance between this and the decision that someone must be royalty because "he's the only one not covered in sh*t" in the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail is not very great.) The look of the film very likely owes something to the fact that Lester's cinematographer, David Watkin (who shot most of Lester's films from 1965 through 1979), also served as photographer on Ken Russell's The Devils (1971), which is set in the same era and has crossover characters (Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu).
In terms of Lester's oeuvre—quite apart from the film's sheer entertainment value—The Three Musketeers serves as an amazing endorsement of his status as an auteur and, indeed, for the auteur theory in general. Lester never wrote the screenplays for any of his films (saying that anyone actually wrote the screenplay for the 1960 short The Running Jumping Standing Still Film is more than a stretch). Yet you would never mistake a Lester film (at least through 1975) as being the work of anyone else.
The concerns are the same. The sense of humor is the same. The look is the same. They are unquestionably Richard Lester films—no matter who wrote the screenplays. That's just as true here—where he's more or less tied to an existing story line—as anywhere. The visual playfulness is there, as is the penchant for silent-film comedy. Even Lester's "damnable machines" are in evidence—contraptions or ideas that seem to exist merely to confound anyone who uses or even comes across them. Consider Spike Milligan asking Christopher Lee to wait to arrest him while he attempts to load and operate a gun that constantly defeats him. (This cross-references almost exactly to Victor Spinetti's "useless ex-army rubbish" gun in Help!.) Watch the scene where Oliver Reed is hoisted from a well with a rope and pulleys. Pay attention to the ridiculous chess game involving monkeys on the backs of dogs being used as chess pieces. All these things—and more—are so essentially Lesterian that there's never any real question of authorship.
All these concerns to one side, however, what Lester has crafted here is the most inventive and wildly enjoyable version of The Three Musketeers ever committed to film—especially when taken in conjunction with The Four Musketeers, which will be shown next week.


Damascus, SANA- President Bashar al-Assad received on Sunday Chinese Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Chen Xiaodong and the accompanying delegation.
During the meeting, the two sides affirmed the deep-rooted historical relations between Syria and China, and the need to bolster coordination and cooperation between the two countries on political, military, economic, cultural, and technological levels.
President al-Assad said the war on Syria has started to take a new form based on sieges and economic war, pointing out that the tools of the international politics have changed today, and the differences that had previously been resolved through dialogue are now being addressed in a different method based on boycotts, withdrawal of ambassadors, economic siege, and the use of terrorism.
He stressed that the war on terrorism in Syria is a part of a broad war on the international arena, and that terrorism cannot be confined in a specific geographical area, adding that distances, no matter how long, do not stand in the way of the spread of extremist ideology.
His Excellency affirmed that combating terrorism is not only carried out via military action; what is more important is to combat it intellectually and ideologically.
For his part, Chen said that China has a strategic long-term view regarding relations with Syria, stressing that thanks to the steadfastness of the Syrian leadership and people, the situation on the ground has started to improve.
Chen voiced his country's readiness to keep standing by Syria and providing it with all forms of support.
President al-Assad stressed that combating terrorism will lead to a political solution in the end, and that any talk of political solutions while terrorism spreads is an illusion and a deception.
In the same context, Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem met the Chinese Assistant Minister and the accompanying delegation .
Al-Moallem said that Syria welcomes China to participate in the process of rebuilding what has been destroyed by the terrorist war on Syria, asserting that Syria is committed to providing facilitations to Chinese companies in this regard.
Al-Moallem hailed the political support and the humanitarian aid which China has been providing to Syria to this day, as they contributed to strengthening the steadfastness of the Syrian people over the past years.
For his part, Chen asserted his country's willingness to develop bilateral relations with Syria on all levels, including the economic level, indicating that China will participate actively in the reconstruction process, and it will continue to provide humanitarian aid to bolster the Syrian people's steadfastness.


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Arteether is used to treat symptoms of falciparum malaria caused by the Plasmodium falciparum parasite.
Arteether is a semi-synthetic derivative and belongs to the class sesquiterpene lactones. It improves the patient's condition by rapidly attacking the malarial parasite. Arteether inhibits the erythrocytic stage of the malaria parasite and thus causes cell lysis.
The common side effects of arteether are cough, dizziness, ECG changes, fever, headache, injection site pain, itching, and upper respiratory tract infection, loss of appetite, nausea, weakness, and diarrhea.
1. I am suffering from pneumonia and malaria. Can I take arteether for malaria fever? No, do not take the drug for pneumonia as it may increase the side effects of arteether.
2. What is the recommended dose for arteether drug? Arteether dose for adults is 150mg once a day for three consecutive days.
3. Can quinine and arteether be used together to treat malaria? Yes, generally arteether is given along with quinine drugs to treat malaria and other kinds of fever.
4. How often should I have blood tests done while using arteether drug? Patients should have a blood test done once a week for a month for the presence of malaria parasites.
5. I have ECG abnormalities. Is arteether drug safe for me? No, patients with ECG abnormalities should not take arteether for malaria.


Terminating your non-qualified annuity contract can result in a severe tax liability, and penalty fees. By closing your account, rather than taking smaller distributions spread out over several years, you immediately increase your taxable income, which may push you into a higher tax bracket. The increased income taxes due, combined with any additional fees or penalties, could result in a smaller net withdrawal. Before closing your account, discuss your situation with a tax professional and the agent who originally sold you the annuity.
Non-qualified annuities are not held within IRAs, 401k's or similar types of retirement accounts. Instead, these accounts are opened directly with the life insurance companies managing them, and funded with money you've already saved or otherwise acquired. The money you contribute to a non-qualified annuity does not result in an income tax deduction, and no restrictions exist on how much you may deposit. However, that money grows without income tax liability until you withdraw it or close the account.
Since non-qualified annuities are a mixture of previously taxed and as yet untaxed money, you will have to pay taxes on only the portion deemed growth. Your after-tax deposits are returned to you without additional income tax liability. When you close your account and take the money as a lump sum, the aggregate total of your deposits is subtracted from the value of your annuity, leaving only the growth. This remainder increases your taxable earnings for the year.
Terminating your non-qualified annuity contract before reaching age 59 1/2 will not only increase your taxable income, but may also result in an additional tax of 10 percent. This penalty is due on only the portion of the account above and beyond your aggregate contributions. Certain situations and events may exempt you from the penalty, but you will always have to pay the ordinary income taxes due on the growth within your account.
If I Closed Out My Annuity, Do I Pay Taxes on It or Were They Already Taken Out?
Separate from the taxes due when you close your account, the annuity carriers may impose surrender charges. Almost every type of annuity, regardless of whether the product is fixed, variable or indexed, contains language in the contract allowing the insurance company to keep a percentage of your account value if you close your account too early. Annuity surrender charges typically last from four to 10 years, and the percentage retained by the carrier decreases each year.


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Q: Issue with Multiple JVM in desktop application We have a desktop application where we are packing Application Jar and JVM as well to avoid Java dependency in customer machine.
But issue is if the customer is having the Java installed alrieady in there system.we are facing issue like no class definition exception because of Java version dependencies.
Now my question is how to launch the application always with the JVM that are packed with Application and ensure it is not use the System JVM if it is installed.


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import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { ActivatedRoute, Router } from '@angular/router';
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import { AdminApiService } from '../admin-api.service';
import { Data } from '../data';
//
import { ApiService } from '../../app/api.service';
import { News } from '../../app/news';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-news-edit',
  templateUrl: './news-edit.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./news-edit.component.css']
})
export class NewsEditComponent implements OnInit {

  news: News;
  type: string;
  editMode: boolean;
  id: any;
  private sub: any;

  constructor(
    private router: Router,
    private apiService: ApiService,
    private adminApiService: AdminApiService,
    private route: ActivatedRoute,
    private data: Data
  ) {

  }

  ngOnInit() {
    //edit or create
    this.sub = this.route.params.subscribe(params => {
      if (params['id']) {
        //edit news
        this.id = params['id'];
        this.editMode = true;
        this.getNews(this.id);
      } else if (params['type']) {
        //create news
        this.news = {
          type: params['type'], subType: '', publisher: this.data.user.name, title: '', content: ''
        }
        console.log(params['type'])
      } else {
        console.log('error');
      }
    });
  }

  getNews(id): void {
    this.apiService
      .getNews(id)
      .subscribe(data => {
        this.news = data;
      });
  }

  updateNews(): void {
    this.news.publisher = this.data.user.name;
    this.adminApiService
      .updateNews(this.id, this.news)
      .subscribe(data => {
        if (data.error_code != 0) {
          alert(data.error_code)
        } else {
          alert('編輯成功');
          this.router.navigate(['/news-list/' + this.news.type]);
        }
      });
  }

  deleteNews(): void {
    this.adminApiService
      .deleteNews(this.id)
      .subscribe(data => {
        if (data.error_code != 0) {
          alert(data.error_code)
        } else {
          alert('刪除成功');
          this.router.navigate(['/news-list/' + this.news.type]);
        }
      });
  }

  createNews(): void {
    this.adminApiService
      .createNews(this.news)
      .subscribe(data => {
        if (data.error_code != 0) {
          alert(data.error_code)
        } else {
          alert('新增成功');
          this.router.navigate(['/news-list/' + this.news.type]);
        }
      })
  }
}

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Resources > Latest News > Achieving safe levels byproducts disinfected drinking water
Achieving safe levels of byproducts in disinfected drinking water
Sep 21, 2021 | 4 mins read by Water Source
Since the 1900s, the disinfection of community drinking water systems has been a practice observed by professionals as a control mechanism in treating waterborne infectious diseases. Today, we have some of the best technology and monitoring protocols in the world, but are they enough and is the 'safe' level advice really safe for the public?
As part of Water Source's Expert Series, Viridis Consultants Director James Howey discusses problematic disinfection by-products and the need to continue to assess emerging risks.
In Australia, the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines (ADWG) outlines health related guidelines for both acute and chronic health related hazards in drinking water. The guideline limits are calculated to provide safe consumption over a lifetime. These guidelines are implemented across Australia through various state and territory legislation.
Drinking water catchments include dams, rivers, groundwater bores, barrages, and weirs, and depending on the risk profile contain varying sources of human pathogens. These pathogens can be capable of manifesting in acute illness if not adequately treated by drinking water service providers. Chronic health issues also need to be addressed and these can be present in the source water or a by-product of the treatment process. Treatment requirements can be complex and drinking water service providers have a regulatory responsibility to get it right.
In water sources, it is realistic to expect fluctuations in the concentration of pathogens due to a variety of hazardous events, including seasonal rainfall, changes in surface water temperature, deceased animals, failing wastewater systems or intensive livestock.
The level of drinking water treatment is determined through analysis of pathogen indicators and a sanitary survey. This is the first priority, but chronic health issues cannot be ignored, they must also be quantified, and preventive measures put in place.
Drinking water chlorination: pros and cons
Chlorine is the most widely used disinfectant for the treatment of a variety of pathogens. It is easily available in the market. There are two main types of chlorine used to disinfect drinking water, chlorine gas and sodium hypochlorite solution. There are pros and cons with both, selection of the right disinfectant is crucial.
Sodium hypochlorite is cheap and readily available; however, it is prone to chemical breakdown, which is exasperated by high temperatures. Chlorine gas is another option, it is chemically pure and does not have the same breakdown problem, but there are handling concerns. Chlorine gas requires storage in specially designed facilities and handling by highly trained operators, which is not always possible in some settings.
These issues are leading to a third option, salt chlorinators, due to their affordability and storage benefits; service providers can buy bags of salt that can be stored for months at a time as they don't break down, and through an electrolysis process, chlorine can be created as required.
Trihalomethane limits tightening up for drinking water treatment
Certain waters have precursors to chlorine disinfection by-products, organic matter in the source water can react with chlorine to produce potential carcinogens, such as chloroform. The ADWG sets guideline health limits for disinfection by-products, trihalomethanes (THM), such as chloroform, have a total limit of 250 µg/L.
The ADWG requires that the treatment of pathogens is not compromised due to chronic issues, such as THMs. This, in some instances, has legitimised some water service providers to not implement control measures for disinfection by-products, which often only occur seasonally and can be expensive to manage.
However, with a growing body of research, Queensland Health has suggested that 250 µg/L could be high enough to cause health concerns for communities, and as such are taking tougher action on exceedances of THM limits.
Water service providers need to ensure that risk assessments adequately assess this risk, appropriate monitoring is undertaken, and measures are taken to mitigate the risk. These may include reducing water age in the reticulation, avoiding chlorinating unfiltered water, enhancing coagulation to remove precursors, managing chlorine levels, cleaning mains and reservoirs in the reticulation or switching to a chloramine residual in the distribution.
Increasing pressure will be applied to those water service providers operating schemes with seasonal exceedances. This should be an area for continual improvement, it is almost inevitable that guideline limits will be reduced at some point, the limit in the UK is 100 µg/L and in the US, 80 µg/L.
Chlorate is an emerging hazard when treating contaminated water
Sodium hypochlorite decomposes over time and one of the breakdown products is chlorate. Up to this point there has been no guideline value in the ADWG, although the World Health Organization (WHO) has identified a limit of 0.7 mg/L.
As chlorine decays it lowers the amount of freely available chlorine in the disinfectant and therefore more needs to be dosed exasperating the concentration of chlorate in the drinking water. The decay of sodium hypochlorite is influenced by the concentration of the solution and temperature. Bulk buying months of sodium hypochlorite solution and storing it in a hot tin shed is not a good option in the management of chlorate – neither is buying chemicals from non-quality-controlled suppliers, where the age of the solution is unknown.
As there is no limit for chlorate set in the ADWG, many water service providers are not currently monitoring it and the extent of the issue is not fully known. Queensland Health has committed to bringing in an interim limit of 0.8 mg/L, which is based on the WHO figure, adjusted for the larger average body mass in Australia (amount of chemical per kilo of body weight).
Chlorine gas is an option to eliminate the chlorate problem, especially in hot conditions and where multiple doses of chlorine are used. However, if this is not an option due to the risk profile, a salt electrolysis chlorinator may be worth considering. Although, there is still the potential of breakdown into chlorate, the solution can be created freshly, as required, at the point of use.
Chlorination is an essential barrier for waterborne pathogens to ensure the safe supply of drinking water. However, disinfection by-products are becoming an ever-increasing topic. These risks need to be considered as part of a drinking water risk assessment and addressed using a hierarchy of controls.
Chlorine is one of the oldest forms of water treatment and is still safe, but as our knowledge and water treatment technologies advance, we need to address emerging risks.
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by Aaron Ó Maonaigh on Mar 11th, 2019 - 1814 Views - No Comments
In this article, Aaron O'Maonaigh (author of the original article) reply's to Hugh Gault excellent piece on 1916 Rising veterans George and Elizabeth Fullerton
Dear Hugh,
May I extend my congratulations to you on your fascinating article on the Fullerton family. I was delighted to see that a fellow academic was drawn to their story, and indeed to the story of the rank-and-file of Irish Revolution who for far too long have resided on the periphery of the era's historiography. It was interesting to see someone interrogate the motivations and inspirations which drove men and women such as George and Elizabeth Fullerton, and it is to this end that I wish to add some commentary to a number of the questions you raise in your article.
As you have aptly noted, the life into which George Fullerton was born was one of frugal comforts. You are quite right to situate his motivation within the context of the prevailing housing conditions. His familial home was far bleaker than its moniker suggests and much of the housing in the area was of similar quality. As I mentioned in my article, Frank Robbins, a fellow Citizen Army man, cited such conditions as a significant motive for Citizen Army and trade union membership.[1] These homes were cramped, cold, and families lifted literally one on top of the other. For men of George's era a trade, either semi-skilled or otherwise, offered an avenue of escape from the abject poverty which trapped so many of his class. That George recognised this fact is attestable from a number of sources. Firstly, his occupation with the Great Southern & Western Railway Company was a reliable job with a small number of fringe benefits, a job that many were keen to earn and earnest to keep; in later life George secured an apprenticeship for his son, further evidencing his belief in the worth of such positions. The workshop in which he worked contained a sizeable number of fellow revolutionaries from both the Irish Citizen Army and Irish Volunteers, and it was from this nucleus of men that much of the local corps was derived. Fullerton would have brushed shoulders with the trade unionist and fellow GS&WR employee William Partridge, who rather ironically as a Protestant himself, successfully fought for the removal of the company's sectarian employment practices, effectively paving the way for working-class Catholics such a Fullerton to achieve positions that hitherto fore were reserved for members of the local Protestant population and their kin.
Inchicore, where George was employed, was a hub revolutionary activity. From the very outset of the period the seeds of revolution were fomenting political unrest which ultimately came to a head during the autumn of 1913. Dublin was in the throes of a dispute between trade unions and employers. Against the backdrop of rising industrial unrest in Britain and Ireland violence broke out on the streets of Dublin city, and this violence would soon spread to Inchicore. The Irish Transport and General Workers Union opened up a branch office with an adjoining assembly hall at 122 Emmet Road in 1912 and sought to increase their membership locally by recruiting members from the abundant numbers of workers from the Great Southern and Western Railway (GS&WR) works and Dublin United Tramway Company living in the vicinity. The premises at Emmet Road were mainly used for trade union administration, however during the 1913 Lock Out the hall became a hotbed of activity, and frequent outbreaks of strike-related violence became commonplace throughout the latter quarter of the year.
Events soon turned sour locally following the decision by DUTC Chairman, William Martin Murphy, to hire scab labourers to replace his striking unionised tram drivers at the organisation's Inchicore depot on Spa Road. On 30 August these so called 'black' trams were attacked throughout the city and later upon arrival at the Inchicore depot they were subject to a barrage of stone throwing from the local populace. Rioting broke out and two trams were seriously damaged, a number of DMP were injured, including one sergeant from Kilmainham station who was felled to the ground by a brick. A large meeting was convened by local councillor Pádraig Ó Cearbhaill at Emmet Hall in order to address the ever increasing crowds which had gathered along Emmet Road. The police, now backed by military reinforcements from Richmond barracks, stormed the hall and launched a baton charge upon its occupants. As a local employee and living in close proximity to same, George would have witnessed these events first-hand, further consolidating his leftist outlook.
Moving to the post-Rising period, George's transfer from the labour-aligned ICA to the nationalist Irish Republican Army was not a sign of political conversion, nor the abandonment of his leftist principles, but rather it was due to the fact that after the Rising the former organisation figuratively melted away. The local Volunteers were far more belligerent than the remnant of the Citizen Army and it is likely for this reason alone that Fullerton, driven by the desire to continue the fight for an Irish republic, sought a transfer to the IRA. The minute books of the Citizen Army may provide further details on this, perhaps pinpointing the exact date and motivation, but I have yet to consult them; ditto the Hanratty papers at Kilmainham. I mention this transfer merely to provide context for George's motivation during this period and not to imply that you have argued otherwise in your article.
Conditions for the Fullerton's improved slightly in the aforementioned period and adjacent to their home in Bow Lane the family ran a small provisions store that continued to trade until the death of his wife Elizabeth. Sadly, I believe the home and adjoining store have since been demolished.
During the Civil War period (1922-1923) George was arrested and interned at firstly in Mountjoy Prison (15 Sept. 1922) and later at Newbridge Internment Camp -"Tintown 'A'"- until 20 December 1923 where he undertook a twenty-two day hunger strike which was to have a drastic result upon his health.[2]
The themes of family, hardship, and frustration litter George's Civil War correspondence. His absence as a father figure and main bread winner for the family was a frequent feature of his letters to Elizabeth, and his concern regarding the financial and familial hardship caused by his continued imprisonment was a common lament of his. Each letter contained enquiries of the children's wellbeing, alongside details of George's treatment during the course of his internment. To maintain regular contact the Fullerton's concocted an ingenious method of secreting the letters away in clothes which were then delivered to the internment camp. The letters were written on scraps of paper and then sewn into the hems of shirts and trousers by his wife Elizabeth.[3] On 5 March 1923 George wrote to Elizabeth, who had allegedly received some rough treatment during a Free State raid on their home and adjoining small provisions store: 'I received your letter on Saturday and I was shocked to hear the way you were knocked about by those fellows raiding the house […] I know it is hard on you, there by yourself. I hope the children were not frightened.'[4] Elizabeth appeared to be believe that an informer had been passing information to the Free State's shadowy intelligence department, the Criminal Investigation's Department (CID), a notion which George dismissed:
'It is bad luck for you to have to suffer the indignity at the hands of these, after all we suffered by the other people [the British]. You say that there must be information given to these people. But it must be only while you were excited that you thought this, for what could anybody tell.'[5]
Life was no less easy for George inside Newbridge who claimed that the bad marksmanship of his gaolers and divine intervention were the only obstacles that stood between life and death.[6] George described conditions inside the camp as 'inhuman' and spoke of the isolation faced by the prisoners in the 'very trying circumstances.' Yet he remained steadfast in his convictions, 'No cause was ever got without sacrifice and this cause is worthy of all the sacrifices that any Irish man or woman is called upon to make.'[7]
It may be possible to draw a number of conclusions from Fullerton's Civil War correspondence. Life inside the internment camps dotted around the country, where conditions were often primitive, was one filled with boredom and hardship, alleviated only by the arrival of letters from home and the frugal comforts of leisurely pursuits. The men arranged, where possible, field sports, card games, amateur dramatics, lectures on a variety of subjects, and lessons in the Irish language, Gaeilge. George wrote with glee and a sense of elevated pride that he was learning Gaeilge while at Newbridge. That George was seemingly approaching the language with an ignorant curiosity would suggest that he may not have attended the local Christian Brothers School at Goldenbridge – who were steadfast in their promotion of the Irish language – where he was born, or perhaps he may never have achieved even the slightest proficiency from his years of schooling. Conversely, it may have been due to his fraternal associations that Fullerton was drawn to studying the Irish language. Members of the various local organisations (IRA, ICA, IV, CnB, Sinn Féin, ITGWU et al) all moved in overlapping circles, they schooled together, lived together, worked together, and in some instances inter-married. It was this social glue which bound them, and in many cases reinforced their convictions. In his letters George mentions several local men, acquaintances and fellow revolutionary internees, it is quite probable that he engaged in the form of leisurely instruction that he did as a result of the comradeship to which he was well-acquainted from the beginning of his revolutionary, and indeed social life.
I hope that this coda of sorts may help further to clarify some if the excellent points which you raised in your article, and should you require anything further please feel free to contact me via the editor. Thank you again for your illuminating study.
Beir bua agus beannacht,
Aaron Ó Maonaigh
Baile Átha Cliath
Endnotes and references
[1] Daithí Mac An Mháistir's masterful study of the ICA is fantastic apropos the social background of that movement. Daithí Mac An Mháistir, The Irish Citizen Army: The World's First Working-Class Army (Dublin, 2017)
[2] Mountjoy Prison General Register 1921-1926, male prisoners, 4 July 1922 (Irish Prison Registers 1790-1924, Book no: 1/54/1); Location of prisoners ledger (Irish Military Archives [IMA], Civil War Internment Collection, CW/P/01/01); List of prisoners held in custody (IMA, Civil War Internment Collection, CW/P/01/02)
[3] George Fullerton to Elizabeth Fullerton, letter 1, undated [c. 1923], Newbridge (Fullerton letters, private collection, USA)
[4] George Fullerton to Elizabeth Fullerton, 5 Mar. 1923, Newbridge (Fullerton letters, private collection, USA)
[7] Ibid., emphasis retained as in the original letter.
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Taking the 'Smart Drug' Modafinil Made Me Love Work but Hate People
In the rat race that is modern life, it's sort of the only drug that makes sense. How awful is that?
by Sebastián Serrano
Photograph courtesy of the author
This article originally appeared on VICE Colombia.
Originally synthesized in France in the 1970s, modafinil was approved by the FDA as a treatment for narcolepsy and other sleep disorders in 1998. Recently, however, totally healthy people have began using it to stay awake for extended periods of time and to increase their cognitive performance. Medications such as Adderall and Ritalin—originally prescribed for ADD patients—and ampakines—used for Alzheimer's—are also being used to improve the brain function of people studying and working. These drugs are known as nootropics, or smart drugs.
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I decided to try modafinil to see how it would affect my work. I had a good look at the side effects and, after making as certain as possible that I wouldn't just drop dead after taking it, I swallowed the neon orange capsule.
Arriving at work at 9 AM, I began thinking it was funny that no one around me had a clue that I was on a drug taken by pilots, ER doctors, and Silicon Valley millionaires. They all take the drug for the same reason: to give their concentration a kick up the ass. After a couple of hours sitting at my desk, I was getting impatient. Was anything ever going to happen? Around 11:30 AM, I noticed that I hadn't taken a cigarette break yet. I mean, I had plenty of cigarettes on me and knew that some of my colleagues were already outside the office smoking, but, because of the pill, I didn't feel like it.
Read on VICE News: Users Say the 'Smart Drug' Modafinil Is the New Adderall—Only Better
The kick arrived with all certainty at about noon. I was hungry for work and agreed to take on an extra task that my editor was trying to get done. For the next hour, I was completely engrossed in it. I was so into my work that I wasn't even that interested in getting lunch when my colleague asked if I felt like pizza, which was quite unusual for me. (I still ordered some.)
Truth is, no one really knows how this drug works. That sounds absurd, especially considering you can buy it over the counter in Colombia where I live, but after all we don't know how general anesthetics work, either, and that hasn't stopped us from using them. Some say that modafinil stimulates the brain so it releases a hormone called histamine. You've probably heard of antihistamine, a compound that inhibits the production of histamine found in those anti-allergy medications that make you really drowsy. So it makes sense: By increasing the production of histamine, modafinil causes the opposite effect—it makes you way less drowsy.
However, other studies suggest that modafinil affects the brain similarly to things like amphetamines and cocaine. They claim it increases people's levels of dopamine—the hormone our brains release when we eat, have sex, or run into a friend. If this theory is true, it would mean that modafinil use could lead to abuse and addiction. Due to a lack of long-term research, nobody has been able to prove that yet.
Back at the office, it took more than 45 minutes for the delivery guy to bring a pizza to my colleague Camila, but I couldn't have cared less. The thought of pepperoni was probably causing Camila's brain to flood with dopamine, but mine had already received a shot of it in the form of that funny-colored pill. A few days later, I asked Camila whether or not I was acting normally during that lunch break.
"You were cool," she said.
Once I ate my pizza, there was no "walk around the block to digest lunch," no "let's have dessert to kill the pepperoni taste," not even the sacred "after-lunch cigarette." I just sat right back down to finish my work. By the time my editor returned to his desk, it was done. "Already?" my boss asked with his eyes wide open. I nodded casually, as if it was completely normal for me to finish my assignments early.
Aside from modafinil's effects—and side effects—there is a rather interesting ethical debate behind medications that increase cognitive performance. Was using that pill unfair on my colleagues? According to an article published in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, the use of medication to improve cognitive performance is considered to be ethically acceptable, as long as it doesn't put someone else's job in jeopardy. Last year, employees at the Australian Department of the Treasury admitted (anonymously) to having used the medication to help complete the nation's budget on time.
The debate surrounding drugs like these is full of ethical gray areas. Sure, as a website editor, if I took those pills on a daily basis I could probably churn out more articles per week. That wouldn't necessarily affect the other reporters' work, but it would pressure them into upping their productivity. Especially if I never mentioned that I was taking the pills. That said, I could argue that I'm free to take whatever medication I want because it's a part of my private life. Besides, unlike me, many of my colleagues consume energy drinks all day long.
According to professors Mirko Garasic and Andrea Lavazza, if you choose to take these medications, the ethically correct thing to do is to be honest about it and tell your co-workers and bosses. You could also simply not take them, but that's apparently pretty unrealistic. According to Vince Cakic, a psychology professor at the University of Sydney, we could learn something by looking at how hard it's been to control doping in sports. He has called on academics to start focusing on researching these drugs and informing people about their side effects, rather than declaring war on them.
My suspiciously productive workday began to crumble when I drank a cup of coffee. Almost immediately after, my heart began racing and I started feeling pressure in my chest. The mental effects were even more worrisome. I began getting extremely angry anytime my co-workers asked me for a synonym, sent me a video, or showed me a meme. The casual desk chat that I usually enjoy and promote suddenly seemed offensive—not against me, but, even worse, against my work. I found myself wondering why they couldn't all just be full of drugs, too.
I got it into my head that the desk I shared with six others wasn't a healthy work environment, and I chose to head over to Bogotá's Pontifical Xavierian University library. On my way, my bike wheel punctured, and I was forced to take a detour and swing by the closest mechanic. The process of fixing a tire had never been so infuriatingly slow. When the chap was done, I raced toward the university as if my life depended on it. Right before walking into the library—and several hours later than usual—I had my first cigarette of the day. My heart, the only object in the universe that seemed to be able to keep up with my newfound rhythm, began racing again. I sat myself down in front of a computer in a quiet, dark room and somehow managed to enter my password incorrectly a bunch of times. I was sweaty and my hands were shaking, but, as soon as I saw my screen loading, I was filled with the same satisfaction and enthusiasm that usually fills me when I complete a task.
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According to Scott Vrecko, a sociologist specializing in medical issue, nootropics might not increase a person's ability to receive, remember, or process information; instead, they will have a positive effect on a person's mood while performing these tasks. Vrecko spent a few weeks at an American university collecting testimonies from students who took Adderall, and many said that the pill made them feel more capable of performing their tasks—even before they got started. Another study points out that modafinil could induce a state of excessive confidence.
My second task of the day was to transfer data mapping out the effects of robberies in Bogotá (by time and location) from a PDF file into an Excel worksheet. That's exactly the kind of mechanical task that usually sends me—an easily distracted person—straight to Facebook. But this time, it was different. Typing cold, flat figures became the highlight of my day, and I felt better and better as I inserted numbers into that worksheet. Before long, I stopped sweating and my shivers all but disappeared. I won't lie: I did log in to Facebook a couple times, but when I did, something inside me persuaded me to get back to the task at hand.
The pill works, there's no doubt about it. But at what cost? Doctors Kimberly Urban and Wen-Jun Gao fear that we could see long-term damage in healthy individuals under 30 who use the substances. Apparently, modafinil can fuck up a thing called brain plasticity, a term for the brain's ability to adapt to different situations and different contexts across a period of time.
What worries doctors are the effects of increasing the amount of dopamine in a developing brain. Modafinil and other smart drugs can affect brain receptors that consolidate short-term memory and regulate brain flexibility when it comes to responding to diverse stimuli—such as social situations. Researchers suspect that, in the long term, young individuals who take modafinil—and similar medications—may end up with an increased ability to concentrate for longer periods of time, but their short-term memory could decrease. Something that would lead to a disadvantage in social situations or when it comes to performing tasks that require cognitive flexibility—like being a journalist or driving a car. However, Urban and Gao's research is filled with speculation, not-yet-proven hypotheses, and, just like every study about modafinil, has a distinctive lack of long-term studies.
The day after my initial experiment, I decided to take another pill. The effects were basically the same—pleasure and well-being in the library. Sweating outside. I even decided not to buy a water bottle at the cafeteria because I couldn't stand waiting in line. I had another mishap with my bike: This time I just left it and walked to the university. Usually, I love walking, but because of the drug, it suddenly seemed like a complete waste of time. Getting home after a long day, turning off the light, smoking a joint, and watching a comedy show didn't give me half as much pleasure as it usually does either.
Modafinil may be the least fun drug there is (at least of the ones I've tried), but in the rat race that is modern life, it's sort of the only one that makes sense. It's weird, isn't it? The same young people who enthusiastically welcomed love drugs like MDMA and pills are now into taking things like modafinil—which, ironically, only makes you love work.
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Multi-national coal and their playbook are never about community
Full page attack, Friday 5th November 2021
A couple of weeks ago, a friend showed me this page from the Hunter River Times published Friday 5th November 2021.
I could not believe what I was reading.
I was appalled at this vicious attack made by one of the world's largest most destructive mines, Glencore, and that here they were taking out a full page of goodness knows what in a 'community newspaper,' outright attacking two individual traditional owners for following a legal process.
But this paper, the Hunter River Times, is no ordinary independent community paper. It is the NSW Minerals Council's rag, and it brooks no criticism to do with mining from any quarter.
As chance would have it, I am running for the Upper Hunter Shire Council for a second term, and all 'councillor-candidates' were invited by the Hunter River Times to write fluffy 'vote-for-me' 100 word pieces for the Friday 19th November 2021 issue.
I chose my 100 words very carefully and precisely, and they were as follows:
"My name is Sue Abbott and I am appalled at the extraordinary attack recently launched by Glencore, the world's largest mining company, against two individual traditional owners for trying to preserve Ravensworth massacre site. I am also appalled that it was published in this paper."
"That Glencore resorts to bullying and intimidation so that it can extend the life of its open cut mine near Ravensworth demonstrates the Swiss giant is lacking any corporate responsibility. That the the Hunter River Times would run the piece on the mine's behalf demonstrates how missed truly independent media really are."
Admittedly I did think there was a good chance that my words would not be published but what I did not think was that words I had not supplied Hunter River Times would be inserted looking as though a contribution from me.
Words I did not write for Hunter River Times, Friday 19th November 2021
This layout is misleading and deceptive.
I immediately contacted the Hunter River Times via text with the following words:
"I did not write those words on page 8 of the Hunter River Times (Friday 19th November 2021). Please retract them and please issue an apology in your next issue as they seem to be 'passing off' as me and those words are certainly not what I wrote."
In response, the Hunter River Times justified their action by informing me that the words they used in their column, purporting to be mine, were from my statement on the NSW Electoral Commission's website.
Cherry-picking and cobbling together words from my nomination form do not qualify as words from me in the capacity readers think that they are reading, and basically just shows a complete lack of respect for me and for the paper's very own readers.
I remain appalled by Glencore's actions towards the two individual traditional owners and also by everything to do with the Hunter River Times ...
... and I still expect a retraction and an apology in the next issue of the Hunter River Times.
Furthermore I miss and will always miss 'real' independent community media so very much.
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IPCC tells world nowhere's safe
Last week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their sixth report, and it makes for salutary reading.
Everything in the report we already know, but this time the scientists have made it crystal clear that unless we do something urgently about the unprecedented human-induced global warming, we are on course for an unlivable planet by the end of this century.
Highlighting irrefutable evidence that global warming is driven by humans' use of fossil fuels and resulting emissions, the report grimly states that the scale and pace we are changing the earth's climate system have almost no precedent and have already led to catastrophic events which are predicted to only get worse if we carry on as we are. In fact, even if countries start taking climate change seriously and start meaningfully doing something about it, worsening impacts are already 'baked in' to the climate system for the next two decades at least.
Australian trends show that heatwaves will be more frequent and intense across land and sea, and that marine heatwaves will see a rise in ocean acidity. The intensity, frequency and duration of fire weather is projected to increase, and we will lose the Great Barrier Reef and other reefs. There will be an increase in heavy rainfall across the northern, central and eastern parts of Australia, with increase in droughts across the southern and eastern parts of Australia. Australian sea levels are predicted to rise faster than the global average leading to an increase in coastal flooding and shoreline retreat. Storms will also increase including sand storms.
This may be our final warning that the natural system cannot cope with our lifestyle and that we just cannot continue with business as usual if we are to have any chance of a future compatible with life.
We are at a fork in the road and we must act now.
So, what can we do?
First up we need to urgently reduce our emissions and to do so, that means:
1. * No new coal, oil or gas development, or any new fossil fuel development of any kind, and for us to get out of existing ones pretty smartly.
2. * We need to focus on reducing our emissions by 2030 because leaving this task until 2050 will be too late and essentially is akin to climate denial.
3. * We need to reduce our emissions by 75% by 2030 (on 2005 baseline).
4. * We need to be net-zero by 2035
5. * AND THERE MUST BE NO GAS-LED RECOVERY
… in a nutshell we must stop expanding all fossil fuel industries and stop the much-touted gas-led recovery immediately which means we need the right politicians and political representatives at all levels of government to see this happen.
So really the most important action anyone can do to halt climate change is to vote for the right representative. Climate change denialists have had their day and it is time for political renewal.
We just don't have time for local, state and federal politicians who are not going to take the IPCC's warning seriously because honestly, when it sinks in the current rates of climate change are unprecedented in the planet's entire '4.5 billion years' geological past, that is terrifying.
Can Upper Hunter Shire afford another year of climate inaction?
Do we care about intergenerational equity?
At the June 2021 Upper Hunter Shire Council Ordinary Meeting I could not and did not support the 2021/2022 budget.
Its lack of meaningful action to halt climate change and to mitigate the already damaging impacts we are seeing all around us as a result of climate change only goes to show that the Upper Hunter Shire Council plans to continue ignoring the signs of climate change already impacting our lives.
The 2021/2022 budget reveals that the Upper Hunter Shire Council is able to find funding for all kinds of projects including climate wrecking ones but is unable to adequately fund a climate emergency response.
Unquestionably a climate emergency response should be embedded in all of council's decision making processes: putting climate first in every single decision of council is essential and needs to be implemented.
Speaking to the world on World Environment Day 5 June 2021, Antonio Guterres (UN Secretary General) said:
"We are rapidly reaching the point of no return for the planet. We face a triple emergency:
biodiversity loss;
climate disruption
escalating pollution
Science tells us the next 10 years are our final chance to avert a climate catastrophe, turn back the deadly tide of pollution and end species loss."
... yet here in the Upper Hunter Shire we are 'picking the colour scheme for the family room' rather than doing anything about 'our house on fire' and the real emergencies steadily enveloping us.
We don't have time to be carrying on with the business as usual approach.
Extreme heatwaves, wildfires, seas on fire from gas pipeline leaks, couldn't be clearer in demonstrating that business as usual is no longer ok.
We need a climate emergency response and we needed it last month.
A voice for children & nature - a voice for you
With my granddaughter at the SGS fete
Quick update on me since I last posted ... I am running as the Greens candidate for the Upper Hunter by-election which is to be held in five days time (Saturday 22nd May 2021). I have been 'beatleling' around the electorate meeting up with people and participating in Meet-The-Candidates for the past three weeks. On Thursday 13th May 2021, I attended the Dungog Meet-The-Candidates forum at the Dungog RSL, and the following is the speech I gave to crowd in the allocated 10 minutes candidates were given.
Good evening, I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land where we meet tonight and I pay my respects to their elders past and present.
I am a first generation Australian because of "Love"!
But let me go right back to my beginning. I was born in Germany, and for the first 18 years of my life I grew up in Germany, Holland, Cyprus and England.
Then at 18, I started my registered nurse training at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. And it was there at the back of the Barts' Hospital bicycle shed that I met this gorgeous young Australian doctor. Upon being asked whether it was 'Susie or Sue,' with me thinking it's neither but I might run with Sue, there followed a whirlwind romance with us getting married in England and then heading out to Australia at the end of 1982.
I arrived in this beautiful land I was to call home for the rest of my life like a GI bride having never seen Australia before! I fell in love immediately with this beautiful country, and we came to Scone in August 1983. Our four children were all born at Scone Hospital, and all four did all their primary and secondary schooling in Scone too.
But now I am here before you as the Greens candidate for the Upper Hunter by-election, and the most pressing issue for me is Climate Change.
Climate Change is here in the Upper Hunter whether we like to admit it or not. We see the impacts all around us with droughts, bushfires, floods and the increase in their severity.
We are facing an existential threat to nature which includes us too because we are nature.
Our children's future is bleak. In fact our children have reached a tipping point where they are eschewing their education and leaving the classrooms to take to the streets to protest about the inaction on climate action. Our children do not feel that they have a future so they are wondering what is the point of even getting an education.
It is imperative that we transition to 100% renewables quickly and eliminate our emissions in an emergency capacity.
But there is no political will to tackle climate change and undertake necessary climate action.
Recently it was reported that as a result of massive glacier melting across the world due to global warming, there has been a shift in the earth's axis of rotation. This is huge, yet still are leaders are not moved to do anything.
Biodiversity is plummeting, and this breaks my heart. Here in Australia we have the biggest mammalian extinction rate in the world - that is not a good record to have.
But right now I want to transport you to another state ... I want to take you to Tasmania where I follow the cutest little Instagram account, the "Hobart Rivulet Platypus ... you should too! A post was popped up on this account just recently detailing that we (that's us humans) are the biggest threat to the iconic platypus, and that the continuous concreting over of rivulets and tributaries in Hobart is causing platypus deep distress, and platypus numbers are starting to decline.
Now let me bring you back to Dungog, and your own concrete spectre of more dams being built in this area again. I met with some of you from Hunter Healthy Rivers a couple of weeks ago and you shared with me your concerns about the growing dam-building talk.
With Dungog residents
We know that dams are hugely destructive of nature and the natural environment, and we know that they completely destroy wildlife corridors and key areas for wildlife potentially impacting your own iconic koalas which you have here in the Dungog Shire.
The proposed Tillegra Dam was chased off a few years ago because of environmental reasons, and I must acknowledge the 'marvelousness' of Tracey Norman (independent candidate for Upper Hunter and former Dungog mayor) who successfully championed that cause to make sure the Tillegra Dam did not go ahead. Dams are dinosaur technology as you told me, and they destroy wildlife corridors, and rivers, and even pose a threat to the Ramsar-listed Kooragang Wetlands.
We know that there are other ways to conserve water such as user education, behaviour-change, recycling, water conservation itself, demand management and yet dams remain the popular choice for ill-informed politicians.
Let's talk about your koalas and their core habitats. You have breeding koala mothers here in the Dungog shire with the necessary primary and secondary feeding trees - basically you have koala heaven yet this is under threat with all the dam proposal talk. We cannot let dam building go ahead here at the expense of Australia's biodiversity yet again.
With respect to transition, it is already underway in the Upper Hunter. But what worries me is that it will not be just and we'll get left behind or abandoned if we do not get on board now.
Three disruptions are converging:
1. energy; 2. transport; 3. food and agriculture
With respect to energy; wind, solar, pumped hydro and battery storage have won the race and the market is running with its wallet.
All sectors across our electorate must de-carbonise from fossil fuels, to health and hospitals, from tourism and travel, to farming and transport.
Regarding transport, it took only 13 years for the last major disruption in transport in 1,000 years to totally shift how we got around. In 1900 city transport was all about horses yet by 1913 it was all about cars (what happened to the horses? ... we ate them). So it only took just over a decade for transport to be completely disrupted and upended, and no-one saw that coming.
And with food and agriculture, it is projected that the dairy and beef industries will be totally disrupted by 2030. Precision fermentation and food-as-software are changing existing food paradigms, and quickly.
If I were to be elected I would advocate for a just transition to 100% renewables so that we are not left behind or abandoned, and I would insist on emergency elimination of our emissions.
I would be a voice for children who don't have the vote, yet who are terrified, frustrated, scared, and suffering from climate anxiety because they think they may not have a future.
I would be a voice for community organisations and neighbourhood-centres which all too often get overlooked when big money is being splashed around for the big ticket items.
I would be a voice for nature who now more than ever needs a voice and an advocate at the ready.
And I would be a voice for you.
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To do an 'extended twirl', start as though doing a normal California twirl but at the end pull the joined hands between yuo and then let go as you turn to face back in. Thye net effect of the extended twirl is that you end up facing in the original direction but have changed places with your twirlee.
My original solution, Catie's Quartet, is a 2-couple dance. However, whilst I feel that it is good, it is not a dance that you could reasonably do at a regular club night or regular dance, leastways not without having worked on it before. It should therefore be considered a workshop dance, or better still a dance for a dance camp where you can do one figure each day and then put it asll together.
I have therefore taken the 3 figures in the dance and turned them into 3 longways (double progression) becket formation dances (Catie loves dancing contra too). Each of these dances Catie's Line Dance, Catie Gets Around and Catie's In the Clover shares the same figure for the progression and uses one figure from the 2-couple dance. Any of these should be achievable at most dances, thus meeting Susan's desire to have the dance being 'accessible'. It also makes Catie's Quartet a quartet of dances!
All the dances are set to a wonderful waltz,Sperantsa Pierduta, written by Cathie Whitesides (1997) meaning Lost Hope in Romanian. The tune is published in The Waltz Book III (Bill Matthiesen, editor) and is recorded on Sperantsa (Cathie Whitesides), In Step (Amarillis) and Invitation To Waltz (Bare Necessities).


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'Welcome To Plathville' Kim & Barry Plath Surface In Rare Instagram Post
June 11, 2022 by Aubrey Chorpenning 0 Comments
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Welcome to Plathville stars Kim and Barry Plath have surfaced in a rare Instagram post. Fans who follow the Plath family on social media follow Ethan, Olivia, Moriah, and Micah. Lydia Plath also recently joined Instagram. But it doesn't look like Kim and Barry use social media.
Despite their inactivity online, they did make a rare appearance, and fans are loving it. Keep reading to check out the new photos and see what fans have to say.
Kim and Barry Plath make a rare social media appearance.
On Instagram this week, Moriah shared a series of new photos with fans, as well as a message about the current season of Welcome to Plathville. In her post, Moriah writes, "I guess every family's got their drama! 🙃 Mine sure does 🙁 But I don't care, I love them anyway and nothing can change that lol. They're stuck with me as their sister/daughter forever!"
Then, she continues, "The more I learn who I am the easier it gets to support and be here for my family. Everyone believes different things and chooses to live their lives in different ways, and I'm learning that if I want them to accept me for me, I gotta accept them for who they are also!"
You can read her full and lengthy post here.
In addition to sharing this message, she posted a photo of herself with her mom, as well as a selfie of herself and her dad.
Moriah also shared several other family photos, including some with her siblings.
Welcome to Plathville fans are happy to see the family together.
Fans are surprised to see that Moriah would post these photos of all of her family members. If you watch Welcome to Plathville, you know that she has been through many ups and downs with her parents. But fans are taking this post as a good sign about her relationship with Kim and Barry.
Some fans are talking about how happy and healthy, Kim, Barry, and Moriah look in these new photos. Others are happy to see the family on better terms. One fan points out that the old Kim might not have been interested in taking a picture with Moriah where her tattoos are visible. But this time, the Plath matriarch seemed happy to do so.
So, does it surprise you that Moriah Plath shared pictures of everyone, including her parents, Kim and Barry? Share your thoughts in the comments section below. And come back to TV Shows Ace for more Plath family updates. Plus, don't miss new episodes of TLC's Welcome to Plathville on Tuesdays.
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Researchers have identified a human antibody that prevents Zika from infecting the fetus and damaging the placenta in pregnant mice. The antibody also protects adult mice from Zika disease.
The most devastating consequence of Zika virus infection is the development of microcephaly, or an abnormally small head, in fetuses infected in utero.
The study appears online in Nature.
Diamond, co-senior author James Crowe Jr. of Vanderbilt, and colleagues screened 29 anti-Zika antibodies from people who had recovered from Zika infection. They found one, called ZIKV-117, that efficiently neutralized in the lab five Zika strains—representing the worldwide diversity of the virus.
To test whether the antibody also protects living animals, the researchers gave the antibody to pregnant mice either one day before or one day after they were infected with the virus. In both cases, antibody treatment markedly reduced the levels of virus in pregnant females and their fetuses, as well as in the placentas, compared with pregnant mice that did not get the antibody.
"These naturally occurring antibodies isolated from humans represent the first medical intervention that prevents Zika infection and damage to fetuses," Crowe says.
The placentas from the treated females appeared normal and healthy, unlike those from the untreated females, which showed destruction of the placental structure. Damage to the placenta can cause slow fetal growth and even can cause fetal death, both of which are associated with Zika infection in humans.
"We did not see any damage to the fetal blood vessels, thinning of the placenta, or any growth restriction in the fetuses of the antibody-treated mice," says coauthor Indira Mysorekar, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and of pathology and immunology at Washington University, and co-director of the university's Center for Reproductive Sciences.
The antibody also protected adult male mice against a lethal dose of Zika virus, even when given five days after initial infection. Zika is rarely lethal in humans, so using a lethal dose allowed the scientists to see how well the antibody works under the most stringent conditions.
"We stacked the deck against ourselves by using a highly pathogenic strain of Zika, and even in that case, the antibody protected the mice," says Diamond, who is also a professor of pathology and immunology, and of molecular microbiology.
These findings provide evidence that antibodies alone can protect adults and fetuses from Zika. Further, they suggest that a vaccine that elicits protective antibodies in women also may protect their fetuses in current and future pregnancies. A vaccine is already in human trials, but it was never tested in pregnant animals, so this new study represents strong evidence that a vaccine that elicits protective antibodies in adults is likely to protect fetuses as well.
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Nonetheless, the researchers tested whether they could eliminate the possibility of antibody-dependent enhancement of Zika infection by modifying the antibody so it could not participate in the process. The modified antibody, they showed, was just as effective as the original at protecting the placenta and fetus.
Until a human vaccine is available, it may be possible to protect fetuses by administering antibodies to pregnant women in an attempt to prevent transmission from mother to fetus. Under this scenario, a woman living in a Zika-endemic area would receive the antibodies throughout her pregnancy, starting when she first learns she is pregnant, regardless of whether she is diagnosed with Zika. Alternatively, pregnant women or their partners with acute infection could be treated with antibodies.
Crowe is continuing the process of developing the antibody as a potential therapeutic, ramping up production and laying the groundwork for human studies. Meanwhile, Diamond is focusing on determining whether antibodies could be used to clear persistent Zika infection. Together, they are working with others to gain a higher-resolution understanding of how ZIKV-117 binds the virus and inhibits infection.
The National Institutes of Health, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Preventing Prematurity Initiative, and the March of Dimes supported the work.


Tiger hat ca. 1920's; collar perhaps a little later. Traditionally, Chinese children wear several different styles of hats from infancy through adolescence. As babies, the hats are worn for protection against evil spirits. As the child grows older, the hats are worn to bring good fortune and success for the future. Producing an ornately decorated hat for a child was also a way to symbolically bestow a child with good wishes and moral teaching. Hats that represent animals, such as tigers, are intended to protect babies by warding off evil spirits. In addition to hats, children may also receive collars and shoes decorated with animal iconography to protect their bodies. The tiger is one of the earliest images to appear in Chinese culture as a protector of the living as well as the dead. Tiger imagery can be found at tomb entrances and painted on warrior's helmets. Light wear. Superb examples.
Berliner, Nancy Zeng. Chinese Folk Art. (Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co., 1986).
Garrett, Valery. A Collector's Guide to Chinese Dress Accessories. (Singapore: Times Editions: 1997).
Lin, Phylis Lan and Christi Lan Lin. Stories of Chinese Children's Hats: Symbolism and Folklore. (Indianapolis, IN: University of Indianapolis Press, 1996).
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