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Tributes paid to 'ultimate entertainer' Des O'Connor who has died aged 88
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Des O'Connor in "Dreamboats and Petticoats" at the Playhouse Theatre in London. (Photo by robbie jack/Corbis via Getty Images)
Fans and friends of "ultimate entertainer" Des O'Connor have been paying tribute to the star who has died at the age of 88.
O'Connor died on Saturday, days after a fall at his home, his longtime agent and family friend Pat Lake-Smith said.
She said in a statement to the PA news agency that the "ultimate entertainer" had been recovering from the fall when he died.
Friend and former colleague Melanie Sykes, who worked with O'Connor on talk show Des and Mel, led the tributes.
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She wrote on Instagram: "Des had the softest hands of anyone I ever met and the kindest of hearts. He had talent in every fibre of his being and was stubborn as a mule. He was the full ticket as a friend and colleague.
"When he chose me to be his co host on the 'Today' daytime show it was one the greatest days of my professional life. It was an education and a privilege to work with him for the years that followed. We worked long hours but always laughed lots, not least because when it it was showtime he would always tell me I looked like robbers dog!
"These years I will never forget and nor will I forget him. Darling Des you will be forever missed. Melanie."
Piers Morgan tweeted: "RIP Des O'Connor, 88. A wondrously talented, warm, funny, charming man. Truly one of the nicest people in showbiz. What very sad news. Thanks for all the fun, Des."
RIP Des O'Connor, 88.
A wondrously talented, warm, funny, charming man. Truly one of the nicest people in showbiz.
What very sad news.
Thanks for all the fun, Des. pic.twitter.com/wMQX5nC8c1
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 15, 2020
Presenter Paddy McGuinness said: "Such sad news. Des O'Connor was never afraid to laugh at himself and that was part of his charm. Whether it was Eric Morecambe ridiculing him, or Freddie Starr smashing his studio set up, Des always laughed along.
"Another part of my childhood telly viewing gone. RIP Des O'Connor."
Such sad news. Des O'Connor was never afraid to laugh at himself and that was part of his charm. Whether it was Eric Morecambe ridiculing him, or Freddie Starr smashing his studio set up, Des always laughed along. Another part of my childhood telly viewing gone. RIP Des O'Connor pic.twitter.com/ZzLarNiTm6
— Paddy McGuinness (@PaddyMcGuinness) November 15, 2020
Actor Danny Jules-John said: "RIP Des O'Connor. A lovely man."
RIP Des O'Connor. A lovely man...🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/18QItazenv
— Danny John-Jules🇩🇲 (@DannyJohnJules) November 15, 2020
Posting a clip of O'Connor's famous appearance on the Morecambe and Wise Show, David Baddiel said: "RIP Des O' Connor. It's worth remembering how brilliant he is at his own expense in these sketches."
RIP Des O' Connor. It's worth remembering how brilliant he is at his own expense in these sketches: https://t.co/NZKOAgCH7L
— David Baddiel (@Baddiel) November 15, 2020
Comedian Julian Clary said: "Always loved Des O'Connor. Cheerful and kind man. RIP Des."
DJ Tony Blackburn tweeted: "So sorry to hear that Des O'Connor has passed away. He was a great entertainer and more importantly a very nice person. R.I.P."
His agent said: "Des, who was 88, was so well loved by absolutely everyone. He was a joy to work with – he was talented, fun, positive, enthusiastic, kind and a total professional.
Entertainer Des O'Connor. October 1983. (Photo by Staff/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)
"He loved life, and considered enthusiasm almost as important as oxygen. He adored his family – they were everything to him. He is survived by his wife Jodie, their son Adam and his four daughters, Karin, TJ, Samantha and Kristina.
"Jodie's world is shattered, she and Adam and Des's daughters are hurting more than you could possibly imagine.
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"Des was the ultimate entertainer.
"He loved being on stage – entertaining a live audience. He always said the sound of laughter was like the sound of heavenly music.
"He had a fabulous international TV career, presenting his own prime-time TV shows for over 45 years. On stage he starred at almost every leading venue throughout the world."
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Four Uzbekistan Women rescued in Pattaya after falling victim to alleged human trafficking scam
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Four Uzbekistan women have been rescued this afternoon by Uzbekistan Embassy officials and Chonburi Provincial Police after allegedly falling victim to a human trafficking scam that brought them to Pattaya, Thailand.
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A team of police led by Chonburi Provincial Police Deputy Commander Colonel Thitawat Suriyachay raided a condominium in South Pattaya near the entrance of Phra Tamnak hill.
The raid comes after Chonburi police were notified from the Uzbekistan Embassy that an Uzbek woman was tricked into coming to Pattaya for a high paying job and upon arriving discovered that the work was not as described and she was essentially held against her will. The exact nature of the work was not given by Chonburi Police. The Embassy had been alerted to the Uzbekistan citizen's plight from a concerned relative.
One of the Uzbekistan woman told police that she had been offered a lot of money from working in Pattaya but she did not receive the cash she had been promised and was being held against her will. Her name was withheld by The Pattaya News as is our standard editorial procedure for human trafficking cases.
Four Uzbekistan women were found in the condominium in total, including the original woman who had come to the attention of the Uzbekistan Embassy. All were rescued and will return home with the assistance of their country.
Chonburi police are continuing their investigation and looking into the individuals who assisted in bringing the women to Pattaya and providing the alleged employment. They stated to the Pattaya News that this was an ongoing investigation.


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'Jurassic World' stars Chris Pratt, Sam Neill team up to support food banks amid coronavirus pandemic
Lack of support for food industry is 'unconscionable': NYC restaurant owner
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"Jurassic World" co-stars Chris Pratt and Sam Neill are teaming up to encourage their followers to donate to food banks as charitable demand increases due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Pratt got the ball rolling on Twitter last week when he revealed that he'll be matching donations to support a program that's helping food-insecure households as part of GreatGoods' "Feed Thy Neighbor" program.
"If your family has relied on the support of a food bank this year, please know you're not alone. If you've ever assisted a family in need, you know there's no greater feeling. Tis the season," the "Guardians of the Galaxy" actor wrote.
On the organization's website, it notes that Pratt matched all donations that came through before Dec. 29 up to $100,000. As an added incentive for fans to donate and help out this holiday season, Pratt even offered a virtual meeting with a handful of lucky winners. He'll host them during his star-studded New Year's Eve Instagram Live telethon on Thursday. All donations went to support Greater Good Charities and Feeding America.
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Chris Pratt and Sam Neill are trying to get fans to donate to food banks amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Getty Images)
On Instagram, Pratt has been routinely promoting food banks across the country, all of whom note an increased demand as shutdowns lead to jobless homes and food insecurity.
"Due to Covid-19 and these damn nationwide shut downs, people aren't working. 1 in 4 American Children may not know where their next meal is coming from. 25% of our kids!!! Let that sink in. The need is real. People are in pain," Pratt wrote in announcing the Instagram Live event.
Not to be outdone, Neill, who will reprise his "Jurassic Park" role in the upcoming third installment of the "Jurassic World" franchise alongside Pratt, offered his services to the organization's efforts in New Zealand and Australia.
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"I hope you're having a wonderful holiday season," he said in a video tweeted on Christmas Eve. "You're eating well, you're with the people you love, and you're also remembering those that may not necessarily be having such a great day. Chris Pratt, I just heard from him, he reminds me that in America of all places, one in every four children doesn't necessarily know where their next meal is coming from. It's an incredible thought."
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The Nature of Health
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The Nature of Health book
How America lost, and can regain, a basic human value
ByMichael Fine, James W. Peters, Robert S. Lawrence
Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Health and Social Care, Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health
Fine, M., Peters, J.W., & Lawrence, R.S. (2007). The Nature of Health: How America lost, and can regain, a basic human value (1st ed.). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315365398
This pioneering work addresses a key issue that confronts all industrialised nations: How do we organise healthcare services in accordance with fundamental human rights, whilst competing with scientific and technological advances, powerful commercial interests and widespread public ignorance? "The Nature of Health" presents a coherent, affordable and logical way to build a healthcare system. It argues against a health system fixated on the pursuit of longevity and suggests an alternative where the ability of an individual to function in worthwhile relationships is a better, more human goal. By reviewing the etymology, sociology and anthropology of health, this controversial guide examines the meaning of health, and proves how a community-centred healthcare system improves local economy, creates social capital and is affordable, rational, personal, and just. "This is badly needed nourishment for a medical system glutted on technology, individualism, profit and the pursuit of longevity. Read and be fed." - Christopher Koller, Health Insurance Commissioner, The State of Rhode Island, USA. "Unique. Surprising. A real eye-opener. Just about everyone who doesn't have a vested financial interest in maintaining the status quo will agree that U.S. healthcare is badly broken. [This book] is making it possible for us to refocus from how to provide healthcare to how to achieve health. Their description of health as successful functioning in community, rather than as a measure of longevity is a definition that can make a reader feel healthier as they take gradually appreciate the power of the concept. On this foundation, it is not as hard as one might think to outline a healthcare system that is equitable, affordable and achievable." - Alexander Blount EdD, Professor of Family Medicine, University of Massacusetts Medical Center.
part One|52 pages
What Health is Not
Demented and Contracted
chapter 1|6 pages
The Health We Have
The Health We Buy
What we Measure is not Health
Medications are Not Health
Medicine is Not Health Either
Science is Business, Not Health
part Two|72 pages
What went Wrong and Why
The Happy Victim
The Human Tsunami
The Reductive Trap
The Trap is Sprung
chapter 10|6 pages
How Longevity Kidnapped Health
Medical Services and Communities
The Zero-Sum Game
Three People, Three Aortas
part Three|48 pages
What Health Is
A. FIB
What Webster Thinks
Old Villages, New Lives
Toward a Social Definition of Health
Health and Community Together
Health and Fairness
Amish Boy
part Four|52 pages
Who Gets What?
How Should it Look?
How Should We Pay for It?
Which Doctors?


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Spouse(s) / Partner(s)
She is married to James Matthews.
Pippa Middleton is the younger sister of Kate Middleton.
Pippa came to prominence when she was chosen by Kate Middleton to be the chief bridesmaid at her wedding to Prince William.
Kate, Pippa and their brother James are the children of Michael and Carole Middleton.
Her full name is Philippa Charlotte Middleton, but she is more commonly referred to as Pippa or Pip.
She studied at Pangbourne, then Marlborough College, and then Edinburgh University, where she studied English literature.
At Edinburgh, she dated JJ Jardine Paterson, and she shared a flat with Ted Innes-Ker, the second son of the Duke of Roxburghe, and George Percy, the oldest son of the Duke of Northumberland.
In 2008, Tatler magazine named her the most eligible bachelorette.
Pippa Middleton has worked part-time in PR for Table Talk, an events catering company, and also works for The Party Times, an offshoot of the Middleton family business, Party Pieces.
Pippa Middleton has served as an ambassador for Too Many Women, which raises money for breast cancer research.
Over the years she has been romantically linked with not only JJ Jardine Paterson, but also Billy More Nesbitt, Simon Youngman, Charlie Gilkes, and Alex Loudon.
In July 2016, it was reported that Pippa Middleton and hedge fund manager James Matthews had got engaged.
In September 2016, Pippa Middleton won a court injunction banning publication of 3,000 photos allegedly hacked from her iCloud account.
Pippa Middleton and James Matthews married on 20 May 2017.


According to Melanie Whaley, poll watcher at Millbrook for the Board of Elections, the final vote count was 1,839; total votes out of 2,893 registrations, for a vote total of 64 percent, which is she said was a high amount. The 1,839 amount was tallied at the close of the election on the machines. When all the votes (ballots) are counted and verified with those of the Board of Elections, the numbers will be reconciled.
Turnout was very heavy on Election Day. Maryanne Herzog, Democratic coordinator, agreed with Whaley that by 1:30 p.m., more people had already cast their votes than had on the previous mid-term election in an entire day. The stream of voters was steady, and at 6 p.m. the parking lot was still full, with cars waiting to park as others voted and left. Young couples came with their children, teaching them at an early age about the voting process; many other people brought their aging parents, and some just parked, voted and ran out to give others a parking space. The excitement was palpable, and the importance of casting a vote was evident.
Collopy has served previously as a trustee from July 2014 to May 2016; he was liaison to the Village Police, and during his tenure the officers trained in the use of NARCAN with the DC Health Commission.
If elected, he said, "I will be an advocate for more resident input on the issues. Finally, I want an increased focus on coordination and consolidation of services with the town of Washington.
McGrane was a first-time candidate who has faithfully attended board meetings, and has often acted as an advocate for other people and their issues.
McGrane has already been involved in village issues, having advocated for the planting of trees in the village; he diligently cares for the garden area on Franklin Avenue at the entrance to the village, taking this upon himself to use his own time and energy and having obtained some financial help from the Tribute Garden.
"I believe in courtesy and respect in local government; I think we need more of that. I also want to help to rectify the village water problem," he said.
McGrane would also like to explore the possibility of 24/7 ambulance and rescue service.


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Distribution System Services Provided by Electric Vehicles: Recent Status, Challenges, and Future Prospects
Nataly Bañol Arias, Seyedmostafa Hashemi Toghroljerdi*, Peter Bach Andersen, Chresten Træholt, Ruben Romero
Center for Electric Power and Energy
Trend-setting countries have promoted or even employed an increased number of electric vehicles (EVs) and other distributed energy resources (DERs) in their power systems. This development has triggered new and increasing challenges in the distribution system planning and operation, whereby the distribution systems must adapt to the increased share of DERs. However, EVs may also offer new opportunities and can be used to support the grid by providing several local and global power- and energy-based services. This paper presents a review and classification of the services potentially available from EVs for distribution systems, referred to as EV distribution system services (EV-DSS). A detailed description of recent services and approaches is given, and an assessment of the maturity of EV-DSS is provided. Moreover, challenges and prospects for future research are identified, considering key topics, such as the design of the market framework, economic assessment, battery degradation, and the impacts of the transmission system operator service provision by EVs on distribution networks. Thus, this paper offers a tool for stakeholders concerning services available from EVs and provides a broad literature framework that can be used as a base for further investigations. It is aligned with the current requirements to move toward the realistic implementations of EV-DSS.
I E E E Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2018.2889439
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Arias, N. B., Hashemi Toghroljerdi, S., Andersen, P. B., Træholt, C., & Romero, R. (2019). Distribution System Services Provided by Electric Vehicles: Recent Status, Challenges, and Future Prospects. I E E E Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 20(12), 4277-4296. https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2018.2889439
Arias, Nataly Bañol ; Hashemi Toghroljerdi, Seyedmostafa ; Andersen, Peter Bach ; Træholt, Chresten ; Romero, Ruben. / Distribution System Services Provided by Electric Vehicles: Recent Status, Challenges, and Future Prospects. In: I E E E Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 2019 ; Vol. 20, No. 12. pp. 4277-4296.
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'Annihilation' Review: Alex Garland Delivers The Best Sci-fi Film Since Arrival
February 26, 2018 June 9, 2018 ~ Zachary Doiron
With plenty of questions on its mind, Annihilation offers a mind-bending trip into The Shimmer
After catching my attention with Ex Machina, Alex Garland's follow up was much anticipated. His stylistic and philosophically eerie sci-fi film was one of the year's best. However, 2016's Arrival had eclipse Garland's status as one of the best sci-fi directors working today. With Annihilation, everything that was great with Ex Machina is back, and Garland has created another sci-fi masterpiece.
Lena (Natalie Portman) hasn't been the same since her husband went missing a year ago. But when he mysteriously arrives home, she is determined to explore precisely what took her husband away for a year. With the help of 3 scientists and one psychologist (Jennifer Jason Leigh), Lena embarks on what may be her final trip.
Annihilation takes a risk in populating its film with a female cast. Sci-fi has always been a male-dominated genre. However, with a newly sparked interest in minority characters (thanks to Wonder Woman and Black Panther), Natalie Portman's Lena fits right in. Her character's conflicted and confused state over her husband's sudden disappearance makes her intriguing from the start. But the film doesn't stop there as it continues to build a well-rounded and broken character with her own problems. Portman gives her best performance since Black Swan and offers Lena a certain self-destruction about her character.
Annihilation's female characters are some of the best in sci-fi – source: Paramount Pictures
Destruction versus change is a huge part of Annihilation's message. Its central characters are all in bad places in their lives which make them the perfect candidates for this seeming suicide mission. Their destructive nature not only give them a reason to participate but it mirrors everyone's self-destructive nature. Our willingness to ignore consequences and continue our destructive ways are perfectly captured in the films beautiful and mysterious location: The Shimmer.
If you had any doubt, Annihilation is just plain gorgeous even more than Ex Machina. Garland finds the perfect blend of CGI and practical effects which make it all the more beautiful. The gasoline-like rainbow effect of The Shimmer create some pretty shots. But it's inside that The Shimmer is really brought to life with a beautiful set design that feels surreal. However, there's also darker aspects of this otherworldly place. What comes to mind is a CGI genetically mutated creature that offers Annihilation's most terrifying scene and one of the best monster movie scenes ever. It speaks to Garland's perfect balance of CGI and practical that often call back to films such as Alien and Predator.
And no doubt, Garland has been watching these two films before making Annihilation. There's plenty of references to Alien, Predator and even Arrival. However, the questions that Garland asks are original and are quite timely. As humans, we find comfort in the familiar, but when it's stripped away, fear takes over even if that change is for the better.
Annihilation has no doubt earned its place among the sci-fi bests. Its heavy philosophical nature will not cater for the mainstream audience, but for people who love intelligent and thinking films, this is one of the best. It pays homage to older and newer sci-fi films while bringing genetic imagery and never before tackled existential questions. Garland had already shown what he was capable of doing with Ex Machina but Annihilation proves he's no one-hit wonder.
Annihilation is now playing in theatres.
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Crowd was strongly behind Volador. Mascara was Devitt's second, Mephisto was Volador's second. Volador took the first with a backcracker, Devitt took the second, and Devitt won a long third fall with the Bloody Sunday. Devitt is the 4th champion.
Devitt's heading back to Japan on Monday, so the CMLL luchadors will have to chase him down there.
Euforia, a 37 year old wrestler and a 22 year veteran, is one win away from being the young star of the year. Or they just want him in the final to make someone look good.
Garza's nominated himself as the next challenger to Mesias. Doesn't quite sound like a TripleMania main event.
Teddy Hart was very involved in the main event.
I'm still not sure who the mystery women was.
Hombre sin Nombre seems much thinner.
Crowd did not look good on fan photos I saw; they did herd people around enough so it'll look OK on TV.
Tonight is the latest Todo x el Todo show, headlined by the Hijo del Santo vs Angel Blanco Jr. vs Hijo del Solitario mask match. Almost all believe Angel Blanco Jr. is losing his mask. The only source of debate is who will win it. Solitario taking the mask may make him a stronger challenger for down the line (though it's far from sure they'll do that match), but most people are probably showing up to see Hijo del Santo win.
El Hijo del Santo talks about his career with MedioTiempo in hype for his show. There's useful stuff in there, and there's also ludicrousness stuff. Santo says he had success because he never acted like a star. Santo implies WWE only brought in Rey Misterio Jr. because he left Super Astros (and he would've had the same success.) Santo claims he'd go back to Arena Mexico is everyone in charge got fired. Santo would actually go back to Arena Mexico today if they paid him what he wanted. His son is training with Solar, and may debut with a different name.
By the next update, there will also be the AAA taping in Pachuca, and the first post-Familia de Tijuana show for Perros del Mal.
LuchaWorld has Alfredo on CMLL 03/03/12.
Mil Mascaras has no plans to retire.
Odd for an announcer to be wrestling in the main event, but welcome back Dragon Rojo.
Atlantis & Triton look like the strong favorites for the block (and tournament) win. Diamante & Valiente are the only team that looks like they have a chance.
Daga Dyanmic Dojo show, so Daga's expecting to be back by this time. Bandillero is from Chicago's GALLI, their current champ.


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Your Next Favourite Superfood: The Baobab
First there were blueberries, then there was the avocado explosion, after that came chia seeds – it's probably fair to say that health-conscious food lovers are partial to a new superfood trend or two. Now, allow us to introduce your next big obsession: baobab. A hard-shelled fruit consumed as a powder, it provides more vitamin C per tablespoon than an orange and contains high levels of many other key nutrients.
It seems perplexing then, that despite the baobab tree having been a medicinal staple in numerous African countries for centuries – being credited with treating everything from diarrhoea to smallpox, and holding strong superstitious significance – the baobab fruit remains relatively unknown to large swathes of the UK population. In fact, according to a survey of over 2000 individuals conducted by The Grocer, less than a quarter of respondents had ever heard of it.
Now, things appear to be changing, with online supermarket Ocado having registered a 27% increase in demand for the fruit in 2018. Suddenly, smoothies are packed, porridge are dusted, juices are based on it and yoghurts flavoured with it. So, is the baobab really the superfood it's cracked up to be?
Sweet but tart, with a zingy hit, something akin to a sharper than usual mango.
What are the nutritional benefits of baobab?
A 10g serving of baobab powder – that's about one tablespoon – provides over half of your recommended daily allowance of vitamin C. But that's not all; it also contains twice as much calcium as milk, as well as high levels of iron, magnesium and potassium. What's more, it also contains high levels of polyphenols, powerful antioxidants that work to reduce inflammation.
Impressively, early research from Dr Shelly Coe, a Senior Lecturer in Nutrition at Oxford Brooks University, has concluded that the fruit may also have an impact on regulating blood glucose levels, and "could potentially help us to reduce the likelihood of developing diabetes". Sounds pretty great, all in all.
Are there any drawbacks?
Despite all the goodness, you may want to use it sparingly – per 100g, baobab contains more soluble fibre than psyllium, the active ingredient used in laxatives.
Why haven't you heard about it before?
It's fair to say that the baobab isn't exactly the prettiest fruit on the planet. In fact, it's a little bit ugly, despite – ironically – being a product of the iconic baobab tree. Add in the fact that it commonly comes in powdered form in the UK, and you've got a particularly unphotogenic food for an image-conscious age. While you might think that for health-conscious foodies the external appearance of a superfood will rarely be of huge consequence - after all, chia seeds aren't exactly all that exciting – it has been touted one of the reasons for its relative absence from shop shelves.
Traditionally the preserve of health shops and hippy cafes, that's not to say it hasn't made a wider market appearance here and there. The Eden Project, for example, has been selling baobab ice cream for years – and take it from the former ice cream lady (that's me, by the way), it's delicious.Try it!


Amsterdam - Where to Stay / Go?
I just booked a trip to dam, 10th-13th June. It will be my first time and I would really love some advice on where to stay? I'm going with an American girl who is intent on staying in a cheap hostel, but I'd personally prefer a cheap hotel, if they exist.
She doesn't want to spend more than £30 a night, probably a bit of flexibility on that though. Can anyone offer me some suggestions? Ideally specific places to look at but more generally I'd love to know the best part of the city to stay in within the price range.
Also any tips at all on places to see, clubs to go, shrooms, weed, etc would be great.
I have done a search but it yielded pretty dated results and still didn't answer my questions.
This is weird, I'm going on exactly the same dates as you.
Haha, where are you staying/what's your plan? You're not flying easyjet from stansted are you? That would be freaky.
We are flying easyjet! but from Gatwick... We're staying in the Flying Pig Downtown and our general plan is to get high look at naked ladies, how about you? These coincidences are unnerving.
We're like a 20 min tram from the centre, our plan is to get high, possibly take shrooms. I want to hit some jokes clubs but the American will probably want to do lame pub crawls, we'll see. Also some cultural stuff. The highlight may well be shrooms though.
Yo shrooms are illegal in Amsterdam.. do you have any idea on where to buy them in amsterdam? Do coffee shops still sell them?
Hill street blues: Best coffee shop in the city. Hands down. It's the one where the inside is COVERED in graffiti. Go downstaris and there's these epically comfy sofas with double doors open to the river... Their brownies = awesome.
Places to avoid: Torture mueseum: Biggest load of balls, Paid a load of money to go in and spend 15 minutes and we did the entire place and got bored.
Just look out for the shops with strictly no magic mushrooms sold here signs in the window.
Anyone know of any cheap hotels, I want a flight there in the next few days, but hotels are at like £200 for 2 nights?
Try what we did www.airbnb.com this was the only cheap method which didn't involve sleeping in a room full of randoms. I'm hoping it will be more interesting/immersive than a standard hostel/hotel room.
Shrooms are illegal to grow. Cannabis isnt.
A nice, comfy place to stay in Amsterdam.
(1) You are wrong; it is illegal to grow cannabis in the Netherlands. Tolerated? Yes ! Legal? no.
(2) I am not entirely convinced that the OP is a keen horticulturist and is intending to visit the Netherlands in order to grow some plants.
Hahaha sounds very dubious. I really hope the shroom thing works out, can anyone tell me just how difficult they are to find (shrooms or truffles)..
ah yes the Banana Bar, i remember it well. Harry **** the funny doorman luring passers by in with "Come in boysh its not shmelly yet".
Shrooms are easy enough to find. There are head shops all over the red light district selling them just look out for the signs saying no magic mushrooms here.
What area of Amsterdam and where to stay?
What happens in the Red Light District?
nobody to go on holiday with... going alone?
Best place to travel now Europe for teen couple?


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8 Tips For Getting Through Awkward Talks With Your Teen
As our kids get older, it's time to have conversations that make us uncomfortable, from 'the talk' to drinking and personal hygiene. Here's how to approach those topics—and get your teens to open up.
By Lambeth Hochwald March 28, 2019
If it feels like your heart-to-hearts with your teen have ground to a halt, take solace in the fact that this is very much par for the course at this age and stage.
Blame it on the teenage brain that's going through incredibly important changes that ultimately help prepare kids to function in the adult world, says Teodora Pavkovic, a psychologist and parenting coach in New York City. "Not only does this have a psychological impact, but a physical one, too, which can be really scary for kids," she says.
Get ready for these developmental changes to take several years to shake out.
"The brain won't stop going through this rollercoaster of a ride until kids are about twenty-five and brain change stabilizes," Pavkovic says.
To help us navigate through this awkward time, we asked top experts to sketch out what kids are going through at this age and then offer some key tips for getting your child to actually open up and talk about even the most uncomfortable of topics.
Keep in Mind, It's a Phase
The teenage years are the time when kids are developing their own unique identity, says Stephanie Nilva, executive director of Day One New York, an organization in New York City that counsels survivors of intimate partner violence. "At the same time, their personalities haven't been fully formed. Remember: It's their role and responsibility to be testing boundaries, to be exploring, to be figuring out what their identity is." Given this, you want to try to be as open as possible to talking to your teen about even the most awkward of topics.
Start Young
If your kids haven't hit the teen stage quite yet, here's some good news: Now's the time to build trust with them. "Make sure the children in your household feel comfortable talking to you," Nilva says. Then, when they're older, make sure when you're thinking about discipline or accountability, what comes first is your overall concern with their health and safety. "In other words, urge them to talk to you even if you're upset that your teen violated an understanding you had whether it's about violating a curfew or anything else—that trust is what's most important."
It's Okay if Your Teen Prefers to Talk to Peers
Another change that comes with parenting teens—and it's one that can be quite shocking after all the years of closeness—is that your kids may prefer to talk to their peers instead of you, suggests Amy Alamar, a parenting expert in Avon, CT, and author of The Parenting Project: Build Extraordinary Relationships with Your Child Through Daily Conversation. "It can be awkward to talk to your teen if the conversation feels forced or inauthentic," she says. "It's natural for teens to prefer to talk to their peers and keep some things private. That's okay and healthy for your teen but don't give up. You always want to keep working on better ways to communicate one-on-one with your teen."
Be Direct About Hygiene
The best way to talk about just about anything with your teen is to be open and direct, Alamar says, and this comes into play, especially, when it comes to an awkward topic such as personal hygiene. "Don't beat around the bush," Alamar says. "Of course, with hygiene and other touchy topics you'll make the most impact if you broach it in a positive or lighthearted way and avoid sarcasm. You can say things like, 'This is normal,' 'Everyone has body odor,' or 'Have you thought about using deodorant?' Help your teen to see that this is a state of humanity and not a reflection on who they are as a person. Another thing you can do at a time like this is to talk about your own experience and share when things have been awkward and how you dealt with them."
Speak Up About Vaping and Drugs
When it comes to the topic of alcohol, smoking cigarettes (or pot), vaping, or drug use of any kind, you have two goals: Be clear about why you're concerned and don't shelter your child from the subject. "It's better your child learns about risky behavior from you as it offers you the ability to share your values and expectations," Alamar says. "It also shows your child that you are a trusted adult they can come to and they shouldn't be afraid to. It's very possible that your teen has experimented with vaping, drugs, or alcohol or at least been exposed to it. Rather than judge them and come down hard with punishment, open up the conversation."
While this doesn't mean you should avoid consequences, Alamar suggests the conversation should be more about the experience than punishment. "Your goal is to help your child to understand the real dangers and your concerns," she says. "Listen to find out why your child chose to do this or is thinking about it. Ask questions like 'Why do you like it?' and help your child to find alternative behaviors and/or help him or her to feel comfortable coming to you."
'The Talk' Looks Different from When We Were Teens
When it comes to talking to your kids about sex, the easiest to-do tip is to use the environment around you for these conversations, like a poster you come across, a song you hear, a character from a film, etc., Pavkovic suggests. "Ask your teen very open-ended questions—imagine that you are their university professor and they are your grad student and you want their thoughts on a subject," she says. "The two most important things here are that one: they feel you are emotionally calm and stable while you speak to them, and two: they feel your respect for their subjective experience."
In other words, time your talk. "Don't start these conversations…right after coming back from work exhausted or right after finding inappropriate texts on your child's phone," she adds. "You need to be the stabilizing factor for them—remember there's a storm going on inside of them."
If You Don't Like Your Child's Friends, Be Supportive Anyway
Remember: The core struggle for teens is, again, their immeasurable need to belong to their peer group, Alamar says. "This means you should try to support friendships as best you can so your child can learn to have intimate relationships and build trust outside of just the immediate family," she says. "If you want to raise an independent adult who can sustain meaningful relationships, then you have to offer opportunities for your child to explore relationships—even ones you are suspect of."
If you judge your teen's friends, she may take personal offense so tread lightly. "If you're having trouble accepting your teen's friends, consider inviting them to your home or see if you can get to know their families," Alamar suggests. "In the end, your child is going to choose their friends, and the more you judge, the less likely they are to come to you with questions, concerns, or things to celebrate. They should have the opportunity to experience great friendships they've cultivated on their own and also experience disappointments and conflicts."
Remember: You Won't Have All the Answers
When you're parenting during this phase, give yourself permission to be vulnerable, Pavkovic says. "Be kind to yourself by going into this phase knowing that you don't know all the answers," she says. "The important thing is to get the conversation going and to be able to say, 'You know what, this is a tough one and I may not know what to tell you, but let's talk it out anyway.'"
It's also key to keep your child's strengths in mind. "This is your most powerful tool," she says. "As you try to help them with each challenge they face, if you know their strengths you can coach them through using these strengths to resolve these issues."
No pressure, but the steps you take now will forever make a difference in your teen's life. "What you are also doing then is not only helping your child make healthier decisions, but you are hitting the parental bingo by teaching them how to help themselves once they are living out there in the world without you," Pavkovic says.
Author: Lambeth Hochwald is a New York City-based journalist covering trends, relationships, and life in New York City. See More


Pastor Bob's Musings: ORDAIN WHO?
All this talk about ordination – and particularly Alan's comment about serving on a nominating committee got me to thinking. We Presbyterians – and me maybe more than most – tend to talk about the controversial stuff about nominations and ordinations. So I'm going to use this blog to talk about some basic but very important stuff about nominations. If you find it to be first grade nominating committee stuff that's okay.
1. Nominating committees seek to do the work of God. The members better take their task seriously.
2. If you are the pastor you are NOT A MEMBER OF THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE! That means, if you value your position in the church you serve you do not suggest names to the nominating committee. After a while people tend to see this as an attempt to manipulate the process; i.e. the pastor trying to get his or her cronies on the session. This is a very good way to become unemployed.
3. Nominating someone to serve on the session, the deacons or the trustees is not a good method to encourage someone to start attending worship again. You will find that a person chosen to serve in the hope that they will start attending worship will attend neither worship nor the meetings of the board.
4. Being a deacon is not a way to earn your way onto the session. Being a deacon is a special calling requiring particular skills and traits. These include compassion, the ability to listen, knowledge of how to serve the poor and other skills and traits listed in the Book of Order. Being an elder requires a different skill set. Some elders should never serve as deacons. Some deacons should never serve as elders. There are a few saints who can do both.
5. New members of the congregation, particularly those who have never been Presbyterian before should not be nominated to serve on the session. Session meetings can be very messy. Sessions have to talk about difficult subjects. It can be like making legislation in Congress which is like making sausage. A new member most probably is not ready to hear some of the stuff said at a session meeting or to observe the process. On the other hand a new member who has served on the session in another Presbyterian Church may be a great elder bringing experience and an outside viewpoint that the session needs.
6. Variety is a good thing on the session. People from different backgrounds, of different racial-ethnic groups and different personalities help a session to make good decisions that are informed.
7. Conflict at a session meeting is not necessarily a bad thing. How the conflict plays itself out, however, is very important. Having someone (who may or may not be the pastor) who knows how to manage conflict on the session is critical.
8. A congregation that elects the same old people who have always served on the session time after time will never look at its situation in new ways.
9. One of the primary tasks of the session is to tell the pastor when s/he is wrong. A pastor will discover that at least 90% of the time when the session tells her/him "No" that the session is right. This is because the members of session, for the most part, have been around a lot longer than the pastor and know where the bodies are buried. Nominating people who have the courage to tell the pastor s/he is wrong is very important.
10. Never nominate a gossip to serve on the session. The story spread throughout the community may be your own.
11. People who are nominated to serve are not guaranteed election. Although rarely used (we don't want to offend people) the congregation always has the right to nominate people from the floor. The person nominated from the floor may be elected. A person who does not understand this process should not be nominated. Alas the nominating committee usually discovers the person who does not understand the process when the person is not elected gets their feelings hurt and never comes to church again.
12. Anyone who things that these are just practical statements and not theological statements doesn't understand the Church, theology or human nature.
You forgot #13: Don't nominate the gays.
13. Don't nominate someone just because one of their relatives made a good elder or deacon. Spiritual gifts are not genetic and neither do they suddenly appear when one gets married.


After a seemingly endless campaign season that has seen shocking and seemingly surreal twists and turns, the 2016 election is now just days away. While most of the media attention has been focused on Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, there will also be very important votes on marijuana proposals in nine different states.
From a social perspective, gaining medical and/or legalization in all or most of these nine states would be a big step in the right direction for the marijuana legalization movement. However, from a trading perspective, the vote could be a dangerous catalyst for the market.
Marijuana stocks have been on quite a tear this year as investors have high hopes about the election results. As of late October, these stocks had averaged a 137% gain in 2016, according to the Marijuana Index, which tracks the movement of marijuana stocks.
Excitement about the outcome of the election is certainly high among marijuana traders. In fact, according to Marijuana Index Vice President Dan Nicholls, it may be a bit too high.
Seasoned traders know that the biggest market moves related to a major news catalyst, like an election, often occur prior to the event. Hence the old Wall Street adage that traders should "buy the rumor and sell the news." For marijuana stocks, the rumor could be that marijuana will win the majority of its legalization votes. However once the vote takes place, traders nervously sitting on huge gains will no longer have a catalyst to drive further upside. Conditions seem ripe for a significant post-election sell-off, even if marijuana stocks initially surge higher following the election results.
On the other hand, if marijuana legalization gets voted down in a number of states, it's easy to imagine that loss of momentum could be devastating for the marijuana industry. Traders should be aware that these marijuana stocks may be in a lose-lose situation in the days following Election Day.
To make matters worse, almost all stocks with significant exposure to the marijuana business aren't listed on major U.S. stock exchanges. Popular marijuana stocks like Zoned Properties Inc (OTCMKTS: ZDPY), AeroGrow International, Inc. (OTCMKTS: AERO) and CANOPY GROWTH CORP COM NPV (OTCMKTS: TWMJF) all trade over-the-counter in the U.S., meaning they are not subject to the level of regulatory oversight as NYSE or Nasdaq-listed stocks are. In addition, many of these stocks have limited liquidity, making them extremely volatile.
Finally, it's important to remember that, while marijuana may be legalized on a state level in certain regions of the country, it is still illegal at a federal level. Until federal law changes, these businesses will remain risky long-term investments.
Marijuana stock traders should probably cash out their big gains in these stocks at some point in the coming days. The safest play would be to lock in gains on or ahead of Election Day, but any immediate post-election run-up in these stocks should probably be sold as well.


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May 15, 2021 // National
COVID-19 takes toll on Indian Church leaders
By Anto Akkara
THRISSUR, India (CNS) — Amid thousands dying daily of COVID-19, even in rural areas of India, the pandemic has taken a heavy toll on Church leaders.
Dozens of priests, scores of nuns and hundreds of laypeople have died during the second surge since mid-April.
Bishop Basil Bhuriya, 65, of Jhabua became the first serving bishop victim of COVID-19 when he died at St. Francis Hospital at Indore May 6. Retired Archbishop Antony Anandarayar of Pondicherry died of COVID-19 May 4.
"We lost a young bishop ordained only five years ago," Archbishop Leo Cornelius of Bhopal, who heads the Madhya Pradesh Council of Catholic Bishops, told Catholic News Service May 7 while returning from the funeral of the Bishop Bhuriya.
A statue of Christ is pictured over the casket of a person who died after contracting COVID-19 before the burial at a graveyard in New Delhi April 29, 2021. (CNS photo/Adnan Abidi, Reuters)
Though Bishop Bhuriya had been treated in different hospitals for more than three weeks and had tested negative for the virus, Archbishop Cornelius said, he had a problem with oxygen levels and died of a heart attack due to the impact of COVID-19.
"We could not take his body to Jhabua (100 miles away) and so, he was buried at the (Divine Word) cemetery near Indore," he added.
"I have lost one of my young priests, two nuns and over three dozen Catholics," Archbishop Cornelius said of the Bhopal archdiocese, which has more than 15,000 Catholics. "Most of them died (because of) failure to get hospital admission on time and erratic oxygen supply in the hospitals."
The first big headline with the deaths in the Church came April 17, when five Jesuits died in different parts of Gujarat state. This was followed by the death of 14 priests due to COVID-19 in different parts of India April 19-23, Matters India reported.
Among the dead were former vicar generals and provincial superiors of different congregations and nuns working in Catholic hospitals and other institutions.
On April 25, Msgr. Prasan Pradhan, vicar general of Bhubaneswar archdiocese, died of COVID-19.
People lower the body of a man who died of COVID-19 into a grave at a cemetery in Ahmedabad, India, May 3, 2021. (CNS photo/Amit Dave, Reuters)
The Archdiocese of Thrissur was stunned when half a dozen retired priests died of COVID-19 May 1-2 weekend. All of them were infected at the archdiocesan convalescent home, situated in the compound of archdiocesan medical college.
Redemptorist Father Mathew Abraham, director general of Catholic Health Association of India, told CNS, "Due to shortage of oxygen and ventilators, several of our hospitals are not able to treat COVID patients."
"Some doctors and nurses are not willing to work (in) the COVID ward. Hence sister-doctors and sister-nurses are working throughout the night and day," said the priest, who had been hospitalized and has recovered from COVID-19.
Several state high courts have criticized federal and state governments for failure to provide adequate oxygen supply for hospital patients.
The government death toll passed 3,920 May 6. Media reports say the government death toll is underreported because it excludes counts from cremation grounds.


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Q: XoR two Hexadecimal So I am trying to find the key of one time-pad and I have 10 ciphertexts.(the plaintext letters are encoded as 8-bit ASCII
and the given ciphertexts are written in hex; and I'm using python 2.7)
the idea is that when you xor a character with a space the character gets uppercase or lowercase, and when you xor x with x it returns zero so when I xor two character of to ciphertexts I xor the key with the key and the message character with the message character.
so I wrote this code for xoring two hex.
 def hex_to_text(s):
     string=binascii.unhexlify(s)
     return string

def XoR (a,b):
    a="0x"+a
    b="0x"+b
    xor=chr(int(a,16) ^ int(b,16))
    return hex_to_text(xor[2:])

when the key is an even number it the xor function works correct but when the key is odd it does not return the same character uppercase or lowercase.
what am i doing wrong?

A: a general idea on how to solve this, disregarding python:
lets start with saying a char is 8 bit ascii
if you look at the first char form the first ciphertext, you will probably notice that it is outside of the ascii values for plain text which one could say are a-z 0x61-0x7a A-Z 0x41-0x5a
there is a high probability that you only have to take values into account that, xored with this char, make it something inside the specified value ranges
the same holds for the other 9 texts and their respective first char
and, interestingly, the list of possible key values for this char has to hold for every ciphertext with the same key, so each and every ciphertext we look at reduces the range further
now, what can you do with this approach?
write a function that takes 2 parameters (bytes) and tests if the result of a xor falls into the specified range, if yes, return 1, if no return 0
now make 3 nested loops to call this function
outer loop (X) goes through the char positions in the ciphertext
middle loop (Y) goes from 0 to 255
inner loop (Z) goes through the ciphertexts
in the inner loop call your function with parameter 1 being the X character of your Z ciphertext and parameter 2 being Y
now what to do with the result:
you want to have a dictionary/lookup table that per position X holds an array of 255 elements
the index on these elements will be Y
the value for these elements will be the sum of your function results for all Z
in the end what you will have is for every position in your ciphertext, an array that tells you for each keybyte how likely it is the key ... the higher the value the higher the probability of being the key byte
then for each position in your ciphertext order the possible keybytes by their probability and partition them by probability
then take a chunk of all ciphertexts, lets say the first 8 to 16 chars, and calculate the plaintext for all keys in the highest probability group
store key chunk and plaintext chunk together in a list
now test your list of possible plaintexts against a common dictionary, and again rate them 1 if they contain words that can be found in a dictionary and 0 otherwise ... sum up for all different ciphertexts ... (or use another metric to rate how good a key is)
order the key chunks by the highest value (read: the key that potentialy solved the most chunks across all ciphertexts comes first and the one that produced garbage comes last) and continue with the next chunk ...
repeat this with bigger chunks, selecting not keybytes but the next smaller size of key chunks, until your chunksize gets to the ciphertext size...
of course this is an automated way to find a likely key, and there is some implementation work until you have a completely automated solution. if you just want to solve this 10 ciphertexts, you can abort the approach after the likely keybytes or the first chunks, and do the rest by hand ...

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They, Them, Their Options
October 23, 2017 October 24, 2017 Christopher Robertson
California made history last week as the first state in the union to allow for a third-gender option, "non-binary," across all state documents. Not to be outdone by Oregon, which recently gave individuals the choice of "X" as a gender-neutral identifier on driver's license, California extended this policy across all of its state-issued identity registrations, including driver's licenses, state ID cards, and even birth certificates. Not only that, the bill simplifies the process for transgender people to change their gender identity on legal paperwork.
This was a long time coming, for two reasons. First, the collective American consciousness has seen a spur in queer-oriented changes in public policy over the past few decades — marriage equality, workplace protections, and hate crime statutes among others — but these shifts have traditionally protected sexual minorities far more than gender minorities. Gender minority groups still suffer higher rates of harassment and violence than do sexual minorities, and many states still lack workplace protections for transgender people. Second, the bill evidences the impact of advocacy and activism in a time when the current administration seeks to force these protections all the way back to the 1970s. The bill represents marked progress for non-binary people just months after the Trump administration walked back Title IX protections for transgender people and removed them entirely from the armed forces.
Critics of the bill, naturally, crawled out from the woodworks as soon as Rep. Atkins introduced SB 179 to the California House floor. Some pointed out legitimate logistical concerns, such as prison placement and searches, and collegiate sports team regulations. The new bill complicates issues where gender is the determinant factor in the decision-making process. This necessitates future revisions. Most critics, however, rely on the same outdated misappropriations of biological sex determination and a blanket mistrust of non-binary people, to reject the bill. Despite a lack of evidence, the opposition warned of deceitful abuses of the system, particularly against women and children, and of the litigation nightmares to come when people are no longer allowed to assume someone's gender.
The same stubborn fallacy pervades any political discussion of gender — the notion that gender and sex are inextricably linked, and to separate the two would be a bearded, dress-wearing monkey wrench in the cogs of everyday life. Such beliefs stem from a gross misappropriation of science. Armchair geneticists preach that the sex chromosomes of a human determines gender, and that any belief otherwise is a direct attack to biology. Science is not supposed to be that simple; for example, a person can be assigned female even with XY chromosomes because they lack expression of the SRY gene. And, while we're entertaining the argument that one's biology is more important to consider than one's own experiences, it is true that other biological factors beyond expression of X and Y chromosomes define gender identity. According to Scientific American, "the brain structures of the trans people were more similar in some respects to the brains of their experienced gender than those of their natal gender." Who is to say that chromosomes are more important in classification than brains?
This archaic ideology finds its roots in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Then, western culture viewed sexual and gender minorities as victims of mental illness to be studied, diagnosed, and reformed. Though medicalization no longer represents the consensus among experts, society at large still uses this connection to delegitimize the viewpoints of non-binary people by feeding into society's fear of mentally ill people. Instead of seeing a person seeking to match their gender expression to their identity, these strict followers of eighth-grade biology see a predator lurking in the Starbucks bathroom.
Normally, we align these views with conservative families desperately trying to pray the gay away. But the lack of progress made on this issue before now, especially in such a left-leaning state as California, evidences the diversity of these beliefs. Unfortunately, traditional conceptions of gender also abound among leftist groups, even those whose histories braid conversations of gender with political discourse. Trans exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs), gay people, and lesbians have all historically excluded non-binary people from their calls for societal change solely for the sake of political expediency. And the effects have only multiplied with time. Self-serving arguments divided these previously-allied groups by prioritizing assimilation of middle-class women, gay men, and lesbians over systemic change. Though early queer activists and feminists relied upon each other, the divergent evolution of their movements now situate non-binary people outside the interests of groups that ought to include them.
As a state entity, UC San Diego will no doubt find itself subject to similar practices in the near future. Currently, its documents request preferred pronouns but lack a third option for gender identification, instead opting for the usual binary of "M" and "F." This new bill, however, signifies much more than those two letters ever could. By incorporating other options for gender identity, UCSD can bring attention to, and even alleviate, the stress that comes from forcing non-binary students and faculty into a foreign gender binary. Not only that, UCSD can encourage discussion and recognition of a group so often excluded from history by zealotous apostles of "science."
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Harold A. Maio says:
—-feeding into society's fear of "the" mentally ill
You have made a not at all unusual jump above, "the" mentally ill. Earlier in out history it was "the" Blacks. (They are identical rhetoric.)
Please be more cautious.


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Understanding air pollution from space
Sun January 9th, 2022
Julia C. Keller | School of Science
Read this at MIT News
Climate change and air pollution are interlocking crises that threaten human health. Reducing emissions of some air pollutants can help achieve climate goals, and some climate mitigation efforts can in turn improve air quality.
One part of MIT Professor Arlene Fiore's research program is to investigate the fundamental science in understanding air pollutants — how long they persist and move through our environment to affect air quality.
"We need to understand the conditions under which pollutants, such as ozone, form. How much ozone is formed locally and how much is transported long distances?" says Fiore, who notes that Asian air pollution can be transported across the Pacific Ocean to North America. "We need to think about processes spanning local to global dimensions."
Fiore, the Peter H. Stone and Paola Malanotte Stone Professor in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, analyzes data from on-the-ground readings and from satellites, along with models, to better understand the chemistry and behavior of air pollutants — which ultimately can inform mitigation strategies and policy setting.
A global concern
At the United Nations' most recent climate change conference, COP26, air quality management was a topic discussed over two days of presentations.
"Breathing is vital. It's life. But for the vast majority of people on this planet right now, the air that they breathe is not giving life, but cutting it short," said Sarah Vogel, senior vice president for health at the Environmental Defense Fund, at the COP26 session.
"We need to confront this twin challenge now through both a climate and clean air lens, of targeting those pollutants that warm both the air and harm our health."
Earlier this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) updated its global air quality guidelines it had issued 15 years earlier for six key pollutants including ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and carbon monoxide (CO). The new guidelines are more stringent based on what the WHO stated is the "quality and quantity of evidence" of how these pollutants affect human health. WHO estimates that roughly 7 million premature deaths are attributable to the joint effects of air pollution.
"We've had all these health-motivated reductions of aerosol and ozone precursor emissions. What are the implications for the climate system, both locally but also around the globe? How does air quality respond to climate change? We study these two-way interactions between air pollution and the climate system," says Fiore.
But fundamental science is still required to understand how gases, such as ozone and nitrogen dioxide, linger and move throughout the troposphere — the lowermost layer of our atmosphere, containing the air we breathe.
"We care about ozone in the air we're breathing where we live at the Earth's surface," says Fiore. "Ozone reacts with biological tissue, and can be damaging to plants and human lungs. Even if you're a healthy adult, if you're out running hard during an ozone smog event, you might feel an extra weight on your lungs."
Telltale signs from space
Ozone is not emitted directly, but instead forms through chemical reactions catalyzed by radiation from the sun interacting with nitrogen oxides — pollutants released in large part from burning fossil fuels—and volatile organic compounds. However, current satellite instruments cannot sense ground-level ozone.
"We can't retrieve surface- or even near-surface ozone from space," says Fiore of the satellite data, "although the anticipated launch of a new instrument looks promising for new advances in retrieving lower-tropospheric ozone". Instead, scientists can look at signatures from other gas emissions to get a sense of ozone formation. "Nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde are a heavy focus of our research because they serve as proxies for two of the key ingredients that go on to form ozone in the atmosphere."
To understand ozone formation via these precursor pollutants, scientists have gathered data for more than two decades using spectrometer instruments aboard satellites that measure sunlight in ultraviolet and visible wavelengths that interact with these pollutants in the Earth's atmosphere — known as solar backscatter radiation.
Satellites, such as NASA's Aura, carry instruments like the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI). OMI, along with European-launched satellites such as the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) and the Scanning Imaging Absorption spectroMeter for Atmospheric CartograpHY (SCIAMACHY), and the newest generation TROPOspheric Monitoring instrument (TROPOMI), all orbit the Earth, collecting data during daylight hours when sunlight is interacting with the atmosphere over a particular location.
In a recent paper from Fiore's group, former graduate student Xiaomeng Jin (now a postdoc at the University of California at Berkeley), demonstrated that she could bring together and "beat down the noise in the data," as Fiore says, to identify trends in ozone formation chemistry over several U.S. metropolitan areas that "are consistent with our on-the-ground understanding from in situ ozone measurements."
"This finding implies that we can use these records to learn about changes in surface ozone chemistry in places where we lack on-the-ground monitoring," says Fiore. Extracting these signals by stringing together satellite data — OMI, GOME, and SCIAMACHY — to produce a two-decade record required reconciling the instruments' differing orbit days, times, and fields of view on the ground, or spatial resolutions.
Currently, spectrometer instruments aboard satellites are retrieving data once per day. However, newer instruments, such as the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer launched in February 2020 by the National Institute of Environmental Research in the Ministry of Environment of South Korea, will monitor a particular region continuously, providing much more data in real time.
Over North America, the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution Search (TEMPO) collaboration between NASA and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, led by Kelly Chance of Harvard University, will provide not only a stationary view of the atmospheric chemistry over the continent, but also a finer-resolution view — with the instrument recording pollution data from only a few square miles per pixel (with an anticipated launch in 2022).
"What we're very excited about is the opportunity to have continuous coverage where we get hourly measurements that allow us to follow pollution from morning rush hour through the course of the day and see how plumes of pollution are evolving in real time," says Fiore.
Data for the people
Providing Earth-observing data to people in addition to scientists — namely environmental managers, city planners, and other government officials — is the goal for the NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (HAQAST).
Since 2016, Fiore has been part of HAQAST, including collaborative "tiger teams" — projects that bring together scientists, nongovernment entities, and government officials — to bring data to bear on real issues.
For example, in 2017, Fiore led a tiger team that provided guidance to state air management agencies on how satellite data can be incorporated into state implementation plans (SIPs). "Submission of a SIP is required for any state with a region in non-attainment of U.S. National Ambient Air Quality Standards to demonstrate their approach to achieving compliance with the standard," says Fiore. "What we found is that small tweaks in, for example, the metrics we use to convey the science findings, can go a long way to making the science more usable, especially when there are detailed policy frameworks in place that must be followed."
Now, in 2021, Fiore is part of two tiger teams announced by HAQAST in late September. One team is looking at data to address environmental justice issues, by providing data to assess communities disproportionately affected by environmental health risks. Such information can be used to estimate the benefits of governmental investments in environmental improvements for disproportionately burdened communities. The other team is looking at urban emissions of nitrogen oxides to try to better quantify and communicate uncertainties in the estimates of anthropogenic sources of pollution.
"For our HAQAST work, we're looking at not just the estimate of the exposure to air pollutants, or in other words their concentrations," says Fiore, "but how confident are we in our exposure estimates, which in turn affect our understanding of the public health burden due to exposure. We have stakeholder partners at the New York Department of Health who will pair exposure datasets with health data to help prioritize decisions around public health.
"I enjoy working with stakeholders who have questions that require science to answer and can make a difference in their decisions." Fiore says.
Story image: Arlene Fiore, the Peter H. Stone and Paola Malanotte Stone Professor in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT, uses satellite data to understand ozone smog. Photo credit: Steph Stevens


CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. -- The man who used a hammer to break out the sunroof of a burning car and drag a man to safety over the weekend is talking to CBS 6 News about what happened.
"In that moment there wasn't a lot of thinking -- just reacting," Aaron Parks said about jumping into action when he spotted the single-vehicle accident along the Powhite Parkway just before 3 a.m. Sunday.
Parks, along with several other good Samaritans, pulled over to the side of the road after they spotted the burning car.
"We just heard the guy in the car screaming, so we did everything we could do to get him out," Parks explained. "I am no hero."
Parks then grabbed a hammer from his trunk and used it to smash out the glass in the burning car's sunroof so the man trapped inside could be pulled to safety.
"I was lucky enough to have the hammer. But my friend and another passerby were crucial in helping to get him out," Parks posted on the WTVR CBS 6 Facebook page. "The flames were intense. He didn't have 15 more seconds to spare."
Devon Farmer, who also aided in the rescue, said a minute or two after they got the driver out of the car, there was a small explosion and the flames became even more intense.
Jaime Shay, the first person on the accident scene, told CBS 6 News that he flagged Parks down initially.
"Those guys that pulled him out saved his life," Tara Courtland said.
Courtland also pulled over after Parks and his friend, Mike Olsen, pulled the male victim from the car. Courtland tried to keep the victim calm as he realized the gravity of what was had just happened.
"I just kept telling him he was going to be OK. He was covered in oil," Courtland said.
Officials told CBS 6 News Monday afternoon that cause of the crash remains under investigation.
The male victim remains hospitalized at VCU Medical Center. At last check Monday, he was listed in serious but stable condition.
This man is humble, which is a very respectable trait although rare in today's society. I can imagine that the victim is very grateful and won't forget what Aaron did. We need more caring people like him in this cold cruel world that we live in!


Robert L. McDougall was instrumental in the establishment of the Institute for Canadian Studies, and the introduction of the first graduate studies program at Carleton University in 1957.
After World War II, McDougall returned home from Sicily and the Netherlands where he had fought with the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, and promptly completed the requirements for his doctoral degree. McDougall joined the Department of English at Carleton and became highly involved in academic life. McDougall participated in university government as a member of the Senate, and academically by publishing several volumes of poetry and literary criticism.


This is a dessert you can make ahead and still serve hot! Just roll white bread around a sweetened cream cheese filling, dip in egg and cinnamon sugar, and freeze. Bake frozen and serve immediately.
In a bowl combine the cinnamon with 1 cup of the sugar and set aside.
In a large bowl cream together the softened butter or margarine, cream cheese, egg yolks and the remaining 1/2 cup sugar. Spread this mixture on the pieces of bread and roll them up. Brush each roll with the melted butter or margarine and roll in the cinnamon sugar mixture. Place rollups seam side down on a lightly greased cookie sheet, cover tightly with plastic wrap or aluminum foil and freeze.
30 minutes before baking, preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Do not thaw the rolls before baking. Remove rolls from the freezer, uncover and bake for 15 minutes at 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Serve hot.