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Dietitians' Top Tips for Back to School
By Ashley Welch, Irish Examiner Monday August 23rd 2021
Back to school can be a stressful time for both kids and parents alike. There's shopping for school supplies, getting back into a normal bedtime routine, and dealing with first-day-of-school nerves.
For parents, there's the added stress of packing school lunches that are not only nutritious but appealing for their kids to eat. With the onslaught of picture-perfect bento-style lunchboxes taking over Instagram these days, experts say parents are feeling the pressure more than ever.
"You go online and you see these beautifully presented, colourful and curated lunchboxes," says Caroline O'Connor, registered paediatric dietitian, mum of four, and founder of Solid Start.
"That puts a huge amount of pressure on parents and for most people, that's just not realistic."
Her advice? Relax and keep it simple. "How your child's lunch box looks is not a reflection of your parenting skills," she says. "Every child is different and every family is different. Some children eat a wider variety of food and it may look like their parents put more effort into their lunch boxes. But a 'boring' school lunch is okay, too."
Here are dietitian-approved tips for packing the best school lunches for your children.
Focus on food groups
When preparing a lunch box, experts recommend making sure each of the following food groups are represented.
"These are the energy foods like bread, wraps, crackers, pasta, and rice cakes," says Blaithin O'Neill, clinical lead dietitian at Spectrum Nutrition. "When you're thinking of putting a lunch box together, I'd recommend first deciding what your carb source is going to be."
If you're going for bread, whole grain is preferable. "But if your child doesn't eat whole grain bread, that's okay, too," O'Connor says.
Next, you'll want to include a protein source. "Protein is very important for children for growth," O'Neill says.
Chicken, beef, fish, cheese, eggs, falafels, and hummus are good sources of protein.
"These can be put in a sandwich or eaten separately," O'Connor says. "Some children will eat a sandwich and others won't."
If the latter sounds like your child, a bento-style lunch box with separate compartments for different foods can be a great option, she says.
Finish off your child's lunch box with a bottle of water and some fresh produce. This can be anything from cucumber, carrot sticks, or peppers to bananas, apples, oranges, grapes, or kiwi. There are endless options to choose from but you know your little ones best so pack what they like.
"If you get these three fundamentals down, then you've got yourself a balanced lunch," O'Neill says.
Also be sure to follow your school's healthy eating policy and check for policies on nut butters and other allergens.
"Apart from that keep it simple," advises Cathy Monaghan, a senior paediatric dietitian, mum of three, and founder of weaning.ie. "It won't all be eaten, and there is no need to complicate things in the hope of it being eaten. Provide the main foods groups and leave it at that."
Always include food you know your child will eat
While it's perfectly fine to be adventurous sometimes, experts advise mainly sticking to what your kids know when packing a lunch box.
"You don't want your child to open their lunch box and be shocked by what they see," O'Connor says. "It's okay to experiment with new foods and put things in that your child doesn't necessarily eat from time to time, but most of the food in your child's lunch box should be food that is familiar to them and that you know they would eat."
This is especially important for fussy eaters. "Make sure there are foods in a decent portion that they could and would eat if they were hungry," O'Connor says.
Tips for fussy eaters
Fussy eating is common among kids, so if your child is suddenly refusing to eat food they once enjoyed, don't panic.
"The most important thing is not to react to it or make a big deal about it," O'Neill says. "Usually it doesn't make that much of a difference if they don't eat a tomato or another fruit at school. They probably eat a balanced diet anyway."
She also recommends continuing to pack that item in their lunch box. "It doesn't have to be every day, but continue to offer it to them because if we don't, the child has no other opportunity to eat it," O'Neill says.
Next, instead of dwelling on what's not being eaten, pay close attention to what your child is eating.
"We always think about what children don't eat, but make a list of everything your child does eat," O'Connor says. "Then use that list as a basis for your lunches."
From there, try to create variety as much as possible. "You can do this even within the same food group," O'Connor says. "Even if it's just having different types of sliced pan bread or sometimes cutting the bread in a different shape. That helps children to become more adventurous."
Finally, don't compare your child to other kids who eat all their food. "It's very easy to do, but a lot of times parents of fussy eaters think they're on their own but it's so common and the vast majority of children will grow out of it," O'Neill says.
Remember: the lunch box is not the be all and end all
Parents may get anxious when their kid's lunch box comes back with its contents uneaten, but usually there is no need to worry.
"This is a common occurrence and is to be expected," Monaghan says. "Often it has nothing to do with the food. Children have less time to eat than ever."
Experts say it's important to keep lunch in perspective.
"Your child's whole day of nutrition does not rest on what they eat during those few hours at school," O'Connor says. "If they don't eat a lot at school they can make up for it when they come home and have a bigger after school snack."
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'This Is Us' Young Kate Gets Big Raise For Season 2
Everyone loves the little kids on "This Is Us" and it turns out that the young Kate just got a big raise for Season 2 of the show. TMZ shared the details about her raise. She is just ten-years-old and someone that age isn't used to making big money. Most kids at that age don't even have a job at all.
During Season 1, she got $8,210 payday per episode the first season. That is great pay for a young girl and this is her first TV role ever. Now for Season 2, she is making $12.5k an episode. That is a $4k pay raise, which is pretty great. Now in Season 3, she will only get about $500 more per episode. That is still a nice raise. No word on if the other young kids got the same raise as Kate or not. It would be pretty interesting to find out.
What do you think of young Kate getting a big raise? Do you feel like the little kids are really the star of the show? Sound off in the comments below on your thoughts and don't miss new episodes of "This Is Us" on NBC. New episodes air every Tuesday night.
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Congrats – she is an important part of the show and she's a good actress – has a promising future as a successful actress as long as she gets the sage guidance that all child actors need. Also, Young Kate needs to stay in school and stash that money away for a good college – that's what Jack Pearson would tell her, right!
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Q: What is wrong with extrapolation? I remember sitting in stats courses as an undergrad hearing about why extrapolation was a bad idea. Furthermore, there are a variety of sources online which comment on this. There's also a mention of it here.
Can anyone help me understand why extrapolation is a bad idea?
If it is, how is it that forecasting techniques aren't statistically invalid?

A: This xkcd comic explains it all.

Using the data points Cueball (the man with the stick) has, he has extrapolated that the woman will have "four dozen" husbands by late next month, and used this extrapolation to lead to the conclusion of buying the wedding cake in bulk.
Edit 3: For those of you who say "he doesn't have enough data points", here's another xkcd comic:

Here, the usage of the word "sustainable" over time is shown on a semi-log plot, and extrapolating the data points we receive an unreasonable estimates of how often the word "sustainable" will occur in the future.
Edit 2: For those of you who say "you need all past data points too", yet another xkcd comic:

Here, we have all past data points but we fail to accurately predict the resolution of Google Earth. Note that this is a semi-log graph too.
Edit: Sometimes, even the strongest of (r=.9979 in this case) correlations are just plain wrong.

If you extrapolate without other supporting evidence you also violating correlation does not imply causation; another great sin in the world of statistics.
If you do extrapolate X with Y, however, you must make sure that you can  accurately (enough to satisfy your requirements) predict X with only Y. Almost always, there are multiple factors than impact X.
I would like to share a link to another answer that explains it in the words of Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

A: The question is not just statistical, it's also epistemological. Extrapolation is one of the ways we learn about the nature, it's a form of induction.
Let's say we have data for electrical conductivity of a material in a range of temperatures from 0 to 20 Celsius, what can we say about the conductivity at 40 degree Celsius?
It's closely related to small sample inference: what can we say about the entire population from measurements conducted on a small sample? This was started by Gosset as Guiness, who came up with Student t-distributions. Before him statisticians didn't bother to think about small samples assuming that the sample size can always be large. He was at Guinnes and had to deal with samples of beer to decide what to do with the entire batch of beer to ship.
So, in practice (business), engineering and science we always have to extrapolate in some ways. It could be extrapolating small samples to large one, or from limited range of input conditions to a wider set of conditions, from what's going on in the accelerator to what happened to a black hole billions of miles away etc. It's especially important in science though, as we really learn by studying the discrepancies between our extrapolation estimates and actual measurements. Often we find new phenomena when the discrepancies are large or consistent.
hence, I say there is no problem with extrapolation. It's something we have to do every day. It's just difficult.

A: Extrapolation itself isn't necessarily evil, but it is a process which lends itself to conclusions which are more unreasonable than you arrive at with interpolation.

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*Extrapolation is often done to explore values quite far from the sampled region.  If I'm sampling 100 values from 0-10, and then extrapolate out just a little bit, merely to 11, my new point is likely 10 times further away from any datapoint than any interpolation could ever get.  This means that there's that much more space for a variable to get out of hand (qualitatively).  Note that I intentionally chose only a minor extrapolation.  It can get far worse

*Extrapolation must be done with curve fits that were intended to do extrapolation.  For example, many polynomial fits are very poor for extrapolation because terms which behave well over the sampled range can explode once you leave it.  Good extrapolation depends on a "good guess" as to what happens outside of the sampled region.  Which brings me to...

*It is often extremely difficult to use extrapolation due to the presence of phase transitions.  Many processes which one may wish to extrapolate on have decidedly nonlinear properties which are not sufficiently exposed over the sampled region.  Aeronautics around the speed of sound are an excellent example.  Many extrapolations from lower speeds fall apart as you reach and exceed the speed of information transfer in the air.  This also occurs quite often with soft sciences, where the policy itself can impact the success of the policy.  Keynesian economics extrapolated out how the economy would behave with different levels of inflation, and predicted the best possible outcome.  Unfortunately, there were second order effects and the result was not economic prosperity, but rather some of the highest inflation rates the US has seen.

*People like extrapolations.  Generally speaking, people really want someone to peer into a crystal ball and tell them the future.  They will accept surprisingly bad extrapolations simply because it's all the information they have.  This may not make extrapolation itself bad, per se, but it is definitely something one should account for when using it.

For the ultimate in extrapolation, consider the Manhattan Project.  The physicists there where forced to work with extremely small scale tests before constructing the real thing.  They simply didn't have enough Uranium to waste on tests.  They did the best they could, and they were smart.  However, when the final test occurred, it was decided that each scientist would decide how far away from the blast they wanted to be when it went off.  There was substantial differences of opinion as to how far away was "safe" because every scientists knew they were extrapolating quite far from their tests.  There was even a non-trivial consideration that they might set the atmosphere on fire with the nuclear bomb, an issue also put to rest with substantial extrapolation!

A: Lots of good answers here, I just want to try and synthesize what I see as the core of the issue: it is dangerous to extrapolate beyond that data generating process that gave rise to the estimation sample.  This is sometimes called a 'structural change'.
Forecasting comes with assumptions, the main one being that the data generating process is (as near as makes no significant difference) the same as the one that generated the sample (except for the rhs variables, whose changes you explicitly account for in the model).  If a structural change occurs (i.e. Thanksgiving in Taleb's example), all bets are off.

A: "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future". The quote is attributed to many people in some form. I restrict in the  following "extrapolation" to "prediction outside the known range", and in a one-dimensional setting, extrapolation from a known past to an unknown future.
So what is wrong with extrapolation. First, it is not easy to model the past. Second, it is hard to know whether a model from the past can be used for  the future. Behind both assertions dwell deep questions about  causality or ergodicity, sufficiency of explanatory variables, etc. that are quite case dependent. What is wrong is that it is difficult to choose an single  extrapolation scheme that works fine in different contexts, without a lot of extra information.
This generic mismatch is clearly illustrated in the Anscombe quartet dataset shown below. The linear regression is also (outside the $x$-coordinate range) an instance of extrapolation. The same line regresses four set of points, with the same standard statistics. However, the underlying models are quite different: the first one is quite standard. The second is a parametric model error (a second or third degree polynomial could be better suited), the third shows a perfect fit except for one value (outlier?), the fourth a lack of smooth relationships (hysteresis?).

However, forecasting can be rectified to some extend.
Adding to other answers, a couple of ingredients can help practical  extrapolation:

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*You can weight the samples according to their distance (index $n$) to the  location $p$ where you want to extrapolate. For instance, use an increasing function $f_p(n)$ (with $p\ge n$), like exponential weighting or smoothing, or sliding windows of samples, to give less importance to older values.

*You can use several extrapolation models, and combine them or select the best (Combining forecasts, J. Scott Armstrong, 2001). Recently, there have been a number of works on their optimal combination (I may provide references if needed).

Recently, I have been involved in a project for extrapolating values for the communication of simulation subsystems in a real-time environment. The dogma in this domain was that extrapolation may cause instability. We actually realized  that combining the two above ingredients was very efficient, without noticeable instability (without  a formal proof yet: CHOPtrey: contextual online polynomial extrapolation for enhanced multi-core co-simulation of complex systems, Simulation, 2017). And the extrapolation worked with simple polynomials, with a very low computational burden, most of the operations being computed beforehand and stored in look-up tables.
Finally, as extrapolation suggests funny drawings, the following is the backward effect of linear regression:

A: Although the fit of a model might be "good", extrapolation beyond the range of the data must be treated skeptically. The reason is that in many cases extrapolation (unfortunately and unavoidably) relies on untestable assumptions
about the behaviour of the data beyond their observed support.
When extrapolating one must do two judgement calls: First, from a quantitative perspective, how valid is the model outside the range of the data? Second, from a qualitative perspective, how plausible is a point $x_{out}$ laying outside the observed sample range to be a member of the population we assume for the sample? Because both questions entail a certain degree of ambiguity extrapolation is considered an ambiguous technique too. If you have reasons to accept that these assumptions hold, then extrapolation is usually a valid inferential procedure.
An additional caveat is that many non-parametric estimation techniques do not permit extrapolation natively. This problem is particularly noticeable in the case of spline smoothing where there are no more knots to anchor the fitted spline.
Let me stress that extrapolation is far from evil. For example, numerical methods widely used in Statistics (for example Aitken's delta-squared process and Richardson's Extrapolation) are essentially extrapolation schemes based on the idea that the underlying behaviour of the function analysed for the observed data remains stable across the function's support.

A: Contrary to other answers, I'd say that there is nothing wrong with extrapolation as far as it is not used in mindless way. First, notice that extrapolation is:

the process of estimating, beyond the
original observation range, the value of a variable on the basis of
its relationship with another variable.

...so it's very broad term and many different methods ranging from simple linear extrapolation, to linear regression, polynomial regression, or even some advanced time-series forecasting methods fit such definition. In fact, extrapolation, prediction and forecast are closely related. In statistics we often make predictions and forecasts. This is also what the link you refer to says:

We're taught from day 1 of statistics that extrapolation is a big
no-no, but that's exactly what forecasting is.

Many extrapolation methods are used for making predictions, moreover, often some simple methods work pretty well with small samples, so can be preferred then the complicated ones. The problem is, as noticed in other answers, when you use extrapolation method improperly.
For example, many studies show that the age of sexual initiation decreases over time in western countries. Take a look at a plot below about age of first intercourse in the US. If we blindly used linear regression to predict age of first intercourse we would predict it to go below zero at some number of years (accordingly with first marriage and first birth happening at some time after death)... However, if you needed to make one-year-ahead forecast, then I'd guess that linear regression would lead to pretty accurate short term predictions for the trend.

(source guttmacher.org)
Another great example comes from completely different domain, since it is about "extrapolating" for test done by Microsoft Excel, as shown below (I don't know if this is already fixed or not). I don't know the author of this image, it comes from Giphy.

All models are wrong, extrapolation is also wrong, since it wouldn't enable you to make precise predictions. As other mathematical/statistical tools it will enable you to make approximate predictions. The extent of how accurate they will be depends on quality of the data that you have, using methods adequate for your problem, the assumptions you made while defining your model and many other factors. But this doesn't mean that we can't use such methods. We can, but we need to remember about their limitations and should assess their quality for a given problem.

A: I quite like the example by Nassim Taleb (which was an adaptation of an earlier example by Bertrand Russell):

Consider a turkey that is fed every day. Every single feeding will firm up the bird's belief that it is the general rule of life to be fed every day by friendly members of the human race "looking out for its best interests," as a politician would say. On the afternoon of the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, something unexpected will happen to the turkey. It will incur a revision of belief.

Some mathematical analogs are the following:

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*knowledge of the first few Taylor coefficients of a function does not always guarantee that the succeeding coefficients will follow your presumed pattern.

*knowledge of a differential equation's initial conditions does not always guarantee knowledge of its asymptotic behavior (e.g. Lorenz's equations, sometimes distorted into the so-called "butterfly effect")
Here is a nice MO thread on the matter.

A: Ponder the following story, if you will.
I also remember sitting in a Statistics course, and the professor told us extrapolation was a bad idea. Then during the next class he told us it was a bad idea again; in fact, he said it twice.
I was sick for the rest of the semester, but I was certain I couldn't have missed a lot of material, because by the last week the guy must surely have been doing nothing but telling people again and again how extrapolation was a bad idea.
Strangely enough, I didn't score very high on the exam.

A: A regression model is often used for extrapolation, i.e. predicting the response to an input which lies outside of the range of the values of the predictor variable used to fit the model. The danger associated with extrapolation is illustrated in the following figure.

The regression model is "by construction" an interpolation model, and should not be used for extrapolation, unless this is properly justified.

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She passed away in October. She was 92.
Tina Dupuy Nov. 7, 2018 Updated: Nov. 20, 2018 10:33 a.m.
In the late '90s, there was an expanding humanitarian crisis in Kosovo which had displaced 90 percent of the country's ethnic Albanian population. More than a million people were in need in the Balkans so, naturally, my grandmother, Seewee Dupuy, volunteered Wharton, Texas, to help.
Wharton, a town of 9,000, welcomed three extended families — more than 30 souls — all Muslims — fleeing ethnic cleansing. Seewee organized the effort; the St. Martin Episcopal Church took collections; the neighborhood grocery store donated food; she met with local business owners to get the newcomers jobs.
Her committee (which was most likely just her) found two apartments close together, she said, so the refugees "wouldn't feel so alone in a strange town." My grandmother had anticipated their needs, noting that she wasn't expecting to see any Kosovar men because "so many have been killed."
Seewee was then in her 70s, donning rubber gloves, scrubbing down the apartments before the families arrived while scheduling other Wharton residents to provide transportation, tutoring and help navigating the DMV. It was a matter of life and death, and Seewee was all business. She didn't like theatrics, and I would never describe her as sentimental. It wasn't a political stunt. She didn't have an agenda. To her, it was the right thing to do, and it simply needed to be done.
I imagine it was the last 20 years of Seewee leading her ever-present Texas tour groups that inspired the plan. Before the war, she had taken her Texans to Belgrade and near Dubrovnik where much of the bombing occurred. "It's a very poor country," Seewee told The Victoria Advocate. "We visited Muslim villages while we were there. I didn't notice any hatred."
I knew my father. And then I took a DNA test.
1943. The Bronx. My father's record store.
Who does this? Who sees a story about injustice and peril — genocide — and then within three weeks coordinates a small town in Texas to host multiple generations of asylum seekers? The answer is my grandmother.
She was born on May 18, 1927, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, with the name Fannie Lee Edgar, daughter of James Edgar and Fannie Lee Edgar (Wair). She graduated from high school at 16 and went on to study at Louisiana State University. There, she met a Cajun fighter pilot named Marsden Dupuy. They married shortly after the war ended; their marriage spanned more than 60 years. She passed quietly on October 30, 2018. She was 92. She's survived by two sons, several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
According to my friends, drawn to her portrait on my bookshelf, Seewee looked like Lauren Bacall. My grandmother did seem polished and poised, even in knee-high muck. She had movie-star looks, but she was too busy to be a beauty queen. She did everything for her three sons and her husband. She made and washed clothes, grew food and made meals, ironed, mended, cleaned, stored, polished, packed, planned, raked, dug, aerated, disinfected, decorated, stripped, painted, stitched, rewired and repaired. I don't remember my grandmother ever sitting still.
For decades, she hosted a yearly picnic for seniors at the retirement home until they became younger, and then, much younger than she. She'd bring people meals, feed strangers and friends alike. I went with her once as she took soup to a man on the outskirts of town living in half a rotted trailer tied together with ropes and tarps. She'd heard at the thrift store where she volunteered that he had a cold.
Seewee had movie-star looks, but she was too busy to be a beauty queen.
Once her boys were grown, in 1975, she opened a travel agency, Seewee's Travel in Richmond, Texas. She visited more than 150 countries, leading groups of Texans around the world several times over. She went to China at least a dozen times — which means I have evidence of her sitting still for at least 15 hours there and back.
She comes by this naturally. One of her ancestors got on the ship to the new world pregnant. That seems a heroic feat until you realize 17th-century women didn't have other options. Like every woman before her, Seewee's ancestor did what was asked of her and did what she had to do to survive.
There are a lot of these tales in Seewee's pedigree. Hers are people daring by choice and brave by necessity, none famous or celebrated. Seewee descends from a long line of soldiers and settlers, people who built a democratic experiment in the land of opportunity — people who fought and died for an idea. People whose sacrifice we mention on holidays and emboss on plaques."
She was proud to be a Daughter of the American Revolution, but she was thrilled to be a Daughter of the Republic of Texas. Her great-grandmother was born in Texas in the mid-1800s, and this delighter her. Of all the places she'd seen, of all the people around the world she'd met, she had a special love for Texas — an affinity for all Texans of every origin. She served her beloved community of Wharton County as long as she could. And since we're talking about Seewee, it was longer than most.
But you should know that she'd be horrified I'm here boasting about her good deeds. She'd say she'll get a big head if I don't stop.
In lieu of flowers, I'd ask for folks she inspired to donate their money or time to Houston's United Way.
Tina Dupuy is a former Capitol Hill staffer and an award-winning writer living in Manhattan.
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IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR- Trading Places: Protecting American Industry Is So Yesterday
March 2018 May 2018 Steve Fraser and Joshua B. Freeman industrialization, industry, manufacturing, NAFTA, trade
The current recession has been brutal on manufacturing workers. Between December 2007 and December 2009, over two million of the country's 13.7 million manufacturing jobs disappeared. Six million industrial jobs have vanished since 1998 and manufacturing employment today is only 60 percent of its peak in 1979. Walking around the mall, it sometimes seems impossible to find a product made in the U.S.A.
It is a piety of present politics that the United States needs to rebuild its manufacturing base, an idea that the labor movement, the president, and most of the public support. But the financial interests that increasingly dominate our economy tend to see greater profit opportunities in globalization than in domestic manufacturing, which is one reason why little has been done to staunch the flow of jobs abroad. Indeed, these peak financial institutions grew to their present preeminence in part by systematically looting and shutting down American industry over the past quarter century. Policies aimed at reviving domestic industry—tariffs, currency revaluations, state- sponsored reindustrialization schemes—were, until recently, relegated to the margins of political discourse and situated largely outside of the realm of democratic governance.
This was not always the case. From the earliest days of the United States, promoting and protecting manufacturing jobs was a rallying cry for workers and a hotly debated electoral subject. With little exaggeration, one might say that industrializing America constituted the core of public policy for more than a century.
Industrializing America constituted the core of public policy for more than a century.
One reason artisans—both journeymen and the masters who employed them—supported the ratification of the Constitution was their belief that a strong federal government would be better able to enforce restrictions on imports than the individual states, thereby protecting their markets, jobs, and wages. "Taxes on imported goods," wrote one Philadelphia plebian, "can distress none but the rich." As artisans hoped, the newly created Congress did pass a tariff, and—during the decades that followed—labor groups continued to agitate for high tariffs. During the Gilded Age, workers carried on a no-holds-barred, often violent battle with employers over the distribution of income and power on the shopfloor. Yet they found themselves allied politically inside the Republican Party in defense of the protective tariff. That irony is one of the reasons labor remained so weak politically, at least at the national level. In the 1880s and 1890s, the tariff became a leading electoral issue. The debate pitted the protection tariffs provided for domestic manufacturing against the lower prices that might come from reducing the penalties on foreign-made goods, and the advantages—to international merchants and commodity exporters—of low trade barriers. (Farmers felt doubly disadvantaged by import duties, resenting the high price of manufactured goods and fearful that other countries would raise tariffs on agricultural goods.) Generally the Democrats, strongly influenced by their Southern wing, wanted to lower tariffs while the Republicans sought to keep them high, retaining the support of working-class voters, even in 1896 when populist Democrat William Jennings Bryan won considerable union backing.
The Great Depression and World War II changed the politics of trade and pushed the issue of protecting domestic manufacturing to the back burner. Most New Dealers believed that high tariffs, and their retarding effect on international trade, contributed to the depth of the global economic downturn of the 1930s. Also, Southern Democrats—an important component of the New Deal coalition—generally supported free trade because they did not want other countries imposing tariffs on exported cotton. When the Roosevelt administration moved to negotiate bilateral agreements lowering tariffs, it won backing from internationally- oriented banks and manufacturing companies, and from oil companies, all of whom backed free trade. As the labor movement exploded in size and cemented its ties to the New Deal, it largely abandoned its earlier protectionism.
The Great Depression and World War II changed the politics of trade and pushed the issue of protecting domestic manufacturing to the back burner.
World War II further changed the calculus of trade. The United States emerged from the conflict as the world's unchallenged industrial power. Rather than facing a threat from imports, American companies had the opportunity for a massive expansion of exports and overseas investment. American policy- makers pressed for lower tariffs and reduced trade obstacles, which they believed would benefit the American economy and promote international stability. But sometimes they departed from this goal in order to strengthen the economies of American allies, with an eye toward the Cold War contest with the Soviet bloc. So they looked the other way when Japan and the European Economic Community (the predecessor of the European Union) put up barriers to imports from the United States. With unemployment rates low during the quarter-century after the war and the United States exporting more goods than it imported, even unionists expressed relatively little concern about the foreign threat to domestic manufacturing jobs.
Trade issues reemerged with a vengeance when the period of post-World War II prosperity ground to a halt in the 1970s. By then, Germany and Japan had rebuilt their industries to become formidable competitors to the United States and many American companies had set up overseas operations, which—in some cases—shipped goods back to the United States. In 1971, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union—hit hard by the growing importation of apparels—launched a long, unsuccessful drive for protectionist legislation.
When the automobile and steel industries plunged into deep crises in the late 1970s and early 1980s, unions representing their workers joined the debate about protecting domestic manufacturing. The United Automobile Workers called on the public to "Buy American" and promoted legislation to require specified levels of domestic content in vehicles sold in the United States. But the consensus in support of low trade barriers had become so strong that—even as the balance of trade reversed and, in 1971, the country became a net importer for the first time since 1893—no fundamental move away from free trade occurred.
What did change, however, was the international currency system. Under the Bretton Woods agreement, worked out during World War II, most capitalist countries pegged their currencies at fixed rates to the dollar, which the United States in turn backed with gold reserves, also at a fixed rate. In August 1971, President Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard, which had the effect of replacing fixed currency exchange rates with floating rates. Once currency exchange rates became variable, they could protect or undercut domestic manufacturing.
Nixon initially pressed Japan to raise the value of the yen in relation to the dollar to help U.S. exports and win him working- class votes in the upcoming election. But later administrations often preferred a strong dollar, which benefited consumers and Americans investing abroad.
During the 1980s and 1990s, the labor movement and its allies continued to oppose the movement toward free trade, but with only modest success. The relocation of American industrial and financial investment abroad commanded the allegiance of both parties. President Bill Clinton broke with unions when he pushed the NAFTA treaty through Congress with only fig leaf protections for labor. The movement against corporate-oriented globalization reached a high point in the pro- tests at the 1999 meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. But the protests were not strong enough to reverse the basic thrust of American economic policy. In recent years, pressure from the labor movement and domes- tic manufacturers occasionally has gotten the federal government to pursue charges of unfair trade practices against other countries, but there has been little debate about the principle of low tariffs.
Which leaves currency exchange rates as one of the few tools that might be used to protect domestic manufacturing from foreign competition. Whereas late-nineteenth-century arguments over the gold standard verged on civil war that pitted debtors against creditors, today such debates remain confined to circles of experts, despite the fact that the value of the dollar in relation to other currencies—the Chinese renminbi, especially—has a fateful impact on the health of American manufacturing. As in the Cold War, domestic manufacturing gets sacrificed to foreign policy concerns (like Chinese cooperation in dealing with North Korea and Iran), and to the interests of American financial institutions and corporations with investments and suppliers abroad (including domestic icons like Apple and Wal-Mart, whose businesses essentially consist of selling goods manufactured in China).
The only long-term strategy for supporting domestic American manufacturing is a state-sponsored program of high-tech, energy-efficient reindustrialization.
Of course, there are steps other than currency manipulation that would help U.S. manufacturing. The only long-term strategy for supporting domestic American manufacturing—and, in the process, for reversing the generation-long underdevelopment of the national economy—is a state-sponsored program of high-tech, energy-efficient reindustrialization. Infrastructure development, worker training, targeted government investments and credit, research programs, and domestic content provisions in government procurement are among the steps that could be taken. Unlike in the past, when Congress openly debated and set tariff rates and currency policies, today they are largely outside the realm of public control, controlled by opaque, insulated agencies. Not many liberal politicians or activists seem very interested. The Obama administration's "Framework for Revitalizing American Manufacturing" never even mentions currency rates. Some labor supporters, including Robert Pollin in the Fall 2010 issue of New Labor Forum, are skeptical that tariff or currency adjustments would make much difference in restoring manufacturing. But with the fate of hundreds of thousands—if not millions—of manufacturing jobs at stake, trade policy, currency rates, and national industrial policy need to be placed at the center of political debate and democratic decision-making, much as the tariff was during the first century-and-a-half of the Republic.
Republished from Volume 20, Issue 1 (Winter 2011).
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On November 21 and December 5, 2018, WGRI worked with middle school art teacher, Alicia Skaggs to weave with her students. The guild members donated fibers and loaned looms. Table looms were loaned for use by WGRI, Claire Wanabo, and Sally Rianhard. Inkle loom loaned by Janet Cooper. Rigid Heddle loom loaned by Judy Tysmans. Tablet looms were loaned by Joy Beeson.
Janet Cooper coordinated the program with volunteer members Liz Hill, Janet Cooper, Judy Tysmans, Claire Wanebo, Mary Sherman, and Mary Brunell. The students moved from station to station to experience the different types of looms. Ms Skaggs assigned them to groups called the Warps, the Wefts, the Fibers, and the Looms. It was an enjoyable session for the students. One student said, "I am going to ask my parents for weaving supplies for Christmas! Another student asked her shop teacher if she could make a tablet loom. He had her measure and draw the loom to bring to his class.
Happy weavers from the Wickford Middle School. These talented young students are showing the inkle bands they wove during our two sessions. Their individual bands were made into keychains as a memento of our time together.
Keychains made from students' inkle bands.


On the same day that it was officially announced that the star will be headlining a Wonder Woman feature film, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Gal Gadot is being targeted to play the female lead in MGM and Paramount's upcoming Timur Bekmambetov-directed remake of Ben-Hur.
It's been a busy week of casting for MGM and Paramount's upcoming Timur Bekmambetov-directed remake of Ben-Hur. Following word last night of "Boardwalk Empire" star Jack Huston landing the title role, comes word, via Variety, that Dawn of the Planet of the Apes star Toby Kebbell is eyeing the antagonistic role of Messala. If he signs on, he'll also join Morgan Freeman in the cast.
MGM and Paramount's upcoming Timur Bekmambetov-directed remake of Ben-Hur has cast "Boardwalk Empire" star Jack Huston in the title role! Deadline has the news, reporting that Huston will join Morgan Freeman, who signed on for the project last week. Set for a release on February 26, 2016, the new take on Ben-Hur was originally scripted by Keith Clarke (The Way Back), with revisions by Academy Award-winner John Ridley (12 Years a Slave). It is based on Lew Wallace's 1880 epic novel "Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ." The film is said to return to the heart of the epic novel with a focus on the nature of faith. The story follows a falsely-accused nobleman who survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betrayed him. Both must come to choose between retribution or forgiveness. Huston also recently signed on to star in Burr Steers' Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
MGM and Paramount's upcoming Timur Bekmambetov-directed remake of Ben-Hur has officially added its first cast member. Deadline reports that Morgan Freeman who, earlier this week, signed on for Seth MacFarlane's Ted 2, will play Ildarin, the man who trains Ben-Hur.
MGM and Paramount's upcoming Timur Bekmambetov-directed remake of Ben-Hur may have found a leading man in star Tom Hiddleston. Deadline reports that the The Avengers actor is being eyed for the part of Judah Ben-Hur, played in the 1959 William Wyler version by Charlton Heston.


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College off to chess nationals
For the first time in years College will compete in the finals of the New Zealand Secondary Schools' Chess Competition being held in Tauranga next month.
The team of Year 13 student Alistair Morgan, Year 12 students Jonathan Huo and Hanson Xie, and Year 9 student Arthur Woolhouse won every game in the Canterbury finals competed for by St Andrew's College, Christchurch Boys' High School, St Bede's College and Burnside High School. Burnside were the former titleholders.
"Our team has got seniors and experience and then we have Arthur who is a chess prodigy, the best of us all," says team captain Alistair Morgan.
"Playing competitively takes a lot of concentration and we were lucky in the Canterbury championships that we got a bye in the second round and were able to take a break early enough on to allow us to keep an eye on the other teams."
The nationals in Tauranga in September will be another level entirely.
"I believe it's the first time College has qualified for the finals in a very long period. This contest is over two days, so there's a lot more time to think and the quality is going to be even better."
It's the thrill of outthinking and outplaying opponents that makes the College Chess Club so popular with its members, who meet every Tuesday and Thursday lunchtime. Between meetings they each spend time playing online and studying chess openings and tactics.
"It gives you great concentration, and a real work ethic. There's a lot of study involved, and you need to develop the ability to think ahead and problem solve. No matter how much you prepare, someone will always come up with a move you've not known about," says Alistair.
"The fun part is when you've prepared well, and it's playing out as you want, and you're doing well and needing to maintain it, and then they come up with a move you don't know!"
He says his father got him into chess and he has also taught himself.
"We all play online and there are a lot of resources available to help us prepare and improve our game."
Alistair and Jonathan have represented College in chess every year since they started in Year 9 and Hanson has been in the team for the last two years.
(L–R) Alistair Morgan, Jonathan Huo, Hanson Xie and Arthur Woolhouse


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Home What's On News heneghen peng share prestigious US$ 1 million Aga Khan Award for Palestinian Museum
heneghen peng share prestigious US$ 1 million Aga Khan Award for Palestinian Museum
Palestinian Museum by heneghan peng architects - photo by Iwan Baan
Dublin-based heneghen peng architects are among the 2019 Winners of the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture. The Award was established by His Highness the Aga Khan in 1977 to identify and encourage building concepts that successfully addressed the needs and aspirations of communities in which Muslims have a significant presence. The Aga Khan Award for Architecture's mandate is different from that of many other architecture prizes: it not only rewards architects, but also identifies municipalities, builders, clients, master artisans and engineers who have played important roles in the realisation of a project.
The winners share a prize fund of US$ 1 million between them.
The Palestinian Museum, in Birzeit was also a Winner in the RIAI Awards 2017. "The building crowns a terraced hill overlooking the Mediterranean and is the recipient of the LEED Gold certification because of its sustainable construction", say the judges. "The zigzagging forms of the Museum's architecture and hillside gardens are inspired by the surrounding agricultural terraces, stressing the link with the land and Palestinian heritage."
Other award-winning projects include:
Bahrain: Revitalisation of Muharraq, which highlights the World Heritage site's pearling history, was first initiated as a series of restoration and reuse projects. The project evolved into a comprehensive programme that aimed to re-balance the city's demographic makeup by creating public spaces, providing community and cultural venues, and improving the overall environment.
Bangladesh: Arcadia Education Project, in South Kanarchor, a modular structure – incorporating space for a preschool, a hostel, a nursery and a vocational training centre – that takes a novel approach to a riverine site that is often flooded for five months every year. Rather than disrupting the ecosystem to create a mound for building, the architect devised the solution of an amphibious structure that could sit on the ground or float on the water, depending on seasonal conditions.
Russian Federation: Public Spaces Development Programme, in the Republic of Tatarstan, a programme that, to date, has improved 328 public spaces all over Tatarstan. The ambitious programme sought to counter the trend toward private ownership by refocusing priorities on quality public spaces for the people of Tatarstan. It has now become a model throughout the Russian Federation.
Senegal: Alioune Diop University Teaching and Research Unit, in Bambey, where a scarcity of resources led to the use of bioclimatic strategies, including a large double roof canopy and latticework that avoids direct solar radiation but allows air to flow through it. By employing locally familiar construction techniques and following sustainability principles, the project succeeded in keeping costs and maintenance demands to a minimum, while still making a bold architectural statement.
United Arab Emirates: Wasit Wetland Centre, in Sharjah, a design that transformed a wasteland into a wetland and functioned as a catalyst for biodiversity and environmental education. While its indigenous ecosystem has been restored, it has also proven to be a popular place for visitors to appreciate
and learn about their natural environment.
The 2019 Award Master Jury
The nine members of the 2019 Master Jury are: Anthony Kwamé Appiah, an Anglo-Ghanaian American philosopher; Meisa Batayneh, founder and principal architect of maisam architects & engineers; Sir David Chipperfield, whose practice has built over 100 projects for both the private and public sectors; Elizabeth Diller, a founding partner of a design studio whose practice spans the fields of architecture, multi-media performance and digital media; Edhem Eldem, a Professor of History at Boğaziçi University (Istanbul) and the Collège de France; Mona Fawaz, a Professor in Urban Studies and Planning at the Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy at the American University of Beirut; Kareem Ibrahim, an Egyptian architect and urban researcher who has worked extensively in Historic Cairo; Ali M. Malkawi, a professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and a founding director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities; and Nondita Correa Mehrotra, an architect working in India and the United States, and Director of the Charles Correa Foundation.


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J. Langer, L.M. Liz-Marzán [and 57 others, including K.A. Willets]. "Present and Future of Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering." Invited Perspective. ACS Nano. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b04224 (2019).
U. Bhattacharjee, C. West, S.A. Hosseini Jebeli, H.J. Goldwyn, X-T Kong, Z. Hu, E.K. Beutler, W-S Chang, K.A. Willets, S. Link, D.J. Masiello. "Active far-field control of the thermal near-field via plasmon hybridization." ACS Nano. 13, 9655 (2019).
K.A. Willets. "Supercharging super-localization microscopy: how electrochemical charging of plasmonic nanostructures uncovers hidden heterogeneity." Invited Perspective. ACS Nano. 13, 6145 (2019).
Z. Zhang, Y. Yu, Y. Tang, Y-S. Guan, J. Yin, K.A. Willets, S. Ren. "Kirigami-inspired stretchable conjugated electronics." Advanced Electronic Materials. DOI: 10.1002/aelm.201900929 (2019).
X. Cheng, T.P. Anthony, C.A. West, Z. Hu, V. Sundaresan, A.J. McLeod, D.J. Masiello, K.A. Willets. "Plasmon heating promotes ligand reorganization on single gold nanorods." J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 10, 1394 (2019).
Y. Yu, K. Wijesekara, X.X. Xi, K.A. Willets. "Quantifying Wavelength-Dependent Plasmonic Hot Carrier Energy Distributions at Metal/Semiconductor Interfaces." ACS Nano. 13, 3629 (2019).
K.A. Willets and K.Mayer. "Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) as a characterization method for metal-organic interactions." Invited book chapter. Handbook of organic materials for electronic and photonic devices. Second edition. (Ed. Oksana Ostroverkhova) Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, UK. 2019.
K.A. Willets. "Probing nanoscale interfaces with electrochemical surface-enhanced Raman scattering." Curr. Opin. Electrochem. 13, 18 (2019).
E.M. Samples, J.M. Schuck, P.B. Joshi, K.A. Willets, G.E. Dobereiner. "Synthesis and Properties of N-arylpyrrole-functionalized poly(1-hexene-alt-CO)." Macromolecules. 51, 9323 (2018).
V. Sundaresan, J.W. Monaghan, K.A. Willets. "Monitoring Simultaneous Electrochemical Reactions with Single Particle Imaging." Invited contribution to a Special Issue on Single Entity Electrochemistry. ChemElectroChem. 5, 3052 (2018).
Y. Yu, J.D. Williams, K.A. Willets. "Quantifying Photothermal Heating at Plasmonic Nanoparticles by Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy." Faraday Discussions. 210, 29 (2018).
Y. Yu, V. Sundaresan, K.A. Willets. "Hot Carriers vs. Thermal Effects: Resolving the Enhancement Mechanisms for Plasmon-Mediated Photoelectrochemical Reactions." J. Phys. Chem. C. 122, 5040 (2018).
V. Sundaresan, J.W. Monaghan, K.A. Willets. "Visualizing the Effect of Partial Oxide Formation on Single Silver Nanoparticle Electrodissolution." J. Phys. Chem. C. 122, 3138 (2018). Selected as ACS Editors' Choice.
Y. Yu, V. Sundaresan, S. Bandyopadhyay, Y. Zhang, M.A. Edwards, K. McKelvey, H.S. White, K.A. Willets. "Three-Dimensional Super-Resolution Imaging of Single Nanoparticles Delivered by Pipettes." ACS Nano. 11, 10529 (2017).
P.B. Joshi, T.P. Anthony, A.J. Wilson, K.A. Willets. "Imaging out-of-plane polarized emission patterns on gap mode SERS substrates: from high molecular coverage to the single molecule regime." Faraday Discussions. 205, 245 (2017).
K.A. Willets and J.S. Biteen. "Introduction: Super-resolution and single molecule imaging." Chem. Rev. 117, 7241 (2017).
V. Sundaresan, K. Marchuk, Y. Yu, E.J. Titus, A.J. Wilson, C.M. Armstrong, B. Zhang, K.A. Willets. "Visualizing and Calculating Tip-Substrate Distance in Nanoscale Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy Using 3-Dimensional Super-Resolution Optical Imaging." Analytical Chemistry. 89, 922 (2017).
K.A. Willets, A.J. Wilson, V. Sundaresan, P.B. Joshi. "Super-resolution imaging and plasmonics." Chemical Reviews. 117, 7538 (2017).
C.L. Haynes, R.R. Frontiera, K.A. Willets. "Preface of Richard P. Van Duyne Festschrift." J. Phys. Chem C. 120, 20483 (2016).
S. Zaleski, M.F. Cardinal, D. Chulhai, A.J Wilson, K.A. Willets, L. Jensen, R.P. Van Duyne. "Towards Monitoring Electrochemical Reactions with Dual-wavelength SERS: Characterization of R6G Neutral Radical Species and Covalent Tethering of R6G to Silver Nanoparticles." J. Phys. Chem. C. 120, 24982 (2016).
S. Zaleski, A.J. Wilson, M. Mattei, X. Chen, G. Goubert, M.F. Cardinal, K.A. Willets, R.P. Van Duyne. "Investigating nanoscale electrochemistry with surface- and tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy." Accounts of Chemical Research. 49, 2023 (2016).
A.J. Wilson and K.A. Willets. "Unforeseen distance-dependent SERS spectroelectrochemistry from surface-tethered Nile Blue: the role of molecular orientation." Invited contribution to special themed issue on SERS. Analyst. 141, 5144 (2016).
A.J. Wilson, N.Y. Molina, K.A. Willets. "Modification of the electrochemical properties of Nile Blue through covalent attachment to gold as revealed by electrochemistry and SERS." J. Phys. Chem. C. 120, 21091 (2016).
B. Xu, H. Li, H. Li, A.J. Wilson, L. Zhang, K. Chen, K.A. Willets, F. Ren, J. Grossman, S. Ren. "Chemically driven interfacial coupling in charge-transfer mediated functional superstructures." Nano Letters. 16, 2851 (2016).
B. Xu, Z. Luo, W. Gao, A.J. Wilson, C. He, X. Chen, G. Yuan, H.L. Dai, Y. Rao, K.A. Willets, Z. Dauter, S. Ren. "Solution-processed molecular opto-ferroic crystals." Chemistry of Materials. 28, 2441 (2016).
B. Xu, Z. Luo, A.J. Wilson, K. Chen, W. Gao, G. Yuan, H.D. Chopra, X. Chen, K.A. Willets, Z. Dauter, S. Ren. "Multifunctional charge-transfer single crystals through supramolecular assembly." Advanced Materials. 28, 5322 (2016).
A.J. Wilson and K.A. Willets. "Molecular Plasmonics." Invited review. Annu. Rev. Anal. Chem. 9, 27 (2016).
K. L. Blythe and K.A. Willets. "Super-resolution imaging of fluorophore-labeled DNA bound to gold nanoparticles: a single molecule, single particle approach." Invited feature article. J. Phys. Chem. C. 120, 803 (2016). Journal covert art.
K.L. Blythe, E.J. Titus, K.A. Willets. "The effects of tuning fluorophore density, identity, and spacing on reconstructed images in super-resolution imaging of fluorophore-labeled gold nanorods." J. Phys. Chem. C. 119, 28099 (2015).
A.J. Wilson, K. Marchuk, K.A. Willets. "Imaging electrogenerated chemiluminescence at single gold nanowire electrodes." Nano Lett. 15, 6100 (2015).
E.J. Titus, K.L. Blythe, K.A. Willets. "Monte Carlo simulations of triplet-state photophysics for super-resolution imaging of fluorophore-labeled gold nanorods." Proc. SPIE 9554, 955403-1 (2015).
K.L. Blythe, E.J. Titus, K.A. Willets. "Comparing the accuracy of reconstructed image size in super-resolution imaging of fluorophore-labeled gold nanorods using different fit models." J. Phys. Chem. C. 119, 19333 (2015).
M.L. Weber, A.J. Wilson, K.A. Willets. "Characterizing the spatial dependence of redox chemistry on plasmonic nanoparticle electrodes using correlated super-resolution SERS imaging and electron microscopy." J. Phys. Chem. C. 119, 18591 (2015).
K.A. Willets and M.L. Weber. "Super-resolution imaging of surface-enhanced Raman scattering hot spots under electrochemical control." Proc. SPIE 9467, 946710 (2015).
K.L. Blythe, E.J. Titus, and K.A. Willets. "Objective-induced point spread function aberrations and their impact on super-resolution microscopy." Anal. Chem. 87 (12), 6419-6424 (2015).
C. Renault, K. Marchuk, H.S. Ahn, E.J. Titus, J. Kim, K.A. Willets, A.J. Bard. "Observation of nanometer-sized electro-active defects in insulating layers by fluorescence microscopy and electrochemistry." Anal Chem. 87 (11), 5730-5737 (2015).
K. Marchuk and K.A. Willets. "Localized surface plasmons and hot electrons." Chemical Physics. Invited Perspective. 2014. 445, 95-104 (2014).
A.L. Weisman, K.H. DuBay, K.A. Willets, R.A. Friesner. "A First-Principles Polarized Raman Method for Determining Whether a Uniform Region of a Sample is Crystalline or Isotropic." J. Chem. Phys. 141, 224702 (2014).
K.A. Willets. "Super-resolution imaging of SERS hot spots." Invited tutorial review, Chem. Soc. Rev., 43(11), 3854-3864 (2014).
A.J. Wilson and K.A. Willets. " Visualizing site-specific redox potentials on the surface of plasmonic nanoparticles with super-localization SERS microscopy." Nano Lett. 14, 939-945 (2014).
K.L. Blythe, E.J. Titus and K.A. Willets. "Triplet-state mediated super-resolution imaging of fluorophore-labeled gold nanorods." ChemPhysChem (Invited contribution to special themed issue on super-resolution imaging and nanophotonics), 15, 784-793 (2014).
K.A. Willets. "Plasmon point spread functions: how do we model plasmon-mediated emission processes?" Invited perspective, Frontiers of Physics, 9, 3-16 (2014).
E.J. Titus and K.A. Willets. "Super-localization surface-enhanced Raman scattering microscopy: comparing point spread function models in the ensemble and single molecule limits." ACS Nano, 7, 8284-8294 (2013).
E.J. Titus and K.A. Willets. "Accuracy of super-localization imaging using Gaussian and dipole emission point-spread functions for modeling gold nanorod luminescence." ACS Nano, 7, 6258-6267 (2013).
K.A. Willets. "New tools for investigating electromagnetic hot spots in single-molecule surface enhanced Raman scattering ," Invited review, ChemPhysChem, 14, 3186-3195 (2013).
K.A. Willets. "Super-resolution imaging of interactions between molecules and plasmonic nanostructures," Invited perspective, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (Special themed issue on Plasmonics and Spectroscopy) 15, 5345-5354 (2013).
A.J. Wilson and K.A. Willets. "Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) imaging using noble metal nanoparticles," Invited focus article, WIRES Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology. 5, 180-189 (2013).
E.J. Titus and K.A. Willets, "Applying super-resolution imaging techniques to problems in SERS," Invited book chapter, Frontiers of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering: Single-Nanoparticles and Single Cells" (Eds. Yukihiro Ozaki, Katrin Kneipp, and Ricardo Aroca) from John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK.
K.L. Blythe, K.M. Mayer, M.L. Weber, K.A. Willets. "Ground state depletion microscopy for imaging interactions between gold nanowires and fluorophore-labeled ligands." Invited article. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 15, 4136-4145 (2013).
E.J. Titus, M.L. Weber, S.M. Stranahan, K.A. Willets. "Super-resolution SERS imaging beyond the single-molecule limit: an isotope-edited approach." Nano Lett. 12, 5103-5110 (2012).
B. Cannon, A. Campos, Z. Lewitz, K.A. Willets, R. Russell. "Zeptomole detection of DNA nanoparticles by single-molecule fluorescence with magnetic field-directed localization." Anal. Biochem. 431, 40-47 (2012).
K.A. Willets. "Probing local electromagnetic field enhancements on the surface of plasmonic nanoparticles." Invited review, Prog. Surf. Sci. 87, 209–220 (2012).
M.L. Weber, K.A. Willets. "Nanoscale studies of plasmonic hot spots using super-resolution optical imaging." Invited review, MRS Bulletin, 37, 745-751 (2012).
K.A. Koen, M.L. Weber, K.M. Mayer, E. Fernandez, K.A. Willets. "Spectrally-resolved polarization anisotropy of single plasmonic nanoparticles excited by total internal reflection." J. Phys. Chem. C. 116, 16198−16206 (2012).
J.C. Heckel, A.L. Weisman, S.T. Schneebeli, M.L. Hall, L.J. Sherry, S.M. Stranahan, K.H. Dubay, R.A. Friesner, K.A. Willets. "Polarized Raman spectroscopy of oligothiophene crystals to determine unit cell orientation." J. Phys. Chem. A. 116, 6804–6816 (2012).
K.A. Willets, S.M. Stranahan. "Super-resolution imaging of diffusing analyte in surface-enhanced Raman scattering hot-spots." Proc. SPIE. 8228, 82280P (2012).
K.A. Willets, K. Mayer. "Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) characterization of metal-organic interactions. Invited book chapter. Handbook of organic materials for optical and optoelectronic devices: properties and applications. (Ed. Oksana Ostroverkhova) Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, UK (2013).
S.M. Stranahan, E.J. Titus, K.A. Willets. "Discriminating nanoparticle dimers from higher order aggregates through wavelength-dependent SERS orientational imaging." ACS Nano. 6, 1806-1813 (2012).
M.L. Weber, J.P. Litz, D.J. Masiello, K.A. Willets. "Super-resolution imaging reveals a difference between SERS and luminescence centroids." ACS Nano. 6, 1839-1848 (2012). **Highlighted in "In Nano," ACS Nano. 6, 990-992 (2012).
I. Kaplan-Ashiri, E.J. Titus, K.A. Willets. "In situ chemical functionalization of a single carbon nanotube functionalized AFM tip using a correlated optical and atomic force microscope." Proc. Mat. Res. Soc. 1318, 1-6 (2011).
S.M. Stranahan, E.J. Titus, K.A. Willets. "SERS orientational imaging of silver nanoparticle dimers." J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2, 2711–2715 (2011).
M.L. Weber, K.A. Willets. "Correlated super-resolution optical and structural studies of surface-enhanced Raman scattering hot spots in silver colloid aggregates." J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2, 1766-1770 (2011). **Featured in ACS Noteworthy Chemistry, August 1, 2011.
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I. Kaplan-Ashiri, E.J. Titus, K.A. Willets. "Subdiffraction-limited far field Raman spectroscopy of single carbon nanotubes: an unenhanced approach." ACS Nano. 5, 1033–1041 (2011).
S. M. Stranahan, K.A. Willets. "Super-resolution optical imaging of single-molecule SERS hot spots." Nano Lett. 10, 3777-3784 (2010).
Please see CV for publications before 2010.


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Hai Phong People Council approves free education plan
December 6, 2019 by dtinews.vn
The People's Council in Hai Phong City has approved a resolution to offer free education for children from pre-school to high school level.
Hai Phong City People's Council has approved of the resolution during a recent session. The city will start exempting school tuition fees for pupils from primary to secondary school from 2020-2021 school year and for high school students from 2021-2022 academic year.
Free education is given to children at nursery schools set up or licensed by Hai Phong City authorities, as well as secondary or high school students that have permanent residence, temporary registration or police's confirmation about their lives in Hai Phong.
Nursery children will be given financial support for 12 months a year and nine months a year for secondary, high school and further education.
It is hoped that the programme will be a motivation for the students to study harder, support for low-income families and to attract a skilled workforce to come and stay in the city.
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The musician was singing with energy and joy, and people were getting up to dance.
"What is he singing?" my mom asked.
I started clapping. She smiled and followed along.
We were at the Rosh Hashanah concert at the Hebrew Home. The singer wasn't bad, but he wasn't good, either, and his phrasing was terrible.
"We're going to do Neil Diamond's most popular song," he announced, his booming voice reaching every corner of the room, urging us all to sing along. And yet, after he sang the words, "Sweet Caroline," he mumbled the rest of the chorus. I couldn't figure out what words to sing or how to sing them.
But it didn't matter. I was having a great time, and so were a lot of other people. So, I think, was my mom.
She was raised Lutheran and used to worry about the fate of people who didn't believe Jesus Christ was their savior. But that day, she was Jewish. No, she was nothing, or maybe she was everything. In any case, she was there.
Practically every week, I take my mom to the Hebrew Home concert. I try to be present. But too often, I'm only half there.
I may be holding my mom's hand, and clapping and even singing, but a part of me is worrying about how she's doing or how I'm doing or what the weather is doing or what I will be doing at my job the next day.
But not on this Jewish New Year. I was clapping and moving as if there were no other place I could possibly be.
When I had arrived earlier that day, my mom was curled up on her bed.
"What are you doing in bed, you lazy bum?" I asked, and leaned over and kissed her on the cheek.
She looked up and smiled, and tried to formulate a sentence. She couldn't. I'm not sure she knew who I was. That lasted a minute or so.
I'm seeing the disease progress.
Soon she was back with me, though. She knew me and within a few more minutes could speak more coherently.
On November 1, my mom will turn 89. Given my schedule and the demands of life, I could probably count how many times I will likely see her again, and how few times she will be mentally present. Some days it seems like we're reaching the end of the countdown.
But then I concentrate on the moment, and it feels as if there is no end in sight. Only new things are on the horizon.
Old resentments I felt over how she treated me in my childhood drop away as we spend more time together. Regrets and guilt she may have had over my life struggles appear never to have existed. Ours is a relationship constantly re-forming, and the opportunities are endless.
It feels like a New Year every second, when anything can happen.
Many thanks to Ariel and Shya Kane, for helping me to see my relationship with my mom in this way.
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We are honored, Beth, for your lovely thanks to us. We are so moved by you and by your words and by your experience with your mom. Sending you our heartfelt thanks in return and many virtual hugs.
Beth, every time I read one of your posts, it is as if you were writing my story. Down to forgetting the hurts of the past (in both directions). Thank you for continuing to share your beautiful thoughts with us.
I'm so glad you're able to have this type of experience with your mom's Alzheimer's disease also. Thank you so much for reading!


The field of candidates is down to three. The Florence City council has two seats available for the November 6th election as well as the Mayors post. Mayor Joe Henry is unopposed for reelection. There were originally 5 candidates for city council, but according to sources two of the candidates failed to complete their filings due to either lack of signatures or missing the deadline. That leaves Woody Woodbury who is currently on the council, Geraldine Lucio and Maureen MIltenberger. MIltenberger is a retired teacher and social worker and was formerly on the Canby city council in the early 90's. Lucio has been a barber for the past 10 years and was an IT specialist for Chase Bank and USAA. Woodbury is the former owner of Grocery Outlet in Florence and has recently retired.
A Coast Guard aircrew medically evacuated a female reportedly suffering from a head injury while aboard the cruise ship Grand Princess near Yaquina Bay, Sunday morning. A Coast Guard Air Facility Newport aircrew aboard an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter hoisted the individual and transported her to awaiting Emergency Medical Service personnel in Newport. Coast Guard Sector Columbia River Command Center watchstanders initially received the request for assistance from cruise ship personnel at 5 a.m. The cruise ship began transiting toward Yaquina Bay, so Coast Guard Sector North Bend Command Center watchstanders took over control as the Search and Rescue Mission Coordinators. The North Bend personnel dispatched the helicopter crew to meet the cruise ship, which was approximately 35 nautical miles off of Yaquina Bay when the medevac occurred. Condition of the woman is unknown.
More paving is scheduled this week for a section of 126 between Veneta and Eugene. The bulk of the work will be done after 7pm in the evening and prior to 6am in the morning. Work is expected to continue through Thursday morning.
The Siuslaw River Bridge construction is set to resume. Crews will return the week of September 10 to begin completion on the remaining bridge work. This includes finishing the protective coating touch-up work, pouring the remaining bridge rail curb, installing new expansion joints and finishing the sidewalk improvements on the north side. Crews will also install new asphalt ramps on the south end of the bridge. The project is to be completed by the end of March 2019.
The Siuslaw School District has announced that they will be able to provide one more year of free after school activities through the Elementary Twilight program. The program will serve Kindergarten through 5th grade students at Siuslaw Elementary from 2:50 until 5:00 PM. The program will begin on September 10th, and will follow the school calendar. Parents and guardians can pick up applications at the Siuslaw Elementary School's Back to School BBQ tomorrow.


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The Breeder
Jannis Varelas
Jannis Varelas (b. 1977) lives between Athens, Vienna and Los Angeles. Recent solo shows: The Breeder (forthcoming 2020); Anima I, Benaki Museum, Athens, (2019); Monster, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens (2017).
Red Fields
Oil, acrylic, pastel, gesso on canvas
250 x 250 cm / 98 1/2 x 98 1/2 in
The Maroons
Jannis Varelas,
250 x 280 cm / 98 1/2 x 110 in
Sailor and Leopard
Oil, oil stick, acrylic ink, gesso on canvas
Mao the Cat
Oil stick, oil, acrylic, acrylic ink, UV ink, pastel, gesso on canvas
200 x 200 cm / 78 7/10 x 78 7/10 in
Jungle Walk
Oil, oil stick, acrylic, permanent marker, pastel, crayon, gesso on canvas
210 x 240 cm / 82 7/10 x 94 1/2 in
The Breeder presents an eclectic selection of paintings by Jannis Varelas with each work epitomizing a different period of the artist's ouvre.
In his work Varelas explores the concepts of identity and alterity, iconophilia and iconoclasm, sameness and difference, the normal and the abnormal, impulse and repulsion, melancholy and ecstasy, the binary and the multiple gender. His practice is best approached as a phychosexual and cultural anthropology of the contemporary.
Oil, oilstick, acrylic, tempera, ink, pastel, guesso on canvas
Red Truck Blue Lights / New Flag for a New Country
Guesso, oil, oistick, acrylic, permanent marker on canvas
300 x 370 cm / 118 x 145 1/2 in
Mixed media on paper, framed
240 x 150 cm / 94 1/2 x 59 1/16 in
The Breeder gallery was founded in 2002 by George Vamvakidis and Stathis Panagoulis. It developed organically from The Breeder magazine that started in 2000, out of the need to build an artistic dialogue between Athens and the world. Over the past eighteen years, The Breeder gallery has been a pioneer in the development of the contemporary art scene in Athens.
Contact The Breeder / Nadia Gerazouni +30 694 464 6800 (Whatsapp)
June Art Fair
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When it comes to March Madness food options, you can stick with a literal basketball theme, embrace a spherical shape, get inspired by pub grub, or choose to latch on the "madness" part of the moniker and dream up lots of crazy combos, which is what we did for hot dog toppings. Whether you're a dedicated fan with your pride (or money) on the line, or couldn't care less about bets, brackets, or watching NCAA basketball, game gatherings are always a great excuse to indulge in beer-friendly fare, so it seemed like a great idea.
Actually, we first spotlighted these creative options, as discussed on Chowhound's General Topics forum, in an earlier version of this article back in 2014—but we thought they were well worth revisiting today (if only to gawk in a couple cases). Plus, we've added some of our own inspired recipes to round out the offerings.
Ketchup and mustard may be eternal, but for the times when they seem run-of-the-mill, give these hot dog toppings a try instead. And obviously, they're also perfect for baseball season (and all summer long).
Inspired by the iconic Vietnamese sandwich, these spiral-cut dogs are dressed with pickled carrots, daikon, and cucumber, plus Sriracha and cilantro. Get our Banh Mi Hot Dogs recipe.
Sweet fruit is a classic partner to certain savory cuts of meat (think pork chops and apples), so why not hot dogs? A spicy-sweet cherry relish makes a pleasantly piquant topper, and goes great with grainy mustard too. Get our Spiral-Cut Hot Dogs with Spicy Cherry Relish recipe.
Movie-inspired snacks are too good to be reserved for the Oscars, so try topping a hot dog with gooey nacho cheese sauce and sliced jalapeños any time of the year. Crushed tortilla chips lend crunch (a trick we might have picked up from one of our Chowhound community members, as you'll see below…) Get our Nacho Hot Dogs recipe.
Bacon makes everything better. So does cheese. Combine them both on a hot dog and you'll be in flavor heaven. This is the real dream team (and the one we're rooting for). Get our Spiral-Cut Bacon Cheese Hot Dog recipe.
And now, on to some of the most notable Chowhound community creations of yore!
laliz suggested a grilled hot dog "swabbed with BBQ sauce" and topped with crushed Fritos. Take your pick from the plethora of regional barbecue sauce styles to make it your own. And consider using chili cheese Fritos for extra oomph.
pacz's dog is wrapped in bacon and served with avocado, sour cream, and salsa. Maybe this was what inspired our own bacon dog recipe above?
tartiflette topped Toronto "street meat" with "hot mustard, hot peppers, green olives, sliced pickles and a few dribbles of Sriracha sauce." That's quite a mouthful. And not completely dissimilar to a classic Chicago dog.
Sometimes simple is best: wanderluster opted for a fried egg, which "improves everything." Honestly, we can't argue with that.
kcijones001's twist on a chili dog was to swap in baked beans and add sauerkraut and spicy mustard. We've definitely eaten baked beans with hot dogs plenty of times, so may as well pile them on the bun!
JWh put Japanese mayonnaise, seaweed, and daikon radish on a hot dog. If this sounds amazing (it is), try taking inspiration from some of the topping combos at Japadog too.
Per the blurb for this one from 2014, "jjackiex33's idea for a sweet-savory combo of marshmallow creme, hot fudge, and melted peanut butter comes from the now-closed Papa Jim's Exotic Hot Dogs in Winchendon, Massachusetts." Whether this sort of thing contributed to the closing of said establishment is a mystery, but please report back if you try this at home!
And to wash 'em all down, check out actually-delicious upgraded versions of your favorite crappy college drinks. Prefer sweet stuff? Vote for your favorite contender in our interactive Sweet 16 Dessert Bracket!