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After some finagling of the Mk2 (due to the 3.5mm TRRS cable jack), I was able to get the critter up and running. After also burning in the Hibiki Mk2 for well over 30 hours, my initial finding of a fairly weak anemic sound(s) have been alleviated. Using Unique Melody Foam tips, I find the sound fairly full with good resound. Nice, indeed.
And the best combo so far? My Opus #2 hooked to the iBasso PB3. Full, deep reaching bass and with good presence…so far. A nice continuance, after rocky start.


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1. It's Einstein's fault that you need your phone to know where the heck you are. At least, indirectly — GPS would never have been invented without the theory of relativity, explains Hiawatha Bray of the Boston Globe.
2. The quintessential genius of the 20th century had trouble getting a job teaching high school. Before he reached fame and success, Albert Einstein faced a whole lot of failure, according to biographer Walter Isaacson.
3. IQ tests have been used to support the case for eugenics, and to justify thousands of sterilizations. Clinical psychologist Elaine Castles tells the history of how we measure intelligence — and why it's not all it's cracked up to be.
Einstein's Influence... in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
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As we look at the lasting influence of Albert Einstein, there's one legacy that isn't felt in our iPhone's GPS or in the way we view intelligence. No, this one is felt in a galaxy far, far away. Read More...
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There was a time Albert Einstein couldn't get a job teaching high school math. Biographer Walter Isaacson takes a look at Einstein's remarkable life, and tells us why being an outsider and underdog might have helped him be even more of a genius. Read More...
How Einstein Gave Us GPS
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Using a physical map to find your way around? That's so, like, ten years ago. Tech writer Hiawatha Bray examines the science and history that gave us GPS — and how we owe some of that to Einstein. Read More...
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It is in the world of careers that Commanders' boldness and drive are truly at their best. No other personality type is better suited than Commanders to be the respected leader of an organization or team, and no other personality type enjoys it quite so much. Combining their vision, intelligence and determination to push ideas through to completion no matter the obstacles, Commanders are a force to be reckoned with.
In the world of business, the sometimes overbearing level of self-confidence that Commanders (especially Assertive ones) too often mishandle in their personal relationships is transformed into an admirable authority, keeping people on track and getting things done. Naturally the best careers for people with the Commander personality type make the fullest use of these qualities, and many would describe executive positions and entrepreneurialism to be ideal lines of work – any position high enough that they can clearly see the horizon.
For Commanders, failure is not an option – they conceive a vision of the future, formulate a strategy to achieve that vision, and execute each step with ruthless precision.
Structure and order are key, and if someone gets sloppy, or holds things back with incompetence, laziness or inefficiency, Commanders will not hesitate to come down, hard. Commander personalities pursue their goals with singular vision, and have strict standards for themselves and others that are designed above all else to be effective. This makes Commanders excellent corporate strategists, and their objectivity and clarity of thought make them respected lawyers and judges.
None of this could work if no one could understand what Commanders were thinking, and they have the good fortune of being clear and concise communicators, especially in person, making business administration a comfortable fit – so long as their tasks don't stray too far into routine maintenance and upkeep. Commanders also have a thirst for knowledge, and they aren't afraid to use a principle once they've grasped its underlying mechanisms. Combining this with their leadership makes Commanders trying, but effective, university professors.
The only problem is, it takes time for Commanders' skills to be recognized, and stagnating as low-level employees will have them bouncing off the walls and deeply unhappy. People with the Commander personality type crave leadership and responsibility, growth and opportunity, and genuinely enjoy managing others to get a job done. Commanders are visionaries and leaders, not grunts or day-to-day administrators. Getting that to be recognized is not always easy, but Commanders are probably up to the task.


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A much needed step in the right direction: Merit selection of Regents for NM's Higher Education Institutions
By moving to a merit-selection process Gov. Lujan Grisham is communicating the importance of higher education.
A much needed step in the right direction: Merit selection of Regents for NM's Higher Education Institutions By moving to a merit-selection process Gov. Lujan Grisham is communicating the importance of higher education. Check out this story on AlamogordoNews.com: https://www.alamogordonews.com/story/opinion/columnists/2019/02/15/merit-selection-regents-nms-higher-education-institutions/2882323002/
Garrey Carruthers, Roberta Ramo, and Carlos Romero, Chairs of the Regents Screening Teams Published 11:36 a.m. MT Feb. 15, 2019
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's transition team for higher education noted that a "regent should be an individual with distinguished accomplishments, a positive view of the role of higher education, and a commitment to establishing positive relationships with stakeholders both inside and outside the higher education institution."
On top of that, the governor wanted to see criteria for selection of regents and a process for evaluating applicants using these criteria that she could embrace. We're excited to share our ideas about the process that led to selections.
The criteria adopted by the governor included a record of public and/or community service; experience in complex organizations; a record of commitment to education; collaborative leadership ability; commitment to impartial decision making; availability for constructive engagement; a record of integrity and civic value; and a willingness to seek out resources.
The governor also believes boards of regents should, by composition and qualities, demonstrate to the university system and the public a commitment to diversity and, with respect to skills and competencies, the kind of experiences and expertise that will enhance the board's decision making.
As of mid-January, more than 285 interested New Mexicans had applied for 18 open positions on the boards of eight institutions. The presidents of each institution were asked for recommendations with respect to their governance needs. The process involved an initial screening of all applicants, using the criteria above, and then interviews with 62 by one of three screening teams – a New Mexico State University/New Mexico Tech team chaired by Garrey Carruthers, a UNM team chaired by Roberta Ramo, and a Comprehensives/New Mexico Military Institute team chaired by Carlos Romero.
The teams recommended two or more candidates for each position to the governor. Neither the high points nor the needs of higher education have recently received the attention they deserve; one reason, we believe, is the drama, the distractions, associated with some regents. Also, there has not been an emphasis on tailored qualifications for each institution in some recent appointments.
By moving to a merit-selection process and paying attention to the needs of each institution, Gov. Lujan Grisham is communicating the importance of higher education and higher education governance to the people of New Mexico. This will both set her administration apart from others in the past and set the stage for real advancement in the number of New Mexicans who complete certificate and degree programs. Further, we believe using these criteria will result in regent appointments that will allow each of New Mexico's institutions of higher education to advance in their missions.
Our higher education institutions provide a quality education we need to compete in economic development and to address the pressing needs of all New Mexicans. It is all about leadership at the end of the day.
Gov. Lujan Grisham has stepped up by recognizing higher education as the linchpin to a more dynamic economy and a more equitable society in our great state. We're proud to have been part of the change New Mexico needs on this important front.
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Watch Amazon warehouse employees go wild as news breaks of the company's new $15 minimum wage
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Amazon is raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour for all US workers.
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Amazon is raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour for all US workers starting November 1.
An Amazon executive broke the news of the change to hundreds of employees at a warehouse in Southern California on Tuesday.
A video of the meeting shows warehouse workers shouting, cheering, and jumping in response.
Amazon said on Tuesday that it would raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour for all US workers starting November 1.
The change will affect more than 250,000 Amazon employees, including part-time workers and those hired through temp agencies, the company said.
The impact is likely to be felt the most at Amazon's warehouses, where many of the company's lowest-paid positions are concentrated.
Dave Clark, Amazon's senior vice president in charge of operations, broke the news of the wage increase to hundreds of employees at a warehouse in Southern California on Tuesday.
A video of the moment that Clark posted on Twitter shows workers shouting, cheering, and jumping in response.
SEE ALSO: Leaked email reveals Amazon is changing how delivery drivers are paid following reports of missing wages
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This story originally appeared in the July 2019 edition of the CSU Alumni Association's Alumline
For more than 20 years Carol (B.A. Speech Arts, '67) and Jim Nussbaumer (B.S. Electrical Engineering, '67; M.S. Electrical Engineering, '78; M.S. Computer Science, '92) have traveled from their Estes Park, Colo., home to Embangweni, Malawi, for weeks at a time, to reunite with friends, plug into purposeful work, and witness the steady transformation of a community. That the couple ever made their way from Colorado to Malawi is kind of a miracle.
Jim and Carol at their home in Estes Park, Colorado.
Carol would be the first to emphatically tell you, "I don't do mission."
Born and raised in Estes Park, a lifelong Presbyterian, quilter, and witty introvert, Carol is averse to airplane travel. Cultures and food other than her own neither excite nor intrigue. Then there's her family history.
"I had a great-aunt who was a missionary in Egypt for 40 years, through a period of civil unrest in 1919 (siege of Assiut), and an uncle who was a missionary in rural Kentucky in the 1930s," Nussbaumer says. "He died there due to lack of medical care. I figured that was enough mission for one family."
After navigating their way through the complexities of military assignments and life during the Vietnam War – they lived in California, Texas and Maryland – Carol and Jim settled in Loveland, Colorado, and raised their daughters Pam and Cindy. Jim worked at Hewlett Packard. Carol had a speech therapy practice.
When she retired in 1995, her plan was to become a professional quilt maker.
But later that same year Carol learned through her church that the Embangweni Mission Hospital in Malawi, Africa, needed medical facilities help. It was unlikely Carol could be of service but, as she says, following the presentation she "uncharacteristically" offered her time, in person and through a letter, to the Medical Benevolence Foundation staff who supported the mission work.
They finally responded that the Embangweni School for the Deaf, located near the hospital at the Loudon Mission Station, could use her speech therapy expertise. She knew very little about deaf culture in Africa, let alone Malawi. But she did know how to work with pre-K nonverbal children. Now that was intriguing. Except she didn't want to go. She, after all, does not "do mission."
But then, you know, just out of curiosity, she casually dropped into a travel agency to see how one would get to Malawi: the agent's massive resource book fell open to Lilongwe, the capital city. Next, Jim found a forgotten insurance policy paid up in the exact amount of the airfare to Lilongwe.
Then the clincher: a blurb included in the Embangweni hospital newsletter Carol had started to receive stated: "One of our biggest needs right now is quilts for kids who are dying of hypothermia."
Carol got the message loud and clear. "I knew it was a call because I didn't want to go," Carol says, "but I went anyway." It was 1997. She planned to go for three months because it seemed like the right length for her first and only mission trip.
Jim, who had a stockpile of vacation time (he retired from HP in 2000), went too. "He didn't want to eat his own cooking for that long," Carol says with a wry grin.
From one sign to another
Located in the village of Embangweni in northwest Malawi, the Loudon Mission Station was founded in 1902 by Scottish missionaries Reverend Donald Fraser and his wife Dr. Agnes Fraser. The station is one square mile, and today houses a hospital, church, primary and secondary schools for both hearing and the deaf.
Carol at Bandawe School for the Deaf. with former students Fannie and Patrick who now both work at Bandawe. Fannie teaches and Patrick is the woodshop instructor.
When Carol and Jim arrived in 1997, modern amenities were minimal to none. No electricity. No internet. No vehicles (except for emergency services at the hospital). The computer was solar-powered. The primary school for the deaf had been open just two years and it was severely under resourced.
Carol credits her liberal arts education at CSU for teaching her to problem solve her way out of this and other constraints. She made mini flashcards by tearing her business cards into quarters. She found that her Malawian-educated colleagues were less comfortable "thinking outside the box."
But they weren't entirely set in their ways. Among one of the greatest impacts Carol made during her first visit was to assist the faculty in learning some basic sign language. "The teachers did not know sign because the thinking at the time was, 'if you teach a deaf child to sign, she will never learn to speak and will be seen as different in the village.'"
Yet communication is an inherent need. Deaf students had already developed gestures between themselves, but there was no consistency. "In 1997 there were four classes of students and four different 'signs' for flashlight," Carol says.
Although her own knowledge of sign was small, she did know the alphabet and began after school teacher workshops. Older students eventually saw Carol practicing sign with the school Head and before long they were learning the alphabet too. Shortly after Carol returned to Colorado, the school began to develop its own sign system, which continues to evolve.
Far from shallow
There wasn't a map of the station grounds – Carol kept getting lost the first day – so he made one. Apart from Carol and nine 75–pound plastic bins full of medical supplies and other necessities, Jim arrived in Malawi with some tools, his laptop, and an 8mm camera. Despite his lack of official mission assignment, Jim is not one to sit idle.
He learned about a new yet uninstalled windmill that sat parted out in a maintenance shed. It had been donated by a church in Nebraska but the initial installation was in a poor location and the project was abandoned. Jim adopted it, identifying what was missing, ordering new parts (delivery from the U.S. took more than 3 weeks), and eventually guiding its successful installation at a nearby medical clinic.
Jim got to know the hospital plumber Henry Soko, or Mr. Soko as he was respectfully called. Soko was also in charge of a crew of men who manufactured pumps that were used in nearby shallow wells. The wells could generate enough clean water to serve 150 or so people – the size of a small village.
Unlike a bore hole, which is a machine-drilled well that descends 50 to 200', costs $5–10,000, and often requires highly technical maintenance (many an unrepaired bore hole sits idle in Malawi), shallow wells are hand dug by the villagers to a depth no greater than 20' and (in 1997), cost $300 to build, and can be maintained in country by local experts.
Jim unloading lumber for the shallow well warehouse in Mzuzu, Malawi
In 1997, Loudon Mission Station was the hub of the U.S.-based Marion Medical Mission (MMM) shallow well program in northern Malawi. Easy access to clean water means families aren't sharing water holes with animals. Additionally, the time that women and children formerly spent traveling long distances to acquire water – an often–unsafe prospect, as well as physically demanding (five gallons of water weighs 40 pounds) – can now go into other activities. For children, that means more time in school, or, in many cases, going to school for the first time.
One day Jim and Carol walked to a nearby village with Stephen Zulanga, a hospital maintenance worker, to see the shallow well that his village had installed. Zulanga proudly showed them the well at work, saying, "My babies don't die anymore."
In befriending Soko and Zulanga, Jim discovered a purpose that hooked him. Soko wanted a CAD drawing of the pumps they manufactured, so Jim got to work with measurements and design. The program had no technical manual for well installation, so Jim created one, even outsourcing most of the drawings he wanted to include to CSU students by way of Carol's nephew, Robert Work, a design and merchandising instructor and son of retired English professor James Work. All of the drawings are still in use today, through multiple revisions of the manual.
The work is never finished
Carol's grand vision to go to Malawi just once was ultimately thwarted. Jim returned in 1999 to volunteer with MMM for three weeks. In 2000 Carol resumed her volunteer work at the School for the Deaf. The couple has returned every year since. They stay for six to seven weeks.
With no expectation, Carol and Jim ultimately got hooked by the people, forged friendships, and made everlasting bonds. The number of contributions they have made to the Embangweni Schools for the Deaf – a secondary school opened in 2014 – and the shallow well program are countless, but not the point, they say.
An typical water source in Malawi soon to be replaced by a shallow well.
What matters to them most is the success they've watched their colleagues and friends achieve.
The shallow well program has spread across three countries, annually installing nearly 3,000 wells (now costing $450 each).
Deaf students learn with E-readers.
Fannie Singini surpassed everyone's expectations of what a deaf person can do by completing secondary school with no signing teachers and even becoming a teacher herself. She is a product of what the school teaches its children: "deaf is not death" and "disability is not inability."
And, modern amenities have improved: electricity and the internet finally arrived.
Carol and Jim have each found ample room inside their volunteer work to create new systems, encourage and foster the professional growth of their colleagues, engage the time, treasure and talents of other U.S. volunteers, and deepen their service.
"This is a project that is never finished," Jim says, referring to the shallow wells. "Admittedly, it's a feeling of purpose. A feeling that is hard to replace."
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this is a six week long course and today is the first session.
the exam, the course book, and all these other good things.
I promise I'll make up for the logistics later on.
So, what is operations management about?
management does and how it relates to the business strategy of the firm.
And that in turn guides what performance measures that we're going to track.
Let's start with two very specific examples.
So we have our consumer here.
We're heading to a restaurant.
what does the consumer want out of the operations of this restaurant?
Well, first of all they want to get the sandwich quickly.
get their sandwich is a pretty important variable for the consumer.
Second consumers differ in what type of sandwiches that they like.
to really make sandwiches that are appealing to customers is important.
being able to make these sandwiches to specific customer instructions.
So as the customer cares about quality.
It could be the hygiene of the place.
It could be making sure that the cheese is where exactly as it says on the recipe.
later on in this course.
And then finally of course price matters.
And so the consumer doesn't want to spend too much money for his lunch.
let's look at the operations of the hospital.
example the emergency room of the hospital so we have our unhappy consumer here.
a consumer want the operations for this hospital to do?
often take as long as five hours, and so the person wants to be seen quickly.
them instead of the care that is right for the person in the bed next to them.
They want to receive this care in a high quality manner.
that the consumer and or his insurance will have to pay for the service.
So sandwich store, emergency room.
We see that an operation has to be able to perform well along four dimensions.
The first one is the Cost dimension.
The second dimension is Variety.
Now, to be fair, consumers don't care about variety per se.
They just want something that they like.
to provide goods and services to a heterogeneous customer base.
The third dimension is Quality.
The Quality dimension is broken up into two sub dimensions.
the second one is called conformance quality.
Performance quality measures how good of a product or service we provide.
not because how it is built, but primarily because how it has been designed.
The second dimension then is conformance quality.
we're able to deliver on the promise that we have made to the customer.
And then finally, there is Time units.
Our ability to provide a quick response to demand.
Those four dimensions are important for two reasons.
they will guide what type of performance measures we track.
And then, they're really also at the heart of divining the business strategy.
other, thereby potentially providing us with a competitive advantage.
that tracks these four dimensions that we just discussed.
you would start potentially looking at the labor productivity.
employees or the customers served per employee.
Or the minutes it takes you to make a sandwich or other measures like that.
that you have by renting the restaurant.
Now, how about the Variety?
are we able to meet the heterogeneous customer preferences?
that would simply be looking at the number of items that we have on the menu.
at the percentage of customer request that we're able to fill.
of customer request that we meet would be another good measure of variety.
the staff in line with their expectations or other things.
are we really delivering what we promise?
of the ingredients of the sandwiches.
appropriate amount of grams of cheese on the subway ham and cheese sandwich.
And so, that would give us a good measure of conformance quality.
that it will takes them to get through the sandwich and so we could go and measure.
leaving the store with a sandwich in their hand.
So finally, let's talk about strategy.
advantage, either through cost leadership or through differentiation.
timeliness are three ways in which your operation can differentiate from others.
They arrive by coming up with a great operation.
You really creating your firm competitive advantage.


Our neighbors up the street don't shovel the sidewalk in front of their house. Asking politely hasn't worked — what else can I do?
You can't force your neighbors to take responsibility. They may feel that the sidewalk is the town's problem, not theirs. Before saying anything, make sure they are physically able to shovel. You could try teaching by example and clear their walk yourself — which might embarrass them into taking on the task. If all else fails, try saying this: "Mr. Phillips, we'd really appreciate it if you could shovel in front of your house. Otherwise, the kids have to walk in the street. Thanks!"


Another car company is about to recall thousands of cars, but this time, Toyota and GM are safe. BMW is recalling 1.6 million cars of its 3 series sedans around the world. The affected cars may have had faulty passenger-side airbags, and the auto manufacturer became worried that the bags could randomly explode. In an effort to prevent any injuries or deaths, BMW is recalling any cars that could possibly have the faulty airbags. About 1/3 of the cars that could be affected are in the United States, and the recall affects models produced from 2000 to 2006.


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Photo: Egyptian embassy in Libya.
Libya: Egyptian diplomats kidnapped after the arrest of a militia leader.
Four individuals on a diplomatic mission at the Egyptian embassy in Tripoli were kidnapped one day after the abduction of other Egyptian diplomats in what the Libyan government described as a reaction on the arrest of a Libyan militia leader by Egypt.
There was no declaration about the group responsible for the abductions, however information was spread that a Libyan militia leader should have been arrested in Cairo.
Libyan authorities increased the presence of security forces in front of the Egyptian embassy in Libya's capital Tripoli which followed the abandoning of Egypt's diplomatic mission [there] after a decision of the Egyptian government to clear the embassy from all diplomats. [When] the abduction of five Egyptian diplomats from the Egyptian embassy took place, the cultural attaché Dr. Hilali ash-Sharbini and the commercial attaché Hamdi Ghanem were among them.
Iran says there is no confirmation that an [Iranian] diplomat abducted in Yemen has been beheaded by al-Qaeda organization.
The official Iranian source contradicts the Yemenite government and its security ministry on this matter and who had already launched the news of a beheading.
[The United Nations] Security Council calls for not paying ransom money and not making political concessions towards terrorists.
This news is quoting an advice given by the United Nations Security Council the day before on January 27. It is referring to incidents of abduction by al-Qaeda and its branches. According to related British statistics, there should have been paid about 105 million U.S.$ of ransom money during the last 3.5 years to such organizations.
At the very beginning of a 'Geneva 2' conference on Syria, two sides involved in the problem, however not present at the negotiating table, make themthelves heard. One side is the Iranian president Rouhani who proposes general elections in Syria as a means to solve the problem. The other side involved is al-Qaeda, the " parent organization of Islamic terrorism ", represented by its actual leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Al-Zawahiri calls for an ending of the battle between Islamic troops in Syria.
In an acoustic message distributed on the internet, the leader of al-Qaeda organization Ayman al-Zawahiri called for an ending of the battle within " the brotherhood of Jihad and Islam " in Syria.
And in his message which came simultaneously with the beginning of a 'Geneva 2' conference, al-Zawahiri addressed " all militant groups and all [liberal ones] in Syria to engage in overthrowing the regime of al-Assad ". And he said " we call them all to engage immediately in ending the battle within the brotherhood of Jihad and Islam ".
An international conference to find a political solution to the conflict in Syria is set to begin in Switzerland today, January 22.
For months, UN, US and Russian diplomats have struggled to persuade both sides to attend what has become known as "Geneva II".
Syrian TV: The airplane [carrying] a delegation for negotiations was refused refuelling in Athens.
[According to] Syrian state TV, the aircraft carrying the delegation that will participate in international peace talks to take place in Switzerland was refused refuelling after landing on Athens airport.
And it was added the aircraft had received a [traffic/transit] permission for the [requested] airspace [including] landing in Athens for refuelling.
Walid al-Muallem shortly before his arrival in Geneva : Assad's "red line".
It was considered that a participation of the regime's delegation [would be] aiming at the beginning of a Syrian-Syrian dialogue.
After shelling militant Islamic groups in Falluja, the Iraqi army is now launching an attack on similar groups in Ramadi township.
The Iraqi army is launching a military operation against "Daesh" in Ramadi.
According to General Mahmud al-Eskari, the spokesman for Iraq's ministry of defense (photo below), that operation is directed against " followers of 'Daesh' (Islamic Nation of Iraq and Syria/ the Levant, ISIS/ISIL), members of al-Qaeda and other terrorists ".
Further information on "Daesh" is available on another blogspot of mine published earlier this month.
on a main road that stretches from Baghdad to the Syrian border.
Tehran is considering Washington's declaration as being partial [with regard to] the nuclear treaty.
Afkham: This is not a criterion for judging the procedure that will [lead to] the treaty's application.
On Friday, Iran declared the summary published by the White House of practical step-by-step conditions for the treaty on Iran's nuclear program as being a " unilateral and partial reading matter ".
Marzieh Afkham, the spokeswoman for Iran's ministry of foreign affairs made clear that a declaration from the White House is [some kind of] unilateral and partial reading matter [regarding] the treaty [and which] is not official between Iran and the 5+1 group (China, United States, France, Britain, Russia and, in addition, Germany), as has been communicated by "IRNA" [press] agency.
Afkham added: " This is not at all a criterion for appreciating or for judging the procedure that will [lead to] the treaty's application. "
The definition of a clause " having [mere] technical character " and which the White House has published on Thursday, [is regarding] a delay of inspection procedures by the agency for [nuclear] energy on the origins of Iran's nuclear [material].
Zarif: [There are] negotiations [on the nuclear issue] despite of sanctions from Washington.
Rouhani: Those responsible in Iran are using the embargo for personal interests.
He expressed his support for those who negotiate the nuclear issue, describing them as energetic responsible persons.
Iran's president Hassan Rouhani accused responsible persons in Tehran for obstructing the elimination of international sanctions, imposed on his country, as a consequence of personal benefits to them. [He] threatened to [convict them], however at the appropriate moment.
An "enlightening" UPDATE was added on January 15.
German diplomat's car [became the target] of an attack in al-Awamia.
[The car] was driven by two Germans [with diplomatic status] and [who] fled with the help of some compatriots.
A diplomat's car [belonging] to the German embassy in Saudi Arabia became the target of a shooting from unknown [side] while passing the community of al-Awamia in ash-Sharqia province on Monday [January 13].
Editor's Note: The Saudi Arabian province of ash-Sharqia is situated in the Eastern part of the country. The community of al-Awamia is known for its sometimes rebellious Shia population.
Al-Awamia is not a desert village but belongs to an agglomeration of urban communities stretching along the coastal line of the Persian Gulf. It hosts different education centers, a police station and a medical center. Al-Awamia belongs to the administration district of al-Qatif township.
The spokesman for ash-Sharqia province police made clear the incident presented itself as a car catching fire and the rescue of both German passengers who carried diplomatic passports. [Rescue] happened with the help of some compatriots.
And the spokesman assured that special security services will handle the case in succession to that attack [until] the determination of those responsible for it.
The spokesman for ash-Sharqia province police declared that today, Monday [January 13], at about six o'clock in the evening, the police of al-Qatif district received a message [saying] that a diplomat's car from the German embassy to the Kingdom, was affected by a shooting from unknown [persons] while being in the community of al-Awamia. [That shooting] resulted in [the car's] burning and the rescue of both German passengers who [had diplomatic status] with the help of some compatriots.
Editor's Note: The Arabic text uses the Islamic date of the day the incident happened.
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Increasing influence of Islamic fundamentalists in the Falluja region of Southern Iraq is the subject of today's news from Al-Arabiya. It is all about some organization named "Daesh".
"Daesh" is the Arabic abbreviation for an affiliate of Al-Qaeda, the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)" and which uses a synonym for Syria in its name that can be interpreted as well as "the Levant". Hence, the organization is as well known under the name "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)". Their actual leader should be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
"Daesh" is trying to install a state at the border between Syria and Iraq.
It is taking part in fierce battles in two districts, one in Syria the other at one side of Iraq.
Dismissal of the chief of police for Anbar [province] ..... and "Daesh" in control of Falluja [township].
Great battle for the destiny of the town of mosques [while] al-Maliki's [security] plan is facing failure.
Editor's Note: Kamil Muhammed Hasan al-Maliki is the president of Iraq since 2006.
Information given above is fitting with U.S. reports saying that in January 2014, during the clashes in Iraq's Anbar province, ISIS militants took control of the city of Fallujah and parts of Ramadi while Islamic rebels in Syria affiliated with the Islamic Front. As a consequence, the Free Syrian Army launched an offensive against ISIS militants in and around Aleppo. Sources quoted on this item are U.S.A. Today and the New York Times from January 4, 2014.
"Al-Qaeda is using force to bring Iraq under its control !", that is what Western media cried out in alarm on [January] 5, when a group of extremists seized the Iraqi town of Falluja and officially proclaimed the foundation of an "Islamic Emirate".
[Davutoğlu]: A relation between Daesh and the Assad regime has become public.
Ahmet Davutoğlu ( أحمد داوود أوغلو ), Turkish minister of foreign affairs.
The Free [Syrian] Army accuses the "State of Iraq and Syria/Levant" [i.e. ISIS/ISIL] of operating for the protection of the regime.
Units of the Free Army have started chasing "Daesh" after a preceding series of accusations regarding a suspected relation between the regime of Assad and that organization [which France and Britain had found out earlier].
Barzani criticizes the military intervention of [Iraq's president] Maliki in Anbar province.
The Iraqi army besieges Falluja and Ramadi with a shower of grenades in an arbitrary bombardment.
At least 8 persons died and about 12 others were wounded in the explosion of a [mined] car targeting volunteers of the Iraqi army in Baghdad according to information from security and medical sources.
That attack was the second one [directed] against volunteers in the army after 23 died and 30 were wounded in a suicide bombing targeting them near [their quarters] last Thursday.
Government authorities had opened the door to a registration for joining the Iraqi army simultaneously with starting military operations in Anbar province [in order to] chase elements from ISIS/ISIL organization ("Daesh").
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In the early hours of Sunday December 29, 2013, about 3,000 paramilitary and police forces equipped with helicopters and speedboats haunted the 14,000 inhabitants of Boshe, a coastal village in Guangdong province, in an unprecedented crackdown on the production and trade of narcotics.
77 production facilities for crystalline methamphetamine, also known as crystal meth, speed or ice, were shut and 182 persons arrested who should belong to 18 drug rings. 2.95 tons of crystal meth could be seized together with 260 kg of ecstasy and more than 100 tons of raw material.
The total amount of that drug seized by Chinese authorities since July 2013 is such rising to 8.1 tons related to 10,836 arrests.
For comparison: According to latest global data available, worldwide seizures of crystal meth in 2011 amounted to 88 tons [Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNODC].
Among 326 drug-making facilities that had been shut in China in 2012, 70% were specialized on crystal meth production and 50% could be located in Guangdong province.
According to another Chinese source, the Boshe operation should have lasted until January 3, 2014.
One of the most irritating results of a preceding investigation is that part of local police obviously protected the trade of crystal meth. According to an official source, there are even hints that two local police officers had sold drugs directly from their police car.


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UNESCO Lies About Mount of Olives "Jewish Fake Graves" While Thousands Gather for All-Day Inaugural Jerusalem Passover Event
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Six months of ICPHH planning with Culture Minister Miri Regev (shown left) and others, thanks to major allocations from Regev's ministry and the Jerusalem Development Authority, came together during the Passover holiday break for a first ever full day of performances and tours on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives.
Regev, with whom ICPHH's Israel co-chair Jeff Daube has been working closely for years to facilitate Jewish presence and activity on the geostrategic Mount of Olives, said she was so delighted with the outcome that she expects to schedule this combination festive celebration and education opportunity annually.
The resolution, which also erases the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount and Western Wall, was approved by 33 states, including France, Russia, Spain and Sweden.
ZOA Israel with ICPHH, the International Committee for the Preservation of Har Hazeitim, have been steadily bringing about changes—not just so visitors can frequent the mountain's historical sites and holy Jewish cemetery in safety, but to put the lie to Arab fictionalizing of its Jewish connection as they go about trying to wrest control from Israel, for starters, in eastern Jerusalem.
Proof of such a need is in the latest UNESCO draft resolution, reviving a years old libelous claim about "Jewish fake graves" Israel has planted on the Mount of Olives and in other "Muslim [sic] cemeteries."
As if to answer the UNESCO challenge, at least three thousand visitors, according to police estimates, swarmed the all-day Mount of Olives event, responding enthusiastically to the entertainers and tours (one shown above at the undeniably Jewish cemetery). Regev's calls for Israeli and world Jewry to proclaim the mountain's central importance, both as a repository of our shared national past and integral to shaping a shared national future, received special applause.
Coverage in Hebrew with video is viewable here. Besides Regev, concert presenters and attendees included ICPHH U.S. representative Rabbi Pesach Lerner and Israel co-chair Harvey Schwartz (in center photo with Regev and Schwartz's co-chair, ZOA Israel Director Daube), Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Moshe Leon (ICPHH ally Mayor Nir Barkat was overseas), Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, and ZOA friend and eastern Jerusalem resident Simon Falic (bottom right, seated next to Regev).
As with the two previous concerts on the Mount of Olives, Daube likened the event to former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani's Central Park rescue strategy, which in the mid-1990s had included offering regular attractions there to draw public interest. In Israel, Daube refers to his committee's Mount of Olives revival strategy as Jew-lianizing.
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The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly criticized the leftwing Brookings Institution, a well-known Washington, D.C. think-tank, for accepting funding from radical Islamic sources, including the Persian Gulf country, Qatar. Qatar has funded radical Muslim terrorist groups, including Hamas, and the Islamic State (IS) [IS –– also known as the Islamic State in Iraq […]
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"Paul, There has been a lot of talk lately about Bordeaux futures. Could you explain what they are?"
Futures buying involves the purchase of the wine before it is actually bottled in order to secure it at a better price than it will sell for on release. In Bordeaux, it is normally done with particularly good vintages like the two most talked-about ones coming up, 1995 and '96, so that people have a chance to buy them before they're all sold out. Back in the old days, like the 1950s and '60s, the local French press would extol the virtues of a particular vintage and the chateaux would then offer the wines on a pre-release basis for a better price than they would plan on releasing it for later. This would bring cash into the winery sooner and the consumer would get a price break.
Today the futures market has taken on a personality that is somewhere between commodities trading and a Ringing Bros. circus. First we have an international press writing about the vintage before the grapes are even harvested! This gets the hype rolling and with every thunderous adjective, the price goes up another notch. Next, we have a new market that is just jumping on the Bordeaux bandwagon. That market is the new¬found wealth in Asia, particularly China, Taiwan and Korea. The chateaux keep raising prices and the Asians keep buying them. So they keep raising the price and they keep selling. It's an amazing spiral which has seen prices rise 300% in less than a year!
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Gene variants predict treatment success for alcoholism medication
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The effectiveness of an experimental treatment for alcoholism depends on the genetic makeup of individuals who receive it, according to a new study supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health. A report of the findings appears online in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
"This study represents an important milestone in the search for personalized treatments for alcohol dependence," says NIAAA Acting Director Kenneth R. Warren, Ph.D.
Researchers led by Bankole Johnson, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, conducted a controlled trial to determine if the medication ondansetron could reduce problem drinking, in alcohol-dependent individuals. Ondansetron is currently used to treat nausea and vomiting, often following chemotherapy. It works by blocking receptors for the brain chemical serotonin.
The current study extends the researchers' previous work on the role the brain's serotonin system plays in alcohol misuse. Serotonin mediates many processes in the brain, including the rewarding effects of alcohol. Dr. Johnson's group has shown that variations in the gene that encodes the serotonin transporter, a protein that regulates the concentration of serotonin between nerve cells, can significantly influence drinking intensity. Specifically, serotonin transporter variants designated as LL and TT have been associated with more severe drinking problems. The researchers have also reported that ondansetron may be an effective therapy for some people with alcoholism.
In this study, Dr. Johnson and his colleagues performed genetic analyses to determine which serotonin transporter gene variants were carried by each subject, then randomly assigned each subject to treatment regimens with ondansetron or placebo.
The researchers found that, for subjects with the LL genotype, those receiving ondansetron reduced their average number of daily drinks to less than five, while those receiving placebo continued to have five or more drinks per day. LL subjects who received ondansetron also had significantly more days of abstinence, relative to those who received placebo. Ondansetron's effects were even more pronounced among individuals who possessed both the LL and TT gene variants, while subjects who lacked the LL variant showed no improvement with ondansetron.
"By being able to do genetic screening beforehand, clinicians can eliminate a great deal of the trial and error approach to prescribing medicine," says Dr. Johnson. "Personalized medicine allows them to better predict a successful treatment option."
Researchers uncover gene's role in severity of drinking
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A controversial Bay Area school with strikingly high numbers of foreign students has received permission from its controversial accrediting agency to continue operating.
Northwestern Polytechnic University in Fremont has repeatedly denied it's a "visa mill" that churns out graduates able to stay and work in the U.S. under the Optional Practical Training program for people on student visas. Its accrediting agency, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, was stripped of its U.S. Department of Education recognition before gaining it back under the administration of President Donald Trump.
The accrediting agency warned the university in April that it would lose accreditation if it didn't produce information about student demographics and satisfaction levels among students and employers who hire its students and graduates.
Now, the school has had its accreditation renewed by the agency for four years.
"NPU was reviewed in accordance with our criteria, demonstrated their compliance as the result of an on-site peer review evaluation, and was subsequently awarded a four year grant of accreditation," the agency's CEO Michelle Edwards said in an email Friday.
Founded in 1984, Northwestern Polytechnic was targeted in a March letter from Sen. Chuck Grassley to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in which Grassley, an Iowa Republican and head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, referred to "multiple credible reports" that the school was a visa mill.
Northwestern Polytechnic was the subject of a 2016 Buzzfeed investigation that concluded the school used "a system of fake grades" and barred professors from issuing failing grades.
The school, a registered non-profit, and the accrediting council did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Earlier this year, Pew Research in a report on use of the Optional Practical Training program — which provides a work permit to foreign students and graduates for up to three years — ranked Northwestern Polytechnic first among all colleges of its type in the number of students receiving OPT work permits. In a 12-year period, 11,700 Northwestern Polytechnic students and recent graduates were granted the OPT, Pew reported in May.
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US executes first woman on federal death row in nearly seven decades
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The US government executed convicted murderer Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, early on Wednesday, after the Supreme Court cleared the last hurdle for her execution by overturning a stay, according to a reporter serving as a media witness.
Montgomery's execution marked the first time the US government has implemented the death sentence for a female prisoner since 1953.
Challenges were fought across multiple federal courts on whether to allow execution of Montgomery, 52, who had initially been scheduled to be killed by lethal injections of pentobarbital, a powerful barbiturate on Tuesday in the Justice Department's execution chamber at its prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Kelley Henry, Montgomery's lawyer, in scathing remarks, called the pending execution, "vicious, unlawful, and unnecessary exercise of authoritarian power."
"No-one can credibly dispute Mrs. Montgomery's long-standing debilitating mental disease — diagnosed and treated for the first time by the Bureau of Prisons' own doctors," Henry said in a statement.
Montgomery was convicted in 2007 in Missouri for kidnapping and strangling Bobbie Jo Stinnett, then eight months pregnant. Montgomery cut Stinnett's foetus from the womb. The child survived.
Some of Stinnett's relatives have travelled to witness Montgomery's execution, the Justice Department said.
Montgomery's lawyers asked for Trump's clemency last week, saying she committed her crime after a childhood in which she was abused and repeatedly raped by her stepfather and his friends, and so should instead face life in prison.
It is one of three executions the US Department of Justice had scheduled for the final full week of President Donald Trump's administration. Two other executions scheduled for Thursday and Friday have been delayed, for now at least, by a federal judge in Washington, to allow them to recover from Covid-19.
Federal executions had been on pause for 17 years and only three men had been executed by the federal government since 1963 until the practice was resumed last year under Trump, whose outspoken support for capital punishment long predates his entry into politics.
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Драконтиум () — род вечнозелёных травянистых растений семейства , распространённых в Южной и Центральной Америке.

Распространение
Встречаются в Центральной и тропической Америке: Мексика, Коста-Рика, Никарагуа, Панама, Доминиканская Республика, Пуэрто-Рико, Тринидад и Тобаго, Сент-Винсент, Французская Гвинея, Гайана, Венесуэла, Боливия, Колумбия, Эквадор, Перу, Бразилия, Парагвай.

Ботаническое описание
Гигантские клубневые травянистые вечнозелёные растения с одним (редко двумя) листом и с одним (редко двумя) соцветиями, до 1,5 м высотой, с клубнем до 20 см в диаметре, с черешками листьев до 5 м длиной и цветоножкой до 2,5 м длиной.

Клубень находится на глубине 5—75 см, более-менее полусферический, 2—20 см в диаметре, 2—10 см толщиной, сверху плоский, с детками от нескольких до многих, расположенных среди многочисленных корней, снизу выпуклый, гладкий или глубоко-морщинистый, без деток и корней.

Листья
Катафиллы в числе 3—5, внутренний из них самый длинный, расположены на уровне 2—10 см над уровнем земли, частично закрывают основания черешка, беловатые с розовым отливом или бледно-коричневые (особенно у вершины), сухие, а перед листовой пластинкой коричневые, полностью расширенные и часто сгнивающие.

Черешки 2—8 см в диаметре у основания, 1—3,5 см — у вершины, 1—5 м длиной, от светло- до тёмно- или коричневато-зелёного, иногда у основания коричневый, с беловато-зелёными пятнами и полосками, создающими окраску, наподобие кожи рептилий, поверхность от гладкой до шероховатой с массивными выпуклостями, иногда в виде удлинённых горизонтальных гребней, разделяющих различно окрашенные участки, иногда с шипами до 2 мм длиной; в нижней половине черешков обычно больше выпуклостей, верхняя половина намного более гладкая.

Листовая пластинка с тремя главными сегментами, каждый 0,5—1,5 см длиной, тонко-кожистая, сверху зелёная, глянцевая или полуглянцевая, изредка матовая, иногда с фенестрацией вдоль центральной и первичных жилок. Средний листочек субдихотомично разделён на три сегмента; боковые — субдихотомично на 2 сегмента; каждый сегмент может состоять из одной части или быть разделённым на 2—3 меньшие части.

Центральная и первичные жилки выпуклые и светло-зелёные сверху, заметно выше и более бледные снизу. Вторичные жилки более-менее параллельные и изгибающиеся у краёв, формируя две общие краевые жилки.

Крайние листочки 8—20 см длиной, 3—7 см шириной, от ланцетовидных до нерегулярных, свободные или сросшиеся в основании, часто резко сужающиеся вдоль первичных жилок, на вершине заострённые или разделяющиеся на 2—3 вершины. Меньшие сегменты обратно-ланцетовидные или более-менее треугольные, 1—15 см длиной, 1—6,5 см шириной, острые или закруглённые на вершине, свободные в основании или нисходящие, частично оголяющие первичную жилку. Жилки покрыты пятнами наподобие черешков, но намного более бледными или равномерно светло-зелёными, иногда с коричневым оттенком, гладкие или с выпуклостями, как черешки. Длина от вершины черешка до первого крайнего листочка более, чем в два раза больше, чем длина бокового листочка.

Соцветия и цветки
Соцветие появляется раньше или после появления листа. Катафиллы в числе 3—5, беловатые с отливом от розового до тёмно-коричневого(особенно у вершины), заострённые на вершине, внутренний из них самый длинный, полностью закрывает подземную часть и основание цветоножки, иногда длиннее цветоножки и частично закрывает покрывало.

Цветоножка сгибается, почти доставая уровня земли, до 2,5 м длиной, часто короче черешка, редко его превышает, 0,5−6 см в диаметре, очень внешне похожа на черешок, если не прикрыта катафиллами, но более гладкая, по окраске, как черешок, иногда более розовая или коричневая.

Покрывало постоянное или опадающее, сгнивающее при созревании плодов, от узкоовального до лодкообразной формы, в основании свёрнутое, выше открытое, часто открывающееся при цветении, края не накладывающиеся или накладывающиеся, формирующие трубку, от широко перекрытых до немного открытых на верхушке; вершина более-менее заострённая, от немного выгнутой (менее 45°) до сильно выгнутой (от 45° до 90°); снаружи фиолетово-пурпурное, часто с зелёным или зеленоватым отливом, с заметными, часто выпуклыми жилками, пузырчатое, внутри от красновато-фиолетового до каштанового, глянцевое, полуглянцевое, иногда с тонкими сухими чешуйками, часто с беловатыми или коричневатыми, пёстрыми желёзистыми устьицами, часто с беловатой прозрачной областью 0,5—10 см высотой у основания початка, испускающее периодически во время цветения неприятный запах, похожий на запах гниющих овощей или мяса.

Початок во время цветения от зеленоватого до фиолетового, цилиндрический, иногда более тонкий на вершине, сидячий или на ножке до 1,5 см длиной. Цветки расцветают при открытии лепестков околоцветника. Лепестков 4—6(7), от зелёного до фиолетового цвета. Тычинок (4)5—17(19); пыльники жёлтые, открывающиеся апикально, цвет их меняется от красноватого до коричневого, иногда тёмно-фиолетового, особенно перед открытием. Завязь 2—5(7)-гнёздная, в каждом гнезде по одной семяпочке; столбик 2—5 мм длиной, тёмно-фиолетовый, постоянный или опадающий; рыльце 2—3(иногда 4)-лопастное, покрытое прозрачной липкой жидкостью в период цветения.

Плоды
Соплодие в 4—15 раз длиннее соцветия и в 4—8 раз шире соцветия в период цветения, 4—10 см в диаметре, 4—25 см длиной.

Ягоды незрелые зелёные, при созревании становятся красноватыми, багряными или оранжевыми, покрытые маленькими беловатыми рафидными клетками, на вершине более тёмные, иногда несколько сплюснутые около сохраняющегося столбика, содержат по 1—7 семян.

Семена почковидной или более-менее округлой формы, гладкие.

Число хромосом 2n=26.

Вредители
Культивируемые растения драконтиума поражаются  — насекомым, распространённым в США, с 1990-х годов встречающимся также и в странах Европы, а в 2005 году впервые обнаруженном и в России.

Виды
По информации базы данных World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) Королевских ботанических садов Кью (2020), род включает 29 видов:

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки
 Dracontium в базе данных Королевских ботанических садов Кью, Великобритания
 Dracontium// www.aroid.org
 Dracontium в базе данных Миссурийского ботанического сада

Ароидные
Флора Центральной Америки
Флора Южной Америки

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CTMQ Dubious Claims List
Really? Come on now.
I should have started this page years ago. After all, I've come across several claims about things in Connecticut being the first or oldest or largest or some other superlative that have struck me as dubious at best. Some of these bold claims I love to seek out and write about – with gusto! But some… Some are just too impossible to believe. I want this page to involve YOU, so please feel free to let me know of any others you've seen in print either in the comments or via email.
In no particular order*, I'll begin a list. And I'll perhaps solicit answers from people who are in positions to know and have a companion page of Answers. That sounds like fun.
*The first two having to do with rivers is merely coincidence, but I read both within weeks and it sparked the idea to put this page together.
1. "The Farmington River is the only river to flow in all four cardinal directions in the Northern Hemisphere, " so says the Farmington River Watershed Association.
Really? Come on now. Okay, it definitely flows south from its source in Massachusetts and then takes an interesting turn north in Farmington before turning sharply east at Tarriffville before its mouth at the Connecticut in Windsor. Where is the western portion? Sure, it meanders west for a hundred yards or so in Simsbury but…
In the northern hemisphere? Like the mighty Mississip and the Missouri (to name but two) don't meander in all four cardinal directions? What am I missing here?
2. "The Park (Hog) River, encased in over 9 miles of concrete conduits, is America's largest underground waterway," so says Joe McCarthy and Peter Albano of the Hog River Revival Project. I won't link where I read it first (the Hartford Public Library's ArtWalk site) because it won't last long as a viable link. Hopefully this one will, from their successful KickStarter campaign where they say it again. Twice.
I might buy this picture of Park River canoeing from this guy
Really? Come on now. Well, 5 minutes of Internetting did not disprove this claim, so this might not be as dubious as it sounds. Am I just including this as a way to get invited on a Park River expedition? Yeah, probably. HMU, guyzz!
(Here's a nice wrap-up of the rather interesting Park River history)
3. "West Hartford has more Whole Foods per capita than anywhere else on earth," a claim I've heard several times; both in mocking and in reverential tones.
Really? Come on now. Disclosure: I've actually said this one myself a few times, believing that it must be true. Simply because of the way we ended up with two Whole Foods's: Cheese 'n Stuff is adored by West End Hartfordites, gets bought by Wild Oats, Wild Oats screws the West End by moving to Bishop's Corner in West Harford, Wild Oats gets bought by Whole Foods, Whole Foods opens new gleaming store in new gleaming "downtown" West Hartford with plans on closing former Wild Oats outpost, people go organic free trade bananas and now we have two Whole Foods's in West Hartford. Fine. Okay.
There were 63,268 residents as of the 2010 census. My math tells me that's 1 Whole Foods for every 31,634 West Hartfordites. So… What do you think?
It took me about 9 seconds to debunk the claim. I almost did with the Whole Foods 15 minutes away in Glastonbury, with just over 34,000 residents. My next try was Darien, because I knew there was a store there. Population: 20,732.
Crushed it.
I then went on to find another to better my sample size… Mill Valley, CA…The population was 13,903 in 2010.
Now, of course there are all sorts of parameters to this claim. Maybe they meant "of towns with multiple sites", I don't know. But if that's the case, qualify that claim people. I started searching through the Whole Foods site to find not-large towns with more than one store, but man, there are way more Whole Foods stores infecting the earth than I thought. Screw this.
4. "New Hartford purposely misspelled 'Satan's Kingdom Rd' as 'Statan's Kingdom Rd' to dissuade thievery." Claimed by me.
And how cool is it that I got a picture of it? As you can imagine, this street sign is stolen quite often. I pass it pretty frequently on route 44 and used to keep track of its appearances and disappearances, but that became redundant and impossible. Then one day, this:
I figured it HAD to be purposeful, but I never checked into it. It was, of course, stolen even faster than the normal signs.
More: My page on Satan's Kingdom
5. "Hartford Public Library is the only public building in the, let's say WORLD, with a highway and a river running underneath it." I made this claim too. I don't know how or who will fact check it, but I hope it's true. Because it's pretty rad.
The steel and glass above is the library, the bridge is actually the original Park River bridge, you see the highway there and the river is actually under the highway. I think.
It is an absolute fact that the submerged Park River and the Whitehead Highway go underneath the library. Whether or not any other building shares this distinction is the question.
Bring it on, Intertubes.
Now do "World's first two sided building" using sites that don't originate in Hartford.
As for the street sign, just contact the local public works (but that ruins all the fun I guess) I cant speak of Statan, but I have delivered to 6 different town garages, and I was told twice that they misspelled a sign to prevent theft.
A google search of "Subterranean rivers" gives several examples. here is a list which includes the Park (and the same pic you posted) If they are in order of length, then several are, unfortunately no measurements are given
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/photos/underground-rivers/
also found this one which claims 170 miles…
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/loyaltytraveler/2012/07/01/driving-over-the-largest-underground-river-in-the-u-s/
Boston big dig has several bridge river building intersections. Copley Place has a Mall and hotel.
New York has a few also.
Here's hoping this page climbs high enough on Google's page rank to come up at the top of any search. Debunking claims passed along as "fact" for many years will take a long time.
Jordan – I have the Boat Building claim lined up for my next 5. I've always found that one odd.
Chris – thanks, I am am familiar with the Boston and Chicago river/highway underpasses. Maybe I'll reframe it as "public library."
Tom – we've got time.
Chris – I checked a few of the NatGeo rivers out last week and none were longer than the Park's 9 miles. The second link, about the Salinas River, is cool but the Park's claim is that it is an engineered underground river, not natural.
Brad G says
If I'm understanding the question… my understanding of the Park River was that the only underground part was from Bushnell Park out to the CT River – definitely not 9 miles. What other parts are underground that are included in the "9 miles?"
January First-of-May says
On the Farmington River claim: forget northern hemisphere, it isn't even the only one in Connecticut! Specifically, Bantam River has fairly long stretches in all four directions (in fact they appear to be longer than those of Farmington).
On the Whole Foods claim: I might be misreading the site, but it appears Mill Valley has two :-) which would make it pretty much off the competition at less than 10,000 inhabitants per store.
On other random Connecticut claims: Stamford is supposedly the only city in the US which has the same other state as the closest in all four cardinal directions (it's been fairly well covered on Twelve Mile Circle some time ago; basically, Carter Lake (Iowa) fits much better, but it's far smaller, and barely counts as a "city").
Update on the whole Farmington River thing:
It appears I misunderstood the location of Bantam River.
Indeed, when it comes to meanders in Connecticut rivers, the Farmington wins in absolute scale. Many other minor rivers meander much more relative to their size (notably Scantic River).
On large scale, the best US fit I could find was Columbia River (yes, it's not fully in the US, but the US part is more than enough).
Fun fact: the Moskva River (in Russia) manages to flow in all four cardinal directions, for stretches of more than a kilometer each, within the borders of the same-named Russian city (which is barely the size of Greater Hartford, and 60% of that is newly-added land very far from the river). And why I'm mentioning it? Because this happens to be the city I live in :-)
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About two weeks ago a reader sent me a question concerning one of my blogs. While not unusual, the URL was. Apparently, a site on Blogger is automatically copying my content from my site (along with content from Andy Trice and Christophe Coenraets). Currently they have 402 copies (I'll explain how I know that in a minute) and of course, they will have a copy of this post too - in about 30 minutes.
The site in question is mr-cordova.blogspot.co.za. I'm not using a 'real' link for that of course as I don't want to give them anymore Google power than they already have. (Since at least one person went to his site thinking it was mine.) At the bottom of each post you can see an attribution: "by via Raymond Camden" but no direct link is provided. Even if they did, I certainly don't approve of them copying my content completely on their site.
This leads to a "Choose Your Own Adventure" type interface for trying to report a problem. I ended up in an infinite loop at first but finally ended up on their DCMA removal tool. Their form lets you explain what content was stolen and then asks for the offending URLs.
I knew I could use XPath to parse that data, so I Googled for a random online XPath tool and found this one: Template / XPath 3.0 / XQuery 3.0 / CSS 3 Selector / JSONiq Online Tester I used an XPath of //url/loc to parse each page of the sitemap: I did this three times and ended up with 402 URLs. I then filed a new DCMA request, which *again* won't be enough to stop this asshat, and ran into a new problem. Blogger only allows me to file 100 URLs per day. So great. I've got 4 days now of filing requests. And I get to repeat this every month or so assuming Blogger never shuts this guy down. Anyway - wish me luck. I'll update this post with a comment if I have any luck.


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Lanhee Chen rejoins Brunswick Group as a Partner
Leading U.S. public policy expert and political commentator Lanhee Chen rejoins the firm.
Brunswick Group, the world's leading critical issues advisory firm, today announced that Lanhee Chen has rejoined the firm as a Partner in San Francisco.
Lanhee is a leading U.S. public policy expert and political commentator. He is the David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American Public Policy Studies at the Hoover Institution and Director of Domestic Policy Studies and Lecturer in the Public Policy Program at Stanford University. Lanhee has served in senior roles in U.S. presidential administrations and advised four Republican presidential campaigns, including as Policy Director of Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign.
Lanhee returns to Brunswick having been a Senior Advisor from 2018 to 2021. As a Partner, he will advise U.S. and international clients on public affairs and policy issues, with a particular focus on the Healthcare and Life Sciences and Technology, Media and Telecommunications sectors.
Neal Wolin, Chief Executive Officer, said: "Lanhee brings a deep understanding of many of the key policy issues facing our clients. Those clients need to know how to navigate and engage with Washington more than ever. Lanhee's extensive political and policymaking experience will be invaluable to our clients. I am delighted to welcome him back to the firm."
On rejoining Brunswick, Lanhee Chen said: "I am excited to return to Brunswick to help solve some of our client's toughest problems and to work with an unrivaled group of talented and creative colleagues. I look forward to using my background in American politics and policymaking to help enhance the firm's capabilities in the U.S. and around the world."
About Lanhee Chen
Lanhee is the David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American Public Policy Studies at the Hoover Institution and Director of Domestic Policy Studies and Lecturer in the Public Policy Program at Stanford University.
Lanhee served in a senior role in the George W. Bush administration and advised four Republican presidential campaigns. He was Policy Director of Senator Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign and chief policy advisor; advised Senator Marco Rubio on his 2016 presidential bid; served as Domestic Policy Director of Romney's 2008 campaign; and was a Health Policy Advisor to President Bush in his 2004 re-election campaign. From 2014 to 2018, Lanhee was nominated by President Obama and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve on the Social Security Advisory Board. Earlier in his career, he was a business litigator at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. Lanhee was a Senior Advisor at Brunswick from 2018 to 2021. In 2022, he ran unsuccessfully for California State Controller, but won more votes in the general election than any other Republican candidate in America.
Lanhee is a member of the Boards of Directors of El Camino Health, the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP) and the Healthcare Consumer Rights Foundation. He earned a Ph.D. and an A.M. in political science from Harvard University, his J.D. from Harvard Law School and an A.B. in government from Harvard College.
About Brunswick Group
Brunswick is a strategic advisory firm focused on critical issues and critical stakeholders. Our purpose is to help our clients play their role in the world successfully. We advise on critical issues and critical stakeholders at the center of business, politics and society, and help our clients – the leaders of large, complex organizations – understand and navigate these interconnected worlds. Brunswick is one firm globally, operating as a single profit center. This allows us to respond seamlessly and effectively to clients' needs wherever they are in the world.
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