For the past two decades, global climate change has been front-page news. Viewpoints vary between those who believe global climate changes are a cyclical phenomenon of Mother Nature and those who go to the extreme of calling it man-caused doom??™s day. Different viewpoints lead to varying theories on how or if pollutants that lead to global climate change should be managed. Techniques for managing the pollutants believed to be responsible for climate change consist primarily of government manipulation of behavior ???by controlling economic incentives through taxes, regulations, and subsidies??? (Light & Rolston, 2003).
In 1990, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change believed the atmospheric carbon dioxide has doubled after industrial increase of pollutants and will increase the earth??™s average surface temperature by 2.5 degree Celsius in 2050. The recommended action point is to immediately reduce net emissions by 60% to stabilize carbon dioxide and preventing it from doubling by 2100 and increasing up to 4 degrees Celsius.
James Hansen testified in 1988 to the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that it was 99% probable that global warming had already started. According to a Gallup poll, by 1988 the greenhouse effect was a great deal of concern to 35% of the citizens of the United States of America. James feels we need to act and do all we can to slow global warming while proceeding with further research or we may lose out on countering the problem by reducing air pollutants.
The media countered James Hansen??™s viewpoint with major articles written in the Washington Post (February, 1989), the Wall Street Journal (April, 1989), the New York Times (December, 1989), Reader??™s Digest (February, 1990), Forbes (February, 1990) claiming skepticism in the predictions and impacts of global warming. This was when the label of doom-and-gloomers was attached to those global warming extremists.
The Bush administration in 1990 emphasized the need for more scientific research since there were so many uncertainties in the global warming forecasts. The main concern was the economic strain of carbon dioxide stabilization policies.
Some scientists, Budyo (1988) and Idso (1989) feel global warming is good for us. One scientist??™s view point is in opposition claiming greenhouse gasses injected into the atmosphere will create a new ice age. Another point of view is the belief that the earth??™s global warming will be self-corrected through planetary mechanisms that will stabilize the earth??™s climate in spite of the greenhouse gasses.
There are many viewpoints concerning global warming, however the differences in these viewpoints among the scientists are ???differences of emphasis rather than differences of kind. Rather than highlighting the degree of certainty that attaches to predictions of global warming, as does Schneidere (1989), for example, some emphasize the degree of uncertainty that attaches to such predictions (for example, Abelson 1990)??? (Light & Rolston, 2003).
The general view of economists is that it is doubtful if efforts to slow global warming are worth it with all the uncertainties. I personally tend to agree with this point of view. It is my opinion that the need for moderate monitoring of global climate change rather than proceeding with expensive extremism with a knee-jerk reaction approach to change the climate is a better plan. Extreme lifestyle and culture changes are required with large economic cost commitments with no guarantees that global warming will be stabilized. Reallocation of funds will add to the already struggling economy of our nation. I agree with the Bush administration that more research is needed before more citizen tax funds are used.
???If you want people to do something give them a carrot; if you want them to desist, give them a stick??? (Myers, 1983).
Command and control regulations take the stick approach. This approach works best with those who do not have a ???value based??? approach to their actions, and need to be coerced into doing the right thing. The reward for doing the right thing is no punishment. This approach does not take a very high view of mankind in general, or those who will be governed specifically by the regulation, but it can be somewhat effective to govern a population that will not otherwise do the right thing. In order for this approach to work, however, it must be enforced. For example, the deterrent value can only work if those governed know they will pay a price if caught in non-compliance. This may be very difficult in a global economy.
Incentive based regulations take the carrot approach. This approach works best with those who internalize the cost of climate change risks and who do have a ???value based??? approach. This method assumes that those governed want to do the right thing, and the reward for doing the right thing has monetary incentives from the government, thus making ???doing the right thing??? the economically sound alternative as well. Incentive based regulations are self enforcing, since those complying with the regulations will reimburse. A disadvantage of this approach is that if those governed find it economically more advantageous to ignore the incentives, the incentives don??™t work. For example, if it is cheaper to keep an old clunker car than to buy a new, cleaner car using government incentives, there may be little motivation to buy the new cleaner car.
If I were in a Federal leadership position, I would advocate using the incentive approach since self-motivated people tend to work harder and be more creative than those who are forced to comply with rules. I would however advocate using command and control regulations in those instances where gross pollution was already occurring and the prospects of successful use of incentive based regulations are not promising.
0. Light, A., & Rolston III, H. (2003) Enviornmental Ethics. Molden, MA. Blackwell Publishing.


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Watson, Molinari on top
Aug. 12, 2010 Updated: June 17, 2016 6:36 p.m.
SHEBOYGAN, WIS.
By DOUG FERGUSON
Tiger Woods broke par in the PGA Championship, cause for celebration Thursday.
It wasn't as good as Bubba Watson and Francesco Molinari of Italy, who handled the breeze and bunkers at Whistling Straits and wound up atop the leaderboard at 4-under 68 among those who finished the first round.
Then again, it wasn't nearly as bad as what some were expecting.
Even after the fog lifted along the shores of Lake Michigan, no one was sure what they would see from Woods. The answer came early, with three birdies on his opening holes to -- get this -- put his name atop the leaderboard.
But only briefly.
There were enough errant shots, including one that went so far left it found a marsh he didn't know was there, that Woods had to make an 8-foot birdie putt on the final hole for a 1-under 71.
"I've played too good not to shoot under par," Woods said. "It would've been very disappointing and frustrating to end up at even par as well as I played today. To make that putt -- to shoot under par -- just feels like that's what I should have shot the way I played today. And that's a good feeling."
Since when is shooting 71 a good feeling for a guy with 14 majors?
When he's coming off the worst tournament of his career, an 18-over 298 at Firestone to beat only one player in the field, raising questions that ranged from whether this would be his last PGA Tour event of the year in America to whether he belonged in the Ryder Cup.
"Welcome to golf, you know?" Woods said.
The fog delay meant none of the late starters could finish the opening round.
Ernie Els, desperate to make sure another year doesn't end without a major, played bogey-free through 14 holes and was at 4 under, making a 7-foot par save on the 14th shortly before the horn sounded. Also at 4 under were Matt Kuchar and Nick Watney, courtesy of eagles -- Kuchar on the 13th early in his round by holing from the fairway, Watney on the par-5 11th, his last hole of the day.
Phil Mickelson, closer than ever to going to No. 1 in the world, ended a wild day at 1 under. He knocked it close for a couple of birdies, and spent the rest of the time in the bunkers and rough as he scrambled to save par. He finished on a strong note with back-to-back birdies, the last one a wedge that stopped 2 feet away on the 11th.
In a summer of majors at Pebble Beach and St. Andrews, it only figures that a fog delay just over three hours would be in Wisconsin.
"I had never gotten up at 5:30 for a 12 o'clock tee time," said Charles Howell, who shot a 69.
No one started better than Howell, who ran off four straight birdies on the back nine with a freshening breeze at his back.
Hanging on proved to be the difficult part for him and so many others.
The group at 69 also included Ryan Moore, the only player among the early starters to reach 5 under until dropping two shots over his last three holes into the wind. Jason Day of Australia bogeyed his last hole for a 69.
Darren Clarke and Simon Khan also were at 3 under when play was halted.
With so much rain on Wednesday and in the week before the PGA, the course that looks like a links played more like a PGA Tour course with soft conditions. It was suited perfectly for Watson, one of the biggest hitters in golf.
Of all his birdies, none showed off his power quite like 587-yard fifth hole, the first one on the back nine with the wind at this back.
Ignoring the bunkers and water to the right, Watson hammered his drive so far -- 445 yards by his calculations -- that he had only a lob wedge for his second shot and an easy two-putt birdie.
"It makes it a little easier, I guess, when you do that," Watson said of his long game.
Everything feels easier these days for Watson, the southpaw from the Florida Panhandle who has been through some tough times at home. His father is battling cancer, and he had a major scare over the Christmas holidays when told that his wife -- who once played professional basketball -- had a tumor. It turned out to be an enlarged pituitary gland, but Watson still broke down talking about it.
His goal now is to enjoy himself, from the video games at night to the golf he plays during the day, and it led to his first PGA Tour victory two months ago at the Travelers Championship.
Is a major too far behind? Watson didn't sound like the pressure would ever get to him.
"Any golf tournament I have a chance to win, that's a major," he said. "I don't change the way I do anything. I still hit driver as much as I can, and hopefully chip and get up-and-down and make putts."
He had nine one-putt greens, which works at any tournament.
Molinari went about his work differently, relying on accuracy. He missed only four fairways and two greens, dropped only one shot along the way and worked his way into a share of the early lead with a birdie on the par-3 seventh, among the scariest of the par 3s that hug the shoreline.
Coming off two majors won by players who had never done it before, Molinari has reason to believe he could be next.
"Tiger is going to get back to his standards, and Phil is going to win more majors," he said. "and so you just need to play really well and try to grab the occasion when you have it."
Woods took a step in that direction.
For the first time all week, he hit a shot without caddie Steve Williams holding the end of a club over his right ear as a reminder to keep his head still. Woods found the first fairway, hit wedge to 12 feet and started with a birdie. Then came another birdie on the par-5 11th, when he two-putted from some 80 feet off the green.
It was the first time in more than a year that Woods had started a tournament with consecutive birdies.
"To shoot something under par, that was the goal today," Woods said. "After a quick start, all of sudden I felt I could shoot something in the 60s. Didn't quite happen. I lost a few shots out there."
One bogey came from a tee shot that missed the fairway by 3 yards and was buried in deep rough. Another came on the par-5 second, when his drive landed close to the lip of a bunker, his next shot sailed with the wind into the gallery and his third stunned him.
"What the hell?" he said to his caddie. "Did you see that ball?"
It started right and looked like a knuckle ball, settling into a bunker that left him a shot starting at Lake Michigan.
His worst swing came at the par-5 fifth, the one where Watson got home in two with a wedge. Unsure where to go with the wind at his back, Woods let the driver come out of his hand after impact, and the ball sailed left over the fairway, the bunkers, a ridge and into a marsh.
Woods was stunned when he got to his caddie and saw the marsh. He yelled a muffled expletive with his face buried in a towel while wiping sweat from his brow. All that, and he still made par. After the penalty shot, he laid up and wound up holing a 7-foot putt.
He will have to wait until Friday to figure out where that leaves him.
The late starters will finish the first round Friday morning and immediately start the second round. For Woods, Watson, Molinari and the rest of the players in their side of the draw, they will face a late start and likely won't finish Friday.
If nothing else, that means Woods will make it to the weekend.


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A Good Writer
Janet Flanner's World: Uncollected Writings 1932-1975
edited by Irving Drutman, introduction by William Shawn
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 368 pp., $12.95
The Cubical City
by Janet Flanner
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926; reprinted 1974, University of Illinois Press, $8.95
Pétain: The Old Man of France
Men and Monuments
Harper & Bros
Paris Journal: Vol. I, 1944-1965
by Janet Flanner, edited by William Shawn
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $5.95, paperback edition (paper)
Paris Journal: Vol. II, 1965-1971
Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939
by Janet Flanner, edited by Irving Drutman
Penguin, $2.95
London Was Yesterday, 1934-1939
Viking Press
Citizen Genêt came to the United States in 1793 as minister from France's First Republic. Though on account of political indiscretions a recall was asked for by President Washington in that same year, he actually stayed on as a resident and married here. During his short diplomatic tenure he had sent home letters loaded with information. In 1925 the late Janet Flanner, already resident in France's Third Republic, adopted the revolutionary Citizen's name for signing a fortnightly letter from Paris to The New Yorker. Why she took on a pseudonym for reporting is not clear, save possibly to distinguish a journalistic function from a literary, since she was already author of a novel, to be published the next year.
Some years later, easily thirty, when the present witness referred to Miss Flanner as an "ace journalist," she took umbrage at the term. "I am not an 'ace journalist,' " she said, "I am a writer, a good writer." Well, by that time a good writer she was, a very good one; and a fine reporter too, imaginative in her coverage and alert in phraseology. If the snippets of early work quoted from The New Yorker in Paris Was Yesterday are typical, she had started off as a journalistic writer of concision with a bright carrying power, whereas her literary style in The Cubical City, though still perhaps readable, is weighed down by descriptive overwriting.
Actually, if one reads the books in something like reverse order beginning with the most recently published, Janet Flanner's World (or better still, the two volumes of Paris Journal, which cover the years 1944 to 1971), it becomes clear that their reporting, though vivid, became substantial only in the early 1930s. An exception would be the short profile of Isadora Duncan from 1927. Then in 1933 the Flanner account of how two housemaids of Le Mans, the Papin sisters, murdered their lady and threw her remains about before going at last upstairs to bed together—the original events on which Jean Genet later based his play Les Bonnes—is crime reporting unquestionably brilliant. And so were her extensive 1934 reports of the Alexander Stavisky case, a swindling affair which led to his assassination (almost certainly by the police) and to the bloody firings on February 6 into a mass of citizens on the Place de la Concorde (also by the police and with no warning by trumpet-call).
Another complex swindling story, that of the famous Madame Hanau, was written up in 1935. In the meantime Flanner had told about French crimes (not always in The New Yorker) with such liveliness that a publisher asked her for a whole book of them. She declined on the ground that Americans might have trouble believing that "in France nobody ever murders anybody he doesn't know."
With the 1935 full-length portrait from London of H.R.H. Queen Mary and the 1936 profile from Berlin of Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler, Janet Flanner became visible as an almost political observer—well informed, picturesque as to language, and responsive to the sympathies of middle-class, educated Americans.
It is certain that Flanner, though thirty when she took up journalism, matured along with the magazine she was to be so fitting a part of for over half a century. And it is also certain that The New Yorker itself went through quite a bit of maturing in its early days, for all that it is not easy now to imagine so sedate a publication having ever experienced insecurities.
Some years back, going through old stacks of it in a garret, I was amused to discover (actually it was Julien Levy pointed it out) that for its first years The New Yorker was a magazine of humor specializing in sex. Then in 1927 someone cleaned it up. It had started out with a fresh device, the one-line joke, originally an invention of the novelist Ronald Firbank. It also profited from a novel advertising policy, which was to write up shops and restaurants even before they advertised. Its third major experiment was a scholarly treatment of the news (to check everything), along with an aspiration (intact today) toward perfect proofreading.
Scholarship techniques for collecting the news had already been set up by The New Yorker's predecessor, Time. And The New Yorker has preserved these, notably in its full-length articles. Time did less well with them, because its regional source reports, first rewritten in collecting centers like London, Rome, Buenos Aires, and Tokyo, then being recast at home into a lingo known as "Time style," ended up as often as not quite different from what the original had said. (I remember a piece about myself from around 1939, I think it was, that contained according to my count at least one error per sentence.) World coverage, with a world war to cover, saved the magazine, "Time style" came to be abandoned, and an excellent newsweekly was preserved.
But The New Yorker just seemed to go on as it was, while changing imperceptively from an originally "smart" publication into the slightly left of center political organ it has been for two decades now, its fine fiction, its huge reportages, and its luxury-trade advertisements making dependable reading matter for airplane trips and even for keeping around the house.
Janet's manner changed gradually too, along with the tone of the magazine, which, as the European war approached, was becoming less heavily addicted to the light touch and more unashamedly straightforward, as war reporting augmented and eventually became a necessity. When the European war was over, with plenty of serious soldiering still active in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, neither Janet nor her paper went back to their earlier attitude of gently kidding the rich. If a time should come when there are, for however briefly, no wars or other holocausts to keep us sober-minded, perhaps we shall all go back to promoting luxuries and making fun of the buyers. But Janet will not be with us, though surely we shall again and again reread her deliciously serious stories of French life, art, and politics as she told them every other week for thirty years.
Journalism that can be collected into books is already of tested quality; and a further accolade comes when such books can be read still again. For myself all Janet Flanner's reporting books are a delight to swim around in, also to follow as a stream. But I am an addict, as she was, of French living, and I too take French politics seriously. Garrett Mattingly used to tell his students that "the history of Europe is the history of France," and that may well be true today, for all of Russia's power and Germany's new wealth.
In any case Janet's continued story of French politics since World War II is to me a convincing performance, and not so much because her sympathies were the "right" ones to have as because she knew better than most observers what the French political parties were up to. That, for an outsider, is no small chore.
Americans writing about France tend to make French people seem very small and to underestimate their sincerity. Not Janet. For her Léon Blum was ever a great man and Mendès-France the hope of one, in spite of their frequent failures. As for de Gaulle, either active or just waiting, she grants him always his full stature, which even physically was enormous, and she recognizes in him the chief author of today's France, though from his return in 1944 till his death in 1970 his very presence, no less than his deeds, never ceased to terrify her, as they did also his most loyal countrymen.
She had attained already by the early 1930s a fairly detailed understanding of the French political system, the result of a friendship with the French novelist Germaine Beaumont, who also helped toward improving her French. Later she came to know the French Communist Party with its almost independent status and its appeal for workingmen and their housewives, as well as for French intellectuals of the revolutionary tradition. I take it that the poet, novelist, and chief party theoretician Louis Aragon, a long-time friend, may well have been Janet's main source of clarity regarding party maneuvers. Trotskyist reasonings she seems less familiar with. But her inside view of French politics was ultimately enriched hugely by her acquaintance with André Malraux, whose portrait is the chief novelty in Men and Monuments.
Another art-and-politics excursion in the same book is called "The Beautiful Spoils," which deals with Hitler's personal acquisitions in France, Italy, and Holland; the vast plunderings of Göring (the more knowledgeable of the two and the greedier); and the eventual "liberation" by a handful of American specialists of practically everything not actually destroyed. For this information she probably had access to someone French (my guess is Georges Salles, then Directeur des Musées de France) and certainly to sources in the American army.
Living in New York from the summer of 1939 till 1944, when she returned to France and Germany as a war correspondent in uniform, she composed from official and unofficial sources, from arriving Europeans, and from her own files thoroughly credible pictures of life in occupied France and a four-part profile, Pétain: The Old Man of France. Here also she first published her story of the escape from France during the winter of 1942 and 1943 of Mary Reynolds (called in the narrative Mrs. Jeffries), a woman in her late forties who had traveled clandestinely for six months by trains, trams, and buses, also by walking over the Pyrenees, before she arrived finally in New York and collapsed into bed at the Waldorf. This last weakness, which Miss Flanner omits, followed a forced vaccination for small-pox by American medical authorities, an apparently unclean needle having produced a festered leg which kept the patient supine for six weeks.
Flanner's Paris Journals (1944 to 1965 and 1965 to 1971) give us for those years a two-volume report on life and politics in France which I find an enchanting continued story. London Was Yesterday, which contains the Queen Mary profile, has other pieces from the 1930s and is ornamented by photographs of London's handsomest actors and noblest ladies; but it does not come to life as the Paris pictures do. English life and politics are harder to open up anyway, and the English newspapers tell you nothing. (Even the lordly Times, silent for nearly a year, was scarcely missed.)
Of Flanner's other postwar reportings, those from Italy are the most picturesque, those from Germany quite gripping. She could and did read the Italian press, and was somewhat conversant in that language; everywhere I am sure she neglected neither press contacts nor private occasions to inform herself. But Americans' fascination with Rome after World War II lasted maybe a decade at most. As seat of three world powers—the Catholic Church, the Communist Party, and the film industry, all impenetrable—and of a brand new republic incapable of governing, it was certainly no place to write home about with confidence.
Germany after the last war was far more comprehensible, especially to those who spoke and read German (which Janet could do). Her letters about the Nuremberg trials in Janet Flanner's World are a grand performance for their attention to enlightening detail, for their missing very little of who outclassed whom in the courtroom fracases, and for an almost compassionate view of the losers, in spite of their obvious guilt and their haughty pretense that the whole thing was a frame-up.
But German is heady stuff even today and hard to take in large doses. Back in Paris, with side trips, Janet was happily at home in a hotel room (nowhere did she cook or keep house, ever), lunching out always and dining with friends (she was faithful to them all), reading the whole press every day, going to concerts and to art shows (as an amateur with high toleration), and even keeping up with the new writers, especially the French ones. Steadily she did all of this day after day plus weekends in the country, still reading and talking and listening, for she was a good listener. She was a steady character too, neither an angry one nor jealous nor passionate nor prone to excitements. Level-headed and laborious she always was, and lovely to be with. One wonders how she got through all that writing and the preparations for it.
Was that writing literature? She hoped and rather thought it might be. If literature is something you can read several times and still keep your mind on, then for me Janet Flanner is exactly that. So I keep her books around me. But if they are literature, what is their species? Poetry they are not, nor fiction nor formal history nor, after the war freed her from wisecracks, was she a professional humorist, though her Midwestern ways with common sense and with debunking the proud made her cousin to Mark Twain and to George Ade. No busybody she, no reformer, do-gooder, brave bullyboy, or buttinsky. That would be another kind of Midwesterner, including the great Hemingway himself, whom as a writer she adored.
The format of her own writing is closer, I think, to an English model. Let us call her a diarist. Columnist won't do; she was personally too reticent for that. Let us think of her perhaps with Samuel Pepys, who could go on and on about London, and still make us wish for more.
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Maria Sharapova has just opened a 'Sugarpova' candy pop-up shop and lounge in Wimbledon Village, to coincide with the tennis tournament. It's stocking her range of Sugarpova goodies in lots of flavours, plus there is a juice bar, a photo booth, and free wifi so there is no excuse for not taking and posting pics while you're there.
"International tennis sensation, Maria Sharapova, arrives in Wimbledon with a sweet surprise for her fans – the launch of the first-ever Sugarpova pop-up lounge in Wimbledon Village. The premium candy line reflects the fun, fashionable and sweet side of Maria, and now Wimbledon visitors can get the full Sugarpova experience in a whole new way.
Maria wanted to create the first ever candy lounge, where people can come to enjoy not only her collection of signature candies, but to relax, treat themselves, and share the fun on social media.
Maria has created her own candy business that is premium but aordable by interpreting classic types of candies in her own signature style. A long time personal candy lover with a sweet tooth, Maria developed a new level of quality to the candy category in unexpected and fun types and shapes – with playful names to match. Wrapped up in a beautiful package, it's both style and substance, just like the founder Maria Sharapova. Each unique candy flavour is represented by a bold and colourful pair of lips that represent the many fun-loving sides of their namesake creator: chic, flirty, silly, splashy, cheeky, sassy, spooky, smitten, quirky, sporty and speedy.
The new Sugarpova lounge will boast a bevy of fun offerings for visitors and fans of Sharapova. Not only will candy and sweets abound, but the space will also host a juice bar with concoctions inspired by Sugarpova flavours. There will also be a photo booth to commemorate the trip, and free wifi to best accommodate visiting sweet tooths."


Lindows.com has launched LindowsCD, a program designed to give users the power of Linux through a LindowsOS CD-Rom.
The CD-Rom, which is a specialised version of LindowsOS 4.0, can work on most computers, with no installation or set-up required.
Hardware detection, plug and play support; and multimedia support for MP3, Real Audio, Real Video and Flash are included on the CD.
Each CD-Rom also contains a line of software including a complete Microsoft-compatible Office suite, meaning that Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel files can be opened without additional software.
"There's enormous interest in Linux, but computer users don't always have a spare computer to try it out. Now with LindowsCD any user can insert the disc, restart their computer and they're running Linux," said Lindows.com chief executive officer Michael Robertson.
"When they're done, they simply remove the CD, restart their computer, and will find it in its original state."
Lindows.com is targeting users wanting to experiment with Linux, as well as educational institutions and training laboratories where Linux is needed only part of the time.
The LindowsOS CD-Rom is available now.


Skip to Main Content. Continue to article content. You work together to fight your way to the front. Moral disgust was not the only consideration that made being gay a disqualifying trait for government service at the time; gays, it was widely believed, were also uniquely vulnerable to blackmail. They are there to entertain you, not to have your sweaty, sticky hands all over them no matter how beautiful you think they are or sexually confused they make you. A study found that in the spy cases discovered since World War II, only six involved gays, and in none of these was sexual orientation a deciding factor.
Nights like Duckie see cabaret mixed with campness, before you fall across the road into one of the warehouse spaces that rumble on until lunchtime the next day. Being sick on yourself is never a good look. Spaces where we can be ourselves, without the same fear of persecution, abuse and assault we face on the street. You will have fun, if you allow yourself to. That being said, treat queer venues as if you would a party at your mums house. But such quotidian explanations do not suit our increasingly conspiratorial times.
That being said, treat queer venues as if you would a party at your mums house. Remember to look after each other. From plaid clad butches to leathered up daddies suspended from a ceiling and every possible iteration of queerness outside of and in between, we have it all - you just need to know where to look for it. Look After Each Other Being sick on yourself is never a good look. It can be fun.


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Harsh Covid lockdown in Chinese city Xi'an triggers online anger
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Officials in Xi'an have been punished after reports emerged of people being denied lifesaving medical treatment and running low on food amid a strict coronavirus lockdown in the Chinese city of 13 million.
Xi'an, an ancient capital and now major center of industry 600 miles southwest of Beijing, was locked down late last month amid China's worst outbreak of the coronavirus since it was first detected in Wuhan in late 2019. Residents have been told to stay home except to get tested for Covid.
In recent days, outrage over the lockdown conditions has swelled as people shared personal stories online, forcing authorities to apologize and announce disciplinary action against officials. One account posted on the popular Chinese social media platform Weibo said a heavily pregnant woman miscarried outside the Xi'an Gaoxin Hospital on Jan. 1 after she was refused entry because she hadn't been tested for the virus recently enough.
"The blood ran down the chair and her pants, the ground was covered in blood," a user named Biexiayulechengma, described as a relative of the woman, said in a post. "The 8-month-old child was stillborn and had no heartbeat."
The post has since been deleted and further posts on the account hidden from public view, but a hashtag spreading news of the report has been viewed hundreds of millions of times on the platform. NBC News was unable to independently verify the post or the facts of the report.
An employee in the hospital's publicity department said she was aware of the incident but did not know what exactly happened. Other hospital staff declined to answer questions on the phone or did not answer.
Vice Premier Sun Chunlan said Thursday that she was "deeply ashamed" that the woman had miscarried because of delayed treatment. "It revealed the laxity and imprecision in our Covid prevention work, and taught everyone a profound lesson," Chinese state media quoted her as saying.
Speaking at a news conference the same day, Liu Shunzhi, director of the Xi'an municipal health department, confirmed that a pregnant woman miscarried after waiting for two hours outside the entrance to the hospital.
"This is an accident caused by negligence," he said, reading from a statement later posted online by the Xi'an municipal government.
Following investigations, the provincial and municipal health committees found that the hospital had failed to triage patients correctly and had "insufficient" emergency response plans, Liu said.
Volunteers visit residents to find at a residential block in Xi'an. China is still pursuing a policy of "zero Covid" long after much of the world has decided to try to live with the virus. Chinatopix Via AP
The hospital's general manager was suspended and those in charge of the outpatient department and the medical department were dismissed, he added.
"On behalf of the municipal health department, I deeply apologize to this patient, and deeply apologize for the poor access to medical treatment," he said.
The municipal government said in an earlier statement posted on Weibo Thursday that disciplinary action had also been taken against Liu and Li Qiang, Chinese Communist Party director of the Xi'an emergency center, but did not give further details.
Social media users had expressed outrage over the woman's miscarriage.
"Because of fear of this disease with very low mortality, a pregnant woman with severe bleeding was ignored," one person posted on Weibo. "What is the logic?"
Some online commenters pointed out that in recent years the Chinese government had reversed its strict one-child policy to encourage more births amid a growing demographic crisis. According to recently published data from the National Bureau of Statistics, China's birth rate in 2020 was below 1 percent, the lowest since 1978.
"Shouldn't life come first?" a Weibo user asked.
Government officials have said no hospital should allow epidemic prevention and control to affect the treatment of patients.
China is still pursuing a policy of "zero Covid" long after much of the world has decided to try to live with the virus. Heavy restrictions enacted to stamp out virus outbreaks are not uncommon in the country, which is set to hold the Winter Olympics in Beijing next month. China has fully vaccinated nearly 85 percent of its population, according to Our World in Data.
People in Xi'an have been told to stay home as workers sprayed pathogen-killing solutions onto roads and buildings to disinfect the city. Residents were told to close their windows and avoid touching outdoor surfaces to prevent contact with the chemicals. On Wednesday, international passenger flights at the Xi'an Xianyang International Airport were suspended, Chinese state media reported.
Construction workers line up to be tested for the Covid-19 in Xi'an. The city reported 63 new confirmed infections Wednesday, bringing the total number of cases in the outbreak to more than 1,800 since it began Dec. 9.AFP – Getty Images
These measures have taken a heavy toll on people, and the miscarriage was not the only report of Xi'an residents struggling to access lifesaving medical care. In another Weibo post, a person whose username translates as Sunflowerrr0000 described desperate attempts to seek medical treatment for the user's father, who was suffering from chest pains.
The user described spending hours trying to find a hospital willing to treat the father before he was eventually admitted. The father later died, the user said.
"I can't imagine the desperation and suffering that my father experienced in the last few hours of his life," the user said. "I lost my dad forever."
Municipal and provincial health authorities were not immediately available for comment on the post. NBC News was unable to independently verify the account.
The reports followed a flurry of wider complaints on social media about conditions in Xi'an, where the lockdown has lasted more than two weeks. Weibo users said it had become difficult to buy food in the city, citing high prices and missing deliveries, and that the Covid health code system, used to regulate people's movements did not always work properly.
"Staying at home and having no income has already made my life very difficult, and now the price of food is also rising!" one user posted on the platform. "Even having a meal is a real challenge now."
The state-owned Global Times newspaper reported Wednesday that the head of big data in the city, Liu Jun, had been suspended after the health code system crashed twice amid citywide virus screening.
The city reported 63 new confirmed infections Wednesday, bringing the total number of cases in the Xi'an outbreak to more than 1,800 since it began Dec. 9.
Meanwhile, the city of Yuzhou, in the central province of Henan, has also been locked down since Monday night amid a small outbreak, with authorities ordering its 1.1 million residents to remain indoors and not to leave town.
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In high school I suffered from the typical hormonal acne—the kind that comes to a white head and is over within 2-3 days. I thought it was the worst thing that could ever happen to me as a typical, mellow dramatic high schooler.
Little did I know that adulthood would usher in the next level of acne: unpoppable, reoccurring, enduring, deep, painful cystic (or hormonal) acne. Oh, and as if that wasn't enough, this new kind of acne left me with dark spots of hyper-pigmentation that took and additional six months to completely fade.
Stepping into my first professional corporate job, I was supposed to feel "adult," yet, as a petite woman with naturally young features, and now newly acquired stubborn cystic acne, I just didn't feel the "adult" part some days.
Full disclosure, I did not have severe cystic acne by any means. On average, I would get around 1-3 deep cystic zits per month (usually in the same spots), each one lasting about 10 days. I was usually able to cover it up with makeup to some partial extent.
Fast forward to today, and I am 100% acne free. I've found what works for me to "beat" cystic acne, so I thought I'd share it in hopes of helping you, if you're suffering from the same thing.
Cystic acne is a type of localized inflammation formed when oil ducts become clogged deep underneath the skin and rupture, or become infected. Subsequently, an abscess (consisting of white blood cells) forms deep beneath the skin that cannot be "popped."
Hours upon hours of Google searches returned the very unsatisfactory answer that there was no "cure" to cystic acne, so I decided to start trying different products.
Curology: Curology is a company that advertises custom skin care solutions based on a skin quiz. The idea of "custom" or "individualized" sounded very appealing to me, but unfortunately, Curology made my skin worse. On top of that, after I cancelled my subscription, they kept charging me, but they were nice enough to refund me after I inquired about it.
Benzol Peroxide 10%: This was my go-to stuff for my high-school grade acne. It is available at any drug store, and dried up my acne within 24-48 hours usually. However, it had absolutely zero effect on my adult acne. It seemed too topical to penetrate deep enough to reach the infection underneath my skin.
Renée Rouleau: This company is known for its Anti Cyst Treatment, which comes in a serum. The internet had led me to believe that this would solve all my problems, so I dished out a pretty penny ($47.50) for a little bottle. To my great disappointment, I found that it had zero effect on my cystic acne. However, I found that it was just *slightly* more effective if I was able to catch the zit early enough in the tingly, pre-zit stages, but not significant enough to buy it again.
Glossier: I was initially drawn to Glossier's 'skin first, makeup second' motto. However, their signature face wash did cause a small breakout on my combination oily skin, and so I decided not to invest further in their brand. However, I'm in love with their lip balm.com and product packaging!
When I discovered Ole Henriksen, my acne improved dramatically fast. It solved (pretty much) all of my skin problems, from breakouts to hyper-pigmentation. Over the years, I added in a few more products and nailed down a routine that still gets me results.
Step 1: I wash my face with Find Your Balance™ Oil Control Cleanser by Ole Henriksen and pat my face dry with a clean towel.
Step 2: I apply Balancing Force™ Oil Control Toner (also Ole Henriksen) on top with a cotton circle. I've found this cleanser to be amazing for my combination normal/oily skin. It also smells really great and feels refreshing. I added in the toner a few months after I started using the face wash, and it seemed to seal the deal in terms of keeping my face acne-free.
Step 3: After the toner, I use Truth Serum by Ole Henriksen, a Vitamin C and collagen serum that helps brighten my skin tone and fade hyper-pigmentation (dark spots) caused by old acne scars.
Step 4: Following the serum, I use a gel-based moisturizer, Water Bank Hydrating Gel by Laneige. I used to use a moisturizing cream, but I found out that it was clogging my pores. Gel-based moisturizers are amazing for sensitive, acne-prone skin and do not clog pores. After switching from a cream to gel-based moisturizer, I rarely have any breakouts anymore.
Post-workout: I try not to wash my face more than twice a day, but it happens sometimes. If I workout, I'll usually just wash it after with water, and nothing else.
Step 1: I take my eye makeup off using Bye Bye Makeup™ 3-in-1 Makeup Melting Cleansing Balm by IT Cosmetics, which has also been a HUGE game changer (takes off even waterproof mascara). Back when I had acne, I used makeup remover pads every day to take my makeup off. Let me tell you, those little convenient wipes are a huge CAUSE of your acne. They basically just spread germs all over your face. (Plus, they are bad for the environment.) When I stopped using these to take my makeup off, my skin improved dramatically—much fewer breakouts overall. While this makeup remover is expensive, the one I bought 6 months ago is still half full.
Step 2: After, I wash my face with the same cleanser as the morning—the Find Your Balance™ Oil Control Cleanser by Ole Henriksen, and follow it up with the same toner—the Balancing Force™ Oil Control Toner also by Ole Henriksen.
Step 3: I follow this up with Invigorating Night Transformation™ Gel by Ole Henriksen. I can still remember the first time I tried this serum: I woke up the next morning and was shocked how smooth, even, and hydrated my skin looked and felt. I've been addicted ever since for its immediate results in improving skin complexion and texture literally overnight (and if you know me, I never believe in quick fixes!).
If you have cystic acne and combination oily skin, and you tried just about everything, I hope these tips help! While I can't guarantee it will work for you, it worked for me.


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The pearls of wisdom you need for the journey
Sarah Ban Breathnach is one of my latest great finds. She is the author of the bestselling book called Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy. The book features 366 essays about how to live life with simplicity and grace, but most of all gratitude. After her success, in 1995, Breathnach went on a spending spree (even buying Isaac Newton's Chapel), lost all of her millions, and entered into a marriage that turned out to be a complicated nightmare rather than simple abundance. In 2010, she wrote, Peace and Plenty: Finding Your Path to Financial Serenity, a memoir that told a tale not filled with just happy platitudes. Her life story filled me with great hope and courage. What makes her work more revolutionary is that she lives in every sentence and comes alive in every paragraph.
Of her life as a writer she comments: Heaven knows, I have spent more time than I can even remember working an entire day on one sentence: putting a comma in during the morning, then taking it out in the afternoon. It doesn't matter whether you get paid or not—paid, of course, is preferable—but that's not going to happen for a long time, so you need to accept it, hence the legal secretary's gig. In the beginning you will have to do a lot of work "on spec", (which means the editor is a bit interested in the idea, so write it on your own dime and then we'll see what comes of it). What matters is that you do it. Write. Show up on the page and keep a disciplined schedule so the Muse knows where to find you. Then, finish the damn thing, whatever it is. Turn it in and begin another.
Still, when she does finally take a backward glance, all the hard scrapple years of naïveté, disappointments, detours, wrong choices, bad timing, bungled efforts; all the threadbare years of struggle, loneliness, failure, second guessing and despair it took to get her to the right moment at the right time (a publisher's "Yes" after 30 rejections, five years work, and a whopping advance of $22,000), it will only seem like a blink of an eye because she has truly discovered, as you will too, that success only comes after striving and struggling, even in the dictionary. It would take her 20 years to achieve the last goal of 1976, to be able to earn a living as a writer.
I am so grateful that heaven operates on a "Need to Know" basis. It is one of life's most overlooked blessings.
Here is an edited excerpt from her, that made me feel like I would incur the worst kind of Karma if I did not share the world of this amazing bestselling author with you.
It takes longer than we can imagine for a woman to grow and bloom into herself. And pearls of wisdom, well, they can take an entire lifetime to accumulate. As the great and aptly named Pearl Bailey wryly observed in her memoir, The Raw Pearl: "There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves, and it becomes either good or sour inside."
There is also a period in each woman's life, when we can wear the jewelry of that inner wisdom. Diamonds may very well be a girl's best friend, but pearls are a woman's sacred and secret confidant. In many families a girl receives her first pearl on a simple chain or as a ring for her 16th birthday, symbolizing that she is become a young lady, with the first string of pearls the gift of coming of age at 21. But I believe it is only decades later before a woman can actually wear pearls properly and only women of a certain age can carry off pearls with panache.
How marvelous that there is something enchanted that all women can look forward to as we grow gracefully into ourselves. Imagine that you are having a conversation with a young girl and you have just asked her what she wants to be or do when she grows up and she responds, "I want to be a woman who wears pearls!! I agree.
The fascinating paradox about pearls is that their beautiful destiny is conceived through irritation and grows slowly in layers, just as our lives do. Something foreign gets beneath the shell of an oyster, embeds itself and years later emerges in an exquisite new form, as effortless it would seem, as a butterfly from its chrysalis. But to be born—a butterfly, a pearl or a woman– is a strenuous journey. Still it seems, at least for the butterfly and pearl, that the journey knows exactly where it is headed. If only we could learn that lesson. If only we could learn to trust that faith, even as small as a piece of grit, could lead us to an iridescent future.
Of course she was talking about actual pearls, but like every good writer the article has a universal message, where someone else thinks about the actual string of beads, another one thinks about the wisdom they have picked along the way; wisdom they need to fall back on during those moments they feel lost. The wisdom you have collected along the way will announce to the world just like pearls that you have taste, sophistication and a sense of purpose. There are pearls to fit your mood, the occasion, the season or to showcase your physical attributes to their best advantage.
Here are ten of my favorites:
"If you really think small, your world will be small. If you think big, your world will be big." Paulo Coelho.
"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself." Anna Quindlen.
"Don't ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn't." Michelle Obama.
"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me. I can even ask for help! Not feeling that I have to know everything…that is where the growth comes in, in the not knowing," Tracee Ellis Ross.
"Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. And, when you stumble, keep faith. And, when you're knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on." Hillary Clinton.
"An empress does not concern herself with the antics of fools." Gabrielle Union.
"I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall." Serena Williams.
"There are many shades on every journey. Nothing is black or white. I have been through hell and back, and I am grateful for every scar." Beyoncé.
"The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it." Nicholas Sparks.
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Joe Avati is a Rockstar of sorts. He's one of Australia's top comedians and is the number one selling bilingual comedian in the world. His passionate cult following sees him crisscross the globe performing his unique brand of comedy where he sells out shows in the UK, U.S. and Canada. Joe spoke to YQG Rocks about his upcoming show at the Chrysler Theatre on June 23.
He is the only Australian artist to have had two albums charting simultaneously in the top 5 internationally ('Livin La Dolce Vita' and Live and Unpluggato') and still holds the record for the fasting selling comedy show ever in Canada selling 6400 tickets in 2 hours. That sort of makes him a Rockstar. And living up to his that new Rockstar status, Joe released a five DVD Box Set containing his entire collection (named 'Joe Avati The Ultimate Collection').
Joe is one of the few comedians who refuses to add profanity or controversial material into his show. It's something he's employed into his show since he started.
Joe will feature brand new material when he visits Windsor. It will be a reflection of the first 20 years of his life growing up in an Italian family and through the last 20 years of his career.
Along with the generational references, Joe is also a proud Australian and loves to chat about his country, even if it involves the very bitter and salty tasting Vegemite.
Joe takes to the Chrysler Theatre stage on June 23, 2018 at 8pm. Some tickets are still available at chryslertheatre.com.


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What to watch for: July evaluation period
By Dylan Burkhardt
The July evaluation period opens at 5 p.m. this evening as college coaches will spread across the country in search of talent. The Nike Peach Jam, Adidas Gauntlet Finals, Under Armour All-American Camp and adidas Invitational headline the first week of the live period. Here are five things to watch for this July.
1. Establishing priorities
July isn't just about discovering new prospects, it's also about showing full attention to your top prospects. Several of the top class of 2016 targets on Michigan's recruiting board will be at the Nike Peach Jam this week and we would expect the Wolverines to pay very close attention to these three in particular:
Cassius Winston: Winston has been Michigan's top priority at the point guard position for months and I'd expect a Wolverine coach to be at every game he plays this July. The point guard is coming off of a hand injury, but should be back with The Family at Peach Jam.
Kevin Huerter: Huerter has blown up as quickly as anyone on the circuit this spring and summer and continued his impressive play at the Nike Skills Academy in California. He has discussed a potential visit to Michigan and is a perfect fit for the Wolverines' offense with his passing and shooting ability.
Bruce Brown: Brown is a versatile 6-foot-3 combo guard who Michigan is recruiting as a point guard. He doesn't have an offer (no visit), but lists Michigan as one of the schools recruiting him the hardest along with Indiana, Texas, SMU and Miami.
2. Tyus Battle fall out continues
Tyus Battle's decommitment has seemingly had more than his original commitment because many of Michigan's other priority targets are now off the board.
Battle is back in action after a long layoff due to various injuries and will be at the Nike Peach Jam. Michigan's presence, or lack thereof, at his games will be telling about where the two parties stand after a tumultuous several months.
Battle's recruitment sits in a sort of awkward state this month because he's already taken four of his five allotted official visits, committed and decommitted before his final summer of AAU. Syracuse is widely regarded as a favorite after securing Battle's first post-decommitment visit, but the fact that he didn't commit has given some pause. I would be surprised if Duke re-prioritized Battle as the Blue Devils have moved onto other targets, but Louisville could be one darkhorse in the race.
3. Backup targets emerge
The shortened April evaluation weekends don't provide as much time to uncover new targets, but there are always one or two surprises that are discovered in July.
Expect Michigan to keep a close eye on a pair of under the radar in-state guards throughout the month of July. Both Justin Turner and Karmari Newman are on the Wolverine radar after strong showings at Michigan camps in June.
Turner is a 6-foot-3 point guard from Detroit Renaissance with interest from Dayton, St. Bonaventure, George Mason and Louisiana Tech. He'll be playing with the Michigan Mustangs alongside Michigan commitment Austin Davis at the Adidas Gauntlet Finale in Atlanta.
Karmari Newman is a 6-foot-5 wing guard from East English Village who has emerged as one of the best shooters in the state of Michigan. Newman plays his AAU ball with Detroit Showtime Select and will be in Indianapolis to kick off the live period.
Bank Hoops praised Newman's play at Oakland's Team Camp last month.
Fearless shooter who hasn't seen a line or landmark on a court he didn't want to test as a launching pad. Long lefty and versatile streak scorer with some Mo Pete in him. Some coaches prefer Spencer Littleson to Newman because of his consistency, while I still give the latter a brief edge as the state's top senior combo guard:
4. Quentin Goodin back in the mix
Quentin Goodin recently trimmed his list to five schools and eliminated Michigan, but shortly after he announced that he had updated his list — replacing Louisville with Michigan.
"I got a lot of answers that I didn't have before and we like the current recruiting situation, so they're back in," Quentin's father, Chris Goodin, told MLive.com
Now Goodin is down to Michigan, Western Kentucky, Miami, Xavier and Florida and is considering a decision before his high school season starts.
"Our conversation has been to maybe try to get it done before the basketball season starts," Chris Goodin, told BG Daily News. "That would mean he'd have to take quite a few visits close together, after July and when the college year starts."
5. 2017s playing for offers
Michigan still hasn't extended an offer to a class of 2017 prospect, but I would expect that to change by the end of the summer.
July is an opportunity for Michigan to sort through its long list of targets and start to prioritize the rising juniors. Brian Bowen, Greg Floyd Jr., Christian David, Xavier Tillman, Jaren Jackson and Jermaine Jackson Jr. are just a few names that Michigan with a chance of parlaying a strong July performance into a scholarship offer.
It also wouldn't surprise if Michigan's 2017 recruiting board grows significantly as Michigan starts to put more focus on the class.
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People diagnosed with schizophrenia who are prone to hallucinations are likely to have structural differences in a key region of the brain compared to both healthy individuals and people diagnosed with schizophrenia who do not hallucinate, according to research published today.
Hallucinations are very complex phenomena that are a hallmark of mental illness and, in different forms, are also quite common across the general population. There is likely to be more than one explanation for why they arise
Jane Garrison
The study, led by the University of Cambridge in collaboration with Durham University, Macquarie University, and Trinity College Dublin, found that reductions in the length of the paracingulate sulcus (PCS), a fold towards the front of the brain, were associated with increased risk of hallucinations in people diagnosed with schizophrenia.
The PCS is one of the last structural folds to develop in the brain before birth, and varies in size between individuals. In a previous study, a team of researchers led by Dr Jon Simons from the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, found that variation in the length of the PCS in healthy individuals was linked to the ability to distinguish real from imagined information, a process known as 'reality monitoring'.
In this new study, published today in the journal Nature Communications, Dr Simons and his colleagues analysed 153 structural MRI scans of people diagnosed with schizophrenia and matched control participants, measuring the length of the PCS in each participant's brain. As difficulty distinguishing self-generated information from that perceived in the outside world may be responsible for many kinds of hallucinations, the researchers wanted to assess whether there was a link between length of the PCS and propensity to hallucinate.
The researchers found that in people diagnosed with schizophrenia, a 1 cm reduction in the fold's length increased the likelihood of hallucinations by nearly 20%. The effect was observed regardless of whether hallucinations were auditory or visual in nature, consistent with a reality monitoring explanation.
"Schizophrenia is a complex spectrum of conditions that is associated with many differences throughout the brain, so it can be difficult to make specific links between brain areas and the symptoms that are often observed," says Dr Simons. "By comparing brain structure in a large number of people diagnosed with schizophrenia with and without the experience of hallucinations, we have been able to identify a particular brain region that seems to be associated with a key symptom of the disorder."
The researchers believe that changes in other areas of the brain are likely also important in generating the complex phenomena of hallucinations, possibly including regions that process visual and auditory perceptual information. In people who experience hallucinations, these areas may produce altered perceptions which, due to differences in reality monitoring processes supported by regions around the PCS, may be misattributed as being real. For example, a person may vividly imagine a voice but judge that it arises from the outside world, experiencing the voice as a hallucination.
"We think that the PCS is involved in brain networks that help us recognise information that has been generated ourselves," adds Dr Jane Garrison, first author of the study, "People with a shorter PCS seem less able to distinguish the origin of such information, and appear more likely to experience it as having been generated externally.
"Hallucinations are very complex phenomena that are a hallmark of mental illness and, in different forms, are also quite common across the general population. There is likely to be more than one explanation for why they arise, but this finding seems to help explain why some people experience things that are not actually real."
The research was primarily supported by the University of Cambridge Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, funded by a joint award from the UK Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust.
Garrison, J.R., Fernyhough, C., McCarthy-Jones, S., Haggard, M., The Australian Schizophrenia Research Bank, & Simons, J.S. (2015). Paracingulate sulcus morphology is associated with hallucinations in the human brain. Nature Communications, 6, 8956.
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Farnoosh Moshiri is an Iranian-born novelist, playwright, and librettist. She teaches creative writing and literature at University of Houston–Downtown. Moshiri has published five books of fiction: At the Wall of the Almighty (Interlink, 1999), The Bathhouse (Black Heron Press, 2001, Beacon Press, 2002), The Crazy Dervish and the Pomegranate Tree (Black Heron Press, 2004), Against Gravity (Penguin, 2006), and The Drum Tower (Black Heron Press and Sandstone Press {U.K}, 2014).

Among other grants, fellowships, and literary awards, Moshiri is the recipient of Barthelme Memorial Award, C. Glenn Cambor/Inprint Fellowship: Presented by Inprint, Inc., Two Barbara Deming Awards (a grant for feminist writers whose work speaks of peace and social justice, two consecutive Black Heron Awards for Social Fiction, and Valiente (courage) Award from Voices Breaking Boundaries for artists who have taken risks to speak out and act as advocates. Her third novel, Against Gravity, was chosen by Barnes and Noble for Discover New Writer Series and by Borders Books in Original Voices selections.

Moshiri has spoken about her work and writing in exile at Columbia University, West Carolina University, Syracuse University, Bronx Community College, University of Houston Campuses, Rice University, Lone Star College Campuses, Houston Community College Campuses, San Jacinto College, University of the Incarnate Word (San Antonio), Asia Society, AWP Conference, Voices Breaking Boundaries, and more.

In 2012, in collaboration with the composer, Gregory Spears, she created a chamber opera by the name of "The Bricklayer" commissioned by the Houston Grand opera. The world premier was on March 16, 2012.

Moshiri has been a professor of literature, drama, and creative writing in College of Dramatic Arts of Tehran, Houston Community College, Lone Star College, Kabul University, Syracuse University, and the University of Houston–Downtown. She lives and writes in Houston.

Early life and education
Moshiri grew up in a literary family. Her uncle, Fereydoon Moshiri was one of the most prominent and popular poets of Iran. Moshiri wrote fiction and poetry since she was a child. Her first short story was published in "Sokhan" (one the prestigious literary periodicals of pre-revolutionary Iran) when she was eighteen years old. She was also a ballet dancer and a member of the National Iranian Ballet Company, where she danced in major classical ballet performances in the 60s and the early 70s. Moshiri left the ballet company to study playwriting at the College of Dramatic Arts. During the 70s, she wrote plays and short stories and went onstage as actress. In 1977, with a scholarship, she entered the graduate studies of drama at the University of Iowa. In 1979, after receiving master's degree in dramatic literature, she returned to Iran to teach at the College of Dramatic Arts. In this period, she wrote plays and short stories, and published translated literature from English into Persian. In 1983, the rehearsals of her full-length play were interrupted by the guards and the director and actors were arrested. She was purged from her job as a professor and a dramaturg and had no way other than exile. She left the country on foot, living in the refugee camps of Afghanistan and India. In the summer of 1986 she received right of asylum from the U.S. and a few months later entered the graduate program of creative writing at the University of Houston, where she received MFA in Fiction. She published novels and stories, taught literature, and held fiction workshops for the decades to come.

Works

Novels
 At the Wall of the Almighty (1999) (novel)
 The Batthouse (2001) (novel)
 Against Gravity (2006) (novel)
 The Bathhouse (2007) (audio book)
 The Drum Tower (2014) (novel)

Story collections
 The Crazy Dervish and the Pomegranate Tree (2004) (short story)

Opera
 The Bricklayer (Opera Libretto) (2012) (opera)

Short stories in anthologies
 A World Between (1999) (short story)
 Red Boots & Attitude (2003) (short story)
 Coloring Book (2004) (short story)
 Let Me Tell You Where I've Been (2006) (short story)
 At the Shepherd's (2007) (short story)
 I Go to the Ruined Place (2009) (short story)
 White Torture (2013) (short story)

Foreign language translations
 The Bathhouse (2001) (novel), translated into Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Indonesian

Awards and reviews

Awards won
Black Heron Press Award for Social Fiction  for The Drum Tower (2014)
Barbara Deming Award for Feminist Writers (2013), for the novel in progress, Gazelle
Winner of the Florida Review's 2008 Editor's Prize in Creative Non-Fiction
The 2006 Valiente Award of Voice Breaking Boundaries
Black Heron Press Award for Social Fiction for The Crazy Dervish and the Pomegranate Tree (2003)
Black Heron Press Award for Social Fiction for The Bathhouse (2001)
Barbara Deming Award for Peace and Social Justice (1999)
Barthelme Memorial Fellowship for Non-Fiction (1997)
The Prose Award of the University of Houston–Clear Lake, Houston (1996)

Reviews and literary criticism
J. G. Stinson, Foreword Reviews: August 2014. A review of The Drum Tower
Eric Mayrhofer, Curious Animal, December 7, 2014: A review of The Drum Tower
Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review), September 18, 2014: A review of The Drum Tower
Publishers Weekly, August 25, 2014: A Review of The Drum Tower
Kate Wilson, Book Trust, November 6, 2014: A Review of The Drum Tower
Alan Caruba, Bookviews—December 2014: A Review of The Drum Tower
Azadeh Moaveni, Financial Times, December 5, 2014: A Review of The Drum Tower
London Times, January 4, 2015: A Review of The Drum Tower
Susan Bethany, The Midwest Book Review: A Review of The Drum Tower
Wall Street Journal: "A Glimpse Behind the Wall." A review of "The Bricklayer" (operetta)
By Heidi Waleson. March 20, 2012.
Payvand Iran News: "Iranian Exile Experience on Stage."
Culture Map: A review of "The Bricklayer" (operetta) by Joel Luks. March 25, 2012
Minnesota Review: Republics of the Imagination (Issue 68, 2007)
New York Times, Houston Chronicle, Washington Post, Boston Globe, etc. on Against Gravity. (2006)
Nasrin Rahmineh (McMaster University-Canada): The Bathhouse, a review in Iranian Studies: Journal of The International Society for Iranian Studies. Volume 37. Number 4. Dec. 2004.
Margaret Atwood: "Resisting the Veil: Reports from a Revolution": A review of The Bathhouse in Walrus, Jan. 2004.
Alan Cheuse: All Things Considered. A review of The Bathhouse. May 2003.
Gloria Emerson: The Nation. A review of The Bathhouse. June 2003.
Melanie Jennings: Writers Monthly. A review of The Bathhouse. June 2003.

References

American writers of Iranian descent
People from Tehran
1951 births
Living people
American women short story writers
21st-century American women


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Le psammite est une roche sédimentaire détritique, riche en quartz et en muscovite.

Origine

Lorsqu'un massif granitique subit de l'érosion, il se transforme en arénite. Certains minéraux de celle-ci, lors du transport par l'eau de la roche, vont être le lieu d'une hydrolyse: feldspaths et biotite (mica noir) vont être dissous, tandis que le quartz et la muscovite (mica blanc) resteront intacts.

Plus une roche contiendra de feldspaths et de biotite, plus son transport aura été court (feldspath > 25 % : arkose) , tandis qu'au contraire, moins il y en aura et plus son transport aura été long: le résultat final est la psammite.

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What do Hunt and Johnson think about Brexit, the NHS and taxes?
Conservative party leadership contender Boris Johnson during a hustings in Belfast
The UK's departure from the EU has dominated the Tory leadership debate, as it has done many a conversation nationwide.
But it is not the only issue on the table for the two contenders appealing to the Conservative Party membership for the crown of Tory leader – and prime minister.
Here PA takes a look at what Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have said on some key issues:
– Brexit
Jeremy Hunt arrives to take part in a Conservative Party leadership hustings (Niall Carson/PA)
There is one big difference between the candidates – the date.
Mr Johnson has made a "do or die" commitment to leave the EU by the Halloween deadline.
He has even toyed with the controversial idea of suspending Parliament to prevent MPs taking steps to prevent a no-deal exit.
Mr Hunt has called October 31 a "fake deadline", and said he would be willing to extend the due date if a deal with the EU was within reach.
The decision on whether to end talks with Brussels would come at the end of September, Mr Hunt said.
They have also clashed on the so-called Gatt 24 mechanism, which Mr Johnson has said could be used to avoid tariffs in the event of a no-deal scenario.
Mr Hunt said that this was "factually" not possible, adding that he would not say Mr Johnson's claim was "a lie because that suggests someone is doing something deliberately".
But both agree that the best solution would be to broker another deal to Theresa May's and that, if it came to it, they would take the UK out of the EU without a deal in place.
The contenders must resolve a key sticking point to the outgoing Prime Minister's agreement – the Irish backstop to prevent a hard border on the island in the event of a no-deal.
Mr Hunt is prepared to change or trash the current proposal and Mr Johnson describes it as a "dead letter", or effectively defunct.
To prevent a hard border in the future, Mr Hunt said there is "technology there now" and his rival suggested it would be worked out with a free trade deal during the implementation period.
– Taxation
Mr Johnson first pledged to give a tax cut to earners on more than £50,000.
But this was met with some ire when analysis suggested it would cost around £9 billion and benefit the top 10% of earners.
Then he insisted he would prioritise cuts for the lowest paid, with a raise to the amount workers can earn before they start paying national insurance contributions.
Mr Hunt wants to "turbo charge" the economy.
He would like the main rate of corporation tax cut to 12.5%, a measure that the Institute for Fiscal Studies said would cost £13 billion per year in the short-term.
The think tank also warned that his plans to cut taxes but spend higher could "amplify" pressures on public finances.
– No-deal and other Brexit spending
Both candidates have said they are prepared to take Britain out of the EU without a deal (Kirsty O'Connor/PA)
"Creative ambiguity" about how and when the UK settles the £39 billion divorce bill with the EU is Mr Johnson's suggestion.
He also expressed a desire to use fiscal "headroom" to borrow finance to fund large-scale infrastructure projects.
Mr Hunt warned he could refuse to pay part of the bill if negotiations fail and announced a £6 billion war chest to mitigate the blow dealt by a no-deal exit.
He also suggested farmers and fishers could be bailed out in a similar manner to the way the bankers were in the wake of the financial meltdown.
In order to fulfil his commitments, Mr Hunt pointed to the same apparent headroom as his rival and put a value on it at £26 billion.
But Chancellor Philip Hammond said any "fiscal firepower" stored up would all be needed to cope with a no-deal exit and would not be available to spend on fresh pledges.
– The NHS
Jeremy Hunt was health secretary for six years (Stefan Rousseau/PA)
Mr Johnson said the health service needs more money, but also that it requires "reform".
He has ruled out a pay-for-access NHS under his watch, even as a result of a post-Brexit trade deal with the US, as some fear.
One of his key allies, Health Secretary Matt Hancock, suggested Mr Johnson would commit to a pay rise for public sector workers.
But the candidate himself refused to make a spending pledge when repeatedly pressed by the PA news agency.
Mr Hunt spent more time in the post of health secretary than anyone else.
But his tenure was controversial and he was largely unpopular with staff during the junior doctors' strike.
He insisted that he was "doing the right thing", but that his failure was in communicating his message.
He has spoken of his pride of the UK pioneering universal health coverage and denied he has any desire to privatise it.
– Immigration
Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt during a head-to-head debate (Louis Wood/The Sun/PA)
Mr Johnson refused to commit to reduce net immigration after Brexit in the final head-to-head debate of the contest on Monday.
Both he and Mr Hunt agreed that the vote to leave the European Union was a message to "control" immigration, but Mr Johnson did not say how he would achieve it.
Mr Johnson has taken a tough stance towards illegal immigration, and pledged to guarantee the rights of EU citizens living in the UK in a post-Brexit world.
His grand proposal is a points-based system inspired by Australia, which he celebrated as having a simple system based on fairness, contribution and restriction.
He said the UK should be "much more open to high-skilled immigration such as scientists", but there should be "control" over the number of unskilled workers entering.
Mr Hunt called for "flexibility" to immigration numbers, though he wants to bring them down and review the £30,000 salary minimum for those arriving to work from overseas.
– Knife crime
Mr Johnson points to his record as London mayor when discussing the issue.
He supports the use of stop-and-search and pledged to give police the political protection "to do what they signed up to do".
Mr Hunt said his own party's austerity cuts to police budgets had gone "too far", and committed to increasing police numbers.
– Defence
Mr Hunt has pledged to increase spending on the defence budget to 2.5% of the national income, a measure that could cost an additional £15 billion in four years' time.
No bold pledges have emerged from Mr Johnson on the subject at this stage in the contest.
– Military prosecutions
A subject both candidates are aligned on.
They have backed calls for increased legal protection of UK troops and veterans facing allegations of criminality, with Mr Johnson claiming some veterans have been "persecuted".
– HS2
Mr Johnson is not a big fan.
He said the new high-speed railway to link London, the Midlands and the north of England is going to cause "a great deal of difficulties" for his constituents in Uxbridge and South Ruislip.
"Anxieties" about the business case was another issue he raised, and he said he would have a review of the project.
Mr Hunt has described it as "absolutely vital" and hailed it as a way to "spread prosperity to the whole country".
He also said he supports the Northern Powerhouse Rail.
Mr Johnson wants to increase the amount spent on every secondary school pupil to at least £5,000.
Mr Hunt wants to write off the tuition fee debts of entrepreneurs who create a new business that employs more than 10 staff for five years.
He also wishes to review the high rates of interest on student loans.
– Heathrow third runway
He once vowed to lie down in front of bulldozers to stop the airport's expansion, but Mr Johnson has seemingly softened his opposition.
The MP said he still has "grave reservations", but said he would instead follow court cases "very closely" as prime minister.
Mr Hunt is clear – he would back the expansion.


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With the announcement earlier today that AT&T has purchased T-mobile for $39 billion, will this leave the door open for the "budget" carrier to carry the iPhone and iPad? I am guessing it would be the only thing making the merger an actual consumer success - seeing as many people (at least that I know) hate the service provided by AT&T so much that they left (including myself). In a perfect world we could have the fabulous service of T-mobile with the awesome devices of AT&T. I guess we will have to see what happens with the regulatory approval before this question can really be answered. This might take awhile.
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