This essay will discuss the changes that occurred in the organisation of time, space and discipline, as a result of the emergence of modern industrial work, whereby society relied upon the use of science, technology and ultimately mechanisation to produce its goods and services. The transition of home based independent work to working for a boss in a factory had many accompanying impacts upon society.
It was becoming increasingly recognized as a scarce resource. This indicated modern industrial era was transforming into becoming more co-ordinated and utilised, leading to the organisation of the work place as well as the working day. Arguably, this was essential for industrial progress to take place.
The transition from pre-industrial era to modern industrial capitalism also occurred as a result of the organisation of space, as well the utilisation of time. Thompson (1967, p.60) argues 'task orientation appears to show least demarcation between work and life' as workers would complete their task, and then return to their home to begin leisure activities-which would vary throughout the year. This meant there was great difficulty in distinguishing between the home and the workplace, due to the lack of clear demarcation. The ambiguity between home and work life was further created by the increase in domestic production, as it became more and more common for workers to produce goods within the confinements of their own home (Grint 2005, p.55). This implies during this period, there was very little control over workers, as there was the dominance of home based work, creating a disorganisation in terms of spatial work.


A total of 77 Ann Arbor parks are included on the list Parks Advisory Commission is submitting to City Administrator Steve Powers. In April, City Council passed an ordinance to ban smoking in outdoor places and gave the city administrator the authority to ban smoking in parks after consulting with PAC.
Chair David Santacroce says they chose the 73 parks with playgrounds and the four parks within the Downtown Development Authority boundaries. He says it was a common sense first step. "Put this ban in place. Let it go for a year. Let's measure its effect. Right, and then we'd happily engage you again about whether smoking should be banned in further parks," Santacroce says.
The ordinance calls for a civil infraction if a smoker refuses to stop immediately upon being requested by a police officer. A $25 fine or community service is the penalty.
City Administrator Steve Powers will consider the recommendation and signs will be posted in parks he agrees should be smoke-free.
Parks within the DDA boundaries recommended for a smoking ban.
Parks with playgrounds recommended for a smoking ban.
Starting in January you may need to dig a little deeper in your pocket to pay for parking in Ann Arbor. The Downtown Development Authority is proposing hikes to some parking rates.
89.1 WEMU's Andrew Cluley reports on what parking rate hikes Ann Arbor's Downtown Development Authority are proposing and why the plan is under consideration.


The Bulls lost 88-77 against the Trail Blazers and will now play in the tournament loser's bracket at 7:30 p.m. (Central) Friday against the 76ers.
The Bulls Wednesday lost top rookie Lauri Markkanen, who because of a minor toe problem for precautionary reasons sat out the Bulls' 88-77 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers. That made for three Bulls starters from the opening Summer League game lost.
But it may not be all bad because of what the Bulls may have found, an athletic scoring guard who looks like instant offense off the bench in Antonio Blakeney.
Blakeney Wednesday had 27 points and 11 rebounds, making 11 of 17 free throws with his slashing, high jumping style. That followed Blakeney's 23 points and eight rebounds in Tuesday's lone Bulls win. Despite improving play from Markkanen, Blakeney has stood out among his Bulls teammates with his easy scoring ability and elite athleticism.
The Bulls, 1-3, now play in the tournament loser's bracket 7:30 p.m. (Central) Friday against the Philadelphia 76ers. The Bulls last year won the Summer League tournament.
The Bulls also got 14 points off the bench from shooter Brady Heslip with four of eight threes and 13 points, seven rebounds and four assists from Denzel Valentine. Ryan Arcidiacono started at point guard as he and Valentine did most of the ball handling and playmaking.
The Bulls led early, 19-12 after one and 41-35 at halftime. It was tied at 61 going into the fourth quarter and then Portland pulled away.
While Blakeney left you unable to pull away from the game too quickly.
"I feel I'm an athletic player who can show things on both ends of the floor and rebound. The Bulls, I love the coaching staff, feel they are players' coaches, getting on me to get better. They stay on you to try to get you better. It's a young team and with a guy like D-Wade there it's someone I can learn from."
"I'm with the Bulls, so I'm a Bull right now and that's what I'm focused on," Blakeney said.
That's just for Summer League, though Blakeney said he appreciated the Bulls giving him this opportunity. Blakeney could be invited to training camp, though his play likely has opened some eyes about the undrafted player from LSU. One possibility this year for developmental players is the new so called two-way contract in which a player can shuttle between the G-league and the NBA and when in the NBA be paid an NBA salary.
Blakeney projects as a shooting guard, but was overlooked in the 2017 draft because of the biases that tend to label players like Wesley Matthews, Isaiah Thomas and Draymond Green the sort of "tweeners" who slip low in the draft or out. Blakeney is considered a bit short by current NBA standards for shooting guard at just below 6-4. He's about 195 pounds. He doesn't handle the ball particularly well or pass frequently, especially when he drives.
But, oh can he score, and it's sometimes forgotten what a good thing that can be in a basketball game.
Blakeney seems like one of those players like Lou Williams, who slipped to 45th in the draft because, well, he was a little small for shooting guard, didn't pass and handle the ball well enough for point guard. So where could he play? Who could he guard?
And then became good enough to win Sixth Man of the Year and become one of the elite and most valuable reserves scorers in the NBA. Players like Sedale Threatt, Flynn Robinson and Fred Carter come to mind, guys who were too small, or too light or too limited. But then found a way to get the ball in the basket.
This Bulls team looks like it will need another someone--or two--like that.
Blakeney showed that again Wednesday. He routinely beat defenders off the dribble-yes, Summer League—and was two of four on threes. He's quietly been easily the Bulls best three-point shooter, making nine of 14 in the four games. The Bulls averaged 15 free throws per game the first three games; Blakeney had 17 on his own in Game 4.
His defense is scattered, though not helped by playing for a generational underachieving LSU program in which he played with Ben Simmons in 2015-16. It might have been the NCAA's worst defensive team. He seems willing to learn.
He is active on offense off the ball as well. He ran the baseline Wednesday for back door cuts and scored and showed an ability to finish. His driving baseline dunk in Game 2 was probably the Bulls most spectacular play of the tournament and he drew a pair of free throws early against the Trailblazers trying to dunk on the run taking off from near the free throw line. Though thin, he was able to finish and score with contact for three-point plays.
He's an excellent defensive rebounder with his leaping ability, though often because he plays too far off his man. He had a curious habit in these games of calling for a screen and then not using it and going the other way. But he was so quick he repeatedly beat the defense. Though he did have some trouble with the ball when trapped and once he was driving, no one else was getting the ball.
But that sort of game has served a lot of players well.
Blakeney's story is not unusual, a bigtime prep prospect who was one of the stars of the 2015 McDonald's game in Chicago with Simmons, a high school buddy who recruited Blakeney to LSU. Blakeney was one of the top guard prospects in the country, averaging almost 30 a game in high school. He supported Simmons on a lost, non NCAA team in 2016 and then was the leading scorer on a worse team last season as the coach was fired. Blakeney, 20, declared for the 2017 draft, but with his apparent lack of a sure NBA position and the mess in college, his name wasn't called.
He wasn't detoured or discouraged.
"I was an undrafted player, so me and my agent looked at the options I had for the Summer League and we thought the Bulls were the best option for me," Blakeney said. "I had a great (pre) draft workout with the Bulls and they told me they had some interest. So this was a chance to come in and give another impression to them, to work and learn from it.
"They felt I was a good story, but there are things I needed to work on, like defense. They were honest with me. The coaches are on me here in camp to get better and I like that. I want to get better, work on my weaknesses. So it's a good thing."
Blakeney looked like just another one of those Summer League tackling dummies to start, playing 13 minutes in Game 1. But he made two of three on three pointers and had a plus-13 in the plus/minus in a game the Bulls lost by 16. Summer League coach Randy Brown moved his minutes up to 23 off the bench in the Game 2 embarrassment when Markkanen and Valentine missed all 18 of their threes. Blakeney was one of two on threes and had 11 points in a game the Bulls scored 55. His minus-5 in a game the Bulls lost by 20 was team second best. The Bulls were doing better the more he was on the floor.
With Kris Dunn and Cameron Payne leaving for family reasons, Blakeney Tuesday moved into the starting lineup. The last two games, he has been one of the most productive players in the Las Vegas league, averaging 25 points and 9.5 rebounds with an average of 10 free throw attempts per game.
"I can bring scoring," Blakeney notes. "People know I can score. I think what people are going to sleep on is once I learn the defensive concepts and with my athleticism, I feel I can be a two-way player and get things done on both ends of the floor. Offensively, I feel I can score at all three levels: I can get to the rim, get to the mid range and shoot the three. As a young player, I know I have to get stronger, get my ball handling tighter, work on my defense.


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Dischissus repertus is een keversoort uit de familie van de loopkevers (Carabidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1947 door Basilewsky.

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What is meant here, are not so called Big4, but physically big players. 190+ cm high.
Tennis in it's current form, was invented at the end of 19th century, including dimensions of the court and it's parts, lines, the net. 185 cm of body height at men meant probably being just a big boy then. So we can assume, all court dimensions were designed for about this height. Over years this changed dramatically. We have still smaller players like Diego Schwartzman (170 cm) or David Ferrer (177 cm), but they casus rarus in the higher ranking ranges. More and more players are 190+ and many of them 198+ or even 200+. It's like you was playing serious volleyball against 10 years old kids hitting over the net adapted for this age. For a 200 cm+ player in tennis we can assume, the net does not exist, which is a huge advantage, coming from the body height (a kind of gift most cannot have). If you are say 180 cm high, try to play (recreation or amateur tennis) with a partner being 190 cm or higher. You will feel the difference in every shot, not only on serve. It's that simple as basic geometry. Is a kind of handicap needed? Yes, it is. Just like in large number of other sports, like boxing, wrestling, weight lifting. This is solved by categorizing athletes by body weight. It tennis this should be the body height. But this would mean separate tournaments or draws for different categories. Not acceptable from organisational point of view. What to do?
Modern technologies should make it possible, just like Eyehawk in tennis to control linespeople's verdicts (why not used on regular base, for umpire to be required to control it on his screen at every point?) Like Virtual Goal Line in so conservative sport as football. The logical idea (disregarding available technology) is to have in the same game different net heights for every player, adjusted to their body height over or under the predefined standard (say 185 cm), so Schwartzman sees the net 15 cm lower then currently defined and Isner 26 cm over it. This would be a perfect handicap and a solution with no need of categorization of players.
This is of course the task for engineers and ruling authorities, but I'm quite sure, current technologies (electric, electronic, optical, mechanical …) would be more than sufficient. We just have since some years rackets with integrated micro- or nanotechnology, allowing to send lots of data about every shot live to the handy of the coach, which can be used as a base of finding improving potential and ways to implement in training. And nobody calls this a crime against the nature of the sport. So why not the Virtual Net?
And here an interesting article about tall players.
And caution please – a new giant is coming, the 22 years old Chilean Nicolas Jarry. His 1,98 m is enough to serve big and no obstacle to move well.
While today's top player with "normal" height of about 185 cm (Federer., Nadal, Djokovic and Murray only a bit more, Thiem) can still defeat giants because of serving good enough to hold own serve all over the match against not exceptionally good returning tall players, he will not be able to, if the giant can move well. Close to 2 m but no more than that seems to be optimal to have huge advantage on serve and not have equally big disadvantage on return.
Well, if this is the future of tennis, I'm happy to probably not be able to watch (because of age), when 2m+ dominate the game and the net is still on the same height and no compensating technology like "Virtual Net" is introduced.
Among the giants there are currently 2 good movers – Kevin Anderson and just the young Chilean. Would you go to watch live a match of 2 of them? 90% of the match 1-strike-rallies. 90% of the time of the match for players to change court side. This is rather the end of tennis, not the future.
Now we can see at Wimbledon and in the current ATP ranking.
At Wimbledon, we had just 4 (=a half) 198cm+ players in QF, one of them taking Federer away, then 2 of them, playing 6,5 hours match in semis, interesting maybe for their families and making the other pair (Djokovic and Nadal) to play their semi match over 2 days. One "big boy" must have unavoidably (such a draw) reached the final and maybe ousts one of 3 greatest ever in tennis with hammer throwing. I hope this does not happen.
Another thing – in the semifinal families could watch around 50 aces from every part in an equivalent of 8 sets (because of no tie-break in set 5. at Wimbledon). Then we have seen Djokovic (185 cm) hitting around 25 aces in a quite normal 5-setter. And let me think, it's not comparable – a 2,0 m+ man hitting an ace and a 188 cm tall Novak Djokovic hitting an ace. Taking into account, the first hit his aces against another highscrapper with no skills for ball exchanges longer than 2 strokes and the second against one of best defensive players in the game – Rafael Nadal.
Now the other aspect – in the current ATP ranking we have 5 (five!) 198 cm+ players, which is telling everything about condition of today's tennis. The recipe is simple – tak a man, who wanted play basketball but was not smart and mobile enough, teach him to hit serves and some hammer throwing from the heaven and you have an ATP top player.
I'm sorry for fans of those players. I like them (almost) all as persons. But what the hell are they doing in tennis, playing over the net with the same height???
I wish ATP to have many 2m-finals at big tournaments with no spectators on the stadium. Then maybe rethink.
If you by accident play tennis (club tennis or simply recreation) yourself, you understand (or will understand some day) what it's about, if you are 180 cm high or smaller and you play a partner being 195 cm or more.


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Mosquitoes Are Taking Over Metro Vancouver With The Biggest Spike In 8 Years
Time to stock up on bug spray.
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If you feel like you've been getting attacked by mosquitoes more than usual this year, you're probably right. A B.C. pest management company, Morrow Bioscience, told Narcity on Monday, July 6, that there's indeed been a spike in mosquito activity in recent weeks. Apparently this mosquito spike in Metro Vancouver is the worst the area has seen in eight years.
"2012 was the last bad year we had like this," said Shaun Calver, a mosquito controller at Morrow Bioscience, a pest control organization specialization in mosquito management.
Calver told CTV News that his team has been deployed to deal with the rising number of mosquitos flying around in Metro Vancouver.
He attributed to the spike in mosquitos to the rising levels of the Fraser River and the fluctuation in temperatures.
Apparently, mosquitos lay their eggs on the shores of rivers.
So when a lot of rain pours down and causes the river level to rise and extend over land, a bunch of new mosquitoes begin to hatch.
The Fraser River water level has increased and decreased three times this year, said CTV, paving the way for more of the little buggers to emerge.
City News explained that people who live close to the river will be familiar with the feeling of swatting away mosquitoes throughout the day.
The week ahead will be critical for the pest management team. If the river level rises yet again, the team will have to go back out there and apply larvacide to deal with the little insects.
Larvicide specifically targets the larva of the mosquitos.
Culver told City News that the larvicide they use is non-toxic. If the water levels are manageable, their team releases the larvicide by hand.
But if the river levels are a bit difficult to work with, they might even spray it out on canoes or even helicopters.
Culver also added that cold weather makes mosquito season all the longer and more annoying.
When asked how long it might take for this intense mosquito season to calm down, Culver told Narcity, "It's going to take several more weeks."
So if you haven't already stocked up on mosquito repellant, now is the time to do so.

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The number of required permission may differ depending on the Android system version and a device model.
Open Google Play Store app.
Search for Avast Mobile Security and tap the app name.
Scroll down and tap Permission details.
Allows adding and modifying calendar events.
Allows Anti-Theft to take pictures of a potential thief.
Allows App Locking to restore a PIN.
Allows accessing contact details and device accounts to log in via Google Account.
Allows Anti-Theft to store settings in the cloud.
Allows Anti-Theft to access your location based on your network and GPS. Thanks to this permission your device may be located when it is lost or stolen.
Allows Anti-Theft to record the audio of surroundings when your device is lost or stolen.
Managing and terminating phone calls.
Getting notified of a new phone call and retrieving it.
Removing a number from the history when it is blocked.
For accessing files in the storage and scan them for security threats.
For deleting malware and junk files from the storage.
For communicating with our servers and downloading virus databases updates.
For triggering updates and scan new networks.


Take a plain fringed scarf and turn it into a stylish new buttoned neck accessory without any cutting or sewing.
Check out this collection of great ideas for altering your wardrobe now that the weather is getting colder.
Why use a machine for what your hands can do better? Making buttonholes the old-fashioned way lends a charming touch to your finished projects!
Tote your groceries in style with this cute bag printed with real apples. Printmaking doesn't get any easier than this!
This is a quick and cool project that's perfect for short summertime attention spans. You'll want one in every color, and so will all your friends!
Grab a Dremel tool and create a pair of summery dangles out of a few pieces of beach glass collected during your seashore holiday.
Don't let patternmaking intimidate you! It's simply drafting shapes based on your measurements. This simple sun hat project is a good introduction to the world of flat patterns.
Crochet flowers are fast, easy, and perfect for embellishing almost anything. Learn how to make a basic two-layer flower with this step-by-step tutorial.
A bit of embroidery turns simple fabric-covered buttons into adorable, wearable works of art.
Learn how easy it is to add a layer of interlining to your garments for extra warmth this winter.


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Andrew grew up on a small farm and developed a love for fresh food and natural flavors with his father. Traveling abroad during a three year military career, Andrew was introduced to some of the finest cuisines the world had to offer. The experience fueled his passion for cooking, and he became an executive chef at some of the finest restaurants on the west coast. Perfecting his cooking over the years, Andrew wanted make his culinary masterpieces available to everyone, and hence, NW Elixirs was born!
Since it's beginning, NW Elixirs has maintained the northwest tradition of healthy eating. All of the products are made from strictly all-natural ingredients and contain nothing artificial. Our clients are serious and educated about their cooking, their ingredients, and making healthy meals. The goal of NW Elixirs is to bring a healthy, culinary masterpiece to every table.


Hi bloggers! I finally finished the little pillow that'll be included in my giveaway. I think it turned out pretty cute, so I hope you'll think so too! The back is all burlap, so it matches the trimming on the front.
Time to get ready for another week, but I wanted to share with you a few photos of some fun, antique finds!
I thought these little salt and pepper shakers were a fun way to use glitter.
The little crocheted doily I couldn't resist either, but my friend, Linda is going to show me how to make them right Linda?
Finally, I was cleaning up my craft room and set these salt and pepper shakers up on this "neon cactus in a terra cotta pot" that I have, just to get them out of the way so I could dust, and I was taken back by how they looked with the green light, so...of course I grabbed my camera and came up with this!
Well, have a nice week, and don't forget to leave me a comment if you want to be entered into my 1st Annual Blogiversary GIVEAWAY.
Deadline is April 30th at midnight and I will draw a random name from all that have entered and post the winner on Saturday, May 1st.
Thank you to all that have followed my blog and left me comments. I look forward to reading each and every one!
The pillow turned out wonderful, Becca...and love all the goodies you found, especially the old laundry pins!
I also love the neon Picture. Pretty cool!
It's a date! A little wine, A little Crocheting, can't wait to see how that turns out!
I love your pillow and your finds! Isn't it a wonderful feeling when serendipity causes you to do something, and you find that you very much like it just the way it is?
I just found your blog-how lovely! Can I be entered in your giveaway? Your little pillow is darling.
Hi! I just found your blog too! popped over from 274 studio. We like the same music!!
You do some really cute art!
Congrats on your blog anniversary! I will become a regular visitor!
Oh dear, Becca! I'm afraid you have just nudged me to go shopping for antique and vintage salt and pepper shakers! Sometimes the tops look so bad that I'd rather not buy them to actually use for s&p but for glitter...! Perfect!
wow, love the your flower artwork. what kind of burlap would you advise me to get for pillows? have a great weekend, becca.
Glitter is a lovely thing, and even prettier in antique shakers.


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Robert Earl Mills (Bobby)
"Soar with the Eagles & Angels"
In his short life, Bobby made a difference not only in the lives of his family but also in the lives of friends on four continents (North America, South America, Europe and Africa). He generously gave of himself to those less fortunate. Bobby was a gentle person and interested in social justice. His humor was dry and funny: at age 10, he came home with a solid yellow lab puppy and named him "Spot."
He was the family peacemaker. His family and friends relied on his patience and knowledge to keep their computers and email working. His calm demeanor and sense of humor made him friends wherever he went.
Bobby played soccer at a high level in Germany and Brazil and in Division 1 clubs in the US. He was an excellent Soccer Referee in the First Division in Houston, Texas and in various Leagues around Houston including USSF and UIL (National Federation). He participated in the Rotary high school INTERACT Club in Dickinson, Texas and ROTARACT in Houston. He participated as a Texas Aerospace Scholar and loved technology. He spent a year abroad in Brazil with Rotary International Youth Exchange and was fluent in Portuguese and Spanish. He was attending college with an interest in Electrical Engineering.
Throughout his life he gave to others what he could. Upon his return from Brazil, he related painful stories of the street children he saw and befriended. He left many of his clothes and soccer supplies to these friends when he left Brazil. He did the same with some of his African teammates when he left Germany and also mailed them "care" packages upon his return home.
Bobby is survived by his parents, his sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins. He was loved by his family and friends everywhere. He overcame a broken arm and knee injury while playing soccer. He overcame a severe broken leg. Toward the end of his life, he struggled with depression. His family believes that whatever darkness covered him has been turned into day and that God, the Father, is doing greater things for him than we could desire or even imagine, until that point, out-of-time, when we shall see and greet him again.


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Issue 109/110, Summer/Fall 2020
The Blessing and Burden of Forever
By Rosalind Bentley
A feature essay from the Summer/Fall 2020 issue.
This is how so many black families lose their land. One person wants to sell and starts an action that can force a sale. And if a developer wants the land, he or she can buy a small interest in the property from an heir and through a series of legal maneuvers, force the sale of the whole lot.
By Pauletta Hansel
A poem from the Place Issue
Friend, what else is there to do / but learn to use the word undulating in a sentence
"This Story Cannot Be Told Unless We Start from the Beginning"
By Minnijean Brown Trickey and Crystal C. Mercer, moderated by Danielle A. Jackson; photographs by Ebony Blevins
A featured conversation from the Summer/Fall 2020 issue.
"The pandemic in the United States opened up the truth of what that nation is about. Like a volcano, truth just came pouring out. Just layers and layers and layers. I keep hearing this stuff about, well, in America, we're exceptional. Are you kidding? I never thought that, never felt that, never even considered it. American exceptionalism? Please."
The Silence at Buddy's House
By John Lingan
An essay from the Place Issue
As a music writer and amateur New Orleans obsessive, I've known of Buddy Bolden for years—known what there is to know, that is, about a musician who left no recordings. The shotgun on First Street was deemed a New Orleans Historic Landmark in 1978, but the last ten years for this house, his longest and final residence, have been a saga of demolition by neglect, the City Council's term when levying fines.
A Lesson in Acceptance
A Points South essay from the Place Issue
Being a restaurant's regular, whatever that looks like to you, even in the midst of a pandemic, is still a beautiful thing. Even if that dedication means never actually stepping foot in the establishment at all, let alone eating a meal there.
The Great Call
By Valerie Boyd
Much has changed in Stone Mountain since that piece was published in 1999, and much has not. The Confederate heroes still perch proudly on the mountainside, defacing the granite, mocking its full potential for glory. And yet the city surrounding the mountain keeps getting blacker and browner, fueled by a surge of immigrants from such countries as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria, Somalia, and Burma.
A South Forty: Architecture and Place in the American South
by Peter MacKeith, Dean and Professor of Architecture
Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, University of Arkansas
Underneath the Sweet Gum Tree
By Martin Padgett
Today, I venture proudly and safely into the straight world outside the confines of bars and clubs once designated specifically as "gay" spaces. I can be free. This wouldn't have been the case a generation ago. Within my lifetime, queer behavior has put people in jail, in exile, and in danger. For many who faced their truth in the decade before Stonewall, often the only safe choice was to leave the small towns where they were shamed and muted and to run away to cities—though even in Atlanta, a town with well over a half million people in 1960, the year Frank arrived, gay bars were dangerous and illicit places.
By Karen Good Marable
As of today's journey, our family has been in quarantine for more than a hundred days. Summer camp plans have fallen by the wayside, much like those color-coded home-school schedules parents passed around at the top of the pandemic. In their place are daily, valiant, sometimes pitiful, efforts to educate our kid, get our work done, love each other, and stay alive. The shelter-in-place sameness was beginning to feel a little like Groundhog Day—that is until late winter, early spring when death came in threes.
Ways to Keep Breathing
By Mik Awake
Stop ignoring your body while you have one, you tell yourself. Stop succumbing to despairing visions of genocide. Pause the video of George Floyd's strangled voice calling out for his mother, begging for air. Take the air left in your chest, run. In the midst of a disease that continues snatching Black breath, run.
The Days Are Walking
By Holly Haworth
He seemed to be governed by boomerang physics, propelling ahead of me and quickly beyond my line of vision—out to the edge of the flickering earth, to sniff the horizon (scent-trails of coyotes, perhaps, his kin, holding the boundaries of the house of the sun), out to the edge of the tame, to lick at the nameless wild with his mottled tongue. Then, a faraway dot, and another dot beside it, growing larger, two dogs racing toward me, mine in the lead, full-tilt ahead with a spreading toothy grin that split his face, hyena-like, the other dog trailing him, the slap of their paws on the soggy ground, happy.
Change and Transformation
By Eliza Borné
A Letter from the Editor, Place Issue.
A tiresome stereotype about the American South is that this place is a monolith. Growing up in Arkansas, with the two sides of my family living in different regions of the state, I learned instinctually how wrong that view is.


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Obama to announce immigration action Thursday
U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., checks his watch as he greets immigration demonstrators in front of the White House Wednesday for a rally to urge President Barack Obama to move forward on executive action on immigration. - photo by Associated Press
GOP governors attack Obama's immigration order
By STEVE PEOPLES and JILL COLVIN
BOCA RATON, Fla. — The nation's Republican governors on Wednesday lashed out at President Barack Obama's plans to unilaterally protect millions of immigrants from deportation, but clashed over whether their congressional colleagues should threaten a government shutdown in response.
The issue dominated the first full day of the Republican Governors Association annual meeting, where a half-dozen potential presidential candidates addressed an issue that could weigh heavily in the GOP's wide-open presidential primary.
One of the likely candidates, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, threatened to file a lawsuit to block Obama's executive order, which the president was expected to announce Thursday night.
Perry likened the president's move to sticking "a finger in the eye of the American people" and described a lawsuit as "a very real possibility."
Recent Republican White House candidates — Perry among them — have struggled to navigate the immigration debate while facing overwhelming conservative opposition to an immigration overhaul and Hispanic voters' growing influence in national elections. While united in their opposition to Obama's plans, GOP governors on Wednesday offered little clarity on what the party should do instead.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the group's outgoing chairman, blamed Obama for failing to address immigration reform earlier in his presidency, but refused to explain his personal position on the issue. Instead, he urged Congress to avoid a government shutdown to block an executive order on immigration.
"It's incumbent upon everybody in Washington, D.C., to do their jobs. And running the government is their job," Christie said. "All this kind of hysteria about shutdowns to me is just people who can make news."
A few minutes earlier, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal suggested that a government shutdown should be on the table, but put it on Obama's shoulders.
"I don't think the president should shut down the government simply because he wants to break the law," Jindal charged.
The comments came on the first day of the RGA's annual conference, where dozens of governors gathered in a luxury oceanside resort as the group's most ambitious governors jockey for position ahead of the 2016 presidential contest.
While Hillary Rodham Clinton remains the overwhelming Democratic front-runner should she seek the presidency, the prospective Republican field is crowded and without a clear leader. A handful of Senate Republicans may join the 2016 contest, but many donors and party officials would prefer a presidential nominee to emerge from the ranks of the Republican governors, who have executive experience and are not tainted by Congress' low approval ratings.
Governors, governors-elect, senior aides and prominent donors descended upon the Boca Raton Resort & Club on Wednesday. The bright pink complex is a sprawling maze of fountains, manicured gardens, ballrooms and high-end restaurants, complete with its own beach club, marina and golf course.
Like their governors, the GOP's biggest donors are also divided on how the party should navigate the immigration debate. While many raise the economic benefits of an improved immigration system, high-profile Republican donor Foster Friess said that immigration reform is unnecessary so long as the federal government enforces its existing laws.
"This whole issue is basically about a political question rather than what's good for the country," said Friess, who was among the many prominent donors mingling with governors. "Who are these people going to vote for?"
Obama on Thursday will announce steps he will take to shield up to 5 million immigrants illegally in the United States from deportation. The president, in a video released on Facebook, said he would make his announcement from the White House.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker suggested that his party should pursue a lawsuit to block Obama's plans instead of a government shutdown. He described immigration reform as important, but not as important as the economy, taxes, energy and education, and accused Obama of using the issue as a "cynical ploy" to disrupt Republicans from pursuing other agenda items.
"Come out with me on the road and I'll tell you there aren't a whole lot of people talking about immigration reform," Walker said.
WASHINGTON — In a broad test of his executive powers, President Barack Obama declared Wednesday he will sidestep Congress and order his own federal action on immigration — in measures that could spare from deportation as many as 5 million people illegally in the U.S. and set up one of the most pitched partisan confrontations of his presidency.
Obama declared that Washington has allowed America's immigration problem "to fester for too long."
The president will use an 8 p.m. EST address Thursday to announce his measures and will sign the executive actions during a rally in Las Vegas on Friday. In doing so, Obama will be taking an aggressive stand that he had once insisted was beyond his presidential power.
As many as 5 million people in the country illegally are likely to be protected from deportation and made eligible for work permits under the plan. They would not have a path to citizenship, however, and the actions could be reversed by a new president in two years. Officials said the eligible immigrants would not be entitled to federal benefits — including health care tax credits — under Obama's plan.
The 5 million estimate includes extending deportation protections to parents and spouses of U.S. citizens and permanent residents who have been in the country for some years. The president also is likely to expand his 2-year-old program that protects young immigrants from deportation. The administration had considered extending the executive action to parents of young immigrants covered under the 2012 Obama directive, but immigration advocates said they did not expect the parents to be included in the final plan.
"What I'm going to be laying out is the things that I can do with my lawful authority as president to make the system better, even as I continue to work with Congress and encourage them to get a bipartisan, comprehensive bill that can solve the entire problem," Obama said in a video on Facebook.
Laying the groundwork for his actions, Obama invited 18 Democratic members of the House and Senate — but no Republicans — to dinner at the White House Wednesday. Among the networks airing his Thursday speech will be Univision, which will interrupt the Latin Grammys to carry his remarks, assuring him a huge Spanish-speaking audience.
Obama is to speak at Las Vegas' Del Sol High School on Friday, a school with a large population of non-English speaking students where Obama unveiled his blueprint for comprehensive immigration legislation in 2013.
Republicans vehemently oppose the president's likely actions but are deeply divided and have spent much of the week intensely debating how to respond. Some conservative members have threatened to pursue a government shutdown and one — two-term Republican Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama — raised the specter of impeachment on Wednesday.
House Speaker John Boehner's spokesman criticized Obama's planned announcement, noting that the president himself had said in the past that he was not "emperor" and was limited in his ability to act.
"If 'Emperor Obama' ignores the American people and announces an amnesty plan that he himself has said over and over again exceeds his constitutional authority, he will cement his legacy of lawlessness and ruin the chances for congressional action on this issue — and many others," the spokesman, Michael Steel, said.
A wide-ranging immigration bill passed the Senate last year, but stalled in the Republican-led House. Senate Democratic leaders on Wednesday took turns declaring their support for Obama's unilateral action, blaming Republican inaction for forcing Obama to act.
"There's one more chance: Just put the bill on the floor, Speaker Boehner," said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., a lead author of the bill that passed the Senate. "Pass the bill and we will not even have to debate executive action."
Even Republicans who supported the Senate bill that would have overhauled immigration laws said Obama's go-it-alone approach would backfire. Still, they cautioned their party colleagues not to overreach in their response.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who worked on the Senate legislation, said the executive actions would leave the status of millions of immigrants unresolved and would not address what he called a broken immigration system.
"Our response has to be measured — can't capitulate, can't overreact," he said. "Impeachment or shutting down the entire government would be an unwise move."
Adjustments also are expected to a 2012 program that allowed immigrants under 31 who had arrived before June 2007 to apply for a reprieve from deportation and a work permit. More than 600,000 young immigrants have been shielded from deportation to date under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Removing the upper age limit so that applicants don't have to be under 31 — one option under consideration — would make an additional 200,000 people eligible.
The beneficiaries of Obama's new executive action would be treated in the same manner as those immigrants who were shielded from deportation in his 2012 directive, according to one official who discussed the limits of Obama's action on the condition of anonymity, lacking authority to speak on the record at this point.
Those young immigrants covered by the 2012 action can obtain work permits but are not eligible for food stamps, federal welfare benefits or disability benefits under the Supplemental Security Income program. They also are ineligible for tax credits under Obama's health care law, though they can buy health coverage at full price on the exchanges created by the law. They may be eligible for public benefits provided by some states.
Some immigrant advocates worried that even though Obama's actions would make millions eligible for work permits, not all would participate out of fear that Republicans or a new president would reverse Obama's actions.
Associated Press writers Julie Pace, Donna Cassata, and Alicia Caldwell contributed to this report.


Folding bikes – once the accessory of choice for the multi-modal commuter - have evolved to such an extent they are now capable of providing the comfort necessary for much longer rides.
To celebrate the progress of the ultimate form of portable transport, entries are now being invited for the inaugural London to Paris Folding Bike Challenge.
Entrants must leave their multi-sprocketed mountain machines at home and instead carry their fold-up versions to the starting line. Whether you've got a Dahon, Brompton, Mezzo, Dawes, Birdy, Bike Friday, Airnimal, Raleigh, or Pashley-Moulton; as long as it folds, you're in.
Places are limited to around 100 so sign up quickly for a chance to enjoy this slower-paced tour from London to the foot of the Eiffel Tower, with four days of pedal-pushing comradeship, fine French food and a glass or two of bubbly at the finish.
Be clear, the Tour de France it is not. Gruelling hill ascents have been hacked out of the route in favour of softer sight-seeing routes and plentiful stop-offs.
Organised by Action Challenge the event is being held in aid of The British Heart Foundation and Scope.
Entries cost £99. The ride goes from London to Portsmouth with an overnight ferry journey to Caen, and a ride to Paris via the beautiful Normandy countryside. A full support team will be provided as will food and accommodation, a celebratory prize-giving party in paris and the Eurostar ride back to London.


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Do the 'rewards outweigh the risks'? More NC schools are dropping face mask mandate
T. Keung Hui
November 25, 2021, 11:00 AM ·4 min read
A third of North Carolina school districts will not require face masks when students return to class from the Thanksgiving holiday break.
At least 39 of North Carolina's 115 school districts have voted to make face coverings optional, according to a database maintained by the N.C. School Boards Association. Most of the state's public school students are in districts that still mandate masks, but the number making face coverings optional is steadily increasing.
School districts are caught in the middle between parents who say masks should stay until more children get the COVID vaccine and other parents who say the mandate should have ended long ago.
Protesters and counter-protesters demonstrate outside a Wake County Board of Education meeting Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021 in Cary. The board will vote on a proposal to continue to require face masks in schools. Some parents argue the coverings should be optional.
"We're just in a really bad time until we can move forward and move out of all of the different things that are keeping us — I don't even know what word to say for what we're still dealing with — when it comes to COVID," Transylvania County school board chairwoman Tawny McCoy said before the vote to make face masks optional starting Nov. 29.
Transylvania County is more than 270 miles west of Raleigh. The small Western North Carolina school district is like dozens of districts that have reversed course multiple times since the summer over whether to require face masks.
Individual school boards and charter schools are making face mask decisions because the state doesn't have the final say like it did last school year. State lawmakers are also requiring monthly votes on masking policies.
Masks dropped despite NC advice
The state Department of Health and Human Services recommends that schools require face masks be worn indoors. But in October, DHHS revised its recommendations to say that schools can consider not requiring masks if the COVID transmission rate in their county drops to moderate or low levels.
As of Tuesday, only six of North Carolina's 100 counties: Halifax, Hertford, Lee, Northampton, Scotland and Tyrrell have low to moderate COVID transmission rates. All the school districts in those counties still require masks.
All 39 mask-optional districts are in counties with high or severe COVID community transmission rates. They're also all in counties that Republican Donald Trump won in the 2020 presidential election.
The Gaston County school board voted this month to end the mask requirement against the recommendations of the county health director. Gaston County is located 180 miles west of Raleigh.
"In life there are risks and rewards for every action we undertake," Jamin Jenkins, a middle school parent, told the Gaston County school board before its vote. "I know there are risks of rolling back mask mandates. But I believe the rewards outweigh the risks."
All school districts in the counties that Democrat Joe Biden won in the 2020 presidential election are still mandating face masks. This includes the state's five largest school systems: Wake, Mecklenburg, Guilford, Forsyth and Cumberland counties.
Jim Hunt, a retired art teacher, substitute teaches at Aversboro Elementary School in Garner Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021. Aversboro has a 20 percent teacher vacancy rate.
The 76 total school districts still requiring masks represent 64% of the state's K-12 public school enrollment. The 39 mask-optional districts represent 27% of the enrollment.
The remaining 9% of public school students are in charter schools, laboratory schools and the single-school Innovative School District. It's uncertain how many of those schools require masks.
Should schools wait for vaccination rates to rise?
The number of school districts voting not to require masks has doubled in the past month. School leaders in those districts have cited how the number of new COVID cases has been dropping statewide and how access to the COVID vaccine has expanded.
In late October, Pfizer won federal approval to administer the COVID vaccine to children ages 5 to 11. Previously, only children as young as age 12 could get the shot.
COVID vaccination rates among students are one of the factors being used by school districts, such as Wake County, to decide when to end the mask mandate. According to DHHS, only 12% of children ages 5 to 11 and 45% of children ages 12 to 17 have received at least one dose of the COVID vaccine.
In Henderson County, the school board voted at an emergency meeting this month to temporarily restore the mask mandate for students in pre-kindergarten through sixth-grade. The vote came after the district, located 260 miles west of Raleigh, saw a spike in the number of elementary students testing positive for COVID and being quarantined since masks were made optional.
The reason given for the change was to provide more time for these younger students to become fully vaccinated for COVID. State health quarantine requirements for COVID are stricter when it comes to unvaccinated students, especially when they are unmasked.
"Parents and families have the opportunity, to choose a vaccine — if they believe it to be best or not.— and if they choose to do so, they have the opportunity to ensure that their child is not quarantined from school," Henderson County Superintendent John Bryant told the school board.
News researchers Gavin Off and David Raynor contributed to this report.
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Q: Any way to specify default settings for log4net appenders? i.e. I have several RollingFileAppender instances configured via app.config; they omit some params and I want to apply default settings to these params of all instances (if they don't specify this setting explicitly). Any way to do this?

A: After initializing log4net you can get the appenders and change properties on then:
var appenders = log4net.LogManager.GetRepository().GetAppenders();

Now you will be able to get the RollingFileAppender by:
var rolingfileappenders = appenders.Where(a => a is typeof(RollingFileAppender));

Next you can change properties:
foreach ( RollingFileAppender rolingfileappender in rolingfileappenders)
{
    //change your stuff here
}

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Measuring the economic status of low-income individuals and families is a central focus of poverty scholars and is at the fore of much public policy debate. The stakes are substantial as changes in poverty (and poverty thresholds) influence the scale and scope of redistributive tax and transfer programs at all levels of government. In the United States, official poverty statistics are derived from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey, a nationally representative survey of about 90,000 households. The main source of household income comes from labor-market earnings, but as highlighted in the work of UKCPR Affiliates Charles Hokeyem, Christopher Bollinger, and James Ziliak (DP2014-05), published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association, a challenge to the proper measurement of income is survey non-response. Using a restricted-access dataset that links the CPS ASEC to Social Security's Detailed Earnings Records, they show that survey non-response is not random and leads to a systematic downward bias in the official poverty rate of about 10% in an average year. Follow-up research that is forthcoming in 2019 at the Journal of Political Economy (DP2015-02), and conducted jointly with Barry Hirsch at Georgia State University, shows that earnings non-response affects broader measures of the income distribution, such as earnings inequality and gender wage gaps.
The Child Tax Credit and labor market outcomes of mothers
Hyein Kang
This paper examines the effect of the Child Tax Credit (CTC) on the labor supply of single and married mothers using the numerous policy reforms in the credit generosity and eligibility criteria since its inception in 1997. I use variation in the simulated benefits for a nationally representative sample to estimate the labor supply response at the extensive and intensive margins. Using 25 years of data from the Current Population Survey my results suggest that an increase of $1,000 in the average CTC benefit leads to a 1.7 percentage point increase in employment of single mothers and a 35-hour increase in annual work. I find a greater effect when I restrict the sample to single mothers with high school or less education. For married mothers, I find that an additional $1,000 in the average CTC benefit is associated with a 28-hour increase in annual work. The results are robust to an alternative identification strategy using only variation in the maximum credit across time.
Covid-19 and the U.S. safety net
Robert A. Moffitt and James P. Ziliak
We examine trends in employment, earnings, and incomes over the last two decades in the United States, and how the safety net has responded to changing fortunes, including the shutdown of the economy in response to the Covid-19 Pandemic. The U.S. safety net is a patchwork of different programs providing in-kind as well as cash benefits and had many holes prior to the Pandemic. In addition, few of the programs are designed explicitly as automatic stabilizers. We show that the safety net response to employment losses in the Covid-19 Pandemic largely consists only of increased support from unemployment insurance and food assistance programs, an inadequate response compared to the magnitude of the downturn. We discuss options to reform social assistance in America to provide more robust income floors in times of economic downturns.
Relative poverty in Great Britain and the United States, 1979-2017
Robert Joyce and James P. Ziliak
This article examines the major changes to the face of poverty in Britain over the past few decades, assessing the role of policy, and compares and contrasts this with the patterns seen in the United States, using harmonized household survey data. There are various commonalities between the countries, including a shift in the composition of those in poverty toward working-age households without children, who have not been the focus of policy attention. There are also big differences, with a steadily increasing share of poverty in Britain – but a stable share in the US - found in households with an adult in paid work. This perhaps explains why the anti-poverty focus in Britain is now squarely on the plight of working households, while in the US it is focused on labor force participation among the low skilled – even though, as we show, the US has for decades been used to in-work poverty comprising a significantly higher proportion of overall poverty than in Britain.
The antipoverty impact of the EITC: New estimates from survey and administrative tax records
Maggie R. Jones and James P. Ziliak
This version of DP2019-01 is a June 2020 update. Evaluations of the EITC, including its antipoverty effectiveness, are based on simulated EITC benefits using either the Census Bureau's tax module or from external tax simulators such as the National Bureau of Economic Research's TAXSIM or Jon Bakija's model. Each simulator utilizes model-based assumptions on who is and who is not eligible for the EITC, and conditional on eligibility, assumes that participation is 100 percent. However, recent evidence suggests that take-up of the EITC is considerably less than 100 percent, and thus claims regarding the impact of the program on measures of poverty may be overstated. We use data from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC) linked to IRS tax data on the EITC to compare the distribution of EITC benefits from three tax simulation modules to administrative tax records. We find that significantly more actual EITC payments flow to childless tax units than predicted by the tax simulators, and to those whose family income places then well above official poverty thresholds. However, actual EITC payments appear to be target efficient at the individual tax unit level, whether correctly paid or not. We then compare the antipoverty impact of the EITC across the survey and administrative tax measures of EITC benefits. In 2016, about 3.1 million persons were lifted out of poverty by the EITC, substantially less than prior estimates. Further analysis reveals that the efficacy of the survey tax simulators holds across the entire low-income distribution, and not just at the threshold delineating poverty status. Because these results are contingent on dropping CPS ASEC observations with imputed earnings and incomes, our recommendation is that users of the CPS ASEC drop observations with imputed earnings and at a minimum reweight the sample when conducting distributional research.
The changing safety net for low income parents and their children: Structural or cyclical changes in income support policy?
Bradley Hardy; Timothy Smeeding; James P. Ziliak
Refundable tax credits and food assistance are the largest transfer programs available to able-bodied working poor and near-poor families in the United States, and simultaneous participation in these programs has more than doubled since the early 2000s. To understand this growth, we construct a series of two-year panels from the 1981–2013 waves of the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement to estimate the effect of state labor-market conditions, federal and state transfer program policy choices, and household demographics governing joint participation in food and refundable tax credit programs. Overall, changing policy drives much of the increase in the simultaneous, biennial use of food assistance and refundable tax credits. This stands in stark contrast from the factors accounting for the growth in food assistance alone, where cyclical and structural labor market factors account for at least one-half of the growth, and demographics play a more prominent role. Moreover, since 2000, the business cycle factors as the leading determinant in biennial participation decisions in food programs and refundable tax credits, suggesting a recent strengthening in the relationship between economic conditions and transfer programs.
Income, Program Participation, Poverty, and Financial Vulnerability: Research and Data Needs
The aim of this paper is to assess the adequacy of the data infrastructure in the United States to meet future research and policy evaluation needs as it pertains to income, program participation, poverty, and financial vulnerability. I first discuss some major research themes that are likely to dominate policy and scientific discussions in the coming decade. This list includes research on the long-term consequences of income inequality and mobility, issues of transfer-program participation and intergenerational dependence, challenges with poverty measurement and poverty persistence, and material deprivation. I then summarize what information we currently collect in the U.S. that is used to address these issues, with particular focus on ten national panel datasets that cover these domains and continue to be fielded by the various federal agencies. Included in this section is a discussion of challenges posed by rising income nonresponse and underreporting in many panel surveys. I then conclude with a discussion of how the current panel surveys can be improved to address growing need for social science research on inequality, poverty, and material well being.
The role of CPS nonresponse on the level and trend in poverty
Charles Hokayem, Christopher Bollinger, and James P. Ziliak
The Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) serves as the data source for official income, poverty, and inequality statistics in the United States. There is a concern that the rise in nonresponse to earnings questions could deteriorate data quality and distort estimates of these important metrics. We use a dataset of internal ASEC records matched to Social Security Detailed Earnings Records (DER) to study the impact of earnings nonresponse on estimates of poverty from 1997-2008. Our analysis does not treat the administrative data as the "truth"; instead, we rely on information from both administrative and survey data. We compare a "full response" poverty rate that assumes all ASEC respondents provided earnings data to the official poverty rate to gauge the nonresponse bias. On average, we find the nonresponse bias is about 1.0 percentage point.
The effect of SNAP on poverty
Laura Tiehen, Dean Jolliffe, and Timothy Smeeding
The SNAP program cost one half of one percent, according to a 2013 estimate by Robert Moffitt. For that amount we get a 16 percent reduction in poverty (8 million fewer poor people) after an adjustment for underreporting, based on USDA Administrative data. Moreover we get a 41 percent cut in the poverty gap, which measures the depth of poverty and a 54 percent decline in the severity of poverty, when we add SNAP benefits to Census money incomes and recalculate the official poverty rate.
Appalachian legacy: Economic opportunity after the War on Poverty
James P. Ziliak (editor)
In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson went to Kentucky's Martin County to declare war on poverty. The following year he signed the Appalachian Regional Development Act, creating a state-federal partnership to improve the region's economic prospects through better job opportunities, greater human capital, and enhanced transportation. As the focal point of domestic antipoverty efforts, Appalachia took on special symbolic as well as economic importance. Nearly half a century later, what are the results? Appalachian Legacy provides the answers. Led by James P. Ziliak, prominent economists and demographers map out the region's current status. They explore important questions such as: How has Appalachia fared since the signing of ARDA in 1965, and how does it now compare to the nation as a whole in key categories such as education, employment, and health. Was ARDA an effective place-based policy for ameliorating hardship in a troubled region, or is Appalachia still mired in a poverty trap? And what lessons can we draw from the Appalachian experience? In addition to providing important research to help analysts, policymakers, scholars, and regional experts discern what works in fighting poverty, Appalachian Legacy is an important contribution to the economic history of the eastern United States. (Published at Brookings Institution Press, 2012)


We found these at the city park and called them brains. The real name is "Osage Orange".
The Brain fruit has lead to some wonderful conversations with our son.
"Can I take my brain to school today?"
"My brain is covered in ants!"
"Oh look, I've dropped my brain and its rolling down a hill"
"Charlotte took my brain and now I can't find it!" followed by dad saying "I lost my marbles once"
Sam again "Can someone help me find my brain?"
I've blogged this recipe before and now after making it for a year, I'd like to update with a few tweaks that I've made to make it more user friendly. I find that I never have heavy cream on hand so it's just become easier to make with evaporated milk. I also made some small measurement changes to make it easier to cut in half.
Topping can be combined in a small food processor; I have a little 3 cup that does the job nicely.
Pour the main ingredients into a 9 x 13" baking dish and drop the topping by small spoonful's over the top. Bake for 30 minutes covered, 15 uncovered at 350.
I skip the topping when making this for an evening meal for our family. When it's for a crowd I add the topping because it's pretty and adds an extra layer of sugar goodness but I can attest that it taste really good without the topping and the kids will still eat it.
Pour the main ingredients into an 8.5 x 8.5" baking dish. Bake for 25 minutes uncovered at 350.
This is our 7th year of celebrating "Talk Like A Pirate Day" and it's become a BIG DEAL! Costumes were pulled out the night before and I believe there was talk of sleeping in pirate gear.
At 7:10am this morning I was woken by the middle children who whispered to me "Mama! Wake up, it's PIRATE DAY"!
This year we invited friends and upon arrival our little friend announced "I'm ready for the epic play date to begin"!
The first adventure began with a treasure hunt and this way cool map that my husband made.
The mountains are the house and the ships are setting sail from our back porch. First my husband had all the kids sit at a table and review the map. One little friend suggested we take a shortcut to get to the X but they discussed how that line in front of the X was a bottomless pit so we could not possibly go that way!
Next we tried to get everyone to walk the plank into the kiddie pool of water. One little friend did not want to walk the plank so we made it optional but later she was doing it with the big kids.
"ARG! I shall make my sisters walk the plank", said pirate Sam!
After the plank they wandered around looking for Dead Man's Cave.
Next we walked past Dead Man's Cave, where a skeleton from our Halloween collection was hanging in a shed.
Shipwreck cove was the driveway with "wrecked ships" as cars.
The Desert oasis was our bird bath. We had planned a stop to drink water out of a cooler but ran out of time to set up a cooler and in hindsight the kids were getting insane with excitement at reaching the treasure.
We ended at the back of the house with a giant X over a window well cover that our oldest ripped out of the space and snatched the entire treasure box. It took some convincing to get the entire box to the back porch for sorting treasure into everyone's buckets.
The treasure chest was found at Hobby Lobby for $12.95 and its paper mâché but it should last several years if we put it away. We bought a few packs of paper money, spray painted gold nuggets and bought some cheap costume jewelry. They loved it! That's an understatement, they actually kinda obsessed over the stash.
Next we had lunch and calmed everyone down with a pirate movie. This was semi-successful. One child was too hyper to sit still so we took her for a walk, everyone else seemed happy to watch the movie but when we got back they were climbing everything in sight so we ended the movie and moved onto the treasure chest piñata.
This part was hilarious, they wacked at it for a good five minutes before finally breaking it! Afterwards we had snacks of homemade cookies, candy and root beer floats.
Finally, here is our youngest pirate. She said Argh all day long!!


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This Anti-Texas Longhorns T-Shirt Is the Ultimate Burn in the COVID-19 Era
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Lest we forget due to the coronavirus pandemic, this week is the (un)official Texas Hate Week. That joyous time when Texas Tech football fans troll all things UT ahead of the two teams facing off in what's been a highly contested game recently. Both programs have been bad in the last decade, and the Longhorns are only 3-2 against the Red Raiders in the last five seasons.
There's no need to check the records beyond that point. Stop. Don't do it.
Granted, the game falls way earlier than usual this season due to the ass-backwards Big 12 schedule. But at least we have a football season in Lubbock, and not a hodgepodge attempt at a season like the Pac 12's experiment.
And thank God we have a Texas Hate Week, because we got this beauty:
Shopthematador.com
This shirt is great on two levels.
First, cattle is dinner, not a mascot. So Bevo is fair game. There's also that time the Longhorns mascot nearly tramped an innocent and defenseless dog. We can not condone such senseless violence against man's best friend.
It also contains a call back to the great toilet paper shortage of 2020, AKA TP-geddon -- that strange time in Lubbock back in March where people were making a run on toilet paper and stocking up on the stuff for...some reason. We're honestly still trying to figure that one out. COVID-19 is still here, and we're still able to buy toilet paper at United. In hindsight, the shortage was two-ply short of reasonable.
This design is almost perfect. Bevo's googly eyes and tongue. The stack of toilet paper on top of the horns. The riff on Will Rogers and Soapsuds being done in a shoddy way. All of that is great. The one complaint? Why put the double T logo on the toilet paper? I mean, we know what toiler paper is generally used for. I get the branding Bevo aspect, but put it right on the bull and not on the TP.
That reminds me...do they sell TCU toilet paper?
If you just have to have this t-shirt, it's available online at The Matador's website.
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what top was regina wearing with the blue boots and blue hat?
This topic was modified 7 months, 3 weeks ago by step15.
thank you.. that was it..
thank you.. I thought it was that also.. but it had a more poncho look.. or it could've been the way she was wearing it.. I think Regina looks good in evthg she wears lol..


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Q: sqlcipher build windows 8 quite new to running code. Am trying to build sqlcipher on Windows 8 using MinGW msys method following this tutorial: http://www.jerryrw.com/howtocompile.php#
All the code seems to run fine to build sqlcipher, but when I go to test it in command prompt, I get this error:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
(c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Owner>cd c:\sqlcipher

c:\sqlcipher>sqlcipher test.db
sqlcipher: FATAL: Couldn't find sqlcipher.

Anyone got any ideas? The build should have created an sqlcipher executable dll file and an amalgamated sqlite3.c file. On Searching, have found sqlite3.c but no dll file. Code for build is:
./configure --with-crypto-lib=none --disable-tcl CFLAGS="-DSQLITE_HAS_CODEC    -DSQLCIPHER_CRYPTO_OPENSSL -I/c/opensslbuild32/include /c/sqlcipher/libeay32.dll -L/c/sqlcipher/ -static-libgcc" LDFLAGS="-leay32"

make clean
make sqlite3.c
make
make dll

As I assume that the error is in the make dll code, here it is:
$ make dll
echo 'EXPORTS' >sqlite3.def
nm .libs/sqlite3.o | grep ' T ' | grep ' _sqlite3_' \
            | sed 's/^.* _//' >>sqlite3.def
gcc -DSQLITE_HAS_CODEC -DSQLCIPHER_CRYPTO_OPENSSL -    I/c/opensslbuild32/include /c
/sqlcipher/libeay32.dll -L/c/sqlcipher/ -static-libgcc -DSQLITE_OS_WIN=1 -I.   -I/
c/sqlcipher/src -I/c/sqlcipher/ext/rtree -I/c/sqlcipher/ext/fts3 - D_HAVE_SQLITE_
CONFIG_H -DBUILD_sqlite -DNDEBUG  -DSQLITE_THREADSAFE=1   -shared -o  sqlite3.dll
 sqlite3.def \
            -Wl,"--strip-all" .libs/sqlite3.o

A: For those who has same issue, here is the answer.
Actually everything is correct. Just invoke with sqlcipher.exe instead of sqlcipher because the sqlcipher binary is already existed in somewhere.


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Q: Search in Listview related to database and using Retrofit In my Listview i have a list of Users, I want to search an object from this list according to Noun_Pronoun attribute. but I always have a wrong object as result, and when I delete the search string I have an empty result !
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public class InvitationActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    ListView ClassInvitLv;
    SearchView ClassInvitSv;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_invitation);

        ClassInvitLv=findViewById(R.id.lv);
        ClassInvitSv=findViewById(R.id.sv);
        getUsers();

    }

    private void getUsers(){

        Retrofit retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder()
                .baseUrl(getString(R.string.BaseUrl))
                .addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create())
                .build();

        MyInterface myInterface=retrofit.create(MyInterface.class);

        Call<List<User>> call = myInterface.getUsers();

        call.enqueue(new Callback<List<User>>() {
            @Override
            public void onResponse(Call<List<User>> call, Response<List<User>> response) {

                final List<User> UserList = response.body();

                final UsersAdapter usersAdapter=new UsersAdapter(InvitationActivity.this, R.layout.custom_row, UserList );
                ClassInvitLv.setAdapter(usersAdapter);

                ClassInvitSv.setOnQueryTextListener(new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {
                    @Override
                    public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String s) {
                        return false;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public boolean onQueryTextChange(String s) {

                        for (int c=0; c<UserList.size(); c++) {

 if(!(UserList.get(c).getNoun_Pronoun()).contains(s))

                                UserList.remove(UserList.get(c));

                        }

                        usersAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();

                      return false;
                    }
                });

            }

            @Override
            public void onFailure(Call<List<User>> call, Throwable t) {
                Toasty.error(getApplicationContext(),"failure",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        });

    }
}

How can I fix this problem ?

A: Here I have modified your code, it should fix your issue. Expecting that in UsersAdapter class you are not making any copy of the list we passing in constructor. if you are doing that then create a method in UsersAdapter class say updateUserList(List<User> filterList) and handle accordingly.
public void onResponse(Call<List<User>> call, Response<List<User>> response) {

            final List<User> UserList = response.body();
            final List<User> filterList = new ArrayList<User>();
            filterList.addAll(UserList);

            final UsersAdapter usersAdapter=new UsersAdapter(InvitationActivity.this, R.layout.custom_row, filterList );
            ClassInvitLv.setAdapter(usersAdapter);

            ClassInvitSv.setOnQueryTextListener(new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {
                @Override
                public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String s) {
                    return false;
                }

                @Override
                public boolean onQueryTextChange(String s) {
                    filterList.clear();
                    for (int c=0; c<UserList.size(); c++) {

                       if((UserList.get(c).getNoun_Pronoun()).contains(s))

                            filterList.add(UserList.get(c));

                    }

                    usersAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();

                  return false;
                }
            });

        }

Better to create a method in UserAdapter class like below and call from method onQueryTextChange as usersAdapter.updateUserList(filterList);  where calling usersAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
public void updateUserList(List<User> filterList) {
  // clear adapter list
  // add all filterList to your adapter list
  notifyDataSetChanged();
}


CroQueTTe wrote: By the way, if you want to understand the protocol SAM-BA Boot uses for uart & usb communication, please ask the at91support group for the software source code.
Thank you very much for your advise! I got the source code and it si very helpful for me.
are there any plans for supporting a comandline version of SAM-BA?
Would be helpful for productino programming.
SAM-BAâ"¢ v1.8 Release Candidate !
By the way, if you want to understand the protocol SAM-BA Boot uses for uart & usb communication, please ask the at91support group for the software source code.
Please advise, what is their e-mail address?
henkvisser wrote: Can't I just load the Samba ROM into SRAM and run from there? If not why not?
I'd like to update the firmware on my device on the fly without having to power cycle or add a button to pull the TST pin high. What are some good solutions to do this?
Can't I just load the Samba ROM into SRAM and run from there? If not why not?
henkvisser wrote: I'd like to update the firmware on my device on the fly without having to power cycle or add a button to pull the TST pin high. What are some good solutions to do this?
What?! I have no idea what you are talking about. I just load the data from ROM into RAM and run it from there. How is the Samba-boot being erased when it is stored in ROM? I think I am missing what you are saying.
In fact, you never load directly data from ROM to RAM !
The SAM-BAâ"¢ Boot Recovery restores the SAM-BA Boot in the first two sectors of the on-chip Flash memory. The SAM-BA Boot recovery is performed when the TST pin and the PA0, PA1 and PA2 pins are all tied high.
In consequence, when you will program the flash, you will erase SAM-BA Boot.
www/phpBB2_mirror/viewtopic.php4?t=1496 It shows (undocumented) way to copy SAM-BA from ROM directly to RAM.
You can use the AT91Boot_TCL.dll which gives you the entry points to the AT91Boot_DLL through a TCL command line.
1. How do we best get the very first code into the AT91SAM7A3 in our produced units? Does the chip have some kind of built-in support for downloading code in an "empty" chip? JTAG? Other?
2. How do we download new firmware into existing products, in-field?


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Why this could be a pivotal week for markets
The week ahead is stacked with events that could prove pivotal for markets, including a flurry of Fed speakers and the G-20 ministers meeting in China. There's also a batch of U.S. economic reports, including durable goods and trade, and some big retail earnings, including Home Depot, Target and Lowe's. There should also be some important headlines for the oil market when Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi speaks at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston on Tuesday, and OPEC General Secretary Abdalla Salem El-Badri speaks Monday. The stock market closed out the past week on a mixed note, with the S&P 500 falling slightly to 1,917 on Friday, but up 2.9 percent for the week, its best weekly performance since November. The Dow dropped 21 points on Friday to 16,391, but was up 2.6 percent for the week, while the Nasdaq rose 16 to 4,504 for a gain of 3.8 percent for the week. Bulls took heart in the fact that stocks held above recent lows, but some traders were hoping to see the S&P 500 push successfully through the technically important 1,950 level. Traders noted that China was not the negative for markets in the past week that it has been, and oil did not become a drag for stocks until late in the week. West Texas Intermediate crude for March fell 3.7 percent Friday to $29.64 per barrel, ahead of Monday's contract expiration, but it gained 0.7 percent for the week. The April contract was trading at close to $32 per barrel. Traders see $30 as an important level to hold, and staying above that would be considered a positive for stocks. Markets are already keyed up ahead of the G-20 finance ministers meeting in Shanghai on Thursday and Friday, where there is some optimism that China and others could discuss stimulus to help the global economy. Other topics are expected to include Fed and other central banks' policy and oil prices. "The hope is there's more and more discussion about infrastructure spending and discussion about coordinated policy globally," said Rick Rieder, chief investment officer of global fixed income at BlackRock." I think there was more intensity around that." The management of China's currency is also expected to be a topic of discussion, after the Asian nation first allowed the yuan to fall rapidly during the summer and subsequently raised concerns about further devaluation. "The difference between this week and two weeks ago is China. This week has been pretty stable. The Chinese currency has been relatively stable. Much less talk about capital flight," said Rieder. Win Thin, senior currency strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman, said his expectations for the G-20 are low, but that he would also be watching for follow-up in Europe after U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron secured an EU renegotiation package late Friday that he said is enough to recommend that Britain remain a part of the European Union. "We wouldn't expect too much of the G-20. I'm pleased with how China has come back. They're saying the right stuff and the market's been pretty calm. We are in a nice, uneasy calm," he said. Thin said a new focus for markets may now be the surprise pickup in some U.S. economic indicators, including that inflation rose more than expected in the core CPI. Industrial production was also stronger than expected, as were retail sales and the January employment report. "People are saying no tightening. But maybe the next shoe to drop is people are going to say the U.S. is doing well and the Fed is going to start tightening," he said. That could make the words of the more than half-dozen Fed speakers key in the week ahead. Fed Vice Chair Stanley Fischer speaks Tuesday evening, and he has recently said the central bank remains on its rate-hiking path but that it is data dependent. St. Louis Fed President James Bullard speaks Wednesday, and he has surprised markets with comments that the central bank maybe should hold off. Rieder said the Fed may in fact be forced to hold off, but because of developments outside the U.S. "I thought the Fed should have gone a while ago, and I think it's going to be very difficult, where the global economy is slowing. I think it's hard for the Fed to tighten in that environment," Rieder said. The improving data, if they continue, may also reduce some of the talk about a U.S. recession. JPMorgan said its model showed recession risks ticked down to 31 percent from 32 percent in the past week. Daniel Suzuki, Bank of America Merrill Lynch equity strategist, said improving U.S. data could be a catalyst for a rally if they continue. BofA cut its 2016 expectation for the S&P 500 to 2,000 from 2,200 last week. "In our view the market started to price in a global recession and our estimate at the market low was it was pricing in a recession probability of 50 percent. Some of that's been priced out, and we're probably pricing in 30 to 35 percent," said Suzuki. He said a negative, however, has been a tightening of credit conditions, and high-yield debt could continue to struggle. Suzuki said durable goods could be important in the week ahead. "I think an improvement in the orders would give some support to the idea that you're seeing improving trends within the manufacturing economy ... I think the more (positive) indicators you get, the more the market will price out a recession and the trend continues," he said, adding there are still issues. "Particularly with ISM under 50, there's still reason for concern." Suzuki said a positive sign for the rally was the large equity outflows in the past several months, but a negative is that the earnings estimates trend continues to be for reduced expectations. Suzuki said one positive sign may be coming from the behavior of small caps, which he said are trading in line with large caps for the first time since 2003. "Small-cap underperformance peaked in 2011 and during that time period they underperformed by 30 percentage points," he said, noting they are now trading in line on a forward price to earnings basis. He said the historical average premium of small caps relative to large caps was 5 percent since 2011. "Now that premium is zero. They went from a premium of 27 percent or more in 2011. Now they're both at 15.8 percent. At the record difference, small caps were trading at 17.7 percent times while large caps were trading at less than 14 times," he said.


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Department of Economics and Business Economics Research Research centres CREATES People International Fellows Martin Thyrsgaard
Cristina Amado
Girum Abate
Torben G. Andersen
Tim Bollerslev
Helle Bunzel
Peter Christoffersen
Gustavo Fruet Dias
Stefano Grassi
Peter Reinhard Hansen
Ulrich Hounyo
Michael Jansson
Shin Kanaya
Nicholas M. Kiefer
Anders Bredahl Kock
Siem Jan Koopman
Dennis Kristensen
Robinson Kruse
Markku Lanne
Daniela Osterrieder
Mikko Pakkanen
Mark Podolskij
Olaf Posch
Tommaso Proietti
Jeffrey Racine
Carlos Vladimir Rodriguez-Caballero
Cristina Scherrer
Lars Stentoft
Martin Thyrsgaard
Allan Timmermann
Almut Veraart
Francesco Violante
Michel van der Wel
Martin Thyrsgaard is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Prior to this, he was at Aarhus University and CREATES from where he obtained his PhD in 2019. His research lies in the intersection of high-frequency financial econometrics, asset pricing, and market microstructure with a specific focus on intraday patterns arising from the way in which financial markets are organized. His work has been published in leading academic journals such as Journal of Econometrics and Journal of the American Statistical Association.
Andersen, T. G., Thyrsgaard, M. & Todorov, V. (2021). Recalcitrant betas: Intraday variation in the cross-sectional dispersion of systematic risk. Quantitative Economics, 12(2), 647-682. https://doi.org/10.3982/QE1570
Borup, D., Eriksen, J. N., Kjær, M. M. & Thyrsgaard, M. (2020). Predicting bond return predictability. Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus Universitet. CREATES Research Papers No. 2020-09
Thyrsgaard, M. (2019). Intraday Phenomena in Financial Markets. Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus Universitet. ECON PhD Dissertations No. 2019-11
Christensen, K., Thyrsgaard, M. & Veliyev, B. (2019). The realized empirical distribution function of stochastic variance with application to goodness-of-fit testing. Journal of Econometrics, 212(2), 556-583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2019.06.002
Andersen, T. G., Thyrsgaard, M. & Todorov, V. (2019). Time-Varying Periodicity in Intraday Volatility. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 114(528), 1695-1707. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2018.1512864
Andersen, T. G., Thyrsgaard, M. & Todorov, V. (2018). Time-Varying Periodicity in Intraday Volatility. Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus Universitet. CREATES Research Papers No. 2018-05
Borup, D. & Thyrsgaard, M. (2017). Statistical tests for equal predictive ability across multiple forecasting methods. Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus Universitet. CREATES Research Papers No. 2017-19
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Email: martin.thyrsgaard@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Personal homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/mthyrsgaard