Have you ever thought about what to call a team made up of speedsters? Sure, we've heard "Lightning Brigade" and "Speed Force"...but what other names would fit?
Inspired by a discussion on the Ride the Lightning Discussion List.
Thanks to Graham GR Dombkins for coming up with the original list of name components!


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Sales tax region name: San Francisco Tourism Improvement District (Zone 2).
How does the San Francisco sales tax compare to the rest of CA?
The 8.50% sales tax rate in San Francisco consists of 6.00% California state sales tax, 0.25% San Francisco County sales tax and 2.25% Special tax. There is no applicable city tax. The sales tax jurisdiction name is San Francisco Tourism Improvement District (Zone 2), which may refer to a local government division. You can print a 8.50% sales tax table here. For tax rates in other cities, see California sales taxes by city and county.
The San Francisco, California sales tax rate of 8.50% applies to the following 34 zip codes: 94110, 94112, 94114, 94115, 94116, 94117, 94118, 94120, 94121, 94122, 94123, 94124, 94127, 94129, 94131, 94132, 94134, 94137, 94139, 94142, 94143, 94144, 94145, 94146, 94147, 94151, 94153, 94154, 94159, 94163, 94171, 94172, 94177 and 94188.
Warning: As described in the note above, some of these San Francisco zip codes may be subject to a different sales tax rate due to the fact that San Francisco contains three different sales tax jurisdictions.
There are approximately 487,800 people living in the San Francisco area. Remember that zip code boundaries don't always match up with political boundaries (like San Francisco or San Francisco County), so you shouldn't always rely on something as imprecise as zip codes to determine the sales tax rates at a given address.


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Movie Review: "I Origins" (2014)
Movie: "I Origins"
Director: Mike Cahill
Running Time: 1 hour, 47 minutes
A scientist named Ian (Michael Pitt) is obsessed with eyes, as each has its own unique pattern. He thinks that mapping the evolution of the eye will disprove the existence of God. He and his lab partner Karen (Brit Marling) are looking for a blind animal with genes that will allow it to develop eyes, or, be an origin species. While working on this, Ian meets a woman named Sofi (Astrid Bergés-Frisbey), whom he was drawn to because of her eyes. They start a passionate affair, but an unfortunate accident cuts Sofi's life short. Seven years later, a new eye scanning program has drawn some exact iris pattern matches in children that were born shortly after the death of another person. It turns out Sofi's iris pattern has an exact match in a young girl in India that may totally turn everything Ian believes on its head.
Though the concept of the movie is quite intriguing, it fails to impress on more than a basic level. It's another one of those films that thinks it's really smart and full of scientific knowledge, but ultimately is nothing more than a romance shrouded in philosophy and science 101 jargon. The ideas of philosophy and science versus religion and spirituality are debated throughout its entirety, though in our opinions, poorly done so. The main character Ian is painted as extremely close-minded, but as a scientist, isn't part of his job to open-minded about the possibilities of life and science? In the film, he's working on something no one has ever thought of or discovered before, so that obviously makes him open to many possibilities, and yet they make the whole reason he's doing these experiments to disprove the existence of god. No scientist would do an experiment to disprove the existence of a spiritual entity...right?? Science is a method for observing the natural world, a way of understanding things. His attitude is one of a belligerent atheist, wherein if he disproves the existence of god by finding the origin species, people will automatically stop believing and having faith, as if the only reason people believe at all is because they don't know the evolutionary pattern of the human eye.
While it attempts to discover these questions and uncover the science behind them, the answers just aren't there, and if they are, they are poorly integrated into the film and reduced to a shallow debate with no real depth whatsoever. The acting was good enough, though we don't necessarily believe Michael Pitt as a microbiological scientist. Director Mike Cahill likes to use Brit Marling a lot and she managed to be more believable as a scientist, mainly because she's the one doing all the scientific work, as opposed to Pitt's Ian, who is off gallivanting with his girlfriend Sofi for half of the movie. It seems like Astrid Bergés-Frisbey is only in this movie to serve as a pretty face, someone with gorgeous eyes for a billboard and an accent to give her some sort of sophistication and to make her character more exotic. If you strip these things away, she could have been replaced with almost anyone else because her acting wasn't all that great.
As we mentioned the story could have been an interesting one, but it was a big undertaking that ultimately fell flat for us. With a bit more tweaking and more thought put behind the project, it could have been a deeper debate that raised real questions and had a real presence as a film.
My Rating: 5.5/10
BigJ's Rating: 5.5/10
Do we recommend this movie: Meh.
One year ago, we were watching: "2 Guns"
Posted by Lolo at Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Labels: 2010's, drama, movie review, sci-fi, year 2

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Залужаны () — село в Великолюбенской поселковой общине Львовского района Львовской области Украины.

Население по переписи 2001 года составляло 73 человека. Занимает площадь 0,49 км². Почтовый индекс — 81533. Телефонный код — 3231.

История
В 1946 г. Указом ПВС УССР хутор Вейсмановка переименован в Залужаны.

Ссылки
 Залужаны на сайте Верховной рады Украины

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Taking the Guardian to Task: Tim Redmond and the Peninsula Press Club Awards
Posted By Matt Stroud on Fri, Jun 8, 2007 at 3:00 PM
A note on Tim Redmond's editorial this week:
Generally, it's an advice column from Redmond (who has "a son going into third grade and … a daughter going into kindergarten") to San Francisco public schools' new superintendent, Carlos Garcia. It's fairly typical of Redmond's work -- dry, vaguely confident, straightforward, plodding -- but one simple inconsistency caught our attention:
Early in the editorial, he asserts that a main issue of contention in public education is "the achievement gap." He says: "white kids and Asian kids and kids from wealthier families do far better than black kids and Latino kids and kids whose families don't have much money. [T]he new superintendent needs to make resolving that problem a priority."
This is a valid concern; we agree that it's important to provide substantive education (whatever that means) to all students across barriers, and that, to do this, it's necessary to innovate and reform. But after riffing for a couple hundred generally obvious words concerning, in order, San Franciscans (they don't "like or tolerate arrogance or secrecy"), common ideas ("You've got some tough decisions to make"), unnecessary clichés ("It's hot in the kitchen; get used to it before you arrive…"), and some lamely-stated admonitions ("…do not — do not — continue the previous superintendent's policy of building a wall between the press and the district"), he concludes with this:
"…for the sake of all of us, don't make the San Francisco schoolkids lab rats for your pet educational theories. This isn't a social-science experiment or a doctoral thesis you're taking on. These are people's lives. Have a little respect for that, and we'll get along fine."
How, then, does Redmond expect "the achievement gap" to lessen without experimentation? When problems exist, people innovate -- they research and test possible solutions. How does he suggest the superintendent change a flawed system without trying new ideas? Redmond, as usual, offers no real solution.
More information on Garcia.
More on Redmond.
Also, re: the Guardian's self-congratulatory news piece about awards won via the Peninsula Press Club: readers might like to know that the Guardian won most of these in the "Magazine / Trade Publication" category against hard-hitting bastions of journalistic integrity (and hell-raising!) like San Jose Magazine, The Wave Magazine and Valley Life Quarterly (PDF).
-- The Snitch
Tags: Carlos Garcia, Peninsula Press Club Awards, San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco public schools, Tim Redmond
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Time for the bones review. Yes - that's a check in the photo. "Services" and not a publisher's check.
What am I working on and why is it important ?
Chicken Boom Boom - the story of a murder performed by an exploding chicken coop. How ? The chickens inside turned to steam. Rather a lot of energy in flash boiling a chicken. Put for or five in a coop and it's quite a blast. It produced an unfortunate demise due to blunt force trauma. The story on the surface is a procedural performed by an oddbits castoff from agency-without-a-name working on behalf of the F.B.I. The heart of the story has more to do with being an outsider and getting on with locals.
Nothing special - just a fun story.
Despot Island - making the world a better place by providing an easy out for those who otherwise "have a job for life." It's my answer to a comment on the Falklands Islands and the Palestinians I once heard made by the late George Carlin. There's a little bit of _Glenngary Glen Ross_ thrown in as well. Hard to resist.
I heard a man say "What else am I to do" once and it stuck. There we have it.
Kate - the story of a high school sophomore with the maturity of a forty-year old man (enough of that !) whose concerns revolve around "being normal" in a family that is anything but normal. She lives thirty-four stories below the Empire State Building with her mad scientist father, eleven year old genius brother (goes to Columbia), super-spy mother, and cyborg beagle Atlas. Alas, Kate does go to St. George's Prep (not to be confused with St. George's Academy) with a number of other special students in an atmosphere that tries to keep things under wraps. She has some trouble with that premise but tries to get on well enough. The main theme is however that Kate is the person most prepared with reason and understanding to confront these most unusual circumstances partly because of her exposure to the unusual and partly just because of her personality. She's aces in crisis but has yet to understand her place is providing order in what can become pretty scary chaos.
Kate is the alter ego of an associate of mine from school years. He was the sort of fellow who just reached over calmly and turned the Bunsen burner off when things went badly and everyone else is wondering what to do [ It's gonna blow ! ]. I'm excited to get back to Kate.
This one is important because it has so much of what Andy taught me in it.
Denis Ivanovich - Denis sees the truth. Unfortunately, the police do not. Denis is suspected in his wife's unfortunate demise set-up to appear as a suicide but that has unsettling aspects of a murder crudely concealed.
This one is important because I started it as a novel after _Rateater_ was on ice. I never could find its legs as a novel without being bitter and shallow. As a short story - it works.
I'm happy about all of these short stories - some of which have a draft on ice and a pair which have drafts in progress.
There is another floating around that I'm not so happy about. I don't think it will stand. Instead, I suspect I'll write a story about some friends who go on a fly-in fishing trip late season September. The plane doesn't come to pick them up. They had supplies for a week. They can make most of the next week on what they have remaining and fish. However, they're ill prepared to try and make it 125 miles out of rough country nor are they at all prepared for the weather they know is coming. It's the lifeboat story on dry land where salvation looks like a boat (instead of land). Of course, it only looks like salvation.
I'd love to hear about other WIP. It helps.


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Stephen King's "It" film trailer just recently got released. It immediately became a hot topic on the web but it seems is not the only work he's famous for now. At the moment, the author is also in another hot seat with his "The Dark Tower" series. It was sued for plagiarism content from another book "The Rook."
According to TMZ, Stephen King's main character, Roland Deschain, is heavily similar to "The Rook" protagonist. Its themes: "time-traveling, monster-fighting, quasi-immortal, romantic adventure heroes" are also nearly the same it.
The creator of the comic book noted that it's more than a stroke of luck for the two characters to even have the same clothing idea. As the case rolls, a massive $500 million compensation is being asked for the plagiarism.
Stephen King hasn't released yet any statement regarding the "The Dark Tower" controversy. In relation, its movie adaptation is soon to head out on cinemas. This is also something that's take note about the sudden case. It's only now that's the film is on its hype.
On the other hand, Hollywood Reporter shared that the initial footage of Stephen King "The Dark Tower" was now seen by everyone at CinemaCon last Monday. This release is actually the first ever update after the adaptation was pushed backed for several times since last year.
"The Dark Tower" consists of eight books, its fist series "Gunslinger" will be the first to roll out on the series. In Stephen King's movie adaptation, Idris Elba will be Roland Deschain, the protagonist. He will be joined by Matthew McConaughey as The Man in Black and Tom Taylor as the Jake. The trio will be the focal point of the storyline.
Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" will hit the big screens this coming July 28. Columbia Pictures Film, Sony, media Rights Capital, Imagine Entertainment and Weed Rood Pictures are the authorities behind the movie book adaptation.
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MORE THAN 100 IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY ALUMNAE GATHERED APRIL 16 FOR THE SCHOOL'S ANNUAL ALL-INVITED REUNION AT SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO'S BASQUE CULTURAL CENTER. SPECIAL ATTENTION WENT TO ICA ALUMS FROM 1946 ATTENDEES.
St. Dominic Parish invites Catholics to join them in hitting the streets to share Christ's light July 16. Heading up the face-to-face evangelization effort is parishioner and 10-year lay missionary Tricia Bolle.
The all-day event seeks to "give other Catholic Christians a stronger understanding of what it means to evangelize, our own baptismal call to participate in Christ's work of evangelization, and how we can evangelize by being a strong witness of our faith through radiating the joy of Christ alive within us through encounter with people in our everyday lives," Tricia told me in an email. The day includes a talk on evangelization, some on-the-street evangelizing and a time to look back on the day.
"Any Christian who desires to learn more about what the church teaches about evangelization and how to begin to more effectively share their faith," is a candidate for taking part Tricia said. Participants should be over 18 and mobile on foot or by wheelchair for the on-the-job element which will include outreach to people across several blocks around St. Dominic's.
What can people expect from the experience? "To learn a lot about their faith, their relationship with Christ, God's ability to work through them to touch others, trusting God and letting go of the things that prevent God from working more efficaciously through us, and that every person on the street has a story," Tricia said.
The day is sponsored by the St. Francis Lay Missionary Society. Tricia is the group's current president and has traveled to Asia to further their work. She said God called her "with great clarity" on her first visit to China in 2004 while still a graduate student at Stanford.
People are invited to come individually or as teams of three to five. The day includes a presentation on how-to-evangelize followed by practicing evangelization in and around the parish compound interacting with others on the street and in local establishments. A late afternoon looking back on the experience is followed by vespers at 5 p.m. Contact Tricia at tricia@laymissionary.org.


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Adelaide Angels Baseball Club is a Baseball Club in Adelaide, South Australia, The club plays in the South Australian Baseball League. The club is based at Weigall Oval in Plympton a suburb of Adelaide.

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Q: Can the condition given to takeWhile function contain or operator? I'm trying to compute the value
takeWhile (/="E"||/="A") ls

where
ls = ["EVENT","6010","A","CHECK_PROMOTION_ELIGIBLE","-1","E","RUN_EVENT","6020"]

However, ghci complines as

Variable not in scope: (||/=) :: [Char] -> [Char] -> [Char]

Is there a syntax problem, or just can't we use || operator while specifying to condition for takeWhile function ?
I have tried to remove the ||/="A" part, then there is no error.

A: That's not possible that way. First of all, you made a syntax error: by writing (/="E"||/="A") Haskell sees the ||/= part as a single operator.
We can fix the syntax error, and write:
takeWhile ((/="E") || (/="A")) ls
But this is still invalid, since || expects two Booleans, and here the operands are String -> Bools.
Nevertheless we can solve this, for example with a lambda expression:
takeWhile (\x -> (x /="E") || (x /="A")) ls
There is also a semantical error. A test like x /= c1 || x /= c2 where c1 /= c2 is always True. Indeed. The first test fails in case x == c1, but if c1 /= c2, then we know that x /= c2, hence it would always result in True. So you probably want to use:
takeWhile (\x -> ( x/="E") && (/="A")) ls
we can also use the notElem :: Eq a => a -> [a] -> Bool function, which makes the code more self explaining:
takeWhile (`notElem` ["A", "E"]) ls
or with flip :: (a -> b -> c) -> b -> a -> c:
takeWhile (flip notElem ["A", "E"]) ls


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Q: i have a number and convert the number in the form of decimal using angular question Is In  Angular
my question is like I have a number 123456789 without decimal
now I want to convert this number like this 12.3456789
how can I show in the output

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A: Some logic like this will help.

const num = 123456789;
const strNum = num.toString();
const modifiedNumber = strNum.length > 2 ? Number(`${strNum.substring(0, 2)}.${strNum.substring(2)}`): num;
console.log(modifiedNumber);

Please Note : strNum.substring(2) is same as strNum.substring(2, strNum.length). If the end index is not specified, it will take the length as default end index.


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The University of Texas System Office of Academic Affairs (OAA) is committed to providing guidance and support to UT academic institutions in academic planning, policy, and program review. The approval process for academic program proposals and changes ensures that all UT degree programs are of the highest quality and are designed to improve long-term academic and professional outcomes for our students.
UT System provides several resources to assist academic administrators in these processes, as well as additional information from the Board of Regents, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB), and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACSCOC).
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Mega Producer Jack Antonoff Says Milwaukee Inspired His Next Album
Anna Miller November 15, 2019
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Jack Antonoff, pop producer and frontrunner of the band Bleachers, has played shows around the country and world, but he returns to Milwaukee to get his creative juices flowing.
Jack Antonoff, one of the most prolific pop producers of our time who has worked with the likes of Taylor Swift, Lana del Rey and Lorde, credits little ol' Milwaukee as an inspiration for his band Bleachers' upcoming album. I know what you're all thinking — how did the land of beer and cheese heads become a muse for the man who brought us "Look What You Made Me Do?"
It all started back in 2014 when Bleachers played one of their first shows ever at Summerfest. Fresh off the massive success from his band fun, Antonoff launched Bleachers that year, using the new slate to lean into big '80s-style beats that he would later use with Carly Rae Jepsen. Only having released a couple of singles before playing the 2014 Summerfest show, Antonoff has said that this is the show that helped Bleachers find their groove.
"Bleachers was in many ways born at Summerfest," Antonoff said about the 2014 show in a video. "That was one of the first times we extended 'You're Still A Mystery' and put the saxophone in."
The band returned to Summerfest in 2017 to promote their sophomore album, Gone Now, but the show they put on this July was more reminiscent of 2014. During both shows, the band was a bit rough around the edges. In 2019, this was not due to new band jitters but rather the fact that it was one of the only shows they had played all year. Antonoff had dragged the band out of the studio where they were writing and recording their third album just for Summerfest — he loves the festival that much.
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"My goal this year was just to be home in the studio and writing and just do maybe one or two shows," Antonoff said in the same video. "I want to put all of this energy into [Summerfest] and completely wear myself down so I can get right back into it and remember why I'm making these records."
milwaukee / @summerfest that was one for the books. just wild. thanks for giving us that to take back into the studio with us….
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Put all of his energy into it he did. The July 2019 concert was one of the most bizarre and manic events I have ever been to. The Harley-Davidson Roadhouse was packed with die hard fans who had been on board with Bleachers since their single "I Wanna Get Better" hit alternative radio stations in 2014. Writhing around in a striped red polo, Antonoff was euphoric, delivering monologues about how much he loves Milwaukee and how lucky we are to have such a big music festival in our backyard. To the dismay of festival security, he encouraged fans to get on top of each other's shoulders and dove into the crowd while playing Bleachers' biggest hits. I was honestly worried for Antonoff's safety and crossed my fingers that he would make it to the end of the show.
But apparently this mania was inspirational, as Antonoff credited the concert as giving the band motivation to finish their third album. "bleachers x milwaukee forever," he has written. Despite your antics, we love you too, Jack.
thank you for last night milwaukee. needed that show to bring your energy into the studio. im now flooded with ideas for B3 and what to do with it. youll never know what shows like that do to me. love ya
— jackantonoff (@jackantonoff) July 7, 2019
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Since interning for the magazine in spring of 2017, Anna has contributed to both the print publication and website. She has covered topics from women in the workplace to communal gardens and also writes guides to life in Milwaukee. Outside of writing for the magazine, Anna is going back to school at UW-Milwaukee to work towards a career in genetic counseling.
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Hot Air Balloon Rides In Ronda retains much of its historic charm, particularly its old town. It is famous worldwide for its dramatic escarpments and views, and for the deep El Tajo gorge that carries the Rio Guadalevin through its centre. Soar over the 18th century Puente Nuevo 'new' bridge, which straddles the 100m chasm below, with unparalleled views out over the Serrania de Ronda mountains.
Ronda is also famous as the birthplace of modern bullfighting. Perhaps you will glimpse the spectacular Feria Goyesca, held at the beginning of September, where fighters and some of the audience dress in the manner of Goya's sketches of life in the region. You can look down onto the bullring, Plaza de Toros, which is now a museum.
Across the bridge, you will see an elegant cloistered 16th century convent which is now an art museum, and old Ronda, La Ciudad, sidewinds off into cobbled streets hemmed by handsome town mansions, some still occupied by Ronda's titled families. The Palacio Mondragón still has working vestiges of the exquisite miniature water gardens dating from its time as a Moorish palace during Ronda's brief reign as a minor Caliphate under Córdoba in the 12th century.
Above Ronda's loveliest public space, the leafy Plaza Duquesa de Parcent, you will see a convent, two churches, including the toytown belltower of the Santa Maria de Mayor, and the handsome arched ayuntamiento (council) building. Gaze down onto the Plaza del Campillo and overlook steps that zigzag down to a dramatic eye-level through the Puente Nuevo.


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Displaying a notable speed edge in the light 6-10 knots breeze conditions Harm Müller-Spreer's Platoon leads the 52 Super Series Valencia Sailing Week after the first two races.
Although they finish the first day tied on points with Azzurra, and Platoon won the first race, it was the manner in which the German-flagged team sailed back through the fleet on the second race – coming back from a poor start and rising from 11th to finish fourth – which suggests they may prove to be the crew to beat at this final regatta of the season. Platoon are key rivals to Azzurra for second step on the circuit podium.


Gas infrastructure will increase tenfold over the next ten years, according to the Clean Air Council, bringing gas pipelines, compressors, metering stations, and power plants to communities around the country. With them come emissions that have increased air pollution in rural areas to levels exceeding urban pollution, resulting in widespread adverse health effects, according to David Brown, environmental health consultant for Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project.
Making such invisible pollution problems visible and measureable to community residents, has become a compelling project for Illah Nourbakhsh, professor of robotics at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
"When fracking started, people didn't know if they were being harmed by their water and air. Their tap water could be set on fire. Their horse's hair might be falling out. People felt completely disempowered," he said.
The Pittsburgh area was an early hub of fracking activity, and Nourbakhsh noticed discussions about it all over the city.
Aided by grants from the Heinz and Fine foundations, they invented the Speck air monitor, size of a small clock, to enable people to monitor particulate matter at home. Increased pollutants from the gas industry include large quantities of fine particulate matter, also called PM 2.5, which creates inflammation throughout the body, particularly exacerbating lung and heart disease, according to Harvard Environmental Epidemiology Professor Joel Schwartz. In recent research, he found that even small increases in PM 2.5 levels raise mortality rates from all causes for people 65 and over, the population addressed by the study.
The Speck monitor has the capacity to collect data to be uploaded to the web at www.SpeckSensor.com, with an option to share data publicly and create sources of air quality information within communities and between cities around the U.S. The data is more specific in both location and content than the U.S. air quality index, which reflects a combination of particulate matter, ozone, and other pollutants, says Nourbakhsh.
Indoor readings are affected by both outdoor air and activities like vacuuming and cooking, potentially also providing information about triggers for personal health problems, like asthma, he says. Additionally, the Speck can indicate how well an air purifier is working.
To facilitate community access and collaboration, Nourbakhsh and his cohorts created a pilot public library program in Pittsburgh, donating several Speck monitors to be loaned like books.
"It's become a popular program that got people involved in community advocacy," says Dias.
Consequently, Nourbakhsh and Dias decided to launch Speck library programs nationally in 2016, providing the monitors to libraries at a discount.
In Minisink, the monitor was instrumental in identifying relationships between compressor emissions and symptoms experienced by people living in the community around it, when Brown and his SWPEHP colleagues conducted their health survey there. The monitors showed that the compressor tripled ambient levels of PM 2.5 within the 1.5 mile radius around the compressor. Ambient PM 2.5 rose from 6 micrograms (1/1000 milligram) per cubic meter, a typically low rural level, to 17, a level 50% greater than Environmental Protection Agency limits, with intermittent surges to levels 40 times the EPA's limit.
Nourbakhsh and his colleagues also invented the Cattfish, a small $200 device that can be dropped in a toilet back tank to measure changes in total dissolved solids in well water. Although the Cattfish does not identify what chemicals the solids contain, a TDS increase indicates when contamination occurs, said Josh Schapiro, a robotics engineer at the Robotics Institute, who collaborated with Nourbakhsh on the project.
"The Cattfish provides easy access to well water TDS readings," he said.
The Robotics Institute group is now working on technology that would monitor smaller particles that penetrate the lungs more deeply, as research published this year showed significant increases in babies with low birth weight, ADHD, and autism when mothers are exposed to high levels of fine particulate matter during pregnancy, Nourbakhsh said.
For information about the Speck library program, contact Sara Longo and Beatrice Dias at outreach@specksensor.com.
The demand for ivory carvings in China has resulted in the deaths of roughly 100 African elephants every day.
Maybe baby steps will help, but the world needs a lot more than either the United States or China is offering to combat the illegal traffic in wildlife, a nearly $20-billion-a-year business that adds up to a global war against nature. As the headlines tell us, the trade has pushed various rhinoceros species to the point of extinction and motivated poachers to kill more than 100,000 elephants since 2010.
The even grimmer news that rarely makes the headlines is that the lesser subjects of that old royalty are vanishing, too. Though largely unacknowledged, the current war is far redder in tooth and claw than anything nature has to offer. It threatens not just charismatic species like elephants, gibbons, and rhinos, but countless others with permanent oblivion.
If current trends hold, one day not so very long from now our children may think of the T. rex and the tiger as co-occupants of a single Lost World, accessible only in dreams, storybooks, and the movies. Sure, some of the planet's present megafauna will be bred in zoos for as long as society produces enough luxury to maintain such institutions. Even the best zoo, however, is but a faint simulacrum of wild habitat and its captives are ghosts of their free-roaming forebears.
That's why the Obama administration deserves some credit for highlighting the urgent need to curb the wildlife trade. Its plan calls for using assets of the National Intelligence Council to advance enforcement efforts. Unfortunately, the administration proposes boosting the enforcement budget of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the agency with primary responsibility in this area, by only $8 million. Such an increase would lift its force of inspectors just slightly above the levels of 30 years ago when the illicit trade in wildlife was far smaller.
China's taste for wildlife penetrates even the least visited corners of the region, where professional poachers industriously gather live porcupines and turtles, all manner of venison, monkey hands, python fat, pangolin scales, otter skins, gall bladders, antlers, horns, bones, and hundreds of other items. These goods, dead or alive, are smuggled to markets in China and elsewhere. Meanwhile, an expanding economy enables ever more millions of people to purchase expensive animal commodities they believe might stave off disease or provide the fancy restaurant meals that will impress in-laws and business associates.
Almost any mammal traveling in this landscape, if larger than a tree shrew (which would fit in a modest handbag), sooner or later will have to pass through one of these gaps, and in each a snare awaits. Powered by a bent-over sapling, it lies beneath a camouflage of leaves and hides a loop of bicycle brake cable — or truck winch cable for larger animals like tigers. The trigger controlling each snare is made of small sticks and can be astonishingly sensitive. I've seen snares set for deer and wild pig that were no less capable of capturing creatures as light of foot as a jungle fowl, the wild cousin of the domestic chicken, or a silver pheasant, the males of which shimmer in the dusky forest like bundles of fallen moonbeams.
Southeast Asia, including the Philippines and Indonesia, has the highest proportion of endemic birds and mammals anywhere in the world; it also leads the world in the proportion of species in imminent danger of extinction.
On an expedition to central Laos, my companions and I made our way into a forest distinguished mainly by its remoteness. The Vietnamese border lay perhaps a dozen kilometers to the east, closer by far than the nearest village, four days' hard march away, where we'd recruited the guides and porters traveling with us. That village, in turn, lay two days by foot and motorized pirogue from the end of the nearest road. The head of our expedition, conservation biologist William Robichaud, the only other westerner in our group of 14, told me that, unless a distressed American pilot had parachuted into the sprawling watershed that lay before us during the Vietnam War, ours were the first blue eyes that had glimpsed it.
Isolation, however, failed to protect the canyons and ridges we surveyed. Evidence lay everywhere of commercial poachers who had crossed the mountains from Vietnam to feed the Chinese market. In a matter of days, we collected wires from almost a thousand snares. In them, we found the decaying carcasses of ferret badgers, hog badgers, mongooses, various species of birds, and several critically endangered large-antlered muntjacs, a species of barking deer, one of which, in its struggle to free itself, had pulled off its own foot before dying nearby.
The indiscriminate wastefulness of this massive trapping enterprise is hard to absorb even when you see it yourself. Poachers check their snare lines haphazardly and leave them armed when they depart the area. This means the killing goes on indefinitely, no matter if the bodies languish and rot.
Though we were in that forest in part to remove snares and assess the nature of the ongoing damage, our main goal was to find a unicorn — or actually an animal almost as rare, a creature that might indeed have already moved, or might soon move, from Earth's natural realms to the realm of mythology. We were searching for any sign of saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), one of the rarest large mammals on the planet. Its very existence, though known to locals, was revealed to science only in 1992, when researchers spotted a strange set of horns on the wall of a hunter's shack high in the mountains of Vietnam.
Saola proved to be much more than a new species. It represented a new genus, possibly even a new taxonomic tribe, although the jury is still out on that. A kind of bovid, a ruminant with cloven hooves, its nearest evolutionary relatives appear to be wild cattle, yet it looks nothing like a cow or bison. A saola stands a little higher than a carousel pony. Deer-like, but thicker in form, its powerful build helps it push through the densest vegetation. Its muzzle is splashed with camo patterns of white, and its tri-colored tail — white, chocolate brown, and black — blends with similar bands of color on its rump. Its long, nearly straight horns are elegantly tapered, and in profile they seem to blend into a single horn, giving the creature the otherworldly look of a unicorn.
Today, no one knows if the clock of extinction for the species stands at two minutes before midnight or two minutes after. The greatest threat to its survival is the kind of snaring we witnessed on our expedition, which is doubly tragic, for saola do not appear to be a target of the poachers. In spite of its exotic horns, the animal is unknown in traditional Chinese medicine. (Its omission from that medical tradition's encyclopedic command of Asian fauna and flora testifies to its profound isolation from the rest of the world.) Rather, the last living remnants of the species risk being taken as by-catch, like sea turtles in a shrimper's net.
While the trade's reach is global, the stakes may be highest in Southeast Asia (including Indonesia and the Philippines). About half the world's people live there or in the adjacent countries of China, Bangladesh, and India. The region leads the world in the proportion of its birds and mammals that are endemic; that is, found nowhere else. Unfortunately, it also leads in the proportion in imminent danger of extinction, due in large measure to the wildlife trade. Worse yet, no country in Southeast Asia possesses a tradition of effective biological conservation.
Already many forests that once were rich in tigers, leopards, gaur, banteng, and gibbons are devoid of any mammals larger than a cocker spaniel. If the rest of the world truly wants to protect the planet's endangered biodiversity, assisting the governments and NGOs of Southeast Asia in safeguarding their region's natural heritage needs to be a global priority.
Large animals like leopards are not the only species at stake. Countless smaller and less charismatic species are also endangered by the illegal wildlife trade.
The essential conservation task before the world is to protect key habitats and wildlife populations long enough for generational attitudes to change in China and its neighbors. At least in part, this means meeting the war on nature with a martial response. Whether protecting elephants in Kenya, mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (a cause movingly depicted in the documentary film Virunga), tigers in Thailand, or saola in Laos, one has to prepare, quite literally, to meet fire with fire.
Good news, however, glimmers amid the bad. Although the shift will take time, cultural values in Asia are beginning to change. Witness the recent abandonment of shark fin soup by Chinese consumers. The San Francisco-based NGO WildAid reports that sales of shark fins have plummeted 82 percent in Guangzhou (formerly Canton), the hub of the shark trade, and that two-thirds of the respondents to a recent poll cited public "awareness campaigns" against the global destruction of shark populations as a reason for ending their consumption.
Only by rising to the challenge of species protection — not "eventually," but now — can we ensure that nature's most magnificent creations will persist in the wild to delight future generations. Only through generous cooperation with Asian partners, boosting both law enforcement and political resolve, can we preserve the stunning, often cacophonous, and always mysterious diversity of a large share of the planet's most biologically productive ecosystems.
The dystopian alternative is terrible to consider. Uncounted species — not just tigers, gibbons, rhinos, and saola, but vast numbers of smaller mammals, amphibians, birds, and reptiles — are being pressed to the brink. We've hardly met them and yet, within the vastness of the universe, they and the rest of Earth's biota are our only known companions. Without them, our loneliness would stretch to infinity.
William deBuys, a TomDispatch regular, is the author of eight books. His latest, just published, is The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures (Little, Brown and Company, 2015). His website is williamdebuys.com.
Big box stores wield such a name for good reason: they are the architectural equivalent of a giant empty box, built to hold a warehouse-full of discount goods and accommodate as many people as possible. They take up large lots of space in central and commercial districts and when a store closes, the sign comes down but there's still that big box. What is a community to do?
Walmart currently lists 355 former store locations for sale on their realty website. These are the "dark stores" that were probably replaced by larger "Supercenters," leaving communities with a 250,000 square-foot, crumbling husk of capitalism and general aesthetic eyesore. There have been many creative and community-enriching re-purposing projects that take advantage of the deserted box stores, including the especially innovative McAllen Main Library.
Architecture and interior design firm Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle (MSR), based in Minneapolis and well known for library designs, took on the interior conversion of the project led by Boultinghouse Simpson Gates Architects of McAllen. The transformation from big box to the largest single-story library in America resulted in an intuitively-organized, colorful and welcoming space. MSR also worked to maximize sustainability and reduce energy and water waste. These efforts resulted in a 45 percent reduction in potable water consumption, a condensate recovery system projected to save 180,000 gallons of water per year and a 38 percent reduction in energy usage compared to the national average for libraries.
The real test of a project like the McAllen library is whether the space designed specifically for the participation of the community effectively engages the public. In the first month after the opening of the new location, new user registrations had increased by 23 times, and existing accounts were updated at a 2,000 percent rate. The project was also a success for MSR, as the firm received various accolades including a 2013 Institute Honor Award for Interior Architecture and Best of Category in the 2012 Library Interior Design Awards.
Photos by Lara Swimmer, provided by Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle.
Soon after New York City's legalization of urban beekeeping in 2010, small operations began popping up, especially in Brooklyn neighborhoods like Red Hook. This was the likely cause of the noticeable increase in bee traffic at Red Hook resident Dell's Maraschino Cherry Factory. Workers tried to curb the corn syrup theft, but the bees had developed a taste for the makings of the electric-red garnish. Soon enough, a few of the yellow forager bees returned to their hives a redder shade, and hives around Brooklyn started dripping honey infused with Red Dye Number 40.
Though it was sold in small batches, the concoction was reportedly "metallic" tasting and the whole ordeal was a serious annoyance to both Dell's owner Arthur Mondella and the Brooklyn beekeepers. Mondella solicited the help of beekeeping experts from the National Resources Defense Council and the New York City Beekeepers Association. As winter fell on Brooklyn, bees returned to their natural color and the spotlight on Dell's faded.
Mondella was a third generation owner of the Dell's factory, which remains one of the largest maraschino cherry producers in the nation--TGI Friday's and Buffalo Wild Wings are among its most famous clients. Business was allegedly healthy, so it appeared unlikely that a massive marijuana growing operation would be found in a sophisticated lair hidden beneath the factory five years later, though that's exactly what happened.
According to the New York Times, the underground grow house encompassed 2,500 square feet, the largest operation some investigators said they had ever seen. Authorities had reportedly been tipped off to the underground marijuana business, though the search warrants were executed due to environmental concerns, as it was discovered the factory was illegally dumping waste. Hours into the investigation, authorities found the entrance to the operation in a closet behind steel shelving and a false wall, in a room housing Mondella's collection of vintage luxury cars. When the marijuana plants were discovered, 57-year-old Mondella went into a private bathroom and fatally shot himself.
At the time of this writing, investigators know very little of the network it surely took to nurture, dispense, and sell the product as well as build and maintain the operation's underground hideout. The discovery of a copy of "The World Encyclopedia of Organized Crime" in the hidden office has led to obvious speculation of mob involvement. Dell's might have seemed like an odd candidate for a drug front, but the nature of its (notably aromatic) production process covered the tracks for one of a grow operations dead giveaways—electricity usage. Heat lamps are needed to provide nutrients to the marijuana plants, a system that is often difficult to conceal.
Besides the mystery drug operation, Mondello leaves behind a 5-year-old daughter with his ex-wife, a public shocked that the successful company was used as a drug front, and authorities baffled as to why he took his life over marijuana charges.
From an environmental standpoint, plastic is a huge problem. In America we use 2.5 million plastic bottles each hour and recycle only 27 percent of them. Discarded packaging and other plastic products are huge contributors to things like oceanic trash islands, garbage patches, plastic eating microbes and other dystopian-sounding environmental phenomena. Though there have been continued efforts to estimate just how much plastic ends up in places outside of our disposal infrastructure, like the ocean, we still don't really know how it is breaking down or where the pieces are all ending up. Even when plastic is recycled (and it often isn't) it can't be completely re-purposed like other materials, so the process is more accurately called down-cycling. The outlook seems bleak, yet production of plastic is actually on the rise, further evidence that we are acting as though plastics aren't suffocating our earth or infiltrating the global food chain.
The quest for a durable, biodegradable, easily-molded, environmentally-friendly bioplastic seems like a quixotic one, but a team at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University has developed a bioplastic fabrication process that uses a form of chitin, an abundant and underutilized material found in shrimp shells.
Chitin itself is not a new discovery. What the team at the Wyss Institute accomplished was developing a process for the production of what they call "Shrilk" (shrimp chitin combined with a protein from silk) that can be molded into complex 3d shapes without breaking or shrinking. The resulting bioplastic degrades in about two weeks, actually adding nutrients to soil and allowing plant life to grow, like the black-eyed pea grown by the Wyss team in chitosan-enriched soil.
Laboratory development of bioplastics like Shrilk is encouraging, but the product still faces the daunting transition to large-scale manufacturing. So, although burying discarded yogurt containers in our gardens might not be an immediate possibility, it's nice to know someone is working on it.
Images provided by The Wyss Institute at Harvard University.
Big Energy presents a glowing dreamscape of a glorious future with carbon-based fuels, but it would be more like a nightmare with flooded coastlines and a devastatingly hot planet.
Around the world, carbon-based fuels are under attack. Increasingly grim economic pressures, growing popular resistance, and the efforts of government regulators have all shocked the energy industry. Oil prices are falling, colleges and universities are divesting from their carbon stocks, voters are instituting curbs on hydro-fracking, and delegates at the U.N. climate conference in Peru have agreed to impose substantial restrictions on global carbon emissions at a conference in Paris later in the year. All this has been accompanied by what might be viewed as a moral assault on the very act of extracting carbon-based fuels from the earth, in which the major oil, gas, and coal companies find themselves portrayed as the enemies of humankind.
That the big carbon outfits would seek to perpetuate their privileged market position in the global economy is, of course, hardly surprising. After all, oil is the most valuable commodity in international commerce and major producing firms like ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Shell regularly top lists of the world's most profitable enterprises. Still, these companies are not just employing conventional legal and corporate tactics to protect their position, they're mounting a moral assault of their own, claiming that fossil fuels are an essential factor in eradicating poverty and achieving a decent life on this planet.
Improbable as such claims may seem, they are being echoed by powerful officials around the world — typically, the leaders of carbon-producing nations like Russia and Saudi Arabia or the representatives of American energy-producing states like Texas and Kentucky. Count on one thing: this crew of fossil fuel enthusiasts is intent on ensuring that any path to a carbon-free future will, at best, be long and arduous. While you're at it, add top Congressional leaders to this crew, since many of the Republican victors in the 2014 midterm election are from oil and coal-producing states and regularly laud carbon production for its contribution to local prosperity, while pocketing contributions by Big Oil and other energy firms.
Unless directly challenged, this pro-carbon offensive — backed by copious Big Energy advertising — is likely to attract at least as much favor as the claims of anti-carbon activists. At this point, of course, the moral arguments against carbon consumption are — or at least should be — well known. The oil, gas, and coal companies, it is claimed, are selfishly pursuing mega-profits at the expense of the climate, the environment, our children and grandchildren, and even possibly a future of any reasonable sort for humanity as a whole. "Basically [the big energy companies have] said, we're going to wreck the planet, we don't care what you say, we think we can, and we dare you to stop us," observed climate activist and 350.org cofounder Bill McKibben in a recent interview. This outlook was reflected in many of the signs carried by the estimated 400,000 demonstrators who participated in the People's Climate March in New York City last September.
Views like these animate the struggles against "fracking" in the United States, against the transport of tar-sands oil via the Keystone XL pipeline, and against the shipment of coal to ports in the Pacific Northwest. They also undergird the drive to rid college and university endowments and other institutions of their fossil fuel stocks, which gained momentum in recent months, thanks to the decisions of both the Stanford University board of trustees to divest from coal company stocks and of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to eventually rid itself of its fossil fuel stocks and invest in alternative energy.
Once upon a time, the giant carbon companies like Exxon sought to deflect these attacks by denying the very existence of climate change or the role of humans in causing it — or at least by raising the banner of "uncertainty" about the science behind it. They also financed the efforts of rogue scientists to throw doubt on global warming. While denialism still figures in the propaganda of some carbon companies, they have now largely chosen to embrace another strategy: extolling the benefits of fossil fuels and highlighting their contributions to human wellbeing and progress.
At the moment, this carbon counterattack is most clearly and fully articulated in the speeches of top industry officials and in various corporate publications. Of these, the most recent and authoritative, ExxonMobil's The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040, was released in December. Described as a planning guide for future corporate investment and decision-making, the Outlook combines an analysis of global energy trends with a summary of the company's pro-carbon ethos — and so offers us a vivid look at where Big Energy is heading in its counterattack on the climate movement.
If a climate movement is going to challenge the energy powers of this planet effectively, it's crucial to grasp the vision into which Big Energy is undoubtedly planning to sink incredible resources and which, across much of the planet, will become a living, breathing argument for ignoring the catastrophic warming of the planet. They present it, of course, as a glowing dreamscape of a glorious future — though a nightmare is what should come to mind.
Some of this added energy, Exxon acknowledges, will come from nuclear and renewable energy. Most, however, will have to come from fossil fuels. All told, the Outlook estimates, the world will need 35 percent more energy in 2040 than it does today. That would mean adding an additional 191 quadrillion British thermal units (BTUs) to global supplies over and above the 526 quadrillion BTUs consumed in 2010. A small percentage of those added BTUs, about 12 percent, will come from renewables, but the vast majority — estimated by Exxon at 67 percent — will be provided by fossil fuels.
ExxonMobil argues in its Outlook for Energy report that without fossil fuels, including natural gas and coal, there will be no economic growth.
If there is one overarching theme to the new Exxon ethos, it is that we are witnessing the emergence of a new global middle class with glittering possibilities and that this expanding multitude, constituting perhaps one-half of the world's population by 2040, will require ever greater quantities of oil, coal, and natural gas if it is to have any hope of achieving its true potential.
Citing data from the Brookings Institution, the company notes that the number of people who earn enough to be considered members of that global middle class will jump from approximately 1.9 billion in 2010 to 4.7 billion in 2030 — representing what it calls "the largest collective increase in living standards in history." China and India will be the two countries adding most substantially to the global middle class, with each acquiring hundreds of millions of newly affluent citizens, but substantial gains will also be achieved by such "key growth" countries as Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, Thailand, and Indonesia.
According to the Outlook, virtually none of the expected increase in global energy demand will come from the older industrialized countries, which can afford more costly alternatives; rather, its source will be developing countries, which generally seek cheap energy quickly — that is, coal and natural gas for electricity generation and oil for transportation. Of the 201 quadrillion BTUs in added energy required by the developing world between now and 2040, predicts Exxon, 148 quadrillion, or 74%, will be provided by fossil fuels — a statistic that, if accurate, should chill us to the bone in climate change terms.
The role of fossil fuels in satisfying the aspirations of the world's growing middle class is especially evident in the field of transportation. "Rising prosperity will drive increased demand for transportation," the Outlook notes. "An expanding global middle class means millions of people will buy a car for the first time." Between 2010 and 2040, the human population is expected to grow by 29%, from approximately seven billion to nine billion people; the global population of cars, SUVs, and other light-duty vehicles, however, is projected to grow by more than 100%, from 825 million to 1.7 billion. And while an increasing number of these vehicles will be powered by gas-electric hybrid engines, the majority will still be fueled by petroleum, pushing up the demand for petroleum and pumping ever more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
A rising middle class seeking more consumer products, urban amenities, and travel opportunities will also require a commensurate fleet of trucks, buses, trains, ships, and planes. Reliance on trucks and container ships for moving goods around the world will, in turn, generate a huge demand for diesel and heavy oil, while all those low-cost air carriers (like ill-fated Air Asia) will only up the requirement for aviation fuel.
Finally, the new global middle class will want more computers, flat-screen TVs, air-conditioners, and other appliances, stoking a soaring demand for electricity. Among the advanced nations that make up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a growing share of the energy used in generating electricity will indeed come from renewables and natural gas, while coal use will decline sharply. In non-OECD countries, however, the drive for electrification will be accompanied by a significant increase in the consumption of coal — from 54 quadrillion BTUs in 2010 to 82 quadrillion in 2040. This means that the non-OECD's contribution to global warming will continue to soar, although that's not a point that Exxon is likely to emphasize.
In fact, Exxon predicts that reliance on fossil fuels will grow fastest in the poorest parts of the world — precisely the areas that are expected to suffer the most from climate change. Africa, for example, is expected to witness a 103 percent increase in net energy consumption between now and 2040, with 83 percent of that increase supplied by fossil fuels.
The problem, Exxon claims, is that wind and solar are more costly than the fossil fuel alternatives and so are not growing fast enough to meet rising world demand. Even though the energy provided by these renewables will expand by 315 percent between now and 2040, it still represents such a small share of the total global energy mix that, by the end of this period, it will only reach the 4 percent mark in its share of total world energy consumption (compared to 77 percent for carbon fuels). Renewables are also said to be problematic as they provide only intermittent sources of energy — failing at night and on windless days — and must be bolstered by other fuels to ensure uninterrupted energy output.
Big Oil's counterattack claims that fossil fuel alternatives aren't growing quickly enough to meet rising world demand even though renewable energy is projected to grow by 315 percent by 2040.
Put together, this represents a dazzling vision of a future in which growing numbers of people enjoy the benefits of abundant energy and unlimited growth. You can already imagine the heartwarming TV commercials that will be generated on a massive scale to propagate such a message: pictures of hard-working individuals of all genders and hues enjoying the American Dream globally thanks to Exxon and its cohorts. Needless to say, in such imagery there will be nothing to mar the promise of unbridled prosperity for all — no horrific droughts, colossal superstorms, or mass migrations of desperate people seeking to flee devastated areas.
But this vision, like so much contemporary advertising, is based on a lie: in this case, on the increasingly bizarre idea that, in the 21st century, humanity can burn its way through significant parts of the planet's reserves of fossil fuels to achieve a world in which everything is essentially the same — there's just more of it for everyone. In the world portrayed by Exxon, it's possible for a reassuring version of business-as-usual to proceed without environmental consequences. In that world, the unimpeded and accelerated release of carbon into the atmosphere has no significant impact on people's lives. This is, of course, a modern fairy tale that, if believed, will have the most disastrous of results.
In fact, those dreamy landscapes in the new pro-carbon version of the planetary future will, in reality, be replaced by burning forests, flooded coastlines, and ever-expanding deserts. Forget the global rise of the middle class, forget all those cars and trucks and planes and resorts, forget the good life entirely. As climate conditions deteriorate, croplands will wither, coastal cities and farmlands will be eradicated, infrastructure will be devastated, the existing middle class will shrink, and the poor will face ever-increasing deprivation.
Preventing these catastrophes will involve sustained and dedicated effort by all those who truly care about the future of humanity. This will certainly require better educating people about the risks of climate change and the role played by fossil fuel combustion in producing it. But it will also require deconstructing and exposing the futuristic fantasies deployed by the fossil fuel companies to perpetuate their dominance. However fraudulent their arguments may be, they have the potential to blunt significant progress on climate change and so must be vigorously repudiated. Unless we do so, the apostles of carbon will continue to dominate the debate and bring us ever closer to a planetary inferno. This is the only way to thwart and discredit those who seek to perpetuate the Reign of Carbon.
Michael T. Klare, a TomDispatch regular, is a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College and the author, most recently, of The Race for What's Left. A documentary film version of his book Blood and Oil is available from the Media Education Foundation. Links to his work can be found at michaelklare.com.


A large playground featuring swings, slides, climbing frames, roundabout and multi play area.
From artisan fairs to tea dances, there's always something going on at the Palm House.
The Aviary Cafe serves a range of hot and cold drinks and refreshments. Or stop off by the Lakeside Cafe and grab a coffee or ice cream.
From 'Old Nick's caves' to the beautiful Fairy Glen and Aviary viewing point, there's plenty of exploring to do and kids will love it.
There are a number of statues and monuments in the park, including the Grade II listed Shaftsbury Memorial, Eros Fountain and Peter Pan statue.
The bandstand, popular since the Victorian era, is said to be the inspiration for The Beatles' song Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.


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A couple of weeks ago, a seemingly random assortment of comedians and celebrities gathered in Los Angeles for the "Roast of Justin Bieber," which aired last night on Comedy Central.
As each guest took the mic and directed various verbal barbs at Bieber, you could see his smile fading a bit as he struggled to maintain the nonchalant facade he decided to go with when he took a seat on the stage.
Suddenly, an unlikely hero emerged: Will Ferrell -- or more accurately, Will Ferrell playing Ron Burgundy, the lead character from "Anchorman" and absolutely no other movie that would tarnish its good name.
Burgundy decided he had to come to Justin's defense -- in the same way Stephen Colbert defended President Bush in 2006 (read: not really).
It's OK, Justin. We can just say those were tears of laughter.


Before Sears Centre heats up this Saturday, take a closer look at the upcoming Fedor vs Henderson match.
Fedor Emelianenko is the longtime Pride Fighting Championships title holder, who became the most powerful free agent. But after that, he became the recipient of shocking, back-to-back upsets.
This Saturday, Fedor Emelianenko will face Dan Henderson to highlight Strikeforce and M-1 Global's main event. After that, fans will get the latest installment of in Fedor Emelianenko's journey. But before you get and feel the action at the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, here is a closer look at the Fedor vs Henderson match-up.
Fedor Emelianenko, one of the most feared fighters in the sports, will face another legend in Dan Henderson in search for a rebound after two consecutive losses. Fighting at a catch-weight of 220 pounds, this match will represent the Last Emperor's last stand to prove what is left for him.
However, Dan Henderson is used to fighting larger opponents. He will bring in stylistic complement in the bout, as he will neither submit nor crush Fedor Emelianenko. So the question here is: Will Dan Henderson keep the bout on foot despite his opponent's bone-jarring flurries? With Fedor Emelianenko still having his quick fist, Dan Henderson's great chin and right hand could make an enticing proposition.
Another factor to consider is the battle for takedown. With Fedor Emelianenko having great hips, the ability to exploit openings, and outstanding submissions, can he apply all of these to his opponent?
That said, fans should expect big shots swinging the momentum on Saturday. Who's your pick in this match? Share it by leaving a comment.
Fedor Emelianenko vs Dan Henderson, All Set!


Levi Sanders, son of fringe liberal Bernie Sanders, just diverged from his father's path in a huge way. He openly praised President Trump and criticized the Democrats.
"The Democratic Party has done a very poor job of bolstering people's confidence and self-esteem, and that has significant consequences when it comes to reaching out to low-income and working-class people," Sanders said.
Clinton was perhaps one of the most unlikeable political candidates in history. She was a perfect politician on paper yet that couldn't translate into votes. She was too cold, too superior. Trump, by contrast, makes people comfortable. A working-class man or woman doesn't feel embarrassed when they listen to Trump.
"Trump has done an incredible job in saying, 'Listen, you don't really need to make more money. I'm not going to raise your minimum wage but I'm going to make you feel good about yourself – the Democratic Party has taken away your self-esteem and your self-worth'," Sanders said.
Don't expect the rest of Sanders' party to pay attention to what he says. They like feeling superior. Trump voters are STILL being painted as ignorant buffoons, people who are too stupid to know what they really want.
The Democrats' snotty attitude will hurt them in the upcoming midterm elections. The predictions of a blue wave don't seem very realistic anymore.


Six suspected militants were killed by Egyptian security force in a raid on their hideout in a suburb west of Cairo, the interior ministry said on Monday.
The interior ministry said it had received information that the suspects were planning attacks on important installations, Churches and security personnel during the (Muslim) Eid al-Adha celebrations.
Security forces found assault rifles, shotguns and ammunition during the raid. The ministry published photographs of bloodied bodies with their faces masked and the weapons on the floor beside them. The alleged extremists died in a shootout after opening fire on security forces in the 6 October district, according to the statement. The raid in the 6th October suburb came just days after an attempted attack on a church near Cairo. Security forces arrested seven people suspected of involvement in Saturday's foiled bombing, the latest attack aimed at Egypt's Christian minority. Separately, Egyptian forces killed 12 suspected militants in raids in North Sinai, as reported on Sunday.
The statement did not specify when the raid took place or whether the suspected militants were affiliated with any specific terrorist group. The interior ministry announced Sunday that security forces had arrested six members of a "terrorist cell" behind that attempted attack.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pledged to eliminate Islamist militants, who have killed hundreds of civilians and members of the security forces in the Sinai Peninsula in recent years. Several attacks have targeted the Egyptian mainland. The Eid festival takes place next week. Egypt usually tightens security measures before national holidays, around which several attacks have taken place since 2011.
Egypt has long been a region with a lot of jihadist activities. Sinai particularly is used by militants as both a haven and a crossing point for smuggling fighters, weapons and illicit goods. According to Khaled Okasha, an Egyptian security expert and a member of a government council to counter terrorism and extremism, the geographical structure of Sinai makes it easier for militants to hide and is extremely complex to control. Egyptian security forces can only deploy very limited equipment and troops there because the area is supposed to be a demilitarized buffer zone between Egypt and Israel.
The rate of terrorist attacks by Wilayat Sinai (Egypt ISIS) and other Islamist militants has been rapidly increasing to cause political instability and chaos. Targets of these militants in Egypt have included government officials, police, tourists and the Christian minority. There is a general concern about how the Sinai Peninsula could become another sanctuary for the Islamic State to carry out operations throughout the Middle East. Wilayat Sinai could help facilitate more attacks in Egypt as well, adding extreme political instability in the country. Its existence also poses a threat to Israel, which shares a border with the Egypt and has frequently intercepted rockets from the region.
In consideration of safeguarding the nation, eliminating the terrorism requires an accurate identification of the information as the name and pictures of militants, exact hideout location, number of militants involved and other relevant information about the militants in the region. Due to geographic/ political challenge, existing conventional methods such as surveillance and informant tips prove time-consuming and risky, reliable and authentic intelligence is an essential part of solving this complicated enormous case. The present situation indicates that law enforcement agencies should enhance their methods and strategy by embracing modern forensic technologies in the war against terrorism both domestic and international.
Advancements made in neuroscience provide counter terrorism agencies with a breakthrough solution for investigatory practices. Brainwave Science's iCognative is the only existing contemporary forensic technology that out-performs in terms of portability, accuracy, ease of usage and has proven track record to provide results and leads with an accuracy of 99.9%. The technology uses an active human brain to specifically extract information and gain accurate intelligence and identification of militants and hideouts.
iCognative is a cost-effective, non-invasive modern forensic technology, that has the extraordinary ability to distinguish between terrorists and innocents by measuring brainwaves. This innovative investigative solution is beneficial in various investigative disciplines, including Law Enforcement, Border Security, and Counterintelligence, providing accurate results for interrogators across the globe.
In the case of eliminating militants in Sinai, Unit 777 can use a 45-minute iCognative test to determine if arrested militants have any specific knowledge of any fact or situation, such as the future planned attacks, key members of the organization, information about ISIS, exact location of hideouts, route, and other undisclosed information. In order to conduct a iCognative test on suspect or person of interest relevant to the crime, a test case needs to be built using crime related known and confidential information known only to the perpetrator and investigators called stimuli. It only takes 15 minutes to enter the stimuli into the iCognative system. Stimuli can be in the form of words, phrases or pictures depending on its availability. For example, in this case, investigators can use stimuli as: hideouts, ISIS connections, detail of weapons, future attacks along with other confidential information they have collected during an investigation as stimuli.
All this information will be flashed one after another on a computer screen to the suspects while the iCognative system collects brain responses to each stimulus. These responses are analyzed by a click of button by the automated proprietary software to give final analysis with 99.9% accuracy. There are two conclusions, information in question is present or absent in the brain of the suspect.
Once the iCognative test is conducted, it can be accurately determined whereabouts of these militants, name and picture of other militants, future planned terrorist attacks and the mastermind of this network. Once such information is gained, eliminating terrorism is the easy part. iCognative sets the benchmark for innovation and performance as it is an exceptionally advanced, non-intrusive, and affordable security solution, posing great value for counter terrorism.


LAMMA, which takes place in Peterborough at the East of England showground, welcomes back Datatag and many other leading brands to the annual agricultural event, which will take place on the 18th & 19th January.
The Micro-CESAR Security system uses an array of Datatag security marking technologies as does the established CESAR Scheme. Like CESAR, Micro-CESAR includes a unique RFID tag and a tamper evident warning/registration label with an integrated QR code.
The official CESAR marking and registration scheme has made a huge impact in the fight against equipment theft contributing to a 70% reduction since it was launched in 2007. All leading insurers support the scheme and offer up to 25% discounts for all marked equipment.
Like the official CESAR Scheme industry experts have predicted Micro-CESAR will be set to make the same impact in the fight against crime protecting small agricultural and horticultural tools and landscaping equipment such as chain-saws, strimmer's, cut-off saws and the like.
As an added bonus the technology used in the Micro-CESAR system can also be used as a stock management tool, helping companies track tools in and out of jobs and allowing users to easily access on-line health and safety advice and user manuals through the unique QR code and mobile enabled Micro-CESAR website.
The LAMMA 2017 award winners will be announced on the first day of the LAMMA Show during an awards presentation in the Cambridgeshire Suite.
Datatag experts will be on hand during the two day show in hall 7, stand 7111.


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