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Audit rips Wayne County oversight of unfinished jail
Robert Snell
Crain's Detroit Business
Construction on the Wayne County Jail in downtown Detroit has been halted since July 2013.
A Wayne County judge late Friday released a secret audit of the county's unfinished jail that revealed negligence and exposed alleged misconduct surrounding a controversial project that contributed to the ouster of former Executive Robert Ficano.
In one of the most damning findings, county Auditor General Willie Mayo accused officials of negligence for failing to disclose that construction cost estimates in 2011 had swelled by $42 million.
The 178-page audit, authored two years ago, revealed a lack of leadership and disorganization that cost taxpayers $96 million, and uncovered possible improprieties that were referred to the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office. Three people were eventually charged but the case has collapsed against all but former Chief Financial Officer Carla Sledge.
"We believe the failure of key decision makers to notify the approving bodies in a timely manner cost the county $96 million in unnecessary expenditures if the project was stopped until the funding gap was fully rectified," Mayo wrote. "Consequently, we believe the failure to disclose a material fact to the approving bodies resulted in negligence by certain key officials and officers."
According to the audit, Wayne County also awarded more than $29 million worth of no-bid contracts to AECOM Technical Services Inc. and Parlovecchio Building Company Inc., headed by former county appointee Anthony Parlovecchio of West Bloomfield Township.
Wayne County issued $200 million worth of bonds in 2010 to build the jail, which remains unfinished due to cost overruns. County commissioners voted to cancel construction contracts after the project went over budget in June 2013.
Construction on the unfinished site was halted in July 2013.
"The auditor report describes circumstances regarding the jail project that occurred well before this administration took office," county Communications Director James Canning said in a statement late Friday. "The public has a right to know how its tax dollars were spent or misspent."
The 2013 audit had been shielded from the public amid the criminal investigation and prosecution until Friday, when Wayne County Circuit Judge Timothy Kenny authorized its release.
The audit was released one day after county commissioners approved an interim deal to settle a lawsuit involving the county and two contractors who worked on the 1,976-bed jail project.
On Thursday, Wayne County Executive Warren Evans said Wayne County would consider two options to salvage the jail project in downtown Detroit that would add $175 million to the final price-tag.
The county will consider two smaller options to finish the jail project, one for a 1,944-bed facility and one for a smaller 1,504-bed jail at the site, located at Gratiot Avenue and St. Antoine Street. Both options would include a tunnel linking the site to the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice and cost as much as $175 million, Evans said.
The options could push total construction costs to $375 million before the county spends money furnishing and equipping the jail.
The unfinished facility is costing Wayne County $14 million a year in debt service. The county has spent $150 million so far on the project.
The interim settlement agreement approved Thursday was with jail program manager AECOM and Dearborn architectural firm Ghafari Associates LLC.
"My administration did not cause this mess with the jail, but we are going to clean it up," Evans said Thursday. "Completing the Gratiot site may prove to be the most practical option, however with this agreement we have the flexibility to shift gears if a more viable opportunity is presented."
Evans succeeded Ficano as county executive last year after Ficano was ousted by voters amid the jail scandal and a federal corruption investigation targeting members of his administration.
The audit concluded the awarding of the construction management contract to Detroit-based Walbridge-dck Joint Venture by county evaluators "may have been designed to provide an unfair advantage to certain bidders."
During the public bidding process, the county did not consider the price of the jail project, a move Mayo said was "problematic."
"Price is an important ingredient of any large public project and one of the primary benefits is to obtain a fair and competitive cost for any major capital improvement project," Mayo wrote.
The net result: "the method used by Wayne County did not allow for a fair and competitive bid process," according to the audit.
Members of the evaluation committee overseeing bids lacked construction expertise, Mayo added.
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Linda Lea (Schneider) Souder age 67, of Ashland, died August 31, 2010 at the Hospice House. She was born November 11, 1942 in Ashland, the daughter of the late Chris and Avis Schneider. Linda graduated from Ashland High School, received a Bachelors Degree in Education from Bowling Green State University, and her Masters Degree in Education from Ashland University. After living in West Virginia and California, she returned to Ashland in 1977. She taught school for the Dayton Public Schools, Ashland City and County Schools, Madison Local Schools, and was a Special Education Supervisor for the Mid-Ohio Educational Service Center. Linda was a member of the Ohio Education Association, the National Education Association, the Ohio Association of Pupil Services Administrators, and a life long member of Trinity Lutheran Church.
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Juan Cole had an orgasm today when he heard that Doug Feith won't be serving in President Bush's second term. Of course, JC couldn't keep well enough alone, so he went on one of his world-famous rants. Here's a slice of the action:
Having a Likudnik as the number three man in the
Pentagon is a nightmare for American national
security, since Feith could never be trusted to put US
interests over those of Ariel Sharon. In the build-up
to the Iraq War, Feith had a phalanx of Israeli
generals visiting him in the Pentagon and ignored
post-9/11 requirements that they sign in. Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was a vocal advocate of
a US war against Iraq, who "put pressure" on
Washington about it. (If Sharon wanted a war against
Iraq, why didn't he fight it himself instead of pushing
it off on American boys?)
So, according to the Nutty Professor, the Iraq war is really the result of pressure by Sharon and Israeli generals, who managed to pump false intelligence through that treacherous "Likudnik" (whatever the hell that means), Doug Feith! Beside the fact that this means that Cole and Sharon actually agreed on going to war in Iraq, the fact of the matter is that there's evidence that contradicts the theory (prevalent in conspiracy circles and the Arab world) that the Israelis were really the puppet-masters in this war (leaving aside the variation on the ancient stereotype of Jews pulling the strings behind the scenes, especially to conduct wars). But had JC bothered to care what the Israelis were actually saying, he would have come across, for instance, this story by Barbara Demick in the LA Times (back in Oct 2002!) which quotes, among others, Army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon who said that he "[doesn't] lose any sleep over Iraq" as he believes that "Iraq's offensive abilities have been reduced since the Gulf War." Moshe Arens agreed.
The story goes on to quote Brigadier General Aharon Levran:
"Saddam Hussein, a weakling as he is today, is in
Israel's interests," said Aharon Levran, a brigadier
general in Israel's reserve army and author of a book
about the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Levran, one of the
more outspoken Israeli critics of Bush's policy on
Iraq, says Baghdad is no longer capable of anything
more than a border skirmish.
"A war against Iraq will divert the United States from
its clear-cut campaign against Islamic fanaticism,"
Levran said. "And if it fails, we in Israel will pay the
price."
That sounds more like Ted Kennedy, or the post-flip flop JC! The story goes on to confirm this basic line: "Several high-ranking Israeli military officers have voiced doubts about American and British assessments of the threat posed by Iraq and in particular how quickly Iraq could develop nuclear weapons."
Then there's Barry Rubin. Rubin, who had written a piece in the Jerusalem Post entitled "U.S. Attack on Iraq: Good or Bad for the Jews?" cited three reasons why an attack would not be good for Israel. (This is an assessment that I've heard from several of my Lebanese analyst friends, who are not under the spell of Saidian stupidity). Nevertheless, the LAT story goes on to say, "[t]here is no doubt that Israel would be delighted to see the last of Hussein. The Iraqi leader has been an unwavering archenemy of Israel's, unleashing fierce rhetoric against the "Zionist entity," as he calls it, in nearly every speech." But wait a minute, once again, this was also Cole's position! Back in February of 2003, Cole wrote:
I am an Arabist and happen to know something
serious about Baathist Iraq, which paralyzes me from
opposing a war for regime change in that country.
Furthermore, he shared the exact same concern as most average Israelis:
[T]he possibility that Iraq will develop enough in the
way of weapons of mass destruction to break out of
containment and to attempt to gain popularity by
attacking yet another of its neighbors, perhaps
Turkey or Israel. The aggressive, militaristic nature
of the Saddam Hussein regime makes such a
scenario, however unlikely, at least plausible.
However, Cole seemed to have been more concerned about this than the "Israeli generals" that supposedly were lodging in Feith's office! One wonders what the hell kind of information they were "feeding" him!
In fact, the story shows that the real concern for the Israelis (as it is today for the rest of the world) was Iran. But have no fear, Cole has that covered! True to his stereotype that Jews control US policy, Cole wrote that "if Sharon and AIPAC decide that they need the US government to take military action against Iran, it is likely that the U.S. government will do so."
Sure, why not!? It'll give Sharon an opportunity to send "American boys" to do his dirty deed for him as he supposedly did with Iraq! Only Cole thought that all the sacrifices made in Iraq were worth it!
But putting the insanity aside, Cole is once again freely accusing people of treason and dual-loyalty. Furthermore, he's hiding bigotted stereotypes under a thin veil of political categories ("the Likud" and "Neocons"). He once howled at those who "have attempted to argue that the very term 'Neoconservative' is a code word for derogatory attitudes toward Jews." He contended that "this argument is mere special pleading and a playing of the race cared (sic), however, insofar as only a tiny percentage of American Jews are Neoconservatives, and only a tiny percentage of Neoconservatives are Jews." (Emphasis added.)
Proving that this is a dishonest attempt at backtracking is very easy, since before making that statement, Cole had already written how Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin, who although he himself "is not Jewish" (imagine that!), had "strong association with the predominantly Jewish neoconservatives." (Emphasis added.) Once again, as many times before, Cole is caught with his pants on fire, and his foot in his mouth.
But the funniest part is his conclusion where he "reminds" his readers how not all Jews support the Likud, and not all Jews support the Iraq war. What is this? A fatwa to his faithful followers: "kids, we shouldn't detest and suspect all Jews, just those who support the Likud and the Iraq war! Keep the love!"?
This dangerous dichotomy is one among several that float around in the propaganda of groups like Hizbullah and Hamas. The variation there is that Hizbullah has no beef with Oriental Jews, just the European and Russian ones who "don't belong here." (A more dangerous corollary is that any Israeli who supports the Likud, and thus voted for Sharon, is somehow "fair game" which is another argument floated around by terrorist groups in the ME.) But more than that, to appreciate the preposterous nature of Cole's statement, simply translate it into the American context and you'll have something like "not all Americans deserve to be despised or distrusted, just those who vote Republican (not to mention the 51% who voted Bush) and the majority that supported the Iraq war." (Of course, that latter group included at one point the professor himself!)
You simply gotta love this crazy dude!
Addendum See this old piece by Lee Smith on the subject.
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In my meditation retreat a couple of weeks ago, one of my teachers said, "sometimes we figure out what our retreat is about after a few days of it, but often we don't know what a retreat is about for us was about until afterwards". After five residential retreats (not many, but enough for a sample), I know that this process of discovery happens in layers – a bit of understanding in the retreat, quite a lot more in the week that follows, and then more later, perhaps on the next retreat when something comes round full circle again.
I cried a lot during my sesshin at Loon Lake this year. I wasn't expecting that at all, but I discovered in my first two days of sitting that all of my body was noise and it wouldn't simply dial down. Noise about the US election, climate change, the turn towards hatred, the outrage and rawness and exhaustion I was feeling from all the months of yelling yelling yelling. It was all in there, and when I started to get silent, it came up and danced in front of me. And so I went to my meetings with teachers and cried, I cried on my cushion during the Dharma talks, I cried in my bed when a particularly crushing childhood memory came back to me in a jolt. It was in no way continual, but it was the punctuation to each day of the retreat. It was confusing, because I am not a crier, but I became curious about what would make me cry next.
On the last day of sitting, I heard someone across the room sniffle. At first I thought "damn, someone's got a cold" because if one person has a cold at retreat then it means there's a good chance other people will get it and take it home with them. It's not the most compassionate response, but I have become an ardent hand washer at communal gatherings because I *always* get sick otherwise. Anyhow – my ears were perked up to just such a sign in the zendo….. At first one sniffle, then two…. and after a few more seconds I realized that I was listening to someone cry, not have a cold…. and even more, in that room of 70 people, I could identify who it was. The moment I made that identification, it was like a channel opened up, and I began to cry also, but not for any specific reason of my own but because I could feel the clear suffering of my fellow sitter pouring right inside of me as though it were my very own.
After leaving retreat, I went to visit my family and then drove home to Gabriola. Over the week following (much of which I was separate from Brian due to differing work commitments – and so had lots of self reflection time) I noted that I was feeling a lot of my interactions with people holistically, through my whole body and touching my deeply in the way they normally don't. I've been writing more since that time, I've been reading more zen, I've been more open generally with my time, and feeling more honest and generous overall, even as the implications of being open are also to feel more pain – to feel the injury of others continuously. This opening was authentic, not the result of thinking I should do one thing or behave some way, just a natural transition from the cushion to everyday life. It's been remarkable to note it, even as I also feel that flow begin to ebb.
I have had such experiences before – following retreats or periods of intensive daily meditation. I have had great washes of universal love, or radical truth-telling, or changes of my relationship to time – as a result of this practice. Thus far these have been momentary, a few hours, a day at most. This time was a bit different – an opening in full form for at least a week, and still somewhat with me as I write this entry. But I know it won't last – this state, like all things, is impermanent.
When we meditate, we watch our feelings rise and fall, pass before us and slip out the door. We learn that our emotional states are literally seconds or nano-seconds long, that even if we are having a really deep meditation in one moment, the monkey mind can start throwing bananas in the next, and that the breath is a tenuous anchor at the best of times. In our work towards living in the world more fully, there is no linear path, and no constancy in our responses to the stimulus around us. But what keeps us, or at least me, coming back to sit over and over no matter how tedious it seems at times – is these glimpses of equanimity, these cracks in which the shining self waiting to be revealed leaks through.
I do not have a cosmic relationship with the notion of awakening or enlightenment. As I've written before, I believe these are purely psychological states that come with deepening our relationship and understanding – and so I ascribe nothing mystical to these openings of feeling or awareness that come following a retreat. I do believe, however, that they are the guideposts to where we seek to go in the fullness of ourselves, and in the right time.
I will note that after a week and a half of this window open to compassion and connection, I have spent the last 24 hours in an outrageously angry state. I had a political argument today on Facebook (about Castro, of all things), I yelled at Brian last night because he wasn't *as* pissed off at the government as I am about electoral reform. Basically, I am picking fights for no reason.
I believe this anger is intrisically connected to the channel that was opened in me following retreat. And so I continue to discover what fruit that period of silent meditation will bring to bear.
I came across this quote yesterday and it resonates – so rather than coming up with a pithy ending to this post, I will leave it here for your consideration. It's a deep commitment required of each of us.
Many of us have set out on the path of enlightenment. We long for a release of selfhood in some kind of mystical union with all things. But that moment of epiphany–when we finally see the whole pattern and sense our place in the cosmic web–can be a crushing experience from which we never fully recover.
I read reflections on the subject of meditation frequently and your written insights are among those that speak most clearly to me, and with such elegant honesty. Thank you for opening the windows on your process and sharing this here.


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Q: List of Flights I got this question to solve.
you're given a list of flights start and end times. determine the maximum amount of airplanes in the air at the same time
Example
  {start:4, end:9},
  {start:2, end:5},
  {start:17, end:20},
  {start:10, end:21},
  {start:9, end:18},
 return 3

so as you can see I have to return 3 because there are three airplanes in the air at the same time. start:9, end:18 and start:10, end:21 and start:17, end:20 those are three airplanes in the air at the same time.
This is my code
 const arr = [
  {start:4, end:9},
  {start:2, end:5},
  {start:17, end:20},
  {start:10, end:21},
  {start:9, end:18},
]
const flights = flite => {
  let final = []
  flite.sort((a,b) => a.start - b.start)
  for(let i = 0; i < flite.length; i++) {
    let st = flite[i]
    if(st.end > st.start) return final.push(st.start)
  }
  return final
}

flights(arr)

A: You can use reduce like below and you will get your result.

const arr = [
  {start:4, end:9},
  {start:2, end:5},
  {start:17, end:20},
  {start:10, end:21},
  {start:9, end:18},
];

const flights = flite => {
  // reduce will iterate through each value and produce single result.
  // reduce has two params, callback function and initialValue : optional.
  // here I have call back function (a, i) => {...}
  // add initialValue = 0, so for first iteration it will have a = 0.
  // inside callback function filtering array with flight start time between current timing's start and end. And returning max value between a and filter.length
  return flite.reduce((a, i) => Math.max(a, flite.filter(x => x.start >= i.start && x.start <= i.end).length) , 0);
}

console.log(flights(arr));

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Plant-Based Food System Shift Must Happen To Halt Biodiversity Loss, Experts Say
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By Sally Ho Last updated Jul 6, 2021
In a new report on the global food production and biodiversity, experts say that a mass shift to plant-based diets is crucial to combat the degradation of natural habitats and species extinction. Other key "levers" of action to reduce our pressure on wildlife and biodiversity include setting aside more land for nature and a transformation towards sustainable farming.
Academics and experts have called for a redesign of the current global food system that is a "principal driver of accelerating biodiversity loss". The report, published by international think tank Chatham House and supported by the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), hones into three key actions that must be taken to halt the destruction of the natural world.
"Without reform of our food system, biodiversity loss will continue to accelerate. Further destruction of ecosystems and habitats will threaten our ability to sustain human populations," wrote the researchers.
The number one action that the experts outline is a drastic change in our dietary patterns towards plant-based diets, which would help alleviate the disproportionate impact that animal agriculture is having on biodiversity, land use and global carbon emissions. U.N. statistics show that livestock farming contributes as much as 18% of greenhouse gas emissions, more than the output of all global transport combined, as well as driving unsustainable practices such as deforestation for cattle ranching.
Livestock farming (Source: Omaha World Herald)
"Such a shift would also benefit the dietary health of populations around the world, and help reduce the risk of pandemics," said the paper authors.
Further destruction of ecosystems and habitats will threaten our ability to sustain human populations.
Other scientific studies have come to similar conclusions, with scientists pointing out the Paris climate agreement goals are still out of reach without a plant-based dietary shift, even if the world were to put an end to fossil fuels immediately. Another paper notes that drastic cuts in meat and dairy consumption could remove more than a decade of emissions.
In November 2020, a landmark biodiversity report led by U.N. experts said that it is vital to end deforestation and intensive animal farming to "escape the era of pandemics".
This latest report, released on Wednesday (February 3) was authored by Professor Tim Benton who leads the energy, environment and resources programme at Chatham House, senior research fellows of the same programme Helen Harwatt and Laura Wellesley, as well as PhD student Roshan Pudasaini and PhD candidate Carling Bieg of the University of Guelph.
Two other key "levers" recommended in the paper include protecting more land from conversion or exploitation for agriculture, which will help restore native ecosystems and increase biodiversity, and to promote farming in a "more nature-friendly, biodiversity-supporting way". This will mean limiting the use of inputs like fertiliser, pesticides, energy, land and water, and putting an end to unsustainable farming practices such as mono-cropping and heavy tilling.
Most notably, the protection and setting aside of land for nature and the shift to nature-friendly farming both depend on dietary change, and will become increasingly difficult to achieve if continued growth in food demand exerts ever-growing pressure on land resources.
It is crucial that these three "levers" of change are implemented together, because they are interdependent, the report explains.
The researchers added that at the crux of our unsustainable food system is the "cheaper food paradigm" that has emerged over recent decades, where governmental policies and economic structures have pushed forward intensified agricultural production for high-yield, low-cost foods.
However, they believe that global circumstances amid the pandemic can offer an opportunity to reverse these trends, especially as governments look to rebuild from the coronavirus and are set to meet in a series of climate and biodiversity international conferences this year.
"The year ahead offers a potentially unique window of opportunity for food system redesign," the experts wrote. "Efforts to set in motion a 'green recovery' will bring questions of sustainability, equity and societal resilience to the fore, creating new opportunities for joined-up policymaking that affords equal priority to public and planetary health."
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Café Crossroads, Coffee, In the Café
January 30, 2015 Jaroslav Slámecka
Standing in EMA Espresso Bar during its rush hour, I need a minute to find a place to sit in Prague's newest favorite café. As I look, the three baristas are arrayed behind the bar like a row of soldiers, taking orders and preparing drinks with Spartan efficiency. There's no end to the queue, but every order is fulfilled with a smile. The two baristas working espresso are like a Formula 1 crew, as a three-group La Marzocco Strada hums its tune amid the hard-working burrs of two espresso grinders, a Mahlkönig K30 and Anfim Caimano. Each has its own coffee. Today the German roaster Johannes Bayer in in the Mahlkönig and Denmark's Coffee Collective in the Anfim. The third barista cares for the filtered coffee. Aeropress and V60 are offered, with coffee ground on a Mahlkönig Tanzania.
I find a seat and soon Kamil Skrbek, EMA's owner, joins me. "EMA is not the classic example of a Czech café; we went in the direction of London espresso bars," he says. "The concept is primarily take-away focused, seating is mainly at a large community table. The idea is that EMA should create a space for meeting others. That's also why we don't have a Wi-Fi connection. Be here for the while."
EMA's head barista Adam Neubauer, on the left, prepares an espresso as owner Kamil Skrbek. (Photos: Jaroslav Slamecka.)
That dual focus on creating a quick-stop café and one ideal for meeting friends or colleagues is on full display. What's remarkable about the crowd is that the café is not even two years old. It opened in the summer of 2013. Last year, it won the Best Café award in the prestigious Czech Bar Awards.
"The fact that EMA got successful so soon after its opening is a surprise as well as a reward for our hard work," says Kamil. "We believed we'd chosen the correct location for the café, close to a center and also based on the plans developers have for this quarter. The busy street in front of the café should in the future transform into a boulevard with parks and benches, but we thought we would have to wait a bit longer for the public to get interested in our café."
EMA takes its name from a girl's name that is often used for short rhymes in Czech primer books. The choice is not accidental. The café resides in a Czech Academy of Science building that it shares, among others, with the Institute of the Czech Language. So when Kamil joined forces with the architect Pavel Griz and designer Lucie Trnková, who also operates Prague's great I Need Coffee! café, they decided to work delicately with the space. The result honors the functionalism of the building and its details recall a classroom, such as the school chairs familiar to customers of several generations.
I ask if the café works as a study hall on the subject of specialty coffee. Kamil laughs. "We hope EMA is considered a place where the customer could always taste something new. We try to import new, interesting coffees from roasters all over the world, but we don't want to force anybody or be preachy. For us coffee is mostly about joy, and the same should be true for others."
Kamil enjoys his role as a café owner, and his success is a confirmation of his qualities. EMA Espresso Bar is the younger sibling of a well-established and successful Viennese-style café named Café Lounge. "We opened Lounge basically out of necessity," says Kamil. "Our family rents houses and apartments, and in one of apartment buildings we wanted to give the tenants a quiet place to eat breakfast and enjoy coffee. So we opened Café Lounge. Because it was successful, we decided to open a bit of a different concept, one fully focused on coffee that will allow the baristas to fully realize their potential and show others their love for coffee."
Kamil looks to the bar and calls over head barista Adam Neubauer, the Czech Republic's representative at the 2012 World Barista Championship in Vienna. (Update: A few days after this story was posted, Adam won the 2015 Czech Republic Barista Championship.)
Their conversation sparks with good humor. After watching Adam so focused at the bar, I hesitate to interrupt their loose moment. Then Adam brings me into the conversation, saying, "This is why I like EMA: it's playful and we have a nice released atmosphere on both sides of the bar. The differences disappear here and students are standing next to managing directors and parents with prams."
I return the question whether EMA is a school for specialty coffee and ask Adam if he feels like a teacher in a lecture hall: "The coffee quality in Czech Republic as a whole goes steeply up," he says. "This doesn't place us into the role of teachers, but instead gives us the task to learn ourselves and bring only the best to the customers who expect high quality here. We can definitely do this thanks to our contact with world roasters. For example, I'm always pleased when coffees from the Munich-based roaster Johannes Bayer return to our grinder."
I could talk with both of them much longer, and with joy, but another wave of customers comes, so I retreat to my place and watch the elegant fluency of the EMA espresso bar team as they care for another long line of customers.
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If Libs Get Their Way Could This Be The Future For America?
Daphne Moon April 2, 2018
What Exactly Does 'Free Healthcare' Cost Once Taxpayer's Money Runs Out?
That's a frightening concept but a notion we are all too familiar with in America a 'top heavy society'. Not having the cash flow coming in to offset costs has led to recessions and even a depression not to mention the current state of the ever-dwindling Social Security fund.
The socialist empire, Venezuela, is the latest in failing universal healthcare systems. Taking a look at what is going wrong elsewhere could give the United States a look at what 'could be' and what we can do to stop it.
According to NPR, the Pharmaceutical Federation of Venezuela estimates the country is suffering from an 85 percent shortage of medicine amid an economic crisis also marked by severe hyperinflation and food scarcity.
The entire Venezuelan health care system is on the verge of collapse, says Francisco Valencia, head of the public health advocacy group Codevida. Some hospitals lack electricity, and more than 13,000 doctors have left Venezuela in the past four years in search of better opportunities.
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Socialism, so vaunted for all its "free healthcare" is leading the way for the elimination of all medical care, in Venezuela.
Seems that treating gang members is a life-threatening proposition for doctors in the country's public hospitals. Cure the gangbanger of whatever bullet or knife wounds he gets out on the streets, and you live. Lose such a patient, as you work in a hospital without bandages or medical supplies, and the gang members kill you.
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Junior Rodríguez is used to seeing death and violence up close because he's a doctor in a public hospital in Venezuela, one of the world's most dangerous countries.
But the violence has been turning more personal for Rodríguez and the rest of the medical staff at the Dr. Luis Razetti de Barcelona University Hospital in the eastern state of Anzoátegui.
The staffers work under constant death threats made by relatives or friends of patients — some of them dangerous gang members — if the patients die.
"Most of the time that's the doctor's worst fear, that the patient dies and the relatives take it out on him," Rodriguez said in a telephone interview. "The threat of harm if the patient dies is always there. We don't have any kind of protection. You treat a person who turns out to be a criminal, and if that person decides to point a gun at you, there's nothing you can do."
Nobody can work in those conditions. This is the absolute end of medical care in Venezuela. There just won't be any if trying to treat a patient equates to a death sentence for the doctor.
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Building a Coalition, Building a Party
The story of Barack Obama last night was in the small states where hard work and organizing paid off. He's building a new coalition, Hillary Clinton's expanding the old base, and together, they're making a new Democratic majority.
by Mark Schmitt
There is a reason that insurgent campaigns like Barack Obama's (or Gary Hart's in 1984, or Bill Bradley's in 2000) almost always fall short running against establishment or experienced candidates. It's simply that there are so many different things to do in a political campaign, so many mistakes that can be made, and so many things that are just too hard, too established to change. Running on unsustainable gusts of adrenaline and enthusiasm, insurgents make dozens of mistakes, their opponents exploit them ruthlessly, and if they survive, they hit roadblocks: superdelegates, small-caucus states, or blocs of voters, such as African Americans and older voters, who simply have no reason to break with the establishment candidate.
That's why the most significant thing about Tuesday's results was Sen. Obama's running the table in the six caucus states-by an average of about 40 percent-and the smaller primaries. One can over analyze the demographics of those results-mostly white, Mountain and Plains states-and in so doing overlook the simple fact that either candidate could win such states; it just takes hard work. And it's much more of an uphill effort for an insurgent candidate than for an establishment candidate to claim such small victories. Insurgent campaigns typically roll the dice, hoping that buzz-driven wins in big quirky primaries like California or New Hampshire might offset all the margins in ordinary little states like Delaware and North Dakota. But they never do. Perhaps that's what Obama meant last night when he said, "Make this time different from all the rest."
So far, Obama has won Iowa, through pure organization-not just organizing the state better than it's ever been organized before but organizing it differently. He won South Carolina in more or less the same way, ignoring the old rules about paying off prominent African American politicians, and building on the skeletal infrastructure of community organizing in the state. Those alone are two transformative victories, in the sense that presidential-and progressive-politics in those states will never be the same. Now he's won last night's caucus states, along with several smaller primaries that require grassroots organizing, and some bigger ones, like Missouri. For a candidacy that's supposed to be all flash and rhetoric, as opposed to the real workhorse, those are remarkable achievements even if the campaign fizzles tomorrow.
Every election night, win or lose, one gets a sense from the Obama campaign of the methodical vote-by-vote construction of a new winning coalition. Sure, some of the basic demographics of his campaign remain: He does better among better-educated voters, among younger voters, among whites in Northern states, and less well among Latinos, older voters, and other constituencies of the Democratic base. But that's normal-an insurgent candidate always starts with better-educated and younger voters, because they're the ones likely to be looking for an alternative. It's a picture in motion. Obama first peeled off the African American vote, which, despite his race, is not insignificant-no one's ever done it before, and there was no reason to think that working-class African Americans would see the biracial son of a Kenyan grad student as having much in common with their experience. He started to peel off union members. On Tuesday, the results were mixed and complicated by the distinctive demographics of each state, but he started to reach further up in age-in a number of states, Clinton's advantage didn't begin until reaching voters over 50.
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The methodical, additive construction of the Obama coalition might fall short, in the end. The trend line of the insurgency might never quite cross that of the Democratic base. Certainly the historical odds are against it. But he's hit all his reasonable targets so far. And he's working it like someone who understands what it is to win elections and govern-there's no magical moment when everyone sees your brilliance and votes for you.
Of the hundred or so pieces of hard work that go into such a campaign, the Obama campaign has stumbled only a few times-at least with consequences visible to an outside observer. They probably could have done better yesterday if they had a better strategy to pick off subgroups of Latino voters. And they have not done as well as they could have on a couple issues of domestic policy, particularly the health plan. I don't get worked up about that, since I think his plan is defensible and the details of a health plan proposed in a campaign are entirely irrelevant to what the president will do, but it's left a single vulnerability that Sen. Clinton will claw at until it seems like a profound difference of philosophy. Clinton's call for a debate every week (not a request usually made by a confident front-runner) signals an intent to magnify this single failing to cosmic significance, as it already is for Paul Krugman, Ezra Klein, and a few others we know and love. (The war for the influential policy intellectuals has been a surprising sideshow of the campaign – I have no doubt that Krugman's antipathy made at least a percentage point of difference in the tri-state area.)
Obama faces a tough choice: He can make the most of the difference, attempting to treat the absence of a mandate in his health plan as a virtue, or he can ramp the conflict down, as he had done earlier, focusing entirely on the shared goal of universal coverage, his openness to other ideas and experimentation to achieve that goal, and perhaps praising Sen. Ron Wyden, whose Healthy Americans Act, with its six Republican cosponsors, embodies the kind of bargaining that Obama promises. I very much hope his campaign chooses the latter path. He didn't choose the fight, and it is the Clinton campaign that is treating the individual mandate as if it were the silver bullet for universal health care, which it surely is not, but he nonetheless has little more to gain from amplifying the fight. It's the one and only thing Clinton has to show Obama as unprepared, conservative, or cautious. And if he really wants to "make this time different," he should be unafraid of charges that he changed his mind.
Clinton, for her part, is back to the solid, on-message candidate of the earlier campaign. The soap-opera quality of the post-Iowa period is gone, and gone too is the would-be co-president. Apart from any particular things Bill Clinton said, allowing her campaign to be about "The Clintons," rather than about the distinctive and different achievements of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, is surely the biggest mistake made by any candidate in this cycle. Unfortunately, on her own, she generates neither excitement nor antipathy, and her speech tonight was the kind of thing that makes the speechwriter in me cringe in sympathy with hers-she read out every word as if she might as well have been reading Mitt Romney's speech, it had so little connection to her.
I started this piece thinking I would write at least as much about the Republican race as the Democratic, since the story there is, if anything, much bigger-the resilience of Mike Huckabee, the reluctance to embrace Sen. McCain among Southerners. But, really, it's the story I've been predicting since last year, when their front-runners were named Frist, Santorum and Allen: They don't have a candidate. As one of the many who thought McCain was finished, I've had to rethink my political prognostication skills, but McCain didn't return because of real enthusiasm for him-he returned by default. It's notable that McCain couldn't break 50 percent in his own state, in a Republican primary. That may force the Republicans to pair him with a running mate-and they are all dropping hints to Huckabee supporters that it might be their man-who will excite the base at the same time that he completely alienates all those voters who believe that the earth is more than 5,000 years old.
The Republican race has also had important interactions with the Democratic one. For the week and a half since the Republican South Carolina primary, it had become an implicit race against John McCain, and as a result, for the only time all year, there's been a sense that Republicans could win. While to my ears, Obama makes a strong logical case that he would be the stronger match-up with McCain-he presents a sharp and favorable contrast in both age and ideology, and would not automatically lose the entire Mountain West, as Clinton would-superficially, the reaction to thinking about McCain as the opponent would be to turn to Ms. Ready-On-Day-One. With the Republican race back in turmoil, and a sense that they won't give the nomination to McCain without significant concessions to the social conservatives, Democrats will likely regain some of the confidence that would allow them to take a chance on a potentially transformative president.
And so, we have two races moving in very different directions: One is additive, as Obama builds a new coalition step by step and Clinton tries to bolster and add to the traditional Democratic base (for example, she added support among Asian Americans in California to overcome the fact that Obama won both whites and blacks), which together lead to an expanding and ambitious party; the other subtractive, as it loses faith in one putative front-runner after another, shrinking in enthusiasm and confidence, along with votes.
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Total revenue was up 26 per cent to £26.4million with product sales increasing 37 per cent to £25.4m for the six months to July 30.
But losses after interest, tax and aone-off impairment charge of £2.2m, widened to £11.8m compared to £8.7m in the same period last year.
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He also called Russian President Vladimir Putin a "pure thug" who is "waging an evil war against the Ukrainian people."
On Thursday, Russia's war in Ukraine reached its fourth week, with civilians being bombed from the air, Moscow's military offensive stopped on the ground, and little sight of an end to the fight or the humanitarian crisis it has sparked.
Ukraine accused Russian forces of attacking a theatre in besieged Mariupol that was sheltering hundreds of people and looked to have the word "CHILDREN" inscribed outside the structure in giant white letters, according to satellite photographs from the US government-linked technology firm Maxar.
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"The building was completely destroyed, but the refuge was spared. It did not devolve into another mass grave "Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine's UN envoy, made the announcement on Thursday. Also on Thursday, the US announced the death of an American citizen in Ukraine. Jim Hill of Idaho was killed in Chernihiv, according to a Minnesota relative.
Russia's bombardment of its democratic neighbour has already displaced over 3 million people and sparked an outpouring of international condemnation. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a "war criminal" and backed up his words with a pledge of further military aid to Kyiv, after the Ukrainian leader pleaded with the US and its allies to do more to assist his country defend itself against the Russian assault.
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Russia's U.N. ambassador says he will not seek a vote on the country's resolution on the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine on Friday. The resolution has been heavily criticised by Western countries for failing to address Russia's role in the conflict with its smaller neighbour.
Vassily Nebenzia informed the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that Russia has chosen not to seek a vote at this time due to pressure from the US and Albania on U.N. members to vote against it, but that Moscow is not abandoning the resolution.
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"Their ridiculous humanitarian resolution… was doomed to fail," said US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield in response to Nebenzia's announcement. "We know that if Russia truly cared about humanitarian catastrophes, such as the one it has caused, it would stop attacking the people of Ukraine," she said. "Instead, they want to convene another Security Council meeting in order to use this body as a platform for deception and propaganda."
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Bulgaria is to receive 240 million euro from the EU for the period 2007-2009 for strengthening the country's borders, which are also the EU's external borders, a European Commission source cited by BTA announced.
Bulgaria's EU accession treaty includes the so-called Cash-flow and Schengen Facility, which "shall be used to support Bulgaria and Romania in their obligation to finance actions at the new external borders of the Union" [Article 32]. The aim is for Bulgaria to be aided in two ways: the financing of specific steps towards strengthening the external borders, and improving cash flow in Bulgaria's' national budget towards achieving that goal, the Commission source said.


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Guilty until proven innocent: NFL lacks the evidence to suspend Tom Brady
Bailey Ethier, Staff Writer
In the U.S. judicial system, one is innocent until proven guilty.
Unfortunately, the NFL is not the U.S. judicial system.
Tom Brady, four-time Super Bowl champion and quarterback of the New England Patriots, supposedly played a role in the alleged deflating of footballs used by the team in the AFC championship. Brady was suspended for the first four regular season games of the 2015 season on Monday May 11 – despite not being proven guilty.
The NFL conducted their investigation into "Deflategate,"culminating in the Wells Report, released last week.
If the report is the conclusion of the NFL's investigation, it doesn't exactly reach a definitive answer – nowhere in the 243-page report does the word "definitely" appear.
Page 228 of the Wells report reads, "In sum, the data did not provide a basis for us to determine with absolute certainty whether there was or was not tampering as the analysis of such data ultimately is dependent upon assumptions and information that is not certain."
Text taken from the Wells report stating that the investigators are not certain that the footballs were tampered with.
The NFL "is not certain" whether Brady cheated or not, and yet, he received a four game suspension, a suspension equal to the one a player would receive for PED use.
Another Super Bowl MVP, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, said on a radio show on ESPN Milwaukee in January that he prefers his footballs to be overinflated past the league limit.
If Rodgers likes them over inflated doesn't that imply that he's played with overinflated balls? If Brady got suspended for deflating balls despite any proof that he did, why didn't Rodgers get suspended? Is under inflating balls worse than over inflating them?
Back in 2012 the San Diego Chargers were caught applying an adhesive substance to their footballs. Their punishment? A $20,000 fine.
In what world, besides the one NFL commissioner Roger Goodell lives in (one in which he is ultimately the judge, the jury and the executioner), is applying an adhesive substance to balls a $20,000 fine, yet supposedly deflating balls is a $1 million dollar fine and the loss of two draft picks, one of which is a first rounder?
If Brady cheated, he deserves to be punished.
But if Brady cheated, where's the evidence to prove he did? Again, it's certainly not in the Wells report (seriously, read it here and let me know where the evidence convicting Brady is).
Saying that it's "likely" and "probable" that Brady cheated, as the Wells report does, isn't a conviction, yet it's being treated as one.
The idea that one is innocent until proven guilty is good enough for our nation, just not good enough for the NFL.
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Well, it may seem like I've been absent for a long time, but a few millennia is nothing in galactic terms. So I wake up, rub my prehensile eyes, wrap them round the world, and what do I see? I see that you humans are running the place, which is fine, no issues with that. But then I see what you've done to me. I look here and go, "That isn't me!" I look there and remark, "I don't look like that!" I hear myself quoted and say, "I didn't say that!" It's a mess.
Now, I don't want to get into details, so I'll just take up three broad points. One, I was supposed to make you in my image. Instead, while I was napping, you went and cast me in yours. I protest. I am not bigoted, misogynist, genocidal or egotistic. I look at how I've been portrayed in all the major religions and I'm appalled that anyone would even consider worshipping that.
The talk of worship brings me to my second point: Why have I been portrayed as corrupt? If I am supposed to reward people for their behaviour, why should prayer matter? I am not so insecure that I need to hear praises of me all the time? Or that I need temples or churches or mosques built to honour me, or any of the ritualistic things that you people do? You do not need to bribe me, ok? Just behave well.
Three, why do you assume I need your puny protection? If anyone insults me and I'm petty enough to want to take action against them, there's always lightning – or less subtle punishments such as Himesh Reshammiya music videos. Stop getting offended on my behalf, please. Especially the more devout ones among you, who embarrass me hugely.
I could go on forever about how all notions of me are corrupted, and used by men – yes, mostly men – for their own selfish purposes. But who will listen to me forever? The one good thing I did was make you mortal, which I now realize is a feature and not a bug. Anyway, I accept culpability for creating a flawed product in the first place, and then for falling asleep. I'm disgusted at my failure, and the only honourable option I have left now is to resign.


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Quick Answer: Is French Harder Than English?
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Differences in grammar rules may make German more difficult to learn compared with French, but this is mostly because Germanic languages have differing rules that do not apply to the most widely spoken Latin based languages such as French (150 million worldwide speakers), Italian, (60 million worldwide speakers), ….
The biggest reason for unpronounced letters is that, at one time, the letters were pronounced. … One such change is that the last syllable of French words were pronounced less and less historically, which is why today, you often don't pronounce the last letters in French words.
The French language tends to be difficult to pronounce at first because there are simply sounds that native English speakers aren't used to making. To begin with, French is more evenly stressed. This means that while some parts of a word are stressed, it's not as distinct as in English.
He said that unlike French, English is easy to speak and use by most people around the world. … "English is the best language in business and not as hard to speak as French," he told students of Kigali Health Institute.
Without further ado, these are our top ten hardest (but most rewarding) languages to learn.Mandarin. Mandarin is a language within the Chinese language group and is actually the most spoken language in the world. … Arabic. … 3. Japanese. … Hungarian. … Korean. … Finnish. … Basque. … Navajo.More items…•
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French is not hard to learn, especially when compared to English! That's right. Learning French isn't going to be as difficult as you think. In fact, it's a language that is much easier to achieve fluency in than you would have ever expected.
Apparently, the ancestors of the French, the Gauls, applied a lot of lenition and assimilation. In lenition, consonants become silent, such as the dropped t in bon vivant. In assimilation, the consonants blend in with neighboring vowels, so seconde is pronounced seu go(n)d rather than seu ko(n)d.
Euphony, a rule of harmony Another reason why people find FRench language charming is the intonation. French language has an ardent dedication to "euphony" or the quality of sounding harmonious. There are rules to make sure that French always sounds like a song or an old fashioned drama. It is not just a coincidence.
Languages included in the institute's easiest category are Danish, French, Italian, Spanish and Swedish. And languages in the hardest category are Arabic, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean and Mandarin Chinese. Native Japanese speakers, on the other hand, have considerable difficulty learning the English language.
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MalayalamMalayalam(official language of Kerala State) is the toughest language to learn compared to any other language in India.
French is relatively easy to learn but it does take some time and effort. As French is closely related to English, I have to agree with the Foreign Language Institute that says that French belongs to the easiest group of languages to learn for English speakers. Having so much common vocabulary helps a lot!
If you speak English and Spanish, you probably don't need to learn French. So choose Italian if that's the language from which you think you'll receive the most enjoyment. Additionally, I think Italian is much more similar to Spanish than French, so you should have a slightly easier time with Italian.
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three to six monthsWith full immersion in the French language, you can expect to be relatively fluent in three to six months. Of course, full French immersion can be tough to accomplish, considering the fact that you probably have a full-time life somewhere where French isn't the language being spoken!
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The crisp, strong lines of the counter provide the perfect backdrop to the soft glow of the LUMINIST basin. The outer circle of the washbasin is illuminated from beneath and forms an eye-catching ring of light, reminiscent of a corona in a solar eclipse. The nature-inspired combination of light and shade is striking, counterbalanced by the calming atmosphere created by water tumbling from the automatic faucet only to then seemingly disappear beneath the flat base. The LUMINIST/Luna is available with two different hues for its flat base, either a matching pure white or a contrasting black.


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In article theoretical questions of the state intervention in economy are considered. The concept "market fiasco" is opened and the role of the state as regulator of economic processes is characterized. The direction of improvement of system of the state regulation in the Russian Federation consisting in increase in its efficiency and modernization of all system of regulation is offered.
Keywords: the aggregated demand of public benefits, Lindal's balance, regulation of social production, market economy, market fiasco.


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Tom Polucci FIIDA, AIA, LEED GA
Firm-wide Director of Interiors
"We want to work through the design process together with clients so the design becomes a reflection of who they are as an organization. A clear process and direct communication ensure a fabulous design."
Tom is the director of interiors for HOK. Based in New York, he oversees the firm's interior design teams across the world.
Tom has more than two decades of experience guiding and inspiring the design of hundreds of interiors projects. Educated, trained and licensed as an architect, his focus is on creating multidimensional, experiential environments that enhance the lives of the people who use them. He is a member of the IIDA's College of Fellows.
Tom has special expertise in workplace design. He is a frequent speaker on the topic and has been quoted in workplace stories in The New York Times, Entrepreneur, The Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, American Public Media's Marketplace, Metropolis, Interiors & Sources, Contract and The Chicago Tribune.
Tom helped establish HOK Product Design (now Rainlight).
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Washington University in St. Louis School of Architecture
Catholic University of America School of Architecture
Bachelor of Science, Architecture
HOK's Tom Polucci Discusses the Future of Workplaces and Challenges for Interior Designers
Designing a Neurodiverse Workplace
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We have been rocking the dog sport scene since 1989. We are the only training school in the San Francisco area dedicated to the sport of dog agility. Our founder, Sandy Rogers, is a World Champion and a 4-time National Champion.
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Purple Dragon is the world's best family club – we're the place for children, that loves grown-ups, because when it comes to family time, every moment is special.
Designed as a home-from-home environment, the club offers an abundance of signature adventures and experiences which have been specially devised to help children with confidence, communication and creativity.
Whilst we're all about fun, there is an educational framework to everything we do, all underpinned by key learning objectives. Learning through play is one of the core, founding principles of Purple Dragon – happy children learn best!
Our Montessori-led adventures have been devised to help foster independence, resilience, teamwork, problem solving and confidence, whilst allowing children the freedom to explore and discover in a safe and enriching environment.
"Play is the serious business of childhood."
With dozens of daily adventures to jump into from Mini Maestros and Boomwacker Bounce in the music room, to Da Vinci's workshop and Simply Sensory in the art lab; Michelin Masters and Power Up Smoothie Making in Gourmet Gofers; Super Hero SOS and Campfire Adventures in the High Rollers High Energy Zone; Tall Tales, Sensational Stories and Amazing Adventures in our Imaginarium; even the busiest little bodies don't stop until home time.
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\item[{Fig. (1)}] The real part of
$G_{21}(E,\omega)$ as a function of $E$ for
three values of $\omega$. Solid line: $\omega=0.01135$;
dotted: $\omega=0.1022$; dashed: $\omega=0.193$.  Inset: the
corresponding imaginary part. The barriers' strength $V_o=8.81$,
and the quantum well width is $100$\AA. Units of $G_{21}$ is
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\item[{Fig. (2)}] $G_{21}(E_f,\omega)$ as a function of $\omega$,
with $E_f = 0.1533$. Solid: read part; dotted: imaginary part.
The peaks are due to photon assisted tunneling.  Inset:
a roughly linear relationship between the photon energy and the
resonance energy. Other system parameters and units
are the same as those of Fig. (1).

\item[{Fig. (3)}] $G_{21}(E_f,\omega)$ of a parallel plate
capacitor as a function of $\omega$ with $E_F=0.1533$.
The solid (dotted) line is the real (imaginary) part.
Other system parameters and units are the same as those of Fig. (1).
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We all know that dramatic changes occurred in U.S. manufacturing during the early part of the 21st Century. While manufacturing employment fell by 5.6 million jobs from December 2000 to December 2010 — during the peak of the Great Recession — it has only recovered 20% of this loss.
Let's go back further — to the 20th century — where advances in manufacturing, including the latest and most useful equipment and new workforce talent, led to much of America's global economic dominance in manufacturing throughout the 1900s.
Reduced costs / Rising wages: At the turn of the 20th Century, Henry Ford's innovations dramatically enhanced the Nation's leadership in manufacturing, using electrification and assembly lines to reduce the price of a Model T from $900 to $360 over a period of seven years, and at the same time doubling wages to $5 per day.
Boosted out of Economic Depression: In the 1930s, manufacturing pulled the country out of the Great Depression and prepared the U.S. for success in World War II.
Furthered Infrastructure & Exploration: In the 1960s, advanced production allowed the U.S. to build the Interstate Highway System and to send men to the moon.
Dawn of the IT Revolution: In the final decades of the last century, our innovation in technology and manufacturing in semiconductors led to the information technology revolution.
Innovation for the future is tightly linked to advances in new manufacturing technologies, such as Internet of Things (IoT), additive manufacturing and industrial robotics. Lower skilled jobs and those relying on outdated technology are disappearing. Only through advanced manufacturing and new technology (including business management software) is productivity enhanced and new high-paying jobs created. Education and workforce development are paramount to keeping — and growing — these jobs and the manufacturing sector.
Advanced manufacturing involves new ways to create existing products and the creation of new products, emerging from the use of new technologies.
The U.S. leads the world in innovation and inventions, yet many U.S. research discoveries are translated into manufacturing capabilities and cutting-edge products in other countries.
How Do We Bring Back American Innovation and Invention to U.S. Manufacturers?
Perhaps one of the most exciting trends for the nation's manufacturers is the ability to build products that can transform the ways Americans work and live.
Example: Through the NextFlex manufacturing institute (America's Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Institute, funded primarily by the Department of Defense) a new "smart" bandage for non-healing wounds integrates oxygen delivery in combination with medical sensing systems in a low-cost, flexible dressing.
In addition, bioenergy and bioproducts are emerging worldwide as new and rapidly growing sectors of the highly productive agricultural and forest industries. Manufacturing bio-based products (e.g. biofuels, industrial chemical intermediates, performance polymers, and finished higher value products) represent a significant opportunity for the U.S. How?
Add $500 billion to the annual bio-economy, creating thousands of jobs, many of which are in rural areas.
Enable the integration of sustainable bio-based products production into existing U.S. agricultural and forest systems in support of existing and new markets for food, feed, and fiber.
The RAPID manufacturing institute leads a national effort focused on the research, development, and implementation of high impact technologies and hardware equipment solutions that enable advances in the process industries — notably, chemicals, oil and gas, pulp, and paper. Process industries are facing fierce global competition and require innovation and investment, yet progress has remained stagnant in these industries due to factors such as prohibitive capital costs, the high complexity of intensified modular systems, and insufficient software, design tools and data.
The IACMI manufacturing institute is committed to increasing domestic production capacity and manufacturing jobs across the U.S. composites industry. IACMI partners private industry with academic researchers and workforce development leaders to validate composites manufacturing materials and processes in vehicle, wind turbine, and compressed gas storage production that enables private industry to advance manufacturing techniques. Validation of these techniques and materials allow U.S.-based businesses to integrate the techniques into production, allowing the U.S. manufacturing industry to lead global competitiveness now and in the future.
A major goal of the PowerAmerica institute is to facilitate the industry's switch from silicon-based power electronics to silicon carbide power electronics, which are more efficient. SiC power devices can be used to more efficiently regulate electrical power — losing 30% less power than traditional silicon devices. However, the cost of developing a manufacturing technology for SiC devices presents a significant barrier to companies, particularly small ones.
A team at N.C. State University has developed a manufacturing process, known as PRESiCE, which companies can use to create their own SiC devices. The team's goal is to drive the price of silicon carbide devices from five times that of silicon devices down to 1.5 times. The process is exclusively available at the X-FAB Texas SiC foundry, a former silicon foundry that was upgraded to a silicon carbide foundry with the help of PowerAmerica funding. By helping companies avoid the steep price of developing their own manufacturing process, PRESiCE aims to enable more silicon carbide manufacturing, thus driving down the overall cost of silicon carbide as more companies produce SiC products and lowering their barrier to market entry.
U.S. manufacturing accounts for nearly 25% of the nation's total annual energy use., and the REMADE institute is working to improve U.S. manufacturing competitive- ness by partnering with industry to develop advanced manufacturing technologies that incorporate energy-reduction and sustainability principles. REMADE aims to drive down the energy and cost required to recover, reuse, remanufacture and recycle four classes of materials: metals, fibers, polymers, and electronic waste.
CESMII focuses on developing and deploying integrated advanced sensors, controls, platforms, and high-performance computational models to help U.S. manufacturers benefit from smart manufacturing, making them more competitive globally. With smart manufacturing, manufacturers optimize their business, technology, infrastructure, and workforce practices using engineered systems that integrate operational technologies and information technologies.
"Smart manufacturing makes it possible for companies to re- duce their energy use and save money on their energy bills by optimizing their manufacturing processes. In fact, increased investments in Smart Manufacturing could save American manufacturers $15 billion in annual electricity cost savings by 2035,' says Ethan Rogers, Industry Program Director, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.
The Commerce Department's NIST is the only research laboratory in the U.S. government specifically focused on enhancing industrial competitiveness, with a robust research portfolio concentrated on the technical challenges associated with advanced manufacturing. In addition, the NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), comprised of 51 centers located in all 50 states and Puerto Rico, is a critical resource to engage small and mid- size manufacturers to develop new products, expand into global markets, and adopt new technologies, such as those in development at the Manufacturing USA institutes.
NIST also serves as headquarters for the interagency Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office.
xTuple is proud to partner with MEP's across the U.S. as we further our mission to help small and mid-sized manufacturers (and distributors and the rest of the supply chain) grow their business.
For example, we're platinum sponsors of the North Carolina MEP's MfgCON 2018 in November, an annual meeting of several hundred manufacturers from across the state, an event designed to share best practices, practical advice and tips to create a safer, more efficient and more profitable sector.
Read the full Manufacturing USA Report.


Here's a close-up of the various embroidery stitches the quilter used.
Different use of fabric - strips.
Nine patch quilts are always a pleasure to view.
There were quite a few hand quilted quilts.
You don't see many cathedral window quilts being made these days.
There was a lot of work in the applique.
Beading, buttons and 3D flowers.
This won the Viewers' Choice award for 2015.
That's it, that's all. Have a great weekend.
Bits and Bites, and then Viewers' Choice. What fantastic designs and great colours in every one, applique that I am sure was many hours of work.
Beautiful work. You're blessed with lots of quilt shows in your area. There is one near me in September. Other than that I'd have to travel a good distance for one. Thanks for sharing.
Great show again. Now I noticed many quilts using light blue or turquoise with brown, the colours I'm using for my newest quilt.
There's something about the first one that I really like. It's interesting to see the mix of traditional and modern patterns.


My Rhinebeck sweater pattern is finally ready for its debut! Moraine is a super cozy wrap cardigan with an intricately cabled back and simple stockinette fronts. The long ribbed sleeves keep the shape from being overwhelming, but stretch wonderfully over your tee or blouse. The extra-long shawl collar can be worn scrunched up at the back of your neck for extra warmth and is finished with a tidy I-cord bind off.
The fronts and back are worked flat, then sewn together before working the shawl collar. The set-in sleeves are worked in the round to the underarm, then flat for the sleeve cap. The waist ties are worked separately and sewn to the side seams, so there's nothing in the way of all those pretty back cables.
The 10 page PDF pattern with charted and written cable instructions, schematic, abbreviations, and measurements in metric and imperial, is available for $7.50 CAD.
See more details on the pattern page.
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Laura- This cardigan is amazing!!!


Welspun Energy Limited (WEL) has commissioned its first solar project in Karnataka of 8.02 (DC) MW capacity, four months ahead of schedule. The 8.02 (DC) MW Karnataka project located in Chitradurga district was developed by WEL's step down subsidiary Welspun Solar Kannada Pvt. Ltd. under the Karnataka State Policy.
As per the PPA signed with Mangalore Electric Supply Company (MESCOM), the power plant was scheduled to begin commercial operations only by March 2014. Keeping up its impeccable execution track record, WEL has commissioned this project well before the timeline. This project is one of the many solar and wind projects of WEL being developed in Karnataka and will contribute to the state's energy needs. This project will address Karnataka's annual peak deficit of 27.4 per cent by generating 12.264 Mn kWh annually, enough to power 33,600 households. The solar project will mitigate 11,651 tons of carbon emissions annually.