Atlantis, first launch, DOD mission.
During the planning stage of the Space Shuttle, some changes were called for by the National Reconnaissance Office. That is an organization which, at that time, was not acknowledged to exist, but which is the home of sophisticated space hardware and a big budget. Specifically, NRO wanted the cargo bay on the shuttles to be bigger, presumably to accommodate their oversized spy satellites. They got their way, and the money they provided helped keep the struggling shuttle program afloat during the hard early days.
We've been looking at the Air Force in space this week and NRO isn't the Air Force — quite. However, the head of NRO has traditionally been an undersecretary or Assistant Secretary of the Air Force. So, close enough.
It would not be unreasonable to think of the Air Force as an organization run by pilots and ex-pilots. MISS was a program designed to put men into space; so were the Dyna-soar and the MOL. But none of them ever succeeded in putting Air Force astronauts into space.
During this period of public failure, there were secret successes in the form of more and more military satellites. One of the earliest class of mission was reconnaissance, and the Air Force/NRO success with unmanned satellites was the primary reason MOL was abandoned. Through the sixties and into the seventies, these satellites used sophisticated film cameras, and their findings came back to earth via film canisters dropped from satellites and snagged out of the air by military aircraft. After digital imaging came to maturity, that was no longer necessary.
Sidebar. Just how successful those satellites were, and how rich the NRO is, became embarrassingly obvious in 2012. The NRO gave NASA two Hubble-quality space telescopes that they had ordered, but weren't using. One of these is slated to become the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, due for launch in 2024.
At the same time that the Air Force, through NRO, arranged to have the shuttle's cargo bay expanded, it began to build a shuttle launching facility at Vandenberg Air Base in California. To understand what this means requires knowledge that every space nerd had in the sixties, but which is never talked about these days.
Why do we launch space missions from Florida? Because it is the only place in the US which is both far south and on the eastern seaboard. Rockets are typically launched as close the the equator as practical so that the rotation of the Earth is added to the rocket's speed — something vitally important when crude, early craft were being launched. They are launched from the eastern seaboard to provide thousands of miles of open ocean for first stages — or fiery, falling failures — to land in.
Vandenberg is situated on the western edge of the nation, ideally located for launching rockets north or south into polar orbit — that orange-peel path spy satellites need. Advanced Titans and Atlases launch from there as needed, without fanfare. But not with complete secrecy. It is a California cliché for a UFO scare to be debunked as "just another night launch from Vandenberg".
The Johnson Space Center is in Huston because Texan LBJ was President when it was built. Orbital physics had nothing to do with it.
No shuttle was ever launched from Vandenberg. Shortly after the second classified Department of Defense shuttle mission, the Challenger was lost. Important secret launches were delayed by the hearings that followed.
The relationship between NASA and the Air Force had never been a happy one, and the Air Force shifted as quickly as possible back to its own resources. They used the shuttle to take up satellites too large to be launched by other means, and otherwise returned to using their own missiles, typically out of Vandenberg.
The Luke Skywalker picture of Air Force pilots in their space fighters has never come about. The closest to that idea is the robot X-37b, which we will look at in some future post.
The Smithsonian Air & Space magazine carried an article in 2009 on the eleven black shuttle missions. Since most details are still classified, the article is frustrating, but will provide about as much as you will find anywhere outside of alien-influence websites.
This entry was posted in A Writing Life and tagged history, military, politics, spaceflight, writing, X-craft on April 27, 2017 by sydlogsdon.
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MISS, Man in Space Soonest, was a USAF project to put a man into a capsule and boost him into space on top of a converted ICBM. It was cancelled, resurrected, and passed on to the new organization NASA, where it became Project Mercury.
Times were tense. The Soviets had launched a satellite into orbit in 1957, beating America into space by a few months. They added to the humiliation by beating the US again in 1961, this time with a man in space. Worse than either accomplishment, was they booster that was used. It was far more powerful than anything America had in service, or in development. A booster that powerful presented all kinds of doomsday scenarios.
Eisenhower had plenty of problems at the time. He was using U-2 spy planes to illegally overfly the Soviet Union, and recognized that it was only a matter of time before that blew up in his face — which it did in 1960 when one of the U-2s was shot down while spying. MISS being transferred to NASA made it a civilian project, and less objectionable. The same logic led the Navy originated Project Vanguard to be passed on to NASA, and also to the use of underpowered rockets to launch it because they were not military hardware.
Sputnik and the Soviet manned missions were on top of a military booster, rendering that concern moot.
NASA went on to success in manned space flight, but in the fifties and early sixties, that was not a foregone conclusion. The Air Force moved on to the Dyna-soar.
Project Dyna-soar (from the phrase dynamic soaring) had begun in 1957, when it was to be the next step after MISS. It was based on the theories of Eugen Sänger, who had a suborbital bomber on the drawing board for the Germans during WWII.
The basic idea was to send a winged vehicle above the atmosphere on top of a rocket, whether in a sub-orbital flight or returning from orbital flight. That craft would skip repeatedly off the upper atmosphere on returning, dissipating the heat of reentry, and ultimately land as a glider.
This sounds a lot like the Space Shuttle, but there are two main differences. STS was designed as a single stage to orbit vehicle, and it dissipated heat by shock waves while being protected by insulated tiles, much like the Mercury through Apollo missions had used shock waves off ablative heat shields. Dyna-soar was designed to ride into orbit on top of a military rocket and to lose its heat by skipping — that is, by dipping into the atmosphere, then bouncing back into space to radiate away the heat it had built up, followed by repeat, repeat, repeat, until cool enough to finally land as a glider.
That would make for a long, hard, bumpy ride. If you are simply thinking of reentry, it would be a unnecessarily tough way to go. To understand why the skip-glide method was so inviting, you have to project yourself back to dawn of the 1960s when rockets were small and space exploration was new. With skip-glide, a relatively small and not particularly powerful rocket could send the Dyna-soar anywhere on Earth.
When Alan Shepard made his sub-orbital flight, he traveled 116 miles above the Earth but landed only about 300 miles downrange. With that initial altitude, Dyna-soar could probably have circled the Earth before landing.
Dyna-soar was developed as a reconnaissance and bombing vehicle. It was, after all, an Air Force project.
Had it gone to completion, the Dyna-soar (also called the X-20 later in its development) would have been the most sophisticated space craft of its era. Unfortunately, money was scarce, and while in orbit, the Gemini could do anything the Dyna-soar could do.
Gemini was a monumentally successful project (see Gemini) that sucked up all of America's attention. In December of 1963, the Dyna-soar project was cancelled.
Again, the Air Force had lost out to its civilian counterpart. It didn't give up. The next time around, the Air Force co-opted the Gemini. That third chapter in the Air Force's bid for space was told here last November as The Space Station That Never Was. We'll cover the rest of the story – so far – tomorrow.
This entry was posted in A Writing Life and tagged history, military, politics, spaceflight, writing, X-craft on April 26, 2017 by sydlogsdon.
Our voices had risen. The driver straightened up and I got a glint of metal as he half drew his pistol. Behind me, Ed would be sighting his rifle.
A phone call and some more of the Senator's money bought me a ticket on the redeye from San Francisco to Paris, a Eurail pass, and a new wad of traveler's checks. I picked them up three hours later when I dropped the Pinto off at Joe Dias', and he gave me a ride to the airport.
My backpack was at the embassy, and a call to Marseille told me that none of the flyers Colin McAdam and his friends had circulated had brought any response. Thirty-one hours and nine time zones after Davis had given my death sentence, I was looking out of the train window at the Loire Valley, heading for L'Orient.
Raven wasn't there. I wandered around for two days, listening to Breton bagpipe bands, and gave it up.
She wasn't in Amsterdam, or Delft, or Harlem. She wasn't in West Berlin. I stood in front of the wall thinking of the hundreds who had died trying to cross it, and wondering how long it would stand.
Only months, in fact, but no one knew that then.
She wasn't in Prague, or Munich. Riding the train south from Munich toward Innsbruck, I knew that the summer was over. Outside there was a haze of brown among the green grasses, but that wasn't the real clue. I could read the end of things in the faces of the passengers. Kids, mostly, in late teens and early twenties. In June they had been full of promise, with faces bright and full of wonder. Everything they saw was fresh and new; if it wasn't Omaha, then it must be wonderful. They were ready to laugh at every banal and ordinary thing.
This entry was posted in Serial and tagged literature, thriller, writing on April 26, 2017 by sydlogsdon.


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Q: Return a range object using an IF statement in VBA I'm a beginner with VBA and am looking for help with my question. I am trying to do the following:

*

*Loop through a column in my spreadsheet to find the row corresponding to two a combination of two values

*Then loop through the row corresponding to that combination going horizontally to return the range of all values that pass an if-statement (>40) (the set of numbers that pass the if statement are always sequential & only one set per row i.e. (15, 34, 32, 42, 45, 56, 67, 56, 43, 39, 23, 14)

*I would like to be able to also return the column number of the first and last value that pass the if statement to be able to extract a date range in another row

In pseudo code it would be something like this:
For r = 1 To 10000 'Loop through 10000 rows to find the correct ACV field
                If WkSht.Range("B" & r).Value = "%ACV" And WkSht.Range("C" & r) = bp_upc Then
                    'For column in row(r)
                        'If column > 40 add cell address to range object to be returned
                    'Next Column
                'End If

Then use the column component of the first and last cell address in that range to get the values in another row.
Any help or tips would be much appreciated.

A: public sub test
  dim res as range
  dim i as long

  for i = 1 to 10000
    if WkSht.cells(i, 2).value = "%ACV" and WkSht.cells(i, 3) = bp_upc then
      dim numbers_range as range
      with application.intersect(WkSht.rows(i), WkSht.usedrange)
        set numbers_range = WkSht.range(WkSht.cells(i, 4), .cells(.cells.count))
      end with

      if res is nothing then
        set res = Get40Range(numbers_range)
      else
        dim current_res as range
        set current_res = Get40Range(numbers_range)

        if not current_res is nothing then set res = application.union(res, current_res)
      end if
    end if
  next

  'use res
  'e.g. print res.address, do res.select or loop over res.areas
end sub

private function Get40Range(byval row as range) as range
  dim c as range, start40 as range, end40 as range

  for each c in row
    if c.value > 40 then
      if start40 is nothing then set start40 = c
      set end40 = c
    elseif c.value <= 40 and not start40 is nothing then
      exit for
    end if
  next

  if end40 is nothing and not start40 is nothing then
    set end40 = row.cells(row.cells.count)
  end if

  if not start40 is nothing then set Get40Range = start40.resize(, end40.column - start40.column + 1)
end function

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package net.openhft.chronicle.wire;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.Parameterized;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collection;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;

@RunWith(value = Parameterized.class)
public class TestIntConversion {
    public static char SEPARATOR = '/';
    private IntConverter intConverter;

    @Parameterized.Parameters
    public static Collection<Object[]> data() {
        return Arrays.asList(new Object[][]{
                new Object[]{Base32IntConverter.INSTANCE},
                new Object[]{Base40IntConverter.INSTANCE},
                new Object[]{Base85IntConverter.INSTANCE},
                new Object[]{Base256IntConverter.INSTANCE}
        });
    }

    public TestIntConversion(IntConverter intConverter) {
        this.intConverter = intConverter;
    }

    @Test
    public void parseRawIntsV1() {

        final StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();

        final int value1 = intConverter.parse("VAL2");
        final int value2 = intConverter.parse("VAL3");
        final int value3 = intConverter.parse("VAL4");

        intConverter.append(builder, value1);
        builder.append(SEPARATOR);
        intConverter.append(builder, value2);
        builder.append(SEPARATOR);
        intConverter.append(builder, value3);

        assertEquals("VAL2/VAL3/VAL4", builder.toString());
    }

    // is this the only intended usage?
    @Test
    public void parseRawIntsV2() {

        final StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();

        final int value1 = intConverter.parse("VAL2");
        final int value2 = intConverter.parse("VAL3");
        final int value3 = intConverter.parse("VAL4");

        final StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder();

        intConverter.append(buffer, value1);
        builder.append(buffer).append(SEPARATOR);
        buffer.setLength(0);
        intConverter.append(buffer, value2);
        builder.append(buffer).append(SEPARATOR);
        buffer.setLength(0);
        intConverter.append(buffer, value3);
        builder.append(buffer);

        assertEquals("VAL2/VAL3/VAL4", builder.toString());
    }
}

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Meharry Medical College Alumnus First Recipient of the Mechthild Esser Nemmers Prize in Medical Science
Huda Y. Zoghbi, M.D. '79, recently became the inaugural recipient of the Mechthild Esser Nemmers Prize in Medical Science at Northwestern University. The Nemmers prize, which carries a $200,000 stipend, is awarded by Northwestern University to a physician-scientist whose body of research exhibits outstanding achievements in their discipline as demonstrated by works of lasting significance. A jury of distinguished scientists from around the country made the final selection.
Dr. Zoghbi is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and professor at Baylor College of Medicine. She is well known for her groundbreaking research on Rett syndrome, which includes the discovery of the gene for the neurodegenerative disease.
In addition to her role as a professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Molecular and Human Genetics, Neurology, and Neuroscience, she is also the director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital.
Originally from Beirut, Lebanon, Dr. Zhogbi came to Meharry Medical College in the late 1970s after fleeing her country during an outbreak of civil war. She was enrolled in American University of Beirut, but was forced to transfer her educational pursuits to a school in the United States. Dr. Zoghbi earned her M.D. from Meharry in 1979.
In 2008, she received an honorary degree from the College. She acknowledges Meharry Medical College's role in helping her realize her dream of becoming a physician.
Dr. Zoghbi has been featured and published in more than 160 publications including Nature Genetics, American Journal of Medical Genetics, andThe Journal of Neuroscience. She has also served on the editorial board for several scholarly publications including American Journal of Medical Genetics and Annals of Neurology.
In addition to this, Dr. Zoghbi has received numerous awards for her research including being elected to the Institute of Medicine for the National Academy of Sciences, elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the ASO Science and Technology Lifetime Achievement Award from MIT.
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This Welsh-born artist wraps pieces of fabric around trees to continue the horizon that the trunks obscure. Some of them are pretty awesome. Olsen Zander's website can be found here.
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Intel stepped up to the plate and seemingly hit a homerun with its Ivy Bridge architecture (which, by the way, is now showing up in retail). It's the first commercial processor to boast a 22nm manufacturing process and 3D transistors, a combination that ultimately leads to better performance with less power consumption than previous generation processors. At the same time, some have reported higher temps with Ivy Bridge compared to Sandy Bridge, and it could have to do with the way Intel attached the Integrated Heat Spreader (IHS).
Overclockers.com set out to solve the mystery of why Ivy Bridge can run as much as 20C higher than Sandy Bridge. The two prevailing theories are that power density is greater on Ivy Bridge than Sandy Bridge, and that Intel is running into issues with the manufacturing process. But the real reason, according to Overclockers, has to do with Intel's decision to use TIM paste between the IHS and CPU die on Ivy Bridge instead of fluxless solder as found on Sandy Bridge.
Overclockers pried apart an Ivy Bridge processor to verify the existence of thermal paste, and according to the U.K.'s The Inquirer, Intel has already "admitted" that Ivy Bridge runs hotter than Sandy Bridge. Intel, however, isn't concerned.
"This is as designed and meets quality and reliability expectations for parts operating under specified conditions," Intel explained about the increased thermal density, according to The Inquirer.
Are you concerned that Ivy Bridge may run a little hotter than Sandy Bridge, or do you trust Intel's decision to use thermal paste?


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Gopal BalakrishnanStates of War
Reflections on the challenge of Afflicted Powers, from the Retort collective. How is America's forward policy since 9/11 best explained, and what does it tell us about the nature of the inter-state system today? Has the age of Great Power rivalry passed, and if so, what kind of geopolitical order is replacing it? Capital, spectacle and war in the vortex of the Middle East.
Patrick CockburnThe Occupation
A panorama of Iraq two and a half years after the Anglo-American invasion. Britain's leading reporter on the country talks about the life conditions of the population; the springs of the resistance; the relations between Sunni and Shia communities; the position of the Kurds; the performance of the us military; and the historical precedents and possible outcomes of the second Western seizure of Iraq.
Nancy FraserReframing Justice in a Globalizing World
Theorists of political justice have long taken the nation-state to be the relevant unit for their proposals. Nancy Fraser argues that the time for this is past. The necessary interconnection between struggles for economic redistribution and social recognition now requires that issues of political representation be re-tabled at a global rather than national level—where decisions affecting the fate of all are increasingly taken, or not taken.
Roberto SchwarzA Brazilian Breakthrough
What made the greatest Brazilian novel of the nineteenth century, Machado de Assis's Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, a masterpiece of world literature? The strange fate of realism in an ex-colonial society, in which liberalism was a ruling ideology, modernity a universal ideal, and slavery still an everyday fact of life.
Sven LüttickenThe Feathers of the Eagle
Lifting, swiping, zapping: popular expressions that have been aesthetic tactics since Dada. Sven Lütticken recasts the history of such practices of appropriation—not excluding those of Warhol or Debord, sometimes misplaced—as so many exercises in mythology. Anticipated by Flaubert, theorized by Barthes, staged by Broodthaers, is time running out for such creative misuses of past or present, as 'intellectual property rights' tighten?
The Labyrinth of Kinship
Jack Goody on Maurice Godelier, Métamorphoses de la parenté. Kinship as the central concern of anthropology, and its place in French and British traditions of the discipline. The universality—or otherwise—of incest taboos; their interpretation by Lévi-Strauss; and the role of beliefs versus interests in generating them.
From Buddenbrooks to Babbitt?
Donald Sassoon on Victoria de Grazia, Irresistible Empire: America's Advance Through 20th-Century Europe. How the US reshaped European ideals of consumption and culture, from the stately world of Thomas Mann to that of McDonald's and José Bové. All the way from the club to the kitchen, learning from Duluth and San Bernardino.
Capital Outbound
Vivek Chibber on Ellen Meiksins Wood,Empire of Capital. Three historical forms of imperial dominion—based on land, trade and production—and their end-point in the sway of capital today. The function of territorial states in an extra-territorial system of profit and accumulation.
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REPUBLICANS VOTE TO DENY AMENDMENT TO CONSTITUTIONAL CARRY IN SOUTH CAROLINA
by Nicolas Knight March 18, 2021
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Yesterday, a vote concerning an Amendment No. 4 to Constitutional Carry was shut down by South Carolina Republican Legislators.
House Representative Jonathan Hill, who has been a strong voice for Constitutional Carry in South Carolina and had filed many bills to this fact, filed Amendment No. 4 to be added to Rep. Bobby Cox's Constitutional Carry Bill that passed House Judiciary Committee yesterday, H3096. This bill could get a vote on April 7th. But many believe this vote will be held after the April 10 cross over deadline to push it out even further.
Many South Carolinian's have voiced their desire for this State to recognize the U.S. Constitutions 2nd Amendment Rights, for an individual to bear arms. South Carolina is one of 5 States that still does not have Open Carry, including California, Florida, Illinois and New York.
In a surprising vote today pertaining to Amendment No. 4, 50 South Carolina House Representatives voted to table Amendment No. 4.
The Republican Party is very well known throughout the country for pushing Constitutional Protections for firearms owners. So, why did the majority of them vote to table this add on to a Constitutional Carry Bill? Rep. Hill posted yesterday on his Facebook account pertaining to this vote.
OPEN CARRY BILL PASSES HOUSE VOTE
The subject of Constitutional Carry/Open Carry in South Carolina has been a heated debate for many years. At the vote for Rep. Cox's bill several legislators spoke out against it, including House Representative Jermaine Johnson of Hopkins.
Representative Johnson took a strong stance against Open Carry by stating, "This bill as it stands will be no more than legalized hunting for Black people." Johnson urged legislators to see this issue in a racial aspect.
Democratic state Rep. Jermaine Johnson of Hopkins said open carry is a privilege for white people, but dangerous for a Black man like him — a former college basketball player who is 6-foot-7 and has tattoos.
Many have stated that Open Carry is a two edged sword, as it loosens control of who may carry a firearm and tightens the hands of law enforcement officers when it comes to violent crimes involving firearms.
In 2018 USA Today listed South Carolina as the 10th Highest Gun Violence State in America:
Firearm deaths per 100,000 people: 17.7 per 100,000
Total firearm deaths 2016: 891 (suicides: 525, homicides: 335)
Violent crime rate: 501.8 per 100,000 (10th highest)
Permit required to carry handgun: Yes
Poverty rate: 15.3% (14th highest)
Many States that have passed Constitutional Carry Laws have seen a decrease in Gun Violence. Some have seen small decreases while others have seen large decreases in criminal violence. What is South Carolina's future in the matter of 2nd Amendment Protections?
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One Standard for Everyone
May 12, 2019 /3 Comments/in Building Community, Torah /by Rachel Barenblat
Part of a yearlong Torah series on building and builders in Jewish spiritual life.
In this week's Torah portion, Emor, we read, "You shall have one standard for stranger and citizen alike: I, Adonai, am your God." (Lev. 24:21) I can't think of a better guideline for building. One standard for everyone, whether stranger or citizen. Torah asks us, "citizen and stranger" alike, to build the Jewish future in a way that lives up to tradition's ethical and communal building codes — the injunctions in Torah and tradition about who and how we should be.
Our houses (our Judaisms) may be built from different materials, have different types of rooms, or have different dimensions. Regardless, Torah calls us all to build wisely, stranger and citizen alike. Rashi (d. 1105) writes that "I, Adonai, am your God" implies "the God of all of you," Israelite and stranger alike. In other words: relationship with God isn't ours alone. Ibn Ezra (d. 1167) agrees, reading "your [plural] God" as "God of the native and God of the stranger."
This may be surprising coming from a tradition that began with triumphalism, the assumption that there is only one right way to connect with or understand divinity. But these classical commentators argue for a post-triumphalist reading of the verse. God is in relationship with all of us. That's why this verse about the ethical obligation to hold everyone to the same standards ends with the reminder that (as Rashi and Ibn Ezra would have it) God is everyone's God.
This God-talk may be making some of us squirm — what if we don't believe in God? (Though following in the footsteps of Reb Zalman z"l, I always want to ask: tell me about the God you don't believe in, because maybe I don't believe in that God-idea either. I'm more interested in being in relationship with holiness than "believing in" it.) But this verse offers an ethical grounding regardless of what we do or don't understand the G-word to mean.
Relationship with holiness is everyone's birthright: citizen and stranger, believer and non-believer. And because all of us are in relationship with the holy, all of us need to build with wise building codes in mind. Whether we feel like "insiders" or "outsiders" to Jewish tradition and community, the Jewish future asks all of us to build with strong ethical standards, ensuring that our outsides match our insides, in a way that's participatory and empowering to all.
In Torah's language, we're all made in the divine image. In the language of our mystics, each of us contains a spark of divinity. In secular language, each of us is entitled to equal and ethical treatment by dint of our common humanity… and each of us is asked to live up to the same standards of ethical behavior and informed participation. Each of us must build according to code, in order not to endanger ourselves and each other with the structures we put in place.
I see three lessons here for us as builders of Jewish community:
1) One standard means equality
We all have rights and responsibilities. There is no hierarchy here between clergy and laypeople, or between the ancient priestly class and "the rest of us," or between Jews of different denominational backgrounds. There is no hierarchy here between those born into Jewish families and those who choose Judaism, between people of differing genders, or between Jews and non-Jews. If there's one standard for all of us, then the rules ("building codes") of an upright and ethical society apply to all of us equally.
2) We can't outsource
And if there's one standard for all of us, then we can't responsibly outsource our Jewishness to anyone else — to clergy, or to people with more training, or to those residing in the Land of Israel. On the contrary, all of us share the obligation of learning enough about our Jewishness to build a meaningful Jewish future with our own hands. All of us should aspire to equal standards of ethical behavior, and equal standards of intellectual and spiritual curiosity, and equal standards of active engagement.
3) As for those who refuse to "build to code"…
People or organizations that refuse to take safety seriously (whether physical, emotional, or spiritual) are not acting in accordance with Torah. Torah often says that those who fail to live up to the ethical obligations of the mitzvot (connective-commandments) become "karet," cut off — which to me suggests not that they will be excommunicated, but rather that with their choices, they cut themselves off from community and from holiness.
Imagine a Jewish future in which we all understand ourselves to be responsible for our Jewish learning, our Jewish growing, our Jewish building. Clergy and laypeople; from Orthodox to Reform, across and beyond the denominations, including the non-Jews in our communities and families; across diversities of race; across the spectrum of gender identity and sexual orientation — building with one standard of ethical, active engagement for "us" and "them" alike.
Imagine it, and then go and build. The Torah, and the Jewish future, ask no less.
By Rabbi Rachel Barenblat. Sketchnote by Steve Silbert.
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Small, Women-Owned and Minority-Owned Funding
Ocean Wind Pro-NJ Grantor Trust Awards Nearly $4 Million to Support Resiliency and Infrastructure Projects in Southern New Jersey Coastal Communities
Phillipsburg, NJ – The Ocean Wind Pro-NJ Grantor Trust has announced the awarding of $3.9 million to seven municipalities in Cape May, Atlantic and Ocean counties in support of coastal infrastructure and resiliency projects to combat tidal flooding and erosion issues that negatively impact residents' public health and safety.
"Mitigating the effects of tidal flooding, severe weather events and coastal erosion is vital in maintaining quality of life, public safety and public health for our coastal communities. The initial response that we received from municipalities was a clear indicator of just how desperately these funds are needed," said Beverly McCall, Esquire, chair of the Pro-NJ Grantor Trust. "By allocating additional funds to this coastal resiliency round, the Trust is pleased to be able to provide support to ensure that these seven municipalities see their resiliency and mitigation projects to completion– a critical step in increasing our state's climate resiliency."
Grant recipients and funded projects, several of which are also receiving funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), are as follows:
Borough of Avalon – $600,000 to construct a stormwater collection system within a drainage area near Avalon Avenue, between 14th Street and 8th Street;
Township of Little Egg Harbor – $719,250 to support resiliency improvements along several waterfront streets off of Great Bay Boulevard, include the bulkheading of Daddy Tucker Drive, installation of new storm drainage infrastructure and tidal valves, and the reconstruction of roadways to elevate them above flood levels;
Borough of Longport – $368,750 to replace and upgrade stormwater piping along Winchester Avenue and sections of 34th Avenue, in addition to replacing pumping equipment and the construction of a new pumping station by 31st Avenue and the bay;
City of Margate – $446,880 to construct a new, submersible stormwater pump station near the intersection of Adams Avenue and Amherst Avenue, and to construct a sewer interconnection from Washington Avenue to the underground vault;
City of North Wildwood – $507,600 to support a flood mitigation infrastructure project located at the bay front public park along Beach Creek and 4th and 5th Avenues;
City of Ventnor – $546,003 to replace 500 linear feet of failing bulkhead that protects a residential area and water infrastructure under Winchester Avenue and reconstruct the roadway, including sidewalk and curbing replacement;
City of Wildwood – $678,015 to build upon a FEMA-funded pump station, completed in 2020, with the addition of three elements, including: a living shoreline along Mediterranean Avenue and West Andrews Avenue; the replacement and supplementation of failing bulkheads with vinyl bulkheads at several points along Otten's Harbor; and the replacement of a crushed drainage pipe in the vicinity of the project.
All seven projects have expected completion dates on or before May 2025.
"We commend the time-consuming, thoughtful work of the Trustees and Advisory Committee members in reviewing all the proposals and developing this meaningful plan and accompanying financial response," said Maddy Urbish, Head of Government Affairs & Marketing Strategy, NJ for Ørsted. "These funds will enable important resiliency projects to come to fruition."
"In partnership with Ørsted, we join in recognizing the work of the Trustees and Advisory Committee members. The early review process is a critical aspect to helping determine the final awarding of funds," said PSEG Chief Commercial Officer, Lathrop Craig. "We are proud to help support coastal resiliency projects that will benefit these coastal communities."
During this second round of Trust funding, dedicated to supporting coastal infrastructure improvements, the Trust had originally earmarked $3.5 million to help mitigate the impacts of severe weather occurrences and flooding to increase resiliency and help municipalities and counties better respond to natural disasters.
The initial call for expressions of interest resulted in 17 requests totaling nearly $19 million, more than five times the amount the Trust set aside for the resiliency round. Seven of the 17 applicants were invited to submit formal applications. Following a comprehensive review led by the Trustees and the Trust's nine-person volunteer Advisory Board, the Trust decided to increase the allocated funds to $3.9 million to fully fund all seven requests and bring the projects to completion.
The Trust is a $15 million fund established by Ocean Wind 1 following its selection by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities in June 2019 as New Jersey's first offshore wind farm. In addition to providing funding for coastal resiliency projects, the Trust offers small, women-owned and minority-owned businesses support in reconfiguring or adapting their businesses to participate in the developing offshore wind industry, with the goal of ensuring that the offshore wind industry in New Jersey is developed in a sustainable and inclusive way.
Details surrounding the Trust's next Request for Expressions for Interest directed toward New Jersey's small, women-owned and minority-owned businesses will be published soon at www.pronjtrust.org.
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About Ocean Wind
The Pro-NJ Grantor Trust is an independent entity created to provide small, women-owned or minority-owned businesses with the opportunity to expand their operations as part of a sustainable supply chain for the offshore wind industry, as well as to provide funds for infrastructure projects for municipalities and counties.
The grants awarded will help New Jersey businesses with a focus on Ocean, Atlantic and Cape May counties meet the demands of this fast-growing sector. The Pro-NJ Grantor Trust does not serve as a forum to discuss energy efficiency or contracts awards by the NJ Board of Public Utilities and has no influence over offshore wind projects of any kind.
The Trust was initially established by Ørsted in 2019, with a commitment to fund $15 million over approximately eight years.
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Are your medications dangerous to your bone health? While we all know that medications have some side effects, we may not recognize that certain medications, especially used long term, can seriously harm your bones.
Let's look at the 3 most commonly used classes of medications known to increase fracture risk.
Corticosteroids. This class of drugs interferes with bone formation while simultaneously stimulating bone resorption, thus accelerating bone loss significantly. At one point, scientists estimated that approximately 20% of all osteoporosis in the U.S. was the result of corticosteroid use, and it is estimated that up to 50% of patients using long-term oral corticosteroids will develop bone fractures.
While short-term, very occasional steroid use has less potential to weaken bone, longer-term use of oral and even inhaled steroids clearly jeopardize bone strength and increase fracture risk. Doses as low as 5 mg a day have been shown to increase fracture risk.
It is wise to seek alternatives to steroid therapy, use them when only truly necessary and for the shortest period of time possible, and to fully support your bone health while using them to help offset the drug's effects.
Antacids. Proton pump inhibitors such as esomeprazole (Nexium) and lansoprazole (Prevacid) are commonly used antacids. These antacid drugs powerfully reduce the production of stomach hydrochloric acid and thus likely weakened nutrient absorption. Proton pump inhibitors have been repeatedly documented to increase the risk of hip, wrist, and spine fractures.
H2 receptor antagonist drugs like cimetidine (Tagamet) and ranitidine (Zantac) are also used to suppress acid production, which suggests that they might impair nutrient absorption similarly. However, studies have suggested that they do not seem to increase fracture risk as do proton pump inhibitors. One reason may be that they work by blocking the action of histamine — a chemical released in immune responses. Histamine tends to promote bone resorption. So these drugs are less likely, long term, to promote bone loss. Even so, there are studies showing that bone loss occurs in people taking H2 receptor antagonists if they do not have good intake of specific key bone nutrients, such as calcium and vitamin D.
Antidepressants. A specific class of antidepressant medications called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) is associated with a significant increase in fracture risk. One study noted that there are some indicators that the medications have direct effects on bone, but they're not well determined. However, the impact of SSRIs on balance and alertness are well established.
What it boils down to is this: if you take SSRIs, it's important to look carefully at your bone health. Even in the absence of a direct effect on bones, falling is the primary cause of fracture in those with weakened bones.
I realize that it's not always possible to avoid these medications, but there often exist dietary and lifestyle changes and alternative medical approaches that go to the root of the disorder and reduce the need for bone-damaging medications. Also, once you know your medication may harm your bones, you can take steps to protect your skeleton. Plus, by knowing what the medications are, you can talk with your practitioner to determine whether there are less bone-damaging alternatives and support your body's natural healing processes as much as possible.
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Jones A, Fay JK, Burr M, et al. Inhaled corticosteroid effects on bone metabolism in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 1, 2006.
Vestergaard P, Rejnmark L, Mosekilde L. Proton pump inhibitors, histamine H2 receptor antagonists, and other antacid medications and the risk of fracture. Calcif Tissue Int. 2006 Aug;79(2):76-83. Epub 2006 Aug 15.
Warden SJ, Fuchs RK. Do Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) Cause Fractures? Curr Osteoporos Rep. 2016 Oct;14(5):211-8. doi: 10.1007/s11914-016-0322-3.
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Death and double standards: Harder to attribute mortality to vaccine than to COVID?
Comorbidities are downgraded as causal factors in death when they overlap with COVID, whether the latter is verified or even merely suspected.
By Andrew Davies
Updated: May 29, 2021 - 10:43pm
Stephanie Dubois
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Stephanie Dubois, a British model aged 39, and Lisa Shaw, a BBC radio presenter aged 44, died within a day of each other due to serious thrombotic episodes after receiving the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Neither had underlying health conditions.
Dubois' case has now been referred to the European Medicines Agency (EMA), as she lived in Cyprus, but she left her own account of her tragic decline on her Facebook page:
May 6: "So I had the vaccination today! I hate needles, today was no exception ... And now I feel horrendous ... pizza and bed for me."
May 14: "Woke up feeling fine and then within an hour I had full body shakes, all my joints seized, and I was struggling to breathe and was cold to the bone with a persistent headache and dizziness … Mum and dad came to look after me and took me for a Covid test, which thankfully was negative ... but it still doesn't explain what the problem is. Maybe I'm having a prolonged reaction to my Covid jab last week."
That same day she was admitted to the hospital.
May 18: "Done being ill now ... Couple more tests today! PS — I still don't like needles — feeling tired."
May 19: Dubois went into a coma.
Shaw's family said in a statement: "Lisa developed severe headaches a week after receiving her AstraZeneca vaccine and fell seriously ill a few days later … She was treated by the [Royal Victoria Infirmary's] intensive care team for blood clots and bleeding in her head."
According to Britain's medical watchdog, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), there have been 332 cases of blood clotting leading to 58 deaths from the AZ vaccine. Statistically, that is very small compared to the estimated 23.9 million first doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine and 9.0 million second doses administered in the U.K. by the same date.
The death of Dubois highlights how much harder it is to attribute deaths to the vaccines than it is to claim death by COVID. Deutsche Welle has even run a fact-check article on other cases titled "No links found between vaccinations and deaths."
The German state broadcaster and publisher sought to debunk claims made in many other countries, including Italy, Austria, South Korea, Germany, Spain, Belgium and the U.S. In a case in a Norwegian nursing home, it quoted the EMA stating: "Pre-existing diseases seemed to be a plausible explanation for death. In some individuals, palliative care had already been initiated before vaccination."
Statens Legemiddelverk of the Norwegian Medicines Agency claimed, "Every day, an average of 45 people die in Norwegian nursing homes ... therefore, deaths that occur close to the time of vaccination is expected, but it does not imply a causal relationship to the vaccine."
Figures for deaths attributed to COVID, meanwhile, are not scrutinized to the same level. Comorbidities are downplayed as causal factors in death when they overlap with COVID — whether the latter is verified or even merely suspected.
According to the Office of National Statistics (ONS) in the U.K., "Of the 50,335 deaths that occurred in March to June 2020 involving COVID-19 in England and Wales, 45,859 (91.1%) had at least one pre-existing condition, while 4,476 (8.9%) had none." The average age of COVID fatalities in the U.K. up to January 2021 was 81.
Finding out if COVID was the dominant cause of death is hard to discern without a full autopsy, but the British government document "Guidance for Doctors Completing Medical Certificates of Cause of Death in England and Wales — FOR USE DURING THE EMERGENCY PERIOD ONLY" explains this is not required for COVID cases: "Covid-19 is not a reason on its own to refer a death to a coroner under the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 ... Medical practitioners are required to certify causes of death to the best of their knowledge and belief."
Even medical proof is not necessary under the guidance: "If before death the patient had symptoms typical of COVID- 19 infection, but the test result has not been received, it would be satisfactory to give 'COVID-19' as the cause of death … In the circumstances of there being no swab, it is satisfactory to apply clinical judgement."
And the death certificate can be signed by a doctor who has not treated the patient: "In an emergency period, any doctor can complete the medical certificate of cause of death (MCCD), when it is impractical for the attending doctor to do so."
Although doctors are supposed to record if any of these special conditions apply for possible future reappraisal, the death will still have been included in the official COVID fatalities total.
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Hulu's Android TV App Finally Bumps Up to 1080p From 720p on Some Devices
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Some versions of the Hulu app for Android TV will now have higher resolution for video streaming, and thank god for that.
As spotted by Redditors this week and reported by 9to5Google, the max resolution available on the "App & Device Info" page in Hulu's Android TV app has jumped from 720p to 1080p. Gizmodo has confirmed that Hulu enabled 1080p resolution on select Nvidia Shield TV set-top boxes and Sony Bravia TVs in an update on March 23.
Previously, Android TV—which powers many Bravia sets as well as the Shield TV—was among several devices that lacked support for higher resolution video. A Hulu support page updated last in February states that 1080p at 60fps was limited to fourth-generation and later Apple TV devices, Chromecast, Fire TV devices, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and select Samsung TVs.
4K UHD content offered through the service is supported on a similarly limited set of devices, including fifth-generation Apple TV, Chromecast Ultra, Fire TV devices, LG TVs, Roku, Vizio TVs, and newer Xbox consoles.
Ideally, high-resolution streaming would be available on all devices that support the format. But it's possible that with the Shield TV's AI upscaling capabilities, this wasn't too much of an issue for those users. Still, it's a welcome addition to the Hulu app, particularly as many of us are streaming more than ever.
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Q: Why Django form_valid is calling twice? I am using form_valid() to save my data from form and redirecting to specific page using a condition in get_success_url but form_valid() is calling twice.  i saw some people resolved with:
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In Washington, names often bear little relation to logic. Bills are given the friendliest-sounding names imaginable -- like this year's Employee Free Choice Act -- when what they do is actually the opposite (like strip them of the right to a secret ballot in union elections). Buildings are renamed for people they have no business being named after. For example, the Justice Department building is now named after Robert F. Kennedy, who as U.S. attorney general illegally bugged Martin Luther King Jr.'s phone calls and hotel rooms.
It is in that fine tradition that we have the "Fairness Doctrine," a warm, fuzzy-sounding bit of pap that's anything but fair.
The Fairness Doctrine is an old Federal Communications Commission regulation that required all political opinion broadcast on the public airwaves to be balanced with equal time for the opposing viewpoint. Originating in the 1940s, when radio and television stations were few and far between, it may have made sense to require balance, lest a region be inundated with unchallenged opinion presented as fact.
But as time passed, more stations came along, offering consumers what they longed for: choice. Radio and television stations popped up by the thousands, offering a microphone to anyone. Opinions of all types were abundant, making the Fairness Doctrine obsolete. But it was still on the books and therefore had to be adhered to. Until, that is, President Ronald Reagan threw it on the ash pile of history, overturning it in 1987.
The move marked the birth of modern talk radio. Once the muzzle of equal time was off, hosts were free to say what they thought without fear of fine or firing. This allowed the market to work. Stations flourished, talk radio gained influence and created stars.
But a funny thing happened on the way to freedom; the market was clearly one-sided and growing in influence. Conservative voices dominated the AM dial, while liberals were few and far between. And the liberals who were able to survive had audiences only a fraction of the size of those of their conservative counterparts.
The reason for this is commonly accepted to be the long-standing liberal bias in traditional media. Newspapers and television have long been biased toward the left, and with the shackles of the Fairness Doctrine removed, conservatives finally had an outlet to put their perspective into the public square and found millions of wanton, neglected ears eager to tune in. The popularity of Rush Limbaugh and other conservative radio hosts is credited by many with contributing significantly to the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994.
This conservative ascendancy did not sit well with liberals. And so the idea of restoring the Fairness Doctrine is one that's been kicked around Washington for some time. With a Republican Congress, the prospects were slim, at best. But now the Democrats are in charge and bills to restore the Fairness Doctrine have been introduced in both chambers. Led by Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio), free speech, allegedly revered by the left, is under assault.


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Now that the Serie A is back up and running again in a week or so, everyone is ready to see who will perform in the top flight of Italian football. And while it's easy to predict that Juventus will win the league title again, the title of top scorer is completely up for grabs. It's anyone's to claim this season no matter how good your team is, evident by Luca Toni scoring 22 goals for 13th placed Hellas Verona last season. So, here are the top 10 players most likely to take home the Serie A golden boot in May.


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Tuxedo's incoming supervisor has big plans
Jane Anderson
janderson@th-record.com
Tuxedo's supervisor-elect is ready to keep what's working in Tuxedo, while finding new ways to improve important issues like encouraging tourism, caring for the environment and building a healthy tax base.
"My job is not to come in here and change for change's sake," said Ken English, while leading a reporter on a tour of the town he will lead in the new year. English takes the helm Thursday, but the formal swearing-in ceremony will take place at the Jan. 13 Town Board meeting. English was serving half of his four-year Town Council term when he was elected town supervisor in November, ousting Supervisor Michael Rost.
English and his wife, Carolyn Kelly, have been Tuxedo residents for the past 15 years. He's been employed by the New York Public Library for 24 years, 22 of them as the associate director of the library's Adult Literacy Program. He manages a $6 million budget as part of his job, and said his fiscal experience will help him steer Tuxedo in a good direction.
"We have a fiscal responsibility, and that includes keeping Tuxedo affordable while building a vision," English said.
Part of that vision is encouraging responsible development, tourism and investment in the town, all things that English said are beginning to happen. Examples of that include the brand-new Steve's Brick Oven Pizza and renovation of the old IGA market into Tuxedo Hudson Realty and Antiques & Books, the latest venture by local entrepreneur Michael Bruno.
"That's tangible evidence of major investment here," English said. "With tens of thousands of people coming through Tuxedo, we could have so much to offer."
A longtime member of the New York/New Jersey Train Conference, the supervisor-elect was happy to see a hiker's kiosk open at the Tuxedo train platform, and is excited about the upcoming centennial of the Ramapo-Dunderberg trail head to Harriman State Park. He is toying with the idea of applying to make Tuxedo an Appalachian Trail town, like neighboring Warwick.
Besides tourism, English would like to attract people to live here — particularly at the long-stalled Tuxedo Farms development. He said he looks forward to meeting with representatives of the Related Cos., developers of the project.
"We have a plan that was hatched 30 years ago," he said. "I'd like to continue to iterate what our town needs, and have a dialogue on what that plan should now look like."
In addition, English wants to establish a good rapport on the Town Council — a feat that may be made easier by the fact that both candidates who shared his platform, incumbent Michelle Lindsay and newcomer Maria May, also won election, and that the Council will appoint English's replacement next month. If the appointee is a Democrat, that would leave David McMillen the sole Republican on the council. But English said the council should not follow party lines.
"Government shouldn't be red or blue; it should be purple, or green — green for economics and also green for the environment," he stressed. "When I moved to this small town, I wanted to get involved. But I saw the lack of depth of involvement. We shouldn't have just special interests getting involved.
"Towns need people to volunteer for these positions. But if no one's willing to do the job, you know you have a serious problem."
English, as a council member, dug into his library experience and — with Lindsay — created a "study circle" at the Tuxedo library that educated residents on how governments work. He hopes to continue that in the new year as well.
He has a lot on his plate: a new police contract to negotiate, aging sewer plants, reinvigorating the low-enrollment school district and attracting newcomers to visit and stay awhile.
"No new revenue equals no new spending," he concluded. "We've got to learn to live on what we have, and try to bring in young families and businesses. Tuxedo is a beautiful place."


It's Mental Health Awareness Week and as part of this we want to do our best to help you enjoy matched betting as much as possible!
If you try to become financially dependent on matched betting, it can become a bit stressful when you're missing your profit goal or receiving a gubbing for one of your most profitable accounts.
Instead, I find viewing matched betting as a hobby works well. I will aim to make a few hundred pounds a month, if I make more, excellent, if I make less, not to worry.
I have found recently too that having a hobby outside of using my laptop/mobile is helpful too. For me, this is walking around a big open field, trying to hit a very small object in it a very small hole with a very long stick, also known as golf!
Whilst I do feel a little chuffed when saying to one of my housemates 'sorry I can't do the dishes right now, I'm placing my half time in-play free bet', I do try to down matched betting tools when I'm with housemates, visiting family or out with friends.
There will always be offers cropping up at times when you're with family and friends who don't do any matched betting ("it's definitely a scam!"), but it's best I have found during these times that matched betting takes a back seat.
Also you can try to ringfence time for matched betting each week, so if you know once the kids go to bed or are engrossed in their favourite programme (for me, this was Scooby Doo, I was like a statue watching this) or on a Saturday morning you're usually free, then you can have some focused time to profit from the bookmaker offers.
Whether you're matched betting towards a house deposit, to help with the monthly bills or some extra holiday/spending money, it's definitely worth having a profit goal.
It helps with both motivation I find and also nice when you reach it too. I find it helpful to have both a big goal and a small goal, so my big financial goal is to save up towards a house, whilst small goal is to then have extra spending money for visiting family and friends plus the necessary too - paying the bills!
One of my favourite goals being reached this year in the Facebook Group was the arrival of Matched Betting Dog!
I'd recommend joining the Facebook Group if you haven't yet, it's a great community with fellow matched betters helping each other out to profit from the bookmakers.
This isn't exclusive for matched betting I think, but having offline breaks I find helpful to recharge my brain.
On Sunday late afternoons and evenings, I'll usually look to switch off my wifi/4G from my mobile on laptop and just have a few hours when I'm not online. I'll read the newspaper or a book, have a nice coffee or tea with a cake and generally just take it as easy.
This just means by Monday morning I'll fully refreshed for some bookie smashing!
Hope these approaches may be a bit of help and a big thanks to everyone who has posted and commented with their experiences and advice in this Facebook Group post.
If there is anything we can to do help anytime, please do reach out to us in the Facebook Group, Live Help or email, we'll be very happy to help you in any way we can!


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