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Why Does Offshoring Rattle Alan Blinder?
BTP is back after the gods of cyberspace silenced it for the weekend. I'll start with leftover business from the weekend. Alan Blinder, a Princeton University professor and former Clinton administration economist, had a lengthy piece in the Washington Post Outlook section that told readers that offshoring "rattles" him. After reading this, and other pieces Blinder has written on the topic, I am still at a loss to understand what he finds rattling. It is important to keep in mind that Blinder is not retreating an inch from his support of free trade, as he clearly states in the column and the title, "free trade's great, but offshoring rattles me." Offshoring appears to be rattling because it is not just less educated people like manufacturing workers who lose their jobs due to offshoring, but also some highly educated workers like software engineers. But where is the problem here for a committed free trader? We told the autoworkers and textile workers who lost their jobs or get lower wages because of trade that life's tough, get used to the global economy. Is there any reason that we should treat more highly educated workers differently? After all, who should be better prepared to compete in a global economy than a person with an advanced degree in a cutting edge field? Blinder's answer on this one is especially peculiar. He wants us to train workers for highly skilled occupations that require face to face contact, like brain surgeons and divorce lawyers. He argues that these workers will not have their wages depressed by direct competition with their counterparts in the developing world. But, this is clearly a policy choice and one that is very hard to justify for any economist committed to efficiency and equality. After all, we quite deliberately put many workers who do jobs requiring face to face contact into direct competition with low wage workers in the developing world. We do this by bringing in immigrants to work as dishwashers, custodians, and nannies and many other low paying occupations. The economic gains from having well-qualified immigrants from the developing world also work as brain surgeons and divorce lawyers would be enormous, as Mr. Blinder surely knows. So, why would he advocate subjecting workers in low paying occupations to competition from workers in the developing world, while protecting U.S. workers in the most highly paid occupations. That sounds like a policy intended to promote inefficiency and inequality. BTP eagerly awaits explanations for why this free-trader is so explicitly embracing protectionism.


Secretary-General of ASEAN, H.E. Le Luong Minh, welcomed the President of Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) and former President of the Republic of Indonesia, H.E. Dr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, yesterday at the ASEAN Secretariat to discuss potential collaboration on green growth. Currently, five ASEAN Member States are members of GGGI: Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam.
Dr. Yudhoyono highlighted the need to work collaboratively to ensure that green growth concept be adopted by all countries, especially by the emerging and developing economies. He updated on the progress of GGGI's work and projects with governments, including a number of ASEAN Member States and international organisations. He reiterated the need to support countries in fulfilling their targets to curb the greenhouse gas emission, as pledged in their respective Intended Nationally Determined Contributions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. He proposed four core areas which could serve as cooperation with ASEAN, i.e. energy, green city development, land use and water conservation.
With Southeast Asia being one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change impacts, Secretary-General Minh emphasized that addressing climate change and promoting low carbon development is one of the priorities of ASEAN. He also shared on ASEAN's efforts in addressing climate change, such as through promoting sustainable peatland management to reduce greenhouse gas emission from peatland fires, and implementing the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution. Secretary-General Minh also highlighted that ASEAN, while being rich in biodiversity but remained vulnerable to habitat and biodiversity loss due to climate change, places high importance on biodiversity conservation, as reflected in the establishment of a dedicated centre for biodiversity based in Los Banos, Philippines. He recognized that there are synergies and mutually-enforcing action-plans between ASEAN Vision 2025 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Both sides agreed that there is a convergence of interests and opportunities for collaboration, and hoped to enhance broader and deeper cooperation. Dr. Yudhoyono also encouraged ASEAN to continue to be in the driving seat in addressing global issues, and that the collaboration between ASEAN and the GGGI can be a showcasefor other potential partners to follow suit.


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Q: Ajax load image from json I found an interresting tutorial and script about loading images with jQuery/ajax/json in the following link:
http://johnveldboom.com/posts/38/jquery-ajax-loading-display-images-or-text-until-script-is-finished
There is also a link to view a demo on jsfiddle in the beginning of the tutorial.
But i guess there is a missing part here to fully understand how this works, and that is the json code in the external file!? How could that look? I need to view an json example to fully understand this tutorial and script.
Anyone how can help me with this or proposals of better tutorials? There are very few tutorials about this.

A: The sample script in the totorial loads data from github. As the JSON response is loaded from a free accessible server you can simply take the url of the endpoint, enter it in a browsers address bar and you are done.
Following your example the address is
https://api.github.com/users/jveldboom

and i get
{
  "login": "jveldboom",
  "id": 303202,
  "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/303202?",
  "gravatar_id": "adfc243d062a2b77e6c33b9117138793",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/users/jveldboom",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/jveldboom",
  "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/jveldboom/followers",
  "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/jveldboom/following{/other_user}",
  "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/jveldboom/gists{/gist_id}",
  "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/jveldboom/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
  "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/jveldboom/subscriptions",
  "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/jveldboom/orgs",
  "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/jveldboom/repos",
  "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/jveldboom/events{/privacy}",
  "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/jveldboom/received_events",
  "type": "User",
  "site_admin": false,
  "name": "John Veldboom",
  "company": null,
  "blog": "johnveldboom.com",
  "location": "Waynesboro, GA",
  "email": null,
  "hireable": true,
  "bio": "",
  "public_repos": 6,
  "public_gists": 14,
  "followers": 4,
  "following": 1,
  "created_at": "2010-06-11T23:12:47Z",
  "updated_at": "2014-03-28T20:58:39Z"
}

A: refer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON for json tutorials
the source of the working jsfiddle it uses jquery
<!DOCTYPE html>

  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <title> - jsFiddle demo by jveldboom</title>

  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/result-light.css">

  <button id="save">Load User</button>

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Cancer has caused me a problem. Okay, I can blame lots of problems on cancer, but this is one I didn't expect. Since starting treatment about two years ago, I have gained 20 pounds.
In the movie version of breast cancer, probably the cancer that we imagined before we ever had cancer, lithe and pale skinned women smile their way through treatment and then return to their "normal" life and size when they are proclaimed "well." The concern is weight loss during treatment, not weight gain. I went into treatment at an average but petite size and almost immediately started putting on weight. Two years later, I am still struggling to take that weight off.
I presented the question of weight gain to my group of my cancer friends, and this seems to be a universal issue, at least for breast cancer survivors. We have lots of theories as to why this might be the case. It might be the stress we feel. It might be some of the drugs we are treated with, or the steroids we might take during treatment. It might be the early-onset of menopause that occurs for some of us. Or, it might be that cancer wages war on our bodies and this is just one of the ways that some of our bodies react.
I gained 20 pounds during treatment. I have a small frame, and 20 pounds is a lot of weight for me. I can see it in my face and my waist. I can feel it in the way my clothing fits. I can tell by how it feels to walk up a flight of stairs.
It's not that I don't understand how to lose weight. The basic equation of weight loss is pretty simple – consume less, move more. But, just because something is simple doesn't mean that it is easy. I've had to come to terms with the fact that post cancer weight loss was going to take a significant level of effort.
So, what am I doing? First, I got help. I joined the YMCA and got advice from a personal trainer. My trainer set up a workout plan that fits my needs and schedule, and I have committed to exercising five days per week. If you are able to participate in the Y's LIVESTRONG program, which is free to cancer survivors, you can get a no-cost family membership for up to 4 months (for a family membership, that's a nearly $400 value). LIVESTRONG is open to anyone who's ever had a cancer diagnosis. So whether you were treated last year or 20 years ago, you can participate.
Find out if your YMCA offers the LIVESTRONG program.
Second, I realized that getting into the shape I want to be is going to take more than just exercise. I started learning about preparing healthier foods. I created a Pinterest board of healthier recipes and I've added vegetables to every meal – even breakfast. The Providence Regional Cancer Partnership in Everett offers ongoing nutrition classes as a way to learn new, healthful recipes. I'm taking advantage of the resources available to me.
Third, I'm making small changes that will add up to big differences. I've cut out soda and limited my alcohol intake. I consider dessert a food group. Instead of cutting it out completely, I only have it on the weekends. If I need something sweet on weekdays, I choose fruit. I'm training my palette to crave different tastes than I was craving before.
Fourth, I'm telling others about committing to these changes. Like here, right now. I'm telling all of you that I want to make this happen. I've kept up with friends who've decided to make similar changes. I have forged accountability relationships, where we check in with each other and motivate each other to keep going. This way, I'm not just working to move the needle on the scale – I'm working because I don't want to let anyone down, especially myself!
Finally, I'm being fair and realistic with myself. I'm not doing a crash diet or expecting to lose 20 pounds overnight. I want to make the lifestyle changes that don't just get me into my skinny pants, but keep me there. Getting to a healthy weight is about way more than a number – I want to remain healthy for a long, long time. While I have a goal in mind, I also understand that my body is different now, and I might not get to be exactly like I was before. But I think with effort and support, I can get pretty close.
Check with your care team or your local chapter of the American Cancer Society to learn more about nutrition counseling and exercise programs in your area.
Mary Kay Jurovcik is a wife, mother, writer and cancer survivor. At the age of 33, she was diagnosed with stage 2B, HER2+ breast cancer. With no family history or prior experience with cancer, Mary Kay took to documenting her journey through treatment, both for catharsis and communication.
She is currently working on turning her online journal, sticky notes and bar napkins into a book with the hope to help others facing similar and dissimilar adventures.
Mary Kay lives in Lake Stevens, Washington, with her husband, two young daughters and an old Rat Terrier named Squints.
Learn more about Mary Kay on her personal website: Bold Survivor. And, watch her on New Day Northwest, talking about her participation in the clinical trial program at Providence Regional Cancer Partnership.
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IFRRO has today urged Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to support the Parliament's Legal Affairs ("JURI") Committee report on the proposed Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, adopted on 20 June, as the mandate for the upcoming trialogue negotiations with the Council and the European Commission.
In a letter to MEPs, IFRRO highlights that it is in society's interest that authors and publishers, most of them being SMEs and micro companies, can continue to create and invest in quality materials. The sustainable delivery of diverse, quality content will help increase European citizens' access to knowledge and promote cultural diversity across Europe, as well as increasing jobs and growth. It is important that authors and publishers are able to provide innovative and flexible licensing solutions, including collective management, for users. In IFRRO's view, the JURI text, which was adopted by a clear majority of members, takes some important steps towards enabling this sustainability.
While aspects of the JURI text could certainly be improved, it represents an important compromise, following a long period of in-depth discussions between MEPs from the various political groups and consultations with stakeholders. It is normal that any sort of compromise results in dissatisfaction, insofar as it represents mutual concessions from the various parties concerned. It would however be a mistake to jeopardise the EU's copyright reform by going as far as rejecting the whole text as the mandate for negotiations in reaction to some of the louder, more powerful voices including global internet companies.
IFRRO hopes that the upcoming trialogue discussions will result in a balanced final outcome ensuring sustainable delivery of diverse, innovative, quality content for Europe's citizens.


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Comparing Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Patients Who Underwent Mastectomy Versus Breast-Conserving Surgery: A Meta-Analysis.
Int J Environ Res Public Health 2019; 16(24)IJ
: The purpose of our study was to carry out a meta-analysis of current literature to determine whether total mastectomy and breast-conserving surgery induce different outcomes in quality of life, based on the breast-cancer-specific module of the European Organizaation for Research and Treatment of Cancer core questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-BR23) used postoperatively. A systematic literature search of PubMed and EMBASE was conducted. Observational clinical studies that compared the quality of life in different surgery groups and presented empirical findings were selected. Six studies met the inclusion criteria. Breast-conserving surgery has statistically significant better outcomes than mastectomy in three of the eight outcomes measured in the EORTC QLQ-BR23, namely body image (standard mean difference, SMD = 1.742, 95% CI 0.579-2.905, p = 0.003), future perspective (SMD = 0.606, 95% CI 0.075-1.138, p = 0.025) and systemic therapy side effects (SMD = -0.641, 95% CI 0.101-1.181, p = 0.020). Our study highlighted that breast-conserving surgery was preferred over mastectomy because breast-conserving surgery leads to better outcomes in body image, future perspectives and less systemic side effects.
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Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei 235000, China. Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119228, Singapore.
Ang RZ
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119228, Singapore.
Tran BX
Institute for Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, 21205, USA.
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Department of Psychological Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore 119228, Singapore.
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Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei 235000, China. Institute for Health Innovation and Technology (iHealthtech), National University of Singapore, Singapore 117599, Singapore.
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Institute for Health Innovation and Technology (iHealthtech), National University of Singapore, Singapore 117599, Singapore. The China-Singapore (Chongqing) Demonstration Initiative on Strategic Connectivity Think, Tank, Chongqing 400043, China.
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Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei 235000, China.
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Alice Lee School of Nursing, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117597, Singapore.
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Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei 235000, China. Institute for Health Innovation and Technology (iHealthtech), National University of Singapore, Singapore 117599, Singapore. Department of Psychological Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119228, Singapore. Centre of Excellence in Behavioral Medicine, Nguyen Tat Thanh University (NTTU), Ho Chi Minh City 70000, Vietnam.
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Term has started early at Edge Hill, with our annual Subject Knowledge Booster Course. This course was originally funded by the TDA to help those with non-Theology or Religious Studies degrees enter RE PGCE courses. We at Edge Hill found these courses to be so useful that we have continued them after the central funding has stopped – so that Edge Hill PGCE students can have an advantage at the start of their course. These free courses have proved so popular that even graduates with Theology degrees now attend and find them hugely beneficial. This year was another first as two students who will be joining our Undergraduate Secondary RE course via our fast-track route have taken the course to improve their subject qualifications.
This nine day course is jam-packed with a day focusing on each religion, beginning with a lead session in the morning led by academics from Edge Hill or other institutions such as Paul Walsh from Newman University College and Professor David Waines of Lancaster. The afternoons entail a period of paired research and a final plenary session. The highlight of the course is a field trip to Preston where students visit a Hindu Mandir and a Buddhist Centre in the morning and in the afternoon a Mosque and Muslim High School. The final assessment is a portfolio of research notes and a paired presentation on one of the six major world faiths.
We're glad to say that everyone found the course fantastic fun, as well as a great way to Boost their subject Knowledge before starting their QTS courses!


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WILD CLAPHAM
BOWLING GREENS
ABOUT THE COMMON
In this section, we share articles of Common interest
Defiant Lambeth chooses money over the Common's recovery – again!
by Gareth James
As Lambeth scrambles to re-monetise the Events Site, words of wisdom fell on deaf ears at last month's Planning Meeting, where all but one member of the committee voted to push ahead with a summer season of multiple events.
Despite pleas from members of CCMAC, the Clapham Society and the Friends of Clapham Common, all advising against such a move, Lambeth elected to go for the money and chance it with the health of the grass.
The site has been fenced off for the last 8 months in a hasty push to re-seed the whole area and 'reinstate' a hard wearing, football-pitch-style surface. Although it is hoped the new seed mix will withstand everything Events Lambeth can throw at it, only time will tell if this remains a reach beyond their grasp.
Any regular user of the Common can see the grass is far from ready for heavy use. It remains thin, sparse and has yet to become properly established – it has only been cut once this year. Yet, with just 3 months to go before a planned 40,000-strong crowd descends for a six day event, the Planning Committee overrides Mother Nature and insists "it will be ready because it has to be ready".
Only Cllr Ben Kind stood in opposition, pointing to the cyclical problem of chronic overuse, followed by increasingly long recovery periods with evermore drastic action required – this time at a cost of £200K. Cllr. Kind said it doesn't matter whether you call it a 'reinstatement' or a 'regeneration' of the site, we are simply asking too much from this piece of land.
Lambeth currently remains in denial about this truism. It believes that if it can only just get the formula right – using the right seed mix, de-compacting the ground and drilling bore holes – this year, things will be different.
Well let's see. The committee made much of learning lessons from the past with this problem, so we now ask that they stand by their bravado and supreme confidence and commit to a NO MORE FENCES policy, if indeed the site fails once again.
Clapham Common is already one of the most overused green spaces in London and the consequences of repeatedly fencing off 17 acres of Metropolitan Open Land means there is unacceptable pressure on the remaining grass from sports and heavy footfall.
We simply cannot afford to be caught in a cycle where so much of the Common is repeatedly stolen from us by Lambeth for turning a profit.
Artificial Grass – A Ticking Time Bomb?
Using artificial lawns is a contentious issue and the available information from 'google' searches reveals a glut of contradictory viewpoints from those both for and against its use. I have tried to cut through the rhetoric and distill the major issues to offer a zoom lens on a subject that continues to divide the nation.
The claims from manufacturers and retailers paint a glowing picture of a maintenance-free, water-saving, life-enhancing world that would inspire any lawn enthusiast to ditch the turf and install an artificial lawn without a moment's hesitation.
Although lacking in substance, the style of advertising on many websites is redolent of tobacco industry tactics. The various grades of grass are assigned extravagant and glamorous names like Wonder Yarn, Lounge Lux, Royal Grass and Mayfair, all perfectly pitched and scripted to con you into believing you're buying into an elite and sophisticated, luxury lifestyle rather than just a fake and phoney piece of plastic.
The counter claims from environmentalists paint a far darker picture of an unchecked spread of suffocating plastic across the UK that is spiralling out of control. They point to a disturbing lack of product regulation, chronic un-sustainability and pending ecological catastrophe.
The main benefits of artificial lawns fall neatly into five major categories, endlessly repeated in all promo literature from all suppliers. Although these companies are tripping over each other to catch a rapidly expanding market, they at least stand together and united in these claims.
Although many of these claims can be true in essence, most of them don't stand up to scrutiny and I have added notes to explain why this is so:
Maintenance free - the lawn does not need cutting as it doesn't grow. Many suppliers also note this cuts harmful emissions from your diesel or petrol mower.
note: true but this is an audacious and disingenuous comment as it fails to acknowledge the enormous carbon footprint incurred from the initial manufacturing and shipping process, which will likely outweigh any carbon costs from cutting a real lawn.
Water conservation - it doesn't need watering because it isn't alive.
note: true but the grass does need washing from time to time and plastic grass is prone to overheating during the summer and may need watering to cool it down.
No need for Fertiliser - because the product is not living, you don't need to keep feeding the lawn with harmful fertilisers or moss killing treatments.
note: true for fertilisers but if the plastic grass is sand-filled, it will still grow weeds and moss will grow where it is laid in shady areas.
Good for sports - this can certainly be true as plastic grass needs no time to recover and does not become muddy - it can indeed offer a viable alternative for heavy duty games like football, rugby and hockey.
note: sporting critics cite a seven-fold increase in open skin lesions or 'turf burns' from friction injury compared to natural grass, there are problems with pitches overheating in hot weather and an aggravation to asthma sufferers from fumes given off by the rubber-crumb infill.
Looks good all year - I guess this one is self-explanatory.
Some manufacturers claim their product is recyclable, but for reasons outlined below, I am reticent to include this as a viable selling point as investigation shows this is extremely difficult to do and probably untrue.
So what are the drawbacks?
Well there might be more than you think. The major criticisms focus on the environmental impact and ecological consequences of these products:
Lack of sustainability - many suppliers will offer 10 year guarantees for the product and installation but none of them will step over this time limit. And for good reason. Most plastic grass products start to look shabby after just a few years of wear and many need replacing within 10-15 years. The plastic blades lose their structure and refuse to stand straight. The colour can fade and many blades become worn, loose and detached from the underlying sheet.
Support for fossil fuels - all plastic lawns are extruded from petrochemical products and most comprise three separate plastics - polyethylene, polypropylene and polyamide (nylon). Constituents vary slightly depending on manufacturer but they are all variations on a theme. The 'infill' which is brushed into the grass after laying to make the blades stand up, can be sand but for heavy use is often a rubber-crumb composite akin to car-tyre rubber, which can leach chemicals into the environment.
Recycling - these plastics are not biodegradable and can take centuries to break down. Although in theory they could be recycled, these three plastics are all stitched together and near impossible to separate. If you can't separate them, you can't recycle them. There is apparently only one recycling centre in Europe able to cope with this and it is currently out of action. Most spent plastic grass products end up in landfill. (see photo below).
Current estimates from environmental reporter Harry Wallop (Daily Mail: 17th July 2020), suggest there may be up to 20,000 acres of plastic grass currently in the UK that will need either to be recycled or will go into landfill.
(It is worth noting that 'Putt in the Park' is a young company and has only been established since 2013. They may yet have to face the real difficulty of trying to recycle their existing fake lawns)
Dead zones for Wildlife - whatever the fate of the bowling greens, be in no doubt there is a whole ecosystem of invertebrate life going on just under the surface of the soil: earthworms, beetles, centipedes, millipedes, insect larvae and a myriad of other soil dwelling organisms. This area is a vast carbon sink.
These soil fauna are not only essential for maintaining the all important soil structure but are a truly precious food source for our bird life, especially fledglings. They are an integral part of the food chain.
Above ground, the loss of land to plastic grass means no hope at all for birds, bees, butterflies and other insect pollinators.
The construction process itself removes and discards this entire top layer of soil, destroying all life and the carbon-store held within. The new exposed surface is then covered with a 50mm layer of hardcore plus another layer of either sand of crushed granite. This is then mechanically compacted to create a solid base. The area can be considered a 'dead zone', devoid of all life and completely unable to store carbon in the future.
Micro-plastics - despite claims to the contrary, it is inevitable that through wear and tear, cleaning and brushing, many blades of grass come free from their footings and contaminate the surrounding area.
The mechanical breaking of these plastic blades means micro-plastics are being released into the soil and into the microorganisms that live there. The world is only just waking up to understanding the consequences of this type of pollution but many studies already show environmental plastic contamination is considered an emerging threat to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.
We already know that micro-plastics between 0.5-5mm cause damage to the intestines of birds and far smaller pieces of polyethylene can cause a reduction in the biomass of earthworms.
Given that plastic grasses are petrochemical products, mostly made in China, shipped around the world, have laborious installation protocols and last only 10-15 years, the carbon footprint is absolutely enormous.
The Bowling Greens
The surface area of the two bowling greens is about 3,200sq.m. This is a vast stretch of common land planned to be turned into a putting park.
On their website, the artificial grass company 'Wonderlawn' talk us through their typical construction process required for a comparatively tiny 45sq.m lawn. They would first need to remove 2-3 tonnes of earth, replace this with the same amount of a hardcore base plus granite chippings, which then need be to levelled and heavily compacted before laying the plastic grass.
If we were to extrapolate these ratios and proportions and apply them to the Bowling Greens and allow for only 75% of the surface area to be covered, this would mean using the rough equivalent of 160 tonnes of hardcore.
This would be just to create a level surface - forming hills and hummocks would require additional hardcore. And bear in mind, this is before a single blade of plastic grass has entered the site.
A final word:
The 'Putt in the Park' project has recently attracted much greater scrutiny from the public at large and the '38 Degrees' petition, protesting the project, is just under 2000 signatories - not bad for a first week!
Wandsworth, Tooting and Clapham Commons are the lungs of south-west London and it could be construed as an act of enormous self-harm to lease land to a company that will effectively create a dead zone for all wildlife.
The sheer scale of the carbon footprint incurred from the plastic grass, hardcore underlay and the permanent loss of a vast carbon sink should be cause for the greatest concern.
In these extraordinary times, we need real leadership from our local authorities and management committees. We need smart, savvy thinking to protect our valuable green spaces and we need sustainable, eco-friendly solutions for repurposing the bowling greens.
We are in the middle of a climate crisis and drowning in plastic waste. If our management teams fail to show the clear, forward-facing, decision making needed on this issue, they risk losing credibility and sleep-walking into an environmental catastrophe.
Time to wake up!
Quotes on plastic grass:
Mathew Frith, director of conservation at the London Wildlife Trust:
"You are using fossil fuels to make it, so there is a carbon impact there, you have to remove a significant amount of soil to lay it so you are reducing the direct and indirect porosity of the soil, you are removing habitat which a wide range of species are dependent on and at the end of its life this is a non-biodegradable product which ultimately goes back into landfill. So yes we are concerned at its proliferation."
Horticulturalist and designer, Jack Wallington:
"Like it or not pieces of plastic lawn break down and contaminate our soils for centuries regardless of being recycled. With the best will in the world, individual blades of fake grass tear off and blow into planting areas or bare soil nearby. Although plastic takes decades or centuries to deteriorate, it does still deteriorate releasing microplastics into soils which find their way into soil micro organisms. We're only just starting to understand this is happening and the damage it is causing to the natural world."
Paul de Sylva, senior nature campaigner for Friends of the Earth:
"You will find bees burrowing into lawns which are a mix of grass seeds, other insects will be in there too, and worms – which are incredibly important in terms of the ability of the soil to absorb nutrients and keep soil structured, so that when you have heavy rain or drought you have a soil system which can cope. By using artificial grass, you lose all this. You are creating a 'Don't come here sign,' for wildlife."
David Hedges-Gower from Pitchcare:
"Why replace nature's lungs with a petro-chemical product that damages rather than helps the environment, a product that does indeed require maintenance and will need replacing every ten years or so? And remember, there's only one recycling centre that, in theory, can deal with this stuff - and it's in Denmark and is not currently operable!"
Artificial lawn company 'I-grass':
"The production of artificial grass can be bad for the environment and causes pollution and waste as it is not currently biodegradable."
Protecting and Improving Clapham Common
© Friends of Clapham Common Registered Charity Number 1199785


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Parkway NorthLadue Horton Watkins
The Ladue Horton Watkins (St. Louis, MO) varsity baseball team lost Friday's home non-conference game against Parkway North (St. Louis, MO) by a score of 5-4.
Parkway North
Ladue Horton Watkins
Final score provided by E. Schifferdecker.
Missouri High School Baseball - Ladue Horton Watkins can't hold off Parkway North
April 26, 2019: St. Louis, MO 63124
In Friday's non-league game, the visiting Parkway North Vikings baseball team scored a tight 5-4 victory over the Ladue Horton Watkins Rams.
The Vikings (14-7) will now prepare for their game against Fort Zumwalt West (O'Fallon, MO). The Jaguars go into the non-league game with a 11-9 record.
The Rams (8-2) will now prepare for their game against Morton (Morton, IL). The Potters go into the non-league game with a 16-4 record. In their last game, Morton tipped Streator (Streator, IL), 6-4, in a non-league game.
Parkway North (18-19)
19-10 14-7 5-2 0-1 .655 197 169
Ladue Horton Watkins (18-19)
District %
12-8-1 3-1-1 3-4 9-2-1 0-2 .595 .700 142 92
Parkway North .1 .4 1.6 .9 1.2 .7 2.0 1.0 6.8 13.0 1.0
Ladue Horton Watkins .3 0 0 .3 1.0 2.8 1.3 - 6.8 5.0 1.0
Parkway North 8-3 Ladue Horton Watkins 6-3-1
4/1/19 Fox Parkway North (L) 9-0 5/8/19 Fox Ladue Horton Watkins (L) 8-7
5/9/19 Fox Ladue Horton Watkins (L) 8-7
4/2/19 Parkway North Ritenour (W) 28-1 4/9/19 Ladue Horton Watkins Ritenour (W) 16-3
4/3/19 Parkway West Parkway North (L) 9-0 4/11/19 Ladue Horton Watkins Parkway West (W) 10-1
4/12/19 Parkway North Affton (W) 10-3 4/23/19 Ladue Horton Watkins Affton (W) 10-0
4/16/19 Webster Groves Parkway North (W) 4-0 4/25/19 Webster Groves Ladue Horton Watkins
5/2/19 Webster Groves Ladue Horton Watkins
5/4/19 Ladue Horton Watkins Webster Groves
4/20/19 Parkway North Pattonville (W) 10-5 4/30/19 Pattonville Ladue Horton Watkins
4/20/19 Parkway North Pattonville (L) 6-2 4/30/19 Ladue Horton Watkins Pattonville
5/15/19 Pattonville Parkway North (W) 7-6 4/30/19 Ladue Horton Watkins Pattonville
5/7/19 Ladue Horton Watkins Pattonville (W) 7-0
4/23/19 Clayton Parkway North (W) 6-5 4/27/19 Clayton Ladue Horton Watkins (L) 11-1
5/1/19 McCluer North Parkway North (W) 10-3 4/2/19 McCluer North Ladue Horton Watkins (W) 6-5
5/6/19 Hazelwood West Parkway North (W) 6-4 4/4/19 Ladue Horton Watkins Hazelwood West (T) 0-0
4/10/19 Ladue Horton Watkins Hazelwood West (W) 7-3


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Q: Template is missing for request formats I am getting this error:
StaticController#home is missing a template for request formats: text/html
This is my controller:
class StaticController < ApplicationController

    def home
        # render json: {status: "is working"}
    end

end

When I uncomment the comment above, it renders that.
my views/static/home.html.erb view:
<%= javascript_pack_tag 'index' %>
and my routes:
Rails.application.routes.draw do

  resources :sessions, only: [:create]
  resources :signup, only: [:create]
  delete :logout, to: 'sessions#logout'
  get :logged_in, to: 'sessions#logged_in'

  root to: "static#home"

  # get '*path', to: "static#home", via: :all
end


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Universal Ordered To Pay Fired Exec Josh Goldstine $20M By Arbitrator; Seth Byers Cleared Of "Inappropriate" Behavior – Update
Golden Globes To Be Live-Streamed For First Time
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Dawn C. Chmielewski
More Stories By Dawn
Showtime Wants Wall Street Performance Coach's Copyright Suit Against 'Billions' Creator Thrown Out – Update
Appeals Court Rejects Charter/Comcast Motion To Dismiss Byron Allen's Multibillion-Dollar Civil Rights Suit – Update
What's Next For Sony's Crackle? It Could Be A Partnership Or A Sale
January 5, 2018 9:43am
The Golden Globes will be live-streamed for the first time this year.
NBC and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association reached a deal that allows the network to stream the awards show in a variety of ways, including through its own website, http://www.nbc.com/live or via its NBC mobile app to pay TV subscribers.
The Golden Globes also will be offered through streaming services, including DirecTV Now, Fubo TV, Hulu Live TV, Sling TV, Sony PlayStation Vue and YouTube TV.
The decision to stream the show live marks a recognition of changing consumption habits, and the growing popularity of so-called "over the top" services — particularly among a group of young viewers who've never subscribed to cable or satellite TV.
Last year, NBC didn't have the rights to stream the awards show — and that provoked considerable backlash from disappointed would-be viewers, who used social media to vent their displeasure.
Facebook announced a deal earlier this week that it would carry the red carpet pre-show.
Hollywood Foreign Press Association


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<?php

/**
 * Spanish (Argentina) language pack
 * @package cmsworkflow
 * @subpackage i18n
 */

i18n::include_locale_file('cmsworkflow', 'en_US');

global $lang;

if(array_key_exists('es_AR', $lang) && is_array($lang['es_AR'])) {
	$lang['es_AR'] = array_merge($lang['en_US'], $lang['es_AR']);
} else {
	$lang['es_AR'] = $lang['en_US'];
}

$lang['es_AR']['DeletionRequestSideReport']['TITLE'] = 'Flujo de Trabajo: Esperando su eliminación';
$lang['es_AR']['MyWorkflowRequestsSideReport']['TITLE'] = 'Flujo de Trabajo: Mis requerimientos de revista en espera';
$lang['es_AR']['PublisherReviewSideReport']['TITLE'] = 'Flujo de Trabajo: Esperando publicación';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTree']['EDITANYONE'] = 'Cualquiera que pueda ingresar al CMS';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTree']['EDITONLYTHESE'] = 'Solo éstas personas (elegir de la lista)';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['BUTTONDENYPUBLICATION'] = 'Negar Publicación';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['BUTTONREQUESTPUBLICATION'] = 'Requerir Publicación';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['BUTTONREQUESTREMOVAL'] = 'Requerir su Retiro';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['CLOSEDREQUESTSHEADER'] = 'Requerimientos Cerrados';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['DENYDELECTIONMESSAGE'] = 'Requerimiento denegado y reseteo de página a versión viva. Se envío email a %s';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['DENYPUBLICATION_MESSAGE'] = 'Requerimiento denegado y reseteo de página a versión viva. Se envío email a %s';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['DIFFERENCESCOLUMN'] = 'Diferencias';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['DIFFERENCESLINK'] = 'Mostrar diferencias a vivir';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['DIFFERENCESTHISCHANGECOLUMN'] = 'Diferencias en este cambio';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['DIFFERENCESTOLIVECOLUMN'] = 'Diferencias para vivir';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['FIELDLABEL_AUTHOR'] = 'Autor';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['FIELDLABEL_PAGE'] = 'Página';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['FIELDLABEL_PUBLISHER'] = 'Editore';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['FIELDLABEL_PUBLISHERS'] = 'Editores';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['FIELDLABEL_STATUS'] = 'Estado';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['OPENREQUESTHEADER'] = 'Requerimiento Abierto';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['OPENREQUESTSNOFOUND'] = 'No hay requerimiento abierto';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['PUBLISHHEADER'] = '¿Quién puede publicar esto dentro del CMS?';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['REQUEST_DELETEFROMLIVE_SUCCESS_MESSAGE'] = 'Se envió email de %s requiriendo su eliminación';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['REQUEST_PUBLICATION_SUCCESS_MESSAGE'] = 'Se envió email de %s requiriendo su publicación';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['STATUS_APPROVED'] = 'Aprobado';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['STATUS_AWAITINGAPPROVAL'] = 'Esperando Aprobación';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['STATUS_AWAITINGEDIT'] = 'Esperando su Edición';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['STATUS_DENIED'] = 'Denegado';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['STATUS_OPEN'] = 'Abierto';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['STATUS_UNKNOWN'] = 'Desconocido';
$lang['es_AR']['SiteTreeCMSWorkflow']['WORKFLOWTABTITLE'] = 'Flujo de Trabajo';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowDeletionRequest']['EMAIL_SUBJECT_APPROVED'] = 'Su requerimiento para eliminar la página "%s" ha sido aprobado';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowDeletionRequest']['EMAIL_SUBJECT_AWAITINGAPPROVAL'] = 'Por favor revise y elimine la página "%s" en su sitio';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowDeletionRequest']['EMAIL_SUBJECT_AWAITINGEDIT'] = 'Se solicita a usted revisar la página "%s"';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowDeletionRequest']['EMAIL_SUBJECT_DENIED'] = 'Su requerimiento para eliminar la página "%s" ha sido rechazado';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowPublicationRequest']['EMAIL_SUBJECT_APPROVED'] = 'Su requerimiento para publicar la página "%s" ha sido aprobado';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowPublicationRequest']['EMAIL_SUBJECT_AWAITINGAPPROVAL'] = 'Por favor revise y publique la página "%s" en su sitio';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowPublicationRequest']['EMAIL_SUBJECT_AWAITINGEDIT'] = 'Se solicita a usted revisar la página "%s"';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowPublicationRequest']['EMAIL_SUBJECT_DENIED'] = 'Su requerimiento para publicar la página "%s" ha sido rechazado';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowRequest']['COMPAREDRAFTLIVELINK'] = 'Comparar los cambios entre la versión viva y el borrador cambiado';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowRequest']['EMAILCHANGEDSTATUS'] = '%s ha cambiado el estado del flujo de trabajo sobre';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowRequest']['EMAILDENIEDDELETION'] = '%s ha rechazado su requerimiento de eliminación sobre';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowRequest']['EMAILDENIEDPUBLICATION'] = '%s ha rechazado su requerimiento de publicación sobre';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowRequest']['EMAILGREETING'] = 'Hola %s';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowRequest']['EMAILHASBEENPUBLISHED'] = 'Usted escribió una página que ha sido publicada por %s';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowRequest']['EMAILRECENTLYUPDATED1'] = '%s ha actualizado recientemente la página titulada';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowRequest']['EMAILRECENTLYUPDATED2'] = 'y desea que los cambios sean publicados.';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowRequest']['EMAILREQUESTREMOVE'] = '%s desea quitar la página titulada';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowRequest']['EMAILTHANKS'] = 'Gracias.';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowRequest']['EMAIL_SUBJECT_GENERIC'] = 'El estado de flujo de trabajo de la página "%s" ha cambiado';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowRequest']['REVIEWANDDELETEPAGELINK'] = 'Revisar y eliminar la página en el CMS';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowRequest']['REVIEWANDPUBLISHPAGELINK'] = 'Revisar y publicar la página en el CMS';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowRequest']['REVIEWPAGELINK'] = 'Revisar la página en el CMS';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowRequest']['TITLE'] = 'Requerimiento de Flujo de Trabajo';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowRequest']['VIEWCHANGEDDRAFTLINK'] = 'Ver el borrador cambiado';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowRequest']['VIEWPUBLISHEDCHANGESLINK'] = 'Revisar los cámbios publicados en el CMS';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowRequest']['VIEWPUBLISHEDLINK'] = 'Ver la página en su sitio web';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowRequest']['VIEWUNPUBLISHEDCHANGESLINK'] = 'Comparar los cambios sin publicar en el CMS';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowRequestChange']['PLURALNAME'] = 'Requerimiento de Cambios en el Flujo de Trabajo';
$lang['es_AR']['WorkflowRequestChange']['SINGULARNAME'] = 'Requerimiento de Cambio en el Flujo de Trabajo';

?>

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Feb. 3 debut set for DC area's 5th AC Hotel
Marriott will open its fifth AC Hotel-branded property in the DC region on Feb. 3 in Southeast DC's Navy Yard neighborhood. WTOP-FM
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Historic hotel renewal plan advances in Salisbury, NC
The Salisbury City Council approved a memorandum of understanding to begin exclusive negotiations with Charlotte-based developer Brett Krueger on his "luxury boutique" concept for the Empire Hotel. Salisbury Post
Revised hotel plan approved in Madeira Beach, Florida
A new version of the long-planned beachfront Schooner Hotel project got unanimous approval at a Jan. 12 city commission meeting. It was the first reading of an ordinance to designate the project as a Planned Development (PD), which allows more height and density than would normally have been allowed in exchange for adding amenities that benefit the city. Tampa Bay Newspapers
Builder chosen for California hotels
The Marina City Council has entered into a development agreement with a known entity based on a proven track record with building and operating the only hotel on Fort Ord, which has proven to be a highly successful revenue generator for the city. The Monterey County Herald
First Mississippi AC Hotel readied for Jan. 27 debut
Mississippi's first AC Hotel by Marriott is adding a European flair to Ridgeland for both business and leisure travelers. The hotel, the first of its kind in the state, is set to open later this month. The closest Marriott of this type is in New Orleans. The AC will be the fourth hotel at the Township on the Highland Colony in Ridgeland. Madison County Journal
$44M AC Hotel debuts in St. Louis' Central West End
A seven-story Marriott's AC Hotel recently opened in the Central West End. The $44 million, 192-room hotel is located at 215 York Avenue. The project was developed by Koplar Properties in partnership with Homebase Partners and Concord Hospitality Enterprises. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Las Vegas figure turns sights to Miami Beach hotel revival
After his attempt to complete Las Vegas' Fontainebleau resort fizzled out, developer Steve Witkoff unveiled some new ventures in Florida this year. Las Vegas Review-Journal
$2M makeover, new name sported by Monroe, Ohio, hotel
Being located near entertainment, sports and shopping destinations, and less than one mile from Interstate 75, were some of the reasons a hotel company bought and remodeled the former Comfort Inn, 120 Senate Drive, Monroe. Dayton Daily News
Monterey, California weighs conversion of cannery to hotel
Plans to turn the aging and near-empty American Tin Cannery in Pacific Grove into a 4-star hotel will get a closer look from the city council which voted Wednesday to hold a special hearing on the project next month. KSBW-TV
St. Petersburg, Florida awaits Moxy Hotel by Marriott
After more than two years of development, a new hotel with rooftop dining will soon break ground in St. Petersburg's Edge District. Tampa Bay Times


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Nationalism and World Government
30 September, 2011 prbhkr 1 Comment
P.R. Sarkar
The more the human mind becomes magnanimous or expanded, the more it rises above the sentiments of tribalism, communalism, provincialism, etc. Often I hear people say that nationalism is an appreciable sentiment and that there is no narrowness in it. But is this true? Nationalism is also relative, just like tribalism, communalism or provincialism. In some places it is more worthwhile than tribalism, communalism or provincialism, while in other places it is less worthwhile.
Let us consider, for example, the case of a Portuguese nationalist. The mental object of a Muslim communalist is certainly larger than that of a Portuguese nationalist, because the former desires the welfare of a greater number of people than the latter. This is because the number of Muslims in the world is greater than the number of Portuguese. Judged from this perspective, I cannot denounce the sentiments of a Muslim communalist in comparison to a Portuguese nationalist. Similarly, it has to be accepted that the sentiments of a Rajput casteist are broader than those of a Portuguese nationalist, because the former desires the welfare of more people than the latter. Likewise, the feelings of an Andhrite provincialist will have to be considered broader than those of a Portuguese nationalist. If one supports provincialism with seventy-five million Bengalees, it must be accepted that these feelings are more expanded than the nationalism of most of the nations of the world. (The population of most of the nations of the world is less than the population of Bengal.)
Hence it is observed that communalism, casteism, provincialism and nationalism are all of the same defective type. Those who are able to capitalize on one of these sentiments advocate it volubly. In fact, every one of these sentiments suffers from the defect of ism, and is completely filled with narrowness, violence, envy, mean mindedness, etc. Those who enter the field of social welfare by creating divisions between "yours" and "mine", substantially widen the fissures of fissiparous intellect in human society.
Those who want to promote the welfare of all human beings, remaining above all sorts of parochial sentiments, have no alternative but to embrace universalism with their heart and soul – there is no other way. As universalism is totally devoid of any characteristic of ism, it is not proper to depict universalism as an ism. If everyone is looked upon as one's own, no one remains beyond the periphery of one's kith and kin. Naturally, then, there is no scope for violence, envy, narrowness, etc.
The more time is passing by, the more the glare of casteism, provincialism, communalism and nationalism is fading away. The human beings of today must understand that in the near future they will definitely have to accept universalism. So those who seek to promote social welfare will have to mobilize all their vitality and intellect in the endeavour to establish a world organization, abandoning all plans to form communal or national organizations. They will have to engage themselves in constructive activities in a straight-forward manner, instead of resorting to duplicity and deceitfulness.
Many people say that divergent national interests are the only impediments to the formation of a world organization, or a world government. But I say this is not the only obstacle, rather it is just a minor impediment. The main obstacle is the apprehension of local leaders that they will lose their leadership. With the establishment of a world government, the total domination which they exercise today in their respective countries, societies and nations will cease to exist.
Divergent national interests and popular scepticism may stand in the way of the formation of a world government. To allay baseless fears from the minds of the people, this task should be carried out step by step. Obstacles will have to be negotiated with an open mind, and the world government will have to be strengthened gradually, not suddenly. For example, to run the world government, two houses may be maintained for an indefinite period. The lower house will be composed of representatives from various parts of the world, elected on the basis of population. The members of the upper house will be elected country-wise. This will provide opportunities to those countries which cannot send even a single representative to the lower house due to their small population, because they will be able to express their opinions before the people of the world by sending their representatives to the upper house. The upper house will not adopt any bill unless it has been passed by the lower house, but the upper house will reserve the right to reject the decisions of the lower house.
Initially the world government should go on working merely as a law-framing body. The world government should also have the right to make decisions regarding the application or non-application of any law, for a limited period, in any particular region.
In the first phase of the establishment of the world government, the governments of different countries will have only administrative power. As they will not have the authority to frame laws, it will be somewhat difficult for them to arbitrarily inflict atrocities on their linguistic, religious or political minorities.
From: Problems of the Day
Copyright Ananda Marga Publications 2011
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One thought on "Nationalism and World Government"
long live imperialism and nationalism says:
You should also point out what are the benefits of this universalism…if they exist…i doubt, you can not enforce an idea against 7 billion people's will, you will have to wage war against endless revolutions and revolts all around, one government will never see the light of sun…it may be a freemason's dream…yes but it will remain what it is…a dream
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The One Problem
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Benefits of Global Government
PROUT Based Grassroots Socio-Economic Democracy for People's Empowerment and Equitable Global Order for Parity among Nations
World Government, Globalization and UN reform
Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar on the Evolution of World Government
Steps to a Confederation
Economic Democracy, World Government, and Globalization
Book: Socio-economic Democracy and the World Government
Democratic World Governance
Confederated World Government
The Necessity and Prerequisites of a World Government
Requirements of an Ideal Constitution
"In our socio-economic programme human beings have full liberty in the spiritual and mental spheres. This is possible because the spiritual and psychic entities for which human beings can aspire are themselves unlimited, and one person's progress in this sphere does not hamper the progress of others in their quests."
— Shrii P.R. Sarkar


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Greg Cook is an underground cartoonist and comic book artist who has been published in Nickelodeon Magazine, Pulse magazine, The Believer magazine, New Art Examiner, Arthur, NON, and L'Association's Comix 2000 along with numerous other publications.

Personal information
He was born in Chicago, Illinois, graduated at the Art Institute in 1995, and now works as a newspaper reporter and artist/illustrator. His book Catch as Catch Can was published by Highwater Books in 2001. Cook lived in Chicago, Illinois for almost 10 years and currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts.

Career
Cook has been experimenting with different styles and subject matters that go beyond the traditional newspaper comics. His new cartoons are about history, comedy, and fictional dramas about daily life. Cooks pieces of art have appeared in venues near Gloucester, Massachusetts, as well as Chicago, Illinois, Cleveland, Napoli, Italy, Angouleme, and France. From 2003-2004, Cook's work toured the US with the exhibit "Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation". Cook was also a newspaper reporter for more than 10 years. He is now writing and illustrating a graphic novel documentary about American veterans from the war in Iraq. It is supposed to be published by a division of Henry Holt Books. Cook is also the editor of The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research, commodore of The Society for the Preservation of Fitz Hugh Lane, and founder of The Invisible Museum.

Awards
Cook received the "Promising New Talent" Ignatz Award at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda and in Maryland the following year.

References

External links
Greg Cook's Official Website
Entry in the Lambiek Comiclopedia
The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research

Alternative cartoonists
American comics artists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Chicago

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Q: How can I detect when I'm on a system running Unity? In order to choose between what type of app indicators to use for a program, I need to detect whether I'm in a Unity desktop or not. Is this possible? Is it possible when I don't have access to the environment?

A: It looks like there's also XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP:
rubiojr@rubiojr-VirtualBox:~$ echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
Unity

See https://askubuntu.com/questions/70296/is-there-an-environment-variable-that-is-set-for-unity

A: In Ubuntu you can use following commands:

*

*echo $DESKTOP_SESSION: This command return ubuntu when you are using Unity and ubuntu-2d when you are using Unity 2D and ...

*sudo grep "Starting session" /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log: Because of last version of Ubuntu use lightdm as display manager you can see last line of the lightdm.log file.

A: Just shell execute ps aux | grep unity, this is cross-plattform for linux. Even works on ARM cores.
On my 11.04 Ubuntu running unity it returns unity-2d-panel, unity-2d-launcher and more processes. Can't confirm if this is true on every linux platform.

A: Look in the list of environment variables for unity by running this command line:
env | grep -i unity

If as in this answer you see XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity then you know it is in use. Alternatively, you could of course check for desktop rather than unity.


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Broncos defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio said he is always nervous during the week of games, but he is used to that and can handle it.
Thinking about his son playing Saturday for a state high school championship, well, there's no holding back those nerves.
Luke Del Rio is the star senior quarterback for Valor Christian (11-2), which will face Cherokee Trail (12-1) for the Class 5A state title at 2:30 p.m. Saturday on the Broncos' home field: Sports Authority Field at Mile High.
"I'm OK with where (the Broncos) are going; my stuff's OK, but stuff I don't have any control over …," Del Rio said Thursday when asked about being nervous about how his son and Valor Christian will fare this weekend.
Del Rio says he will talk football with Luke but doesn't interfere with Valor coaches.
Luke Del Rio has extended an oral commitment to Oklahoma State.
"I think he's getting some real good coaching, and he's really developed this year," Jack said. "I try to be supportive. From my standpoint as a dad, I'm more concerned with the character he shows, the way he competes every play.
I'm kind of surprised that Del Rio moved his family, apparently, to Denver from the Jacksonville area, right? His son is a big time HS QB. I saw him on the NFL network one day at a blue chip quarterback camp. He is suppose to be one of the best in the country. But if I remember correctly, Elway changed high schools around his junior or Senior year too, to a school that focused more on passing the ball. Still, to move to the other side of the country, is a pretty big move. Although I'll be his new high school rolled out the red carpet when he arrived.


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A Man to Respect
By Dan Lynch on October 15, 2012 at 2:30 PM
I was watching an NFL game on TV yesterday when the crawl came across the bottom of the screen. Arlen Specter had died, as I'd expected once I learned that his cancer had come back.
I always had mixed emotions about Specter from the first time I met him back in the 1970s. I'd always admired Specter's ferocious intellect and his moderate, pragmatic politics, but not his arrogant, prickly personality.
His obit in the New York Times contained this: "Brash confidence and outsize ego were characteristic of Mr. Specter, a man so feared by his own aides and so brusque with colleagues that he earned the nickname Snarlin' Arlen on Capitol Hill… Paul Weyrich, a founding father of the modern conservative movement, campaigned for him. His rationale was expressed in a statement he made to fellow conservatives, as quoted by the conservative magazine National Review. 'Arlen Specter is a jerk,' he was said to have remarked, 'but he's our jerk.'"
So, see? It wasn't just me who found him a personal pain in the ass.
Specter was, however, a significant historical figure at his death at age 82 after 30 years in the U. S. Senate. And, in all fairness, he never liked me any more than I liked him. I guess that he had some reason.
When he was Philadelphia's district attorney and I was the Philadelphia Inquirer's chief politics writer I used to love attending his many press conferences. Specter was fiercely ambitious and a blatant publicity whore. He'd earlier served as assistant counsel for the Warren Commission, and he would finish up every press conference by asking if anybody had any more questions.
That's when I always would raise my hand and ask, "Arlen, can you explain to us again all about the single-bullet theory?" Specter would then stomp angrily out of the room.
Actually, it now looks as though the single-bullet theory in the Kennedy assassination was correct after all, but it was fun to needle the surly bastard over it.
It was a miracle that he'd ever been elected as a Republican in that then 2-1 Democratic city, which is now about 3-1 Democratic. It had happened because he was so bright and because he'd worked like a galley slave in every election.
His big mistake as district attorney came when he denied he was plea bargaining when it was obvious that he was doing precisely that. If he hadn't doing that the city's court system would have collapsed within weeks.
We had two terrific reporters on the Inquirer's staff then, Jim Steele and Don Barlett. They later won two Pulitzers and wrote some fabulous investigative books. They engaged in what was, at the time, a pioneering effort. They gathered all the outcomes of criminal cases in that city for about a year's period, as I recall, and then fed them into a big, bulky computer. Then they analyzed all that material and put out a story saying that Specter had been plea-bargaining like a maniac, despite his claims to the contrary.
The result of that story was that Specter was defeated in that election by a Democrat named Emmett Fitzpatrick, who turned out to be the proud possessor of a personality even nastier than Specter's.
A few months later, I found myself a guest at a big, formal dinner held at Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. The Clover Club was a venerable, nonpartisan political organization that gathered for this event once a year. That year, the main speaker was a 101-year-old politician who delivered a hilarious stem-winder of a speech. Everybody there had a terrific time.
All of us then gathered in our tuxedos at the post-dinner cocktail party outside the dining room. I was in conversation with a few fairly high-powered people when Specter suddenly walked up to me, stuck his nose in my face and said, "Hello, Danny. How's that s—– newspaper of yours?"
The other people standing there with me all took a step back so they could get a better view of the action. I merely smiled at Specter and said, "We're doing fine, Arlen. Tell me, how do you like private practice?"
People laughed, and Specter then stomped off as he'd done so many times when I'd needled him over the single-bullet theory.
Not long thereafter, I left Philadelphia and moved to Newsday. Five years after that I moved to the Times Union as managing editor. A year after I arrived in Albany, Specter got himself elected to the U. S. Senate and, to his credit, served with distinction for three decades. He was a man of great ability, although he was hardly the most endearing guy imaginable.
Our last conversation took place 16 years ago at the GOP national convention in San Diego, where we bumped into one another in a hallway. We talked for 15 minutes or so. We were, at long last, cordial to one another.
Specter later switched parties, lost an election for his senate seat and retired. He'd hung around too long, as too many politicians tend to do, so his career had ended in a defeat.
Generally, politicians who reach such heights tend to be extraordinary people with both big virtues and big flaws. That was Arlen Specter. If you knew him, you might not have liked him, but you had to respect him.
I always did, although I could never bring myself to muster much affection for the man.